The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1781-01-17 00:00:00, page 1

Middlesex, New-Jersey, Jan. I, 1781.
Mr. Collins,
I SEND you herewith a short account of a so
ciety which we have lately eroded dn this
county, and which is laudable at lead tor the
public spirit upon which it is founded. 1 hope
your giving it to the public thro' your Gazette will
inspire other counties with similar good resolutions,
and create a correspondence among all the whigs of
the state, to Shew our enemies that no difficulties
into which we may be brought by the accidents of
the war can make us determine not to be free.
The reason of the institution is given in the fol
lowing preamble to their agreement.
A number of the gentlemen of this county, the
firm friends of the present revolution in America,
observing the embarrassment of our public affairs,
through the ill state of our paper currency and the
numerous attempts of our internal enemies, and
wishing to contribute all in their power to strengthen
the civil government, and'to defeat the designs of
these traitors, have agreed for that purpose to form
themselves into a society to be distinguished by the
name of— The Society of Whigs of the County of
Middlesex. —[These gentlemen have subscribed the
following form:]
W E whose names are underwritten, do agree to
enter heartily, sincerely, and bona fide into this so
ciety, pledging ourselves to each other to exert
every prudent endeavour to attain the objects which
it hath in view, for the public good; and to submit
ourselves to the regulations by which it Shall be go
verned.
Then the obje&s of the society are declared to
be these;
ift. To deted and to prosecute such traiterous in
habitants of this state as Shall openly contemn and
violate its salutary laws, and such in particular as
do furnifh provisions to the public enemy.
2(lly. To support and strengthen the executive au
thority in the execution of the laws, and to aflift,
them in calling out the force and the Supplies of the
state against our enemies.
gdly. To recommend to the legislature the enabl
ing of such laws as we conceive to be for the inte
rest of this commonwealth in particular, and of the
continent in general.
4thly. To confider the Situation of such of our
brethren as may be fuffcring in captivity, or by their
generous exertions in behalf of their country ; and
as far as in our power, to procure relief for them,
and a compensation for what they have fullered.—
But we mean that our attention Shall be principally
directed to the fufferers of our own county.
After stating the objeds of their association, they
divide the county into three districts, each of which
Shall nave a society Similar to the general one of the
county, who may form their own rules of proceed
ing, but shall be obliged to report their tranfabtions
to the joint meeting of the whole. 1 his joint meet
ing Shall be composed of seven delegates from each
diftrid, who alone are to do all the buhnels ; the
others, if they attend, attending only as Spectators.
The diftrift Societies are composed of thole gentle
men who originally associated, all of known charac
ters and found principles, and of those whom they
may think it prudent to admit; upon which they
have made this resolution—" It is not our purpose
" to exclude from this Society any gentleman of the
“ county of a fair moral and political character, who
“ may chufe to become a member; however, no
" person Shall be admitted who is not of such fair
" character, and who is not proposed by two mem
" bers and voted by a majority."
The public good, and the establishment of the
liberty and independence of America, are their foie
aim ; and with this view they invite the other coun
ties to enter into similar associations, and to eltablifh
a correspondence with them. Their President is the
Rev. Azel Roe, of Woodbridge ; their Vice-Pre
sident the Rev. Samuel Smith, of Princeton ; and
their Secretary Col. Jonathan Deare.
A. B.
[Vol. IV.] THE [Numb. 160 J
NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
Wednesday, January 17, 1781.
TRENTO N, January 17.
The following are the Titles of the Laws passed
the last fitting of the Legislature.
I. An Act to continue an act, intitled, An Ad to
alter the place of holding the Supreme Court ofju
dicature of this state, and to afeertain the times for
holding the fame; and also to alter and ascertain the
times of holding the Inferior Court of Common
Pleas and Court of General Quarter Session of the
Peace for the county of Hunterdon.
2. An AR to amend an act, intitled, An Ad for
establishing a fund for finking and redeeming the
proportion of the bills of credit of the United States
aligned as the quota of this state.
3. An Aft for the more ipeedy and effectual pro
curement of supplies for the army of the United
States.
4. An Ad to continue / 1 ad, intitled, An Ad to
alter the place of holding the inferior Court of Com
mon Cleas and General Quarter Sedions of the
Peace for the county of Middlesex.
5. An Aft more effectually ' to prevent the inha
bitants of this state from trading with the enemy,
or going within their lines, and lor other purpoles
therein mentioned.
6. An Act for completing and keeping up the
quota of troops belonging to this state, in the ler
vice of the United States.
7. An AC to raise by voluntary enlistment, eight
hundred and twenty men, for the defence of the
frontiers of the Rate.
8. A supplement to an ad, intitled, An Ad for
establishing a fund for finking and redeeming the pro
portion of the bills of credit of the United States
aligned as the quota of this state.
9. An Ad for afcertaii^ng the value of the con
tinental currency in the payment of debts.
10. A supplement to the ad, intitled, An Ad for
regulating the election of the Members of the Le
giflative-Cuuncil and AHembly, Sheriffs and Coro
ners of the state of New-Jersey, and also to dfred
the eledion of Delegates to reprelent the said Rate
in the Congress of the United States.
11. An mid for making compensation to the troops
of this state, in the iervice of the United States, for
toe depreciation of their pay.
12. An Act to raise a fund by loan f)r difeh^rg
ing the bounty to be paid to the troops required by
Congress as the quota of this state.
13. An Ad for regulating, training and arraying
of the militia and for providing men more effectual
ly for the defence and security of the state.
14. An Ad for Rriking-the sum of thirty thou
sand pounds in bills of credit, of the denomination
of seven Shillings and fix-pence and under, and di
recting the mode for redeeming the fame.
15. An Act to provide for the payment of the
several officers of the government of the state of
New-jerley, to commence the thirteenth day of Oc
tober, one thousand seven hundred and eighty, and
to end the second Tuesday in October, one thou
sand seven hundred and eighty-one, inclusive.
16. An Act to confirm the last will and testament
of Abraham Van-Neße, Esquire, of Millstone, in
the county of Somerset and Rate of New-Jersey,
deceased.
17. An Ad to extend the powers of the Collec
tors in receiving certain certificates in payment of
taxes.
18 An Ad for defraying sundry incidental charges.
RICHMOND, December 30.
By an officer immediately from the southern army,
we have the agreeable and certain intelligence, that
011 the loth infant Col. Tariiton's legion, command
ed by himfclf in person, received a severe repulse in
an attempt to furprize Colonels Marian and Clarke,
who with a detachment of five or fix hundred men
were posted in the diftridt of Ninety-fix ; upwards of
one hundred of the enemy we-e left dead on the field,
and a great number woundt , the principal part of
the latter they found me? carry off: Our loft
does not exceed twenty k <d wounded. This
is the third attempt in w! enterprizing parti
zan has been repulsed b ~ ance and good con
dud of our troops.
In /be HOUS E of DELEGATES, Thursday the
z^th of December, 1780.
RESOLVED, nemine contradicente, That a Com
mittee of four be appointed to wait on Major-Gene
ral Gates, and to assure him of the high regard and
esteem of this House : That the remembrance of his
former glorious services cannot be obliterated by an,
reverse of fortune, but that this House, ever mindful
of his great merit, will omit no opportunity of tefti
fying to the world the gratitude which, as a member
of the American union, this country owes to him
his military character.
(Tefle) JOHN BECKLEY, C.ILD.
FRIDAY, the 29th of December, 1780.
Mr. Henry reported trom the Committee appon
ed to communicate the resolution of yesterday t< :-
Honourable Major-General Gates, that the Comn. 1-
tce had, according to order, communicated the fan.
to that Gentleman, and that he was pleased to return
the following answer:
SIRS, Richmond, Dec. 28, 1780.
I R r ill ever remember, with the utmeft g-atitud,
the high honour this day done me, by the Honour,
able the House of Delegates of Virginia. When l eu
gaged in the noble cause of freedom and the Unite .
States, I devoted myfelf entirely to the service of ob
taining the great end of their union : That I have been
once unfortunate is my great mortification ; but let
the event of my future services be what they may,
they will, as they always have been, be din died by
the most faithful integrity, and animated by the truest
zeal for the honour and intend of the United State*.
HORATIO GATES,
Extrad from the Journal,
John Beckley, C. H. D.
TO BE LET,
Speedwell Saw-Mill and Lands,
On Waiding-River, in Weft New-Jersey, Bur
lington county, &c.
Ihe above mill and lands were advertised and f,k
the 24th day of April last, at vendue; the con
ditions of sale not being complied with, said m
and lands revolved back to the former owner, &..
r rHEI will now be let, either to the shares or
JL for cash, as belt suits the renter, and may 1
entered on immediately. The mill is in good
pair and now sawing; the has plenty of timber,
and cedar, belonging to her; the boards may
rafted from the mill-tail to where the sloops taU
to go to sea, or by carting about eight miles, toa
branch of Ancocas, they may be brought dire&lv
Philadelphia.
There is on the premises one new two ftorfG
house and kitchen, with good Rone cellars, a brjex
even, two log houses for tenants, &c. a large frame
barn, 60 by 40 feet, and stabling plenty for horses,
a good bearing peach orchard, young apple ditto, a
great plenty of summer and fall feed for oxen or all
kinds-of cattle; the land brings good rye and corn,
and garden truck in abundance. Should the person
applying incline to fettle there, and chufe to bu r
the place, terms may be made easy, &c It is
good feat for a furnace, with a great quantity
coal wood and ore belonging thereto, tor parr
culars apply to BENJAMIN RANDOLPH
in Chefnut-ftreet.
N. B. A young handy Negro Wench, her child,
a boy, to be fold, fit for country work. Enquire
as above. Philadelphia, Dec. 11, 1780.
Sussex, IT.
YX^AS committed to the gaol of this county th.
VV 31st of December lad, the three following
fcldiers belonging to Captain Mead's company, of
the firft Jeifey regiment, viz. Benjamin Bonnel,
John Burnett, and John Yberts, who were lately
advertised in the New- Jersey Journal as deserters.
JAMES MORROW, Gaoler.
Newtown, Jan. 7, 1781. 4
JUST PUBLISHED,'
And to be fold at the Printing-Office in Trenton,
The NEW-JERSEY
Pocket Almanack,
For the Year of our Lord 1781.