The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1779-04-14 00:00:00, page 3

" at Philadelphia, having signed triplicate receipts.
Signed " officer of the guard."
That such cases or packages be not received by the
Treasurer of Loans, unless accompanied with parti
cular invoices, fpecifying the numbers of the bundles
in each case or package, and the contents of each
bundle.
That one of the said receipts be endorsed by the
Treasurer of Loans, on his receiving the cases and
packages mentioned therein, and delivered to the
officer of the guard as his discharge.
By order of the Board,
JOHN NICHOLSON, Clerk.
P. S. The Printers in the several dates are request
ed to publish the above three weeks fucceliively.
In CONGRESS, 29th March, 1779.
WHEREAS the Bahama Islands are now garrison
ed by and under the military government of
the King of Great-Britain, and the inhabitants of the
said Islands have of iate fitted out many privateers and
armed vessels for cruizing on the coasts of these
United States, and that such privateers and armed
vessels have actually captured divers vessels, the pro
perty of the citizens of these States, on the coalt of
South-Carolina ;
Resolved, That the Refolutjon of Congress of the
twenty-fourth day of July, one thousand seven hun
dred and seventy-six, so far as it relates to the laid
Bahama Islands, be repealed, and from and alter the
date^of this resolution held void.
Extract from the minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, Sec.
T RENIO N, April 14.
Officers commanding battalions in the militia of
this state, are desired to pay the ftrideft attention to
their men's arms and accoutrements, that they may
be in the most perfect order. Those in want of am
munition will make an immediate return to the com
missary of military stores at this place. It is parti
cularly recommended to both officers and privates to
pay the greatest attention to SIGNALS, and the
ftrideft compliance with the orders they will receive.
We hear that Commissioners, appointed by their
Excellencies General Washington and Sir Henry
Clinton, met on Monday last at Perth-Amboy, in
order once more to endeavour to fettle a cartel for
a general exchange of prisoners.-
The General Affemh^y of the state of Rhode-Ifland
have ordered two taxes to be assessed, amounting to
150,0001. and also voted a brigade of 1500 men, to
be immediately raised, to consist of two battalions of
infantry, and a regiment of artillery.
The Legislature of the Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania have enabled a law for railing, by tax, four
millions of dollars within the current year.
On the 13th of March a Spanish snow arrived at
Portsmouth, in New-Hampshire, laden with rum,
sugar, wine, dry goods, hides, &c.
The Rattle-Snake, Capt. Cannon, from the Aux
Cayes, in Hispaniola, is arrived in James River, Vir
ginia, laden with rum, sugar, coffee, &c.
BY HIS EXCELLENCY
WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, Esquire,
Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the
State of Ne^w-ferfey, and Territories thereunto be
longing, Chanc^lor and Ordinary in the fame ;
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS it hath been represented to me, that
several Captains and owners of private vessels
of war belonging to this state, instead of securing the
prisoners taken by such private vessels of war 111 the
vessels belonging to the enemy, or fending them to
, the Commissary of Prisoners for this state, to be ex
changed for the citizens thereof in captivity with the
enemy, have frequently released them, or given them
an opportunity to escape ; and that the militia of this
state have been guilty of the like practice, refpeding
such of the enemy's seamen as have been branded 011
our coast, and have surrendered themfelvcs prisoners
to them; I have therefore thought fit by and
with the advice of the Honourable Privy Council of
this state to issue this Proclamation, hereby ftri&ly
enjoining and requiring all the captors and owners of
such private vessels of war, and all those of our mi
litia who fliall in future happen to become poffefFcd
of Britilh seamen, as aforefaid, to fend such prison
ers with all convenient speed to Eltj'ba Boudinot, Esq.
Commissary of Prisoners, or to secure them until he
can, upon their notifying him of their capture or sur
render, take them under his own direction ; and this
as they will answer the contrary at their peril.
Given under my Hand and Seal at Arms at
Princeton, the ninth day of April, in the year
of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and
seventy-nine. WIL. LIVINGSTON.
By His Excellency's command,
Bowes Reed, Sec.
Mr. Collins,
Please to give the following a place in your next Ga
zette, and you will oblige a true friend to mankind in
every flation whether civil or military.
IN the Pennsylvania Gazette of March 17, there
appeared several Resolves of the General Assem
bly of that state, which were agreed to, March 13,
1779, f° r the assistance of their officers and sol
diers of the army; which shews a becoming gene
rosity and attention of the Legislature towards their
troops: It is molt ardently to be wished that the Le-'
giflative Body of this state may adopt a similar me
thod at their next felting in behalf of their troops,
who have by no means merited less than their neigh
bours, and whose situation equally demands their
early attention. JUSTICE.
The Commissioners for disposing of Confifca
ted Estates may be supplied with Blank Deeds of
Conveyance, by the Printer hereof.
HE Subferibers who are indebted for this Ga-
T zette for 1778, will oblige the Printer by dis
charging their relpeHive Arrears. To facilitate this
Duty, Accounts have been made out and transmitted
to the Gentlemen to whom the Packets were direct
ed, and with whom the Individual Subscribers of
each Packet are requested to fettle their Accounts.
It may not be amiss, perhaps, here to remark, that
the Price of this Gazette hath not exceeded one Half
its Value ever since the regulating Adt was suspended,
compared with that ofthe Necetfaries of Life.
WRI RING-PAPER by the ream or quire, wafers
in boxes, spelling books, primers, school
masters assistants, ceconomy of human life —Also
rheubarb, Jesuits bark, in the gross or pulverized ;
brunftone, manna, senna, salts, gum afafeetida,
^ c ° kibe fold for ready cash by the printer hereof.
' l "' I rufiees of New-Jersey College are required
T to attend a Meeting of the Board at their hall,
in Princeton, the 21st of April next, at 9 o'clock.—
The business is of such importance to the institution,
that it is hoped no member will be abient.
_ JAMES CALDWELL, Clerk.
Talbot, Ailicocke, and Co.
At their Store the south fide of Race street between
Second and Third streets, the fifth door above
Moravian Alley, Philadelphia—have for sale,
BOHEA tea in chest , hogfheadu and barrels ; cof
fee in tierces and barrels; sugars in tierces and
barrels; imported salt; green tea; genuine Batavia
arrack in cases or less quantity ; soap in boxes ; Eng
lish cheese ; chocolate; porter, &c. &c. &c. zf
N. B. Wanted, a quantity of black bottles, tor
which the highest price will be given.
r l'G BE SOLD, the 30th day ot this inftant,at
Princeton, the house and about twelve acres of
good land, and a framed house with a cellar under it
of hone, with three rooms on the floor and two
rooms in the second story, and a good honed w ell by
the door, and about twenty bearing apple trees on
said lot. The house and land the property of the
Rev. William Tennent, deceased, fold by us
2w* JOHN COVENHOVEN,
April 5, 1779. AARONJMATTISON. _
The famous and well-known HORSE
TRAVE L L O R,
NOW rising nine years old, will cover the ensuing
season at the plantation of the fubferiber in Pif
cataque, on the road leading from Bound-Brook to
Quibble-Town. Travellor is of full size, fifteen
hands and a half high, well set for his height; his
colour is a dark claret, and very beautiful. He
sprung from the best blood in Great-Britain, his pe
digree is the fame as True Briton, they being bro
thers ; his carriage, beauty, behaviour and spirit make
him equal, if not superior, to any horse in this Rate.
He is to cover at Twenty-fix Dollars the season for
each mare, and One Dollar to the groom. The
money to be paid at the time of covering, or before
taken away, if required. Good pasture will be pro
vided for mares at One Dollar per week.
ABRAHAM FREEMAN.
TU C 0 V E R,
For Thirty Dollars the season, at the fubferiber's in
Mansfield, near Bordentown, the beautiful
STALLION, called
CLEAR AL L,
And known by ' many by the name of Grover's Black.
'THIS horse was got by Old Bullyrock, and his dam
1 a remarkable fine three-quarters blooded Dorfen
mare. His performances are so well known in run
ning, and getting good colts, that more need not
be said of him. Attendance given by
aws JOSHUA FOSTER.
State of New-Jersey, April 9, 1779.
YOUNG F7gU AA,
A Beautiful brown, in excellent order, five years
old this grass, will cover mares the ensuing sea
son at the liable of John Reading, in Amwell town
ship, county of Hunterdon, Weft New-Jersey, at
the moderate price of Forty Dollars the season, for
cash only. Young Figure is nearly a full blooded
horse; was got by the famous horse Old Figure, his
dam got by the noted horse Old Valiant, his gran
dam by the Old Bullyrock, whose flock and blood
being so well known in this and the adjacent Rates,
need no further recommendation. Good care will
be taken of mar&, and pasture provided at a mode
rate price. The said Reading lives within two miles
and three-quarters of Flemington, joining the South
Branch of Raritan.
The Old Valiant, formerly belonging to George
Coryell, and lately to the aforefaid John Reading,
covers this season at William Betts, in the state of
Pennsylvania, within five miles and a half of Coryell's
ferry, and one mi!, and a half from Buckingham
meeting-house, at Sixty Dollars the season, ready
cash. Pasture provided at a moderate price by said
Betts, and good care will be taken of mares. if
TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.
A ROBBER Y.
r rHE shop of Robert Eaftburn, in New-Brunswick,
I was broke open on Monday night the 15th of
March, and robbed of the following goods: 1 piece
of blue taffeta, 1 piece of black ruliel, 1 piece of
cambrick, a remnant of scarlet broadcloth, 2 pieces
of flriped holland, the one broad the other narrow
flriped, about a pound and a half of sewing silk, one
pound or upwards of fine thread, 2 large blue sailor's
jackets, 2 remnants containing about ten yards of
black gauze, 1 blue cloth cloak the hoed cut off ;
also sundry buttons, brass buckles, ribbons, broad
silk ferret, white, yellow and black, cap tape, flay
laces, brass oval sleeve buttons, fine, coarse and crook
ed horn combs, and some coffee. Whoever can dis
cover the robber or robbers, so that he, she, or they
may be brought to justice and convicted, and the
goods recovered, fliall receive the above reward, or
150 dollars for the goods, or a proportionable rew aid
for any part of them that can be recovered. All mer
chants, traders, and others, are desired to flop any
part of the laid goods that may be offered for sale by
fufpe<fted perlons.
N. B. The said Eaftburn has for sale, tea, sugar,
coffee, chocolate, tamarinds, currants, sweet oil, nut
mtgs, cinnamon, mace, cloves, citron, pasteboards,
Weft-India rum and molasses by the gallon, import
ed fine fait by the barrel, bushel, or less quantity,
wilting paper, ink powder, pen knives, wafers, piped,
tobacco, watch chains and seals, pins by the pound
or ounce, check, striped and white linen, buttons,
buckles, knives, razors, pocket bottles, needles by
the thousand or less quantity, coarse and fine threads,
Caftile and common soap, inuff in bladders, allum,
brimhone, copperas, earthen ware, choice indigo,
redwood, log wood, straight and crooked combs, and
lundry other articles. April 5, 1779.
Bristol, April 5, 1779.
'I'HE publick are hereby informed that the sub-
L scriber is furnilhed with boats necessary for the
ule of the ferry from this place to the city of Bur
lington, where there is also a ferry kept regular to
this place. Good attendance fliall be given, and
proper persons employed to conduct the passengers.
Allo travellers may be accommodated with every ne
eehary for man and horse ; liquors of the firft qua
lity, such as Madeira, Port and Fyall wines, punch
and toddy, best Bristol beer and Taunton ale, by
ARCHIBALD M'ELROY, innkeeper, at the ferry
houfe, Bristol.
O E SOL D,
At publick Vendue, on Saturday the 17th day of
April, at the house of the fubferiber near the Bap
tilt meeting-house, in Hopewell;
SEveial draught horses, mares with foal, English
colts; milch cows, a yoke of oxen, young cat
tle, and fhcep ; imported salt, and some shop goods,
with sundry other things too tedious to mention.
The vendue to begin at ten o'clock on laid day,
where the conditions of sale will be made known,
and attendance given by
April 12. iw* ' TIMOTHY BRUSH,jun.
'O BE SOLD, a plantation containing 200 acres
A. of good land, well watered and timbered, and
good meadow ground, with a small frame house with
two rooms, a Dutch barn not thatched, with a young
bearing orchard; situate in Bedminfter, Somerset
county, State of New-Jersey, adjoining Peter De
mond, about two miles from New-Germantown on
a read leading to Pluck'emin, and may be entered
upon immediately. For terms apply to the fubferi
ber near the premises. 21
April 2d, 1779: DANIEL HENRY.
AL L perlons indebted to, or that have any de
mands against Daniel Smith, saddler, of Mor
ristown, are requested to call on him with their re
fpetlive accounts, in order for a settlement. 4W
Morristown, April 5, 1779.
EVANTED, a Journeyman-Saddler. Any person
VV who will come well recommended, ihall re
ceive the current price given at this time, by apply
ing to Daniel Smith, at Morristown. 4W
Moriiftown, April 5, 1779.
Middlesex, New- RY virtue of a writ of Fieri Fa-
Jersey. D cias issued out ot the Supreme
Court, at the suit of Anne Okill against the admini
strators of Peter Sonmons, deceased, I have taken
and seized a trad of land situate at the Roundabout,
on Raritan river, containing by estimation 600 acres.
All which I ihall expose at publick sale on Monday
26th day of April next, at the house of Joseph Den
nis, innholder at Spottfwood, between the hours of
12 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon, pursuant to the
Ad of Assembly in that case made and provided.
Feb. 26, 1779. iw John Piatt, Sheriff.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
BROKE out of Trenton gaol, in the county of
Hunterdon, the 13th of March last, a Robber,
who called himfelf Adam Ruff, but has changed his
name three times. Said robber is a down-looking
fellow, with straight black hair, has the appearance
of an Indian, is about five feet nine inches high ; had
on when be went away, an old brown coat and plush
breeches, white cotton flockings, old Ihoes tied with
firings, and old wool hat. Whoever takes up said
robber, and secures him in any gaol, or brings him
to Trenton gaol, fliall be entitled to the above re
ward, Jos. Inslee, Sheriff.
N. B. Said robber is supposed to have gone to
wards Virginia, from whence he came. iw*