The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1783-03-12 00:00:00, page 1

TO BE SOLD,
THE houses and lot, late the estate of Josiah Ap
plegate, deceased, in New-Brunswick; the lot
is 40 feet front and rear, 80 feet in length from
street to street, and a large two story frame house,
with three rooms on each floor, cellar and cellar
kitchen ; well situated for a merchant or tradef
mau, in the centre of the town ; the house is some
what out of repair. Any person inclining to pur
chase so valuable a stand, may apply to William
Applegate near the premises, or Joseph Applegate
at Matcheponix, for particulars, who will give a
good title for the fame, and possession the firft of
May. Wm. APPLEGATE, ,
JOSEPH APPLEGATE, $
N. B. All persons that are indebted to the estate
of Josiah Applegate, deceased, by bond, note, or
book-debt, are requested to make payment by the
firft of March next, or otherwise their accounts
will be returned ; and all those that have any de
mands against the said estate, are desired to bring
in their accounts properly attested unto William
Applegate, that they may be adjusted and paid.
January 26, 1783. 6wf
TO BE SOLD,
The following tracts of land, lying in Middlesex
county :
A Plantation lying near George's road, adjoining
Swego mill, known by the name of Saplin-
Ridge, within seven miles of Brunswick; there is
on it a good new frame house, a new English frame
barn, a young bearing orchard, about ninety acres
of the said trad cleared, and a fufficient quantity
of meadow may be made on it ; the land is very
fertile and well timbered.
Also five hundred acres of land adjoining the
Crossroads, whereon Richard Slower now lives ; this
trad :will be fold altogether or separately, as may
best suit the purchasers: On this place is a good
convenient house, a good barn, and as fine an or
chard for bearing as any in the state.
Also a trad of land containing one hundred and
'twenty-feven acres, adjoining lands of Jacobus Sni
decker and Thomas Wetherill, on which a great
deal of meadow may be made ; this trad is unim
proved. For terms of sale enquire of Samuel Tuck
er, Esq. at Trenton, or Thomas Lawrence, Elq. at
Princeton.
State of New-Jersey, February 11, 1783. 3m
Notice is hereby given,
TO the proprietors of East New-Jersey, and all
others whom it may concern, that the propri
etors of Weft New-Jersey will, at the next fitting
of the Legislature, renew their application for leave
to bring in a bill, to be enaCted into a law, to ap
point Commissioners for the purpose of running and
establishing the line of partition between the Eastern
and Western Divisions of the State of New-Jersey,
and for fettling all matters in dispute between the
proprietors of East New-Jersey and the proprietors
of Weft New-Jersey, pursuant to the prayer of our
petition now depending before the Legislature, the
fubjed whereof was postponed at the lad fitting
for want of due and timely notice.
Joseph Reed, -\Commit-
Jona. D. Sergeant, /tee of W.
Ebenezer Cowell, >Jerfey
Clement Biddle, \ Proprie-
Daniel Ellis, 'tors.
February 1, 1783. 155.1 l
TO THE PUBLIC K.
ON Wednesday the second of April next will be
opened a DANCING SCHOOL at the arms
of France in this town, by Mr. D'Orffiere, a gen
tleman who attends the dancing school of the French
Academy in Philadelphia. The chara&er and abi
lities of this gentleman are so well established in Phi
ladelphia, that those who ffiall have any desire to
be inftruded by him, have only to enquire there
themselves. The said school will continue a fuffici
ent time to complete two or three quarters in that
season; and the terms will be the fame as in Phila
delphia. The school shall be alternately at Prince
ton, if any can be formed in that place. All forts
of DANCES, the most in fafhion, will be taught,
but principally the graces and manners.
If the inhabitants fliould have any desire, the di
rector of the said academy will be very happy in
procuring them also, for the fame season, a very
able matter in the French and other foreign lan
guages. 9 w§
NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
[Vol. Vl.]
WEDNESDA Y, March 12, 1783.
To the TRADERS, ^
AS a friend to my country, and as one who sin
cerely wishes its best intcreft, I address myfelf
to all engaged in an illicit trade with our enemies;
I do not at present mean to debate the point with
you, nor shall I attempt to shew the good policy
of our laws made or enaCted to prevent an illicit
trade. As good fubje&s, we ought to confider our
Legislature as composed of the wisest men in the
state, and therefore best capable of judging what is
most for its interest, and implicitly submit to, and obey
all their laws, as righteous, just and good, as the
dilates of true wisdom and found policy, to be kept
in the most sacred manner, nor violated but upon
the severest pains and penalties. Such therefore,
who are engaged in the present illicit trade, in mak
ing laws to prevent which it hath coftus so much
labour, time and money, fliould confider how they
can answer it to their country, or to their own
consciences.
I would earnestly entreat your attention to the
following particulars, which I cannot but hope may
have some weight with you, serve to open your
eyes, to fee the evil of your ways and reform.
ift. By your illicit commerce you defeat and dis
appoint the good intentions of our wife Legisla
ture, and give them just occasion to complain that
they have laboured in vain, have spent their time
and the publick's money for nought.
2d. Confider, by your illicit trade, how much
you injure our good, our honed and worthy mer
cantile friends of a neighbouring state, those fair
traders, who are doing every thing in their power
to serve us, who are actuated by such disinterested
and benevolent motives, that they will fell you their
goods at the lbweft rate they can, confident with
their own lucrative designs. Do they not justly
claim an exclusive right of trading with our enemy ?
Do you not greatly defraud them by your illicit
commerce, and so give them just reason to com
plain to our Legislature upon this head? And is
there not reason to fear, left influenced by their just
arid loud complaints, they will be led to take some
severer fleps more eff dually to prevent your illicit
commerce, to make it even death, and allow the
captor to ad as accuser, witness, and perhaps jur
or? and then, alas! and alas ! for you all, efpeciaily
confidcring the general character or those who make
it their business to detect you ! —But I have another
consideration to urge against this illicit commerce,
which I think cannot fail in its operation and effeft,
viz. That you are instrumental in training up a set
of men in idleness, luxury and dissipation, who will
in all probability by and by become thieves and
robbers, when peace shall put an end to their pre
sent means of flipport, who will be too proud to
beg, ar.d too fay to dig. For in consequence of your
Philadelphia, February r, 1783.
To be fold, by publick vendue,
On the premises, on Thursday the thirteenth of
March next,
A Valuable plantation and grazing farm, la s e the
property of William Shreve, situated in one
of the richest and best neighbourhoods in Jersey,
being about thirty miles from Philadelphia, in Manf
field township, Burlington county, c,obtaining about
320 acres, 80 of which ate mowable meadow, and
more may be made, being plentifully watered ;
about iio acres of plough land, the remainder ex
traordinary good wood, and mostly under good ce
dar fence. There are on the premises a new two
story frame house, with two rooms below flairs, and
an entry through the house, four rooms on the se
cond floor, a convenient kitchen, and a cellar under
the whole, a pump of good water at the door, a
kitchen garden under a paled fence, and a thriving
young orchard of 200 grafted trees. It is a good
stand for business, about fix miles from Bordentown
and eleven from Burlington, convenient to several
meeting-houses and mills. The purchaser may have
possession on or before the firft day of April. The
terms will be made known at the time and place
of sale, by Jeremiah Warder, Mordecai Lewis and
Samuel Coates, assignees.
N. B. All persons indebted to the said William
Shreve, are desired to difeharge the fame within
three months from this date, or they will be put
into an attorney's hands to colled. And those that
have any demands against said Shreve, are requested
to bring them in properly proved to Clayton New
bold, Robert Emlay, or Caleb Newbold, in Manf
ficld, or to the assignees, in Philadelphia. 6w
THE
illicit trade, a considerable number of persons near
and about the lines have devoted their time to watch
traders, known by the name of trade catchers,
who follow it for a livelihood, who in general pro
fefs to be influenced by no higher motives than pri
vate interest, and who indeed, from their well known
characters, cannot be supposed to have any thing
more in view. They are such as supported them
selves by plunder, while plundering was lawful, and
were instrumental of much private distress, many
fuffering by their means merely because it was their
misfortune to live within the lines of the enemy.—
They appear evidently destitute of every virtuous
and honourable principle, who neither fear God nor
regard man.—Must it not be extremely mortifying
to be any way or by any means instrumental in sup
porting such a worthless set of beings in idleness
and plenty, training them up for cut-throats and
robbers, or at best to become mere drones and the
pefis of society? Will you not be answerable for
the injury the state will fuffer by their means ? We
cannot but impute it to you that our lines are al
ready infefted with a set of these wretches, whose
business it is to trade or to take up traders, as it
best suits their interest. Was I indeed ever so much
engaged in this illicit trade, this, if nothing else,
would effectually restrain me. I could not bear to
be instrumental in frpporting and encouraging such
creatures, who are universally despised by men of
principle and virtue. These, however contrary to
your intention and design, you support. They are
fed and clothed at your expence, and that in a man
ner they had been heretofore strangers to. You
cannot please or gratify them better than by con
tinuing your trade ; and nothing would grieve them
more than its being effectually stopped. Ido there
fore entreat you, by that sacred regard you owe to
the laws of your country, and by that just contempt
you feel for a set of worthless unprincipled beings,
and as you would not be instrumental in training
up men for thieves and robbers, to become the
pelts of society, that you would confider, and fuf
fer not the most lucrative profpeds to induce you
to perlift in your illicit commerce.
MIDDLESEX.
L O N D O N, Aug. go.
SO great is the propensity some people have for
drinking, that even certain death will not make
them refrain, and of which the following fad is too
convincing a proof: A travelling pedlar woman,
who was committed to Shrewlbury gaol for the
robbery and murder of the mistress of the house
where she lodged, at Dorrington in that county,
was so accustomed to drinking, that she was drunk
every day during her confinement, not as it might
be fuppoled, from the reflection of the horrid deed,
she had perpetrated, as she never in the intervals
of her sober moments, shewed the least contrition
for the crime; but two days prior to the trial,
which was at the last assizes, the keeper confined
her in a room, and would not fuffer her to hav&
any thing but water, by which means she was per
fectly sober when tried, and on being convicted, he
confined her in the dungeon for the few hours she
had left to live, under the fame restraint ; but on
the morning of her execution, the clergyman came
to administer the sacrament to her, and ordered a
bottle of wine, of which he gave her one glass, and
informed the keeper when he had left her, that the
remainder would be Efficient for the other capital
convicts on a future day; but to the keeper's great
furprize, on his going to summons her to prepare
for her dreadful exit, found the wine all drank,
and herfelf in a state of intoxication.
BASSETER R E,
Extract of a letter from Montserrat, dated Jan. 26.
" A Portuguese brig arrived here this morning,
from Basseterre, Guadaloupe, and brings the fol
lowing intelligence : That la Venus frigate had ar
rived, the 23d infl at Martinique from Cadiz,
which left Count d'Estaing 30 days after he had
failed from Cadiz, with from 52 to 55 fail of the
line, and from 20 to 30,000 troops ; that the pre
liminaries of peace had been signed at Paris, and
America acknowledged independent ; but on ac
count of some disagreement between England and
some of the belligerent powers, in consequence of
some demands of the former, the preliminaries had
[Numb. 272.]