“The Pennsylvania Gazette, Sept. 27, 1753. No. 1292.

To be sold, the mills and plantation of Nathaniel Ware, Esq; 6 miles above Trenton, on the river Delaware, West Jersery; the plantation contains about 400 acres, 200 of which is clrea’d, the land is of easy culture, and the soil extremely natural to all sort of grain, wheat being neither liable to be devoured by Insects, nor heav’d out by the frosts.  There are two good dwelling-houses, a large barn, carthouse, smoke-house, cooper’s shop, a neat garden, with cedar poles, a young bearing orchard, and the whole under good fence.  The mill house is of stone, 60 feet in length, 24 in breadth, is an over-shot, has two pair stones, the boulting mill, & c. all go by water; it is well accustom’d, and known to make as good work as the best mills in the Jerserys; it may always command wheat enough, and is conveniently situated for New-York or Philadelphia markets, being less than 30 miles of good waggon road from Brunswick; and boats, carrying fifty or sixty casks, may load at the mill door for Philadelphia.  Whoever inclines to purchase the same, wither the whole or part, may apply to William Clayton, or William Pidgeon, in Trenton, and be by them inform’d of the title and conditions of sale. ”

Reference Data:

Extracts from American Newspapers, Relating to New Jersery, 1704-1775, Vol. 19, by William Nelson and Abraham VanDoren Honeyman, 1897, pages 298-9