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able them to relish and improve the Nation to which
they will be advanced. Honoured will that State
be in the annals of history, which Ihall firft aboliih
this violation of the rights of mankir.d, and the
memories of those will be held in grateful and ever
lifting remembrance, who Shrill pass the law to re
store and establish the rights of human nature in
Pennsylvania. We feel ourselves so intereiled on
this point, as to go beyond what may be deemed
the proper line of our duty, and acquaint ybu that
we have reduced this plan to the form of a law,
which, if acceptable, we shall in a few days com
municate to you.
" The suppression of theatrical entertainments,
formerly recommended by Congress, to which we
would add horse-racing, gaming, and other diver
sions, productive of idlentfs and diffipatioroof man
ners, seem to us to claim the notice of the Repre
sentatives of an undepraved and economical peo
ple. —Duelling, that resource of misapplied courage,
and so dangerous to the peace of families and feciety,,
has lately grown so much into practice, that it may
justly claim a thare of your notice and censure." —
The Piece, feed a JERSEY FARMER, is
come to band, and /ball foave a place in our next.
A Lift of letters in the Poll-Office at Trenton.
MISS Nancy Ballard, Brunswick.
C. John Cain,mariner ; Christopher Cobright,
Benjamin Crump, in the army; Charles Cox, Esq.
Jersey.
E. Robert Eaftburn, Brunfivick.
H. Capt. John Henry, Obediah Holmes, Robert
Hoops, Esq. Jersey.
K. Charles M'Knight, Surgeon General, Jersey.
L. John Lyle, Jersey.
M. The Hon. R. Morris, Esq. Benjamin Martin,
Archibald Mercer, 2. Jersey.
N. William Ncilfon, Plucke'min ; Hannah Nichols,
Jersey.
R. John Robertson, Jersey.
SriJ. bn J. Schenk, 2. Jersey.
Tv Major Trent, D. Thompson, Jersey.
Feb. 16,1779. B. SMITH, Post-master.
ft, p"bHJbed, and to be fold at the Printing-Office
in Trenton (Price Five Shillings)
P O E M S
On several Occurrences in the
PRESENT GRAND STRUGGLE
For AMERICAN LIBERTY:
CONTAINING,
1. A contest between the Eagle and the Crane. 2.
A dialogue between Col. Paine and Miss Clorinda
Fairchiid. 3. St. Clair's retreat and Burgoyne's de
feat. 4. The firft chapter of the lamentations of
General Burgoyne. 5. The fall of Burgoyne. 6.
The vanity of trusting in an arm of flelh. 7. The
tragical death of Miss Jane M'Crea. 8. An answer
for the messengers of the nation.
They may also be had of Joseph Inflee, Esq. at
Pennington, Timothv Brush, jun. in Hopewell, John
Abbot, John Ringo and Nathan Hickfon, in Amwell.
Wanted immediately,
A SCHOOL-MASTER, who can be well re
commended for his abilities and moral character.
For particulars enquire of Timothy Brush, jun. in
Hopewell. _ zwf
PUBLICK notice is hereby given to all Perlons
having any claims, intertill, or demands in, or
upon the edates of the following fugitives and offend
ers, (against whom inquisition hath been found and
final Judgment entered thereon in favour of the date )
viz. Jolin Allen, Christopher and John Voght, George
Caftner, Peter Young, James Smith, Chridian Rope,
Conrad Eagler, Michael Dennis, Joseph Lee, Bar
nardus Legrange, Joseph Merril, Edward Taylor,
Bartholomew Thatcher, Andrew Pickins, Nicholas
Pickle, Jefie Wall, Samuel Sharp, Roeloff Roclofsoh,
Daniel Coxe, Abfalom Bainbridge, George Cyphers,
Isaac Allen and Thomas Skelton, to exhibit their re
fpetlive accounts, fairly stated in writing, to the Court
of Common Pleas in the county of Hunterdon, or in
the vacation thereof, to any two or more of the Judges
of said Court, who are empowered and directed by a
late law of the state of New-Jersey to receive and ad
just the fame, within twelve months from the date
hereof: And also all persons who have in their power
and custody any goods or chattels, bonds, bills, deeds
of conveyance, or any writing or effects whatsoever ;
or are in any wife indebted to the said offenders, and
neglect to make difeovery thereof immediately to the
fubferibers, or any or either of them, may depend
upon being dealt with according to law.
Hunterdon County, Jared Sexton, ) r
Feb. 11, 1779. Nathaniel Hunt '°'™°°
Ap l boners.
39 Peter Brunner, )
N. B. Two of the Judges of said court will attend
at the hou'e of John Ringo, in Amwell, cn Thursday
the firft day of April next, for the purpofc of receiv
ing and adjuring the demands of the respective
claimants.
TO BE SO L D;
By WILLIAM RICHARDS,
At Lamberton, half a mile below Trenton :
A Quantity of FLA Xin the fheaf, already well
" rotted. 2wf
'TTIIS is to give notice to Samuel Morrison, to
come for his fait by the 25th instant, or the sub
scriber will be obliged to make sale of it.
Trenton, Feb. 17,1779. ENOCH ANDERSON.
TO BE SOL D,
Or rented for a term of years,
CPEEDWELL saw-mill and lands, formerly known
° by the name of Randle's Mill, lying on the ealt
branch of Wading-River, in Burlington County,
West-New-Jersey, with a good log waggon and four
horfca, about thirty head of horned cattle, chiefly
milch cows and heiffers, a plough, harrow, hocs,
axes, and other farming utensils, &c. &c. There is
on the premises a good new two story house, framed
and covered with cedar, good cellars walled up with
stone, good brick hearths and oven, a good log house
for the lawyer, a large commodious barn and tabling
for sixteen or eighteen hoiks, a good bearing peach
orchard, and a young apple orchard. The mill
goes vith two laws, newly repaired, and the
dam raised the last fall. The mill, pine lands and
cedar swamps, will be fold with or without near two
hundred acres of iron ore, as good as the State
affords, with about seven hundred acres of Wed-
Jersey rights not laid out. The horn cattle and
team as bed suits the purchaser.—ls rented, security
if required—There likewise may be made with very
little cod a great quantity of good meadow.
The above may be entered on as soon as suits the
purchaser. Any person flay view the above described
lands, &c. by applying to John Jacobs, overseer on
the premises, and for further particulars- to the
owner in Philadelphia.
BENJAMIN RANDOLPH.
N. B. The above is fold because the local situation
of the owner renders it impoffiblc for him to attend
it prgpeily. 3 w|l
New-Jersey, February 8, 1779.
TO BE SO L D,
At public vendue, at Tom's-River, on Monday
"the iff March next;
r I™HE sloop 'FANCY, and the fchopner HOPE,
I with their tackle, apparel and furniture, per
inventory.—Also their cargoes, confuting of a quan
tity of pitch, tar and salt.
By order of the Court of Admiralty,
JOS. POTTS, Marshal.
T O BE S OL D,
For Continental Bills of credit, or Loan-Office
Certificates,
A Valuable tract of land, adjoining Birnegat-Bay,
near (Tom's-River, in thy town of Dover, Mon
mouth county,containing about orfe thousand acres,
about two hundred and eighty acres of salt meadow,
thirty acres of cedar swamp (part of which is very
good) about fifty acres of up-iand cleaned, and
fenced with cellar; a new framed dwelling-house
thereon, twenty feet by twenty-fix, with two fire
places on the firft floor, and a done cellar under the
fame, also a kitchen adjoining, of sixteen feet square,
with a brick oven and a well at the door : The re
mainder wood-land. The land is good for rye,
Indian corn, and for railing stock, and as well situ
ated for manufacturing salt as almost any in New-
Jersey. It will be, fold together or be divided as
shall fait the purchaser. For terms apply to Joseph
Saltar, at Tom's-River, or the subscriber on the
premises. JAMES MOTT, jun.
The emissions of May 20, 1777, and April 11,
1778, if good, will be taken in payment. 3*
T O B E S O' dT"
For the emissions of the 20th of May, 1777, and iith
April, 1778, or any other ;
Six Thousand Two Hundred and
Fifty Acres of Land, that is to fay,
ITVE thousand acres laying between Kats and
Katers-kill, on the weft fide of Hudson's-River,
in the county of Albany, and State of New-York,
between 40 and 50 miles below the city of Albany,
fix to ten miles from the landing on the said #iver,
and in the mids tof a full fettled country.—This
trad, besides the great advantage of out-drift for
cattle forever in the mountains adjacent, is exceed
ingly well watered by Kuterj-hill, which affords
several falls of water, on which grist and saw-mills
may be ereded at a small expence; and a# the land
is well timbered with oak and pine, great advan
tages may be made in times of peace, by tranfport
ingthe sawed timber and boards to the city of New-
Yuik, upon much carter terms than from any other
lauding place up the said river.—The other Twelve
Hundred and Fifty acres are also in the county of
Albany, in the patent of Shenondcboiu&b, alias Clifton
Park ; from 12 to 16 miles above the city jf Albany,
4 to 8 miles above the Cohoes, or Great-Falls, 6 to
10 from the townihip of Schenectady, and in the
midst of a delightful, plentiful and full fettled coun
try. —For terms apply to the subscriber at Leverwyck,
near Morris-Town, New-Jersey, or Thomas Hun, Esq.
at AIbany.,ABRAHAM LOTT.
Beverwyck, Feb. 15, 1779. jwf
°T O B E S~ L~ D,
A Corner house in Queen-Street, adjoining Capt.
Tucker, in Trenton, one story and a half high,
three rooms on the lower floor, and two above, a
cellar under the whole, a good kitchen adjoining it.
There is one other room the fame height adjoining
it, which will make a convenient shop for any kind
of business. For terms of sale enquire of the sub
scriber in Trenton. if JOS. HIGBEE.
TO E rO L D,
A Good C OW, with her calf about a week old,
by JOHN WATSON, jun.
Nottingham, Feb. 15th, 1779. iwf
T O BE SO L D,
At public vendue, on Wednesday the twenty-fourth
day of this instant, February,
A LOT of wood-land, well timbered, containing
fifteen acres, lying on the Scotch Road, opposite
Timothy Howell's, three miles from Trenton, late
the property of Hezekiah Howell, deceased. The
vendue to be held at the late dwelling-house of Daniel
Howell, deceased, and to begin at one o'clock in the
afternoon, where attendance will be given by us, and
an indisputable title given.
JOHN HOWELL,),
DANIEL CLARK, J £xec mors.
i) Y virtue of an aft of General A/Tembly of the
) State of New-Jersey, parted the 18th day of
April) one thousand feten hundred and seventy-eight,
intitled, An Aft for taking charge of and leafing the
real e/lates, and for forfeiting the gerfonal flutes of
certain fugitives and offenders, and for enlarging and
continuing the powers of Cammiffioners appointed* to
seize and diftofc of fab perfor.al estates, and for
afrertairing and di/cbarging the lawful debts and
claims thereon. —NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
to all persons who have any claim, interest or de
mand to, in or against the estates of Robert Whita
cor, Richard Meed, Hugh Copeithwart, Thomas
Sitton, Jolin Sutton, James Sutton, Reuben Lang
ley, Abdon Abbit, jun. Thomas Lamb, Israel El
well, Jacob Vanmeter, Moses Atkinfor, William
Perce, Philip Adams, James Dean and Christopher
Raindolcer, to appear with their refpeftive accounts,
vouchees and evidences to make good the fame, on
the firft day of April next, at the house of John
Ramboe, Inn-keeper, in the townflrip of, Pitt's-
Geove, in the county of Salem, at nine o'clock in
the morning of said day, where attendance will be
given by
THOMAS SAYRE, ? Commif
3W± WILLIAM GARRISON, j Boners.
One Hundred Dollars Reward.
RAN-AWAY last Monday night, from the house
of Jesse Williams, in Philadelphia, two negro
men belonging to the subscriber, in Middlesex county,
New-Jerfey'; one named Chels, about 5 feet Binches
high, 22 years of age, very black and weil-fet, and
had on a Bailor's blue jacket and breeches. The
other named Mark, about 5 feet 5 inches high, 24
years old, yellow and chuncky;—he has hair like
an Indian, except that it curls : Had on 2 brown
old coat, striped weftcoat, old leather breeches, with
Itriped drawers under them, and blue dockings. He
usually wore a frock over his other clothes. They
were lately purchased in Upper-Freehold, in Mcn
md'uth county, and it is feared they will attempt
to go off to the enemy. Whoever takes up and
secures said Negroes, so that their matter may have
them again, flrail have the above reward, or Fifty
Dollars for either, and' reasonable charges, paid by
Feb. 12, i-- 9 . # RICHARD BRITTON.
TO BE S OL D,
r r"E FARM whereon the subscriber now lives,
l. situated in'the townihip of Bernard's, county
of Somerset, and State of New-Jersey, lying about
one and a half miles from Balkendridge Meeting
house, about 40 rods from a grid-mill, and half a
mile from a law-mill, containing between 95 and
100 acres of land, whereon is a large dwelling
houfe with four rooms and fire places in each, on
a floor, and an entry through the middle; a never
tailing well of good water, two good gardens veil
fenced, a good barn and stables, with two framed
barracks, an excellent ^tchard containing about 300
apple trees, out of which may be made 100 barrels
of cyder in a year ; a new cyder-mill and press,
with a fufficiency of meadow for the place ,; a good
conveniency tor a dill, where one has been carried
on for three years pad, supplied by a constant dream
running into the tubs. Also another farm lying
about half a mile distant, containing about 150 acres
of land, about 35 acres of which is good English
meadow, 50 apple trees on the place, well watered
and timbered ; the whole in good fence, and will be
fold together or separate, as may suit the purchaser.
For terms apply to JOHN DURHAM, living on the
premises. aw±
TO BE SOL D,
At public vendue, at the house of the widow V.
Voorhees, commonly called the White-Hall, on
the 24th instant,
SUNDRY articles of boufehold furniture, among
which are a small quantity of plate, a consider
able number of books, (the catalogue thereof is too
long for a news-paper) confiding of divinity, law,
history, &c. They are the effeds of the late William
Oake, Esq.—Attendance will be given at o'clock
by his executors,
HENRY GUEST, and
iw§ JOHN LYEL, junior.
N. B. There is also a number of Dutch and French
books. New-Brunfivick, Feb. 13, 1779.
Twenty Dollars Reward.
WAS stolen last night from the subscriber near
Brunswick, Middlesex county, a bay horse,
8 years old, 14 hands high, a natural pacer, thin
in flefh, and marked P. ! ' on the near fide. Who
ever takesup said horse and secures the thief shall
have the above reward, and reasonable charges, paid
by s wt JOHN BENNET.
February ic, 1779.