The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1780-03-29 00:00:00, page 3

meral Hogan is within a few miles, but his Rrength
is uncertain. Our people are in high spirits, and de
termined to defend themselves to the last extremity."
Extra's from the Journals of Congress.
In CONGRESS, March 18, 1780,
r F HESE United States having been driven into
I this just and necessary war at a time when no
regular civil governments were established, fufficient
energy to enforce the collection of taxes, or to pro
vide funds for the redemption of such bills of credit
as their necefhties obliged them to issue ; and before
the powers of Europe were fufficiently convinced of
the justice of their cause, or of the probable event
of the controversy to afford them aid or credit, in
consequence of which, their bills increasing in quan
tity beyond the sum necessary for the purpole of a
circulating medium, and wanting at the fame time
fpecific funds to rest on for their redemption, they
have seen them daily fink in value, notwithstanding
every effort that has been made to support the fame ;
insomuch that they are now passed by common con
tent in most parts of these United States, at least
thirty-nine fortieths below their nominal value, and
still remain in a state of depreciation, whereby the
community fuffers great injustice, the public finances
arc deranged and the necessary dispositions for the
defence of the country are much impeded and per
plexed ; and as effectually to remedy these evils, tor
which purpose the United States are now become
competent, their independence being well assured,
their civil governments established and vigorous, and
the spirit of their citizens ardent for exertions, it is
necessary speedily to reduce the quantity of the paper
medium in circulation, and to eftabliih and appro
priate funds that shall ensure the punctual redemp
tion of the bills ; therefore,
Resolved, That the several states continue to bring
into the continental treasury by taxes, or otherwise,
their full quotas of fifteen millions of dollars month
ly, as assigned them by the resolution of the 7th of
OCtober, 1779; 1 clause in the resolve of the 23d of
February last, for relinquishing two thirds of the said
quotas to the contrary notwithstanding; and that
the Rates be forthwith called on to make provision
for continuing to bring into the said treasury their
like quotas monthly to the month of April, one thou
sand seven hundred and eighty-one, inclusive:
That silver and gold be tce ; vablc in payment of
the said quotas at the rate of one S anifh milled dol
lar, in lieu of forty dollars of the bills now in cii cu
lation :
That the said bills as paid in, except for the months
of January and February pad, which may be neces
sary for the dilcharge of past contracts, be not re
issued but destroyed :
That as faft as the said bills shall be brought in to
be destroyed, and funds shall be established as here
after mentioned for other bills, other bills be iflued
not to exceed on any account one twentieth part of
the nominal sum of the bills brought in to be de
stroyed :
That the bills which shall be issued, be redeemable
in specie, within fix years after the present, and bear
an interest at the rate of five per centum per annum,
to be paid also in specie at the redemption of the
bills, or the election of the holder annually at the
refpeCtive continental loan-offices, in sterling bilk of
exchange drawn by the United States on their Com
missioners in Europe, at four shillings and fix-pence
sterling per dollar :
That the said new bills issue on the funds of in
dividual Rates for that purpose established, and to be
signed by persons appointed by them, and that the
faith of the United States be also pledged for the
payment of the said bills, in case any date on whose
funds they shall be emitted should, by the events of
war, be rendered incapable to redeem them ; which
undertaking of the United States, and that of draw
ing bills of exchange for payment of intei est as afore
faid, shall be indorfed on the bills to be emitted, and
signed by a Commiflioner to be appointed by Con
gress for that purpose :
That the face of the bills to be emitted read as fol
lows, viz.
The possessor of this bill shall be paid Spa
nish milled dollars, by the thirty-firft day of Decem
ber 1786, with interest in like money at the rate of
five per cent, per annum by the Rate of accord
ing to an alt of the legislature of the said Rate, of the
day of 1780.
And the indorfement shall be as follows, viz.
The United Sates ensure the payment of the with
in bill, and will draw bills of exchange for the inte
rest annually, if demanded, according toa resolution
of Congref§ of the i8 s h day of March, 1780.
That the said new bills shall be Rruck under the
difellion of the Board of Treasury, in due propor
tion for each Rate, according to their said monthly
quotas, and lodged in the continental loan-offices in
the refpeltive Rates, where the Commissioners to be
appointed by Congress in conjunction with such per
sons as the refpedive Rates, appoint, shall attend the
signing of the said bills, which shall be compleatcd
no fafter than in the aforefaid proportion of one to
twenty of the other bills brought in to be destroyed,
and which shall be lodged for that purpose in the
said loan-offices :
That as the said new bills are signed and compleat
ed, the Rates refpeltively, on whose funds they issue,
receive fix tenths of them ; and that the remainder
he fubjeft to the orders of the United States, and
That the refpedive Rates be charged with such
parts of the interest on their said bills, as shall be
paid by the United States in bills of exchange, and
the accounts thereof shall be adjusted agreeably to
the resolution aforefaid of the 6th of October, 1779:
That whenever interest on the bills to be emitted
shall be paid prior to their redemption, such bills
shall be thereupon exchanged for others of the like
tenor, to bear date from the expiration of the year
for which such interest is paid:
That the several Rates be called on to provide
funds for their quotas of the said new bills, to be
so productive as to link or redeem one sixth part of
them annually after the firft day of January next :
That nothing in the foregoing resolutions shall be
construed to ascertain the proportions of the expence
incurred by the war, which each Rate on a final ad
justment ought to be charged with; or to exclude
the claims of any Rate to have the prices at which
different Rates have furnished supplies for the army,
hereafter taken into cohlidcration and equitably ad
justed :,
That the foregoing resolutions, with a letter from
the President, be dispatched to the Executive of the
several Rates, and that they be requeued to call their
assemblies if not already convened, as speedily as
possible to take them into immediate consideration,
to eftabliih ample and certain funds for the purposes
therein mentioned, and to take every other measure
necessary to carry the fame into full and vigorous ef
fect, and that they transmit their ads for that pur
pose to Congress without delay.
credited to the Rates on whose funds they are issued,
th'c accounts whereof shall be adjusted agreeably to
the resolution of the 6th of October, 1779:
That the said new bills be receivable in payment
of the said monthly quotas at the fame rate as afore
faid of specie; the interest thereon to be computed
to the refpeltivc Rates, to the day the payment be
comes due :
RESOLVED, That it be recommended to the
Rates to revise their laws enacted pursuant to a for
mer resolution of Congress, making the continental
bills of credit a tender in difeharge of debts and con
trasts, and to amend the lame in such manner as they
shall judge most conducive to justice in the present Rate
of the paper currency : And,
That it be further recommended, that the said laws
be enacted in such manner, that no persons may take
unjuß advantage to defeat the good purposes of this
resolution, by availing themselves ofthe notice there
of before the passing of the several alts.
MARCH 22.
RESOLVED, That the office of Commiflioner of
clothing accounts, established by a resolve of Con
gress of the 2d of March, 1'779, be difeontinued
after fix months from the date hereof; and that all
persons having eloathing accounts for the year 1777,
and who do not exhibit them to the said Commissi
oner within that period, shall not receive any com
pensation for any arrearages they may thereafter
claim to be due to them.
By accounts from New-York, we learn, that they
had intelligence to the 4th of March from Carolina,
at which time the British army under General Clin
ton, had not advanced beyond Stono Ferry and John's
Island. Their operations were prevented by a want
of horses. They confefs to have loft all their caval
ry and draught-horfes, several transports, and the
Defiance man of war, of 64 guns.
Extract of a letter from Hackinfack, dated March 24.
" Yesterday morning at 4 o'clock, a detachment
of the enemy of about 20c men, commanded by Lt.
Col. M'Pherfon, of the 42d regt, made a defeent
upon this place by way of the Little Ferry. Soon
after they entered the town they burnt the Court
house, and also Messrs Boyd's and Chapple's dwell
ing-houses, and then proceeded to Paramus, with
intention to furprize the detachment of continental
troops under the command of Major Stuart. At that
place the enemy were joined by another party of equal
force, which landed at Clofter and marched by Weir
mifs, and would probably have effected their purpose
had not Major Stuart received information of their
approach. In their rout they plundered and abused
the inhabitants indiferiminately, in a most pitiable
manner; and carried off between 20 and 30 of the
inhabitants prisoners. Capt. Outwater of our militia,
and Hendrick Van Geifon, were slightly wounded,
but not taken off. In this excursion the enemy had
a number killed and wounded, and near 20 of them
were made prisoners by our troops, who behaved ex
ceedingly well ; and hung upon their rear as they re
treated from Paramus to Fort Lee, where they em
barked "
At the last fitting of the General Assembly of this
Rate the following laws were palled:
t. An Act for suspending the operation of an alt,
intitled, An A 8 for limiting the prices of various ar
ticles, and to prevent the with-holding from sale the
necessaries of life.
2. An Act to alter the place of meeting of the Jus
tices and Freeholders, in the dounty of Hunterdon.
3. A supplemental Aft to an aft, intitled, An Act
to empower and direct the Commissioners of the
TRENTON, March 29.
Extralt from the Minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, Sec'ry.
M ARC H 20.
loan-offices in the refpe&ive counties, in the fl ate of
New-Jersey, to pay certain monies by them received
into the treasury ; and also for applying certain mo
nies now therein.
4. An Act for compleating the quota of the troops
belonging to this Rate, in the fervicc of the United
States.
5. An Act for amending and establishing the char
ter of the college of New-Jersey.
6. An Ass to secure to the owners of lands lying in
the north ward of New-Brunswick, in the county of
Middlesex ; and in the eastern precinit of the county
of Somerset adjoining, the inclofures of which have
been destroyed in the course of the present w ar, the
use and benefit of the said lands.
7. A supplemental Act to the aft, intitled, An 23
for apprehending and delivering up to juftide all per
sons reliding or taking refuge in this Rate, charged
with crimes committed in any other of the United
States ; and for other purposes therein mentioned.
8. An Act to prevent the waste of timber, trees,
and poles, in this Rate, and to repeal the former aft
for that purpose.
9. An 23 to amend an aft, intitled, An 23 for the
regulating, training, and arraying of the militia, and
the supplementary aft thereto.
10. A supplemental Act to the alt, intitled, An
AE for procuring provisions for the use of the army,
and other luppiies for carrying on the war; and for
fettling the publick accounts of this Rate.
11. An Aft to empower the owners of the Pigeon
swamp, marihes, and ponds adjoining, in the south
ward of New-Brunswick, in the county of Middle
sex, to open ano keep clear of obftrultions a certain
water-course and ditch for draining the laid swamp,
marshes, and |onds.
12. An 23 for railing certain fees, fines, and for
feitures.
13. An Act for defraying sundry incidental charges.
State of New-Jersey, Sussex County.
WHEREAS there has been final judgment enter
ed against the estates of Daniel Coxe, John T.
Kemp and Grace his wife, Joseph Barton, James
Clendenning, and Mr. Delancey, &c. as the Alt of
Assembly directs ; —NOTICE is hereby given that
the real estates which did belong to the laid persons,
in the said county of Sussex, will be fold at public
vendue on the 2cth day of April next ensuing, to be
held at the dwelling-house of William Kerr, Esq. in
Oxfoid township, to begin at ten o'clock on said
day. The estates are as fallow, viz. Daniel Coxe
and Mrs. Kemp, wife of John T. Kemp, 01. e trait
of good land, situate in Knowlton township, joining
the river Delaware above the mouth Paukn's Kiln,
containing 850 acres of land, with our good im
provements on it: Mrs. Kemp, one trait of land
containing 680 acres, joining Pcquelt river and a
mountain known by the name of Jenny Jump: Da
niel Coxe, one half part of an undivided trad, con
taining 1842 1-2 acres of land near the Great Mea
dows, joining the Pequeft river; and one trait of
land containing 3689 1-2 acres, joining to land of
Richard Lundy at the Great Meadows; and one half
part of an undivided trail, containing 1270 acres of
land, joining to land of Mr. Joseph Shippen and Mr.
John Oxford near Oxford furnace, and several imall
lots of land and houses in the town of Philipfburgh,
in Greenwich township. John T. Kemp, one good
plantation in Greenwich, near said Philipfburgh, now
in poffcilion of Henry Winter: Joseph Barton 800
acres of land near 'Squires Point: James Clenden
ning 260 acres of wood-land near the Blue Moun
tains and Paulen's Kiln: Mr. Delance), ore large
trail of land near Hacket's Town, in said county.
The above lands will be all fold at Mr. Kerr's, for
ready calh only. Any person inclining to purchafc,
may procure the money and view the lands before
the day of sale; the draughts of the lands will be
ready, and attendance given by us ,
March 18, Wm. Bond, ) Commif
HE Surrogates in the refpeltive counties are re-
I quelled to take notice that the Legislature of
this Rate have raised the FEES of the Surrogates of
fice thirty-fix fold what they were in the fee-bill,
and to govern themselves accordingly,
March 26. 3w BOWES REED.
WHEREAS the Legislative Council of the Rate
of New-Jersey, on the 9th instant, did order
that Stacy Potts have leave to bring in a bill at the
next fitting of the Legislature, to enable him to join
a small dam to the lands of Robert W^ln, on Allan
pink Creek below the grist-mill, on his giving pub
lick notice thereof in the New-Jersey Gazette, one
month before the commencement of the said fitting ;
In consequence whereof all persons concerned are
hereby requeued to take notice.
Renton, March 24. 4 * STACY POTTS.
One Thousand Dollars Reward.
MADE his escape last evening over the gaol wall
of Burlington, a certain Asher Levy, who
was committed as a spy from the enemy, and also
for high treason. He is about five feet seven inches
high, about twenty years of age; has short black
hair, but wears a falfe tail : Had on a light colour'd
knap great coat, lined with green baize, and a red
velvet cape ; a white broadcloth jacket, and black
knit breeches. Whoever secures said villain and de
livers him to me, shall have the above reward paid by
March 25. JOSEPH BURNES, Gaoler. 1^