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% all Persons interred id th TownJb^
of Stratton.
WHEREAS bis Majesty, by his letters patent un
der the great seal of the province bf New-York,
bearing date the twenty second day of August, now hit
pad, ha . r ^u< to certain persons therein named, all
thatc rraft or parcel of land, fitoate, lying and being
on the weft fide of Connecticut River, in the county of
Cumberland, within the province of New-York, com
monly called and known by thenameof Stratton ! Begin
ning at a beech tree marked S S. Banding at the south
west corner of a tra& of land known by the name of
Wirdhall, and running thence along the south bounds
thereof south, eighty degrees east, four hundred and eighty
chains ; then south, ten degrees weft, four hundred and
eighty chains ; then north eighty degrees weft, four hun
dred and eighty chains; and then north ten degrees east,
four hundred and eighty chains, to the place of beginning.
Containing (inchifive of a certain lot within the lame,
reserved to his Majesty, arid four other lots within the<
fame, granted in trust for public uses) 21,943 acres of
land, and the usual allowance for highways; and hath
ere&ed the fame in 0 a township, by the name of Stratton,
And whereas a grant of the fame trad of land was here
tofore pretended to be made by a certain instrument under
the great seal of the province of New-Haffipfbire, unto
Isaac Searl, Sohn Lyman, Job Searl, Nathan Lyman,
Eleazer Hannum, Charles Clap, Daniel Lee, Esq; Elisha
Mather, Martin Philps, Caleb Strong, Spencer Phelps,
Martin Phelps, jun# Affael Clap, jun. Oliver Lyman,
Joel Lea, Nathaniel Cudworth, Nathaniel Noyfe, Au
gtiftus Clap, Esq; Charles Mather, Ruggles Woodbridge,
Elias Lyman, Nathaniel Burt, Samuel Blodget, Caleb
Blodget, Rev. John Searl, Daniel Lee, jun. Capt. Benoni
Danks, James Hill, Joseph Hill, John Hill, John Hei
den, Josiah Brewer, Jonas Cuttier, William Rawson,
3d. John Smith, Rev. Jonathan Judd, Lieut. Ibomas
Sweat, Nathaniel Phelps, Nathaniel Phelps, jun. John
Smith jun. William Lyman, William Blunt, Gideon
Clark, Jonathan Baffcomb, Cutis Leumis, Oliver Wen
dal, Caleb Blodget, Benjamin Cudworth, Joel Hunt,
Seth Babbit, Richard Staler, Joseph Brown, Joseph
Pincheon, Esq; Monsieur Bunburr, William Pearlon,
Henry Apthorp, Jacob Wendel, Esq; William Brattle,
Esq; Thomas Hubbard, Esq; Richard Webard, Esq; John
Downing, Esq; Samuel Wentworth, and Benning Went
worth, and to be erected into a towrihip o]that province
by the name of Stratton. And whereas^ it is intended
that all persons interfiled in any of the laid lands, under
the said pretended grant (except as hercina tot excepted)
fbould upon the termsand under the provides hereinafter
mentioned, be enabled to obtain a good title to their
fevtral ffiares and interefls therein, under the grant theretf
issued under the great seal of the province of New-York :
Public notice is therefore hereby given to ail perfonser-we
named, to whom the said pretended grant was originally
made as aforefaid, and to all other perlons refpe&ive'y
poffefled of, or interested in any of the said lands, by,
from, or under any of them, that all and finguiar their
several interests refpeftively in the laid traff of land,
under the said pretended grant, Ihall be confirmed to
them refpeaively, under the laid grant thereof made
as aforefaid, underthe great seal of the province of New-
York (except the share formerly reserved to Benning
Wentworth, Esq; containing the quantity reserved to his
Majesty as aforefaid) provided they apply for the fame
refpe&ively to the fubferiber, Edmund Fanning, of the
city and province of Ncw-York, within one year after
the date of this notification, paying to him their respec
tive proportions of all fees, charges and dtfburfements,
with the lawful inhered thereof, which hath, or ihall
arise, or grow due, by reafen of the illuing, out of toe
said letters patent, together with the coflsand charges cf
the deeds and conveyances to be made to them refpe&ively.
EDMUND FANNING.
SPERMACITIE CANDLES
Of the firft quality, and a few dozen extraordinary
good claret, to be fold by
HENRY MITCHELL,
On HUNTER's QU^Y.
HEREAS by an order of the
7 7 General Assembly of the province of New-
Jersey, of the 28th of January, 1775, the proprietors
of the patent of Secacus have permission to get a law
palled by the said assembly at their next session, to ap
point commiflioners finally to fettle and determine said
allotments : Therefore this is to give publick notice to
all persons whatsoever any ways concerned therein, to
lay in their claims before the next fitting of the said
assembly. in order to prevent any further disputes.
FIVE POUNDS Reward.
R UN ; away August the 12, 1775, fr° m the fubferiber,
living in Philadelphia, an indented Irish servant
Rd, named John Perrey, about 5 feet 6 or 7 incheshigh;
Fir complexion, red cheeks, black hair, walks a little
flooping and clumsy, looks pleafant+when talkirg, is a
tolerable handsome lad; has served part of his time
to the rope making business, and has been seen in New-
York ; it is supposed he is gone to lea from that port,
and is likely he may return there again 7 Whoever se
cures said lad, in any of his Majesty's goals, so that his
master may have him again, Ihall have the above reward,
and all reasonable charges paid, by
Richard Tittermary.
l|§l^pt^~iEEE=r^ u P by the sub-
JL Briber, the twelfth day
J une ' aft > a dark sorrel MARE,
about fourteen hands high, short
ff^^f* dock, supposed fix years old,
' neither natural or artificial mark.
^^^t±#~=i: Whoever owns the said Mare,
by proving his property and pay
ing charges, may have her by applying to
RORERT GOULD, jun.
Pequannack, Morris-County, New-Jersey, July 26, 1 775.
ALL Persons that have any Demands on the Estate
of Ezekiel Cheever, late of Morris Town, de
ce.ded, either by Mortgage, Bond, Note, Book Debt, or
otherwise, are desired for very particular Reasons, to fend
them to the Subscribers, by the firft Day of October
next; and all those that are indebted to said Estate, are
defied to make fpecdy Payment to prevent Trouble.
Jacob Morrell, 7
Nathan Reeve, > Executors.
Jon. Cheever. J
To be fold, at public vendue,
On Wednesday the 20th instant, at ten o'clock in the
morning, thedwelling house of William Dennifton, in
Hanover, in the county of Morris;
SAID dwelling house has two rooms on a floor, with
a good cellar kitchen and cellar; also a fulling mill,
and a large commodious shop, with all the tools and
utehfils (of the firft quality and quite new) necessary for
the carrying on the clothing and dying bufmefs, well situ
ate for custom, and on a never failing stream. The house
and other buildings being all within a few yards of each
other, with about 14 acres of good land, on which said
buildings hand, about half of which is well timbered,
and the rest under proper improvements, &c. &c.
Articles to be made known at the time of sale, when the
srioft reasonable time of payment will be allowed, by
William Denniston.
Vendue fubje& to adjournment.
ZW'HL Partnership of Henry Van Vleck and Son, be
ing dissolved, this is to acquaint all Persons, who
are indebted to Henry Van Vleck, or to said Partnership
cf Henry Van Vleck and Sen, either by Bond, Note, or
Book Debt, to make speedy Payment to Henry Van
Vleck, or in his Absence to Henry H. Perry. It is ex
peded that those Debts which have been long due will
be paid very soon, to prevent their being put into the
Hands of an Attorney.
Tobe fol% at public Venduty
On Tuesday the 12th instant, at the House of John
Fowler, in Bowrey-Lane, the remaining part of the
stud of James De LanceY, Esq; confining of the
following: C U B,
AN English mare, got by the famous herfe cub, who
was one of the best racers and stallions in Great-
Britain. This Mare is the dam of bafhaw, pilgrim, and
several other fine horses and mares : She is allowed to be
one of the most valuable brood mares in America : She
was covered by Lath, and is supposed to be in foal,
FAIR RACHAE L,
A fine English mare, got by Old Babrabam, foil of
the Godolphin Arabian, out of a daughter of the famous
Bolton Starling. This mare is the dam of Match'em
and Sultana : She breeds most beautiful stock, was co
vered by Lath, arid supposed to be in foal#
The above mares are very lucky in producing foals.
A yearling Alley, from. Fair Rachael, got by Lath.---
A yearling filley, from Betty Leedes, got by Traveller.—
A three years old Filley, got by Wildair, with a chance
colt foal at her foot.
Two bay geldings and a bay mare, that have been ac
customed for many months past to draw a post chaise and
curricle, being a good match for each other. The mare
w^s got by.Wildair.
Several common horses, and four Efopus brood mares,
that have bred excellent carriage horses.
DESERTED from the 7th Regiment of the Con
necticut Troops, commanded by Col. Charles
Webb, and Capt. Halt's Company, on Thursday Night
last, a certain James Parsons, who said he was born at
Amboy 1 He is about 2$ Years old, 5 Feet 7 Inches
high, and well made.: Had on when lie went away, a
green foort Coat with Brass Buttons, an old black Vel
vet Jacket and Breeches, pretty good Shoes, hod white
!Stockings, With a white Linen Shirts He is 'of a black.
I Complexion, with b!a,ck Beard, arid Hair, is very talka
;tire. Two Dollars Reward will be given, and all rea
ifinable Charges paid on delivering the said Deserter to
:the commanding Officer at Horse-Neck, or by me,
Joseph Hatt, Captain.
WHEREAS the sale of the goods and chattels,
lands and tenements, of the Right Honorable
IWilliam Earl of Stirling, within my bailiwick, have
I been often adjourned for want of buyers ; aad the sale of
Ithe goods and chattels are now fixed for Thursday the
I3lft of August, instant, at to o'clock in the forenoon
I of the fame day, and that of the lands for the sth day
I of October next. The vendue to be held on the prerni-
Ife% These are therefore to notify the publick, that the
I .files Will certainly come on at the times appointed, and
;that they will continue ftom day to day, until the exe
, curious I have in ray hands are fatished. The conditions
► cf the vendue will be made known at the days of fale#
ROBERT STOCKTON, Sheriff.
1 Stfmerfet County, Aug. 2, 1775.
—N "A TT C
BLACKSMITHS wanting employ and willing and
able to make nails, may find encouragement by
applying to
GARRET ABEE L,
I Who has for sale nail rods, Sweeds, refined and
I bloomery iron, steel, anvils, beck irons, vices, fledges,
I and hand hammers, rubbers and files, pots, kettles,
t waggon and cart boxes, fnufket balls, bar lead. ALSO
an aflortment of ironmongery and cutlery.
IF William Searles who about five ,ears ago kept a
school at or near Hackinfack, be yet alive, he is
desired to inform the . printer hereof, where he refidet,
that <n application may be made, to him, which will pay
him for the trouble of giving that information.
August 22d, 1775#
BROKE the gaol of Newark, in New-Jersey, on
Sunday night the 6th instant, a certain Nathan
Parant, committed on fufpicioh of having robbed the store
of Messrs. Morrells, of Elizabeth-Town, some time ago.
He is about 5 feet 8 inches high, thin visaged, and
pretty spare. He changed his cloaths left Monday even
ing in the city of New-York, arid has followed the fear,
he is very talkative and apt to get drunk. He can tail?
Dutch, French, Spanish and the Portuguese languages.
I Benjamin Lifk, a prisoner for debt, made his escape at
Ithe fame time: He was born in New York, and is a
blacksmith by trade. He is about 5 feet 7 inches high,
down look, and very thin: He had on a blue short coat,
has a very large mouth, and the skin of his cheeks seems
a little contrasted.
Five Pounds will be given for Parant, and Five Dollars
for Lisle, as a reward, and all reasonable charges paid by
THOMAS SAFFEN, Goaler.
N. B. Both of the above described persons were seen
:n the upper barracks at New-York, last Wednesday
evening.
rOUR DOLLARS Reward.
an UN^AWAY from the fubferiber,
living in the borough of Elizabeth-
Town, New-Jersey, a negro fellow named
STEVE# near 6 feet high, has a sower
look, and is a fuple Ipry fellow : & for
merly belonged to one Mr. Ludlow, up
the North River, and it is thought he is
gone that way. and taleen a mulatto wench
with him. Any person that may take up
either or both of them, and secure them in goal, or
bring them home, flull have the above reward, and all
reasonable charges, paid by CORBET SCUDDER.
STOLEN out of the store of Abra
ham Hubbell, merchant, of Newfield, in Fairfield,
in Connecticut, on the night of the Bth inst. August,
the following particulars, (to wit) one piece of black
Manchester velvet; one piece of black silk do. one piece
of black latten ; one piece of black India taffety, a few
yardsof Englilh do. one dozen of grey worked Bookings,
half a dozen cotton do. a piece of yard wide holland;
two dozen black Barcelona handkerchiefs; one dozen of
brown check'd silk handkerchiefs; two dzen of red
stamped linen do. Also, a large assortment cf sewing
silk of divers colours, and about fix pounds in caffi, the
chief part coppers and small Giver, and many other goods
not yet known# '1 is supposed he was a transient fellow,
about 6 feet high, dark coloured hair tied behind, deep
marked with the small pox, straight made ; he wore while
he was about these parts, a blue furtout coat, and a blue
bodied coat almost as long as the other, and a pair of
striped trowfers. Whoever apprehends said thief, and
brings him to the fubferiber, so as the fa& can be proved
against him or any other person, shall receive a reward of
xEN DOLLARS, and all other reasonable charges from
ABRAHAM HUBBELL.
N. B. 'Tia supposed he went to the Westward.
Albany Goal, id August, 1775.
NOTICE is hereby given to all the creditors of Sa
muel Loadman, an insolvent debtor, confined in
Aid goal by process issued out of the inferior court of
common pleas of Charlotte county, being one of the Per
sons named in a certain aft of the governor, council, and
general assembly of the colony of New-York, entitled,
" An aft for the relief of insolvent debtors within this
colony, with refped to the im^rifonment of their per
sons;" passed the 3d day of April last, that he the said
Samuel Loadman, has presented his petition to two of
the judges of this inferior court of the county of Char
lotte ; end I do nereby notify my refpedive creditors that
I intend to apply to the said judges, on the 19th day of
September next, at the house of Patrick Smith, Esq- in
the County of Charlotte, for my difeharge, agreeable to
the diredions of said aft. SAMUEL LOADMAN
WRITING taught in 6 weeks, at one hour per
' a y> at home or abroad, by the fubferiber.----
Specimens of improvement are to be seen at his lodgings,
at the Lower Barracks, nigh the Battery.
W. ELPHINSTON.
^^THEftE AS William Wickham, and William'
FV Beekman, did make, ana with their hands lub-!
scribe a certain writing, bearing date the ninth day cf
February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven
hundred and feventy-five, and published the fame twelve
weeks successively in Hugh Gaine's paper, entitled, The
New-York Gazette, and the Weekly Mercury; and in
James Rivington's paper, entitled, The New-York Ga
zetteer, or the Connecticut, Hudson's River, New-Jersey
and Quebec Weekly Advertiser; two of the public news
papers of this colony# Which said writing was and is
directed by the tenor thereof, To all persons interested in
the land therein mentioned; containing 3000 acres:
And recites, That whereas Abraham Halbrouk, Jacobus
Bruyn, and Richard Edfall, pursuant to a law of the co
lony of New-York, did divide a certain trad of land,
commonly called the Wawayanda Patent, in t^e county
of Orange. And whereas the said Commissioners did
set apart to the persons holding the undivided rights of
the town of Golhen (commonly called the Gofhen town
rights) a certain trad of land of about 3000 acres, ornate
in the said patent, on the weft fide of the drowned lands,
and bounded as follows : Beginning at a heap of stones,
in the line of the Jersey claim, fix miles from the Mini
finck mountains; thence south 54 degrees weft, 64
chains, to a white oak tree marked ; thence north 45
degrees and 15 minutes weft, 454 chains, to a traverse
line run along the foot of said mountains; thence along
the said line north-eaftetly, as it runs, to the aforefaid
Jersey claim ; thence south 45 degrees and 15 minutes
east, 480 Chains, to the place cf beginning; containing
3000 acres of land, as by the proceedings of the said Com
mifiioners, filed in the Secretary's Office of the said co
lony, and in the Clerk's Office of the. said county of
Orange, willfully appear# And did thereby give notice,
.that Joshua Davis, Elnathan Corey, and James Polfon,
all of the precinct of Gofhen, persons not interefled in
the said lands, were appointed Commissioners to make
partition thereof; and that they the said Commissioners
would meet on Monday the 15th day of May last, at the
house of Samuel Gale, in the town of Gofhen, in the
said county of Orange, inn-keeper, to proceed to the par
tition of the said land ; and did then and there require all
persons intereftedth sreiri, to attend then and there for that
purpose, by themselves or by their attornies : Now there
fore, we the said Joffiua Davis, Elnathan Corey, and
James Dolfon, CommiOioners so appointed as aforefaid,
do hereby fignify our said appointment, and do give notice
that we will meet on Tuesday the tenth day of October
next, at the house of the said Samuel Gale, in Gofhen
aforefaid, to proceed on the said partition ; and we desire
all persons concerned, to attend accordingly. In the
mean time, in order to prevent as much as possible any
doubts or difficulties that may atife from a chain of con
veyances, it is requested of the claimants to the premises,
that they will be pleased to produce their ritle deeds to
William Beekman, in New-Yorli, or to Daniel Everitt,
Henry Wifner, and PeterClowes, in Go-Sen, to the end,
that by examining and comparing them, the true propor
tions may be known, and their just proportions adjusted
accordingly.
Given under our hands at Goffien, the ninth day of
August, Annoq; Domini, 1775.
JOSHUA DAVIS,
ELNATHAN COREY,
JAMES DOLSON.
'To all Persons interred in the Town/bip
of Ryegate.
WHEREAS his Majesty by his letters patent under
the great seal of the province of New-York,
bearing date the 20th day of June, now last past, hath
granted to certain persons therein named, dll that certain
tra& or parcel of land, situate, lying and being on the
weft fide of Connecticut River, in the county of Glou
cester, within the province of New-York, commonly
called and known by the name of Ryegate ; beginning
at a pitch-pine tree marked {[% ' ftandingon the bank
of Connecticut River, at the north-east corner of file
township of Newbury, and runs thence along the north
bounds of Newbury north 5o degrees Weft, 477 chains,
to the north-weft corner thereof ;---thence along the weft
bounds of Newbury 66 chains and 40 links; then north
68 degrees weft, 110 chains; then north 7 degrees 50
minutes east, 468 chains and 50 links, to a tree hereto
fore marked for the south-westerly corner of a tract or
land called Barnet ; then along the southerly bounds of
the last mentioned tract south 68 degrees east, goo chains,
to Connecticut River ; and then down along the weft
bank of the said river, as it winds and turns, to the
place where this tra& firft began, containing (inclufite
of a certain lot within the fame reserved to his Majesty,
and four other lots within the fame, granted in trull tor
public uses) 20,514 acres of land, and the usual allow
ance for highways, and hath erected the fame into a
township by the name of Ryegate. And whereas a grant
of the fame traft of land was heretofore pretended to be
made by a certain instrument under the great seal of the
province of New-Hampshire, polo Richard Jennis, Esq;
Richard Rand, James Mardin, Francis Jennis, Jonathan
Fowle, Robert Sanders, Henry Dow, Job Jennifs, Wil
liam Thomas, William Sevey, James Sevey, Samuel
Jennis, Reuben Moulton, Arnos Knowles, Samuel
Wallis, Richard Lock, jun, Thomas Watson, Josiah
Webster, William Randell, Benjamin Garland, Nathan
Gofs, Joseph Mardin, Richard jennifs, jun# Stephen
Mardin, Peter Garland, Amos Sevey, Joseph Jennifs,
Bickford Lang, job Fols, Joftua jennifs, Nathaniel
Jennifs, Mercyfieid Berry, Jacob Berry, Richard Gois,
Jolhua Weeks, Richard Jennis, 3^ Esq; Samuel Murry,
Jonathan Brown, Wahis' Foss, Joseph Browne, Revd.
Mr. Samuel Farions Zebudee Hunt, Samuel Knowles,
Francis Lock, Amos Bond, Jeremiah Berry, William
Berry, Jonathan Fowle, jun. Peter Johnson, Joseph
Yeaton, Nehemiah Moulton, Isaac Jennis, Jonathan
Gofs, Samuel Samburn, Joseph Lebby, Simon Garland,
Ozem Dowse, Philip Pain, Joseph Blanchard, Esq; Capt,
Samuel Frost, Joseph Rand, John Bracket, Nathan
Knowles, Jeremiah Lock, Samuel Ealkios, Christopher
Gold, William Palmer, Ebenezer Philbrick, Richard
Lock, Solomon Sevey, Ebenezer Mardin, Ozem Dowse,
jun. Triflram Coffin Sleeper, Reuben Philbrick, Henry
Ealkins, David Smith, Benjamin Lang, Capt. George
Frost, Samuel Jones, Abraham Libby, Benjamin Libby,
Samuel Band, Paul Randall, Shadrach Weymouth, Ar
thur Libby, Jonathan Marden, Nathaniel Berry, jun.
Moses Sevey, Samuel Wells, Ephraim Band, Samuel
Sanders, Daniel Philbrick, the Hon. William Temple,
and John Nelson, Esquires, and to be ereßed into a
township of that province by the name of Ryegate.-—
And whereas it is intended that all persons interested in
any the said lands under the laid pretended grant (except
as is herein after excepted) should, upon the terms and
under the provifoes herein after-mentioned, be enabled to
obtain a good title to their fevtral ffiares and interests
therein under the grant thereof irfued under the great
seal of the province of New-York, Public Notice
is therefore hereby given, to ail peifons above-named, to
whom the said pretended grant was originally made as
aforefaid, and to all other persons respectively possessed of
or interested in any pt the said lands, by, from, or under
any of them, that all and singular their several imerefts
refpeaively in the said trad of land under the said pre
tended grant shall be confirmed to them refpeaively,
under the said grant thereof made as aforefaid under the
great seal of the province of New-York (except the share
formerly reserved to Benning Wentworth, Esq; contain
ing the quantity reserved to his Majesty as aforefaid) pro
vided they apply for the fame relpeftively to the sub
scriber, John Church, of Charleltown, tn the county of
Cheshire, in the province of New-Hampfhfre, Elq; within
one year after the date of this notification, paying to
him their refpe&ive proportions of all fees, charges, and
difburfemente, with the lawful interest thereof which
hath or shell arise or grow due by reason of the issuing
out the said letters patent, together with the costs and
charges of the deeds and conveyances to be made to
them refpeaively. JOHN CHURCH,
New-York, August zift. 1775#
To all Persons interested in the Tra^ of
Land herein after mended d.
WHEREAS his late Majesty King George the
Second, by letters patent under the great seal
of the colony of New-York, bearing date chetwenty-firft
day of February, in the year 1752, did give and grant to
Jacob Borft, and others, in the said letters patent named,
ALL those two certain tracts or parcels of land, litu
ate, lying and being in the county of Albany, to
the wefjward of Schohafry, between the mountains of
Schohary and,the hill called by the Indians Onuntadatha,
on the creek or brook called by the Indians Ofchaleghe,
otherwise Cobus Kill, the firft of which traffs begins
at a beach tree marked with three notches on four sides,
and a cross on the weft fide, standing on the fide of a
steep bank, on the north fide of the said brook, called
Ofchaleghe, or Cobus Kill, at the lower end or point of
a piece* of low land, and is 37 chains measured in a
Freight line down the stream ol the said brook, from the
place where a tradj of 1000 acres of land, formerly
granted to the said Jacob Borft, and others, takes its
beginning ; and this trad runs from the said beach tree
north 13 degrees, weft 80 chains ; then south 75 degrees,
weft 178 chains ; then south 49 degrees, waft 232 chain
to the weft end of the said tract of 1000 acres ; and then
along the bounds thereof to the most southerly corner of
the fame ; and from thence north 75 degrees, east 373
chains ; and then north 13 degrees, weft 60 chains, to
the place where this trad firft began, containing 3000 acres
of land, and the usual allowance for highways. The
other of the, said two trails begins at a white oak tree,
marked with a blaze, and a cross on four sides standing
on the topof a steep black flaky bank, on the weft fide
of the said brook, called Ofthalegbe, or Cobus Kill,
which bank is ^ place,called by the Indians Ohuntada
fha, and the said tree is 10 chains up the Bream of the
said brook, from where another brook falleth into it, and
this tract runs from the Aid place of beginning, weft 10
chains ; then south east 02 chains; then south .70 de
grees, east 107 chains ; then south 13 degrees, east 76
chains; then north 75 degrees, east 443 chains ; theu
north 13 degrees, weft 313 chains; th-n south 75 de
grees, weft 512 chains, to the said brook called Ofcha
leghe, or Cobus Kill; and then down the dream thereof
as it runs to the place where this trad firft began, con
taining I 5000 acres of land, and the usual allowance
for highways, the said two tracts containing together
18,000 acres of land, and the usual allowance for high
ways.
AND WHEREAS I the fubferiber am part owner
and proprietor of the said two tra&s of land : NOW
THEREFORE by virtue of a certain aft of the Lieut.
G vernor, the Council, and the General Assembly of the
colony of New-York, passed the Sth day of January,
1762, intitled, “ AN ACT for the more eW&al col
“ ceding of hia Mmjefty's quit rents in the colony of
“ New- York, and for partition of lands in order thereto ;]
and also by virtue of onecther aft, entitled, " AN ACf'
“ to continue an nd, for the more effectual colleaing his
“ Majesty's quit rents, in the colony of New-York, and
“ for partition of lands in order thereto; and also to
“ continue another a&, intitled, An aft to explain
“ part of an act, entitled, An a& for the more es
“ feftuv.! colleaing his Majesty's quitrents in the co
“ lony of New-York, and for partition of lands in order
“ thereto ;” passed the 31st day of December, 1765.
I DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that JOHN BUT
LER, of Tryon county, in the colony aforefaid, Efa;
and RICHARD DUNCAN, of Schenectady, in the
count ! ° f Albany aforefaid, gentleman, and WILLIAM
COCKBURN, of the county of Ulster, in the colony
aforefaid, surveyor, not interested in the trad of land,
are appointed commissioners to make partition thereof,
pursuant to the said fevtral ads ; a:d that they the said
commissioners will meet at the dwelhng-houfe of Robert
Clench, tavern keeper, in Schenectady aforefaid, on,
,rucday the 19th day of September next, to proceed to'
the partition of the laid land; and all persons intcrefted.
therein, are hereby required to attend then and there for
that purpose, either by themselves or their attornies.
Given under my hand the xoth day of Mav, 1775.
GEORGI MANN.
FRANCIS VANDALE;
From OLD FRANCE,
Now riving at Mr. Rapafc's, in Queen-Street, nearthe
Fly-Market:
BEGS leave to Acquaint the pc 1 ? c, that he purposes
to teach the French and Italian languages, in New
i uric, and willreadily attend any young ladies and gentle
men at ra h<:r dwellings; and as he is a proteftanr, and
recommended by many gentlemen on this continent, he
'',?,!". ' n °' "° if ^laeec with encouragement equal '0 his
abilities. If a Sufficient number of young gentlemen
^ll engage to mend an evening or day school, he will
inGruct them a reasonable rate. He doubts not, on
tr.l- he :aii give fariNAbon, and will be greatly obliged
"Jr' '^' e v °" "™ pFAe to employ him.
ROBERT HYSLOP,
{, EQ^TESTS all Persons indebted to him, to make
-1V immediate Payment, that he may be enabled to
discharge his just Debts; and desires all Accounts against
him may be brought in, that he may fettle them, as he
is under a Necessity of going to Britain as soon as possible.
He has yet on Hand,
A pretty large Assortment of seasonable GOODS,
Genuine Scotch Snuff,
SAIL CLOTH,
A few large and small Carpets, &c.
_Which be quill Jell on reasonable 'Terms,for Case only.
IpUELiC notice is hereby given, pursuant to an act
I of the Governor, Council, and General Assembly of
the province of New-York, passed the 19th day of March
now last past, entitled, “ An aft for the more effectual
r%iftry of mortgages, and for securing the purchafe/s of
mortgaged estates;" that on the 10th day of October
next, at ten o'clock in the morning, there will be fold on
the premiies, by the fubferiber, at public auction or ven
due, to the highest bidder, ALL that certain farm or
parcel of land situate, lying, and being in Rumbout's
Precin&, in the county of Dutchefs, beginning at the
east corner of a lot of land now, or late, in the pofleffion
of William Edwards, by an elm sapling marked ; thence
54 degrees and 30 minutes east, 37 chains and 40 links,
to a white oak tree marked on two sides; thence north
21 degrees and 30 minutes weft, 24 chains, to a flake and
Bones round it; thence south 54 degrees weft, 23 chains,
to, or near, the middle of a pond of water; thence north
24 degrees and 30 minutes weft, 12 chains and 40 links,
to an island on the north ftde thereof, to a white ash
sapling marked ; thence westward along the creek, as the
said creek runs, to the land now in the poffeflion cf
William Edwards, to the place where it firft began, con
taining 108 acres and a half of land, whereof 7 acres and
a half are allowed for pond ; with all and singular the
appurtenances to the fame belonging.—Which said farm
and parcel of land, and premises, were, by deed bearing
date the firft day of January, in the year of our Lord
177 2 , mortgaged by Peter Davifon, since deceased, to
the fubferiber, for securing the payment of £. 250, ,with
interest, on or before the firft day of OQober then next.
I he conditions of sale will be made public on the day of
the vendue, before the sale begins, and title deeds execu
ted by the fubferiber, to the purchasers, fubjef tto the
provilo in the laid act of assembly in favour of other
mortgages, judgments at law, and decrees in equity, prior
to the said sale, by F
March 14, 17,5. CHARLES LE ROUX.
'pH E annual meeting of " 5%
£ corporation for the relief of the vidozos and children
°f clergymen, in toe communion of the church of England, in
America, is to be held at Philadelphia,on the fourth of
October next, being the firft Wednefdav after the feaft of
St, Michael. THOMAS COOMBE, Secretary,