The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1786-11-27 00:00:00, page 1

BY PUBLICK VENDUE,
ALL the estate, right, title and interest of James
Grey, Esquire, of, in and to the house and
trad of land whereon Elijah Headen now lives,
containing 20 acres more or less; which said premises
with the appurtenances, by a deed bearing date the 18th
day of June 1776, were mortgaged by John Low
and Sarah his wife, unto the said James Grey, for
the payment of nine hundred and fifty-two pounds
two Ihillings, York money, with the lawful interest
from date; which mortgage hath been duly acknow
ledged and recorded in the clerk's office on the 6th
day of May 1786. Ihe above place is lituate about
a mile from the English church at Newark, and oppo
site to the feat of captain Kennedy. There are on
the place a stone dwellinghoufe with three fire places,
a large orchard with a variety of choice fruit; and
bounded easterly on Paffaick river. There was for
merly a wharf where a vessel of 100 tons burthen
might load and proceed to sea, and is well situated for
a merchant or a gentleman's country feat.
Allo, all the estate, right, title and interest of
Hugh Wallace, Esquire, of, in and to the equal
moiety or halt part, of one equal third part, of all
that t r aft of land containing thirteen thousand five
hundred acres, after allowance for barrens, &c. ly
ing and being in the county of Essex, ata place cal
led Horse-Neck, on the call fide of Pafl'aick river
(excepting such parts thereof as were formerly fold
by James Alexander and Mary Alexander, or one of
them) which said trad of land and premises (except as
above excepted) together with the appurtenances by a
certain deed, bearing date the 14th day of November
1769, were mortgaged by the late right honourable
the carl of Sti/k?g, for the payment of two thoa
fand pounds, current money of New-Ycik, with the
lawful interest from the date thereof; which said
mortgage and deed, after having been duly acknow
ledged, was recorded in the clerk's office, in the
county of Essex, the 2d day of August 1770.
Also, all the property of William Wright, of, in
and to a certain piece of land, lying and being at
Chatham, in the bounds of Elizabeth-Town; which
land was formerly fold by Matthew Wynants to
William Wright, by deed, bearing date the 12th
day of Oftober 1776, and forfeited to the Rate by
William Wright.
Also, all the right of Chavilier Jouet, of, in and
to a house and lot of land in Elizabeth-Town;
mortgaged by Sarah Hunt and others, dated the
22d day of September 1770, and recorded in the
clerk's office in the county of Essex, and forfeited
to the state by Chavilier Jouet.
Also, all the light of Chavilier Jouet, of, in
and to a certain trad of land on the road leading
from Elizabeth-Town to Chatham bridge, contain
ing about 28 acres; formerly belonging to Ben
jamin Williams, and by said Williams, mortgaged
to Chavilier Jouet, for the lum of by mort
gage, dated the 29th day of June 1774, and re
corded in the clerk s office in the county of Essex.
Alio, all the right of the state, of, in and to
a certain piece of land in Elizabeth- Town, whereon
the barracks formerly flood.
Also, all the right of William and Isaac Style,
of, in and to a imall island in Paffaick river, lying
between Newark and Second river, near a place cal
led the Gully, together with the beach thereto be
longing.
The sale to be held at the house of Richard Dey,
on Monday the 18th day of December next, at 10
of the clock in the forenoon ; payment to be made
in lawful money of this state, notes given for the
depreciation of pay due to officers and soldiers of
the Jersey line, notes given by the commissioners on
settlement of pay due to the militia of this state,
notes given for debts liquidated by Silas Condid,
Esquire, and notes given by the treasurer for ba
lances due to persons on demands against forfeited
estates. SAMUEL HAYES, Agent for
the county of Essex.
November 10, 17861 2v
[Vol. IX.]
NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
Confiscated estates in the county of Essex.
TO BE SOL D,
TRENTON:
Printed by ISAAC COLLIN S,
MO ND AY, November 27, 1786.
A true description of the interest and policy df the
continent of America : by his excellency Dr. Ben
jamin ranklin, prefdent of the fate of Penn
sylvania.
m HERE is a tradition, that in the planting
i of New-England, the firft settlers met
with many difficulties and hardlhips, as
¥ is generally the case when a civilized
people attempt establishing themselves in
a wilderness country. Being piously disposed, they
fought relief from Heaven, by laying their wants and
distresses before the Lord in frequent fee days of
fafting and prayer. Constant meditation and dif
courle on these fubje&s kept their minds gloomy and
difeontented; and, like the children of Israel, there
were many disposed to return to that Egypt, which
persecution had induced them to abandon. At length,
when it was proposed in the assembly to proclaim
another faft, a farmer of plain sense rose, and re
marked, that the inconveniencies they fuffered, and
concerning which they had often wearied fleaven with
their complaints, were not so great as they might
have expected, and were diminished eveiy day as the
colony strengthened; that the earth began to reward
their labour, and to furnifh liberally for their sub
sistence; that the seas and rivers were found full of
filh, the air sweet, the climate healthy; and above
all, that they were there in the full enjoyment of
liberty, civil and religious; he therefore thought that
relieving and converting on, these fubjeds would be
more comfortable, as tending more to make them
contented with their fitnation; and that it would be
moie becoming the gratitude they owed to the Di
vine Being, if, instead of a faft, they should proclaim a
thankigiving. His advice was taken, and from that
day to this, they have in every year observed cir
cumstances of publick felicity fufficient to furnifh
employment 'or a thankigiving day, which is there
fore conit ary ordei ed and religiously observed.
I fee in the publick news-papers of different states,
frequent complaints of hard times, deadness of trade,
scarcity ot money, &c &c It is not my intention
to aifett or maintain that these complaints are entire
ly without foundation. Ihere can be no country or
nation existing, in which there will not be some peo
ple so circumstanced as to find it hard to gain a live
lihood; people, who are not in the way of any pro
fitable trade, and with whom money is scarce, be
cause they have nothing to give in exchange for it.
And it is always in the power of a Imall number to
make a great clamour. But let us take a cool view
of the general state of our affairs, and perhaps the
profped will appear less gloomy than has been ima
gined.
The great bulinefs of the continent is agriculture.
For one artizan, or merchant, I suppose, we have at
least one hundred farmers, by far the greatest part
cultivators of their own fertile lands, from whence
many of them draw not only food necessary for their
subsistence, but the materials for their clothing, so
as to need very few foreign supplies; while they
have a surplus of productions to dispose of, whereby
wealth is gradually accumulated. Such has been the
goodness of Divine Providence to these regions, and
so favourable the climate, that since the three or
four years of hardlhips in the firft settlement of our
fathers here, a famine or scarcity has never been
heard of amongst us; on the contrary, though some
years mayhave been more, and others less plentiful,
there has always been provision enough for ourselves,
and a quantity to spare for exportation. And al
though the crops of last year were generally good,
never was the farmer better paid for the part- he can
spare for commerce, as the published price currents
abundantly teftify. The lands he poffefTes arc con
tinually rising in value with the increase of populati
on. And on the whole, he is enabled to give such
wages to those who work for him, that all who are
acquainted with the old world must agree, that in no
part of it are labouring poor so generally well fed,
Foreign Intelligence.
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LONDO N, July 25.
THE
At the distance I live from our American fifheries,
I cannot Ipeak of them with any certainty; but I
have not heard that the labour of the valuable race
of men employed in them is worse paid, or that they
meet with less success than they did before the revo
lution. Ihe whale men indeed have been deprived
of one market for their oil; but another, I hear, is
opening for them, which it is hoped may be equally
advantageous. And the demand is constantly increa
hng for their fpermaceti candles, which therefore
bear a much higher price than formerly.
I here remain the merchants and shopkeepers. Of
these, though they make but a small part of the whole
nation, the number is considerable; too great indeed
for the business they are employed in; for the con
sumption of goods in every country has its limits.
I he faculties of the people, that is their ability to
buy and pay, is equal only to a certain quantity of
merchandise. If merchants calculate amiss on
this proportion, and import too much, they will of
couile find the sale dull for the overplus, and some
of them will fay that trade languishes. They should,
and doubtless will, grow wiser by experience, and
import less. If too many artificers and farmers turn
Shopkeepers, the whole quantity of that business, di
vided amongst them, may afford too small a share
for each, and occasion complaints that trading is
dead; they may all suppose that it is owing to the
scarcity of money, while, in fad, it is not so much
from the fewnefs of buyers, as from the excessive
number of fellers that the mifehief arises: and if
every shopkeeper, farmer, and mechanic would re
tuin to the use of his plough and working tools, there
would remain of widows and other women shopkeepers
fufficient for the business, which might then afford
them a comfortable maintenance.
hoevei has travelled through the various parts
of Europe, and observed how small is the proporti
on of people in affluence or easy circumstances there,
compared with those in poverty and misery; the few
rich and haughty landlords, the multitude of poor,
abjeft, rack-rented, tithe-paying tenants, and half
paid and half starved ragged labourers; and views
here the happy medioepty that so generally prevails
throughout these states, where the cultivator works for
hiiafclt, and supports his family in decent plenty,
will, methinks, fee abundant reason t^ b^fs Divine
Providence for the evident and great difference in our
favour, and be convinced, that no nation known to
us enjoys a greater share of human felicity.
It is true, that in some of the states there are par
ties and difeord; but let us look back, and ask if we
were ever without them? Such will exist where-ever
there is liberty; and perhaps they help to preserve it.
By the collision of different fentim&nts, sparks of
truth are flruck out, and political light is obtained.
1 he different factions which at present divide us,
aim all at the publick good; the differences are only
about the various modes of promoting it. Things,
actions, measures and objects of all kinds, present
themlelves to the minds of men in such a variety of
lights, that it is not possible we should all think alike
at the fame time on every fubjed, when hardly the
fame man retains at all times the fame ideas of it.
Parties are therefore the common lot of humanity,
and ours are by no means mifehievous or less benefi
cial than those of other countries, nations and ages,
en j°y in g in the fame degree the great blessing of poli
tical liberty.
If we enter the cities, we find, that since the re
volution, the owners of houses and lots of ground
have had their interest vastly augmented in value;
rents have arisen to an astonishing height, and thence
encouragement to increase building, which gives em
ployment to an abundance of workmen, as does also
the increased luxury and splendor of living of the
inhabitants thus made richer. These workmen all
demand and obtain much higher wages than any other
part of the world would afford them, and are paid
in ready money. This rank of people, therefore,
do not, or ought not, to complain of hard times, and
they make a very considerable part of the city inha
bitants.
well eloathed, well lodged, and well paid, as in the
United States of America.
Printer to the State.
[Numb. 446.]