The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1778-02-04 00:00:00, page 2

To the Printer of the Nfl^asiY Gazette.
SIR,/
IT has frequently happened, and may happen again,
that the militia of New-Jersey make prize of vei
fels belonging to, or in the service of the enemy;
and as privateering is rather a novel business to land
men in general, it may be of use to them if you will
make them acquainted with the following extiacts
from the resolutions, orders, and regulations of Con
gress, by which they may the better know how to
conduct themselves in the business, and in what man
ner to proceed in order to ascertain their property in
any prizes they may take.
Extracts from the resolutions, orders and regulations of
Congress refpeßing prizes.
In Congress, November 25, 1775-
Refolded, 4. That it be, and is hereby recommend
ed to the several legislatures in the United Colonies,
as soon as possible, to ereft courts of justice, or give
jurifdiftion to the courts now in being, for the pui
pofe of deternhining concerning the captures to be
made as aforefaid, and to provide that all trials, in
such cases, be had by a jury under such qualifica
tions as to the refpe&ive legislatures shall seem ex
pedient.
5. That all profepufiohs shall be commenced in the
court of that Colony in which the captures shall be
made, but if no such court be at that time erected
in the said Colony, or if the capture be made 011
open sea, then the pfofecution shall be in the couit
of such Colony as the captor may find most conve
nient ; provided that nothing contained in this reso
lution shall be construed so as to enable the captor
to remove his prize from any Colony competent to
determine concerning the seizure, after he shall have
carried the vessel so seized within any harbour of the
fame.
March 23, 1776.
Refolded, That all vessels, with their tackle, ap
parel and furniture, and cargoes belonging to any
inhabitant or inhabitants of Great-Britain, and all
vessels which may be employed in carrying supplies
to the ministerial armies, which happen to be taken
near the shores of any of these Colonies by the peo
ple of the country or detachments from the army,
fliall be deemed lawful prize, and the Gurt of ad
miralty within the said Colony is required on con
demnation thereof, to adjudge that all charges and
expences which may attend the capture and trial, be
firft paid out of the monies arising from the sales of
the prize, and the remainder equally divided among
all those who fliall have been actually engaged and
employed in taking the said prize. Provided that
where any detachments of the army shall have been
employed as aforefaid, their part of the prize-money
shall be distributed among them in proportion to the
pay of the officers and soldiers so employed.
Rules for the regulation of the Navy of the United
Colonies.
One of the articles is as follows.
All papers, charter-parties, bills of lading, pass
ports, and other writings whatsoever, found on board
any ship or ships Which fliall be taken, shall be care
fully preserved, and the originals sent to the courts
of justice for maritime affairs, appointed or to be ap
pointed by the legislatures in the refpedive Colonies
for judging concerning such prize or prizes; and if
any person or persons shall wilfully or negligently
destroy or fuffer to be destroyed any such paper or
papers, he or they so offending shall forfeit their share
of such prize or prizes, and shall fuffer such other
punishments as they fliall be judged by a courts
martial to deserve.
Instructions to the Commanders of private flips or
vessels of nvar which shall have commissions or letters
of marque and reprisal, authorizing them to make
captures of BritiJb vessels and cargoes.
Art. 3. You shall bring such ships and vessels as
you shall take, with their guns, rigging, tackle, ap
parel, furniture and ladings, to some convenient port
or ports of the United Colonies, that proceedings
may thereupon be had in due form before the courts
which are or fliall be there appointed to hear and
determine causes civil and maritime.
4. You or one of your chief officers shall bring or
fend the master and pilot, and one or more princi
pal person or persons of the company of every ship
or vessel by you taken, as soon after the capture as
may be, to the judge or judges of such court as
aforefaid to be examined upon oath, and make an
fiver to the interrogatories which may be propound
ed touching the interest or property of the blip or
vessel and her lading, and at the fame time you shall
deliver or cause to be delivered to the judge or
judges, all passes, fea-briefs, charter-parties, bills
of lading, cockets, letters, and other documents and
writings found on board, proving the said papers by
the affidavit of yourfelf or of some other person pre
fenf,%t the capture, to be produced as they were
received, without fraud, addition, fubdudion or
embezzlement.
5. You fliall keep and preserve every ship or vef-
BURLINGTON: Printed by Isaac Collins. All Persons may be supplied with this Gazette at Twenty-fix Shillings
per Annun;. Advertisements of a moderate Length are inserted for Seven Shillings and Six-pence each the firft Week, and
Two Shillings and Six-pence for every Continuance ; and long Ones in Proportion.
A TRACT of near fix hundred acres of good land,
in three plantations, adjoining each other, with
houses, barns, stables, and other improvements,
lying in the county of Middlesex, and eastern division
of New-Jersey, is to be exchanged for a well im
proved plantation of equal y^ue in the weftern' divi
sion of New-Jersey, any where between Woodberry
and Qroffwicks. The title of the above-mentioned
land is indisputable, free of every kind of incum
brance, and has been purchased some time. For
further particulars enquire of Mr. Peter Shiras in
Mount-Holly.
N B. A good chair and saddle horse, also a riding
chair with a top and apron complete and almost new,
to be fold, enquire as above. 3w
December 26, 1777.
TO BE SOL D,
By JOSEPH CARSON, at Bordentown,
AFE W hogsheads of tobacco, sugar in barrels,
loaf sugar ditto, green tea in bottles, Weft-In
dia rum in hogsheads, ivory combs, needles, and a
few dozen of pfalters, fix half pieces fuperfine cloth,
and eighteen pieces of striped fhamoys. 4 w *
LAMP, TANNERS,
AND
SPERMACETI OI L,
To be fold by
THOMAS' BUD D, Jun.
At Julia-Town, in Burlington County, New-Jersey.
WANTED to hire immediately, a PLANTATI
ON of about 2 or 300 acres, with a fufficient
quantity of good meadow. Any person having such
a place to let, may hear of a tenant, by applying to
the printer of this paper. ts
January 28, 1778.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
STOLEN from the camp, near the Valley Forge,
the 12th day of this inst. (January) a BLACK
MARE, saddle, and bridle. The mare is about
fifteen hands high, about ten years old, her mane
hangs on the near fide, a small star in her forehead,
one hind foot white, a small white spot on her but
tock, a feather mark on the off fide of her neck, and
shod before. Whoever secures the mare, saddle and
bridle, and brings them to John Dowdney, Innkeep
er, in Bristol, or to the owner, in Lower Makefield
townfllip, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, fliall receive
the above reward;
gw* JAMES MOON, Junior.
Bristol, January 22, 1778.
LOST or S T O LE N,
OUT of the house of WILLIAM WALTON,
in the township of Bristol, sometime about the
twelfth day of this inst. (January) a sum of money,
consisting of old Pennsylvania currency and Maryland
money to the amount of Twenty-four Hundred
Pounds. Any person who will give the said William
Walton such intelligence of the said money, so as to
enable him to recover the fame, shall receive from
him a reward of One Hundred Pounds in either of
the said currencies, or Continental money, or Six
Half Joes in hard money. As the said lots will bring
the greatest distress on a numerous and young family,
it is hoped that every humane person will be careful
in informing the said Walton of the ndme of every
person unlikely to keep any sum of money, that may
offer such in payment of debt, or purchases that they
may make: . 3 %V fe
Philadelphia County, Jan. 26, 1778.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
WAS STOLEN from the fubferiber's liable, in
the Manor of Moreland, on Friday night the
16th inftaht, a GREY HORSE, about thirteen and
a half hands high, has a thick neck, a short deck and
switch tail, and a lump on the off fide of his belly;
paces, trots, and canters well, the mane cut off
where the collar is worn; he is about eight years
old. Whoever returns the said horse to the fubferi
ber, fliall have the above reward and all reasonable
expences, paid by
PAUL RUS T.
Waterford, Gloucefler County, fan. 24, 1778.
THE present precariousness and Situation of pub
lic as well as private affairs, oblige the fubferi
bers, executors of the last will and testament of
Richard Matlack, late of Gloucefler county, deceas
ed, earnestly to call upon those who are indebted to
said estate, to make payment by the 20th of next
month, or they will be under the necessity of put
ting their bonds, accounts, &c. in the hands of an
attorney for prosecution. And those who have any
demands against the fame, to exhibit them for set
tlement.
ABRAHAM MATLACK,)
3 w? JOSEPH MATLACK, 5 executors.
fel and cargo by you taken, until they shall by sen
tence of a court properly authorized, be adjudged
lawful prizes, not felling, spoiling, wafting, or di
minishing the fame, or breaking the bulk thereof,
nor fuffering any such thing to be done.
STRAYE 1) or S TOLEN,
From Jacob Benjamin's door, in Trenton, on Tues
day night last,
A DARK brown HORSE, fourteen hands high,
near five years old, has a star in his forehead,
with white on his heeb, long switch tail, natural
pacer, and has a small blaze from the star across be
low his left eye. Whoever takes up the said horse
and returns him to Henry Drake, in Trenton
John Bullion, near Bafken-Ridge, Somerset county,
Tavernkeepers, or to William Templeton, owner,
in Morristown, shall receive TWELVE DOLLARS,
and all reasonable expences paid. jw*
Cumberland County, Weft Ne^w-ferfey, fan. 21.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the fubferiber, on the 20th of
August laft,' an indented MULATTO BOY
named Levi, eighteen years of age ; he has a down
look, dim and straight built: Had on and took with
him five shirts, two of them striped flannel ; three pair
of trowfers, one pair of them striped; three vests,
one a light colour, the other a pale red ; one pair of
light coloured cloth breeches ; a cloth coloured great
coat. He passes for a free negro, fays he has work
ed about Cohanfey Bridge. Any person securing laid
servant, so that his matter may get him again, shall
have the above reward paid by
6w* ABIJAH HOLMES.
Lmcajter, Jan. 6, 17,8.
fuftpublifoed and to be fold by
FRANCIS B AIL E Y,
At his Printing-Office the North fide of King-street,
a few doors below the Market,
The L A NCA STE R
POCKET ALMANACK,
For the YEAR 1778,
*** A second edition of the GERMAN CALEN
DAR is now in the press, and will be published the
latter end of this month.
THE PUBLI C.
ANY person that has for sale beef, pork, flour,
wheat, and potatoes, will find a purchaser in
William Crifpin, Commissary to the State fleet of
Pennsylvania, at Trenton. t f
Bordentokun, fan. 22.
By order of Major-General MIFFLIN:
ALL persons having demands on the department
of the Quarter-Master-General ip New-Jersey,
previous to the firft instant, for waggon-hire, forage,
&c. are desired to bring their refpedive accounts,
properly certified by the Assistant, or Deputy-
Quarter-Masters- General of the diftrid to which they
belong, to my office at Mr. Samuel Prince's in this
town, without the least delay, as my stay in this
state will probably be very short: Such accounts or
certificates only as are signed by one of the above
officers, and for debts contrasted before the present
month, will be paid. And the said A and DQM
G's are requeued to inform those in their several dif
triCts who have not yet exhibited their accounts, of
the contents of this advertisement.l
NATH. CRANCH, Pay Maftcr to QM G.
January 28, 1778.
T O BE SOL D,
A HOUSE and LOT in Bordentown; also a
house and lot of nine acres of land and meadow
near Richard Wain's mills, in Upper Freehold : And
also a plantation of 200 acres of land and meadow,
with a house, barn, and orchard thereon, near Al
- in Middlesex county. For further par
ticulars enquire of the fubferiber in Bordentown.
4 v? SAMUEL ROGERS.
fanuary 26, 1778.
RAN AWAY the firft of this month a mulatto
negro man named JACK, about five feet five
inches high ; pretty welitet ; and exceedingly fear'd
in the face, especially about the eyes, having been
burnt when young ; which of itfelf may distinguish
him. Had on, when he went off, a home made
bearskin coat, white flannel shirt and twill'd linen
breeches. Whoever will secure him so that his mas
ter Thomas Forman in Arney's-Town, Burlington
county, may have him again, shall receive FIVE
POUNDS reward, and be paid reasonable charges.
Valley Forge, fanuary 5, 1778.
COMMISSA R Y's OFFIC E.
npHE several Assistant Commissaries of Issues for
L the Middle Department, as well those in camp
as all others at the different posts or magazines, in
the States of New-Jersey, , Pennsylvania, Delaware
and Maryland, are most earnestly requested and en
joined to prepare and transmit to my office, their re
fpe&ive monthly returns of provisions and other
fares, received, issued and on hand, at the end of
each month from the time of their appointments,
until the firft day of February next, in order that I
may make out my general return, agreeable to a
resolve of Congress. A neglect of this essential duty
will fubjerf the delinquents, if any, to futpenfion ; to
prevent which, this publick notice is given by
THOMAS JONES, D. C. G. of Issues,
Middle Department.