The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1778-01-21 00:00:00, page 4

indeed, by reason of the war has been dearer, but
not more than double what it used to be ;---will
that warrant five and fix fold advance on all the ne
cessaries of life ? which is in fact the case in almo'ft
every instance. But let us go farther, hath not the
continent raised an army to defend them, who are
engaged for three years or during the war, many of
whom have families to maintain at home, while they
are jeoparding their lives in the field, and contract
ed to pay them wages in proportion as things were
then? wheat at four (hillings per bushel, &c. and
now it is raised to twenty or thirty (hidings per bush
el, and daily riling, and other things in proportion.
I ask the question, will your army continue to de
fend you in the field, when their wives and their
children are famifhing and crying for bread at home,
through your intolerable oppressions ? or will they
turn their arms against you, and do themselves jus
tice ? My countrymen! for Heaven's fake flop in
your mad career, pause a moment and confider,
what you are doing, to what your ungodly avarice
tends, and tremble at the consequences, unless speedily
prevented by a reformation as universal, as the vice
is become epidemical.
A CONTINENTALIST.
STATE of NEW-JERSEY.
Afupplementary a 8 to an act, intitled, An act to explain
and amend an 'act, intitled, an Act for the better re
gulating the militia, and the fa,plcmental act thereto.
WHEREAS in several townships and precincts in
this state, the conftabies have neglected or re
fufed to perform the duties required of them by an
aft, intitled, An a& to explain and amend,an aft, in
titled, An aft for the better regulating the militia, and
the fupblemental act thereto.
Sed. I. Be IT ENACTED b, the council and general
assembly of this state, and it is hereby enabled by the
authority of the fame, That in every case where the
constable or constables of any township or precinct
shall negledt or refufe to perform the duties of him
or them required by the said a&, it shall and may be
lawful for any two justices of the peace of the coun
ty in which such township lies, to issue their warrant
to any non-commissioned officer or private, being a
freeholder of any company in which a delinquency
may happen, who is hereby empowered and requir
ed to execute the office of a constable in such case :
And the said non-commissioned officer or private shall
receive the like fees and rewards, and be fubje& to
the like fines and forfeitures as any constable in such
case might and ought to receive and be fubjeCt to.
2. AND WHEREAS the average forfeitures in
curred by such delinquents as do not yield their per
sonal service in the field, nor procure substitutes, and
for whom the field-officers of the regiment or batta
lion cannot procure substitutes agreeably to the se
venth feftion of an a&, intitled, An aft to explain
and amend an act, intitled, An aft for the better regu
lating the militia, and the Supplemental act thereto,
are not appropriated in the said aft ; Be IT ENACT
ED by the authority aforefaid, That the; field-officers
of the several regiments or battalions shall make out,
as often as occasion may ' require, a lift of the names
cf the several persons in their refpedtive.regiments or
battalions who do not procure substitutes, and for
whom the said officers cannot procure substitutes, and
shall annex to the said names the .average sums in
which the delinquents are federally fined; which lift
the said field-officers shall deliver to any two justices
of the peace of the county in which such delinquents
reside; and the said justices are hereby required to
issue their warrant to any constable, non-commission
ed officer or private as in the preceding lection of
this ad is directed, commanding him to levy the
fame by distress and sale on the goods and chattels of
the refpe&ive delinquents, and the money when re
covered shall be paid to the collector of the county, to
be by him paid into the treasury for the use of the state.
3. AND WHEREAS doubts have arisen whether
the commissioned officers of each company have, since
the passing of the said ad, the power of determining
upon and admitting excuses agreeably to the thirty
fourth fedion of the act, intitled, An ad for the bet
ter regulating the militia, passed the fifteenth day of
March last ; Be it enacted by the authority afore
faid, That the said commissioned officers of, each
company have, and they are hereby declared to have
and retain the power of hearing, determining upon
and admitting excuses as in the said thirty-fourth
fedion of the a&for the better regulating the militia
is declared and allowed.
4. AND WHEREAS many inconveniences have
arisen from the practice of giving exorbitant premi
ums to substitutes, Be it enacted by the authority
aforefaid, That, from and after the publication of
this ad, no greater sum than fifty dollars shall be
given by the field-officers of any regiment or batta-
B ^^ T Asr rt ^ , A " Persons may be supplied with this Gazette at fontyfa Skills
Ton mens of a moderate Length are inserted for Seven Shillings and Six-pence each the firft Week, and
Iwo Shillings and Six-pence for every Continuance ; and long Ones in Proportion.
Extraordinary Wages,
And an exemption from serving in the militia :
AND still higher wages, without such exemption,
will be given to a few choice wood-cutters and
labourers, to be employed at the independent falt
works, about eighteen miles southward of the forks
of Little-Egg-Harbour, and two miles northward of
Abfequean river.
Apply at the said works to
3 NATHANIEL PETTIT.
WAS LOS T,
The firft of January 1778, between Trenton and
Croffwicks,
A RED MOROCCO POCKET-BOOK, con
taining between eighteen and twenty dollars,
ten States lottery tickets, No. 916, 917, 918, 931,
932, 942, 943, 5518, 5498, 5499, and fundry' other
papers which will be of no use to any but the owner.
Whoever hath found the fame, and will bring it to
the Printer of this paper, shall have the money for
their trouble.
lion for a substitute to serve in the place of any mi
litia-man for one month, any law or custom to the
contrary notwithstanding.
Paged at Princeton, Dec. 12, 1777.
STATE of NEW-JERSEY.
An act to exempt a number of men from actual service
in the militia, to be employed in the manufacturing of
fait and iron cultbin the State of New-Jersey.
WH E. R EAS the making and manufacturing of
salt and iron in this State, ought to be encou
raged and promoted;
Sod. I. Be it enacted by the council and general
afembly of this State, and it is hereby enacted by the
authority of the fame, That at each salt-works- ereded
and carried on in this State, there be exempted from
actual service in the militia one man for every five
hundred gallons the pans, kettles, or other vessels
used for boiling, belonging to the said works, will
contain, to be employed only and solely at the works
that now are or hereafter may be ereded. And that
there be exempted from actual service in the militia
three men to each forge or bloomary, and twelve
men at each furnace, to be employed only and solely
at the said forges and furnaces refpedively.
2. And be it enacted by the authority aforefaid,
That the said exempts Ihall be armed and accoutred
by the proprietors or managers of the refpedive
works at which they are employed, shall attend
monthly musters and regimental reviews in the com
panies and regiments within the bounds of which
they are severally employed, and shall be taxed as
other exempts, agreeably to the ad, intitled, An ad
for the better regulating the militia, but shall not be
called into adual service unless the county in which
they are employed as aforefaid be invaded.
3. PROVIDED ALWAYS, that no owner or pos
sessor of any salt-works or iron-works, or any forge,
bloomary or furnace, who has heretofore obtained
exemptions for any of their workmen, shall be en
titled to any further privilege or allowance of men
by this ad.
Passed at Princeton, Dec. 11, 1777.
Twenty-fourth of the lath month, 1777.
TWENTY-FOUR DOLLARS
REWAR D.
WAS STOLEN out of the fubferibers liable,
on the 23d of this instant at night, in Not
tingham township, Burlington county, a dun roan
HORSE, fifteen hands high, four years old next
spring, a natural trotter and carries well. And also
on the fame night, was stolen out of the stable of
John Weatherill, in the township and county afore
faid, a bay MARE, three years old next spring, about
fourteen hands high, with a small star in her fore
head. Whoever takes up the said horses and returns
them to the fubferibers, and secures the thief or
thieves in any gaol, shall have the above reward, or
EIGHT DOLLARS for either of the horses, paid
by either of the fubferibers.
ISAIAH ROBINS.
4w * JOHN WEATHERILL.
BOND and PAIN,
Have for sale, at their STORE in Morristown,
SUGAR, coffee, chocolate, pepper, alfpice, indigo,
fnuff, cloves, mace, cinnamon, nutmegs, hand
kerchiefs, pins, spelling-books, primers, a quantity
of bohea tea, steel plate, handsaws, a few pieces of
Dutch linen, &c. &c.'
3^*
A TRACT of near fix hundred acres of good lane,
in three plantations, adjoining each other, with
houses, barns, stables, and other improvements,
lying in the county of Middlesex, and eastern division
of New-Jersey, is to be exchanged for a well im
proved plantation of equal value in the weffern divi
sion of New-Jersey, any where between Woodberry
and Croilwicks. The title of the above-mentioned
land is indisputable, free of every kind of incum
brance, and has been purchased some time. For
further particulars enquire of Mr. Peter Shiras in
Mount-Hollv.
N. B. A good chair and saddle horse, also a riding
chair with a top and apron complete and almost new,
to be fold, enquire as above. 3w
W A N T E D,
A quantity of good clean
LAMPBLAC K.
Any person having it for sale, is requested to inform
the printer hereof.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
TE N or fifteen gallons of good old LINSEED
OII # . Any person having such a quantity for
sale, may hear of a purchaser by conveying a line to
the printer hereof.
'December 26,
TO BE SO LD,
By JOSEPH CARSON, at Bordentown,
A FEW hogsheads of tobacco, sugar in barrels,
loaf sugar ditto, green tea in bottles, Weft-In
dia rum in hogsheads, ivory combs, needles, and a
few dozen of pfalters,.fix half pieces fuperfine cloth,
and eighteen pieces of striped fhamoys. 4w*
A GOOD PRICE AND READY MONEY,
Is given by the Printer hereof, for
CLEAN LINEN RAGS,
AND
HOGS BRISTLE S.
TO THE PUBLIC.
ANY person that has for sale beef, pork, flour,
wheat, and potatoes, will find a purchaser in
William Crifpin, Comm^ary to the State fleet of
Pennfylvar.ia, at Trenton. t f
LAMP; TANNER S,
AND
SPERMACETI OI L,
To be fold by
T HOMAS BUD D, Jun.
At Julia-Town, in Burlington County, New-Jersey.
IV NTE ? to hire immcd i atel y, a PLANTATI
VV ON of about 2 or 300 acres, with a fufficient
quantity of good meadow. Any person having such
a place to let, may hear of a tenant, by applying to
the printer of this paper. ts
. January 10, 1778.
10 all wnoin it may concern.
State of New-Jersey, ff.
NOTICE is hereby given, that a Court of Ad
nuralty will be held in Trenton, at the house of
Ranflalear Williams, on Saturday the 31st of Janu
ary instant, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of the
fame day, then and there to try the truth of the
facts alledged in the bills of Robert Collins (who as
well, &c.) against the sloop or vessel called the .Sally,
her tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo, burden
about fifty tons, lately commanded by Randle Mum
ford : Also of Thomas Willis (who as well, &c.)
against the schooner or vessel called the Little Hope,
her tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo, burden
about forty tons, lately commanded by Captain
Meafe: And of Isaac Cooper (who as well, &c.)
against the sloop or fhallop called and known by the
name of Lewis's Mill Boat, her tackle, apparel, fur
niture and cargo, burden about twenty tons, lately
commanded by Daniel Butler. To the end and intent
that the owner or owners of the said vessels and their
cargoes, or any person concerned therein, may ap
pear and shew cause, if any they have, why the fame
should not be condemned according to the prayer
of the said Bills.
By order of the Judge,
„ BOWES REED, Pro. Reg.
December 1777.
TO BE SOLD,
A QUANTITY of Spanish made SUGAR; in
hogsheads, barrels, or smaller quantity, by
WILIJAM MONTGOMERY, near Allen-Town.