The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1782-10-16 00:00:00, page 1

STATE of NEW-JERSEY.
A supplemental Act to the Ad, intitled, " An Ad
" to punish traitors and difaffeded persons."
WHEREAS divers persons, fubjeds of
this state, have, in a traitorous man
ner, joined or taken refuge with the
army of the King of Great-Britain,
contrary to the duties of their allegiance as good
fubjeds; and inasmuch as they have neglected to
avail themselves of the several offers of mercy and
tenderness hitherto extended towards them, but
continue, by counsel or otherwise, to aid the said
King in his attempts to reduce this and the United
States of America to abject submission, thereby
forfeiting all claim in future to the ineftimablp
rights of freedom ; therefore,
Be it enaded by the Council and General As
sembly of this state, and it is hereby enaded by
the authority of the fame, that each and every
fubjed of this state, who has, since the fourth day
of Odober, One Thousand Seven Hundred and
Seventy-fix, aided and assisted the enemies thereof,
or of the United States, by joining their armies
within this state or elsewhere, or who hath volun
tarily gone to, taken refuge, or continued with, or
endeavoured to continue with the enemy aforefaid,
and aid them by counsel, or otherwise, who shall,
after the palling of this ad, return to, or be found
within this state, shall be, and is hereby declared
to be guilty of high treason against this state, and
being thereof legally convicted, shall fuffer death
without benefit of clergy, faring the corruption
of blood.
C. Faffed at Trenton, October 3, 1782.
A true copy from the original,
M. EWING, jun. Clerk of the
General Assembly.
STATE of NEW-JERSE Y.
An Ad for the relief of persons who have 10l their
deeds and other in ftruments of writing contain
ing the title of their lands.
WHEREAS many of the inhabitants of this
state have loft, or may hereafter lose their
deeds or other instruments of writing, containing
the title of their lands, by the devaluation of the
enemy, or other unavoidable accident, whereby
much injury may aiife to the said inhabitants, by
reason that the said deeds or instruments of writ
ing have not been duly proved and recorded, and
the means of obtaining new deeds or conveyances
for securing their possessions may be unattainable ;
Sed. I. Be it enaded by the Council and Gene
ral Assembly of this state, and it is hereby enaded
by the authority of the fame, that every person
who has loft, or may hereafter lose his deeds or
other instruments of writing, containing the title
of his lands, by the devaluation of the enemy, or
other unavoidable accident, and shall be desirous of
having the said lands assured to him in manner
herein after directed in this ad, flhall make out, or
cause to be made out, an exad survey of the lands
or premises, the title-deeds or conveyances for
which may have been loft as aforefaid, containing
the courses, distances and boundaries thereof, or
an attested copy of the original survey and boun
daries, extraded out of the publick records, and
shall produce the fame to the supreme court of this
state, having previously advertised the purport of
his application for at lead three months in one of
the publick news papers of this state, and also for
the fame time in at least three of the most publick
places in the county, where the lands or premises,
the title or conveyance of which may have been loft
as aforefaid, are situated; and shall, by evidence,
prove to the fatisfadion of the court, or in case of
the death of the witnesses, or their having joined
the enemy, and that no other evidence can be pro
cured, on oath or affirmation before the said court
declare, that he or his ancestors were pofTeffed of
a legal conveyance thereof duly executed, and that
the fame was loft or destroyed by the enemy, or
by other unavoidable accident, together with the
NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
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WEDNESDAY, October 16, 1782.
virtue of this aft, in proportion to the fees allowed
for services of a similar nature by the aft, intitled,
"An AC tfor the better enabling the judges and
justices of this colony to afeertain and tax bills of
cost, and for making provision by law for the pay
ment of the services of the several officers of the
colony, and for preventing the said officers fiom
taking exorbitant fees," passed the eighteenth day
of February, One Thousand Seven Hundred and
Forty-leven-eight.
A. Passed at Trenton, October 3, 1782.
A true copy from the original,
M. EWING, jun. Clerk of the
General Assembly.
FRANC IS WIT T,
A T the sign of the Blazing Star, in Trenton,
1 begs leave to acquaint the publick in general,
that he keeps an inn for the entertainment of mar
and horse; and as he has laid in hay and liquor:
of the firftquality, hopes to give fatisfaflion to thofi
that will please to favour him with their custom.
June 18, 1782. 3m
2. And be it further enacted, that the said court
shall thereupon cause proclamation to be made in
open court for two tel ms successively, of the pur
port of the application so made as aforefaid, that if
any person or persons have any objection, or can
shew any cause why the said survey and testimony,
produced as aforefaid, should not be recorded, or
why the request of the said applicant ihouid not be
granted, such person or persons may appear and sup
port the fame, at least within the third term after
application has been made as aforefaid.
3. And be it further enacted by the authority
aforefaid, that the said court shall, and they are
hereby authorized and required, if no fufficient ob
jection appear, and if the survey so produced, and
the evidence and testimony so given shall, in the
judgment of the said court, be fufficient to entitle
the applicant to the relief intended to be given by
this act, to give judgment accordingly, and there
upon to order the said survey and testimony to be
tiled, and entered in the minutes of the said court,
a copy of which minutes, signed by the clerk of
the said court, and under the leal of the fame, shall
be good and available in law to assure the lands and
premises so surveyed and entered, and to vett the
fame in the said applicant as fully, amply and ef
fectually, to all intents and purposes whatfoevet, as
he was or would have been veiled with the fame,
in virtue of any conveyance loft or destroyed in
manner aforefaid, which said minutes may, at any
time after the fame is obtained by the applicant, be
entered on the publick records of this state.
4 And be it further enacted by the authority
aforefaid, that the chief justice, or either of the
justices of the supreme court, shall be, and hereby
is authorized and required, on application to him
made for that purpose, to issue a writ of fubpeena,
to compel the attendance of witnesses to prove the
fads let forth by any person applying for the re
lief intended by this aft, in like manner as in other
cases in .he usual course of law.
5. And be it further enacted, that the several
officers shall be allowed, for their services done in
time and manner of the loss or deftrudion of the
fame, and that the evidences or witnesses to the
said deeds or conveyances are dead, or have joined
the enemy, or cannot be procured to the belt of
his knowledge and belief; and shall also prove, by
the testimony of one or more credible witnesses,
that he the said applicant had peaceable possession
of the said lands and premises, previous to the time
when the deeds or conveyances for the fame are al
ledged to have been loft or destroyed. Provided
always, that if through the obstinacy of any person
claiming or possessing lands adjoining to the pre
mises of the person claiming the benefit of this ad,
it shall be found impracticable to obtain an axa&
survey containing the courses, boundaries and dif
tanccs to be presented to the court as aforefaid, it
shall be fufficient to produce the exact boundaries
only, attested by proper evidence, or authenticated
on the oath or affirmation of the applicant.
THE
CHINTZES,
Calicoes,
Broad-cloths,
Nankeens,
Linens of all forts,
Black and white gauzes,
Book, Jaconet and Man
chester Muslins,
Lawns and Cambricks,
A neat assortment of
ribbons,
Silk and check handker
chiefs.
Modes, fattin and pink
peeling,
Persians of different co
lours,
THE subscribers having at length obtained a
road laid out by authority, from the Bristol
road to the new Trenton ferry the shortest way,
a pleasant sandy dry road at all fealons of the year,
once more inform the Publick in general they keep
good Boats.
Whoever pleases to favour them with their cus
tom, please to turn to the left at the cross roads
near Patrick Colvin's ferry to Col. Bird's mill,lixty
rods above Colvin's ferry, thence near half a mile
up the river to the ferry above the falls and almost
opposite to Trenton, where constant attendance is
given by their humble servants,
IY. JOHN BURROWS,
GEORGE BEATY.
Rates as follows, viz. f. d.
Carriage and 4 Horses - - 5 0
Ditto 2 ditto - - 39
Chair and Horse - - - 1 6
Man and Horse - - - 0 8
Foot person - - - 0 4
ROBERT SINGE R,
Begs leave to infoim the publick, that he has for
file (for cash or country produce) at his dole in
Trenton:
With sundry other articles too tedious to men
tion. 3m,
GOODS or C AS H,
is given at the Printing-Office, so
good merchantable W H E A T.
ELIZABETH-TOWN
Stage-Coach and Waggon.
THE proprietors beg leave to inform the pub
lick, that their stage-coach will set out from
the Indian Queen, in fourth-ftreet, Philadelphia, pre
cisely at five o'clock, every Wednesday; breakfaft
at Bristol, dine at Trenton, and lodge at Prince
ton, and return the next day to Philadelphia, after
exchanging passengers with the stage coach front
Elizabeth-Town, which teturns the fime days:
there is a convenient stage to convey the paflbgers
from Elizabeth-Town to Dobbs ferry. The price
for each passenger in the coach, from Philadelphia
to Princeton, Three Dollars, or Six Dollars to
Elizabeth- Fown, and in tire fame proportion for
any distance; a servant Four Dollars and Two-
Thirds, and the fame for 150 weight of baggage.
The stage waggon leaves the above-mentioned
Indian-Queen every Monday and Friday, at five in
the morning, and performs the journey as before
diredied for the coach: the price for each patl'enger
in the waggon is One Guinea from Philadelphia to
Elizabeth-Town, and the fame for 150 weight of
baggage: all passengers are desired to provide
themselves with proper passes, previous to their
setting out, and call the day before at the Hage
office, opposite the said Indian Queen, and fettle
their fare with the clerk appointed for that purpose,
where due attendance will be given by him.
Gershom Johnson,
c. t f. Charles Bessonet.
Mantuas, and white far
fenet,
Ruflia Meeting,
Ozenbrigs and Check,
Jeane and Caffimer,
Snuff and tobacco, by
the quantity,
Tea and coffee,
White and brown sugar,
Stone and earthen ware,
Window-glass of dif
ferent sizes,
Sattinets of different co
lours,
Men and women's thim
bles;
Awl-blades and tacks,
1 emple-fpeaacles,
[Numb. 251.]