The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1786-05-29 00:00:00, page 4

American Blistered Steel,
Warranted equal in quality to the best steel imported
from Europe, and to be fold by
John Nancarrow and White Matlack,
Under the FIRM of
NANCARROW and MATLACK,
AT the stores of John Helling's on Stamper's
wharf, and in Second-street, between Race and
Vinc-ftreets; at Greenfield and Humphreys' store on
Chefnut-ftreet wharf, at Baker, Potts and Co's, store
in Third-street, at Michael Gunckle's store, the north
east corner of Race-street, at Casper Singer and Sons
in Market-street, and at Benjamin Davis's store in
Arch-street, between Front and Second-streets ; and
also by molt of the merchants in Trenton.
The great encouragement given the said John Nan
.carrow, by the rapid sale of the steel he has made,/
'previous to and during the late war, has induced the
said Nancarrow and Matlack to afare the publick,
that as they intend to carry on the steel manufactory
in an extensive and spirited manner, they are deter
mined to spare no pains to render their steel worthy
the character given it.
Trenton, Jan. 3, 1786. t. f.
Three Pounds Reward.
STOLEN out of the stable of the subscriber, on the
night of the tenth instant, a sorrel mare, near fif
teen hands high, nine years old, trots and canters,
grey mane, has loft her near eye, and has a rupture
on one fide scarcely perceivable. Whoever secures said
mare, and returns her to the owner, shall be intitled
to the above reward if taken above forty miles from
home, if within that diflance, one guinea, and all
reasonable charges, paid by ISRAEL CLARKE.
Stony-Brook, April 12, £786. 4w* t. f.
Four Dollars Reward.
STRAYED from the subscriber, in Lower-Freehold,
Monmouth county, in May 1785, an iron grey
mare, riling three years old, about fourteen hands
high, natural trotter, and not docked nor broken.
Whoever takes up laid mare, and returns her to' the sub
scriber, fliall have the above reward, and all reasona
ble charges, paid by JOHN COVENHOVEN.
May 12, 1786. jw*
THE partnerfnip of COLLINS and EWING be
ing dissolved, their remaining flock in trade, con
fining of a very general assortment of goods, suitable
for the season, will be fold in quantities, or the whole
together, on very reasonable terms.
Cash, country produce, or Thompson's notes, will
be received in payment.
TO BE SO L I),
A valuable Tract of LAND,
CONTAINING 300 acres, situate within three miles
of Trenton, in the county of Burlington, and
township of Nottingham, and within 2 miles of Lam
berton, where it is expected the federal town will be
ereCted. Ou said tract there is clay and wood fuffici
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
payment.. For further particulars enquire of Robert
Pearson, in Nottingham, Joseph Milnor or the sub
scriber in Trenton. JOSEPH HIGBEE.
N. B. The meadow-land is a deep rich foil, and not
fubjeCt to be flooded.
May 28, 1785. ts
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Fifty Dollars Reward.
STOT,EN out of the stables lof the fubferibers, on
the night of the 14th ult. in Amwell township,
Hunterdon county, date of New-Jersey, a sorrel horse,
about seven years old, fourteen hands and one inch
high, his near eye out, has a Rar and snip, his tail
not docked, trots and canters; also a chefnut
sorrel mare, about eight years old, fourteen hands and
three inches high, her hind feet white near to the
hams, bald faced, not docked, natural trotter; also
stolen out of the stable of Abraham Funk, in Spring
field township, Bucks county, state of Pennsylvania,
a dark brown horse, five years old, fourteen hands
three inches high, with a small star and snip, and
a fear on his near hind foot between the pasture joint
and hoof, naturally trots and canters. Whoever ap
prehends said thief or thieves, so that he or they may be
brought to justice, and the owners get their horses again,
shall have the above reward, or three pounds for either
of the horses, and reasonable charges.
JEDIAH HIGGINS,
SAMUEL HILLS,
ABRAHAM FUNK.
May 19, 1786. gw*
7 " 7 ° ' Panted by ,A, c COLLINS. Subferiptions for this Gazette are taken in by the Printer hereof <
tifements of a moderate Length inferred at 3/9 each the firft Week, and for every Continuant an d h )na A it " Sellings per fr utt , ?%,.
d„ of Intelligence arc thankfully received-rind all Manner of printing Work performed with Ca're, fidelity XEQ^" ' ' wh ° m Eff ‘ y '" d Arti
TO BE SO L D,
By Publick Vendue,
AT the house of the subscriber, in Greenwich
township, county of Sussex, state of New-Jersey,
on Saturday the 17th day of June next, a valuable
plantation, containing 320 acres of excellent wheat
land, about 200 acres of said plantation are cleared, and
under good fence, the remainder excellent timber land.
There is an excellent pump of good water at the door,
wjth a small log dwellinghoufe, barn and stable, and a
young orchard of about 100 apple-trees on said place,
it lies within one mile of Delaware river, by which
they may export their produce to Trenton or Phila
delphia at a very small expence. The vendue to be
gin precisely at ten o'clock of said day, when due at
tendance with conditions of sale and an indisputable
title will be given, by JOHN CALHOON.
April 7, 1786. row*
soldiers Wanted.
THEY will be furnifhed with every necessary article
of clothing, arms and accoutrements. Thirty
shillings per month and two dollars advance; apply
as follows, at New-Brunswick to captain John Mer
cer, at Morris-Town to Mahlon Ford, lieutenant,
and at Sussex to Francis Lufe, ensign. Sober prudent
young men, who have no farms of their own, will, by
entering into the service, have the belt opportunity of.
feeing the interior parts of the country, and choosing
farms where it will best suit them, and their pay will,
be fufficient to purchase as good a farm as any in New-
Jersey. t. f.
Sixty Dollars Reward.
I)ROKE out of Trenton gaol last night, John Filher
) and John Anderson, the persons who were lately
committed for offering to fell sundry counterfeit certi
ficates. John Filher is a likely smooth faced man,
about 28 years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, long hair,
which, on the top of his head, combs back and ties;
he is dressed in a light blue coat, black jacket, and
royal rib breeches. John Anderson is a likely looking
man, about 23 years of age, 6 feet high, long dark
hair, brown coat, striped 61k drag jacket, and royal
rib breeches. Also a mulatto man named Charles, be
longing to John Anderson, efq. late fheriff of Hun
terdon county, about 6 feet high, and well sett had
on, a bearskin coat and jacket, leather breeches and
blue dockings. Whoever takes up said runaways, and
delivers them to the subscriber, shall have the above re
ward, or twenty dollars for either, and reasonable
charges, paid by DAVID RIGHTER, Gaoler.
Trenton, March 30, 1786. * t. f.
GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
UNDER the direction of the Rev. Andrew Hunter,
is now opened at Woodbury, nine miles from
the city of Philadelphia, where the Greek, Latin and
Englilh languages are taught with great attention to
quantity and pronunciation ; also several other ufeful
branches of science.
An examination of the scholars will be holden every
three months, when gentlemen who choose to attend
may judge of their improvement, and the method of
teaching. Convenient accommodations may be had in
the town, in families where regularity and good mo
rals prevail.
May 1, 1786. 3 m
Notice is hereby given,
New-Jersey, ) TO all the creditors of John
Middielex county, J 1 Jonson, an insolvent debtor,
confined in the gaol of said county for debt, that they be
and appear before two of the judges of the inferior court
of common-pleas for said county, on Thursday the iith
day of May next, at two o'clock in the afternoon, at
the house of major Thomas Egbert, in the city of
New-Brunswick, then and there to shew cause, if any
they have, why an -alignment of the said debtor's
estate should not be made for the benefit of all his cre
ditors, and laid prisoner be thereupon difeharged from
his confinement, pursuant to an att of the Icgillature
of this state, intitled, ' an act for the relief of insol
vent debtors. JOHN JONSON.
April 13, 1786. 4w*
Publick notice is hereby given,
THAT the subscriber intends to make application
to the supreme court of the state of New-Jersey,
in the term of September next, to be then held at Tren
ton, to lupply the loss of the deeds for a trad or tracts
of one hundred and three acres of land and swamp, or
thereabouts, in the township of Woolwich, in Glou
cester county, one hundred acres of which were sur
veyed for Samuel Shevers, of Gloucester county, de
ceased, on or about the 24th February 1737-8, and are
bounded, and luppofed to be bounding, on lands of
Hendrickson-John Ladd, Isaac Helm, and others, and
which lame one hundred acres were conveyed unto
William Watson, the father of the subscriber, in fee
by the fame Shevers, and now belongs to
WILLIAM WATSON,
of W oolwich, Gloucester county.
May 15, 7786. 3 m*
A quantity of excellent
WRITING-PAPER,
To be fold, wholesale and retail, by the Printer.
Notice is hereby given,
TO the creditors of John Reynolds and John Eaton,
insolvent debtors, now confined in the common
gaol of the county of Monmouth, to appear before
two of the judges of the inferior court of common
pleas for said county, at the house of mr. John Long
street, innkeeper, at Freehold, on Saturday the tenth
day of June next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of
the fame day, and shew cause, if any they have, why
an alignment of the said John Reynolds's and John
Eaton's estates should not be made, and they difeharg
ed agreeably to an aft of the legislature of NewJerfey, :
in such case made and provided.
JOHN REYNOLDS,
JOHN EATON.
Monmouth gaol, April 27, 1786. gw*
ALL persons indebted to the estate of Michael
Johnston, deceased, by purchase at vendue, bonds,
bills, notes or book debts,, or any other way, are re
queued to difeharge the lame, on the twenty-fifth
and twenty-sixth of this instant, at the house of the
widow Taylor, called the Burnt Tavern, where atten
dance will be given by the subscriber. And all
thole that will not comply, may depend on having the
lame put in suit; and all those that have any demands
againftfaid estate, to bring in their accounts properly
attested to be fettled.
PETER JOHNSTON, Admrs.
Freehold, May 5, 1786. 4 w*
By the United States in Con
gress assembled,
NOVEMBER 2, 1785.
ON a report of the board of treasury,
to whom was referred a letter of the
24th Odober, from J. Pierce, commissi
oner of army accounts :
Resolved, That all persons having
claims for services performed in the mili
tary department, be directed to exhibit
the fame for liquidation, to the commissi
oner of army accounts, on or before the
firlt day of Ayguft ensuing the date here
of ; and that all claims under the descripti
on above-mentioned, which may be exhi
bited after that period, shall forever there 4
after be precluded from adjustment or al
lowance; and that the commissioner of
army accounts, give publick notice of
this resolve, in all the Rates, for the space
of fix months.
6m CHA. THOMSON, Sec'ry.
A number of Jocelin's
SINGING-BOOKS
To be had at the Printing-Office in Trenton.
PURSUANT to the directi
ons contained in the ad, intitled, 6 An ad to
call in all contractors and surplus certificates, to issue
state notes to the holders, and to procure a more ac
curate estimate of the state debt :'
Notice is hereby given,
That the subscriber will open an office for the li
quidation and settlement of such of the above describ
ed certificates as shall be presented to him for that
purpose, at Daniel Halsey's, in Morristown, on the third
day of May next, and continue ten days; at major
Egbert s, in Brunswick, on the fifteenth, and conti
nue two weeks; at John Anderson's, in Rahway, the
twenty ninth; and at William Scuddar's, in Weft-
Field, the fifth of June, and continue one week at
each place; at Samuel Mun's, Newark Mountains, the
twelfth of June, and continue two weeks* at Adam
Boyd's, in Hackinfack, the twenty-sixth of June- at
Garret Hopper's, in Paramus, the third of July at
„ A T c in Pompton, the tenth; at Phineas
Randolph s, in Suckafunna, the seventeenth; at Hoag
land's, in Sussex, the twenty-fourth ; at Willis's '
Sussex Courthouse, the thirty-firft ; at the widow Swa
7^°^ , the ^^ ° f ^ uft ; at David
M 1 herfon s in Quaker- Town, the fourteenth ; at Tho
mas Bulman's, in Pennington, the twenty-firft; at
* ,S kill ?a,'s, in Somerset, the twenty-eighth -
at Samuel Annin's, the fourth of September, and con-'
tinue in each of these places one week ; and at Danie
Halsey s, in Morristown, the eleventh of September
and continue until the firft day of October, at whicl'
time his office will be closed. At the above times an<
places he will fettle and adjust all such certificates a
ihall be presented to him, which have been ^ v en b
the fuperintendant of purchases, contractors, collectors'
agents, and commissioners, for the payment of whicl
the state is accountable. All persons holding fuel
certificates are therefore requested to take particula
notice of the above times and places, as the 1 wli
mits the time for transacting this business to
firft of October aforefaid, and all those wi^ b
finally excluded which are not brought in before th
'"nr' u SILAS CONDICT, Commissioner
March 15, 1786. t. £