The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1786-02-13 00:00:00, page 1

House of Afembly, November 17, 1785.
A MEMORIAL from the trpftees of the roads
and ferries leading from Newark to the road
that leads from Bergen-Point to Paulus-Hook,was read,
praying for a law to vest the ferries between Newark
and the town of Bergen in the trustees, on their paying
a certain annual rent, or on their being accountable for
the net revenues to the proprietors, or at least until the
trustees are repaid the monies they have expended in
repairing the caufeways,and putting the ferries in good
condition; and also the monies that may hereafter be
expended by the trustees for the said purposes;
Ordered, That they have leave to present a bill
agreeably to the prayer of their petition, on adver
tising the purport thereof, and a copy of this order,
in one of the New-Jersey, and in one of the New-
York news-papers, for at least fix weeks previous
thereto.
Extract from the minutes,
MASKELL EWING, jun. Clerk.
Notice is hereby given,
That a bill will be presented to the honourable
the legislature at their next fitting, agreeably to the
leave given in the above order.
Jan. 25, 1786. 6w
TOBE S~CTL D,
AT PUBLICK VENDUE,
AT John Rutledge's, on the premises, the ninth
day of March next, being the fifth day of the
week, either together or in lots of two to three hun
dred acres, a trad of land, called Good Will Pur
chased again, situate in Harford county, in the state
of Maryland, twenty miles from Baltimore town,
near the upper cross roads, containing one thousand
five hundred and fifty-two and a half acres. It is
mostly good wheat land, well watered, and a quantity
of good meadow is and may be made on several of
the lots; each of which has a proportion of wood
land. There are several buildings, and orchards on
it, and the whole is well fenced, and its vicinity to
Baltimore will render it very valuable. The pur
chase-money to be paid in seven equal yearly pay
ments, the purchasers giving fatisfadory security, and
paying the interest annually. A draught of the land,
divided into lots, may be seen at John Rutledge's
on the premises, who will shew the land to any per
son desirous of viewing it.
CHARLES JERVIS,
Attorney to Ann Pemberton.
Jan. 18th, 1786. 6w
To whom it may Concern,
THE fubferiber having now retired from bufi,
nefs, and wiring to have a final settlement of
Lis affairs, refpeftfully requests those who have any
demands against him to fend in their accounts; and
those who are indebted to him, to make payment on
or before the fiift day of April next, or they must
expeCt to be dealt with according to law.
Joseph Borden.
Bordentown, Jan. 23, 1786. t. f.
S A L E. —
ABOUT three hundred and sixty acres of land in
Nottingham township, Burlington county, now
in the tenure of John Bown, situate on the westerly
fide of the road leading from Bordentown to Prince
ton, being about seven miles from each, about five
miles from Trenton, and the fame from Lamberton.
There is on the premises a good one story dwelling
houfe and kitchen, built about ten years ago, with
a cellar under the whole, in the house are three rooms
with fire places in each, on the firft floor and two
rooms above, all sealed and well finifhed, a well of
good water at the door, a large apple orchard, about
one hundred and twenty acres of the land cleared, and
the remainder woodland, great part of which if clear
ed would make excellent meadow. To be fold alto
gether or in several trads as may best suit the pur
xhafers, the terms of payment will be made very ea
sy, and a good title and possession given next spring,
by applying tq either Thomas Riche, Esquire, at
New-Windsor, opposite Bordentown, or to
J. Hicks.
Attlebury, Feb. 1, 1786. gw*
NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
[Vol. IX.]
TRENTON: Printed by ISAAC COLLIN S, Printer to the State.
MONDAY, February 13, 1786.
' Encouraged by your kind promise to dress
' every paper that shall be tranfinitted to you on the
'fubjett of paper money, in a garb proper to appear
6 in publick, I take the liberty to fend you a few
' lines upon a very melancholy topic.
' At the commencement of the late war, my dear
' husband then living, we had an ample fortune A
' fortune, the enjoyment of which was perhaps sweeter to
<us, as being the product (by the blessing of God) of
6 our joint industry and ceconomy, and not derived
' from the bountiful provision of our ancestors. Be
-6 ing both of us advanced in years, content with what
6 we had, and having but one child, we lived, and
6 we lived comfortably, upon the interest of our mo
'ney. We were moreover enabled (blefled be God
' for his bounty) to flretch out our hands to the poor.
' When the war broke out, my husband, and I thank
6 heaven for it, tho' to me it proved inexpressibly tra
' gical, was, in a neighbourhood of tories, an inflexi
cble whig. Though excused from militia duty on
' account of his age, he was determined to make one
'in that groupe of heroes who opposed and repulf
6ed the enemy, at Springfield. Paflionately as I
'loved him; and tho' I had I know not what strange
6 presentiments of his approaching disaster, I was
6 determined not to quench his thirst of glory, or to
' prevent him from returning (should heaven spare his
'life) with the additional honour of having the crown
‘°f gl° r y of bis hoary head in the way of righteouf
< nefs, rendered still more illustrious by being encir
-6 cled with laurels, Had he consulted me about go
'ing, my affection for him would have prompted me
<to fay, no. My regard for his honour, my love to
'my country, an example so stimulating to others,
6 would have induced me to fay, yes. Being by ex
< perience more certain of my affection for him than
' of my zeal for my country; he asked not my opi
-1 nion. My opinion accordingly I did not give. We
< embraced, I filed a flood of tears. He went. He
1 fought. He fell. Oh what a fall to me! And yet
6 while I am melted into sorrow at the recollection of
'his death; I seem to rejoice that he so died. But
6 what think you, Mr. Whig, of those hardened
< wretches, who, taking the advantage of depreciat
'ed continental money, have so paid me in that mo
'ney, that, from ease and plenty, I am reduced, at
6 the age of seventy-two, to the drudgery of a fcul
' lion. I desire still to be thankful to Providence, in
'that even in this humiliating condition, I could with
6 what is still due to me, as my husband's legatee,
'fubfift myfelf and my dear daughter, infirm and of a
‘ weak constitution, if no more paper money was
6 emitted. But only think, fir, that within these
'three days, I was called upon by a man who owes
' me thirty-two pounds five shillings upon bond, which
6 he solemnly promised to pay me on the fiift of No
'vember last; and upon which I depended for laying
'in my winter store; and who now has the face to
' tell me (had my dear husband been alive he would
6 have kicked him out of the house) that, as the law
' now stands epitomifed and modernifed, he can
'keep me out of my money till the middle of next
6 February, when the legislature will enable him to
6 fatisfy me with a new kind of paper money, parti
' cularly calculated for the relief of poor debtors.
' My dear Fanny, my only child, who fits at my
' left elbow while I am writing this letter, and is
' mending a pair of flockings, which, in my dear huf
' band's life-time, I should have given in charity to foine
' poor woman, but am now that very object of chari
' ty myfelf; my dear Fanny, I fay, (charming girl !
'methinks I fee her father in her eyes) knowing the
PRIMITIVE WHIG. No. VI.
Wo to thee that fpoilejl, and thou waft not /polled; and
dealcft treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously
with thee ; when thou Jbalt cease to fporl, thou Jbalt be
spoiled; and when thou Jbalt make an end to deal treacb
eroujly, they Jball deal treacberouJly with thee.
Prophet Isaiah.
I COULD not refrain from tears on reading the
following letter? and whoever feels not forthe
venerable and distressed widow who wrote it,
is, in my opinion, not overburdened with sen
sibility.
6 To the Primitive Whig.
'Sir,
THE
By all means, madam, thank God for our revolu
tion; but pray him at the fame time to reform all
those unworthy sons of America who prevent it from
being productive of those blessings that would be the
natural result of it, were they honest industrious and
virtuous citizens; and that he v. ^uld in particular
be pleased, in his infinite mercy, to turn the hearts
of all those who want another emission of paper mo
ney to defraud widows and orphans, or any other of
their neighbours to whom they are indebted.
A paper currency with a tender is inexpedient in New-
Jersey at present.
11. rpHE second head, according to my proposed
1 method is, that a tender on the bills will
be highly unjust and greatly injurious. 0 tender on
depreciating paper, whence didst thou originate ?
Didst thou descend from those celestial regions, whose
precepts declare, that Measure ought to be rendered
for Measure, and Weight for Weight? Or didst thou
arise with a lye in thy right hand from those demo
niac cells, where Belzebub, the father of lyes, con
stantly maligns every idea of truth ? What natural
calamity hath ever wafted the property of individuals
so deftruCtively as this monster of folly? 0 tender
on depreciating paper, to have beggared the orphan,
the widow, the gray head, and the soldier of ho
nour, is but a small trait in the picture of thy odi
ous person ! To earn bread with labour and sweat
was a heavy curse on the human race; but to starve
after a long life of labour and sweat, was a much
heavier curse, left to be inflicted on man by the folly
of man through the injuflice of tenders. What rea
son can be rendered, why the sovereign power of a
society, consulting with sovereign wisdom, and pro
viding with sovereign goodness, for the weal of that
society, should by solemn fan&ion of law compel a
man, under the penalty of his whole estate, and of the
imprisonment of his body, to accept a piece of pa
per, worthless as an old rag, worthless as a flraw,
and worthless as the dirt, in payment of and in full
value for a thousand budiels of wheat ? Justice for
bids such an exercise of power ! If paper be as va
luable as coin, people will, for the convenience of
' fubjed I write upon, asks me, and afl<s it with fobs
' that would, I think, transpierce the hearts of the
'moft obdurate legislators in the world; pray, ma
' ma,.will there never be an end of this paper currency
' that seems contrived to ruin poor widows and orphan;
' like you and me ?
' Mr. Whig, I desire to be resigned to the difpen
' fatioos of Providence; and often console myfelf with
'the words of the prophet. The Lord is our judge,
' the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our King,
'be will save us. But I am frequently perplexed
' receding my duty when 1 prostrate myfelf at the
' footftool of the throne of his tremendous Majesty.
'I will explain myfelf. When I confider our revo
' lution as a teal emancipation from the fetters
' which Great-Britain intended to rivet upon us, I
' feel it at my heart to thank God for it. When, on
' the other hand, I view it as perverted to the purpo
' fes of licentiousness, and particularly to the purpose
' of defrauding our neighbours with paper currency,
' I am in doubt whether I can conscientiously offer
'up my gratitude for it or not. As I believe you to
' be as great a divine as any of our country clergy,
' and a greater one than those of them, who deal
' only in unintelligible mysteries, and ulelefs unedi
' fying controversies, instead of endeavouring to con
' vince their heaters, and to enforce their convictions
' with all the thunder and lightning of Mount Sinai,
' that notwithstanding all their religious profeffions,
' they will, unless they do to others as they would
' that others should do to them, and desist from
'cheating widows and orphans with depreciated pa
' per money, be damned; I intreat you, fir, to
' give me your answer to my question refpeding my
' difficulty about thanking the Almighty, when at my
' devotion for our revolution.
6 I am fir,
'Your most humble servant,
' Martha Hardlines.'
A N SW E R.
NUMBE R. lIL
[Numb. . 405.]