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TROS TYRIUSQUE NOBIS NULLO DISCRIMINE AGETUR. Virg.
F R I D A Y, M A Y 4, 1787.
[No. 694.]
ASSIZE OF BREAD. A Wheaten Loaf, of fine Flour to weigh 2lb. 4oz. for seven coppers: a loaf of like Flour to weigh 1lb. 4oz. for four coppers.
H I G H - W A T E R.
Monday 54 Min. after 7 Tuesday 26 Min. after 8 Wednesday 10 Min. after 9 Thursday 54 Min. after 9
PRICE-CURRENT, in NEW-YORK. Wheat per bushel, 7s. 6d. at 7s. 10d. West-India Rum, 3s. 9d. Beef, per barrel, 70s. 6d. Indian Corn, 6s. 6d. at 6s. 3d. Muscovado Sugar, 50s. at 70s. od. Pork, 95s. 6d. Flour, common 4s. 6d. per b. Single refined do. 1s. 2d. Fine Salt, 2s. od. Brown Bread, 20s. od. Molasses, 1s. 8d. Rock Salt. 4s. to 4s. 6d.
Wm. Backhouse & Co. Removed to No. 45, Dock-street, have  FOR SALE, RED Port, } Teneriffe, } WINES. Fual and } Malaga } Anchovies and Capers, English Sheetings, Boots and Shoes, Tea and Crockery Ware. To be Let, part of a STORE. Wm. Backhouse and Co. New-York, May 1st, 1787. 93
FOR SALE, At No. 41, Wall-Street,  GENEVA in large cases, Bohemia Tea, Pepper in bales, Best Pistol Powder. 93 3
FOR LONDON, (To sail in ten days) The B R I G  B E T S E Y, THOMAS MESNARD, Master, Lying at Lefferts' wharf, has good accommodations for passengers, and will be ready to take in on Thursday. For freight or passage apply to the Captain on board, or Thomas and James Arden and Co. No. 33, Water-street—Who have for sale, now landing, best London bottled Porter, a few crates Earthen Ware, and an assortment of seasonable Dry Goods, cheap for cash. April 30, 1787. 93
For Freight or Charter to Wilmington or Edenton, N. Carolina, The SLOOP  N A N C Y Bu then about four hundred barrels; she is new and well found, lying at the New-slip, will sail on Sunday next. Apply to JAMES SMITH, No. 49, Cherry-street. 93 2
STOLEN from the Stable of William Potter, Esq. of South-Kingston, State of Rhode-Island, on the night of the 11th instant, three valuable HORSES —one of a chestnut sorrel colour, about 14 hands high and an half high, lately nick'd, his tail not quite well, a small star on his forehead, one hind foot white, a neat trotter and genteel saddle horse.—One almost white, a little upon the grey or spotted order, about 14 hands and an inch high, his nose snip'd with clear white, his hoofs mostly white or streaked, had no shoes on his hind feet, a good trotter and high spirited.—The other a sorrel, with a white face, about 14 hands and an inch high, his hind feet white, travels pretty near behind, somewhat thin of flesh, a natural trotter, as are both the others, all of them marked WP on the near thigh, the letters joined together; neither of them was more than 7 or 8 years old. Whoever will take up and secure said horses, so that the subscriber may have them again, shall have a reward of FORTY SILVER DOLLARS , and one third of said reward for either of them, and all necessary charges, paid by WILLIAM POTTER. April 16, 1787. 93 4
TIMOTHY WOOD,  BOOT and SHOE MAKER, MOST respectfully informs the public, that he has removed from No. 32 to 23, Hanover-square, where he continues his business as usual. He entertains a grateful sense of the many favors from his customers, and hopes that by his giving general satisfaction, he will merit a continuance. He has imported in the brigantine Betsey, Capt. Meinard, the following articles, which he will supply on the most reasonable terms, viz. Calf-skin boot legs of superior quality, Cordovan do. do. Calf and Seal skins, best bend soles, boot garters, &c. &c. New-York, 1st May, 1787. 93
T O B E L E T, For one or more years. A Very pleasant COUNTRY SEAT , situated on the East-river. (lately occupied by Col. Lewis Morris) with or without the out-houses, barn, garden, orchards, meadows and pastures, as will best suit the tenant. In the large house, are four very good well finished rooms on the first floor, and three good bed rooms on the second floor, and a good cellar-kitchen, with several apartments for milk, liquors, roots, and apartments for servants. The orchards and garden abound with all kinds of the very best fruit. For further particulars enquire of P. Stuyvesant. Bowry, Feb. 16, 1787. Exceeding good pasture to be had for horses, cows, or fat cattle, by the day, week, or month. Enquire of William Hart, on the above mentioned premises. 72
THE Co-partnership of De La Mater & Hutton , does by mutual consent, dissolve this day; those having any demands on them, are desired to present their accounts, and they shall be paid; and all those indebted to them are requested to make immediate payment to either of the parties, at No. 35, Water-Street.  De La Mater & Hutton. New-York, May 1st, 1787. 93 6
JUST PUBLISHED, (neatly printed in two volumes, and handsomely bound) And to be Sold by  ROBERT HODGE, Who has moved from Maiden-lane, to No. 237, Queen-street, the corner of King-street; likewise by the other Booksellers,  DISSERTATIONS on the PROPHECIES, which have remarkably been fulfilled, and at this time are fulfilling in the world. By THOMAS NEWTON, D.D. Late Lord Bishop of Bristol.
* * The publisher, with the deepest impressions of gratitude, returns thanks to the subscribers for their liberal encouragement towards printing this excellent work, which has gone through seven large impressions in London, in a few years, and entreats them to send for their books.  ROBERT HODGE, begs leave to inform the public, that a considerable number of gentlemen having given in their names as subscribers for the late President Edwards's TREATISE concerning RELIGIOUS AFFECTIONS , has put it to the press, and intends to prefix to that treatise, the life of the author, his religious experiences, &c. which will make a large and interesting volume to the lovers of religion of every denomination—at the low price of Ten Shillings New-York currency, to the subscribers, neatly bound and lettered. Those who are pleased to encourage this valuable work, will please to send their names to the Publisher, within five weeks, that they may be printed in the book.
Also, may be had at the above store, a great variety of BOOKS , consisting of history, divinity, phylic, philosophy, mathematics, biography, geography, poetry, agriculture, nautical books, dictionaries, architecture, novels, miscellanies, plays, &c.—Family, pocket and common bibles, and small entertaining books for children. Also, an excellent assortment of STATIONARY , particularly writing paper, and blank books of different sizes and prices; Moor's charts of the coast of North-America, &c. &c. N. B. Good American manufactured Spelling-Books, cheaper than can be imported. Commissions from the country thankfully received, and carefully executed. 93
FOR SALE, THE following Lots or Parcels of Land, pleasantly situated at New-Windsor, on Hudson's River, in the county of Ulster, being about sixty miles from New-York, viz.—Lot No. 15, being a water lot, containing 83 feet in breadth, and runs thence in length from a certain street called Water-street, south 57 degrees east to the channel of Hudson's River aforesaid; there is on said lot, a commodious dwelling-house, being the best stand for public business in New-Windsor, with a convenient cellar kitchen and four rooms on a floor, with a dock and store-house, stables and other out-houses—Lot No. 78, containing ten acres, mostly meadow, and in good fence; there are on said lot, a considerable number of bearing apple trees—the northerly half of lot 76, containing five acres, chiefly meadow-land, in good fence—And lot No. 101, containing nine acres of wood-land, being about one mile from New-Windsor.
Also, the following Three Lots of Land, Being the property James Jackson, jun. viz.—Lot No. 67, adjoining the meeting-house at New-Windsor aforesaid, being in length four chains and fifty-two links, and in breadth two chains and forty-three links; there are on said lot, a small dwelling-house, orchard and a good barn, the whole being in good repair—Lot No. 185, containing nearly three acres of wood-land, and joins the aforesaid lot No. 101—And lot No. 96, containing five acres and six tenths of an acre, being partly meadow and partly wood-land, and adjoining the lands formerly owned by His Excellency Gov. Clinton.—Any person wishing to purchase the whole or any part of the above described premises or lots of land, can have a view of the same, by applying to Mr. James Jackson, jun. living on the premises, or to the subscribers in Neely-Town, who will give an indisputable title for the same. WILLIAM JACKSON, JAMES JACKSON, jun. April 26, 1787. 93
To be sold at private sale, A VALUABLE Farm containing about one hundred acres, within three miles of this city; situated on the Greenwich Road, and adjoining the North River; the whole is surrounded with a good new fence and there are on the premises a small stone dwelling house, two good orchards, and a number of other fruit trees. For further particulars enquire of the Printers. N. B. The whole will be sold together or a part of it, as may best suit the purchaser. 78
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, pursuant to an act of the Governor, the Council and the General Assembly of the late colony, now State of New-York, passed the nineteenth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and seventy four, entitled, "an act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates;" that on Thursday the first day of November next, will be sold at the merchants coffee-house in the city of New-York, to the highest bidder, the fee simple of all that certain farm or tract of land, which Joseph Harris, late of Dutchess county, formerly possessed, lying within the said county of Dutchess, in the patent commonly known by the name of the Nine-Partners, being bounded as follows; beginning at a black oak tree, it being the northeast corner of Job Meeks's farm, the northwest corner of Jeremiah Conklen's farm, and the southeast corner of the said Joseph Harris's farm, from thence the line runs north thirteen degrees, west to the farm now or late in the occupation of Richard Gray, being the south line of the Little Nine-Partners, from thence the line runs west on the south line of the said Little Nine-Partners, to the northwest corner of said farm, and the northwest corner of Amenia Precinct, from thence south thirteen degrees east to a walnut sapling, it being the northwest corner of the farm, now or late of Moses Harris, from thence east to the first mentioned bounds; containing eight hundred and sixty-three acres and twenty rods of land, with the buildings, rights, members, hereditaments and appurtenances to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders thereof; which sale will be made by virtue of a mortgage of the said premises, by indenture of lease and release, bearing date the twenty-first and twenty-second days of November, which was in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, for securing the payment of one thousand pounds (with a power of sale therein contained) from Brinton Paine of Dutchess county, Esq. to Augustus Van Cortlandt. Deeds of conveyance after the sale will be executed to the purchaser pursuant to the said power by AUGUSTUS VAN CORTLANDT. April the 16th 1787. 2 89 6m
NOTICE is hereby given, according to the form of an act of the Legislature of the late colony (now State) of New-York, entitled "An act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and for the securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates," passed on the 19th day of March 1774, that on Friday the fourteenth day of September next ensuing the date hereof, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, WILL BE SOLD at public auction or vendue, at the merchants Coffee-House in the city of New-York, the fee-simple of all that certain dwelling house and lot of ground in a certain indenture of mortgage herein after mentioned particularly, described as follows, to wit. All that certain dwelling house and lot of ground, situate, lying and being within the city of New-York aforesaid, in Montgomery Ward of the same city, on the north side of a certain street commonly called & known by the name of Gold Street; bounded westerly to the house and ground of Robert White, northerly by ground late of Geesie Vander Clif, deceased, easterly to the houses and ground late of Nicholas Kortright, deceased, and southerly by said Gold Street; containing in breadth, in front to said Gold Street and in the rear at each end twenty-three feet and an half, and in length on each side forty-five feet, all english measure. Together with all and singular the edifices, buildings, fences, waters, water courses, easements, profits, commodities, advantages, emoluments and hereditaments whatsoever to the said dwelling house and lot, piece, or parcel of ground belonging or in any wise appertaining; which sale will be made in virtue of a mortgage of the said premises duly made and executed by Elijah Miller of the city of New-York, Ship-Wright, and Rebecca his wife to Mary Strange of the said city, widow, by indenture of lease and release, bearing date the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth days of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-two, and executed by the said Elijah Miller to the said Mary Strange. Deeds of conveyance will be thereupon executed to the purchaser or purchasers pursuant to the said power, by MARY STRANGE. New-York, March 9, 1787. 2 78 52
T O B E S O L D or L E T, THE HOUSE and LAND in the Out-Ward of this city, lately belonging to Mrs. Martha Mortier, deceased, and now in the possession of Philip P. Livingston, Esquire. The House is situated on the bank of the North-River, is large and commodious, commanding an extensive and beautiful prospect, with stables, coach house, convenient offices; an elegant garden, with a complete green house. The whole farm contains about twenty-seven acres, and is in excellent order. Any person inclined to rent or purchase the same, may know the terms by applying to Gabriel W. Ludlow or to Daniel McCormick. New-York, 12th February, 1787. 71
NOTICE is hereby given, according to the form of an act of the Legislature of the late colony of New-York, entitled "An act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and for the securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates;" passed on the 19th day of March, in the year of our Lord, 1777, that on Friday the 1st day of June next, ensuing the date hereof, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, WILL BE SOLD at public auction, at the merchants Coffee-House, in the city of New-York, the fee simple of all that certain messuage and Lot of Ground, in a certain indenture of mortgage, made between James Abeel, of the city, county and State of New-York, merchant, and Gertrude, his wife, of the one part, and Francis Lewis, of the same place, merchant, of the other part, described as follows, to wit:—All that certain messuage and Lot of Ground, situated, lying and being in the dock ward of the aforesaid city of New-York, bounded as follows, to wit:—Northerly on a street commonly called and known by the name of Great Dock-street, easterly by a lot of ground formerly belonging to Garret Van Horne, deceased, southerly by a lot of ground belonging to Peter Mesier, and westerly by a house and lot, the property of Isaac Moses, being in breadth, in front, 25 feet and 6 inches, and in the rear 25 feet, one inch, and in length on the east side 70 feet, and on the west 69 feet, and 6 inches, with a gang-way three and an half feet wide, to Little Dock-street, and all buildings, ways, paths, profits, commodities, advantages, emoluments and hereditaments whatsoever to the said messuage or tenement and lot of ground belonging, or in any wise appertaining.—Which sale will be made in virtue of a mortgage of the said premises, by indenture of lease and release, bearing date the 29th day of July, in the year of our Lord, 1785, with a power to sell therein contained, from the said James Abeel and Gertrude his wife, to the said Francis Lewis; and deeds of conveyance will be thereupon executed to the purchaser, pursuant to the said power, by FRANCIS LEWIS. New-York, Dec. 1st, 1786. 2 51 18Je.
At a Court of Chancery, held at the City-Hall of the city of New-York, the 27th day of March, in the year of our Lord, 1787:  P R E S E N T, The Hon. Robert R. Livingston, Esq. Chancellor: In C H A N C E R Y, Joseph Nathan, Complainant, vs. Israel Phillips, Defendant.
FORASMUCH as it appears to this Court, that a bill hath been filed therein by Joseph Nathan, mortgagee, against Israel Phillips, mortgagor, to obtain a decree for the sale of certain premises therein mentioned to have been mortgaged by the said defendant Israel Phillips, to the complainant the said Joseph Nathan: Whereupon process of subpoena to appear and answer hath been duly issued and returned, and the said Israel Phillips hath not caused his appearance to be entered in this suit, as according to the rules of this Court, the same ought to have been entered in case the said process had been duly served and an affidavit having been made to the satisfaction of this Court, that the said defendant Israel Phillips, has withdrawn himself out of this State, and that he could not upon diligent inquiry made by the deponent be found within the same, so as to be served with the said process, which issued on the filing of the said bill of complaint; it is therefore ordered on motion of Mr. Lawrence, on behalf of Mr. Popham, of Counsel for the complainant, that the said defendant, Israel Phillips, appear to the said bill on or before the 27th day of June next ensuing, and in default thereof, that the complainant's said bill be taken pro confesso , to the end, that a decree may be made for a sale of the said premises in the bill aforesaid mentioned, or such part thereof as to this Court shall appear just and right, and it is further ordered, that a copy of this order be inserted, in at least, two of the public news-papers printed in the State of New-York, for the space of eight weeks successively. Extract from the Minutes. 2 85 16 W. COCK, Register.
To the P U B L I C. A Gentleman of the physical profession, regularly educated, offers with great deference his services to the public. As he was many years a surgeon of practice, he hopes his experience will particularly recommend him to those who have the misfortune to be exposed to the ravages of a disorder prevalent enough in all populous cities. As he happens to be a stranger, he can have little more, exclusive of the knowledge of his profession to recommend him, save only the moderation of his charges, and the most assiduous attention to such patients as will honor him with their confidence. It is his interest and duty to observe the most inviolable secrecy where occasion requires. In all disorders whatsoever, he gives advice gratis, to such poor persons as come recommended by any of the Clergy, or respectable families in this city. All seamen are informed, that directions and medicines will be given which may enable them to cure themselves in many disorders incident to their situation, if they observe attention to his rules. The Doctor may be consulted every day, at his house, No. 45, Crown-street. 79
PASTE-BOARD Sold by the Printers.

Laws of the State of New-York.
AN ACT for the more effectual recovery of the arrears of county taxes, and other purposes therein mentioned. Passed the 7th of April, 1787.
BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That in all cases where the Collector of any town or place shall have received any taxes or county rates, and not paid the same to the county Treasurer, it shall be lawful for the Treasurer of such county, for the time being, and he is hereby authorized and required, to commence and prosecute a suit, for the recovery thereof, with costs, in the name of the Treasurer of such county, against such Collector, his Executors or Administrators in an action on the case, for monies received, to the use of such county, in which suits it shall be sufficient to set forth in the declaration, that the Collector is, or in his life time was indebted to the Treasurer of such county; in a certain sum, for so much money by him, as Collector of such town or place, before that time received for the use of such county; and being so thereof indebted, promised to pay the same, when required, to the Treasurer of such county, without setting forth the special matter: and no such suit or action shall be abated or discontinued, by the death, resignation or removal from office of any such county Treasurer; but the same shall, or may be prosecuted to effect, by his successor in office.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful, for the Supervisors of each of the respective counties in this State for the time being, or the major part of such Supervisors respectively, to meet together at such times and places as they may think proper, in their respective counties; and to examine what sums remain unpaid, of the several county taxes, in their respective counties, laid or assessed, since the first day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty, for the necessary and contingent charges of such county; and where they find any sum or sums of money remain uncollected, on any such tax, and the persons or estates charged with the same are sufficient to pay the same, they shall issue their warrant to the Collectors of the respective towns and places where such sums remain unpaid, for the collection thereof: And the respective Collectors, shall levy and collect all such sums, in the same manner and under the same penalties as they are authorized and required to collect the taxes for the necessary and contingent charges of such county; and shall pay the same, to the Treasurer of the county, at such time as the Supervisors in their said warrants shall direct, and if any Collector shall neglect his duty herein, he shall be chargeable with the monies so directed to be levied and collected, to be recovered in the manner aforesaid, by the Treasurer of the county for the time being, with costs of suit. And further, that where the said Supervisors shall find that any deficiency of any of the said taxes has happened in any town or place, by the insolvency, or the want of goods and chattels whereon to levy the said tax, of any person or persons in such town or place, or by the insolvency of the Collector, they shall add such deficiency to the next tax of the like nature, to be laid upon the same town or place.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all and every sum and sums of money to be raised or recovered by virtue of this act, shall be applied in each county, as the Supervisors of such county for the time being, or the major part of them shall direct.
And whereas it hath been represented, that several Collectors of the public taxes, to be raised by virtue of the act for raising monies by tax, passed the twenty-ninth day April last, are prosecuted by county Treasurers for neglecting to pay the taxes by them collected, as by law is directed; & whereas it appears to this Legislature, that some of the Collectors have become delinquent because sufficient time did not intervene wherein to collect the taxes between the delivery of the tax list, and the day appointed for paying the same into the county Treasury: Therefore,
Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for such county Treasurers, who shall have commenced any suit or suits against any such Collector or Collectors, to stay such suit, or suits, in any stage thereof, until the first day of June next; and the Collectors respectively shall proceed to collect the arrears of the said tax, or taxes, and pay the same into the treasury of the county on or before the first day of June next, in like manner, as they could or might have done on or before the first day of March last, as required in and by the said act; and the Treasurer of such county, shall pay the said taxes so to be collected and paid into his hands, into the treasury of this State, within one month thereafter, any thing in the said act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.
AN ACT to amend an Act, entitled, "An Act, supplementary to an Act to appoint Commissioners to settle and adjust any differences which may arise between the proprietors of certain lots in the city of New-York, the buildings whereof were burnt in the year 1776, and for altering the streets which heretofore were laid out adjoining to such lots." Passed the 7th of April, 1787.
WHEREAS the Commissioners named in the act aforesaid except Henry Remsen, are desirous of being excused from acting in the premises: Therefore,
BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Thomas Randall, William Maxwell, David Brooks, Joshua Sands, John M c Comb, and Jacobus Lefferts be, and they hereby are appointed Commissioners, in the place and stead of the persons in the said act named, except the said Henry Remsen, for the purposes therein mentioned, who, together with the said Henry Remsen, or any three of them, shall perform the duties and exercise the powers, by the said act prescribed for, and given to the persons therein named.
FOREIGN ADVICES.
L O N D O N, March 12. Extract of a letter from James Verill, Mate of the Betsey, Capt. Blair, bound from Charlesstown to London, dated Fowey Harbour, March 6, 1787. "I take the earliest opportunity to acquaint you of the melancholy condition of your ship Betsey, and the situation we have been in for some time. On the 11th of February, Captain Blair, Mr. Anderson the boatswain, James Sargen, and Robert Kello, were washed overboard, with every thing that was upon deck at that time, and they were drowned, in spite of every effort to save them. The ship is much damaged in the hull, masts, rigging, &c. and her cargo also. After we got the ship in the channel, I fell in with, and spoke the Duke of Cumberland packet, the Captain of which immediately sent a mate and seven men on board, who, with the assistance of Mr. Price, master, and a boat manned from his Majesty's cutter the Barracouta, brought her safe into this port."
A letter from Rheims, dated Feb. 27, says, "About a fortnight ago a boat, with about 40 persons in it, crossing the Maele, near Dun, in Clermontois, was overset, and all on board, except the waterman, perished. There were eleven pregnant women among them. A labourer being told of the dreadful accident, mounted a stout horse in an instant, and jumped with him into the river, from a bank twenty feet high. The moment he got above the waves, he directed his swimming, with his horse, amidst those heads of the women that appeared now and then above water. He seized eight of them by their hair, and let them successively go, till he found his wife, whom he carried ashore, and afterwards on his back to a public house, where she gave some signs of life; but nature, by so violent a shock, forced the offspring from its mother's womb, and they both died a few minutes after. The husband the unhappy spectator of such a dismal scene, did not survive them long. Grief had preyed so fast on his heart, that he died the next morning. They were all three buried in the same coffin. The Magistrates of the town would have punished the waterman for his negligence, or want of skill, but that, among the victims of his imprudence, were his wife and sister."
A letter from Cork has the following article:—The number of White Boys daily increase, and we have gained intelligence, that large bodies of them were on their march towards this city. A considerable number of young gentlemen and tradesmen joined with a party of soldiers, marched out to meet them, but their lookers out, as they are called, seeing so large a force coming against them, turned back to their main body to give intelligence to them, which threw them into the greatest confusion; some run one way, some another. However, we picked up six of their stragglers, who were so fatigued, that they had not power to escape; by these we are in hopes of finding out their hiding places, that we may come upon them by surprise. We have lodged the six safe in our goal, and they seem willing to answer any questions that are asked them, in hopes of saving their lives.
Yesterday was finally decided in the Court of Session, a cause of considerable importance. In spring 1784, the late Capt. Maclean, of Lochbuoy, married, at New-York, Miss Barbara Lowther, daughter of Lowther, Esq. merchant there; but there was no marriage contract between them. In about three months after their marriage, they took their passage in a vessel bound for England; but in the course of the voyage Capt. Maclean was unfortunately killed. He left a very considerable land estate to a distant relation; but having been cut off before he had made any provision for his wife, and the marriage having been dissolved within one year and day without any issue, she had, by the law of Scotland, no right to the share of the third of his land, properly called the terce , nor to her share of the moveables called the jus relicta . In this unhappy situation, she was advised to bring before the Court of Session an action against the gentleman who had succeeded her husband, claiming an allowance out of the estate for her aliment and support. The point being new, the Court heard counsel at great length in their own presence, and afterwards ordered memorials. The plea stated in defence was, that, by the law of Scotland, it was an established rule, that marriage being dissolved within a year and day, without issue, all things returned into the same situation as if no marriage had ever taken place, and the surviving wife lost right to all her provisions, whether legal or conventional. To this, however, it was answered that the rule of a year and day was in itself most unreasonable, and had been introduced by some ambient decisions of the Court from the principles of the Roman law, without perceiving that these principles were altogether inapplicable to our own law. It was farther contended, that the rule was confined merely to the conventional provisions in marriage contracts, and the legal provisions of terce and jus relicta , without any view to exclude a claim for aliment , which arose the moment a marriage once existed, and was a natural obligation upon the husband, totally independent of the conventional provisions of the marriage contract, or the legal provisions imposed by positive law. It would be strange to say, that the law of Scotland was so defective, as not to provide, for the aliment of a destitute widow; where at the same time, the husband had left an estate, which would easily afford her support. The Court in December last, sustained the claim of the widow for an aliment , and yesterday adhered to that judgment, upon a petition from the defender, and answers for the pursuer.
UNITED STATES.
B O S T O N, April 26. Last Saturday ended a fortnight's session of the Supreme Judicial Court at Northampton; at which were convicted and sentenced to death for the crime of TREASON six unhappy persons, who had taken a very active part in the late rebellion, had been concerned in captivating, plundering, bayoneting or firing upon peaceable citizens of the Commonwealth, had been in arms from time to time, for stopping Courts of Justice, and acted as zealous officers under Shays and Day, at the time of the attack upon the continental arsenal: Their names are, John Wheeler, of Hardwick, Shays's Aid; Henry McCulloch, of Pelham; Daniel Ludington, of Southampton; James White, of Colerain; Alpheus Colton, of Long-Meadow; and Jalon Parmenter, of Bernardston, who shot Walter in attempting to
apprehend him for his treasonable conduct, while flying from the Commonwealth, and from justice. At the same Court was convicted of a course of the most seditious inflammatory words and conduct, which commenced upon his reaching home, after the sessions of the General Court last summer, Capt. Moses Harvey, representative for the town of Montague, one of the prime fomenters of the rebellion, by frequently publishing and declaring among the people, that the General Court, for allowing interest on State securities, were thieves, knaves, robbers and highwaymen, and that if the people did not bestir themselves, they were undone; and particularly by discouraging men from enlisting for the support of government, by inculcating Shays's letter written to him, calling for aid to stop Worcester Court, in December last, saying, people were bewitched if they did not send him men & provisions, & that his heart was with them. His sentence was, to sit upon the gallows one hour, with a rope about his neck, to pay a fine of £50 to the use of the Commonwealth, and be bound to the peace and good behaviour for the term of five years.
Eli Parker, late member from Amherst, and Fowler, late member at the Convention, and of the General Court, from Southwick, plead guilty upon an indictment for seditious practices, and it is supposed, had they been indicted for treason, they must have incurred sentence of death. So that it is not strange to see the people precipitate themselves into riot, insurrection and rebellion, when the men whose duty it peculiarly is to explain, and by influence and example, enforce the laws, instead thereof, exciting jealousies and spreading misrepresentations against the government—By artful and inflammatory discourses, distracting and prejudicing the minds of the people, against that constitution which they are under the solemn oath of God to defend and support.
Since our last, the Hon. General Lincoln, and the Hon. Samuel A. Otis, Esq. two of the Commissioners appointed by the Legislature to receive applications for pardons from persons concerned in the late rebellion, arrived in town from the western counties.
Yesterday the Hon. General Court of this Commonwealth, convened at the State House in this town, agreeable to his Excellency's Proclamation. Among the many generous friends of humanity, who have so liberally contributed to the relief of the poor unhappy sufferers by the late distressing conflagration, the officers of the late Federal Choir, are not the least distinguished. We are informed that they have subscribed a very large sum of money, to be appropriated for the purpose of relieving those who have suffered, by losing their ALL: And although they have met with an unexpected dissolution, they are not void of those tender feelings, which too seldom influence soldiers, under similar disappointments.
New-York, May 4.
Tuesday last, being St. TAMMANY'S DAY (the Tutelar St. of America) the St. Tammany Society of this city held their Anniversary meeting at the Wigwam at Hall's.
At eight o'clock, P. M. the Society sat down to an elegant supper, provided by Mr. Hall, after which the following toasts were drank, viz.
 1st. The Day and all who honor it.—2d. The land of Liberty.—3d. Congress and their Allies.—4th. The State of New-York and all who wish its prosperity.—5th. His Excellency the truly great and virtuous George Washington, Esq.—6th. Lewis XVI. King of France, His amiable Queen, and Royal Family.—7th. The Perpetual unanimity and prosperity to the sons of St. Tammany, throughout the world.—8th. The noble Patriots who fell in the cause of American Liberty.—9th. May the war hatchet be buried, and the pipe of peace be smoked, till time shall be no more.—10th. May the industry of the beaver, the frugality of the ant, the constancy of the dove, be the perpetual characteristic of the sons of St. Tammany.—11th. The daughters of St. Tammany and their paupouces.—12th. May the American chain never be tarnished by the rust of discord.—13th. May honor, virtue and true sense of liberty, and a detestation of slavery, be characteristic of Americans, and all their adopted brethren. 
The evening being spent with that cordiality, good humour and love, that always prevails when sons of St. Tammany meet, after drinking the above toasts, and singing some excellent songs in honor of their Tutelar Saint, and smoking the pipe of peace, every man departed to his own wigwam and hunting ground.
In hopes the ensuing year to spend, In peace and love with every friend.
A correspondent observes, that the establishing the St. Tammany Society, does honor to the promoters, and makes not the least doubt but it will be the most respectable Society in the city, in the course of a little time.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Canadaseago in the Genesee country, to his friend in Albany, dated March 29.
"A melancholy affair happened in this country a few days since. Three of our traders, who were on their way from this place to the Genesee-Falls, having with them a couple of young Indians, were attacked and inhumanly murdered by a party of Indians, at about a day's journey from the Falls, on the 13th of this month—the two young Indians saved themselves by taking to the woods. Although it is unknown to what tribe these murderers belong, the Indians here are using every exertion to find them out, in order to have them brought to punishment. The names of the persons murdered are Michael Vandervort, Peter Wemple and Jasper Dinsman, said to belong to Schenectady.—Vandervort had three cuts with a hatchet in his head—Wemple ten stabs with a knife in the head and body, two cuts with a hatchet in the head, and a shot through the body with a ball—Dinsman was shot through the body and arm with a ball, in the navil with a charge of shot, and had three stabs with a knife in his head. The greater part of the goods they had with them, has been saved."
"On the 27th instant there was a Council held near this place by the Kyuga Indians, when they past sentence of death on an Oneida Indian, who was immediately executed on the spot with a knife."
At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce held on Tuesday evening last, the following gentlemen were elected officers of that important institution for the ensuing year, viz.
 John Broome, Esq. President,  Paschal N. Smith } Vice Presidents.  William Constable }  Joshua Sands, Treasurer,  William Laight, Secretary. 
Extract of a letter from Captain Wodrow, of the brig Eglington, who failed from Baltimore for London, to his friend in Baltimore, dated Kinsale, Feb. 6, 1787.
"On account of contrary winds, and very bad weather, we put into this port, the 2d inst. after a passage of 29 days to soundings, having been beating in the mouth of the channel ever since the middle of January."
"The weather has been excessively tempestuous at sea, a great number of ships have been wrecked, and many put in here and Cork disabled, with the loss of men, masts, anchors, &c. One in particular arrived with only the Captain and one boy on board. Of a fleet that left Gibraltar together, consisting of 153 sail, 100 were lost on the coasts of Spain and Portugal; one belonging to the same port with us, we found here without a mast standing, and her cargo in part damaged; in short, the loss of shipping is inconceivable, and think ourselves very fortunate we have suffered so little."
"A few days before our arrival, we spoke the Rofs Packet, Capt. Galgey, bearing away for Cork.—The letters which went by us for Ireland, and the north of England, were immediately forwarded to the different places."
On Wednesday in the forenoon, the remaining part of a brick building, in Great Dock-street, adjoining the house occupied by Mr. Otterton, taylor, suddenly gave way: By this unhappy accident three of the children of Mr. Otterton were badly wounded, the life of one of whom, being the eldest child, a female of seven years, is despaired of; a jury of the faculty having already extracted 14 pieces of bone from its tender skull. An accident so excruciatingly distressing to the parents of the little innocents, it is hoped will prove a sufficient warning in future to owners of houses not to suffer such dangerous piles to remain unlevelled.
Tuesday evening departed this life, in an advanced age, DOCTOR FARQUAHAR, a gentleman distinguished for his knowledge and abilities in the practice of physic.
Died—On Tuesday last, after a short illness, Mr. JOHN R. GAINE, in the 26th year of his age; he was only son to Mr. Hugh Gaine, Printer, of this city. His remains were on Wednesday evening deposited in the family vault at Trinity Church-yard.
The 23d of last month died at St. Vincents, Edmund Lincoln, Esq. Commander in Chief of that island and its dependencies.
The following articles were intended for our last, but omitted for want of room.
The reasons assigned in the following letter of his Excellency General Washington, for declining the presidential chair of the General Society of the Cincinnati, will, it is feared, also prevent him from taking his seat in the Federal Convention. Though we are assured, from good authority, that his Excellency has since taken up a resolution to attend that very important assembly:—
Mount Vernon, in Virginia, Oct. 31 st , 1786.
(CIRCULAR.)
SIR, I TAKE this early opportunity, in my character of President of the Cincinnati, of announcing to you, that the triennial general meeting of the society is to be convened at the city of Philadelphia, on the first Monday of May in the year 1787.
As it will not be in my power (for reasons which I shall have the honor of immediately communicating) to attend the next general meeting, and as it may become more inconvenient for me to be absent from my farm, or to receive appointments which will divert me from my private affairs, I think it proper also to acquaint you, for the information of your delegates to the general meeting, that it is my desire not to be re-elected to the presidency, since I should find myself under the necessity of declining the acceptance of it.
The numerous applications for information, advice, or assistance, which are made to me in consequence of my military command, the multiplicity of my correspondences in this country, as well as in many parts of Europe; the variety and perplexity of my own private concerns, which, having been much deranged by my absence through the war, demand my entire and unremitting attention; the arduousness of the task, in which I have been as it were unavoidably engaged, of superintending the opening the navigation of the great rivers in this State: the natural desire of tranquility and relaxation from business, which almost every one experiences at my time of life, particularly after having acted (during a considerable period) as no idle spectator in uncommonly busy and important scenes; and the present imbecility of my health, occasioned by a violent attack of the fever and ague, succeeded by rheumatic pains (to which till late I have been an entire stranger) will, I doubt not, be considered as reasons of sufficient validity to justify my conduct in the present instance.
Altho' the whole of these reasons could not have before operated, yet, in conformity to my determination of passing the remainder of my days in a state of retirement, I should certainly have refused to accept the office of President, with which I was honored in 1784, but from an apprehension that my refusal, at that time, might have been misrepresented as a kind of dereliction of the society on my part, or imputed to a disapprobation of the principles on which it was then established. To convince the opposers of the institution, should any such remain, that this was not the fact, and to give no colourable pretext for unreasonable attacks, I prevailed on myself to accept the appointment with a view of holding it only until the next election; before which time I expected the jealousy that had been excited, would subside—& this, I am happy to be informed, has universally taken place.
Highly approving, as I do, the principles on which the society is now constituted, and pleased to find, so far as I have been able to learn from reiterated inquiries, that it is acceptable to the good people of the United States in general, it only remains for me to express the sense I entertain of the honor conferred by the last general meeting, in electing me their President, and to implore in future the benediction of Heaven on the virtuous associates in this illustrious institution.
During the residue of my continuance in office, I shall be constantly ready to sign such diplomas as

may be requisite for the members of your State Society, being sincerely desirous of giving every possible proof of attachment, esteem and affection for them, as well as for demonstrating the sentiments of consideration and respect, with which
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient and most humble servant,
G. WASHINGTON.
P. S. I have thought it expedient to forward a transcript of this circular address to Major-General Gates, Vice President of the Society, in order that the general meeting may suffer no embarrassment for want of an official character to preside at the opening of it.
The President of the Society of the } Cincinnati in Pennsylvania.
THE following curious circumstance is given from Hamlin's letters on the northern coast of Antrim in Ireland:—About twelve years ago the workmen, in pushing forward a new adit towards the coal, unexpectedly broke through the rock into a cavern. The hole which they opened was not very large; and two young lads were made to creep in with candles, to explore this new region. They accordingly went forward, and entered an extensive labyrinth branching off into numerous apartments, in the mazes and windings of which they were at last completely lost. After various vain attempts to return, their lights were extinguished, and they sat down together in utter despair of an escape from this dreary dungeon. In the mean time the people without in the drift were alarmed for their safety, fresh hands were employed, a passage was at last made for the workmen, and the unfortunate adventurers extricated, after a whole night's imprisonment.
On examining this subterraneous wonder it was found to be a complete gallery, which had been driven forward many hundred yards, to a bed of coal; that it branched off into various chambers, where the miners had pushed on their different works; that pillars were left at proper intervals, to support the roof. It was found to be an extensive mine, wrought by a set of people, as expert in the business as the present generation. Some remains of the tools, and even the baskets used in the works, were discovered, but in such a state, that on being touched they immediately fell to powder. The antiquity of this mine is pretty evident from hence, that there does not remain the most remote tradition of it in the country; but it is still more fairly demonstrated from a natural process that has taken place since its formation; for stalactite pillars have been formed, reaching from the roof to the floor, and the sides and supports were found covered with sparry incrustations, which the present workmen do not observe to be deposited in any definitive portion of time.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in the county of Berksire, to his friend in Hudson, dated April 11, 1787.
"I presume that you have not been an indifferent spectator of the tumults and insurrections which have lately happened in this Commonwealth, and especially in this county. Neither need I inform you that when the factious Promoters of sedition here, could no longer defend themselves against the forces of government, they fled, some of them at least, into the State of New-York as an asylum. This was no more than a natural consequence of the disappointment they met with, and the danger to which they would be exposed, if they continued at home. If they had not been encouraged and countenanced, in their opposition to law. If they had not been secreted and protected by the inhabitants; the citizens of this State would have been relieved of much vexation, and had, comparatively, little reason to complain.
"While I am not inclined to retort the slanders which have been cast upon our citizens, for representing some of yours as disposed to abet and encourage the insurgents, it does not appear to me like candor, to be very angry with representations which have too much truth to be denied. In vain will be any endeavours to exculpate those, who daily glory in the very crime, which some would persuade us never entered their minds. I am very sure, from the acquaintance I have in the State, that many of its respectable inhabitants are friends to order, and disposed to preserve a good understanding between the inhabitants of the two States; and that those persons are sorry, and mortified to find so many of their neighbours inclined to favour the side of faction and rebellion. However it may be in other parts of the State, and this I pretend not to determine, in those districts which border upon this county, it is a fact well known, that many of the common people have been and still are disposed to countenance and encourage those who are inimical to government here, and so favourable do some of them look upon the crime of rebellion against this Commonwealth, that when parties have crossed the line to insult, plunder and murder the friends of government, and have returned, they have found a safe asylum, and it has been regarded as an unpardonable crime to pursue them. A party of government troops, for once pursuing these murderers from the slaughter of their friends, were threatened with death; while the murderers themselves were caressed, encouraged and protected. It is true that a proclamation has been issued by the Governor, promising a reward for four of the principal leaders of the rebellion if found within the State, and forbidding any of the inhabitants to give assistance or comfort to any parties in arms within the same; and by his personal appearance in this vicinity, and his interview with General Lincoln, it did seem that he had determined upon decisive measures. But since his departure, by all accounts, matters have fallen into the same course; and the people are as ready to secrete, and assist the insurgents as before.
"If the insurgents do not now presume to parade in large bodies in arms, as they frequently did unopposed, in times past, they still continue in the most public manner, threatening to come over into this State, and kill the friends of government in the highways, and burn their houses, and destroy their property wherever they can find it. A rore at No-bletown, belonging to Noble and Penfield, and a barn at Egremont, they have already burnt; and yet, by all that I can learn, they are treated with every indulgence due to peaceable citizens. While the soldiers in the service of the Commonwealth, are insulted and threatened, if they presume, in ever so peaceable a manner, to pass the line. Large num-
bers of these refugees have, for a long time, been safe by keeping over the line, even when they have been well known; and while they publicly threatened burning and murder every day. And, if I am rightly informed, when warrants for them have been sent over to be renewed, the magistrate either dare not, or would not, or, by law, could not renew them.
"When the peaceable citizens of this State pass into yours to do business, they are frequently insulted in the most open manner, not only by the refugees, but full as often by the inhabitants; and this, for no other crime than friendship to government. Many of the inhabitants appear equally hostile with the insurgents, and have thrown out so many threats, that numbers of our citizens are not without fears of an invasion from them.
"I do not wish to recriminate any charge upon the people of your State, or to allege any thing against them inconsistent with truth. But when I find writers endeavouring to persuade the world that partial representations of the conduct of your citizens have been given; and that they have been unanimous in their attachment to the cause of government, I submit the above facts to be disproved, if any one will attempt it; or, if they cannot be disproved, to be accounted for, upon the supposition that they are all consistent with an uniform attachment to government through the State. A Friend to Peace. "
THE Printers will thank such of their customers as have moved since the commencement of the present month, to inform them of their present places of residence, that the miscarriage of their papers may be prevented.
Just published, and to be sold at No. 5 Water-street, the European, Political, Ladies, and Town and Country Magazines down to March, received by the Betsey Capt. Watson, from London.
ARRIVALS SINCE OUR LAST. Schooner Hope, Weks, St. Croix. Union, Whitlock, Charleston. Lady, James, St. Thomas. Sloop Polly, Barlett, Newbern. Charming Betsey, Berry, Montego Bay. Sloop Philadelphia & New-York Packet, Bailey, Philadelphia. Peggy, Elliot, Charleston. Lady Hayley, Tillinghast, Rhode-Island.
Bank of New-York. THE Stockholders are requested to meet at the Bank on Monday the 14th day of May inst. at ten o'clock in the forenoon, to elect, agreeable to the constitution, thirteen Directors for the ensuing year. By order of the direction, 94 3 Wm. SETON, Cashier.
Maria S. Morton, HAS removed from No. 215, Water-street, to No. 58, Broad-way, where she has for sale, an assortment of GOODS, suitable to the season.—She has also for sale, arrived in the sloop Experiment, from Canton, China, Hylon and } TEAS. Souichong } Also, gun-powder tea, of the first quality. May 3, 1787. 94
TO BE SOLD, A GOOD new DWELLING-HOUSE, situated at the corner of Catharine-street, facing the new-market; an excellent stand for business. The said house is built on a lot, on which there is a lease of 19 years yet to come, and will be sold reasonable and the payments made easy to the purchaser. If not sold before the 15th inst. it will then be sold at public vendue on the premises, at 12 o'clock. 94 JAMES JOHNSON.
JOHN BANKS, MERCHANT-TAYLOR, Has just imported in the brig Betsey, Capt. McFarland, from London, and now selling at his house No. 12, Water-street, a neat assortment of Superfine CLOTHS of first quality, and most fashionable colours, consisting of NAVY blue, bottle green, garnet, modena, bohea brown, dark brown, London brown, dark and light drab of different shades, white silk serge duroy, fine cotton fatinees, worsted do.—A neat assortment of buttons, small plated do. white chappel needles, sharps and blunts, and a neat assortment of spring vest patterns. Ladies and gentlemen who favor him with their custom, may depend on their being served in the neatest manner, and with the greatest punctuality. 94
THE Copartnership of Buchanan & Thompson, being dissolved; all persons indebted to them, are requested to pay their accounts, on or before the 15th day of June ensuing, to the subscriber; and all persons they are indebted to, are to call on him for payment, at No. 217, Water-street, the corner of Water-street and Old-slip.
WALTER BUCHANAN. Who has for sale, a quantity of hoops, French hog-shead staves, pork and beef, bar iron, indigo, and a quantity of dry goods. 94 8
WHEREAS Joseph Henry, of the city of New-York, merchant, has made an assignment of all his estate, real and personal, for the benefit of all his creditors, to us the SUBSCRIBERS—we request, that all to whom he is indebted, send in their accounts; and that all indebted to him, make payment to Walter Buchanan, No. 217, Water-street, so that a settlement may be made as soon as possible. 94 8
ALL persons possessed of the New Emisson Paper Money, so called, which was issued in pursuance of two acts of the Legislature of this State, to wit—of the 15th June, 1780, and of the 27th March, 1781; are hereby notified, that they can receive payment for the same by applying at the Treasury, and that no interest which will arise after the 15th June next, will be allowed on the said new emitted bills. 94 3
GERARD BANCKER, Treasurer.
THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, Will be PRESENTED A TRAGEDY, CALLED
Romeo and Juliet;
In Act the 4th, a solemn Dirge, with the Funeral Procession of Juliet, to the Monument of the Capulets.
To which will be added, A COMIC OPERA,
AGREEABLE SURPRISE.
The doors will be opened at half after five, and the curtain drawn up at a quarter after six o'clock. VIVAT RESPUBLICA.
JOHN GLOVER,
Is removed from No. 71, William-street, to No. 49, Broad-way, near the Owege market, and hath for sale, a general assortment of DRY GOODS, wholesale and retail, which he will sell low for cash; consisting of
BROADCLOTHS, ratinees and shalloons with trimmings, Moreens, durants and tammies, Chintzes and calicoes, Printed linens and chintz ditto, a variety, Fustians, jeans, corduroys and velverets, Irish linens and sheetings, Wide and narrow checks, Russells and calimancoes, Satinets and lastings, Silk and other handkerchiefs, Modes, fatins and peelongs, Brocades and lute strings, Persians and farcenets, Gauzes, cambricks and lawns, Muffins, shawls, corded dimities and dutch cord, Hosiery of all kinds, Mens, boys and childrens hats, Ladies black and brown ditto, Black and white ostrich feathers, Coloured and black ribbons, Mens and womens shoes Bedticks, diapers and tablecloths Mens and womens gloves, Sewing-filks, pins, threads, tapes, &c. With a variety of other articles. 94
The Second Sale of the LAND of Philip French, late of New-Brunswick, deceased, situate in the county of Somerset, stands adjourned until Monday the 21st day of May next. The vendue to begin at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of said day, and to continue from day to day until the whole be sold. ROBERT STOCKTON, late Sheriff. New-Brunswick, April 23, 1787. 94
M. R. HARDIE, teacher of languages, will read a Geographical Lecture in his school-room, at No. 3, Little Queen-street, on every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday throughout the ensuing season.—On the intervening days he will examine his younger scholars on the business of the preceding lecture; and they may also, if they incline, be instructed in the English grammar without any additional expence. The terms are four dollars per quarter or twelve shillings per month.
Tickets of admission to a single lecture, may be had of Mr. Campbell, No. 44, of Mr. McLean, No. 41, Hanover-square, or of Captain Deas, No. 216, Queen-street; with whom, as also with Mr. Graham, teacher, and the Printers, subscription papers are lodged. New-York, May 2, 1787. 94
At a Court of Probates of the State of New-York, held at the Probate Office in the city of New-York, on the 28th day of April, in the year of our Lord 1787.
P R E S E N T, The Hon. Thomas Tredwell, Esq. Judge of the said Court:
WHEREAS Zacharias Sickels, administrator of John Roomer, late of the Out-Ward of the city of New-York, deceased, with his will annexed, hath by his petition presented to the said Judge set forth, that the said John Roomer, was at the time of his death seized of a real estate within this State; that the petitioner had made a just and true account of the personal estate and debts of the said John Roomer, as far as he had been able to discover the same, and that thereby it appeared that the personal estate of his said testator was insufficient to pay his debts, and therefore requested the aid of the said Judge, in the premises according to the directions of the act entitled, "An act for the relief of creditors against heirs, devisees, executors and administrators, and for proving wills respecting real estates;" and the said Zacharias Sickels hath delivered to the said Judge the account in the said petition mentioned: Hereupon it is ordered by the said Judge, that all persons interested in the estate of the said John Roomer, do appear before the Judge of the said Court of Probates, at the Probate Office in the city of New-York, on the 12th day of June next, to show cause if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said John Roomer died seized, should not be sold as will be sufficient to pay his debts. 194 4 THOMAS TREDWELL.
To be Sold at Private Sale,
THAT valuable lot of ground, situated in Queen-Street, adjoining the estate of Isaac Roosevelt Esq. facing Cherry-Street nearly opposite the bank; the lot contains in breadth in Queen-Street 23 feet 3 inches, in the rear 18 feet, and in length on each side 143 feet, in the front is a very convenient shop, a floor admirable calculated for groceries or dry goods, which opens in the rear into a convenient dwelling house with a yard and garden, with some fruit trees, all in good order; in point of situation no place in the city can excel for a Merchant or a Gentleman of fortune. Enquire of Donald Mackey the proprietor, on the premises, No. 157 Queen-Street, New-York.
N. B. As no preference is to be given, it is to be sold to the highest bidder. April 16, 1787. 89
FOR SALE, By Elting and Varick,
No. 20, Little Dock-Street, for cash only, and the price equivalent, viz.
BRISTOL cups and dishes in crates, new black bottles in hampers, short pipes in boxes, grind stones; clothiers shears American make, Bristol steel by the ton or smaller quantity, bar iron and shear moulds, Dutch pots and kettles, nails per cask or smaller quantity; mill, cross-cut, pit and other saws; anvils, vises, beak irons, hammers and files; smiths tools, buttons, buckles, and japaned ware, a great variety, and a general assortment of other ironmongery and cutlery; 60 firkins butter, 8 hogheads tobacco, 2 quarter casks Madeira wine. ESOPUS MILL STONES, a few pairs on hand, and more can be procured of any dimension at a short notice, as low in price as at the quarry, adding the transportation.
One second hand Chariot; one Negro Boy, 15 years old, brought up to house-work, and is very handy at table; one Negro Woman, about 40 years of age, acquainted with house-work, and a good plain cook.
TO BE LET,
A large Dry Cellar in Broad-way, near the burnt Church. Enquire as above. March 10, 1787. 79 12
Thomas Burling, CABINET and CHAIR-MAKER,
At the sign of the CHAIR, near the Chapel, in Beckman-street, formerly Chapel-street,
ACKNOWLEDGES the many favors received from his friends and the public, and would wish to inform them that he has opened a Warehouse of Mahogany and other Furniture, on a more extensive plan than heretofore; and for the convenience of strangers and others, who may resort to, or settle in this city, he means to keep an assortment where they may be supplied on the shortest notice; for it must hurt the feelings of every citizen to observe the daily impositions strangers are liable to, in purchasing new furniture at these public vendues.
He served his time with Samuel Prince, a conspicuous character in his way, and esteemed one of the best workmen in this city, and as he has laid in a stock of the best Mahogany and other Wood, and means to employ the best hands, and sell his work at the lowest rate good work falls at, he flatters himself with being able to give satisfaction to his customers.
Bed-Chairs for the sick having been much wanted in this city, said Burling has provided some to let. 89
To COVER,
THE ENSUING SEASON, At Col. Gilbert Budd's, Maronock, Westcheffe County, 27 miles from New-York, at six dollars the season, the money to be paid down; The beautiful bright bay HORSE
RECOVERY,
IMPORTED from England last summer; He is 15 hands and an half high, elegantly marked, very strong and bony, and as fit for the country as any Horle whatever.
He was got by Tartar, and out of Mr. Foster's grey Mare, the most noted hunter in the north of England; Tartar was got by Old Tartar, out of a Mare bought of Lord Granby; she was got by the Earl of Godolphin's Old Arabian; her Dam by Young Belgrade; her Grandam by the Scarborough Colt; her G. Grandam by Bartlet's Childers, which was brother to the Devonshire Childers; her great great Grandam by the Duke of Devonshire's Chestnut Turk; her G. G. G. Grandam by Curwen's Bay Barb; her G. G. G. G. Grandam by Curwen's Old Spot; her G. G. G. G. G. Grandam by Granby Woodcock; Mr. Foster's grey Mare was got by Regulus, her Dam Matchim.
N. B. The above Horle would have covered last season, but being so poor, owing to a long passage, his owners thought it would not be doing justice to a number of Gentlemen who were desirous to have their Mares covered by him at that time. Good Pasturage for Mares at two Shillings per week, and the greatest attention paid to them. March 21, 1787. 82 tf
JUST PUBLISHED,
And to be Sold by S. LOUDON, AN ESSAY ON THE DOMESTIC DEBITS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Giving an Account of the various Kinds of Public Securities, and generally in what Manner the Debts arose:
With the Provision made and proposed for Payment of the Interest and Principal thereof by Federal Measures, and of those adopted by Individual States.
To which is subjoined, A STATEMENT OF THE FOREIGN DEBT, As set forth by the United States in Congress assembled, in their address and recommendations of the 18th of April, 1783.
By MATTHEW McCONNELL. (Price 2/8.)

POET'S CORNER.
SONNET.
YE woods, and ye mountains unknown, Beneath whose dark shadow I stray; To the breast of Serena alone, These sighs bid sweet echo convey.
Wherever she pensively leans, By fountain, on bank, or in grove; Her heart will explain what he means, Who sighs both from sorrow and love.
More plaintive than Philomel's song, O break the fond strain in her ear; And say, tho' departed so long, The friend of her bosom draws near.
Then tell her what days of delight, Then tell her what ages of pain; I felt, whilst I liv'd in her light, I feel till I see her again.
WHEREAS Jonas Denton, of the precinct of Goshen, in the county of Orange, and State of New-York, yeoman, did in and by one certain indenture of mortgage, bearing date the 31st day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, mortgage to Joseph Smith, of the precinct, county, and State aforesaid, all that certain parcel of lands and tenements, situate and lying in the patent of Wawayanda, in the precinct and county aforesaid, and is butted and bounded as follows, viz. adjoining the land now in possession of Jacob Pott, and beginning at an ash tree, marked with the letters P C it being the westernmost corner of the said Jacob Pott's lands; and runs from thence along the lands of the said Jacob Pott and the lands of Herman Rowley, north twelve degrees and thirty minutes, east thirty-eight chains and seventy-six links to a white oak tree, marked for a corner of Adrian Van Houten's land, then along the line of the said Van Houten's land to Poachad road; then along the said road as the said road runs to the south line of the aforesaid large tract; then along the said line as the trees are marked; south forty-eight degrees and thirty minutes, east seventy-nine chains and sixty-one links to the place of beginning, containing two hundred and forty-six acres of land, more or less, within the bounds and limits aforesaid, (excepting and reserving to and for the use of the said Jonas Denton, and his heirs and assigns forever, all mines and minerals now being and growing on the said hereby granted premises, any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding) — Which said mortgage was to become void on the payment of three hundred and seventy pounds fifteen shillings and two-pence current money of New-York, with the lawful interest thereof, on or before the first day of May then next ensuing: And whereas the said Jonas Denton did in and by the said mortgage, for himself, his heirs, executors and administrators, covenant and agree to and with the said Joseph Smith, his heirs and assigns, that if default should be made in the payment of the said sum of three hundred and seventy pounds fifteen shillings and two-pence, with the interest thereof, or any part thereof, at the time whereon the same ought to be paid as above mentioned, that then, and in such case, it should be lawful for the said Joseph Smith, his heirs, and assigns, to sell and dispose of the said lands and premises above-mentioned and described, or any part or parcel thereof at public vendue, or otherwise; and out of the monies arising therefrom, to keep and retain in his hands the above-mentioned sum of three hundred and seventy pounds, fifteen shillings and two-pence, and the interest thereof, or such part thereof as should be then due, together with the costs and charges of such sale, rendering the surplus monies, if any, to the said Jonas Denton, his heirs, Executors, administrators, or assigns; as by the said mortgage on the record thereof in the Clerk's office of the county of Orange, reference being thereunto had will appear. — And whereas the whole sum of the said three hundred and seventy pounds, fifteen shillings and two-pence, with the interest thereof, remain due and unpaid — This is therefore to give notice to the said Jonas Denton, that unless he pay and discharge the monies due upon the said mortgage, or cause the same to be paid and discharged, together with the costs and charges which have already arisen, or may hereafter arise in prosecuting the sale of the same, on or before the twenty-fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, that the said mortgaged premises will then be sold at public vendue by the subscriber, and a good title in the law given to the purchaser, agreeable to the direction of an act of the Legislature of the late Colony of New-York, in such cases made and provided. — On said premises are two good log houses, with other improvements, the lands are calculated to make an excellent farm, being well proportioned with meadow and plough land, and thirty good apple trees.
The Vendue will be held on the premises, at one of the clock in the afternoon, of the above said day. Conditions of sale will be then made known, and due attendance will be given, by
JOSEPH SMITH.
Orange County, November 24, 1786. 1 48 6m
THE partnership of EDWARD and WM. LAIGHT will, by mutual consent, be dissolved on 1st of May next. — The creditors of the said house, upon application, will be immediately paid: the debtors are hereby requested to make an equitable and speedy settlement, or their accounts, without distinction, will be placed in the hands of an Attorney. Edward Laight having retired from the business, it will, after the period abovementioned, be carried on at No. 200 Queen-street, by
WM. L. LAIGHT and Co.
New-York April 19, 1787. 90 tf
NOTICE is hereby given (according to the form of an act of the Legislature of the late Colony of New-York, entitled, "An act for the more effectual registry of mortgages, and for securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates," passed the nineteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four) That on Thursday the fourth day of December next ensuing the date hereof, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, will be sold at public auction upon the premises, the fee simple of a certain mansion house, mills, stables and farm in a certain indenture of mortgage made between Cornelius P. Low of the City of New-York, merchant, of the one part, and William Constable of the same place merchant, of the other part, described as follows, to wit, all that certain mansion house, mills, stables and farm or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the manor of Philipburgh, county of West-Chester and State of New-York, known and distinguished heretofore as the place of residence of the late Frederick Phillips, Esquire; bounded westerly by Hudson's River, southerly by land in the possession of the widow Rich, easterly by land sold to David Hunt, the run of water called saw-mill river and a lot of land in the possession of Archer, and northerly by land sold to Robert Johnson; containing, within said bounds, three hundred and twenty acres, reserving and excepting out of the same two acres, whereon the church stands, two acres whereon Honnes Sherwood the Gardner lives, and about two acres of meadow adjoining to saw-mill river and the road; it being part of the glebe land. Also two lots of woodland No. 12 and No. 13, containing each thirty-three acres; bounded southerly by land sold to Andrew Bolkwick, Esquire, easterly by lots No. 16 and No. 17, northerly by lot No. 11, and westerly by the post road, together with all and singular the houses, buildings, ways, waters, water-courses, privileges and appurtenances to the said premises belonging, or in any wise appertaining, which sale will be made in virtue of a mortgage of the said premises, by indentures of lease and release, bearing date the eleventh and twelfth days of May, in the year of our Lord 1786, (with a proviso therein contained) from the said Cornelius P. Low to the said William Constable, and deeds of conveyance will be thereupon executed to the purchaser pursuant to the said power by
1 85 6m. Wm. CONSTABLE.
At a Court of Probates, of the State of New-York, held at the Probate-Office in the city of New-York, on the nineteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven.
P R E S E N T, The Honorable Thomas Tredwell, Esquire, Judge of the said Court.
WHEREAS Johannes Jacobus Blauvelt, administrator of Jacobus Jacobus Blauvelt, late of Orange Town, in the county of Orange, carpenter, deceased, hath by his petition presented to the said Judge set forth, that the said Jacobus Jacobus Blauvelt was at the time of his death, seized of a real estate within this State, that the petitioner had made a just and true account of the personal estate and debts of the said Jacobus Jacobus Blauvelt, as far as he had been able to discover the same; & that thereby it appeared, that the personal estate of his said intestate was insufficient to pay his debts, and therefore requested the aid of the said Judge in the premises, according to the directions of the act, entitled, "An act for the relief of creditors against heirs, devisees, executors and administrators, and for proving wills respecting real estates," and the said Johannes Jacobus Blauvelt hath delivered to the said Judge the account in the said petition mentioned: Hereupon it is ordered by the said Judge, that all persons interested in the estate of the said Jacobus Jacobus Blauvelt, do appear before the Judge of the said Court of Probates, at the Probate-office, in the city of New-York, on the twelfth day of June next, to show cause if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said Jacobus Jacobus Blauvelt died seized, should not be sold, as will be sufficient to pay his debts.
1914 THOMAS TREDWELL.
New-York 22d April, 1787.
By the Commissioners of Forfeitures for the Southern District.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that on Wednesday the first day of August next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at the house of David Hunt near the Lower Mills in the Manor of Philipburgh, will be sold at public vendue, all the estate, right, title and interest late of Frederick Phillips Esq. in the following lands situate in the said Manor, viz. acres.
 No. 1. The farm late in the possession of Moses Miller containing 133  No. 2. The farm late in the possession of Caleb Archer. 179  No. 3. The farm late in the possession of Wm. Underhill. 360  No. 4. The farm late in the possession of Doctor Bailey, situate at New-Rochelle. 149  Also the moiety, or undivided half of a farm of 110 acres, situate in the manor of Cortlandt, late the property of Lewis Palmer.
And on Monday the 16th of August at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at the Coffee-house in the city of New-York, will be sold, a number of lots situate in the out ward of the said city, and on the estate late the property of James De Lancey; many of them fronting the Bowery-lane—map to be seen at the Commissioners-office.
Also a lot of ground situate on the westerly side of New-street, late the property of Oliver Delancey, Esq.
Also a lot situated on the northerly side of Bridge-street, late the property of William Bayard, Esq.
All the above lands will be sold only for certificates issued or to be issued by the Treasurer of this State.
ISAAC STOUTENBURGH, } Commissrs. of 191 PH. V. CORTLANDT, } Forfeitures.
THE Copartnership of Oothout and Dumont, being dissolved; all persons indebted to that firm, on bond, note or book, are hereby earnestly requested to pay the subscriber, at No. 13, Smith-street.
74 16 JOHN OOTHOUT.
By order of the Hon. Richard Morris, Esq. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New-York:
NOTICE is hereby given to Seth Williams, now or late of Rhode-Island, and to all others whom it may concern; that on application and due proof made to the said Chief Justice, pursuant to an act of the Legislature of this State of New-York entitled, "An act for relief against absconding and absent debtors, passed the fourth day of April, 1786:" He hath issued his warrant to the Sheriff of the city and county of New-York, commanding him to attach, seize, take and safely keep all the estate as well real as personal, of the said Seth Williams, an absent debtor, of what kind or nature soever, and every or any part or parcel thereof, in whatever part of his bailiwick the same can be found, with all evidences, books of account, vouchers and papers relating thereto: And that unless he, the said Seth Williams shall return and discharge his debts within twelve months after the publication of this notice, all his estate real and personal, will be sold for the payment and satisfaction of his creditors. Dated at the city of New-York, this 24th day of February, in the year of our Lord, 1787. 75
Just Published, AND TO BE SOLD BY SAMUEL LOUDON, THE EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT OF THE UNGODLY, Illustrated and evinced to be a SCRIPTURE DOCTRINE; AND THE Salvation of all Men, As taught in several late Publications, confuted. In a new Arrangement of the Subject in Dispute. IN THREE PARTS. By STEPHEN JOHNSON, M. A. Pastor of the first Church in LYME. (PRICE ONE DOLLAR.) 86
ACADEMY, Little-Queen-street, No. 19, between Nassau and Smith-streets.
MR. GRAHAM finding that most of his employers wish to have their children taught English along with their writing, accounts, &c. and being conscious that he cannot do justice to his scholars while his mind is distracted by teaching at once, a multiplicity of branches of education; proposes, in compliance with the wishes of his friends, on the first of May next, to open an Academy, for teaching English, Writing, Arithmetic, Book-Keeping and Geography, in a large well aired house, built for the purpose.
The English language will be taught grammatically, and the strictest attention paid to proper elocution, by Mr. Johnson, a young gentleman, lately from England, who has been for some years in the practice of teaching. Mr. Johnson has been examined by several gentlemen of learning and taste in this city, and is warmly recommended by them as well qualified for the charge: And it is hoped, that by devoting his whole time to the English scholars, he will soon render them expert, not only in reading, speaking, spelling, parsing and construing, but also in composing letters and other pieces.
Mr. Graham will continue as usual, to teach writing in all its various hands, arithmetic, book-keeping and geography; and he flatters himself, that, by bestowing all his attention on these branches, his pupils will make more proficiency than they have hitherto done.
It is proposed to take a few young ladies betwixt the hours of eleven and one, for writing, accounts, English grammar and geography.
N. B. A pair of globes and a general atlas will be provided for the use of the academy as soon as possible. Mr. Graham returns his most sincere thanks to those gentlemen, who have already honored him with their employment, and humbly begs the continuance of their friendship and patronage.
* Any card or message sent to the academy, will be carefully attended to; where the terms of teaching may be known. 87 April 27, 1787.
TO BE SOLD,
ON reasonable terms, in the whole or in parcels, three thousand one hundred and fifty acres of extraordinary rich and fertile Intervale and Upland , situated on Pollett-river, and that part of Wood-creek, called Indian or Green-river, in the township of Granville, in the county of Washington and State of New-York, formerly granted to Captain Robert Campbell—Also two thousand one hundred acres of excellent good Land , to the south westward thereof, in the same township and county, heretofore granted to Captain William Farquhar—And also, two thousand one hundred acres of very good Land , in the same neighbourhood, granted in the year 1764, to Lieutenant David Borry, to all which an indisputable title will be given. Apply to James Farquhar in New-York. 57
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that we the subscribers, commissioners, appointed by an act of the Legislature of the State of New-York, entitled, "An act for the more easy partition of a tract of land, called the Oneida Purchase," passed 11th April, 1787, will meet on Tuesday the 5th day of June next, between the hours of ten and twelve in the forenoon, at the house of John Simmons, Innkeeper, situate in Wall-street, in the city of New-York; to cause the several lots, into which the said tract is divided, to be ballotted for pursuant to the directions of the said act, at which time and place, all persons interested in the said tract are required to attend. Dated this 18th day of April, 1787. 90
EVERT BANCKER, JOHN RAMSAY, THOMAS RANDALL.
TO BE SOLD, By Thomas Walsh,
No. 11, in the Fly-Market, All sorts of GARDEN SEEDS, viz.
 EARLY Charlton Peas, do.  Marrow-fat do.  Green Dwarf do.  Bush do.  Hollispur do.  Windsor Beans, do.  Long pod do.  Six weeks do.  Dwarf do.  A thousand to one do.  Early yellow French do.  Scarlet Runners do.  Yorkshire Cabbage Seeds, do.  White Dutch Carly do.  Sugar Loaf do.  Colli Flower do.  Flower Seeds, do.  All kinds of kitchen garden Seeds, do.  Savoy Cabbage Seeds, do.  Sellery Seeds, do.  White and Red Onion Seeds, do.  Red Cabbage Seeds, do.  Rye Grass Seed for meadows, do.  Timothy, Red and White Clover Seeds. 69 
THOMAS SMITH, BOOT, Shoe-Maker, and Leather Cutter,
No. 179, Queen-Street, corner of Beckman, or Chapel Street, sells all sorts of boots and shoes at the following prices: £. s. d.
 Mens best boots, town made, warranted, 2 8 0  Common ditto, ditto, ditto 2 4 0  Mens shoes, best sort, ditto, ditto 0 12 0  Ditto shoes, strong ditto, from 8/ 0 9 0  Womens latinet or callimanco shoes, 0 11 0  Ditto, leather ditto 0 8 0  Boys, girls, and childrens shoes of all sorts. English boot legs, bend soles, and country leather of all sorts, cheap for cash.  Black-ball of excellent quality for cleaning boots and shoes, wholesale and retail.  N. B. A quantity of mens strong shoes, fit for country store-keepers, or the Southern trade, and will be exchanged for tanned leather or raw hides. 41 
Hubert Van Wagenen and Son, No. 2, Beckman-Slip, Have for Sale on the most reasonable terms, a general assortment IRONMONGERY, CUTLERY &c.
Amongst which are, viz.  Sheet-lead and Sheet-iron, faws, proper Files for ditto,  Bellows-pipes, Scythes and Sickles,  Frying-pans, Flax-hetches of different qualities,  Spades and Shovels, Spring-ketches for windows,  German, Crow-ley, Blister and } Steel, Pocket-compasses,  common } Darning and Sewing-needles,  6 by 8 window-glass, Wool & Cotton cards, Sail and Packing-needles,  Corn and Coffee-mills, a variety of Razors and  Straw-knives, nails, Scissors,  Gun-barrels and Locks, finished Pocket & Penn-knives,  Anvils, Vices, Pen-mauls, a large assortment of  Hand and Sledge-hammers, Knives and Forks,  Trace and Jack-chains, Bras and Iron-wire, Pit, Cross-cut, and other Saws,  Card-wire by the cask or less quantity, Iron-pots and kettles,  Hand-bellows, glue, Eye-pans,  Neat Shovels and Tongs, Chimney-backs,  brass heads, Griddles,  do. do. do. without heads, Ox cart and waggon-boxes,  variety of Carpenters Rules, Hearth and Chimney-tiles,  Carpenters and Joiners Squares, Hair-brooms, Boonders,  Writing-paper, Hand, Hearth, white-wash,  Knitting-pins, Cornice and Moulding-plains, Rubbing, Weavers, Cloaths, Curryers, Shoe and Buckle-Brushes,  Dutch and English Mill-BOLTING-CLOTHS, a complete assortment; Haelerm Oil and Neurenburgh salve, warranted; together with TOOLS for Smiths, Carpenters, Joiners, Masons, Taylors, Shoe-makers and Coopers, with many other articles. 91 
TO BE LET,
A TWO story corner house, at the North River, next to Powles' Hook ferry house, it is as pleasant a situation as any in this city, there is a garden of 50 feet square in the rear of the house. For terms enquire at the premises. 80
ALL persons having any demands against the estate of Dirk Duryee, deceased, are desired to send their demands to the subscriber without delay, and those indebted to said estate, are requested to make immediate payment to the subscriber, No. 3, Jacob-street.
CHARLES DURYEE, Administrator. New-York, April 14, 1787. 89 3
For Sale at this Printing-Office, an INSTRUMENT agreed upon between Commissioners appointed by the States of New-York and Massachusetts, respecting the jurisdiction of a late disputed territory, therein described, &c.