The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1785-07-04 00:00:00, page 3

Superfine flour 44s
com. do. 37s 6d
Bur middlings 32s 6d a 35s
Indian meal, -24 s
Tar - - los
Pitch - -16 s 3d
Turpentine -17 s6d
Pork Burlington 51 to 61
Beef lrifh - 41 to 41 15s
Country - - 31
Mackarel 50s to 60s
Herring -22 s 6d
Per Cwt.
Ship fluff -14 sto 16s
bread -23 sto 24s
Pilot ditto
Rice -26 s
Sugar Mufcov. 36s to 60s
Tobacco James river
55s
York - -50 s
Rappahannock
40s to 50s
Coloured Maryland
45s to 60s
Western Shore
long leaf 40s
Eastern Shore
jos to 35s
Lead in pigs 35s
Ditto in bars 40s
Shot -40 s
Red lead 48s to 50s
White ditto - 653
Sp^nifh brown -15 s
German steel 70s to 75s
American -60 s
Enghih bliffered
Cordage 50s to 67s 6d
Codfilh 26s to 27s
Pearl allies )
Pot ditto ) ° ne
Cocoa -85 s
Per lb.
Beeswax - as 4d
Feathers 3s to 3s 6d
Hams - 8d
Spermaceti candles 3s yd
Mould ditto - led
Tallow ditto - gd
Soap - yd
English cheese izd
Butter - gd to i2d
Chocolate - ijd
Coffee 15d| to i6d
Tea Hyfon 10s to 12s 6d
Souchong 6s 6d
Bohea 2s 6d to as 8d
Indigo French - gs
Carolina 6s 6d to 7s
Hemp 5d to sd|
Ginseng 2s to 2s 3d
Snake-root
Starch - 4d
Snuff - 2S 6d
Loaf sugar - iid
Havanna sugar white 8d
Ditto brown jdi
Nutmegs -27 s
Cinnamon 12s 6to 15s
Mace -60 s
Cloves -12 s 6d
Pepper - zs gd
Pimento - is 2d
Copper in sheets 2s
Verdigreafe
Course of exchange—On London 77 1-2
Amsterdam 3s 2d per guilder.
Paris 7s 6d per 5 livres.
* The tonnage of fliip-building is near 25 per
cent, better in Pennsylvania than any of the eastern
states.
June 29. We learn from Boston, that the General
Court have made fpme alterations and amendments in
an aB, passed at the last session of a General Court,
commonly known by the name of the Stamp-Act.—
That part of the aft, in particular, which laid a duty
by a stamp on news-papers, almanacks and notes of
hand, is repealed.
On the 23d. inst. Congress passed a resolution, that
three commissioners be appointed to examine the re
ceipts and expenditures of the late fuperintendant of
finance, and report thereon ; and that three commissi
oners be appointed annually to examine and report on
the expenditures of the board of treasury of the United
States.
The university of Edinburgh has conferred the ho
nour of Doctor of Divinity on the Rev. Messrs. How
ard and Lathrop, of Boston ; each of whom, it is said,
received a diploma by the last packet.
Accounts from Pittsburgh just received, fay, that
By a bylander from Havanna for St. Augustine,
which put in at Savanna on the 9th inst. we have ad
vice, that a fire lately happened at the Cabagna, which
burnt all the stores belonging to the King of Spain,
containing provisions, timber, &c. also a ship and two
launches. The fire was not entirely quenched for se
ven days. Don Galvez had failed for Mexico be
fore the above vessel left Havanna.
PHILADELPHIA, June 18.
From Boston we learn, that a report was current
there of the British frigates having fired on our fifher
men, employed in filhing on the grand bank of New
foundland,
Philadelphia Price-Current, June 24.
Per barrel. Vermillion - rod
Anchors - gd to rod
Per bufheh.
Wheat 7s gd to 8s 4d
Rye
Barley 6s
Indian corn - 3s rod
Oats - - 2S 6d
Flax-feed - none
Allum fait - 28 6d
Liverpool ditto 2s
Coal (dull sale) ißd
Per pipe.
Wine Madeira 501 to 80l
Lisbon - 401
Port - 401
Teneriffe 221 10s
Fayal - 151
Per gallon.
Jamaica rum 4s to 4s 2d
Windward ditto 3s 3d
French ditto - 2s
New-England ditto 2s 4d
Brandy - 3s 6d
Sherry wine 5s to 8s
Malaga - 5s 6d
Molasses - iod
Per ton.
Bar iron - - 301
Pig iron 81 10s to 10l
Logwood chipt 10l 10s
Ditto unchipt 7I 10s
Fuftick none
Braziletto - 201
Lignum vitae - 71
Oak timber -40 s
* Ship building. White
oak frames 61 to 71
Live-oak and Red-cedar
ditto - 81 to gl
Per 1000.
Slaves pipe - 131
W. O. hhd. 81
R. O. do. 71 los
Leogan - 61 10s
barrel - 51 10s
Heading (drefs'd) 101 10s
Hoops
Oak boards 4I 2s 6d to 5I
Pine ditto - 4I to 51
Cedar ditto - 61 10
Oak plank -10 l
Pine ditto -10 l
Short thing. 11s gdaizs 6d
Long ditto 61 to 61 10s
Scantling - 41 to 51
Skins and furs.
Deer-skin per lb.
Beaver ditto 7s 6d so ijs
Per piece.
Otters -25 s
Minks - - 2S6d
Foxes grey 7s 6d red 5s
Martins - 5s
Fishers - - 4s 6d
Cats - - 3s gd
Bears -10 s to 20
Rackoons - 4s 6d
Muskrats - ißd
T. Crowley steel per
faggot - 41 to 5 1
Tin in boxes 4I 15s to 51
Gin per case 30s to 32s 6d
Claret per doz. bottles 30s
Port wine ditto 30
Lemons per box 30s to 40s
some of the southern Indians have taken up the hatch
et against the United States.
RAN away on the 15th of May ]aft from the sub
scriber in Middleton, Monmouth county, state of
New-Jersey, a negro man aged about 22 years, this
country born, a short fellow: Had on when he went
away a short Hghtifh coloured over jacket, a pair of
purple coloured troffers, an old shirt, old felt hat,
&c. has a remarkable fear on his chin. Whoever ap
prehends said negro, and secures him in any gaol, so
that his master may have him again, shall have the
above reward, paid by
TRENTO N, July 4.
Thursday last came on the examination of the Gram
mar-School in the Trenton-Academy. The Honoura
ble Philemon Dickinson, Vicc-Prelident of this state,
the Honourable Isaac Smith, Second Justice of the Su
preme Court, Colonel Cox, James Mott, Esq. State
Treasurer, James Ewing, Esq. Auditor of Accounts,
the Rev. Mr. Hunter, the Trustees of the Institution,
and a number of refpedtable citizens of the town and
vicinity were present, who expressed their approbation
of the performances of the students.
In the evening the scholars exhibited a specimen of
their improvement in the Art of Speaking, in the pre
sence of a polite and crouded audience, who appeared
to be agreeably entertained.
The friends and proprietors of this Academy are
endeavouring to eftabbfh a fund for the tuition of
poor children ; and in this laudable undertaking they
have met with con fiderable encouragement, by the li
beral contribution of a number of the inhabitants of
this place and elsewhere—and hope to receive further
aid from the generous and benevolent where-ever they
may reside.
At a Court of Oyer and Terminer holden at Bur
lington, last week, John Wood, the keeper of the gaol
of that county, was convicted of negligently fuffering
a prisoner to escape, and was sentenced to pay a fine
of twenty pounds, and be imprisoned three months.
We are warranted in informing the citizens of New-
Jersey, that his Excellency our Governor declines ac
cepting the appointment of Congress, to be their Am
bassador to the United Netherlands.
1 his day is the Anniversary of the Independence of
the United Spates of America.
^ The Clerks of the federal counties in this state
nvi/b to inform alt persons, <who have not got their
deeds recorded, that books have been provided for
that purpose, agreeably to the directions of an aft of
the General Assembly, passed at the last fitting.
And now opening for Sale, at their Store in Water-
Street, a few doors below Market-Street,
An elegant Assortment of Goods,
Suitable to the Season : Consisting of the following
Articles, viz.
CASSIMERS ofthe firft Ell-wide tambour
quality and most fa- muslins,
fhionable colours,
Caffinets,
Ladies' cloths,
Bombazeens and bom
bazets,
Ruffels and ruffellets,
Corduroys and cordurets,
Superfine black twilled
ladings,
Ditto fattinets,
Calimancoes of different
.colours,
Durants, fhallooris, mo
reens, &c.
Half yard and half ell
wide low priced fuftians,
Ditto jeans and jeanets,
Imperial, royal, herring
bone, and a variety of
other ribs,
Checks and stripes of a
variety cf patterns,
South wallets,
Corded dimities, Dutch
cords, &c.
Marseilles quilting,
Ditto with borders,
Elegant Marseilles bed
quilts from 9-4 to 10-4,
Cotton counterpanes,
An assortment of 7 8 and
yard-wide Irish linens,
98 Irish sheetings,
Linen and cotton hand
kerchiefs of a variety
of patterns,
Calicoes and chintzes, a
variety of the newest
patterns and lowest
prices,
Where also may be had, by the ton or larger quan
tity, Batfto hollow ware, consisting of pots, kettles,
and skillets, noted for being the neatest and lighted
in America ; also, Batfto pig-iron of superior quality
for making bar-iron and fine callings, and is in high es
timation in Europe.
Philadelphia, May 30, 1785. ,vs
JOHNTAYLOR.
Middleton, June 6, 1785. 4w
THREE POUNDS REWARD.
Imported in the last vessels from Europe, by
Charges and Andrew Pettit,
Yard-wide and 6-4 thick
muslins,
6-4 humhums,
Silk and thread gauzes,
Silk handkerchiefs,
Soufflee ditto,
Tiffany and gauze hand
kerchiefs,
Black China taffeties,
Black and white modes
in squares,
Persians, farfenets and
peelongs,
Mantuas and taffeties of
the most fafhionable Co
lours now wore in Eu
rope,
Cambricks,
Mens' and womens' co
loured gloves,
Mens' and womens'
thread and cotton hose,
Mens' thread and cotton
gauze ditto,
Bobbins and tapes,
Coloured threads,
Sewing silk,
Silk twist,
En elegant variety of me
tal buttons,
An assortment of cutlery,
Dutch looking-glasses,
Plated buckles and spurs,
Plated crewet stands,
Silver top ditto,
Tea caddies,
Ditto urns,
Shaving apparatus,
Japanned waiters.
By Publick Vendue,
On Friday the Bth inst. at 2 o'clock in the afternoon;
at the house of the fubferiber in Trenton,
an assortment of
Drugs & Medicines,
Of the firft quality, with a few instruments ; also a
horse fix or seven years old—and a variety of house
hold furniture, such as tables, desk, bed and bedding;
&c. &c. Hard cash and ready money will be ex
pected. Attendance will be given on the day of sale,
by JACOB BENJAMIN.
July 1, 1)85. iwf
ALL Persons who have just
demands against the late partnership of Snarp
and Brown, of Sharpfborough iron-works, in the coun,
ty of Sussex, in the state of New-Jersey, and the estate
of Abia Brown, late of the fame place, deceased,
either by bond or simple contrast, are requited to
exhibit them to Edward Dunlop, of Newtown, in the
county aforefaid, who is in possession of the books and
papers, for settlement, at any time before the 10th
day of August next ; and all persons who are indebted
to the said partnership of Sharp and Brown, or estate
of Abia Brown, on any contract whatsoever, are also
requeued to 'difeharge their refpedtive debts to the
said Edward Dunlop by the said time, in order to en
able the executors to make dividends, or difeharge the
debts due from the said estates, or either of them.
Have for Sale, at their Store at New-Market, in
Amwell, a general Assortment of
European, East and Weft-India . Goods,
ry rum,
Cyder spirit,
Geneva in cases,
Wine,
Molasses,
Loaf and Mufcovado
sugar,
Tea, coffee and chocolate,
Rice,
Indigo,
Pepper,
Nutmegs,
Alfpice,
Ginger,
Rosin,
Brimstone,
Copperas,
Allum,
Chalk,
Red-wood,
Snuff and tobacco,
Soap and candles,
Powder and (hot,
Lampblack,
Salt and lime,
Frying-pans,
Shovels and tongs,
Sad-irons,
Copper tea-kettles,
Iron candlesticks,
Brass cocks,
Scythes,
Nails,•
Iron and box coffee-mills,
Plane-irons,
Drawing-knives,
Chiffels,
Gimblets,
Door, chest and closet
locks and hinges,
Rules and hammers,
Taylors and family [hears,
Scissors,
Razors,
Screws,
G B wool cards,
Brass and steel thimbles,
Pins and needles,
Watch-keys and seals,
Case knives and forks,
Pen-knives,
Large ditto,
Table and tea-spoons,
Temple fpedacies,
Plated spurs,
Crooked and strait combs,
Snuff and tobacco-boxes,
Awl-blades and tacks,
Shoe and knee-buckles,
Jews-harps,
Knitting-needles,
Iron and steel,
Pots, kettles, pye-pans,
fkil/ets, and waggon-
COLHOUN ^ BRUSH,
Suitable to the season, among which are,
OLD Jamaica spirit. 7by 9 and Bby 10 win-
Antigua, Weft India, dow-giafi,
Barbadoes, and Newbu- Looking-glasses,
boxes, bound together,
Earthen, tin, glass, pew- Spelling bo< ks and
ter, and cedar ware, primers, &c. &c.
N. B. Any perlon buying to fell again, shall meet
with a generous abatement. gw
JOHN HATHORN, ) r
EDWARD DUNLOP, J
Sharpfborough, June 22, 1785. 4W
TO BE SOLD,
Long and short pipes.
Tooth-brushes,
Sweeping, shoe, and buc
kle ditto,
Booms and ropes,
Superfine and fecpnd
broadcloths and
coatings,
Velvets,
Cordurovs,
Thickset,
Everlastings,
Sattinets,
Nankeens, ,
Serge- denim,
Futiians and jeans,
Balloon jacket shapes,
Moreens and taboreens,
Camblets,
Calimancoes,
Durants and tammies,
Rattinets and fhalloons,
Dark and light chintzes,
Calicoes,
Printed linens and cottons,
Mantuas and poplins,
Crapes,
Cambricks and lawns,
Muslins,
Kenting aprons and hand
.kerchiefs,
Ell-wide perfians,
Taffeties,
Sattins,
Peelongs,
Modes,
Sarfenets,
Pasteboards,
Ribands and tapes,
Cap wire and tape,
Black and white lace,
Garterings and bindings,
Womens' mits and gloves.
Mens' do.
Gauzes, 1 .
Colouied silk and thread,
Barcelona, Bandano, Bil
boa, and Irish handker
chiefs,
Check and spotted linen
ditto,
Cotton, worsted, and
thread hose,
Apron-width, yard-wide,
7 8, cotton and linea
checks,
Linens,
Russia sheeting,
Ticklerburghs,
Ozenbrigs,
Fans,
Paper, 1 •
Bibles and testaments, +
Psalm and hymn-books
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