The New-York gazette, and the weekly Mercury — New-York [N.Y.], 1775-09-04 00:00:00, page 4

PUBLIC notig: is hereby given, purtuent to an a^
of the Governor, Council, and General Assembly of
the province of New-York, parted the 19th day of March
now left past, entitled, " An aft forthe more effectual
rejlfry of mortgages, and for securing the purchasers of
mortgaged estates;" that on the icth day of October
2ext, 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
Precindt, in the county of Dutchefs, beginning at the
east corner of a let of land now, or late, in the pefleffion
of William Edwards, by an elm sapling marked ; thence
54 degrees and 30 minutes caff, 37 chains and 40 links,
to a white oak tree marked on two sides; thence north
21 decrees and 30 minutes weft, 24 chains, to a ftakeand
Clones round it; thence south 54 degrees weft, 23 chains,
@O, er near, tlw middle of a pond of water; thence north
24 degrees and 30 minutes weft, 12 chains and 40 links,
to an island an the north fide thereof, to a white ash
failing marked ; thence westward along the creek, as the
^id creek runs, to the land now in the poffeffien of
William Edwards, to the place where it firft began, con
teinieg leS acres and a hall 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
1772, mortgaged by Peter Davifon, since deceased, to
the fubferiber, for securing the payment of £. 250, with
interest, on or before the firft day of October then next.
The 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, subj ft to the
provife in the said aft of assembly in favour of other
mortgages, judgments at law, and decrees in equity, prior
to the said sale, by
March 14, 1775> CHARLES LE ROUX,
To be SOLD,
TW 0 Sleops, one double-decked, of about leo
teas ; another Angle-decked, above 80 tons: They
are now on the stocks, on Staten-Island, and can be
launched in a few days notice: They are well built: For
particulars apply to Joshua Mercereau, at the
north fide of Staten Itland.
rriO be fold for want of employ, a remarkable ftreng,
J likely young negro we&h, a tolerable cook, and
vuderftands waning and all kinds of house work; the
has been much afed to the country, and will m^ke an
^^^t a,id very ifefwl fen^ Enquire @f H, Gaine.
' Wants a Freight
To ^ l' 3rt °f EUROPE,
The Ship Needham,
%^T^^fJ W !L! TAMG
T YING at Croftfield and Tot-
L ten's Wharf. For Particulars
apply to Win. Neilfon, or the Captaiibon Board.
N. B. A few Servants Times to be difyofed of. En
quire as above.
A Sale of Goods.
ON Tuesday the sth day of September next, will
come on the fate of the whole stock of goods belong
ing to Thomas Galbreath, at his dore in Qu,en-flreet,
facing the Fly Market, and will positively be firuck off
to the highest bidder. Any person inclining to purchase
any part of said goods at private sale, before the vendue
comes on, may apply at said store, where they will be
fold remarkably cheap for ready money only,
N, B, All indebted to said Thomas Galbreath, are
requested to be in readiness to fettle there accounts, as
he is soon unde; theneceffity of leaving New-York.
A few very neat LOOKING-GLASSES remains yet
on hand, and will be fold extremely cheap; and what
don't fell before the sth of Sept, will then be fold with
the reftof the goods at vendue, and also a parcel of mens
fine caftor hats.
BROKE the gaol of Newark, tn New-Jcriey, on
Sunday night the 6th instant, a certain Nathan
Parant, committed on suspicion of having robbed the ftoia
of Messrs. Morrells, of Elizabeth-Town, some time ago.
He is about $ feet 8 inches high, thin visaged, and
pretty spare. He changed his cloaths left Monday even
ing in the city of New-York, and has followed the'fea ;
he is very talkative and apt to get drunk. He can talk
Dutch, French, Spanish and the Portuguese languages.
Benjamin Lifk, a prisoner for dbt, made his escape at
the fame time: He was born in New York, and is a
blacksmith by trade. He is about 5 feet 7 inches high,
down loh, and very thin: fit had on a blue short goaf,
has a very large mouth, and the ikin of his cheeks seems
a little contrasted.
Five Pounds will be given for Parent, and Five Dollars
for Lilk, as a reward, and all renfonabfe charges paid by
THOMAS SAFFEN, Goaler.
N, B. Both of the above difcribed persons were seen
in the upper barracks at New-York, last Wednesday
evening.
STOLEN cut of the store of Abra
ham Hubbell, merchant, of Newfield, in Fairfield,
in Connecticut, on the night of the Sth inst. August,
the following particulars, (to wit) one piece of black
Manchester velvet; one piece of bjack silk do. one piece
of black fatten; one piece of black India taffety, a few
yardsof English do. one dozen of grey worsted flockings,
half a dozen cotton do. a piece of yard wide hollaed ;
two dozen black Barcelona handkerchiefs; one dozen of
brown check'd silk handkerchiefs; two dozen of red
Ramped linen do. Also, a large assortment of sewing
silk of divers colours, and about fix pounds in caffi, the
chief part coppers and small silver, and many other gop<B
not yet known. 'Tis supposed he was a tranfiept fellow,
about 6 feet high, dark coloured hair tied behind, dee,
marked with the small pox, straight made ; he wore while
he was about these parts, a blue furtout coat, and a Blue
bodied coat almeft as long as the other, and a pair of
flriped trewfers. Whoever apprehends said thief, and
brings him to the fubferiber, so as the sass can be proved
against him or any other person, fliall receive a reward of
TEN DOLLARS, and all other reasonable charges from
ABRAHAM HUBBELL.
N. B. 'Tis supposed he went to the Waftward.
FOtoTTR)tXTRF^
^W2, J F, UN-AWAY from the fubferiber.
living in the borough of Elizabeth-
Town, New-Jersey, a negro fellow named
X STEVE, near 6 feet high, has a lower
"rs" look, and is a tuple spry fellow : He for
""'' belonged to one Mr. Ludlow, up
N f W the ""' River, and it is thought he is
^° ne ^" " a y' an ' t"'"" a m ^tio wench
with him. Any person that may take up
either or both of them, and secure them in goal, or
bring them home, ffiall have the ab.ve reward, and all
reasonable charges, paid by CORBET SCUDDER.
Albany Goal, lit August, 1775.
NOTICE is hereby given to tll the creditors of Sa
muel Loadmam, an insolvent debtor, confined in
said goal by proeefs issued out of the inferior court of
. common pleas of Charlotte county, being one of the Per
sons Ramekin a certain all es the governor, council, and
general assembly of the colony of New York, entitled,
" An a& for the relief of insolvent debtors within this
colony, with refpelf to the imprisonment 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 ; and I do hereby notify my refpeftive 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
Ithe directions of said aft SAMUEL LOADMAN.
ROBERT HYSLOP,
REQUESTS all Persons indebted to him, to make
immediate Payment, that he may be enabled to
discharge hisj^ft 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 <willfell on readable Terms,for Case only.
IH E annual meeting of " The
corfeoratton for the relief of the ividonus and children
of clergymen in the communion of the church cf England, in
America," is to be held a: Philadelphia on the fourth of
October next, being the fi ft Wednesday after the feaft of
St. Michael. THOMAS COOMBE, Secretary.
a For JAMAIC A,
The SCHOONER
JENN Y.
I KF AS Part of her Cargo on
<' board. For Freighter Passage
^'A^}^^ enquire of William Fundran,
FRANCIS VANDALE,
From OLD FRANCE,
BEGS leave to acquaint the public, that he purpofea
to teach the French and Italian languages, in New-
Y ,rx, and will readily attend any young ladies and gentle
men at their dwellings; and as he is a protestant, and
recommended by many gentlemen on this continent, he
doubts not he shall meet with encouragement equal to his
abilities. If a fufficient number of young gentlemen
will engage to attend an evening or day school, he will
inftrull them at a reasonable rate. He doubts not, on
trial, he fl.all give fatisfallion, and will be greatly obliged
to all those who will please to employ him# He lives in
Wata-Suset, Nq. 45.
'HEREAS William Wickham, and William
^ V Beekman, did make, and with their hands sub
scribe, a certain writing, bearing dite the ninth day of
February, in the. year of our Lord one thousand seven
hundred and feventy-five, and published the fame twelve
weeks fercceffively 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 inteiefted in
the land therein mentioned; containing 3000 acres:
Andrecitcs, That whereas Abraham Hafbrook, Jacobus
Bruyn, and Richard Edfall, pursuant to a law of the co
lony of New-York, did divide a certain trail of land,
commonly called the Wawayanda Patent, in the county
of Orange, And whereas the said Coramiffioners did
set apart to the persons holding the undivided rights of
the town of Goftien (commonly called the Goffien town
rights) a certain trail of land of about 3000 acres, situate
in the said patent, on the weft fide of the drowned lands,
and bounded as follows : Beginning at a heap of stones,
inthe 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 no/th-eafterly, as it runs, to the aforefaid
Jersey claim ; thence foub'a 45 degrees and 15 minutes
east, 480 chains, to.the place of beginning; containing
3000 acres of land, as by the proceedings of the said Com
missioners, filed in the Secretary's Office of the said co
lony, and in the Clerk's Office cf the said county of
Orange, will fully appear. And did thereby give notice,
that jeflwa Davis, Elnathan Corey, and James 1) dfon,
all 0/ the precinit of Goffien, persons not interested 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, 111 the
laid county es Orange, inn-keeper, to proceed to the par
tition of the said land ; and did then and there require all
persons inteiefted therein, to attend then and there for that
purpefe, by themselves or by their atbornies : Now there
fore, we the said Jolh.ua Davis, Elnathan Corey, and
James Dolfon, Commissioners 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
nW, 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 pofflble any
doubts or difficulties that may arise from a chain of con
veyances, it is requeued of the claimants to the premises,
that they will be pleased to produce their title deeds to
William Beekman, in New-York, or to Daniel Everitt,
Henry Wifner, and Peter Clowes, in Gofhen, 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 Gofhen, the ninth day cf
August, Annoq; Domini, 1775.
JOSHUA DAVIS,
ELNATHAN COREY,
JAMES POLSON.
AS the co-partnership of WILLIAMS
and BROOK E is near dissolved, their stock
in trade will be struck off to the highest bidder, for
the cash, at the house of Charles Brooke, in Shrewsbury,
en the second day of the week, and the eleventh cf the
ninth month called September; confining of a pretty
general assortment of dry goods, such as Holland and
Scotch ozenbrigs, ticklenburg, dowlas, Meetings, coarse
and middling Ir sh linens, filefias, 3-4, 7-$, yard wide,
and yard 3-8 checks, black and brown India and English
taffetics, drilling, duck, pins, cambricks, mufiins and
lawns, sewing silks and threads of most colours and
numbers, including perhaps the best assortment of goods
in the township. The vendue to begin about 9 o'cloelc
in the. forenoon, and continue from day to day until the
whole, is fold. WILLIAMS and BROOKE.
WHEREAS by an order of the
General Aficmbly 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
passed by the said assembly at their next session, to ap
point commiffionrirs 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 depute©.
Weftchefier) DY order of Caleb Fowler, Esq; one of
County. )D the Judges of the Inferior Court of
Common Pleas for Westchester County : Notice is hereby
given that on application to him made by Joshua Quereau,
a creditor of Isaac Coalfield, late of Courtland's Manor,
in the said County of Westchester, in pursuance of two
several alls 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 alls therein mentioned, relating to abfennding
and fradiuleht debtors ;" he the said judge did direct all
the whole estate of the said Isaac Coalfield, real and per
forial, to be seized, and that unless he does return and
difeharge his debts within three ,months next after this
public notice given, ,11 his estate real and personal, so
seized and taken, will be fold for the fatisfa&ion of his
creditors. Dated July 26, 1775.
CALEB FOWLER.
Ai For L O ND'O N,
The S NO W
F AVOUR ITE,
THOMAS FISHER, Master;
AVIN G part of her cargo engaged ;
Li ^ e is well found, and hath good
accommedationsTor passengers. For
freight or passage apply t@ the Master on board at
Mar Ann's wharf.
I?~o s
IN the Fly-Market, on Saturday the 19th inst. between
8 and 9 o'clock in the morning, a RED LEATHER
PO KET BOOK, containing a 20 dollar bill of the
continental money, and sundry papers which are of no
consequence to any person but the owner. If the person
who has found it, will be so kind as to return the book
and papers to the printer hereof, he may retain the money
for his reward.
SPERMACETI CANDLES,
Of the firft QUALITY,
TO BE SOLD by
DANIEL LUDLOW,
la KING.STREET,
To all Persons interested in the Township
of Ryegate.
his Majesty by his letters patent under
V v 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, all that certain
tra6l 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 ,-y' ftandingon the bank
of Connecticut River, at the north-east corner of the
township cf Newbury, and runs thence along the north
bounds of Newbury north 60 degrees weft, 477 chains,
tc the north-weft corner thereof ;---thence along the weft
bounds of Newbury 66 chains and 40 links; then north
68 degrees weft, iio 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 tra& cf
land called Barnet ; then along the southerly bounds cf
the last mentioned traci louth 6S degrees east, 500 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 trad firft began, containing (include
Of a certain lot within the fame reserved to his Majesty,
and four other lots within the fame, granted in trust for
public uses) 20,514 acres of land, and the usual allow
ance for highways, and hath erected the fame into a
township by the nameof Ryegate. And whereas a grant
of the fame tK\6t of land was heretofore pretended to be
made by a certain instrument under the great seal of the
province of New-Hampshire; unto 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, Amas 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 Foss, Joshua Jennifs,' Nathaniel
Jennifs, Merryfield Berry, Jacob Berry, Richard Gofs,
Joshua Weeks, Richard Jennis, 3d, Esq; Samuel Murry,
Jonathan Brown, Wallis Foss, Joseph Browne, Revd.
Mr. Samuel Parsons, Zebudee Hunt, Samuel Knowles,
Francis Lock, Amos Bond, Jeremiah Berry, William
Burry, Jonathan Fowle, jun. Peter johnfon, Joseph
Yeatora, Nehemiah Moulton, Isaac Jennis, Jonathan
Gofs, Samuel Samburn, J.feph Lebby, Simon Garland,
Ozem Dowse, Philip Pain, Joseph Blanchard, Esq; Capt.
Samuel Frost, Joseph Ran<, J@hn Bracket, Nathan
Knowles. Jeremiah Locle, Samuel Ealkins, Christopher
Geld, William Palmer, Ebenezer Philbrick, Richard
Lock, Solomon Sevey, Ebenezer Mardin, Ozem Dowse,
jun. Trigram 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 ereded 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 said pretended grant (except
as is herein after excepted) should, upon the terms and
under the provisoes herein after-mentioned, be enabled to
obtain a good title to their several Shares and interests
therein under the grant thereof issued under the great
seal of the province of New-York, Public Notice
is therefore hereby given, to all persons above-named, to
whom the said pretended grant was originally made as
aforefaid, and to all other persons refpedively pofleffed of
or interested in any of the said lands, by, from, or under
any of them, that all and singular their several interests
refpedively in the.faid tract of land under the said pre
tended grant shall be confirmed to them refpedively,
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 refpedively to the fub
feriber, John Church, of Charleftown, in the county of
Cheffiire, in the province of New-Hampshire, Esq; within
one year after the date of this notification, paying to
him their refpedive preportions of all fees, charges, and
diffiurfements, with the lawful interest thereof which
hath or Shall arise or grow due by reason of the iffaing
out the said letters patent, together with the costs and
charges of the deeds ar.d conveyances to be made to
them refpedtively. JOHN CHURCH.
New-York, August 21st. 1775.
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vincial Camp.
WHEREAS the co-partnership of Amory and
Johnson, whip-makers, is diflolved ; it is, re
quested that all persons indebted to them will make speedy
payment; and also that all who have any demands on
them will make speedy application.
To all Persons interested in the Traill of
Land herein after mentioned.
WHEREAS, his late Majesty King George the
Second, by letters patent under the great seal
as the colony of New-York, bearing date the twenty-firfl
day of February, in the year 1752, did give and grant to
Jacob Borft, and others, in rhe said letters patent named,
ALL those two certain tracts or parcels of land, fitu
a~e > ijing and being in the bounty of Albany, to
the weftw^rd of Schohary, between the mountains ol
Schobary and the hill called by the Indians Onuntadafha.
on the creek or brook called by the Indians Ofchaleghe
•therwife Cobus Kill, the firft of which trails begin:
at a beach tree marked with three notches on four tides
and a cress on the weft fide, Standing on the fide of 1
steep bank, on toe north fide of the said brook, callee
Ofchaleghe, or Cobus Kill, at the lower end or point 0
a piece of low lar.d, and is 37 chains measured in.
ftreight line down the flream of the said brook, from th<
p ace where a tract of 1000 acres of land, formerh
granted to the said Jacob Borft, and others, takes it
beginning ; and this trail runs from the said beach tre
aorta 13 degrees, weft 80 chains ; then south 75 degrees
weft 178 chains ; then south 49 degrees, well 232 chain
to the weft end of the said tract of' 1000 acres ; and thei
along the bounds thereof to the most southerly corner 0
the Same ; and from thence north 75 degrees, east 37:
chains ; and then north 13 degrees, weft: 60 chains, t
the place where this tract first began, containing 3000 acre
of land, and the usual allowance for highways. Th
o her of the said two tracts begins at a white oak tret
masked with a blaze, and a cross on feiir Sides ftandin
on the top of a steep black flaity bank, on the weft fid
of the said brook, called Ofchaleghe, or Cobus Kil
which bank is the place,called by the Indians Onuntada
Sha, and the said tree is 10 chains up the Stream of th
said brook, from where another brook faileth into ir, an
this trail runs from the said place of beginning, weft 1
chains ; then south-east 62 chains; then leuth 70 de
grees, east 107 chains ; then south 13 degrees, east 7
chains ; then north 75 degrees, east 443 chains ; the
north 13 degrees, weft 313 chains; them south 75 de
grees, weft 512 chains, to the said brook called Olcha
leghe, or Cobus Kill ; and then down the ftreana therec
as it runs to the place where this trail firft began, con
taining 15000 acres cf land, and the usual allowanc
for highways, the said two, trails containing togethe
18,000 acres of land, and the usual allowance for high
ways.
AND WHEREAS I the fubferiber am part ownt
2nd proprietor of the said two trails of land: NOV
THEREFORE by virtue of a certain alt of the Lieu
Governor, the Council, and the General Assembly of th
colony of New-York, passed the Sth day of January
1762, intitled, “ AN ACT for the more effectual col
“ lulling of his Majesty's quit rents in the colony 0
“ New-York, and for partition of lands in order thereto;
and also by virtue of one other all, entitled, “ AN ACT
“ to continue an a&, for the moreeflea.ua! collecting h
“ Majesty's quit rents, in the colony of New-York, an
“ for partition of lands in order thereto ; and alfol
" continue another all, intitled, An all to explai
“ part of an all, entitled, An all for the more el
“ fedual colle&ing his Majesty's quitrents in the cc
“ lony of New-York, and for partition of lands in ordi
" thereto ;” passed the 31st day of December, 176!
I DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that JOHN BUT
LER, of Tryon county, in the colony aforefaid, Est
and RICHARD DUNCAN, of Schenectady, in th
county of Albany aforefaid, gentleman, and WILLIAI
COCKBURN, of the county of Ulller, in the color
aforefaid, surveyor, not interested in the tra& of lam
are appointed cummiffioners to make partition theiao
purfuaht to the said several ,afts ; and that they the fa:
corgmiffioners will meet at the dwelling-heufe of Robo
Clench,, tavern keeper, in Schenectady aforefaid, c
Fuelaay the 19th day of September next, to proceed'
the partition of the said land; and all persons interest
therein, are hereby required to attend then and there f
that purpose, either by themselves or their attornies,-.
Given under my hand the 20th day of May, 1775.
GEORGE MANN.
WRITING taught in 6 weeks, at one hour p
day, at home or abroad, by the fubferiber.--
Specimens of improvement are to be. seen at his lodging
at the Lower Barracks, nigh the Battery.
W.ELPHINSTONE
WANTS a P-LACEU
A Young woman with a good BREAST of MIL!
about two months old. She can be well recox
mended.
TO BE LET,
THE firft F!oo- of a genteel House, neatly furaiffii
hear the Cafr-Howfe. Enquire of the Prints
For S A L E,
♦ A Plezfant^nd quiet retreat,
L^^¥,t^bJ{ where the fubferiber new
lives on the Bank on Delaware,
1000 llJ <n the city of Burlington, Weft
II New-Jerfey..--Thr premiles con-
I— — __ — ——l lifts of several lots of ground, on
I 0 I 1111 fl 111 one of which is erelted a good
^i^la ™° . fl °^ brick h °ufe>, bint 47
b.-h feet in front, and 35 in depth,
has four rooms on the firft floor,
and fix on the second, five of which are handfeme cham
bers : Contiguousto the house there isa neat milk-hcufe,
barn, stables, cow-houses, and sundry other ufetdl build
ings ; also two gardens well improved with a curious col
lection of choice fruit, such as pears, plumbs, cherries,
apricots, grapes, peaches, &c. This lot is 20c feet front
on Delaware, extends back to Pearl-Street, and is iriclofed
with a cedar board fence. One other lot near the afore
faid lot, contains one acre and a half, the chief of which
is under good ,graft. The other land contains about 34
acres, ten of which is good meadow, about fix of orchard,
and the residue plough land, which is also improved by
an orchard of 600 grafted anple trees that were planted
this spring. Any person disposed to buy the premises
aforefaid, or the house and pgrt of the land, may know
the terms by applying.to Henry Haydock, Merchant, in
New-York, or the fubferiber, who will make the pay
ments easy, upon his receiving feenrity and interest for
the principal. BENJAMIN SWETT.
Baltimore Town, July to T 775.
FIVE POUNDS Reward.
RAN-AWAY laftnight, an indented Lifh rv,nt
man named LEWIS MURR Y, a thin spare
fellow, about five feet ten inches high, smooth faced,
with Ihort mouse coloured ' hair, addicted much to drink
ing, by trade a cooper ; it is probable he may change his
name, as he took the indentures of one John Dean
Edwards away with him, and can write a tolerable
good hand . • He stole from his master apd carried with him,
a filvt- faced watch with a black ribbond and key, a pair
of silver carved knee-buckles, a fix dollar, Maryland bill,
a new blue regimental coat with blue linning and white
regimental buttons, rather too ffiort for him, a new pair
of brown cloth breeches, half worn red and white ging
ham jacket, a white shirt ruffled at the sleeves and bosom,
one plain white ditto, one oznabrigs ditto, Iky coloured
worsted stockings, black silk handkerchief, new striped
holland trewfers, new fafhionable beaver hat with a
cockade in it, and his ihoes old. Whoever takes up said
servant, if ten miles from Baltimore Town, /hall have
THREE POUNDS; if twenty miles or upwards, the
above reward, and reasonable charges if brought home,
paid by WiLLIAM STACY.