The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1783-01-01 00:00:00, page 3

Consent of all the cities and provinces; and clerks
are employed in making out four copies for the sig
nature, which will be done this week.
" By a Gazette de France, of O&ober 22, it ap
pears that the treaty was signed on the 7th of Oc
tober, by Mr. Adams on the one part, and by seven
deputies of the States-General, one from each
state."
We can, from good authority, inform our read
ers, that a commission has parted the great seal of
Great-Britain, authorizing Mr. Richard Oswald, of
the city cf London, to treat with the United States of
America, or their Commissioners, in the general ne
gociation for a peace at Paris. A copy of this com
million was yesterday morning read in Congress.
When the Danse frigate left France, a report
prevailed that the Britilh settlement of Madras, in
the Eaft-lndies, had been taken by Hyder Ally's
troops, assisted by the French forces in that quarter.
By several late arrivals from the Weft-Indies, we
have great reason to suppose that the C. d'Estaing
will Ihortly make his appearance in that quarter, at
the head of a very refpe&able naval force.
We are told Mr. Oswald's commission is dated
the 21st of September: That when the Danz fri
gate left France, the negociation of peace seemed
in a good train; one of the grand obstacles being
got over, by the Britilh giving their commissioners
power to meet and treat with a commissioner or
commissioners from the Thirteen United States of
America.
Extras of a letter from London, dated zluguf
31, 1782.
" I flattered myfelf for some months past, that
by this day an happy and lading peace would have
been effected between this country and America, as
I well know our present Minidry have every wish,
and shew every disposition for that desirable pur
pose.
" The independency of America is absolutely
agreed on in council : I (as one of a committee of
merchants trading to America) was told so by Lord
Shelburne himfelf a few days ago.
" The ports of Calais and Dover are open, and
meflengers palling daily, on the purport of a gene
ral Congress meeting for terminating the war, of
which all the powers in Europe seem to be heartily
tired."
° TRENTO N, January I.
House of assembly, December 1 1, 1 782.
WHEREAS considerable arrearages of pay
remain due to many of the militia of this
state, for services done at different periods of time,
for payment whereof no particular provision hath
yet been made ; and the Legislature being desirous
that some fufficient mode be adopted for dilcharg
ing the fame; Therefore,
Refolded, That the several militia pay-masters of
this state be dire&ed and required to proceed, with
out delay, to call upon the officers of the militia
within the refpedive counties for which they are
appointed, to make out and produce to them au
thenticated pay-rolls of all the services done by the
militia, for which payment hath not already been
made, which pay-rolls, or the amount thereof, when
obtained, the laid pay-masters are ieverally required
to lay before the Legislature at their next fitting,
together with accounts of their extra expences in
collecting the fame, for allowance and payment.
Extract from the Minutes,
M. EWING, jun. Clerk.
Thursday last the General Assembly of this state
adjourned to Thursday the 15th of May next, then
10 meet at Burlington, for the diftatch of business.
During their fitting the following laws were palled,
viz.
1. An ad for making provision for such invalid
soldiers of this state as may be discharged.
2. An ad to divide the township of Hardwick, in
the county of Suflex.
3. An act for the relief of the poor of the North
Ward of the city of Perth-Amboy. ,
4. An ad to revive and continue the aft, intitled,
' An ad to enable creditors more ealily to recover
their debts from joint partners within the colony of
New-Jerfey.'
5. A supplemental ad to the act for regulating
and eftablilhing admiralty jurisdiction.
6. An ad to repeal the several ads therein men
tioned.
7. An ad more effectually to compel the atten
dance of witnesses and jurors at the courts eftablilhed
in this state for the trial of causes cognizable before
a single justice of the peace.
8. An ad to repeal an ad, intitled, 6 An ad tq
secure the profits of land upon the frontiers of the
state to the owners refpedively, who have been
compelled to abandon the fame.
9. An act to revive and continue an ad, intitled,
' An ad for making process in courts of equity ef
fectual against mortgagors, who abscond and cannot
be served therewith, or who refufe to appear.'
10. An ad for the recovery of certain monies due
for hiring lubftitutes.
11. An ad to establish a company of artillery in
the city of New-Brunf.vick.
12. An ad for enabling trustees to fell and dis
pose of the real estate of Jonathan Hampton, late
of Elizabeth-Town, in the county of Essex, Esq.
deceased, for the uses and parpofes mentioned
therein.
13. An aft to enable the owners of meadows li
tuate in Lower Penns-Neck, in the county of Sa
lem, adjoining Delaware river, to keep in repair
the banks, dams and other water-works thereof,
leading from a point of faft land in the poiTeffion of
John Callahan to the faft land in the possession of
Thomas Thackery, and to keep the water-courses
of said meadow open and clear.
14. An a& to amend an a&,'intitled, ' An aft for
preventing an illicit trade and intercourse between
the fubjeds of this state and the enemy.'
15. An ad to provide for the payment of the se
veral officers of the government of the state of New-
Jersey, to commence the eighth day cf October one
thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, and to end
the second Tuesday in October one thousand seven
hundred and eighty-three;
16. An adto enforce the recovery of the penal
ties on forfeited recognizances and such other debts
and forfeitures due to the Rate as are therein men
tioned, and to authorize any perlon to prosecute
and defend his own suit in any court within this
state, and to repeal part of an ad therein menti
oned.
17. An ad to explain an ad, intitled,' In ad for
making compensation to the troops of this state in
the service of the United States, for the deprecia
tion of their pay."
18. An ad for defraying sundry incidental
charges.
The Court of Commissioners for hearing and de
termining the controversy between the Rates of Con
necticut and Pennsylvania, which have been fitting
for sometime part in this place, role the 30th ult.
We hear they have decided in favour of the state
of Pennfytvania.
BY HIS EXCELLENCY
William Livingston, Esquire,
Governor, Captain-General and Commander in
Chief in and over the State of New-Jersey, and
the Territories thereunto belonging, Chancellor
and ordinary in the fame.
PROCLAMATION.
WHERE >S it has been duly proved to me
in Privy Council, that some time in the
month of September last, about 9 o'clock at night,
the dwelling-house of Thomas fenimore, Esquire,
in the county of Burlington, was broke open by a
number of armed men, who feloniously took and
carried away out of the laid house a considerable
sum of hard money, and of the bills of credit ill'ued
by this state, and also of continental money, toge
ther with a number of certificates that had been re
ceived in payment for taxes ; and that the said bur
glary and robbery was committed by John Bacon,
Icabod johnfon and Job Atkinson;
1 have therefore thought fit, by and with the ad
vice and consent of the Hon. the Privy Council,
and in pursuance of two several ads of the Legisla
ture of this state in such case lately made and pro
vided, to issue this proclamation, hereby promising
the following reward to any person or persons who
shall apprehend the parties so charged as aforefaid,
that is to fay, for apprehending the said John Ba
con, the sum of Fifty Pounds lawful money, and
for apprehending the said Icabod Johnson and Job
Atkinson, the sum of Twenty-five Pounds like mo
ney for each of them; which refpedive rewards
shall be paid on the convidion of the refpedive of
fenders, to the person or persons entitled thereto.
Given under my hand and seal at arms, in
Trenton, the twenty-fifth day of Decem
ber, in the year of our Lord One Thou
sand Seven Hundred and Eighty-two.
WIL. LIVINGSTON.
By his Excellency's command,
Bowes Reed, Secretary,
Trenton, December 31, 1782. '
THE colledors of the several counties of this'
state are hereby particularly called upon im
mediately to pay in the monies colleded under the
ad of the Legislature of 22d June, 1782.
Wm. C. HOUSTON, receiver
of continental taxes for New-Jersey.
BY virtue 01 a writ ot Fieri Facias to me directed,
will be exposed to sale, by publick vendue, to
the highest bidder, at the dwelling-house of Henry
Johnson, in the township of Kingwood, about half
a mile from Baptifb Town, on Tuesday the twenty
fifth day of February next, a certain parcel of land,
containing seven acres and three-quarters, four or
five of which arc excellent meadow: On the said
premises there arc a log house and fhoemakerl ihop..
They adjoin lands offcremiah Thatcher, Tunis Ike,
John Taylor, and the widow Allen, late the pro
perty of the said Henry Johnson; seized and taken
in execution, and to be fold by
JOHN ANDERSON, Sheriff.
_ December 18, 1782. 6«J
'rHE fubferiber requests allthe volunteer horse-
T men, who were concerned in the seizure of
goods at Shrev. fbury, some time early in the year
J 777 (which goods were put u dcr the care of Ben
jamin Randolph) to meet him at Captain Janies
Green's tavern, at Monmouth court-house, on W d
nefday the 15th of January next, in older btake
into consideration some matters relative to the said
goods. It is expeded that if any others are con
cerned, that they or their agents will meet at fame
time and place. GILB. LONGSTREET,
Agent for the volunteer horsemen.
Monmowh couny, December 16, 1782. zw
E L 0 p~ £~D,
H E twenty-ninth of April last,
I from my bed and bpard, Eleanor Shar
wood, and has taken up with another man. This
is to forewarn every person from trusting her in my
name. HUGH STARWOOD.
Middlesex, December 24, 1782. iwff
AT Alexander Power's ftore7"n'cxt door to R.
. Williams's, Esquire, in Trenton, is now fal
ling by wholesale and retail, very low for cash, a
few pieces of coarse blue broad-cloth, fuperfine do.
black velvet, coatings, fwanfkins, serges, flannel,
hats, stockings, silk for bonnets, black and white
gauze, best pins, an elegant assortment of coat and
jacket buttons, knives and forks, ic,ooo tacks, play
ing cards, salt, ginger, white 1 ad, a quantity of
the best royal queens-ware, iron, a fine new cop
per fliil that holds, 146 gallons, with a worm, a quan
tity of Jersey made cheese ; also a number of ufcful
and entertaining books, &c.
N. B. Tallow, lard, beeswax, cheese and butter,
will he taken in exchange for the above goods 3
State ot New-Jersey, ) RJOTICE is hereby given;
Burlington county, ff. ) ' ™ that the file of the plan
tation, late the property of Benjamin Biles, lying
and being in Nottingham, containing about '743
acres, which was advertised for sale this day on the
premises, is postponed to Monday the sixth day of
January next on the premises, between the hours
of 12 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon, by
JACOB PHILLIPS, late Sheriff.
December 30, 170^ iw
Just come to hand,
And to be fold, at the Printing-Office in Trenton,
a complete assortment of elegant blue and white,
enamelled and plain
Queens-Ware,
Among which are the following articles, viz.
Dishes of all sizes,
Chocolate bowls and saucers,
Coffee cups and saucers,
Tea do. enamelled, blue and white and plain,
Fainted, red china, blue and white, enamelled,
black and plain teapots,
Sugar diflies and milk pots of various sizes and fi
gures,
Queens and Nottingham ware, quart mugs and
jugs, pints and half pints,
Chamber pots,
Salts and mustards,
Blue and white, enamelled and plain, half gallon,
three pints, quart and pint bowls,
Warti-hand bafons,
Yellow and brown porringers,
Coffee pots,
Plain and soup plates, &c. &c.
With a variety of other articles, all of which are
now felling on the moll reasonable terms for cash.
STRAYED away from the fubferiber about the
beginning of September last, a yoke of oxen,
coming five years old next spring, one a red with a
white face, the other a black with white spots and
brockled face, black sides ; each of said oxen marked
with a crop off the left ear and two flits, and a half
penny under the right ear; not very large for their
age. Whoever secures said oxen, and gives in
formation thereof to the owner on George's Road,
near New-Brunswick, shall have four dollars re
ward, and reasonable charges paid by
xws EPHRAIM VANTINE.