The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1780-07-05 00:00:00, page 4

Witness our hands this 17th day of June, in the
year of our Lord 1780.
Pennsylvania Currency, payable
in Gold or Silver.
TRENTON: Printed by ISAAC COLLINS, by whom Essays, Articles of Intelligence, Advertisements &c. are
thankfully received, and duly attended to.
£. 300,000
STATE or NEW-JERSEY.
An ACT to alter the Law direbling the Descent of
Real Eflates.
IT7HEREAS the law of defeents as it now (lands
VV works injustice, by vesting the whole real
eflate of an ancestor in the heir at law if a male, to the
exclusion of the other issue or descendants both male
and female of such ancestor; for remedy whereof,
Joseph Reed, - - - £. 2000
Robert Morris, - - - 10,000
Blair M'Clenaghan, - - 10,000
James Wilson, - - - 5000
George Clymer, - - - 5000
William Bingham, - - - 5000
J. M. Nefbitt and co. - - 5000
Richard Peters, - • - 5000
Samuel Meredith, - - 5000
James Meafe, - - - 5000
Thomas Barclay, - - 5060
Samuel Morris, jun. - - 5000
John Cox, . - - 50C0
Robert L. Hooper, jun. - - 5000
Hugh Shiell, ... 5000
Benjamin G. Eyre, - - 4000
William Coats, - - 4000
Emanuel Eyre, - - - 5000
John Dunlap, - - - 4000
James Budden, - - 4000
Cadwallader Morris, - - 2500
Robert Bass, . . . 2000
Owen Biddle, - - - 2000
John Gibson, - - - 2000
Michael Hillegas, - - - 4000
Charles Pettit, - - - 2000
John Mitchell, - - 2000
Matthew Irwin, - - - 5000
Thomas Irwin, - - - 5000
John Philip De Haas, - - 5000
Philip Moore, - - - 5000
Robert Knox, - - - 2000
Joseph Bullock, ... 2000
John Nixon, - - - 5000
Francis Gurney, - - 2000
George Campbell, - - 2000
William Lewis, - - - 2000
John Meafe, ... 4000
John Wharton, - - - 2000
Benjamin Ruth, - - - 2000
T. Lawrence, - - - 2000
Joseph Blewer, ... 2000
John Pringle, - - - 3000
Bunner, Murray, and comp. - 6000
Joseph Carson, - - - 4000
Matthew Clarkfon, - - 2000
William Hall, 2000
John Patton, - - - 2000
Thomas Leiper, - - - 4000
Robert Bridges, - - - 5000
B. Fuller, 2000
B. Randolph, 2000
Abraham Bickley, - - 2000
George Meade, and co. - - 2000
John Benezet, - - - 5000
John Donnaldfon, - - 2000
Henry Hill, - - - 3000
John Morgan, - - 5000
John Steinmetz, - - - 2000
Samuel Miles, - - - 3000
Samuel Mifflin, - - - 5000
Thomas Mifflin, - - - 5000
Andrew Hodge, - - - 2000
Thomas Willing, - - - 5000
Samuel Powel, - - - 5000
Charles Thomson, - - - 3000
Henry Heppele, - - - 2000
Francis C. Haffenclever, - 2000
Isaac Melcher, - - - 2000
Jfaac Moses, - - - 3000
John Schaffer, - - - 2000
Alexander Tod, - - - 2000
John Purviance, - - - 2000
Kean and Nichols, - - - 4000
John Wilcocks, . . . 2000
Samuel Inglis, - - - 2000
Jonathan Penrofe, - - - 2000
Nathaniel Falconer, - - - 2000
James Caldwell, . - - - 2000
Samuel Caldwell, - -. 1000
Samuel Penrofe, - . - jcoo
William Turnbull, - - 1000
John Shee, - - - - 1000
Benjamin Davis, jun. - - 1000
Sharp Delany, - - - io oo
Samuel Morris, - - 3000
Andrew Doz, - _ _ £OOO
Gerardus Clarkfon, - - 2000
Peter Whitefide, - - £ ooo
Andrew Robeson, iooo
Abraham Shoemaker, - - 2000
Tench Francis, - - - 5500
Sect. 1. Be it Enabled by the Council and General As
sembly of this flute, and it is hereby Enabled by the Au
thority of the fame, That when any ancestor, possessed
of or entitled to a real estate in his or her own right
in see-simple, (ball die without making a will dispos
ing thereof, leaving two or more sons, such real e
state shall defeend to and be equally inherited by all
/ the sons of such ancestors as tenants in common ; and
if such ancestor shall have issue both male and female,
then such real estate shall defeend to and be inherited
by such issue male and female in such proportion that
each son shall inherit two mares thereof, each of which
shares shall be equal to the share of a daughter : Pro
vided always, That if any child of such ancestor shall
have died before the ancestor leaving issue, the share
or part of the said real estate which such child would
have been entitled to under or by virtue of this aft,
if such child had survived the ancestor, shall defeend
to and be inherited by such issue in the manner and
proportions between male and female herein-before
directed : And Provided also, That if any such ances
tor shall in his lifetime have given or advanced any
part of his or her real estate to any of his or her issue,
such issue shall not be entitled to any part or share of
such ancestor's real estate, defeending under or by
virtue of this adt, unless the real estate so given or
advanced shall not be equal in value to the relpedive
shares of the other issue in the fame degree of affinity,
as the case may be, and then no more than will be
fufficient to make such share equal in the above pro
portion.
2. And be it further Enacted by the authority afore
faid, That if any ancestor possessed of or entitled to
any real estate in his or her own right in see-simple
shall die without making a will disposing thereof, and
without issue, or having issue, and such issue shall die
under the age of twenty-one years without issue, the
said real estate of such ancestor shall defeend to and
be inherited by the brothers, or by the brother and
filter or lifters, or by the brothers and filter or fillers,
as the case may be, of such ancestor in the manner
and proportions between male and female directed by
the firft fedion of this aft: Provided always, That
if any of the brothers or filters of such ancestor shall
have died before such ancestor leaving issue, the share
or part of the said real estate which such brother or
filter so dying would have been entitled to, under or
by virtue of this a&, if such brother or filter had sur
vived such ancestor, shall defeend to and be inherited
by the said issue of such brother or filter in the manner
and proportions between male and female directed by
the firft fedtion of this aft.
3. AND WHEREAS by the law as it now hands
the issue of an ancestor by one venter cannot inherit
to the issue of such ancestor by a different venter,
whereby the real estate of an ancestor in some instan
ces goes out of the family, to the great injury of the
remaining issue of such ancestor ; for remedy whereof,
Be it further Enabled by the authority aforefaid, That
if any person possessed of or entitled to a real estate
in his or her own right in see-simple shall die without
making a will disposing thereof, and without any bro
ther or lifter, or any issue of such brother or filter of
the whole blood, and shall leave a brother or brothers,
a sister or filters, a brother and a filler, or filters or
brothers, and a filter or filters of the half blood, the
said real estate of such person shall defeend to and be
inherited by such kindred, as the case may be, of the
half blood, in the manner and proportions between
male and female directed by the firft feftion of this aft.
4. Provided always, and be it further Enabled, That
nothing in this ad contained shall be construed or
taken to make void or any ways affect any marriage
settlement, or in any degree to deprive any widow of
any jointure she may be entitled to, or of her right
of dower.
Faffed at Trenton, May 24, 1780.
Three Hundred Pounds Reivard.
STOLEN out of the fubferiber's stable near Jacob's
Town, in the county of Burlington, the 23d inst.
at night, a large black STALLION, five years old,
full 15 hands high, with a star in his forehead, a few
white hairs in each flank; he is very heavy set, and
as likely a horse for the gears as any in the state, with
out exception ; a natural trotter, good carriage ; he
is barefooted. Whoever takes up said horse and se
cures the thief, so he may be brought to justice, shall
have the above reward, or /,. 150 for either horse or
thief, and all reasonable charges paid.
_ June 24th, 17 80. .J°SJEPH _GRIGGS._
A Number of waggons being wanted to convey
provilions from hence to the army, under the
command of His Excellency General Washington;
which provisions are forwarded to this place by the
citizens of Philadelphia, who have directed us to take
them under our care: We give notice that those per
lons who are willing to engage in this service, fliall
meet with proper encouragement, by applying to the
subscribers, who will furnifh the waggoners with corn
for their horses, and pay the hire of the waggons in
gold or silver, or the value thereof in continental cur
rency, as soon as the service is performed.
Thomas Barclay,
Trenton, June 26, 1780. Samuel Meredith.
N. B. Protections will be given to prevent the
waggons from being impressed.
To all whom it may concern :
New- OTICE is hereby given that a Court
Jersey, ff. of Admiralty will be held at the house
of Isaac Wood, in Mountholly, on Thursday the
thirteenth day of July next, at ten o'clock in the
forenoon of the fame day, then and there to try the
truth of the fads alledged in the bills of Rufus Gard
ner, commander of the privateer brig Enterprize,
(who as well, &c.) against the fchooncr Lively,
, late master; and against the ichooner Willing
Maid, -, late master, their tackle, apparel,
furniture and cargo: To the end and intent that the
owner or owners ofthe said vessels, or any other per
son or persons interested therein may appear and shew
cause, if any they have, why the laid vessels, their
tackle, &c. should not be condemned according to
the prayer of the said bills.
By order of the Judge,
JOS. BLOOMFIELD, Reg.
Haddonfield, June 12, 1780.
IX^AS taken up and delivered into my custody of
VV the common gaol at Trenton, the 28th day in
March last, a new Negro Man that can scarcely fpeaE
a word of Engiifh, about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high,
fays (by an interpreter) that he is a free man, and
was on his way to Guinea, calls his name Peter, fup
poled to be about 22 years old, and making his way
to the enemy. His master is delired to prove his pro
perty, pay charges, and take him away, or he will be
fold on Thursday the 27th day of July next, for the
charges, by JOSH. CORSHON, Sheriff
__Lrenton, April sth, 1780. 3 ms
HOUSE of ASSEMinTrTTL^
A Petition from sundry inhabitants of the town
1 ships of Great-Eggharbour and Galway, in the
county of Gloucester, was presented and read, pray
ing, tor certain reasons therein set forth, that a law
may be passed to enable the owners and possessors of
the meadows and tide-marsh lying on Ablecom creek,
to eredt and maintain a bank, dam, and other water
works, across the said creek, to prevent the tide from
oversowing the said meadows and marsh;
Ordered, That the petitioners have leave to bring
in a bill at the next fitting of the Assembly, on ad
vertising the fame in four of the most publick places
in each of the said townships, and also in the New-
Jersey Gazette at lcaft four weeks previous thereto.
Extract from the minutes,
Maskell Ewing, jun. Clerk.
Agreeable to the above order, notice is hereby giv
en to all concerned, that a bill will be presented by
the petitioners to the Assembly at their next fitting,
for the purpose exprcllcd in their petition above re~'
ferred to.
TO BE S 0 L LT-
A WOOD-LOT of ten acres, well timbered,
lying about a mile and a half from Trenton ;
And also the one half of an undivided lot of seventy
acres woodland, lying in Hopewell, about ten miles
from 1 renton, and less than two from the river De
laware, joining Mr. Joseph Titus's farm. For terms
apply to Stephen Lowrey, in Trenton.
Juii, 4th,__!_7 Bo. 3u,t
r rHE Subferiber begs leaveTo inform the Publick
1 that he carries on the Silversmith Business in
Princeton, and has constant in his employ an expe
rienced hand in the Watch-Making Business, both in
mending and repairing ; where any person may have
their work done with care and dispatch, bv their
humble servant, SAMUEL STOUT.
A few Copies of the
VOTES of ASSEMBLY
Of the Sitting at Mountholly, are to be fold at
the Printing-Office in Trenton ; and
Evans's Map of the Middle States.
JOSEPH INSLE'e;
In Pennington, has for SALE on the lowest terms for
cash or country produce, the following articles, viz.
OUperfine scarlet and buff broadcloths, with trim-
O mings; callicoes, cambricks, lawns, muslins,
gauzes, menonet, catgut, modes, pelong, farfenet,
India Persian, black silk handkerchiefs, crofs-barr'd
ditto, polcat romal ditto, Kenting aprons, fine
Damped linen handkerchiefs, nankeens, men's thread
hose, black laces, ribbons, kidd gloves, silk twist,
threads, metal, mohair and basket buttons, knives
and forks, penknives, feiffars, pins, needles, sewing
silk of various colours, and a variety of other things
too tedious to mention; also rum, sugar, tea, coffee,
pepper, indigo, wool cards, feythes, earthenware.
PUBLIC Notice is hereby given, that three Loan
Office Certificates taken out of the New-Jertey
Loan Office at Bordentown, on March 15th, A. D.
1779; were all accidentally consumed by fire, toge
ther with the late dwelling house of James Drake in
Hopewell, who had them in trull; viz. two of them
given in favour of Francis Blackwell, fen. the one
for 2000 Dollars, No. 3C6, the other 200 Dollars,
Nc. 7271, and the third given in favour of the Rev.
John Blackwell for 600 Dollars, No. 52(1.
JOHN BLACKWELL.
Hfewell, fune sth, 1780. 6 w.