The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1780-04-19 00:00:00, page 4

In CONGRESS, July % 177%
WHEREAS the Legihature of the State of North,
Carolina have represented, that from the difii
culties of communicating intelligence in that State,
and the remote situation of many of its inhabitants,
it was impossible that they Should receive seasonable
notice to carry the money of the emiftions of May
the 20th, 1777 ; and April the iith, 1778, to the pro
per office by the time limited by Congress, and have
therefore requested Congress to grant such farther
time for that purpose, that the inhabitants ofthe laid
State may not be injured: ANJ WHEREAS it is also
represented to Congress, that many persons in the
different States have been prevented by unforefeen
causes from complying with the said resolution :
AND WHEREAS it was not the intention of Congress
that individuals possessed of the said bills should sus
tain any farther inconvenience than such as arose
from the necessary cautions against counterfeits :
Rcfolveu therefore, That ad bills of the said emis
sions which ihall be brought into the Continental
Loan-Offices, before the firft day January next, Ihall
at the election of the owners be received either on loan
01 to b: exchanged for other bills ; and that the lame
rules and precautions as are provided for registering,
certifying and defacing the bills of the said emiflions
received by the refpetfive Commissioners ol the Loan-
Offices before the firft day of June lalt, be observed
in refped to all bills of the said emissions which Ihall
be brought in by virtue of this resolution.
Provided that each holder of such bilk ihall previ
ously take the following oath or affirmation, and cause
to be delivered to the refpedive Commissioners ofthe
Continental Loan-Offices a certificate thereof, Sign
cd by the M giltrau administering the fame :
" I co Swear (or Solemnly affirm) that
d< of the emiflions of May 20th, 1777, and
Ap 1J 1778, of the following numbers and de
nor % <. . dz. were my property or 111 my
pohdiiun , he irlt of June, 1779, or at the time of
m bting mfer i : 'the reiolution of Congress of the
2d ol January, 1779, for taping the laid emifhons out
of circulation, and were not obtained directly or in.
directly at a difeount."
Th it the Commissioners of the Continental Loan-
Offices be authorized to pay off the indented certifi
cates which they ihall have issued for exchanging bills
of the em ffions of May 20, 1777, and April 11, 1778,
to any persons to whom such certificates may be in
dorfed, provided that each indorfement Shall be wit
nessed by a Magiffrate:
That the Commissioners of the several Continental
Loan-Offices make returns to the Board of Trealury,
immediately after the firft day of January next, of the
amount of the bills received in their respective offices
after the said firft day of June, to be exchanged as
aforefaid, and that for this purpose proper bills be
lodged at the said offices within sixty days from and
after the firft day of January aforefaid.
MARCH, 28, 1780.
Resolved, That the resolution of the 2d of July,
1779, granting further time for bringing in Bills of
Credit of the emissions of May 20, 1777, and April
11, 1778, called out of circulation by the resolution
of the 2d of January, 1779, except the providing
elaufe, be revived and extended to the firft day of Ja
nuary next:
That all bills of the said emissions not brought in by
or before the said firft day of January next, be after
wards irredeemable.
Extract from the Minutes,
AUDITORS OFFICE, Frentun, April 8, 1780.
'THE fubferiber having removed his family to this
I place, the publick may depend upon constant
attendance being given at the office in future ; —
where all persons who have been entrusted with pub
lick money by this state, or who are otherwise inte
rested in any publick accounts unsettled, are requir
ed to attend with their accounts and vouchers as
speedily as possible, and where all county collectors
who have, since the present constitution, in virtue of
any law of this state, paid out any monies either to
the commissioners for purchasing clothing, or for
purchasing arms and ammunition ; or for guns and
accoutrements, loft or damaged in the publick ser
vice, are requeued to transmit accounts of the fame,
together with the vouchers, that propercharges there
of may be made. JAMES EH ING,
4w Auditor of Accounts,
A N away, in Trenton, from the fubferiber, a
Bay Mare, about eleven years old, j-qths blood
ed, with saddle and bridle on, neither crupper nor
girt to the saddle; no marks known about her only
a white spot on the right fide of her neck, Any per
lon apprehending and Securing her fliall receive Se
venty Dollars reward, and giving information thereof,
with reasonable charges, paid by
JOHN Van KIRK.
Cranberry, March 27, 1780. 2W
— F O R SALE,
A LOT of good Pasture Ground, in the city of
Burlington, conlifting of four acres and twenty
feven perches. The title indisputable. Immediate
peffeffion will be given the purchaser. For terms ap
ply to the Printer of this paper. 3W
TRENTON: Printed by ISAAC- COLLINS, by whom Efays, Articles of Intelligence, Advertisements, &c. are
thankfully received, and duly attended to.
Commissioners of forfeited estates in the county of
Middlesex, the following houses and lots of land ;
A HOUSE and lot of land in Amboy, late of John
Smith : A house and lot, late of Thomas Skin
ner ; A house and lot, late of Philip Kearny, junior:
The third part of a large house and lot of Stephen
Skinner; One lot of salt meadow, late of Stephen
Skinner, lying in Woodbridge: One lot of salt mea
dow, late of Alexander Watson, in Woodbridge:
One house and lot of land, late of David Gofiing, in
Amboy : A house and two lots of land, late of Isaac
Bonnel, in Amboy : A house and lot of land, late of
Michael Kearny, in Amboy : A farm, late of Francis
Kearny, near Amboy : A house and lot of land, late
of John Thompson, boatman, in Amboy : A lot of
land, late of William Wright, in Woodbridge. A
lot of land adjoining said Wright's, late of Stephen
Skinner : A house and lot ofland in Woodbridge, late
of Freeman Smith : A house and lot of land of Ben
jamin Man'll ; A lot of land on the Sand Hills, late
Nathaniel Harned's, in Woobridge; and the house
and lands late of Peter, Andrew and Oliver Barberie,
in Amboy and elsewhere. The vendue will be con
tinued by adjournments from day to day till all are
fold. Attendance will be given, and conditions made
known by Ebenezer Ford, ) Commif-
Wm. Manning, 5 fioners.
Middle sex county, _ April 6, 1780. 45
"TO B E SOL D,
A Plantation within about two miles and a half of
Sherard's ferry, in Nicomixon township, state
of Pennsylvania, containing 23 acres and 55 perches,
with allowance for roads, and on which is ereded a
log house and stable ; twelve acres of said land is under
fence, with several fruit trees on it, such as peach,
apple andcherry, in a good neighbourhood, and may
be entered on immediately. For terms apply to
Alexander Douglass at Trenton, —who has for falc
gin by the case, mufcovado sugar and port wine.
April loth, 1780. 2 W
State of New-Jersey, March 17, 178 c.
TO BE SOLI) by private SALE,
THE one full equal and undivided third part of a
valuable tract of land, containing fifty-two acres,
under good fence, Situated in the township of Green
wich and county of Sussex, one mile from the mouth
of the Mufconetcong, a. never-failing Stream of wa
ter, which empties itfclf into the river Delaware four
miles from Durham furnace, eight miles from Eafton,
and fifty-two miles from Philadelphia. There is on
said trad a forge with two fires and one hammer,
called and known by the name of Chelsea Forge, a
law-mill, three convenient dwelling-houses, one of
which is Stone, two Stories high, with fire-places at
each end, and in which a tavern has been kept for a
number of years past ; the other two of frame and
square logs well fiifiShed, with convenient fire-places,
a smith's shop, Hore and counting-houses, barn,
stables, and a number of log-houses fufficient for ac
commodating the hands necessary for carrying on the
works, all of which are in good order and repair.—
Also a valuable trad of land, the furthest part of which
is not more than one mile and a half from the forge,
adjoining the river Delaware, on which it has a front
of one mile, containing 450 acres, about one half of
which is wood-land and mostly well timbered, the
remainder cleared and under good fence, part of
which is rich bottom adjoining the river; there is on
the premises three good new log-houses, at one of
which a ferry across the river Delaware was designed
to be kept, near whit h place is a valuable shad filh
ery.—Alfo will be fold at the fame time, 700 cords
of wood cut and put up, and all the tools and imple
ments necessary for carrying on the works. The pur
chaser can have possession of the last described tradt
immediately, and of the forge and other premises on
the firft day of June next ; Any person inclining to
purchase may view the premises, and be informed of
the terms, by applying to Moses Yaman, at Chel
sea Forge aforefaid.
Bar iron or loan-office certificates will be taken
in payment. 4wl'
TO be fold, the plantation Joseph Leigli lives
on, in Kingwood townlhtp, Hunterdon coun
ty, seven miles from Pitts-down, and two from De
laware, near several shad fisheries, containing 350
acres, of which about ICO is wood, the rest in fix
fields of about 40 acres each, with a farm house,
good barn, and excellent orchard, and about twelve
acres of meadow : Allo about too acres rich Swamp
in Maidenhead, fix miles from Trenton, heavily
timbered and of rich foil for meadow, and will be
divided into lots to suit the purchasers, if desired
For terms enquire of William Coxe, near bristol
and Nelhameny Ferries. 2m^
NOTICE is hereby given, that the LAWS of
the last Sitting of the General Assembly of
New-Jersey are printed, and ready to be delivered.
Trenton, April 8, 1780. Isaac Collins.
T 0 FT F~o L D,
On Monday the Bth day of May next at the house of
Col. Samuel Crow, in Woodbridge, where Ebe
nezer Ford, Esq. lately lived, by the subscribers,
WHEREAS the Legiilative Council of the state
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 Wain, 011 Afian
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 requested to take notice.
Trenton, March 24. 4 * STACY POTTS.
f 0 C cTv E R, -
The ensuing season, at the Subferiber's in Maiden,
head, in Hunterdon county, the beautiful and
high bred HORSE
ARABIA N,
Rising ten years, at Three Pounds in Gold or
Silver, —Continental at the exchange, ready cafli.
or fix bushels of Wheat, Buckwheat, Rye or Corn,
in the fame proportion, to be paid in the season
of the crops,
ARabian is full blooded, fifteen hands and two
inches high, very adive, and is a remarkable
fine bay, his colts are in general very fine, a few of
them mas be seen at his Stand. Arabian was got by
that famous stallion Willdair, his dam by Babraham
his grandam by Old Sterling, his great-grandam by
Merry Andrew out of Laughing Polly; the won.+he
King's hundred guineas at Hambleton, and was got
by Childers, her dam by Chancellor, and own filter
to Thunderbolt ; her grandam by Luggs, and her
great-grandam by Davill's Old Woodcock,
Wiildair was got by Old Cade, the best stallion that
ever was got by the famous Godolphin Arabian, out
of a daughter of Steady, a very fleet son ofthe Duke
of Devonshire's Flying Childers. This horse, the fire
of Arabian, was a few years past purchased of James
Delancey, Esq. at a very high price, and Shipped back
to England at the particular desire of the greatest
breeder in that country, and covered at Forty Guineas
the season, his blood being in the highest degree of
reputation among the nobility and sportsmen.
Good pasture will be procured for mares that are
brought any distance.
6w' RALPH PHILLIPS.
State of New-Jersey, Sussex County.
YYTHEREAS there has been final judgment enter,
vV ed againit the estates of Daniel Coxe, John T,
Kemp and Grace his wife, Joseph Barton, James
Clendenning, and Mr. Delancey, &c. as the Ad of
AiTembly 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 20th day of April next ensuing, to be
held at the dwelling-house of William Kerr, Esq. in
Oxford township, to begin at ten o'clock on said
day. The estates are as follow, viz. Daniel Coxe
and Mrs. Kemp, wife of John T. Kemp, one tract
of good land, situate in Knowlton township, join ig
the river Delaware above the mouth Patden's K^n,
containing 850 acres of land, with four good im
provements on it: Mrs. Kemp, one trad of land
containing 680 acres, joining Pequeft 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 traCt of
land containing 3689 1-2 acres, joining to land of
Richard Lundy at the Great Meadows; and one half
part of an undivided tract. containing 1270 acres of
land, joining to land of Mr. Joseph Shippen and Mr.
John Oxford near Oxford furnace, and several small
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 possession of Henry Winter: Joseph Barton 800
acres of land near 'Squires Point: James Cicnden
ning 2co acres of wood-land near the Blue Moun
tains and Paulen's Kiln : Mr. Delancey, one large
tract 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 purchase,
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
_ 1780. 4w_ _ George_Warne, ) fioners.
T () B E SOL D;
THE grey Colt Abdalla, riling four years old,
compleat in his form, in fine condition, and got
by Mr. Heath's Traveller out of the Dove mare,
whofc dam belonged to the late Mr. Anthony Waters,
well kno\. n by the name of the Dutch mare, and in
her day thought to be fup< rior to any of her blood
in America : Travellor is from Col. Lloyd's Old Tra
veller out of his fine mart Nancy Bywell, who won
the match against Mr. Delancey's Lath with great
case in 1772.—T0 save trouble, One Hundred Pounds
hard money, or its value in paper money, is the price
of the above Colt, a: d a stout young horse or mare
or a pair of either, well broke to the draught, will
be taken in part, if they and their prices are approved
of. Apply to Esau Brookes at Mr. Earle's farm near
Bohemia Ferry, Cecil county, in the state of Mary
land. M arch 25th, 1780. 3wf