The New-York journal, and daily patriotic register (New-York [N.Y.]), 1788-03-13 00:00:00

The New-York Journal, and Weekly Register.
NUMB. 61, of VOL. XLII.]
THURSDAY, March 13, 1788.
[Total NUMB. 2241.]
HERE TRUTH UNLICENSED' D REIGNS; AND DARES ACCOST-E'EN KINGS THEMSELVES, OR RULERS OF THE FREE. Thompson's Liberty.
NEW-YORK: Printed and Published by THOMAS GREENLEAF, at the PRINTING-OFFICE, No. 25, WATER-STREET.
At a Court of Probates of the state of New-York, held at the Probate-Office in the City of New-York, on the twenty-seventh day of February, in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-eight.
P R E S E N T, The Honorable PETER OGILVIE, Esq. Judge of the said Court.
W HEREAS George Fowler, and Patience his wife, which said Patience is executrix of Garret Miller, late of Cornwell precinct, in the county of Orange, yeoman, deceased, have, by their petition presented to the said judge, set forth, that the said Garret Miller was at the time of his death seized of a real estate within this state, that the petitioners have made a just and true account of the personal estate and debts of the said Garret Miller, as far as they had been able to discover the same, and that thereby it appeared that the personal estate of the said Garret Miller 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 petitioners have delivered to the said judge the account in the said petition mentioned; thereupon it is ordered by the said judge, that all persons interested in the estate of the said Garret Miller, do appear before the judge of the said court of probates, at the probate office, in the city of New-York on the fourteenth day of April next, to show cause, if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said Garret Miller died seized, should not be sold as will be sufficient to pay his debts.
29 4w. th. PETER OGILVIE. At a court of Probate of the state of New-York, held, at the Probate office in the city of New-York, on the twentieth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight.
P R E S E N T, The Hon. PETER OGILVIE, Esquire, Judge of the said Court.
W HEREAS William Howland, administrator of Israel Howland, late of Pawling Precinct in Dutchess county, farmer, deceased, hath by his petition presented to the said judge, set forth, that the said Israel Howland, 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 Israel Howland as far as he had been able to 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 petitioner 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 Israel Howland, do appear before the judge of the said court of Probates at the Probate-office in the city of New-York, on the seventh day of April next to show cause if any they have why so much of the real estate whereof the said Israel Howland, died, seized, should not be sold as will be sufficient to pay his debts.
23 th 4w. PETER OGILVIE. At a Court of Probates of the State of New-York, held at the Probate-Office, in the City of New-York, on the twentieth Day of February, in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-eight.
P R E S E N T, The Honorable PETER OGILVIE, Esquire, Judge of the said Court.
W HEREAS Robert Walker of Pawling's Precinct, in Dutchess county, carpenter, and Mary his wife, late Mary Briggs, (which said Mary is executrix of Prince Briggs late of Dutchess county, and state of New-York, deceased) have by their petition presented to the said judge, set forth, that the said Prince Briggs 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 Prince Briggs as far as they have been able to discover the same, and that thereby it appeared that the personal estate of the 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 petitioners 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 Prince Briggs do appear before the judge of the said court of Probates at the Probate-office, in the city of New-York, on the seventh day of April next, to show cause, if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said Prince Briggs, died, seized, should not be sold as will be sufficient to pay his debts.
23. 4w PETER OGILVIE. S H R U B,
Of the very best Quality, by the Hoghead, Barrel, or smaller Quantity, F O R S A L E by Charles Tillinghaft, At his House, nearly opposite the New-Market, in Cherry-street.
At a Court of Probates of the state of New-York, held at the Probate Office, in the city of New-York, on the thirteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight.
P R E S E N T, The Honorable PETER OGILVIE, Esquire, Judge of the said Court.
W HEREAS Johan Daniel Gros and Catharine Paris, executor of Isaac Paris, late of Stone Arabia, in the county of Montgomery, esquire, deceased, have by their petition presented to the said judge, set forth, that the said Isaac 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 Isaac Paris as far as they have been able to discover the same, and that thereby it appeared that the personal estate of the said Isaac Paris 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 petitioners have delivered to the said judge the account in the said petition mentioned; thereupon it is ordered by the said judge, that all persons interested in the estate of the said Isaac Paris, do appear before the Judge of the said Court of Probates, at the Probate Office, in the city of New-York, on the thirty-first day of March next, to show cause, if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said Isaac Paris died seized, should not be sold as will be sufficient to pay his debts.
PETER OGILVIE. At a Court of Probate of the State of New-York, held, at the Probate-Office in the City of New-York, on the thirtieth Day of January, in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-eight.
P R E S E N T, The Honorable PETER OGILVIE, Esq. Judge of the said Court.
W HEREAS Mary Van Wart, administratrix of Abraham Van Wart, late of Philips Manor, in the county of Westchester deceased, hath by her petition, presented to the said judge, set forth, that the said Abraham Van Wart, 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 Abraham Van Wart, as far as she had been able to discover the same; and that thereby it appeared, that the personal estate of her 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 petitioners hath delivered to the said judge the account in the said petition mentioned; thereupon it is ordered by the said judge, that all persons interested in the estate of the said Abraham Van Wart, do appear before the judge of the said court of Probates, at the Probate-Office, in the city of New-York, on the seventeenth day of March next, to show cause, if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said Abraham Van Wart, died seized, should not be sold, as will be sufficient to pay his debts.
5 th 4w. PETER OGILVIE.
P U B L I C N O T I C E is hereby given, according to an act of the Governor, Council, and General Assembly of the late colony of New-York, passed the nineteenth day of March 1774, entitled, "An act for the more effectual registering of mortgages and securing the purchaser of mortgaged estates," that on the twenty-eighth day of July next ensuing, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, will be sold at the Coffee-House, to the highest bidder, all that certain LOT OF GROUND, situate, lying, and being in the city of New-York, in the Dock-Ward of the same, with incumbrance of a mortgage in the Loan-Office, for two hundred and eighty pounds, or thereabouts, and contains in breadth, in front and rear, twenty-five feet four and an half inches, in length, on each side, about ninety-one feet, and is bounded southerly, in front by the dock, westerly, by ground of Mary Ten Eyck, northerly, in the rear by ground now or late the property of John Lambert, and easterly, by ground of the heirs of Peter Delancey, with the appurtenances, which said premises were, by indenture, bearing date the fifteenth day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven-mortgaged by Charles Duryee, of the county of New-York, to Thomas Bowne, Daniel Bowne, and Samuel Osgood, of New-York, for securing the payment of five hundred and thirty-six pounds eleven shillings and seven-pence, with lawful interest for the same.
The conditions will be made known on the day of sale by subscribers.
THOMA BOWNE, DANIEL BOWNE, SAMUEL OSGOOD, New-York, Jan. 24, 1788. 99 1b. 6m
T O B E S O L D,
At PRIVATE SALE, a Pleasant Situated
F A R M, BETWEEN Rack Pond and Fresh Creek, adjoining the sea, at Shrewsbury, in Monmouth county, in the state of N. Jersey, containing one hundred and fifty acres. The payment will be made easy to the purchaser, and a good title will be given. For further particulars enquire of PETER OGILVIE, at No. 6, Crown-street. New-York, Feb. 13, 1788. 17
At a Court of Chancery, held at the Chancellor's Chambers, in the City of New-York, the eleventh Day of December, in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-seven.
P R E S E N T, The Hon. ROBERT R. LIVINGTON, Esq. Chancellor.
Stephen Skinner, } FORAMUCH as it appears to this court, that William Gray, and a bill hath been filed there William Deane, in by Stephen Skinner, mortgagee, against William Gray, and William Deane, to obtain a decree for the sale of certain premises therein mentioned to have been mortgaged by the said William Gray, to the said Stephen Skinner; whereupon process of subpoena to appear and answer, hath been duly issued and returned, and that the said William Gray, hath not entered his appearance in this cause, 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 on strict search and diligent enquiry in the county of Westchester, and elsewhere, the defendant William Gray, cannot be found to be served with the said process, by which the said William Gray was directed to appear in this honorable court, on the twelfth day of October last past, at the suit of the said Stephen Skinner, and which said subpoena issued on the filing of the bill of complaint in this cause; wherefore it is ordered, on motion of Mr. Troup, of counsel, for the complainant, that the said William Gray appear to the said bill, on or before the nineteenth day of February now next ensuing, and in default thereof, that the complainant's said bill be taken pro confesso, so far forth as it in any wise concerns the said defendant, the said William Gray; to the end, that a decree may be made for a sale of the said premises, or such part thereof as to this court shall appear just and right; and it is further ordered, that a copy of this order, within twenty days from the date hereof, be inserted in, at least, two of the public newspapers printed in the state of New-York, for the space of eight weeks successively.
Extract from the minutes, 99 8w. th. W. COCK, Register.
At a Court of Chancery, held at the Chancellor's Chamber, in the City of New-York, the eleventh Day of January, in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-eight.
P R E S E N T, The Hon. ROBERT R. LIVINGTON, Esq. Chancellor.
Stephen Skinner, } MR. TROUP, of counsel, vs. William Gray, and } nant suggesting to the court, William Deane. } that the order of the eleventh day of December now last past, had not been inserted within twenty days from the date thereof, in two of the public newspapers printed in this state, as according to the said rule the same ought to have been done; wherefore, on motion of Mr. Troup, the honorable the chancellor orders, and directs, that the said order stand renewed, giving the said defendant time to appear on or before the nineteenth day of March now next ensuing.
Extract from the minutes, 99 8w. th. W. COCK, Register.
P U B L I C N O T I C E is hereby given, according to an act of the Governor, Council, and General Assembly of the late colony of New-York, passed the 19th day of March, 1774, entitled, "An act for the more effectual registering of mortgages, and securing the purchasers of mortgaged estates;" that on the sixth day of June next ensuing, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, will be sold at the house of DAVID DAN, in Bedford, Westchester county, and state of New-York, to the highest bidder; all that certain Farm, Tract, pieces, or parcel of Land, lying and being in Bedford, and bounded as follows, to wit, beginning at the house of Benjamin Hayes, where he now lives, running westerly as it winds round Hayes's land, and northerly to the high way, thence westerly along the high way until it comes to Lewis M'Donald's land, thence southerly until it comes to David Dan's land, thence easterly and northerly along said Dan's land until it comes to the high way or Town's land by the burying ground, thence by the high way westerly until it comes to Benjamin Hayes's land, thence by Hayes's land as it winds to the place of beginning; also one other piece of Land, lying on the north side of the high way, beginning at the Court-house, thence westerly by the high way until it comes to Lewis M'Donald's land, thence northerly and westerly as it winds to Abraham Canfield's land, thence northerly and westerly by Abraham Canfield's land as it winds to the high way, thence northerly by the high way to Abraham Canfield's land, thence east by said land, until it comes to the land of the late Stephen Holmes, deceased, thence southerly and westerly until it comes to the parsonage lands, thence near the same course until it comes to James M'Donald's land, thence westerly and southerly winding round M'Donald's land to the place of beginning; containing in the whole eighty acres, more or less, with the appurtenances which said premises were by indenture bearing date the 10th day of May, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six; mortgaged by Jonathan Platt, of Bedford, Westchester county and state of New-York, to Daniel Bowne, of New-York, for securing the payment of eight hundred pounds with lawful interest for the same.
The conditions will be made known on the day of sale, by the subscriber, 45 th. 6m. DANIEL BOWEN.
W HEREAS David Peck is possessed of three certain Notes of Hand, given to him by Jonathan Platt, and the subscriber bearing date the twentieth day of November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, one of the said notes for the sum of thirty pounds, on demand, one other of the said notes for one hundred pounds, payable on the first day of May, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, and the other of the said notes, for the sum of one hundred and seventy pounds, payable on the first day of May, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine; all which said three notes were deposited in his hands, upon conditions of there delivery of them by a certain day, which is past; and whereas the conditions have not been complied with, and the said David Peck, retaining the same, has refused the redelivery of them, and has offered them for sale, this may serve to notify all persons, that the payment of the said notes will be refused, and prosecutions commenced for the redelivery of them.
BENONI PLATT. Jan. 24, 1788. 99 th. 4w.
T O B E S O L D, For JERSEY MONEY at full Value, Or exchanged for any Property in New-York, or bartered for West-India or DRY GOODS, At Market Price,
A Valuable Farm, SITUATE in Woodbridge township, in the county of Essex, New-Jersey, within a quarter of a mile of the main road from Woodbridge to Brunswick, about eight miles distant from the latter, and three and a half from Perth Amboy, consisting of one hundred and seventy acres a third part of which is excellent MEADOW; a sufficiency of fire-wood, with a handsome piece of thrifty young timber.
The plough-land equal to any in that part of the country; the whole under good fence.
On the premises is a good house, kitchen, and barn; and an excellent spring of water near the door; to which is added, fifteen acres, or thereabouts, of salt marsh, on the Rariton, about one mile from the farm.
This place is well known by the name of CLAWSON'S FARM.
For terms of sale enquire of Mr. Joseph Bindon, merchant, New-York, or Mr. Benjamin Thompson, near Morris-Town. New-York, Jan. 24, 1788. 99-c.d.
This day is PUBLISHED, By HUGH GAINF, At the BIBLE, in HANOVER SQUARE,
THE Conductor Generalis;
OR the office, duty and authority of justices of the peace, high sheriffs, under sheriffs, coroners, constables, goalers, jurymen, and overseers of the poor. As also the office of clerks of assize, and of the peace, &c.
Compiled chiefly from Burns' justice, and several other books on those subjects, By JAMES PARKER,
Late one of the justices of the peace for Middlesex County, in New-Jersey; and now revised and adapted to the United States of America.
By a GENTLEMAN of the LAW. The whole alphabetically digested under the several titles; with a table, directing to the ready finding out the proper matter under those titles.
To which are added, (Above what is in any other edition of this work) The act called the TEN POUND ACT, and the MILITIA LAW of the state of New-York.
Masters & Owners of Vessels,
Are hereby informed, THAT they may be supplied with cables, large or small, of any length, and cordage of all sizes, made of Petersburg hemp, first quality, at Ivens's Rope-walk, at the head of Mulberry-street, the first left hand turn above the Tea-Water Pump, on such favourable terms as to merit the attention of any gentleman that would wish to lay out his money to the best advantage. Cables spliced, with the addition of any length required, white rope of every sort for city or country use, hembro lin, deep sea lines, band lead lines, log lines, house lines, and marline, &c. &c. by
H. IVERS, Ropemaker. N. B. The above articles, whether in large or small quantities, will be delivered to any part of the city without expence of cartage to the buyer.
New York, Dec. 7, 1787. 58 c.d.
To the afflicted with WORMS.
LATELY received from the western country, and may be had at No. 21, Beckman-street, an extraordinary and never-failing WORM POWDER. From long experience it has been found, that three doses of these Powders will effectually destroy the Worms, either in children or grown persons.
New-York, Sept. 12, 1787. 99-c.d.
A PERSON perfectly acquainted with MERCHANTS' ACCOUNTS, would be glad of employ, in that line, either in Posting of Books, or adjusting intricate accounts. Enquire of the Printer.
New-York, October 25, 1787. 58-c.d.

INDIAN AFFAIRS.
[The following are the Leafes which were under Debate in the House of Assembly on the 17th of February.]
THIS INDENTURE made the 30th day of November, in the year of our Lord 1787, between the Chiefs and Sachems of the Six Nations of Indians, of the one part, and John Livingston, Caleb Benton, Peter Ryckman, John Stevenson, and Ezekiel Gilbert, for themselves and their associates, of the county of Columbia, and state of New-York, Esquires, of the other part, witnesseth, that the said Chiefs or Sachems of the Six Nations, for, and in consideration of the yearly rent and covenants herein after referred, mentioned & contained, which, on the part and behalf of the said J. Livingston, Caleb Benton, Peter Ryckman, John Stevenson, and Ezekiel Gilbert, and their associates, their executors, administrators, and assigns, are or ought to be paid, kept, done or performed, hath demised, granted, and to farm let, and by these presents doth demise, set and to farm let unto the said John Livingston, Caleb Benton, Peter Ryckman, John Stevenson, and Ezekiel Gilbert, and their associates, their executors, administrators and assigns, all that certain tract or parcel of land, commonly called and known by the name of the Lands of the Six Nations of Indians, situate, lying and being in the state of New-York, and now in the actual possession of the said Chiefs or Sachems of the Six Nations, beginning at a place commonly called and known by the name of Canada Creek, about seven miles west of Fort Stanwix, now Fort Schuyler, thence north-easterly to the line of the province of Quebec, thence along the said line to the Pennsylvania line, thence east on the said line, or Pennsylvania line, to the line of Property, so called, by the state of New-York, thence along the said line of property to Canada Creek aforesaid together with all and singular the houses, barns, out-houses, closes, grounds, lands, meadows, pastures, feedings, commons, profits, ways and paths, passages, water, water-courses, mines, minerals, easements, and appurtenances whatsoever to the said messuages or tract of land belonging or in any wise appertaining (excepting and always reserving out of this present demise and grant unto the Chiefs or Sachems, and their heirs, any tract or piece of land they chuse to reserve for themselves and their heirs; but if they the said Chiefs or Sachems of the six nations be minded at any time to leave the lands, then and in that case it shall revert to the said John Livingston, Caleb Benton, Peter Ryckman, John Stevenson, and Ezekiel Gilbert, and their associates, and their heirs, during the term of this lease to have and to hold the said messuages and tract of land, and all and singular the said premises hereby demised with the appurtenances (except as before excepted) unto the said John Livingston, Caleb Benton, Peter Ryckman, John Stevenson, and Ezekiel Gilbert, and their associates, their executors, administrators, and assigns, from the first day above written for and during the term of nine hundred and ninety nine years thence next ensuing, and fully to be compleat, and ended, yielding and paying therefor, yearly and every year, during the said term hereby granted, unto the said Chiefs or Sachems of the six nations, their heirs, executors, and administrators, the yearly rent or sum of two thousand Spanish milled dollars, in and upon the fourth day of July: And also, that the said John Livingston, Caleb Benton, Peter Ryckman, John Stevenson, Ezekiel Gilbert, and their associates, their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, paying the yearly rent of two thousand Spanish milled dollars, and performing all and singular the said covenants and agreements herein before mentioned, which on their behalf are or ought to be paid, done or performed, shall and may from time to time, and at all times during the said term hereby granted, peaceably and quietly enter into, have, hold, use, occupy, possess, and enjoy all and singular the said premises hereby granted and demised, with the appurtenances, (except as before excepted) without any let, trouble, hindrance, molestation, interruption or denial of them, the said Chiefs or Sachems of the six nations, their heirs, executors or administrators, and of any person or persons whatsoever claiming or to claim under them, or any of them, or by, or through their, or any of their acts, means, or procurements. In witness whereof, the parties to these presents, have set their hands and seals, the day and year first above written.
[Signed by 47 Indians.] Sealed and delivered in the presence of, &c. (Witnesses Names)
THIS INDENTURE, made the 8th day of January in the year of our Lord 1788, between the Sachems, chiefs and warriors, of the Oneida nations of Indians, of the first part, and John Livingston, Caleb Benton and Ezekiel Gilbert, of the county of Columbia, and state of New-York, Esqrs, and their associates of the second part, witnesseth, that the parties of the first part, for and in consideration of the yearly rent and covenants herein & after referred, mentioned and contained, which on the part and behalf of the parties of the second part, their executors, administrators, and assigns, are and ought to be paid and performed, have demised, granted, and to farm let, and by these presents do demise, grant, and do farm let unto the said party of the second part, their executors, administrators and assigns, all that certain tract of land, commonly called and known by the territory of the Oneida Indians, beginning at the confluence of Canada & Wood creeks, running thence southerly on the line known by the line of property, to the source of the Unadilla branch of the Susquehannah river, descending the same, branch to the north-east corner of the purchase lately made by the state of N. York, thence due west to the north-west corner of the same purchase on the Chenango river; thence descending the Chenango river to its junction with the Teyoghagaga river, thence ascending the said last mentioned river, to the influx of a certain stream, falling into the west side of the last mentioned river called Ononogarefne, thence ascending the said stream to its source, thence on a straight line to the source of a creek, called Raghbongto, thence on a direct line, to a place called Ragaghene on the outlet of the Oneida lake, thence on a direct course to a place called Atenghrayendon on lake Ontario, thence
on a direct line eastwardly, to a place called Teyoghagaga, thence on a direct line to the Little Falls, on the Mohawk river, thence on a direct course to the place of beginning, excepting out of the above granted and demised premises, the 1st following, to wit, a piece six miles square on the Oneida creek, heretofore granted to the Stockbridge Indians, also, a certain other piece two miles wide on the line of property, and by computation five miles in length, granted to other New-England Indians, also, a certain other piece two miles square on the said line of property heretofore granted to James Deane, also, one other piece one mile square adjoining said Deane, granted to Col. Wimple, also, one other piece, one mile square adjoining said Deane, granted to George W. Kirkland, and John T. Kirkland, also, thirty-seven square miles adjoining said Deane, and lying on said line of property, granted to Jedediah Phelps, also four other square miles on Canada Creek, granted to Archibald Armstrong; also, excepting and reserving to the parties of the first part, their heirs and successors, for their sole use and behoof, the right of fishing in the creek which enters into the east end of Oneida Lake, called the Fish Creek, from one extremity thereof to the other; together with the lands along on each side of the said creek, to the extent of one mile in width, except the lands at and about the mouth of the said creek, where the old-royal block-house formerly stood, which said lands are hereby granted to the party of the second part, for the privilege of erecting and keeping a post or posts and store houses, whenever they may see fit, likewise reserving the sole right of taking fish, at and below the outlet of the said lake. Also, excepting and reserving to the parties of the first part, their heirs and successors, the tract of land following, to wit, beginning at the fourth west corner of lands, given to the New-England Indians; thence running on a straight course to the south-east corner of lands, given to the Stockbridge Indians, thence along the south line of the same, westerly, to the south-west corner of the last mentioned land; thence westerly, continuing the same course, so far, as that a line drawn northerly, on a direct course, and extending to the Oneida Lake, opposite the small Island called Teyoghagahaneatogon, will intersect the old Indian path to Ranighoroge, where the same crosses the creek at the Windfalls; and after striking said Lake, thence easterly, along the south shore of the said Lake, to the mouth of Wood Creek, thence ascending the said Wood Creek, until it comes to a point, which shall be two miles on a direct course, distant from the line of property, aforesaid; thence southerly, on a line parallel to the said line of property, to the lands granted to Jedediah Phelps, and others; and thence following the westerly bounds, on the same, until it meets the place of beginning. To have and to hold, all and singular the lands and premises hereby demised and granted, with all and singular, the appurtenances (except what is before excepted) unto the said parties of the second part, their executors, administrators and assigns, from the first day of January instant, for and during the term of nine hundred and ninety-nine years, from thence next following, and fully to be compleat and ended, yielding, and paying therefor, yearly, for the space of ten years, on the first day of January in every year, the sum of one thousand silver dollars, and at the expiration of the said ten years, and on the first day of January, which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred, and yielding and paying the sum of eleven hundred silver dollars, and on the first day of January, thence next ensuing, the sum of twelve hundred like dollars, and so on, increasing the aforesaid rent, at the rate of one hundred dollars per annum, until it shall amount to the sum of fifteen hundred dollars; and then yielding and paying the sum of fifteen hundred dollars aforesaid, on the first day of January, yearly, and every year, during the remainder of the term hereby granted, unto the parties aforesaid of the first part, their heirs and successors.
And the said parties of the second part, for themselves, their executors, administrators and assigns, do hereby covenant and grant, to and with the parties aforesaid of the first part, their heirs and successors, to yield and pay, in and upon the days and times of payment, the rent above reserved, in manner and form above-mentioned, and also the parties aforesaid, of the second part, do hereby covenant and agree to, and with the parties aforesaid, of the first part, that they, the parties of the second part, and their assigns, shall and will, whenever they shall erect posts and store-houses at the places above mentioned and granted, where the old Royal Block House formerly stood, at the Inlet of the above mentioned Oneida Lake, present and give, the sum of one hundred dollars, unto the parties aforesaid, of the first part their heirs or successors; and further, that in case any mines or minerals shall, during the aforesaid term, be discovered, opened, or wrought, by the parties aforesaid, of the second part, within the premises hereby granted, their executors, administrators or assigns, that then, in such case, the parties aforesaid, of the first part, their heirs, or successors, shall be entitled to, and receive their share of the neat profits thereof.
And the parties aforesaid, of the first part, do hereby, for themselves, their heirs, successors, and every of them, absolutely covenant, grant and agree, to and with the parties aforesaid, of the second part, their executors, administrators, and assigns, that they, the said parties of the first part, their heirs and successors, will not, at any time hereafter, during the term hereby granted, give, grant, bargain, sell, lease, or convey, and part or parts, of the above granted lands, to any person, or persons, body politic, or corporate, upon any terms or conditions whatsoever; and further that they, the parties of the first part, their heirs and successors, shall and will make and execute any further writings and assurances to the parties aforesaid, of the second part, their executors, administrators, or assigns, which may at any time hereafter be necessary, or required, for the better securing, assuring the parties of the second part, or their assigns, in the peaceable, uninterrupted, and quiet enjoyment of the lands and premises aforesaid, with all the singular the appurtenances thereunto belonging, or in any wise appertaining.
In testimony whereof, the parties of these presents, have hereunto interchangeably set their hands and seals, the day and year first above written.
[Signed by a number of Indian Chiefs.]
To the PUBLIC.
I received the following letter.
SIR, I HAVE received your letter of this day, and shall reply to it as far as in my power. The original papers of which you request copies are not in my possession, they are, I believe, lodged with the board of treasury.
The whole of the business respecting the prizes has been submitted to Congress, and I now enclose to you a copy of their act of 11th October, 1787, relative to it; from this you will readily perceive, that having nothing more to do in this business, than to comply with the directions contained in that act, several of the matters in your letter are improperly addressed to me.
The Alliance's proportion of the monies paid to Mr. Jefferson, was livres, 81752—16,7 this sum I have divided agreeably to the acts of Congress; and for the amount of your share, I shall, as I am directed, give you an order on William Edgar, Esq. of this city, who I presume will pay it immediately, as I have heard of no complaints on that head.
I am ready to adjust any claim you may have for pay, or for gun men and money, and such claim being properly supported, I shall issue to you a certificate for the amount in like manner as to other public creditors.
Having in a conversation sometime since informed you that I should ask Capt. Jones for an account of any articles which might have been taken from the Serapis before she was sold, it is proper I should mention why I have not done it. At that time it was my intention to have brought those articles and such as were sold at Boston, into the general division, and in that case I must have required a particular account of them, but since the act of Congress abovementioned, I have nothing to do but to distribute the money paid to Mr. Jefferson, and shall therefore not interfere in any other business respecting the prizes.
I have, &c. (Signed) BEN. WALKER. Office of Accounts, Marine Department, November 8, 1787. Capt. Landais.
The following are copies of the inclosed resolves. IN CONGRESS, October 11, 1787.
ON a report of the committee to whom had been committed a report of the board of treasury on a letter of the 18th July, from Capt. J. P. Jones, together with a report of the commissioners of accounts for the marine department, relative to a division of the prize money, of the Bonhomme-Richard and Alliance, and the charges of Capt. Jones for recovering the same.
Resolved, That the quotas assigned to the several ships which were under the command of Capt. J. P. Jones in Europe, by direction of the court of France, be confirmed, and considered as valid, and that a distribution of the prize money be made amongst the crew of the said ships, separately, agreeable to such quotas.
Resolved, That the monies paid by Capt. Jones into the hands of the honorable Mr. Jefferson, be distributed by the board of treasury, as soon as may be, among the captors, agreeable to the division thereof, under the direction of the court of France.
In the foregoing letter Mr. Walker says, that the original papers of which I request copies are not in his possession, &c. But that gentleman don't say that they were; and when they were in his possession, I had taken in his office, to his knowledge, some extracts out of them, that he took the paper upon which they were written, and kept it, by which I was deprived of those extracts, and prevented from examining, and taking copies of those other papers.
In the next paragraph Mr. Walker says, that "several of the matters in my letter are improperly addressed to him;"—But in the same paragraph he says that "he incloses to me a copy of the acts of Congress." I was absolutely ignorant of them till then, therefore it was not an impropriety to address several of those matters in my letter to him, it was but a mistake as I thought then that he had yet the whole management of the prize money distribution, and of all the arrangement relative to it, and accordingly mentioned those matters as I had formerly spoken to him about them, and particularly of the unprecedented act of deducting from the sales of the Serapis and the Countess of Scarborough, the expenses incurred in Holland, for refitting those ships, and the feeding and keeping the prisoners &c.
In the following paragraph Mr. Walker says, that the Alliance's proportion of the monies paid to Mr. Jefferson, was livres, 81752—6,73 but he don't even say how much was paid to Mr. Jefferson, in the whole, although amongst the several matters I addressed to him, I properly claimed of him a minute account of my share; and Mr. Walker must be mistaken in allotting me for my share of that money but 1582 77 goths dollars, in specie, as the two ninetieths, which is the proportion I am to have of 81752, 16,73, amount 1649 milled dollars, 66 10ths.
Mr. Walker says that "he is ready to adjust my claim for pay, guns and men money, and issue me certificates therefore as to other creditors." I am not in the same predicament with those creditors; the law made in the year 1784 to pay them in certificates, is not applicable to me, without retrospective to the year 1782, when the hon. Congress, by their resolve approved the steps that the Superintendent of Finance had taken in my case, and that gentleman having previously wrote to me officially that he would put the amount of the sum owing to me by the United States for my pay, &c. at my credit on account current, which implies ready money. I cannot in justice to myself receive therefore certificates, as I have already said in a former paper, and I am therefore compelled by dint of power to loose the whole of it.
It is not my fault if Mr. Walker did not ask of Capt. J. P. Jones an account of the articles which were taken from the Serapis, as I desired him in proper time to do it.
In the preamble preceding the foregoing Resolves, the pretended charges of Capt. J. P. Jones for recovering the prize money is mentioned, but there is nothing said in the resolves relative to those charges; and it appears to me that Congress could not allow those pretended charges to be taken out of the other captors' money, without doing them the most manifest injury: considering first, their
own resolve of the 1st November 1783, wherein it is explicitly said, "that the said Capt. J. P. Jones shall receive the commission usually allowed in such cases," (which is 5 per cent) "out of the money which he shall receive as agent for the prizes, in full compensation for his services and expenses." adly. The report thereabouts of the Commissioner of accounts for the marine department. 3dly. That in Capt. J. P. Jones's letter of the 25th May, 1784, to Marshal de Gallies (included in the papers which were in Mr. Walker's office) he said, "I had the honor to present a letter from the Chevalier de la Luzerne, mentioning that part of my business in Europe is to collect materials for forming a system for the future marine of America, you had my Lord the goodness to promise me copies of every thing respecting the government and manner of supporting the Marine of France, and I shall esteem it a great favor if you would now give your orders in consequence." By which it appears that he was partly sent, and said there by order of Congress, or for his own satisfaction, to have those materials, and therefore his charges ought to be paid by the United States, or to his own cost. 4thly. The following, viz. "December 28th, 1785, on motion of Mr. Long that the Board of Treasury call on Capt. Jones to make a distribution of the prize money referred to the said Board to report." Copy entered in the Resolve book of the Board of Treasury." (Signed) S. OSGOOD.
By which it appears that Capt. J. P. Jones received the prize money before that time, but since deposited in Mr. Jefferson's hands apart of it, and the other part, to the best of my remembrance, amounting to above 12,000 dollars, he kept and enjoyed ever since, whilst the other captors have received but a trifling part of their due and but lately.
But there is no mention made in the two resolves of Congress about that money which Capt. J. P. Jones kept of the prize money; I could with, since it was the pleasure of the Hon. Congress to select and trust Capt. J. P. Jones with the recovering of the prize money, it had been the pleasure also of the Hon. Congress to order Capt. J. P. Jones, or his bondsmen to deposit that money, with the other to be shared between him and other captors according to their decision.
PETER LANDAIS.
[To be Continued]
American Occurrences.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 29.
The following acts are from the Virginia Journal, An act to repeal part of an act for the protection and encouragement of the Commerce of Nations acknowledging the independence of the United States of America.
(Passed December 31, 1787.)
WHEREAS the act entitled, "An act for the protection and encouragement of the commerce of nations, acknowledging the independence of the United States of America," is found in its operation to be partial in as much as it authorizes subjects or citizens of foreign nations to institute suits against the citizens of this commonwealth, and to prosecute them to a decision in a more speedy and summary way, than they have hitherto known or been accustomed to; and it is but just and proper that no such exclusive privilege should longer be continued, Be it therefore enacted, that I am and after the passing of this act, so much of the said recited act as points out and authorizes the mode of proceeding in suits wherein foreign parties shall be, and the same is hereby repealed. An act to repeal so much of all and every act or acts of assembly as prohibits the recovery of British debts.
(Passed December 12, 1787.)
WHEREAS it is stipulated by the fourth article of the treaty of peace between the king of Great Britain and the United States of America in Congress assembled, that creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful impediment in the recovery of the full value in sterling money of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted; Be it therefore enacted by the gen. assembly, that such of the acts or parts of acts of the legislature of this commonwealth, as have prevented or may prevent the recovery of debts due to British subjects, according to the true intent and meaning of the said treaty of peace shall be and are hereby repealed; Provided, that this act shall be suspended until the governor with the advice of council shall by his proclamation, notify to this state that Great Britain hath delivered up to the United States the posts therein now occupied by British troops, which posts were stipulated by treaty to be given up to Congress immediately after the conclusion of peace; and is also taking measures for the fulfilment of the said treaty by delivering up the negroes belonging to the citizens of this state taken away contrary to the seventh article of the treaty, or by making such compensation for them as shall be satisfactory to Congress.
PHILADELPHIA, March 10, 1788.
The following is a copy of a letter from the Chevalier de la Luzerne, lately read in the General Assembly of this state.
SIR. Paris.
I HAVE received the act of the assembly of Pennsylvania, and the letter you have honored me with, from which I learn that that state has condescended to give my name to one of its newly erected counties. It is impossible for me to explain the grateful sense I have of this distinguished favor. Having the advantage of a long residence in Pennsylvania, I have been witness to all the acts of patriotism and valor performed in that state, and which have to much contributed to the American independence.
I have had the further advantage of a personal knowledge of the different members of your government, and the opportunity of judging with what wisdom, prudence and firmness they have succeeded in establishing one of the best governments in the world.
Lassly, sir, my long residence, my inclination, and the honor just conferred on me, are the ties which bind me inviolably to the state of Pennsylvania.
Be pleased, sir, to assure the illustrious body you preside over, of my veneration and respect; and permit me to renew the assurances of the attachment with which I have the honor to be, I R,
Your most humble and obedient servant, The Hon the Speaker of the general Assembly of Pennsylvania.

New-York, March 13.
ON the 27th ult. the "representatives of the people called Quakers, in New-England, being met together in capacity of a meeting for sufferings," presented to the General Assembly of Rhode Island a petition and memorial signed in and on their behalf, by Thomas Arnold, clerk of the meeting, relative to the injudicious and pernicious effects of their paper currency being a tender at par in payment for just debts, praying for a repeal of that act, and the one which makes void notes and book accounts, if not settled in two years. On which the following Resolves passed the Assembly.
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY, February 1788.
Resolved, that this petition be and the same is hereby received, and the consideration thereof is referred to the next session of this assembly; And the secretary is directed forthwith to cause copies thereof to be printed, and one delivered to a deputy of each town, to be delivered to the town-clerks of the respective towns, in order that the sense of the freemen at large may be taken upon the same.
Accounts from Providence of March 1, say:—The house yesterday resumed the consideration of appointing a state convention, agreeably to the mode proposed by the general convention held at Philadelphia, and after a lengthy discussion of the subject resolved, that the federal constitution proposed should be referred to the consideration of the individual freemen of the state, in their respective town-meetings. —On this question, 15 members voted for a convention, and 42 for the above reference.—Majority 27.
On the 5th instant the House of Assembly Resolved to adjourn, to meet at New-York on the first Tuesday of January next. Poughkeepsie, Hudson, and Albany, were proposed, and the questions severally put and lost: when the question for New-York was taken, it passed by a great majority, and the resolution was sent up to the Senate for concurrence. The day of the adjournment was not named, but it is expected that it will take place daily.
Big Fanny, Leach, from Cape Francois, is arrived at Salem.
The Triumph, Capt. Stout, was well at St. Jago, Cape de Verd, on the 7th Jan. on her way from Orient to Bengal. The ship Columbia, from Boston, with a cargo, had been there some time before, bound on a voyage round the world.
Cleared on the 11th and 12th, Schooner Sally, Almsted, Boston; brig Nancy, Moffatt, Burlington, New-Jersey; sloop Philadelphia Packet, Albertson, Philadelphia; —New-York Packet, Bayley, ditto; and Schooner Betsy, Brandel, New-London.
For the NEW-YORK JOURNAL, &c.
AS the important period approaches, when we must decide on the most interesting of subjects, to the liberty, independence and happiness of America, I submit the following characters, with a few observations, as candidates for a seat in convention:
 ROBERT TROUP,  WILLIAM GILBERT,  ROBERT BOYD,  NATHANIEL LAWRENCE,  JAMES M. HUGHES,  WILLIAM MALCOLM,  ISAAC STOUTENBURGH,  JOHN RAY,  SAMUEL JONES. 
On a subject which requires in its judges the best virtues of the heart, with the utmost soundness, penetration and free agency of the head; the impropriety of delegating men, whose profits, or immediate prospects, are at all affected either way, need not be discussed. Private loss or gain is ever dangerous, and its workings are, if possible, to be avoided. With this deduction, or even without it, the above list will appear as little exceptionable as any, at least to the candid and dispassionate.
The opinions of several of them on the great question, I believe are, as they should be, unknown. They possess the essentials of a general interest, ability, and coolness, if not distaste eluded. The last I fear is not now to be attained, but the others ought by all means to be secured; and this can only be done, by omitting the most violent and ambitious, and preferring others who possess and regard the feelings of the community, and are selected from among them. Great and obvious interest on either side, will excite suspicion and calumny, if it do not warp the judgment and defeat itself.
As the above are all moderate men, they will judge coolly and fairly, and act prudently. These are all the real befits we can justly expect from any other nomination, and will have this signal advantage, that should this state have the luck, or misfortune (for which it will be time must determine) to be obliged to differ and dissent from her sister states, they cannot attribute it to factious or other unworthy motives. But should the friends of liberty be obliged to yield to tyrannical members, which patriotism forbid, their pacific dispositions will best guard us from the horrors of civil war, which Heaven avert from our devoted country.
A FREEMAN.
For the NEW-YORK JOURNAL, &c.
MR. GREENLEAF, By giving the enclosed a place in your Weekly Register, of Thursday next, you will very much oblige a number of your readers, and more particularly THE AUTHOR.
Tuesday, 11th March, 1788.
To Mr. C — G — R — H —, Esq. and Capt. J — a W — d, at G — in — 1. Gentlemen,
YOU have lately been made popular by having your names introduced into the public prints, for your conduct in sitting (in conjunction with four other colleagues from the county of Ulster) as a committee to advise, as he said, upon the new constitution, &c. at Montgomery, or Ward's bridge, on Thursday the 7th ult. Admitting it to
be true beyond contradiction, that you were the persons as named on that committee, I take the liberty to address you upon the occasion.
Believe me, gentlemen, that after hearing of such intended meeting, as that wherein you have represented your county, I could not imagine that you would degrade yourselves to such a degree, and at the same time lose that respect which was before due to you, from public and open confessions of your love for peace, justice, piety, &c. as to have met with such an intent; much less to have sat in such capacity with a rabble of loose and inconsiderate men. Had you expected to have seen there a large concourse of the most respectable inhabitants, or a few of those who were learned in politics or skilled in legislation, I should not wonder so much at your conduct. But for you, who reside in the neighbourhood, and who are so well acquainted with the characters of the place, such an apology cannot be expected. Besides, gentlemen, leaving the public at large to judge what might have been your expectations on this business, I would ask, by what authority you held your seats in that committee, as representatives from the county of Orange? I have heard of no meeting for the purpose of delegating you to this office, or any thing of the kind, previous to the completion of your undertaking. It must therefore be presumed, that you were only the representatives of a single street in the town of Goshen, and I believe not of that wholly in contradiction to the greater influence of a few federal characters in the public opinion of the place.
Thus deputed, did you imagine, gentlemen, that your decisions would have had the advantage of those better supported by ability, and better suited to the reasonings of the surrounding world? — or that your conduct would have been patterned in other counties in this state, or in other parts of the same county? If so, you are greatly deceived; and in the reverse, may see, that, instead of a like rash proceeding, there has been a very advisable and well conducted meeting in the town of Esopus, in the same county; such a meeting as, in the face of yours, shews to the world how despicable, at all times, the proceedings of a mob are, to wise and considerate men.
I shall not attempt to set forth your characters, as men who have only erred on this occasion; lest I should introduce to my fellow citizens those, who, before this, have never been known in, or thought fit for, any public capacity.
I am, gentlemen, Your friend and adviser, A COUNTRYMAN.
A Picture not unfamiliar to the present Times.
IT is most evident to all those who are in the least acquainted with the Greek and Roman histories, that bribery and corruption were the chief causes of the overthrow of those free governments.
By these means Philip of Macedon ruined most of the commonwealths of Greece, so much celebrated in antient history.
The Spartan state, which had flourished with such glory about 800 years, was soon destroyed by the corrupt use of those immense riches their Asiatic conquests had furnished them with.
The ruin of the Roman commonwealth is (by all those who have wrote upon that subject) attributed to that corruption with which they were overrun after they became masters of Asia. Before that time, honor had been the reward of good and great actions—but then money, without merit, opened the door at which fools and naves entered, when honest men could not be admitted; then it seemed a crime to be virtuous; and people became so degenerate, that the consulship, government of provinces, commands of armies, and every public employment, were put to sale, and all carried by caballing and bribery, without any regard had to the merits of men, and their services to their country.
O Urbem venalem si emptorem invenisset! intimating, that they would sell their wives, their daughters, and even the city itself, if a man were found who had a purse sufficient to make the purchase. V.
ON the 4th Inst. departed this Life, at Philadelphia, in the 61st Year of her Age, Mrs. ELIZABETH HOLT, Relict of the late Mr. JOHN HOLT, Printer to this State, and on Thursday following her Remains were decently interred in Christ-Church Burial-Ground, attended by a large Concurrence of very respectable Citizens.
To delineate the Character of this venerable Lady, is a Task by far too arduous for the Editor of this Paper; gratitude, however, for those Marks of Friendship in the Course of his dealing with her in general, and particularly as it regards her Relinquishment of this Office, demands, that a respectful Memorandum of her last Exit be sacredly deposited in the New-York Journal and Weekly Register.
However the Fatigues and Trouble of being tossed from Post to Pillow in the Course of the War might have impaired her Constitution, and corroded her natural Amiability of Disposition, yet she had a good Heart, and her Friendship, wherever fixed, was immovable.
In the Course of several Years past she had many Attacks of the Apoplectic Nature, which caused her to become languid, and finally issued in a Complication of Disorders.
Under a most painful and afflicting Indisposition, she exhibited a lively Example of Christian Fortitude and Resignation. She was endowed with a most excellent Understanding, and possessed every Virtue which could adorn or add dignity to the Sex. She has left a numerous Train of Friends and Relatives to beaver her Death.
Mrs. HOLT was a Native of Virginia, and Sifter to the late William Hunter, Esq. of Williamsburgh, Post-Master General for the Southern department of North America, a few years previous to the revolution.
The remains of his honor THOMAS CUSHING, Esq. L.L.D. A.A.S. and Lieut. Gov. of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, who died at Boston on the 28th ult. were interred, on the 3d inst. under the brilliant retinue of military ceremony.
DIED,—At Newport, Dr. THOMAS EYRES, A.M. and Fellow of the College of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
—At Marblehead, Mr. LARS HAUSEN, a Danish Gentleman, aged 27.
—At Charleston, Rev. JOHUA PAINE.
The communication, under the signature of A COUNTRYMAN, respecting a WOMAN and a HORSE, is of two domestic a nature for a place under MISCELLANY. The incorrectness of QUOTATIONER is the Editor's apology for rejecting it until the author may please to call and run it once more through his literary mill.
This Day is published, And to be sold by the PRINTER hereof, and by ROBERT HODGE, No. 237, Queen Street,
THE PRINCIPLES OF THE Latin Grammar, EXPLAINED in a manner suited to the Capacity of Beginners; with Notes and Observations calculated for those who have made proficiency in the Classics.
By JAMES HARDIE, A.B. Teacher of the GREEK and LATIN Languages, NEW-YORK.
A number of the Schools in this city have adopted and are about to adopt this Grammar, the excellencies of which will be more fully delineated in a future advertisement, by a number of the first literary characters in this State, &c.
At a Court of Probates of the State of New-York, held at the Probate-Office, in the City of New-York, on the twelfth Day of March, in the Year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred and Eighty-eight.
P R E S E N T, The Honorable PETER OGILVIE, Esq. Judge of the said Court.
WHEREAS Annatie Van Benthuyzen, administratrix, John Van Benthuyzen, and Henry Syle, administrators of Abraham Van Benthuyzen, late of Rhinebeck precinct, in the county of Dutchess, deceased, have, by their petition presented to the said judge, set forth, that the said Abraham Van Benthuyzen, was at the time of his death seized of a real estate within this state, that the petitioners have made a just and true account of the personal estate and debts of the said Abraham Van Benthuyzen, as far as they have been able to discover the same, and that thereby it appeared, that the personal estate of the said Abraham Van Benthuyzen, 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 petitioners have delivered to the said judge the account in the said petition mentioned; thereupon it is ordered by the said judge, that all persons interested in the estate of the said Abraham Van Benthuyzen, do appear before the judge of the said court of Probates, at the Probate Office in the city of New-York, on the ninth day of May next, to show cause, if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said Abraham Van Benthuyzen died seized should not be sold, as will be sufficient to pay his debts.
41 th. 4w. PETER OGILVIE.
At a Court of Probates of the State of New-York, held at the Probate Office in the city of New-York, on the 12th day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight.
P R E S E N T, The Honorable PETER OGILVIE, Esq. Judge of the said Court.
WHEREAS Samuel B. Webb, administrator of Richard Banker late of the said city merchant deceased, with his will annexed, hath by his petition, presented to the said judge, set forth, that the said Richard Banker, was, at the time of his death, seized of a real estate within this state, that the petitioner hath made a just and true account of the personal estate and debts of the said Richard Banker as far as he had been able to discover the same, and that thereby, it appeared, that the personal estate of the said Richard Banker, 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 petitioner hath delivered to the said judge the account in the said petition mentioned; thereupon it is ordered by the said judge, that all persons interested in the estate of the said Richard Banker, do appear before the judge of the said court of Probates, at the Probate Office in the city of New-York, on the ninth day of May next, to show cause, if any they have, why so much of the real estate whereof the said Richard Banker died seized should not be sold, as will be sufficient to pay his debts.
41 4w. th. PETER OGILVIE.
Government Securities.
CASH, and a generous price, will be given for such as are generally called FINAL SETTLEMENTS, LOAN-OFFICE, those signed by J. Nourse, and INTEREST FACILITIES—Also, those of this State, Connecticut, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
Enquire at No. 20, Queen-Street. JACOB REED, jun.
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T H E American Museum, FOR FEBRUARY, 1788. CONTAINING, Rural Concerns.
MEMOIR on the distillation of perfumes, by Mr. Isaac Bartram. Observations on the raising and dressing of hemp: communicated in the American philosophical Society, by Edmund Antill. Laws of Pennsylvania society for promoting agriculture. Premiums proposed by said society.
Moral essays. On contentment, On confidence, On the importance of a good character considered only with respect to interest, On the folly of being anxiously curious to enquire what is said of us in our absence, On the pleasures of reflection.
Characters. Character of an old maid, —of a pedantic school-master.
Humour. Consolation for the old bachelor, Lecture upon eyes, Lecture upon noses, Instructions for fine ladies, Instructions for fine gentlemen, Speech of a standing member, by the hon. Francis Hopkinson, Esq.
Natural History. Description of the white mountains of New-Hampshire, Description of the grotto at Swatara, by the rev. Peter Miller.
Miscellaneous. Letter concerning chimnies; containing some directions to prevent them from smoking, by Dr. Ruffon. Petition of the people called Quakers, of New-England, Ethelgar, a Saxon poem, Account of the order of procession in Boston, solemization of the ratification of the new constitution, Report of the managers of the Pennsylvania society for the encouragement of manufactures, Directions on this reading of history.
Politics. Oration on the anniversary of American independence. By the hon. chancellor Livingston. Letter from the hon. Robert Yates, and John Lansing, Esqrs. to his excellency Gov. Clinton, stating their reasons for not subscribing to the new constitution.
Address to the minority of the convention of Pennsylvania, Form of the ratification of the federal constitution by the state of Massachusetts, Form of do. by Georgia, A view of the principles, operation, and probable effects of the funding system of Pennsylvania.
Natural Philosophy. Conjectures concerning wind and water-spouts, tornadoes, and hurricanes, by Dr. John Perkins of Boston, Observations on the growth of trees downwards.
Poetry. The sea-faring bachelor, by Mr. Philip Freneau, The seasons moralized, by do. The Brandywine, The grey mare the better horse, Evil company, The dying Indian, by Mr. Philip Freneau, Answer to a riddle, To a man of lively, but unequal spirits in conversation.
The printer returns his most grateful acknowledgements to the citizens of New-York, for the liberal encouragement and patronage with which they have honored this publication. Every exertion shall be made to merit a continuance of their favor. ** The delay of the present number, has been wholly occasioned by the negligence of the flag driver at Newark.
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House and Lot of Ground, NEARLY opposite Old Trinity Church-Yard, the corner of French Church-Street, and Broad Way, now in the occupation of the Honorable Board of Treasury, and rents for 1201. per annum.—For further particulars enquire of Col. Isaac Stourtenburgh, corner of Dyer Street, North-River, or Elias Newson, No. 8, Burling-slip.—Also, TWO LOTS adjoining each other on the corner of Verlatenberg Hill and New Street.
New-York, March 10, 1788. 38 6t. 2w.
ALL PERSONS indebted to the estate of SMITH RICHARDS, an insolvent debtor, are requested to make immediate payment to the subscribers, assignees, appointed according to law.—All accounts, or obligations, not discharged by the first day of May, will be put in suit without distinction.
MELANCTON SMITH, JAMES SHUTER. New-York, March 11, 1788. 39 c.d.
Twenty Pounds Reward.
WHEREAS the door of St. Peter's church, in this city, was broke open, on the night of Saturday, the 26th inst. by some person, or persons, unknown, the above reward of Twenty Pounds will be paid by the trustees of said church, to any person or persons who may detect, apprehend, and prove to conviction, the party or parties guilty thereof.

POET'S CORNER.
S O N N E T.
OF, as I visit my belov'd retreat, And flun the scenes where wealth and folly reign, I bathe the herbs with tears, my breast I beat, Sigh to the winds, and to the woods complain. Oft, as in pensive solitude I rove Through arched walks, with deepest shades em- brown'd, Upborne on Fancy's wings, my spirits move, Laura I seek o'er all the well-known ground, In vain I seek her, to the realms beneath, Snatch'd by thy cruel hand, unyielding death. A nymph! a Goddess! to my longing eyes, Behold her now in all her splendor rise, From Sorrow's stream! and, on its banks reclin'd, Affuage, with gentle looks, my tortur'd mind; Or, lightly tripping o'er the enamel'd mead, Weave flowery garlands to adorn her head, Prolong, ye Gods, this visionary bliss, What truth so pleasing as a dream like this!
Alfize of BREAD.
As Established December 5, 1787. A Loaf of inspected superfine Wheat Flower, weigh Two Pounds Five Ounces for six-pence. A Loaf of Rye Flour to weigh One pound Twelve Ounces for three pence.
H I G H W A T E R.
This Day, March 13. 1h. 7m. Aft.
THOMAS SMITH,
BOOT and SHOE MAKER, LEATHER CUTTER, AND CURRIER, Queen-street, No. 179, corner of Beekman or Chapel Street,
BEGS leave to inform his friends, and the public in general, that he carries on the above branches in an extensive manner. He makes and sells the following articles, wholesale and retail, viz.
 Gentlemen's best boots with the best English legs and bend-foles, bound with Morocco, 2 12  Gentlemen's best boots turned down tops, best English legs and bend-foles, 2 10 0  Gentlemen's best boots with the best York legs and bend-foles, bound with Morocco, 2 8 0  Ditto best-plain, ditto, York legs and bend-foles, 2 4 0  Ditto ditto, with York legs and soles, 2 0 0  Best water boots with bend soles, 2 0 0  Gentlemen's best calf-skin shoes with bound tops, 0 11 0  Mens strong shoes from 8/ to 0 9 0  Ladies best silk shoes, 1 0 0  Ditto ditto, stuff ditto fatinets or calimanco, 0 10 0  Ditto ditto, leather lined and bound, 0 9 0  Ditto do. common, 0 8 0  Boys, Girls, and childrens shoes of all kind. 
As also, all kinds of leather whether for shoe makers, fadlers, or harness makers use.—English boot-legs, bend-foles as usual.
He wishes to inform the public, that, as he is determined to sell on the most reasonable terms, no credit on any account will be given, except to those of his former customers.
And likewise, that no shoes will sent to any one for trial except they be very well known, as he has already suffered too much loss on that account.
Country store keepers, and others, will find it to their advantage to deal at the above store, as they can be supplied with upper leathers, soles, half soles, &c. by the dozen, on the most reasonable terms.
Black-ball of an excellent quality for cleaning boots or shoes, wholesale and retail.
N. B. Rough leather taken in and curried on the most reasonable terms. 24—e.d.
AT THE TANNERY,
Near the Fresh-Water Pond,
MAY be had of the subscriber, a quantity of excellent SOLE and UPPER-LEATHER, tanned in the English mode, equal to any manufactured in America. He proposes for country dealers, to supply on terms that will enable them to make large profits;—for city consumption, such as will establish the Shoe Manufacturers, and procure them a run of custom—for ships use, as good in quality, as that imported from England, and at a much less price.
Cash, Bark, raw Hides or Calve Skins taken in exchange. ISAAC COULTHARD.
N. B. A Currier, Master of his Business is wanted immediately—Apply as above. 40 e.d.
New-York RUM
Of excellent Flavour and good Proof, F O R S A L E,
By Charles Tillinghast,
At the DISTILLERY, near the New Market Cherry-Street, nearest to the Ship-Yards.
To be Sold at this Office, BLANKS of all SORTS.
State of New-York, Court of Admiralty.
Charles March, Timothy Penny, Abraham P. Mendes, John Thomson, Gad Wells, and others, Libellants.
Sundry goods, Wares and Merchandize, saved out of a vessel having no person on board, by John Shannon and others, and claimed by Gibbon Bourke, John Donnan and the said John Shannon and others, and claimed in part by Daniel McCormick for Hyem Cohen, and by William Cock for Richard Hall.
WHEREA Charles March, Timothy Penny, Abraham P. Mendes, John Thomson, Matthew Fergo, John Howard, Gad Wells, Samuel Eells, and Peter Noyes, junior, as passengers, and Malcom Taylor, and Henry Harris, as mariners on board of the brigantine Port-Roseway, have filed a libel in the said court, setting forth that in and with the said brigantine, in a voyage from the island of Jamaica to New-London, in Connecticut, on or about the first day of August, in the year 1784, in the latitude of 23 degrees and 30 minutes north or thereabouts, they discovered, and went to a vessel with only her foremast standing, and having no living creature on board, and five feet water in her hold; and that they saved and took out of the said brigantine, sundry goods, wares, and merchandise, which were by them brought to the port of New-York, and there sold at public vendue, by order of Gibbon Bourke, and John Donnan, of the said city, merchants: And whereas it appears by return of sales of Anthony L. Bleeker, that the said merchandise so saved and brought to the port of New-York, consisted of the following articles, viz. Six hogheads of sugar, the marks & numbers whereof were defaced, one hoghead of sugar marked F. No. 102, one other hoghead of sugar marked WB. No. 185, one other hoghead of sugar, marked F. S. one hoghead of spirits, marked E. [enclosed by a diamond] No. 6, one other hoghead of spirits, marked B. E. No. 4, one other hoghead of spirits, marked B. E. No. 5, one other hoghead of spirits, marked B. R. No. 3, one other hoghead of spirits, marked WB. No. 7, one other hoghead of spirits, marked WB. No. 8, and one other hoghead of spirits, marked WB. No. 9, thirteen bales of cotton wool without mark or number, one bale of cotton wool, marked H.Q.C. fifteen other bales of cotton wool, the marks & numbers whereof were defaced; four whole bales, four half bales, four broken bales, and four bundles of cotton wool, the marks whereof, if any had been, could not be discovered, a quantity of logwood, and five hundred and fifty-one feet of mahogany. And whereas, by an advertisement formerly published in one of the news papers printed in New-York, the said goods and merchandise were said to have been saved and taken on board of the said brigantine Port-Roseway, on Thursday the 5th day of Aug. 1784. And whereas, Gibbon Bourke and John Donnan, on behalf of John Shannon, master, and Samuel Nesbitt, mate, Malcom Taylor, Martin George, John Harper, Swiney Wilson and Alexander McKensie, mariners, and Richard Hall, owner of the said brigantine Port-Roseway, have filed a claim in the said court, praying a decree for their proportional shares of the net proceeds of the said goods: and whereas, Daniel McCormick, of the city of New-York, merchant, for and on behalf of Hyem Cohen, of the island of Jamaica, hath filed a claim in the said court, to the monies which have arisen from the sale of the said cotton wool, or part thereof, after the payment of salvage: and whereas William Cock, of the city of New-York, Esq. for and in behalf of Richard Hall, of Shelburne, in Nova-Scotia, as sole owner of the said brigantine Port-Roseway, hath also filed a claim in the said court, praying an allowance for salvage out of the monies arisen by the sale of the said goods, wares and merchandise. And whereas, it appears by the depositions of William McKenney and Malcom Taylor, two of the persons on board the brigantine Port-Roseway, at the time the said goods and merchandise were so saved and taken on board; that the defected vessel out of which the said goods were saved, were generally supposed by themselves and others then present, to have been a brigantine; and it further appears by the said depositions, and the deposition of Swiney Wilson, which depositions were severally taken in open court, that the said defected vessel was a flout vessel (perhaps about three hundred tons burthen) had a woman's head, with guard-irons round it, that she had black sides, and yellow mouldings, that she had either three or four ports on each side, abaft her chains, that she had a double deck as far as her main-mast, and had deck-beams but no plank on them before her main-mast as part of her lower deck, that she had quarter-barges, but no quarter-galleries, and was plain behind, and that her quarter-deck was raised about three feet above her main-deck.—Therefore, pursuant to an order of the said court, public monition and notice is hereby given to all persons interested, or claiming to be interested, in the said goods, wares and merchandise, so saved, or any part thereof, to put in a claim in the said court for the same, within one year and a day, from the day of the date of this monition and notice. Dated the eighth day of October, in the twelfth year of the Independence of the state of New-York, and the year of our Lord, 1787.
By order of the court of Admiralty, JONH GRAHAM, Marshal. 36 3m
FLAX-SEED, STORED, Cleaned, Purchased and Sold at HARTELL and WOODWARD'S Flax-seed floor lately occupied by Mr. JACOB SARLY, last by Mr. Nash, between Van Zandt's and Murray's Wharves. 38 e.d.
Just published, and to be sold at this Office, Baron Steuben's Regulations FOR THE Order and Discipline OF THE Troops of the United States.
The AMERICAN MAGAZINE, For February, 1788. Price TWO SHILLINGS.
 CONTENTS.  Abridgement of the Education—Mode of it  laws of nature in examined,  French and English, The contrast,  Vindication of the preference Letter III, from Belzebub  women are supposed to have for men the regularity of the city  of inferior talents. Philadelphia vindicated  Medical questions. in opposition to  Government—Mr. Jefferson a common place opinion,  son's arguments in favor of an unalterable Peter Pickpenny's art of  constitution, considered. pulling into business,  Letter III, to Dr. Stiles, Anecdote,  describing the remains Dr. Mitchell's account of  of fortifications at Muckingum; with remarks the insect which destroys the wheat,  on the Indian barrows, Letter from Juvenis,  and the striking analogy between certain the Countess Valois de la Motte from the Battle,  customs of the Indians and ancient Britons,  Continuation of Smith's A Hibernian's request,  history of Virginia. Law questions. 
P O E T R Y.
 On the departure of a young gentleman who failed for England sometime since,  The decline of wit, On the recovery of an only child from the small pox,  Lines written by a youth on the death of Mr. Sharon,  Deaths. 
New-York, Printed by Samuel Loudon, And Sold by Messrs. S. and R. Campbell, Mr. S. Loudon, Messrs. Berry and Rogers, Mr. T. Allen, Mr. R. Hodge, Mr. T. Greenleaf, Mr. F. Childs, Mr. J. Reid.—Mr. J. Hastings, at Boston.—Messrs. Hudson and Goodwin, at Hartford.—Mr. J. Beers, at New-Haven.—Mr. A. Stoddard, at Hudson.—Messrs. W. Falconer and Co. at Albany.—Messrs. Young and McCulloch, at Philadelphia, Mrs. A. Timothy, at Charleston.
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American Museum,
FOR JANUARY, 1788. CONTAINING, Miscellanies.
 oration in commemoration of American Independence.  Address delivered by the Rev. Samuel Magaw's.  New method of placing a meridian mark, by David Rittenhouse, Esq.  Observations on the aurora borealis—by the Rev. Jeremy Belknap,  Observations and experiments on the sweet springs—by James Madison, Esq.  Method of making flax.  Letter on marriage,  Antifederal arguments,  Letter to the hon. R. H. Lee,  Satire,  On musical pretenders,  Recipe for an insolvent debtor,  Directions to conduct a newspaper quarrel, according to the best mode now in practice.  Rural Concerns.  Notes on farming—by the hon. C. T. Esq.  Method of making potashes in Hungary and Poland,  Thoughts on the culture of hemp,  Method of breaking fleers to the draft in a few days,  On the culture of silk. 
Law Information.
 Law case—Court of common pleas, Charleston,  Law report—Hay vs. Haldimand,  State and other Public papers.  Valedictory address of his Excellency governor Trumbull,  Resolutions of the legislature of Connecticut,  Letter to governor Randolph,  Letter from do.  Resolutions of the inhabitants of Chowan,  Address of the grand jury of Edenton,  Resolves of the inhabitants of Northampton county  Report of the deputies of Northampton county,  Resolutions of the tradsmen of Boston,  Ratification of the new constitution by the state of Connecticut,  Official notice presented by Mr. Grenville to the Comte de Montmorin,  Answer to the preceding notice. 
Natural History.
 Observations on a comet lately discovered—by David Rittenhouse, Esq.  Account of a motley-coloured or pyed negroe girl, and mulatto boy—by Dr. Morgan,  Letter relative to the engrafting fruit-trees and the growth of vegetables—by General Lincoln,  Observations on the growth of trees downwards after the first year.  Some account of the opopum. 
Medical Tracts.
 Letter on the sore throat distemper,  Letter on the digitalis purpurea,  An inestimable disolvent for human calculi. 
Select Poetry.
 A poem, addressed to the people of Virginia, on New-Year's day, 1788.  Monitory epistle, addressed to a young lady,  A riddle.  Foreign Intelligence, American do. 
Remaining on Hand, And TO BE SOLD, At this Printing-Office,
No. 25, Water-street, A Few MAPS,
Of the interior parts of North-America, including the lands intended for the NEW STATES, some of which are selling, and others already disposed of by order of Congress.
ORDERS are just received, by the printer here of, to sell these Maps at a much cheaper rate than they have yet been sold. The plates were cut and the impressions taken in London, and there sold (without the pamphlet) at One Guinea each.
To accompany this map, and explanatory of it, with references to it, will be sold, included in the price of the map, a pamphlet, containing 67 large octavo pages, with plates and figures, entitled, a Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North-Carolina, comprehending the rivers Ohio, Kenhawa, Sioto, Cherokee, Wabash, Illinois, Mississippi, &c. The climate, soil, and produce, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral; the mountains, creeks, roads, distances, latitudes, &c. and of every part, laid down in the Map.
By THOMAS HUTCHINS, Esq. Late Captain and Engineer in the British army, and now Geographer General to the United States of America. With a plan of the rapids of the Ohio, a plan of the several villages in the Illinois country, a table of the distances between Fort Pit and the mouth of the Ohio, all engraved upon copper.—And an Appendix, containing Mr. Patrick Kennedy's Journal up the Illinois river, and a correct list of the different nations and tribes of Indians, with the number of fighting men, &c.
Description of the ILLINOIS COUNTRY.
THE Illinois country is in general of a superior soil to any other part of North America that I have seen. It produces fine oak, hickory, cedar, mulberry trees, &c. some dying roots and medicinal plants;—hops, and excellent wild grapes, and in the year 1769, one hundred and ten hogheads of strong wine, were made by the French settlers, from these grapes. A large quantity of sugar is also annually made from the juice of the maple tree; and as the mulberry trees are large, and numerous, I presume the making of silk will employ the attention and industry of the settlers, when the country is more fully inhabited than it is at present, and especially as the winters are much more moderate and favourable for the breed of silk worms, than they are in many of the sea coast provinces. Indigo may likewise be successfully cultivated—(but not more than two cuttings in a year) wheat, peas, and Indian corn thrive well, as does every sort of grain and pulse, that is produced in any of the old colonies. Great quantities of tobacco are also yearly raised by the inhabitants of the Illinois, both for their own consumption and that of the Indians; but little has hitherto been exported to Europe. Hemp grows spontaneously, and is of a good texture; its common height is 10 feet, and its thickness three inches (the latter reckoned within about a foot of the root) and with little labour, any quantity may be cultivated. Flax seed has hitherto been only raised in small quantities. There has however been enough produced to shew, that it may be sown to the greatest advantage. Apples, pears, peaches, and all other European fruits succeed admirably. Iron, copper, and lead mines, as also salt springs, have been discovered in different parts of this territory. The two latter are worked on the Spanish side of the Mississippi, with considerable advantage to the owners. There is plenty of fish in the rivers, particularly Cat, Carp, and Perch, of an uncommon size.—Savannahs, or natural meadows, are both numerous and extensive; yielding excellent grass, and feeding great herds of buffalo, deer, &c. ducks, teal, geese, swans, cranes, pelicans, turkies, pheasants, partridges, &c. such as are seen in the sea coast Colonies, are in the greatest variety and abundance.—In short, every thing, that a reasonable mind can desire, is to be found, or may, with little pains, be produced here. New-York, Jan. 17, 1788. 93 e.d.
The NEW LINE of STAGES
THE Proprietors of the New Line of STAGES, finding many inconveniencies arise both to the respectable public and themselves from inattention to business; in future they are determined to use every endeavor to serve the public, and with encouragement only in proportion to their exertions and attention to their business. From the date hereof the fare will be from Powles-Hook to Philadelphia, and from Philadelphia to Powles-Hook, three Spanish milled dollars, and all way passengers four pence per mile, 150lb. of baggage to be the same as a passenger; Printers papers and letters will be conveyed gratis; convenient portanteaus are provided for that purpose.
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February 19, 1788.
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