The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1786-01-16 00:00:00, page 1

TO BE LE T,
A COMMODIOUS dwellinghoufe and potworks,
late the estate of James Rhodes, deceased,
in Nottingham township, Burlington county, near
'I renton; to be entered upon immediately. For
terms apply to mr. John Yard, in Trenton, or the
subscriber on the premises.
Catharine Rhodes.
Dec. 30, 1785. 4w*
House of Afembly, Nov. 15, 1785.
A PE VI I'lON from John Schuyler, of New-Barba
-1 = dos Neck, in the county of Bergen, was read,
setting forth, that through losses and misfortunes he is
unable to pay his debts, and praying that, upon his
assigning over and giving up his estate to certain per
sons for the use of his creditors, that his person may
not be confined, and that he may have leave to pre
sent a bill for that purpose;
On the said petition being read a second time,
November 23, 1785,
Ordered, That the petitioner have leave to present
a bill at the next fitting, agreeably to the prayer of
his petition, on advertising the purport of the bill
he means to present, and a copy of this order, in
the news-papers printed in this date, and at least two
of the news-papers printed in New-York.
Extract from the minutes,
MASKELL EWING, jun. Clerk.
Notice is hereby given,
That a bill will be presented to the honourable
the legislature at their next fitting, agreeably to the
leave given in the above order.
JOHN SCHUYLER.
Dec. 30, 1785. 6w
House of Assembly, Nov. 11, 1785.
APETITION from Martha Vanfcuyver, widow
and relid of William Vanfcuyver, late of the
county of Burlington, deceased, setting forth, that the
said deceased made his testament and last will in the
presence of 3 witnesses; but that, through ignorance
of the law, two only signed the fame, and the heir at
law refufes to comply with the intention of the testa
tor, and praying leave to present a bill to establish
and confirm the said will as effectually as if there had
been three subscribing witnesses to the fame;
Ordered, That the petitioner have leave to present
a bill agreeably to the prayer of her petition, on the
second Wednesday of the next fitting, on advertising
the purport of the petition, and a copy of this order,
in at least three of the most publick places in the
township of Willingborough, and county of Burling
ton, as also in the New-Jersey and Pennsylvania Ga
zettes, at least fix weeks previous thereto.
Notice is hereby given,
That a bill will be presented to the honourable the
legislature at their next fitting, agreeably to the leave
given in the above order.
Martha Vanscuyver.
For and on the behalf of William, Sarah, Jacob
and John, children of the said William Vanfcuyver,
deceased, who are under age.
Josiah Matlack,
Mary Matlack,
Martha Vanscuyver.
Dec. 30, 1785. 6w
Shad and Herring Seine TWINES,
SNOWDEN and NORTH
Have for sale at their store on
Spruce-Street wharf.
A QUANTITY of Iliad and herring seine twines,
equal to any ever imported, both for finenefs
and the quality of the hemp, and made to a pattern
suitable to the fisheries up the Delaware; which they
will fell by the hogshead or smaller quantity. They
also have cork, lead and landlines, of their own ma
nufa&ory, which they will insure good.
Philadelphia, Dec. 4, 1785. 6w
NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
rVoi. IX.]
TRENTON:
MONDA Y, January 16, 1786.
Printed by ISAAC COLLIN S, Printer to the State.
PRIMITIVE WHIG. No. 11.
Pleas'd with the ^biftling of a name,
See Cronrael damn'd to everlasting fame.
Pope.
^ ^ HE question about the expediency of ano
ther edition of bills of credit, is of
such importance, that it behoves every
man who has a real concern for the
prosperity of his country, and I may
venture to fay, for the very exifteace of this state,
most seriously to revolve in his mind this momentous
fubjed; and to oblige the publick with his {peculati
ons upon it. The mifehiefs to be apprehended from
so fatal a measure are almost innumerable; and as all
of them are not likely to occur to one man; I wish
that those who have clear ideas of the matter, but
may be diffident of their abilities, to dress them in
such language as they would choofato have them appear
in before the world ; and are at the fame time pleased to
entertain such favourable sentiments of me as to think
that I could give them a finer suit—l wish, I fay,
that such of my fellow-citizens would honour me
with their observations upon this very interesting fub
jed, or on any other conducive to the emolument of
our country, directed to the Primitive Whig, under
cover to Mr. Collins.
But to the point in question. Who are the men
that are in favour of paper money? They are, gene
rally, debtors; and debtors, by their own confefli
on, utterly irretrievable without this iniquitous de
vice. Iniquitous I call it, because, unless they pay
their debts in money greatly depreciated at the time
of payment, it can afford them no relief, flow in the
name of common sense should it? They are indebted.
To pay their debts, theymufttp^t - , money uuoaloan.
For the repayment of this loan, they must mortgage
their lands. And how is this mortgage to be dis
charged? In what better situation for being en
abled to pay A, by running in debt to B? How is
the last debt to be paid? Surely unless they annually
raise out of those lands so much more than they spend,
as will Icffen part of the principal as well as discharge
the interest, and by that means quiet the creditor,
the premises mortgaged must be taken in execution
at last. But that, I can tell them, they never can do,
unless they will be really industrious and frugal; and
oblige their wives and daughters to dress like the
wives and daughters of poor distressed debtors, in
flead of parading in all the foppery and finery of the
most opulent and independent fortunes. It is there
fore their hopes of the depreciation of this money,
that is the whole burden of the song. And thus the
business is eventually to terminate in the fhifting the
creditor instead of paying the debt, or the finally
sham payment of it in depreciated currency, to their
great consolation indeed as to the saving their bodies
from imprisonment, but to the evident expolition of
their fouls to eternal perdition for such bare-faced
knavery. It is, I fay, their expectation that such
depreciation will ensue (and from our experience of
the inviolability of the publick faith of former legis
latures refpe&ing this fame no-money, we have the
greatest reason to believe such depreciation will really
ensue) that these fame debtors are so clamorous for
this charming and necromatic paper that, by the charm
ing and necromatic Hocus Pocus of an aft of assem
bly, can be made legally to difeharge a debt, when in
fad and in honour and in confeience and reality, it
doth not difeharge the tenth part of it. Justice!
whither art thou fled? Honour! Truth! Vir
tue! where have ye taken up your abode? That
any legislature should ever be made the dupes of such
unconscionable, prevaricating,, double-minded, insidi
ous petitioners! That any' legislature should, for
their relief, pass arts necessarily tending to annihilate
all publick faith, and all private credit! Ah! The
passion for ensuring elections per fas & nefas! But
of our present assembly, I hope better things. They
are men of too much sense, of too great honour to
be so duped. They know such kind of petitions to
be evidently founded in felf-intereft. For where is
the man of property, the man out of debt, the in
dustrious man (excepting perhaps a very few indivi
duals, who, for the fake of popularity, or for want
of better knowledge, countenances the scheme) that
THE
does not reprobate this ruinous measure? But it will
be reported, that those who are against an emission of
paper money, being creditors and men of property,
are also felf-intereffed in their opposition to it. Grant
ed. But great is the difference between the felf-in
tereft and honesty of these and that of the debtors
in question. The interest of the creditor coincides
with that of the community. Not so the interest of
the debtor. The former desires no more than his
own. The latter wants to pocket the property of
another. The one, by opposing a further emission of
an intended fraudulent medium, labours to restore
our national credit, , The other, by making it a con
tinual resource for his own convenience, prolongs the
disease and inflames the malady. Surely therefore
the felf-intereft of the one is just and laudable; that
of tire other knavish and infamous. .And will anv le
gislature, so far pervert the solemn and sacred trust
of legislation, as to enable, under the august fan&ion
of law, such debtors to triumph over such creditors?
By what motives must such legislatures be influenced?
I detire to be excused from answering the question.
Voles and proceedings of the tenth genet al
assembly of the state of New- ferfey.
( Continued from our last.)
THE bill, intitlcd, 'an aft to vacate certain
notes given for depreciation of pay to persons
employed in the general hospital, was read a second
time, and ordered to be engrossed.
A petition from the township of Evefham, and
another from the township of Chester, in the county
of Burlington, praying for a law to maintain the
publick roads by hire, were read, and referred to
the committee appointed for that puiDofe.
A letter from sundry inhabitants,' of the township
of Mannington, in the county of Salem, praying that
a law may pass to maintain their publick roads by
tax, and to raise the causeway leading to the town
of Salem above the flow of the tide, was.read, and
committed to meffrs. Sinnickfon, Hall and Sharp, to
make report thereon.
Mr. Biddle, from the committee appointed for that
purpose, reported the draught of a bill, intitled, 6 a
lupplemental aft to an adt for regulating roads and
bridges; which bill was read, and ordered a second
reading.
Mr. Combs, with leave, presented the draught of
a bill, intitled, 6 an id to vest in the heirs of James
Morgan, late of the county of Middlesex, deceased,
a certain trad of salt-meadow, lituate in said county,'
which was read, and ordered a second reading.
The auditor appeared in the house, and reported
the state of sundry accounts, by which it appeared,
that the account of Peter Dumont, late agent for
forfeited estates, in the county of Somerset ; the ac
count of Thomas Fenimore, as agent for sequester
ed estates, in the county of Burlington; the account
of the said Thomas Fenimore, as a commissioner for
repairing the gaol in the county of Burlington; and
the account of the executors of Bodo Otto, esquire,
deceased, late agent for the recruiting service, in the
county of Gloucester, ought to stand balanced; to
which the house agreed.
'1 hat there is a balance due the state from Benja
min Fenimore, late paymaster to the militia in the
county of Burlington, of £.BB 78, specie.
From John Stillwell, as agent for sequestered es
tates, in the county of Monmouth, of £. 106 9 6,
specie.
From Abraham Kitchel, agent for forfeited estates
in the county of Morris, the sum of £.131 95, fy.
cie. And,
From Cornelius Haring, agent for forfeited estates
in the county of Bergen, the sum of £. 143 6 8,
specie.
Rejolved, That the treasurer be diieded to colled
the fame; and,
That there is due from the state to Joseph Ellis,
esquire, late commissary and paymaster to the western
company of artillery, the sum of £. 7 17 7.
To Samuel Hugg, efq. late commissary and pay
master to do. £. 186 15 11.
To Edward Dunlop, late agent for the recruiting
service in Sussex, the sum off. 6; 14 9.
[Numb. 401. j