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ARCH  I  VES 


•       OF  THB 


STATE  OF  NEW  JERSEY. 


SECOND    SERIES. 
Vol.  V. 


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  its  Com- 
mittee on  Colonial  Documents.  That  committee  at  present 
is  constituted  as  follows : 

AUSTIN  SCOTT, 
ERNEST  C.  RICHARDSON, 
.  JOSEPH  F.  FOLSOM, 
A.  VAN  DOREN  HONEYMAN, 
JAMES  J.  BERGEN, 
HIRAM  E.  DEATS. 


DOCUMENTS 


RELATING  TO   THE 


REVOLUTIONARY  HISTORY 


VOLUMK    V. 


NEWSPAPER  EXTRACTS  RELATING  TO  NEW  JERSEY, 

OCTOBER,  1780— JULY,  1782. 


EDITED    BY 


AUSTIN    SCOTT. 


TRENTON,  N.  J. 

STATE  GAZETTE  PUBLISHING  Co.,  PRINTERS. 
1917. 


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PREFACE. 

The  manuscript  copies  of  newspaper  extracts  from 
October,  1780,  to  July,  1782,  mostly  from  the  NEW 
JKRSEY  GAZETTE,  had  been  made  under  the  direction  of 
Mr.  William  Nelson,  the  editor  of  former  volumes,  ami 
166  pages  of  the  present  vbmme  had  been  put  in  type 
before  his  death,  August  10,  1914.  There  remained  in 
manuscript  copy,  1,004  pages.  In  order  to  bring  this 
matter  within  the  compass  of  a  moderate  sized  volume, 
the  present  editor,  with  the  sanction  of  his  colleagues  in 
the  Committee  on  Colonial  Documents,  changed  the  form 
of  printing;  the  attempt  to  reproduce  the  display  style  of 
the  newspaper  was  abandoned,  smaller  sized  type  was 
chosen,  repetitions  for  the  most  part  eliminated  and  acts 
of  the  Legislature  indicated  only  by  title  and  not  re-printed 
at  length.  These  changes  mar  somewhat  symmetry  of  ap- 
pearance, but  they  were  necessary  if  the  matter  was  to  be 
contained  in  one  not  too  bulky  volume,  and  this  seemed 
very  desirable. 

It  is  to  be  noted  that  011  page  167  and  subsequent  pages 
the  source  of  the  extracts  is  made  to  precede,  and  not,  as 
in  previous  pages  and  previous  volumes,  to  follow  the 
extracts. 

The  index  was  prepared  by  the  present  corresponding 
secretary  of  the  New  Jersey  Historical  Society,  Mr.  A.  V. 
1).  Honeyman. 


VI  PREFACi:. 

The  editor  hopes  that  the  volume  will  serve  the  purpose 
of  reviving  for  many  a  reader  some  part  at  least  of  the 
life  the  Jerseyman  led  in  the  final  years  of  the  War  for 
Independence.  We  must,  however,  remember  that  the 
newspaper  of  that  day  was  not  the  omnium-gatherum  of 
ours.  To  many  a  matter  which  from  other  sources  we 
know  to  have  been  of  considerable  interest,  the  reporter  of 
1780  gave  not  the  cold  respect  of  a  passing  glance.  For 
example,  in  September  of  that  year,  the  Supreme  Court, 
sitting  in  Trenton,  gave  a  momentous  decision  which 
excited  interest  and  from  various  places  in  the  State, 
protest,  though  receiving  final  and  general  acquiescence. 
This  was  the  case^of  HOLMES  v.  WALTON,  arising  under 
the  "seizure  laws,"  which  prohibited  illicit  trading  with 
the  enemy.  The  doctrine  then,  and  for  the  first  time  laid 
down,  has  ever  since  been  the  law — namely,  that  an 
ordinary  law  violating  the  organic  law  is  void,  and  it  is  a 
judicial  function  when  the  issue  is  presented,  so  to  declare 
it,  But  the  GAZETTE,  published  in  Trenton,  does  not 
mention  the  case. 

We  do,  however,  gather  from  this  paper  a  fairly  good 
notion  of  what  the  people  of  the  State  were  doing  and 
thinking  as  they  were  passing  from  the  old  political  and 
civic  relations  to  the  new  order. 


NEWSPAPER  EXTRACTS 


ONE  GUINEA  Howard. 

MISSING  since  Sunday  four  o'clock  in  the  afternoon 
the  10th  inst.  a  yellow  negro  BOY,  about  14  years 
of  age,  thick  set,  named  BILL,  lately  belonging  to 
Mr.  Watson  of  Amboy,  a  few  months  ago  lived  with  Dr. 
Bard;    it  is  supposed  he  is  lurking  amongst  some  of  the 
Amboy  refugee  negroes.     This  is  tTo  caution  any  person 
or  persons  to  conceal  him  or  carry  him  off,  as  they  will  be 
prosecuted  as  the  law  directs*.     The  above  reward  will  be 
given  by  MEDCEF  EDEN, 

Brewer,  on  Golden-Hill. 

'• — The  New-York  Gazette:  and  the  Weekly  Mercury,  No. 
5911,  October  2,  1780. 


ME.  COLI/ENS, 

Please  to  give  the  enclosed  a  place  in  your  useful  paper. 

TO  think  what  we  please  and  to  speak  what  we  think,  is  an  essential 
right  of  a  freeman ;  and  as  it  is  the  privilege,  so  it  is  the  duty 
of  every  honest  man  in  this  land  of  liberty  to  examine  all  ques- 
tions of  a  public  nature,  touching  the  welfare  and  happiness  of  the 
government  under  which  he  lives.  In  this  light  we  may  view  a  late 
publication  in  your  paper,  signed  with  the  name  of  the  author,  on  the 
subject  of  manumitting  slaves.  The  gentleman's  design  reaches  far- 
ther, and  appears  to  be  more  comprehensively  beneficial  to  this  class 
of  men  than  the  late  law  in  Pennsylvania,  but  how  far  it  may  be 
consistent  with  sound  policy,  and  the  present  situation  of  our  affairs, 
will,  in  my  poor  opinion,  bear  some  discussion.  In  this  view  I  mean 
chiefly  to  take  up  the  argument ;  in  the  course  of  which  I  shall  ad- 


2  NEW     JERSEY     IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

dross  my  reasonings  to  him  as  an  inhabitant  of  this  state,  and  a  citi- 
zen of  the  United  States  in  general. 

The  knowledge  of  human  nature  is  a  science  at  once  the  most  useful 
and  diflicult.  as  it  is  that  which  must  help  us  to  direct  and  adopt  the 
spirit  of  the  laws  by  which  men  are  to  be  governed.  A  strict  moralist 
may  lay  down  rules  for  the  conduct  of  human  life,  and  natter  him- 
self into  a  belief  that  because  they  are  the  most  just  they  are  practi- 
cable; but  in  most  cases  an  attempt  of  this  nature  would  only  serve 
to  convince  him  of  his  errors,  and  the  futility  of  his  opinion.  The 
business  of  the  closet  is  one  thing,  that  of  persuading  or  convincing 
mankind  very  different.  Solon  the  Athenian  lawgiver  felt  the  fo:ee 
of  this  truth  when  he  was  asked  if  he  had  given  his  countrymen  the 
best  laws,  his  celebrated  answer  was,  "I  have  not  given  them  the  best 
I  could,  but  the  best  they  were  capable  of  receiving."  Now  it  appears. 
if  we  were  to  judge  of  his  understanding  or  his  virtue  from  his  laws 
alone,  we  should  not  probably  do  him  justice.  But  there  i.s  some- 
times the  perfection  of  policy  in  measures  which  are  not  perfectly 
virtuous;  and  the  reason  is  the  same  that  Solon  gave,  to  wit.  "they 
are  the  best  the  people  are  capable  of  receiving,"  or  in  other  words, 
that  the  nature  and  situation  of  things  will  admit. 

Thus  we  see  that  even  a  general  knowledge  of  human  nature,  and 
the  best  intentions,  tho'  they  may  help  us  to  make  wise  and  good  in- 
stitutions, yet  is  not  all-sufficient  without  fully  considering  the  pecu- 
liar state  and  condition  of  th^  people  on  which  they  are  to  operate. 
If  Solon  had  not  done  this,  his  plan  of  government  would  in  all  proba- 
bility have  turned  out  a  fanciful,  ineffective,  Utopian  scheme. 

It  seems  as  if  there  was  some  weight,  and  that  not  inconsiderable, 
due  to  the  customs  of  nations ;  even  those  which,  when  strictly  ex- 
amined, may  not  be  very  righteously  founded.  Our  Saviour,  consist- 
ently with  this  idea,  did  not  hestitate  to  pay  tribute  to  Caesar,  tho' 
he  knew  his  power  was  ill  gotten,  and  that  he  was  a  tyrant. 

Arguments  drawn  from  Scripture  authorities  when  veiled  in  ob- 
scurity, as  they  are  apt  to  weigh  improperly  with  some  men,  ought  to 
be  cleared  from  the  mists  that  surround  them  ;  and  in  persuance  of 
this  idea,  it  may  not  be  an  unacceptable  task  to  explain  what  the 
arriirNcri  thin;/  was  which  was  among  the  Israelites,  and  prevented  for 

a  time  their  conquering  their  enemies. When  Joshua  came  to  the 

land  of'  the  Amorites  he  sent  three  thousand  men  against  Ai,  who 
were  defeated,  and  the  men  of  Ai  smote  of  them  about  thirty  and  six 
men.  Josh.  vii.  5. — Joshua  hearing  of  this,  applied  to  the  Lord  to  know 
the  cause  of  this  misfortune,  and  the  Lord  said,  "Israel  hath  sinned, 
and  they  have  also  transgressed  my  covenant  which  I  commanded 
them;  for  they  have  taken  of  the  <ic(.-nrxct{  tJnnri,  and  they  have  also 
stolen,  and  dissembled  also,  and  have  put  it  even  amongst  their  own 
stuff."  Josh.  vii.  11. 

Achan,  the  son  of  Charmi,  being,  among  others,  examined  before 
Joshua,  made  the  following  confession — "When  I  saw  among  the 
spoils  a  goodly  Babylonish  garment,  and  two  hundred  shekels  of  silver, 
and  a  wedge  of  gold  of  fifty  shekels  weight,  then  I  coveted  them. 


1780]  NE\VSPAPEK    EXTRACTS.  3 

and  behold  they  are  hid  in  the  earth  in  the  midst  of  my  tent, 
and  the  silver  under  it."  Josh.  vii.  21.  This  was  directly  in 
the  face  of  the  following  commandment :  "The  graven  image  shalt 
thou  burn  with  fire,  thou  shalt  not  desire  the  silver  or  gold  that  is  in 
them,  nor  take  it  unto  thee,  lest  thou  be  ensnared  therein  ;  for  it  is 

an  abomination  to  the  Lord  thy  God."  Deut.  vii.  25. "Neither  shalt 

thou  bring  an  abomination  into  thy  house,  least  thou  be  a  cursed 
thiiifi  like  it.  but  thou  shalt  utterly  detest  it,  and  thou  s-halt  utterly 
abhor  it,  for  it  is  a  cursed  tiiinii."  Deut.  vii.  2<i. 

But  the  author  in  question  has,  with  what  boldness  I  leave  the 
world  to  judge,  in  effect  made  a  commandment  for  us,  and  an  accursed 
thing,  which  he  first  pronounces  us  guilty  of,  and  then  roundly  deals 
out  a  judgment  of  his  own  making,  also  against  our  endeavours  to 
defend  ourselves  from  the  enemy,  for  having  this  accursed  thing 
among  us.  This  kind  of  reasoning  seems  to  savour  pretty  much 
of  the  arts  practiced  by  the  church  of  Rome  in  the  plentitude  of  her 
power,  many  of  the  offences  and  punishments  being  of  her  own  in- 
vention. 

For  my  own  part,  never  having  put  on  the  yoke  of  implicit  faith, 
with  respect  to  any  such  authority,  I  disclaim  the  absurd  jurisdic- 
tion; being  of 'the  opinion  that  the  causes  of  our  misfortunes  are 
merely  human,  and  very  different  from  that  which  he  ascribes  them, 
for  I  believe  truly  we  have  many  accursed  things  among  us. 

But  the  gentleman  having  chosen  the  ground  of  scripture,  the  fol- 
lowing authority  does  not  seem  inapplicable  to  the  point  in  question  : 

In  that  part  of  the  Levitical  law  relating  to  the  year  of  Jubilee, 
chap.  xxv.  45,  46,  are  these  words — 45.  "Moreover  of  the  children  of 
the  strangers  that  do  sojourn  among  you,  of  them  shall  you  buy,  and 
of  their  families  that  are  with  you,  which  they  begat  in  your  land, 
and  they  shall  be  your  possession. — 46.  And  ye  shall  take  them  as  an 
inheritance  for  your  children  after  you,  to  inherit  them  for  a  pos- 
session ;  they  shall  be  your  bondsmen  forever:  but  over  your  brethren, 
the  children  of  Israel,  ye  shall  rule  one  over  another  with  rigour." 

In  these  parts  of  the  Levitical  law  perpetual  slavery  seems  rather 
more  than  permitted  under  the  Jewish  nation,  and  of  course  it  could 
not  have  been  deemed  an  accursed  thing. 

Having  just  mentioned  an  authority  of  no  small  weight,  drawn 
from  the  sacred  writings,  I  shall  now  endeavour  to  shew  from  the 
reason  of  facts  taken  from  profane  history,  that  the  practice  of  hold- 
ing slaves  among  other  nations  has  not  been  deemed  more  offensive 
than  it  was  of  old  among  the  Jews.  Plutarch  tells  us  in  his  life  of 
Solon,  "that  the  slaves  in  Attica  were  absolutely  the  property  of  their 
masters,  and  as  such  were  used  as  they  thought  fit ;  they  were  for- 
bidden to  wear  clothes  or  to  cut  their  hair  like  their  masters  ;  they 
were  likewise  debarred  from  anointing  and  perfuming  themselves 
and  from  worshipping  certain  deities ;  they  were  not  allowed  to  be 
called  by  honourable  names,  and  in  most  other  respects  were  used 
like  dogs." 


4  NEW  JERSEY  IN"  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1780 

In  Sparta  the  cruelties  practiced  upon  their  Helots  or  slaves,  were 
still  more  barbarous.  There  was  a  certain  custom  among  those  people 
called  Cryptia,  that  is,  Ambuscade,  such  as  had  the  care  of  educating 
the  Spartan  youth  picked  out  the  stoutest  of  them,  and  having  armed 
them  with  daggers,  sent  them  to  destroy  their  unhappy  slaves,  which 
they  did  by  falling  upon  them  in  the  night  or  day  when  they  were 
at  work,  without  any  crime  being  pretended  against  them ;  once  a 
day  they  received  a  certain  number  of  stripes,  for  fear  they  should 
forget  they  were  slaves. 

Among  the  Romans  the  method  of  treating  slaves  was  arbitrary  and 
cruel  in  the  highest  degree ;  they  were  subject  to  the  will  of  their 
masters,  who  could  do  and  really  did  with  them  as  they  pleased. 

It  has  also  been  the  policy1  of  almost  all  the  maritime  nations  of 
Europe  to  employ  slaves  in  their  colonies,  particularly  in  the  West- 
Indies,  where  they  live  miserably,  and  are  used  with  great  rigour. 

Having  thus  stated  the  facts  let  us  now  consider  what  befel  these 
people  and  nations  in  consequence  of  their  having  this  pretended 
accursed  thing  among  them. Athens  became  the  school  of  polite- 
ness, of  the  liberal  arts  and  science,  and  after  the  full  enjoyment  of 
all  earthly  happiness,  submitted  in  her  turn  to  the  inevitable  fate  of 
all  human  things. 

Sparta,  more  rigid  in  her  moral  and  political  maxims,  flourished 
for  the  space  of  seven  hundred  years,  and  maintained  an  enviable 
rank  in  the  government  of  ttye  world.  Rome,  Imperial  Rome,  the 
mistress  of  nations,  the  wonder  and  envy  of  mankind,  for  many  hun- 
dred years  ruled  over  the  earth  with  despotical  power. 

The  nations  of  Europe  who  have  employed  slaves  in  their  West- 
Indies  colonies  have  uniformly  grown  rich  by  their  labour,  and  in- 
creased in  strength,  and  the  individuals  among  them  immediately 
concerned  in  the  business  enjoy  a  great  share  of  ease  and  happiness ; 
and  even  these  states,  from  Georgia  to  New-Hampshire,  all  of  them 
have  grown  and  flourished  with  the  pretended  accursed  thing  among 
them  beyond  the  example  of  other  times,  or  nations  enjoying  in  reality 
for  many  years  the  fancied  happiness  of  the  golden  age  of  the  poets. 

I  hope  no  one  will  do  me  the  injustice  to  think  I  am  an  advocate 
for  slavery ;  my  design  in  what  I  have  as  yet  said  is  only  to  shew 
the  fancifulness  and  enthusiastick  turn  of  the  argument  made  use  of 
in  the  performance  in  question,  which  seems  calculated  rather  to  work 
on  the  imaginations  than  the  good  sense  and  sound  judgment  of  the 
public,  whilst  other  obvious  reasons  of  irrefragable  force  with  respect 
to  the  justice  of  the  .measure  might  have  been  substituted  in  their 
place. 

I  think,  though  it  may  be  right  and  highly  praiseworthy  to  set 
free  the  children  of  slaves  to  be  born  after  a  certain  time,  there  are 
many  weighty  .reasons  of  policy  against  freeing  the  present  race  of 
slaves  at  this  crisis. 


1780]  XEWSPAPEE    EXTRACTS.  5 

1.  That  at  this  time  when  many  parts  of  tho  Btate  in  the  neigh- 
bourhood of  the  enemy  are  laid  waste  and  rendered  desolate  by  the 
ravages   of  that   army,   and   many   families   driven   from   their  lands 
depend  in  a  great  measure  on  the  labour  of  their  slaves  for  a  liveli- 
hood, it  would  be  unreasonable  to  deprive  them  of  their  only  support. 

2.  That  as  all  slaves  are  in  reality  as  much  the  property  of  their 
masters  as  the  gold  and  silver  for  which  they  were  bought,  or  may 
be  sold,  according  to  every  idea  of  law  and  custom  prevailing  among 
us,   they  cannot  be  deprived  of  them  without  being  paid  the  value, 
which  will  be  a  new  and  heavy  tax  upon  the  publick. 

3.  That    there    will    be    a   considerable    number   of   superannuated, 
diseased,  and  vagabond  slaves,  to  be  maintained  at  the  publick  cost, 
which  will  also  be  a  heavy  tax. 

4.  That  the  quantity  of  labour  will  be  considerably  lessened  at  a 
time   when    every    nerve   should    be    strained    to    furnish   money   and 
supplies  for  the  maintenance  of  the  army,  on  which  our  own  liberty 
and  property  depends. 

5.  Because  they  are  unfit  for  good  commonwealth's  men  from  their 
having  all  the  habits  of  servitude  deep  rooted  in  their  minds. 

6.  Because   they   are   treated  with   a  humanity   unknown  in   other 
parts  of  the  world,  and  are  better  off  than  the  generality  of  white 
poor,  who  are  obliged,  those  who  have  families,  from  their  necessities 
to  work  harder  than  the  slaves  in  general  in  this  state. 

But  what  shall  we  say  when  we  consider  the  writer  as  a  citizen 
of  the  United  States,  to  the  interest  of  all  which  some  attention  and 
duty  are  owing.  What  will  an  inhabitant  of  Georgia  or  the  Caro- 
linas  think  of  these  examples  in  the  more  northern  parts  of  the 
American  Republick  at  this  distressing  and  critical  time,  when  his 
very  existence  as  a  man,  and  that  of  his  family  and  friends,  depends 
on  the  obedience  of  the  slaves,  who  are  so  much  more  numerous  than 
the  white  inhabitants?  The  evils  consequent  upon  so  large  a  body 
of  slaves,  idle,  ignorant,  and  helpless  as  they  are  in  those  countries, 
being  liberated,  or  even  possessed  of  the  spirit  of  disobedience,  would 
now  be  irremediable.  Will  the  people  of  those  states,  deprived  of  the 
labour  of  their  slaves,  be  able  to  furnish  their  respective  quotas  of 
the  taxes  towards  sinking  the  present  money,  and  the  farther  im- 
portant purposes  of  carrying  on  the  war?  I  cannot  but  imagine  that 
if  the  writer  were  now  in  this  predicament,  struggling  with  losses 
and  misfortunes,  the  actual  suffering  of  which  would  add  a  poig- 
nancy and  weight  to  reasons  of  policy,  he  would  find  them  operate 
in  such  manner  as  to  induce  him  to  change  his  opinion,  which,  if 
it  becomes  a  measure  of  government,  will,  in  my  opinion,  be  attended 
with  consequences  pernicious  if  not  fatal  to  the  common  cause. 

I  have  heard  within  these  few  days  that  there  is  a  probability  of 
the  law  in  Pennsylvania,  for  freeing  the  children  of  the  present 
generation  of  slaves,  being  altered,  if  not  repealed,  on  the  ground 
of  inexpediency.  ^  WHIG. 


XK\V     .TF.RSKV     IX    TlfF.    REVOLUTION.  [1780 


FISH-KILL,  September  28. 

On  -Monday  last  his  Excellency  Gen.  Washington  passed 
through  this  town,  on  his  way  from  Hartford,  and  his  ar- 
rival at  West-Point  was  announced  by  the  discharge  of 
thirteen  cannon,  about  eleven  o'clock  same  day. 

About  the  time  of  his  Excellency's  arrival  at  the  fort, 
a  most  horrid  plot  was  discovered,  the  infamous  Gen.  Ar- 
nold at  the  head  of  it;  who,  it  is  supposed,  has  been  cor- 
rupted by  the  influence  of  British  gold,  having  agreed  to 
deliver  np  the  fort  at  West- Point ;  for  which  purpose  he 
drew  a  plan  of  all  the  works  at  the  Point,  and  gave  it  to  a 
spy,  Major  John  Andre,  Adjutant  General  of  the  British 
army,  and  first  Aid  of  Sir  Henry  Clinton.  Arnold,  on 
Thursday  last,  early  in  the  day,  came  to  Mr.  Joshua 
Smith's  (brother  to  the  honorable  William  Smith)  at 
Haverstraw.  Smith,  who  is  now  in  custody,  says,  that 
Arnold  told  him  that  there  was  a  person  on  board  the  Vul- 
ture, a  British  frigate  then  in  the  river,  whom  he  greatly 
wanted  to  see ;  he  mentioned  Col.  B.  Robinson,  who  he 
said,  was  coming,  under  pretence  of  serving  the  British, 
to  make  interest  to  obtain  his  estate  and  return.  Arnold 
proposed  to  Smith  to  go  on  board  the  frigate ;  Smith  ac- 
cordingly, in  the  night,  went  on  board,  where  he  saw  Col. 
Robinson  and  Major  Andre.  Col.  Robinson  refused  to 
come  ashore,  but  Major  Andre  did;  ihey  found  Arnold 
waiting  for  them  on  the  shore,  and  they  had  a  long  private 
conference ;  after  which  Arnold  went  to  Smith's  house  with 
the  Major,  and  Smith  secured  the  barge.  Xext  day  Arnold 
requested  Smith  to  furnish  the  Major  with  a  suit  of  clothes, 
lest  he  should  be  suspected,  as  his  were  British  regimentals ; 
which,  he  did.  They  were  prevented  going  on  board  the 
frigate  the  following  day,  our  gun  boats  being  in  the  river. 
On  which  they  agreed  to  go  by  land,  and  Arnold  supplied 
Andre  and  Smith  with  passes  to  conduct  them  below  our 
lines.  Having  provided  horses  they  set  off  on  Saturday 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  7 

morning ;  and  Smith  conducted  him  past  our  guards,  and, 
as  he  thought,  out  of  danger,  and  then  left  him ;  but  a  party 
of  our  militia  soon  after  met  and  secured  him,  and  notwith- 
standing his  large  offers  of  cash  and  goods,  to  let  him  pass, 
which  they  nobly  disdained,  brought  him  to  Head-Quar- 
ters ;  and  on  Tuesday  last  he  was  removed  to  West-Point, 
in  order  to  have  his  trial  with  Joshua  Smith,  his  conductor, 
who  was  secured  on  Monday  night. 

Arnold  hearing  of  General  Washington's  approach, 
seemed  greatly  confused,  called  for  his  horse,  and  rode  im- 
mediately to  the  landing,  where  he  ordered  a  barge  to  set 
off  with  him,  who  carried  him  on  board  the  Vulture,  where 
he  now  remains:  'Tis  said  he  sent  a  letter  to  General 
Washington,  to  assure  him,  that  neither  his  wife  nor  Aid 
were  in  the  secret  of  his  nefarious  conduct. 

This  hasty  narrative,  contains  all  the  particulars  we  have 
heard  of  this  tragical  affair.  We  expect  in  our  next  to  give 
our  readers  a  more  correct  account  of  it. 


PHILADELPHIA,  September  30. 

As  the  publick  curiosity  and  anxiety  must  naturally  be 
raised  to  a  high  pitch  by  the  providential  detection  of  the 
perfidy  and  treachery  of  a  late  distinguished  general  offi- 
cer of  the  United  States,  we  shall  endeavour  to  give  our 
readers  such  particulars  as  have  come  to  our  knowledge, 
and  are  well  authenticated. 

On  Monday  last  Congress  received  a  letter  from  General 
Greene  inclosing  one  from  Col.  Hamilton,  one  of  General 
Washington's  aids,  informing  him  that  a  scene  of  the  black- 
est villainy  had  been  just  disclosed :  that  Arnold  was  gone 
off  to  the  enemy :  Col.  Andrie,  General  Clinton's  principal 
aid  and  confidant,  was  apprehended  in  disguise'  in  our 
camp :  that  West-Point  (where  Arnold  was  commanded  ) 
was  to  be  the  sacrifice,  and  that  all  the  dispositions  were 
made  for  delivering  it  up  last  Monday  night:  that  he 


8  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

had  pursued  Arnold  as  far  as  Verplank's  point,  from 
which  the  letter  was  dated,  but  without  success:  that  tho' 
it  was  not  probable  the  post  would  now  fall,  yet  it  was 
possible,  and  especially  as  the  wind  was  fair ;  therefore  he 
recommended  to  Gen.  Greene  (who  commands  the  army 
in  General  Washington's  absence)  to  put  it  under  march- 
ing orders,  and  detach  a  brigade  immediately. 

The  letter  from  General  Greene  confirms  the  above  ac- 
count, but  adds  no  material  particulars. 

As  soon  as  these  letters  were  read,  the  contents  were 
communicated  to  the  Vice-president  and  Council  of  this 
state,  and  the  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court,  who  di- 
rected an  immediate  seizure  of  all  Arnold's  papers,  which 
was  made,  and  tho'  no  direct  proof  of  his  treachery  was 
found,  the  papers  disclose  such  a  scene  of  baseness  and 
prostitution  of  office  and  character,  as  it  is  hoped  this  new 
world  cannot  parallel.  His  participation  of  the  plunder  of 
this  city  when  he  held  «the  command  after  the  evacuation 
of  the  enemy,  is  now  found  by  the  agreement,  signed  be- 
tween him  and  his  accomplices  to  share  the  profits  of  that 
shameful  business.  It  appears  that  he  and  some  others, 
whose  names  will  probably  in  due  time  be  made  known, 
now  have  subsisting  contracts  with  persons  in  New- York 
for  merchandize. 

In  making  an  estimate  of  his  estate  he  enumerates  his 
share  of  the  sloop  Active,  tho'  he  found  witnesses  to 
swear  before  the  grand  jury  that  he  had  no  share  in  her. 
In  short,  his  whole  command  appears  to  have  been  a  scene 
of  the  basest  trafnck  and  publick  plunder.  In  August  last 
he  directs  his  wife  to  draw  all  she  can  from  the  commis- 
saries, and  sell  it  or  store  it,  tho'  at  that  very  time  the 
army  was  destitute  of  provisions.  In  the  private  corres- 
pondence of  his  family  and  himself  are  contained  the  most 
sarcastic  and  contemptuous  expressions  of  the  French  na- 
tion, and  of  an  eminent  personage  of  that  country,  whose 
hospitality  and  politeness  they  were  at  that  time  frequently 
experiencing.  The  illiberal  abuse  of  every  character  op- 


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posed  to  his  fraudulent  and  wicked  transactions  exceeds  all 
description. 

Prudence  forbids  our  mentioning  the  names  of  those 
persons  who  appear  by  his  letters  to  have  supported  and 
abetted  him  in  his  nefarious  practices :  nor  is  it  necessary, 
as  the  journals  of  a  great  assembly  and  the  countenance 
he  received  in  this  city  from  some  persons,  will  easily 
direct  the  public  judgment.  The  attempts  to  stigmatize 
the  President  and  Council  of  this  state,  and  to  saddle  it 
with  the  payment  of  the  sloop  Active,  must  now  appear 
in  their  proper  light  and  fill  the  authors  with  shame  and 
remorse. 

Our  correspondent  concludes  with  a  remark  on  the  fal- 
lacious and  dangerous  sentiments  so  frequently  avowed  in 
this  city,  that  female  opinions  are  of  no  consequence  in 
public  matters.  The  Romans  thought  far  otherwise,  or 
we  should  not  have  heard  of  the  Clelias,  the  Cornelius  and 
Anias  of  antiquity:  and  had  we  thought  and  acted  like 
them  we  should  have  despised  and  banished  from  social 
intercourse  every  character,  whether  male  or  female,  which 
could  be  so  lost  to  virtue,  decency  and  humanity,  as  to 
revel  with  the  murderers  and  plunderers  of  their  country- 
men. Behold  the  consequence.  Col.  Andrie,  under  the 
mask  of  friendship  and  former  acquaintance  at  Meschi 
anzas  and  Balls,  opens  a  correspondence  in  August,  1779, 
with  Mrs.  Arnold,  which  has  doubtless  been  improved  on 
his  part  to  the  dreadful  and  horrid  issue  we  have  described, 
and  which  but  for  the  over-ruling  care  of  a  kind  Provi- 
dence, must  have  involved  this  country  and  our  Allies  in 
great  distress,  and  perhaps  utter  ruin. 

The  following  are  the  reports  of  the  manner  of  discov- 
ery, but  we  can  only  give  them  as  such,  viz. 

That  ,Col.  Andrie  came  up  the  river  in  a  frigate,  and 
then  went  on  shore  in  disguise,  supposed  to  meet  Arnold, 
and  finish  their  intended  scheme ;  but  it  happened,  that  a 
British  deserter  crossed  the  river  in  the  same  boat,  who 


10  .\i:\V    JKUSKY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

knew  Andrie  notwithstanding  bis  disguise.  The  deserter 
took  no  notice  of  him  in  the  boat,  but  hastened  up  to 
Arnold's  quarters  to  give  information;  Colonel  Hamilton 
fortunately  was  there  on  business,  and  was  present  when 
it  was  given:  he,  with  some  others,  hastened  immediately 
to  the  place,  where  Andrie  was  found,  seized,  and  dis- 
owned himself;  but  in  the  meantime,  Arnold  fearing  his 
plot  had  failed,  and  goaded  by  a  guilty  conscience,  fled 
to  a  boat  at  the  river  side,  which  conveyed  him  on  board 
the  frig-ate,  where,  for  the  present,  he  is  out  of  reach  of 
the  punishment  due  to  his  crimes,  though  doubtless  brood- 
ing over  them,  and  where  he  wTill  soon  feel  the  stings  of 
contempt  which  ever  follows  successful  Treachery,  but 
whose  keen  sensations  must  be  doubly  quickened  under 
shame  and  disappointment. 

Andrie' s  fate  is  not  yet  known. 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  Camp  Tapan,  September  26. 

"Lo-;t  to  every  sentiment  of  honor  and  disgraced  by  the 
inordinate  thirst  for  gold,  General  Arnold  has  gone  over 
to  the  enemy. — He  was  to  have  surrendered  the  important 
post  of  West-Point,  and  entrapped  the  Commander  in 
Chief,  who  lodged  at  the  post  on  the  intended  night  of 
execution.  The  plot 'was  providentially  discovered,  and 
the  whole  mystery  unravelled;  though  as  yet,  I  am  un- 
acquainted with  the  particulars. — The  substantial  facts 
are,  that  Major  Andrie,  the  British  Adjutant  General, 
who  had  been  with  General  Arnold,  and  had  obtained  a 
plan  of  the  works,  and  an  exact  state  of  them  from  him, 
on  his  return  to  make  his  report,  about  Tarry-Town,  was 
taken  by  three  militiamen,  and  delivered  to  Col.  Sheldon's 
regiment  of  horse:  In  the  bottom  of  one  of  his  boots  were 
discovered  letters  and  plans  which  unfolded  the  hellish 
scheme.  It  soon  took  wind,  and  was  re-ported  to  General 
Arnold,  and  just  before  his  Excellency  arrived  at  the 
place,  the  General  went  on  board  of  his  barge,  pushed 
down  the  river,  and  made  his  escape  to  the  Vulture  sloop 


1780]  NEWSPAPEB    EXTKACTS.  11 

of  war  that  lay  opposite  to  Tallaral's  Point. — Tom  Smith's 
brother  was  an  accomplice,  and  has  gone  off  likewise. 
Mrs.  Arnold  is  at  West-Point,  or  Robinson's  house,  in  a 
very  distressed  situation,  and  Major  Parkes  is  with  her. 
The  enemy's  whole  force,  except  a  small  garrison,  had 
embarked  yesterday,  and  the  plan  was  to  have  been  exe- 
cuted last  night." 

Extract  of  another  letter  from  the  same  place,  Sept.  27. 

"Since  writing  you  yesterday,  I  am  informed  that  it 
was  Joe,1  instead  of  Tom  Smith,  who  acted  as  an  accom- 
plice in  this  horrid  plot ;  he  is  taken,  and  with  Major 
Andrie,  I  suppose  WILL  GRACE  A  GALLOWS  this 
day.- — No  other  particulars  have  come  to  my  knowledge. — 
The  Commander  in  Chief  is  still  at  West-Point,  providing 
for  the  security,  and  searching  the  treason  to  the  bottom." 


TRENTON,  OCTOBER  4. 

By  two  Gentlemen  who  left  Head-Quarters  on  Saturday 
last,  we  are  informed  that  the  spy,  Major  ANDRE,  the 
person  mentioned  under  the  Fish-Kill  and  Philadelphia 
heads,  was  to  be  executed  at  camp  on  the  same  day,  at 
five  o'clock  in  the  afternoon — and  that  Joe  Smith  had  not 
then  had  his  trial,  but  it  was  not  doubted  that  he  would 
meet  a  like  reward. 

It  is  ardently  to  be  wished,  says  a  correspondent,  that 
General  Arnold,  that  most  abandoned  and  infamous  traitor 
and  intended  betrayer  of  the  just  and  glorious  cause  of 
America,  should  share  a  like  fate,  that  he  might  become 
as  a  by-word  among  the  virtuous  sons  of  America. 

We  are  desired  to  inform  the  electors  of  this  county, 
that  the  election  will  be  held  on  Tuesday  next  at  Mershon's, 
late  Ringo's  tavern,  in  Am  well,  where  all  persons  en- 
titled to  vote  are  desired  to  give  their  attendance. 

1  Joshua  Hett  Smith   is  meant. 


12  NEW    JERSEY    JN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

I 

FOR  THE  NEW-JERSEY  GAZETTE. 
To  the  FKEEMEISr  of  the  State  of  Jersey. 

HUMAN  wisdom  perhaps  cannot  form  a  constitution  of  govern- 
ment more  perfect  than  that  which  we  are  so  happy  as  to 
enjoy.     The  will  of  the  governed  is  the  will  of  themselves, 
expressed  by   their  representatives,   annually  and   freely   chosen.     In 
this,  consists  the  very  essence  of  LIBERTY. 

But  it  is  in  vain  to  hope  for  the  enjoyment  of  this  constitution 
longer  than  the  pulse  of  freedom  beats  in  the  commonalty  of  the 
people.  The  moment  they  sink  into  luxury  and  sloth,  venality  and 
corruption,  that  moment  the  goodly  fabrick  of  FREEDOM  which 
they  erected,  falls;  and  perhaps  buries  every  particle  of  liberty  in 
its  ruins. 

The  truth  of  this  observation  hath  been  verified  in  many  ages,  and 
in  many  nations.  Ancient  Rome,  in  particular,  bears  full  testimony 
in  its  favour ;  nor  is  modern  Britain  less  explicit  in  similar  evidence. 

The  excellence  of  the  British  constitution  hath  been  celebrated, 
not  only  by  Britons,  but  by  foreigners.  And  it  must  be  confessed 
it  hath  much  intrinsic  value,  and  as  a  monarcliical  government,  it  is 
allowed  to  be  equal,  if  not  superior,  to  any  in  the  world.  We,  how- 
ever, feel  no  emotions  of  envy  towards  it ;  we  wish  not  a  kingly 
government,  though  in  its  most  perfect  form.  Such  an  humiliating 
system  may  be  well  adapted  to  the  genius,  prejudices,  and  characters 
of  Englishmen,  but  would  be  very  opposite  to  that  noble  pride,  and 
amiable  simplicity,  which  distinguishes  Americans. 
•  But  with  the  decline  of  publick  virtue  how  does  the  spirit  of  liberty 
languish  in  Britain?  Can  it  indeed  be  said,  that  there  it  hath  even 
an  existence? — The  temple  of  freedom,  it  is  true,  remains,  but  such 
is  its  pollution,  that  its  chaste  goddess  hath  relinquished  it,  hath 
taken  her  flight,  and  fixed  her  abode  in  the  fair  regions  of  America. 

This  state,  among  others,  she  animates  and  blesses  with  her  pres- 
ence.— May  we  forever  enjoy  her  smiles !  May  the  rude  hand  of 
tyranny  never  offend  her!  May  her  sacred  character  ever  be  re- 
garded !  But  I  fear  her  displeasure— I  dread  her  absence. 

Say  not,  I  possess  an  uncommon  share  of  timidity ;  that  my 
apprehensions  are  groundless :  they  are  amply  justified  by  the  in- 
constancy and  weakness  of  mankind.  It  is  to  be  wished  they  could 
be  justified  by  no  other  reason.  I  do  not  desire  to  clamour,  much 
less  to  calumniate.  A  regard  for  FREEDOM  only  opens  my  lips. 

Our  constitution  guards  the  life,  liberty,  and  property  of  the  sub- 
ject, by  the  trial  of  a  jury  of  his  peers. 

It  is  said  that  at  the  last  session  of  the  legislature  an  attempt 
was  made  to  pass  "a  bill,  constituting  a  body  of  five  members,  to  sit 
during  the  recess  of  the  assembly ;  and  this  board  was  to  be  in- 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  13 

vested  with  power,  merely  on  the  suspicion  of  disaffectation  to  gov- 
ernment, to  banish  any,  and  by  consequence,  every  freeman  of  the 
state  to  the  enemy,  with  whom  he  was  to  continue,  or  not  return 
without  legal  permission  on  pain  of  death. 

It  is  scarce  credible  that  any  of  the  guardians  of  our  liberty  could 
so  soon  have  mistaken  or  forgotten  its  principles,  and  been  unmindful 
of  their  trust.  And  for  their  honour,  as  well  as  that  of  the  state, 
I  hope  I  am  misinformed  in  this  particular ;  but  I  am  apprehensive 
there  is  too  much  reason  to  believe  it  is  founded  on  fact.  The 
minutes  of  the  assembly,  however,  will  testify  in  this  case,  and,  if  as 
it  is  represented,  I  am  charitably  inclined  to  attribute  the  conduct  of 
the  abettors  of  the  bill  rather  to  inattention  than  evil  design;  that 
they  have  been  governed  in  this  instance  by  ignorance,  mistaken  zeal, 
or  influenced  by  the  sophistical  reasoning  of  some  wicked  individual. 
The  plea  of  NECESSITY  has  in  it  a  quality  extremely  pleasing  to 
TYRANTS,  and  when  uttered  by  the  tongue  of  apparent  patriotism, 
a  sound  which  charms  the  ear  of  many  men  .of  integrity. 

But  no  cry  of  necessity  can  justify  an  act  of  treason  or  guilt ;  no 
fear  of  danger  can  excuse  the  commission  of  evil ;  no  exigency  of  a 
state  can  acquit  a  subversion  of  its  LIBERTIES  by  those  who  have 
sworn  to  maintain  them.  Should  the  plea  of  necessity  be  admitted, 
there  would  be  an  end  to  freedom,  and  no  potentate,  however  tyranni- 
cal or  unconstitutional  his-  acts,  could  be  deposed,  or  arraigned  at 
the  bar  of  justice. 

For  the  preservation  of  liberty,  it  is  necessary  that  those  delegated 
to  protect  it  should  not  only  be  acquainted  with  its  principles,  and 
be  possessed  of  probity,  but  also  of  strength  to  repel  the  attacks  of 
its  foes,  of  wisdom  to  discard  and  confute  the  arguments  of  subtlety 
or  error,  when  employed  for  its  destruction. 

It  would  afford  an  unhappy  patient,  in  the  agonies  of  death,  no 
consolation  to  inform  him  that  the  fatal  potion  which  occasioned  his 
dissolution  was  ministered  by  inattention  or  ignorance,  and  not  by 
wickedness.  The  effect  to  him  would  be  the  same ;  and  it  must  add 
to  his  unhappiness  to  reflect  that  he  lost  his  life  by  thoughtlessly 
entrusting  it  with  a  person  of  negligence  or  unskilfulness  in  his 
profession. 

That  the  life  and  vigour  of  our  'body  •politick  may  be  preserved,  it 
concerns  us  to  be  extremely  attentive  to  whose  care  we  entrust  it. 

The  preceding  observations  will  tend  to  assist  us  in  our  judgment, 
at  the  ensuing  election,  of  the  ability  of  those  who  shall  offer  them- 
selves for  this  trust. 

Yearly,  at  least,  wisdom  calls  upon  us  to  advert  to  the  original 
state  of  floridity  and  health  of  this  body,  and  to  compare  it  with  its 
present  appearance,  and  if  we  perceive  its  constitution  impaired,  as 
its  malady  can  only  be  attributed  to  a  defect  of  conduct  in  those 
to  whose  management  it  was  committed,  we  should  immediately 
employ  that  most  sovereign  remedy  within  our  power, — a  change  of 
our  servants.  A  FREEMAN. 


14  XKW    JERSEY'    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

To  be  SOLD  at  miblick  Vendue, 

On  Wednesday,  the  25tli  instant,  at  two  o'clock  in  the 
afternoon,  at  the  subscriber's  Pott.ing-work  in  Trenton. 

\  TRACT  of  LAXD  containing  two  hundred  and  sixty 
J\^  acres,  all  woodland  except  fifty  acres,  which  is  mostly 
cleared.  There  is  an  incumbrance  of  a  lease  on  said 
fifty  acres  of  a  female's  life,  who  is  now  upwards  of  eighty 
years  of  age.  It  has  an  improvement  on  it  of  a  small 
house,  stable  and  orchard,  and  lays  within  two  miles  and 
a  half  of  Trenton,  situate  on  the  road  from  the  upper  ferry 
in  Allen-town.  It  will  be  set  up  in  one  or  two  lots,  as  may 
best  suit  the  purchasers.  A  good  and  lawful  title  will  be 
given,  and  any  person  inclining  to  view  the  premises  before 
the  day  of  sale  may  apply  to  the  subscriber,  who  will  re- 
ceive lawful  or  continental  money  in  payment;  and  will 
likewise  take  in  part  New-Jersey  Quartermasters  certifi- 
cates. 

B.  HANLOK 
Trenton,  October  4th,  1780. 


TO  BE  SOLD 
By   publick    Vendue, 

On  Saturday  the  28th  of  October,  inst.  at  the  house  of  Wil- 
liam and  Robert  Chambers,  in  the  township  of  Windsor 
an[d]  county 

of  Middlesex ; 

AN"    elegant    black    COVERING    HORSE,    7-8ths 
blooded ;    milch  Cows,  one  yoke  of  working  Oxen, 
Sheep,  a  light  pleasure  waggon,  Ploughs  and  Har- 
rows, with  a  variety  of  other  farming  utensils  too  tedious 
to  mention. 

Oct.  2,  1780. 


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STATE  OF  NEW- JERSEY,  GLOUCESTER  COUNTY,  SEPTEM- 
BER 19,  1780. 

To  be  sold  at  publick  Vendue, 

On  Saturday  the  4th  of  November  next,  at  three  o'clock 
afternoon,  at  the  house  of  Hugh  Creighton,  innkeeper,  in 
Haddonfield, 

A  Certain  House  and  Lot  in  said  town,  (where  said 
Creighton  lately  kept  tavern,  and  now  in  the  tenure 
of  the  widow  Bispham)   with  a  piece  of  meadow 
thereunto    belonging;     being   late   the   property    of   John 
Hinchman,  during  the  natural  life  of  said  John  and  his 
wife  Elizabeth  Hinchman.    Also  about  three  acres  of  cedar 
swamp  on  Prosser's  pond  branch,  in  the  township  of  Glou- 
cester, being  late  the  property  of  said  Hinchman ;    confis- 
cated, and  to  be  sold  for  the  use  of  the  state,  by 

JOHN"  SPAEKS,  and  )  Commis- 
SAMUEL  KAIGHN,.   j    sioners. 

STRAYED, 

On  or  about  the  15th  instant,  from  the « plantation  of  Gen. 
Lewis  Morris,  near  Rocky-Hill,  Somerset  county. 

A  DUN  MARE,  near  fourteen  hands  high,  a  natural 
pacer,  about  five  or  six  years  old,  and  has  a  scar 
upon  one  of  her  flanks.   Whoever  returns  the  above 
mare  at  the  said  plantation,  or  gives  information  so  that 
she  may  be  recovered,  shall  be  handsomely  rewarded,  and 
all  reasonable  charges  paid  at  the  above  place. 
September  28th,  1780. 

To  be  SOLD  at  public  Vendue, 

On  Tuesday  the  17th  day  of  October  instant,  at-  the  house 
of  the  Widow  Marlatt,  in  the  township  of  Mansfieldwood- 
house,  Sussex  county,  near  Squires-Point : 


16  NEW    JERSEY    IN"    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

HORSES,  colts,  oxen,  cattle,  sheep,  ploughs  and  har- 
rows, one  waggon,  many  farming  utensils,  late  the 
property  of  John  Marlatt,  deceased. 
All  persons  that  have  any  demands  on  the  said  estate  are 
requested  to  call  on 

GARRET  RAPALJE,  )  ^ 
WM.  CREVELING,   f 

To  be  sold  at  publick  vendue, 

On  the  9th  day  of  October  instant,  at  the  house  of  William 

Compton,   deceased,   Monmouth  county,   Upper-Freehold, 

\     PLANTATION  of  200  acres  of  good  land,  contain- 

Jr±.      ing    very    good    buildings,    a    great    quantity    of 

meadow,  an  excellent  orchard,  and  good  water  by 

the  door. 

Also,  horses,  cows,  oxen,  sheep,  and  all  sorts  of  farming 
utensils  too  tedious  to  mention,  by 

John  Compton,  )   -^ 

T  i  •-,-  3    n  f  Executors. 

Ichabod   Compton,      j 

Five  Hundred  Dollars  Reward. 

BROKE  out  of  Trenton  gaol  last  night,  a  certain  Mat- 
thias Sirncock,  of  a  small  stature,  about  45  years  of 
age;    also  one  John  Van  Hise,  a  low  Dutchman, 
near  6  feet  high,  and  48  years  of  age.    Whoever  takes  up 
said  persons,  and  delivers  them  to  the  subscriber,   shall 
have  the  above  reward,  or  Two  Hundred  and  Fifty  Dol- 
lars for  either,  paid  by 

PETER  HULICK,  Gaoler. 
Trenton,  October  3,  1780. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  17 

TO   BE   SOLD, 
In  TRENTOX 

A  few  ve.ry  large  and  elegant 

Looking-Glasses, 

a  Wilton  Carpet, 

And  sundry  other  things. 

Enquire  of  the  Printer. 

The  NEW  ERECTED 

STAGE-WAGGON 

From  Philadelphia  to  Trenton. 

WILL  set  out  from  the  Cross-Keys,  in  Philadelphia, 
every  Tuesday  morning,  and  proceed  to  Trenton 
same  day ;   and  set  out  from  Trenton,  at  the  sign 
of  the  Thirteen  Stars,  next  morning,  and  proceed  back  to 
Philadelphia  that  day.    All  passengers,  &c.,  are  desired  to 
attend  at  each  place  early  in  the  morning.     Their  favours 
will  be  gratefully  acknowledged  by  the  Publick's  humble 
servant, 

JONATHAN  SKOFFIELD. 


18  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION  [1780 

TO   BE   SOLD, 

For  Hard  Money  or  Continental, 

A  TRACT  of  LAND  containing  about  1000  acres, 
lying  in  the  Corporation  of  New-Brunswick,  on 
South-River,  joining  the  island  belonging  to  John 
Lawrence,  Esq.,  late  Mayor  of  Philadelphia.  The  place 
is  well  situated,  having  a  good  house  and  excellent  orchard 
on  it,  and  fresh  meadow  that  will  cut  yearly  at  least  one 
hundred  loads  of  hay,  a  shad-fishery  within  thirty  yards 
of  the  house,  where  great  quantities  of  them  are  taken  in 
the  season,  with  other  fish.  The  land  is  well  timbered  and 
convenient  for  the  New- York  market,  having  commodious 
landing  places  for  boats  of  ten  cords,  from  which  place  a 
number  were  employed  to  the  New- York  market.  For 
further  particulars  enquire  of  Levinus  Clarkson,  at  New- 
Brunswick,  Jacobus  Van  Zandt,  at  Morris-Town,  or  Jos- 
eph Milnor,  at  Trenton,  who  will  agree  for  the  same.  An 
indisputable  title  will  be  given. 
October  1,  1780. 

STRAY   COWS. 

CAME  to  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber,  about  the 
10th  of  August  last,  two  cows,  one  a  brindle  with 
a  slit  in  the  right  ear,  and  a  crop  off  the  left,  the 
other  a  red  one  without  mark ;  they  have  since  both  calved, 
and  I  have  taken  them  into  pasture.     The  owner  is  re- 
quested to  prove  his  property,  pay  charges,  and  take  them 
away. 

SAMUEL  HILL. 
Amwell,  September  28,  1780. 

— New-Jersey   Gazette,   Vol.  III.,  No.   1^5,   October  4, 
1780. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  19 


CHATHAM,  Sept.  27. 

We  hear  that  General  Phillips  and  General  Lincoln, 
who  met  at  Elizabeth  Town,  last  week,  as  commissioners 
from  the  two  armies,  for  the  purpose  of  effecting  an  ex- 
change of  prisoners,  have  done  nothing  towards  bringing 
about  so  desirable  an  affair.  They  are  to  meet  again  at 
Long-Island. — The  New-York  Gazette:  and  the  Weekly 
Mercury,  No.  5912,  October  9,  1780. 

FOUK  HUNDRED  DOLLARS  REWARD. 

Made  their  escape  from  the  goal  of  Cumberland,  county, 
State  of  New-Jersey,  this  evening  about  nine  o'clock,  the 
following  Refugees,  who  were  driven  on  shore  at  Antuxet 
by  Col.  Pope,  and  committed  to  my  custody  on  the  30th 
day  of  August  last,  viz.  Noah  Morris,  striped  vest  without 
sleeves,  no  hat,  wears  his  hair  short,  which  is  black.  Wil- 
liam Dutton,  black  hair,  no  vest,  nor  hat,  midling  stature. 
John  Burton,  no  hat  nor  vest,  light  hair  tied  behind.  Sam- 
uel Taylor,  of  a  sandy  complexion,  striped  red  and  white 
sailor's  outside  jacket.  Painter  Stockley,  no  vest,  macca- 
roni  hat,  tall  of  stature,  darkish  complexion.  Benjamin 
Welding,  tall  and  slim,  thin  visage,  black  hair  and  beard : 
Had  on  a  dirty  dark  coloured  coatee,  much  patched.  Jesse 
Wilson,  light  complexion,  sometimes  wears  his  hair  tied 
behind.  Had  on  a  light  coloured  upper  and  under  vest; 
wounded  on  the  back  of  his  right  shoulder  in  the  action 
with  Col.  Pope;  of  a  very  timorous  disposition.  James 
Owen,  wears  a  green  upper  vest,  black  hair,  thin  visage, 
wounded  in  his  right  side.  Whoever  will  apprehend  any 
or  either  of  the  above-named  gentry,  and  deliver  them  to 
my  custody,  shall  receive  FIFTY  DOLLARS  per  man,  to- 
gether with  all  reasonable  charges  paid  by 

NATHAN  JOHNSON,  goaler. 

October  2,  11  o'clock  at  night. 

— The  Pennsylvania  Gazette,  October  11,  1780. 


20  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

The  GLASS  MANUFACTORY  in  Salem  county,  West 
Jersey,  is  for  sale,  with  1500  Acres  of  Land  adjoining.  It 
contains  two  Furnaces,  with  all  the  necessary  Ovens  for 
cooling  the  Glass,  drying  Wood,  &c.  Contiguous  to  the 
Manufactory  are  two  flatting  Ovens  in  separate  Houses,  a 
StoreHouse,  Pot-House,  a  House  fitted  with  Tables  for 
the  cutting  of  Glass,  a  stamping  Mill,  a  rolling  Mill  for 
the  preparing  of  Clay  for  making  of  Pots ;  and  at  a  suit- 
able distance  are  ten  Dwelling  houses  for  the  Workmen; 
as  likewise  a  large  Mansion  house,  containing  six  rooms 
on  a  Floor,  with  Bake-house  and  Washhouse:  Also  a  con- 
venient Store-house,  where  a  well  assorted  retail  Shop  has 
been  kept  above  30  years,  is  as  good  a  stand  for  the  sale 
of  goods  as  any  in  the  county,  being  situated  one  mile  and 
half  from  a  navigable  creek  where  shallops  load  for  Phila- 
delphia, eight  miles  from  the  county  town  of  Salem,  and 
half  a  mile  from  a  good  mill.  There  are  about  250  Acres 
of  cleared  Land  within  fence,  100  whereof  is  mowable 
meadow,  which  produces  hay  and  pasturage  sufficient  for 
the  large  stock  of  cattle  and  horses  employed  by  the  Manu- 
factory. 

There  is  Stabling  sufficient  for  60  head  of  cattle,  with 
a  large  Barn,  Granery  and  Waggon-house.  The  unim- 
proved Land  is  well  wooded,  and  200  Acres  more  of 
meadow  may  be  made.  The  situation  and  conveniency 
for  procuring  materials,  is  equal  if  not  superior  to  any 
place  in  Jersey. 

For  Terms  of  Sale  apply  to  the  Subscriber  in  Philadel- 
phia. 

RICHAKD  WISTAK. 

— The  Pennsylvania  Journal,  October  11,  1780. 


CHATHAM,  OCTOBER  11. 

Last  Monday  sennight  Major  Andre  received  the  reward 
of  his  demerit,  being  hung  until  he  was  dead.    He  behaved 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  21 

with  uncommon  fortitude  on  the  occasion.  Previous  to 
his  execution,  General  Robertson  came  out  with  a  flag,  and 
endeavoured  to  shew  the  impropriety  and  illegality  of  tak- 
ing his  life,  and  the  bad  consequences  it  would  be  attended 
with,  as  some  of  our  people  to  the  Southward,  he  said  were 
nearly  in  the  same  predicament. 

The  enemy,  very  much  necessitated  both  for  salt  and 
fresh  provisions,  have  collected  a  large  number  of  boats, 
&c.,  at  the  Kills,  and  have  also  sent  over  a  number  of  men 
to  Staten-Island,  from  which  circumstances,  it  is  con- 
jectured, they  mean  to  make  a  descent  into  this  state  in 
the  course  of  a  few  days ;  it  is,  therefore,  hoped  that  the 
militia  will  be  in  such  readiness  as  to  give  them  a  proper 
reception. 

Last  Saturday  the  light-infantry  of  our  army  made  an 
incursion  to  Bergen  Point,  where  they  captured  several 
prisoners,  and  killed  some,  the  particulars  of  which  we 
hope  to  give  our  readers  in  our  next. 

On  Sunday  evening  last  nine  prisoners  of  war  made 
their  escape  from  the  Gentries  at  Morristown.  Two  of 
whom,  we  hear,  are  since  taken. 

We  are  happy  to  inform  our  readers  that  an  exchange 
of  prisoners  is  at  last  settled,  and  is  to  take  place  imme- 
diately. 

Died,  on  Sunday  morning,  at  Elizabeth-Town,  Mr.  Jos- 
eph Periam. 

BOUT     EIGHTY     HORSES,     and     twenty     old 
WAGONS,  yet  remains  on  hand,  not  fit  for  pub- 
lick  service;    the  whole  of  which  will  be  sold  at 
vendue,  on  Tuesday  the  seventeenth  instant,  at  my  office, 
either  for  cash  or  certificates. — The  vendue  to  begin  at 
ten  o'clock,  A.  M. 

JOSEPH  LEWIS,  late  Q.  M. 
Morristown,  October  9,  1780. 


22 


NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION. 


[1780 


TO    BE    SOLD, 
By  JOHN  STEPHENSON, 

At  his  store  in  Morristown,  opposite  the  widow  Dicken- 
sons  tavern,  as  low  as  the  times  will  admit  of, 


TT7EST-INDIA  rum, 
^  *       Molasses, 

Sugar, 
Coffee, 
Green  Tea, 
Good  rock  salt, 
Pepper, 
Brimstone, 
Indigo  and  alum, 
Tobacco  and  snuff, 

J 

Glass  pint  tumblers, 
Half  pint  and  gill  ditto, 
Ditto  wine  glasses, 
Scarlet  broad  cloth, 
Crimson  ditto, 
Cambrick  and  lawn, 
Shalloons, 
Calicoes  and  linen, 


White  gauze  of  different  pat- 
terns, 

Mode  and  sattin, 
Black  gauze, 
Ditto  sarge  denim, 
Bonnet  papers, 
Sewing  silk, 
Fine  thread,  black  lace, 
Ribands  and  shoe  binding, 
Testaments, 
Spelling  books, 
Writing-paper, 
Thimbles  and  hair  pins, 
Crooked  combs, 
Women's  kid  gloves, 
Men's  shoes, 
Bedcords, 

Wool  cards  best  kind, 
Fish  hooks. 


ALSO — A  complete  assortment  of  crockery  ware,  such 
as  milk  pans,  basons,  large  and  small  dishes,  large  punch 
bowls,  pint  ditto,  quart  and  pint  mugs,  cups  and  saucers, 
chamber  pots,  molasses  jugs,  porringers,  &c.,  &c.,  &c. 

N.  B.  All  kind  of  country  produce  will  be  taken  for  the 
above  articles,  at  the  market  price,  and  part  cash  will  be 
paid,  if  it's  required. 

Tallow  to  be  exchanged  for  butter,  cheese,  pork,  or 
honey,  at  the  old  rate. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTKACTS.  23 

"TVTOTICE  is  hereby  given  to  the  publick  that  there  is 
1\  a  STAGE  WAGGON"  established  by  the  sub- 
scribers, in  Morris-Town,  to  set  off  from  Capt.  Jacob 
Arnold's  on  Wednesdays  and  Saturdays  to  go  to  Prince- 
ton, and  there  meet  the  stage  from  Philadelphia ;  to 
commence  driving  the  18th  of  October.  Any  gentleman 
that  will  please  to  favour  us  with  their  custom,  either 
in  person,  or  any  light  goods,  may  expect  the  greatest 
punctuality  and  care,  and  good  attendance  given  by  the 
publick's  humble  servants, 

SAMUEL  FLEMING. 

JABEZ  BEACH. 
October  10,  1780. 


to  the  plantation  of  the   subscriber,   the   7th 
instant,  A  BAY  HOESE,  4  or  5  years  old,  about 
14  hands  high,  branded  on  the  left  shoulder  S  H,  a 
star  in  his  forehead,  and  marked  with  the  saddle.     The 
owner  is  desired  to  come,  prove  his  property,  pay  charges, 
and  take  him  away. 

ABEL  FREEMAN. 
Orange,  October  10,  1780. 


to  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber,  some  time 
since,  a  BAY  HORSE,  4  or  5  years  old,  14  hands 
high,  his  left  hind  foot  white  up  to  the  fetterlock, 
and  the  right  mixed  with  white  hairs,  hind  part  of  his 
back  sore,  appears  to  be  blooded,  a  natural  trotter,  and 
branded  R  on  his  left  thigh.  The  owner  is  desired  to 
come,  prove  property,  pay  charges,  and  take  him  away. 

ANANIAS  HALSEY. 
Hanover,  October  10,  1780. 


24  NKW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

VKTHEEEAS  EUTH,  the  wife  of  the  subscriber,  hav- 

*  ^        in"-   destroyed    my    interest,    and   behaved   herself 

in  a  very  unbecoming  manner.  This  is  there- 
fore to  forewarn  all  persons  not  to  trust  her  on  my  account, 
as  I  am  determined  not  to  pay  any  debts  of  her  contract- 
ing after  this  date. 

EBENEZEE   SEAELS. 
October  10,  1780. 

CAME  to  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber  at  Connecti- 
cut Farms,  about  the  25th  of  September  last,  a  red 
stear,  with  a  white  face,  near  three  years  old,  with 
a  crop  out  of  the  right  ear,  and  a  hole  in  the  same.     The 
owner  is  desired  to  come,  prove  property,  pay  charges  and 
take  him  away. 

NATHANIEL  BALL. 

~\T7E  the  Grand  Jiyy  for  the  body  of  the  county  of 

*  *       Morris,    do   certify   that   we   have   diligently   en- 

quired into  the  manner  of  escape  of  the  prisoners 
from  the  gaol  of  this  county,  and  are  unanimously  of 
opinion,  that  Eichard  Johnson,  Esq.,  High  Sheriff  of  the 
said  county,  is  entirely  exculpated  from  any  charge  on  that 
account ;  and  during  the  whole  of  the  intricate  and  trouble- 
some business  before  this  court,  the  said  Eichard  Johnson 
has  behaved  himself  as  a  vigilant  officer,  and  a  faithful 
friend  to  his  country. 

By  Order  of  the  Grand  Jury, 

JOSEPH  WOOD,  Foreman. 

We  the  subscribers  do  fully  concur  with  the  Grand 
Jury  in  the  above  representation  relative  to  the  conduct 
of  Eichard  Johnson,  Esq ; 

William  Paterson,  A.  (7.1  Benjamin  Hallsey, 

Elisha  Boudinot,  C.  C.  John  Brookfield. 

1  Attorney  General. 


1T80]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.    .  25 


LOAN"  OFFICE  CERTIFICATES, 

DUE  from  the  subscriber  before  the  first  of , January 
last,  are  now  ready  to  be  delivered,  for  which  pur- 
pose he  will  attend,  God  willing,  at  Mr.  Woodruff's 
in  Springfield,  on  Friday  the  13th  inst.  at  which  time  he 
will  be  obliged  to  those  who  have  accounts  against  him, 
either  public  or  private,  to  attend  for  settlement.  The  loss 
of  so  many  of  his  papers  makes  this  the  more  necessary 
while  circumstance?  can  be  remembered;  on  which  ac- 
count he  hopes  that  no  one  will  be  so  ungenerous  as  to  em- 
barrass him  or  his  family  in  a  future  day  with-claims  they 
may  be  now  entitled  to  make. 

JAMES  CALDWELL. 

N.  B.  A  list  of  the  fortunate  numbers,  in  the  third  class 
•of  the  United  Stales  Lottery,  to  be  seen  at  Mr.  Darling's, 
in  Chatham;  Mr.  Woodruff's,  Springfield;  Mr.  Aron 
Ogden's,  Newark;  and,  Mr.  Wynans's,  Elizabeth  Town. 
Those  who  have  drawn  blanks  are  to  preserve  their  tickets 
for  renewal. 

October  2,  1780. 

RAN  AWAY  from  Lucas  Von  Beverhoudt,  at  Bev- 
erwyk,  near  Morris  Town,  on  the  26th  of  last 
month,  a  negro  man  named  JACK,  and  is  supposed 
will  go  to  ISTew-York ;  he  is  low  of  stature,  very  black,  and 
limps  a  little  in  his  walk,  though  not  lame,  speaks  broken 
English  and  some  negro  Dutch ;  he  took  with  him  a  short 
blue  cloth  coat,  with  red  lining,  cape,  and  cuffs ;  a  scarlet 
jacket  and  breeches,  a  light  coloured  homespun  coat,  short 
cut,  with  red  cape  and  cuffs;  a  darker  homespun  jacket 
and  breeches,  with  black  buttons ;  homespun  shirts  and 
trousers,  also  some  fine  shirts.  Whoever  apprehends  said 
fellow,  and  secures  him  so  that  he  can  be  delivered  to  said 


26          NEW.  JERSEY  IX  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1780 

Von  Beverhoudt,  or  to  Mr.  Patrick  Darcy,  shall  have  One 
Thousand  Continental  Dollars  reward. 
Beverwyk,  near  Morris  Town,    I 
October  3,  1780.  J 

To  be  sold  at  public  vendue,  on  Thursday  the  26th  day  of 
October,  at  the  house  where  Capt.  Joseph  Riggs  lately 
lived,  all  the  real  and  personal  estate  of  Jane  Riggs,  late 
of  Newark,  deceased ; 

ABOUT  four  acres  of  land,  through  which  a  living 
brook  of  water  runs,  which  makes  it  very  conve- 
nient for  a  tanner,  with  a  good  stone  house  thereon, 
a  well,  garden,  and  barn.     It  is  pleasantly  situated  near 
the  centre  of  the  town  of  Newark,  which  makes  it  conveni- 
ent for  any  business.     The  vendue  to  begin  at  two  o'clock 
in  the  afternoon.     All  that  are  indebted  to  said  estate  are 
desired  to  make  speedy  payments ;    and  all  those  that  have 
any  demands  against  it  are  desired  to  apply  soon  to  the 
Executors  for  payment. 

ELIHU  CRANE,  1 

TIMOTHY  ANDERSON,       >  Executors. 
JOHN  OGDEN,  Esquire.  J 
Xewark,*Sept.  29,  1780. 

BROKE  into  the  pasture  of  the  subscriber,  the  29th 
of  September  last,  a  dark  brown  horse,  about   14r 
hands  and  an  inch  high,  three  white  feet,  a  star  and 
snip,  trots  and  canters.     The  owner  is  desired  to  come, 
prove  property,  pay  charges,  and  take  him  away. 

WESSELS  TUCKER. 
Springfield,  October  3,  1780. 

THE  subscriber  being  desirous  to  have  the  accounts  in 
the  Quartermaster  and  forage  departments  settled 
with  the  greatest  dispatch,  proposes  to  attend  in 
his  office  every  day  in  the  month  of  October  (  Sundays  and 
days  of  election  excepted :)     All  those  who  have  any  de- 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  27 

mands  must  bring  in  their  accounts  within  that  time,  or 
they  will  be  debarred  from  a  settlement  until  another  order 
is  received  from  Congress  or  the  heads  of  those  departments 
for  that  purpose. 

JOSEPH  LEWIS,  late  Q.  M. 
Morris-Town,  30th  Sept.,  1780. 


Best  Bohea  Tea 

To  be  exchanged  at  the  Printing-Office  for  cheese,  butter, 
or  grain  of  any  kind. 


A 


TO    BE    SOLD, 

NEW  riding  chair  with  harness  compleat.     Also, 
Earthenware  wholesale  and  retail,  by 

EGBERT  HUNT. 
Elizabeth  Town,  Sept.  26,  1780. 


ALL  persons  indebted  to  the  estate  of  John  Cobb,  late 
^~*-    of  Hanover,  deceased,  are  hereby  desired  to  come 
and  discharge  their  accounts  in  a  short  time,  which 
may  prevent  trouble. 

JOHN  SALTER,   )   ,  , 

CLISBY  COBB,     f  Administrators- 


SAYRS  CRANE, 

IN  NEWARK, 

Has  for  sale  the  following  articles,  viz. 

\\ TEST-INDIA  rum  by  the  gallon,  bohea  tea,  sugar, 
pepper,  souchong  tea,  steel  spurs,  dry  goods,  &c. 


28  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

TO  BE  SOLD, 
By  ANTHONY  L.  BLEECKER, 

For  cash  or  country  produce,  at  the  house  formerly  occu- 
pied by  Mr.  Gerardus  Duyckinck,  in  Hanover,  two 
miles  from  Morris  Town; 

BOHEA  tea,  West-India  ruin, 

Coffee,  Cotton  wool, 

Chocolate,  Fine  and  coarse  salt, 

Sugar,  12d.  and  20d.  nails, 

Pepper,  Lead, 

Indigo,  Knives  and  forks, 

Scotch  snuff,  Pins,  &c.,  &c. 
Port  wine, 

September  27,  17SO. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

A    PLANTATION,  containing  40  acres,  situate  in  ISTew- 

•£•*•      Providence,  near  the  Meeting-House.     There  is  on 

said  place  a  sufficiency  of  timber  and  meadow,  with 

a  comfortable  dwelling-house,  &c.    For  particulars  enquire 

of  the  subscriber  at  Connecticut  Farms. 

WILLIAM  HERD. 
September  26,  1780. 

— The  New-Jersey  Journal,  Vol.  II.,  Numb.  LXXXVI., 
.  October  11,  1780. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  29 


PRINCETON",  September  29,  1Y80. 

LAST  Tuesday  the  grammar  school  in  this  place  was 
examined  in  presence  of  the  President  and 
Faculty  of  the  College,  several  of  the  Trustees,  and 
other  Gentlemen  of  learning  in  the  neighbourhood,  when 
the  scholars  gave  very  satisfying  evidence  of  their  profi- 
ciency in  Latin  and  Greek,  in  the  reading  grammar  and  or- 
thography of  the  English  language,  and  in  pronouncing 
English  orations.  Premiums  were  distributed  after  the 
examination,  and  adjudged  as  follows :  For  the  first  class, 
who  are  now  admitted  Freshmen  in  college,  to  Matthew 
Baldwin  of  Princeton :  For  the  2d  class  to  Abel  Johnson, 
of  Somerset  county,  New- Jersey :  For  the  3d  class  to 
Ralph  Hunt,  junior,  of  Hunter  don  county,  New- Jersey: 
For  the  4th,  or  English  class,  to  George  Pollock  of  Eliza- 
beth-Town :  For  the  competition,  free  to  all  the  classes  in 
extempore  exercises  in  Latin,  grammar  and  syntax,  to  Mat- 
thew Baldwin ;  and  for  pronouncing  English  orations,  to 
John  Morgan  of  Princeton.  Next  day,  being  Wednesday 
the  27th,  was  held  the  annual  commencement  of  the  college. 
The  exercises  of  which  were  as  follows : 

1.  Prayer  by  the  President  of  the  college. 

2.  Latin  salutatory  oration  on  the  character  and  quali- 
ties of  an  illustrious  GENERAL,  by  Samuel  W.  Yenable. 

3.  An  English  oration  on  the  advantages  of  civil  liberty 
to  particular  states,  by  John  Rhea. 

4.  A  dialogue  on  the  present  state  of  the  college,  the 
prospect  of  its  restoration  and  of  the  revival  of  letters 
throughout  America,  along  with  the  return  of  peace,  and 
the  establishment  of  our  independence,  by  Samuel  and 
Abraham  Venable  and  James  Rosevelt. 

5.  An  English  oration  on  the  origin  and  advantages  of 
civil  society,  by  Abraham  Venable,  which  concluded  the  ex- 
ercises of  the  forenoon. 

6.  The  exercises  of  the  afternoon  were  introduced  with 
an  oration  on  the  power  of  the  people  to  constitute  their 


30  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

own  governments,  and  to  alter  and  reform  them  for  their 
own  advantage,  by  John  Wilkes  Kittera. 

7.  Then  the  following  gentlemen,  Samuel  W.  Venable, 
and  Abraham  Venable,  of  Virginia;    James  Rosevelt,  of 
New- York;    John  Rhea   and  Allen  Eussel,   of  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  Ebenezer  Stockton,  of  New-Jersey,  were  ad- 
mitted to  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts ;  and  John  Wilkes 
Kittera,  Hugh  Hodge  and  James  Reid,  of  Pennsylvania, 
Joseph  Lane  of  Virginia,  and  Theodoras  Bayley,  of  New- 
York,  all  alumni  of  this  college,  were  admitted  to  the  de- 
gree of  Master  of  Arts. 

8.  Charge  by  the  President  to  the  graduates. 

9.  Valedictory  oration  on  the  beauties  and  utility  of 
poetry,  by  James  Rosevelt. 

10.  The  whole  was  concluded  with  prayer  by  the  Presi- 
dent. 

The  exercises  were  attended  by  a  numerous  and  polite 
audience,  who  expressed  great  satisfaction  with  the  per- 
formance of  the  scholars. 

The  Board  of  Trustees,  at  their  sitting,  conferred  on 
his  Excellency  Samuel  Huntington,  Esq.  President  of 
Congress,  A.  M.  of  Yale  College,  the  honorary  degree  of 
L.  L.  D. 

On  the  Rev.  James  Sproat,  A.  M.  of  Yale  College,  the 
degree  of  D.  D. 

On  the  Honourable  Robert  R.  Livingston,  Esq.  Member 
of  Congress,  and  Chancellor  of  the  state  of  New- York,  the 
degree  of  A.  M. 

On  Charles  Thompson,  Esq.  Secretary  to  the  Congress, 
A.  M.  of  Philadelphia,  the  same  degree  in  this  college. 

N.  B.  The  public  is  hereby  informed  that  the  vacancy 
of  the  grammar  school  will  expire  on  Wednesday  the  18th 
of  October,  and  that  of  the  college  on  the  8th  of  November, 
when  it  is  requested  that  the  scholars  may  attend  punc- 
tually. Also  reproduced  in  The  Pennsylvania  Journal, 
October  25,  1780,  and  in  The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  Oc- 
tober 28,  1780.  . 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTEACTS.  31 

Princeton,  October  2,  1780. 
Mr.  Collins, 

I  SEND  you  a  part  of  a  dialogue  delivered  at  the  commencement 
in  this  place  last  week  by  three  ingenious  young  gentlemen, 
Messrs.  S.  and  A.  Venable  and  J.  Rosevelt,  that  it  may  be  given 
to  the  publick  through  your  useful  Gazette.  The  whole  dialogue 
was  too  long  to  be  published  at  once,  and  the  former  part  of  it  having 
a  more  particular  reference  to  the  present  state  of  the  college,  .and 
the  general  decline  of  letters  since  the  beginning  of  the  war,  I  have 
thought  it  better  to  send  you  only  the  conclusion  of  it,  which  offers 
a  fairer  prospect  of  the  revival  of  learning  through  the  continent, 
from  the  establishment  of  independence  and  a  free  government.  I  do 
not  find  fault  with  it  because  it  is  a  kind  of  poetry  written  in  prose. 
Some  of  the  best  writers,  both  in  France  and  England,  have  given 
us  examples  of  that  species  of  writing ;  besides  that,  I  think  it 
cramps  the  ideas  of  such  young  writers  less  than  rhyme,  or  a  rigid 
attention  to  the  measure  of  feet.  If  it  will  amuse  the  publick,  or 
give  any  favourable  presage  to  the  friends  of  the  college  of  its 
restoration,  I  have  all  that  I  desire.  A.  B. 

S.  Venable. 

Oleander — But  see,  Eugenius !  where  my  friend  and  brother  ad- 
vances. This  is  a  theme  that  accords  with  his  temper.  Generous 
and  noble  in  his  nature,  he  equally  cultivates  freedom  and  the  muse, 
and  all  the  virtues  that  attend  upon  them.< — But  his  warm  spirit  I 
could  never  bring  to  that  cool  philosophy  by  which  I  study  to  regu- 
late my  own. —  —  —  — 

A.  Venable. 

Enter  Cleoron.  I  am  glad,  Cleoron,  to  embrace  tb.ee,  and  to  make 
thee  partner  with  us  in  a  subject  that  I  know  is  always  welcome  to 
thee. 

Cleoron. — Oleander  I  rejoice  in  all  occasions  of  repeating  to  you 
how  much  I  am  your  friend.  The  name  of  brother  is  dear  to  me — 
but  friendship  formed  on  principles  of  virtue,  on  a  long  course  of 
the  same  studies  and  pursuits,  and  on  an  equal  love  of  liberty  and 
science,  is  still  more  dear. — Welcome,  my  Eugenius !  How  do  you 
support  your  spirit  through  the  troubles  of  these  times?  I  joy  to 
meet  thee,  though  it  be  within  the  walls  of  this  dismantled  college, 
that  ever  raise  in  my  idea  the  execrable  rage  and  tyranny  of  Britain, 
that  have  sometimes  moved  your  tears,  but  always  kindle,  my  spirits 
into  flame. — May  I  learn  from  you  the  subject  of  your  discourse? 

J.  Rosevelt. 

Eugenius.  What  can  it  be,  Cleoron,  on  this  day,  and  in  this  place, 
but  the  subject  you  have  named?  We  have  lamented  the  ruins  of 
our  Alma  Mater — We  have  flattered  ourselves  with  the  expectation 
of  her  future  rise,  from  the  justice  and  friendship  of  the  present  gov- 


32  NEW    JEKSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

ernment — And  not  of  her  rise  alone,  but  of  the  growth  of  science,  of 
the  glory  and  improvement  of  human  nature  throughout  America, 
from  the  independence  we  have  just  asserted,  and  the  shackles  of  un- 
worthy masters  that  we  have  gallantly  broken  and  cast  from  us. 

Cleoron. — May  Heaven,  in  mercy  to  mankind,  blast  their  dishonest 
ambition  !  Learning,  genius,  glory !  How  could  they  flourish  in  a 
state  of  slavery,  and  of  abject  dependence  upon  so  many  foreign 
masters?  Let  it  not  offend  thee,  O  my  country,  that  I  would  rather 
make  thee  a  province  to  the  Turk !  For  if  he  doth  extinguish  knowl- 
edge, he  suffers  his  wretches  to  enjoy  their  ignorance  in  quiet — they 
have  only  the  rapacity  of  one  lord  to  gratify,  not  of  nine  millions. 
But  how  miserable  is  their  state  who  are  slaves,  and  are  sensible  of 
their  slavery?  Who  are  slaves  and  are  insulted  with  the  name  and 
forms  of  liberty?  Could  wretches  so  dispirited  have  a  genius  to 
exercise?  See  the  unhappy  Africans,  whom  Britain,  in  spite  of  all 
our  laws,  hath  compelled  us  to  receive  as  slaves ! — Every  clown  can 
call  them  stupid. — Is  it  because  they  want  the  faculties  of  human 
nature?  No,  but  we  have  in  them  a  picture  of  what  cruel  ravages 
oppression  can  make  upon  the  human  mind. — How  much  better  should 
we  have  been,  trampled  on,  insulted,  and  oppressed  by  foreigners? 
Britain  would  have  raised  our  rulers  and  our  generals,  our  judges 
and  principal  ministers  of  justice. — To  her  all  men  must  have  re- 
sorted for  their  honours  and  rewards.  And  with  these,  at  the 
distance  of  three  thousand  miles,  all  learning  and  genius  would  have 
abandoned  my  country— 'America  would  have  been  favoured  to  raise 
some  dirty  provincials  to  be  the  butt  of  foreign  soldiers,  and  to  do 
the  drudgery  of  war  for  them — some  clerks  and  scriveners  to  record 
the  orders  of  our  masters — and  perhaps  a  few  of  us  might  have 
arrived  at  the  honour  of  being  constables,  or  even  hangmen  to  his 
Majesty!  What  worthy  motives  to  inflame  a  scholar's  ambition  I 
How  many  years  would  it  have  been  worth  our  while  to  have 
laboured  in  a  college,  to  have  mounted  at  last  such  a  ladder  of 
glory?  Besides  the  want  of  reward,  and  of  a  great  theatre  in  which 
to  exercise  the  talents  of  the  mind,  our  masters  would  have  been  jealous 
of  our  learning,  lest  we  should  be  too  sensible  of  our  state,  and  too 
impatient  of  their  yoke — their  policy  would  have  been  equally  to 
exhaust  our  purses,  and  to  impoverish  our  minds.  Americans  would 
have  been  but  poor  labourers,  rascals,  and  slaves  to  their  most  hon- 
ourable, most  knowing,  and  most  wealthy  lords. — When  these  walls 
should  have  fallen  into  heaps  of  ruin — when  these  tapers  of  science 
that  glimmer  among  us  should  have  been  utterly  extinguished,  the 
children  of  .those  who  are  now  the  first  characters  in  America,  with- 
out knowledge  and  without  freedom,  would  have  been  forced  to 
cringe  to  the  humors,  and  shake  at  the  frown  of  their  insulting 
tyrants — My  heart  boils  up  with  indignation  at  the  thought — Could 
I  behold  the  haughty  villain  strut  before  the  trembling  herds,  and 
my  sword  not  hew  him  from  the  earth? — I  would  spurn  his  carcase, 
and  throw  myself  upon  my  fate. 

Oleander.  Cleoron !  let  us  contend  against  them  with  the  dignity 
of  reason.  Passion  is  apt  to  mislead  the  mind  and  to  betray  it  into 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTEACTS.  33 

a  littleness  that  our  soberer  hours  will  not  approve.  I  detest  their 
crimes,  and  wish  to  throw  them  out  of  my  remembrance,  except  as 
they  are  necessary  to  guard  my  country  against  the  designs  of 
treachery,  and  to  make  her  prize  more  highly  her  liberty  and  inde- 
pendence. But  may  we  not  congratulate  ourselves,  and  animate  our 
hopes  with  the  future  prospects  of  the  literary  glory  of  America, 
without  diverting  our  view,  or  suffering  our  minds  "to  be  inflamed 
with  their  villainies? — As  servitude  cramps  and  degrades  the  soul, 
liberty  no  less  enlarges  and  exalts  her  powers.  That  grandeur  and 
magnificence  of  thought  which  the  consciousness  of  freedom  inspires, 
and  of  subjection  to  no  master  but  the  laws  of  reason,  which  the 
citizens  have  marked  out  for  their  own  conduct,  favours  the  culti- 
vation and  the  progress  of  genius. — Where  every  citizen  considers 
himself  as  a  lord  and  master  of  a  great  republick,  and  as  sharing  in 
the  government  of  a  nation  of  men  as  noble  as  himself,  he  feels  an 
independence  and  sublimity  of  soul,  which  is  hardly  known  to  the 
princes  of  other  countries.  Republicans  are  capable  of  industry  and 
application ;  and  the  number  of  competitors  in  every  art  produce 
an  emulation  that  fans  the  fires  of  the  genius,  and  makes  human 
nature  susceptible  of  improvements,  of  which  the  little  and  con- 
tracted minds  in  arbitrary  states,  form  no  conception. — Glory  and 
honor  are  the  great  rewards  of  noble  minds — and  to  obtain  these, 
what  toils  will  they  not  endure?  To  what  heights  of  improvement 
will  they* not  ascend?  In  free  nations  they  lie  open  to  all  who  will 
aspire  after  them,  and  create  an  emulation  and  a  generous  ambition, 
that  highly  exalt  and  cultivate  the  powers  of  human  nature. — Cleoron, 
not  the  false  glory  of  commanding  a  tame  and  passive  herd  of  slaves, 
but  the  real  grandeur  of  governing  by  reason,  a  nation  of  freemen 
and  of  heroes — Honours  that  do  not  depend  upon  the  caprice  of  one 
man,  perhaps  the  most  ignorant  and  vicious  of  his  kingdom,  but 
upon  the  suffrage  of  a  free  people,  who  are  equally  led  by  a  sense  of 
their  own  interest,  and  by  the  admiration  of  exalted  talents.  What 
a  field  of  glory!  What  a  school  of  perfection  in  every  art?  and 
especially  in  eloquence,  the  first  of  arts?  On  this  theatre  the 
mighty  soul  of  Demosthenes  took  fire,  and  rivalled  the  force  of 
whirlwinds,  of  lightenings,  and  of  tempests.  Here  we  allumined  the 
milder  flames  of  Tully's  genius,  which  resembled  the  influence  of  the 
sun  after  a  cloud  in  the  fable,  that  made  the  traveller  voluntarily 
resign  what  the  storm  attempted  to  tear  from  him  in  vain.  And 
America  will  yet  nurse  in  her  free  bosom,  Orators,  Legislators  and 
Generals,  that  shall  more  than  rival  the  Greek  and  Roman  fame. 
The  genius  of  our  statesmen  will  gather  strength  in  proportion  to 
the  vast  extent  of  the  empire  they  are  to  rule. — Then  Nassau !  thou 
shalt  flourish  in  the  glory  of  thy  country.  Then  shalt  thou  give 
birth  to  the  future  Homers,  and  Platos  and  Xenophons ;  to  the 
Aristides,  the  Cimons  and  the  Epaminondas  of  America.-1— With  such 
prospects  before  us,  how  much  may  we  at  ease  contemn  the  pride 
of  Britain,  and  triumph  in  our  own  felicity,  without  venting-  an  in- 
decent passion  against  them ! 

Eugenius. — Oleander,    thou    seemest    to    possess    a    soul    calmed    to 


34  Xi:W  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1780 

philosophy,  by  thoughts  superior  to  the  vulgar  impulses  of  passion. 
And  thou  reasonest  so  as  only  to  inflame  my  heart  the  more.  When 
I  look  forward  to  what  we  are  to  be,  O,  cruel  Britons !  who  attempt 
to  rob  us  of  such  a  glory !  Cruel !  to  destroy  that  foretaste  of  it 
to  which  we  have  attained  already! — Cleoron,  "I  could  weep  that 
we  were  born  so  soon,  just  in  the  dawning  of  these  mighty  scenes  !" 
When  the  radiant  sun  of  science  and  of  glory  is  but  beginning  to  lift 
his  beams  upon  us,  which  hereafter  shall  light  up  splendors  in 
America,  such  as  the  world  hath  never  seen  before. 

Cleoron. — Nay,  my  Eugenius.  rather  rejoice  that  we  arc  born  BO 
soon,  and  that  we  come  upon  the  stage  in  time  to  lay  the  founda- 
tions of  this  mighty  fabric — Our  glory  shall  not  perish! — What, 
though  our  sons  be  destined  to  a  fame  that  shall  eclipse  whatever 
can  be  boasted  of  the  Asian  or  European  worlds?  We  lay  its  basis 
— we  support  their  glory — We  shall  share  half  their  praise,  and  hold 
our  own  sole  and  without  a  partner. — And.  say  what  is  our  glory. 
I  protest  by  all  my  hopes,  and  all  the  honours  of  this  day,  that  I 
would  not  exchange  with  them,  whatever  theirs  may  be.  To  break 
the  chains  of  tyranny — to  plunge  a  dagger  to  a  tyrant's  heart — to 
save  an  infant  wrorld  from  ruin — to  repel  those  formidable  arms 
that  have  shaken  terror  over  half  the  globe — tc  raise  millions  of 
mankind  from  the  fears  of  abject  servitude,  to  the  prerogatives  of 
human  nature. — These  are  exploits  worthy  of  the  fathers  of  history 
to  record — exploits  that  will  not  suffer  our  names,  if  witfi  proper 
zeal  we  do  our  parts,  to  sink  into  oblivion. — When  the  Caesars  had 
carried  the  Roman  eagle  to  the  extremities  of  the  earth,  what  nam^s 
were  more  famous  than  the  Brutuses,  the  Cincinnatuses,  the  Fabri- 
ciuses,  or  the  Poplicolas  of  the  first  commonwealth?  Nay,  by  the 
sacred  flame  of  liberty !  and  by  all  those  noble  spirits  that  have 
fallen  at  her  shrine,  in  this  contest !  I  had  rather  be  a  woman — I 
had  rather  be  Lucretia,  that  glorious  woman,  than  all  the  Ca5sars 
that  ever  wore  the  imperial  purple. — Science !  thou  hast  already 
demonstrated  thy  sacred  and  powerful  influence  in  my  loved  country! 
Thou  hast  already  inspired  the  most  ardent  love  of  liberty,  into 
every  class  of  men,  by  the  examples  of  Greek  and  Roman !  Did  not 
the  men  of  genius  first  detect  the  insidious  claims  of  tyranny?  Did 
not  they  first  light  up  the  flame  that,  like  a  conflagration,  hath 
spread  and  involved  the  continent  in  its  splendors? — Harvard!  Yale! 
and  Nassau,  are  not  your  sons  the  first  upon  the  mighty  stage, 
giving  an  example  to  future  ages  of  virtue,  of  the  love  of  liberty, 
and  of  the  glorious  fruits  of  science?  And  when  history  shall  record 
the  future  grandeurs  of  this  great  republic,  she  shall  seize  our 
names,  and  marking  them  in  characters  of  blood,  set  them  the  fore- 
most in  the  lists  of  fame. 

Cleander. — Thou  hast  a  soul  of  fire,  Cleoron !  And  every  expression 
is  ardent  in  the  extreme — Yet  I  must  confess  much  truth  and  reason 
lies  beneath  that  fervor  which  virtue  solely  guides.  -  -  But, 

Eugenius,  my  hopes  of  the  rise  of  science,  and  of  this  rifled 
and  violated  daughter  of  the  muses,  still  rest  upon  a  just 
foundation.  -  -  -  Cleoron  admires,  to  enthusiasm,  the  assertors  of 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  35 

the  freedom  of  their  country.  -  -  -  Let  us  admire  them  with  him 
-  -  -  let  us  list  ourselves  of  their  number,  and  spare  neither  our 
toils  nor  our  life,  that  we  may  set  her  in  safety  from  her  enemies, 
and  establish  her  in  eternal  honours.  I  confess  that  our  fame  shall 
rival  that  of  those  who  may  live  in  the  brightest  period  of  our  story. 
Not  that  we  shall  be  equal  in  science  and  in  arts,  but  because  with 
our  moderate  improvements,  we  have  fallen  into  circumstances  the 
most  fortunate  to  give  them  lustre.  But  should  posterity  advance 
no  higher  in  arts,  they  must  in  fame  and  reputation  be  infinitely 
the  inferiors  of  the  present  age.  To  rival  our  glory  with  all  the 
advantages  which  we  enjoy,  from  being  the  heroes  of  publick  liberty, 

they  must  far  transcend  us  in  the  glory  of  letters and  when 

genius  shall  have  attained  her  finest  polish,  and  the  laurels  of  Par- 
nassus shall  fade,  when  compared  with  the  boys  of  Nassau-Hall,  the 
highest  merit  of  her  greatest  scholars  shall  be  to  write  well  what 
we  have  acted. 

Eugenlus. 'Tis  true,  Cleander,  and  no  mean  merit  shall  accrue 

to  him  who  shall  justly  celebrate  the  virtue  of  our  ladies,  or  the 
sufferings  of  virgin  and  of  matron  innocence.  Shall  not  their  admira- 
tion of  military  virtue ;  shall  not  their  generous  contributions  to 
relieve  the  wants  of  the  defenders  of  their  country,  supply  a  column, 
to  emulate  the  Roman  ladies,  stripped  of  their  jewels,  when  the 
publick  necessities  demanded  them?  What  honours  shall  be  con- 
ferred on  him  who  shall  weep,  in  the  most  'moving  strains,  over  the 
violated  innocence  of  the  daughters  of  New-Jersey,  and  melt  into 

tears  the  sympathetic  theatre? And  when  a  writer  shall  burn 

with  glory  at  the  name  of  Washington,  he  shall  be  sensible  that  it 
will  not  be  his  smallest  praise  to  erect  an  urn  to  the  memory  of  the 
chaste,  the  amiable,  and  the  virtuous  CaldwelL* 

Cleoron. 'Tis  justly  said,  Eugenius !  Most  justly  said,  Cle- 
ander! Let  the  thoughts  of  our  future  glory,  and  of  our  present 
injuries,  fire  our  minds.  -  -  Here  let  us  plight  our  hands  with  our 
hearts  to  each  other,  and  to  our  insulted  country,  that  we  will 

labour,  and  bleed,  and  if  necessary,  die  in  her  defence. My 

ensign  shall  be,  "an  arm  surrounded '  with  a  glory,  and  stained  with 
the  blood  of  a  prostrate  Briton."  -  -  And  whether  we  are  called 
to  deliberate  in  the  senate,  or  to  act  in  the  field,  let  us  remember, 
in  order  to  add  vigour  to  our  genius,  and  force  to  our  descending 
swords,  that  we  are  avenging  the  cause  of  virgin  innocence  -  -  that 
we  are  erecting  an  eternal  monument  to  fame,  and  laying  the  basis 
of  the  last  greatest  empire  of  freedom,  of  science,  and  of  religion  in 
the  world! 


*  The  Rev.  Mr.  Caldwell's  lady,  killed  ~by  the  enemy  in  their  excursion 
to  Springfield,  in  June. 


36          NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.      [1780 


POUGHKEEPSIE,  Oct.  2. 

Andre  was  taken  by  three  young  men  of  the  militia,  of 
Westchester  county,  Messrs.  Pawling,  Deane  and  Yan- 
Weert — he  offered  them  for  his  liberty,  his  gold  watch, 
one  thousand  guineas,  and  as  large  a  quantity  of  goods  as 
they  would  choose  to  bring  from  New- York,  which  with 
republican  virtue,  they  refused,  informing  Andre  that 
they  were  Americans,  and  were  not  to  be  purchased. 

FISH-KILL,  October  5.      . 

We  learn  from  Head-Quarters,  that  Major  Andre,  Ad- 
jutant-General of  the  British  army,  received  the  reward 
of  his  dear  earned  labours,  the  gallows,  on  last  Monday. 
His  unhappy  fate  was  much  regretted ;  though  his  life  was 
justly  forfeited  by  the  law  of  nations.  From  his  be- 
havour,  it  cannot  be  said,  but  that,  if  he  did  not  die  a  good 
Christian,  he  died  like  a  brave  soldier. — Thus  died,  in  the 
bloom  of  life,  Major  Andre,  the  pride  of  the  British  army, 
the  friend  and  confidant  of  Sir  Henry  Clinton. 

We  farther  learn,  that  the  truly  infamous  Arnold, 
through  whom  this  unfortunate  gentleman  lost  his  life, 
has  lodged  information  against  sundry  persons  in  New- 
York,  supposed  friendly  to  our  cause;  in  consequence  of 
which,  upwards  of  fifty  of  them  were  imprisoned. 

TRENTON,  OCTOBER  11. 

Extract  from  the  Mercury  of  France,  April  22,  1778. 

"Monsieur  Gerard,  late  Secretary  of  the  Council  of 
State,  and  Minister  Plenipotentiary  at  the  United  States 
of  America,  having  been  appointed  Counsellor  of  State, 
has  taken  the  usual  oath  the  18th  instant,  which  was  lodged 
in  the  hands  of  the  Lord  Keeper  of  the  Seals." 

***The  piece  signed' Z.  having  come  to  hand  too  late  for 
this  week's  Gazette,  will  be  inserted  in  our  next. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTEACTS.  37 

JUST  PUBLISHED, 
And  to  be  SOLD  wholesale  and  retail,  by 

ISAAC  COLLINS, 

At  the  Printing-Office,  in  Trenton 
A  neat  EDITION  of 

THE  NEW  TESTAMENT. 

Printed  on  a  good  type,  and  good  paper. 

At  the  same  place  may  be  had 
Dilworth's  Spelling  Books,  Primers,  &c. 


A  List  of  Letters  remaining  in  the  Post-Office  at  TrenJ 
ton,  October  5,  1780. 


RAZEE  WILLIAM,  Kev.  Amwell. 
JL        Glissan  James,  near  Trenton. 

Hart  Noah,  Doctor,  New-Jersey. 
Keasby  Anthony,  Salem  County. 
Yanhorn  Joseph,  near  Sherrard's-Ferry. 

B.  SMITH,  Post-Master. 


A] 


N   elegant,    fashionable    CHARIOT    to   be    sold    in 
New-Brunswick,  very  reasonable  for  Hard  Money. 
Enquire  of  PHILIP  FRENCH  for  the  terms. 
Raritan,  October  6,  1780. 


38  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

NOTICE  is  hereby  given,  that  a  Court  of  Admiralty 
will  be  held  for  the  state  of  New-Jersey,  at  the 
house  of  Isaac  Wood  in  Mount-Holly,  on  Friday 
the  tenth  day  of  November  next,  to  try  the  truth  of  the 
facts  alledged  in  the  bill  of  John  Hymes,  qui  tarn,  &c., 

against  the  schooner  Sally, Williams.,  late  master, 

her  tackle,  apparel,  furniture  and  cargo ;  and  also  against 
Negroes  Jack  and  Rippin,  taken  on  board  the  said 
schooner  (who  say  they  are  the  property  of  some  inhab- 
itant of  the  state  of  Virginia,  and  were  taken  by  certain 
refugees,  who  were  on  board  said  schooner^  lately  drove  on 
shore  on  the  coast  of  New-Jersey,  at  Peek's-Beach,  and 
since  got  'off. )  To  the  end  and  intent  that  the  owner  or 
owners  of  the  said  vessel,  her  tackle,  apparel,  furniture, 
cargo,  and  the  said  Negroes,  or' any  other  person  interested, 
therein,  may  appear  and  shew  cause,  if  any  they  have, 
why  the  same  should  not  be  condemned  according  to  the. 
prayer  of  said  bill. 

By  order  of  the  Judge, 
JOS.  BLOOMFIELD,  Register. 

X.  B. — At  the  same  time  and  place  will  be  tried  the 
truth  of  the  facts  contained  in  the  libel  against  sloop 
Revenge,  adjourned  over  from  the  last  Court  of  Admiralty. 

October  5,  1780. 


WILLIAM  LAWSON, 

In   New-Brunswick,   near  the   Market-House,   has   for 
Sale  the  following  articles,  viz. 

RICH  mode  of  the  best  kind,  black  gauze,  sewing  silk, 
black  lace,  white  ditto,   bonnet  papers,   blue   and 
brown   f agathy,   callico,   silk   handkerchiefs, .  linen 
ditto,  fine  and  coarse  linens,  white  thread  from  No.  17  to 
48,  coarse  and  fine  camblets,  brown  sugar,  white  ditto  by 


1780]  NEWSPAPEE    EXTKACTS.  39 

the  quantity  or  single  pound ;  a  large  assortment  of  earth- 
enware, some  large  pots  and  pans.  Also  fine  and  coarse 
combs,  mohair,  buttons,  twist  and  needles ;  coffee,  choco- 
late, indigo,  alspice,  tobacco,  snuff,  salt,  allum,  brimstone, 
copperas,  pins,  hard  «soap,  shoe  buckles,  shoes,  writing 
paper,  sleeve  buttons,  pins,  several  sorts  of  ribbons,  prim- 
ers, tea,  Arc..  Arc.,  <fcc.  All  of  which  will  be  sold  at  the 
lowest  prices  for  cash  or  country  produce. 


EGBERT  SINGER, 

Of  Trenton  has  for  Sale, 

A  NUMBER  of  good  broadcloths  of  various  colours, 
coatings,    dowlas,    Russia    sheeting,    chintzes,    silk 
patterns  for  gowns,  checks ;    a  variety  of  handker- 
chiefs, ruin,  sugar,  tea,  coffee,  pepper,  alspice,  black  and 
white  silk  for  bonnets,  carpets  for  tables  or  floors,  mens 
stockings,  shoe  buckles,  and  various  other  things  to  tedious 
to  mention. 

-     Also,  a  young  XEGRO  WOMAX,  with  her  child  ten 
months  old. 

Two  Hundred  Dollars  Reward. 

TT7AS  stolen  on  the  night  of  the  8th  instant,  by  a  per_- 
^  *  son  who  had  been  at  work  at  the  house  of  the  sub- 
scriber in  Amwell,  the  following  articles,  viz.  one, 
light  coloured  watch-coat,  buttons  covered  with  the  same 
coloured  cloth,  and  under  one  of  the  sleeves  may  be  seen  the 
letters  AY.  P.  and  is  but  little  worn ;  one  new  homespun 
linen  shirt,  two  pair  of  trowsers,  one  almost  new;  one  pair 
thread  stockings,  one  pillow  case.  His  name  supposed  to 
be  Edward  Price,  is  an  English  deserter,  about  five  feet  ten 
inches  high,  black  hair  and  eyes,  brown  complexion ;  had 
on  an  old  light  coloured  jacket  with  red  lining,  tow  trows- 


40  NK\V    JEKSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

ers,  no\v  shoos,  felt  hat,  and  says  he  is  35  years  old.  - 
Whoever  takes  up  the  said  thief  and  secures  him  in  any 
gaol  on  the  continent,  and  returns  me  the  goods,  shall  have 
the  above  reward  by  applying  to 

.WILLIAM  POST. 

October  0,  1780. 
—ycir-Jerscy   Gazette,   Vol.   III.,  No.   146,   October  11, 

1780. 


NEW-YORK,  October  11. 

On  Saturday  morning  last  the  Refugee  Post  at  Bexgen 
Point,  under  the  command  of  Capt.  THOMAS  WARD, 
was  attacked  by  a  party  of  rebel  infantry  and  horse,  con- 
sisting of  about  200  men.  After  receiving  a  smart  fire 
from  the  artillery  and  musquetry  of  the  Refugees,  assisted 
by  a  cannonade  from  the  gallies,  they  were  forced  to  re- 
treat. On  the  preceding  night,  as  Capt.  Frederick  Hauser, 
in  the  Refugee  gunboat  was  rowing  guard,  he  met  near 
Brown's  Ferry,  with  a  detachment  of  the  rebels  in  five 
boats,  which,  it  seems  were  intended  for  the  purpose  of 
making  good  a  retreat  for  the  above  mentioned  party  in 
case  they  should  happen  to  be  prevented  from  retreating  by 
the  way  of  Bevgen.  Upon  being  hailed,  and  refusing  to 
give  an  account  of  themselves,  Captain  Hauser  immedi- 
ately fired  upon  them,  when  two  of  the  boats  struck,  in 
which  were  made  prisoners  four  of  the  continental  light  in- 
fantry ;  the  others  on  board  had  jump'd  ashore,  and  made 
their  escape.  One  other  boat  wras  sunk,  having,  it  is  said, 
one  killed  and  two  wrounded  left  on  board  by  the  crew  who 
deserted  it,  Mr.  Charles  Homfray  with  two  others  and  a 
boy,  belonging  to  the  Refugee  party,  who  had  landed  some 
time  before  the  Rebels  were  discovered  were  taken  by  some 
rebel  horse ;  they  were  immediately  pinioned,  and  other- 
wise cruelly  treated,  according  to  the  usual  custom  of  the 
rebels,  when  American  Loyalists  are  so  unfortunate  as  to 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  41 

fall  in  their  hands,  in  which  cruelties  they  are  likely  to  per- 
severe until  a  full  and  spirited  retaliation  shall  take  place. 
An  inhabitant  of  Bergen,  named  Van  Waggener,  was  taken 
by  the  Refugees  on  his  return  from  the  rebels.  He  had 
gone  after  reconnoitering  the  Refugee  Post,  to  give  intelli- 
gence of  their  situation.  It  is  also  said  that  the  rebels  have 
carried  off  Mr.  John  Philips,  a  quiet  inhabitant  on  a  sus- 
picion of  his  having  been  friendly  to  our  people. 

On  Saturday  the  30th  of  last  month,  died  much  la- 
mented, Mrs.  GRACE  BOOTEL,  the  wife  of  Isaac  Bon- 
nel,  Esq.,  of  Amboy,  formerly  High  Sheriff,  of  Middlesex 
in  ISTew  Jersey,  and  on  Sunday  her  remains  were  interred 
in  Trinity  church-yard,  attended  by  a  numerous  and  re- 
spectable company. 

— The  New-York  Gazette:  and  the  Weekly  Mercury,  No. 
1513,  October  16,  1780. 

For  the  New-Jersey  Gazette. 
To  Sir  HENRY  CLINTON. 

WHEN  I  had  the  honor  to  address  you  on  a  former  occasion, 
I  did  not  suppose  it  would  have  fallen  to  my  part,  to  have 
experienced  a  second  time,  so  singular  a  distinction.  You 
were  then  descending  from  the  small  degree  of  eminence  you  had  so 
•difficultly  acquired,  to  mingle  your  fame  with  that  of  your  forgotten 
predecessors.  Even  your  friends  beheld  you  like  one  of  those  comets 
whose  faint  appearance  neither  produces  fear  nor  astonishment,  and 
whose  course,  after  a  few  hours  idle  curiosity,  is  only  to  be  seen  in 
'the  records  of  the  astronomer.  The  hopes  of  your  flatterers,  and  the 
expectations  of  your  enemies,  were  equally  averse  from  a  revival  of 
your  reputation.  Indolence  at  one  time,  parade  at  another,  and  a 
•senseless  variety  of  seeming  enterprises,  naif-formed,  or  terminating 
without  effect,  had  justly  fixed  your  character,  and  marked  it  with 
that  bewildered  expression,  which  it  was  thought  no  experience  could 
better.  But  you  have  lived  to  enjoy  a  triumph  over  public  opinion, 
and  to  erect  a  new  fame  on  the  talents  of  another.  With  a  sub- 
mission that  shews  you  at  least  possessed  of  a  certain  portion  of 
prudence,  you  committed  the  management  of  your  councils  to  a  man- 
•of  superior  abilities.  From  this  moment  Mr.  Andre  became  the  first 
minister  to  his  commander,  and  your  affairs  felt  the  influence  of  such 
=a  director.  But,  Sir  Harry,  thy  sagacity  foresaw  no  evil  in  his 


XEW     J  HUSKY     IX     THE    REVOLUTION. 

attempts,  nor  could  his  penetration  provide  against  his  own  ship- 
wreck. Flattered  with  the  baubles  of  favouriteism,  he  gave  fresh 
life  to  your  hopes,  and  drew  you  from  the  closet,  where  you  were 
sadly  anticipating  the  horrors  of  sinking  authority.  What  others 
viewed  as  impossible,  appeared  to  him  as  only  difficult,  and  he  em- 
braced your  interest  from  the  same  passion  that  made  Caesar  a  kins, 
and  perhaps  Brutus  an  assassin.  Such  are  the  errors  of  ambition, 
or  the  madness  of  elevated  minds. 

The  reduction  of  Charlcstown  produced  the  first  change  in  your 
character.  I  will  rather  suppose  that  you  assumed  the  command 
of  this  expedition  from  a  principle  peculiar  to  men  of  your  spirit, 
than  that  the  measure  was  the  result  of  advice.  You  were  sensible 
that  you  had  not  less  to  fear  from  the  success  of  another,  than  from 
your  own  mismanagements.  To  you  all  victories  but  your  own, 
brought  with  them  the  force  of  a  punishment.  And  as  your  com- 
mission invested  you  with  liberty  to  act  where  you  pleased  in 
America,  you  thought  this  experiment  the  only  one  that  remained. 
Ministry  feared  this,  but  without  limiting  your  power,  they  could 
not  guard  against  your  interference.  Corowallis  felt  the  injury,  and 
commenced  your  enemy,  submitted  to  be  a  secondary  actor,  where 
he  should  have  been  the  principal,  and  you  succeeded  with  a  force 
that  made  it  impossible  to  fail.  But  the  execution  of  the  enterprise, 
clogged  with  the  'characteristics  of  your  character,  brought  with  it 
consequences  you  little  apprehended.  You  sat  down  before  a  place 
which  you  should  have  carried  by  assault.  With  an  army  of  ten 
thousand  men  and  a  competent  naval  superiority,  you  invested  a 
town  of  a  large  extent,  fortified  only  by  sandy  entrenchments,  raised 
in  two  months,  without  covered  way,  destitute  of  outworks,  open  in 
several  places  on  the  water  side,  exposed  everywhere  to  an  open 
attack,  and  defended  by  a  garrison  insufficient  by  one  half.  To 
remain  forty-tiro  days  before  such  a  place,  with  open  trenches,  and 
display  all  the  apparel  of  a  regular  siege,  transfers  the  whole  glory 
to  the  garrison.  In  all  this,  perhaps,  you  may  have  been  governed 
by  the  rules  of  prudence,  if  not  of  enterprise.  But  when  we  con- 
trast your  conduct  with  that  of  the  American  troops,  in  supporting 
an  incessant  fire,  subject  all  the  while  to  the  danger  of  a  surprise, 
and  to  open  attacks,  the*  success  of  which  was  almost  certain,  had 
you  taken  proper  measures:  your  very  friends.  Sir  Harry,  lose  sight 
of  your  triumph,  in  contemplating  their  firmness  and  fortitude. 

This  is  the  result  of  your  expedition,  when  stript  of  the  pomp  of 
a  long  laboured  letter,  which  was  to  give  you  a  new  existence  at  St. 
James's,  and  your  ministry  a  fresh  motive  for  carrying  on  the  Avar. 
Any  other  people  but  one  devoted  to  punishment  from  the  course 
of  their  crimes,  knowing  the  circumstances  of  your  success,  would 
have  employed  the  court  to  have  conditioned  for  peace.  But  your 
nation  in  pursuing  the  meteor  they  have  raised,  though  some  new 
ground  was  passed  over,  found  themselves  no  nearer  their  object. 
Still  they  were  as  children  fooled  by  the  amusive  figures  of  a  magic 
lanthorn.  and  continued  vain  dupes  to  the  dexterity  of  their  jugglers. 

In   all   courts  but  that  of  Great   Britain,   the  capture  of  Charles- 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  43 

town  will  have  ceased  to  operate  in  your  favor.  The  first  moment 
of  its  impression  was  yours.  The  succeeding  one  a  panegyric  on 
America.  It  was  told  and  talked  of  by  your  court  and  its  runners, 
as  if  the  sudden  subduction  of  at  least  the  Southern  States  was  a 
natural  consequence.  In  the  paroxism  of  success  an  elated  Ministry, 
hurried  out  to  the  world  a  gazette  extraordinary,  to  publish  your 
letter  where,  you  speak  of  Lord  Cornwallis's  expected  presence  on 
the  frontier  of  North-Carolina,  and  a  small  expedition  into  Cape-Fear 
river,  to  favor  the  revolution  you  looked  for  higher  up  the  country.* 
To  have  made  these  boastings  efficient,  they  should  have  been  fol- 
lowed by  a  second  account  of  cities  taken,  and  provinces  subdued. 
But  instead  of  this,  they  must  read  of  Worth-Carolina  passing  a  vote 
of  thanks  to  Brigadier-General  Smallwood,  and  of  Congress  pro- 
moting him  to  the  rank  of  Major-General  for  his  behaviour  in  the 
battle  near  Cambden,  in  the  state  of  South  Carolina.  How  will  your 
employers  colour  their  assertions  and  their  own  folly,  when  after 
such  an  elapse  of  time,  Cornwallis  is  so  remote  from  the  frontier 
of  North-Carolina.  It  will  not  be  enough  to  tell  the  world,  that  he 
gained  an  advantage  where  it  was  led  to  believe,  he  had  no  enemies 
to  oppose.  Cornwallis  will  even  lose  the  honor  of  a  victory,  when 
it  is  known,  that  although  the  American  troops  were  inferior  in 
numbers,  they  were  superior,  in  courage,  and  that  they  recovered  by 
the  latter  what  they  had  lost  by  the  former :  Nor  after  the  defection 
of  the  militia,  did  they  submit  to  a  retreat,  till  their  enemy  were 
disgraced  by  their  resistance. 

But  leaving  these  matters  we  find  you  in  New- York,  returned  from 
your  stolen  expedition  in  all  the  pomp  of  an  Eastern  conqueror, 
swelled  with  the  praises  of  your  parasites,  and  flattered  with  the 
prospect  of  fresh  marks  of  royal  distinction.  With  such  an  army 
as  you  commanded,  you  looked  forward  to  an  active-  campaign  in 
this  quarter.  But  prevented  from  this  by  the  exertions  of  the  States, 
and  confined  to  your  garrison  after  the  engagement  at  Springfield, 
you  sat  down  gloom y  and  disappointed. — You  saw  the  campaign 
spending  itself  in  abortive  perade,  when  the  powers  of  corruption 
were  called  on  to  close  it  in  eclat.  West-Point  was  to  be  the  object, 
and  General  Arnold  its  betrayer.  From  what  medium  of  intelligence 
you  gained  a  knowledge  of  his  principles,  whether  you  argued  from 
your  own  heart  to  his,  or  received  it  from  himself,  we  shall  leave 
to  the  better  explanation  of  time.  Nor  shall  we  enquire  why  one 
so  high  in  military  reputation  as  Arnold,  acquired  too  under  such 
a  splendor  of  circumstances,  as  justly  entitled  him  to  that  rank  which 
he  held  in  Europe,  should  thus  dispose  of  his  fame,  and  his  moral 
character.  For  the  sake  of  human  nature,  it  were  to  be  wished 
that  a  veil  eould  be  thrown  over  such  examples  of  depravity. — But 
from  time  to  time,  society  is  disturbed  with  their  appearance. — In 
Arnold's  situation  Cromwell  would  have  acted  as  Arnold.  And  could 
Clive  have  changed  places  with  Arnold,  Clive  would  have  sold 
America,  and  Arnold  would  have  exhausted  the  East-Indies  of  its 


*.S'ic  Harry  Clinton's  letter,  dated  CJiarlcxtoicn,  4th  June,  1780. 


44  NEW    JERSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

wealth,  and  bribed  the  British  parliament  to  suffer  him  to  spend  a 
few  years  in  wretchedness  and  infamy.  In  these  we  see  the  com- 
position of  certain  spirits,  which  as  conjunctures  point,  are  con- 
sidered as  the  ornament  or  the  disgrace,  the  pride  or  the  pestilence 
of  mankind. 

By  the  defection  of  Arnold  America  has  one  enemy  less,  and  you 
are  not  sure  of  one  new  friend.  He  that  submits  to  one  sale,  may 
be  tempted  to  another.  If  your  nation  can  be  pleased  with  this 
purchase,  it  must  lately  have  experienced  a  conversion  in  favor  of 
traitors.  And  should  your  army  submit  to  his  company,  it  is  no 
longer  at  enmity  with  dishonor,  perfidiousness  is  become  sacred,  and 
you  must  fear  for  your  own  safety.  'Such  is  the  man  you  have 
bought,  and  it  were  wrong  did  America  envy  you  his  possession.  But 
the  exultation  you  enjoyed  on  this  occasion  was  not  that  of  a  mo- 
ment. It  was  desultory  and  fugitive  as  the  faint  hopes  of  a  dying 
sinner,  whilst  the  capture  of  Major  Andre,  your  Adjutant-General, 
under  the  circumstances  of  a  spy,  and  the  failure  of  your  scheme, 
"burst  upon  your  head  like  the  discovery  of  a  plot  on  that  of  a 
traitor's. — It  was  a  dagger  ready  to  be  plunged  into  the  heart  of  your 
enemy,  planted  in  your  own. — Were  the  succeeding  hours  of  your 
Excellency's  life  to  be  burnished  with  the  smiles  of  your  sovereign, 
they  could  not  repay  the  distractions  that  followed. — But  they  were 
distractions  for  yourself,  in  which  Andre  had  no  share.  But  for 
this,  and  had  you  felt  but  one  pang  for  his  fate,  there  might  have 
been  those  who  would  have  even  pitied  your  horrors. 

It  is  not  easy,  Sir  Harry,  to  estimate  the  loss  you  have  suffered 
in  Major  Andre.  Your  enemies  were  not  insensible  to  his  worth. 
Men  of  genius  sympathized  with  him,  and  lamented  that  misguided 
zeal  in  the  service  of  his  prince,  which  led  to  his  punishment. — 
Those  who  have  toiled  heretofore  to  betray  the  liberties  of  America, 
could  lye — but  he  could  deceive.  Others  might  display  cunning — 
but  he  discovered  wisdom.  The  utmost  of  your  efforts  was  a  bribe — 
but  he  possessed  a  power  that  was  superior,  that  of  seduction.  His 
talents  were  beyond  most  mens  virtue,  and  he  had  no  enemy  but  in 
the  field  of  action.  But  great  abilities  have  their  fluctuations  and 
limits,  nor  are  they  at  all  times  of  the  same  temper,  his  failed  him 
at  that  point  which  would  have  completed  his  fortune,  and  created 
you  a  fame  to  which  you  had  no  title.  It  is  carious  by  what  little 
incidents  and  unforeseen  combinations  great  events  are  decided.  But 
for  three  armed  peasants  of  the  state  of  New-York.  West-Point  and 
its  dependencies  would  have  been  at  this  hour  in  your  possession. 
For  it  is  not  probable  with  an  enemy  within,  and  your  army  without, 
that  it  could  have  been  saved. — Let  this  instance  of  honesty  rescue 
human  nature  from  infamy,  and  serve  as  a  lesson  to  mankind.  And 
let  the  names  of  Pauling,  Van  Vert  and  Williams,  who  rejected  an 
immense  bribe  with  a  grandeur  of  soul  infinitely  superior  to  the 
baseness  with  which  Arnold  received  one,  be  remembered  when  the 
trophies  of  pride  and  the  monuments  of  false  glory  are  trampled 
on  or  neglected. 


XEWSPAPEK    EXTRACTS.  45 


Mr.  Andre's  rank  and  talents,  made  his  case  peculiar.  Your  army 
I  am  told  loved  him.  General  Washington's  admired  him.  The 
latter  shed  tears  at  his  death,  while  you,  Sir  Harry,  scarce  con- 
descended to  shew  the  cold  formalities  of  an  affected  condolence. 
There  remained  but  this  to  complete  your  character,  the  torpor  in 
which  you  heard  the  circumstances  of  his  capture,  and  your  unani- 
mated  efforts  to  save  him.  His  faithful  services  surely  claimed  your 
utmost  interposition  ;  your  own  fame  required  it,  and  your  supposed 
friendship  demanded  it  from  you  as  a  right. — But  a  vain  self- 
importance  filled  your  heart,  and  you  remained  during  the  suspension 
of  his  fate,  in  all  the  imagined  majesty  of  your  native  sullenness. 
If  you  were  with-held  by  a  punctilio  from  being  more  forward,  I 
would  not  have  possessed  your  place  for  a  kingdom.  But  policy,, 
(for  who  will  serve  you  in  future)  what  you  owed  to  Major  Andre, 
(for  his  abilities  supported  your  character)  and  the  general  expecta- 
tion of  your  army,  dictated  every  possible  expedient  in  his  favor. 
The  very  army  of  your  enemy  wondered  at  your  total  privation  of 
sensibility,  and  while  they  complied  with  the  laws  and  usages  of 
nations,  did  justice  to  his  magnanimity. — Be  my  witnesses,  said  he 
to  them,  while  I  acknowledge  the  propriety  of  my  sentence,  I  die 
like  a  brave  man. 

Had  you  aught  of  sentiment,  Sir  Harry,  there  would  be  no  end 
to  your  afflictions.  Had  you  a  magnanimity  like  Andre's,  you  would 
at  least  have  sacrified  to  your  commission,  could  that  have  preserved 
his  life. — If  to  be  great  is  to  be  unfeeling,  I  ask  not  for  greatness. 
If  to  see  one's  best  friend  suffer  without  a  tear  is  characteristic  of 
dignity,  give  me  lowliness.  If  high  stations  teach  men  to  believe  that 
the  abilities  of  others  were  only  formed  to  forward  their  designs,  and 
that  friends  should  be  no  longer  protected  than  they  are  thought  to 
be  useful,  place  me  in  a  cottage  and  obscurity,  and  let  me  forever 
be  secluded  from  such  men. — But,  alas !  it  is  the  nature  of  power 
to  attract  and  deceive,  and,  perhaps,  there  is  no  country  without 
its  Clinton. 

But  I  leave  you,  Sir  Harry,  to  sullen  reflection.  Your  fame  is 
finished,  and  I  wish  not  to  renew  my  address. 

October  4th,  1780.  Z. 


PHILADELPHIA,  October  10. 
Extract  of  a  letter  from  Camp,  Tapan,  October  2. 

"You  have  had  the  particulars  of  Traitor  Arnold's  con- 
duct, before  his  getting  on  board  the  Vulture  sloop  of  war, 
which  lay  near  Stoney-Point ;  but  his  conduct,  since  he 
went  into  New- York,  is  a  still  greater  proof  of  his  villainy, 
(if  greater  villainy  was  possible).  At  his  arrival  with  the- 


46  NEW    JEESEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

British,  he  had  upwards  of  fifty  of  our  warmest  friends  in 
Xe\v-York  taken  up,  and  put  into  dungeons  and  other 
places  of  confinement.  But  there  is  a  providence  attending 
the  unhappy  friends  to  their  country,  that  puts  it  out  of  his 
power  to  injure  them,  other  than  imprisonment. — Such 
was  the  precipitate  flight  he  made,  to  save  his  m ck  from 
the  halter,  that  he  had  no  time  to  move  off  a  single  paper, 
or  any  other  matter  which  can  be  a  testimony  again -t  those 
he  would  otherwise  ruin  in  person  and  estate.  General 
Robertson  came  up  yesterday  to  Dobb's  Ferry,  with  a  ll:ig, 
which  was  soon  dismissed,  it  being  of  so  trite  a  nature,  viz. 
to  entreat  his  Excellency  General  Washington,  at  the  re- 
quest of  Sir  Harry  Clinton,  to  use  lenity  to  Major  Andre — 
it  had  the  effect  to  respite  him  for  some  hours,  as  the  flag 
did  not  return  till  after  five  o'clock,  which  was  the  hour 
fixed  in  general  orders  for  his  execution.  This  day  at  12 
o'clock  it  took  place,  by  hanging  him  by  the  neck.  Per- 
haps no  person  (on  like  occasion)  ever  suffered  the  igno- 
minious death,  that  was  more  regretted  by  officers  and  sol- 
diers of  every  rank  in  our  army;  or  did  I  ever  see  any 
person  meet  his  fate  with  r"ore  fortitude  and  equal  conduct. 
When  he  was  ordered  to  mount  the  waggon  under  the  gal- 
lows, he  replied,  "He  was  ready  to  die,  but  wished  the  mode 
to  have  been  in  some  more  eligible  waj,  prefering  to  be 
shot."*  After  he  opened  his  shirt  collar,  fixed  the  rope,  and 
tied  his  handkerchief  over  his  eyes,  he  was  asked  by  the 
officer  commanding  the  troops,  if  he  wished  to  say  any- 
thing? He  replied,  "I  have  said  all  I  had  to  say  before,, 
and  have  only  to  request  the  gentlemen  present,  to  bear 
testimony  that  I  met  death  as  a  brave  man." 

"The  flag  mentioned  to  have  come  out  with  General  Rob- 
ertson, was  received  by  General  Greene  and  Colonel  Ham- 
ilton; and  what  is  curious,  Arnold  sent  his  resignation,  by 
desire,  that  General  Washington  should  forward  it  to  Con- 
gress, with  an  insolent  letter,  intimating  he  never  would 

*He  teas  dressed  in  full  uniform;  and  after  the  execution  his  servant 
demanded  Ms  cloatihing,  which  he  received.  His  body  tca-8  buried,  near 
the  galJows. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  47 

serve  Congress  any  more,  nor  need  they  expect  it..  And 
moreover,  that  if  Major  Andre  should  be  execntvd  by  order 
of  General  Washington,  that  he  would  strike  a  blow  on 
some  of  his  friends  011  the  Continent,  that  should  suffici- 
ently retaliate  for  his  loss  to  his  Prince.  General  Greene, 
when  he  read  the  letter,  treated  it  with  contempt,  and  threw 
it  on  the  ground,  before  General  Robertson,  which  he  might 
return  to  the  Traitor,  if  he  thought  proper.  The  hanging 
of  Major  Andre,  one  of  the  most  eminent  officers  and  polite 
m<  11  in  the  British  army,  and  the  second  life  of  Clinton, 
shews  we  are  not  dotered  by  great  menaces,  but  determined 
to  extirpate  our  enemies  one  by  one,  until  peace  shall  be 
restored  to  our  count rv." 


TREXTOX,  OCTOBER  18. 

On  the  7th  instant  the  Honourable  the  Legislature  of 
this  State  rose,  having  completed  the  4th  Session.  During 
the  sitting  the  following  Acts  were  passed,  viz. 

1.  A  supplemental  Act  to  the  Act,  intitled,  An  Act  for  es- 
tablishing a  fund  for  sinking  and  redeeming  the  proportion 
of  the  bills  of  credit  of  the  United  States,  assigned  as  the 
quota  of  this  State. 

2.  An  Act  to  enable  the  several  township  collectors  to 
recover  the  monies  from  constables,  by  them  received  for 
taxes. 

3.  An  Act  to  amend  an  Act,  intitled,  An  Act  to  establish 
courts  in  the  several  counties  in  this  colony  for  the  trial  of 
small  causes,  and  to  repeal  the  former  Act  for  that  pur- 
pose, and  to  confirm  sundry  proceedings  of  the  Justices  of 
the  Peace  in  this  State. 

4.  An  Act  to  confirm  a  copy  of  the  last  will  and  testa- 
ment of  James  Pew,  late  of  the  township  of  Middletown,  in 
the  county  of  Monmouth,  and  State  of  New-Jersey. 

5.  An  Act  to  enable  the  owners  and  possessors  of  the 
tide,  marsh,  and  meadows  lying  on  Absecon  creek,  in  the 


48         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.      [1780 

county  of  Gloucester,  to  erect  and  maintain  a  bank,  dam, 
and  other  water-works  across  the  said  creek,  to  prevent  the 
tide  from  overflowing  the  said  meadows  and  marsh. 

6.  An  Act  to  repeal  sundry  Acts  for  augmenting  the 
fines  and  fees  of  civil  officers  and  others. 

7.  An  Act  to  amend  the  Act,  intitled,  An  Act  to  provide 
for  the  payment  of  the  several  officers  of  the  government  of 
the  State  of  ]^ew-Jersey,  to  commence  the  thirteenth  day  of 
October,   one  thousand  seven  hundred  and  seventy-nine, 
and  to  end  the  second  Tuesday  in  October,  one  thousand 
seven  hundred  and  eighty,  inclusive,  and  to  discharge  the 
publick  debts  and  other  contingent  charges  thereof,  and  to 
augment  and  alter  the  salaries  allowed  by  law  to  the  Super- 
intendant  of  Purchases,  to  the  Auditor  of  Accounts,  and  to 
the  Secretary  of  this  State. 

8.  An  Act  to  continue  an  Act,  intitled,  An  Act  to  sus- 
pend the  Act  declaring  the  value  of  the  continental  cur- 
rency, and  also  the  Act  making  the  same  a  legal  tender,  and 
the  supplement  thereto. 

9.  An  Act  for  defraying  sundry  incidental  charges. 
Last  Tuesday  came  on  the  general  election  in  this  State, 

for  the  choice  of  persons  to  represent  the  several  counties 
in  Council  and  General  Assembly,  during  the  ensuing  year, 
when  the  following  gentlemen  were  chosen : 

Hunterdon  County.     Council.     John  Stevens,  Esq. 

f   Benjamin  Van  Cleve,     ") 

Assembly.  <•    Jared  Sexton,  V  Esquires. 

(^    John  Lambert,  J 

Burlington.    Council.    Peter  Tallman,  Esq. 
f    Thomas  Eenimore,         1 

Assembly.  -I    William  Trent,  V  Esquires. 

(^   William  Hough,  J 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  49 

Gloucester.     Council.     John  Cooper,  Esq. 

(    John  Sparks,  ^ 

Assembly.   1     Thomas  Rennard,  V  Esquires. 

(    Isaac  Kay,  J 

Salem.     Council.    Whitten  Cripps,  Esq. 

(    John  Mayhew,  "1 

Assembly.  1     Allen  Congleton,  >  Esquires. 

(    William  Smith/  j 

Middlesex.     Council.     Benjamin  Manning,  Esq. 

f    Jacob  Schenck,  ^ 

Assembly.  -c     Jacob  Suydam,  V  Esquires. 

(^    Melancthon  Freeman,    J 

Monmouth.     Council.     Elisha  Lawrence,  Esq. 

f    Thomas  Seabrook,  1 

Assembly.  -c     Nathaniel  Scudder,         >  Esquires, 
(^    Thomas  Henderson,       J 

Somerset.    Council.    John  Witherspoon,  Esq. 
f    Edward  Bunn,  ~| 

Assembly.  <     David  Kirkpatrick,          >  Esquires. 
(  .  Christopher  Hogeland,  J 

The  returns  for  the  other  counties  have  not  yet  come  to 
hand. 

Tuesday  next  the  Honourable  the  Legislature  elect  are 
to  meet  at  this  place,  agreeably  to  the  constitution. 

The  Saratoga  sloop  of  war,  belonging  to  Philadelphia, 
last  week  captured  five  British  vessels,  all  of  which  are 
said  to  be  arrived  in  the  Delaware. 

Monday  last  the  American  army  moved  from  Tapan  to 
Totaway,  near  Passaick  Falls  in  Bergen  county,  previous 
to  which  Major-General  Greene  marched  four  brigades  to 
reinforce  West-Point. 

A  New- York  paper  of  the  llth  instant,  says,  that  "On 

4 


50          NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.      [1780 

Saturday  morning  last  the  Refugee  Post  at  Bergen  Point, 
under  the  command  of  Captain  Thomas  Ward,  was  at- 
tacked by  a  party  of  rebel  infantry  and  horse,  consisting 
of  about  200  men.  After  receiving  a  smart  fire  from  the 
artillery  and  musquetry  of  the  Refugees,  assisted  by  a  can- 
nonade from  the  gallies,  they  were  forced  to  retreat,"  Mr. 
Rivington  neglected  to  add  to  the  above,  that  the  assail- 
ants took  off  about  30  of  the  loyal  Refugees. 

We  hear  that  an  Exchange  of  prisoners  has  lately  been 
negotiated,  in  which  all  the  American  troops,  now  with 
the  enemy,  are  to  be  included. 


WILLIAM  THOMAS, 

GOLD  and  SILVER-SMITH, 

^  T^AKES  this  method  to  acquaint  his  Friends  and  the 
_L        Publick,  that  lie  has  removed  from  Elizabeth-Town 
to  Trenton,  where  he  carries  on  his  business  in  its 
various  branches.     He  also  carries  on  the 

PLATING  BUSINESS 

extensively;  and  engages  that  all  his  work  shall  be  equal 
in  goodness  and  neatness  to  any  ever  imported  from  Eng- 
land. 

Gentlemen  who  may  oblige  him  with  their  custom,  by 
giving  timely  notice,  shall  be  furnished  with  any  quantity 
of  work  in  either  of  those  branches,  and  particularly  with 
bridle-bits,  stirrup-irons,  spurs,  buckles,  &c.,  &c. 

Trenton,  October  17,  1780. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  51 


to  the  house  of  Joseph  Herbert,  at  the  sign  of 
the  white  horse,  a  BLACK  MARE,  about  four- 
teen hands  high,  four  years  old,  a  natural  trotter, 
and  has  a  blaze  in  her  face.     The  owner  is  desired  to  come 
and  prove  his  property,  pay  charges  and  take  her  away. 
October  12,  1780. 


To  be  sold  at  publick  veiidue, 

On  Tuesday  the  31st  day  of  this  instant,  October, 
A    Valuable    plantation,    situate    in    Amwell    township, 
-*~^-      Hunterdon  county,  12  miles  from,  Trenton,  whereon 
Augustine   Stevenson  now  dwells,  containing  200 
acres,  with  a  sufficient  quantity  of  meadow  and  wood-land, 
orchards,  &c.    Any  person  or  persons  inclining  to  purchase, 
may  view  the  premises  before,  or  at  the  time  of  sale,  wljich 
will  begin  at  12  o'clock  on  said'  day,  when  attendance  will 
be  given,  and  the  conditions  made  known  by 
KOBEET  STEVENSON,   1  _ 
THOMAS  STEVENSON,  J 

—New-Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  III.,  No.  147,  October  18, 
1780. 

The  following  paragraph  is  copied  from  the  New  Jersey 
Journal,  dated  October  11. 

"We  are  happy  to  inform  our  readers,  that  an  exchange 
"of  prisoners  is  at  last  settled,  and  is  to  take  place  im- 
"mediately." 
—The  Royal  Gazette,  No.  423,  October  18,  1780. 


52         NEW  JEESEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.      [1780 


CHATHAM,  October  11. 

Last  Saturday  the  light  infantry  of  our  army,  made  an 
incursion  to  Bergen  Point,  where  they  captured  several 
prisoners,  and  killed  some,  the  particulars  of  which  we 
hope  to  give  our  readers  in  our  next. — The  New  York 
Packet,  and  the  American  Advertiser,  No.  188,  October 
19,  1780. 

New-Jersey,  October  13,  1780. 
To  be  SOLD  by  Public  Vendue, 

On  Thursday  the  26th  instant,  at  Ten  o'clock  in  the 
forenoon,  at  Chestnut  neck,  The  Schooner  FLYING- 
FISH  and  her  cargo  of  Tobacco,  consisting  of  30  hogs- 
heads of  the  best  Maryland,  captured  on  her  voyage  to 
St.  Eustatia  retaken -and  brought  into  this  port  and  now 
ready  for  sea. 

Also,  A  SCHOONER  of  about  35  tons  burthen,  and 
her  cargo  of  20  hogsheads  of  Tobacco,  being  taken  at  sea 
without  any  person  or  papers  on  board,  supposed  to  be 
cut  out  of  Chesapeake-bay  and  deserted  by  the  enemy  on 
the  approach  of  the  schooner  Rattlesnake. 

By  order  of  the  Hon.  Judge  of  the  Admiralty. 

ZACHARIAH  ROSSELL,  Marshal. 
— The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  October  21,  1780. 


Ancocus,  October  9,  1780. 

The  Creditors  of  JOHN  HEATON,  deceased,  late  of 
Willonborough  Township,  Burlington  County,  are  re- 
quested to  meet  on  Wednesday  the  first  of  November  next, 
at  the  house  of  Richard  Fynnimore,  in  the  Township  and 
County  aforesaid,  upon  business  respecting  the  said  John 
Heaton's  estate. 
—The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  October  24,  1780. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  53 


CHATHAM,  OCTOBER  25. 

The  following  is  a  copy  of  a  letter  from  Major  Andre, 
previous  to  his  execution,  to  his  Excellency  General  Wash- 
ington : 
"SiR 

"Buoyed  above  the  fear  of  death,  by  the  consciousness  of 
a  life  spent  in  the  pursuit  of  honour,  and  fully  sensible  that 
it  has  at  no  time  been  stained  by  any  action  which,  at  this 
serious  moment,  could  give  me  remorse — I  have  to  solicit 
your  Excellency,  if  there  is  any  thing  in  my  character 
which  excites  your  esteem;  if  aught  in  my  circumstances 
can  impress  you  with  compassion ;  that  I  may  be  permitted 
to  die  the  death  of  a  soldier : — >It  is  my  last  request  and  I 
hope  it  will  be  granted.  I  have  the  honour  to  be,  &c." 

Last  week  Lieut.  Raymond,  of  the  State  Regiment,  with 
twenty  men,  went  down  to  Hoebuck,  captured  six  of  the 
enemy,  and  killed  one. 

Last  Friday  five  prisoners,  among  whom  was  one  Cap- 
tain, who  had  made  their  escape  from  Reading,  in  Penn- 
sylvania, was  taken  at  Halstead's  Point,  near  Elizabeth 
Town,  on  their  way  to  Staten-Island. 

At  the  late  election  the  undermentioned  gentlemen  were 
chosen  for  the  following  counties,  viz. 

For  the  county  of  ESSEX. 

Counsellor — Rev.  James  Caldwell. 

Assemblymen — Caleb  Camp,  Josiah  Hornblower,  and 
Daniel  Marsh,  Esquires. 

Sheriff — Noah  Marsh,  Esquire. 

For  the  county  of  MORRIS. 

Counsellor — Silas  Condict,  Esquire. 

Assemblymen — John  Carle,  William  Wyns,  and  Eleazer 
Linley,  Esquires. 

Sheriff — Jacob  Arnold,  Esquire. 

For  the  county  of  BERGEN. 

Counsellor 

Assemblymen — Gabriel  Ogden,  Isaac  Blanch,  and  Peter 
Wilson,  Esquires. 

Sheriff — Adam  Boyd,  Esquire. 


54         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.      [1780 

TO  BE  SOLD> 

A   GOOD  SADDLE  HORSE.     Inquire  of  the  Printer 
•£•*•      hereof. 

FORTY  CAST  HORSES,  will  be  sold  for  cash,  at 
Springfield,    on    Thursday    the    26th    instant,    by 

AARON  FORMAN,  A.  Q.  M. 
Morristown,  October,  24,  1780. 

ON  the  30th  of  September,  1780, 1  gave  a  note  of  hand, 
payable  on- demand,  to  Mr.  Mark  Garret  for  five 
thousand  one  hundred  dollars,  which  was  given  in 
consequence  of  the  depreciation  of  two  hundred  and  thirty- 
six  dollars,  for  near  one  year's  standing ;  the  arbitrators  ac- 
knowledge the  mistake  they  made  in  making  up  the  de- 
preciation, and  as  Mj;.  Garret  has  denied  giving  up  the 
note,  the  subscriber  takes  this  method  to  inform  the  publick 
that  he  is  determined  not  to  pay.  the  same,  and  forewarns 
all  persons  from  purchasing  it. 

JOHN    POOL. 
October  24.  1780. 

The  subscriber  will  sell  at  private  sale,  for  cash,  either 
continental  or  specie,  the  following  articles,  viz. 

A    NEW  riding  chair  with  harness  compleat,  milch  cows, 
-^"*-      fat  cattle,  fat  hogs,  a  two  horse  wagon  and  gears, 
two    sleds,    and    other    farming   utensils;  .  feather 
beds,  curtains  and  bedding,  tables,  chairs,  &c.,  &c. 

He  will  also  sell  or  rent,  for  money  as  above,  a  house 
and  a  three  acre  lot  of  land,  on  which  the  earthenware 
works  now  stand,  in  Elizabeth  Town,  together  with  the 
works  now  going,  and  in  good  order,  with  all  the  apparatus 
to  them  belonging;  the  house  is  small  but  well  finished, 
almost  new,  with  convenient  out-houses,  stables,  &c.  The 
land  is  all  meadow,  except  enough  for  a  garden. 

He  will  also  rent,  for  one  year  or  a  longer  time,  that 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  55 

large,  elegant,  and  pleasant  situated  house  and  improve- 
ments, the  seat  of  the  late  Thomas  Pollock,  Esq. 

All  the  above-mentioned  articles  that  shall  remain  un- 
sold at  private  sale,  with  many  others  that  cannot  now  be 
recollected,  will  be  sold  and  struck  off  to  the  highest  bid- 
der, at  a  vendue  to  be  held  for  that  purpose  at  the  house 
of  the  subscriber  on  Friday,  the  10th  of  November  next, 
to  begin  at  ten  o'clock  in  the  forenoon,  and  to  continue 
from  day  to  day  until  the  whole  are  sold  ;  and  the  first 
mentioned  house  and  works  (should  they  not  be  disposed 
of  before)  will  either  be  sold  or  rented  ;  and  the  last-men- 
tioned house  and  improvements  will  be  rented. 

KOBEKT  HUNT. 

Elizabeth  Town,  October,  24,  1780. 

TTTHETvEAS  Hannah,  the  wife  of  the  subscriber,  hasr 

^  ^       sundry  times,  without  my  knowledge,  carried  off 

my  effects  :    These  are  therefore  to  forewarn  all 

persons  from  trusting  her  on  my  account,  as  I  am  deter- 

mined not  to  pay  any  debts  of  her  contracting  from  the 

date  hereof.    And  all  persons  having  any  of  the  goods  she 

may  have  so  embezzled,  are  requested  to  return  them  to  me, 

or  they  may  expect  trouble. 

ZEBEDEE  BROWN. 
Hanover,  October  17,  1780. 


HERE  AS   an   advertisement   appeared   in   the   last 
^  ^       Chatham   paper,   forewarning  all  persons   not   to 
trust   the    subscriber   on    her   husband's    account  : 
This  is  therefore  to  acquaint  the  publick,  that  I  will  not 
pay  any  debts  of  his  contracting  from  the  date  hereof.    As 
to  his  interest,  which  he  says  I  have  destroyed,  I  know  of 
none  he  has,  without  it  is  what  he  claims  of  my  estate,  in 
which  he  has  no  right,  there  being  a  contract  between  us, 
previous  to  our  marriage  which  cuts  him  off  any  claim. 

KUTH  SEARLS. 
October  17,  1780. 

-The  Ne-w-Jerseij  Journal,  Vol.  II.  Numb.  LXXXVIII,. 
October  25,  11  'SO. 


56  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

The  CRISIS 
EXTRAORDINARY 

IT  is  impossible  to  sit  down  and  think  seriously  on  the  affairs  in 
America,  but  the  original  principles  on  which  she  resisted,  and 
the  glow  and  ardor  they  inspired,  will  occur  like  the  undefaced 
remembrance   of  a   lovely   scene.     To   trace   over   in   imagination   the 
purity  of  the  cause,  the  voluntary  sacrifices  made  to  support  it,  and 
all  the  various  turnings  of  the  war  in  its  defence,   is  at  once  both 
paying  and   receiving   respect.     The  principles  deserve  to  be   remem- 
bered, and  to  remember  them  rightly  is  repossessing  them.     In  this 
indulgence   of  generous   recollection  we   become   gainers  by  what   we 
seem  to  give,  and  the  more  we  give  the,  richer  we  become. 

So  extensively  right  was  the  ground  on  which  America  proceeded, 
that  it  not  only  took  in  every  just  and  liberal  sentiment  which  could 
impress  the  heart,  but  made  it  the  direct  interest  of  every  class  and 
order  of  men  to  defend  the  country.  The  war,  on  the  part  of 
Britain,  was  originally  a  war  of  covetousness.  The  sordid  and  not 
the  splendid  passions  gave  it  being.  The  fertile  fields  and  prosperous 
infancy  of  America  appesflred  to  her  as  mines  for  tributary  wealth. 
She  viewed  the  hive,  and  disregarding  the  industry  that  had  enriched 
it,  thirsted  for  the  honey.  But  in  the  present  stage  of  her  affairs, 
the  violence  of  temper  is  added  to  the  rage  of  avarice ;  and  there- 
fore, that  which,  at  our  first  setting  out,  proceeded  from  purity  of 
principle  and  public  interest,  is  now  heightened  by  all  'the  obliga- 
tions of  necessity ;  for  it  requires  but  little  knowledge  of  human 
nature  to  discern  what  would  be  the  consequence  were  America  again 
reduced  to  the  subjection  of  Britain.  Uncontrouled  power,  in  the 
hands  of  an  incensed,  imperious  and  rapacious  conqueror,  is  an 
engine  of  dreadful  execution ;  and  woe  be  to  that  country  over  which 
it  can  be  exercised.  The  names  of  Whig  and  Tory  would  then  be 
sunk  in  the  general  term  of  Rebel,  and  the  oppression,  whatever  it 
might  be,  would,  with  very  few  instances  of  exception,  light  equally 
on  all. 

Britain  did  not  go  to  war  with  America  for  the  sake  of  dominion, 
because  she  was  then  in  possession  ;  neither  was  it  for  the  extension 
of  trade  and  commerce,  because  she  had  monopolized  the  whole  and 
the  country  had  yielded  to  it ;  neither  was  it  to  extinguish  what  she 
might  call  rebellion,  because  before  she  began  no  resistance  existed. 
It  could  then  be  from  no  other  motive  than  avarice,  or  a  design  of 
establishing,  in  the  first  instance,  the  same  taxes  in  America  as  are 
paid  in  England  (which,  as  I  shall  presently  show,  are  above  eleven 
times  heavier  than  the  taxes  we  now  pay  for  the  present  year  1780) 
or,  in  the  second  instance,  to  confiscate  the  whole  property  of 
America,  in  case  of  resistance  and  conquest,  of  the  latter  of  which 
she  had  then  no  doubt. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  57 

I  shall  now  proceed  to  show  what  the  taxes  in  England  are,  and 
what  the  yearly  expence  of  the  present  war  is  to  her — What  the 
taxes  of  this  country  amount  to,  and  what  the  annual  expence  of 
defending  it  effectually  will  be  to  us ;  and  shall  endeavour  concisely 
to  point  out  the  cause  of  our  difficulties,  and  the  advantages  on  one 
side,  or  the  consequences  on  the  other,  in  case  we  do,  or  do  not,  put 
ourselves  in  an  effectual  state  of  defence.  I  mean  to  be  open,  candid 
and  sincere.  I  see  a  universal  wish  to  expel  the  enemy  from  the 
country,  a  murmuring  because  the  war  is  not  carried  on  with  more 
vigour,  and  my  intention  is  to  show  as  shortly  as  possibly  both  the 
reason  and  the  remedy. 

The  number  of  souls  in  England  (exclusive  of  Scotland  and  Ire- 
land) is  seven  millions,*  and  the  number  of  souls  in  America  is  three 
millions. 

The  amount  of  taxes  in  England  (exclusive  of  Scotland  and  Ire- 
land) was,  before  the  present  war  commenced,  eleven  millions  six 
hundred  and  forty-two  thousand  six  hundred  and  fifty-three  pounds 
sterling,  which  on  an  average  is  no  less  a  sum  than  one  pound 
thirteen  shillings  and  three-pence  Stirling  per  head  per  annum,  men, 
women,  and  children ;  besides  county  taxes,  taxes  for  the  support 
of  the  poor,  and  a  tenth  of  all  the  produce  of  the  earth  for  the  sup- 
port of  the.  bishops  and  clergy.f 


*  This  is  taking  the  highest  number  that  the  people  of  England  have 
been  or  can  be  rated  at. 

t  The  following  is  taken  from  Dr.  Price's  state  of  the  taxes  of  England, 
pages  96,  97,  98.                                                        , 

"An  account  of  the  money  drawn  from  the  publick  by  taxes  annually, 
being  the  medium  of  three  years  before  the  year  1776. 

Amount  of  customs  in  England £2,528,275 

Amount  of  the  excise  in  England 4,649,892 

Land    tax    at    3s 1,300,000 

Land  tax  at  Is.  in  the  pound 450,000 

Salt  duties 218,739 

Duties  on  stamps,  cards,  dice,  advertisements,  bonds,  leases,  in- 
dentures, news-papers,  almanacks,  &c 280,788 

Duties  of  houses  and  windows 385,369 

Post-office,  seizures,  wine  licences,  hackney  coaches,  &c 250,000 

Annual    profit   from    lotteries : 150,000 

Expence  of  collecting  the  excises  in  England 297.887 

Expence  of  collecting  the  customs  in  England 468,703 

Interest  of  loans  on  the  land  tax  at  4s.  expences  of  collection, 

militia,    &c 250,000 

Perquisites,  &c.,  to  custom-house  officers,  &c.,  supposed.  .......  250,000 

Expence  of  collecting  the  salt  duties  in  England,  lOd.  1-2  per 

cent 27,000 

Bounties  on  fish  exported 18,000 

Expence  of  collecting  the  duties   on   stamps,   cards,   advertise- 
ments, &c.,  5  and  1-4  per  cent 18,000 


Total    £11,642,653 


58  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

Nearly  five  millions  of  this  sum  went  annually  to  pay  the  interest 
of  the  national  debt  contracted  by  former  wars,  and  the  remaining 
sum  of  six  millions  six  hundred  and  forty-two  thousand  six  hundred 
pounds  was  applied  to  defray  the  yearly  expence  of  government,  the 
peace  establishment  of  the  army  and  navy,  placemen,  pensioners.  &c. 
Consequently  the  whole  of  her  enormous  taxes  being  thus  appro- 
priated, she  had  nothing  to  spare  out  of  them  towards  defraying  the 
expences  of  the  present  war  or  any  other.  Yet  had  she  not  been  in 
debt  at  the  beginning  of  the  war,  as  we  were  not,  and  like  us  had 
only  a  land  and  not  a  naval  wrar  to  carry  on,  her  then  revenue  of 
eleven  millions  and  a  half  pounds  sterling  would  defray  all  her 
annual  expence  of  war  and  government  within  each  year. 

But  this  not  being  the  case  with  her,  she  is  obliged  to  borrow 
about  ten  million  pounds  sterling,  yearly,  to  prosecute  the  war  she 
is  now  engaged  in  (this  year  she  borrowed  twelve)  and  lay  on  new 
taxes  to  discharge  the  interest ;  and  allowing  that  the  present  war 
has  cost  her  only  fifty  millions  sterling,  the  interest  thereon  at  five 
per  cent,  will  be  two  millions  and  a  half,  therefore  the  amount  of 
her  taxes  now  must  be  fourteen  millions,  which  on  an  average  is 
no  less  than  forty  shillings  per  head,  men,  women  and  children 
throughout  the  nation.  Now  as  this  expence  of  fifty  millions  was 
borrowed  on  the  hopes  of  conquering  America,  and  as  it  was  avarice 
which  first  induced  her  to  commence  the  war,  how  truly  wretched 
and  deplorable  would  the  condition  of  this  country  be,  were  she,  by 
her  own  remissness,  to  suffer  an  enemy  of  such  a  disposition,  and  so 
circumstanced,  to  reduce  her  to  subjection. 

I  now  proceed  to  the  revenues  of  America.  I  have  already  stated 
the  number  of  souls  in  America  to  be  three  millions,  and  by  a  cal- 
culation I  have  made,  which  I  have  every  reason  to  believe  is  suffi- 
ciently right,  the  whole  expence  of  the  war,  and  the  support  of  the 
several  governments,  may  be  defrayed  for  two  million  pounds  sterling, 
annually ;  which,  on  an  average,  is  thirteen  shillings  and  four  pence 
per  head,  men,  women  and  children,  and  the  peace  establishment  at 
the  end  of  the  war,  will  be' but  three  quarters  of  a  million,  or  five 
shillings  sterling  per  head.  Now  throwing  out  of  the  question  every 
thing  of  honor,  principle,  happiness,  freedom,  and  reputation  in  the 
world,  and  taking  it  up  on  the  simple  ground  of  interest,  I  put  the 
following  case. 

Suppose  Britain  was  to  conquer  America,  and  as  conquerors  was 
to  lay  her  under  no  other  conditions  than  to  pay  the  same  proportion 
toward  her  annual  revenue  which  the  people  of  England  pay;  our 
share,  in  that  Vase,  would  be  six  trillion  pounds  sterling,  yearly;  can 
it  then  be  a  question,  whether  it  is  best  to  raise  two  millions  to 
defend  the  country,  and  govern  it  ourselves,  and  only  three  quarters 
of  a  million  afterwards,  or  pay  six  millions  to  have  it  conquered, 
and  let  the  enemy  govern  it. 

Can  it  be  supposed  that  conquerors  would  chuse  to  put  themselves 
in  a  worse  condition  than  what  they  granted  to  the  conquered.  In 
England,  the  tax  on  rum  is  five  shillings  and  one  penny  sterling  per 
gallon,  which  is  one  silver  dollar  and  fourteen  coppers.  Now  would  it 
not  be  laughable  to  imagine,  that  after  the  expence  they  have  been  at,. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  59 

they  would  let  either  Whig  or  Tory  in  America  drink  it  cheaper  than 
themselves.  Coffee  which  is  so  considerable  an  article  of  consump- 
tion and  support  here,  is  there  loaded  with  a  duty,  which  makes  the 
price  between  five  and  six  shillings  sterling  a  pound,  and  a  penalty 
of  fifty  pounds  sterling  on  any  person  detected  in  roasting  it  in  his 
own  house.  There  is  scarce  an  article  of  life  you  can  eat,  drink, 
wear,  or  enjoy,  that  is  not  there  loaded  with  a  tax ;  even  the  light 
from  heaven  is  only  permitted  to  shine  into  their  dwellings  by  paying 
eighteen  pence  sterling  per  window  annually ;  and  the  humblest 
drink  of  life,  small  beer,  cannot  there  be  purchased  without  a  tax 
of  nearly  two  coppers  a  gallon,  besides  a  heavy  tax  upon  the  mait, 
and  another  on  the  hops  before  it  is  brewed,  exclusive  of  a  land  tax 
on  the  earth  which  produces  them.  In  short,  the  condition  of  that 
country  in  point  of  taxation  is  so  oppressive,  the  number  of  her 
poor  so  great,  and  the  extravagance  and  rapaciousness  of  the  court 
so  enormous,  that  were  they  to  effect  a  conquest  of  America,  it  is 
then  only  that  the  distress  of  America  would  begin.  Neither  would 
it  signify  anything  to  a  man  whether  he  be  what  we  call  a  Whig  or  a 
Tory.  The  people  of  England  and  the  ministry  of  that  country  know 
us  by  no  such  distinctions.- — What  they  want  is  clear  solid  revenue, 
and  the  modes  they  would  take  to  procure  it,  would  operate*  alike  on 
all.  Their  manner  of  reasoning  would  be  short,  because  they  would 
naturally  infer  that  if  we  were  able  to  carry  on  a  war  of  five  or  six 
years  against  them,  we  are  able  to  pay  the  same  taxes  which  they 
do. 

I  have  already  stated  that  the  expence  of  conducting  the  present 
war,  and  the  government  of  the  several  states,  may  be  done  for  two 
millions  sterling,  and  the  establishment  in  time  of  peace,  for  three 
quarters  of  a  million.* 

As  to  navy  matters,  they  flourish  so  well,  and  are  so  well  attended 
to,  in  the  hands  of  individuals,  that  I  think  it  consistent  on  every 
principle  of  real  use  and  economy,  to  turn  the  navy  into  hard  money 
(keeping  only  three  of  four  packets)  and  apply  it  to  promote  the 
service  of  the  army.  We  shall  not  have  a  ship  the  less  ;  the  use  of 
them,  and  the  benefit  from  them,  will  be  greatly  increased,  and  their 
expences  saved.  We  are  now  allied  with  a  formidable  naval  power, 
from  whom  we  derive  the  assistance  of  a  navy.  And  the  line  in 
which  we  can  prosecute  the  war,  so  as  to  reduce  the  common  enemy 
and  benefit  the  alliance  most  effectually,  will  be  by  attending  closely 
to  the  land  service. 

I  estimate  the  charge  of  keeping  up  and  maintaining  an  army, 
officering  them,  and  all  expences  included,  sufficient  for  the  defence 
of  the  country,  to  be  equal  to  the  expence  of  forty  thousand  men  at 
thirty  pounds  sterling  per  head,  which  is  one  million  two  hundred 
thousand  pounds. 

I  likewise  allow  four  hundred  thousand  pounds  for  Continental 
expences  at  home  and  abroad. 


*  I  have  made  the  calculations  in  sterling,  because  it  is  a  rate  generally 
known  in  all  the  states,  and  because  likewise  it  admits  of  an  easy  com- 
parison between  our  expenses  to  support  the  war  and  those  of  the  enemy. 
Pour  silver  dollars  and  one  half  is  one  pound  sterling  and  three  pence 
over. 


60         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.      [1780 

And  four  hundred  thousand  pounds  for  the  support  of  the  several 
state  governments,  the  amount  then  will  be,  For  the  army,  1,200,000 
Continental  expences  at  home  and  abroad,  400,000 

Government  of  the  several  states,  400,000 


Total,  2,000,000 

I  take  the  proportion  of  this  state,  Pennsylvania,  to  be  an  eighth 
part  of  the  Thirteen  United  States,  the  quota  then  for  us  to  raise 
will  be  two  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  pounds  sterling;  two  hun- 
dred thousand  of  which  will  be  our  share  for  the  support  and  pay 
of  the  army  and  Continental  expences  at  home  and  abroad,  and 
fifty  thousand  pounds  for  the  support  of  state  government. 

In  order  to  gain  an  idea  of  the  proportion  in  which  the  raising 
such  a  sum  will  fall,  I  make  the  following  caluclations : 

Pennsylvania  contains  three  hundred  and  seventy-five  thousand 
inhabitants,  men,  women  and  children,  which  is  likewise  an  eighth 
part  of  the  whole  inhabitants  of  the  United  States :  therefore  two 
hundred  and  fifty  thousand  pounds  sterling  to  be  raised  among  three 
hundred  and  seventy-five  thousand  persons,  is,  on  an  average,  thirteen 
shillings  and  four-pence  sterling  per  head  per  annum,  or  something 
more  than  one  shilling  sterling  per  month.  And  our  proportion  of 
three  quarters  of  a  million  for  the  government  of  the  country,  in 
time  of  peace,  will  be  ninety-three  thousand  seven  hundred  and  fifty 
pounds  sterling,  fifty  thousand  of  which  will  be  for  the  government 
expences  of  the  state,  and  forty-three  thousand  seven  hundred  and 
fifty  pounds  for  Continental  expences  at  home  and  abroad. 

The  peace  establishment  then  will,  on  an  average,  be  five  shillings 
ster.  per  head.  Whereas  was  England  now  to  stop,  and  the  war 
cease,  her  peace  establishment  would  continue  the  same  as  it  is 
now,  viz.  forty  shillings  per  head ;  therefore  was  our  taxes  necessary 
for  carrying  on  the  war  as  much  per  head  as  hers  now  is,  and  the 
difference  to  be  only  whether  we  should,  at  the  end  of  the  war,  pay 
at  the  rate  of  five  shillings  per  head,  or  forty  shillings  per  head, 
the  case  needs  no  thinking  of.  But  as  we  can  securely  defend  ind 
keep  the  country  for  one  third  less  than  what  our  burden  would  be 
if  it  was  conquered,  and  support  the  governments  afterward,  for  an 
eighth  of  what  Britain  would  levy  on  us,  and  could  I  find  a  miser 
whose  heart  never  felt  the  emotions  of  a  spark  of  principle,  even 
that  man,  uninfluenced  by  every  love  but  the  love  of  money,  and 
capable  of  no  attachment  but  to  his  interest,  would,  and  must,  from 
the  frugality  which  governs  him,  contribute  to  the  defence  of  the 
country,  or  he  ceases  to  be  a  miser  and  becomes  an  ideot.  But  when 
we  take  in  with  it  everything  that  can  ornament  mankind ;  when 
the  line  of  our  interest  becomes  the  line  of  our  happiness ;  when  all 
that  can  cheer  and  animate  the  heart ;  when  sense  of  honor,  fame, 
character,  at  home  and  abroad,  are  interwoven  not  only  with  the 
security  but  the  increase  of  property,  there  exists  not  a  man  in 
America,  unless  he  be  a  hired  emissary,  who  does  not  see  that  his 
good  is  connected  with  keeping  up  a  sufficient  defence. 
[The  remainder  will  be  inserted  in  our  next.] 


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[No.  I.] 

To  the  LEGISLATUEE  of  the  State  of  NEW-JERSEY. 
GENTLEMEN, 

You  are  now  by  the  free  voice  of  your  country  chosen  to  a  most 
Important  trust,  and  permit  me  to  assure  you  that  in  the  present 
situation  of  affairs,  you  have  undertaken  a  most  arduous  task,  many 
(perhaps  most)  of  you  new  to  the  business  of  legislation,  and  the 
science  of  government,  and  in  a  great  meusure  unacquainted  with 
the  situation  and  circumstances  of  the  various  parts  of  the  state 
which  you  are  appointed  to  govern :  thus  circumstanced,  I  make  no 
doubt  you  will  accept  in  a  friendly  manner,  such  observations  as  I 
may  be  able  to  make  on  the  present  situation  of  the  state ;  and  if 
I  should  go  farther,  and  point  out  what  appears  to  me  the  most 
probable  method  to  extricate  us  from  some  of  the  difficulties  under 
which  we  at  present  labor,  I  hope  your  candor  will  excuse  me,  as 
my  observations  will  be  entitled  to  your  regard  no  farther  than  they 
are  supported  by  reason  and  your  own  observation. 

Deeply  interested  as  I  am  in,  and  penetrated  with  the  distress  of 
my  country,  I  cannot  restrain  the  inclination  I  feel  to  contribute  my 
mite  to  her  relief. 

Never  was  a  people  more  unprepared  for  the  prosecution  of  a  war 
than  were  the  people  of  this  continent  at  the  commencement  of  the 
present ;  no  foreign  connections,  no  arms,  no  ammunition,  no  money, 
nor  (being  shut  out  from  foreign  trade)  had  we  any  prospect  of 
procuring  it ;  nevertheless,  determined  at  all  risks  to  be  free,  we 
bravely  ventured,  nothing  doubting  but  that  a  determined  resolution 
would  enable  us  to  surmount  every  obstacle  which  could  present 
itself ;  our  internal  resources  were  evidently  great,  and  the  spirit 
of  the  people  was  such  as  rendered  it  easy  to  draw  them  out. 

In  this  situation  to  supply  the  exigencies  of  the  times,  and  furnish 
the  general  treasury,  until  it  could  be  supplied  by  taxation  and  other 
proper  methods,  Congress  fell  upon  the  expedient  of  emitting  bills  of 
credit,  on  the  faith  of  the  United  States ;  an  expedient  which  in  sim- 
ilar cases  had  been  practiced  by  most  of  the  states  with  success ; 
at  the  same  time  wisely  calling  on  the  several  states  to  redeem  their 
proportions  of  the  same  at  certain  fixed  periods :  But,  alas !  here 
we  failed ;  the  several  states,  instead  of  securing  proper  funds  for 
their  redemption,  left  them  to  mere  hazard  for  support. 

The  frequent  calls  on  the  treasury,  in  the  prosecution  of  the  war, 
and  the  backwardness  of  the  several  Legislatures  to  raise  money  for 
its  supply,  made  repeated  emissions  necessary :  Congress  being  but 
men,  and  not  foreseeing  the  consequences,  nor  sufficiently  considering 
with  how  much  more  facility  they  could  emit  than  recall  those  bills, 
were  perhaps  too  lavish  in  their  emissions ;  their  purchasers  like- 
wise finding  money  came  free,  expended  it  as  freely ;  the  people  too 
finding  their  pockets  stored  with  cash,  which  came  easily  to  them, 
and  for  which  they  had  little  other  use  (not  being  inclined  to  hoard 


62  ,    NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

it,  and  no  taxes  being  called  for)  could  not  deny  themselves  the 
pleasure  of  possessing  whatever  they  set  their  hearts  upon,  be  the 
price  what  it  might.  Thus  the  prices  of  everything  increased  in  the 
compound  ratio,  of  the  quantity  of  cash  in  circulation,  and  the  sus- 
picion which  that  increasing  quantity  (still  unfunded)  created,  that 
the  same  would  never  be  fully  redeemed,  or  in  other  words,  the  money 
depreciated  in  the  same  proportion.  Speculators  soon  saw  the  ad- 
vantage, nor  did  they  fail  to  make  use  of  it ;  what  they  purchased 
to-day,  they  could  pay  for  to-morrow  with  half  the  value :  Thus 
speculation  grew  common,  and  to  promote  the  depreciation  became 
the  interest  of  a  considerable  part  of  the  community.  I  am  not 
unaware  that  many  other  circumstances  have  contributed  to  the  de- 
preciation ;  what  I  have  stated,  I  conceive  to  be  the  grand  source 
from  which  every  other  spring  has  taken  its  rise. 

Many  designing  and  some  deluded  people  thought  matters  went  en 
swimmingly,  and  would  fain  persuade  us  that  the  depreciation  was 
the  most  equitable  tax  that  could  be  laid,  that  it  would  collect  itself, 
and  not  only  so,  but  would  in  the  end  wipe  off  the  whole  load  of 
debt  from  the  continent ;  nor  would  they  believe  a  self-evident  truth, 
that  we  should  first  ruin  a  multitude  of  worthy  individuals,  and  in 
the  end  bankrupt  ourselves. 

Congress  at  length,  alarmed  at  the  amazing  depreciation,  and  con- 
vinced from  what  source  it  sprang,  determined  to  stop  further  emis- 
sions, and  repeated  their  solicitations  to  the  several  states,  in  the 
most  pressing  manner,  to  9  furnish  them  with  the  necessary  supplies 
for  carrying  on  the  war.  The  Legislatures  of  the  several  states, 
probably  from  various  causes,  went  into  motives  of  Congress  very 
slowly  (that  of  New- Jersey  however  by  far  too  slowly)  the  conse- 
quence of  which  was,  the  publick  treasury  was  soon  exhausted,  and 
credit  was  necessarily  substituted  to  cash. 

New-Jersey  at  length  awakened  to  see  her  true  interest,  determined 
on  taxation  with  spirit :  but,  alas,  too  late !  the  public  treasury  being 
exhausted,  contracts  of  every  kind  were  made  on  credit ;  to  secure 
the  payment  of  which,  certificates  were  issued  from  the  several  offices. 
— Here  New-Jersey  becomes  the  sufferer. — The  army,  which  had  al- 
most from  the  beginning  of  the  war,  lain  within  this  state  and  its 
vicinity,  was  our  market,  and  had  till  now,  rendered  money  plentier 
in  this  state,  than  perhaps  any  other  in  the  union  (which  by  the 
way,  pointed  out  the  propriety  of  taxation  during  that  time)  had 
now  a  quite  contrary  effect ;  the  necessaries  furnished  to,  and  services 
performed  for  them,  instead  of  procuring  the  cash,  procured  nothing 
but  certificates,  and  while  other  states,  at  a  greater  distance  from  the 
scene  of  action,  had  it  in  their  option,  either  to  furnish  the  army  or 
turn  their  labor  and  produce  into  some  other  channel,  more  for  their 
present  interest.  Jersey  had  no  alternative,  furnish  them  we  must, 
or  abide  the  consequence :  Nay,  the  remoter  parts  of  the  state,  out 
of  compassion  to  their  fellow-subjects  in  the  vicinity  of  an  army  in 
want,  could  not  but  furnish  them  with  everything  in  their  power. 
Thus  every  part  of  the  state  is  reduced  from  its  former  plenty  of 
cash,  to  a  real  scarcity,  having  little  else  to  shew  for  the  produce  of 
their  labour  but  certificates.  This  is  not  only  a  burden  in  itself,  but 


1780] 


NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS. 


63 


renders  the  taxes  burdensome. — Had  they  been  laid  while  the  money 
was  plenty,  they  might  have  been  paid  with  ease ;  but  now  that  the 
money  is  drained  from  us,  they  are  paid  (where  at  all  paid)  with 
difficulty  and  murmuring,  many  who  have  certificates  to  a  considerable 
amount,  being  so  bare  of  cash  as  to  be  unable  to  pay,  without  dispos- 
ing of  something  materially  injurious  to  their  families. 

This  then  is  the  present  situation  of  New-Jersey,  drained  of  sup- 
plies, drained  of  cash,  over-run  with  certificates,  and  burdened  with 
taxes  ;  as  a  state  indebted  to  the  continent,  at  the  same  time  that 
the  continent  is  immensely  indebted  to  the  individuals  which  com- 
pose it. 

Perhaps  this  may  be  called  a  dreadful  picture,  but  it  is  neverthe- 
less true,  nor  is  there  anything  in  it  so  very  alarming,  the  people 
have  virtue  enough,  if  our  rulers  have  but  wisdom  and  steadiness,  to 
extricate  us  from  all  these  difficulties,  and  make  us  yet  the  happiest 
people  under  the  sun.  My  next  shall  convey  my  idea  how  this  is  to 
be  done.  SCIPIO. 


TRENTON,  OCTOBER  25. 

Returns  of  Members  of  the  Legislature,  received  since 
our  last. 


Sussex.     Council.     John  C.  Symms,  Esq. 

C    Edmund  Martin,         1 

Assembly.     <     Hugh  Hughes,  >  Esquires. 

(    Doctor  Kenedy,  ) 

Essex.     Council.     James  Caldwell,  Esq. 

(    Caleb  Camp,  ^ 

Assembly.     <     Josiah  Hornblower,  V  Esquires. 

(^    Daniel  Marsh,  J 

Cumberland.     Council.     Jonathan  Elmer,  Esq. 

C    Thomas  Ewing,  ^ 

Assembly.     •<     Samuel  Ogden,  V  Esquires. 

(    Ladis  Walling,  J 


Morris.     Council.     Silas  Condict,  Esq. 

C   William  Winds, 
Assembly.     <     John  Carl, 

(    Col.  Lindsley, 


Esquires. 


64  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [17SO 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  Philadelphia,  dated  20th  inst. 

"Letters  from  the  southward  mention  a  brilliant  enter- 
prize  performed  at  Augusta,  in  Georgia,  by  Col.  Clarke,  of 
South-Carolina,  who  took  a  large  quantity  of  goods  and 
stores  deposited  there  by  the  enemy. 

"A  number  of  troops,  said  to  be  between  two  and  three 
thousand,  have  just  embarked  and  sailed  from  New-York, 
supposed  to  be  bound  to  Cheaseapeake  or  Carolina." 

Congress  have  recommended  that  Thursday  the  27th  of 
December,  be  set  apart  as  a  day  of  thanksgiving  and  prayer, 
throughout  the  United  States  of  America. 

"We  are  informed  by  gentlemen  from  Monmouth,  that  a 
British  fleet,  with  a  considerable  number  of  troops  on 
board,  have  sailed  from  the  Hook  within  a  few  days  past, 
said  to  be  bound  to  South-Carolina. 

JUST  PUBLISHED, 

By  order  of  CONGRESS, 

And  to  be  SOLD  by  the  Printer  hereof, 

PEG CEE DINGS 

OF  A 

Board  of  General  Officers, 

Held  by  Order  of  His  Excellency 
GENERAL  WASHINGTON, 

Respecting 

JOHN  ANDRE, 

Adjutant-General  of  the  British  Army, 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  65 

September  29,  1780. 
To  which  are  Appended, 

The  several  LETTERS  which  passed  to  and  from  Xew-York 
on  the  occasion,  &c. 

TO  BE  SOLD,       . 

A  GOOD  stone  house  in  Trenton,  at  a  corner  very  suitable 
for  publick  business,  being  well  accommodated  with  stores, 
&c.,  a  large  garden,  and  fourteen  acres  of  land  within  half 
a  mile  of  the  town. — Enquire  of  the  printer. 


Fulling-Mill. 


The  subscriber  takes  this  method  to  acquaint  his  old 
customers  and  the  Publick  in  general,  that  he  has  taken  his 
fulling-mill  into  his  own  care,  and  works  in  it  himself,  and 
shall  endeavour  to  give  satisfaction  to  all  who  shall  favour 
him  with  their  custom. 

PHILIP  GBANDIK 

Lebanon,  October  24,  1780. 


Elizabeth-Town  Stage 

THE  subscriber  hereby  informs  the  PUBLICK,  that  he  has 
provided  a  STAGE-WAGGON,  commodiously  fitted  for  pas- 
sengers, and  will  set  out  from  the  sign  of  the  Cross-Keys  at 
the  corner  of  Chestnut  and  Third  streets,  in  Philadelphia, 
on  every  Wednesday  and  Saturday  mornings,  precisely  at 
10  o'clock,  and  proceed  to  Princeton  ;  there  meet  the  stages 
who  have  engaged  to  be  there  from  Elizabeth-Town  and 
Morris-Town,  every  Thursday  at  12  o'clock,  and  Sunday 
evenings.  The  rout  of  this  stage  is  from  the  Cross-Keys 
on  Wednesday  to  Four  Lanes  End;  Thursday  morning 
proceed  to  Trenton,  to  the  house  of  Jacob  G.  Bergen;  there 

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66  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [17^0 

breakfast ;  from  thence  to  Princeton,  to  Col.  Jacob  Hyer's, 
and  return  to  Trenton  the  same  evening ;  from  thence  next 
morning  by  the  Four  Lanes  End  to  Philadelphia ;  Satur- 
day we  proceed  from  Philadelphia  to  Four  Lanes  End, 
Sunday  to  Trenton  by  12  o'clock,  from  thence  to  Princeton ; 
Monday  return  from  Princeton,  dine  at  Trenton,  and  pro- 
ceed to  the  Four  Lanes  End;  Tuesday  morning  to  Phila- 
delphia. 

All  passengers,  packages,  &c.,  are  desired  to  be  at  each 
place  at  the  above  appointed  times. — The  price  for  each 
passenger  from  Philadelphia  to  Princeton  is  Two  Silver 
Dollars,  or  the  exchange  in  Continental,  and  the  same  for 
150  Ib.  baggage. 

The  subscriber  will  purchase  goods  for  gentlemen  at  as 
low  a  rate  as  may  be  had,  and  charge  five  per  cent,  for  pur- 
chasing, and  will  charge  only  half  the  aforesaid  price  for 
the  freight,  provided  he  has  not  full  loads  of  passengers 
and  baggage;  and  in  case  he  has,  he  will  procure  teams 
and  will  carry  the  goods  at  the  same  rate. — All  gentle- 
men and  ladies  who  will  please  to  favour  him  with  their 
custom,  may  depend  on  punctual  attendance,  and  their 
favours  will  be  gratefully  acknowledged  by 
The  Publick's  humble  servant, 

GERSHOM  JOHNSON". 

1ST.  B. — Philadelphia  and  Trenton  papers  may  be  had 
of  said  Johnson. 

October  20,  1780. 

To  be  SOLD  by  the  Subscriber, 

On  Monday,  the  6th  day  of  November  next,  on  the 
premises,  at  publick  auction,  A  HOUSE  and  LOT  of 
LAND,  situate  in  the  city  of  New  Brunswick,  adjoining 
the  old  Presbyterian  Meeting-house,  and  fronting  the 
river  Raritan.  It  is  suitable  for  either  merchant  or 
tradesman.  The  vendue  to  begin  at  ten  o'clock  in  fore- 
noon, when  the  conditions  will  be  made  known  by 

WILLIAM  VANDERILL. 

October  20,  1780. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS. 


Stolen, 

OUT  of  the  pasture  of  the  subscriber,  in  the  night  of 
the  18th  of  October  instant,  two  sorrel  horses,  the 
largest  about  fifteen  hands  and  an  inch  high,  has 
a  blaze  in  his  forehead,  a  grizzled  mane,  and  is  branded 
on  the  buttock  I.  R.  and  is  a  natural  pacer;  the  other 
about  fifteen  hands  high,  has  a  star  in  his  forehead,  no 
brand,  and  is  a  natural  trotter,  but  will  sometimes  pace; 
both  are  stout  bodied  strong  built  horses.  Whoever  will 
secure  the  thief  so  that  he  may  be  brought  to  conviction, 
and  bring  the  horses  to  the  subscriber,  shall  have  a  re- 
ward of  Fifteen  Pounds  current  money  of  New- York,  in 
specie,  or  Five  Pounds,  money  aforesaid,  for  each  of  the 
horses,  exclusive  of  all  reasonable  charges  paid  by 

JOHN  ROMINE. 
Bergen  County,  New  Barbadoes,  Oct.  21,  1780. 


To  be  SOLD  at  VENDUE, 

On  the  premises,  on  Tuesday,  the  21st  November,  at 
two  o'clock  afternoon, 

A    PLANTATION    containing    about     120    acres,     at 
-*--*-      Rocky-Hill,    in    Middlesex    County,    in    possession 
of  Black  Will,   a  free  Negro,  about  a  mile  from 
the  post  road;    about  30  acres  clear,  with  a  log-house, 
frame  barn,  an  excellent  orchard  of  bearing  apple  trees. 
The  payment  ready  money.     Any  further  particulars  may 
be  known  on  the  day  of  sale,  of  William  Coxe. 
November  20th,  1780. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 
A  good  Milch  COW. 

Enquire  of  the  Printer. 
— N.  J.  Gazette:  Vol.  Ill,  No.  148,  October  28,  1780. 


68  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 


CHATHAM,  October  18. 

By  vigilance  of  the  inhabitants,  the  prisoners  mentioned 
in  our  last  to  have  made  their  escape  from  Morris-Town 
gaol,  are  all  since  taken,  except  cne. 

On  Sunday  last  part  of  the  Cork  fleet  arrived  at  Sandy- 
Hook,  the  remainder  being  on  the  coast,  were  momently 
expected. 

— The  New-York  Journal,  and  the  General  Advertiser, 
October  30,  1780.     No.  1901. 


NEW-YORK,  Oct.  30. 

The  following  is  copied  from  the  New-Jersey  Journal 
of  October  25. 

Last  Friday  there  was  about  2000  of  Washington's 
Army,  between  Newark  and  Elizabeth-Town,  with  one- 
Piece  of  Cannon  only;  and  we  hear  they  intended  an  At- 
tack upon  Staten-Island  that  Night,  but  were  prevented 
by  some  unforeseen  Accident. 

— The   New-York    Gazette:    and   the    Weekly  Mercury, 
October  30,  1780.    No.  1515. 


THE  PUBLIC  AEE  HEREBY  INFORMED, 

That  the  Continental  Ferry,  across  Delaware,  at 
Trenton,  is  removed  from  the  Upper  to  the  Lower  Ferry, 
of  which  all  persons  in  public  employ,  having  occasion  to 
pass  the  said  Ferry,  are  to  take  notice:  Where  good 
Boats  and  careful  Attendance  is  continued  for  the  con- 
venience of  private  Travellers  also. — The  Pennsylvania 
Gazette,  November  1,  1780. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  69 

Mountholly,  November  1,  1780. 

All  persons  indebted  to  the  estate  of  Captain  James 
Dillon,  late  of  Mountholly,  deceased,  are  requested  to 
make  immediate  payment;  and  all  those  who  have  de- 
mands against  said  estate  are  desired  to  bring  in  their 
accounts,  within  three  months  from  the  above  date,  in 
order  for  settlement. 

WILLIAM  STEETCH,  Executor. 
The  Pennsylvania  Gazette,  November  1,  1780. 


THE  CRISIS. 
EXTRAOKDINAKT 

(Continued  from  our  last.) 

I  DO  not  imagine  that  an  instance  can  be  produced  in  the  world, 
of  a  country  putting  herself  to  such  an  amazing  charge  to  con- 
quer and  enslave  another  as  Britain  has  done.  The  sum  is  too 
great  for  her  to  think  of  with  any  tolerable  degree  of  temper;  and 
when  we  consider  the  burden  she  sustains  as  well  as  the  disposition 
she  has  shewn,  it  would  be  the  height  of  folly  in  us  to  suppose  that 
she  would  not  reimburse  herself  by  the  most  rapid  means,  had  she 
once  more  America  within  her  power.  With  such  an  oppression  of 
expence,  what  would  an  empty  conquest  be  to  her?  What  relief 
under  such  circumstances  could  she  derive  from  a  victory  without  a 
prize?  It  wyas  money,  it  was  revenue,  she  first  went  to  war  for,  and 
nothing  but  tJiat*wou]A  satisfy  her.  It  is  not  the  nature  of  avarice' 
to  be  satisfied  with  anything  else.  Every  passion  that  acts  upon  man- 
kind has  a  peculiar  mode  of  operation.  Many  of  them  are  temporary 
and  fluctuating ;  they  admit  of  cessation  and  variety :  But  avarice 
is  a  fixed  uniform  passion.  It  neither  abates  of  its  vigour  nor  changes 
its  object ;  and  the  reason  why  it  does  not  is  founded  in  the  nature 
of  things,  for  wealth  has  not  a  ;ival  where  avarice  is  a  ruling  passion. 
One  beauty  may  excel  another,  and  extinguish  from  the  mind  of  a 
man  the  pictured  remembrance  of  a  former  one :  But  wealth  is  the 
phoanix  of  avarice,  and  therefore  cannot  seek  a  new  object,  because 
there  is  not  another  in  the  world. 

I  now  pass  on  to  shew  the  value  of  the  present  taxes,  and  compare 
them  with  the  annual  expence ;  but  this  I  shall  preface  with  a  few 
explanatory  remarks. 

There  are  two  distinct  things  which  make  the  payment  of  taxes 
difficult ;  the  one  is  the  large  and  real  value  of  the  sum  to  be  paid, 
and  the  other  is  the  scarcity  of  the  thing  in  which  the  payment  is  to 


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be  made ;  and  although  these  appear  to  be  one  and  the  same,  they  are 
in  several  instances  not  only  different,  but  the  difficulty  springs  from 
different  causes. 

Suppose  a  tax  was  to  be  laid  equal  to  one  half  of  what  every  man's 
yearly  income  is,  such  a  tax  could  not  be  paid  because  the  property 
could  not  be  spared ;  and  on  the  other  hand,  -suppose  a  very  trifling 
tax  was  laid  to  be  collected  in  pearl*,  such  a  tax  likewise  could  not 
be  paid,  because  it  could  not  be  had.  —Now  any  person  may  see  that 
these  are  distinct  cases,  and  the  latter  of  them  is  a  representation 
of  ours. 

JThat  the  difficulty  cannot  proceed  from  the  former,  that  is,  from 
the  real  value  or  weight  of  the  tax,  is  evident  at  first  view  to  any 
person  who  will  consider  it. 

The  amount  of  the  quota  of  taxes  for  this  state  for  the  present  year. 
1780  (and  so  in  proportion  for  every  vother  state)  is  twenty  millions 
of  dollars,  which  at  seventy  for  one  is  but  sixty-four  thousand  two 
hundred  and  eighty  pounds  three  shillings  sterling,  and  on  an  average 
is  no  more  than  three  shillings  and  five  pence  sterling  per  head  per 
annum,  men,  women  and  children,  or  five  pence  per  head  per  month. 
Now  here  is  a  clear  positive  fact,  that  cannot  be  contradicted,  and 
which  proves  that  the  difficulty  cannot  be  in  the  weight  of  the  tax, 
for  in  itself  it  is  a  trifle  and  far  from  being  adequate  to  our  quota  of 
the  expense  of  the  war.  The  quit  rents  of  one  penny  sterling  per 
acre  on  only  one  half  the  state,  come  to  upwards  of  fifty  thousand 
pounds,  which  is  almost  as  much  as  all  the  taxes  of  the  present  year, 
and  as  those  quit  rents  made  no  part  of  the  taxes  then  paid,  and  are 
now  discontinued,  the  quantity  of  money  drawn  for  publick  service 
this  year,  exclusive  of  the  militia  fines,  which  I  shall  takp  notice  of 
in  the  process  in  this  work,  is  less  than  what  was  paid  and  payable 
in  any  year  preceeding  the  revolution,  and  since  the  last  war ;  what 
I  mean  is  that  the  quit  rents  and  taxes  taken  together  came  to  a 
larger  sum  then  than  the  present  taxes  without  the  quit  rents  do  now. 

My  intention  by  these  arguments  and  calculations  is  to  place  the 
difficulty  to  the  right  cause,  and  shew  that  it  does  ^iot  proceed  from 
the  weight  or  worth  of  the  tax,  but  from  the  scarcity  of  the  medium 
in  which  it  is  paid ;  and  to  illustrate  this  point  still  farther,  I  shall 
now  shew,  that  if  the  tax  of  twenty  millions  of  dollars  was  of  four 
times  the  real  value  it  now  is  or  nearly  so,  which  would  be  about  two 
hundred  and  fifty  thousand  pounds  sterling,  and  would  be  our  full 
quota,  that  this  sum  would  have  been  raised  with  more  ease,  and  less 
felt,  than  the  present  sum  of  only  sixty-four  thousand  two  hundred 
and  eighty  pounds. 

The  convenience  or  inconvenience  of  paying  a  tax  in  money  arises 
from  the  quantity  of  money  that  can  be  spared  out  of  trade. 

When  the  emissions  stopt,  the  continent  was  left  in  possession  of 
two  hundred  millions  of  dollars,  perhaps  as  equally  dispersed  as  it 
was  possible  for  trade  to  do  it.  And  as  no  more  was  to  be  issued, 
the  rise  or  fall  of  prices  could  neither  increase  nor  diminish  the 
quantity.  It  therefore  remained  the  same  through  all  the  fluctuations 
of  trade  and  exchange. 


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Now  had  the  exchange  stood  at  twenty  for  one,  which  was  the  rat2 
Congress  calculated  upon  when  they  quoted  the  states  the  latter  end 
of  last  year,  trade  wovild  have  been  carried  on  for  nearly  four  times 
less  money  than  it  is  now,  and  consequently  the  twenty  millions 
would  have  been  spared  with  much  greater  ease,  and  when  collected 
would  have  been  of  almost  four  times  the  value  they  are  now.  And 
on  the  other  hand,  was  the  depreciation  to  be  at  ninety  or  one  hun- 
dred for  one,  the  quantity  required  for  trade  would  be  more  than  at 
sixty  or  seventy  for  one,  and  though  the  value  of  the  tax  would  be 
less,  the  difficulty  of  sparing  the  money  out  of  trade  would  be  greater. 
And  on  these  facts  and  arguments  I  rest  the  matter,  to  prove,  that 
it  is  not  the  want  of  property,  but  the  scarcity  of  the  medium  by 
which  the  proportion  of  property  for  taxation  is  to  be  measured  out, 
that  makes  the  embarrassment  we  lie  under. — There  is  not  money 
enough,  and  what  is  equally  as  true,  the  people  will  not  let  there  be 
money  enough. 

While  I  am  on  the  subject  of  the  currency,  I  shall  offer  one  remark 
wThich  will  appear  true  to  everybody,  and  can  be  accounted  for  by 
nobody,  which  is,  that  the  better  the  times  were,  the  worse  the  money 
grew :  and  the  worse  the  times  were,  the  better  the  money  stood. 
It  never  depreciated  by  any  advantage  obtained  by  the  enemy. 
The  troubles  of  seventy-six,  and  the  loss  of  Philadelphia  ic 
seventy-seven,  made  no  sensible  impression  on  it,  and  everyone  knows 
that  the  surrender  of  Charlestown  did  not  produce  the  least  alter- 
ation in  the  rate  of  exchange,  which  for  long  before,  and  for  more 
than  three  months  aftei\stood  at  sixty  for  one.  It  seems  as  if  the 
certainty  of  its  being  our  own  made  us  careless  of  its  value,  and  that 
the  most  distant  thoughts  of  losing  it  made  us  hug  it  the  closer,  like 
something  we  were  loth  to  part  with ;  or  that  we  depreciate  it  for 
our  pastime,  which,  when  called  to  seriousness  by  the  enemy,  we 
leave  off  to  renew  again  at  our  leisure. — In  short  our  good  luck 
seem  to  break  us,  and  our  bad  make  us  whole. 

Passing  on  from  this  digression,  I  shall  now  endeavor  to  bring 
into  one  view  the  several  parts  I  have  already  stated,  and  form 
thereon  some  propositions,  and  conclude. 

I  have  placed  before  the  reader,  the  average  tax  per  head  paid  by 
the  people  in  England  ;  which  is  forty  shillings  sterling. 

And  I  have  shewn  the  rate  on  an  average  per  head,  which  will 
defray  all  the  expence  of  the  war  to  us,  and  support  the  several  gov- 
ernments without  running  the  country  into  debt,  which  is  thirteen 
shillings  and  four-pence. 

I  have  shewn  what  the  peace  establishment  may  be  conducted  for, 
viz.  an  eighth  part  of  what  it  would  be,  if  under  the  government  of 
Britain. 

And  I  have  likewise  shewn  what  the  average  per  head  of  the 
present  taxes  are,  namely,  three  shillings  and  five-pence  sterling,  or 
five-pence  per  month ;  and  that  their  whole  yearly  value  in  sterling 
is  only  sixty-four  thousand  two  hundred  and  eighty  pounds.  Whereas 
our  quota  to  keep  the  payments  equal  with  the  expences,  is  two 
hundred  and  fifty  thousand  pounds.  Consequently  there  is  a  de- 
ficiency of  one  hundred  and  eighty-five  thousand  seven  hundred  and 


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twenty  pounds,  and  the  same  proportion  of  defect,  according  to  the 
several  quotas,  happens  in  every  other  state.  And  this  defect  is  the 
cause  why  the  army  has  been  so  indifferently  fed,  cloathed  and  paid. 
It  is  the  cause,  likewise,  of  the  nerveless  state  of  the  campaign,  and 
the  insecurity  of  the  country.  Now  if  a  tax  equal  to  thirteen  and 
four  pence  per  head,  will  remove  all  these  difficulties,  make  people 
secure  in  their  homes,  leave  them  to  follow  the  business  of  their 
stores  and  farms  unmolested,  and  not  only  keep  out,  but  drive  out 
the  enemy  from  the  country ;  and  if  the  neglect  of  raising  this  sum 
will  let  them  in. .and  produce  the  evils  which  might  be  prevented,  on 
which  side,  I  ask,  does  the  wisdom,  interest  and  policy  lie?  Or 
rather  would  it  not  be  an  insult  to  reason  to  put  the  question?  The 
sum  when  portioned  out  according  "to  the  several  abilities  of  the 
people,  can  hurt  no  one,  but  an  inroad  from  the  enemy  ruins  hun- 
dreds of  families. 

Look  at  the  destruction  done  in  this  city.  The  many  houses  totally 
destroyed,  and  others  damaged ;  the  waste  of  fences  in  the  country 
round  it.  besides  the  plunder  of  furniture,  forage  and  provision.  I 
do  not  suppose  that  half  a  million  sterling  would  reinstate  the  suf- 
ferers, and  does  this,  I  ask,  bear  any  proportion  to  the  expence  that 
would  make  us  secure.  The  damage  on  an  average  is  at  least  ten 
pounds  sterling  per  head,  which  is  as  much  as  thirteen  shillings  and 
four-pence  per  head  comes  to  for  fifteen  years.  The  same  has  hap- 
pened on  the  frontiers,  and  in  the  Jersies,  New- York,  and  other 
places  where  the  enemy  has  been,  Carolina  and  Georgia  is  likewise 
suffering  the  same  fate. 

That  the  people  generally  do  not  understand  the  insufficiency  of 
the  taxes  to  carry  on  the  war,  is  evident,  not  only  from  common 
observation,  but  from  the  construction  of  several  petitions,  which 
were  presented  to  the  assembly  of  this  state,  against  the  recom- 
mendation of  Congress  of  the  18th  of  March  last,  for  taking  up  and 
funding  the  present  currency  at  forty  for  one,  and  issuing  new  money 
in  its  stead.  The  prayer  of  the  petition  was,  that  the  currency  -might 
be  appreciated  by  taxes  (meaning  the  present  taxes)  and  that  part  of 
the  taxes  be  applied  to  the  support  of  the  army,  if  the  army  could 
not  be  otherwise  supported.  Now  it  could  not  have  been  possible  for 
such  a  petition  to  have  been  presented,  had  the  petitioners  known, 
that  so  far  from  part  of  the  taxes  being  sufficient  for  the  support  of 
the  army,  the  whole  of  them  falls  three-fourths  short  of  the  year's 
expences. 

Before  I  proceed  to  propose  methods  by  which  a  sufficiency  of 
money  may  be  raised,  I  shall  take  a  short  review  of  the  general  state 
of  the  country. 

Notwithstanding  the  weight  of  the  war.  the  ravages  of  the  enemy, 
and  the  obstructions  she  has  thrown  in  the  way  of  trade  and  com- 
merce, so  soon  does  a  young  country  outgrow  misfortune,  that 
America  has  already  surmounted  many  that  once  heavily  oppressed 
her.  For  the  first  year  or  two  of  the  war,  we  were  shut  up  within 
our  ports, ,  scarce  venturing  to  look  towards  the  ocean.  Now  our 
rivers  are  beautified  with  large  and  valuable  vessels,  our  stores  filled 
with  merchandize,  and  the  produce  of  the  country  has  a  ready  market, 


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and  an  advantageous  price.  Gold  and  silver,  that  for  awhile  seemed 
to  have  retreated  again  within  the  bowels  of  the  earth,  is  once  more 
risen  into  circulation,  and  every  day  adds  new  strength  to  trade, 
•commerce,  and  agriculture.  In  a  pamphlet  written  by  Sir  John 
Dalrymple,  and  dispersed  in  America  in  the  year  1775,  he  asserted, 
that,  two  twenty  gun  ships,  nay,  says  he,  the  tenders  of  those  ships, 
stationed  between  Albemarle  sound  and  Cheasapeak  bay,  would  shut 
up  the  trade  of  America,  for  600  miles.  How  little  did  Sir  John 
Dalrymple  know  of  the  abilities  of  America ! 

While  under  the  government  of  Britain,  the  trade  of  this  country 
was  loaded  with  restrictions.  It  was  only  a  few  foreign  ports  she 
was  allowed  to  sail  to.  Now  it  is  otherwise  ;  and  allowing  that  the 
•quantity  of  trade  is  but  half  what  it  was  before  the  war,  the  case 
must  shew  the  vast  advantage  of  an  open  trade,  because  the  present 
quantity  under  her  restrictions  could  not  support  itself ;  from  which 
I  infer,  that  if  half  the  quantity  without  the  restrictions  can  bear 
itself  up  nearly,  if  not  quite,  as  well  as  the  whole  when  subject  to 
them,  how  prosperous  must  the  condition  of  America  be  when  the 
whole  shall  return  open  with  all  the  world.  By  trade  I  do  not  mean 
the  employment  of  a  merchant  only,  but  the  whole  interest  and  busi- 
ness of  the  country  taken  collectively. 

It  is  not  so  much  my  intention,  by  this  publication,  to  propose 
particular  plans  for  raising  money,  as  it  is  to  shew  the  necessity 
•and  advantages  to  be  derived  from  it.  My  principal  design  is  to  form 
the  disposition  of  the  people  to  such  measures  which  I  am  fully  per- 
suaded is  their  interest  and  duty  to  adopt,  and  which  needs  no  other 
force  to  accomplish  them  than  the  force  of  being  felt.  But  as  every 
hint  may  be  useful,  I  shall  tftrow  out  a  sketch,  and  leave  others  to 
•make  such  improvements  upon  it  as  to  them  may  appear  reasonable. 

The  annual  sum  wanted  is  two  millions,  and  the  average  rate  in 
which  it  falls  is  thirteen  shillings  and  four-pence  per  head. 

Suppose  then  that  we  raise  half  the  sum  and  sixty  thousand  pounds 
•over.  The  average  rate  thereof  will  be  seven  shillings  per  head. 

In  this  case  we  shall  have  half  the  supply  wre  want,  and  an 
annual  fund  of  sixty  thousand  pounds  whereon  to  borrow  the  other 
million  ;  because  sixty  thousand  pounds  is  the  interest  of  a  million 
at  six  per  cent,  and  if  at  the  end  of  another  year  we  should  be  obliged 
"by  the  continuance  of  the  war,  to  borrow  another  million,  the  taxes 
"will  be  increased  to  seven  shillings  and  six-pence  ;  and  thus  for  every 
million  borrowed,  an  additional  tax  equal  to  six-pence  per  head  must 
be  levied. 

The  sum  then  to  be  raised  next  year  will  be  one  million  and  sixty 
thousand  pounds :  One  half  of  which  I  would  propose  should  be 
raised  by  duties  on  imported  goods  and  prize  goods,  and  the  other 
half  by  a  tax  on  landed  property  and  houses,  or  such  other  means  as 
•each  state  may  devise. 

But  as  the  duties  on  imports  and  prize  goods  must  be  the  same  in 
«11  the  states,  therefore  the  rate  per  cent,  or  in  what  other  form  the 
•duty  shall  be  laid,  must  be  ascertained,  and  regulated  by  Congress, 
and  ingrafted  in  that  form  into  the  law  of  each  state ;  and  the 


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monies  arising  therefrom  carried  into  the  treasury  of  each  state. 
The  duties  to  be  paid  in  gold  or  silver. 

There  are  many  reasons  why  a  duty  on  imports  is  the  most  con- 
venient duty  or  tax  that  can  be  collected,  one  of  which  is,  because 
the  whole  is  payable  in  a  few  places  in  a  country,  and  it  likewise 
operates  with  the  greatest  ease  and  equality,  because  as  every  one 
pays  in  proportion  to  what  he  consumes,  so  people  in  general  con- 
sume in  proportion  to  what  they  can  afford,  and  therefore  the  tax  is 
regulated  by  the  abilities  which  every  man  supposes  himself  to  have,, 
or  in  other  words  every  man  becomes  his  own  assessor,  and  pays  by 
a  little  at  a  time  when  it  suits  him  to  buy.  Besides,  it  is  a  tax 
which  people  may  pay  or  let  alone  by  not  consuming  the  articles  ; 
and  though  the  alternative  may  have  no  influence  on  their  conduct, 
the  power  of  choosing  is  an  agreeable  thing  to  the  mind.  For  my 
own  part,  it  would  be  a  satisfaction  to  me,  was  there  a  duty  on  all 
sorts  of  liquors  during  the  war,  as  in  my  idea  of  things,  it  would  be 
an  addition  to  the  pleasure  of  society,  to  know,  that  when  the  health 
of  the  army  goes  round,  a  few  drops  from  every  glass  become  theirs. 
How  often  have  I  heard  an  emphatical  wish  almost  accompanied 
with  a  tear,  "Oh,  that  our  poor  jelloics  in  the  field  had  some  of  tlii*!" 

Why  then  need  we  suffer  under  a  fruitless  sympathy,  when  there 
is  a  way  to  enjoy  both  the  wish  and  the  entertainment  at  once? 

But  the  great  national  policy  of  putting  a  duty  upon  imports  is  that 
it  either  keeps  the  foreign  trade  in  our  own  hands  or  draws  something, 
for  the  defence  of  the  country  from  every  foreigner  who  participates 
it  with  us. 

Thus  much  for  the  first  half  of  the  taxes,  and  as  each  state  will 
best  devise  means  to  raise  the  other  half,  I  shall  confine  my  remarks 
to  the  resources  of  this  state. 

The  quota  then  of  this  state  of  one  million  and  sixty  thousand 
pounds  will  be  one  hundred  and  thirty-three  thousand  two  hundred 
and  fifty  pounds,  the  half  of  whis  is  sixty-six  thousand  six  hundred 
and  twenty-five  pounds ;  and  supposing  one  fourth  part  of  Pennsyl- 
vania inhabited,  then  a  tax  of  one  bushel  of  wheat  on  every  twenty 
acres  of  land,  one  with  another,  would  produce  the  sum,  and  all  the- 
present  taxes  to  cease.  Whereas  the  tythes  of  the  bishops  and  clergy 
in  England,  exclusive  of  the  taxes,  are  upwards  of  half  a  bushel  of 
wheat  on  every,  single  acre  of  land,  good  and  bad,  throughout  the 
nation. 

In  a  former  part  of  this  paper  I  mentioned  the  militia  fines,  but 
reserved  speaking  to  the  matter,  which  I  shall  nowr  do :  The  ground 
I  shall  put  it  upon  is,  that  two  millions  sterling  a  year  will  support  a 
sufficient  army,  and  all  the  expences  of  war  and  government,  without 
having  recource  to  the  inconvenient  method  of  continually  calling  men 
from  their  employments,  which  of  all  others  is  the  most  expensive 
and  the  least  substantial.  I  consider  the  revenue  created  by  taxes  as 
the  first  and  principal  thing,  and  fines  only  as  secondary  and  accidental 
things.  It  was  not  the  intention  of  the  militia  law  to  apply  the  militia 
fines  to  anything  else  but  the  support  of  the  militia,  neither  do  they 
produce  any  revenue  to  the  state,  yet  these  fines  amount  to  more  than- 
all  the  taxes  ;  for  taking  the  muster  role  to  be  sixty  thousand  men,. 


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the  fine  on  forty  thousand  who  may  not  attend,  will  be  sixty  thousand 
pounds  sterling,  and  those  who  muster  will  give  up  a  portion  of  time 
equal  to  half  that  sum,  and  if  the  eight  classes  should  be  called  within 
the  year,  and  one  third  turn  out,  the  fine  on  the  remaining  forty  thou- 
sand would  amount  to  seventy-two  millions  of  dollars,  besides  the 
fifteen  shillings  on  every  hundred  pounds  property,  and  the  charge  of 
seven  and  a  half  per  cent,  for  collecting  in  certain  instances,  which  on 
the  whole  would  be  upwards  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  pounds 
sterling. 

Now  if  those  very  fines  disable  the  country  from  raising  a  sufficient 
revenue  without  producing  an  equivalent  advantage,  would  it  not  be 
to  the  ease  and  interest  of  all  parties  to  increase  the  revenue  in  the 
manner  I  have  proposed,  or  any  better,  if  a  better  can  be  devised,  and 
cease  the  operation  of  the  fines.  I  would  still  keep  the  militia  as  an 
organized  body  of  men,  and  should  there  be  a  real  necessity  to  call 
them  forth,  pay  them  out  of  the  proper  revenues  of  the  state,  and  in- 
crease the  taxes  a  third  or  fourth  per  cent,  on  those  wh6  did  not 
attend.  My  limits  will  not  allow  me  to  go  farther  into  this  matter, 
which  I  shall  therefore  close  with  this  remark ;  that  fines  are,  of  all 
modes  of  revenue,  the  most  unsuited  to  the  mind  of  a  free  country. 
When  a  man  pays  a  tax,  he  knows  the  public  necessity  requires  it,  and 
therefore  feels  a  pride  in  discharging  his  duty  ;  but  a  fine  seems  an 
atonement  for  neglect  of  duty,  and  of  consequence  is  paid  with  dis- 
credit, and  frequently  levied  with  severity. 

I  have  now  only  one  subject  more  to  speak  to,  with  which  I  shall 
conclude,  which  is,  the  resolve  of  Congress  of  the  18th  of  March  last, 
for  taking  up  and  funding  the  present  currency  at  forty  for  one,  and 
issuing  new  money  in  its  stead. 

Every  one  knows  I  am  not  the  flatterer  of  Congress,  but  in  this 
instance  they  are  right;  and  if  that  measure  is  supported,  the  cur- 
rency will  acquire  a  value  which  without  it,  it  will  not.  But  this  is 
not  all :  It  will  give  relief  to  the  finances  until  such  time  as  they  can 
be  properly  arranged,  and  save  the  country  from  being  immediately 
double  taxed  under  the  present  mode.  In  short,  support  that  measure, 
and  it  will  support  you.  I  have  now  waded  through  a  tedious  course 
of  difficult  business,  and  over  an  untrodden  path.  The  subject  on 
every  point  it  could  be  viewed  was  entangled  with  perplexities,  and 
enveloped  in  obscurity,  yet  such  are  the  resources  of  America,  that 
she  wants  nothing  but  system  to  insure  success. 

COMMON  SENSE. 

Philadelphia  October  4,  1780. 

(Postscript  to  be  inserted  in  our  next.) 


76          NEW  JERSEY  IX  THE  REVOLUTION.      [1780 


[Xo.  II.] 

To  the  LEGISLATURE  of  the  State  of  NEW-JERSEY. 
GENTLEMEN, 

I  COME  now  to  perform  my  promise,  and  to  do  what  but  for  the 
bounds  prescribed  me,  I  should  have  done  in  my  last. 
Congress,  at  a  time  when  they  supposed  the  par  of  exchange 
(or  in  other  words  the  quantum  of  depreciation)  throughout  the  United 
States,  taken  collectively,  was  at  about  forty  for  one,  with  design  to 
give  stability  to  their  currency,  and  in  some  measure  to  supply  their 
treasury,  determined  on  a  new  emission  of  specie  value ;  to  secure 
which  from  depreciation,  they  set  a  triple  guard  upon  it,  resolving, 
1st,  That  none  of  it  should  be  emitted  in  any  state,  until  that  state 
had  established  a  fund  for  the  redemption  of  the  quota  assigned  to  it. 
2d,  That  it  should  bear  an  annual  interest  of  five  per  cent,  to  be  paid 
in  specie,  or  bills  of  exchange  on  our  Commissioners  in  Europe.  3d, 
To  prevent  any  depreciation  arising  from  the  quantity,  it  was  deter- 
mined that  no  more  than  a  certain  specified  sum  should  be  emitted, 
and  not  even  that,  but  upon  a  proportionable  quantity  of  the  old 
being  first  brought  in  and  destroyed. 

Thus  circumstanced,  nothing  but  the  unaccountable  caprice  incident 
to  human  nature  in  certain  situations  (and  I  believe  not  that)  can 
depreciate  it. 

I  know  much  has  been  said  against  this  measure  as  being  a  breach 
of  public  faith,  and  have  often  heard  persons  rail  against  Congress 
for  having  broke  faith  with  the  people.  I  confess  my  idea  has  always 
been  that  Congress  were  the  representatives  of  the  people,  and  there- 
fore that  the  Congress  and  the  People  were  the  same,  and  that  the 
acts  of  the  on-e  were  the  acts  of  the  other,  consequently  to  say  that 
the  Congress  had  broke  faith  with  the  people,  was,  in  other  words,  to 
say  that  the'  people  had  broke  faith  with  themselves,  were  deceiving 
and  imposing  upon  themselves,  which  is  absurd. 

The  idea  that  Congress  and  People  are  two  distinct  bodies,  pur- 
suing separate  interests,  is,  I  know,  a  favourite  one  with  our  enemies. 
and  by  them  inculcated  on  us  by  every  art  in  their  power.  Admitting 
this  plea,  let  us  look  back  to  our  first  associations,  on  the  faith  of 
which  Congress  have  acted ;  we  there  in  the  most  solemn  manner 
pledged  our  lives  and  fortunes,  and  everything  we  held  dear  and 
sacred,  to  support  them  in  such  measures  as  should  appear  to  them 
necessary  for  maintaining  and  securing  the  rights  and  privileges  of 
America.  One  of  the  measures  then  absolutely  necessary  was  striking 
bills  of  credit,  on  this  our  faith  so  solemnly  pledged.  Have  wo  then, 
agreeably  to  these  our  obligations,  thus  freely  entered  into,  supported 
these  bills?  or  have  we  through  interested  (not  to  say  worse)  motives, 
spight  of  every  effort  of  Congress,  spight  of  our  own  plighted  faith, 
not  only  suffered  them  to  depreciate,  but  actually  assisted  in  the  de- 


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preciation,  and  thereby  deceived  Congress  in  their  just  expectations, 
and  disappointed  them  in  their  best  endeavours.  If  this  then  is  the 
case,  and  deny  it  who  can,  for  justice  sake  let  the  blame  lie  at  the 
right  door,  and  Congress  be  forever  acquitted. 

But  to  return  from  this  digression  to  the  consequences  which  the 
resolutions  for  a  new  emission  had  on  this  state,  permit  me  to  observe, 
that  from  a  paucity  incident  to  popular  governments,,  it  was  long  ere 
our  legislature  came  into  the  measure  to  effect ;  during  which  time 
the  continental  treasury  became  more  and  more  exhausted,  while  we 
were  still  performing  services  which  they  were  unable  to  pay  us  for, 
and  furnishing  supplies  for  which  we  ourselves  undertook  to  pay, 
thereby  emptying  our  own  coffers  with  little  prospect  of  again  filling 
them,  except  with  certificates,  and  rendering  us  unable  to  procure  a 
sufficient  quantity  of  the  old  emissions  to  exchange  for  the  new.  But 
what  had  a  particular  effect  on  the  new  emission  was,  that  during 
this  interval  the  old  had  considerably  depreciated,  and  our  legislature, 
with  a  mistaken  view  of  adhering  strictly  to  the  resolution  of  Congress, 
fixed  the  exchange  between  the  new  money  and  continental  at  one  for 
forty,  and  yet  in  the  same  law  declare  the  new  equal  in  value  with 
gold  and  silver ;  here  then  is  a  direct  contradiction,  the  exchange  be- 
tween gold  and  silver  and  continental  being  upwards  of  sixty  for  one 
when  the  new  money  first  made  its  appearance ;  the  new  emission 
therefore  was  at  first  as  it  were  suspended  in  equilibrio  between  the 
two ;  but  as  the  taxes  were  levied  in  continental,  and  the  new  to  be 
received  but  as  one  for  forty  in  them,  it  was  easy  to  foresee  which  scale 
must  preponderate.  Accordingly  the  new  is  by  common  consent,  as 
well  as  by  law,  fixed  at  forty  times  the  value  of  continental;  whereas 
it  is  evident  that  on  the  same  principles,  had  it  not  been  for  the  un- 
lucky forty-for-one  clause,  that  is,  had  it  been  in  nowise  connected 
with  continental  but  received  in  taxes  at  the  specie  exchange,  it  would 
with  the  same  ease  have  been  fixed  at  specie  value.  What  I  would 
therefore  propose  is,  that  the  law  should  be  amended,  and  that  specie 
should  be  the  standard-value  of  the  new  emission,  and  that  it  should 
be  received  in  continental  taxes  at  the  specie  exchange  be  that  what 
it  may,  for  it  appears  to  me  the  greatest  absurdity  to  suppose  that  in 
private  dealings  it  should  pass  at  one  value,  in  public  at  another.  This 
I  conceive  would  likewise  effectually  take  off  the  odium  of  "breach  of 
public  faith"  from  the  measure. 

I  come  now  to  consider  the  case  of  the  certificates  ;  and  here  I  have 
already  observed,  that  the  state  is  considerably  indebted  to  the  con- 
tinent, if  then  we  could  take  on  us  the  debts  due  from  the  continent 
to  individuals,  and  get  credited  for  the  amount  with  Congress,  we 
should  thereby  not  only  pay  off  our  present  debt  to  them,  but  stand 
considerably  in  advance,  for  which  we  should  be  entitled  to  interest. 
This,  considering  the  present  situation  of  our  treasury,  may  be  thought 
a  romantic  scheme,  but  perhaps  on  further  consideration,  it  may  not 
be  found  so  wild  as  at  first  it  would  appear,  nay,  so  far  from  being 
difficult,  it  may,  instead  of  laying  any  further  burdens  On  the  people, 
be  made  a  considerable  easement  to  the  present ;  the  plan  is  simple, 
the  path  is  plain.  What  is  the  complaint  of  the  people  against  the 
certificates?  That  they  cannot  with  them  pay  their  debts,  their  taxes, 


78          NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.      [1780 

&c.  Now  to  whom  are  these  debts,  these  taxes  to  be  paid?  We  are 
told,  and  most  of  us  know  very  well,  that  there  are  immense  debts  due 
to  the  states  from  the  commissioners  and  purchasers  of  forfeited 
estates,  and  from  several  counties  on  account  of  arrears  of  taxes,  &c. 
The  whole  of  these  therefore  might  be  received  in  certificates,  valued 
according  to  their  dates  and  the  time  when  the  debts  and  taxes  be- 
came due,  and  to  discharge  the  remaining  certificates,  let  a  sufficient 
sum  be  struck  in  bills  of  credit  by  this  state  on  the  same  foundation 
as  those  emitted  during  the  last  war,  and  to  be  redeemed,  in  shorter 
periods,  in  the  same  manner. 

Two  objections  will,  I  foresee,  be  made  to  this  scheme. 

1.  That  the  credit  of  the  state  is  not  sufficient  to  venture  so  large 
a  draught  upon  it. 

I  answer,  that  during  the  last  war  no  doubt  was  made  of  our  ability 
to  redeem  any  sum  which  we  might  find  necessary  to  emit ;  and  I  am 
bold  to  say,  that  New-Jersey,  even  in  its  present  exhausted  state,  is 
able  to  support  double  the  amount  of  the  then  emissions,  and  if  we 
may  look  forward  to  the  end  of  the  war,  and  anticipate  the  advantages 
which  we  shall  probably  then  enjoy,  I  think  no  man  will  ever  doubt 
the  credit  of  the  state. 

_  2.  The  second  objection  is,  that  we  shall  be  over-run  with  the  quan- 
tity of  money,  and  that  it  will  depreciate  merely  from  that  circum- 
stance. 

To  which  I  answer,  the*  quantity  will  be  trifling  to  what  we  should 
at  first  blush  suppose,  when  those  countless  thousands  are  reduced  to 
their  real  value,  (which  every  holder  of  a  certificate  would  gladly 
receive)  the  vision  disappears,  and  we  shall  find  no  such  shocking 
addition  to  our  current  cash,  especially  when  we  consider  the  present 
scarcity  and  the  constant  calls  we  shall  be  under  the  necessity  of 
making  to  enable  us  to  furnish  our  supplies  for  the  army. 

To  illustrate  these  observations  I  shall  venture  at  a  calculation,  and 
suppose  that  after  the  debts  due  to  the  state  are  fully  paid,  the  re- 
maining certificates  will  amount  to  twenty  millions  of  dollars,  f:nd  that 
the  rate  of  exchange  at  which  they  ought  to  be  paid,  taking  chem  col- 
lectively, is  as  one  for  fifty,  then  say  this  sum  shall  be  redeemed 
within  ten  years,  the  amount  is  fifteen  thousand  pounds  annually ;  a 
sum  barely  equal  to  the  late  sinking  fund,  and  less  by  thirty-five  thou- 
sand pounds  than  was  in  circulation  on  the  same  footing  at  the  end  of 
the  last  war,  with  the  advantage  of  being  redeemed  in  three  years  less 
time ;  and  will  any  person  suppose  the  credit  of  this  state  insufficient 
for  that  sum,  or  that  the  quantity  can  cause  a  depreciation. 

Thus  have  I  attempted  to  shew  the  cause  of  our  distresses,  and  to 
point  out  a  remedy.  If  I  am  wrong  in  the  first  instance,  I  am  prob- 
ably so  in  the  last.  However  it  is  conceeded  on  all  hands,  that  in  our 
present  situation,  something  decisive  must  be  done.  If  a  better  plan 
should  be  proposed,  by  all  means  embrace  it ;  if  not,  and  it  shall 
appear  "to  you  that  the  present  will  fix  a  standard  to  our  long  fluctu- 
ating cash ;  Will  give  it  stability  and  currency ;  will  discharge  our 
debt  to  the  continent,  and  put  us  on  a  respectful  footing  there  ;  will 
ease  the  people  from  the  burthen  of  their  certificates ;  will  enable 
them  to  pay  not  only  their  arrears  of  taxes  and  debts  due  to  the  state, 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  79 

but  also  their  debts  to  and  contracts  with  each  other,  and  thereby 
enable  all  to  pay  their  current  taxes  without  distress ;  if  it  will  not 
only  do  this,  but  enable  us  in  future  to  purchase  our  supplies  for  the 
army  with  cash,  then  you  will  not  hesitate  a  moment  to  adopt  it.  "To 
linger  is  to  die  ;"  indecision  will  be  our  ruin.  While  the  legislature 
are  wavering  and  uncertain,  the  people  will  be  doubtful  and  sus- 
picious. We  are  at  that  crisis  when,  unless  some  effectual  remedy  is 
applied,  we  perish.  We  are  at  that  crisis  when  a  proper  remedy 
skillfully  applied,  will  perform  wonders,  and  soon  raise  the  body  politic 
to  fresh  life  and  vigour. 

SCIPIO. 

CHATHAM,  October  25. 
Extract  of  a  letter  from  West-Point,  dated  Oct.  19. 

"We  have  no  material  news  at  this  post.  The  trifling 
descent  of  the  Indians,  and  their  possessing  themselves 
of  Forts  George  and  Anne,  I  dare  say  you  have  heard; 
as  also  of  General  Greene's  leaving  us  to  take  the  com- 
mand of  the  Southern  army,  and  General  Heath's  suc- 
ceeding him.  The  garrison  is  exceeding  healthy  and 
well  supplied,  so  that  were  the  enemy  disposed  to  avail 
themselves  of  any  advantages  which  the  particular  in- 
formation of  Arnold's  perfidy  has  afforded  them,  I  am 
confident  they  would  not  be  able." 


TKENTON,  NOVEMBER  1. 

Conclusion  of  the  returns  of  members  of  the  legisla- 
ture, received  since  our  last. 

-Bergen.      Council,     Theunis     Dey,     Esq.      Assembly, 
Peter  Wilson,  Isaach  Blanch  and  Gabriel  Ogden,  Esqrs. 

Cape-May.  Council,  Jesse  Hand,  Esq.  Assembly, 
Joseph  Hildreth,  Jeremiah  Eldredge  and  Matthew  Whil- 
den,  Esqrs. 

Tuesday  sennight  the  Honourable  the  Legislature,  met 
at  this  place,  agreeably  to  the  constitution. — At  the  open- 
ing of  the  session  the  Honourable  John  Stevens,  Esq., 
was  re-chosen  \^ice-President  of  the  Legislative  Council, 


80  XEW    JEESEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

and  the  Honourable  Josiah  Homblower  was  chosen 
Speaker  of  the  House  of  Assembly. 

Yesterday  at  a  joint-meeting  of  the  Honourable  Leg- 
islative Council  and  Assembly  His  Excellency  William 
Livingston,  Esq.  was  re-elected  Governor  and  Captain- 
General,  for  the  ensuing  year:  and  John  Stevens,  jun. 
Esq.  was  re-appointed  Treasurer. 

Two  Qf  the  prizes  to  the  Saratoga  sloop  of  war,  men- 
tioned in  our  last,  are  arrived  at  Philadelphia,  and  a 
third  is  said  to  be  in  Cheaseapeak-Bay. 

Congress  have  promoted  Brigadier  Samuel  Holden 
Parsons,  of  Connecticut,  to  the  rank  of  Major-General  in 
the  army  of  the  United  States. 


Extract  of  a  letter  from  Goslien,  dated  October  26. 

"We  have  been  ^n  alarm  here  since  the  20th  instant, 
by  occasion  of  the  Indians  and  Tories  making  depreda- 
tions above  Albany,  &c.  but  it  is  now  over,  as  our  worthy 
Governor  Clinton  has  had  a  bloody  engagement  with  the 
enemy,  and  totally  defeated  them,  taking  their  baggage 
and  six  field  pieces — many  have  fallen  on  both  sides. — 
I  have  to  regret  the  loss  of  some  brave  fellows — we  ex- 
pect further  particulars  every  moment." 

Authentic  advices  from  the  southward  announce  the 
arrival  of  a  number  of  the  enemy's  ships  in  Cheaseapeak- 
Bay.  This  is  probably  the  fleet  which  lately  sailed  from 
New- York.  The  letters  add,  that  they  were  landing  their 
troops  near  Portsmouth  in  Virginia.  We  have  received 
no  further  particulars. 


A  DIALOGUE  between  SATAN  and  ARNOLD. 


Satan  to  Arnold,  my  worthy  good  fellow; 
"     I  love  you  much  better  than  ever  I  did: 
"You  live  like  a  prince,  with  HAL  may  get  mel- 
low; 
"But  mind  that  you  both,  do  just  what  I  bid. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  81 

"Quoth  Arnold  to  Satan,  my  friend  do  not  doubt  me; 
"     I  will  strictly  adhere  to  all  your  great  views : 
"To  you  I'm  devoted,  with  all  things  about  me : 
"     You'll  permit  me  I  hope,  to  die  in  my  shoes." 


JUST  PUBLISHED 

And  to  be  sold  Wholesale   and.  Retail,   at  the  Printing- 
Office  in  Trenton, 

THE  NEW-JERSEY 

ALMANAC, 
For  the  Year  of  our  Lord  1781. 

Containing  a  Variety  of  useful  and  entertaining  Matter 
in  Prose  and  Verse. 

Where  also  may  be  had,  PARCHMENT 
Of  the  first  Quality. 

SHORE     SALT, 

Made   COARSE   for   packing   of  MEAT, 

May  be  had  of 
JOHN    POPE, 

At  his  STORE  near  the  Black-Horse,  in  Mansfield  town- 
ship, Burlington  county,  Either  in  large  or  small  quanti- 
ties, and  on  reasonable  terms. 
October  23,  1780. 

6 


82'          NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1780 

STOLEN"  from  the  subscriber,  near  the  Great  Falls  in 
Bergen   county,   on   Thursday   night   last,   a   likely 
dark  bay  MARE,   about  15  hands  high,  a  nick'd 
tail,  and  some  white  hair  where  she  is  nick'd;    the  hind 
feet  white  round  the  hoofs,  one  foot  a  little  more  white 
than  the  other ;    branded  with  I  W  on  the  right  shoulder, 
but  not  very  plain.     Whoever  takes  up  and  secures  the 
said  mare,  shall  have  TEN"  hard  DOLLARS  reward,  and 
all  reasonable  charges,  paid  by  me. 

JACOB  VAN  WINCKEL. 
October  23'd,  1780. 


TDROKE  out  of  Mr.  John  Smith's  pasture  at  Maiden- 
-*~^  head,  a  large  sorrel  HORSE,  about  15  and  a  half 
•  hands  high,  a  natural  trotter,  his  hind  feet  white, 
and  has  a  remarkable  lump  or  bunch  on  his  near  hind 
gambole.  Whoever  takes  up  and  delivers  the  said  horse 
to  Mr.  Bergen,  at  Trenton,  David  Olden,  at  Princeton, 
or  Major  Clarkson  Edgar,  at  New-Brunswick,  shall  be 
reasonably  rewarded  by 

BENJAMIN  MANNING. 
Trenton,  October  31,  1780. 


A  LL  persons  indebted  to  the  estate  of  Jonathan  Fur- 
•"^*     man,  deceased,  are  requested  to  make  payment  in 
one  month   from   this   date,   or  they   will   be   pro- 
ceeded against  as  the  law  directs:     And  those  who  have 
any  just  demands  against  said  estate,  are  desired  to  bring 
in  their  accounts  for  settlement. 
Richard  Furman    )  Execu- 
Robert  Furman       )     tors. 
Trenton,  October  27,  1780. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  83 

TO    BE     SOLD, 

By  the  subscriber,  living  in  Somerset  county,  near  Rocky- 
Hill, 

A    Likely  hearty  Negro  Man,  about  26  or  27  years  of 
^"*-      age,    and   understands   all   sorts   of   farming  busi- 
ness, and  is  a  very  good  tanner.     He  will  be  dis- 
posed of  for  1301.  in  specie,  or  the  value  thereof  in  cur- 
rent money. 

REOLOF  VAN  DIKE. 
October  30,  1780. 

TO  BE  SOLD  at  public  vendue,  if  not  disposed  of  at 
private  sale,  on  Monday  the  27th  November  in- 
stant, a  very  commodious  Dwellinghouse  and  Lot, 
as  also  a  very  valuable  Tanyard,  containing  15  Vats,  a 
large    barkhouse,    millhouse,    currying    and    shoemakers 
shops;    together  with  every  other  necessary  for  carrying 
on  the  tanning  and  currying  business — all  lying  in  Allen- 
town.     For  further  particulars   apply  to  the  subscriber 
on  the  premises. 

JAMES  ROGERS. 
—N.  J.  Gazette,  Vol.  III.,  No.  149,  November  1,  1780. 

NEW-YORK,  November  1. 

By  the  Sukey  we  are  informed  of  the  landing  of  the 
troops,  under  the  command  of  Major-General  Leslie,  who 
left  Sandy-Hook  about  a  fortnight  ago,  in  Chesapeak, 
this  was  told  Captain  Thompson  by  persons  on  board  the 
last  prize  he  took,  and  confirmed  by  a  man  who  came  off 
to  him  in  Delaware  Bay. 
— The  Royal  Gazette,  November  1,  1780,  No.  427. 

IN  CONGRESS,  Sept.  21,  1780. 

Resolved,  That  the  regular  army  of  the  United  States 
from  and  after  the  first  day  of  January  next,  consist  of 


84  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

4  Regiments  of  Cavalry,  or  Light  Dragoons, 
4  Regiments  of  Artillery. 

49  Regiments  of  Infantry,  exclusive  of  Col.  Hazen's 
Regiment  hereafter  mentioned. 

1  Regiment  of  Artificers. 

That  each  regiment  of  cavalry,  or  light  dragoons  con- 
sist of  six  troops,  and  that  each  troop  consist  of  64  non- 
commissioned officers  and  privates,  with  the  same  num- 
ber of  commissioned  officers  as  at  present. 

That  each  regiment  of  artillery  consist  of  nine  com- 
panies, and  that  each  company  consist  of  65  non-com- 
missioned officers  and  matrosses,  with  the  same  number 
of  commissioned  officers  as  at  present. 

That  each  regiment  of  infantry  consist  of  nine  com- 
panies, and  each  company  of  64  non-commissioned  of- 
ficers and  privates,  and  that  the  regiment  of  artificers 
consist  of  eight  companies,  and  each  company  of  60  non- 
commissioned officerg  and  privates. 

That  the  several  States  furnish  the  following  quota, 
viz. 

New  Hampshire,  2  regiments  of  infantry; 

Massachusetts-Bay,  10  regiments  of  ditto;    and  one 

regiment  of  artillery; 

Rhode-Island,  1  regiment  of  infantry; 

Connecticut,  5  regiments  of  ditto,  and  one  of 

cavalry ; 
New-York,  2  regiments    of    infantry,    and 

one  of  artillery; 

New-Jersey,  2  regiments  of  infantry; 

Pennsylvania,  6  regiments  of  infantry,  one  of 

artillery,  1  of  cavalry,  and 
1  of  artificers; 

Delaware,  1  regiment  of  infantry ; 

Maryland,  5  regiments  of  ditto; 

Virginia,  8  regiments  of  ditto,  one  of  ar- 

tillery, and  two  of  cavalry; 

North  Carolina,  4  regiments  of  infantry; 

South  Carolina,  2  regiments  of  infantry; 

Georgia,  1  regiment  of  ditto. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  85 

That  the  States  select  from  the  line  of  the  army,  a 
proper  number  of  officers  to  command  the  several  regi- 
ments to  them  respectively  assigned,  taking  notice  that  no 
new  appointment  is  to  be  made  of  a  higher  rank  than  that 
of  Lieutenant  Colonel  Commandant. 

That  the  States  be,  and  they  are  hereby  called  upon  in 
the  most  pressing  manner  to  have  their  regiments  corn- 
pleated,  and  in  the  field  by  the  first  day  of  January  next 
at  farthest. 

That  it  be  recommended  to  the  States  to  fill  up  their 
respective  regiments  by  inlistments,  for  and  during  the 
war;  but  in  case  the  full  quota  of  any  of  the  States  can- 
not be  compleated  with  such  recruits  by  the  first  day  of 
December  next,  that  it  be  recommended  to  such  State  or 
States  to  supply  the  deficiency  with  the  men  engaged  to 
serve  for  not  less  than  one  year,  unless  sooner  relieved  by 
recruits  inlisted  for  the  war,  which  they  are  requested  to 
exert  their  utmost  endeavours  to  obtain  as  speedily  as 
possible,  and  in  order  thereto  it  is  further  recommended 
that  the  officers  at  camp,  be  empowered  and  directed  to 
use  every  prudent  measure,  and  improve  every  favourable 
opportunity  to  inlist  for  the  continuance  of  the  war  such 
of  the  men  belonging  to  their  respective  States  as  are  not 
engaged  for  that  period,  whether  now  in  the  field,  or  here- 
after from  time  to  time  joining  the  army:  and  that  a  re- 
cruiting officer  from  each  corps  to  be  kept  in  the  State 
which  the  regiments  respectively  belong,  to  inlist  recruits 
for  the  war,  as  well  as  to  relieve  those  who  are  engaged 
for  a  shorter  or  limited  term,  as  to  supply  casual  defici- 
encies. 

That  two  Dollars  be  granted  to  the  recruiting  officer  for 
every  able  bodied  soldier  he  shall  inlist  for  the  war  who 
shall  join  the  army,  and  that  a  sum  not  exceeding  Fifty 
Dollars  be  allowed  as  a  bounty  to  every  such  recruit. 
Extract  from  the  Minutes, 
CHAELES  THOMSON, 

Secretary. 
— The  Royal  Gazette  Extraordinary,  November  2,  1T80. 


86         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.      [1780 

Mountholly,  Nov.  1,  1780. 

All  persons  indebted  to  the  estate  of  Captain  JAMES 
DILLON,  late  of  Mountholly,  deceased,  are  requested  to 
make  immediate  payment;  and  all  persons  having  de- 
mands  against  said  estate  are  desired  to  bring  in  their  ac- 
counts within  three  months  from  this  date,  in  order  for 
settlement. 

WILLIAM  STRETCH,  Executor. 
— The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  November  4,  1780. 


To  the  Inhabitants  of  NEW- JERSEY. 

TO  repeat  former  arguments  against  rebellion,  will  be, 
at  this  time,  useless;  you  have  felt  the  effects  of 
the  measures  of  Congress,  in  the  ruin  of  your  es- 
tates by  their  taxation,  as  well  as  the  calamities  of  the 
war ;  "you  have  tried  a  new  form  of  government : ;  and  in- 
stead of  that  liberty  which  you  fondly  thought  to  attain; 
you  have  seen  tyrants  increase  without  number  and  your 
property  taken  from  you  without  the  least  hope  of  satis- 
faction ; .  you  have  been  promised  much  from  your  French 
alliance,  I  appeal  to  yourselves  for  any  benefit  received 
by  it ;  every  measure  adopted  has  turned  out  to  your  dis- 
tress: Is  it  not  then  time  to  look  back  and  restore  that 
government,  under  which  you  flourished  and  grew  rich, 
and  I  am  sorry  to  tell  you,  wanton.  You  did  not  prize 
your  happy  state  as  you  ought,  happy  beyond  any  other 
people,  you  foolishly  thought  to  get  more,  and  by  grasping 
at .  a  phantom  you  have  lost  substantial  freedom :  It  is 
not  yet  too  late,  you  see  one  GENERAL  has  made  his  peace, 
and  in  justifying  his  conduct  has  pointed  out  your  duty; 
the  conduct  of  others  should  shew  you  that  private  interest 
not  the  public  good,  was,  and  is,  the  view  of  your  leaders. 
Colonel  HAMILTON  in  his  letter  to  Sears,  declares  the  Con- 
gress incompetent  to  govern,  and  openly  proposes  ABSO- 
LUTE GOVERNMENT. — Be  wise  then,  take  time  by  the  fore- 
lock, and  as  I  know  you  wish  a  restoration  of  government 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  .87 

rather  than  a  continuance  of  your  anarchy  and  distress ; 
rouse,  let  not  a  mistaken  perseverance  in  rebellion  (which 
is  not  fortitude,  but  a  false  pride  in  being  ashamed  to  ac- 
knowledge your  errors)  lead  you  to  utter  ruin;  return  to 
the  Government  of  your  merciful  King,  who,  notwith- 
standing your  unprovoked  rebellion,  is  ready  to  receive 
you.  One  exertion  makes  you  free,  try  it,  you  will  find 
the  delusion  vanish  and  be  amazed  to  see  yourselves  once 
more  happy,  and  will  have  only  to  wonder  and  regret  that 
you  have  been  made  such  dupes;  one  struggle  will  do  it, 
exert  yourselves  and  you  need  not  fear  the  event. 

Z. 
—TJie  Royal  Gazette,  November  4,  1780.     No.  428. 


TO    BE    LETT, 

Andover  Furnace  and  Forge,  situated  in  the  county  of 
Sussex,  New-Jersey.  A  large  quantity  of  wood,  ready 
cut,  may  be  had  convenient  to  the  works.  They  are  now 
in  repair,  and  may  be  entered  upon  immediately.  For 
terms  apply  to  Archibald  Stewart,  at  Hackett's-town,  or  to 
the  owners  in  Philadelphia. 

N.  B.     Some  Negroes  belonging  to  said  works,  to  be 
sold. 
—The  Pennsylvania  Journal,  November  8,  1780. 


CHATHAM,  NOVEMBER  1. 

Returns  of  members  of  the  legislature,  for  the  following 
counties,  received  since  our  last. 

For  SALEM  County, 
Counsellor — Whitten  Cripps,  Esquire. 
Assemblymen — John   Mayhew,    Allen   Congleton,    jun. 
and  William  Smith,  Esqrs. 


88  XKW     .TKRSKY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

CUMBERLAND,   | 

Counsellor- — Jonathan  Elmer,  Esq; 

Assemblymen — Thomas  Ewing,   Samuel  Ogden,  Ladis 
Walling,  Esqrs. 

GLOUCESTER, 

Counsellor — John  Cooper,  Esq; 

Assemblymen — John  Sparks,   Thomas  Rennard,   Isaac 
Kay,  Esqrs. 

BURLINGTON, 

Counsellor — Peter  Tallman,  Esq; 

Assemblymen — Thomas  Fenimore,  William  Trent,  Wil- 
liam Hough,  Esqrs. 

HUNTERDON, 

Counsellor — John  jStevens,  Esq; 

Assemblymen — Benjamin    Van    Cleve,    Jared    Sexton, 
John  Lambert,  Esqrs. 

MIDDLESEX, 

Counsellor — Benjamin.  Manning,  Esq; 
Assemblymen,— r-Jacob    Schenck,    Jacob    Suydam,    Mel- 
ancthon  Freeman,  Esqrs. 

MONMOUTH, 

Counsellor — Elisha  Lawrence,  Esq; 
Assemblymen- — Thomas   Seabrook,   Nathaniel  Scudder, 
Thomas  Henderson,  Esqrs. 

SOMERSET, 

Counsellor — John  Wifcherspoon,  Esq; 
Assemblymen  —  Edward    Bimn,     David    Kirkpatrick, 
Christopher  Hogeland,  Esqrs. 

SUSSEX. 

Counsellor — John  C.  Symms,  Esq; 
Assennblymen — Edmond  Martin,  Hugh  Hughes,  Doctor 
Kenedy,  Esqrs. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTEACTS.  89 

Sir  Henry  Clinton  has  appointed  Benedict  Arnold, 
Colonel  of  a  regiment  (when  he  can  raise  it}  with  the  rank 
•of  Brigadier  General. 

The  French  fleet  under  Monsieur  Guichen,  consisting  of 
20  sail  of  the  line,  are  at  the  Cape. 

Another  embarkation  of  troops,  we  are  told,  is  about 
taking  place  at  New- York,  destined  for  the  Southward. 


TO    BE     SOLD, 

(FOR  CASH,) 

At  the  house  of  William  Darling,  Chatham, 
Thirty  Cast  H  O  K  S  E  S  , 

On  Saturday  the  4th  of  November,  by 

AARON  FORMAN,  Q.  M. 

Morristown,  October  31,  1780. 

EDWAKD    VANCE, 

At  LYON'S  FARMS, 

Has  for  sale  the  following  articles : 

TDOHEA  Tea,  sugar,  pepper,  pins,  buckles,  dry  goods 

**-^      &C.    &G.    &C. 

October  31,  1780. 


\LL  persons  indebted  to  the  subscriber  for  RUM,  are 
•^•^     desired  to  pay  off  their  accounts  in  ten  days,  or  they 
may  depend  on  being  dealt  with  as  the  law  directs, 

JOHN  DIXON. 
October  31,  1780. 


90  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

"DROKE   into   the  pasture   of  the   subscriber,    a  BAY 
•*~*     MAKE,  14  hands  high,  about  10  years  old,  and  a 
natural  pacer. — The  owner  is  desired  to  come,  prove 
his  property,  pay  charges,  and  take  her  away. 

ISAAC  CRANE. 
New-Providence,  October  31,  1780. 


^  f^HOSE  persons  who  have  any  accounts  with  Daniel 
JL  Marsh,  Esq;  as  Quarter-Master,  Forager,  or  Con- 
tractor, which  are  unsettled,  are  hereby  noticed,  that 
the  subscriber  proposeth  to  attend  at  the  house  of  Mr.  Ben- 
jamin Williams,  at  Newark,  on  Tuesday  next;  the  two- 
days  following  at  Mr".  Samuel  Mumi's,  at  Orange ;  and  on 
Friday  at  Mr.  Matthias  Denman's,  at  Vaux-Hall ;  in  order 
to  settle  such  accounts,  and  to  give  certificates  for  the  same. 
Attendance  will  be  given  early  in  the  morning  of  each 
day. — It  is  hoped  no  one  will  omit  this  opportunity  as  the 
accounts  will  soon  be  closed,  and  any  future  settlement  ren- 
dered difficult,  if  not  entirely  impracticable. 

NOAH  MARSH. 
October  31,  1780. 


A  NY  person  who  will  inlist  in  the  place  of  another  man, 
•r^-  to  serve  in  the  first  Jersey  regiment,  shall  have 
Twenty  Pounds  in  hard  money,  or  the  value  thereof 
in  grain  or  other  produce,  at  the  old  rate,  and  one  Thou- 
sand Pounds  "in  Continental  Money,  to  be  paid  in  three 
months  after  his  inlisting.  Apply  to  the  subscriber  at  Suc- 
casunny,  Morris  county,  who  will  pay  the  above  reward. 

ELIJAH  LEWIS. 
October  31,  1780. 


1780] 


NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS. 


91 


Ebenezer  Turell, 

Has  for  Sale  the  following  articles,  at  his  store  in 
Newark,  viz. 


YTTEST-India  rum 
*  ^       Sugar, 

Pepper, 
Tobacco, 
Indigo, 
Alum, 
Snuff, 

Hyson  and  Bohea  tea, 
Holland  gin  by  the  case  or 

bottle, 
Rock  salt, 
Calico, 
Linen, 
Bindings, 
Wool  cards, 
Cambrick, 
Lawn, 

White  silk  gauze, 
Black  silk  ditto, 
White  and  black  milionet, 
Black  mode, 
Ditto  Sattin, 
Sewing  Silk, 
Silk  handkerchiefs, 
Durant, 
Calimanco, 
Shalloon, 
Broad  cloth, 
Skeleton, 
Bonnet  papers, 
— The  New-Jersey  Journal, 
Numb.  LXXXIX. 


Gunpowder, 

Bibbons, 

Artificial  flowers, 

Pins, 

jSTeedles, 

Knitting  ditto, 

Darning  ditto, 

White  regimental  buttons, 

Women's  purple  and  black 
mits, 

Knee-garters, 

Ditto  buckles, 

Stock  buckles, 

Scissors, 

Cuttean  and  pen  knives. 

Men  and  women's  shoes, 

Bed  cords, 

Men  and  women's  crooked 
combs, 

Coarse  and  fine  lawn  hand- 
kerchiefs, 

Gauze  ditto, 

Fine  thread, 

Mohair  and  twist, 

Basket  buttons, 

China  cups  and  saucers, 

Writing  paper, <> 

Gimblets, 

jSTutmegs, 

Cotton  wool,  &c.  &c.  &c. 
November  1,  1780,  Vol.  II. , 


92          NEW  JEESEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.      [1780 

CHATHAM,  NOVEMBEK  8. 

Last  week  forty  of  our  officers,  who  have  been  in  cap- 
tivity with  the  enemy,  were  exchanged  and  came  over  to 
Elizabeth  Town;  and,  on  Sunday  last,  one  hundred  and 
fifty  privates. 

On  Saturday  night  last  Smith  Hetfield,  Cornelius  Het- 
field,  Cornelius  Blauchard,  and  some  others,  came  over 
from  Staten-Island  to  Elizabeth  Town,  where  they  were 
informed  that  Col.  Ogden,  of  the  first  Jersey  regiment, 
and  Capt.  Dayton  of  the  third,  were  to  lodge  that  night  at 
William  Herd's,  at  Connecticut  Farms,  to  which  place 
they  hastened,  made  them  both  prisoners,  and  carried  them 
off  unmolested  to  Staten-Island. 

*#*  No  Eastern  mail  arrived  this  week. 
$5jj"  Several  pieces   have    been  sent   to  the  Printer,   of 
late,   which   are    too   personal   to  appear  in    this  paper 

Just  Published, 

A    SERMON 

ON 
PRACTICAL    RELIGION. 

Delivered  at  Newark,  August  15,  1779. 

BY  'THE  EEV.  TJZAL  OGDEN, 

OF  SUSSEX  COUNTY,  NEW  JEESEY. 

NUMBEE  II. 

ONE  thousand  copies  of  this  DISCOUESE  will  be 
GIVEN  GEATIS,  on  application  to  Mr.  Pierr  De 
Peyster,  at  Second  Eiver;    Mr.  Moses  Ogden,  at 
Newark;    Mr.  William  Williamson,  in  Elizabeth  Town; 


1780] 


NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS. 


John  Dennis,  Esq;  in  New-Brunswick ;  Messrs.  Ogden 
and  Canfield,  at  Morris  Town;  Mr.  Augustine  Reid,  in 
Roxbury;  the  Printer  hereof;  or  to  the  author  in  New- 
Town. 


TOST,  on  the  ground  the  second  Pennsylvania  brig- 
1  y  ade  was  encamped  on,  the  night  of  the  10th  instant, 
near  Paramus,  a  black  leather  pocket  book,  contain- 
ing about  four  pound  Continental  money,  and  a  number  of 
valuable  papers,  such  as  Quartermaster  General,  Forage- 
master  General,  and  Commissaries  certificates,  &c. — Who- 
ever has  found  and  returns  it  to  the  subscriber,  or  gives 
information,  where  it  may  be  had,  shall  be  handsomely  re- 
warded. 

-P.  SMITH,  Lieut,  and  Q.  M. 

3d  Pennsylvania  regiment. 
October  25,  1780. 


FOSTER    HORTON, 

Has  for  sale,  at  Chatham,  the  following  GOODS,  VIZ. 


TJEST  hyson  tea 
•*-*    Bohea  ditto 

Fine  holland 
stripe  linen 
Cambrick 
Black    sewing   silk   by   the 

ounce  or  skeign, 
Assortment    of   fine   thread 


by  the  pound,  ounce,  or 

skeign 
Apron  tape 

N.  B.     All  persons  indebted  to  the  subscriber,  on  book 
debts,  are  desired  to  make  payment  immediately. 

F.  H. 


Cap  ditto 

Large  black  Barcelona 

handkerchiefs 
Scarlet  serge  for  vests  and 

breeches 

Fine  and  coarse  combs 
Mohair  and  buttons 
Indigo 

Snuff  and  tobacco 
Papers  of  pins 
Needles,  &c.  &c.  &c. 


NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION. 


[1780 


ALPHEUS    HEWS, 

Has  for  SALE  at  the  house  of  Mr.  Ebenezer  Canfield, 
about  one  mile  below  Orange  meeting  house,  as  cheap 
as  the  times  will  admit  of,  for  cash  or  country  produce, 
the  following  articles,  viz. 


/CALICOES 
^—'      muslin 

Black  and  white  silk 
gauze 

Plain  and  spotted  ditto 
Cambrick 
Milionet 

Assortment  of  sewing  silk 
Ribands 

Sewing  &  knitting  needles 
Pins 

Knives  and  forks 
Fine  thread 

Spelling-books  &  primers 
New  Testaments 
Writing  paper 


Shoe  and  knee  buckles 

Stock  ditto 

Leather  breeches  &  skins 

M ens  shoes 

Cotton 

Tea  and  sugar 

Pepper  and  alspice 

Ginger  and  cinnamon 

Coffee  and  chocolate 

Gunpowder 

Pipes 

Hard  Soap 

Brimstone 

Logwood 

Indigo 

Rock  and  Shoar  salt 


Inkpowder 

An  assortment  of  Philadelphia  made 
earthenware,  and  sundry  other  articles. 


At  the  Printing  Office  in  CHATHAM. 


A  YOUNG  MARE,  fit  for  the  saddle,  to  be  disposed 
of.     Inquire  of  the  Printer. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  95 

Next  Week  will  be  published, 

THE 
UNITED    STATES 

ALMANACK, 

For  the  Year  of  our  LOED 


— The  New  Jersey  Journal,  November  8,  1780,  Vol  II., 
Numb.  XC. 

For  the  NEW-JERSEY  GAZETTE. 
MR.  COLLINS, 

IN  your  paper,  No.  145,  I  find  a  piece  in  vindication  of  slave-hold- 
ing, and  consequently  of  tyranny  and  oppression,  signed  A 
WHIG.  I  am  sorry  to  see  the  name  Whig  so  shamefully  prosti- 
tuted, as  no  doubt  it  is,  by  being  affixed  to  so  ill-meant  a  performance. 
Indeed  the  author's  assuming  so  respectable  a  character,  puts  me  in 
mind  of  the  story  of  the  apples  and  horse-turd  (pardon  the  expression,) 
when  floating  down  stream  they  happened  to  drift  near  to  each  other. 
The  latter,  you  know,  assumed  an  air  of  equality,  and  accosted  the 
former  by  calling  out,  "we  apples  ;"  and  I  verily  think  might  with 
as  much  propriety  assume  the  character  of  that  delicious  fruit,  as  the 
author  of  the  piece  I  have  mentioned,  could  take  upon  him  the  char- 
acter or  title  of  a  whig.  A  whig,  Sir,  abhors  the  very  idea  of  slavery, 
let  the  colour  or  complexion  of  a  slave  be  what  it  may.  He  is  a  friend 
to  liberty,  and  a  supporter  of  the  rights  of  mankind  universally,  with- 
out any  regard  to  partial  interests  or  selfish  views.  Every  pulse  of 
his  heart,  beats  for  liberty — and  for  general,  not  partial  liberty.  He 
therefore  who  pretends  to  be  a  whig,  and  yet,  under  any  pretence 
•whatsoever,  would  hold  numbers  of  his  fellow-men  in  slavery,  denying 
them  those  rights  which,  in  his  own  case,  he  deems  essential  to  hap- 
piness, must  be  a  dangerous  impostor,  unworthy  the  confidence  of  his 
fellow-citizens,  and  should  never,  in  any  case,  be  trusted  with  power. 
As  this  publication  is  in  answer  to  a  piece  wrote  by  Mr.  Cooper, 
and  published  with  his  name  to  it,  it  is  to  be  supposed  that  our  author 
would  have  given  us  his  name  also  with  his  piece,  had  he  not  been 


96  NEW    JERSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

ashamed  of  his  subject.  We  are  therefore  to  conclude,  without  any 
further  evidence,  that  he  himself  was  conscious  of  the  baseness  of  the 
undertaking,  and  induced  to  write  the  piece  from  motives,  in  his  own 
esteem,  unworthy  the  character  of  a  citizen  of  these  free  states :  such 
as  self-interest,  being  perhaps  himself  "a  slave-holder;  or  from  a  desire 
to  serve  slave-holders,  as  their  mere  tool,  employed  to  gloss,  or,  if 
possible,  justify  their  conduct,  in  order  that  they  may  still  be  admitted 
to  hold  the  reins  of  tyranny,  and  grasp  the  unrighteous  gain  of 
oppression. 

And  as  I  suppose  Mr.  Cooper  will  hardly  deign  to  answer  an  anony- 
mous attack  upon  a  piece  published  with  his  name  to  it,  I  shall  there- 
fore, in  his  stead,  venture  to  make  some  remarks  upon  some  parts  of 
it,  though  I  confess  the  arguments  it  contains  are  so  exceedingly  futile 
and  easily  seen  through,  as  hardly  to  deserve  any  serious  attention. 

The  first  thing  that  I  shall  take  notice  of  is,  that  our  author  seems 
to  doubt  whether  tyranny  is  in  reality  an  accursed  thing,  or  can  with 
propriety  be  so  called.  In  answer  to  this,  however,  I  shall  only  ob- 
serve, that  as  I  suppose  the  gentleman  to  be  an  inhabitant  of  these 
states,  I  really  blush  at  his  doubt,  and  dare  say  every  true  whig  will 
feel  his  cheek  glow  on  the  occasion. 

He  has  indeed  taken  some  pains  to  prove  that  under  the  Jewish  law 
slavery  was  permitted.  But  then  his  proving  this  falls  far  short  of 
answering  his  purpose.  What  the  Jews  did,  was  done  by  proper 
authority.  They  had  a  divine  command  for  destroying  certain  nations 
of  people,  and  for  holding  in  slavery  the  children  of  certain  strangers,, 
and  this  command  was  their  justification.  But  were  we,  without  any 
such  authority,  to  act  as  they  did,  what  should  we  have  to  justify  us? 
We  find  too,  that  Abraham  was  commanded  to  offer  his  son  Isaac  a 
burnt-offering ;  and  that  his  obedience  to  this  command  was  imputed 
to  him  for  righteousness.  The  Creator  having  a  right  to  dispose  of  his 
creatures  agreeable  to  his  own  will,  whatever  is  done  pursuant  to  this 
will  must  be  right.  But  it  no  more  follows,  that  because  the  children 
of  Israel  were  authorized  to  purchase  and  hold  in  slavery  the  children 
of  certain  strangers,  we  may  hold  the  Africans  and  their  posterity  in 
slavery  under  us,  than  it  follows  that  Abraham's  having  been  author- 
ized to  offer  his  son  Isaac  as  a  burnt-offering,  that  we  may  also  offer 
our  sons  as  burnt-offerings.  We  must  be  authorized  as  Abraham  and 
the  Jews  were,  otherwise  we  cannot  hope  to  be  justified  like  them  in. 
what  we  do. 

As  to  the  precedents  our  author  has  deduced  from  profane  history, 
I  shall  dismiss  them  as  profane  precedents,  only  worthy  to  be  quoted 
by  a  profane  author,  when  endeavouring  to  support  something  in  its 
nature  polluted. 

The  gentleman  very  gravely  tells  us,  "He  hopes  no  one  will  do  him 
the  injustice  to  think  him  an  advocate  for  slavery;"  and  yet  at  the 
same  time  declares  himself  utterly  opposed  to  setting  our  present 
slaves  free.  What  he  means  by  this  kind  of  jargon,  I  am  rather  at 
a  loss  to  conjecture :  unless  it  is,  that  the  next  generation  shall  have 
his  consent  to  abolish  slavery,  provided  he  and  his  partners  in  tyranny 
may  have  liberty  to  hold  their  slaves  like  their  other  cattle,  and  enjoy 
the  profits  of  their  labour  during  their  time. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  97 

He  goes  on  however  and  tells  us,  "That  at  this  time  whciT  many 
parts  of  the  state  in  the  neighbourhood  of  the  enemy  are  laid  waste 
and  rendered  desofate  by  the  ravages  of  that  army,  and  many  families 
driven  from  their  lands  depend  in  a  great  measure  on  the  labour  of 
their  slaves  for  a  livlihood,  it  would  be  uni'easonable  to  deprive  them 
of  their  only  support."  That  is.  in  other  words,  it  would  be  unreason- 
able to  deprive  them  of  that  means  of  support  which  in  reality  they 
never  had  the  least  right  to  enjoy.  As  well  might  I  say,  if  I  had 
taken  forcible  possession  of  my  neighbour's  horse  seven  years  ago,  and 
detained  him  unjustly  in  my  service  ever  since,  that  it  would  be  un- 
reasonable at  this  time  to  oblige  me  to  deliver  him  up  to  his  right 
owner,  seeing  horses  are  now  so  very  scarce  and  dear,  that  it  must 
put  me  to  great  difficulty  and  expence  to  supply  his  place. 

In  the  next  place  our  author  affirms,  with  a  degree  of  boldness  pe- 
culiar to  men  deficient  in  reasoning,  "That  all  slaves  are  in  reality  as 
much  the  property  of  the'r  masters  as  the  gold  and  silver  for  which 
they  were  bought ;"  and  therefore  concludes,  that  if  they  are  set  free 
their  masters  must  be  paid  their  value.  Here,  the  reader  will  observe,, 
that  the  master's  right  to  the  value  is  grounded  on  his  right  to  and 
property  in  the  person  of  his  slave ;  and  as  this  right  is  only  ascer- 
tained by  the  gentleman's  own  assertion,  we  may  perhaps  very  justly 
question  its  existence.  If  he  who  first  stole  or  captivated  my  slave,, 
when  in  his  own  country,  did  not  by  that  wicked  act  of  violence  ac- 
quire a  right  to  his  person,  which  I  suppose  no  one  will  presume  to- 
say  he  did,  then  how  came  he  by  that  right?  by  what  future  means 
could  he  possibly  obtain  it?  If  he  never  did  obtain  it,  then  he  never 
could  convey  it  to  another;  and  every  person  claiming  under  him  must 
have  been,  and  still  remain,  as  destitute  of  right  as  was  he  himself : 
and  of  course  very  little  if  any  less  criminal.  And  indeed  in  either 
case  the  degree  of  guilt  must  be  almost  beyond  conception.  For  if 
he  who  steals  another  man's  ox  or  horse  is  worthy  of  death,  what  must 
he  be  who  steals  or  takes  by  force  the  man  himself,  and  then  holds 
him  and  his  posterity  as  his  property,  to  toil  for  him  like  oxen  and 
horses? 

If  the  masters  of  such  slaves  as  were  imported  into  this  country 
never  had  right  to  or  property  in  them,  'tis  plain  that  they  could  have 
no  right  to  or  property  in  their  offspring  as  slaves  ;  and  then  as  the 
whole  business  of  slave  holding  must  have  been  without  right,  and 
an  abominable  scene  of  tyranny  and  oppression ;  so  the  plea  of  right 
to  restitution,  in  case  they  are  set  free,  necessarily  falls  to  the  ground. 

As  to  our  author's  idea  of  the  masters  of  slaves  being  vested  with  a 
right  to  them  by  the  laws  of  the  land,  it  seems  to  have  no  other 
foundation  than  mere  ignorance.  .  It  is  utterly  repugnant  to  the  very 
nature  and'  spirit  of  the  common  law  ;  and  no  such  right  has  ever  yet 
been  attempted  to  be  created  or  established  in  this  state,  either  by 
statute  or  act  of  assembly.  And  indeed  if  it  had,  the  validity  ef  a  law 
for  such  a  purpose  might  very  justly  perhaps  be  called  in  question, 
as  being  repugnant  to  the  laws  of  God  and  nature. 

If.  there  is  such  a  thing  as  a  right  to  restitution  in  case  our  slaves 
are  set  free,  it  appears  to  me  to  be  in  favour  of  the  slaves  themselves ; 
they  seem  to  have  an  equitable  claim  upon  their  masters  for  at  least 

7 


98  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [17S0 

the  clear  profits  of  all  their  past  labour.  And  were  they  to  receive 
this,  it  would  not  only  tend  to  set  them  on  foot  in  the  world,  but  to 
encourage  them  to  future  exertions  in  order  to  acquire  more  pioperty, 
and  become  useful  members  of  society.  The  old  and  decrepit  too 
might  in  this  way,  upon  the  plainest  principles  of  justice,  be  furnished 
in  most  cases  with  an  ample  support.  So  far  therefore  from  proving 
burdensome  or  injurious  to  the  community  would  the  emancipating 
of  those  unhappy  people  be  likely  to  prove,  that  it  would  most  proba- 
bly, in  its  present  and  remote  consequences,  prove  highly  beneficial  to 
the  state  at  large. 

Indeed,  if  they  are  to  be  free  at  all,  justice  to  ourselves  as  well  as 
to  them,  seems  now  to  call  for  their  emancipation ;  in  order  that  they 
may  engage  in  the  service  of  their  country,  and  assist  in  defending 
those  rights,  which,  as  freemen'  they  will  be  entitled  to  enjoy.  Why, 
let  me  ask,  should  they  thus  be  kept  from  the  dangers  of  the  field, 
when  we  ourselves  are  so  daily  exposed?  What  can  induce  us  to  be 
so  very  frugal  of  their  blood,  and  at  the  same  time  so  lavish  with  our 
own?  If  they  are  to  partake  of  the  benefits  resulting  from  the  war. 
let  them  also  pay  their  proportion  of  the  price.  Why  should  our  blood 
ransome  both  them  and  us?  why  should  it  alone  stain  the  fields  of  our 
affliction,  and  as  it  were  manure  the  ground,  in  order  to  raise  vines 
and  fig-trees  for  them  to  sit  under? 

Our  author's  last  objection  against  freeing  our  slaves  is,  "because 
they  are  treated  with  a«  humanity  unknown  to  other  parts  of  the 
world,  and  are  better  off  than  the  generality  of  the  white  poor,  who 
are  obliged,  those  who  have  families,  from  their  necessities  to  work 
harder  than  the  slaves  in  this  state."  This  objection  however  must 
really  appear  laughable  when  we  view  it  as  having  fallen  from  the 
pen  of  a  gentleman  who  has  just  told  us,  as  mentioned  above,  that 
he  "hopes  no  one  will  do  him  the  injustice  to  think  him  an  advocate 
for  slavery."  He  is  not  willing  it  seems  to  be  thought  an  advocate 
for  slavery,  and  yet  is  opposed  to  setting  our  negroes  free  so  long  as 
they  are  well  used.  According  to  this  doctrine,  we  must  commence 
devils  towards  ou*  slave  in  order  that  it  may  become  our  duty  to  do 
them  justice.  They  can  never  hope  for  freedom  whilst  they  feel  them- 
selves kindly  treated.  And  does  the  gentleman  really  imagine  that 
such  a  change  in  our  conduct  would  afford  them  a  promising  prospect? 
Could  they  possibly  view  it  as  a  prelude  to  their  wished  for  deliver- 
ance? 

In  short  the  writer,  if  we  may  judge  from  his  own  reasoning,  seems 
to  be  but  very  little  acquainted  with  the  most,  noble  and  lovely  feel- 
ings of  the  human  heart.  In  his  opinion,  it  seems,  our  slaves  may 
rest  contented  in  their  servile  state,  provided  they  are  not  obliged  to 
work  harder  than  some  of  their  neighbouring  whites.  He  appears  to 
have  no  idea  of  the  intolerable  mortification  that  must  incessantly 
arise  from  being  wholly  subservient  to  the  will  of  another — from  being 
a  mere  machine  in  his  hands,  utterly  deprived  of  the  greatest  of  all 
human  enjoyments,  the  privilege  of  judging  for  himself,  and  of  acting 
pursuant  to  his  own  judgment.  When  in  reality,  compared  with  this, 
the  greatest  afflictions  that  can  be  supposed  to  result  from  hard  labour 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  99 

or  poor  fare,  would  scarcely  be  thought  worthy  the  attention  of  a 
great  and  generous  mind. 

The  man  who  only  abhors  tyranny  when  it  points  at  himself,  is 
altogether  unworthy  the  esteem  of  the  virtuous ;  and  can  never,  until 
he  becomes  a  new  creature,  merit  the  confidence  of  a  free  people.  A 
good  man  loves  liberty,  because  liberty  tends  to  render  mankind  happy ; 
and  the  more  general  it  is,  the  more  he  feels  himself  pleased ; — he  even 
participates  in  the  felicity  of  those  who  enjoy  it,  and  fancies  all  their 
happiness  his  own.  The  love  of  liberty  is  indeed  a  godlike  virtue — it 
pervades  the  whole  world,  and  delights  in  the  joy  of  all. 

But  to  conclude ;  we  may  expect  that  our  negro-masters  in  general, 
like  drowning  men,  will  catch  at  every  twig,  at  every  shadow,  to  pro- 
long, if  possible,  their  reign  over  their  black  subjects.  'And  in  this 
point  of  light  we  may  view  those,  who,  ashamed  to  object  generally 
against  emancipating  our  slaves,  have  recourse  to  the  plea  of  its  being 
at  present  inexpedient.  A  wretched  plea  indeed !  How  can  it  be  in- 
expedient to  embrace  the  earliest  opportunity  to  do  justice?  We  have 
heretofore  thrown  the  blame  of  the  slave-trade,  and  our  holding  our 
negroes  in  bondage,  upon  the  King  and  Parliament  of  Great-Britain. 
But  this  pretext  will  serve  us  no  longer.  We  are  now  at  liberty  to  do 
them  justice — to  do  to  them  as  we  would  they  should  do  to  us  were 
we  in  their  situation.  And  if  we  withhold  from  them  this  justice,  not 
only  the  stigma,  but  the  iniquity  must  forever  rest  upon  our  own 
heads. 

If  our  author  has  anything  further  to  say  upon  the  above  subject, 
let  him  give  us  his  name,  or  be  treated  with  silent  contempt ;  let  him 
come  forth  from  his  lurking  hole  that  we  may  be  able  to  judge  of  the 
colour  of  his  skin — that  every  true  whig  may  have  the  pleasure  of 
pointing  at  him  where-ever  he  sees  him  pass,  and  of  saying,  There  goes 
the  wretch,  who,  even  in  this  land  of  liberty,  has  the  effrontery  to 
vindicate  tyranny.  A  FRIEND  TO  JUSTICE. 


POSTSCRIPT. 
To  the  CRISIS  EXTRAORDINARY. 

TT7HILE  this  paper  was  preparing  for  the  press,  the 

*  *       treachery    of    General    Arnold    became    known, 

and   engaged   the    attention    and   conversation    of 

the  public ;   and  that,  not  so  much  on  account  of  the  traitor 

as  the  magnitude  of  the  treason,  and  the  providence  evident 

in  the  discovery. 

[Here  followed  an  account  of  Arnold's  flight  and 
Andre's  detection,  which,  being  now  fully  known,  is  omit- 
ted to  give  place  to  more  material  matter. ~\ 


100  NEW    JEKSEY    IN    THE    EEVOLUTION.  [1780 

The  true  character  of  Arnold  is  that  of  a  desperado.  His  whole 
life  has  been  a  life  of  jobbs ;  and  where  either  plunder  or  profit  was 
the  object,  no  danger  deterred,  no  principle  restrained  him.  In  his 
person  he  was  smart  and  active,  somewhat  diminutive,  weak  in  his 
capacities  and  trifling  in  his  conversation ;  and  though  gallant  in 
the  field,  was  defective  in  the  talents  necessary  for  command.  The 
early  convulsion  of  the  times  afforded  him  an  introduction  into  life, 
to  the  elegance  of  which  he  was  before  a  stranger,  and  the  eagerness 
of  the  public  to  reward  and  encourage  enterprize,  procured  him  at 
once  both  applause  and  promotion.  His  march  to  Quebec  gave  him 
fame,  and  the  plunder  of  Montreal  put  the  first  stamp  to  his  public 
character.  His  behaviour  at  Danbury  and  Saratoga  once  more  cov- 
ered over  his  crimes,  which  again  broke  forth  in  the  plunder  of  Phila- 
delphia, under  pretence  of  supplying  the  army.  From  this  time,  the 
true  spring  of  his  conduct  being  known,  he  became  both  disregarded 
and  disesteemed,  and  this  last  instance  of  his  treachery  has  proved 
the  public  judgment  right. 

When  we  take  a  review  of  the  history  of  former  times,  it  will 
turn  out  to  the  honor  of  America,  that,  notwithstanding  the  trying 
variety  of  her  situation,  this  is  the  only  instance  of  defection  in  a 
general  officer ;  and  even  in  this  case  the  unshaken,  honesty  of  those 
who  detected  him  heightens  the  national  character,  to  which  his 
apostacy  serves  as  a  foil.  From  the  nature  of  his  crime,  and  his  dis- 
position to  monopolize,  it  is  reasonable  to  conclude  he  had  few  or 
no  direct  accomplices.  His  sole  object  was  to  make  a  monied  bar- 
gain ;  and  to  be  consistent  with  himself,  he  would  as  readily  betray 
the  side  he  has  deserted  to,  as  that  he  deserted  from. 

But  there  is  one  reflection  results  from  this  black  business  that 
deserves  notice,  which  is,  that  it  shows  the  declining  power  .of  the 
enemy.  An  attempt  to  bribe  is  a  sacrifice  of  military  fame,  and  a 
confession  of  inability  to  conquer ;  as  a  proud  people  they  ought  to 
be  above  it,  and  as  soldiers  to  despise  it ;  and  however  they  may 
feel  on  the  occasion,  the  world  at  large  will  despise  them  for  it,  and 
consider  America  superior  to  their  arms.  C.  S. 


CHATHAM,  November  1. 

Another  embarkation  of  troops,  we  are  told,  is  about 
taking  place  at  New- York,  destined  for  the  Southward. 

Proclamation. 

YX7HEKEAS    it    hath    pleased    Almighty    God,    the 

^  ^       Father    of    all    mercies,    amidst    the    vicissitudes 

and  calamities  of  war,  to  bestow  blessings  on  the 

people  of  these  states,  which  call  for  their  devout  and 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  101 

thankful  acknowledgments,  more  especially  in  the  late  re- 
markable interposition  of  his  watchful  providence  in  rescu- 
ing the  person  of  our  Commander  in  Chief  and  the  Army 
from  imminent  dangers,  at  the  moment  when  treason  was 
ripened  for  execution;  in  prospering  the  labours  of  the 
husbandmen,  and  causing  the  earth  to  yield  its  increase  in 
plentiful  harvests ;  and  above  all,  in  continuing  to  us  the 
enjoyment  of  the  gospel  of  peace: 

It  is  therefore  recommended  to  the  several  states  to  set 
apart  Thursday  the  seventh  day  of  December  next,  to  be 
observed  as  a  day  of  public  thanksgiving  and  prayer ;  that 
all  the  people  may  assemble  on  that  day  to  celebrate  the 
praises  of  our  Divine  Benefactor ;  to  confess  our  unworthi- 
ness  of  the  least  of  his  favours,  and  to  offer  our  fervent 
supplications  to  the  God  of  all  grace ;  that  it  may  please 
him  to  pardon  our  heinous  transgressions,  and  incline  our 
hearts  for  the  future  to  keep  all  his  laws ;  to  comfort  and 
relieve  our  brethren  who  are  any  wise  afflicted  or  dis- 
tressed; to  smile  upon  our  husbandry  and  trade;  to  di- 
rect our  public  councils  and  lead  our  forces  by  land  and 
sea  to  victory ;  to  take  our  illustrous  ally  under  his  special 
protection,  and  to  favour  our  joint  councils  and  exertions 
for  the  establishment  of  speedy  and  permanent  peace ;  to 
cherish  all  schools  and  seminaries  of  •  education,  and  to 
cause  the  knowledge  of  Christianity  to  spread  over  all  the 
earth. 

Done  in  Congress,  this  eighteenth  day  of  October,  1780, 
and  in  the  fifth  year  of  the  Independence  of  the  United 
States  of  America. 

SAMUEL  HUNTIJSTGTON,  President. 

Attest. 

Charles  Thompson,  Secretary. 


TEENTON",  NOVEMBER  8. 

We  hear  that  on  Saturday  night  last  Col.  Ogden  and 
Capt.   Dayton,  were  taken  prisoners  by  a  party  of  six 


102  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

refugees  from  St  at  en-Island,  headed  by  the  infamous 
Smith  Hetfield.  These  gentlemen  were  surprized  at  Con- 
necticut Farms,  about  four  miles  from  Elizabeth-Town. 

At  a  Special  Court  held  in  Gloucester  last  week,  Wil- 
liam Wells  was  convicted  of  high  treason,  and  Christopher 
Bishop  was  convicted  of  murdering  of  his  wife.  They 
are  both  sentenced  to  be  hanged  on  the  15th  instant. 

As  the  account  of  the  arrival  of  6,000  French  troops  at 
Sunbury  in  Georgia,  mentioned  under  the  Philadelphia 
head,  has  not  been  confirmed,  we  cannot  vouch  for  the 
truth  of  it. 

*£*  The  Hon.  the  House  of  Assembly  having  ordered 
their  Votes  and  Proceedings  to  be  printed  weekly,  "for  the 
satisfaction  and  inspection  of  the  Publicity"  they  may  be 
had  at  the  Printing-Office  in  Trenton. 


TO«  BE     SOLD, 

And   entered   immediately, 

'  I^HE  HOUSE  in  which  the  subscriber  now  lives,  situ- 
JL.        ated  in  the  healthy  and  agreeable  village  of  Prince- 
ton.    The  house  is  a  large,  neat,  new,  well  finished 
brick  building,  with  every  conveniency  of  stores,  stables, 
garden,  &c.  &c.  to  render  it  perfectly  agreeable  either  for 
a  merchant  or  private  gentleman.     Any  person  inclining 
to  purchase  said  house,  by  paying  part  of  the  money  down, 
may  have  time  to  pay  the  remainder  in.     For  terms  apply 
to  the  subscriber,  or  the  Printer  hereof. 

Also  will  be  sold  at.  publick  vendue,  on  Saturday* the 
18th  instant,  at  said  place,  one  good  new  milch  cow,  a 
sulkey  and  harness,  a  quantity  of  bricks,  and  sundry 
articles  of  household  and  kitchen  furniture,  &c.  The 
vendue  to  begin  at  12  o'clock  of  said  day. 

ENOS  KELSEY. 
Nov.  7,  1780. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  103 

TO    BE     SOLD,    for   Speciej 

The  NOTED  HOUSES 
Molton  and  Bold  Seline. 

For  further  particulars   inquire  of  the   subscriber   at 
Fish-Kill,  in  the  state  of  New- York. 

JOSEPH  JACKSON. 

To  be  sold  at  public  Vendue, 

On  Tuesday  the  14th  of  November  instant,  at  the  house 
of  David  Chambers,  tavernkeeper,  at  the  Cross-Roads,  in 
the  township  of  Nottingham  and  county  of  Burlington, 
viz. 

HORSES,  milch  cows,  young  cattle,  four  horse  wag- 
gons,  one  two  horse  waggon,  two  light  pleasure 
waggons,  gears  and  harness,  ploughs,  harrows,  and 
a  variety  of  farming  utensils  too  tedious  to  mention. 

Six  weeks  credit  will  be  given.     The  vendue  to  begin 
at  nine  o'clock  in  the  forenoon. 
November  4,  1780. 

To  be  sold  at  public  Vendue, 

On  the  13th  instant,  at  the  house  of  Mr.  Mershon,  tavern- 
keeper,  in  Amwell, 

SUNDRY  blooded  MARES  and  COLTS,  with  some 
two  and  three  years  old.     Six  months  credit  will 
be  given  on  security,  if  required.     The  sale  to  be- 
gin at  eleven  o'clock. 
November  4,  1780. 


10.4  XKW     .JKRSKY     IX     TIIK     KKVor.l'TIOX.  j   1  7*0 


TO     BE     SOLD, 

A  Likely  NEGRO  MAN,  about  thirty  years  old,  stout, 

^~^-     strong,   and   in  good   health.      He  understands   all 

kind   of  farming-  business,    to   which   he   has   been 

brought  up  from  his  infancy.     For  terms  apply  to  John 

P.  Schenk,  at  Maidenhead,  or  Arch.  Mercer,  at  Millstone. 

Nov.  6. 

TO     BE     LET, 

Andover  Furnace  and  Forge, 

Situate   in   Sussex  county,    New-Jersey, 

\    Large  quantity  of  wood  ready  cut  may  be  had  con- 
•*•?*     venient  to  the  ^orks.     They  are  now  in  repair,  and 

may  be  entered  upon  immediately. 
Apply  to  Archibald  Stewart,  at  Hacket's-Town,  or  to 
the  owners  in  Philadelphia. 

Some  Negroes  belonging  to  said  works  to  be  sold. 

Nor.  6. 
— N.  J.   Gazette.     Vol.  III.     No.   150.     Nov.  8,   1780. 


NEW- YORK,  NOVEMBER  S. 

Last  Sunday  Mr.  Cornelius  Hetfield,  and  two  of  his  as- 
sociates brought  to  town  from  Connecticut  Farms  in  Jer- 
sey, Colonel  Matthias  Ogden  and  Capt.  Jonathan  Dayton, 
officers  in  the  rebel  army;  they  were  found  in  the  night 
horizontal,  Cheek  by  Jowl,  and  from  the  admirable  con- 
trivance of  the  captors,  translated  hither  in  perfect  seren- 
ity and  good  humour,  on  Monday  they  were  presented  to 
the  Magnifice,  and  permited  to  return  to  their  abodes  in 
Jersey;  having  engaged  afterwards  to  return  on  parole 
to  take  up  the  ground  on  Long-Island  lately  occupied  by 
their  rebel  fraternity,  which  had  just  before  been  vacated 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  105 

in  consequence  of  the  late  exchange  of  prisoners.  Very 
liberal  offers  in  money  were  made,  on  the  route,  for  the 
enlargements  of  these  worthy  Wights,  well  known  to  have 
been  violently  exerted  in  the  cause  of  this  dirty  rebellion. 
— The  Royal  Gazette,  November  8,  1780.  No.  429. 


To  THE  PRINTER, 

The  following  letter  to  TabitJia,  was  intercepted  when  the 
American  army  lay  near  the  New-Bridge.  It  was  put 
into  my  hands  by  the  same  person  who  detected  the 
former  one  in  your  paper:*  but  it  has  not  been  in  my 
power  till  now  to  make  such  alterations  as  appeared 
proper  for  concealing  the  author.  I  am  sorry  however 
to  inform  the  public,  that  I  might  have  saved  myself 
that  trouble,  as  there  is  good  reason  to  believe,  the 
writer  either  dying  or  dead  of  a  distemper,  occasioned 
it  is  said,  by  the  ignorance  or  mismanagement  of  her 
physicians  in  treating  a  common  cold. 
October  26,  1780. 

• 

XEW  YORK,  September  12,  1780. 

HOW  little  I  dreamt,  when  I  wrote  last  my  sister, 
The  rebels  were  still  on  our  backs  like  a  blister. 
When  they  mov'd  to  Fort  Lee,  I  was  happy  too  soon, 
And  thought  myself  snug  as  the  man  in  the  moon. 
But  the  bustle  was  all  to  be  gone  o'er  again, 
And  I  was  to  sorrow  once  more  for  my  swain. 
O'er  night  the  commander  had  labor'd  so  hard, 
That  each  rebel  look'd  like  a  tyger  or  pard; 
The  guides  were  all  sent  for,  and  maps  finger'd  o'er, 
And  questions  were  put, — that  were  put  oft  before, 
Till  each  prov'd  as  plain  as  the  nose  on  his  face, 
That  the   roads  all  remain'd — just  in  the  old  place. 
Such,  forsooth  is  the  case  when  the  enemy  comes, 
And  as  usual,  I'm  told,  as  the  noise  of  their  drums. 

We  thought,  who  knew  nothing  at  all  of  the  matter, 
The  guards  of  the  rebels  possest  all  the  water, 
And  hence,  that  Sir  Harry,  had  got  to  a  stand, 
Not  seeing  a  place  where  a  soldier  could  land. 


*  The    former    letter,    here    referred    to,    is    printed    in    N.    J.    Archives, 
Second  Series,  V..  628-630. 


106  NEW    JEESEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

But  when   that  the  rebels  were  all  drawn   away. 
We  stood  like  a  fool — who  has  nothing  to  say. 
Next  we  hop'd  they  meant  only  to  fight  in  grimace, 
But  their  still  keeping  near,  quite  alter'd  the  case. 

At  school  we  are  wont  to  use  pounce  for  a  blot ; 
A  general  plenty  of  powder  and  shot. 

The  man  who  for  wiser  than  others  would  pass. 
The  look  of  an  owl  and  the  gait  of  an  ass  ; 
Or  pent  in  his  room  ;    or  apart  from  the  crowd 
Is  seen  for  a  moment,  then  gone  like  a  cloud ; 
Is  silent  when  sager  men   speak  to  the   point ; 
Or  nods,  as  to  say, — you  have  hit  the  right  joint, 
While  slow  from  his  seat  he  stalks  off  with  an  air, 
More  fix'd  than  a  priest's  in  the  depth  of  his  pray'r. 
What's  odd  for  Sir  Harry,  he  nothing  begun. 
Kept  close  to  his  works — without  firing  a  gun. 
But,  perhaps,  th'  poor  man  could  not  get  on  his  legs. 
After  sitting  so  long— like  a  hen  o'er  spoil'd  eggs. 

Alas !   my   sweet  sister,   I  cannot  but  fear. 
That  something  not  good  is  to  happen  us  here. 
The  Knight  he  is  either  involv'd  in  deep  gloom, 
When  no  mortal  but  Andre  dare  enter  his  room ; 
Or  careering,  whip  stich,  with  a  dozen  o'  fools, 
Like  children  astride*>upon  switches  or  stools, 
Hot  after  a  dog  who  has  tied  to  his  tail 
A  herring,  as  boys  tie  a  bladder  or  rail.* 
Not  th'  fool  that  some  chance  has  to  dignity  rais'd ; 
Not  a  cat  when  she's  strok'd,  or  poet  when  prais'd, 
So  pleas'd  is,  or  finds,  it  so  much  to  their  taste, 
As  hunting  the  herring — our  herd  in  haste. 
'Tis  strange  in  what  whimsies  some  men  take  delight; 
I  wish  he  but  lov'd  half  as  well  for  to  fight, 
We  should  with  the  rebels  no  longer  be  teas'd ; 
And  the  officers  tod  might  do  what  they  pleas'd  ; 
Nor  Ayres  at  the  Hook  be  afraid  of  one  Lee,f 
As  your  spouse  of  a  scold,  or  the  Major  of  me. 

Here  th'  scenes  are  all  shifted,  and  barrens  the  shore, 
And  gone  all  the  magic  that  pleas'd  us  before. 
What's  life  my  Tabitha?     Instable  as  sand; 
A  pleasure  that's  spent  while  it  seems  in  the  hand  ; 
A  silk  changing  color  as  men  change  their  ground ; 
A  thing  when  once  lost,  ne'er  again  to  be  found  ; 
A  sea  full  of  storms,  or  ebbing  or  flowing : 
A  riddle, — a  something, — a  charm  not  worth  knowing, 
How  dulness,  and  drivel,  and  folly,  and  pride, 
Triumph  at  each  corner,  or  sigh  by  our  side. 


*  A  substitute  for  fox-hunting, — or  a  favorite  and  constant  diversion  of 
the  Knights'. 

t  Ayres  the  commanding  officer  at  Paulus-IIook. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  107 

— What  lack-a-day  lovers,  what  nothings  but  show ; 

What  pedants  with  swords,  and  all  musk'd  as  a  beau ; 

What  sorrowful  tunes  do  they  set  to  our  eyes  ; 

When  they  sing  of  themselves  what  sustains  and  lies ; 

While  each  dunce  as  he  reads  be-praises  his  brother, 

Like  figures  of  China,  that  nod  at  each  other. 

My  nerves  are  less  hurt  at  the  sight  of  a  wen, 

Than  th'  same  story  still  by  the  same  set  of  men. 

Let  me  die  an  old  maid  if  you'd  find  in  th'  town, 

But  humor  to  make  a  conondrum  go  down. 

Nay,  I'd  send  you  a  sample,  an  effort  most  rare, 

That's  cook'd  up  in  cantoes,  and  proves  to  a  hair, 

By  the  oast  of  the  die  or  a  desperate  hit 

A  piece  may  be  made  without  genius  or  wit. 

— But.  I  wish  to  say  nothing  at  all  of  the  dead, 

Lest,  perchance,  th'  dull  thing  should  be  ask'd  for  or  read.* 

This  morning,  quoth  Bet,  as  she  lac'd  on  my  stays, 
It  enters  my  head,  we  shall  have  no  more  plays ; 
And  as  for  the  balls  dance  at  them  who  may, 
I  trust  there  will  none  of  them  fall  in  our  way. 
There's  something  that  tells  me — who's  at  a  dead  lift, 
And  even  the  best  will  be  put  to  their  shift. 
I've  had  my  own  qualms  for  this  month  and  more  past, 
Now,  'tis  plain,  what  I  fear'd  will  happen  at  last ; 
For  sure  as  in  Rome  there  are  priests  or  a  pope, 
Affairs  here  have  got  to  the  end  of  the  rope ; 
And  if  there  is  ought  or  in  visions  or  skill 
We  all  must  give  up  to  the  rebels  at  will. 
I  dreamt,  when  the  city  they'd  got.  you  wrere  seen, 
All  charming  as  now,  and  bedight  like  a  queen ; 
-A  beautiful  youth  bow'd  down  to  your  feet, 
(The  Major  besure,  never  look'd  half  so  sweet) 
Then  bade  you  not  fear  with  an  air  so  divine, 
As  melted  your  heart. — as  it  could  not  but  mine : 
I  never  felt  so,  in  m'y  days,  as  I  live, 
For,  beshew  me,  I  thought,— no  quarter  they'd  give. 
— I  hope,  my  dear  mistress,  when  this  trial  comes, 
They'll  finish  the  work  without  using  their  bombs ; 
To  think  of  their  tails,  I  almost  lose  my  breath, 
But  should  one  burst  near  me  it  would  be  my  death. 
The  yea — forsooth  Yankee  I  hate  as  the  Turk  ; 
The  dogs  under  Wayne  too  will  make  bloody  work. 
And  yet.  how  I  Jong  to  leave  this  place  of  sin. 
When  think  you,  good  mistress,  the  rogues  will  begin. 
If  they  don't  do  it  now,  pray  is  it  not  clear 
That  they'll  double  their  force — and  do  it  next  year!  Z. 


*  I  suppose  the  author  alludes  to  a  late  New- York  poetical  jet ;  but 
as  she  seems  unwilling  to  give  it  a  chance  to  be  known,  the  editor  begs 
leave  to  follow  the  example. 


108  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    KEVOI/UTION.  [1780 


CHATHAM,  NOVEM.  8. 

Last  week  forty  of  our  officers,  who  have  been  in  cap- 
tivity with  the  enemy,  were  exchanged  and  came  over  to 
Elizabeth  Town;  and  on  Sunday  last,  one  hundred  and 
fifty  privates. 

NEW- YORK,  Nov.  11. 

The  election  for  New-Jersey  has  been  misrepresented; 
Mess.  Dickinson  and  Brailey  both  standing  a  poll  in  op- 
position to  Mr.  Livingston,  thereby  occasioned  the  interest 
to  be  divided,  and  made  the  government  of  that  province 
an  easy  acquisition  to  the  latter,  who  had  37  votes  out 
of  50. 

NEW, YORK,  NOVEMBER  13. 

Friday  last  the  Fleet  from  Cork  arrived  at  Sandy-Hook : 
They  touched  at  Charlestown,  where  they  left  20  odd  Sail, 
the  Remainder,  amounting  to  about  54,  proceeded  here. 
The  Day  after  they  left  Cork,  which  was  the  13th  of  Au- 
gust, his  Majesty's  Ship  the  Beneficent,  Capt.  McBride, 
one  of  the  Convoy,  fell  in  with  and  took,  a  French  64  Gun 
Ship  called  the  Duke  D'Artois,  that  had  been  cruizing  in 
Quest  of  the  Fleet. 

— The  New-York  Gazette:  and  the  Weekly  Mercury,  No- 
vember 13,  1780.      No.  1517. 


TO  BE  SOLD  BY  PUBLIC  SALE, 

At  the  Coffee  House,  on  Saturday  the  18th  day  of  No- 
vember, instant  at  6  o'clock  in  the  evening, 
A  valuable  tract  of  land,  situate  in  Roxborough  township 
Morris  county,  New-Jersey,  within  one  mile  of  Andover 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  109 

Iron-works,  and  five  miles  from  Hackets  town,  containing 
418  acres.  It  is  chiefly  all  woodland,  and  finely  timbered 
with  large  oak  and  hickory,  which  in  time,  will  bo  very 
valuable,  on  account  of  its  situation,  being  so  near  the 
Iron-works ;  a  sufficient  quantity  may  be  converted  into 
fine  meadow,  which  can  be  watered  by  two  streams,  ex- 
clusive of  several  valuable  swamps,  which  is  now  mowable. 
There  are  two  log  houses  on  the  tract. 
— The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  November  14,  1780. 


CHATHAM,  NOVEMBER  15. 

It  was  Elias  Man,  and  not  Cornelius  Blanchard  (as 
mentioned  in  our  last)  who  assisted  in  capturing  of  Col. 
Ogden  and  Capt.  Dayton. 


ANTED,  to  be  bound,  a  BOY  about  12  or  14  years 
old,  who  can  be  well  recommended,  to  live  on  a 
farm,  and  help  in  a  grist-mill,  if  required;  he 

shall  be  well  cloathed  and  taken  care  of,  and  sent  to  night 

school  if  required.     Inquire  of  the  Printer. 


TO    BE    SOLD, 
BY  THE  SUBSCKIBER, 

^  I  AHE  FARM  formerly  the  property  of  George  Arm- 

JL        strong,    5   miles  from  Morris-Town,   and   3   from 

Baskenridge  meeting-house,   containing  500   acres 

of  good  land,  one  half  of  which  is  fine  young  woods,  the 

other  half  fit  either  for  pasture  or  grain,  60  acres  of  which 

is  good  meadow:     On   said  farm  is   a   large  two  story 

dwelling-house,  with  a  kitchen  at  each  wing,  a  good  barn, 

cider,  chair,  and  cow  houses;    a  cooper's  shop,  and  other 


110  NEW    JERSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

buildings  sufficient  and  convenient  for  the  farm ;  also  a 
good  orchard  of  the  best  grafted  fruit,  of  upward  of  1000 
apple  and  peach  trees,  which  never  fails  bearing  every 
year.  The  whole  farm  is  well  watered,  and  in  good 
fence,  the  principal  part  new.  It  is  a  pleasant  and  healthy 
situation,  and  in  a  good  neighbourhood.  The  stock,  grain, 
and  utensils  will  also  be  sold  with  the  farm  or  separate, 
as  may  best  suit  the  purchasers.  If  not  convenient  for 
the  buyer  to  pay  the  whole  of  the  purchase  money,  a  bond, 
on  interest,  with  good  security,  will  be  taken  for  part. — 
For  terms  apply  to  the  subscriber,  living  upon  the  prem- 
ises, who  will  give  a  good  title  for  the  same. 

ALEXANDER  ROBERTSON. 

!N".  B.  Said  Robertson  has  for  sale,  at  his  farm,  about 
12  head  of  horned  cattle  fit  for  killing,  20  sheep,  and  some 
hogs,  a  young  mare  with  foal,  and  a  good  draught  horse. 
All  the  above  he  proposes  to  sell  immediately. 

Morris  County,  Nov.  14,  1780. 


To  be  Sold  at  publick  VEXDUE, 

IN  THE  TOWN  OF  NEWARK, 

i 

AT   commodious   and  good   new  house   and  other 
_1_         buildings,  with  about  8  acres  of  good  land,  form- 
erly the  property  of  Lewis  Ogden,  Esq ;   Also,  a  4 
acre  lot  of  land,  nearly  opposite  the  tavern  of  Capt.  Pierson, 
where  the  sale  will  begin,  and  the  conditions  made  known, 
on  Tuesday  the  5th  of  December  next,  to  begin  at   10 
o'clock,  when  attendance  will  be  given  by 

ALEXANDER  ROBERTSON, 

The  Proprietor. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  Ill 

New   Advertisements, 
Just  published, 

And  to  be  sold,   wholesale   and   retail,   at   the   Printing- 
Office  in  Chatham, 

The    UNITED     STATES 

ALMANACK, 

For  the  YEAR  of  our  LOED 

1781. 

Containing  many  articles  of  entertainment  and  utility, 
among  which  is  a  Dialogue  exhibiting  the  nature,  neces- 
sity, and  importance  of  Regeneration.  By  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Ogden. 

ROCK    SALT, 

OF  an  excellent  quality,  to  be  sold  for  cash;    or  ex- 
changed for  wheat;    or  given  for  cutting  and  cart- 
ing of  wood,   by  John  D.   Crimsheir,   at  Bottle- 
Hill. — He  has  likewise  two  horses  to  part  with,  fit  for 
saddle  or  gears;    the  oldest  not  exceeding  six  years;    in 
payment,  for  one  of  which,  he  will  accept  of  good  hay. — 
As  farmers  are  fond  of  encreasing  their  stock,  he  has  a 
healthy,  strong  wench,   and  two  children,  which  he  will 
exchange  for  a  wench  from  eighteen  to  thirty-fiver  years  of 
age,  who  understands  housework. 

IF   JOSEPH   ROOKE,   who  came  from  England   in 
1776,  and  who  once  lived  in  the  service  of  Major- 
General  Phillips,  will  call  at  the  Printer's,  or  at  Mr. 
Thomas  Bradford's  office,  in  Philadelphia,  he  will  hear 
of  something  very  much  to  his  advantage. 
November  14,  1780. 


112  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

To  be  Sold  at  publick  VENDUE, 
On  Thursday  the  7th  of  December  next, 

A  HOUSE  and  lot  of  land,  (late  the  property  of 
•*••*•  Daniel  Baldwin,  now  of  the  subscriber)  near  the 
centre  of  the  town  of  Newark;  the  house  is  large 
and  commodious,  with  four  rooms  on  a  floor,  an  entry  and 
stair-way,  lately  built  and  covered  with  cedar  shingles. 
The  lot  contains  one  acre,  on  which  is  a  good  barn  and 
stable,  with  an  excellent  well  of  water,  the  whole  being 
very  convenient  for  a  merchant  or  tradesman. — The  ven- 
due  to  begin  at  two  o'clock,  P.  M.  when  the  conditions  of 
sale  will  be  made  known  by 

ROBEET  NIEL. 


A  LL  persons  indebted  to  the  subscriber,  are  desired  to 

^~*~    make   immediate  payment,   otherwise  they   will  be 

•    dealt   with   as   the   law   directs;     and    all   those   tc 

whom  he  is  indebted,  are  desired  to  bring  in  their  accounts 

for  payment. 

DAVID  CAMPBELL. 
New-Providence,  Nov.  14,  1780. 


TDROKE  into  the  pasture  of  the  subscriber  on  Satur- 
•*-^  day  the  4th  instant,  a  pair  of  bright  red  steers,  four 
years  old  past,  have  been  worked,  and  are  in  good 
order,  marked  with  a  slit  in  the  end  of  the  right  ear. 
Also  another  red  steer,  three  years  old  past,  with  a  white 
face,  and  a  crop  out  of  the  right  ear.  The  owner  is  de- 
sired to  come,  prove  property,  pay  charges,  and  take  them 
away. 

SILAS  HAND. 
Hanover,  November  14,  1Y80. 

—The  New-Jersey  Journal,  November  15,  1780,  Vol.  II. 
Numb.  XCI. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  113 

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 

"X  T  THEREAS  the  Honourable  the  Congress  by  their 
^  ^  Proclamation,  bearing  date  the  eighteenth  day  of 
October  last,  therein  reciting.  That,  "Whereas 
it  hath  pleased  Almighty  God,  the  Father  of  all  Mercies,, 
amidst  the  vicissitudes  and  calamities  of  war,  to  bestow 
blessings  upon  the  people  of  these  states,  which  call  for 
their  devout  and  thankful  acknowledgements,  more  especi- 
ally in  the  late  remarkable  interposition  of  his  watchful 
providence  in  rescuing  the  person  of  our  Commander  in 
Chief  and  the  army  from  imminent  dangers,  at  the  mo- 
ment when  treason  was  ripened  for  execution ;  in  prosper- 
ing the  labours  of  the  husbandmen,  and  causing  the  earth 
to  yield  its  increase  in  plentiful  harvests ;  and  above  all, 
in  continuing  to  us  the  enjoyment  of  the  gospel  of  peace  :'r 
Did  by  the  said  Proclamation  "recommend  to  the  several 
states  to  set  apart  Thursday  the  seventh  day  of  December 
next,  to  be  observed  as  a  day  of  public  thanksgiving  and 
prayer;  that  all  the  people  may  assemble  on  that  day  to 
celebrate  the  praises  of  our  Divine  Benefactor;  to  confess 
our  unworthiness  of  the  least  of  his  favours,  and  to  offer 
our  fervent  supplications  to  the  God  of  all  grace;  that  it 
may  please  him  to  pardon  our  heinous  transgressions,  and 
incline  our  hearts  for  the  future  to  keep  all  his  laws ;  to 
comfort  and  relieve  our  brethren  who  are  in  any  wise 
afflicted  or  distressed;  to  smile  upon  our  husbandry  and 
trade;  to  direct  our  public  councils  and  lead  our  forces  by 
land  and  sea  to  victory;  to  take  our  illustrious  ally  under 


114:  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

his  special  protection,  and  to  favour  our  joint  councils  and 
exertions  for  the  establishment  of  speedy  and  permanent 
peace;  to  cherish  all  schools  and  seminaries  of  education, 
and  to  cause  the  knowledge  of  Christianity  to  spread  over 
all  the  earth." 

I  have  therefore  thought  fit,  by  and  with  the  advice  of 
the  Honourable  Privy  Council  of  this  state,  to  appoint 
Thursday  the  seventh  day  of  December  next  to  be  observed 
as  a  day  of  public  thanksgiving  and  prayer  in  this  state,  in 
pursuance  of  the  said  Proclamation  of  Congress,  and  for 
the  purposes  therein  mentioned :  And  it  is  hereby  recom- 
mended to  the  ministers  of  the  gospel  of  every  denomina- 
tion in  this  state  to  perform  divine  service,  and  to  the 
people  committed  to  their  charge  to  attend  on  public  wor- 
ship on  that  day ;  and  to  all  the  inhabitants  of  the  state  to 
abstain  thereon  from  servile  labour  and  all  recreation  in- 
consistent with  the  solemnity  of  the  festival. 

Given  under  my  Hand  and  Seal  at  Arms,  in  Trenton, 
the  seventh  day  of  November,  one  thousand  seven  hundred 
and  eighty,  and  in  the  fifth  year  of  the  Independence  of 
the  United  States  of  America. 

WIL.  LIVINGSTON. 

By  His  Excellency's  command, 
Bowes  Reed,  Sec'ry. 

GOD  SAVE  THE  PEOPLE. 


TRENTON,  NOVEMBER  15. 

By  a  gentleman  of  distinction  we  learn,  that  a  vessel 
arrived  lately  at  Boston,  the  Captain  of  which  asserted  that 
he  sailed  from  Brest  in  company  with  a  French  fleet,  con- 
sisting of  eight  ships  of  the  line,  four  frigates,  and  seventy 
large  transports;  and  that  he  left  them  in  the  latit.  of 
Bermudas,  near  that  Island. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  115 

We  also  learn  that  Rodney's  fleet  sailed  from  New- York 
last  week,  previous  to  which  a  very  hot  press  took  place 
there,  when  many  negroes,  carmen  and  refugees  were 
siezed  and  sent  on  board  the  fleet. 

We  can  assure  our  readers  that  the  Cork  fleet,  which  has 
been  many  weeks  expected  at  New- York,  has  not  yet  ar- 
rived ;  and  it  is  said  a  number  of  them  have  been  captured 
and  sent  into  Brest  harbour  by  a  French  squadron. 


Subscriber  takes  this  method  to  inform  the  Pub- 
lie  and  country  in  general,  that  he  has  removed 
from  Flemington  to  the  house  formerly  occupied  by 

William  Cleayton,  Esq.,  opposite  Mr.  Abraham  Hunt's, 

where  he  has  for  SALE, 

Rum,  Sugar,  Tea,  Coffee,  and  some 
DEY    GOODS; 

Which  he  will  sell  as  low  as  the  times  will  admit  of. 

JOHN  SINGER. 
Trenton,  Nov.  14,  1780. 


State  of  New-Jersey,  Hunterdon  county 
November  13,  1780. 

TTTHEREAS  there  has  been  delivered  into  my  cus- 
^  *  tody  a  certain  Negro,  who  calls  himself  Thomas 
Stevens,  says  he  belongs  to  one  John  Warren,  in 
Maryland,  twenty  miles  this  side  Snow-Hill;  he  is  about 
six  feet  high,  stout  and  strong.  Also  a  certain  John  Tal- 
bert,  who  says  he  is  a  freeman,  came  from  Charlestown, 
South-Carolina;  he  is  about  five  feet  nine  or  ten  inches 
high,  and  a  slim  fellow.  Their  masters  are  desired  to 
come  and  prove  their  property,  pay  charges  and  take  them 
away,  or  they  will  be  sold  for  the  same  in  three  weeks. 

PETER  HULICK,  Gaoler. 


116  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

One  Thousand  Dollars  Reward. 
RAN    AWAY, 

From  the  Subscriber,  in  Princeton,  on  Sunday  evening 
the  12th  instant ; 

\  NEGRO  MAN,  named  Caesar,  about  twenty-five 
•&*•  years  of  age,  about  five  feet  eight  inches  high, 
marked  with  the  small-pox;  had  on  a  blue  camblet 
coat  worn  out  at  the  elbows,  a  pair  of  new  buck-skin 
breeches,  straps  without  knee-buckles,  old  pumps  with  a 
hole  in  one  of  the  toes  or  a  new  patch,  a  small  felt  hat  lopt. 
Whoever  apprehends  the  said  Negro  and  delivers  him  to 
me,  shall  have  the  above  reward,  paid  by 

JOHN  DENTON. 

Princeton  Nov.  14,  1780. 

P.  S.  There  is  goo*d  reason  to  believe  that  he  has  been 
advised  to  go  away,  any  substantial  evidence  who  will  dis- 
cover the  fact  (if  the  plot  be  by  a  white  person)  on  full 
conviction,  shall  have  a  reward  of  Six  Thousand  Dollars ; 
if  a  black  person,  Five  Hundred.  As  it  is  more  than 
probable  that  there  is  more  people  goes  to  market  to  Staten- 
Island  than  ought;  but  if  any  person  going  there  will 
please  to  call  on  Mr.  Cubberly  and  enquire  of  his  negro 
man  Caesar  who  it  was  that  advised  him  to  leave  his  mas- 
ter, and  make  a  sufficient  discovery  whereby  the  subscriber 
may  receive  sufficient  damage,  shall  have  Ten  Guineas  or 
the  exchange  thereof  in  Continental  money. 

The  subscriber  has  for  sale,  bar-iron,  rock  and  shore- 
salt,  spelling-books  and  almanacks  by  the  gross  or  dozen 
as  low  as  at  Philadelphia,  and  sundry  other  kinds  of  mer- 
chandize. Also  two  yoke  of  fat  oxen,  with  some  other  fat 
cattle,  to  be  sold  at  public  vendue  on  Saturday  the  18th 
instant,  between  the  hours  of  eight  and  twelve  o'clock  in 
the  forenoon,  for  ready  money  only ;  or  at  private  sale,  as 
may  best  suit  the  purchaser.  Hard  money  will  be  most 
agreeable — and  no  person  to  have  the  cattle  to  take  them 
out  of  the  state.  J.  D. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  117 

AIAHE  subscribers  desire  all  those  indebted  to  the  estate 
-*•      of  Samuel  Titus,  deceased,   to  come  and  pay  the 
just  demands  thereof,  and  prevent  further  trouble. 
Witness  our  hands, 

Johnson  Titus  "^    A  ,    .   . 

AT  -,*e>n  T        i.  rri-.L  Admmi- 

Nov.  14,  1780.  Joseph  Titus      ^  , 

T  ,  r  T  ,  [  strators. 

John  Johnson   j 


to  the  subscriber's  some  time  in  August  last,  a 
""      small  black  BULL,  the  points  of  his  horns  cut,  but 
no  other  mark.     The  owner  is  desired  to  come  and 
prove  his  property,  pay  charges,  and  take  him  away.     I 
have  a  yoke  of  working  OXEN  to  .exchange  for  a  horse  or 
mare. 

EICH.  GREEN. 
Trenton  township,  Nov.  14,  1780. 


Q^TRAYED  away  from  the  subscriber,  off  the  common 
v3  of  Trenton,  a  pale  red  HEIFER,  two  years  old  next 
spring.  Any  person  who  will  give  intelligence  of 
said  heifer,  shall  have  a  reward  of  twenty  dollars,  and  all 
charges  paid  by 

William  Smith. 
Nov.  14,  1780. 


TO    BE    SOLD    Cheap, 

By  the  subscriber  in  Hopewell, 

FIVE  blooded  COLTS,  one  got  by  old  Hector,  one  ditto 
by  a  colt  of  Bullerock,  one  ditto  by  a  colt  of  old 
Hector   and    another  by  old   Scipio. — Also   cyder 
spirit  and  cyder  royal  by  the  hogshead  or  less  quantity. 

TIMOTHY  BRUSH. 


118  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

A  LL  persons  indebted  to  the  estate  of  Matthew  Davis, 
•^"*-    late  of  Newtown,  Sussex  county,  deceased,  are  re- 
quested   to    make    immediate    payment:     Likewise 
those  who  have  any  demands,  to  send  in  their  accounts 
properly  attested,  that  they  may  be  settled. 

Phoebe  Davis,  Admstrx. 
Sam.  Linn,  Administrator. 
November  4,  1780. 


STRAY    MARE. 

"YX7AS  taken  up  the  25th  of  August,  about  half  a  mile 
below  Tappan-town,  a  black  stray  MARE,  with 
a  star  in  her  forehead,  about  14  hands  high,  a 
natural  trotter.     The  owner  is  requested  to  prove  his  prop- 
erty, pay  charges,  and  take  her  away. 

JACOB  KING. 
Tappan,  Nov.  11,  1780. 


Bordentown  Stage. 

>TpHE  boat  sets  off  from  the  Crooked  Billet,  in  Phila- 
-*•      delphia,    on    Sunday    as    usual;     on    Monday    the 
waggons  proceed  to  New-Brunswick,  on  Tuesday  to 
Elizabeth-Town  and  returns  the  same  evening  to  New- 
Brunswick,  on  Wednesday  to  Bordentown,  and  on  Thurs- 
day the  boat  returns  to  Philadelphia. 

The  subscriber  returns  his  thanks  to  the  Publick  for 
their  past  favours  and  flatters  himself  that  his  attention 
to  the  ease  and  convenience  of  passengers,  and  his  punctu- 
ality in  forwarding,  with  the  utmost  dispatch,  all  goods 
that  may  be  sent  by  his  stage,  will  entitle  him  to  a  con- 
tinuance of  their  favours. 

JOS.  BORDEN,  jun. 
Bordentown,  Nov.  7,  1780. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  119 

To  be  SOLD  at  public  Vendue, 
On  Tuesday  the  5th  of  December  next, 

AIAHAT  elegant  House  and  Barn,  with  eight  acres  of 

*•      land,  in  the  town  of  Newark,  formerly  the  property 

of  Lewis   Ogden,   Esq.,   now  in  the  possession   of 

Henry  Ten  Brook,  with  a  lot  of  four  acres  opposite  Capt. 

Josiah  Pierson's  tavern. — The  title  is  indisputable. 

The  sale  to  begin  at  ten  o'clock,  when  the  conditions  will 
be  made  known,  and  attendance  given  by 

Alexander  Robertson. 
November  13,  1780. 

To  be  SOLD  by  the  Subscriber, 

^"TVHAT  valuable  Farm  formerly  the  property  of  Mr. 
•*•  George  Armstrong,  within  five  miles  of  Morristown, 
and  three  from  Baskenridge  meeting-house,  pleas- 
antly situated,  containing  500  acres;  one  half  of  which  is 
improved,  and  well  adapted  either  for  grass  or  grain,  the 
remainder  in  good  thriving  young  timber;  the  whole  is 
well  watered,  and  the  greatest  part  in  new  good  fence ;  an 
excellent  orchard  of  the  very  best  grafted  fruit,  containing 
upwards  of  1000  apple  and  peach  trees.  It  is  so  well  situ- 
ated that  a  late  frost  in  the  spring  never  injures  it,  and 
yields  a  plentiful  crop  every  year;  60  acres  of  good 
meadow,  which  produces  plenty  of  good  timothy  and  clover. 
On  the  premises  is  a  large  convenient  dwellinghouse  two 
stories  high,  four  rooms  on  a  floor,  with  two  kitchens  and  a 
large  cellar,  commodious  for  two  families,  also  a  good  large 
barn,  stable,  cyder-house,  and  every  other  building  neces- 
sary for  a  farm,  all  in  good  repair,  together  with  the  farm- 
ing utensils  and  stock.  Apply  to  the  subscriber  in  Morris 
county,  who  will  give  an  indisputable  title  for  the  same. 

Alexander  Robertson. 
November  13,  1780. 
— N.  J.  Gazette,  Vol  III.  No.  151,  Nov.  15,  1780, 


120  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

TT7EXT  adrift  on  Tuesday  night  last,  a  six  orred  boat, 
^  ^       painted  blue,  with  a  white  streak.     Whoever  will 
bring  her  to  the   54th  regiment  laying  at   Paulus 
Hook,  or  give  information  to  the  printer,  shall  be  hand- 
somely rewarded. 
— The  Royal  Gazette,  November  18,  1780.    No.  432. 


TRENTON",  NOVEMBER  22. 

"On  the  26th  of  September  last  the  Rev.  Jeremiah  Hal- 
sey,  Pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  at  Bedminster,  in 
the  county  of  Somerset  and  state  of  New-Jersey,  was  seized 
with  a  fever  at  the  house  of  Mr.  Skillman,  in  Grigg's- 
Town,  as  he  was  going  to  attend  the  meeting  of  the  Board 
of  Trustees  of  the  College  at  Princeton,  of  which  Board  he 
was  a  Member,  and  died  the  second  of  October  following: 
His  corpse  was  interred  at  Bedminster;  but  by  reason  of 
several  interpositions  of  Providence,  his  funeral  sermon 
was  delayed  till  the  2d  Sabbath  of  November  then  next  en- 
suing; at  which  time  the  Rev.  Samuel  Kennedy  preached 
on  that  occasion,  from  Rev.  xiv.  13. 

"Mr.  Halsey  was  Tutor  in  the  above  said  College  ten 
years,  and  nine  of  these  he  was  eldest  Tutor,  and  taught 
with  reputation  and  success.  He  was  a  man  of  genius, 
learning,  piety,  and  real  merit;  a  good  divine;  an  able, 
faithful  minister  of  the  New-Testament.  He  was  a  loving 
tender  husband;  a  kind  and  faithful  friend;  and  ap- 
peared to  be  governed  by  the  holy,  benevolent  tempers  of 
the  Gospel.  He  was  a  valuable  member  of  the  Presbytery 
of  New-Brunswick ;  agreeable  and  useful  in  society ;  and 
had  a  real  concern  for  the  welfare  of  both  Church  and 
State:  and  his  death  is  indeed  a  publick  loss.  He  died 
without  issue,  and  has  left  a  sorrowful  widow  and  a  desti- 
tute congregation." 

Monday  last  a  large  body  of  the  merchants  and  traders  of 
Philadelphia  met  and  fixed  the  exchange  of  continental 
money  at  seventy-five  for  one ;  and  "that  every  person,  of 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTEACTS.  121 

whatever  character  or  description,  who  shall  refuse  to  re- 
ceive the  said  paper  money  at  the  exchange  settled  as  afore- 
said, at  the  time  of  payment,  or  shall  demand  a  higher  ex- 
change, or  refuse  to  sell  such  commodities  for  that  mode  of 
payment  as  he  or  she  exposes  to  sale  for  specie,  shall  be  ex- 
posed to  the  public  as  an  enemy  to  the  independence  of 
America,  and  to  the  peace  and  good  order  of  the  city ;  and 
every  associator  will  from  thence  forward  restrain  from  all 
friendly  intercourse  and  dealings  with  such  person :  That 
any  person  who  shall  give  or  offer  more  than  seventy-five 
.continental  dollars  for  one  in  specie,  shall  be  immediately 
reported  to  the  committee  as  a  disaffected  and  dangerous 
person,  to  be  dealt  with  as  such." 


WANTED, 

£  f\  BUSHELS  of  good  WHEAT,  and  50  Ib.  of  TAL- 
^  \J      LOW — for  which   Specie,   or  the  exchange   in 
continental,    will    be    given.      Enquire    at    the 
Printing-Office,  in  Trenton. 


One  Thousand  Dollars  Reward. 

STOLEN  out  of  the  stable  of  the  subscriber,  in  Mans- 
field township,  Burlington  county,  state  of  New  Jer- 
sey, in  the  night  of  the  13th  instant  Nov.  a  black 
iSTALLIOIST,  known  by  the  name  of  Grover's  Black,  about 
14  and  a  half  hands  high,  a  natural  trotter,  canters  well, 
14  years  old,  very  gay,  7-8ths  blooded.  Also  a  half  blooded 
bright  bay  MARE,  15  hands  high,  five  years  old  last 
spring,  with  a  star  and  some  collar  marks  near  her  withers, 
a  remarkable  white  spot  on  her  near  side  between  her  but- 
tock and  thigh  about  a  span  from  the  root  of  her  tail,  a 
natural  trotter,  canters  well  and  very  gay.  Any  person 
taking  up  the  said  horse  and  mare,  and  delivering  them 


122  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

to  the  subscriber,  shall  be  entitled  to  the  above  reward,  or 
Five  Hundred  Dollars  for  either,  and  all  reasonable 
charges,  paid  by 

JOSHUA  FOSTER. 


Three  hard  Dollars  Reward, 

TRAYED  from  the  plantation  of  James  Emans,  IIL 
Kingwood,  on  the  13th  day  of  September  last,  a 
black  Mare,  about  14  hands  high,  11  years  old  past, 
has  a  white  saddle-mark  a  little  back  of  the  near  shoulder, 
no  shoes,  had  a  yoke  on,  trots  and  canters,  supposed  to  in- 
cline towards  Monmouth  Court-house,  where  she  was  bred. 
Whoever  will  take  up  said  mare,  and  deliver  her  at  said 
Emeu's,  or  to  the  subscriber,  near  said  courthouse,  or  send 
word  to  either  place  where  she  may  be  had  again,  shall 
have  Three  hard  Dollars  reward,  and  reasonable  charges,, 
paid  by  JOHN  EMANS. 

Nov.  11,  1780. 

"TT7HERBAS  it  has  been  reported  that  George  Millerr 

^       about  the  24th  of  June  last,  was  at  my  house, 

and  shewed  me  two  large  bundles  of  counterfeit 

money,  and  told  me  if  I  would  come  and  see  him,  he  would 

let  me  have  enough  of  such  money  as  that :  but  I  do  hereby 

certify,  that  I  never  said  the  like,  nor  never  knew  him  to 

have  any  of  that  kind.     Given  under  my  hand,  this  15th 

day  of  November,  1780. 

.THOMAS  PRENTICE. 


To  all  Avhom  it  may  concern. 

XTOTICE  is  hereby  given  that  a  Court 

State  of  New-      \\\         £  A  ,     .     ,,        .• ,  ,     ,    ,  -,   ,.      ,, 
±_  \      of  Admiralty  will  be  held  lor  the 

state  of  New-Jersey,  at  the  house 
of  Isaac  Wood,  innholder,  in  Mountholly,  in  the  county  of 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  123 

Burlington,  on  Tuesday  the  nineteenth  day  of  December 
next,  at  the  hour  of  ten  in  the  forenoon  of  the  same  day, 
then  and  there  to  try  the  truth  of  the  facts  alledged  in  the 
Bills  of  Stephen  Decatur,  (who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the 
brig  or  vessel  called  the  Rodney,  taken  at  sea  on  her  voy- 
age from  Liverpool  to  South-Carolina,  and  lately  com- 
manded by  -  -  Wignall ; of  Stephen  Decatur  and 

Roger  Cain,  (who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the  brig  or  vessel 
called  the  Rodney,  taken  at  sea  on  her  passage  from 
Plymouth  to  South-Carolina  and  lately  commanded  by 

William  Ribbins; of  David  Stephens  (who  as  well, 

&c.)  against  a  certain  schooner  or  vessel,  Virginia  built, 
burden  about  thirty  tons,  taken  at  sea,  no  person  being  on 
board,  loaded  with  tobacco — against  the  schooner  called 
the  Flying  Fish,  a  re-captured  vessel;  -  -  -  Of  Joshua 
Studson,  (who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the  schooner  or  vessel 

called  the  John against  the  sloop  or  vessel  called  the 

Catherine,  which  said  schooner  John  and  sloop  Catherine 
were  lately  taken  by  said  Joshua  Studson,  on  the  south 

side  of  Staten-Island,  near  Prince's-Bay ; Of  Samuel 

Bigelow,  (who  as  well,  &c.)  against  a  certain  schooner 
called  the  Betsey,  a  re-captured  vessel,  drove  on  the  bar 
at  Cranberry-Inlet  by  distress  of  weather,  formerly  be- 
longing to  some  inhabitant  of  the  state  of  Delaware,  and 
said  to  be  cut  out  of  Muskmelon  creek  by  the  enemy ;  and 
also  against  Negro  Toney,  taken  on  board  said  schooner 
Betsey,  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  other  per- 
son or  persons  interested  therein,  may  appear  and  shew 
cause,  if  any  they  have,  why  the  said  vessels  and  their 
respective  tackle,  apparel,  furniture  and  cargoes,  and  the 
said  Negro  Toney,  should  not  be  condemned  to  the  sev- 
eral captors  thereof,  and  decrees  thereon  pass,  pursuant  to 
the  prayer  of  the  said  bills. 

By  order  of  the  Judge, 

JOS.  BLOOMFIELD,  Register. 

Haddonfield,  Nov.  10,  1780, 


124  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

State  of  New-Jersey,  Bergen  county, 

November  13,  1780. 

TT7HEREAS  there  are  Inquisitions  found  and  re- 
^  ^  turned  in  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  held  for 
the  county  aforesaid,  on  the  fourth  Tuesday  in 
October  last,  against  the  following  persons,  to  wit,  James 
Marcus  Prevost,  Garret  A.  Hoppe,  Johannes  C.  Mejjer, 
John  I.  Zabriskie,  Harmanus  Lutkins,  David  G.  Demarest, 
Abraham  Van  Blerkum,  Cornelius  Dykman,  Peter  P. 
Bogert  and  Wert  I.  Banta :  This  is  therefore  to  give  No- 
tice to  the  aforesaid  persons,  or  any  person  concerned  with 
or  under  them,  or  in  their  behalf,  that  if  they  do  not  ap- 
pear at  the  next  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  to  be  holden  in 
and  for  the  county  aforesaid,  on  the  fourth  Thursday  in 
January  next,  for  to  enter  a  traverse,  and  give  security, 
according  to  law,  final  judgment  will  be  entered  thereon, 
in  behalf  of  the  state. 

*TAMES  BOARD  ""j 

HENDERICUS  KUYPER      >  Commrs. 
GARRET  LYDECKER 


To  all  whom  it  may  concern, 

New  Jersey,  Monmouth  county,  ss 

T)Y  virtue  of  an  order  from  the  Honourable  the  Jus- 
•*"•*  tices  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  this  state,  I  am  di- 
rected to  certify  the  publick,  that  courts  of  Oyer 
and  Terminer  and  General  Gaol  Delivery  will  be  held  at 
Freehold  courthouse,  in  and  for  the  county  of  Monmouth, 
on  Tuesday  the  12th  of  December  next:  All  Justices  of 
the  Peace,  Coroners,  Constables,  and  other  officers  and 
ministers  of  Justice  in  the  said  county,  are  hereby  desired 
that  they  be  then  and  there  in  their  own  persons,  with 
their  rolls,  records,  indictments,  and  other  remembrances ; 
and  all  persons  who  will  prosecute,  or  can  bear  testimony 
in  behalf  of  the  state  against  any  offenders  in  the  said 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  125- 

county,  are  desired  likewise  to  give  their  attendance  on 
the  day,  and  at  the  place  aforesaid. 

DAVID  FORMAN,  Sheriff. 
Nov.  20,  1780. 


TO    BE    SOLD, 

By  publick  vendue,  at  Freehold  courthouse,  in  the  county 
of  Monmouth, 

>"pHE  sloop  CATHERINE  and  schooner  JOHN,  to- 

-*-      gether  with  their  tackle,  apparel,  and  furniture,  as 

they  now  lay  at  Middletown  Point,  lately  captured 

by  Capt.  Joshua  S.  Judson.     The  sale  to  be  on  Friday  the 

first  day  of  December  next. 

By  order  of  the  Judge, 

ZACH.  ROSSELL,  Marshal. 
Nov.  17,  1780. 
—N.  J.   Gazette,  Vol.  III.     No.  152.     Nov.  22,  1780.. 


CHATHAM,  November  15. 

The  late  meeting  of  the  American  and  British  Com- 
missaries General  of  Prisoners  has  effected  the  exchange 
of  all  our  privates  at  New- York;  and  it  is  with  pleasure 
we  inform  our  readers  that  they  may  be  daily  expected. 


NEW-YORK,  Novembe[r]  15. 

An  account  of  the  attempt  to  surprize  the  rebel  guard  at 
Newark,  in  New-Jersey,  by  the  Refugees,  removed 
from  the  blockhouse  on  Hudson's  river,  to  their  pres- 
ent post  at  Bergen  Point. 
On  the  21st  instant  at  one  o'clock  in  the  morning,  the 

party  consisting  of  one  hundred  men  embarked  in  two  flat, 


126  NEW    JERSEY  -IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

and  one  gun  boat,  proceeded  to  Roger's  ferry,  where  they 
landed  and  moved  towards  Newark,  with  one  three 
pounder,  which  they  posted  on  an  eminence  half  way  be- 
tween the  aforesaid  ferry  and  the  town,  with  a  number  of 
vessels,  where  they  left  one  gun  boat  to  cover  their  passage 
over  the  marsh,  should  the  enemy  pursue  them. — Captain 
Thomas  Ward  (the  gallant  defender  of  the  block  house,  on 
the  21st  of  July)  then  advanced  at  the  head  of  fifty  men 
undiscovered,  within  400  yards  of  the  rebel  guard  house, 
when  the  advanced  party  under  Capt.  Mac  Michael  fell  in 
with  their  patrole,  who  immediately  fired  upon  him,  he 
charged  them,  but  finding  himself  flanked  by  numbers,  who 
had  posted  themselves  in  different  houses,  thought  proper 
to  bring  up  the  piece  of  cannon,  which  was  soon  effected 
by  the  vigilance  of  Capt.  Housen;  until  his  arrival  they 
maintained  their  post  in  the  center  of  the  town,  though  the 
enemy  endeavoured  to  gall  them  as  much  as  possible,  but 
a  few  rounds  of  grape  dispersed  them  for  a  little  time,  but 
as  they  were  disappointed  in  their  expectation,  it  was 
thought  most  prudent  to  retreat  towards  their  boats. 

After  keeping  possession  of  the  town  an  hour,  apprehen- 
sive the  enemy  posted  at  Cranetown  would  march  down 
against  them,  they  accordingly  began  to  retreat,  but  before 
they  got  out  of  town  discovered  a  body  of  rebels  on  their 
right  flank  endeavouring  to  cut  off  their  retreat,  whilst 
other  proved  troublesome  in  their  rear  by  keeping  up  a 
scattering  fire:  They  retreated  some  distance,  when 
another  party  of  rebels  were  discovered  on  their  left,  who 
finding  it  impossible  to  cut  off  their  retreat,  closed  upon 
their  flanks,  and  hard  on  the  rear,  which  obliged  them  to 
form  a  square  to  secure  their  piece  of  ordanance,  which 
they  did  by  keeping  up  a  constant  fire  until  they  arrived  at 
their  boats.  Shortly  after  which  the  enemy  brought  a  six 
pounder  to  the  edge  of  the  marsh,  and  kept  up  a  constant 
fire  upon  them  during  their  reembarkation,  and  they  had 
lined  the  banks  of  the  river  below  them  with  musquetry 
to  harrass  the  refugees  whilst  falling  down  in  their  boats, 
but  by  the  bravery  of  Captains  Houser  and  Hollinshead  in 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  127 

the  gun  boat,  they  were  kept  at  such  a  distance  that  they 
did  but  little  damage. 

Strict  orders  were  given  against  entering  a  house  or 
plundering,  which  were  obeyed;  but  when  they  first  en- 
tered the  town,  a  party  of  the  enemy  fired  upon  them  out 
of  the  upper  windows  of  N[eil]'s  house,  but  they  paid  for 
their  folly,  as  some  of  the  party  set  fire  to  the  lower  part 
which  consumed  the  whole  building. 

Never  did  men  behave  better  (being  undisciplined)  than 
this  small  party,  their  escape  was  almost  miraculous,  six 
men  are  wounded  and  two  missing,  one  of  whom  it  is  im- 
agined, was  killed  at  the  first  onset.  From  the  best  ac- 
counts that  have  been  obtained,  the  loss  of  the  enemy  was 
3  killed  and  7  wounded,  exclusive  of  those  supposed  to  have 
been  burnt  at  Neil's  house. 

Yesterday  Capt.  Cornelius  Hetfield,  with  adroitness 
peculiar  to  himself,  after  an  incursion  upon  the  Jonathans 
in  Jersey,  brought  off  a  lieutenant  and  5  or  6  others,  of 
which  we  shall  give  more  particulars,  when  our  sprightly 
partizan  arrives  in  town,  and  makes  his  report. 
— The  New-York  Gazette:  and  the  Weekly  Mercufy,  No- 
vember 27, 1780.  No,  1519. 


CHATHAM,  November  22. 

Yesterday  morning  about  daylight  about  one  hundred  of 
the  enemy  under  the  command  of  Capt.  Ward,  entered  the 
town  of  Newark,  on  a  picarooning  expedition.  They  col- 
lected a  number  of  hogs,  cattle,  and  sheep,  but  our  people 
having  collected,  pursued  them  so  close,  that  they  retook 
89  head  of  the  cattle,  and  most  of  the  hogs  and  sheep ;  also 
two  prisoners.  The  enemy  burnt  a  house  belonging  to  Mr. 
Robert  Niel. 


NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 


TRENTON,  NOVEMBER  29. 

We  are  informed  that  the  enemy  are  in  force  upon 
Staten-Island ;  and,  from  the  number  of  boats  they  are 
collecting  opposite  Elizabeth-Town  Point,  it  is  appre- 
hended they  intend  to  make  a  descent  into  this  state :  In 
consequence  of  which  the  militia  of  several  of  the  counties 
are  ordered  to  hold  themselves  in  readiness,  and  such  other 
orders  given  as  will,  we  flatter  ourselves,  frustrate  their 
nefarious  designs.  . 

On  Thursday  last  at  a  Joint-Meeting  of  the  Legislative- 
Council  and  Assembly,  the  Honourable  Abraham  Clark 
and  William  Ch.  Houston,  Esquires,  the  Rev.  and  Hon. 
Dr.  John  Witherspoon,  Dr.  William  Burnet,  and  William 
Paterson,  Esquire,  were  elected  Delegates  to  represent  this 
state  in  Congress  the  ensuing  year. 

Major  John  Burrows,  of  Monmouth,  was  at  the  same 
time  elected  Marshal  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty. 

Deaths.  James  Whilden,  Esquire,  of  Cape-May.  Capt. 
Langston  Carlisle,  of  Burlington.  Mrs.  Chambers,  wife  of 
Alexander  Chambers,  Esq.,  of  this  town. 

Bethlehem  township,  Hunterdon  county, 
November  1st,  1780. 

"VT7HEREAS  a  certain  George  Miller,  sometime  in 
^  ^  the  month  of  May  or  June  last,  obtained  from  the 
subscriber  a  note  of  hand  for  the  amount  of 
twelve  pounds  hard  money.  As  the  tenor  of  said  note  was 
drawn  directly  contrary  to  a  positive  agreement  between 
the  said  George  Miller  and  the  subscriber,  and  done  with  a 
fraudulent  intent  of  injuring  the  subscriber,  he  therefore 
cautions  and  forbids  any  person  or  persons  from  accepting 
or  taking  an  assignment  on  said  note,  as  he  is  absolutely 
determined  to  seek  redress  at  the  civil  law,  and  oblige  said 
Miller,  to  abide  by  his  original  contract  with 

HENRY  FARNSWORTH,  sen. 


1780]  XKWSPAPKR    EXTRACTS. 


SILAS    HALSEY, 

Has  for  SALE  at  his  STORE  in  Elizabeth-Town,  the  fol- 
lowing articles,  viz. : 

TDROADCLOTHS,  Also 

•*-^      Corderoys,  Tea, 

Linens,  Coffee, 

Silk  and  worsted  hose,  Sugar,  and  many 

Handkerchiefs,  other  articles. 


TO    BE     SOLD, 

A  LIKELY  NEGRO  BOY,  between  eleven  and  twelve 
**•-*•     years  old.    Inquire  of 

S.  S.  SMITH. 

Princeton,  Nov.  20;  1780. 

Three  Thousand  Dollars  Reward. 

TT7HEREAS  the  following  persons  broke  out   of  the 

^       gaol  of  Trenton  by  undermining  the  same,   viz. 

Robert  Woodward  and  Joseph  Wilson;    likewise 

three  negroes.     Whoever  will  apprehend  the  said  Robert 

Woodward,  and  deliver  him  to  the  subscriber,  shall  have  a 

reward  of  Two  Thousand  Dollars,  and  Two  Hundred  and 

Fifty  for  each  of  the  others,  with  reasonable  charges,  paid 

by  me 

PETER  IIULICK,  Gaoler. 

X.  B.  It  is  suspected  they  will  make  for  the  enemy  by 
the  way  of  Cheesequakes,  as  their  pilot  (Woodward)  is  a 
refugee  officer,  and  was  committed  a  few  days  ago  for  high 
treason. 

Trenton,  Nov.  27,  1780. 

9 


130         NEW  JERSEY  US'  THE  REVOLUTIOX.       [1780 

^  I  ^HE  Inhabitants  of  Somerset  county  are  requested  to 

-*-       meet  at  Somerset  on  Tuesday  the  twelfth  day  of 

December  next,  to  elect  a  person,  to  represent  said 

county  in  the  Legislative-Council  of  this  state,  in  the  room 

of  Dr.   John  Witherspooii,  whose  seat  is  vacated  by  his 

being  elected  a  Delegate  to  the  Continental  Congress. 

PETER  T.  SCHENK,  Sheriff. 
Nov.  25,  1780. 


TO     BE     SOLD, 

For  Hard  Money  or  Continental, 

\  TRACT  of  LAND,  containing  about  1,000  acres, 
-*-*~  lying  in  the  Corporation  of  New-Brunswick,  on 
South-River,  joining  the  island  belonging  to  John 
Lawrence,  Esq.,  late  Mayor  of  Philadelphia :  The  place  is 
well  situated,  having  a  good  house,  and  excellent  orchard 
on  it,  and  fresh  meadow  that  will  cut  yearly  at  least  one 
hundred  loads  of  hay;  a  shad-fishery  within  thirty  yards 
of  the  house,  where  great  quantities  of  them  are  taken  in 
the  season,  with  other  fish.  The  land  is  well  timbered  and 
convenient  for  the  New- York  market,  having  commodious 
landing  places  for  boats  of  ten  cords,  from  which  place  a 
number  were  employed  for  the  New- York  market. — 'For 
further  particulars  enquire  of  Levinus  Clarkson,  at  New- 
Brunswick,  Jacobus  Van  Zandt,  at  Morris-Town,  or  Joseph 
Milnor,  at  Trenton,  who  will  agree  for  the  same.  An  in- 
disputable title  will  be  given. 

November  28,  1780. 
—N.  J.  Gazette,  Vol.  III.    No.  153.    Nov.  29,  1780. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER  EXTRACTS.  131 

TO  BE  LETT, 
ANDOVER  FURNACE  and  FORGE 

Situate  in  the  county  of  Sussex,  Xew-Jersey. 

They  are  now  in  good  repair,  and  may  be  entered  upon 
immediately : 

And  a  large  QUANTITY  of  WOOD  ready  cut. 

For  terms  apply  to  ARCHIBALD  STEWART  at 
Racket's  town,  or  to  JOHN  LARDNER  in  Philadelphia. 

N.   B.     Some   NEGROES   belonging  to   said   Works, 
To  be  SOLD, 
— The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  December  2,  1780. 

NEW- YORK,  December  4. 

Last  Friday  Morning  departed  this  Life,  in  this  City, 
in  the  60th  Year  of  his  Age,  Mr.  ELLIAS  BLAND:  He 
came  here  a  few  Weeks  since  from  his  Seat  in  New-Jersey, 
with  an  Intention  of  returning  to  London,  where  he  had 
resided  many  Years  as  a  very  eminent  American  Mer- 
chant, in  which  Station  of  Life,  as  well  as  every  other, 
he  supported  a  fair  Character,  and  his  Death  is  much  re- 
gretted by  all  who  knew  him. 

— The  New-York  Gazette:  and  the  Weekly  Mercury,  De- 
cember 4,  1780.     No.  1520. 


Broke  Jail,  last  night,  about  twelve  o'clock,  by  cutting 
the  bars  of  the  windows,— JOHN  STEELMAN,  late  of 
the  county  of  Gloucester,  in  New-Jersey,  a  tall  slender 
man,  of  a  fair  complexion,  wears  his  own  hair  long  and 
tied  behind,  with  a  whitish  coat  and  a  fashionable  hatt: 
The  said  Steelman.  was  lately  tried  at  Gloucester  and 
found  guilty  of  the  fact,  and  burnt  in  the  hand ;  and  tried 


132  XEW    JERSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

here  at  the  last  court  of  Oyer  and  Terminer,  and  was 
pillored  for  the  offence,  and  should  have  graced  the  gallows 
on  Saturday  last  with  his  partner,  who  suffered  for  pass- 
ing the  counterfeit  money.  Whoever  apprehends  the 
above  named  Steelman,  and  secures  him  in  any  jail,  so 
that  he  may  be  had  again  shall  receive  a  reward  of  Five 
Hundred  Pounds,  by  applying  to 

WILLIAM  WILL,  Esquire,   Sheriff. 
Or  JOHN  REYNOLDS,  Jailor 
—The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  December  6,  1780. 


Whereas  Doctor  John  Hunt,  of  New-Jersey,  son  of  John 
Hunt,  deceased,  late  Agent  of  the  West-Jersey,  Society, 
and  purchaser  of  a  propriety  or  24th  part  of  East-Jersey, 
hath,  for  some  time  past,  undertaken  to  dispose  of  the  in- 
terests intrusted  to  the  care  of  his  late  father,  as  his  own 
property,  without  the  least  colour  of  title ;  and  hath  also 
entered  into  sundry  contracts,  as  heir  at  law  to  his  father, 
respecting  the  said  propriety — by  which  means  unwary 
persons  may  be  drawn  into  expences  and  trouble,  for 
which  they  can  have  no  consideration  or  future  recom- 
pence  in  law  or  equity  from  said  lands.  And  as  I  am 
one  of  the  West  Jersey  Society,  and  have. also  purchased 
of  the  said  John  Hunt,  deceased,  in  the  year  1766,  one 
sixth  part  of  the  said  propriety,  I  have  thought  proper  to 
give  this  public  caution,  and  to  assure  the  intended  pur- 
chasers, or  tenants  under  Doctor  Hunt,  that  his  father  was 
a  mere  Agent  or  Attorney  to  the  West  Jersey  Society,  and 
his  powers  are  extinguished  by  his  death : — That  the  said 
John  Hunt,  who  died  at  Winchester,  in  Virginia,  in  the 
year  1778,  made  a  will,  which,  by  the  laws  of  New- 
Jersey,  will  pass  the  estate  to  the  devisees  therein  named, 
for  the  payment  of  his  debts  and  legacies,  totally  excluding 
his  son,  Doctor  Hunt;  and  of  course,  that  he  cannot  le- 
gally rent  or  convey  any  part  of  the  .premises  above  de- 
scribed. And  whereas,  being  the  only  person  in  America 
interested  in  the  estate  of  the  West-Jersey  Society,  I 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  133 

lately  gave  a  Power  of  Attorney  to  Joseph  Ball,  of  Batsto 
Iron  Works,  to  take  care  of  the  timber  lands  belonging 
to  said  Society,  and  it  now  appearing  to  me  that  the  said 
Ball  has  been  concerned  with  sundry  persons,  who  are  in 
custody  in  this  city,  in  shipping  lumber  to  New- York, 
which  I  have  had  reason  to  believe  has  been  taken  from 
the  timber  lands  of  the  said  Society,  contrary  to  the  trust 
I  reposed  in  him.  I  do  revoke  the  said  Power,  and  forbid 
all  persons  possessing  or  cutting  timber  off  any  of  said 
lands  under  the  said  Doctor  John  Hunt,  said  Ball,  or  any 
other  person;  and  do  give  this  notice  to  all  trespassers 
on  the  lands  of  the  said  Society,  that  I  shall  prosecute 
them  with  the  utmost  severity  of  the  law.  The  Collectors 
of  taxes  in  New-Jersey,  will  be  pleased  to  inform  me,  by 
letter  from  time  to  time,  what  the  taxes  are,  due  from  said 
lands,  and  they  shall  be  paid,  so  as  to  save  the  property 
from  being  plundered  and  destroyed  for  very  trifling  sums. 

JOSEPH  KEED. 
Philadelphia,  Nov.  29,  1780. 

—The  Pennsylvania  Gazette,  December  6,  1780. 

— New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  III.     No.   154.     December 
5,  1780. 

A    HALF    JOHANNES    REWARD. 

Or  the  EXCHANGE  in  Continental  Currency.  • 

Ran  away,  last  night,  from  the  subscriber,  a  Negro  man, 
named  BRISS  a  well-made,  fellow,  about  35  years  old, 
has  remarkable  large  feet,  formerly  belonged  to  Major 
Hugg,  of  Gloucester  county;  had  on,  when  he  went  away, 
a  brown  home-spun  waistcoat,  ozenbrigs  shirt,  and  trousers, 
old  shoes,  and  an  old  hat.  Whoever  takes  up  said  Negroe 
and  secures  him  in  any  goal,  so  as  his  master  may  have 
him  again,  shall  have  the  above  reward,  and  reasonable 
charges,  paid  by  ROBERT  JOHNSON. 

Salem,  Oct.  30,  1780. 
— Pennsylvania  Gazette,  December  6,  1780. 


134        NEW  JEKSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.      [1780 


PHILADEPHIA,  November  29. 

Since  the  apprehension  of  the  persons  mentioned  in  our 
last  Saturday's  paper,  further  discoveries  have  been  made, 
of  a  dangerous  and  infamous  commerce  with  New-York. 
It  appears  that  a  partnership  has  been  formed  of  persons 
in  Philadelphia,  New-Jersey,  and  New- York,  to  carry 
lumber,  which  is  in  so  great  demand  in  New- York,  that 
boards  have  sold  at  thirty  pounds  in  specie  per  thousand. 
The  vessels  were  cleared  out  for  Boston,  or  some  other 
eastern  port,  steered  directly  for  New- York,  if  taken  they 
were  provided  with  passports  from  the  British  admiral, 
which  sent  them  forward:  when  they  arrived  at  New- 
York,  the  parties  there  took  the  management;  the  cargo 
was  deposited  generally  at  the  king's  yard,  where  timber 
is  much  wanted.  Goods  were  purchased  in  return,  or 
specie  sent  out,  but  generally  the  former.  The  American 
commissary  of  prisoners  charged  the  captain  and  mariners 
as  American  prisoners,  and  received  of  equal  rank  and 
number  in  return.  One  of  these  captains  has  been  five 
times  in  New- York  since  last  spring.  A  great  number 
of  persons  are  charged,  chiefly  in  New-Jersey,  who  it  is 
hoped  by  this  time,  are  safe  in  the  hands  of  justice,  and 
will  meet  their  deserts.  No  less  than  three  of  these  cap- 
tains came  out  last  Saturday,  viz.  James  Steelman,  John 
Shaw,  and  William  Black,  who  are  all  apprehended  and 
in  prison.  One  Atkinson,  Another  of  the  gang,  made  his 
escape  into  New-Jersey. 


TRENTON,  DECEMBER  6. 

At  a  special  coiTrt,  begun  the  21st  ult.  at  Salem,  Andrew 
Watson  was  found  guilty  of  Manslaughter,  and  burnt  in 
the  hand. 

Jacob  Savoy  was  indicted  for  Manslaughter,  and  on 
trial  acquitted. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  135 

Daniel  Ridgway  and  twenty-six  others,  were  convicted 
of  an  Unlawful  Assembly,  and  'severally  fined. 

Major-General  the  Marquis  de  la  Fayette,  passed 
through  this  town  since  our  last,  on  his  way  to  Phila- 
delphia. 

Extract  from  General  Orders,  Nov.  29,  1780.  "The 
General  has  the  pleasure  to  inform  the  army  that  Major 
Tallmadge,  with  a  party  of  60  dismounted  dragoons  of  the 
^d  regiment,  surprized  fort  St.  George,  on  Long-Island, 
and  captured  a  Colonel,  Captain,  Lieutenant,  Surgeon,  and 
fifty  men,  in  it;  that  lie  destroyed  the  works,  burnt  a>  vessel 
laden  with  stores  in  the  harbour,  and  the  King's  magazine 
of  forage  at  Car  on,  containing  upwards  of  300  tons  of  hay, 
and  returned  without  the  loss  of  a,  man,  having  only  one 
wounded;  of  the  enemy  seven  were  left  dead  and  mortally 
wounded  at  the  fort." 


Mr.  Collins. 

THE  state  of  Virginia,   in  order  to  secure  the  territory  on  the 
Ohio,   which   is   far  beyond   her  western   limits,   has   drained 
herself  of  men  and  money. — The  following  is  an  extract  of  a 
letter  which  1  have  just  received  from  an  officer  of  that  government, 
dated  at  Fort  Jeffeison,  mouth  of  Ohio.  June  13,  1780 — which  please 
to  publish  and  oblige  a  constant  customer. 

"We  are  building  a  strong  fortification  here,  to  command  the  Mis- 
sisippi  and  Ohio  rivers.  Doctor  Walker  has  been  down  to  take  the 
latitude  of  this  place,  which  he  finds  to  be  twenty  miles  north  of 
the  North-Carolina  line.  We  are  to  have  one  thousand  regular  troops 
stationed  here,  and  we  have  already  twenty  thousand  inhabitants. 
The  emigration  to  these  parts  is  incredible ;  and,  in  my  opinion,  the 
measures  now  pursuing  by  government,  will  render  this  the  most 
populous  and  finest  country  on  the  continent.  From  this  post  we 
have  an  oasy  navigation  to  the  sea,  and  an  open  trade  with  the 
Spaniards  at  New-Orleans,  to  which  city  large  vessels  may  go  from 
hence  in  eight  days.  It  is  distant  from  Williamsburg,  the  seat  of 
government,  1580  miles,  and  a  new  country  is  laid  off  about  two  hun- 
dred miles  further.  The  lands  are  equal  to  the  best  in  America  ;  and 
salt,  iron  and  lead  mines  are  in  sufficient  plenty." 


Ni:\V     .IKKSKY    IX     THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

NAIL  RODS 

Of  a  good  quality 'and  different  sizes, 
TO     BE     SOLD, 

By  the  Subscriber,  at  Union  Iron- Work?. 

EGBERT  TAYLOR. 
December  2,  1TSO. 

Three  Hundred  Dollars  Reward 

STRAYED  or  stolen  from  the  subscriber  at  Maiden- 
head, on  the  22  ult.   a  flea-bitten  or  spotted  grey 
HORSE,  between  13  and  14  hands  high,  nine  or  ten 
years  old,  newly  shod  before.    Any  person  who  will  deliver 
the  said  horse  to  the  subscriber,  and  secure  the  thief  if 
stolen,  shall  have  the  above  reward,  or  Two  Hundred  Dol- 
lars for  the  horse  onlv,  and  all  reasonable  charges,  paid  by 

XATHAXIEL  GREEX./ 
December  4,  1780. 


ME  to  the  plantation  of  tlie  subscriber,  near 
ton,  on  Friday  week,  a  sorrel  liorse,  with  a  star  and 
blaze,  about  14  hands  three  inches  high,  both  hind 
feet  v.'hite,  has  a  white  spot  on  the  point  of  his  off  buttock. 
The  owner  is  desired  to  prove  his  property,  pay  charges, 
and  take  him  away. 

THOMAS  HEXDRICKSOX. 
December  4,  11 'SO. 
—N.J.  Gazette,  Vol.  III.    No.  154.     Dec.  6.  ITSii. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER  EXTRACTS.  137 

More  Instances  of  REBEL  HUMAXITY. 
AXECDOTE. 

'Of   the   British    troops   which  had   been    surprized    at 
Powle's  Hook,  in  1779,  two  of  the  Garrison  battalion  (in- 
valids)  were  bayonetted,  and  one  shot — all  this  in  cold 
blood. 
— The  Royal  Gazette,  December  9,  1780.     Xo.  -438. 

TREXTOX,  DECEMBER  13. 

We  hear -that  a  few  nights  ago  eight  horse-thieves  .from 
IXew-York,  where  the  enemy'  keep  a  considerable  number 
of  that  profession  in  their  employment,  stealing  horses 
from  the  inhabitants  near  the  lines,  came  up  to  the  neigh- 
bourhood of  Hackinsack  and  took  off  with  them  sixteen 
horses.  They  had  engaged  boats  to  meet  them  at  a  certain 
place  on  the  X1  orth-River,  and  carry  over  their  booty,  at 
which  place  they  arrived  safe,  but  no  boats  appeared.  In 
1he  meantime  twelve  or  fourteen  of  the  Bergen  militia  col- 
lected, and  pursued  them  closely.  The  enemy  having  no 
inclination  for  contest,  skulked  and  hid  themselves  among 
some  tall,  thick  weeds,  to  which  the  Bergen  lads,  for  sake 
of  expedition,  setting  fire,  the  contents  came  out  and  very 
submissively  surrendered.  They  are  lodged  securely  at 
MorristowTn.  The  militia  also  brought  back  the  horses. 


138  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

VERSES  to  the  Memory  of  Ca.pt.  Nicholas  Biddle,  of 
the  Randolph,  Frigate  of  32  guns,  blown  up  in  an  engage- 
ment u-ith  the  Yarmouth,  a  British  Man  of  War  of  64  guns. 

WHAT  dread  explosion  rends  the  distant  skies ! 
What  sulph'rous  flames  in  spiral  volumes  rise ! 
The  Randolph  swims  no  more ! — Modest  and  brave, 
The  virtuous  Biddle  finds  an  early,  grave. 
O  gallant  youth  !  what  monument  of  praise 
Can  thy  afflicted,  grateful  country  raise? 
When  Britain's  tyrant  o'er  the  Atlantic  waves, 
Pour'd  forth  his  num'rous  hosts  of  armed  slaves, 
Their  master's  bloody  dictates  to  fulfil, 
And  bend  a  free-born  people  to  his  will, 
Thy  gen'rous  soul  disdain'd  luxurious . rest ! 
Thy  country's  wrongs  inflam'd  thy  manly  breast. 
Repeated  laurels  gather'd  on  the  main, 
Increase  thy  glory,  not  thy  warmth  restrain ! 
Tho'  beauty,  with  alluring,  virtuous  charms, 
In  softest  accents  woo'd  thee  to  her  arms, 
Thy  country's  Jove,  and  love  of  martial  fame, 
The  gentler  passions  pf  the  soul  o'ercame ; 
And  bad  thee  hope  to  see  thy  wish  complete, 
"On  equal  terms  the  British  flag  to  meet 
"Pluck  naval  honors  from  the  Briton's  brow, 
"Or  dauntless  sink  to  ocean's  caves  below  !" 
Such  was  thy  wish,  O  much  lov'd  gentle  youth, 
Pattern  of  friendship,  and  unblemish'd  truth ; 
Such  was  thy  wish ! — mysterious  Heav'n  deny'd 
Deserv'd  success  to  crown  thy  noble  pride ! 
O'er  pow'r'd  by  double  force,  the  trembling  main 
Beheld  thy  ship,  th'  unequal  fight  sustain  ; 
Amaz'd  beheld  the  British  bands  retire, 
Confus'd  and  falling  at  thy  dreadful  fire ! 
E'en  their  proud  chief,  in  that  destructive  hour, 
Confess'd  thy  naval  skill  and  thund'ring  pow'r ! 
Too  soon,  alas !  too  soon  the  wrapping  flame 
The  Randolph  seiz'd.  and  spar'd  the  Briton's  shame ! 
Mounting  in  air,  amidst  his  warlike  crew, 
To  Heav'n's  blest  seats  heroick  Biddle  flew ; 
There  swell'd  America's  immortal  band, 
Heroes  who  dy'd  to  save  their  native  land  ; 
All  haste  to  bind  the  youthful  warrior's  brow, 
With  wreaths  whose  verdure  shall  forever  glow  ! 

W.   S. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  139 

AS  a  distemper  called  the  Mad  Staggers  has  for  some 
"*-^-  time  past  prevailed  among  the  horses  in  different 
parts  of  the  country,  by  which  many  of  those  useful 
and  valuable  animals  have  been  lost,  and  more  may  be ;  and 
as  the  publick  may  not  be  informed  of  any  cure,  the  one 
hereafter  mentioned  has  been  used  in  some  parts,  and  been 
found  to  answer  the  end  proposed :  If  any  person  will  be 
kind  enough  to  inform  the  Printer  of  any  infallible 
remedy,  he  may  depend  on  its  being  inserted  for  the  benefit 
of  the  publick. — In  the  mean  time  the  following  is  recom- 
mended : 

LET  blood  to  three  quarts  or  more,  after  which  walk  him 
awhile,  then  clothe  him ;  cover  his  temples  over  with  a 
pitch  plaister,  keep  him  exceeding  warm,  put  the  bigness  of 
a  small  pea  of  asafcetida  in  each  ear,  let  his  meal  be  little, 
and  his  drink  rather  warm,  his  stable  dark ;  rub  him  well, 
especially  about  the  head  and  neck;  the  bleeding  may  be 
repeated  two  or  three  times  at  twelve  or  twenty-four  hours 
distance,  as  necessity  may  require :  Purging  also  is  proper, 
snd  fumigating  his  nostrils  with  brimstone  matches. 


DANIEL  JACKSON,  a  soldier  in  Baylor's  light  dra- 
goons, requested  a  few  moments  before  his  death, 
that  this  method  should  be  taken  to  inform  his  wife, 
who  lives  near  Springfield  in  New-Jersey,  that  he  was  exe- 
cuted the  first  of  May  last,  at  George-Town  in  South-Caro- 
lina, for  desertion. 

J.  STITH,  Captain. 

Baylor's  Dragoons. 

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,  inn- 
holder,  in  Allentown,  in  the  county  of  Monmouth, 
on  Friday  the  fifth  day  of  January  next,  at  ten  o'clock  in 


140  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

the  forenoon  of  the  same  day,  then  and  there  to  try  the 
truth  of  the  facts  alleged  in  the  bill  of  James  Randolph, 
Moses  Robins  and  Jacob  Wilcot,  (who  as  well,  &c. ) 
against  the  sloop  or  vessel  called  the  Brunswick,  Joshua 
Wooding,  late  master,  lately  cast  on  shore  near  Bamaget : 
with  her  tackle,  apparel,  furniture  and  cargo:  To  the 
end  and  intent  that  the  owner  or  owners  of  the  said  ves- 
sel, or  any  other  persons  interested  therein,  may  appear 
and  shew  cause,  if  any  they  have,  why  the  said  vessel,  and 
her  tackle,  apparel,  furniture  and  cargo,  should  not  be 
condemned  to  the  captors  thereof,  pursuant  to  the  prayer 
of  the  said  bill. 

By  order  of  the  Judge, 

JOS.  BLOOMFIELD,  Reg. 

Haddonfield,  Dec.  9,  1780. 


to  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber,   in  Hope- 
well,  near  Maidenhead,  about  the  26th  ult  a  Black 
MARE,    thirteen   hands    three    inches    high,    three 
years  old,  her  near  hind  foot  white  and  shod  all  round. 
The  owner  is  desired  to  come,   prove  his  property,  pay 
•charges  and  take  her  away. 

RALPH  LAKN1NG. 


A  QCJAXTITY  OF 

HARNESS, 

Consisting  of  Coilers,  Blind-Bridles,  Collars  and  Hairnes : 
Also  good  strong 

SHOES  and  SOAL  LEATHER, 

To  be  exchanged  for  HIDES  in  Trenton,  by 

STACY  POTTS. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER  EXTRACTS.  141 

BROKE    into   the    pasture   of   the   subscriber,    on   the 
evening  of  the  18th  instant,  two  BAY  HORSES, 
used  to  the  waggon,  one  is  about  15  years  old,  and 
has  a  star  and  snip,  branded  on  the  near  buttock  with  C. 
The  other  is  about  8  years  old,  has  not  any  artificial  mark ; 
both  are  shod  all  round ;   they  trot,  pace,  and  canter  well,, 
and  meally  mouthed.     The  owner  may  have  them  again 
by  applying  to 

DAVID  BRANT. 
Morristown,  Nov.  28,  1780. 
—N.  J.  Gazette.     Vol.  III.     No.  155.     Dec.  13,  1780. 


ALL 

Loyal  Refugees, 

^  I AHAT    are   in   want   of   employment,    and   can   bring 
-*-      proper  certificates  of  their  loyalty,  and  are  willing 
to    enter    themselves    under    Captain    THOMAS 
WARD,  now  commanding  the  important  post  at  Bergen 
Point,  will  meet  with  the  greatest  encouragement,  by  ap- 
plying to  Captain  HOMFRAY  at  the  sign  of  the  ship, 
'corner  of  Fair-Street,  Broad  Way. 

The  following  is  an  exact  copy  of  a,  letter  written  by  Mr. 
John  Fell,  delegate  for  New  Jersey,  in  the  Continental 
Congress  it  was  brought  to  town  last  week  from  Connecti- 
cut, being  the  product  of  a  second  rebel  mail,  lately  nabb'd 
in  the  vicinity  of  Stratford. 

Philada.  Nov.  21st.  1780. 
My  Dear  Friend 

The  occasion  of  this,  is  only  just  to  inquire  how  you  do,, 
not  having  had  the  pleasure  of  hearing  from  you  this  long 
time,  neither  have  I  wrote  to  you,  But  when  I  tell  your 
that  for  6  weeks  Past  I  have  been  favoured  with  a  Visit 


142  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

from  Mrs  Fell  and  am  sure  you  will  approve  of  my  spend- 
ing all  the  Leisure  time  I  could  spare  with  her,  On  Satur- 
day she  left  me,  accompany' d  by  my  Son,  As  I  could  not 
Posibly  goe  home  with  her  at  Present,  being  just  now  in  a 
State  of  suspence,  on  account  of  my  continuing  in  Con- 
gress, As  I  am  inform'd  there  are  a  number  of  Gentlemen 
in  Nomination  for  Delegates  in  Our  State  And  the  Elec- 
tion I  expect  will  come  on  this  week,  My  time. will  be  out 
the  last  of  this  month,  And  I  expect  immediateley  to  pro- 
ceed to  the  Highlands  in  the  State  of  New  York  to  see  my 
Daughters  and  Grand  Children,  As  my  unfortunate  situ- 
ation will  not  admit  of  my  being  home  more  than  a  night 
two,  Nothing  would  give  me  more  Pleasure  then  the  having 
it  in  my  Power,  to  pay  you  a  friendly  visit  the  ensuing- 
Winter,  but  I  am  sorry  to  say  my  finances  are  so  Reduced, 
that  unless  I  could  form  some  scheme  or  Plan  to  clear  my 
expences,  I  shall  hardly  see  you  I  know  my  Son  wants 
very  much  to  goe  to  Boston,  and  suppose  he  wants  to  doe 
some  business  for  himself  and  Brother  in  Law.  1  am 
writing  this  in  Congress  and  the  debating  and  reading 
makes  it  disagreeable  so  must  conclude,  but  must  first  tell 
you,  that  Yesterday  there  was  a  very  Respectable  meeting 
of  the  Merchants  &c  at  the  State  House,  where  it  was  to 
fix  the  Exchange  at  75  for  one,  many  having  ask'd  100  for 
one ;  I  was  glad  there  was  none  of  my  scrauls  to  you,  in 
the  Mail  that  was  late  taken  in  Connecticut  as  I  should  not 
like  to  appear  in  my  old  acquaintance,  Rivington's  paper, 
when  writing  to  a  "friend  Adieu,  And  believe 

me  to  be  your  Sincear  friend  & 
Humble  Servt — 

John  Fell. 

John  Bradford  Esqr 
— The  Royal  Gazette,  December  13,  1780.    No.  439. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  143 

TO     BE     LETT 
SPEEDWELL   SAW-MILL   AND   LANDS, 

On    Waiding    River,    in    West-New-Jersey,    Burlington 
County,  &c. 

The  above  Mill  and  Lands  was  advertised  and  iold  the 
24th  day  of  April  last,  at  vendue ;  the  conditions  of  sale 
not  being  complied  with,  said  Mill  and  Lands  revolved 
back  to  the  former  owner,  &c. 

THEY  WILL  NOW  BE  LETT,  either  to  the  Shares  or  for 
Cash,  as  best  suits  the  Renter,  and  may  be  entered  on  im- 
mediately: The  Mill  is  in  good  repair  and  now  sawing; 
she  has  plenty  of  timber,  pine  and  cedar,  belonging  to  her ; 
the  boards  may  be  rafted  from  the  Mill-tail  to  where  the 
sloops  take  in  to  go  to  sea,  or  by  carting  about  8  miles, 
to  a  branch  of  Aiichocus,  they  may  be  brought  directly  to 
Philadelphia. 

There  is  on  the  premises,  one  new  two  story  Frame 
House  and  Kitchen,  with  good  stone  Cellars,  a  brick  Oven, 
two  Log  Houses  for  tenants,  &c.  a  large  Frame  Bam,  60 
by  40  feet,  and  Stabling  plenty  for  horses,  a  good  bearing 
Peach  Orchard,  young  Apple  ditto,  a  great  plenty  of  sum- 
mer and  fall  Seeds  for  oxen  or  all  kinds  of  cattle ;  the 
Land  brings  good  Rye  and  Corn,  and  Garden  Truck  in 
abundance.  Should  the  Person  applying,  incline  to  settle 
there,  and  choose  to  buy  the  Place,  terms  may  be  made 
easy,  &c.  It  is  a  good  seat  for  a  Furnace,  with  a  great 
Quantity  of  Coal-wood  and  Ore  belonging  thereto.  For 
particulars,  apply  to 

BENJAMIN  RANDOLPH,  in  Chestnut-street, 

Philadelphia,  Dec.  11,  1780. 
— The  Peiwsylvaniq,  Packet,  December  16,  1780. 


144  XEW    JERSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  Lord  George  Germain,  to  his  Ex- 
cellency Sir  Henry  Clinton,  dated  4th  of  October,. 
1780. 

"'The  very  extraordinary  instance  of  courage  shewn  by 
the  Loyal  Refugees,  in  an  affair  of  Bull's  ferry,  of  which 
you  make  such  honourable  mention,  it  is  a  pleasing  proof 
of  the  spirit  and  resolution  with  which  men  in  their  cir- 
cumstance will  act  against  their  oppressors ;  and  how  great 
advantages  the  King's  troops  may  derive  from  employing 
those  of  approved  fidelity.  And  his  Majesty,  to  encourage 
such  exertions,  commands  me  to  desire  you  will  acquaint 
the  survivors  of  the  brave  SEVENTY,  that  their  intrepid 
behaviour  is  approved  of  by  their  Sovereign." 
— The  New-York  Gazette:  and  the  Weekly  Mercury,  De- 
cember 18,  1780.  No.  1522. 

CHATHAM,  (New- Jersey)  December  13. 

Last  Eriday  night  five  horse  thieves,  of  Capt.  Ward's 
party,  were  taken  at  Dow's  ferry,  on  their  way  to  New- 
York.  There  were  eight  in  the  party,  and  each  of  them 
had  stole  a  horse  but  three  had  crossed  before  our  people 
came  up  with  them,  by  which  means  they  made  their 
escape.  Among  the  number  taken  is  one  Horton,  an  old 
offender,  who  made  his  escape  from  Morristowrn  goal  some 
time  since. 

A  New- York  paper  of  the  8th  instant  announce  the 
death  of  Lord  Drummond,  at  Lisbon,  a  person  notoriously 
known  in  this  country. 
— The  Pennsylvania  Journal,  December  20,  1780. 


TRENTON,  DECEMBER  20. 

About  a  fortnight  since  the  grand  American  army  went 
into  winter  quarters  on  the  north-river,  and  in  the  eastern 


NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  145 


parts  of  this  state.     Head-Quarters  is  established  at  New- 
Windsor. 

We  hear  that  a  packet  in  30  days  from  London,  arrived 
lately  in  New-  York  harbour.  She  was  anchored  off  in 
the  stream,  and  no  person  except  the  Captain  was  suffered 
to  go  on  shore  or  have  any  communication  with  the  in- 
habitants of  the  city.  It  is  said  she  brought  important 
dispatches,  after  the  delivery  of  which,  she  immediately 
put  to  sea. 

A  New-  York  paper  'of  the  8th  instant,  announces  the 
death  of  Lord  Drummond,  at  Lisbon,  a  person  notoriously 
known  to  the  citizens  of  the  United  States. 

A  correspondent  assures  us  it  may  now  be  affirmed  with 
certainty,  "that  the  Dutch,  and  also  the  Portugese  have 
joined  the  northern  powers  in  the  armed  neutrality  ;  the 
former  with  good  will  and  from  the  heart,  the  motives  of 
the  latter  are  not  yet  so  well  ascertained." 

It  is  far  from  being  improbable  that  the  negotiations  for 
a  general  pacification  will  take  their  rise  from  the  politicks 
x>f  this  neutrality.  If  Great  Britain  chuses  to  persist  it 
will  be  like  the  rest  of  her  blind  and  deluded  conduct. 

Mr.  Laurens  has  arrived  in  London,  and  it  seems  is  con- 
fined in  the  Tower.  It  is  added,  Lord  North  told  him  he 
would  be  obliged  to  him  if  he  would  answer  a  few  ques- 
tions ;  to  which  Mr.  Laurens  replied,  that  he  considered 
himself  the  confidential  servant  of  the  United  States,  and 
should  give  him  no  information. 

We  are  informed  that  Lieut.  Joshua  Studson,  of  Mon- 
mouth  was  shot  last  week,  as  he  was  attempting  to  board  a 
vessel  off  Tom's  River,  supposed  to  be  trading  from  New- 
York  to  Egg-Harbour. 

Lately  married  at  Woodbury,  Mr.  Richard  Wood,  jun. 
of  Greenwich,  Cumberland  county,  to  Miss  Ann  Cooper, 
of  the  county  of  Gloucester. 

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146  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 


Extract  from  GENERAL  HEATH'S  Orders. 

West-Point,  Nov.  29,  1780. 

HIS  Excellency  the  Commander  in  Chief  having  been 
pleased  to  order  the  New-Jersey  brigade  to  remove 
to  another  quarter,  the  General  cannot  but  express 
in  this  publick  manner  the  support  and  assistance  he  has 
received,  the  pleasure  and  satisfaction  he  has  enjoyed  in 
the  attention  and  soldierly  behaviour  of  the  troops  of  this 
brigade  on  every  occasion,  since  he  has  had  the  honour  to 
command   them,   and   most   sincerely   wishes   the  officers 
winter   quarters    convenient    and   agreeable,    the    soldiers 
everything  necessary  and  happy. 


H^^5*  The  P08^  who  rides  from  Morris-Town  to  Phila- 
delphia brought  no  eastern  mail  this  week.  He  informs 
that  the  rider  from,  Fish-Kill  to  Connecticut  had  been 
again  robbed  of  his  Charge,  by  a  person  or  persons  un- 
known. Is  it  not  high  time  for  his  employer  to  investigate 
his  character? 


T)HILIP  MULLENOR,  an  apprentice  lad,  fifteen  years 
_L  of  age,  has  short  li^ht  coloured  hair,  left  his  master's 
service  on  the  12th  instant :  had  on  a  new  linsey  coat 
of  a  lead  colour,  with  pewter  buttons,  a  jacket  of  the  same 
colour,  but  much  worn,  brown  cloth  breeches,  yarn  stock- 
ings, new  shoes  with  stiffning  behind,  a  fur  scollop'd  hat, 
and  a  flannel  shirt.  It  is  supposed  he  will  endeavour  to 
get  to  New- York,  as  his  mother  lives  there.  Whoever  takes 
up  the  said  apprentice  and  brings  him  to  the  subscriber, 
shall  receive  Forty  Continental  Dollars  reward. 

PHILIP  GRANDIN. 
Lebanon,  Dec.  18,  1780. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS. 

To  be  SOLD  cheap, 

By  the  Subscriber, 

A  NEGRO  MAN  about  thirty-two  years  of  age,  a 
•7^  negro  woman  about  twenty-four,  with  a  child  of 
fifteen  months,  not  for  any  fault,  but  want  of  em- 
ploy. They  being  man  and  wife  would  make  it  most 
agreeable  to  sell  them  together;  however  a  few  miles 
separation  will  not  prevent  the  sale.  Any  person  inclin- 
ing to  purchase  will  receive  satisfactory  accounts  of  their 
characters  by  applying  to 

JOHN  BRAY. 
Rariian  Landing,  Dec.  11,  1780. 

""1  "TV  TOTICE  is  hereby  given,  that 

Sussex  County,  \                    .,, 

Oi          .  -vr                   >•  .L\     there  will  be  sold  by  way 

btate  01  .New- Jersey  »       ,,.  , 

^  J  oi  publick  vendue,  on  the 

20th  day  of  January  next,  at  the  dwelling-house  of  Mr. 
Thomas  Scott,  in  Greenwich,  in  said  county,  the  undivided 
half-part  of  a  number  of  lots,  laid  out  in  Philipsburgh,  in 
said  county,  late  the  property  of  Daniel  Coxe  and  Grace 
Kemp.  Vendue  to  begin  at  ten  o'clock  on  said  day,  when 
attendance  will  be  given  by 

WILLIAM  BOND     )  Commis- 
GEORGEWARNE   j  sioners. 
Dec.  16,  1780. 

TO    BE    SOLD, 

(For  want  of  employ  only)  or  hired  by  the  year, 

SUNDRY  negroes  of  different  ages,  sexes  and  quali- 
ties, all  good  in  their  kind.     Also  a  good  feather- 
bed and  bolster,  a  handsome  set  of  bed  and  window 
curtains,  a  pair  of  rose  blankets,  and  a  rug  to  be  disposed 


148  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION. 

of  together,  at  a  reasonable  rate  for  cash.    An  elegant  set 
of  tea-table  china  complete,  and  a  few  half  dozens  of  cups 
and  saucers.     Also  green  handled  ivory  knives  and  forks. 
Enquire  of  the  printer. 
—N.  J.  Gazette.     Vol.  III.     No.  156.     Dec.  20,  1780. 


CHATHAM,  December  13. 

Last  Friday  night  five  horse  thieves,  of  Capt.  Ward's 
party,  were  taken  at  Dow's  ferry,  on  their  way  to  New- 
York.  There  were  eight  in  the  party,  and  each  of  them 
had  stole  a  horse,  but  three  had  crossed  before  our  people 
came  up  with  them,  by  which  means  they  made  their  es- 
cape. Among  the  number  taken  is  one  Horton,  an  old 
offender,  who  made  his  escape  from  Morristown  gaol  some 
time  since. 

— The  New-York  Packet,  and  the  American  Advertiser, 
December  21,  1780.     No.  194. 


NEW- YORK,  December  23. 

It  is  a  question  that  puzzles  some  people,  why  the  Con- 
gress have  ordered  the  rebel  army  to  winter  this  year 
at  New-Windsor,  and  not  as  heretofore  in  the  Morris- 
town  MOUNTAINS. 

A  CORRESPONDENT  proposes  the  following  CON- 
JECTURES in  speculation  for  a  Solution. 

I.  Because  for  want  of  money  and  credit,  the  army  must 
live  by  pillage,  and  New-Jersey  is  exhausted. 

II.  Because,  in  the  growing  jealousy  of  such  discon- 
tented troops,  it  is  unsafe  to  be  too  far  from  the  Highland 
Forts. 

III.  Because  Mons.  Rochambault  is  not  very  fond  of 
trusting  his  own  little  army  in  New-England,  unless  Wash- 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  149 

ington  is  as  near  him  as  possible,  to  suppress  a  spirit  not 
very  friendly  to  either,  and  less  likely  to  be  quiet  under 
the  intended  draughts  this  winter  upon  their  stock  and 
forage  for  congressional  certificates. 

IV.  Because,  when  the  militia  or  months  men  are  gone 
from  Washington's  army,  and  none  but  continentals  re- 
main, which  must  be  the  case  very  soon,  it  will  be  very 
convenient  for  various  reasons  to  have  the  mountains  be- 
tween them  and  the  British  army. 

V.  Because,  there  is  a  very  black  cloud  risen  in  the 
north-east  parts  of  New- York,  and  in  other  districts  by  the 
desertion  of  the  Vermonteers :    and  another  may  soon  ap- 
pear in  the  N.  W.  in  which  case  it  would  be  very  absurd  to 
be  found  at  Morris-town,  when  perhaps  the  roads  may  be 
impassable. 

VI.  Because,   the   congressional   interest  in   the  west, 
seems  to  be  scarcely  worth  the  expence  of  keeping  it  alive, 
nor  from  the  sullen  avarice,  &  increasing  light  of  the  Dutch 
in  Pennsylvania,  is  there  much  probability  of  supplies  from 
that  quarter. 

VII.  Because,  it  is  but  fair  and  just,  that  as  New-Eng- 
land began  the  war,  and  has  suffered  less  by  it,  and  got  more 
by  privateering  than  her  sister  colonies,  it  should  at  last 
regret  there,  that  they  may  take  a  part  of  the  bitter  cup, 
which  the  New  England  politicians  mixed  up,  and  of  which 
other  provinces  have  been  obliged  to  drink  an  immoderate 
proportion.     When  Samuel  Adams  saw  the  desolations  in 
his  first  journey,  and  was  asked  whether  his  countrymen 
would  bear  such  distress  for  liberty,  he  replied,  "They 
"would  not  be  such  fools,  before  it  comes  to  this  in  New 
"England,  they  will  be  wise  enough  to  make  peace."     Per- 
haps the  Boston  politician  may  see  himself  out-witted  by 
the  Virginian   Heroe  he   so  much  despises,   as   soon   as 
Mathews  and  Telfair  have  succeeded,  in  the  motion  Mons. 
Eochambault  so  warmly  recommended  to  the  Connecticut 
Susquehanna   Company  on  his   arrival,   for  turning  the 
Lieutenant    General   of   France,   into    the   Protector   of 
America. 


150        NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.      [1780 

The  Continental  Congress  having  lately  made  a  demand 
of  the  following  provisions  from  Connecticut  only;  the 
Assembly  of  that  Colony  have  been  called,  and  are  now  em- 
ployed in  deliberating  on  the  requisition.  The  deficiencies 
for  the  year  1780  are  still  required,  as  well  as  the  whole 
supply  for  the  year  1781 : 

15000  brs.  Beef  at  17  1-2  dol.  per  br.  D.  262500 
3500  do.  Pork  22  do.  do.  77000 

18750  Ib.  of  Beef  5  1-2  D.  per  Ct.  103125 
6250  do.  do.    8  D.  per  Ct.  50000 

25000  Gallons  Rum  10  s.  per  gal.  316623 

813  Bushels  of  Salt  2  D.  per  Bushel  1626 

In  hard  Cash  20239913 


Calculated  in  Silver  Dollars.     Total  699817 


Deficiency  fdr  the  year  1780 
600  Barrels  Beef  and  Pork. 
4000  Gallons  of  Rum. 
—The  Royal  Gazette,  December  23,  1780.     No.  442. 


NEW-YORK,  Dec.  25. 

Last  Thursday  morning  Brigadier  General  'Arnold,  with 
the  troops  under,  his  command,  sailed  from  Sandy  Hook 
upon  an  expedition. 

The  Brig  Lowther  and  Senhouse,  Captain  Ilinde,  ar- 
rived here  from  Liverpool  the  21st  inst.  she  is  last  from 
Milford  Haven,  being  obliged  to  put  in  there  by  contrary 
winds: — Captain  Hinde  sailed  from  the  last  mentioned 
Port  the  26th  of  October,  and  was  off  Sandy  Hook  in  6 
Weeks  and  4  Days,  but  then  met  with  Calms:  He  has 
brought  no  Prints,  but  says  the  British  and  French  Fleets 
were  both  in  Port  and  that  it  was  supposed  the  Empress  of 
Russia  was  endeavouring  to  bring  about  Peace  between 
Great-Britain,  and  the  other  belligerent  Powers. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  151 

A  fine  Schooner  was  brought  in  here  by  a  Whale  Boat 
last  Thursday :     She  was  taken  at  Egg-Harbour,  loaded 
M'ith  300  Bushels  of  Oysters,  and  is  a  very  fine  Boat. 
—The  New-York  Gazette:   and  the  Weekly  Mercury,  De~ 
cember  25,  1780.    ~No.  1523. 


subscribers  being  desirous  that  the  vendue  and 
book  accounts  of  the  estate  of  Recompence  Stanbery, 
Esq;    deceased,  should  be  speedily  settled,  and  with 
as  little  trouble  as  possible,  do  desire  that  all  such  as  have 
any  demands  against  said  estate,  or  are  indebted  to  it,  to 
attend  "at  the  house  of  William  Darby,  at  the  Scotch  Plains 
on  Friday  the  29th  instant,  and  on  Friday  the  5th  and 
12th  of  January,  after  which  time  the  spediest  method  that 
the  law  directs  will  be  taken  for  the  settlement  of  the  same. 
WILLIAM  DARBY, 
DAVID  MORRIS, 


Two  Hundred  Dollars  Reward. 

STRAYED    from    the    subscriber   in    October    last,    a 
brindled  steer,  has  a  white  face;    and  a  brindled 
heifer,  with  white  spots  about  her,  marked  with  a 
slope  on  the  upper  side  of  each  ear,  and  coming  two  years; 
old.     The  above  reward  will  be  paid  by  the  subscriber  to> 
any  person  who  will  return  them,  or  one  hundred  for  either, 
with  reasonable  charge?. 

WILLIAM  REEVE, 
Vauxhall,  December  26,  1780. 


to  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber,   about  the 
15th  instant,  a  sorrel  mare,  about  14  hands  high, 
thin  in  flesh,  and  shod  before.     The  owner  is  de- 
sired to  come,  prove  property,  pay  charges,  and  take  her 
away.  EZEKIEL  CRA3TE. 

Morris  County,  December  26,  1780. 


152  NEW    JERSEY    IX    TILE    IJEVOLUTIOX.  [1780 

TX7HEREAS  the  subscriber  has  lately  been  accused, 
*  by  some  evil-minded  persons,  which  he  supposes 
to  be  enemies  to  the  American  cause,  of  carrying 
a  man  into  the  enemies  lines,  there  leaving  him  on  his  way 
to  Xew-York,  returning  back,  getting  his  arms  and  ac- 
coutrements, and  two  others  with  him,  pursued  the  man 
again,  overtook  him,  made  him  prisoner,  and  robbed  him 
of  his  money  and  clothes,  and  then  returned,  leaving  him 
entirely  destitute: — This  is  to  inform  the  public!:,  that 
he  has  been  before  sufficient  authority,  and  made  it  appear 
that  the  charge  is  false ;  and  defies  any  person  whatever  to 
support  any  thing  to  the  contrary. 

JOHX  BLACKLEDGE. 
Elizabeth  Town,  December  26,  1780. 


JOHN    RAY, 

At  WATSESSOX,  near  NEWARK,  has  for  SALE, 

VT7EST-IXDIA  rum,  sugar,  tea,  pepper,  and  indigo, 
^  ^       with  a  small  assortment  of  dry  goods,  which  he 

will  dispose  of  on  the  most  moderate  terms. 
December  12,  1780. 


\  LL  persons  indebted  to  the  subscriber  hay,  corn, 
^~*-  wheat-flour,  nails,  beef,  or  pork,  in  exchange  for 
articles  they  have  received  within  these  three  years 
past,  are  desired  to  make  immediate  payment.  Too  fre- 
quent disappointment  obliges  him  to  declare,  if  the  debts 
are  not  discharged  immediately,  they  will  be  dealt  with 
as  the  law  directs.  All  those  to  whom  he  is  indebted  a  re- 
requested  to  bring  their  accounts  for  payment. 

GERARDUS  DUYCKIXCK. 

X.  B.     He  continues  to  barter  drugs,  painters  colours, 
and  window  glass,  for  country  produce. 
Morristown,  December  12,  1780. 


1780] 


NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS. 


153 


Ailing,   Degray,   &   Omp. 

Have  for  sale,  at  Hanover,  in  Morris  county,  at  the  store 
formerly  occupied  by  Mr.  Jacob  Tappen,  the  following 
articles,  viz. 


BROAD  cloth 
Flannels 
Baize 
Ratinet 
Tammy 
Drilled 
Serge 
Moreen 
Daruns 
Persian 
Camblet 
Corduroys 
Poplin 
Calimanco 
Diaper  • 
Velvet 
Plush 
"Calico 
Ruffel 

Spatterdashes 
White  and  black  gauze 
Milionet 

Cambrick  and  lawn 
Mode  and  taffity 


Silk  handkerchiefs 

Linen  ditto 

Cotton  ditto 

Sewing  silk 

Twist  and  buttons 

Ribands 

Bindings 

Mens  worsted  hose 

Womens  gloves 

Pins  and  needles 

Awls 

Watch-keys 

Penknives 

Shoe-buckles 

Morocco  shoes 

Hat  lining  and  looping 

Ditto  buttons 

Ditto  hooks  and  eyes 

Bow  strings 

Buckskins 

Rum,  sugar,  and  tea 

Tobacco 

Indigo 

Salt,  &c.  &c.  &c. 


154  NEW    JEKSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

PRIVATE  LODGINGS. 

MRS.  WINAXS  having  removed  into  the  house  lately 
occupied  by  Mrs.   Brasier,   in   Elizabeth   Town, 
begs  leave  to  acquaint  the  publick  and  her  friends, 
that  she  intends  keeping  a  house  of  private  entertainment. 
Those  ladies  and  gentlemen  who  would  prefer  retirement 
to  houses  of  publick  resort,  may  depend  on  the  best  of 
usage,  and  be  accomodated  at  as  easy  an  expence  as  the 
times  will  admit  of. 
December  19,  1780. 

Three  Hundred  Dollars  Reward. 

D'ESERTED  fron^Capt.  Mead's  company  the  12th  in- 
stant, Benjamin  Bonnel,  John  Burnett,  and  John 
Yherts,  belonging  to  the  1st  Jersey  regiment.    Any 
person  that  will  apprehend  and  secure  the  above  deserters,, 
shall  be  entitled  to  the  above  reward. 

G.  MEAD,  Capt. 
December  19,  1780: 

TO    BE     SOLD, 

NEGRO  WOMEN,  one  an  old  one,  the  other 
about  twenty-eight  or  thirty  years  of  age,  can  do  all 
manner  of  house-work.     They  are  sold  for  no  fault, 
but  for  want  of  a  strict  master. 
Inquire  of  the  Printer. 

"\T7AS  taken  out  of  a  soldier's  knapsack  at  West-Point,. 

*        a    woman's    flowered    silk    gown,    of    a    brownish 

colour,  made  old  fashioned ;    one  apron  and  one 

handkerchief  marked  A  Z.    The  owner,  by  applying  to  the 

Printer  of  this  paper,  may  be  informed  where  they  may  be 

had  again. 


1780]        .  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  155 

^  I AAKEN  on  the  enemies  lines  near  Tarretown,  New- 
-*-      York  State,  a  black  mare,  six  years  old.    The  owner, 
proving  his  property,  and  paying  charges,  may  have 
her  again,  by  applying  to  the  subscriber. 

ABSALOM  BOISTHAM, 

Lieut.  1st  Jersey  Regiment. 
December  12,  1780. 


TO    BE     SOLD, 

OIX  acres'  of  good  LAND,  two-thirds  of  which  is  in 
^  orchard,  has  sixty  large  apple  trees,  and  some  very 
fine  peach  and  cherry  trees  of  the  best  sort ;  the 
other  third  is  in  meadow,  laying  along  the  Pasaick  river, 
and  opposite  to  Weazle;  it  joins  Post's  mills,  and  lays 
along  the  publick  road. — Hard  or  Continental  money  at 
the  exchange  will  be  taken  in  payment.  For  further  par- 
ticulars inquire  of  the  Printer,  or  Alexander  Stewart,  at 
Mrs.  Rutger's  in  Newark. 

N.  B.  There  is  some  old  buildings  on  the  above  place, 
and  an  exceeding  fine  well. 

December  5,  1780. 


price  of  this  paper,  for  the  future,  will  be 
3s  in  produce,  or  3s  9  in  hard  money  or  the 
exchange. — Those  persons  who  have  engaged 

to  pay  in  produce,  will  oblige  the  Printer  by  sending  it  as 

soon  as  possible. 

A  WHEEL- WRIGHT,  who  understands  making  linen 
4-*"     and  woollen  wheels,  will  meet  with  good  encourage- 
ment by  applying  to  the  subscriber  at  Bottle-Hill. 

THOMAS  GARDNER. 


156  NEW    JEKSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

1ST.  B.  Sometime  since  was  stolen  from  Morris-Town,  an 
almost  new  hunting  saddle,  hog-skin  seat,  the  stirrups  not 
mates.  Fifty  dollars  will  be  given  to  whoever  returns 
it  to  T.  G. 

December  19,  1780. 


WANTED, 

IN  a  Gentleman's  family  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Mor- 
ristown,  an  active  discreet  woman,  to  take  the  care  of 
children,  to  sew,  iron,  &c.    Such  a  person,  well  recom- 
mended, may  hear  of  a  place  and  good  encouragement,  by 
applying  to  the  Printer  hereof. 
December  8,  1780. 


WANTED  TO  PURCHASE, 

In  the  City  of  NEW- YORK, 

A  LOT  of  GROUND,  situated  near  White-Hall.     Any 
•*"*      person  having  such  [a]  lot  to  dispose  of,  may  hear 
of  a  purchaser  by  applying  to  the  Printer  of  this 
paper. 

December  7,  1780. 

TO    BE     SOLD, 

\  LIKELY  young  MARE,  three  years  old  last  spring, 
fit  for  the  saddle  or  gear. 
Inquire  of  the  Printer. 

The  New-Jersey  Journal,  December  27,  1780.    Vol.  II. 
Numb.  XCVII. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTEACTS.  157 

Two  Thousand  Dollars  Reward. 
RAN    AWAY, 

On  Sunday  last  from  the  subscriber,  in  Mendham  town- 
ship, Morris  county. 

A  NEGRO  MAN  named  JOE,  about  30  years  of  age, 
-*"*-  five  feet  eight  inches  high,  one  leg  a  little  shorter 
than  the  other,  part  of  one  of  his  great  toes  cut  off, 
lost  some  foreteeth,  and  his  back  is  much  scarrified  and  in 
lumps  by  whipping. — Also  a  handsome  NEGRO  WENCH, 
v8  years  of  age,  with  her  Child  about  six  weeks  old,  which 
from  some  of  its  clothes  being  found,  she  is  supposed  to 
have  killed.  The  Negroes  went  off  with  one  Slight,  a 
soldier  belonging  to  the  2d  Pennsylvania  regiment,  and 
they  stole,  and  took  with  them,  a  variety  of  clothes,  and  two 
horses,  the  one  a  bay,  four  years  old,  the  other  a  grey,  seven 
years  old,  and  have  switch  tails.  The  soldier  stole  a  written 
discharge,  in  the  name  of  William  Nelson,  whom  he  will 
probably  personate.  Whoever  takes  up  the  said  Negroes 
and  horses,  so  that  the  owner  may  get  them  again,  shall 
have  the  above  reward,  or  Twelve  Hundred  dollars  for  the 
Negroes  only,  and  Eight  Hundred  for  the  horses,  or  in  pro- 
portion for  any  or  either  of  them,  and  reasonable  charges, 
paid  by 

EBENEZEE  BLACKLY,  jun. 
Dec.  22,  1780. 

—N.  J.  Gazette,  Vol.  IV,  No.  157,  Dec.  27,  1780. 

FISH-KILL,  December  21. 

An  express  passed  through  this  town  on  Tuesday  morn- 
ing from  the  eastward,  who  informs  us  that  a  number  of 
vessels  from  New- York  had  appeared  off  New-Haven,  said 
to  have  on  board  four  thousand  troops  under  the  direction 
of  Benedict  Arnold,  the  traitor. 


158  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

We  are  informed,  that  another  party  of  the  enemy  from 
New- York,  said  to  be  about  three  hundred,  have  come  out 
as  far  as  Bedford.  Gen.  Stark's  brigade,  and  the  West- 
chester  militia  have  marched  to  oppose  them. 


TEEXTOK",  DECEMBER  27. 

Last  week  a  brig  bound  from  the  West-Indies  to  Xew- 
York,  was  brought  into  Tom's-River.  She  had  on  board 
150  hogsheads  of  excellent  rum  and  spirit.  Her  water 
and  provisions  having  fallen  short  on  her  passage,  and 
mistaking  the  land  for  the  coast  of  Long-Island,  sent  her 
boat  ashore  with  four  hands  for  a  supply  of  those  articles. 
Our  militia  getting  information,  secured  the  tars,  and 
manning  two  boats,  went  off  and  brought  in  the  vessel 
without  opposition. 


FOUR   HUNDRED   CONTINENTAL   DOLLARS 

REWARD. 

OTOLEN  out  of  the  pasture  of  the  subscriber  in  the 
V-J  night  of  the  twenty-third  of  October  last,  a  black 
horse,  five  years  old,  about  fourteen  hands  high,  trots 
and  canters,  shod  before,  roman  nose,  a  switch  tail,  a  long 
dock,  some  white  hair  in  the  flank,  one  hind  foot  white, 
branded  I.  H.  on  the  near  buttock.  Any  person  delivering 
the  said  horse  to  me,  in  tTpper-freehold,  East-Jersey,  shall 
have  the  above  reward. 

JOSEPH  HOLMES. 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  159 


WANTED, 

A  MANAGER  on  a  farm,  a  middle  aged  man,  who 
-TT1  has  a  thorough  knowledge  of  farming  in  all  its 
branches:  any  person  who  can  be  well  recom- 
mended for  his  knowledge,  industry  and  sobriety,  may 
hear  of  good  encouragement,  by  applying  to  the  printer 
hereof. 

1ST.  B.     None  else  need  apply. 


TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  publick  vendue,   on   Saturday  the   13th   day  of 
January  next, 

A  HOUSE  and  LOT  in  the  city  of  New-Brunswick, 
pleasantly  situated  in  the  main  street,  leading  to 
the  ferry;  the  house  in  tolerable  repair,  and  con- 
venient for  a  shop  or  other  business. — Likewise  a  small 
lot  of  woodland,  about  a  mile  from  the  same,  and  would 
suit  the  purchaser  of  the  house  for  firing. — The  sale  to 
begin  at  two  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  when,  the  conditions 
will  be  made  known  by 

SAMUEL  H.  SULLIVAN. 
Hillsborough,  December  19,  1780. 


TO  BE  SOLD, 

T^OUR  NEGROES,   two  men  and  two  women.     En- 
quire of  the  printer. 

December  26,  1780. 


160  NEW    JERSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 


TO  BE  SOLD, 

By  public  vendue,  on  the  first  day  of  January  next,  at 
Monmouth  courthouse, 


sloop  Catherine,  schooler  John,  and  sloop  Susan- 
•*•      nah,  together  with  their  tackle,  apparel,  and  'furni- 
ture, as  they  now  lay  at  Middletown-Point  :  —  And 
on  Wednesday  the  third  of  January  will  be  sold  at  Tom's 
River,  the  brig  Dove,  with  her  tackle,  apparel,  and  one 
hundred  and  forty  puncheons  of  rum,  being  her  cargo. 
By  order  of  the  Judge, 

J.  BURRO  WES,  MARSHALL. 

!N".  B.     The  cash  to  be  paid  on  delivery  of  the  goods. 

December  24,  1780. 

STBAYED  OR  STOLEN, 

From  Pluckemin,  on  the  first  instant, 

A  Brown  MARE,  with  black  tail  and  mane,  14  hands 

^-^-     high,  about  7  years  old,  a  little  lame  in  her  near 

hind  leg.     Whoever  will  deliver  said  mare  to  John 

Nevin,  at  RTew-Shannick,  or  to  the  subscriber  in  Pluck- 

emin, shall  have  a  reasonable  reward  and  charges  paid. 

WILLIAM  M'COWEN. 
December  19,  1780. 


A  MULATTO  SLAVE, 

be  sold,  or  exchanged  for  a  negro  woman,  girl,  or 
boy ;  he  is  about  thirty  years  of  age,  strong,  healthy, 
and  active — is   a  complete  farmer,   a  good  second 
hand  in  a  smith's  shop,  can  tend  a  saw  or  grist-mill,  un- 
derstands taking  care  of  horses,  and  driving  a  carriage. — 
Enquire  of  the  printer. 


1780]  XEAVSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  161 

WANTED, 

A  few  bushels  of 
HEMP-SEED; 

\T 7 ARE ANTED  good,  and  of  the  last  season's  growth. 
^  ^       Enquire  of  Stacy  Potts  in  Trenton. 

December  26,  1780. 
—N.  J.  Gazette.     Vol.  IV.     No.  157.     Dec.  27,  1780. 

tt 

CHATHAM,  DECEMBER  20. 

Last  Thursday  night  a  Corporal's  guard  at  Halstead's 
Point,  was  surprised  by  the  enemy.     They  bayonetted  one 
man,  carried  off  four,  and  one  made  his  escape. 
— The  New-York  Packet,  and  the  American  Advertiser, 
December  28,  1780.     No.  195. 

BY  THE  HONOURABLE 
BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS 

OF  ASSOCIATED  LOYALISTS, 

A  DECLARATION. 

FROM  the  commencement  of  the  present  unnatural  re- 
bellion, it  has  been  often  wished  that  some  regular 
and  efficient  system  was  adopted,  for  employing  the 
zeal  of  that  Class  of  his  Majesty's  Loyal  Subjects  in  North- 
America,  who,  from  their  peculiar  circumstances,  were  un- 
willing to  become  Soldiers  by  profession,  though  ardently 
inclined  to  take  up  arms,  and  contribute  their  aid  towards 

11 


162  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    ItKVOI.ITION.  [17S(> 

reducing  the  rebels.  For  want  of  such  a  system,  the  spon- 
taneous exertions  of  the  Colonial  Loyalists  have  been  con- 
fined within  limits  no  ways  proportioned  to  the  extent  of 
their  inclination.  But,  narrow  as  their  sphere  of  action 
has  hitherto  been,  they  found  room  to  display  such  courage 
and  abilities,  as  fully  evinced  the  propriety  and  utility  of 
giving  further  scope  to  that  spirit  of  enterprize  by  which 
they  were  actuated. 

His  Majesty  has  therefore  been  induced  to  signify  his 
royal  pleasure,  that  a  Board  be  established  for  embodying 
and  employing  such  of  his  faithful  Subjects  in  North- 
America,  as  may  be  willing  to  associate  under  their  direc- 
tion, for  the  purpose  "of  arraying  the  sea  coasts  of  the 
"revolted  Provinces,  and  distressing  their  trade,  either  in 
"co-operation  with  his  Majesty's  land  and  sea  forces,  or 
"by  making  diversions  in  their  favour  when  they  are  car- 
"rying  on  operations  in  other  parts." 

In  pursuance  of  his  Majesty's  gracious  intention,  his 
Excellency  Sir  Henry  ^Clinton,  K.  B.  and  Commander  in 
Chief,  has  been  pleased  to  issue  a  Commission,  under  his 
hand  and  seal,  constituting  William  Franklin,  Esquire, 
Governor  of  New- Jersey,  Josiah  Martin,  Esquire,  Gov- 
ernor of  North-Carolina,  Timothy  Ruggles,  Daniel  Cox, 
George  Duncan  Ludlow,  Edward  Latwyche,  George  Rome, 
George  Leonard,  Anthony  Stewart,  ,and  Robert  Alexander, 
Esquires,  a  BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS,  for  the  conduct 
and  management  of  this  business. 

That  zeal  which  should  anii/iate  every  Loyal  Subject  of 
his  Majesty,  and  that  sympathetic  regard  which  the  Di- 
rectors feel  for  their  fellow  sufferers  among  the  Loyalists 
of  America,  have  determined  them  to  undertake  the  execu- 
tion of  the  commission.  In  performing  this  duty  to  the 
best  of  Sovereigns,  they  are  authorized  to  assure  all  those 
who  may  become  Associators  of  the  following  benefits  and 
rewards  for  their  encouragement,  viz. 

I.  That  all  persons  willing  and  able  to  bear  arms  for 
the  suppression  of  the  present  rebellion,  and  who  engage  to 
form  under  the  direction  of  the  Board,  agreeably  to  this 


1780]  NEWSPAPER   EXTRACTS.  163 

establishment,  will  be  subject  to  the  command  of  those 
officers  who  may  be  recommended  by  the  Board,  and  com- 
missioned by  the  Commander  in  Chief,  during  such  term 
only  as  they  may  previously  agree  upon. 

II.  That  the  Associators  are  to  be  furnished  with  such 
ordnance  and  stores,  small  arms  and  ammunition,  as  may 
be  judged  proper  for  the  service. 

III.  That  they  will  be  supplied  with  rations  of  provis- 
ions when  they  are  going  upon  service,  and  during  their 
continuance  thereon. 

IV.  That  all  captures  made  by  the  Associators  (when 
not  acting  in  conjunction  with  any  of  his  Majesty's  land 
and  sea  forces)  will  be  their  entire  property,  and  distrib- 
uted among  them  in  such  shares  as  shall  be  settled  by  the 
Board,  and  specified  in  the  articles  of  Association. 

V.  That  they  are  to  be  furnished  by  the  Commander  in 
Chief  of  his  Majesty's  ships  on  the  North- American  station 
with  such  shipping,  to  be  manned  by  themselves,  as  may  be 
thought  necessary  for  the  service,  from  among  the  trans- 
ports or  other  vessels  in  his  Majesty's  pay,  and  not  com- 
manded by  the  King's  officers. 

VI.  That  their  mariners  will  not  be  impressed  into  any 
other  service,  during  their  continuance  in  the  Directors 
employment. 

VII.  That  the  prisoners  they  take  will  be  exchanged  only 
for  such  Associated  Loyalists  as  the  Board  may  name  for 
that  purpose. 

VIII.  That  the  sick  and  wounded  of  the  Loyalists  so 
associated,  will  have  the  help  and  benefit  of  the  King's 
hospitals. 

IX.  That  such  as  may  at  any  time  be  called  to  serve  the 
royal  army  as  Guides,  will  be  allowed  wages  during  their 
service. 

X.  That  such  Associator  who1  shall  continue  to  act  under 
the  Directors  orders,  during  the  rebellion,  will  receive  a 
gratuitous  grant  of  Two  Hundred  acres  of  land  in  North 
America. 


164:  NEW    JEESEY    IN    THE    KEVOLUTIOX.  [1780 

ADDED  to  these  advantages,  the  Directors  have  also  au- 
thority to  declare,  that  the  Commander  in  Chief  has  as- 
sured them,  that  if  experience  should  point  to  the  utility  of 
any  new  powers,  the  Board  may  firmly  rely  on  his  readiness 
to  encourage  the  zeal  of  the  Associated  Loyalists,  and  on 
the  best  endeavours  to  fulfill  the  expectations  the  King  is 
pleased  to  entertain  of  their  abilities  and  intentions;  and 
that,  being  desirous  to  give  them  every  aid  and  support  in 
his  power,  he  will  be  ready  to  listen  to  any  proposals  the 
Board  may  judge  of  advantage  to  the  business  his  Majesty 
has  been  graciously  pleased  to  commit  to  their  direction. 

Such  encouragements  the  Board  cannot  doubt  will  afford 
the  highest  satisfaction  to  every  honest  Loyalist  within  the 
British  lines.  ]^"or  can  it  fail  of  administering  comfort  to 
those  now  suffering  under  the  iron  rod  of  rebel  oppression. 
These  will  find,  on  a  junction  with  their  associated 
brethren,  the  means  of  procuring  a  comfortable  support,  in- 
stead of  becoming  an.  useless  burthen  to  government. 

On  the  part  of  the  Board,  the  Directors  think  proper  to 
declare,  that  esteeming  themselves  honoured  by  the  trust  re- 
posed in  them,  they  consider  it  their  indispensible  duty  to 
exert  every  nerve,  in  carrying  the  design  into  full  execu- 
tion. 

They  promise  the  Associators  every  attention  in  their 
power,  and  shall  deem  themselves  happy  to  render  them  es- 
sential service.  In  the  recommendation  of  officers,  it  will 
be  their  aim  to  comply  with  the  general  wish  of  each  par- 
ticular corps,  whenever  it  can  be  done  consistent  with  the 
good  of  the  service. 

It  will  also  be  an  object  of  their  immediate  care  to  put  a 
stop  to  those  distinguished  cruelties  with  which  the  Colo- 
nial Loyalists  are  generally  treated,  when  they  have  the 
misfortune  of  falling  into  the  hands  of  the  Rebels.  Should 
these  hereafter,  to  answer  their  malignant  purposes,  en- 
deavour to  avail  themselves  of  their  usual  distinction  of 
Prisoners  of  State  from  Prisoners  of  War,  by  which  so 
many  worthy  Loyalists  have  already  suffered  the  most  igno- 


1780]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  165 

minions  deaths,  the  Directors  pledge  themselves  to  the  Asso- 
ciators  to  omit  nothing  in  their  power,  to  make  the  enemy 
feel  the  just  vengeance  due  to  such  enormities. 

It  is  however  their  fixed  determination,  and  an  article 
of  the  association,  "that  the  commanding  officer  of  all 
"parties  and  detachments  of  associators,  be  particularly 
"careful,  that  no  loyal  or  quiet  inoffensive  inhabitants 
"residing  among  the  Rebels,  be  hurt  or  molested  in  person 
"or  property;  and  that  he  shall,  by  every  means  in  his 
"power,  endeavour  to  prevent  the  perpetration  of  excesses, 
"barbarities,  01  irregularities,  contrary  to  the  law  of  arms, 
"as  practiced  by  civilized  nations." 

And  they  have  likewise  provided  for  the  making  ef- 
fectual retribution  to  such  inhabitants,  in  case  they  should 
happen  to  become  sufferers,  through  the  mistakes  or  mis- 
conduct of  any  Associator. 

They  appeal  to  that  God,  who  is  the  searcher  of  all  hearts, 
to  witness  the  sincerity  of  their  professions,  when  they  de- 
clare, that  they  are  not  actuated  by  any  disposition  to  pro- 
long the  horrors  of  war,  or  to  increase  the  miseries  of  their 
country.  Their  conduct  they  hope  will  prove,  that  they 
only  wish  to  afford  their  aid  in  seating  the  secret  machina- 
tions of  foreign  powers,  and  restoring  her  to  that  happy 
state  which  she  once  enjoyed  under  the  British  constitu- 
tion. 

Fully  sensible  of  the  arduousness  of  the  task  the  Board 
has  undertaken,  and  conscious  as  the  Directors  are,  that 
their  best  abilities,  though  aided  by  the  best  intentions, 
may  fall  far  short  of  what  its  importance  requires,  they 
will  esteem  it  a  particular  obligation  to  be  favoured  with 
such  plans,  or  proposals,  as  any  true  friend  of  government 
may  judge  proper  for  the  purposes  intended  by  this  estab- 
lishment. 

And  the  Board  do  hereby  call  on  and  invite  all  those 
who  are  willing  to  demonstrate  their  loyalty  to  His  most 
gracious  Majesty  GEORGE  the  Hid.  to  join  with  them 
in  their  endeavours  to  recover  for  their  country; — the  in- 


166  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1780 

estimable  blessings  of  peace,  and  the  friendship  and  pro- 
tection they  formerly  possessed  under  the  government  of 
Great  Britain. 

Signed  in  behalf  of  the  Board, 

WILLIAM  FRANKLIN,  President. 
New-York,  December  28th,  1780. 

A  true  Copy,  S.  S.  Blowers,  Secretary. 


The   Pacquets  for   Long-Island,    Staten   Island,    New- 
York  Island,  Powles  Hook,   and  all  their  dependencies, 
shall  be  forwarded  as  usual. 
— The  Royal  Gazette,  December  30,  1780.     No.  444. 


1781  1  .NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  167 


From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  158,  for  Jan.  3,  1781. 

NEW  LONDON,   December  12. 

Last  Thursday,  Capt.  House,  in  a  small  schooner  privateer  fitted 
from  Philadelphia,  with  nineteen  men,  arrived  here  and  brought  in  a 
schooner  from  Medeira,  bound  to  New  York,  with  108  pipes  of  wine, 
which  he  captured  near  Sandy-Hook.  Captain  House  also  took  a 
pilot  boat  which  came  out  from  New  York  to  pilot  in  the  above 
schooner. 

TRENTON,  January  3. 

On  the  12th  ult.  Col.  Frederick  Frelinghuysen  was  returned  a  Repre- 
sentative in*"  the  Legislative  Council  for  the  county  of  Somerset,  in 
the  room  of  the  Honourable  Dr.  John  Witherspoon,  elected  one  of 
the  Delegates  to  represent  this  state  in  Congress. 

At  the  Courts  of  Oyer  and  Terminer  and  General  Gaol  Delivery 
lately  held  at  Freehold,  in  the  county  of  Monmouth,  John  Farnam 
and  Jonathan  Burge  were  convicted  of  murder;  Robert  Paterson  of 
horsestealing ;  Henry  Sellers  of  a  robbery,  and  Benjamin  Lee  of  a 
rape,  and  all  are  sentenced  to  be  executed  this  day.  At  the  same 
Courts  George  Williams  was  convicted  of  perjury,  and  sentenced  to 
stand  an  hour  in  the  pillory ;  Daniel  Tabor,  Jacob  Foster,  Benjamin 
King,  Obria  West,  George  Tinney,  Lewis  Morris,  John  De  Bowe, 
Thomas  Cook,  William  Morris,  William  Reynolds,  Hendrick  Brewer, 
Timothy  Russell,  William  Parker,  of  Red  Bank  ;  Edward  Taylor,  mil- 
ler; Solomon  Wardell,  George  Williams,  Assa  Clark,  Peter  Parker, 
Jun.,  Elizabeth  Wardell,  Silas  Woolley  and  John  Smith  were  sever- 
ally convicted  of  misdemeanors;  Peter  Parker  (Snag  Swamp)  of 
seditious  words ;  Guisebert  Longstreet  of  a  riot ;  John  Bradshaw  of 
an  assault,  and  John  Emmans  of  gaming. 

Mr.  Collins, 

In  Mr.  Rivington's  Gazette  of  December  13,  is  the  following  remark- 
able paragraph  after  the  insertion  of  Dr.  Rush's  letter  to  Dr.  Shippen, 
Jun.,  on  his  conduct  with  regard  to  the  military  hospitals  :  "Dr.  Shippen 
may  be  assured  that  this  republication  is  not  intended  to  afford  the  least 
countenance  to  his  opponent,  but  to  answer  (as  far  as  possible)  the  views 
alluded  to  at  the  top  of  the  preceding  column — It  is  not  the  pevish  cavil 
of  this  writer,  but  the  progress  and  declension  of  the  congressional 
power  that  has  occasioned  its  being  reprinted  in  our  paper." 

Is  not  this  paragraph  highly  apologetical '!  And  whence  proceeds  the 
author's  tenderness  to  Dr.  Shippen?  It  certainly  cannot  be  dictated  by 
a  respect  for  an  officer  in  a  most  important  trust  in  the  rebel  army.  The 
last  part  of  it  was  rendered  unnecessary  by  the  introductory  address  pre- 
fixed to  it.  No  extraordinary  introductory  uncharitableness  will  load  us 
to  such  suspicions  as  a  man  much  less  unpopular  would  be  liable  to, 
under  the  like  circumstances.  Yours,  &c. 

OBSERVATOR. 


108         :X"EW  JERSEY  IX  THE.  KEVOLUTIOX.       [1781 

The  Members  of  the  Trenton  Library  Company  are  desired  to 
meet  at  the  House  of  Renssalaer  Williams,  Esquire,  in  Trenton,  on 
Monday  the  fifteenth  Day  of  this  Instant,  at  two  o'clock  in  the 
afternoon. 

January  '•>.  1781. 

TWO  HUNDRED  DOLLARS  REWARD. 

Strayed  or  stolen,  out  of  the  pasture  of  Abraham  Bulmore,  on  the 
22d.  of  November  last,  A  Young  red  roan  MARE,  three  years  old 
next  spring,  neither  docked  nor  branded,  a  star  in  her  forehead,  and 
on  both  sides  of  her  neck  a  small  rose.  Whoever  takes  up  the  said 
mare  and  brings  her  to  Abraham  Bulmore,  in  Somerset  county  near 
Steel's  Gap.  or  to  George  Beaty,  near  Trenton,  shall  receive  the 
above  reward,  with  all  reasonable  charges  paid  by  Solomon  Davis. 

JUST  PUBLISHED. 

Aud  to  be  sold,  wholesale. and  retail,  by  Isaac  Collins,  at  the  Print- 
ing-Offices.  in  Trenton,  a  neat  edition  of  The  New  Testament,  printed 
on  a  good  type,  and  good  paper.  At  the  same  place  may  be  had 
Dilworth's  Spelling  Books,  Primers,  &c. 

The  Price  of  this  Gazett*  is  2s.  6.  paid  in  Produce  at  the  following 
rate,  wheat  7s.  6,  rye  4s.  6,  buckwheat  2s.  6,  Indian  corn  3s.  6  per 
bushel,  flax  Is.,  wool  2s.,  butter  Is.,  and  cheese  at  6d.  per  Ib.  or  3s. 
Specie,  or  the  exchange  thereof  in  Continental  Money  at  the  time  of 
payment  per  Quarter. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

A  likely  negro  wench,  about  17  years  of  age.  Enquire  of  the  sub- 
scriber at  Princeton. 

THOMAS  WIGGINS. 

MIDDLESEX,  December  11,  1780. 

This  day  was  finished  by  Richard  Herbert  the  wooden-work  of  a 
new  constructed  pleasure  sleigh,  remarkable  for  its  strength  and 
beauty.  Its  construction  is  entirely  new,  having  been  put  together 
without  the  use  of  either  pin,  bolt,  screw,  rivet,  nail,  sprig  or  brad. 
It  contains  more  than  one  hundred  different  pieces  of  wood,  and  was 
put  together  in  forty-five  minuits  without  the  use  of  ax,  hammer,  or 
any  iron  tool. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

A  Farm  containing  three  hundred  and  fifty  four  acres  of  land  in 
Kingwood.  in  the  county  of  Hunterdon,  New  Jersey,  now  in  the 
tenure  of  Joseph  Leigh.  One  Hundred  acres  are  woodland :  the  rest 
consists  of  five  lots  of  about  forty  acres  each,  besides  ten  acres  of 
meadow.  There  are  on  it  a  dwelling-house,  a  good  frame  barn  and  an 
orchard.  It  lies  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Baptist-Town,  seven  miles 


KXTRACTS.  169 

below  Pitts-Town,  thirty  miles  above  Trenton,  about  two  miles  from 
several  fisheries  on  the  Delaware,  and  is  near  several  mills  and  mar- 
kets. The  terms  of  sale  may  be  known  on  application  to  William 
Coxe.  Esq.,  near  Bristol  in  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania,  cr  to  the 
subscriber  living  in  Front  Street,  opposite  the  Continental  Lottery- 
Office,  in  Philadelphia. 

JOHN   COXE. 
December  20,  1780. 

PUBLIC  NOTICE  is  hereby  given. 

That  the  Partnership  of  Coxe  and  Furman,  and  of  Coxe,  Furman 
and  Coxe,  are  dissolved.  All  persons  having  unsettled  accounts  with 
the  former,  are  requested  to  settle  the  same  with  Moore  Furman  im- 
mediately and  tjiose  who  have  any  accounts  with  the  latter  are  desired 
to  adjust  them  with  Tench  Coxe. 

WAS  STOLEN, 

Last  night  out  of  the  stable  of  Colonel  Smith,  of  Elizabeth-Town,  a 
-Sorrel  Horse,  fifteen  hands  high,  four  or  five  years  old  next  spring, 
a  star  in  his  forehead,  a  white  upper  lip,  one  white  hind  foot,  small 
white  mark  on  the  near  hip ;  the  property  of  the  subscriber.  Who- 
ever apprehends  the  thief  or  thieves  and  horse,  so  as  the  owner  may 
have  him  again,  and  the  villains  brought  to  justice,  shall  have  a 
reward  of  One  Thousand  dollars  continental  currency  or  Five  Hun- 
dred dollars  for  the  horse  only,  and  all  reasonable  charges  paid  by 
me. 

JOHN  ADAM,  Com.  Prif. 
Elizabeth-Town,  Dec.  26,  1780. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

By  the  subscriber  in  Trenton,  a  well  known  FARM,  lying  on  School- 
ey's  mountain  in  Roxbury  township,  Morris  county,  joining  Casper 
Eikel,  Robert  Caiver,  Jun.,  and  others,  formerly  occupied  by  Henry 
Dell.  The  Farm  contains  about  20  acres,  one  half  meadow,  part  made, 
the  remainder  easy  to  be  made,  the  soil  very  good,  well  watered  and 
pretty  good  improvements,  a  good  bearing  orchard,  the  situation 
pleasant,  being  level,  and  lying  on  a  public  road.  The  soil  formerly 
belonged  to  Isaac  Decow,  Esq.  The  title  is  indisputable.  Any  per- 
son inclining  to  purchase  mny  know  the  terms  by  applying  to 

GEO.  BEATY. 

X.   B. — Certificates  will  be  taken  in  part  pay  and   the  remainder 
•  made  easy  to  the  purchaser. 

TO  BE  SOLD 

Wholesale  and  Retail,  at  the  Printing-Office,  in  Trenton.  The  New 
Jersey  Almanack,  for  the  year  of  our  Lord  1781.  "Containing  a 
Variety  of  useful  and  entertaining  Matter  in  Prose  and  Verse. 
N.  B — Great  allowance  will  be  made  to  those  who  purchase  large 
quantities. 


170  XEW    JERSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTIOX.  [iTSl 

TO  BE  SOLD  CHEAP. 

[For  the  advertisement  of  John  Bray,  see  p.  147.] 

TWO  THOUSAND  DOLLARS  REWARD. 

[For  the  advertisement  of  Blackly,  see  p.  157.] 

[For  the  statement  of  Jos.  Reed,  see  p.  132.] 

JUST  PUBLISHED, 

And  to  be  sold  at  the  Printing-Office  in   Trenton,   The  Xe\v   Jersey 
Pocket  Almanack,  for  the  year  of  our  Lord  1781. 

To  All  idiom  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  Allentown,  in  the  county 
of  Monmouth,  on  Thursday  the  25th  day  of  January  next,  at  the  hour 
of  ten  in  the  forenoon  of  the  same  day,  then  and  there  to  try  the 
truth  of  the  facts1  alledged  in  the  bill  of  James  Randolph,  and  Moses 
Robins,  (who  as  well.  &c.)  against  the  sloop  or  vessel  called  the 
Brunswick*,  Joshua  Wording,  late  master,  lately  cast  on  shore  near 
Barnegat ;  ...  Of  John  Plowman,  (who  as  well.  &c.)  against  a 
certain  schooner  called  the  General  Clinton,  lately  commanded  by 
Benjamin  Galloway ;  ...  Of  Samuel  Bigelow  and  Samuel  Allen, 
(who  as  well,  &c.)  against  a  certain  vessel  or  brig  called  the  Dove, 
taken  at  sea  on  her  voyage  from  Tortola  to  New-York.  George  Han- 
nel,  late  Master  ;  .  .  .  Of  Adam  Hyler,  (who  as  well,  &c.)  against 
a  certain  sloop  or  vessel  called  the  Susannah,  lately  taken  by  said 
Adam  Hyler,  on  the  south  side  of  Staten-Island  near  Prince's  bay  ; 
with  their  respective  tackle,  apparel,  furniture  and  cargo :  To  the 
end  and  intent  that  the  owner  or  owners  of  the  said  vessels  respec- 
tively, or  any  other  person  or  persons  interested  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  con- 
demned to  the  several  captors  thereof,  and  decrees  thereon  pass,  pur- 
suant to  the  prayer  of  the  said  bills. 

By  order  of  the  Judge. 

JOS.  BLOOMFIELD.  Reg. 

Haddonfield,  Dec.  20,  1780. 

At  the  same  time  and  place  will  be  tried,  the  schooner  Flying-Fish 
and  the  schooner  Saturday-Night,  lately  captured  at  sea  by  David 
Stevens ;  and  also  the  schooner  John  and  sloop  Catherine,  lately  taken 
by  Joshua  Studson  (heretofore  advertised)  all  adjourned  over  for 
trial  at  the  last  Court  of  Admiralty. 

JOS.  BLOOMFIELD,  Register. 


*  This  vessel  was  advertised  in  the  two  last  papers  for  trial  the  fifth 
day  of  January  next,  but  is  postponed  to  the  twenty-fifth  of  the  same 
month,  agreeable  to  the  above  notice. 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTKACTS.  iTl 

[For  the  advertisement  of  Philip  Graudin,  see  p.  146.] 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

[For  this  advertisement,  see  p.  159.] 

[Farm  manager  wanted  ;   see  p.  159.] 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

[See  advertisement  of  Samuel  H.  Sullivan,  p.  159.] 

TO  BE  SOr.D, 

[See  advertisement  of  printer,  p.  154.] 

[See  advertisatnent  of  William  M'Cowen,  p.  160.] 

A  MULATTO  SLAVE, 
[See  advertisement,  p.  160.] 

Wanted,  in  Bordentown,  a  quantity  of  one  and  a  quarter,  and  one 
Inch  pine  boards,  for  which  the  highest  price  will  be  given  by  the 
subscriber, — who  has  for  sale,  a  general  assortment  of  merchandise. 

JOHN  VAN  EMBURGH. 

December  21,  1780. 

TO  BE  RENTED, 

For  a  term  of  years,  About  60  acres  of  land  adjoining  the  River  Dela- 
ware, about  midway  betwixt  Neshaminey  Creek  and  Bristol,  half  of 
which  is  thought  to  be  as  good  meadow  land  as  any  on  the  River, 
well  banked  and  drained.  Above  three  years  ago,  the  alder  with 
which  it  was  over-run  was  mostly  all  scalped  off  and  totally  destroyed. 
The  upland  consists  about  one  half  of  it  good  plow-land,  the  re- 
mainder wood  and  pasture  land,  well  watered  by  a  constant  stream. 
A  good  sight  for  a  house,  commanding  a  fine  view  of  the  River,  the 
Jersey  shore,  the  city  of  Burlington  and  borough  of  Bristol,  distant 
about  two  miles,  and  from  the  great  road  about  half  a  mile,  of 
which  it  also  commands  a  prospect.  Fishing  and  fowling  here  in 
great  plenty. 

Also  to  be  sold  or  rented,  a  farm  of  about  eighty  acres,  in  West- 
Jersey,  on  the  Old  York  road,  about  two  miles  from  Robertson's  ferry, 
upwards  of  50  acres  good  plow-land  with  a  sufficiency  of  meadow,  the 
rest  woodland,  all  in  good  fence ;  a  stone  dwelling-house,  a  barn, 
orchard,  &c.  It  lays  in  a  thick  settled  country,  the  whole  of  it 
well  watered  ;  it  is  well  adapted  by  situation  for  a  tradesman,  where 
a  tanner  formerly  lived.  It  will  be  sold  very  cheap,  with  an  undis- 
puted title,  by  George  Gillispie,  near  Bristol,  or  the  Rev.  William 
Frazer,  in  Amwell,  or  Isaac  Decow,  Esq.,  Trenton. 

Wanted  to  purchase,  a  good  farmer  negroe,  for  which  a  generous 
price  will  be  given,  and  the  negroe,  by  good  behaviour,  may  be  assurer? 
of  the  best  of  treatment.  Apply  as  above. 


172  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

[For  advertisement  of  Mrs.  Winans,  see  p.  154.] 
[For  advertisement  of  Joseph  Holmes,  see  p.  138.] 
[For  advertisement  of  Robert  Taylor,  see  p.  136.] 
[For  advertisement  of  Stacy  Potts,  see  p.  140.] 

From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  159,  of  10  January,  1781. 

FOB  THE  NEW-JEESEY  GAZETTE. 

As  the  manumission  of  slaves  has  become  a  topick  of  general  conver- 
sation, we  beg  permission  to  offer  a  few  sentiments  on  the  subject. 

The  merits  of  almost  every  case  of  litigation  generally  turns  upon 
one  or  two  points.  In  the  present  instance  the  question  is,  we  con- 
ceive, Whether  law,  justice,  and  policy  warrant  the  retaining  our 
slaves  in  their  present  situation? 

That  we  became  legally  possessed  of  them,  or  that  they  were  intro- 
duced into  this  country  agreeable  to  its  laws,  no  one  will  presume 
to  deny ;  and  that  we  cannot  constitutionally  be  divested  of  them  by 
legislative  authority,  is,  We  humbly  imagine,  as  evident  as  that  white 
is  not  black,  or  that  slavery  is  not  freedom.  Our  most  excellent  con- 
stitution admits  not  the  subject  to  be  deprived  of  his  life,  liberty,  or 
property  but  by  a  trial  of  a  jury  of  his  equals :  and  lest  this  in- 
estimable privilege,  the  glory  of  freemen,  should  be  infringed  on,  the 
constitution  expressly  requires  that  no  member  of  the  legislature 
shall  possess  a  seat  in  the  house,  until  he  has  solemnly  sworn  that 
he  will  maintain  this  immunity  inviolate. 

It  becomes  therefore  one  of  the  unalterable  particulars  of  our  rights, 
and  cannot  be  relinquished  by  the  guardians  of  our  liberties  but  at 
the  expense  of  perfidy,  and  even  of  perjury  itself.  The  liberation  of 
our  slaves  therefore,  without  the  concurrence  of  their  possessors,  we 
apprehend,  is  an  object  infinitely  further  distant  from  the  legal  at- 
tention of  our  Assembly  than  are  the  heavens  above  the  earth. 

Whether,  as  individuals,  justice  permits  the  detention  of  our 
Negroes,  is  next  to  be  considered.— The  Divine  Saviour  of  men  hath 
been  pleased  to  give  a  summary  of  our  duty  towards  each  other  in 
a  single  sentence,  viz.,  "To  do  unto  others  as  we  would  they  should 
do  to  us;"  or  "to  love  our  neighbour  as  ourselves."  As  we  profess  to 
believe  in  a  future  judgment,  that  we  shall  one  day  give  an  account 
to  the  Supreme  Governor  of  the  world  of  our  actions,  it  highly  con- 
cerns us  to  be  attentive  that  they  be  conformable  to  the  heavenly 
law.  That  barbarity  to  our  slaves  is  repugnant  to  this  law,  cannot 
be  controverted ;  but  whether  the  divine  precept  enjoins  us  to  free 
them  or  not,  is  the  dispute.  Were  we  in  their  situation  it  is  more 
than  probable  we  should  pant  after  freedom  ;  and  so  does  the  poor 
debtor  desire  a  release  from  his  creditor,  but  the  injunction,  "to  do 
unto  others  as  we  would  be  done  by,"  does  not  oblige  the  latter  to 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  173 

free  the  former  of  the  debt,  if  it  hath  not  been  contracted  by  in- 
justice. Nor  can  this  command  oblige  us  to  liberate  our  slaves  un- 
less they  are  sinfully  obtained,  or  are  thus  held  in  bondage.  If  the 
usages  of  the  nations  of  Africa  justify  the  foreign  and  domestick 
slavery  of  their  captives,  they  can  be  purchased  and  retained  without 
iniquity.  But  let  us  suppose  our  Negroes  were  stolen  from  their 
country  ;  divested  of  that  natural  liberty  given  to  them  by  heaven, 
and  reduced  to  vassalage,  it  may  be  asked  whether  the  whole  of  the 
guilt  devolves  not  on  the  perpetrators  of  the  deed? 

Whether  any  of  the  sin  rests  on  those  who  have  purchased  of  the 
posterity  of  the  slaves,  or  inherit  them  by  the  gift  or  will  of  parents 'i 
The  people  of  Africa  were  formerly  and  lawfully  exposed  here  to  sale 
as  articles  of  commerce,  and  it  may  be  queried  if  in  conscience  we 
were  bound  to  enquire  whether  the  Guinea-merchant  became  more 
rightfully  posses&ed  of  his  slaves  than  of  his  gold  dust,  or  any  other 
commodity  of  Africa?  It  is  possible  an  African  may  part  with  his 
liberty  for  temporary  considerations,  as  many  Europeans  have  ex- 
changed their  freedom,  for  a  few  years,  for  a  passage  only  to  America ; 
and  the  purchasers  of  such  servants  never  perhaps  thought  it  incum- 
bent on  them  to  enquire  whether  they  were  stolen  or  decoyed  away 
by  their  masters,  which  we  believe  was  often  the  case,  or  received  an 
equivalent  for  their  loss  of  liberty.  We  do  not  conceive  that  slavery 
in  itself  is  iniquitous.  The  Jews  were  suffered  to  have  slaves ;  and 
our  very  sons  are  such,  that  is,  perfectly  subject  to  the  will  of  their 
fathers  and  at  their  disposal  until  they  attain  the  age  of  twenty-one 
years,  till  then  they  are  not  free,  and  what  is  slavery  but  an  entire 
submission  to  the  commands,  disposal,  or  will  of  another?  But  this 
vassalage  we  endure  without  repining,  as  we  esteem  ourselves  helpless 
and  incapable  of  self-government  during  our  state  of  legal  infancy 
or  non-age.  It  may  be  said,  if  our  slaves  were  unjustly  obtained  it 
must  be  unjust  to  hold  them  in  bondage.  We  readily  grant  it  would 
be  so  for  an  unjust  importer  of  them,  or  the  heirs  of  the  importer 
who  received  them  without  paying  what  is  deemed  an  equivalent  for 
the  property ;  and  we  freely  declare  we  would  not  retain  a  slave 
under  these  circumstances,  or  be  instrumental  in  reducing  a  freeman 
to  slavery  for  any  consideration.  But  as  the  slaves  are  among  us ; 
as  the  sale  of  them  among  ourselves  does  not  cause  a  farther  im- 
portation of  their  countrymen,  and  if  it  is  not  disadvantageous  to 
the  slave,  we  are  as  free  to  declare  we  cannot  comprehend  why,  with- 
out any  injustice  to  him,  he  may  not  now  be  purchased  and  possessed. 

Humanity,  indeed,  wishes  they  could  enjoy  liberty  and  happiness, 
consistent  with  justice  to  those  who  have  honestly  bought  them,  and 
we,  in  truth,  consider  our  liberty  our  liberty  as  a  prelude  to  their 
release  from  slavery.  The  love  of  freedom  in  due  season,  we  trust, 
will  be  so  predominant  that  either  the  individuals  whose  property 
they  are,  will,  for  their  emancipation,  disregard  their  cost;  or  the 
publick,  by  subscription  or  donation  and  not  by  law,  (for  we  know 
of  no  just  authority  the  legislature  have  to  command  the  property  of 
their  constituents  for  this  purpose  without  express  permission)  will 
cheerfully  defray  it,  and  put  them  on  an  equal  footing  with  ourselves. 


174         NEW  JERSEY  IX  THE  REVOLCTK  >.\.       [1781 

But  a  measure  so  important  cannot  be  adopted  without  the  appro- 
bation of  our  Assembly ;  for  though,  we  conclude,  they  have  not  the 
right  to  free  our  slaves  without  the  consent  of  their  owners,  they  are 
judges  of  the  propriety  of  receiving  them  as  freemen  of  the  state. 
Taking  it  for  granted  this  disposition  of  benevolence  now  prevails 
either  in  their  proprietors  among  the  people,  or,  if  the  reader  pleases, 
that  justice  demands  the  freedom  of  our  Africans,  for  we  wish  not  to 
contend  for  the  negative  in  this  particular. 

The  other  enquiry  is,  Whether  the  present  is  a  proper  period  to 
effect  so  laudable  design.  That  there  is  ''a  time  for  all  things,"  is  an 
indisputable  truth.  A  small  error  in  the  execution  of  schemes,  in 
point  of  time  only,  has  been  productive  of  the  most  unhappy  effects. 
A  potion  of  medicine  administered  unseasonably  may  occasion  the 
death  of  a  patient,  or  the  word  of  command  given  by  a  General  a 
moment  too  soon  may  not  only  lose  a  victory,  but  be  productive  of 
ruin  to  his  army.  If  we  desire  the  freedom  of  our  Negroes  may  not 
be  injurious  to  ourselves,  or  render  them  more  miserable  than  at 
present,  we  should  duly  attend  to  this  circumstance  of  time  as  well 
as  to  the  mode  of  their  release.  A  premature  attempt  of  this  sort 
may  be  productive  of  the  most  serious  consequences.  That  the  pres- 
ent day  would  be  improper  for  the  execution  of  this  business  must, 
we  think,  appear  evident  to  every  one  on  the  least  reflection.  Should 
our  slaves  be  freed,  they  must  either  continue  with  us,  or  inhabit 
some  territory  by  themselv*.  If  the  freemen  of  the  country  find  it 
difficult  to  support  themselves  and  families  at  the  present  time,  is  it 
reasonable  to  suppose  that  our  slaves,  naturally  indolent,  unaccus- 
tomed to  self-government ;  destitute  of  mechanical  knowledge ;  un- 
acquainted with  letters ;  with  a  peculiar  propensity  to  spirituous 
liquors ;  destitute  of  property,  and  without  credit,  would  pay  their 
taxes  and  provide  for  themselves,  in  the  path  of  integrity,  the  neces- 
saries and  comforts  of  life?  Is  it  not  more  rational  to  infer,  from 
these  considerations,  that  many  of  them  would  soon  revert  to  their 
former  state,  more  wretched  than  before :  that  great  numbers  of 
them  would  become  pests  to  society,  by  plunder  and  rapine  add  to 
the  horrors  of  war,  and  that  dire  necessity  would  compel  us  to  de- 
prive some  of  them  not  only  of  their  liberty  but  also  of  their  life? 
Their  sloth  alone  might  be  sensibly  felt  by  the  community  at  this 
juncture,  and  on  their  arms,  we  are  of  opinion,  for  several  obvious 
reasons,  there  could  not  be  any  just  dependence.  Our  state  of  war 
forbids  their  removal  to  any  exterior  part  of  the  country,  not  only  in 
regard  to  safety,  but  also  in  other  respects.  Whenever  they  shall  be 
emancipated,  on  mature  deliberation  perhaps  it  will  be  tho't,  that 
small  settlements  of  them  in  different  parts  of  the  continent,  under 
proper  regulations,  will  be  most  compatible  with  our  safety  and  their 
felicity.  They  may  thus  become  useful  members  of  the  body  politick ; 
enjoy  the  sunshine  of  freedom,  together  with  the  cheering  rays  of  the 
light  of  the  gospel. 

Some  compensation  will  this  be  for  their  servitude !  A  striking  ex- 
hibition too  of  the  goodness  of  the  Divine  Being  towards  them,  and 
of  the  wisdom  of  his  holy  providence  in  bringing  good  out  of  evil ; 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  175 

in  causing  the  inhumanity  of  their  brethren,  like  that  of  the  sons 
of  Jacob  to  their  brother  Joseph,  to  terminate  in  honor,  glory  and 
happiness !  Until  this  day  shall  arrive,  it  is  to  be  hoped  the  pos- 
sessors of  slaves  will  revere  the  sacred  precept,  "to  do  as  they  would 
be  clone  by ;"  mollify  the  hardness  of  slavery  by  acts  of  kindness ; 
and  above  all,  be  particularly  anxious  to  have  them  freed  by  in- 
struction, admonition,  and  example  from  spiritual  thraldom,  and 
"brought  into  the  glorious  liberty  of  the  children  of  God."  The  effect- 
ing of  this  will  not  only  be  paying  a  tribute  to  justice,  but  also  an 
advancement  of  our  temperal  emolument ;  for  experience  will  decide, 
that  it  will  not  be  less  politick  pud  wise  than  humane  and  Christian. 

IMPARTIAL. 

STATE  OB  NEW  JERSEY. 

An  Act  to  extend-  the  power  o^  the  Collectors  in  receiving  certain 
certificates  in  payment  of  taxes. 

[For  this  act  passed  January  9,  1781,  see  Laws  of  X.  J.,  Fifth 
Session,  Chap.  XVII.] 


TREXTON,  January  10. 

Yesterday  the  Honourable  the  Legislature  of  this  state  adjourned 
to  Tuesday,  the  15th  of  May  next,  then  to  meet  at  Princeton.  Dur- 
ing the  sitting  eighteen  Acts  were  passed,  the  titles  of  which  will  be 
inserted  in  our  next. 

All  persons  indebted  to  the  .estate  of  William  Cahaill,  deceased,  are 
desired  to  make  immediate  payments  to  prevent  further  trouble ;  and 
all  persons  having  any  demands  against  said  estate,  are  desired  to 
bring  in  their  accounts  properly  proved. 

JOS.  LAWRENCE,          | 

JOXATHAX  RULON,    } 
January  1,  1781. 

TO  BE  SOLD. 

A  Valuble  Grist  Mill  and  Tract 

of  Land  thereunto  belonging, 

Situate  in  Allentown,  eight  miles  from  Bordentown,  on  the  main 
stage  road  to  New-York.  It  is  a  commodious  well  built  mill,  in  good 
order  for  carrying  on  merchant  work,  about  four  miles  to  a  landing ; 
there  is  two  good  dwelling  houses,  36  acres  of  land,  about  one-third 
meadow  exclusive  of  the  mill-pond  ;  all  of  which  is  pleasantly  situ- 
ated within  view  of  the  mill  and  houses.  It  is  in  a  good  wheat  coun- 
try and  an  excellent  stand  for  country  business.  Also  about  seven 
and  a  half  acres  of  woodland,  at  a  small  distance,  handy  for  fuel  or 
timber  for  repairs  when  necessary.  Two-thirds  or  more  of  the  pur- 
chase money  may  lay  on  interest  by  giving  security.  For  further 
particulars  apply  on  the  premises  to  Arthur  Donaldson. 


170  -\KW    JERSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

Philadelphia,  December  25,  1780. 
TWO  THOUSAND  DOLLARS  REWARD. 

Ran  away  this  evening  from  the  subscriber,  a  Negro  wench  named 
Maria,  alias  Amoritta,  she  is  about  thirty-four  years  of  age,  tall  and 
well  made,  her  face  long,  and  features  more  regular  than  are  com- 
mon with  her  color :  She  had  on,  or  took  with  her,  a  pale  blue  and 
white  fine  short  linsey  gown  and  petticoat  almost  new,  a  petticoat  of 
tow  linen,  a  pair  of  men's  shoes,  good  shifts  of  brown  homespun  linen, 
and  aprons  of  the  same.  It  is  supposed  she  will  endeavor  to  get  into 
the  Jerseys,  as  she  came  from  thence,  and  once  lived  with  Mr.  Thoma* 
Lowrey,  of  Flemington,  but  it  is  suspected  she  is  now  lurking  in  this 
city,  or  concealed  by  some  free  negroes.  She  also  took  with  her,  her 
female  child  named  Jane,  about  four  years  old,  well  made,  fat,  round 
faced,  and  lively ;  had  on  or  took  with  her,  a  blue  and  white  linsey 
frock. 

Whoever  will  deliver  the  said  wench  and  child  to  the  subscriber  in 
Philadelphia,  shall  have  the  above  reward. 

JOHN  DUFFIELD. 

N.  B.     All  persons  are  forbid  to  harbour  her  at  their  peril. 


From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  160,  Jan.  17,  1781. 

Middlesex,  New-Jersey,  Jan.  1,  1781. 
Mr.  Collins, 

I  send  you  herewith  a  short  account  of  a  society  which  we  have  lately 
erected  in  this  county,  and  which  is  laudable  at  least  for  the  public  spirit 
upon  which  it  is  founded.  I  hope  your  giving  it  to  the  public  thro'  your 
Gazette  will  inspire  other  counties  with  similar  good  resolutions,  and 
create  a  correspondence  among  all  the  whigs  of  the  state  to  show  our 
enemies  that  no  difficulties  into  which  we  may  be  brought  by  the  acci- 
dents of  the  war  can  make  us  determine  not  to  be  free. 

The  reason  of  the  institution  is  given  in  the  following  preamble  to 
their  agreement. 

A  number  of  the  gentlemen  of  this  county,  the  firm  friends  of  the 
present  revolution  in  America,  observing  the  embarrassment  of  our  public 
affairs,  through  the  ill  fate  of  our  paper  currency  and  the  numerous  at- 
tempts of  our  internal  enemies,  and  willing  to  contribute  all  in  their 
power  to  strengthen  the  civil  government,  and  to  defeat  the  designs  of 
these  traitors,  have  agreed  for  that  purpose  to  form  themselves  into  a 
society  to  be  distinguished  by  the  name  of — The  Society  of  Whigs  of  the 
County  of  Middlesex — [These  gentlemen  have  subscribed  the  following 
form  :] 

We  whose  names  are  underwritten,  do  agree  to  enter  heartily,  sincerely, 
and  bona  fide  into  this  society,  pledging  ourselves  to  each  other  to  exert 
every  prudent  endeavor  to  attain  the  objects  which  it  hath  in  view,  for 
the  public  good,  and  to  submit  ourselves  to  the  regulations  by  which  it 
shall  be  governed. 

Then  the  objects  of  the  society  are  declared  to  be  these : 

1st.  To  detect  and  to  prosecute  such  traiterous  inhabitants  of  this  state 
as  shall  openly  contemn  and  violate  its  salutary  laws,  and  such  in  par- 
ticular as  do  furnish  provisions  to  the  public  enemy. 

2dly.  To  support  and  strengthen  the  executive  authority  in  the  execu- 
tion of  the  laws,  and  to  assist  them  in  calling  out  the  force  and  the 
supplies  of  the  state  against  our  enemies. 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  177 

3dly.  To  recommend  to  the  legislature  the  enacting  of  such  laws  as  we 
conceive  to  be  for  the  interest  of  this  commonwealth  in  particular,  and  of 
the  continent  in  general. 

4tbly.  To  consider  the  situation  of  such  of  our  brethren  as  may  be 
suffering  in  captivity,  or  by  their  generous  exertions  in  behalf  of  their 
country  ;  and  as  far  as  in  our  power,  to  procure  relief  for  them,  and  a 
compensation  for  what  they  have  suffered. — But  we  mean  that  our  atten- 
tion shall  be  principally  directed  to  the  sufferers  of  our  own  country. 

After  stating  the  objects  of  their  association,  they  divide  the  county 
into  three  districts,  each  of  which  shall  have  a  society  similar  to  the 
general  one  of  the  county,  who  may  form  their  own  rules  of  proceeding, 
but  shall  be  obliged  to  report  their  transactions  to  the  joint  meeting  of 
the  whole.  This  joint  meeting  shall  be  composed  of  seven  delegates  from 
each  district,  who  alone  are  to  do  all  the  business,  the  others,  if  they 
attend,  attending  only  as  spectators. 

The  district  societies  are  composed  of  those  gentlemen  who  originally 
associated,  all  of  known  characters  and  sound  principles,  and  of  those 
whom  they  may  tl\ink  it  prudent  to  admit ;  upon  which  they  have  made 
this  resolution — "It  is  not  our  purpose  to  exclude  from  this  society  any 
gentleman  of  the  county  of  a  fair  moral  and  political  character,  who  may 
chuse  to  become  H  member  ;  however,  no  person  shall  be  admitted  who  is 
not  of  such  fair  character,  and  who  is  not  proposed  by  two  members  and 
voted  by  a  majority." 

The  public  good,  and  the  establishment  of  the  liberty  and  independence 
of  America,  are  their  sole  aim  ;  and  with  this  view  they  invite  the  other 
counties  to  enter  into  similar  associations,  and  to  establish  a  corres- 
pondence with  them.  Their  President  is  the  Rev.  Azel  Roe,  of  Wood- 
bridge  :  their  Vice-President  the  Rev.  Samuel  Smith,  of  Princeton  ;  and 
their  Secretary  Col.  Jonathan  Deare. 

A.  B. 

The  following  are  the  Titles  of  the  Laws  passed  the  last  sitting  of 
the  Legislature. 

[For  these  titles,  see  Acts  of  Assembly,  Fifth  Session,  p.  67.] 

TO  BE  LET, 

Speedwell  Saw-Mill  and  Lands 

On  Waiding-Riter,  in  West  New-Jersey,  Burlington  county,  &c. 
[For  this  advt.  of  Benjamin  Randolph,   Phila.,   see  p.  143.     It   is 
taken  from  the  Pennsylvania  Packet  of  Dec.  10,  1780.] 

BENJAMIN  RANDOLPH, 

in  Chestnut-street. 

N.  B.  A  young  handy  Negro  Wench,  her  child,  a  boy,  to  be  sold, 
fit  for  country  work.  Enquire  as  above. 

SUSSEX,  ss. 

Was  committed  to  •  the  gaol  of  this  county  the  31st.  of  December 
last,  the  three  following  soldiers  belonging  to  Captain  Mead's  com- 
pany, of  the  first  Jersey  regiment,  viz.,  Benjamin  Boone,  John  Bur- 
nett, and  John  Yherts,  who  were  lately  advertised  in  the  New-Jersey 
Journal  as  deserters.  JAMES  MORROW,  Gaoler. 

Newtown,  Jan.  7,  1781. 

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178  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

TRENTON,  January  17. 

The  publick  may  depend  upon  the  authenticity  of  the  following 
brief  account  of  the  disorders  that  have  lately  taken  place  among  the 
soldiers  of  the  Pennsylvania  line,  and  which  are  now  happily  settled. 

A  discontent  arose  among  them  on  the  first  of  this  month  about  the 
periods  of  their  enlistments,  which  many  of  them  contended  had  ex- 
pired. Some  invidious  comparisons  were  also  made  between  the  large 
bounty  given  to  enlist  those  who  were  engaged  during  the  war.  En- 
deavours were  used  by  the  officers  to  quiet  them,  but  without  success. 
One  officer  was  unfortunately  killed ;  and  a  great  part  of  the  soldiers 
marched  off  from  their  encampment  toward  the  Delaware.  They 
were  under  the  conduct  of  their  sergeants ;  but  Gen.  Wayne,  with 
some  other  officers,  determined  to  follow  and  keep  with  at  all  events, 
though  the  General  could  not  prevail  upon  them  to  stop  till  they  came 
to  Princeton.  They  marched  through  the  country  with  great  regu- 
larity and  good  conduct,  and  perhaps  less  less  damage  than  is  com- 
mon on  the  passing  of  troops. — While  they  continued  at  Princeton 
a  sergeant  of  the  British  army  with  one  Ogden,  an  inhabitant  of  ihia 
state,  for  a  guide,  came  to  them,  and  made  proposals  from  General 
Clinton.  These  they  rejected  with  so  much  honor  and  indignation 
that  they  seized  the  messengers  and  delivered  them  to  General  Wayne, 
who  put  them  under  guard.  Soon  after  this  a  Committee  of  the 
Council  of  Pennsylvania  came  to  meet  the  soldiery,  and  a  Committee 
of  Congress  came  to  this*  place.  Their  grievances  were  redressed, 
particularly  by  giving  an  interpretation  favorable  to  the  soldier  of 
the  enlistments  which  were  for  three  years,  or  during  the  war,  de- 
claring them  to  expire  at  the  end  of  the  three  years.  They  marched 
from  Princeton  to  this  place  on  Tuesday  the  9th.  On  Wednesday 
the  10th,  the  two  spies  were  tried,  and  executed  the  next  day  at  the 
crossroads  near  the  upper  ferry.  Commissioners  were  appointed  to 
hear  and  settle  the  claims  of  the  soldiers,  who  are  now  going  through 
with  them  with  all  possible  dispatch ;  and  on  Monday  the  Committee 
of  Congress  returned  to  Philadelphia. 

Upon  the  whole,  this  affair,  which  at  first  appeared  so  alarming, 
has  only  served  to  give  a  new  proof  of  the  inflexible  honor  of  the 
soldiery,  and  their  inviolable  attachment  to  American  Liberty ;  and 
will  teach  General  Clinton  that  tho'  he  could  bribe  such  a  mean  toad- 
eater  as  Arnold,  it  is  not  in  his  power  to  bribe  an  American  soldier. 

Lieutenant-Colonel  Klein,  formerly  in  the  service  of  the  United 
States,  was  last  week  apprehended  in  the  county  of  Monmouth  on  his 
way  to  New  York. 

It  is  reported  that  several  outward  bound  vessels  from  Philadel- 
phia, were  captured  last  week  by  the  enemy's  cruizers  off  the  capes 
of  Delaware. 

Last  week  Ensign  Fitz-Randolph,  with  ten  or  twelve  privates  of 
our  militia,  were  surprised  in  Amboy  by  a  party  of  the  enemy,  and 
carried  to  Staten  Island. 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  179 

On  Sunday,  the  7th.  instant,  departed  this  life,  in  an  advanced 
age,  Jacob  Bergen,  Esq.,  first  judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas 
for  the  county  of  Somerset.  He  was  many  years  a  Magistrate  under 
the  former  government ;  was  continued  under  the  present ;  univer- 
sally respected  as  an  early,  decided,  and  consistent  patriot.  The 
country  has  lost  in  him  a  faithful,  active  Magistrate,  and  the  state 
an  useful,  respectable  citizen. 

A  report  prevails  here  that  the  enemy  under  the  traitor  Arnold, 
have  landed  in  Virginia.  It  is  added,  but  we  cannot  say  with  what 
certainty,  that  they  have  taken  possession  of  Williamsburg. 

We  are  told  that  a  vessel,  prize  to  the  Fair  American,  has  arrived 
a  few  days  ago  in  the  Delaware. 

Day  before  yesterday  died  in  this  place,  William  Ball,  for  many 
years  teacher  of  a  school  in  the  neighborhood. 

We  have  received  no  papers  from  the  Eastward  this  week. 

STATE  OF  NEW  JEBSEY. 

An  Act  of  ascertaining  the  value  of  the  continental  currency  in  the 
payment  of  debts,  passed  5  Jan.,  1781. 

[For  this  Act,  see  Statutes  of  the  Session,  Chap.  IX.] 

The  remainder  of  the  donations  of  the  Ladies  in  New-Jersey,  for 
the  benefit  of  the  continental  army,  is  desired  to  be  forwarded  to  the 
persons  appointed  to  receive  the  same,  that  it  may  be  laid  out  for 
their  use. 

A  List  of  Letters  remaining  in  the  Post  Office  last  quarter. 

Isaac  Barns,  Trenton,  William  Bell,  ditto.  John  Carl,  Esq.  2,  ditto. 
James  Glisson,  2,  Jersey.  Michael  Hannah,  Trenton.  John  Mehelm, 
Esq.  Readington.  Martha  Lowrey,  Flemington.  Ebenezer  Platt,  Penn- 
ington.  William  Richards,  Trenton.  Thomas  Stevens,  Amwell.  John 
Wright,  Bordentown. 

Trenton,  Jan.  5,  1781.     B.  Smith,  P.  M. 


TO  BE  SOLD, 

On  reasonable  terms, 

A  larde  DWELLING  HOUSE,  situated  at  Bound  Brook,  two  stories 
high,  four  rooms  on  a  floor,  with  a  good  kitchen  and  barn ;  fifteen 
acres  of  meadow  adjoining,  on  which  are  a  number  of  bearing  apple- 
trees.  Whoever  is  inclined  to  purchase  the  same,  may  know  the  terms 
by  applying  to  Michael  Field,  at  Bound  Brook,  or  John  Pool,  at 
Trenton. 


180  M:\V     JKKSKY     T.\     TIIK     DEVOLUTION.  [1731 

RAN  AWAY, 

From  the  subscribers  last  night, 

A  Negro  Man  named  Joe,  and  a  Negro  Woman  named  Hester :  The 
man  is  about  five  feet  six  or  seven»  inches  high,  well  set,  full  faced, 
of  an  open  countenance,  was  formerly  a  servant  to  a  British  officer, 
speaks  the  German  language  well ;  had  on  and  took  with  him  a  brown 
great  coat  badly  dyed,  white  pewter  buttons  with  the  letters  U.  S.  A. 
in  a  cypher,  a  green  coat  with  red  cuffs  and  cape  and  yellow  buttons, 
white  jacket  and  leather  breeches,  a  pair  of  boots  and  a  pair  of  shoes, 
two  or  three  pair  of  stockings,  and  two  or  three  shirts.  The  wench 
is  small  though  well  made,  and  has  a  lively  eye,  being  bred  in  Carolina 
has  the  manners  of  the  West-India  slaves ;  she  had  on  a  red  striped 
linsey  short  gown  and  petticoat,  and  took  with  her  a  dark  brown 
cloak  and  sundry  other  clothes.  Whoever  takes  up  and  secures  the 
above  Negroes  shall  receive  Six  Spanish  milled  dollars  each,  and  reason- 
able charges. 

ROBERT  L.  HOOPER, 
Trenton,  Jan.   8,  1781.  ROBERT  HOOPS. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

For  Hard  Money  or  Continental, 

A  Tract  of  Land,  containing  about  1000  acres,  lying  in  the  Corpora- 
tion of  New  Brunswick,  on  the  South-River. 

[For  this  advt.  of  Levinus  Clarkson  and  others,  see  p.  — .] 


JOSEPH  MILNOR, 

Has  for  Sale  at  his  Store  in  Trenton, 

Rum,  Brandy  and  AViiie,  Suchong  and  Bohea  Tea,  Coffee  and  Choc- 
olate, Spanish  and  Muscovado  Sugar,  Pine  and  Cedar  Boards  and 
Shingles,  Bar-Iron  and  Nails,  with  a  sufficient  assortment  of 

DRY  GOODS. 

N.  B.  All  those  indebted  to  him  are  desired  to  make  immediate  pay- 
ment, and  prevent  further  trouble. 


TO  BE  SOLD, 

A  valuable  Tract  of  Land,  in  Hard  wick  township,  Sussex  county, 
state  of  New  Jersey,  now  in  the  tenure  of  Thomas  Silverthorn.  It 
contains  213  acres,  150  very  rich  meadow  land,  about  30  of  which 
produce  the  best  clover,  timothy  and  blue  grass.  It  is  excellent  for 
raising  hemp,  and  well  calculated  for  raising  and  fatting  cattle.  There 
are  on  the  premises,  besides  the  dwelling  house,  a  pretty  good  Dutch 
barn,  stables,  barracks  and  spring-house,  upwards  of  one  hundred 
apple-trees,  and  a  number  of  cherry  and  peach-trees ;  also  a  never 
failing  spring  of  water  sufficient  for  a  hemp-mill,  and  situated  con- 
venient to  water  a  considerable  quantity  of  the  meadow.  The  title  is 
indisputable.  For  terms  apply  to  the  printer  of  this  paper. 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  181 

STOLEN, 

Out  of  the  stable  of  the  subscriber,  on  new-year's  eve, 
A  Black  Horse,  with  one  white  hind  foot,  one  of  his  fore  hoofs  split, 
a  heavy  main,  low  carriage,  near  15  hands  high,  trots  or  paces,  ten 
years  old.  Likewise  a  black  Mare,  12  years  old  past,  trots  and  paces, 
very  tender  mouth'd,  has  some  white  hairs  in  her  forehead,  and  saddle 
marks.  Whoever  takes  up  said  horse  and  mare,  and  secures  them  so 
that  the  owner  gets  them,  shall  have  Six  Hundred  Dollars  reward, 
or  Three  Hundred  Dollars  for  each. 

SIMON  R.  REEVE. 
Tewksbury  township,  Hunterdon  county, 

near  New-Germantown. 
I 

From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  161,  January  24,  1781. 

TRENTON,  January  24. 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  an  officer  of  the  Southern  army,  dated 
Hick's  Creek,  South-Carolina,  December  31,  1780. 

"The  troops  of  the  enemy  which  left  Virginia  under  Leslie,  have  ar- 
rived at  Charlestown,  and  are  said  to  be  on  their  march  to  join  Lord 
Cornwallis,  who  has  assembled  his  forces  at  Camden.  Gen.  Greene's  head- 
quarters are  at  this  place." 

James  Slover,  Asher  Bisset,  and  Daniel  Melvin  were  last  week,  by 
the  Court  of  Quarter  Sessions  for  the  county  of  Middlesex,  condemned 
by  virtue  of  an  act  of  this  state  against  trading  with  the  enemy,  to 
serve  on  board  some  of  the  galleys,  frigates  or  ships  in  the  service  of 
the  United  States,  and  were  accordingly  carried  under  guard  to  Phil- 
adelphia, to  have  the  said  sentence  executed. 

As  government  is  determined  to  execute  the  said  act  with  the 
greatest  vigour,  it  is  hoped  those  villainous  enemies  to  their  country 
who  have  hitherto  carried  on  that  infamous  traffick  may  profit  by  the 
above  example,  least  another  punishment  enjoined  by  the  said  act 
soon  overtake  them,  and  they  appear  with  one  ear  less  than  their 
neighbors. 

***  The  Piece  signed  "A  lover  of  true  Justice"  is  received,  and  will 
be  attended  to  next  week. 

ODE. 

How  hard  the  lot  of  human  kind — 

Both  high  and  low,  the  rich,  the  poor, 
The  monarch  and  the  humhle  hind. 

All  subject  are  to  fortune's  power. 

Now,  now,  she  turns  her  smiling  face, 

And  now  her  specious  charms  we  view ; 
And  .fondly  hug'd  in  her  embrace, 

Ideal  forms  of  bliss  pursue. 


182  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

As   phantoms  grasp'd   they  melt   in   air ; 

The  tow'ring  castles  fancy  rais'd, 
As  quick  as  lightning  disappear, 

At  which  ere  while  we  fondly  gaz'd. 

Not  they  who  mighty  sceptres  sway, 

Nor  they  who  draw  the  ears  of  kings, 

Can  boast  security  a  day 

From  the  vicissitudes  of  things. 

High   from   the   haughty   tyrant's   throne, 
Whose  power  is  gain'd  by  means  unjust, 

One  stroke  of  fortune  casts  him  down, 
And  bids  ambition  lick  the  dust. 

To  crush  the  daring  hopes  of  pride, 

See  one  great  wretch  from  being  hur'l'd ; 

Who  knows  not  how  brave  Casar  dy'd — - 
Caesar,  the  conqueror  of  the  world. 

How  blest  is  he  whose  virtuous  soul, 

Unshaken  sees  the  storm  draw  near ; 
And  hears  the  thund'ring  tempest  roll, 

Nor  feels  the  force  of  guilty  fear. 

Tho'  nature  should  her  end  proclaim, 
And  lightning  rend  the  earth  and  skies, 

Still  finds  his  dauntless  mind  the  same, 
And  views0the  scene  with  fearless  eyes. 

Fortune  on  him  but  wastes  her  ire, 

He  laughs  her  feeble  rage  to  scorn  ; 
Each  stroke  new  courage  does  inspire, 

And  serves  the  hero  to  adorn. 

Virtue !    'ti's  thine  to  mend  the  heart, 

The  rugged  path  of  life  to  even, 
Substantial  blessings  to  impart, 

And  point  the  way  that  leads  to  heav'n. 

JUVENIS. 
New-Brunswick,  Jan.  20,  1781. 


TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  the  Printing-Office  in  Trenton,  a  few  copies 
of  the  Pamphlet,  intitled, 

PUBLIC  GOOD, 

Being  an  examination  into  the 

Claim  of  Virginia  to  the  vacant  Western  Territory, 
And  of  the  right  of  the  United  States  to  the  same 

To  which  is  added, 

Proposals  for  laying  off  a  new  State, 

To  be  applied  as  a  fund  for  carrying  on  the  war,  or  redeeming  the 

national  debt. 
By  the  Author  of  Common  Sence. 


1781  I  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  183 

RAN  AWAY, 

On  Saturday  the  20th.  instant,  from  the  subscriber  living  in 

Maidenhead, 

A  negro  man  named  Will,  formerly  went  by  the  name  of  Yerrah, 
about  twenty  three  years  of  age,  five  feet  eight  inches  high,  has  a 
very  remarkable  hair  mole  on  his  cheek :  Had  on  and  took  with  him 
a  pair  of  new  leather  breeches,  two  pair  of  stockings,  a  pair  of  new 
shoes,  light  colored  home-spun  coat  much  worn,  and  liat.  It  is  thought 
he  will  endeavour  to  get  to  Ancocas  or  within  the  enemy's  lines.  Who- 
ever takes  up  and  secures  said  servant  so  that  his  master  may  get 
him  again,  shall  have  Four  Specie  Dollars  Reward,  and  all  reasonable 
charges  paid  by 

SAMUEL  HUNT. 
January  22d,  1781. 

WILLIAM  RICHARDS, 

At  Trenton  Landing,  and  at  his  Store  in  Philadelphia,  will  give  the 
highest  price  for  good 

MUSTARD    SEED. 

The  Method  of  raising  Mustard  Seed  in  Durham,  Old  England. 

The  ground  must  be  well  manured  and  made  into  hills  about  two 
and  a  half  feet  distant  each  way,  much  in  the  same  manner  as  for 
Indian  corn ;  plant  the  seed  in  the  first  good  weather  after  the 
twentieth  of  February  a  little  below  the  surface,  let  there  be  about 
three  or  four  stalks  on  each  hill,  and  the  seed  will  grow  larger  and 
a  greater  quantity  than  if  sowed  :  As  it  does  not  all  come  to  per- 
fection at  one  time,  it  must  be  gathered  as  it  ripens,  and  spread  on 
a  floor  to  dry.  This  is  work  proper  for  children. 

ROBERT  EASTBURN, 
In  New-Brunswick, 

Hath  for  Sale,  on  the  lowest  condition  that  the  times  will  admit  of, 
viz. 

Good  West-India  rum,  Cherry  do.  by  the  hogshead,  barrel,  or  gallon, 
French  brandy,  Holland  Geneva,  Teneriff  and  sherry  wines,  Molasses, 
Fine  powdered  and  muscovado  sugars.  Tea,  Coffee,  Chocolate,  Pepper, 
Alspice,  Ginger,  Nutmegs,  Cinnamon,  Cloves,  Raisins,  Rice,  Indigo, 
Copperas,  Brimstone,  Rosin,  Starch,  Chalk,  Whitelead  and  oil,  Fine 
black  mode,  Taffety,  Linens,  Millonets,  Lawn,  Fine  and  coarse  white 
threads  of  various  kinds,  Colour'd  ditto,  Sewing  silk  of  different 
colours,  Ribbons,  Pins,  Needles,  Black  silk  lace,  White  ditto,  Coat 
and  jacket  metal,  wooden  &  mohair  buttons,  Shoe  and  knee  buckles, 
Sleeve  buttons,  Table  and  tea  spoons,  Testaments,  Spelling-books, 
Primers,  Almanacks,  Mens  shoes,  Women's  stuff  and  leather  ditto, 
Wool  cards,  Fine,  coarse,  and  crooked  hair  combs,  Pasteboards,  Stay 
laces  and  tapes,  French  and  common  shoe  heels,  Pints,  half  pints 
and  gill  glasses.  Iron-ware,  viz.  Large  Kettles  fit  for  salt  boiling, 
Large  and  small  pots,  Tea  kettles  &  stew  pans,  Sliding  bolts,  hasps 


184  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

and  staples.  Earthenware  of  various  kinds,  such  as,  Dishes,  Mugs, 
Bowls,  Pots,  Tea  cups  and  saucers  by  the  quantity  or  single  article. 

TO  BE  LET, 

For  one  or  more  years,  and  may  be  entered  upon  the  first  day  of 
April  next,  the  following  Plantations,  situate  in  the  township  of  New- 
Windsor  and  county  of  Middlesex,  within  one  mile  of  Haightstown, 
six  of  Allentowu,  ten  of  Crosswick,  and  twelve  of  Bordentown,  viz. 

One  containing  75  acres  good  arable  land,  with  a  small  orchard,  a 
good  log-house,  and  other  suitable  conveniences ;  now  in  the  tenure 
of  Mr.  Rem  Venderbeck,  senior. 

One  containing  250  acres  good  arable  land,  with  a  piece  of  meadow, 
a  large  thriving  orchard,  a  good  log  house,  barn,  barracks,  stabling, 
and  most  other  conveniences  suitable  to  a  farm ;  now  in  the  tenure 
of  Mr.  Samuel  Allen,  and  joining  the  above. 

One  containing  212  acres  of  good  arable  land,  one  large  field  of 
which  may  be  kept  as  a  meadow,  it  being  remarkable  for  good  pasture 
in  the  season,  a  good  orchard  of  the  best  grafted  fruit ;  upon  this 
plantation  are  a  good  frame  house,  a  large  convenient  barn  with 
stables  complete,  a  good  well  of  water,  an  excellent  garden,  &c.  now 
occupied  by  Robert  Nixon,  and  also  joining  the  above  mentioned  farms. 

All  the  above  farms  are  situated  in  the  heart  of  a  plentiful  wheat 
country,  remarkably  healthf,  and  near  markets,  mills,  and  meetings, 
and  at  present  under  a  good  fence.  They  will  be  let  separate  or 
together,  as  may  suit  the  appliers.  For  terms  enquire  of  Jos.  Read, 
Esq.  of  Mountholly,  or  Jonn  Shields  in  Philadelphia. 

Jan.  19,  1781. 

A  PAIR  OF  SPURS. 

A  few  days  ago  was  found  in  Trenton,  a  Pair  of  Spurs.  The  owner 
proving  his  property  and  paying  charges,  may  have  them  again,  by 
applying  to  the  Printer  hereof. 

January  24,  1781. 


From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  162,  Jan.  31,  1781. 

STATE  OF  NEW-JERSEY. 

A  supplement  to  an  act,  intitled,  An  Act  for  establishing  a  fund 
for  sinking  and  redeeming  the  proportion  of  the  bills  of  credit  of  the 
United  States,  assigned  as  the  quota  of  this  state.  Passed  Jan.  4, 
1781. 

[For  this  law,  see  Statutes  of  Session,  Chap.  VII.] 

STATE  OF  NEW- JERSEY. 

An  Act  to  raise  a  fund  by  loan  for  discharging  the  bounty  to  be  paid 
to  the  troops  required  by  Congress  as  the  quota  of  this  state.  Passed 
Jan.  8,  1781. 

[For  this  law,  see  Acts  of  Session,  Chap.  XII. ] 


1781] 


NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  185 


Mr.  Collins, 

A  correspondent  will  be  much  obliged  to  you  for  republishing  from 
the  Pennsylvania  Packet  of  the  23d.  instant,  a  piece  on  Privateering 
signed  'Waterman.'  It  is  to  be  wished  the  publick  attention  may  be 
directed  to  it.  The  subject  is  of  the  highest  moment  to  these  states, 
and  the  writer  has  treated  it  in  a  clear  and  judicious  manner. 

January  20.   1781. 
MR.  PRINTER, 

Out-  alliance  with  France,  in  the  year  1778.  along  with  all  its  benefits 
brought  this  evil,  that  too  many  of  us  were  lulled  by  it  into  a  delusive 
security.  The  war  was  believed  to  be  drawing  to  a  close,  and  great  num- 
bers of  us  seem  to  have  fondly  imagined  there  was  very  little  need  of 
any  further  exertions  on  our  part.  By  this  time  however,  it  is  pretty 
clear  that  we  ought  not  to  hope  for  a  speedy  and  happy  end  to  the  war, 
unless  we  employ  every  means  in  our  power  for  conducting  it  with  vigour. 

The  easiest  and  most  effectual  way  of  distressing  the  enemy  and  re- 
leiving  ourselves,  would  be  to  encourage  privateering.  The  trade  of 
Britain  is  her  only  strength.  This  can  be  no  other  way  so  effectually 
broken  as  by  our  privateers.  Our  only  weakness  consists  in  the  lack  of 
funds.  Privateering  requires  no  publick  funds  to  support  it.  In  the 
common  course  of  trade,  we  should  soon  be  stript  of  seamen  by  the  cap- 
tures which  are  continuelly  made  by  the  enemy.  Privateering  is  the 
source  from  which  we  are  furnished  with  seamen  to  give  in  exchange. 
The  wealth  to  which  we  derive  from  this  source  is  clear  gain.  The 
Algeriaes  have  long  maintained  themselves  by  this  business  alone.  The 
Buccaneers  of  South  America,  a  handful  of  bold  privateersmen,  for  many 
years  supported  themselves  against  the  world,  without  dominion,  without 
territory,  without  any  pretext  of  justice.  We  are  indebted  to  our  priva- 
teers, more  than  to  almost  any  other  means  we  have  tried,  for  our  success 
hitherto ;  and  yet  the  truth  is  that  this  important  branch  of  the  war 
has  all  along  labored  under  very  great  discouragements.  The  only  law  we 
have  for  conducting  this  business  is  to  be  collected  from  a  set  of  patched 
up  resolutions  of  Congress,  which  were  made  on  the  footing  of  mere 
temporary  expedience  before  our  independence,  and  evidently  calculated 
with  a  view  to  the  state  we  were  then  in.  From  these  resolutions  it  is 
often  impossible  for  any  man  to  distinguish  whether  he  is  taking  a  prize 
or  involving  himself  in  a  tedious  and  expensive  law  suit.  The  event, 
too,  of  this  lawsuit  is  made  to  depend  upon  the  consciences  of  the  cap- 
tured. This  own  story  is  to  acquit  or  condemn  them  ;  their  papers  are 
of  no  weight.  It  is  high  time  that  these  resolutions  were  revised  by  Con- 
gress, and  a  uniform,  clear  system  established  for  the  regulation  of 
privateering.  In  hopes  that  this  business  will  be  attended  to,  I  shall 
take  the  liberty  of  suggesting  some  things,  which  I  conceive  to  be  nec- 
essary for  the  full  exertion  of  our  strength  in  the  business  of  privateer- 
ing. 

1.  It  is  necessary  that  the  Captain  of  a  privateer  should  be  able  to 
distinguish  with  some  degree  of  certainty  what  is  prize  and  what  is  not 
prize ;  otherwise  law  suits,  disappointments,  clamours  of  seamen,  who 
cannot  bear  delay,  will  throw  such  discouragements  in  the  way  as  few 
men  will  chuse  to  encounter,  and  the  fact  is,  that  many  have  renounced 
the  business  for  this  very  reason.  To  attain  this  certainty  it  is  neces- 
sary, in  the  first  place,  that  we  discard  the  scheme  of  exempting  Ber- 
mudian  vessels,  and  the  property  of  British  settlers  from  capture.  The 
BermudiaDS  do  us  no  service ;  they  supply  the  British  fleets  and  armies 
amongst  us  with  refreshments,  and  they  occasion  a  thousand  disputes.  The 
notion  of  encouraging  British  people  to  settle  amongst  us,  was  plausible 
enough  whilst  we  were  fellow  subjects  of  the  same  empire  ;  but  in  our 
present  state  of  independency  to  allow  of  people  coming  directly  from  the 
ports  of  an  enemy,  at  open  war  with  us,  is  perfectly  futile.  Those  few 
of  them  \vho  are  in  earnest  about  it,  come  by  the  way  of  Holland,  or  some 
other  neutral  state.  But  the  pretence  of  coming  to  settle  amongst  us  is 


186  NEW    JERSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

so  easily  made,  and  so  easily  sworn  to,  that  it  may  be  made  and  supported 
by  every  vessel  that  is  taken,  if  the  people  on  board  have  a  good  under- 
standing with  one  another,  and  are  hardy  enough  to  disregard  oaths, 
which  is  but  too  .frequent. 

Another  thing  essential  to  the  attaining  this  certainty  is  to  make  the 
papers  conclusive  evidence  :  to  resolve,  that  British  papers  or  the  destruc- 
tion or  want  of  papers  should  be  sufficient  ground  for  condemnation. 
This  is  the  present  regulation  in  France.  This  would  give  new  life  to 
privateering. 

The  objection  to  this  plan  arises  from  a  source  which  I  blush  to  think 
of.  People  wish  to  keep  the  door  open  for  trading  with  the  British  under 
cover  of  double  papers.  What  must  be  the  feelings  of  our  allies,  after 
all  thoy  have  dor>e  for  us,  when  they  see  us  neglecting  them  and  running 
to  the  ports  of  the  enemy  ;  supporting  the  trade  and  strengthening  the 
force  of  the  British  in  time  of  open  war?  the  French,  have  acted  with 
generosity  towards  us.  Might  they  not  expect,  that  we  should  at  least 
observe  the  law  of  nations  in  refraining  from  the  support  of  their  enemy 
and  ours?  the  only  apology,  (and  it  is  a  wretched  one)  is  that  we  have 
not  learnt  to  consider  ourselves  as  an  independent  people ;  that  we  do  not 
regard,  as  we  ought  to  do,  our  national  character.  It  is  to  be  hoped,  that 
the  thing  is  owing  to  want  of  thought  and  not  to  ingratitude.  However, 
considered  in  any  view,  it  is  the  height  of  bad  policy. 

2.  Another  thing  absolutely  necessary  is,  that  prizes  may  be   tried  and 
condemned   speedily   and    cheaply.      Admiralty    laws    should    be    made    and 
executed  for   the  benefit   of  the   publick ;     not   for   the   sake   of   enriching 
one   or  two   insignificant   individuals.      Particularly  in    the   case   of   small 
prizes,  care  should  be  taken  that  the  whole  amount  be  not  swallowed  up 
in  costs.     This  belongs  to  the  states  individually  to  provide  for,  excepting 
in  the  cases  of  appeals. 

3.  Great  care  should  be  taken  to  encourage  the  bringing  in  of  Prisoners. 
At  present  it  is  a  misfortune  for  a  privateer  to  take  a   number  of  pris- 
oners.    Cartels  have  been  usually  settled  upon  the  plan  of  valuing  every 
man  at  a   certain   sum  of  money  according  to  his  rank  :    so   as   that   the 
balance  might  be  paid  in  cash  :    and  it  is  not  many  ages  since  the  captor 
had  a  property  in  his  prisoner,  and  was  allowed  to  make  the  most  of  his 
ransom.     As  the  prisoners  taken  at  sea  by  privateers  generally  belong  to 
the   state  to  which   the   privateer   belongs,    I   should   think   that    it   would 
answer   the   best   of   purposes   for   each   state   to   pay   a    reward   for   every 
prisoner   taken   at   sea   and  brought   into    the   state.      This   would   operate 
at  once  to   encourage   privateering  and  enable   the   state   to   redeem   from 
captivity  a  number  of  brave  seamen,   who   often  perish  in  prison   or  else 
are  under  the  necessity  of  enlisting  with  the  enemy. 

Tours,  &c. 

WATERMAN. 

TRENTON,  January  31. 

On  Saturday  evening  the  20th.  instant,  about  150  privates  of  the 
New-Jersey  brigade,  which  were  quartered  at  Pompton,  left  their  huts, 
and,  under  conduct  of  some  of  their  sergeants,  marched  towards 
Chatham.  The  proceedings  of  the  Legislature  at  their  last  sitting, 
constituting  commissioners  to  enquire  into  the  claims  of  such  soldiers 
of  the  brigade  as  conceived  themselves  entitled  to  a  discharge  on  ac- 
count of  the  expiration  of  their  enlistments,  had  not  then  been  com- 
municated to  these.  The  commissioners  went  to  Chatham  on  Monday, 
and  having  read  and  explained  to  them  the  resolutions  of  the  Legis- 
lature, they  immediately  agreed  to  return  to  their  duty.  The  com- 
mandant of  the  brigade,  in  consideration  of  their  being  unacquainted 
with  the  measures  taken  in  their  behalf,  and  of  their  acknowledgments 
of  the  offence,  granted  their  request  for  a  general  pardon.  The  com- 
missioners having  appointed  a  time  for  settling  their  claims,  they  re- 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  187 

turned  to  the  orders  of  their  officers.  A  small  part  only  of  the  brigade 
were  engaged  in  this  matter,  the  greater  part  disapproved  of  it,  and 
all  regret  that  it  happened.  To  the  honor  however  of  these  brave 
men  we  mention  it  with  pleasure,  that  when  they  left  their  quarters 
they  adopted  a  solemn  resolution  to  put  to  death  any  one  who  should 
attempt  or  even  propose  to  go  to  the  enemy's  lines,  and  hang  up  with- 
out ceremony  every  tory  who  should  presume  to  say  a  word  tending 
to  induce  any  of  them  to  do  so. 

"Departed  this  life,  the  4th.  instant,  Mrs.  Mary  Clarkson,  wife  of 
Levinus  Clarkson,  Esq.  of  New-Brunswick,  in  her  thirty-third  year." 

\*  General  Dickinson  informs  the  Colonels  and  other  officers,  com- 
manding battalions  in  the  militia  of  this  state,  that  the  Printer  will 
deliver  (to  those  who  have  not  already  received  them)  the  number  of 
militia  acts  allowed  to  each  battalion. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 
By  the  Subscriber, 

A  Tract  of  Land  in  the  county  of  Middlesex,  about  five  miles  from 
NewJBrunswick  and  seven  from  Perth-Amboy,  known  by  the  name  of 
the  Neck  Tract,  supposed  to  contain  about  five  hundred  acres,  with  a 
dwelling-house  and  some  improvements,  and  is  very  convenient  for  two 
farms,  lying  nearly  square,  one  side  fronting  the  river  and  two  sides 
bounded  on  creeks,  which  will  save  fencing,  and  on  each  considerable 
quantity  of  meadow  may  be  made,  with  a  good  landing  for  shallops, 
and  a  shad  fishery.  Also  one,  two  or  300  acres  of  land  to  be  taken 
off  of  other  lands  the  subscriber  has  in  that  neighborhood,  with  or  with- 
out a  very  good  mill-seat  on  an  extraordinary  good  stream,  as  may 
best  «uit  the  purchaser.  The  subscriber  would  also  sell  a  small  Farm 
whereon  John  Bowne  lives,  near  Princeton,  and  a  Lot  of  Land  by 
Worth's  mills  on  Stony-Brook,  with  a  large  stone  dwelling-house,  &c. 
It  is  a  good  stand  for  a  store,  one  has  been  kept  in  said  house  many 
years.  Likewise  a  Houst  and  Lot  in  Bordentown,  in  good  repair  and 
pleasantly  situated ;  and  two  lots  of  Land  in  the  Northern  Liberties 
of  Philadelphia.  Any  person  inclining  to  purchase  any  part  of  the 
above  premises,  may  be  more  particularly  informed  by  applying  to  the 
subscriber  in  Bordentown,  or  for  the  last  mentioned  Lots  to  Thos. 
Watson,  jun.  in  Philadelphia. 

THOMAS  WATSON. 
Bordentown,  January  29,  1781. 

STAGE-WAGGON. 

The  subscriber  informs  the  Publick,  that  he  has  provided  a  commo- 
dious Stage-Waggon,  with  four  horses,  suitable  for  carrying  Passen- 
gers and  their  baggage,  and  will  set  out  from  the  sign  of  the  Bunch 
of  Grapes  in  Third-street,  in  the  City  of  Philadelphia,  on  every  Mon- 
day morning  precisely  at  ten  o'clock,  and  proceed  with  all  convenient 
speed  for  Elizabeth-town,  passing  by  the  Four-Lanes-End,  Trenton, 


188         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1781 

Princeton  and  Brunswick ;  and  will  set  out  from  Jecamiah  Smith's 
at  Elizabeth-Town  precisely  at  eight  o'clock  on  every  Thursday  morn- 
ing, and  proceed  the  same. way  back  again  to  Philadelphia,  without 
any  unnecessary  delay. 

The  price  for  each  passenger  from  Philadelphia  to  Elizabeth-Town 
to  be  Forty  Shillings  in  specie,  or  the  value  thereof  in  other  money, 
and  the  like  sum  for  150  Ibs.  weight  of  baggage ;  and  the  same  sums 
for  passage  and  carriage  from  Elizabeth-Town  to  Philadelphia :  And 
so  in  proportion  for  any  greater  or  less  weight. 

All  Passengers  favoring  him  with  their  custom,  to  be  freemen  of  the 
United  States,  and  others  who  can  produce  proper  passes,  otherwise 
they  may  expect  to  be  refused  a  passage  in  this  stage.  No  prohibited 
goods  will  be  carried  at  any  rate.  No  sealed  letters  to  be  carried  by 
the  stage  unless  they  are  directed  to  some  commissioned  officer  be- 
longing to  the  United  States,  to  or  from  Elizabeth-Town. 

The  subscriber  begs  leave  to  return  his  thanks  to  all  Gentlemen  and 
Ladies  who  have  been  pleased  to  favour  him  with  their  custom,  and 
hopes  for  a  continuence  of  the  same,  and  they  may  depend  on  the 
punctual  attendance  of  their  humble  servant, 

GERSHOM  JOHNSTON. 

Jan.  27,  1781. 

The  Members  of  the  Whig^Society  of  Somerset  are  requested  to  at- 
tend at  Hillsborough,  at  the  house  of  Andrew  Mershon,  innkeeper, 
on  the  second  Tuesday  of  February  next,  at  eleven  o'clock  in  the 
forenoon.  JOHN  TAYLOR,  Sec. 

Jan.  27,  1781. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  Samuel  Cooper's  Ferry,  at  9  o'clock  on 
Thursday  the  first  day  of  February  next, 

The  Schooner, 

General  Clinton,  Her  furniture,  tackle  and  apparel. 
By  order  of  the  Judge, 

J.  BURROWS,  Marshal. 

Elias  Bland,  who  had  obtained  a  proper  passport  to  go  to  Great- 
Britain,  lately  died  at  New-York,  as  I  am  informed,  intestate ;  and 
having  before  before  he  left  New-Jersey  empowered  me  to  settle  his 
affairs,  I  am  desirous  that  every  thing  should  be  done  for  the  benefit 
of  all  persons  interested  in  his  estate :  And  as  it  appears  to  me  neces- 
sary that  his  creditors  should  meet  as  soon  as  may  be,  in  order  to  con- 
sult what  steps  may  be  most  proper  to  be  taken  on  the  occasion,  I 
propose  that  a  meeting  be  held  on  Tuesday  the  20th.  of  February  next, 
at  twelve  o'clock,  at  the  dwelling-house  of  the  deceased  in  Woodbridge ; 
at  which  time  and  place  all  persons  interested  are  desired  to  attend, 
with  a  state  of  their  several  demands,  for  the  purposes  above- 
mentioned.  JAMES  PARKER. 

January  17,  1781. 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  189 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

A  plantation  lying  in  the  township  of  Alexandria  and  county  of  Hun- 
terdon,  on  the  road  that  leads  from  Samuel  Everett's  mills  to  Sher-> 
rerd's  ferry,  now  in  the  possession  of  Win.  Taylor.  It  may  be  laid 
out  to  contain  263  acres.  There  is  a  good  orchard  and  a  sufficiency 
of  meadow  on  the  place,  and  the  buildings  and  fences  are  in  good 
order.  Whoever  inclines  to  purchase,  may  apply  to  James  Parker 
near  Pitts-Town,  by  whom  an  indifferent  title  will  be  given  for  the 
same. 

This  is  to  give  notice  that  the  Partnership  of  Downing  and  Cham- 
bers is  dissolved  : — All  persons  having  any  demands  against  them  are 
desired  to  make  application  to  Robert  Chambers ;  and  those  indebted 
to  the  partnership  are  requested  to  make  speedy  payment,  to  prevent 
further  trouble. 

Trenton,  Jan.  27,  1781. 

Rockyhill,  Somerset  county, 

January  24th,  1781. 

All  persons  who  bought  Tickets  in  the  Third  Class  of  the  United 
States  Lottery  from  the  subscriber,  may  have  them  renewed  whether 
blank  or  prize,  (except  the  five  hundred  dollar  prizes)  in  the  Fourth 
Class  of  said  Lottery,  by  applying  within  six  weeks  from  the  date 
hereof. 

3*  HENRY  VANDIKE. 

N.  B.  It  is  necessary  that  all  those  who  apply  should  produce  their 
tickets  of  the  third  class  as  vouchers. 

Whereas  a  certain  Thomas  Kelly  has  long  been  supported  as  one  of 
the  poor  of  the  township  of  Trenton,  is  frequently  stroling  about  in 
the  neighboring  counties,  either  begging  or  sponging  on  the  inhabitants 
notwithstanding  a  proper  place  is  provided  for  his  maintenance,  with- 
out burthening  any ;  wherefore  these  are  to  request  all  persons  where- 
ever  he  may  come,  not  to  harbour  or  encourage  him  in  so  troublesome 
and  unbecoming  a  practice.  And'  whoever  shall  take  up  and  deliver 
him,  the  said  Thomas  Kelly,  to  either  of  the  Overseers  of  the  poor 
of  said  township,  shall  receive  One  Hundred  Dollars  reward. 

JOS.  BRITTON,  1  Overseers  of 

EBENEZER  ROSE,    j  the  Poor. 

Trenton,  January  29,  1781. 


ISAAC  MICHAEL, 

At  his   Store  at   Bound-Brook,   hath   for  Sale, 

as  ch,eap  as  times  will  allow,  viz. 
Rum,  Wine,  sugars,  Linens,  Checks,  Coffee,  Tea, 
Tobacco,  Snuff,  And  sundry  Dry  Goods. 


190  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

Trenton,  State  of  New-Jersey,  Jan.  31,  1781. 

The  Trenton  Library  Company  being  desirous  to  renew  the  same, 
request  all  such  Members,  and  every  other  person  in  this  state  who 
may  have  any  of  the  Books  belonging  thereto,  to  deliver  or  send  them 
immediately. 

R.  WILLIAMS,  Libr. 

N.  B.  Any  person  living  at  a  distance,  and  having  books,  the  ex- 
pense of  transportation  will  be  paid  by  the  Librarian. 

Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania,  Jan.  30,  1781. 

The  wife  of  the  subscriber  (late  widow  of  Robert  Taylor,  jun.  and 
generally  known  by  the  name  of  Hannah  Taylor)  has  absconded  from 
his  dwelling  without  any  just  cause;  And  there  being  no  hopes  of  her 
returning,  notice  is  hereby  given  to  all  persons  not  to  trust  her  on 
his  account,  as  he  will  pay  no  debts  of  her  contracting  from  the  date 
hereof.  Those  with  whom  she  may  have  already  run  him  in  debt,  are 
desired  to  render  their  accounts  immediately. 

JOHN  ANDERSON. 


From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  163,  Feb.  7,  1781. 

CHATHAM,  January  31. 

On  Saturday  evening,  the  2t)th.  instant,  about  one  hundred  and  sixty 
soldiers,  of  the  Jersey  brigade  following  the  example  of  the  Pennsyl- 
vanians,  left  their  huts  and  proceeded  to  this  place,  under  the  direction 
of  their  sergeants.  They  were  unacquainted  with  a  late  resolution 
of  the  legislature,  appointing  commissioners  to  enquire  into  their  en- 
listments ;  but  as  soon  as  the  commissioners,  who  met  them  here  the 
Monday  following,  had  read  and  explained  that  resolution  to  them, 
they  immediately  agreed  to  return  to  their  duty.  The  commandant 
of  the  brigade,  in  consideration  of  their  great  penitence,  and  of  their 
being  unacquainted  with  the  measures  adopted  for  settling  the  dis- 
putes respecting  the  enlistments,  promised  full  pardon  to  all  who  im- 
mediately returned  to  and  continued  in  their  duty.  But  upon  the  way 
to,  and  after  their  arrival  at  the  huts,  a  few  of  the  ringleaders,  en- 
couraged by  emissaries  from  Sir  Harry,  and  perhaps  by  the  too 
great  clemency  of  granting  them  a  general  pardon,  again  became  in-- 
solent  and  mutinous.  A  detachment  from  the  main  army,  under  the 
command  of  General  Howe,  which  had  been  sent  on  to  quell  the  mu- 
tineers, arrived  about  this  time,  when  those  who  had  forfeited  the 
pardon,  by  not  performing  the  conditions,  were  apprehended  by  order 
of  the  General,  and  David  Gilmore,  sergeant  in  the  2d.  regiment,  and 
John  Tuttle,  private  in  the  1st.  were  tried,  found  guilty,  and  immedi- 
ately executed.  Every  mark  of  penitence  and  respect  for  order  was 
manifested  by  the  others  who  had  offended,  and  entire  order  and  sub- 
ordination took  place  in  the  brigade. 

Last  week  the  enemy  hung,  at  Bergen-Point,  one  Ball,  an  inhabitant 
of  Rahway,  who  was  suspected  of  being  a  spy. 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTKACTS.  191 

Last  Friday,  General  Robertson,  with  between  two  and  three  thou- 
sand troops  came  from  New-York  to  Staten-Island.  It  is  supposed 
he  has  it  in  contemplation  to  make  an  incursion  into  this  state,  as 
some  of  their  dirty  productions,  to  poison  the  minds  of  the  soldiery, 
were  found  last  Saturday  at  this  place. — 

We  would  recommend  it  to  Sir  Harry  to  silence  the  clamorous  hire- 
lings of  Hesse,  to  whom  he  is  fifteen  months  in  arrear,  before  he  makes 
overtures  to  our  soldiery. 

The  brig  Fame,  Capt.  Treen,  about  fourteen  days  ago,  took  the 
privateer-schooner  Cock,  Capt.  Brooks,  bound  from  New-York  on  a 
cruize  to  Chesapeak-Bay,  and  sent  her  into  a  port  in  New-Jersey. 

TRENTON,  February  7. 

At  the  adjourned  Courts  of  Oyer  and  Terminer  and  General  Gaol 
Delivery  held  in  Monmouth  the  23d  ult.  Robert  James  was  convicted 
of  high  treason,  and  Humphrey  Wade  and  John  Parker  were  con- 
victed of  horse  stealing,  and  all  are  sentenced  to  be  executed  next 
Friday.  At  the  same  courts,  John  Van  Mater,  Israel  Pennington, 
Francis  Borden,  David  Knott,  William  Morton,  Walter  West,  Cornelius 
Clayton,  Joseph  Randolph,  sen.  Levi  Conrow,  David  Allen,  Peter  Pat- 
terson, Daniel  Bray,  Thomas  Fields,  David  House,  jun.  Jonathan  Stout, 
Patrick  Baily,  Edward  Doughty,  Joseph  Price  and  Jane  Milligan 
were  convicted  of  misdemeanors. 

The  refugees  within  the  British  lines  have  been  so  elated  with  the 
prospect  of  peace,  at  the  expence  of  the  liberties  of  the  United  States, 
in  consequence  of  some  late  events,  that  numbers  of  them  purchased 
merchandize  in  order  to  set  up  housekeeping  in  this  state,  and  went  so 
far  as  to  fix  upon  their  respective  places  of  abode. — -Poor  deluded 
wretches ! 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  Holland  to  a  gentleman  in  this  state,  dated 
September  20,  1780. 

"The  same  causes  which  have  hindered  this  republick  from  openly  con- 
necting itself  with  America,  anl  from  protecting  its  own  commerce,  still 
continue  in  a  great  degree.  She  has  hitherto  suffered  herself  to  be  in- 
sulted, ill  treated,  and  pillaged  with  impunity  by  the  English.  But  the 
grand  point  with  respect  to  America  which  we  have  gained  is,  that  the 
English  party  have  not  succeeded  in  their  endeavours  to  engage  her  in 
this  contest  in  favour  of  your  enemies ;  and  as  to  her  own  commerce, 
tho"  she  has  not  had  enterprize  sufficient  to  protect  it  alone,  she  will 
have  prudence  enough  to  appear  among  the  foremost  in  the  fleets  forming 
by  the  confederated  maritime  powers. 

"I  felicitate  you  on  the  glory  which  your  troops  and  militia  have 
gained  in  repulsing  the  British  incendiaries  from  the  village  of  Spring- 
field. You  will  have  learned,  before  the  receipt  of  this '  letter,  of  the 
capture  of  the  English  East  and  West  Indian  fleets  by  the  combined  fleets 
of  France  and  Spain,  between  Cape  St.  Vincent  and  Madeira.  A  very 
important  stroke  in  its  consequences  ;  for  there  were  5  ships  for  the  East 
Indies,  18  for  Admiral  Rodney,  13  for  Jamaica,  and  28  for  New- York  and 
Charlestown,  with  troops,  money,  ammunition  and  provision,  the  loss  of 
which  must  derange  the  operations  of  the  enemy  on  all  sides. 


192         NEW  JERSEY  IX  THE  REVOLUTION.      [1781 

"We  think  it  unfortunate  for  America  that  Mr.  Laurens  has  met  with 
'so  many  delays  in  executing  the  commission  Congress  had  given  him  for 
this  country ;  however,  the  good  work  shall  not  he  entirely  stop'd  on 
that  account.  I  have  lately  received  letters  of  thanks  from  the  Ministers 
of  the  United  States  of  America,  both  in  France  and  Spain,  in  consequence 
of  my  acceptance  of  bills  in  the  absence  of  this  gentleman,  and  shall 
esteem  myself  always  happy  when  I  can  promote  the  interest  of  so 
glorious  a  cause  as  that  in  which  America  is  engaged." 

THIRTY  SHILLINGS  REWARD. 

Made  his  escape  from  the  subscriber,  one  of  the  Constables  for  the 
township  of  Windsor,  a  certain  Jacob  Maple,  who  was  convicted  of 
larceny  before  two  of  the  Justices  of  the  county  of  Middlesex,  and  was 
sentenced  to  be  whipped  at  the  publick  whipping-post,  but  made  his 
escape  while  preparation  was  making  to  put  the  said  sentence  in  execu- 
tion. The  said  Maple  is  about  five  feet  ten  inches  high,  of  a  dark 
complexion,  has  very  black  hair ;  wore  a  mixed  colored  coat  and 
leather  breeches,  and  an  old  flop'd.  hat.  Whoever  secures  the  said 
Jacob  Maple,  so  that  he  may  be  brought  to  punishment,  shall  be  en- 
titled to  the  above  reward  and  all  reasonable  charges. 

JOHN  TOTTEN,  Constable. 

Princeton,  Feb.  5,  1781. 

For  the  information  of  the  Public. 

By  a  law  passed  (in  l^gt  November  session)  by  the  Legislature  of 
the  state  of  Maryland,  it  is  enacted.  "That  after  the  first  of  April  next 
no  bills  of  credit  issued  by  Congress,  or  acts  of  Assembly  under  the 
old  government,  or  resolves  of  Conventions,  shall  be  received  or  ex- 
changed by  the  Commissioner  in  said  state  at  the  city  of  Annapolis, 
or  the  Commissioner  on  the  Eastern  Shore ;  nor  will  this  state  ever 
hereafter  redeem,  or  in  any  manner  be  answerable  for  the  redemption 
kor  sinking  of  any  of  said  bills  of  credit." 

The  possessors  of  any  of  the  above  mentioned  bills  of  credit,  emitted 
by  acts  of  Assembly  under  the  old  government,  or  resolves  of  Conven- 
tions, are  hereby  cautioned  to  get  them  exchanged,  agreeably  to  the 
above  law,  otherwise  the  said  bills  will  be  sunk  in  their  hands. 

A.  B. 

Trenton,  25th.  Jan.  1781. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

An  excellent  Negro  Gardner,  about  40  years  of  age,  has  had  the 
small-pox  and  measles.  Enquire  of  the  Printer. 

Bucks  County,  January  31,  1781. 
RAN  AWAY, 

From  the  subscriber,  on  the  29th.  ult. 

A  Mulatto  Girl,  named  Agnes  Beat,  had  on  when  she  went  away,  a 
dark  linsey  gown  and  petticoat,  light  colored  cloak,  black  bonnet,  low 
heel'd  shoes ;  and  as  she  has  taken  with  her  sundry  other  clothes,  she 
may  alter  her  dress. — 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  193 

Whoever  takes  up  said  Mulatto  shall  have  Three  Hundred  Dollars 
reward,  and  reasonable  charges  paid  by  me. 

ADAM  VANHART. 

N.  B.  All  persons  are  hereby  forbid  to  harbour  her ;  if  they  do,  they 
shall  be  prosecuted  according  to  law. 

WANTED, 

A  blacksmith,  who  understands  country  business,  he  would  meet  with 
good  encouragement ;  the  person  having  a  shop  and  tools  which  would 
be  let  on  reasonable  terms. 

Those  that  purchased  Tickets  of  the  subscriber  in  the  Third  Class 
of  the  United  States  Lottery,  and  are  desirous  of  renewing  them  in 
the  fourth,  are  desired  to  apply  in  all  this  month,  otherwise  they  will 
be  excluded  from  that  privilege. 

M.  FURMAN. 

Feb.  6,  1781. 

ABRAHAM  DRAKE, 

Has  for  Sale  at  the  Scotch-Plains, 

Broadcloth,  Corduroy,  Corded  dimitty,  Calico,  Black  and  white  gauze, 
Damascus,  Black  silk  handkerchiefs,  White  silk  ditto,  Check  silk  ditto, 
Linen  handkerchiefs,  An  assortment  of  buttons,  Mohair  and  silk,  Cat- 
gut, Cambrick  and  lawn,  Muslin,  Stripe  ditto,  Pelong,  Mode,  Taffety, 
Wide  Persian,  Ribbons,  Calimanco,  Stockings,  Stamp'd  linen  handker- 
chiefs, Irish  linen,  Nankeen,  Women's  gloves  &  mitts,  Buckram,  Knives 
and  scissars,  Pins  and  needles,  Chocolate,  Raisons,  Brimstone,  China 
tea  cups  &  saucers,  •  Quart  &  pint  Delf  bowls,  Queen's  ware  plates, 
Shoe  and  knee  buckles,  Stock  buckles  and  sleeve  buttons,  Tea  and 
sugar,  Molasses,  Snuff  and  tobacco,  Writing  paper  by  the  ream  or 
quire,  Earthen  ware,  Cotton,  Indigo,  best  quality,  And  a  variety  of 
other  articles  which  will  be  sold  as  low  as  possible. 

Trenton,  5  February,  1781. 

Whereas  many  depredations  are  committed  on  the  property  of  the 
United  States  in  this  town,  such  as  stealing  the  boards  and  other 
materials  from  the  public  buildings  and  fences,  carrying  off  parts  of 
waggons  and  other  articles,  which  cannot  be  put  under  cover,  or 
otherwise  secured  from  the  plundering  hands  of  those  who  have  a  dis- 
position for  such  vile  practices ;  The  Quartermaster  requests  the  assist- 
ance of  every  good  citizen  in  detecting  such  injurious  and  worthless 
members  of  the  community,  and  offer  a  reward,  equal  to  the  crime,  to 
any  person  who  will  discover  the  person  or  persons  guilty  thereof,  in 
such  a  manner  as  to  enable  him  to  prosecute  him  or  them  to  conviction. 
By  this  means  only  the  property  which  every  individual  is  interested 
in  can  be  secured. 

JOHN  NEILSON,  D.  Q.  M. 

13 


194  NEW    .IKIJSKV    IX    TIFE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

From  the  Xcw  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  A'o.  164,  Feb.  14,  1781. 

FISH-KILL,  February  8. 

Extract  from  General  Orders. 
Head-Quarters,  New- Windsor,  Jan.  30,  1781. 
[For  this  order,  see  — .] 

TRENTON,  February  14. 

We  hear  that  on  the  night  of  the  4th.  instant,  the  prisoners  in  the 
gaol  of  the  county  of  Monmouth  made  their  escape,  by  sawing  off  their 
irons  and  some  of  the  window  grates ;  it  is  thought  that  the  sentry 
was  remiss  in  his  duty. — Among  those  who  escaped  were  Humphrey 
Wade  and  John  Parker,  both  under  sentence  of  death  for  horse  steal- 
ing. There  were  several  others  that  escaped  who  were  charged  with 
capital  offences ;  one  of  whom,  of  the  name  of  Benight,  (together  with 
a  negro  man)  is  retaken. 

On  the  6th.  instant,  about  11  o'clock  in  the  forenoon,  a  certain 
Samuel  Reed,  of  Philadelphia,  being  on  his  way  to  Freehold  in  Mon- 
mouth county,  was  robbed  by  three  villains,  disguised  in  frocks  and 
trousers,  of  sixty  Guineas,  twenty  Half-Joes,  and  nine  hundred  Con- 
tinental dollars,  at  the  Sand-Hills,  about  half  a  mile  this  side  Law- 
rence Taylor's  tavern. 

To  the  Printer  of  the  New-Jersey  Gazette, 
Sir, 

As  it  is  a  matter  of  the  utmost  importance  that  the  value  of  the  new 
money  should  be  equal  as  a  circulating  medium  to  gold  and  silver,  and 
every  good  citizen  should  endeavour  to  prevent  its  depreciation,  it  be- 
hooves us  to  enquire  why  the  county  contractors  are  authorized  to  give 
higher  prices  for  such  articles  as  they  purchase  for  the  public,  than  was 
formerly  the  value  of  them  in  gold  or  silver.  They  give  notes  for  the 
amount,  and  by  this  means  the  money  is  depreciated  before  it  comes  into 
circulation.  It  is  undeniably  certain  that  grain  can  be  purchased  either 
for  the  new  money  or  the  old  continental  at  seventy-five  dollars  instead 
of  one,  at  least  thirty  or  forty  per  cent,  less  than  is  allowed  by  the 
public.  The  public  therefore  appears  like  a  merchant  whose  circumstances 
are  desperate,  anl  therefore  offers  a  much  higher  price  than  common,  in 
order  to  obtain  credit.  If  It  is  not  proper  that  the  money  should  be  im- 
mediately brought  into  circulation,  yet  as  we  suppose  it  will  be  finally 
paid  in  value  equal  to  gold  and  silver,  why  should  the  public  be  burthened 
with  a  debt  of  at  least  one  third  part  more  than  is  necessary?  This,  Sir, 
is  a  question  of  importance  to  all  who  have  taxes  to  pay  ;  and  it  behooves 
our  Representatives  to  inform  us  why  the  public  money  is  thus  to  be 
squandered. 

A   FARMER. 

February  1,  1781. 

Amwell  township,  Hunterdon  county,  State  of  New-Jersey. 
This  is  to  warn  all  persons  from  marrying  Margaret  Trail,  widow, 
till  she  has  fulfilled  the  sixteenth  chapter  of  Ezekiel  from  the  35th. 
to  the  41st.  verse  with  John  Wilmut,  for  breaking  the  covenant  of 
grace,  for  she  is  ordained  for  that — and  not  till  I  have  fulfilled  the  first 
chapter  of  Isaiah  and  17th.  verse.  I  am  now  seeking  judgment.  If 
any  body  should  ask  me  my  reason  for  doing  this  it  is  for  the  glory 
of  God  and  good  of  my  neighbors ;  and  I  hope  no  gentleman  will  make 
a  carnal  application  of  it. 


1781"]          .  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  195 

ENTERTAINMENT   FOR   TRAVELLERS. 

The  subscriber  begs  leave  to  inform  the  Publick  that  he  is  now  in 
possession  of  that  large  and  commodious  Tavern,  the  Thirteen  States, 
lately  kept  by  Mr.  Jacob  G.  Bergen,  and  having  provided  such  requisites 
as  the  times  will  admit,  all  Gentlemen  who  will  favour  him  with  their 
custom  may  depend  on  good  entertainment ;  and  the  favors  of  the 
Publick  will  be  ever  gratefully  acknowledged  by  their 

Most  obedient,  humble  servant, 

JOHN  CAPE. 
Trenton,  Feb.  14,  1781. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

Two  or  Three  Farms,  adjoining  Middlebrook  upon  the  first  mountain 
near  Steel's  tavern,  about  three  miles  from  Bound-brook.  The  farms 
are  now  in  possession  of  Wm.  Ryal,  Silcock  and  Thos.  Barton.  Easy 
terms  of  payment  will  be  given  to  the  purchaser..  If  not  sold  they 
will  be  rented.  For  further  particulars  enquire  of  Richard  Stevens, 
near  Pittstown. — The  said  Stevens  wants  to  hire  a  man  to  work  a  farm 
upon  shares,  or  to  hire  him  upon  wages  by  the  year ;  the  person  who 
inclines  to  agree,  must  be  a  sober,  industrious  man  that  understands 
farming,  or  he  need  not  apply ;  if  the  man  has  a  wife  only,  they  will 
both  be  hired. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

A  valuable  plantation  containing  250  acres,  in  Shrewsbury  township, 
Monmouth  county,  state  of  New-Jersey,  for  continental  or  specie ;  it 
is  well  situated,  has  a  good  two  story  house,  kitchen  and  cheese  house, 
with  a  well  of  good  water  at  the  door,  two  excellent  bearing  orchards 
of  good  fruit  with  a  peach  orchard ;  some  of  the  land  is  excellent  for 
wheat,  and  corn,  eight  acres  of  meadow,  besides  a  quantity  of  salt 
meadow,  with  a  considerable  quantity  of  woodland.  For  further  par- 
ticulars enquire  of  John  Imlay  at  Allentown,  or  Peter  Imlay  in  the 
township  of  Amwell,  Hunterdon  county,  who  will  agree  for  the  same. 
An  indisputable  title  will  be  given. 

February  8,  1781. 

THREE  HUNDRED  DOLLARS   REWARD. 
RAN  AWAY, 

From  the  subscriber,  in  Bethlehem  township,  Hunterdon  county, 
near  the  Hickory  Tavern,  about  the  28th.  of  December  last, 

A  Low  Dutch  servant  Man,  named  Andrew  Countryman,  about  22 
years  of  age,  sandy  complexion,  some  of  his  upper  fore  teeth  are 
broken,  very  vain,  and  fond  of  strong  liquor.  Whoever  delivers  the 
said  servant  to  his  master,  at  the  place  aforesaid,  shall  have  the  above 
reward,  and  all  reasonable  charges,  paid  by 

HENRY  APGAR. 

February  7,  1781. 


106         NEW  JERSEY  IX  THE  REVOLUTION.   .    [1781 

WANTED  TO  PURCHASE  OR  HIRE, 

Two  Negroes,  a  man  and  woman,  who  understand  country  business. 

Apply  to  the  Printer  hereof. 

WANTED, 

Twenty  or  thirty  pounds  of  Red  Clover  Seed,  for  which  an  equal  num- 
ber of  pounds  of  best  Flax  will  be  given,  or  for  any  less  quantity  at 
the  same  rate.  The  seed  to  be  left  at  John  Yard's,  Trenton,  where  the 
flax  will  be  delivered  in  fifteen  days  after  the  delivery  of  the  seed. 

RAN  AWAY, 

On  Wednesday  evening,  the  7th  inst.  from  the  subscriber,  in  Penn's 

Neck,   Windsor  township,   Middlesex  county, 

A  negro  Man,  named  Cain,  about  forty  years  of  age,  is  remarkably 
bald  on  his  head,  very  talkative,  and  is  well  set,  about  five  feet  five 
or  six  inches  high.  Had  on  when  he  went  away,  a  light  colored  linsey 
coat  and  vest,  a  good  pair  of  buckskin  breeches,  a  good  felt  hat,  blue 
stockings,  tow  shirt,  and  took  no  other  clothes  with  him,  but  may 
change  them,  as  he  is  fond  of  trading.  Any  person  securing  said  Negro 
man,  so  that  the  owner  may  have  him  again,  shall  have  Six  Dollars 
reward  and  reasonable  charges  paid  by 

GARRET  CQWENHOVEN. 
Feb.  10,  1781. 

WANTED, 

Materials  for  erecting  a  house  in  Trenton,  twenty-six  feet  by  twenty, 
two  stories  high,  with  a  cellar  under  the  whole,  viz.,  stone  or  brick, 
pine  and  cedar  boards,  pine  and  oak  scantling,  shingles,  nails  and  lime ; 
to  be  delivered  at  Trenton,  or  such  convenient  place  as  may  be  agreed 
on.  Also  Workmen,  who  will  engage  by  the  piece. 

Those  who  are  willing  to  contract  for  furnishing  any  of  the  said 
materials,  or  for  doing  any  branch  of  the  work,  will  please  to  leave 
their  proposals  in  writing  with  the  Printer  hereof,  as  soon  as  possible. 

Ready  money  will  be  paid  in  every  case ;  to  which  circumstance  it  is 
expected  attention  will  be  paid  in  stating  proposals. 

From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  165,  Fel.  21,  1781. 

TRENTON,  February  21. 

We  are  informed  that  two  prize-vessels  were,  a  few  days  ago, 
brought  into  Raritan  river.  They  were  taken  by  stratagem  by  two 
whale-boats,  supposed  to  belong  to  New-Brunswick. 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  a  gentleman  of  information  in  Europe,  to 
his  friend  here,  dated  Nov.  18,  1780. 

"I  am  astonished  at  the  opening  grandeur  and  scope  of  the  American 
commerce.  It  already  reaches  its  infants  arms  far  and  wide,  and  bids 
fair,  in  process  of  time,  to  look  into  every  port  on  the  globe.  Let  it,  by 


1781]  J\TEWSPAPEE    EXTRACTS.  197 

all  means,  have  its  course,  and  keep  it  free  from  all  restraints.  Every 
year  Great-Britain  continues  the  war,  she  fixes  her  loss  and  jour  gain. 
America  is  weaning  fast  from  the  habits  of  a  partial,  local  navigation, 
and  an  attachment  to  the  British  trade.  A  few  years  will  finish  the 
business ;  and  will  open  a  thousand  channels  far  more  lucrative,  and 
make  them  familiar  ;  and  then  you  may  bid  defiance  to  all  the  intrigues 
and  endeavours  of  the  nation  from  whom  you  have  separated.  They  can 
never  regain  what  they  have  lost.  As  to  your  political  affairs,  remember 
that  your  war  is  an  appeal  to  heaven.  If  you  ever  forget  this  you  will 
forget  it  to  your  hurt.  To  this  add  perseverance,  vigour  and  unanimity, 
and  you  need  fear  no  evil.  All  nations  will  respect  you,  will  turn  their 
eyes  to  you,  and  favour  your  pretensions  even  from  interested  views. 
Great-Britain  knows1  at  this  hour  that  if  she  could  subdue  your  country, 
she  never  could  hold  it ;  the  attempt  would  ruin  her.  Pride,  and  she 
knows  not  what  herself,  urge  her  on  in  the  war.  You  will  probably,  by 
and  by.  have  another  peace-commission,  a  cargo  of  pardons,  and  all  that 
stuff  which  stupidity  itself  has  long  since  laughed  at.  I  need  not  talk  to 
you  of  bribery,  insidious  offers,  half-way  projects,  and  political  finesse ; 
I  dare  say  you  know  what  you  are  about." 

BY  HIS  EXCELLENCY  THE  GOVERNOR. 

A  General  Court-Martial  of  the  Militia  of  the  state  of  New-Jersey 
is  hereby  ordered  and  appointed  to  be  held  at  the  house  of  Mr.  John 
Cape,  in  Trenton,  on  Wednesday  the  21st.  day  of  March  next,  for  the 
trial  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  William  Chamberlain ;  of  which  Court- 
Martial  Colonel  Joseph  Phillips  is  appointed  President,  and  Colonels 
William  Shreve  and  William  Scudder,  and  Lieutenant-Colonels  John 
Taylor,  and  Oakey  Hoagland,  and  Majors  Joseph  Brearley  and  John 
Van-Emburgh,  and  Captains  Philip  Phillips,  John  Hunt,  William 
Tucker,  John  Mott,  Israel  Carle  and  Timothy  Titus  are  appointed 
Members,  and  William  Willcocks,  Esquire,  Judge  Advocate ;  and  for 
the  trial  of  such  other  prisoners  as  shall  be  brought  before  them. 

Given  under  my  hand  the  thirteenth  day  of  February,  in  the 
year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  seven  hundred  and  eighty- 
one. 

WIL.  LIVINGSTON. 

WANTED, 

A  Printed  Copy  of  the  Acts  of  Assembly  of  the  last  Sitting  of  the 
first  Assembly  since  the  Revolution,  passed  in  September  1777,  for 
which  a  generous  price  will  be  given  by  the  Printer  hereof. 

STRAYED  OR  STOLEN, 

On  the  2d.  of  January  last,  from  the  Great  Meadows  in  Maidenhead, 
A  large  bay  Horse,  with  a  small  star  and  snip,  near  hind  white 
foot,  and  a  scar  on  the  same  just  above  the  hoof ;  when  lost  had  a 
film  on  his  near  eye,  and  lops  his  ears  very  much.  Whoever  takes  up 
said  horse  and  secures  him  so  that  the  owner  gets  him  again,  shall  have 
Three  Hundred  Continental  Dollars  Reward,  and  all  reasonable 
charges. 

SAMUEL  HUNT. 
February  20,  1781. 


198  NEW    JERSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

And  may  be  entered  upon  in  April  next, 

The  Plantation  whereon  Isaac  Hazlehurst  now  lives,  situated  about 
half  a  mile  above  Mount-holly,  in  Northampton  township,  Burlington 
county,  West  Jersey.  It  contains  about  eighty  acres  of  land,  twenty 
of  which  is  wood,  about  twenty  acres  of  meadow,  and  the  rest  kind 
land,  most  of  it  much  inclined  to  grass,  and  may  be  turned  into  mowing 
ground ;  the  whole  is  under  good  cedar  fence,  and  well  supplied  with 
water :  There  is  on  the  premises  a  handsome  new  frame  house  two 
stories  high,  forty  feet  front  by  twenty-six  feet  deep,  and  a  ten  feet 
piazza  beyond  the  wThole,  four  rooms  down  stairs,  with  fire  places,  a 
seven  feet  entry  through  the  middle,  and  five  rooms  upstairs,  with  good 
garrets  and  two  good  cellars ;  the  whole  well  finished,  and  is  as  con- 
venient as  possible,  and  only  wants  to  be  painted  to  make  it  complete ; 
there  is  a  pump  of  excellent  water,  a  carriage  house  with  a  corn  room 
over  it,  a  granery,  saddle  house,  poultry  house,  smoke  house,  barn, 
cow  house,  with  headstalls  for  twelve  cows,  cart  house,  and  several 
other  convenient  buildings,  all  new ;  also  a  hay  house  that  will  hold 
twelve  tons  of  hay,  and  two  stables  built  of  cedar  logs ;  two  orchards 
containing  about  one  hundred  and  fifty  trees,  the  greatest  part  of  the 
best  grafted  fruit ;  also  an  exceeding  good  garden  well  laid  out,  and 
well  stocked  with  raspberries,  strawberries,  gooseberries  and  currants, 
together  with  a  great  variety  of  peaches,  pears,  plumbs  and  cherries, 
all  of  the  best  kinds.  Th%  whole  is  in  exceeding  good  order,  and  fit 
for  any  genteel  family  that  wishes  to  retire  from  the  city,  being 
rendered  exceedingly  convenient  by  water  carriage  from  thence  to 
Mount-holly,  as  well  as  a  regular  stage-waggon  twice  a  week  to 
Cooper's  ferry.  It  may  not  be  amiss  to  add,  that  the  ground  all  lies 
to  great  advantage ;  that  the  house  and  buildings  are  pleasantly  and 
well  situated ;  and  that  experience  has  proved  it  remarkably  healthy. — 
For  further  particulars  apply  to  Mr.  John  Purviance,  merchant,  in 
Philadelphia,  or  to  Robert  Hazelhurst,  on  the  premises,  who  will  give 
a  good  and  sufficient  title  to  the  purchaser. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

Part  of  a  Tract  of  Land, 

Lying  on  the  South  side  of  Lawrence's  brook,  about  two  miles  below 
Brunswick  in  New-Jersey.  The  purchaser  may  have  from  200  to  600 
acres,  and  as  much  salt  meadow  at  a  small  distance  as  will  supply  the 
place.  About  70  acres  is  improved,  and  about  30  acres  of  good  fresh 
meadow  may  be  made  at  a  small  expence ;  the  remainder  is  well  tim- 
bered. For  terms  apply  to  John  Dennis,  Esquire,  in  Brunswick,  or 
to  the  subscriber  in  Front-Street,  Philadelphia. 

STACY  HEPBURN. 
February  15,  1781. 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  199 

TO  BE  SOLD  BY  PUBLICK  VENDUE. 

At  the  house  of  the  subscriber,  on  Saturday  the  24th.  instant,  at  three 

o'clock  in  the  afternoon, 

A  WAGGON,  DOUGHTROUGH,  CRADLE, 
and  sundry  other  articles. 

JACOB  BENJAMIN. 

JAMES  EMERSON, 

At  his  Store  in  Trenton,  has  for  Sale, 

Doctor  Ryan's  incomparable  worm  destroying  sugar  plums,  necessary 
to  be  kept  in  all  families,  with  directions  for  taking  them.  Also  black 
and  white  flowered  sattin  and  white  sarsenet,  suitable  for  cloaks  or 
bonnets,  with  white,  stripe,  and  black  India  persians,  black  velvet, 
homespun  broadcloths  and  linceys,  linens  and  Russia  sheetings,  brim- 
stone, indigo,  and  several  other  articles  too  tedious  to  mention,  all 
which  sell  at  as  low  a  rate  as  the  times  will  admit. 

The  Commissioned  Officers  of  the  First  Regiment  of  Militia  in  the 
county  of  Hunterdon,  are  desired  to  meet  at  Pennington  on  Monday 
the  26th.  instant,  (February)  at  two  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  in 
order  to  elect  a  Treasurer  for  said  regiment,  agreeably  to  the  direction 
of  the  last  Military  Law,  passed  at  Trenton,  January  8th.  1781. — At 
which  time  and  place  will  set  Andrew  Muirhead  and  Daniel  Hunt, 
Esquires,  and  Major  Henry  Phillips  as  a  court  of  appeal,  to  whom 
those  persons  within  the  district  on  whom  fines  have  heretofore  been 
levied  for  remissness  in  public  duty,  and  suppose  themselves  aggrieved 
in  the  quantum  or  otherwise,  may  then  and  there  have  an  opportunity 
of  being  heard  of  which  this  is  for  notice.  Feb.  14,  1781. 

TWENTY  DOLLARS  SPECIE,  OR  THE  EXCHANGE, 
REWARD, 

Ran  away  from  the  Constable  of  Buckingham,  Bucks  county, 

last  April, 

A  Young  man  named  David  Russle,  a  turner  and  chair  maker  by 
trade,  supposed  to  be  about  23  years  of  age,  light  complexion  and  fair 
hair ;  had  on  a  hat  With  loops,  a  plaited  stock  with  silver  ciasps,  light 
colored  nap  coat,  brown  jacket,  coarse  shirt,  new  buckskin  breeches, 
new  calfskin  pumps  and  plaited  buckles.  Whoever  takes  up  and 
secures  said  Russle  in  any  gaol,  so  that  the  subscriber  may  have  him 
again,  shall  have  the  above  reward  and  reasonable  charges,  paid  by 

ASA  FELL. 
February  13,  1781. 
N.  B. — He  was  advertised  in  the  Pennsylvania  papers. 


200  XEW    JERSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 


From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Yol  IV.,  No.  166,  Feb.  28,  1781. 

BY  HIS  EXCELLENCY  THE 
GOVERNOR. 

At  a  Court-Martial  held  by  the  appointment  of  Major-General 
Dickinson,  on  the  25th  day  of  September  last,  in  Freehold  in  the 
county  of  Monmouth,  the  following  officers  were  tried,  viz. 

Major  Thomas  Hun,  for  cowardice  and  unofficer-like  behaviour,  and 
acquitted  of  the  first  charge,  but  unanimously  found  guilty  of  the  last, 
and  adjudged  to  be  cashiered. 

Ensign  Peter  Vanderhoof,  tried  for  cowardice  and  disobedience  of 
orders,  and  unanimously  acquitted  of  the  first,  but  unanimously  found 
guilty  of  the  last,  and  adjudged  to  be  fined  in  the  sum  of  two  hundred 
pounds  continental  currency. 

Ensign  Barnes  Bennet,  for  disobeying  orders  witn  respect  to  the 
trunks  and  other  things  brought  from  Staten-Island  with  Col.  George 
Taylor  and  others,  under  the  sanction  of  a  flag,  for  suffering  the  goods 
to  be  embezzled,  and  for  passing  counterfeit  money  which  came  over 
in  the  said  flag,  and  found  guilty  in  manner  and  form  as  he  stands 
charged  in  all  respects  excepting  as  to  that  of  passing  counterfeit 
money  knowing  it  to  be  such,  and  adjudged  to  be  cashiered. 

Lieutenant  Jacob  Tice.  charged  with  not  turning  out  upon  his  tour 
of  duty,  found  guilty,  an<f  adjudged  to  be  fined  in  the  sum  of  two 
hundred  pounds  continental  money. 

Captain  Samuel  Dennis,  for  cowardice  and  disobedience  of  orders, 
and  unanimously  acquitted. 

Quartermaster  Richard  Hartshorne,  for  neglect  of  duty  in  not 
supplying  the  men  with  provisions,  and  unanimously  acquitted. 

All  which  sentences  and  acquittals  I  do  approve  of,  ratify,  and  con- 
firm. 

Given  under  my  hand,  the  twenty-first  day  of  February,  in  the  year 
of  our  Lord  one  thousand  seven  hundred  and  eighty-one. 

WIL.  LIVINGSTON. 

TRENTON,  February  28. 

"On  Friday  last  died,  in  the  twenty-third  year  of  her  age,  after  a 
lingering  illness,  which  she  bore  with  much  patience  and  fortitude, 
Miss  Polly  Potts,  daughter  of  Mr.  Stacy  Potts  of  this  town ;  and  on 
the  following  day  her  remains  were  interred  in  Friends  buriel-place, 
attended  by  many  mourning  relatives,  and  her  numerous  acquaint- 
ance.— • 

"However  familiarized  we  may  be  with  the  fate  of  human  nature, 
our  hearts  still  recoil  at  the  idea  of  a  final  dissolution ;  and  at  the 
departure  of  our  friends  we  feel  a  pang  which  cannot  be  described,  and 
which  can  only  be  known  by  those  who  experience  such  a  separation. 
When  we  see  youth,  affability,  wit  and  good  sense  lie  prostrate ; — when 
we  view  the  possessor  of  a  happy  disposition  and  so  many  amiable 
accomplishments  lifeless  and  no  more ; — when  we  behold  the  seat  of 
the  graces  covered  with  the  attire  of  the  king  of  terrors ;  although 


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it  be  accounted  a  weakness,  and  although  the  loss  of  the  surviving 
ought  not  to  be  put  in  competition  with  the  gain  of  the  deceased,  yet — 
"One  human  tear  may  drop  and  be  forgiv'n." 

By  a  letter  from  Morristown  of  the  25th  instant,  we  learn,  that  a 
Packet,  lately  arrived  at  New- York,  has  brought  the  following  ac- 
count, namely,  that  a  large  fleet  of  men  of  war  and  transports,  with 
troops  on  board,  had  sailed  from  Brest  for  America,  before  the  packet 
left  England,  and  that  it  was  supposed  their  particular  destination 
was  New- York.  Intelligence  from  New- York  also  mentions,  that  the 
infamous  Arnold  had  sent  an  express  by  a  short  route  to  Sir  Henry 
Clinton,  informing  that  he  was  blocked  up  by  four  French  ships  of 
force,  and,  if  he  had  not  speedy  assistance,  must  infallibly  fall  into 
the  hands  of  the  rebels ;  which  was  immediately  forwarded  across 
Long  Island  to  the  English  Admiral  at  Gardiner's  Bay.  It  is  also 
added,  that  the  defeat  of  Col.  Tarleton  was  considered  there  as  a 
severe  stroke,  and  that  they  are  in  much  consternation. 

The  intelligence  mentioned  in  our  last  respecting  the  arrival  of  some 
French  ships  in  Virginia,  and  of  their  having  blocked  up  the  enemy 
now  there  under  the  command  of  the  infamous  Arnold,  is  since  con- 
firmed. Advices  from  the  southward  say  that  Lord  Cornwallis,  on 
hearing  of  the  defeat  of  Lieut.  Col.  Tarleton  by  Brigadier  Morgan, 
immediately  destroyed  his  heavy  baggage,  made  a  forced  march  into 
North  Carolina  with  a  view  of  retaking  the  prisoners,  fighting  our 
army  in  its  divided  state,  and  carry  conquest  through  the  whole 
country  :  That  Brigadier  Morgan  crossed  the  Yadkin  near  Salisbury 
on  the  1st  and  2d  instant,  which  by  a  sudden  swell  was  rendered  im- 
passable by  the  time  Lord  Cornwallis  came  up,  though  he  was  not  a 
day's  march  in  the  rear :  That  he  went  some  distance  up  the  river, 
where  he  crossed,  and  was  encamped  near  it  on  the  8th.  That  Gen- 
eral Greene  was  at  Guilford  Courthouse,  about  forty  miles  distance. 

It  is  given  out  from  abroad  that  large  reinforcements  to  the  British 
army  are  to  be  sent  over  the  ensuing  campaign ;  part  of  them  to 
relieve  the  Hessians  and  other  foreign  troops  now  here,  who  are 
expected  to  return  to  Europe  in  the  spring. 

Since  the  publication  of  John  Wilmut's  Advertisement  in  No.  164 
of  the  Gazette,  the  Printer  has  been  informed  that  it  is  supposed  to 
have  allusion  to  Mrs.  Tree,  and  to  be  intended  to  asperse  her  good 
name :  This  is  therefore  to  inform  all  whom  it  may  concern,  that 
the  said  Mrs.  Tree,  from  incontestable  evidence,  appears  to  be  a  Gen- 
tlewoman of  unblemished  character,  and  whose  life  and  conversation 
have  always  been  exemplary  and  amiable.  The  advertisement  would 
by  no  means  have  been  published,  had  the  Printer  been  acquainted 
with  the  intentions  of  it,  or  had  the  least  suspicion  that  it  was  pointed 
at  her. 

TWO  FARMS  TO  BE  SOLD. 

The  one  on  which  the  subscriber  lives,  containing  273  acres  of  land, 
one-third  of  which  is  good  mowing  ground,  one  third  plow  land,  the 
other  third  well  covered  with  timber  of  the  best  quality ;  the  whole 


202  NEW    JERSEY    IX    THE    KEVOLUTIOX.  [1781 

farm  is  enclosed  and  under  complete  fence  and  small  enclosures ;  there 
is  on  it  a  good  dwelling  house  almost  new,  two  stories  high,  a  large 
Dutch  barn,  barracks,  shades,  &c.,  two  large  apple  orchards,  a  num- 
ber of  peach  trees,  and  a  large  peach  nursery  fit  to  plant  out.  The 
other  farm  joins  this  one,  and  contains  163  acres,  above  one  third  of 
which  is  well  timbered  wood  land,  15  acres  of  mowing  ground  and 
much  more  may  be  made  at  an  easy  expense,  the  rest  good  plow  land ; 
there  is  on  said  farm  a  good  dwelling  house  and  shop,  a  large  English 
barn,  two  apple  orchards  and  a  number  of  other  fruit  trees,  the  whole 
under  good  fence.  Both  farms  are  exceedingly  well  watered,  and  will 
be  sold  very  cheap  for  ready  money  by  the  owner. 

JOHN  SHAW. 
Bernard's  Town,  Basken-  1 
ridge,  Feb.  24,  1781.       J 

TO  BE  SOLD. 

A  Quantity  of  West-Jersey  Rights  to  Locate  Lands  in  any  part  of 
the  Western  Devision.  The  title  warrented  good.  Any  sort  of  specie 
now  current,  or  continental  currency,  will  be  received  in  payment,  or 
country  produce,  &c. 

Wanted  to  purchase  or  hire,  for  a  term  of  years  a  Negro  Man  who 
has  been  brought  up  to  husbandry  and  knows  plantation  work  well. 
Also  a  Negro  Girl  about  ?4  years  of  age,  who  has  been  brought  up  to 
country  work.  None  need  apply  but  such  as  can  warrant  their  char- 
acters good.  Application  may  be  made  to  the  subscriber,  who  is  ready 
to  treat  with  any  person  for  the  above  contents. 

JOHN  LEE. 

Mount-Pleasant,  near  Mount-  1 
Holly,  February,  26,  1781.         J 

N.  B.     Wanted,  a  quantity  of  cedar  rails,  boards  and  shingles,  &c. 


LOST, 

On  the  22d  instant,  on  the  Morristown  road,  between  Mr.  Clark's 
schoolhouse  and  John  Bullom's  tavern  near  Middle-Brook, 

A  pocket-book,  containing  one  Seven  Dollar  Bill  Jersey  state  money, 
one  Forty  Shilling  ditto,  Pennsylvania  ditto,  one  Seventy  Dollar  Bill 
Continental,  and  some  other  small  money.  Whoever  finds  and  delivers 
said  Pocket-Book  and  Money  to  Mr.  Clark,  schoolmaster,  near  Middle 
Brook  aforesaid,  or  to  the  subscriber,  Post-Rider,  shall  have  One 
hundred  and  fifty  dollars  reward. 

Feb.,  24.  JAMES  MARTIN. 

As  I  propose  leaving  this  state  in  a  short  time,  notice  is  given  to 
all  persons  who  have  demands  against  the  subscriber,  are  desired  to 
bring  their  accounts  as  speedily  as  possible,  as  I  shall  attend  at  this 
place  some  time  to  complete  the  settlement  of  the  same. 

JOHN  STAATS. 

Bound  Brook,  Feby.  6,  1781. 


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Were  committed  to  the  gaol  of  the  county  of  Burlington,  on  the 
16th.  of  January  last,  a  certain  John  Workman  and  John  Teanis,  who 
acknowledge  they  broke  out  of  Easton  gaol  some  time  ago.  Also  a 
certain  John  Ketcham,  a  deserter  from  the  Pennsylvania  regiment. 
Those  concerned  with  the  prisoners  are  desired  to  come  immediately, 
pay  charges,  and  take  them  away. 

RALPH  PRICE,  Gaoler. 

Burlington,  February  24,  1781. 


STRAYED  OR  STOLEN, 

From  the  subscriber,  living  in  Somerset  county, 
Bedminster  township, 

A  large  blackish  roan  Horse,  fifteen  hands  high,  shod  all  round,  long 
tail,  blind  in  the  near  eye,  occasioned  as  is  supposed  by  the  stroke 
of  a  whip  as  he  hath  been  formerly  a  waggonJhorse  in  the  continental 
service.  Also  went  with  him,  a  two  year  old  Filley,  near  fourteen 
hands  high,  dark  brown,  long  tail  not  docked.  Whoever  secures  said 
Horse  and  Filley,  so  that  the  owner  may  have  them  again  shall  have 
Two  Hundred  Dollars  reward  with  reasonable  charges. 

Feb.  26,  1781.  ROBERT  GASTON. 


From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  167,  March  7,  1781. 

TRENTON,  March  7. 
Extract  of  a  letter  from  Philadelphia,  March  6. 

"The  news  from  the  South  is  encouraging.  There  are  letters  from  thence 
as  late  as  the  15th.  ult.  which  give  an  account  that  Gen.  Greene  had 
effected  his  retreat  without  any  loss  of  men  or  haggage ; — that  Lord 
Cornwallis  had  halted  at  Dan  river,  and  it  was  .uncertain  whether  he 
would  cross  it,  or  retire  to  the  southward.  Other  letters  from  Virginia, 
of  a  later  date,  say  the  enemy  are  retiring  with  as  much  precipitation 
as  they  advanced,  harrassed  half  to  death  with  long  marches  ; — that  the 
main  army  was  in  turn  pursuing  them  ;— that  Morgan,  Lee,  Sumpter,  and 
Marian  were  south  of  them,  and  the  militia  fast  assembling  and  gathering 
about  them." 

"On  Wednesday,  the  28th.  of  February  last,  departed  this  life,  at 
his  seat  at  Morven  near  Princeton,  in  the  fifty-first  year  of  his  age, 
Richard  Stockton,  Esquire.  The  ability,  dignity,  and  integrity,  with 
which  this  gentleman  discharged  the  duties  of  the  several  important 
offices  to  which  he  was  called  by  the  voice  of  his  country  are — well 
known. 

"In  the  private  walk  of  life  he  was  peculiarly  engaging ;  his  man- 
ners were  easy,  his  conversation  was  at  all  times  embellished  with  the 
genuine  marks  of  a  finished  education,  a  refined  taste,  and  a  true 
knowledge  of  the  world. 

"It  pleased  God  to  give  him  an  oppertunity  of  completing  his  char- 
acter as  a  Christian,  by  that  unshaken  fortitude  and  pious  resignation 


204:  .NEW    JERSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

with  which  he  sustained  a  disease  peculiarly  painful  and  tedious ; 
and  by  that  composure  and  triumph  with  which  he  parted  with  every- 
thing that  was  dear  in  life. 

"His  remains  were  conducted  to  the  College  hall  on  the  Friday  fol- 
lowing, where  an  excellent  sermon  suitable  to  the  occasion  was 
preached  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Samuel  Smith,  the  Professor  of  Divinity ; 
they  were  afterwards  interred  with  his  ancestors,  in  the  Friends  burial 
ground  near  Princeton." 

His  Excellency  the  Governor  has  appointed  the  Terms  in  the  Court 
of  Chancery,  (then  to  be  held  at  Trenton)  on  the  first  Saturdays  after 
the  first  Tuesdays  in  the  months  of  April  and  September,  and  on  the 
first  Saturdays  after  the  second  Tuesdays  in  the  months  of  May  and 
November. 

To  the  Printer  of  the  New-Jersey  Gazette. 
Sir, 

The  General  Assembly,  by  their  act  of  the  17th.  November  last,  have 
authorized  his  Excellency  the  Governor  and  the  Honorable  the  Privy  Coun- 
cil, to  ascertain  and  declare,  from  time  to  time,  the  comparative  value 
of  the  continental  currency  and  specie;  or,  in  more  familiar  phrase,  the 
current  rate  of  exchange  between  them.  This,  in  my  opinion,  was  a 
judicious  measure,  and  in  virtue  of  the  authority  vested  by  it,  the  rate 
of  exchange  was  duly  declared  on  the  22d  of  the  same  month  at  seventy 
five.  Doubtless  the  Legislature  intended  that  this  power  should  be  exer- 
cised as  often  as  a  change  ^>f  circumstances  should  render  it  proper  and 
necessary.  It  is  not  mine  to  prescribe  to  the  Honorable  Body  in  whos 
hands  it  is  deposited,  but  with  the  respect  which  it  becomes  a  citizen, 
I  would  observe,  that  the  same  reasons  which  made  it  proper  on  the 
22d.  of  November  last  to  mark  it  at  seventy  five,  rather  than  a  lowor 
number,  now  make  it  proper  to  car(^  it  above  seventy-five.  The  experi- 
ence of  several  years  has  taught  us,  and  fixed  the  conviction,  that  all  laws 
and  regulations  respecting  money,  ought  in  an  especial  manner,  to  coincide 
with  the  general  sense  of  the  people.  That  where-ever  this  is  not  the  case. 
a  thousand  shifts  and  practices  of  slight  of  hand  will  be  used  to  evade 
them.  There  is  certainly,  at  this  time,  in  the  opinion  of  the  people  at 
large,  a  very  considerable  difference  between  the  estimated  or  mercantile 
and  the  lawful  exchange.  The  natural  and  inevitable  effect  of  this  is  to 
depreciate  the  new  bills,  commonly  called  lawful  money,  which  it  is  the 
interest,  determination  and  endeavour  of  every  honest  trader  and  honest 
man  of  whatever  profession,  to  support  at  their  legal  value  and  equality 
with  coin. 

I  would  not,  by  any  means,  have  produced  these  sentiments  to  publick 
view  were  they  merely  my  own,  but  I  believe  they  are  the  sentiments  of 
the  community  in  general :  nor  do  I  wish  to  enlarge  upon  them,  well  know- 
ing that  news-paper  effusions  upon  money  matters  rarely  do  any  good ; 
but  I  hope  they  can  have  no  ill  effect  nor  be  taken  as  an  offence,  and  am 
fully  persuaded  that  a  little  reflection  and  enquiry  will  point  out  to  those 
whom  it  may  concern,  what  is  best  to  be  done. 

SILENTIO. 

Trenton,  March  5,  1781. 

Whereas  by  information  from  the  Superintendant  of  Purchases  it 
appears  that  many  of  the  County  Contractors  have  been  very  negligent 
in  making  their  Returns  and  Settlements :  Therefore  those  Con- 
tractors in  the  several  counties  who  are  delinquent  in  making  their 
returns  and  settlements  agreeably  to  law,  are  required  to  make  them 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  205 

immediately ;  and  those  who  have  made  purchases,  and  since  resigned 
their  offices,  are  required  forthwith  to  make  a  final  settlement  of  their 
accounts.  JAMES  EWING, 

Auditor  of  Accounts. 

Readingtown,   Hunterdon  county,  near  the 

White-House,  February  20,  1781. 

The  subscriber  takes  this  method  of  acquainting  his  former  cus- 
tomers, and  the  publick  in  general,  that  he  has  furnished  himself  with 
a  quantity  of  Carolina  Cane,  intending  to  carry  on  the 

REED-MAKING  BUSINESS 

as  usual  and  hopes,  by  his  knowledge  of,  and  attention  to  his  business, 
to  give  satisfaction  to  all  those  who  shall  please  to  favour  him  with 
their  custom.  CHARLES  EVERSOLE. 

Joseph  Inslee,  at  Pennington,  Has  for  Sale,  a  few  barrels  of  the  best 
Liver  Oil.  Also  Pepper  and  Alspice,  by  the  hundred  weight  or  less 
quantity. 

WANTED, 

A  good  schoolmaster,  to  teach  reading  and  writing.  A  single  or 
married  man,  well  recommended,  will  hear  of  a  place,  and  meet  with 
proper  encouragement  by  applying  to  the  Printer. 

Likewise  good  wages  will  be  given  by  a  gentleman  in  the  neighbor- 
hood of  Morris-Town  for  a  good  Negro  Man,  who  can  be  well  recom- 
mended for  Cooking,  Sobriety,  &c.  For  further  information  enquire 
of  the  Printer. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

A  Negro  Man  and  his  Wife,  with  two  male  Children.  The  man  is  a 
complete  farmer.  The  wench  is  an  exceedingly  good  dairy  woman, 
and  can  wash,  iron,  and  cook  very  well.  They  are  honest  and  sober. 
Enquire  of  the  Printer. 

MADE  HIS  ESCAPE, 

From  the  Constable  of  the  township  of  Windsor,  in 
Middlesex  county, 

A  Certain  William  Turner,  apprehended  for  theft.  He  is  about  five 
feet  eleven  inches  high,  and  in  but  poor  habit.  Whoever  will  take  up 
and  secure  the  said  Turner,  shall  receive  Two  Hard  Dollars  reward, 
and  reasonable  charges. 

LIPPINCOT  SOUTH. 

TO  BE  SOLD  BY  PUBLICK  VENDUE, 

At  the  house  of  Okey  Hendrickson,  Innkeeper,  in  Heights'  town,  on 
Friday,  23d.  of  March, 

Three  horses,  two  of  them  very  good  for  the  gears,  and  the  other 
an  elegant  saddle  horse ;  also  a  good  breeding  mare,  cattle,  a  waggon 


206  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

and  gears,  two  sets  of  boxes,  with  wings  and  screws  for  a  riding  chair ; 
one  plough  ;  half  a  dozen  chairs ;  half  a  dozen  knives  and  forks ;  a 
set  of  new  China ;  and  1000  feet  of  inch  pine  boards.  The  vendue  to 
begin  at  ten  o'clock,  when  the  conditions  of  sale  will  be  made  known 
by  me.  OKEY  HENDRICKSON. 

N.  B.  Also  a  hogshead  of  good  Rum  to  be  sold,  of  high  proof  and 
excellent  quality,  for  which  loan-'office  certificates  or  state  money  will 
be  taken  in  payment. 


From  the  N.  J.  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  168,  March  14,  1781. 

TRENTON,  March  14. 

General  Dickinson  desires  the  Militia  of  this  state  will  hold  them- 
selves in  the  most  perfect  readiness  to  march  on  the  shortest  notice ; 
it  being  probable  their  services  may  soon  be  required.  He  requests 
the  officers  will  pay  the  strictest  attention  to  their  men's  arms  and 
accoutrements,  that  their  appearance  in  the  field  may  reflect  honor 
on  themselves ;  and  flatters  himself,  that  when  called  upon,  they  will 
turn  out  with  that  spirit  which  characterizes  the  Militia  of  New- 
Jersey. 

The  Brigadiers  and  Colonels,  or  Lieutenant-Colonels  Commandants 
of  brigades,  will  be  pleased  to  make  their  returns  agreeably  to  the 
direction  of  the  last  militia  law,  passed  at  Trenton,  January  8,  1781. 

We  would  advise  the  gentleman  who  sent  us  an  account  of  the 
"Conduct  of  a  guard,"  whenever  such  behaviour  shall  be  repeated,  to 
practice  the  methods  he  proposes,  of  guarding  such  guard  to  a  safe 
place,  there  to  remain  until  they  shall  be  taught  that  their  duty  is 
to  protect,  not  plunder,  the  good  people  of  the  state.  The  money  sent 
will  be  returned  when  called  for. 

The  Whig  inhabitants  of  the  Western  Precinct,   (Somerset  county) 
are  requested  to  meet  at  the  house  of  Henry  Harrison,  at  Rocky-Hill, 
on  Tuesday,   the  3d   of  April  next,   on   business   of  importance ;     to 
which  time  and  place  the  last  meeting  adjourned. 
By  order  of  the  meeting, 

THO.  EGBERT. 
Princeton,  March  12,  1781. 


WILL  BE  RENTED  AT  VENDUE, 

On  Saturday  the  24th  of  this  instant,  March. 

The  elegant  Farm  formerly  belonging  to  Capt.  Howard,  but  now  in 
the  possession  of  Thomas  Forman,  situate  on  the  main  road  leading 
from  Philadelphia  to  New-York,  one  mile  from  Princeton  and  two 
from  Kingston.  The  vendue  to  be  held  on  the  premises,  and  will  begin 
at  one  o'clock,  where  the  conditions  will  be  made  known,  and  attend- 
ance given  by  WM.  SCUDDER. 
Princeton,  March  6,  1781. 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  207 

At  a  Court  of  Inquiry  held  at  the  house  of  Aaron  T.  Lucas,  in 
Readington,  by  order  of  Major-General  Dickinson,  on  the  5th  and  6th 
days  of  February,  1781,  for  the  investigation  of  a  charge  of  cowerdice 
alledged  against  Colonel  John  Taylor,  of  the  fourth  regiment  of  Hun- 
terdon  county  militia,  at  the  battle  of  Springfield,  June  23,  1780. 

The  Court  consisted  of  the  following  officers,  viz. 

Colonel  Joseph  Phillips,  President,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Joab  Hough- 
ton,  Major  Cornelius  Stout,  Major  Richard  M'Donald,  Major  Joseph 
Brearley,  Major  Henry  Phillips,  Members. 

The  Court,  after  hearing  the  proofs  and  allegations  of  both  parties, 
and  having  maturely  considered  the  same,  unanimously  beg  leave  to 
report,  That  the  said  Colonel  John  Taylor's  conduct  at  Springfield 
was  unexceptionable ;  that  he  did  not  manifest  any  degree  of  timidity 
or  cowardice  on  that  occasion,  but  on  the  contrary,  (situated  as  he 
was)  discovered  spirit,  prudence,  and  sagacity;  conspicuous  and  in- 
herent qualities  in  a  good  officer :  And  therefore  ought  to  be  honorably 
acquitted  of  the  charge  above  mentioned. 

By  order  of  the  Court, 

JOS.  PHILLIPS,  Presid. 

The  above  report  approved  of  by 

PHILEMON   DICKINSON, 

M.  Gen. 

The  District  Society  of  Whigs  of  the  townships  of  Windsor  and 
South-Brunswick,  (Middlesex  county),  will  meet  at  the  house  of 
Mr.  Isaiah  Shaw,  in  Cranberry,  on  Thursday,  the  29th  inst.  (March) 
at  nine  o'clock  in  the  forenoon. 

By  order  of  the  Society. 

NATHANIEL  HUNT,  Clk. 
March  12th,  1781. 

TO  BE  SOLD. 
A  Negro  Wench, 

Forty-six  years  old,  remarkably  healthy  and  active,  has  had  the  small- 
pox, is  an  excellent  cook,  in  which  station  she  has  served  many  years 
in  a  very  genteel  family ;— is  honest,  industrious,  neat,  and  a  very 
good  economist,  spins  very  well,  and  is  fond  of  children.  Would 
particularly  suit  a  genteel  tavern  or  family  that  entertains  much. 
.  .  .  Price  £60.  hard  cash,  or  the  current  exchange  in  continental. 
.  .  .  Enquire  of  the  Printer,  March  12. 

TO  BE  SOLD  BY  PUBLIC  VENDUE, 

On  Tuesday  the  20th  of  March,  instant, 

The  Plantation  whereon  James  Hazlett  now  lives,  it  was  part  of  a 
tract  of  land  belonging  to  Rebecca  Coxe;  it  is  situated  in  a  very 
pleasant  healthy  part  of  the  country  in  Mansfieldwoodhouse  township, 
Sussex  County,  and  state  of  New-Jersey ;  containing  175  acres  of 
excellent  wheat  and  pasture  land,  100  acres  cleared,  the  rest  well 
timbered,  16  acres  of  good  English  meadow,  and  more  can  be  made. 


208  NEW    JERSEY    IX    THE    BEVOLUTIOX.  [1781 

On  the  premises  are  two  good  dwelling  houses,  a  good  barn,  stables, 
and  barracks,  a  good  thriving  orchard ;  the  whole  place  well  watered 
by  a  constant  stream  besides  good  springs ;  the  fences  in  good  repair. 
The  Vendue  will  begin  at  12  o'clock,  when  attendance  will  be  given. 
Conditions  of  sale  made  known,  and  an  indisputable  title  wTill  be 
given  by  JAMES  &  SAMUEL  HAZLETT. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  Chestnut-Neck,  in  Gloucester  county,  on  Friday  the  16th  instant, 

at  10  o'clock  in  the  forenoon, 

The  Sloop  Hannah, 

With  all  her  tackle,  and  furniture ;  and  also  her  Cargo,  consisting  of 
thirty-seven  thousand  feet  of  pine  boards,  ninety-two  thousand  18 
inch  shingles,  a  quantity  of  bar  iron,  and  a  considerable  quantity 
of  tar.  By  order  of  the  Judge  of 

the  Admiralty  of  the  state  of 

New  Jersey. 

J.  BURROWS,  Marshal. 

TO  WHOM  IT  MAY  CONCERN. 

The  subscriber,  living  in  Mount-Holly,  Burlington  county,  having 
administered  on  the  estate  of  Elias  Bland,  late  of  Woodbridge  in 
New-Jersey,  deceased,  requests  those  indebted  to  the  said  estate  to 
pay ;  and  those  who  have  accounts  are  desired  to  bring  them  in, 
properly  stated  and  attested,  by  the  10th  of  next  month. 

WM.  CALVERT. 

3d  month  12,  1781. 

ONE  THOUSAND  DOLLARS  REWARD, 

Broke  out  of  Burlington  gaol,  on  the  night  of  the  6th  inst.  the 
following  persons,  viz.  John  Workman,  (advertised  in  the  Pennsyl- 
vania papers  for  breaking  out  of  Easton  gaol)  about  five  feet  nine 
or  ten  inches  high,  dark  complexion,  pitted  with  the  small  pox,  about 
thirty-four  years  of  age.  John  Ketchum,  five  feet  eleven  inches  high, 
stoops  when  he  walks,  a  deserter  from  the  6th  Pennsylvania  regi- 
ment. Thomas  M'Calvey  and  John  Hanly,  formerly  belonging  to 
the  Pennsylvania  line.  Whoever  secures  the  said  John  Workman  in 
any  gaol,  shall  have  Five  Hundred  and  fifty  dollars,  and  One  hundred 
and  fifty  for  each  of  the  other  three,  will  all  reasonable  charges,  paid 
by  me.  RALPH  PRICE,  Gaoeler. 

March  7,  1781. 


From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  169,  March  21,  1781. 

Mr.  Printer. 

I  observed  some  time  ago  two  peices  in  your  paper  concerning  the  free- 
dom of  Negroes,  tending  to  discourage  a  proposed  law  for  their  manumis- 
sion. The  first  fully  admits  the  injustice  of  slavery  ;  the  second  admits 
it  too,  but  with  some  reluctance,  (as  I  have  not  the  papers  by  me,  I  write, 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  209 

under  correction,  by  memory)  and  hints,  that  the  iniquity  is  so  very  old, 
and  very  common,  tbat  in  short  it  is  almost  no  iniquity  at  all.  Both  how- 
ever heartily  concur  in  opinion,  that  a  law  for  that  purpose  would  he  highly 
inexpedient  at  the  present  time.  As  all  their  arguments  are  founded  on 
a  supposition  that  a  total  and  immediate  abolition  of  slavery  is  intended ; 
should  the  fact  appear  to  be  quite  otherwise,  their  reasonings  will  lose 
all  their  weight,  and  of  course  ought  likewise  to  lose  their  effect.  I  had 
the  honour  to  sign  a  petition,  as  did  most  of  my  neighbours,  to  the  Legis- 
lature for  the  freedom  of  the  Negroes  ;  and  I  can  assure  those  gentlemen, 
that  an  immediate  and  indiscriminate  liberation  was  neither  expressed 
in,  nor  intended  by  the  petition  ;  and  we  fully  considered,  as  we  ought 
to  do,  in  the  wisdom  of  that  Honourable  Body,  that  they  would  enact  a 
law  upon  similar  principles  with  the  one  then  in  force  in  the  neighbour- 
ing state  of  Pennsylvania.  We  wished  indeed  it  might  retrospect  as  far 
as  the  Declaration  of  independence,  that  we  might  convince  the  world  in 
general,  and  even  onr  enemies,  that  it  was  not  a  partial,  interested  free- 
dom we  meant  to  assert  and  maintain,  but  that  as  soon  as  we  had  cast 
off  forever  our  shackles  and  pressures,  which  had  too  long  borne  down 
and  obscured  every  generous  motive  of  action,  and  found  ourselves  free 
to  act  agreeable  to  the  dignity  of  human  nature,  our  conduct  should 
declare  that  we  considered  liberty  as  inherent  and  unalienable  ;  and  as  far 
as  our  influence  should  extend,  we  would  communicate  it  to  all  our  fellow 
men.  The  freedom  of  those  unhappy  black  people,  induced  in  so  very 
gradual  a  manner  as  it  is  in  Pennsylvania,  must  remove  every  reasonable 
apprehension  of  danger  to  the  state,  or  private  loss  to  individuals.  But 
should  some  inconveniences  and  embarrassments  arise  to  the  public,  it  is 
no  more  than  we  have  a  right  to  expect,  as  a  punishment  for  our  past 
oppression  of  them.  The  danger  we  have  been  in  of  losing  our  own  liberty, 
may  be  a  wise  dispensation  of  Providence  to  awaken  in  us  a  juster  sense 
of  theirs.  The  national  calamity  of  war,  we  cannot  doubt,  is  sent  as  a 
punishment  for  national  sins ;  because  only  in  this  life  can  states  and 
kingdoms  be  punished :  And  it  behooves  us  seriously  to  consider  whether 
the  just  and  merciful  maker  and  father  of  all  mankind  is  not  now  con- 
tending with  us  for  the  insult  offered  to  his  image  and  the  workmanship 
of  his  hands,  in  depriving  our  fellow  men  of  that  liberty  with  which  Christ 
has  made  them  free,  and  insolently  and  impiously  arrogating  this  privilege, 
as  peculiar  to  ourselves  alone,  for  no  better  reason  but  because  our  skins 
are  white,  when  it  has  pleased  the  all-wise  God  to  make  the  greater  part 
of  mankind  of  a  different  complexion. 

As  to  the  loss  of  private  property  upon  this  plan — to  every  good  man 
it  must  appear  very  inconsiderable  ;  But  were  it  even  greater  than  pro- 
posed, the  heart-felt  satisfaction  and  inward  peace  which  are  evermore 
the  concomitants  of  conscious  rectitude  and  justice,  and  the  approving 
and  prospering  smiles  of  that  God  who  alone  giveth  increase,  will  finally 
much  better  supply  deficiencies  than  all  the  sneaking  carnal  prudence  and 
interested  wisdom  in  the  world.  The  just  man's  children,  says  the  good 
man  when  old,  I  never  saw  beg  their  bread.  But,  say  these  writers,  like 
Felix  of  old,  at  a  more  convenient  season  we  will  hear  you.  According  to 
the  fore  mentioned  plan,  four  or  five  and  twenty  long  years  must  elapse 
before  it  has  any  effect ;  therefore  there  is  not  a  moment  to  be  lost  in 
beginning  it.  Let  us  only  place  ourselves  in  their  situation  ;  or  let  but 
a  good  man  and  a  conscientious  patriot  who  finds  himself  wrong,  and  in 
spite  of  supposed  interest,  wishes  to  be  right,  consider  his  own  situation, 
and  he  would  without  hesitation  pronounce — Now  is  the  time.  Tolerando 
miseris  succurrere  disco, — by  suffering  myself  I  learn  to  succor  the  miser- 
able,— was  a  Latin  maxim  I  got  by  heart  when  a  boy  at  school,  but  I 
never  felt  the  force  of  it  so  sensibly  as  since  the  present  troubles  of  my 
country  began.  I  am  an  old  man,  and  have  had  Negroes  ever  since  I  had 
property  of  my  own,  (it  is  true  I  treated  them  with  humanity  and  kind- 
ness, as  is  generally  the  case  In  this  part  of  the  world)  yet  I  never 
doubted  they  wore  chattel  property  as  much  as  my  horses  and  cattle,  till 
my  neighbor  called  upon  me  with  the  petition,  of  which  the  enclosed  is 
a  copy.  The  proposal  at  that  time  was  entirely  new  to  me  ;  and  interest 
condemned  it  before  I  heard  it  read.  In  obedience  to  the  first  mercenary 
impulse  I  declined  signing  it,  with  the  most  plausible  evasion  I  could 

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210         NEW  JERSEY  IX  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1781 

find,  to  save  my  credit ;  I  avoided  as  much  as  possible  talking  upon  the 
subject  then,  yet  I  could  not  get  rid  of  the  impression  it  made,  and  in 
a  round-about  manner  (I  acknowledge  it  with  shame)  I  procured  a  copy, 
which  I  pursued  with  leisure  and  seriousness  ;  the  result  was,  I  cheerfully 
signed  the  petition  soon  after,  and  as  I  am  informed  it  has  teen  presented 
some  considerable  time  ago  to  the  Legislature,  I  presume,  Mr.  Printer, 
there  would  be  no  impropriety  in  printing  it ;  perhaps  it  may  carry  the 
same  conviction  with  it  to  others  that  it  did  to  me  :  For  I  am  convinced 
it  is  from  want  of  thought  and  consideration  alone  that  good  men  can 
oppose  the  measure. 

However,  the  publication  of  that,  or  the  scrawl  that  incloses  it,  is  sub- 
mitted to  your  better  discretion. Happen  as  it  may,  I  shall  rest  the 

better  contented  for  having  made  an  honest  well-meant  attempt,  altho'  it 
should  be  judged  an  improper  one. 

HOMO   SUM. 

The  following  is  a  Copy  of  the  above  mentioned  Petition. 

To  the  Honourable  the  Representatives  of  the  Freemen  of  the  state 
of  New-Jersey  in  Legislative-Council  and  General  Assembly 
convened. 

The  Petition  of  sundry  Freeholders  and  Inhabitants  of  the  county 
of— 

Humbly  sheweth, 

That  your  petitioners,  inspired  by  that  love  of  liberty  which  dilates 
and  purifies  the  heart,  and  is  abhorrent  of  slavery  where-ever  it  is 
found,  beg  leave  humbly*  to  represent  the  distress  they  feel  for  their 
fellow  men  amongst  them,  doomed  to  hereditary  and  perpetual  bondage. 

Your  petitioners  are  humbly  of  opinion,  that  the  God  of  human 
nature,  however  he,  in  his  wisdom,  may  think  proper  to  diversify  his 
own  image  in  external  appearance,  yet  whenever  he  breathes  into  it 
the  rational  and  ever  living  soul,  he  likewise  bestows  everything  that 
is  effectual  to  the  dignity  of  man ; — the  blessing  of  reason  would  other- 
wise be  its  curse.  But  should  the  conduct  of  sovereign  wisdom  be  in 
any  instance  inexplicable  to  us,  he  has  laid  down  a  rule  directory  to 
our  conduct ;  of  perpetual  obligation  ;  too  plain  to  be  doubted ;  too 
positive  to  be  evaded ; — To  do  to  others  as  we  would  they  should  do 
unto  us. 

That,  in  a  political  view,  there  appears  an  inconsistancy  between 
our  principals  of  liberty  and  our  conduct  in  this  particular ;  and  that 
Providence,  who  protects  the  inhabitants  of  the  world,  and  hath  hith- 
erto, by  its  manifest  interposition,  supported  us  under  pressures  that 
otherwise  might  have  sunk  us  into  the  depths  of  slavery,  may  still 
longer  delay  the  completion  of  our  hopes,  however  happy  our  pros- 
pects, while  we  thus  contravene  his  benevolent  purposes  to  mankind 
in  general;  For  with  little  propriety  can  we  expect  or  ask  for  those 
blessings  for  ourselves,  which,  though  able,  we  are  unwilling  to  bestow 
on  others. 

That  we  feel  a  degree  of  mortification  that  the  state  of  New-Jersey, 
which  has  ever  distinguished  itsself  amongst  the  foremost  in  the 
union,  for  its  animated  exertions  in  favor  of  freedom,  should  be  pre- 
ceded by  any  other  state  in  acts  of  liberality  and  disinterestedness ;  at 
the  same  time  that  we  venerate  the  justice  and  magnanimity  of  the 
state  of  Pennsylvania  in  this  instance. 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  211 

That  your  petitioners  are  fully  assured  that  arguments  in  favor  of 
liberty  are  unnecessary  with  the  free  Representatives  of  a  free  People ; 
and  therefore  beg  you  to  consider,  what  we  have  said  as  an  apology 
for  the  urgency  with  which  we  would  press,  and  the  earnestness  with 
which  we  expect  the  total  abolition  of  slavery  amongst  us :  In  such 
manner  as  you  in  your  wisdom  shall  think  most  consistent  with  the 
safety  of  the  state,  and  the  happiness  of  those  who  are  to  be  eman- 
cipated by  it :  That  from  the  influence  of  your  example,  the  mild 
sunshine  of  freedom  may  pervade  and  illumine  every  part  of  the  con- 
tinent, and  brighten  and  animate  every  countenance  of  every  differ- 
ent shade  of  complexion. 

And  your  Petitioners  shall  continue  to  pray. 

CHATHAM,  March  14. 

On  Monday  last  about  fifty  of  the  enemy  made  their  appearance  in 
Bound-Creek,  upon  which  the  militia  in  the  neighborhood  assembled 
and  obliged  them  to  retire.  After  which  one  Clisby,  of  Lyon's  Farms, 
discharging  his  musket,  unfortunately  killed  Mr.  John  Calhoun,  of 
the  same  place. 

A  very  considerable  movement  in  New-York  is  taking  place,  the 
particulars  of  which  we  have  not  been  able  to  learn,  though  some 
people,  more  sanguine  than  ourselves,  imagine  a  good  embarkation  is 
on  the  carpet,  as  our  Commissary-General  of  prisoners,  a  few  days 
ago,  was  ordered  to  leave  the  city. 

NOTES   TO  OUR  CORRESPONDENTS. 

Upon  a  careful  examination  of  the  piece  signed  a  Militia  Officer, 
the  irony  was  not  thought  sufficiently  pointed,  otherwise  it  would 
have  been  inserted  agreeably  to  our  note  in  163.  We  shall  however 
be  obliged  by  the  author's  future  correspondence. 

The  great  variety  of  intelligence  and  numerous  favours  from  other 
correspondents,  whose  productions  are  less  voluminous,  prevent  us 
from  inserting  the  several  numbers  of  the  Censor,  at  present. 

We  would  be  glad  of  an  interview  with  the  person  who  lately  sent 
us  a  New  Song. 

The  Cooler  was  not  sufficiently  correct  for  publication,  but  we  would 
by  no  means  discourage  the  author,  who  appears  to  want  nothing  so 
much  as  practice  in  writing. 

We  wish  to  convey  a  line  to  the  author  of  the  piece  signed,  A  Friend 
to  Liberty  and  Justice. 

Mr.  Collins, 

I  find  that  the  Legislature,  at  their  last  sitting,  have  passed  au  act  for 
emitting  a  sum  of  money  in  small  bills  for  change.  It  is  to  be  wished 
these  were  struck,  in  order  that  the  continental  currency  which  now  serves 
for  that  purpose,  might  be  immediately  called  in.  Was  it  not  a  mistake  or 
oversight  that  a  very  early  day  was  not  set  by  the  Legislature  to  finish 
the  redemption  of  it?  Does  it  not  depreciate,  and  will  it  not  continue 
to  depreciate?  All  are  sensible  of  the  mischiefs  produced  by  having  two 
kinds  of  bills  of  credit,  of  the  same  nominal  but  different  current  value, 
circulating  among  us  at  the  same  time.  In  the  nature  of  things  they  must 


212         -NEW  JERSEY  IX  THE  REVOLUTIOX.      [1781 

prejudice  each  other.  No  prospect  of  bringing  the  old  currency  to  the 
original  rate,  remains,  and  were  it  practicable,  it  could  not  be  of  any  use, 
but  rather  the  contrary.  The  sooner  therefore  it  disappears,  the  better. 
The  date  of  it  was  long  since  fixed  to  end  with  the  next  month,  some  of 
the  states  have  wisely  fixed  it  to  end  with  the  present.  That  no  incon- 
venience may  arise  to  the  holders,  especially  to  those  who  live  distant 
from  the  Treasury,  they  would  do  well  to  to  recollect  this  circumstance, 
and  pay  it  for  taxes,  or  pass  it  to  those  who  have  taxes  to  pay,  that  the 
trouble  of  bringing  it  to  the  Treasury  afterwards  may  be  avoided,  and 
that  the  quota  of  the  state  may  be  made  up  and  destroyed.  Our  path  will 
then  lie  more  plain  and  easy  ;  and  I  trust,  in  due  time  to  see  all  our  paper- 
money  gradually  and  regularly  sunk  in  the  mode  and  at  the  periods  pre- 
scribed by  law.  The  trade  of  this  country  now  released  from  the  oppres- 
sions of  Great-Britain,  of  freed,  and  kept  free  from  restraints  among  our- 
seHes,  will  very  soon  be  fully  adequate  to  furnish  us  with  a  sufficient  me- 
dium of  coin,  if  it  is  so  already. 

VERBUM   SAPIEXTI. 

Mr.  Printer, 

That  species  of  animals,  which  we  call  by  the  various  names  of  Specu- 
lators, Dodgers,  Silents,  Setters,  Scramblers,  Sharpers,  cum  iiinUis  aliiy 
minoris  notae*  have,  for  a  long  time,  infested  this  country,  and  have  done 
much  annoyance  to  the  property  of  the  honest  inhabitants.  I  think  a 
great  deal  may  be  effected  towards  extirpating  them  by  the  short  and 
simple  means  of  ready-money  contracts.  Credit  is  the  scaffolding  upon 
which  they  play  their  pranks  ;  cut  this  away,  and  they  must  sink  with 
their  original  insignificance.  If  they  cannot  buy  on  trust,  and  contrive 
to  pay  with  quarter  or  half  the  value,  the  craft  must  languish.  The  con- 
tinental currency,  while  it  was  a  tender,  gave  a  fine  scope  to  their  depre- 
dations. That  field  being  now,  in  a  great  measure,  shut  up,  times  have 
grown  dull  with  them.  They  do  not,  however,  despair,  but  like  a  gaxig 
of  rats,  gnawing  at  a  partition,  are  busily  employed  in  depreciating  the 
new  money.  This  is  their  last  cast  if  they  do  not  succeed,  they  go  like 
ninepins  ;  and  I  am  mistaken  if  a  proper  application  of  the  above-men- 
tioned would  not.  defeat  their  project,  and  further  the  riddance  of  such 
vermin.  RHINO. 

Trenton,  March  21,  1781. 

All  persons  indebted  to  Stephen  Ely,  deceased,  are  desired  to  pay 
off  their  accounts  by  the  first  day  of  May  next  ;  and  those  having 
any  demands  against  said  Stephen  Ely,  are  desired  to  bring  in  their 
accounts  properly  attested,  in  order  for  settlement. 

GEORGE   ELY,  Administrator. 


Journal  of  the  second  Sitting'  of  the  4th  Session  of  the  Legis- 
lative Council  ;  the  Votes  of  the  Assembly  of  the  last  Sitting,  same 
Session  ;  and  the  Laws  and  Votes  of  the  last  Sitting  of  the  present 
Assembly,  are  printed,  and  ready  to  be  delivered. 

TO  ALL  WHOM  IT  MAY  CONCERN: 

State  of  New-Jersey,  ss. 

Notice  is  hereby  given,  that  a  Court  of  Admiralty  will  be  held  for 
the  state  of  New  Jersey,  at  the  Courthouse  in  the  town  of  Gloucester. 
in  the  county  of  Gloucester,  on  Thursday  the  12th  day  of  April  next, 
at  the  hour  of  ten  in  the  forenoon  of  the  same  day,  then  and  there 
to  try  the  truth  of  the  facts  alledged  and  set  forth  in  the  bill  of  Col. 


*Most  of  which  begin  with  an  S,  denoting  their  crooked  and  serpentine 
nature. 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  213 

Joseph  Ellis,  (who  as  well  as,  &c.)  against  a  certain  sloop  or  vessel 
called  the  Hannah,  lately  commanded  by  Abraham  Davis,  and  said 
to  be  taken  on  her  voyage  to  New  York,  loaded  with  pine  boards, 
shingles,  tar,  and  bar-iron,  with  her  tackle,  apparel,  furniture  and 
cargo  aforesaid :  To  the  end  and  intent,  that  the  owner  or  owners  of 
the  said  vessel,  or  any  person  or  persons  interested  therein,  may  ap- 
pear and  shew  cause,  if  any  they  have,  why  the  said  vessel  and  her 
tackle,  apparel,  furniture  and  cargo,  should  not  be  condemned  to  the 
captors  thereof,  and  a  decree  thereon  pass,  persuant  to  the  prayer  of 
the  said  bill. 

By  order  of  the  Judge, 

JOSEPH   BLOOMFIELD,   Reg. 
Haddonfield,  March  5,  1781. 

All  persons  who  have  furnished  supplies,  or  for  services  done,*  under 
the  Requisition  of  his  Excellency  General  Washington,  in  the  county 
of  Hunterdon,  are  desired  without  fail  to  attend  with  their  vouchers, 
as  follows,  viz.  At  Pennington,  the  first  Tuesday  in  April ;  at  Henry 
Mershon's  tavern,  in  Amwell,  the  second  Monday  iu  said  month ;  the 
day  following  at  Pitts-iTown,  and  the  next  day  following  at  the  White- 
house  tavern.  JOSEPH  INSLEE. 

The  Subscriber  in  Pompton,  on  the  great  road 

from  Boston  to  Philadelphia,  has  fitted  up  the 

YELLOW-HOUSE  TAVERN, 

Just  20  miles  from  Morristown,  30  from  King's  Ferry, 

and  40  or  45  from  New- Windsor, 

Where  his  stables,  fit  to  hold  twenty  horses,  are  well  supplied  and 
carefully  attended,  and  his  house  ev'ery  way  well  furnished,  as  far 
as  the  ability  of 

All  the  roads  for  a  few  miles  round  us  are  safe  and  direct,  and 
every  Gentleman  who  will  ride  a  little  while  in  the  evening  to  reach 
us,  may  depend  on  getting  quarters.  The  Gentlemen,  our  customers 
shall  be  free  from  noise  but  what  they  chuse  to  make  themselves,  as 
we  are  unincumbered  with  children,  or  country  custom,  being  our- 
selves young  unmarried  people,  and  our  neighbours  chusing  to  drink 
beer  at  their  own  houses.  They  shall  find  the  news-papers  of  three 
different  Printers  kept  for  their  perusal,  with  a  small  collection  of 
books,  and  other  amusement — though  abroad  they  shall  be  at  home, 
find  English  fare  in  a  Dutch  country,  and  the  landlord  their  most 
humble  servant.  JOSEPH  CURTIS. 

The  subscriber,  in  Maidenhead,  will  expose  to  sale  at  publick  ven- 
due,  on  Friday  the  23d  of  this  instant,  sundry  articles  of  household 
and  kitchen  furniture,  consisting  of  large  black  walnut  tables,  lesser 
tables,  chairs,  iron  pots,  kettles,  andirons,  shovel  and  tongs,  pails  and 
buckets,  of  different  sizes,  spinning  wheels,  big  and  small,  a  reel, 
doughtrough,  china,  knives  and  forks,  empty  black  bottles  and  case 
and  bottles,  with  many  other  articles  too  tedious  to  enumerate.  Also 
will  be  sold  at  publick  sale  at  the  same  time,  a  good  plough,  with  the 


214  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

necessary  irons,  harrow,  wood-sled,  a  good  English  bodied  waggon, 
well  tir'd,  and  a  complete  sett  of  gears  for  two  horses,  one  hogshead 
of  excellent  cyder,  racked  off,  a  number  of  empty  cyder  cask,  meat 
casks,  &c.  Several  bushel  of  red  potatoes,  Indian  corn  and  buck- 
wheat, a  side  of  horse  leather,  a  small  quantity  of  excellent  flax 
ready  dressed  ;  a  new  milch  cow  in  good  order,  and  two  valuable  horses, 
suitable  for  either  draft  or  saddle. 

The  above  goods  will  be  sold  for  cash  only,  and  the  vendu  will  begin 
at  ten  o'clock  in  the  forenoon  of  the  same  day,  on  the  premises,  where 
attendance  will  be  given  by 

FRANCIS  DU  CLOS. 

March  16,  1781. 

TO  BE  SOLD  OR  LET. 

A  House  and  Lot  of  Land,  in  Kingston,  New-Jersey.  There  is  four 
rooms  on  a  floor,  besides  the  kitchen.  The  lot  contains  one  acre. 
It  is  well  situated  either  for  a  store  or  tavern,  having  been  occupied 
lately  by  persons  following  those  callings.  It  is  situated  on  a  publick 
road  to  head-quarters,  in  a  healthy  part  of  the  country ;  a  number 
of  industrious  rich  farmers  in  the  neighbourhood.. 

Also  To  Be  Sold,  a  lot  of  Land  in  Nicomixen  township,  Bucks 
county,  state  of  Pennsylvania,  containing  about  twenty-five  acres, 
with  a  log  house  and  stable,  and  sundry  fruit  trees ;  about  half  under 
fence.  Three  miles  from  4Sherard's  ferry,  on  a  publick  road,  and  will 
suit  a  tradesman.  Apply  to  George  Douglass  at  Point-Breeze,  near 
Bordentown. 

March  20,  1781. 

The  Whig  inhabitants  of  the  Western  Precinct,  (Somerset  county,) 
are  requested  to  meet  at  the  house  of  Henry  Harrison,  at  Rocky-Hill, 
on  Tuesday,  the  3d  of  April  next  on  business  of  importance ;  to  which 
time  and  place  the  last  meeting  adjourned. 

By  order  of  the  meeting, 

-THO.  EGBERT. 
Princeton,  March  12,  1781. 


From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  170,  March  28,  1781. 

TRENTON,  MARCH  28. 

Advices  were  received  in  Philadelphia  on  Monday  last,  from  the 
southward,  x>f  a  battle  being  fought  on  the  15th.  instant,  between 
General  Green  and  Lord  Cornwallis,  at  Guilford  courthouse,  in  the 
state  of  North-Carolina ;  that  General  Greene  retired  a  small  distance, 
with  intent  to  renew  the  engagement  next  day,  but  the  weather 
proving  unfavorable,  prevented  any  farther  operations  for  that  time. 
These  were  all  the  particulars  received,  and  those  not  authentic. 

An  action  hath  also  happened  on  the  16th  instant,  between  the 
French  and  English  fleets,  which  was  maintained  with  great  spirit 
and  gallantry  by  both  parties  for  an  hour  and  a  quarter.  The 


1781]  NEWSPAPEE    EXTRACTS.  215 

enemy's  line  was  then  thrown  into  disorder,  several  of  their  ships 
having  suffered  in  their  rigging,  and  one  so  considerably,  that  her  fire 
ceased,  and  was  obliged  to  bear  away  before  the  wind.  The  French 
ship  Le  Conquerant,  which  led  the  van  of  the  line,  having  sustained 
the  fire  of  three  of  the  enemy's  ships,  received  so  great  damage  as 
not  to  be  in  a  condition  to  renew  the  action.  We  hope  to  have  the 
satisfaction  of  giving  a  minute  relation  of  the  above  laud  and  naval 
combats  to  the  public  in  our  next. 

BY  HIS  EXCELLENCY  THE 
GOVERNOR. 

At  a  Court-Martial  held  by  the  appointment  of  Brigadier-General 
Heard,  on  the  19th.  of  January  last,  at  the  house  of  James  Drake, 
in  the  city  of  Brunswick — 

Ensign  Morford,  of  the  third  battalion  of  Middlesex  militia,  was 
tried  for  parading  in  arms  with  the  men  belonging  to  Capt.  Perine's 
company,  and  marching  from  their  post  in  mutiny,  and  found  guilty, 
and  adjudged  to  be  cashiered  and  rendered  incapable  of  serving  in  the 
militia  as  an  officer  during  the  war. 

And  at  a  Court-Martial  held  by  the  appointment  of  Brigadier- 
General  Heard,  at  the  house  of  Jacob  Hyer,  in  Princeton,  the  fifteenth 
day  of  March,  instant,  the  following  officers  were  tried : 

Lieutenant  Charles  Fisher,  of  Col.  William  Scudder's  regiment  of 
Middlesex  militia,  with  disobeying  the  orders  of  his  Colonel,  in  re- 
fusing to  march  with  a  detachment  of  the  said  regiment  to  Morris- 
Town  in  June,  1780,  found  guilty  of  unofficerlike  behaviour,  and  ad- 
judged to  be  fined  in  the  sum  of  five  pounds  lawful  money,  to  be 
recovered  and  applied  as  directed  by  the  militia  law. 

Ensign  Lewis  Baremore,  for  refusing  to  march  with  the  regiment 
under  Major  Nixon,  in  January  last,  on  the  revolt  of  the  Pennsyl- 
vania line,  found  guilty  of  unofficerlike  behaviour,  and  adjudged  to  be 
cashiered  and  reduced  to  the  ranks,  agreeably  to  the  act  of  assembly. 

Lieutenant  David  Gilliland,  of  Col.  Scudder's  regiment,  for  dis- 
obedience of  orders  in  not  marching  with  Capt.  Ferine  for  the  relief 
of  Capt.  Stout,  when  stationed  at  Monmouth,  in  February  1779,  and 
for  not  marching  with  Capt.  Ferine  to  South-Amboy,  in  October 
1780,  acquitted  on  the  sufficiency  of  his  reasons  for  not  marching. 

All  which  sentences,  and  the  said  acquittal,  I  do  approve  of,  ratify 
and  confirm. 

Given  under  my  hand  the  twenty-third  of  March,  one  thousand 
seven  hundred  and  eighty-one. 

WIL.  LIVINGSTON. 

Flemington,  New-Jersey,  March  20,  1781. 

Doctor  Gregg's  House,  Land  and  Improvements  thereon,  situated 
in  Flemington,  are  now  For  Sale,  and  immediate  possession  given. 
The  conveniences  thereto,  with  the  situation  of  the  place,  renders  it 
commodious  for  any  kind  of  publick  business.  The  title  is  indis- 
putable. For  terms  apply  at  the  premises. 


216  NEW     .JERSEY    IX     TJ1E    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

The  Members  of  the  Whig  Society  of  Somerset,  are  requested  to 
attend  at  Ilillsborough,  at  the  house  of  Andrew  Mershoii,  tavern- 
keeper,  on  the  second  Friday  of  April  next,  at  eleven  o'clock  in  the 
forenoon. 

March  25,  1781.  JOHN  TAYLOR,  Sec. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

Any  time  between  this  and  the  20th  of  April 
next ;    and  if  not  sold  then,  to  be  rented  ; 

A  Lot  of  good  Land,  situated  in  the  township  of  Hillsborough,  Som- 
erset county,  containing  ten  acres ;  about  one  half  of  which  is  good 
meadow,  firewood  and  rail  timber  belonging  to  it  to  serve  for  some 
time.  There  is  some  fruit  trees  on  the  same,  such  as  peach,  apple 
and  cherry ;  a  good  house,  small  barn,  hay  barrack  and  waggon  house. 
Lays  in  the  neighborhood  of  several  places  of  worship  and  mills,  and 
would  suit  for  any  publick  business,  being  in  the  heart  of  a  thick 
settled  country,  near  the  South  branch  of  the  Raritan.  For  terms 
apply  to  Mr.  Jerome  Vanderbelt,  near  New-Shanick  church.  Mr. 
Minne  Voorhees,  near  New-Brunswick,  or  the  subscriber,  opposite 
Garrison's  tavern,  who  has  some  other  lots  to  dispose  of. 

SAM.  H.  SULLIVAN. 
Hillsborough,  March  20,  1781. 

TO  BE  SOLD  BY  PUBLIC  VENDUE, 

At   the   house   of   Daniel   Reeder,    in   Trenton, 
on  Wednesday  the  4th.  of  April  next,  the  following  articles,  viz. 

Cattle,  horses,  plough  and  harrow  with  the  necessary  irons  and  teeth ; 
a  good  English  bodied  waggon  well  tir'd,  and  gears  for  two  horses. 
Also  will  be  sold  at  the  same  time  an  assortment  of  waggon  boxes,  a 
good  musket  and  brace  of  pistols,  a  man's  saddle  and  bridal,  a  good 
steel  trap,  and  a  number  of  good  cyder  cask,  spinning  wheels,  an 
assortment  of  carpenters'  tools,  a  few  bushels  of  red  potatoes,  and 
sundry  articles  too  tedious  to  mention.  The  vendue  to  begin  at  ten 
o'clock  of  said  day,  where  attendance  will  be  given,  and  the  condi- 
tions made  known. 
March  27,  1781. 

WILL  BE  RENTED  AT  VENDUE, 

On  Saturday  the  7th.  of  April  next,  by  the  subscriber  in  Maidenhead, 

The  Plantation  whereon  Peter  Covenhoven  now  lives,  containing  140 
acres  of  land,  situate  in  a  pleasant  part  of  the  country,  lying  on 
the  great  road  from  Philadelphia  to  Elizabeth-Town,  and  is  a  good 
stand  for  a  tavern.  There  is  on  said  place,  a  good  dwellinghouse  with 
four  rooms  on  a  floor ;  also  a  good  barn  with  stabling,  and  a  bearing 
orchard  with  a  good  well  of  water  by  the  door.  The  vendue  will  be 
held  on  the  premises,  at  2  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  where  attendance 
will  be  given  and  the  conditions  made  known  by 

March  22,  1781.  JOSEPH  BROWN.  Sen. 


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PRINTING  PAPER, 

Of  different  Size  and  Quality, 
By  the  Ream,  or  Hundred  Reams, 

Bookbinders  and  Bonnet  Pasteboards, 

Wrapping  Paper,  &c. 
Made  and  to  be  Sold  or  Exchanged  for 

Rags, 
By  Stacy  Potts,  in  Trenton. 

Whereas  sundry  white  oak  saplings  have  been  cut  and  carried  off 
the  subscriber's  plantation,  with  a  number  of  fence  rails,  without  his 
leave,  by  some  evil  minded  person  or  persons :  These  are  therefore 
to  warn  all  such  from  committing  the  like  offences  in  future,  as  they 
will  be  prosecuted  with  the  utmost  rigour  of  the  law.  And  a  reward 
of  two  hundred  continental  dollars  will  be  given  for  a  discovery  of 
the  offender  or  offenders,  if  they  are  brought  to  justice,  paid  by 

BENJAMIN  GREEN. 

TO  BE  RENTED, 

A  Farm  containing  between  two  and  three  hundred  acres  of  land ; 
a  considerable  part  of  which  is  cleared,  with  a  comfortable  house  and 
barn,  situate  two  and  a  half  miles  from  Princeton,  and  half  a  mile 
from  the  main  road  leading  from  Princeton  to  Rock-Hill.  There  is 
a  tolerable  orchard,  and  some  good  meadow  may  be  made.  For  terms 
apply  to  Mrs.  Stockton,  at  Princeton,  or  to  the  Printer  hereof. 
March  26,  1781. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

By  the  Single,  Dozen,  Gross  or  Thousand,  by 

Isaac  Collins, 
At   the  Printing-Office  in  Trenton, 

The  New  Testament, 
Printed  on  a  good  Type,  and  good  Paper. 


From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  171,  April  4,  1781. 

Number  1. 
Mr.  Collins, 

About  two  years  ago  I  gave,  through  the  channel  of  your  Gazette,  my 
sentiments  of  our  national  disease,  and  the  remedies  necessary  for  its 
cure,  with  the  liberty  and  candour  becoming  a  true  Patriot.  The  pre- 
scribed medicines,  though  the  only  which  could  effect  a  cure,  were  how- 
ever found  exceeding  nauseous  to  the  disordered  stomach.  Some  of  the 
less  disagreeable  specificks  were  tried  first,  to  afford  some  relief  to  the 
more  immediate  troublesome  symptoms,  while  the  rooted  disorder  was 
permitted  to  carry  on  its  rage  ;  till  at  last  the  state-patient  was  forced, 
by  the  law  of  self-preservation,  to  take  the  nauseous  dose,  though  with  a 
few  palliating  ingredients,  which  weaketed  in  some  measure  the  sovereign 
power  of  the  remedy  :  And  while  it  thus  become  slower  in  producing  its 
happy  effects,  it  left  the  patient  longer  struggling  under  a  slow  recovery 
from  a  dangerous  languor,  frequently  subject  to  fits  or  convulsive  disorders 
of  the  nerves.  However,  if  a  humorsome  pntient  cannot  be  prevailed  upon 
to  take  a  sovereign  remedy  without  palliatives  which,  retard  the  cure,  he 


218         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.      [1781 

must  blame  himself  for  all  the  intermediate  distresses  ;  which,  perhaps, 
may  produce  the  happy  effects  of  making  such  patient  more  cautious  in 
guarding  against  a  relapse,  and  more  prudent  in  improving  preservatory 
prescriptions. — 

Since  our  state-patient  has  made  trial  of  the  prescribed  remedies,  though 
mixed  with  retarding  ingredients,  it  affords  manifest  indications  of  a  sound 
recovery  from  the  gates  of  political  death,  and  promises  fair  for  a  restora- 
tion to  health  and  vigour,  unless  prevented  by  unsuspected  causes.  As 
a  relapse  is  generally  more  dangerous  than  the  primitive  disorder,  I  hope 
my  fellow-citizens  will  indulge  me  with  offering  a  few  preservatory  pre- 
scriptions, which,  if  duly  observed,  may  prevent  a  relapse,  and  promote 
the  political  health  and  vigour  of  this  nation.  Curatory  remedies  must 
be  adapted  to  the  removal  of  the  causes  of  a  disorder,  but  the  preserve - 
tory  to  prevent  a  return  of  them.  Those  I  shall  now  presume  to  offer  are 
to  be  of  the  latter  kind. 

I  considered,  in  my  former  essays,  the  causes  of  our  national  disease 
in  a  twofold  point  of  view ;  the  one  meritorious ;  the  other  the  efficient 
cause.  I  As  to  the  meritorious  cause,  I  endeavoured,  No.  II,  to  prove  it 
to  be,  tJie  ungrateful  conduct  of  this  nation  towards  God,  our  kind  bene- 
factor, and  just  arbiter  of  the  universe. 1  would  feel  exceeding  happy 

had  I  sufficient  reasons  to  believe  this  cause  had  been  removed,  and  the 
prophet's  counsel  become  acceptable  to  us,  "that  we  had  broken  off  our 
sins  by  righteousness,  and  our  iniquities  by  showing  mercy  to  the  poor." 
I  would  wish  to  hope,  that  some  attempts  for  a  national  reformation  have 
been  made.  But  alas !  how  ineffectual  many  of  the  attempts  !  how  slow 
the  advance !  I  fear  the  lamentations  of  Jeremiah  may  be  justly  applied 
to  us,  saying,  "Thou  hast  tricked  them,  but  they  have  not  grieved ;  thou 
hast  consumed  them,  but  they  have  refused  to  receive  correction ;  they 
have  made  their  faces  harder  than  a  rock,  they  have  refused  to  return.*" 

As  also  that  of  another  prophet,  "for  the  people  turneth  not  unto  him 
who  smiteth  them.f"  The  lovers  o.f  our  country  may  well  lament  its  judg- 
ments, saying,  "Why  should  you  be  stricken  any  more?  ye  will  revolt  more 
and  more."t  Notwithstanding  our  just  deserts,  yet  has  a  gracious  God, 
from  the  abundant  riches  of  his  forebearing  goodness,  "in  wrath  remem- 
bered mercy,''  and  therefore  "we  are  not  consumed."  If  then  we  wish  a 
preservative  against  the  return  of  perhaps  greater  calamities,  let  us  attend 
to  the  counsel  given,  Jer.  III.  22,  23,  "return  ye  backsliding  children  and 
I  will  heal  your  backslidings  :  Behold,"  says  repenting  Israel,  "we  come 
unto  thee,  for  thou  art  the  Lord  our  God.  Truly  in  vain  is  salvation  hoped 
for  from  the  hills,  and  from  the  multitude  of  mountains.  Truly  in  the 
Lord  our  God  is  the  salvation  of  Israel."  Not  only  people  who  had  the 
divine  revelation  but  also  Pagans,  have  acknowledged  and  believed  that 
kingdoms  and  dominions,  with  all  their  vicissitudes,  were  at  the  disposal 
of  the  Supreme  Being :  If  so,  then  it  undoubtedly  becomes  such  a  people 
to  endeavour  to  procure  his  favour,  and  the  continuence  of  it,  by  true  re- 
pentance for  sins  past,  and  a  course  of  due  obedience  to  his  commands ; 
which  above  all  remedies,  secures  a  nation's  welfare.  I  will  not  here  as- 
sume the  business  of  the  clergy,  in  pointing  out  the  necessary  qualifica- 
tions for  a  well  grounded  hope  of  eternal  bliss,  but  that  of  a  citizen,  shew- 
ing the  national  duties  respecting  the  Deity,  requisite  for  the  hope  of  his 
favour  in  the  enjoyment  of  national  blessings.  And  these  I  humbly  con- 
ceive to  be 

I  A  solemn  acknowledgment  of  God  in  Ms  publick  worship.  This  is  a 
duty  founded  in  the  nature  of  things.  For  he  who  acknowledges  a  God, 
acknowledges  a  Creator,  and  consequently  an  object  of  divine  worship.  He 
then  who  refuses  him  this,  denies  him  to  be  God.  Hence  have  all  nations, 
in  all  ages,  agreed  in  this  principal.  Hence  have  Christians,  instructed 
by  a  divine  revelation,  chosen  rather  to  suffer  the  most  exquisite  torments 
than  forego  or  neglect  this  duty  to  their  Creator.  A  duty  also  necessary 
for  the  well  being  of  civil  society.  Suppose  a  nation  in  which  the  worship 
of  the  Deity  is  totally  neglected ;  what  consequences  must  unavoidably 
ensue?  Stupid  ignorance  must  envelope  the  multitude;  the  sense  of  sin 
and  guilt  be  obliterated ;  the  sanction  to  all  laws  be  only  the  terror  of 


•Jer.  V.  3.     tlsa.  IX.  13.     JChap.  1.  5. 


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NEWSPAPEK    EXTRACTS.  219 


punishments ;  the  civil  government  become  a  set  of  herdsmen,  and  their 
subjects  next  to  a  flock  of  brutes  :  For  what  would  such  as  knew  no  law 
of  God  regard  the  law  of  man  ?  What  wild  tumult  and  disorder  would 
soon  seize  the  body  politick? — As  then  the  publick  worship  of  a  Supreme 
Being  is  reasonable  and  necessa.ry,  so  ought  the  time  to  be  appropriated 
for  that  purpose,  to  be  esteemed  sacred.  For  if  the  time  set  apart  for 
the  worship  of  God,  is  taken  up  in  the  pursuits  of  secular  affairs,  carnal 
recreations  or  indolent  idleness,  how  soon  will  this  publick  worship  be- 
come neglected,  and  the  ends  of  it  frustrated?  Hence  then  it  is  evident, 
that  the  civil  government  is  in  duty  bound  to  guard  against  the  profana- 
tion of  a  Christian  Sabbath,  if  not  from  principals  of  Christianity,  at 
least  from  their  obligations  to  promote  the  good  of  society.  And  also  how 
unfit  and  worthless  such  Magistrates  must  be,  who  can  see  this  sacred 
time  profaned  with  the  neglect  of  the  law  in  their  hands.  Hence  also 
appears  the  awful  guilt  of  this  nation  in  their  general  neglect  of  that 
publick  homage  .which  is  due  to  our  God.  Do  we  wish  for  the  smiles  of 
Providence  and  the  blessings  which  flow  from  it ;  let  us  conscientiously 
wait  upon  God  in  his  publick  ordinances  ;  let  neither  government  nor 
subjects,  xich  nor  poor,  esteem  themselves  excluded  from  the  obligation 
of  this  duty  to  their  Creator.  No  one  among  us,  whose  atheistical  pro- 
fanity has  induced  him  to  an  habitual  neglect  of  this  duty,  ought  to 
be  considered  as  a  true  friend  to  his;  country,  or  safe  to  be  entrusted 
with  any  of  its  concerns. 

2.  I  add,  a  due  regwd  for  the  duties  required,  in  the  moral  law.     These 
are    founded    in    the    relation    moral    agents    bear    to    their    Creator,    and 
mutually  to  each  other  as  members  of  society ;    and  therefore  is  a  sense 
of  them  coeval   with,   and   inseparable  from,   the   exercise  of   reason.      Of 
course,  a  disregard  of  such  laws,  a  neglect  of  such  duty,  must  be  highly 
offensive   to   our   Creator,    and   subversive    of   the  happiness    and   sweets 
of    society.      Pagans,    from   the   meer   dictiates    of   conscience    and   reason, 
have   acknowledged   these  truths.      A   divine   revalation    has   afforded   us 
the   clearest  views  of   them  :      There  we  find   temporal   blessings   heaped 
upon    nations    morally    virtuous :      There    we    discover    the    most    awiful 
calamities    threatened,    and    executed,    on    nations    for    their    trampling, 
with   impunity,   on   the  moral  commands   of  God.      And   indeed,   here   the 
sin.  brings  its  own  punishment  with  it.     View  the  debauchee ;    while  he 
wallows   in   all  excess   of  riot,   drunkenness,   cursing,   swearing,    lewdness, 
&c.,    while   he   may   yet   enjoy    wealth,    can   he   enjoy   himself,    or    be    of 
any    real    advantage    to    civil    society?      The    covetous    oppressor    may 
amass  gold,   but   will   his   conscience   and   the   frame   of  his   mind  permit 
him    to    find    any    true    satisfaction    hi    what    he    thus    acquires?      While 
the  uncharitable   wretch  exposes   his   neighbour   to  many   inconveniences 
and  hardships,  providential  retaliations  often  make  him  sigh  and  groan. 
Hence  we  ought  to  be  sensible  of  the  vast  importance  of  moral  obedience 
to  the  welfare  of  this  our  new  emprre.     I  fear,  if  immorality  should  ad- 
vance as  it  has  commenced,  this  nation  will  sink  under  the  weight  of 
it.      Let    therefore    every    citizen,    whatever    his   opinions    may    be    with 
respect  to  religion,   in  his   respective  station   by  word   and   example  en- 
deavour  to   promote    moral    virtue.      If    Justices    would    bestow   half   of 
the  labour  and  trouble  upon  putting  the  laws  against  profanity  in  exe- 
cution   they    do   upon    the   paltry   trials    of   disputes   among  neighbours, 
they  would  do  their  country  infinite  service. 

3.  Another  national  duty  I  conceive  to  be,  the  appointment  of  proper 
persons  to   the  reins  of  government.     By  proper  persons,   I   mean  here, 
not  only  such  as  may  be  officially  qualified  for  the  duties  of  their  ap- 
pointment, but  moreover  such  as  are  of  a  -moral  good,  Character.     What 
amazing   influence   the   moral   conduct   of    persons   in    authority    has,    at 
all    times,    upon    the    community,    is    obvious    to    every    observant    mind. 
And    as    the    free    citizens   of   America   have    directly    or    indirectly    the 
appointment   of  officers   to   the  civil   government,    the   whole   become   of 
course    more    exposed  to   the    displeasure    of   God,    on    account    of   their 
neglect  in  this  respect.     For  in  such  appointments  the  community  must 
become    accomplices    to    the    aggrevated    sins    of   their    exalted    stations : 
and  therefore  may  God,  the  more  justly,  punish  them,  by  such   rulers ; 
and  in  permitting  such,  examples  to  debauch  the  community,  in  lighteous- 


220         XJ-:W  JERSEY  IX  THE  KEVOLUTIOX.       [1781 

ness  punish  the  nation  with  various  calamities  for  its  general  de- 
pravity. On  this  account  it  has  afforded  me  pleasure,  that  some  of 
the  atheistical  scoffers  of  God  and  things  sacred,  whose  presence  dis- 
honoured our  councils,  have  been  deprived  of  their  honourable  seats. 
And  for  the  same  reason  I  entreat  my  fellow-citizens,  as  they  re-ranl 
the  welfare  of  themselves  and  dearest  posterity,  to  be  cautious  in  their 
elections,  and  not  commit  and  entrust  their  liberities,  property,  and 
the  importance  of  good  civil  government,  to  debauchees,  or  persons 
of  immoral  and  irreligious  characters.  Let  therefore  our  honourable 
representatives  also  well  consider  these  consequences  in  the  appoint- 
ment of  all  the  officers  their  constituents  have  committed  to  them. 

4.  The  last  general  duty  I  shall  mention  under  this  head  is,  Unit 
every  citizen  cmtearour  sincerely  to  comply  with  such  relit/ions  i>rin- 
cipals  and  duties  a*  lie  prnfcxsex  to  believe  our  Creator  reqinres  of  Ithn. 
All  men  are  not,  nor  indeed  can  be,  in  this  state  of  imperfection,  of 
one  opinion  as  to  the  modes  or  manner  of  worshipping  and  serving  God. 
But  as  we,  in  the  main,  are  professed  protestants,  we  agree  in  the  funda- 
mentals of  that  holy  religion  which  condemns  as  abominable  the  sin 
otf  hypocrisy ;  and  declares  that  we  have  to  deal  with  a  searcher  of 
hearts  and  a  trier  of  the  reins  of  the  children  of  men.  Therefore,  If 
we  profess  to  believe  that  our  good  works  can  and  must  procure  the 
favour  of  God,  let  such  be  sincere  and  endeavour  to  excel  in  them : 
For  if  they  can  thus  procure  his  favour,  and  still  refuse  to  do  it,  how 
inexcusable  must  their  guilt  be?  and  how  high  the  affront  to  Supreme 
Majesty? — If  we  profess  to  believe  it  must  and  can  only  be  obtained 
by  free  grace,  through  the  merits  of  a  crucified  Saviour,  we  also  pro- 
fess that  this  grace  ought  not  to  be  abused  to  licentiousness ;  and  those 
who  do,  deserve  aggravated  punishment.  Does  it  not  then  become  such 
to  improve  this  grace,  freely  offered,  for  the  curbing  vice,  and  the  pro- 
motion of  religion  and  virtue?  and  so  each  one  to  adorn  his  profession 
with  an  holy  conversation?  And  are  not  the  virtuous  of  every  per- 
suasion bound  by  the  principals  of  their  own  persuasion  to  seek,  by 
prayer,  supplications,  and  an  exemplary  conduct,  the  welfare  o.f  the  na- 
tion where  they  find  protection  of  their  property  and  the  exercise  of 
their  religion  without  controul  ? 

Upon  the  whole,  in  viewing  the  present  state  of  our  national  affairs, 
nothing  appears  so  gloomy  and,  alarming  as  the  ungrateful  return  this 
people  has  made,  and  is  making,  to  a  kind  and  indulgent  God.  Our 
secular  affairs  are  putting  on  an  agreeable  prospect,  they  seem  to  prom- 
ise fair  for  a  happy  deliverance  from  our  most  pressing  difficulties. 
But,  alas!  what  may  all  this  avail?  If  our  sins  should  again  bring 
the  frowns  of  superintending  providence  upon  us?  How  soon  may 
that  blast  our  most  pleasing  hopes,  and  cast  us  into  a  labyrinth  of 
unforeseen  difficulties  and  distresses? — Let  us  therefore  be  entreated  by 
the  calls  of  heaven  to  us  revealed  in  his  sacred  word  :  by  his  kind  and 
indulgent  providences  in  our  favour ;  by  the  justice  and  goodness  of 
the  cause  we  are  engaged  to  defend ;  by  the  sacred  ties  of  care  and  re- 
gard for  the  welfare  of  ourselves,  our  children,  and  generations  yet  un- 
born :  to  be  sincerely  engaged  in  removing  and  preventing  every  cause 
of  offense  to  the  Supreme  Arbiter  of  the  world.  Ye  Ministers,  to  whom 
the  dispensation  of  the  oracles  of  God  and  the  cure  of  souls  is  com- 
mitted, with  vigilance  and  zeal  oppose  the  present  torrent  of  vice.  Ye  civil 
rulers,  let  equity  and  justice  be  the  chief  ingredients  of  every  bill  passed 
into  a  law :  let  helpless  and  oppressed  innocence  find  you  its  .faithful 
guardian  :  let  impartial  justice  be  dispensed  at  every  tribunal ;  let  the 
civil  sword  committed  to  you  be  a  terror  to  evildoers,  and  a  comfort 
to  those  who  do  well.  Ye  heads  of  families,  regard  the  education  and 
morals  of  those  committed  to  your  charge :  You,  above  all  others,  have 
the  oppertunities  of  curbing  vice,  and  the  promotion  of  virtue.  Young 
and  tender  minds  are  committed  to  your  tuition  and  discipline :  let, 
therefore,  your  advice,  instruction,  care  and  example,  lead  them  in  the 
paths  of  religion  and  virtue.  Remember  they  are  to  succeed  others  as 
members  in  church  and  state.  Were  we  a  reformed  people,  I  am  per- 
suaded we  would  soon  be  a  happy  people  ;  which  is  the  sincere  wish  of 

Jan.   25,   1781.  A  TRUE   PATRIOT. 


1781]  NEWSPAPEK    EXTRACTS.  221 

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,  Chan- 
cellor and  Ordinary  in  the  same : 

PROCLAMATION. 

Whereas  the  United  States  in  Congress  assembled,  by  their  Procla- 
mation, bearing  date  the  twentieth  day  of  March,  reciting  that  "at 
all  times  it  is  our  duty  to  acknowledge  the  over-ruling  providence  of 
the  Great  Governor  of  the  universe,  and  devoutly  to  implore  his 
divine  favour  ar;d  protection  :  But  in  the  hour  of  calamity  and  im- 
pending danger,  when  by  fire  and  the  sword,  by  the  savages  of  the 
wilderness,  and  by  our  own  domestics,  a  vindictive  enemy  persues  a 
war  of  rapine  and  devastation  with  unrelenting  fury,  we  are  peculiarly 
excited  with  true  penitence  of  heart  to  prostrate  ourselves  before  our 
great  Creator,  and  fervently  to  supplicate  his  gracious-  interposition 
for  our  deliverance." 

Did  Therefore  earnestly  recommend,  "That  Thursday,  the  Third 
Day  of  May  next,  may  be  observed  as  a  day  of  Humiliation,  Fasting 
and  Prayer ;  that  we  may  with  united  hearts  confess  and  bewail  our 
manifold  sins  and  transgressions,  and  by  sincere  repentence  and 
amendment  of  life  appease  his  righteous  displeasure,  and  through  the 
merits  of  our  blessed  Saviour  obtain  pardon  and  forgiveness :  That 
it  may  please  him  to  inspire  our  rulers  with  wisdom  and  incorruptible 
integrity,  and  to  direct  and  prosper  their  councils ;  to  inspire  all 
our  citizens  with  a  fervent  and  disinterested  love  of  their  country, 
and  to  preserve  and  strengthen  their  union ;  to  turn  the  hearts  of 
the  disaffected,  or  to  frustrate  their  devices  ;  to  regard  with  divine 
compassion  our  friends  in  captivity,  affliction,  and  distress ;  to  comfort 
and  releive  them  under  their  sufferings,  and  to  change  their  mourning 
into  grateful  songs  of  triumph  :  That  it  may  please  him  to  bless  our 
ally,  and  to  render  the  connection  formed  between  these  United  States 
and  his  kingdom  a,  mutual  and  lasting  benefit  to  both  nations ;  to 
animate  our  officers  and  forces  by  sea  and  land  with  invincible  forti- 
tude, and  to  guard  and  protect  them  in  the  day  of  battle,  and  to 
crown  our  joint  endeavours  for  terminating  the  calamities  of  war 
with  victory  and  success :  That  the  blessings  of  peace  and  liberty 
may  be  established  on  an  honourable  and  permanent  basis,  and  trans- 
mitted inviolate  to  the  latest  posterity  :  That  it  may  please  him  to 
prosper  our  husbandry  and  commerce,  and  to  bless  us  with  health 
and  plenty  :  That  it  may  please  him  to  bless  all  schools  and  seminaries 
of  learning,  and  to  grant  that  truth,  justice  and  benevolence,  and 
pure  and  undefiled  religion  may  universally  prevail.'' 

And  did  thereby  further  recommend  "to  all  the  people  of  these 
states  to  assemble  for  publick  worship,  and  abstain  from  labour  on 
the  said  day." 


222        NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.      [1781 

I  have  therefore  thought  fit,  by  and  with  the  advice  of  the  Honour- 
able the  Privy  Council  of  this  state,  in  pursuance  of  the  said  Procla- 
mation, as  well  as  from  a  deep  sense  of  the  pious  duty  thereby  recom- 
mended, to  appoint  Thursday,  the  said  third  day  of  May  next,  to 
be  observed  as  a  day  of  Humiliation,  Fasting  and  Prayer  throughout 
this  state,  in  the  manner,  and  for  the  purposes  in  the  said  Procla- 
mation mentioned ;  and  do  hereby  recommend  it  to  the  Ministers  of 
the  Gospel  of  every  denomination  in  this  state  to  perform  divine 
service,  and  to  the  people  committed  to  their  charge  to  attend  on 
public  worship  on  the  said  day,  and  to  abstain  thereon  from  all 
servile  labour  and  recreations  inconsistent  with  the  duties  and 
solemnity  thereof. 

Given  under  my  hand  and  seal  at  arms,  at  Trenton,  this 
twenty-eighth  day  of  March,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one 
thousand  seven  hundred  and  eighty-one,  and  in  the  fifth  of  the 
Independence  of  the  United  States  of  America. 

WIL.  LIVINGSTON. 
By  His  Excellency's  command, 

BOWES  REED,  Sec'ry. 

GOD  SAVE  THE  PEOPLE. 

We  hear,  that  the  Honourable  the  Congress  of  the  United  States 
have  agreed  to  recommend  to  each  of  the  States  immediately  to  sus- 
pend or  repeal  all  tender  laws,  from  a  conviction  of  their  injurious 
effects,  not  only  upon  our  paper  money  itself,  but  upon  the  agriculture, 
commerce  and  morals  of  our  country. 

On  Sunday,  the  18th.  inst.  departed  this  life,  after  a  long  continued 
illness,  the  Reverend  John  Brainerd,  Pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  church 
at  Deerfield,  New-Jersey,  in  the  62d  year  of  his  age ;  and  on  the  Wed- 
nesday following,  his  remains,  attended  by  the  neighboring  Ministers 
and  a  numerous  concourse  of  people,  after  a  discourse,  well  adapted 
to  the  occasion,  had  been  delivered  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Sproat,  of  Phila- 
delphia, were  interred. 

The  memory  of  this  exemplary  worthy  man  of  God,  needs  no 
eulogium — it  will  long  be  endeared  by  all  who  had  the  happiness  of 
an  acquaintance  with  him,  in  the  various  relations  he  sustained. 

Let  it  therefore  suffice  to  say,  that  for  many  years  he  was  a  most 
laborious  Missionary  among  the  Indians — an  eminently  useful  Trustee 
of  New-Jersey  College, — he  excelled  in  recommending  religion  in  pri- 
vate conversation — was  distinguished  for  his  punctuality  and  Catholic 
spirit — a  most  tender  husband,  an  affectionate  father,  a  kind  master, 
and  a  generous  sincere  friend. 

He  died  with  great  calmness  and  serenity  of  spirit,  in  sweet  and 
certain  hopes  of  eternal  glory,  greatly  lamented  by  many  people  of 
various  denominations. 

"Blessed  are  the  dead,  that  die  in  the  Lord." 


1781]  NEWSPAPEK    EXTRACTS.  223 

TRENTON,  APRIL  4. 

Thursday  last  a  party  of  the  enemy  from  New- York  attempted  to 
carry  off  the  Honourable  Josiah  Hornblower,  Esq.  Speaker  of  the 
Assembly  of  this  state. — They  were  in  the  habit  of  peasants,  and 
personated  Jersey  militia.  In  this  manner  they  came  to  thd  ferry 
nearly  opposite  his  house  in  Essex  county,  and  called  for  the  boat, 
which  was  carried  over  to  them,  the  people  not  suspecting  their 
villainy.  The  ferryman,  on  his  arrival,  observed  G.  R.  on  their  car- 
touch  boxes,  and  therefore  on  his  return  with  some  address,  let  the 
boat  fall  down  stream  with  the  tide,  in  order  to  give  a  hint  to  Mr. 
Hornblower's  family  that  all  was  not  right.  This  had  the  desired 
effect ;  Mr.  Hornblower  escaped  out  of  the  back  door  a  few  minuits 
prior  to  their  coming  in  at  the  front.  Two  of  the  villains  pursued 
him  and  were  taken,  the  others  got  off,  after  making  Mr.  Hornblower's 
son-in-law,  Mr.  Cape,  prisoner — Who  has  since  returned  on  parole. 

I 

The  last  Post  from  Morris-Town  brought  no  Eastern  Papers,  the 
rider  having  been  made  prisoner  by  the  tories,  as  is  supposed,  in 
the  Clove,  and  carried  off  to  New-York  with  the  mail. 

Whereas  at  a  late  arbitration  held  between  Nicholas  Egbert  of  the 
one  part,  and  David  Cock  of  the  other,  both  of  Readington,  con- 
cerning a  black  mare ;  it  was  asserted  to  the  arbitrators  and  before 
a  large  number  of  spectators,  that  George  Alexander,  of  Flemington, 
had  sold  said  mare  to  Nicholas  Egbert,  of  Readington,  for  the  sum 
of  Fourteen  Pounds,  and  that  said  Alexander  had  said  he  could 
take  his  oath  of  it :  These  are  to  certify  to  whom  it  may  concern, 
that  the  subscriber  did  buy  the  mare  of  Joseph  Smith,  nailer,  of 
Flemington,  for  Twenty  Pounds,  and  is  able  to  prove  it  by  good 
evidence.  . 

NICHOLAS  EGBERT. 

Readington,  March  22,  1781. 

SPELLING-BOOKS 

By  the  Thousand,  Dozen  or  Single, 

To  Be  Sold, 
At  the  Printing-Office  in  Trenton, 

Also,  The 
Laws  of  the  last  Sitting. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

For  any  current  Money. 

A  Negro  Man  and  Woman  with  two  Children,  one  a  girl  two  years 
old ;  the  other  a  boy  on  the  breast.  They  will  be  sold  cheap  to  any 
person  who  will  take  the  family.  The  only  cause  of  selling  them  is 
the  owner's  wanting  to  lessen  his  family.  For  terms  and  particulars 
apply  to  Mr.  Abraham  Hunt,  Trenton,  or  the  owner  at  Bowhill  farm, 
Nottingham  township,  Burlington  county. 

RANDLE  MITCHELL. 


224  NEW    JERSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1T81 

WHEAT. 

A  quantity  of  good  merchantable  Wheat  is  wanted ;  for  which 
ready  money  will  be  given.  Inquire  of  the  Printer. 

By  the   United   States  in   Congress  assembled. 
A  PROCLAMATION. 

[For  this  Proclamation  appointing  Thursday,  May  3,  "as  a  day  of 
Humiliation,  Fasting  and  Prayer,"  see  Journals  of  Congress  under 
date  of  March  12,  1781.] 

From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  172,  April  11,  1781. 

Number  II 
Mr.  Collins, 

In  my  former  number  I  have  endeavoured  to  prescribe  some  remedies 
against  the  procuring  or  meritorious  cause  of  our  disease ;  will  now 
presume  to  offer  some  against  the  efficient  cause.  In  No.  Ill  of  my 
former  essays  I  have  laboured  to  shew  that  the  chief  was  the  depreciated 
state  of  our  currency,  with  the  different  authors  and  causes  of  it.  It 
has  afforded  me  much  pleasure  to  see  the  several  remedies,  prescribed 
for  its  cure,  applied  in  succession,  with  encouraging  success. — Commis- 
sions on  purchases  of  the  Quarter-Masters  and  Commissary  departments 
have  ceased — Those  departments  called  to  regular  settlements  of  accounts 
— Laws  enacted  against  forestalling. — Calls  by  Taxes  made  on  the  citizens 
for  the  support  of  the  w*,  the  money  press  stopped — Resolves  and  laws 
passed,  for  sinking  the  enormous  sum  of  continental  money,  at  its  current 
value ;  and  to  supply  its  place  by  new  emissions,  on  proper  and  safe 
funds  for  the  support  of  its  value. — Let  the  honest  among  those  who 
have  the  management  of  our  publick  affairs  now  say  whether  their  prop- 
pect  of  carrying  on  the  contest  is  not  much  more  encouraging  (notwith- 
standing the  yet  remaining  difficulties)  than  it  was  a  year  and  half  ago? 
Though  my  former  lucubrations  exposed  me  to  insult  'and  abuse ;  yet 
I  felt  happy,  in  a  consciousness  of  my  sincere  and  honest  pursuits  of  my 
country's  welfare ;  and  now  feel  an  additional  happiness,  in  seeing  the 
main  of  my  sentiments,  then  delivered,  justified  by  the  publick  and  general 
conduct  of  the  United  States.  Beholding  thus  my  dear  native  country 
emerge  from  the  labyrinth  of  ruin,  how  can  I  forbear  interesting  myself 
in  her  future  preservation  and  welfare?  I  therefore  hope  my  fellow- 
citizens  will  indulge  me  in  offering  some  important  remedies  against  a 
relapse  into  the  same,  or  a  worse  catastrophe,  which  I  shall  endeavor 
to  do,  with  like  liberty  and  candor.  These  preservatory  remedies  I  shall 
reduce  to  the  following  heads. 

1.  Let  every  friend  to  his  country  exert  himself  to  prevent  the  deprecia- 
tion of  the  new  currency.  The  necessity  of  this  is  so  well  attested,  that 
it  requires  no  farther  proof.  This  remedy  is  the  more  urgent,  as  numerous 
enemies  will  be  again  employed  for  the  base  purpose  of  depreciation. 
Government  has  made  use  of  probable  means  to  prevent  it,  and  give  the 
new  emissions  a  ready  circulation.  But  former  losses,  particularly  on 
outstanding  debts  and  distant  payments,  have  so  intimidated  the  com- 
munity, that  probably  necessary  precaution  will  deter  them  from  any 
trust,  unless  it  be  unavoidable.  I  submit  it  to  the  wisdom  of  the 
Legislature,  whether  an  additional  clause,  that  if  the  moncn  xhaulil  a. (join 
depreciate  ar/aiiift  fill  our  efforts,  -that  in  such  case  the  debtor  should  be 
oblifjed  to  pay  the  true  value  at  the  time  of  contraction,  would  not,  in 
some  measure,  remove  this  difficulty,  and  prove  a  bar  against  depreciators, 
who  have  found  it  greatly  to  their  interest,  in  paying  off  debts  with  a 
small  part  of  its  true  value.  If  any  such  or  a  similar  remedy  cannot 
provide,  we  must  bear  this  inconvenience  till  our  money  has  again  es- 
tablished its  credit.  Much  will  depend  upon  the  due  execution  of  the 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  225 

laws.  I  therefore  wish  to  see  the  example  of  some  counties  in  New- 
Jersey,  imitated  by  all  others,  namely,  that  some  prudent  and  judicious 
gentlemen,  of  approved  attachment  to  their  country,  associate  for  these 
purposes ;  and,  agreeable  to  their  pledged  honour,  to  promote,  without 
favour  or  affection,  the  due  execution  of  such  salutary  laws.  Such,  aids, 
added  to  the  small  quantity  which  is  to  be  in  circulation  ;  the  pledged 
faith  of  the  different  states  to  redeem  it  at  the  price  of  gold  and  silver  ; 
the  interest  it  bears,  which  will  induce  the  holders,  in  case  it  should  be 
undervalued,  to  preserve  it  until  so  redeemed,  which  will  still  diminish 
the  quantity,  and  again  force  an  appreciation  ;  I  say,  all  these  together, 
afford  a  well  founded  prospect,  of  the  preservation  of  its  value.  It  is 
undoubtedly  the  interest  of  every  citizen,  not  devoted  to  the  detestable 
business  of  speculation,  to  preserve  the  value  of  the  new  emissions. 
Let,  therefore,  every  one  freely  part  with  what  is  needed  and  he  can 
spare,  at  the  current  market  price.  Some  may  reply,  to.ries  who  have 
only  sold  for  hard  cash,  have  been  gainers.  I  answer,  if  whigs  had  not 
been  so  much  intoxicated  with  a  love  for  great  quantities  of  continental, 
tories  had  never  been  such  gainers. 

I  foresee  the  greatest  danger  from  the  gentlemen  merchants  and  trad- 
ers. The  cramped  and  dangerous  situation  of  the  American  trade,  affords 
them  so  great  an  opportunity  for  extortion.  Few  of  our  ports  are  open, 
and  therefore  a  vast  extent  of  country  must  resort  to  them.  Those 
from  a  distance  must  be  supplied,  let  the  price  be  what  it  may,  so  the 
extortionate  price,  becomes  the  current.  Those  of  one  state  must  be  sup- 
plied at  the  port  of  another.  The  money  of  this  state  is  no  legal  tender 
there ;  nor  are  the  laws  of  this  against  the  depreciation,  in  force  there. 
Perhaps  the  only  remedy  against  these  dangers  may  be,  Let  us  resolve, 
and  put  our  resolution  into  execution,  to  buy  nothing  but  what  is  a 
necessary  convenience  of  life,  and  be  as  frugal  as  possible  in  the  use  of 
that,  leave  all  the  rest  in  their  stores.  This  would  soon  teach  the 
extravagant,  frugality ;  make  the  extortioner  court  custom :  and  save 
millions  to  our  distressed  country.  And  if  the  merchants  of  those  ports, 
by  frivolous  pretences,  should  begin  to  under-value  the  money  of  neighbor- 
ing states,  then  it  will  behove  those  Legislatures  to  provide  effectual 
remedies.  'Per  example,  those  of  New-Jersey  might  effectually  provide 
for  itself  and  the  state  of  New-York.  Her  harbours  are  full  as  com- 
modious and  advantageous  as  those  of  Philadelphia,  in  such  case  she 
ought  at  all  events,  to  procure  her  necessary  importations,  and  prevent 
as  much  as  possible,  any  intercourse  with  those  merchants. 

Another  danger  is,  the  foreign  traders  bring  more  valuable  cargoes,  and 
as  the  articles  for  their  return,  are  more  scarce  than  heretofore,  more 
bulky  and  of  less  price,  these  gentlemen,  generally  keep  a  balance  of  our 
currency  in  their  hands ;  rather  than  entrust  it  to  the  care  of  others 
or  take  it  with  them,  they  will  give  more  than  the  current  exchange. 
This  immediately  becomes  a  precedent  to  others.  Though  it  is  not  to 
be  supposed,  that  foreign  merchants  would  choose  to  suffer  personal  in- 
convenience or  loss,  for  the  sake  of  our  publick  advantage ;  yet  these 
gentlemen,  while  here,  must  be  subject  to  our  laws,  and  ought  in  no 
wise  to  be  skreened  from  punishment,  in  a  matter  of  such  importance 
to  the  United  States. 

Here,  my  fellow  countrymen,  is  one  of  our  greatest  dangers.  O  !  that 
we  might  become  wise,  espy  our  danger,  and  prevent  it  while  in  em- 
power. 

2.  Another  such  remedy  I  conceive  to  be,  that  all  our  publick  measures 
are  so  conducted,  as  to  deprive  our  enemies,  as  much  ax  possible,  of  all 
hopes  of  conquest.  This  might  spare  millions  of  money,  and  oceans  of 
blood  ;  the  inseparable  concomitants  of  the  long  continuance  of  war.  On 
this  subject  our  most  serious  attention  ought  to  be  drawn. 
1.  To  the  Army.  It  seems  evident,  that  every  nerve  should  be  exerted, 
to  fill  the  respective  corps  by  inlistments  during  the  war,  to  their  full 
complement.  Inlistments  for  short  periods,  creates  an  enormous  expense  ; 
- — fills  the  lines  continelly  with  raw  and  undisciplined  troops ; — and 
leaves  the  commander  in  chief  frequently  in  sad  delemmas.  Such  cir- 
cumstances feed  our  enemies  with  sanguine  hopes,  that  they  will  sooner 

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or  later  prove  our  ruin.  Also  every  precaution  should  be  used  to  prevent 
all  wellfounded  and  just  causes  of  murmurs  and  complaints  in  the  army. 
No  promise  or  engagement  should  be  made  to  it,  but  what  was  possible 
to  perform,  and  punctually  accomplished.  I  conceive  it  as  a  matter  of 
importance  to  proper  military  discipline,  that  officers  treat  their  soldiers 
with  the  strictest  justice  and  humanity  ;  this  undoubtedly  affords  energy 
to  the  execution  of  martial  law,  and  creates  reverence  and  respect  instead 
of  hatred  and  malice  mixed  with  slavish  fear. — The  late  discontents  in 
our  army,  have  undoubtedly  afforded  our  enemies  additional  hopes  of 
its  dissolution,  and  of  course,  an  easy  conquest.  I  hope  such  disagreeable 
experience  will  teach  prudence  for  the  future. 

2.  No  less   than   the   army   does   the  accomplishment   of   our  solemn  con- 
sideration demand  our  most  serious  attention.      The  unaccountable   delay 
of  this   important   matter,    may    one   day   prove   of   fatal   disadvantage   to 
the  nation  :    and  our  enemies  probably  recollect  the  fate  of  the  seventeen 
United   Provinces,   in   their   struggles   for   Liberty   with   Spain ;     when  the 
intrigues  of  that  then  court  found  ways  and  means  to  draw  ten  of  them 
from  the  union,  and  again  subject  to  slavery  and  insupportable  miseries. 
And  when   the  height  of  debates,   concerning   the  interest   and   advantage 
of  particular  provinces,   infected  the  remaining  seven   to  such  a  degree, 
as   caused   insufferable    loss    and   eminent    danger    to   the    whole   nation — 
When   ever   the   heroick    Prince   of   Orange   was   almost   drove   to    despair, 
and   offered    to   resign   his    command    and    retire.      To    such    extremes    did 
paltry   views   of   particular   interests    reduce   such    a    people,    and   the   dis- 
tressing,  though  the  strongest  and  clearest   motives  of  self  preservation, 
urged  them  to  the  solemn  and  indissoluble  confederation  ;    which,  forever 
after,  has  proved  the  impregnable  bulwark  to  that   republick. — And  must 
the  same  bitter  root  of  particular  interest  produce  such  destruction  to  us? 
The   unjust   claims   of  one   state,    obstinately    maintained,    may    cost   that 
dear,   and  cause  the  others'to  partake  of  the  bitter  cup.      It  is  possible, 
that,  while  danger  lays  at  every  door,  members  of  one  state  can  persevere 
in  a  claim  at  such  dreadful  hazard ;    which,   if  obtained,  would  unavoid- 
ably cause  it  to  sink  under  the  weight  of  its  own  burthen.      I  wish  the 
accomplishment  of  this  important  matter  may  suffer  no   longer  delay,  as 
a  buoy  to  the  sinking  hopes  of  our  enemies.     Add  to  this, 

3.  The   want   of  necessary  power   in   the  collective   l)od.y   of   tJie  United 
States.     It  is  not  the  number  of  states  in  the  union,  or  o.f  their  delegates 
in    council,    which   can  procure   our   preservation    or   deliverance,    but   the 
power  and  alrilities  they  possess.     However  great  the  power  of  extensive 
America  may  be,  what  may  it  avail,  if  it  cannot  be  brought  to  a  neces- 
sary point,   to  frustrate  the  views  of   our  enemies?     However  great  our 
resources,  what  benefit  can  they  afford,  if  they  cannot  be  brought  forth 
for   a    seasonable   supply?      An   essential   defect   in    most   republicks    is   a 
want    of    necessary    power,    in    their    representative    body,    which    causes 
dilatory   operations,    and  frequently   pernicious   consequences   to    the   com- 
monwealth.     Of  all   others  ;     the  American   republick  seems   to  have  neg- 
lected  this   leading   principal,    in    their   constitution :      While    every    state 
has    been    engaged    in    its    own,    the    general    one    has    been    neglected. 
And  I  am  ifully  persuaded,  that  this  is  the  chief  cause  of  our  most  dis- 
tressing calamities.      It   is  true,   we  have  a  Congress,   a  Council  of  the 
United    States.      But    are    they    much    more   than    a    mere   Council.      The 
acts   of   that   august   body  have  often   raised  in   my   mind  the   idea   of  a 
strange   novel    in    the   political    world.      They    say,    be    it    resolved,    that 
such   and   such    things   be    recommended   to   the    respective    states.      Then 
if  a  mere  majority  in  either  branch  of  any  Legislature  gives  a  negative 
upon  the  measure,  ten  to  one,  if  the  whole  is  not  void,  however  neces- 
sary   it    may    be.      Beside    the    pernicious    delays,    which    attend    such    a 
course   of   business,   the  different   Legislatures   cannot   possibly   be  compe- 
tent to  judge  of  matters,  elsewhere  debated  upon  proper  materials.      A 
want  of  necessary  power  in  Congress  may  endanger  the  chain   of  union. 
For   instance,    Congress   has    parcelled   out   to   the    different    states,    their 
respective  quotas  of  supplies  for  the  support  of  the  war.      Suppose  one, 
two,    or   three    states,    on    some   pretended   excuses,    refused    to    comply1,, 
what    then?    must    the    others    make    up    their    deficiencies,    or    must    the 
army  suffer,   disband,   and  the  country  be  lost?     It  seems  evident,   that 


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every  department  in  an  empire,  ought  to  enjoy  such,  powers  as  are 
necessary  for  the  discharge  of  its  offices  for  the  good  of  the  community. 
Therefore  all  such  powers  as  belong  to  the  policy  or  good  and  wholesome 
government  of  each  Individual  state,  ought  to  be,  and  remain  unalien- 
able.  But  the  powers  by  which  the  general  matters  and  concerns  of 
the  empire  are  to  be  managed,  ought  to  be  lodged  in  Congress,  agree- 
able to  such  general  outlines,  particulars  ought  to  be  squared.  It  may 
be  said,  it  is  dangerous  to  entrust  Congress  with,  too  much  power.  I 
answer,  what  is  too  much?  what  is  necessary  for  the  well-being  and 
safety  of  the  whole,  cannot  be  too  much.  Why  is  such  power  more  dan- 
gerous in  Congress,  than  in  the  respective  Legislatures?  are  not  its 
members  annually  elected  from  among  our  citizens,  daily  liable  to  mix 
again  with  them  in  the  private  stations  of  life  ;  and  so  become  again 
one  with  them?  or  is  it  because  the  Legislatures,  and  not  the  people, 
appoint  them :  Then  the  danger  originates  from  the  Legislatures?  If 
so,  it  might  be  remedied  by  dividing  each  state  into  circles,  and  the 
people  themselves  to  appoint  their  delegates.  This  objection  therefore 
rather  insinuates  some  secret  views,  than  real  danger.  To  Congress 
ought  to  belong  the  disbursement  of  the  publick  finances- ;  but  a  suffi- 
cient check  against  danger  here,  would  be,  that  the  different  states 
had  a  free  and  incontrolable  right, — to  inspect  the  national  accounts, 
to  instruct  their  delegates,  and  to  impeach  and  punish  them  for  mal- 
administration. 

The  chain  of  my  ideas  has  already  led  me  into  lengths,  which  for- 
bids me  to  proceed  at  present.  I  remain,  Sir,  &c. 

Feb.  8,  1781.  A  TRUE  PATRIOT. 

AN  ORDINANCE, 

Relative   to   the   Capture   and   Condemnation  of  Prizes. 
[For  this  Ordinance,  see  Journals  of  Congress.] 

FOR  THE  NEW-JERSEY  GAZETTE. 

To  Homo  Sum. 
Sir, 

In  your  piece  on  the  subject  af  slavery  you  are  pleased  to  take  it  for 
granted  that  it  is  injustice  to  continue  our  Negroes  in  their  present 
state,  and  assert  that  of  this  opinion  are  two  gentlemen  who  some  time 
since,  in  this  paper,  wrote  against  a  law  for  their  manumission.  Their 
performances  are  now  before  me,  and  I  must  beg  leave  to  inform  you, 
I  do  not  find  they  give  up  this  point.  One  of  them,  indeed,  after  adduc- 
ing several  arguments  to  exculpate  those  who,  possess  slaves  among 
us  from  the  charge  of  injustice,  in  this  respect,  says,  he  wishes  not  to 
contend  for  the  justice  of  retaining  our  Africans  in  vassalage ;  and, 
rfor  argument  sake  doubtless,  permits  his  readers,  if  they  "please,"  to 
conclude  that  justice'  demands  their  liberation,  that  he  might  next  shew 
the  impolicy  of  freeing  them  at  present.  This  is  all,  Sir,  from  which 
you  could  have  formed  the  idea  above  expressed.  But  as  you  are  "an 
old  man,"  and  depended  on  your  memory  only,  I  can  readily  apologize 
for  the  mistake.  Thus  erring,  you  did  not  I  suppose,  think  it  material 
to  combat  any  of  their  arguments  on  this  head,  but  proceed  to  censure 
them  because  they  can  not  now  consent  to  the  emancipation  of  our 
Negroes.  With  what  propriety  you  compare  these  writers  to  Felix,  a 
man  selfrconvicted  of  guilt,  and  who,  notwithstanding,  impiously;  pro- 
crastinated his  repentence,  I  will  not  enquire ;  nor  yet  will  I  examine 
into  the  justness  of  your  unreserved  declaration,  that  "much  the  greater 
part  of  mankind  were  nuide  of  a  different  complexion  with  us  :" — or, 
as  I  imagine  you  meant,  that  "much  the  greater  part  o.f  mankind  at 
present  are  black,"  for  if  it  was  granted  they  are  a  little  swarthy  or 
not  perfectly  white,  it  would  not  be  anything  to  your  purpose.  The 
expression  is  certainly  very  harmless  in  the  present  dispute,  and  if 
it  does  not  injure  yourself  it  cannot  hurt  any  other  one.  But  I  will 
take  the  liberty  to  animadvert  on  the  other  parts  of  your  "scrawl,"  as 
you  condescend  to  call  it. 


228         XEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1781 

We  are  informed  you  do  not  desire  an  "immediate  liberation  of  our 

Negroes." No.  A  Score  or  two  of  years  are  to  elapse  first.  But  why 

so?  To  obviate,  at  once,  all  the  "reasonings"  of  those  who  fear  their 
present  release  would  be  attended  with  pernicious  consequences  to  the 
state.  Not  that  to  free  them  then,  without  satisfying  their  owners  for 
their  undoubtedly  lawful  property,  would  be  less  unconstitutional  at 
that  period  than  now.  You  do  not  seem  to  entertain  an  opinion  that, 
in  either  case,  our  Assembly,  should  they  grant  the  request,  would 
deviate  from  their  line  of  duty,  or  trespass  on  our  rights.  I  am  really 
grieved  that  so  respectable  a  character  should  be  so  unacquainted  with 

our  principles  of  liberty ; but  perhaps  we  are  in  duty  bound  to 

attribute  this  defect  also  to  a  decayed  mciiinri/.  I  could  wish,  however, 
before  you  design  to  write  again  on  the  subject,  you  would  refresh  your 
powers  of  recollection,  by  an  attentive  perusal  of  our  constitution.  If 
you  do  so,  I  am  persuaded  you  will  not  again  propose  the  example  of 
the  state  o.f  Pennsylvania  in  this  case,  as  most  worthy  to  be  copied 
after  by  us.  And  also,  that  you  will  not  think  it  a  trifling  thing  for 
individuals,  in  this  manner,  to  be  deprived  of  their  legal  proper!  it. 

Shall  I  remind  you  of  the  principles  on  which,  with  so  much  justice 
and  wisdom,  we  opposed  the  (in  itself)  contemptible  duty  laid  by  Great- 
Britain  on  her  tea? Whether  the  masters  of  slaves  could  afford  their 

loss  or  not,  I  need  not  observe  to  you,  that  this  is  not  the  question. 
If  the  Almighty  is  offended  with  us  for  keeping  slaves,  would  he  be 
pleased  with  an  act  which  should  liberate  them  at  the  expense  of  fraud 
and  injustice?  Such  a  sacrifice  would  be  most  disgustful,  I  believe, 
to  the  God  of  justice  and  holiness  :  And  are  we  compelled  to  offer  such 
incense  to  the  Divine  Majesty?  Let  our  oblation  then,  o.f  this  kind, 
be  offered  up  by  the  hands  of  justice,  at  least,  if  nationally,  and  with 
sincerity,  piety  and  low,  if  individually.  As  you  have  been  happily 
convinced  of  the  iniquity,  of  detaining  Negroes  in  thraldom,  it  cannot 
be  doubted  but  the  moment  you  signed  the  petition  fer  their  release, 
with  a  proper  disposition,  you  freed  every  one  of  them  in  your  posses- 
sion :  And  if  it  was  unjust  for  you  to  hold  them  in  captivity  a  few 
months  ago,  it  was  so  seventy  or  eighty  years  since ;  and  I  conclude 
also  that  you  have  duly  stated  the  account  of  their  service  and  your 
expense,  and  faithfully  paid  them  the  balance,  if  any  there  was  in  their 
[favour.  To  this  I  have  no  objection  ;  nor  do  I  object  that  your  vener- 
able example,  in  this  instance,  should  be  imitated  by  every  slave  holder 
in  the  state,  provided  this  practice  shall  be  approved  by  our  legislators, 
and  be  for  the  emolument  of  our  Africans.  Nor  would  I  in  any  manner 
blame  you,  yourself  being  persuaded  to  preserve  others  others  in  slavery 
is  a  vice,  were  you  with  great  zeal  to  address  the  consciences  o.f  the 
proprietors  of  slaves,  and  endeavour  to  cause  them  to  forsake  a  practice 
which  you  deem  sinful.  And  permit  me  to  say,  I  am  clearly  of  the  senti- 
ment that  this,  or  something  similar  to  it,  is  All  that  would  become 
you,  or  any  others,  to  do  in  the  matter :  This  is  your  tie  plibs  ultra1: 
Petitioning  the  Assembly,  in  your  strain,  betrays  things  in  you  that  I 
do  not  choose  to  mention  lest  I  offend. 

Being  now  proselyted  by  your  petition,  you  think  the  dignity  of  the 
state  is  interested  in  the  immeilintc  passing  a  law  for  the  abolition  of 
slavery.  But,  would  a  solemn  act  of  publick  Robbery,  or  Fraud  increase 
our  Dignity  ?  Such  is  the  act  I  presume,  you  request  of  the  Assembly  ; 
but,  inadvertently,  you  have  petitioned  for  it,  I  hope,  and  until  I  can 
be  convinced  that  such  a  law  would  do  us  Honour,  you  will  think  me 
justifiable  in  opposing  it,  though  I  cannot  believe  it  will  be  necessary 
for  me,  or  any  one,  to  say  much  on  the  subject. 

Having  wrote  thus  far,  I  again  read  your  publication,  and  you  will 
pardon  me  when  I  say,  I  saw  nothing  more  in  it  worthy  of  attention, 
except  that  from  its  first  to  its  last  letter,  you  conceit  it  is  sinful  to 
retain  our  blacks  in  a  state  of  servitude,  and  that  your  proposed  law, 
would  be  just ;  hut  with  respect  to  all  those  who  do  not  agree  wiflh 
you  in  these  things,  the  arguments,  or  observations  deduced  from  them, 
can  have  no  weight,  and  to  others  they  are  needless.  Before  I  conclude, 
however,  let  me  remark,  that  as  the  petition  you  have  annexed  to  your 
performance,  does  not  in  the  opinion  of  some  men,  contain  a  syllable 


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to  prove  the  injustice  of  detaining  our  slaves  in  service,  or  that  it 
would  be  just  for  the  Assembly  to  grant  its  prayer,  (whatever  senti- 
ments the  paper  may  contain,  by  implication,  reflecting,  in  part,  on 
the  justice  of  the  divine  government,  administered  to  the  people  of 
Israel)  these  persons  are  tempted  to  suspect  your  sincerity,  and  to 
doubt  whether,  in  fact,  you  are  "an  old  man,"  who  "has  had  negroes 
ever  since  you  had  property  of  your  o"wn."  They  are  inclined  to  be- 
lieve this  whole  story,  and  the  account  of  your  conversion,  to  be  a  stroke 
of  art ;  a  device  to  embellish  your  work,  and  give  it  a  good  grace ; 
but  I  will  not  be  so  rude  ;  I  will  not  hesitate  to  believe  you  are  aged, 
very  old  indeed,  so  far  advanced  in  years  that  there  shall  not  be  any 
one,  who  thus  thinks  with  me,  but  will  highly  commend  my  noticing 
you,  and  with  so  much  respect,  had  it  been  in  consideration  of  your 
age  only,  which  is  always  to  be  honoured. 

I  am,  respectfully,  and  shall,  in  future,  be  proud, 
Sir,   to  be  employed  in  your  service. 

TRUTH  ET  JUSTICE. 

CHATHAM,  April  4. 

On  Tuesday  night  the  27th  ult.  about  200  regulars  and  refugees 
from  Staten-Island,  under  the  command  of  Major  Beckwith,  who  had 
eluded,  by  circuitous  routes,  the  vigilance  of  the  different  patroles, 
entered  Elizabeth-Town  in  four  divisions,  where  they  captured  ten 
of  the  inhabitants,  one  Lieutenant  and  three  privates  of  the  state 
troops,  and  two  continental  soldiers.  They  stayed  about  an  hour 
and  a  half  in  town,  and  then  retreated,  with  the  loss  of  one  man 
killed  and  another  taken  prisoner.  They  plundered  the  house  of  Mr. 
Joseph  Crane  to  a  very  considerable;  amount. 

On  Monday  night,  the  2Gth  ult.  a  detachment  of  eight  men,  from  the 
state  troops  in  Elizabeth-Town,  went  over  to  Staten-Island  and 
brought  off  a  Lieutenant  and  one  private  of  the  militia.  They  took 
two  more,  but  the  wind  blowing  fresh,  and  their  boat  small,  incapaci- 
tated them  so  much  that  they  could  not  bring  them  over. 

MR.  JOHN  STAATS, 

Having  removed  from  this  state,  and  some  of  his  accounts  remaining 
unsettled,  Notice  is  hereby  given  to  all  persons  who  have  any  de- 
mands against  him,  to  bring  their  accounts  to  the  subscribers,  in 
Somerset  county,  for  settlement. 

JOHN  SCHENK, 
NICHOLAS  FERINE. 
Millstone,  April  7,  1781. 

TO  COVER, 

The  Ensuing  Season, 

At   the   Plantation   of  Robert   Crage  in   Hunterdon   county, 

near  New-Germantown, 

The  Famous  Horse 

YOUNG  LOFTY, 
Out  of  a  Dawson  Mare. 

Young  Lofty  is  a  jet  black,  has  a  star,  snip  and  one  white  foot; 
full  fifteen  and  a  half  hands  high,  and  will  cover  at  the  low  rate  of 


NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION. 

Five  Bushels  of  wheat  the  season.  He  was  got  by  the  noted  horse 
Old  Lofty.  It  is  needless  to  mention  any  thing  farther  in  regard  to 
his  pedigree,  as  it  is  to  be  seen  at  his  stand. 

[Later  advertisements  similar  to  the  foregoing  will  be  noted  by 
giving  merely  the  names  of  the  horse,  locality  and  advertiser. — A.  S.] 

Morris  county,  March  24,  1781. 

Whereas  inquisition  has  sbeen  found,  and  final  judgment  entered 
thereon,  as  the  Act  of  Assembly  of  the  state  of  New-Jersey  directs, 
against  John  Hutchison,  for  forfeiting  his  allegiance  to  the  state,  and 
the  United  States, — This  is  to  give  notice,  that  all  the  real  and  per- 
sonal estate  that  did  belong  to  the  said  Hutchison  in  this  county,  will 
be  sold  at  publick  vendue  on  Tuesday  the  first  day  of  May  next,  to  be 
held  at  the  house  that  did  belong  to  the  said  offender,  at  twelve  of 
the  clock  on  said  day ;  which  are  as  follows, — An  excellent  Farm, 
containing  upwards  of  200  acres,  on  which  he  lived,  in  the  township 
of  Hanover,  and  two  other  tracts  of  land  lying  on  Rockaway  river, 
which  are  valuable,  and  Household  stuff  and  Farming  Utensils.  All 
which  will  be  sold  for  ready  money  by  us, 

DA,VID  THOMSON,  ~|     Commig. 

ALEX.  CARMICHAEL,     \      . 

AARON  KITCH  EL, 

N.  B.  All  persons  that  have  any  just  demands  against  said  John 
Hutchison  are  desired  *to  make  it  appear  before  the  Judges  of  the 
Court  of  Common  Pleas  as  soon  as  the  sales  are  over,  that  they  may 
be  settled.  And  all  persons  that  are  indebted  to,  or  that  has  any  of 
the  effects  of  the  said  Hutchison  in  their  possession,  to  pay  and  de- 
liver up  the  same,  by  the  said  day  of  vendue  to  the  commissioners. 


TO  BE  SOLD, 
An  excellent  Negro  Wench  33  years  old, 

for  whom  new  state  bills  will  be  taken.  Inquire  of  William  Harring- 
ton, Bethlehem  township,  near  Boskirk's  tavern,  Hunterdon  county, 

New-Jersey. 

STRAYED  OR  STOLEN, 
From  the  stable  of  George  Brown,  in  Trenton, 

A  Black  Horse,  11  years  old,  14  hands  high,  hog  backed,  and  has 
some  saddle  marks  thereon,  shod  before,  and  a  natural  pacer.  Who- 
ever takes  up  the  said  horse,  and  delivers  him  to  the  subscriber  at 
Bell  Mount,  or  to  George  Brown,  aforesaid,  shall  have  Two  Hundred 
Dollars  reward,  and  all  reasonable  charges,  paid  by 

GEORGE  EKENSWALLER. 
April  6,  1781. 


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Wanted  immediately, 
A  PAPER-MAKER, 

Who  is  industrious,  and  understands  his  business  well,  to  whom  good 
wages  will  be  given  by  the  subscriber  at  his  paper-mill  near  Allen- 
town,  in  Monmouth  county,  New-Jersey. 

WILLIAM  TAPSCOT. 

[Horse  Selim,  Somerset  Co. — Jacob  Vandoren.] 

From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  173,  April  18,  1781. 

Number  III. 
Mr.   Collins, 

In  my  last  I  have  endeavoured  to  shew  the  dangerous  want  of  suffi- 
cient power  in  Congress. — Perhaps  some  of  my  readers  Will  be  some 
what  surprized  at  my  pleading  for  giving  more  power  to  a  body,  whose 
proceedings  I  Lad  before  shewn  to  have  been  exceptionable  in  several 
respects.  But  let  my  readers  refle'ct  upon  the  hint  in  5th  particular 
under  the  subject  of  mis-rule  of  government,  No.  Ill,  and  they  will 
find  my  sentiments  then  the  same.  Tho'  I  fear  there  have  been  some  bad 
members  in  that  honourable  assembly,  yet  I  doubt  not  but  there  have  been 
full  as  bad,  if  not  worse,  in  the  legislature.  If  so,  ought  therefore  neither 
to  have  sufficient  power  for  the  purposes  of  their  appointment?  And  I  am 
satisfied,  that  many  defaults  of  government  are  either  ascribed  to  Con- 
gress, where  Legislatures  were  to  be  blamed  ;  or  that  the  want  of  proper 
power  in  Congress  has  been  the  true  cause.  And  I  really  and  sincerely 
fear,  if  this  evil  in  the  constitution  of  the  government  of  this  empire 
is  not  redressed,  we  will  still  more  repent  it.  Every  republick,  partic- 
ularly an  extensive  one,  must  sink  under  the  burthen  of  its  own  weight, 
except  the  distant  powers  are  sufficiently  .collected  to  support  it.  The 
contracted  republick  of  Holland  could  not  have  supported  itsself  had 
it  not  been  for  their  solemn  confederation ;  on  which  the  powers  of 
their  States  General  depend.  In  consequence  of  which  I  remember  to 
have  read,  that  at  one  time,  the  province  of  Utrecht  refusing  to  bring 
up  their  quota  of  money  for  the  common  cause,  the  States  General 
ordered  their  army  into  that  province  and  forced  a  compliance.  Which, 
however  disagreeable,  appears,  in  case  of  unreasonable  obstinacy,  abso- 
lutely necessary  for  the  preservation  o.f  the'  whole.  And  there  seems 
the  same  reasons,  and  no  more  danger,  for  the  different  states  to  sub- 
mit such  general  powers  to  Congress,  than  there  is  for  the  different 
counties  to  submit  theirs  to  the  Legislature  of  the  state.  These  mat- 
ters I  suggest  from  a  mere  concern  for  the  well  being  o.f  my  country. 
I  have  not  the  least  concern  or  correspondence  with  any  member  in 
Congress  ;  and  my  circumstances  in  life  are  such  that  I  have  not  the 
least  distant  prospect  of  ever  becoming  one  of  its  members.  My  coun- 
try's welfare  is  my  darling  object.- — To  the  former  two  capital  remedies 
I  add, 

3.  That  government  enact  laws,  and  eweeute  them  \oith  spirit,  for  curb- 
in-ff  the  pernicious  effects  of  malicious  •ni'Ocliina-tiO'ns  affainst  the  states, 
and  the  preservation  of  good  or(ferf  and  the  property  of  its  subjects. 
This  is  the  very  life  and  source  of  vigour  to  civil  society  in  a  time  of 
danger ;  and  the  reverse  unavoidably  leads  into  decay.  All  nations  in 
all  ages  afford  demonstrative  evidences  in  support  of  this  observation. 
— If  our  laws  are  insufficient  for  thes-e  salutary  purposes,  my  knowledge 
is  not  sufficient  to  point  out  the  defects.  But  the  executive  powers 
will  be  pleased  to  pardon  me,  if  I  make  bold  to  offer  some  remarks  on 
matters  of  their  department. 

As  to  courts  o.f  justice,  the  general  clamours  of  their  supposed  neg- 
lect affords  me  pain.  I  wish  there  may  be  no  foundation  for  the  gen- 
eral rumor,  That  when  culprits,  guilty  of  the  most  heinous  crimes  against 


•2:\-l  NEW    JERSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

the  state,  are  apprehended,  they  generally  escape,  or  trial,  or  piiiii-tlniin-Ht 
after  trial.  If  these  assertions  are  true,  they  are  undoubtedly  alarm- 
ing to  the  community.  For  the  very  end  and  purpose  for  which  the 
subjects  have  yielded  many  of  there  inherent  rights  to  government,  and 
pledged  their  allegiance  to  them,  was  for  the  preservation  of  their 
peace  and  property :  if  therefore  government  permits  individuals  to 
disturb  either  of  them,  they  betray  their  trust;  become  accessary  to 
1ho  crime;  and  by  receiving  their  pay  for  a  principal  business  neglect  ni. 
rob  the  publick.  These  generals,  applied  to  particulars,  shew,  that  if 
a  culpret  escapes  before  trial,  government  is  answerable  for  it  to  the 
community.  The  publick  is  at  the  expense  of  prisons,  and  what  belongs 
to  sa.fe  keeping  of  prisoners  ;  but  of  the  safe  keeping  itsself  is  committed 
to  the  respective  government  departments,  and  therefore  the  community 
lias  a  right  to  demand  justice,  and  not  permit  themselves  to  be  parried 
off  with  trifling  excuses.  Under  these  may  lurk  abandoned  villany.  If 
a  culpret  is  tried,  and  the  penalties  of  the  laws  not  adjudged  or  executed 
according  to  the  crimes  or  guilt,  which  lay  within  the  power  of  the 
court  to  know,  this  constitutes  a  greater  misdemeanor.  If  a  court 
should  be  inclined  to  favour  a  prisoner  at  the  bar,  they  may  easily  omit 
some  responsible  evidences,  or  so  manage  fhem  as  t6  prevent  the  jurors' 
virdict  against  him,  though  guilty.  I  do  not  lay  this  to  the  charge  of 
any  court  proceedings  among  us ;  I  declare  to  have  no  sufficient  reasons 
for  such  charge,  but  I  hint  it  as  a  warning.  The  suspicions  of  many 
in  the  community  are  awake  to  criminal  proceedings  ;  as  to  their  true 
causes  I  am  not  competent  to  judge.  If  there  should  be  any  real  founda- 
tion for  such  murmurs.  God  forbid  it  should  proceed  from  bribes :  I 
rather  would  suppose  they  would  have  proceeded  from  a  notion,  that 
punishing  one  or  two  leaders  in  a  gang  as  a  terror  to  the  rest,  is  suffi- 
cient. But  it  is  evident,  that  this  belongs  to  the  legislature  to  judge 
of,  not  the  court.  That  imist  take  the  law  as  it  is.  and  by  all  due  and 
proper  means  execute  it,  without  any  pretense  to  judge  of  its  right  or 
wrong.  For  in  such  case,  the  execution  of  every  law  might  be  suspended  ; 
because  the  court  might  judge  it  improper.  What  then  would  become 
of  the  state?  I  clearly  conceive  that  any  judge,  proceeding  upon  such 
principles,  deserves  to  be  removed  from  his  office.  Moreover,  I  think 
su&h  a  notion  is  e-vicfiently  icron-g.  For  view  this  in  another  case — Sol- 
diers enlist  in  the  army,  being  encouraged  by  their  bounty,  pay,  and 
rations  ;  they  know  they  enter  upon  danger  ;  if  they  knew  their  officers, 
who  lead  them  on,  would  only  be  aimed  at,  they  would  think  their  dan- 
ger less :  But  if  every  soldier  expected  inevitable  death  if  he  was  to 
be  led  against  the  enemy,  wh,o  would  be  got  to  enlist?  Just  so  with  such 
gang.  Their  object  is  enticing,  and  are  encouraged  by  a  per/taps  they 
may  escape ;  and  if  they  are  apprehended,  every  one  hopes  he  will  be. 
among  the  number  that  will  escape  punishment.  But  If  every  one  ap- 
prehended, guilty  of  a  capital  crime,  was  duly  punished,  and  none 
escaped;  who  would  be  encouraged  to  venture? — Therefore,  may  our 
courts  of  justice,  in  this  critical  day,  be  impartially  engaged  to  prose- 
cute offenders  according  to  the  laws  of  their  country  !  And,  my  fellow- 
citizens,  be  cautious,  and  not  believe  ungrounded  surmises,  or  propo- 
gate  them  to  the  prejudice  of  an  institution  so  necessary,  and  useful 
to  civil  society.  If  friends  to  their  country  find  reasons  for  suspicion, 
let  them  investigate  the  matter,  and  prosecute  it  to  effect.  Your  own 
representatives  are  bound  to  redress  your  grievances. 

As  to  courts-martial,  it  is  obvious  how  much  the  peace  and  safety  of 
both  army  and  nation,  in  time  of  war,  depend  upon  the  due  and  impar- 
tial execution  of  those  laws.  The  depravity  of  human  nature,  influenced 
by  selfish  principles  and  views,  expose  the  gentlemen,  to  whom  the  exe- 
cution of  these  laws  is  committed,  to  the  danger  of  partiality  in  the 
abuse  of  their  power,  or  neglect  of  their  duty.  A  possession  of  power, 
particularly  in  those  unaccustomed  to  it,  too  generally  creates  a  haughty, 
domineering  disposition,  which  is  a  strong  temptation  to  overlook  the 
rights  of  non-commissioned  individuals  ;  and  where-ever  such  a  disposi- 
tion obtains  sway  in  free  popular  states,  pernicious  consequences  to 
the  publick  must  ensue.  Another  danger  is,  when  officers  are  impeached 
by  the  community,  or  non-commissioned  citizens ;  those  who  are  to 


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judge  are  evidently  exposed  to  the  hazard  of  prejudice  in  favour  of 
their  commissions  :  And  from  this  hazard  proceeds  the  general  jealousy, 
respecting  such  judicial  proceedings,  in  the  community,  both  with  re- 
spect to  the  army  and  the  military  affairs  of  the  militia.  And  therefore 
it  is  of  the  highest  importance  to  the  peace  and  confidence  o£  the  citizens 
at  large,  that  all  such  trials  are  conducted  with  all  possible  and  demon- 
strative evidences  of  ingenuous  impartiality.  If  culprets  are  permitted 
to  escape  just  punishment,  it  evidently  encourages  pernicious  practices 
in  every  military  department,  and  creates  suspicions  of  all  such  proceed- 
ings ;  so  that  _the  characters  of  truly  innocents,  acquitted  from  false  as- 
persions by  courts  suspected  of  partiality,  often  suffer  in  the  esteem  of 
their  country.  Hence  is  evident,  that  the  strict  and  impartial  execu- 
tion of  justice  in  these  courts  is  of  groat  importance,  as  well  for  the 
due  preservation  of  the  characters  connected  with  them,  as  for  the  good 
of  society.  Where  is  a  friend  to  his  country,  whose  feelings  are  not 
wounded,  when  he  reflects  that  Benedict  Arnold  had  been  impeached,  and 
honourably  acquitted  by  a  court-martial :  and  now,  after  his  attested 
treason,  to  hear  it  generally  allowed  that  the  charges  then  alledged 
against  him  were  true?  To  observe  a  Director-General  honourably  ac- 
quitted, and  that  acquittal  inveighed  against  with,  many  plausible  r<';i- 
sons,  as  procured  by  unfair  and  partial  proceedings?  To  see  a  militia 
General  publickly  defend  a  field  officer  suspected  of  misconduct,  whom 
general  report  assert  to  have  not  then  acted  under  his  immediate  cog- 
nizance, and  previous  to  any  trial.  Must  not  any  subsequent  court,  ap- 
pointed under  the  direction  of  that  General  for  the  trial  of  such  an 
officer,  become  liable  to  suspicions?  I  need  not  shew  how  exceeding  per- 
nicious such  suspicions  are  to  us,  particularly  in  our  present  circum- 
stances. 

4.  Another  capital  remedy  is,  Let  our  legislature  be  truly  and  zealously 
engaged  to  investigate  and  redress  every  grievance  of  the  people.  I  say, 
let  the  legislature  do  this,  because  they  are  the  representatives  of  the 
people ;  the  source  of  our  civil  and  military  powers :  And  therefore 
such  as  neglect  or  abuse  them  •  are  responsible  to  those  who  have  en- 
trusted them  with  these  powers  ;  and  to  those  alone  have  the  people  to 
apply  for  redress.  The  Parliaments  of  England,  while  no  minions  of 
the  Crown,  have  at  all  times  proved  the  bulwarks,  in  that  nation,  against 
the  corruptions  of  the  court.  And  in  our  states  they  are  entrusted  with 
these  powers,  for  those  valuable  purposes.  Hence  a  redress  of  grievances 
is  one  important  branch  of  their  business.  And  I  feel  confident,  if  our 
legislature  was  to  take  up  ten  or  twelve  weeks  in  inquiring  into  the 
causes  of  the  present  murmurs  and  complaints,  and  redressing  them, 
they  would  do  their  constituents  infinitely  more  service  than  in  passing 
a  number  of  laws.  Let  them  begin  in  their  own  body,  and  make  the 
neglect  and  misconduct  of  former  legislatures  lessons  for  amendment  to 
themselves. — Let  them  proceed  to  Congress,  and  examine  what  evils  have 
proceeded  from  a  defect  of  the  national  constitution ;  what  from  the 
mis  management  In  Congress ;  what  from  the  officers  of  Congress. 
Whether  the  expenditures  of  publick  monies  have  been  properly  ac- 
counted for ;  if  not,  what  the  reasons  are  ?  Whether  proper  ways  and 
means  are  provided  to  bring  publick  defaulters  to  condign  punishment? 
— Whether  proper  supplies  for  the  army  are  contracted  for,  both  at 
home  and  abroad;  if  not,  what  the  causes  may  be?  Whether  there  is 
any  ground  for  the  surmises,  that  a  quantity  of  clothing  for  the  army 
has  beene  purchased  in  France  above  a  year  ago,  for  the  payment  o.f 
which  bills  have  been  drawn,  which  remains  there,  and  our  army  suf- 
fering, while  continental  vessels  have  returned  from  thence,  perhaps 
loaded  with  private  property?  If  such  surmises  are  not  true,  the  publick 
should  be  undeceived.  If  true,  it  Is  an  Insufferable  grievance ;  which  if 
patiently  bore,  and  no  way  to  redress  or  punish  the  authors,  argues  our 
nation  to  be  in  a  most  wretched  condition.  Let  them  return  to  the 
different  departments  of  their  own  internal  government ;  not  wait  for 
complaints ;  the  general  murmurs  and  discontents  of  the  people  are 
sufficient.  The  most  honest  and  disinterested  part  o.f  the  community  are 
unacquainted  with  the  mode  of  such  impeachments ;  they  have  been  baf- 
fled and  disappointed  in  their  attempts,  and  sit  down,  discouraged  and 


234  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

discontented.  Some  of  the  more  knowing  are  coadjutors  to  the  griev- 
ances ;  or  fellow  officers  who  do  not  choose  to  expose  the  guilty  of  their 
class  and  rank.  Such  are  the  natural  effects  of  their  respective  causes. 
The  constitution  has  drawn  the  power  of  the  people  at  large  to  a  point, 
and  they  have  entrusted  it  to  their  representatives  to  prevent  or  redress 
such  evils.  If  these  neglect  the  exercise  of  those  powers,  they  become 
certainly,  responsible  for  all  the  evils  which  thence  accrue  to  the  com- 
munity ;  evils  which  never  fail  to  prove  a  cancer  to  the  body  politick. 
— Let  me  therefore  beseech  and  conjure  our  legislatures,  by  every  tie 
of  love  and  regard  for  the  welfare  of  our  country,  to  .examine  their 
powers  and  duty  for  the  redress  of  our  grievances.  Fear  not  the  trouble, 
nor  the  expence  ;  I  am  confident  the  salutary  effects  will  reward  them 
an  hundred  fold.  Do  they  discover  general  discontents  respecting  the 
proceedings  of  their  courts,  let  them  inquire  in  a  more  private  manner 
what  are  the  reasons.  If  they  discover  well  founded  reasons  of  suspicion, 
I  humbly  conceive  it  to  be  their  duty  to  cite  such  officers  before  them, 
and  sincerely  endeavour  to  find  out  what  evidences  might  have  been 
procured,  and  neglected  ;  how  the  evidences  given  in  the  case  have  been 
managed ;  and  where-ever  they  discover  culpable  partiality,  let  such  of- 
ficers, whether  civil  or  military,  be  broke  with  infamy,  without  respect 
to  persons  or  characters.  Let  them  not  only  thus  guard  against  the 
abuse  of  power,  but  also  against  the  neglect  of  its  exercise.  Judges,  jus- 
tices, or  officers  in  the  militia,  who  wilfully  neglect  the  execution  of  the 
laws  in  their  respective  departments,  may  as  justly  and  ought  as  well 
to  be  broke  as  the  others.  For  what  do  the  best  of  laws  avail,  if.  not 
put  in  execution?  Would  our  legislatures  once  make  trial  of  this  recom- 
mended remedy,  I  am  confident  the  renewed  vigour,  spirit  and  life  of 
our  civil  society  would  soon  convince  us  of  its  salutary  effects. 

I  hope  my  country  will  indulge  me  with  the  liberty  I  take  in  my(  re- 
marks, while  I  assure  them  they  proceed  from  a  love  to  its  welfare. 

So  I  am 
Sir, 
Yours', 

And   my   fellow-citizens,   &c. 

A    TRUE    PATRIOT. 

TRENTON,  April  18. 

We  hear  that  Adm.  Arbuthnot's  squadron,  which  lately  sailed  to 
Virginia,  arrived  at  New- York  a  few  days  ago. 

MARTIN  BECK,  BLUEDYER, 

In  Germantown  township,  Philadelphia  county, 

Begs  leave  to  inform  the  Publick  in  general,  and  his  friends  and  for- 
mer customers  in  particular,  that  they  can  send  their  yarn,  (linen 
or  cloth)  to  Mr.  Daniel  Suter's,  in  Second-street,  the  fifth  door  above 
Race-street,  Philadelphia ;  from  whence  they  can  fetch  it  again  in 
three  weeks  from  the  time  they  left  it,  done  in  the  best  manner,  and 
as  low  as  the  times  will  admit ;  and  it  is  expected  that  each  person 
will  put  his  name  and  place  of  abode  on  a  piece  of  paper  to  the  yarn. 

N.  B. 

To  be  sold  at  said  Suter's,  Lisbon  wine,  Jamaica  spirits,  West-India 
and  Philadelphia  rum,  souchong  and  bohea  tea,  coffee,  loaf,  white 
and  brown  Spanish  sugars,  pepper,  alspice,  ginger,  lampblack,  glue, 
chalk,  boiled  and  raw  linseed  oil,  cotton,  cotton  and  wool  cards,  men's 
and  women's  leather  shoes,  a  quantity  of  writing  paper. 


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TO  BE  SOLD  BY  PUBLICK  VENDUE, 

On  Monday  the  30th  of  this  month,  at  the  house  of  the  subscriber, 
in  the  Western  Precinct  in  the  county  of  Somerset,  near  Rocky-hill, 
and  within  about  half  a  mile  of  Col.  Henry  Vandike's,  Two  valuable 
horses,  cattle,  a  waggon  and  gears,  a  sleigh  and  sled,  a  mill  for  clean- 
ing wheat,  plough  and  harrow,  and  several  farming  utensils.  Also 
a  bedstead  and  bedding,  and  all  sorts  of  household  and  kitchen  fur- 
niture. The  vendue  to  begin  at  ten  o'clock  of  said  day,  when  attend- 
ance will  be  given,  and  the  conditions  of  sale  made  known  by 

ADRIAN  HEEGEMAN. 
April  14th,  1781. 

[Horse     Kuhli-Kan — Bowhill     Farm,     near     Trenton — owner     not 
named.] 

[Horse  Frederick — Amwell — Peter  and  Philip  Case.] 
[Horse  Liberty — Maidenhead— Edm.  Bainbridge.] 
[Horse  Arabian — South  Amboy — Dan.  Lott.] 

NOTICE  IS  HEREBY  GIVEN  TO  ALL  PERSONS, 

That  James  Sanderson,  living  near  the  White  Horse,  between  Trenton 
and  Crosswicks,  has  set  up  the  Blue  Dying ;  such  as  linen  and  cotton. 
Any  person  who  will  give  him  their  work,  may  depend  on  having  the 
same  done  well,  and  in  as  short  a  time  as  possible  after  the  delivery 
of  it. 

.From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  174,  April  25,  1781. 

.Number  IV. 
Mr.    Collins. 

Having  in  the  course  of  my  three  foregoing  numbers  offered  four  cap- 
ital remedies  for  our  preservation,   I  proceed  to  add, 

5.  Let  government  be  p\ructent  and  frugal  in  the  expenditure  of  puWick 
monies.  Money  are  the  sinews  o.f  war.  And  government  ought  to  know 
the  necessity  and  use  of  it.  While  our  money  press  could  supply  any 
quantity  government  ordered,  I  fear  they  have  made  too  free  with  the 
expenditures ;  and  many  inoffensive  citizens  must  now  experience  the 
deplorable  effects.  Our  legislatures  find  the  ways  and  means,  by  which, 
they  must  now  procure  it,  more  difficult ;  and  the  want  of  it  more  alarm- 
ing and  dangerous  than  perhaps  many  have  been  aware  of :  Therefore 
a  small  degree  of  sagacity  or  forecast  will  convince  of  the  necessity  of 
prudence  in  procuring,  and  faithful  frugality  in  the  expenditures  of  the 
publick's  money.  Dutch  historians  observe  that  this  prudence  and  fru- 
gality have  proved  one  of  the  chief  means  of  that  people's  preservation 
in  their  severe  .struggles  for  liberty.  To  think  or  say,  in  the  loss  or 
waste  of  publick  property,  that  there  are  many  to  pay  ff)r  it,  argues  an 
abandoned  and  inimical  disposition  of  mind.  Those  who  have  had  op- 
pertunities  to  know  the  cheats  and  insolent  frauds  upon  the  publick, 
cannot  refrain  from  disagreeable  recollections.  And  ought  not  these 
to  be  warnings  to  the  present  legislatures?  Let  them  therefore  study 
ways  and  means  to  prevent,  as  much  as  possible,  such  pernicious  prac- 
tices for  the  future. — Let  them  be  cautious  in,  the  salaries  allowed  to 
the  respective  officers.  It  Is  true  officers  should  be  paid  for  the  care 


236  XKW    JERSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION. 


and  labour  of  their  stations  ;  but  our  present  circumstances  demand 
frugality  from  every,  citizen.  And  why  should  not  such  as  are  entrusted 
with  the  affairs  of  the  nation,  set  the  example?  Where  is  the  common 
citizen,  that  can  now  live  as  free  as  before  the  war,  and  bear  his  part 
of  the  unavoidable  publick  burthens?  Therefore  the  allowances  to  the 
former  officers  while  under  the  crown,  can  be  no  standard  to  proceed 
by  now.  These  allowances  ought  to  be  squared  as  much  as  possible, 
by  such  income  as  the  nation  can  reasonably  afford.  For  how  exceed- 
ing disagreeable  must  it  prove  to  a  most  zealous  friend  of  his  country. 
to  see  men  supported  in  luxury  and  excess,  by  the  dear  earned  fruits  of 
his  industry  and  sobriety?  But  will  some  say,  none  tcill  serr<-  unless 
wcH  paid.  I  answer,  an  honest  friend  to  Ms  country  will  desire  no  more 
than  common  fare  with  his  fellow-citizens.  These  are  to  be  trusted  ; 
these  will  be  rewarded  by  the  blessings  and  approbation  of  their  con- 
duct by  their  countrymen.  Others  plainly  discover  their  view  to  be 
money,  not  the  good  of  the  nation  :  and  therefore  ought  not  to  be 
trusted.  For,  it  may  be  depended  upon,  they  will  injure  their  country 
if  possible,  for  the  sake  of  lucre  or  gain.  Moreover,  let  government  take 
care  to  employ  no  more  in  the  publick  service  than  are  truly  necessary. 
All  monies  so  paid  is  wantonly  thrown  away,  and  must  unavoidably  em- 
barrass in  the  necessary  business  of  the  nation.  Finally,  let  government 
for  the  preservation  of  publick  financiers  compel  punctual,  satisfactory, 
and  just  settlements  of  accounts,  within  as  short  periods  as  possibly 
may  be.  It  is  manifest  that  long  continued  accounts  become  intricate, 
and  afford  numberless  oppertunities  to  defraud  the  publick.  To  this  I 
subjoin, 

6.  Let  legislatures  exert  every  nerve  to  adapt  the  raising  of  supplies  ta 
tlie  convenience  and  advantage  of  the  community.  Several  particulars 
under  this  head  demands  our  serious  attention.  I  humbly  conceive, 

1.  As  to  the  manner   of   raising  supplies,   government   ought   not  to   look 
only   to   the  more   industrious   part   of   the   community   for   them.      There 
are  thousands  of  pernicious   superfluities  daily  imported  for  which   those 
who  are  able  and  will   consume  them,   ought  to  pay  duties   on  them,   in) 
proportion    to    the    burthens    of    the    yeomanry    of    the    country.      These 
duties  would  bring  a  vast  sum  into  the  publick  treasury  ;    be  voluntarily 
paid  by  such  as  are  able  to  do  it.     If  it  should  prove  a  bar  against  their 
importation,  would  then  be  a  double  advantage  to  the  community.     The 
taxes  to  be  procured  in  kind,  or  the  produce  of  the  country.     For  then, 
less   money   would   be   required  ;     the  farmers  prompted   to   raise   it  ;    the 
necessary    supplies  for   the   army    be   secured,   the   embargo   be    taken    off, 
and   a   free   trade,   the  spring  of   industry,   allowed   with   the   remainder  ; 
and  the  expences  of  several  officers  avoided. 

2.  As  to  the  abilities  of  the  community  to  afford  them,  our  rulers  ought 
duly   to   consider   them.      I   allow   our   resources   are  greater   than   a  [for- 
eigner would  allow  to  so  new  a  settled  country,  but  they   are  far  from 
being    inexhaustible.      They    are    capable    of    great    improvement.       Hus- 
bandry is  the  main  source  of  them  all,   and  therefore  ought  particularly 
to  be  encouraged  and  supported.      Encouraged  by  a   tender  care  of  their 
property    as    sacred,    by   providing    as    advantageous    a    market    for    their 
produce    as    the   circumstances    of   the   times   will    possibly    admit.      Hus- 
bandry ought  to  be  supported  by  laying  as  few  obstacles  in  the  way  as 
may    be.    and   giving    every    discouragement    to    the    destructive    vices    of 
dissipation,   sloth,  and  indolence. 

Here  I  cannot  omit  taking  notice  of  some  late  publications  respecting 
the  manumission  of  our  slaves.  —  However  desirable  and  salutary  such 
thing  might  be  in  a  favourable  day,  I  am  clearly  of  opinion,  if  the 
scheme  of  Mr.  Cooper  and  his  Friend  to  Justice  was  adopted,  it  would 
be  attended  with  the  greatest  injustice,  and  the  ruin  of  the  glorious 
cause  we  are  contending  for.  I  here  only  transiently  observe,  that  they 
are  the  lawful  property  of  their  present  owners.  If  they  are  not,  why 
is  the  legislature  importuned  for  a  law  to  manumit  them?  If  they  are, 
let  the  legislature  duly  consider  if  it  even  was  in  their  power  by  a  law 
to  manumit  them,  whether  their  constituents  afe  able  to  bear  this  addi- 
tional tax?  Suppose,  at  random  guess,  their  number  in  New-Jersey 
to  be  twelve  thousand,  probably  there  are  more,  and  their  average  value 


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at  forty  pounds  per  head ;  then  forty  times  twelve  thousand,  is  four 
hundred  and  eighty  thousand  pounds.  Can  New-Jersey  be  supposed 
able  to  bring  up  this  sum  in  addition  to  the  annual  taxes  for  the  war? 
If  the  whole  of  this  tax  was  to  be  raised  by  the  present  owners  losing 
their  slaves,  it  would  be  tenfold  more  unjust  and  ruinous  than  the 
depreciation  tax.  And  if  that  had  be  so  levied  by  virtue  of  a  law,  such 
legislature  would  have  deserved  banishment.  If  the  owners  were  to 
be  allowed  a  reasonable  value  for  tbem,  I  wonder  whether  all  those 
advocates  who  possessed  none  would  cheerfully  pay  their  proportion 
towards  their  redemption?  Whether  they  would  suppose  themselves 
able  to  do  it,  at  this  time?  No  charity  is  easier  bestowed,  and  lessi 
deserving,  than  what  is  taken  from  another  person's  property.  I  wish 
they  were  free  in  such  a  manner  as  might  be  consistent  with  justice 
to  their  owners,  and  the  safety  of  the  nation.  But  I  am  confident,  we 
have  as  good  a  right  to  petition  our  legislatures,  upon  levelling  prin- 
ciples, for  a  repeal  of  all  our  laws  enacted  for  the  preservation  of  pri-. 
vate  property,  and  at  once  throw  all  our  possessions  in  common  use, 
as  ,to  petition  for  a  manumission  pursuant  to  the  principals  held  forth 
in  the  before  mentioned  performances.  And  I  submit  it  to  the  con- 
sideration of  my  fellow-citizens,  whether  gentlemen,  who  presume  to 
offer  such  unjust  and  ruinous  bills  to  the  legislature,  are  proper  persons 
to  be  entrusted  with  legislative  authority?  Let  us  only  consider,  if 
the  majority  of  the  New-Jersey  legislature  happened  only  once  to  be 
composed  of  men  possessed  of  such  principles,  into  what  awful  convul- 
sions and  general  ruin  they  may  cast  the  state !  Yea,  men  of  so  little 
sense  of  the  sacredness  of  property,  seem  very  unfit  to  be  entrusted  with 
tbe  people's  possessions,  or  the  management  of  a  cause  in  which  the 
preservation  of  both  our  liberties  and  property,  in  a  great  measure,  de- 
pend upon  our  abilities  to  support  a  war  undertaken  in  their  defence. 
7.  Another  important  preservative  is,  Let  every  member  of  the  empire 
consider  himself  et-s  deeply  interested  in  the  issue  of  the  present  contest. 
It  is  a  baneful  and  an  accursed  maxim,  Every  one  for  himself  and  &o$ 
for  -MIS  all.  In  every  society,  individuals  are  members  of  that  social  body ; 
and  as  that  body  fares,  so  will  its  members.  Every  American  may  well 
consider  himself  as  embarked  in  the  vessel  of  our  state.  If  that  is 
cast  away,  we  all  perish  with  it.  If  we  should  happen  to  be  subdued, 
(which  God  forbid)  I  am  sure  that  even  the  body  of  our  tories  will  be 
fatally  disappointed  in  their  most  sanguine  expectations.  And  as  for 
others,  have  they,  or  do  they,  in  the  time  of  afflictions,  amass  heaps  of 
gold,  they  would  only  have  heaped  them  for  the  use  of  their  task  mas- 
ters ;  and  the  common  citizen,  with  the  poorer  sort  among  us,  migfht 
well  prepare  their  necks  for  the  galling-  yoke.  If  we  preserve  our  in- 
dependence, in  the  comfortable  sense  of  liberty,  and  the  agreeable  pros- 
pect of  doubling  our  preserved  pittance  by  the  advantages  of  a  free 
trade,  and  leaving  our  offspring  in  the  possession  of  dear  bought  liberty, 
and  the  oppertunities  of  amply  providing  for  their  posterity.  A  child 
so  left  by  a  parent  with  one  shilling  to  begin  with,  is  much  better  off 
than  one  left  with  thousands  of  pounds  in  a  state  of  civil  slavery-  I 
have  seen  a  little  of  the  condition  of  the  middle  and  poorer  sort  of 
people  in  the  best  dominions  of  Europe  ;  but  O !  did  America  know  her 
present  advantages,  I  am  sure  she  would  hazard  the  last  farthing  in 
defending  them.  These  may  perhaps  say  or  think — what  shall  ice  have 
for  all  our  pains;  the  great  and  rich  ivill  only  reap  the  benefit.  I  would 
be  sorry  if  any  should  thus  reason  against  themselves ;  for  I  am  con- 
fident that  none  are  more  deeply  interested  in  the  issue  of  our  present 
contest  than  our  middle  and  poor  sort  of  people.  In  a  state  of  civil 
slavery,  the  opulent  by  their  money  and  influence  procure  ways  and 
means  to  support  themselves  and  families  in  ease  and  grandeur  at  the 
expense  of  the  sweat  and  labour  of  those  in  your  circumstances  of  life. 
Were  the  rich  and  wealthy  as  much  affected  by  civil  slavery  asi  the 
poor,  no  state  in  the  world  would  long  usurp  its  tyranny.  Therefore 
in  despotick  government  the  poor  and  middle  class  give  up  all  hope  of 
ever  getting  before  hand  in  the  world,  as  to  themselves  and  children 
after  them  ;  scanty  fare,  as  to  food  and  raiment ;  is  generally  the  ex- 
tent of  their  views ;  and  all  the  repast  afforded  them  in  their  hard( 


238  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

labour  and  parsimony  is  often  the  galling  reflection,  that  hard  neces- 
sity will  expose  a  worn  out  age  to  gratuitous  support,  or  to  expire  in 
want.  O !  lamentable  condition  !  Compare  with  this  portrait,  truly 
drawn,  the  happy  situation  of  free  bom  Americans.  How  many  thou- 
sands can  attest  that  they  remember  the  day  they  possessed  no  more 
than  the  scanty  clothing  on  their  backs,  who  now  occupy  ceiled  dwell- 
ings and  extensive  freeholds ;  all  procured  by  mere  industry  and  care. 
I  boldly  assert,  that  there  is  not  under  the  whole  canopy  of  heaven  such 
another  place  as  America,  while  free,  for  the  encouragement  of  the  poor, 
in  their  pursuits  for  obtaining  comfortable  livelihoods  by  industry  and 
care.  It  is  therefore  evident,  that  it  is  full  as  much,  if  not  more,  the 
interest  of  the  middle  and  lower  class  among  us  to  defend  and  main- 
tain our  liberty,  than  the  rich  and  great.  Which  still  becomes  motre 
manifest,  if  we  consider  the  consequences  of  being  subdued.  In  such 
lamentable  case  a  few  of  our  warmest  friends  would  lose  their  heads, 
but  the  number  of  the  opulent  would  find  means  to  make  friends  of 
the  unrighteous  mammon  by  their  money,  and  afterwards  share  in  the 
common  plunder.  But  will  the  common  peasant  have  friends?  When 
his  all  is  confiscated,  will  he  begin  the  wotrld  a-new  under  any  pros- 
pect of  success?  Should  these  taskmasters  bear  down  their  own  loving 
subjects  at  home  by  an  intolerable  load  of  taxes,  and  excuse  vanquished 
rebels?  Who  can  possibly  expect  it?  Therefore,  if  any  of  the  lowest 
among  us  render  any  service  to  their  country,  let  such  consider,  it  Is 
in  effect  done  to  themselves  and  their  posterity,.  Some  may  reply — 
But  ought  not  the  rich  to  do  tJieir  proportion  according  to  what  thdy 
posfsessf  but  instead  of  tfiat,  they  are  screened,  yea,  many  of  them  ma1c0 
their  fortunes  out  of  our  distressed.  I  answer,  1.  Perhaps  if  you  was  well 
acquainted  with  the  whole,  you  would  not  see  cause  to  believe  so  great 
a  disproportion  between  you  and  the  rich.  2.  If  there  was,  no  people 
whatever  is  happier  circumstanced  to  ptrocure  a  redress  than  you  are. 
For  every  freeman  worth  a  trifling  sum,  has  as  good  a  right  to  vote 
at  every  election  as  the  man  worth  his  thousands ;  and  as  full  liberty 
to  petition  your  representatives  for  a  redress  of  grievances.  This  single 
privilege  is  worth  its  millions. — 3.  If  many  have  made  their  fortunes 
unjustly  in  an  hour  of  our  distress,  as  I  fear  too  many  have  done,  yet 
let  me  beseech  you  not  to  sit  down  in  discontented  murmurs,  and:  re- 
fuse your  sacTed  duty  to  your  country.  In  this  respect  your  crime  would 
be  as  detestable  as  his :  For  while  such  injure  their  country  by  ac- 
cursed rapine,  you  do  it  by  refusing  that  aid  and  assistance  your  coun- 
try requires  for  the  preservation  of  whatever  is  dear  to  yourself ;  so 
he  injures  his  poor  country,  and  lays  up  something  against  an  evil  day  : 
But  y,ou  would  do  it  in  another  respect,  and  leave  yourself  remediless  in 
the  general  ruin.  Let  us  consider  their  unjust  acquired  riches  is  sel- 
dom of  long  duration.  Perhaps  we  may  see  some  of  them  or  their  chil- 
dren come  to  your  door,  begging  for  a  morsel  of  bread.  Let  us  there- 
fore do  our  duty  in  detecting  and  bringing  to  condign  punishment  every 
publick  defaulter ;  and  honestly  exert  every  nerve  In  support  of  the 
common  cause  as  our  own.  While  I  cordially  wish  for  the  general  sway 
of  such  a  spirit,  I  remain, 

Sir,  &c. 

A    TRUE    PATRIOT. 

FOB  THE  NEW-JERSEY  GAZETTE. 

An  •undissembled  esteem  of  the  AlmAghty*s  glory  and  the  felicity  of 
mankind,  will  apologize,  it  is  hoped,  for  the  freedom  of  the  present  A,d- 
dress  to  the  Citizens  of  the  United  States.  Admitting  that  the  Divine 
being  who  gave  existence  to  the  universe,  superintends  its  moral  as 
well  as  natural  government,  we  can  experience  no  calamity,  tho.'  through 
the  medium  of  second  causes,  without  asknowledging  it  to  be  derived 
[from  heavenly  power ;  without  confessing  there  is  not  "any  evil"  fc>f 
punishment  "in  a  city,"  but  what  is  inflected  by  "The  Lord"  himself. 

Upon  the  admission  of  this  truth  is  founded  the  propriety  of  the 
recommendation  of  Congress,  "That  Thursday,  the  third  day  of  May  next. 
be  observed  as  a  day  of  humiliation,  fasting,  and  prayer,  that  we  may 


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with  united  hearts,  confess  and  bewail  our  manifold  sJns  and  trans- 
gressions, and  by  sincere  repentance  and  amendment  of  life,  appease 
God's  righteous  displeasure ;  and,  through  the  merits  of  our  blessed 
Saviour,  obtain  pardon  and  foregiveness." 

And  while  an  advertance  to  the  Divine  displeasure  manifested  to  cities, 
to  kingdoms,  and  to  the  whole  world  itself,  for  the  practice  of  evil, 
cannot  but  justly  cause  a  people  of  guilt  and  impenitence  to  dread  the 
effects  of  heavenly  justice.  A  sinful  nation,  of  possessed  by  contrition, 
and  returning  to  holiness,  from  the  several  precedents  of  the  Almighty's 
clemency  sensibly  displayed  to  penitence,  may  humbly  hope  for  the  en- 
joyment of  his  holy  favor,  and  the  salvation  of  his  arm  of  strength. 

It  should  ever  be  remembered,  however,  that  the  eye  of  Omniscience 
penetrates  the  veil  of  disguise,  and  that  the  Divine  Majesty  "will  not 
be  mocked;"  that  the  oblation  of  deceit  will  be  an  offense  to  his  truth, 
add  sin  to  sin,  and  occasion  hypocrisy  more  forcibly  to  feel  the  power 
of  his  wrath. 

You  will  therefore  permit  me,  my  fellow-citizens,  with  fervency  to 
implore,  that  in  our  observance  of  the  ensuing  solemnity,  sincerity  may 
dwell  on  our  lips,  and  piety  possess  our  souls ;  that  duly  recognizing  our 
acts  of  guilt,  with  heart-felt  grief  we  may  supplicate  the  Almighty's 
grace,  and  be  devoted  to  his  sacred  will. 

And  becoming1  objects  of  his  love,  what  may  we  not  hope  for  from 
his  munificence  ! — In  the  language  by  himself  expressed,  shall  not  "our 
light  break  forth  as  the  morning,  and  our  health  spring  forth  with 
speed  !"  Will  not  "our  righteousness  go  before  us,  and  his  own  glory 
be  our  reward?" 

On  us,  indeed,  all  good  shall  wait  that  can  be  desired  by.  wisdom,  or 
conferred  by  bounty.  "Peace  shall  dwell  within  our  walls,  and  plenty 
within  our  dwellings !"  Science  shall  grace  our  schools  of  youth,  and 
honour  attend  our  commonwealth ! — No  more  shall  flow  the  patriot's 
blood ! — No  more  shall  hapless  widows  weep  !— Nor  more  shall  orphans 
cries  be  heard. 

But  should  the  approaching  day  be  unduly  noticed ;  should  it  be 
marked  only  by  seeming  goodness,  and  shall  we  still  continue  in  the  path 
of  vice,  what  vengeance  may  we  not  fear  from  incensed  Omnipotence  !  And 
how  could  we  endure  the  Almighty's  "terrors  !"  or  whither  flee  to  avoid 
his  presence ! — Look  we  may  for  "mercy,"  but  we  "shall  not  perceive 
it !"  And  expect  "salvation,"  but  it  "shall  be  far  from  us !" 

If,  therefore,  we  regard  prosperity ;  if  we  wish  to  escape  perdition, 
let  our  steps  he  directed  by  prudence,  and  our  actions  impelled  by  vir- 
tue ! — Let  each  one  himself  reform,  do  honor  to  religion,  and  to  his 
country  become  a  blessing ! 

State    of    New-Jersey,   1  CLEERICUS. 

April   9,    1781.  J 

CHATHAM,  April  18. 

Last  Monday  night  Capt.  Baker  Hendricks  went  from  Elizabeth- 
Town  to  Staten-Island,  and  brought  off  one  Lieutenant  and  a  private 
of  the  Refugees,  and  one  inhabitant. — Previous  to  the  above,  a  party 
went  over  and  brought  off  a  Captain. 

TRENTON,  April  25. 
Extract  of  a  letter  from  Philadelphia,  dated  April  17,  1781. 

"We  have  just  received  a  letter  from  General  Greene,  of  the  30th  ult. 
about  45  miles  N.  W.  of  Cross-Creek.  Lord  Cornwallis  still  on  the  route 
to  that  place,  and  General  Greene  near  him.  No  action  is  likely  to 
happen.  It  is  evident  from  this  letter  that  the  enemy  suffered  greatly 
in  the  action  of  the  15th  March,  near  Guilford  Court-House,  the  dis- 
tress which  embarrasses  them  shows  it." 


240  NEW    JE11SEV    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

Mr.   Collins, 

It  may  be  recollected  that  in  my  address  to  the  Legislature  published 
In  your  Gazette,  No.  149,  speaking  of  the  new  emitted  money,  I  ob- 
served, that  upon  the  principles  which  it  was  emitted,  nothing  but  the 
unaccountable  caprice  which  governs  human  nature  in  certain  situations, 
could  depreciate  it :  Little  did  I  then  think  it  could  be  neglected  by  its 
very  guardians. 

I  then  presumed  that  the  Legislature  would  see  the  fatal  tendency 
of  coupling  it  with  the  old  continental,  and  repeal  the  forty  for  on<* 
clause  :  This  they  did,  and  put  it  perhaps  on  as  good  a  .footing  as  pos-< 
sible,  by  authorizing  a  competent  body  to  declare  the  rate  of  exchange 
as  often  as  any  alteration  in  it  should  happen.  Did  not  this,  alteration 
in  the  law  and  the  consequent  declaration  of  the  1-egal  exchange  making 
it  equal  to  the  real,  give  universal  satisfaction  ?  And  did  not  the  money 
then  circulate  with  greater  freedom  than  it  has  ever  done  either  before 
or  since?  Why  is  it  then  that  the  same  spirit  is  not  kept  up?  Why 
is  not  the  legal  exchange  kept  equal  to  the  real?  Is  it  because  the 
state  of  Pennsylvania  have  not  altered  the  legal  exchange  there?  And 
what  have  we  to  do  with  Pennsylvania?  Is  not  our  money  our  own? 
Will  they  redeem  it  for  us?  and  redeemed  it  must  be.  Will  they  make 
good  to  the  people  of  this  state  the  loss  they  suffer  by  receiving  it  in 
a  depreciated  state,  or  holding  it  in  their  hands  while  depreciating? 
If  not,  for  justice  sake,  let  us  look  to  ourselves,  let  us  rouze  from  this 
lethargy,  and  make  our  money  what  it  ought  to  be,  by  keeping  up  the 
exchange  equal  to  gold  and  silver. 

If  the  Executive  of  the  state  of  Pennsylvania  think  proper  to  depre- 
ciate their  money,  by  keeping  it  tacked  to  continental  at  half  the  real 
exchange — if  they  think  proper  to  cheat  their  honest  citizens,  by  put- 
ting it  in  the  power  of  knaves  to  pay  their  debts  with  half  the  value, 
what  is  all  that  to  us?*  Let  us  not  follow  so  weak,  so  wicked  an  ex- 
ample— we  are  past  the  age  of  infancy — OU.T  interest  demands  it  of  us 
— let  us  think  and  act  for  ourselves. 

SCIPIO. 

All  persons  indebted  to  the  printer  of  this  Gazette,  for  publishing 
Advertisements,  are  requested  to  make  immediate  payment.  This 
duty  has  been  so  much  neglected  that  he  is  constrained  to  declare, 
that  in  future  none  will  be  inserted  unless  the  money  is  paid  at  the 
time  they  are  delivered  in,  agreeably  to  the  terms  specified  at  the 
bottom  of  the  fourth  page. 

ISAAC  COLLINS. 

Trenton,  April  24,  1781. 

Burlington,  April  13,  1781. 
WANTED  IMMEDIATELY, 

A  Person  that  can  come  well  recommended,  to  keep  the  gaol  in  Bur- 
lington.    For  further  particulars  enquire  of  Jacob  Phillips,   Sheriff. 

[Horse  Bay  Richmond — Rocky  Hill— owner  not  named.] 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

By  the  subscriber,  in  Bordentown, 
A  LIKELY  YOUNG  NEGRO  WENCH, 

About  16  years  of  age,  has   had   the  small-pox  and  measles,   and  is 
sold  for  want  of  employ  only.  JOSEPH  BORDEN. 

Bordentown,  April  22,  1781. 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  241 

[Horse  Jolly  Chester — Maidenhead — Ralph  Phillips.] 
L  Horse  The  Lion— .-Readington — Peter  Covenhoven.] 

TO  BE  SOLD 

At  public  Vendue,  on  Friday  the  llth  of  May  next, 
The  undivided  two-sixth  parts  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  acres  of  land, 
late  belonging  to  William  and  Andrew  Scholey,  whereon  John 
Scholey  now  lives,  situated  within  about  two  miles  of  Easton  ferry, 
in  a  pleasant  and  wholesome  part  of  the  country.  The  above  land 
will  be  sold  for  ready  cash  only.  Attendance  will  be  given  by 

WILLIAM  BOND,  and 
GEORGE  WARNE, 

Commissioners  for  Sussex  County,  New-Jersey. 
N.  B.    The  above  vendue  to  begin  at  two  o'clock  on  said  day. 

April  11,  1781. 

[Horse  Golden  Farmer — near  Trenton — John  Reeder.] 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

On  reasonable  terms,  by 

WILLIAM  RICHARDS, 

At  Trenton  Landing, 

Most  of  the  medicines  that  are  in  use,  also  corks  for  beer  and  cyder, 
the  best  salt  for  fish  and  pork,  mustard  by  the  bottle,  French  barley, 
oatmeal,  wooden  ware,  sweet  oil,  brimstone  and  antimony  for  horses, 
stone  lime  from  one  to  one  hundred  bushels,  snuff,  vinegar,  by  the 
gallon,  and  sundry  other  things. 

TO  BE  LET, 

For  one  year  or  more,  and  may  be  entered  on 
immediately, 

Two  houses  in  Arneytown,  six  miles  from  Crosswicks,  ten  from  Bor- 
dentown,  five  from  Allentown,  and  fifteen  from  Trenton. — One  has 
been  a  tavern  for  many  years,  and  would  suit  a  blacksmith ;  the  other 
a  large  and  commodious  house,  and  would  suit  a  storekeeper  or  trades- 
man. For  terms  apply  to  Thomas  Forman,  near  the  premises. 

April  20,  1781. 

[Horse  Fleetwood — Maidenhead — Daniel  Hunt.] 

From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  175,  May  2,  1781. 

TRENTON,  May  2. 

Colonel  Israel  Shreve  was  lately  elected  a  Representative  in  Assem- 
bly, for  the  county  of  Burlington,  in  the  room  of  William  Hough,  Esq., 
deceased. 

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242  NEW    JEESEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

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,  Chan- 
cellor and  Ordinary  in  the  same. 

PROCLAMATION. 

Whereas  by  a  certain  act  of  the  Legislature  of  this  state,  intitled, 
An  Act  to  amend  an  Act,  intitled  An  Act  for  establishing  a  fund  for 
sinking  and  redeeming  the  bills  of  credit  of  the  United  States,  assigned 
as  the  quota  of  this  state,  passed  at  Trenton  the  seventeenth  day  of 
November  last,  is  is  enacted,  that  it  shall  and  may  be  lawful  for  the 
Governor  and  Privy  Council,  immediately  after  the  passing  of  said 
act,  and  thereafter,  from  time  to  time,  as  often  as  the  same  may  be 
thought  necessary,  to  ascertain  and  declare  the  general  current  rate 
of  exchange  between  continental  currency  and  specie,  as  by  the  said 
act  may  more  fully  appear. 

I  have  therefore  thought  fit,  by  and  with  the  advice  of  the  Honour- 
able the  Privy  Council  of  this  state,  to  issue  this  proclamation,  to 
declare  and  make  known  to  the  citizens  of  this  state,  that  the  said 
Governor  and  Privy  Council  have,  on  the  date  hereof,  ascertained  and 
declared,  and  do  hereby  ascertain  and  declare  the  present  exchange 
between  continental  currency  and  specie  to  be  One  Hundred  and  Fifty 
for  One. 

Given  under  my  hand  and  seal  at  arms,  at  Trenton,  the  twenty- 
eighth  day  of  April,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  seven 
hundred  and  eighty-one,  and  in  the  fifth  year  of  the  Independ- 
ence of  the  United  States  of  America. 

WIL.  LIVINGSTON. 
By  His  Excellency's  command, 

BOWES  REED,  Sec'ry. 

God  Save  the  People. 

MICHAEL  TRAPPAL, 

Stocking-Maker, 
Opposite  Mr.  Abraham  Hunt's, 

Takes  this  method  to  acquaint  his  former  customers  and  the  publick 
in  general,  that  he  continues  to  make  all  kinds  of  worsted,  thread  and 
cotton  stockings  and  breeches  patterns  as  usual ;  and  will  engage  to 
be  punctual  to  the  time  promised,  at  as  low  a  rate  as  the  times  will 
admit. 

TWO  THOUSAND  DOLLARS  REWARD. 

Ran-Away  from  Hackett's-Town,  Sussex  county,  on  Saturday  even- 
ing the  21st  of  April,  two  negroe  men  and  one  woman,  the  wife  of 
the  eldest.  One  of  the  men  named  Frank,  is  about  forty  years  old, 
the  other  about  25.  The  woman  named  Phoebe,  is  near  forty,  and 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  243 

has  a  child  with  her.  They  stole  two  horses,  one  a  very  large  sorrel 
horse,  eight  or  nine  years  old,  and  fifteen  hands  high.  It  is  supposed 
they  are  gone  towards  New- York.  The  above  reward  will  be  paid 
to  have  them  apprehended  and  secured,  by  the  owner,  Mrs.  Wilson, 
at  Hackett's-Town,  Col.  Thompson,  at  Trenton,  Mr.  Bray,  at  Raritan 
Landing,  or  Colonel  Stewart,  at  Head-Quarters,  New-Windsor. 

New  Jersey,  |    By  virtue  of  an  order  from  the  Honourable 

Middlesex  county,  ss.  j  the  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  this 
state,  I  am  directed  to  certify  the  publick,  that  a  Court  of  Oyer  and 
Terminer  and  general  gaol  delivery,  will  be  held  at  Princeton,  in  and 
for  the  county  of  Middlesex,  on  Tuesday,  the  twenty-ninth  day  of 
May  next :  All  Justices  of  the  Peace,  Coroners,  Constables,  and 
other  Officers  and  Ministers  of  Justice  of  the  said  county,  are  hereby 
desired  that  they  be  then  and  there  in  their  own  persons,  with  their 
rolls,  records,  indictments  and  other  remembrances ;  and  all  persons 
who  will  prosecute  or  can  bear  testimony  in  behalf  of  the  state, 
against  any  offender  in  the  said  county,  are  desired  likewise  to  give 
their  attendance  on  the  day,  and  at  the  place  aforesaid. 

JOHN  PLATT,  Sheriff. 
April  28,  1781. 

[Horse  Young  Whirlegigg — Six  Mile  Run — Cornelius  Dehart] 
[Horse  Figure — Scotch-Plains — Amos  Swan.] 

New  Jersey,  |  By  virtue  of  an  order  from  the  Honourable 
Somerset  county,  ss.  j  the  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  this 
state,  I  am  directed  to  certify  the  publick,  that  a  Court  of  Oyer  and 
Terminer  and  general  gaol  delivery  will  be  held  at  Hillsborough,  in 
and  for  the  county  of  Somerset,  on  Monday  the  twenty-first  of  May 
next :  All  Justices  of  the  Peace,  Coroners,  Counstables,  and  other 
Ministers  of  Justice,  of  the  said  county,  are  hereby  desired  that  they 
be  then  and  there  in  their  own  persons,  with  their  rolls,  records,  in- 
dictments and  other  remembrances ;  and  all  persons  who  will  prose- 
cute or  can  bear  testimony  in  behalf  of  the  state,  against  any  offender 
in  the  said  county,  are  desired  likewise  to  give  their  attendance  on 
the  day  and  at  the  place  aforesaid. 

PETER  T.  SCHENK,  Sheriff. 
April  28,  1781. 

TO  BE  SOLD  BY  PUBLICK  VENDUE, 

On  the  29th  of  May,  at  ten  o'clock,  upon  the  premises, 

A  Valuable  tract  of  Land,  lying  in  the  county  of  Somerset,  and  town- 
ship of  Bridgewater,  being  the  place  of  Cornelius  Middagh,  deceased, 
supposed  to  contain  170  or  180  acres  of  good  land,  some  excellent 
meadow  now  under  improvement,  and  more  may  be  made,  good  plough 
and  pasture  land,  a  sufficiency  of  wood  land,  a  good  garden,  and  an 
excellent  spring  of  water  near  the  door.  For  further  particulars 


244  NEW    JERSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

inquire  on  the  premises,   where  the  articles  of  the  vendue  may  be 

seen,  and  due  attendance  given  by  the  subscribers, 

WILLIAM  VAN  NORTWICK,  Executor, 
MARGARET  RIDDER,  Executrix. 
Raritan,  April  24,  1781. 

TO  BE  LET, 
An  extraordinary  House  and  Garden. — 

Several  working  horses  for  sale.     Inquire  of  the  subscriber,  within 
two  miles  of  Cranberry  mills.  JOHN  DUNCAN. 

[Horse  Godolphin — Phila. — J.  Wilkinson.] 
[Horse  Young  Granby — Slab-Town — Abner  Page.] 
{Horse  Juvenal — Troy — owner  not  named.] 

From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  176,  May  9,  1781. 

LIST  OF  LETTERS  REMAINING  IN  THE  POST-OFFICE 

AT  TRENTON. 

• 

(B)    Ball,  Spencer,  Trenton.     Barnett,  I.  B.,  Germantown. 
Dorsett  James,  Spotswood. 
Hart,  Noah,  near  Pennington. 

Lesley  James,  Germantown.     Lloyd  Richard,  Allentown. 
Pigley  John,  Moore's-Town. 

Rodgers  B.  R.  John,  Surgeon  to  Pennsylvania  line,  3. 
Smith,  Captain,  7,th  Pennsylvania  regiment. 

Voorhees   Minne,   Commissary   Flying  Hospital,   Issuing  Commissary 
of  Supplies  Pennsylvania  line. 

BENJ.  SMITH,  Postmaster. 

TRENTON,  May  9. 

On  the  21st.  ult.  a  party  of  about  70  of  the  enemy  came  over  to 
Elizabeth-Town,  frorp  Staten-Island.  They  landed  at  Halstead's 
Point,  and  were  discovered  between  that  place  and  the  town  by  O. — 
Hendricks,  who  was  patroling  with  about  10  of  his  men,  and  though 
so  much  inferior  in  number,  he  kept  up  a  smart  fire  on  them,  which 
prevented  them  from  penetrating  farther  into  town  than  Doctor 
Winans's.— After  collecting  a  few  horses,  &c.  firing  through  the  win- 
dows in  the  room  where  Mrs.  Winans  was  sitting,  by  which  a  boy 
was  wounded  in  the  arm,  and  burning  the  house  of  Mr.  Ephraim 
Marsh,  they  went  off  to  their  boats.  In  this  excursion  these  free- 
booters had  one  of  the  banditti,  viz.  Elias  Mann,  late  an  inhabitant 
of  Elizabeth-Town,  killed,  and  the  noted  Smith  Hetfield,  wounded  in 
two  places. 

And  on  Friday  night  last  an  other  party  of  plunderers  were  over 
at  Elisabeth-Town,  and  carried  off  about  40  head  of  cattle. 


1781]  J5TEWSPAPEB    EXTRACTS.  245 

By  persons  from  New  York  we  are  informed,  that  a  number  of 
troops  have  embarked  on  board  of  transports,  their  destination  said 
to  be  to  the  Eastward  : — 

That  last  week  a  very  hot  press  took  place  there,  by  which  several 
hundred  men  from  the  city  were  carried  on  board  the  fleet, — and  309 
American  prisoners  were  also  carried  from  the  prison  ship,  and 
forced  on  board  their  ships  of  war,  among  whom  were  Captains, 
Mates,  and  other  officers. — Such  is  the  unexampled  barbarity  of  the 
piratical  nation  against  which  we  have  to  contend !  They  revere 
neither  the  laws  of  GOD  nor  of  nations. 

We  are  told  that  in  a  New- York  paper  of  the  30th  ult.  is  an  order 
for  a  Feu-de-Joye,  in  consequence  of  Cornwallis's  success  on  the  15th 
of  March,  at  Guilford  Court-House.  As  that  success  undoubtedly 
effected  a  retreat,  it  were  to  be  wished,  upon  the  purest  principles  of 
whiggism,  that  the  enemy  might  meet  with  the  like  success  every  day. 
Were  this  to  be  the  case,  we  should  oblige  them,  ere  long,  to  retreat 
from  the  continent,  not  only  because  of  fatigue,  and  for  the  want  of 
provisions,  reasons  they  assign  for  retreating,  but  lest  there  should 
not  be  one  man  left  to  tell  the  tale  of  these  successes  to  their  Royal 
Master  the  Tyrant  of  Britain.  Never  could  the  firing  of  a  Feu-de-joye 
be  more  necessary  to  put  a  good  face  upon  a  bad  bargain. 

We  hear  that  on  Saturday  last  a  packet  from  France  arrived  at 
Philadelphia. 

The  General  Assembly  of  this  State  meet  the  15th,  and  that  of  Penn- 
sylvania on  the  24th  instant. 

WOOL  OR  FLAX. 

The  Printer  will  thank  any  of  his  customers,  to  whom  it  may  be 
convenient,  and  who  may  be  in  arrear  for  this  Gazette,  if  they  will 
pay  him  in  either  of  those  articles. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 
.     An  excellent  Breeding-Mare, 
With  a  Foal  at  her  Side.     Enquire  of  the  Printer. 

ONE  THOUSAND  CONTINENTAL  DOLLARS  REWARD. 

Ran  away  on  the  24th  ult.  from  the  subscriber  in  Hopewell,  a  negro 
man  named  Toney,  about  35  years  of  age,  five  feet  six  or  seven  inches 
high. — Whoever  takes  up  said  negro,  and  secures  him  so  that  his 
master  may  have  him  again,  shall  have  the  above  reward,  and  all 
reasonable  charges  paid  by 

ANDREW  BLACKWELL. 
N.  B.     All  persons  are  forbid  to  harbour  him  at  their  peril. 

May  8,  1781. 


246  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

ELIZABETH-TOWN  STAGE  WAGGON. 

The  subscribers  inform  the  Publick,  that  they  have  provided  a  con- 
venient Flying  Stage  Waggon,  with  four  horses  at  the  end  of  every 
twenty  miles,  suitable  for  carrying  passengers  and  their  baggage ; 
and  do  engage  to  go  two  trips  in  every  week,  from  Philadelphia  to 
Elizabeth-Town,  with  this  flying  stage,  after  the  20th  of  May,  1781, 
and  so  continue  till  timely  notice  is  given  to  the  publick. — Will  set 
out  from  the  Bunch  of  Grapes,  in  Third-street,  between  Market  and 
Arch-street,  on  every  Monday  and  Thursday  morning,  precisely  at  the 
rising  of  the  sun,  breakfast  at  the  Four-Lanes-End ;  shift  horses, 
cross  the  New-Ferry  just  above  Trenton  Falls,  dine  at  Jacob  Bergen's 
at  Princeton,  shift  horses,  lodge  at  Brunswick,  the  next  day  at  Eliza- 
beth-Town at  ten  o'clock  in  the  forenoon.  The  same,  every  Tuesday 
and  Friday,  will  set  out  from  Doctor  Winan's  tavern,  in  Elizabeth- 
Town,  precisely  at  three  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  for  Brunswick ;  the 
next  days,  every  Wednesday  and  Saturday,  will  breakfast  at  Prince- 
ton, dine  at  the  Four-Lanes-End,  from  thence  to  Philadelphia. 

The  price  for  each  passenger,  from  Philadelphia  to  Elizabeth-Town, 
to  be  Forty  Shillings  in  GOLD,  or  SILVER,  or  the  value 
thereof  in  other  money ;  and  the  like  sum  for  150  weight  of  baggage ; 
and  the  same  sum  from  Elizabeth-Town  to  Philadelphia,  and  so  in 
proportion  according  to  the  length  of  way  and  weight. 

The  subscribers  beg  le£ve  to  return  their  thanks  to  all  Gentlemen 
and  Ladies  who  have  been  pleased  to  favour  them  with  their  custom, 
and  hope  for  a  continuance  of  the  same,  and  they  may  depend  on  the 
punctual  attendance  of  their  humble  servants. 

GERSHOM  JOHNSON,  and 

April  30,  1781.  JAMES  DRAKE. 

[Horse  Wilkes — Burlington  Co. — Apollo  Woodward.] 

TO  ALL  WHOM  IT  MAY  CONCERN: 

New-Jersey, 

to-wit,  Notice  is  hereby  given,  that  a  Court  of  Admiralty  will 
be  held  at  Gloucester  Court-House,  in  the  county  of  Gloucester,  at  ten 
o'clock  in  the  forenoon,  on  Thursday  the  thirty-first  day  of  May  next, 
then  and  there  to  try  the  truth  of  the  facts  alledged  in  the  bill  of 
Richard  Townsend,  (who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the  schooner  Peggy, 
her  tackle,  apparel,  furniture  and  cargo,  of  the  port  of  Boston,  lately 
captured  by  the  enemy,  and  re-captured  by  the  said  Richard  Town- 
send  and  others  :  To  the  end  and  intent  that  any  person  or  persons 
concerned  therein,  may  appear  and  shew  cause,  if  any  he  or  they 
have,  why  the  said  schooner,  with  her  tackle,  apparel,  furniture  and 
cargo,  should  not  be  condemned,  and  a  decree  thereon  pass,  according 
to  the  prayer  of  the  said  bill. 

By  order  of  the  Judge, 
JOS.  BLOOMFIELD,  Register. 

Haddonfield,  April  28,  1781. 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  247 

TO  BE  SOLD  AT  PUBLICK  VENDUE, 

On  Monday  the  14th  instant,  May,  at  ten  o'clock  in  the  forenoon,  at 
the  house  of  Richard  Townsend,  Esq.  in  the  upper  precinct  of  the 
county  of  Cape-May, 

The  Schooner  Peggy,  burthen  about  70  tons,  with  her  sails,  rigging, 
tackle  and  apparel :  also  her  cargo,  consisting  of  sugar,  rum,  mo- 
lasses, coffee  and  cotton.  The  cash  to  be  paid  on  delivery  of  the 
articles.  By  order  of  the  Judge, 

J.  BURROWES,  Marshall. 

May  4,  1781. 

FULLING-MILL. 

The  subscriber  takes  this  method  to  acquaint  his  customers  and  the 
publick  in  general,  that  he  has  taken  Abraham  Van  Dyke's  fulling- 
mill,  at  Elomantunk,  near  New-Germantown :  The  mill  is  now  in 
good  order,  and  he  will  endeavour  to  give  satisfaction  to  all  who 
shall  favour  him  with  their  custom.  ISAAC  VEGHTE. 

Elomantunk,  May  3,  1781. 


From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  177,  May  12,  1781. 

TRENTON,  May  16. 

The  Legislature  of  the  state  of  New- York  are  to  meet  on  the  first 
Wednesday  in  June  next. 

MINERS. 

Wanted,  at  Durham,  five  Miners,  who  understand  working  on  a 
regular  vein  of  iron  ore,  to  whom  good  encouragement  will  be  given 
by  RICHARD  BACKHOUSE. 

May  16,  1781. 

THE  GOVERNOR, 

Head-Quarters,  Trenton,  14th  May  1781. 

At  a  General  Court-Martial,  whereof  Col.  Joseph  Phillips  was 
President,  held  at  Trenton  the  22d  day  of  March  last,  by  order  of  His 
Excellency  the  Governor,  and  continued  by  several  adjournments, 
Lieutenant-Colonel  William  Chamberlin  was  tried  upon  the  following 
charges. 

1st.  With  ungentlemanly  and  unofficerlike  behaviour  towards  the 
officers  of  his  regiment. 

2d.  With  having  wilfully  and  maliciously  impeded,  or  endeavoured 
to  impede  the  militia,  when  about  to  march  on  a  general  alarm. 

3d.    With  having  embezzled  the  publick  stores  at  Princeton. 

4th.  With  having  wilfully  and  maliciously,  and  wickedly  issued 
orders  contrary  to  those  of  a  superior  officer. 

5th.  With  having  issued  orders  for  detaching  a  number  of  men  to 
*narch  on  duty,  the  twenty-ninth  of  March,  one  thousand  seven  hun- 


XEAV    JERSEY    IX    THE    REVOLTJTIOX.  [1781 

dred  and  eighty,  and  on  the  twenty-eighth  of  the  same  month,  arrest- 
ing the  officers  and  preventing  them  from  doing  duty  till  tried  hy  a 
Court-Martial. 

6th.  With  having  returned  a  number  of  the  Captains  to  be  fined 
for  not  making  a  return  of  their  companies,  and  not  returning  others, 
guilty  of  the  same  offence. 

The  Court  having  maturely  considered  the  several  charges,  are 
unanimously  of  opinion  that  he  is  guilty  of  the  first,  second,  and 
sixth  charges,  and  not  guilty  of  the  third,  fourth  and  fifth  charges, 
and  do  unanimously  adjudge  him  to  be  cashiered. 

By  the  same  Court-Martial  was  tried  Col.  Thomas  Reynolds,  of  the 
second  Battalion  of  the  Militia  of  the  county  of  Burlington,  on  a 
charge  of  "having  refused  to  put  in  execution  the  sentence  of  a  Court- 
Martial  held  in  said  county,  by  his  appointment,  to  turn  out  on  their 
tour  of  duty,  agreeably  to  an  Act,  intitled,  An  Act  to  provide  for  the 
more  effectual  defence  of  the  state,  in  case  of  invasion  or  incursions 
of  the  enemy,  passed  the  sixteenth  of  June,  one  thousand  seven  hun- 
dred and  eighty." 

The  Court  having  maturely  considered  the  charge  against  Col. 
Thomas  Reynolds,  and  his  defence,  are  unanimously  of  opinion,  that 
in  refusing  to  put  in  execution  the  sentence  of  the  Court-Martial 
aforesaid,  he  was  guilty  of  a  breach  of  the  above-mentioned  law,  and 
do  adjudge  that  he  be  fine^  the  sum  of  Fifteen  Pounds  lawful  money 
of  this  state. 

And  by  the  same  Court-Martial  was  tried  Major  Cornelius  Stout, 
of  the  third  battalion  of  the  militia  of  the  county  of  Hunterdon,  upon 
the  following  charges,  viz. 

1st.  That  at  the  time  of  the  Springfield  alarm,  in  June,  one  thou- 
sand seven  hundred  and  eighty,  the  said  Major  Stout  sent  written 
orders  to  Capt.  Snook,  who  was  then  on  his  march,  under  the  com- 
mand of  Col.  Chamberlin,  to  join  him,  the  said  Major  Stout  on  an- 
other rout. 

2d.  That  in  June,  one  thousand  seven  hundred  and  eighty,  he  made 
an  unjust  and  fraudulent  return  to  General  Heard,  of  the  number 
of  his  men. 

3d.  With  having  uttered  ungentlemanly  and  opprobious  words  of 
His  Excellency  the  Governor  and  Commander  in  Chief  of  this  state. 

4th.  That  about  the  time  the  enemy  left  Princeton,  the  said  Major 
Stout  left  his  regiment  and  went  to  Princeton,  and  suffered  the  pub- 
lick  stores  to  be  wasted  and  embezzled. 

The  Court  taking  into  consideration  the  several  charges  against 
Major  Cornelius  Stout,  are  unanimously  of  opinion,  that  he  is  guilty 
of  the  first  and  third  charges,  and  not  guilty  of  the  second  and  fourth 
charges ;  and  do  adjudge  that  the  said  Major  Cornelius  Stout  of  the 
third  battalion  of  the  militia  of  Hunterdon  county,  be  cashiered. 

All  which  sentences  and  adjudications  I  do  approve  of  and  con- 
firm, and  order  the  same  to  take  place. 

WIL.  LIVINGSTON 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  24:9 

At  a   meeting  of  the   Whig  Society  of   Monmouth  county,   the  10th 

of  May,  1781, 
Resolved  unanimously, 

That  we  will  use  our  utmost  endeavours  to  support  the  credit  of  the 
paper  currency  of  this  state,  and  to  execute  the  law  strictly  against 
every  person  who  shall,  to  our  knowledge,  attempt  to  depreciate. 

Resolved,  That  the  concurrence  of  the  other  societies  in  this  state 
be  requested  in  the  same  measures  and  that  the  President  do  direct 
the  foregoing  resolutions  to  be  published  in  Mr.  Collins's  next  week's 
Gazette. 

By  order  of  the  Society, 

JOHN  COVENHOVEN,  President. 

TO  BE  SOLD  AT  PUBLICK  VENDUE, 

On  Saturday  the  19th.  instant,  May,  at  ten  o'clock,  the  forenoon,  at 
Tom's-River  Bridge,  in  the  county  of  Monmouth ; 

The  Sloop  General  Greene,  with  her  tackle,  apparel,  furniture  and 
cargo,  consisting  of  about  seven  hundred  bushels  of  Indian  corn ;  and 
three  young  negro  men,  viz.  Gilbert  Black,  Frank  and  Jacob ; — to 
be  sold  for  ready  money  only. 

By  order  of  the  Judge, 

J.  BURROWES,  Marshal. 
May  12,  1781. 

From  the  Pennsylvania  Packet,   April  28,  1781. 

To  THE  INHABITANTS  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  OF  AMEBICA. 
Si  nolis  sanns,  cwres  h-ydflopicus. 

Friends  and  Countrymen, 

We  are  now  entered  into  the  sixth  year  o.f  the  war,  and  yet  experience 
has  not  furnished  us  with  wisdom.  Our  officers  and  soldiers  have  in- 
deed acquired  a  considerable  degree  of  military  knowledge ;  but  every 
department  of  government,  in  every  state  in  the  union,  seems  rather  to 
have  lost  a  part  of  what  they  possessed  at  the  beginning  of  the  contest, 
than  to  have  added  to  the  original  stock.  Wben  Sir  William  Howe 
landed  on  this  continent  with  above  thirty  thousand  veteran  soldiers 
in  1776,  though  you  had  nothing  but  inexperienced  and  undisciplined 
troops  to  oppose  to  them,  no  despondency  was  to  be  seen.  At  the  be- 
ginning you  were  beaten,  which  was  expected  by  every  body  who  had 
any  knowledge  of  the  history  of  the  world.  The  perseverance  however, 
and  exertions  of  Congress,  and  of  the  different  states,  prevented  the 
enemy  from  reaping  the  advantages  which  they  expected  from  theif 
success.  Their  objects  were  conquest  and  subjugation,  and  they  were 
disappointed.  The  capture  of  the  Hessians  -at  Trenton,  and  the  engage- 
ment at  Princeton,  which  immediately  followed  that  event,  reflected1 
the  highest  honour  on  your  General  and  the  troops  under  his  command, 
and  gave  the  first  favourable  turn  to  your  affairs.  And  the  courage  and' 
conduct  of  your  army  at  Saratoga,  impressed  all  Europe  with  a  high 
opinion  of  your  military  character.  The  virtuous  cause  in  which  Amer- 
ica was  engaged,  the  wisdom  of  her  counsels,  and  the  bravery*  of  he,r 
troops,  were  every  where  the  subjects  of  conversation.  Your  friends 
were  delighted ;  and  the  various  publications  which  appeared  in  Eng- 
land, together  with  the  debates  o.f  the  English  parliament,  proved,  that 
your  enemies  could  not  with-hold  their  admiration,  at  the  same  time  that 
they  were  confounded  and  astonished. 


250  NEW    JERSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

In  the  hour  of  their  insolence,  the  throne  of  England  had  been  in 
vain  besieged  by  your  supplications.  Offers  were  now  made  on  their 
part  and  rejected,  infinitely  more  favourable  to  America,  than  had  ever 
been  proposed  to  her.  These  offers  came  too  late.  Your  representa- 
tives in  Congress  had  resolved  to  break  the  political  bands  which  had 
connected  you  with  England,  and  to  assume  among  the  powers  of  the 
earth  the  separate  and  equal  station,  to  which  the  laws  of  nature  and 
of  nature's  God  entitled  you.  And  for  the  support  of  that  declaration 
had  pledged  their  lives,  fortunes  and  sacred  honour. 

Other  insuperable  objections  presented  themselves  against  the  accept- 
ance o.f  the  offers  of  Great-Britain.  The  most  solemn  engagements  liad 
been  entered  into  by  treaty  with  the  King  of  France,  that  neither  of 
the  contracting  parties  should  conclude  either  truce  or  peace  with  her, 
without  the  formal  consent  of  the  other ;  and  they  had  mutually  en- 
gaged not  to  lay  down  their  arms,  until  the  independence  of  the  United 
States,  which  is  declared  to  be  the  essential  and  direct  end  of  the  alli- 
ance, should  be  secured.  The  two  contracting  parties  likewise  engage 
"to  make  all  the  efforts  in  their  power,  against  their  common  enemy, 
in  order  to  attain  the  end  proposed." 

It  is  not  my  intention  to  touch  upon  the  cabals  and  party  disputes, 
with  which  this  country  has  been  distracted,  both  in,  and  out  of  Con- 
gress, which  have  retarded  our  exertions.  I  pass  over  them  with  silence 
and  with  sorrow.  They  are  to  be  lamented  by  us  all ;  and  it  is  the  in- 
terest of  all,  that  they  should  be  buried  in  eternal  oblivion.  I  am  in- 
duced to  trouble  you  with  this  address,  to  remind  you,  that  the  stipula- 
tions which  have  just  been  mentioned  are  mutual.  That  you  are  as 
solemnly  engaged  to  France,  as  she  is  to  you.  to  make  all  the  efforts 
in  the  power  of  each  of  you,  against  the  common  enemy,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  securing  tne  independence  of  the  United-States,  and  that  you 
have  not  fulfilled  your  engpgem-ents. 

With  respect  to  the  army,  Congress  appear  to  have  done  every  thing 
in  their  power.  They  are  not  vested  with  legislative  authority :  but 
whenever  their  requisitions  are  made  for  the  public  good,  they  ought 
punctually  to  be  complied  with.  They  called  in  proper  time  upon  the 
different  states,  for  a  certain  number  of  men.  to  be  furnished  by  each 
of  them,  in  proportion  to  their  respective  abilities,  for  the  completion 
of  the  federal  army.  The  time  for  opening  the  campaign  draws  very 
near,  and  this  necessary  requisition  of  Congress  has  not  been  fully  com- 
plied with.  The  reinforcement  mentioned  by  the  Count  de  Rochambeau 
will  probably  arrive  during  the  course  of  next  summer. 

That  general  officer  informed  the  Assembly  of  Rhode-Island,  that  the 
corps  which  he  now  commands,  is  only  the  avant-garde  of  a  greater  force 
expected  from  France.  It  is  certain  that  the  avant-garde  has  proceeded 
the  main  body  by  an  unusual  length  of  time.  Unforeseen  circumstances 
may  have  occasioned  this ;  there  is  no  doubt  however,  but  the  latter 
will  come  :  And  when  they  do,  it  will  be  as  uncommon  a  spectacle  as 
it  will  be  disgraceful  to  us,  to  see  a  body  of  auxiliaries  sent  from  the 
distance  of  three  thousand  miles,  exceeding  in  number  the  national  troops 
of  the  country  they  are  sent  to  assist. 

If  you  are  determined  not  to  make  those  exertions  which  are  neces- 
sary for  establishing  your  independence,  it  is  an  act  of  cruelty  to  suffer 
the  war  to  be  continued  any  longer.  In  that  case  you  should  instruct 
your  representatives  in  Congress  to  send  a  deputation  at  once  to  the 
Court  of  France,  to  inform v  them  of  your  intentions.  They  should  be 
told,  that  the  solemn  assurances  which  you  gave  some  time  ago,  to  prose- 
cute the  war  with  with  all  possible  vigour,  even  to  the  sacrifice  of  your 
lives,  and  fortunes,  for  the  accomplishment  of  your  independence,  were 
words  without  meaning,  and  that  you  are  sorry  you  ever  made  use  of 
them.  That  it  is  true  the  English  have  used  you  very  ill,  that  they 
have  destroyed  a  great  number  of  your  bravest  and  most  valuable  citi- 
zens, have  burnt  your  towns,  and  let  loose  the  savages  of  the  wilder- 
ness to  murder  your  women  and  children,  and  have  committed  many 
other  acts  of  the  most  atrocious  nature.  That  however  your  hearts  are 
very  tender  and  disposed  to  forget  and  forgive  ;  and  that  therefore  you 
beg  to  be  absolved  from  your  engagements  with  the  Court  of  France, 


1781] 


NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  251 


that  vyou  may  sue  for,  and  receive  the  pardon  and  protection  from  th.e 
King  of  England,  which  he  has  been  graciously  pleased  to  offer  to  those 
who  truly  repent. 

Dishonorable  and  criminal,  as  this  proceeding  may  appear,  it  certainly 
would  be  less  so,  than  the  conduct  o.f  several  of  the  Legislatures  of  this 
continent.  These  Legislatures  are  of  their  own  creation,  and  receive 
their  political  existence  from  tie  breath  of  your  nostrils.  It  behoves 
you  therefore  to  enter  into  an  immediate  examination  of  your  conduct, 
and  to  instruct  them  on  those  points  wherein  they  may  be  found  to  have 
been  negligent  or  deficient. 

C  A  S  S  I  U  S. 

From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  178,  May  23,  1781. 

For  the  NEW-JERSEY  GAZETTE. 

There  is  hardly  any  thing  in  the  United  States  that  has  been  tjhe 
cause  of  so  many  publications  as  the  depreciation  of  our  bills  of  credit, 
nor  has  any  been  attended  with  such  horrid  injustice.  It  must  be  called 
the  accursed  thing;  it  has  already  ruined  great  numbers  of  the  most 
virtuous  citizens  of  this  as  well  as  the  other  states  in  the  union  :  In 
short,  the  continental  money  has  almost  made  its  exit,  being  now  de- 
preciated to  that  degree  that  I  am  ashamed  to  mention  it.  What  is 
become  of  those  piddling  polititions  that  continuelly  filled  our  news 
papers  with  their  performances  in  favour  of  the  depreciation  of  our 
paper  money,  pointing  out  the  many  advantages  we  should  avail  our- 
selves o.f  by  the  depreciation,  &c.  &c.  Since  our  Legislature  has  made 
up  the  depreciation  with  great  propriety  and  justice  to  our  army,  they 
seem  ashamed.  Let  them  alone,  they  have  spit  their  venom  and  done 
all  the  mischief  they  could,  I  only  wish  they  had  never  appeared  in 
print.  But,  Mr.  Printer,  the  same  set  of  monopolizers,  Silents  and; 
Dodgers,  are  endeavouring  with  all  their  powers  and  faculties  to  act 
the  same  tragic  scene  over  again  with  our  state  money.  The  common 
conversation  is,  that  it  is  already  at  two  or  more  for  one  in  hard  money, 
and  indeed  in  almost  every  kind  of  merchandize  ;  and  unless  our  Legis- 
lature speedily  interpose,  and  by  law'  put  a  stop  to  those  gentry,  I  am 
really  afraid  our  state  money,  altho.  funded  on  the  most  permanent  se- 
curity, will  share  the  same  fate  of  the  Continental. — This  I  apprehend 
is  an  task.  Men  may  be  divided  into  two  classes,  viz.  creditors  and 
debtors  ;  no  depreciation  ever  did  or  ever  will  originate  with  the  former. 
Perhaps  you  will  ask  why?  The  answer  is  ready,  because  it  is  the,  best 
interest  o.f  creditors  to  keep  it  good.  The  depreciation  of  money  always 
did  and  will  .originate  with  debtors  for  the  same  reason,  because  it  is 
their  interest  to  depreciate.  Has  not  the  most  careless  observer  ex- 
perienced this  to  be  true  within  the  last  four  years?  How  many  have 
made  fortunes  by  running  in  debt,  and  keeping  their  creditors  out  of 
their  money  until  the  depreciation  was  five  or  ten  times  as  much  as  when 
the  debt  was  contracted,  then  perhaps  pay  with  one  tenth  of  what  the 
thing  purchased  sold  for?  To  finally  cure  this  malignant  disorder,  let 
a  new  law  be  enacted  that  in  case  a  depreciation  should  take  place,  every 
debtor  contracting  any  debt  shall  pay  up  the  depreciation  which  may 
happen  between  the  time  of  contracting  and  the  time  of  paying.  This 
will  be  a  dodge  upon  the  dodgers,  and  let  this  be  the  only  tender  of 
our  state  money.  By  this  means  you  will  make  it  the  interest  of  debtors 
as  well  as  creditors  to  keep  the  money  good ;  and  surely  when  it  becomes 
the  interest  of  all  men  to  comply  with  a  law,  that  law  will  be  carried 
into  effect.  Long  arguments  are  unnecessary,  for  interest  governs  all 
men.  However,  I  have  but  little  expectation  of  anything  being  done 
effectually  until  a  self-denying  ordinance  is  adopted  in  all  our  Legis- 
latures, supreme  and  subordinate,  excluding  every  member  from  holding 
any  post  of  profit  or  honour  during  the  time  of  his  being  a  member  in 
either  Congress,  Council  or  Assembly.  This  was  done  in  a  former  revolu- 
tion, and  perhaps  one  as  important  as  that  of  these  United  States.  The 
minds  of  all  men  are  liable  and  subject  to  a  bias,  and  therefore  it  is 


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become  necessary  in  politicks  as  well  as  in  religion,  to  lay  asside  every 
weight,  and  the  selfinterested  views  that  so  easily  beset  us.  The  ex- 
perience of  past  transactions  has  taught  us  (not  to  mention  or  hold  up 
to  publick  view  the  particular  names)  that  it  is  now  become  necessary 
that  every  member  before  he  is  admitted  to  his  seat,  make  oath,  that 
he  does  not,  directly  or  indirectly,  hold  any  post  of  profit  or  honour, 
and  that  he  will  not  accept  of  any  such  post  during  the  time  he  may 
continue  to  be  a  member ;  then  and  not  till  then,  may  we  expect  our 
ipublick  affairs  will  be  conducted  as  they  ought  to  be :  then  may  we 
expect  a  law  in  favour  of  doing  justice  to  the  widow,  the  orphan,  and 
the  aged,  by  making  up  the  depreciation  to  them  as  well  as  the  army, 
&c.  For  how  can  we  look  up  to  the  Great  Governor  of  the  universe,  for 
his  blessing,  until  our  publick  measures  are  so  conducted  as  to  coincide 
with  that  great  command,  Do  Justice,  Love  Mercy,  and  walk  humbly  ! 
This  is  the  sincere  desire  and  prayex  of 

April  28,  1781.  A  TRADESMAN  OF  NEW-JERSEY. 


TRENTON,  May  30. 

The  last  Chatham  papers  gives  an  account  of  some  depredations 
committed  on  the  25th.  ult.  by  a  party  of  Indians  piloted  to  the  neigh- 
bourhood of  the  Minisinks  by  two  tories ;  but  as  we  have  heard  no 
more  of  it,  we  flatter  ourselves  it  will  prove  premature. 

The  Hon.  the  General  Assembly  of  this  State  are  now  sitting  at 
Princeton,  for  the  despatch  of  publick  business. 

At  the  annual  election  held  on  the  2d  inst.  in  the  state  of  Rhode- 
Island,  His  Excellency  William  Greene,  Esquire,  was  re-elected  Gov- 
ernor ;  and  the  Hon.  William  Ellery,  Ezekiel  Cornell,  Daniel  Mowry, 
and  James  M.  Varnum,  Esquires,  were  appointed  to  represent  that 
state  in  Congress. 

TRENTON  AND  ELIZABETH-TOWN  STAGE. 

The  subscribers  take  this  method  to  inform  the  publick,  that  they 
have  erected  a  complete  Stage-Waggon  to  go  from  this  city  to  Trenton 
and  Elizabeth-town,  passing  through  Bristol :  They  flatter  them- 
selves that  the  mode  they  have  taken  to  complete  the  journey,  with 
ease  and  despatch,  cannot  fail  giving  satisfaction  to  those  who  please 
to  favour  them  with  their  custom.  The  Stage  to  set  off  from  the 
Conestogoe-Waggon,  in  Market-street,  between  Fourth  and  Fifth- 
streets,  Philadelphia,  every  Monday  and  Thursday  mornings,  precisely 
at  six  o'clock,  and  to  reach  Princeton  the  same  day,  there  to  meet 
another  stage,  change  Passengers,  and  reach  Elizabeth-Town  the  next 
day,  and  so  complete  the  journey  in  two  days. 

The  Price  for  each  Passenger  is  TJiirty  Shillings  Specie,  or  the 
value  in  other  money,  and  the  same  for  any  Baggage  weighing  150  Ib. 

EDWARD  YOUNG,  and 
ICHABOD  GRUMMOND. 

N.  B.  No  run  goods  to  be  admitted  in  this  Stage,  nor  sealed  let- 
ters, unless  directed  to  gentlemen  of  the  army  of  the  United  States. 


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JOSEPH  INSLEE 

Has  For  Sale, 

At  Pennington, 

A  few  Tierces  of  best  Liver  Oil, 

Also, 

Pepper  and  Alspice. 
By  the  Hundred  Weight  or  less  Quantity. 

Whereas  publick  notice  was  given  last  year  in  the  Chatham  papers, 
desiring  all  persons  who  have  any  demands  against  the  estate  of  Sam. 
F.  Parker,  deceased,  in  Woodbridge  in  the  county  of  Middlesex,  on 
bond,  bill  or  note,  to  bring  them  in,  therefore  I  have  given  you  notice 
once  more  if  you  do  not  bring  them  in  by  the  last  day  of  June  next, 
or  you  may  depend  on  being  dealt  with  as  the  law  directs,  as  I  am 
determined  to  settle  all  I  have  to  do  with  it ;  and  all  those  who  are 
indebted  to  the  said  estate,  are  requested  to  make  payment  or  expect 
trouble,  and  to  come  to  the  house  where  he  deceased,  to  have  them 
settled. 

ELIAS  WINANS,  Executor. 

May  3. 

From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  179,  May  30,  1781. 

TRENTON,  May  29. 

The  members  of  the  Whig  Society  of  Somerset  will  be  pleased  to 
recollect,  that  the  society  will  meet  on  Friday  the  8th.  of  June  at 
eleven  o'clock  in  the  forenoon,  at  the  house  of  Mr.  Mershon,  tavern 
keeper,  at  Hillsborough.  JOHN  TAYLOR,  Sec. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

By  the  subscriber  in  Crosswicks,  a  General  Assortment  of  Mer- 
chandize ;  Cedar,  Boards  and  Shingles ;  also  'a  healthy  Negro  Girl, 
about  fourteen  years  old. 

JOHN  VAN-EMBURGH. 
Crosswicks,  May  30th,  1781. 

EIGHT  SILVER  DOLLARS  REWARD. 

Ran  away  last  night  from  the  subscriber,  in  Middletown  township, 
Bucks  county,  an  Apprentice  Lad,  named  William  Worstill,  about  19 
years  of  age,  5  feet  6  inches  high,  light  complexion,  well-set  and  full- 
faced  ;  he  is  remarkably  fond  of  playing  on  the  fife ;  by  trade  a 
miller :  had  on  and  took  with  him,  a  light-coloured  coat,  corded  jacket 
and  breeches,  a  corded  coattee,  and  sundry  clothes  not  known.  He 
went  off  with  one  Joseph  Gillam,  a  weaver,  and  John  Twining,  a 
labourer,  and  it  is  supposed  they  are  making  for  New-York.  Who- 
ever will  take  up  said  apprentice,  and  secure  him  in  any  gaol,  so 
that  his  master  may  get  him  again,  shall  have  the  above  reward,  and 
all  reasonable  charges  paid  by  JOSEPH  JENKS. 

May  26,  1781. 


254  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

THIRTY  SPANISH  MILLED  DOLLARS  REWARD. 

Ran  away  from  the  subscriber,  about  five  weeks  ago,  a  Mulatto 
Fellow,  named  Jack,  about  five  feet  two  or  three  inches  high,  fair 
complexion,  black  bushy  hair :  Had  on  when  he  went  away,  a  drab 
coloured  cloth-coat,  leather  breeches,  a  red  surtout  coat  very  large 
for  him.  He  is  a  good  tempered  fellow  when  sober,  but  sulky  and 
quarrelsome  in  liquor ;  he  is  well  acquainted  with  the  country. 
having  been  two  or  three  times  at  Boston,  and  was  servant  to  Dr. 
Hutchinson  when  the  army  were  at  Valley-forge.  He  is  a  good  taylor, 
and  probably  may  be  skulking  in  some  part  of  the  country,  working 
at  that  trade.  Whoever  takes  up  said  fellow,  and  delivers  him  to 
the  subscriber  at  Philadelphia,  or  George  Davis  at  Trenton,  shall 
have  the  above  reward ;  and  all  persons  are  forbid  harbouring  him, 
as  by  so  doing,  they  will  be  prosecuted  as  the  law  directs. 

ANDREW  CALDWELL. 

N.  B.  Said  fellow  would  have  been  advertized  before,  but  as  he 
had  a  trick  of  absenting  himself  for  two  or  three  weeks  at  a  time 
and  returning  home,  it  was  thought  he  might  do  the  same  now. 

May  18. 

The  publick  are  informed,  that  the  Continental  ferry,  at  present 
kept  across  Delaware  river  at  the  lower  landing,  will  be  discontinued 
after  the  sixth  day  of  June  next  ensuing ;  and  that  attendance  will 
be  given  at  the  upper  or  old  ferry  below  the  falls,  for  transporting  the 
publick  across  from  the  seventh  day  of  the  aforesaid  month  of  June. 

Trenton,  30th  May,  1781. 
JOHN  NEILSON, 

D.  Q.  M.  New-Jersey. 


From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  180,  June  6,  1781. 

BY  HIS  EXCELLENCY 
WILLIAM  LIVINGSTON,  ESQUIRE, 

Governor,  Captain-General  and  Commander  in  in  Chief  in  and  over 
the  state  of  New-Jersey,  and  territories  thereunto  belonging. 
Chancellor  and  Ordinary  in  the  same. 

PROCLAMATION. 

Whereas,  by  a  certain  act  of  the  Legislature  of  this  state,  intitled, 
An  Act  to  amend  an  Act,  intitled.  An  Act  for  establishing  a  fund  for 
sinking  and  redeeming  the  proportion  of  the  bills  of  credit  of  the 
United  States,  assigned  as  the  quota  of  this  state,  passed  at  Trenton 
the  seventeenth  day  of  November  last,  it  is  enacted,  that  it  shall 
and  may  be  lawful  for  the  Governor  and  Privy  Council,  immediately 
after  the  passing  the  said  act,  and  thereafter,  from  time  to  time,  as 
often  as  the  same  may  be  thought  necessary,  to  ascertain  and  declare 
the  general  current  rate  of  exchange  between  the  continental  cur- 
rency and  specie,  as  by  the  said  act  may  more  fully  appear. 


NEWSPAPER    EXTEACTS.  255 


I  have  therefore  thought  fit,  by  and  with  the  advice  of  the  Hon- 
ourable the  Privy  Council  of  this  state,  to  issue  this  proclamation, 
to  declare  and  make  known  to  the  citizens  of  this  state,  that  the  said 
Governor,  and  Privy  Council  have,  on  the  day  of  the  date  hereof, 
ascertained  and  declared,  and  do  hereby  ascertain  and  declare  the 
present  exchange  between  continental  currency  and  specie  to  be  One 
Hundred  and  Seventy-Fife  for  One. 

Given  under  my  hand  and  seal  at  arms,  Princeton,  the  second  day 
of  June,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  seven  hundred 
and  eighty-one,  and  in  the  fifth  year  of  the  Independence  of 
the  United  States  of  America. 

WIL.  LIVINGSTON. 
By  His  Excellency's  command, 

BOWES  REED,  Sec'ry. 

God  Save  the  People. 

A  Quantity  of 
WRITING  PAPER 

To  be  Sold  cheap  for  Ready  Money, 
at  the  Printing-office  in  Trenton. 

THREE  POUNDS  IN  GOLD  OR  SILVER  REWARD 

Ran  away  on  Sunday  night  last,  the  27th  of  this  instant,  from  the 
subscriber  living  in  Newtown  Buck's  County,  Pennsylvania ;  a  Negro 
woman  named  Fann,  a  short  thick  wench,  about  18  or  19  years  of 
age,  very  black,  thick  lips :  had  on  a  short  gown  and  petticoat  made 
of  linsey,  black  and  white  stripes,  a  large  bundle  of  other  cloths  for 
herself  and  female  child,  about  three  years  old  ;  it  is  expected  she 
has  been  assisted  by  some  negro  or  mulatto.  Whoever  takes  up  and 
secures  said  Negro  wench  and  child,  so  that  her  master  may  have 
them  again,  shall  receive  the  above  Reward  paid  by 

May  29,  1781.  SAMUEL  YARDLEY. 

FORTY  POUNDS  HARD  MONEY  REWARD. 

Escaped  from  the  guard  at  Hillsborough  in  the  county  of  Somer- 
set, in  the  morning  of  the  30th.  of  May  last,  Joseph  Brown  and 
Andrew  Lintnor;  the  first  formerly  went  by  the  name  of  Joseph 
Hubbs,  is  about  35  years  of  age,  six  feet  high,  and  of  slender  make, 
he  has  brown  hair,  and  is  remarkable  for  having  two  spots  of  white 
hair  on  the  crown  of  his  head.  The  second,  to  wit,  Andrew  Lintnor, 
is  about  five  feet  six  inches  high,  close  well  set,  brown  hair,  and  about 
30  years  of  age.  Whoever  apprehends  the  above  persons  and  delivers 
them  to  the  subscriber,  shall  have  the  above  Reward,  or  one  half  if 
only  one  of  them  be  taken  and  delivered  as  aforesaid. 

April  1st,  1781.  PETER  T.  SCHENK,  Sheriff. 

Was  taken  up  a  drift  in  the  river  Delaware,  the  llth  of  May,  ult. 
a  raft  of  thirty  white  pine  logs  about  12  or  13  feet  long,  and  two 
36  feet  long.  Any  person  or  persons  proving  his  or  their  property, 


256  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

and  paying  charges,  may  have  them  again,  by  applying  to  the  sub- 
scriber, at  Burlington, 

BRYEN  DOREN. 

N.  B.  If  no  application  is  made  for  them,  they  will  be  sold  on  the 
25th  instant  June. 

Strayed  or  stolen  from  the  subscriber  in  Trenton,  on  the  31st  of 
May,  a  Bay  Mare,  scarce  fourteen  hands  high,  six  years  old,  both 
hind  feet  white,  a  small  star  in  her  forehead,  short  dock  and  small 
tail,  and  some  saddle  marks.  Whoever  takes  up  said  mare  and  de- 
livers her  at  Mr.  Hunt's  store  in  Trenton,  shall  receive  Four  Spanish 
Milled  Dollars,  by  ROBERT  ROBISON. 

From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  181,  June  13,  1781. 

TRENTON,  June  13. 

On  Sunday  last  arrived  at  Philadelphia  the  brig  Allday,  from  Cork, 
late  commanded  by  Capt.  Stewart.  She  was  taken  by  the  Fair  Amer- 
ican privateer,  has  a  valuable  cargo  of  provisions,  &c.  on  board,  and 
sailed  from  Cork  the  28th  of  March. 

Wanted  immediately, 
*A  BLACKSMITH, 

Who  understands  his  business  well — to  whom  good  wages  and  con- 
stant employment  will  be  given.  Enquire  of  the  Printer. 

Taken  up  by  the  subscriber  on  Monday  the  4th.  instant,  at  Raritan 
Landing,  a  brown  Horse,  about  fourteen  hands  high,  a  natural  pacer, 
without  any  artificial  mark,  about  five  years  old.  The  owner  is  re- 
quested to  come  and  prove  property,  pay  charges  and  take  him  away. 

June  11,  1781.  JOHN  BRAY. 

THOMAS  LEIPER, 

Tobaconist, 

Has   removed   from   Spruce   and   Water-streets,   to   the   East   side   of 
Water-street,  the  seventh  door  above  Market-street,  where  he  has  for 
Sale,   Scotch  Snuff  and  Manufactured  Tobacco  of  the  first  Quality. 
Philadelphia,  May  26,  1781. 

TO  BE  LET, 

And  may  be  entered  on  immediately, 

A  large  and  commodious  dwelling-house  in  Bordentown,  with  stable, 
chair  house,  a  large  garden  and  pasture  lot,  all  in  good  repair. — For 
terms  apply  to  Joseph  Carson,  in  Philadelphia,  or  Joseph  Potts  in 
Bordentown. 

Said  Potts  has  for  sale,  an  excellent  light  waggon,  covered  with 
leather,  almost  new,  and  a  strong  two  horse  waggon. 

June  3,  1781. 


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NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  257 


From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  182,  June  20,  1781. 

Number  V. 
Mr.  Collins, 

The  several  preservatory  remedies  I  have  prescribed  in  the  course  of 
my  foregoing  numbers,  I  submit  to  the  candid  consideration  of  my 
fellow-citizens ;  I  hope  they  will  indulge  me,  when  I  make  bold  to  add 
another,  which  seems  in  a  natural  deduction  to  follow  from  the  former. 
8.  Let  every  citizen  freely  contribute  his  proportion  of  the  taxes  necessary 
for  the  support  of  the  war. — Here  I  mention  a  subject  of  the  last  im- 
portance to  our  political  salvation  and  a  matter  of  uneasiness  to  some 
of  our  citizens  (though  friends  to  their  country)  because  not  well  under- 
stood ;  therefore  hope  I  shall  be  excused  in  treating  this  subject  somewhat 
more  fully,  in  the  course  of  this  number. 

It  is  so  much  the  propensity  of  human  nature,  rather  to  preserve 
present  property,  than  part  with  it  for  distant  advantages,  which  they, 
with  the  community,  in  a  future  day  would  enjoy,  that  it  too  often  blinds 
them,  and  lays  them  under  a  cloud  of  prejudices,  against  the  clearest 
and  most  demonstrative  arguments.  This  I  have  experienced  in  my  former 
lucubrations  on  finance.  I  therefore  beg  my  candid  readers  to  lay  all 
such  prejudices  aside ;  and  impartially  consider,  what  I  shall  endeavour 
to  offer  on  this  important  subject. 

1.  It  is  self-evident,  that  a  war  cannot  be  carried  on  against  the  rage 
and  fury  of  a  powerful  enemy,  without  expence.     Such  are  we  necessarily 
and  unavoidably  involved  in.     Can  we  then  expect  to  be  defended  without 
an  army?- — To  have  an   army   without  pay,   provision   and  clothing? — To 
have   the   supplies   of   the   army   conveyed   by   extensive    land-carriages? — - 
I   say,   can  we  expect  to  have  all  this,  without  proportionate  expences? 
What  was   the   last   French   war    with    an   insignificant   Canada,    in    com- 
parison with  the  present,  when  we  were  only  as  auxiliries  to  the  powerful 
empire    of    Britain?      And   how    many    thousand    had    we    then    to    pay? 
New-Jersey  has  paid  part  of  her  quota  only  in  the  course  of  this  war. 

2.  Had  we   military   aparatus   and   a   well   stocked  treasury    at   the    com- 
mencement   of    the    present    contest?      None.      We    undertook    it    without 
arms  ;  without  ammunition  ;  without  funds.     As  our  cause  was  just,   we 
appealed   to   Heaven ;   and  our   civil   guides   relied   on  the  virtue  of  the 
people,  who  most  sacredly  pledged  their  honour,  by  a  general  association, 
to  support  the  cause  of  liberty  and  property    (the  motto  on  almost  every 
Liberty-Pole)    at  the  risk  of  our  lives  and-  fortunes.      This  association   I 
consider    as    the,  very    foundation    on    which    the    exorbitant    demands    of 
Britain  were  boldly  refused ;  and  a  dangerous  war  entered  into,  for  the 
preservation  of  every  thing  dear  and  valuable  to  us  in  this  world,  with 
an    humble    reliance    on    the    kind    interpositions    of    Providence    in    our 
favour.      Whither  or  to   whom,   then,   must   our  civil   rulers   look  for   the 
necessary    supplies    in    this   war? — To    us ;    only   to    us  ;    free    citizens    of 
America,  whom   the  relentless  fury  of  bur  enemies  has  not  been  able  to 
impoverish.     We  are  now  as  amply  able   to  support  the  war  as  when  it 
begun.     To   us  must  they  look,  who  have  pledged  our  word  and  honour, 
that    our    lives    and    property    should    be    devoted    to    the    support    of    so 
glorious  a  cause.     To   this  has  been   since   added  our  duty   and  oaths   of 
allegiance.     Do  we  thus  owe  allegiance  to  the  state?  then  we  owe  that 
part  of  our  property  to  it,  which  is  required  for  its  defence.     Therefore 
those,    to  whom   we   commit  the   management   of  the  war,,  have    a    right 
to  demand  a  sufficient  supply,  to  be  levied  in   taxes  ;   and  we  their  con- 
stituents, lay  under  the  most  solemn  obligations  to  pay  them. 

3.  And  as  much  as  is  sufficient  for  these  valuable  purposes    (if  properly 
applied)    we   are    able    to    pay.      It    is    true,    many    of   our    citizens    have 
suffered  much  by  the  savage  depredations   of  our  enemies,   but  these  are 
not    irreparable ;    our   lands,    the   source    of   our    abilities,    they    have   not 
been  able  to   destroy.     The  destruction   of  our  superfluous   and   luxurious 
wealth,  does  not  disable  us  to  support  the  war.     Let  us  only  act  as  we 
ought   to   do,   and  all   things   will   go   smooth   and   easy.      Let   us   forbear 
purchasing    thousands    of    the    superfluities,    and    the    less    necessaries    of 

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258  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

life,  and  at  the  end  of  the  year  compare  things,  whether  we  are  not 
as  healthy,  and  have  been  as  well  fed,  and  as  warmly  clothed,  as  when 
we  had  them — Whether,  what  is  so  preserved,  falls  much  short  of  the 
whole  share  of  our  tax?  I  have  tried  it,  and  findl  what  I  have  thus 
spared,  has  been  more  than  double  my  tax  in  the  course  of  the  present 
year,  and  I  never  have  lived,  as  to  the  superfluities  of  life,  above  my 
neighbours :  Add  to  this,  how  much  the  present  circumstances  assist  in 
the  paying  of  taxes.  Formerly  nothing  but  wheat,  and  sometimes  Indian- 
corn,  beef  and  pork,  at -dull  markets,  could  discharge  our  debts  or  pay 
our  taxes  :  Now  we  have  nothing  but  there  is  a  demand  for,  either  for 
the  support  of  the  army,  or  a  necessary  supply  to  our  neighbours,  which 
pays  for  what  we  want  of  them,  so  that  it  appears  clearly  manifest,  the 
man  who  paid  1.5  tax  in  the  year  1773,  towards  the  sinking  fund,  if 
he  will  be  frugal  and  prudent,  may  now  (being  in  equal  circumstances) 
pay  thirty  or  forty,  without  materially  injuring  himself  or  family  ;  and 
he  who  will  not  retrench  the  superfluities,  for  the  preservation  of  his 
liberties  and  properties,  deserves  to  be  distressed  for  the  recovery  of 
his  taxes :  Add  to  the  foregoing,  that  the  continent  allows  four  and  a 
half  dollars  for  an  hundred  weight  of  flour,  and  all  other  produce  in 
proportion,  which  is  upon  an  average  double  to  what  it  was  at  the 
period  before  mentioned ;  and  it  is  highly  probable  to  me,  that  foreign 
markets  would  allow  our  traders  to  give  higher,  if  there  was  a  pos- 
sibility to  glut  their  extortionate  appetites.  Now,  whatever  foreign 
markets  allow  more  for  our  produce,  is  clear  gain  to  us ;  if  these 
profits  were  properly  distributed,  and  not  embezzled  by  a  few,  we  would 
soon  experience  the  advantageous  effects.  Whatever  we  raise  the  price 
of  the  produce  we  sell  for  the  army,  eventually  proves  the  disadvantage 
of  the  farmers ;  but  at  foreign  markets  the  contrary.  If  the  taxes  were 
collected  in  the  produce  of  the  country,  and  all  the  remainder  would 
sell  at  foreign  markets,  so  as  would  enable  our  traders  to  give  double 
and  treble  what  it  formerly  was,  it  is  clearly  to  be  seen,  how  easy  the 
taxes  may  be  paid. 

4.  We  ought  to  pay  taxes  to  the  extent  of  our  abilities  with  alacrity, 
because  we  therein  have  a  prospect  of  surmounting  every  difficulty.  It 
is  evident  that  the  main  source  of  our  present  distresses  has  been  a  neglect 
of  taxing ;  and  however  unjust  and  ruinous  the  depreciation  has  been, 
as  to  inoffensive  and  helpless  individuals,  yet  it  has  paid  three  or  four 
years  expense  of  the  war,  and  leaves  us  an  encouraging  prospect  of 
conquering  our  national  debt.  To  encourage  us  in  freely  contributing 
our  proportion,  let  us  recollect  what  probably  is  our  debt.  Congress  tells 
us  in  their  circular  letter  of  September  13,  1779,  that  the  national 
accounts  stood  then  thus :  two  hundred  millions  of  dollars  emitted,  which 
at  40  for  one  is  five  millions  ;  almost  thirty-four  millions  borrowed,  at 
an  average  depreciated,  let  us  suppose  it  nine  millions ;  money  due 
abroad  about  2,000,000 ;  total,  seventeen  millions,  arrearages  and  ex- 
pences  since  that  time,  above  the  amount  of  the  taxes,  between  three 
and  six  millions ;  makes  the  whole  somewhat  above  twenty  millions  of 
dollars,  about  five  millions  sterling,  for  the  whole  continent,  which  is 
only  the  half  of  one  year's  expence  of  England,  for  the  support  of  the 
war,  over  and  above  ten  millions  annually,  for  their  peace  establishment. 
Should  not  a  review  of  our  present  debts  encourage  us  to  pay  freely, 
in  order  to  keep  down  a  grievous  national  debt,  and  prevent  a  con- 
tinuance of  our  present  embarrassing  difficulties? 

5.  The  absolute  necessity  of  it,   ought  to  induce  every  one  to  a  cordial 
compliance,  for  now  there  is  no  other  resource  left ;   the  emitting  more 
money,    we    know    the   ruinous    effects    of ;    the    little    in    circulation    will 
leave   no   prospect  to   depend  upon   loans,   so  that  taxes   alone   now  can 
save  us.     I  therefore  may  justly  conclude,  that  every  man  icho  attempts 
to  oppose  taxing  to  a  necessary  degree  to  support  the  war,  must  either 
be  stupMly  ignoraxnt,  or  an  abandoned  enemy  to  his  country. 

6.  The  taaes  ice  pay  (provided  they  are  properly  applied)   is   bestotcinn 
wha-t  we  can  spare,  to  the  best  purposes  our  present  circumstances  allow; 
for,  among  all  temporal  enjoyments,  civil  liberty  is  the  greatest  blessing : 
if  so,  then  the  appropriation  of  our  wordly  possessions,  for  the  preserva- 


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tion  of  that  happiness,  is  applying  it  to  the  best  of  purposes.  —  To  pay 
it  now,  and  not  leave  it  for  our  posterity  to  do,  is  most  to  our  ad- 
vantage :  this  will  appear  manifest  if  we  consider  the  uses  of  the  money 
the  community  may  now  get  in  their  possession,  must  be  probably 
applied  to.  Our  frontiers  are  so  situated,  that  the  purchasing  and 
cultivating  new  lands  is  impracticable.  The  natural  increase,  and  the 
numbers  moved  to  the  internal  parts  ofl  the  country,  has  already  over- 
stocked it,  which  of  course  must  raise  the  price  of  land,  little  of  it  is, 
or  has  been  therefore  purchased  of  late,  save  only  by  speculators.  Hence 
we  have  seen  so  many  waste  their  money  upon  the  superfluities  of  life, 
or  abandoned  dissipation.  Had  not  all  such  monies  been  better  applied 
in  paying  the  current  expenses  of  the  war?  If  we  now  pay  off  the 
debts,  then,  when  peace  commences,  and  new  worlds  of  settlement  open, 
may  multitudes  remove  under  the  encouraging  prospect  that  all  the 
fruits  of  their  toil  and  labour  is  to  be  clear  gain  to  themselves,  freed 
from  the  discouraging  load  of  taxes,  and  this  will  lower  the  price  of 
lands  in  the  interior  parts,  to  such  advantage,  that  the  purchaser  will 
have  double  the  benefit  of  the  whole  amount  of  the  taxes  he  had  paid. 
Consider  this  matter  in  another  point  of  view  :  Suppose  it  was  practi- 
cable to  obtain  sufficient  supplies  by  foreign  or  domestic  loans  ;  for  all 
these  would  arise  an  annual  interest  ;  which,  together  with  the  principal, 
must  in  a  future  day  be  discharged.  Then,  if  even  the  most  prudent 
put  the  money  out  at  interest,  which  he  has  to  pay  in  tax,  what  would 
his  profit  be?  this  his  money,  principal  and  interest,  must  go  to  pay 
off  these  loans  ;  and  how  many  thousands  would  have  squandered  away 
the  sums  their  taxes  would  have  amounted  to?  and  then  when  these 
loans  were  to  be  paid,  they  must  procure  it,  perhaps  to  their  tenfold 
loss.  I  know  the  flattering  idea  which  some  have  entertained  of  many 
foreigners  migrating  to  us  after  the  war,  and  helping  to  pay  our  debt  ; 
but  I  am  confident,  let  us  be  involved  in  a  large  national  debt,  and 
we  and  our  children  will  feel  little  alleviation  from  our  burthens  by 
the  assistance  of  these  foreigners.  To  say,  let  our  posterity  pay  it,  is 
much  worse  ;  for  what  a  brute  of  a  parent  must  that  be,  who  will  run 
himself  and  children  in  debt,  for  useless  superfluities,  with  a  view  to 
make  his  children  pay  the  principal  with  the  interest,  and  so  entail 
poverty  upon  them,  without  any  real  benefit  to  himself. 

While  I  was  about  delivering  my  sentiments  on  this  subject,  I  hap- 
pened to  get  the  perusal  of  an  excellent  treatise  on  Common  Sense, 
in  which  he  proposes  to  lay  off  a  new  state  back  of  Virginia,  to  open 
offices  for  the  sale  of  these  lands,  both  at  home  and  abroad,  which  he 
supposes  might  supply  the  necessities  of  the  war  ;  then  internal  taxation 
might  cease.  If  the  supplies  cannot  be  procured  by  taxation,  to  a  suf- 
ficient amount,  without  really  oppressing  the  country,  then  I  think  such 
a  scheme  much  preferable  to  destructive  loans.  But  if  the  subjects  can 
support  the  war  by  taxes  (which  I  presume  they  can  if  their  money 
is  properly  and  frugally  applied)  then  taxation  appears  more  safe  and 
beneficial  to  the  community,  and  that  on  several  accounts. 
1.  Government  cannot  depend  on  these  resources,  until  the  lands  were 
actually  sold,  and  the  payments  secured.  2.  The  greatest  part  of  this 
money  would  then  be  expected  from  foreigners,  who  would  not  chuse  to 
risk,  unless  they  could  procure  these  lands  under  their  true  value  ;  and 
then  aim  at  lordships  of  manners  in  a  future  day.  Why  should  our 
posterity  be  laid  under  any  necessity  of  paying  so  much  more  for  a  soil 
they  have  fought  and  bled  for,  to  a  foreigner?  3.  I  am  afraid  that  the 
fees  for  these  officers  would  be  surer  paid,  than  the  continental  treasury, 
and  perhaps,  in  the  issue,  the  lands  be  gone,  and  we  still  obliged  to 
pay  the  taxes  in  the  bargain.  4.  After  the  war,  the  empire  will  require 
much  to  put  it  in  a  proper  state  of  defence  ;  now  the  subjects  cannot 
lay  out  their  money  to  better  purposes  than  paying  the  current  debts  ; 
then  they  will  want  it  to  make  valuable  improvements,  therefore,  if 
these  lands  were  then  disposed  of  to  our  own  people,  on  reasonable 
terms,  we  would  be  paid  our  disbursements,  our  posterity  profit  by  it, 
and  the  empire  have  a  ready  fund  for  supplying  its  necessities. 


260         NEW  JERSEY  IX  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1781 

Upon  the  whole,  it  appears  manifest  to  me,  that  did  Americans  know 
their  true  interest,  they  would  rather,  for  the  present,  wear  patched 
garments,  and  feed  upon  common  fare,  in  order  to  discharge  the  current 
debts,  than  gaudy  apparel,  and  sumptuous  dainties,  under  the  increase 
of  a  national  debt,  or  squandering  away  a  treasure  of  future  advantage, 
for  a  momentary  releif.  I  am  Sir,  yours,  &c. 

A   TRUE   PATRIOT. 

Feb.   23,   1781. 

TRENTON,  June  20. 

In  consequence  of  the  interruption  of  the  post-rider  between  Fish- 
Kill  and  Morris-Town,  we  have  received  no  eastern  papers  for  three 
weeks  past. 

NEW-JERSEY. 

An  Act  to  repeal  sundry  Acts  restricting  the  trade  and  commerce  of 

this  state. 

[For  this  act,  passed  8  June  1781,  see  Acts  of  Assembly,  Chap. 
XXVIII.] 

An  Act  to  repeal  sundry  Acts  making  the  bills  off  credit  issued  on  the ' 
faith  of  this  state  a  legal  tender,  and  for  other  purposes  therein 
mentioned. 
[For  this  act,  passed  13  June  1781,  see  ibid.  Chap.  XXXII.] 

TO  BE  SOLD, 
By  Williams  Richards, 

At  his  Store  at  Trenton  Landing,  an  assortment  of  medicines,  amongst 
which  are  the  following  articles :  Antimony,  aloes,  anniseed,  balsam 
capivi,  calomel,  camphire,  cream  of  tartar,  cochineal,  Carolina  pink- 
root,  flour  of  brimstone,  flystone  glauber  and  epsom  salts,  isinglass, 
jalap,  ipecacuanha,  magnesia,  liquorish-ball,  opium,  olive  oil,  oil  of 
spike,  quick-silver  ointment,  spirits  of  turpentine,  &c.— With  a  com- 
plete assortment  of  patent  medicines. 

Also  to  .be  sold  at  the  same  store,  an  assortment  of  West-India 
goods,  hard  ware,  groceries,  &c.  as  low  as  can  be  purchased  in  Phila- 
delphia, viz.  rum,  sugar,  tea,  coffee,  chocolate,  molasses,  saults  of  dif- 
ferent sorts,  cotton,  indigo,  spices  of  every  kind,  mustard,  oatmeal, 
barley,  rice,  sago,  allum,  copperas,  Castile  and  English  hard  soap, 
corks,  stone,  earthen  and  wooden  ware,  black  bottles,  tar,  tobacco, 
snuff,  whiting,  chalk,  fishing  lines,  hooks  and  swivels  of  different 
sizes,  chalk  lines,  stone  lime  by  the  bushel  or  larger  quantity,  oakum, 
English  and  Dutch  grass  scythes,  cradling  ditto,  iron  tea-kettles, 
waggon  boxes,  nails,  whiskey,  geneva  in  cases,  logwood,  redwood, 
verdigrise,  grindstones,  mops,  Indian  corn  by  the  bushel,  old  canvas 
for  saddlers,  pickled  sturgeon,  sturgeon,  lamp  and  linseed  oil,  lamp- 
black, &c.  Also,  some  very  fine  hair  powder,  &c.  &c.  &c. 

Said  Richards  buys  mustard  seed,  fire-wood,  and  several  sorts  of 
country  produce. — He  has  a  shallop,  with  proper  stores,  and  a  careful 
person  to  deliver  and  receive  goods,  that  is  always  on  the  spot. 

June  13,  1781. 


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From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  182,  June  29,  1781. 

SUBSCRIPTIONS 

To  The 
National  Bank, 

For  The 

United  States  of  America, 
Are  received  by 

PHILEMON  DICKINSON  and 
LAMBERT  CADWALADER. 
Trenton,  June  19,  1781. 

To  Mr.  E. 

Sir, 

In  the  pursuits  of  truth,  arguments  ought  fairly  to  be  considered,  and 
therefore  the  true  state  of  a  matter  in  debate  well  understood  and  kept 
in  view.  I  have  asserted,  that  a  state  of  slavery  was  not  inconsistent  with 
the  hoy  scriptures,  but  on  the  contrary,  clearly  allowed  of.  If  this  be 
true,  there  must  be  some  foundations  for  it,  which  are  justifiable,  or 
a  just  God  would  not  have  permitted  it :  Permit  me,  sir,  to  offer  some 
further  elucidation  of  the  authorities  I  have  drawn  from  scripture, 
against  which  you  have  objected  difficulties  ;  and  then  some  remarks  on 
your  observations  respecting  the  grounds  or  foundations  of  slavery. 

If  slavery  is  consistent  with  scripture,  you  know  it  was  then  your 
province,  as  the  respondent  in  this  dispute,  to  have  proved  it.  For 
where  is  no  law,  there  is  no  transgression.  My  asserting  that  they, 
on  the  contrary,  clearly  allow  of  it,  demands  from  me,  as  defendant, 
to  prove  it:  this  I  have  endeavoured  to  do  from  both  the  old  and  new 
testaments,  which  arguments  you  refute  by  a  base  denial,  and  demand 
proof  for  what  you  deny,  with  which  I  shall  endeavour  briefly  to  comply. 

That  the  children  born  in  Abraham's  house  and  the  servants  purchased 
with  the  money,  were  such  as  we  call  slaves,  is  more  than  barely  prob- 
able to  me ;  my  reasons  are,  1.  The  Hebrew  word,  gnebhed,  is  here  the 
same  which  is  translated,  Lev.  xxv.  44,  45,  bondmen,  and  plainly  de- 
scribed as  servants  for  life.  To  be  born  in  one's  house,  connected  with 
being  purchased  for  money,  in  respect  of  becoming  his,  or  one's  property, 
is  clearly  of  the  same  import,  as  slavery  for  life  is  described,  Exo. 
xxi.  4.  If  hist  master  have  given  him  a  wife,  and  she  have  born  him 
sons  and  daughters,  the  wife  and  her  children  shall  be  her  masters. 
Lev.  xxv.  of  them  shall  ye  buy  bond-men,  and  bond-maids,  &c.  2  Abraham's 
government  and  care  of  them,  represent  them,  as  servants  for  life.  He 
had  trained  his  servants  born  in  his  house,  and  commanded  them  in  the 
pursuit  of  his  enemies,  Gen.  xiv.  14,  15.  None  were  to  be  circumcised 
but  such  as  belonged  to  the  family  of  this  Patriarch,  among  these  were 
expressly  mentioned,  every  child  born  in  his  house,  or  bought  ivith  money 
of  any  stranger  which  should  not  be  of  his  seed,  Gen.  xvii.  12.  The 
reason  is  offered,  chapter  xviii.  19.  For  I  know  him,  saith  God, 
that  he  will  command  his  children,  and  his  household  after  him,  &c. 
Now  if  these  were  not  his  bond-men  what  controul  could  he  have  over 
them?  What  security  thafi  they  should  not  leave  his  service  day,  and 
mix  again  with  the  Pagan  nations? — As  to  the  tenour  of  their  slavery 
is  not  to  the  purpose.  For,  if  the  not  proved  assertion,  that  he  could 
not  defeat  the  title  of  becoming  his  heirs,  but  by  having  issue  of  his 
own  body,  was  true ;  then  it  would  follow,  as  he  had  issue,  that  they 
remained  his  property,  and  his  sons  by  heirship,  for  which  I  contend. 
I  have  never  asserted  that  Abraham  had  no  right  to  manumit  his  slaves 
by  contract  or  will : 

The  proofs  from  the  laws  of  Moses  were  too  plain  to  the  purpose  lor 
you  to  deny ;  you  try  however  to  evade  their  force  by  reciting  the 
examples  of  Samuel  and  David,  like  your  Friend  to  Justice ;  that  of 


262  NEW    JEKSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

Abraham  sacrificing  his  son.  That  of  David  is  only  recorded  as  a  fact, 
to  be  approved  or  condemned  as  its  circumstances  demand.  The  other 
two  had  special  commands  to  individual  persons,  on  particular  occasions, 
which  God  assigns  as  the  reasons,  and  the  duration  of  these  commands 
were  limited  by  the  acts  they  required.  But  is  it  possible  that  you  or 
any  one  else  can  beleive  that  such  special  commands  are  of  the  same 
nature  with  laws  or  rules  God  prescribed  to  the  nation  at  large.  Your 
cavils  then  insinuate,  either  that  these  laws  have  only  been  given  to 
individual  persons  on  special  occasions,  and  so  expired ;  or  that  they 
were  temporary,  and  have  since  ceased.  Both,  or  either  of  them,  de- 
manded your  proving  it.  For,  a  law  obligates,  until  in  one  way  or 
another  disannuled.  This  subterfuge  I  suspected,  and  therefore^  en- 
deavoured to  shew  that  the  Apostles  had  acknowledged  the  lawfulness : 
To  these  you  object  the  same,  as  to  the  example  of  Abraham.  As  to 
I  Cor.  vif.  20,  21,  I  think  is  evident,  from  every  rule  to  be  observed, 
in  obtaining  the  meaning  of  an  author,  that  he  intends  servants  'for  life. 
The  connections  plainly  shews,  that  his  view  was  to  lay  down  rules  for 
the  professors  of  Christianity  to  be  guided  by,  in  the  discharge  of  their 
duty  under  their  trials,  to  the  ease  arid  contentment  of  their  minds. 
It  is  beyond  contradiction,  that  the  Roman  laws  under  which  they  lived, 
allowed  of  absolute  slavery  ;  and  more  than  probable,  that  some  of  these 
slaves  were  converted  to  Christianity.  Is  it  then  any  ways  likely  that 
the  Apostle  should  neglect  such  slaves,  and  so  often  shew  his  concern 
for  servants  who  are  at  their  liberty?  Yea,  what  does  he  mean  by  his 
saying,  art  thow  called,  being  a  servant,  care  not  for  it;  but  if  thou 
mayest  be  free,  use  it  rather.  If  they  were  not  slaves,  they  were  free, 
particularly  among  the  Romans.  If  there  was  any  other  servitude  cus- 
tomary among  that  people,  I  desire  you  to  shew  it.  The  import  of 
his  saying  then  would  anipunt  to  this,  you  who  are  free;  if  you  may 
be  free,  use  it  rather,  which  would  be  nonsense.  Compare  with  this,  I 
Pet.  ii.  18.  Servants  be  subject  to  your  masters  with  all  fear;  not  only 
to  the  good  and  gentle,  but  also  to  the  froivard.  If  these  were  not 
slaves,  why  exhorted  to  a  willing  subjection  to  masters,  skoliois,  froward. 
hard,  severe?  Surely  it  would  be  no  duty  for  a  freeman  to  submit  so. 
If  you  should  suppose  them  to  have  been  indented  servants,  in  such 
case  I  desire  you  to  prove,  that  any  such  servitude  was  common  among 
the  Romans  at  that  time.  If  you  cannot,  what  colour  of  reason  can 
you  have  for  such  a  supposition?  as  for  the  common  custom  of  slavery, 
not  only  among  the  Greeks,  but  the  Romans,  at  the  time  the  Apostles 
lived  under  their  government ;  I  appeal  to  ancient  history ;  to  the 
several  laws  and  rules  of  that  nation,  respecting  their  slaves ;  and  the 
different  ways  and  means  by  which  a  slave  might  be  manumitted.  Let 
him  who  pleases,  consider  with  the  foregoing  texts,  Eze.  vi.  5 :  Colos. 
iii.  22 :  Tit.  ii.  9.  I  say  again,  to  suppose  the  Apostles  to  have  so 
often  addressed  servants,  and  only  intend  indented  servants,  of  which 
there  might  have  been  a  few.  if  any  at  all,  and  entirely  neglect  those 
for  life,  of  which,  without  doubt,  there  was  a  great  number,  is  an 
unreasonable  supposition. 

You  seem  to  be  startled  at,  and  make  light  of  my  remarks  on  Paul's 
epistle  to  Philemon.  And  I  confess  your  manner  of  answering  them, 
is  a  matter  of  astonishment  to  me.  I  suppose  Onesimus  a  slave  for  life, 
or  forever  (which  the  scriptures  use  as  of  the  same  import)  this  I 
conceive  to  be  undeniably  evident.  1.  From  the  scope  of  the  whole 
epistle,  which  was  manifestly  the  reconciliations  of  Philemon,  to  his 
run-away  servant  Onesimus.  In  this  all  commentators  I  have  ever  read, 
fully  agree.  2.  From  the  manner  in  which  the  Apostle  manages  this 
matter,  verse  18,  he  beseeched  him  for  Onesimus.  If  he  was  no  slave, 
what  need  of  this?  then  his  going  away  needed  no  intercession. — What 
end  for  reconciliation  could  it  answer  to  say,  verse  11,  in  time  past  he 
had  been  tmprofitable  to  him,  but  now  profitable;  if  he  was  to  receive 
no  profit  at  all  by  him — if  he  was  not  his  property,  what  sense  was 
there  in  his  sending  him  back?  Verse  12.  If  he  was  not  his.  what 
right  had  he  to  send  him  again?  He  declares,  verse  13,  that  Onesimus 
had  ministered  unto  him;  Paul,  an  old1  m-an,  a  prisoner  in  Philemon's 


1781 ]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  263 

stead.  But  if  he  was  not  Philemon's  property,  then  he  had  done  this 
for  himself,  not  in  Philemon's  stead.  He  would  not  retain  him,  how- 
ever useful,  without  Philemon's  mind,  verse  14.  But  what  reason  for 
this,  if  he  was  not  his  master's  property  V — He  asserts,  that  he  had 
departed  for  a  season,  that  he  should  receive  him  forever.  A  good  reason 
for  reconciliation.  But  as  you  would  have  it,  it  runs  thus :  your 
servants  running  away,  has  proved  an  occasion  for  his  becoming  a 
Christian,  and  though  as  a  Roman,  you  had  a  right  to  his  services,  but 
now  as  your  fellow  Christian,  you  hare  none,  you  sJiall  never  have  him 
again.  Can  you  suppose  Paul  writing  by  divine  inspiration,  capable  of 
such  jargon?  I  desist  from  more  particulars.  If  you  duly  consider  the 
foregoing,  well  may  you  cordially  grant  he  was  a  slave  for  life,  which 
I  shall  beleive  until  I  see  any  other  kind  of  servitude  more  common  at 
that  time,  proved,  which  the  Apostle  might  more  probably  have  in  view. 
I  have  farther  supposed,  that  it  was  manifest,  the  Apostle  had  not  com- 
manded Philemon,  nor  even  insinuated  it  to  him  as  a  duty,  to  manumit 
his  servant.  This  you  deny,  and  assert  that  by  the  16th  and  17th 
verses,  Philemon  was  prohibited  to  keep  him  so ;  and  defy  me  to  dis- 
beleive  your  assertion.  The  text  is,  to  receive  him  on  Paul's  sending 
liii/i.  (ii/iiin,  not  nmr  a*  a  servant,  but  above  a  servant,  a  brother  beloved, 
specialty  to  me,  but  how  much  more  unto  thee,  both  in  the  flesh,  ana- 
in  the  Lord.  If  thou  count  me  therefore  a  partner,  receive  him  as 
myself.  I  candidly  declare,  that  if  I  was  to  attempt  beleiving  from  these 
words,  in*  their  scope  and  connections,  a  prohibition  of  Onesimus's  slavery, 
I  must  put  scripture  upon  the  rack,  and  offer  violence  to  my  rational 
faculties. — You,  sir,  must  found  your  opinion  on  the  expression,  receive 
him  not  as  a  servant,  but  above  a  servant,  a  brother  beloved.  This  phrase 
is  similar  to  that  I  Tim.  vi.  7.  And  they  that  have  beleiving  masters, 
let  them  nut  despise  them,  because  then  are  brethren;  but  rather  do 
them  sen-ice  because  they  are  faithful  and  beloved  partakers  of  the 
benefit.  These  things  teach  and  exhort.  These  things  were  to  be  taught 
servants  under  the  yoke,  who  were  to  count  their  masters  worthy  of  all 
honour,  that  the  name  of  God  and  his  doctrine  be  not  blasphemed,  see 
verse  I.  Beleiving  masters  and  servants  were  partakers  of  the  same 
religious  privileges ;  but  this  did  not  dissolve  their  civil  relation,  as 
Paul  here  positively  declares ;  but  rather  increases  the  obligations  of  a 
proper  discharge  of  their  mutual  duties.  See  further,  Ephes.  vi.  5-9. 
Col.  iii.  22,  and  iv.  1.  Tit.  ii.  9.  Yea,  can  you  beleive  that  Paul  should 
charge  Timothy  to  teach  and  exort  things,  which  he  himself  prohibited? 
If  he  intended  in  16th  and  17th  verses,  a  prohibition  of  servitude,  then 
the  main  contents  of  his  epistle  was  mere  nonsense,  an  intercession  was 
altogether  improper,  a  severe  reprehension  (somewhat  like  that  of  a 
friend  of  justice  to  his  antagonist)  would  have  suited  his  purpose  much 
better.  I  therefore  justly  conclude,  that  I  have  taken  the  true  sense  of 
the  Apostle,  and  am  truly  justifiable  in  the  use  I  have  made  of  it. 

I  submit  it,  sir,  to  all  who  understand  the  art  of  reasoning,  whether  I 
have,  in  my  former  essays,  begged  the  question  f  and  whether  the  propo- 
sition which  I  there  assumed  to  prove  the  matter  I  contended  for,  is 
not  founded  in  truth? 

As  to  your  remarks  on  the  foundation  of  slavery,  was  I  disposed  to 
prosecute  that  subject,  you  have  offered  me  several  opportunities  to 
expose  the  futility  of  your  reasonings,  but  my  view  is  not  to  plead  for 
the  continuance  of  slavery.  I  have  expressed  myself  in  this  respect, 
that  he  icho  runs  may  read  it.  I  have  asserted,  that  qualified  slavery  is 
not  repugnant  to  scripture,  but  plainly  allowed  of,  and  therefore  is.no 
sin,  and  deserves  no  judgments  of  God.  This  I  think  I  have  now  fully 
proved.  If  God  allows  of  it,  I  allow  you,  sir,  to  find  out  other  reasons, 
on  the  grounds  of  which  he  may  be  justified.  But  the  propriety  of  your 
condemning  the  German  Doctor,  and  approving  Justinian,  where  their 
opinions  perfectly  harmonize,  I  cannot  see. 

Your  observations  on  my  calculations  of  the  expences  and-  trouble,  ap- 
pear to  me  rediculous :  you  know  instances  of  persons  who  will  find 
children  from  their  birth,  until  14  years  of  age,  food  and  raiment,  at 
somewhat  more  than  thirty  shillings  a  per  year  :  And  I  hav3  known  an 


264        NEW  JEKSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.      [1781 

instance  of  a  gentleman  who  by  his  last  will  manumitted  all  his  slaves,  and 
bequeathed  his  whole  estate  to  them.  But  was  this  a  rule  for  the  com- 
munity ':  However,  as  every  citizen  is  more  less  capable  to  judge  of 
the  trouble  and  expences  of  children  from  their  birth  to  nine  years  of 
age,  and  from  that  to  eighteen  or  twenty,  I  am  willing  to  submit  it  to 
their  judgment :  And  in  case  iour  Legislature  should  enact  a  law  similar 
to  that  of  Pennsylvania,  I  will  be  glad  to  see  many  come  to  offer  se- 
curity, to  keep  them  at  your  calculation,  which  will  secure  the  differ- 
ent townships  from  poor  taxes,  under  which  I  fear  they  otherwise  will 
groan. 

Do  you,  Sir,  suppose  the  comparison  between  the  children  of  Paupers 
and  slaves  well  founded?  The  support  of  poor  children  of  freemen  is 
founded  on  civil  compact.  I  assist  others,  in  being  civilly  assured  that 
my  posterity  or  relations  who  may  come  in  similar  circumstances,  shall 
enjoy  similar  benefits;  and  so  the  ancestors  of  such  poor  children  in 
the  community  have  probably  done  to  others,  which  is  not  the  case  of 
slaves.  But  if  my  reasons  cannot  satisfy  you,  I  direct  you  to  the  civil 
laws  of  Moses,  or  rather  the  Supreme  Lawgiver  himself;  Exod.  xxi.  Lev. 
xxv.  Deut.  xv. 

You  conclude,  Sir,  with  an  address  to  the  passions ;  I  hope  you  will 
not  have  this  considered  as  an  argument  to  convince.  I  ask  you  seriously, 
if  you  had  been  pleading  for  levelling  principles  or  all  possessions  in 
common,  whether  you  could  not  have  framed  full  as  pathetick  an  address 
in  favour  of  the  poor?  Why  then  not  as  well  for  the  one  as  for  the 
other? 

A  LOVER  OF  TRUE  JUSTICE. 

March  21,   1781. 

TRENTON,  June  27. 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  a  Gentleman  in  Boston,   to  his  friend  in 
Morris-Town,  dated  June  7,  1781. 

"As  I  suppose  your  son  will  not  be  on  shore  to  write  you  by  this 
post.  I  take  pleasure  in  advising  you  that  he  arrived  here  in  the  Al- 
liance last  evening,  and  is  in  very  good  health.  The  Alliance  parted 
with  the  ship  Marquis  La  Fayette  early  in  her  passage,  since  when  they 
have  heard  nothing  of  her ;  I  wish  she  may  be  safe  at  Philadelphia. 
Captain  Barry  has  taken  six  prizes  in  his  passage  from  France  ;  a  sixteen 
gun  sloop  of  war,  copper  bottom,  and  a  twelve  gun  brig,  King's  property, 
two  brig  privateers,  and  a  brig  and  a  skow  loaded  with  West-India  goods. — 

One  of  the  brig  privateers  is  arrived  here,  the  other  prizes  are  looked 
for  in  every  hour. — The  Alliance  had  a  very  smart  engagement  with 
the  King's  sloop  of  war  and  brig,  in  which  they  had  five  men  killed  and 
a  number  wounded,  among  the  latter  is  Captain  Barry,  in  the  arm,  but 
not  very  badly." 

The  Honourable  Legislature  of  this  state  have  appointed  Elias 
Boudinott  and  Jonathan  Elmer,  Esquires,  Members  of  Congress. 

From  Monmouth  county  we  learn,  that  on  Thursday  last  a  body 
consisting  of  about  one  thousand  New  Levies,  British  and  Foreign 
Troops,  under  the  command  of  Cortlandt  Skinner,  made  an  incursion 
into  that  county  : — By  their  conduct  it  appears  their  intention  was 
to  plunder  a  place  called  Pleasant  Valley,  where  they  arrived  about 
11  o'clock,  A.  M.  with  little  or  no  interruption ;  the  inhabitants  had 
however  exerted  themselves  in  such  a  manner  in  driving  off  their 
stock  of  every  kind,  that  they  found  very  little  booty. 

The  militia  of  the  neighbourhood  were  by  this  time  beginning  to 
collect,  and  a  pretty  smart  skirmishing  was  kept  up  through  the 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  265 

remainder  of  the  day,  in  which  we  are  informed  our  people  behaved 
with  great  spirit. — They  began  their  retreat  about  sun  down,  and 
made  no  halt  till  they  got  to  Garret's-Hill,  where  they  continued  that 
night,  during  the  course  of  which  one  of  our  gallant  officers  made  a 
descent  upon  them,  and  rescued  a  number  of  their  stolen  sheep ;  the 
next  day  they  embarked  again,  having  captured  and  taken  off  with 
them,  by  the  best  account,  about  40  cattle,  and  60  sheep,  with  the 
loss  of  one  man  killed,  and  a  number  deserted ;  their  loss  in  wounded 
is  unknown :  The  loss  on  our  side  is  one  killed  and  three  or  four 
wounded. — They  have  burned  two  houses,  but  it  is  acknowledged  in 
their  favour  that  they  behaved  remarkably  well  to  the  persons  of  the 
people  in  general. 

By  their  coming  out  in  such  force  it  was  expected  their  aim  was 
to  have  penetrated  further  with  the  country,  to  prevent  which  the 
militia  of  the  neighbouring  counties  were  called  upon,  and  it  was 
truly  surprising  to  see  with  what  spirit  and  alacrity  they  flew  to 
their  arms,  and  were  crouding  down  from  every  quarter  to  the  assist- 
ance of  their  brethren  on  this  occasion,  when  accounts  of  the  hasty 
retreat  of  the  enemy  rendered  their  further  services  unnecessary. 

New-Jersey  |       By  virtue  of  an  order  from  the  Honour- 

Burlington  county,  ss.  j  able,  the  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
this  state,  I  am  directed  to  certify  to  the  publick,  that  a  Court  of 
Oyer  and  Terminer  and  General  Gaol  Delivery  will  be  held  at  Bur- 
lington, in  and  for  the  county  of  Burlington,  on  Tuesday  the  twenty- 
fourth  day  of  July  next : — All  Justices  of  the  Peace,  Coroners,  Con- 
stables, and  other  Ministers  of  Justice  of  the  said  county,  are  hereby 
desired  that  they  be  then  and  there  in  their  own  proper  persons,  with 
their  rolls,  records,  indictments  and  other  remembrances ;  and  all 
persons  who  will  prosecute  or  can  bear  testimony  in  behalf  of  the 
state,  against  any  offender  in  the  said  county,  are  desired  likewise 
to  give  their  attendance  on  the  day  and  at  the  place  aforesaid. 

JACOB  PHILLIPS,  Sheriff. 
June  23,  1781. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

By   publick  vendue,   on   Saturday  the  30th  of  June  instant,   at  two 
o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  at  the  house  of  Richard  Palmer,  in  Trenton  ; 
Two  draft  horses,,  a  good  four  horse  waggon,  divers  sorts  of  geers, 
waggon  tire,  tar  bucket,  and  a  good  new  mattock. 
June  25,  1781. 

JAMES  SCHUREMAN. 

Has  again  opened  a  store  in  New-Brunswick,  where  his  former  cus- 
tomers and  such  other  gentlemen  as  please  to  call,  may  be  supplied 
with  West-India  produce  and  some  few  articles  of  dry  goods,  on  the 
most  reasonable  terms. 

No  credit  must  be  expected. 


266  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

SIX  POUNDS  HARD  MONEY  REWARD. 

The  shop  of  the  subscriber  in  Trenton,  was  broke  open  the  18th 
instant,  and  the  following  articles  stolen  therefrom,  viz.  one  silver 
watch  without  chain  or  crystal,  one  movement  put  together  and  re- 
paired, one  movement  together,  the  chain  unhooked,  two  movement  in 
pieces,  one  movement  in  pieces  in  a  small  box,  one  slight  outside  case, 
two  boxes  of  small  tools,  one  silver  scissors  chain,  one  dozen  of  plain 
silver  coat  buttons,  one  pin  cushion  hook  made  of  silver.  Whoever 
brings  the  said  articles  to  the  subscriber,  shall  receive  the  above 
reward  and  all  reasonable  charges  paid  by  me. 

JACOB  MAUS. 

Trenton,  June  26,  1781. 

The  subscribers  having  furnished  themselves  with  good  boats  at 
the  new  ferry,  a  little  above  the  Falls,  and  almost  opposite  Trenton ; 
and  as  the  distance  is  near  the  same  from  Bristol  to  Trenton,  to  go 
by  this  or  Colvin's ;  all  persons  who  are  pleased  to  favour  them  with 
their  custom,  may  depend  on  any  easy  and  safe  passage,  and  the 
ferriage  as  low  or  lower  than  it  was  twenty  years  ago.  All  that  come 
from  Bristol  the  new  road,  please  to  turn  off  to  the  left  at  the 
twenty-nine  mile-stone,  about  three-quarters  of  a  mile  to  the  ferry, 
where  constant  attendance  will  be  given  by  their  humble  servants, 

JOHN  BORROWS 
GEORGE  BEATY. 

ROBERT  SINGER 

Has  for  sale,  at  his  store  in  Trenton,  the 
following  goods,  viz. 

Green  and  bohea  tea,  sugar  and  coffee,  mantaus,  mode  and  Persians 
of  different  sorts,  calicoes  and  chintzes,  black  and  white  gauzes, 
gauze  handkerchiefs,  linen  ditto,  silk  ditto,  broad  cloths,  black  and 
white  blown  lace,  an  assortment  of  ribbons,  and  several  other  things. 


From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  184,  July  4,  1781. 

STATE  OF  NEW-JERSEY. 

An  Act  for  raising  the  value  of  One  Hundred  and  Fifty  Thousand 
Pounds  in  money  and  other  supplies,  in  the  state  of  New-Jersey, 
and  for  other  purposes  therein  mentioned. 

[For  this  act,  passed  21  June  1781,  see  Acts  of  Assembly,  Chap. 
XXXIV.] 

TRENTON,  July  4. 

Thursday  last  the  General  Assembly  of  this  state  adjourned  to 
Wednesday  the  19th.  day  of  September  next,  then  to  meet  at  Prince- 
ton. During  the  sitting  they  passed  twenty-seven  laws,  the  titles  of 
which  will  be  in  our  next. 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  267 

IF  ROBERT  BOOTH,  late  a  waggoner  in  the  continental  service, 
will  apply  to  the  printer,  he  will  hear  from  his  friends  in  England, 
and  of  something  much  to  his  advantage. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

For  Cash  or  Country  Produce,  by 

Peter  Crolius  &  Anthony  Maraquier,  . 

At  their  Store  in  Trenton, 

All  kinds  of  chintzes,  lawns,  cambricks,  muslins,  gauze  handkerchiefs, 
black  and  blown  lace,  ribbons  and  tastes  of  the  newest  fashions,  and 
all  other  kind  of  summer  wear  suitable  for  ladies  and  gentlemen. 
Also  sugar  by  the  box,  barrel  or  smaller  quantity ;  and  a  healthy 
negro  wench  24  years  old,  and  a  boy  18,  sold  for  want  of  employ  only. 

TO  ALL  WHOM  IT  MAY  CONCERN: 

New-Jersey,  »  Notice  is  hereby  given  that  a  Court  of  Admiralty 
to  wit  J  will  be  held  at  the  house  of  Gilbert  Barton,  in  Allen- 
town,  in  the  county  of  Monmouth,  on  Saturday  the  twenty-first  day  of 
July  next,  at  ten  o'clock  in  the  forenoon,  then  and  there  to  try  the 
truth  of  the  facts  alledged  in  the  bill  of  Aaron  Swain  (who  as  well, 
&c. )  against  the  sloop  General  Greene,  her  tackle,  apparel,  furniture 
and  cargo,  and  also  three  negroes  on  board  the  said  sloop,  lately  cap- 
tured by  the  enemy,  and  recaptured  by  the  said  Aaron  Swain  and 
others :  To  the  end  and  intent  that  any  person  or  persons  concerned 
therein,  may  appear  and  shew  cause,  if  any  he  or  they  have,  why  the 
said  sloop,  with  her  tackle,  apparel,  furniture  and  cargo,  together 
with  the  negroes,  should  not  be  condemned,  and  a  decree  thereon  pass, 
according  to  the  prayer  of  the  said  bill. 

By  order  of  the  Judge, 

JOS.  BLOOMFIELD,  Register. 
Haddonfield,  June  20,  1781. 

The  price  of  the  Gazette  for  the  ensuing  year,  which  will  commence 
the  25th.  instant  is  fixed  at  3s.  9  per  quarter,  to  be  paid  in  gold  or 
silver.  Produce  will  also  be  taken  in  payment  at  the  current  market 
price.  ISAAC  COLLINS. 

Trenton,  July  4,  1781. 


From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  185,  July  11,  1781. 

STATE  OF  NEW  JERSEY. 

An  Act  to  raise,  by  voluntary  enlistment,  four  hundred  and  fifty  men, 
for  completing  the  quota  of  troops  belonging  to  this  State,  in  the 
service  of  the  United  States. 

[For  this  act,  passed  June  25,  1781,  see  statutes,  Chap.  XXXVIII.] 


268  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

TRENTON,  July  11. 

The   following   acts   were   passed    by   the   Legislature   of   this    state, 
at  the  last  sitting. 

1.  A  supplement  to  the  act,  intitled,  an  Act  for  regulating  fences. 

2.  An  act  to  declare  and  ascertain  the  privileges  of  the  subjects  of 
His  Most  Christian  Magesty,  residing  within  this  state. 

3.  An  act  to  revive  and  amend  an  act,  intitled,  an  act  more  effectu- 
ally to  apprehend  and  bring  to  justice  persons  charged  with  certain 
atrocious  offences  against  the  peace  of  the  state. 

4.  A  supplement  to  the  act,  intitled,  An  act  to  raise  by  voluntary 
enlistment   eight   hundred   and   twenty   men   for   the   defence   of   the 
frontiers  of  this  state. 

5.  An  act  to  enable  the  Congress  of  the  United  States  to  levy  duties 
of  five  per  centum  ad  valorem,  on  certain  goods  and  merchandize  im- 
ported into  this  state,  and  on  prizes  and  prize-goods,  and  for  appro- 
priating the  same. 

6.  An  act  to  direct  the  naval  officers  in  clearing  out  vessels  in  any 
of  the  ports  of  this  state. 

7.  An  act  to  alter,  amend  and  confirm  the  charter  of  queen's  college 
in  New-Jersey. 

8.  An  act  to  preserve  the  buildings  in  this  state,  belonging  to  the 
United  States,  from  being  ^Jistroyed,  and  for  the  punishment  of  those 
that  shall  sieze  on,  or  injure  the  same. 

9.  An  act  for  appointing  an  additional  number  of  persons  to  sign 
and  number  the  bills  of  credit  issued  on  the  faith  of  this  state. 

10.  An  act  to  repeal  sundry  acts  restricting  the  trade  and  commerce 
of  this  state. 

11.  An  act;  for  raising  the  penalties  on  delinquent  freeholders,  and 
on  persons  refusing  to  serve  as  constables. 

12.  An  act  to  alter  part  of  an  act,  intitled,  An  act  to  raise  a  fund 
by  loan  for  discharging  the  bounty  to  be  paid  to  the  troops  required 
by  Congress  as  the  quota  of  this  state. 

13.  An  act  to  compel  the  attendance  of  witnesses  at  militia  courts 
martial. 

14.  An  act  to  repeal  part  of  sundry  acts  making  the  bills  of  credit 
issued  on  the  faith  of  this  state  a  legal  tender,  and  for  other  purposes 
therein  mentioned. 

15.  An  act  to  revive  and  continue  the  act,  intitled,  An  act  for  re- 
building, repairing  and  maintaining  the  drawbridge  over  Crosswicks 
creek,  in  the  county  of  Burlington,  and  for  repairing  the  causeways 
adjoining  said  bridge. 

16.  An  act  for  raising  the  value  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand 
pounds  in  money  and  other  supplies,  in  the  state  of  New-Jersey,  and 
for  other  purposes  therein  mentioned. 

17.  An  act  to  amend  an  act,  intitled  An  act  for  striking  one  hun- 
dred  thousand  pounds  in  bills  of  credit,  and  directing  the  mode  of 
sinking  the  same,  and  for  other  purposes  therein  mentioned. 

18.  An  act  to  declare  the  value  of  the  continental  currency,  through 
the  several  periods  of  its  depreciation,  and  to  provide  for  the  more 
equitable  payment  of  debts. 


1781]  JSTEWSPAPEB    EXTRACTS.  269 

19.  An  act  for  altering  the  place  of  holding  the  inferior  court  of 
common  pleas,   and   courts  of  general  quarter-sessions  of  the   peace, 
in  and  for  the  county  of  Bergen. 

20.  An  act  to  raise  by  voluntary  enlistment,  four  hundred  and  fifty 
men,  for  completing  the  quota  of  troops  belonging  to  this  state,  in 
the  service  of  the  United  States. 

21.  An  act  for  the  releif  of  certain  persons  who  have  been  prose- 
cuted for  debts  contracted  on  account  of  this  state,  or  of  the  United 
States. 

22.  An  act  to  suspend  the  sales  of  real  estates  which  have,  or  here- 
after may  become  forfeited  to,  and  vested  in  this  state. 

23.  An  act  to  amend  an  act,  intitled,  An  act  to  provide  for  the 
clothing  of  the  quota  of  forces  raised,  or  to  be  raised  in  this  state, 
for  the  service  of  the  United  States,  and  to  repeal  the  laws  now  in 
force  for  that  end. 

24.  An  act  to  authorize  the  Governor  or  Commander  in  Chief  of 
this  state,  for  the  time  being,  to  call  out  a  part  of  the  militia  of  this 
state,  and  to  continue  them  in  service  for  three  months. 

25.  An  act  authorizing  the  Governor  to  grant  commissions  for  guard- 
boats  and  coasting  vessels. 

26.  An  act  to  amend  an  act,  intitled,  An  act  more  effectually  to  pre- 
vent the  inhabitants  of  this  state  from  trading  with  the  enemy,  or 
going  within  their  lines,  and  for  other  purposes  therein  mentioned. 

27.  An  act  for  defraying  sundry  incidental  charges. 

"House  of  Assembly,  Tuesday,  June  26,  1781. 

Whereas  requisition  has  been  made  by  his  Excellency  General 
Washington,  to  the  Legislature  of  this  state,  for  an  immediate  supply 
of  provisions  for  the  use  of  the  army,  and  the  Legislature  being  in- 
formed that  the  article  of  meat  is  most  wanted ;  therefore, 

Resolved,  That  the  contractors  of  the  several  counties  in  this  state, 
hereinafter  enumerated,  be  directed  and  required  forwith  to  procure 
by  purchase  as  many  beef,  cattle  or  sheep,  as  will  be  sufficient  to 
make  the  following  quantities  of  beef  or  mutton  from  each  county, 
vis. 

From  the  county  of  Essex  7500  pounds  of  beef  or  mutton. 

From  the  county  of  Middlesex,  7500  pounds  of  beef  or  mutton. 

From  the  county  of  Monmouth,  18,000  pounds  of  beef  or  mutton. 

From  the  county  of  Somerset,  15,000  pounds  of  beef  or  mutton. 

From  the  county  of  Burlington,  21,000  pounds  of  beef  or  mutton. 

From  the  county  of  Gloucester,  13,500  pounds  of  beef  or  mutton. 

From  the  county  of  Salem,  15,000  pounds  of  beef  or  mutton. 

From  the  county  of  Cape-May,  7500  pounds  of  beef  or  mutton. 

From  the  county  of  Hunterdon,  22,500  pounds  of  beef  or  mutton. 

From  the  county  of  Morris.  12,000  pounds  of  beef  or  mutton. 

From  the  count}7  of  Cumberland,  10,500  pounds  of  beef  or  mutton. 

From  the  County  of  Sussex,  12,000  pounds  of  beef  or  mutton,  giving 
receipts  for  the  estimate  quantity  received  from  each  person,  payable 
in  gold  or  silver  at  the  rates  following,  that  is  to  say,  for  beef  four- 
pence  by  the  pound,  and  mutton  four-pence  half-penny  by  the  pound, 
which  receipts  shall  be  considered  as  so  much  advanced  in  the  pay- 


270  IsEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

ment  of  the  tax  or  taxes  raised  by  by  the  act,  intitled,  An  Act  for 
raising  the  value  of  One  Hundred  and  Fifty  Thousand  Pounds,  in 
money  or  other  supplies,  in  the  state  of  New-Jersey,  and  for  other 
purposes  therein  mentioned,  not  only  of  the  original  holder,  but  of 
any  other  person  or  persons  in  behalf  of  whom  the  same  may 
be  tendered,  and  shall  be  received  by  the  township,  precinct  or  ward 
collector  accordingly,  or  shall  be  paid  off  in  gold  or  silver,  as  soon 
as  the  state  of  the  treasury  will  admit,  with  interest  at  the  rate  of 
six  per  centum  per  annum,  until  paid. 

And  the  several  contractors  are  hereby  required  immediately  upon 
procuring  any  cattle  or  sheep,  by  virtue  of  this  resolution,  to  forward 
them  to  the  superintendant  of  purchases  of  this  state,  or  to  such  place 
aa  shall  be  by  him  directed." 

We  hear  that  last  week  the  French  troops  from  Rhode-Island 
formed  a  junction  with  the  American  army,  on  the  east  side  of  the 
North-River ;  and  that  the  Jersey  line  has  been  ordered  to  march 
to  Kingsbridge :  From  these  movements  it  is  natural  to  conclude 
that  some  military  operations,  of  a  serious  nature,  will  very  shortly 
take  place. 

Wednesday  last,  being  the  4th  of  July,  the  Anniversary  of  American 
Independence  was  celebrated  here  by  the  discharge  of  thirteen  cannon, 
and  other  joyous  marks  of,  our  emancipation  from  the  tyranny  of 
Britain. 

"Princeton,  July  10,  1781. 

"Last  Wednesday  being  the  anniversary  of  the  independence  of 
America,  that  event  was  celebrated  in  this  place  with  great  festivity 
and  good  order.  In  the  morning  the  Ladies  discovered  their  taste 
in  ornamenting  the  houses  with  greens  and  flowers.  At  noon  the 
principal  Gentlemen  of  the  town  met  at  Mr,  Beekman's  tavern,  at 
the  sign  of  the  college,  where  they  were  honoured  with  the  company 
of  his  Excellency  the  Governor.  From  thence,  after  a  few  draughts 
of  good  punch,  they  repaired  to  a  tree  in  front  of  Mr.  Beekman's 
house,  from  the  top  of  which  an  union  flag  was  displayed.  Here  all 
the  inhabitants  of  the  town  were  collected  with  the  field  piece  be- 
longing to  it,  from  which  thirteen  rounds  were  fired,  in  honour  of  the 
states ;  and  before  each  round  one  of  the  following  sentences  was 
pronounced,  expressive  of  the  wishes  of  the  people  upon  the  occasion. 

"1st.  The  United  States  of  America ! — May  the  latest  times  see 
them  flourishing  in  independence,  in  happiness,  and  in  union. 

2d.  The  Kings  of  France  and  Spain ! — As  the  best  reward  for  their 
friendship  to  America,  may  they  reign  in  the  affections  of  their  sub- 
jects, and  be  deservedly  handed  down  in  history  as  the  greatest 
patriots  of  their  own  country ! 

3d.  The  Congress !  May  that  body  never  want  the  virtue,  wisdom, 
or  power  necessary  to  establish  the  independence  of  the  American 
Republic,  on  foundations  that  shall  render  it  the  wonder  and  the 
blessing  of  all  times  to  come ! 


1781 J  NEWSPAPEK    EXTRACTS.  2Yl 

"4th.  General  Washington ! — When  the  greatest  and  most  virtuous 
commanders  of  antiquity  are  named,  may  then  be  compared  to  him, 
and  hold  only  the  second  rank ! 

"5th.  General  Greene  and  the  commanders  to  the  South ! — May  they 
compel  their  enemies  not  to  boast  of  having  conquered  countries  which 
they  have  only  passed  through  as  travellrs  or  as  fugitives ! 

"6th.  The  American  Plenipotentiaries  to  the  Congress  at  Vienna ! — 
May  they  have  the  pleasure  of  seeing  the  ministry  of  Britain  as  hum- 
ble before  them  as  they  once  boasted  that  they  would  make  America ! 

"7th.  The  American  army  and  navy  ! — May  they,  victorious  over 
all  the  enemies  of  their  country,  live  to  enjoy,  as  happy  citizens,  the 
blessings  of  that  freedom  and  independence,  for  which  they  have 
fought  as  brave  soldiers ! 

"8th.  The  army  and  navy  of  France ! — May  Heaven  crown  her  Gen- 
erals with  success  in  the  defence  of  America,  and  give  her  Admirals 
the  glory  of  humbling  the  flag  of  a  nation  who  boast  that  they  are 
the  lords  of  the  ocean ! 

9th. — The  States  General  of  the  United  Provinces! — May  they  re- 
member and  revenge  Eustatia  ! 

"10th.  If  there  are  British  officers  who  treat  a  traitor  as  he  de- 
serves let  their  enemies  esteem  them ;  but  perpetual  infamy  on  the 
wretches  who  are  not  ashamed  to  consult  with,  or  to  serve  under 
Benedict  Arnold  !  ! ! 

"llth.  The  confederation  of  the  American  States ! — May  Virtue  ce- 
ment, and  ambition  never  disturb  the  union ! 

"12th.  The  Governor  and  State  of  New-Jersey  ! — May  this  state 
always  hold  a  distinguished  rank  in  the  confederacy,  for  the  wisdom 
of  her  institutions,  and  the  wealth  and  industry  of  her  citizens ! 

"13th.  The  College ! — May  this  institution  ever  serve  the  most  es- 
sential interests  of  the  state  and  of  the  continent,  by  extensively  dif- 
fusing the  influence  of  science  and  of  virtue  among  the  people ! 

"The  assembly  was  then  dismissed  with  three  cheers ;  after  which 
his  Excellency  and  a  great  number  of  Gentlemen  retired  to  partake 
of  an  elegant  dinner  at  Mr.  Bergen's,  when  many  patriotic  toasts 
were  drank,  and  the  officers  of  the  army  were  particularly  remem- 
bered ! — In  the  evening  the  whole  rejoicing  of  the  day  were  concluded 
with  great  good  order  and  harmony,  by  parading  the  students  of  the 
college,  and  the  militia  of  the  town,  in  the  presence  of  the  Governor, 
and  the  Gentlemen  of  his  company.  Each  corps  fired  thirteen  rounds 
and  gave  three  cheers,  and  every  man  returned  peaceably  to  his  own 
habitation,  and  happy  in  the  memory  of  this  great  revolution." 

EIGHT  HARD  DOLLARS  REWARD. 

Run  away,  a  negro  boy  about  15  years  of  age,  named  JACK, 
has  a  down  look,  and  is  a  very  great  liar.  He  was  in  Trenton  last 
Saturday  night,  and  left  it  on  Sunday  morning.  His  intention  is 
to  escape  to  the  enemy.  Whoever  will  secure  and  deliver  the  said 
negro  boy  to  the  printer  hereof,  shall  have  the  above  reward,  and 
reasonable  charges  paid. 

Trenton,  July  10,  1781. 


272  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

TEN  HARD  DOLLARS  REWARD. 

Run  Away  from  the  subscriber  yesterday  morning,  a  certain  negro 
woman  named  Bet,  about  21  years  of  age :  Had  on  a  green  hat,  a 
long  red  striped  calico  gown,  a  brown  linsey  petticoat,  a  striped  lawn 
apron.  She  took  with  her  a  female  child  of  about  3  years  of  age, 
also  several  other  sorts  of  clothes.  Whoever  secures  her  and  delivers 
her  to  the  subscribers,  shall  have  the  above  reward  paid  by 

Burlington,  July  11,  1781.  JACOB  PHILLIPS. 

STATE  OF  NEW-JERSEY. 

An  Act  to  authorize  the  Governor  or  Commander  in  Chief  of  this 
State,  for  the  time  being,  to  call  out  a  part  of  the  malitia  of  this 
State,  and  to  continue  them  in  service  for  three  months. 

[For  this  act,  passed  27  June  1781,  see  Stat.,  Chap.  XLII.] 
From  the  Neic  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  186,  July  18,  1781. 

STATE  OF  NEW-JERSEY. 

An  Act  to  amend  an  act,  intitled,  An  Act  more  effectually  to  prevent 
the  inhabitants  of  this  state  from  trading  with  the  enemy,  or 
going  within  their  lines,  and  for  other  purposes  therein  mentioned. 

[For  this  law,  passed  *.me  28,  1781,  see  ibid.  Chap.  XLIV.] 

Last  Friday  passed  through  this  town  on  his  way  to  Philadelphia, 
Monsieur  De  Letombe,  Consul  General  of  France,  for  the  four  New- 
England  States,  with  which  Commission  he  lately  arrived  at  Boston, 
which  he  purposes  to  make  the  place  of  his  residence.  As  his  busi- 
ness would  only  permit  him  barely  to  stop  at  this  place  to  deliver 
some  dispatches  to  the  Governor,  His  Excellency  to  shew  him  all  the 
civility  in  his  power,  accompanied  him  as  far  as  Bristol. 

Extract  from  a  letter  from  an  Officer  of  rank  in  the  Jersey  Line, 
dated  Camp  at  Dobb's-Ferry,  July  13,  1781. 

"The  greatest  part  of  yesterday  we  were  amused  with  the  noise  of  a 
very  heavy  cannonade,  and  this  day  we  have  the  substantial  pleasure  of 
hearing  the  effects  of  it.  A  severe  engagement  in  the.  sound,  nearly  op- 
posite Frog's-Point,  took  place  between  two  French  frigates  and  a  British 
guard-ship  of  32  guns,  a  16  gun  brig,  and  some  other  armed  vessels, 
under  cover  of  a  battery  on  shore.  The  conflict  lasted  the  greater  part 
of  the  day,  with  much  warmth,  and  ended  in  the  surrender  of  the  British 
vessels  and  demolition  of  the  battery.  The  particulars  concerning  the 
killed  and  wounded  have  not  yet  reached  us,  as  we  lie  some  distance 
from  head-quarters,  and  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  North-River,  but 
expect  every  hour  to  be  favoured  with  them. — The  army  of  our  benevolent 
ally  makes  an  illustrious  appearance,  and  that  of  our  own  is  by  no 
means  contemptible ;  so  that  from  their  combined  prowess  we  may  expect 
the  most  brilliant  success.  A  large  harvest  of  glory  is  just  at  hand, 
and  we  are  ready  to  put  in  our  sickles,  and  reap.  Who  may  live  to 
enjoy  the  fruits  of  it,  the  fates  have  happily  concealed  from  you  and 
me ;  but  this  we  are  sure  of,  that  posterity  will  bless  the  survivors, 
and  as  they  pass  the  graves  of  the  unfortunates,  will  cry  with  grateful 
hearts  and  melting  eyes  "Peace  to  their  names." 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  2YS 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

A  NEGRO  BOY  between  15  and  16  years  of  age,  has  had 
both  the  small-pox  and  measles,  and  is  entered  in  the  office  in  Penn- 
sylvania.— To  prevent  trolible,  his  lowest  price  is  Eighty  Pounds  in 
gold  or  silver,  at  which  he  is  cheap.  Apply  to  the  printer  hereof. 

PROCLAMATION. 

Every  day  from  day-break  till  noon  there  will  be  in  the  French 
camp,  a  market  held,  near  the  house  of  Henry  Taylor. — All  the  Amer- 
icans who  will  bring  provisions  to  the  army  shall  be  protected  by  the 
guard  of  the  French  Head-Quarters,  and  by  the  Prevost,  and  will 
have  liberty  to  sell  their  provisions  by  agreement,  and  without  being 
any  ways  hindered.  The  posts  of  the  army  will  protect  their  passing 
and  repassing,  and  it  will  be  permitted  to  no  one  to  take  their  pro- 
visions, except  by  their  consent  at  the  market  place. 

A  Quantity  of 
WRAPPING  PAPER 

To  be  Sold  at  the  Printing-Office  in  Trenton. 

WANTED  IMMEDIATELY, 

An  industrious,  honest  GIRL,  to  do  housework,  to  whom  good 
wages  will  be  given,  Enquire  of  the  Printer. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

For  Cash  or  Country  Produce  by 
PETER  CROLIUS  &  ANTHONY  MARAQUIER, 

At  their  Store  in  Trenton, 

Striped  broad  cloths,  Black  velvet,  Black  and  white  gauzes,  Black 
satin,  Black  taffety,  Ell  wide  mode,  Black,  green  and  white  Persians, 
Mantaus,  Ditto  capes,  Gauze  handkerchiefs,  Barcelona  ditto,  Renting 
ditto,  Bandano  ditto,  Chintzes  and  callico,  Flowered  aprons  and 
ruffles,  Striped  and  plain  kenting,  Cat-gut,  Cambric,  lawn  and  muslin, 
Ribbons  and  tastes,  the  newest  fashions,  Check  linen,  Black  and 
white  blown  lace,  An  assortment  of  linen,  Russia  and  oznabrigs,  An 
assortment  of  buttons,  mohair,  silk  and  thread,  Fans,  and  men  and 
women's  gloves,  Hair  pins  by  the  hundred,  Sleeve  buttons,  Buckles, 
Knives  and  forks,  Snuff  boxes,  Buckle  brushes,  Sugar  by  the  box 
or  barrel,  Tea,  coffee,  and  chocolate,  Salt,  pepper  and  allspice,  Glass 
and  earthen  ware,  Writing  paper,  Paste  boards,  Brimstone,  Indigo : 
And  a  variety  of  other  articles  too  tedious  to  mention. 

18 


274  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

WILLIAM  LAWSON,   | 
In  New-Brunswick, 

Near  the  market-house,  in  the  house  formerly  occupied  by  Mr.  M'ln- 
tire,  has  for  sale,  and  intends  to  keep  a  pretty  general  assortment  of 
the  following  articles,  viz. 

Best  yard  wide  mode,  Sewing  silk,  Bonnet  papers  by  the  sheet,  fine 
and  coarse,  Linens,  Sagathies,  Womens  fans,  Handkerchiefs,  Gauze, 
Cambricks,  Lawns,  Brown  corduroy,  Shaloon,  West  India  rum,  White 
and  brown  sugar  by  the  barrel  or  smaller  quantity,  Tobacco  by  the 
roll,  Snuff  by  the  bladder,  An  assortment  of  earthen  and  stone  ware, 
Wool  cards,  Pepper,  Gun  powder,  Brimstone,  Double  gilt  buttons, 
Indigo,  Chocolate.  And  a  variety  of  other  articles,  at  the  lowest 
price  for  cash  or  country  produce. 

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,  in  Allentown,  on  Friday,  the  27th  July 
instant,  at  ten  o'clock  in  the  forenoon,  for  the  trial  of  the  following 
negro  slaves,  viz.  George  Elliot,  Benj.  George,  Daniel,  George  Thomas, 
Moses,  Charles  Burne,  James  Sherman,  Henry  Hunt,  Caesar  John- 
son, Bond  Porter,  Adam,  Gabriel,  Edward,  James,  Frank  Ben,  Wil- 
liam Simmons,  William  Mellery,  William  Henry,  George  Gregory, 
Sweepstakes  Paterson,  John  Emerson,  James  and  Juno,  lately  taken 
at  sea  out  of  the  British  privateer  called  the  Malton,  commanded 
by  Henry  Hall,  and  libelled  against  by  John  M'Nachtane,  (who  is 
well,  &c.)'  To  the  end  that  all  persons  may  appear  and  shew  cause, 
if  any  they  have,  wherefore  a  decree  may  not  pass  pursuant  to  the 
prayer  of  the  libel,  &c. 

.By  order  of  the  Judge, 

JOS.  BLOOMFIELD,  Register. 

FOUR  HARD  DOLLARS  REWARD. 

Stolen  out  of  the  pasture  of  the  subscriber,  in  the  night  of  the  12th 
of  July,  a  light  sorrel  horse,  16  years  old  this  grass,  about  15  hands 
high,  trots  and  canters,  has  a  bald  face,  white  mane  and  tail.  Any 
person  delivering  the  said  horse  to  me  in  Hillsborough,  Somerset 
county,  shall  have  the  above  reward. 

GARRET  TERHUNE. 

From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  187,  July  25,  1781. 

STATE  OF  NEW-JERSEY. 

An  act  to  declare  the  value  of  the  continental  currency,  through 
the  several  periods  of  its  depreciation,  and  to  provide  for  the  more 
equitable  payment  of  debts. 

[For  this  law,  passed  22  June  1781,  see  Statutes,  Chap.  XXXVI.] 


1781]  NEWSPAPEE    EXTKACTS.  275 

NORWICH,  JULY  12. 

Yesterday  morning  several  French  frigates,  and  a  few  smaller  ves- 
sels, passed  the  harbour  of  New-London,  from  Newport ; — they  in- 
formed some  of  our -people  who  were  out  in  boats,  that  the  whole  fleet 
were  passing  the  south  side  of  Long-Island,  bound  to  Sandy-Hook. 

This  Day's  Gazette,  No.  187,  begins  the  year.  The  price  is  fixed 
at  Three  Shillings  and  Nine-pence  by  the  quarter,  to  be  paid  in  gold 
or  silver. — Produce  will  be  taken  in  payment  at  the  current  market 
price. 

The  Publisher  assures  his  customers,  that  whenever  the  expenses  of 
paper,  wages,  &c.  are  reduced  to  the  standard  they  were  at  before  the 
war,  the  price  of  this  Gazette  shall  be  lowered  to  Ten  Shillings  per 
Annum.  ISAAC  COLLINS. 

Trenton,  July  25,  1781. 

TO  BE  SOLD. 
At  publick  vendue,  at  ten  o'clock  on  Friday  next, 

BY  JACOB  BENJAMIN, 
Opposite  the  Printing-Office  in  Trenton, 

Sundry  sorts  of  wearing  apparel,  such  as  hats,  shirts,  stocks,  coats, 
waistcoats,  breeches. — Also  sheets  and  towels.  Likewise  a  dough- 
trough,  spinning  wheel,  ladles,  and  sundry  other  articles  too  tedious 
to  mention. 

The  owner  of  the  ferry  known  by  the  name  of  the  Trenton  Old 
Ferry,  on  the  post  road  leading  to  Philadelphia,  and  where  the  pub- 
lick  all  crosses,  has  provided  the  said  ferry  with  the  best  boats  that 
ever  have  been  constructed  for  the  safety  of  transporting  passengers, 
horses  and  carriages,  in  time  of  freshes,  wind  and  ice,  and  a  number 
of  careful  hands  that  have  nothing  else  to  do  but  work  the  boats,  and 
are  always  ready  on  the  spot.  The  ferriages  are  as  follows,  viz. 

Waggon  and  four  horses         5s. 

Waggon  and  two  horses    3s.  9d. 

A  chair  Is.  6d. 

Man  and  horse  6d. 

A  foot  person  3d. 

And  all  other  ferriages  in  Proportion. 

THIS  IS  TO  GIVE  NOTICE, 

That  the  subscriber  has  for  sale,  at  his  seat  at  Dansborough,  within 
two  miles  and  a  half  of  Princeton,  and  two  of  Rocky-Hill,  an  excel- 
lent eighty  gallon  still,  which  he  will  sell  low  for  hard  money  only, 
as  he  has  declined  the  business,  and  proposes  to  set  up  a  brewery. 
July  6,  1781.  DANNIEL  MANNING. 


276         NEW  JERSEY  IX  THE  REVOLUTION. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

A  negro  wench  about  twenty-three  years  of  age,  with  a  female  child 
12  mouths  old. — She  is  this  country  born,  healthy,  a  good  cook,  and 
acquainted  with  all  kinds  of  house  work ;  can  be  recommended  for 
her  honesty  and  sobriety,  and  is  not  sold  for  any  fault.  Enquire  of 
Mrs.  Carey,  in  the  city  of  Burlington. 

TO  ALL  WHOM  IT  MAY  CONCERN : 

New-Jersey     i    Notice   is   hereby   given,   that   a   Court   of  Admiralty 
ss.  I   will  be  held  in  the  Courthouse  at  Burlington,  on  Fri- 

day the  seventeenth  day  of  August  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  John  Badcock,  (who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the 
schooner  Polly,  her  tackle,  apparel,  furniture  and  cargo,  lately  com- 
manded by  Captain  Mullet,  captured  by  the  enemy,  and  recaptured 
by  the  said  John  Badcock  :  To  the  end  and  intent  that  any  person 
or  persons  concerned  therein  may  appear  and  shew  cause,  if  any 
he  or  they  have,  why  the  said  schooner,  with  her  tackle,  apparel, 
furniture,  and  cargo,  should  not  be  condemned,  and  a  decree  thereon 
pass,  according  to  the  prayer  of  the  said  bill. 
By  order  of  the  Judge, 

JOS.  BLOOMFIELD,  Register. 
Haddonfield,  July  21,"l781. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

On  Wednesday,  the  first  day  of  August  next, 

The  prize  schooner  Polly,  (now  lying  at  Tuckahoe,  in  Great-Egg-Har- 
bour river)  with  her  tackle,  apparel,  furniture  and  cargo. — Her  cargo 
consisting  of  seven  hundred  bushels  of  Anguilla  salt. 

Nothing  but  specie  will  be  taken  in  payment,  and  the  cash  to  be 
paid  on  delivery  of  the  goods. 

By  order  of  the  Judge, 

J.  BURROWS,  Marshal  of  the 
July  21,  1781.  Court  of  Admiralty. 

STATE  OF  NEW-JERSEY. 

An  act  to  enable  the  Congress  of  the  United  States  to  levy  duties 
of  five  per  centum,  ad  valorem,  on  certain  goods  and  merchandize 
imported  into  this  state,  and  on  prizes  and  prize  goods,  and  for  appro- 
priating the  same. 

[For  this  act,  passed  June  2,  1781,  see  Acts  of  Session,  Chap. 
XXIII.] 

From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette',  Vol  IV.,  No.  188,  August  1,  1781. 

The  following  is  a  copy  of  a  letter,  fonnd  in  the  packet  from  Eng- 
land bound  to  New-York,  but  taken  on  her  passage  and  carried  into 
France. 


1781] 


NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  277 


(No.  81.)  Whitehall,  7th.  March,  1781. 

Since  my  letters  to  you  of  the  7th  February,  I  have  received  your 
despatches,  numbered  from  113  to  117,  inclusive  and  laid  them  before 
the  King. 

The.  revolt  of  the  Pennsylvania  line,  and  Jersey  brigade,  tho'  not 
attended  with  all  the  good  consequences  that  might  have  been  expected, 
are  certainly  events  of  very  great  importance,  and  must  have  very  ex- 
tensive effects,  both  in  reducing  Washington's  present  force,  and  pre- 
venting its  being  recruited  by  new  levies  ;  and  as  I  doubt  not  you  will 
avail  yourself  of  his  weakness  and  your  own  great  superiority,  to  send 
a  considerable  force  to  the  head  of  the  Chesapeak,  as  soon  as  the  season 
will  permit  operation  to  be  carried  on  in  that  quarter.  I  flatter  myself 
the  southern  provinces  will  be  recovered  to  his  Magesty's  obedience  before 
the  long  promised  succours,  none  of  which  are  yet  sailed,  can  arrive  from 
France,  and  Mr.  Washington,  unable  to  draw  subsistence  for  his  troops 
from  the  west  side  of  the  Hudson's  river,  be  compelled  to  cross  it,  and 
take  refuge  in  the  eastern  provinces.  I  am  very  anxious  to  hear  of 
Lord  Cornwallis's  progress  since  General  Leslie  joined  him ;  I  have  no 
doubt  his  movements  will  be  rapid  and  decisive  for  his  Lordship  appears 
to  be  fully  impressed  with  the  absolute  necessity  of  vigorous  exertions 
in  the  service  of  this  country,  in  its  present  circumstances  ;  the  success 
of  General  Arnold's  enterprize  up  James  river  which  the  rebel  news- 
papers confirm,  must  greatly  facilitate  his  Lordship's  operations,  by  cut- 
ting off  Greene's  supplies,  and  obliging  the  militia  to  return  to  take  care 
of  their  own  property.  Indeed,  so  very  contemptible  is  the  rebel  force 
now  in  all  parts,  and  so  vast  is  our  superiority  every  where,  that  no 
resistance  on  their  part  is  to  be  apprehended,  that  can  materially  obstruct 
the  progress  of  the  King's  arms  in  the  speedy  suppression  of  the  re- 
bellion, and  it  is  a  pleasing,  tho'  at  the  same  time  a  mortifying  reflection, 
when  the  duration  of  the  rebellion  is  considered,  which  arises  from  the 
view  of  the  return  of  the  provincial  forces  you  have  transmitted,  that 
the  American  levies  in  the  King's  service  are  more  in  number  than  the 
whole  of  the  enlisted  troops  in  the  service  of  the  Congress. 

I  am  very  glad  to  find  you  have  commissioned  a  board  of  directors  of 
the  refugees,  and  I  hope  the  Admiral  will  have  been  able  to  spare  them 
shipping  to  carry  on  their  operations  on  the  sea  coasts  of  the  New- 
England  provinces.  Many  of  those  within  the  lines,  who  are  unfit  for 
military  service,  are  desirous  of  being  settled  in  the  country  about 
Penobscot,  and  require  only  to  be  supplied  with  provisions  for  the  first 
year,  some  tools  for  husbandry,  and  iron  work  for  their  buildings ;  and 
as  it  is  proposed  to  settle  that  country,  and  this  appears  a  cheap  method 
of  disposing  of  these  loyalists,  it  is  wished  you  would  encourage  them 
to  go  there,  under  the  protection  of  the  associated  refugees,  and  assure 
them  that  a  civil  government  will  follow  them  in  due  time ;  for  I  hope 
in  the  course  of  the  summer  the  Admiral  and  you  will  be  able  to  spare 
a  force  sufficient  to  effect  an  establishment  at  Casco-bay,  and  reduce 
that  country  to  the  King's  obedience. 

I  am  very  glad  to  find]  by  the  list  of  the  officers  released,  that  the 
exchanges  have  been  carried  so  far ;  but  as  it  appears  from  Mr.  Wash- 
ington's last  letter  to  you,  that  they  will  not  be  carried  on  further, 
the  measure  of  enlisting  their  prisoners  for  service  in  the  West-Indies 
should  be  adopted  immediately,  and  indeed,  such  has  been  the  mortality 
from  sickness  among  the  troops  there,  that  I  do  not  see  any  other 
means  of  recruiting  them. 

I  am  sorry  to  acquaint  you,  that  the  general  prevalence  of  westerly 
winds  for  these  last  two  months  has  prevented  the  Warwick  and  Solebay, 
with  their  convoy,  from  getting  further  than  Plymouth,  where  they  are 
still  detained. 

I  am.  Sir 

your  most  obedient  humble  servant, 
(Signed)    GEO.  GERMAIN. 

SIR  HENRY  CLINTON,  K.  B. 


278  XEW    JEESEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

[The  revolt  of  the  Pennsylvania  line  and  Jersey  brigade,  although 
Sir  Henry  Clinton  was  too  cautious  to  be  led  into  the  snare,  and 
expose  himself  to  the  consequences  of  an  attack  in  the  State  of  New- 
Jersey,  has  terminated  beneficially  for  the  United  States.  This  event 
has  involved  the  court  of  London  in  the  most  fatal  errors,  and  directed 
their  operations  to  objects,  absurd,  rediculous  and  impossible.  Lord 
Cornwallis  can  inform  this  Minister  how  far  his  conjectures  were 
right,  respecting  the  Pennsylvania  line ;  a  detachment  of  which,  under 
the  command  of  Gen.  Wayne,  lately  attacked  his  Lordship's  whole 
force  in  the  State  of  Virginia,  and  almost  convinced  him  of  the  in- 
utility  of  superior  numbers,  when  contending  against  men  inspired 
with  a  virtuous  zeal  for  their  country's  safety.  How  vain  and  de- 
lusory are  the  fairest  prospects  when  founded  only  in  a  bewildered 
imagination.  It  is  true  the  number  of  the  regular  forces  of  the 
United  States  was  greatly  reduced  at  the  close  of  the  last  campaign, 
owing  to  the  expiration  of  the  terms  for  which  many  of  the  soldiers 
had  entered  into  the  service.  How  could  his  Lordship  conclude  from 
hence  that  General  Washington  would  be  confined  to  the  eastward  of 
the  Hudson  river?  This  would  have  been  the  event  undoubtedly  for 
a  time  had'  the  British  forces  completely  subjugated  all  the  states 
westward  and  southward  of  that  river ;  but  what  appears  to  tyrants 
an  inexplicable  paradox,  is  perfectly  understood  by  the  citizens  of  a 
Republick,  that  in  time*  of  greatest  apparent  weakness,  the  most 
vigorous  exertions  are  made.  America  knows,  and  Europe  will  know, 
that  the  forces  of  the  United_ States  in  this  period,  which  appear  so 
contemptible  to  his  Lordship,  have  reduced  nearly  all  the  posts  estab- 
lished by  the  British  in  the  Carolinas  and  Georgia,  and  made  prison- 
ers of  their  garrisons,  with  a  rapidity  equal  to  the  uninterrupted 
march  of  most  armies  through  an  equal  extent  of  country.  What  do 
the  British  now  possess  in  those  states? — mere  defensive  positions, 
and  totally  incompatible  with  the  idea  of  civil  jurisdiction?  If  the 
destruction  of  a  few  hogsheads  of  tobacco,  the  seduction  of  a  number 
of  negroes,  the  stealing  of  horses  and  household  furniture,  which 
made  up  Arnold's  expedition,  are  objects  of  triumph  to  the  British 
Ministry,  we  are  far  from  envying  them  the  glory  of  a  success,  which 
all  civilized  nations  will  ascribe  to  the  predatory  excursions  of  parties- 
blue.  The  army  under  Lord  Cornwallis  in  the  state  of  Virginia,  in- 
stead of  gaining  laurels  from  victory  or  conquest,  has  taken  the  pre- 
caution of  acting  upon  the  defensive,  being  covered  by  the  shipping  in 
James  River.  The  army  of  the  United  States,  which  has  compelled 
them  to  adopt  this  humiliating  measure,  is  composed  of  a  part  of  the 
Pennsylvania  line,  a  small  detachment  from  the  army  under  the  im- 
mediate command  of  his  Excellency  General  Washington,  and  the 
virtuous  yeomanry  of  that  country.  It  is  acknowledged  that  Gen- 
eral Washington  is  on  the  east  side  of  the  Hudson  river,  but  he  there 
commands  an  army  of  veterans  in  the  regular  service  of  the  United 
States,  in  conjunction  with  the  troops  of  our  magnanimous  ally ; 
and,  at  this  moment,  confines  Sir  Henry  Clinton  and  the  troops  un- 
der his  command  to  the  duties  of  a  garrison  only.  The  objects  of 
his  operations  are  such  as  will  soon  convince  the  British  Ministry 


1781]  NEWSPAPEK    EXTKACTS.  279 

themselves  to  the  futility  of  their  claims  to  the  United  States,  or  any 
of  them,  as  they  must  be  silent  upon  all  the  arguments  deduced  from 
the  "ultima  lex  regum ;"  and  will  expose  the  absurdity  of  his  Lord- 
ship's visionary  scheme  of  forming  establishments  for  the  tories  at 
Penobscot,  whose  situation  ought  to  claim  the  greatest  attention 
from  the  court  of  London,  as  their  treasons  have  long  since  merited 
the  halter  from  the  United  States.  * 

The  "enlisting,"  or  rather  compelling  the  American  prisoners  into 
the  service  of  the  West-Indies,  need  not  have  been  urged  from  the 
principles  of  necessity,  as  the  experience  of  the  whole  war,  of  the 
inhuman  and  barbarous  treatment  of  our  citizens  in  British  gaols 
and  prison  ships  has  convinced  us  that  deliberate  murder  is  consonant 
to  the  idea  of  British  policy. 

In  short,  the  delusion  of  the  British  Ministry  is  an  incontestible 
proof  of  the  interposition  of  Heaven  in  our  favour.  A  continuation 
of  vigorous  exertions,  and  a  few  more  virtuous  and  successful  strug- 
gles, will  amply  reward  us  for  all  our  toils,  and  confirm  to  us  the 
unconquerable  possession  of  those  blessings,  of  which  only  the  vir- 
tuous and  the  brave  are  worthy.] 

TRENTON,  August  1. 

Thursday  last  Captain  Maffet  who  commands  a  whale-boat  belong- 
ing to  Philadelphia,  fell  in  with  and  captured  a  sloop  off  Long-Beach, 
from  New-York  laden  with  fish.  He  also  made  prize  of  three  refugee 
boats  off  Shrewsbury  Point,  on  board  of  which  were  30  sheep  which 
they  had  plundered,  and  23  sheep  stealers. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 
BY  MARY  AND  SARAH  BARNES, 

At  the  house  of  Thomas  Barnes,  nearly  opposite  the 

Printing-Office,  in  Trenton, 

The   following   Drugs   and    Medicines, 

Which  they  will  sell  at  Philadelphia  prices,  for 

ready  money,  viz. 

Best  quill  bark,  Powder  ditto,  Tincture  ditto,  Rhubarb,  Salts,  Mag- 
nesia, Cream  of  tartar,  Flower  sulphur,  Manna,  Senna,  Compound 
purging  powder,  Caster  oil.  Oil  Almonds,  Olive  oil,  Oil  Turpentine, 
Tartar  emetic,  Ipecacuanha,  Camphor,  Opium,  Salts  wormwood, 
Spanish  flies,  Gum  arabac,  Carolina  pink-rook,  Salt-petre,  Allum, 
Blue  vitriol,  Elixir  vitriol,  Hiera  picra,  Sal  volatile,  Sweet 
Spanish  nitre,  Wine  bitters,  Asthmatick  elixir,  Elixir  proprie- 
tatis,  Cochineal,  Gum  Assafetida,  Castile  soap,  Eye  waters,  Barbados 
alloes,  Succotrine  ditto,  Burgundy  pitch,  Gentian,  Spanish  hartshorn, 
Lavender  compound,  Yellow  basilican,  Excellent  ointment  for  the 
scald  head,  Turner's  cerat,  Anderson's  Pills,  Hooper's  Ditto,  Bate- 
man's  drops,  Daffy's  elixir,  Godfrey's  cordial,  Turlington's  balsam, 
Bol  armoniac,  Mouth  water,  for  the  canker,  Sago,  mace,  Cloves, 
Nutmegs  and  cinnamon. 


280  .\EW    JERSEY    IX    THE    KEVOLUTIOX.  [1781 

Also,  painted  silks  arid  gauze,  China,  sewing  silks,  thread,  needles, 
orris  of  different  kinds,  brass  furniture  for  carriages,  and  sundry 
other  articles. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

At   publick   vendue,   on   Saturday   the  4th   of  August,   next,   at   two 

o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  at  the  gaol  in  Trenton, 

Twenty-one  Negro  Men,  lately  taken  at  sea,  out  of  the  British  pri- 
vateer called  the  Malton. 

By  order  of  the  Judge, 

JOHN  BURROWES,  Marshal. 

N.  B.  Nothing  but  hard  money  will  be  taken,  and  the  cash  to  be 
paid  on  delivery  of  the  Negroes. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

A  Valuable,  likely  young  Negro  Wench,  about  twenty  years  of  age, 
can  speak  the  high  and  low  Dutch  and  English  well :  Any  person 
inclining  to  purchase,  may  know  the  terms  by  applying  to  the  sub- 
scriber, living  in  Spotswood,  near  Brunswick.  She  is  not  sold  for  any 
fault,  only  the  want  of  employ. 

July  20,   1781.  WILLIAM  REMSEN. 

THIRTY  HARD  DOLLARS  REWARD. 

Stolen  out  of  the  pasture  of  the  subscriber  in  Evesham,  Burlington 
county,  state  of  New-Jersey ;  on  the  night  of  the  22d  instant,  a 
bright  bay  Horse,  four  years  old,  with  a  long  switch  tail,  his  hind 
feet  white,  a  star  in  his  forehead,  round  bodied  and  lengthy,  about 
14  hands  3  inches  high.  Also  a  bright  bay  Mare,  6  or  7  years  old, 
heavy  with  foal,  short  switch  tail,  her  off  hind  foot  white,  a  small 
star  in  her  forehead,  about  14  hands  and  a  half  high,  and  both  natural 
trotters.  Whoever  secures  said  creatures,  so  that  the  owner  may  get 
them  again,  and  the  thief  brought  to  justice,  shall  receive  the  above 
reward,  or  TWENTY  DOLLARS  for  the  creatures  only, 
and  all  reasonable  charges  paid  by 

July   24,   1781.  JONATHAN  CHISPEN. 

All  persons  indebted  to  the  Estate  of  William  Pidgeon,  Esq.  late 
of  the  Township  of  Statford,  in  the  county  of  Monmouth,  and  state 
of  New-Jersey,  deceased,  by  bonds,  bills,  or  on  account,  are  requested 
to  settle  the  same,  and  make  immediate  payment  of  the  interest  due, 
or  such  part  of  the  principal  sums  as  may  be  convenient  to  them, 
the  subscribers  being  in  want  of  cash  to  discharge  the  debts  and 
large  legacies  left  by  the  testator's  will ;  and  all  persons  having  any 
just  demands  against  said  estate,  are  desired  to  bring  them  in,  that 
they  may  be  settled  and  adjusted. 

WILLIAM  COXE,  f  Execu- 

CLEAYTON  NEWBOLD     (  tors. 

July  25,  1781. 


1781]  .XEWSrAPER    EXTRACTS.  281 

FOUR  GUINEAS  REWARD. 

Stolen  on  the  evening  of  the  21st.  instant,  from  the  plantation  of 
the  subscriber,  in  Waterford  township,  county  of  Gloucester,  in  the 
state  of  New-Jersey,  three  horses,  viz.  one  black  horse  7  years  old, 
14  hands  high,  sundry  saddle  marks,  paces  mostly  under  the  saddle, 
trots  well  in  a  chair,  but  sometimes  paces  at  first  setting  off,  has  a 
small  sore  on  his  near  hip  bone.  One  sorrel  horse  with  some  white 
on  the  face,  about  15  hands  high.  One  bay  horse  with  a  star  and 
small  snip,  two  white  hind  feet,  14  hands  and  a  half  high ;  all  in 
good  order,  the  black  in  particular.  Any  person  who  will  secure  the 
thief,  and  return  the  horses  to  the  subscriber,  shall  have  the  above 
reward  and  reasonable  charges,  or  in  proportion  for  as  many  as  may 
be  returned. 

24th  July,  1781.  WILLIAM  TOD. 

STOLEN, 

Out  of  the  pasture  of  the  subscriber,  in  Lower  Makefield,  near  New- 
town,  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania,  on  the  night  of  the  25th  ult. 

Two  Horses,  one  a  brown,  4  years  old,  4  white  feet,  near  fifteen 
hands  high,  a  few  grey  hairs  in  the  forehead,  trots  and  canters  well ; 
the  other  a  black  horse,  5  years  old,  fourteen  hands  one  inch  high, 
one  hind  foot  white,  stout  and  well  made,  trots  and  canters  remark- 
ably well,  has  a  star  in-  the  shape  of  a  new  moon — both  half  blooded. 
Whoever  takes  up  said  horses,  and  secures  them  so  that  the  owner 
may  have  them  again,  shall  have  them  again,  shall  have  Three  Pounds 
reward  for  each  horse,  if  brought  home,  and  the  like  sum  for  the 
thief,  on  conviction,  and  reasonable  charges  paid  by 

CORNELIUS  VANSANT. 

August  1,  1781. 


From  the  Few  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  189,  August  8,  1781. 

NEW-LONDON,  July  27. 

Monday  last,  the  sloop  Randolph,  Captain  Peck,  returned  into  with 
the  prize  ship  Polly,  John  Webb,  late  master,  from  Bristol,  bound 
to  New- York,  12  weeks  out,  which  the  Randolph  captured  near  Sandy- 
Hook.  Her  cargo  consists  of  about  1400  barrels  flour,  100  boxes  win- 
dow glass,  a  quantity  of  dry  goods,  &c.  the  prize  had  on  board  the 
crew  of  the  letter  of  marque  ship  Loyal  Britain,  who  having  met  with 
a  violent  gale  of  wind  in  lat.  33.  about  the  1st  inst.  had  foundered. — 
A  quantity  of  goods  were  taken  out  of  said  ship. 

PHILADELPHIA,  August  1.     August  4. 

A  small  open  boat  was  brought  into  our  port  the  beginning  of  this 
week  by  two  American  seamen.  She  was  employed  by  a  number  of 
the  piratical  villians,  called  Refugees,  to  plunder  in  the  bay  and 
coast.  These  two  men,  lately  prisoners  with  the  enemy,  entered  on 
board  the  above  boat ;  but  watching  their  oppertunity,  while  the  rest 
of  the  crew  were  on  shore  near  Sandy-Hook,  brought  her  off  safe. 


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NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION. 


[1781 


CHATHAM,  August  1. 

Last  Wednesday  morning  Solomon  Brandt  terminated  his  life  by 
cutting  his  throat.  He  got  up  very  early  in  the  morning  and  walked 
out,  but  not  coming  to  breakfast  as  usual,  his  wife  sent  his  daughter 
to  look  in  the  cornfield  if  he  was  not  their,  when,  to  her  astonish- 
ment, she  found  him  a  corpse. 

TRENTON,  August  8. 

Three  or  four  British  frigates  have  been  cruizing  in  the  Delaware- 
Bay  for  several  days  past. 

On  Sunday  last  James  Armstrong  was  committed  to  the  goal  in  this 
town  for  attempting  to  pass  counterfeit  Eight  Dollar  bills  of  credit 
of  this  state.  He  was  taken  up  in  Somerset,  but  says  he  resides  at 
Squan,  in  Monmouth  county. 

Died  on  Sunday  last  at  Raritan,  Mr.  Richard  Paterson,  father  of 
the  Attorney-General  of  this  state,  after  a  short  illness. 

Died  at  Trenton  Landing,  at  4  o'clock  on  Monday  morning  last, 
Mrs.  Margaret  Clunn,  relect  of  John  Clunn,  in  the  83d.  year  of  her 
age,  and  on  the  eveniijg  of  the  same  day,  the  weather  being  very 
warm,  her  remains  were  interred  in  the  church  burying  place,  attended 
by  a  number  of  respectable  friends  and  citizens. 

At  a  special  court  lately  held  in  Burlington,  a  certain  Joseph  Mul- 
liner,  off  Egg-Harbour,  was  convicted  of  high  treason,  and  is  sen- 
tenced to  be  hanged  this  day.  This  fellow  had  become  the  terror  of 
that  part  of  the  country-  He  had  made  a  practice  of  burning  houses, 
robbing  and  plundering  all  who  fell  in  his  way,  so  that  when  he  came 
to  trial  it  appeared  that  the  whole  country,  both  whigs  and  tories,  were 
his  enemies. 

PRICE  CURRENT  of  the  following  articles  at  Trenton. 


Wheat  5s. 

Rye  3s.  9d. 

Oats 

Country  salt 

Allum  ditto 

Indigo  by  the  quantity, 

per  pound. 

West-India   rum   by   the 
Indian  corn 
Buckwheat 


by  the  bushel 
ditto 
Is.  6d. 
18s.  9d. 
£1  17  6 
7s.  6d. 


3s. 

2s. 


8s.    per   gal. 


hogshead, 
County  ditto 
Lisbon  wine 
Molasses 
Best  loaf  sugar 

pound 
Muscovado  ditto 

£376  per  Cwt. 
Havanna   ditto   by    the   box, 
9d.  per  pound. 


10s.  retail. 
5s.  ditto. 
Is.  lOd.  per 

50s.  to 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  283 

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, 

A  PROCLAMATION. 

Whereas  it  has  been  represented  to  me  that  the  persons  herein 
after  mentioned  have  been  guilty  of  attrocious  offences,  and  have 
committed  divers  robberies,  thefts  and  other  felonies  in  this  state  :  — 
I  have  therefore  thought  fit,  by  and  with  the  advice  of  the  Honourable 
Privy  Council  of  this  state,  to  issue  this  proclamation,  hereby  prom- 
ising the  rewards  herein  mentioned  to  any  person  or  persons  who  shall 
apprehend  and  secure  in  any  gaol  of  this  state,  any  or  either  of  the 
following  persons  or  offenders,  to  wit,  Caleb  Sweesy,  James  O'Harra, 
John  Moody,  and  Gilbert  Gyberson,  the  sum  of  Two  Hundred  Dollars 
of  the  bills  of  credit  issued  on  the  faith  of  this  state. 

Given  under  my  hand  and  seal  at  arms,  at  Trenton,  the  third 
day  of  August,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  seven 
hundred  and  eighty-one,  and  in  the  fifth  year  of  the  independ- 
ence of  America.  WIL.  LIVINGSTON. 

By  His  Excellency's  Command, 
BOWES  REED,  Sec'ry. 


Printer  of  the  New-Jersey  Gazette  has  long  experienced  the 
perplexities  and  losses  attending  the  outstanding  accounts,  and  the 
wunt  of  punctual  payments.  Although  the  price  is  now  as  low  as 
the  expenses  of  the  paper,  wages,  &c.  will  admit,  yet  for  the  sake  of 
avoiding1  these  inconveniences,  he  would  be  willing  to  make  an  extra- 
ordinary abatement,  were  the  price  of  a  year  paid  by  advance  within 
a  reasonable  time.  He  therefore  proposes  to  set  the  paper  for  a  year 
at  Ten  Shillings,  gold  or  silver,  provided  the  same  be  advanced  at 
any  time  within  three  months  from  the  25th  of  last  month,  when  the 
year  commenced,  and  the  whole  of  a  packet  be  on  that  footing.  He 
will  also  in  this  case  take  produce  at  the  current  market  rates.  If 
by  any  means  whatever  the  paper  should  be  discontinued,  the  money 
money  or  produce  will  be  returned  in  due  proportion.  Those  subscribers 
for  the  present  year,  who  do  not  prefer  these  terms  will  be  considered 
under  those  mentioned  in  this  Gazette  the  25th  ulk  No.  187. 

The  Printer  earnestly  requests  the  packet-masters  and  others  who 
are  in  arrear,  to  pay  off  their  respective  balances  immediately. 

ISAAC  COLLINS. 

Trenton,  August  8,  1781. 

Persons  who  wish  to  pay  the  tax  th-at  is  to  be  collected  on  or  before 
the  first  day  of  September  next,  in  state  money,  may  hear  where  a 
small  sum  may  be  had  by  applying  to  the  printer  hereof. 


XEW    JEKSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1T81 

Strayed  from  the  subscriber,  living  at  Rocky-Hill,  about  the  first  of 
May  last,  a  black  mare,  with  a  star  and  one  white  foot,  nine  or  ten 
years  old,  about  fifteen  hands  high,  a  natural  pacer :  Also  a  dark 
bay  colt,  two  years  old,  neither  docked  or  cut,  a  natural  trotter.  Who- 
ever will  deliver  them  to  me,  or  give  information  so  that  I  may  get 
them  again,  shall  receive  EIGHT  HARD  DOLLARS,  and  all  rea- 
sonable charges  paid  by  me,  if  brought  home. 

WILLIAM  BLUE. 

July  30,  1780. 

RUN  AWAY  from  the  subscriber,  living  in  Amwell  township, 
Hunterdon  county,  on  the  20th  of  July  last,  an  apprentice  lad  named 
James  Cressey,  16  years  of  age,  pale  complexion  and  slender  built ; 
had  on  a  hunting-frock  and  a  striped  Holland  shirt.  -  -  -  Whoever 
takes  up  said  apprentice  and  delivers  him  to  me,  shall  have  HALF 
A  DOLLAR  reward,  and  reasonable  charges  paid  by 

JOSEPH  LABOYTEAUX. 

August  3,  1781. 

FOUR  SPANISH  MILLED  DOLLARS  REWARD. 

Strayed  or  stolen  about  the  8th  of  June  last,  from  the  subscriber  in 
Spotswood,  near  South-Amboy,  a  Bay  Mare,  about  fourteen  hands 
and  one  inch  high,  her  near  eye  wall,  a  natural  pacer,  six  years  old, 
and  was  new  shod  before.  Whoever  takes  up  the  said  mare  and 
brings  her  to  the  subscriber,  shall  receive  the  above  reward. 

WILLIAM  SHERRER. 

The  subscribers  having  furnished  themselves  with  good  boats  at  the 
new  ferry  a  little  above  the  Falls  and  almost  opposite  to  Trenton,  and 
the  distance  being  nearly  the  same  from  Bristol  to  Trenton  to  go  by 
this  or  Colvin's ;  all  persons  who  will  please  to  favour  them  with  their 
custom,  may  depend  on  an  easy  and  safe  passage,  at  the  following 
rates,  which  are  as  low  as  they  were  twenty  years  ago,  viz. 

Waggon  and  four  horses  4s.  6d. 

Ditto  with   two  ditto.  3s.  6d. 

Horse  and  chair  Is.  6d. 

Man  and  horse  6s. 

A  footman  3d. 

And  all  other  ferriages  in  like  proportion. 

Travellers  who  come  from  Bristol  the  new  road  are  requested  to 
turn  off  to  the  left  at  the  29  mile  stone,  which  is  about  three  quarters 
of  a  mile  from  the  ferry — and  those  from  the  eastward  are  to  turn 
to  the  right  at  the  market-house  in  Trenton,  which  is  about  one 
quarter  of  a  mile  from  the  ferry,  where  constant  attendance  is  given 
by  the  publick's  humble  servants, 

JOHN  BURROWS, 
GEORGE  BEATY. 

N.  B.  Travellers  may  be  supplied  with  good  hay  and  pasture  for 
their  horses,  by  said  Beaty. 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  285 


From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  190,  August  15,  1781. 

TRENTON,  August  15. 

Saturday  last  the  Hon.  John  Sullivan,  Member  of  Congress  for  the 
state  of  New-Hampshire,  came  to  town  from  Philadelphia,  on  his 
way  to  that  state,  and  on  Monday  he  set  out  from  hence. 

On  the  5th  instant  Captain  Adam  Hyler  went  from  New-Brunswick 
in  an  armed  boat  to  Long-Island,  marched  three  miles  and  an  half 
into  the  country,  and  made  Captain  Jeromus  Lot,  a  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  of  Militia,  and  one  John  Hankins,  a  Captain  of  a  vessel, 
prisoners,  and  brought  them  safe  to  New-Brunswick. 

Monday  last  passed  through  this  place  on  his  way  to  the  eastward, 
the  celebrated  Chevalier  John  Paul  Jones,  Captain  of  the  American 
Navy. 

The  publick  are  desired  to  beware  of  counterfeit  Eight  Dollar  State 
Bills  of  New-Jersey.  A  description  of  them  will  be  in  our  next. 

S3TTHE  LAWS  of  last  sitting  are  printed. 

House  of  Assembly,  June  7th,  1181. 

A  Petition  from  Robbert  Morris,  Esq.  was  presented  and  read,  sitting 
forth,  that  Robert  Hunter  Morris,  had  by  his  last  will  and  testament, 
devised  his  real  estate  to  David  Ogden  and  Richard  Morris,  Esquires, 
their  heirs  and  assigns  forever,  in  trust,  amongst  other  uses,  for  that 
of  the  payment  of  his  debts ;  and  appointed  the  said  persons  his 
executors. — That  the  trust  vested  in  the  said  Trustees  has  not  been  com- 
pletely executed,  and  cannot  now  be  without  the  interposition  of  the  Leg- 
islature, by  reason  that  the  said  David  Ogden  has  joined  the  enemy  ;  and 
praying  that  he  may  have  leave  to  present  a  bill  at  the  next  sitting  of  the 
Legislature  to  vest  the  legal  title  of  the  said  real  estate,  yet  unfold,  in 
the  remaining  trustee,  and  to  empower  him  to  sell  and  convey  the 
same,  or  any  part  thereof,  as  fully  and  amply  as  if  the  said  David 
Ogden  had  joined  in  the  conveyance  &c. 

Ordered,  that  the  said  petitioner  have  leave  to  present  a  bill  accord- 
ingly, on  advertising  his  intention  and  the  purport  of  his  petition  for 
four  weeks  in  the  New-Jersey  Gazette  previously  thereto. 

Extract  from  the  minutes. 

M.  EWING,  jun.,  Clerk. 

Notice  is  hereby  given,  that  the  subscriber  intends  to  present  a  bill 
at  the  next  sitting  of  the  Legislature,  for  the  purposes  mentioned 
in  the  foregoing  extract  from  the  minutes  of  the  House  of  Assembly. 

ROBERT  MORRIS. 

Morristown,  August  2,  1781. 

Whereas  the  Honoura"ble  the  Assembly  of  this  state  did  resolve  at 
their  last  sitting,  that  leave  be  given  to  bring  in  a  bill  at  the  next 


286  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

meeting,  for  erecting  a  new  county  by  taking  off  a  part  of  the  counties 
of  Hunterdon  and  Sussex,  agreeably  to  the  prayer  of  a  very  great 
number  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  said  counties,  provided  the  same  be 
published  for  some  time  previous  to  said  meeting  in  the  New-Jersey 
Gazette :  This  publick  notice  is  therefore  given,  that  the  said  peti- 
tioners intend  to  bring  in  a  bill  at  the  next  sitting  of  Assembly  for 
the  purpose  aforesaid. 

From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  No.  191t  August  22,  1781. 

Subscriptions  for  the  relief  and  support  of  the  distressed  citizens  of 
South  Carolina  and  Georgia,  are  received  by 

PHILEMON  DICKINSON, 
LAMBERT  CADWALADER. 

Trenton,  August  14,  1781. 

STATE  OF  NEW-JERSEY. 

An  Act  to  declare  and  ascertain  the  privileges  of  the  subjects  of  His 
Most  Christian  Magesty,  residing  within  this  state. 

[For  this  law,  passed  25  May  1781,  see  — .] 

TRENTON,  August  22. 
Description  of  counterfeit  Eight  Dollar  State  Bills. 

The  paper  is  much  whiter,  softer  and  thiner.  The  letters  stand 
somewhat  irregular,  and  particularly  the  letter  G  in  the  words  Eight 
Dollars,  is  considerably  lower.  In  the  shade  round  the  device  on  the 
back  of  the  true  bills,  small  veins  of  white  appear  running  through 
every  part,  but  none  of  these  are  clearly  distinguishable  in  the  coun- 
terfeits. Over  the  head  of  the  marginal  indent  on  the  right  of  the 
back  of  the  true  bills,  there  is  a  short  black  line  thus,  — ,  which  does 
not  appear  in  the  counterfeits.  The  signers  names  are  badly  done. 
The  vacacancies  in  the  lower  part  of  the  letters  in  the  words  Eight 
Dollars  on  the  back  of  the  bills  are  strongly  shaded  in  the  counter- 
feits, and  quite  open  in  the  true. 

A  LIST  OF  LETTERS  IN  THE  POST-OFFICE  AT  TRENTON. 

(C.)   John  Cox,  Bloomsbury ;    Thomas  Curtis,  Kingwood. 

(D.)   Lydia  Dunlop,  near  Height's-Town. 

(G. )   James  Griffin,  near  Trenton. 

(H.)   Charles  Harrison,  Trenton,  James  Harrison,  Hacket's-Town. 

(I.)    James  Imlay,  Esq.  Allentown. 

(M.)    Randle  Mitchell,  Bowhill. 

(P.)   John  Pigly,  Moore's-Town. 

(T.)   Robert  Thomson,  near  Allentown. 

(W.)   John  Wright,  Bordentown. 

Trenton,  Aug.  21,  1781. 

B.  SMITH,  Postmaster. 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTEACTS.  287 

EIGHT  HARD  DOLLARS  REWARD, 

Stolen  out  of  the  pasture  of  Daniel  Smith,  in  the  township  of  Not- 
tingham, on  the  night  of  the  17th.  of  August,  a  large  brown  horse,  7 
years  old  this  grass,  15  hands  high,  trots  and  canters,  he  is  branded 
on  the  near  shoulder  with  W.  Any  person  taking  up  the  horse  and 
thief,  so  that  the  thief  may  be  brought  to  justice,  and  deliver  the 
horse  to  the  owner,  at  the  four  mile  tavern,  above  Trenton,  on  the 
river  road,  shall  have  the  above  reward,  or  Four  Dollars  for  the 
horse  only,  with  reasonable  charges,  paid  by  me. 

WILLIAM  BARBER. 

TO  ALL  WHOM  IT  MAY  CONCERN: 

Notice  is  hereby  given,  that  pursuant  to  a  resolve  of  the  Honour- 
able the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  New-Jersey,  I  intend  to  present 
a  bill  to  the  next  sitting  of  the  Legislature  of  said  state,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  investing  a  title  in  fee,  of  the  equal  one  half  of  the  planta- 
tion now  in  my  possession,  situate  in  Freehold,  in  the  county  of 
Monmouth,  agreeably  to  contract  made  with  my  brother  John  Whit- 
lock,  deceased.  JAMES  WHITLOCK. 

Monmouth  county,  Aug.  20,  1781. 

Came  to  the  plantation  of  Isaac  Hull,  in  Windsor  township,  Mid- 
dlesex county,  some  time  in  June  last,  a  bright  sorrel  horse,  with  a 
blaze  in  his  face,  about  14  hands  and  half  high,  4  years  old  past,  and 
a  natural  pacer.  The  owner  coming,  proving  his  property,  paying 
charges,  may  take  him  away. 

STOLEN  from  the  subscriber,  about  the  first  of  June  last,  a  silver 
spoon,  a  size  between  a  large  table  and  tea  spoon,  marked  with  the 
letters  I.  V.  K.  on  the v end  of  the  handle,  the  bowl  of  it  not  in  shape 
of  a  common  table  spoon,  but  more  of  a  square,  the  handle  a  flat 
square.  Any  person  stopping  the  said  spoon,  and  giving  me  in- 
formation thereof,  shall  receive  One  Hard  Dollar,  and  one  ditto  for 
the  thief,  if  brought  to  justice. 

JOHN  VANKIRK. 

Cranberry,  August  20,  1781. 

THIS  IS  TO  GIVE  PUBLICK  NOTICE, 

That  Joseph  Shakelton  was  committed  to  gaol  in  Trenton,  upon 
suspicion  of  robbery,  and  has  since  broke  gaol,  and  left  a  very  small 
grey  Maryland  pony.  Any  person  owning  said  pony  is  desired  to 
come  and  prove  property  in  three  weeks,  or  he  will  be  sold  to  pay 
charges.  BENJAMIN  YARD. 

Trenton,  August  21,  1781. 

ELIZABETH  TOWN  STAGE  WAGGON. 

The  Subscribers  inform  the  publick,  that  they  have  a  convenient 
Stage  Waggon,  with  four  good  horses,  suitable  for  carrying  passengers 
and  their  baggage. — Will  set  out  from  the  Bunch  of  Grapes,  in  Third- 


288         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1T81 

street,  between  Market  and  Arch-streets,  Philadelphia,  every  Mon- 
day and  Thursday  mornings,  precisely  at  seven  o'clock,  dine  at  Bris- 
tol, cross  the  New-Ferry  just  above  Trenton  Falls,  from  thence  to 
Jacob  Bergen's  at  Princeton,  there  to  meet  Ichabod  Grummond  and 
Drake's  stage  from  Elizabeth-Town  every  Monday  and  Thursday 
nights ;  the  next  mornings  Tuesday  and  Friday,  will  set  out  from 
thence  at  sunrise,  breakfast  at  Trenton,  start  from  thence  precisely 
at  ten  o'clock,  dine  at  Bristol  at  the  house  of  John  Wilson,  from 
thence  to  Philadelphia,  so  as  to  complete  the  journey  in  less  than 
two  days. 

The  price  for  each  passenger,  from  Philadelphia  to  Elizabeth-Town, 
to  be  Four  hard  Dollars ;  and  the  like  sum  for  150  weight  of  bag- 
gage ;  and  every  letter  One-eighth  of  a  hard  Dollar,  to  be  paid  by 
the  person  sending  the  said  letter. 

No  run  goods  to  be  admitted  into  this  stage  on  any  account. 

GERSHOM  JOHNSTON,  and 
NATH.  TWINING. 

August  7,  1781. 


From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol  IV.,  No.  192,  August  29,  1781. 

TRENTON,  AUGUST  29. 

We  hear  that  last  Thursday  night  a  party  in  six  whale-boats,  con- 
sisting of  70  men,  under  the  command  of  Lieut.  Asher  Fitz-Randolph, 
,  of  the  state  regiment,  stationed  at  Woodbridge,  landed  on  Staten- 
Island,  and  proceeded  as  far  as  Fort  Richmond,  in  Avhich  were  sta- 
tioned upwards  of  200  tories  and  refugees.  A  severe  firing  commenced 
about  daybreak,  and  continued  until  11  o'clock.  All  that  ventured 
out  of  the  fort  were  either  killed  or  taken,  and  Lieutenant  Fitz-Ran- 
dolph brought  off  several  prisoners  and  nine  British  horses,  without 
any  loss  except  having  three  men  slightly  wounded,  and  Captain 
Story,  who  commanded  one  of  the  whale-boats,  was  wounded  in  three 
different  places,  but  none  of  them  mortal. 

We  hear  the  Allied  Army  have  crossed  the  North-River,  and  that 
Head-Quarters  are  now  at  Chatham. 

OBSERVE,  That  agreeably  to  the  act  of  the  Legislature  of  the 
9th.  June,  1780,  the  sum  of  Forty-eight  Thousand  Seven  Hundred 
and  Fifty  Pounds,  part  of  the  paper  currency  of  this  state,  is  to  be 
sunk  in  the  course  of  a  few  months.  It  is  hoped  it  will  be  done  at 
the  ensuing  sitting  of  the  Assembly,  who  meet  the  19th.  of  next  month. 
Those  who  have  state  money  in  their  hands,  or  have  an  oppertunity 
of  obtaining  it,  will  take  notice  of  this  hint,  and  consider  the  effect 
it  will  have  upon  the  value  of  it ;  and  that  there  is  a  further  tax  of 
Fifty  Thousand  Pounds  payable  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  Decem- 
ber next. 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  289 

The  members  of  the  New-Jersey  society  for  promoting  agriculture, 
commerce  and  arts,  are  requested  to  take  notice,  that  their  next  meet- 
ing was  appointed  to  be  held  at  Trenton,  on  Friday  the  seventh  day 
of  September  next.  By  order, 

SAMUEL-WITHAM  STOCTON,  Sec'ry. 

Trenton,  August  23d,  1781. 

STOLEN, 

Out  of  the  pasture  of  the  subscriber  in  Amwell  township,  Hunterdon 
county,  and  state  of  New-Jersey,  near  Flemington,  on  the  21st  of 
this  instant,  a  bright  Bay  Horse,  five  years  old  last  grass,  with  a  star 
in  his  forehead,  and  a  white  ring  on  the  top  of  his  head,  galled  with 
the  halter  when  he  was  a  colt,  which  does  plainly  appear,  a  scar  on 
his  nose,  a  round  scar  or  dint  between  his  thighs,  and  a  very  small 
snip  on  his  nose,  a  natural  trotter,  smooth  shod  all  round,  straight 
limbed,  round  bodied,  and  bows  his  hams  out  when  he  trots,  is  half 
blooded,  near  14  hands  and  a  half  high :— Whoever  secures  the  said 
horse  to  the  owner,  and  the  theif  brought  to  justice,  shall  receive  six- 
teen hard  dollars,  and  all  reasonable  charges,  or  Twelve  Dollars  for 
the  horse  only,  paid  by  JOSEPH  BISHOP. 

N.  B.  The  person  supposed  to  have  stolen  the  said  horse  is  about 
five  feet  eight  or  ten  inches  high,  dark  complexion,  straight  black 
hair,  wore  a  check  frock  and  striped  trowsers  and  jacket,  half  worn 
boots  and  one  spur ;  had  a  pair  of  saddle  bags  of  harness  leather,  not 
blacked,  stuffed  very  full,  and  a  large  short  bundle  tied  behind,  wore 
a  hat  half  cocked,  and  a  black  handkerchief  or  cape  to  his  frock,  and 
appeared  to  be  a  man  given  to  liquor.  Perhaps  he  may  alter  his  dress. 

BROKE  in  upon  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber,  living  in  the 
township  of  Trenton,  about  the  llth  of  this  instant,  two  cattle,  the 
one  one  a  spotted  ox,  with  a  bell  on,  and  a  crop  off  each  each ;  the 
other  a  red  dry  cow,  with  a  crop  off  the  off  ear,  and  a  latch  mark  on 
the  near  ear.  The  owner  is  desired  to  come  and  pay  the  expence  of 
keeping  and  take  them  away. 

August  28,  1781.  BENJAMIN  CLARK. 

TO  BE  RENTED, 

At  publick  vendue  for  one  year  or  longer,  at  Spottswood,  in  Middle- 
sex county,  on  Saturday  the  8th.  of  September  next ; 
A  Very  good  grist-mill,  with  two  pair  of  stones,  in  good  order,  the 
bolting  works  all  go  by  water ;  also  a  good  dwelling-house,  and  a  very 
good  saw-mill  in  good  order,  with  about  200  acres  of  land.  The  renter 
may  have  more  or  less,  as  best  suits.  The  vendue  to  begin  at  12 
o'clock,  when  attendance  will  be  given,  and  the  conditions  made  known 
by  JOHN  COVENHOVEN. 

N.  B.  Also  to  be  sold  at  the  same  place,  six  pair  of  very  good  forge 
bellows,  at  private  sale. 

Spotswood,  August  22,  1781. 

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290  XKVT    JERSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 


From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  193,  September  5,  1781. 

NEW-YORK,  August  22. 

The  following  are  genuine  particulars  relating  to  his  Majesty's 
sloop  Swallow,  commanded  by  Captain  Wells,  and  collected  from  a 
young  gentleman  an  officer,  arrived  yesterday  from  Fire-Island,  the 
vessel  had  been  dispatched  hither  express  from  the  West-Indies. 

"When  the  Swallow  was  coming  on  the  coast  of  America,  she  was 
chased  by  a  ship  and  brig,  when  another  brig  appeared  a-head,  and 
also  gave  chace  to  her,  the  Swallow  shortened  sail,  and  engaged  her 
for  three  quarters  of  an  hour,  when  she  set  sail,  and  the  sloop's  rig- 
ging being  much  cut  and  dark  night  coming  on  favoured  the  enemy's 
escape.  Information  has  since  been  obtained,  that  the  brig  was  the 
Sampson,  Captain  Brooks,  of  18  six  pounders,  who  had  four  men 
killed  and  fourteen  wounded,  seven  of  which  died  next  day,  and  four 
of  her  guns  dismounted  ;  the  Swallow  had  three  men  wounded,  and 
received  no  damage  but  in  her  rigging.  The  brig  astern  was  called 
the  Moses,  and  might  have  come  up  during  the  action,  but  said  the 
other  was  so  anxious  to  keep  the  prize  to  himself  (before  he  he  knew 
her  to  be  a  vessel  of  force)  that  they  might  be  taken,  and  be  d — n'd. 

"On  the  12th  inst.  the  Swallow  fell  in  with  a  brig  privateer,  called 
the  Venus  of  ten  nines  and  four  three  pounders,  formerly  a  letter  of 
marque  from  Antigua,  bflt  having  taken  a  prize  the  crew  joined  and 
took  the  vessel  from  the  master ;  she  engaged  the  sloop  two  hours 
and  then  struck,  the  Captain  of  her  being  previously  killed ;  the  Swal- 
low had  four  men  wounded,  our  Captain  Wells  was  blown  up  by  <-. 
cartridge  of  powder  taking  fire. 

"On  the  16th,  having  the  Venus,  our  prize  in  tow,  and  standing  in 
for  the  Hook,  about  twelve  leagues  distant  the  Swallow  was  cut  off 
by  four  privateers,  viz.  two  brigs,  a  schooner,  and  a  sloop,  names 
unknown  ;  we  ran  our  vessel  on  shore  to  prevent  our  falling  into  the 
rebels  hands ;  and  with  great  difficulty  saved  our  people,  'as  the 
enemy  kept  a  continued  fire  over  the  small  island  we  ran  upon,  (Fire 
Island).  They  burnt  the  Swallow  and  her  prize  the  next  day,  finding 
it  impossible  to  get  her  off,  and  we  all  imagined  the  enemy  reaped  no 
further  advantage.  Our  Captain  is  getting  well  after  the  unlucky 
disaster  from  the  explosion. 

August  30.  Last  Tuesday  morning  Rear  Admiral  Sir  Samuel  Hood, 
arrived  at  Sandy-Hook,  from  the  West-Indies,  with  fourteen  sail  of 
the  line,  four  frigates,  a  sloop  and  fireship,  under  his  command. — Sir 
Samuel  sailed  from  the  West-Indies  on  the  10th  instant. 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  291 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the  British  West-India  fleet,  which  arrived 

here  last  Tuesday,  under  Sir  Samuel  Hood's  command, 
Barfleur,  90  Sir  Samuel  Hood, 

Captain  Knight, 
Princessa,  74  Admiral  Drake, 

Capt.  Knatchbull, 

Invincible,                                              74             Capt.  Saxton, 
Alcide,                                                     74             Capt.  Thompson, 
Alfred,                                                     74             Capt.  Bayne, 
Ajax,                                                       74             Capt.  Carrington, 
Resolution,                                             74             Lord  Robert  Manners, 
Centaur,                                                  74             Capt.  Inglefield, 
Intrepid,                                                 74             Capt.  Malloy, 
Terrible,                                                  74             Hon.  Capt.  Finch, 
Montagu,                                                74             Capt.  Bowyer, 
Shrewsbury,                                           74             Capt.  Mark  Robinson, 
Billiqueux,                                              74             Capt.   Bowen 
74  Capt 

Frigates. 

Nymphe,  *     44             Capt.  Ford, 

St.  Amonica,  44             Capt.  Lindsey, 

Fortunee,  44             Capt.  Christian, 

Sibyl,  28             Capt.  Rodney, 
A  Fireship, 
A  Sloop. 

PHILADELPHIA, 

August  29,  Last  week  seven  Refugees  were  brought  to  town  from 
New-Jersey ;  they  were  taken  a  few  days  before,  near  the  bridge  in 
Morris's  river,  by  some  of  the  Jersey  militia  in  a  shallop,  which  they 
attempted  to  board,  when  a  sharp  contest  ensued,  during  which  four 
of  the  Refugees  were  killed  and  four  wounded,  when  the  rest  sub- 
mitted. There  were  fifteen  in  all,  and  it  is  said  the  Captain  (who 
was  very  badly  wounded)  called  out,  that  he  would  give  no  quarters, 
which  occasioned  the  action  to  become  desperate.  Providentially  one 
of  the  militia  received  only  a  slight  wound. 

TRENTON,  September  5. 

Since  our  last  His  Excellency  General  Washington,  and  General 
de  Rochambeau,  with  their  respective  suites,  passed  through  this  place 
on  their  way  to  Philadelphia. 

The  laws  of  the  last  sitting  of  the  general  assembly  of  this  state 
are  printed,  and  ready  to  be  delivered. 

The  Members  of  the  Whig  Society  of  Monmouth,  are  requested  to 
meet  at  the  house  of  Henry  Drake,  in  Freehold,  at  one  of  the  clock 
in  the  afternoon  of  Wednesday  the  twelfth  instant. 

September  1st,  1781.  WM.  WILLCOCKS,  Sec'ry. 


292  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  194,  September  12,  1781. 
TRENTON,  llth  September,  1781. 

In  consequence  of  orders  received  from  His  Excellency  the  Gov- 
ernor of  this  state,  General  Dickinson  requests  the  militia  will  hold 
themselves  in  the  most  perfect  readiness,  to  march  on  the  shortest 
notice,  it  being  highly  probable  their  services  in  the  field  may  very 
soon  be  required.  He  recommends  to  the  omcers  the  strictest  atten- 
tion to  their  mens  arms  and  ammunition. — When  called  upon  they 
will  march  with  three  days  rations,  for  which  they  will  receive  pay. 

Captain  Carle,  with  his  troop  of  light  dragoons,  will  immediately 
repair  to  Trenton,  upon  the  signal  being  given  for  the  marching  of 
the  militia. 

General  Dickinson  informs  the  Brigadiers  and  Colonels  command- 
ing brigades,  in  the  militia  of  this  state,  that  the  time  limited  by  the 
militia  act,  passed  at  Trenton,  January  8,  1781,  for  their  making 
returns  agreeably  to  said  act,  expired  in  August ;  and  that  unless  they 
transmit  him  exact  returns  of  their  respective  brigades  before  the 
25th  instant,  he  will  be  reduced  to  the  disagreeable  necessity  of  pro- 
ceeding against  them  agreeably  to  the  directions  of  the  said  act. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

Near  Middle-Brook,  Somerset  county,  East  New-Jersey,  a  chair  with 
a  top  to  it,  harness  complete  little  the  worse  for  use,  having  only 
performed  a  journey  from  Maryland  since  made,  with  a  fine  mare 
seven  years  old,  warrented  sound  wind  and  limb,  and  fit  for  any  ser- 
vice. For  further  particulars  apply  to  Mary  Hughs  at  said  place, 
who  will  agree  on  reasonable  terms. 

RAN  AWAY  from  the  subscriber,  living  at  Trenton  ferry,  a  Ne- 
gro boy  named  Jack,  between  15  and  16  years  old,  yellowish  com- 
plexion and  slim  built ;  late  the  property  of  General  Philemon  Dick- 
inson :  Had  on,  an  old  felt  hat,  small  in  the  rim,  tow  shirt  and  long 
pair  of  trowsers.  Whoever  secures  said  boy  in  any  gaol  in  the  state 
shall  have  EIGHT  DOLLARS  reward,  and  reasonable  charges, 
paid  by  me.  PATRICK  COLVIN. 

Sept.  4,  1781. 

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  Isaac  Wood,  in  Mount-Holly,  on  Monday  the  15th  day 
of  October  next,  at  ten  o'clock  in  the  forenoon,  then  and  there  to  try 
the  truth  of  the  facts  alledged  in  the  bill  of  Henry  Murfits  (who  as 
well,  &c.)  against  the  schooner  Polly,  her  tackle,  apparel,  furniture 
and  cargo ;  and  also  to  try  the  truth  of  the  facts  alledged  in  the 
bill  of  Peter  Miller,  (who  as  well,  &c.)  against  negroes  Harry,  Dick, 
Chatham,  Fortune  and  Tom,  lately  taken  from  on  board  the  sloop 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  293 

Industry,  William  Willis,  master,  on  her  passage  from  St.  Chris- 
tophers to  Bermudas :  To  the  end  and  intent  that  any  person  or  per- 
sons concerned  may  appear  and  shew  cause,  if  any  they  have,  why 
the  said  schooner  Polly,  together  with  her  tackle,  apparel,  furniture 
and  cargo,  and  also  the'  said  negroes,  should  not  be  condemned,  and 
decrees  thereon  pass  according  to  the  prayer  of  the  said  bills. 

By  order  of  the  Judge, 
JOS.  BLOOMFIELD,  Register. 
Haddonfield,  August  20,  1781. 

SIXTEEN  SILVER  DOLLARS  REWARD, 

Stolen  out  of  the  pasture  of  the  subscriber,  in  Mansfield  township, 
Burlington  county,  state  of  New-Jersey,  in  the  night  of  the  30th.  of 
August,  a  dark  brown  mare,  fifteen  hands  high,  a  long  star,  four  white 
feet,  some  black  spots  above  her  hoofs,  a  natural  trotter,  and  canters 
easy,  has  a  collar  mark  near  her  withers :  Whoever  takes  up  the 
said  mare,  and  delivers  her  to  the  subscriber,  and  secures  the  thief, 
so  that  he  is  brought  to  Justice,  shall  be  entitled  to  the  above  re- 
ward, and  reasonable  charges,  or  Eight  Dollars  for  the  mare  only, 
paid  by,  JOSHUA  FOSTER. 

A  Number  of  the  members  of  the  late  New-Jersey  Medical  Society, 
desirous  as  well  of  promoting  the  science  of  medicine,  as  establish- 
ing some  more  regular  system  of  practice  in  this  state,  propose  re- 
storing the  society  to  its  former  dignity  and  usefulness,  and  will 
hold  their  first  meeting  for  this  purpose  on  Wednesday  the  3d  day 
of  October  next  at  the  house  of  Mr.  Bateman,  in  Princeton.  The 
former  members,  and  such  other  gentlemen  of  the  faculty  who  are 
desirous  of  becoming  members  of  this  society,  are  requested  to  meet 
there  at  10  o'clock  in  the  forenoon. 

September  8th.  1781. 

NEW-JERSEY,  Middlesex  county. 

B  Y  virtue  of  a  writ  of  Fieri  Facias  to  me  directed,  issued  out 
of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  state  of  New-Jersey,  at  the  suit  of  Rich- 
ard and  Peter  Footman,  against  William  Calvert,  administrator  of  all 
and  singular  the  goods  and  chattels,  lands  and  tenements  of  and 
belonging  unto  Elias  Bland,  deceased ;  I  have  seized  and  taken  one 
house  and  lot  of  land  in  possession  of  David  De-Camp ;  one  other 
house  and  lot  of  land  in  possession  of  Matthias  Isalton ;  one  other 
lot  of  land  lying  in  common ;  all  situate  in  Perth  Amboy ;  also 
a  house  and  lot  of  about  30  acres  of  land  where  the  said  Elias  Bland 
used  to  dwell,  together  with  10  acres  of  salt  meadow  in  possession 
of  James  ivinsey ;  also  two  small  houses  and  about  19  acres  of  land 
in  possession  of  Stephen  Flood ;  also  one  yellow  house  and  lot  of 
land  situate  in  Spanktown ;  the  latter  all  within  the  township  of 
Woodbridge ;  all  which  I  shall  expose  at  publick  sale  on  Monday  the 
5th  day  of  November  next  at  the  house  of  William  Marriner,  Inn- 
holder  in  New-Brunswick,  between  the  hours  of  12  and  5  o'clock  in 


294  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

the  afternoon ;    all  such  that  intend  becoming  purchasers  may  view 
the  premises  before  the  day  of  sale. 

JOHN  PIATT,  Sheriff. 
September  4th,  1781. 

DESERTED,  from  the  second  regiment  of  Artillery,  commanded  by 
Col.  John  Lamb,  on  their  rout  from  Trenton  to  the  Head  of  Elk : 

Anthony  Bremer,  fifer,  four  feet  nine  inches  and  a  half  high,  18 
years  of  age,  yeoman,  light  hair,  fair  complexion ;  born  in  Phila- 
delphia, and  resided  some  time  at  Warwick,  in  the  state  of  New-York. 

Bazaliel  Ackley,  matross,  five  feet  nine  inches  and  a  half  high,  29 
years  of  age,  by  trade  a  founder,  brown  hair,  fair  complexion,  was 
born  in  Connecticut,  and  resided  some  time  at  Springfield,  in  East 
New-Jersey. 

Allen  M'Clean,  matross,  five  feet  five  inches  and  a  half  high,  31 
years  of  age,  yeoman,  brown  hair,  ruddy  complexion,  pitted  with  the 
small  pox,  born  in  Scotland,  and  resided  for  some  time  at  Kahiatt,  in 
the  state  of  New- York. 

Joseph  Hugg,  matross,  5  feet  6  inches  high,  25  years  of  age,  by 
trade  a  carpenter,  brown  hair,  fair  complexion  ;  born  at  Greenwich 
in  Gloucester  county,  West  New-Jersey,  and  resided  some  time  in 
Philadelphia. 

David  Leard,  matross,  5  feet  10  inches  and  a  half  high,  30  years 
of  age,  yeoman ;  black  h^ir,  fair  complexion  ;  born  at  Phillipsburg, 
in  the  state  of  New- York. 

Abraham  M'Killup,  corporal,  5  feet  9  inches  high,  38  years  of  age, 
yeoman,  dark  hair  and  complexion  ;  born  in  Ireland,  and  resided  some 
time  at  Stillwater  in  the  state  of  New-York. 

Richard  Williams,  corporal,  5  feet  5  inches  and  a  half  high,  35 
years  of  age,  yeoman,  brown  hair,  fair  complexion ;  born  and  resided 
at  Greenfield,  in  Connecticut. 

Matthias  Cristy,  bombardier,  5  feet  7  inches  and  a  half  high.  24 
years  of  age,  by  trade  a  blacksmith ;  born  and  resided  in  Elizabeth- 
Town,  New-Jersey. 

Benjamin  Cole,  matross,  5  feet  7  inches  high,  about  25  years  of 
age,  yeoman,  black  hair,  dark  complexion ;  born  in  Essex  county, 
East  New-Jersey,  and  resided  some  time  near  the  North  Redoubt  on 
Hudson's  river,  where  he  has  a  wife  and  family. 

James  M'Bride,  sergeant,  about  5  feet  8  inches  high,  24  years  of 
age,  yeoman,  dark  hair,  dark  complexion,  well  made,  born  in  Ireland, 
and  resided  for  some  time  at  New- Windsor,  in  the  state  of  New-YTork. 

William  M'Bride,  corporal,  about  5  feet  6  inches  ajad  a  half  high, 
27  years  of  age,  yeoman,  dark  hair,  dark  complexion,  well  made, 
born  in  Ireland,  and  resided  for  some  time  at  and  about  New-Windsor 
in  the  state  of  New-York. 

Whoever  takes  up  any  of  the  above  mentioned  deserters,  and  se- 
cures them  in  a  safe  gaol,  or  delivers  them  to  any  guard  belonging 
to  the  army  of  the  United  States,  and  gives  information  to  any 
commissioned  officer  belonging  to  the  said  regiment,  so  that  the  said 
deserters  may  be  brought  back  to  their  regiment,  shall  receive  for 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  295 

each  deserter  twenty  hard  dollars,  from  the  Pay-Master  of  the  said 
regiment,  exclusive  of  what  is  allowed  by  the  states. 

EBENEZER  STEVENS,  Lieut.  Col. 

JOSEPH  MILNOR, 

At  his  store  in  Trenton,  has  for  sale,  by  large  and  small  quantities, 
Jamaica  spirit,  West-India  rum,  Madeira,  Lisbon,  and  Tenerif,  wines, 
Double  and  single  refined  loaf  sugar,  Broken  down  and  muscovado  do., 
Best  hyson  and  bohea  teas,  Coffee,  pepper,  Alspice  nutmegs  and  cinna- 
mon, Window  glass,  10  by  12,  9  by  11,  10  by  8,  7  by  9,  Copper 
teakettles.  Warming-pans,  Frying-pans,  Padlocks,  chest  do.,  Strap- 
hinges,  Hand-vices,  Fire-shovels,  Shoemakers  hammers,  Iron  squares, 
Chisels  of  all  kinds,  Rat-traps,  and  many  other  things  in  the  iron 
mongery  way,  Pipes,  Bar  and  slit  iron,  Nails,  Pine  and  cedar  boards 
and  shingles, 

An   assortment   of  Dry   Goods — Also   a   few   Dozen   of   the   newest 
fashioned  Windsor  Chairs,  and  a  large  assortment  of  Hollow  Ware. 


From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  195,  September  19,  1781. 

Mr.  Collins, 

It  may  be  well  to  observe  to  the  inhabitants  of  New-Jersey,  that  at  the  en- 
suing session  of  the  Assembly  will  expire,  according  to  the  constitution, 
most  of  the  commissions  in  the  civil  department  of  the  state,  when  a  re- 
appointment  must  take  place  either  of  the  same  men,  or  others  to  fill 
up  their  places,  at  the  election  of  the  Council  and  Assembly,  who  now 
have  the  appointment  of  officers,  and  not  the  Governor,  as  under  the 
old  government. 

As  it  has  generally  been  said  a  number  of  persons  very  improper  and 
incapable  to  fill  the  commissions  they  held  were  formerly  appointed,  now 
is  the  time  for  a  remedy.  It  therefore  becomes  the  inhabitants  in 
every  county  to  recommend  to  the  Council  and  Assembly  such  persons 
as  they  shall  think  the  most  suitable  for  judges,  justices  and  clerks  of 
courts.  This  is  what  every  judicious  man  in  the  Council  and  Assembly 
would  wish  to  see.  A  reply  no  doubt  will  be  made  by  many,  that  they 
will  put  in  whom  they  please,  and  as  they  have  it  in  their  power,  its 
most  likely  they  will  put  in  commission  their  friends  and  favorites,  and 
therefore  our  labour  and  pains  would  be  lost  to  attempt  a  recommendation 
in  favour  of  those  the  county  would  best  approve  of.  But  you  are  to 
consider  they  are  your  representatives,  and  your  recommendations  are 
and  ought  to  guide  them ;  and  they  are  as  much  bound  to  adhere  to 
you,  as  a  grand  army  man  is  to  his  oath,  which  obliges  him  in  his 
business  to  act  without  fear,  favor,  affection,  gain  or  hope  of  reward : 
this  is  what  you  are.  to  expect  from  the  present  Council  and  Assembly, 
many  of  whom  are  good  and  worthy  men. 

IMPARTIAL. 

August  30th. 

BOSTON,  SEPTEMBER  G., 

Major  Andrew  Brown,  who  made  his  escape  from  prison  in  New- 
York,  on  Thursday  last,  and  arrived  here  last  Sunday  evening,  has 
favoured  us  with  the  following  intelligence,  viz.  That  last  Tuesday 
Admiral  Hood  with  13  sail  of  the  line,  4  frigates  and  2  fireships, 
arrived  at  Sandy-Hook.  That  the  troops  and  inhabitants  of  New- 
York,  expect  every  moment  to  be  attacked  by  General  Washington. 


296  .\KW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

That  the  inhabitants  of  Long-Island  and  Stateu-Island,  are  every 
man  obliged  to  do  military  duty' — That  the  Rover,  lately  taken  from 
us,  and  in  their  service,  was  yesterday  week  drove  ashore  and  burnt. 
When  Major  Brown  came  away,  there  were  TOO  prisoners  on  board 
the  Jersey  prison-ship. — The  officers  and  men  are  indiscriminately 
drove  under  the  hatches  at  sun-setting,  and  there  kept  in  that  suf- 
focating condition  till  after  sun-rising,  when  they  are  led  up  to  wash 
the  decks,  and  particularly  the  quarter-deck,  where  at  other  times, 
they  are  not  suffered  to  set  a  foot. 

CHATHAM,  SEPTEMBER  11. 

Mr.  Constant  Cooper,  post  rider  from  Morristown  to  Fish-Kill,  was 
taken  with  the  mail  at  Pumpton,  the  first  instant,  by  a  skulking 
party  of  the  enemy,  and  carried  to  New- York. 

Last  week  William  Steele,  an  accomplice  of  Jerry  King's,  was 
taken  on  his  way  from  Roxbury,  and  committed  to  Morris  Town 
gaol.  This  villain  had  a  particular  account,  in  writing,  of  the  troops, 
both  French  and  Americans,  that  marched  with  General  Washington, 
together  with  a  list  of  all  the  ordnance. 

TRENTON,  SEPT.  10. 

Head-Quarters,  Head  of  ^Elk,  Sept.  6,  1781.  "It  is  with  the 
highest  pleasure  and  satisfaction  the  Commander  in  Chief  announces 
to  the  army  the  arrival  of  the  Count  De  Grasse  in  the  Chesapeake, 
with  a  very  formidable  naval  and  land  force.  At  the  same  time  he 
felicitates  them  on  this  auspicious  occasion,  he  anticipates  the  glorious 
events  which  may  be  expected  from  the  combined  operations  now  in 
contemplation,  as  no  circumstance  could  possibly  have  happened  more 
oppertunely  in  point  of  time,  no  prospect  could  ever  have  promised 
more  important  successes,  and  nothing  but  a  want  of  exertions  can 
probably  blast  the  pleasing  prospects  before  us. 

Last  Friday  week  the  Sachem  Jist  Arara,  alias  Grass-hopper,  and 
Lieutenant-Colonel  Atayataghroughta,  with  part  of  his  regiment,  of 
the  Oneida  and  Tuscorora  nations,  from  Albany,  passed  through  this 
place  on  their  way  to  Philadelphia.  They  are  in  general  stout,  hearty 
looking  men,  and  appear  to  be  under  good  discipline.  While  in  town 
they  exhibited,  before  a  number  of  the  inhabitants  collected  on  this 
occasion,  the  war  whoop  and  dance,  of  which  so  much  is,  said  in 
every  account  of  the  Indian  nations. 

This  day  the  Honourable  the  Legislature  of  this  State  meet  at 
Princeton,  pursuant  to  adjournment. 

EIGHT  HARD  DOLLARS  REWARD. 

Stolen  out  of  the  pasture  of  the  subscriber,  in  the  night  of  the 
second  day  of  September,  a  red  roan  horse,  about  seven  years  old, 
not  certain  of  any  brand  or  mark,  remarkable  short  mane  and  tail, 


1781]  ISTEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  297 

a  very  good  waggon,  horse,  paces  and  trots.  Whoever  takes  up  the 
said  horse  and  thief,  so  that  the  thief  may  be  brought  to  justice, 
and  the  horse  recovered,  shall  be  paid  the  above  reward,  besides  all 
reasonable  charges,  by  me. 

EPHRAIM  COLVER. 
Sussex,  Knolton  Township,  Sept.  3,  1781. 

TO     BE     SOLD, 

A  Likely,  hearty  Negro  woman,  about  21  years  of  age :  Also  a  Negro 
girl,  about  16  years  of  age ;  both  have  had  the  small  pox,  were  born 
and  brought  up  in  New-Jersey,  and  are  fit  for  either  town  or  country 
business :  Also  a  female  Negro  child,  about  4  years  of  age.  For 
further  particulars  enquire  of  the  subscriber  in  Burlington. 

JACOB  PHILLIPS. 

WANTED  IMMEDIATELY, 

An  industrious,  honest  GIRL,  to  do  housework ;  to  whom  good 
wages  will  be  given.  Enquire  of  the  Printer. 

From  the  Neic  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  196,  September  26,  1781. 

PHILADELPHIA. 

Letters  from  New-Jersey  say,  that  on  Wednesday  and  Thursday 
last  25  sail  of  ships  of  war  out  of  30  which  sailed  some  time  ago, 
returned  to  the  Hook,  and  by  prisoners  which  were  landed  at  Mon- 
mouth,  the  letter-writer  says,  they  were  informed  that  the  British 
had  an  action  with  the  French,  in  which  the  London,  of  98  guns, 
had  received  considerable  damage,  and  the  Intrepid,  of  74,  had  been 
so  well  handled,  that  she  sunk  on  the  passage,  and  with  difficulty 
the  people  and  a  few  stores  were  saved  by  the  rest  of  the  fleet. 

TRENTON,  SEPT.  26. 

It  is  no  longer  a  doubt  that  the  British  fleet  have  returned  to  the 
Hook  from  the  Mouth  of  Chesapeake  Bay,  where  it  is  said  they 
received  a  severe  drubbing  from  Count  De  Grasse.  Certain  it  is  that 
they  have  come  back  with  several  ships  less  than  they  took  out. 

A  body  of  continental  troops  have  moved  to  the  banks  of  the  Dela- 
ware. Two  Pennsylvania  militia  camps  are  formed  at  the  same  place. 
The  militia  of  New-Jersey  are  also  ordered  to  be  in  constant  readiness. 
It  is  said  these  measures  are  taken  iu  consequence  of  some  projected 
impressions  on  the  enemy,  as  the  troops  under  General  Heath  are  also 
moving  down  towards  New- York. 

Wednesday  last  James  Carter  was  executed  at  this  town,  pur- 
suant to  his  sentence,  for  Horse-stealing. 


298         XEW  JERSEY  IX  THE  REVOLUTION.      [1781 

Yesterday  a  number  of  British  prisoners  passed  through  this  place 
under  guard,  on  their  way  to  Elizabeth-iTown,  to  be  exchanged. 

We  are  informed,  by  good  authority,  that  Admirals  Graves,  Hood 
and  Drake,  went  up  from  the  Hook  to  New-York  with  part  of  the 
fleet  on  Sunday  last.  Five  sail  of  the  line  are  all  that  are  left  with- 
out the  Hook. 

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  it  has  been  represented  to  me  that  North  Marpole,  of  the 
county  of  Gloucester,  has  been  guilty  of  attrocious  offences,  and 
committed  divers  robberies,  thefts  and  other  felonies  within  this 
state : — I  have  thought  fit,  by  and  with  the  advice  of  the  Honourable 
Privy  Council  of  this  state,  to  issue  this  proclamation,  hereby  prom- 
ising to  any  person  or  persons  who  shall  apprehend  and  secure  in 
any  gaol  of  this  state,  the  said  North  Marpole,  the  sum  of  One  Hun- 
dred Pounds  of  the  bills  of  credit  issued  on  the  faith  of  this  state. 

Given  under  my  'hand  and  seal  at  arms,  at  Princeton,  the 
twenty-first  day  of  September,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one 
thousand  seven  hundred  and  eighty-one,  and  in  the  fifth  year 
of  the  independence  of  America. 

WIL.  LIVINGSTON. 
By  his  Excellency's  Command, 

BOWES  REED,  Sec'ry. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  publick  vendu,  on  Saturday,  the  sixth  day  of  October  next, 
at  Tom's  River, 

THE  SCHOONER  NANCY  and  her  lading,  consisting  of 
about  19,000  feet  of  boards  and  10,000  shingles.  The  vendu  to  be- 
gin at  two  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  when  attendance  will  be  given, 
and  the  conditions  made  known  by 

RICHARD  ROBINS,  jun. 

RAN  AWAY  from  the  subscriber,  living  in  Bucks  county,  on 
the  fifteenth  of  this  instant,  a  Negro  man  about  20  years  old,  a  likely 
well  built  fellow,  named  NED:  Had  on  when  he  went 
away  a  shirt  and  trowsers,  a  new  wool  hat,  new  shoes  and  copper 
buckles,  and  it  is  thought  he  took  with  him  a  black  handkerchief,  a 
number  of  new  coat  and  jacket  buttons,  besides  many  other  things : — 
Whoever  will  secure  said  Negro  in  any  gaol,  so  that  his  master  may 
have  him  again,  shall  receive  Eight  Silver  Dollars  reward,  and  rea- 
sonable charges  paid  by  WILLIAM  M'CALLA. 

Sept.  19,  1781. 


1781]  iXEWSPAPEE    EXTRACTS.  299 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

Or  exchanged  for  all  sorts  of  produce,  and  other  articles 
necessary  for  carrying  on  iron  works ; 

All  sorts  of  cast  iron  kettles,  pots,  large  and  small  skillets,  small 
mortars,  griddles  with  and  without  legs,  waggon,  chair  and  cart 
boxes,  close  stoves,  six  and  ten  plate  stoves,  open  fire  places,  com- 
monly called  Franklin  stoves,  &c.  &c.  &c.  wholesale  and  retail,  by 
me  at  Mount-Hope  furnace,  Morris  county. 

JOHN  JACOB  FAESH. 

Sept.  13,  1781. 

Was  left  the  17th  instant,  at  the  subscriber's  in  Grigg's-Town, 
Somerset  county,  state  of  New-Jersey,  a  waggon  and  two  horses,  one 
a  black  roan,  hipshot,  the  other  a  dark  brown. — 

They  were  left  by  three  men,  who  said  the  owner  was  coming  on ; 
but  he  has  not  yet  come,  this  is  to  desire  the  owner  to  come,  prove 
his  property,  pay  charges,  and  take  them  away. 

CORNELIUS  CORNELL. 

Griggs-Town,  Sept.  21,  1781. 

From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  197,   October  3,  1781. 

CHATHAM,  September  26,  1781. 

Early  in  the  morning  of  the  22nd  ultimo,  a  party  of  Indians  and 
tories,  consisting  of  about  four  hundred,  entered  the  beautiful  settle- 
ment of  Warwasing,  situated  on  the  great  road  leading  from  Mini- 
sink  to  Eusopus,  about  thirty-five  miles  from  the  former ;  at  their 
first  coming  to  the  place  they  were  hailed  by  a  sentinel  who  was  at 
the  gate  of  a  piquet  fort  where  there  was  a  sergeant's  guard  kept, 
(which  were  the  only  soldiers  in  that  quarter;)  they  not  making  any 
answer,  induced  the  sentinel  to,  and  run  within  the  fort,  which 
alarmed  the  garrison.  The  enemy  kept  up  a  constant  fire  upon  the 
fort  for  some  time,  but  without  effect,  and  at  last  retired  in  con- 
fusion with  the  loss  of  three  killed  and  two  wounded.  They  then 
proceeded  to  burning  and  plundering  the  place.  The  inhabitants 
being  alarmed  by  the  firing  of  the  fort,  all  made  their  escape,  except 
one  John  Kittle,  whom  they  killed.  The  loss  of  these  poor  people  is 
very  great,  the  fate  of  an  hour  reduced  them  from  a  state  of  ease  and 
affluence  to  want  and  beggary.  Thirteen  elegant  dwelling-houses, 
with  all  the  out-buildings  and  furniture,  fourteen  spacious  barns 
filled  with  wheat,  besides  barracks,  stables,  stacks  of  hay  and  grain, 
were  all  consumed ;  between-  sixty  and  seventy  horses,  mostly  very 
fine,  a  great  number  of  cattle,  sheep,  and  hogs  were  drove  off.  Col. 
Pawling,  getting  intelligence  of  the  above,  immediately  collected  about 
two  hundred  New- York  levies  and  militia,  and  pursued  them  about 
forty  miles,  but  was  not  able  to  overtake  them.  It  appeared  that 
they  left  in  confusion,  as  they  left  a  considerable  quantity  of  their 
plunder  behind  them  in  many  places.  By  a  white  man  who  has  been 
with  them  three  years,  and  made  his  escape  while  Warwasing  was  in 


•'5ll<>  -\K\V     JKRSEY    IX    THE    KEVOLUTIOX. 

flames,  we  learn  that  this  party  was  from  Niagara,  and  that  they 
were  four  weeks  and  three  weeks  on  their  way ;  that  they  were  ex- 
ceedingly distressed  for  want  of  provisions,  insomuch  that  they  eat 
up  their  pack-horses  and  dogs.  He  adds,  that  the  garrison  of  Niagara 
was  in  a  mealoncholy  situation  for  want  of  provisions  and  the  neces- 
saries of  life,  and  that  the  tories  there  most  bitterly  execrate  the  day 
they  were  deluded  by  the  tyrant's  emissaries  to  take  up  arms  against 
their  native  country. 

On  the  morning  of  the  28th  ult.  Sergeant  Joseph  Garlinghouse,  of 
Capt.  Bonnel's  company  of  levies,  who  are  stationed  at  Minisink,  was 
teaching  a  couple  of  recruits  the  manual  exercise,  and  standing  be- 
fore them  as  fugilman,  ordered  them  to  take  their  aim  and  fire,  one 
of  their  guns  was  loaded,  and  went  off  at  half  cock,  whiqh  blew  the 
whole  charge  through  his  breast,  of  which  he  was  instantly  killed. 

On  Thursday  the  30th  ultimo,  was  married  at  Westfield,  William 
Miller,  Esq.  a  respectable  inhabitant  of  that  place,  in  the  eighty-fifth 
year  of  his  age,  to  Mrs.  Valentine,  (relict  of  Mr.  Richard  Valentine, 
late  of  New-Providence,  deceased)  in  the  seventy -fifth  year  of  her 
age,  a  woman  of  a  reputable  character. 

The  troops  of  the  enemy,  mentioned  in  our  last  to  have  embarked, 
are  all  disembarked  upon  Staten-Island,  from  which  circumstance,  it 
is  imagined  a  descent  into  this  state  is  intended,  therefore  it  behoves 
every  man,  capable  of  bearing  arms,  to  be  in  perfect  readiness  to 
oppose  them,  and  prevent  their  committing  the  like  depredations  in 
our  territory  that  they  lately  did  in  a  sister  state. 

By  intelligence  from  New-York  we  learn,  that  of  eighteen  sail  of 
the  line  that  went  to  the  southward  only  thirteen  are  returned  to 
the  Hook,  five  of  which  are  mere  wrecks,  and  cannot  be  repaired, 
but  with  the  greatest  difficulty,  without  going  into  dock. 

By  a  sailor  that  was  on  board  Admiral  Drake's  ship,  and  left  the 
enemy  since  their  arrival  at  the  Hook,  we  learn  the  battle  between 
the  two  fleets  was  fought  on  the  14th.  instant,  the  British  consisting 
of  18  ships  of  the  line,  and  the  French  of  twenty-five,  though  only 
twenty-three  engaged ;  that  the  British  lost  the  Terrible  and 
Vengence,  both  seventy-fou*s,  one  sunk  and  the  other  burnt ;  the 
Fortunate,  a  forty-four,  was  taken  in  the  bay ;  the  Princessa,  of 
seventy  guns,  lost  all  her  masts,  and  had  ninety  men  killed,  and  fifty 
that  lost  either  their  legs  or  arms,  and  was  obliged  to  throw  all  her 
guns  overboard  two  days  after  the  action,  as  she  made  nine  feet  of 
water  in  her  hold  in  one  hour. — Probably  this  propitious  event  so 
affected  the  intellects  of  Sir  Henry,  was  the  occasion  of  his  apolo- 
gizing for  the  burning  of  New-London,  lest  the  rude  Americans,  in 
conjunction  with  their  allies,  should  beat  up  his  own  quarters,  after 
the  reduction  of  his  noble  friend,  and  make  him  responsible  for  all 
the  burnings  his  miscreants  may  or  have  perpetrated. 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  301 

Admirable  Digby  is  most  assuredly  arrived  off  off  the  Hook  with 
one  ship  of  90  guns,  and  two  of  74.  The  reports  (from  them)  say  he 
left  England  with  six  ships  of  the  line,  six  frigates,  and  100  trans- 
ports for  America :  But  some  advices  the  Admiral  received  at  sea, 
made  jt  necessary  for  him  to  come  on  with  three  ships,  leaving  the 
transports  under  cover  of  three  ships  of  the  line  and  six  frigates. 

TRENTON,  Oct.  3. 

Princeton,  Sept.  28,  1781. 

On  Monday  the  24th  instant,  the  grammer  school  in  this  place 
was  publickly  examined  in  presence  of  the  President  and  Faculty  of 
the  College,  and  other  gentlemen  in  the  neighbourhood,  when  the 
several  classes  gave  specimens  of  their  improvement  in  Greek,  Latin, 
English  and  writing,  to  the  satisfaction  of  all  present,  and  the  senior 
class  were  admitted  to  the  freshman  class  in  college.  Prizes  had  been 
proposed  some  weeks  before,  to  excite  their  emulation,  on  the  follow- 
ing subjects  : 

1.  One  on  reading  English  with  propriety,  and  answering 

2.  Four  upon  extempore  exercises  on  the  Latin  grammar  syntax. 

3.  One  for  the  Best  oration 

These  prizes  were  contended  for  on  Tuesday  the  25th,  in  the  fore- 
noon and  evening. — The  prize  upon  the  first  subject  was  adjudged  to 
Christopher  De  Vintz ;  on  the  second  it  was  thought  proper,  for  the 
encouragement  of  beginners,  to  give  one  of  the  prizes  to  the  best  in 
the  two  lower  classes,  which  was  adjudged  to  James  Finley. — The 
other  three  contended  for  by  the  upper  classes,  were  adjudged,  1st  to 
Abel  Johnson,  2nd  to  Samuel  Bayard,  3d  to  Tho.  Pollock. 

The  orations  were  delivered  in  the  evening  in  the  College-Hall, 
before  a  numerous  and  polite  audience,  and  the  prize  adjudged  to 
Horatio  L.  Stockton. 

On  Wednesday  of  the  26th,  was  held  the  annual  commencement 
for  conferring  degrees. 

In  the  morning  His  Excellency  the  Governor  and  the  Honourable 
Legislature  of  the  State,  at  present  sitting  in  this  town,  assembled 
in  a  body  at  the  President's  house,  and  walked  in  procession  from 
thence  to  the  Hall,  with  the  Trustees  and  Faculty  of  the  College, 
and  the  young  gentlemen  who  were  to  commence.  After  the  whole 
were  seated,  the  publick  exercises  were  introduced  by  the  President 
with  prayer. — Then  followed, 

1st.  A  salutatory  Latin  oration  on  luxury,  by  Mr.  Joseph  Clarke. 

2d.  An  oration  on  the  misapplication  of  talents,  by  Mr.  William 
Giles. 

3d.  A  dissertation  on  matrimony  by  Mr.  Francis  Jefferson  James. 

4th.  An  oration  on  the  love  of  glory,  by  Mr.  Edward  Livingston. 

5th.  A  dialogue  on  the  origin  and  comparative  merits  of  poetry 
and  eloquence,  by  Messrs.  William  Giles,  Joseph  Clarke  and  Robert 
Smith. 

6th.  An  oration  on  discord,  by  Mr.  Joseph  Scudder. 

7th.  An  oration  on  genius,  by  Mr.  John  Blair. 


302  M:\V     .1KKSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTIOX.  [1T81 

8th.  The  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts  was  conferred  on  Messrs. 
Joseph  Clarke,  William  Crawford,  William  Giles,  Francis  Jefferson 
James,  Edward  Livingston,  and  Robert  Smith ;  and  the  degree  of 
Mnxttr  of  Arts  was  conferred  on  the  Honourable  Major-General 
Nathaniel  Greene — on  the  Honourable  David  Brearley,  Esq.  Chief- 
Justice  of  the  State  of  New-Jersey. — and  on  Pierre-Eugene  du  Simi- 
tiere,  a  gentleman  of  literary  merit,  a  native  of  Geneva,  and  residing 
in  the  city  of  Philadelphia ;  and  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws  was 
conferred  on  His  Excellency  Thomas  M'Kean,  Esq.  President  of 
Congress. 

9th.  An  address  from  the  President  to  the  young  gentlemen  who 
had  just  received  their  degrees. 

10th.  The  valedictory  oration  on  the  advantages  which  the  United 
States  of  America  enjoy  above  other  Republicks  which  have  arisen  in 
the  world,  for  framing  wise  systems  of  civil  policy,  by  Mr.  Robert 
Smith. 

The  whole  was  conducted  to  the  great  approbation  of  a  very 
crowded  and  polite  assembly,  and  so  as  to  afford  the  most  favourable 
presages  to  the  friends  of  the  college. 

We  were  yesterday  credibly  informed,  that  Gen.  Heath  has  boats 
ready  and  every  other  thing  prepared  to  act  as  emergencies  may 
require,  in  case  the  enemy  should  make  a  descent  into  this  state. 

From  a  New- York  paper. 
NEW  YORK,  SEPTEMBER  28. 

Last  Monday  arrived  at  Sandy-Hook,  in  a  fleet  of  the  King's  ships 
from  Great-Britain,  under  the  command  of  the  Honourable  Admiral 
Digby. 

His  Royal  Highness 
PRINCE  WILLIAM  HENRY, 

Third  Son  of  our  Most  Gracious  Sovereign.  The  honour  conferred  on 
this  continent  by  the  arrival  of  so  exalted  and  amiable  a  character 
upon  it,  is  sensibly  felt  by  all  his  Majesty's  faithful  subjects  on  this 
side  the  Atlantic.  (Few  enough!) 

His  Royal  Highness  came  up  to  this  city  on  Wednesday  afternoon, 
in  perfect  health,  and  was  cordially  received  upon  his  landing  with 
the  honours  due  to  his  dignity  and  merit. — It  is  impossible  to  de- 
scribe the  exultation  of  .the  navy,  army,  and  loyal  inhabitants  on 
this  occasion.  (Forgetting  Count  de  Grasse.) 

BY  HIS  EXCELLENCY 

WILLIAM  LIVINGSTON.  Esquire,  Governor,  Captain-General  and 
Commander  in  Chief  in  and  over  the  State  of  New-Jersey  and  Ter- 
ritories thereunto  belonging.  Chancellor  and  Ordinary  in  the  same. 

In  Council. 

To  all  whom  it  may  concern : 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  303 

The  Sieur  Holker  having  been  recognized  by  the  United  States  in 
Congress  assembled,  as  Consul  General  of  France  in  the  States  afore- 
said, it  is  hereby  declared  that  the  privileges,  pre-eminences  and 
authority  belonging  to  such  character  and  quality  are  due  to  him. 

Given    under   my   hand   and   seal   at   arms,    at   Princeton,    the 

twenty-fifth  day  of  September,   in   the  year  of  our  Lord   one 

thousand  seven  hundred  and  Eighty-one. 

WIL.  LIVINGSTON. 
By  His  Excellency's  command, 

Bowes  Reed,  SecVv. 

BY  HIS  EXCELLENCY 
THE  GOVERNOR, 

A  General  Court  Martial  of  the  militia  of  the  State  of  New-Jersey 
is  hereby  ordered  and  appointed  to  be  held  at  Chatham,  on  the 
twenty-third  day  of  October  next,  for  the  trial  of  Lieutenant  Colonel 
Jacob  Crane,  Captain  Isaac  Gillam  and  Lieutenant  John  Burnet,  of 
which  Court  Martial  Colonel  Sylvanus  Seely  is  appointed  President, 
and  Lieutenant-Colonels  Benoni  Hathaway,  and  John  Starke,  and 
Majors  Daniel  Brown,  Joseph  Lindsly  and  Daniel  Cook,  and  Cap- 
tains Peter  Layton,  Israel  Ward,  Joseph  Beach,  Obadiah  Kitchell, 
James  Kean,  Jacob  Arnold  and  Josiah  Hall,  are  appointed  members, 
and  William  Willcocks,  Esq.  is  appointed  Judge-Advocate  ;  and  for 
the  trial  of  such  other  prisoners  as  shall  be  brought  before  them. 

Given  under  my  hand  the  twenty-fourth  day  of  September,  in 
the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  seven  hundred  and  Eighty- 
one.  WIL.  LIVINGSTON. 

Was  turned  into  the  field  of  the  subscriber  on  the  21st  of  August 
last,  a  black  horse,  thirteen  and  a  half  hands  high,  eight  years  old, 
has  a  star,  branded  S.  L.  on  the  near  shoulder,  hind  feet  white,  and 
a  white  scar  on  his  buttock :  The  owner  is  desired  to  prove  his 
property,  pay  charges,  and  take  him  away. 

JOSEPH  BISHOP. 

Amwell,  Sept.  27,  1781. 

The  Trustees  of  Queen's  College  in  New-Jersey,  are  requested  to 
meet,  at  New-Brunswick,  on  Wednesday  the  24th  day  of  October, 
instant,  at  10  o'clock  in  the  forenoon.  By  order, 

J.  R.  HARDENBERGH,  Clk. 

Oct.  3,  1781. 

From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  198,  October  10,  1781. 

TO  THE  PUBLICK, 

Princeton,  September  28,  1781. 

The  Trustees  of  the  College  of  New-Jersey  at  their  last  meeting, 
finding  that  the  seminary  notwithstanding  its  late  desolation  by  the 


304  XKW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

enemy,  and  by  the  confusion  of  the  times,  is  now  filling  fast,  were 
of  opinion,  that  the  whole  former  system  might  be  re-established,  and 
took  every  necessary  measure  for  that  purpose : — Amongst  others 
they  directed  the  subscriber  to  give  publick  notice'  of  the  principal 
regulations,  for  the  information  of  parents  and  guardians  who  may 
be  desirous  of  sending  their  children  here  for  instruction. 

In  consequence  of  this  order,  the  publick  will  be  pleased  to  observe. 

1.  That  a  considerable  part  of  the  College  is  already  repaired,  and 
the   Trustees   have  given   directions   for  the   repairs   being  completed 
without   delay ;     therefore   all   undergraduates    will,    as    formerly,    be 
obliged  to  lodge  in  College,  that  they  may  be  immediately  under  the 
eyes  of  their  teachers ;    and  a  strict  compliance  with  the  orders   of 
College,  as  to  attending  prayers,  the  hours  of  the  day,  and  being  in 
their  chambers  at  night  will  be  expected.     This  rule  is  to  be  under- 
stood to  extend  not  only  to  those  who  board  with  the  steward,   but 
to  those  who  board  out  with  license,  and  to  those  whos  parents  live 
in  the  town  or  neighbourhood, 

2.  The  Trustees  have  chosen  a  steward,  who  will  board  the  students 
at  the  moderate  rate  of  Ten  Shillings  proclamation  money  per  week, 
and   none   will   be   suffered    to   board   out   of   College,    but   with    the 
express    license   of   the   President,    or   in    his   absence   of   the   senior 
professor,   and  when  this   license  is  granted,   they   must   pay   to   the 
steward  at  the  rate  of  One  Shilling  and  Six-pence  per  week,  for  the 
necessary  expence  of  kefping  the  College  and  rooms  in  order. 

3.  Every  new  scholar,  at  his  first  coming  to  College,  must  pay  one 
guinea   entrance  money,   and   at   the   rate  of  six   pounds  per  annum 
tuition,  and  two  pounds  per  annum  for  chamber  rent.     The  entrance 
money  and  chamber  rent  are  to  be  paid  to  the  Treasurer,  the  tuition 
to  the  President,   and  the  board  to  the  steward   in  advance   for  six 
months.      This    last   circumstance    of   paying    in    advance    every    six- 
months,  will  not  be  in  any  instance  dispensed  with,  as  the  Trustees 
have  renewed  or  ratified  the  former  law,   that  if  complaint  is  made 
by  the  Treasurer  or  steward  that  any  student  has  not  made  his  ad- 
vance for  the  current  half  year,   the   President   must   either  dismiss 
him  from  College,  or  be  himself  answerable  for  the  debt. 

4.  If   any   student   from   a   grammer   school   shall   at   his   first   en- 
trance be  admitted   to  the  sophomore  or  junior  class,   he   must   pay 
the  back  tuition  for  the  term  or  terms  which  he  slips  over,  but  if 
he  has  been  a  member  of  any  other  college,  and  be  found  qualified, 
he  will  be  admitted  to  the  same  standing  without  any  extra  expence. 

5.  The  tuition  for  the  grammer  school  is  the  same  as  in  College, 
six   pounds   per  annum,   and   must   be   paid   henceforth   in   the   same 
manner  in  advance.     The  entrance  money   to  new   scholars   is   only 
one  pound.     The  scholars  of  the  grammer  school  are  not  obliged  to 
live  in  College,  as  many  of  them  are  young  and  must  be  in  private 
families ;    but  if  any  parent  incline  to  have  his  child  in  College  under 
the  care  of  a  more  advanced  student,   as  has  been  often  the  case, 
they  have  liberty  to  place  them  there,  only  it  must  be  observed  that 
they  are  then  subject  to  all  the  rules  of  College,  as  to  their  hours 
and  behaviour. 


1731 ]  NEWSPAPEK    EXTRACTS.  305 

Those  who  are  acquainted  with  the  College  must  know,  that  ex- 
cepting some  small  alterations  in  the  rates,  all  the  above  regulations 
that  were  formerly  in  force,  and  which  will  again  be  strictly  and 
invariably  adhered  to ;  though  for  three  years  past,  several  have 
lived  in  private  houses  and  behaved  with  much  propriety,  yet  now 
that  the  number  of  students  is  large  and  daily  encreasing,  it  is 
necessary  to  have  recourse  to  the  same  order  and  discipline  that 
were  formerly  of  so  much  benefit  to  the  institution.  With  regard 
to  enforcing  punctuality  in  the  payments,  the  reader  will  easily 
perceive  that  the  burden  must  lie  wholly  on  the  subscriber,  who  has 
already  suffered  so  much  by  arrearages  and  pledging  himself  for 
persons  at  a  distance,  that  no  body  need  expect  a  repetition  of  the 
same  expensive  and  dangerous  compliance. 

It  is  hoped  that  those  who  are  at  present  members  of  College  will 
be  careful  to  attend  at  the  beginning  of  the  session,  and  that  both 
they  and  future  intrants  will  remember  that  regularity  in  attendance 
is  absolutely  necessary  to  their  progress  in  their  studies,  and  there- 
fore absence  without  leave,  or  beyond  the  time  for  which  leave  has 
been  given,  will  be  punished  in  the  severest  manner,  that  is  to  say, 
by  publick  censure  or  expulsion. 

The  subscriber  earnestly  recommends  to  all  parents  and  guardians 
at  a  distance,  that  they  would  commit  the  management  of  their 
pupils,  as  to  accounts  and  expence,  to  some  person  of  character  at 
College  in  Princeton,  or  in  the  neighbourhood :  For  want  of  this  they 
often  run  into  extravagance  in  point  of  dress  and  incidental  charges. 
set  a  bad  example  to  one  another,  are  imposed  upon  in  their  accounts, 
and  bring  a  reproach  upon  the  institution.  We  often  hear  com- 
plaints of  the  expences  of  education  from  the  friends  of  those  who 
never  paid  anything  for  their  education  at  all,  but  were  suffered  to 
mispend  their  money  for  the  gratifications  of  their  own  fancies,  and 
left  their  teachers  to  solicit  the  small  pittance  that  was  due  to  them 
for  many  years  after  their  return  home.  Such  instances  occasioned 
some  of  the  orders  of  the  trustees  mentioned  above,  and  it  is  hoped 
the  mention  now  made  of  them,  will  be  sufficient  to  justify  the 
measures  in  the  opinion  of  every  impartial  person. 

JOHN  WITHERSPOOX. 

X.  B.  The  vacation  in  the  school  is  four  weeks,  and  that  in  the 
college  six  weeks  from  the  26th  inst. 

TRENTON,  OCT.  10. 

On  the  28th  ult.  the  Council  and  Assembly  of  this  state,  in  joint- 
meeting,  proceeded  to  elect  the  civil  officers  necessary  to  supply  the 
vacancies  which  had  fallen  pursuant  to  the  constitution,  when  the 
following  appointments  were  made :  William  Paterson,  Esq.  Attorney- 
General.  Honourable  William  C.  Houston,  Clerk  of  the  Supreme 
Court. 

Elisha  Boudinot,  Esq.  Clerk  of  the  Circuits. 

The  Clerks  of  the  different  counties  now  stand  as  follows : 

20 


300         NEW  JERSEY  IX  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1781 

Bergen,  Abraham  Westervelt.  Essex,  Robert  Ogden,  jun.  Mid- 
dlesex, Benjamin  Manning.  Monmouth,  Kenneth  Anderson,  jun. 
Somerset,  Frederick  Frelinghuysen.  Burlington,  John  Phillips. 
Gloucester,  Elijah  Clark.  Salem,  Jacob  Tagart.  Cape-May,  Eli 
Eldredge.  Hunterdon,  Samuel  Witham  Stocton.  Morris,  Silas  Con- 
diet.  Cumberland,  Jonathan  Elmer.  Sussex,  Charles  Rhodes. 

On  Saturday  last  the  General  Assembly  of  this  state  rose,  having 
completed  the  fifth  session.  The  titles  of  the  acts  passed  will  be  in 
our  next. 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  New-Brunswick,  Oct.  7,  1781. 

"On  Friday  night  last  Capt.  Adam  Hyler,  from  New-Brunswick,  with 
one  gun  boat  and  two  whale  ditto,  within  a  quarter  of  a  mile  of  the 
guard  ship  at  Sandy-Hook,  attacked  five  vessels,  and  after  a  smart 
conflict  of  fifteen  minuits,  carried  them  ;  two  of  them  were  armed,  one 
mounting  four  six  pounders,  and  one  six  swivels,  and  one  three  pounder. 
— The  hands  made  their  escape  with  their  long  boats,  and  took  refuge 
in  a  small  fort,  in  which  was  mounted  twelve  swivel  guns,  from  which 
they  kept  up  a  constant  firing,  notwithstanding  which  he  hoarded  them 
all  without  a  loss  of  a  man  ; — on  board  of  one  of  these  was  250  bushels 
of  wheat  and  a  quantity  of  cheese  belonging  to  Capt.  Lippincott,  bound 
to  New-York ; — he  took  from  them  50  bushels  of  wheat,  a  quantity  of 
cheese,  several  swivels,  a  number  of  fuzes,  one  cask  of  powder,  and 
some  dry  goods,  and  stripped  them  of  their  sails  and  rigging,  not  being 
able  to  bring  the  vessels  into  port,  in  consequence  of  a  contrary  wind 
and  tide ; — after  which  he  set  all  on  fire  save  one,  on  board  of  which 
was  a  woman  and  four  small  children,  which  prevented  her  from  sharing 
a  similar  fate." 

STATE  OF  NEW-JERSEY. 

An  Act  for  recovering  the  arrearages  of  certain  taxes. 
[For  this  Act  passed  October  4,  1781,  see  Stat.,  Chap.  XLIX.] 


STATE  OF  NEW-JERSEY. 

An  Act  to  require  Sheriffs  to  give  security,  and  for  other  purposes 
therein  mentioned. 

[For  this  Act  passed  October  5,  1781,  see  Statutes,  Chap.  L.] 

Parchment,  Ink  powder,  Quills,  Wafers,  Pocketbooks,  and  Watt's 
Psalms,  may  be  had  at  the  Printing-Office. 

The  Trustees  of  Queen's  College,  in  New-Jersey,  are  requested  to 
meet,  at  New-Brunswick  on  Wednesday  the  24th  day  of  October 
instant,  at  10  o'clock  in  the  forenoon.  By  order, 

J.  R.  HARDENBERGH.  Clk. 

Oct.  3,  1781. 

93"  The  subscribers  to  this  Gazette  will  please  take  notice,  that  the 
first  quarter  will  end  at  No.  199,  inclusive. 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  .  307 

Trenton  :  Printed  by  Isaac  Collins.  Advertisements  of  a  moderate 
Length  are  inserted  for  Five  Shillings  each  the  first  Week,  and 
One  SliUlhifr  and  Three-pence  for  every  Continuance,  and  long  Ones 
in  Proportion ;  and  by  whom  Essays,  and  Articles  of  Intelligence 
are  thankfully  received. 

From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  -199,  October  17,  1781. 

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  by  my  Proclamation  bearing  date  the  third  day  of  August 
last  past,  a  reward  of  two  hundred  dollars  of  the  bills  of  credit  issued 
on  the  faith  of  this  State,  was  promised  to  any  person  or  persons 
who  should  apprehend  and  secure  in  any  gaol  of  this  State,  any  or 
either  of  the  following  persons  or  offenders,  to  wit,  Caleb  Sweesy, 
James  O'Harry,  John  Moody,  and  Gysbert  Gyberson ;  and  whereas 
the  said  name  Gysbert  Gyberson  was  by  mistake  inserted  in  the  said 
Proclamation  instead  of  William  Giberson,  who  is  the  person  thereby 
meant  and  intended  ; — I  have  therefore  thought  fit,  by  and  with  the 
advice  of  the  Honourable  Privy  Council  of  ^this  State,  to  issue  this 
Proclamation,  hereby  promising  the  reward  above  mentioned  to  any 
person  or  persons  who  shall  apprehend  and  secure  in  any  gaol  of 
this  State  the  said  William  Gyberson ;  and  do  hereby  revoke  any 
reward  promised  for  apprehending  or  securing  the  said  Gysbert 
Gyberson. 

And  whereas  in  and  by  a  certain  Act  of  the  Legislature  of  this 
State,  intitled,  "An  Act  to  prevent  persons  from  passing  through 
this  State  without  proper  passports,"  passed  at  Trenton  the  tenth 
day  of  July,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  seven  hundred  and 
seventy-nine,  it  is  among  other  things  enacted,  that  no  person  or 
persons  whatsoever  residing  within  this  State,  except  the  members 
of  the  Legislature  and  publick  officers  of  government,  shall  be  per- 
mitted to  pass  and  repass  through  any  part  of  this  State,  other  than 
the  county  in  which  he,  she,  or  they  reside,  without  having  a  com- 
mission under  this  State  or  the  United  States,  or  a  certificate  from 
His  Excellency  the  Governor,  or  from  one  one  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  Judges  of  the  court  of  com- 
mon pleas  or  Justices  of  the  Peace  of  such  county,  certifying  that 
the  bearer  is  an  inhabitant  of  the  county  of  and  a  person 

of  good  repute  and  generally  esteemed  a  friend  of  the  present  govern- 
ment, 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  certificate  shall 


308  NKW    JEKSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

intitle  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 ;  and  fhat  no  person  or  persons  whatsoever,  not  residing 
in  or  being  an  inhabitant  of  this  State  shall  be  permitted  to  pass 
.or  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  and  Commander  in  Chief,  or  one 
of  the  Delegates  in  Congress  for  the  state  in  which  such  traveller 
usually  resides,  or  of  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  travel  into  or  through  this  State,  while  behaving  and 
conducting  as  becometh  such  traveller :  Provided,  that  nothing  in 
the  said  Act  contained  be  taken  or  construed  to  extend  to  the  hinder- 
ing any  person  living  in  the  adjoining  counties  of  the  neighbouring 
states,  not  immediately  in  the  possion  of  the  enemy,  from  passing  into 
the  next  adjoining  county  in  this  state,  having  a  pass  from  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  ob- 
taining a  permission  or  passport,  agreably  to  the  directions  of  the 
said  Act. 

And  whereas,  in  order  to  carry  the  said  Act  into  effect,  it  was  fur- 
ther enacted,  that  it  should  and  might  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  ferry  men  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  should  not  produce  a  com- 
mission, certificate  or  pass,  authorizing  them  to  pass  as  aforesaid  ; 
and  without  which  by  the  said  Act,  they  were  therein  before  denied 
permission  to  pass  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  the 
said  Act,  who  are  denied  permission  to  pass  as  aforesaid,  shall,  by 
such  Justice,  be  either  committed  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  said  county  shall  be,  and  thereby 
are  authorized  and  empowered  to  discharge  from  gaol  any  such  per- 
son so  apprehended  and  committed,  who  shall  prove  to  the  satis- 
faction 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 


1781J  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  309 

all  persons  apprehended  and  committed  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  confinement,  upon  paying  the  cost  as  afore- 
said, and  also  the  expence  of  a  sufficient  guard  to  conduct  or  remove 
such  person  or  persons  out  of  this  State,  the  directest  or  securest 
way  towards  his  place  of  residence ;  which  guard  the  said  Justice  or 
Justices  are  required  to  procure,  upon  receiving  a  sum  sufficient  to 
hire  and  support  the  same,  and  to  give  a  pass  for  that  purpose ;  and 
that  every  boatman  and  ferryman  who  shall  bring  into  this  State,  or 
over  any  ferry  within  the  same,  any  person  without  a  passport  as 
aforesaid,  and  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  the  said  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  cog- 
nizable, with  costs  of  suit,  to  be  applied  one  half  to  the  support  of 
the  poor  of  the  township  where  the  offence  was  committed ;  and  the 
other  half  to  the  prosecutor ;  and  all  officers  civil  and  military  within 
this  State,  are  thereby  strictly  ordered  and  enjoined  to  give  all  need- 
ful aid  and  assistance  for  carrying  the  said  act  into  execution,  as 
by  the  said  Act  reference  being  thereunto  had,  may  appear. 

And  whereas  there  is  great  reason  to  apprehend  that  the  enemy 
employ  a  number  of  spies  and  emissaries  to  pass  and  repass  through 
this  State  to  collect  intelligence  and  for  other  purposes  prejudicial 
to  the  Commonwealth,  and  that  the  publick  stage-drivers  frequently 
grant  passages  to  persons  not  having  the  passports  by  the  said  Act 
directed,  and  who  pass  and  repass  through  this  state  in  order  to  get 
into  the  enemy's  lines  without  the  passes  for  that  purpose  directed 
by  another  Act  of  the  Legislature,  and  also  to  carry  on  an  illicit 
trade  with  the  enemy  in  defiance  of  another  law  of  his  State,  for 
which  reasons  it  is  become  more  necessary  than  ever  to  carry  the 
said  herein  recited  Act  into  the  most  rigorous  execution : — I  have 
therefore  thought  fit  hereby  to  request  all  good  citizens  of  this  State 
who  tender  the  welfare  of  their  country  and  the  glorious  cause  of 
liberty  and  independence  at  this  critical  juncture  when  it  is  of  the 
utmost  importance  to  prevent  all  intercourse  with  the  enemy  to  exert 
themselves  in  the  execution  of  the  said  Act  according  to  the  respective 
powers  and  authorities  on  them  conferred  by  the  same. 

Given  under  my  hand  and  seal  at  arms,  at  Trenton,  the  ninth 
day  of  October,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  seven 
hundred  and  eighty-one,  and  in  the  sixth  year  of  the  inde- 
pendence of  America. 

WIL.  LIVINGSTON. 
By  His  Excellency's  Command, 

BOWES  REED,  Sec'ry. 


310  -\KW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

t 
TRENTON,  Oct.  17. 

Acts  passed  at  the  last  session  of  General  Assembly,  An  Act  to 
amend  an  Act,  intitled,  An  Act  for  regulating  the  election  of  mem- 
bers of  the  Legislative-Council  and  Assembly,  Sheriffs,  and  Coroners 
of  the  state  of  New-Jersey,  and  also  to  direct  the  election  of  Dele- 
gates to  represent  the  said  state  in  the  Congress  of  the  United  States. 

An  Act  to  repeal  the  several  Acts  made  and  provided  for  the  cloth- 
ing of  the  quota  of  troops  belonging  to  this  state,  in  the  service  of 
the  United  States,  and  for  other  purposes  therein  mentioned. 

An  Act  for  recovering  the  arrearages  of  certain  taxes. 

An  Act  to  require  Sheriffs  to  give  security,  and  for  other  purposes 
therein  mentioned. 

An  Act  for  vesting  in  Richard  Morris,  Esq.  the  power,  authority, 
title  and  estate  given  unto  David  Ogden  and  Richard  Morris,  by  the 
last  will  and  testament  of  Robert  Hunter  Morris,  Esq.  deceased,  and 
for  other  purposes  therein  mentioned. 

An  Act  for  vesting  the  powers  of  agency  for  the  West- Jersey  So- 
ciety, in  Joseph  Reed,  Esq.  one  of  the  said  Society. 

An  Act  for  the  relief  of  Adam  Boyd,  Sheriff  of  the  county  of  Ber- 
gen, respecting  the  loss  of  a  sum  of  publick  money  by  the  enemy. 

An  Act  to  enable  Isaac  Watson,  surviving  executor  of  the  last  will 
and  testament  of  Samuel  Watson,  deceased,  to  fulfil  the  purposes  of 
the  said  will. 

An  Act  for  procuring  to  Thomas  Marshall  a  title  for  certain  lands 
in  the  county  of  Gloucester,  purchased  by  his  father  Randall  Marshall, 
deceased,  of  John  Hinchman,  now  a  fugitive  with  the  enemy. 

An  Act  to  repeal  part  of  a  certain  Act  therein  mentioned. 

An  Act  for  defraying  sundry  incidental  charges. 

Tuesday  the  9th  inst.  came  on  the  annual  election  in  this  state 
for  Representatives  to  serve  in  Council  and  Assembly  for  the  en- 
suing year,  when  the  following  Gentlemen  were  returned,  viz. 

Hunterdon,  Council,  John  Stevens,  Esq.  Assembly,  Benjamin  Van- 
Cleve,  John  Lambert  and  John  Mehelm,  Esquires. 

Burlington,  Council,  John  Cox,  Esquire.  Assembly,  Thomas  Feni- 
more,  Israel  Shreve  and  George  Anderson,  Esquires. 

MonmoutJi,  Council.  Elisha  Lawrence,  Esquire.  Assembly,  Nathan- 
iel Scudder,  Thomas  Henderson  and  John  Covenhoven,  Esquires. 

Morris,  Council,  John  Carle,  Esquire.  Assembly,  Ellis  Cooke. 
Aaron  Kitchel  and  John  Stark,  Esqrs. 

Somerset,  Council,  Ephraim  Martin.  Assembly,  Edward  Bunn, 
David  Kirkpatrick  and  John  Schureman,  Esquires. 

Ifiddlesex,  Council,  John  Beatty,  Esq.  Assembly,  Jacob  Suydam, 
Jacob  Martin  and  John  Conger,  Esquires. 

Gloucester,  Council,  Joseph  Hugg,  Esq.  Assembly,  Joseph  Ellis, 
Samuel  Hugg  and  Isaac  Tomlinson,  Esquires. 

C'ttinltrrland,  Council,  Samuel  Ogden,  Esquire.  Assembly,  Josiah 
Brick,  Joshua  Ewing  and  Josiah  Seely,  Esquires. 

The  returns  for  the  other  counties  have  not  come  to  hand. 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  311 

By  :i  Gentleman  who  left  Egg-Harbour  on  Saturday  last,  we  learn, 
that  some  time  last  week  the  hands  on  board  the  armed  transport 
ship  belonging  to  Admiral  Digby's  fleet,  rose  upon  their  Captain 
near  Sandy-Hook,  and  carried  her  into  Egg-Harbour ;  she  was  loaded 
chiefly  with  provisions.  The  officers  on  board  the  brig  inform  that 
the  Fair  American  privateer  of  Philadelphia,  had  taken  five  vessels, 
four  of  them  brigs,  out  of  the  said  fleet,  laden  with  provisions  and 
dry  good's,  one  of  them  principally  with  linens,  and  said  to  be  worth 
Thirty  Thousand  Pounds. 

We  just  now  learn  that  the  Fair  American,  with  the  above  prizes, 
are  arrived  in  the  Delaware. 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  New-Brunswick,  dated  October  15,  1781. 

"On  the  13th  inst.  Captain  Adam  Hyler,  of  this  place,  with  one  gun- 
boat and  two  whale-boats,  boarded  one  sloop  and  two  schooners,  which 
all  the  hands  except  two  had  previously  left,  and  which  lay  under  cover 
of  the  light-house  fort  at  Sandy  Hook,  and  brought  them  off ;  but  the 
sloop  being  such  a  dull  sailer,  and  being  much  annoyed  from  a  galley 
lying  near  Staten-Island,  was  set  on  fire  about  three  miles  from  the  fort. 
One  of  the  schooners  running  aground  by  accident,  was  stripped  and 
left ;  the  other,  a  remarkably  fine  fast  sailing  Virginia  built  pilot  boat, 
mounted  with  one  four  pounder,  was  brought  with  the  two  prisoners, 
to  this  place." 

Princeton,  House  of  Assemby,  October  3,  1781.  Resolved, 
That  George  Anderson,  Esq.  of  the  county  of  Burlington,  and  Ben- 
jamin Smith,  Esq.  and  Charles  Axford,  jun.  of  the  county  of  Hunter- 
don,  or  any  two  of  them,  be  and  they  hereby  are  appointed  to  in- 
spect, cancel,  and  put  into  sealed  bundles,  the  sum  of  Forty-eight 
Thousand  Seven  Hundred  and  Fifty  Pounds,  including  principal  and 
interest,  of  the  bills  of  credit  emitted  pursuant  to  the  resolutions  of 
Congress  of  March  18th,  One  Thousand  Seven  Hundred  and  Eighty  ; 
and  that  they  meet  for  that  purpose  at  such  time  and  at  such  place 
as  shall  be  notified  to  them  by  the  Treasurer  of  the  state,  who  is 
hereby  required  to  give  such  notice  to  the  said  persons  accordingly, 
and  to  lay  before  them  bills  to  the  aforesaid  amount,  within  ten  days 
after  the  first  day  of  January  next,  if  the  said  sum  of  the  before- 
mentioned  emission  shall  have  been  received  into  the  treasury  within 
that  time,  or  otherwise  as  soon  thereafter  as  so  much  money  of  the 
said  emission  shall  come  into  his  hands :  And  the  said  persons  so 
appointed  shall  deliver  the  sealed  bundles  cancelled  as  aforesaid  to 
the  Treasurer  of  the  state,  to  be  by  him  laid  before  the  Legislature, 
to  be  inspected  and  destroyed  ;  and  shall  also  lay  an  account  of  the 
numbers  and  denominations  of  the  bills  so  cancelled,  attested  on 
oath,  before  the  Legislature  at  their  next  sitting  thereafter,  together 
with  an  account  of  the  expences  incurred  by  the  service,  for  their 
allowance  and  settlement. 


312  XKW    JERSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTIOX.  [1781 

Resolved,  That  the  Treasurer  of  the  state  be  directed  to  purchase 
the  measures  prescribed  by  law  for  the  recovery  of  the  deficient -ies 
of  the  late  tax. 

Extract  from  the  Minutes, 

M.  EWING,  jun.  Clerk. 

The  Members  of  the  late  New-Jersey  Medical  Society  are  requested 
to  take  notice,  that  at  a  meeting  of  a  respectable  number  of  members 
at  Princeton  this  day,  (pursuant  to  an  advertisement  in  the  New- 
Jersey  Gazette)  it  was  agreed  on  to  re-establish  the  Society  on  its 
former  principles  and  constitution ;  and  that  agreeably  thereto,  their 
half  yearly  meeting,  as  usual,  will  be  held  on  the  first  Tuesday  in 
November  next,  at  this  place. 

•  By  order  of  the  Meeting. 
ISAAC  SMITH,  Chairman. 

Princeton,  October  3,  1781. 

House  of  Assembly,  Sept.  20,  1781. 

A  Petition  from  John  Ely,  son  of  George  Ely,  late  of  the  county 
of  Hunterdon,  was  presented  and  read,  setting  forth  that  his  said 
father  did  by  virtue  of  a  deed  from  Samuel  Tucker,  late  High-Sheriff 
of  said  county,  become  possessed  of  398  acres  of  land  in  the  town- 
ship of  Amwell,  in  said  county  ;  that  the  said  George  Ely  did  some 
time  afterwards  sell  and  convey  to  Captain  George  Coryell,  one 
equal  and  undivided  half  part  of  the  said  tract ;  that  shortly  after  the 
said  sale,  he  the  said  George  Ely,  became  deprived  of  his  reason, 
and  still  continues  so,  whereby  the  said  land  remains  undivided,  mucn 
to  the  damage  of  the  said  George  Ely's  estate,  and  praying  that 
leave  may  be  given  him  to  bring  in  a  bill  to  enable  him  on  the 
part  and  in  the  name  of  the  said  George  Ely,  to  divide  the  said 
lands,  and  to  confirm  the  same  division  when  made. 

Ordered,  That  the  petitioner  have  leave  to  present  a  bill  agreeably 
to  the  prayer  of  h'is  petition,  at  the  next  sitting  of  the  Legislature, 
having  previously  advertised  his  intentions  for  at  least  three  weeks 
in  the  New-Jersey  Gazette. 

Extract  from  the  minuies. 

M.  EWING,  jun.  Clerk. 

Notice  is  hereby  given,  That  the  subscriber  intends  to  present  a 
bill  at  the  next  sitting  of  the  Legislature,  for  the  purposes  mentioned 
in  the  foregoing  extract. 

JOHN  ELY,  Son  of  George. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

By  way  of  publick  vendue,  on  Tuesday  the  twenty-third  day  of  Oc- 
tober instant,  and  continued  from  day  to  day  till  the  sales  are  over, 
at  the  late  dwelling-house  of  Nathaniel  Moore,  of  the  township  of 
Hopewell,  deceased : 

Beef  cattle,  a  yoke  of  working  oxen,  an  ox  cart,  milch  cows,  young 
cattle,  sheep,  swine,  hay  of  the  first  quality,  Indian  corn,  buckwheat, 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  313 

gi'een  wheat  in  the  ground,  cyder,  feather  beds,  bedsteads,  household 
and  kitchen  furniture,  and  sundry  other  articles  too  tedious  to 
enumerate.  The  vendu  to  begin  at  nine  o'clock  in  the  forenoon, 
when  the  conditions  will  be  made  known  and  due  attendance  given 
by  the  executors.  Those  that  are  indebted  to  the  estate  of  the 
deceased,  are  requested  to  make  payment  in  one  month  from  this, 
date,  and  those  who  have  any  demands  against  the  estate  are  also 
requested  to  bring  in  their  accounts  properly  authenticated,  by  the 
same  time  for  settlement. 

MARY  MOORE,  Executrix. 
JOSEPH  MOORE.  )  „ 

JESSE  MOORE.  }  Executol>s- 
Hopewell,  Hunterdon  County,  Oct.  12,  1781. 

TO  ALL  WHOM  IT  MAY  CONCERN  : 

New-Jersey  l    Notice  is  hereby  given,  that  a  Court  of  Admiralty  will 
ss.  J    be  held  at  the  Court-House  in  Burlington,  on  Friday 

the  9th  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  bill  of  William  Austin  Smith,  (who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the 
ship  or  vessel  called  the  Major  Pierson,  lately  commanded  by  John 
Richard  Wiskall :  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 
her  cargo  should  not  be  condemned  according  to  the  prayer  of  the 
said  bill. 

By  order  of  the  Judge, 
JOS.  BLOOMFIELD,  Register. 
October  15,  1781. 

At  the  same  time  and  place  will  be  tried  the  schooner  Polly,  libelled 
by  Henry  Mursit,  qui  tarn  &c.  heretofore  advertised  for  trial,  and 
adjourned  over  at  the  last  Court  of  Admiralty. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  publick  vendu,  on  Thursday  the  25th  day  of  October  instant,  at 
ten  o'clock  in  the  forenoon  of  the  same  day, 

The  ship  Major  Pierson,   as  she  now   lies  at   Little   Egg-Harbour, 
with  her  sails  and  rigging,  as  per  invantory  to  be  seen  at  the  day 
of  sale :    Also  her  cargo,  consisting  of  flour,  barley  and  hops. 
By  order  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty, 

JOHN  BURROWES,  Marshal. 
October  15,  1781. 

His  Majesty's  frigate  the  Carryshort,  has  taken  and  brought  into 
Sandy-Hook,  a  large  ship  from  Boston  for  Martinico,  loaded  entirely 
with  masts,  some  of  them  large  enough  for  74's. 


314  XKW    JERSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 


From  the  .Yew?  Jersey  Gazette,   Vol.  IV.,  No.  200,  October  24,  17M. 

PHILADELPHIA,  OCT.  20. 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  the  eastward,  Oct.  18. 

"The  British  fleet,  in  number  99,  all  got  down  to  the  Hook  last  night, 
and  I  expect  will  sail  this  day  for  Virginia.  There  are  25  line  of 
battleships,  some  fifties  and  some  forties,  with  frigates  of  less  force. 
There  are  a  number  of  fireships,  three  or  four  of  which  are  frigate  rigged. 
and  under  that  disguise  expect  to  be  able  to  grapple  as  many  French 
line  of  battle  ships,  in  time  of  action.  Three  line  of  battle  ships  are 
also  prepared  with  carcases  fixed  on  barbed  irons,  which  they  expect  to  fire 
into  the  sails  and  rigging,  and  which,  by  means  of  the  barbed  irons, 
are  to  hang  and  set  fire  to  the  ships.  There  are  from  four  to  five  thousand 
troops  on  board,  and  I  am  pretty  well  assured  to  be  commanded  by  Sir 
Henry  in  person." 

TRENTON,  OCT.  24. 

Returns  of  the  Members  of  the  Legislature  received  since  our  last. 

Essex,  Council,  Josiah  Hornblower,  Esq.  Assembly,  Caleb  Camp. 
Samuel  Potter,  and  Jacob  Brookfield,  Esquires. 

Sussex,  Council,  Hugh  Hughes,  Esq.  Assembly,  William  Maxwell, 
Isaac  Van-Campen,  and  Joshua  Sweezy,  Esquires. 

Salem,  Council,  John  Holme,  Esq.  Assembly,  Edward  Hall,  Ephraim 
Lloyd  and  James  James,  Esquires. 

"On  Monday,  the  loth  inst.  a  party  of  refugees  from  Sandy-Hook, 
landed  at  Shrewsbury,  in  Monmouth  county,  and  under  cover  of  the 
night,  niarched  undiscovered  to  Colt's-Neck,  near  15  miles  from  the 
place  of  their  landing,  and  took  six  of  the  inhabitants  from  their 
houses. — The  alarm  reached  the  Courthouse  -between  four  and  five 
o'clock  in  the  morning  of  the  16th,  when  a  small  number  of  the  in- 
habitants who  were  in  the  village  of  Freehold  and  its  vacinity,  (ac- 
companied by  Doctor  Nathaniel  Scudder,  accidentally  in  the  place 
that  night)  went  immediately  in  pursuit  of  them,  hoping  either  to 
releive  their  friends  who  had  been  stolen  into  captivity,  or  to  chastise 
the  enemy  for  their  temerity. — 

They  rode  to  Black-Point,  the  place  where  the  refugees  had  landed, 
with  all  possible  speed,  fell  in  with,  attacked  the  rear  of  the  refugee 
party,  and  drove  them  on  board  their  boat ;  in  which  skirmish,  to  the 
great  grief  of  our  party.  Doctor  Nathaniel  Scudder,  whilst  he  was 
bravely  advancing  on  the  enemy,  received  a  wound  by  a  musket  ball 
passing  through  his  head,  of  which  he  instantly  expired. — His  remains 
were  removed  from  the  place  of  action  to  his  own  house,  with  all 
the  decency  and  solemnity  suitable  to  so  mournful  and  meloncholy  an 
occasion. — On  Wednesday  the  17th,  a  most  excellent  and  affecting 
sermon  was  preached  on  the  occasion  by  the  Reverend  Mr.  Woodhull. 
from  the  following  words, — "And  all  Juda  and  Jerusalem  mourned 
for  Josiah,"  ii  Chron.  xxxv  chap.  24th  and  25th  verses.  After  which 
his  remains,  attended  by  the  most  numerous  and  respectable  con- 
course of  people  ever  known  on  a  similar  occasion  in  this  county, 
were  interred  at  the  Presbyterian  church  in  Freehold,  with  the 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  315 

honours  of  war. — Few  men  have  fell  in  this  country  that  were  so 
useful  in  life,  or  so  generally  mourned  for  in  death. — He  was  a 
tender  husband,  an  affectionate  parent,  a  sympathetic,  generous,  real 
friend,  a  disinterested,  determined  patriot,  and  has  since  the  com- 
mencement of  the  war  devoted  his  time,  his  talent,  and  a  large  part 
of  a  comfortable  estate  to  the  service  of  his  country,  and  what  will 
add  a  lustre  to  the  whole,  we  trust  he  is  the  finished  Christian. 

"Thus  has  this  great  and  good  man  fell  at  the  prime  of  life,  and 
in  the  midst  of  his  usefulness,  having  left  behind  him  an  inconsolable 
widow,  five  amiable  children,  and  a  very  numerous  acquaintance  to 
lament  his  fall." 

Died  at  Burlington,  on  Friday  the  19th  instant,  Mrs.  Catherine 
Hicks,  aged  thirty-six  years,  wife  of  Isaac  Hicks,  Esq.  of  Burlington. 

Last  Monday  afternoon  an  express  from  Philadelphia  passed  through 
this  place  on  his  way  to  the  east-ward ;  by  him  the  following  letter 
was  received.  The  intelligence  is  beleived,  and  is  truly  great  and 
interesting. 

"Philadelphia,  Oct.  22,  1781. 
"Sir, 

"I  have  the  pleasure  of  congratulating  you  on  -the  capture  of  Corn- 
wallis,  and  his  whole  army,  on  the  17th  instant — The  particulars  are 
not  come  to  hand. 

"The  President  of  Congress  has  just  received  a  copy  of  Count  de 
Grasse's  letter  to  the  Governor  of  Maryland,  sent  by  water  to  Annapolis, 
so  that  there  is  no  doubt  of  this  fact.  The  count  has  taken  his  troops 
on  board  and  gone  out  to  meet  Mr.  Digby — that  they  may  meet  is  the 
hearty  prayer  of,  Sir, 

Your  most  obedient  servant, 

"Col  Neilson.  SAMUEL  MILES,  D.  Q.  MASTEH." 

From  a  Philadelphia  paper  of  the  22d  instant. 

"With  the  most  unbounded  pleasure,  we  can  assure  the  publick,  that 
dispatches  have  the  moment  arrived,  giving  an  account  of  the  un- 
conditional surrender  of  Lord  Cornwallis,  on  the  17th  instant,  to 
our  great  and  magnanimous  General  Washington." 

NOTICE  IS  HEREBY  GIVEN, 

That  the  following  negroes  have  been  delivered  into  my  custody,  viz. 
Prince,  Folsberg,  Jack,  William,  ^nd  Enos  Peterson,  a  mulatto.  Their 
masters  are  desired  to  come  and  prove  their  property,  pay  charges 
and  take  them  away,  or  they  will  be  sold  on  the  17th  of  November 
next.  PETER  HULICK,  Gaoler. 

Trenton,  October  15,  1781. 

TO  ALL  WHOM  IT  MAY  CONCERN : 

New-Jersey  )    Notice  is  hereby  given  that  a  Court  of  Admiralty  will 
ss.  )    be   held   at   the   dwelling-house   of   Gilbert    Barton,    in 

Allen-Town,  on  Monday  the  nineteenth  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  bill  of  Captain  Adam  Hyler, 


316  M-:\V    JEKSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

(who  as  well,  &c.)  against  a  small  cutter  lately  belonging  to  the 
enemy,  (name  unknown)  and  also  against  the  schooner  Hare,  lately 
commanded  by  Captain  Alexander  Thomson,  together  with  their  tackle, 
apparel,  furniture  and  cargoes,  and  a  variety  of  articles  taken  from 
different  vessels  of  the  enemy :  To  the  end  and  intent  that  any  person 
or  persons  concerned  therein  may  appear  and  shew  cause,  if  any  he 
or  they  may  have,  why  the  said  cutter  and  schooner,  with  her  tackle, 
apparel,  furniture,  and  cargoes,  and  the  other  articles  aforesaid, 
should  not  be  condemned  according  to  the  prayer  of  the  said  bill. 

By  order  of  the  Judge, 
JOS.  BLOOMFIELD.  H.-iastcr. 
Oct.  22,  1781. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

On  Tuesday  the  30th  of  this  instant,  at  ten  o'clock,  at  the  Market- 
House,  in  New-Brunswick;  THE  SCHOONER  HAKE, 
with  her  tackle,  apparel,  furniture  and  cargo,  together  with  sundry 
other  articles  captured  and  taken  out  of  other  vessels,  such  as  mus- 
kets, swords,  cutlasses,  pistols,  swivel  guns,  rigging,  sails,  several 
negroes,  some  dry  goods,  wheat  and  cheese,  &c. 

By  order  of  the  Judge, 
Oct.  22,  1781.  J.  BURROWES,  Marshal. 

From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  201,  October  31,  1781. 

TRENTON,  Oct.  31. 

On  Saturday  last  the  great  and  important  event  of  the  surrender 
of  Lord  Cornwallis  and  his  whole  army,  to  the  combined  forces  com- 
manded by  His  Excellency,  General  Washington,  was  celebrated  here 
with  every  mark  of  joy  and  festivity. 

Tde  day  was  ushered  in  with  the  beating  of  drums,  and  the  Amer- 
ican colours  were  displayed  in  various  parts  of  the  town. 

At  11  o'clock  in  the  forenoon  His  Excellency  the  Governor,  the 
Honourable  Council  and  Assembly,  with  the  inhabitants  of  the  town 
and  vacinity,  attended  divine  service  at  the  Presbyterian  Church, 
where  a  discourse  adapted  to  the  occasion  was  delivered  by  the  Rev- 
erand  Mr.  Spencer. 

At  noon  a  proper  discharge  of  cannon  was  fired  by  the  corps  of 
artillery  belonging  to  the  town,  in  the  presence  of  the  Governor,  Gen- 
eral Dickinson,  the  Members  of  the  Legislature  and  the  Gentlemen 
of  the  town  and  neighbourhood,  assembled  on  the  common. 

At  three  in  the  afternoon,  the  company  repaired  to  an  elegant  en- 
tertainment, at  which  the  following  toasts  were  drank,  and  severally 
accompanied  with  a  discharge  of  artillery. 

1.  The  United  States  of  America. 

2.  The  Congress. 

3.  The  King  of  France. 

4.  General  Washington  and  the  American  army, 

5.  The  Count  de  Rochambeau  and  the  French  army. 


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6.  The  Count  de  Grasse  and  the.  French  fleet. 

7.  General  Greene  and  the  southern  army. 

8.  The  friends  of  liberty  throughout  the  world. 

9.  The  memory  of  Generals,  Warren,  Montgomery,  and  all  the  other 
heroes  who  have  fallen  in  the  defence  of  the  liberties  of  America. 

10.  Peace  on  honourable  terms,  or  war  forever. 

11.  The  great  and  heroic  Hyder  Alii,  raised  up  by  Providence  to 
avenge   the   numberless  cruelties   perpetrated   by   the   English   on  his 
unoffending  countrymen,   and  to  check  the  insolence  and  reduce  the 
power  of  Britain  in  the  East-Indies. 

12.  The  Governor  and  state  of  New-Jersey. 

13.  The  glorious  19th.  of  October,  1781. 

At  seven  in  the  evening  the  company  retired,  and  the  rejoicings 
were  concluded  by  a  brilliant  illumination. 

Every  thing  was  conducted  with  the  greatest  good  order  and  pro- 
priety ;  and  we  mention  it  with  pleasure,  that  not  the  least  disturb- 
ance or  irregularity  happened  during  the  whole  festivity.  What 
greatly  added  also  to  the  joy  inspired  by  this  glorious  event,  was  the 
pleasing  recollection  of  the  advantages  already  reaped  from  our 
alliance  with  that  magnanimous  Prince  whose  troops  have  had  so 
great  a  share  in  executing  the  important  enterprise.  An  alliance 
now  more  firmly  cemented  by  the  united  effusion  of  French  and 
American  blood,  in  a  conquest  the  more  agreeable  to  both  nations, 
for  being  obtained  by  their  combined  efforts  as  fellow-soldiers  and 
fellow-victors  in  the  same  triumphant  cause. 

Tuesday  se'nnight  the  Honourable  the  Legislature  of  this  state  met 
here. — At  the  opening  of  the  session  the  Hon.  John  Stevens,  Esq.  was 
re-chosen  Vice-President  of  the  Legislative-Council,  and  the  Hon. 
John  Mehelm,  Esq.  was  chosen  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Assembly. 

At  a  Joint-Meeting  of  the  Council  and  Assembly  yesterday,  His 
Excellency  William  Livingston,  Esq.  was  unanimously  re-elected 
Governor  for  the  ensuing  year ; — and  John  Stevens,  jun.  Esq.  was 
re-appointed  Treasurer. 

Princeton,  October  29,  1181. 

On  an  occasion  so  glorious  and  happy  for  America  as  the  surrender 
of  the  greatest  of  the  British  Generals,  with  a  numerous  garrison  to 
the  a'rms  of  the  continent,  every  friend  of  his  country  must  feel  the 
most  sincere  and  lively  joy.  The  inhabitants  of  Princeton  took  the 
earliest  oppertunity  to  testify  their  pleasure  in  this  event,  and  on 
Tuesday  last  celebrated  it  with  the  utmost  festivity.  At  twelve  o'clock 
most  of  the  reputable  gentlemen  of  the  town  and  several  in  the  neigh- 
bourhood, met  at  Mr.  Beekman's  tavern,  and  enjoyed  the  occasion 
awhile  over  some  good  punch  and  wine.  From  thence  they  repaired 
to  the  green  in  front  of  the  house,  where  the  field-piece  was  drawn 
out ;  and  after  an  address  suited  to  the  institution  of  the  day,  de- 
livered by  one  of  the  Professors  of  the  College,  thirteen  rounds  were 
fired.  The  whole  company  then  partook  of  a  publick  dinner,  to 
which  several  strangers  in  the  place  were  invited.  The  following 


318  >:KW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.  [1781 

thirteen  toasts  were  drank,  and  the  company  broke  up  with  decency 
at  six  o'clock. 

1.  United  States. 

2.  The  Congress. 

3.  The  King  of  France. 

4.  The  King  of  Spain  and  States  General. 

5.  General  Washington  and  the  American  army. 

6.  The  Count  de  Rochambeau  and  French  army. 

7.  The  Count  de  Grasse  and  navy  of  France. 

8.  General  Greene  and  Southern  army. 

9.  The  memorable  16th  and  19th  of  October,  and  the  action  of  the 
Eutaw  Springs. 

10.  Our  Plenipotentiaries  at  foreign  courts. 

11.  The  Governor  and  State  of  New-Jersey. 

12.  The  memory  of  all  who  have  fallen  in  this  war  in  defence  of 
America. 

13.  A  speedy  peace,  and  the  firm  establishment  of  the  independence 
of  the  United  States  of  America. 

In  the  evening  the  town  was  handsomely  illuminated,  and  thirteen 
rounds  from  the  militia  concluded  the  rejoicings  of  the  day. 

All  persons  anywise  indebted  to  the  estate  of  Abraham  Van-Neste, 
Esq.  late  of  Millstone,  in  the  county  of  Somerset,  deceased,  are  de- 
sired to  come  and  make  payments,  and  all  those  that  have  any  de- 
mands against  the  said  estate  are  desired  to  bring  in  their  accounts 
properly  attested  for  settlement. 

GEO.  VAN-NESTE, 
ABRM.  VAN-NESTE, 
JACOB  TEN-BROOK,    > 
REYNEER  STAATS, 
Somerset,  October  27,  1781. 

Whereas  inquisitions  have  been  found  and  returned  in  the  Court 
of  Common  Pleas,  lately  held  in  and  for  the  county  of  Somerset, 
against  the  form  of  their  allegiance,  and  other  treasonable  practices 
against  the  state :  Notice  is  hereby  given,  that  if  they,  or  any  other 
person  or  persons  in  their  behalf,  do  not  appear  at  the  next  Court 
of  Common  Pleas  to  be  held  in  and  for  said  county,  and  offer  to 
traverse  the  said  inquisitions,  or  either  of  them,  in  such  manner  as 
the  law  directs,  otherwise  the  said  inquisitions  shall  be  taken  to  be 
true,  and  judgment  final  shall  be  entered  thereon  in  favour  of  the 
state. 

REOLOFE  SEBRING 


October  27,  1781. 


*G>    „ 
WILLIAM  DAVISON  J    Commissioners. 


The  associated  Whi^s  of  the  east  precinct  of  the  county  of  Somer- 
set, are  desired  to  meet  at  the  house  of  John  Spader,  at  one  o'clock 
in  the  afternoon  of  Saturday  the  third  day  of  November  next. 

ABRAHAM  VAN  NESTE,  Clerk. 

Somerset,  October  22,  1781. 


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TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  the  house  of  Levi  Stout,  at  Rocky-Hill,  Somerset  county,  on  the 
9th  of  November  next,  the  following  articles,  viz. 

Horses,  cattle,  hogs,  a  good  bed  and  bedding,  household  furniture 
of  varions  kinds,  farming  utensils,  and  a  waggon  and  gears.  Also  a 
few  tons  of  hay.  The  vendue  to  begin  at  12  o'clock,  when  the  con- 
ditions will  be  made  known  and  attendance  given  by 

LEVI  STOUT. 

New-Jersey,  l     By  virtue  of  an  order  from   the   Honour- 

Monmouth  county,  ss.  j  able  the  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court 
of  this  state,  I  am  directed  to  certify  the  publick,  that  a  Court  of 
Oyer  and  Terminer  and  General  Gaol  Delivery  will  be  held  at  Free- 
hold in  and  for  the  county  of  Monmouth,  on  Tuesday  the  twenty- 
seventh  day  of  November  next : — All  Justices  of  the  Peace,  Coroners, 
Constables,  and  other  Ministers  of  Justice  of  the  said  county,  are 
hereby  desired  that  they  be  then  and  there  in  their  own  proper  per- 
sons, with  their  rolls,  records,  indictments  and  other  remembrances ; 
and  all  persons  who  will  prosecute  or  can  bear  testimony  in  behalf 
of  the  state,  against  any  offender  in  the  said  county,  are  desired 
likewise  to  give  their  attendance  on  the  day  and  at  the  place  aforesaid. 

JOHN  BURROWES,  JUN.  Sheriff. 

Will  be  published  in  a  few  days, 

The  New-Jersey 
ALMANACK, 
For  the  Year  1782. 


From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  202,  November  7,  1781. 
TRENTON,  November  7. 

A  letter  from  an  officer  of  rank  in  the  Jersey  line. 

Camp   at  York   town   Oct.   28,   1781. 

"Permit  me  to  congratulate  you  on  the  success  of  the  allied  arms, 
the  fall  of  the  boast  of  Britain  !  The  flower  of  its  army.  The  particulars 
of  the  surrender  of  Cornwallis  you  must  have  had  before  this  reaches 
you ;  but  if  I  could  communicate  the  pleasure  felt  on  seeing  the  poor 
proud  British  ground  their  arms,  it  would  give  you  new  and  inexpressible 
sensations. 

The  allied  army  was  drawn  up  in  two  straight  lines,  facing  each 
other,  leaving  a  space  for  the  British  column  to  pass.  The  Commander 
in  Chief  with  his  suite  on  the  right  of  the  American  line ;  the  Count 
de  Rochambeau  opposite,  on  the  left  of  the  French.  Lord  Cornwallis 
pleading  indisposition,  the  British  were  led  by  General  O'Harra,  conducted 
by  Gen.  Lincoln — Their  colours  cased,  and  they  not  allowed  to  beat  a 
French  or  American  march. 

The  British  officers  in  general  behaved  like  boys  who  had  been  whipped 
at  school  ;  some  bit  their  lips,  some  pouted,  others  cried ;  their  round 
broad  brimmed  hats  were  well  adapted  to  the  occasion,  hiding  those  faces 
they  were  ashamed  to  shew.  The  foreign  regiments  made  a  much  more 


320  NEW    JEKSEY    IN    THE    DEVOLUTION.  [1781 

military  appearance,  and  the  conduct  of  their  officers  far  more  becoming 
men  of  fortitude — I  enclose  you  the  orders  of  yesterday,  with  a  list  of 
their  corps  as  nearly  as  I  can  ascertain  them." 

At  Upper-Freehold,  on  Thursday  the  31st  of  October  ult.  departed 
this  life,  in  the  90th  year  of  his  age,  Robert  Lawrence,  Esquire,  and 
the  next  day  his  remains,  attended  by  a  numerous  concourse  of  his 
friends  and  acquaintance,  were  decently  interred  in  the  friends 
burying-ground  there.  He  was  bred  to  the  profession  of  the  law, 
which  he  practiced  in  his  younger  life,  was  a  member  of  the  General 
Assembly  of  this  state  and  Speaker  of  the  House  upwards  of  twenty 
years ;  and  highly  and  universally  respected  for  his  integrity,  abilities 
and  steady  attachment  to  the  interests  of  his  country.  The  present 
revolution  found  him  beyond  the  age  of  business  and  activity ;  but 
the  hoary  patriot,  even  in  the  last  ebbings  of  life,  would  rejoice  in  the 
success  of  his  countrymen,  and  pray  that  he  might  see  their  liberty 
and  independence  established  before  he  was  called  to  his  long  home. 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  New-Brunswck,  dated  October  29,  1181. 

"On  the  24th  inst.  Capt.  Hyler,  of  this  place,  went  down  with  one 
gun-boat  to  surprise  the  Refugee-Town  near  Sandy-Hook,  where  the 
horse-thieves  resort.  He  landed  within  three  quarters  of  a  mile  of  the 
light-horse,  but  found  that  they  were  out  in  the  county  of  Monmouth 
stealing  horses.  The  Captain  however  fell  in  with  six  other  noted 
villains,  whom  he  brought  off,  and  they  are  now  lodged  in  a  safe  place." 

"To  the  unspeakable  loes  of  a  much  bereaved  and  mourning  wife 
and  children,  died  of  a  tedious  sickness  on  the  9th  ult.  the  Rev.  Isaac 
Stelle,  the  husband  of  Mrs.  Catherine  Stelle,  at  Piscataway,  in  East- 
Jersey,  in  the  sixty-third  year  of  his  age. — His  remains  were  on  the 
llth.  instant  decently  interred  in  the  publick  burying-ground  in  the 
town  aforesaid,  on  which  occasion  a  suitable  sermon  was  preached 
the  same  day,  from  Luke  xii.  chap.  43d  verse,  by  the  Rev.  Benjamin 
Miller — In  him  meet  the  husband — the  father — the  neighbour — the 
Christian — the  Minister, — the  patriot,  and  friend  to  mankind. — In  a 
word,  such  was  his  amiable  endowments,  that  room  is  left  for  liberal 
to  enlarge  on  the  subject — In  his  last  sickness  he  manifested  a  desire 
to  depart  and  be  with  his  Lord  and  Master — -and  so  took  his  leave  of 
the  world." 

New-Brunswick,  October  26,  1781. 

This  day  arrived  here  official  accounts  of  the  surrender  of  the  Earl 
of  Cornwallis,  and,  as  might  naturally  be  expected  in  a  place  which 
so  sensibly  feels  the  effects  of  the  present  war,  occasioned  universal 
joy  and  satisfaction.  In  the  evening  were  discharged  thirteen  cannon, 
after  which  a  number  of  gentlemen  of  the  city  and  neighbourhood, 
and  several  strangers,  of  whom  were  Sir  James  Jay,  and  Richard 
Stevens,  Esq.  convened  at  Marriner's  tavern,  in  order  to  spend  an 
hour  together  in  festivity  and  gladness.  After  supper  the  company, 
for  the  sake  of  conveniency,  withdrew  into  another  room,  and  having 
appointed  Mr.  Kirkpatrick  their  President,  the  following  toasts  were 
pronounced  and  drank. 


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1.  The  Congress  and  the  United  States  of  America.  2.  His  Most 
Christian  Majesty  Louis  the  XVI.  3.  The  glorious  Washington  and 
the  allied  army.  4.  His  Excellency  the  Count  de  Grasse  and  the 
French  navy.  5.  His  Excellency  the  Count  de  Rochambeau.  6.  Gen- 
eral Greene  and  the  southern  army.  7.  The  friends  of  American  lib- 
ery.  8.  The  memorable  19th  of  October.  9.  The  memory  of  the  brave 
who  have  fallen  in  their  country's  cause.  10.  May  the  present  revolu- 
tion prove  a  terror  to  tyranny  throughout  the  earth.  11.  May  the 
lilies  of  France  and  stripes  of  America  wave  in  triumph  from  shore 
to  shore.  12.  Liberty.  13.  A  speedy  and  an  honourable  peace. 

The  greatest  order  and  decency  was  observed  throughout  the  whole 
— As  in  the  feast  of  Ahasuerus  the  King,  the  drinking  was  according 
to  the  law,  none  did  compel,  for  it  was  appointed  that  they  should  do 
according  to  every  man's  pleasure.  The  evening  being  thus  spent, 
each  of  the  gentlemen  drank  a  good-night  to  the  company  in  a 
bumper,  and  retired. 

Mr.  Collins, 

In  your  next  please  to  Inform  Jemmy  Rivington  that  although  he 
tells  us,  that  two  ships  of  Count  De  Grasse's  squadron  attempting  to 
force  a  passage  up  York  river,  above  Gloucester  Point  and  York-town 
were  obliged  to  return  re  infecto — we  hear  that  our  illustrious  General 
is  returning  north-eastward,  crowned  with  laurels  plucked  from  the  brow 
of  Lord  Cornwallis,  sccunda  re  gesta. 

When  British  glory  once  begins  to  fade, 

Jemmy  no  more  pursues  his  wonted  trade, 

Nor  post  nor  pay  can  new  bring  out  a  word, 

E'en  Gazette  Royal  submits  to  the  sword ; 

Tho'  brib'd  to  print,  his  coward  heart  misgives, 

Invention  fails  him — vainly  he  strives 

To  forge  a  falsehood — the  authentic  tale, 

Of  hosts  subdued,  terrifies  the  pale 

Frightened  Rivington,  whose  well  told  story 

Trusts  nor  honest  Whig  nor  hapless  Tory. 

Cornwallis  taken  ! — 'tis  no  more  nor  less — 

Alas!  'tis  true — "What  think  you  now  of  Congress?" 

An  extraordinary  ointment  for  corns,  warts,  tooth-ache,  and  pain 
in  the  face,  scald  head,  and  breaking  out  in  children,  for  burns  or 
scalds,  and  where  the  fever  has  settled  in  any  part  of  the  human  body, 
to  be  sold  by  Mary  and  Sarah  Barnes,  in  Trenton ;  by  Thomas  Bull- 
man,  in  Pennington,  and  Samuel  Throckmorton,  in  Amwell. 

JOHN  THOMSON, 

At  New-Brunswick, 

Has  for  Exchange, 

A  Quantity  of  State  Money.  He  has  for  sale,  brown  and  powdered 
sugar,  tea,  coffee,  pepper,  alspice,  snuff,  tobacco,  pipes,  &c.  &c. 

NOTICE  IS  HEREBY  GIVEN. 

That  there  has  been  taken  up  near  New-Brunswick,  on  suspicion  of 
going  to  the  enemy,  and  delivered  into  my  custody,  two  negro  men  and 
one  mulatto ; — one  of  the  negroes  calls  himself  Prince  Forsberg. — He 

21 


322  NK\Y   .IKI:SKV    IN    TIIK   UKVOLUTIOX.  [1781 

is  about  six  feet  high,  has  on  blue  trowsers  and  spotted  buckskin 
jacket.  The  other  named  Jack  Williams,  is  about  five  feet  nine  inches 
high,  has  on  a  claret  coloured  jacket  and  breeches.  The  mulatto 
named  Enos  Patterson,  is  about  five  feet  ten  inches  high,  has  on  grey 
trowsers  and  a  white  jacket.  They  all  say  they  were  out  in  the 
privateer  ship  Congress  the  last  cruize.  Their  masters,  if  any  they 
have,  are  desired  to  come  and  prove  their  property,  pay  charges,  and 
take  them  away  by  the  17th  of  November,  or  they  will  be  sold  to  pay 
charges.  PETER  HULICK,  Gaoler. 

Trenton,  October  15,  1781. 

TO  BE  SOLD  BY  MARY  AND  SARAH  BARNES. 

[For  this  advertisement  see  p.  279.] 

PARCHMENT, 
TO  BE  SOLD, 

By  the  Printer  Hereof. 

From  the  Ncir  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  203,  November  14,  1781. 

TRENTON,  NOV.  14. 

The  Honourable  the  Congress,  by  a  Proclamation  dated  the  26th 
day  of  October  last,  has  recommended  to  the  several  states  to  set 
apart  the  Thirteenth  day  of  December  next,  to  be  religeously  observed 
as  a  day  of  Thanksgiving  and  Prayer. 

Remainder  of  the  returns,  omitted  the  two  last  weeks  for  want  of  room. 

Bergen  Council,  Theunis  Dey,  Esq.  Assembly,  Peter  Wilson,  Isaac 
Blanch  and  Garret  Leydecker,  Esquires. 

Cape-May,  Council.  Elijah  Hughes,  Esq.  Assembly,  Richard  Town- 
send,  Daniel  Hand  and  Hugh  Hathorne,  Esquires. 

Saturday  night  last,  Capt.  Hyler,  of  New-Brunswick,  with  a  gun- 
boat, and  a  small  party  of  men,  went  to  the  Narrows,  where  he  cap- 
tured a  ship  with  14  or  15  hands,  and  brought  her  off,  with  an  intent 
to  run  her  up  Raritan  River,  but  near  the  mouth  she  unluckily  got 
aground,  where,  as  the  enemy  approached  in  force,  he  was  obliged  to 
set  her  on  fire.  She  was  loaded  with  rum  and  pork,  several  bogheads 
of  the  former  he  got  out  and  brought  off,  with  the  prisoners. 

The  British  fleet  returned  to  the  Hook  about  a  week  ago. 

*#*  The  piece  signed  Emelia  is  received,  and  is  omitted  this  week 
for  want  of  room. 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  323 

LET  THE  PUBLICK  BEWARE. 

On  the  night  of  the  18th  of  October  last,  the  house  of  the  sub- 
scriber was  robbed,  amongst  other  things,  of  the  following  certificates, 
viz.  No.  56,  in  the  name  of  Major  William  Montgomery,  for  Twenty- 
five  Pounds,  dated  September  25,  1780.  No.  173,  in  the  name  of 
Ezra  Black,  for  Five  Hundred  Twenty-eight  Pounds  Fifteen  Shillings 
continental  money,  dated  January  26,  1780.  No.  238,  in  the  name 
of  Joshua  Forsyth,  for  Thirty-seven  Pounds  Ten  Shillings,  dated  June 
26,  1780.  One  in  the  name  of  Isaac  Field,  for  One  Thousand  Two 
Hundred  and  Sixty  Pounds  continental  money,  dated  January,  1780, 
No.  240,  in  the  name  of  Jesse  Bunting,  for  Two  Pounds  Five  Shillings, 
dated  August  17,  1780.  The  above  signed  by  Edward  Thomas,  Con- 
tractor for  Burlington  county.  No.  20,  in  the  name  of  Nathan 
Williams,  for  Thirteen  Pounds  Eight  Shillings,  dated  September  26, 
1781.  No.  17,  in  the  name  of  Marmaduke  Curtis,  for  One  Pound 
Fifteen  Shillings  and  Two-pence,  dated  January  23,  1781.  No.  13, 
in  the  name  of  John  Thorn,  for  Nine  Pounds,  dated  June  11,  1781. 
No.  9,  in  the  name  of  Joseph  Kirkbride,  for  Ten  Pounds  Ten  Shillings, 
dated  May  18,  1781.  The  four  last  signed  by  John  Butler,  Contractor 
for  Burlington  county.  One  certificate  in  the  name  of  Thomas 
Walton,  for  Two  Pounds  Three  Shillings  and  Ten-pence,  dated  Feb. 
10,  1781,  signed  by  Joseph  Brown,  Collector  for  Chesterfield,  county 
of  Burlington.  One  in  the  name  of  Ezra  Black,  for  Three  Pounds 
Seventeen  Shillings  and  Eleven-pence,  dated  February  10,  1781,  signed 
by  ditto.  One  in  the  name  of  George  Bullock,  for  Thirteen  Pounds 
Sixteen  Shillings  and  Six  pence,  dated  February  10,  1781,  signed  by 
ditto. 

The  publick  are  hereby  cautioned  against  taking  an  assignment  on 
any  of  them,  should  any  person  be  hardy  enough  to  offer  them  for 
that  purpose.  ABRAHAM  CHAPMAN. 

Chesterfield,  Nov.  6,  1781. 

/> 
TO  BE  SOLD, 

By  the  subscriber,   in  the  lane  opposite  the  College. 

BOHEA  TEA,  gun  powder,  coarse  linens,  silk  modes  and 
satins,  black  sewing  silk,  ribands,  pocket-handkerchiefs,  salt ;  one 
large  yoke  of  oxen  in  good  order.  Also  black  pepper,  and  almanacks 
for  the  year  1782,  by  large  or  small  quantities — The  almanacks  at  the 
printer's  price ; — and  several  other  articles. 

JOHN  DENTON. 

N.  B.     Cash  given  for  clean  linen  rags  and  old  brass  and  copper. 
Princeton,  Nov.  12,  1781. 

PUBLICK  NOTICE  IS  HEREBY  GIVEN. 

That  the  subscriber,  pursuant  to  an  order  of  the  last  session  of  the 
Assembly  of  New-Jersey  hath  leave  to  bring  in  a  bill  to  invest  the 
title  of  two  certain  lots  of  land  in  Trenton,  purchased  by  Abraham 
Cottnam,  Esq.  deceased,  in  his  life  time,  of  Daniel  Coxe,  Esq.  now 


NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

a  fugitive  with  the  enemy,  in  the  executors  of  the  last  will  of  the 
said  Abraham  Cottnam,  for  the  uses  in  the  said  will  mentioned. 

GEO.  COTTNAM. 

Was  taken  up  in  the  township  of  Maidenhead,  about  two  weeks 
ago,  a  large  bright  bay  horse,  between  fourteen  and  fifteen  hands 
high,  with  three  white  feet,  branded  on  the  near  buttock  with  the 
letters  W.  T.  The  owner  is  desired  to  prove  his  property,  pay  charges, 
and  take  him  away.  The  horse  is  now  in  the  possession  of  William 
Updike,  jun.  at  Mr.  Samuel  Henry's  mill. 

November  12,  1781. 

GREAT  COATS  were  exchanged  at  the  house  of  John  Bul- 
lin,  in  Pennington,  by  a  person  unknown.  The  person  is  desired  to 
return  the  one  he  has  in  possession  to  the  subscriber  immediately,  and 
get  his  own.  My  coat  is  grey,  with  pale  red  buttons. 

November  5,  1781.  ASHER  HOWELL. 

WANTED, 

At  the  store  of  Neil  and  Pool,  in  Trenton, 

A  Quantity  of  good  PORK,  for  which  the  highest  price  and  ready 
cash  will  be  given. 

From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  204,  November  21,  1781. 

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  the  Honourable  the  Congress  on  the  twenty-sixth  day  of 
October  last,  issued  a  Proclamation  in  the  words  following,  to  wit  : 

"Whereas  it  hath  pleased  Almighty  God,  the  Father  of  Mercies, 
"remarkably  to  assist  and  support  the  United  States  of  America,  in 
"their  most  important  struggle  for  liberty  against  the  long  continued 
"efforts  of  a  powerful  nation ;  it  is  the  duty  of  all  ranks  to  observe 
"and  thankfully  acknowledge  the  interpositions  of  his  providence  in 
"their  behalf.  Through  the  whole  of  the  contest,  from  its  first  rise 
"to  this  time,  the  influence  of  Divine  Providence  may  be  clearly  per- 
"ceived  in  many  signal  instances,  of  which  we  mention  but  a  few : 

"In  revealing  the  councils  of  our  enemies,  when  the  discoveries  were 
"seasonable  and  important,  and  the  means  seemingly  inadequate  and 
"fortuitous ; — in  preserving  and  even  improving  the  union  of  the  sev- 
"eral  states  on  the  breach  of  which  our  enemies  placed  their  greatest 
"dependence ; — in  increasing  the  number  and  adding  to  the  zeal  and 
"attachment  of  the  friends  of  liberty ;  in  granting  remarkable  deliv- 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  325 

"erances,  and  blessing  us  with  the  most  signal  success,  when  affairs 
"seemed  to  have  the  most  discouraging  appearance ;  in  raising  up  for 
"us  a  most  powerful  and  generous  ally,  in  one  of  the  first  of  European 
"powers ; — in  confounding  the  councils  of  our  enemies,  and  suffering 
"them  to  pursue  such  measures  as  have  most  directly  contributed  to 
"frustrate  their  own  desires  and  expectations ; — above  all,  in  making 
"their  extreme  cruelty  to  the  inhabitants  of  these  states,  when  in 
"their  power,  and  their  savage  devastation  of  property,  the  very 
"means  of  cementing  our  union,  and  adding  vigour  to  every  effort  in 
"opposition  to  them. 

"And  as  we  cannot  help  leading  the  good  people  of  these  states  to 
"a  retrospect  on  the  events  which  have  taken  place  since  the  beginning 
"of  the  war,  so  we  recommend,  in  a  particular  manner,  to  their  obser- 
"vation,  the  goodness  of  God  in  the  year  now  drawing  to  a  conclu- 
"sion ;  in  which  the  confederation  of  the  United  States  has  been  com- 
"pleted ; — in  which  there  have  been  so  many  instances  of  prowess 
"and  success  in  our  armies,  particularly  in  the  southern  states,  where, 
"notwithstanding  the  difficulties  with  which  they  had  to  struggle,  they 
"have  recovered  the  whole  country  which  the  enemy  had  over-run, 
"leaving  them  only  a  post  or  two  on  or  near  the  sea ; — in  which  w« 
"have  been  so  powerfully  and  effectually  assisted  by  our  allies,  while 
"in  all  the  conjunct  operations  the  most  perfect  harmony  has  sub- 
"sisted  in  the  allied  army ; — in  which  there  has  been  so  plentiful  a 
"harvest,  and  so  great  abundance  of  the  fruits  of  the  earth  of  every 
"kind,  as  not  only  enables  us  easily  to  supply  the  wants  of  our  army, 
"but  gives  comfort  and  happiness  to  the  whole  people ; — and,  in 
"which,  after  the  success  of  our  allies  by  sea,  a  General  of  the  first 
"rank,  with  his  whole  army,  has  been  captured  by  the  allied  forces, 
"under  the  direction  of  our  Commander  in  Chief. 

"It  is  therefore  recommended  to  the  several  states  to  set  apart  the 
"Thirteenth  day  of  December  next,  to  be  religeously  observed  as  a 
"day  of  Thanksgiving  and  Prayer ;  that  all  the  people  may  assemble 
"on  that  day,  with  grateful  hearts  to  celebrate  the  praises  of  our 
"gracious  benefactor ;  to  confess  our  manifold  sins ;  to  offer  up  our 
"most  fervent  supplications  to  the  God  of  all  Grace,  that  it  may  please 
"him  to  pardon  our  offences,  and  incline  our  hearts  for  the  future  to 
"keep  all  his  laws ;  to  comfort  and  releive  all  our  brethren  who  are 
"in  distress  or  captivity ;  to  prosper  our  husbandmen,  and  give  suc- 
"cess  to  all  engaged  in  lawful  commerce ;  to  impart  wisdom  and  in- 
tegrity to  our  councellors,  judgment  and  fortitude  to  our  officers  and 
"soldiers ;  to  protect  and  prosper  our  illustrious  ally,  and  favour  our 
"united  exertions  for  the  speedy  establishment  of  a  safe,  honourable, 
"and  lasting  peace ;  to  bless  all  seminaries  of  learning ;  and  cause 
"the  knowledge  of  God  to  cover  the  earth,  as  the  waters  cover  the 
"seas." 

I  have  therefore  thought  fit,  by  and  with  the  advice  of  the  Honour- 
able, the  Privy  Council  (as  well  in  conformity  to  the  said  recommen- 
dation, as  from  a  deep  sense  of  our  indispensable  duty  to  celebrate 
with  united  hearts,  in  social  worship,  throughout  the  whole  con- 
tinent, the  praises  of  that  Great  Disposer  of  all  events,  who  hath  so 


326  NKW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

often  and  so  conspicuously  during  the  present  war  displayed  his 
omnipotent  arm  for  our  deliverance)  to  appoint  the  said  Thirteenth 
day  of  December  next,  to  be  observed  in  this  State  as  a  day  of 
Thanksgiving  and  Praise,  hereby  recommending  it  to  the  Ministers 
of  the  Gospel  of  every  denomination  therein,  to  perform  devine  ser- 
vice, and  to  the  people  committed  to  their  charge  to  attend  on  publick 
worship  on  that  day,  and  to  abstain  from  servile  labour  and  all 
recreations  inconsistent  with  the  solemnity  of  the  festival. 

Given  under  my  hand  and  seal  at  arms  at  Trenton,  the  twelfth 
"day  of  November,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  seven 
hundred  and  eighty-one,  and  in  the  sixth  year  of  the  independ- 
ence of  the  United  States  of  America. 

WIL.  LIVINGSTON. 
By  His  Excellency's  command, 
BOWES  REED,  Sec'ry. 

God  Save  the  People. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

At    publick    vendue,    at    New-Brunswick,    on    Saturday 
the  24th  instant,  at  ten  o'clock  in  the  forenoon, 

Twenty  hogsheads  of  good  Jamaica  rum,  and  about  thirty  barrels  of 
pork,  being  part  of  the  cargo  of  the  ship  Father's  Desire,  lately  cap- 
tured by  Captain  Adam^iyler.  By  order  of  the  Court, 

JOHN  BURROWES,  Marshal. 

THIRTY  POUNDS  HARD  MONEY  REWARD. 

Run  away  from  the  subscribers,  living  near  Racoon  Ford,  Orange 
county,  Virginia,  on  Sunday  the  second  of  September,  three  Negro 
slaves,  viz.  George,  a  dark  mulatto  fellow,  about  seventeen  years 
of  age,  near  or  quite  six  feet  high,  has  a  sour  down  look ;  had  on  and 
carried  with  him  a  white  yarn  coat,  turned  up  with  blue,  one  pale 
blue  cloth  coat,  one  striped  Virginia  cloth  coat,  one  pair  of  green 
cloth  breeches,  one  pair  cotton  breeches  filled  in  with  thred ; — Harry, 
a  black  Negro,  about  the  same  age  of  George,  a  low  well  set  fellow, 
sprightly  and  quick  spoken  ;  had  on  an  old  white  coat  and  a  new 
hunting  shirt,  and  an  old  maccaroni  hat : — Charles,  a  black  negro 
fellow,  about  sixteen  years  of  age,  sparer  than  Harry,  has  a  very 
pleasant  countenance,  and  speaks  slow ;  had  on  a  black  hunting  shirt 
and  an  old  felt  hat. — He  spins  well  on  the  foot  wheel.  We  have  rea- 
son to  beleive  there  was  a  white  man  with  them,  who  had  on  a  white 
cloth  coat  with  buttons  on  each  side  the  breast,  and  a  maccaroni  hat ; 
the  other  parts  of  his  dress  we  cannot  learn.  We  will  give  Five 
Pounds  reward  for  each  or  either  of  them  if  taken  up  and  secured  so 
that  we  get  them  again,  or  Ten  Pounds  for  each  or  either  of  them 
if  brought  home  and  delivered  to  us, 

JOHN  BLEDSOE, 
BENJAMIN  CRAIG, 
JEREMIAH  CRAIG. 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  327 

House  of  Assembly,  May  21,  1781. 

A  Petition  from  Jacob  C.  Zabriskie,  of  the  county  of  Bergen,  was 
presented  and  read,  setting  forth  that  he  had  in  the  year  1773,  pur- 
chased a  small  tract  of  land  of  William  Bayard,  of  the  city  of  New- 
York,  and  paid  for  the  same,  but  that  thr'o.  the  neglect  of  the  said 
Bayard,  he  had  never  obtained  a  deed,  and  praying  that  a  law  may 
be  passed  to  vest  in  him  a  title  to  the  said  land ; 

Ordered,  That  the  said  petitioner  have  leave  to  bring  in  a  bill  at 
the  next  sitting,  for  the  purpose  of  vesting  in  him  a  title  to  the  said 
land,  on  giving  three  weeks  previous  notice  of  his  intention  to  the 
commissioners  of  the  said  county,  and  also  advertising  the  same  for 
the  like  space  of  time  in  the  New-Jersey  Gazette  or  New-Jersey 
Journal. 

Extract  from  the  minutes, 
MASKELL  EWING,  jun.  Clerk. 

Agreeably  to  the  above  order,  the  subscriber  hereby  notifies  all  whom 
it  may  concern,  his  intention  of  presenting  a  bill  to  the  Legislature 
at  their  present  sitting,  conformable  to  the  prayer  of  his  petition. 

JACOB  C.  ZABRISKIE. 

New-Barbadoes,  county  of  Bergen,  Nov.  13,  1781. 

Strayed  or  stolen  from  the  subscriber  in  Lower  Freehold,  on  the 
second  of  this  instant,  November,  a  black  horse,  four  or  five  years  old 
last  spring,  low  in  flesh,  and  lame  in  one  fore  foot,  trots  and  canters, 
and  carries  gay,  has  been  galled  on  the  back  very  bad  with  the  saddle, 
but  has  just  got  well,  his  hind  legs  not  very  good.  Whoever  takes 
up  the  said  horse  and  brings  him  to  the  subscriber,  shall  have  Three 
Pounds  in  gold,  or  Ten  Pounds  for  the  horse  and  thief,  and  reasonable 
charges  paid  by  ELISHA  WALTON. 

TO  THE  PUBLICK. 

Whereas  the  subscriber  purchased  of  Andrew  Ferguson  a  certain 
tract  of  land,  marsh  and  beach,  situate  in  the  county  of  Cumberland, 
in  New-Jersey,  and  received  an  imperfect  assignment  on  the  back  of 
his  deed  for  the  same,  together  with  a  receipt  in  full  for  the  purchase 
money,  and  before  a  sufficient  deed  could  be  executed  for  the  said  land, 
marsh  and  beach,  the  said  Andrew  Ferguson  died  ;  and  as  I  have 
applied  to  the  Legislature  of  this  state  for  a  law  to  confirm  to  me  the 
title  of  the  said  premises,  if  any  person  or  persons  have  any  objections 
why  the  same  should  not  be  done,  they  are  hereby  notified  to  attend 
before  the  Legislature  within  four  weeks  from  the  date  hereof,  and 
make  their  objections.  THOMAS  MASKELL. 

Greenwich,  New-Jersey,  Nov.  5,  1781. 

The  Militia  belonging  to  Capt.  Hunt's,  Capt.  Phillip's,  Capt.  Guild's 
and  Capt.  Titus's  companies,  of  Colonel  Phillip's  battalion,  and  who 
were  out  on  duty  with  Capt.  Mott,  at  Morris-Town,  in  1780,  are  de- 
sired to  meet  at  the  house  of  John  Bullin,  in  Pennington,  on  Friday 
next,  where  they  will  receive  pay  for  the  said  service. 

JOHN  MOTT,  Capt. 

Trenton,  Nov.  20,  1781. 


328  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

A  Likely,  healthy  NEGRO  MAN,  about  twenty-seven  years  of 
age,  was  brought  up  in  New-Jersey,  and  is  fit  for  any  farming  busi- 
ness, and  capable  of  tending  a  grist-mill.  Any  person  inclining  to 
purchase,  may  know  the  terms  by  applying  to  the  subscriber,  in  Mon- 
mouth  county,  near  the  Court  house. 

WILLIAM  FORMAN. 

To  Be  Sold,  by 
PETER  CROLIUS  AND  ANTHONY  MARAQUIER, 

At  their  Store  in  Trenton ; 
A  LARGE  ASSORTMENT  OF  BLANKETS, 

and 

ROCK  SALT, 
With  many  other  articles  too  tedious  to  mention. 

Mr.  Collins, 

I  observe  you  frequently  publish  in  your  paper,  remarks  on  publick 
affairs,  and  altercations  on  particular  subjects  which  require  no  great 
degree  of  genius  to  execute.  Permit  me  to  recommend  to  you  a  genuine 
effusion  of  genius,  which  is  the  more  valuable  because  it  comes  from 
a  lady  who  is  really  in  the  situation  of  Emelia.  Having  lost  a  beloved 
husband,  the  feelings  of  her  ^.eart  have  assisted  her  imagination.  There 
are  several  examples  among  writers  of  pastorals  of  the  elegiac  kind, 
and  I  make  no  doubt  that  there  are  many  of  your  ingenious  readers  who 
will  not  be  much  less  entertained  with  the  Lucius  of  Emelia,  than  the 
Daphnis  of  Mr.  Pope.  I  am,  Sir,  your  humble  servant, 

A.  B. 

Princeton,  October  29,   1781. 
LAURA. 

Why  wanders  my  friend  in  this  grove? 
Why  seeks  she  the  deepening  gloom? 
Why  pensive  from  me  does  she  rove, 
To  weep  o'er  the  mouldering  tomb? 

EMELIA. 

Can  Laura  forget  that  this  day* 
Brings  fresh  to  my  woe-pierced  mind, 
The  hour  that  tore  me  away  ; 
From   Lucius  the  constant  and  kind? 
Oh  !  he  was  the  pride  of  the  plain, 
And  Sol  in  his  annual  round, 
N'er  shone  on  a  worthier  swain, 
Nor  can  such  a  shepherd  be  found. 
The  Genii  of  Nature  and  Art, 
To  finish  the  plan  they  design'd, 
Set  virtue  to  furnish  his  heart, 
And  science  to  polish  his  mind. 
The  traces  of  love  and  of  truth, 
Appeared  in  his  aspect  serene, 
The  wisdom  of  age,  the  graces  of  youth, 
Enliven'd  and  soften'd  his  mien. 


*  The  first  day  of  wheat  harvest. 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  329 

His  judgment  was  piercing  and  strong, 

His  manners  were  easy  and  gay, 

The  Dryads  would  flock  in  a  throng, 

Whene'er  he  began  a  soft  lay. 

Whenever  the  shepherds  would  jar, 

They  Jeft  it  to  him  to  decide, 

His  word  to  their  strife  was  a  bar ; 

By  what  he  would  say  they'd  abide, 

His  taste  so  sublime  and  so  pure, 

And  always  with  nature  combin'd, 

That  Ceres  his  fields  would  manure, 

And  execute  what  he  design'd. 

His  sheep  could  in  beauty  compare 

To  any  on  Arcadian  plains  ; 

The  birds  to  his  groves  would  repair, 

And  warble  the  sweetest  of  strains. 

His  garden,  so  trim  and  so  neat, 

The  flowers  spontaneously  grew, 

The  vi'let  would  spring  at  his  feet, 

Array'd  in  her  beautiful  blue. 

His  Hamlet,  ah  !  there  was  the  scene, 

Which  breaks  my  fond  heart  but  to  name, 

And  there  I  was  bles'd  with  this  swain  ; 

But  now  it  is  past  like  a  dream. 

My  face  from  the  sun  he  would  screen, 

No  air  but  the  zephyr  must  blow ; 

At  eve  when  I  walked  on  the  green. 

With  his  hand  he  would  brush  off  the  dew, 

Alas,  what  can  talents  avail,? 

Can  virtue  or  piety  save? 

If  love  o'er  grim  death  could  prevail, 

He  had  not  sunk  down  in  the  grave, 

0  !  how  could  you  tell  me  that  time 
Would  certainly  bring  me  relief ; 
When  each  heavy  moment  that  flies, 
But  adds  to  the  weight  of  my  grief ! 
To  find  the  soft  med'cine  for  pain 

1  traverse  the  garden  around  ; 

I  search  thro'  the  woods  and  the  plain, 
But  no  such  a  plant's  to  be  found. 
How  every  gay  prospect  is  chang'd  ! 
How  gloomy  all  nature  appears  ! 
The  grove  where  together  we  rang'd, 
Beholds  me  a  prey  to  my  tears. 

LAURA. 

Can  tears  e'er  recall  the  dear  saint, 
For  whom  thus  unceasing  you  mourn, 
The  seraph  may  hear  your  complaint, 
But  ah,  he  would  never  return  ! 
By  rivers  celestial  and  pure, 
He  drinks  at  the  spring  of  delight ; 
And  joys  that  are  endless  and  sure, 
Flow  still  from  the  fountain  of  light. 

EMELIA. 

I  know,  that  his  spirit  releas'd 
From  these  lower  regions  of  pain, 
Of  pleasures  immortal  must  taste, 
Nor  here  would  I  wish  him  again. 
But  still  I  must  drop  the  soft  tear, 
And  visit  thus  daily  his  tomb. 
Ye  muses  attend  to  my  prayer, 
And  bring  of  your  sweetest  perfume ; 


330         NEW  JERSEY  IX  THE  REVOLUTION.      [1781 

To  strew  o'er  this  hallowed  ground, 
I've  planted  the  myrtle  and  yew. 
The  willows  stand  weeping  around, 
'Tis  all  that  my  fond  love  can  do. 
This  tribute  of  love  and  of  verse, 
His  mem'ry  shall  constantly  have, 
Till  carried  along  on  a  hearse, 
I'm  laid  by  his  side  in  the  grave. 
Then  pity  herself  shall  be  there, 
And  lay  the  green  turf  on  my  breast, 
Shall  shed  a  few  drops  on  the  pair, 
And  leave  them  to  peacefully  rest. 

EMELIA. 

Just  Published, 

And  to  be  sold  wholesale  and  retail, 

At  the  Printing-Office  in  Trenton, 

The  New-Jersey 

ALMANACK 

For  the  Year  1782. 


From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  205,  November  28,  1781. 

For  the  New- Jersey  Gazette. 

On  hearing  of  the  news  of  the  capture  of  Lord  Cornwallis  and  the 
British  «rmy,  by  Gen.  Washington. 

By  a  Lady  of  New- Jersey. 

Bring  now  ye  Muses  from  th'  Aonian  grove, 
The  wreath  of  victory  which  the  sisters  wove, 
Wove  and  laid  up  in  Mar's  most  awful  fane, 
To  crown  our  Hero  on  Virginia's  plain. 
See  !  from  Castalia's  sacred  fount  they  haste, 
And  now,  already,  on  his  brow  'tis  plac'd  ; 
The  trump  of  fame  proclaims  aloud  with  joy, 
And  Washington  is  crowned,  re-echo's  to  the  sky. 
Illustrious  name  !  thy  valour  now  has  broke 
Oppression's  galling  chain,  and  took  the  yoke 
From  off  thy  bleeding  country,  set  her  free, 
And  every  heart  with  transport  beats  for  thee. 
For  thee  !    Rochambeau,  Gallia's  vet'ran  cheif, 
Sent  by  fair  Freedom's  friend  to  her  releif ; 
An  arch  triumphal  shall  the  Muse  decree, 
And   heroes   yet   unborn   shall   copy  thee : 
Our  lisping  infants  shall  pronounce  thy  name, 
In  songs  our  virgins  shall  repeat  thy  fame, 
And  taught  by  Thee  the  art  of  war,  our  swains 
Shall  dye  with  British  blood  Columbia's  plains. 
Viominills,   (heroic  brothers)   too! 
Unfading  laurels  now  await  for  you, 
And  all  the  noble  youth,  who  in  your  train, 
In  search  of  glory  cross'd  the  Atlantic  main. 
Blest  with  sweet  peace  in  Sylvan  shades  retir'd. 
Our  future  bards  (by  your  great  deeds  inspired) 
In  tuneful  verse  shall  hand  this  aera  down, 
And  your  lov'd  names  with  greatful  honours  crown. 

EMELJA. 


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TRENTON,  Nov.  28. 

At  a  Joint-Meeting  of  the  Legislative-Council  and  Assembly,  the 
Hon.  Abraham  Clark,  William  Ch.  Houston,  Jonathan  Elmer  and 
Elias  Boudinot,  Esqrs.  and  Silas  Condict,  Esq.  were  elected  Delegates 
to  represent  this  state  in  Congress  the  ensuing  year. 

Thomas  Seabrook,  Esq.  was  elected  last  week  one  of  the  Repre- 
sentatives to  serve  in  General  Assembly,  for  the  county  of  Monmouth, 
in  the  room  of  Nathaniel  Scudder,  Esq.  deceased. 

By  authentick  intelligence  from  General  Greene,  dated  from  Santee, 
on  the  25th.  of  October,  the  enemy  keep  pretty  close  in  CharleStown 
since  the  battle  of  Eutaw-Springs. — Skirmishes  often  happen  between 
small  parties,  in  which  the  Americans  have  been  so  successful  as  to 
bring  in  a  considerable  number  of  prisoners. 

The  publication  of  the  following  extract  of  an  Act  of  the  General 
Assembly  of  the  State  of  Pennsylvania  passed  the  5th  of  April,  1781, 
and  now  in  force,  we  apprehend  vnll  be  useful  to  the  citizens  of  New- 
Jersey.  Sect.  5.  Be  it  therefore  further  enacted  by  the  authority 
aforesaid, 

That  from  and  after  the  said  first  day  of  October  next,  all  flour 
casks  shall  be  made  of  good  seasoned  materials,  well  made  and  tight- 
ened with  ten  hoops  sufficiently  nailed  with  four  nails  in  each  chine 
hoop,  and  three  nails  in  each  upper  bilge  hoop,  and  of  the  following 
dimensions,  viz.  the  staves  to  be  of  the  length  of  twenty-seven  inches, 
but  of  different  diameters  at  the  heads,  according  to  their  numbers, 
that  is  to  say,  casks  number  one  shall  be  of  the  diameter  of  eighteen 
inches  at  the  head,  casks  number  two  sixteen  inches  and  an  half,  and 
casks  number  three  fifteen  inches  and  an  half ;  that  every  miller  or 
bolter  of  flour  and  baker  of  bread,  for  transportation  out  of  the  state, 
shall  provide  and  have  a  distinguishable  brand-mark,  which  he  shall 
cause  to  be  entered  with  the  clerk  of  the  Quarter-Sessions  for  the 
county  where  he  doth  reside,  together  with  his  name  and  place  of 
abode,  under  the  penalty  of  the  sum  of  five  shillings,  for  every  day 
during  which  he  shall  have  exercised  his  said  business  of  a  miller, 
bolter  or  baker,  without  such  entry ;  for  the  making  of  which  entries 
the  said  clerk  shall  be  intitled  to  the  sum  of  one  shilling  each. 

TO  WHOM  IT  MAY  CONCERN: 

State  of  |  Notice  is  hereby  given,  that  a  Court  of  Admiralty 
New-Jersey,  ss.  j  will  be  held  at  the  house  of  Gilbert  Barton,  in 
Allentown,  on  Thursday  the  27th  day  of  December  next,  then  and 
there  to  try  the  truths  of  the  facts  alledged  in  the  bill  of  Robert 
Magee,  (who  as  well,  &c.)  against  a  certain  sloop  or  vessel  called  the 
Sally,  lately  commanded  by  John  Harman,  taken  on  her  intended  voy- 
age, as  is  said,  from  Maurice-River  to  New-York,  loaded  with  lum- 
ber, together  with  her  tackle,  apparel,  furniture  and  cargo :  To  the 
end  and  intent  that  the  owner  or  owners  of  the  said  vessel,  or  any 


'.','.'••2  NKW    JERSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTIOX.  [1781 

person  interested  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  to  the  captors  thereof,  and  a  decree 
thereon  pass,  according  to  the  prayer  of  the  said  bill. 
By  order  of  the  Judge, 

JOSEPH  BLOOMFIELD,  Register. 
Burlington,  Nov.  24,  1781. 

TWO  FARMS  to  be  sold,  the  one  on  which  the  subscriber  lives, 
containing  two  hundred  and  seventy  three  acres  of  land,  one  third  of 
which  is  good  mowing  ground,  one  third  plough  land,  and  the  other 
third  covered  with  timber  of  the  first  quality :  The  whole  farm  is 
inclosed  and  under  complete  fence  and  small  inclosures.  There  is  on 
it  a  good  dwelling-house  almost  new,  two  stories  high,  a  large  Dutch 
barn,  barracks,  sheds,  &c.  two  large  apple  orchards,  a  number  of 
peach  trees,  and  a  large  peach  nursery  fit  to  plant  out.  The  other 
farm  joins  this  one,  and  contains  one  hundred  and  sixty-three  acres, 
above  one  third  of  which  is  well  timbered  wood-land,  fifteen  acres 
of  mowing  ground,  and  much  more  may  be  made  at  an  easy  expence, 
the  rest  good  plough  land.  There  is  on  this  farm  a  good  dwelling- 
house,  a  shop,  and  an  English  barn,  two  good  apple  orchards  and  a 
number  of  other  fruit  trees ;  the  whole  under  good  fence.  Both  farms 
are  exceedingly  well  watered,  and  are  distant  twenty-two  miles  from 
Elizabeth-Town  and  sixteen  from  Brunswick  Landing,  and  will  be 
sold  very  cheap  by  the  ownrr,  JOHN  SHAW. 

Bernard's-Town,  Baskenridge,  Nov.  26,  1781. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

The  following  tracts  of  LAND,  situate  on  the  south-branch 

of  Raritan,  in  Hunterdon  county,  about  30  miles  from  Trenton, 

12  from  Delaware  river,  and  28  from  New-Brunswick,  viz. 

LOT  No.   1,   containing  150  acres,   near  one  half  cleared,   about 

15  acres  of  which  is  excellent  meadow,  and  more  may  be  made ;    the 

remainder  timber  land.     There  is  on  it  a  frame  dwelling-house  and 

kitchen,  a  large  stone-barn,  a  large  stone  grist-mill  with  two  pair  of 

stones,  two  water  wheels  and  every  necessary  conveniency  for  mjer- 

chant  and  country  business ;    also  an  oil-mill  and  saw-mill,  the  whole 

being  almost  new,  and  stands  on  the  south  branch  of  Raritan,  a  large 

and  constant  stream  of  water. — There  is  also  a  small  orchard  and 

sundry  small  tenements,  &c. 

LOT  No.  2,  adjoining  the  above,  containing  145  acres,  about  100 
is  cleared,  between  40  and  50  acres  of  which  is  excellent  meadow,  a 
great  part  watered,  the  rest  timber  land ;  there  is  a  lime  kiln  and 
plenty  of  good  limestone  convenient  to  the  kiln,  an  orchard  of  near 
200  apple  trees,  &c. 

LOT  No.  3.,  adjoining  lot  No.  2.  containing  145  acres,  one  half 
cleared,  the  rest  wood-land. — There  is  thereon  a  frame  house  and 
barn,  a  small  orchard,  and  a  spring  of  good  water  near  the  door. 
For  terms  apply  to  MAHLON  TAYLOR,  on  the  premises. 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  333 

TO  THE  PUBLICK. 

The  following  facts  are  submitted  to  your  consideration. 

On  Saturday  the  third  instant,  we  the  subscribers,  passing  from 
Philadelphia  to  New-Jersey,  came  to  the  Pennsylvania  side  of  Tren- 
ton Ferry,  kept  by  a  certain  Patrick  Colvin.  There  happened  at 
that  time  to  be  a  fresh  in  the  river,  but  the  weather  temperate,  and 
after  unnecessarily  detaining  us  for  some  time,  absolutely  refused  to 
put  us  over,  unless  we  would  him  Twenty  Shillings  hard  money  for 
the  ferriage  of  a  one  horse  chair  and  sulky.  This  imposition  being 
too  glaring  to  be  submitted  to,  we  proceeded  to  the  New-Ferry  kept 
by  Mr.  John  Burrows,  about  three-quarters  of  a  mile  higher  up  the 
river,  where  we  found  no  kind  of  difficulty,  but  was  immediately  put 
over  for  the  accustomed  ferriage  of  One  Shilling  and  Six-pence  for  a 
one  horse  chair  or  sulky. — We  therefore,  in  justice  to  Mr.  Burrows, 
recommend  him  to  the  publick  for  their  custom,  as  a  person  ready  and 
willing  to  serve  them,  in  preference  to  the  said  Patrick  Colvin,  so 
notoriously  known  for  his  repeated  impositions  and  disobliging 
behaviour. 

SAMUEL  HAY,  \  of  New- 

ROBERT  WATSON,    f    Jersey. 
JAMES  DUNLAP,  of  Philadelphia. 
November  12,  1781. 


Was  taken  up  and  committed  to  my  charge,  for  attempting  to  go  into 
New- York,  and  travelling  without  a  pass,  a  certain  Negro  man,  who 
calls  himself  Joseph,  aboiit  five  feet  ten  inches  high,  says  he  formerly 
belonged  to  Mrs.  Catle,  late  of  Charles-Town,  South  Carolina,  but  now 
of  New- York ;  that  for  some  time  past  he  has  lived  with  Captain 
Mercer,  of  Philadelphia ;  has  on  a  claret  coloured  coat,  white  cloth 
jacket,  leather  breeches,  worsted  stockings  and  good  shoes,  besides 
other  clothes. — 

Any  person  having  a  legal  claim  to  said  Negro,  is  desired  to  come 
on  or  before  the  19th  of  December  next,  prove  their  property  and  pay 
charges,  or  he  will  be  proceeded  against  agreeably  to  law. 

PETER  HULICK,  Gaoler. 

Trenton,  Nov.  28,  1781. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

A  likely,  hearty  Negro  Man,  33  years  of  age,  and  a  woman  about  21 
years  of  age:  Also  a  Negro  girl  about  16  years  of  age;  all  have  had 
the  small-pox,  were  born  and  brought  up  in  New-Jersey,  and  are 
fit  for  either  town  or  country  business :  Also  a  female  Negro  child, 
about  four  years  of  age,  for  whom  Loan-Office  Certificates  will  be 
received  in  pay,  or  credit  given.  Enquire  of  the  subscriber  in  Burling- 
ton. 

JACOB  PHILLIPS. 
CAROLINA  CANE, 

For  Weavers  Reeds,  to  be  sold  wholesale  and  retail,  by  the  subscriber, 
in  Hopewell,  Hunterdon  county. 

ANDREW  SMITH. 


XEW    JEKSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

WANTED, 

At  the  store  of  Neil  and  Pool,  in  Trenton, 

A  quantity  of  good  PORK,  for  which  the  highest  price  and  ready 
cash  will  be  given. 

From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  No.  206,  Dec.  5,  17S1. 

By  a  gentleman  from  Cape-May  we  learn,  that  on  Saturday,  the 
17th.  instant,  the  wreck  of  a  sloop,  bottom  upwards,  was  drove  on  the 
Bar,  off  Corson's  Inlet ;  it  is  supposed  there  were  between  30  and 
40  souls  on  board ;  13  dead  bodies  were  taken  up  the  next  day  on 
Ludlam's-Beach,  and  bueried,  viz.  eleven  men,  one  woman,  and  a 
negro  lad.  By  some  papers  found  they  appear  to  have  been  prisoners 
of  war  to  the  United  States,  as  paroles  were  found  on  most  of  those 
that  were  buried.  The  following  is  a  copy  of  one  of  them. 

"I  Andrew  Bruce,  as  subject  to  the  King  of  Great-Britain,  do 
acknowledge  myself  a  prisoner  of  war  to  the  United-States  of  America, 
and  having  permission,  when  my  effects  are  disposed  of,  to  go  to  New- 
York  on  parole,  to  endeavour  to  effect  an  exchange  for  an  American 
sea  Captain  or  seaman,  or  any  other  proper  person,  do  pledge  my 
faith  and  word  of  honour,  that  while  I  remain  a  prisoner  on  parole,  I 
will  neither  do  or  say  anything  injurious  to  the  interest  of  the  said 
States  or  army  thereof;  and  that  whenever  required  by  the  Com- 
mander in  Cheif,  or  the  Commissary  of  Prisoners,  I  will  repair  to 
such  place  or  places  as  they  «r  either  of  them  shall  require. 

ANDREW  BRUCE. 
Given  under  my  hand,  in  York-Town,  Virginia,  November,  1781. 

(Copy.)  T.  DURIE,  D.  C.  P. 

TRENTON,  Dec.  5. 

The  King  of  Prussia  has  acceded  to  the  system  of  the  armed 
neutrality,  and  the  northern  seas  are  in  consequence  full  of  vessels 
under  Prussian  colours.  This  is  an  excellent  cover  for  the  Dutch, 
and  they  are  profiting  by  it  to  some  purpose.  The  English  fret  and 
chafe,  but  they  dare  not  meddle.  Frederick  the  third  has  long  had  an 
inclination  to  round  his  dominions  by  annexing  Hanover  to  them,  and 
an  insult  upon  his  flag  would  be  an  injury  and  grievance  of  sufficient 
magnitude  on  which  to  declare  war.  A  good  stroke  of  policy ;  and 
which  has  spread  his  colours  all  over  the  adjoining  seas,  and  made 
him  a  maritime  power  in  a  day. 

Congress  have  appointed  Major-General  Lincoln  Secretary  at  war. 
who  has  accepted  the  same. 

We  hear  that  the  ship  Commodore  Keeling,  built  in  France  by  the 
State  of  South-Carolina,  on  a  new  construction,  mounting  thirty  36 
pounders  on  her  main  deck,  was  lately  cast  away  on  the  coast  of 
Holland. 


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NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  335 


"On  Thursday  last  departed  this  life,  after  a  short  but  severe  attack 
of  an  inflammatory  fever,  in  the  fifty-ninth  year  of  his  age,  Samuel 
Staats  Coejemans,  Esquire,  of  Raritan.  He  held  the  office  of  Justice 
of  the  Peace  under  the  old  constitution,  and  filled  the  post  with  dig- 
nity and  respect.  His  inviolable  attachment  to  his  country,  since  the 
commencement  of  the  war,  is  universally  known,  and  his  open,  gen- 
erous, and  well-known  hospitality  has  been  so  generally  extended,  that 
the  publick  voice  pays  a  greater  tribute  to  his  memory  than  is  possible 
for  the  pen  of  an  individual.  He  has  left  two  children  to  bewail  his 
loss." 

An  extract  of  a  letter  from  an  officer  of  rank  in 
the  American  army. 

Fishkill,  November  26,  1781. 

"After  a  jaunt  of  some  fatigue  to  the  northward  I  have  taken  up  my 
quarters  here  until  further  orders.  The  enemy  in  that  department  ad- 
vanced one  hody  of  about  2500  men  through  Lake  Champlain  to  Lake 
George ; — these  were  commanded  by  Col.  St.  Leger,  and  another  of  600, 
under  the  command  of  Major  Ross,  by  Oswego  and  the  Oneida  Lake  to 
the  Oneida  Creek  ;  and  these  left  their  boats  under  a  small  guard,  then 
proceeded  by  Cherry  Valley  towards  Schoharie,  but  turning  to  the  left, 
fell  on  Warren's  Bush,  burnt  about  20  houses,  crossed  the  Mohawk  near 
Port  Hunter,  and  proceeded  to  Johnstown,  where  they  were  soon  after 
attacked  by  Col.  Willet,  with  about  500  men,  who,  after  a  variety  of 
fortune,  drove  them  from  the  ground,  and  the  next  morning  pursued 
them  and  continued  it,  with  a  number  of  favourable  incidents,  for  several 
days,  until  the  want  of  provision  and  other  circumstances  made  it 
prudent  for  him  to  return. — This  party  of  the  enemy  must  have  lost  at 
least  150  in  prisoners,  killed  and  deserters  ;  the  accounts  of  particulars 
I  have  from  time  to  time  received  amount  to  that  number  and  from  the 
nature  of  a  long  pursuit,  many  of  the  wounded  and  dead,  escaped  the 
notice  of  the  pursuers.  Willet  left  this  party  about  20  miles  north  of 
Lake  Oneida,  in  a  most  miserable  condition  ;  four  days  they  had  nothing 
but  half  a  pound  of  horse  flesh  per  man  a  day,  and  a  march  before 
them  of  at  least  ten  days  to  get  to  any  place  where  they  could  expect 
releif.  St.  Leger's  party,  after  displaying  a  variety  of  manoeuvres  about 
Ticonderoga  and  Lake  George,  finding  the  country  alarmed  and  a  formid- 
able body  of  continental  troops  as  well  as  militia  assembled  to  receive 
>them  at  Fo.rt  Ann,  Fort  Edward,  Whitekill  and  Saratoga,  without  any 
encouraging  intelligence  from  Sir  Henry  Clinton,  and  the  weather  be- 
ginning to  be  severely  cold,  thought  proper  to  retire  about  the  2d  instant ; 
but  the  winds  proved  so  very  adverse  that  they  had  proceeded  no  farther 
than  Chimney-Point  on  the  8th  instant ;  and  as  the  winds  and  weather 
have  not  been  more  favorable  since,  I  think  it  not  improbable  they  have 
been  obliged  to  abandon  their  boats,  cannon  and  heavy  baggage,  and 
attempt  a  retreat  into  Canada  by  land,  in  a  condition  not  less  pitiable 
than  Ross  and  his  party.  Thus  endeth  the  northern  part  of  Sir  Henry's 
grand  expedition,  which  Lord  George  Germaine  says  was  so  highly  ap- 
proved by  his  Majesty.  Sir  Henry,  I  believe,  was  to  have  proceeded  up 
Hudson's  River,  while  General  Powel,  who  was  at  Niagara  in  September, 
was  to  have  proceeded  by  Lake  Erie,  Presque  Isle  and  Rivers  Buas,  to 
the  back  parts  of  Pennsylvania  and  Virginia,  and  Lord  Cornwallis  to 
have  operated  in  the  lower  parts,  and  so  to  have  made  good  Lord  George's 
assertion,  that  the  rebels  were  confined  to  the  east  side  of  the  Hudson. 
Luckily  for  him,  perhaps,  he  will  now  have  it  to  say,  that  the  unexpected 
arrival  of  a  superior  French  fleet,  and  the  unforeseen  movements  of 
General  Washington,  have  frustrated  all  their  designs.  May  they  be 
eternally  disappointed. 


330  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  Publick  Sale, 

On  Tuesday  the  eighth  day  of  January  next, 

A  House  and  lot  of  land,  situate  in  King  street,  in  Trenton,  in  which 
David  Pinkerton,  deceased,  lately  lived.  Possession  of  the  premises' 
will  be  given  in  April.  The  house  is  two  stories  high,  with  four 
rooms  on  a  floor,  well  finished ;  a  good  kitchen  and  store-house  ad- 
joining, with  cellars  under  the  whole,  and  a  smoke-house  and  stable 
on  the  lot,  which  contains  one  quarter  of  an  acre,  and  a  good  well 
of  water  in  the  yard. — The  whole  in  good  repair,  and  very  convenient 
for  a  store  or  other  publick  business.  To  be  sold  at  the  same  time, 
situate  within  half  a  mile  of  Trenton,  five  acres  of  meadow,  and  two 
lots  of  upland ;  one  containing  six  acres,  the  other  five  acres  and  a 
half,  each  having  a  good  collection  of  fruit.  Conditions  will  be  made 
known  at  the  day  of  the  sale,  by 

MARY  PINKERTON,      ) 
DAVID  PINKERTON,     L   Execut. 
ISAAC  D'COW,  ] 

Trenton,  December  4,  1781. 

Notice  is  hereby  given,  That  an  English  Night  School  will  be 
opened  on  Monday  evening  the  10th.  day  of  December  inst.  at  the 
brick  schoolhouse  near  the  Presbyterian  Church.  Those  who  may 
please  to  encourage  the  earne,  are  desired  for  terms  to  apply  to  the 
master,  at  said  place. 

Trenton,  November  28,  1781. 

WAS  STOLEN  from  the  subscriber,  on  the  night  of  the  3d  of 
December,  1781,  a  chestnut  sorrel  horse,  four  years  old  last  grass, 
about  fourteen  hands  and  a  half  high,  his  mane  hogg'd,  and  has  some 
white  hairs  in  his  forehead,  trots  and  canters  well.  Whoever  takes 
up  and  delivers  the  horse  to  the  subscriber,  and  secures  the  thief  in 
any  gaol  so  that  he  may  be  brought  to  justice,  shall  have  Twenty 
Dollars  in  gold  or  silver,  or  Eight  Dollars  for  the  horse  only,  and  all 
reasonable  charges  paid  by 

THOMAS  CARR. 

Trenton,  4th.  December,  1781. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

An  improved  farm,  situate  at  Raritan,  containing  about  360  acres, 
near  one  third  part  of  which  is  timber  land,  and  has  meadow  sufficient 
to  cut  upwards  of  forty  loads  of  hay  in  a  season,  and  much  more 
meadow  can  be  made  with  little  expence ;  has  a  good  frame  dwelling 
house  on  it,  &c.  is  watered  by  two  never  failing  streams  that  water 
every  field. 

Inquire  of  the  subscriber  on  the  premises,  by  whom  an  indisputable 
title  will  be  given. 

THO.  FARMER. 

Raritan,  Nov.  30th,  1781. 


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TO  BE  SOLD, 

A  Small  farm  on  Raritan  in  the  county  of  Somerset  and  State  of 
New-Jersey,  containing  about  113  acres,  of  which  40  is  low  land,  some 
very  fertile,  the  rest  with  little  improvement  will  make  good  meadow ; 
wood  in  proportion  to  the  quantity  of  land.  For  terms  apply  to  Mr. 
Matthew  Lane  near  the  premises,  and  a  good  title  given  by 

JACOB  R.  HARDENBERGH. 

November  22,  1781. 

TO  ALL  WHOM   IT  MAY  CONCERN: 

"l       Notice  is  hereby  given,  that  a  Court  of  Admiralty 
New- Jersey,  ss.    j      win    be   he,d    at    tfae    dwelling-house   of    Gilbert 

Barton,  in  Allentown,  on  Thursday  the  27th  day  of  December  inst. 
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  Adam  Hyler,  (who  as  well, 
&c. )  against  the  ship  Father's  Desire,  her  tackle,  apparel,  furniture 
and  cargo,  taken  from  the  enemy  at  the  Narrows,  near  Long-Island, 
and  also  a  certain  negro  fellow  named  Will,  taken  on  board  said  ship  : 
To  the  end  and  intent,  that  any  person  or  persons  concerned  therein 
may  appear  and  shew  cause,  if  any  they  have,  why  the  said  ship, 
with  her  tackle,  apparel,  furniture  and  cargo,  together  with  the  said 
negro,  should  not  be  condemned  according  to  the  prayer  of  the  said 
bill. 

By  order  of  the  Judge, 

JOSEPH  BLOOMFIELD,  Register. 
December  1,  1781. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  the  subscriber's  yard  in  Trenton,  on  the  12th  inst. 

A  Number  of  artillery  horses,  the  property  of  the  army  of  France, 
for  cash  only. 

JAMES  THOMPSON. 

The  Officers  formerly  belonging  to  the  Jersey  brigade,  and  left  out 
in  the  arrangement  of  the  army,  February,  1779,  are  desired  to  attend 
at  Mr.  Beekman's,  in  Princeton,  on  Thursday  the  13th.  inst  at  twelve 
o'clock. 

From  the  Sew  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol  IV.,  No.  207,  Dec.  12,  1781. 

PHILADELPHIA. 

December  4. 

The  inhabitants  of  this  city  were  much  pleased  last  Tuesday  evening, 
by  the  brilliant  exhibition  of  a  number  of  transparent  scenes,  designed 
and  executed  by  that  very  ingenious  artist,  Mr.  Charles  W.  Peale,  who 
had  previously  prepared  them  for  the  purpose  of  celebrating  the  arrival 
in  this  city  of  our  illustrious  Commander  in  Cheif.  During  the  whole 
evening  the  people  were  nocking  from  all  parts  of  the  town  to  obtain 

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338  M:W  JERSEY  ix  THE  REVOLUTION.  [1781 

a  sight  of  these  beautiful  expressions  of  Mr.  Peale's  respect  and 
gratitude  to  the  conquering  Hero.  The  folio  wing,  is  a  description  of 
the  paintings ;  but  we  do  not  pretend  to  do  justice  either  to  the 
elegance  of  the  design,  or  to  the  author's  fertile  invention. 

At  the  lower  window,  a  ship  with  the  British  colours  below  the 
French,  and  the  word  Cornwallis  on  the  stern,  emblematical,  that 
by  the  assistance  of  the  French  fleet,  Cornwallis  was  captured. 

At  the  middle  window,  above,  the  portraits  of  His  Excellency  General 
Washington  and  Count  Rochambeau,  with  rays  of  glory  and  interlaced 
civic  crowns  over  their  heads,  framed  with  palm  and  laurel  branches, 
and  the  words  in  transparent  letters,  Shine  Valiant  Chiefs;  the  wholo 
encircled  with  stars  and  flowers  de  luxe. 

At  another  window,  the  Temple  of  Independence.  The  words 
Stamp-Act,  Duties  on  Tea,  &c.  this  structure.  And  the  foundation  of 
the  building  beginning  with  the  words,  Lexington,  Bunker-Hill,  Fort 
Moultrie,  Trenton,  Princeton,  Germantown,  Burgoyne,  French  Alli- 
ance, Monmouth,  Stony  Point.  Kings  Mountain,  Cowpens,  Eutaw, 
Cornwallis. 

The  first  story  of  the  building  of  the  Ionic  order  on  the  base  of  which 
were  these  words,  By  the  voice  of  the  People,  which  supported  thirteen 
columns,  representing  the  states  supporting  a  frize,  on  which  were 
wrote  Illustrious  Senators ;  and  in  a  pediment,  which  covered  the 
whole  range  of  columns  were  wrote  Brave  Soldiery,  with  rays  of 
light  and  support  from  the  senate;  the  pediment  ornimented  with  the 
following  statues.  Justice  yith  her  even  scales,  a  flaming  sword  and 
thirteen  stars  in  the  glory  around  the  figure,  emblematical  of  the  justice 
of  Congress ;  on  the  right  the  statue  of  Hope,  with  her  anchor  ;  and  on 
the  left,  the  staute  of  Industry,  with  her  bee-hive.  The  second  story  of 
the  Corinthian  order,  with  statues  in  niches,  with  the  words,  Heroes 
Fallen  In  Battle ;  and  an  Attic  story,  as  the  work  completed  with  the 
words,  Agriculture,  Arts,  And  Commerce,  and  represented  by  the 
following  statues,  Agriculture,  a  figure  holding  a  sheaf  of  wheat  on  her 
left  arm,  a  sickle  in  her  right  hand,  and  a  plough  at  her  feet.  The 
arts  represented  by  the  statues  of  painting,  sculpture,  and  architecture ; 
Painting  has  a  pallet  and  pencils  in  one  hand,  and  the  other  supporting 
a  picture ;  she  has  a  golden  chain  hanging  from  her  neck,  with  a  medal 
on  which  is  Imitation ;  the  several  links  allude  to  the  many  parts 
necessary  to  be  studied  before  a  whole  can  be  produced ;  or  the  com- 
bined qualifications  of  an  able  artist :  and  it  being  of  gold,  to  shew 
that  the  art  of  painting  cannot  flourish  without  it  is  supported  by  the 
generosity  of  the  oppulent.  Sculpture  is  represented  by  a  statue, 
holding  in  one  hand  a  mallet  and  chisel,  and  in  the  other  a  bust,  or- 
namented with  laurels.  Architecture  by  a  statue,  having  in  one  hand  a 
plan  of  elevation,  and  in  the  other  a  square  and  a  plummet.  Com- 
merce by  a  statue,  holding  a  globe  in  one  hand,  and  the  other  on  the 
prow  of  a  ship.  A  dome  covers  the  building  and  finishes  with  the 
figure  of  Fame,  blowing  her  trumpet  to  the  east;  which  may  easily 
be  comprehended. 

And  at  another  window  the  genius  of  America,  trampling  on  Dis- 
cord, being  a  handsome  female  figure,  the  bigness  of  life,  clothed  in 
white,  a  purple  girdle  with  the  word  Virtue  on  it,  and  a  blue  mantle 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  339 

strewed  with  stars,  a  fillet  on  her  head,  with  the  word  Perseverance : 
She  holds  in  one  hand  her  banner  of  thirteen  stripes,  with  the  words 
Equal  Rights,  and  in  the  other  hand  a  globe  with  the  word  Universality 
on  a  circular  index  to  the  globe.  The  figure  of  Discord  with  his 
snakes  instead  of  hair,  and  holding  a  torch,  the  flame  of  which  turns 
down  on  himself. 

TRENTON,  Dec.  12. 

On  Saturday  the  twenty-fourth  day  of  November  last,  the  Rev. 
Mr.  James  Caldwell,  late  a  Minister  of  the  Gospel  at  Elizabeth-Town, 
was  most  barbarously  murdered  by  a  soldier  belonging  to  the  state 
troops.  The  circumstances  relating  to  this  horrid  fact,  are  as  follows : 
— Mr.  Caldwell  having  been  informed  that  a  young  lady  had  arrived  at 
Elizabeth-Town  Point,  in  a  flag  of  truce  from  New- York,  who  had 
permission  to  come  within  our  lines,  and  who  is  the  daughter  of  a 
lady  who  has  distinguished  herself  by  her- .great  humanity,  tenderness 
and  generosity  to  the  American  prisoners  in  New- York,  and  considering 
himself  bound  by  his  duty  as  a  citizen  to  render  every  possible  service 
to  the  family  of  so  worthy  a  character,  went  down  to  the  point,  with 
an  intention  of  waiting  on  the  young  lady  up  to  the  town ; — when  he 
arrived  there,  the  officer  then  commanding  the  post  at  Elizabeth-Town, 
being  on  board  the  flag-sloop,  asked  him  whether  he  would  go  on  board. 
He  then  stepped  on  board  the  sloop,  and  was  informed  the  young  lady 
had  already  gone  to  the  town.  Being  about  to  return,  a  person  in 
the  sloop  asked  him  whether  he  would  take  a  small  parcel  tied  up  in 
a  handkerchief.  Mr.  Caldwell  consented  to  take  it,  went  on  shore,  put 
the  bundle  into  a  chair-box,  and  was  driving  off  when  a  soldier  stepped 
up  to  him  and  said,  "I  must  search  your  chair,  to  see  whether  you 
have  not  seizable  goods  in  that  bundle."  Mr.  Caldwell  then  feeling  it 
would  be  imprudent  to  run  any  further  risk  asked  the  soldier  whether 
he  would  suffer  him  to  return  the  bundle  to  the  sloop.  To  this  request 
the  soldier  readily  agreeing,  Mr.  Caldwell  took  the  bundle  out  of  the 
chair-box,  and  was  stepping  on  board  of  the  sloop  to  return  it,  when 
the  murderer  who  was  on  the  quarter-deck,  and  within  about  ten  yards 
of  him,  said  damn  you,  stop.  Mr.  Caldwell  instantly  stopped,  and 
immediately  on  his  stopping  the  soldier  presented  his  musket  and 
shot  him  : — He  fell  down  and  instantly  expired  without  a  groan. — 
His  funeral  was  attended  the  Tuesday  following  by  a  large  concourse 
of  people,  when  a  funeral  sermon  was  preached  by  the  Rev.  Dr. 
M'Whorter,  from  Ecclesiastes  viii,  8.  "There  is  no  man  that  hath 
power  over  the  spirit,  to  retain  the  spirit ;  neither  hath  he  power  in 
the  day  of  death ;  and  there  is  no  discharge  in  that  war." 

Mr.  Caldwell  was  a  man  of  very  superior  talents,  whether  considered 
as  a  preacher,  a  statesman,  or  a  citizen — He  was  one  of  the  first  who 
embarked  in  the  cause  of  his  country,  in  which  he  has  ever  discovered 
a  mind  incapable  of  being  intoxicated  with  partial  successes,  or  meanly 
depressed  by  the  clouds  of  adversity — His  zeal,  activity,  and  unshaken 
integrity  under  every  circumstance  of  the  present  revolution,  are 
deeply  imprinted  on  the  minds  of  his  countrymen — As  a  preacher  of 
the  gospel  he  was  excelled  by  very  few  of  the  present  age ;  his  oratory 
was  natural  and  pleasing,  and  exceedingly  persuasive — He  was  a 
diligent  and  faithful  Minister  of  Jesus  Christ,  to  which  the  reformed 


340        MiW  JEESEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.      [1781 

lives  and  conversations  of  a  large  part  of  his  numerous  congrega- 
tion bear  an  unequivocal  testimony. 

He  has  left  a  most  destitute  and  helpless  family,  consisting  of  nine 
children,  the  oldest  about  seventeen  years  of  age,  and  the  youngest  not 
exceeding  two,  to  experience  the  humanity  and  benevolence  of  those 
tender  and  sympathetic  minds  who  are  not  above  the  feelings  of 
another's  woe. — Though  Mr.  Caldwell  has  been  almost  constantly  en- 
gaged in  publick  departments  since  the  present  war,  which  have  been 
the  source  of  riches  and  affluence  to  many  others,  yet  such  was  his 
uprightness  and  love  of  his  country,  that  his  rising  family  are  now  left 
to  deplore  the  want  of  a  bare  subsistence,  but  from  the  generosity  of 
those  who  knew  their  father's  virtues — We  may  justly  conclude,  with 
lamenting  our  country's  loss— a  loss  to  mankind — to  human  nature. 

AN  ENTIRE  NEW  WORK. 

Now  selling  at  Bell's  Book-Store,  near  St.  Paul's  Church,  in  Third 
Street,  Philadelphia ;  also  by  James  Burnside,  in  Trenton,  and 
James  Martin,  post  rider  to  Morris-Town. 

THE  REVOLUTION  OF  AMERICA. 

By  the  Abbe  Raynal, 

Author  of  the  philosophical  and  political  history  of  the  establishments 
and  commerce  of  the  Europeans  in  both  the  Indies.  Price  Half  a 
Dollar. 

***  Variety  of  curious  and  useful  Books  in  history,  divinity,  voyages. 
travels,  poetry,  novels,  and  entertainment,  may  be  had  at  said  Bell's 
Book  Store. 

LOST, 

On  Tuesday  the  4th.  of  December,  1781  a  parchment  slip,  containing 
two  state  notes ;  one  No.  14,  for  Three  Hundred  and  Seventeen  Pounds 
Thirteen  Shillings  and  Eight-pence ;  the  other,  No.  133,  for  Fifty 
Pounds.  The  former  my  own  property,  the  latter  the  property  of 
Joseph  Wright,  soldier  in  the  first  Jersey  regiment.  Said  parchment 
also  contained  about  One  Hundred  State  Dollars.  Whoever  finds  the 
same,  and  will  return  it  to  me  or  the  printer  hereof  shall  receive  Six- 
teen State  Dollars  as  a  reward. 

All  persons  are  forewarned  purchasing  the  above  notes,  as  they 
will  be  stopped  by  the  treasurer,  and  are  requested  to  apprehend  them 
if  offered  for  sale. 

E.  WHITLOCK,  Adj.  1st  Jer.  Regt. 

December  5,  1781. 

Was  taken  up  on  the  fifth  instant,  a  certain  Peter  Fisher,  and 
another  person  whos  name  is  unknown.  They  had  with  them  two 
horses  supposed  to  be  stolen  ;  one  of  them  black,  fourteen  hands  high, 
with  a  star;  the  other  a  sorrel,  about  the  same  height.  The  owners 
are  desired  to  come  and  prove  their  property,  pay  charges  and  take 
them  away. 

JOHN  PI  ATT. 

Middlesex,  Six  Mile  Run,  Dec.  10,  1781. 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  341 

LOST, 

On  the  4th  or  5th  instant,  a  steel  mounted  pistol.  Whoever  has 
found  the  same  and  will  bring  it  to  the  printer,  shall  receive  Three 
Hard  Dollars  reward.  Dec.  10,  17S1. 

BE  IT  REMEMBERED,  that  I  Martin  Long,  of  New-Hanover, 
and  county  of  Burlington,  do  hereby  acknowledge  and  confess  that, 
contrary  to  the  principles  of  honesty  and  truth,  I  did  endeavour  to 
injure  the  character  of  Jacob  Phillips,  Esq.  High-Sheriff  of  the  county 
of  Burlington,  by  falsely  and  unjustly  reporting  that  the  said  Jacob 
Phillips,  Esq.  had  demanded  and  taken  from  me  more  fees  than  allowed 
by  law: — For  which  report  and  misrepresentation,  in  this  publick  man- 
ner, I  do  beg  his  pardon,  and  am  fully  convinced  of  the  justness  and 
uprightness  of  his  behaviour  to  me  at  all  times,  and  the  baseness  of 
my  own  intentions.  In  testimony  of  which,  I  publish  this  in  the 
publick  New-Jersey  Gazette — Witness  my  hand  at  Burlington,  Decem- 
ber 3,  1781.  MARTIN  LONG. 

WILLIAM  INNES 

Acquaints  the  publick,  and  also  his  customers,  that  he  has  begun 
brewing,  and  has  beer  for  sale,  which  he  hopes  will  give  satisfaction, 
at  the  current  prices. 

N.  B.  All  persons  who  have  casks  of  his  are  earnestly  requested  to 
return  them,  or  pay  the  worth  of  them. 

Burlington,  Dec.  3,  1781. 

WILL  BE  SOLD. 

In  pursuance  of  the  direction  of  the  last  will  and  testament  of  Robert 
Priest,  deceased,  late  of  Windsor,  in  the  county  of  Middlesex, 
New-Jersey,  on  Monday  the  24th  of  this  inst  December ; 
All  that  valuable  plantation,  situate,  lying  and  being  near  Princeton, 
whereon  the  said  testator  lately  dwelt,  containing  about  156  acres  of 
land,  part  thereof  good  meadow,  and  more  may  be  made.  There  is  on 
the  premises  a  frame  house  and  kitchen,  barn  and  other  convenient 
outhouses,  a  young  bearing  orchard  in  its  prime :  The  whole  in  good 
fence,  is  well  watered,  and  hath  a  sufficient  quantity  of  excellent 
timber. 

Also  will  be  sold  at  same  time,  all  the  personal  estate  of  the  said 
deceased,  consisting  of  an  eight  day  clock,  feather  beds  and  bedding, 
looking  glasses,  and  a  variety  of  household  and  kitchen  furniture  too 
tedious  to  enumerate :  A  large  quantity  of  hay,  flax,  Indian  corn  in  the 
crib,  wheat,  rye  and  oats  in  stack,  and  about  16  acres  of  green  wheat 
in  the  ground,  together  with  all  the  horses,  cattle,  sheep  and  hogs,  &c. 
The  vendue  will  begin  at  ten  o'clock  in  the  forenoon  of  said  day,  on 
the  premises,  where  attendance  will  be  given,  and  the  conditions  made 
known  by 

EZEKIEL  SMITH,  Executor. 

December  11,  1781. 


342  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

Th-e  publication  of  the  following  c.rtract,  (part  of  ichidi  irns  omiitnl 
in  our  paper  of  the  2Sth  of  November,  through  a  mistake)  of  an  Act 
of  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Pennsylvania  passed  the  5f/i 
of  April,  1781,  and  now  in  force,  ice  apprehend  will  be  useful  to  tin 
citizens  of  New-Jersey. 

Sect.  5.  Be  it  therefore  further  enacted  by  the  authority  aforesaid. 
That  from  and  after  the  said  first  day  of  October  next  all  flour  casks 
shall  be  made  of  good  seasoned  material,  well  made  and  tightened  with 
ten  hoops  sufficiently  nailed  with  four  nails  in  each  chine  hoop,  and 
three  nails  in  each  upper  bilge  hoop,  and  of  the  following  dimensions. 
viz.  the  staves  to  be  of  the  length  of  twenty-seven  inches,  but  of  dif- 
ferent diametres  at  the  heads,  according  to  their  numbers,  that  is  to 
say,  casks  number  one  shall  be  of  the  diameter  of  eighteen  inches  at 
the  head,  casks  number  two  sixteen  inches  and  an  half,  and  casks 
number  three  fifteen  inches  and  an  half ;  that  every  miller  or  boulter 
of  flour  and  baker  of  bread,  for  transportation  out  of  the  state,  shall 
provide  and  have  a  distinguishable  brand-mark  which  he  shall  cause 
to  be  entered  with  the  clerk  of  the  Quarter-Sessions  for  the  county 
where  he  doth  reside,  together  with  his  name  and  place  of  abode,  under 
the  penalty  of  the  sum  of  five  shillings,  for  every  day  during  which 
he  shall  have  exercised  his  said  business  of  a  miller,  boulter  or  baker, 
without  such  entry ;  for  the  making  of  which  entries  the  said  clerk 
shall  be  intitled  to  the  sum  of  one  shilling  each ;  and  that  every  miller, 
or  boulter  of  flour  or  bak^r  of  broad  shall,  with  his  said  mark,  brand 
each  and  every  cask  of  flour,  or  bread  before  the  same  shall  be  removed 
from  the  place  where  the  same  was  boulted  or  baked ;  and  every  miller 
or  boulter  shall  also  brand  every  cask  of  flour  according  to  the  respec- 
tive diameters  above  specified,  with  the  said  numbers,  one,  two  or 
three,  and  with  the  weight  respectively,  under  the  penalty  of  one 
shilling  and  six-pence  for  every  barrel  of  ffour  not  hooped  and  nailed 
as  aforesaid,  and  for  every  cask  of  flour  or  bread  so  removed  and  not 
branded  as  aforesaid. 

Sect.  6.  And  be  it  furtlier  enacted  by  the  authority  aforesaid,  That 
the  said  millers  or  boulters  shall  put  in  the  cask  number  one,  the  full 
quantity  or  weight  of  two  hundred  and  twenty-four  pounds  of  flour,  in 
the  cask  number  two,  the  full  quantity  or  weight  of  one  hundred  and 
ninety-six  pounds,  and  in  the  casks  number  three  the  full  quantity  or 
weight  of  one  hundred  and  sixty-eight  pounds  of  flour ;  and  that  if 
any  miller  or  boulter  shall  use  or  pack  with  flour  any  other  casks 
than  of  the  three  several  sizes  and  dimensions  aforesaid,  he  shall  for- 
feit to  the  purchaser  thereof  the  value  or  charge  of  such  cask  in  his 
account ;  and  that  if  any  miller  or  boulter  shall  pack  any  casks  of  the 
said  sizes  or  dimensions,  with  a  less  quantity  of  flour  than  is  above 
specified,  for  the  same  respectively  he  shall  forfeit  the  same  casks  and 
flour. 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  343 

From  the  Sew  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  IV.,  So.  208,  Dec.  19,  1781. 

PHILADELPHIA,  Dec.  12. 
Extract  of  a  letter  from  New-Jersey,  dated  Dec.  10,  1781. 

"The  packet  arrived  Thursday  last  from  Britain,  in  eight  weeks,  which 
puts,  as  yet.  a  stop  to  the  fleet's  sailing.  The  officers;  that  held  com- 
missions under  Lord  Dunmore,  were  ordered  on  shore  with  their  baggage, 
that  were  bound  to  Europe. 

"His  Lordship  is  daily  expected  at  New- York  with  his  suite,  civil  and 
military,  to  take  the  reins  of  the  government  of  Virginia. — Its  truly 
Laughable.  Admiral  Rodney  and  General  Vaughn  were  not  arrived  in 
England ;  they  were  in  different  ships,  but  the  Admiral  took  care  to  have 
the  cash  with  him  ;  it's  thought  in  New- York,  that  they  are  taken  and 
carried  into  Prance.  Since  the  arrival  of  the  packet,  they  won't  suffer 
one  of  their  publick  papers  to  come  out,  however  you  have  the  latest 
and  the  only  one  since. 

"Governor  Johnstone  is  arrived  in  England,  and  carried  in  six  Dutch 
East-India  ships  homeward  bound,  which  I  am  sorry  for." 

After  an  attentive  perusal  of  Lord  Cornwallis's  letter  to  Sir  Henry 
Clinton,  containing  the  account  of  the  reduction  of  his  posts  and  army, 
in  Virginia,  I  think  the  following  observations  are  equally  just  and 
natural. 

I.  That  his  Lordship  is  no  General — This  is  evident,  1.  From  the 
nature  of  the  posts  he  occupied.    2.  From  the  structure  of  his  works. 

3.  From  his  presuming  it  practicable  to  escape  to  New- York  by  land. 

4.  From  his  neglecting  to  obtain  earlier  intelligence  of  the  approach 
of  General  Washington  at  the  head  of  the  allied  army. 

II.  His  Lordship  is  no  Soldier. — This  is  evident,  1.  From  his  neg- 
lecting to  attack  the  Marquis  of  Fayette  and  the  French  troops,  before 
the  arrival  of  General  Washington.     2.  From  his  evacuating  his  out 
posts  at  the  approach   of  the  French  grenadiers.     3.   From   his  not 
daring  to  make  a  sortie,  by  which  means  he  might  have  injured  our 
works,  and  protracted  the  siege  for  several  weeks. 

III.  His  Lordship  is  no  Politician.- — This  is  evident,  1.   From  his 
neglecting  to  take  notice  of  the  conduct  of  the  German  troops  during 
the  siege.     This  unpolitic  omission  will  probably  be  resented  by  large 
and   immediate  desertions  from  the   German  corps  who   are   now   in 
captivity   among   us.      2.    From   his   account   of  the   strength   of   the 
American   army.     The  powers  of  Europe  must  soon  see  the   impos- 
sibility of  conquering  America,  when  they  perceive  from  Lord  Corn- 
wallis's letter,  that  only  one  of  our  armies  consisted,  after  a  war  of 
near  six  years  of  8000  regulars  and  5000  militia-men. 

IV.  His  Lordship  is  no  Gentleman. — This  is  evident  from  his  un- 
grateful silence  as  to  the  noble  and  generous  conduct  of  General  Wash- 
ington   and   the   American   officers   to   him    and   his   army    after   the 
capitulation. 

The  magnanimity,  humanity  and  politeness  of  the  Commander  in 
Chief  of  the  American  armies  would  have  extorted  expressions  of 
gratitude  and  respect  from  an  Indian  savage,  a  Tartar  or  a  Turk. 
A  British  General  and  an  English  nobleman,  is  the  only  human  being 
that  could  have  treated  such  superlative  virtue  with  such  sullen  dis- 
respect. A  SUBALTERN. 


344:  XE\V    JERSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

TRENTON,  Dec.  19. 
Extract  of  a  letter  from  Elizabeth-Town,  Dec.  1,  1781. 

"Mr.  Caldwell  has  left  nine  small  children  in  a  very  helpless  and 
unprovided  state,  to  mourn  a  loss  that  cannot  be  made  up  to  them, 
and  to  make  trial  of  the  benevolence  and. humanity  of  others,  to  whom 
they  have  a  just  claim  from  the  greatness  of  that  of  their  father.  It 
is  perhaps  sea  rely  paralelled  in  history  that  a  husband  and  wife  who 
maintained  such  blameless  characters,  should  have  met  with  so  similar  and 
cruel  a  fate. — It  is  but  about  17  months  since  Mrs.  Caldwell,  one  of  the 
most  amiable  of  women,  was  shot  by  a  British  soldier,  when  the  enemy 
came  out  to  Connecticut  Farms,  as  she  was  sitting  in  her  house  with  her 
two  infants  by  her  side.  It  may  be  truly  and  justly  said,  that  the  tragical 
death  of  Mr.  Caldwell  will  be  a  very  great  publick  loss,  and  is  justly 
lamented  by  every  friend  to  his  country,  and  though  he  filled,  with  great 
approbation,  several  publick  offices  since  the  present  war,  which  have 
enriched  many  less  deserving  than  himself,  yet  he  left  little  more  than 
will  pay  his  debts  ;  and  what  is  doubly  hard,  he  has  no  connections  in 
this  county  to  whom  his  helpless  orphans  can  look  to  for  assistance  in 
this  day  of  adversity.  Publick  subscriptions  have  been  opened  for  their 
relief,  which  it  is  hoped  will  meet  with  generous  encouragement." 

By  a  gentleman  from  Elizabeth-Town  we  are  informed,  that  on 
Saturday  last  a  fleet  of  upwards  of  one  hundred  sail,  under  convoy 
of  three  or  four  ships  of  the  line  and  two  frigates,  sailed  from  New- 
York  for  England,  on  board  of  which  Lord  Cornwallis,  General 
Arnold,  and  a  great  number  cf  inhabitants  took  their  passage. 

Thursday  last  was  observed  as  a  day  of  thanksgiving,  agreeably 
to  the  Governor's  proclamation  of  the  12th  ult. 

At  the  Courts  of  Oyer  and  Terrniner  and  General  Gaol  Delivery, 
lately  held  in  the  county  of  Monmouth,  John  Thomson  and  Joshua 
Peirce  were  convicted  of  horse-stealing  and  robbery,  and  Richard 
Bell  of  robbery,  and  were  all  sentenced  to  the  executed  on  Saturday 
last. — We  hear  that  Thomson  and  Bell  were  executed  accordingly,  but 
that  Peirce  was  respited  for  a  few  days.  These  fellows  belonged  to  a 
band  of  villains  who  have  committed  so  many  murders  and  robberies 
in  the  county  of  Monmouth.  and  whose  principal  lodgment  is  on  Sandy- 
Hook. 

BY  HIS  EXCELLENCY 
THE  GOVERNOR. 

Head-Quarters,  Trenton,  Dec.  14,  1781.  At  a  General  Court  Mar- 
tial, whereof  Colonel  Silvanus  Seely  was  President,  held  at  Chatham, 
the  twenty-third  day  of  October  last,  by  order  of  His  Excellency  the 
Governor,  and  continued  by  several  adjournments,  Lieutenant-Colonel 
Jacob  Crane  was  tried  upon  the  following  charges : 

1st.  That  he  traded  with  the  enemy  when  commanding  officer  at 
Elizabeth-Town,  in  the  year  1780. 

2nd.  That  he  allowed  others  to  trade  with  the  enemy  whilst  com- 
manding officer  at  the  same  place,  in  the  year  aforesaid. 


17811  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  345 

3d.  That  he  was  so  disguised  with  liquor  when  on  Staten-Island, 
under  the  command  of  General  Dickinson,  as  to  be  wholly  unfit  for 
duty,  and  also  at  other  limes,  when  commanding  officer  at  Elizabeth- 
Town,  in  17SO. 

4th.  For  unofficer  like  behaviour  in  an  attack  of  a  party  of  refugees 
near  Elizabeth-Town,  with  a  superior  force  under  his  command. 

The  Court  having  maturely  deliberated  upon  the  evidences,  are  of 
opinion,  and  do  justly  find,  that  Lieutenant  Colonel  Jacob  Crane  is 
guilty  of  the  first  and  second  charges,  and  also  of  the  latter  part  of 
the  third  charge,  and  that  the  said  Colonel  Crane  is  not  guilty  of  the 
first  part  of  the  third  charge,  nor  of  the  fourth  charge. 

And  the  Court  do  sentence  the  said  Lieutenant-Colonel  Crane  to 
be  publickly  reprimanded  by  His  Excellency  the  Governor. 

P>y  the  same  Court- Martial  was  tried  Captain  Isaac  Gillam.  upon 
the  following  charges  : 

1st.  For  neglect  of  duty  in  a  variety  of  instances.  1.  In  staying  a 
great  part  of  his  time  since  his  late  appointment  in  the  twelvemonth's 
service  of  the  state,  at  home.  2.  In  going  home  and  continuing  there 
several  days  and  nights  when  he  knew  that  a  number  of  vessels  were 
coming  up  Newark  Bay,  towards  Newark,  and  had  got  to  the  mouth 
of  the  river.  3.  In  drawing  provisions  for  himself  and  men  without 
having  the  proper  necessary  returns,  or  knowing  how  many  men  he 
had  on  duty,  or  in  town.  4.  In  not  calling  the  muster-roll,  or  knowing 
who  appeared  on  the  parade  and  did  duty.  5.  In  not  sending  out 
patrols  or  placing  Gentries,  and  not  visiting  them  when  placed. 

2d.  For  giving  unnecessary  and  unreasonable  furloughs  to  his  men. 

3d.  For  not  supporting  authority  and  discipline  in  his  company. 

4th.  For  ungentleinanly  and  unofficerlike  behaviour  to  Lieutenant 
Burnet. 

5th.  For  giving  permissions  to  a  number  of  persons  to  go  into  and 
return  from  the  enemy's  lines. 

6th.  For  encouraging,  protecting  and  supporting  the  illicit  trade  and 
intercourse  with  the  enemy,  and  for  the  sake  of  a  bribe,  releasing  and 
discharging  a  large  quantity  of  goods  seized  by  some  of  his  men,  on 
the  way  from  the  enemy's  lines,  by  which  means  the  state  is  deprived 
of  a  considerable  sum  of  money,  and  the  punishment  of  the  offenders 
evaded. 

7th.  For  leaving  his  company  when  on  its  march  to  Dobbs'  Ferry, 
in  the  month  of  August  last,  without  permission. 

8th.  That  before  and  on  the  march  of  the  said  company  to  Dobbs' 
Ferry,  the  said  Captain  Gillam  did  begin  and  excite  a  mutiny ;  and 
that  at  the  same  time  and  place  he  did  join  in  a  mutiny,  and  that 
also  knowing  of  an  intended  mutiny,  he  did  not  without  delay,  give 
information  thereof  to  any  superior  or  commanding  officer,  nor  en- 
deavour to  suppress  the  same. 

The  Court  having  maturely  considered  the  evidence  offered  on  the 
several  charges  against  Captain  Isaac  Gillam,  do  find  him  of  the  first 
charge  guilty  in  the  fourth  instance. 


340         MOW  JEKSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.      [1781 

Iii  the  first  instance  not  guilty 

Second  ditto  not  guilty 

Third  ditto  not  guilty 

Fifth  ditto  not  guilty 

Of  the  second  charge  not  guilty 

Third  ditto  guilty 

Fourth  ditto  guilty 

Fifth  ditto  guilty 

Sixth  ditto  guilty 

Seventh  ditto  not  guilty 

Eighth  ditto  guilty 

And  it  is  adjudged  by  the  same  Court  that  the  said  Captain  Isaac 
Gillrtm  be  deprived  of  all  and  every  military  commission  which  he 
holds  in  the  service  of  this  state. 

And  by  the  same  Court  Martial  was  tried  Lieut.  John  Burnet,  upon 
the  following  charges : 

1st.  For  disobeying  the  orders  of  Captain  Isaac  Gillam,  his  superior 
officer. 

2d.  For  giving  the  soldiers  of  the  said  Captain's  company  strong 
liquor  to  induce  them  to  sign  a  paper  which  tended  to  encourage  a 
mutiny. 

3d.  For  ordering  the  said  soldiers  to  mutiny. 

4th.  For  neglect  of  duty  in  suppressing  the  illicit  trade  with  the 
enemy. 

5th.  For  refusing  to  deliver  up  the  muster  roll  to  Captain  Gillam. 
6th.  For  abusing  the  character  of  the  said  Captain  Gillam. 
The  Court  having  considered  the  evidence,  do  find  Lieutenant  Burnet 
of  the 

First  charge  guilty 

Second  ditto  guilty 

Third  ditto  not  guilty 

Fourth  ditto  not  guilty 

Fifth  ditto  guilty 

Sixth  ditto  not  guilty 

And  the  said  Court  do  sentence  the  said  Lieutenant  John  Burnet 
to  be  cashiered. 

The  Governor  having  duly  considered  the  evidence  produced  to  the 
said  Court  Martial,  and  the  several  sentences  and  acquittals  of  the 
same,  approves  of  and  confirmed  the  sentence  and  adjudication  of  the 
said  Court  against  'Captain  Isaac  Gillam,  (whose  several  offences  do 
not  admit  of  the  least  palliation,  and  with  which  he  could  not  have 
imagined  that  any  officer  of  the  militia  of  this  state  would  have  stained 
his  character  or  disgraced  his  country)  and  orders  the  same  to  take 
place  accordingly. 

Relative  to  the  sentence  passed  by  the  said  Court  on  Lieutenant-Col- 
onel Jacob  Crane,  he  thinks  it  more  favourable  than  an  officer  of  his 
rank  had  reason  to  expect  for  so  atrocious  a  crime  as  that  of  trading 
with  the  enemy,  and  allowing  others  to  trade  with  them  (an  offense  not 
only  extremely  injurious  to  his  country,  which  has  reposed  so  great 
confidence  in  him.  but  which  it  was  an  essential  part  of  his  duty  and 
a  grand  object  of  the  post  he  occupied,  to  suppress)  and  for  which, 


1781]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  347 

as  well  as  for  the  other  offence  proved  against  him,  he  is  here  pub- 
lickly  reprimanded. 

With  respect  to  the  sentence  passed  by  the  said  Court  on  Lieut. 
John  Burnet,  it  is  with  great  regret  that  the  Governor  finds  that  an 
officer  who  has  distinguished  himself  for  his  zeal  and  activity  in  the 
service  of  his  country,  should  so  far  forget  the  absolute  necessity  of 
maintaining  subordination  and  discipline  as  to  disobey  the  orders  of 
his  superior  officer,  and  whatever  allowance  may  be  made  for  the 
precipitation  of  youth,  or  personal  provocations  offered,  the  publick  in- 
terest indispensably  requires  so  pernicious  an  example  to  be  uniformly 
discountenanced,  and  he  therefore  approves  of  and  confirms  the  sen- 
tence passed  by  the  said  Court  Martial  on  the  said  Lieutenant  John 
Burnet,  and  orders  the  same  to  take  place  accordingly. 

WIL.  LIVINGSTON. 

JOHN  SINGER, 

Has  for  sale,  at  his  store  opposite  Mr.  Abraham  Hunt's  in  Trenton, 
the  following  articles : 

Scarlet  broad  cloth,  Blue  and  green  ditto,  Brown,  blue  and  flesh 
coloured  velvet,  Brown  and  white  coarse  cloths,  Blue  and  crimson 
baize,  Brown  and  scarlet  serge,  Checks  and  stripes,  An  assortment  of 
calicoes  and  chintzes,  Silk  and  linen  handkerchiefs.  Gauze  ditto,  Cam- 
bricks  and  lawns,  Black  and  white  laces,  Black  and  white  striped  and 
spotted  gauze,  Brown  &  narrow  ribands,  Black  satin  and  mode,  Ell- 
wide  persian,  Pelong  and  mantuas,  Pink  and  white  sarcenets,  Pins 
and  threads,  Sugar  and  tea,  Pepper,  Copperas,  indigo,  Cotton,  Shoe 
buckles,  and  some  hard  ware,  Snuff  and  tobacco,  Holland  gin. 
With  sundry  other  Goods. 

WANTED; 

As  a  house-keeper,  a  sober,  industrious  middle  aged' woman,  who 
understands  country  business,  to  live  within  nine  miles  of  Philadelphia. 
Any  person  who  can  bring  a  good  recommendation,  may  hear  of  good 
encouragement  by  applying  to  the  printer.  Also  wanted  to  purchase 
or  hire,  a  negro  man  and  wife,  or  a  negro  man  and  girl  separate,  who 
understand  country  business.  Apply  as  above. 

Gloucester  county,  New-Jersey,  Waterford 
township,  Dec.  10,  1781. 

On  the  night  of  the  17th  of  November  last  the  shop  of  the  sub- 
scriber, living  in  Cranberry,  was  broken  open,  and  the  following 
articles  taken  therefrom,  viz.  One  bolt  of  ozenbrigs,  containing  up- 
wards of  forty  yards,  one  piece  of  fine  yard-wide  linen,  one  piece  of 
yard-wide  mode,  two  buckskins,  two  wool  hats,  one  piece  of  broad 
stamped  riband,  a  quantity  of  fine  thread,  and  sundry  other  articles. 
Whoever  apprehends  the  thief  with  the  above  goods,  shall  receive  a 
reward  of  TWENTY  DOLLARS  in  gold  or  silver,  or  an  equal  pro- 
portion for  any  part  thereof,  from  WILLIAM  SLOAN. 

Cranberry,  Dec.  12,  1781. 


348  NEW    JERSEY    IIST    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

Run  away  from  the  subscriber,  on  the  18th  of  March,  in  the  year 
1779,  an  apprentice  lad  named  Joseph  Phillips,  about  10  years  of  age. 
by  trade  a  shoemaker. — Whoever  will  apprehend  the  said  apprentice 
and  bring  him  to  the  subscriber  living  at  Sanpink,  near  the  Dutch 
Meeting-House,  shall  receive  One  Dollar  reward,  and  all  reasonable 
charges  paid  by  WILLIAM  DE-HART. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  publick  vendue,  on  Friday  the  28th  day  of  this  instant,  at  ten 
o'clock  in  the  forenoon,  at  the  house  of  James  Willis,  at  Cape- 
May  ; 

The  SLOOP  BETSEY,  burthen  about  40  tons,  with  her  tackle, 
apparel,  furniture  and  cargo,  consisting  of  flour,  wheat  and  Indian 
corn.  By  order  of  the  Judge, 

JOHN  BURROWS.   Marshal. 

Dec.  17,  17S1. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 
BY  WILLIAM  RICHARDS', 

At  his  Store  at  Trenton  Landing,  the  following  general  assortment  of 
Medicines,  Groceries,  Paints,  Dye  Stuffs,  Ironmongery,  and  Dry 
Goods,  viz.  r 

Antimony,  Arg.  VIV.,  Borax,  Bacc.  Junip.,  Bacc.  Lauri,  Balsam 
Capivi,  Balsam  Peruvian,  Balsam  Traumatic,  Calomel,  Camphor,  Com- 
tharides,  Cortex.  Peru,  Crem.  tart.,  Carolina  pink  root,  Elect.  Leni- 
tive, Elect.  Theriac.,  Elix.  Asthmatic.,  Elix.  Vitriol,  Flor.  Benzoin, 
Flor.  Chamoemel,  Flor.  Sulphur,  Gall,  aleppo,  Gum.  ammon.,  Gum. 
Aloes,  hepatic,  Gum.  Aloes.  Succotr.,  Gum.  Arabic.  Gum.  Assafoetid., 
Gum.  Opium,  Hiera.  Picra.,  Ichyocolla,  Lap.  calam.  ppt.,  Laud,  liq., 
Magnesia,  Merc,  dulcis.,  Merc.  Precip.  rub.,  Ol.  amygd.,  Ol.  Castorei. 
Ol.  Minthae,  Ol.  Pulegi,  Ol.  Sassafras,  Ol.  Vitrioli.,  Oxymell.  scillitic, 
Barbad.  tar,  Pulv.  jalap,  Pulv.  Ipecacuanha,  Pulv.  Rhubarb,  Pom- 
pholix,  Sal.  ammon.,  Epsom  and  glauber  salts.  Sal.  Nitri..  Tar- 
tari.  crud..  Sal.  Nitri.  Vol.  ammon.,  Seeds  anise.,  Seeds  Card,  ruin., 
Seeds  Carui..  Seeds  Coriand.,  Seeds  Fenicul.,  Sperm,  ceti.,  Spir.  c.  c., 
Spir.  Lavend.  com.,  Spir.  Vol.  olevs.,  Spongia,  Succ.  glycyrr.,  Tart, 
emetic.,  Tine.  cort.  Peru.,  Tine.  Thebaic.,  Vitriol,  alb.,  Vitriol.  Roman, 
Ung.  ex.  althea,  Ung.  ex  Basil  flav.,  Ung.  ex.  Tutty,  Manna,  Senna. 
Tamarinds,  Liquorice  ball,  Orange  peal,  Extract  of  lead,  Swt.  spirit. 
nitre.  Wine  bitters,  Pearl  ash,  Lancets,  Whiting,  Anderson's,  Hooper's 
and  Lockyer's  pills,  Bateman's  drops,  British  oil,  Balsam  of  honey. 
Daffy's  elixir,  Godfrey's  cordial,  James's  fever  powders,  Turlington's 
balsam.  Paulianis  American  balsam,  White  and  red  lead,  Spanish 
brown,  Venetian  red,  Yellow  oker,  Prussian  blue,  Verdigrise,  Litharge, 
Rose  pink,  Spanish  white,  Vermillion,  Brasiletto,  Ground  red  wood, 
Log  wood.  Allum,  Copperas,  Madder,  Fine  old  spirits,  West-India 
rum,  Tassia.  Whisky,  Geneva,  French  and  cherry  brandy.  Molasses, 
Loaf,  lump.  Muscovado  and  Spanish  sugars,  Raisins,  Tea.  Coffee, 
Chocolate,  Rice,  Sago,  Scotch,  French  and  pearl  barley,  Oatmeal, 


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Sugar  candy,  Cinnamon,  Cloves,  Nutmegs,  Alspice,  Ginger,  Pepper, 
Mustard,  Cotton,  Hair  powder  &  pomatum,  Fine  Mould  candles,  White 
and  Castile  Soap,  Ink  powder,  Indigo  and  powder  blue,  Threads, 
needles  &  pins,  German  steel,  Iron  pots,  Waggon  boxes,  Iron  tea 
kettles,  Broad  axes,  Narrow  ditto,  Nails  and  nail  rods,  Locks  of  dif- 
ferent sorts  with  a  good  assortment  of  cutlery,  English  and  Dutch 
scythes,  Cradling  ditto,  Fishing  hooks  and  lines,  Bed  cords,  Halters 
and  lines,  Powder  and  shot,  Window  glass,  Putty  for  glazing.  Men's 
shoes,  Chalk,  Tobacco,  Snuff,  Fine  and  coarse  salt,  Stone  lime  by  any 
quantity,  Grind  stones,  Whetstones,  Tar,  Spirit  of  turpentine,  Oakum, 
Leather  breeches,  Linseed  and  Sturgeon  oil,  Indian  corn,  Pickled 
herrings  and  sturgeons,  Corks  of  different  sorts,  Earthen,  stone  and 
wooden  ware.  Oars  and  poles  for  vessels,  Also  An  assortment  of  Dry 
Goods  suitable  for  the  season.  And  a  number  of  other  articles  too 
tedious  to  mention. 

SCHOOL  MASTERS  Assistants,  Newbery's  books  for  children, 
wafers,  quills,  &c.  to  be  sold  at  the  Printing  Office. 

From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol  IV.,  No.  209,  Dec.  26,  1781. 

FOR  THE  NEW-JERSEY  GAZETTE. 
"Hominem  pagina  nostra  sapit." 

I  Have  often  heard  many  of  the  disaffected  lament  the  declaration  of  in- 
dependence before  the  arrival  of  the  British  commission,  in  1776,  upon 
supposition  that  the  Commissioners  were  therein  charged  with  power  to 
offer  reasonable  terms  to  this  country.  They  are  of  opinion  that  the 
declaration  had  precluded  those  Commissioners  from  making  their  offers 
and  unnecessarily  referred  to  the  chance  of  war  what  might  have  been 
happily  settled  and  secured  by  negotiation.  On  this  ground  do  many 
at  this  day  endeav.our  to  maintain  their  principle  of  neutrality,  or  active 
interference  with  respect  to  the  American  cause  : — They  do  not  hesitate 
to  acknowledge  the  validity  of  the  principle  on  which  we  petitioned  and 
remonstrated  to  the  King  and  Parliament  of  Great-Britain  ;  they  say 
the  grievances  were  real,  and  that  they  ought  to  have  been  redressed, 
but  insist  that  these  points  were  the  principal  objects  ,of  the  commis- 
sion in  question,  and  had  America  only  held  back  her  declaration  of  in- 
dependence till  the  arrival  of  the  commission,  the  powers  of  the  Commis- 
sioners would  have  been  unfolded  to  Congress,  and  the  good  intentions 
of  the  King  made  known  to  us. 

In  order  to  countervail  these  suppositions,  for  they  are  nothing  more 
than  mere  conjectures,  you  will  be  pleased  to  insert  in  your  Gazette,  the 
following  parts  of  Major-General  Robertson's  examination  in  the  House 
of  Commons  of  Great-Britain,  taken  from  the  Parliamentary  Register, 
No.  LXXVI.  p.  308,  309. 

Q.  "Do  you  remember  the  King's  speech  in  1775,  promising  to  send 
Commissioners  into  America  to  make  peace? 

A.   I  do  not  remember  it  particularly  ;    I  dare  say  I  have  seen  it. 
Q.  Do   you   not   remember   that   it   was    reported   in    America,    assurances 
were  given  from  the  Throne  that  Commissioners  would  be  sent  to  Amer- 
ica for  making  peace? 
A.  I  remember  it  very  well. 
Q.  Did  that  commission  arrive  In  America? 
A.  Yes. 

Q.  Was  it  seven  months,  or  thereabouts,  after  the  opening  of  that  ses- 
sion? 

A.  I  am  perhaps  the  least  able  to  tell  that. 
Q.  Do  you  remember  when  the  commission  arrived  in  America? 
A.  Pretty  well. 


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Q.  The  time? 

A.   I  believe  about  the  month  of  August,  1776. 

Q.  Was  it  not  expected  with  eagerness  by  numbers  of  the  Americans,  par- 
ticularly the  well  affected? 
A.  Certainly  it  was  so. 

(}.   Was  not  independency  declared  in  the  interval  between  the  declaration 
from  the  Throne,  and  the  arrival  of  that  commission? 
A.   I  believe  independency  was  declared  before  Lord  Howe's  arrival. 
Q.  Was  it  long  before? 

A.  Not  very  long ;    I  don't  remember  the  day. 
Q.   Was  it  in  the  beginning  o.f  July? 
A.   I  believe  about  June  or  July. 
Q.   Not  long  before  Lord  Howe's  arrival  ? 
A.  No. 

Q.  Did  not  the  postponing  a  conciliatory  commission  till  that  time  pro- 
duce mischief  ? 

A.  The  sooner  the  King's  gracious  Intentions  were  known  it  would  have 
been  better. 

Q.  Was  it  not  assigned  as  one  reason  at  the  declaration  of  independence, 
that  they  were  put  out  of  the  King's  protection,  and  that  no  redress  of 
grievance  was  held  out? 

A.   I  have  no  way  of  knowing  but  by  reading  the  Congres's  papers,  which 
are  in  every  body's  hands. 
Q.  Was  not  that  in  the  Congres's  papers? 
A.  I  believe  so. 

Q.  Was  there  not  a  complaint  in  America,  that  the  powers  of  the  Com- 
missioners were  so  limited  that  they  had  no  power  to  offer  any  speciflck 
redress  of  grievances? 

A.  The  people  of  America  did  nat  know  what  powers  the  Commissioners 
had, .nor  do  I  know  to  this  day. 

Q.  Was  it  made  known  in  America  that  the  Commissioners  had  a  power 
to  give  satisfaction  relative  t9  the  matter  of  taxation  ? 
A.   I  dion't  know  that  it  was  known  ;    /  did  not  Jtm-ow  it ;    nor  do  I  know 
it  now. 

Q.  Would  not  the  knowledge  of  such  a  power  have  facilitated  peace,  if 
such,  a  power  had  been? 

A.  Such  an  offer  made  to  the  gross  of  the  people,  would  certainly  have 
had  a  very  great  effect. 

Q.  Do  you  think  if  the  Commissioners  had  had  such  a  power,  they  would 
not  have  made  it  known? 

A.  I  did  not  know  what  reasons  the  Commissioners  might  have  for  con- 
cealing their  powers. 

Q.  Were  they  not  charged  with  not  having  such  power  by  Dr.   Franklin 
and  .others,  as  well  as  by  the  Congress,  and  whether  that  charge  was  not 
made  publick? 
A.   Dr.  Franklin  said  so. 
Q.  Did  the  Commissioners  contradict  itf 

A.  I  really  am  not  firer.se  to  anxireriiift  the  qucftlion,  'but  I  do  nut  knuir 
•irlutt  the  iimrers  of  the  Commissioners  were,  nor  were  they  knoirn  in 
America:  then  icere  differently  spoke  of  and  guessed  at." 

In  the  fourth  day's  examination  of  General  Robertson,  Parliamentary 
Register  No.  LXXVIII.  p.  395.  are  the  following  questions  and  answers. 

M>  IFiHwMn.  Htonoe.  Q.  You  have  said  that  tie  gross  of  the  people  were 
desirous  to  treat,  did  they  make  any  offer  towards  it  to  the  first  Commis- 
sioners ? 

A.  I  know  nothing  of  that :  the  gross  of  the  people  cannot  make  offers ; 
they  would  be  hanged  if  they  did. 

Q.  Was  then-  anii  means  for  the  Commissioners  in  first  commi-sxinn  to 
treat  with  the  people  in  general  icithout  having  first  defeated  the  Amer- 
ican arm  yf 

A.   I  apprehend  that  the  great  art  of  the  Commissioners  was  to  contrive 
how  to  carry  ,on  such  a  treaty,  without  its  being  discovered. 
<J.   Wore  the  first  Commissioners  authorized  by  their  instructions  to  treat 
in  the  mode  you  have  supposed  they  might  treat? 
A.   /  know  nothing  of  the  Commissioners  powers. 


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NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  351 


In  the  foregoing  examination  it  appears  that.  General  Robertson,  an  of- 
ficer of  high  rank  in  the  British  army,  a  man  of  observation  and  intelli- 
gence, and  who  had  resided  above  twenty  years  in  America,  could  never 
ascertain  either  from  circumstances  or  information,  the  powers  of  the 
Commissioners  in  1776,  or  whether  they  had  any  power  to  treat  with 
America  at  all.  It  is  true  Lord  and  General  Howe  said  they  had  a  com- 
mission, but  of  what  nature  o.r  import  they  never  revealed,  either  to 
raise  the  spirits  and  confirm  the  loyalty  of  the  friends  of  Britain  in  this 
country,  or  to  endeavour  to  bring  over  the  whigs  to  their  side.  The  only 
facts  we  are  possessed  of,  are,  that  they  came  to  New-Yolk  in  1776, 
with  a  naval  and  great  military  force,  and  that  instead  of  making  con- 
ciliatory offers,  they  employed  this  force  to  ruin  our  commerce  and  lay 
waste  our  country  ;  for  which  they  have  had  their  reward.- 

CANDIDUS. 

TRENTON,  Dec.  26. 

On  Thursday  the  29th  ult.  died  at  his  seat  on  Karitan,  Mr.  Derrick 
Van-Vechten,  in  the  84th  year  of  his  age. — This  gentleman  possessed 
the  virtues  of  patriotism  and  hospitality  in  a  very  eminent  degree ; — 
warmly  attached  to  the  cause  of  his  country,  he  took  peculiar  pleasure 
in  rendering  it  any  services  in  his  power,  and  when  his  property  was 
very  essentially  injured  by  the  winter  quarters  of  a  division  of  our 
army  being  fixed  on  his  possessions,  like  a  good  citizen,  he  submitted 
without  repining,  to  suffer  as  an  individual,  to  promote  the  publick 
good.  His  benevolence  and  hospitality  were  not  confined  to  the  circle 
of  his  friends  and  acquaintances — His  doors  were  ever  open  to  the 
friendless  stranger ; — his  house  afforded  a  resting  place  and  a  cheerful 
welcome  to  the  weary  traveller — the  blessings  of  the  poor  and  needy, 
the  widow  and  orphen  daily  ascended  to  Heaven  in  his  behalf. — 
Providence  blessed  him  with  a  good  constitution,  and  he  met  the 
gradual  approaches  of  death  with  that  composure  and  resignation 
which  proceed  from  the  consciousness  of  a  virtuous  life,  and  a  well 
grounded  hope  of  the  divine  acceptance. — The  general  sorrow  of  the 
numerous  assembly  which  attended  the  funeral  on  the  Sunday  follow- 
ing, testified  their  sense  of  his  merit,  and  their  loss. 

Peter  Hopkins,  Esq.  was  lately  elected  a  Representative  to  serve  in 
General  Assembly  for  the  county  of  Sussex,  in  the  room  of  William 
Maxwell,  Esq.  who  did  not  take  his  seat. 

The  person  who  left  a  quarto  bible  at  the  Printing-Office  several 
months  ago,  to  be  rebound,  is  requested  to  call  for  it. 
Mr.  Collins, 

THe  incloised  being  sent  to  me  by  Col.  A<  Walton,  WMtef  as  a  friend  of 
hi#  I  desire  you  will  Insert  the  stame  in  your  next  papetr,  and  y\ou  icill 
oblige  your  humble  servant,  A.  W. 

Camp  near  York,  in  Virginia,  Oct.  25,  1781. 

Sir, 

In  compliance  with  your  request  of  the  20th  inst.  I  have  informed  His 
Excellency  the  Commander  in  Chief  of  your  application  for  a  hearing 
on  the  charges  exhibited  against  you  by  Capt.  John  Heard,  of  the  4th 
regiment  of  light  dragoons,  and  find  that  Capt.  Heard  has  declared  he 
was  misinformed  by  the  officers  he  expected  to  produce  in  support  of  the 
charges  he  has  preferred,  and  petitioned:  to  with  draw  them,  which  his 
Excellency  acquiesces  in. 


352  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1781 

This,  Sir,  in  my  opinioa,  amounts  to  as  ample  a  justification  of  your 
conduct  as  an  acquittal  by  a'  General  Court-Martial,  and  ought  for  that 
reason  to  be  as  satisfactory  to  you.  I  am,  Sir,  with  regard  and  esteem, 
your  obedient  and  very  humble  servant 

EDWARD  HAND,  Adj.   Gen. 

COL.   ANTHONY  W.  WHITE,   1st.   regt.   Light  Dragoons. 
(Copy)' 

Extract  from  General  Orders. 

"Colonel  White,  of  the  1st  regiment  of  dragoons,  being  favoured 
with  an  opportunity,  by  the  arrival  of  the  northern  army,  to  request 
a  hearing  by  Court  Martial,  upon  the  charges  exhibited  against  him 
by  Capt.  Heard,  of  the  4th  regiment  of  light  dragoons,  in  the  year 
1779,  and  having  obtained  the  Commander  in  Chief's  permission  for 
that  purpose,  informed  Capt.  Heard  officially  of  his  determination. 
and  requested  him  to  prepare  his  evidences  accordingly.  In  con- 
sequence of  which  Capt.  Heard  replied,  that  upon  investigation  he 
found  that  his  charges  against  Col.  White  were  grounded  upon  mis- 
information, and  expressed  his  wishes  to  withdraw  them.  The  Gen- 
eral, in  order  that  this  declaration  may  have  its  proper  effect,  and 
that  Col.  White  may  be  totally  freed  from  the  aspersions  cast  on  his 
character  in  consequence  of  the  charges  alluded  to,  directs  it  to  be 
published  to  the  army. 

The  General  cannot  forbear  adding,  that  accusations  of  so  serious 
a  nature  should  be  made  with  the  most  scrupulous  caution,  an  officer's 
character  being  too  sacred  to  be  impeached  with  levity  or  without  a 
sufficient  foundation." 

Why  the  charges  alluded  to  in  the  above  letter  and  general  orders 
were  not  enquired  into  at  an  earlier  period,  the  publick  will  be  in- 
formed by  the  following  remarks : 

Colonel  White,  as  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the  4th  regiment  of  light 
dragoons,  then  with  the  northern  army,  commanded  the  regiment  on 
the  lines  most  part  of  the  campaign  of  the  year  1778.  during  all  which 
time  Capt.  Heard  was  with  the  regiment.  In  the  beginning  of  the 
year  following  Col.  White  was  appointed  to  the  command  of  the  first 
regiment  of  dragoons,  then  serving  with  the  southern  army,  and  or- 
dered to  join  that  regiment  immediately,  which  he  did.  And  although 
Capt.  Heard  had  been  frequently  heard  to  declare,  during  the  cam- 
paign before  mentioned,  that  he  had  and  intended  to  exhibit  several 
charges  of  a  most  serious  nature  against  Col.  Wb,ite,  he  delayed,  for 
reasons  too  obvious,  doing  it  until  Col.  White  hadv  joined  the  southern 
army,  when  he  exhibited  the  charges  alluded  to  in  the  general  orders, 
notwithstanding  he  was  cautioned  and  told  at  the  time,  that  his  de- 
laying to  exhibit  the  charges  during  Col.  White's  presence,  and  offer- 
ing them  when  the  Colonel  was  at  too  great  a  distance  to  vindicate 
himself,  would  bear  a  very  unfavourable  aspect.  Col.  White  having 
continued  to  the  southward  ever  since  his  joining  the  first  regiment, 
never  had  an  opportunity  of  a  hearing  until  this  time,  when  he  joined 
the  northern  army  before  York,  in  Virginia,  and  immediately  applied 
for  a  hearing ; — the  issue  of  which  the  above  letter  and  general  orders 
fully  explains. 


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NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  353 


Mr.   Collins. 

Plea&e  to  give  this  Hymn  (which  was  sung  m  several  Churches  on-  the 
Day  of  ow  publick  Thanksgiving)  a  Place  in  your  useful  Gazette,  and  it 
icill  be  very  acceptable  to  many.  , 

1  To  Thee,  great  sov'reign  of  the  skies  ! 

This  day  our  grateful  songs  resound ; 
From  ev'ry  heart  shall  incense  rise, 

And  praise  through  all  thy  temples  sound. 

2  Our  Land,  a  tributary  slave, 

Doom'd  to  rebellion's  awful  fate, 
When  Heav'n  a  ppw'rful  monarch  gave 
To  aid  new  pillars  of  the  state. 

3  Our  States  supported  by  thy4pow'r; 

Firm  prop  of  the  Kepublic's  laws ; — 
Thy  blessings  on  the  people  show'r  ; 
Thine  arm  defends  th'  united  cause. 

4  Union   'tis  God  alone  inspires  ; 

Founded  by  Heav'n  the  fabrics  rise  : 

Th'  astonished  world  the  work  admires, 

And  owns  the  counsel  of  the  skies. 

5  New  empires  never  rise  by  chance  ; 

No  veering  gales  promotion  blow ; 

A  sov'reign  judge  doth  states  advance, 

And  lays  oppressing  kingdoms  low. 

6  He  forms  our  gen'ral  prudent,  brave, 

Gives  the  young  Captains  warlike  skill 
Angelic  shields  our  troops  preserve, 

Who  scale  proud  tow'rs  with,  breasts  of  steel. 

7  No  savage  deed  distains  the  sword,' 

While  Heav'n's  taught  chief  directs  the  host ; 
Submission  hears  the  joyous  word — 

— Mercy  ! — The  Christian  conq'ror's  boast ! 

8  The  mem'ry  of  thy  recent  grace, 

Afresh  shall  fire  them  from  the  field  : 
The  foe  shall  find  renew'd  disgrace, 
And  fly  our  shores,  or  shameful  yield. 

9  OUT  fertile  fields  thy  favour  show ; 

With  gifts   revolving  moons  appear ; 
Gifts  ! — that  in  streams  luxuriant  flow — 

Thy  goodness  crowns  th'  auspicious  year. 
10  Save  us  from  all  despondent  cries  ; 

Now  may  our  trust  in  God  be  strong, 
Till  full  salvation  shall  arise, 

And  heav'n-born  peace  attend  the  song. 

NATHAN  BEAKES 

Has  just  opened  store  at  the  house  lately  occupied  by  David  Pincker- 
ton.  deceased,  where  he  has  an  assortment  of  dry  goods  suitable 
to  the  season.  Also  West-India  and  country  rum,  sugar,  pepper,  tea, 
coffee,  &c.  which  he  will  sell  by  wholesale  or  retail. 

As  he  has  laid  in  his  goods  upon  the  best  terms,  and  being  determined 
to  sell  for  a  moderate  profit,  he  wishes  to  claim  the  attention  of  the 
publick  in  general,  and  his  friends  and  acquaintances  in  particular. 

This  is  to  inform  the  publick,  that  James  Shea  takes  in  and  dresses 
boot  legs  in  the  neatest  and  best  manner.  Also  curries  leather  of  all 
kinds,  for  boots,  shoes,  &c.  He  is  to  be  found  at  his  dwelling  nearly 
opposite  the  gaol,  and  next  door  to  Archibald  Yard's,  in  Trenton. 

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354  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE   HE  VOLUTION.  [17s:.' 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  publick  vendue,  on  Friday  the  28th  day  of  this  instant,  at  ten 
o'clock  in  the  forenoon,  at  the*  house  of  James  Willis,  at  Capo- 
May  ; 

The  SLOOP  BETSEY,  burthen  about  40  tons,  with  her  tackle. 
apparel,  furniture  and  cargo,  consisting  of  flour,  wheat  and  Indian 
corn.  By  order  of  the  Judge, 

JOHN  BURROWS,  .Marshal. 
Dec.  17,  1781. 

From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol  IV.,  No.  210,  Jan.  2,  1782. 

TRENTON,  Jan.  2. 

On  Saturday  last  the  General  Assembly  of  this  state  adjourned  to 
Wednesday  the  15th  of  May  next,  then  to  meet  at  Trenton.  During 
the  setting  the  following  acts  were  passed  : 

A  supplemental  act  to  an  act,  intitled,  an  act  for  amending  and 
establishing  the  charter  of  the  college  of  New-Jersey. 

An  act  to  continue  an  act,  intitled,  an  act  to  alter  the  place  of 
holding  the  supreme  court  of  judicature  of  this  state,  and  to  ascertain 
the  times  for  holding  the  same,  and  also  to  alter  and  ascertain  the 
times  of  holding  the  inferior  court  of  common  pleas  and  court  of 
general  quarter  sessions  of  the  peace  for  the  county  of  Hunterdon. 

An  act  to  continue  an  act,  intitled,  an  act  to  alter  the  place  of 
holding  the  inferior  court  of  common  pleas  and  court  of  general 
quarter  sessions  of  the  peace  for  the  county  of  Middlesex. 

An  act  to  empower  John  Ely,  on  the  part  of  George  Ely,  to  divide 
a  certain  tract  of  land  belonging  to  the  said  George  Ely  and  Capt. 
George  Coryell. 

An  act  for  the  more  speedy  settlement  of  the  publick  accounts. 

An  act  to  procure  an  estimate  of  the  damages  sustained  by  the 
inhabitants  of  this  state  from  the  waste  and  spoil  committed  by  the 
troops  in  the  service  of  the  enemy  and  their  adherents,  by  the  con- 
tinental army,  or  by  the  militia  of  this  or  of  the  neighbouring  states. 

An  act  to  secure  the  profits  of  lands  upon  the  frontiers  of  the  state, 
to  the  owners  respectively  who  have  been  compelled  to  abandon  the 
same. 

An  act  for  recovering  certain  monies  due  for  the  hire  of  substitutes. 

An  act  to  amend  an  act,  intitled,  an  act  to  declare  the  value  of  the 
continental  currency  through  the  several  periods  of  its  depreciation, 
and  to  provide  for  the  more  equitable  payment  of  debts. 

An  act  to  raise  the  sum  of  One  Hundred  and  Fifty  Thousand 
Pounds,  in  money  and  certificates,  in  the  state  of  New-Jersey. 

An  act  to  ascertain  the  time  when  the  several  persons  appointed 
as  appraisers  in  the  act,  intitled,  an  act  to  procure  an  estimate  of 
the  damages  sustained  by  the  inhabitants  of  this  state  from  the  waste 
and  spoil  committed  by  the  troops  in  the  service  of  the  enemy,  and 
their  adherents,  by  the  continental  army,  or  by  the  militia  of  this  or 
of  the  neighbouring  states,  shall  proceed  to  perform  the  several  duties 
required  of  them. 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  355 

An  act  to  repeal  part  of  certain  acts  therein  mentioned,  and  also 
to  direct  the  settlement  of  the  accounts  of  the  superintendant  and 
contractors  of  this  state. 

An  act  for  supporting  the  government  of  the  state  of  New-Jersey, ' 
to  commence  the  thirteenth  day  of  October,  one  thousand  seven  hun- 
dred and  eighty-one,  and  to  end  the  second  Tuesday  in  October,  one 
thousand  seven  hundred  and  eighty-two,  inclusive. 

An  act  to  provide  for  the  defence  of  the  frontiers,  and  for  defraying 
the  expences  of  the  government  of  this  state. 

An  act  for  taking  charge  of  and  leasing  the  real  estates  of  the  sub- 
jects of  the  King  of  Great-Britain,  lying  within  this  state. 

An  act  for  regulating  and  establishing  admiralty  jurisdiction. 

An  act  for  defraying  sundry  incidental  charges. 

On  Wednesday  last  the  Honourable  the  Council  and  Assembly 
elected  the  following  officers  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty  :  The  Hon- 
ourable John  Imlay,  Esq.  Judge;  Joseph  Bloomfield,  Esq.  Register; 
and  James  M'Comb,  Esq.  Marshal. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

On  the  lowest  Terms  for  Cash  only, 
At  the  Printing-Office  in  Trenton, 

Tea,  Coffee,  Chocolate,  Muscovado  Sugar,  Spanish  ditto,  Pepper, 
Ginger,  Soap, 

Also, 

Pins  and  Needles— and  a  Variety  of  Queen's  Ware,  consisting  of  Tea 
Pots,  Cups  and  Saucers,  Sugar  Bowls  and  Plates — Where  ready 
money  will  be  given  for  a  few  Barrels  of  good  soft  Soap. 


TO  WHOM  IT  MAY  CONCERN: 


7,    SS.    / 


New-Jersey,  ss.  J  will  be  held  at  the  house  of  Gilbert  Barton,  in 
Allentown,  on  Monday  the  25th  day  of  January  next,  at  the  hour  of 
ten  in  the  forenoon,  then  and  there  to  try  the  truth  of  the  facts  alledged 
in  the  bill  of  William  Treen,  commander  of  the  schooner 
and  Joseph  Edwards,  commander  of  the  whale-boat  Unity,  (who  as 
well,  &c. )  against  a  certain  sloop  or  vessel  called  the  Betsey,  which 
lately  sailed  from  Jones's  Creek,  in  the  Delaware  state,  laden  with 
wheat,  Indian  corn  and  flour,  and  was  captured  in  Delaware  Bay  by 
a  British  cruzer,  commanded  by  Joseph-Hughes  Burden,  and  retaken 
by  the  aforesaid  Captains  Treen  and  Edwards,  together  with  her 
tackle,  apparel,  furniture  and  cargo  :  To  the  end  and  intent  that  the 
owner  or  owners  of  the  said  vessel,  or  any  other  person  or  persons 
interested  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  to  the  captors  thereof,  and  a  decree  thereon 
pass,  pursuant  to  the  prayer  of  the  said  bill. 

By  order  of  the  Judge, 

JOSEPH  BLOOMFIELD,  Register. 
Burlington,  Dec.  27,  1781. 


356         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1782 

Notice  is  hereby  given,  that  the  subscriber  and  Margaret  his  wife, 
by  express  contract,  made  an  equal  division  of  their  property,  sep- 
arated in  February  1779,  and  have  lived  separate  ever  since,  and  that 
he  shall  pay  no  debts  which  she  hath  either  contracted  since  that  time, 
or  which  she  may  hereafter  contract.  OVID  HAND. 

December  22,  1781. 

From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  V.,  No.  211,  Jan.  9,  1782. 

STATE  OF  NEW-JERSEY. 

An  Act  to  amend  an  Act,  intitled,  An  Act  to  declare  the  mine  of  the 
Continental  Currency  through  tlie  several  Periods  of  its  Deprecia- 
tion, and  to  provide  for  the  more  equitable  Payment  of  Debts. 

[For  this  Act,  passed  Dec.  25,  17S1,  see  — .] 

The  following  has  been   omitted  several  weeks   for 

want  of  room. 
By  the  United  States  in  Congress  Assembled, 

October  29th,  1781. 
Resolved, 

[For  this  resolution  of  thanks  to  General  Washington,  see  Journals 
of  Congress.] 

43TAt  the  eviration  of  the  year  1778,  lists  containing  the  names 
of  every  individual  subscriber  for  the  New-Jersey  Gazette,  with  what 
entrance  money  each  had  paid,  and  what  was  due  up  to  that  time, 
were  transmitted  to  the  persons  to  whom  packets  had  been  sent,  and 
who  were  not  then  accountable  for  the  pay,  with  a  request  that  they 
would  collect  the  money  due,  send  it,  and  return  the  same  lists  or 
accounts  to  the  publisher,  to  the  end  that  he  might  give  the  necessary 
credits  and  return  receipts : — Many  of  the  packet-masters  not  having 
done  this,  it  is  impossible  for  him  to  close  his  accounts  to  that  period 
without  being  subjected  to  the  tedious,  expensive  and  disagreeable 
necessity  of  calling  upon  every  individual  subscriber,  many  of  whom 
have,  perhaps,  already  paid  to  the  packet-masters ;  he  therefore  begs 
the  favour  of  them  to  return  him  all  unsettled  lists  as  soon  as  possible, 
that  credits  may  be  given  and  receipts  returned,  as  above-mentioned, 
to  such  as  have  paid,  and  more  effectual  means  taken  to  collect  the 
arrears  from  such  as  have  not.  ISAAC  COLLINS. 

January  9,  1782. 

TO  BE  LET, 
For  a  term  of  years, 

A  Plantation  containing  200  acres  of  land,  9  miles  distant  from 
Trenton,  on  the  river  road.  The  fields  properly  divided,  with  wrater 
in  each,  between  18  and  20  acres  of  meadow,  an  exceeding  good 
orchard,  with  an  excellent  stone  dwelling-house  two  stories  high,  a 


1782]  XEWSPAPEK    EXTRACTS.  357 

stone  kitchen  adjoining,  and  a  spring  near  the  same ;    a  large  barn 
covered  with  cedar,  with  sheds  that  will  contain  20  horses 

Apply  to  PHILEMON  DICKERSON. 

Trenton,  Jan.  8  1782. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

A  Lot  of  Land,  in  Monmouth  county.  East-Jersey,  on  the  great 
road  leading  from  Morris's  tavern  to  the  Baptist  Meeting-House, 
within  one  mile  and  an  half  of  Emley's  Town,  and  six  miles  from 
Allen-Town,  containing  50  acres,  40  cleared,  4  of  meadow,  and  the 
remainder  wood-land ;  thereon  is  a  good  framed  house,  with  two 
rooms  on  the  lower  floor,  and  an  entry  ;  three  rooms  above,  and  a 
cellar  under  the  whole ;  a  good  well  of  water  at  the  door,  a  stone 
kitchen  and  shoe-maker's  shop,  a  barn,  with  stables  therein,  a  good 
waggon-house  with  a  stable  and  corncrib  therein,  a  young  bearing 
orchard,  and  other  fruit-trees,  such  as  peaches,  plumbs,  pears  and 
cherries.  For  terms  apply  to  Robert  Wright,  in  Hanover  township, 
Burlington  county,  Benjamin  Morris,  on  Shrewsbury  road,  or  Judiah 
Throb,  on  the  premises. 

If  not  sold  by  the  first  of  April,  to  be  let. 

January  3,  1782. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 
And  entered  upon  the  first  day  of  April  next, 

A  good  large  framed  house,  wherein  Thomas  Nixon  now  lives,  almost 
new,  with  cellars  under  the  whole,  and  eleven  acres  of  land,  on  which 
is  a  thriving  young  orchard  of  divers  fruit  besides  apples,  with  a  good 
stable  and  garden  well  inclosed.  The  whole  in  good  repair  at  the 
Cross-Roads,  ten  miles  from  Brunswick  and  five  from  Cranberry,  and 
is  a  good  stand  for  a  merchant  or  tradesman.  The  title  is  indisputable. 
The  value  of  the  purchase  will  be  taken  in  stock,  if  agreeable  to  the 
purchaser.  Enquire  of  John  Guest,  near  Brunswick. 

January  1,  1782. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

A  Farm  in  the  township  of  Upper-Freehold,  in  the  county  of  Mon- 
mouth, near  Allen-Town,  and  state  of  New-Jersey,  containing  190 
acres,  a  large  proportion  of  meadow  and  meadow  ground,  some  very 
fertile  and  the  rest,  with  little  improvement,  will  make  good  meadow ; 
— wood  in  plenty.  For  terms  apply  to  William  Walton,  living  on  the 
premises,  by  whom  a  good  title  will  be  given. 

January  1,  1782. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

On   the  lowest   Terms  for   Cash  only, 
At  Me  Printing-Office  in  Trenton, 

Tea,  Coffee,  Chocolate,  Muscovado  Sugar,  Spanish  ditto,  Pepper, 
Ginger,  Soap, 

Also, 
Pins  and  Needles — and  a  Variety  of 


358  NEW    JERSEY   IN   THE   REVOLUTION.  [1782 

QUEEN'S  WARE, 

Consisting  of  Tea  Pots,  Cups  and  Saucers,  Sugar  Bowls  and  Plates — 
Where  ready  money  will  be  given  for  a  few  Barrels  of  good  soft  soap. 

From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  V.,  No.  212,  Jan.  16,  1782. 

STATE  OF  NEW-JERSEY. 

An   Act  to  provide  for  the  defence  of  the  frontiers  and  for  defrai/iny 
the  ea-pences  of  the  government  of  this  State. 

[For  this  Act,  passed  Dec.  21,  1781,  see  Statutes,  1781.] 

CHATHAM,  January  9. 

A  gentleman  from  New- York  reports  that  they  have  accounts  there 
of  the  capture  of  St.  Augustine,  the  capital  of  East-Florida,  by  the 
Spaniards. 

TRENTON,  January  1C. 

New-Brunswick,  January  10,  1782. 

Mr.  Collins, 
Sir, 

About  four  o'clock  last  Wednesday  morning,  near  three  hundred  of  the 
enemy  from  New- York,  consisting  of  British  and  refugee  troops,  landed 
at  the  lower  end  of  the  town  ;  our  guards  discovered  their  approaches 
on  the  river,  by  which  means  the  inhabitants  were  alarmed  about  fifteen 
minutes  before  they  landed.  They  were  attacked  by  a  small  party  whilst 
landing,  in  which  they  lost  two  men.  Reinforcements  were  thrown  ir- 
to  support  this  party,  but  being  overpowered  by  numbers,  and  the  enemy 
having  gained  the  heights,  they  were  obliged  to  retire.  They  then  took 
possession  of  the  town  with  very  little  difficulty,  for  the  darkness  of 
the  morning  and  the  enemy  landing  in  different  places,  prevented  us  from 
assembling  in  force.  They  had  possession  of  the  town  more  than  an  hour, 
during  which  time  very  little  opposition  was  made. — When  the  blessed 
light  of  the  morning  began  to  appear  they  retired  to  their  boats,  and  a 
smart  skirmishing  commenced,  which  would  have  been  much  more  severe 
had  not  many  of  our  muskets  been  rendered  useless  by  the  falling  of 
snow  and  rain ;  during  which  action  no  marks  of  fear  were  seen  on 
either  side.  We  had  none  killed,  and  only  five  wounded ;  Peter  Nesies, 
a  brave  soldier,  we  are  fearful  is  in  danger  from  his  wound  ;  the  other 
four,  who  are  equally  brave,  are  in  a  fair  way  of  recovery.  Six  of  the 
inhabitants  were  made  prisoners.  The  citizens  in -general  with  cheerful- 
ness left  their  families  and  their  property,  and  marched  forth  to  oppose 
the  enemy,  they  assembled  with  alertness,  and  behaved  with  spirit ;  in 
short  no  men  in  their  peculiar  situation  could  have  done  better.  We 
cannot  ascertain  the  loss  of  the  enemy,  they  left  two  dead  in  the  town, 
two  more  were  killed  at  their  first  landing,  and  they  were  seen  to  carry 
off  several.  We  have  reason  to  believe  they  suffered  on  their  return, 
from  the  well  directed  fire  of  different  parties  assembled:  on  the  shores 
from  Piscataway  and  South-River.  The  taking  of  the  whale-boats  ap- 
peared to  be  their  principal  object,  which  they  accomplished.  Credit  is 
due  to  them  for  the  execution  of  a  well  concerted  plan,  and  much  credit 
is  due  to  them  for  their  humane  treatment  of  the  defenceless  part  of  the 
community.- — No  burnings  or  insults  were  permitted,  and  only  two  fam- 
ilies were  pillaged.  I  am  Sir, 

Your  very  humble  servant, 

JOHN  TAYLOR,   Lieut.   Colonel. 
Commandant  2d.  Batt.  Middlesex  Militia. 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  359 

ALEXANDER  COLHOUN, 

Has  for  sale  at  his  store  about  one  quarter  of  a  mile  from  Trenton, 
on  the  Penuington  road,  at  the  store  John  Chambers  formerly 
occupied,  the  following  articles : 

Rum  and  brandy,  Green  and  bohea  tea,  Muscovado  and  Spanish 
sugar.  Coffee  and  Chocolate,  Pepper  and  Alspice,  Ginger  and  Indigo, 
Coarse  and  fine  salt,  An  assortment  of  stone  and  earthen  ware, 
Chintzes  and  calicoes,  Silk  and  gauze  handkerchiefs,  Flowered  and 
plain  gauzes,  Satin  and  pelong,  Taffety  and  persian,  Mode  and  sar- 
cenet, sewing  silk  of  different  colours,  Coarse  and  fine  linens,  Caster 
and  wool  hats,  Linen  and  woolling  stockings,  Some  hard  ware,  And 
several  other  articles  too  tedious  to  mention. 

WANTED  IMMEDIATELY, 
AT  HIGHBERNIA  FURNACE, 

A  number  of  wood-cutters,  who  will  meet  with  great  encouragement 
by  MARK  BIRD, 

GEORGE  ROSS. 

Whereas  ths  plantation  of  Robert  Priest,  late  of  Windsor,  deceased, 
was  advertised  to  be  sold  on  the  24th  day  of  December  last,  but  through 
the  inclemency  of  the  weather,  and  other  causes,  the  sale  was  post- 
poned :  Now  this  is  to  give  notice,  that  on  the  first  day  of  February 
next  the  said  premises  will  be  exposed  to  sale,  between  the  hours  of 
two  and  five  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  of  the  same  day,  and  will  be  per- 
emptorily struck  off  to  the  highest  bidder.  The  plantation  contains 
one  hundred  and  fifty-six  acres  of  excellent  land,  being  well  accommo- 
dated with  water,  timber  and  meadow.  There  is  on  the  premises  a 
frame  house,  kitchen,  barn,  and  sundry  out-houses ;  likewise  an  ex- 
cellent orchard  in  its  prime :  The  whole  being  pleasantly  situated 
within  the  vacinity  of  that  healthful  village  of  Princeton. 

Likewise  will  be  sold  at  the  same  time  and  place,  the  whole  crop 
of  wheat  and  rye  in  the  ground.  The  vendue  to  be  held  on  the  prem- 
ises, where  attendance  will  be  given,  and  conditions  made  known  by 

EZEKIEL  SMITH,  Executor. 

January  15,  1782. 

Whereas  we  the  subscribers  having  some  time  past  advertized  in  this 
paper  for  all  the  debtors  of  William  Pidgeon,  Esq.  deceased,  to  come 
and  pay  the  interest  and  such  part  of  the  principal  as  was  convenient 
for  them  ;  and  as  little  or  no  notice  has  been  taken  of  it,  we  give  this 
further  notice  to  all  persons  indebted  to  the  said  estate,  to  meet  us 
the  subscribers  at  Mr.  Cape's  tavern,  in  Trenton,  on  Monday  the  llth 
of  February  next,  where  the  subscribers  will  attend  three  days.  Also 
any  person  having  any  just  demands  against  the  said  estate  are  desired 
to  bring  them  in  at  the  time  aforesaid.  If  the  above  is  not  attended 
to,  the  executors  will  be  obliged  to  proceed  agreeably  to  law. 

CLEAYTON  NEWBOLD,  1    Execu- 
WILLIAM  COXE,  )    tors. 


360  NEW    JERSEY   IN   THE   REVOLUTION.  [1782 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

For  Cash,  at  the  New-Brewery  in  York  Street, 
Burlington, 

AMERICAN  PORTER, 

Equal  in  quality  and  fine  flavour  to  London  Porter,  at  Sixty  Shill- 
ings per  barrel,  and  small  ditto  at  Fifteen  ditto;  yeast  at  Two 
Shillings  per  gallon ;  cyder  at  ditto. 

The  brewer,  desirous  to  oblige  the  publick,  sells  as  small  a  quantity 
as  five  gallons.  All  tavern-keepers  or  families  may  depend  upon 
being  served  on  the  shortest  notice. 

N.  B.  Muscovado  and  Port-au-Prince  sugars  to  be  sold  cheap  at  the 
same  place. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

A  Tract  of  Land  on  the  great  road  between  Crosswicks  and  Allen- 
town,  and  within  three-quarters  of  a  mile  of  the  latter,  containing 
64  and  an  half  acres,  well  watered,  four  of  which  are  meadow,  and 
more  may  be  made,  15  acres,  beside  the  meadow,  are  cleared,  the 
rest  well  timbered ;  thereon  is  a  good  apple  orchard.  The  title  is 
indisputable. — For  terms  apply  to  the  subscriber  at  Bordentown. 

GABRIEX,  ALLEN. 

Whereas  Mary  Snyder,  my  wife,  has  eloped  from  my  bed  and 
board,  and  has  robbed  my  house  of  sundry  articles,  and  has  been 
guilty  of  lodging  with  other  men :  This  is  therefore  to  caution  the 
publick  not  to  harbour  her  nor  any  of  her  effects  at  their  peril,  in 
this  state,  or  they  may  expect  to  be  prosecuted  agreeably  to  the 
laws  of  the  state.  I  likewise  caution  the  publick  not  to  trust  her  on 
my  account,  as  I  am  determined  not  to  pay  any  debts  of  her  con- 
tracting from  the  date  hereof.  December  26,  1781. 

PETER  SNYDER. 

Sussex  county,  township  of  Wantage,  State  of  New-Jersey. 

TO   THE   PROPRIETORS   OF   THE   WESTERN   DIVISION 
OF   NEW-JERSEY. 

Upon  application  to  me  the  subscriber,  by  several  of  the  proprietors 
of  said  division  to  call  a  meeting  of  the  said  proprieters :  These  are 
therefore  to  request  the  proprietors  of  West-Jersey  to  meet  at  the 
house  of  James  Esdall,  in  the  city  of  Burlington,  on  Wednesday  the 
sixth  day  of  February  next,  at  two  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  in  order 
to  chuse  a  committee  in  the  room  of  such  of  a  former  committee  as 
are  dead  or  absent,  and  to  transact  all  such  other  business  for  the 
benefit  of  the  general  proprietors,  as  may  appear  necessary. 

DANIEL  ELLIS,   Register. 

January  10,  1782. 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  361 

Run  Away  from  the  subscribers,  the  6th  instant  a  Negro  man 
named  Joe,  about  twenty-two  years  of  age,  near  six  feet  high  ;  had  on 
when  he  left  a  brown  broad  cloth  coat,  white  broad  cloth  waistcoat 
and  black  woolling  trowsers.  Whoever  takes  up  the  said  Negro  man, 
and  delivers  him  to  the  subscribers,  living  near  Ringo's  tavern. 
Hunterdon  county,  shall  have  Ten  Dollars  reward  and  all  reasonable 
charges  paid  by  us. 

JOHN  RUNYAN 
JACOB  WILLIAMSON. 

January  6,  1782. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

A  Lot  of  meadow  land,  generally  known  by  the  name  of  Wood's- 
Island,  containing  about  six  acres  mowable,  of  the  best  kind  of  grass ; 
the  soil  is  equal  to  the  best  bank  meadow,  with  this  material  advantage, 
that  there  is  no  necessity  for  banks  or  drains.  Also  between  twenty 
and  thirty  acres  of  out-land,  flats  &c.  adjoining,  and  will  be  sold  with 
the  above  or  separate,  as  may  best  suit  the  purchaser.  And  likewise 
about  forty  acres  of  woodland,  three  miles  distant  from  Trenton,  and 
two  miles  and  an  half  from  a  good  landing  on  Watson's  Creek.  For 
terms  apply  to  JOHN  WATSON. 

Nottingham,  Burlington  county,  Jan.  10,  1782. 


TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  the  Yard  of  the  Subscriber, 

On  Wednesday  the  22d  instant,  for  Cash  only, 

A  NUMBER  OF  CAST  HORSES, 

The  property  of  the  army  of  France. 

JAMES  THOMPSON. 
Trenton,  January  15,  1782. 

All  persons  indebted  for  articles  purchased  at  the  vendue  of  the 
estate  of  James  Jackson,  late  of  Upper-Freehold,  deceased,  are  hereby 
requested  to  make  payment  to  Joseph  Lawrence,  Esq.  who  will  settle 
and  receive  the  same,  and  that  within  one  month  from  the  date  from 
the  date  hereof,  otherwise  they  may  expect  to  be  prosecuted  as  the 
law  directs ;  and  all  persons  having  any  demands  against  said  estate, 
are  hereby  requested  to  bring  in  their  accounts,  properly  attested,  to 
the  subscriber,  at  his  house  near  Princeton,  that  the  same  may  be 
settled  and  discharged. 

EZEKIEL  SMITH. 

January  15,  1782. 


362         XKW  JEESEY  IX  THE  REVOLUTIOX.       [1782 


From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  V.,  No.  213,  Jan.  23,  1782. 

STATE  OF  NEW-JERSEY. 

An  Act  for  the  more  speedy  settlement  of 
the  publick  accounts. 

[For  this  Act,  passed  Dec.  30,  1781,  see  — .] 

Head-Quarters,   Philadelphia,   Thursday   Jan.   10,   1782. 
ORDERS. 

As  it  is  expected,  that  in  the  course  of  the  present  winter  many  of 
the  officers  and  men,  belonging  to  the  army  of  the  United  States,  will 
be  indulged  with  leave  of  absence  from  their  corps  for  a  limited  time : 
And  as  it  is  absolutely  necessary  the  strictest  punctuality  should  be 
observed,  in  returning  at  the  expiration  of  the  time  for  which  their 
furloughs  are  granted ;  the  Commander  in  Chief  has  thought  proper, 
thus  early  in  the  season,  to  signify  his  fixed  determination  to  all  con- 
cerned, that  every  officer  or  soldier,  who  shall  absent  himself  beyond 
the  limitation  of  his  furlough  (unless  he  shall  be  prevented  from  re- 
turning by  some  inevitable  misfortune,  or  other  casualty,  which  shall 
be  deemed  a  sufficient  reason  for  his  detention)  shall  for  such  con- 
duct be  brought  to  trial. before  a  Court-Martial. 

Upon  the  return  of  any  officer,  who  may  have  violated  this  order, 
by  absenting  himself  beyond  the  time  of  his  furlough,  report  is  im- 
mediately to  be  made  thereof  to  the  Adjutant-General  or  Deputy 
Adjutant-General,  who  is  to  represent  the  same  to  the  General  or 
commanding  officer,  that  the  necessary  steps  may  be  taken  without 
delay.  The  mode  of  proceeding  against  absent  officers,  as  pointed 
out  by  a  resolution  of  Congress,  is  to  be  invariably  pursued.  Soldiers 
are  also  to  be  tried  and  punished  in  the  most  summary  manner,  if 
they  will  be  guilty  of  a  crime  so  injurious  to  the  publick  service,  as 
well  as  to  the  interests  and  feelings  of  their  brother  soldiers,  who 
may,  in  consequence  of  the  long  absence  of  such  delinquents,  be  un- 
avoidably debarred  the  gratification  of  visiting  their  friends  before 
the  opening  of  the  campaign. 

The  General,  however,  cannot  but  hope,  by  taking  the  precaution 
pf  causing  this  publick  notice  of  his  intention  to  be  given  to  the  army. 
the  disagreeable  consequences  will  be  prevented,  which  might  other- 
wise have  taken  place ;  for  he  is  persuaded,  whoever  will  give  himself 
the  trouble  to  reflect,  will  find,  that  as  great  indulgences  as  are  con- 
sistent with  the  publick  good,  and  justice  to  individuals,  are  granted 
in  the  first  instance ;  that,  as  a  certain  number  of  officers  and  men 
must  be  constantly  kept  in  camp,  every  trespass  upon  those  indul- 
gencies  is  an  act  of  injustice  to  the  individual  who  is  detained  in  con- 
sequence of  it,  and  probably  in  the  issue  to  the  publick  ;  that  the  most 
pointed  exactness  is  indespensably  requisite  in  all  military  affairs, 
events  imknown,  and  frequently  of  the  greatest  magnitude,  depending ; 
and  that  those  men  who  have  attached  themselves  to  the  service  of 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  363 

their  country  should  consider,  that  the  publick  has  a  constant  claim 
upon  their  services,  which  can  only  be  dispensed  with  under  certain 
circumstances,  and  for  definite  periods,  of  which  those  intrusted  with 
the  regulation  of  the  army  must  be  supposed  to  be  the  most  competent 
judges. 

No  officer  or  soldier  is  to  be  permitted  to  be  absent  on  furlough  after 
the  10th  day  of  April  next,  on  any  occasion  whatever. 

The  musters  of  the  army  are,  with  all  possible  expedition,  to  be 
completed  to  the  31st  day  of  December  last  inclusive ;  after  which 
period  they  are  to  be  taken  regularly  at  the  end  of  every  month,  and 
the  rolls  transmitted  to  the  pay  office  without  delay,  agreeable  to  a 
resolution  of  Congress,  of  September  25,  1780. 

EDWARD  HAND,  Brigadier 

and  Adjutant  General. 

N.  B.  The  printers  in  the  several  States  are  requested  to  publish 
the  above. 

TRENTON,  Jan.  23. 

Died  the  15th  ult.  Mary,  the  wife  of  the  Rev.  John  Hanna.  of 
Alexandria,  in  West-Jersey. — On  the  17th  her  remains  were  interred 
in  the  burying  ground  of  his  church,  when  a  sermon,  from  Psalms 
xvi.  11,  was  delivered  to  a  very  numerous  audience. — She  was  highly 
favoured  of  God  with  a  living  and  exemplary  piety,  and  much  indebted 
to  his  divine  goodness  for  that  sweetness  and  steadiness  of  temper, 
that  pleasantness  and  gravity  in  religion,  united  to  a  good  understand- 
ing and  the  benevolence  and  liberality  of  her  heart,  which  made  her 
death  a  real  loss  in  every  relation  she  sustained,  as  an  indulgent, 
gentle  mistress,  a  kind  and  constant  friend,  a  tender  parent,  a  loving 
wife,  and  a  sincere  Christian.  She  viewed  approaching  death  with 
great  composure  and  met  it  with  fortitude,  supporting  to  the  last 
moment  the  plainest  marks  of  one  whom  "God  the  Saviour  shall 
present  faultless  before  his  glory  with  exceeding  joy."  Jude  xxiv.  25. 


TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  Publick  Sale,  on  Monday  the  fourth 
day  of  March  next, 

A  very  valuable  Farm  in  Greenwich  township,  Sussex  county,  state 
of  New-Jersey,  adjoining  the  Musconetcong  Creek,  near  Robert  John- 
son's forge  and  mill :  The  land  is  very  good  for  raising  all  sorts  of 
grain,  and  exceeding  fine  for  pasture.  There  is  on  the  premises  a 
good  bearing  orchard,  besides  a  young  one  planted  last  spring ;  also 
some  good  meadow  and  more  may  be  made.  The  whole  in  good  fence, 
and  wood  in  proportion  to  the  land.  Any  one  inclining  to  view  the  land 
before  the  day  of  sale  may  see  it  by  applying  to  William  M'Cullough 
or  Jacob  Fiatt,  and  an  indisputable  title  will  be  given  by 

BENJAMIN  M'CULLOUGH. 

N.  B.     The  farm  contains  243  acres. 


-il(4  NEW    JERSEY   IN   THE   REVOLUTION.  [1782 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

The  plantation  whereon  Thomas  Silverthorn  now  lives,  in  Sussex 
County,  containing  213  acres,  150  whereof  are  meadow  land — for 
which  good  merchantable  bar-iron  will  be  taken  in  payment.  For 
terms  apply  to  the  printer. 

WITT  AND  LOTT, 
HAIR-DRESSERS, 

Beg  leave  to  acquaint  the  publick,  and  their  friends  in  particular, 
that  they  have  entered  into  partnership. — All  ladies  and  gentlemen 
that  will  please  to  favour  them  with  their  custom  may  depend  on  their 
utmost  endeavour  to  give  satisfaction.  They  have  for  sale  hair  pins. 
powder  and  pomatum. 

The  subscriber  likewise  begs  leave  to  inform  the  publick  in  general 
that  he  keeps  a  house  of  entertainment  for  man  and  horse,  at  the  sign 
of  Alexander  the  Great,  in  the  house  formerly  occupied  by  Captain 
Clunn,  in  Trenton,  where  all  persons  favouring  him  with  their  custom 
may  depend  on  his  utmost  exertions  to  give  entire  satisfaction,  by  the 
publick's  most  obedient  humble  servant, 

FRANCIS  WITT. 

N.  B.    A  small  house  and  lot  to  be  let,  enquire  as  above. 

Trenton,  January  21,  1782. 

This  is  to  notify  the  publick,  that  I  the  subscriber  do  intend  having 
the  following  loan-office  certificates  renewed  by  Mr.  Borden,  which 
were  in  my  posession  and  distroyed  by  the  enemy  at  New-London,  on 
the  6th  of  September  last,  viz.  No.  7140  and  7141,  for  200  each. 
and  No.  665,  for  600  dollars,  issued  from  Mr.  Borden's  office,  in  favour 
of  Mr.  Isaac  Cox,  of  Philadelphia,  and  dated  24th  January  177S. 
Any  person  having  objections  to  the  renewal  of  the  above  certificates 
agreeably  to  an  act  of  the  Honourable  the  Continental  Congress,  are 
desired  to  exhibit  the  same  within  six  weeks  from  the  date  hereof 

RICHARD  THROCKMORTON. 

Trenton,  January  22,  1782. 

WANTED, 

For  the  use  of  the  troops,  &c.  stationed  at  Burlington, 

and  the  post  at  Trenton, 

Beef,  pork,  mutton  and  whisky,  for  which  a  generous  price  and  cash 
will  be  given,  by  the  publick's  most  obedient  servant, 

JAMES  THOMPSON. 
Trenton,  January  22,  1782. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

One  thousand  acres  of  excellent  limestone  land,  lying  in  Frederick 
County,  in  Virginia,  about  ten  miles  from  that  flourishing  town  of 
Winchester.  For  terms  apply  to  the  subscriber,  near  Pitts-Town. 

MAHLON  TAYLOR. 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  365 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

A  LOT  of  land  with  three  houses  thereon,  fronting  the  street,  in 
Newtown,  Buck's  county,  in  the  state  of  Pennsylvania,  suitable  for 
merchandizing  or  any  tradesman.  For  terms  apply  to  the  subscriber, 
living  on  the  road  leading  from  Jones's  ferry  to  said  Newtown  &c. 

LAMB.  TOIIBET. 


From  the  Neic  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  V.,  No.  214,  Jan.  30,  1782. 

STATE  OF  NEW  JERSEY. 

An  ACT  for  regulating  and  establishing  Admiralty 
Jurisdiction. 

[For  this  Act,  passed'  Dec.  18,  1781,  see  Stat.,  Chap.  VII.] 

TRENTON,  Jan.  30. 

The  several  Collectors  within  this  State  are  requested  to  observe, 
that  by  the  17th.  Section  of  the  Act,  intitled,  'An  act  to  raise  the  sum 
of  one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  pounds  in  Money  and  Certificates 
in  the  State  of  New-Jers&y,'  the  treasurer  is  directed  to  pi-osecute  the 
delinquent  Collectors  within  twenty  days  after  the  tax  becomes  due 
to  the  treasury,  under  the  penalty  of  Fifty  Pounds  for  every  neg- 
lect. 

Just  imported  from   France,  and  to  be  sold  at  the  Printing-Office 

in  Trenton  : 

A  Parcel  of  excellent  low-priced  linens.  As  they  were  laid  in  on 
the  best  terms,  so  they  will  be  sold,  at  a  very  moderate  profit,  and 
good  allowance  made  to  those  who  buy  to  sell  again. 

At  the  same  place  may  be  had  : 

Tea,  Coffee,  Chocolate,  Muscovado  and  Spanish  Sugars.  Pepper, 
Ginger,  Soap,  Indigo,  Pins,  Taylor's  Thimbles,  Darning,  White  Chapel 
and  Common  Needles,  Chintzes,  Calicoes,  Holland,  Cambrick,  Lawn, 
Striped  and  plain  Muslins,  Barcelona  and  Pocket  Handkerchiefs, 
Mode,  Sarsenet,  Sewing  Silk,  Tafte,  Crooked  Combs. 

Also, 

An  Assortment  of  Queen's  Ware,  consisting  of 

Dishes,  Common  and  Desert  Plates,  Quart,  Pint,  and  Half-Pint 
Bowles,  Chocolate  Bowls,  Tea-pots,  Cups  and  Saucers,  Quart,  Pint, 
and  Half  Pint  Mugs,  Sauce  Boats,  Sugar  Bowls,  Beer  Glasses,  Half- 
Pint  and  Gill  Tumblers. 

The  Associators  of  Monmouth  county  are  requested  to  meet  at  the 
court-house  on  Saturday  the  16th  day  of  February  next,  at  twelve 
o'clock,  for  the  purpose  of  choosing  a  new  Committee.  Every  Asso- 
ciator  is  requested  to  attend  without  fail,  for  reasons  that  will  be 
offered  there  by  the  Committee,  as  the  Committee  wishes  to  know  the 
Associators ;  should  any  of  the  inhabitants  who  are  not  yet  Asso- 


366         XKW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1782 

ciators  chuse  to  join,  we  wish  their  attendance  to  sign  the  Association, 
and  their  names  will  be  accepted. 

By  order  of  the  Committee, 

KENNETH  HANKINSON, 
Jan.  19,  17S2.  Chairman. 

Morristown,  Jan.  22,  17S2. 

WHEREAS  by  an  Act  of  the  General  Assembly  of  the  29th 
Decemb.  last,  I  am  authorized  to  agree  with  proper  persons  to  supply 
the  troops  to  be  embodied  for  the  defence  of  this  state,  and  such  of 
the  militia  as  shall  be  called  out,  with  provisions  and  forage.  Notice 
is  hereby  given,  that  the  proposals  will  be  received  at  my  office  until 
the  20th  day  of  February  next,  for  supplying  such  of  the  said  troops 
as  may  be  stationed  in  the  counties  of  Bergen,  Essex,  Middlesex, 
Monmouth,  Burlington,  Gloucester  and  Sussex,  with  the  same  rations 
as  are  allowed  the  continental  army ;  the  proposals  to  contain  the 
lowest  price  in  specie  of  each  ration  of  provision  and  forage ;  and 
also  the  price  of  the  component  parts :  A  ration  of  provision  to  con- 
sist of  one  pound  of  bread,  one  pound  of  beef,  or  three  quarters  of  a 
pound  of  pork,  one  gill  of  rum  or  whiskey,  one  quart  of  salt,  and  two 
quarts  of  vinegar  for  one  hundred  rations,  eight  pounds  soap,  and 
three  pounds  candles  per  seven  hundred  rations.  A  ration  of  forage 
to  consist  of  eight  quarts  of  oats  or  other  grain  equivalent,  and  four- 
teen pounds  of  hay. 

AZARIAH  DUNHAM. 

i 
> 

This  is  to  notify  all  such  persons  as  have  mortgages  against  the 
house  and  land  wherein  Elias  Bland,  deceased,  lately  lived,  in  Wood- 
bridge,  to  make  them  known  to  the  subscriber,  on  or  before  the  first 
day  of  May  next,  as  said  house  and  land  was  bought  at  Sheriff's 
vendue  by  me,  living  on  the  aforesaid  farm. 

JAMES  KINSEY. 

Woodbridge,  Jan.  18,  1782. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

A  Plantation  containing  180  Acres,  about  120  acres  in  tillage  and 
meadow  ground,  the  rest  well  timbered,  situated  in  Maidenhead  about 
2y2  miles  from  Trenton,  on  which  is  a  new  large  brick  house  two 
stories  high,  four  rooms  on  a  floor,  with  convenient  cellars,  a  good 
barn,  stables  and  cow-houses,  young  bearing  orchard,  very  convenient 
to  mill  and  Market.  Also,  a  tract  of  126  acres  on  the  opposite  side 
of  the  Maidenhead  road,  principally  woodland,  the  whole  enclosed 
with  a  new  post  and  rail  fence,  very  advantageous  for  pasture,  having 
a  constant  stream  of  water  2  miles  from  Trenton :  These  two  tracts 
will  be  sold  together,  or  separate,  as  will  best  suit  the  purchaser. 
Any  person  inclining  to  view  the  farm,  may  apply  to  Philip  Palmer. 
the  tenant  in  possession ;  any  reasonable  time  will  be  given  for  the 
greatest  part  of  the  purchase  money,  and  possession  will  be  given 
the  1st  day  of  April  next. 
For  terms  apply  to  GEORGE  DAVIS. 

Trenton.   Jan.   29,   1782. 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  367 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

A    Likely    young    Negro    Wench.      Enquire    of    the    Rev.    Solomon 
Freligh,  at  Hillsborough,  in  the  county  of  Somerset. 


From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  V.,  No.  215,  Feb.  6,  1782. 

Mr.  Collins, 

As  there  is  a  scarcity  of  foreign  news  at  present,  I  send  you  an  extract 
of  a  letter  taken  out  of  a  late  English  publication. — It  icas  written  by  a 
Mr.  Joihn  Moore,  a  Scotchman,  from  Vienna,  about  four  years  ago),  tf>  his 
friend  in  London;  and,  as  the  book  is  but  in  few  hands,  it  cannot  be  un- 
acc&pt-able  at  this  time  to  the  generality  of  yow  readers. 

VIENNA. 

Our  disputes  with  the  colonies  have  been  a  prevailing  topick  of  conver- 
sation wherever  we  have  been,  since  we  left  England. — The  warmth  with 
which  this  subject  is  handled,  increases  every  day. — At  present  the  in- 
habitants of  the  continent  seem  as  impatient  as  those  of  Great-Britain, 
for  news  from  the  other  side  of  the  Atlantic,  but  with  this  difference, 
that  here  they  are  all  of  one  mind : — All  praying  for  success  to  the 
Americans,  and  rejoicing  in  every  piece  of  bad  fortune,  which  happens  to 
our  army. 

That  the  French  should  be  pleased  with  Commotions,  which  must  dis- 
tress and  weaken  Great-Britain,  and  may  transfer  to  them  an  equal  right 
to  every  advantage  we  gained  by  the  last  war,  is  not  surprising,  but 
why  the  inhabitants  of  every  other  country  should  take  part  against  Eng- 
land, and  become  partizans  of  America,  is  not  so  apparent. 

I  should  forgive  them,  and  even  join  in  sentiment  with  them,  as  far 
as  my  regard  for  the  honour  and  happiness  of  my  country  would  per- 
mit, if  this  proceeded  from  an  attachment  to  liberty,  and  a  generous  par- 
tiality for  mon  who  repel  oppression  and  struggle  for  independency. — 
But  this  is  not  the  case. — Those  who  can  reap  no  possible  advantage 
from  the  revolt  of  America,  those  who  have  not  an  idea  of  civil  liberty, 
and  would  even  be  sorry  to  see  it  established  in  their  own  country  :  those 
who  have  no  other  knowledge  of  the  dispute,  than  that  it  is  ruining  Eng- 
land :  all  join  as  allies  to  the  Americans,  not  from  love  to  them,  but 
evidently  from  dislike  to  us. 

When  I  first  observed  this  hostile  disposition,  I  thought  it  might  pro- 
ceed from  their  being  offended  at  the  preference,  which  the  English  gave 
to  their  own  country  and  countrymen  above  all  others  ;  but  this  conceit 
we  have  in  common  with  every  other  nation  on  the  globe,  all  of  whom 
cherish  the  same  favourable  opinion  of  themselves. — It  assuredly  pre- 
vails in  France  in  an  eminent  degree. — There  is  hardly  one  sceptic  or 
unbeleiver  in  the  whole  nation — it  is  the  universal  creed  that  France 
is  the  finest  country  in  the  world  :  the  French,  the  most  ingenious  and 
the  most  able  people,  excelling  in  all  the  arts  of  peace  and  war ;  and 
that  Paris  is  the  capital  of  politeness  and  the  centre  of  learning,  genius 
and  taste. — This  satisfaction  at  the  misfortunes  of  Great-Britain  can- 
not therefore  arise  from,  a  cause  which  is  applicable  to  every  other 
other  country. — It  may  indeed  in  some  measure  proceed  from  envy  of  the 
riches  and  jealousy  of  the  power  of  the  English  nation,  but  I  belelve 
still  more  from  our  taking  no  trouble  to  conciliate  the  affection  of  for- 
eigners, and  to  deminish  that  envy  and  ill-will,  which  great  prosperity 
often  creates. — The  French,  though  perhaps  the  vainest  people  on  earth 
of  their  own  advantages,  have  some  degree  of  consideration  for  the  feel- 
ings and  self  love  of  their  neighbours. — A  Frenchman  endeavours  to 
draw  from  them  an  acknowledgment  of  the  superiority  of  his  country, 
by  making  an  eulogium  on  whatever  is  excellent  in  theirs. 

But  we  are  apt  to  build  our  panegyrick  of  Old  England  on  the  ruin 
and  wretchedness  of  all  other  countries. — Italy  is  too  hot,  the  inns  miser- 


-368  SEW    .TKKSKY    IX   THE   REVOLUTION.  [1782 

able,  and  the  whole  country  swarmed  with  monks  and  other  vermin. — 
In  France  the  people  are  slaves  and  coxcombs,  the  music  execrable ; — 
they  boil  their  meat  to  rags,  and  there  is  no  porter  and  very  little  strong 
ale,  in  the  country. — In  Germany,  some  of  their  Princes  have  little  more 
to  spend  than  an  English  gentleman — they  use  stoves  instead  of  grati-s  : 
they  eat  sour  crout,  and  speak  High  Dutch. — The  Danes  and  Swedes  are 
reminded  that  they  are  rather  at  too  great  a  distance  from  the  equator : 
and  many  sly  hints  are  given,  concerning  the  inconvehiences  of  a  cold 
climate. — Of  all  things  I  should  think  it  most  prudent  to  be  silent  on 
this  last  topick.  as  so  many  paltry  states  will  take  precedency  of  old 
England,  whenever  it  is  the  established  etiquette,  that  rank  shall  lie  de- 
termined by  climate. 

But  this  consideration  has  no  effect  on  my  honest  friend  John  Bull — 
when  he  is  in  a  cholerick  humour,  he  will  not  spare  his  best  friends  and 
nearest  neighbours,  even  when  he  has  most  ne.ed  of  their  assistance,  and 
when  those  at  a  distance  seem  to  have  plotted  his  ruin. — If  his  own 
sister  Peg*  should  shew  a  disposition  to  forget  old  squabbles,  to  live 
in  friendship  with  her  brother,  and  should  declare  that  all  who  renounced 
his  friendship  were  her  enemies,  and  resolve  to  conquer  by  his  side,  or 
if  that  should  fail,  to  die  hard  along  with  him — No,  d — n  yon,  says  John 
Bull,  none  of  your  coaxing— You  be  d- — d,  you  are  farther  north  than  I  : 
keep  your  distance — and  so  he  falls  a  pelting  Peg,  with  her  own  snow 
balls  ;  and  then  turning  from  her,  he  attacks  Lewis  Baboon — lord  Strut 
• — lord  Peter — and  dashes  their  soup  maugre, — oleo's  and  maccaroni,  full 
in  their  teeth. 

But  to  drop  allegory ;  the  universal  satisfaction,  which  appears  all 
over  Europe,  at  the  idea  of  England's  being  stript  of  her  colonies,  cer- 
tainly does  not  entirely  originate  from  political  sentiments ;  but  in  a 
great  degree,  from  that  reserve  which  keeps  Englishmen  from  cultivat- 
ing the  friendship  of  foreigners ;  that  pride  which  hinders  them  from 
stooping  to  humour  prejudices  ;  that  indifference  which  makes  them  dis- 
regard the  approbation  of  others,  and  betray  the  contempt  they  are  too 
ready  to  shew  for  customs  or  sentiments  different  from  their  own.  These 
are  things  not  easily  forgiven  and  for  which  no  superiority  of  genius, 
magnanimity  or  integrity  can  compensate. — The  same  causes  which  have 
made  foreigners  take  part  against  us  in  this  dispute  with  America,  in- 
duce those  of  them  who  are  rich,  and  can  spend  their  revenues  out  of 
their  own  country  to  prefer  France  to  England  for  that  purpose. — The 
difference  between  London  and  Paris  in  point  of  climate,  is  very  small. 
— The  winter  amusements  of  the  former  are  more  magnificent :  and  per- 
haps every  conveniency,  and  most  of  the  luxuries  of  life,  are  to  be  found 
there,  in  great  perfection. — During  the  summer  months,  by  superior  skill 
in  agriculture  and  a  better  taste  in  gardening,  England  displays  such 
scenes  of  cultivation,  of  verdure  and  fertility,  as  no  country  on  earth  can 
equal. — To  these  are  added  the  blessings  of  liberty  ;  yet  few  or  no  for- 
eigners reside  in  England,  except  those  she  maintains  entirely  at  her  own 
expence  ;  although  the  wealthy,  after  a  short  visit  to  London,  return  to 
spend  their  fortunes  at  Paris. — Exclusive  of  pecuniary  advantages,  it 
flatters  the  natural  vanity  of  the  French  to  find  their  society  preferred 
to  that  of  all  other  people,  and  particularly  to  that  of  their  proud  rivals 
— let  them  enjoy  this  advantage  ;  let  them  draw  to  their  capital  the  idle, 
the  dissipated  and  the  effeminate  of  every  country  of  Europe  :- — but,  for 
heaven's  sake,  do  you  and  your  friends  in  Parliament  fall  on  some  meas- 
ure to  prevent  them  from  engaging  the  affections  of  our  industrious 
brethren  of  America. 

You  may  naturally  suppose,  from  some  things  in  this  letter,  that  the 
people  here,  are  in  a  particular  manner  inveterate  against  England,  on 
her  dispute  with  America — but  in  reality  this  is  not  the  case  ;  for  al- 
though in  general  they  favour  America,  I  have  not  seen  so  much  modera- 
tion on  that  question  any  where  as  at  Vienna — the  Emperor,  when  some 
person  asked  which  side  he  favoured,  replied  very  ingeniously,  Je  suis 
par  mgtier  royaliste.  $  /  am  a  royalist  by  trade. 

'Scotland. 


NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  369 

I  wish,  those  of  our  countrymen,  who  by  your  account  seem  to  be  carry- 
Ing  their  zeal  for  America  too  far,  would  remember,  qu'ils  sont  par  nais- 
ance  anglois.  Tliat  they  are  Englishmen  by  birth. 

STATE  OF  NEW-JERSEY. 

An  Act  for  taking  charge  of  and  leasing  the  real  estates  of  the  sub- 
jects of  the  King  of  Great  Britain,  lying  within  this  State. 
[For  this  Act,  passed  Dec.  29,  1781,  see  Stat.,  Chap.  XVII.] 

TRENTON,  Feb.  6. 

At  an  election  held  at  Cape-May,  on  the  24th  lilt.  Jeremiah  Eldredge 
and  Robert  Harris,  Esqrs.  were  elected  to  represent  the  said  county 
in  the  General  Assembly  of  this  state  for  the  remainder  of  the  present 
year,  in  the  room  of  Hugh  Hathorn  and  Daniel  Hand,  Esquires,  who 
declined  accepting  their  seats. 

On  the  19th  ult.  arrived  in  Tom's-River,  in  schooner  Dart  privateer, 
from  Salem,  in  New-England,  Captain  William  Gray,  and  brought  in 
with  him  a  prize  sloop,  taken  from  the  Black  Jack,  a  galley  belonging 
to  New-York ;  and  next  day  his  boat,  with  seven  men,  went  in  pur- 
suit of  a  brig  which  was  near  the  bar,  but  neither  boat  or  men  have 
since  been  heard  of. 

We  hear  from  South-Brunswick,  in  Middlesex  county,  that  Col. 
John  Wetherill  of  that  place,  was  on  Saturday  the  12th  ult.  married 
in  the  86th  year  of  his  age  unto  Miss  Mary  Mesler,  a  young  lady  of 
about  twenty-five. 

SALE. 

Of  that  very  valuable  and  well-known  FARM  commonly  called  The 
BainJtridge  Farm,  in  the  township  of  Maidenhead,  county  of  Hunter- 
don,  state  of  New-Jersey,  adjoining  lands  of  Messrs.  John  P.  Schenck, 
William  Phillips,  Ezekiel  Smith,  and  others.  It  contains  282  acres 
of  land,  about  40  of  which  are  woodland,  50  meadow,  and  the  remain- 
der tillage  and  pasture  of  excellent  grass :  The  meadow  is  of  best 
quality,  being  part  of  the  Maidenhead  meadows,  so  much  celebrated, 
and  the  quantity  may  be  increased  to  double  with  very  little  pains. 
The  cleared  land  is  divided  into  five  fields,  in  each  of  which  is  a  con- 
stant spring  of  good  water ;  there  are  also  some  lot  enclosures.  The 
farmhouse  is  large,  well  built  of  stone,  two  stories  high,  four  rooms 
on  a  floor,  with  excellent  cellars,  and  a  stone  kitchen  adjoining.  There 
are  also  a  barn  and  convenient  stables.  It  is  three  and  a  half  miles 
from  Princeton,  nine  from  Trenton,  and  about  a  mile  from  the  post- 
road.  The  soil  is  fertile,  well  situated  for  raising  grain  and  pe- 
culiarly well  calculated  for  breeding  stock.  For  terms  apply  to  Col. 
Benjamin  G.  Eyre,  at  Kensington,  Philadelphia ;  William  C.  Houston, 
Esq.  at  Trenton,  Daniel  Hunt,  Esq.  near  Pittston,  or  the  subscriber 
on  the  farm,  who  will  shew  it  to  any  person  inclined  to  treat  for 
the  purchase. 

c.  t.  f.  DANIEL  AGNEW. 

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370  NEW    JERSEY   IN   THE    REVOLUTION.  [1782 

EVAN  RUNYAN, 

lias  for  sale,  at  his  store  now  kept  in  the  large  new  house  lately 
built  between  the  mill  and  the  brick  house  at  the  ferry  lane,  an 
assortment  of  DRY  and  WET  GOODS,  viz. 

Chintzes,  Calicoes,  Irish  and  Britannia  linens,  Moree  gown  patterns, 
Ell  wide  patterns,  White  sarsenet,  Jacconet  muslin,  Lawn,  Cambrick, 
Cotton  checks,  Cambric  romal  handkerchiefs,  Cotton  check  handker- 
chiefs, Wide  and  narrow  black  lace,  Tape,  bobbin  and  thread,  Ribans, 
Pins,  Calimanco,  Shoe  and  knee  buckles,  Sleeve  buttons.  Sweeping 
brushes,  Cloths  brushes,  Buckle  brushes,  Shoe  brushes,  Dust  brushes. 
Rum,  sugar  and  tea. 

Trenton,  February  4,  1782. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

A  likely  smart  Negro  Wench, 
Fourteen  years  old. — Enquire  of  the  printer. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

For  Cash,  at  the  New-Brewery,  in  York-Street, 

Burlington, 
AMERICAN  PORTER, 

EQUAL  in  quality  and  fine  flavour  to  London  Porter,  at  Sixty 
Shillings  per  barrel.  Also  Irish  Stingo,  brewed  from  the  best  amber 
malt,  at  Forty  Shillings  per  barrel ;  strong  beer  at  the  old  price, 
Thirty  Shillings  per  barrel,  and  small  ditto  at  Fifteen  ditto ;  yeast 
at  Two  Shillings  per  gallon ;  cyder  at  ditto. 

The  brewer,  desirous  to  oblige  the  publick,  sells  as  small  a  quantity 
as  five  gallons.  All  tavern-keepers  or  families  may  depend  upon  being 
served  on  the  shortest  notice. 

N.  B.  Muscovado  and  Port-au-Prince  sugars  to  be  sold  cheap  at 
the  same  place. 

Any  person  of  character  and  some  real  property,  may  now  come  into 
partnership  with  said  brewer,  upon  very  easy  terms,  as  he  is  desirous 
of  building  another  brewery  at  Trenton  Landing  or  in  the  town, 
which,  in  all  probability,  will  be  the  seat  of  government,  and  great 
advantages  must  accrue.  None  but  principals  will  be  treated  with, 
to  whom  sufficient  proof  will  be  given  that  a  capital  fortune  is  to  be 
made  in  a  few  years.  No  objection  to  a  person  unacquainted  with 
the  business,  as  such  instructions  will  be  given  to  enable  him  to 
superintend  one  of  the  breweries  in  a  very  short  time. 

WANTED,  an  apprentice  to  learn  the  art  of  brewing,  and  making 
malt. 

• 
TO  BE  SOLD, 

By  publick  veridu,  at  the  house  of  Samuel  Dorset,  inn-keeper  in 
Middletown,  or  on  the  premises,  on  the  first  day  of  March  next,  at 
twelve  o'clock  on  said  day ; 


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A  very  valuable  plantation  lying  in  the  county  of  Monmouth,  East 
New-Jersey,  in  the  township  of  Middletown,  and  about  four  miles 
from  said  town,  adjoining  to  the  salt  water  : — The  plantation  con- 
tains near  three  hundred  acres,  about  fifty  of  which  are  good  meadow, 
and  forty  good  plough  land,  and  more  to  be  cleared ;  the  remainder 
well  timbered,  and  will  be  very  valuable  when  the  British  leaves  New- 
York.  There  is  on  the  premises  a  good  large  dwelling-house  and 
barn,  and  a  very  good  spring  of  water  about  forty  yards  from  the 
door. — For  terms  of  sale  apply  to  the  subscriber,  who  will  give  at- 
tendance on  the  day  of  sale. 

JONATHAN  PEW,  Executor. 

N.  B.  Said  plantation  may  be  purchased  at  private  sale  any  time 
before  the  first  day  of  March. 

By  virtue  of  a  writ  of  Fieri  Facias  to  me  directed  and  delivered, 
will  be  exposed  to  sale  by  way  of  publick  vendue,  at  the  house  of  Mr. 
Isaac  Wood,  in  Mount-Holly,  on  Wednesday  the  20th  day  of  March 
next,  between  the  hours  of  twelve  and  five  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  of 
said  day,  the  third  part  of  a  very  valuable  plantation  containing 
between  8  and  900  acres  of  land,  lying  and  being  in  the  township  of 
Evesham,  (to  be  sold  during  James  Buxton's  wife's  life)  also  a  piece 
of  pine  land,  containing  about  60  acres,  in  Evesham  aforesaid,  late  the 
property  of  said  Buxton,  seized  and  taken  in  execution  at  the  suit  of 
Thomas  Woodmancey  Tallman. 

JACOB  PHILLIPS,   Sheriff. 

Burlington,  Jan.  17,  1782. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

A  PLANTATION  containing  150  acres,  in  Amwell,  two  miles  from 
Howell's  ferry,  with  a  dwelling-house,  a  barn,  and  orchard  of  240 
apple  trees,  20  acres  of  good  meadow  cleared,  also  —  acres  of  good 
land  adjoining  the  Delaware,  one  mile  from  Howell's  ferry,  whereon 
is  a  good  mill  seat  and  a  shad  fishery ;  25  acres  cleared,  the  remain- 
der timber  land  : — Also  a  pair  of  match  horses  15  hands  high,  three 
years  old.  Enquire  of  David  Chambers,  in  Amwell. 

The  different  town  and  ward  collectors  in  the  county  of  Essex,  are 
desired  to  pay  in  the  several  quotas  of  taxes,  immediately,  or  expect 
to  be  dealt  with  as  the  law  directs. 

JOHN  OGDEN,  C.  Collector. 

February  1,  1782. 

From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  V.,  No.  216,  Feb.  13,  1782. 

CHATHAM,  Feb.  6. 

On  Tuesday  the  29th  ult.  James  Morgan  was  executed  at  Westfield, 
pursuant  to  his  sentence,  for  the  wilful  murder  of  the  Rev.  James 
Caldwell.  A  sermon  upon  the  occasion  was  preached  by  the  Rev. 
Jonathan  Elmer,  from  Jer.  xliv.  4.  "Oh!  do  not  this  abominable 
thing  that  I  hate." 


372  NEW    JEKSEY   IN   THE   REVOLUTION.  [1782 

Early  on  Sunday  morning,  the  20th  ult.  died  at  his  house  in 
Gloucester  county  New-Jersey,  BODO  OTTO,  Esq.  an  eminent  phy- 
sician, sincerely  esteemed  by  a  numerous  acquaintance,  and  whos 
death  is  universally  lamented.  The  day  following  his  remains,  borne 
by  four  officers,  were  interred  at  Sweedsborough,  attended  by  a  great 
concourse  of  the  most  respectable  inhabitants  of  the  county.  Eulogies 
on  the  dead  are  generally  nattering,  and  meant  for  a  compliment  to 
surviving  friends ;  but  on  the  present  meloncholly  occasion  it  may  be 
said,  without  violating  truth,  that  by  his  decease  his  children  are 
deprived  of  a  tender  parent,  his  wife  of  an  affectionate  husband,  and 
the  state  of  a  most  valuable  member  of  society.  Firmly  attached  to 
the  liberties  of  America,  and  a  strenuous  assertor  of  his  independency ; 
he  early  took  a  decided  part  in  the  present  contest ;  and,  by  the 
unanimous  voice  of  the  country  in  which  he  lived,  was  pointed  out  as 
the  intrepid  soldier  and  patriotic  senator.  He  accepted  the  ap- 
pointments, and  discharged  the  duties  of  the  one  with  honour  to  him- 
self, and  of  the  other  with  satisfaction  to  his  constituents.  While 
applauded  by  all  for  his  publick  conduct,  the  unavailing  sorrow  of  his 
friends,  and  the  sighs  of  the  distressed,  evince  the  amiableness,  and 
will  remain  the  best  and  most  lasting  monuments  of  his  character  in 
private  life.  The  former  he  ever  received  with  hospitality  and  warmth 
of  affection ;  and  the  benevolence  of  his  heart  taught  him  to  feel  and 
releive  the  miseries  of  the  latter.  To  him  then,  whose  life  was  a 
constant  series  of  good  actions,  death  could  have  no  terrors.  He  bore 
a  lingering  illness  with*  patience  and  resigned  his  breath  to  God  who 
gave  it,  with  the  fortitude  and  constancy,  not  of  a  philosopher  but  of 
a  sincere  Christian.- 

TRENTON,  Feb.  13. 

We  hear  from  Monmouth  that  on  Friday  evening  the  Sth  instant, 
about  forty  refugees,  commanded  by  one  Stevenson,  a  Lieutenant, 
came  over  from  Sandy-Hook,  across  the  Gut,  and  thence  into  the 
country  to  a  place  near  Pleasant  Valley. — They  visited  the  houses 
of  sundry  persons  in  the  neighbourhood,  from  whence  they  took  off 
upwards  of  tWenty  horses,  five  sleighs,  which  they  loaded  with  plunder, 
and  eight  or  nine  prisoners,  namely  Hendrick  Hendrickson  and  his 
two  sons,  Garret  Hendrickson,  Peter  Covenhoven,  Esq.,  Samuel 
Bowne  and  son,  and  Jacques  Denice. — They  then  made  off  with 
their  prisoners  and  booty.  At  Garret  Hendrickson's,  having  en- 
tered the  house  and  made  him  prisoner,  they  went  to  the  barn  to 
take  his  horses  and  sleigh.  In  the  mean  time,  two  young  men. 
his  son  and  one  William  Thomson,  who  slept  in  the  second 
story  of  the  house,  being  awaked  by  the  noise  below,  secreted 
themselves  till  the  enemy  were  gone  to  the  barn,  and  then  came  down, 
escaped  and  went  to  the  house  of  Capt.  John  Schenck,  of  Col.  Holmes's 
regiment,  whom  they  alarmed  about  an  hour  and  an  half  before  day. 
This  gallant  officer  immediately  collected  a  small  party,  left  orders 
for  as  many  as  could  be  got  together  to  follow  him,  pursued  the 
refugees  on  the  route  they  had  taken,  and  arrived  at  the  Gut  just 
as  they  had  got  the  prisoners,  two  or  three  of  the  horses  and  a  small 


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quantity  of  the  other  plunder  carried  over.  He  immediately  attacked 
those  which  were  with  the  remainder  of  the  horses  and  plunder,  and 
after  a  few  fires,  in  which  unfortunately  young  Mr.  Thomson  fell, 
and  a  Mr.  Cotterel  was  wounded  in  the  knee,  he  made  them  prisoners 
to  the  number  of  twelve,  three  of  them  were  wounded.  Captain 
Schenck  finding  it  impracticable  to  continue  the  pursuit  for  want 
of  craft,  to  cross  the  water,  was  returning  with  his  recapture  and 
prisoners,  when  he  suddenly  fell  in  with  Stevenson  and  sixteen  others 
who  had  remained  behind  to  secure  the  retreat  and  favour  the  passage 
of  those  who  were  before.  A  firing  immediately  ensued  on  both  sides, 
but  Captain  Schenck  ordering  his  men  to  charge  and  give  the  enemy 
the  bayonet,  they  thought  proper  to  throw  down  their  arms  and  sub- 
mit. This  encounter  being  altogether  unexpected,  eight  of  the  pris- 
oners first  taken  found  means  to  escape.  Captain  Schenck  was  left 
Saturday  forenoon  on  his  way  through  Middletown  with  nineteen 
horses,  five  sleighs  with  the  plunder  which  had  been  taken  from  the 
inhabitants,  and  one  and  twenty  of  the  enemy  prisoners.  The  people 
report  that  they  huzzaed  and  triumphed  as  they  returned  to  their 
boats,  boasting  of  their  success,  and  that  the  next  time  they  would 
penetrate  as  far  as  Mount-Pleasant,  several  miles  further  into  the 
country.  Among  the  prisoners  are  several  atrocious  villains  who  have, 
at  different  times,  done  much  mischief  in  that  part  of  the  country. 


TO  BE  SOLD, 

A  LAW  LIBRARY,  equal  if  not  preferable  to  any  in  New-Jersey. — 
Apply  to  Ravaud  Kearney,  at  Morristown,  in  Monmouth  county.  Also 
a  tract  of  land  at  Flat-Kill,  in  the  county  of  Sussex,  adjoining  (and 
extending  eighteen  chains  and  an  half  on)  the  river  Delaware,  con- 
taining one  hundred  and  sixty-three  acres. — Enquire  as  above,  of  Mr. 
Archibald  Stewart,  at  Hackett's-Town,  or  of  Mr.  Martin  Ryerson, 
at  Newtown. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  publick  vendu,  on  Wednesday  the  13th  day   of 
March  next, 

The  valuable  FARM  whereon  the  subscriber  now  lives,  situate  in 
the  township  of  Bethlehem,  and  county  of  Hunterdon,  containing  one 
hundred  and  thirty-three  acres  of  land,  near  one  hundred  cleared, 
which  consists  of  good  arable  and  pasture  land,  with  a  never  failing 
run  that  waters  most  of  the  fields,  about  ten  acres  of  meadow  fit  for 
the  scythe,  a  considerable  part  of  which  is  watered  by  a  constant 
spring,  and  more  may  be  made ; — the  remainder  in  good  timber.  There 
is  on  said  farm  a  comfortable  dwelling-house,  kitchen  and  a  good 
garden,  a  stone  milk-house,  with  a  fine  spring  of  water  passing  thro, 
it,  a  good  barn,  with  a  new  frame  barrack,  an  excellant  young  bearing 
orchard  of  two  hundred  apple  trees,  part  of  which  are  grafts  of  the 
best  kind,  and  a  variety  of  other  fruit  trees,  such  as  peaches,  pears, 


374  NEW    JERSEY   IX   THE   BEVOIAJTION.  [1782 

cherries,   plumbs,  &c.     The  whole  in  good  repair.     Conditions  to  be 
made  known  on  the  day  of  sale. 

PHILIP  STOCKTON. 

N.  B.  The. above-mentioned  premises  may  be  disposed  of  at  private 
sale. 

VENDUE. 

ON  Thursday  the  twenty-eight  day  of  March  next,  at  eleven  o'clock 
in  the  morning  precisely,  will  commence  at  publick  vendu,  the  sale 
of  the  personel  estate  of  the  late  Samuel  Staats  Coejemans,  Esq.  of 
Raritan,  in  Somerset  county,  consisting  of  grain,  horses,  milch  cows, 
young  cattle,  hogs  and  sheep,  waggons,  sleighs,  ploughs  and  other 
farming  utensils ;  house  and  kitchen  furniture,  &c.  &c. 

WILLIAM  PATERSON    \    Execu- 
JOHN  NEILSON  J      tors. 

Raritan,  Feb.  6,  1782. 

FOR  SALE, 

AN  elegant  well-finished  house  in  Flemington,  Hunterdon  county, 
New-Jersey,  wTith  about  50  acres  of  land,  a  great  proportion  of  which 
is  good  meadow  ground,  with  every  necessary  building  thereon  to  render 
it  commodious  for  any  kind  of  publick  business,  particularly  for  a 
store  or  tavern,  a  stand*  perhaps  little  inferior  to  any  in  the  state  for 
either,  as  it  is  situated  in  a  well  settled  neighbourhood,  and  where  four 
publick  roads  form  a  junction,  viz.  from  Philadelphia,  Trenton,  Morris- 
Town  and  New- Windsor,  all  much  frequented. — Also  a  lot  of  meadow 
ground  containing  about  6  acres. — Also  a  lot  of  meadow  ground  con- 
taining about  6  acres. — Also  a  lot  of  20  acres  of  wood-land  well 
timbered,  to  be  sold  all  together  or  separate. — Likewise  for  sale,  about 
one  mile  from  the  above  premises,  200  acres  of  land  equal  in  goodness 
to  any  in  the  township,  near  50  acres  of  which  is  well  timbered,  a 
quantity  of  meadow  already  improved,  and  more  may  at  a  small  ex- 
pence  be  rendered  excellent.  The  cleared  land  divided  into  fields,  with 
streams  of  water  passing  thro,  each  the  whole  year ;  three  orchards 
of  good  fruit  thereon,  with  also  a  good  cellar  and  an  old  frame  of  a 
dwelling-house.  For  further  particulars  apply  to  the  subscriber,  living 
near  Flemington,  who  will  give  an  indisputable  title  for  the  whole. 

AMOS  GREGG. 

N.  B.  The  subscriber  would  be  much  obliged  to  all  those  indebted 
to  him,  if  they  would  make  it  convenient  to  discharge  their  respective 
accounts  before  the  first  of  May  next,  either  in  cash  or  wheat. 

Amwell  township,  Feb.  8,  1782. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

By  the  subscribers,  living  in  Philadelphia,  the  following 
plantations  and  tracts  of  land,  viz. 

ONE  plantation  near  Potters-Town,  in  the  county  of  Hunterdon,  in 
the  state  of  New-Jersey,  containing  about  420  acres  of  very  good  land 
for  wheat  and  other  grain  or  grass,  now  occupied  by  and  rented  to 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  375 

Joseph  Everett,  whereon  are  a  dwelling-house,  a  large  barn,  an  apple 
orchard  and  other  fruit  trees,  &c.  with  a  suitable  quantity  of  said 
land  cleared,  and  the  remainder  well  timbered. 

One  other  plantation  adjoining  the  above  and  Potter's-Town,  con- 
taining about  183  acres,  the  greatest  part  of  which  is  cleared,  with 
a  sufficient  quantity  of  wood  land  remaining,  an  apple  orchard,  &c. 
Both  the  above  places  lay  on  a  great  publick  road. 

One  other  plantation  near  the  above,  now  rented  to  and  in  the 
possession  of  Christopher  Teets,  containing  about  223  acres,  on  which 
are  a  log  dwelling-house,  barn,  orchard,  meadow,  &c.  and  a  sufficient 
quantity  of  wood-land  well  timbered. 

One  other  plantation  within  2  or  3  miles  of  Pitts-Town,  in  the 
county  aforesaid,  containing  about  261  acres,  with  meadow  and  other 
improvements  thereon,  now  under  rent. 

One  other  place  near  the  last  described,  containing  68  acres  and  an 
half,  with  some  improvements  thereon,  and  under  rent.  All  the  above 
may  be  entered  on  the  2d  day  of  April  next  ensuing. 

Also  three  lots,  No.  3,  4,  and  11,  of  excellent  bottom  land,  capable 
of  making  the  finest  meadow,  lying  in  the  Great  Swamp,  near  Morris- 
Town,  in  Morris  county  and  state  aforesaid,  each  lot  containing  98 
acres.  These  may  be  entered  on  at  any  time. 

All  the  above  described  plantations  and  tracts  of  land  are  situated 
in  a  fine  healthy  and  thick  settled  part  of  the  country,  and  have  every 
advantage  of  mills,  stores,  markets  and  good  neighbourhood,  &c.  &c. 
and  are  to  be  sold  at  private  sale ;  but  if  they  or  any  of  them  should 
not  be  disposed  of  by  the  12th  day  of  March  next  ensuing,  then  they 
will  be  sold  at  publick  vendue,  on  or  near  the  premises  on  said  12th 
day  of  said  month  of  March. 

Also  one  other  tract  of  land  in  the  county  of  Sussex,  in  said  state 
of  New-Jersey,  near  Hackett's-Town,  containing  upwards  of  300  acres 
of  unimproved  land,  and  will  be  sold  very  cheap. 

One  lot  of  extraordinary  rich  land  fit  for  the  scythe,  in  or  near  the 
city  of  Perth-Amboy,  containing  about  8  acres,  which  produces  the 
best  of  grass  and  hay. 

Two  tracts  of  land  nearly  adjoining  each  other  in  the  township  of 
Plumsted,  in  the  county  of  Bucks  and  state  of  Pennsylvania,  con- 
taining about  49  acres. 

Also  one  other  tract  of  exceeding  good  unimproved  land  called  Man- 
heim,  in  the  township  of  Muney  in  the  county  of  Northumberland,  in 
Pennsylvania  on  Muney  Creek,  within  20  or  30  miles  of  the  town  of 
Sunbury,  containing  about  300  acres. 

The  purchasers  paying  one  third  of  the  money  down,  may  have  a 
reasonable  length  of  time  to  pay  the  remainder  with  interest,  by 
giving  security,  if  required.  For  all  which  indisputable  titles  will  be 
given  by 

PETER  and   ISAAC  WIKOFF. 


376  NEW    JERSEY   IN   THE   REVOLUTION.  [1782 


From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol  V.,  No.  214,  February  20,  1782. 

CHATHAM,  Feb.  13. 

Last  Wednesday  George  Ogilvie  (son  of  the  late  parson  Ogilvie,  of 
New-Yurk)  a  Lieutenant  among  the  refugees,  left  them  and  came  over 
to  Newark. 

TRENTON,  Feb.  20. 

On  Tuesday  the  12th  inst.  arrived  at  New-York,  from  England, 
after  a  passage  of  eight  weeks,  the  Narcissus  frigate,  by  whom  we 
have  his  Britannick  Magesty's  Speech  to  both  Houses  of  Parliament 
the  27th  of  November  last. 

My  Lords  and  Gentlemen, 

WHEN  I  last  met  you  in  Parliament,  I  acquainted  you  with  the 
arduous  situation  of  publick  affairs  at  that  time,  and  I  represented 
to  you  the  objects  which  I  had  in  view,  and  the  resolution  with 
which  I  was  determined  to  persevere  in  the  defence  of  my  dominions 
against  the  combined  powers  of  my  enemies,  until  such  a  pacification 
could  be  made  as  might  consist  with  the  honour  of  my  Crown,  and 
the  permanent  interest  and  security  of  my  people. 

The  war  is  still  unhapnily  prolonged  by  that  restless  ambition 
which  first  excited  our  enemies  to  commence  it,  and  which  still  con- 
tinues to  disappoint  my  earnest  desire  and  diligent  exertion  to  restore 
the  publick  tranquility.  But  I  should  not  answer  the  trust  com- 
mitted to  the  Sovereign  of  a  free  people,  nor  make  a  suitable  return 
to  my  subjects  for  their  constant,  zealous,  and  affectionate  attach- 
ment to  my  person,  family,  and  government,  if  I  consented  to  sacri- 
fice, either  to  my  own  desire  of  peace,  or  to  their  temporary  ease  and 
relief,  those  essential  rights  and  permanent  interests,  upon  the  main- 
tenance and  preservation  of  which,  the  future  strength  and  security 
of  this  country  must  ever  principally  depend. 

The  favourable  appearance  of  our  affairs  in  the  East-Indies,  and 
the  safe  and  prosperous  arrival  of  the  numerous  commercial  fleets 
of  my  kingdom,  must  have  given  you  satisfaction ;  but  in  the  course 
of  this  year,  my  assiduous  endeavours  to  guard  the  extensive  domin- 
ions of  my  Crown  have  not  been  attended  with  success  equal  to  the 
justness  and  uprightness  of  my  views,  and  it  is  with  great  concern 
that  I  inform  you,  that  the  events  of  war  have  been  very  unfortunate 
to  my  arms  in  Virginia,  having  ended  in  the  loss  of  my  forces  in  that 
province. 

No  endeavours  have  been  wanting  on  my  part  to  extinguish  the 
spirit  of  rebellion  which  our  enemies  have  found  means  to  foment 
and  maintain  in  the  colonies,  and  to  restore  to  my  deluded  subjects 
in  America,  that  happy  and  prosperous  condition  which  they  formerly 
derived,  from  a  due  obedience  to  the  laws ;  but  the  late  misfortune 
in  that  quarter  calls  loudly  for  your  firm  concurrence  and  assistance 
to  frustrate  the  designs  of  our  enemies,  equally  prejudicial  to  the 
real  interests  of  America,  and  to  those  of  Great  Britain. 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  377 

In  the  last  session  you  made  a  considerable  progress  in  your  en- 
quiries into  the  state  and  condition  of  our  dominions  and  revenues 
in  the  East-Indies :  You  will,  I  am  persuaded,  resume  the  prosecu- 
tion of  that  important  deliberation  with  the  same  spirit  and  temper 
in  which  it  was  begun,  and  proceed  with  the  same  attention  and 
amiety  to  consider  how  those  remote  provinces  may  be  held  and  gov- 
erned with  the  greatest  security  and  advantage  to  this  country,  and 
by  what  means  the  happiness  of  the  native  inhabitants  may  be  most 
promoted. 

Gentlemen  of  the  House  of  Commons, 

I  will  order  the  estimates  for  the  ensuing  year  to  be  laid  before  you. 
I  rely  on  your  wisdom  and  publick  spirit  for  such  supplies  as  the  cir- 
cumstances of  our  affairs  shall  be  found  to  require.  Among  the  many 
ill  consequences  which  attend  the  continuation  of  the  present  war,  I 
most  sincerely  regret  the  additional  burthens  which  it  must  unavoid- 
ably bring  upon  my  faithful  subjects. 

My  Lords  and  Gentlemen, 

In  the  persecution  of  this  great  and  important  contest  in  which  we 
are  engaged,  I  retain  a  firm  confidence  in  the  protection  of  Divine 
Providence,  and  a  perfect  conviction  of  the  justice  of  my  cause ;  and 
I  have  no  doubt  but  that  by  the  concurrence  and  support  of  my  Parli- 
ment,  by  the  valour  of  my  fleets  and  armies,  and  by  a  vigorous,  ani- 
mated, and  united  exertion  of  the  faculties  and  resources  of  my  people, 
I  shall  be  enabled  to  restore  the  blessings  of  a  safe  and  honourable 
peace  to  all  my  dominion. 

The  foregoing  has  been  published  in  New-York,  as  the  Speech  of  his 
Britannick  Majesty  to  his  Parliament  at  their  meeting  in  No- 
vember last.  The  following  comes  to  us  through  another  chan- 
nel; and  if  it  was  not  SPOKEN,  perhaps  it  might  as  well  have 
been  SPOKEN. 

My  Lords  and  Gentlemen, 

I  HAVE  thought  proper  to  postpone  your  meeting  till  this  late  season 
that  I  might  have  something  certain  to  lay  before  you  from  our  col- 
onies in  rebellion.  It  is  now  twice  three  years  since  we  have  main- 
tained a  war,  with  immense  glory  to  our  arms,  against  thfit  deluded 
people  who,  notwithstanding  all  our  .measures  of  lenity  and  forbear- 
ance, are  still  the  dupes  of  their  designing  leaders.  I  hoped  to  have 
congratulated  you,  at  the  opening  of  the  session,  on  having  put  an 
intire  period  to  the  war,  and  having  utterly  exterminated  that  rebel- 
lious faction.  It  is  not  so — however,  I  am  happy  to  inform  you  that 
my  Generals  and  Admirals  have  wonderfully  supported  the  glory  of 
the  British  name  in  every  quarter  of  the  globe. 

I  have  thought  it  necessary  to  chastise  the  insolence  of  the  Dutch 
Republick,  who  have  had  the  assurance  to  trade  to  the  same  parts  of 
the  world  with  the  faithful  subjects  of  this  realm,  and  even  to  trans- 
port their  wares  to  their  own  plantations,  without  my  royal  consent. 
My  fleets  and  armies  have  taken  from  them  the  great  and  fertile 


378         NEW  JEKSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1782 

island  of  Eustatia ;  with  infinite  gallantry  and  address  they  came 
upon  it  by  surprise,  pierced  to  the  very  top  of  its  rock,  and  captured 
the  whole  garrison,  consisting  of  at  least  50  men  and  much  mer- 
chandise. But  the  greatness  of  the  victory  is  even  less  than  the 
courage  and  boldness  of  the  enterprise,  on  the  part  of  my  beloved 
ministry,  which  hath  shewn  the  petulent  world  below  that  we  Have 
no  law  of  nations  but  what  we  are  pleased  to  give.  My  brave  Ad- 
miral, his  lady  and  son,  I  have  thought  proper  to  make  all  Peers  of 
this  realm,  for  this  his  gallent  exploit,  and  to  endow  them  with  hon- 
ourable pensions  proportioned  to  their  services  and  their  new  dignities. 
But  as  our  ancient  and  natural  enemies,  the  French,  have  robbed  him 
of  the  profits  of  this  expedition,  out  of  which  these  pensions  were  to 
arise,  I  doubt  not  but  my  faithful  commons  will  make  provision  for 
these  necessary  expences,  with  their  usual  alacrity. 

My  Lords  and  Gentlemen, 

On  the  side  of  America,  tho'  the  rebellion  is  not  yet  extinguished, 
yet,  one  other  campaign,  and  the  usual  exertions  of  my  loving  sub- 
jects, will  give  us  fair  hopes.  We  have  effectually  confined  the  rebel 
armies  to  their  own  continent— they  have  not  been  able  to  advance 
one  foot  into  the  sea,  our  own  victorious  troops  possessing  that  ele- 
ment. An  intrepid  General,  with  a  chosen  army,  has  over-run  the 
southern  provinces.  With  great  prudence  he  took  his  measures  before 
the  rebel  force  could  be  Collected — with  undaunted  bravery  he  executed 
them,  marching  all  alone  through  many  leagues  of  dismal  and  fright- 
ful woods,  filled  with  serpents  and  wild  beasts — and  with  such  im- 
mense rapidity,  that  the  armed  faction  could  never  overtake  him  till 
he  arrived  safe  at  the  side  of  the  sea.  There,  indeed,  I  am  sorry  to 
inform  you,  he  lost  the  town  of  York,  with  its  brave  garrison,  after  a 
long  and  most  heroic  defence.  But  if,  with  the  assistance  of  my  Par- 
liament, I  shall  be  able  to  put  another  army  in  the  same  place  in  the 
spring,  we  shall  be  just  where  we  were — the  provinces  will  have  been 
over-run,  and  our  troops  will  ~be  -in  York.  The  conquest  will  be  the 
same  as  it  was  when,  the  last  summer,  this  famous  city  did  celebrate 
it  with  such  loyal  applause. 

We  refer  you  to  the  reasonings  of  our  loving  and  well  affected  sub- 
jects in  America,  to  prove  that  if  we  had  saved  his  Lordship  and  his 
army,  it  would  have  been  our  great  advantage ;  but  to  have  lost  them 
is  infinitely  a  greater  advantage.f  Therefore,  let  our  courage  revive 
in  new  and  more  desperate  efforts :  But  inasmuch  as  we  cannot 
spare  from  this  our  kingdom  at  home,  nor  yet  buy  from  Germany  men 
sufficient  to  establish  an  army  in  every  county  of  the  rebel  provinces ; 
and  inasmuch  as  one  army  cannot  hold  them  all  at  the  same  time.  w<- 
recommend  it  to  your  serious  consideration  in  this  case  to  make  and 
provide  a  law — that  as,  in  an  ordinary  process,  the  tap  of  a  constable 
or  sheriff  is  sufficient  to  make  a  man  a  prisoner,  so,  in  this  extraor- 
dinary one,  the  passing  of  a  body  of  men  through  the  rebel  countries, 
or  even  the  landing  in  any  part  of  them,  shall  be  entitled  a  conquest, 


t  The   King   has   seen    some   of   Rivington's   papers   about   the   beginning 
of  October  last. 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  379 

and  be  sufficient  grounds  to  proceed  upon  to  re-establish  our  civil  gov- 
ernment and  authority  there.  The  way  of  arms  has  been  found  some- 
what tedious.  Let  us  apply  to  them  the  omnipotence  of  this  our  Par- 
liament. Yea,  my  Lords,  why  need  you  fight  when  you  can  make  laws? 

I  have  next  to  infoim  my  faithful  Parliament,  that  the  nations  of 
the  earth  have  been  vainly  attempting  to  revolt  against  our  sovereign 
dominion  of  the  sea ;  and  by  rebellious  combinations  stiled  neutral 
confederacies,  refusing  to  acknowledge  our  undoubted  right  to  regu- 
late the  trade  and  navigation  of  the  world,  though  our  excellent 
civillians  have  established  a  mare  clausum,  and  demonstrated  our 
empire  on  that  element,  on  such  clear  reasons  as  no  good  Englishman 
can  doubt.  •  For  as  the  ocean  floweth  all  round  this  island,  so,  vice 
versa,  this  island  hath  a  right  to  flow  all  round  the  ocean :  And 
whereas  they  think  to  elude  our  vigilance,  and  to  defraud  our  treas- 
ury, our  royal  wisdom  hath  thought  it  expedient  to  establish  custom- 
house officers  and  admiralty  judges  at  proper  latitudes  all  over  the 
seas,  to  put  in  force  against  these  rebels  our  excellent  maritime  juris- 
prudence in  this  case  provided,  for  the  greater  behoof  and  advantage 
of  the  commerce  of  these  kingdoms.  Every  nation  shall  confess  the 
authority  of  our  puissant  Majesty,  or  shall  feel  our  power :  And  I 
have  thoughts  of  calling  the  Emperor  of  China  to  an  account,  and  of 
laying  an  embargo  upon  the  city  of  Pekin,  for  not  paying  our  duties 
upon  tea,  according  to  law,  to  the  manifest  damage  of  our  treasury, 
and  for  not  buying  their  tea  from  hence,  as  right  would  have  it,  but 
rebelliously  gathering  it  off  their  own  plantations,  to  the  great  loss 
of  our  loyal  East-India  company. 

As  to  the  combined  fleets  of  France  and  Spain,  they  have  not  been 
able  to  extend  themselves  farther  than  the  channel.  As  our  victorious 
armies  have  kept  the  rebels  from  marching  across  the  ocean,  abso- 
lutely restraining  them  to  their  own  continent,  so  have  our  conquer- 
ing admirals  kept  these  fleets  out  of  the  land,  and  fairly  obliged  them 
to  confine  themselves  to  the  s.ea. 

Gentlemen  of  the  House  of  Commons, 

The  proper  estimates  for  the  present  year  shall  be  laid  before  you, 
and  I  doubt  not  but  your  own  fellow  feeling  in  the  application  of  the 
supplies,  will  very  much  help  your  conception  of  the  necessities  of  the 
publick.  You  will  never  let  it  out  of  your  mind,  that  the  people  grow 
wanton  and  rebellious,  and  so  the  interests  of  the  State  suffer  under 
light  taxes,  according  to  the  doctrine  of  some  of  our  good  counsellors. 
Therefore,  as  a  wise  and  gracious  king  ought  to  do,  let  me  recom- 
mend it  to  you  to  remember  the  publick  good. 

My  Lords  and  Gentlemen, 

I  shall  recommend  it  to  your  serious  consideration  to  abolish  religion; 
we  in  this  realm  have  lived  so  long,  and  can  live  so  well  without 
any,  that  it  seems  against  reason  for  my  people  to  pay  for  a  thing 
which  they  never  use,  and  your  own  prudence  will  suggest  to  you 
how  great  a  help  its  revenues  will  be  to  the  growing  expences  of 
our  pension  list,  whither  all  your  eyes  are  not  without  reasonable 
hopes  very  loyally  and  lovingly  turned.  This  reverend  bench  will  not 


380  NEW   JERSEY   IN  THE   REVOLUTION.  [1782 

object  to  professing  as  they  practice,  they  shall  be  the  first  upon  the 
list,  and  have  the  same  pensions  continued  to  them  for  performing 
the  same  services  which  they  have  done  these  many  years,  eating  and 
drinking  for  themselves,  and  voting  for  me.  I  doubt  not,  all  the 
world  will  approve  our  resolution.  For  since  we  have  abandoned 
Christ  for  Epicurus,  the  very  flourishing  state  of  this  empire,  and 
the  great  success  of  our  arms  and  councils,  sufficiently  refute  the 
ancient  superstitions  of  our  fathers  about  providence  and  'virtue. — 
My  Lords  and  Gentlemen,  we  rely  on  your  union  and  dispatch.  Our 
beloved  cousin  and  treasurer  will  make  known  to  you  our  further  will. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

By  publick  vendue,  on  Saturday  the  16th  day  of  March  ensuing,  if 
not  disposed  of  by  private  sale  before, 

A  valuable  house  and  lot  of  land  in  Pennington,  in  the  town- 
ship of  Hopewell,  and  county  of  Hunterdon,  and  State  of  New-Jersey : 
The  house  well  finished,  with  four  rooms  on  a  flour,  and  an  entry 
through  the  whole,  with  a  cellar,  and  a  cistern  for  rain  water  that 
will  hold  eight  hogsheads,  within  one  yard  of  the  kitchen  door ;  a 
good  stable,  chair-house  and  cow-house,  &c.  The  lot  contains  an  half 
acre  of  rich  fertile  land,  garden  and  orchard  of  good  fruit  trees ;  the 
whole  in  good  repair.  Also^a  lot  of  five  acres  of  good  timber  land 
lying  about  two  and  an  half  miles  from  the  premises.  The  stand 
is  very  convenient  for  a  merchant  or  tradesman,  it  being  in  a  place 
where  there  has  been  much  business  done,  and  at  present  is  vacant 
and  appears  to  be  a  good  opening  for  any  one  to  enter  on  trade  in 
said  place.  Any  person  desirous  to  purchase  the  aforesaid,  by  apply- 
ing to  the  subscriber  on  the  premises,  may  know  the  terms. 

STEPHEN  BTJRROWES. 

N.  B.  As  the  subscriber  purposes  leaving  the  state,  requests  all 
persons  that  have  any  demands  against  him  to  bring  in  their  ac- 
counts, that  they  may  be  adjusted,  and  all  persons  indebted  are 
desired  not  to  fail  coming  in  by  said  time  to  make  payment. 

Pennington,  February  18,  1782. 

TO  BE  SOLD  OR  LET, 

Two  valuable  plantations,  one  containing  near  400  acres,  of  which 
about  100  is  wood-land,  50  acres  of  good  tide  meadow,  and  20  more 
may  be  made,  all  on  a  branch  that  runs  through  the  middle  of  the 
plantation,  and  is  darned  from  the  river  by  a  short  and  good  bank, 
which  makes  a  convenient  landing  that  is  well  situate  for  business ; 
there  is  also  on  the  premises  a  convenient  seat  for  a  saw-mill,  about 
a  quarter  of  a  mile  from  the  said  landing,  a  very  good  orchard  con- 
taining a  variety  of  the  best  of  grafted  fruit,  a  good  house,  barn, 
stable,  &c.  The  whole  is  beautifully  situate  on  the  river  Delaware, 
and  has  a  delightful  situation  for  a  gentleman's  country  seat,  which 
may  be  divided  from  the  farm,  if  required.  The  other  is  in  the  town- 
ship of  Shrewsbury,  county  of  Monmouth,  containing  about  100 
acres,  with  a  good  house,  barn,  orchard,  &c.  Immediate  possession 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  381 

will  be  given  to  both  or  either  places.  Payments  will  be  made  easy, 
if  security  is  given.  Any  person  that  chuses  to  treat  as  above,  will 
be  informed  the  terms,  by  applying  on  the  first  described  premises, 
in  the  township  of  Mansfield,  between  Burlington  and  Bordentown, 
by  ARTHUR  DONALDSON. 

Feb.  18,  1782. 

WANTED, 

A  NEGRO  WENCH  that  is  a  good  cook,  and  that  can  wash  and  iron. 
Apply  to  the  printer. 
February  18,  1782. 

TO  BE  SOLD  OR  LET, 
On   good   terms,   and   entered   on   the  25th   of   March   next, 

THAT  noted  stand  for  business  at  Nechasackaway  Creek,  in  the  town- 
ship of  Alexandria,  county  of  Hunterdon,  in  the  State  of  New-Jersey, 
where  Mr.  John  Sherrard  has  lived  seventeen  years,  and  transacted 
business  with  great  success,  being  well  situated  in  the  heart  of  a 
wheat  country,  on  a  publick  road  leading  to  a  ferry  in  Pennsylvania, 
not  far  from  the  premises,  containing  one  acre  of  ground.  The 
buildings  thereon  are  a  dwelling  house  convenient  for  a  family,  a 
large  store  fifty  feet  front,  adjoining ;  cellars  under  the  whole,  a 
cooper's  shop,  stables,  smoke  house,  &c.  with  a  good  well  of  water 
at  the  door.  For  particulars  apply  to  the  subscriber  in  Bucks  county, 
in  the  State  of  Pennsylvania. 

Also .  to  be  sold  a  plantation  in  the  manor  of  Pennsbury,  and  a 
likely  negro  wench,  with  a  young  child. 

THO.  RICHIE. 

Feb.  18,  1782. 

The  subscriber  hereby  informs  the  publick,  that  he  has  removed  from 
Princeton,  New-Jersey,  to  Philadelphia,  in  third  street,  between  Arch 
and  Market  streets,  to  the  sign  of  the  Bunch  of  Grapes,  where  he  in- 
tends to  keep  a  tavern,  or  house  of  entertainment,  for  all  those  who 
please  to  favour  him  with  their  custom ;  and  as  he  has  been  in  the 
same  business  for  a  number  of  years  in  Princeton  and  Trenton,  and 
has  thereby  acquired  a  large  acquaintance  with  a  number  of  gentle- 
men in  New-Jersey  and  elsewhere,  who  have  been  pleased  to  honour 
him  with  their  custom,  he  hopes  the  continuance  of  their  former 
favours  in  this  place. — He  has  excellent  good  stables  for  a  great  number 
of  horses,  and  means  to  make  it  his  only  business  to  serve  the  publick 
in  that  way,  and  their-  favours  will  be  gratefully  acknowledged  by 
their  humble  servant, 

JACOB  G.  BERGEN. 

Philadelphia,  Feb.  12,  1782. 

N.  B.  The  house  lately  kept  by  Jacob  Bergen  is  now  kept  by  Mr. 
Asher  West,  of  Shrewsbury. 


382         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1782 


From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  V.,  No.  218,  Feb.  27,  1781. 

For  the  New-Jersey  Gazette. 

His  Majesty's  most  gracious  SPEECH  to  both  Houses  of  Parliament 
attempted  in  poetry,  by  James  Helicon,  Esq.  poet  laureat  to  His 
Majesty. 

My  Lords  and  Gentlemen, 
When  last  we  met  in  Parliament, 
I  plainly  told  you  my  intent ; 
And  what  my  plans  of  operation, 
And  what  the  publick  situation  ; 
And  that  my  view,  was  still  my  view, 
Which  was  to  do,  as  I  would  do, 
With  ohstinate  determination 
T'  employ  the  vigour  of  the  nation, 
'Gainst  all  the  world  that  should  contest 
My  claims  to  empire  east  or  west, 
Or  my  pretensions  to  the  sea, 
Which  every  drop  belongs  to  me, 
As  Selden  proves  in  Mare  Clausum 
(Nor  could  old  Grotius  come  a-cross  him) 
Still  persevering  in  the  matter, 
To  fight  them  all  by  land  or  water ; 
For  so  require  from  all  creation 
My  Crown,  and  th'  interest  of  the  nation. 
To  leave  one  groat  beyond  th'  atlantic, 
Our  wants  consyler'd,  would  be  frantic ; 
And  till  they're  Thoroughly  subjected, 
All  terms  of  peace  must  be  rejected. 
But  then  those  cursed  imps  of  France 
Who  first  this  squabble  did  commence, 
Tho'  long  the  rebels  stood  alone 
(As  oft  I've  boasted  from   the  Throne) 
Still  take  my  ships  and  beat  my  troops, 
And  join  th'  insurgents  thick  as  hops  ; 
Prolonging  thus  this  plagny  war 
And  all  my  peaceful  systems  mar. 

But  could  I  answer  what  we  meant? 
Or  my  own  aim,  or  your  intent? 
Or  free  my  kingdom  from  taxation? 
Or  ease  the  burden  of  the  nation? 
If  to  my  anxious  wish  of  peace, 
Or  their  own  temporary  ease, 
I  should  give  up  the  golden  view, 
Of  all  that  trade  and  revenue 
Which  we  expected  from  subjection?    "| 
No,  it  would  be  so  queer  an  action,       > 
And  bring  on  us  so  great  reflection       ) 
As  would  set  all  the  realm  on  flame 
And  make  a  by-word  of  my  name. 
For  North,  you  know,  talk'd  strong  as  mustard 
How  we  could  eat  the  rogues  like  custard  ; 
And  setting  thus  the  mob  agig, 
It  wants  some  skill  to  stop  their  jig 
Lest  they  become  all  over  treason'd 
And  seize  on  North  to  cut  his  weasand. 

You  will  rejoice  and  skip  like  frog 
That  leap  the  first  upon  King  Log, 
To  hear  our  triumphs  on  the  main, 
(Which  others  say  the  French  obtain) 


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And  in  the  east,  each  brilliant  action, 

Must  swell  your  breasts  with  satisfaction. 

I  have  not  this.   I   own,  from  Bailey, 

Nor  in  such  style  speaks  Hyder  Ally, 

But  wheresoe'er  my  armies  go, 

Destruction  must  attend  the  foe, 

And  Britons  always  win  the  day 

Or  in  real  fact,  or  as  we  say. 

Yet  as  the  frog  who  strove  to  be 

An  ox,  by  dint  of  ensouffle 

Did  blow  and  swell  until  he  burst  on't, 

Nor  till  too  late,  did  know  the  worst  on't, 

So  I  allur'd  by  loyal  stories 

To  amplify  my  territories, 

(What  adverse  fate  attends  the  righteous, 

Wh'en  France  and  Spain  and  rebels  fight  us!) 

Did  send  Cornwallis  to  Virginia, 

By  length  of  sword,  and  charm  of  guinea, 

To  try  rebellion  to  subdue  ~\ 

Among  the  old  dominion  crew, 

For  that  alone's  my  peaceful  view.   ) 

But  lack-aday  !  my  bowels  wamble 

And  you  my  Lords  will  quake  and  tremble 

While  I  recount  the  dismal  story 

(Alas,  alas!  for  tory,  tory  !) 

How  Washington  and  RocJiambeau 

Did  give  my  fav'rite  such  a  blow 

(While  with  his  roaring  guns  de  Grasse 

Splintered  my  fleet  like  shivering  glass) 

That  mangre  all  his  forts  and  ditches 

He  spoil'd  the  lining  of  his  breeches  ; 

And  to  the  allied  troops  surrender'd 

With  cas'd,  oh  cas'd !  the  British  standard. 

Yet  I  protest  before  you  all 
(And  canon  North  for  witness  call) 
That  I  have  spar'd  nor  thought  nor  action 
To  quench  this  dev'lish  insurrection, 
Which  by  the  French  was  first  maintain'd, 
After  it  had  for  three  years  reign'd ; 
Or  to  convince  by  argument 
The  whole  deluded  continent. 
That  without  yeilding  to  our  sway 
They're  gone  for  ever  and  for  aye; 
Devoted  to  a  thousand  curses 
For  not  presenting  us  their  purses  ; 
And  still  I  hope  to  flog  them  so 
That  they  no  longer  shall  say  no. 
But  that  confounded  deadly  stroke 
Of  which,  with  grief,  I  just  now  spoke, 
Calls  very  loud  for  your  assistance 
To  save  the  next  campaign,  our  distance, 
And  frustrate  the  designs  of  Louis 
Which  on  my  word,  my  only  view  is. 

In  the  last  session  you  were  told 
How  you  might  make  East-India  gold, 
And  with  great  pleasure  did  I  see 
Your  progress  in  that  chymistry, 
Nor  need  I  now  each  member  tell 
To  take  again  his  crucible, 
And  melt  and  smelt,  and  puff  and  blow, 
Till  from  the  ore  the  metal  flow. 
Pray  recommence  the  operation 
Of  mining  for  th'  impoverish'd  nation ; 


384:        NEW  JEESEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1782 

And  happ'ly  plan  how  all  Indostan 
Or  those  who  can  be  most  impos'd  on, 
May  be  persuaded,  without  battles, 
To  give  us  all  their  goods  and  chattels ; 
And  that  the  natives  cannot  be 
Or  rich  or  happy,  great  or  free, 
Until  each  Omra  and  each  Nabob 
Remits  us,  every  man,  his  gay  cob ; 
And,  for  their  own  advantage,  find  us 
With  all  the  gold  and  gems  of  Indus; 
To  prove  that  all  those  tawny  races 
(As  plain  as  nose  on  a  man's  face  is) 
May  have  their  chains  completely  broke 
By  fixing  round  their  necks  our  yoke. 

'Tis  true  for  all  this  work,  so  fine  O  ! 
We  want  supplies  of  ready  rhino, 
And  I  before  the  commons  lay 
The  bill  of  fare  they'll  have  to  pay, 
Which,  tho'  it  seems  a  mighty  score, 
You  ought  to  wonder  is  no  more. 
All  righteous  wars  such  reck'nings  bring 
(Reck'nings  regretted  by  your  King) 
But  when  you  take  in  contemplation    ~| 
The  secret  service  of  the  nation, 
With  my  own  knack  at  propagation      ) 
I'm  sure  you'll  think  it  scarce  enough 
And  give  as  free  as  men  give  snuff ; 
For  neither  you  nor  can  ourself 
Pay  fleets  and  armies  without  pelf ; 
And  he  that  must  to  battle  call 
Should  doubtless  have  the  wherewithal. 

As  'tis  the  mode  on  like  occasion 
To  mix  religion  in  th'  oration, 
I  do  rely  on  Providence, 
But  place  in  you  more  confidence ; 
And  as  my  lads  are  us'd  to  clubbing, 
Tho  oft'  they  get  a  dreadful  drubbing, 
I  hope  that  ev'ry  mother's  son 
Will  to  the  royal  standard  run, 
('Tis  not  the  standard  that's  here  meant 
Which  Washington  to  Congress  sent) 
And  cuff  and  bruise,  and  claw  and  clatter,    "j 
And  fight  like  punk  by  land  and  water 
To  finish  this  confounded  matter.  J 

The  humble  ADDRESS   of  the  Lords  and  Commons 
in  co-partnership  assembled. 

Most  gracious  sovereign, 
Like  fawning  slaves  as  ever  crawl'd 
We  echo  back  what  you  have  bawl'd ; 
We  thank  you  for  your  information, 
Tho'  known  before  to  all  the  nation  ; 
We'll  do  and  say  as  you  require 
Most  gracious  and  majestick  sire. 
We'll  stand  for  ever  by  the  King, 
And  tax  and  tax  like  any  thing, 
Be  always  ready  at  your  call 
And  for  the  people — d-m  them  all. 


1782] 


NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS. 


TRENTON,  Feb.  27. 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  an  officer  in  the  Southern  arinij,  dated 
Camden,  December  18,  1781. 

"I  congratulate  you  on  the  happy  change  of  our  political  affairs  in 
this  country — the  enemy  have  withdrawn  themselves  into  Charlestown, 
General  Greene  is  at  the  Round  O — his  movement  southerly  has  made 
them  tremble  for  Savannah,  which  they  have  reinforced  with  500  men 
from  Charlestown.  A  tory  Colonel  and  Captain  have  made  their  escape, 
and  thrown  themselves  upon  the  clemency  of  their  country — the  pro- 
tection— men  pour  out  in  shoals  from  the  town,  to  reap  the  advantage 
of  the  Governor's  proclamation — never  was  a  more  general  military  ardour 
displayed  during  the  war,  than  at  present  by  the  militia  of  this  state. — 
America,  and  especially  the  southern  states,  can  never  sufficiently  acknowl- 
edge the  services  done  by  that  great  officer  General  Greene,  who  with 
a  mere  handful  of  men  has  resisted  a  torrent  of  difficulties,  and  rose  at 
length  :  superior  to  them  all — whilst  in  the  rapidity  of  his  conquest,  he 
has  discovered  the  intrepidity  of  a  Caesar ;  in  the  eguinimity  of  his  mind, 
he  has  displayed  the  disinterested  virtue  of  a  Cato.  General  Sinclair, 
with  the  army  designed  to  reinforce  General  Greene,  is  at  Charlotte,  in 
the  state  of  North  Carolina,  a  few  days  will  complete  a  junction  and 
give  us  a  vast  superiority  in  this  country." 

We  hear  that  a  vessel  is  arrived  at  Baltimore,  which  brings  the 
agreeable  intelligence  that  Captain  Gillan,  of  the  Charles-Town  Packet, 
had  arrived  at  the  Havanna,  with  five  very  valuable  prizes,  which  he 
had  picked  out  of  the  Jamaica  fleet. 

PURSUANT  to  the  last  will  and  testament  of  Thomas  Stackhouse. 
late  of  Bristol  township,  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania,  deceased,  will 
be  exposed  for  sale,  by  way  of  publick  vendue,  on  tne  premises,  the 
14th  day  of  3d  month ;  a  valuable  plantation  situate  in  the  township 
aforesaid,  adjoining  Pennsbury-Manor  and  lands  of  John  Pemberton, 
within  two  miles  of  a  good  landing  on  Delaware  river,  containing  1GO 
acres,  about  100  acres  cleared  and  in  good  repair,  25  acres  of  meadow, 
and  near  as  much  more  may  be  made,  a  large  bearing  orchard,  the 
fruit  noted  for  making  good  cyder.  There  is  on  said  plantation  a  frame 
dwelling-house,  two  rooms  on  a  floor,  cellar,  kitchen,  and  a  well  of 
good  water ;  also  a  frame  barn,  stables,  and  other  convenient  out- 
houses, all  in  good  repair.  Due  attendance  will  be  given,  and  con- 
ditions made  known  at  the  time  and  place  of  sale  by 

JOHN  BROWN,  1     Execu- 

WILL  STACKHOUSE,     /       tors. 


TO  BE  SOLD, 

By  private  sale,  and  may  be  entered  upon  the  first  day 
of  April  ensuing, 

A  Valuable  plantation  in  the  township  of  Hopewell,  where  Samuel 
Baker  lately  lived,  near  Pennington,  containing  50  acres  of  land,  well 
watered  and  timbered,  with  meadow,  and  an  excellent  orchard,  a  good 
house,  barn,  &c.  The  whole  in  good  repair.  For  terms  apply  to  Mr. 

25 


•"Mi  .\i-.\v  .IKKSKY  ix  THE  RK VOLUTION.  j  \t^-2 

John  Ketcham,  near  the  premises,  or  Mr.  Isaac  Rittenhouse,  in  the 
township  of  Amwell,  in  the  county  of  Hunterdon,  and  state  of  New- 
Jersey,  who  will  agree  on  terms,  and,  give  an  indisputable  title  for  the 
same. 

February  23,  1782. 


TO  BE  SOLD,  at  publick  Vendue, 

lu  Essex  county,  within  2  miles  of  Elizabeth-Town,  on  Monday  the 
first  day  of  April  next,  at  two  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  if  not 
disposed  of  at  private  sale  at  any  time  before, 

THE  farm  of  the  late  Mr.  John  Clawson,  deceased,  lying  upon  the 
main  road  towards  Brunswick.  It  contains  fifty  acres  of  good  land. 
There  is  on  the  premises  a  large  dwelling-house,  two  stories  high,  barn, 
and  out-houses,  an  apple  orchard  of  200  trees  of  the  best  grafted 
fruit,  15  acres  of  good  meadow  land ;  the  whole  is  well  watered.  Any 
person  inclining  to  purchase  the  above  farm,  may  know  the  terms 
by  applying  to  the  subscriber  on  the  premises,  who  will  give  an  in- 
disputable title. 

ANTHONY  CLAWSON. 
Feb.  24,  1782. 

WANTED, 
A  Journeyman  Fuller, 

To   whom    good    wages    and    constant   employ    (if   suitable)    will    be 
given  by  ABRAM.  SKIRM. 

Nottingham,  22d  of  2d  Month,  1782. 

WHERAS  Thomas  Pap  detains  a  note  of  hand  from  me  to  him,  dated 
in  1777,  illegally :  I  forbid  any  person  or  persons  taking  an  assign- 
ment on  said  note,  as  it  will  not  be  accepted  by  me. 

JOEL  MIDDLETON. 

Crosswicks,  Feb.  24,  1782. 


TO  BE  SOLD, 

ALL  that  tract  of  land  or  farm  formerly  •  belonging  to  Benjamin 
Jones,  now  in  the  possession  of  Stephen  Dunham,  adjoining  the  stone 
meeting-house,  in  the  township  of  Kingwood,  and  county  of  Hunter- 
don, containing  two  hundred  and  eighty-three  acres  of  which  there  is 
a  sufficiency  of  woodland,  and  some  good  meadow,  and  a  conveniency 
of  making  more,  with  a  good  dwelling-house,  barn  and  orchard ;  the 
fences  in  tolerable  good  order.  For  further  particulars  and  terms  of 
sale  apply  to  Anthony  White,  at  the  Union  Farm,  or  Nehemiah  Dun- 
ham of  said  township. 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  387 

TO*  BE  SOLD, 

A  NEGRO  WENCH,  about  thirty-five  years  of  age,  with  a  female 
child  about  two  and  an  half  years  old.  The  wench  understands  all 
sorts  of  kitchen  work,  and  cooking  in  particular  of  a  variety  of  dishes. 
She  is  very  healthy,  and  has  had  the  small-pox  and  measles.  For 
terms  apply  to  Andrew  Mershon,  inn-keeper,  at  Millstone,  in  Somerset 
county. 

Feb.  14,  1782. 

WHEREAS  Catherine  Shapher  hath,  by  force  obliged  me  to  contract 
matrimony  with  her  against  my  will :  This  is  to  give  publick  notice, 
that  I  shall  not  pay  any  debts  of  her  contracting  from  the  date  of  this 
advertisement,  as  I  hold  the  marriage  unlawful,  it  not  being  done 
with  my  free  consent,  and  I  never  intend  to  live  or  bed  with  her. 

PETER  HENRY. 

February  2,  1782. 

For  the  NEW-JERSEY  GAZETTE. 

AMERICA,  before  the  late  war  seemed  to  have  been  little  known 
or  considered,  in  the  important  light  it  merited,  in  Europe. — It  was 
a  distant  country,  and  nobody  guessed  at  the  rapid  improvement  it 
had  made  in  so  short  a  time  from  its  first  settlement. — Indeed  it  was 
almost  impossible  they  should,  for  I  believe  there  is  no  instance,  in 
ancient  or  modern  times,  which  could  justify  the  reasonings  of  this 
extent. — It  has  had  a  progress,  beyond  any  calculation  founded  in 
the  knowledge  of  other  countries.  There  seems  to  have  been  almost, a 
magical  creation  of  men  and  things ;  nor  can  any  thing  less  than 
the  most  irrefragable  facts  realize  to  the  mind  the  present  state  of 
population  and  improvement  in  these  colonies. 

L«t  any  one  only  take  a  view  of  the  map  of  Pennsylvania  made 
thirty  and  forty  years  ago,  and  he  will  find  the  limits  of  geographical 
knowledge  so  scanty,  compared  with  the  settlements  actually  made 
since  several  hundred  miles  beyond  them,  that  he  will  regard  it  rather 
as  matter  of  curiosity  than  general  information. — There  is  scarcely 
any  American  xstate  but  may  furnish  an  instance  of  the  same  nature, 
though  not  many  of  them  perhaps  in  an  equal  degree.— What  some 
few  well  informed  persons  well  knew  the  circumstances  of  the  present 
war  have  fully  demonstrated  to  all  the  world.  Political  arithmeticians 
have  calculated  with  great  certainty,  that  the  inhabitants  of  many  of 
these  states  double  their  numbers  by  natural  increase,  exclusive  of  the 
accession  of  strangers,  in  five  and  twenty  years.  These  facts  have 
been  gathered  from  an  actual  numbering  of  the  people  at  different 
times,  fairly  made,  with  a  view  of  information  to  the  government,  in 
several  of  the  colonies.  I  shall  here  give  two  lists  of  this  kind,  made 
in  New-Jersey,  in  the  years  1737-8,  and  1745,  it  being  a  state  into 
which  few  or  no*  strangers  have  been  imported  from  abroad. 

"The  number  of  people  in  New-Jersey  taken  by  order  of  the  gov- 
ernment in  1737-8." 


388 


NEW    JERSEY   IN   THE   REVOLUTION. 


[1782 


1  Males 

1 
|  above 

1 
Counties            |     16 

Feml. 
above 
16 

Males* 
under 
16 

Peml. 
under 
16 

Slaves. 

Total 
of 
whites 

Total 
of 

slaves 

Males 

Feml. 

Middlesex   

1134 
1118 
939 
967 
1508 
1487 
930 
1669 
261 

1618 

1085 
1720 
822 
940 
1339 
1222 
757 
1391 
219 

1230 

1086 
1619 
820 
999 
1289 
1190 
782 
1313 
271 

1270 

956 
1494 

708 
867 
1295 
996 
676 
1327 
211 

1170 

272 
198 
443 
425 
362 
192 
74 
97 
21 

124 

231 
177 
363 
307 
293 
151 
48 
87 
21 

95 

4261 
6644 
3289 
3773 
5431 
4895 
3145 
5700 
962 

5288 

503 
375 
806 

T::J 
655 
343 
112 
184 
41 

219 

Essex     

Bergen    

Somerset  

Monmouth    

Burlington    

Gloucester    

Salem    

Cape-May    

Hunterdon  including 
Morris     

Total 

11G31 

10725 

10039 

9700 

2200 

1773 

43388 

3981 

N.  B.  The  whole  is  47,369. 


"Number   of   people  in 
Morris  in  1745." 


New-Jersey,    taken   by    order   of   Governor 


Males 

Feml. 

Males 

Feml. 

Total 

Total 

Counties 

above 

above 

under 

under 

Slaves 

of 

of 

16 

16 

16 

16 

Males 

Feml.  (whites 

slaves 

Morris 

1109 

957 

1190 

1087 

57 

36 

4343 

93 

Hunterdon 

2302 

2117 

2182 

2090 

244 

216 

8691 

460 

Burlington 

1786 

1605 

1528 

1454 

233 

197 

6373 

430 

Gloucester 

913 

797 

786 

808 

121 

81  1     3304J      202 

Salem 

1716 

1603 

1746|   1595 

90 

97 

6660 

187 

Cape-May 

306 

272|        284J     274 

30 

21 

1136 

52 

Bergen 

721 

590 

494 

585 

379 

237 

2390]     616 

Essex 

1694 

1649 

1652 

1548 

244 

201 

6543 

445 

Middlesex 

1728 

1659 

1651 

1695  |     483 

'  396 

6733|     879 

Monmouth 

2071 

1783 

1975 

1899]     513 
i 

386 

7728 

899 

Somerset 

740 

740 

765 

719|     194 

149 

2896 

343 

Total. 

1 

1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  389 

The  whole  is  G1.403.     Increase  in  seven  years,  14,034. 

It  appeal's  then,  that  the  increase  upon  47,369  souls,  in  seven  years, 
from  the  year  1737-8  to  the  year  1745,  is  14,034 — so  that  the  number 
at  the  latter  period  is,  61,403. — Now  according  to  the  same  ratio,  at 
the  end  of  the  next  seven  years,  that  is  in  1752,  the  increase  of  the 
number  61,403  will  be  about  18,000,  which  makes  in  the  whole 
in  said  years,  79,000 ;  and  reckoning  upon  this  number,  agreeably  to 
the  same  mode  of  calculating,  the  amount  of  the  inhabitants  in  1759 
was  about  102,000,  in  1766,  131,000,  in  1773,  168,000,  and  in  1780, 
215.000. — But  leaving  this  method,  let  us  take  up  the  arithmetick  of 
those  politicians  who  say,  that  the  number  of  inhabitants  in  these 
states  double  every  five  and  twenty  years — the  number  then  in  1745 
being  61,403,  in  1770  it  was  122,806,  and  in  the  present  year,  after 
making  some  allowance  for  those  who  have  removed  into  other  states, 
and  the  loss  sustained  by  the  war,  I  think  we  may  reasonably  set  them 
down  at  175,000  souls. 

At  the  two  periods,  when  the  above  lists  were  taken,  it  appears 
that  the  males  above  16  years  of  age  bore  a  proportion  of  about  one 
fourth  part  to  the  whole  number ;  that  is,  there  were  11,631  males 
above  16,  out  of  47,369  souls,  in  1737-8;  and  15,080  above  the  same 
age,  out  of  the  number  of  61,403  in  1745. — Pursuing  this  rule  it  will 
be  found,  that  we  must  have  in  the  state  of  New-Jersey,  in  the  present 
year  1782,  forty-three  thousand  seven  hundred  and  fifty  males  above 
sixteen  years  of  age — But,  for  the  sake  of  round  numbers,  suppose 
40,000 — Quere,  How  many  are  there  of  these  under  the  age  of  50? 
beyond  which  age  the  male  inhabitants  are  excused  from  bearing  arms. 

If  this  question  can  be  answered  with  precision,  we  shall  easily  arrive 
at  the  number  of  men  capable  of  bearing  arms  within  this  state. 

It  cannot  but  afford  a  secret  satisfaction  to  every  well-wisher  to 
America  to  observe,  from  the  foregoing  facts,  how  suddenly  the  loss 
of  inhabitants  in  these  states  by  disease,  casualties  and  war,  is  re- 
paired by  natural  generation  only. 

I  believe  there  never  has  been,  in  any  other  country,  an  instance  of 
population  in  the  same  degree,  from  the  same  cause.  There  was  a 
time  indeed  in  Europe,  when  the  northern  part  of  it,  or  the  northern 
line,  as  it  was  called,  poured  forth  immense  swarms  of  people,  which 
was  thought  by  some  to  be  owing  to  the  countries  from  whence  they 
came,  being  overstocked  with  inhabitants.  But  some  historians  have 
very  properly  accounted  for  these  migrations,  from  other  causes.  The 
lands  in  those  countries  were  cleared  in  spots,  not  very  extensive,  or 
contiguous ;  and,  in  process  of  time,  becoming,  from  the  increase  of 
population,  insufficient  to  maintain  and  support  the  inhabitants,  they 
were  too  lazy  and  indolent  to  make  farther  improvements ;  but  al- 
lured by  the  warm  climate  and  fertile  lands  of  the  south,  they  collected 
in  bodies,  formed  armies,  and  marched  thither  to  take  possession  of 
them.  Hence  it  appears,  that  the  cultivation  of  the  lands  was  lim- 
ited from  the  natural  indolence  and  want  of  industry  in  the  people, 
and  this  could  not  fail  of  circumscribing  or  at  least  checking  their 
rising  numbers. 

In  these  states  there  has  been  a  happy  combination  of  causes  in 
favour  of  the  increase  of  the  inhabitants,  which  those  nations  of 


390  NEW    JERSEY   IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1782 

Europe  did  not  enjoy.  Knowledge  and  the  Arts,  were  diffused,  and 
conspired  with  the  industry  of  the  inhabitants  in  favour  of  our  growth 
and  improvement. — Commerce  took  off  her  superfluous  commodities 
and  poured  into  her  lap  the  riches  of  other  nations. — A  civilized  liberty 
too  has  had  its  share  in  making  us  what  we  are. 

These  are  the  causes,  joined  to  the  advantages  of  a  fruitful  soil, 
and  favourable  climate,  which  have  produced  such  wonderful  effects. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

By  publick  vendu,  on  Second  Day  the  llth  of  March  next,  at  the 
late  dwellinghouse  of  Thomas  Woodward,  of  Upper-Freehold,  in 
the  county  of  Monmouth,  and  state  of  New-Jersey,  deceased. 

ALL  his  personal  estate,  consisting  of  a  variety  of  household  goods 
and  kitchen  furniture,  such  as  beds,  bedding,  desks,  drawers,  tables. 
looking-glasses,  chairs,  &c.  &c.  together  with  a  large  stock  of  valuable 
horses,  cattle,  sheep  and  hogs.  Likewise,  waggons,  ploughs,  harrows, 
gears,  and  every  implement  of  husbandry  or  farming  utensils.  Also, 
a  large  quantity  of  wheat,  rye,  and  about  eight  hundred  bushels  of 
Indian  corn,  and  seventy  or  eighty  acres  of  wheat  and  rye  growing 
on  the  ground. 

To  be  rented  for  a  term  of  years,  about  three  hundred  acres  of 
land  and  meadow,  it  being  a  part  of  that  so  much  noted  excellent 
plantation  of  the  said  Thomas  Woodward,  deceased,  either  by  vendue 
or  private  agreement. 

Whoever  are  indebted  to  the  above  estate,  are  requested  immediately 
to  settle  the  same,  and  they  who  have  any  demands,  are  desired  to 
bring  in  their  accounts,  properly  authenticated,  that  they  may  be  ad- 
justed. 

N.  B.  The  vendue  to  begin  at  eight  o'clock,  when  the  conditions  will 
be  made  known,  and  attendance  given,  by 

SUSANNAH  WOODWARD, 


February  22,  1782. 


RICHARD  POTTS,  (  Execut. 


THE  METHOD  OF  RAISING  MUSTARD  SEED  IN  DURHAM, 
OLD  ENGLAND. 

THE  ground  must  be  well  manured  and  made  into  hills  about  three 
and  a  half  feet  distant  each  way,  and  managed  in  the  same  manner 
as  Indian  corn  ;  plant  the  seed  a  little  below  the  surface,  the  first 
good  weather  in  March,  let  there  be  only  one  stalk  remaining  on  each 
hill,  and  the  seed  will  grow  larger  and  better ;  as  it  does  not  all  come 
to  perfection  at  one  time,  it  must  be  gathered  as  it  ripens  and  spread 
on  a  floor  to  dry.  which  is  the  work  of  children. 

N.  B.  An  acre  of  good  ground,  cultivated  in  this  manner,  will 
produce  about  ten  bushels  of  seed,  the  value  of  which,  according  to 
the  price  now  given,  will  be  Twenty  Pounds. 

WILLIAM  RICHARDS  takes  in  mustard  seed  at  his  store  at 
Trenton  Landing,  where  it  is  manufactured,  also  at  his  store  in 
Market-Street,  Philadelphia. 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  391 

TO  ALL  WHOM  IT  MAY  CONCERN: 

State  of  New-Jersey. 

NOTICE  is  hereby  given,  that  a  court  will  be  held  at  the  house  of 
James  Green,  in  Freehold,  in  the  county  of  Monmouth,  on  the  16th 
day  of  March  next,  at  the  hour  of  ten  in  the  forenoon  of  the  same 
day,  then  and  there  to  try  the  truth  of  the  facts  alledged  in  the  bill 
of  Capt.  William  Gray,  (who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the  sloop  or 
vessel  called  the  Lucy,  taken  on  her  voyage  from  Egg-Harbour  to 
New-York,  William  Dillen,  late  master,  with  her  tackle,  apparel,  fur- 
niture and  cargo,  and  a  negro  man  named  York :  To  the  end  and 
intent  that  the  owner  or  owners  of  the  said  vessel,  or  any  other  per- 
son or  persons  interested  therein,  may  appear  and  shew  cause,  if  any 
they  have,  why  the  said  vessel,  cargo  and  negro  man,  should  not  be 
condemned  to  the  captors,  pursuant  to  the  prayer  of  the  said  bill. 
By  order  of  the  Court, 

ABIEL  AKIN,  Agent. 

February  23,  1782. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  publick  vendue,  on  Wednesday  the  27th  of  March,  on  the 

premises, 

A  Valuable  plantation  whereon  Colonel  Joseph  Stout,  deceased,  dwelt, 
now  in  the  tenure  of  Mr.  John  P.  Hunt,  situated  in  Hopewell  town- 
ship, and  county  of  Hunterdon,  containing,  by  estimation,  296  acres 
of  good  land,  200  or  more  of  which  are  cleared,  the  rest  well  timbered, 
and  watered  with  a  number  of  good  springs,  has  a  quantity  of  good 
mowing  ground,  and  more  may  be  made  with  little  expence.  On  the 
said  premises  are  a  large  stone  dwelling-house,  two  stories  high,  with 
nine  rooms  well  finished,  six  fire-places,  and  a  large  entry  through 
the  center ;  a  cellar  and  cellar  kitchen,  a  well  of  excellent  water  at 
the  door,  a  stone  barn  and  other  out-houses,  an  orchard  of  grafted 
fruit,  peaches,  pears  and  cherries  of  the  best  kind,  and  a  variety  of 
other  fruit.  The  situation  is  very  healthy  and  pleasant,  and  would 
suit  a  gentleman  or  farmer.  The  vendue  to  begin  at  twelve  of  the 
clock  on  said  day,  when  attendance  will  be  given,  and  the  conditions 
made  known,  by  JOSEPH  STOUT. 

BY  virtue  of  a  writ  of  Fieri  Facias  to  me  directed  and  delivered, 
will  be  exposed  to  sale  at  publick  vendue,  on  the  premises,  between 
the  hours  of  12  and  5  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  of  Saturday,  the  27th 
day  of  April  next,  the  old  well-'known  publick-house  commonly  called 
Ringo's  Tavern,  in  the  township  of  Amwell  and  county  of  Hunterdon, 
together  with  about  forty-five  acres  of  land  adjoining  it,  of  which 
there  are  ten  of  good  meadow  land,  and  nearly  the  same  quantity  of 
wood  land.  There  are  on  the  premises  a  large  barn  and  stables,  two 
sheds,  a  good  well  of  water  close  to  the  door,  &c.  &c. 

The  above  is  seized  and  taken  in  execution  at  the  suit  of  the  execu- 
tors of  the  last  will  and  testament  of  William  Pidgeon,  Esq.  deceased. 

JOSHUA  CORSIION,  Sheriff. 

Arnwell,  Feb.  26,  1782. 


392         NEW  JERSEY  IN"  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1782 


From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  V.,  No.  219,  March  6,  1782. 

BY  HIS  EXCELLENCY 
GEORGE  WASHINGTON,  ESQUIRE, 

General  and  Commander  in  Chief  of  the  armies  of  the  United  States 
of  America. 

PROCLAMATION. 

WHEREAS  there  is  good  reason  to  believe,  that  there  are  many 
deserters  from  the  continental  army,  who,  from  a  conviction  of  their 
errors,  and  from  finding  themselves  deluded  by  false  promises,  would 
willingly  return  to  their  colours,  were  they  not  apprehensive  of  that 
punishment  which  is  justly  due  to  their  crimes :  Therefore  from 
motives  of  humanity,  and  in  order  to  give  all  such  an  opportunity  of 
returning  to  the  service  of  their  country,  I  have  thought  fit  to  issue 
this  my  proclamation,  offering  free  pardon  to  all  deserters ;  as  well 
as  those  who  may  have  joined  the  enemy  as  others,  who  shall  deliver 
themselves  up  to  any  continental  officer,  on  or  before  the  first  day 
of  June  next. 

But  I  think  it  necessary  at  the  same  time  to  declare,  that  all  those 
who  neglect  to  embrace  the  terms  now  offered,  and  are  hereafter  ap- 
prehended, may  expect  the  most  exemplary  punishment. 

GIVEN  at  Headquarters  in  Philadelphia,  this  eighth  day  of 
February,  1782. 

GEORGE  WASHINGTON. 
By  His  Excellency's  Command, 

Tench  Tilghman,  A.  D.  C. 

From  the  London  Evening  Post. 

To  the  PRINTER. 
Sir, 

AMERICA  can  never  be  subdued  by  our  arms,  unless  the  people  can  be 
alienated  from  their  own  rulers,  and  allured  into  a  voluntary  submis- 
sion to  our  government. 

Were  it  possible  for  America  to  be  forced  into  a  temporary  submission 
by  some  wondrous  turn  of  fortune,  such  a  growing  people  could  not  be 
long  kept  in  obedience,  unless  their  spirits  could  be  reconciled  to  the 
yoke. 

A  bold  and  civilized  people,  who  have  once  been  made  jealous  of  their 
liberties,  will  never  assent  to  a  voluntary  dependence  on  a  foreign  power, 
while  they  think  themselves  able  to  assert  their  freedom. 

The  millions  of  money  annually  expended  in  America,  for  the  sup- 
port of  our  forces  in  that  country,  since  the  beginning  of  this  war.  are 
the  most  powerful  arms  that  they  could  be  supplied  with  against  our- 
selves, and  will  either  enable  them  to  make  a  speedy  renewal  of  their 
efforts  if  they  should  be  baffled  in  their  present  struggle,  and  reduced  to 
make  treacherous  concessions :  or  if,  what  is  much  more  probable,  the 
aera  of  their  allowed  independence  should  now  arrive,  will  .furnish  them 
with  the  means  of  the  most  rapid  progress  in  every  line  of  improvement. 

It  is  absurd  to  hazard  the  almost  certain  and  immediate  loss  of  our 
West-India  islands,  by  an  obstinate  perseverance  in  the  American  war, 
on  the  idea,  that  if  the  Americans  become  independent,  they  may  some 
time  or  other  make  these  islands  appendant  on  their  own  empire.  The 
subjugation  of  America,  if  it  were  certain  to  be  effected  in  the  end, 
would  not  compensate  for  the  loss  of  the  West-India  islands  in  the  ac- 
complishment of  that  object. 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  393 

WHITEHALL,  November  27. 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  Sir  Henry  Clinton  to  the  Right  Hon.  Lord 
George  Germaiue,  one  of  His  Majesty's  principal  Secretaries  of 
state,  dated  on  board  the  London,  off  Chesapeake,  October  29, 
1781 ;  by  Captain  Melcombe,  of  His  Majesty's  sloop  the  Rattle- 
snake, who  arrived  in  town  on  Sunday  night  last. 

AGREEABLE  to  the  Information  which.  I  had  the  honour  to  give  your 
Lordship  in  my  last  despatch,  the  fleet  under  the  command  of  Rear-Admiral 
Greaves  sailed  from  Sandy-Hook  on  the  16th  instant,  and  arrived  off 
Cape  Charles  the  24th,  when  we  had  the  mortification  to  hear  that  Lord 
Cornwallis  had  proposed  terms  of  capitulation  to  the  enemy  on  the  17th. 
This  intelligence  was  brought  us  by  the  pilot  of  the  Charon,  and  some 
other  persons  who  came  off  from  the  shore,  and  said  they  had  made  their 
escape  from  York  -on  the  18th,  and  had  not  heard  any  firing  there  since 
the  day  before.  The  Nymph  frigate  also  arriving  the  next  day  from 
New-York,  brought  me  a  letter  from  his  Lordship  dated  the  15th,  the 
clrsponding  tenor  of  which  gives  me  the  most  alarming  apprehen- 
sions of  its  truth.  Since  then  we  have  been  plying  off  the  Capes  with 
variable  and  hard  gales  of  wind  to  the  present  hour,  without  being  able 
to  procure  any  further  information,  except  from  two  men  taken  in  a 
canoe,  whose  report  exactly  corresponds  with  the  former. 

Comparing,  therefore,  the  intelligence  given  by  these  people,  and  sev- 
eral others  since  come  in,  with  the  purport  of  Lord  Cornwallis's  letter, 
a  copy  of  which  I  have  the  honour  to  enclose  for  your  Lordship's  in- 
formation, we  cannot  entertain  the  least  doubt  of  his  Lordship's  having 
capitulated,  and  that  we  are  unfortunately  too  late  to  releive  him  ;  which' 
being  the  only  object  of  the  expedition,  the  Admiral  has  determined  upon 
returning  with  his  fleet  to  Sandy-Hook. 

I  beg  leave  to  mention  to  your  Lordship,  that  the  army  is  under  the 
greatest  obligations  to  the  Admirals,  the  Captains,  and  the  officers  of  the 
King's  ships,  for  the  chearfulness  with  which  they  submitted  to  many 
and  great  inconveniences  for  our  accommodation  on  this  service. 

Admiralty-Office,  November  27,  1781. 

Captain  Melcombe,  of  His  Majesty's  sloop  the  Rattlesnake,  arrived 
at  this  office  late  on  Sunday  night  from  America,  with  despatches 
from  Rear-Admiral  Graves  to  Mr.  Stephens,  of  which  the  following  is 
an  extract. 

London,   at  sea,   October  29,   1781. 

In  my  last  letter,  by  the  Lively,  Captain  Manley,  I  desired  you  to 
acquaint  the  Lords  Commissioners  of  the  Admiralty  of  my  having  passed 
the  bar  of  New-York  with  the  British  fleet,  with  7000  of  the  army  em- 
barked, to  go  to  the  releif  of  Earl  Cornwallis.  at  York,  in  the  Chesapeake. 

The  fleet  accordingly  sailed  the  moment  the  troops  were  put  on  board, 
and  proceeded  the  same  day  (the  19th)  for  the  Chesapeake. 

The  24th  we  received  intelligence  from  a  black  man,  who  was  pilot 
of  His  Majesty's  ship  Charon,  a  white  man  who  belonged  to  the  Quarter- 
Master  General's  department,  and  another  black  man,  who  had  made 
their  escape  together  from  York,  that  Lord  Cornwallis  had  capitulated 
on  the  18th  inst.  the  day  before  the  fleet  sailed  from  Sandy-Hook. 

The  25th  one  of  our  boats  brought  off  some  people  from  the  shore  near 
Cape  Charles,  who  gave  the  same  report  of  the  capitulation. 

The  26th  His  Majesty's  ship  La  Nymphe  joined  us  from  New-York, 
and  brought  despatches  from  Lord  Cornwallis,  dated  the  15th,  a  copy 
of  which  is  enclosed,  and  leaves  little  room  to  question  the  truth  of  the 
other  intelligence.  The  three  people  being  still  on  board  and  questioned 
again,  and  known  for  what  they  reported  themselves  to  be  by  several 
persons  still  to  coroborate  :  I  therefore  determined  to  detach  the  Rattle- 
snake for  Europe,  to  give  the  earliest  information  to  their  Lordships, 
that  government  may  be  prepared  to  receive  the  particulars. 


394         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1782 

I  should  have  been  happy  to  have  tried  every  possible  means  to  effect 
si  ivleif.  could  we  have  arrived  in  time;  that  prospect  being  at  an  end, 
I  determined  to  leave  this  station,  and  return  to  New-York. 

N.  B.  The  copy  of  Lord  Cornwallis's  letter  above  referred  to,  is  the 
same  as  that  printed  in  the  foregoing  despatches  from  Sir  Henry  Clinton. 

A  SPECIMEN  OF  AFRICAN  HUMOR. 

On  the  arrival  of  the  news  of  the  capture  of  Lord  Cornwallis  and 
his  whole  army,  one  African  meeting  another,  salutes  him  thus  : 

"O  !  how  do  Cuffee.  You  hear  about  Corn  wallis  !  No.  What  about 
Corn  wallis  ?  Why,  General  Washington  shell  off  all  the  Corn,  now 
he  Cob  wallis." 

TRENTON,  March  6. 

On  Tuesday  the  26th  ult.  departed  this  life,  in  the  67th  year  of  his 
age  Mr.  Wilson  Hunt,  of  Hopewell,  in  this  county.  In  him  his 
numerous  relations  and  acquaintance  have  lost  a  valuable  friend,  and 
the  state  a  worthy  citizen.  On  the  Thursday  following  his  remains, 
attended  to  the  grave  by  a  large  concourse  of  people,  were  interred  in 
the  burying  ground  on  his  farm. 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  Madrid,   Dec.   1,   17S1. 

"The  Emperor  at  present  attracts  the  attention  of  Europe. — The  many 
salutary  laws  he  has  already  given  to  the  empire  prove  him  not  less  a 
wise  Legislator,  than  his  former  campaign  shewed  him  an  able  General. 
— He  seems  bent  upon  weakening  the  power  and  deminishing  the  number 
of  the  clergy  in,  his  dominions. — The  measures,  he  is  taking  for  this  pur- 
pose, cannot  fail  to  embroil  him  with  the  Court  of  Rome. — The  Pope  has 
certainly  taken  umbrage  at  many  of  his  late  edicts,  and  particularly  at 
those  in  favour  of  protestants,  by  which  they  they  are  tolerated  in  many 
of  the  principal  cities  of  Germany,  where  heretofore  they  were  not  ad- 
mitted.— His  Holiness  has  remonstrated  on  the  subject — but  what  effect 
his  representations  have  had  on  the  Emperor  is  still  a  secret. — Those 
who  are  not  strangers  to  his  character  say,  he  will  not  be  much  intimi- 
dated by  the  terrors  of  an  excommunication. 

"There  is  reason  to  hope  that  while  the  Court  of  Vienna  is  so  taken 
up  with  the  internal  police  of  the  empire,  she  will  continue  in  her  pres- 
ent paciflck  dispositions,  and  that  the  expectations  of  Great-Britain  from 
that  quarter  will  be  vain. — At  any  rate  should  she  think  it  her  interest 
to  become  a  party  in  the  war,  Prussia  will  not  fail  to  be  a  thorn,  and  a 
sharp  one  in  her  side. 

"It  is  certain  that  England  has  rejected  the  mediation  of  the  northern 
powers  in  favour  of  Holland. — They  wished  to  bring  about  an  accommo- 
dation on  the  principles  of  the  armed  neutrality — and  as  the  Court  of 
London  will  listen  to  these  terms,  all  prospect  of  a  separate  peace  be- 
tween Great-Britain  and  the  States  General  is  at  an  end. — The  former 
is  distracted  enough  to  insist  upon  the  succors  she  demanded  from  the 
Republick  before  her  declaration  against  it. — If  the  Dutch  disputed  the 
English  construction  of  the  treaty  of  Westminster,  before  the  commence- 
ment of  hostilities,  it  is  hardly  probable  they  will  submit  to  it,  after  the 
haughty  and  unworthy  conduct  of  that  nation  towards  them. — England 
threatens  Holland  with  losses  in  the  East-Indies,  and  the  Dutch  them- 
selves are  uneasy  about  Batavia — The  Cape  of  Good  Hope  however  is 
safe,  and  that  was  certainly  the  principal  object  of  Governor  Johnston's 
expedition. 

"The  Spaniards  had  a  pretty  piece  of  success  last  week  in  the  Mediter- 
ranean.— Out  of  eight  English  cutters,  which  attempted  to  get  into 
Gibralter,  six  fell  into  the  hands  of  their  Admiral,  and  he  was  in  chase 
of  the  remaining  two  when  the  express  came  away.  The  cutters  were 
loaded  with  provisions  and  other  stores  most  essential  to  vthe  garrison. 


1782]  XKWSPAPEB    EXTRACTS.  395 

"We  were  never  more  impatient  for  news  from  America. — If  the  situa- 
tion of  Cornwallis  be  not  too  highly  coloured,  we  are  certainly  not  too 
sanguine  in  hoping  that  something  better  than  a  Burgoynade  of  him  has 
taken  place  before  this  time." 

On  the  17  ult.  the  house  of  John  Silvers,  near  Allentown,  took  fire 
by  accident,  and  was  entirely  consumed  in  the  space  of  one  hour,  with 
a  considerable  part  of  his  household  furniture. 

*#*  The  laws  and  votes  of  the  last  sitting  of  the  General  Assemoiy 
are  printed,  and  ready  to  be  delivered. 

The  subscriber,  Bluedyer  in  Germantown,  in  the  state  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, hereby  informs  his  customers  and  others  in  the  state  of  New- 
Jersey,  who  have  no  conveniency  of  sending  their  yarn,  cloth,  &c.  to 
him  in  Germantown,  that  if  they  send  it  to  Mr.  Daniel  Sutter's,  in 
Second-Street,  six  doors  above  Race-Street,  Philadelphia,  they  can 
have  it  again  in  three  weeks  from  the  time  they  leave  it ;  or  at  Mr. 
Isaac  Britton's,  inn-keeper,  at  the  sign  of  the  Indian  King,  in  Tren- 
ton, New-Jersey,  they  may  have  it  again  in  four  or  five  weeks  from 
the  time  it  was  left,  and  dyed  in  the  best  manner,  by 

Their  humble  servant, 

JACOB  BECK. 

N.  B.  The  present  price  of  dying  is  as  follows,  linen  per  pound, 
deep  blue,  Four  Shillings  and  Three-pence ;  cotton,  deep  blue,  Four 
Shillings  and  Nine-pence ;  woollen,  deep  blue,  Two  Shillings  and 
Nine-pence.  Feb.  27,  1782. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 
At  private  Sale, 

THE  HOUSE  in  which  the  subscriber  now  lives,  and  the  store-house 
adjoining,  which,  being  situate  near  Trenton  bridge,  in  the  street 
leading  both  to  the  Upper-Ferry  below  the  Falls  and  the  Landing,  is 
an  excellent  stand  for  a  store,  for  which  purpose  it  hath  been  occu- 
pied for  some  years  past. — There  are  on  the  premises  a  convenient 
stable,  chair-house  and  shed,  all  in  good  repair,  and  a  well  of  good 
water  at  the  door.  Possession  may  be  had  about  the  first  of  May 
next.  An  indisputable  title  will  be  given.  For  terms  apply  to  the 
subscriber. 

PHILIP  FISTER. 
Trenton,  March  4,  1782. 

VENDUE. 

ON  Monday  the  llth  instant,  at  eleven  o'clock  in  the  morning  pre- 
cisely, will  commence  the  sale  of  the  personal  estate  of  the  late 
William  Harcourt,  in  Trenton  township,  consisting  of  grain,  flax, 
wool,  horses,  milch  and  other  cows,  young  cattle,  hogs  and  sheep,  a 
waggon,  sleigh,  ploughs,  and  other  farming  utensils,  house  and  kitchen 
furniture,  &c. 


NEW    JEESEY   IN   THE   REVOLUTION.  [1782 


Whoever  are  indebted  to  the  above  estate  are  requested  immediately 
to  settle  the  same,  and  they  who  have  any  demands,  are  desired  to 
bring  in  their  accounts  properly  authenticated,  that  they  may  be 
adjusted  by 

DAVID  COWELL  l     Execu- 

CHARLES  AXFORD,  jun.       I     tors. 

N.  B.  An  able-bodied  negro  man  to  be  sold.  Enquire  of  the 
executors. 

March  1,  1782. 

FOR  SALE, 

In  the  township  of  Hopewell,  and  county  of  Hunterdon,  on  Tuesday 
the  nineteenth  day  of  this  instant,  to  begin  at  ten  o'clock  in  the 
morning ; 

THE  personal  estate  of  the  late  Mr.  Wilson  Hunt,  consisting  of  a 
full-blooded  stone  horse  called  Washington,  he  is  a  dark  brown,  fifteen 
hands  and  one  inch  high,  well  proportioned,  moves  remarkably  well, 
and  rising  nine  years  old.  A  full-blooded  mare,  six  yea*rs  old ;  one 
full  blooded  colt,  and  two  full-blooded  fillies ;  half-blooded  mares  and 
colts,  and  working  horses,  horned  cattle,  sheep,  hogs,  wheat,  and  oats 
in  stack,  green  grain  in  the  ground,  hay,  one  covered  light  waggon, 
two  farm  ditto,  one  cart,  ploughs,  harrow,  &c. 

ABRAHAM  HUNT,  ) 
JOHN  P.   HUNT,        I  Executors. 
PETER  GORDON,     ) 
Hopewell,  March  4,  1782. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  private  Sale, 

A  PLANTATION  containing  two  hundred  and  four  acres  of  good 
land,  well  watered  and  timbered,  plenty  of  good  meadow,  and  about 
two  hundred  apple  trees,  lying  on  the  main  road  from  Trenton  to 
Durham,  adjoining  Frederick  Jordan's  mills,  and  is  well  situated 
for  any  kind  of  publick  business.  For  terms  apply  to  Daniel  Pursel, 
in  Alexandria  township,  Hunterdon  county. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

A  Negro  woman  about  twenty  years  of  age.  She  is  fit  for  town  or 
country  work,  has  had  the  small-pox,  is  good  tempered,  and  is  sold  for 
no  fault  whatever.  For  further  particulars  enquire  of  the  subscriber, 
living  at  Mount-Pleasant,  near  Mount-Holly. 

JOHN  LEE. 
March  5,  1782. 

WANTED, 

A  Sober  lad  about  twelve  or  fifteen  years  of  age,  who  can  read,  write 
and  cypher,  to  attend  a  store.  For  further  particulars  enquire  of  the 
printer. 

To  be  Sold,  a  lot  of  land  within  a  quarter  of  a  mile  of  Trenton, 
containing  six  acres  and  an  half,  and  a  good  bearing  orchard.  En- 
quire as  above. 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS. 


From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  V.,  No.  220,  March  13,  1782. 

CHATHAM,  March  6. 

General  Knox  and  Gouvernieur  Morris,  Esq.  on  the  part  of  the 
United  States ;  and  General  O'Harra  and  Col.  Abercrombie,  on  the 
part  of  the  British,  are  to  meet  the  15th  instant  at  Elizabeth-Town, 
for  adjusting  accounts  relative  to  the  prisoners. 

The  26th  ult.  a  poll  was  opened  at  Newark  for  electing  a  member 
to  serve  in  the  General  Assembly  in  the  room  of  Jacob  Brookfield, 
Esq.  deceased,  when  Daniel  Marsh,  Esq.  was  declared  duly  elected. 

TRENTON,  March  6. 

We  hear  that  the  Sandwich  packet  arrived  at  New-York  from  Eng- 
land a  few  days  ago ;  and  that  a  fleet  is  also  arrived  at  the  Hook, 
but  no  particulars  are  yet  come  to  hand. 

We  hear  that  a  party  of  refugees,  to  the  amount  of  upwards  an 
hundred,  under  the  command  of  one  Ryerson,  made  an  incursion  last 
week  in  the  county  of  Monmouth,  as  far  as  Colt's-I^eck. — We  have 
not  yet  learnt  what  mischief  was  done,  but  if  we  conjecture  from 
their  former  conduct,  they  have  probably,  with  their  usual  heroism, 
surprised  some  of  the  inhabitants  in  their  beds,  and  what  is  more 
probable,  that  they  have,  with  singular  bravery  and  address,  made 
sundry  sorties  upon  the  sheep  and  calves,  making  great  numbers  of 
them  prisoners. — This,  no  doubt,  will  be  ushered  forth  in  the  Royal 
Gazette  as  a  most  glorious  achievement,  reflecting  the  highest  honour 
upon  British  arms. 

Hunterdon,  March  1,   1782. 

Mr.  Collins, 

You  are  at  liberty  to  publish  the  following  remarkable  cure,  for  the  bene- 
fit of  the  publick. 

Having  been  much  afflicted  with  the  piles  for  several  years,  and  trying 
everything  I  could  hear  of,  to  no  effect,  was  violently  attacked  by  that 
disorder  on  a  journey,  and  anxious  to  get  home  rode  two  days  in  great 
pain.  On  my  arrival  there,  was  advised  to  make  use  of  an  extraordinary 
ointment  advertised  in  your  Gazette  in  November  last,  which  had  made 
several  extraordinary  cures  in  my  neighbourhood  of  burns  and  scalds, 
and  scald  heads,  &c.  which  I  applied  in  the  manner  directed  in  these 
cures,  that  is,  by  anointing  the  tender  part,  and  bathing  it  well  in  over 
a  gentle  heat  of  coals,  which  gave  immediate  ease ;  and,  by  applying 
the  same  four  times  a  day,  was  in  five  days  entirely  well.  Any  person 
inclining  to  try  the  same,  may  be  supplied  with  this  ointment  at  Thomas 
Bullman's  in  Pennington  ;  and  at  Sarah  and  Mary  Barns's,  in  Trenton. 
Your  giving  this  a  place  in  your  paper,  will  much  oblige  your  constant 
reader,  and  humble  servant, 

PLAIN  TRUTH. 

A  few  handsome  Diaper  and  Damask 

TABLE  CLOTHS 

May  be  had   at  the  Printing-Office. — 
Also  Candles  by  the  Pound. 


/J9S  XV: \V   JERSEY   IN   THE   REVOLUTION.  [1783 

RUN  AWAY  a  Negro  man  named  Jack,  about  thirty-five  years 
old,  straight  and  well  limbed,  and  about  five  feet  ten  inches  high,  very 
white  even  teeth,  has  holes  in  his  ears,  understands  the  coopers  trade, 
and  can  talk  French ;  had  on  a  striped  woollen  shirt,  a  cloth-coloured 
jacket  and  waistcoat  much  worn  and  patched,  a  pair  of  buckskin 
breeches  almost  new  and  stained  in  the  seat  by  riding  bareback,  grey 
stockings  and  shoes  newly  soaled ;  took  with  him  a  homespun  coat, 
buttons  covered  with  the  same,  and  lined  with  blue,  a  jacket  and 
breeches  of  homespun  dimity,  a  white  linen  shirt  and  pair  of  new 
shoes.  Whoever  apprehends  the  said  Negro,  and  delivers  him  to  the 
subscriber,  or  secures  him  in  any  gaol,  so  that  he  may  be  had  again, 
shall  be  paid  Three  Pounds  and  reasonable  charges  by 

JAMES  PARKER. 

Pitts-Town,  Hunterdon  county,  March  9,  1782. 

NOTICE  is  hereby  given,  that  the  subscriber  and  Elenor  his  wife, 
has  lived  separate  for  some  time  past,  and  that  he  hath  allowed  her 
a  separate  maintenance  for  several  years  past,  and  that  he  shall  pay 
no  debts  which  she  hath,  or  may  contract. 

YOST  MILLER. 

Sussex  county,  March  2,  1782. 

ROBERT  SINGER, 
Has  for  sale,  at  his  store  in  Trenton ; 

Sugar,  tea,  coffee,  pepper,  and  ginger,  calicoes,  chintzes,  broad  cloths, 
moreens,  red  flannel,  linens,  Russia  sheeting  and  duck,  buckles  and 
knives,  mohair,  silk  and  buttons,  nutmegs,  mode,  persian,  lawn  and 
cambrick,  gauze  handkerchiefs,  silk  and  linen  handkerchiefs,  earthen- 
ware &c.  &c. 

Also  to  be  sold,  a  likely  negro  wench,  eighteen  years  of  age,  has 
had  the  small-pox,  a  horse  and  riding  chair,  a  new  cart  and  gears 
complete,  a  riding  saddle,  and  a  large  open  stove. 

TO  BE  SOLD. 

A  PLANTATION  in  Middlesex  county  Cranberry  Town,  adjoining 
lands  of  Adam  Newall  and  others,  now  in  tenure  of  Ann  Carson  and 
John  Condon,  containing  54  and  one  quarter  acres  of  land.  Posses- 
sion may  be  had  the  first  day  of  April  next.  The  subscriber  has  also 
for  sale  an  assortment  of  medicines,  consisting  of  mercurial  and 
antimonial  preparations,  gums  of  different  sorts,  chymical  oils,  and  a 
number  of  other  articles ;  tho'  the  quantities  are  small,  the  variety 
would  make  a  great  addition  to  a  medical  shop.  They  are  of  known 
good  quality,  and  well  chosen  to  suit  a  practitioner  of  physick  and 
surgery.  Likewise  complete  cases  of  amputating  and  pocket  instru- 
ments, disecting  scalpels,  male  and  female  catheters  trocars,  &c.  Also 
a  good  phaeton  and  harness.  The  above  articles  will  be  sold  for  cash 
only,  great  allowance  will  be  made  to  the  person  who  will  purchase 
the  whole. 

NOAH  HART. 


1T82J  AKXVSPAPEB    EXTRACTS.  399 

All  persons  who  are  anywise  indebted  to  the  estate  of  the  Reverend 
Charles  M'Knight,  deceased,  of  Monmouth  country,  are  earnestly  re- 
quested to  make  immediate  payment ;  those  who  have  any  demands 
against  said  estate  are  desired  to  bring  their  accounts  properly  au- 
thenticated, that  they  may  be  more  expeditiously  settled  and  dis- 
charged by 

NOAH  HART,  Administrator. 

March  12,  1781'. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

THE  plantation  whereon  Thomas  Silverthorn  now  lives,  in  Sussex 
county,  containing  213  acres,  150  whereof  are  meadow  land — for 
which  cash  or  good  merchantable  bar-iron  will  be  taken  in  payment. 
For  terms  apply  to  the  printer. 

N.  B.  If  it  is  not  sold  by  the  first  of  April,  it  will  then  be  let,  and 
possession  given  immediately. 


From  the  Nciv  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  V.,  No.  221,  March  20,  1782. 


TRENTON,  March  20. 

The  St.  James,  Captain  Truxen,  is  arrived  at  Philadelphia  from 
Orient,  with  a  cargo  of  dry-goods,  valued  at  80,000  1.  sterl.  first  cost. 

On  the  10th  of  November  last,  three  line  of  battle  ships  arrived  at 
Madrid  from  the  Havanna,  with  12,000,000  dollars  on  board,  being 
the  treasure  of  the  king — and  on  the  19th  a  fleet  of  90  sail  of  mer- 
chant ships,  from  Domingo  and  the  Havanna  also  arrived,  with 
10,000,000  dollars  belonging  to  the  merchants. 


TO  BE  SOLD, 
Four  Years  old  this  Spring, 

A  Stallion,  got  by  Lofty,  his  dam  by  Bullyrock,  his  grand-dam  by 
Spark,  his  great  grand-dam  by  Dawson ;  he  is  fifteen  hands  and 
three  inches  high,  and  fully  proportionable,  jet  black,  with  a  white 
star.  Apply  to  the  subscriber  in  Maidenhead,  nine  miles  from  Tren- 
ton, and  three  and  a  half  from  Princeton. 

DANIEL  AGNEW. 

ONE  HALF-JOE  REWARD, 

STRAYED  or  stolen  from  the  subscriber  living  in  Mendham,  Morris 
county,  on  the  eighth  of  November  last,  a  light  brown  horse  between 
13  and  14  hands  high,  well  set,  trots,  paces  and  canters,  has  a  large 
blaze  in  his  forehead  which  tapers  over  one  nostril,  black  list  along 
his  back,  and  is  branded  with  the  letters  I  C  on  the  near  shoulder, 
but  hardly  to  be  seen :  Whoever  takes  up  said  horse  and  secures 


400         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1782 

him,  so  that  the  owner  may  have  him  again,  shall  have  the  above 
reward,  and  all  reasonable  charges  paid  by 

JOHN  CHIPS. 

N.  B.  Said  horse  strayed  away  in  Sussex  county,  and  is  six  years 
old. 

Monmouth  county,  ss. 

THIS  IS  TO  GIVE  NOTICE, 

THAT  the  Courts  of  Oyer  and  Terminei1,  and  general  gaol  delivery 
will  sit  again  at  Freehold,  in  the  county  of  Monmouth,  on  Tuesday 
the  sixteenth  day  of  April  next.  All  persons  concerned  are  desired 
to  govern  themselves  accordingly. 

JOHN  BURROWES,  Sheriff. 
March  18,  1782. 

Epsom,  Glauber,  Nitre  and  Rochelle 

SALTS, 

To  Be  Sold  by 

JAMES  VANUXEM, 

In   Second-street,  a  few  doors  above  Arch-street 
Philadelphia ; 

Who  has  for  Sale, 

MAGNESIA,  tarter  crud.  crocus  metalorum ;  Burgundy  pitch,  and 
other  medical  articles,  either  by  the  quantity  or  by  the  pound.  Phials, 
galley  pots,  Cyprus  sieves,  glass  funnels,  and  other  kinds  of  glass  ware ; 
and  as  usual, 

Coffee,   Loaf  and   other   Sugars, 

Cocoa,  Teas,  Spirits, 
And  every  other  article  in  the  Wet  Goods  way, 

either  by  Wholesale  or  Retail. 
N.  B.     A  quantity  of  Sulphur. 

BLANK  account  books,  writing  paper,  quills,  pocket  inkstands, 
and  inkpowder,  to  be  sold  by  the  Printer  hereof. 

From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  V.,  No.  222,  March  27,  1782. 

TRENTON,  March  27. 
Extract  of  a.  letter  from  Monmouth,  March  25.  • 

"I  am  sorry  to  inform  you  our  guard  at  Toms  river  were  cut  off 
yesterday  morning  by  about  100  refugees  under  command  of  one 
Davenport.  On  the  alarm  Capt.  Buddy  repaired  to  the  block-house, 
in  which  some  of  the  inhabitants  joined  him,  and  others  remained 
outside :  the  house  was  defended  till  the  ammunition  was  expended, 
when  it  surrendered.  Major  Cook,  who  was  out  of  the  house  fell ; 
five  others  were  killed  and  two  wounded. — Capt.  Huddy,  Daniel  Ran- 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  401 

dolph,  Esq.  and  several  more,  are  carried  off  prisoners.  Davenport 
was  wounded,  supposed  since  dead,  and  one  negro  was  killed.  The 
enemy  then  burnt  the  village,  except  the  houses  of  Aaron  Buck  and 
Mrs.  Studson,  after  which  tney  went  off  immediately.  The  unfortu- 
nate inhabitants  have  not  saved  more  than  two  horses  would  draw." 

Since  our  last  His  Excellency  Gen.  Washington,  and  suite,  passed 
through  this  town,  on  his  way  to  the  eastward. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

The  farm  where  Jacob  Servoss  now  lives,  in  Amwell,  Hunter  don 
county,  adjoining  Hoivell's  ferry,  bounded  on  the  river  Delaware,  con- 
taining 300  acres,  of  which  JfO  are  low  land,  with  a  good  stone  house, 
frame  barn,  &o.  An  oroJiatrd  of  good  fruit,  a  sufficient  quantity  of 
woodland  and  meadow,  near  a  good  mill,  and  in  a  good  neighbourhood; 
the  purchaser  paying  one  third  part,  may  have  a  reasonable  time  for 
the  remainder,  giving  security.  Any  person  inclined  to  purchase  may 
apply  to  John  Mitchell,  merchant  in  Philadelphia,  or  to  Randle  Mitch- 
ell, at  Bowhill,  Nottingham,  Burlington  county,  who  will  treat  for 
the  same. 

Middlesex  county. 

By  virtue  of  a  writ  of  Fieri  facias  to  me  directed,  issuing  out  of 
the  Inferior  Court  of  Common  Pleas  of  said  county,  at  the  suit  of 
William  NeilSon,  against  the  goods  and  chattels,  lands  and  tene- 
ments, of  Jacob  Titsworth,  deceased,  in  the  hands  of  Reune  Runyon 
and  John  Gillman,  Administrators :  I  have  levied  on  and  taken  the 
equal  half  or  moiety  of  a  gristmill,  sawmill,  dwelling-house,  &c.  and 
about  fifty  acres  of  land,  situate  and  lying  at  Quibble-Town,  in  Piscat- 
away ;  also  the  whole  of  a  .lot  containing  about  forty  acres,  joining 
the  mill  lot ;  also  the  whole  of  a  lot  of  about  sixty  acres,  whereon 
there  is  a  good  dwelling-house,  barn,  store-house,  and  other  improve- 
ments, now  in  the  possession  of  David  Manning,  and  joining  the 
lands  of  Jeremiah  Dunn,  in  Piscataway ;  all  which  I  shall  sell  at 
publick  vendue  at  Martin's  tavern  in  Quibble-Town  on  Tuesday  the 
14th  day  of  May  next,  between  the  hours  of  12  and  5  in  the  afternoon. 

JOHN  CONWAY,  Sheriff. 

New-Brunswick,   March  11,  1782. 

Raritan  Landing,  25th  March,  1782. 
TO  WHOM  IT  MAY  CONCERN: 

State  of  New-Jersey. 

NOTICE  is  hereby  given,  that  a  court  will  be  held  on  Thursday 
the  llth  of  April  next,  at  the  house  of  Ishmael  Shippey,  at  Raritan 
Landing,  then  and  there  to  try  the  truth  of  the  facts  alledged  in  the 
bill  of  Capt.  Adam  Hyler,  against  the  sloop  Susannah  and  sloop 
Catherine  and  Jane,  burthen  about  thirty  tons,  together  with  their 
tackle  and  apparel,  taken  near  Prince's-Bay :  To  the  true  intent, 

26 


402  NEW    JEKSEY    IX    THE    JtKVOLUTIOX.  [17^- 

that  if  any  person  or  persons  claiming  the  same,  may  shew  cause, 
if  any  they  have,  why  the  said  vessels,  their  tackle,  apparel  and 
cargoes,  should  not  be  condemned  to  the  captors  according  to  the 
prayer  of  the  said  bill.  By  order  of  the  Court. 

ROBT.  HUDE,    •> 

JXO.  BRA?         }     Agents' 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

BY  the  subscriber,  on  Friday  the  fifth  of  April,  for  ready  money,  a 
quantity  of  good  snuff,  above  two  years  old,  an  assortment  of  Phila- 
delphia earthen  ware,  an  eight-day  clock,  three  milch  cows,  sundry 
books  on  various  subjects,  with  some  house-hold  furniture ;  the  ven- 
due  to  begin  at  ten  o'clock  in  the  forenoon,  when  attendance  will  be 
given,  by 

THOMAS  MOODY. 
Stoney-Brook,  March  22,  1782. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  publick  vendue,  on  Thursday  the  llth  day  of  April  next  at  one 
o'clock,  at  the  house  of  the  widow  West,  at  Colts-Neck, 

A  VALUABLE  plantation,  lying  in  Shrewsbury,  containing  one 
hundred  and  sixty  acres,  together  with  four  acres  of  salt  meadow 
lying  on  Raccoon-Island,  about  four  miles  from  said  farm :  On  the 
premises  is  a  good  dwelling-house,  two  stories  high,  with  five  rooms 
and  three  fire  places,  the  whole  well  watered,  and  pleasantly  situated, 
about  one  mile  and  a  half  from  Edentown,  two  miles  from  the  sea, 
on  the  road  to  Deal,  bounded  at  the  head  of  Shrewsbury  river,  called 
South  Branch,  late  the  property  of  Joseph  Dennis,  deceased,  and 
now  in  the  tenure  of  Nathan  Maxson ;  it  contains  thirty  acres  of 
good  thrifty  woodland,  a  sufficient  quantity  of  meadow,  a  good  barn 
covered  with  cedar,  a  good  bearing  orchard.  An  indisputable  title 
will  be  given,  two  thirds  of  the  purchase  money  to  be  paid  at  ex- 
ecuting the  deed,  the  other  third  in  four  years,  with  interest.  Attend- 
ance will  be  given  at  the  day  of  sale,  by 

CORNELIUS  COOPER. 

A  FEW  common  and  pocket  Almanacks,  for  the  current  year,  may 
be  had  of  the  Printer. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

A  LIKELY  Negro  Wench,  about  twenty-two  years  of  age,  with  a 
male  child,  they  have  had  the  small  pox ;  she  can  do  all  kinds  of 
house  work,  sold  for  no  fault  only  for  want  of  employment.  Any 
person  inclining  to  purchase,  and  having  a  light  family  waggon  to 
dispose  of,  will  be  received  in  part  pay.  Inquire  of 

CORNELIUS  COOPER 
March  18,  1782.  At  Spotswood. 

[Horse  Light  Foot — Woodbridge — James  Fitz  Randolph.] 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  403 

New-Jersey,  Middlesex  county. 

NOTICE  is  hereby  given  to  all  persons  who  are  in  possession  of 
land,  situate  in  the  county  of  Middlesex  aforesaid,  the  property  of  the 
subjects  of  the  King  of  Great-Britain,  that  they  apply  to  the  sub- 
scriber on  or  before  the  6th  day  of  April  next,  and  take  leases  for 
the  same,  on  such  terms  as  shall  be  agreed  on,  otherwise  they  may 
depend  on  being  prosecuted  as  the  law  directs,  and  the  land  leased 
to  other  persons. 

DAVID  OLDEN,  Agent. 

March  21,  1782. 

N.  B.  The  aforesaid  Agent  proposes  to  attend  at  Cranberry  on 
Monday  the  1st  of  April  next,  at  New-Brunswick  on  Tuesday  2d  and 
Wednesday  3d,  and  at  Spotswood  Monday  the  8th,  for  the  purposes 
aforesaid. 

March  20,  1782. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  publick  vendue,  on  the  premises,  by  the  subscriber,  on  the  15th 
day  of  April  next, 

A  VALUABLE  plantation,  the  late  dwelling  place  of  Timothy  Smith,  of 
Upper  Makefield  in  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania,  deceased,  containing 
upwards  of  200  acres  of  land,  situate  about  three  miles  distant  from 
Newtown  courthouse,  on  the  publick  road  leading  from  Wrightstown 
meeting  house  to  Yardley's  ferry.  Said  plantation  is  well  supplied  with 
good  timber,  and  meadow  sufficient  to  keep  a  considerable  stock,  and 
will  admit  of  improvement  by  the  help  of  water ;  the  arable  land  level, 
and  proper  for  manure,  distant  from  several  limekilns  about  eight  or 
nine  miles,  on  an  easy  road  for  carting ;  it  is  well  accommodated  with 
fruit  trees,  and  the  apple  orchard  remarkable  for  bearing.  There  are 
erected  on  the  premises  a  good  stone  house  and  kitchen,  frame  barn 
and  other  out  buildings,  and  a  spring  of  good  water  near  the  door. 
Any  person  inclining  to  view  the  place  before  the  day  of  sale  may 
apply  to  Joseph  Smith,  living  on  the  premises,  and  the  terms  will  be 
made  known  on  said  day. 

The  subscriber  likewise  requests  all  those  who  have  open  accounts 
standing  against  the  said  Timothy  Smith  deceased,  to  produce  them, 
that  they  may  be  settled ;  and  those  who  are  indebted  on  the  vendue 
sales,  or  on  the  book  accounts  of  the  said  deceased,  are  desired  to 
make  speedy  payment,  that  the  surviving  executor  may  be  enabled 
to  make  a  final  settlement  of  the  administration. 

TIMOTHY  SMITH,  Executor. 

On  the  said  day  and  place  will  likewise  be  exposed  to  publick  sale, 
a  breeding  mare,  and  several  young  creatures,  milch  cows  and  sundry 
other  articles. 


404  NEW    JERSEY   IN    THE   REVOLUTION.  [1782 

TO  BE  SOLD 

At  publick  vendue,  on  Monday  the  15th  of  April  next,  at  Bowhill 
farm,  in  Nottingham  township,  Burlington  county,  two  miles 
from  Trenton, 

A  Considerable  number  of  mares  and  colts,  half  and  3-Aih  bloods, 
from  imported  horses,  in  good  order,  fit  for  breeders  or  work ;  they 
are  sold  on  account  of  the  owner's  having  more  stock  than  is  con- 
venient. The  sale  will  begin  at  X  o'clock,  in  the  forenoon  of  said 
day ;  a  reasonable  credit  will  be  given,  the  purchasers  giving  bond 
and  security  if  required. 

RANDLE  MITCHELL. 

[Horse  Young  Figure — Amwell — Samuel  Holcombe.] 

State  of  New-Jersey  March  20,  1782. 
TO  BE  SOLD, 
By  publick  vendue, 

ON  Monday  the  29th  of  April  next,  at  the  house  of  Samuel  Forman, 
inn-keeper  in  Upper-Freehold,  the  following  tracts  of  land  and  saw- 
mill, the  estate  of  James  Randolph,  late  of  Monmouth  county,  de- 
ceased, viz.  One  plantation  at  Musqueto  Cove,  on  Toms  River,  con- 
taining four  hundred  acres  or  thereabouts,  the  greatest  part  thereof 
is  excellent  salt  meadow,  with  a  convenient  fishing  place,  salt  works, 
one  good  frame  dwelling-house  &c.  &c.  One  sawmill  on  Davenport, 
near  Toms  River,  goes  with  two  saws  together,  with  a  sufficient  quan- 
tity of  pine  land  and  cedar  swamp,  belonging  thereto,  as  will  jaore 
fully  be  made  known  on  the  day  of  sale,  &c.  Two  fifths  of  a  new 
saw-mill,  together  with  four-fifths,  the  pine  land  thereunto  belonging, 
near  James  Randolph's  late  dwelling,  in  partnership  between  him  and 
Tobias  Hendrickson.  Likewise  eighteen  or  twenty  lots  of  cedar 
swamp,  on  different  branches,  viz.  On  Davenport,  Wrangle  Brook, 
Horricone,  Union,  Luker's  Branch,  &c.  &c.  Any  person  inclining  to 
purchase  may  be  better  informed  by  applying  to  Tobias  Hendrick- 
son, near  the  late  dwelling  of  James  Randolph,  in  New-Jersey,  or  to 
Benjamin  Randolph  in  Philadelphia.  The  sale  of  the  aforesaid  estate 
will  begin  at  ten  o'clock  in  the  morning  of  the  aforesaid  day  if  the 
weather  be  fair,  if  not  on  the  first  fair  day  following.  Attendance 
will  be  given  at  the  time  and  place  by 

'      BENJAMIN  RANDOLPH   and  -»    Exe- 
TOBIAS   HENDRICKSON,         /  cutors. 

N.  B.  All  persons  who  have  any  demands  against  the  estate,  are 
requested  to  bring  in  their  accounts  properly  attested,  to  one  of  the 
above  Executors  as  soon  as  may  be  convenient,  that  they  may  be  ad- 
justed and  paid,  likewise  all  those  who  owe  monies  to  the  estate,  are 
requested  to  pay  the  same  between  this  and  the  first  day  of  October 
next,  as  after  that  day  the  accounts,  &c.  will  be  left  with  an  attorney 
to  collect  the  same  &c. 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  405 

FOR  SALE, 
At   publick   vendue,   on   Friday   the   5th   of  April   next, 

THE  plantation  whereon  the  subscriber  now  lives,  in  the  eastern 
precinct  of  Somerset  county,  and  state  of  New-Jersey,  well  situated 
in  a  pleasant,  healthy  part  of  the  country,  consisting  of  170  acres, 
near  120  of  which  is  good  plough  land,  the  remainder  meadow  and 
woodland ;  about  15  acres  of  the  meadow  are  now  under  the  best 
timothy,  clover  and  blue  grass,  and  5  acres  more  very  convenient  to 
the  barn,  sowed  with  English  grass-seed  last  fall,  and  a  quantity  more 
may  be  made  at  a  small  expence ;  the  upland  is  divided  into  five 
fields,  through  the  centre  of  which  runs  a  constant  stream  of  water, 
supplied  by  a  never  failing  spring.  The  house  is  a  large  well  built 
frame  with  four  rooms  on  the  floor,  well  finished ;  there  are  also  a 
large  barn,  stables  and  waggonhouse.  It  lies  seven  miles  of  Bruns- 
wick, four  of  Bound-Brook,  and  Middle-Brook,  and  about  one  and  a 
half  from  Somerset  town,  very  convenient  to  meeting,  mill  and  mar- 
ket. Part  of  the  purchase  money  may  remain  in  the  purchaser's  hands, 
by  giving  good  security ;  a  sufficient  title  will  be  given.  The  sale 
will  begin  at  2  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  when  the  conditions  will  be 
made  known  by  ANDREW  BROWN. 

March  21,  1782. 

A  GOOD  house  and  lot  of  land,  containing  about  7  acres,  with  tan- 
vats  thereon,  and  a  good  currying  shop,  bark  house,  bark  wheel  and 
house,  in  Allentown,  will  be  rented  for  a  term  of  years.  Any  person 
wanting  may  call  and  see  the  premises,  and  then  apply  for  terms  to 

KEN  HANKINSON. 

March  18,  1782. 

From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  V.,  No.  223,  April  3,  1782. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  publick  vendue, 

THE  farm  whereon  the  subscriber  now  lives,  at  Raritan,  on  Monday 
the  22d  of  April,  at  10  o'clock,  on  the  premises,  it  will  be  divided  into 
3  small  farms  of  about  120  acres  each ;  they  will  have  a  large  pro- 
portion of  woodland  and  meadow,  and  a  brook  running  through  each 
of  them  that  never  fails  in  the  dryest  season ;  and,  on  one  of  them, 
a  snug  dwelling  house,  a  young  orchard,  a  good  well  of  water,  and  a 
brook  running  within  a  few  yards  of  the  door.  The  terms  will  be 
made  known  at  the  time  of  sale,  by 

THOMAS  FARMER. 
N.  B.     The  title  is  indisputable. 
March  28,  1782. 

[Horse  Young  Irish  Grey — Hopewell — Jonathan  Muirheid.] 


406  XEW    JERSEY   IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1782 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  publick  vendue,  on  Saturday  the  6th  instant,  April,  at  the  dwell- 
inghouse  of  the  subscriber,  at  the  corner  of  Queen-street,  near 
Captain  John  Yard's  tavern  in  Trenton ; 

A  NUMBER  of  horses,  breeding  mares,  mares  with  colts,  cows,  young 
cattle,  a  good  waggon,  with  gears  complete,  and  sundry  articles  two 
tedious  to  mention.  The  vendue  to  begin  precisely  at  ten  o'clock  on 
said  day. 

JOHN  WITTMOR. 

ALL  persons  indebted  to  the  subscriber,  are  desired  to  pay  the 
amounts  of  their  bonds  and  accounts  to  Mr.  Nathaniel  Hunt,  of  Cran- 
berry, with  whom  the  bonds  and  accounts  are  left. 

WILLIAM  VANDRILL. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

A  VERY  good  stand  in  a  good  part  of  the  country  for  a  merchant, 
two  rooms  of  the  house,  or  more  if  wanted,  and  a  shop  and  cellar 
and  store  house  and  a  kitchen,  in  Amwell  near  Ringo's  Tavern,  on 
Trenton  road.  For  further  particulars  enquire  of  the  subscriber 
living  on  the  premises. 

AARON  VAN-DOREN. 
March  26,  1782. 

THE  great  advantages  arising  from  a  healthy  and  convenient  situ- 
ation for  a  town  at  the  head  of  a  very  navigable  river,  has  made  such 
places  the  particular  objects  of  many  great  and  powerful  nations : 
The  town  of  Lamberton  on  the  river  Delaware  in  Nottingham  town- 
ship, Burlington  county,  has  every  advantage  of  health  and  beauty, 
from  its  healthy  and  pleasant  situation,  at  the  head  of  the  tide  water, 
and  convenience  for  wharfs  for  the  easy  accommodation  of  vessels  to 
and  from  the  city  of  Philadelphia :  Many  having  applied  for  con- 
venient lots  to  build  on  in  this  place,  has  induced  the  proprietor  of  a 
fine  level  piece  of  ground  at  the  said  town,  to  lay  out  a  number  of 
lots  from  50  to  60  feet  front  by  300  feet  deep,  on  a  street  of  60  feet 
wide,  running  from  the  present  road  to  Lamberton  to  the  river  Dela- 
ware, and  along  the  bank  of  said  river  to  the  several  landings,  with 
a  back  street  from  the  centre  of  this  to  the  present  main  street.  A 
plan  of  which  may  be  seen  at  John  Watson's,  or  at  Randle  Mitchell's 
in  said  township,  Capt.  John  Clunn's  in  Lamberton,  and  at  Rensse- 
lear  Williams,  Esq.  in  Trenton,  who  will  inform  any  person  inclined 
to  purchase,  the  terms  either  on  ground  rent  or  fee-simple,  to  whom 
good  titles  will  be  given. 

March  26,  1782. 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  407 

TO  BE  SOLD, 
By  the  subscriber  at  private  sale,  or  to  be  let, 

A  VALUABLE  gristmill  with  two  pair  of  stones  and  three  boults, 
all  going  by  water  upon  an  everlasting  stream,  with  80  acres  of  good 
laud  well  watered  and  timbered,  situate  in  the  township  of  Alex- 
andria, Hunterdon  county,  and  state  of  New-Jersey.  On  the  premises 
there  are  14  acres  of  good  meadow,  and  more  may  be  made,  all  well 
watered ;  the  place  is  very  suitable  for  a  merchant  or  any  gentle- 
man to  live  at,  where  all  sorts  of  produce  which  the  country  can 
produce  can  be  handily  taken  in  and  very  convenient  to  three  land- 
ing places  for  Philadelphia  market,  the  landing  places  within  three 
miles  of  the  premises  on  Delaware  river.  There  is  on  the  premises  a 
good  frame  house,  new  barn,  stables,  barracks  and  sheds,  a  good 
young  bearing  orchard,  of  about  two  hundred  apple-trees,  &c.  For 
further  particulars  apply  to  the  subscriber  on  the  premises,  where 
the  terms  of  the  sale  will  be  made  known.  The  land  joins  Mr.  Joseph 
Chamberlain's  on  one  side,  and  Mr.  Daniel  Pursley's  on  the  other. 

FREDERICK  JORDON. 

House  of  Assembly,  October  30,  1781. 

THE  petition  from  the  legatees  of  Cornelius  Johnson,  late  of  the 
township  of  Kingwood,  in  the  county  of  Hunterdon,  was  read,  setting 
forth,  that  they  had  petitioned  a  former  Assembly  for  leave  to  bring 
in  a  bill  to  amend  certain  deficiencies  in  the  last  will  and  and  testa- 
ment of  the  aforesaid  Cornelius  Johnson,  occasioned  by  the  inaccuracy 
of  the  Clerk  who  wrote  the  said  will,  and  praying  that  they  may  have 
leave  to  present  a  bill  to  amend  the  said  deficiencies ; 

Ordered,  That  the  petitioners  have  leave  to  present  the  draught  of 
a  bill,  agreeably  to  the  prayer  of  their  petition,  on  advertising  their 
intention  in  the  New-Jersey  Gazette  at  least  six  weeks  previous 
thereto.  Extract  from  the  minutes, 

M.  EWING,  JUN.  Clerk. 

Notice  is  hereby  given,  that  the  subscriber  intends  to  present  a  bill 
at  the  next  sitting  of  the  Legislature,  for  the  purposes  mentioned  in 
the  foregoing  extract. 

CORNELIUS  JOHNSON,  son  of  Cornelius. 

March  29.  1782. 

STOLEN  last  night  out  of  the  stable  of  the  subscriber,  in  Bucking- 
ham, Bucks  county,  a  yellow  sorrel  horse,  six  years  old,  a  white  mane 
and  tail,  trots  and  canters  well,  14  hands  and  an  inch  high,  a  star 
and  some  saddle  marks. — Also  a  black  mare  5  years  old,  14  hands 
3  inches  high,  a  star  and  a  little  white  on  one  hind  foot,  paces  a  little, 
and  trots  and  canters.  Whoever  secures  the  thief  and  horses,  so  as 
the  thief  may  be  convicted,  and  the  owner  get  the  horses,  shall  have 
24  Dollars  reward,  or  16  Dollars  for  the  horses  only  and  reasonable 
charges,  paid  by 

ISRAEL  ANDERSON. 

March  24.  1782. 


.\K\V    .IKKSKY    J.\    T11K    KK  VOI.TTH  >.\. 


Raritan  Landing,  25th  March,  1782. 
TO  WHOM  IT  MAY  CONCERN  : 

State  of  New-  Jersey. 

NOTICE  is  hereby  given,  that  a  court  will  be  held  on  Thursday, 
the  llth  of  April  next,  at  the  house  of  Ishmael  Sbippey,  at  Raritan 
Landing,  then  and  there  to  try  the  truth  of  the  facts,  alledged  in  the 
bill  of  Capt.  Adam  Hyler,  against  the  sloop  Susannah  and  sloop 
Catherine  aud  Jane,  burthen  about  thirty  tons,  together  with  their 
tackle  and  apparel,  taken  near  Prince's-Bay  :  To  the  true  intent, 
that  if  any  person  or  persons  claiming  the  same,  may  shew  cause,  if 
any  they  have,  vt-hy  the  said  vessels,  their  tackle,  apparel  and  cargoes, 
should  not  be  condemned  to  the  captors  according  to  the  prayer  of 
the  said  bill. 

By  order  of  the  Court, 


ROBT.  HUDE 
JNO.  BRAY 


f  Agents. 


From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  V.,  No.  224,  April  10,  1782. 

BY  HIS  EXCELLENCY 
WILLIAM  fclVINGSTON,  ESQUIRE, 

Governor,  Captain-General,  and  Commander  in  CMef  in  and  over  the 
State  of  New-Jersey,  and  the  territories  thereunto  belonging, 
Chancellor  and  Ordinary  in  the  same. 

PROCLAMATION. 

WHEREAS  the  United  States  in  Congress  assembled,  did,  on  the 
nineteenth  day  of  March  last,  is*sue  a  proclamation  in  the  words  fol- 
lowing, to  wit; 

"THE  goodness  of  the  Supreme  Being  to  all  his  rational  creatures, 
demands  their  acknowledgment  of  gratitude  and  love :  his  absolute 
government  of  this  world  dictates,  that  it  is  the  interest  of  every 
nation  and  people  ardently  to  supplicate  his  favour  and  implore  his 
protection. 

When  the  lust  of  dominion  or  lawless  ambition  ^excites  arbitrary 
power  to  invade  their  rights,  or  endeavour  to  wrest  from  a  people 
their  sacred  and  invaluable  privileges,  and  compels  them,  in  defence 
of  the  same,  to  encounter  all  the  horrors  and  calamities  of  a  bloody 
and  vindictive  war ;  then  is  that  people  loudly  called  upon  to  fly 
unto  that  God  for  protection,  who  hears  the  cries  of  the  distressed, 
and  will  not  turn  a  deaf  ear  to  the  supplication  of  the  oppressed. 

Great-Britain,  hitherto,  left  to  infatuated  counsels,  and  to  pursue 
measures  repugnant  to  her  own  interest  and  distressing  to  this  coun- 
try, still  persists  in  the  design  of  subjugating  these  United  States ; 
which  will  compel  us  into  another  active  and  perhaps  bloody 
campaign. 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  409 

The  United  States  in  Congress  assembled,  therefore,  taking  into 
consideration  our  present  situation,  our  multiplied  transgressions  of 
the  holy  laws  of  our  God,  and  his  past  acts  of  kindness  and  goodness 
towards  us,  which  we  ought  to  record  with  the  liveliest  gratitude, 
think  it  their  indispensable  duty  to  call  upon  the  several  States  to 
set  apart  the  last  THURSDAY  in  April  next,  as  a  day  of  Fasting, 
Humiliation  and  Prayer,  that  our  joint  supplications  may  then 
ascend  to  the  Throne  of  the  Ruler  of  the  universe,  beseeching  him 
to  diffuse  a  spirit  of  universal  reformation  among  all  ranks  and 
degrees  of  our  citizens ;  and  make  us  an  holy,  that  so  we  may  be, 
an  happy  people ;  that  it  would  please  him  to  impart  wisdom,  in- 
tegrity and  uninimity  to  our  counsellors ;  to  bless  and  prosper  the 
reign  of  our  illustrious  ally,  and  give  success  to  his  arms  employed 
in  the  defence  of  the  rights  of  human  nature :  that  he  would  smile 
upon  our  military  arrangements  by  land  and  sea ;  administer  com- 
fort and  consolation  to  our  prisoners  in  a  cruel  captivity ;  protect 
the  health  and  life  of  our  Commander  in  Chief;  grant  us  victory  over 
our  enemies ;  establish  peace  in  all  our  borders,  and  give  happiness 
to  all  our  inhabitants ;  that  he  would  prosper  the  labour  of  the  hus- 
bandmen, making  the  earth  yeild  her  increase  in  abundance,  and  give 
a  proper  season  for  the  ingathering  of  the  fruits  thereof ;  that  he 
would  grant  success  to  all  engaged  in  lawful  trade  and  commerce,  and 
take  under  his  guardianship  all  schools  and  seminaries  of  learning, 
and  make  them  nurseries  of  virtue  and  piety ;  that  he  would  incline 
the  hearts  of  all  men  to  peace,  and  fill  them  with  universal  charity 
and  benevolence,  and  that  the  religion  of  our  Divine  Redeemer,  with 
all  its  benign  influences,  may  cover  the  earth  as  the  waters  cover 
the  sea." 

I  have  therefore  thought  fit,  by  and  with  the  advice  of  the  hon- 
ourable, the  Privy  Council,  (as  well  in  conformity  to  the  said  procla- 
mation, as  from  a  d'eep  sense  of  our  indisputable  duty  to  humble  our- 
selves before  Almighty  God  for  our  multiplied  transgressions  of  his 
holy  laws,  and  to  offer  up  our  joint  supplications  for  the  blessings  in 
the  said  proclamation  specified)  to  appoint  the  said  last  THURSDAY 
in  this  present  month  of  April  to  be  set  apart  and  observed  in  this 
state  as  a  day  of  Fasting,  Humiliation  and  Prayer,  hereby  recom- 
mending it  to  the  Ministers  of  the  Gospel,  of  every  denomination 
therein,  to  perform  Divine  service  and  to  the  people  committed  to 
their  charge  to  attend  on  publick  worship  on  that  day,  and  to  abstain 
from  servile  labour,  and  all  recreations  inconsistent  with  the  solemnity 
of  the  occasion. 

Given  under  my  hand  and  seal  at  arms,  in  Trenton,  the 
fifth  day  of  April,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand 
seven  hundred  and  eighty-two,  and  in  the  sixth  year  of 
our  independence. 

WIL.  LIVINGSTON. 
By  his  Excellency's  command, 
Bowes  Reed,  Sec'ry. 

GOD  SAVE  THE  PEOPLE. 


410         NKW  JERSEY  JX  THE  REVOLUTION.       [17sl' 

THE  trustees  of  the  College  of  New- Jersey,  are  requested  to  re- 
member that  their  stated  time  of  meeting  is  on  Wednesday  the  17th 
insant,  and,  as  there  is  business  of  very  considerable  consequence  to 
be  laid  before  them,  it  is  hoped  they  will  be  punctual  in  their 
attendance. 

SAM.  S.  SMITH,  Clk. 

Princeton,  April  8th,  1782. 

ALL  persons  indebted  to  the  estate  of  John  Opdyke,  Esq.  late  of 
Amwell,  deceased,  are  hereby  required  to  make  payment  by  the  first 
day  of  May  next,  otherwise  the  executors  will  be  put  to  the  disagree- 
able necessity  of  putting  them  to  cost ;  and  all  those  who  have  any 
demands  against  the  said  estate  are  desired  to  produce  their  accounts, 
properly  attested,  to 

SAMUEL  OPDYKE, 


JOHN  BOHANNAN,  /   Executors. 


April  2,  1782. 


TO  BE  SOLD, 
At  publick  vendue,  on  Monday  the  15th  instant,   (April.) 

THE  plantation  whereon  the  subscriber  now  lives,  situated  in  the 
township  of  Maidenhead,  in  the  county  of  Hunterdon,  and  state  of 
New-Jersey ;  it  consists  of  one  hundred  and  seventy-five  acres  and 
an  half,  near  one  hundred  of  which  is  good  plough  land,  the  re- 
mainder good  meadow  and  excellent  woodland,  there  is  on  the 
premises  a  frame  house  almost  new,  likewise  a  new  frame  barn  with 
good  stables ;  the  place  is  well  watered  with  never  failing  springs ; 
likewise  an  excellent  well  by  the  door.  It  is  very  convenient  to 
divide  into  two  lots,  having  a  good  orchard  on  each  lot,  it  is  bounded 
on  stony-brook,  distant  nine  miles  from  Trenton  and  four  from 
Princeton ;  any  person  inclinable  to  purchase  the  land  by  private 
sale,  may  apply  before  the  day  of  vendue.  There  will  be  sold  t^e 
same  day  horses,  cattle,  one  good  yoke  of  oxen,  hogs  and  sundry 
other  things,  the  sale  will  begin  at  12  o'clock,  when  the  conditions 
will  be  made  known  by  me, 

April  5,   1782.  PHILIP  HENDRICKSON. 

THREE  POUNDS  REWARD, 

STOLEN  out  of  the  stable  of  Derrick  Barraclow,  a  dark  roan  horse, 
about  fourteen  hands  and  an  half  high,  rising  ten  years  old,  very  high 
spirited,  trots  and  canters,  much  worn  with  the  gears,  and  his  mouth 
worn  with  the  bridle :  Whoever  takes  up  and  secures  said  horse 
shall  have  the  above  reward  and  all  reasonable  charges  paid. 

N.  B.  The  horse  was  shod  all  round,  and  his  shoes  were  tip'd 
with  steel. 

[Horse  Arabian — Quakertown — Stable  of  Edward  Stevenson — Wil- 
liam Runkle.] 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  411 

THE  HORSE 
BAY  RICHMOND, 

THAT  was  sent  to  Major  John  Corryel's,  in  Bucks  county,  in  the 
state  of  Pennsylvania,  to  cover  the  season,  is  now  removed  to  the 
house  of  Mr.  Joseph  Holdren,  in  Hunterdon  county,  on  the  Delaware, 
near  Rush  Island,  where  he  will  cover  the  ensuing  season  at  the  rate 
of  one  half  Johannes  each  mare. 

Good  pasture  for  mares  may  be  had  at  a  reasonable  rate.  Bay 
Richmond  is  a  full  bred  horse  imported  from  England ;  for  the  satis- 
faction of  those  who  may  wish,  to  know  his  pedigree,  it  is  left  with 
Mr.  Holdreu,  certified  under  the  hand  of  the  gentleman  that  im- 
ported him. 

[Horses   Liberty   and  Fleetwood — Maidenhead — Edw.   Bainbridge.] 


From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  V.,  No.  225,  April  17,  1782. 

TO  THE  PEOPLE  OF  AMERICA. 

On    the   expences,   arrangements   and   disbursements    for   carrying   on 

the  war,  and  finishing  it  with  honour  and 

advantage. 

When  any  necissity  or  occasion  has  pointed  out  the  convenience  of 
addressing  the  publick,  I  have  never  made  it  a  consideration  whether 
the  subject  was  popular  or  unpopular,  but  whether  it  was  right  or 
wrong ;  for  that  which  is  right  will  become  popular,  and  that  which 
is  wrong,  though  by  mistake  it  may  obtain  the  cry  or  fashion  of  the 
day,  will  soon  lose  the  power  of  delusion,  and  sink  into  disesteem. 

A  remarkable  instance  of  this  happened  in  the  case  of  Silas  Deane  •; 
and  I  mention  'the  circumstance  with  the  greater  ease,  because  the 
poison  of  his  hypocrisy  spread  over  the  whole  country,  and  every  man. 
almost  without  exception,  thought  me  wrong  in  opposing  him.  The 
best  friends  I  had,  except  Mr.  Laurens,  stood  at  a  distance,  and  this 
tribute  which  is  due  to  his  constancy,  I  pay  to  him  with  respect,  and 
that  the  readier,  because  he  is  not  here  to  hear  it.  If  it  reaches  him 
in  his  imprisonment,  it  will  afford  an  agreeable  reflection. 

"As  he  rose  like  a  rocket,  he  would  fall  like  the  flick,"  is  a  metaphor 
which  I  applied  to  Mr.  Deane  in  the  first  piece  which  I  published 
respecting  him,  and  he  has  exactly  fulfilled  the  description.  The  credit 
he  so  unjustly  obtained  from  the  publick,  he  lost  in  almost  as  short 
a  time.  The  delusion  perished  as  it  fell,  and  he  soon  saw  himself 
stripped  of  popular  support.  His  more  intimate  acquaintance  began 
to  doubt  and  to  desert  him  long  before  he  left  America,  and 
at  his  departure  he  saw  himself  the  object  of  general  suspicion. 
When  arrived  in  France,  he  endeavoured  to  effect  by  treason  what 
he  had  failed  to  accomplish  by  fraud.  His  plans,  schemes,  and 
projects,  together  with  his  expectation  of  being  sent  to  Holland  to 
negotiate  a  loan  of  money,  had  all  miscarried.  He  then  began  traduc- 
ing and  accusing  America  of  every  crime,  which  could  injure  her  rep- 


412  XK\V    JERSEY   IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1782 

utation.  "That  she  was  a  ruined  country ;  that  she  only  meant  to 
"make  a  tool  of  France,  to  get  what  money  she  could  out  of  her,  and 
"then  leave  her,  and  accommodate  with  Britain."  Of  all  which,  and 
much  more,  Colonel  Laurens  and  myself,  when  in  France,  informed 
Dr.  Franklin,  who  had  not  before  heard  of  it.  And  to  complete  the 
character  of  a  traitor,  he  has,  by  letters  to  this  country  since,  some  of 
which,  in  his  own  hand  writing,  are  now  in  possession  of  Congress, 
used  every  expression  and  argument  in  his  power  to  injure  the  repu- 
tation of  France,  and  to  advise  America  to  renounce  her  alliance,  and 
surrender  up  her  independence*  Thus,  in  France  he  abuses  America, 
and  in  his  letters  to  America  he  abuses  France ;  and  is  endeavouring 
to  create  disunion  between  the  two  countries,  by  the  same  arts  of 
double  dealing  by  which  he  caused  dissensions  among  the  Commis- 
sioners in  Paris,  and  distractions  in  America. 

But  his  life  has  been  fraud,  and  his  character  is  that  of  a  plodding, 
plotting,  cringing  mercenary,  capable  of  any  disguise  that  suited  his 
purpose.  His  final  detection  has  very  happily  cleared  up  those  mis- 
takes, and  removed  those  uneasinesses,  which  his  unprincipled  conduct 
occasioned.  Every  one  now  sees  him  in  the  same  light ;  and  towards 
friends  or  enemies  he  acted  with  the  same  deception  and  injustice,  and 
his  name,  like  that  of  Arnold  ought  now  to  be  forgotten  among  us. 
As  this  is  the  first  time  I  have  mentioned  him  since  my  return  from 
France,  it  is  my  intention^it  shall  be  the  last — From  this  digression, 
which  for  several  reasons  I  thought  necessary  to  give,  I  now  proceed 
to  the  purport  of  my  address. 

I  consider  the  war  of  America  against  Britain  as  the  country's  war, 
the  publick's  war,  or  the  war  of  the  people  in  their  own  behalf,  for 
the  security  of  their  natural  rights,  and  the  protection  of  their  own 
property.  It  is  not  the  war  of  Congress,  the  war  of  the  Assemblies, 
or  the  war  of  government,  in  any  line  whatever.  The  country  first, 
by  a  mutual  compact,  resolved  to  defend  their  rights  and  maintain 
their  independence,  at  the  hazard  of  their  lives  and  fortunes.  They 
elected  their  Representatives,  by  whom  they  appointed  their  members 
to  Congress,  and  said,  act  you  for  us,  and  ice  will  support  you.  This 
is  the  true  ground  and  principle  of  the  war  on  the  part  of  America, 
and,  consequently,  there  remains  nothing  to  do,  but  for  every  one  to 
fulfil  his  obligation. 

It  was  next  to  impossible  that  a  new  country,  engaged  in  a  new 
undertaking,  could  set  off  systematically  right  at  first.  She  saw  not 
the  extent  of  the  struggle  she  was  involved  in,  neither  could  she  avoid 
the  beginning.  She  supposed  every  step  she  took,  and  every  resolution 
she  formed,  would  bring  her  enemy  to  reason,  and  close  the  contest. 
Those  failing,  she  was  forced  into  new  measures ;  and  these,  like  the 


*.l/c.  William  Marshal,  of  this  city,  formerly  a  pilot,  irho  find  been  taken 
at  sea  and  carried  to  England,  and  got  from,  thence  to  France,  brought 
over  letters  from,  Mr.  Deane  to  America,  one  of  which  iims  directed  to 
"Robert  ^orris,  Esq."  Mr.  Morris  sent  it  unopened  to  Congress,  and  ad- 
vised Mr.  Marshy  to  deliver  the  others  there,  which  he  did.  The  letters 
were  of  the  same  purport  with  those  which  have  been  already  published, 
under  the  signature  of  S.  Deane,  to  which  they  had  frequent  reference. 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  413 

former,  being  fitted  to  her  expectations,  and  failing  in  their  turn,  left 
her  continuelly  unprovided  and  without  system.  The  enemy  likewise 
was  induced  to  prosecute  the  war,  from  the  temporary  expedients  we 
adopted  for  carrying  it  on.  We  were  continuelly  expecting  to  see  their 
credit  exhausted  and  they  were  looking  to  see  our  currency  fail ;  and 
thus  between  their  watching  us  and  we  them,  the  hopes  of  both  have 
been  deceived,  and  the  childishness  of  the  expectation  has  served  to 
increase  the  expence. 

Yet  who,  through  this  wilderness  of  error,  has  been  to  blame? 
Where  is  the  man  who  can  say,  the  fault  has  not  in  part  been  his? 
They  were  the  natural  unavoidable  errors  of  the  day.  They  were  the 
errors  of  the  whole  country,  which  nothing  but  experience  could  detect, 
and  time  remove.  Neither  could  the  circumstances  of  America  admit 
of  system,  till  either  the  paper  currency  was  fixed  or  laid  asside.  No 
calculation  of  finance  could  be  made  on  a  medium  falling  without 
reason,  and  fluctuating  without  rule. 

But  there  is  one  error  which  might  have  been  prevented,  and  was 
not;  and  as  it  is  not  my  custom  to  flatter,  but  to  serve  mankind,  I 
will  speak  it  freely.  It  certainly  was  the  duty  of  every  Assembly  ou 
the  continent  to  have  known,  at  all  times,  what  was  the  condition  of 
its  treasury,  and  to  have  ascertained  at  every  period  of  depreciation, 
how  much  the  real  worth  of  the  taxes  fell  short  of  their  nominal  value. 
This  knowledge,  which  might  have  been  easily  gained,  would  have 
enabled  them  to  have  their  constituents  well  informed,  which  is  one 
of  the  greatest  duties  of  representation.  They  ought  to  have  studied 
and  calculated  the  expenses  of  the  war,  the  quota  of  each  state,  and 
the  consequent  proportion  that  would  fall  on  each  man's  property  for 
his  defence ;  and  this  must  easily  have  shewn  to  them,  that  a  tax 
of  an  hundred  pounds  could  not  be  paid  by  a  bushel  of  apples  or  an 
hundred  of  flour,  which  was  often  the  case  two  or  three  years  ago. 
But  instead  -of  this,  which  would  have  been  plain  and  upright  dealing, 
the  little  line  of  temporary  popularity,  the  feather  of  an  hour's  dura- 
tion, was  too  much  pursued ;  and  in  this  involved  condition  of  things, 
every  state,  for  the  want  of  a  little  thinking,  or  a  little  information, 
supposed  that  it  supported  the  whole  expences  of  the  war,  when  in 
fact  it  fell,  by  the  time  the  tax  was  levied  and  collected,  above  three- 
fourths  short  of  its  own  quota. 

Impressed  with  a  sence  of  the  danger  to  which  the  country  was 
exposed  by  this  tax  method  of  doing  business,  and  the  prevailing 
errors  of  the  day,  I  published,  last  October  was  a  twelvemonth.  The 
Crisis  Extraordinary,  on  the  revenues  of  America,  and  the  yearly  ex- 
pence  of  carrying  on  the  war. 

My  estimation  of  the  latter,  together  with  the  civil  list  of  Congress, 
and  the  civil-list  of  the  several  states,  was  Two  Million  Pounds 
sterling,  which  is  very  nearly  Nine  Millions  of  Dollars. 

Since  that  time  Congress  have  gone  into  a  calculation,  and  have 
estimated  the  expences  of  the  war  department  and  the  civil-list  of 
Congress  (exclusive  of  the  civil- list  of  the  several  governments)  at 
Eight  Millions  of  Dollars ;  and  as  the  remaining  Millions  will  be  fully 
sufficient  for  the  civil-list  of  the  several  states,  the  two  calculations 
are  exceedingly  near  each  other. 


41-i 


,\K\V    JKKSF.Y   IX    THE    REVOLUTION. 


[1782 


This  sum  of  Eight  Millions  of  Dollars  they  have  called  upon  the 
states  to  furnish,  and  their  quotas  are  as  follows,  which  I  shall  preface 
with  the  resolution  itsself. 

By  the  United  States  in  Congress  assembled,  October  30th,  1781. 
Resolved, 

THAT  the  respective  states  be  called  upon  to  furnish  the  treasury 
of  the  United  States  with  their  quotas  of  Eight  Million  Dollars,  for 
the  war  department  and  civil-list  for  the  ensuing  year,  to  be  paid 
quarterly,  in  equal  proportions,  the  first  payment  to  be  made  on  the 
first  day  of  April  next. 
Resolved, 

That  a  committee,  consisting  of  a  member  from  each  state,  be 
appointed  to  apportion  to  the  several  states  the  quota  of  the  above 
sum.  November  2d. 

The  committee,  appointed  to  ascertain  the  proportions  of  the 
several  states  of  the  monies  to  be  raised  for  the  expences  of  the  en- 
suing year,  report  the  following  resolutions : 

That  the  sum  of  Eight  Millions  of  Dollars,  as  required  to  be  raised 
by  the  resolutions  of  the  30th  of  October  last,  be  paid  by  the  states 
in  the  following  proportion  : 


New-Hampshire, 

Massachusetts, 

Rhode-Island, 

Connecticut,      — 

New-York, 

New-Jersey.       — 

Pennsylvania, 

Delaware, 

Maryland, 

Virginia, 

North-Carolina, 

South-Carolina, 

Georgia, 


373,598. 
1307,596. 

216,684. 

747.196. 

373,598. 

485,679. 
1120,794. 

112,085. 

933.996. 
1307,594. 

622.677. 

373,598. 
24,905. 


8,000,000  Dollars. 
Resolved, 

That  it  be  recommended  to  the  several  states,  to  lay  taxes  for 
raising  their  quotas  of  money  for  the  United  States,  separate  from 
those  lands  laid  for  their  own  particular  use. 

On  these  resolutions  I  shall  offer  several  remarks, 
First.  On  the  sum  itsself,  and  the  ability  of  the  country. 
Secondly.  On  the  several  quotas,  and  the  nature  of  a  Union.     And 
Thirdly.  On  the  manner  of  collection  and  expenditure. 
First.  On  the  sum  itsself,   and   the  ability   of  the  country.     As   I 
know   my   own   calculation   is   as   low   as   possible,    and   as    the   sum 
called  for  by  Congresss,  according  to  their  calculations,  agrees  vory 
nearly  therewith,  I  am  sensible  it  cannot  possibly  be  lower.     Neither 
can  it  be  done  for  that,  unless  there  is  ready  money  to  go  to  market 
with  ;    and  even  in  that  case,  it  is  only  by  the  utmost  management 
and  economy  that  it  can  be  made  to  do. 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  415 

By  the  accounts  which  were  laid  before  the  British  parliament  last 
spring,  it  appears  that  the  charge  of  only  subsisting,  that  is  feeding, 
their  army  in  America,  cost  annually  Four  Million  Pounds  sterling, 
which  is  very  nearly  Eight  Million  Dollars.  Now,  if  for  Eight 
Million,  we  can  feed,  clothe,  arm,  provide  for  and  pay  an  army  suf- 
ficient for  our  defence,  the  very  comparison  shows  that  the  money 
must  be  well  laid  out. 

It  may  be  of  some  use,  either  in  debate,  or  conversation  to  attend 
to  the  progress  of  the  expences  of  an  ariny,  because  it  will  enable 
us  to  see  on  what  part  any  deficiency  will  fall. 

The  first  thing  is  to  feed  them,  and  provide  for  the  sick. 

Secondly,  to  clothe  them. 

Thirdly,  to  arm  and  furnish  them. 

Fourthly,  to  provide  means  for  removing  them  from  place  to  place. 
And, 

Fifthly,  to  pay  them. 

The  first  and  second  are  aboslutely  necessary  to  them  as  men. 
The  third  and  fourth  are  equally  as  necessary  to  them  as  an  army. 
And  the  fifth  is  their  just  due.  Now  if  the  sum  which  shall  be 
raised  should  fall  short,  either  by  the  several  acts  of  states  for 
raising  it,  or  by  the  manner  of  collecting  it,  the  deficiency  will  fall 
on  the  fifth  head,  the  soldiers  pay,  which  would  be  defrauding  them, 
and  eternally  disgracing  ourselves.  It  would1  be  a  blot  on  the  counci  s, 
the  country,  and  the  revolution  of  America,  and  a  man  would  here- 
after be  ashamed  to  own  he  had  any  hand  in  it. 

But  if  the  deficiency  should  be  still  shorter,  it  would  next  fall  on 
the  fourth  head,  the  means  of  removing  the  army  from  place  to  place; 
and  in  this  case,  the  army  must  either  stand  still  where  it  can  be 
of  no  use,  or  seige  on  horses,  carts,  waggons,  or  any  means  of  trans- 
portation it  can  lay  hold  of;  and  in  this  instance  the  country  suffers. 
In  short,  every  attempt  to  do  a  thing  for  less  than  it  can  be  done 
for,  is  sure  to  become  at  last  both  a  loss  and  a  dishonour. 

But  the  country  cannot  bear  it  say  some.  This  has  been  the  most 
expensive  doctrine  that  ever  was  held  out,  and  cost  America  millions 
of  money  for  nothing.  Can  the  country  bear  to  be  overrun,  ravaged 
and  ruined  by  an  enemy,  which  will  immediately  follow  where  defence 
is  wanting,  and  defence  will  ever  be  wanting  where  sufficient  reve- 
nues are  not  provided.  But  this  is  only  one  part  of  the  folly.  The 
second  is,  that  when  the  danger  comes,  invited  in  part  by  our  not 
preparing  against  it,  we  have  been,  obliged,  in  a  number  of  instances 
to  expend  double  the  sums,  to  do  that  which  at  first  might  have  been 
done  for  half  the  money.  But  this  is  not  all.  A  third  mischief 
has  been,  that  grain  of  all  sorts,  flour,  beef,  fodder,  horses,  carts, 
waggons,  or  whatever  was  absolutely  or  immediately  wanted,  have 
to  be  taken  without  pay.  Now  I  ask,  why  was  all  this  done,  but 
from  that  extremely  weak  and  expensive  doctrine,  that  the  country 
could  not  tear  it?  that  is,  that  she  could  not  bear,  in  the  first 
instance,  that  which  could  have  saved  her  twice  as  much  at  last ; 
or  in  proverbial  language,  that  she  could  not  bear  to  pay  a  penny 
to  save  a  pound  ;  the  consequence  of  which  has  been,  that  she  has 


416  NEW    JERSEY   IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [17>j! 

paid  a  pound  for  a  penny.  Why  are  there  so  many  unpaid  certificates 
in  almost  every  man's  hands,  but  from  the  parsimony  of  not  pro- 
viding sufficient  revenues?  Besides  the  doctrine  contradicts  itself; 
because  if  the  whole  country  cannot  bear  it,  how  is  it  possible  that 
a  part  should ;  and  yet  this  has  been  the  case :  For  those  things 
have  been  had,  and  they  must  be  had;  but  the  misfortune  is,  they 
have  been  had  in  a  very  unequal  manner,  and  upon  expensive  credit, 
whereas  with  ready  money  they  might  have  been  purchased  for  half 
the  price,  and  no  body  distressed. 

But  there  is  another  thought  which  ought  to  strike  us.  which  is. — 
How  is  the  army  to  bear  the  want  of  food,  clothing,  and  other 
necessaries?  The  man  who  is  at  home  can  turn  himself  a  thousand 
ways,  and  find  as  many  means  of  ease,  convenience  or  relief :  But 
a  soldiers  life  admits  of  none  of  those :  Their  wants  cannot  be 
supplied  from  themselves :  For  an  army,  though  it  is  the  defence 
of  a  state,  is  at  the  same  time  the  child'  of  a  country,  and  must  be 
provided  for  in  every  thing. 

And  lastly,  The  doctrine  is  false.  There  are  not  three  million  of 
people,  in  any  part  of  the  universe,  who  live  so  well,  or  have  such 
a  fund  of  ability  as  in  America.  The  income  of  a  common  labourer, 
who  is  industrious,  is  equal  to  that  of  the  generality  of  tradesmen 
in  England.  In  the  mercantile  line,  I  have  not  heard  of  one  who 
could  be  said  to  be  a  bankrupt  since  the  war  began,  and  in  England 
they  have  been  withotit  number.  In  America  almost  every  farmer 
lives  on  his  own  lands,  and  in  England  not  one  in  a  hundred  does. 
In  short,  it  seems  as  if  the  poverty  of  that  country  had  made  them 
furious,  and  they  were  determined  to  risk  all  to  recover  all. 

Yet,  notwithstanding  those  advantages  on  the  part  of  America, 
true  it  is,  that  had  it  not  been  for  the  operation  of  taxes  for  our 
necessary  defence,  we  had  sunk  into  a  state  of  sloth  and  poverty : 
For  there  was  more  wealth  lost  by  neglecting  to  till  the  earth  in 
the  years  1776,  77  and  78,  than  the  quota  of  the  tax  amounts  to. 
That  which  is  lost  by  neglect  of  this  kind,  is  lost  forever ;  whereas 
that  which  is  paid,  and  continues  in  the  country,  returns  to  us 
again ;  and  at  the  same  time  that  it  provides  us  with  defence,  it 
operates  not  only  as  a  spur  but  as  a  premium  to  our  industry. 

I  shall  now  proceed  to  the  second  head,  viz.  On  tlie  several  qu-otas, 
and  the  nature  of  ai  union. 

There  was  a  time  when  America  had  no  other  bond  of  union,  than 
that  of  common  interest  and  affection.  The  whole  country  flew 
to  the  relief  of  Boston,  and  making  her  cause  their  own,  participated 
her  cares,  and  administered  to  her  wants.  The  fate  of  war.  since 
that  day,  has  carried  the  calamity  in  a  ten  fold  proportion  to  the 
southward  ;  but  in  the  mean  time,  the  union  has  been  strengthened 
by  a  legal  compact  of  the  states,  jointly!  and  severally  ratified,  and 
that  which  before  was  choice,  or  the  duty  of  affection,  is  now  like- 
wise the  duty  of  legal  obligation. 

The  union  of  America  is  the  foundation-stone  of  her  independence ; 
the  rock  on  which  it  is  built ;  and  is  something  so  sacred  in  her 
constitution,'  that  we  ought  to  watch  every  word  we  speak,  and 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  417 

every  thought  we  think,  that  we  injure  it  not,  even  by  mistake. 
When  a  multitude,  extended,  or  rather  scattered,  over  a  continent,  in 
the  manner  we  are,  mutually  agree  to  form  one  common  centre 
whereon  the  whole  shall  move,  to  accomplish  a  particular  purpose, 
all  parts  must  act  together  and  alike,  or  act  not  at  all,  and  a  stop- 
page  in  any  one  is  a  stoppage  of  the  whole,  at  least  for  a  time. 

Thus  the  several  states  have  sent  Representatives  to  assemble 
together  in  Congress,  and  they  have  empowered  that  body,  which 
thus  becomes  their  centre,  and  are  no>  other  than  themselves  in 
representation,  to  conduct  and  manage  the  war,  while  their  con- 
stituents at  home  attend  to  the  domestick  cares  of  the  country,  their 
internal  legislation,  their  farms,  possessions  or  employments:  For 
it  is  only  by  reducing  complicated  things  to  method  and  orderly  con- 
nection that  they  can  be  understood  with  advantage,  and  pursued 
with  success — Congress,  by  virtue  of  this  delegation,  estimates  the 
cxpeiice  and  apportions  it  out  to  the  several  parts  of  the  empire 
according  to  their  several  abilities;  and  here  the  debate  must  end, 
because  each  state  has  already  had  its  voice,  and  the  matter  has 
undergone  its  whole  portion  of  argument,  and  can  no  more  be  altered 
by  any  particular  state,  than  a  law  of  any  state,  after  it  has  passed, 
can  be  altered'  by  an  individual.  For  with  respect  to  those  things 
which  immediately  concern  the  union,  and  for  which  the  union  was 
purposely  established  and;  is  intended  to  secure,  each  state  is  to 
the  T'nited  States  what  each  individual  is  to  the  state  he  lives  in. 
And  it  is  on  this  grand  point,  this  movement  upon  one  centre,  that 
our  existence  as  a  nation,  our  happiness  as  a  people,  and  our 
safety  as  individuals,  depend. 

It  may  happen  that  some  state  or  other  may  be  somewhat  over 
or  under  rated,  but  this  cannot  be  much.  The  experience  which  has 
been  had  upon  the  matter  has  nearly  ascertained  their  several 
abilities.  But  even  in  this  case,  it  can  only  admit  of  an  appeal  to 
the  United  States,  but  cannot  authorize  any  state  to  make  the 
alteration  itself,  any  more  than  our  internal  government  can  admit 
an  individual  to  do  so  in  the  case  of  an  act  of  assembly;  for  if  one 
state  can  do  it,  then  may  another  do  the  same,  and  the  instant 
this  is  done,  the  whole  is  undone. 

Neither  is  it  supposable  that  any  single  state  can  be  a  judge  of 
all  the  comparative  reasons  which  may  influence  the  collective  body 
in  quotaing  out  the  continent.  The  circumstances  of  the  several 
Crates  are  frequently  varying,  occasioned  by  the  accidents  of  war  and 
commerce,  and  it  will  often  fall  upon  some  to  help  others,  rather 
beyond  what  their  exact  proportion  at  another  time  might  be;  but 
even  this  assistance  is  as  naturally  and  politically  included'  in  the 
idea  of  a  union,  as  that  of  any  particular  assigned  proportion  ;  be- 
cause we  know  not  whose  turn  it  may  be  next  to  want  assistance  : 
for  which  reason,  that  is  the  wisest  state  which  sets  the  best 
example. 

Though  in  matters  of  bounden  duty  and  reciprocal  affection,  it  is 
rather  a  degeneracy  from  the  honesty  and  ardour  of  the  heart  to 
admit  any  thing  selfish  to  partake  in  the  government  of  our  conduct, 

27 


41 N  M-:\V  .IKKSKY  ix  TIIK  KKVOI.TTION.  |JTsi' 

yet  iii  cases  where  our  duty,  our  affections,  and  our  interests  all  co- 
incide, it  may  be  of  some  use  to  observe  their  union.  The  United 
States  will  soon  become  heir  to  an  extensive  quantity  of  vacant  laud, 
and  their  several  titles  to  shares  and  quotas  thereof  will  naturally  be 
adjusted  according  to  their  relative  quotas  during  the  war,  exclusive 
of  that  inability  which  may  unfortunately  arise  to  any  state  by  the 
enemy  holding  possession  of  a  part ;  but  as  this  is  a  cold  matter  of 
interest,  I  pass  it  by,  and  proceed  to  my  third  head,  viz. 

On  the  manner  of  Collection  and  Expenditure. — It  hath  boon  (nil- 
error  as  well  as  our  misfortune,  to  blend  the  affairs  of  each  state, 
especially  in  money  matters,  with  those  of  the  United  States ;  whereas 
it  is  to  our  ease,  convenience  and  interest  to  keep  them  separate. 
The  expences  of  the  United  States  for  carrying  on  the  war,  and  the 
expences  of  each  state  for  its  own  domestick  government  are  distinct 
things,  and  to  involve  them  is  a  source  of  perplexity  and  a  cloak  for 
fraud.  I  love  method  because  I  see  and  am  convinced  of  its  beauty 
and  advantage.  It  is  that  which  makes  all  business  easy  and  under- 
stood, and  without  which  everything  becomes  embarrassed  and  difficult. 

There  are  certain  powers  which  the  people  of  each  state  have  dele- 
gated to  their  legislative  and  executive  bodies,  and  there  are  other 
powers  whifh  the  people  of  every  state  have  delegated  to  Congress, 
among  which  is  that  of  conducting  the  war,  and,  consequently,  of 
managing  the  expences  attending  it ;  for  how  else  can  that  be  man- 
aged, which  concerns  every  state,  but  by  a  delegation  from  each. 
When  a  state  has  furnished  its  quota,  it  has  an  undoubted  right  to 
know  how  it  has  been  applied,  and  it  is  as  much  the  duty  of  Con- 
gress to  inform  the  state  of  the  same,  as  it  is  the  duty  of  the  state 
to  provide  the  other. 

In  the  resolution  of  Congress  already  recited,  it  is  recommended  to 
the  several  states  to  lay  taxes  for  raising  their  quotas  of  money  for 
the  United-States,  separate  from  those  laid  for  their  own  particular 
use. 

This  is  a  most  necessary  point  to  be  observed,  and  the  distinction 
should  follow  all  the  way  through.  They  should  be  levied,  paid  and 
collected  separately,  and  kept  separate  in  every  instance.  Neither 
have  the  civil  officers  of  any  state,  or  the  government  of  that  state, 
the  least  right  to  touch  that  money  which  the  people  pay  for  the 
support  of  their  army  and  the  war,  any  more  than  Congress  has  to 
touch  that  which  each  state  raises  for  its  own  use. 

This  distinction  will  naturally  be  followed  by  another.  It  will 
occasion  every  state  to  examine  nicely  into  the  expences  of  its  civil 
list,  and  to  regulate,  reduce  and  bring  it  intoi  better  order  than  it 
has  hitherto  been :  because  the  money  for  that  purpose  must  be 
raised  apart,  and  accounted  for  to  the  publick  separately.  But  while 
the  monies  of  both  were  blended,  the  necessary  nicety  was  observed, 
and  the  poor  soldier,  who  ought  to  have  been  the  first,  was  the  last 
who  was  thought  of. 

Another  convenience  will  be,  that  the  people  by  paying  the  taxes 
separately,  will  know  what  they  are  for;  and  will  likewise  know 
that  those  which  are  for  the  defence  of  the  country  will  cease  with 


1782]  NEWSPAPEK    EXTRACTS.  419 

the  war.  or  soon  after.  For  although,  as  I  have  before  observed,  the 
war  is  their  own,  and  for  the  support  of  their  own  rights  and  the 
protection  of  their  own ,  property,  yet  they  have  the  same  right  to 
know  what  they  have  to  pay,  and  it  is  the  want  of  not  knowing  that 
is  often  the  cause  of  dissatisfaction. 

The  regulation  of  keeping  the  taxes  separate  has  given  rise  to  a 
regulation  in  the  office  of  finance,  by  which  it  is  directed. 

"That  the  receivers  shall,  at  the  end  of  every  month,  make  out  an 
exact  account  of  the  monies  received  by  them  respectively,  during 
such  month,  specifying  therein  the  names  of  the  persons  from  whom 
the  same  shall  have  been  received,  the  dates,  and  the  sums,  which 
account  they  shall  respectively  cause  to  be  published  in  one  of  the 
news-papers  of  the  state ;  to  the  end  that  every  citizen  may  know 
how  much  of  the  monies  collected  from  him,  in  taxes,  is  transmitted 
to  the  treasury  of  the  United  States  for  the  support  of  the  war ;  and 
also,  that  it  may  be  known  what  monies  have  been  at  the  order  of 
the  Superintendant  of  Finance.  It  being  proper,  and  necessary,  that 
in  a  free  country  the  people  should  be  as  fully  informed  of  the  admin- 
istration of  affairs  as  the  nature  of  things  will  admit." 

It  is  an  agreeable  thing  to  see  a  spirit  of  order  and  oeconomy 
taking  place,  after  such  a  series  of  errors  and  difficulties.  A  govern- 
ment or  an  administration,  who  means  and  acts  honestly,  has  nothing 
to  fear,  and  consequently  nothing  to  conceal,  and  it  would  be  of  use 
if  a  monthly  or  quarterly  account  was  to  be  published,  as  well  of  the 
expenditures  as  of  the  receipts.  Eight  Millions  of  Dollars  must  be 
husbanded  with  an  exceeding  deal  of  care  to  make  it  do,  and  there- 
fore, as  the  management  must  be  reputable,  the  publication  would  be 
serviceable. 

I  have  heard  of  petitions  which  have  been  presented  to  the  Assembly 
of  this  state  (and  probably  the  same  may  have  happened  in  other 
states)  praying  to  have  the  taxes  lowered.  Now  the  only  way  to 
keep  the  taxes  low  is,  for  the  United  States  to  have  ready  money  to 
go  to  market  with ;  and  though  the  taxes  to  be  raised  for  the  present 
year  will  fall  heavily,  and  there  will  naturally  be  some  difficulty  in 
paying  them,  yet  the  difficulty,  in  proportion  as  money  spreads  about 
the  country,  will  every  day  grow  less,  and  in  the  end  we  shall  save 
some  Millions  of  Dollars  by  it.  We  see  what  a  bitter,  revengeful 
enemy  we  have  to  deal  with,  and  any  expence  is  cheap  compared  to 
their  merciless  paw. 

We  have  seen  the  unfortunate  Carolinians  hunted  like  partridges 
on  the  mountains,  and  it  is  only  by  providing  means  for  our  defence 
that  we  shall  not  be  in  the  same  condition.  When  we  think  or  talk 
about  taxes,  we  ought  to  recollect  that  we  lie  down  in  peace,  and 
sleep  in  safety  ;  that  we  can  follow  our  farms  or  stores,  or  other 
occupations,  in  prosperous  tranquility ;  and  that  these  inestimable 
blessings  are  procured  to  us  by  the  taxes  that  we  pay.  In  this  view, 
our  taxes  are  properly  our  insurance-money ;  they  are  what  we  pay 
to  be  made  safe,  and  in  strict  policy  are  the  best  money  we  can  lay 
out. 


420  -\KW    JERSEY   IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1782 

It  was  my  intention  to  offer  some  remarks  on  the  impost  law  of 
five  per  cent,  recommended  by  Congress  and  to  be  established  as  a 
fund  for  the  payment  of  the'  loan-office  certificates  and  other  debts 
of  the  United  States ;  but  I  have  already  extended  my  piece  beyond 
my  intention.  And  as  this  fund  will  make  our  system  of  finance 
complete,  and  is  strictly  just,  and  consequently  requires  nothing  but 
honesty  to  do  it,  there  needs  but  little  to  be  said  upon  it. 

COMMON  SENSE. 

Philad.  March  3,  1782. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

A  VALUABLE  farm,  containing  one  hundred  and  thirty-three  acres, 
joining  the  south  branch  of  Raritan,  in  the  township  of  Reading, 
and  county  of  Hunterdon,  about  three  miles  from  Flemington,  there 
is  between  thirty  and  sixty  acres  cleared,  half  of  which  is  low  land 
and  meadow,  and  the  rest  very  good  timber  land,  and  there  is  on 
said  farm  a  very  good  grist  mill,  and  a  new  saw  mill,  both  in  very 
good  repair,  and  in  a  healthy  part  of  the  country,  and  in  a  very 
good  place  for  custom  for  both  mills ;  it  lies  in  a  thick  settled  neigh- 
bourhood, and  timber  plenty,  and  likewise  a  new  dwelling-houso.  two 
stories  high,  with  three  rooms  on  a  floor,  and  good  cellar,  barn,  and 
other  out  houses  very  suitable  for  a  store,  as  there  has  been  one 
kept  for  many  years  cast,  and  a  young  bearing  orchard  of  about  one 
hundred  and  twenty  trees,  and  a  well  of  excellent  water  by  the  door. 
For  further  particulars  enquire  of  the  subscriber,  living  on  the 
premises,  who  will  give  an  indisputable  title  for  the  same. 

PHILIP  DILTS. 
March  23. 

The  subscriber  intends  leaving  the  state  in  a  short  time,  therefore 
earnestly  requests  all  those  who  are  indebted,  to  him  that  they  come 
and  settle  their  accounts  by  the  first  day  of  May  ensuing,  otherwise 
he  will  be  under  the  disagreeable  necessity  to  put  their  accounts  in 
suit.  STEPHEN  BURROWS. 

N.  B.  Any  person  having  a  Negro  Wench  for  sale  between  the 
age  of  20  and  35  years,  by  applying  as  above,  may  receive  a  reason- 
able price  and  good  pay. 

The  subscriber  being  at  the  house  of  Isaac  Smith,  Esq.  in  Hope- 
well.  Hunterdon  county,  New-Jersey,  was  last  night  about  12  o'clock, 
by  a  number  of  armed  men,  robbed  of  a  silver  watch  with  a  silver 
seal  thereto,  that  has  the  letters  E.  P.  thereon  in  a  cypher :  the 
watch  runs  on  diamonds,  and  the  silver  on  the  bottom  of  the  case. 
pressing  to  open  it,  is  partly  wore  off,  so  that  there  is  the  appear- 
ance of  something  like  red  sealing  wax.  Whoever  shall  recover  and 
deliver  said  watch  to  the  said  Isaac  Smith  in  Hopewell,  or  the  sub- 
scriber in  Philadelphia,  shall  have  half  a  Johannes  reward. 

EDWD.  PENNINGTON. 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  421 

N.  B.  The  said  armed  men  also  took  six  silver  Dollars  from  the 
subscriber,  which,  if  recovered,  shall  be  given  in  addition  to  the 
reward  aforesaid,  on  the  delivery  of  the  watch  as  above. 

April  13,  1782. 

TO  COVER, 

The  ensuing  season, 

The  well  bred  horse  Young  Lofty,  at  Titus  Quick's  in  Amwell,  about 
half  a  mile  from  Henry  Mershon's  tavern,  at  Twenty-five  Shillings. 
Lofty  is  a  jet  black,  with  a  star,  fifteen  hands  and  a  half  high,  four 
years  old  this  season,  full  three-quarters  blooded,  allowed  to  be  a 
well  proportioned  colt,  and  very  gay  carriage.  His  sire  the  imported 
Old  Lofty,  his  dam  a  beautiful  half  blooded  Dawson. 

TITUS  QUICK. 

A  ROBBERY. 

THE  house  of  the  subscriber,  in  Hopewell,   township,   Hunterdon 
county,  on  the  night  of  the  12th  instant,  was  attacked  by  8  or  more 
armed  men,  who  robbed  from  it  between  the  hours  of  eleven  and  one 
of  the  clock,  the  following  articles : 
1  piece  of  fine  French  linen 

of  about  20  yards,     )     T 

[    Just  washed  and 
1  do  of  do.  22  yards, 


rough  dryed. 
1  do  of  do      7  yards,     1 

3  yards  of  coarse  linen,  8  yards  of  homespun  dimity. 

6  yards  of  brown  sustian,  one  stick  of  hair. 

9  do.  white  jean,  7  yards  fine  chintz,  green  ground. 

1  yard  fine  cambrick,  2  pair  of  white  thread  stockings. 

2  stamped  jacket  patterns  of  fine  yellow  jean. 
2  blue  stamped  handkerchiefs,  2  do.  check 

5  silver  table  spoons,  much  worn  marked  F.  R.  B. 

6  do  tea  spoons,  marked  M.  S.     4  do.  marked  M.  P. ;    a  pair  of 
tea-tongs. 

A  very  good   plain   silver  watch,   Thomas  .Stretch,   Philadelphia 

No.  25. 

One  pair  of  large  silver  buckles,  one  do.  smaller,  plain. 
Two  pair  of  silver  knee  buckles. 

A  garnet  ring,  a  mourning  do.  motto  Ann  Bacon,  ob.  March  11. 
A  remarkably  neat  long  fowling  piece,  upward  of  4  feet  barrel, 
marked  on  the  upper  side,  Wilson,  London,  with  a  gold  touch- 
hole,   and  a  water-proof  lock,  the  cock  stands  far  back  from 
the  hammer,  marked  on  the  Breech. 

R.  F. 

Amidst    the    chance    on    every    plain, 
The  tender  thought  on  thee  shall  dwell. 

I.  S. 

A  buck  horn  handled  straight  hanger,  mounted  with  solid  silver. 
In   cash,   6  guineas  and  silver  coin,   amounting  in  all  to   about 
£18. 


422  NEW    JERSEY    IX    TILK    REVOLUTION.  [1782 

A  stone  broach,  and  a  pair  of  silver  stock  clasps,  marked  I.  S. 
126  Jersey  state  dollars  of  the  first  emission,  with  interest. 
3  breadths  of  black  sattin,  lately  dyed. 

3  yards  brown  bengal,  a  small  English  artillery  fusee,  marked 
No.  18.  A  case  with  a  silver  hoop  round  it,  containing  6 
razors,  tip'di  with  silver,  and  tortoise-shell  handles,  much 
worn,  and  2  plain  ones  with  black  horn  handles,  marked  with 
a  star. 

With  sundry  other  articles. 

The  most  active  villain  was  a  middle  sized  man  about  5  feet  7 
or  8  inches  high,  a  scratch  or  blotch  on  his  left  cheek,  and  a  crease 
in  the  middle  of  his  under  lip,  had  on  a  spotted  velvet  jacket  and 
breeches. 

Another  was  somewhat  shorter  and  thicker,  full-faced  and  had 
a  remarkably  short  chin. 

A  third  was  a  tall  slender  man,  with  &•  brown  great  coat  on : 
These  three  appeared!  to  be  under  30  years  of  age ;  as  the  others 
did  not  come  into  the  house,  they  cannot  be  described. 

Whoever   discovers    and    delivers    the   above   mentioned    goods    and 
money,  well-conditioned,   to  the  subscriber,  shall  receive  seven   Half- 
Johannesses  reward ;    and  for  a  part,  in  proportion  to  the  value. 
April  15,  1782.  ISAAC  SMITH. 


The  ensuing  season, 

AT  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber,  in  Freehold,  and  at  Anthony 
Applegate's,  at  Haight's-Town,  the  noted  young  horses  Herod  and 
Lofty,  at  one  Guinea,  or  six  bushels  of  good  merchantable  wheat 
the)  season,  the  price  to  be  paid)  the  first  day  of  September  next 
ensuing  the  date  hereof,  or  interest  from  that  date  till  paid ;  they 
both  are  rising  five  years  old  this  season,  and  are  seven-eights 
blooded,  and  both  good  bay ;  Lofty  is  fifteen  hands  high,  with  a 
blaze  in  his  face,  and  both  hind  feet  white,  and  is  to  stand  at  the 
subscriber's  stable  in  Freehold.  Young  Herod  is  fifteens  hands  and 
one  inch  high,  and  is  to  stand  at  Mr.  Anthony  Applegate's  stable, 
in  Haight's-Town,  the  15th  day  of  April,  and  to  remain  there  till 
Monday  the  22d  day  of  April,  then  to  be  moved  down  to  the  sub- 
scriber's in  Freehold,  and  to  be  moved  weekly  from  place  to  place 
during  the  season. 

JOSHUA  ANDERSON. 

ANTHONY  APPLEGATE. 
Freehold,  April  12,  1782. 

ELIZABETH-TOWN  STAGE. 

THE  subscriber  informs  the  publick  that  he  has  a  convenient 
stage-waggon,  with  4  good  horses,  suitable  for  carrying  passengers 
and  their  baggage,  which  will  set  out  from  the  Bunch  of  Grapes, 
in  Third  street,  Philadelphia,  every  Monday  and  Wednesday  morning 
at  5  o'clock,  breakfast  at  Bristol,  dine  at  Princeton,  and  proceed  to 


NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  423 

Brunswick  that  night,  there  to  meet  Ichabod  Grummond's  stage- 
wHg.n-on  ;  which  leaves  Dr.  Winantz's  house  at  Elizabeth-Town  every 
Monday  and  Wednesday,  at  two  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  they  ex- 
change passengers  at  Brunswick,  and  return  the  next  day ;  the 
price  for  each  passenger  from  Philadelphia  to  Elizabeth-Town  to  be 
Thirty-five  Shillings,  and  the  same  for  150  Ib.  baggage. 

He  has  also  a  genteel  coach,  which  will  set  out  from  the  Bunch 
of  Grapes  every  Friday  morning  at  5  o'clock,  and  reach  Brunswick 
that  night,  there  to  meet  a  convenient  stage  to  convey  the  passengers 
to  Elizabeth-Town  next  morning ;  the  price  for  the  coach  is  Thirty- 
seven  Shillings  and  Six  pence  for  each  passenger. 

GER.  JOHNSON. 

THREE   POUNDS   REWARD. 

RUN  away  from  the  subscriber,  in  Trenton,  a  negro  man,  named 
Peter,  about  '5  feet  8  or  9  inches  high  ;  he  had  on  a  blue  surtout 
coat,  yellow  worsted  under  coat,  brown  jacket  and  breeches,  and 
blue  yarn  stockings,  he  plays  on  the  fiddle,  and  uses  the  bow  with 
the  left  hand ;  he  made  his  escape  the  27th  of  March  last,  and  is 
supposed  to  be  gone  in  the  pines,  as  he  formerly  lived  there.  Who- 
ever takes  up  said  negro,  and  secures  him,  so  that  his  master  may 
have  him  again,  shall  have  the  above  reward,  and  reasonable  charges, 
paid  by  JONA.  RICHMOND. 

April  16,  1782. 

ALL  persons  indebted  to  the  estate  of  Elias  Bland,  late  of  Mid- 
dlesex county,  deceased,  by  mortgage,  bond,  or  otherwise,  are  desired 
to  discharge  the  same  by  the  first  day  of  May  next,  to  the  sub- 
scriber :  they  who  neglect  this  notice  may  depend  on  being  sued. 

WM.  CALVERT. 

Mountholly,  April  17,  17S2. 

This  may  certify  to  whom  it  may  concern, 

THAT  the  partnership  of  Bachhouse,  Williams  and  Yamans,  at 
Greenwich  Forge,  in  Sussex  county,  is  dissolved,  and  said  Forge 
is  carried  on  by  said  Williams,  who  will  settle  all  former  accounts 
of  said  partnership.  SAM.  WILLIAMS. 

March  15,  1782. 

THE  members  of  the  New- Jersey  medical  society  are  requested  to 
remember,  that  their  next  general  meeting  will  be  held  on  the  first 
Tuesday  in  May  next,  at  Christopher  Beekman's,  the  sign  of  the 
College,  Princeton. 

By  order  of  the  society, 

THOMAS   WIGGINS,   SEC'RY. 

April  13,  1782. 


424  xi-:\v  JKKSKV  IN  TIIK  KKVOI.I TIO.X.  [1782 

From   the  \cir  .Jcrxcij  <!<::ct1c.    \ol.    \  ..   \n.  22C.   April  24.   1782. 

TRENTON,  APRIL  24. 

Kxtruct  of  a  letter  from  Freehold,  Monmouth  county,  dated 
April  15,   17.VJ. 

"Last  Saturday  was  brought  to  this  place  the  corpse  of  Capt.  Joshua 
Huddy,  who  was  about  ten  -o'clock  the  day  before  most  barbarously  and 
unwarantably  hanged,  at  Middletown-Point.  by  a  party  of  refugees. — This 
murder  was  attended  with  so  much  deliberate  injustice,  and  wanton 
cruelty,  •  that  the  circumstances  ought  to  be  preserved,  and  made  pub- 
lick,  not  only  to  call  upon  the  vengence  of  his  countrymen  to  expiate  the 
manes  of  the  sufferer,  but  as  a  shocking  instance  of  the  blackness  of 
that  guilt  of  which  human  nature  is  capable. 

Capt.  Huddy  was  one  of  the  bravest  of  men,  a  fit  subject  therefore  of 
cowardly  inhumanity. — He  has  distinguished  himself  on  a  variety  of 
occasions,  one  instance  of  which  I  cannot  avoid  mentioning :  The  sum- 
mer before  last  alone  and  unassisted,  except  by  a  woman,  he  defended  his 
house  against  a  party  of  near  seventy  refugees  for  several  hours,  and 
when  it  was  in  a  manner  riddled  with  musket  balls,  and  in  flames  about 
him.  he  refused  to  submit  until  he  obtained  from  the  assailants  safe 
and  honourable  terms  :  among  the  number  who  were  killed  in  that  en- 
counter was  the  famous  negro  Tye,  justly  much  more  to  be  feared  and 
respected  as  an  enemy,  than  any  of  his  brethren  of  the  fairer  complexion. 
— Capt.  Huddy  also  commanded  the  troops  at  the  Block-House  on  Tom's 
river,  when  it  was  lately  redijped  ;  he  defended  it  most  gallantly  against 
a  vast  superiority  of  numbers,  until  his  ammunition  was  expended,  and 
no  alternative  was  left. — The  refugees,  like  their  task-masters,  the  Brit- 
ish, who  employ  them  in  every  kind  of  infamous  business,  'aie  always 
cruel  in  success  and  pitifully  mean  in  adversity.  After  the  little  brave 
garrison  was  in  their  power,  they  deliberately  murdered  five  of  the  sol- 
diers asking  for  quarters.  From  Tom's  River  Capt.  Huddy,  Justice  Ran- 
dolph, and  the  remaining  prisoners  were  taken  to  New-York,  where  suffer- 
iug  the  various  progressions  of  barbarity  usually  exercised  upon  those  who 
are  destined  to  a  violent  or  a  lingering  death,  those  two  gentlemen,  with 
a  Mr.  Fleming  were  put  into  the  hold  of  a  vessel.  Capt.  Huddy  was 
ironed  hand  and  foot.  On  Monday  last  a  certain  John  Tilton,  a  refugee, 
came  to  him,  and  told  him,  "That  he  was  ordered  (by  the  board  of  ref- 
ugees, as  we  suppose)  to  be  hanged."  Capt.  Huddy  asked  "What  charge 
was  alledged  against  him?"  Tilton  replied,  "That  he  had  taken  a  cer- 
tain Philip  White,  a  refugee,  six  miles  up  in  the  country,  cut  off  both 
his  arms,  broke  both  his  legs,  pulled  out  .one  of  his  eyes,  and  then 
damned  him  and  bid  him  run."  To  this  Huddy  answered,  "It  is  im- 
possible that  I  could  have  taken  Philip  White,  I  being  a  prisoner  closely 
confined  in  New-York  at  the  time  and  for  many  days  before  he  was  made 
a  prisoner.  Justice  Randolph  confirmed  what  Huddy  had  said,  and  as- 
sured Tilton  that  he  could  not  possible  be  charged  with  White's  death  ; 
upon  which  Tilton  told  Mr.  Randolph  that  "He  should  be  hanged  next." 
This  slimsy  story,  which  must  have  been  created  by  the  murderous  hearts 
of  the  refugees,  to  cloak  their  villany,  was  the  only  crime  charged  against 
Capt.  Huddy.  and  was  the  common  subject  of  their  conversation.  From 
the  sloop,  Capt.  Huddy,  with  his  fellow  prisoners,  were  put  on  board 
the  guard  ship  at  the  Hook,  and  confined  between  decks  till  Friday  morn- 
ing the  12th  inst.  when  some  men,  strangers  to  the  prisoners,  came 
below  and  told  Capt.  Huddy  to  "Prepare  to  be  hanged  immediately." 
He  again  said.  "He  was  not  guilty  of  having  killed  White,"  and  that 
"He  should  die  an  innocent  man,  and  in  a  good  cause ;"  and  with  the 
most  uncommon  fortitude  and  composure  of  mind,  prepared  for  his  end. 
and  with  the  spirit  of  a  true  son  of  liberty,  he  waited  the  moment  of 
his  fate,  which  he  met  with  a  degree  of  firmness  and  serenity,  which 
struck  the  coward  hearts  of  his  executioners  with  admiration. — He  even 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  .  425 

executed  his  will  under  the  gallows,  upon  the  head  of  that  barrel  from 
which  he  was  immediately  to  make  his  exit,  and  in  a  hahd-writing  fairer 
than  usual. 

The  circumstances  attending  the  death  of  the  above  mentioned  Philip 
White,  were  as  follows  : 

On  Saturday  the  SOth  of  March  last,  he  was  surprised  by  a  party  of 
our  people,  and  after  he  had  laid  down  his  arms  in  token  of  surrender- 
ing himself  a  prisoner,  he  again  took  up  his  musket  and  killed  a  son  of 
Col.  Hendrickson  ;  he  was  however  taken  by  our  light  horse,  and,  on  his 
way  [from  Colts-Neck  to  Freehold,  where  they  were  conducting  him,  he 
again  attempted  to  make  his  escape  from  the  guard,  who  called  on  him 
several  times  to  surrender,  but  he  continued  running,  although  often 
crossed  and  recrossed  by  the  light  horse,  and  desired  to  stop  and  finally, 
when  leaping  into  a  bog,  impassable  by  the  horse,  he  receiv'ed  a  stroke 
in  the  head  with  a  sword,  which  killed  him  instantly.  The  above  facts 
have  not  only  been  proved  by  the  affidavits  of  our  friends  who  were  pres- 
ent, but  by  the  voluntary  and  candid  testimony  of  one  Aaron  White,  who 
was  taken  prisoner  with  the  said  Philip. 

('apt.  Huddy  was  taken  prisoner  on  Sunday  the  2$th  of  HarcJi,  and 
kept  in  close  custody,  with  Justice  Randolph,  out  of  whose  presence  he 
never  was  for  half  an  hour  from  the  time  he  was  taken,  until  the  hour 
of  his  execution,  which  shews  how  impossible  it  was  for  him  to  have  been 
concerned  in  White's  death,  and  that  they  must  have  known  it  was  so. 

To  shew  their  insolence  yet  further,  they  left  the  following  label  af- 
fixed to  the  breast  of  the  unfortunate  Capt.  Huddy. 

"We  the  refugees  having  with  grief  long  beheld  the  cruel  murders  of 
our  brethren  and  finding  nothing  but  such  measures  daily  carrying  into 
execution, 

"We  therefore  determine  not  to  suffer  without  taking  vengence  for 
the  numerous  cruelties,  and  thus  began  (and  I  say  may  those  lose  their 
liberty  who  do  not  follow  on)  and  have  made  use  of  Capt.  Huddy  as  the 
first  object  to  present  to  your  views,  and  further  determine  to  hanff  man 
for  man  as  long  as  a  refugee  is  left  existing,  "Up  goes  Huddy  for  Philip 
White." 

This  paper  needs  no  comment.  Is  it  not  high  time  seriously  to  en- 
quire whether  these  refugees  are  owned  by,  and  under  the  direction  of, 
the  British  commander  at  New-York?  If  so,  and  he  should  refuse  to 
deliver  up  the  wicked  perpetrators  of  the  above  murder,  ought  we  not 
to  treat  his  officers  in  the  same  manner  until  satisfaction  be  obtained? 
If.  as  some  say,  they  are  not  under  his  authority,  what  are  they  but 
pirates  and  robbers?  and,  why  ought  they  not  to  be  treated  as  such  when 
they  fall  into  our  hands?" 

The  Hon.  the  Justices  of  the  Supreme  court,  have  appointed  the 
courts  of  Nisi  Prius,  Oyer  andi  Terrniner,  &c.  on  the  western  circuit, 
to  be  held  at  the  following  times  and  places,  viz.  At  Middle-Precinct, 
in>  and  for  the  county  of  Cape-May,  on  Tuesday  the  28th  day  of 
May  next;  at  Bridgeton,  in  and  for  the  county  of  Cumberland,  on 
Tuesday  the  4th  day  of  June  next,  at  Salem,  in  and  for  the  county 
of  Salem,  on  Tuesday  the  llth  day  of  June  next,  at  Gloucester,  in 
and  for  the  county  of  Gloucester,  on  Tuesday  the  18th  day  of  June 
next ;  and  at  Burlington,  in  and  for  the  county  of  Burlington,  on 
Tuesday  the  25th  day  of  June  next. 

We  are  informed  that  on  Friday  night  last,  Capt.  Hyler  with  a 
one  gun  boat  and!  a  barge  went  on  an  expedition  t»  the  Narrows, 
where  he  surprised  and  captured  a  British  cutter,  mounting  six  18 
and  ten  9  pounders ;  but  the  wind  being  unfavorable  for  bringing 
her  off,  and  having  landed  her  crew,  about  50  in  number,  and  taking 


426         NEW  JERSEY  IX  THE  REVOLUTION.       [17sl' 

out  such  articles  as  he  thought  proper,  set  her  on  fire.  He  also  took 
a  sloop  at  the  same  time,  which  he  ransomed  for  400  Dollars. — The 
prisoners  are  properly  secured. 

A  letter  from  Baltimore,  of  the  16th  inst.  mentioned  the  arrival 
of  Count  Guichen  at  Martinico,  with  10  sail  of  the  line,  from  France. 

By  a  New-York  paper  of  the  twelfth  instant,  we  learn,  that  a 
fleet  of  45  transports  arrived  there  the  11  from  Charlestown.  under 
convoy,  in  which  the  titular  Governor  of  Virginia,  Lord  Dunin<>n. 
\\as  a  passenger, — and  that  the  General  Greene  and  Charming  Sally. 
belonging  to  Philadelphia,  are  carried  into  New-York. 

33"  To-morrow  is  to  be  observed  as  a  day  of  fasting,  humiliation 
and  prayer,  throughout  the  United-States. 

[Horse   Marquis — Amwell — John   Reading.] 

PUBLIC  VENDUE. 

ON  Monday  the  sixth  of  May  next,  will  be  sold,  at  publick  vendue, 
sundry  household  furniture,  at  the  house  now  in  the  tenure  of  Mrs. 
Catherine  Low,  at  R*ritan  landing ;  and  a  number  of  male  and 
female  servants  hired*  for  one  or  more  years  as  most  agreeable  to 
those  who  choose  to  hire  them. 

Also  to  be  sold,  and  may  be  entered  upon  immediately,  a  large 
commodious  stone  house,  two  stories  high,  four  rooms  on  a  floor, 
the  front  rooms  twenty  feet  square,  cellars  under  the  whole,  and  a 
large  kitchen  adjoining  the  house :  the  situation  is  healthy  and 
pleasant,  commanding  an  extensive  view  of  the  river  Raritan,  and 
is  two  miles  above  Brunswick. 

A  convenient  frame  house,  now  in  the  tenure  of  Mr.  Samuel 
Sears,  with  upland  and  meadow  lots,  and  large  barns  and  stables 
appertaining  to  each-  of  the  above  dwellings.  Also  a  very  laruc 
convenient  store-house. 

For  terms  enquire  of  the  subscriber,  at  his  store  in  water-street, 
five  doors  below  chestnut-street  in  Philadelphia,  who  will  also  at- 
tend on  the  premises  on  the  day  above  appointed. 

NICHOLAS  LOW. 

April  22,  1782. 

BY  HIS  EXCELLENCY. 

William  Livingston,  Esquire.  Governor,  Captain-General  and  Com- 
mander in  Chief  in  and  over  the  state  of  New-Jersey,  and  the  ter- 
ritories thereunto  belonging.  Chancellor  and  Ordinary  in  the  same. 

PROCLAMATION. 

WHEREAS  it  has  been  duly  represented  to  me  in  council,  that 
between  the  hours  of  eleven  and  twelve  o'clock,  in  the  evening  of 
the  twelfth  day  of  April,  instant,  the  dwelling-house  of  the  honour- 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTEACTS.  427 

able  Isaac  Smith,  Esquire,  one  of  the  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court 
of  Judicature  of  this  state,  situate  in  the  county  of  Hunterdon.  was 
robbed  by  a  number  of  persons  unknown,  armed  and  associated,  in 
a  party,  four  of  whom  entered  the  said  house  with  muskets  and 
pistols,  and  besides  putting  the  family  in  fear,  robbed  the  said 
house  of  money  and  effects,  to  the  amount  of  one  hundred  and 
sixty  pounds,  and  upwards. 

I  have  therefore  thought  fit,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent 
of  the  honourable  the  privy  council,  by  virtue  and  in  pursuance  of 
a  certain  act  of  the  legislature  of  this  state  in  such  case  lately 
made  and  provided,  to  issue  this  proclamation,  hereby  promising  a 
reward  of  One  Hundred  Pounds,  lawful  money,  to  any  person  who 
shall  apprehend  and  secure  any  of  the  persons  concerned  in  com- 
mitting the  said  robbery,  so  as  that  such  offender,  who  shall  be  ap- 
prehended, be  legally  convicted  of  the  said  robbery. 

Given  under  my  hand  and  seal  at  arms,  at  Trenton,  the  nine- 
teenth day  of  April,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  One  Thousand 
Seven  Hundred)  and  Eighty-two.  \VIL.  LIVINGSTON. 

[Horse  Kouli-Khann — Hopewell — Peter  Gordon.] 

ALL  persons  indebted  to  the  subscriber,  by  bond,  note  or  book-ac- 
count, are  desired  to  make  immediate  payment  unto  Joseph  Baker 
(at  the  mills  now  occupied  by  Daniel  Hunt,  Esq.)  who  is  authorized 
to  receive  the  same.  Those  who  do  not  attend  to  this  request  need 
not  expect  further  indulgence — as  I  intend  leaving  this  state. 

N.  B.  Those  who  have  any  demands  against  him,  are  desired  to 
take  in  their  accounts  in  order  for  payment. 

MAHLON  TAYLOR. 

April  10,   1782. 

ALL  persons  indebted  to-  the  estate  of  the  Rev.  Jeremiah  Halsey, 
late  of  Hunterdon  county,  deceased,  are  requested  to  make  payment 
by  the  first  day  of  May  next  to  the  subscriber,  otherwise  they  will 
be  sued  without  any  further  notice. 

DAVID  HENRY,  Administrator. 

Bedminster,  Somerset,  April  12,  1782. 

[Horse  Bold  Hunter — Maidenhead — Henry  Mershon.] 

ALL  persons  indebted  to  the  estate  of  James  Hill,  late  of  Trenton, 
deceased,  are  requested  to  make  immediate  payment,  and  those  who 
have  any  just  demands  against  the  said1  estate,  are  desired  to  bring 
in  their  accounts  properly  authenticated,  that  they  may  be  settled  by 

SARAH  HILL, 
MARGARET  HILL 
Trenton,  April  23,  1782. 


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428         NKW  JEKSEY  IX  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1782 

Bnrlington  county,  ss.  /  able,  the  Chief  Justice  of  this  state,  I 
am  directed  to  certify  the  publick  that  a  court  of  Nisi  Prius,  Oyer 
and  Terniiner,  and  General  Gaol  Delivery,  will  be  held  at  the  court- 
house in  Burlington,  in  and  for  the  county  of  Burlington,  on  Tuesday 
the  twenty-fifth  day  of  June  next.  All  Justices  of  the  Peace, 
Coroners,  Constables,  and  other  ministers  of  justice,  of  the  said 
county  are  hereby  desired,  that  they  be  then  and  there  in  their  own 
persons,  with  their  rolls,  records,  indictments  and1  other  remem- 
brances ;  and  all  persons  who  will  prosecute  or  can  bear  testimony 
in  behalf  of  the  state,  against  any  offender  in,  the  said  county,  are 
desired  likewise  to  give  their  attention  on  the  day  and  at  the  place 
aforesaid. 

JACOB  PHILLIPS,   Sheriff. 
Burlington,  April  12,  1782. 

ALL  perosns  indebted  to  the  estate  of  John  Ringo,  late  of  Am- 
well,  in  the  county  of  Hunterdon,  deceased,  by  bond,  bill,  note,  book, 
or  otherwise,  are  once  more  desired  to  make  immediate  payment  to 
the  subscriber,  that  she  may  be  enabled  to  discharge  the  debts  of 
the  said  deceased.  If  this  request  is  not  attended  to,  the  accounts 
and  demands  must  be  put  in^suit. 

Martha  Ringo,  Adm. 

Amwell,  April  18,  1782. 

WANTED  IMMEDIATELY, 

A  NUMBER  of  good 

WAGGONERS, 

To  serve  with  the  Main  Army  the  ensuing  campaign. 

THEIR  wages  will  be  Ten  hard  Dollars  per  month,  One  month's 
pay  will  be  given  in  advance  the  day  they  enlist ;  another  month's 
pay  before  the  army  takes  the  field ;  and  the  remainder  of  their 
wages  at  the  close  of  the  campaign,  on  the  day  they  are  discharged. 
These  are  generous  wages,  and  will  be  punctually  paid  at  the  times 
above-mentioned. 

Any  persons  inclined  to  engage  in  the  above  service,  are  desired 
to  apply  to  John  Neilson,  Deputy  Quarter-Master,  Morristown,  be- 
tween this  and  the  middle  of  Mayi  next.  Such  persons  as  are  not 
known  to  said  John  Neilson,  or  Aaron  Forman,  must  bring  from  a 
Magistrate,  or  some  other  gentleman  of  note  where  they  live,  cer- 
tificates of  their  places  of  abode,  and  qualifications. 

March  6th,  1782. 


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NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  429 


Mr.  Collins, 

The  following  elegant  little  ode,  written  by  a,  lady  on  the  anniversary 
of  her  husband's  death,  th-o.'  it  deserves  a  more  lasting  remembrance 
than  a  Gazette  can  give  it;  yet  in.  the  mean-time,  may  serve  to  enter- 
tain your  ingenious  readers.  Sent  to  me  as  a  friend,  I  have  to  beg 
her  excuse  for  thus  exposing  her  grief  to  the  eye  of  the  publick,  while 
I  ivisli  to  show  it,  h-er  wit. 

A.  B. 

An  elegiack  Ode  <m  the  28th  day  of  February.  The  anniversary  of  Mr. 
death. 

I'VE  heard  the  tempest  howl  along  the  plain, 
And  screaming  winds  pour 'forth  a  dreadful   blast, 
While  fleaks  of  snow,  and  sheets  of  driving  rain 
Presented  nature  as  a  weary  waste. 

Howl  now  ye  tempests,  blow  ye  winds  around — 
Your  gloomy  sounds  are  musick  to  my  ear  ; 
Such  as  I  never  yet  in  zephyrs  found, 
Tho'  fan'd  by  purple  wings  of  vernal  air. 

The  gloomy  sound,   according  with  my  wo, 
Spreads  a  soft  melancholy  o'er  my  mind, 
That  sooths  my  pangs,  and'  gives  the  tender  flow 
Of  lenient  drops,  to  sorrow,  ever  kind. 

Ah  !    what  avails  my  sorrows'  sad  complaint, 
While  in  the  grave  my  Lucius  breathless  lies? 
The  turf  enshrines  the  dust ;    the  skies  the  saint ; 
But  left  behind  the  hapless  mourner  dies. 

Each  day  I  feel  the  anguish  more  severe ; 
In  crowds,  in  solitude,  at  home,  abroad — • 
Bereav'd  of  all  my  inmost  soul  held  dear, 
I  find  her  sinking  fast  beneath  the  load. 

No  change  of  circumstance,  no  varying  scene, 
Can  draw  the  deep,   envenom'd,  barbed  dart : 
Tho'  care  maternal,  prompts  the  look  serene ; 
The  anxious  sigh,  still  wrings  the  mother's  heart, 

Oh !   on  this  day,   may   each  revolving  year, 
Be  mark'd  by  nature's  sympathetic  groan  ! 
Nor  sighing  gales,  deny  the  pitying  tear, 
While  at  his  tomb,  I  make  my  silent  moan  ! 

The  weeping  winds,  report  my  tender  grief — 
And  see  !   a  group  celestial  hastening  down, 
To  share  my  wo,  and  bring  my  pain  releif, 
By  holding  up  a  bright  immortal   crown  ! 

Religion  first,   with   Heaven's  resplendent  beam, 
Presents  a  glass  to  meet  my  tearful  eye- 
Behold  !  behind  this  life's  impervious   screen, 
My  fav'rite  son,  and  wipe  your  sorrows  dry. 

Then  friendship,   science,   liberty,  and  truth, 
Write  on  his  tomb,  in  characters  sublime. 
Approve  the  efforts,  of  his  age  and  youth, 
To  hand  their  influence  down  to  future  time. 

The  graces  too,  by  eloquence  led  on, 
With  cypress  garlands  strew  his  hallowed  grave : 
For  they  had  fondly  mark'd  him  as  their  own — • 
But  vain  their  power,  and  influence  to  save  ! 

In  times  when  civil  discord  holds  her  court ; 
And  vice  triumphant,  keeps  her  ancient  post : 
When  most  is  needed,  such  a  firm  support, 
They  mourn  with  me,  their  friend  and  patron  lost. 

EMELIA. 


4.'50  .\KW    . I  HUSKY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1782 

Mr.  Collins, 

In  a  late  Gazette  you  published  a  computation  of  the  number  of  inhabi- 
tants in  this  state  ;  I  will  beg  leave  to  give  you  a  single  instance  which 
may  throw  some  light  upon  the  surprising  rapidity  and  nuinerousness  of 
population  in  a  free  and  fertile  country.  Oppression  drove  my  grand- 
father and  family  from  England  to  Pennsylvania,  when  the  place  where 
Philadelphia  now  stands  shewed  one  house,  and  that  a  small  frame  one. 
My  father  was  about  five  years  old;  before  twenty  he  married  my  mother; 
they  had  issue  thirteen  children.  After  my  mothers  death  about  twenty- 
one  years  ago  I  undertook  to  number  the  living  from  my  parents.  There 
were  sons  and  daughters  nine ;  grandchildren  71 ;  great-grand  children 
112  ;  and  one  of  the  fifth  generation  downwards.  My  mother  could  say 
to  her  eldest  son  then  living,  son,  your  daughter's  daughter  has  a  daughter. 
While  virtue  and  simplicity  of  manners  remain,  such  will  be  their  effects ; 
luxury,  execrable  luxury,  this  is  what  destroys  mankind,  and  robs  the 
earth  of  inhabitants.  I  am  now  65  years  old,  and  I  Dless  God  that  those 
infamous  oppressors,  the  tories  of  Great  Britain,  involuntarily  sent  me  to 
this  goodly  land.  A  place  too  good  for  them,  and  they  may  as  well  go 
about  their  business,  for  they  will  never  get  it. 

H.  F. 

RAGS. 

The  highest  price  is  given  for  clean  linen  and  cotton  rags,  by  the 
printer  hereof — by  whom  printing,  as  usual,  is  correctly  done,  with 
neatness  and  expedition. 

From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  V.,  No.  227,  May  1,  1782.    • 

BY  HIS  EXCELLENCY 

The  GOVERNOR. 
Head-Quarters,  Trenton,  April  22,  1782. 

AT  a  Court-Martial  -whereof  Major  Richard  Dey  was  president, 
held  at  the  bridge  in  the  county  of  Bergen,  by  order  of  his  Excellency 
the  Governor,  and  continued  by  several  adjournments :  Capt.  Elias 
Romine  was  tried  upon  the  following  charges. 

1st  For  taking  bribes  to  remit  the  fines  of  persons  disaffected  to 
the  present  government. 

2d    For  robbing  the  inhabitants  of  their  property. 

3d.  For  threatening  and  abusing  several  of  the  inhabitants  of  the 
county  of  Bergen,  for  applying  to  the  Colonel  of  the  said  county,  to 
have  him  arrested  and  tried  for  the  aforesaid  crimes,  and  declaring 
that  the  whigs  should  suffer  for  the  said  complaint,  and  that  he 
would  make  them  sweat  for  it. 

The  court  having  mutually  considered  the  evidence  offered  on  the 
several  charges  against  Capt.  Romine,  do  find  him  guilty  of  the  first 
and  second  charges,  and  not  guilty  of  the  third,  and  adjudged  him  to 
be  cashiered,  and  dismissed  from  the  service  as  an  officer  of  the 
militia. 

The  Governor  having  duly  considered  the  evidence  produced  to 
the  said  Court-Martial,  and  the  sentence  and  acquittal  of  the  same, 
approves  of  and  confirms  the  adjudication  of  the  said  court  against 
the  said  Captain  Romine,  and  orders  the  same  to  take  place 
accordingly. 

WIL.  LIVINGSTON. 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  431 

CHATHAM,  April  7. 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  Minisink,  dated  April  1. 

"This  moment  we  received  the  disagreeable  intelligence  that  the 
savages  killed  a  family  of  the  Smiths  yesterday,  about  12  o'clock,  on 
the  Pennsylvania  side  of  the  river,  about  twelve  miles  below  this 
place — It  is  said  the  whole  family,  both  parents,  children  and  work- 
men were  all"  scalped  together. 

TRENTON,  May  1. 

From  Rivington's  Gazette,  April  25. 

Last  Sunday  evening  arrived  the  Brigantine  Pearl,  Captain  Car- 
son, in  eight  weeks  from  Lisbon  ;  on  her  passage  she  fell  in  with 
the  private  ship  of  war  Virginia,  belonging  to  this  port,  to  whom 
the  European  papers  were  delivered,  which  prevented  us  from  re- 
ceiving the  intelligence  contained  in  them. — By  this  vessel  we  are 
informed,  that  the  garrison  of  Minorca  capitulated  on  the  17th  of 
February,  and  that  a  considerable  fleet  of  men  of  war  and  transports 
with  troops,  had  sailed  from  Cadiz  for  the  West-Indies,  previous  to 
Captain  Carson's  departure  from  Lisbon. 

The  account  of  the  taking  of  Minorca  was  brought  by  an  express 
to  the  Spanish  Embassador  at  Lisbon  :  it  is  said  there  were  no  more 
than  11000  men  fit  for  service,  and  those  so  exhausted,  by  incessant 
exertions,  that  there  was  no  alternative  but  in  submission  to  the 
vast  force  of  the  besiegers. 

[Horse  Pacolet — Barney  Smock.] 

[Horse  Young  Britain — Raritan — Derick  Hegeman.] 

FIFTEEN  HALF  JOHAXNESSES  REWARD. 

ON  the  night  of  the  22d  inst.  between  the  hours  of  eleven  and 
one  o'clock,  the  house  of  the  subscriber,  at  Baskingridge,  in  the 
county  of  Somerset,  was  broke  open  by  a  number  of  armed  villains, 
three  of  whom  entered!  the  house  and  robbed  it  of  the  following 
effects,  viz.  A  green  damask  gown  which  had  been  turned  ;  a  black 
taffety  do.  do.  a  black  paduasoy  do;  a  number  of  silk,  cotton,  and 
thread  stockings  marked  I.  M. :  15  new  ruffled  shirts,  among  which 
were  four  fine  holland,  two  of  them  with  edging,  all  marked  I.  M. ; 
two  pair  white  corded  breeches ;  a  new  silk  damascus  waistcoat, 
with  red  and  yellow  stripes,  laced  in  the  back  ;  a  superfine  garnet- 
coloured  cloth  jacket  and  breeches,  with  gold  spangled  buttons  ;  to- 
gether with  a  variety  of  other  articles  of  clothing,  the  most  re- 
markable being  onlyi  here  mentioned :  a  new  beaver  hat ;  a  gold 
watch,  the  works  cased,  maker's  name  John  Green,  London,  number 
unknown,  a  steele  chain  to  it,  with  a  seal,  a  garnet  set  in  gold,  the 
letters  I.  M.  engraved  on  it  in  a  cypher ;  1  pair  round,  paste  shoe 
buckles,  1  pair  round'  silver  ditto,  1  pair  square  do.  do.  2  pair  square 
plated  ditto,  1  stock  buckle,  a  large  silver  tankard  marked  A.  G. 

The  third  letter  unknown,  a  man's  head  on  the  end  of  the  handle  ; 
a  large  silver  soug  spoon,  5  table  do.  marked  ISM  with  a  lion 


432  XEW    JERSEY   IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [17^1* 

rampant  engraved  on  the  handles,  9  silver  tea  spoons  marked  I  S  M. 
ii  silver  tea  tongs,  silver  milk  pot,  a  pair  large  silver  plated  candle- 
sticks, 3  gold  rings,  one  set  with  garnets,  a  golden  locket  for  a 
necklace,  a  number  of  locket  buttons,  besides  other  trinkets ;  a 
china  snuff-box  in  the  shape  of  a  pine-apple ;  a  pair  of  French 
steel-mounted  pistols,  a  steel  band  over  the  gripe  of  one  of  them  : 
one  steele  screw  barrel  do.  silver  mounted,  the  lock  on  the  toft 
marked  S.  Unwin  on  the  side ;  about  30  1.  in  gold  and  silver ;  a 
red  Morocco  pocket-book  in  which  were  the  following  Connecticut 
state  certificates,  viz.  Three  of  100  Pounds  each,  No.  ."us.  r><i<).  mo. 
—Five  of  Fifty  Pounds  each,  No.  298,  299,  300,  301,  177.— Four  of 
Thirty  Pounds  each,  No.  950,  951,  952,  953. — Two  of  Ten  Pounds 
each,  No.  1834,  1835.  all  in  the  name  of  Mr.  Stephen  Steele,  dated 
12lh  day  of  February,  1778,  signed  10th  July  1778,  John  Lawrence, 
treasurer,  a  note  of  hand  for  110  1.  signed  John  Boylan.  together 
with  many  other  valuable  papers  which  cannot  at  present  be  de- 
scribed. It  is  requested  that  every  person  to  whom  the  above 
described  papers  or  any  others  made  payable  to  the  subscriber  may 
come,  will  be  kind  enough  to  secure  them  for  him.  The  most  active 
of  the  villains  was  a  middling  sized  person,  about  5  feet  7  or  8 
inches  high,  had  on  a  dark  coloured  great  coat,  and  spotted  jecket : 
brown  hair ;  the  second  something  taller,  had  a  blue  coat  with  red 
facings ;  the  third  a  tall  man,  with  black  eyes,  black  hair  and  a 
pale  complexion,  had  <&  a  dark  brown  great  coat.  Whoever  secures 
the  above  villains,  or  any  of  them,  so  that  they  may  be  brought 
to  justice,  and  the  goods  recovered  by  the  owner,  shall  be  entitled 
to  the  above  reward,  or  one  half  for  the  villains,  or  goods  only,  rnd 
in  proportion  for  any  part  of  the  goods. 

JOHN  MORTON. 
Baskingridge,  April  23,  1782. 

THE  subscriber  hereby  acquaints  his  friends  and  the  publick  in 
general,  that  he  has  lately  moved  to  the  old  stand,  in  Pennington, 
opposite  the  church,  which  he  formerly  kept,  where  he  purposes 
keeping  good  entertainment  for  travellers,  &c.  Those  gentlemen  who 
choose  to  favour  him  with  their  custom,  may  depend  on  the  best  of 
usage.  THO.  BULLMAX. 

N.  B.  To  be  let.  and  may  be  entered  on  immediately,  a  convenient 
house  for  a  store-keeper,  with  good  garden,  stable,  &c. — Enquire  of 
the  subscriber.  *  Pennington,  April  29,  17SL*. 

ALL  persons  indebted  to  the  estate  of  John  Savidge.  late  of 
Somerset  county,  deceased,  by  bond,  note,  or  otherwise,  are  desired 
to  discharge  the  same,  by  the  ninth  day  of  May  next,  to  the  sub- 
scribers, or  they  will  be  dealt  with  according  to  law ;  and  those  who 
have  any  demands,  are  desired  to  bring  their  accounts  attested  for 
settlement. 

WILLIAM  SAVIDGE,  jun. 


Somerset,  April  27,  1782. 


JOHN  VOORHEES,  /   Adms' 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  433 


April  26,  1782. 

WE  once  more  desire  all  those  who  are  indebted  to  the  estate  of 
Samuel  Titus,  deceased,  to  come  and  settle  their  accounts,  or  they 
may  depend  upon  it  they  will  find  trouble  from 

JOHNSON  TITUS,  )      . 

JOSEPH  TITUS,        \  Administrators. 

JOHN  JOHNSON.     J 


April  23,  1782. 

ALL  persons  who  bought  at  the  vendue  held  March  the  15  and  16, 
in  1780,  in  the  township  of  Hillsborough,  county  of  Somerset,  state 
of  New-Jersey,  of  the  goods  and  chattels  of  Aaron  Camp,  deceased, 
and  have  not  paid,  are  desired  to  come  and  discharge  their  accounts, 
or  otherwise  they  must  expect  to  pay  interest  from  the  seventeenth 
day  of  March  1782 ;  and  those  who  bought  at  said  vendue,  and 
cannot  pay  the  money,  and  have  not  given  security,  are  requested  to 
come  and  give  good  security  immediately. 

SAMUEL  WOLDRON,   \ 
DIRCK  LOW,  /  Execut 

Will  be  sold  the  4th  of  May  next  at  the  dwelling-house  of    • 

Asher  West,  in  Princeton, 

A  NUMBER  of  muskets,  one  swivel  gun,  one  blunderbuss,  several 
barrels  of  gunpowder,  a  valuable  chest  of  medicine  that  cost  120  1. 
in  New- York,  two  cases  Surgeons  instruments,  one  cask  raisins, 
some  bohea  tea,  a  quantity  of  wearing  apparel,  among  which  are  a 
great  number  of  men's  shoes;  being  lately  captured  by  Capt.  Adam 
Hyler,  and  sold  by  order  of  the  Judge.  Sale  will  begin  precisely 
at  ten  o'clock. 

JOHN  M'COMB,  Marshal. 
Princeton,  April  29,  1782. 

THE  subscribers  earnestly  request  all  persons  who  are  indebted 
to  the  estate  of  the  late  Nathaniel  Moore,  deceased,  for  goods  bought 
at  the  vendue,  or  otherwise,  to  make  immediate  payment,  otherwise 
they  will  be  under  the  disagreeable  necessity  of  recovering  the 
outstanding  debts  by  law. 

MARY  MOORE, 
JOSEPH  MOORE, 
Hopewell,  April  26,  1782. 

A  VALUABLE  plantation  most  agreeably  situated  at  the  falls  of 
Shrewsbury,  in  Monrnouth  county,  state  of  New-Jersey,  where  the 
Reverend  Charles  M'Knight  lately  lived,  containing  seventy-six  acres 
or  thereabout,  with  two  tenements,  a  barn,  orchard,  and  a  well  of 
good  water  thereon.  For  terms  and  further  particulars  apply  to 
Dr.  Elisha  Newell,  near  the  premises. 

April  15,  1782. 

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434  XKW    JKltSKV    IX    THK    KKVOI.rTIOX.  [1782 

THE  Latin  school  at  Freehold,  Monmouth  county,  is  again  revived 
in  a  peaceable  and  agreeable  neighbourhood,  where  board  may  be 
had  on  reasonable  terms ;  a  number  of  gentlemen  of  the  first  char- 
acters in  the  county  are  chosen  trustees,  whos  zeal  for  the  interest 
of  the  institution  may  afford  the  most  pleasing  hopes  to  the  em- 
ployers.— Mr.  Clark,  a  very  worthy  and  capable  gentleman,  late  of 
New-Jersey  college,  is  instructor,  who  gives  the  fullest  satisfaction, 
so  that  the  school  is  already  in  a  flourishing  state.  It  is  requested 
that  such  young  gentlemen  as  are  designed  for  the  school  this  session, 
would  be  there  as  near  the  first  of  May  as  possible,  when  the  session 
commences,  as  they  will  then  have  an  oppertunity  of  being  classed 
to  advantage:  and  parents  may  rest  assured,  that  due  attention  will 
be  paid  both  to  their  instruction  and  morals. 

JOHN  WOODHULL. 

Freehold,  April  18,  1782. 

TWELVE  DOLLARS  REWARD. 

STRAYED  or  STOLEN  on  the  night  of  the  25th  instant,  a  black 
horse,  seven  or  eight  years  old,  with  a  small  star,  about  fourteen 
hands  and  a  half  high,  marked  J.  R.  on  the  near  buttock,  almost 
blind  in  the  near  eye,  a  natural  trotter,  and  is  marked  on  the 
shoulders  with  a  fistula,  ami  on  the  back  with  the  saddle. 

Whoever  takes  up  the  said  horse  and  thief,  and  delivers  the  horse 
to  the  subscriber  in  Trenton,  shall  have  Six  Dollars  reward  for  the 
horse,  and  six  for  the  thief  on  conviction,  and  all  reasonable  charges 
paid  by  HENRY  SYBERT. 

Trenton,  April  29,  1782. 

TO  BE  SOLD. 

A  SET  of  black  smith's   tools,  at  Peter  Lupp's,   near  Ringo's  old 
tavern,  in  Amwell,  Hunterdon  county. 
April  23,  1782. 

I  DO  hereby  forewarn  any  person  or  persons  whatever  from  trust- 
ing my  wife,  Hannah  Spenser,  on  my  account  as  I  am  determined  not 
to  pay  any  debts  of  her  contracting  from  this  day. 

JOHN  SPENSER. 

Middlesex,  April  26,  1782. 

THE  subscriber,  intending  in  a  short  time  to  remove  to  Phila- 
delphia, purposes  to  sell,  by  publick  vendue,  on  Saturday  the  4th 
day  of  May  next,  at  the  house  where  he  now'  dwells  in  Maidenhead, 
a  number  of  horses,  cows,  hogs,  &c. — Farming  utensils,  such  as 
ploughs,  harrows;  a  good'  almost  new  waggon  and  gears,  felling  axes, 
hoes.  &c.  grain  in  the  stack,  and  on  the  ground,  empty  hogheads  and 
barrels,  and  a  variety  of  other  articles  too  tedious  to  enumerate. — 
The  vendue  will  begin  precisely  at  10  o'clock  in  the  forenoon  of  said 
day,  when  the  conditions  of  sale  will  be  made  known,  and  attendance 
given  by 

PETER  COWENHOVEN. 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  435 

All  persons  indebted  to  the  said  Peter  Cowenhoven,  are  desired  to 
come  immediately,  settle  their  accounts,  and  make  speedy  payments  ; 
• — -And  those  that  have  any  demands  are  requested  to  make  them,  in 
order  that  they  may  be  finally  adjusted.  P.  C. 

April  26,  1782. 

State  of  New-Jersey,  to  wit, 

To  all  whom  it  may  concern, 

NOTICE  is  hereby  given  that  a  Court  of  Admiralty  will  be  held 
at  the  Court-house  in  Burlington,  on  Wednesday  the  22d  day  of 
May  next,  at  10  o'clock  in  the  forenoon,  then  and  there  to  try  the 
truth  of  the  facts  alledgedi  in  the  bill  of  Adam  Hyler,  commander 
of  the  privateer  armed  boat  Revenge,  (who  as  well  &c.)  against 
certain  negro  men  to  wit,  John  Holland,  Charles  Jackson,  Harry 
Jackson,  John  Brown,  Plato  Williams,  Samuel  Creighton,  Francis 
Chambers,  John  Richards,  John  White,  Peter  Peters  and  Frank 
Oatman,  and  sundry  goods,  wares  and)  merchandize,  taken  at  sea 
from  on  board  the  British  cutter  Alert,  commanded  by  Robert  White, 
on  her  voyage  from  New- York  to  Bermuda,  brought  into  this  state, 
and  libelled  by  the  said  Adam  Hyler;  to1  the  end  that  the  owner 
or  owners  of  the  said  negroes  and  merchandize,  or  any  other  person 
or  persons  interested  therein,  may  appear  and  shew  cause,  if  any 
they  have,  why  the  same  should  not  be  condemned  to  the  captors, 
and  a  decree  of  the  said  court  thereon  pass,  'agreeably  to  the  prayer 
of  the  bill  aforesaid. 

By  order  of  the  Judge, 

JOS.  BLOOMFIELD,  Reg. 

Burlington,  27  April,  1782. 

STOLEN  out  of  the  stable  of  the  subscriber,  at  Baskingridge,  on 
Wednesday  night  the  24th  of  this  instant,  April,  a  black  horse,  about 
14  and  an  half  hands  high,  branded  with  the  letter  *R.  on  the  near 
shoulder,  about  his  neck  and  other  parts  the  hair  worn  off,  a  small 
star  in  his  face,  a  small  place  on  the  rump  rubbed  with  the  breech- 
collar,  the  right  eye  hurt  by  a  blow  of  a  whip,  a  natural  trotter, 
canters  short  and  easy :  Whoever  takes  up  said  horse,  and  thief  or 
thieves,  and  secures  him  or  them,  so  as  he  or  they  be  brought  to 
justice,  and  the  owner  receive  his  horse,  shall  have  Six  Dollars,  or 
for  the  horse  Three  Dollars,  and  reasonable  charges  paid  by 

THO.  BURG  IE. 

FRYING  PANS 
AND 
TAR, 

To  be  sold  at  the  Printing-OfBce. 

A  Quantity  of  Low-Priced, 

Writing-Paper, 
to  be  sold  at  the  Printing-Office. 


436         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1T82 


dlesex  county,  I  sundry  lots  of  land,  situate  in  Perth-Amboy. 
of  and  belonging  unto  the  estate  of  Elias  Bland,  deceased,  adjourned 
for  want  of  buyer's,  to  this  day,  is  further  adjourned  to  Monday  the 
27th  day  of  May  next,  to  be  sold  at  publick  auction  at  the  house 
of  John  De  Grew,  inn-holder,  at  the  Ferry  house,  in  New-Brunswick, 
between  the  hours  of  12  and  5  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  when  a 
draft  of  the  lots  will  be  shewn  to  the  purchaser. 

John  Piatt,  late  Sheriff. 

N.  B.  the  administrator  of  Elias  Bland,  deceased,  requests  all  per- 
sons indebted  to  the  said  estate,  also  those  who  have  any  demand,  to 
attend  on  the  said  27th  day  of  May,  at  the  time  and  place  aforesaid. 

William  Calvert. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

at  publick  vendue, 

AT  Raritan,  on  the  farm  now  occupied  by  Mr.  John  Bennet.  and 
next  place  adjoining  to  Messrs.  William  Crook  and  Joshua  Wallace, 
on  Thursday  the  16th  of  May,  a  number  of  horses  and  colts,  all 
the  horned  cattle  on  the  place,  consisting  of  cows,  calves  and  steers. 
and  sundry  farming  u^nsils :  a  short  credit  will  be  given,  and  the 
other  conditions  of  sale,  which  will  be  made  known  at  the  above- 
mentioned  time  and  place. 

Raritan,  May  1,  1782. 

May  6th,  1782. 

WILL  be  sold,  at  vendue,  at  the  house  of  John  Cape,  inn-holder 
in  Trenton,  on  Saturday  the  llth  instant,  the  following  goods,  re- 
maining unsold!  of  those  advertized  for  sale  the  14th  instant,  at 
Princeton,  viz.  a  quantity  of  gun-powder,  a  number  of  muskets,  one 
blunderbuss,  a  quantity  of  clothing,  some  shoes,  beds,  mattresses  and 
bedding : — Also  a  chest  of  medicines,  consisting  of  a  variety  of  the 
most  capital  articles — and  a  set  of  amputating  and  trepanning  in- 
struments. 


From  the  Neiv  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  V.,  No.  229,  May  15,  17S2. 

For  the  New-Jersey  Gazette. 

Whoever  will  carefully  peruse  the  latest  New-York  and  English 
papers  respecting  the  American  'war,  with  the  debates  of  parliament 
on  that  subject,  cannot  avoid  concluding  that  the  proposed  alteration 
of  measures,  as  to  its  future  prosecution,  instead  of  affording  us 
any  rational  prospect  of  peace,  is  intended  as  a  mere  delusion  to 
quiet  the  minds  of  the  people  of  England,  and  to  lull  America  into 
a  state  of  inactivity  and  indolence.  The  eagerness  with  which  the 
tories  amongst  us  are  propagating  the  news  of  a  peace,  is  another 
argument  with  every  man  of  reflection,  that  we  cannot  be  too 
cautious  in  beleiving  reports  so  apparently  calculated  for  the  same 
insidious  purpose.  Depend  upon  it,  my  countrymen,  that  the  real 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  437 

plan  of  the  British  ministry  is  to  draw  us  off  from  our  connections 
with  France ;  that  having  with  this  deception  hushed  us  into  security, 
they  may  be  the  better  enabled  to  prosecute  the  war  in  other  parts 
of  the  world  with  the  greater  rigour,  and  if  successful,  return  upon 
us  with  redoubled  fury. 

With  these  impressions  it  is  earnestly  wished,  that  every  real 
friend  to  his  country  will  peruse  all  the  European  intelligence  con- 
tained in  this/  paper,  and  not  agree  to*  the  least  relaxation  of  our 
operations  against  the  enemy  in  the  ensuing  campaign,  well  knowing 
that  if  the  parliament  are  really  in  earnest  in  obtaining  peace  with 
us,  it  cannot  be  to  our  disadvantage  to  keep  our  arms  in  our  hands 
until  our  wishes  of  an  honourable  peace  are  fully  accomplished. 

An  old  Politician. 

PHILADELPHIA,  May  8. 

The  following  is  said  to  be  a  genuine  copy  of  the  letter  from  his 
Excellency  General  Washington  to  Sir  Harry  Clinton,  on  the 
subject  of  the  murder  of  Captain  Huddy. 

Head-Quarters,  April  21,  1782. 
Sir. 

The  inclosed  representation  from  the  inhabitants  of  the  county  of 
Monmouth,  with  testimonials  to  the  fact,  (which  can  be  corroborated  by 
other  unquestionable  evidence)  will  bring  before  your  Excellency  the 
most  wanton,  cruel,  and  unprecedented  murder  that  ever  disgraced  the 
arms  of  a  civilized  people.  I  shall  not,  because  I  conceive  it  altogether 
unnecessary,  trouble  your  Excellency  with  any  animadversions  on  this 
transaction.  Condour  obliges  me  to  be  explicit ; — to  save  the  innocent, 
I  demand  the  guilty. 

Captain  Lippencut,  therefore,  or  the  officer  who  commanded  at  the 
execution  of  Captain  Huddy,  must  be  given  up ;  or  if  that  officer  was  of 
inferior  rank  to  him,  so  many  of  the  perpetrators  as  will,  according  to 
the  tariff  of  exchange,  be  an  equivalent.  To  do  this,  will  mark  the 
justice  of  your  Excellency's  character.  In  failure  of  it,  I  shall  hold 
myself  justified,  in  the  eyes  of  God  and  man,  for  the  measure  to  which 
I  shall  resort. 

I  beg  your  Excellency  to  be  persuaded,  that  it  cannot  be  more  disagree- 
able to  you  to  be  addressed  in  the  language,  than  it  is  to  me  to  offer 
it ;  but  the  subject  requires  frankness  and  decision. 

I  have  to  request  your  speedy  determination,  as  my  resolution  is  sus- 
pended but  for  your  answer. 

I  have  the  honour  to  be,  &c. 

TRENTON,  May  15. 

On  Friday  last  came  to  town  from  New- York,  Lieutenant-Colonel 
Livingston,  son  to  his  Excellency  Governor  Livingston.  This  gentle- 
man was  taken,  the  25th  of  April  last,  on  his  return  from  Spain,  by 
the  Quebec  frigate,  and  carried  to  New-York — Immediately  on  his 
landing  there,  he  was  committed,  by  General  Robertson's  orders,  to 
the  provost,  and  continued  in  confinement  until  the  arrival  of  Sir 
Guy  Carleton,  who  has  liberated  him  on  parole. 

On  Monday  the  sixth  inst.  the  house  of  Andrew  Larison,  in  Amwell, 
caught  fire  by  accident,  and  was  entirely  consumed,  with  most  of 
the  household  goods. 


438  NEW   JERSEY   IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1782 

IST  The  Legislature  meets  here  this  day,  pursuant  to  adjournment. 

Head-Quarters,  Trenton,  May  13,  17*2. 
BY  HIS  EXCELLENCY  the 
GOVERNOR. 

WHEREAS  His  Excellency  the  Commander  in  Chief  of  the  armies 
of  these  United  States  has  given  the  most  peremptory  orders  to  the 
officers  under  his  command,  that  no  flag  from  the  enemy  shall  be 
received  at  any  other  place  or  port  than  Dobb's-Ferry,  on  any 
business  or  pretext  whatever ;  and  that  no  flag  from  us  to  them 
shall  (for  any  reason  however  pressing)  be  permitted  to  pass  to  the 
enemy's  lines,  except  from  the  same  place ;  and  hath  solicited  my 
concurrence  'and  assistance  in  the  execution  of  this  measure — I 
do  therefore  hereby  notify  the  same  to  all  the  officers  of  the  militia 
of  this  state,  and  all  others  whom  it  may  concern :  and  all  such 
officers!  are  hereby  directed  not  to  receive  any  flag  from  the  enemy 
at  any  other  place  or  port  than  Dobb's-Ferry,  on  any  business  or 
pretext  whatever,  nor  to  permit  any  flag  from  us  to  them  (for  any 
reason  however  pressing)  to  pass  to  the  enemy's  lines,  except  from 
the  same  place.  And  for  the  more  effectually  carrying  into  execution 
the  said  regulation,  which  from  the  present  juncture  of  affairs  is 
become  peculiarly  necessary ;  every  officer  of  the  said  militia  who 
is  now,  or  hereafter  may  be,  on  command  at  any  post  in  this  state, 
is  hereby  directed!  to  put  under  immediate  arrest  any  other  officer 
who  shall  presume  to  contravene  the  intention  of  this  order  on  our 
side ;  and  to  detain,  as  prisoners,  all  persons  that  shall  come  from 
the  enemy  with  flags,  at  any  other  place  or  port  than  the  one  as 
aforesaid  for  that  purpose  established. 

WIL.  LIVINGSTON. 

FOUND, 

SEVERAL  dozen  watch  springs,  on  the  banks  of  Sanpink.  The 
owner,  by  applying  to  the  subscriber,  at  Trenton  landing,  proving 
his  property,  and  paying  the  expence  of  this  advertisement,  may  have 
them  again.  NATHANIEL  MOORE. 

WANTED, 

A  Middle  aged  woman,  to  tend  children  and  sew  in  a  small  family — 
Enquire  of  the  printer.  None  need  apply  except  they  can  be  well 
recommended. 

ALL  persons  indebted  to  the  estate  of  William  Compton,  deceased, 
are  desired  to  pay  by  the  middle  of  June  next,  and  those  who  have 
any  demands  against  said  estate,  are  requested  to  bring  in  their 
accounts  for  settlement. 

ICHAOBUD  COMPTON,   \ 
JOHN  COMPTON,  f     Executors- 

Upper-Freehold,  Mon.  County,  May  8,  1782. 


1782]  NEWSPAPER   EXTRACTS.  439 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

A  STRONG  healthy  negro  man,  about  five  and  twenty  years  old, 
bredi  to  farming,  has  had  the  small-pox  and  measles,  is  very  honest 
and  sober :  the  purchaser  will  have  a  satisfactory  assurance  of  his 
character,  and  that  he  is  sold  for  no  fault.  Enquire  of  Thomas  Nor- 
ris,  of  Windsor  township,  Middlesex  county. 

TAKEN  up  for  horse-stealing,  one  Jesse  Meridith ;  there  was 
found  with  him  a  brown  horse,  thirteen  hands  high,  above  twelve 
years  old,  paces  under  the  saddle,  without  brand  or  ear  mark ;  also 
an  old  hunting  saddle,  snaffle  bridle,  a  pair  of  old  holsters,  and  a 
pair  of  brass  barrelled  holster  pistols,  marked  Barker  on  the  lock  ; 
one  pair  of  leather  saddle  bags,  at  the  end  of  the  strap  that  laces 
them  is  a  pewter  hasp,  and  in  them  were  sundry  articles,  &c.  which 
are  in  the  hands  of  the  subscriber.  Any  person  or  persons  owning 
any  of  the  above-mentioned  goods,  may  have  them  again,  by  proving 
their  property,  and  paying  charges.  JOHN  CORYELL. 

Bucks  county,  May  7,  1782. 

Wanted  immediately. 

A  PERSON  qualified  for  teaching  an  English  school ;  such  a  one 
may  meet  with  encouragement  by  applying  to  the  subscriber  in 
Amwell.  Thomas  Reading. 

April  17,  1782. 

From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  V.,  No.  230,  May  22,  1782. 

House  of  Assembly,  May  21,  1782. 
On  Motion, 
Resolved, 

THAT   the   doors   of  this   house   be   kept   open,   and   that   the   in- 
habitants of  the  state  be  permitted  to  be  present  at  the  transacting 
the  business  of  the  house,  except  on  such  particular  occasions  as  in 
the  opinion  of  the  house  shall  require  secrecy. 
Extract  from  the  minutes. 

MASKELL  EWING,  jun.  Clk. 

THE  trustees'  of  Queen's-College  in  New-Jersey,  are  requested  to 
meet  at  New-Brunswick  on  Wednesday  the  twelfth  day  of  June 
next,  precisely  at  11  o'clock  in  the  morning  on  business  of  im- 
portance. 

By  order 

J.  R.  Hardenbergh,  Clk. 
May  13,  1782. 

FOR  SALE. 

THE  grist  mills  and  saw-mill  of  the  subscriber,  situate  on  the  south 
branch  of  the  Raritan,  near  the  forks  of  Raritan,  a  never  failing 
stream,  consisting  of  a  large  mill-house,  with  two  run  of  stones, 
merchant  and  country  bolts,  a  convenient  saw-mill,  two  dwelling- 


440         NEW  JERSEY  IX  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1782 

houses,  with  a  large  merchant's  store,  Dutch  barn,  and  out  houses — 
a  large  orchard,  mostly  grafted,  with  SO  acres  of  good  land  adjoining 
the  mill,  15  acres  of  which  is  excellent  meadow,  lying  on  the  river, 
20  acres  woodland,  and  the  rest  tillable,  well  watered,  and  shad 
and  other  fish  caught  by  the  door — a  very  healthy  place,  and  is  a 
good  mill  seat,  lying  in  the  midst  of  a  thick  settled  country,  and 
a  good  stand  for  trade,  being  16  miles  from  New-Brunswick,  30 
miles  from  Trenton,  and  50  miles  from  Philadelphia  ;  the  purchaser 
can  enter  on  the  premises  immediately.  For  terms  apply  to  Peter 
Dumont,  on  the  premises. 
May  2,  1782. 

NOTICE  is  hereby  given  that  pursuant  to  the  directions  of  the 
council  of  general  proprietors  of  West-Jersey,  a  petition  will  be 
presented  to  the  honourable  the  Legislature  at  their  next  session, 
for  a  law  to  appoint  commissioners  from  some  of  the  neighbouring 
states  to  ascertain  the  line  of  partition  between  the  eastern  and 
western  divisions  of  New-Jersey, 

Joseph  Reed, 
Jona.  D.  Sergeant, 
Clement  Biddle,          ^    Committee. 
Ebenezer  Gowell, 
Daniel  Ellis,  J 

May  4.  1782. 

TO  BE  SOLD,  at  Vendue, 

FOR  ready  money,  on  Saturday  the  25th  day  of  May,  1782.  at  the 
house  of  Hugh  Smith,  in  Trenton,  in  the  county  of  Burlington,  one 
new  milch  cow.  one  heifer,  and  sundry  household  furniture  consisting 
of  beds  a*nd  bedding,  chairs,  tables,  and  several  other  articles  too 
tedious  to  mention,  the  sale  to  begin  precisely  at  11  o'clock. 

N.  B.  The  said  Smith  requests  all  persons  whosoever,  having 
any  demand  against  him  or  his  deceased  wife  Elizabeth  Smith,  should 
immediately  send  in  their  accounts ;  and  he  also  requests  all  those 
who  are  in  any  respect  indebted  to  him,  may  without  further  trouble 
pay  off  their  accounts  to  himself,  or  in  his  absence  to  Mr.  Jacob 
Benjamin,  in  Trenton,  opposite  the  Printer's. 

TO  BE  SOLD. 

at  Publick  Vendue, 

At  the  tavern  commonly  called  Ringo's,  in  Amwell,  Hunterdon  county, 

on  Friday  31st  May.  instant. 

A  Considerable  number  of  horses,  mares,  and  colts,  most  part  half 
and  3-4ths  blooded,  got  by  noted  full  blooded  horse  ;  these  colts  are 
from  one  year  to  four  years  old,  most  of  them  in  good  order :  There 
is  a  very  likely  full  blooded  bay  mare,  rising  six  years  old.  of  the 
Juniper  and  Pacolet  breed,  now  heavy  with  foal  to  the  noted  horse 
Traveller;  those  are  the  stock  of  a  person  who  has  been  careful 
and  curious  to>  get  good  blood,  and  are  sold  as  he  intends  to  quit 


1782]  NEWSPAPER  EXTRACTS. 

farming  as  soon  as  convenient ;    there  will  be  a  short  credit  given, 
and  the  owner  will  attend  the  sale,  which  will  begin  at  12  o'clock  on 
the  said  day. 
May  20,  1782. 

TO  BE  SOLD 

BY  WILLIAM  RICHARDS, 

AT  Lamberton,  near  Trenton,  a  fine  negro  boy,  about  thirteen  years 
old ;    the  owner  of  said  negro  wants  money  is  the  reason  he  is  sold. 
May  14,  1782. 

New-Jersey  \  BY  virtue  of  sundry  writs  of  Fieri  Facias  to 
Middlesex  county  /  me  directed,  issued  out  of  the  Court  of  Common 
Pleas  in  and  for  the  said  county  of  Middlesex,  against  the  goods 
and  chattels,  lands  and  tenements  of  and  belonging  to  John  Vankirk, 
I  have  seized  and  taken  horses,  cattle,  hogs,  sundry  sorts  of  house- 
hold goods  and  farming  utensils,  together  with  about  180  acres  of 
land  situate  in  Cranbury,  all  which  I  shall  expose  at  auction ;  the 
goods  and  chattels  on  Monday  the  3d  day  of  June  next  ensuing,  at 
twelve  o'clock,  and  that  valuable  and  noted  house  and  tavern  called 
Gordon's  tavern,  at  Cranberry,  opposite  the  mill,  together  with  the 
aforesaid  180  acres  of  land  &c.  on  Monday  24th  day  of  June  next, 
between  the  hours  of  12  and  5  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  at  the  said 
Vankirk's  house,  at  Cranberry  aforesaid. 

JOHN  PIATT,  LATE  SHERIFF. 
May  22,  1782. 


New-Jersey,  \      BY  virtue  of  an   order   from   the   Honour- 

Middlesex  County,  ss.  J  able  the  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court  Of 
Judicature  of  this  state,  I  am  directed  to  give  notice  to  the  publick, 
that  courts  of  Oyer  and  Terminer  and  General  Gaol  Delivery  will 
be  held  at  Princeton,  in  and  for  the  county  of  Middlesex,  on  Tuesday 
the  llth  day  of  June  next :  All  Judges,  Justices,  Coroners,  Con- 
stables, and  other  officers  and  ministers  of  justice  of  said  county, 
are  hereby  required  to  be  then  there  in  their  proper  persons,  with 
their  rolls,  records,  indictments  and  other  remembrances ;  and  all 
persons  who  will  prosecute  or  can  bear  testimony  in  behalf  of  the 
state  against  any  offender  in  said  county,  are  desired  likewise  to 
give  their  attendance  at  the  time  and  place  aforesaid. 

JOHN  CONWAY,  Sheriff. 
New-Brunswick,  May  17,  1782. 

From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  V.,  No.  231,  May  29,  1782. 
TRENTON,  May  29. 

The  Honourable  the  Minister  Plenipotentiary  of  His  Most  Chris- 
tian Majesty  having,  by  order  of  the  King  his  master,  announced 
to  the  United-States  in  Congress  assembled,  on  the  13th  inst.  the 
birth  of  a  Dauphin  and  Heir  to  the  Crown  of  France;  and  the 
same  having  been  communicated  to  His  Excellency  the  Governor, 
and  to  the  Legislature  of  this  state,  by  order  of  Congress  the  happy 


442  -NEW   JERSEY   IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1782 

event  was  celebrated  here  on  the  24th  inst.  with  every  mark  of 
respect,  joy  and  congratulation.  At  noon  the  American  flag  was 
displayed,  and  the  town  artillery  paraded  at  the  market-place.  At 
three  the  company  assembled  to  an  elegant  entertainment  at  the 
French  Arms,  where  were  present  His  Excellency  the  Governor,  and 
the  Hon.  the  Council,  the  Honourable  the  Speaker  and  Members  of 
the  General  Assembly,  several  gentlemen  of  the  army,  and  others 
occasionally  present  and  the  gentlemen  of  the  town  and  vicinity. 
After  dinner  the  following  toasts  were  drank,  and  severally  accom- 
panied with  a  discharge  of  artillery  : 

1.  Congress. 

2.  The  King  of  France. 

3.  The  Dauphin. 

4.  The  Queen  of  France. 

5.  The  King  of  Spain,  and  all  Powers  friendly  to  America. 

6.  General  Washington  and  the  Army. 

7.  Count  Rochambeau  and  the  French  Army. 

8.  General  Greene  and  the  Southern  Army. 

9.  Count  de  Grasse  and'  the  combined  fleet. 

10.  May  the  Alliance  between  France  and  America  subsist  as  long 
as  the  Delaware  shall  continue  to  flow. 

11.  Unanimity  in  Council  and  Vigour  in  the  Field. 

12.  Peace  on  the  Ternjs  of  the  alliance,  or  war  forever. 

13.  May  the  honour  and  faith  of  America  ever  be  held  as  inviolate 
as  her  Freedom. 

14.  The  State  of  New-Jersey. 

At  5  the  company  retired.  It  could  not  but  afford  the  highest 
pleasure  to  every  friend  of  the  liberties  of  his  country  and  the 
rights  of  mankind,  to  observe  the  joy  and  satisfaction  manifested  on 
this  occasion.  The  liberal  principles  of  the  alliance,  the  generous 
aids  afforded  to  these  states  in  consequence  of  it.  and  the  great  end 
it  has  been  instrumental  in  securing,  must  ever  interest  us  in  the 
happiness  of  a  nation  whose  character  and  conduct  is  the  laudable 
reverse  of  that  of  our  enemies. 

STATE  OF  NEW-JERSEY. 

House  of  Assembly,  May  25,  1782. 

WHEREAS  the  British  court  and  ministry,  after  having  in  vain 
attempted  to  reduce  the  United  States  of  America  by  force  of  arms 
to  absolute  and  unconditional  submission,  have  at  last  been  obliged 
to  acknowledge  the  utter  impracticability  of  the  enterprise ;  but 
not  being  willing  to  relinquish  their  purpose  of  subjugating  these 
free  and  independent  states  to  their  dominion  and  tyranny,  are  now 
endeavouring  to  effect  by  craft  and  artifice  what  dear  bought  ex- 
perience has  convinced  them  they  cannot  achieve  by  military  prowess. 

And  whereas  in  prosecution  of  their  said  system  of  art  and  sub- 
tilty.  they  are  endeavouring  to  persuade  the  different  courts  in 
Europe  that  the  citizens  of  these  states  are  neither  united  nor  de- 
termined in  the  support  of  their  national  independence,  to  represent 
them  as  a  divided  people,  the  greatest  part  of  whom  wish  to  return 


1782]  NEWSPAPER  EXTRACTS.  4:4:3 

to  their  ancient  connections  with  England,  to  cast  an  odium  upon 
the  conduct  of  the  court  of  France,  by  representing  them  rather  as 
the  support  of  a  discontended  faction  than  the  generous  ally  of  a 
brave  and  oppressed  people,  and  to  sow  the  seeds  of  dissention  be- 
tween his  Most  Christian  Majesty  and  the  United!  States,  of  America, 
by  endeavouring  to  render  them  mutually  jealous  of  each  other ; 
and  whereas  by  the  arrival  of  Sir  Guy  Carleton  in  New- York  as  a 
commissioner  for  making  peace  or  continuing  the  war  in  North- 
America,  the  dissolution  of  the  British  ministry,  the  appointment  of 
a  new  administration,  and  the  draught  of  a  bill  brought  into  the 
British  parliament  to  enable  their  King  to  conclude  a  peace  or 
truce  with  the  United  States  (by  the  description  of  the  revolted 
colonies)  there  is  great  reason  to  beleive  that  in  the  further  prosecu- 
tion of  their  said  insidious  system  of  dividing  in  order  to  destroy  us, 
they  will  soon  attempt  to  make  overtures  of  pacification  to  each 
of  the  United  States,  and  propose  terms  of  peace  inconsistent  with 
our  alliance  with  His  Most  Christian  Majesty,  and  in  derogation  of 
our  own  sovereignty  and  independence. 

In  order  therefore  to  counteract  the  said  artifices  of  the  enemy, 
and  to  evince  to  the  whole  world  the  most  spirited  determination  of 
the  legislature  of  this  state,  to  receive  or  listen,  to  no  negociation 
whatsoever,  that  may  be  proposed  by  the  court  or  ministry  of  Great- 
Britain,  or  by  their  commissioner  or  commissioners,  or  by  any  other 
person  or  persons  whatever  under  their  authority,  except  only  thro 
the  intervention  of  Congress,  and  to  manifest  in  the  clearest  manner 
our  firm  and  unalterable  attachment  to  the  independence  of  this 
country,  and  our  inviolable  regard  to  the  faith  which  we  have 
pledged  to  each  other  and  to  our  allies ; 

Resolved  unanimously,  That  the  legislature  of  this  state  is  de- 
termined to  exert  the  power  of  the  state  to  enable  Congress  to 
support  the  national  independence  of  America,  and  that  whoever 
shall  attempt  to  effect  any  pacification  between  these  States  and 
Great-Britain,  expressing  or  implying  the  least  subordination  or  de- 
pendance  of  these  United1  States  to  or  upon  Greqt-Britain,  or  shall 
presume  to  make  any  separation,  or  partial  convention,  or  agree- 
ment with  the  King  of  Great-Britain,  or  with  any  person  or  persons 
acting  under  the,  crown  of  Great-Britain,  by  what  name  or  title 
soever,  ought  to  be  treated  as  an  open  and  avowed!  enemy  of  the 
United  States  of  America. 

Resolved  unanimously,  That  the  delegates  of  the  United  States  of 
America  in  Congress  assembled,  are  vested  with  the  exclusive  au- 
thority to  treat  with  the  King  of  Great-Britain,  or  commissioners 
by  him  duly  appointed,  to  negotiate  a  peace  between  the  .two  countries. 

Resolved  unanimously,  That  altho'  peace  upon  honourable  terms 
is  an  object  truly  desirable,  yet  that  war  with  all  the  calamities 
usually  attending  it,  is  incomparably  preferable  to  national  dishonour 
and  vassalage,  and  that  no  event,  however  disasterous,  ought  to  in- 
duce us  to  violate  in  the  least  degree  our  connection  with  our  great 
and  generous  ally,  and  that  no  peace  or  truce  can  be  made  by  these 
States  with  Great-Britain,  consistent  with  good  faith,  gratitude  or 


444  NEW   JERSEY   12*   THE    EEVOLUTIOISr.  [1782 

safety  but  in  connection  with,  and  by  the  consent  of  our  great  and 
good  ally  first  had  and  obtained. 

Resolved  unanimously,  That  the  legislature  will  maintain,  support 
and  defend  the  sovereignty  and  independence  of  this  state  with  their 
lives  and  fortunes,  and  will  exert  the  power  thereof  to  enable  Con- 
gress to  prosecute  the  war  until  Great-Britain  shall  renounce  all  claim 
of  sovereignty  over  the  United  States,  or  any  part  thereof,  and 
until  their  independence  shall  be  formally  or  tacitly  assured  by  a 
treaty  with  .Great-Britain,  France  and  the  United  States,  which 
alone  can  terminate  the  war. 

By  order  of  the  House. 

JOHN  MEHELM,  Speaker. 
Concurred  in  by  Council  unanimously,  May  27,  1782. 

WIL.  LIVINGSTON,  President. 

[Horse  St.  Patrick — Hopewell— John  P.   Hunt.] 

To  BE  SOLD  at  Publick  Vendue, 
On  Thursday  the  6th  of  June  next, 

A  Lot  of  about  four  acres  of  land,  pleasantly  situated  in  Bordentown ; 
whereon  is  erected  a  genteel  and  convenient  brick  house,  two  stories 
high,  with  two  rooms  and  a  large  entry  on  the  lower  floor,  three  on^ 
the  upper,  with  a  garret,  -a  large  kitchen,  and  a  good  well  of  water 
near  the  door ;  there  is  "also  on  the  premises,  an  orchard  of  ex- 
cellent fruit  of  various  kinds.  At  the  same  time  will  be  sold,  a 
valuable  Lot  of  marsh  near  said  town,  containing  5  or  6  acres, 
well  situated  on  Crosswick's  creek. 

The  Vendue  will  begin  at  two  o'clock,  when  the  conditions  will 
be  made  known,  and  attendance  given,  by  Amariah  Farnsworth. 

Bordentown,  May  25,  1782. 

WHEREAS  the  subscriber,  of  Maidenhead,  Hunterdon  county, 
state  of  New-Jersey,  has  removed  to  Philadelphia,  in  race-street,  near 
the  corner  of  third-street,  and  has  opened  a  house  of  publick  enter- 
tainment, and  intends  to  keep  a  house  to  entertain  travellers  and 
others  in  the  best  manner,  and  give  the  greatest  satisfaction  possible ; 
and  he  hopes  his  former  customers  will  oblige  him  as  usual. 

PETER  COVENHOVEN. 

Wanted  immediately, 

IN  a  small  family,  a  servant  girl  who  can  do  all  kind  of  house- 
work.— One  who  can  be  recommended,  will  meet  with  good  encourage- 
ment, by  applying  to  the  Printer. 

CAME  to  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber  at  the  drawbridge,  in 
Burlington  county,  on  the  llth  inst.  a  bay  stallion  colt,  rising  three 
years  old,  a  small  star,  very  thin  in  flesh  :  The  owner  is  desired  to 
prove  his  property,  pay  charges,  and  take  him  away. 

WILLIAM  NUTT. 

May  23,  1782. 


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FOUR  DOLLARS  REWARD. 

STRAYED  or  stolen  from  the  subscriber  Friday  night  last,  a  mare 
of  an  iron  grey  colour,  about  fifteen  hands  high,  six  years  old,  paces 
and  trots,  but  mostly  the  former,  has  a  large  bushy  tail,  and  shod 
before :  Whoever  will  bring  her  to  the  subscriber,  or  to  Captain 
Sherer  at  Spotswood,  shall  receive  Four  Spanish  Dollars  reward,  and 
reasonable  charges,  by  JOHN  RATTOON. 

South  Amboy,  M'ay  21,  1782. 

State  of  New-Jersey  to  wit. 
To  all  whom  it  may  concern. 

NOTICE  is  hereby  given  that  a  court  of  admiralty  will  be  held 
at  the  court-house  in  Burlington,  on  Tuesday  the  25th  of  June  next, 
at  ten  o'clock  in  the  forenoon  of  that  day,  to  try  the  truth  of  the 
facts  alledged  in  the  bill  of  Hope  Willets,  who  as  well,  &c.  against 
a  certain  sloop  called  the  William  and  John,  her  tackle,  apparel, 
furniture  and  cargo,  lately  taken  by  the  enemy  in  the  Chesapeake, 
and  retaken  off  the  coast  of  New-Jersey,  on  her  passage  to  New- 
York,  by  the  armed  boat  Luck  and  Fortune,  commanded  by  the  said 
Hope  Willets ;  to  the  'end  that  the  owner  or  owners  of  the  said  sloop, 
or  any  other  person  or  persons  interested  therein,  may  appear  and 
shew  cause,  if  any  they  have,  why  the  said  sloop,  with  her  said 
tackle,  apparel,  furniture  and  cargo,  should  not  be  condemned  to 
the  captors,  and  a  decree  thereon  pass  pursuant  to  the  prayer  of 
the  said  bill. 

By  order  of  the  Judge, 

JOS.  BLOOMFIELD,  Res. 
Burlington,  May  22,  1782. 

Raritan  Landing,  May  23,  1782. 
To  whom  it  may  concern. 

State  of  New-  "I  NOTICE  is  hereby  given,  that  a  court  of  admiralty 
Jersey.  j  will  be  held  on  Thursday,  the  20th  of  June,  at  the 
dwelling-house  of  Captain  James  Green,  in  Monmouth,  then  and 
there  to  try  the  truth  of)  the  facts  in  the  alledged  bill  of  Captain 
Adam  Hyler,  against  the  schooner  Speedwell,  burthen  about  twenty- 
two  tons,  together  with  her  tackle,  apparel,  furniture  and  cargo,  late 
the  property  of  Messrs.  Moore,  and  Stratton,  commanded  by  Capt. 
— Moore,  and  captured  by  the  British,  schooner  Sukey,  Captain 
John'Dimsey,  master,  near  Chesapeake-Bay,  and  re-captured  by  said 
Captain  Adam  Hyler,  and  now  lies  at  Toms  River ;  to  the  true 
intent  that  the  former  proprietors,  or  any  other  person  or  persons 
claiming  the  same,  may  shew  cause,  if  any  they  have,  why  the  said 
vessel,  her  tackle,  apparel,  furniture  and  cargo,  shall  not  be  condemned 
to  the  captors,  according  to  the  prayer  of  the  said  bill'. 

R.  HUDE, 
J.  BRAY, 


)E,  I    , 

y      r  Agents. 


446  NEW   JERSEY   IN    THE    REVOLUTION. 

WILL  BE  SOLD, 

ON  Saturday  the  first  of  June  next,  at  the  house  of  John  Cape,  at 
the  arms  of  France,  in  Trenton,  nine  likely  negro  men,  lately  cap- 
tured by  Captain  Adam  Hyler,  and  legally  condemned  in  a  court  of 
admiralty. — The  vendue  to  begin  at  10  o'clock. 

JAMES  M'COMB. 

Marshal. 
WILL  BE  SOLD. 

The  fourth  day  of  June  next,  at  Chestnut-Neck,  Little  Egg-Harbour, 

State  of  New-Jersey, 

THE  brigantine  or  vessel  called  the  Betsey,  with  her  tackle,  apparel, 
furniture  and  cargo  ;  consisting  of  tobacco,  salt,  coffe,  mustard,  china 
and  queen's  ware,  with  sundry  other  articles,  lately  captured  by  Capt. 
Thomas  Quigley  in  the  boat  Lively.  Sale  to  begin  precisely  at  ten 
o'clock. 

By  order  of  the  Admiralty, 

JAMES  M'COMB,  Marshal. 
Princeton,  May  28,  1782. 


TO  BE  SOLD  at  Publick  Vendue, 
. 

At  the  German  Parsonage,  in  the  township  of  Amwell,  in  the  vicinity 
of  Flemington,  on  Tuesday  the  4th  of  June  next,  at  ten  o'clock  in 
the  morning,  A  Pair  of  elegant  horses,  the  noted  breeding-mare  Flora, 
with  a  colt  at  her  side,  a  yearling  filley,  remarkably  stout  and  hand- 
some, the  best  of  milch  cows,  wheat,  oats,  and  flax  in  the  ground,  a 
pleasure  sleigh,  waggon,  gears,  hogsheads  and  barrels,  wooden,  earthen, 
and  iron  vessels ;  also,  a  variety  of  valuable  furniture.  A  generous 
credit  will  be  given,  and  the  conditions  of  sale  made  known  by  the 
subscriber. 

JOHN  NEVELING. 
May  27,  1781. 


From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  V.,  No.  232,  June  5,  1782. 

TRENTON,  June  5. 

We  hear  from  Monmouth,  that  on  the  morning  of  the  1st  iust. 
one  Davenport,  a  refugee  landed  with  about  40  whites  and  40  blacks, 
at  Forked-River,  and  burnt  Samuel  Brown's  salt-works,  and  plun- 
dered him ;  they  then  proceeded  Southward  towards  Barnegat,  for 
the  purpose  of  burning  the  salt-works  along  shore  between  those 
places.  Thus  are  they  conciliating  the  affections  of  the  Americans ! 

The  intelligence  of  the  sea  engagement  in  the  West-Indies  between 
Count  de  Grasse  and  Admiral  Rodney,  on  the  12th  ult.  being  so 
various  and  contradictory,  we  decline  communicating  anything  further 


1782]  XEWSPAPEK    EXTRACTS.  447 

on  the  subject  until  we  shall  be  enabled  to  hand  to  our  readers  the 
publick  letter  from  one  or  other  of  those  Admirals.  We  are,  however, 
fearful  that  the  event  has  proved  unfavourable  to  His  Most  Christian 
Majesty's  arms  in  that  quarter. 

The  evening  of  the  25th  inst.  Capt.  Hyler,  with  his  armed  boats, 
being  in  Shrewsbury-River,  a  party,  of  British  troops,  consisting  of 
25  men,  under  the  command  of  Captain  Schaak,  of  the  57th  regiment, 
were  detached  to  intercept  him  in  passing  through  the  gut :  As  soon 
as  Captain  Hyler  discovered  them,  he  landed  13  of  his  men  with 
orders  to  charge,  in  doing  which  4  of  the  enemy  were  killed  and 
wounded,  and  the  Captain  and  8  others  were  made  prisoners ;  and, 
by  the  firing  of  the  gun-boat,  it  is  supposed,  several  others  were 
killed,  as  a  number  were  seen  to  fall.  Captain  Hyler,  previous  to 
this  rencounter,  accidently  met  with  a  hurt,  otherwise,  it  is  probable, 
he  would  not  have  let  a  man  escape. 

ERRATUM :  In  the  first  resolution  of  the  Legislature  of  this  state, 
published  in  our  last,  for  the  word  'separation,'  read  separate. 

Extract  from  the  rules  established  by  the  Superintendant  of  Fi- 
nance, February  12,  1782,  for  carrying  into  effect  the  act  of 
Congress  of  November  2,  1781. 

"THE  receivers  of  continental  taxes  in  the  several  states  shall,  at 
the  end  of  every  month,  make  out  on  exact  account  of  the  monies 
received  by  them  respectively  during  such  month,  specifying  therein 
the  names  of  the  persons  from  whom  the  same  shall  have  been  re- 
ceived, the  dates  and  sums ;  which  account  they  shall  respectively 
cause  to  be  published  in  one  of  the  newspapers  of  the  state  :  to  the 
end  that  every  citizen  may  know  how  much  of  the  monies  collected 
from  him  in  taxes  is  transmitted  to  the  treasury  of  the  United 
States,  for  support  of  the  war:  and  also  that  it  may  be  known  what 
monies  have  been  at  the  ^rder  of  the  Superintendant  of  Finance : 
it  being  proper  and  necessary  that  in  a  free  country,  the  people 
should  be  as  fully  informed  of  the  administration  of  their  affairs  as 
the  nature  of  things  will  admit." 

Pursuant  to  the  foregoing,  the  subscriber  makes  known,  that  he  has 
received  of  the  quota  of  this  state,  for  the  current  year,  from  the 
state-treasurer,  as  follows  :  Dollars. 

1782  From  May  4  to  11  5,500 

11       18  600 

18       25  1050 

25         lv  June         2850 


Total,     10,000 

W.  C.  Houston,  receiver  of  continental  taxes  in  the  state  of  New- 
Jersey. 

(To  be  continued  monthly.) 


448         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION".       [1782 

To  whom  it  may  concern. 
State  of  New-Jersey,  to  wit. 

NOTICE  is  hereby  given,  that  a  court  of  admiralty  will  be  held 
at  the  house  of  James  Esdall,  in  Burlington,  on  Wednesday  the  26th 
day  of  June  next,  at  the  hour  of  ten  in  the  forenoon  of  the  same 
day,  then  and  there  to  try  the  truth  of  the  facts  alledged  in  the  bill 
of  Hope  Willets,  commander  of  the  armed  boat  Black  Joke ;  and 
Joseph  Edwards,  commander  of  the  armed  boat  Luck  and  Fortune, 
who  as  well,  &c.  against  a  certain  sloop  or  vessel  called  the  Nancy, 
which  lately  sailed  from  Maurice  River  in  said  state,  laden  with 
lumber  and  tar,  was  captured  at  sea  by  the  Fair  American,  a 
British  cruizer,  commanded  by  William  Nelson ;  and  afterwards  re- 
captured by  the  said  Captains,  Willets  and  Edwards,  together  with 
her  tackle,  apparel,  furniture  and  cargo,  and  two  Negro  slaves,  named 
Obadiah  Gale,  and  Edward  Carter ;  to  the  end  and  intent,  that  the 
owner  or  owners  of  the  said  vessel,  or  any  other  person  or  persons 
interested  therein  may  appear  and  shew  cause,  if  any  they  have,  why 
the  said  vessel,  with  her  tackle,  apparel,  furniture,  cargo  and  said 
Negro  slaves,  should  not  be  condemmed  to  the  captors  thereof,  and 
a  decree  thereon  pass,  pursuant  to  the  prayer  of  the  said  bill. 
By  order  of  the  Judge, 

JOSEPH  BLOOMFIELD,  Reg. 

Burlington,  May  29,  1*782. 

CAME  to  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber  near  Princeton,  on 
Friday  the  seventeenth  instant,  a  black  roan  mare,  about  14  hands 
and  a  half  high,  a  star  in  her  forehead,  two  hind  feet  white,  is  shod 
before:  The  owner  is  desired  to  come  and  prove  his  property,  pay 
charges,  and  take  her  away. 

JAMES  FREEMAN. 

WILL  BE  SOLD, 

ON  Saturday  the  8th  day  of  June  next,  at  the  house  of  James 
Willets-,  on  Cape-May,  the  sloop  Nancy,  with  her  apparel  and  fur- 
niture, and  her  cargo,  consisting  of  80  barrels  of  tar,  a  quantity  of 
shingles,  and  thirty-five  thousand  feet  of  excellent  pine  and  cedar 
boards  and  scantling,  lately  captured  by  the  Captains  Willets  and 
Edwards,  and  sold  by  order  of  the  judge  of  admiralty.  The  vendue 
to  begin  at  ten  o'clock  on  said  day. 

JAMES  M'COMB.  Marshal. 
Cape-May,  May  31,  1782. 

THIS  is  to  give  notice,  that  the  partnership  of  Moses  Yamans 
and  William  and  Christian  Butts  is  dissolved :  All  persons  having 
accounts  to  settle  with  said  company,  are  requested  to  call  upon 
said  Butts,  at  Mount-Pleasant  forge,  in  Bucks  county  Pennsylvania ; 
or  on  the  subscriber,  at  Brooklyn  forge,  Morris  county,  New-Jersey. 

MOSES  YAMANS. 

June  4,  1782. 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  449 

New-Jersey,  to  wit. 

To  whom  it  may  concern. 

Notice  is  hereby  given,  that  a  court  of  admiralty  will  be  held  at 
the  courthouse  in  Burlington,  on  Tuesday  the  25th  day  of  June 
next,  at  ten  o'clock  in  the  forenoon,  to  try  the  truth  of  the  facts 
allodged  in  the  bill  of  Thomas  Quigley,  commander  of  the  armed  boat 
Lively,  who  as  well  &c.  against  the  brigantine  or  vessel  called  the 
Betsey,  her  tackle,  apparel,  furniture  and  cargo,  Henry  Bogart, 
master,  captured  near  to  Sandy-Hook,  destined  on  a  voyage  from 
New-York  to  Halifax,  and  brought  into  Little  Egg-Harbour  in  this 
state :  To  the  intent  that  the  owner  or  owners,  or  any  other  person 
or  persons  interested  therein,  may  appear  and  shew  cause,  if  any 
they  have,  why  the  said  vessel,  her  tackle,  apparel,  furniture  and 
cargo,  should  not  be  condemned  and  forfeited  to  the  use  of  the 
captors  and  others  concerned,  pursuant  to  the  prayer  of  the  libellants. 
By  order  of  the  judge. 

JOS.  BLOOMFIELD,  Reg. 
Burlington,  May  29,  1782. 

JOHN  DIXON 

Has  for  sale,  at  the  house  lately  occupied  by  David  Pinkerton, 
in  Trenton  : 

PERSIAN  Mode,  Sarsenet,  White  and  black  gauze,  Lawn,  Muslin, 
Cambrick,  Silk  and  linen  handkerchiefs,  Silk  and  cotton  hose,  Wide 
and  narron  ribbands,  Chintzes,  Calicoes,  Marseilles  quilting,  Womens' 
mits,  Fans,  Humhums,  Bullian  bands,  Laces,  Moreen,  Shaloon,  Rati- 
net,  Corduroy,  Cotton  denim,  Jeans,  Fustian,  Jacket  patterns,  Crating, 
Gilt  and  mohair  buttons,  Striped  Holland,  Check,  Millinet,  Sewing 
silk  and  thread,  Twist,  Brittanias.  Black  wire  pins.  Flannel,  Knives 
and  forks,  Jack  and  pen-knives,  Shoe-buckles ;  Knee  do.  Files,  Chest 
and  padlocks,  Thimbles  and  needles,  Writing-tpaper,  Testaments, 
Spelling-books,  Primers,  Ivory  and  horn  combs,  Scissors,  Rum,  Sugar, 
Coffee,  Tea,  Pepper,  Indigo,  Brimstone,  Allom,  Salt,  Powder,  Shot, 
An  assortment  of  brushes.  Whale-bone,  Queen's  ware  cups  and 
saucers.  An  assortment  of  earthen  ware,  Bar-iron,  Nails,  Bees  wax, 
Wool  cards,  Log  and  red-wrood,  Lead  pencils. 

THE  subscriber  requests  all  persons  that  have  any  just  demand 
against  him  to  bring  in  their  accounts  properly  authenticated,  that 
they  may  be  settled  and  paid  by  himself;  (as  there  have  been  some 
unjust  demands  made  of  Jacob  Benjamin  who  I  intrusted  to  collect 
some  vendue  accounts)  and  as  I  propose  going  to  sea  in  about  one 
month  from  this  date,  hope  those  that  have  any  thing  due  will  call 
at  my  lodgings  in  Market  Street,  Elbow  Lane,  at  the  sign  of  the 
white  horse,  Philadelphia,  and  all  those  who  are  indebted  are  re- 
quested to  make  payment  either  to  myself  or  to  the  said  Jacob  Ben- 
jamin, in  Trenton.  HUGH  SMITH. 

May  29,  1782. 

29 


450  NEW    JERSEY   IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1782 

Raritan  Landing,  June  1,  1782. 

To  whom  it  may  concern. 

State  of  New-  ^  NOTICE  is  hereby  given,  that  a  court  of  admiralty 
Jersey  J  will  be  held  on  Thursday  the  27th  of  this  instant, 
at  the  dwellinghouse  of  Ishmael  Shippey,  at  Raritan  landing ;  then 
and  there  to  try  the  truth  of  the  facts  alledged  in  the  bill  of  Captain 
Adam  Hyler,  against  a  Negro  man  named  John  Jeffrey,  taken  the 
24th  ult.  from  on  board  a  schooner  near  the  fishing-banks,  name  and 
Captain  unknown,  together  with  the  sails  and  rigging  of  several 
vessels  taken  at  the  same  time ;  near  same  place  also,  a  whale-boat, 
and  two  trading  boats,  with  15  stand  arms,  and  some  dry  goods, 
taken  in  Shrewsbury  river  and  off  the  Hook ;  the  whale-boat  com- 
manded by  captain  J.  Schaak  :  To  the  true  intent  that  the  former 
proprietors,  or  any  other  person  or  persons  concerned  therein,  may 
shew  cause,  if  any  they  have,  why  the  said  negro  man,  together  with 
the  other  articles,  should  not  be  condemned  to  the  captors,  according 
to  the  prayer  of  the  said  bill. 

R.  HUDE,  \   A 

J.  BRAY    }  Agents' 

EXCELLENT 
WEST-INDIA  RUM, 

to  be  sold  at  the  Printing-Office. 

From  the  Neic  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  V.,  No.  233,  June  12,  1782. 
To  SIR  GUY  CARLETON. 

IT  is  the  nature  Of  compassion  to  associate  with  misfortune ;  and 
I  address  this  to  you  in  behalf  even  of  an  enemy,  a  Captain  in  the 
British  service  now  on  his  way  to  the  head-quarters  of  the  American 
army,  and  unfortunately  doomed  to  death  for  a  crime  not  his  own. 
— A  sentence  so  extraordinary,  an  execution  so  repugnant  to  every 
human  sensation,  ought  never  to  be  told  without  the  circumstances 
which  produced  it :  and  as  the  destined  victim  is  yet  in  existence, 
and  in  your  hands  rest,  his  life  or  death,  I  shall  briefly  state  the 
case  and  the  meloncholy  consequence. 

Captain  Huddy,  of  the  Jersey  militia  was  attacked  in  a  small  fort 
on  Tom's  river,  by  a  party  of  refugees  in  the  British  pay  and  service, 
was  made  prisoner  together  with  his  company,  carried  to  New-York 
and  lodged  in  the  provost  of  that  city;  about  three  weeks  after 
which,  he  was  taken  out  of  the  provost  down  to  the  water-side,  put 
into  a  boat  and  brought  again  upon  the  Jersey  shore,  and  there, 
contrary  to  the  practice  of  all  nations  but  savages,  was  hung  upon 
a  tree,  and  left  hanging  until  found  by  our  people  who  took  him 
down  and  buried  him. 

The  inhabitants  of  that  part  of  the  country  where  the  murder  was 
committed,  sent  a  deputation  to  General  Washington  with  a  full  and 
certified  state  of  the  facts.  Struck,  as  every  human  breast  must  be. 
with  such  brutish  outrage,  and  determined  both  to  punish  and  pre- 
vent it  for  the  future,  the  General  represented  the  case  to  General 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  451 

Clinton,  who  then  commanded  and  demanded  that  the  refugee  officer 
who  ordered  and  attended  the  execution,  and  whos  name  is  Lip- 
pincut,  should  be  delivered  up  as  a  murderer ;  and  in  case  of  refusal, 
that  the  person  of  some  British  officer  should  suffer  in  his  stead. 
The  demand,  though  not  refused,  has  not  been  complied  with  ;  and 
the  melancholy  lot,  (not  by  selection,  but  by  lots)  has  fallen  upon 
Captain  Asgil,  one  of  the  guards,  who,  as  I  have  already  mentioned, 
is  on  his  way  from  Lancaster  to  camp,  a  martyr  to  the  general 
wickedness  of  the  cause  he  engaged  in,  and  the  ingratitude  of  those 
he  has  served. 

The  first  reflection  which  arises  on  this  black  business  is,  what 
sort  of  men  must  Englishmen  be,  and  what  sort,  of  order  and  dis- 
cipline do  they  preserve  in  their  army,  when,  in  the  immediate  place 
of  their  head-quarters,  and  under  the  eye  and  nose  of  their  com- 
mander in  chief,  a  prisoner  can  be  taken  at  pleasure  from  his  con- 
finement, and  his  death  made  a  matter  of  sport. 

The  history  of  the  most  savage  Indians  does  not  produce  instances 
exactly  of  this  kind.  They,  at  least,  have  a  formality  in  their 
punishments.  With  them  it  is  the  horridness  of  revenge,  but  with 
your  army  it  is  the  still  greater  crime,  the  horridness  of  diversion. 

The  British  Generals  who  have  succeeded  each  other,  from  the 
time  of  General  Gage  to  yourself,  have  all  affected  to  speak  in 
language  they  have  no  right  to.  In  their  proclamations,  their  ad- 
dresses, their  letters  to  General  Washington,  and  their  supplications 
to  Congress  (for  they  deserve  no  other  name)  they  talk  of  British 
honour,  British  generosity,  British  clemency,  as  if  those  things  were 
matters  of  fact ;  whereas  we,  whose  eyes  are  open,  who  speak  the 
same  language  with  yourselves,  many  of  whom  were  born  on  the 
same  spot  with  you,  and  who  can  no  more  be  mistaken  in  your  words 
than  in  your  actions,  can  declare  to  all  the  world,  that  as  far  as  our 
knowledge  goes  there  is  not  a  more  detestable  character,  nor  a 
meaner  or  more  barbarous  enemy  than  the  present  British  one. 
With  us  you  have  forfeited  all  pretension  to  reputation,  and  it  is 
only  by  holding  you  like  a  wild  beast,  afraid  of  our  keepers,  that 
you  can  be  made  manageable.— But  to  return  to  the  point  in  question. 

Though  I  can  think  no  man  innocent  who  has  lent  his  hand  to 
destroy  the  country  which  he  did  not  plant,  and  to  ruin  those  he 
could  not  enslave ;  yet  abstracted  from  all  ideas  of  right  or  wrong 
on  the  original  question,  Captain  Asgil,  in  the  present  case,  is  not 
the  guilty  man.  The  villain  and  the  victim  are  here  separated 
characters.  You  hold  the  one  and  we  hold  the  other.  You  disown 
or  effect  to  disown  and  reprobate  the  conduct  of  Lippincut,  yet  you 
give  him  sanctuary  ;  and  by  so  doing  you  as  effectually  become  the 
executioner  of  Asgil,  as  if  you  put  the  rope  round  his  n.eck  and 
dismissed  him  from  the  world. 

Whatever  your  feelings  on  this  extraordinary  case  may  be  are  best 
known  to  yourself.  Within  the  grave  of  your  own  mind  lies  bueried 
the  fate  of  Asgil.  He  becomes  the  corpse  of  your  will,  or  the  sur- 
vivor of  your  justice.  Deliver  up  the  one  and  you  save  the  other ; 
withhold  the  one  and  the  other  dies  by  your  choice. 


452  NEW   JEESEY   IX   THE    EEVOLTJTIOX.  [1782 

On  our  part  the  case  is  exceeding  plain  ;  an  officer  has  been  taken 
from  his  confinement  and  murdered,  and  the  murderer  is  icithin  your 
linen.  Your  army  have  been  guilty  of  a  thousand  instances  of  equal 
cruelty,  but  they  have  been  rendered  equivocal,  and  sheltered  from 
personal  detection.  Here  the  crime  is  fixt ;  and  is  one  of  those 
ordinary  cases  which  can  neither  be  denied  nor  paliated,  and  to 
which  the  custom,  of  war  does  not  apply ;  for  it  never  could  be 
supposed  that  such  a  brutal  outrage  would  ever  be  committed.  It 
is  an  original  in  the  history  of  civilized  barbarians,  and  is  truly 
British. 

On  your  part,  you  are  accountable  to  us  for  the  personal  safety 
of  the  prisoners  within  your  walls.  Here  can  be  no  mistake ;  they 
can  neither  be  spies  nor  suspected  as  such ;  your  security  is  not 
endangered,  nor  your  operations  subjected  to  miscarriage,  by  men 
immured  within  a  dungeon.  They  differ  in  every  circumstance  from 
men  in  the  field,  and  leave  no  pretence  for  severity  or  punishment. 
But  if  to  the  dismal  condition  of  captivity  with  you,  must  be  added 
the  constant  apprehensions  of  death  ;  if  to  be  imprisoned  is  so  nearly 
to  be  entombed ;  and,  if  after  all  the  murderers  are  to  be  protected, 
and  thereby  the  crime  encouraged,  wherein  do  you  differ  from  Indians 
either  in  conduct  or  character. 

We  can  have  no  idea  of  your  honour,  or  your  justice  in  any  future 
transaction,  of  what  nature  it  may  be,  while  you  shelter  within 
your  lines  an  outrageous  murderer,  and  sacrifice  in  his  stead  an 
officer  of  your  own.  If  you  have  no  regard  to  us,  at  least  spare  the 
blood  which  it  is  your  duty  to  save.  Whether  the  punishment  will 
be  greater  on  he,  who,  in  this  case,  innocently  dies ;  or  on  he  whom 
sad  necessity  forces  to  retaliate,  is,  in  the  nicety  of  sensation,  an 
undecided  question?  It  rests  with  you  to  prevent  the  sufferings  »f 
both.  You  have  nothing  to  do  but  to  give  up  the  murderer,  and 
the  matter  ends. 

But  to  protect  him,  be  he  who  he  may,  is  to  patronize  his  crime, 
and  to  trifle  it  off  by  frivolous  and  unmeaning  enquiries,  is  to  pro- 
mote it.  There  is  no  declaration  you  can  make,  no  promise  you  can 
give,  that  will  obtain  credit.  It  is  the  man  and  not  the  apology 
that  is  demanded. 

You  see  yourself  pressed  on  all  sides  to  spare  the  life  of  your 
own  officer,  for  die  he  will  if  you  withhold  justice.  The  murder  of 
Captain  Huddy  is  an  offence  not  to  be  borne  with,  and  there  is  no 
security  we  can  have  that  such  actions  or  similar  ones  shall  not  be 
repeated,  but  by  making  the  punishment  fall  upon  yourselves.  To 
destroy  the  last  security  of  captivity,  and  to  take  the  unarmed,  the 
unresisting  prisoner  to  private  and  sportive  execution,  is  carrying 
barbarity  too  high  for  silence.  The  evil  must  be  put  an  end  to  :  and 
the  choice  of  persons  rests  with  you.  But  if  your  attachment  to 
the  guilty  is  stronger  than  to  the  innocent,  you  invent  a  crime  that 
must  destroy  your  character ;  and  if  the  cause  of  your  King  needs 
to  be  so  supported,  forever  cease.  Sir,  to  torture  our  remembrance 
with  the  wretched  phrases  of  British  honour,  British  generosity. 
British  clemency. 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  453 

From  the  melancholy  circumstance,  learn,  Sir,  a  lesson  of  morality. 
The  refugees  are  men  whom  your  predecessors  have  instructed  in 
wickedness  the  better  to  fit  them  to  their  master's  purpose.  To 
make  them  useful  they  have  made  them  vile,  and  the  consequence 
of  their  tutored  villany  is  now  descending  pn  the  heads  of  their 
encouragers.  They  have  been  trained  like  hounds  to  the  scent  of 
blood,  and  cherished  in  every  species  of  dissolute  barbarity.  Their 
ideas  of  right  and  wrong  are  worn  away  in  the  constant  habitude  of 
repeated  infamy,  till  like  men  practiced  in  executions,  they  feel  not 
tin-  value  of  another's  life. 

The  task  before  you,  though  painful,  is  not  difficult ;  give  up  the 
murderer,  and  save  your  officer,  as  the  first  outset  of  a  necessary 
reformation. 

COMMON  SENSE. 

Philadelphia,  May  31,  1782. 

PHILADELPHIA,  June  4. 

Captain  Quigley,  in  a  small  boat,  with  three  men,  left  Elizabeth- 
town  on  Wednesday  evening,  the  22d  ult.  and,  after  landing  on  Staten- 
Island,  and  carrying  their  boat  across  it  (near  four  miles)  about  two 
o'clock  the  next  morning,  in  sight  of  a  twenty  gun  ship,  and  a  fort 
on  the  island,  boarded  and  took  a  brig  laying  at  anchor,  bound  to 
Halifax,  laden  with  salt,  pepper,  tobacco,  china,  queen's  ware,  &c. 
After  securing  three  people  (all  on  board)  and  cutting  her  cable, 
they  brought  her  off  and  conducted  her  into  Egg-harbour,  where  she 
will  be  sold,  together  with  her  cargo,  this  day.  The  prize  is  said  to 
be  worth  near  four  thousand  pounds. 

Captain  Hand,  in  the  armed  boat  Enterprize,  of  Cape-May,  in  com- 
pany with  another  boat,  commanded  by  Captain  Willets,  on  the  5th 
ult.  chased  ashore,  near  Egg-harbour,  the  refugee  boat  Old  Ranger, 
mounting  7  swivels  and  \  three  pounder,  and  commanded  by  one 
Tryan,  with  twenty-five  men,  bound  to  the  capes  of  Delaware,  and 
up  the  same  as  far  as  Christiana,  with  orders  to  take  prisoners  who 
they  pleased.  They  afterwards  fell  in  with  and  took  a  schooner 
loaded  with  corn,  commanded  by  one  Miller,  on  a  trading  voyage 
from  Virginia  to  New-York ;  and  on  the  18th  of  May  they  fell  in  with 
and  took  a  schooner  laden  with  lumber,  commanded  by  one  Shaw, 
supposed  also  from  New-York. 

THE  council  of  proprietors  of  the  eastern  division  of  New- Jersey 
met  at  Princeton,  on  the  6th  inst.  having  thought  it  expedient  and 
proper  that  the  Surveyor-General's  office  for  the  said  eastern  division 
should  be  opened  in  its  full  extent,  for  the  purpose  of  returning  and 
recording  of  surveys  of  land  in  any  part  of  the  unappropriated  estate 
of  the  said  proprietors.  And  as  it  is  at  present  impracticable  to 
hold  the  said  office  at  the  city  of  Perth-Amboy,  the  place  it  was  for- 
merly held  at,  I  have  ordered  and  directed  that  a  publick  office  be 
opened  and  held  at  Trenton,  as  a  safe  and  convenient  place  for  the 
purpose :  and  I  have  appointed  John  Stevens,  jun.  Esquire,  Deputy 


454         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1782 

Surveyor-General  of  the  said  eastern  division,  in  order  to  receive, 
return  and  record  all  surveys  of  land  in  the  unappropriated  part 
of  the  said  eastern  division,  to  record  all  deeds  and  other  instru- 
ments, and  safely  to  keep  all  proprietory  estate,  or  any  part  thereof : 
of  which  all  concerned  will  take  notice. 

The  Deputy  Surveyors  in  the  several  countries  are  to  bring  in 
their  deputation,  in  order  to  be  entered  in  the  said  office ;  till  which 
is  done,  their  surveys  will  not  be  admitted. 

STIRLING. 

Trenton,  June  10,  1782. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

NEAR  Pluckemin,  in  the  county  of  Somerset,  state  of  New-Jersey,  a 
lot  and  frame  house,  with  three  rooms,  two  fire-places,  a  good  cellar, 
a  garden  and  stable ;  the  lot  contains  about  two  acres,  with  a  good 
bearing  orchard,  very  suitable  for  a  tradesman :  A  short  credit  will 
be  given  to  the  purchaser.  For  terms  of  sale  apply  to  John  Pool  at 
Trenton,  or  the  subscriber  on  the  premises. 

AARON  CRAIG. 

CAME  to  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber  in  upper  Freehold, 
Monmouth  county,  state  of  New-Jersey,  about  the  middle  of  May 
last,  a  roan  mare,  bran3ed  on  the  shoulder  with  the  letters  I.  H. 
about  twelve  years  old,  has  had  a  fistula  on  her  shoulder :  The 
owner  is  desired  to  prove  his  property,  pay  charges,  and  take  her 
away. 

WILLIAM  EMLAY,  junior. 

June  3,  1782. 

WILL  BE  SOLD 

ON  Thursday  the  20th  instant,  at  the  dwelling  house  of  Captain 
James  Green,  at  Monmouth  courthouse,  the  schooner  Speedwell, 
being  a  new  vessel,  about  twenty-two  tons  burthen ;  together  with 
her  tackle  and  apparel,  lately  captured  by  Captain  Adam  Hyler,  and 
now  lying  at  Tom's  River.  Sale  to  begin  at  2  o'clock,  P.  M. 

ROBERT  HUDE,  \   , 
JOHN  BRAY  /  Agents- 

New-Brunswick,  June  10,  1782. 

THE  subscriber  is  under  the  necessity  of  requesting  all  those  who 
are  indebted  to  him,  to  be  as  expeditious  in  discharging  their  ac- 
counts as  possible. 

ABRAHAM  SKIRM. 

Nottingham,  21st  5th  month,  1782, 


1782] 


NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  455 


From  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  V.,  No.  234,  June  19,  1782. 

STATE  OF  NEW-JERSEY. 

An  Act  to  extend  the  power  of  Justices  of  the  peace  in  the  several 
counties  in  this  state  to  try  causes  to  the  amount  of  Twelve 
Pounds ;  and  to  prevent  actions  under  Fifty  Pounds  being 
brought  in  the  Supreme  Court,  and  for  other  purposes  therein 
mentioned. 

[For  this  Act,  passed  June  5,  1782,  see  Statutes.] 

PHILADELPHIA,  June  5. 

Extract   of   a   letter   from    His   Excellency    General   Washington,    to 
Congress,  dated  Head-Quarters,  May  10,  1782. 

JUST  as  I  am  closing  these  despatches,  a  letter  from  Sir  Guy 
Carleton  is  handed  me,  covering  sundry  printed  papers,  a  copy  of 
which,  with  the  papers,  I  have  now  the  honour  to  enclose  to  your 
Excellency,  together  with  a  copy  of  my  answer  to  him,  and  I  flatter 
myself  my  conduct  herein  will  be  agreeable  to  the  wishes  of  Congress. 

Head-Quarters,  New  York,  7th  May,   1782. 
Sir, 

Having  been  appointed  by  his  Majesty  to  the  command  of  the  forces 
on  the  Atlantic  Ocean,  and  joined  with  Admiral  Digby  in  the  Com- 
mission of  Peace,  I  find  it  proper  in  this  manner  to  apprize  your 
Excellency  of  my  arrival  at  New-York. 

The  occasion,  Sir,  seems  to  render  this  communication  proper,  but  the 
circumstances  of  the  present  time  render  it  also  indispensible,  as  I  find 
it  just  to  transmit  herewith  to  your  Excellency  certain  papers,  from  the 
perusal  of  which  your  Excellency  will  perceive  what  dispositions  prevail 
in  the  government  and  people  of  England  towards  those  of  America,  and 
what  further  effects  are  likely  to  follow ;  if  the  like  pacifick  disposition 
should  prevail  in  this  country,  both  my  inclination  and  duty  will  lead  me 
to  meet  it  with  the  most  zealous  concurrence.  In  all  events.  Sir,  it  is 
with  me  to  declare,  that,  if  war  must  prevail,  I  shall  endeavour  to 
render  its  miseries  as  light  to  the  people  of  this  continent  as  the  cir- 
cumstances of  such  a  condition  will  possibly  permit. 

I  am  much  concerned  to  find  that  private  and  unauthorized  persons 
have  on  both  sides  given  way  to  those  passions  which  ought  to  have 
received  the  strongest  and  most  effectual  controul,  and  which  have  begot 
acts  of  retaliation,  which  without  proper  preventions,  may  have  an  extent 
equally  calamitous  and  dishonourable  to  both  parties,  though  as  it  should 
seem  more  extensively  pernicious  to  the  natives  and  settlers  of  this 
country. 

How  much  soever,  Sir,  we  may  differ  in  other  respects,  upon  this  one 
point  we  must  perfectly  concur,  being  alike  interested  to  preserve  the 
name  of  Englishmen  from  reproach,  and  individuals  from  experiencing 
such  unnecessary  evils,  as  can  have  no  effect  upon  a  general  decision  ; 
every  proper  measure  which  may  tend  to  prevent  these  criminal  excesses 
in  individuals,  I  shall  ever  be  ready  to  embrace ;  and  as  an  advance  on 
my  part.  I  h.ivc,  as  the  first  act  of  my  command,  enlarged  Mr.  T./ivmgston, 
and  have  written  to  his  father  upon  the  subject  of  such  excesses  as  have 
passed  in  New-Jersey,  desiring  his  concurrence  in  such  measures  as,  even 
under  the  conditions  of  war,  the  common  interests  of  humanity  require. 

I  am  further  to  acquaint  you,  Sir.  that  it  was  my  intention  this  day 
to  have  sent  a  similar  letter  of  compliment  to  Congress,  but  am  informed 
it  is  previously  necessary  to  obtain  a  passport  from  your  Excellency, 


456         NEW  JEKSEY  IX  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1782 

which  I  therefore  hope  to  receive  if  you  have  no  objection,  for  the  pas- 
sage of  Mr.  Morgan  to  Philadelphia,  for  the  above  purpose. 

I  have  the  honour  to  be, 

With  great  respect 
Your  Excellency's  most  obedient  humble  serv. 

(Signed)  GUY  CARLETOX. 
His  Excellency  General  Washington. 

Head-Quarters,   10th  May,   1782. 

Sir, 

I  had  the  honour  last  evening  to  receive  your  Excellency's  letter  of 
the  7th,  with  the  several  papers  enclosed. 

Ever  since  the  commencement  of  this  unnatural  war,  my  conduct  has 
borne  invariable  testimony  against  those  inhuman  excesses  which  in  too 
many  instances  have  marked  its  various  progress. 

With  respect  to  a  late  transaction,  to  which  I  presume  your  Excel- 
lency alludes,  I  have  already  expressed  my  fixed  resolution — a  resolution 
formed  on  the  most  mature  deliberation,  and  from  which  I  shall  not 
recede. 

I  have  to  inform  your  Excellency,  that  your  request  of  a  passport  for 
Mr.  Morgan  to  go  to  Philadelphia  will  be  conveyed  to  Congress  by  the 
earliest  oppertunity,  and  you  may  rest  assured  that  I  will  embrace  the 
first  moment  to  communicate  to  you  their  determination  thereon. 

Many   inconveniences   and   disorders   have   arisen   from  an   improper  ad- 
mission  of  flags   at   various   postsi  of  the   two   armies,   which    have   given 
rise   to   complaints   on   both   sides — to  prevent   abuses   in   future,   and   for 
the  convenience   of  communication,   I   have   concluded  to  receive   all   flags 
from  within  your  lines  at  the  post  of  Dobb's  Ferry,   and  no  where   else, 
so  long  as  the  Head-Quarters  of  the  two  armies  remain  as  at  present. 
I  have  the  honour  to  be 
Your  Excellency's  &c. 

(Signed)  G.WASHINGTON. 

His  Excellency  Sir  Guy  Carleton. 

TRENTON,  June  19. 

House  of  Assembly,  June  3,  1782. 

To  the  Honourable  the  Chevalier  la  Luzerhe,  Minister  Plenipotentiary 
of  His  Most  Christian  Majesty, 

The  ADDRESS  of  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  NEW-JERSEY, 

SIR, 

THE  high  esteem  and  veneration  which  the  people  of  this  state  en- 
tertain for  His  Most  Christian  Majesty,  will  not  suffer  them  to  be 
silent  on  so  auspicious  an  occasion  as  the  birth  of  a  Dauphin  and 
Heir  to  the  crown  of  France.  Impressed  with  the  liveliest  senti- 
ments of  attachment  and  gratitude  to  that  illustrious  Prince  from 
whom  we  have  received  such  disinterested  friendship  and  powerful 
succor ;  be  assured,  Sir,  that  we  are  peculiarly  happy  in  the  opper- 
tunity which  Providence  has  afforded  us  of  felicitating  him  on  an 
event  so  flattering  to  his  wishes,  and  interesting  to  these  states. 

Be  pleased  to  present  him  with  our  warmest  congratulations,  and 
assure  him  of  the  sincerity  with  which  we  rejoice  at  every  event 
that  not  only  adds  to  his  glory  and  happiness,  but  which  will  be  the 
means  of  cementing  and  strengthening  the  union  so  cordially  estab- 
lished between  the  two  nations. 

Extract  from  the  Minutes. 

M.  EWING,  jun.  Clerk. 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTKACTS.  457 

The  following  is  the   CHEVALIER'S   ANSWER. 
TRANSLATION. 

To  the  Honourable  the  Members  of  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of 

New-Jersey. 
Gentlemen, 

I  SHALL  embrace  the  earliest  opportunity  of  transmitting  to  his 
Majesty  the  testimonies  of  the  part  you  have  taken  in  the  birth  of  the 
Dauphin ;  and  I  can  assure  you  beforehand,  that  he  will  be  very 
sensible  of  this  mark  of  your  affection  and  respect.  The  alliance 
which  unites  our  two  nations  has  become  so  intimate,  that  the  for- 
tunate events  which  happen  to  either  afford  an  equal  joy  to  both ; 
and  Providence,  by  granting  a  Dauphin  to  the  wishes  of  the  nation 
provides  you  a  friend  and  an  ally.  As  the  King  is  at  present  your 
support,  so  will  he  in  his  turn  be  that  of  your  posterity.  I  esteem 
myself  happy,  Gentlemen,  in  being  charged  with  conveying  to  the 
throne  of  his  Majesty  the  assurances  of  your  respected  sentiments 
on  this  occasion.  They  will  be  the  more  acceptable,  as  he  already 
knows  how  much  the  state  of  New-Jersey  has  merited  of  the  com- 
mon cause,  and  is  well  informed  of  the  zealous  and  patriotick  proofs 
exhibited  by  her  citizens  on  numerous  occasions. 

I  am,  with  the  most  profound  rispect, 
Gentlemen, 

Your  most  obedient, 

and  most  humble  servant, 
THE  CHEVALIER  DE  LA  LUZERNE. 

We  have  the  pleasure  to  inform  the  publick,  that  the  sum  of  £48,750 
in  bills  of  credit,  issued  on  the  faith  of  this  state,  has  been  cancelled 
and  destroyed  agreeably  to  law. 

We  are  credibly  informed,  that  fourteen  sail  of  trading  vessels  have 
lately  arrived  at  Baltimore  from  Havanna,  laden  with  sugar,  and  a 
large  number  of  Spanish  dollars. 

Sunday  last  a  brig  arrived  at  Philadelphia  from  St.  Kitts,  now  a 
French  island,  with  150  hogsheads  of  rum,  and  a  quantity  of  dry 
goods. 

We  hear  that  the  South-Carolina  frigate  arrived  yesterday  at 
Philadelphia. 

HIS  Excellency  the  Governor,  and  the  Hon.  Privy  Council  of  this 
State,  have  appointed  William  Churchill  Houston,  John  Neilson,  and 
James  Ewing,  Esquires,  all  of  Trenton,  Commissioners  for  the  pur- 
pose of  liquidating  and  settling  the  deficiencies  of  the  pay  of  the 
troops  of  this  State,  occasioned  by  the  depreciation  of  the  Continental 


458  NEW    JERSEY   IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1782 

Currency,  in  the  room  and  stead  of  the  Revd.  James  Caldwell,  Col. 
Frederick  Frelinghuysen,  and  the  Hon.  John  Mehelm,  Esquire. 

BOWES  REED,  Sec'ry. 
Trenton,  June  18,  1872. 

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  it  has  been  duly  represented  to  me  in  council,  that 
between  the  hours  of  9  and  10  o'clock  in  the  evening  of  the  12th  day 
of  June  instant,  the  dwelling-house  of  Abraham  Hendricks,  collector 
of  the  township  of  Upper-Freehold,  in  the  county  of  Monmouth,  was 
robbed  by  a  number  of  persons  unknown,  armed  and  associated  in  a 
party,  two  of  whom  entered  the  said  house  with  muskets,  and  besides 
putting  the  family  in  fear,  robbed  the  said  house  of  money  and  effects 
to  a  considerable  amount. 

I  have  therefore  thought  fit,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent 
of  the  honourable  the  Pr^y  Council,  by  virtue  and  in  pursuance  of 
a  certain  Act  of  the  Legislature  of  this  State  in  such  case  lately 
made  and  provided,  to  issue  this  proclamation,  hereby  ,  promising  a 
reward  of  Fifty  Pounds,  lawful  money,  to  any  person  who  shall 
apprehend  and  secure  any  of  the  persons  concerned  in  committing 
the  said  robbery,  so  as  that  offender,  who  shall  be  apprehended,  be 
legally  convicted  thereof. 

Given  under  my  hand  and  seal  at  arms,  at  Trenton,  the  fifteenth 

day   of  June,   in  the  year  of  our  Lordi  One  Thousand   Seven 

Hundred  and  Eighty-two. 

WIL.  LIVINGSTON. 

By  His  Excellency's  Command, 

Bowes  Reed,  Secretary. 

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  Baker  Hendricks,  of  the  county  of  Essex,  in  this  state, 
did,  on  or  about  the  nineteenth  day  of  September,  in  the  year  of 
our  Lord  One  Thousand  Seven  Hundred  and  Eighty,  receive  a  com- 
mission granted  by  the  United  States  in  Congress  assembled  (and 
delivered  to  him  by  the  executive  of  this  state)  licensing  and  author- 
izing him  the  said  Baker  Hendricks  to  fit  out  and  set  forth  in 
warlike  manner  two  armed  whale-boats,  respectively  called  the  Flying 


1782]  NEWSPAPER   EXTRACTS.  459 

Squirrel  and  Charming  Betsey,  as  private  vessels  of  war,   to  cruize 
against  the  enemy : 

AND  whereas  the  United  States  in  Congress  assembled  did,  on 
the  twenty-first  day  of  May  last,  resolve  "that  the  executives  of  the 
"several  states  should  be,  and  were,  by  the  said  resolution,  authorized, 
"on  information  of  illegal  intercourse  which  had  taken  or  should 
"take  place  between  the  Captains  of  any  private  armed  vessels  be- 
longing to  these  states,  and  the  enemy  or  of  any  other  mal-conduct, 
"to  suspend  the  commission  of  such  Captains  until  the  executive 
"shall  have  examined  into  the  offence ;  and  if  upon  enquiry  it  shall 
"appear  that  the  information  is  well  founded,  they  are  requested  to 
"report  their  proceedings  to  the  United  States  in  Congress  assembled, 
"in  which  case  the  commission  shall  stand  suspended  until  Congress 
"shall  have  taken  order  thereon,"  as  by  the  said  resolution,  reference 
bring  thereunto  had,  may  appear: 

AND  whereas  I  have  received  information  that  an  illegal  inter- 
course has  taken  place  between  the  said  Baker  Hendricks  and  the 
enemy  under  colour  of  the  said  commission,  and  of  other  his  mal- 
conduct  in  quality  of  Captain  and  Commander  of  the  said  whale- 
boats,  and  of  other  boats  of  which  he  has  assumed  the  command 
under  colour  of  the  said  commission :  I  do  therefore,  by  virtue  of 
the  said  recited  resolution,  hereby  suspend  the  said  commission ;  and 
the  said  Baker  Hendricks  is  hereby  strictly  inhibited  from  acting  in 
virtue  or  under  pretext  of  the  same,  as  he  will  answer  the  contrary 
at  his  peril.  And  all  officers  and  troops  on  the  frontiers  of  this 
state,  and  others  whom  it  may  concern,  are  hereby  directed  and  re- 
quired to  consider  the  said  commission  as  suspended,  and  henceforth 
unauthoritative,  until  the  Congress  shall  take  farther  and  other  order 
in  the  premises,  and  to  govern  themselves  accordingly. 

Given  under  my  hand  and  seal  at  arms,  at  Trenton,  the  12th 
day  of  June,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  One  Thousand  Seven 
Hundred  and  Eighty-two. 

WIL.  LIVINGSTON. 

To  whom  it  may  concern. 

I  the  subscriber,  administrator  to  the  estate  of  Elias  Bland,  late 
of  Woodbridge,  deceased,  has  minutely  enquired  into  the  state  of 
the  deceased's  affairs,  and  do  find  a  large  right  of  proprietorship 
and  other  estates  not  yet  digested,  nor  cannot  be  very  soon  in  the 
present  state  of  affairs,  it  appears  likely  enough  to  pay  his  debts. 
This  is  not  intended  nor  cannot  affect  any  execution  now  or  prose- 
cution, but  to  wait  that  affairs  may  be  fully  digested,  and  that  must 
be  done  before  any  title  of  consequence  can  be  given  lawfully.  I 
also  have  an  account  from  England  that  the  friends  of  the  deceased 
intend  to  make  up  any  defect,  provided  the  best  is  made  of  the  estate 
in  America. 

WILLIAM  CALVERT. 

Mount-Holly,  1st  of  6th  month,  1782. 


NEW    JEKSEY   IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1782 

THE  subscriber  has  put  his  dockets,  cost-books  and  papers,  which 
contain  his  unfinished  business  in  the  practice  of  the  law,  in  New- 
Jersey,  into  the  hands  of  William  C.  Houston,  Esq.  in  Trenton,  to 
whom  those  who  are  concerned  will  please  to  apply;  and  all  who 
became  indebted  to  him  in  the  course  of  his  said  practice,  and  yet 
remain  so,  are  requested  to  call  on  Mr.  Houston  without  delay,  in 
order  to  discharge  their  respective  accounts  and  balances. 

JONATHAN  D.  SERGEANT. 

Philad.  June  15,  1782. 

THREE-PENCE  per  Ib.  for  clean  fine  Linen  RAGS,  and  a  pro- 
portionable price  for  all  kinds  of  coarse  ones,  is  given  at  the  paper- 
works in  Trenton — where  great  allowance  is  made  to  those  that 
deliver  a  quantity  of  RAGS  in  exchange  for  paper. 

Excellent  West-India  and  country 
RUM  and  WHISKEY, 

to  be  sold  cheap,  for  cash,  by  the  hogshead,  barrel  or  gallon,  at  the 
Prin  ting-Office  in  Trenton. 

WANTED. 

TO  purchase  immediately,  a  quantity  of  dry  black  and  white  oak 
barrel  staves  and  heading,  for  which  a  good  price  will  be  paid  by 

JOHN  JAMES. 

N.  B.  The  said  James  has  for  sale,  where  he  now  lives,  next  door 
to  Mr.  Jonathan  Richmond's,  the  following  articles,  viz. : 

BEST  West-India  rum,  French  do.,  Rye  Whiskey,  Tea,  Coffee, 
Sugar,  Indigo,  Pepper,  Snuff,  Tobacco,  Watch  crystals,  Cedar  ware, 
Hair  seives,  Shoemaker's  tacks.  Knives  and  forks.  Grass  scythes, 
Earthen  ware,  Hair  combs  of  different  sorts,  Broad-cloth,  Wool  cards, 
Shoe  and  knee-buckles,  Pins  and  needles,  Sewing  thread.  Worsted 
binding  of  different  colours,  Sweeping  brushes,  Shoemaker's  pincers 
and  awl  blades. 

With  sundry  other  articles  too  tedious  to  mention,  all  which  he 
will  sell  low  for  cash,  or  exchange  for  dry  heading  and  staves. 

Trenton,  June  11,  1782. 

FRANCIS  WITT, 

AT  the  sign  of  the  Blazing  Star,  in  Trenton,  begs  leave  to'  acquaint 
the  publick  in  general,  that  he  keeps  an  inn  for  the  entertainment 
of  man  and  horse ;  and  as  he  has  laid  in  hay  and  liquors  of  the 
first  quality,  hopes  to  give  satisfaction  to  those  that  will  please  to 
favour  him  with  their  custom. 
June  18,  1782. 

A  MORAL  and  single  man,  qualified  to  teach  an  English  school, 
will  find  good  encouragement  in  an  healthful  and  agreeable  neighbour- 
hood, by  applying  to  the  Revd.  John  Warford,  of  Amwell.  in  Hunter- 
don  county. 

June  12,  1782. 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  461 

State  of  New-Jersey,  "t  AT  the  Inferior  Court  of  Common  pleas  for 
Monmouth  County  j  said  county,  held  on  the  25th  day  of  April 
last,  were  returned  inquisitions  for  joining  the  army  of  the  King  of 
Great-Britain,  and  other  treasonable  practices  found  against  Andrew 
Bowne,  Obadiah  Bowne,  William  Rose,  Stephen  Hedges,  Cornelius 
Mac  Clease,  jun.,  David  Stout,  John  Ludborrow,  of  Middletown, 
Obadiah  Williams,  Joseph  Williams,  William  Curtis,  Joseph  Allen, 
of  Shrewsbury,  Gilbert  Van  Marter,  of  Freehold,  in  said  county, 
of  which  proclamation  was  made  in  said  court,  that  if  they,  or  any 
person  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  interested  therein,  shall  appear  and  traverse 
the  said  inquisitions  at  the  next  Court  of  Common  Pleas  to  be  held 
for  the  said  county  the  fourth  Tuesday  in  July  next,  then  the  said 
inquisitions  will  be  taken  to  be  true,  and  final  judgment  entered  in 
favour  of  the  state. 

JOHN  STILLWELL,  Agent. 
Monmouth,  June  6,  1782. 

The  Publick  are  hereby  notified, 

THAT  the  old  noted  ferry,  known  by  the  name  of  Coryall's.  ferry, 
which  has  for  some  time  past  been  badly  tended  for  want  of  boats, 
&c.  the  persons  that  lived  at  said  ferry  being  removed,  and  the  sub- 
scribers come  to  it,  hath  got  the  boats  in  the  best  order,  which  are 
so  on  both  sides,  and  are  able  to  ferry  over  with  convenience  at  one 
trip  four  four-horse  teams ;  and  the  roads  from  Philadelphia  to  the 
North-River,  by  the  way  of  Morristown,  &c.  are  as  near  or  nearer 
by  this  ferry,  and  much  better. 

We  being  determined  to  give  the  best  attendance  both  early  and 
late,  hope  the  publick  will  please  to  favour  us  with  their  custom, 
where  they  may  depend  upon  meeting  with  good  entertainment,  and 
the  best  of  usage,  by  the  publick's  humble  servants. 

JOHN  LAMBERT,  Jersey  side. 
ROBERT  LAN  ING,  P.  side. 

Coryell's  Ferry,  June  11,  1782. 

ALL  persons  indebted  to  the  estate  of  John  Laferty,  of  the  town- 
ship of  Wallpack,  county  of  Sussex,  and  state  of  New-Jersey,  de- 
ceased, are  requested  to  make  speedy  payment ;  and  those  who  have 
any  demands  against  said  estate  are  desired  to  bring  them  in  properly 
proved  for  payment,  to  the  subscriber,  between  this  and  the  15th 
of  September. 

MOSES  VANCAMPEN,  A<lin. 

Wallpack,  June  4,  1782. 


462  NEW   JEESEY   IN   THE   REVOLUTION.  [1782 


From  the  Xeic  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  V.,  2Vo.  235,  June  2G,  1782. 

For  the  New-Jersey  GAZETTE, 
LOOK  ABOUT  YE  ! 

WHAT  is  become  of  our  money?  A  few  months  ago  we  had  plenty 
to  pay  our  taxes,  and  to  answer  necessary  purposes.  I  beleive  there 
was  as  much  among  us  as  ever  there  was,  and  it  was  fast  diffusing 
itself.  There  was  enough.  It  is  gone ;  and  I  will  tell  you  where : 
It  is  gone  to  New- York  to  buy  goods ;  and  goods  of  those  kinds 
which  are  not  only  useless,  bait  ruinous  to  any  people,  and  par- 
ticularly to  a  plain  frugal  people.  It  is  computed  that  not  less  than 
forty  or  fifty  thousand  pounds  have  gone  in  a  few  weeks. — The  in- 
famous trade  grows  fast,  for  sham  seizures  and  condemnations  now 
spread  the  cover  of  law  over  it.  You  fair  traders  must  either  shut 
up  your  shops,  or  turn  rogues  too.  These  moon-light  pedlars  can 
undersell  you.  Sir  Guy  Carleton  is  come  over  with  the  plan.  Powder 
and  ball,  muskets  and  bayonets,  cannot  conquer  us,  but  we  are  to 
be  subdued  with  British  gew-gaws.  Rather  than  fail  they  will  come 
at  first  cost.  The  Delaware  is  watched ;  our  coasts  are  watched ; 
that  we  may  not  be  able  to  get  goods  elsewhere,  or  to  have  any 
market  for  our  produce.  Our  money  is  to  be  drawn  away,  and  then 
we  can,  do  nothing ;  all  must  stop.  This  is  the  scheme  laid  for  our 
overthrow.  Can  those  who  have  any  concern  in  bringing  along  these 
New- York  goods  be  whigs?  They  are  the  worst  of  tories,  mean, 
underhanded,  skulking-  wretches.  They  could  not  hurt  us  half  so 
much  if  they  were  to  take  their  arms,  and  join  the  British  troops. 
We  can  deal  with  an  open  enemy ;  but  now,  like  worms,  they  are 
eating  through  the  bottom  of  the  vessel,  and  down  we  go,  without 
seeing  our  destruction.  Rouse  brother  Jerseymen !  Let  us  teach 
these  puny  schemers  that  if  they  do  find  means  to  evade  the  laws. 
we  have  however  the  same  elements  in  our  power  as  in  the  days  of 
the  stamp-act,  as  in  the  days  of  the  tea-act.  Their  goods  are  not 
proof  against  fire  or  water.  We  are  able  to  help  ourselves  in  a 
short-hand  way  when  it  becomes  necessary.  The  state  is  not  to  be 
ruined,  our  dependence  is  not  to  be  defeated  by  a  tribe  of  dodgers, 
and  their  paltry  goods.  In  a  word  my  countrymen,  awake  to  your 
danger.  There  is  no  half-way.  Break  up  this  trade,  root  and 
branch,  or  it  will  break  you  up. 

A  PLAIN  FARMER. 
LOOK  ABOUT  YE ! 

TRENTON,  June  26. 

Monday  last  the  Hon.  the  Legislature  of  this  State  adjourned  to 
Wednesday  the  18th  of  September  next,  then  to  meet  at  Trenton. 
During  the  sitting  the  following  acts  were  passed  : 

1.  An  act  to  enable  the  owners  and  possessors  of  the  tide  marsh 
and  swamp,  lying  upon  Manamusking  creek,  in  the  county  of  Cum- 


1782]  NEWSPAPER   EXTRACTS.  463 

berland,  lo  erect  a  dam  and  water-works  across  the  said  creek,  suf- 
ficient to  keep  the  tide  from  over-flowing  the  same. 

2.  An  act  to  promote  and  support  the  national  bank. 

3.  An  act  to  alter  two  of  the  terms  of  the  inferior  court  of  Common 
Pleas  and  court  of   General   Quarter  Sessions  of   the   peace  for   the 
county  of  Hunterdon. 

4.  An   act   to   extend   the   power   of  Justices   of   the   Peace   in   the 
several   counties,   to   try   causes   to   the  amount   of   Twelve  Pounds ; 
and   to   prevent   actions   under   Fifty    Pounds    being    brought   in    the 
Supreme  Court  &c. 

5.  An  act  to  encourage  the  apprehending  all  prisoners  of  war  who 
have  escaped  or  may  hereafter  escape  from  the  place  of  their  con- 
finement. 

6.  A  supplemental  act  to  the  act,  intitled  'An  act  for  making  com- 
pensation  to  the  troops  of  this   State,   in  the  service  of  the  United 
States,  for  the  depreciation  of  their  pay.'  ( 

7.  An  act  to  authorize  the  United  States  in  Congress  assembled  in 
the  final  settlement  of  the  proportion   to  be  borne  by   this  State  of 
certain  publick  expences,  and  for  other  purposes  therein  mentioned. 

8.  .An  act  to  naturalize  Charles  Sertorious,  &c. 

9.  An  act  to  empower  the  Justices  and  Freeholders  of  the  counties 
of  Bergen  and  Essex,  to  erect  a  bridge  over  the  river  Passaic,  near 
the  church,  at  Aquackanunck. 

10.  An   act  for  the   releif  of  certain   persons  who   have  purchased 
property  for  the  use  of  the  publick. 

11.  An  act   to  raise  the   sum   of  Ninety-Thousand   Pounds   in   the 
State  of  New-Jersey. 

12.  An  act  to  revive  part  of  an  act,  intitled  "An  act  to  impower 
the  inhabitants  of  the  townships  of  Bridgewater  and  Bedminster,  in 
the  county  of   Somerset,   to   repair  their  publick   highways   by   hire, 
and  to  raise  money  for  that  purpose. 

13.  An  act  to  vest  in  Robert-Lettis  Hooper,  the  younger,  and  Eliza- 
beth his  wife,   and  the  survivor^  of  them  with  powers  of  agency,   to 
take   charge   of   and   manage   the   estate   of   the   American   company, 
commonly  so  called  in  the  counties  of  Bergen  and  Morris,  and  else- 
where in  this  State,  for  the  purposes  mentioned  therein. 

14.  An  act  to  enable  the  owners  and  possessors  of  meadows   and 
tide  marsh  lying  on  Assiscunk  creek,  withim  the  limits   of  the  city 
of  Burlington,  to  erect  and  maintain  a  dam,  bank,  and  other  water- 
works across  the  said  creek,  in  order  to  prevent  the  tide  from  over- 
flowing the  same,  &c. 

15.  An  act  to  enable  the  owners  and  possessors  of  swamp,  marsh 
and  meadow,  adjoining  Rachel  Dalbo's  salt  land  ;    and   bounding  on 
Delaware  river  and  Old-man's  creek,  to  Isaac  Pedrick's  salt  Land,  in 
the  township  of  Upper  Penns  Neck,  in  the  county  of  Salem,  to  erect, 
maintain  and  keep  in  repair,  the  necessary  banksf  dams  and  water- 
works, and  to  cut  drains  to  prevent  the  tide  from  over-flowing  the 
same. 


464        NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.      [1782 

16.  An  act  for  preventing  an  illicit  trade  and  intercourse  between 
the  subjects  of  this  State  and  the  enemy. 

17.  A  supplementary  act  to  the  act,  intitled,  'An  act  for  regulating, 
training  and  arraying  the  militia,  and  for  providing  more  effectually 
for  the  defence  and  security  of  the  State.' 

18.  An  act  to  enable  the  owners  of  meadows  and  marshes  on   the 
Delaware  river,  lying  north  eastward  from  Pensauking  creek,  in  the 
county  of  Burlington,  to  keep  out  the  tide  from  overflowing  the  same. 

19.  An  act  to  procure  money  by  loan. 

20.  An  act  for  defraying  sundry  incidental  charges. 

Intelligence  having  been  received  at  Elizabeth-Town  that  two 
whale  boats  fully  prepared  and  fitted  for  sea,  were  bound  from 
New-York,  on  a  cruize  in  the  Delaware,  a  part  of  the  detachment 
of  continental  troops  stationed  at  that  place,  with  such  of  the  in- 
habitants volunteers  as  could  readily  be  collected,  went  on  Friday 
morning  the  twenty-first  instant  across  Staten-Island,  for  the  purpose 
of  taking  them.  They  succeeded  to  their  wish,  and  brought  up  both 
boats,  with  seventeen  prisoners,  by  the  garrison  and  armed  vessel 
in  the  Kills,  without  discovery.  They  prove  to  be  the  Ladies  Delight, 
and  the  Victory,  which  have  heretofore  given  no  small  annoyance 
to  our  river  trade.  Their  stores  and  ammunition  are  on  board,  with 
every  thing  in  perfect  older  for  a  cruize.  One  mounted  two  four 
pounders  and  eight  swivels ;  and  the  other  two  fours  and  four 
swivels. 

We  hear  that  the  Council  and  Assembly  in  Joint-Meeting  have 
appointed  Jonathan  Deare,  Esquire,  Clerk  of  the  Peace  and  Pleas 
for  the  county  of  Middlesex,  in  the  room  of  Benjamin  Manning, 
Esq.  resigned. 

ALL  persons  indebted  to  the  estate  of  Isaac  Vandorn,  deceased, 
late  of  the  township  of  Freehold,  county  of  Monmouth,  by  bond,  bill, 
book  debt  or  otherwise,  are  desired  to  come  and  settle  their  accounts 
and  renew  their  obligations,  otherwise  they  will  be  prosecuted  as 
the  law  directs :  And  all  persons  having  any  demands  on  said  estate, 
are  desired  to  bring  them  in  properly  authenticated,  and  they  shall 
be  paid  by 

JACOB  VAXDORX.  "V 
HEXDRICK  SMOCK,  I 
JOHX  COVEXHOVEX.  ( 
JACOB  COVEXHOVEX  J 

WANTED, 

AS  an  house  keeper,  in  a  small  family,  a  well  bred  middle  aged  woman 
of  good  character.     Generous  encouragement  will  be  given.     Inquire 
of  the  Printer. 
June  25,  1782. 


1782]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  40") 

ANTHONY  F.  TAYLOR, 

REGS  leave  to  inform  the  publick,  that  he  carries  on  the  hat-making 
business  in  Bordentown,  where  he  makes  all  kind  of  beaver,  castor, 
and  raccoon  hats. 

All  those  who  will  please  to  favour  him  with  their  custom,  may 
depend  upon  being  faithfully  served. 

N.  B.     He  also  gives  the  highest  price  for  all  kinds  of  furr. 

June  24,  1782. 

THE  subscribers  having  at  length  obtained  a  road  laid  out  by 
authority,  from  the  Bristol  road  to  the  new  Trenton  ferry  the 
shortest  way,  a  pleasant  sandy  dry  road  at  all  seasons  of  the  year, 
once  more  inform  the  Publick  in  general  they  keep  good  Boats. 

Whoever  pleases  to  favour  thjem  with  their  custom,  please  to  turn 
to  the  left  at  the  cross  roads  near  Patrick  Colvin's  ferry  to  Col. 
Bird's  mill,  sixty  rods  above  Colvin's  ferry,  thence  near  half  a  mile 
up  the  river  to  the  ferry  above  the  falls,  and  almost  opposite  to 
Trenton,  where  constant  attendance  is  given  by  their  humble  servants. 

JOHN  BURROWS, 
GEORGE  BEATY. 
Rates  as  follows,  viz. 

S.  D. 

Carriage  and  4  Horses  5  0 

Ditto  2     ditto  •     3  9 

Chair  and  Horse        —  16 

Man  and  Horse  0  8 

A  Foot  person  0  4 

FIFTY  DOLLARS  REWARD. 

STOLEN  out  of  the  pastures  of  the  subscribers  in  Arnwell  town- 
ship, Hunterdon  county,  on  the  23d  of  this  instant  June,  one  bay 
horse  four  years  old,  about  fifteen  hands  one  inch  high,  a  natural 
good  trotter,  heavy  built,  a  long  dock  with  the  hair  trimmed  to  a 
middle  size,  a  short  trimmed  mane  and  fore-top,  a  large  head  and 
ears,  shod  before  with  a  pair  of  old  shoes  new  set  and  in  middle-dike 
working  order:  And  one  gray  horse,  eight  years  old,  near  fifteen 
hands  high,  a  good  trotter  and  canters,  a  middle-sized  tail,  mane  and 
fore-top,  with  a  lump  about  the  size  of  a  walnut  under  his  off-ear, 
very  remarkable:  And  also  a  bay  horse,' eight  years  old,  near  fifteen 
hands  high,  natural  trotter,  with  a  short  tail,  middle-sized  mane  and 
fore-top,  a  star  in  his  forehead,  the  right  hind  foot  white,  and  has 
;i  small  lump  on  the  inside  of  his  right  fore-leg. 

Whoever  takes  up  the  said  horses  so  that  the  owners  may  have 
them  again,  shall  have  Thirty  Dollars  Reward,  or  in  proportion  for 
either  of  them,  and  Twenty  Dollars  for  the  thieves,  or  in  proportion 
for  either  of  them. 

PAUL  KUHL,  Jun. 

PETER  DILS. 

GEORGE  TROUT. 

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466  -\K\V    .1  HUSKY    J.\    THE    REVOLUTIOX.  [1782 


From  the  Xeir  .Icrsoj  Cnzcitc.   \'ol.   I..  \o.  2.°,<;.  .full,  '•'>.  17.VJ. 

STATE  of  XKW-JKUSEY. 

An   Act    for   preventing  an   illicit    trade  and   intercour.se   between    the 
subjects  of  this  state  and  the  enemy. 

I  For  this  Act.  passed  June  24.  1782,  see  Statutes.] 

To   every    VIRTUOUS    CITIZEN   in    the   state   of   NEW-JERSEY. 

IT  is  evident  that  our  enemies,  instead  of  abandoning  their  wicked 
purpose  of  enslaving  us,  have  only  altered  the  measures  which  they 
at  first  adopted,  and  have  hitherto  fruitlessly  prosecuted,  to  accom- 
plish that  abominable  design.  Finding  by  their  own  confession,  that 
America  cannot  be  reduced  by  force" of  arms,  they  have  concerted  a 
system  of  intrigue ;  and  professing  the  most  pacific  disposition,  en- 
deavour, by  every  effort  in  their  power,  to  introduce  their  manu- 
factures among  us.  By  this  project,  they  expect  at  once  to  find  em- 
ployment for  their  artifices  in  Europe,  to  drain  us  of  our  circulating 
specie,  to  re-attach  us  to  England,  to  render  the  payment  of  taxes 
more  burdensome  to  the  people,  to  make  us  suspected  by  our  ally, 
for  throwing  into  their  hands,  those  commercial  advantages  which 
are  so  justly  due  to  the  Drench,  and  to  give  the  greatest  discourage- 
ment to  all  honest  and  lawful  commerce.  For  the  prosecution  of  this 
plan,  Sir  Guy  Carleton,  (who  might  really  have  served  their  pur- 
pose of  cajoling  and  deluding  at  the  time  when  their  blundering 
politicks  called  him  from  the  scene  of  action  to  make  room  for  a 
pack  of  unfeeling  ruffians)  is  sent  out  to  coax,  to  conciliate,  and  to 
effect  by  secret  sap,  what  his  predecessors  have  been  found  incapable 
of  atchieving  by  open  assault.  This  gentleman  is  to  make  a  parade 
of  all  the  virtues  of  humanity ;  to  write  complimentary  letters  to 
Congress,  and  to  individual  characters  of  influence  amongst  us.  As 
an  irrefragable  proof  of  his  resolution  to  carry  on  the  war  in  the 
most  honourable  manner,  he  is  to  restrain  a  number  of  loyalists  who 
have  hitherto  made  a  most  brilliant  figure  under  the  banners  of  his 
Britannic  Majesty,  and  by  the  immediate  direction  of  the  high-birthed 
nominal  governor  Franklin,  he  is  to  restrain  them  from — horse- 
stealing.  All  this  time  our  ports  are  most  sedulously  blocked  up  by 
the  English  cruizers,  to  prevent  the  importation  of  any  French 
commodities ;  and  every  exertion  is  made  use  of  by  the  enemy  in 
New-York  to  deluge  the  continent  with  the  manufactures  of  their 
nation.  This  trade  at  first  arose  from  mere  accident ;  and  as  the 
English  were  never  famed  for  invention,  though  they  have  a  tolerable 
knack  at  improvement,  they  did  not  even  stumble  upon  this  obvious 
expedient  to  embarrass  our  finances.  But  when  pointed  out  to  them 
by  rascals  in  our  own  bosom  it  was  warmly  embraced,  and  pursued 
to  considerable  extent  under  the  moonlight  command  of  Sir  Henry 
Clinton.  The  honour  however,  of  carrying  it  to  full  perfection  was, 
it  seems,  reserved  for  that  great  solar  orb  of  pallavering  emanations, 
which  is  lately  risen  in  the  horizon  of  Manhattan's,  to  eclipse  all  the 


1782]  NEWSPAPER  EXTRACTS.  4(57 

twinkling  glowworm  luminaries,  that  have  hitherto  preceded  him. 
His  plan  is  known  to  be  that  of  exhausting  all  our  specie  for  the 
worthless  bawbles  and  trinkets  of  Great-Britain  to  corrupt  the  pa- 
triotism of  our  citizens  and  to  weaken  the  foundation  of  our  publick 
credit ;  and  in  order  to  tempt  those  execrable  villains  known  by 
the  name  of  LONDON-TRADERS  with  the  highest  possible  allure- 
ments, to  run  every  risque  in  carrying  on  this  nefarious  traffick,  the 
national  treasury  of  Great-Britain  is  at  the  devotion  of  the  minis- 
try to  enable  their  factors  in  New- York  to  sell  the  cheaper. 

To  check  this  pestilent  trade  which  must  otherwise  reduce  us  to 
beggery  and  finally  to  slavery,  the  legislature  of  this  state  have  at 
their  last  sitting  enacted  a  law,  that  for  vigour  and  efficacy  greatly 
surpasses  every  former  act  upon  the  same  subject.  As  there  is  how- 
ever reason  to  think  that  the  magistrates  will  not  be  able,  from 
the  number  of  miscreants  concerned  and  associated  in  the  said  diabol- 
ical commerce  and  their  infinite  arts  to  elude  the  justice  of  their 
country,  fully  to  execute  the  law,  it  is  thought  necessary  to  have 
recourse  to  a  more  competent  expedient.  It  is  proposed  that  the 
virtuous  whigs  associate  and  form  themselves  into  committees  in 
every  proper  township  or  district,  and  especially  near  the  lines,  and 
the  different  ferries  in  the  state,  for  the  express  purpose  of  carrying 
this  salutary  law  into  execution,  upon  which,  next  to  the  blessing  of 
heaven,  depend  our  political  salvation  and  existence.  It  is  recom- 
mended to  those  committees  to  keep  regular  accounts  of  the  net  pro- 
ceeds of  every  seizure  they  shall  make,  to  pay  out  of  them  their  own 
expenses,  and  the  wages  and  rewards  of  such  horsemen  and  others 
as  they  may  find  it  necessary  to  employ  for  watching  the  different 
roads  and  avenues  by  which  the  ACCURSED  THING  is  conveyed 
through  this  state  :  to  examine  all  travellers  for  the  passes  required 
by  law,  and  to  search  all  carriages  that  can  with  the  least  probability 
be  supposed  to  contain  prohibited  merchandize,  to  keep  regular  cor- 
respondence with  each  other — to  advertise  in  the  news-papers  the 
name  of  every  scoundrel  who  shall  be  detected,  that  he  may  be  trans- 
mitted to  the  latest  posterity  with  everlasting  and  indelible  infamy, 
as  a  monster  in  nature,  preying  upon  the  vitals  of  his  own  species, 
and  enriching  himself  at  the  expence  of  the  blood  and  treasure  of 
thousands  of  his  countrymen,  by  his  instrumentality  in  protracting 
the  war. — And  it  is  in  the  last  place  recommended  to  such  com- 
mittees to  appropriate  either  the  whole  or  such  part  of  the  remain- 
ing monies  arising  from  their  seizures  (after  deducting  all  expenses) 
as  shall  be  thought  best,  to  the  public  use.  Rouse  then  my  dear 
countrymen,  to  repel  the  danger  which  threatens  you.  The  most 
alarming,  depend  upon  it,  of  any  that  has  hung  over  us  since  the 
commencement  of  the  war.  For  God's  sake  be  aroused  and  exert 
yourselves  like  men  :  nor  suffer  to  be  reduced  to  bondage  by  a  set  of 
detestable  speculators  and  traitors,  a  country  that  can  not  be  sub- 
jugated by  all  the  power  of  Great-Britain.  Once  more  I  say,  rouse 
and  be  free. 

HORATIUS. 


-lux  M-;\V  JKUSKY   i.\   TIII-:  KKVOU  TIO:V.  [17s-! 

| 

P.  S.  To  shew  how  agreeable  the  associations  above  recommended 
will  be  to  Congress,  I  shall  subjoin  two  resolutions  of  that  august 
Assembly  of  the  -11st.  instant,  viz. 

Resolved,  That  it  be  and  hereby  is  recommended  to  the  Legisla- 
tures of  the  several  states,  to  adopt  the  most  efficacious  measures  for 
suppressing  all  traffick  and  illicit  intercourse  between  their  re- 
spective citizens  and  the  enemy. 

Resolved,  That  the  Legislatures,  or  in  case  of  their  recess,  the 
executives  of  the  several  states,  be  earnestly  requested  to  impress, 
by  every  means  in  their  power,  or  their  respective  citizens  at 
large,  the  baneful  consequences  apprehended  .by  Congress  from  a 
continuance  of  this  illicit  and  infamous  traffick,  and  the  necessity  of 
their  co-operating  with  the  publick  measures  ~by  such  united  patriotic 
and  vigilant  exertions  as  will  detect  and  bring  to  legal  punishment 
those  ivho  shall  have  been  in  any  measure  concerned  therein. 

Came  to  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber,  living  in  Chesterfield 
township,  Burlington  county,  a  sorrel  horse  about  fifteen  years  old, 
has  on  his  back  three  or  four  white  spots,  thirteen  hands  three  inches 
high :  The  owner  or  owners  are  desired  to  come  and  prove  their 
property,  pay  charges,  and  take  him  away,  or  otherwise  he  will  be 
sold  to  pay  the  cost. 

ANTHONY  TAYLOR. 
June  28,  1782. 

TO  BE  SOLD. 

FOUR  likely  young  Negro  Men,  three  of  whom  are  seamen,  the 
other  used  to  wait  on  a  gentleman — Enquire  of  Mr.  John  Wood, 
gaol-keeper  in  Burlington  : — If  not  sold  by  private  sale  before  Tuesday 
the  9th  ofi  July,  they  will  then  be  sold  at  publick  vendue  at  Bur- 
lington. 

June  28,  1782. 

TO  BE  SOLD. 

A  Valuable  tract  of  land,  containing  one  hundred  and  thirty-three 
acres,  joining  the  south  branch  of  Raritan,  in  the  township  of 
Reading,  county  of  Hunterdon,  about  four  miles  from  Flemington ; 
there  is  about  sixty  acres  cleared,  half  of  which  is  meadow  ground. 
and  the  rest  well  timbered ;  and  there  is  on  said  tract  of  land  a 
very  good  grist  mill,  the  running  works  all  new;  also  a  new  sawmill 
in  good  repair :  Both  mills  standing  upon  said  branch,  an  ever- 
lasting stream,  and  in  a  thick  settled  neighbourhood,  and  a  healthy 
part  of  the  country  ;  and  likewise  a  new  dwelling  house  two  stories 
high,  three  rooms  upon  a  floor,  and  a  good  cellar,  barn  and  other 
out-houses,  very  suitable  for  a  store,  as  there  has  been  one  kept  for 
some  years  past ;  also  a  young  bearing  orchard,  and  a  well  of 
excellent  water  at  the  door :  For  further  particulars  enquire  of  the 
subscriber,  living  on  said  premises,  who  will  give  an  indisputable  title 
for  the  same. 

PHILIP  DILS. 


1782]  AKWSPAPEE    EXTRACTS.  4G9 

THIRTY  TWO  DOLLARS 
REWARD. 

Stolen  put  of  the  pasture  of  the  subscribers  in  Trenton  township, 
Hunterdon  county,  on  the  24th  of  June  last,  two  mares,  one  a  bay 
four  years  old,  fourteen  hands  three  inches  high,  natural  trotter, 
and  not  broke  to  a  canter,  thin  black  mane  and  tail,  with  a  long 
dock,  heavy,  but  moves  very  gay  with  head  and  tail,  no  shoes  on ; 
the  other  a  light  greyi  roan,  five  years  old,  fourteen  hands  and  an 
half  high,  a  star  and  snip,  hind  feet  white,  trots  and  canters  well, 
and  paces  a  little  travel,  shod  before.  Whoever  takes  up  said  mares, 
so  that  the  owners  may  get  them  again,  shall  have  sixteen  Dollars 
reward,  or  in  proportion  for  either,  and  sixteen  Dollars  for  the  thief 
or  thieves. 

DANIEL  CLARK, 
ISAAC  CLARK. 


INDEX. 


A. 


Abercrombte,  Col.,  397. 

Absecon   creek,  47. 

Ackley,  Bazalicl,  deserter,  294. 

Adam,  John,  169. 

Adams,  Samuel,  148. 

Agnew,  Daniel,  399  ;  land  for  sale, 
369. 

Agriculture,  state  society,   289. 

Akin.  Abiel.  391. 

Alexander,   George,   223. 
Robert,    162. 

Alexandria  township.  189,  363,  381, 
396,  407. 

Allen,  David,  191. 

Gabriel,  land  for  sale,  360. 
Joseph,  461. 
Samuel.  170,  184. 

Allentown.  14,  83.  139,  170,  175, 
184,  195,  231,  244,  267,  274, 
286,  331,  355,  357,  360,  394, 
405. 

Alii.   Hyder,   317. 

Ailing,  Degray  &  Co.,  merchants, 
153. 

Amboy.  41. 

Amwell,  11.  18,  37,  39,  103,  179, 
213,  303,  321,  371,  401,  404, 
400.  410,  421,  426,  428,  434, 
437,  440,  460. 

Amwell  township,  51,  194.  I!).").  2:;r>. 
2S4.  289,  .386,  391,  446,  465. 

Ancocus.   r>2. 

Anderson,    George,    member    of    As- 
sembly,  310. 
Israel,  horse  stolen,  407. 


John,   190. 

Joseph,   311. 

Joshua,  4i!i!. 

Kenneth,  Jr.,  clerk  of  Monmouth 

county,  306. 
Timothy.   26. 

Andover   Forge.    87.    104,   108,    131. 
Andre,    Major    John,    6-11,    20,    36, 
40 ;      address    concerning,    41  ; 
execution  of  as  spy,  11  ;    letter 
to    Washington.    52 ;     proceed- 
ings of  military  board,  64. 
Antuxet,    19. 
Apgar,    Henry,    servant    ran    away 

from,    195, 

Applegate,  Anthony,  422. 
Aquackanunck.   463. 
Arara,   Jist,   296. 
Arlmthnot.  Admiral.  234. 
Armstrong,   George,   109,   119. 

James,    counterfeiter,    282. 
Arneytown.   241. 

Arnold,   Benedict,   6-11,  45,  89,  99, 
150,    157.    201,    344 ;     dialogue 
with   Satan,   80. 
Jacob,   sheriff,   53. 
Capt.    Jacob,    innkeeper,    23,    303. 
Asgil,  Capt.,  to  be  executed,  451. 
Assanpink.      (See   Sanpink.) 
Assiscunk   creek,   463. 
Atayataghroughta,    Lieut-Col.,    296. 
Atkinson,   Mr.,   134. 
Augusta.  Ga.,  64. 
Axford,   Charles,   Jr.,  311,  396. 


It. 


Backhouse,   Richard,   247. 
Backhouse.    Williams    and    Yamans, 

423. 

Bacon.   Ann,  421. 
Badcock.   John,   276. 
Baily,   Patrick,   191. 
Bainbridge,   Edm.,   235. 

Edward,  411. 
Baker,  Joseph,  427. 

Samuel,  385. 
Baldwin.  Daniel,   112. 

Matthew,    29. 
Ball,  Mr.,  hung  as  spy,  190. 

Joseph,  133, 

Nathaniel,  24. 


Spencer,  244. 

William,   death   of,    179. 
Bank,     subscriptions     to     National, 

261. 
Banta,  Wert  I.,  inquisition  against, 

124. 

Baptisttown.  168. 
Barber,   William,   287. 
I'.a.rd,   Dr.,   \. 

Baremore,  Ensign  Lewis,  215. 
Barnes.    Mary.   321  ;    druggist,   279. 

Sarah,   321  ;    druggist,   279. 
Karnett,    I.    B..    244. 
Barns,   Isaac,   179. 
Barraclow,    Derrick,   410. 


471 


472 


INDEX. 


Barton,  Gilbert,  innkeeper,  139, 
ITii,  2G7,  274,  315,  331,  337, 
355. 

Thomas.   l!i5. 
Basking  Ilidge,   109,   119,  202,  332, 

4::i.    435. 

Batoman,    Mr.,    innkeeper,   293. 
Bayard.    Samuel,   301. 

William.   327. 
Bayley.    Theodorus,   30. 
Bayne.   ('ai)t..   291. 
Beach.   Jabi'X.   2.'!. 

(.'apt.   Joseph,  303. 
Beakes,   Nathan,   merchant,  353. 
Beaty.  George,  168,  465  ;    farm  for 
sale,  169  ;    ferryman,  266,  284. 

John,   member  of  Council,  310. 
Beck,   Joseph,    395. 
Beckwith.  Major,  229. 
Bedford,  157. 
Bedminster,   120,   427. 
Bedminster  township,   203,   463. 
Beekman,  Mr.,   innkeeper,   270,  337. 

Christopher,   423. 
Boll    Mount.    230. 
Bell.  Richard,  executed,  344. 

William,  179. 
Benjamin.     Jacob,     merchant, 


440.   449. 


Bennet,   Barnes,  ensign,   200. 

John,   436. 
Bergen  county.  53,  67,  82,  124,  327, 

430,   463. 
Bergen,  Jacob,  82  :    death  of,  179 ; 

innkeeper,   271,    288. 
Jacob  G.,  innkeeper,  65.  195,  381. 
Bergen   Point,   21,   40,   50,   52,   125, 

141,  190. 

Bernards  Town,   202,   332. 
Bethlehem  township,  128,  195,  373. 
Beverwik.  25. 
Biddle.  Clement,  440. 

Capt.     Nicholas,     verses     in     his 

memory,  138. 

Bigelow.  Samuel,  123,  170. 
Bills  of  Credit,   192. 
Bird.  Colonel,  465. 

Mark,   359. 
Bishop,    Christopher,    convicted    of 

murder,  102. 

Joseph,    303 :     horse   stolen,    289. 
Bispham,  Widow.  15. 
Bisset.   Asher.   181. 
Black.   Ezra.  323. 

William,  134. 
Blackledge,  John,  152. 
Blackly.    Ebenezer,    Jr.,    advertises 

negroes,  157. 
Black  Point,  314. 
Blackwell,  Andrew,  slave  ran  away, 

245. 

Blair.   John,  301. 
Blanch.  Isaac,  member  of  Assembly, 

53.  79,  322. 
Blanchard,  Cornelius,  92,  109. 


199, 


Bland,  Klias.  death  of,  131  :  estate, 
188,  208,  293,  366,  423,  430, 
450. 

Bledsoe,  John,  slave  ran  away,  326. 
Bleecker,     Anthony     L.,     merchant, 

28. 

Block  House,  424. 
Bloomfleld,  Joseph,  register  of  ad- 
miralty. 38.  123.  140.  170,  213, 
246,  267,  274.  27(i,  2'.i3.  313, 
316,  332,  355,  435,  445,  448, 
449. 

Bloomsbury,   286. 
Blowers,    S.   S.,   166. 
Blue,   William,   284. 
Board,   James,   124. 
Bogart,    Henry,    shipmaster,    449. 

Peter  P.,  inquisition  against,  124. 
Bohannan,  John,  410. 
Bond,   William,   147,   241. 
Bonham,   Lieut.   Absalom,    155. 
Bonnel,   Grace,   death   of,   41. 

Isaac.  41. 

Bonnell.    Benjamin,    deserter,    154. 
Boone,   Benjamin,  deserter,  177. 
Booth,   Robert,  267. 
Borden,  Mr.,  364. 

Francis,  191. 

Joseph,  slave  for  sale.  240. 

Joseph.   Jr.,   stage  route,   118. 
Bordentown,     179.     184,    187,     214, 
240,    256,    286,   360,   444,    465 ; 
stage  to  and  from,   118. 
Borrows,  John,  ferryman,  266. 
Bottle   Hill,   111,   155. 
Boudinot.    Elias,    delegate    to    Con- 
gress.   264.    331. 

Elisha.    24 :     appointed    clerk    of 

courts.   305. 

Bound    Brook,    179,    189,    195,    202. 
Bound    creek,    211. 
Bowen.   Capt..   291. 
Bowhill,   286,   401. 
Bowne,   Andrew,   461. 

John,   187. 

Obadiah.   461. 

Samuel.  372. 
Bowyer.   Capt.    291. 
Boyd.  Adam,  sheriff,  53,   310. 
Boylan.    John,    432.      (See    Bullin.) 
Bradford.  John.   142. 

Thomas,   111. 
Bradshaw,   John,   167. 
Brailey.  Mr..   108. 

Brainerd.  Rev.  John,  death  of,  222. 
Brandt,   Solomon,   suicide.   282. 
Brant.     David,     horses     advertised, 

141. 

Brasier,  Mrs..   154. 
Bray,   Mr..   243. 

Daniel.   191. 

John,    170.    256.    402.    408.    445. 

450.   454:     sale   of  slaves.    147. 

Brearley.  David.  Chief  Justice.  302. 

Major  Joseph,   197.  207. 


IXDEX. 


473 


Bremer,   Anthony,  deserter,  294. 

Brewer,  Hendrick,  167. 

Brick,  .Tosiah,  member  of  Assembly, 

310. 

Bridgewater  township,  463. 
Bristol,  Pa.,  171,  266,  288. 
Britton,  Isaac,  innkeeper,  395. 

Joseph,   189. 

Brookfield.    Jacob,    member    of    As- 
sembly, 314,  397. 

John.   24. 

Brooklyn   Forge.   448. 
Brooks,    Capt.,    191,    290. 
Brown,  Andrew,  land  for  sale,  405. 

Major  Andrew,   295. 

Major  Daniel,   303. 

George,    230. 

John,  385. 

Joseph,    255,    323. 

Joseph,   Sr.,   216. 

Samuel,  salt  works,  446. 

Zebedee.   advertises  wife,   55. 
Brown's  ferry.   40. 
Bruce,    Andrew.    334. 
Brush,   Timothy,    117. 
Buck,   Aaron,  400,  401. 
Bucks   county,    Pa.,    190,    192,    199, 
214,    255,    298,    403,    407,    411, 
439,    448. 

Buckingham,  Pa.,  199,  407. 
Bullin  (Boylan?),  John,  innkeeper, 

202,   324,   327.    (See   Boylan.) 
Bullman,    Thomas,    innkeeper,    321, 

432. 
Bullock,    George,   323. 


Bulmore,  Abraham,  horse  stolen, 
168. 

Bunn,  Edward,  member  of  Assem- 
bly, 49,  88,  310. 

Bunting,   Jesse,   323. 

Burden,   Joseph   H.,    355. 

Burge,  Jonathan,  convicted  of  mur- 
der, 167. 

Burgle,  Thomas,  435. 

Burlington,  240,  272,  276,  333,  360. 
463.  468. 

Burlington  county,  52,  81,  103,  121, 
143,  198,  203,  208,  223,  241, 
265.  280,  293,  323,  357,  361, 
401,  404,  406,  444,  448,  468; 
courts,  425,  428 ;  requisition 
of  supplies,  269. 

Burnet,  Lieut.  John,  303 ;  court- 
martialed,  346. 

Dr.    William,    elected   delegate   to 
Congress,   128. 

Burnett,   John,   deserter,  154,   177. 

Birmside,   James,   bookstore,   340. 

Burrowes,   Major   John,   marshal  In 
admiralty,   128,    160,   188,   208, 
247,    249,    276,    280,    313,    316, 
326,,   348,   354. 
John,  Jr.,  sheriff,  319,  400. 

Burrows,    John,    333,    465 ;     ferry, 

284. 
Stephen,  420 ;    land  for  sale,  380. 

Burton.  John,  refugee  in  gaol.  19. 

Butler,    John,    323. 

Butts,  Christian,  448. 
William.    448. 

Buxton,   James    371. 


C. 


Cadwalader.  Lambert.  261,   286. 
Cahahill.   William,   estate,   175. 
Cain,    Roger,    123. 
Caldwell,  Andrew.  254. 

Rev.    James,    25,    35,    371,    458 ; 

member    of    Council,    53,    63 ; 

murder  of,  339,  344. 
Calhoun.   John,   211. 
Calver,   Robert,   Jr.,    169. 
Calvert,     William.     208,    293,     423, 

436,   459. 
Camp.    Aaron,    433. 

Caleb,    member   of   Assembly,    53, 

63.   314. 

Campbell,    David.    112. 
Canfield,    Mr..   93. 

Ebenezer,  94. 
Cape.    John,    innkeeper,    195,    197, 

223.   359,  436,   446. 
Cape  May,   348. 
Cape    May     county.     247 ;      courts, 

425 ;      requisition    of    supplies, 

269. 

Carey,  Mrs.,  slave  for  sale,  276. 
Carl,   John,   179. 
Carle,   Capt.    Israel.   197,   292. 


Carle.  John,  member  of  Assembly, 
53,  63 ;  member  of  Council, 
310. 

Carleton.    Sir   Guy,    437,    462;     let- 
ter from.   455 ;     letter  to,   450. 
Carlisle.   Capt.   Langston,   death  of, 

128. 

Carmichael.    Alexander,    230. 
Carr.   Thomas,   horse  stolen,   336. 
Carrington.    Capt.,    291. 
Carson,   Ann,   398. 
Capt.,  431. 
Joseph,  256. 

Carter,  James,  executed,  297. 
Case,   Peter,   235. 

Philip.  235. 
Catle,   Mrs.,   333. 
Census    of   N.    J.,    1737-1738,    388; 

same  1745,   388. 
Chamberlain,   Joseph,   407. 

Lieut.-Col.    William,    197,    247. 
Chambers.    Mrs.    Alexander,    death 

of,   128. 
David,   innkeeper,   103  :    land  for 

sale,   371. 
John,  merchant,  359. 


474 


INDEX. 


Chambers,  Robert.  14,  189. 

William,    14. 

Chancery,   terms  of,   204. 
Chapman,    Abraham,    323. 
Chatham,   53,   89,   93,   186,   344. 
Cheesequakes,    12'.). 
Chesterfield,    323 ;     township,    468. 
Chestnut  Neck,  208,  446. 
Chips.    John,   horse   stolen,   400. 
Chispen,   Jonathan,   280. 
Christian,   Capt.,   291. 
Clark.   Mr.,  202,  434. 

Abraham,    delegate    to    Congress, 
331  ;     elected  delegate   to   Con- 
gress,   128. 
Assa,  167. 
Benjamin,   289. 
Daniel,  horse  stolen,  469. 
Elijah,       clerk       of       Gloucester 

county,    306. 
Isaac,  horse  stolen,  469. 
Clarke.   Colonel,  64. 
Joseph,    301,    302. 
Cla'rkson,    Levinus.    18,    130,    187. 

Mary,   death   of,    187. 
Clawson,    Anthony,    land    for    sale, 

386. 

John,    386. 

Clayton,   Cornelius,   191. 
Cleayton,   William,    115. 
Clinton,  Gov.  George,  fight  with  In- 
dians, 80. 

Clinton.   Sir  Henry,  6.  36.   89,   144. 
201.  437  :    address  to,  41  ;    let- 
ter of,  393  :    letter  to.  277. 
Clisliy,    Mr..    211. 
Clunn.   Capt.   John,   innkeeper,   282, 

364.   406. 

Margaret,  death  of,  282. 
Cobb.   Clisby,   27. 

John,   estate  notice,   27. 
Cock,  David,  223. 
Coejemans,     Samuel    Staats,    death 

of.   335 ;    estate,   374. 
Cole,  Benjamin,  deserter,  294. 
Colhoun,  Alexander,  merchant,  359. 
College  of  New  Jersey,  410. 
Collins.  Isaac,  printer.  37,  168,  240, 

267.  275.  283.  356. 
Coifs  Neck.  314,  402,  425. 
Colver.   Ephraim,   297. 

Patrick,      ferryman,      333,      465  : 

slave  ran  away.  292. 
Compton,   Ichabod.  16,   438. 

John,    16.   438. 
William,   estate,    16,   438. 
Condict,     Silas,     clerk     of     Morris 
county.   306 ;    delegate  to  Con- 
gress.   331  ;     member   of   Coun- 
cil, 53.  63. 
Condon.   John.   398. 
Conger.  John,  member  of  Assembly, 

310. 

Congleton,    Allen,    member    of    As- 
sembly,   49,    87. 


Congress,  resolutions  about  regu- 
lar army.  83. 

Connecticut   Farms,    24,    28,   92. 
Conrow,    Levi,   191. 
Continental    Congress,    demand    tor 

provisions.    150. 
Continental   ferry,   68,    254. 
Conway,   John,    sheriff,    401,   441. 
Cook.    Major.    400. 
Major   Daniel,   303. 
Thomas,    167. 
Cooke.    Ellis,   member   of  Assembly. 

310. 
Cooper,  Miss  Ann,  145. 

Constant,     captured     by     enemy, 

296. 

Cornelius.   402. 

John,  member  of  Council,  49,  88. 
Samuel,   188. 
Cooper's  ferry,    188. 
Cornell,    Cornelius,   299. 

Ezekiel,   252. 

Comwallis,  Lord,  214  ;  capture  of, 
315,  316,  330 :  negro  anec- 
dote, 394 :  sails  for  England, 
M44  :  surrender  of,  319,  320, 
393.  - 

Corryel,   Major  John,   411. 
Corshon,    Joshua,    sheriff,    391. 
Coryell,    Capt.   George,    312.    354. 

John.  439. 
Ccryell's  ferry,  4B1. 
Cotterel,    Mr.,    373. 
Cottnam,   Abraham,   323. 

George,    324. 

Countryman,   Andrew,    195. 
Court-martial,    344. 
Covenhoven.    Jacob,    464. 

John,  249,  464  ;  member  of  As- 
sembly. 310 ;  mill.  &c.,  tor 
sale,  289. 

Peter,    216,    241,   372,    434,    444. 
Cowell,  David,  396. 
Ebenezer,   440. 

Garret,  slave  ran  away,  196. 
Cox.   Isaac,  364. 

John.  286 ;  member  of  Council, 
:uo. 

Coxe.  Daniel,  147,  162,  323. 

John,   farm   for   sale,   169. 

Rebecca.   207. 

Tench.   169. 

William,  169,  280,  359  ;    land  for 

sale.   07. 

Coxe,  Furman  &  Coxe,  169. 
Craig,   Aaron,   house   for   sale.    454. 

Benjamin,    slave   ran    away.    .'iL'ti. 

Jeremiah,    slave    ran    away,    326. 

Robert,  229. 
Cranbury.   207,   244.   287,   347.   398, 

403.   406.  441. 
Crane,   Elihu.   26. 

Ezekiel,   151. 

Isaac,  90. 

Lieut. -Col.  Jacob.  303.  .",44. 


INDEX. 


4T:> 


Joseph,   229. 

Sayrs,    merchant,    27. 
Cranetown,   126. 

Creighton,    Hugh,    innkeeper,    15. 
(.'reveling,  William.   16. 
Crimsaeir,   John   D.,   111. 
Cripps,   Whitten,    member   of   Coun- 
cil, 49,  87. 

Cvisty,   Matthias,   deserter,   294. 
Crolius.   Peter,  merchant,   267,  273, 

328. 
Crook,  William,   436. 


Cross  Roads,   103,  357. 
Crosswioks,  184,  235,  253,  360,  386. 
Crosswicks   creek,   444. 
Cubberly,  Mr.,   116. 
Cumberland    county,    19,    63,    145, 
327  ;     courts,   425  ;    requisition 
of  supplies,  269. 
Curtis,   Joseph,   innkeeper,  213. 

Marmaduke,   323. 

Thomas,  286. 

William,   461. 


D. 


Dalbo.    Rachel,    463. 
Dansborough,   275. 
Darby,    William,   151. 
Darcy,   Patrick,   26. 
Diirling,  Mr.,  25. 

William,  89. 
Dauphin    of    France,    celebration   of 

birth  of,  441. 
Davenport,  Capt.,  400. 

Mr.,  446. 

Davis.   George,   254;   land  for   sale, 
366. 

Matthew,  estate,  118. 

Phoebe,  118. 

Solomon,   168. 
Davison,  William,  318. 
Dayton.    Capt.    Jonathan,    92,    101, 

104,   109. 
Deal,   402. 
Deane,  Mr.,  36. 

Deare,  Jonathan,  county  clerk,  464. 
DeBowe,  John.   167. 
DeCamp,  David,  293. 
Decatur,   Stephen,   123. 
De  Cow,   Isaac,   169,   171,   336. 
Dedgrew,    John,   innkeeper,    436. 
Deerfleld,    222. 

Degray,   Mr.,   merchant,   153. 
Dehart.    Cornelius,    243. 

William,     apprentice     ran     away 

from,  348. 
Dell,    Henry,    169. 
Demarest,     David     G.,     inquisition 

against,   124. 
Denice.   Jacques,   372. 
Denman,    Matthias,    innkeeper,    90. 
Dennis,    John,    93 ;     land    for    sale, 
198. 

Joseph.   402. 

Capt.    Samuel,   200. 
Denton,      John.      merchant,      323 ; 

slave  ran  away,  116. 
DcIVyster.   Pierr.   92. 
Do  Vintz.  Christopher,  301. 
Dey,   Major   Richard,   430. 

Theunis,   member  of  Council,   79, 

322. 
Dickenson,    Widow,    tavern    keeper, 


Dickinson,   Mr.,    108. 
Dickinson,      Gen.      Philemon,      187, 
200,    206,    207,    261,    286,    292, 
316,    345  ;     land   for   sale,   357. 
Digby,  Admiral.  301.  302,  311. 
Dillen,  William,  391. 

Capt.  James,  estate,  69,  86. 
Dils,    Peter,    465 ;      land    for    sale, 

468. 

Dilts,    Philip,    420. 
Dimsey,   Capt.,   John,   445. 
Dixon,   John,   merchant,    89,    449. 
Dobb's  Ferry,   272,   438. 
Donaldson,    Arthur,    land    for    sale, 

381  ;    mill  for  sale,  175. 
Doren.    Bryen,   2.~><i. 
Dorset,    Samuel,   innkeeper,   370. 
Dorsett,   James,   244. 
Doughty,   Edward,   191. 
Douglass,   George.   214. 
Downing  &  Chambers,  189. 
Dow's  Ferry,  144,  148. 
Drake,   Mr.,  stage   route,   288. 

Abraham,   merchant,   193. 

Admiral.  291.  300. 

Henry,   innkeeper,   291. 

James,  215  ;    stage  route,  i'4<'>. 
Drummond.  Lord,  death  of,  144. 
Du   Clos,   Francis,   214. 
Duffleld,  John,   176. 
Dumont,   Peter,   440. 
Duncan,    John,    244. 
Dunham,    Azariah,    366. 

Nehemiah,  386. 

Stephen,   386. 
Dunlap.   James,   333. 
Dunlop,   Lydia.   286. 
Dunmore,    Lord,    426. 
Dunn,   Jeremiah,   401. 
Durham.   247,   396. 
Durie,   T.,   334. 
Dutton,    William,    refugee    in    gaol, 

19. 
Duyckinck,  Gerardus,  merchant.  28, 

152. 

Dykman.        Cornelius,        inquisition 
against,   124. 


INDEX. 


E. 


Eastburn,  Robert,  merchant,  183. 

East  Jersey  Proprietors,  open  office 
at  Trenton,  453. 

Enstou   Ferry,   241. 

Eden,  Medcef.  brewer,  slave  miss- 
ing, 1. 

Eden  town,    402. 

Edgar,   Major  Clarkson,  82. 

Edwards,  Oapt.  Joseph,  355,  448. 

Egbert   Nicholas,   223. 
Thomas,    206,    214. 

Egg  Harbor,  311. 

Eikel,    Casper,    169. 

Ekenswaller,    George,   230. 

Elclredge,    Eli.    clerk    of    Cape    May 

county,  306. 

Jeremiah,    member   of    Assembly, 
79.  369. 

Elizabeth  Town,  21,  27,  29,  50,  54, 
65,  68,  92,  118,  129,  152,  154, 
169,  188,  244,  246,  252,  287, 
294,  386. 

Ellery,  William,  252. 

Ellis,    Daniel,    440 ;     register,    360. 
Joseph,     member     of     Assembly, 
310. 

Elmer,  Jonathan,  clerk  of  Cumber- 
land county,  306 ;  dele^ite  to 
Congress,  264,  331 ;  member 
of  Council,  63,  88. 


Ucv.   Jonathan,   371. 
Eloinantunk.      (See    Lamington.) 
Ely.   Ccoryv.  21 2.  :!12.  :i.14. 

.loim,  :U2.  :I:H. 
Stephen,  estate,  212. 
Emans,   James,    122. 

John,   122. 

Emelia,  verses  by,   328,   330. 
Emerson,    James,    merchant,    199. 
Emlay,  William,  Jr.,  454. 
Emley's  Town,  3.">7. 
ICmmans,   John,   167. 
Esdall,  James,  innkeeper,  360,  448. 
Essex    county,    53,    63,    294,    386, 
4.">8,    463 ;     requisition    of   sup- 
plies,  269. 
Everett,   Joseph,   375. 

Samuel,    mills   of,   189. 
Eversole,    Charles,    205. 
Evesham,    280. 
Evesham  township,  371. 
Ewing,  James,  457  ;    auditor  of  ac- 
counts,  205. 
Joshua,     member     of     Assembly, 

310. 
Maskell,    Jr.,    clerk   of   Assembly, 

285,  312,  407,  439,  456. 
Thomas,     member    of    Assembly, 

63,   88. 
Eyre,   Col.   Benjamin   B.,   369. 


F. 


Faesh,   John   Jacob,  299. 

Farmer,    Thomas,    405 ;     farm    for 

sale,  336. 

Farnam,    John,    convicted    of    mur- 
der,  167. 
Farnsworth,  Amariah,   444. 

Henry,    Sr.,   128. 
Fell,    Asa,    199. 

John,   141. 

Fenimore,   Thomas,    member  of   As- 
sembly,  48,   88,   310. 
Ferguson,    Andrew,    327. 
Ferries,    Continental,   68. 
Fiatt,   John,   363. 
Field.    Isaac,    323. 

Michael,    house,     &c.,    for    sale, 

179. 

Fields.  Thomas,  191. 
Finch.   Hon.  Capt,   291. 
Finley,   James,  301. 
Fisher.   Lieut.   Charles,   215. 

Peter,   340. 

Fishkill,    N.    Y..    103,    146,    157. 
Fister.    Philip,    395. 
Fitz-Randolph,    Ensign,    178. 

Lieut.   Asher,   288. 

James,   402. 
Flat  Kill,   373. 
Fleming.    Mr.,   424. 

Samuel,  23. 


Flemington,     115,     179,     215,     223, 

289,   374. 

Flood,    Stephen,   293. 
Flour  casks,   act  respecting,   342. 
Footman.   Peter,   293. 

Richard,    293.. 
Ford,  Capt.,   291. 
Forked  River,   446. 
Forman,    Aaron,    428 :     quartermas- 
ter's sales.  54,  89. 

David,   sheriff,   125. 

Samuel,   404. 

Thomas,   206,   241. 

William,  slave  for  sale,  328. 
Forsyth,   Joshua.   323. 
Fort   Jefferson,    135. 
Fort  St.  George,   135. 
Foster,   Jacob,  167. 

Joshua,  horse  stolen,  122,  293. 
Four  Lanes  End.  65,  66. 
Franklin.    William,    declaration    of 

associated    loyalists,    161. 
Frazer,   Rev.   William,   37,   171. 
Frederick  county,  Va.,  364. 
Freehold.    125.    107,    194,   200,   287, 
291.    422.    424,    425,    434,    461. 
Freehold  township,  464. 
Freeman,  Abel,  23. 

James.   448. 


INDEX. 


477 


Melancthon,  member  of  Assem- 
bly, 49,  88. 

Freligh.  Rev.  Solomon,  slave  for 
sale,  367. 

Frelinghuysen,  Col.  Frederick,  167, 
4.">8  :  clerk  of  Somerset  county, 
306. 

French,  Philip,  37. 


Frog's  Point,   272. 

Fulling   Mill,   advertised,   65. 

Furman,  Jonathan,  estate,  82. 

Moore,  169  ;    lottery,  193. 

Richard,  82, 

Robert,  82. 
Fynnimore,   Richard,  innkeeper,  52. 


G. 


Galloway,  Benjamin,  170. 
Gardner,   Thomas,   155. 
Garlinghouse,      Joseph,      accidental 

death,  300. 
Garret,   Mark,   54. 
Garret's   Hill,    265. 
Garrison,    Mr.,   innkeeper,   216. 
Gaston,    Robert,    horse    stolen,    203. 
Georgetown,   S.   C.,   139. 
Georgia,     subscriptions    for    relief, 

286. 

Gerard,   Monsieur,  36. 
Germain,    Lord    George,    144,    393 ; 

letter    from    England,    277. 
Germantown,  Pa.,  395. 
Germantown   township,   Pa.,   234. 
Giberson,  William,  307. 
Giles.   William,  301,   302. 
Gillam,     Capt.     Isaac,     303,     385; 

court-martialled,   345. 
Joseph,   253. 

Gilliland,   Lieut.   David,   215. 
Gillispie,    George,    farm    for    sale, 

171. 

Gillman,  John,  401. 
Gilmore,  David,  executed,  190. 
Glass   manufactory,   20. 
Glisson,   James,   37,   179. 
Gloucester  county,  15,  48,  131,  133, 

145,    208,    246,    281,    294,    347, 

372 ;     courts,   425  ;    requisition 

of   supplies,    269. 
Gordon,    Peter,   396,   427. 


Gordon's  tavern,   441. 
Goshen,  X.  Y.,  80. 
Grandin,  Philip,  65 ;    advertises  ap- 
prentice, 146. 

Gxasse,   Count  de,   296,   446. 
Gray,  Capt.  William,  369,  391. 
Great   Egg    Harbor    river,    276. 
Great  Falls,  82. 
Green,  Benjamin,  217. 

James,    innkeeper,   391. 

Capt.   James,  445,  454. 

Nathaniel,  horse   stolen,    136. 

Richard,  117. 

Greene,  Major-Gen.  Nathaniel,  27, 
46,  49,  79,  181,  201,  203,  214, 
239,  302,  385. 

Gov.  William,  252. 
Greenfield,  Conn.,  294. 
Greenwich,  145,  147.  294,  327. 
Greenwich  Forge,  423. 
Greenwich  township,   363. 
G:regg,  Amos,  land  for  sale,  374. 

Dr.,    215. 

Griffin,  James,  286. 
Griggstown,  120,   299. 
Grummond,    Ichabod,    stage    route, 

252,   288. 

Guest,  John,  land  for  sale,  357. 
Guichen,   Count,   89,  426. 
Guild,   Capt.   327. 
Gyberson,     Gysbert,     307 ;      reward 
for,   283. 


II. 


Hackensack.    137. 

Hackettstown,    87,    104,    108,    131, 

242,   286,   373.   375. 
Haddonfield,   15,    170.   213,   246. 
Hall.    Edward,    member    of    Assem- 
bly, 314. 

Capt.  Henry,  274. 
Capt.   Josiah,   303. 
Hallsey,    Benjamin,    24. 
Halscy,  Ananias,  23. 

Rev.    Jeremiah,    death    of,    120 ; 

estate,   427. 
Silas,  merchant,  129. 
Halstead's   Point.   53,   161,   244. 
Hamilton,   Colonel,   7,   46,   86. 
Hand,    Capt.,    453. 

Daniel,     member     of     Assembly, 
322,  369. 


Adj.-Gen.    Edward,    352 ;     orders, 
362. 

Jesse,  member  of  Council,  79. 

Margaret,   356. 

Ovid,   356. 

Silas,   112. 

Hankins,  Capt.  John,  285. 
Hankinson,    Kenneth,    366,    405. 
Hanlon,  B.,  14. 
Hanly,   John,   208. 
Hanna.   Rev.   John,   363. 

Mary,   death   of,   363. 
Hannah,   Michael,   179. 
Hannel,  George,  170. 
Hanover,  23,   27,  28,  55,   112. 
Hanover  township,  230,  357. 
Harcourt,  William,  395. 


INDEX. 


Hardcnborgh.    Jacob    K.,    303,    439; 

farm  for   sale.   :'.:!". 
Hardwlck  township,   180. 
Ilarman.   Capt.   John,   331. 
Harrington,  William,  slave  for  sale, 

230. 

Harris,    Robert,    member   of    Assem- 
bly,   :;ti'.i. 
Harrison,  Charles,  286. 

Henry,    innkeeper,    20b,   -_'ii. 

James,  286. 
Hart.  Noah.  37,  244  ;    land  for  sale, 

398,   399. 
Hartford,   6. 

Hartshorne,     Richard,     quartermas- 
ter,   20(1. 

Hathaway,   Lieut.-Col.   Benoni,   303. 
Hathorne,    Hugh,    member    of '  As- 
sembly, 322,  369. 
Hauser,    Capt.  .Frederick,    40. 
Haverstraw,    6. 
Hay.   Samuel,  333. 
Hazlehurst,  Isaac,  198. 

Robert,   198. 
Hazlett,  James,   land  for  sale,  208. 

Samuel,  land  for  sale,  208. 
Heard,    Brig.-Gen.    John,    215,    248. 

Capt.    John,    351,   352. 
Heath,  General,   79,  29Y,  3«2. 
Heaton,   John,   estate,   52. 
Hedges,    Stephen,    461. 
Hegeman.  Adrian,  235. 

Derick,   43i. 

Helicon,   James,  poem  by,   382. 
Henderson,  Thomas,  member  of  As- 
sembly.  49,   88,   310. 
Hendricks,    Capt.    Baker,    239,    458. 

O.,   244. 
Hendrickson,    Colonel,    425. 

Garret,   372. 

Hendrick,    372. 

Okey,   innkeeper,   205. 

Philip,    land   for   sale,    410. 

Thomas,   136. 

Tobias,   404. 

Henricks,   Abraham,   458. 
Henry,    David,    427. 

Peter,   387. 

Prince   William,    arrives    in   New 
York.   302. 

Samuel,  324. 

Hepburn,  Stacy,  land  for  sale,  198. 
Herbert,   Joseph,   innkeeper,   51. 

Richard,   168. 
Herd.   William,  92;    land  for  sale, 

28. 

Hetfleld,    Capt.    Cornelius,    92,    104, 
127. 

Smith,  92,   102,  244. 
Hews,   Alpheus,   merchant,   94. 
Hibernia   Furnace,  359. 
Hicks,   Catharine,   315. 

Isaac,    315. 
Hightstown,    184,    205,    286,    422. 


Ilildreth,  Joseph,  member  of  As- 
sembly, 7'J. 

Hill,   James,   estate,   427. 
Margaret,   427. 
Samuel,  18. 
Sarah,   427. 

Ilillsborough,  159,  188,  216,  2.V,. 
274,  367. 

IliUsborbugh  township.  433. 

Hinchman,   Elizabeth,   l."i. 

John,  310  ;    estate  for  sale,  15. 

Hinde,  Capt.,  150. 

Hoagland,  Lieut.-Col.  Oakey,  197 
(Seo  Hogeland). 

Hodge,  Hugh,  30. 

Hoebuck,  53. 

Hogeland,  Christopher,  member  of 
Assembly,  49,  88. 

Holcombe,    Samuel,   404. 

Holden.  Major-Gen.  Samuel,  80. 

Holdren,  Joseph.  411. 

Ilollinshead,  Capt,  12(i. 

Holme,  John,  member  of  Council, 
314. 

Holmes,  Col.,  372. 

Joseph,   horse   stolen,   158. 

Homfray,    Capt.,   141. 
Charles,  40. 

Hood,  Admiral  Samuel,  290,  295. 

Hooper,  Elizabeth,  463. 

Robert  L.,  slave  ran  away,  180. 
Robert  Lettis,  Jr.,  463. 

Hoops,  Robert,  180. 

Hopewell,  117,  140,  245,  333,  304. 
405,  420,  427,  433.  444. 

Hopewell  township,  312,  380,  385, 
391,  396,  421. 

Hopkins',  Peter,  member  of  Assem- 
bly, 351. 

Hoppe,  Garret  A.,  inquisition 
against,  124. 

Hornblower.  Josiah,  attempt  to 
carry  off,  223  ;  member  of  As- 
sembly, 53,  63,  80  ;  member  of 
council,  314. 

Ilorricone,  404. 

Horses,  cure  for  mad  staggers,  139. 

Ilorton,  Mr.,  escapes  from  gaol,  144. 

148. 
Foster,  merchant,  93. 

Hough.  William.  241;  member  of 
Assembly,  48,  88. 

Houghton.  Lieut.-Col.  .Toab,  207. 

House.  Capt.,  126,  167. 
David,  Jr.,  191. 

Houston,  William  Churchill,  369, 
447,  457.  460 ;  appointed  clerk 
of  Supreme  Court.  305 ;  dele- 
gate to  Congress,  128,  331. 

Howard,  Capt.,  206. 

Howe.  Gen.,  190. 

Howell.  Asher.  324. 

Howell's  Ferry.  371,  401. 

Ilubbs,  Joseph,  255. 


IXDEX. 


479 


Huddy.     Capt.     Joshua,    400,    450 ; 

letter    respecting    his    murder, 

437  ;    particulars  of  death,  424. 

Ilude.    Robert,   402,    408.    445,    450, 

4r>4. 

Hugg,  Major,  133. 
Joseph,  deserter,  294. 
Joseph,  member  of  council,  310. 
Samuel,  member  of  Assembly,  310. 
Hughes,  Elijah,  member  of  Council, 

322. 
Hugh,    member   of   Assembly,    63, 

88  ;    member  of  Corfncil,  314. 
Hughs,  Mary,  292. 
Hulick,   Peter,  gaoler,   16,  115,   129, 

315.   322.  333. 
Hull,  Isaac,  287. 

Hun.  Major  Thomas,  cashiered,  200. 
Hunt,  Capt.,  327. 

Abraham,  115,  223,  242,  347,  396. 
Daniel,  199,  241,  369,  427. 
John,  132. 
Capt.  John,  197. 
Dr.  John,  132. 


John  P..  391,  396,  444. 

Nathaniel.  207,  406. 

Ralph.  Jr.,  29. 

Robert.   27,   55. 

Samuel,  horse  stolen,   197  ;    slave 

ran  away.  183. 
\Yilson,  396  ;    death  of,  3!>4. 
Ilunterdon     county,     51,     128,     168, 
181,    189,    194.    195,    199.    20r>. 
284,    289,    332,    373,    381,    386, 
391,    396,  '401,    407,    411,    420, 
427,    428.    440,    465,    468;     re- 
quisition of  supplies,  269. 
Huntington,  Samuel,  30 ;    president 

of  Congress,  101. 
Hutchinson,  Dr,,  254. 

John,  allegiance  forfeited,  230. 
Hyer,     Col.     Jacob,     innkeeper,    66, 

'  215. 

Hyler,   Capt.   Adam,   170,   285,   306, 
311,    315,    320,    322,    326,    337, 
401,    408,    425,    433,    435,    445, 
,       446,  447,  450,  454. 
Ilymes,  John,  38. 


Imlay,  James,  286. 

John,  land  for  sale,  195. 

John,  Judge  of  Admiralty,  355. 

Peter,  land  for  sale,  19.~i. 
Indians,  296,  299  ;   depredations,  80. 
Inglefield,  Capt.,  291. 


Innes.  William,  341. 
Inns  (see  Taverns). 
Inslee,  Joseph,  merchant,  205,  213, 

253. 
Isalton.  Matthias,  293. 


J. 


Jackson,  Daniel,  executed,  139. 

James,  estate,  361. 
*  Joseph,  103. 
James,  Francis  J..  301,  302. 

James,  member  of  Assembly,  314. 

John,  460. 

Robert,  convicted  of  treason,  191. 
Jay,  Sir  James.  320. 
Jenks,  Joseph,  253. 
Johnson,  Abel.  29,  301. 

Cornelius,  407. 


Gershom,    advertises   stage    route, 
66,  188,  246,  288,  423. 

John.  117,  433. 

Nathan,  gaoler.  19. 

Richard,   sheriff  of  Morris,  24. 

Robert,   133,   363. 
Jchnstone,   Governor,   343. 
Jones,  Benjamin,  386. 

Capt.  John  Paul,  285. 
Jones'  Ferry.  365. 
Jordan,    Frederick,    396,    407. 
Judson,    Capt.    Joshua    S.,   125. 


K. 


Kahiatt,  N.  Y.,  294. 
Kaighn,  Samuel,  15. 
Kay,  Isaac,  member  of  Assembly, 

49,    88. 

Kean,    Capt.   James,   303. 
Kearney,    Ravaud,    373. 
Keasby,    Anthony,    37. 
Kelly,    Thomas,   189. 
Kelsey,  Enos,  land  for  sale,   102. 
Kemp,    Grace,    147. 
Kennedy,  Rev.  Samuel,  120. 


Samuel,     member     of     Assembly, 

63,   88. 
Ketcham,   John,  deserter,   203,   208, 

386. 
King,   Benjamin,   167. 

Jacob,   118. 

Jerry,  296. 
Kingston,   214. 
Kingstown,    206. 
Kingwood,    122,    286. 
Kingwood  township,   168,  386,  407. 
Kinsey,  James,  293,   366. 


180 


J.XUKX. 


Kirkbrido,    Joseph,   323. 
Kirkpatrick,   Andrew,   320. 

David,   member   of   Assembly,   49, 

88,    310. 
Kitchel,    Aaron,    230 ;     member    of 

Assembly,   310. 
Kitchell,   Capt.   Obadiah,   303. 
Kittera,  John  W.,  30. 


Klein,    Lieut. -Col.,   178. 
Knatchbull,  Capt.,  291. 
Knight,   Capt.,   291. 
Knott,   David,    191. 
Knowlton   township,   297. 
Knox,   General   Henry,  397. 
Kuhl,    Paul,    Jr.,    405. 
Kuyper,   Hendericus,   124. 


Laboyteaux,   Joseph,   284. 

Lafayette,    Marquis   de,   13&. 

Laferty,    John,    461. 

Lamb,   Col.   John,   294. 

Lambert,    John,    461 ;     member    of 

Assembly,  48,  88,  310. 
Lamberton,    406,    441. 
Lamington    (Elomantunk),    247. 
Lane,  Joseph,  30. 

Matthew,  337. 
Laning,    Robert,    461. 

Ralph,    140. 
Lardner,    John,    131. 
Larison,   Andrew,   437. 
Laurens,    Mr.,   145,   192. 
Lawrence,  Elisha,  member  of  Coun- 
cil, 49,   88,   310. 
John,  late  mayor  of  Philadelphia, 

18.  130,  432. 
Joseph,   175,  361. 
Robert,  death  of,  320. 
Lawrey,   Martha,  179. 
Lawson,     William,     merchant,     38, 

274. 

Layton,   Capt.   Peter,   303. 
Leard,   David,   deserter,   294. 
Lebanon,   65,    146. 
Lee,    Benjamin,    convicted   of   rape, 

167. 

John,   202 ;     slave  for  sale,   396. 

Legislature,    Acts   passed,    47,    268, 

354,    462;      petition    to,    210; 

resolutions      concerning      war, 

442. 

Leigh,   Joseph,   168. 
Leiper,    Thomas,    tobacconist,    256. 
Leonard,  George,  162. 
Lesley,  James,  244. 
Leslie,   Major-Gen.,   83. 
Letombe,  Monsieur  D.,  272. 
Lewis,       Elijah,       offers       soldier's 

bounty,    90. 

Joseph,  quartermaster's  sale,,  21  ; 
quartermaster's  settlement,  26. 
Leydecker,    Garret,    member  of  As- 
sembly, 322. 


Lincoln,  Major-Gen.,  19  ;    appointed 
secretary   of   war,   334. 

Lindsey,    Capt.,   291. 

Lindsly,     Eleazor,     member    of    As- 
sembly, 53,   63. 
Major  Joseph,   303. 

Linn,   Samuel,   118. 

Lintnor,   Andrew,   255. 

Lippincott,    Capt.,    437,    451. 

Little  Egg  Harbor,  446,  449. 

Livingston,  Lieut.-Col.,  437. 
Edward,    301,    302. 
Robert  R.,   30. 

Governor  William,  80,  108,  197, 
200,  215,  248,  430;  approval 
of  court-martial,  347 ;  procla- 
mations, 113,  221,  242,  254, 
283,  298,  302,  307,  324,  408, 
426,  438,  458;  re-elected  Gov- 
ernor, 317. 

Lloyd,    Ephraim,     member    of    As- 
sembly, 314. 
Richard,   244. 

Long  Beach,   279. 

Long,   Martin,   341. 

Longstreet,   Guisbert,    167. 

Lot,   Capt.   Jeromus,   -io5. 

Lott,   Daniel,   235. 

Lottery,    189. 

Low,  Catherine,  426. 
Dirck,  433. 
Nicholas,  426. 

Lower  Makefield,  281. 

Lowrey,  Thomas,  176. 

Lucas,  Aaron  T.,  207. 

Ludborrow,    461. 

Ludlow,  George  Duncan,  162. 

Lupp,  Peter,  434. 

Lutkins,       Harmanus,       inquisition 
against.  li_'4. 

Lutwyche.  Edward,   162. 

Luzerne,  Chevalier  la,  address  to  by 
Legislature,  456  :    answer.  457. 

Lydecker,  Garret,   1-4. 

Lynn's    Farms,   89,   211. 


M. 


MacClease,  Cornelius,  Jr.,  461. 
MacMichael.  Capt.,  126. 
Maffet,  Capt,  279. 
Magee,  Robert,  331. 


Maidenhead.  82.  104,  136,  140,  183, 
197,  213,  216,  235,  241,  366, 
399,  427,  444. 


INDEX. 


Maidenhead  township,  324,  369, 
410. 

Malloy,    Capt.,    291. 

Man,   Elias.   Iti'.i.   L'44. 

Manheim,   Pa.,   375. 

Manners,  Lord  Robert,  291. 

Manning,  Benjamin,  82,  464  ;    clerk 
of      Middlesex      county,      306 ; 
member  of  Council,   49,  88. 
Daniel,  sale  of  still,  275. 
David,   401. 

Mansfield  township,  81,  121,  293, 
381. 

Man.sfieldwoodb.ouse  township,  15, 
207. 

Maple,  Jacob,  escaped  gaol,  192. 

Maraqtiier,  Anthony,  merchant,  267, 
273,  328. 

Maria tt,    John,    estate    sale,    16. 
Widow,  15. 

Marpole,  Noxth,  298. 

Marriner,    William,    innkeeper,   293. 

Marriner's  tavern,  320. 

Marsh.    Daniel,    member    of    Assem- 
bly,  53,   63,   397  ;    quartermas- 
ter,  90. 
Ephraim,  244. 
Noah,  sheriff,  53,  90. 

Marshall,   Randall,   310. 
Thomas,    310. 
William,   412. 

Martin,  Edmund,  member  of  As- 
sembly, 63,  88 ;  member  of 
Council,  310. 

Jacob,  member  of  Assembly,  310. 
James,   post   rider,   202,   340. 
Josiah,    162. 

Martin's   tavern.   401. 

Maskell,  Thomas,  327. 

Maurice   river,   448. 

Maus,  Jacob,  silversmith,  266. 

Maxson,   Nathan,  402. 

Maxwell,  William,  member  of  As- 
sembly, 314,  351. 

Mayhew,  John,  member  of  Assem- 
bly, 49,  87. 

M'Bride,   James,   deserter,   294. 
William,  deserter,   294. 

M'Calla.  William,  slave  ran  away, 
298. 

M'Calvey,   Thomas,   208. 

M'Clean,  Allen,  deserter,   294. 

M'Comb,  James,  marshall,  355, 
433,  446. 

M'Cullough,    Benjamin,    363. 
William,    363. 

M'Donald,  Major  Richard,  207. 

McEowen.    William,   160. 

M'Kean.  Thomas,  president  of  Con- 
gress, 302. 

M'Killup,   Abraham,   deserter,   294. 

M'Knight,  Rev.  Charles.  433 ;  es- 
tate, 399, 

M'Nachtane,   John,   274. 

Mead,   Capt.   G.,   154,   177. 


Mehelm,    John,    179,    458 ;     member 
of   Assembly,   310 ;    speaker   of 
Assembly,  317,   444. 
Mejjer,     Johannes     C.,     inquisition 

against,   124. 
Melcombe,  Capt.,  393. 
Melvin,   Daniel,   181. 
Mendham,  399. 
Mercer,   Capt.,   333. 

Archibald,  slave  for  sale,  104. 
Meridith,  Jesse,  439. 
Mer.shon,     Andrew,     innkeeper,     11, 

103,  188,  216,  253,  387. 
Henry,   innkeeper,   213,   421,   427. 
Mcsler,  Mary,  369. 
Michael,  Isaac,  189. 
Middagh,     Cornelius,     estate     sale, 

243. 

Middlebrook,  195,  202,  292. 
Middlesex  county,  14,  67,  181,  184, 
187,  192,  196,  205,  207,  253, 
289,  341,  369,  398,  403,  434, 
439  ;  courts  held  at  Princeton, 
441  ;  requisition  of  supplies, 
269 

Middleton,  Joel,  386. 
Middletown,  47,  370,  373,  461. 
Middletown  Point,  125. 
Middletown  township,  Pa.,  253,  371. 
Miller,   Capt.,  453. 
Rev.   Benjamin,   320. 
Elenor,   398. 
George,    122,    128. 
Peter,   292. 
William,  300. 
Yost,  398. 

Milligan,   Jane,   191. 
Millstone.  104,  229,  318,  387.     (See 

Hillsborough.) 
Milnor,   Joseph,   merchant,   18,   130, 

180,  295. 

Minisink,  252,  299,  431. 
Mitchel,    John,    merchant,   401. 
Handle,  286,  401,  404,  406  ;    slave 

for  sale,   223. 
Money,     destruction     of     bills     -of 

credit,   311. 

Monmouth    county,    47,    124,    139, 

170,    194,    195.    200,    249,    280, 

282,    291,    357,    371,    380,    390, 

391,    404,    433.    438,    454,    458, 

464;    British    raid,    372;    land 

for  sale,  16 :    meeting  of  asso- 

ciators,     365 ;      requisition     of 

supplies,   269 ;    school   in,   434. 

Monmouth     courthouse,     160,     454. 

Montgomery.  Major  William.  323. 

Moody,  John,  307  ;    reward  for,  283. 

Thomas,   402. 
Moore,  Capt.,  445. 
Jesse,    313. 
John,  367. 
Joseph,    313.    433. 
Mary,   313,   433. 


31 


482 


INDEX. 


Moore.  Nathaniel,  oil'.  4.",s  :    estate. 

433. 

Moorestown.  244.  286. 
Morford,   Ensign.  215. 
Morgan.   Mr..    4.~><;. 
Brig.-Gen.,    201. 
James,    executed,    371. 
John,   29. 

Morris  county,  24,  53,  63,  90,  108, 
119,   151,    153,    169,   399,   448; 
petition      for      erection.      285  ; 
requisition    of   supplies,    269. 
Morris,   Benjamin,  357. 
David,   151. 
Governieur,    397. 
Lewis,    167 ;    horse   strayed,   15. 
Noah,  refugee  in  gaol,  19. 
Richard,   310. 
Robert,    285,    412. 
Robert    Hunter,    285,   310. 
William,   167. 
Morris's  tavern,  357. 
Morristown,  18,  21,  25,  54,  93,  109, 
119,    130,    137,    152,    156,    285, 
296,   327.    428,   461  ;    prisoners 
escape    from    gaol,    68 ;     stage 


route,   65 ;    wintering  of  army 
at,    148. 

Morrow,  James,  gaoler,  177. 

Morton.   John,   432. 
William,    1!U. 

Morven.    203. 

Mott.  Cant.  John,  197,  327. 

Mount  Holly.  38.  69.  86,  122,  184, 
198,  202,  208,  292,  371,  396, 
423,  459. 

Mount   Hope   Furnace,   299. 

Mount    Pleasant,    202,    396. 

Mount    Pleasant  Forge,   448. 

Mo  wry.   Daniel,   252. 

Muirhead,   Andrew,   199. 

Muirhoid,    Jonathan,    405. 

Mullenor.  Philip,  runaway  appren- 
tice. 146. 

Mul liner,  Joseph,  sentenced  to  be 
lumg,  282. 

Mullet,   Capt.,    276. 

Muney    creek,    375. 

Munn.   Samuel.  Innkeeper,  90. 

Murflts,   Henry.    292. 

Mursit,    Henry,    313. 

Musconetcong    creek,    363. 

Musqueto  Cove,   404. 


Nechasackaway   creek,   381. 

Neil,  Robert.  127.      (See  Niel.) 

Neilson,    John,    374,    457 :     deputy 

quartermaster,   193,   254.   428. 
William.   401. • 

Nelson,   William.    157. 
Capt.   William.  448. 

Neshanic,    160,    216. 

Neveling,   John,   446. 

Kevin.   John.    160. 

Newall,    Adam,    398. 

Newark,  26,  68,  90,  91,  92,  110, 
119,  126,  152. 

New   Barbadoes.   67,  327. 

Ncwbold.   Cleayton,   280,   359. 

Now   Bridge.    105. 

New  Brunswick.  37.  38,  93,  118, 
130.  159,  183.  198,  215,  216, 
265.  274.  285.  293,  303.  321. 
320.  43(5:  British  attack.  358: 
celebration  of  surrender  of 
Corawallis,  320  ;  land  for  sale, 
18,  66. 

Newell,   Dr.  Elisha,  433. 

New  Ferry.  333. 

New  Germantown,  181,  229,  244. 

New   Hanover.   341. 

New  Jersey  Medical  Society,  293, 
312,  423. 

New  London,   Conn.,  364. 


New   Providence,   2-8,  90,   112. 

New-Shanick.      (See  Neshanic.) 

Newspaper  communications,  1,  12, 
31,  41,  56.  61.  69,  76,  95, 
135.  167,  172,  176,  185,  194, 
196,  204,  208,  211,  212,  217, 
224,  227,  231,  235,  238,  240. 
249,  251.  257,  261.  295.  321, 
328.  349,  358,  367,  392.  397, 
411,  430,  450,  466. 

Newton  (Newtown),  93,  118,  177, 
373. 

Newtown,  Pa.,  255,  281,  365. 

New   Windsor,    145.   148,   243. 

New  Windsor,  N.  Y.,   294. 

New   Windsor   township,    184. 

Nicomixen   township,    Pa..   214. 

Niel,  Robert,  land  for  sale,  112. 

Nixon.    Major,    215. 
Robert,    184. 
Thomas,  357. 

Ne.rris,  Thomas,  439. 

Northampton  township,   198. 

North,    Lord,   145. 

North  Redoubt.   N.   Y..   294. 

Northumberland  county,    Pa.,   375. 

Nottingham,   361,    386,   401,   454. 

Nottingham  township,  103,  223, 
287,  404,  406. 

Nutt,    William,    444. 


INDEX. 


483 


o. 


Ogden,   Mr.,  93,  178. 
Aaron,   25. 
David,   285,   310. 
Gabriel,  member  of  Assembly,  53, 

79. 

John,   26 ;    county  collector,   371. 
Lewis,   110,   119. 
Col.  Matthias,  92,  101,  104,  109. 
Moses,    92. 
Robert,      Jr.,      clerk      of      Essex 

county,  306. 
Samuel,  member  of  Assembly,  63, 

88  ;    member  of  Council,  310. 


Rev.  L'zal,  sermon  by,  92. 
Ogilvie,   Lieut.   George,  376. 

Rev.  Mr.,  376. 
O'Haxra,  General,   397. 

James,  reward  for.  283,  307. 
Olden,  David,  82,  403. 
Oldman's  creek,   463. 
Opdyke,  John,  estate,  410. 

Samuel.  410. 
Orange,  23,   90,  94. 
Otto,  Dr.  Bodo,  death  of,  373. 
Owen,   James,   refugee   in  gaol,   19. 


P. 


Page,  Abner,  244. 
Palmer,   Philip,   366. 

Richard,  innkeeper,  265. 
Pap,  Thomas,  386. 
Paramus,    93. 

Parker,  James,  188,  189 ;  slave 
ran  away,  398. 

John,  191,  194. 

Peter,  Jr.,  167. 

Samuel   F.,   estate,   253. 

William,   167. 
Parliament,  opening  of,  376 ;    poem 

on  opening,  382. 
Partition  line,  petition  for,  440. 
Passaic  falls,  49. 
Passaic  river,   463. 
Paterson,   Richard,   death  of,  282. 

Robert,   convicted  of  horse  steal- 
ing,   167. 

William,     Attorney-General,     24, 
305,   374 ;     elected  delegate   to 
Congress,    128. 
Patterson,   Peter,   191. 
Pawling.    Mr..    36. 

Colonel,    299. 
Peale,   Charles  W.,  337. 
Peck,  Capt.,  281. 
Pedrick,   Isaac,  463. 
Peirce,   Joshua,   344. 
Pemberton,   John,   385. 
Pennington,     179,     199,     205,     244, 
321,    324,    327,    380,    385,    432. 
Pennington,    Edward,    420. 

Israel,    191. 

Pennsbury  Manor,  385. 
Penn's  Neck,  196. 
Pensanking  creek,   464. 
Periam,  Joseph,  death  of,  21. 
Ferine,  Capt.,  215. 

Nicholas,  229. 
Perth   Amboy,   293. 
Pew,  James,  47. 

Jonathan,  371. 

Philadelphia,  111.  118,  134,  256, 
449 ;  celebration  for  Washing- 
ton, 337 ;  stage  route,  65. 


Phillips,   Major-General,   19,   111. 
Major  Henry,   199,   207. 
Jacob,  sheriff,  240,  265,  341,  371, 
428 ;     slave     ran     away,     272 ; 
slaves  for  sale,  297,  333. 
John,    41  ;    clerk    of    Burlington 

county,   306. 
Joseph,  apprentice,   348. 
Col.  Joseph,  197,  207,  247. 
Capt.  Philip,  197,  327. 
Ralph,   241. 
William,  369. 
Phillipsburg,  147. 
Phillipsburg,  N.  Y.,  294. 
Physicians.         (See      New      Jersey 

Medical  Society.) 
Piatt.   John,   sheriff,  243,  294,   340. 

436,   441. 

Pidgeon,   William,  estate,   280,   359. 
Pierson,     Capt.     Josiah,     innkeeper, 

110,  119. 

Pigley,  John.  244,  286. 
Pinkerton.    David,   336,  353,   449. 

Mary,  336. 
Piscataway,   401. 
Pittstown.   169.   189,  195,  213,  364, 

369.  375,  398. 
Platt,   Ebenezer,    179. 
Pleasant  Valley,  264,  372. 
Plowman,   John,    170. 
I'luckemin.    160.   454. 
Plumsted  township,  Pa.,  375. 
Poems,  political  and  otherwise,  105, 
138,    181,    321,    328,    330,    353, 
382,  429. 

Point  Breeze,   214. 
Pollock,  George,  29. 

Thomas,  301 ;  estate  for  sale,  55. 
Pompton,  186,  213,  296. 
Pool.  John,  54,  179,  454. 
Pope.   Colonel,   19. 

John,  merchant,  81. 
Portsmouth,    Va.,   80. 
Post.  William,  40. 
Post's   Mills,   155. 

Potter.     Samuel,     member     of     As- 
sembly,  314. 


484 


l.NMKX. 


Potterstown,  ;?T4. 
I'otts,  Joseph.  256. 

Polly,   death  of,   200. 

Richard,  land  for  sale,  390. 

Stacy,   200  ;   leather  dealer,    140  ; 

merchant,   161. 
Povvles  Hook,   i:<7,  106. 
I'rentice,  Thomas,   122. 
1'revost.   James   Marcus,   inquisition 

against,    124. 
Price,  Edward,  deserting  soldier,  39. 

Joseph,  191. 

Ralph,  gaoler,   203,  208. 
Priest,  Robert,  estate,  341,  359. 
Prince's  Bay,  401. 


Princeton.  S2.  116.  li'M.  168,  17o, 
187.  l'.>2.  203.  2<>»j.  214.  21  r>, 
217.  24.-!.  2ii:{.  :!(•;;.  :!2:;.  :;::7. 
::.->!•.  :;tii.  :;si.  41  o.  42:!.  4:;:;. 
448  :  celebration  of  independ- 
ence. 270:  celebration  of  sur- 
render of  Oormvallis.  IU7;  col- 
lege commencement,  2!>.  ::oi. 
303  :  courts  held  a,t.  441  ;  land 
for  sale,  102  ;  stage  route.  6.~i. 
66. 

Prosser's   Pond,   15. 

Pursel,   Daniel,   396. 

Pursley,   Daniel,   407. 

Purviance,   John,    merchant,    198. 


Quakertown,  410. 

Queen's  College,  303.  306,  439. 

Quibbletown,  401. 


Quick,  Titus,   421. 
Quigley,    Capt.    Thomas.    446,    449, 
453. 


R. 


Rahway,  190.      (See  Spanktown.) 
Randolph.    Justice,   424. 

Benjamin,    177,    404  ;    mill,    etc., 
for  sale,  143. 

Daniel,  400. 

James,  140,   170.  404. 

Joseph,  Sr.,  191. 
Rapalje.  Garret,  16. 
Raritan,  244,  335,  336,  374,  405, 

420,  431.  436,  439.  468. 
Raritan     Landing,     147,    243,    256, 

401.  408,  426,  445,  450. 
Raritan  river,  332. 
Rattoon.  John,  horse  stolen,  445. 
Ray,  John,  merchant,  152. 
Raymond.    Lieut.,    53. 
Raynal.  Abbe,  book  by,  340. 
Read.  Joseph,  land  to  lease,  184. 
Reading,  John.  426. 

Thomas,  439. 
Reading,  Pa..  53. 
Reading  township,  420,   468. 
Readington.  179.  205,  207,  223,  241. 
Red   Bank,   167. 

Reed.  Bowes,  secretary  to  Governor, 
114.  222,  242,  255,  409,  458. 

Joseph,  133.  170,  310,  440. 

Samuel.    194. 
Reeder,  Daniel.  216. 

John.   241. 
Reeve,  Simon  R.,  horse  stolen,  181. 

William,  151. 
Reid.  Augustine,  93. 

James.   30. 

Remsen,  William,  sale  of  slave,  280. 
Rennard,    Thomas,    member    of    As- 
sembly, 49,  88. 
Reynolds,  John,  jailor,  132. 

Col    Thomas,  248. 

William,   167. 


Rhea.  John,  29,  30. 

Rhodes,    Charles,    clerk    of    Sussex 

county,   306. 

Ribbins,  Capt.  William,  123. 
Richards,    William,    merchant,    179, 

183,  241,  260,  348,  390;   slave 

for  sale,   441. 
Richie,   Thomas,   381. 
Richmond,     Jonathan,     460 ;     slave 

ran  away,  423. 
Ridder,  Margaret,   244. 
Ridgway,  Daniel,   135. 
Riggs.  Jane,  estate  sale,  26. 

Capt.  Joseph,  26. 
Ringo,   Martha,   428. 
John,  estate,  428. 
Ringo's   tavern,    11,   391,   406.    434, 

440. 

Rittenhouse,   Isaac,  386. 
Robertson,    General,    21,    46.     191, 

437. 
Alexander,    land    for    sale,     110. 

119. 

Robertson's  Perry,  171. 
Robins.  Moses,  140,  170. 

Richard,    Jr.,    schooner    for    sale. 

298. 
Robinson,  Capt.   Mark,   291. 

Col.   B..  6. 

Robison,    Robert,   horse   stolen,   2.">6. 
Rochambeau,  General  de,  291. 
Rockaway  river,  230. 
Rocky    Hill,    15.    67,    83,    189,    206, 

214,    217.    235,    240.    27r,.    284. 

319. 

Rodgers,  B.   R.  John,   244. 
Rodney.   Capt..   291. 

Admiral,   343,   446. 
Rogers,  James,  tanyard  for  sale.  83. 
Roger's  Ferry,  126. 


- 


IXDEX. 


485 


Rome,   George,   l(i_. 

liomine,     Capt.      Elias,     court-mar- 

tialled.    430. 

John,   horses  stolen.   67. 
Rooke.   Joseph.   111. 
Rose.     Ebenezer.    189. 

William.  4G1. 
Rosevelt.  James.  29-31. 
Ross.  Ccorfre.  ::.V.». 
Rossell.     Zachariah,     marshall,     52, 

11'.".. 

Roxbury.   93.    296. 
Roxbury  township,   108,   169. 
is,  Timothy,   162. 


Rulon.  Jonathan.   175. 
Runkle.   William.   410. 
Runyan.   Evan,   merchant.  370. 
Riinyon.  John,  slave  ran  away,  361. 

Rrune,   401. 
Rush.  Dr.,  167. 
Rush  Island,  411. 
Russell.  Allen,  30. 

Timothy,    167. 
Russle,    David,   199. 
Rutger.   Mrs..   155. 
Ryal.   William.   195. 
Ryerson,  Captain,  397. 

Marton,  373. 


S. 


Salem.    13:5. 

Salem  county,  20.  37.  463  ;  courts, 
42."i  ;  requisition  of  supplies, 
269. 

Salter.   John.   27. 
Sanderson,  James.  235. 
Sanpink.  348,  438. 
s.-ividate.  John,  estate,  432. 

William,  Jr..  432. 
Savoy,  Jacob,   134. 
Saxton.   Captain.  291. 
Schaak.  Capt.   J..  447.  450. 
Schenck    (Schenk).    Jacob,    member 
of   Assembly,  '49,    88. 

John,   229. 

Capt.  John.  372. 

John  I1..  369  :  slave  for  sale,  104. 

Peter  T.,  sheriff,  130,  243,  255. 
Scholey.   Andrew,  241. 

John.  241. 

William,   241. 
Schooley's  Mountain.  169. 
Schureman.    James,    merchant,    265. 

John,   member  of  Assembly,   310. 
Scotch  Plains,  151.  243. 
Scott.  Thomas.  147. 
Scudder.   Joseph,  301. 

Dr.  Nathaniel,  member  of  As- 
sembly. 49.  88,  310,  314; 
death  of,  331. 

Col.  William,  197.  206.  215. 
Seabrook,    Thomas,    member   of   As- 
sembly. 49.  88,  331. 
Searls.    Ebenezer.    wife    advertised, 
24. 

Ruth.   ."3. 

Sears,  Samuel.  426. 
Sebring.   Roelofe.   318. 
Second   river,  92. 

Seely.  Josiah,  member  of  Assembly, 
310. 

Col.   Sylvanus,  303,  344. 

Sellers.  Henry,  convicted  of  rob- 
bery. 107. 

Sergeant.  Jonathan   D..  440.  460. 
Sertorious.    Charles,    463. 
Servoss,  Jacob,  401. 


Sexton.  .Tared,  member  of  Assembly, 
48.  88. 

Shakelton,  Joseph,  broke  gaol,  287. 

Shapher,    Catherine.   387. 

Shaw,   Capt.    453. 

John,   134  ;    farms  for  sale,  332  ; 

land   for   sale,    202. 
Isaac,    innkeeper,    207. 

Shea,  James,  353. 

Sherrard,   John,  381. 

Sherrer,   Capt..  44.">. 

William,   horse   stolen,   284. 

Sherrerd's  ferry.   37,   189,   214. 

Shields,   John,    184. 

Shippen.    Dr..    167. 

Shippey,  Ishmael,  innkeeper,  401, 
408,  450. 

Shreve,   Col.   Israel,   member  of  As- 
sembly, 241,  310. 
Col.   William.   197. 

Shrewsbury,   314,   381,   402,    461. 

Shrewsbury  falls,  433. 

Shrewsbury  Point,  279. 

Shrewsbury  river.  401'. 

Shrewsbury  township,   195,  380. 

Silcock,   Mr.,   195. 

Silvers.    John,   394. 

Silverthorn.  Thomas,  180,  364,  399. 

Simcock,    Matthias,    broke    jail,    16. 

Simitiere,    Pierre-Eugene    du,    302. 

Sinclair,   General,   385. 

Singer,   John,   merchant.   115,  347. 
Robert,   merchant.  39,   266.   398. 

Six-Mile  Run.  243.  340. 

Skillman.   Mr..   120. 

Skinner.  Cortlandt,  264. 

Skirm.  Abram,  386,  454. 

Skoffleld,  Jonathan,  stage  route,  17. 

Slabtown,   244. 

Slaves,  for  .sale,  ran  away,  &c.,  25, 
83.  87.  104.  115.  116,  129, 
133,  147,  154,  157,  159,  168. 
176.  177,  180,  183,  192,  193, 
196.  207,  223.  230.  240.  245, 
253,  255.  271',  273,  276.  280, 
292,  297.  298,  326,  328.  333. 
361.  367.  396,  398.  402,  423, 
441.  468. 


INDEX. 


Slight,  Mr.,  157. 
Sloan,   William,  347. 
Slover,    James,    181. 
Smith,  Capt,  244. 

Colonel,  horse  stolen,   169. 

family   killed   by    Indians,   431. 

Andrew,   333. 

B.,   postmaster,   37,    179,   288. 

Benjamin,  311. 

Daniel,   horse   stolen,   287. 

Elizabeth,    440. 

Ezekiel,    341,   359,   361,   369. 

Hugh,    440,    449. 

Isaac,  312,  420,  422  :    Justice  of 
Supreme  Court,   427. 

Jecamiah,   innkeeper,   188. 

John,  82,  167. 

Joseph,  223,  403. 

Joshua,   6,  7,   11. 

P.,    quartermaster,    93. 

Robert.   301,   302. 

Rev.   Samuel,   204. 

Samuel    S.,    410 ;     sale    of    slave, 
129. 

Timothy,   403. 

William,  117  :    member  of  Assem- 
bly. 49,   87. 

William    Austin,    313. 
Smock,   Barney,   431. 

Hendrick,   464. 
Snook,    Capt.    248. 
Snow  Hill.   Md.,   115. 
Snydor,   Mary,   360. 

Peter,   360. 

Somerset  county,   15,   83,   120,   130, 
168,    189,    203,    206,    216,    235, 
243.    255.    274,    282,    292,    299, 
336,    337,    367.    374,    387,    405, 
427,      431,      432,      433,      454 ; 
requisition    of   supplies,    269. 
Somerset  Town,  405. 
South  Amboy.  235,  445. 
South  Branch.   402. 
South  Brunswick,  369. 
South    Carolina,    subscriptions    for 

relief,    286. 

South,   Lippincott,    constable,   205. 
South  River,   18,   130. 
Spader,    John,    innkeeper,    318. 
Spanktown    (Rahway),    293. 
Sparks.    John,    15  :     member  of  As- 
sembly,   49,    88. 
Speedwell,    saw   mill,    143. 
Spencer,   Rev.   Mr.,   316. 

John,    434. 

Spotswood,  244,  280,  284,  289,  4-±.. 
Springfield,  25,  139,  294. 
Sproat,   Rev.   James,   30,   222. 
Squan,   282. 
Squires   Point,   15. 
St. -iats.   John.   202,   229. 

Reyneer,   318. 
Stackhouse,    Thomas,    estate,    385. 

Will,   385. 


routes.   17.   23,   65,  118,   187, 
246,   252,   288,   422. 
Stanbery,    Recompense,   estate,   151. 
Stark,    General,    157,   303. 

John,   member  of   Assembly,   310. 
Staten  Island,  53,  68. 
Stafford   township,   280. 
Steel,   Mr.,  innkeeper,  195. 
Steele,  William,  296. 
Steelman,  James,  134. 

John,  broke  jail,   131. 
Steel's  Gap,   168. 
Stelle,   Catharine,   320. 

Rev.   Isaac,  death  of,  320. 
Stephens,    David,    123. 
Stephenson,  John,  book  store.  22. 
Stevens.  Lieut. -Col.  Ebenezer,  295. 

David,  170. 

John,  317 :  member  of  Council. 
48.  79,  88,  310. 

John,  Jr.,  317  ;  deputy  surveyor- 
general,  453  :  state  treasurer, 
80. 

Richard,  105. 

Thomas,  179. 
Stevenson,  Lieut.,  372. 

Augustine,  51. 

Edward.  410. 

Robert,  land  for  sale,  51. 

Thomas,  land  for  sale,  51. 
Stewart,   Captain,   256. 

Colonel,  243. 

Alexander,  155. 

Anthony.    162. 

Archibald,    104,    131,    373 ;    forge 

for  sale.   87. 
Stillwater.  X.  Y..  294. 
Stillwell,  John,  461. 
Stirling,   Lord,  454. 
Stith.  Capt.  J..  139. 
Stockley,    painter,    refugee    in    gaol, 

19. 
Stockton.  Mrs.,  217. 

Ebenezer,  30. 

Horatio   L..   301. 

Philip,  374. 

Richard,  death  of,  203. 

Samuel    Witham.    289 ;    clerk    of 

Hunterdon  county,  306. 
Stony  brook,   402. 
Story,  Captain,  288. 
Stout,   Captain.   215. 

Maj.  Cornelius.  207,  248. 

David.   461. 

Jonathan.   101. 

Joseph,  land  for  sale.  301. 

Col.  Joseph,  391. 

Levi,  vendue,  319. 
Stratton,  Mr..  445. 
Stretch.  Thomas.  421. 

William,  69,  86. 
Studson.  Mrs.,  401. 

Lieut.  Joshua,  123,  145,  170. 


is; 


Suceasiinny.  iiu. 

Sullivan.  John,  member  of  Congress, 

285. 

Samuel    II.,    216 ;    lots    for    sale, 
1  .-,9. 

Sussex  county,  15.  63,  87,  92.  104, 
118,  131.  147,  180,  207,  242, 
360,  363J  364.  373,  398,  423, 
461  ;  requisition  of  supplies, 
269. 

Slitter,  Daniel,  234,  395. 


Suydam,     Jacob,     member     of     As- 
sembly,  49,   88,  310. 

Swain,  Aaron,   267. 

Swan,  Amos.  24::. 

SwiM'sy.     Caleb,    307;     reward    for, 

283. 

Joshua,     member     of     Assembly, 
314. 

Sybert.  Henry,  horse  stolen,  434. 

Symmes,    John    Cleves,    member    of 
Council,  88. 


T. 


Tabor.   Daniel,   167. 

Tagart,      Jacob,      clerk      of     Salem 

county.   306. 

Talbert,   John,   negro.   115. 
Tallniiidge.    Major.    1X5. 
Tallman,  Peter,  member  of  Council, 

48,  88. 

Thomas  W..  371. 
Tappan,   49.   118. 
Tappen,   Jacob,   merchant,   153. 
Tapscot,  William.  231. 
Tarleton.  Colonel.   201. 
Tarrytown.    N.    Y..    155. 
Taverns.  11.  15,   17,  22,  23,  38,  51. 
52.    65.    06,    81,    90.    103,    110, 
119.    122.    139.    170;    188,    194, 
195,    197.    202,    205.    206,    207. 
2i:i.    214.    216,    246,    253,    265^ 
267.    270.    271.    274,    288,    291. 
292,    2!>;:.    xis.    320,    327,    331, 
354.    355.    357.    359,    360,    364, 
370.    3S1.    3S7.    391,    395,    401. 
406,    408,    421,    432,    434,    436, 
440.    441.    446.    449.    460. 
Taxes,  levy  on   States,  414. 

receipts  for  May.   1872,  447. 
Taylor,  Anthony,  465,  468. 
Kdward.    167. 
Col.   George.   200. 
Hannah.   I'.JO. 
Henry.  273. 

Col.    John.    188,    197,    216,    253; 
acquitted    of    cowardice,    207 ; 
letter   from,    358. 
Lawrence,    innkeeper.    194. 
Mahlon.   332.   427;   land  for  sale, 

364. 

Robert,   136. 
Hubert.   Jr..   190. 
Samuel,   refugee   in  gaol,   19. 
William.  189. 
Teanis,  John,   203. 
Teets.   Christopher.   375. 
Ten   Brook.   Henry,   119. 

Jacob,  318. 

Terhune,  Garret,  horse  stolen,  274. 
'IVwksbury   township,   181. 
Thanksgiving,      proclamations,     64, 

100,   113.  322. 
Thomas.  Edward,  323. 
William,   silversmith.   50. 


Thompson,  Captain,  83,  291. 
Colonel,  243. 

Charles,    30 ;    secretary    of    Con- 
gress,  85,   101. 

Janies.    merchant,   337,   361,    364. 
Thomson,  Capt.   Alexander,  316. 
David,  230. 
John,   executed.   344. 
John,    merchant,    321. 
Robert,  286. 
William,  372. 
Thome,  John,  323. 
Throb,    Judiah,    357. 
Throckmorton,  Richard,  364. 

Samuel,    321. 
Tice,  Lieut.  Jacob,  200. 
Tilghman.    Tench,    392. 
Tilton,   John,   424. 
Tinney,   George,  167. 
Titsworth,    Jacob,    estate,    401. 
Titus.    Captain,    327. 
Johnson,  117,  433. 
Joseph,   117,   433. 
Samuel,  estate,   117.  433. 
Capt.  Timothy,  197. 
Tod,    William,    horse   stolen,    281. 
Tomlinson,    Isaac,    member    of    As- 
sembly,  310. 
Toms    River,    158,    249,    400,    404, 

445. 

Torbet,   Lambert,  365. 
Totowa.  49. 
Totten,    John,    192. 
Townsend,      Richard,      246,      247 ; 

member    of    Assembly,    322. 
Trail.   Margaret,   194. 
Trappal.    Michael,    stocking    maker, 

242 

Trei*.    Mrs.,   201. 
Treen,   Captain.   191. 

William,   355. 

Trent,  William,  member  of  Assem- 
bly. 48,  88. 

Trenton.  14.  17.  18,  39.  50.  82, 
115,  117,  129,  136,  161,  1Y9, 
180,  187.  193,  195.  196,  199, 
200,  216,  230,  243,  244,  252, 
256,  265,  266,  271,  273.  284, 
286,  321,  336,  347,  359,  364, 
366,  370.  395,  398.  406,  423, 
427,  440,  434,  436,  449,  454, 


INDEX. 


460 ;  celebration  of  birth  of 
Dauphin  of  France.  441  :  cele- 
bration of  surrender  of  Corn- 
wallis.  810;  ferry.  333:  land- 
ing, 183,  241.  200.  282,  390; 
library  company.  168.  1!)0: 
night  school,  336 ;  old  ferry, 
27.")  :  stage  route.  05. 

Trenton   township,   117,   469. 

Trout,    George,    465. 


Tuckahoe.   270. 

Tucker.    Samuel,    sheriff.    312. 

Wessels.    20. 

Capt.   William,   107. 
Turell.    El>ene/er.    merchant.    91. 
Turner,   William,  205. 
Tuttle.   John,   executed,   190. 
Twining,   John,   25:;. 

Nathaniel,  stage  route,  288. 


Union  Farms.  386. 
Union  Iron  Works,   136. 


U. 


Updike.   William,   Jr.,  324. 

Upper   I'enns   Neck   township,   463 


V. 


Valentine,    Richard,    300. 

Van  Blerkum,  Abraham,  inquisition 
against,    124. 

Van  Campen,  Isaac,  member  of  As- 
sembly,   314. 
Moses,  461. 

Vance,    Edward,   merchant,   89. 

Van    Cleve,    Benjamin,    member    of 
Assembly,    48,    88,    310. 

Vanderbeck.    Rem,    Sr.,    184. 

VandeTbelt,    Jerome,    land   for   sale, 
216. 

Vanderhoof,  Peter,  ensign,  200. 

Vanderill,    William,    406 ;     land   for 
sale,   66. 

Van   Dike,  Col.  Henry,  235. 
Roelof,   slave  for  sale,   83. 

Van   Doren.    Aaron,   merchant,   406. 
Isaac,  464. 
Jacob,  231,  464. 

Van    Dyke.   Abraham.   247. 

Van    Emburgh,    John,     171  :      mer- 
chant,  253. 
Major  John,   197. 

Vanhart.    Adam,    slave    ran    away, 
193. 

Van   Hise,   John,  broke  jail,   16. 

Vanhorn,  Joseph,  37. 

Vankirk,    John,   441  ;    goods   stolen, 


Van   Matter,   Gilbert,   461. 

Van   Mater,  John,   191. 

Van    Neste,    Abraham,    estate,    318. 

George,   318. 

Van   Nortwick.    William.    244. 
Vansant,    Cornelius,    horses    stolen, 

281. 

Vanuxem,   James,   merchant,  400. 
Van     Vechten,     Derrick,     death    of, 

351. 

Van   Waggener,  Mr.,  41. 
Van  Weert,   Mr.,  36. 
Van    Winckel,    Jacob,    horse    stolen, 

82. 

Van  Zandt.  Jacobus,  18,  130. 
Varnum.   James   M..   252. 
Vaughn,   General,   343. 
Vauxhall.  90,   151. 
Veghte,   Isaac,  fulling  mill.  247. 
Venable.    Abraham,    29-31. 

Samuel    W.,    29-31. 
Vessels,    52,    108.     140.     150.     ICO, 

167,    170,    191,    208,    246,    247. 

249,    256.    204,    267.    274,    290, 

298,    300,    306,    313,    354.    ::o<». 

391.    399,    401,    408.    431.    445, 

446,    448.    44!>.    453.    454.    404. 
Von   Beverhoudt,    Lucas.   25. 
Vooiheos,    John.    432. 
Minne.    216,    244. 


W. 


Wade.    Humphrey,    191,   194. 
Waiding  river,   143,   177. 
Walker,   Dr.,    135. 
Wallace,   Joshua.  436. 
Walling,    Ladis    member   of   Assem- 
bly,   63,    88. 

Wallpack   township,   461. 
Walton,   Elisha,  horse  stolen,  327. 

Thomas,  323. 

William,   land  for  sale.  357. 
Wantage  township.  360. 


Ward,   Capt.    Israel.   127.    144.    148, 
303. 

rapt.  Thomas,  40.  50.  120.  141. 
Wardell,   Elizabeth,   167. 

Solomon,  167. 
Warford.   Rev.  John.  40(i. 
Warne.    George,    147.   241. 
Warren,   John,  of  Maryland.   115. 
Warwasinsr.    2!>!t. 
Warwick.    X.    Y..   294. 


INDEX. 


489 


Washington.  Gen.  George,  G.  46,  53, 
213.  i'!)l.  401  ;  celebration  for,. 
337:    letter    from,    456:    letter 
of.  437  :   proclamation.   392. 
Waterford  township,  281,  347. 
Watsesson,   152. 
Watson.   Mr.,   1. 

Andrew,   guilty   of  manslaughter, 
134. 

Isaac,   310. 

John,  406 ;  land  for  sale,  361. 

Robert,  333. 

Samuel,  310. 

Thomas.  187. 
Wayne,   General,    178. 
Wcazle.    155. 
Webb.   John,  281. 
Welding,  Benjamin,  refugee  in  gaol, 

19. 
Wells.  Captain,  290. 

William,     convicted     of    treason. 

102. 
West.  Widow.  402. 

Asher,  innkeeper,  381,  433. 

Obria.  167 

Walter,  191. 

Westervelt,  Abraham,  clerk  of  Ber- 
gen county,  306. 
West    Jersey    Proprietors,    petition 

for  partition  line,  440. 
West  Point,  6,  79. 
Wetherill,   Col.   John,   369. 
WThigs.  meetings  of,   176,   188.   207, 

'214,  216,  249,  253,  291,  318. 
Whilden,  James,  death  of,  128. 

Matthew,    member    of    Assembly, 

70. 
White.   Aaron,   425. 

Anthony,   386. 

Col.   A.   Walton.  351,   352. 

Philip.   424. 

Capt.   Robert.  435. 
White   Hall,   156. 
White   Horse,  235. 
White   House,   205.   213. 
Whitlock,  E..  adjutant,  340. 

James,  287. 
Wiggins,    Thomas.    423 ;    slave    for 

sale,  168. 

Wignall,   Captain.   123. 
Wikoff.  Isaac,  land  for  sale,  375. 

Peter,  land  for  sale,  375. 
Wilcot,   Jacob,   140. 
Wilkinson,   J.,   244. 
Will,  William,  sheriff.  132. 
Willcocks,  William.  197.  291.  303. 
Willets,  Gapt.  Hope.  445,  448,  453. 

James,  innkeeper,   448. 
Williams,  Mr.,  38. 

Benjamin,  innkeeper,  90. 

George,   167. 

Joseph,   461. 

Nathan,  323. 

Obadiah,  461. 


Renssalaer,  168,  190,  406. 

Richard,    deserter,    294. 

Samuel,   423. 
Williamsburg.  Va.,  135. 
Williamson,  Jacob,  slave  ran  away, 
361. 

William,  92. 
Willis.   James,   innkeeper,   34$.   :{54. 

William,  293. 

Willonborough   township,  52. 
Wilmut,  John.  201. 
Wilson,  Mrs..  124.",. 

Jesse,  refugee  in  gaol,  19. 

John,   innkeeper,   288. 

Joseph,  broke  gaol,  129. 

Peter,    member   of   Assembly,    53, 

79,  322. 
Winans,  Dr..  innkeeper,  244,  246. 

Mrs.,  boarding  house,  154. 

Elias,  253. 

Winchester,   Va.,   364. 
Winds,     William,     member     of     As- 
sembly, 53,  63. 
Windsor,  341. 
Windsor    township,    14,    192,     196, 

20r>.   207,   287,   439. 
Wiskall,  Capt.  John  R.,  313. 
Wistar,  Richard,  glass  manufactory 

for  sale,  20. 

Witherspoon,    Dr.    John,    130,    167, 
305  ;  delegate  to  Congress,  128  ; 
member  of  Council,  49,  88.    . 
Witt,  Francis,  364  :  innkeeper,  460. 
.  Wittmore.   John,   406. 
Woldron,  Samuel,  433. 
Wood.    Isaac,    innkeeper,    38,    122. 
292,   371. 

John,  gaolkeeper,  468. 

Joseph,  24. 

Richard,  Jr.,  145. 
Wood's  Island.  361. 
Woodbriclge.  188,  208,  253.  288. 

366,  402,  459. 
Woodbrirlge  township.   293. 
Woodhull.  Rev.  Mr.,  314. 

John.  434. 
Wooding.       Joshua,       170 ;       sloop 

master,  140. 
Woodruff.   Mr.,  25. 
Woodward.  Mr.,  refugee  officer,  129. 

Apollo,  246. 

Robert,   escaped  gaol,   129. 

Susannah,  land  for  sale,  390. 

Thomas.    390. 
Woolley;  Silas,  167. 
Workman.  John.  203,  208. 
Worstill,   William.   253. 
Worth's   Mills.   187. 
Wright,  John,  179,  286. 

Joseph,  340. 

Robert,  land  for  sale,  357. 
Wrightstown,  403. 
Wynans,  Mr.,   25. 


490 


IXDEX. 


Yamans,  Mr.,  423. 

Moses,  448. 
Yard,   Archibald,   353. 

Benjamin,  287. 

John,  196. 

Capt.    John,   innkeeper,   406. 


Yardley,    Samuel,    slave   ran    away 

255. 

Yardley's  Ferry,  403. 
Yherts,   John,  deserter,   154,   177. 
Young,  Edward,  stage  route,  252. 


Zabriskie,  Jacob  C.,  327. 

John  I.,  inquisition  against,  124. 


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