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(f such troops or militia, and can, in the opinion of
Ir.ch Justice, after he has examined the fame, be
soared by the owner or owners thereof; and such
justice shall afeertain and fix the prices to be given
for the articles so taken ; which order shall be a fuffi
e ent warrant for taking the fame, provided the offi
cer applying as aforefaid, doth then pay the price
f) regulated, any law, usage or custom to the contrary
notwithstanding.”
On Tuesday fe'nnignt His Excellency GEORGE
WASHINGTON, Esquire, General and Command^
er in Chief of the forces of the United States of
America, arrived at Philadelphia—and on Thursday
following His Excellency the President, the Honour
able Vice-President, and the Supreme Executive
Council ofthe Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, wait
ed on His Excellency General WASHINGTON,
when His Excellency the President addressed him in
the following words :
May it please your Excellency,
A DDRESSES are, too often the language of un
^- 1 meaning compliment and empty ceremony;
but we approach you, Sir, with far different senti
ments, such as become Freemen, in the hour of gra
ttude and affection to express, and a patriot General
to receive. The prelent contest is the most impor
tint to the liberty of mankind that has ever happened
ia the world. And while we acknowledge with re
verence the favour of Providence in other refpehts,
we cannot overlook its goodness in giving and pre
serving a life endeared to America by a series of ser
vices, virtues and successes, which have yet no pa
rallel in the annals of mankind.
Pennsylvania, Sir, in particular has had too recent
experience of the bieLings flowing from these services
and virtues, to be silent when the capital is again
favoured by your presence. And we express our own
and the feelings of her virtuous foils, whom we now
have the honour to represent but too imperfectly
while we offer our molt ardent withes, that, as you
have been the great deliverer of our common coun
try, you may long live its firft and molt ilkiftrious
citizen; and at a late, a very late hour, receive the
reward which Heaven alone can bellow upon merit
so tranfeendent.
To which His Excellency General Washington
replied,
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Council,
| FEEL myfelf at a loss to express the grateful sense
' I have of the too indulgent testimony of the atten
tion and esteem with which you have been pleased to
honour me in your polite address. If my well meant
e ideavours in this important contest have been in any
degree conducive to the fafety of America in general,
or the advantage of this State in particular, thev are
more than repaid by so flattering and honourable a
mark of the approbation of its virtuous citizens.
My reverence for the representatives of the people
makes me happy in receiving it, through that chan
nel, and my firft with is, by frefh proofs of my zeal,
to justify a continuance of their confidence. I ar
dently hope, that a perseverance in the fame patriotic
dispositions and exertions throughout these States,
which have already brought our affairs so far towards
a prosperous conclusion, will speedily crown them
with final success, and establish the happiness of our
common country on the firm basis of peace, freedom
and independence.
" The 3d inst. at Totowa, Bergen county, departed
this life, Jane the consort of John Byvanck, late
merchant of New-York, leaving behind her three
frail children.—ln her life the exhibited conjugal
affection, maternal tenderness, dilinterelted benevo
lence and friendihip ; and died, as the lived, in cha
rity with mankind, and full reliance on the merits of
her dear Redeemer”.
The last advices from New-York mention, that
private intelligence had lately been received there
from England, informing that the British Ministry
are at length so embarrassed in their schemes, that
they will shortly be under the necessity of making peace
with America upon any terms.
We are informed by a gentleman of veracity, that
a con fiderable number of nine-months-men belong
ing to Virginia, whose time of inliftment had nearly
expired, have lately re-inlifted for three years or
during the war.
No Eastern Papers by the last Mail.
Wanted by the Printer hereof, TWO 'journey
men. The, <wi!l be exempted from a&ual Jervice in the
militia, and receive bandfome usages.
r rHE inconveniences attending the usual mode of
l taking in or collecting fubferiptions for a News-
Paper, especially in times of publick commotion
like the present, have induced the Publisher of the
New-Jersey Gazette, upon consideration, to al
ter the plan upon which he proposed to proceed the
ensuing year when the advertisement in number §1
and 52 was given to the publick. To avoid the ne
cessity of opening accounts against the individual
fubferibers, and the difficulties attending the fcttle
ment of numerous arrearages of small sums, he means
to pursue the following plain and easy expedient,
w rich will be more certain and cheap to his kind
Customers and less embarrassing to himfelf.
Every Gentleman who will become a fubferiber
for twelve papers shall receive two more for his trou
ble, and so in proportion for a greater number.
The subscription-money to be paid to the Publisher
by the perlons engaging for the papers at or before
the expiration of each quarter; and, to enable those
ON the 20th of November lad a certain person who
called himfelf Daniel Nucom, and laid he was
a drover, and lived in Pennsylvania, fold a hull to the
fubferiber as his property ; and about two weeks af
ter Samuel Rusk came for the laid bull, which he
proved td be his own: This is therefore to warn the
publick of the impostor. He is a short well-set fel
low, about 35 years old, and speaks a little broad:
He had on a light-coloured corny fwanfkin jacket,
leather breeches, half-leg boots, and fcoiloped hat ;
he rode a sorrel horse, with a white mane and tail,
and one wall-eye. Any person taking up said Nucom,
and securing him so that he may be brought to jus
tice, shall have FORTY DOLLARS reward,
paid by JOSHUA STOUT.
Hopewell, Dec. 20, 3 ^
to be punctual in making their remittances, the in
dividuals who compose each packet are expected to
pay by quarterly advances.
The several persons who become Subferibers to
the Publisher, will find a proper mode of keeping
accounts with those whom they engage for, exempli
fied in the accounts for the preceding year, which
will shortly be sent with the several packets.
The Publisher will be obliged to the several Gentle
men who collected fubferiptions for him the preced
ing year to continue their kind offices for the enluing
on the plan now proposed.
If this mode can be carried into practice, the Pub
lisher agrees to lower the price of the Gazette to a
Dollar and an Half by the quarter.
It is hoped the above will meet the approbation of
the Publick as being more advantageous in every re
fpedt than the other plan of publication. By this
means the Paper may be carried on without lots,
and the State served by a repository of Intelligence
and ufrful Knowledge highly interesting to all.
As it is of importance to know what preparation
ought to be made, and the number of papers which
will probably be wanted, it is earnestly requeued that
all practicable dispatch may be used in lending in
the fubferiptions agreeably to the above Plan by the
firft of January next.
The Publisher returns his acknowledgments to the
Publick for their great encouragment hitherto given,
in this arduous undertaking ; and he flatters himfelf
that, with their further adihance, the Plan which he
now wishes to proiecute can be readily carried into
execution, which, as it will take less time, will enable
him to bestow more pains in collecting the moll in
teresting and entertaining Matter for the benefit and
amusement of his Readers.
30 DOLLARS Reward.
R ANAWAYfrom Benjamin Vancleave's Esq. in
Maidenhead, the 26th instant, (Dec.) a Negro
WENCH named Dinah, 28 or 30 years of age, five
feet fix or leven inches high, black and very lusty.
She was lately bought of Parson Van Arfdall at Spring
field, and lived formerly at Rocky-Hill, and hath a
brother lining with Colonel Scudder, in Freehold,
and its likely is gone there. Any person apprehend
ing laid wench and applying to Mr. Phillips, innkeep
er, in Maidenhead, shall be entitled to the above re
ward and rcafouablc charges, paid by
3± WILLIAM CRAB.
CONTAINING,
Besides the usual Agronomical Observations,
A Variety of ufeful, inftruCtive, and entertaining
Matter, in Prose and Verse.
A few TIERCES of the belt West-India
C O T T O N,
To be SOLI) very Cheap, by
JOHN REYNOLD S,
In TRENTO N.
Allo a neat RIDING-CHAIR, with good
HARNESS.
N OIIC E,is hereby given that there has been
, judgment entered at the last Court of Common
Pleas, held for the county of Somerset and State of
New-Jersey, against Richard Cochran, Joseph Stock
ton and Charles Roberts, agreeable to the directions
of an aC tof the General ALcmbly, in that case made
and provided ; all perlons who have any claim, in
terest, or demand to, in, or against the laid estates,
to appear with their refpedive accounts, vouchers
and evidences at the house of Henry Harrison, inn
keeper, at Rocky-Hill, to make good the fame, on
Monday the 15th day of February next, where at
tendance will be given from ten o'clock in the fore
noon till five in the afternoon---And ail persons in
debted to said estates, are desired to pay off the fame
as soon as pofhble ; and ail those who have any goods,
chattels and effects,,bonds, bills, notes, books of
accounts or other writing, are desired to deliver them
immediately to me or some one of the Commission
ers, or they must expert to be proceeded against as
the law directs. , Jacob Bergen,
Dec. 21, 1778. i± Commissioner.
ju/i publfbed and to be fold Wholesale and Retail, by
the Printer hereof,
THE
New-Jersey Almanack,
For the Year of our Lord 1779.
ISAAC COLLINS.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given toad perlons who
4 have in their custody or power, any goods or
chattels, bonds, bills, mortgages, note^ books of
accounts, or other imtrumciits of writing, or who
are indebted to the following fugitives and offenders,
now with the enemy, viz. David Ogden, fen. David
Ogden, jun. Uzal Ward, William Stiles, Nathaniel
Hbliams, xhomasbruen, Griffen Jenkins, Stephen
Skinner, Benjamin Booth, Joseph Kingfland, Robert
Drummond, Lewis Greenfieid,Stephen Farrand, John
Wheeler,Ebenezer Ward,jun. Isaac Longworth, jun.
Isaac Ogden, Nicholas Ogden, Nathaniel Richards,
Jonathan Sayres, Ilaac Longworth, Thomas Long
worth, John Vanwageuer, Garrabrant Garrabrants,
Jacob Brower, Garret Wouters, Caleb Savres, Josiah
Banks, Joseph Hallett, Peter Woods, Peter Brown,
Benjamin Peirfon, Richard Stanton, Richard Yates,
Peter Mowrifon, George Wells, Thomas Galbreath;
Pepper Clopper, Abraham Van Gefon, jun. the Rev.
Isaac Browne, Derick Schuyler, William Maxwell,
Francis Batey, Nicholas Garrabrant, John White,
William Brooks, James Colvin, Cornelius Brooks;
Thomas Afton, Garret Jacobus, Isaac Kingfland,'
Henry Stager, Samuel Harrison, Peter Dubois, Aaron
Peirfon, Hugh Gaine, Isaac Stiles, Samuel Hudinot,
Nicholas Hoffman, Dr. Uzal Johnson, John Courtcr,
jun. and James Gray; and shall neglect to make
immediate discovery thereof to one or more of us
the fubferibers, Commissioners for the County of
Essex, may expect to be dealt with as the law in that
case hath provided.
Joseph Hedden, jun.)
Samuel Hayes, } Commissioners.
Thomas Canfield, )
State of New-Jersey, Essex County, Dec. 9 1778. 3 §
A LL Persons indebted to the estate of James
Jackion, jun. of Upper Freehold, in the county
of Monmouth, deceased, on bond, bill or book debt,
are requested to make immediate payment: And all
those that have any demands against said estate, are
once more earnestly requested to bring their accounts
jropeily attested, within three weeks after the date
hereof, in order to receive their just dues, and enable
the fubferiber to make up bis accounts with the le-
B^ees. EDMUND BEAKES, Admin.
December 30, 1778. 3w *
One Hundred Dollars Reward.
J) ANAWAY from the fubferiber, living in New-
Iv Britain, Bucks county, the 20th instant, (Dec.)
a Negro MAN called Tom, well made, aboqt 6 feet:
high—Had on when he went away, a lightifh furtout
coat, a brown close bodied coat, a fine hat half worn,
a pair of leather breeches with boot-straps behind;
and had a pair of boots with him ; he also took a fid
dle with him and plays with his left hand. Said ne
gro was bought from one William Brown at or near
Ten Mile Run, in New-Jersey, where he, the negro,
fays he is well acquainted, and imagine he is gone
that way. Whoever secures said negro, so that his
master may have him again, shall have the above re
ward, paid by me TOBIAS SHULL.
December 23d, 1778. 3^
TO BE SOL D,
AVERY valuable trad of LAND, situate on the
Raritan River, two miles from the town of New-
Brunswick, in the Late of New-Jersey, commonly
known by the name of the Island Farm ; containing
about two thousand acres. There is a very large
proportion of woodland to it, which renders it par
ticularly valuable, as from its vicinity to the river,
the conveyance of the fame to the New-York market
will be attended with very little expence. The land
is in general good, and seldom fails of producing good
crops ; its htuation is remarkably high and healthy,
commanding a most beautiful and extensive profped:
from the place where the house Rood, so much so,
that the city of Amboy lies open to view. There is
a large quantity of frefh and fait meadow, and much
more may be made; a fine thriving orchard, and sun
dry other improvements and advantages, which are
unneceflary to enumerate, as the character of the
farm is so well known and established. The trad:
was divided in the survey into three separate farms,
011 one of which are a house and barn, and some im
provements, and will be fold together or separate, as
may best suit the purchaser.
I he dwellinghoufe, barn and outhouses having been
destroyed by the enemy, and the Proprietors being
obliged to reside at a difrance from the farm, induce
them to dilpofe of it. Those who are inclinable to
view the premises, are requested to call on Mr. fohn
Dennis, in New-Brunswick, and for the terms are de
sired to apply to Thomas Lanvrence, or John Lanu
rence, jum in Philadelphia, or to Anthony White, Esq.
now residing at the Union Iron Works, in Sussex, in
the Late of New-Jersey.
As the Proprietors will not have occasion for the
money, the purchaser may have any time for the
payment of the fame, on giving security and paying
rtereft. Dec. 1778.
CTRAYED or stolen off the commons at Trenton,
" some time in Odober or November, a sorrel mare'
with a blaze in her face, between three and four years
old, scant fourteen hands high, trots and paces
long mane and tail. Whoever takes said mare and
secures her, so that the owner may have her again
shall have Ten Dollars reward, and reasonable charges
paid by the fubferiber in Trenton.
JOS. CLU NN.