. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen. ownship of Newark having re-cently chosen a committee of observation, thiscommittee met in Newark, January 5, and, afterpresenting its thanks to the delegates from NewJersey to the Continental Congress, begged leaveto inquire whether a press that slandered Con-gress and sowed the seeds of faction and discordwas not inimical to the country, and whetherthe printer was not an enemy to his country,raised to affluence from bankruptcy by his prof-its, and a moderate rate per cent, on KeysersPills? Whereupon the committees of New
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen. ownship of Newark having re-cently chosen a committee of observation, thiscommittee met in Newark, January 5, and, afterpresenting its thanks to the delegates from NewJersey to the Continental Congress, begged leaveto inquire whether a press that slandered Con-gress and sowed the seeds of faction and discordwas not inimical to the country, and whetherthe printer was not an enemy to his country,raised to affluence from bankruptcy by his prof-its, and a moderate rate per cent, on KeysersPills? Whereupon the committees of Newarkand Elizabethtown resolved to boycott Eivington, printer of one of the New York gazettes, as avile Ministerial hireling. Throughout Middlesex the districts of thecounty, late in December, had chosen committeesof observation, members having been selected inWoodbridge, Piscataway, South Amboy, NewBrunswick, South Brunswick, and the 16th of Januarv the general committee observation and inspection for the county iri^t L-i£>3^S>SS«CQI»4iFBK!»WSar. NEW YORK CITY IN TJgtE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOO. ONY AND AS A STATE 63 at New Brunswick, approved of the proceedingsof the Congress, whom they felicitated, and ap-pointed a committtee of correspondence to urgethe General Assembly to nominate Deputiesfrom this Province to the General Congress tobe held in Philadelphia in May next.* The com-mittee also declared their contempt of thoseinsidious scribblers * * * who skulk be-hind prostituted printing presses, and who,with the most unexampled effrontery against thesense of every man of the least information, willpersist in retailing the rotten, exploded, and tenthousand times confuted doctrines of a passiveacquiescence in the measures of Government, how-ever distempered and tyrannical. The inhabit-ants of Woodbridge met upon the 10th of Januaryand among other matters recommended Frugal-ity, Economy, and Industry and the prohibitionof all kinds of Gaming. During the samemon
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