The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1779-05-18 00:00:00, page 4

TH E Members of the Library Company of
Philadelphia, who are in arrears, are requeued
to 'make immediate payment to Samuel Sansom,
Treasurer, to prevent a forfeiture of their (hares, agree
able to the laws of the Company.
By order of the Dire£ors.
Philadelphia, May 11, 1779.
T O B E S O L D,f
A LIKELY flout NEGRO MAN, twenty
feven years of age, fit for town or country, and is
remarkable for his averficn to liquor. Enquire of
JOHN PATTER^jt^d^^^
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
CTRAYED or STOLEN from the fubferiber,
' living in Race street, near Fifth-ftreet, Philadelphia,
the latter end of April last, a small black MARE,
about three years old, and about thirteen hands high,
her mane cut short on the off fide, a fuert Twitch tail,
trofs and canters, newly (hod before. Whoever takes
up and secures the said mare so that the owner may
have her again, (hall receive the above reward and rea^
finable charges, paid by
JACOB WINEY.
FO R SA L E,
At BATCHELER's Store-cellar, at th^ coiner of
Walnut and Front streets, (underneath Mr. John
Reynold's)
EXCELLENT bottled Cyder, by the groce or
dozen, much 'preferable to any low wines, and he
will engage it to keep in any climate. Also fine bottled
Beer, and good Vinegar, &c. &c.
N. B. Merchants and Captains of vtffds may be sup
plied with any quantity on the fherteft notice.
Philadelphia, Maj to.
WAS TAKEN UP, out of the Glou
cester meadows, on this fide of Hollanders Creek,
the ninth of this instant, a light bay HORSE, thirteen
foands hirh, between eight and nine years old, branded
HT. Whoever has left the said hojfe may have him
again by applying at the sign of the Battle of Monmouth,
in Market street, near Seventh street, proving property
and paying charges.
WA S taken up adrift some time ago, be
low Fort Mifflin, a large Moses built BOAT,
with her stern broken, and full of mud and water.—
Whoever has loft hid Boat is difired to apply to the
Commanding Officer on board the Hancock Galley, now
lying at Fort Mifflin, prove property, pry charges and
take her away, otherwise die will be disposed of.
NOTICE is hereby given, That if any
public Pumps in the city of Philadelphia Khali in
future be out of repair, the inhabitants below Market
ftreet are requeued to make application to Mr. Willi
am Tharp, and those above Market-street arc requeu
ed to make application to Mr. James Craig, Junior;
and give them the numbers and condition of the Pumps
out of order, to have them speedily repaired.
Maj 11, 1779.
TWOHUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.
LOS T, a POCKET-BOOK with upwards
of one hundred pounds, and many papers of great
value to the owner ; supposed to be left on the counter
of a (hop in Strawberry Al^y, Philadelphia, from whence
it must have been taken up by some one of the country
people then prafent. It is a worked pocket-book, mark
ed R. M. One paper therein contained 471. 12s. 6d.
marked for Mr. Abel James; another marked John
Spencer, containing forty one dollars; another con
taining eighty-one dollars, the marks not recoiled^ ;
some rows of pins, &c, &c. &c. Any person that can
make any difeovery so that the owner may recover his
pocket-book and papers, (hall have the above reward
by applying to William Pinton, in Strawberry Ai
ley, Mr. Thomas Say, in Second-street, or to the
printer hereof.
T O B E SO L D,
AN elegant CHARIOT, with harness compleat.
Likewise a COACH and WAGGON, with
harness for four herles, or one pair of harness fepsrate
from the waggon. Enquire of HenryEsler, Coach
maker, in Second (treet near Unien-ftreet, Philadelphia.
STOPPED on suspicion of being stolen,
last week, with a Woman now in gaol, wbo re
fufed to tell her name, a BAG, containing some do
zens of locks and keys, bras& and iron binges, buss
knobs and screws, japanned tea-tongs, some bundles pf
white thread, &c. Also stopped some time ago, some
yards of black India Persian and sprigged muslin, some
dressed buck and sheep (kins, some blue and other rat
tjnet, and a pair of Iheetfy Whoever has loft any of
said Goods, may apply to Plunket Fleeson, Esq; in
Chefnut street, and have them on proving their pro
perty. Asa, 8.
Philadelphia, Maj to.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED or STOLEN from the fubferiber,
living in Race-street, near Sixth-street, on Thurs
day last, a sorrel MARE, three years old, about
thirteen bands high, with a white mane and tail, a bald
face, her mane cut on the inside, her right 'knee a little
thicker than the other, shod before, and trots. Who
ever takes up and secures said mare so that the owner
may have her again, flhall receive the above reward and
reasonable charges, paid by
GEORGE SPECHT.
PHILADRLPHIA: Printed and Sold by JOHN DUNLA P, in Market-street.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
A WET NURSD with a good breast of milk ;
one from the country will be most acceptable. Any
one that can be well recommended will meet with good
encouragement. Enquire of the Printer.
THIRTY DOLLA RTREWARD.
CTRAYED or STOLEN on the 26th of April
° last, a dark bay MARE, about fifteen hands high,
rising four years old, with a large star on her forehead,
a wall eye on the off fide, her thane hangs on the left
fide, trots and gallops well, is in good order, the dead
hairs of her mane on each fide and on her heels trimmed.
Whoever brings said mare to William Wall or
William Peel, near the new Play-house in Southwark,
(hall have the above reward and reasonable charges.
To be SOLD by Private Sale,
RM HE CHATHAM MILLS, situate in the
A State of Maryland, and within a few perches of
the river Potom^ck, on the great road leading from Fre
derick Town to Winchester ; confining of one hundred
acres of land, near half cf which is and raay be made
into the best of meadow. There are on Girt premises a
good new log dwelling-house, kitchen and ftorerhoufe,
with tables, &c. It is conveniently calculated for, and
in one of th^ foremoft fixations for a public-hcufe in
the State. Said mill is two stories high and fifty odd feet
square, on a mever failing stream of water, calculated
for two pair of Rones, the boulti^g- cloths found and
good, and in a very good neighbourhood for grain er
country custom; the dam may always be maintained at
a trflng expence. There is also on said premises a ve
ry well conftrt&ed saw mill above the grist-mill dam,
so that each mill has the advantage of the whole stream,
and in a convenient place for all kinds of timber, espe
cially walnut, which there is always a great demand for
in Frederick Town, only eighteen or nineteen miles dis
tant from it : There are also small houses for a lawyer
and smith, with a Smith's (hop and coal-house. Boating
of flour down the river is found to b: of great advan
tage, and attended with much left ceft than land carri
age, and if the river mould be opened it will then be the
ir.oft compleat situation for trade in the neighbourhood.
Any perlon inclining to purchase the above estate may
know the terms by applying to the fubferiber, living in
Berkeley County, in the State of Virginia, near the head
of Bullricin. Or any person knowing the advantageous
Situation of the above estate may know the terms by ap
plying,o Isaac Eyre, near Chelter, in Chester Coun
ty, State of Pennsylvania.
Maj 3. WILLIAM ASKEW.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
ABSCONDED from her bail, a certain
Catharine M'Guire, a red haired woman,
about five fe-t eight inches high: She served her time
with Joseph Parks, in Chester county, and lived some
time at the sign of the Coneftogo Waggon, in Maiket
ftreet, Philadelphia. Whoever takes up said woman
and secures her in any state gaol, so that (he may be had
again, shall be entitled to the above reward, paid by the
fubferiber, living in Chester county.
Januarj 10, 1779. ZEPHANIAH DAVIES.
Philadelphia, Maj 12.
WAS FOUND, at the shop of the fub
ftriber, in Market street, next door to the Cof
fee house, on bis return to the city after the evacuation
of the enemy, a large SCALE-BEAM, makers
names Whitehead and Jonathan Humphreys. The
owner is desired to prove property, pay the charge of
this advertisement , and take it away.
ROBERT M'GEE.
One Hundred and Fifty Dollars Reward.
February 27, 1779.
STOLEN from the fubferiber, living on Red-stone
° Creek, near Thomas Gift's, Laurel Hill, on the
weft fide of the Alleghany Mountain, a light bay Horse,
fevea years old this spring, a natural trotter, branded
R on the near shoulder orbuttock, has a star in his face,
about fourteen hands high. Whoever takes up said
horse and brings him to the fubferiber (hall receive the
above reward ; and if the thief he found and secured in
any gaol so that he may be brought to justice, One Hun
dred Dollars more will be paid, by
HUGH RANKIN.
Alexandria, Virginia, April 16.
To be SOLD by Public Vendue,
On the premises, on Wednesday the nineteenth day of
May, at Ten o'clock in the morning,
ABOUT two hundred acres of Land, situated a
little above the town, with the improvements
thereon. It will be laid out in lots nearly as follows :
One of about fourteen acres, on which is the large
reanfion house, with several out houses, an excellent
orchard of apple and cherry trees, and has a front on
the river Potowmack of 30 rods: Another on the western
line will contain about twenty acres, several of which
are meadow, and having a beautiful eminence on the
back part of it N commands a view of the town and rn
extensive profpea up and down the river from which it
is about one mile distant : Between those lots will be
several of about five acres each : A lane of thirty three
feet wide will run from the river to the eaflern fide of
the twenty-acre lot, between which lane ard Alexandria
will be another range of lots of about five acres each,
extending from the river to the aforefaid twenty-acre
lot. They are very suitable for pasture, being fine and
level. The whole number of lots will be from 30 to 40.
The nearest about halfa mile from town and the fartheft
about a mile and a half. For further particulars apply
to William Hartshorne, in Alexandria. 4.
/ Philadelphia, Me, 3.
To be SOLD by the Subscriber,
A LOT of GROUND lituate on the weft fide of
Swanson ft cet, (commonly called Water street)
in the diftrid of Southwark, twenty feet f orit by tuc
hundred and forty-fix feet deep, whereon is erechd a
commodious three-story brick heufe fifteen feet by thir
ty one, with a good cellar under &he'whole, and a good
(tone two-story kitchen adjoining.
Also another lot of like dimenfons, whereon is ereft
eJ a good two dory frame tenement ; and another va
cant lot of like depth, and twenty-one feet front, situate
between the above-mentioned lots.
Likewise three twenty-feet lots on th? mnft fide cf
Swedes-Church alley, one hundred and thirty-five feet
deep each ;, which last mentioned three lots are to be
fold or let upon ground-rent for-ever, by the fubferiber
on the premifts. JOHNJONE£.
TO B E SO
A SMALL qu^tity of OIL of VITRIOL. .
Enquire at Thomas M'Cormick's, at the sign of
the Struggler, in Fifth-ftreet, near Arch-street, Phila
delphia.
EIGHTDOLL-aITFrTw& RD".
CTRAYED AWAY on Friday morning the
° thirtieth of April, out of a (table in Lodge Alley,
a fmali redilh CO W, with short horns, one of them
turns down a little ; foe is near calving. Whoever
tik<Bup Lid Cow and brings her to Mrs. S corp's, in
Lde Alley, (hall be entitled to the above reward.'
Philadelphia, May
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD,
w AS LOST yesterday, betwixt Front and Wa-
YV ter streets, in Vine street, a SHOE-BUCKLE.
Whoever has found the fame and will deliver it to the
fubferiber living in Pine street near Front-street, (hall
receive the above reward.
ARTHUR HARBERT, Shoemaker.
Fbiladelthia, Maj 3.
JOHN DIAMON D,
R O P E-M AK E R,
Living in Market-street above Sixth-street, in the house
formerly occupied by Mr. Thomas Tisdell, rope
maker, deceased,
MAKES and SELLS, wholesale and retail, on
the most reasonable terms, sewing, whipping,
feme and blocking twine ; log, deepfea, and hand lead
lines ; house line and marline, jack lines, fixing lines
of all forts; bed cords, leading lines, lacking bottom
lines, halters, plow traces, &c.
He gives the highest price for good hemp and flax, like
wise for good hemp feed of last year's growth. Two
cr three Journeymen Rbpe makers would meet with the
greatest encouragement by applying as above.
JOHN SPRO G E-fY,
WATCH- MAKER,
HA T H removed to the house lately occupied by
Mr. Henry Wjnkoop, fix doors above Arch-street,
on the weft fide of Second-street, and nearly or,polite
Mjchael Hillegas's, Esq ; Continental Treafurer,' where
be continues the Watch-making business as usual.—
His former customers, and others that please to favour
him with their business, may depend upon their work
being well done, and with the utmost dispatch.
N, B. Said SprocelL hath for sale, Rum, Sugar,
Tea, Coffee, Allum, Pepper, Alfpice, Mblaffes, Vine
gar, and sundry other articles too tedious to mention ;
also Writing and Printing Paper.
Philadelphia, Maj 6.
CA ME to the fubferiber's place, on the
firft instant, a bay HORSE, about fifteen years
old, with a star and one white foot, blind of one eye.
The owner is desired to pay charges and take him away,
or he will be fold for costs in four weeks.
ROBERT CARSON,
The FULL BLOODED HORSE
B A B RA H A'M
Will be kept for Mares the ensuing season, at Jacob
Hiltzheimer's liable, in Seventh- street, near Mar
ket street, at Fort, Dollars a Mare the fcafon, Twenty
Dollars a single leap, and foo Dollars to the groom,
BAB R AHAM is a fine bay, fifteen hands high,
seven years old, and was got by old Juniper, im
ported by Colonel Syme, of Virginia ; Babraham'sdam
was get by Samuel Galloway, Esquire's horse Selcm, his
grandam by the late Colonel Hopcr'shorfe Pacolet, hit
great grandam by old Spark, his great great grandam
was Queen Mab, and great great great grandam was
Miss Calwell.
The money to be paid at the Mare's firft coming so
the Horse. J. HILTZHEIMER.
Philadelphia, March 6. 12 .