The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1786-10-30 00:00:00, page 3

To be Sold or Let,
(And may be entered on immediately)
A LOT of ground pleasantly situated in Haddon
field, New-Jersey, containing three acres and
seventy-six perches, with the improvements thereon;
which are, a two story brick house, kitchen, and
Ihop adjoining, a frame barn and liable, a good milk
houfe, a pump and well, both fine water, a tanyard,
millhoufe and currying shop; about one acre of the
land is meadow, watered by a fine spring which rises
in the ground. For terms apply to CHARLES
JERVIS, in Philadelphia.
October ii, 1786. 4W
walking down one day to the beach saw aveffel failing
by, and made a smoke in token of trade—she came
to anchor, and he went on board in a canoe—this
proved the very ship I have spoken of.—One of the
hrft questions the captain asked was concerning me,
and when he understood I was so near, he came on
shore to deliver his message.—Had an invitation from
home reached me when I was tick and starving at the
Plantanes, I fliould have received it as life from the
dead; but after the change of matters, finding myfelf
decently clothed, living in plenty, and being consi
dered as a companion, and trailed with the care of
his effeds to the amount of some thousands, I began
to be wretch enough to think myfelf happy, and
heard the invitation at firft with indifference.—The
captain, unwilling to lose me, told me a story of his
own framing, every particular of which was falfe.
But I was not long in fufpence, for though my fa
ther's care and desire to fee me, had too little weight
with me; yet, the remembrance of another person,
and the almost extinguished hope of feeing her, pre
vailed over all other considerations.—The captain pro
mised, and in this he kept his word, that I should
lodge in his cabin, dine at his table, and be his con
stant companion, without expelling any service from
D^ And thus 1 was Suddenly delivered from a cap
tivity of fifteen months.—[ had neither a thought
nor a desire of this change one hour before it took
place.—l embarked with him, and in a few hours loft
fight of Kittam. The ship was on a trading voy
age die captain had been already four or five months
in Africa, and continued there a year after I was with
him—we ranged the whole coast, a thousand miles
farther from England than the place where I em
barked. During this voyage [ had no business to
employ my thoughts; but sometimes I amused my
felf with the mathematicks—and excepting this, my
whole life when awake was a course of most horiid
impiety and profanenefs; so that I was often serious
ly reproved by the captain, who was himfelf a very
passionate man, and not at all circumfped in his ex
pressions.—Although I lived in the excess of almost
every other extravagance, 1 never was fond of
drinking, and my father has often been heard to fay,
that, while 1 avoided drunkenness, he fliould still en
tertain hopes of my recovery—but sometimes I would
promotea drinking-bout, for a frolic's fake, as I term
ed it; for though I did not love the liquor, yet I
loved the iniquity, and delighted in mifehief.—The
Est feene of this fort in which I engaged, was in the
river Gabon —the proposal and expence were my
own—four or five of us fat down upon deck to fee
who could hold out the longed in drinking geneva
and rum alternately—a laige lea shell supplied the
place of a glass—l began, and proposed the firft
toast, which I well remember was an imprecation
against the person who should flart firft —this proved
to be myfelf—l arose and danced about like a mad
man.—While I was thus diverting my companions,
my hat went overboard.—By the light of the moon
I law the fllip's boat, and eagerly threw myfelf over
the fhip's fide to get into her, that I might recover my
hat—my fight deceived me, for the boat was twenty
feet from the fhip's fide—l was, however, half over
board, and fliould in one moment more have plung
ed myfelf into the water, when they catched hold
of my clothes behind and pulled me back.—This was
an amazing cfcape, for I could not swim if I had been
sober.— The tide ran very strong—my companions
were too much intoxicated to save me, and the rest
of the fhip's company were asleep—so near I was to
appearance of perishing in that dreadful condition,
and finking into eternity under, the weight of myovtn
curse. This is one of the many evident interpolati
ons of providential care, even while I was defying
his power and goodness; but this, and many other
deliverances were all loft upon me, and for a space
of many months, if not for some years, I cannot re
colled that I had a tingle check of conscience—its
admonitions from successive repulses had grown weak
er and weaker, and at length entirely ceased.—At
times I have been visited with sickness, and have be
lieved myfelf near to death; but 1 had not the least
concern about the consequences—neither mercies nor
judgments made the least impression upon me—in a
word, I seemed to have every mark of final impe
nitence.—l shall omit further particulars, and pro
ceed, in my next, to something I hope more worthy
your perusal. [To be continued.]
NOTICE
By the clerk of the Supreme Court.
MANY performs having adopted the practice of
figging the procetfes, pleadings and other pa
pers in their own actions and suits, and of procuring
rules or orders to be entered on their own motion or
application to the court, it has become necessary for
the preventing of disappointments and mistakes, to
give the following general information. That, as the
fame law which authorizes persons to institute and
carry on their own causes, prescribes the payment of
the office-fees; no processes, pleadings or other pa
pers whatsoever will be filed, or entries made on the
docket or otherwise, unless the fees are paid at the time
of the filing or entry, or some pradifing attorney shall, in
the usual manner, make himfelf responsible for them.
It has always been the course of the office to keep
accounts with all the pradifing attornies in the state,
and this, of itfelf, is extremely laborious: but to
keep accounts with all the suitors of the court
who do business there to the amount of a few six
pences or nine-pences, is absolutely impossible. The
smallness of the fees renders the payment of them
easy, and the collection of them in any other than
the above-mentioned mode, ridiculous. Not to pay
them at the time, except in the case of those whole
profeflion it is to attend the court, is the fame thing,
in effect, as not to pay them at all.
The several printers of news-papers in the state,
are requested to publifn the above in their papers.
Notice is hereby given,(
r l'O the creditors of John Lee, Zedekiah South and
I Hannah Shea, insolvent debtors, now confined
in the common gaol of the county of Hunterdon, to
appear before two of the judges of the inferior court
of common pleas for said county, at the courthouse
in Trenton, on Tuesday the 211't of November next,
at ten o'clock in the forenoon of the fame day, to
shew cause if any they have, why an alignment of
the laid John Lee, Zedekiah South and Hannah Shea's
estates should not be made, and they be difeharged
agreeably^ the alt of the legislature, in such case
made and ,ovidcd.
JOHN LEE,
ZEDEKIAH SOUTH,
4w* HANNAH SHEA.
A Journeyman Fuller,
WHO understands his business well, and can be
recommended for his industry and sobriety, will
find employ and good wages, by applying to the sub
scriber, in Nottingham, near Trenton.
FRANCIS GASPER.
Nottingham, Od. 28, 1786. zw
JUST PUBLISHED,
And to be fold wholesale and retail, at the Printing-
Office in Trenton, the New-Jersey
ALMAN A C K,
For the year 1787;
Containing, beside the usual agronomical calcu
lations, a variety of entertaining and inhru&ive mat
ter in prose and verse.
New-Jersey Conffcated Lands.
To be fold, by publick vendue,
The following very valuable lots and tracts of land
and farms, in the county of Middlesex; also sun
dry proprietary rights of unlocated lands, in the
eastern division of the said state, to wit,
1. ' rHE one half of a small red house and lot of aboht
1 one acre of land, situate on the north fide of
Smith street, adjoining the tavern-house and lot be
longing unto John Rattoon, now in possession of Ja
cob Wifor, in Perth-Amboy, a part of the forfeited
estate of Stephen Skinner, late of Perth-Amboy afore
laid.
2. Three-sevenths of the one-fourth share of that
elegant brick house and lot of land, situate on High
ftreet, in Perth-Amboy, formerly the estate of An
drew Johnston, Esquire, deceased, a part of the for
feited estate of Peter, Andrew and Oliver Barbaric,
late of Perth-Amboy aforefaid. Also a number of
lots of land in and near Perth-Amboy, forfeited by
Alexander Watson and others; which shall be more
particularly described at the day of sale.
3. One acre of land lituate near the square inWood
bridge, on the east fide of the street leading to Eliza
beth-Town, a part of the forfeited estate of John
Heard, late of Woodbridge.
4. About 73 acres of land, situate on Raritan river,
in South-Amboy, a great part of which is salt and
frelh meadow, a part of the forfeited estate of John
Morfs, late of the county of Essex.
5. A lot of land adjoining the farm late John Pe
rine's, near Macheponix river, in South-Amboy, con
taining about 8 acres of land, a part of the forfeited
estate of John Perine, of South-Amboy aforefaid.
6. About 7 acres and seven-tenths of an acre of
land, situate in Woodbridge, adjoining lands of Da
niel Moores and others, a part of the forfeited estate
of Isaac Dunham, late of Woodbridge.
7. About 3 and an half acres of fait meadow, situate
near Walker's-Creek, in the townfliip of Pifeataway,
a part of the forfeited estate of Jacob Boice, late of
Pifeataway aforefaid.
8. About 100 acres of land, situate at Deep-Run;
near South river, in South-Amboy, a part of the for
feited estate of Barnardus Legrange, late of New-
Brunswick.
9. About 12 acres of salt meadow, situate in Wood
bridge, a part of the forfeited estate of Jonathan Claw
fon, late of Woodbridge.
10. About 20 acres of salt meadow, situate in Wood
bridge, a ' part of the forfeited estates of Stephen Skin
ner and John Smyth, late of Perth-Amboy.
If. About 105 acres of land, situate in Pifeataway,
held by mortgage. Also some other lots of land, a
part of the forfeited estate of Hugh Wallace, late of
New- York.
12. About 1087 and five hundredths of an acre, of un
located proprietary rights of land, in East-Jersey, any
where except Romopock and Sussex allotments. Also
1359ahd three hundred and feventy-five one thousandths
of an acre, south of Raritan river, a part of the for
feited estate of Oliver Delancey, late of New-York.
13. The one-third of the one-seventh of ohe 48th
share of about 1084 and half acres, of unlocated pro
prietary rights of land, in East-Jersey, forfeited by
John Williams, late of the county of Monmouth.
14. One-third of one-fourth of the one forty-eighth
share in 4166 acres, of unlocated proprietary rights of
land, in East-Jersey, on which there is due on the
fourth dividend to be located any where except Romo
pock and Sussex allotments, 83 and thirty-three hun
dredths of an acre. Also 104 and sixteen hundredths
of an acre, any where south of Raritan river. Also
a warrant on Pine Land, south of Raritan river, of 62
and fifty hundredths of an acre —all of which is a part
of the forfeited estate of Philip Kearney, late of Perth-
Amboy.
15- Two shares of unlocated proprietary rights of
land, in East-Jersey, a part of the forfeited estate of
Jonathan and Abraham Stout, kite of the county of
Monmouth.
16. About 530 and thirty-eight thousandths of an
acre, of unlocated proprietary rights of land, any
where in East-Jersey, except Romopock and Sussex al
lotments. Also 663 and fix thousand seven hundred
and twenty-five ten thousandths of an acre, any where
south of Raritan river, a part of the forfeited estate
of Cortland Skinner, late of Perth-Amboy.
17. About 500 acres of unlocated proprietary rights
of land, in East-Jersey, any where except Romopock
and Sussex allotments. Alio 625 acres any where
south of Raritan river, a part of the forfeited estate of
Heathcote Johnston, late of Perth-Amboy.
A true statement of which shall be shewn at the day
of sale. Also sundry other forfeited unlocated pro
prietary rights, &c.
18. A trait of about Bco acres of land, situate on the
call fide of South river, in South-Amboy aforefaid,
a part of the forfeited estate of Michael Kearney, late
of Perth-Amboy, for and during his natural life.
19. A lease of 28 years on a storehouse, situate in
New-Brunswick, in Quecn-ftrect, a part of the forfeit
ed estate of John Duykink, of New-Brunswick afore
faid.
20. One-third of a trad of land on South river in
South-Amboy, containing about 500 acres. Also one
fixth of 350 acres at Macheponix. Also one-sixth of 210
acres adjoining the fame. Also 550 acres in and about
Spotfwood, a part of the forfeited estate of William
Terrill, late of Perth-Amboy.
21. The three-sevenths of one-third of the aforefaid
trails, which is forfeited by William Terrill, is alfs
forfeited by Peter, Andrew and Oliver Barbarie, and
the light of Stephen Skinner, forfeited in the fame;
all late of Perth-Amboy.
22. A number of forfeited rights of land, held by
mortgage, to wit, Solomon Brecount to Alexander
Watson, for 20 acres of land, situate in Woodbridge;
Samuel Drake to Stephen Skinner, for 80 acres of land,
situate in Pifeataway ; John Gach to Philip Gach, for
4 acres of land, situate in Woodbridge; William
High to Stephen Skinner, sundry goods and chattels,
lands, &c. lituate in South-Amboy; Thomas Bucke-
Icw to Alexander Watson, for 105 acres of land in
South-Amboy; Abraham Letts to Barnardus Le
grange, for lands at Roundabouts in South-Amboy, 011
Raritan river; Biffet Weeks to Stephen Skinner, a
lot of land in Perth-Amboy, bounded by Water
ftreet ; all of which shall be more particularly describ
ed at the day of sale.
23. The publick barracks at Perth-Amboy, also
the land on which they stand; and also New-Bruu
fwick barracks, by lot or otherwise.
All which lots of land, farms and plantations, and
proprietary unlocated rights of land, I shall expose at
publick lale,. on Monday the 27th day of November
next, at the house of John Hampton, innholder, in
Perth-Amboy, to begin at ten o'clock, and continue
from day to day, until all are fold. Besides cash in lawful
money of this state, the following state obligations
will be received in payment, to wit, officers' and fol
diers' notes given for the depreciation of their pay,
notes given by the commissioners on settlement for pay
due to the militia of this state, notes given for debts
liquidated by Silas Condid, Esquire, and notes given
by the treasurer for balance due to persons on demands
against forfeited estates. The conditions of payment
shall be made known the day of sale by
DAVID OLDEN, Agent.
October 28, 1786. 2W
Lampblack,
Of the belt Quality,
May be had at the PRINTING-OFFICE.