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WHEREAS we the fubferibers were appointed
assignees of the lands, goods and efteds of Hen
drick Klauw, an insolvent debtor, by the fudges of the
inferior court of common pleas of the city and county of
Albany, pursuant to the directions of an a& of the le
gislature of the province of New-York, entitled, An
aft for the relief of insolvent debtors within this colony,
with refpe& to the imprisonment of their persons, passed
the Sth day of March, 1773: And whereas the said
Hendrick Klauw, after said appointment, did make
and execute to ns an assignment of all his lands, goods
and effects, for the use of his said creditors, according
to the directions of the alt I And whereas we have in
pursuance to the further directions of the said alt, fold
and disposed of part of the estate of said Hendrick Klauw,
and are willing to makeadivifion of the monies arising
by the sale thereof: these are therefore to require all
the creditors of said Hendrick Klauw, to fend in their
demands against him, attested, to us, on or before the
18th day of June next, that they may receive their
dividend of the said estate, agreeable to the directions
of the said aft.
G. G. MARSELIS, 7 Assignees.
ANTHONY VAN BERGEN,§
ASSIZE of BREAD. Flour at i6s. per Cent.
A White Loaf of the fineft FLOUR, to weigh
A flb. i 3 oz. for 4 Coppers.
Published 3d April, 1775.
hereafter-mentioned, containing 3000 acres.
WHEREAS Abraham Hafbrook, Jacobus Bruyn,
and Richard Efdall, pursuant to a law of the
colony of New-York, did divide a certain traft of land
commonly called the Wawayanda patent, in the county of
Orange. And whereas the said commiflioners did
set apart to the persons holding tire undivided rights of the
town of Gofhen, commonly called the Gofhen town
rights) a certain trail of land of about three thousand
acres, lituate 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 Minifinck mountains; thence south fifty four
degrees, weft Sixty four chains, to a white oak tree marked;
thence north forty five degrees and fifteen minutes, weft
four hundred and fifty four chains, to a traverse line run
along the foot of said mountains ; thence along the said
line north easterly, as it runs to the aforefaid Jersey claim ;
thence south forty five degrees and fifteen minutes, east
four hundred and eighty chains to the place of beginning,
containing three thousand acres of land, as by the pro
ceedings of the said commissioners, filed in the secretary's
office of the said colony, and in the clerk's office of the
said county of Orange, will fully appear. We the fubferi
bers being part owners of the said trail of three thousand
acres, and being desirous of having partition made of the
fame, pursuant to an all of the Lieutenant Governor,
the Council, and the General Assembly of the colony of
New-York, entitled, “ An all for the more effectual
collecting his Majesty's quit-rents in the colony of New-
York, and for partition of lands in order thereto," passed
the eighth day of January, one thousand seven hundred
and sixty-two, and of another certain alt of the Governor,
the Council, and General Assembly of New-York,
entitled, " An alt to continue an alt, entitled, An all
for the more effectual collecting his Majesty's quit-rents
in the colony of New-York, and for partition of lands in
order thereto;" and also to continue one other alt,
entitled, " An alt to explain part of an alt, entitled, An
alt for the more effectual collecting his Majesty's quit-rents
in the colony of New-York, and for partition of lands in
order thereto," passed the thirtieth day of December, one
thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight. We do therefore,
hereby give notice, that Joshua Davis, Elnathan Corey,
and James Dolfon, all of the precinit of Gofhen, perlons
not interested in the said lands, are appointed commissioners
for the partition of the said lands, and that they, the
said commiflioners will meet on Monday the 15th day of
May next, at the house of Samuel Gale, in the town of
Gofhen, in the said county of Orange, Innkeeper, to
proceed to the partition of the said lands, and all persons
interested in the said lands, are hereby required to attend
on the day and at the place aforefaid, for the purpose
above-mentioned. And whereas it may be incon
venient for some of the proprietors to attend at Gofhen,
with their title deeds ; we the fubferibers desire all such
persons to apply to William Beekman, of the city of
New-York, merchant, or William Wickham, of the
fame city, attorney at law, as soon as conveniently may
be, and acquaint them with the proportions they respec
tively hold in the said three thousand acres of land, and
produce te them their deeds: And it is further desired,
that all proprietors in and about Gofhen, would, previous
to the above mentioned meeting, produce their title deeds
to Daniel Everitt, Henry Wifner, or Peter Clowes, in
order that their refpe&ive proportions in the said three
thousand acres may be particularly known.
A <t u T ITY of
Calavances, or Black Eyed Pease,
At Two Shillings the Bulhcl.
A likely NEGRO SAILOR,
Who is a very good Cook ;
And a few Thousand of the very best
FIFE STAVE S,
To be SOL D, by
WILLIAM LOWTHER,
At the Corner of Dover-Sttect.
To all persons interested in the tract of land
Monday, Moy i, 1775. THE [No. 1229.]
NE^-rO R rmaaG A ZETTE:
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b Printed by HUGH GAINE, Printer, Bookseller, and Station Eß^theßißLEja^^
New-Jersey, 7 ^ order of the inferior court
Morris County, 3 of common pleas, in and for
the county aforefaid, notice is hereby given to all the
creditors of Richard Edwards and John Stevens, insolvent
debtors, confined in the goal of said county, that they
be and appear before any two judges of said court, at the
court-house of said county, on Monday the 24th day of
April inst. at one o'clock in the afternoon of the said
day, to Shew cause (if any they have) whyan assignment
of said debtors estates Should not be made to such persons
as Shall be then and there appointed, and they to be re
leased from their confinement, agreeable to the directions
of an aft of the Governor, Council, and General As
sembly of New-Jersey, lately passed, entitled, “ An aft
'or the relief of insolvent debtors,"
Given under our hands the ninth day of February,
one thousand seven hundred and feventy-five.
William Wickham,
William Beekman.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, pursuant to an all
of the Governor, the Council, and the General As
sembly of the province of New-York, passed the 19th day
of March last past, entitled, "An all for the more effec
tual registry of mortgages, and for securing the purchasers
of mortgaged estates"; that on the 12th day of July next,
at ten o'clock in the morning, there will be fold on the
premises by the fubferibers, at public aCtion or vendue, to
the highest bidder, all those certain trails of land situate,
lying and being at Claverack, within the manor of Renf
felaerwyck, beginning at a black oak tree, which tree
stands foutli 77 degrees weft from the house of Joseph
Pixley, and from the said tree south 78 degrees east, 58
chains ; thence north 12 degrees weft, So chains ; thence
north 78 degrees weft, 80 chains; thence south 12 de
grees east, 80 chains ; from thence to the place where it
firft began. And then another parcel of land lying on the
east of the aforefaid piece of land, beginning at a black
oak faplin Handing fix chains from a small brook, thence
south 86 degrees east, 40 chains; thence south 4 degrees
weft, 80 chains ; thence north, 85 degrees weft, 40 chains,
thence to the place where it firft began ; with all and
Angular the profits, benefits, privileges, hereditaments and
appurtenances to the fame belonging# Which said trails
of land and premises were, by indenture bearing date the
13th day of November, in the year of our lord 1769,
mortgaged by the said Joseph Pixley, since deceased, to us
the fubferibers. The conditions of sale will be made pub
lic on the day of the vendue before the sale begins, and
title deeds executed by the fubferibers, to the purchasers,
fubjeCt to the proviso in the said all of aflembly in fa
vour of other mortgages, judgments at law, and decrees in
equity, prior to the sale by
Claverack, Dec. 3, PETER FONDA,
,774. LAWRENCE FONDA.
Nezu-Jerfey, 7 ff T,Y °"" °f the interior court ot
Morris-County, ) common pleas, in and tor the
county aforefaid : notice is hereby given to all the creditors
of Aaron Burnet, John Jacks, and William Pettit,
insolvent debtors, confined in goal of fa:d county, that
they be and appear before any two of the judges of said
court of said county, on Monday the 24th day of April
inst. at one o'clockin the afternoon of the said day, to
Shew cause (if any they have) why an assignment of the
said debtors estates Should not be made to such person as
Shall be then and there appointed, and to be released
from their confinement, agreeable to the directions of an
all of the Governor, Council, and General Assembly of
New-Jersey, lately passed, entitled, “ A Supplementary
all, to an all, entitled, An all for the relief of insolvent
debtors.
BY order of the Hon. Frederick Smyth, and Richard
Stockton, two of the Judges of the Supreme Court
for the province of New-Jersey, the creditors of William
Radley, Samuel Searring, and John Toft, insolvent
debtors, are hereby notified to appear before the said
Judges on Wednesday the tenth day of May next, at the
Court-House in the City of Burlington, and province
aforefaid, to shew cause, if any they have, why an assign
ment of the said debtors estates Should not be made, and
they difeharged from their confinement, agreeable to a
late a& of General Assembly of said province,
Elizabeth-Town, April 8, 1775.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, pursuant to an all
of the Governor, Council, and General Assembly of
the province of New-York, passed the 19th day of March
now last paft,l entitled, " An a& for the more effectual
registry of mortgages, and for securing the purchasers of
mortgaged estates;" that on the loth day of October
next, at ten o'clockin the morning, there will be fold on
the premises, 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
PrecinCt, in the county of Dutchefs, beginning at the
east corner of a lot of land now, or late, in the pofFeflion
of William Edwards, by an elm faplihg 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
stones 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 fide thereof, to a white ash
sapling marked ; thence westward along the creek, as the
said creek runs, to the land now in the pofleffion of
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 ty of January, in the year of our Lord
1772, mortgaged by Peter Davifon, since deceased, to
the fubferiber, for securing the payment of £. 2 50, 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, fubjed to the
proviso in the said act of assembly in favour of other
mortgages, judgments at law, and decrees in equity, prier
to the said sale, by
March 14, 1775. CHARLES LE ROUX.
M^^re^^T° '' f°"' " e boufe where tbe
' subscriberf üb f criber "o'"' licves , ^ R,e,
4 noted tavern for
™" J ''"" ^' There are three
rooms with fire-places on tbe lower
^°° r ' ""' '™° °" " e second, and
three without ; a large cellar, afop
adjoining tbe boufe, and a kitchen at a little diflance.
There is a goodbarn, fables, feds and other out-boufes,
and about 20 acres of land of tbe bes quality, through
which runs a fine flream for a grist or oil mill. The
whole of the buildings, gardens andfences, are in good
repair. Any person inclining to purchase, may apply to
EBENEZER HAVILAND.
Likewise a small farm of 50 acres, with a good
boufe, barn and other out-boufes, in Harrifon'sprecinct.
It affords a very beautiful prospect of tbe Sound and
Long-Island.
LEFT at a House in Town (how, or by whom,
unknown) a couple of SADDLES; the
Owner, by applying to the Printer, may know where
they may be had upon Proof of Property, and pay
ing the Charges,
Monday, 25 Min. after to
Tuesday, 24 Min. after 11
Wednesday, 10 Min. after 12
Thursday, 2 Min. after 1
HIGH-WATER it NEW-YORK, this Week.
Friday, 46 Min. after 1
Saturday, 31 Min. after 2
Sunday, 16 Min. after 3
First Quarter next Sunday.
House of Lords, Die Martis, 7 February, 1775-
TH E Lord President reported, that the managers
for the Lords had met the managers for the
Commons at a conference, which on the part of the
Commons was managed by Lord North, who ac
quainted the managers for the Lords, that they h:.d
taken into consideration the Rate of his Majesty s
colonies in North-America, and had agreed upon
an address to be presented to his Majesty, to which
they desired the concurrence of this House.
Then his lordship read the address delivered at the
con ference--and the fame being again read by the clerk,
The Earl of Dartmouth and the Marquis of
Rockingham both riling to speak, a debate arose who
Ihould speak firft.
The question was put, whether the Earl of Dart
mouth Ihould now be heard ?
It was resolved in the affirmative.
Moved to agree with the Commons in the said
address, by filling up the blank with (the Lords
Spiritual and Temporal, and)
Which being objected to, and a question stated
thereupon>
After a long debate, the previous question was put,
Whether the main question Shall now be put ?
Contents - - ~ 90?
Proxies - - - 14) ''
Non-Contents - - 29?
Proxies - - - 00) '
It was resolved in the affirmative.
Diffentent.
iff. The previous question was moved, not to
prevent the proceeding in the address, communicated
at the conference with the Commons, but in order to
present the petitions of the North-American merchants
and of the Weft-India merchants and planters,
which petitions the House might reje& if frivolous,
or postpone if not urgent, as it might seem fit to
their wisdom ; but to hurry on the business to which
these petitions so materially and directly related, the
express prayer of which was, that they might be
heard before " any resolution may be taken by this
Right Honourable House refpe&ing America," to
refufe so much as to fuffer them to be presented, is a
proceeding of the most unwarrantable nature, and
directly subversive of the most sacred rights of the
fubjell. It is the more particularlyfcxceptionable, as
a lord in his place, at the express desire of the Weft-
India merchants, informed the House, that if neces
sitated so to do, they were ready without counsel or
farther preparations, instantly to offer evidence to
prove, that several Islands of the Weft-Indies could
not be able to fnbfilt after the operation of the pro
posed address in America. Jeftice in regard to
individuals, policy with regard to the public, and
decorum with regard to ourselves, required that we
Ihould admit this petition to be presented. By
refuting it, justice is denied.
idly. Because the papers laid upon our table
by ministers, are so manifestly defective, and so
avowedly curtailed, that we can derive from them
notliing like information of the true state of the
object on which we are going to a&, or of the confe
qUences of the resolutions which we may take. We
ought (as we conceive) with gladness, to have ac
cepted that information from the merchants, which,
if it had not been voluntarily offered, it was our
duty to feck: there is no information concerning the
state of our Colonies (taken in any point of view)
which the merchants are not far more competent to
give, than Governors or Officers, who often know
far let's of the temper and disposition, or may be
more disposed to misrepresent it than the merchants.
Of this we have a full and melancholy experience in
the mistaken ideas on which the fatal a&s of the last
parliament were formed.
qdly. Because we are of opinion, That in en
tering into a war, in which mifehief and incon
venience are great and certain (but the utmost extent
of which it is impossible to forefee) true policy
requires that those who are most likely to be imme
diately affected Ihould be thoroughly fatisfied of
the deliberation with which it was taken: and
we apprehend that the planters, merchants, and
manufacturers, will not bear their losses and bur
thens, brought on them by the proposed civil war,
the better for our refufing so much as to hear them
previous to engaging in that war ; nor will our pre
cipitation in resolving, add much to the success in
executing any plan that may be pursued.
We protert therefore against the refufal to fuffer
such petitions to be presented, and we thus clear our
selves to our country of the disgrace and mifehief
which must attend this unconstitutional, indecent
and improvident proceeding.
RICHMOND, PORTLAND,
PONSONBY, CAMDEN,
ARCHER, FITZWILLIAM,
ROCKINGHAM, SCARBOROUGH,
WYCOMBE, ABERGAVENNY,
EFFINGHAM, ABINGDON,
TORRINGTON, CRAVEN,
STANHOPE, COURTENAY,
CHOLMONDELLY, TANKERVILLE.
Then the main question was put, whether to agree
with the Commons in said address, by inserting the
words, ( I,ords Spiritual and Temporal, and)
It was resolved in the affirmative.
Contents 87. Not Contents 27.
Difcntient,
ift. Because the violent matter of this dan
gerous address was highly aggravated by the violent
manner in which it was precipitately hurried though
the house. Lords were not allowed the interposition
of a moment's time for deliberation, before they were
driven headlong into a declaration of a civil war.
A conference was held with the Commons, an ad-
P ROT ES T.
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Flour, 15 s - 6 ''°
Brown Bread, 15s. od.
Weft-India Rum, 3s. 4d.
New-England, do. 2s. 6d.
PRICE-CURRENT, in NEW-YORK.
Mtifeovado Sugar, 645. od.
Single refin'd ditto, is. id.
Molasses, 2s. od.
Beef per Barrel, 48s. od.
Pork, 655. od.
dress of this importance presented, all extraneous
information, although offered, positively refufed;
all petitions arbitrarily rejected, and the whole of
this most awful business received, debated, and con
cluded, in a day. *
idly. Because no legal grounds were laid in
argument, or in fall to shew that a rebellion, pro
perly so called, did exist in Massachusetts-Bay, when
the papers of the latest date, and from whence alone
we derive our information were written. The overt=
a&s to which the species of treason affirmed in the
address ought to be applied, were not eftablilhed, nor
any offenders marked out: but a general mass of the
alls of turbulence, said to be done at various times
and places, and of various natures, were all thrown
together, to make out one general conftru&ive trea
son: Neither was there any fort of proof of the
continuance of any unlawful force, from whence we
could infer that a rebellion does now exist. And we
are the more cautious of pronouncing any part of
his Majesty's dominions to be in a&ual rebellion, be
cause the cases of conftru&ive treason under that
branch of 25th Edward the Third, which describes
the crime of rebellion, have been already too far ex
tended by the judges, and the diftin&ions so nice and
•subtle, that no prudent man ought to declare any
tingle person in that situation, without the cleared
evidence of uncontrovertible overt-alls to Warrant
such a declaration : Much less ought so high an au
thority as both Houses of Parliament to denounce so
severe a judgement against a considerable part of his
Majesty's fubje&s, by which his forces may think
themselves jollified in commencing a war, without
any further order to commission.
jdly. Because we think that several alls of the
late Parliament, and several late proceedings of ad
miniftratie: vhh regard to the Colonies, are real
grievances, and just causes of complaint, and we
cannot in honour or in conscience, consent to an ad
dress which commends the temper by which pro
ceedings, so very intemperate, have been carried on;
nor can we persuade ourselves to authorize violent
courses against perlons in the Colonies who have re
filled authority, without at the fame time redressing
the grievances which have given but too much pro
vocation for their behaviour.
4thly. Because we think the loose and general
assurances, given by the address, of future redress of
grievances, in case of submission, is far from fatis
fadory, or at all likely to produce their end; whilst
the a&s complained of continue unrepealed, or una
amended ; ahd their authors remain in authority
here, because these advisers of all the measures which
have brought on the calamities of this empire, will
nut be trusted while they defend as just, necessary,
and even indulgent, all the a&s complained of as
grievances, by the Americans ; and must therefore,
on their own principles, be bound in future to govern
the Colonies in the manner, which has already pro
duced such fatal effe&s ; and we fear that the refufal
of this House, id much as to receive previous to de
termination (which is the most offenfive mode of re
je&icn) petitions from the unoffending natives of
Great-Britain, and the Weft-India Islands, affords;
but a very discouraging profpe& ofour obtaining here
after any petitions at all, from those whom we have
declared a&ors in rebellion, or abettors of that crime.
Lastly, Because the means of enforcing the
authority of the British Legislature, is confighed to
persons of whose capacity, "for that purpose, from
abundant experience, we have reason to doubt, and
who have hitherto used no effe&ual means of con
ciliating or of reducing those who oppole that autho
rity : This appears in the constant failure of all their
projeds, the infufficiency of all their information,
and the difappoimment of all the hopes, which they
have for several years holdout to the public. Parlia
ment has never refuted any of their proposals, and
yet our affairs have proceeded daily from bad to
worse, until we have been brought, step by step, to
that date of confufion, and even civil violence, which
was the natural result of these desperate measures.
We therefore protest against an address amount
ing to a declaration of war, which is founded on no
proper parliamentary information ; which was intro
duced by refuting to fuffer the presentation of petitions
against u (although it be the undoubted right of the fub
je& toprefent the tame;) which followed the rejection
of every mode of conciliation; which holds out no sub
stantial offer of retds of grievances ; and which pro
mises support to tl.'-fe ministers who have inflamed
America,and mifcondufted the affairs of Great-Britain.
RICHMOND, CHOLMONDELEY
CRAVEN, ABINGDON,'
ARCHER, PORTLAND,
ABERGAVENNEY, CAMDEN,
ROCKINGHAM, EFFINGHAM,
WYCOMBE, STANHOPE,
COURTENAY, SCARBOROUGH.
TORRINGTON, FITZWILLIAM,
PONSONBY, TANKERVILLE.
A List of the MINORITY in the HOUSE OF
LORDS, against the Address to the KING
to commence a CIKIL WAR in AMERICA
CUMBERLAND, STAMFORD,
RICHMOND, STRAFFORD,
DEVONSHIRE, TANKERVILLE,
PORTLAND, COURTENAY,
MANCHESTER, TORRINGTON,
ROCKINGHAM, ABERGAVENNY,
ABINGDON, ARCHER,
BESBOROUGH, BEAULIEU,
CHOLMONDELEY, CAMDEN,
COVENTRY, CRAVEN,
EFFINGHAM, FORTESCUE,
FITZWILLIAM, KING,
SCARBOROUGH, SONDES,
SHELBURNE, EXETER. Biffiop of
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Bohea Tea, 4s. 6d
Indian Cornperßu. 3s. 4d