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The New-York Packet.
TROS TYRIUSQUE NOBIS NULLO DISCRIMINE AGETUR. Virg.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1787.
[No. 674.]
ASSIZE OF BREAD. A Wheaten Loaf, of fine Flour to weight 2lb. 4oz. for seven coppers : a loaf of like Flour to weight 1lb. 4oz. for four coppers.
H I G H - W A T E R. Monday 32 Min. after 10 Tuesday 20 Min. after 11 Wednesday 0 Min. after 12 Thursday 14 Min. after 1 Friday 6 Min. after 10 Saturday 8 Min. after 11 Sunday 0 Min. after 12 Monday 14 Min. after 1
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. Malt-vanilla Sugar, 5s. 6d. at 70s. od. Pork, 95s. 6d. Flour, common 42s. 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.
SALES at AUCTION,
ON MONDAY the 26th instant, at the Coffee-House Bridge, at 12 o'clock, LIGHT boxes Bohea Tea, Nine barrels Coffee, Six hampers Porter; Forfeited to the people of this State and the informants, and sold by decree of the Court of Admiralty. J. GRAHAM, Marshal.
TWO DOLLARS REWARD,
RUN away from the subscribers, on the 17th inst. an apprentice boy, named PETER TER BOSS, about 20 years of age, dark brown hair, blue eyes, about 5 feet 8 inches high, stout made, he has a down look; had on when he went away, a mixed white and black coat, brown overalls. It is supposed he has stole his indentures & took them with him as they cannot be found. Whoever takes up said boy, and lodges him in any gaol of this State, or brings him to the subscriber, shall receive the above reward. JOHN COOPER. New-York, February 19, 1787. 73 3
A Woman with a good breast of milk,
would be willing to take a child to suckle in her house; she can be well recommended. Enquire at No. 32, Little George-street. 73 4
CLAIMS against the UNITED STATES.
Office of Accounts, Marine Department, New-York, 1st January, 1787. ALL persons having claims against the United States, for services performed, or articles supplied, in the Marine Department, are hereby notified, that unless their accounts are speedily sent to this Office, they will be precluded from any settlement, as a day will shortly be fixed, after which no claims will be received. BEN. WALKER, Commissioner.
The several Printers throughout the United States, are requested to insert the above in their papers. 73 t.f.
TO BE SOLD,
At Private Sale, AN excellent Grist-Mill and Saw-Mill, with a convenient Dwelling-House, and two hundred acres of Land adjoining, twenty of which is cleared, and the remainder well wooded; near Moriches on the south side of Long-Island, in Suffolk county. The stream of water never fails. Both mills may be constantly employed. The privilege of fishing, fowling and hunting, are equal to any in the county. For terms of sale, apply to David Howel, or Hugh Smith, near the premises. February 20, 1787. 73 4
For Sale at Public Vendue,
L A N D S, BELONGING to the estate of John de No-yelles, deceased, in the patent of Kakakeat, to wit, 100 of lot No. 8, 50 acres in No. 7, and 13 3/4 acres of No. 12 in the west range, 67 1/2 acres in No. 1, in Concklin's range, 30 acres in No. 8, in the west lots in Lows' survey, 100 acres in No. 6, west range, 54 acres in the 90 acre lot on Mines Hall, 200 acres in No. 2, Concklin's range, 60 acres in the east tier of lots No. 1 & 2, of Lows' survey, 200 acres in No. 3, in Seamans' range, 32 1/2 in No. 3, in Mines Hall, 75 acres in No. 1, in Seamans' range, 666 2-3, being 2-3 of 1000 acres bounded by the pond patent, Welches' island, and other parts of Kakakeat patent; also, 31 acres of a lot late of Elias Secours, in Haverstraw, and several other tracts—of all which a more particular description may be had of the subscribers, John Robert, at Haverstraw, or of Aaron Burr, at the corner of Nassau and Little Queen-streets, in the city of New-York. One fourth of the purchase money to be paid on the delivery of the deeds, and the remaining three fourths in three payments, at six months between each payment. The vendue will be holden on the 15th day of April next, at the house of the said John Robert, at Haverstraw.
G. BANYER, } Executrix. THOMAS DUNCAN, } cutors. RACHEL ROBERT, Executrix. JOHN ROBERT. 2 73 13th ap.
A valuable Lot of Ground for Sale.
THE Lot of Ground now in possession of Mrs. Van Dyck, widow of the late Abraham Van Dyck, is to be Sold at Private Sale—It is situated the corner of John-street and Broad-way; 50 feet in front and rear, and in depth 160 feet. The stand being so well known, recommends itself to the purchaser. If not sold by the first of April ensuing, said lot will then be leased for a term of years. Apply to William Hardenbrook, John Stagg, George Janeway, John de Peyster, Feb. 16, 1787. 73
To be Sold, at PRIVATE SALE,
AN excellent GRIST MILL, with two run of stones, bolts and screens, in good order for bolting and packing, together with an excellent Saw Mill, likewise in good order, and a good Dwelling-House, which are all situated in one of the best stands for business. For further particulars apply to the Printers hereof. 161 12
TO BE SOLD
At Public Auction, on Tuesday the twentieth day of March next, at South-Haven, in Suffolk county, Long-Island,
ALL that valuable FARM, together with the house and out-houses, formerly the property of Col. Richard Floyd. There are few situations on Long-Island preferable to this, in almost every point of view. It is as equally profitable to the husbandman, as pleasurable to the gentleman. It lies on the south side of Long-Island, about seventy miles distant from the city of New-York, and is situated between the manor of St. George and Massich.—There are about five hundred acres of fine cleared land, a sufficient quantity of salt meadow to fodder two hundred head of cattle annually; and several hundred acres of woodland belonging to the farm. It includes three necks of land, and has all the advantages of fishing, fowling, &c. &c. In fine, there are few plantations that command such variety of amusement, and at the same time can conduce so much to the real profit of its possessor. Should the whole farm be deemed too large for persons inclining to purchase, it will be divided into four or greater parts. The title is derived from the State.—For further particulars enquire of Col. Benjamin Floyd, at Brook-Haven, Suffolk county, or to David Floyd, at Fort-neck, in Queens county, or to W. Cock, in the city of New-York. 19th Feb. 1787. BENJAMIN FLOYD. 73
To be Sold at Private Sale,
And if not disposed of by the 16th of April, then to be sold at Public Vendue, at 12 o'clock on that day, at the Merchants Coffee-House, viz. TWO Lots of Ground situated in the Out-ward, adjoining the late mansion-house of James Delancey, Esq. each lot containing in front & rear, 25 feet in width, and above 160 feet in length; in one is a half of a brick building, which half contains a good room, cellar and garret.—Two Lots in the rear of those extending from Fifth-street, 100 feet in length, and 25 feet in width each.—Four Lots situated next Delancey and Fifth-street, each 25 by 100 feet.—Four Lots situated near the powder-house, at fresh water, 25 feet in width by 100 in length, fronting Janeway-street, and 3 ditto 25 wide, from 80 to 100 feet in length.—Six Lots most pleasantly situated near Abraham Cannon's at Corlear's Hook, between Grand and High-streets, 25 feet wide and different lengths.—Eleven Lots on the west side of Byvanck-street, 25 feet wide and 88 feet long.—Eleven Lots on the east side of said street, 25 feet wide and 108 feet in length; each of these lays in the center of that beautiful garden, formerly belonging to Evert Byvanck, deceased; on these 22 lots are a fine thrifty bearing orchard and meadow, the other part above and below the orchard improved for garden; on each of these spots may be erected buildings for gentlemen's seats, both sides commanding a beautiful prospect of the East and North-river.—Two Lots of 25 feet in width, and extending to the river on the south side of Crown-point-street, fronting the house of Mr. Edward Laight. A number of Lots at Corlear's-Hook, which will be sold or rented upon easy terms to tradesmen and others. The growing value of the ground at Corlear's-Hook, has been so amazing within two years past, and bids fair to rise still in value, far above the interest of money for years to come, that purchasers will find their interest in realising their money on the above lands.—One thousand acres in Jersey-field patent, near the Mohawk-river, divided in two lots of 500 acres each. For conditions of sale, enquire of Peter Byvanck, at Peck-slip, or Evert Byvanck, in Rutgers-street, No. 3, where maps of the lands may be seen. 73
TO BE SOLD,
A SMALL FARM at Red-Hook, lately occupied by Mr. Dezenz, situated about one mile from Colonel Hoffman's Landing-place, near a mill formerly belonging to Mr. Zachariah Hoffman, now in the possession of Mr. Baker: containing 23 acres, with a new Brick Dwelling-House and large Barn thereon. The road to and from Messrs. Reed & Bogardus, and Colonel Hoffman's landing places, leading close by the House, renders it an eligible situation for a country store. For terms of sale enquire of George Scriba, No. 17, Queen-street, who will give an indisputable title for the same. New-York, February 20, 1787. 73 1m
WHEREAS
Elizabeth Kelly my wife, daughter to Jacob Vanpel, has eloped from my bed and board, and entirely quit my habitation: I do hereby caution all persons trusting her upon my account, her conduct has been so bad that I am determined not to pay any debts of her contracting. THOMAS KELLY. Flushing, February 13 1787. 1 72 4
NOTICE
NOTICE is hereby given to all persons indebted to the estate of Frederick and Jeremiah Simonson, of Richmond county, deceased, to make immediate payment; and all those who have any demands on the same, are desired to render their accounts properly attested to Hermanus Garrison, } Executrix. John & Gosen Simonson, } tors. New-York, February 8. 1 70 4
TO BE LET,
FROM the first of May next—The HOUSE No. 47, adjoining Mr. John Vredenburgh, in Great Dock-Street; containing four rooms, with an excellent kitchen of two stories, well calculated for a merchant or baker, having a roomy cellar, with a large baker's oven. Enquire at No. 11, Crown-Street. JACOB VAN WAGENEN. February 13. 71
TO BE SOLD or LET,
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 compleat 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 M c Cornick. New-York, 12th February, 1787. 71
Hubert Van Wagenen & Son,
No. 2, Beekman-Slip, Have just received by the ship Nelly, Capt. Winter, from Bristol, and the ship Grace, Captain Armour, from Holland, an additional supply to their general assortment of ironmongery, cutlery, &c. &c. amongst which are, SHEET lead and sheet iron, Bellows pipes, frying pans, Spades and shovels, German, Crowley, } Steel, Hister and common } Steel, 6 by 8, 7 by 9 and 8 by 10 window glass, 4d, 6d, 8d, 10d, 12d, 20d and 24d nails, Cup and coffee mills, Straw knives, Curry combs and brushes, Gun barrels and locks, Anvils, vices and pen mauls, Hand and sledge hammers, Trace and jack chains, Brals and iron wire, Card wire by the cask or less quantity, Hand bellows, Neat shovels and tongs, A variety of rules, Carpenters and joiners squares, Writing paper, knitting pins, Cornice and moulding planes, Dutch and English mill-saws, Proper files for ditto, Flax hetchels of different qualities, Spring ketches assorted, Pocket compasses, Darning, white chapel and common sewing needles, Sail and packing needles, A Variety of razors, scissars, Finished pocket and pen knives, A large assortment of knives and forks, Pit, cross-cut, and other saws, Iron pots and kettles, pye pans, Chimney backs, griddles, Ox cart and waggon boxes, Hearth and chimney files, Hair brooms, boenders, Hand, hearth, whitewash, rubbing, weavers, cloths, scrubbing, curriers, shoe and buckle brushes. Bolting cloths, Harlem oil and Neurenburgh salve warranted, together with tools for smiths, carpenters, joiners, masons, tailors, shoemakers & coopers, with many other articles. 59
A Store and Cellar to be Let.
THE Store and Cellar No. 14, Great Dock-street, at the sign of the Pad-Lock, contiguous to Coenties-slip, and very suitable for an ironmonger or dry good merchant. For terms enquire at the premises. 70
Houses to be Let, viz.
NO. 32 and No. 31, in Queen-street; also, No. 1 and No. 2, in Burling-slip. Enquire of the Printers, or Mr. Barnet Newkirk, No. 22, Crown-street, near Maiden-lane. 68
A FARM To be LET.
ANY person desirous of retiring from the noise and bustle of the city, can be accommodated with a rural retreat in the State of New-Jersey, between the pleasant villages of Newark and Elizabeth-Town, on the post road, commonly called the upper road, leading from Powles-Hook to Philadelphia—on the premises are a genteel two story house, an excellent barn and other out-houses, a well of good water, a garden, orchard, &c. The land is divided into arable, pasture, mowing and wood. The neighbourhood agreeable—the distance from Powles-Hook, eleven miles.—It is at present occupied by Mr. James Bates, who has on hand a flock of cattle, hogs, poultry, farming utensils, &c. and will dispose of the whole at a low rate, to whoever would wish to hire the farm. For terms and the time when possession can be given, apply to JOHN STAGG, jun. New-York, February 6, 1787. 69
By the Commissioner of Forfeitures for the Eastern District.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that by virtue of two certain laws of the Legislature of this State, the following LANDS, Tenements and Hereditaments, forfeited to the people of this State, will be SOLD at PUBLIC VENDUE, agreeable to the directions of the said laws, to wit, the equity of redemption of five hundred acres of land, where Wood-creek falls into Lake Champlain, in the township of White-Hall, late Skeenesburgh, in the county of Washington, consisting chiefly of rich low lands, and on the premises are excellent falls for mills, with a never failing stream, on which the late Major Skeene had his iron works, to which place iron ore and fire wood were brought by water carriage. These lands are so happily situated that the navigation from thence to Canada renders them of great value; they are also navigable on Wood-creek to Fort Ann, within a few miles of Hudson's-river,—these lands were improved by said Major Skeene, and thereon had his dwelling house, and a large stone barn, the walls whereof are now standing in good order. Also the equity of redemption of one hundred and seventy-one acres of rich low-lands joining the last mentioned five hundred acres. Also the equity of redemption of the following lots in said township, to wit,
 Lot No. 31, of 500 acres.  Also in said township, 22, do. 127 do.  The rent and reversion of 20, do. 108 do.  Equity of redemption of 59, do. 88 do.  45 acres of land in the occupation of William Thomson, 61, do. 50 3/4 do.  53, do. 8 1/2 do. 
Also, the rent and reversion of 200 acres of land in what is commonly known by the name of Skeene's Little Patent, joining White-Hall aforesaid, in the occupation of Cornelius Johns.
Also, eight equal shares of the ore bed, with thirty acres of land to each share, commonly known by the name of Skeene's ore bed, on Lake Champlain; each purchaser to hold a share or shares as tenants in common, agreeable to an act entitled, "An act further to amend an act entitled an act for the speedy sale of the confiscated and forfeited estates within this State, and for other purposes therein mentioned," passed the 1st of May, 1786, reserving out of said ore, the privilege granted to Zephaniah Platt, Esq. in an act entitled, "An act for granting certain privileges to Plattburgh." The aforesaid lands lies in Washington county, forfeited by the attainder of Philip and Andrew P. Skeene, late of Skeenesburgh aforesaid.
And in the township of Salem, county aforesaid, the rent and reversion of the one moiety or undivided half part of lot No. 216, of eighty-four acres of land in the occupation of Allan Huntston, forfeited by the attainder of Oliver De Lancey, late of the city of New-York, Esquire.
The sales of the above said lands and premises will be held at the Coffee-House in the city of New-York, on the last Tuesday of February next, to begin at ten o'clock in the forenoon of said day, and to continue from day to day till the sales are completed.—In addition to the monies and public securities made receivable in payment for forfeited lands and tenements, by the fifth section of the act entitled, "An act for the speedy sale, &c." and the other laws, the following species are also made receivable, issued to any inhabitants of this State, to wit: Certificates issued by William Denning, Esq. as Commissioner of the United States, to settle the accounts of the Quarter-Master-General's department, in the army of the United States; certificates issued by Joseph Bindon, Esq. as Commissioner to settle the accounts of the cloathing department, in the army of the United States; certificates issued by Jonathan Burrell, Esq. as Commissioner to settle the accounts of the Commissary department, in the late army of the United States; certificates issued by John Pierce, Esq. as Commissioner to settle the accounts of the late army of the United States, commonly called Final Settlements; certificates issued by Joseph Panel, Esq. as Commissioner to settle the accounts of the naval department of the United States; certificates issued by Edward Fox, Esq. as Commissioner to settle the accounts of the medical department, in the army of the United States; certificates issued out of any Continental Loan-Office in the United States, to persons who were citizens of this State at the time they were issued, for monies lent by them to the United States.
All persons who have any claim by mortgage, pre-emption or otherwise, on any of the lands, tenements or hereditaments, included in this advertisement, are hereby required and notified to exhibit the same before the day of sale, to the subscriber. ALEXANDER WEBSTER. Commissioner of Forfeitures for the Eastern District. Hebron, January 1, 1787. 2 63 13
NOTICE.
THE subscriber, administrator de bonis non of the goods, chattels, and credits of Joseph Nico, some time deceased, and formerly of the city of London, merchant, requests the respective debtors to the estate of the said Joseph Nico, to make settlement with the subscriber with all expedition, in order to prevent the commencement of legal prosecutions against them. W. COCK, Attorney at Law. No. 66, Wall-street, N. York. January 11, 1787. 62

NEW-YORK, FEBRUARY 23.
The following Instrument, which terminated a territorial dispute that lately subsisted between this State and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, we have obtained a copy of, for the information of our readers. This friendly accommodation, conducted on both sides with so much temper and wisdom, does infinite honor to the Honorable Commissioners appointed to effect the same. And likewise affords an important lesson to States and Nations in general, when it is considered how much blood and treasure have been expended, in territorial disputes much less valuable and extensive.
To all to whom these Presents shall come, the underwritten John Lowell, James Sullivan, Theophilus Parsons, and Rufus King, Agents or Commissioners appointed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts of the one part, and the underwritten James Duane, Robert R. Livingston, Robert Yates, John Haring, Melancthon Smith, and Egbert Benson, six of the Agents or Commissioners appointed by the State of New-York of the other part.
SEND GREETING:
WHEREAS the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, did, heretofore present a petition to the United States in Congress assembled, thereby among other things, stating that all that territory which in the said petition is described as all that part of New-England in America, which lieth and extendeth between a great river, called Merrimac, and a certain other river there, called Charles river, being the bottom of a bay there called Massachusetts Bay; and also, all those lands lying within three English miles to the southward of the southernmost part of the said bay, and extending thence northward in latitude to northward of every part of the said river Merrimac, and in breadth of latitude aforesaid, extending throughout all the main land in longitude, wellwardly to the southern ocean, was the just and proper right of the said Commonwealth, and further stating, That the State of New-York had set up a claim to some part of the land before-mentioned, the said Commonwealth did, therefore, by the said petition, solemnly request of the United States in Congress, that Commissioners might be appointed for enquiring into and determining upon the claim aforesaid, of the Legislature of the said Commonwealth, and that such other proceedings respecting the premises, might be had as are by the federal government of the said United States, in such case made and provided, as by the said petition filed among the archives of the United States, reference being thereunto had, may more fully appear: And whereas, the State of New-York doth, in opposition to the said claim of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, claim as the just and proper right of the said State, as in respect of property, as jurisdiction, all those lands and territories bounded on the north, by the parallel of latitude passing through the said point, place or boundary aforesaid, of three miles to the northward of every part of the said river Merrimac, and bounded on the south, by the parallel of latitude passing through the said point or place, three miles south of the southernmost part of the said bay, called Massachusetts Bay, bounded on the west by the limits between the United States and the King of Great-Britain, and the line of cession from the State of New-York, to the United States, and bounded on the east by the line agreed on, and established between the late colony of the Massachusetts Bay, and the late colony of New-York, in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-three, and from the northern termination of the said line then bounded on the east by the west bank of Connecticut River: And whereas, the State of New-York having been duly notified, did appear by their lawful Agents to vindicate such their said right against the said claim of the said Commonwealth; and proceedings were thereupon had in Congress, pursuant to the articles of confederation, in order to the appointment of Commissioners or Judges to constitute a Court for hearing and determining the said matters in question: And whereas, the said John Lowell, James Sullivan, Theophilus Parsons and Rufus King, were afterwards, by a certain commission under the seal of the said Commonwealth, and bearing date the twenty-sixth day of April, in the ninth year of the independence of the United States, and made in pursuance of an act of the Legislature of the said Commonwealth, passed the fourteenth day of March, in the eighth year of the independence of the United States, and of a resolution of the said Legislature, passed the eighteenth day of the said month of March—commissioned to be Agents to manage, conduct and prosecute the claims of the said Commonwealth, to the lands described in the said petition: And whereas, afterwards and pending such proceedings in Congress, the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, did, by an act entitled, "An act supplementary to the act entitled an act to appoint Agents or Commissioners for vindicating the right and jurisdiction of this State against the claims of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, pursuant to the articles of confederation and perpetual union of the United States;" among other things enact, That it should be lawful for the said James Duane, Robert R. Livingston, Egbert Benson, John Haring, Melancthon Smith and Robert Yates, and a to, John Lansing, jun. or any five or more of them to settle the said controversy between the said State of New-York, and the said Commonwealth of Massachusetts, otherwise than by the said federal Court, in such manner as they should judge most conducive to the interest of the said State, as by the said com-
mission and the said several acts relation being thereunto had may appear.
Now therefore know ye, That the underwritten Commissioners on the part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of New-York respectively, having by mutual consent assembled at the city of Hartford in the State of Connecticut, on the thirtieth day of November last, in order to the due execution of their respective trusts, and having duly exchanged and considered their respective powers, and declared the same legal and sufficient after several conferences, and to the end that all interfering claims and controversies between the said Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the said State of New-York, as well in respect of jurisdiction as property, may be finally settled and extinguished, and peace and harmony forever established between them on the most solid foundation—HAVE AGREED, and by these Presents, do mutually for and in behalf of the said Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the said State of New-York, by whom respectively they the said Commissioners have been so appointed and authorised as aforesaid, agree to the mutual cessions, grants, releases and other provisions following, that is to say:
First. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts doth hereby cede, grant, release and confirm to the State of New-York forever, all the claim, right and title which the Commonwealth of Massachusetts hath to the government, sovereignty and jurisdiction of the lands and territories so claimed by the State of New-York, as herein before stated and particularly specified.
Secondly. The State of New-York doth hereby cede, grant, release and confirm to the said Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and to the use of the Commonwealth, their grantees, and the heirs and assigns of such grantees forever, the right of pre-emption of the soil from the native Indians, and all other the estate, right, title and property, (the right and title of government, sovereignty and jurisdiction excepted) which the State of New-York hath of in or to two hundred and thirty thousand and four hundred acres to be located by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and to be situate to the northward of, and adjoining to the lands granted respectively to Daniel Cox and Robert Letice Hooper, and their respective assignees, and between the rivers Owega and Glenengy. And also of, in or to all the lands and territories within the following limits and bounds, that is to say; Beginning in the north boundary line of the State of Pennsylvania, in the parallel of forty-two degrees of north latitude, at a point distant eighty-two miles west from the northeast corner of the State of Pennsylvania on Delaware river, as the said boundary line hath been run and marked by the Commissioners appointed by the States of Pennsylvania and New-York respectively, and from the said point or place of beginning, running on a due meridian north to the boundary line between the United States of America and the King of Great-Britain; thence westerly & southerly along the said boundary line to a meridian which will pass one mile due east from the northern termination of the Straight or waters between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, thence south along the said meridian to the south shore of Lake Ontario, thence on the eastern side of the said Straight by a line always one mile distant from and parallel to the said Straight to Lake Erie, thence due west to the boundary line between the United States and the King of Great-Britain, thence along the said boundary line until it meets with the line of cession from the State of New-York to the United States, thence along the said line of cession to the northwest corner of the State of Pennsylvania, and thence east along the northern boundary line of the State of Pennsylvania to the said place of beginning: And which said lands and territories so ceded, granted, released and confirmed, are parcel of the lands and territories described in the said petition.
Thirdly. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts doth hereby cede, grant, release and confirm to the State of New-York, and to the use of the State of New-York, their grantees and the heirs and assigns of such grantees forever, the right of pre-emption of the soil from the native Indians, and all other the estate, right, title and property, which the Commonwealth of Massachusetts hath of in or to the residue of the lands and territories so claimed by the State of New-York as herein before stated, and particularly specified.
Fourthly. That the lands so ceded, granted, released and confirmed to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, or such part thereof as shall from time to time be and remain the property of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; shall during the time that the same shall to be and remain such property, be free and exempt from all taxes whatsoever, and that no general or State tax shall be charged on, or collected from the lands hereafter to be granted by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, or on the occupants or proprietors of such lands until fifteen years after such confirmation, as is herein after mentioned, of such grants shall have expired; but that the lands so to be granted, and the occupants thereof, shall, during the said period be subject to town or county charges or taxes only; provided, That this exemption from general or State taxes, shall not be construed to extend to such duties, excises or imposts to which the other inhabitants of the State of New-York shall be subject and liable.
Fifthly. That no rents or services shall be reserved in any grants to be made of the said lands by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Sixthly. That the inhabitants on the said lands and territories, being citizens of any of the United States, and holding by grants from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, shall be entitled to equal rights with the other citizens of the State of New-York; and further that the citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts shall, from time to time and at all times hereafter, have and enjoy the same and equal rights, respecting the navigation and fishery on and in Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, and the waters communicating from the one to the other of the said lakes, and respecting the roads and portages between the said lakes, as shall from time to time be had and enjoyed by the citizens of the State of New-York, and the citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts shall not be subject to any other regulations, or greater tolls or duties to be made or imposed from time to time by the State of New-York, respecting the premises than the citizens of the State of New-York shall be subject to.
Seventhly. That no adverse possession of the said lands for any length of time, shall be adjudged a disclaim of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Eighthly. That the State of New-York so long as any part of the said lands shall be, and remain
the property of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts shall not cede, relinquish or in any manner divest themselves of the government and jurisdiction of the said lands or any part thereof, without the consent of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Ninthly. That the Commonwealth of Massachusetts may from time to time by persons to be by them authorized for the purpose, hold treaties and conferences with the native Indians relative to the property or right of soil of the said lands and territories hereby ceded, granted, released and confirmed to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and with such armed force as they shall deem necessary for the more effectual holding such treaty or conference, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts within six months after such treaties shall respectively be made, shall cause copies thereof to be deposited in the office of the Secretary of the State of New-York.
Tenthly. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts may grant the right of pre-emption of the whole or any part of the said lands and territories to any person or persons, who by virtue of such grant, shall have good right to extinguish by purchase, the claims of the native Indians: Provided, however, that no purchase from the native Indians by any such grantee or grantees, shall be valid unless the same shall be made in the presence of, and approved by a Superintendent to be appointed for such purpose by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and having no interest in such purchase; and unless such purchase shall be confirmed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Eleventhly. That the grantees of the said lands and territories under the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, shall within six months after the confirmation of their respective grants, cause such grants or the confirmations thereof, or copies of such grants or confirmations certified or exemplified under the seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to be deposited in the said office of Secretary of the State of New-York, to the end that the same may be recorded there, and after the same shall have been so recorded, the grantees shall be entitled to receive again from the said Secretary their respective grants or confirmations, or the copies thereof which forever may have been so deposited without any charges or fees of office whatsoever, and every grant or confirmation which shall not, or of which such copy shall not be so deposited, shall be adjudged void.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF the said John Lowell, James Sullivan, Theophilus Parsons and Rufus King, for and in the name and behalf of the said Commonwealth of Massachusetts; and the said James Duane, Robert R. Livingston, Robert Yates, John Haring, Melancthon Smith and Egbert Benson, for and in the name and on behalf of the said State of New-York, have to these Presents, and a duplicate thereof, both indented, interchangeably set their hands, and affixed their seals; done at the city of Hartford aforesaid, the sixteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, and the eleventh year of the Independence of the United States of America.—The following errors in transferring, being corrected before execution. viz. The words [the underwritten,] between the 1st and 2d lines (there); between the 4th and 5th lines (are) and (said); between the 9th and 10th lines (point); between the 11th and 12th lines (said); between the 18th and 19th lines (an act entitled); between the 22d and 23d lines (relative thereto); between 23d and 24th lines (and) and (also); between the 28th and 29th lines (following); between the 36th and 37th lines (sovereignty); between the 40th and 41st lines (appointed); between the 44th & 45th lines of the first sheet, being interlined and (of Massachusetts); between the 11th and 12th lines (native); between 15th and 16th lines (ceded); between 16th and 17th lines, and (so); between the 27th and 28th lines, interlined in the second sheet, and an erasure between the words (until) and (fifteen) made in the second sheet.
John Lowell (L.S.) James Sullivan (L.S.) Theop. Parsons (L.S.) Rufus King (L.S.) Jas. Duane (L.S.) Robt. R. Livingston (L.S.) Robert Yates (L.S.) John Haring (L.S.) Melancthon Smith (L.S.) Egbert. Benson (L.S.).
Witnesses present at the sealing and delivery; George Wylls, Tho's. Seymour, Jesse Root, Jere. Wadsworth, D. Humphreys, Wm. Imlay, Joseph Webb, Simeon de Witt, Lewis du Boys, Nathl. Bethune. Be it remembered that on this thirtieth day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, personally appeared before me, Richard Morris, Esq., Chief Justice of the State of New-York; Jeremiah Wadsworth and Lewis Dubois, Esquires, two of the Subscribers witnesses to the within instrument, who being by me duly sworn, did severally depose and say, That they were the persons, and did see the within named, James Duane, Robert R. Livingston, Robert Yates, John Haring, Melancthon Smith, Egbert Benson, John Lowell, James Sullivan, Theophilus Parsons and Rufus King, severally sign, seal and deliver the within instrument, as their free act and deed, and that the use and purposes therein mentioned; and that George Wylls, Thomas Seymour, Jesse Root, D. Humphreys, William Imlay, Simeon de Witt and Nathaniel Bethune, the other subscribing witnesses were also present, and did, together with the deponents, sign and subscribe their names as witnesses to the execution thereof; and I having inspected the said instrument, and finding no interlineations or material erasures therein, except those noted in the body thereof, to have been made before the execution thereof, DO ALLOW the same to be recorded. Rd. MORRIS.
I DO hereby certify that the foregoing instrument is a true copy of the original thereof, remaining in the Secretary's office of the State of New-York, examined and compared with the said original, this 17th day of February, 1787, by me ROBERT HARPUR, Deputy Sec'y.
It is generally believed that Shays with his officers are in Vermont, making their way to Canada with as much expedition as possible; but we have had no authentic information of him since our last.
Governor Bowdoin of Massachusetts, by advice of his Council, &c. has issued a proclamation, recommending it to all the good subjects within the Commonwealth "to use their utmost endeavours for discovering and apprehending Daniel Shays, Luke Day, Adam Wheeler, and Eli Parsons, & them to deliver to the High Sheriff for the county of Suffolk, that so they, or each of them, may be
rendered to justice: And for the encouragement of such persons as shall apprehend the said Daniel Shays, Luke Day, Adam Wheeler and Eli Parsons, or either of them, it is declared that he or they shall thereupon be entitled to receive, out of the public treasury for that service, a reward of one hundred and fifty pounds for Daniel Shays, and one hundred pounds each for Luke Day, Adam Wheeler & Eli Parsons. And all persons whatsoever, are strictly commanded not to harbour, entertain or conceal the said Daniel Shays, Luke Day, Adam Wheeler or Eli Parsons, as they will answer the contrary at their peril, and avoid all the penalties in this case by law provided."
On Saturday last, Major Beckwith, Aid-de-Camp to Sir Guy Lord Dorchester, Governor and Commander in Chief of his Britannic Majesty's province of Quebec, &c. arrived in this city from Quebec.
Part of a letter from a Frenchman in America to his friend in P'Orient, (translated) "I long to be with you in old France. I do assure you there is nothing here to amuse the lively imagination of a Frenchman, and you may tell Monsieur Barbottiere he had better remain at home than come to travel among us for his amusement. The Americans are all men of business, and have no money to spend on trifles (dress and foppery excepted) so that instead of attending to his philosophical whimsies they would probably think him little better than a savage. Here are few or no play-houses, or other public diversions suitable to the mind of elegance, and I am sorry to say I am either compelled to pass away my evenings in a tavern, drowning my reflections in punch or beer, smoking between whiles a solitary pipe of tobacco, or must spend my leisure hours in reading, which may be an instructive but by no means an engaging or lively amusement—There are newspapers in abundance in this country and scarce anything else is read. They are the hobby horse of the day, and through them all the learning of ancient and modern times is conveyed to the public. If a preacher makes a dull sermon to a sleepy audience, and finds it neglected, he immediately in revenge, inserts it in a gazette.—If an old gouty citizen happens to be jostled in the streets by a drunken drayman, he instantly draws up a long circumstantial narrative of the affair, and through the medium of some newspaper imparts it to the public, and then gravely requests that the whole host of waggoners and draymen be banished the city—Poets, projectors, philosophers, mathematicians, and statesmen, all propagate their literary offspring through this channel. If a brace of honest citizens have a difference about some paltry private concerns, and cannot amicably settle it, it is instantly handed to the next Printer, and the public decide upon the matter. You must not therefore be surprised, if upon perusing the packets I send you, you should one day find your old friend Jean Jaques Reynard entering the lists among these combatants: For I am determined, soon after the first altercation I happen to be engaged in, to write at least two long columns in the newspapers in my own defence."
On Sunday last, was married, ROBERT TROUP, Esq., Counsellor at Law, to Miss JENNET GOELET, second daughter of Mr. Peter Goelet, merchant, of this city.
On Saturday the 10th inst. departed this life, in Boston, in the 83d year of his age, that venerable, learned, and pious man of GOD, the Reverend CHARLES CHAUNCY, D. D. of that metropolis.
ARRIVALS SINCE OUR LAST. Sloop Harriet, Van Zant, Cape Francois. Dispatch, Hyde, Philadelphia.
Messrs. Loudon, PLEASE to inform your Correspondent Six and TWENTY, that he is mistaken in his conjectures about the CITIZEN, and his intentions. The Citizen has no interest in the fate of the Merchants petition, except so far as humanity is concerned: Whether they succeed or fail in their application, it will not make six-pence difference as to him; nor is he under profession as Six and Twenty supposes. Neither did he assert that "one man had taken out six and twenty writs against the exiled Merchants;" all he alleged was that he had "been told" so, which was the fact; he now adds, that he heard this said repeatedly, and in such a way as induced him to believe it to be true; nor has he met with any thing since in contradiction thereto, except the suggestions of Six and Twenty, who may not be the person alluded to, and cannot answer for others. The Citizen does not deny, or even doubt, that some of the exiled Merchants creditors are in very disagreeable circumstances themselves; and he sincerely pities them, and feels for them, as he always must for every honest man in distress; and he believes nothing to the contrary will appear from his former publication, the design of which was merely to remove an objection made by some against the Legislature's doing any thing for the relief of the Merchants. It has been alleged that as all have suffered, it will be unjust in the Legislature to grant relief to any, unless it can be extended to all;—it was the Citizen's intention to combat this reasoning, which appeared to him evidently founded in false principles; and, by showing that the Merchants have suffered more than others (and that in consequence of the express interference of government too) to prove that they have a just claim to the attention of the Legislature, exclusive of what they have in common with their Fellow-Citizens. Six and Twenty does not deny the justice of their claim, and therefore leaves the Citizen's reasoning in full force:—Indeed he intimates that the only thing which he thought objectionable in the Citizen, was his mentioning the writs; for he says, "what provokes me to take up my pen is, his introducing into his lamentation, a doleful IMPOSITION, "that one man had taken out no less than Six and Twenty writs against them." It was an unfortunate circumstance that this gentleman did not see the four words, I have been told, immediately preceding those he quoted, for if he had, he certainly would not have accused the Citizen of an IMPOSITION, nor have been guilty of one himself by omitting those important monosyllables. If there are among the exiled Merchants any "who break out in general revilings against the British at large, and discover not the smallest desire to do for their old friends what justice, conscience and the law require of them," as Six and Twenty asserts, he may be assured the Citizen has no partiality for such; but the men whose cause he advocates are those who deserve the honorable testimony given by the city of Bristol, in their address to the King, in the following words: "We

owe a testimony of justice to your colonies, which is, that in the midst of the present distractions, we have received many unequivocal proofs, that our fellow subjects in that part of the world are very far from having lost their ancient affection and regard to their mother country, or departed from the principles of commercial honor and private justice. From such men nothing need be feared, and a reference to their several petitions will show that what they want is not a power to refuse, or to procrastinate the payment of their debts; but a legislative interference in their particular case, which, by doing them no more than common justice, without interfering with the claims of other citizens, will enable them to pay their just debts, and save themselves and families from ruin. Viewing the matter in this light, perhaps Mr. Six and Twenty himself, may with them succeed as ardently as does the
CITIZEN. * This petition was presented to the King by Mr. Burke (one of the Representatives of Bristol) in the fall of 1775.
We are sorry to inform our Correspondent who was so obliging as to send us an abstract from the laws respecting buildings hereafter to be erected in this city—that we are obliged to postpone its publication until our next, when it shall be duly attended to.—Sundry advertisements omitted for want of room, will also be inserted in our next.
A Journeyman Printer, Who understands his business, will meet with immediate employ, by applying at this Printing-Office.
D O D D S's Musical Instrument Manufactory, from LONDON. ORGANS, harpsichords and forte-pianos; spinnets, forte-piano and common guitars, finished in the newest style. After trial of any of those instruments, if they should not be approved of, they may be exchanged by paying the usual hire for the time. Violins, clarionets and haut-bois; flutes, and a good assortment of fifes; stickado-pastorals, pitchpipes, tuning forks, hammers and ruling pens; books of instruction, blank books and ruled paper. Also, a few of the newest and most favorite songs, set to music—These and other articles may be had as good and as cheap as in London—Instruments taken in exchange; and any gentleman or lady may be supplied with any quantity of strings for the above instruments, by describing the note or number, without being at the expence of whole sets; likewise every other article pertaining to the above instruments. Instruments repaired and kept in tune; also, instruments let out upon moderate terms. 74
FOR SALE, By Wm. Backhouse & Co. OLD Madeira, Red Port, White Port, Teneriffe and Malaga } WINES. English sheeting, boots and shoes, bohea tea and Liverpool crockery ware.
And to let from the first of May next, their Dwelling-House, No. 463, Water-street, and the back Store which opens to Byvanck and Bowne's wharf. Also, a part of the commodious brick Stores, formerly occupied by Perry, Hays and Sherbrook, and now by Shaler and Sebor, in Mill-street, near Duke-street. For particulars apply as above. Feb. 20, 1787. 74
SAMUEL FRANKLIN and Co. HAVE for Sale at No. 183, Queen-street, Bohea tea, black pepper and lemons, just received by the ship Nordenfok from Lisbon. February 22, 1787. 74 8
F U S T P U B L I S H E D, And sold at No. 20, John-street, (price 3/.) Choice collection of Hymns from various authors, in a complete pocket volume, and thought by competent judges, to be the best collection in America. 74 5
THE Copartnership of Outhout 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 GOTHOUT.
TO BE SOLD, TWO of the most pleasantly situated PLANTATIONS in Newtown, Long-Island, State of New-York, both lying together, and will be sold together or separate, as may best suit the purchaser, with good buildings, and a good well at each door, by elimination about 90 acres, with a very valuable piece of salt-meadow—the land entirely good, and is exceeded by none, with great plenty of the best grafted fruit-trees, such as Newtown pippins, pear mains and others, and is an excellent stand for trade. Any person inclining to purchase one or both of said plantations, by applying to the subscriber, may know the conditions, by whom an indisputable title will be given. LAMBERT WOODARD, Near Goshen, Orange County. Jan. 31, 1787. 1 of 68 3
S C H O O L No. 32, Gold-Street, corner of Beekman-Street. J. MENNYE begs leave to inform his friends and the public, that on account of the bad state of his health, he proposes to leave this place some time in April next. Those to whom he is indebted are desired to bring in their accounts and receive payment, and those indebted to him are requested to pay their accounts without loss of time, as all his affairs must be settled before he leaves the city. Those who have been long owing him, and who do not pay on or before the 14th of February next, may depend on having their accounts delivered into the hands of a Lawyer. He respectfully informs his present employers, that he hopes to keep both his schools open till the end of March, provided his present engagements are not fulfilled sooner. 67 New-York, Jan. 29, 1787.
T H E A T R E. THIS EVENING, Will be presented A TRAGEDY, CALLED The Countess of Salisbury, To which will be added A FARCE, called Miss in her Teens, or, the Mocking of Lovers. The doors will be opened half after five, and the curtain drawn up a quarter after six o'clock. Places in the Boxes may be taken at the Box-Office, next door to the Theatre, of Mr. Ryan, from 10 to 12, and from 3 to 5, where also Tickets may be had, and at Mr. Gaine's Book-Store, in Hanover-square. The Days of performance will be on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. VIVAT RESPUBLICA.
At a Court of Probates of the State of New-York, held at the Probate-Office in the city of New-York, on the 21st day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven:
PRESENT, The Honorable Thomas Tredwell, Esquire, Judge of the said Court: WHEREAS Daniel Green, administrator of Samuel Green late of South-Hempstead, in Queens county, yeoman, deceased, hath by his petition presented to the said Judge set forth, that the said Samuel Green 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 Samuel Green, as far as he could discover the same, and that thereby it appeared, that the personal estate of the 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 Daniel Green 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 Samuel Green, do appear before him at the Probate-Office in the city of New-York, on the sixth day of April next, to show cause if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said Samuel Green died seized, should not be sold as will be sufficient to pay his debts. 74 4 THOMAS TREDWELL.
At a Court of Probates of the State of New-York, held at the Probate-Office in the city of New-York, on the eighteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven:
PRESENT, The Honorable Thomas Tredwell, Esq. Judge of the said Court: WHEREAS Aaron Smith and Abner Smith, executors of Jacob Smith, late of Smith-Town, in the county of Suffolk, yeoman, deceased, have by their petition, presented to the said Judge set forth, that the said Jacob Smith, was at the time of his death seized of a real estate within this State; that the petitioners had made a just and true account of the personal estate and debts of the said Jacob Smith, as far as they could discover the same; and that thereby it appeared that the personal estate of their 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 Aaron Smith and Abner Smith, have 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 Jacob Smith, do appear before him, at the Probate-Office, in the city of New-York, on the 5th day of April next, to show cause if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said Jacob Smith died seized, should not be sold, as will be sufficient to pay his debts. 74 4 THOMAS TREDWELL.
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 February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven:
PRESENT, The Honorable Thomas Tredwell, Esq. Judge of the said Court: WHEREAS Vanhachah Robins, administrator of Nathaniel Brown, late of Huntington, in the county of Suffolk, yeoman, deceased, hath by his petition, presented to the said Judge set forth, that the said Nathaniel Brown, 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 Nathaniel Brown, as far as he could discover the same; and 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 Vanhachah Robins, 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 Nathaniel Brown, do appear before him at the Probate-Office, in the city of New-York, on the sixth day of April next, to show cause if any they have, why so much of the real estate, whereof the said Nathaniel Brown died seized, should not be sold, as will be sufficient to pay his debts. 74 4 THOMAS TREDWELL.
TO BE LET, THE HOUSE No. 97, next door to Mr. Thomas Ellison, in Broadway, with eight rooms, lately completely finished, with coach-house and stable, back of the same lot. Its extensive prospect, pleasant and healthy situation, is so well known, that it needs no description. For particulars apply at No. 51, Wall-Street. 74
THIS is to give notice, that I purpose to make application to the Commissioners of the Land-office for a grant of land under water, one thousand feet from high-water mark, facing my land, between Odel's tavern and Dobb's ferry, Philippsburgh, in the county of Westchester, and State of New-York, agreeable to an act of the Legislature of said State, entitled, "An act for the speedy sale of the unappropriated lands within this State, and for other purposes therein mentioned;" passed the fifth of May, 1786. JACOB STORM. January 26, 1787. 74 6
SAMUEL CAMPBELL, Has just received by the last vessels from LONDON and GLASGOW, A large and extensive Supply of BOOKS, Which will be sold at the lowest prices, at his New Book and Stationary Store, No. 44, Hanover-Square, corner of the OLD SLIP.
AMONG WHICH ARE MISCELLANIES. ENCYCLOPEDIA Britannica, or an universal dictionary of arts and sciences, 10 vols. large quarto, with above 300 copper-plates. Foulis's edition of the British poets, 40 vols. pocket size. Ferguson's Roman republic, 3 vols. Sheridan's dictionary, 2 vols. 4to. Chesterfield's miscellaneous works, 3 vols. Newton's Milton's paradise lost, 2 vols. Spectator, 8 vols. Rambler, 4 vols. The American atlas, folio. Robertson's history of Greece, Voltaire's memoirs, Piazzi's anecdotes of Dr. Johnson, Johnson's table talk. Stretch's beauties of history, 2 vols. Johnson's lives of the poets, 3 vols. Scott's (author of lessons on elocution) new pocket English dictionary. Sterne's works, 7 vols.
D I V I N I T Y. Cruden's concordance, Whitfield's sermons, Guyse's paraphrase on the New-Testament, Whitty on the New-Testament, Scott on ditto, with plates, Stackhouse's history of the Bible, 6 vols. Wilton's (Bishop of Llandaff) theological tracts, 6 vols. Harvey and Erskine's whole works, Large family Bibles, in different bindings and prices, Bibles with Cannes notes.
P H Y S I C A N D S U R G E R Y. Motherby's medical dictionary, Bell's surgery, 4 vols. — on ulcers, Cullen's physiology and practice, Sharpe's Surgery, New Edinburgh dispensatory, Mead's medical works, Douglas on the muscles, Haller's physiology, Trotter on the venous, (tewed) Leigh on opium, dedicated to General Washington, Thilanus's Medicine, 4 vols. M'Quar's chemistry, Powney's ditto, 2 vols. 74 6
L A W. Burn's justice, 4 vols. Hale's pleas of the crown, Clerk's magazine, Arnott's criminal trials, Blackstone's commentaries, 4 vols. Code of Gentoo laws, Wilson and Brown's reports, complete jurymen.
N O V E L S. Caroline of Litchfield, 3 vols. Anna—liberal American, Adventures of George Mansland, Esq. Gill Blas, Roderick Random, Tales and romances, 2 vols. Night-cap, Artafado, Peregrine Pickle, Tom Jones, Fool of Quality, Arabian nights, Humfrey Clinker, Sentimental Journey, Devil on two sticks, Joseph Andrews, &c. &c. &c. Guthrie's and Salmon's Geographical Grammars brought down to 1786:—with a large assortment of BOOKS in all the different branches of literature, and
A VARIETY OF STATIONARY, Particularly pocket books of all kinds, Holland quills, from one to four pounds per thousand, writing paper, paper folders, wax, wafers, ink powder, sand boxes, ink holders, ladies memorandum books with instruments, message cards, &c. &c. N. B. Orders from the country will be thankfully received, and executed upon the most moderate terms. 74 6
TO BE SOLD, A VALUABLE FARM, lying in the White-Plains, two miles from the Court-House, in the county of Westchester, about 28 miles from the city of New-York, and within four miles of a landing at Mamaroneck, containing about 260 acres of excellent land, and a large proportion of timber; about 80 acres of the farm very fine meadow, and will produce annually about 100 tons of hay of the best quality. On said farm is a large commodious dwelling-house, with four rooms on a floor, a large passage through the house, and a very large and convenient cellar under it; also a good barn, two orchards, one of which is very large and produces the best kind of fruit the country affords, and a well of excellent water by the door. The farm is in a beautiful part of the country, and is esteemed one of the finest farms in America in point of situation, quality and good order. Whoever inclines to purchase may apply to the subscriber on the premises, who will give an indisputable title for the same. YOSHUA HATTIELD, White-Plains, February 19, 1787. 74 12
THAT valuable House and Lot, at the sign of the plough and harrow, at the head of the Bowry-lane, now in the possession of John Barney; it is one of the best situations in the city for an inn-keeper: There is on the premises a large Dwelling-House, barn, stable, a large garden and pump in the yard. Also to be Let, three good Houses in St. James-street, and several at Brooklyn, on Long-Island, near the ferry. For particulars enquire of Comfort and Joshua Sands, No. 50, Queen-street. Feb. 19, 1787. 74 8
TO BE SOLD, TWO Valuable FARMS, each containing 150 acres, lying contiguous to each other, on Croton-river, in the manor of Philippsburgh, lately in the possession of John Bulyea and John Basley. For terms of sale enquire of General Cortlandt or the subscriber, who will give a warranted title for the same. 64 PIERRE V. CORTLANDT, jun.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, pursuant to an act of the Governor, the Council, and General Assembly, of the late colony (now State) of New-York, passed the 19th day of March, 1778, entitled, "An act for the more effectual registering of mortgages, and securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates," that on the 24th day of April next, at twelve o'clock in the forenoon, will be sold, at the Merchants' Coffee-House, in the city of New-York, to the highest bidder, all those two certain lots of land situated, lying, and being in the county of Montgomery, on the south side of the Mohawk river, in a patent granted to William Corry and others, bearing date the 19th day of December, 1737, known by the name of Lot Number Fifty-nine, and Lot Number Sixty; lot number fifty-nine beginning at a beech tree marked No. 52, 53, 58, and 59, and from said tree runs south fifty degrees and thirty minutes west, sixty-six chains and seventy-four links, to a maple tree marked 58, 49, 76, and 77; then south thirty-nine degrees and thirty minutes east, thirty chains, to a hemlock tree, marked 59, 60, 76, and 77; then north fifty degrees and thirty minutes, east sixty-six chains and seventy-four links, to a maple tree marked 51, 52, 59, and 60; then north thirty-nine degrees and thirty minutes west, thirty chains, to the place where it first began; containing 200 acres of land. And lot No. 60 begins at a maple tree marked No. 51, 52, 59, and 60, and runs from said tree south fifty degrees and thirty minutes west, sixty-six chains and seventy-four links, to a hemlock tree marked No. 60, 59, 75, and 76; then south thirty-nine degrees and thirty minutes east, thirty chains, to a beechwood tree marked No. 60, 61, 74, and 75; then north fifty degrees and thirty minutes east, sixty-six chains and seventy-four links, to a hemlock tree marked No. 50, 51, 60, and 61; then north thirty-nine degrees and thirty minutes west, thirty chains, to the place where it first began; containing two hundred acres of land. Which lots, or tracts of land, with the appurtenances, was, by indenture of lease and release, dated the 22nd and 23rd days of November, in the year of our Lord 1785, mortgaged by Hugh Denniston, late of the city of Albany, inn-keeper, deceased, to John Shaw, of the city of New-York, merchant, for the payment of one hundred and sixty-seven pounds two shillings and eight pence lawful or current money of New-York, with seven per cent. interest for the same, on or before the 22nd day of July next ensuing the date of the said indenture or release of mortgage. The conditions of sale will be made public on the day of the vendue, and good and sufficient deeds executed to the purchasers of the same, by JOHN SHAW. 1-38-6m New-York, October 18, 1786.
TO BE SOLD, By Thomas Walsh, No 11, in the Fly-Market. All sorts of GARDEN SEEDS, viz. EARLY Charlton Peas, Marrow-fat do. Green Dwarf do. Bush do. Holspur do. Windflower Beans, Long pod do. Six weeks do. Dwarf do. A thousand to one do. Early yellow French do. Scarlet Runners do. Yorkshire Cabbage Seeds, White Dutch Curly do. Sugar Loaf do. Colliflower do. Flower Seeds, All kinds of kitchen garden Seeds, Savoy Cabbage Seeds, Selleri Seeds, White and Red Onion Seeds, Red Cabbage Seeds. 69
THOMAS SMITH, BOOT, Shoe-Maker, and Leather Cutter, No. 179, Queen-Street, corner of Beekman, 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, belt fort, ditto, ditto 0 12 0 Ditto shoes, strong ditto, from 3/ 0 9 0 Womens satin 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 Wanted, North-American BANK BILLS.
To be SOLD, A HOUSE, with about four Lots of Ground, conveniently situated near the Church at Tappan; this place is the best stand for a merchant, tanner, blacksmith, or wheelwright, in Orange town, or Tappan. Part of said ground is converted into a garden; there is a good well on it, and a brook running by it, against which it is defended by a stone wall. One third of the purchase money must be paid at the time of sale, and a reasonable time will be given for the payment of the remainder; or if more convenient, a small house in or near this city will be taken in exchange. Doctor Outwater, near the premises, will show the same to any person. For terms apply to Augustus Stewart, No. 7, Dutch-street, New-York, who will give an indisputable title for the same. 69

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 11th 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 Meier, 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. 18. 1786. 2 51 11Jc.
WHEREAS I SAMUEL SAYRE, of the county of Richmond and State of New-York, imholder, stand indebted unto WILLIAM NEWTON, late of the city of New-York and State of New-York, gentleman, in and by a certain bond and mortgage, bearing date prior to the first day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, and conditioned for the payment of the sum of two hundred pounds, lawful money of the State of New-York, or thereabouts, with lawful interest for the same; and whereas the said sum of two hundred pounds with a considerable arrearage of interest is now due, and payable unto the said William Newton, by me the subscriber: Therefore I the said Samuel Sayre do, in pursuance of two certain acts of the Legislature of the State of New-York, the one entitled, "An act relative to debts due to persons within the enemies lines," passed the 12th day of July, 1782, the other entitled, "An act to explain and amend the act entitled an act relative to debts due to persons within the enemies lines," passed the 12th day of July, 1782, passed the 24th day of November, 1784, hereby notify and require you the said William Newton to appear at the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, to be held in and for the county of Orange, at the Court-House in the new city, in said county, on the second Tuesday in October next, to have a settlement, and payment made of the said debt, agreeable to the mode prescribed in and by the several acts aforesaid. Dated this seventeenth day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven.
2 64 16 SAMUEL SAYRE.
THE co-partnership of Teller and Vredenburg, is this day dissolved by mutual consent: All persons indebted to said firm, are desired to make speedy payment; and all persons having any demands against them, are desired to deliver in their accounts for a settlement, at their shop, No. 146, Queen-street.
Feb. 12, 1787. 72 3
A Quarter Cask of Wine
BROUGHT from Madeira in the ship Madeira, Captain Thomas March, for Mr. Thomas Abbot, shipped by Messrs. Searles, or order, may have it on paying freight and charges for the same, by applying to Robert Baker in Cherry-Street. 72 3
SUFFOLK COUNTY, ss.
PURSUANT to an order made by Thomas Youngs, Esq. one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, for the said county of Suffolk, upon the petition of David Tuthill, an insolvent debtor, and of the subscribers to these presents, being three fourths in value of the creditors of the said David Tuthill. Notice is hereby given by the said petitioners to all the creditors of the said David Tuthill, to appear before the said Thomas Youngs, Esq. to show cause, if any they have, on the 25th day of March next, at the house of Mr. Joseph Peck, imholder in Southold, at two of the clock in the afternoon of the same day, why an assignment of the estate of the said debtor should not be made for the benefit of all his creditors, agreeable to the prayer of the said petition, and the said David Tuthill thereupon discharged, according to the directions, true intent and meaning of a certain act of the Legislature of this State, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors," passed the 13th of April, 1786.
P E T I T I O N E R S.
Benjamin Horton, Hannah Brown, Stephen Vaill, John W. Truman, Jonathan Tuthill, Phebe Racket, Noah Racket. January 15, 1787. 1 64 6
R. J. VAN DEN BROEK,
HAS opened a Notary-Public and Interpreter's Office in the Spanish, French, Dutch, German and English Languages, at No. 18, Little-Queen-Street.
All business which he shall be instructed with, will be executed with integrity, accuracy and all possible dispatch. 72
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 messuage or 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. advancing the land now in possession of Jacob Post's land; and runs from thence along the lands of the said Jacob Post and the lands of Heaman 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 Poachac road; then along the said road as the said road now 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 when 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-said 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 overplus 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 thereto 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 43 6m
To be Sold at Private Sale,
BY the Subscriber, a FARM, containing 100 acres of Land, or the half thereof; situated in the precinct of New-Windsor, in the county of Ulster and State of New-York, seven miles from New-Windsor landing, adjoining the main road leading to Mininkton; —there can be cut on the said farm, 25 or 30 tons of English hay, with an orchard that will produce between 60 and 70 barrels of cider the bearing year, and the next year 20 or 30, with a convenient frame house, 32 by 28, with a cellar under the same, with a variety of fruit trees round the house, a good frame barn shingled, with a convenient spring near the barn, and a stream that never freezes. The whole under good fences and repair. —An indisputable title will be given by the subscriber now residing on the premises.
1 52 13 THOMAS PORTER.
TO BE SOLD, Twelve Lots of Ground,
IN the Out Ward of the city, near the Bull's-head tavern, and a snuff mill adjoining said lots. Also, 5426 acres of Land, in the county of Albany, in a patent granted to David Schuyler and others, in lots of 539 acres clear of all quit rents. For particulars enquire of STEPHEN and JOHN V. CORTLANDT, No. 17, Broad-way. January 16, 1787. 64
THREE POUNDS Reward.
LOST , by being mislaid, on Sunday the 11th instant, a small Seal-skin covered TRUNK, with brass nails, lock and handle. It was brought over from Powles-Hook in one of the Ferry-boats, & supposed to have been carried with other baggage into a house at Whitehall, (Mr. Goddard,) but not being to be found since by the Owner, the above Reward will be given, and no questions asked, if said Trunk, with what it contained when lost, shall be brought to No. 30, Queen-Street, corner of Burling-Slip. 72
PARTITION OF LANDS.
WHEREAS we the subscribers were, pursuant to the directions of an act of the Legislature of the State of New-York, entitled "an act for the partition of lands;" passed the sixteenth of March, 1785, appointed Commissioners to make partition and division of a certain tract of land situate in the county of Ulster, granted to Philip Schuyler, Johannes Lauling, jun. Henry Wileman, and Jacobus Bruyn, by letters patent bearing date the 7th day of July, 1720, commonly called the Eight Thousand Acres Tract ; which partition and division we have completed, and do hereby give notice that we have filed the field books and maps thereof, in the respective offices, agreeable to the directions of the said act, and that we will meet at the house of George Smith, Inn-holder, at Shawangunk, in the county of Ulster aforesaid, on the twenty-seventh day of March next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, of which all persons interested therein are required to take notice, and to attend at the time and place above mentioned, and to see the several lots balloted for, in each respective allotment of the aforesaid partition and division of the said tract.
CHRIST. TAPPEN, CORS. SCHOONMAKER, THOS. MOFFAT,
Ulster county, 3d Jan. 1787. 63
To be Sold at Public Vendue,
On the Twenty-eighth day of March next, At the House of GEORGE SMITH, in the precinct of Shawangunk, in the county of Ulster, Inn-holder:
Three certain pieces or
PARCELS OF LAND,
PART of a certain tract granted by letters patent unto Philip Schuyler and others, situate and lying in the county of Ulster, and known by the Eight Thousand Acres Tract laid out and set a part to defray the expence of the partition and division of the said tract, by the subscribers, Commissioners, appointed in pursuance of the act entitled, "An act for the partition of land," passed the 16th day of March, 1785, to make partition and division thereof: The first of the said pieces or parcels of land is bounded as follows—beginning at the south-east-most corner of that part of the said tract formerly divided, and runs thence south 33, 18, west 81 chains and 50 links, thence south 69, 18 east forty-two chains, thence north 4, 12, west eighty-four chains to where it began; containing one hundred and sixty seven acres; now in the occupation of Post Farm . The second and third of the said pieces or parcels are bounded to the south and south-east by the Shawangunk-Kill, to the west and north by the westerly and northerly bounds of the said tract, and to the east by the undivided part thereof. The second of the said pieces or parcels of land, contains one hundred acres, and is now in the possession of Solomon Brinck. And the third of the said pieces or parcels of land contains four hundred acres, and is now in the possession and occupation of Jacob Roelans, Wilhelmus Roelans, and Jacob Clearwater, for which said pieces or parcels of land, as good a title will be given to the purchaser or purchasers, for the separate enjoyment thereof, as if all the patentees or proprietors of the said lands, had made and executed the same in due form of law, by
CHRIST. TAPPEN, CORS. SCHOONMAKER, THOS. MOFFAT.
Kingston, Ulster county, January 13, 1787. 65
TO BE SOLD,
AT PUBLIC VENDUE,
Thursday the 13th day of March next, (if not Onfold before at private sale) on the premises, THE FARM lately occupied by Valentine H. Peters, Esq. deceased, of South Hempstead, Queens county, Long-Island; containing about forty acres of Land, under the highest improvement, together with a number of acres of plain land inclosed and in good fence: There are on said place a good commodious dwelling house, barn and other out houses in good repair. Also, will be sold at the same time, two separate pieces of Wood Land, lying contiguous to said place, containing about sixty acres, and a piece of salt meadow of about twenty acres lying within four miles of said place. —This Farm is pleasantly situated in the town of Hempstead, within forty rods of two churches; it is an excellent stand for any kind of public business. The above will be sold together or separate as may best suit the purchaser. The terms of payment will be made known on said day. Any person inclining to purchase at private sale, may know the terms by applying to
HARRY PETERS, of Oyster-Bay, or WM. TREDWELL, No. 13, Water-street, Executors. 1 60
N O T I C E
THAT we propose to make application to the Commissioners of the Land-Office, for a grant of Land under water, in the Hudson river, of the breadth of 112 feet, facing land, lying betwixt a lot of Globe Requare, on the north, and a lot of the Widow Ann Marlin, on the south, at Tarrytown, in the county of Westchester, agreeably to an act of the Legislature, entitled, "An act for the speedy sale of unappropriated lands within this State, and for other purposes therein mentioned;" passed the 5th of May, 1786.
Thomas Randall, Thomas Roach. Feb. 7, 1787. 1 70 6
T O B E L E T,
THE pleasantly situated PEACE , whereon John de Peyster lives, binding on the upper end of Great George-street, near the road, or sand hill, that leads from the two mile stone to Greenwich, the dwelling is very convenient and easy, and suitable for any gentleman, the fence in good repair, as also the barn and chair house. Likewise to be Let, a House at the corner of the New-slip, in Water-street. Enquire of said John de Peyster. 72 5
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, That the Subscribers have presented a petition to the Honorable the Legislature of the State of New-York, in Senate and Assembly convened, at their last Sessions, setting forth, that the Hon. Richard Maitland, late Deputy Adjutant-General of the troops of his Britannic Majesty, in and for North-America, deceased, was seized a possessed of a considerable real and personal estate, in the State of New-York.
That the said Richard Maitland, in and by his last will and testament, bearing date the sixteenth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-one, did give, devise, and bequeath all his estate both real and personal, to his two natural sons, Richard and Peter, children of Mary M c Adam, and to the said Mary M c Adam, and the child of which she was then pregnant, equally to be divided among them, share and share alike. That the said Richard Maitland, in and by his said last will and testament did request, authorise and empower his Executors therein named, or such of them as should take upon them the execution of his said will, to manage, govern, and direct his estate in such manner, as they, or the major part of them, should think most for the advantage of his devisees: And in case his Executors, or such of them, as should take upon them the execution of his said will, or the major part of them should think fit, or esteem it for the benefit of his devisees, he did by his said will desire, authorise, and empower his said Executors, and the survivors and survivor of them, who should at any time take upon them the execution of his said will, to grant, bargain and sell all or any part or parts of his real estate: And of his said will did appoint the Hon. Colonel Alexander Maitland, and William M c Adam, John Ogilvie, and Doctor William Bruce, deceased, the respective husbands of the subscribers, and Thomas Moncrieff, Esq. Major of Brigade, Executors.
That after making the same will, the said Mary M c Adam had issue one other son, named John, and that soon after she was intermarried with the said Richard Maitland, and had issue another son, named James, who was born after the decease of the said Richard Maitland: That the said Richard Maitland died some time in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-two, and that the said William M c Adam, John Ogilvie, and William Bruce, proved his will, and took upon themselves the execution thereof; but that the said Alexander Maitland, and Thomas Moncrieff never became acting Executors thereof.
That the said Richard Maitland was in his life time indebted to Sampson Simson and Solomon Simson respectively, in very considerable sums of money, and that the respective husbands of the subscribers, together with the said Thomas Moncrieff, entered into bonds to the said Sampson Simson and Solomon Simson respectively for the payment thereof.
That the said Richard Maitland was in his life time also indebted to the said William M c Adam, deceased, in very considerable sums of money, great part of which remains unpaid; and that the other sums of money were advanced by the said William M c Adam in his life time for the same estate, and after the death of the said Richard Maitland; all which are payable to the subscriber Ann M c Adam, as sole Legatee and Executrix of the will of the said William M c Adam, deceased.
That the said William M c Adam, John Ogilvie, and William Bruce, are all dead, and that the said Alexander Maitland resides in that part of Great-Britain called England, & the said Thomas Moncrieff, Esquire, in Halifax, or some other part of the British dominions, and have not taken upon themselves the Executorship of the will of the said Richard Maitland, deceased.
That all the children of the said Richard Maitland, deceased, are infants, and that by reason thereof, and of the death of the respective husbands of the subscribers, and the absence of the other Executors aforesaid, his estate cannot be sold and disposed of, for the payment of the debts, and maintenance and support of the widow, and younger children of the said Richard Maitland, deceased, who were in necessitous circumstances: And thereupon , praying that the estate, both real and personal, of the said Richard Maitland, deceased, may be by a law, vested in Trustees, and that the whole, or such part thereof, as may be necessary for those purposes, may be directed to be sold, as well for the payment of the debts due therefrom, as for the maintenance and education of the children of the said Richard Maitland, deceased.
Whereupon the Honorable the Senate and Assembly did resolve in the words following, to wit:
State of New-York, in Senate, March 24, 1786.
RESOLVED , (if the Honorable the Assembly concur therein) that Ann M c Adam, Margaret Ogilvie and Judith Bruce, have leave to present a bill to either House of the Legislature, to vest the real and personal estate of Richard Maitland, in trustees, to be by them sold for the payment of his debts and the maintenance and education of the children of the said Richard Maitland, deceased, agreeable to the prayer of their petition; on the petitioners having previously caused the substance of their petition, and a copy of this resolution to be published four weeks successively, in two or more of the public newspapers printed in this State.
ORDERED, That Mr. Gasher deliver a copy of the preceding resolution to the Honorable the Assembly. Extract,
ABM. B. BANCER, Clerk.
In Assembly, March 24, 1786.
RESOLVED , That this House do concur with the Senate in the said resolution.
ORDERED, That Mr. Merceveau deliver a copy of the preceding resolution of concurrence to the Honorable the Senate. A copy.
JOHN M c KESSON, Clerk.
ANN M c ADAM, JUDITH BRUCE, MARGARET OGILVIE.
New-York, February 1, 1787. 1 68 4
B L A N K S
Of all kinds, Sold by the P R I N T E R S.