The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1779-01-19 00:00:00, page 4

MR. ADAMS, AW 2 5, 177^.
IN Mr Dunam's General dd^rtifer, of the 14th instant,
there is an A irertfement, fign^d by y^u wherein you
prolife a reward of Fy, Doda s to any person who will
apprehend and secure an apprentice lad, named barrel
Cumings, &c. &;.— Give me leave, Sir, to tell you. that
your advertisement is ungenerous, un rateful, and, Imy
venture to add, unuft. You well know : and my reason
tor publilhin^ t is letter is to let the Pn die know) the oc
casion of my leivin. you was this; —Your family was
routed from JVdmin ton and, lblieve, one of the firft
famihs that fled, when, the British army entered the town.
It was then my misfortune to e taken prisoner, but when
examined, and had honestly told them I was an appren
tice, and that my master had left me to Shift for myfelf, I
was set at liberty; notw;th Landing, I immediately went
after you, and aihfieii^ driving your cattle a considerable
number of mil's. Weed this wis done, and you and y®ur
family were fettle I, you told me 1 mybt go and do for my
felf At tais tinle Iws hi very indigent circum fiances,
not a Shilling in my po het to buy a dinner or a supper.—
I do now aik you, wh T I ought to have done, in so distres
sing a fitustion r I wis soon convinced, that it was my
duty to apply to business, and that an idle life generally
ushered in lamentable cnfequeiices. In this perplexed
Condition, I cooll not ftp I you were wilder any concern
about me, what I fufefe 1, or were I wandered. When
you returned to Wilmington pr^y why did you not make
inquiry for me? You well knew whee my friends lived, and
that you would have very li tie difficulty to convey a letter
to me, with your orders to return but instead of this
friendly treatment, which you are conscious I deserved,
you have thought proper to take tee above method of ad
vertising, annexing t ofe big words of trfn Delia's, &c.
& ;.—Hhwev r, I lo now inform you, that I do not intend
to return; the treatment T receive 1 when with you, the
mean, low, unbecoming employment I was obliged to
per orm aftim^ in the plice oaKuh n- 4 ench ! this I
fay, is lone a fuffi ient reason why I cannot or will not
return.- But< onfi Bering further, that you told me I might
go and Shift for myfelf, without limiting any time, I think,
fufficinly iuQifles my refill Your advertisement ;sde
fpifed by every iudidous person, who is acqua ; ntel with
the aTa ; r. and I muff also inform yoy, if you will give
yourfelf the trouble to t ke a small ourney as far as Har
ford County, in the State of Maryland, I believe you will
be convinced t at you had no manner of claim, nor the
least sh idow of right to advertrfe
SAMUEL CUMINGS.
N. B. I would ob,rve further, that, during the time
I served you as an apprentice, my parent fuppli&d me with
all my wearing apparel, so that you were at no expence
for me, but liet and lodging, which, I mu,ft fay, was
very often such as gave me a just right to complain to
authority. * S. C.
Io Mr. James Adams, Printer in Wi'mington.
fr A KEN UP ia# Fill, two dray HORSES; one
' a black, : bout fi teen h^nds high, branded on the
buttock, trots and paces: The other a brown, about
fourteen hauls hih, trots and paces likewise, no brand
nor ear mark. The owner or owners proving their
property and pa ing charges, may have them again,
by applying to Isaac Seely, C pt. qth Pennsylvania
Rog.ment, er to John Bartley, Adjutant of said
Raiment."
"Three 'Hundred Dollars Reward.
AS Stolen from out of the (table of the fubferiber,
" at Duck Creek Cross Roadr, in the Delaware stale,
on the night of the firft instant, (January) a grey Horse,
about thirteen and a had hands high, nine years old
last Spring, trets and paces, but goes very rough. Any
person apprehending aid lecturing the thief so that be
may be brought tojuftice, and the horse returned, shall
have the above reward and reasonable charges, or
Twenty Dollars for the horse only, p id by
THOMAS PARKE.
LAND to be SOLD,
TN Herford County, Maryland, at the mouth of Deer
£ Creek, only two miles from a landing, where sea
vessels have loaded, in Susquehanna River. One trad
is oatented for one thculknd acres, and one other ad
fining to it for fix hundred ; they are both iuch as may
bi called good rich lands, and may be very eafi'y and
cmveaießtly divided either into three cr fix pl ntarions,
ech of which will have good timber and weed land,
with very fine firings of water on them, and excel
lent building flour. There are convenient houses, and
four orchards of good fruit, rith lend cleared lufficient
to make a large crop of barley, corn, &c. Two or three
fields ere sown with wheat and rye. There are also on
the weft fide of the creek about ten cr fifteen acres of
land, with a dwelling house forty by eighteen feet, and
a stone mill-house thirty fix by twenty-four feet, where
a forge -nd mill has been, and for cohveniency of a large
me r ch nt mi lis inferior to very few, if any, having a
fine dream o water, and lying on a main road conveni
ent to melt parts of York County, nearer to navigation
for th? greatest part of that county, than molt places;
it is across the river, about 25 miles r m Pedleboufen
tend P quea Creek, and 35 fr< m Lancaster, surrounded
by a rich what neighbou hood, about 6 miles from a
Church or C^ pd, and a still less distance from a Pres
byterian and Q ker Meeting house. The premises may
be entered upon tor a Spring crop, only allowing to the
(fork, now there, the use of the present winter's provi
fims. For further particulars apply to the fubferiber at
Baltimcre-Town.
THOMAS HARRISON.
CA ME to the farm of the fubferiber, on
the Reading road, seven miles from Sunbury, in
Augusta townflup, Northumberland county, on the firft
of June la't, a black Horse about thirteen and a half
han is high,, about nine or ten years old, no brand,
pic s all, hs a frw white hairs on his near bind foot,
a d hid on an old bell. The owner is desired to come,
pay charges and take him away.
LEMUEL LEWIS.
PHILADEL PHIA: Printed and Sold by JOHN DUNLAP, in Market4lreet.
Philadelphia, Jan. If, 1,79.
To be SOLD by Public Sale,
At the Coffee house, on Wedreday the twentieth inst.
at Five o'clock in the evening,
A CERTAIN lot of ground, lying and being
fl pleasantly situated in Willis town township, Ches
ter county, within twenty two miles of this city, lying
on the main road leading from Newtown Square to
Downing's town, adj lining the land of George Smend
ley and the plantation where the Rising Sun Tavern was
lately kept: Said lot contains ten acres of good land
under good fence, a good fr me dwelling-house and log
stable, twenty good bearing apple-trees, a good garden
part pailed and part post and rail fence : There is a small
Stream of water runs through said lot; now in tenure of
Thomas Wiggins. Attend nee will be riven by
WILLIAM ROBINSON.
To be SOLD by Public Vendue,
On Tuesday the second day or February next, at Ten
o'clock, at the late duelling house of Lawrence Gar
rett, deceaftd, ir Bleckley township, Philadelphia
county, near the Friis of Schuylkill,'
SUNDRY forts es Houfhold Goods, such as chest
of drawers, tables, chairs, feather beds and bed
din, a riding chair and harness, with sundry other
articles too tedious to mention. The conditions of ale
will be made known, and attendance given at the time
and 'place aforefaid, by
JOHN PYWEL L, Administrator.
OFFICE for CONVEYANCING and SALE
of REAL ESTATES.
TO BE SOL D,
A NUMBER of Houses and Lots in and near this
' 1 city, Plantations in the country, and a great quan
tity of unimproved Tracts of Land in most of the dif
ferent cwuntes. For a more particular description of the
absve premiles and the terms of sale, apply to Edward
Bonsall and Abraham Shoemaker, at their Of
fice ir Fourth Street, between Spruce and Pine streets,
and opposite the end of Urion-ftreet, where Deeds,
Mortgages, Bonds, Wills, and all other kinds of Writ
ings are drawn with the greatest care, neatness and dis
patch, and money let out at interest.
Philadelphia, "January 5.
FOR SAL E,
A few PIPES of excellent
MADEIRA W IN E,
B Y
ALEXANDER FOSTER.
T O ~B~E S O L D,
rfo HE following tracts of LAND, situate on the
& east branch of Susquehanna, in Northumberland
County, Pennsylvania, about twenty miles above Sun
bury, viz. One tract containing one hundred and fixty
three and a half acres, and allowance, of extraordinary
good land, joining the fiid river arid fifhing Cieek,
about forty acres cleared, part thereof good meadow
ground, on which is a y>ung orchard es grafted fruit,
good mill feats, and a good deal done towards building
mills thereon. O e other tra& joining the above tra&
and river, containing one hundred and fifty acres and
allowance, on which is a two-ttory dwelling -house and
kitchen with a cellar under it, a good square log barn
about sixty feet long, a young orchard of eighty apple
trees, all grafted fruit, forty acres cleared and within
fence, ten acres of which are meadow. Also one other
tract of three hundred and thirty acres, and allowance,
joining the above trads, including Fishing Creek, and
another lire, m a branch thereof, on which is a feat for
a furnace, and it is expe&ed by the signs that there is 4
good body of iron ore within two miles of the said tract
There is a small improvement, plenty of lime-stone,
and a lime-kiln thereon. It is all patented land, and
the whole well timbered and pleasantly fifuated. Any
person inclining to purchase may have a view of the said
trails of land by applying to Isaac John, on the pre
mises, and know the terms of sale by applying to Evan
Owen, at Maiden Creek, Berks County, to Mordecai
Owen, Eatt Nntmel township, Chetter county, or to
Joseph Moore, in Philadelphia.
T 6 BS —
ON E thousand acres of LAN D, of the firft quali
ty, situated on a navigable ere k in Northumber
land county, thirty miles from Sunbury. The wood
on laid land consists chiefly of walnut ; a large quantity
of meadow may be made on it. Enquire of the Piinter.
CA M E to the fubferiber's, in Oxford Town
ship, near,the Sheaf of Wheat, on Briftcl Road,
a redifh,brown CO W, with some white on her; fhehad
a bell on. The owner is desired to come, prove his
property, pay charges and take her away.
GEORGE CASTER.
CAME to the fubferiber's, at the Bull's
Head in Strawberry Ailey, Philadelphia, eariv in
the morning of the 23d of December, with the market
people, a small bay HORSE. The owner is desired
to come, prove property, pay charges and take him
away. BENJAMIN MYERS.
FIFTY DOLLARS REWAR Di
V— AS loft in the ice, on Saturday the 26th Decern
ber, near Red Bank, two rafts of oak plank,
containing about four thousand feet each, a fifhing boat
and two anchors, one with a chain for a cable, the other
a rope. Whoever secures said rafts, boat and anchors,
so that theowner may get them again, shall be entitled
to the above reward, by applying to BENJAMIN
HUTTON, or THOMAS PENROSE, Shipwrights,
in Southwark.
TO BE SOLD BY
JOHN MA R I E,
In Norris's Alley, the firft door upon the right hand
going in from Second-street,
BEST Coniac Brandy, by the quarter-cask or g?L
lon ; Bordeaux Claret of the firft quality, by the
qu rter-cafk or dozen; White Wine Vinegar,, by the
quarter-cask or gallon; Florence Oil in cases; Cam,
bricks, Linen Handkerchiefs, fine and coarse Dutch
Sheetings, French Indigo, Green and Souchong Tea in
Cannisters.
N. B. Twelve Shillings per dozen will be given for
empty Wire Bottles. 1
TWENTY DOLITrTrEWARD.
RAN AWAY on Friday night, the 2d of O^ober
last, a likely lusty young black wench, named
DIAN A, formerly belonging to Mrs. Ann Griffith ;
the is middling black, talks as if file had a cold, has
large white in her eyes, and very high large breasts ; she
took with her two tow fhifts, a petticoat and bed gown
of black and white hit-and-miss lincey, a white corded
petticoat, a plain white jacket gathered round the hips,
and an old black bonnet. Whoever will bring said
wench to the fubferiber, living at Black-bird Bridge,
Apoq uiniminck Hundred, Newcastle County, shall have
the above reward and reasonable charges, paid by
ARNOLD NAUDAIN, Jun,
Just opened and to be fold on reafonabjg terms, whole
sale and retail, by
PETER GALLAGHER,
At his store in Second-street, the second doer above
Arch street,
A LARGE assortment of fuperfine Holland stripes
^nd checks, Russia Greetings and raven duck, a
variety- of coarse and fine cloths arid fluffs, likewise
chintzes, cmlbco-s, cambricks, lawns, muslins and I .a
linens; fine hyfon and bohea teas of the best quality,
by the chest or quarter chest; alio whalebone, and some
glass ware. z w „
Philadelphia, January 1, 17 g.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED from the fubferiber's liable in Second
' street, between Arch and Market-streets, about three
0 CiOv k yefternay, a black Horse, about fix or fev^n
years old, between fourteen and fifteen hand# high, one
of his hind feet white, has a fm.il bar, and hi# mane
bangs on the le t fide; be is a natural trotter, and has
a gay carriage. Whoever takes up said horse so that
the owner may have him again, shall be entitled to tire
above reward and reasonable charges, from
JOHN FROMBERGER.
To the P ÜBLI C.
OBSERVING in the P-nnfylvanir Packet of the
stn inst. an advertisement fumcribed John Tho
mas, Executor, notifying, That “ 01, the twelfth day
of tni instant, (January) will he exoofed to sale by
Public V ndne, pursuant to t elft Will of Theophilus
Thoma, dece ifed, a valuable plantation, being part of
Callowhill Manor, int e Tew^fhip of Vincent, Chester
County, containing one hundred and eight acres, bound
ed by land of William Evans Elq; J-mes Evans, Jacob
Ginther and ot es;" on which said plantation I the
fubferiber now dwell : Ith nk proper, in order to pre
vent tie public or any incivi ual from being imposed
uoon, to make known, that Tam in p^flefli n of the
plantation aforefaid, und r a sale fiom jefle Maries,
E q; Sheriff of the Count, aforefaid, and have a just
and equitable title thereto in fee simple, the cl rims and
pretenfians of the said John Thomas notwithstanding;
and n m determined to h Id the fame against him and all
persons claiming under b m un!efs evi&ed by due course
of Law. JACOB GINTHER.
January 6.
To the P ÜBLI C.
IX7'"""'" S many °' tlic public lamps of the
city of Philadelphia, hae been wickedly and
wantonly br ke and otherwise damaged, and the cups
and oil t.ken ou by fme evl difp fed persons, who
have yet een unites vered < Tie Wardens of the city
hereby eff r a reward of FORTY DOLLARS to
ary perf n or periods who sh II give information of the
offer ders to that they be brought to justice and convi&-
ed of the < ffence. AND WHEREAS some of the
Watchmen have 1 triy been maliciously treated, and put
in dan es of their lives, by evil disposed persons, the
Wardens have, for the peace, Safety and good order of
the city, and to prevent robberies, thought proper te
authcri e and ftri&lv enjoin the nightly Watchmen, to
challenge and apprehend all strollers, night- walkers and
vagabonds, that cannot give a reasonable account of
themselves, after the hour of Eleven in the night, and
them to hold in custody by the Constable till they can be
legally examined before Some Justice of the Peace of the
said city, and dealt with according to law, except coun
try people coming 10 market. And it is hoped the
gentlemen and good people of this city, as they confide,
their own benefit, will treat the Watchmen with civility:
And all Constables and other Peace Officers are required,
and the good citizens are requested, to he aiding and
affixing to the Watchmen, if neceffarv, in the execution
of this order. By order oj the Wardens,
Jn. 8. GEORGE HONEY, J n. Clerk.
WAS left at the house of the fubferiber, in Bio k.
ley township, Philadelphia county, fcm# time
in July last, bv a certain Jonathan Bayley Smith, „h o
is since cenvifted of horse Stealing, a black MARE
fifteen hands high, about fix years eld, a switch Lu
and one white hind foot, pace<, trotsand cante s T 1 ~
owner of the said Mare is defi cd to come, prove L
property, pay charg $, and t ke her awa, in fix weeks
from the date hereof, otherwise She will h. f< Id for her
expences. JOHN STRADLE.
January ~