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To be SOLD or LET,
And entered upon the brft Day of SI AY next,
n Good hoAe and fc^lLrm of lai , situate in the
to^ n^f !amarca, onio A , opposite theCourt-
House, and w^bin 40 yard: of the Prefoyterian Meeting
Horse, fhar : jfant donation, and is a good Laud for
0 store er tav/rr ; the house almost new, with fourromhs
^.'a vch p n on the firft floor, three rooms, a lobby and|
^ Enter on the second floor, with a large garret :
here are two good cellars under the house, federate from
tach other; a good barn and garden. The honfeftead
lot, aback of the house, is excellent land, containing
eight acres, whereon is a good orchard; there are eight
acres of good wood land about a mile fiom the houfeftead,
and eight acres of salt meadow about two and a half miles
from ditto, ^ll belonging to said tenement. Whoever
may incline to treat for the above, shall have an indis
putable title by applying to the fubferiber, living on the
premises.
JAMES HUGHSTON.
Jamaica, itth Sept. 1775.
Choice M A DEIRA WINE,
Jamaica SPIRITS, Weft-India RUM,
BRANDY, ARRACK, GENEVA,
Sweet Wine, Claret, Port,
PORTER in Bottles, LIME JUICE, MOLASSES,
QUART BOTTLES, PROOF ' BOTTLES, CORKS,
Best Mustard, and twelve Bottle Cases,
TO BE SOLD
B,JOHN DUNSCO MR.
To be SOL D, at public Vendue,
A FARM or plantation of land, situate, lying and
being at Bloomingdale, within about 5 miles of
the city of New-York ; being part of the estate of John
Horfen, lately deceased r containing 50 acres of land, 12
of which is fine wood land, and 12 more excellent mea
dow ground, and 12 more may be made, and the rest is
well adapted cither for grass, or the raising of grain, which
„ it has been found to produce plentiful crops of all kinds.
On the premises are the following improvements ; a good
convenient dwelling house, with a kitchen at one end;
a good barn, two hay barracks, and a fine orchard, in
which there is a choice collection of about 300 fruit trees
of the best kind, two wells and a Spring, which are con
flantly supplied with water, even in the dryeft season.—
The situation of this farm is delightfully pleasant and
healthy, and capable pf the most elegant improvements,
and its vicinity to the city renders it exceeding convenient
and pleasant for a Gentleman's country feat, a trader,
or tavern-keeper, or for any kind of public business. It
is also very convenient and pleasant on account of its ad
joining the North-River, which affords plenty of filh
and 0} fters.
The file of the above to be on the 9th day of Decem
ber next, at Bloomingdale, on the premises, at eleven
o'clock in the forenoon of the fame day, when the arti
cles of sale will be made known ; or if required, at any
time before, by the subscribers, who will give an indis
putable title to the purchaser :—a very good waggon and
cart will be also fold on the fame day.
Notice is 'hereby also given to all persons who have
any demands against the estate of the said John Horfen,
deceased, that they are requested to bring in their accounts
properly attested ; and all persons who are indebted to the
said estate, by bond, note, or book debt, are likewise re
quested to make immediate payment, to prevent those
disagreeable proceedings the law dire&s.
JACOB HORSEN, 7_
^ MA^riNUSSCHOONMAKFR, ^Executors
'° "" 'he 3 c ' h of October.
For JAMAICA,
A°' ' n ''" wav will land Passengers at
ANTIGUA, St. KITTS,
” T ° EUSTATTA, or any other
°' the Weft-India Islands,
Sloop CHANC E,
A Good vessel and well accommodated : For pafiage
only, apply to Alexander Murray, at George Crook
thank's, on Doctor Brownjohn's wharf.
A Wet murfe, with a new breast of milk, that can be well
recommended, is willing, to go into a gentleman's family;
and a woman very well qualified as a koufe-keeper, and a
took Any person wanting to employ either of the above
mentioned Women, for Particulars are desired to apply to
.H. Gaine.
IF a certain Mary Beatty, alias Parsons, will apply
to Mr. Cornelius Bradford, Merchant, in New-
York, flie will hear of something much to her
Advantage: 'Tis supposed she is in or about Phila
delphia, as fne wrote to her Friends in Ireland, from
thence in the Year 1774.
(And entered on immediately)
'T"'""" whereon the fub
fcriberlately lived,in North
within forty miles of New-
York, about feur miles from Hud
^a,£§ty&&fflfon's-Riv~r : Th- " rra c ° nt ai ms Ito
acres of land, well timbered and
watered, is all very natural to graft, and there is on the
fame between 20 and 30 acres of meadow, three excellent
orchards and a good dwelling house, with other convenient
out-houses, with a saw-mill and a grist-mill. Who
ever inclines to hire or purcbafe, may agree on reasonable
terms, by applying to Nathaniel Conkling, living near
the premises, or SAMUEL HALLOCK.
TUTTY DOLLARS Rew^dT
RUN-AWAY from the fubferiber, an Englilh can
via servant man, named BENJAMIN SAGERS,
a blacksmith and gunsmith by trade, a very Freight
round fac'd fellow, about five feet eleven inches high,
has a remarkable down frowning look, short light hair,
and several fears on his head and face: Had on when he
went away, a white ffiirt, blue coat, striped trowfers,
fpotfed flockings, new pumps, and an old beaver hat cut
in the fafhion: May probably forge a pass, as he writes
a good hand.. Whoever takes up and secures said servant
in any of his Majesty's gaols, so that his matter may
have him again, shall have, if twenty miles from home,
Forty Shillings, if forty miles, Four Pounds, if eighty
miles, Eight Pounds, and if one hundred miles, the
above reward, and reasonable charges, if brought holne,
paidby AWERAY RICHARDSON.
- TTbTso L°D or LE t;
THE house now in the pofleffion of Mr. David
Clarkfon, at the Whitehall, with two good large
flore-houfes and a liable, very fit for a gentleman or mer
chant. For farther particulars apply to David Clarkfon.
PURSUANT to a power contained in a certain inden
ture of mortgage, duly made and executed by Comfort
Severs, to me the fubferiber, bearing date the 15th day
of April, in the yearof our Lord 1769, public notice is
hereby given, that there will be exposed to sale at public
auction or vendue, at the City-Hall of the city of Al
bany, in the province of New-York, on the 25th day
of October next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, purfoant
to the directions of an a6t ot the legislature of the colony,
of New-York, entitled, “ An act for the more effectual
registry of mortgages, and for fccuring the purchasers of
mortgaged estates ;" passed the 19th day of March, 1774,
all that certain dwellireg-houfe and lot of ground, situate,
lying and beingin the Second-Ward of the said city of
Albany ; containing in breadth on the east and weft,
31 feet 5 inches, and in length on both sides, 142 feet,
all Englilh measure ; together with the appurtenances,
unless the principal money and interest due upon and
secured by the said mortgage, be before that time paid and
discharged. Given under my hand this 14th day of
May, in the year of our Lord 1775.
ABRAHAM C. CUYLER.
To be LET immediately,
'rpHE whole or part of the dwelling-boule late or
X Joseph Jelf, deceased, situate in Elizabeth-1 own :
Also to be let, the ffiop and out stores late of she said
deceased. This fhopis one of the heft situations in town
for business. For terms apply to Mrs. Jeff, who lives on
the premises. _
just published, attrite be fold by
VALENTINE NUTTER,
BOOK-BINDER,
Opposite the COFFEE-HOUSE:
TOSEPHUS's WORKS, 4 vols. octavo, neatly bound
J and lettered, much fuperidr to any that have yet
made their appearance, at the moderate price of 366. per
set. He has likewise for sale, day books, journals, led
gers, and sundry other blank books, all of his own manu
faanre. As he continues to carry on the book-binding
business in all its branches, he hopes for the continuance
of his former customers, and the public in general, being
determined to do his work as cheap and good as can be
done in this city. Old books from the country will be
done neatly, and returned immediately.
He has yet unhand the following books,
Folio and octavo bibles,
Burket on the new testa
ment,
. Stackhoufe's history of the
' new testament, 6 vols.
Rolline's ancient history,
io vols.
Guthery's history of Scot
land, 10 vols.
Arabian tales, 4 vols.
Young's works, 4 vols.
Rambler, 4 vols.
Tattler, 5 vols.
Humphry Clinker, 3 vols.
Dan Quixotte, 4 vols,
Goodall's Quegn Mary,2 vols
Guardian, 2 vols.
Fable of the bees, 2 vols.
Anson's voyage, 2 vols.
Sherlock's difeourfes, 4 Vols.
Fordyce's dialogues, 2 vols.
Hervey's dialogues, 3 vols.
Rowe's works, 4 vols.
Gill Blah, 4 vols.
ShanftonT works, z vols.
Seed's sermons, 2 vols.
Wilton on the covenant, 3
vols.
Leland's Dernofthenes, 2
vols.
Conductor Generalise or the
J>ftice's Afliftant,
French and Englilh dictio
naries,
Likewise the following PLAY S,
Recruiting Officer, Weft-Indian, Beggar's Opera,
IMock Doctor, Virgin Unmasked, Romeo and Juliet,
Careless Husband, Mourning Bride, Beaux Stratagem.
Best RED and BLACK INK.
N. B. The belt price will be given for tanned ffieep
skins, and country quills.
Now felling off very low for Cash,
At the STURE of
ROBERT^ GAULT,
In MAIDEN-LANE,
A large and general aflortment of Goods,
Among which are thefollowing ;
SUPERFINE, middling, and coarie cloths; coatings,
frizes, duffles, serges, fwan/kins, flannels, rattinets,
Walloons, crapes, camblets, durants, tammies, ftufts, cal
limancoes, grograms, filverets, poplins, bombazeent, Mar
seilles quilting, dimothees, drawboys, huckaback, thick
fetts, jeans, bed ticks, plain and figured fattens, plain
and figured modes, ducapes, plain and striped luteftrings,
mantuas, taffeties, perfians, silk and worsted breeches
pieces; mens, womens, and boys silk, thread, cotton,
and worsted flockings; plain and figured velvets, India
and Englilh chintz, callicoes, cottons, cambrick,, muf
hns, lawns ; silk, kenting, and Scots handkerchiefs ;
ribbons, fans, mens and womens, silk and leather eloves,
black and white lace and edgings, tapes, bindings, gold
and silver buttons, twist do. broaches, ear-rings, neck
aces, &c. &c.
Also, a large assortment of hard-ware, ufeful and or
namental china, glass, plated ware, and looking glaflbs.
*, What remains on hand of the above
goods, on Tuesday the 24th instant, will that
day be fold at PUBLIC VENDUE. The
vendue to begin at 10 o'clock in the morning,
and continue until all is fold.
———^^^
,§ Valuable negro man, about 21 years old, has
/a. lived with an officer in the army, is a tolerable
good cook, understands the care of horses, and ih
remarkably sober. Enquire of the Printer.
A, A tbe night of the -th inf.
kJ I CO ° ut °f the ^"f f Robert
Murray, at Inklinbergb, a LOOKING GLASS, three
feet and a half long, and twenty inches broad, set in a
mahogany frame, with a narrow gilt edge. Whoever brings
the said glass to the owner, foall have Forty Shillings as a
reward : and if the thief be taken end convi^ed, a further
sum of Eight Pounds, by ROBERfI MURRAY.
" S O LK'LETTH~ER,
OF the best quality, to be bad of Thomas Gris
wold, in Pearl-ltreet, near the battery ; who
has for sale as usual, Welt-India and New-York
rum, geneva, brandy, cordials, &c. Likewise Holland
geneva in cases.
Morris Iff r,Y order of the inferior court of common
County,ty ' pleas, in and for the county of Morris,
notice is hereby given to all the creditors of Ebenezer Perry,
1 hemas Evans, and Peter Owens, insolvent debtors, that
they be and appear before two of the judges of said court, at
the court-house in Morris-Tonur, on the firfs day of November
next, at two o'clock in the afternoon, re Jhew cause, if aty
they bate, why an alignment of the said irfolveni eftatis
Jhould not be made, and they be discharged from their confine
ment, according to the directions of an afl of the colony f
New-ferfey, entitled, Ar. all for the relief of infohm:t
debtors. Morris-Tron, Ofloberz, 1775.
At the BREWERY of
ABRAHAM WALTON,
In MAIDEN-LANE,
A Number of good empty Butts,
Pipes, and Barrels.
JOHN FELTHAUSEN.
In ROOSEVELT-STREET,'
Near the Ship Yards, opposite to John Woods's, Efe; and
against the freet which goes down from Crass Niil to
the Meadows ;
BEST geneva, made and distilled from rye, in the
fame manner as Holland geneva is made, fe some
gentlemen have advertised in this paper to encourage that
business, and as there is not any person at present that
distills liquor from grain in this government, it is'hoped
every friend to his country will encourage it/ especially
at those times when we ought to give a preference to our
own manufactures.
Said Felthaufen has for sale, good distillers waffi at
One Shilling per barrel, excellent for milch cows, and fat
tening hogs.
Blacklock's paraclefis,
Fordyce's sermons to young
women,
: Essays on husbandry,
Sherlock on Providence,
, death, and Peter the Great,
Dodridge's regeneration,
Sentimental journal,
Cyrus's travels,
Rowe's letters,
McLaurin's sermons,
Pilgrim's progress,
Ambrose looking unto Jesus
Witten on the Lord'sfupper,
Gospel sonnets,
; Scripture songs,
Gordon's and Dobfon's sys
tem of arithmetic, being
one of the belt now extant
Sheakfpear's Jests, or the
Jubilee Jester, being one
of the belt collections of
jests ever published in
Au erica.
Watts's psalms and hymns,
either single or together,
gift or plain,
Spelling books, primnters,
Sealing wax, walers,
Ink powder, pencils,
Receipt books,
Pocket books,
Orderly books, &c. &c.
,HALABEt^!A, 54ob^ Y, f,%
IT IS PROPOSED,
To print in. about Ten Days,
A neat MEZZITINTO PRINT,
OFT FT E
Hon. JOHN HANCOCK, Efa;
President of the Continental Congress.
*|* Subscriptions are taken in by H. Gaine, and R.
Saufe,'in New-York ; and by Mr. Nicholas Brooks, in
Philadelphia. Price, 33. gd. or in double-carv'd gilt
frames, at 78. 6d.
SAMUEL BROOME and Company,
LEAVING removed their store to New-Haven, in
O Cop/^ticur, defire^ all those indebted to them, to
call and fettle their accounts, either with them at New-
Haven, or Mr. Daniel Phoenix, living in New-York,
nearly opposite where said Broome and Company kept
their ftor:.---They have still on hand, a small assortment
of Goods suitable for the approaching season, to be fold
for cash or credit, cr the usual moderate terms.
New-York, October 5, 1775.
Toall the Frl ENDstf American Manufactures,
who difinguifh themfolves by that ruble patriotism of pro
mpting and encouraging literature on this extenfae continent ;
Just published, and to be fold by^
SAMUEL LOUDON, bookseller, near the coffee-houfe,
and WILLIAM GREEN, bookseller and book-binder,
in Maiden-lane, near the Fly-market, New-York ;
An AMERICAN EDITION of the
WORKS of the MUCH ESTEEMED
FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS,
In Four Volumes Large Octavo:
Being a complete History of the Rife, Progress, and final
Ruin of the meft remarkable Nation that ever existed in
the World.
The CONTENTS.
I. The life of Flavius Josephus, written by himfelf.
11. The antiquities of the Jews, in twenty books:—
Giving a history of the rife and progress of the Jewish
nation, with a particular account of (heir laws, manners,
customs, and ceremonies,.
111. His books against Apion, in two parts.
IV. The Jews Wars with the Romans, in seven books
—The mod dreadful and bloody that perhaps ever hap
pened ; in which 1,100,000 persons were destroyed, and
97,000 taken prisoners of war.
V. The Martyrdom of the Maccabees.
VI, Philo's Embaffv from the jews of Alexandria to
the Emperor Cai<&Caligula,
*, The character of this elegant historian is univer?
fatty known in the literary world, and greatly aporoved
of. The reader may rely upon the veracity of his writings
more than upon all the Greek and Latin hiftoriaas put
together.
The subscribers are requested to call at the above W.
Gr een's for the 3d and 4th vols.
*||* Subfaiptipps taken in at the above places, for
Whitfield's thirty-four feleCl SERMONS, in two
v Is. izmo.
S WOR D S,
May be suited therewith by applying to
CHARLES OLIVER BRUFF,
In Maiden-Lane, near the Fly-Marlcet;
QMALL fworda silver mounted, cut and thrust, and
cutteau de chafe, mounted with beautiful green grips,
an, broad fwora's, as gentlemen may fancy, either with
the heads of Lord Chatham, John Wilkes, Esq; with
Egils pierced and ornamented with mottoes ; for Pitt's
head, Magna Cbarta and Freedom ; for Wilkes's head,
Wilkes and Liberty ; iyon heads, dog heads, bird heans,
&c. being a coliedion cf the most elegant [Words ever
before made in America, all manufactured by said Bruff.
N^ B. Best small arm and ^iftoi oyl Hints, (word belts,
with or without swivels, gun-screw drivers, with worms,
Ac.
Weftchetter / „ Y order of Caleb Fowler, Esq; one
County, ) of the Judges of the Inferior Court
of Common 1 teas, for Westchester County : Notice is
hereby given, That on Application to him made by Joshua
Quereau, a Creditor of Robert Me Mallice, late of Court
lanot's Manor, in the said County of Westchester, in
Pursuance of two several Ads of the Legislature of the
Colony of New York, the one entitled, " An A& to
prevent frauds in debtors ;" and the other entitled, " An
Aft to revive the several Ads therein mentioned, relating
to absconding and fradulent debtors;" he the said Judge
d : d direct all the whole estate of the said Robert Me
Mallice, real and personal to be seized, and that unless
he does return and difeharge his debts within three
months next after this public Notice given, all his estate
real and personal so seized and taken, will be fold for th^
fatisfa&ipn of his creditors. Dated July 26, 1775.
CALEB FOWLER.
- - I
PUBLIC notice is hereby given to
all the creditors of Isaac Post, an insolvent debtor,
confined in the g>al in the county of Orange, being one
of the persons named in a certain A& of the Lieutenant
Governor, the Council, and the General Aflembly in
the colony of New-York, made and passed the 3d of
April, 1775, entitled, “ An aft for the relief of insolvent
debtors; within this colony, with refpeCl to the imprifon
merit of their persons ;" that he the said Ifaae Post hath
preferred his petition to two of the judges of the supreme
court; which petition, together with the account and
inventory, are filed agreeable to the said act, one of each
of them in the Clerk's office ot the supreme court, in
the city of New-York ; and one of each of them in the
Clerk's office of the county of orange, for the infpeaion
of his creditors: and the said Isaac Post doth hereby notify
his creditors, that he intends to apply to John Coe, or
Benjamin Pluerfton, Efqrs, being two of the judges of
the inferior court of common pleas, for the said county
of Orange, (or to one of them) in order to take the oath
prefcri bed by the said act, on Tuesday the 17th day of
October next, in order to have the said affidavit before the
judges of the supreme court, or any two of them, on
Tuesday the 24th day of October aforefaid, at 10 o'clock
of the forenoon of the fame day, at the chamber of the
Hon. Daniel Horfmanden, Esq; at which time and place
he intends to apply forhis difeharge, agreeable to the direc
tion: of the said a&, arid the prayer of his petition,
dated the 25th September, 1775. His
ISAAC X POST.
Mark.
DAVID SEABURY,
In Hanovzr-Squ are, opposite the Golden-Key,
hath for sale for Cash only,
AN Assortment of European Goods,
great part of which CT very suitable to the fcafo^p
JOHN AMORY,
WHIP.MAKER,
Manufactures and fells all forts of the belt
and newest fafhioned Horse-Whips, opposite
the Old Englilh Church Yard, and next Door to the Shop
he formerly carried on that Business in, in Company
with John Johnson; and as he is determined to manu
facture the best Stuff, and in the newest Taste, he
hopes for a Continuance of his Friends and the Public'#
Encouragement, whofs past Favours he most gratefully
acknowledges.
TITTLIP B R 0 OK s,
BOOK-BINDER from Dublin,
CARRIES on that business in all its branches, at hit
Ihop in Dock fyeet, between the coffee-houfe and
Oic-flip bridge. New or old books lettered, gilt and
rebound in the neatest manner; merchants and other#
supplied with blank books, either ruled or plain, on the
shortest notice; pocket books, memorandum books, &c.
He will study to give general fatisfaCtien to his cuftdmers,
and flatters himfelf the public will favour him with some
encouragement. - Th§ following pamphlets may he had at
moderate prices-^-Cook's voyageround the world; present
for an apprentice, Yorick's letters to Eliza, &c.
Ju'^^^
&eW^ ^^74*
CHARLES OLIVER BRUFF,
Goldsmith and Jeweller,
At the sign of the tea-pot, tankard, and ear ring, between
Maiden-Lane and Crown-street, next door to DoCtor
Kemmeneau, near ths Fly-Market; ."
W'HERE he makes and mends any kind of diamond
or enamelled work in the jewellery way ; also
all manner of stone buckles, stone rings, ear-rings and
broaches, solitaires, hair jewels, lockets, enamelled sleeve
buttons, mourning.rings of all forts, trinkets for ladies,
rings and lockets, plain or enamelled; gold necklaces,
and stones of ail forts : Likewise makes and mends all
forts of silver-smiths work ; also ladies fans neatly
mended. He gives the highest price for old gold, silver
and jewels ; buys rough chryftal, handsome pebble, and
blink cornelian, fit for teal stones : He has fitted a
Lapidary raill up, where he cuts all forts of Rones. He
wants immediately a lapidary, a jeweller, and an apprentice
boy ; none need apply but what can be well recommend
ed. lie engraves all forts of arms, crests, cyphers, heads,,
and fancies, in the neatest manner and greatest expedition,
with the heads of Lord Chatham, Shakefoeare, Milton,
Newton, Pope, Homer, Socrates, Hannibal, Marc An
t lorry, Crefar, Plato, jupiter, Apollo, Neptune, Mars,
Cleopatri, Diana, Flora, Venus, Marcelania, Masons
arms, with &] emblems of liberty; Cupid fancies, hearts
and dores nearly engraved for ladles trinkets. Likewise
silver ahd steel foals. He also plaits.hair in the neatest
manner. N. B. Takes likenesses off in hair as natural
as poflible, as to the form of visages ; works hairin sprigs,
birds, figures, cyphers, crests and cupid fancies. He has
for sale, best corals for whistles and bells ; likewise cleans
watches 2s. china dial plates fitted in at 6s. each, glasses
fitted in at is. each, and other repairs in proportion.
Those Gentlemen who are forming tbemfelves into companies
in defence of their Liberties ', and others that are net
provided with