The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1778-08-26 00:00:00, page 3

P HILADELP II I A, August 22.
In C ONGRES S, August 21, 1778.
Resolved, That when any persons are desirous of
going within the enemy's lines, they Ihall apply to the
Executive powers of the State to which they belong ;
and if the said Executive powers approve the motives
and characters of the persons applying, and shall be of
opinion, especially at so critical a conjuncture as the
present, no danger will ensue by granting such permis
sion, that they recommend them to the officer com
manding the troops next to the enemy, who, upon
such recommendation, may at his diferetion permit
+ he persons to go in. Extras from the Minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
TRENTON, August 26.
By His EXCELLENCY
WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, Esquire,
Governor, Captain-General, and Commander in Chief
in and over the State of Ne^u-ferfe,, and the terri
tories thereunto belonging, Chancellor and Ordinary
in the fame;
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, by an Act of the Legislature of this
State, intitled, " An Act to prohibit the ex
portation of provisions from the State of New-Jer
sey," passed at Princeton the twentieth day of June
last, an embargo was laid to prohibit the exportation
of wheat, flour, rye, Indlan-corn, rice, bread, beef,
pork, bacon, live-stock and other provisions from this
State, from and after the publication of the said ad
until the fifteenth day of November next: Provided
always, that nothing in the said ad be construed to
prevent the taking on board such provisions as may
be necessary for the stores only of any ihips or vessels
of war, and others trading to or from this State;
And whereas, the British troops both in New-York
and on Long-lfland are io greatly distressed for want
of provisions, and especially of bread, as already to
have had several mutinies among them upon that ac
count ; and must, in a Ihort time, by our preventing
them from obtaining any supplies by capturing our
vessels ; and more especially by suppressing the villain
ous pradice of directly furnilhing them with provisi
ons from any part of this State, be reduced to the
necessity of surrendering themselves prisoners of war,
unless they fhnnld be fortunate enough to -steal an
escape to their own country, with the indelible in
famy due to their rapes, robberies and murders.
And whereas, some of the inhabitants of this State,
instigated by the most boundless avarice, and equally
regardless of the blessings of peace and the calamities
of war, the felicity of freedom and the horrors of bon
dage, still persist in the traitorous pradice of enabling
the enemy, by supplying them with provisions, and
especially with flour and grain, to continue their sa
vage depredations, after having totally abandoned
all hopes of conquest, and every profpea of succeed
ing in the horrid purpose of enslaving this incorrup
tible and invincible country.
And whereas, the Honourable the Congress by
their resolution of the fourteenth instant, considering
it as of the firft importance to continue the distress
prevailing in the enemy's fleet and army at New-
York for want of provisions, have requested me to
take the most effectual measures to enforce the due
observance of the said embargo, I have therefore
thought jit to issue this proclamation, hereby ftridly
commanding all the Officers of this State, both civil
and military, and earnestly requeuing ail other the
loyal citizens thereof, as they tender the welfare of
their country, the glorious cause of liberty, and the
speedy restoration ot peace, to exert their most vi
gorous efforts in support of the said embargo; and
particularly enjoining the civil and military Officers
of the counties of Monmouth and Bergen to life their
utmost vigilance in preventing all commercial inter
course with the enemy, and to seize and secure all
persons concerned in transporting any provisions to
any place in their possession, so that they may be
brought to speedy and condign punishment.
Given under my hand and feat at arms at Morris-
Toaun, the aid day of August, in the year of our
Lord one thousand seven hundred and fevent,-eight,
and in the third year of the independence of America.
WIL. LIVINGSTON.
By His Excellency's command,
a French man of war, and sent into Bedford. Another
ship belonging to the Cork fleet, is captured by one
of our cruizers and sent into Salem.
We have undoubted intelligence that Lord Howe's
fleet, which some time since failed from New-York
to Rhode-lfland, are returned to Sandy-Hook, with
out effecting the purpose of their expedition.
It is currently reported, that after the late storm
at sea (which scattered the French and English fleets)
several warm anions happened between tingle ships,
in which the English have been severely handled;
.nd that the Bis, of 50 guns, had been sent to New-
York in a very shattered condition to refit.
Yesterday arrived here, the third North-Carolina
regiment, confiding of about 600 fine healthy troops,
under the command of James Hogun, Esq. being on
their way to Head-Quarters at White Plains.
By a Gentleman who left Head-Quarters on the
William Livingfon, jun. D. Sec.
GOD save the PEOPLE.
T9th inst. in the evening, we learn, that a strong body
of Gen. Sullivan's army at Rhode-Bland had a few
days before actually got within 250 yards of the ene
my's works under cover of a fog, where they had,
intrenched themselves ; and that there was the greatest
probability of our success in this important enterprize.
We are informed that General Tryon, with a de
tachment of troops from New-York, has lately been
on the East end of Long-Island, plundering and driv
ing off all the cattle in that quarter ; and that in this
excursion he had loft a great number of his men by
desertion ; who, after they had deserted, hid them
selves in woods and bye places, in order to embrace
every opportunity in coming over to the Main, which
had been greatly facilitated by our people fending
boats over for that purpose.
Friday last the crew of the Merniaid, corififtihg of
about 170 men, which was drove on shore at Cape-
May by one of Count D'Etaign's fleet, on his ar
rival off the Delaware, passed thro' this place on
their way to Elizabeth-Town to be exchanged.
This day fortnight a row-galley, carrying one 18
and two 2 pounders, belonging to the enemy at New-
York, was drove aihore near Shrewfbury, and fell
into our hands with 30 men.
N. B. The sales will be held at the late dwelling
houses of the above-mentioned persons, where at
tendance will be given by
JOSEPH M'ILVAINE, Com. B. C.
Bristol, Bucks County, Aug. 24, 1778. iw
TURE, a neat CHARIOT almost new, with the
harness and furniture compleat ; also a four-wheel'd
chaise; about five tons of firft crop hay, nine acres
of green Indian corn, a cydermill and press, with
the fruit in the orchard; late the property of Andrew
Allen, confifcated and seized agreeable to an ad of
Assembly of the date of Pennsylvania.
Also to be fold by publick vendue, on
Saturday the fifth day of September next, about fix
tons of good clover and timothy hay ; a quantity of
wheat and rye in the fheaf, twelve empty hogsheads,
a cydermill and press, and sundry other articles ; late
the property of Joseph Galloway, now confifcated
and seized for the use of the state.
" By some Gentlemen who left New-York to-day;
we are informed, that the French Fleet is got back
to Rhode-Ifland —that three French men of war
chafed Sir James Waface down the found front
Rhode-Ifland, and with difficulty he got his ship
through Hellgate into Rew-York harbour—and that
yesterday some of Lore Howe's fleet brought in a
French frigate difmafted."
Died on the 14th of August, at Chatham, Morris
County, New-Jersey, Mrs. Eunice Horton, Wi
dow of the Rev. Azariah Horton, in the fifty
feventh year of her age. On the sixteenth her remains
were decently interred in the burying-ground at
South Hanover, attendedby her bereaved family, the
clergy of the adjacent churches, and a very great
concourse of refpectabb inhabitants.
Before the proceffior began, was delivered at her
dwelling-house to the children of the deceased, and
occasionally applied tc the fpedators, by the Rev.
Jonathan Elmer, a m)ft pathetic addrefs —" If my
" father and my motler forfake me, the Lord will
" take me up"—And after it was over, at the church
an excellent sermon well adapted to the occasion, by
the Rev. Timothy Johres, from Deut. xxxii. 29. " 0
" that they were wife, that they understood this, that
" they would confider their latter end !"
It may be said, without the least addition to truth
or diminution from it, that the deceased, in her house,
was an acknowledged pattern of Economy, received
her friends with chearfulnefs, and entertained them
with generosity; that, in piety, the was an early
convert to the noble dodrines of the Gospel, the ge
nuineness of which she exhibited to the world by her
growing attachment to, 2nd steady invariable observ
ance of them, through tie whole course of her life ;
and in her last hours, th)' exquisitely distressed with
bodily pain, in the full ixercife of reason, critically
reviewing the paffand attentively surveying the future,
had the approbation of ler conscience , and, as the
taper of life was going out, so conversed and so as
pired after the full fruiton of the Deity, as might
have convinced the infidd, reformed the profligate,
and Simulated the faint indeed, —as would have done
honour to any chriftian, aid brought reputation to
religion itfelf.
Extras of a letter from a Gentleman at Elizabeth-
(C READY MO NET if expelled for insert
ing Advertisements in this Gazette.
—*f Advertfme?itjomitfedtbzscweeh to be in our next.
THE Subscriber requests those Gentlemen for
whom he has carried the New-Jersey Gazette,
to pay off their refpedive balances for that service,
and to deposit the Money in the Hands of those with
whom the Packets are left, for their humble servant,
Aug. 12,177 g. SAMUEL ADAMS.
TO BE SOLD,
By publick vendue, on Friday the 4th day es Sep.
tember next, at two o'clock in the afternoon,
SUNDRY HOUSEHOLD FURNI-
His Excellency the Governor has appointed a
Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol De
livery, to be held in the county of Sussex on Tuesday
the fifteenth day of September ; and in Morris coun
ty on Thursday the twenty-fourth day of September
next.
Tonvn, dated August 23, 1778.
TO BE SOLD,
At publick vendue, by the fubferiber at his house in
Princeton, on Thursday the 10th day of Septem
ber next —some
HOufehold and Kitchen Furniture, viz.
chairs, tables, candlesticks, teapots, a teakettle,
a coffeemill, one iron pot, griddle, pails and tubs,
new churn, four candlemoulds, bedfteds, one set of
curtain rods fcrew'd together, smoothing irons, one
good (little) spinning wheel, Dutch cupboard, cra
dle, good milk cow, empty calks, broadax: Also a
tew SHOP GOODS, viz. Needles per hundred,
trowels, one feythe, crosscut saw, plane irons, cen
terbits, slates, and a pair of large good steelyards.
The vendue to begin at lo'oclock in the forenoon,
when the conditions of sale will be made known by
WILLIAM M. DERMOTT.
N. B. The house and lot where the fcbfcriber now
dwells are for sale. 2*
TO BE SOLD
By THOMAS MOODY in Princeton,
ON as reasonable terms as the present times will
permit; bohea tea warranted good, coffee,
chocolate, tea-pots and cream-jugs, punch bowls,
silk handkerchiefs of various forts, spotted and check
handkerchiefs, stripes and different checks, fine Irish
linen, Irish Iheeting, breeches patterns and worsted
stockings, camlets of divers colours, damafeus, thread,
satin, gauze and silk gauze handkerchiefs, mens
flioes, tobacco and fnuff in bladders of the best qua
lity, writing paper, hard soap, with many other things.
August 19th 1778. 2W§
To be fold at publick-Vendue;
On Monday the 7th day of September next at the
house of Hannah Rogers, Widow of Isaac Rogets,
Esq. deceased, in Allentown;
HORSES, cattle, sheep and hogs; with farmers
utensils, such as plows, harrows, three wag
gons and gears; also household furniture, consisting
of beds, bedfteds and bedding, tables and table lin
en, chairs, delks, chests of drawers, with a variety
of kitchen furniture ; also two Negro wenches to be
fold at private sale. The conditions will be made
known, and attendance given on the day of sale, by
us Joseph Borden,
(Executors.
JAMUEL KOGERS, >
Hannah Rogers, ) Executrix.
N. B. All persons indebted to the estate of Isaac;
Rogers, Esq. deceased, are desired to make immedi
ate payment to the above Executors. zp
Nenutcawn, State of Pennsylvania, Aug. 22, 1778.
WAS committed some time past, and now in gaol
at this place, the following persons, viz. John
Ross, fays he belongs to the 10th Virginia regiment,
in Capt. Stevens's company; Abraham Lawell, fays
he belongs to Colonel Baylot's regiment of light dra
goons, in the service of this State; and John Wal
ter, who fays he belongs to Colonel Dayton's regi
rhent, in the service of the State of New-Jersey. The
officers concerned are desired to fend for them and
pay charges. THOMAS HUSTON, Gaoler. %
FORTY DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED from the fubferiber in Somerset, eight
. mites from Brunswick, on Sunday night the 16th
instant; (August) two HORSES; the firft a sorrel,
about 14 hands and a half high, branded on the near
Moulder with a figure 9, and bald faced ; the other
a black roan, his head much whiter than his body,
about 14 hands high, trots and gallops. Whoever
takes up said horses and delivers them to the owner,
shall have the above reward, or Twenty Dollars for
either with reasonable charges, paid by
. . CORNELIUS STOOTHOOFF.
TO BE SO L D,
/IValuable plantation, whereon the fubferiber now
1 1 lives, situated on the road leading from Prince
ton to Allentown, Bordentown and Crofswicks, in
m 4 miles of Princeton, 6 miles from
. r ° Timothy Abbots landing, and so situated, that
it 1 might make two good plantations, and within
I mile of a saw and grist mill ; containing about 506
acres of good land, together with 8 acres of excel
lent meadow, one mile from said farm, being part
of the great meadows in Maidenhead ; 200 acres of
said farm is cleared, the remainder well timbered.
The said farm is bounded on a fine stream of water,
where at least 70 acres of good meadow may be
made; there is on said plantation a good dwelling
houfe with three rooms on a floor, two good kitchens
adjoining, a well of water by the door, a barn 4c
by 50 feet, an apple orchard of about 200 bearing
trees of excellent fruit. For terms apply to Col.
William Coats in Philadelphia, or to Thomas'
Norris oh the premises.
HAVE for sale, at their store next door to the
Court-houfein Morris-town, Rum, sugar, Bo
!% a %' e , en tea> coffee ' pepper, alfpice, copperas,
Inuff in bladders, indigo and brimstone by the calk
or smaller quantity; gun-powder and wool-cards—
linen, drilling, fattins, peelongs, cambricky gauze,
handkerchiefs, stockings, threads, pins, ribbands,
feiffars, &c. &c. They have no objection against
^ingjnoneyoftheState of New-York.
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