The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1778-03-04 00:00:00, page 2

That all officers of the navy shall take and fub
feribe the fame, before one of the Commiflioners of
the Navy Boards, or before a Judge or Justice of the
Petice of the State, wherein they respectively reside
or shall receive their commissions or warrants.
That all perfohs holding any civil office of trust pr
profit,' under the Congress of these United States,
shall take and fubferibe the said oath or affirmation
before a Judge or Justice of the Peace of the State,
wherein 'they reflectively reside.
That every officer having the disposal of public
money, or who is or shall be intruded with the charge
or distribution of public stores, lliall, at the time of
taking and fubferibing the foregoing oath or affirma
tion, aifo take an oath or affirmation of office in the
following words :
" I do swear (or affirm) that I will faith
fully. truly and impartially execute the office of
to which I am appointed, and render a true ac
count, when thereunto required, of all public monies
by me received or expended, and of all stores or
other effects to me intruded, which belong to the
United States, and will, in all refpeds, difeharge
the trust reposed in me with jufticc and integrity,
to the best of my skill and understanding." .
That every officer, taking the foregbirig oaths or
affirmations or either of them, shall obtain from the
person administering the fame, duplicate certificates
fpecifying the time of his taking it or them, and also
his name and rank or employment.
That every military officer shall deliver or transmit
one of the certificates so obtained, to the Commander
in Chief or the Commander of a Department, or to
such person, as by General orders lliall be appointed
to receive the fame ; and the said commanding officers
shall cause the certificates so received to be lent to
the Secretary of Congress, and shall keep an exaCt
lift of the names of all officers whose certificates
shall be received and forwarded, together with their
several ranks and the times of their being qualified.
That every officer in the navy shall deliver or fend
one of the certificates by him obtained to the Navy
Board most convenient, who. are required to transmit
the fame, and also a certificate of their own qualifi
cations, to the Marine Committee, as soon as con
veniently may be.
That every other person employed in any civil
department or office as above-mentioned, ihall fend
or deliver;one of the certificates by him obtained 10
the Secretary of the State to which he belongs, or
to such other person or persons, as the Governor or
President of such State shall direct. And the Gover
nors or Presidents of the several States, are hereby
requeued to attend to this matter rind to cause the
certificates, when received, to be transmitted to the
Secretary of Congress.
That each deponent or affirmant shall retain and
keep the other certificate, by him obtained, as a
voucher of his having complied with what is hereby
enjoined him.
Refolded, That every officer civil or military, now
in office, shall take and fubferibe the qualification
above directed, within twenty days after notice here
of; and every person hereafter appointed to any
Office, by or under the authority of the Congress qf
the United States of America, shall take arid fub
feribe the fame, previous to his acting in such office :
And every officer who shall continue or presume to
exercise any commission civil or military, under the
authority of the Congress of the United States of
America, without taking the qualification, in time
and manner above directed, shall be cashiered and
forfeit two months pay to the use of the United
States of America, and be rendered incapable of
ferying in the army of the said States, and of exe
cuting thereafter any office under Congress.,
And whereas many persons, employed as Deputy
or Albftant Commissaries or Quarter-Matters or in
other civil departments are dispersed in various parts
of the continent, over whom neither Congress nor the
head of their refpe&ive departments can have the
immediate infpe&iqn.
Refilled,
TH AT every officer, who holds or shall hereafter
hold a commission or office from Congress, shall
take and fubferibe the following oath or affirmation:
"I do acknowledge the United States of
America, to be Free, Independent and Sovereign
States, and declare that the people thereof owe no
allegiance or obedience to George the Third, King
of Great-Britain ; and I renounce, refufe and abjure
any allegiance or obedience to him ; and I do swear
(or affirm) that I will to the utmost of my power,
support, maintain and defend the said United States,
against the said King George the Third, his heirs and
successors and his and their abettors, assistants and
adherents and will serve the said United States in the
office of which I now hold, with fidelity,
according to the best of my skill and understanding.
So help me God."
That all officers of the army shall take and fubferibe
the foregoing oath or affirmation, before the Com
mander in Chief, or any Major General or Brigadier
General.
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Two Shillings and Sir-pence for every Continuance ; and long Ones in Proportion.
In CONGRESS, February 3, 1778.
Refolded, That it be recommended to the legirta
tive and executive authority of every State, to take
effectual measures for preventing any person, within
their State, from exercising any office in the civil
department of the army or in any other civil depart
ment under Congress, who (hall not, When there
unto required by any Magistrate, produce a legal
appointment to that office and a certificate of his
.having taken the foregoing oaths or affirmations, or
who firall neglect or refufe to take and fubferibe
the said oaths or affirmations within the time above
limited,
Refolded, That the resolutions paged the 21st day
of October 1776, prescribing the form of an oath or
affirmation, and directing the fame to be fubferibed
by officers - holding commissions ror offices from Con
gress, be, and they are hereby repealed.
Extract from the minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
TO BE S OLD, r
A LARGE new DWELLING-HOUSE and for
ty-fix acres of LAND, now in the pdifeffion
pf Henry Wad'dell at Freehold, in the county of
Monmouth, New-Jessey. The house contains nine
rooms, (seven of them with fire-places) two kitch
ens with bed-rooms for servants, a fine dry cellar,
&c. The out-houses corilift of a final! building of
three rooms, (two of them with fire-places) built for
an office, a bathing-house, a milk-room, a fmoak
houfe, large and convenient Tables for horses, a barn,
an house; for cattle, &c. The land is in good fence,
and has on it an apple orchard and a peach orchard,
containing together about seven hundred trees, also
about one hundred and eighty trees, (brought from
Prince's 'famous nursery on Long-lfland) being a
collection of the best fruit of all kinds, such as apples,
pears, peaches, plumbs, nedarine?, apricots, cherries,
&c, Any person desirous of purchaling the above
house and land may know the terms of sale by ap
plying to Henry Waddell, who has also to dispose of
one hundred acres of pasture land, lying within three
quarters of a mile of the above premises.
Freehold, 7th February, 1778. low*
ALL persons indebted to the ertate of the Widow
Van Allen, late of the city of New-Brunswick,
deceased, are hereby requeued to pay their respective
accounts to the fubferiber at Trenton, or to Mr.
William Harrison in New-Brunswick: And those
that have any demands against the said estate, are
desired to bring in their accounts properly attefled
to the above-named persons.
3 w* SAMUEL H. SULLIVAN, Adminiftrat.
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On the 12th day of March next, at the house of Mr.
Geromus Vanderbelt, in the township of New-
Shanneck, and county, of Somerset ;
SUNDRY HOUSEHOLD GOODS, viz. a
good eight day clock, beds, chairs, tables and
kitchen furniture. The vendue to begin at ten
o'clock inthe forenoon, where attendance will be
given by me,
3 w* - S. H. SULLIVAN.
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Cumberland County, Weft Neiv-ferfey, Jan. zr.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the fubferiber, on the 20th of
August last, an indented MULATTO BOY
named Levi, eighteen years of age ; he has a down
look, him and Straight built : Had on and took with
him five shirts, two of them striped flannel ; three pair
of trowfers, one pair of them striped; three verts,
one a light colour, the other a pale red ; one pair of
light coloured cloth breeches ; a cloth coloured great
coat. He partes for a free negro, fays he has work
ed about Cohanfey Bridge. Any person Securing said
servant, so that his matter may get him again, Shall
have the above reward paid by
6w* ABIJAH HOLMES.
SUPERFINE buff, scarlet, blue and light coloured
broad-cloths; light and brown homespun do.
green and red baiz ; cotton and linen checks; Irish
flieeting, and a few pieces of Britapnias ; Hambricks,
muffins and lawns; cotton calicoes and chintz ;
plain silk gauze; pins arid needles'; cotton and linen
handkerchiefs ; threads---with a variety of grocery,
confining of Mufeovado and loaf sugar, by the bar
rel or smaller quantity; excellent frefh Bohea tea,;
allum and copperas ; molasses; Weft India rum, and
some choice old Jamaica spirit by the gallon or bar
rel, a final! quantity of china, some of which are
odd; pepper and alllpice; a few wool hats, &c.
&c.. 3w§
A SMALL parcel of ALLUM, LOAF SUGAR,
and good BOHEA : TEA, to be fold by
JO HN MURRAY,
In Potts-Grove, Philadelphia County.
: >
DILLON and SHINN,
Have for fate in Mountboll,, the following, Articles :
Hopewell, Febrdar, 2, 1778.
WAS taken out of a yard between Andrew Mer
flion's tavern and Pennington, in Hopewell, a
black roan MARE, about five years old, English
made, with a fuddle and bridle.; She trots, paces
and gallops, her off hind foot white, the other has
a little white about the hoof, abfack herid, mane and
foretop, the two latter very bulky. She is about 14
hands high, with a blaze. The fuddle has neifher
houfn or faddie-cloth, and otherwise c^t of repair ;
a fnaffle bridle with a running rein. The thief, as
is supposed, is a Short well set man, has dark brown
bulky harr, had ona small hat, an old- brbwh coat,
leather breaches, a new pair of ^xoes, and calls him
felf William Williams. Whoever takes up the 'thief
so that .he may be brought, to jufticc, and Secures
the. mare, faddie And bridle so that the owner Inay
have them again, Shall receive Twenty Dollars re
ward and reasonable charges; paid by'
NATHAN MOORfc.°
^350 Dollars Reward.
1) 'AN-AWAY the Bth day of February, i,jW
from the ' fubferibers, three Neglo meh,wi^
one named NF/UV, about '23 years old, a middle
Sized fellow, bad thick lips; and flutters very touch
in his speech when be fpeakc in' ahurry; h:«l bn a
brown coat, a blue jacket arid buckskin breeches.
One named JAMES, about 20 years old, a frit
chunky fellow,had on a go ? caftor hat, two jackets,
the upper one a light grey, and leather breeches,
and likes much to play on the fife. The other
named CUFF, about 30 years old, a well set fellow,
about 5 feet 8 inches high ; had on a beaver hit, a
blue coat, red jacket; cloth breeches and new Shoes,
and is very fondof playing on the fiddle. As they
were seen near Frankfort, it is supposed they are in
or near Philadelphia. Whoever takes up and fecurea
the said Negroes in Trenton goal, .fa that their
matters may have them again, shall have the above
reward, or an equal reward for either of them.
WILLSON HUNT,
JOHN HUNT,
JOSEPH BURROWFS,
FORTY DOLLARS REWARD?'
STOLEN from the fubferiber the sixteenth of July
last, a chefnut brown HORSE, "about fifteen
'hands high, seven or eight years old, with a bald
face, ' one of his hind feet white, had a small piece of
skin Kicking out about three quarters of an inch
long, on the k/t fide of hwbreaft, occasioned by a
rowel.' Any person delivering said horse to the fub
feriber, living Year Somerset court-house, in New
fcffey, shall be entitled to the'^bove reward, or
Twenty Dollars reward for any person that ffiall
give information where said horse may be had, and
all reasonable charges paid by
3 w* __r<EY^LR,EGIJTE.
Second month, 234, 177'0.
RUN-AWAY from the fubferiber, near Mount-
Holly, about the 19th of last month, an appren
tice lad named LEVI BISHOP, by trade a taylor,
between 19 and 20 years of age, about 5 feet 7 or
8 inches high, has a down look and buffi, hair;
had on and took with him when he went away a
light coloured.homefpun coattee with wooden but
tons, a home made mixed under jacket, hah worn
leather breeches, homefpim shirts, two pair of grey
flockings, one pair ribbed, old neat's leather flioes
that had been caped and foaled, with carved buckles,
a half worn fur hat, but it is likely, he will change
his name and eloathes. He was draughted out in
the Northampton Militia, with Capt. Weaver, but
left him, and I hear is gone to the salt works at
Squan, where he has a brother that goes by the
name of Joseph Bishop. Any person that will ap
prehend the said apprentice and confine him in Bur
lington gaol, so that his master shall get him again,
fh:111 have ONE SIXTH OF A DOLLAR reward,
paid by me
2W JABEZ WOGLSTON.
To whom it may concern:
THE boat or vessel known by the name of LBW
IS's MILL BOAT, which was lately condemned
by a court of admiralty in the State ' of New-Jessey,
and fold by Publick Vendue in the city of Bur
lington, was in September last employed in the con
linental service for carrying eloathing from Philadel
phia to Trenton, and from thence waYordered by-the
commiffaries to return with publick Roves tp" that
city, calling at Bristol for further directions ; .but'by
the villainy of the flipper the vessel was run into Y
dock in Philadelphia on the a6t,i September last (the
day on which the enemy arrived there) from whence
the vastaken an hour or two afterwards by a part}
of Gloucester county militia, together with all: the
publick stores (having no other goods) + on board;
which stores were also condemned for.the ufmof tte
captors. : '
The above is a true fate of falls . as the, appeared or
the trial.
2w* BOWES REED, Pro. Reg.
February TB, 1778.