The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1779-08-11 00:00:00, page 1

BY virtue of an Aft of the General Assembly
of the state of New-Jersey, parted the last
session, at Trenton, intitled, " An Aft for
vetting the real estate of William Alexander,
Earl of Stirling, within this Rate, in trustees, to dis
charge, by the sale thereof, or of so much as may
fuffice, the debts and incumbrances affecting the
fame, and to convey to him the remainder, if any
there be," will be fold at publick vendue, at the
under-mentioned times and places, sundry tracts of
land, cultivated farms, houses, &c. being part of the
rest ^ate of the laid Earl of Stirling, in the said Rate
of New-Jersey, as follows :
At Joto Wykoff's tavern, at Potters-Town, on
Monday the zoth of September next, at ten o'clock
in the forenoon, the vendue to be continued from day
to day until the premises are fold, five very fine well
improved firms near Potters-Town, in the county
of Hunterdon, viz.
No. i. In the pcßeinon of Archi-) acres, hundredths.
bald Aurifon, containing ) 183 7
No. z. Ditto of Jacob Tyger, 179 7
No. 3. Ditto of Joseph Everett, 420 45
No. 4. Ditto of Benjamin Cooper, 423 30
No. 5. Ditto of Christopher Teets, 223 47
Aifo one half of 55 acres, including the town spot of
Potters-Town.
On Monday the 27th of September, at the house of
William Davifon in Pitts-Town, and by adjournment
from day to day unto such places near the premises
as ffiall be moll convenient, twenty-one farms under
very good impi ovements, in the townships of Leba
non, Tewkfbury, Bethlehem and Alexandria, viz.
In the poffeflion of Joseph Blain, 145 acres 7 tenths;
of Batruin Beam., 245 acres ; of John M'Kenfbry, 193
acres; of Charles Gordon, 106 acres; in Tewidbury
townlhip.
In the possession of John Swackhammer, 448 acres;
of Casper Lunebun y, 236 acres; of Matthias Tuf
ford, 238 acres ; in the township of Lebanon.
In the possession of William Fleming, 192 acres ; of
Joseph Ofmun, 142 acres; in Bethlehem.
In the polfe ffion of Frederick Jordon, 51 acres 8
tenths; of Peter Haughabout, 4 acres 4 tenths; of
Philip Palmer, 240 acres 4 tenths; of John Brink,
170 acres 5 tenths; of William Craig, 168 acres 4
tenths; of Ebgor, 145 acres; of Benjamin
Jones, jun. 192 acres 3 tenths; of Daniel Brink, 219
acres 4 tenths ; of Jacob Ackman, 273 acres ; of Isaac
Oakes, 286 acres; 111 Alexandria.
In the possession of Daniel Simes, 261 acres ; John
Martin, half of a wood-lot, 68 acres 5 tenths, in
Bethlehem.
On Monday' the ii|fftof October next, at Brew
ster's tavern at BalkemElge, all that fine farm and
maufion-houfe at Baikenridge, the residence of the
fed Earl of Stirling, with ail the elegant buildings,
gardens, &c. containing about loco acres, of which
about 300 is cleared upland, 300 acres of meadow
fit for the feythe, and the remainder timber iwamp
capable of making the molt excellent meadow. On this
farm there are about 1500 fine bearing apple-trees of
the belt kind, besides several hundreds of pears,
peaches, plumbs and cherries in the greatest variety.
On Wednesday the 13th of October, at Arnold's
tavern in Morris-Town, from day to day, and to
such places by adjournment as fhal be found most
convenient, twelve lots of 98 acres each, adjoining
each other, situate in the Great Swamp, in Morris
county, in the front of the above mansions, bounded
northerly by the north line of the said swamp, each
lot being fourteen chains broad and seventy chains
long. They are about four miles southerly from
Morris-Town, in one of the best fettled parts of New-
Jersey. Each lot has several acres of cleared plow
land and meadow ; the greater part of them are ca
pable of being made raoft excellent meadow, with
rich chefnut ridges CTerfe-ting them. These lands
will be thewn by Jonathan Stilep life, and Capt. John
Lindly, who live contiguous to thciQ.
Aifo twelve other lots adjoining, whose sale will
succeed the above ; containing 86 acres each, on the
south fide of the said swamp, adjoining the north fide
of Long-Hill, about seven miles southerly from Mor
ris-Tivn 2nd two or three miles from Baikenridge:
The foil is excellent for meadow, and feme ridges
of plow-laud. Major Cornelius Ludlow, of Long-
Hill, will shew these lands. Each lot is ten chains
broad and eighty-fix chains long.
Aifo eight lots of fifty to fixty-tive acres each, whose
sale will succeed the preceding, on the north-east part
of the laid swamp, on each fide cf the forge-lot, on
Pine-Brook. These lots are each cf them ten chains
broad, and from fifty to fixty-five chains long; they
have feme valuable improved upland and meadows;
the whole molt excellent foil, well watered, and the
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greatest part capable of being made meft excellent
meadow. They are lituate about four miles fctah
ealteriy from Morris-Town.
One lot of about 130 acres, adjoining the above
eight lots, and will be fold next In succession. If in
cludes a good ftrearn, Pine-Brook, with a very fine
mill-dam, the remains of a bioomary forge and law
mill, feme good buildings, and improved meadows
and plow-lands. These lands will aifo be shewn by
Cornelius Ludlow or Jonathan Stiles, Esq.
On Monday theist day of November next, at the
house commonly called Stell's tavern, near the Vir
ginia encampment, at or near Middlebrook, a tract
of about xocc acres, on the weft branch of Middle
brook, in the vale between the firft and fccond moun
tain, leafed in fix farms, the Icafes expired, very good
interval lands, and inoft excellent timber-land, con
tiguous to the farms on Rafatan river.
On WvUneiday the 3d dty w November next,
at Pltipis's tavern, in Piuckl.Yn, atraA ofr.^ acres
adjoining or near the artihrf^ Ph^Ll^n.
This is chiefly tipaber-land, with some fraali im
provements.
On Monday the 15th cf November next, at Hack
ct's-Town, in Sussex county, about 2560 acres of
land, in several farms of good improved upland and
meadow, the remainder excellent timber-land and
line swamps, in the laid county of Sussex, bounded
partly by the Mulkonetcung river, and bordering on
Hackets-Town. The leases are all expired. A pro
per person will be appointed at Ilacfets-Town to
ihew these lands. The road from Morris to Earton
on Delaware, and the great road from Trenton to
Sussex courthouse, passes through this trad.
On Wednesday the firft day cf December next, at
the tavern at Crefwicks, two tracts cf land near
Croffwicks, adjoining Piumfread's and Wibocks's
land, containing about 326 acres.
N. B. Continental money or loan-office certificates
will be received in payment, and conveyances exe
cuted agreeable to the inhruaions of the above act, by
July 20, RICHARD STEVENS, ) T o
1779. JOHN MEHELM, ) traces.
B, the Greyhound fbi, of uar arrived at Neu-York,
from Lugland, we have the following advices ex
traded from the Neu-York papers.
LONDO N, May 5.
MUCH has been said about the Spanilh negociati
en, and of the long lift of hard terms that were
proposed to oui ministry by the Marquis d'Alvoda
var, and among the rest, that of ceding Gibraltar to
Spain; but in contradiction to this we are alfurtd,
that the only proportion was limply the following :
" That a certation of arms fnould take place between
the forces of Grcat-Britain, France and America, in
order to enter into a treaty of general peace ; and
that during that certation, America should be deem
ed an Independent State." The answer was Imme
diate and laconic : " The rainifeers of his Britannick
Majesty would willingly enter mto the piopofeu treaty
on confident grounds ; but the honour and intercft
of the British empiie demand the dependence and al
legiance of all its colonies, which cannot therefore be
dilpenfed with."
Ma, 18. The Empress of Russia has offered the
King of Grcat-Britain the assistance of 20 fail of the
line and fix frigates for three years, and 20,000 troops
for the American war upon very low terms, ii Eng
land will cede Minorca to Ruilia. It is said the otter
has been accepted, and that the treaty will be put in
immediate execution.
House of Commons, May 26. In a committee of sup
ply Lord North moved for the sum of 60,0001. for the
use of the loyal American refugees. He had takencare,
he said, to grant penlions to the fufferers under the
above description, with as sparing a hand as he could ;
the grant just now moved for, however, increased
30001. iince last year; but at present it was likely to
diminish. Such Americans as had fled from Georgia,
and were Supported here by the national generality,
had returned home, and consequently the claims in
future would not be so great.
The house having tranfaded the private business of
the day, refolvcd itfclf into a committee to prosecute
the American inquiry. The Earl of Balcarras, com
mander cf the British light infantry under the late
Brigadier-General Frazer, was called in, and being
a Peer of Scotland, and consequently of Grcat-Britain,
he was indulged with an arm-chair within the bar,
on which he fat covered, except when giving answers,
which he deliver; d standing and uncovered.
The points that General Burgoyne, who opened
the examination, wiflied moll to establish by Lord
Balcarras's evidence were, that he had not with his
army-more artillery than war deemed necessary by
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his ftaff officers ; that he had not crossed the Hudson's
liver contrary 10 the opinion of his officers; that the
icbcl army was brave, numerous and disciplined;
and that be hid not surrendered while there was even
a Shadow of a pollibility of recreating or advancing.
I he great use ol_the.artillery in defeating the rebels
in several actions, was established by Lord Balcarras's
&w.n opinion ; and his Lordfhlp adduced that of Gen.
Frazer to lupport him. The artillery attending that
officer's brigade had been granted at the particular
request of that gallant Brigadier, whom the Com
mender in Chief consulted on molt occasions ; and as
a presumption that General Frazer had approved the
ciohing of Hudion's river, it was proved by Lord
Batcarras that the Brigadier was cf a warm, com
municauye temper, (except in matters of confe
quer.ee, in which he was very reserved) and apt to
speak his mind freely when he disapproved any mea
iure; and y^, notwithstanding this species of tem
per, his i„..dihip had never heard him express the
Raft airapprobation of the crossing Hudson's river,
which it was to be presumed lie would have done if
he had^ ready disapproved of if ; on the contrary, he
expretied a great deal of concern when obliged, in'
consequence of orders from General Burgoyne, to re
treat over that river, after having crossed it with his
brigade, before the main army had been able to cross
it to sustain him. At that' particular juncture the
, em y s artillery commanded the ford; and the
-1 ' ra '° "™ then of such use in silencing the re
bel battery, that it would have been impossible to
have forded the river, if the army had not been pro
vided with a large train of heavy cannon.
The number of the rebel army, his L 9 r<ilhi, fo}.
poled to be about 13 or 14000, cxchifive. of fever?
,° rp 4 p °,e d ° n , the b ^s of the river. Their bravery
he eftablilhed by averting, that they had diluted
the held with obfttnatc courage; their discipline he
formed a judgment of from feeing them march be
>rc the rtriron lipes with well dressed ranks in great
hlcnce, and leemingly paying great attention to their
officers; all which his Lordltjip deemed essential
points of discipline. The extremity to which the ar
my was reduced previous to any negociation being
opened, might be determined from this circumstance,
that there was not a spot in the whole camp in which
the council of war could fit without being exposed to
the enemy's fire; and once an eighteen pound (hot
eroded the table while the council was deliberating.
Tlie army was perfectly fatisfied with their Gene
ral's conduct in every action, and in every instance,
both before and after capitulation. Lord Balcarras
laid, that when Col Kingston returned from General
Gates with this propofol—that the British troops
should lay down their arms in their trenches, and
march out prisoners of war, General Burgoyne re
jected the propolal with disdain, laying he would not
put his name to so difhonourable a treat, —that hav
ing afterwards penned the articles that were signed,
the council cf war had unanimouji, assented to them;
that after terms had been agreed on between both
armies, and before the treaty was signed, General
Burgoyne had communicated to the council some in
telligence lie had received in the night from a spy,
and asked if he could suspend the treaty, and trust:
to events, without a breach of publick faith ; and
that the council bad been of opinion that tue pub
lick faith would be violated by such a proceeding.
The army wa o perfectly fatisfied at their General's
return to Europe, to plead his own and their cause to
their fovercign, and having shewn himfelf the friend
of his army upon all occasions, and having always
behaved as he should have done, they would be al
ways glad to receive him again, if he should return
to them.—Adjourned.
Neu-York, July 22. Yesterday arrived his Majes
ty's frigate Greyhound, which failed from England
the 4th ult. ten days after the departure of the fleet
destined for America, consisting of eleven fail of the
line and three hundred tranfpor's, with 7000 troops
on board ; 5000 of them are said to be bound fcr
this port, and the remainder for Carolina.
The Right Honourable General Earl Cornwallis,
the Honourable Colonel Stewart and Colonel Paterson
came out in the Greyhound. The arrival of those
refpetlable officers, so highly erteemed by the army,
and loyalists, diffufes universal joy.
Madrid, April 2C. Our grand fleet is fiill in the
port of Cadiz, and although the preparations do not
in the least slacken, the dettination of this fleet is not
known, nor have they failing orders yet; but the
continual run of couriers between this Court and
France, makes it imagined that some important ne
gociation is upon the carpet.
Paris, Ma, 7. The Marquis de la Fayette is going
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