1749 N.Y. Gazette Revived 16 Jan. 1/1: That the fly Ones should not suspect you for a Courtier, you have been likewise very arch in giving us to understand, that you had been heretofore pleased to encourage and support the Party.at fly, adj.
1752 N.Y. Gazette Revived 27 Nov. 2/5: Roach told Kennedy he had mill’d a Pocket-Book, and would have him go along to see what was in it.at mill, v.1
1752 N.Y. Gazette Revived 18 Dec. 2/2: We hear [...] that an odd Sect of People have lately appeared [...], who go under the Denomination of Regulators [...] who dress themselves in Women’s Cloaths, and painting their Faces, go in the Evening to the Houses of such as are reported to have beat their Wives; where one of them [...] seizes the Delinquent, while the rest [...] strip him, turn up his Posteriors, and flog him with Rods most severely.at regulator, n.
1802 N.Y. Gazette and General Advertiser 28 July 3/1: On Monday morning last, some of the Seamen belonging to the Essex frigate, paraded the streets, a little in for’t, singing the new song about the Good Ship constitution.at in for (it), phr.
1825 N.Y. Gazette and General Advertiser 2 Dec. 2/1–2: ‘Turn him out,’ says one. ‘Let him alone,’ says another. ‘Stop up his gob box.’ ‘It takes a man to do that.’ ‘Does it, by G—? then I’m that man.’.at gob-box (n.) under gob, n.1
1825 N.Y. Gazette and General Advertiser 2 Dec. 2/1–2: ‘You lie,’ said the opponent, bestowing at the same time a dab upon the ivory of his antagonist, ‘and if you get up in a week, write me down an ass.’.at ivory, n.
1825 N.Y. Gazette and General Advertiser 2 Dec. 2/1–2: Then commenced the general row, during which peepers were closed, and vast quantities of claret uncorked.at row, n.1
1831 N.Y. Gazette and General Advertiser 10 Feb. 2/1: One of the party [...] cried ‘Hawks,’ and the pigeons and pluckers dispersed.at hawk, n.1
1831 N.Y. Gazette and General Advertiser 10 Feb. 2/1: One of the party [...] cried ‘Hawks,’ and the pigeons and pluckers dispersed.at plucker, n.
1838 N.Y. Gazette and General Advertiser 6 Aug. 2/4: [Mr. Gage is thought to have faked a robbery of himself; he,] in fact, appears to be completely Goodriched, and must be more authentically robbed and murdered if he would be a martyr of any standing.at Goodrich game, n.