The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1786-01-23 00:00:00, page 1

By the United States in Con
gress assembled,
NOVEMBER 2, 1785.
ON, a report of the board of treasury,
to whom was referred a letter of the
24th October, from J. Pierce, commissi
oner of army accounts :
Resolved, That all persons having
claims for services performed in the mili
tary department, be directed to exhibit
the fame for liquidation, to the commissi
oner of army accounts, on or before the
firlt day of August ensuing the date here
of ; and that all claims under the descripti
on above-mentioned, which may be exhi
bited after that period, flrall forever there
after be precluded from adjustment or al
lowance; and that the commissioner of
army accounts, give publick notice of
this resolve, in all the dates, for the space
of fix months.
CHA. THOMSON, Sec'ry.
[The printers of the several States are
requeued to insert the above in their pa
pers.] 6m
TO BE SOL D,
A valuable Trad of LAND,
CONTAINING 300 acres, Gtuate within three miles
of Trenton, in the county of Burlington, and
township of Nottingham, and within 2 miles of Lam
berton, where it is expefted the federal town will be
eroded. On said traft there is clay and wood fuffici
ent to make brick for the building, it being all woodland,
except twelve acres; one hundred of it may be made
good meadow, which may be laid from fix inches to
one foot under water, or kept dry all winter, as the
purchaser Ihall please ; and contiguous to it there is
great range for cattle. Paper money, notes given to the
officers and soldiers of the Jersey line, and final settle
ment of their pay, loan-office certificates, and notes
given by Benjamin Thompson, Esq. will be taken in
payment. For further particulars enquire of Robert
Pearson, in Nottingham, Joseph Milnor or the sub
scriber in Trenton. JOSEPH HIGBEE.
N. B. The meadow-land is a deep rich foil, and not
fubjeft to be flooded.
May 28, 1785. t f
NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
House of Assembly, Nov. 11, 1785.
APE fITION from Martha Vanfeuyver, widow
and relict of William Vanfeuyver, 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 fpbferibing 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 lead three of the most publick places in the
townfllip 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 Vanfeuyver,
deceased, who are under age.
Josiah Matlack,
Mary Matlack,
Martha Vanscuyver.
Dcc. 30, 1785. 6w
[Vol. IX.]
TRENTON: Printed by ISAAC COLLIN S, Printer to the State.
MONDAY, January 23, 1786.
PRIMITIVE WHIG. No. 111.
Dum recitas, incipit effe tuus. Mart.
COULD petitions change the immutable
nature of things, they ought to have
greater weight with all American legisla
tors than many of them have frequently
deserved. Nothing is more easy than to
procure petitions for any measure in which the petiti
oners themselves are felf-interefted, be the operation
of that measure ever so injurious to the general weal
of their country; and I will venture to fay, that eve
ry petition which will be laid before our legislature in
February next for the emission of a paper currency,
when stripped of the plausible guffe in which it is dres
sed, and reduced to the real and native ideas secret
ly intended to be conveyed, will only amount to, and
ought, in all honesty, to run in the form following:
To the honourable the legislative-council and as
sembly of the state of New-Jersey, in general
assembly convened.
The petition of the frofcribers inhabitants of
the countytof
Humbly Sheweth,
THAT your petitioners, iffuced by the laudable
example of your honours prreeceffors, then legisla
tors of this happy state (forever revered be their
precious memories) to enable unfortunately-profli
gate debtors to difeharge theii"contracts with a forti
eth part of their real amount,[ did not conceive our
selves obliged to appropriate the punishment inflicted
upon Adam, to eat bread in the J^eat of his face,
which feemeth to us rather indonfiftent with the dig
nity of members of a free, fjvereign and indepen
dent state. That from this honourable principle, a
principle naturally interwoven :,th the idea of a re
publican government (in which there ought to be a
community of goods, and the poorer fort to live
upon the industry of the richer till all is reduced to a
perfed equality) your petitioners, instead of the
drudgery congenial to the slaves of arbitrary monar
chies, have hitherto preferred the borrowing of mo
ney, and otherwise running in debt, to the ignomini
ous humiliation of working with their own hands,
That being by those means, involved in debt, they
are cruelly threatened with law suits, which will
prove doubly afflictive as not only tending to compel
the payment of the debt, but as fuperadding co it cer
tain costs for the detention. Indeed your honours
piedeceffors have so far anticipated our humble de
sires in the last particular, as to charge the plaintiffs
with the chief expence of every prosecution. This
was a blessed assembly, and the memory thereof is
Rill favoury as the spices of Arabia; and tho' the
lawyers, those crooked serpents in human shape, that
will never work without pay, call it ParHamentum
indoftum, because it was guilty of a few queernesses
relative to the practice of the law, yet our schoolmaster,
who understands Latin as well as they, declares,
that, with refpe& to us, it was Partiamentum cem
modum. But there is still much to be done, may it
please your honours, for our perfect and plenary re
lief. We have still to expend money for procrasti
nating judgments, for bribing of fheriffs to delay
the final process of law, and for bringing writs of
error where no error has been committed. For
as the law now stands, we are still ultimately
liable to pay our debts without remedy. This,
in these hard times, and during such a want
of a circulating medium, your honours must be fenti
ble, is an insupportable grievance— a grievance,
which, in our opinion, can no otherwise be remedied
than by the honourable legislatures emitting a paper
currency, for the relief of all the citizens of this
state in the like deplorable situation with your petiti
oners. But whereas it has, by some been proposed,
to issue such bills without making them a legal ten
der, your humble petitioners bev leave to shew that
such a currency would not extricate them from their
present difficulties: And whereas it has been proposed
by others to make it a tender only for debts hereaf
ter to accrue, and that only according to its deprecia
tion at the time of the tender, your petitioners must
beg leave to insist that neither would this prove a re
medy adequate to their lamentable situation. It is
THE
Votes and proceedings of the tenth general
assembly of the state of New-Jersey.
( Continued from our last.)
MR. A. Clark, with leave, presented the draught
of a bill, intitled, ' an aft for further suspend
ing the sales of forfeited estates in this ftate,' which
was read, and ordered a second reading.
1 he house adjourned to three o'clock, P. M.
The house met.
Mr. Speaker laid before the house the following
report:
Agreeably to an order of the house of assembly of
the 28th of October, 1784, we have carefully ex
amined and separated the papers committed to our
charge, and have put them up in bundles; that they
consist of petitions, messages and letters, from the
agents to the committees of correspondence, copies
of letters from committees to the agents, copies of
laws, accounts and certificates for fheriffs.
BENJAMIN VAN-CLEVE,
SAMUEL TUCKER.
The above papers being worthy of preservation,
Ordered, That the clerk of this house arrange,
file and deposit the fame in his office.
I lie bill, intitled,' an ad to confirm to the mem
bers of the church of the United Brethren in vhis
state, the privileges of being admitted to take an af
firmation instead of an oath, was read a third time*
Refolded unanimously, That the fame do pass.
Ordered, That the speaker do sign the fame.
Ordered, That mr. Blaire do carry the said bill to
council, and acquaint them that the fame is passed by
this house without amendment.
The engrossed bill, intitled, ‘ an aft to call in all
contractors ' and surplus certificates, to issue state
notes to the holders, and to procure a more accurate
estimate of the state debt,' was read and com
pared; on the question, whether the fame do
pass? It was carried in the affirmative, as follows:
Yeas. Messrs. Blauvelt, Nicoll, Garritfe, A. Clark
Marsh, Combs, Schuurman, Bunn, Blaire, R. S Smith'
Biddle, J, Smith, Cooper, Hall, Sharp, Baker, Swain'
Lambert. Houghton, Cook, Starke, Arnold, Bowen'
Hankinfon, Beardflee, Longstreet.
Nays. Messrs. Sinnickfon, Burgin, Sheppard.
Ordered, T hat the speaker do sign the fame.
Ordered, 1 hat mr. Blaire do carry the said bill
to council for concurrence.
Mr. Bonney reported, that he had obeyed the or
der of the house.
1 he bill, intitled, 6 an ad for the relief of Samuel
Meeker, late commissioner of forfeited estates, in the
not posterity that your petitioners have in contempla
tion—it is themselves. And unless the aft petitioned
or, operates ex poJI faEto, we may as well pay our
honest debts without any more ado; and to make
good the depreciation! It would ruin us.
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your
''°°° uis will pass a law to shut up the courts of
justice for three years from the publication thereof
(at the expiration of which we intend to do ourselves
the honour of again petitioning for the further silenc
ing of those dreadful engines of compulsion) and al
so to issue the said paper currency upon such se
curity as you know before-hand that it will infallibly
depreciate; and to make it a lawful tender for all
debts already contrasted at any stage of its deprecia
tion. r
And your petitioners as in duty bound ffiall ever
pray.
Amos Spendthrift,
Josiah Worklefs,
John Tippler,
Wouter Zenderwerke,
Jeremy Grog,
Peter Holiday,
Simon Dreadwork.
James Saunter,
Obadiah Horferace,
Paul PloughleA,
Hezekiah Dolittle,
Isaac Fightcocks,
Jeronymus Notax,
David Neverpay,
Pere Frifetir,
[Numb. 402.]
Jecamiah Putoff,
John Sharper,
John Sharper, jun.
John Sharper, the 3d.
John Sharper, the 4th.
John Sharper, the sth.
Louis Sans-Souci,
Jerolomen Feartoil,
Jo. Lawless,
Harmanus Nixbotalen,
Israel Conti,
Chriftofel Vryman,
Jean-Jacques Perruquier,
Bartholomew Thoughtless,
James Signaway.