The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1785-11-28 00:00:00, page 3

"Algiers, August 27, 178 c.
" Richard Harrison, Efq.'
“SIR,
“ We, the subscribers, fubjeds of the United
States of America, have had the misfortune to be
captured by the Algerines—brought into this port,
and made (laves. We were stripped of all our wear
ing apparel, and brought to a date of bondage and
misery. the severities which we endure are beyond
your imagination.—The British consul, Charles Lo
gie, Esquire, has taken us into his houfe,—We hope
ou will take, our grievances into consideration, and
make some extra provision for ns—for no man can
exist on the provision which is dealt out by the king
of this place, who may truly be called the king of
cruelties. Inform Congress and the different states
of our situation. All nations who have fubjeHs in the
hands of those infidels, exert themselves to relieve
them; and, while captives, make them some extra
allowance. We hope you will write to the British
consul on this head; lie will give you every informa
tion refpeAing us, and how matters may be accommo
dated with America,—lf we do not make some terms,
our trade will be ruined.—the Algerines are at pre
lent fitting out cruisers with all possible expedition—
two will cruise off the Western illes, and the rest off
Portugal.
Americans, beware! Let nothing tempt you
to come in the way of those people, for they are
woife than can be imagined.
" The fliip Dauphin, Richard O'Bryan, command
er, belonging to meffrs. Mathew and 1 homas Ir
win of Philadelphia, was taken the 30th July, 80
leag.to the N. W. of St. Übes.—The schooner Maria,
Richard Stephens, master, owned by meffrs William
Foster and Co. of Boston, and consigned to you at Ca
diz, was taken the 24th of July.
“ The American captives are twenty-one in number;
captain O'Bryan's crew are at the marine, where they
experience all the misery of slavery. Captain Ste
pheri's are at the king's house.
" The 'Spaniards have made peace with these
people, in consequence of which, they will be all
over the Atlantic.—They talk of ransoming us as
high as from £. 400 to £.600 sterling, however, you
may perhaps know our price, and the customs of
these heathens in that particular, better than we do.
" We hope you will write to Charles Logie, Esq.
and to us miserable fuffcrers, and adveitife out situa
tion in America.
“ Richard O'Bryan,
" Isaac Stephens, \
“ Zachariah Coffin.”
Nov, 28, A letter from Hartah's-town, dated No
vember 4, fays, " On the 30th ult. a court of Oyer
and Terminer for the county of Weftmoreland, was
opened here before the hon. Thomas M'Kean and
George Bryan, Enquires. Indictments were preferred
and found againf tthe Delaware Indian Mamataguin,
for murdering Benjamin Jones and John Smith, by
stabbing them with a knife on the 11th of May last ; —
John Bradley, for the murder of John Dougherty in
Pittiburgh, on the 18th of June lad, by (hooting him
with a rifle gun ; and Joseph Ross, for a )*******
Crime with &**** Angels and rainfers of grace de
fend us !
" Bradley was tried firft, and convided of man
daughter ; —the Indian was next set to the bar. —The
indictments were read and explained to the accused
by an able interpreter, and in like manner was the
testimony. The witnesses were Jones's widow, her
son of 17 years, William Evans and William Free
man, two men whom he dabbed likewise at the fame
time ; and colonel William Butler, who proved the
confeffion of the Indian, made the next day. He al
ledged he was drunk, and imputed the deed to the
strong drink. The trial was very solemn, and the jury
went out to consider of their verdirit, tho' the case was
plain.
" The savage was hardly persuaded by the council
assigned him by the court, to plead not guilty, or to
deny the fa<sl, but at length consented to do it with
relu&ance. —He is (hocked to die by hanging, but has
no objection to be tomahawked by some great man.
When the Iheriff brought in a rope to tie up the hand
of Bradley, in order to brand him, the Indian was
struck, and expected the instant execution of his sen
tence, which was pronounced for the killing of Smith
only. Under this dread he fhrnnk exctffively. His
former magnanimity subsided, and paleness and trem
bling seized him.
'' The infamy of Ross was very Wrongly proved ;
he was found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged."
TRENTON, Nov. 28.
On Friday last the general assembly came to a reso
lution, that, upon the adjournment of the present
fitting, which it is expected will take place in a few
days, they will meet again at Trenton, for the dis
patch of publick business, 011 the 15th of February
next.
The folloft is a% of a letter written&,
American captains (who are captives at Algiers ) |
'^ ^ forwarded by the Britifo fol, to i
Kic^rd Harrison, Esquire, consul" for the Uni-|
ted States at Cadiz.—lt is off interefing a na
ture, that teleprinters are all requeued to re-pub- 1
1
TO BE SOLD,
A VALUABLE farm, in the county of Sussex,
J: 1. and township of Mansfield, Weft New-jersey,
and about twenty miles from several stores on the
banks of the Delaware, where they purchase all forts
of produce, at as high a price as in Trenton or Phi
ladelphia, a very small allowance for transportation ex
cepted. It contains 3524 acres, about 100 acres
cleared, 35 of which were cleared last year, with
about 6 acres of good meadow, and a very large pro
portion may be made, the rest is good timber land,
and may easily be made fit for tillage, and is in a fine
wheat country. There is about 22 acres of new
land wheat that may be had with the farm.
There is on the farm a good fauare log house, 30 feet
by 20, with three good chimnies, but the rooms are
unfinished, and another house of round logs, nearly
as good as the ether, with 50 or 60 good bearing ap
pletrees. 1 here are several fine springs on the farm,
and a never failing stream that runs through the mid
dle of it, which, with a very small expence, might be
taken almost to every part of the farm; the ground
cleared is extraordinary for pasture; and a fine range
for cattle in the woods. It was formerly part of the
plantation col. Bond now lives on, and might do very
well for two farms, dividing it by the stream; the
purchaser may have the whole or half, as best suits
him; for terms apply to the owners on the premises.
James Howey,
William Howey.
Nev. 191 1785. zw*
A7 ~M —
Of the best Quality,
May be had at the PRINTING-OFFICE.
ting, viz.
An ad for incorporating the Trenton school compa
ny, by the name of The proprietors of the Trenton
Academy.
An ad for incorporating sundry persons as trustees
of the Presbyterian congregation at Pitts-Grove, in
the county of Salem.
An aft for incorporating sundry persons as trustees
of the Baptist congregation at Dividing-Creeks, in the
county of Cumberland.
An a& for incorporating sundry persons as trustees
of the Presbyterian congregation at Bafkenridge, in the
counties of Somerset and Morris.
An ad to naturalize Lucas Van-Beverhoudt, and to
confirm to him a title to his lands within the date of
New-Jersey.
An aft to amend an aft, intitled, ' An a& to regu
late the fisheries, and to prevent the obftru&ions of the
navigation of the river Delaware.
An act directing the mode by which Glares of pro
priety, and rights to unibchted lands, in the state of
New-jersey, may be fold for the payment of debts.
An ad for incorporating sundry persons as trustees
of the firft Presbyterian congregation in Hanover, Mor
ris county.
An aCt for transfering the residue of the confifeated
personal property late of David Ogden, Efy. &c.
An act for the relief of persons who have purchased
property for the use of the publick.
A supplement to an ad, intitled, ' An act to amend
and explain an aft, intitled, an ad for afeertaining
the value of debts due from the forfeited estates of
certain fugitives and offenders, and for directing the
payment of the fame.
An aft to raise one hundred and ten men i* the state
of New-Jersey, to serve for three years unlcfs sooner
discharged.
An ad to revive the orphan's court in the county
of Glouccfter.
FoTTa-L E,
TWO hearty negro men, one about 40 years of
age, the other about 27, the one is a good
farmer—has been used to attend a saw and grist mill,
and is remarkably handy with carpenters and tur
ners' tools.
Also a hearty negro woman, about 27 or 28 years
of age, and a negro girl, about 18. They have both
been used to town and country, and would suit either.
They have all had the small-pox and measles, and
are fold for no fault, but that the proprietor is deter
mined to keep none of their colour. A reasonable
credit will be given for the purchase-money. Paper
money, or notes given by Benjamin fhompfon, Esq.
will be taken in payment. For further particulars
enquire of the printer.
Nov. 28, 1785. t. f.
Abraham Kitchel, Esquire, has been elected a
member of the legislative-council, for the county of
Morris, in the room of the honourable John-Cleves
Symmes, Esq, who has taken his feat in Congress.
Saturday last a jack-ass, being a present from his
Catholick Majesty to George Washington,
Esquire, passed through this town on its way to the
feat of that great and good man in Virginia.
We hear, that the states of Rhode-Idand and Con
necticut have complied with the requisition of Con
gress, of the 27th of September last, tor r^fing the
sum of 3,000,cc0 of dollars, for the payment of the
interest of the foreign and domeflick debt of the cur
rent year.
The honourable the legislature of this fate bane
passed the following acts, during their pre/ent fit-
Also, at fame time and place will be fold by pub
lick vendue, the three following trades or parcels of
land, to wit, a trad of 539 acres of land on the ri
ver Delaware, and near the Pahaquaiting Mountain,
adjoining to colonel Van-Camp's plantation in the Lid
county of Sussex.
Also, one trad of 477 acres near Scot's mountain^'
in the county of Sussex, adjoining lands of At
kinson, Joseph Hollinfhead and Isaac De Cow. And
ado, a trad of 507 acres of land, lituate on and near
Schooley's mountain, about a mile from HacketL
t own, in the county of Morris, and state of New
jerfey. On the last mentioned trad are some good
improvements. A part of the purchase-money to be
paid down, and a reasonable time allowed for the le
mainder, of which the conditions will be made known
at the time and place of file, by the subscribers, assig
nees of John Biddle and Clement Biddle.
WILLIAM POLLARD,
CHARLES PETT IT,
JAMES CRAWFORD,
JOHN BARCLAY,
tiw JACOB SPICER.
On Wednesday the Sth of February, at
the old coffee-houfe in Philadelphia,
will be fold by
PUBLICK VEND UE,
A Valuable Grazing
F A R M,
Plantation, or traft of land;
CONTAINING about 500 acre, . by deed, with
an addition or near as much out lands by a late
survey, being the farm formerly colonel Joseph Bar
ton s, lituate on Peppercotting-Creek, in the town
flop of Newtown, and county of Sussex, in the state
of New-jersey. There are about 90 acres of excel
lent meadow cleared, and as much more may be
made, the upland is good; this place is under new
fence, a good frame house with a cellar, and a
frame barn.
Six Pounds Reward.
AN away last night from the fubferiber, living
near the Big spring, Newtown township, Cum
berland county, tw> indented Irish fervimts: John
Mullen, about 5 feet 9 inches high, slender made,
smooth red face, sharp nose, red bulhy hair, took
with him a number of cloarhing, confining of a white
regimental coatee, a white linen coat, an old blue
coarle cloth do. black breeches somewhat worn, coarse
velvcret ditto, a silk striped jacket much worn, and
an old blue cloth ditto; two pair of trowfers, one
white the other a striped lie colour, two or three
working shirts, and two worn ruffled ditto, two
wool hats, one cocked the other round, with a leather
band and buckle. Magaret Carthy, a good looking
girl, about 18 or 19 years of age, middle sized, Him
made, and has fair hair, took with her two short
gowns, one a cotton, the other a linen, both striped
lie colour, a petticoat of the fame as the above striped
linen, a green fluff ditto, two or three drifts, an old
lie coloured bonnet, (he wears a crooked comb in her
hair without a cap. AS the aboye servants went off
together, it is fuppoEd they will pass for man and
wife, they having stolen their indentures^ and that
they may occasionally wear the above described
clothes. The above reward will be paid if they
may be secured in any gaol, so as their master may
have them again, or three pounds for either, with rea
sonable charges, by
Samuel M'Elhen%
Sept, so 1/8). 2w*
On Wednesday the 25th January next, be
tween the hours of 12 and 1 o'clock,
at noon, at the coffee-houfe in Phila
delphia, will be fold
By PUBLICK VENDUE,
A VALUABLE
PLAN T A T I O N,
Or trad of land;
CONTAINING 217; acres, situated on the river
Delaware, and the Bordentown road, about
four miles above Briftol,in Falls township, and Buell
county, being lot No. 10, as marked in the general
plan of Pennlborough manor, and is now in the te
nure of William Alexander. On the said farm is a
good leg house, some cleared land and good meadow;
and the timber growing on the faint is valuable from
its situation on the river Delaware. Part of the pur
chafc-money to be paid on making the deed, and
the remainder to be at a reasonable credit, on giving
security, of which terms notice will be given at the
time and place of sale.
O' The title to the said land is indisputably clear.
Nov. 23, 1785. 9 w