The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1785-06-13 00:00:00, page 1

TO B ES O L D,
, A valuable Trad of LAND, ,<
CONTAINING 300 acres,fituate; within three miles
of Trenton, in the county of Burlington, and
townfllip of Nottingham, and within 2 miles of Lam
berton, where it is expected the federal town will be
created. On said tra& there is clay and wood ftiffici
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
?ayment. For further particulars enquire of Robert
'earfon, in Nottingham, Jufeph Milnor ,or the sub
scriber in Trenton. JOSEPH HIGBEE.
NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
N. B. The meadow-land is a deep rich foil, and not
Subject to be flooded.
May 28, 1785. t f
TO ' rr 'jT7frTTTTTTr
And to be fold at 'he Printing-Office in Tren
ton —
OBSERVATIONS
, ON THE
IMPORTANCE
OF THE ?
AMERICAN REVOLUTION,
AND „;;
The Means of making it.a Benefit to the World.
BY
RICHARD PRICE, D. D. L. L. D.
And Fellow of the Royal Society of London,
and of the Academy of Arts and SciENCEsin
New-England.,
These Observations are comprized under the fol
lowing Heads: , j,
I. Of the Importance of the Revolution which has
established the Independence of the United States.
11. Of the Means of promoting human Improvement
and Happiness in the United States.
111. Of Peace, and the Means of perpetuating it.
IV. Of .Liberty. -
V. Of Liberty of Discussion...
VI. Of Liberty of Conscience, and Civil Esta,
, BLISHMENTS of RELIGION.
VII. Of Education.
VIII. Of the Dangers to which the American States
are exposed./
IX. Of Debts and Internal Wars. ,
X. Of an unequal Distribution of Property.
XI. Of Trade, Banks, and Paper Credit.
XII. Of Oaths.
XIII. Of the Negro trade and Slavery.
A Quantity of
Wrapping-Paper,
Of superior Quality,
To be had at the Printing-Office in Trenton.
To the PUBLICS
TH E fubferibefs beg leave to inform the publjck,
that the New Ferry, belonging to John Burrows
and George B'eatty, a little above the Falls, and near
ly opposite to Trenton, is now in good repair, with
good boats; where due attendance will be given by
the publick's humble servants,
JOHN BURROWS,
GERSHOM MOORE.
May 24, 1785. 3m
TO BE SOLD?
A Large and valuable trad of unimproved LAND,
consisting of upland, frefh and salt meadow, ly
ing on Maurice river, state of New-jersey. The frefh
meadow, confiding of between three and four hundred
acres, by being improved will produce excellent timo
thy or clover, which abounds in the neighbourhood.—
The terms will be made easy to the purchaser; or pa
per securities of the state of Pennsylvania or New-Jer
sey will be received in payment. Enquire of JESSE
HAND, at Cape-May, or JOSEPH C. FISHER, in
Philadelphia. iw
[Vol. VIII.]
TRENTON: Printed by ISAAC COLLIN S, Printer to the State.
MONDAY, June 13, 1785.
WE the subscribers, being legatees chiefly named
in the last will and testament of James Sexton,
late of Upper-Freehold, deceased, having, by our coun
sel learned in the law, been informed of a defect in said
will, the .omiflion of, one evidence, by which means
the executors are unable to aft agreeably to the true
intent and meanipg„of the fame, .which we conceive
will be a damage to the estate: For remedy whereof,
we propose applying to the Legislature at the next fit
ting, f° r a law to establish said will ; of which any per
lon concerned is desired to take notice.
REBECCA SEXTON, widow,]
ESEK COX, 1 1
REBECCA SEXTON, ^Legatees.
ANN SEXTON,;
PATIENCE SEXTON.J
April 14, 1785. Bws
In consequence of the Votes and Revolutions of the
Merchants, Traders, and others, of the town of
BoJion, on the alarming state of their commerce
with Great-Britain, the following petition to
Congress, with the circular letters, were for
warded by the Committee appointed for that pur-
IJe :
Befon, 22d April, 178 fr
To the United States in Congress assembled.
May it please your Excellency and Honours,
YO U R petitioners, the merchants, traders
and others, of the town of Boston, at a large
and relpe&able meeting, beg leave unani
mously to express their sentiments on the
present critical and alarming Situation of the commerce
of this country; and to request the immediate inter-'
position of those powers for its relief, with which Con
gress may be now invested. If your authority had been
equal to the object of their present application, your
petitioners are fully convinced that their grievances
would not at this time have Been the fubjeCt of your
deliberation ; nor would it have been matter of re
gret that the unfortunate delinquency of some of the
states in the union, in withholding the necessary pow
er from Congress, had hitherto precluded the enjoy
ment of those commercial benefits, which the happy
eftablifhmerit of our national independency had given
us so much reason to expert. . ~
In full confidence, however, such power will be
soon, if it is not already delegated, as alone can re
dress the present, and prevent the impending evil :—
Your petitioners observe, that the ships and commo
dities of that nation, whofw insidious conduct has long
beds the object of our peculiar jealousy, are received
in our ports under the lame advantages with our own,
while our navigation, in return, is difeouraged by
every possible embarrassment ; and our exports, on
their part, are either prohibited, or if admitted to
their ports, are loaded with the most rigorous exac
tions. In proof of our assertions, we need but point
the attention of Congress to the enormous duties on
our rice, oil, and tobacco; to the principle and spi
rit of their navigation, or to a bill lately agitated in
the British Parliament, which now most probably has
the fan&iop of a law, for the support and encourage
ment of their American fifhery, to the dire& preju
dice of our own, and is intended to derive that bene
fit fromihcfe states, as in our apprehension and on their
principles, ought only to be permitted in our own bot
toms. It is indeed unneceflary to Multiply examples,
when the staple productions of every state feel alike
the baneful influence of such regulations.
To add to these evils, already fufficient to excite
our utmost disquiet, the late intervention, of British
factors in this state threatens a monopoly of our trade,
and hastens the rapid decrease of our circulating me
dium—an event pregnant with the utmost mifehief,
not only to the mercantile interest in particular, but
to the community at large.
Jmprefled with these ideas, your petitioners beg
leave to request of the very august body which they
now have the honour to address, that the numerous
impositions of the British, on the trade and exports
of these states, may be forthwith contravened by fi
PHILADELPHI A, June 4.
To the Publick.
THE
(CIRCULAR.)
Boston, April 22, 17^
Gentlemen,
WE being appointed by the merchants, traders,
and others, citizens of this town, to write to the
merchants of the several sea-ports of the United
States, on the alarming Situation of our commercial
intercourse with Great-Britain, do, in their names,
address you on the fu bjeft; which, we doubt not,
you will think with us, requires mature and serious
deliberation, as well as the most spirited and virtu
ous exertions, to be properly arranged.,
Happy Should we be, if we could devise some plan
which would effectually produce and lastingly cement
that union of sentiment, on which so essentially de
pend the advantage and stability of the commerce of
this country : We do not, however, presume to dic
tate what is best to be done in this critical Situation
of our affairs ; but conceive it highly necessary to have
a free communication of the sentiments of the mer
cantile interest ; as on measures which may be adopt
ed in consequence of this correspondence, some per
manent and beneficial purposes may be effected.l
. It is with regret we observe, that no commercial
treaty at present subsists between the United States
and, Great-Britain ;.as from this source, and the
foolifh predilection of two many of our countrymen
for the manufactures of that nation, we are princi
pally fubjeCted to the inconyeniencies we now expe
rience : For by her navigation ad, Since the eflablifh
ment of our independence, we are left, in common
with other aliens, to the most rigorous reftri&ions up
on our trade: In consequence of which, the heavy
port charges, with other duties imposed on the pro
ductions of this country (even where we are permit
ted to fend them) amount almost to a prohibition of
our making any other remittance than that of cash, in
exchange for their merchandize: A mifehief, already
so deeply felt by every order of citizens among us, as
to produce a general complaint of the want of a fuf
ficient medium to answer the common purposes of
life. , ~
. The carrying trade, so important to this country,
is also essentially affected; and Great-Britain is en
deavouring, by every means in her power, to annihi
late it—by prohibiting the entry of our ships in her
Weft-India colonies—difeou raging, and (by rumours
which are greatly exaggerated) preventing her own
manufactures, intended for our consumption, from be
ing flipped in American bottoms, unless burthened
with an extra charge—by employing her vessels—by
depriving our ships of the privilege of carrying the
produce of our country to Quebec, Newfoundland,
&c.—and by reftriCting the sale of them in any part
of the British dominions, confifeating the property in
some instances, and fubje&ing it to duties equal to a
prohibition in others ; while the fuuje&s of that nati
on are permitted to fend their vessels to any part of
the continent, for bread, flour, tobacco, rice, &c.
and to ship them from most of the states upon the
fame terms with our own fubje&s, and from others,
but with a trifling diferimination.—A trade, the ba
lance of which is so eflentially against us, must, if not.
speedily checked, inevitably ruin us.
Feelingly imprefled, therefore, with the necessity.
of an immediate attention to a fubjeft so important to
the people of America, the merchants, traders, and
others, citizens of this town, have held a general
meeting, to consult upon meafwres necessary to be
milar expedients on our part; else, may it please your
Excellency and Honqurs, the commerce of this coun
try, and of consequence its wealth, power, and per
haps the union itfelf, may become' victims to the ar
tifice of a nation, whose arms have been in vain ex
erted to accomplish the ruin of America.
fohn Hancock, Jonathan L. Aufin,
Samuel A. Otis, Charles Jarvis,
Samuel Breck, William Tudor,
John C. Jones, Stephen Higginfon,
Samuel Barret, jfepb Barrel/,
Edward Payne, Perez Morton,
Caleb Davis, J°fph Russel, jun.
Thomas Russel,
[Numb. 370.]