The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1785-10-17 00:00:00, page 3

State of New-Jersey, Middlesex County.
ON the thirteenth of June last, was apprehended
and brought before me, Joseph Olden, one of
the justices of the peace, in and for the said
county, James Lumas and John Horrock, having
with them sundry articles of goods.. They being exa
mined, John Horrock, under his examination, said,
James Lumas told him, he and two others had rob
bed a store in New-England of the said goods. They
raving no invoices for them, or passports, they were
committed to the gaol of the said county; on their
vay to the gaol, the said James made his escape from
'e constable. Having fufficient reason to believe the
As are true, as no person claiming the said goods,
intend to deliver the fame to the overseer of the
or of the townfhp where they were taken, to be by
m fold for the use of the townfhp, after paying the
fts and charges that have accrued thereon, unless
: owner of the said goods appear and prove his
perty within one montli from the date hereof.
Joseph Olden.
Tinceton, O&ober 6, 1785. gw
Portmanteaus and bags for containing the letters,
to be furnifhed at the expence of the United States.
The sums agreed upon for carrying the mails to be
paid by the postmaster-general, in four equal quarterly
payments;—each payment to be made punctually at
the expiration of each quarter.
The contrast to continue for one year.
Any persons willing to contrast for the carriage of
the mails, or either of them, are desired to fend their
proposals (by post) to the poftmaffer-general, at his
office, No. 55, Queen-street, New-York, on or be
fore the 17th day of Odober next, after which no
proposals will be received.
By order of the postmaster-general,
JAMES BRYSON, Assistant.
1, The printers in the several states are requeu
ed to insert the above in their papers.
Ihe mail to be carried (both going and returning)
to every poft-office in the route, three times in every
week, except between the cities of New-York, and
Albany, and between the city of New-York and the
town of Portsmouth, in New-Hampshire; on which
route it will be expected only twice in each week dur
ing the winter season.
I he mail to be taken from, and delivered at each
poft-office, by the proprietors of the Rages or their
agents at stated hours; and a reasonable time (after
the receipt of the mail by the postmaster) allowed
for receiving letters, and making up another mail to
be forwarded :—- I his time not to exceed one quarter
of an hour at small offices, nor two hours at capi
tal ones.
In case of accidents happening to the stage, the
mail to be forwarded, so as to reach each office at the
stated hour, at the expence of the proprietors of the
stage.
A secure and convenient place in each carriage to
be set apart for the reception of the mail, and ap
propriated solely to that purpose. This place to be
lined and covered with painted canvas, so as to keep
out rain and snow—and to have a good lock and key.
The proprietors of the stages to be answerable for
the care and fidelity of the persons employed in car
rying and delivering the mail.
The proprietors and their drivers to be under
oath not to carry, or fuffer to be carried in their
stages, any letters, or newspapers, but what they
shall deliver into a poll-office,
Bond with two fufficient sureties, to be given for
the fulfilment of the contrail.
(General Poll-Office, Sept. 17, 1785.
'T'HE United States in Congress assembled, hav
ing resolved, “ That the postmaster-general be
authorifed and intruded, under the direction of the
board of treasury, to enter into contra&s, under
good and Efficient security, for the conveyance of
the different mails, by the stage carriages, from
Portsmouth, in the state of New-Hampshire, to the
town of Savannah in the Rate of Georgia; and from
the city of New-York, to the city of Albany, in the
state of New-York, according to the accustomed
route
NOTICE is hereby given, (pursuant to the di
redions from the honourable the commissioners of the
treafuiy) 'I hat the postmaster general is ready to re
ceive proposals for contracts for the aforefaid pur
pole.—And that the proprietors of the stage carriages
already erected, as well as those persons who may in
cline to erect new ones between the places fpecified in
the resolution of Congress, may be enabled to make
their proposals with greater precision, they are in
formed that the following will be considered as essen
tial articles of the contrast, viz.
MENTON: Printed by Isaac Collins. Subferiptions for this Gazette are taken in by the Printer hereof, at Ten Shillings per Annum • Ad
ifements of a moderate Length inserted at 3/9 each the firft Week, and 1/3 for every Continuance, and long Ones in Proportion; and by whom Effavs and An'
les of Intelligence are thankfully received—And all Manner of printing Work performed with Care, Fidelity and Expedition. '• )
: and a pair of brown corduroy breeches under them,
4 new shoes and steel buckles. Whoever secures the
7 said servant, so that his master may ger him again,
} shall be intitled to the above reward, and all reason-
I' able charges, paid by
William Harvey.
P. S. It is supposed he is gone to Greenwich iron
; works, or to New-York state.
I Odober 3d, 1785. gw*
To be Sold, at Publick Vendue,
On Thursday the 20th of October next,
I A VALUABLE house and lot, with a conve-
I |nient liable ereded thereon, bounded by lands
I of Abraham Hunt, Samuel Henry, deceased, and
I others, in Trenton township, in the county of Hun-
Iterdon; also beds and bedding, horse and cart, hogs,
with sundry articles of household furniture, too te
dious to enumerate, the time of a servant boy who
hath got three years and better to serve. The sale
to begin at 10 o'clock, when attendance will be given.
For further particulars enquire of the fubferiber on
the premises.
JAMES CHAPMAN.
Trenton, September 23, 1785. 4W*
Ten Dollars Reward.
RAN away from the fubferiber in Trenton, on the
27th day of May last, an apprentice lad named
John Horner, in the 19th year of his age, a taylor by
trade; about five feet fix inches high, slender made,
and is very fond of liquor and fnuff, has short light
hair: Had on and took with him one fnuff-coloured
coat and vest, one pair of blue broadcloth breeches, a
round wool hat bound, white cotton flockings, half
worn pumps, with some other clothes. Whoever takes
up said apprentice, and secures him in any gaol, so
that his master may have him again, shall have the
above reward, and reasonable charges, paid by
CONROD KOTTS.
July 9, 1785. t. f.
A JOURNEYMAN
PRESSMAN
WILL find constant employment, and receive the
highest wages, by applying at the Printing-office in
Trenton.
Odlober 10, 1785.
FOR SALE, or WILL BE LET,
A VALUABLE plantation, lying in East-New-
Jersey, in the county of Somerset, Bedminfter
township, about 20 miles from New-Brunswick, con
taining 186 acres, 36 acres of it good meadow and
may be easily watered, well timbered, in good repair,
two bearing orchards of excellent fruit, viz. apples,
peaches, cherries, pears and mulberries; an excel
lent grist-mill and saw-mill, all in good repair, and
on a never failing stream of water; a large dwelling
houfe, two stories high, and five rooms on a floor,
and a good well of excellent water, a large store
house, witli a cellar under the whole, likewise a good
Dutch barn, with barracks and an excellent cowhoufe
60 feet long, with a calf-pen, sheep-pen and horse-sta
bles, &c. The terms will be easy for either purcha
ser or tenant, who, on the firft of March or April,
may have possession; for terms apply to the owner,
living on the premises.
NICHOLAS ANGLE.
September 22, 1785. 6w
TO BE SOL D,
A VALUABLE farm, within two miles of
Princeton, containing 280 acres, the greatest
part of which is covered with excellent timber. The
dwellinghoufe and barn on the said farm are commo
dious, and with a few repairs may be made equally
convenient to a farmer, or a citizen disposed to retire.
The terms of payment will be made easy. For par
ticulars enquire of Richard Stockton, Esquire, at
Princeton, or of Doctor Benjamin Rush, in Phila
delphia.
September 22, 1785. yw*
Eipht Dollars Reward.
RAN away from the fubferiber, in the Falls
township, Bucks county, in Pennsylvania, on
Sunday last, an Irish servant man, named Matthew
Clark, about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, well set,
brown swarthy complexion, sandy coloured hair,
straight and short, two fears on his forehead, loft one
of his under fore-teeti;, very talkative, fond of li
quor, is about 23 years of age: had on, when he
went away, a light coloured cloth coat, made ve
ry short, and a light coloured buff vest, both new,
with metal buttons, a new wool hat, linen trowfers,
TO BE SOL D,
A valuable Trad of LAND,
CONTAINING 300 acres, lituate within three miles
of Trenton, in the county of Burlington, and
township of Nottingham, and within 2 miles of Lam
berton, where it is expected the federal town will be
eredted. On said tract there is clay and wood fuffici
ent to make brick for the building, it being all woodland,
except twelve acres; one hundred of it may be made
good meadow, which may be laid from fix inches to
one foot under water, or kept dry all winter, as the
purchaser shall please ; and contiguous to it there is
great range for cattle. Paper money, notes given to the
officers and soldiers of the Jersey line, and final Settle
ment of their pay, loan-office certificates, and notes
given by Benjamin Thompson, Esq. will be taken in
payment. For further particulars enquire of Robert
Pearson, in Nottingham, Joseph Milnor or the fub
icriber in Trenton. JOSEPH HIGBEE.
N. B. The meadow-land is a deep rich foil, and not
fubjeft to be flooded.
May 28, 1785. t f
Burlington ? T) Y virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias
county,g )Dto me directed and delivered, will
be expoied to sale, by publick vendue, on Friday the
28th of October next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon,
at the house of Thomas Kerling the elder, at the
Black Horse, feather beds, bedding, chairs, tables,
with a variety of other household and kitchen furni
ture, also hoifes, cows, and sundry other articles.
And on Saturday the 26th day of November next, at
the house of Mr. Jacob Vanfciver, innkeeper, at
the place aforefaid, between the hours of 12 and 5
o'clock in the afternoon, a very valuable piece or
trad of land, containing about 22 acres; situate, ly
ing and being near the place aforefaid, in the town
ship of Mansfield; all late the property of said Tho
mas Kerling; seized and taken in execution at the
suit of Richard Smith, and to be fold by
JACOB PHILLIPS, late Sheriff.
September 23, 1785. 8w
To be Sold, at Publick Vendue.
On Tuesday the 25th day of October next ensuing,
at the late dwellinghoufe of Ralph Hart, in Hope
well township, and county of Hunterdon, deceased,
n-^HAT very pleasant and well improved farm,
JL whereon said Hart dwelt; situate about three
miles above Pennington, on the great road leading to
Amwell, containing about 122 acres, on which there
are a convenient large stone dwelling house, a large
frame barn, a valuable orchard of apple and other
fruit trees, a large proportion of the best watered
meadow, and a fufficiency of timber land. The til
lable land is esteemed to be of the fitft quality, and
in fine, may justly be said to beas valuable a farm, for the
number of acres, as any in the county. The payments
will be made easy. Sale to begin at ten o'clock on
said day, when the conditions will be made known by
MOSES HART, Surviving Exec. ~
September 26, 1785. 4wl[
'I 'HE publick are desired to
take notice, that the fubferiber intends to ap
ply to the laon-officer of this state, to renew two
continental loan-office certificates, No. 2120, for 300
dollars, and No. 4768, 600 dollars, issued by Jofepli
Borden, Esquire, and dated February 11, 1779,
payable to William Baker, which certificates were
destroyed in his house in the county of Hunterdon,
in this state, on the night of the 15th September
'783, by the rats, the drawer in which they were
kept having been unfortunately left open. Any per
son having objections against the renewal of the said
certificates, agreeably rd an act of Congress of May
10, 1780, are desired to exhibit the fame within fix
weeks from the date hereof.
WILLIAM BAKER.
N. B. The above certificates were advertised in
this paper in March 1784.
September 15, 1785. 6w
Notice is hereby given,
TO all persons whom it may concern, that the
fubferiber intends to apply to the legislature of
the state of New-Jersey, at A renton, in October or
November next, for an ad of assembly to enable her
to fulfil the contracis entered into by Israel Pember
ton and Joseph Pemberton, formerly of Philadelphia,
deceased, or either of them, for the sale of certain
lands in New-Jersey aforefaid, and to make deeds
to the purchasers, pursuant to such contrasts. And
further to enable her to make sale of all the real
estate of her late husband the said Joseph Pemberton,
deceased, in New-Jersey, for the payment of his
debts.
ANN PEMBERTON, Adms.
September 16, 1785. t. f.