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to a crisis, andthat that crisis was a&ually mevtnt,
wherein all opinion as to the modes of policy must be
useless and at an end, and that your future deliberation
would be only employed on measures of force, I
took my leave of debate on this fubje& ;.1 had
imposed on myfelf a determined silence, and firice I
have had the honour of a feat in this parliament,
have adhered invariably to that resolution.
I have been always an advocate for the colonies,
and the Britifn fubje&s in America. I have always
defended their rights, where I thought any infraction
was made on. them., Where they have got into
disputes on points where I could not tuink they were
right, I have endeavoured to excuse or extenuate their
fault: where I could not do that, I have yet at all
times endeavoured to alleviate the resentment which
mav have teen raised in this country against them----
It would not therefore be suitable to the conduct
which I have held, nor could I feel it proper for me
to become their accuser and their persecutor, as some
governors have done ; much less could I ever bring
myfelf to calumniate them.
proportions contained in the resolution, form an
express declaration, and not begin a negociation.
Others perhaps will fay, it is proper that parliament
should bind itfeh-- I answer, that whenever parlia
ment confirms an agreement, it always does bind
itfelf.
Othe # b look to the effe& ; and ask what
consequences do you expert from this ?---Will you
in the meantime suspend your operations of force ?---
Certainly not. The putting ourselves off our guard,
is certainly not the way to treat on fate grounds or
with effe&. The ground, he observed, on which
w> flood at present, is in all human probability such as
will enable us to enforce, what we have a right to
demand—and is therefore the molt likely to claim
attention, and to produce that effect by peace, which
we are otherwise in a situation to procure by force of
arms. Whether the Americans will accede to this or
not, must depend on various circumstances that
cannot be foreseen. If their outward pretenhons be
the real principles of the opposition which they have
made, they must, consistent with thole principles,
agree to this proportion. If they do not meet us on
this ground, it will evince that they have other views,
arid are a&uated'by other motives. It will have been
wife, it will have been juft', it will have been humane,
that we have held out the terms of peace-— If they
reje& it, their blood must be upon their own hearts---
but I have better hopes. There are people, and I
hope whole colonies, that wish for pe#ce ; and by
these means, I hope they will find their way to it.
Governor Pownall. Sir, When in the lull session
of the lad parliament, I marked to the house that the
circumstances .of the American affairs were brought
I had early opportunity of feeing the commence
ment of this business. I was at the congiefs held at
Albany in the yeari7s4. I had the means of then
knowing the real opinions of some of the firft men of
business and ability in that country. I saw that a
crisis of this nature was then taking its rife. I have
in the course of my employment in that country seen
the progressive advance of it: the whole scope therefore
of my condu& whilst I was employed, and of every
opinion which I have given, whenever I have been
likened to, has been to advise such modes of policy, as
might prevent matters coming to the point at which
they are now arrived : but when I law that such
advice neither in this country nor in America was
listened to---that matters were actually come to force,
and all modes of policy ceased to have effect, and
were at an end, I would not become an adviser of
mcafures of force, nor ever have been advised with in
them. Yet takingupthematteron the ground whereon
it now hands, without confederation of that influence
either of persons or things that have caused this
effect ; without looking into the conduct of various
sets of men, and various ministers, with whom I
never had any connection, and with whom I never
shall form any ; having flood and being determined
to remain unconnected with all parties ; speaking
my own private sentiments, looking to things and
not to men, I aft from my own principles. On this
ground having by my publications pledged myfelf to
rhe public, I wish to be tried and judged by those
principles, and I challenge any one to fay, that I
have ever varied either in my principles or in my
condu&. Taking then the matter on the ground
whereon it now (lands; when I fee that the Americans
are actually refitting that government which is derived
from the crown, and by the authority of parliament ;
when I fee them opposing rights which they always
acknowledged, and for asserting which, I could
produce the best authority (I mean their own authority,
as exprefled by one of their ablest agents) when I fee
them arming and arraying themselves, and carrying
this opposition into force by arms; feeing the question
brought to an issue, not on a point of right but a
trial of power : I cannot but fay, that it is become
necessary that this country should arm also. It is
become peceffary, that this government Should oppose
its force to force ; when that force is to be employed
only in maintaining the laws and constitution of the
empire. These, Sir, are my reasons for acquiescing
(though I have neither advised, nor been advised
with) in meafur.es of force. The Americans them
selves have rendered them necessary : but, Sir, another
reason which has weighed with me, hs to the mode of
those measures, is, that it is founded in precedents,
the authority of which Tam sure gentlemen that may
at present disapprove them, will not reje&. I refer
rnyfelf to the parliament that fat after the execution
of Charles the First, when the government was
formed into a republic; a parliament that perfectly
understood the diftinaion between that resistance
which is justifiable, and that which is rebellion. The
colonies affe&ing to be the fubje&s of the King only,
and not subordinate to the state, revolted from the
government of the state, denied the authority of
parliament, and fat up a government of their own,
independent of that state and parliament. The case
is not very different from what has been affe&ed to
be dated in the present situation of things—See then
what was the method taken by that parliament: they
made a law totally to prohibit from trade Virginia,
Bai bidoes, and the rest of the colonies which were
under that revolt ; and as it is a precedent which has
weighed with me for acquiescing in the proposition of
bringing in a bill to restrain the colonies of New-
England from trade, other than to England, and
from filling, until they acknowledged the authority
of parliament ; and as it contains not only a prohibi
tory, but a declaratory law of the right of parliament,
I will beg leave to read it : but although I have
acquiesced in those measures, my eye has always
looked to peace, nor have my endeavours ever ceased
to labour for it, and I seize this firft moment, in
which I cannot but hope I fee some dawn of peace,
to speak to it for this once more. At prefect matters
are come to the Jaft extremity?-.—--this country and
America are in the situation of open and declared
war ; they are on the very point of Striking the blow
which must be the beginning of Sledding of blood.
When two independent nations are in that situation,
they, generally, amidst their friends and allies can
find some common mediator, that may at least bring
them to some terms of conference, some mode of
explanation, that may avert the war that is ready to
commence ; but where can that mediator be found
that can stand forward between the fubje&s and the
government of a country. Who can have fufficient
authority to interpdfe in such a case, to prevent the
fatal consequences ? If the country gentlemen, the
landed staple interest of this country, that have never
taken any share in this business, as a party, will not
on this occasion stand forth, there can be no such
mediator. They alone are in that predicament which
will enable them (and it becomes their aClual^ duty)
to stand forth on this occasion. It is their inteielt
also, as well as their duty ; for it is their interett that
is principally at stake---and I do feel myfelf, I own,
extremely happy, to fee that the noble lord who has laid
the proposition on your table, although as a minihei,
it is his duty to support the authority of this countiy,
and carry on such measures as his Majesty, by the
advice of parliament, has thought fit to adopt ; yet,
Sir, I do think it is humane, it is nobly spirited in
him, as a private member of parliament, as one of
that candid body, which will, I hope, join him to
stand forth as the mediator upon this occasion,
holding out such terms as may prevent a people from
being driven to desperation; and may open a door to
reconciliation, upon such terms as shall establish the
authority of this country, and give security to the
rights and liberty of America. And I own, I feel
extremely happy to find that they are such terms as a
wife and honest man might offer, even if the success
of war had put into your hands the right of enforcing
every thing that you claim ; for even if we go to war,
this bufmefs muff finally end in negociation ; and I
wish the committee would attend to what I am going
to fay, (for I know it to be true) that the country of
America must, for tie future, be governed under
regulations and forms, and a confitution that must be
fettled by compafl. The relation between the two
countries, must, in its future process, hand upon the
compact ; or this country mutt hold its dominion in
the colonies by the tenure of a war, that will colt
more than drey are worth, and finally ruin both. In
whatever instance you come to regulate their trade,
you will always find yourfelf involved in disputes,
and must have a never failing source of quarrel
between this countiy and that, until the regulations
and reftriaicns under which the whole of the Ame
rican trade is to be carried on for the future, are
fettled by compact —ls you mean to have peace for
the future, this rn tiff bedohe. If you mean to retainj
that Superintending controlling power of government|
which you have over the colonies, Io as that it may|
a& with effe&, and yet retain them as fubje&s
ad ministered under government, and not fubje&ed by
force of arms, even their conHuutions must for the
future be fettled by compact ; their charters, which .
the King grants them, are not and cannot be
confidcred as such .compa&; for if it was, the
King making terms with any partsof hrs dominions, |
might dismember the empire, and set all the various}
partsof it together at variance and in war. Such I
compact therefore, temporary as it must be in itsl
nature, must be under the supervision and fupremel
controul of parliament. Parliament must necefikrily ;
have a right to interfere, and I think should so farl
interfere, as to examine, to fettle, and to give the'
several colonies once for all, such a constitution as isj
fit for such dependent communities within the empire;
by fettling with them and for them, such articles,
terms and conditions as may be confirmed by act of
parliament, in like manner as was done in the union
of the two parts of the present kingdom, which
articles, when once confirmed by parliament, cannot,
according to the law of nations, of justice and policy,
be altered without the content of the parties; until
the colonies, holding their governments under the
terms of dependency on the empire, shall break those
conditions, or endeavour to emancipate themselves
from them.
On the point of taxation this resolution goes to
every thing that can or ought to be proposed; and is,
if rightly underSood, and accepted as it ought to be, a
fair and just preliminary that must lead to peace.
Although those Spirits in America which are irritated,
and in their resentments look to men rather than
things, may be indisposed to receive any terms
whatever, and willing to hazard all, rather than treat
with men againtt whom those resentments are railed ;
and although those that take up this matter here, only
asa measure of opposition, may endeavour to ridicule
and obSru& every good effect which it might have ;
yet thole men of weight and property, both here and
in America, wife have a real interett at stake, and
not pledged to any party, but a& from principle,
must and will fee, that the line of this proposition
will lead finally to such settlement, in which alone
their interest can be effectually secured, and the fafety
of both countries be firmly and permanently esta
blished.
If the committee will indulge me with their further
patience for a moment, I will proceed to make one or
two very short remarks on the tenor of the resolution
itfelf. The resolution fays, and fays properly, that
no proposition can be received by this country, but
what comes from the general court or assembly of the
refpe&ive provinces---that is the only authority, most
undoubtedly, that this country can acknowledge and
treat with—that is the only body that can have any
authentic power to make any propositions; and al
though I know that those propositions cannot be any
way regularly communicated to any congress or
meeting of all the provinces ; that no propositions
coining from any such congress or meeting, could
have authority to pledge or engage the provinces in
any propositions that may be made—yet as Ido
apprehend that no general court, or assembly of any
province, will listen to any matter that Stall be pro
posed to them on this Subject, or make any proposition
hereupon ; but as they take the tone from the opinion
of that general congress which they have of late
accustomed themselves to meet in, I Should hope that
some how or other the propositions of this resolution
may find their way to such congress, so as to become
a matter of their attention.
The next observation which I shall make is, that
by the terms of this resolution, whatever contributions
are agreed and fettled as to be raised by the colonies,
are to be raised under the appropriation of the common
defence. This condition, Sir, is wifely grounded
and decided—for it will remove every idea of appro
priating it to a matter which the colonies most fear--
it Will avoid every suspicion of a mifapplicafion to
purposes for which it never was meant to be raised.
An honourable gentleman in alate debate, though
he took up the idea in opposition, certainly was the firft
and the only one in that line of debate who hit upon
the real jet of the dispute between this country and
America. He very ably dated that the reason why
the colonies obje&ed to the laying taxes for the pur
pose of a revenue in America, was that such revenue
in the hands of government took out of the hands of
the people that were to be governed, that controul
which every Englishman thinks he ought to have
over that government to which his rights and interests
are intruded. The mode of appropriation Specified
in this resolution takes away even the ground of that
oppofition---for although parliament is to have the
disposal and expenditure of the revenue, yet as
the settlement proposes that the colonies shall by a
particular revenue, 'make provision for the eftablifl^
ment of their own government, and fpecifies that the
General revenue which shall be raised is for the com
mon defence,—no part of this money so raised can
be applied by parliament so as to destroy that controul
which they so much contend for. The misapplication
of that 4 per cent, which was raised for the public
service and common defence, to purposes totally
foreign and alien to that end, has ever left in the
mind's of the colonies a suspicion which has flood in
the way of all propositions made for railing any gene
ral revenue : but this resolution totally removes every
ground of such suspicion and leads to matters worthy
of the attention of those who may have the carrying
it into execution.
Upon these grounds it is, Sir, that although the
propositions contained in this resolution may not
come into direH negociation ; and although they do
not contain all that I do suppose negociation will lead
to, yet containing all that 'tis possible could be pro
pos'd in the present date of the buffnefs, I do believe
that they will finally open the way so reconciliation
and peaces and as such I have given my support, and
do give my mod hearty consent to them.
WHERE A,the . enemies,o the English constitution,
and the rights and liberty of America, have en
deavoured to the utmost of their power, to revile and
defame the character of every man, who has hontfily
endeavt ured to ahert and maintain those rights and pri
vileges which these traitors are driving to fobvert and take
away ; hoping, by such vile practices, to destroy or lessen
the influence of those who oblirudt theexecution of their
wicked designs On this account, Capt. Sears, who has
long difiinguiihed himfelf among the must Zealous,
heady, and diti n,ere,ed friends and supporters of the
rights and freedom of his country, became exceedingly
qbnpxious to these enemies, who foughA ttr kggfWndHe
themselves upon, its ruins. They have therefore been
extremely watchful to catch every opportunity, when by
mifieprefentation or direct falsehoods, they might bring
an odium on his-character, or expose him to contempt
and ridicule. But these devises, instead of answering the
end dehgocd, have hitherto recoiled upon their authors,
and only feived to exalt the character they were intended
to depress.,
Among other falfe reports propagated ^ainft Capt,Sears,
one was, that fierce Cutting up the port of Boflop, he and
his fin in-law, Mr. Paschal N. Smith, had lent large
Quantities of provisions for thefupply of the Kind's troops
at Boston. The falfckdod of this malicious report will
fufficieritly appear by 'th'e # following affidavit, which the
Printer is desired to publish in his next Paper, by a
number of friends to
Truth and Justice,
Their Country, and
Capt. Sears.
City of ?^ "[PERSONALLY appeared before me
IVuw-rcrA,Benjamin Bl^ge, one of hi . Mte
fty'sjuftices of the peace for the city and county of Neu-
Y ork, Isaac Sears and Paschal N. Smith, of the laid cfty,
merchants, who being feveraliy sworn, depute and fay,
that since the. Shutting up of the port of Buffon, neither
of them have, directly ch indirectly, norany otherperfon
for or under them, fupplie'd, or caused to be supplied, the
army at BMton, with any manner.or kind of provisions
whaifoever; arid that neither of them have received,
nor in future expert to receive, any kind of emolument
or advantage in any refpe&, from the flour, peafe, and
other provisions fhippe^ for the use of the army at Boston,
since the shutting up the port of Boston.
ISAAC SEARS,
PASCHAL N. SMITH.
Sworn this 17th of April, 1775,
before me, B. BLAGGE.
At the COFFEE-HOUSE,
To-morrow, at XII o'clock,
Will be sold,
AStoSt negro man about 24 years old, and is a
good Seaman ; a parcel of short and middling
pipes, giindftones.
On WEDNESDAY,
Will be sold,
At Templeton and Stewart's
VENDUE HOUSE,
Sundry drop goods, confiding of,
Irish linens, Printed muslins,
Calicoes and cottons, Broad cloths,
Stuffs and fballoons, Frize, and serges,
With some hardware and caftor hats.
They heave to dispose of at private sale,
Brandy, geneva, coffee, new rice, elegant looking
glades, plaited candlesticks and Salvers, some boxes
of china, eight-day clocks, Philadelphia hard f@ap,
Irish linens, Scotch lawns, &c. Swedish iron for cart
tire, and a few boxes of genuine Keyfer's pills.
To be fold at PUBLIC AUCTION;
On Wednesday the ±6th instant,
By MARINUS WILLETT,
At the house of the Widow Crawford, in Q^een-Street,
near the Fly-Market,
A large COPPER PAN,
With a cribb, and sundry other articles in the soap
chandlery way.
W ANTE D,
To hire by the Y EAR,
A NEGRO MAN or BOY, tha* has no very bad
Faults. Enquire of the Printer.
A Good MILLER, that is properly acquainted with
his Business: Also a good Cooper; both tingle
Men. Good Encouragement will be given. Enquire of
the Printer.
IVVTND ITE
f^OR felling and disposing of the real eSate late of
Cornelius Van Horne, deceased; isgurther adjourned
to Thursday the 27th inst. then to be held at the dwel
ling house of the widow Van Voorhies, in the city of
New-Brunswick, in the county of Somerset.
WM. MCDONALD, late Sheriff.
Poughkeepsie Goal, April 14, 1775.
NOTICE is hereby given, to all the creditors of
Isaac Finch and Titus Knapp, insolvent debtors,
being two of the persons named in a certain aft of the
Governor, Council, and General Assembly of the colony
of New-York, entitled, “ An add for the relief of in
solvent debtors within this colony, with refpeft to the
imprisonment of their persons ;" pafs'd the 3d day of
April inst. that they the said insolvent debtors have pre
sented their petitions to two of the judges of the inferior
court of the county of Dutchefs ; and they do hereby
notify their refpeftive creditors, that they intend to apply
to the said judges, on the 23d day of May next, for their
difeharge, agreeable to the directions of the said aft.
THE Members of the New-York Society Library,
are desired to take notice, that To-morrow, being
the last Tuesday in April, is the Day appointed by Charter
for the Election of Trustees, and that the Meeting is to
be held at Twelve o'Clock at Noon, in the Library Room,
according to a Bye-Law of the Corporation.
SAMUEL BARD, Secry.
To the PUBLIC, and to the PRINTER.
FOUR DOLLARS Reward.
RUN-AWAY from Abraham Lawrence, of Flushing,
on Long-Illand, Queen's county, on the 18th of
March, a negro man named OLIVER, (belonging to
Samuel Smith, on the north fide of Staten Island) but
may have changed his name, as it is said he has called
himfelf Jerry 1 He is about 22 years of age, 5 feet 7
or 8 inches high, has something of a yellow cast in his
colour : Had on and took with him when he went away,
two old blue coats, one long skirts, the other short, a
striped jacket, a pair of old homespun breaches, a pair of
striped trowfers, a pair of tow trowfers, two-pair of
flockings, one pair deep blue,.the other grey, and an
old beaver nat. It is thought he has money, and likely
may change his'ctoaths: He has been seen at Elizabeth-
Town and in New-York, in company with Col. Mor
ris's negro man named Jerry. Any perfort that secures
said negro, so that his master may have him again, ffiall
have the above reward, and all reasonable charges, paid
by Samuel Smith, on the north fide cf Staten Illand,
Abraham Lawrence, at Flushing, Jonathan I. Dayton,
at Elizabeth-Town Point, or Simon Hellers, at the
White-Hall, in New-York.""
He is very still, having but. few words to fay to any
body; his hair is something buihy, and it is thought he
has got on board some boat or sloop belonging to the Ealt
or North River, or the Jerftes.
N. B AH masters of veflels, and others, are hereby
forwarned from concealing or carrying off said negro at
their peril,.. .
This Day is publifbed, and to be faldfy
WILLIAM GREEN,
At Mr, Lenzi's, Confectioner, opposite the Queen's
Head, '
THE Chrenicle of the Kings of England, from the
Reign of William the Conqueror, firft King of
England, down to his present Majesty George 3d, con
taining a true History of their Lives, and the Characters
which they federally sustained, whether in Church or
State, in rhe Field, or in private Life.
N. B. This excellent History containeth a true De
scription of Royal Bifeand Manners. By the Pen oftbt very
able and ingenious Arbor of rhe Oeconomy of Human Life, in
the Character of Nathan Ben-faddi, of the House of Israel.
Westchester Gaol, April 17, 1775.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, to all the creditors of
Henry Cotaunt, Henry Bunker, John Anderson,
Abraham Yeamans, Isaac Jones, Joseph Todd, and
William Bro^a, insolvent debtors, confined in . th^ gaol
at the White-Plains, in the county of Westchester, being
feyen of the persons manned in a certain ad of the Go
vernor, Council, and General Assembly, entitled, " Aa
add for the relief of insolvent debtors within this colony,
wi:h refpedl to the imprisonment of their persons;" that
they the said insolvent debtors have presented their petitions
to the Worlhipml John Thomas, and Jonathan Fowler,
Inquires, two of the Judges of the Inferior Court for
the said county of Westchester ; which petitions, together
with their accounts and inventories annexed to thefame,
are filed with the Clerk of said Court, for the infpedion
of the creditors aforefaid ; and the said infoivent debtors
do hereby notify their laid creditors, that they intend to
apply to the said Judges, on Friday the 26th of May next,
at Westchester aforefaid, for their discharge, agreeable
to the direction of the said a&.
W A d;
SOME Persons who understand the Nailing Business.
Good Encouragement will be given by SAMUEL
OGDEN, at Bunnfton, New-Jersey.
TO BE SOLD,
A Likely young Negro Wench, with a Child about
fix Years of Age; has been used to all Manner
of House Work. -&rls.for~no Fault but the Want of
employ. Enquire of the Printer.
Living at Burling's Slip,
HAVING provided himfelf with all the materials
for weighing sugar, cocoa, tobacco, iron, hemp,
logwood, Nicaragua, and every kind of dye wood, &c.
and would be much obliged to any gentleman who shall
please to favour him with their custom : He is determi
ned to attend the scales himfelf, and will endeavour to
give every possible fatisfa&ion.
RUN away fromthe subscriber, an indented, Servant
named George Maxwell, born in the north of
England, is a good groom, but a drunken fellow ; about
5 feet 6 inches high, brown hair, marked with the Small
pox ; had on brown deaths, buckficin breeches, and *
crimson coloured furtout coat. Forty Shillings reward
will be paid to whoever takes take; him up and returns
him to' HUGH WALLACE.
WHEREAS Peter WeSells, of the City of New-
York, Sail-Maker, hath aligned and made over
all his real and personal Estate, to us the Subscribers, in
Trust, for bis Use, these are therefore to desire all Per
sons that have any Demands against him, to bring in their
Accounts to the said Subscribers, for Payment ; and also
to desire all Perlons indebted to him to make immediate
Payment, and prevent further Trouble. A Parcel of old
Sails to be fold at Vendue, on Tuesday next, at the Coffee,
House, at 12 o'Clock, and all the Furniture of the said
Peter Weills, to be fold at public Vendue, on Thursday
the Day following, at 12 o'Clock, at theHoufe where he
now lives, on Moore's Dock, near the White-Hall.
HENRY HOLLAND,
GEORGE BREWERTON,
JACOB REMSEN.
WHEREAS the Honourable the Lieut. Governor,
the Council, and General Assembly of the Co
lony of New-York, was on the third day of April, inst,
pleased to pass an all, entitled, “ Am Aft for the Relief
of Insolvent Debtors within this Colony, with Refpeft
to the Imprisonment of their Persons." And we the
fubferibers being insolvent debtors confined in Dutchefs
County goal, and named in said aft for relief; do in
pursuance of the directions of said aft, hereby notify
all and each of our refpeftive creditors, that we,' and
each of us, do intend to apply for a difeharge in manner
following, 1c quit : Henry Rofckranfe, jun. to the Hon.
Daniel Horfmanden, Robert R. Livingston, George D.
Ludlow, and Thomas Jones, Esquires, Judges of the
Supreme Court for the colony of New-York, (or to
any two of them) out of which Court process has issued
against him, at the Chambers of the said Daniel Horf
manden, Esq; in the city of New-York, on Saturday
the 27th day of May next; and to Beverly Robinson,
James Smith, Henry Vanderbergh, and Isaac 'Smith,
Esquires, Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas
in and for Dutchefs County (or any two of them) at the
Court-House in Poughkeepsie, on Tuesday the 23d day
of May next. John Krankhite intends applying to th©
Judges aforefaid, at the fame times and places with Henry
Rofekranfe, jun. process having issued out of both the
said Courts against him. Jacobus Van Kleeck, Thomas
Palraer, Edward Simmons, Jeremiah Jones, Frazer Ter
hofs, Alexander Griggs, Fredrick Klein, and Lewis
Bogardus, intend applying to the Judges of the Inferior
Court ofCom mon'Pleas in and for Dutchefs County, (pro
cess having issued out of said" Court against them) on
the twenty-third day of May next, for difeharges agree
able to the aforefaid aft, we having each of us complied
with the directions of said aft. S
HENRY ROSEKRANSE, ju^
JOHN KRANKHEIT,
JACOBUS VAN KLEECK,
THOMAS PALMER,
EDWARD SIMMONS,
JEREMIAH JONES,
PRAYER terboss,
ALEXANDER GRIGGS,
FREDRICK KLEIN,
LEWIS BOGARDUS.
Dutchefs County Goal, 22d April, 1775; r
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