The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1778-08-05 00:00:00, page 3

TRENTON, August 5.
BY HIS EXCELLENCY
WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, Esq.
Governor, Captain-General and Commander in Chief in
and over the State of New-Jersey, and territories there
unto belonging. Chancellor and Ordinary in the fame.
PROCLAMATION.
TXT HEREAS by a late Ad of the Legislature of
'' this State, the Generals in the service of the
United States were authorized to grant passes to the
citizens of New-Jersey to go into the enemy's lines
and encampments, and into places in their poffeffi
-011 :—And whereas the said Act is since expired by
its own limitation, and some of the said Generals, as
well as other officers of the army never thereunto au
thorized by any law of this State, have, since the ex
piration thereof, granted such passes; the continu
ance of which practice, from their unacquaintance
with the true characters of the applicants, who are
generally difaffeded, may prove greatly injurious to
the interest of America. I have, therefore, thought
fit to issue this Proclamation, to notify to all the citi
zens of this State, that they are not to exped, by vir
tue of any such passes, to be exempted from the pu
nishment prescribed by law for going into the ene
my's lines, unless they shall be sent by such General
Officers, or by Officers having the command of de
tachments Rationed in this State, on publick occasi
ons, or for military purposes ; but that they will be
proceeded against with the utmost rigour of law, any
such passes notwithstanding.
Given under my hand and seal at arms, at Morris-
Town, the twenty-eighth day of July, in the year
of our Lord one tboufand seven hundred and seven
ty eight.
By his Excellency's command,
William Livingston, jim.
Deputy Secretary.
Extract of a letter from Monmouth, dated July 18.
" I have been waiting from the time the enemy
passed thro' this county till the present, in expeda
tion that some of your correspondents would, thro'
the channel of your paper, have given the public an
account of their conduct to the inhabitants---but not
having seen any as yet, and as it has been such as
every honest person ought to despise, I take this op
portunity of giving a short sketch of it; which, if
you think will be any fatisfadion to your readers,
you may insert in your paper. The devastation
they have made in some parts of Freehold exceeds
perhaps any they have made for the distance in their
route thro' this State, having in the neighbourhood
above the Court-house burnt and destroyed eight
dwelling-houses, all on farms adjoining each other,
besides barns and out-houses—The firft they burnt
was my own, then Benjamin Covenhoven's, George
Walker's, Hannah Solomon's, Benjamin Van Cleave's,
David Covenhoven's and Garrit Vanderveer's ; John
Benham's house and barn they wantonly tore and
broke down so as to render them useless. —It may not
be improper to observe that the two firft mentioned
houses that were burnt adjoined the farm, and were in
full view of the place where Gen. Clinton quartered.
In the neighbourhood below the Court-house they
burnt the houses of Matthias Lane, Cornelius Co
venhoven, John Antonidas, and one Emmans ; these
were burnt the morning before their defeat. Some
have the effrontery to fay, that the British officers by
no means countenance or allow of burning---did not
the wanton burning of Charleftown and Kingston in
Efopus, besides many other instances, fufficiently
evince the contrary, their conduct in Freehold I
think may---the officers having been seen to exult
at the fight of the flames, and heard to declare that
they never could conquer America until they burnt
every rebel's house, and murdered man, woman and
child. Besides, this consideration has great weight
with me towards confirming the above, that after
their defeat, thro' a retreat of twenty-five miles, in
which they passed the houses of numbers well-af
fetled to their country, they never attempted to de
stroy one. Thus much for their burning.
" To enter into a minute detail of the many in
sults and abuses those inhabitants met with that re
mained in their houses, would take up too much
room in your paper; I Ihall therefore content myfelf
with giving you an account of Gen. Clinton's con
du^ to one of my neighbour's, a woman of seventy
In CONGRESS, July 14, 1778.
RESOLVED, That a Treasurer of Loans be ap
pointed, whose duty it shall be to sign Loan Of
fice Certificates, and Bills ot Exchange for the pay
ment of interest arising on such Certificates, which
shall be struck by order of Congress ; to deliver such
Certificates and Bills of Exchange agreeably to the
orders of the Board of Treasury ; to receive such Bills
of Credit as Congress shall, from time to time, order
to be funk and destroyed ; and to perform such other
services incident to his office, as may hereafter be
ordered by Congress or the Board of Treasury.
JULY 27, 7778.
Congress proceeded to the election of a Treasurer
es Loans, and the ballots being taken,
Mr. FRANCIS HOPKINSON was eleded.
Extract from the Minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, Sec.
PHILADELPHIA, July 30.
WIL. LIVINGSTON.
'' We have certain information, that the enemy are
getting water on board their shipping with the utmost
industry.
" This morning a certain Jonathan Chew, Captain
in the New Levies, deserted over to us from Staten
Island, bringing with him his son ; also came off about
the fame time, a private of artillery. Chew was for
merly an inhabitant of Billingfport, in Gloucester
county."
Lately retaken and brought into Great Egg-har
bour, by the privateer sloop Cornet, Capt. Yelverfton
Taylor, the schooner Carolina Packet, Capt. Walter
Belt, from St. Übes, with 1600 bushels of coarse
salt. Also the sloop Lucy, Capt. Thomas Grandle,
from South-Carolina, with 112 tierces and 30 half
tierces of rice, one tierce and half ditto indigo.
The sloop Lark, Capt. John Laing, bound from
St. Kitts to Philadelphia, was lately taken and sent
into a fafe port. Her cargo consists of 77 hogsheads
of rum, one ditto dry goods, 18 kegs of nails, 3 tierces
and I case joiners and carpenters tools, door locks,
hinges, &c. The schooner Phoenix, Captain Robert
Gilbert, from Bermuda for New-York, with 30,000
oranges and lemons, and a considerable quantity of
onions. And a schooner from Antigua, with rum,
brandy, &c.
Retaken and brought into Little Egg-harbour, by
two New-England privateers, in company with Capt.
John Rice, a brig and sloop loaded with tobacco.
We hear that several refugees, despairing of the
success of the British arms, and being greatly neglect
ed by those they esteemed their friends, have, with
in a fortnight past, left New-York, and come into this
State, throwing themselves on the mercy of their
country.
TOO be fold, a PLANTATION, containing eighty-
X one acres of excellent land, lying at Chatham, in
the county ofEffex, New-Jersey ; fifty acres of which
is in excellent English meadow, which has produced
upwards of fifty tons of timothy and blue grass in
one season ; eight acres in good plough land, from
which there have been but two crops taken ; the rest
is the best of wood land ; the whole in good fence.
It lays very level, and natural to grass. The whole
can be laid in mowing with little pains. There is
on the said plantation, a dwelling-house with two fire
places, and a small bed room, a good barn frame al
most new, a good well of excellent water, a good
orchard that yields a considerable quantiry of good
fruit every year. The whole is in good repair, and
pleasantly situated; it is fit for a gentleman, mer
chant, tradesman or farmer. For terms apply to the
fubferiber, oh the premises. William Wright.
Chatham, July 30, 1778. if
years of age and unblemished reptitatiofi, tvith whom
he made his quarters. After he had been some time
in her house, and taking notice that most of the goods
were removed, he observed that the need not have
sent off her effects for fafety, that he would have se
cured them for her, and asked if the goods could
not be brought back again— -the old Lady objected :
But upon the repeated assurances of Gen. Clinton in
person, that they should be secured for her, the at
length consented, and sent a person along with the
waggon he had ordered to shew where they were se
creted. When the goods were brought to the door,
which was in the latter part of the day, the old Lady
applied to Gen. Clinton in person, for permission to
have them brought in and taken care of, but he re
fufed, and ordered a guard set over the goods. The
morning following, the old Lady finding most of her
goods plundered and hole, applied again to him for
leave to take care of the remainder ; he then allowed
her to take some trifling articles, which were all she
saved ; not having (when I saw her, and had the a
bove information from her) a change of dress for her
felf or husband, or scarcely for any of her family.—
With regard to personal treatment: She was turn'd
out of her bed-room, and obliged to lay with her
wenches either on the floor, without bed or bed
clothes, in an entry exposed to the passing and repaff
ing of all,&c. or fit in a chair in a milk-room too bad
for any of the officers to lay in, else its probable she
would have been deprived of that also. —If the firft
officers in the Britifli army are so far divested of ho
nour and humanity, what may we not expert from
the soldiery ?"
We are informed, that on Wednesday last a British
frigate came within the Capes of Delaware. About
the fame time a large tender was cruising off our
coast, which drove several of our small privateers into
the inlets of this State.
It is reported, that the prizes which were taken by
the French fleet, since its arrival on our coast, are sent
into some of the New-England ports.
By a gentleman from the army we learn, that ten
deserters upon an average come over every day. from
the enemy's post near Kingfbridge.
* , Advertisements omitted this week to be in our next.
r ro be fold by the fubferibers, in behalf of the pro-
I prietors, at May's Landing, on Great Egg-har
bour, by publick vendue, on Monday, the tenth inst.
(August) at ten o'clock in the morning, about 1600
bushels best St. Übes coarse Salt; 112 tierces and 30
half tierces Carolina Rice ; one tierce and a half belt
Carolina Indigo. Thomas Sinnickson,
August 2, 1778. if Thomas Leaming, jun.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Elizabeth-
Town, dated July 29, 1778.
IT having been represented to me, that a number of
persons in the county of Monmouth, having erect
ed salt-works on Barnagat Bay, and other waters ad
jacent to the sea shore, make use of the wood in the va
cant lands of the General Proprietors of East New-
Jersey, for carrying on the said salt-works :—lt
having been likewise represented, that those persons,
or most of them, have declared their intentions to
purchase the right to the said lands, whenever they
had an opportunity of so doing : —And it appearing to
me that it would be for the interest of the said Gene
ral Proprietors to make a sale thereof; which can
not be done without a meeting of the said General
Proprietors: IDO therefore, in consequence of a
request to me, made by a fufficient number of the
said Proprietors, " That I should call a special meet
" ing of the Board," give this PUBLIC NOTICE,
That Tuesday, the eleventh day of August next, is ap
pointed for a meeting of the said Proprietors in coun
cil, at the court-house in Freehold, in the county of
Monmouth, then and there to take the premises into
consideration ; and the day following to dispose of, at
public sale, such parcel or parcels of rights to be
located on vacant lands, convenient and adjacent to
the said salt-works, as may then and there appear to
the Board to be necessary.—Os which all persons con
cerned are desired to take notice, and govern them
selves accordingly.
Given under my hand, at Bethlehem, in the count, of
Hunterdon, this 14th day of July, 1778.
JAMES PARKER, President.
HAVE for SALE at their shop, next door to
the Court-house in Morristown, bohea tea,
mufeovado sugar, coffee, pepper, brimstone, best
fnuff in bladders, and choice Carolina indigo by the
calk or smaller quantity, with many articles in the
dry goods way. They have no objection against
taking money of the State of New-York.
Morristown, 'July 19th 1778. t. f.
JOHN REYNOLDS,
At the house formerly occupied by the Widow Cum
mins, opposite to Capt. Joseph Clunn's tavern,
T R E NT O N. 3 t
r rAKEN up as a stray, about the twentieth instant,
X near Elizabeth-Town, a dark bay GELDING,
fix years old, fourteen hands high, branded on the
near shoulder with the letter S, short square dock,
trots and canters. Whoever may have loft said geld
ing, is desired on this notice to come, prove property
pay charges and take him away. 1*
Elizabeth-Town,) JOHN BURROWS, Capt.
July 21, 1778. ) Col. Forman's regt.
STOLEN out of the pasture of Zebulon Heston, on
° the night of the 28th of July, a brown HORSE,
about fourteen hands and an half high, five years old
past, trots, paces and canters well, branded on the
off fide under his mane Z, a little white on each of
his hind heels. Whoever secures said horse, so that
the owner may get him again, shall be entitled to the
reward of Twenty Dollars, and all reasonable charges,
and an addition of Twenty Dollars for the thief, if
convicted thereof, paid by me John Coryell, at Cory
ell's Ferry. July 29, 1778. 3*
ALL persons indebted to the estate of Theodoras
Van Wyck, late merchant of New-York, deceas
ed, either by bond, note or book debt, are requested
to pay their refpeCtive accounts to the fubferibers, at
the house of the Rev. Jacob R. Hardenburgh, in Ra
ritan, Somerset county; and those who have any de
mands against the said estate, are desired to bring in
their accounts, properly attested, to the fubferibers,
at the place aforefaid, that they may be discharged.
Abraham Van Wyck, Executor,
46 Helena Van Wick,)—
Helena Bogart f Execute.
WEST-INDIA Rum by the hogshead or gallon,
Geneva, Apple Brandy and Whiskey by the
barrel or gallon ; and a few chests best Bohea Tea. zf
A quantity of the following capital
MEDICINES, &c.
TO BE SOLD cheap for cash, at the Printing-
Office in Trenton, viz.
TESUIT's Bark, Sal. Nitre,
J Jalap, Gum Manna,
Rhubarb, Fol. Sennas,
Epsom's Salts,
A few dozen of Glister-Pipes;
ALSO
WRITING-PAPER by the
Ream or Quire.
WE$ T-TWDI A
COT T O N
of the bed quality,
To be had for Cash or Country Produce, of
TO BE SOLD
By FURMAN and HUNT,
Ogden and Curtis,
At their Store in Trenton,