The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1779-11-02 00:00:00, page 2

BALTIMORE, October 26.
At a Meeting of the Society for reducing the price es Salt,
&c. held for the firfl time, at the Coffee-houfe in Bai
timore-Town, on Friday the fifteenth of October, 1779.
Col. JOHN DORSEY,
was elected Chairgun of the Society.
MR. JAMES CALHOUN, Treasurer, and Mr.
ROBERT BUCHANAN, Secretary.
Messieurs William Neil, David Stewart, and Mark
Pringle, were appointed Agents, to purchase fait for the
focitty ; and Messieurs Smithand Matthews were appoin
ted to retail the fame.
Mr. Neil informed the meetin, th it he had bought of
Mr.'Jarres Cal Iwell, 1000 bushels @f allum salt, by him
imported into Virginia, in the Ihip Lydia, Capt. Truxton,
and that he had agreed to give 501. per bulhel for the fame.
That Mr. Caldwell, desirous ot aiding the society, in their
patriotic defies had generously given 7501. towards de
fraying the expence of retailing the salt bought of him.
Resolved, That the purchase made by Ma. Neil, is ap
proved of, and that the salt be retailed at the original cost
of 501. per bushel.
Mr. Neil also informed the meeting, that he had bought
of Messieurs Smith and M'Henry, 100 bush Is of allum
salt, imported by them, at 501. per bushel, they making
an allowance of 751. towards the expence of retailing it.
Resolved, That this purchase is likewise approved of,
and that the salt be retailed at 501. per bushel.
Mr. Campbel, from Virginia, appeared, and offered to
the Society about 1000 bushels of Lisbon salt, at 401 per
bushel, with an allowance of 15s per bushel, towards the
expeace of retailing it. This offer was accepted
Ordered, That the salt purchased from Mr. Campbel, be
retailed at 401. per bushel.
Mr. Stepien Stewart, and Col. Samuel Smith, were ap
pointed to solicit fubkrrious, towards carrying the design
of the Society into execution.
Ordered, That the Secretary do immediately draw up
the above proceedings, in a proper form, for the press ;
and that a number of hand bills be printed, to give the
public notice of the Society's intentions, and informing
where people may be supplied with salt, in consequence
thereof.
That the Prudent shall have full power to call the So
ciety together, on the application of a Member, should he
think it necessary.
We the fuofcribers, inhabitants of t e town and county
of Baltimore, viewing with great concern the exorbitant
price to which the arti le of salt has lately risen, and ap
prehending that the avarice of engroffers, if not speedily
and vigorously opposed, will soon put tuat necessary of life
out of the reach of the inJuftrious poor, both in town and
country, D O hereby associate ourselves together, for the
purpose of reducing the price of salt, and to prevent, as
far as in our power, the evil consequences which must
ensue to the community at large, from the pernicious arts
of (peculators and engrorfers.
To attain these laudable ends, we do, each for himfelf
engage to pay into the hands of a Treasurer, to be appoin
ted by the Society, the sums of money annexed to our
refpeaive names : This money tobe expended in purcha
frg all the salt which may arrive at the port of Baltimore,
in the course of two months; which ihah be fold out in
froall quantities, at a price barely fufficient to repay the
firft coil, and defray such expences as may necessarily at
ftnd the retailing of it.
Witness our hands this 14th of O^ober 1779.
S.& R. Purviance, £IO,OOO
William Smith 50001
William Neil 40001
Mark Pringle 5000 ;
Duiiel Bowly s" o °
John M Cure 5 000
Joan Dorsey, 5 oo °|
William Hammond 4000 ;
Stephen Stewart, jun. 2000
H. D. Gough 3000^
Thomas Langton, 1000
Thomas Burling. 3000
J. & T. Hullingfworth 3000
Hugh Young 5° o°, 0 °,
£6O 000
BOSTON Odober zi.
No farther ccounts is ye received from Count D'Ef
tnog—he is momently expelled on our coast. In our next
we nepe to give our readers tee pleasing account of his ar
rival at some port not far distant.
In the lift ^ prices fixed by the Convention, and inser
ted in the lad page of tis paper, the price of Geese and
Fowl ^ was omitted, viz. Geese and Fowles at 6 findings
per p nind.
~ H E Committee appointed to neet in Convention at
§ (.onco ^ the sixth of October mft. having laid before.
the Town the proceedings of the Convention, an 1 the
f a m- having been read and well confidere —'the question
was out, vz. .Whether the Town do approve and adopt
the refoutions and proceedings aforefaid, and will pursue
the measures recommended by that Body tor carrying
them into execution; passed in the affirmative, but two
diffentients.
Voted That John Rowe, Esq; Mr. Leonard Jarvis,
Hon. William Philips, Esq; Stephen Higgingf-n, Esq;
Mr. Nathan Frazier, Efis Gray, Esq; Mr. Herman Brim
mrr, Samuel Auflin Esq; Nathaniel Appleton, Esq; be,
and hereby are appointed a Committee to ; ffix the prices
of European Goods Wines, &c. agreable to the resolves of
the Convention.
Vwed. That the Committee of thirteen appointed to
fee the Resolves of the former Convention and this town,
carried in 0 execution, be the Committee for feeing the
resolutions of the late Convention, and the feregoing Re
fclves effectually complied with.
Voted, That it be earnestly recommended to the mer
chants, fliopkeepers and traders of this town, to open their
fliops an i stores for the supply of our brethren in the
country, and the inhabitants ofthe town, and fall at least
by retail.
Voted, Th^t the preceed ng votes be published by the
town Clerk in the several papers.
Ata very lar^e Meeting of the Freeholders and other In
habitants of the Town of Boson at Faneuit Hall Octo
ber 19. 1779
Hn SAMUEL ADAMS, Esq; Moderator.
I B'Atjer ^ara, £ 60,000
IJames Calhoun 2000
I Jonathan Hudson 30 0
;Rihard Curfon 1000
; Mirk Alex Her 2 00
IR. & A, M Kim 2000
IMatthew Ripley 5000
IDavid Stewart 5000
IThomas Russel 50)0
I Hubies & WNiamfon 2000
Gardner and Yates 2000
John.Sterret 1000
Sapucl Smith 2000
Philip Graybill 1000
£ 93> o °o
The Meeting was then adjourned, to meet at Fauuil-
Hal! Tuesday next, at ten cAlock in the forenoon.
Attest. W I LL lAM COOPER, Town Clk.
WORCESTER, Odober 14.
Friday Jaff came before the honorable Superior Court,
then fitting at the court-house in this town, the trial of
Robert Young (one of the Convention troops) for a Rape
coromited on the body of Jane Green, a child between 11
and 12 years of age. The evidence of his crime was clear
and firming. The Jury found him guilty, and he
received fehtence of death on Saturday last. It is suppo
sed that greater instances of brutality and barbarity, were
never excercifed in a crime of this kind, than were exhi
bited by said Young in the perpetration of this inhuman
deed. T; e circumfiances of vyhich decency forbids us to
pirblifh in a public news-paper.
FISH KILL, Oftober 28, 1779.
We learn that several vessels, funk by the enemy near
Sandy-Hook, in or ler to obftru& the channel, were
drove on the Jersey fllore; which, it is said, has rendered
their scheme abortive.
Part of our grand army are moving their camp a lit
tle nearer to New-York ; and it is supposed the remainder
will soon follow.
PHILADELPHIA.
An ACT for difoFuing the Marriage of fames Martin
'with Elizabeth bis Wife,
XLf HEREAS James Martin of the city of Philadel
" phia, by his petition hath shewn, that duriag his ab
sence from the said city, at the time when the British ar
my were in pff ffion thereof, his wife Elizabeth resorted
among the Fritifh soldiers, and took one Serjeant Havell
of the Britifli army into his, the said James Martin's house
and bed, and cohabited with the said Havell as his wife,
declared the said Haveil to be her hufb nd, and passed by
his name until the British troops left the city, when she
went off with the said Havell, taking with her the said
James Martin's effeßs, and leaving him to pay sundry
debts of her contrasting, and therefore by his fad petition
hath prayed that he may be divorced from the said Eliza
beth his wife, and their marriage dissolved, so that ve may
be relieved in future from any charges for her mamtainance
or any debts of Ler contrasting, and that he may be here
after enabled to marry again :
AND WHEREAS the several fads set forth in
the said petition have been fully proved oh oath by sundry
witnesses, and due notice hath been given by advertisements
in the public news-papers, to the end that any person or
persons might now shew cause why the prayer of the said
petition should not be granted, and nothing appearing to
the contrary :
Be it therefore enabled, by the Representatives o'the Free
men of the Commonwealth of Pennfyhvania, in General As
sembly met, and by the authority of the fame, That from
anJ after the date hereof, the marriage of the said James
Martin with Elizabeth his wife, and all and every contract
and celebr tion of marriage had made or concluded by
and between them, be, and they and every of them, are
hereby enafted and declared to be dissolved, and from
henceforth null and void to all intents and purposes what
fover, as if the fame had never been contracted, made or
cele ; r ited ; and that from henceforth all and every the du
ties, rights and claims accruing to either of the said par
ties, at any time heretofore in pursuance of the said marri
age fhT reafe and determine, and that the said James
M alia fh^e and d® cease from being the hi (band of the
said Elizabeth, and the said Elizabeth Martin from being
the wife 0 the said James in law and in fad forever.
Provide 1 always nevertheless, That nothing herein con
tained thf be con ftrued to extend to, or affeCt or render
illegitimate any children born of the body of the said Eli
zabeth, during her coverture with the fail James.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That
from and after the date hereof, the said James Martin be,
and he is hereby freely, fully and entirely authorized and
impowered to contract matrimony and the fame in due
form, to celebrate with any other woman in like manner as
he the said James, if he hadnever been married to the
said Elizabeth, lawfully might or could do.
JOHN BAYARD, Speaker.
Enacted into a Law at Philadelphia, on Friday
the ri@h day of October, in the year of our
Lord One tbouf&ndfeven hundred and /evenly
litre.
JOHN MORRIS, junior,
Clerk of the General Assembly.
Mr. D U NL A P,
S I R,
I was favored with a copy of the following petition, from a
gentleman who has lately come from Head Quarters ;
the authenticity of which you may rely on. His Excel
lency examined the woman, and was convinced that the
was no impoffure, and most chearfully granted her re
quest.
May it p'eafe your Excellency,
w HILST the welfare of an injured and opprefrd
V ' people depends upon you, and your whole faculties
doubtless engaged with concern 'or their interefi,ls it possi
ble a tale ot private sorrow should find admission to your ear?
I am encouraged to appeal to you from the general cha
racter I hear of your condefeenfion and humanity, even
to the meanest of people. Be patient, Great Sir, whilst
I relate the whole of my distress, and hope to find in you
the refined feelings of humanity, which are rarely to be
met with.
I am myfelf the daughter of a gentleman in the North
of England, and can remember with regret that I once liv
ed in affluence, and had the advantage of a virtuous and
polite education. Upon a disagreement with my family,
I left my nati;e country and came to America, some years
before this cruel contest happened, I had then the privi
lege of hearing often from my father, and receiving sup
plies to keep me above real want. In thebeginning of the
war my friends overcame their unjust resentment, and sent
me orders to draw money from a person who was Secreta
ry to the Earl of Dunmore, to equip myfelf and return
home but al is, the ill-timed pardon came too late. The
gentleman failed for England a fortnight before my letter
came to hand and no other person would accept my order.
Here I was at once deprived of all I held most dear
friends, relations and native land I must never more ex
One Hundred Pounds Reward.
STOLEN out of the p?.fture of the fubferiber, a
bout one mile from this city, a light bay HORSE,
four years old or pTI, about fifteen hands high, of a
high carriage, has a flat rump, paces a little, and trots
well, has been broke to both chair and cart, and has
neither brand nor ear mark. Any person apprehending
the Horse and Thief, so that the owner may have the
Horse again, shall receive the above reward, or Two
Hundred Dollars for the Horse only, paid by
• CONRAD WEAVER.
October „ 0
pc& to fee. Were this all, a^d I might be permitted to
earn my bread by slavish irAudry, I should endeavour to
be contented, (happiness I know is beyond my att inment
in this world) but this reGurfe, reaft 11 ibleas it may seem,
is also denied. I have been (even years married to a car
penter, a man naturally induftrioos, but like myfelf un
fortunate; In the commencement of the war, he milled
as an artificer, and I accompanied him with two (mall
children and ail our effeds, (which tho' not grand, were
decent) to Ticonderoga, too' I am entirely unfit both by
nature and constitution for the fatigues of a camp, yet at the
request of my hufeand I undertook this journey, nor was
apprised of the army's retreating hill they passed my little
habitation and every hutt in Fames around me—My hus
band was absent on command and myfelf almof lun.bie to
travel by weakness and dejedion of spirits, which now
seized me, I was obliged to leave every comfortable neces
sary behind, and make my eßape with only the cloaths I
wore: For three days successively I made my way through
the moil solitary woods I ever read efy without any fub
fiftance but the berries and water I providentially met
with; my children often cried to me for food, but I had
none to give them nor could I procure any from the hard
harted inhabitants, and when weary with traveling at
night, if I gained access to any house, I was obliged to lye
upon the floor in company with their dogs; I who had
been acchftomed to sleep on down 2nd wake to feezes of
plenty and pleasure, was now a helpless vagrant; destitute
of the common necefcries of life; wandering through a
land of Grangers with two little infants, without the least
profpea of relief —my strength almofl exhausted with con
tinual fatigue, and my ears often aiNihd with the yells of
the Sava, ts at a difiance in t e woods, which almost froze
me with terror, at length I arrived at Albany, and had the
good fortune to find my hidb.md again, woo had also met
with incredible hardships. The Dire&or of she Hospitals
gave me a room anti employed my huibind asa carpenter,
here we have continued ever fin.ee, 1 no by his work have
been enabled to procure some necessaries requisite for a
comfortable living once more. He is now recalled to his
regiment, an affair, that will infallibly ruin us—We have
now three children and I have no home or dependence
but on my husband; this will oblige me to follow the
camp, which is far more dreadful than death to me—l
therefore intreat you good Sir, to confider my helpless Si
tuation and permit my hulbind to flay here and work for
the Congress, which will save me and my poor little off
fpripg from the disasters attendant on a camp, and he will
be as serviceable here as he can possibly be in the capacity
of a soldier. This grant from your Excellency, will ena
ble us to get a maintenance ter oor family ; the reverse
will end in confufion, misery and bitter want to me and
my infants.
Pardon Sir, the liberty I have presumed to take in ad
dressing my case to you ; but since heaven seems to have
chosen you to redress our public wrongs—l hope the be
nevolence of your nature will incline you to commillerate
private distress, that even the lowest ranks of people may
have reason to admire and feel your beneficence, as well
as th@fe who are in high office about you
That heaven will proteftyou, and smile on all your un
dertakings, is the sincere prayer of the unfortunate
ELIZA KINGSBURY.
His Excellency Gen. Washington.
To be SCLD by Public Vendue,
On THURSDAY next, the 4th instant, at Nine
o'clock in the morning, at the house of J OS EP H
PEMBERTON, Esq ; in Chestnut street,
OUNDR Y Houfhold and Kitchen Furbiture, con
° fitting of Beds and facken-bottomed Bedheads, Mo
hagony Tables and Chairs, a Book Case, Rooking-
Glaffe, Bed-Curtains, a good Jack, and a variety of
Kitchen Furniture, an elegant double flint-glafs Pyra
mid, two thick silver plated Ch, sing Diffies arid Stands,
one pair ditto elegant fluited Candleftcka, one ditto
Crols and Lamp, two handsome Clocks, and a variety
of other articles.
N. B. The money to be paid at the time cf sale, or at
the delivery of the bills.
November z.
To be SOLD at Public Vendue,
On SATURDAY, the 6th of November, at Four
o'clock in the afternoon, at the house of j ACOB
VANSCIVER, at the sign of the Columbus, a
bovl Poole's Bridge, in Front street.
T wo neat well finifhed BRICK HOUSES and
' KITCHENS, three dory high, and LOTS of
GROUND, fitaste in Duke-street, near Front-street.
One lot 14 feet front, and 38 feet deep, on a five feet
alley ; the other 14 feet front, and 3% feet deep, adjoin
ing the former, with other necessary improvements :
They now let for 2001. per year. They will be fold se
parate or together, as may belt suit purchasers. For
terms of file apply to JOHN ROSS.
Aud at the fam, time and place will be fold a valu
able t! ret story BRICK HOUSE, 40 feet front, a
bout 10 feet de p, with th lot on which it stands, in
the Northern- Liberties of this city, on the road from
Front street to Germantown, about one mile and a half
from the Court-house, containing about two acres, se
veral out houses, two pumps of excellent water, a grafs
lot, orchard, garden, &-. pkafanth situated, being the
place formerly occupied by Dr. Thomas Preston, de
ceased, now in the tenure of the Quarter Matter, clear
of all in umbrances.