The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1779-07-31 00:00:00, page 1

SATURDAY, JULY
G EN°E RAL' ADVERTISER
BY virtue of an A& of the General Assembly
o f the State of flew-Jcrfey, palled the last session,
at Trenton, intituled, °" An A& for veiling the real
estate of Wiliam Alexander, E?.rl of Stirling, within
this State, in trustees, to dilcharre by the sale thereof,
or of so much as may fuffice, the debts and incumbrances
affecting the fame, and to convey to himthe remainder,
if any there be," will be fold at Public Vendue, at the
under-mentioned timet and places, Sundry Trails of
Land, Cultivated Farms, Houses, &c. being part of the
real estate @f the said Earl of Stirling, in the hid State of
New J^fey, as follows :
At John Wejk.ff's Tavern, at Fotters-Town, on
Monday thetwentiethof September next, at Ten o'clock
in the forenoon, the vendue to be continued from day
to day until the premises are fold, Five very fine well
improved Faims near Potters Town, in the County of
Hunterdon, vz.
No. i. In the peffeffion of Archibald ] acres, hundredths.
Aurifon, containing . J 183 7
No. 2 Ditto ol Jacob Tyger, 179 7
No. 3 Ditto of Joseph Everett; 420 44
No. 4. D^too' Be j min Cooper, 4^3 3°
N . 5 Ditto of Christian Teets 233 4.7
Auo one halt of 5$ acres, including the town spot of
Patters Town.
On M>nday the t^ntyfeventh of September, ?+ the
boule of William Davifon, in Pitts Town, and by ad
journment from day to day unto such places near the
premises as shall be most convenient, Twenty-one Farms
under very good improvements, in the Townships of
Lebanon, Tu xhurie, Bethehem and Alexandria, viz,
In the poffi ffion of John Swackhammer, 448 acres ;
of Casper Luneburey, 236 acres; of Matthias TufErd,
238 acres; in the township of Lebanon.
In the possession of Jof. Blain, 145 acres 7 tenths; of
Batrum Beam, 245 acres; of John M Kenftry, 193 acres;
of Charles Gordon, 106 acres; in TuexburieTowntaip.
In the possession of William Fleming, 192 acres; of
Joseph Ofmum, 142 acres; in Bethlehem.
In the possession of Fred. Jerdhu, 51 acres 8 tenths ;
of Peter Haughabout, 4 acres 4 tenths; of Phill. Palmer,
240 acres 4 tenths ; of John Brintz, 170 acres 5 tenths;
of William Craig, 168 acres 4 tenths; of. Ebgor,
145 acres; of Benjamin Jones, jun. 192 acres 3 tenths;
& Daniel Brintz, 21, acres 4 tenths ; cfJ cob Ackman,
2 aerts ;o' Ilaac Oakes, 286 acres; in Alexandria.
the pofleffion of Daniel Simes, 26r acres; half of
a Isod-lot, 68 acres synths, in Bethlehem,
On Monday the eleventh of October next, at Brewster's
I. ^Tn at B fkenridge, all that fine Farm and Mansion-
Ir^fe at Balk nridze, the residence of the said Earl of
• irhn,, witn all the elegant buildings, garden:, &c,
containing about one thousand acres, of which about
shit: hundred is cleared upland, three hundred acres of
neador fit for the feythe, and the remainder timber
iwamp capable of making the most excellent meadow.
On this farm there are about fifteen hundred fine bear
W^ apple trees of the belt kind, besides several hundreds
of pears, peaches, plumbs and cherries in the greatest
variety.
On Wednesday the thirteenth of OAo^er, at Arnold's
Tavern in Morris Town, from day to day, and to such
places by adjournment as shall be found most conveni
ent, Twelve Lots of 98 acres each, adjoining each other,
lituate in the Great Swamp, in Morris County, in the
front of'the above mansion, bounded northerly by the
north line of the said swamp, each lot being fourteen
chains broad and seventy chains long. They areabout
four miles fo^therly from Morris Town, in one of the
best fettled parts of New Jersey. Each lot has several
acres of cleared plow land and meadow ; the greatest
part of them are capable of being mide most excellent
meadow, with rich chefnut ridges interfiling them.
These lands will be shewn by Jonathan Stiles, Esq; and
Capt. John Lindly, who live contiguous to them.
Also twelve other Lots adjoining, whose sale will suc
ceed the above; containing eighty-fix acres ea"b, on the
south fide of the said swamp, adjoining the north fide of
Long Hill, about seven miles southerly from Morris-
Towa and two or three miles from Bafkenridge: The
foil is excellent for meadow, and some ridges of plow
land. Major Cornelius Ludlow, cf Long Hill, will
shew these lands. Each lot is ten chains broad and
eighty fix chains long.
Also eight lots of fifty to fixty-five acres each,whofe sale
will succeed the preceding, on the north-east part of the
fad swamp, on each fide of the forge-lot, on Pine Brook.
These lots are each of thenyten chains bread, and from
^ ty to fixty-five chains long, they have some valuable
improved upland and meadows; the whole most excel
lent foil, well watered, and thegreateft part capable of
being m^de most excellent meadow. They are situate
about four miles south easterly from Morris Town.
„ One lot of about one hundred and thirty acres, adjein
tile above eight lots, and will be fold next in suc
cession. It includes a good stream, Pine Breck, with a
7try fine mill dam, the remains of a bloornary forge and
[ Price 2S. 6d. single, 2s. by the quantity. Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. ]
saw-mill, some good buildings, and improved meadows
and piow-lanris. ThTef&nds will also be shewn by Cor
nelius Ludlow or Jonatl an Stites, Esq;
On Monday, the firft day cf N vember next, at the
house commonly called Stell'sTav-rn, near the Virginia
encampment, at er near Middhbrook, a t.?a of a
bout one thousand acres' on the weft- branch or Middle
brook, in the vale between the firft and second moun
tain, leafed in)fix ferms, the leafed expired, very good
interval 1 <rds, and most excellent timber land, contigu
ous to the Farms on Rariton River.
On Wednesday the third day of November n°xt, at
F inix's Tavern, in Pluck:min, aT?a& es eight urnlred
acres, adjoining or near the Artillery-Park at Phi kem
iri. Tibs is chiefly timber-land, with force small im
provements.
On Monday, ths fifteenth of November next, at
Hackets-Town, in Suffix County, about two thousand
five hundred acres of land, in several Farms of good im
proved upland and meadow, the remainder excellent
timber-land and fine swamps, in the fa.d county of
Sufl<x, bounded partly by the M fkenetunnk River,
an.l bordering on Hackas Ta -n. The leaks ate all
expired. A prop-r perlon will be appointed at Ha< kets-
Town to shew these lands; The ro^d from Morris to
Elflown on Delaware, and the g r eat road from Tren
ton to Suffix Court houi~, paffr Trough this Tr?&.
On Wednesday, the fife day $ D.ceniber next, at
the Tavern at Crofwicks, two r raffs of land, near
Crotwicks, adjoining Plumftead's and Willccks's land,
containing about fi^e hundred and twenty-fix acres.
N 8. Continental Money or Loan Office Certificates
will be received in payment, ana conveyances executed
agreeable to the directions of the above Act, by
RICHARD STEVENS, 4
JOHN MIHELM, j Trustees.
^^^'±Q£.x&id:^^t^d:d;^d) ^±l*£
For the PENNSYLVANIA PACKET.
NUMBER 111.
1H A V E already observed that taxation is the principle
on which the paper money of these States has been
emitted; and I have said enough to ihew the necessity of
applying it immediately ; not only to lessen the quantity,
but also to carry us back to firft principles, and enable us
to pursue that system of finance which was wifely adopted
in the beginning of this contest with Great Britain, and
from which various circumflances not {efficiently attended
to, have occasioned a departure. Many expedients have
been proposed, and some of the wisest have been tried.
The event hath proved them to be nonsensical quackery;
and the malady has been not only encreafed, hut rendered
more complicated by them. Suppofog ourselves to be in
the last flage of the disease, like a patient alarmed by the
fear of death and anxious to preserve life, we embrace ea
gerly the prescriptions of every body around us. The fkilful
and virtuous physician, and the ignorant and unprincipled
quack, are now placed in the fame rank;—each assigns a
different cause for the disease, and prescribes a different;
remedy ; but beware of the effeds, my countrymen, left,,
without any regard to the strength and constitution of the
patient, and the nature amd property of the medicines, the
compound be adminiftred and the patient die.
The efiablifhing of Committees and the regulating of
prices in order to restore the credit of the paper- money will
never produce that end, however patriotic and virtuous
the intention may be. Inthe best regulated governments,
the laws for that purpose, altho' they have been confined
to enumerated articles have ever been and ever will be
found ineffectual. In the present mode of doing this bu
siness, it is exceptionable for many reasons. It is subver
sive of civil government; and must end in the definition
of society itfelf, which is eflablifhed for the security of pro
perty. Not having the fantion and fup,ort of establish
ed laws and constitutional authority, the right to oppefe
is equal in all, and measures not warranted by laws! or
supported by legal authority, must sooner or later meet re
finance. Whenever this shall happen, government must
either interpose and give protetion to them who demand
it from the laws or cease to exifi. If the latter mall be the
case, the laws of nature must prevail, and felf-prefervation
will dictate the repelling force by force. General disorder
must ensue thereupon ;—the resentment of the best friends
to our &aufe will be kindled against one another; and in.
numerable difficultes will be thrown in the way of public
business. The farmer, unwilling to be retrained in the
ex ercife of a priviledge which he holds most dear and va- #
luable will examine into the authority which offers the re
straint, and finding no security for his property but in tbe
civill of Committees, will refufe to be governed by them and
consequently to carry the produce of his farm to market.
Every otner person affeded by their measures will pursue
the famedine of conduct A scarcity must inevitably fol
low is sure as the cause producesits effect ; and the paper
money ceasing to circulate freely,will become useless in !-he
hands of the holder and no longer desirable. The farmer
by the produce of his farm, being able to subsist his fami-'
ly, and becoming fixed in his opposition to what he sup
poses a tyranny, witholds that affiflance from the corn.
munity, which otherwise he would have afforded. Tb^
the evils proposed to be remedied will be encre fed -—in’
terna.lcommotions and ill will will take pl ice of peace and
benevolence, an i a revolution succeed perhaps fatal to the
union, fafety and independence of these States. It is the
portion cf humanity to err; but it is a proof of virtueand
good sense to recede from error. Far be it from me to
centre the motives which lead so refpea Tie a number of
~!f ( "™ )s ° f Pennffoania to adopt those measures.
r^eir attachment to the cause @f independence, and their
zeal for the interefis of the United States are equally con
lpicu,us. I with only to draw their attention to some
things which may have escaped their reflection and which
~ bught to confider. Altho' the arms and councils of
these States are united for their common defence and secu
rity in the arduous contest they are engaged in, yet each
State is independent of me other in all matters of govern
ment and commerce; The Union is represented by that
body alone which is composed of the Dele ates from each
and known by the name of Congrrf,. The refpe&ive De
legates are amenable for their condoA to that State only
which they represent. The police, circuit fiances and e
ved the interefis of the States are in many refpefts essen
tially d^erent from one another. Measures which may
je u.oul to be adopted by Pennsylvania, may, in the last
degree, be injurious to the peace and profnerity of Virgi
'/nil° rfA'^-p 8 of Pennsylvania, governed by
heir own necessities, annate and form regulations which
are confined to themselves alone, noVirginian hath a right
to interpose bis opinion or to censure them, but if those
allocations and regulations are recommended to the adop
ci"zens of ° ther States, and have a tendency to
dis urb the peace aud harmony which fobfi fts therein, as
well as to subvert the confutation and government thereof, 1
they are then expired to the animadversions and reprehen
sions of every citizen of those States.'
I he enormous sum that has been expended in naval pre
parations on account of the United States, could not fail of
giving great naval advantages to those particular States in
which tne expenditures were made, ft had a dire& ten
dency to encreafe their commerce, and, no doubt, hath
encreafed it. Pennsylvania has felt the good effids of it.
Other States more ea ft ward have received , perhaps greater
advantages. They abound in merchandize an I their im
portations are daily encreafing. T ey, therefore, nay
think themielvos in a condition to exclude, by a i wk 3
determination, all the other States from the benefits aris
ing from such importations, or force them into measures
tiey may dictate, however inconvenient and improper
they may be But Virginia wi I, I hope, be brought
soon to understand her interest and pursue it She will soon
° e '' he rfafety is in her own means, and fee! the
r> ece ffi yof attending more to her own Commerce ; and
the will sooner relinquish all commercial interccurfe with
the citizens of Pennsylvania, than fubferibe to conditions
interfering witn her internal police and dishonorable to her
independence. Her citizens, happy under the government
it A ft a b '^ d ' ^ " nwil!m ^ th at their harmony
mould be disturbed. They will no longer be duped by
fathering addresses, or become in ftruments to facilitate the
^ e : s %! efi ^ me ^ either in their own or any other
State. They will give energy to the laws they have made,
by a chearful obedience to them, and provide such as may
be necessary for deteding delinquencies and punifaing de
fh^ue?|s'Ay "/" , ear ^lly pay their proportion of
the public debt, and raise their quota of men for the ser
vice of the United States ; and as they enjoy the benefits
of a well regulated government, they will have wisdom
chough to confider it as the best security for personal liber
ty and property, and to preserve it.
lam led to this di^rerfon not so much with a view of
ce s the measures o f the citizens of Pennsylvania, the
ostensible design of which is laudable, but to suggest to
them what will be the probable confluences of such mea
1 r 1 leave the reflections I have made to their
consideration, and I doabt not but that they will have so
much weight as to convince very many of them, that the
measures proposed by^the regulators will probably be
dangerous and unfuccefshl; not only as their views are too
extensive for their influence, but as the means they would
apply are incompatible with the interest at least of the
southern States, under their present circumflances The
farmer or planter in those States, whose est at e is m^tga^
ed for the heavy debt already incurred by the United States
will fcarie be persuaded that the best method of difehare
ing it will be to dispose of his property at 'half of the cur
rent value ; and altho' the citizens of those States, south -
ward or Pennsylvania, are not so good politicians or so well
verged in trade as the citizens of Pennsylvania and the
^° re eastward, I will venture to prophecy that they
will soon underhand enough of politics to be convinced
* Revived that no rum, tea, sugar, coffee, or other im
ported goods, except in small quantities for families use
be permed out of this State, unless the perfor applying
bringsa recommendation from the Committee of the place
where he or ihe refides.'
See Pennsylvania Packet, July r o , 1779.
^""fd"^' °f ^e Committee,
Heng, Chairman.