The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1779-07-27 00:00:00, page 4

WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
In a creditable family,
A WET NURSE, of a good character, who can
come well recommended. Enquire of the Printer.
TO BE SO L D,
THIRTEEN and an half acres of MEADOW,
= and two and an half ditto of LAND adjoining, a
fcout four miles from the city, being part of Penrofe's
I(land, exceeding good in quality. For terms apply to
JONATHAN PENROSE.
GENERAL LOAN-O FFI CE,
Philadelphia, Jul, 19, 1779.
IN purfuanoe of the Resolve of Congress of January
zd ult. reforming the emissions of Continental Bills
tof Credit, dated May 20, 1777, and April 11, 1778,
there have been destroyed in this Office two Millions
three Hundred and Forty Tboufand Five Hundred and
Thirty one Dollars of the emission of May zoth, and One
Million Five Hundred and Twelve Thousand Two Hundred
and Thirty five Dollars of the emission of April i,th,
amounting in the whole to Three Millions Eight
Hundred and Fifty-two Thousand Seven Hun
dred and Sixty-six Dollars.
The several Printers in the United States are requested
to insert the above advertisement in their refpeaive
Papers. FRANCIS HOPKINSON,
Treasurer of Loans.
TO BE SOLD BY
WILLIAM BROW N,
At his store in Front street, the correr of South street,
MUSCOVADO sugar by the hoglhead or barrel,
heft green tea by the pound or dozen, best French
indigo by the pound or dozen, paffeboard by the roll or
dozen, Britannias, Russia sheeting, Barcelona handker-'
ch: fs, blue linens, cloths, worsted dmalk*, looking
glaffes, chocolate by the pound, hatters bow firings, an
elegant let of pictures, a pair of girandoles, &c. &c.
FORTY DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED on the zd instant, (July) a large red
° COW, with some white on her, and very heavy
with calfi Also a large dun COW, a stripper, and low
in fiefh. They are both supposed to be somewhere near
the city. Whoever will deliver the said Cows to the
Printer, or inform him where thev tray be had, /hall
receive TWENTY DOLLAR S reward for each,
and reasonable charges paid. ts.
GOOD encouragement for three or four
N AILORS, and constant hufimefs, at eight
/hillings per pound. Apply to Sarah Robinson, in
Walnut street, between Front and Seccnd-ftreets, Phi
ladelphia.
A FEW neat BREECHES MAKERS
may have ci.'d nt employ and good wages by
applying to STACY POTTS, in Trenton.
Any person having an JR N KETTLE to dis
pose of, that mil contain ft ty -lions or upwards, may
meet with a purchaiei by applying as above.
A LIST of NUMBERS that drew Five Hundred Dollars in the Second'Clafs of the
United States LOTTE R Y.
No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.
4 47-7 9159 ^'lo 20 975 2459 6 28685 32051 $6431 41044 46442 5'2032 ^B9O 61967 67475 7^854 85348 91687 9698^
137 872 484 875 21024 693 762 265 514 57 877 33 946 , 70 517 7 ^ 79 °^° ^ 97344
299 5026 613 914 284 872 828 309 65 459 47^$ 2;5 5 60 7! 62036 27 9i6 33 6 468 857 898
653 136 800 68 398 926 966 472 603 564 168 326 72 237 664. 4 8 53 5 8i 92029 962
719 59 10087 16512 4^ 39 81 s ox 65 691 278 508 I§l 445 727 73162 433 824 100 98416
50 293 387 41 7 0 4 -5038 29108 721 789 79 2 408 94 339 ^4 826 86 63 976 3x2 58
'IO3O 403 96 ..51 80[ 78 229 37 853 9'3 730 621 99 91 57 3 ^ 77° 463 ^2
•249 6 f 5 Xl '43 73 7r 281 3^3 901 61 74 881 22 492 852 93 466 80016 46 29 761
349 19 221 621 997 321 417 3 79 42249 979 8,7 510 939 7 615 231 250 63 8,4
62 41 50 81 22%j 97 502 9; 84 48418 63 75 63322 68157 822 66 87 681: ^2.2.
76 '765 361 905 78 7or 46 3314', 922 508 42 927 6c6 7,8 270 5 680 5^9 87 57
411 900 753 74 33i .97 62 - 87 37116 48 663 77 61 901 442 74027 866 6 35979 99227
664 49 853 57 420 Soo 835 fy o 68 62! 797 9 z 76 64^2 87 ^ 8 ^7 „8 ^7
Sz6 6024 12113 17°73 94 65 954 437 234 37 889 53049 98 2 33 5'9 36 461 834 572 429
928 35 48 82 5,37 922 57 „ o 361 46 9 i 9 140 740 342 44 83 699 942 656 81
67 165 234 148 675 23 71 622 5°4 704 91 329 57064 489 *55 281 82027 86 709 687
89 246 343 260 718 94 90 , 2 642 899 49041 30 80 500 96 382 386 87000 870 755
2082 368 59 4'9 29 9" 98 4 o 61 43245 60 95 9 613 804 551 515 7 94046
10.4 9° 588 5 11 825 26096 30389 § Bii 406 5'7 3+9 7 833 6 143 16l
47 583 970 73123107 113 547 810 997 500 252 54 717 732 24 82 95 58 208
70 644 13029 803 5,6 246 61 945 38005 704 508 67 811 95 86 75609 83020 836 590
226 786 54 10 6 x 381 76 34265 I7 2 35 605 612 58150 99 1 955 "8 36 925 8
39 90X 425 28 90 413 87 331 227 44^3 54 927 369 65014, 6! 76058 ^4 ^233 877
328 7087 565 18001 21 3 629 679 401 94 294 728 54002 610 ^8 69004 379 574 952/ 6
411 275 794 53 91 707 941,44 589 342 50192 145 36 280 9 3 9 7 5 2 7 874 552
650 370 97 8 226 386 981 53 630 744^ 521 98 71 55 326 4 2 419 44 89172 95
832 95 I4°° [ 654 91 27^09 9 i 325 937 692 235 218 59099 62 172 81 605 99 7^
70 462 427 736 422 211 31089 Q 2 59 Bo^ 76 55 106 404 228 540 14 437 853
' 946 608, 77 19137 Is 64 Ij6 35x44 39174 79 51! 63 248 6601! 612 609 776 57 9^
48 712 s^B 390 <63 7 3 77 2t3 , 393 45368 702 409 s^B 14 84% „9 05 Q ^7 9
3121 ^7 66? 444 627 306 2j 9 2 490 4 0 9 837 74 919 97 70518 293 9 g[ 768 6o
476 811 706 71Q 69 332 64 603 14 65 53c 60054. 150 21 348 84,79 895 2
s^o 93 14 68 76 84 303 3 26 9 58 9 99 625 2t 4 79 7^7 '4° 6 91 9°°73 254
902 9° 812 86 865 471 402 -02 720 51188 „% 371 527 . .807 6 4 4^3 209 356
974 8103 9'9 20114 838 952 562 4 7 856 823- 235 550^ 5 8 4 671 71447 ^ 92
4033 8 59 89 940 28092 79 669 40102 42 304 108 .96 807 671 906 85 93 571
57 44 79 297 24063 275 Bio 7 ;o 300 950 22 34 738 999 7 8 7 19 9 6 2 91176 631
248 337 15012 54 [ 179 479 68 858 66 46136 3^ 258 61026 67162 72223 78648 8517'9 315 724
72 78 372 651 214 94 9 9 36072 499 330 514 740 85 205 446 99 276 589 927
360 475 84 77 3 4 ! 9 558 970 192 607 '72 7 43 640 361 87
417 576 578 814 zi 624 32030 20^ 89 4:2 993 856 67 440 507
548 Bi 3
PHILADELPHIA! Printed and Sold by JOHN DUNLAP, in Market-street,
A frefh and g-n^ral assortment of MEDICINES,
TO BE SOLD BY
FREDERICK PHI LE,
At his house in Second-street, opposite Black-Horse
Alley, between Market and Chefnut streets; among
which are the following articles,
0? IU M,
C-mphire,
Qunkfilver,
Bark,
Antimony,
Cantharene's,
Manna,
Rhubarb,
Jallzp,
Ipecacuanha,
Isinglass,
Cochineal,
Saffron,
taftile Soap.
Epsom Salts,
Sai Sinet,
Sal Ammoniac crude,
Crude Tartar,
Borax,
Volatile Salts,
Flour of Brimstone,
Carolina Pinkroct,
Chamomile Flowerty
Cremor Tartar,
Salt of Tartar,
Philadelphia, July 13, 1779.
One Hundred and Fifty Dollars Reward.
WHEREAS the subscriber's Negro boy, named
DOR US, new about sixteen years of age, of
a yellow complexion, middling chunky built, was pressed
with a team of Mr. Benjamin Gibbs's, near Borden
town, State of New-Jersey, in December 1776, by the
British and Hessian troops, who kept and carried him
with them to the city of Philadelphia, from whence he
made his escape, and was seen at Bristol in April 1778.
The fuhferiber has rsafon to think he is in feme of the
back counties of this State. Whoever will take up said
Negro boy and deliver him to me in this city, shall have
the above reward, or if secured in any gaol so that he
may be had again, Sevens,-five Dollars, besides reason
able charges, paid by
6 HENRYBUDD.
One Hundred Dollars Reward.
STRAYED or STOLEN from the fubferiher,
° in Amwell township, Hunterdon county, Weft New-
Jersey, a light bay HORSE, about fifteen hands high,
country bred, trots and canters, has a star in his fore
head, a small snip on his nose, a small white place on
one of his hind feet, a mark on his near shoulder which
came by a bite, a big head, thick mane and big brush
tail. He is supposed to be in or about Philadelphia.
Whoever takes up said herfe and brings him to the sub
scriber, shall have the above reward and all reasonable
charges, paid by
July 8. LOT WRITTENHOUSE.
I Roman Vitriol,
White Vitriol,
Shell ' Lac,
Seed Lac,
Gum Copal,
Gun, Tragacanth,
I Gum Arabic, and a variety
iof other gums,
Aniieed,
Caraway feed,
Fennel feed,
Worm feed,'
Powder Blue,
Verdigreafe,
Yellow Oker ground in oil;
Litharge of Gold,
Vermillion. &c:
A variety of Chymical Oils,
Oil of Almonds,
Castor Oil,
And a number of other ar
articles too tedious to
mention.
Also a quantity of Ink-
Powder.
Just published and now felling at BELt's Book fore,
next door to St. Paul's Church; in Third-street, Phi
ladelphia,
NARR'A T I V E
Of Colonel ETHAN ALLEN's
CAPTI V 1 T Y,
From the time of his being taken by the British, near
Montreal, on the 25th day of September, in the year
1775, te thc time of his exchange, on the 6th day of
May, 17^:
Containing,/
His V OYAGE^ and TRAVELS, with the most
remarkable occurrences refpe&ing himfelf, and many
other Continental prifonets of different ranks and
characters, w^ich tell under his observation in the
course of the fame ; particularly the deftru&ion of the
prisoners at New York, by General Sir William Howe,
in the years 1776 and 1777. Interspersed with some
Political Obfervarions.
Written by Himfelf, and now publi/hed for the inform
mation of the curious in all nations.
Price Ten Paper Dollars.
When God from Chaos gave this World TO BE,
Man then he form'd, and form'd him TO BE Free.
American Independence, a Poem, by Freneau.
N.B. DILWORTH'S SPELLING BOOKS
b, the dozen, gross, five hundred, or one thousand, are
now felling by Robert BEIO, next door to St. Paul's
Church, in Third-street, Philadelphia.
Said Bell also fells, LITERATURE, in all
arts, sciences and languages, to those Sentimenfalifts
who are so truly fcientific as to be persuaded in their
own minds, that the enjoyment of Books is superior to
any pleasure arising from the contemplation of Gold,
Silver or Paper Dollars.
Philadelphia, Jul, 19,
W HEREAS a certain George Douglass, for
merly and late of this city, Merchant, did on the
25th of July 1777, obtain from the fubferiher a deed
of a dwelling house, work (hop and premises, situate
near Spruce-street, and extending from Second to Dock
street, in depth 112 feet, at a time when the said George
Douglass was legally incapable of purchasing; for which,
and other fufficient reasons, I am determined to dispute
Did Douglafs's title to said premises, and therefore do
hereby forwarn all persons whomsoever not to purchase
from, nor deal with, the said George Douglass, nor any
person for him, for the said premises, nor any part
thereof, as I am determined not to give up the possession
thereof until thereto compelled by law.
ROWLAND PRICHETT.
Philadelphia, July 1.
STOPPE D,
Supposed to be ftslen, by the description in an advert
tifement in this paper of the sixth instant,
AN iron grey MARE, with the fame marks as is
given by John Sharp, of Roxbury township, Mor
ris county, New-Jersey. This is therefore to give the
owner notice, that if he applies to the fubferiber, a few
doors from Moravian Alley in Arch-street, he may have
ter again. MICHAEL DENNIS € )N.