The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1785-04-11 00:00:00, page 3

" I condole with you on the loss of our friend T.
Sawyer, which, probably, you have an account of
before this, On the 25th of Dec. in lat. 36, long.
50 and 70, when there started a butt about 10 o'clock
in the morning, and by one she funk to the furface
of the water; to complete their misery, there came
by a flhip (the Irish Volunteer, Captain Ferguson, from
Portsmouth, Virginia, bound to Ireland) which at firft
offered them relief, and bid them fall under her quar
ter, which they did, but unfortunately the wreck
struck the thip rather hard, which offended the Capt.
and caused him to stamp and swear, and ordered them
to fill away the topsails, and let them all go to heli
together, and bore away and left them. The seas
broke over them so rapidly that the men dropped off
one after another until they all periled, except Mala
chi Norris, who was very humanely taken off by a
schooner bound to Norfolk, Virginia, who was alone
left to bring the unhappy news—he fays our friend
was the last who dropped off; and could he have sur
vived one quarter of an hour longer, he would have
been saved as well as himfelf."
R : April 2; The snow Sopha Magdalena, Peter Lof
wenburg, Master, which arrived at New-York the
24th of February from Lisbon, fell in, off the island
of Madeira, with three Algerine corsairs. Notwith
standing Captain Lofwenburg had a Mediterranean
pass, yet he crouded all his fails, and, night coming
on, escaped being detained and plundered by thole
piratical infidels.
By the Shelburne papers it appears, that the loyal
ills are in great distress for provisions, insomuch that
if speedy relief be not obtained, some violent commo
tion must undoubtedly ensue.
vanna, in December last, charged with defpatches
from the Governor of Cuba, to Major Lowry, Com
mander of the British post at Black River. These
defpatches gave him to understand, that if the terri
tory should not be vacated by March next, he should
be under the necessity of compelling them to retire by
force of arms. To this message, Major Lowry re
turned for answer, that he would fend a flag of truce
to the Havanna, with his final determination in a
fortnight after.
“ Through the fame channel we also learn, that
2000 Spaniards were Rationed within fix days march
of the Mufquito Shore, and that Major Lowry was
putting the place in the best posture of defence his
small force would admit: He had also convened the
Indian Chiefs, who had promised him every assistance
and support.
“ Kingston, Feb. 5. Captain Swafey, who arrived
here on Monday last, from Honduras, was dispatched
express, on an account being received there, that 200
Spaniards had taken possession of Rattan, and ordered
all the English fifhermen to depart."
The Committee of Assembly, to whom the petiti
ons against the Bank were referred, have reported a
resolution, That a bill be brought in to repeal the aft
for incorporating said Bank.
Philadelphia Price-Current, April 1.
By the barrel. By the bushes
Flour super. iC. jqr. 455. Wheat - Bs. od.
com. do. -38 s. Corn - 3s. 6d.
Bur middlings - 355. Rye - - 4s.
Pork Burlington - 51. ss. Oats - - %s. 6d.
Beef Irish - 4k Flax-feed - - 6s.
Country - - 31. Salt coarse - 4s. 6d.
Tar - -17 s, 6d. fine - - 3s. gd.
Pitch - - 2%5. 6d. By the pipe.
Turpentine - - 275. Wine Madeira 601. to tool.
By the Cwt. Lisbon - 401.
Ship fluff - -14 s. Port - 401.
bread -20 s. Teneriffe 221. 10s.
Indian meal -13 s. Fayal - 151.
Sugar Mufcov. 455. to 60s. By the gallon.
common 425. 6d. to 455. Spirit Jamaica 4s. 6d.
Rice - - 275. Barbadoes 3s. 6d.
Tobacco best James river Antigua 4s. to 4s. 2d.
555. Rum Philadelphia zs. jd.
York - -50 s. New-England 2s. jd.
Rappahannock Molasses - -22 d.
455. to 50s, By the ton.
Coloured Maryland Bar iron - - 351.
50s. to 60s. Pig iron - 101. 10s.
Western Shore By the 1000.
long 40s. Staves pipe - 141.
Eastern Shore W. O. hhd. 81. 10s.
30s. to 355. R. O. do. - 71.
By the lb. Leogan 71. 10s.
Hemp - - jd. barrel - 51. ios.
Mould candles - is. Heading (drefs'd) 101. ios.
Tallow - - yd. Short shingles -14 s.
Gammons - iid. By the 1000 feet.
Single refined loaf fug. is. Merchant pine boards and
Coffee - i6d. to ißd. fcantling 71. ss. to 71. ios.
Tea Hyfon - ios. Sap do. 51. ss. to 51. 12s.
Souchong 6s. 6d. Ship-building by the ton.
Bohea - 2s. icd. W. O. frames 61.105.71. ios.
By the case. Live-oak and Red-cedar
Gin per quantity 30s. ditto 81. ios. to 91. ios.
Bills of Exchange on London— 30 days—76 to 80
60 75 to 76
Extraß of a letter from Plank Bridge, North-Ca
rolina, January 2, 1785.
TREN TO N, @7 ir.
Friday last the students of the Trenton Academy
"J™ H E Subscriber intending to re
-1 move and fettle within the territory northwest
ward of the great river Ohio, proposes to fell, by pub
lick vendue, on the tenth day of May next, at the
house of Peter Howell, innkeeper in Trenton, the fol
lowing houses, lots of land, &c. to wit, That large
commodious house now under lease to the said Peter
Howell, at £. 100 per annum; a good paper-mill, at
the like rent of £. too per annum, which, with little
expence, might be converted into an excellent grist
mill ; one large convenient tanyard, with every neces
sary for tanning 1500 hides per year, at the like sum
of £4 100 per annum ; one good dwelling-house almost
new, in the tenure of Samuel Throckmorton, at £. 35
per annum; one small house in the tenure of William
Cannon; one do. in the tenure of Michael Bettenger;
one do. in the tenure of John Morris and others ; one
do. in the tenure of David Righter ; one carriage- mak
er's Ihop in the tenure of Samuel Phillips ; one valu
able lot of land in possession of John Rozell; one good
piece of meadow-ground, with an excellent brick-yard
thereon ; one fine young orchard and piece of very
good meadow, both adjoining the aforefaid tanyard ;
two good lots for building on, fronting the main street;
fifteen very fine dry lots for building, fronting the
great road to Pennington ; one piece of timothy mea
dow in the rear of said lots; one piece of meadow of
about eight acres, lately cleared, and about fifteen acres
of wood-land adjoining, about a mile and an half from
Trenton ; one undivided half part of the fteel-furnace
in Trenton; one lot of land adjoining, and one other
contiguous thereto; also one house and lot in the te
nure of John Denton, at Princeton ; nearly all of which
premises being situated within the flourifhing town of
Trenton, in the vicinity of the falls of Delaware, con
sequently of the Federal Town intended for the future
residence of Congress, will undoubtedly be in a state
of great improvement and increasing value for many
years to come ; therefore those who desire to dispose
of their money without danger of depreciating it to
paper in a future period, may, by purchasing the above
premises, receive great interest while it is rising in va
lue. For further information apply to
STACY POTTS.
Trenton, April 9, 1785. 4 w
Mill-Stones & Boulting-Cloths.
Ahrefh and general assortment of fuperfine, fine,
middling and course boulting-cloths, just import
ed, and are for sale by the fubferibers, at their store
on Stamper's wharf, next below the Draw-bridge, or
in Spruce-street, near,Third-ftreet, Philadelphia. Mil
lers and others may be furnifoed with all kinds of
boulting-cloths, excellent in quality—and if requeffed,
may have proper directions for affixing them on reels,
and tiling them to the belt advantage. Also, country
made mill-stones, of different sizes, for sale on reason
able terms. ROBERT LEWIS & SONS.
March 31, 1785. 6wf
were publickly examined in Latin and English Gram
mar, in Geography, and in the other branches of
Education taught in this seminary. Their performances
did credit to themselves, and were the strongest proofs
of the care and attention of the teachers.
In the afternoon the scholars gave a specimen of their
improvement in the Art of Speaking, in the presence
of a polite and crouded audience, who gave many
signal testimonies of their approbation.
1 he Supreme Court, now fitting, have appointed
the Western Circuit Courts of this state, for the pre
sent year, to be held in the county of
Cape-May, the last Tuesday in May.
Cumberland, theist do. id June.
Salem, the 2d
Gloucester, the 3d
Burlington, the 4th ■
And the Eastern Circuit to be held in the county of
Midd!efex, the 3d Tuesday in July.
Monmouth, the 4th
Morris, the 4th September.
Somerset, theist - Odober.
Essex, the 3d
Bergen, the 4th
Sussex, the 4th November.
Died, after a short illness, on Friday morning the
ift instant, at Woodbury, in Gloucester county, the
Hon. John Cooper, Esq. Member of the Legisla
tive-Council for that county —and on Sunday follow
ing his remains were interred in the Friends burial
ground, attended by a number of respectable inhabi
tants.
Middlesex ? I^JOTICE is hereby given to the
county. ) in creditors of Matthew, Griggs and
Ezekiel Handley, of South-Biunfwick, and county of
Middlesex aforefaid, insolvent debtors now confined
in the gaol at New-Brunswick, that they be and ap
pear before two or more of the Judges of the Inferior
Court of Common-Pleas for the said county of Mid
dlesex, on Wednesday. the 11th of May next, at the
house of Thomas Egbert, innholder in New-Bruns
wick, at 12 o'clock on said day, to shew cause, if any
they have, why an alignment of said infolvents' estates
should not be made, and they difeharged from their
confinement, pursuant to the statute of New-Jersey
made and provided.
MATTHEW GRIGGS,
EZEKIEL HANDLEY.
New-Brunswick, April 5, 1785. ^w
Will cover the ensuing season, at Monmouth court
house, the noted horse
M ERCU R Y,
AT Eight Dollars the season, if paid by the firft of
September next; if not paid by that time, Ten
Dollars ; Sixteen Dollars to ensure a foal, and Five
Dollars the single leap.
MERCURY's reputation is so well known in the
country where he stands as a covering horse, that it
is needless to fay any thing on that head.
N. B. Mercury takes his stand the 11th of April,
and will continue at that place until theist of Julv,
then moved to Captain Kenneth Hankinfon's, which
is only about fix miles distant, where he will stand un
til theist of August.
KENNETH HANKINSON,
GILBERT LONGSTREET.
April 3, 1785. gw*
WHERE AS Randle Mitchell, of Nottingham
township, Burlington county, in the state of
New-Jersey, hath aligned and made over unto Samu
el Tucker, Isaac De-Cow and George Davis, Esquires,
of Trenton, all and singular his real and pcrfonal estate,
of what kind or nature soever, in trust for the use and
benefit of his creditors in England ; therefore all per
sons indebted to the said Mitchell, by bond or book
debt, are desired to fettle and pay the fame to the said
assignees, who are fully empowered to recover the
fame ; and all persons, agents for his creditors in Eng
land, are requeued to deliver in their accounts against
said Mitchell to the assignees for settlement.
Notice is hereby given,
That the said assignees will expose to publick sale, at
the courthouse in the county of Suffix, 011 Tuesday
the 24th day of may next, at two o'clock in the after
noon, two tracts of unimproved land, situate on Pau
lingfkiln, in said county of Sussex, containing about
300 acres each, bounded by lands of John Belles and
others, lately purchased of Jofepb Reading, Richard
Reading and Thomas Reading, located and taken up
by John Reading, Esquire, late deceased ; each tra&
contains a large quantity of excellent land for meadow,
the rest arable. One-fourth part of the purchafe-mo
nev to be paid down by the purchaser, and title given
by the affgnees, the remainder in two yearly payments,
giving bond and mortgage on the land. Attendance
will be given by the assignees, or some of them, when
conditions of the vendue will be published.
Trenton, 6th April, 1785. jw
Employment for an honest, so
ber, industrious man, who understands manufacturing
wheat in the bed manner, and is capable in every re
fpeH of managing a mill, consisting of two pair of
stones, one of which are French burrs, situate near Po
towmack river, in Virginia, a fine healthy country—
alfo, to superintend the business of a cooper's (hop,
wherein three hands are employed, near the mill.
If his knowledge extends to the mill-wright business,
so as to keep the running gears in repair, it would add
to the convenience ; and his having a small family
would be preferable to none. He will be furnifhed
with a comfortable dwelling-house contiguous to the
mill, a good garden properly paled in, and perhaps
some other conveniencies, as may be stipulated and
agreed on. He must produce unquestionable recom
mendations of his honesty, sobriety, and industry, to
his Excellency General Washington, Mount Vernon,
in Virginia, or to the fubferibers in Philadelphia, who
will contrast with such person on generous terms.
ROBERT LEWIS & SONS.
March 31, 5785. 6wf
THE fubferibers give this no
tice to all to whom it may concern, That they
intend to apply to the General Assembly of the state
of New-Jersey, at their next fitting, to confirm and
establish the last will and testament of William Van
feuyver, late of the township of Willingborough, and
county of Burlington, the fame being executed in the
presence of three witnesses, though only two fubferibed
their names thereto.
MARTHA VANSCUYVER,
For and on the behalf of William, Sarah, Jacob and
John, children of the said William Vanfcuyver, de
ceafcd, who are under age.
JOSIAH MATLACK,
. MARY MATLACK,
MARTHA VANSCUYVER.
March 9, 1785. Bwf
THE NOTED HORSE
JOLLY-CHE STE R,
WILL cover the ensuing season at the liable of
the fubferiber, near Cough's-Town, in Arn
well townfllip, in the county of Hunterdon, and state
of New-Jersey, at fix silver dollars each mare, at
which place attendance will be given, and pasture pro
vided for mares that come a distance, at a moderate
price. Jolly-Chester is a fine bay, with a star in his
forehead, full fifteen hands and ^cne inch high, very
lengthy, bony and handsome, was got by the celebrated
running horse True Briton, formerly the property of
General Heard; his dam by Old Hero, his grandam
by Old Spark, and his great grandam was a Mary
land running mare. Jolly-Cheder's genuine pedigree
may be seen at the ffind. JOHN SUTPHIN.
April 8, 1785. iw*
A Miller wanted.
To the Publick.