The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-10-04 00:00:00, page 1

NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
A MILL E R.
WANTED on hire, by the month or year, a
single man, sober, honest and industrious, who
understands his business, and is willing to ad as se
cond hand in a mill which requires three men to at
tend ; in a healthy part of New-Jersey, twenty miles
from Philadelphia.
Apply to Robert Lewis and sons, in Philadelphia;
or to the fubferiber at Mount-Holly mills, state of
New-Jersey.
Nathaniel Lewis.
September 7, 1784. 4wff
Just come to Hand,
And now felling at the Printing-Office in Tren
ton—The
CHORISTER'S COMPANION;
O R,
CHURCH MUSICK revised.
Containing,
Besides the necessary Rules of Pfalmody,'
A Variety of plain and fuging Psalm 1 unes;
Together with
A Collection of approved Hymns and Anthems,
Many of which were never before published.
By Simeon Jocelin.
These Singing-Books are allowed, by the best
Judges, to be equal to any extant.
WAN T E D,
A Journeyman Fuller,
WHO understands the business, sober and indus
trious ; such a one will meet with good encou
ragement by applying to
3 wt ABRAHAM SKIRM.
Nottingham, Burlington county, 14th 9th mo. 1784.
LATELY PUBLISHED,
And to be fold at the Printing-Office in Tren
ton —The
LADIES FRIEND;
Being a Treatise on the Virtues and Qualifications
which are the brightest Ornaments of the Fair Sex,
and render them most agieeable to the sensible part
of mankind.
T O ITE L ET,
ON the Farm where Mr. John Mitchell lives,
adjoining Lamberton, about 20 acres of good
tillable land in fence, fit for wheat or rye, on the usu
al terms of the shares. Any person inclining to take
it, is requeued to apply to Mr. George Davis, or Mr.
Abraham Hunt, in Trenton; or to Mr. Randle Mitch
ell, at Bowhill Farm.
Spring-Brook, September 7, 1784. 4w
State of New-Jersey, to wit,
To all whom it may concern.
NOTICE is hereby given, that a Court of Ad
miralty will be held for the State of New-Jer
sey, at the house of jofeph Douglass, innholder in
Crofswicks, in the county of Burlington, on Friday
the twenty-second of October next, at ten o'clock in
the forenoon of the fame day, then and there to try
the truth of the fads alleged in the bill of Colonel
Samuel Forman, who as well, &c against a certain
sloop or boat called the Brunswick, loaded with lum
ber, commanded by Jolhua Warden, and taken on
the twenty-fifth day of June, 1781, on her intended
voyage (as is said) to New-York, and libelled against
as prize: To the end and intent that the owner or
owners, or any other person or persons interested
therein, may appear and shew cause, if any they have,
why the said sloop Brunswick, her tackle, apparel,
furniture and cargo, should not be condemned and
forfeited to the use of the captors and others con
cerned, pursuant to the prayer of the libellants.
By Order of the Judge,
Joseph Bloomfield, Register.
Burlington, September 10, 1784. 4w*
[Vol. VII.]
TRENTON: Printed by ISAAC COLLIN S, Printer to the State.
MONDA Y, October 4, 1784.
CAMPHOR,
Opium,
Jesuit's bark,
Jalap,
Ipecacuana,
Tartar emetic,
Spanish flies,
Quicksilver,
Calomel,
Red precipitate,
Corrosive sublimate,
Manna,
Senna,
Salt petre,
Musk,
Borax,
Also a large assortment of Patent Medicines,
elegant surgeons pocket instruments, best crown and
spring lancets, and neat lancet cases, &c. &c. Jer
sey State-Money will be taken in payment the
fame as Specie, and every kind of publick securities
at their current value.
Philadelphia, September 13, 1784. 5W*
WANTE D, A
CANNON STOVE.
Enquire of the Printer.
Fifteen Dollars Reward.
STOLEN out of the pasture of the fubferiber in
Middlesex, near Cranberry, in the night of the
19th inst. a bay mare, three years old last spring, has
no brand, a small star in her forehead, and one white
hind foot; about 13 hands 3 inches high; in good
order; natural trotter: Whoever takes up said mare
and thief, if in Pennsylvania, so that the thief may be
brought to justice, and the mare recovered, shall be
paid the above reward ; or Ten Dollars if in Jersey,
and all reasonable charges ; and for the mare only five
dollars, and all reasonable charges, paid by
SAMUEL LONGSTREET.
September 23, 1784. qw^
WHEREAS Mary Allen, widow of John Allen,
Esq. late of the city of Philadelphia, deceaied,
did, by petition to the General Assembly of the state
of New-Jersey, on behalf of her infant sons, William
Allen and John Allen, pray leave to present a bill to
enable hei to fell and convey the undivided five six
teenth parts of the meffuages, furnaces, forges, lands
and tenements, called the Andover iron-works, in the
said state, being the estate of her said sons, devised to
them by their grand-father, William Allen, Esq. late
of Philadelphia, deceased, she giving proper security
that the money for which the fame shall be fold, shall
be well secured and truly accounted for to her said
sons, when they arrive at the age of twenty-one years,
or in case of their decease, to their lawful heirs :—
And whereas, the Honourable the Assembly did
thereupon order as follows:
House of Assembly, Augufl 19, 1784.
Ordered,
THAT the petitioner have leave to present a bill,
agreeably to the prayer of her petition, at the
next fitting, previously advertising the purport of her
petition, and a copy of this order, for at least three
weeks in the New-Jersey Gazette, and in one of the
Pennsylvania news-papers.
Therefore, in conformity to the said order, the pur
port of the said petition, and a copy of the said order,
are hereby published to all concerned, that they may
appear and shew cause, if any they have to shew, why
the prayer of the said petitioner shall not be granted.
, MARY ALLEN.
August 26, 1784. gw
Frefli Drugs & Medicines,
A general assortment, just arrived in the last vessels
from Europe, and now on sale by
DAVID JACKSO N,
In Second-street, midway between Market and Chef
nut-ftreets, among which are,
THE
Gentian,
Cream of tartar.
Flowers of fulphur,
Salts,
Sal. ammoniac,
Saffron,
Soccotrine and common
aloes,
Guin ammoniac,
• Alfa foetid.
Benzoin,
Balsam capivi,
Oil annifeed,
— Cinnamon,
— Cloves,
— Lavender.
STATE or NEW-JERSEY.
An ACt for better securing the attendance of uit
neffes in the several county courts, and before
justices of the peace.
FORASMUCH as no adequate provision hath
been made to vest in the Inferior Courts of
Common-Pleas, and Courts of General Quar
ter-Sessions of the Peace, and also in the fe
yeral Justices or the Peace of the refpeftive counties
in this state, a power of convening before them wit
nefles who may reside in a different county, and there
fore without their junfdiftion, by reason wliereof
suitors are liable to great lots and injury in prosecut
ing and defending their causes made cognizable by
law before such courts and justices, and the admini
stration of justice is impeded;
Sefl. I. Be it Enabled by the Council and Gene
ral Assembly of this State, and it is hereby Enabled
by the Authority of the fame, That it flrall and may
be lawful to and for the Inferior Courts of Common-
Pleas, and Courts of General Quarter-Sellions of the
Peace of the refpedive counties in this state, to ifl'ue
process of lubpeena for convening before them wit
nesses from any county in this state without their ju
ifdiftion, in such manner as the fame is now ifTued
in the county to which their jurisdiction extends.
2. And be it Enabled by the Authority aforefaid,
That if any witnels served with such process, after
being paid four-pence per mile from his or her resi
dence to the place fubpeenaed to attend at, or a ten
der being made of such pay, shall negleCt or refufe to
appear pursuant thereto, the Court from which the
fame may have issued, shall, upon due proof being
made of the tegular and seasonable service thereof,
and payment or tender of pay for attendance as afore-'
laid, and no fatisfaCtory reason or excuse appearing to
the contrary, proceed to record the default of such
witness, and shall direst a copy of such record, under
the seal of the court and hand of the clerk, to be
transmitted to the Inferior Court of Common-Pleas,
or court of General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace, as
the case may require, of the county in which f^ch
defaulting witness may reside ; which Court shall, on
receipt of the fame, make an entry thereof, and sum
mon the said defaulting witness ; and unless good and
fufficient cause be shewn to the contrary, shall in fluff
such punifliment as is accustomed in cases of con
tempt of their own process.
3. And be it Enabled by the Authority aforefaid,
That it shall and may be lawful for any of the Jus
tices of the Peace of the refpedive counties in this
state, to issue process of fubpeena under their hand
and seal, for convening before them witnesses from
any county in this state without their jurifdi&on
which process fliall be directed to the person to be
fubpeenaed, and served by the person requiring the
attendance of such witness, or any other person by
him or her employed for that purpose: And if any
witness served with such fubpeena, after being paid
for attendance as herein before directed, or a tender
being made of such pay, shall negle& or refufe to ap
pear pursuant thereto, the Justice who may have if
iued the fame shall, upon due proof being made cf
the regular and seasonable service thereof, and no fuf
ficient reason or excuse appearing to the contrary re
cord the default of such witness, and fend a tranfeript
of such entry on his docket, authenticated under his
hand and seal, to some Justice of the Peace of the
county in which such witness raay reside, who, on re
ceipt thereof, shall proceed against such defaulting
witnesses in the fame manner as if he himfelf had fub
pcenaed such witness, and agreeably to the directions
of the ad, intitled, “ An ad more effectually to com
" pel the attendance of witnesses and jurors at the
" courts established in this state for the trial of causes
" cognizable before a single Justice of the Peace"
pa/Ted the sixth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-two.
4. And be it further Enabled by the Authority
aforefaid, That the wages to be allowed to witnesses
attending in pursuance to this aCt, out of the county
in which they lefide, shall be the sum of four-pence pe^
mile from the place of his or her residence to the
[Numb. 334.]