The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1781-10-24 00:00:00, page 4

BY HIS EXCELLENCY
William Livingston, Esquire,
Governor, Captain-General and Commanderin Chief
in and over the State of New-Jersey, and Territo
ries thereunto belonging, Chancellor and Ordinary
in the fame.
Proclamation.
WHEREAS by my Proclamation bearing
date the third day of August last past,
a reward of two hundred dollars of the
bills of credit issued on the faith of this
State, was promised to any perlon or perlons who
should apprehend and secure in any gaol of this State,
any or either of the following perlons or offenders,
to wit, Caleb Sweefy, James O'Harry. John Moody
and Gyfbert Gyberfon: and whereas the said name
of Gyfbert Gyberfon was by mistake inserted in the
said Proclamation instead of that of William Giber
fon, who is the person thereby meant and intended;
I have therefore thought fit, by and with the advice
of the Honourable Privy Council of this State, to issue
this Proclamation, hereby promising the reward above
mentioned to any person or persons who shall appre
hend and'fecure in any gaol of this State the said
William Gyberfon; and do hereby revoke any re
ward promised for apprehending or securing the said
Gyfbert Gyberfon.
And whereas in and by a certain A<ft of the Legis
lature of this State, intitled, "An Ad to prevent
persons from passing through this State without pro
per passports," passed at Trenton the tenth day of
July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hun
dred and seventy-nine, it is among other things
enaded, that no person or persons whatsoever read
ing within this State, except the members of the
Legislature and publick officers of government, shall
be permitted to pass and repafs through any part of
this State, other than the county in which he, the or
they reside, without having a commission under this
State or the United States, or a certificate from His
Excellency the Governor, or from one of the mem
bers of the Legidative-Council or General Assembly
of the county in which he, she or they reside, or
from one of the Justices of the Supreme Court, or
one of the Judges of the court of common pleas or
Justices of the peace of such county, certifying that
the bearer is an inhabitant of the county of
and a person of good repute and generally esteemed
a friend to the present government, as established
under the authority of the people ; in which certificate
ihal lbe inserted the name and rank of the person,
and the town and county in which he resides; which
certificate shall intitle the bearer to travel in any
part of this State, except near the enemy's lines,
where he shall not be permitted to travel without
some apparent business cmfiftent with his rank and
Ration, and the good of the state; and that no per
son or persons whatsoever, not residing in or being
an inhabitant of this State shall be permitted to pass
or repafs through any part of this State, without
having and holding a commission under the United
States, or without a pass from the Commander in
Chief or other General officer in the army of the
United States, or from the Governor and Command
er in Chief, or one of the Delegates in Congress
for the state in which such traveller usually resides,
or of one of the Legislative or Executive Council of
such state, or being a non-commissioned officer or
soldier, without a pass or furlough from some one
of the officers of the regiment to which he or they
may belong; which commission or pass shall entitle
the bearer to travel into or through this State, while
behaving and conducting as becometh such traveller:
Provided, that nothing in the said Ad contained be
taken or construed to extend to the hindering any
person living in the adjoining counties of the neigh
bouring Rates, not immediately in the pofleffion of
the enemy, from passing into the next adjoining
county in this State, having a pass from one Justice
of the peace in the county to which he or she may
belong, provided such person do not attempt t@ pass
out of such county without obtaining a permission
or passport, agreeably to the directions of the said Act.
And whereas, in order to carry the said Ad into
effect, it was further enabled, that it should and
might be lawful for any officer of this State, civil or
military, in the presence of two or more witnesses,
in a publick manner to examine all travellers what
soever, and for all innholders publickly to examine
all such as may put up at their houses, and for all
ferry men and drivers of publick Rages to examine
all paffengefs who may offer or desire a passage, and
to detain and carry before some Justice of the peace
of the county, all such person or persons who, upon
such examination should not produce a commission,
certificate or pass, authorizing them to pass as afore
fiid; and without which by the said Ad, they were
therein before denied permission to pass and repafs
through any part of this State. And each and every
person taken up and carried before a Justice of the
peace in any county of this State, pursuant to the
directions of the said Aft, who are denied permission
.to pass as aforefaid, shall, by such Justice, be either
committed to gaol by a mittimus, there to remain
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till duly difeharged, or be obliged to return the di
reCteft way to his place of relidence, as the said
Justice upon examination of the person apprehend
ed, and hearing the evidence produced, shall in his
difcretiqn, judge most proper, and the* said Justice
of the peace, who shall cause any person to be com
mitted to gaol as aforefaid, or any two Justices of
the peace of the said county shall be, and thereby
are authorized and empowered to discharge from
gaol any such person so apprehended and committed,
who shall prove to the fatisfadion of such Judice
or Judices that he ought to be difeharged upon his
paying the costs accrued, on taking up and com
mitting such person, as the fame shall be taxed by
the Jultice or Justices; And all persons apprehended
and committed as aforefaid, who shall not appear
to be spies from the enemy, or otherwise guilty of
any capital offence, but shall otherwise be of doubt
ful or suspicious characters, shall be difeharged from
confinement, upon paying the cost as aforefaid, and
also the expence of a fufficient guard to conduct or
remove such person or persons out of this State, the
directed or fecureftway towards his place of residence;
which guard the said Justice or Judices are required
to procure, upon receiving a sum fufficient to hire
and support the fame, and to give a pass for that
purpose; and that every boatman and ferryman who
shall bring into this State, or over any ferry within
the fame, any person without a passport as aforefaid,
and every publick innkeeper or other householder
who shall entertain any person not having such pad
port, and all stage-drivers who shall grant a pallage
to any such person, every such ferryman, publick
innkeeper, householder and Rage-driver so offending,
contrary to the true intent and meaning of the said
Aft, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay the
sum of twenty pounds, to be recovered in any court
of record where the fame may be cognizable, with
costs of suit, to be applied one half to the support of
the poor of the township where the offence was com
mitted, and the other half to the prosecutor; and
all officers civil and military within this State, are
thereby Rridiy ordered and enjoined to give all
needful aid and assistance for carrying the laid aft
into execution, as by the said Aft reference being
thereunto had, may appear.
And whereas there is great reason to apprehend
that the enemy employ a number of spies and emis
saries to pass and repafs through this State to collect
intelligence and for other purposes prejudicial to
the Commonwealth, and that the publick ftage
drivers frequently grant paffages'to persons not hav
ing the pallports by the said AC tdirected, and who
pass and repafs through this State in order to get
into the enemy's lines without the passes for that
purpose directed by another Alt of the Legislature,
and also to carry on an illicit trade with the enemy
in defiance of another daw of this State, for which
reasons it is become more necessary than ever to carry
the said herein recited Ad into the most rigorous
execution;—l have therefore thought fit hereby to
request all the good citizens of this State who tender
the welfare of their country and the glorious cause
of liberty and independence at this critical juncture
when it i$ of the utmoß Importance to prevent all
intercourse with the enemy to exert themfclves in
the execution of the said Adaccording to the re
fpediye powers and authorities on them conferred
by the fame.
Given under my hand and seal at arms, at Tren
ton, the ninth day of October, in the year
of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and
eighty-one, and in the sixth year of the inde
pendence of America.
WIL. LIVINGSTON.
By His Excellency's Command,
Bowes Reed, Sec'ry.
q,HE Members of ue late New-Jersey Medical
1 Society are requeued to take notice, that at a
meeting of a refpedable number of members at
Princeton this day, (pursuant to an advertisement in
the New-Jersey Gazette) it was agreed on to re-esta
blish the Society on its former principles and consti
tution ; and that agreeably thereto, their half yearly
meeting, as usual, will be held on the firft Tuesday
in November next, at this place.
By order of the Meeting,
ISAAC SMITH, Chairman.
Princeton, October 3, 1781.
I=o FT SOL D,
Or exchanged for all forts of country produce,
and other articles necessary for carrying on iron
works ;
ALL forts of caff iron kettles, pots, large and
small tea-kettles, pie-pans, large and small
Millets, small mortars, griddles with and without
legs, waggon, chair and cart boxes, close stoves,
fix and ten plate stoves. open fire places, commonly
called Franklin stoves, &c. &c. &c. wholesale and
retail, by me at Mount-Hope furnace, Morris
county. JOHN JACOB FAESH.
Sept. 13, 1781. 6w
TO BE SO L I),
At public's: vendue, on Thursday the 25th day of
Odober inhant, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of
the fame day,
THE Ihip Major Pierson, as she now lies at Little
Egg-Harbour, with her fails and rigging, as
per inventory to be seen at the day of sale : Also her
cargo, confiding of flour, barley and hops.
By order of the Court of Admiralty,
JOHN BURROWES, 7 al
October 15, 1781. ,
House of Assembly, Sept. 20, 1781. ™
A Petition from John Ely, son of George Ely,
late of the county of Hunterdon, was present
ed and read, setting forth that his said father did by
virtue of a deed from Samuel Tucker, late High-
Sheriff of said county, become possessed of 39g
acres of land in the township of Amwell, in said
county; that the said George Ely did some time
afterwards fell and convey to Captain George Coryell,
one equal and undivided half part of the said trad ;
that shortly after the said sale, he the said George
Ely, became deprived of his reason, and still con
tinues so, whereby the said land remains undivided,
much to the damage of the said George Ely's estate,
and praying that leave may be given him to bring
in a bill to enable him on the part and in the name
of the said George Ely, to divide the said lands,
and to confirm the said division when made.
Ordered, That the petitioner have leave to present
a bill agreeably to the prayer of his petition, at the
next fitting of the Legislature, having previously ad
vertised his intentions for at least three weeks in the
New-Jersey Gazette.
Extrad from the minutes,'
3wf M. EWING, jun. Clerk.
Notice is hereby given, That the fubferiber intends
to present a bill at the next fitting of the Legislature,
for the purposes mentioned in the foregoing extraft.
JOHN ELY, Son of Georges
To all whom it may concern :
New-Jersey, ? X[ OTICE is hereby given, that a
ff. J Court of Admiralty will be held
at the Court-House in Burlington, on Friday the 9th
day of November next, at ten o'clock in the fore
noon of the fame day, then and there to try the
truth of the fads alledged in the bill of William
Austin Smith, (who as well, &c.) against the flrip or
vessel called the Major Pierson, lately commanded
by John Richard Wifkall : To the end and intent
that the owner or owners of the said vessel, or any
person or persons concerned therein, may appear and
Ihew cause, if any they have, why the said vessel and
her cargo should not be condemned according to
the prayer of the said bill.
• By order of the Judge,
JOS. BLOOMFIELD, ufyfer,
October 15, 1781.
At the fame time and place will be tried the
schooner Polly, libelled by Henry Murfit, qui tam.
&c. heretofore advertised for trial, and adjourned
over at the last Court of Admiralty.
THE fubferibers having furnished themfelveg
with good boats at the new ferry a little above
the Falls, and almost opposite to Trenton, and the
distance being nearly the fame from Bristol to
Trenton to go by this or Colvin's ; all persons who
will please to favour them with their custom, may
depend on an easy and fafe passage, at the following
rates, which are as low as they were twenty years
ago, viz.
Waggon and four horses 4f6d,
Ditto with two ditto - - 3j6d.
Horse and chair - - ij6d.
Man and horse - - , - 6d,
A footman - - - 3d.
And all other ferriages in like proportion.
Travellers who come from Bristol the new road are
requested to turn off to the left at the 29 mile Rone,
which is about three quarters of a mile from the
ferry—and those from the eastward are to turn to the
right at the market-house in Trenton, which is about
one quarter of a mile from the ferry, where constant
attendance is given by the publick's humble servants,
JOHN BURROWS,
GEORGE BEATY.
N. B. Travellers may be supplied with good hay
and pasture for their horses, by said Beaty.
riTIE owner of the ferry known by the name of
I the Trenton Old Ferry, on the post road lead
ing to Philadelphia, and where the publick all crosses,
has provided the said ferry with the best boats that
ever have been conftruded for the fafety of transport
ing passengers, horses and carriages, in time of
frelbes, wind or ice, and a number of careful hands
that have nothing else to do but work the boats, and
are always ready on the spot. The ferriages are as
follow, viz.
Waggon and four horses - ss.
Waggon and two horses - - 3/9^
A chair - -.-- ij'd.
Man and horse - - - 6d.
A foot person - - - - 3d.
And all other ferriages in Proportion. xw*