The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-05-24 00:00:00, page 1

Tbeje are to give Notice,
"r'' '' iat " ave demands against the estates
•th e following persons, fugitives and offenders
against the state of New-Jersey, to lay s uc h demand or
demands, whether it be by mortgage, or other speci
alty, or note, or o'her voucher, before such persons
as are appointed to afeertain the value of such de
mands, agreeably to the directions of the aft, intitled,
L"n" '° r a ' cer tai n i n g the value of debts due from
, estates of certain fugitives and offenders, and for
directing the payment of the fame,' passed at Trenton
^ e ? 3( l- day ° f December, 1783. Joseph French, John
Taber Kempe, George Warner, William Brownjohn,
Vanderhoff, Cornelius Stager, John Connely,
John Crane, son of Joseph, Hugh Wallace, Miles Shear
brooke, James Wilson, Thomas Philips, James Blun
n'Q^'?" Campbell, Luther Baldwin, Philip Brasher,
David Cole, James Hetfield, Thomas White, Francis
Thomas, Nicholas Huffman, Vincent-Pierce Afhfield,
Richard Miller, Oliver Delancey, Cavalier Jouit,
Broughton Reynolds, David Oliver, Daniel Moore,
James Frazee, Jacob Tucker, Job Hetfield, Robert
David Ogden, Esq. Richard Stanton, James
Hetfield, Ichabod Oliver, John Smith Hetfield, Icha
bod B. Barnet, John Morse, John Stites, jun. George
Marshal, Isaac Mills, Isaac Stanbury, John Lee, jun.
Thomas Bradbury Chandler, Jane Drummond, Jo
seph Marsh, John Slone, William Luce, John Acley,
Dr. Uzal Johnson, James Jauncey, Cornelius Hetfield,
jun. James Frazee, jun. John Falker, John Willis, Sa
muel Oliver, Hugh Gaine, Samuel Smith, Isaac Og
den, jun. Esq. Robert Drummond, David Ogden, jun.
Uzal Ward, William Stiles, Nathaniel Richards, Tho
mas Brewen, Griffen Jenkins, Stephen Skinner, Ben
jamin Booth, Joseph Kingfl— d, Stephen Farrand, Tho
mas Burrowes, James Moore, Isaac Longworth, jun.
Lewis Greenfield, John Wheeler, Jonathan Sayre, Isaac
Longworth, Thomas Longworth, Esq. John Van Wag
goner, Dr. Peter Brown, Richard Yates, Peter Mow
rifon, George Walls, Garret Jacobuffe, Isaac Kingfland,
Henry Stager, Abraham J. Vangefon, jun. Isaac Stiles,
Aaron Fierfon, James Gray, Samuel Hudinot, James
Courter, jun. Nathaniel Williams, Benjamin Pitrfon,
Derick Schuyler, Nicholas Ogden, Ebenezer Ward,jun.
Jacob Brower, the Rev. Isaac Brown, Caleb Sayre,
Joseph Hallett, Garrabrant Garrabrant, Josiah Banks,
Garrat Wouters, Thomas Gillbrath, Peter Woods,
Peter Duboife, John White, Thomas Afton, Francis
Beaty, William Brooks, Nicholas Garrabrant, James
Colvin, Samuel Harrison, Cornelius Brooks. Notice
is hereby further given to all persons that are indebted
to any of the above-mentioned persons, and have not
paid the fame to some one or more of the commission
ers of the county of Essex, to make immediate pay
ment to the fubferiber, or they may depend on being
prosecuted as the law directs, both as to fine and for
the amount of what may be due.
SAMUEL HAYES, Agent
for the county of Essex.
Essex county, April 26, 1784. 4W
JACOB MAU S,
Has for sale, at his clock and watchmaker's ihop, op
posite the Indian King in Trenton, the following
articles, which he proposes felling as low as in Phi
ladelphia or New-York, viz.
EIGHT-DAY clocks, warranted as good as any im
ported.
Small time-pieces, on the new conftruftion, with frames
neatly gilt.
Watches of various forts.
Best English main-springs, of various sizes, by the gross,
dozen, or single.
Hair-spring wire on bobbins, do.
Studs and buttons.
Pendant-bows and crystals.
A neat assortment of watch-chains, of steel and pinch
beck,
A quantity of cornelian and agat fcals.
Fuzee chains and hooks.
With sundry other articles too tedious to mention.
N. B. Said Jacob Maus returns his sincere thanks
to those who have been pleased to favour him with
their custom ; and hopes by his punctuality, assiduity,
and constant application to business, to merit a con
tinuance of the fame.
April 20, 1784.
CAME to the Plantation
where the fubferiber now lives, in the township
of Hopewell, on the 30th ult. two black mares, one
supposed to be about eight years old, the other four;
one of the creatures has a little white on both hind
feet; the other a star in her forehead. The owner is
desired to come and prove his property, pay charges,
and take them away. ELIJAH PHILLIPS,
May 6, 1784. 3 w±
NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
[Vol. Vil.]
TRENTON: Printed by ISAAC COLLIN S, Printer to the State.
Mond a y, May 24, 1784.
7^ the Printer of the New-Jersey Gazette.
S I R,
Notwithstanding the depravity of
our morals during the late war, which, it
is to be feared, kept a pretty equal pace
with the depreciation of our currency, [
have not met with a man so totally abandoned, as not
to acknowledge that we ought cheerfully to pay such
taxes as are necessary for the support of government,
and to difeharge all our publick debts with fidelity and
honour. Indeed it cannot admit of any doubt, that
men living in a social state, and having, by the laws
of the society of which they are members, their lives
and pioperty secured against those aflaults and invasi
ons to which they are e^poled in a Rate of nature,
must consent to contribute a part of their substance, for
the better security of the remainder, towards the sup
port of those who -re more immediately appointed for
the above falut^y purposes. And as to our publick
debts, I can Rarcely image to myfelf so hideous a por
trait of human nature, as that a single individual of
cur species should entertain even a wish that every
publick creditor should not be fully and honestly paid.
Moi tifying indeed would be the reflexion to every in
genuous mind, to every man who feels for the honour
of his country, or has a proper idea of justice and equi
ty, that, after so fuccefsful a war with one of the most
powerful nations in Europe, we should fuffer the glory
of America to be tarnished by our ingratitude or in
justice: That we should leave unpaid, or unnecefl'a
rily protra& the payment of an army, of whose valour
and atchievements the annals of mankind afford few
examples; and of whose fufferings and patience, they
afford none: I hat we should leave unpaid, or unne
cessarily protrad the payment of those patriotick cre
ditors in the civil line, who opened their purses at a
moll perilous cribs of the contest, in full confidence of
our national honour, and without whose pecuniary
aid we had probably this moment groaned under the
gailing yoke of British bondage. 1 here is not a man,
1 piefume, so hardy, even if he was inwardly poflef
fed with seven devils, that would outwardly avow such
a sentiment. 1 axes therefore, it is universally ac
knowledged, ought to be paid, as without them our
publick debts cannot be difeharged. But the diffi
culty, the difficulty, oh the difficulty of paying them!
1 am therefore, going to shew to those who make the
greatest difficulty about them, how they may be ena
bled to pay their quotas without any difficulty at all.
File merchant, or rather the fliopkeeper (for alas!
alas! it is devoutly to be wished that we had a com
petent number of the firft denomination, before we are
ground into atoms by Philadelphia and New-York) I
would advise, in order the better to enable him to pay
his taxes, that as soon as he has purchased upon cre
dit a proper assortment of goods to set up a Ihop, to
confider the whole store in the fame light as if he had
really paid the calh for all the merchandize it contains,
and to live accordingly. I would advise him to figure
away upon the credit he has somehow or other°ac
quired, either as if he had already paid, or was never
to pay for this fame assortment of goods; and to as
sume all the airs, and run into all the expense of a
gentleman of an independent fortune. If he can pick
up a French dancing-master, no matter whether he
can dance or not, to teach his daughters to hop and ca
per, who would be more ufefully and more charader
iftically employed in sewing or spinning, so much the
better ; and thus he will be able to pay his taxes, which
at present he thinks so heavy and cumberfome.'
Those of the farmers who complain of this intole
rable grievance, that is, paying their proportion of an
honest debt, I would advise, that though they havel
not a farthing of cash in their houses ("as they so)।
yet not to dispose of any of their produce at a reasona
ble price, but still to keep it in expectation of a higher
market, and in the mean time to put off the collector
with the difficulty of the times, with which, if he has
as much patriotism as they, he will be easily put off:
That when finally obliged to fell their crops, they
would by no means lay by any part of the money
against the rainy day that Monsieur Publican, with wo
ful countenance, will call upon them for their rates
but that they would fleer direct, with the fpecje in'
THE
Foreign Intelligence.
BERLI N, February
THE commerce of his majesty's fubje&s was never
so extensive and flouriffiing as under the glori
ous reign of Frederick 111. By order of the kin%
consuls have been nominated for the East-Indies, Por
tugal^ Flanders, Andalusia, &c. The new canal near
Bremberg, on which upwards of 12,c00 hands have
been employed for fifteen months, is just finifhed.
Our sovereign not only favours the trade of his states,
but continues to encourage agriculture and industry:
Considerable sums have been distributed in Pomera
nia, and the New Marche; in ffiort, nothing is for
gotten to render commerce flourifhing, for°the im
provement of the country, and the happiness of the
inhab/.ants,
M U N I C H, February ?.
\ he froft carries off many persons in, the country.
A few days ago two waggoners having walked thro'
the snow a long time, had their feet frozen. One of
them expiied after his feet had been cut off'; the other
died before the operation.
W ARS A W, Feb. 18.
The quarantines between Poland, Cherfon, and the
Crimea, are taken off. By letters from Cherfon ig
appears, that nearly half the inhabitants of that city
pocket, either to New-York or Philadelphia, and
there to expend as much of it in gewgaws and trifles
and toys and baubles, and laces and ribbands, and'
such like pretty notions for their wives and daughters,
as the moll inconsiderate and extravagant wives and
daughters would wish to have: And if peradventure
so much of the money be left before he quits the me
tropolis he has made choice of, for this laudable pur
pose, then to buy with the remainder a gay horse, at
the price of a hundred pounds, that in reality is not
worth twenty, for a favourite son to figure upon in
fifty parts of the country, where he has no other bu
siness in the world, but to shew that he rides this
fame gay horse: And thus this fame distressed, com
plaining, heavy-taxed, moneylefs farmer, will be ena
bled to pay his tax.
As to the day-labourer, nothing is easier than for
to pay his quota if he will but take wholesome
counlel for the purpose; for he has only to infill up
on treble the wages that he ought to have, that he can
really earn, or that any man can possibly afford to
give him. However a man may, on certain occasions,
for the want of labourers amongst us, be necessitated to
employ him at that exorbitant rate. Then I would
advise him to take the advantage of that man's necef
hty and to work for him but two days in the week
at the treble value of his labour ; and moreover to in
ill upon as much grog as his whole labour is worth
had he no other pay for it. I would farther direst
hrm to work no more for any other man whatever, for
, days next ensuing, but during that time, to
Ipend his lull earnings m some dram-shop, or at a horfe
race or cock-pit, ^ nine-pin alley, no matter which,
o that he but Ipends it; and by no means to under
take another job of work while he has a single farthing
of the last extorted wages in his pocket: And if his
employer should talk of buying negroes to cultivate
his farm, from the impossibility of working it at such
extravagant wages, then 1 would advise this labourer
to preach against the fin of slave-keeping; and if the
farmer, coinciding with his do&ine, should fay, that
in order to avoid that fin, he would encourage the im
portion of white servants from foreign parts, then
" infi " Up °° it' that such ^afure would
refs the poor of America by lowering their wages
and that whoever countenances such emigrations is an
, to his countr y. At any rate, however, I would
advise him not to work above two days in seven, espe
cially not before we have a competent number of
those honest foreigners who, he is io afraid, will make
him an industrious man: And thus this poor, wicked,
lazy, distressed, over-taxed labourer, will be able to
pay his tax.
S C I P I O.
[Numb. 315.]