The New-York gazette, and the weekly Mercury — New-York [N.Y.], 1775-03-20 00:00:00, page 1

Mr. G AINE,
Be fleafed to insert the following in,our next Gazette,
and you <will oblige a Number of your Readers in
Dutebefs County.
IN your Paper of the 13th instant, we find a
declaration put forth to the public, to which it
is said a great number of the inhabitants of Dutchefs
County had subscribed, and great numbers daily
adding their names.
We who are inhabitants of the fame County, avow
ing our allegiance to his Majesty, and our attach
ment to the constitution, desiring to remove any
disadvantageous impressions from the minds of the
public, refpe&ing the inhabitants of this county, have
the pleasure (amidst all our anxieties on account of
the diffractions of the times) to assure the public,
that from our observations and informations, not
only great numbers, but a great majority of the in
habitants have not bowed the knee to this Baal, but
are ready to hand forth in the cause of American
Liberty, having chearfully adopted the measures of
the Continental Congress, and intend as far as their
examples and influence can extend, to carry the fame
into execution, especially the 7th and Sth articles,
profeffing still to have confidence in the justice and
goodness of our Sovereign, as well as the integrity
and good sense of the nation ; are therefore resolved
to join with our brethren in other counties and pro
vinces, in using every constitutional means for redress
of grievances, and to hand or fall with American
Liberty ; nor can they be prevailed upon by all the
wiles of the advocates for ministerial oppression, to
sign the above-mentioned declaration ;---a declaration
big with the do&rine of passive obedience and non
resistance ; but we do not find any article of felf-denial
in al! their political creed, for it seems they are re
solved to eat and drink what they please.
This article hath put a humorous Wag in the
vicinage, to write thus of them: " The Tories (fays
66 he) are soon to meet in convention, and after pro
" per confutations and conclusions, and the bufmefs
“ of the day is done, they are to have a grand enter
“ tainment; and indeed (fays he) it is but reason
" able, that those patriots who by their industry and
“ application, have procured many blessings, and
“ concerted measures to secure them from the lawless
“ hands of a mob, should afterwards (especially the
" principle leaders of them) relax their minds, and
“ share those blessings which they have been the
“ means of procuring and defending : how com
“ sortable also to the more ignorant part of the con
“ vention (who have been drawn in to sign their
" creed) to fee their leaders indulge themselves in
“ diversions and pleasures, which, like the playing
“ and singing of mariners, is a sure sign that the
" fliip is fafe and in a calm. The dinner is to con
" lift of many dishes, but Icannot pretend (fays he)
" to express the sumptuousness or variety of them ;
" there is however to be good English roast beef,
“ ewe mutton and lamb, both roast and boiled, and
“ all well seasoned with certain spices brought from
" the Raft-Indies ; next is to come a pompous pye,
" on one fide of which is to be seen a viper, and on
" the other a pigeon, both curiously formed in paste,
“ denoting the wisdom of the serpent and the inno
“ cence of the dove, and on the top a cormorant,
“ with a Ministerial Mandate in his mouth : the
" fallad is to consist intirely of celery and penny
“ royal, which it is expe&ed the guests will devour
“ very greadily. But how vain would it be (con
“ tnues this droll writer) to attempt a description
" of the whole entertainment ; all will be elegant,
“ sumptuous and polite, though there will be no de
" fert ; as for the wines, they are to be particularly
“ inch as have been lately imported from Madeira,
" or the Western Islands, if such are to be had;
" for you must know (fays he) they intend to eat
<c and drink what they plcafe, confident with the
'' laws of the land, notwithstanding the Affo
" ciation entered into by the Continental Congress.
6c Towards evening the tea table, with all its equi
“ pages and appurtenances, is to be brought in ; but
" the word of it will be (fays this merry fellow)
'' the Landlady will be confoundedly puzzled to suit
“ the company, there's no India Company's Tea to
“ be had, and Tea they will ha^e, notwithstanding
“ this Meeting is to be after the firft day of March.
“ What then is to be done ? Why give us Dutch
“ Tea, if you have no other.
“ But it puzzels me to think how they will recon
« cile the use of this fort of tea, with the laws of
" the land."
Dutebefs County, Feb. 20, 1775.
Monday, March ^d, f"77fr THE [No. 1223.]
NE^ -r0 R K ^^@fl G A Z E T T E:
W E E K L Y '^fr^ffi M E R C U R Y.
Containing the frefoea ^^ 4li^^^ foreign ano I>ometticfc
ASSIZE of BREAD. Flour at 18s. per Cent.
A White Loaf of the fineft FLOUR, to weigh
ilb. 10 oz. 1, for 4. Coppers.
YI 7 HEREAS sundry conjectures and mifappre-
VI henfions are in the minds of people in regard
to the terrible accident by fire, which happened on
the 28th ult. by the deftru&ion of the hospital, it is
thought proper to put that doleful affair into its true
light, for which reason the following Affidavits are
published; and as a report prevails, that there was a
great many shavings in the room where it firft hap
pened, the contrary is proved by the following affi
davits :
City and Count,) ™Q ICHARD SMITH and Joseph
o/'New-York. ) £\ Forbes, of the laid city, houfe
carpenters, severally make oath, and fay, and firft
the deponent Richard Smith, for himfelf faith, That
on Tuesday morning last, being the 28th day of
February, he was working in company with the said
Joseph Forbes, in the south-west ward, on the prin
cipal floor of the New-York hospital, that upon the
accustomed alarm being given, at twelve o'clock, by
the knocking of a hammer, for the workmen to go
to dinner, he scraped up the sand and ashes, lying
about the hearth of the chimney, where he had some
hours before lighted a ire, with some Savings and
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light wood, for the purpose of heating the glew-pot,
which he had an absolute occasion for, at the work
he had been about; and although there was but little
or no appearance of fire then in the chimney or on
the hearth, the deponent, after so scraping up the
sand and ashes, then swept away the few shavings
about the hearth, and then sprinkled so much water
thereon, as to put the deponent out of all fear of
any damage while he went to his dinner, which being
done, he went out of the hospital front door, with
the said Joseph Forbes, and he and the deponent
locked it after them, thinking the workmen were all
gone, and further the deponent faith, that in the
room where he had been at work, he does not believe
with the fliavings and dirt together, there was so
much therein as would fill a two bushel balket, had
they been all swept up together.
And the deponent Joseph Forbes, for himfelf
faith, that he was at work in the morning of Tuesday
lad, in the fame apartment in the hospital, with the
deponent Richard Smith, who he saw clear up the
hearth of the chimney, where the glew pot had been
heated, and saw the precaution tiled by the said Smith,
by sprinkling the fame with water; and the deponent
did not fee any fire upon the hearth, that could be
noticed for upwards of two hours before he went
away with the said Smith to dinner ; that before they
went out of the door of the hospital, Smith asked
the deponent if he thought the people were all out of
the building, to which the deponent replied he did ;
and then they went out, Smith locking the door
after them, and proceeded to their dinner; and
further this deponent faith not.
RICHARD SMITH.
JOSEPH FORBES.
Sworn the 3d day of? A „
March, before L f Ge °- Brewerton.
City and County ) [ Alexander Bates, of the said
of Neiv-York. ,city, mason, maketh oath, that
on Tuesday last at noon, he the deponent, with two
of his boys, and two carpenters, coming out of the
cellar of the new Hospital, ere&ing in the said city,
in order to go out at the main door to dinner, but on
coming to the door, found it lockt, and all the rest
of the people gone who had been working above;
whereupon one of the carpenters pryed the style of
the door case, on the fide the lock was, till there was
room for the bolt of the lock to pass clear, and
thereby a the door was opened, out of which the de
ponent with the other persons, went their way, leav
ing the door unlockt, and further the deponent faith
not.
ALEXANDER BATES.
Sworn this 2d day of 7
/ Geo. Brewerton.
March, 1775, before me ,
City and County) r\ AVID FAIRLY, of the said
of Neiv-York. ) 1 J city, carman, maketh oath,
that on Friday the third of March, the deponent
heard Mary Watson fay, that on Tuesday last, a
little after twelve o'clock, ffie the said Mary Watson
went to the Hospital to get a few chips, when coming
to the door, found it only latcht, which Ilie opened
and went in, and likewise two little girls with her ;
flie feeing no workmen there, went into the further
mod part of the Hospital, and did not fee the girls
till file had got some chips, and was coming out, when
file called the girls, and they came cut of a room,
from that part where fiie supposes the fire began; and
likewise drove them out, and came out herfelf, and
latcht the door again, and fays (he was only there a
few minutes, and saw no fire there at all: The
deponent further fays that he heard two little girls
fay, (one belonging to Mr. Webb, the other belong
ing to Mr. Trevillion) that they went into the Hos
pital with Mary Watson; and that they went into a
room, and going to the chimney, saw a little fire,
which they laid on shavings, and blowed it till it
burned, and then came out with Mary Watson, and
went home, and further the deponent faith not.
DAVID FAIRLY.
Sworn the 3d March,) v
,'{George Brewerton.
1775, before me )
THIS is to give notice, that the fubferiber intends to
ride post from this place to New-York, and return
here as usual, on every Tuesday afternoon ;---he also
proposes to ereft a complete and commodious STAGE
WAGGON, to go from his own house in Hanover, and
call at the house of Joseph Morris, to the house of Tho
mas Kenney, Esq; and from thence set off at five o'clock
on every Tuesday morning, commencing the firft Tuesday
in May next, and proceed the fame day to Powles-Hook ;
calling at the following places, viz. at the house of
Silvanus Cicly, and Matthias Winins, at Paffaick River,
at the house of Nehemiah Woodruff, at Springfield ; at
the house of Josiah Pearfon,in Newark, and from thence
proceed to Powles-Hook: —From which last place said
Stage will set off on its return at five o'clock every Tues
day morning, and come through Newark, Springfield and
Paffaick, (without calling at Hanover) to this place on
the afternoon of said day.—As the stage must set off
early to perform this journey timely, the passengers are
requested to come over the river on Wednesday evening,
The rate for each passenger from this place to Powles-
Hook, will be four {hillings New-York currency, and
the like sum for each returning passenger, and so in pro
portion for those taken in along the road ; bundles, &c.
belonging to paflengers, and not exceeding fourteen pounds
weight, be carried free. The public may depend that
the fubferiber will use his utmost diligence and care to
render fatisfaaion to every person that will encourage him
in his undertaking. And as he flatters himfelf that he
has given fatisfadion to the Gentlemen that have em
ployed him for some years past in riding post from this
place to New-York, he requests the continuance of their
favours, assuring them that he will faithfully exert him
felf to merit their future approbation.
CONSTANT COOFER.
Morris-Town, 4th March, 1775.
Monday, 39 Min. after it
Tuesday, 29 Min. after 12
Wednesday, 8 Mini after 1
Thursday, 5 Min. after 2
HIGH-WATER at NEW-YORK, this Week.
Friday, 9 Min. after 3
Saturday, 4 Min. after 4
Sunday, 3 Min. after 5
Last Quarter next Friday;
April:
A Suitable place for a merchant, tavern, or any
other public business, being near a cross road at
Clark's-Town, in Orange County, about half a mile
from mills and a church, is pleasantly situated, about 5
miles from the North-River, with a good road to the
landing, and between 2 and 3 miles from the Court-
Hpufe. The place has on it a good dwelling-house, with
four rooms on a floor, well finished, and a cellar under
the fame; allo a compleat summer-house of 15 feet
square, with two doors and four large glass windows, and
a com pleat cellar under it for storing bottles of liquor :
Also a good barn and stable, a good pump and garden, and
plenty of fruit trees, with many other accommodations
too tedious to mention. Likewise to be fold at the fame
time, another place, with a good dwelling house thereon,
having four rooms on a floor, and is a good stand for a tan
ner, shoe-maker, or any public business ; is about two
miles from the English meeting-house at Kakiate, and
on the main road from Harverftraw to Kakiate, and five
miles from Harverftraw Landing, to which there is a
good road to the fame. The conditions of the vendue will
be made known on theday of sale, by the fubferiber, at
Clark's-Town. JOHN WEAVER.
To be SOLD PEREMPTORILY,
At public vendue, on Saturday the firft day of April
next, at two o'clock in the afternoon, on the premises ;
THE large two story stone house and gardens, near
the Town Wharf, in Newark, being a part of the
eflate of Col. Josiah Ogden, deceased, very commodious
for a Gentleman, or any public business, and within one
quarter of a mile of the new Academy, where a Latin
School will be opened the beginning of April next, by
an experienced master. The conditions of said vendue
will be made known at the time of sale, by
DAVID OGDEN,
JACOB OGDEN, and
ISAAC LONGWORTH.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, pursuant to an aft
of the Governor, Council, and General Assembly of
the province of New-York, paired the 19th day of March
now last past, entitled, “ An a& for the more effectual
registry of mortgages, and for securing the purchasers of
mortgaged reflates;" that on the loth day of October
next, at ten o'clock in 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
Precind, in the county of Dutchefs, beginning at the
east corner of a lot of land now, or late, in the possession
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 stake 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
lapsing marked ; thence westward along the creek, as the
said creek runs, to the land now in the possession 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 day of January, in the year of our Lord
1772, mortgaged by Peter Davifon, since deceased, to
the fubferiber, for securing the payment of g. 250, with
interest, on or before the firft day of October then next.
1 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, fubje& to the
proviso in the said act of assembly in favour of other
mortgages, judgments at law, and decrees in equity, prior
to the said sale, by
CHARLES LE ROUX.
The Morris-Town Stage Waggon,
Which was firft feton foot, and has been for upwards of
four years continued by
DANIEL a^rt SILAS BURNET,
BEING provided with good accommodations for pas
sengers, Ladies or Gentlemen, will let out every
Thursday morning early from Powles-Hook ferry, and
from the other stages on the road (weather permitting)
at the usual times.
The proprietors have also adopted proper measures to
secure the goods committed to their care, from being loft
or stolen on the parage, and will be answerable for their
fafe delivery, according to directions: They therefore
hope, from their former customers and others, to meet
with the encouragement they shall conftangly use their
best endeavours to deserve.
To be SOLD at public Vendue,
To the highest bidder, on Friday the 7th day of April
next, by the fubferibers, executors of the last will and
testament of Joseph Reed, Merchant, late of Amwell,
in the county of Hunterdon, Weft-New-Jerfey,deceafed:
A SMALL FARM, situate in Amwell aforefaid,
fronting the great road leading to the Union Iron
Works, about a mile of Ringoe's Tavern, and sixteen
miles from Trenton, containing 48 acres of land, on
which is a large two flory dwelling house, four rooms on
a floor, in excellent repair, where a store for the file or
all kinds of merchandize, has been kept with very good
success for upwards of forty vears past. There is on the
premises a store house, fmoak house, chair house, a large
new barn, stables, barrack, a bearing orchard, a well of
good water, that never fails in the dryeft seasons; about
fix acres of good clover and spear-grass meadow, watered
by living springs, a garden pailed in, with a variety of
fruit trees. The whole in good fence, and divided into
proper fields, except about eight acres of wood-land.—
Allo to be fold the fame day, twenty-seven acres of
wood-land, situate about a mile from the said small farm,
fronting the aforefaid great road. The title to the whole
is deemed indisputable. The vendue to begin at two
o'clock in the afternoon, on the premises, where attend
ance will be given, and conditions made known by
JAMES KIRKPATRICK,)
JOHN HART, and )Executors.
SAMUEL TUCKER. )
Trenton, March z, 1775.
By way of public vendue, on Monday the 17th day of
Io be S OL D,
Wheat per Bufhej, 6s. od.
Flour, 16s. od.
Brown Bread, 15s. od.
Weft-India Rum, 3s. 4tl.
New-England, do. 2s. 6d.
< PRICE-CURRENT, in NEW-YORK.
Mufeovado Sugar, 645. od.
Single refin'd ditto, is. id.
Molasses, 2s. od.
Beef per Barrel, 48s. od.
Pork, 655. od.
A mortgagee title to 52 acres, near Whippany River, in
New-Jersey, adjacent to several trads poflefled by fona.
than Johnson, Abraham Cafterlin, and Samuel Ford -
and upwards of 56 acres formerly returned to Lord Stir
ling, on Stoney Brook, being a branch of Whippany
River : These lands were mortgaged by Timothy Conner.
A small, but valuable, farm of 60 acres, in Salisbury,
in Litchfield County, in Connecticut, possessed by Capt^
James Bird : It has an orchard of 200 bearing apple trees,
yielding 50 barrels of cyder per annum.
A mortgagee title to three acres in Pembroke Tribe, in
Bermuda, laying between the lands of Richard Pitt, Jo
nathan Outerbridge, Thomas Waterman, and the fc'hool
lands./
The moiety of the following lots in the Great Patent
of Kayaderofferes.
Acres.
N °- r 3 in 3 d allotment, 205 No. 2in 16th, 2300
l 3 in 4 th, 588 7 i n i 7t h, 2234.
Ilin 6th, 611 9in 18th, 100
1 ! n 7^, 470 io in 19th, 1145
Il in Bth, 817 11 ; n 2 oth, 1009
2in 9th, 1783 pin 2 ift, 3520
4in 10th, 60 3in 22d, 1763
10 ^n iith, 723 4i n 23d, 1443
zin !2th, 517 i 3 i n 24th, 853
4in 13th, 1880 i in 25th, 1059
pin 14th, 2500
12 in 15th, 684
It any persons are desirous of knowing the price, or title,
they may apply to the subscribers, who have power from
the executors to make the sales, and execute proper con
veyances. WILLIAM SMITH,
ABRAHAM LOTT.
TO B E S O L D,
noted grist mills in the Great or Lower Nine
A Partners, in Dutchefs County, about three miles
from Hudson's-River, or publick landings at Pawling's
Purchase (alias Staatfburgh) belonging to the fubferiber.
These mills are well built, and have two pair of the
best Efopus stones, three bolts that turn by water; in
the mill house are four floors and a half, a cellar under
the whole; at a proper distance from the mills a good
dwelling house, two rooms on a floor; also another house
with a large leanter to it, fixed for storing ashes, and
making pot-ash ; a new barrack and stables, all in good
repair; a very fine conveniency for a fulling-mill near
the grist-mills; together with two hundred acres of land,
whereof about fifty acres are clear, great part of it is
meadow ground, and a bearing orchard of about fifty fruit
trees, all in good fence; the remainder well timbered,
and the whole well watered. The advantages attending
this place are too many to ennumerate herein ; it is situa
ted in a very flourishing part of said county, where several
public roads meet, and on the main road that leads from
the main body of said Nine Partners (so well known for
the extraordinary produce of wheat) to said landings,
which makes it one of the best situations for business.
For terms of sale apply to the fubferiber, in Rhynbeck
Precinft, who will give an indisputable title to the put,
chafer.
PETER D'WITT.
FIVE POUNDS Rifat "
BROKE goal on the 6tb of February, 1772, at tbs
borough-town of Wellchefer, a certain Michael Reyer,
but assumes the name of Michael M'Kelfon: be is about 6
feet high, flout made, pas black eyes and black hair, by trade
a Jboemaker. He formerly lived at Ta,pan, in Dutchefs
County, and is now supposed to be at the Fife Kills. Who
ever secures him, and brings him to the said goal, fall have
the above reward, from the fubferiber, ferjeant of the mace
of the borougb-town of Weficbefer.
JOHN VALENTINES
To be fold upon terms very advantageous to the purchasers,
by order of the executors of the late Mr. William
Kelly, of London, and formerly of New-York,
A Tract of upwards of two hundred acres of excellent
wood land, at White Land, in the Great Valley, l
in Chester County, in Pennfylvahia, not more than z 6
miles from the city of Philadelphia. Enquire of the
quality, of Mr. John Ord, in Philadelphia.
A house and lot of ground on Cowfoot-Hill, 23 feet
wide, and 57 feet long, now possessed by Mr." John
Thompson, and next door to Alderman Blagge's.
The house in which Mr. Kelly formerly lived in Wall-
Street, nearly opposite to Mr. Van Horne's. This lot is
25 feet wide, and in feet deep, and the house in the best
repair.
The house, and about 5 acres of ground (formerly Mr.
Emot's) opposite to the Great Bridge in Elizabeth-Town;
together with another lot adjoining the firft lot, and con
taining near 5 acres more, as pleasantly situated as any
lands in that flourifhing town.
500 acres, or one undivided fourth part of the 2000
acre tract at Turkey, in the county of Essex, in New-
Jersey, on the S. E. fide of Paffaick River, which was
heretofore teturngd for the four daughters of Michael
Kearney, deceased.
557 acres in two traCts at Canoe Brook, in the county
of Essex, formerly Henry Leonard's, being about io miles
from Newark.
A variety of excellent farms in a trad of upwards of
6000 acres, occupied already by above 30 families, situ
ated at New-Town, near the Coutt-Houfe in Sussex
County,---or the whole traft together.'
A farm of about 160 acres, formerly Capt. Bowers's,
in the township of Hanover, in Morris County, now in
the poffeflion of Nathaniel Seabury.
A variety of farms in the township of Gageborough,
which is a very fine trad in the county of Gloucester, in
the second tier of towns from Connecticut River, or the
whole townfliip together, containing 24,000 acres, with
an addition of 5 per cent, more for highways.
The lots No. 10, 1 5 , 20, 21, 26, 40, 49, 64, 74, and
oi, (each containing 539 acres) in Schuyler's patent near
Canigderage Lake, in the county of Tryon.
A farm of 230 acres, in the manor of Fordham, in
West-Chester County, now possessed by Charles Doughty;
and another small farm in that manor, possessed, at pre
sent, by Adrian Laforge, with a small lot of about an
acre, to the northward of the road from the New Bridge
to the town of V/eft Chester. Col. Lewis Morris own
ing the moiety of these lands, will join in the convey
ances. '
LANDS
Fine Salt, 3s. 3d
Coarse Salt, 3s. od
Bohea Tea, 4s. 6d
Indian Cornperßu. 3s. 4d