The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-04-13 00:00:00, page 3

PHIL ADE LPHI A, April 3.
By the United States in Congress affembl^d, March
3^7^
Refolded, That to-morrow be assigned for electing
five Commissioners to negociate with the Indians.
March 4, 1784.
Congress proceeded to the election of five Com
missioners to negociate with the Indians, and the bal
lots being taken, Mr. George-Rogers Clarke, Mr.
Oliver Wolcot, Mr. Nathaniel Greene, Mr. Richard
Butler, and Mr. Stephen Higgenfon, were elected.
March 5, 1784.
Resolved, That the President immediately inform
the gentlemen elected Commissioners for holding a
treaty with the Indians, of the laid election ; and that,
as it is the wish of Congress, that the negociations
ihould commence as soon as possible, the commission
ers are desired to meet at New-York, on the 10th
day of April next, to fix upon the times and places
of holding the treaties with the different nations and
tribes of Indians, and give them refpe&ively the
speediest information of the time and place deter
mined on, inviting them to meet accordingly.
Resolved, That all appointments of perlons for ne
gociating with the Indians, prior to that of the 4th
inst. be, and they are hereby revoked.
(Signed) CHARLES THOMSON, Sec'ry.
Saturday last arrived in this port, on board the ship
Queen of France, the pictures of their Most Christian
Majesties, the King and the Queen. They are in full
length. The King in garments like those he wore on
the day of his coronation. The royal throne is on
his left fide, decorated with the attributes of justice,
as marks of the disposition of our great ally ; he holds
the ancient fceptre of France in bis hand, and the
crown with the hand of justice lies on a cushion on his
right. This is said by the connoisseurs to be a mas
terly piece of the art of painting.
The Queen is dressed in a royal mantle spread with
fleur de luce, and a gown of fattin trimmed with
golden fringes and tassels. On a table lies her crown
next to a vale filled with flowers. The table is co
vered with red velvet, embroidered with the Impe
rial Eagle of her family.
Each picture is about thirteen feet fix inches high,
including the frames.
By a letter from Annapolis we learn, that Congress
have made some progress in the many important con
cerns before them—that they have nearly gone thro'
the general arrangements relative to the Western Ter
ritory—that commissioners are appointed to treat with
the Indians, to fettle a general peace, and to procure
by purchase or otherwise a tradfof land, the limits
of which are not yet precisely defined, but will ex
tend as far westward as the great Miami river, and
will be fufficient to compose several states—that this
negotiation will be comprehended in the course of the
next summer—that commissioners were ordered to
meet at New-York on the loth inst. and there to ad
just and take the necessary steps previous to holding
the treaty —that it will be well not to be too sanguine
with refpe& to the treasure to be drawn from this
country; it will no doubt however, from its fertility
of foil, and navigableness of waters, become a source
of immense wealth and strength to these states, when
it shall be fully cultivated and. peopled; and even at
th& present may be made, with prudent management,
considerably to lefl'en the publick debt—that Congress
had not, on the 10th of March, entered on the prin
ciples of opening a land-office, or the mode of dis
posing of it, but that, whenever it shall be done, in
all probability securities of every species will be taken
in payment for these lands—that it appears by authen
ticated documents, that the sum loaned to the United
States between theist day of September, 1777, and
theist day of March, 1778, amounts to 3,459,000
dollars, which, when reduced to specie, agreeably to
the scale of depreciation in that case provided, makes
the sum of 2,438,571: The annual interest in specie
at fix per cent, on the nominal sum is 207,540 dollars,
while the annual interest on the liquidated sum is only
146,314, so that the interest paid on the nominal sum
is a little more than 8f per cent, on the real sum, and
exceeds the interest of fix per cent, on the specie va
lue 61,226 dollars—that this would be no inconsider
able saving to the United States, whose state of finance
at this time will not admit of much prodigality—that
the Rates ought to be called upon to r^ife a sum fuf-
trality ; and that they give no aid or assistance to
either party, but that those who live on the bor
ders of the said states, and within the state of Massa
chusetts Bay, fell to each party indifferently, such
things as they may have to fell, without giving pre
ference to either: That they fend no provisions, arms,
ammunition, or necessaries to a fortrefs or garrison,
besieged by either party. And has also forbidden the
inhabitants of Massachusetts, taking arms in support
of, or engaging in the service, or contributing to the
conquest, success, or defence of either of the said par
ties, as they will answer it at their peril.
TRENTON, April 13.
" 1 his situation is both ruinous and degrading: N.
Jersey must itfelf conftrud ships; all the materials for
which nature hath given it. It must fend them out
into divers seas, since it is no longer in want of men.
It must convey its productions to the people who have
hitherto only received them thro' the means of inter
mediate agents. It must provide itfelf with the pro
duce of foreign indullry at firft hand, for which it
hath hitherto paid too dear, on account of the useless
circuits it has gone through. It may then form vast
prefects, devote itfelf to great enterprizes, be railed
to that rank to which its advantages seem to call it,
and be more upon a level with the states which
have too long destroyed it by their shadow, or
eclipsed it with their fplendour.
" May the views which I offer, and the counsels I
address to New-Jersey, be realized ! May I live
long enough to be a witness of them, and to rejoice at
them." See the Abbe Raynal's history, vol. 7,page 274.
The piece Jigned A fubferiber to the New-Jersey
Gazette, has been received. The author deserves credit
for his attempt at composition. We cuould however re
commend for his perusal Loathe's Englifb grammar, and
a due attention to fahnfon's dictionary.
ficient to cancel this debt, as by this means alone we
shall get rid of this enormous interest.
The following address to the state of New-Jersey
is extracted from the Abbe Raynal's history of the
American settlements, a book of great reputation ; is
particularly applicable to the present moment, and de
mands the serious attention of all friends to that state :
Notice is hereby given,
TH AT by an a& passed at the last fitting of the
Legislature, all persons having demands against
the estates of Moses Atkinson, Hugh Cowperthwaite,
Richard Mead, William Pearce, Philip Adams, James
Sutton, Thomas Sutton, John Sutton, Israel Elwell,
James Dean, Joseph Kendal, Reuben Langley, Abdon
Abbot, jun. Robert Whitaker, Christopher Randolaer,
Jacob Vanmater, Thomas Lamb, George Johnson,
Joseph Hewlings, Michael Miller, John Daniel, Wil
liam Rawson, John Morrow and John Booden, whose
eftat^s in the county of Salem have been confifcated
and fold, and whose accounts have been heretofore
adjusted according to law, that they lay their accounts
before two or more of the judges of the laid county,
to be re-adjusted, Rated and certified, according to
the said law ; and to those whose particular situation
and circumßances have been such as to render ft im
practicable to produce their accounts within the peri
ods formerly limited by law, that they now lay the
fame before the judges as aforefaid for settlement,
and that they transmit a copy of the whole to the au
ditor of accounts before theist day of September
next, that a final settlement of the fame may be made.
WILLIAM GARRISON, Agent
for said County.
April I, 1784. _2wj _
Fhe noted full-blooded horse
T RA V E L L E R,
FROM Maryland, will cover at the stable of the sub
feriber, in the townthip of Reading, in the county
of Hunterdon, about one mile and an half from New-
Germantown, at the low rate of one Half Johannes
the season, to be paid in October next, or wheat will
be taken at the market price.
TRAVELLER is a dark bay, full 15 hands and 3
inches high, with a small star and one white hind foot,
riling 13 years old this grass, moves remarkably gay
and easy, and is allowed, by the belt judges, to be as
active a horse as any in America ; he was got by Col.
Lloyd's imported horse Traveller out of that famous
imported mare Nancy Bywell, which beat the old
noted horse Lath at Warwich, in Maryland, with great
ease: Traveller has covered these two years past in
Buckingham townthip, Bucks county, a large number
of marcs at the stable of William Bennet; is noted for
getting fine colts, and covers sure. Gentlemen who
live at a distance, and choose to fend their mares, may
depend on having good pasture provided, and the belt
care taken of them, by JOHN TAYLOR.
April 12, 1784. 3 w ll
" The state of New-Jersey has a good harbour at
Amboy; it is in want of none of the means of prospe
rity proper for that part of the globe, and yet it hath
always remained in a profound obfeurity. Its name
is scarcely known in the old world, and not much
more in the new. The poverty of this province not
fuffering it at firft to open a direct trade with the dis
tant or foreign markets, it was obliged to fell its pro
duce to Philadelphia, and more commonly to New-
York ; it obtained from these cities in exchage some
merchandize of the mother country, and a few of the
productions of the inlands. The richest merchants
even advanced money for the inhabitants, which kept
it still more in a state of dependence, notwithstanding
the increase of its cultures, and of its productions, it
hath not yet shaken off this kind of servitude. We
have now before us inconteftible authority, that in
1762 New-Jersey did not fend any ship to Europe,
and that it sent only a few small vessels to the Weft-
Indies, the value of whose cargoes did not amount to
more than £. 2,373 11 8 sterling, all the rest of its
territorial riches were delivered to the neighbouring
colonies who traded with them.
F O U ^ D,
THREE Rate certificates and one note of hand ^
The owner proving his property, and paying
charges, may have them again, by applying to the
fubferiber in Quaker-Town.
PETER HOWELL.
Hunterdon county, April 6, 1784. gw^f
Two noted full blooded horses,
LIBERTY and FLEETWOOD.
FLEETWOOD will cover the ensuing season at the
liable of John Van-Mater, Colts Neck, Monmouth
county, at the rate of one half Johannes each mare.
LIBE RTY will cover the ensuing season at the
stable of Edmund Bainbridge, Maidenhead, Hunter
don county, at the rate of one half Johannes each
mare. Gentlemen who live at a distance, and choose
to fend their mares, may depend on having good pas
ture provided, and the belt care taken of them. —
For the fatisfadtion of those who may with to know
the said horses pedigrees, they may be feeh at their,
hands.
April 5, 1784, 6w|]
TO BE SOL D,
A valuable F AR M, called M ORRISD O N,
whereon Ravaud Kearny lives, lying in the township
of Shrewsbury, Monmouth county, in New-Jersey,
CONTAINING about 900 acres; on the Homefted
part (which contains about 600 acres) are a good
dwellinghoufe, an excellent well built large barn, al
most new, a good waggonhoufe, smokehouse, and other
convenient out buildings, a good garden and orchard;
also about 60 acres of well improved meadow, and
several acres more may be made ; the whole well
timbered and watered, and has on it a good feat, with
a fufficient ftyeam for a mill. There is also one other
dwellinghoufe on it, conveniently situated for the di
rection of said farm, if found necessary. The whole
is pleasantly situated on the great road that leads from
Alien-Town to Shrewfbury-Town and Black-Pointy
and convenient to New-York market, it being but 8
miles to Red-Bank landing. It will be fold very rea
sonable, with easy terms of yearly payments, and an
fndifputable title given to the purchaser. For further
particulars enquire of Ravaud Kearny, on said farm ;
or Richard Stevens, at Cornwall Farm, near Pitts,
Town, in Hunterdon county, New-Jersey.
Also to be fold, a FARM about 8 miles distant
from the said farm above-mentioned, lying near Top,
ponamus church in said county, whereon Tice Van,
dripe lives, containing about 250 acres, with some im
provements thereon ; the whole well wooded, and will
also be fold on easy terms of yearly payments. For
further particulars enquire as above.
N. B. If the above farms are not fold before the 25th
of April inst. they will be rented. —Apply as above
mentioned.
April 7, 1784. 4w||
Three-pence Reward.
RAN away from the fubferiber on the 24th ult. an
apprentice lad named John Fenton, about 18
years of age ; had on a lead coloured cloth upper
jacket, breeches of the fame much worn, white large
vest, old linen shirt and brown felt hat; is very talka
tive, much addicted to swearing, lying and getting
drunk. Whoever will apprehend the said lad, and
bring him to his master, ihall receive the above re
ward. ISAAC COWGILL.
Burlington county, April 7, 1,84. 2w^
Philadelphia, April 3d fc 1784.
To be fold, by publick vendue,
On the premises, on Saturday the 24th of April, that
valuable
PLANTATIO N,
FORMERLY
BELONGING to John Lawrence, Esq. adjoining
Whitehill, situate on the river Delaware, between
Burlington and Bordentown, containing near 400 acres,
about ico of which are good woodland, from 60 to
70 acres of good meadow bottom within bank, the
remainder of the farm good foil for wheat or other
grain; there is a dwellinghoufe, barn, stable, coacli
and waggonhoufe ; a large orchard in its prime, witli
a great variety of the best grafted fruit. There is a
convenient landing for wood and lumber, in a good
Band where country business may be carried on to
great advantage. This is a delightful spot for a gen
tleman's country feat, having a beautiful profpeCt of
the river and country adjacent. As it is large and well
situated to divide into three or four farms, several
lots will be laid out near the landing, which will be an
advantageous situation for tradesmen or watermen ; it
ihall be run out accordingly, and fold separate or to
gether, as may be found most advantageous, and the
terms of sale made easy. Attendance will be given by
ARTHUR DONALDSON.
N. B. Also will be fold, at Freehold courthouse, on
Wednesday the 28th inst. a Farm in the townthip of
Shrewsbury, near Deal, containing about 70 acres,
with a good dwellinghoufe, barn, orchard, &c. a pro
portionable part of woodland and meadow, lies in
fight of the sea, is convenient for fishing and attending
the New-York market. Terms of payment will be
made eafy# Attendance will be given by
2wf A. DONALDSON.