The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1783-03-29 00:00:00, page 1

At the City Auction, on
MONDAT next,
The gift of March, 17*3
At NINE o'clock in the MORN ING,
Will Commence the S A LE
Of 1 Larger very General ASSORTMENTo f
MERCHANDIZE,
Suitable for the approaching Season,
(Particular# of which will % pubbfhed by Wie Bell on
t^e M rain ^of tle Day of Sale)
With a QUANTITY of
Houfhold Goods, Kitchen Furniture,
WEARING APPAREL, &c.
JOHN BAYARD, Audioneer.
N. B The City An&ion will be constantly held
every MONDAY ; and as the Store is always open for
the Reception of Goods, it j# desired (when not incon
venient) that the Goods may be sent before the Day of
Sale.
FOR SAL E, BY
John O'Connor,
At hs STORE in Second-street, three doors north cf
Market street,
A large Assortment of Cutlery,
Hard-Ware, &c.
Of the belt Quality : Consisting of~—
KNIVES and Forks, cast-steel Raizors, Cork
screws, Sciffars, tayloris Sheers,, Cheese-knives,
low priced Penknives, Snuffers of the fineft polish,
fnaffie Bitts, dotted Awls, fret and turning Saws,
ipring Bolts, Knitting-needles, Phlems, Watch Chains,
pit S;ock Buckles, pewter Salts, pepper and mustard
Ditto, brass pepper and drudging B^xes, brass
folder, brass Nails, enameled and 'metal Buttons,
stone breast Ditto, horn Ditto, plated Shoe Buckles,
4 and a half and 5 and a half inch Combs, crooked
Ditto, leather Ink Stands, black lead Pencils of the belt
quality, leather Shot Pouches and japanned Powder
Csanifters, ladies netting Vices, with and without
Reels : Allo, thread Ganzes, Persians, Barcelona black
Handkerchiefs, ladies beaver and silk Gloves, black
ditto and Mitts, light coloured sewing Silk, Thread
of the best quality, No. 9 and 38; black Ribbon,
m ck Ostrich Feathers, Plumes and Ostrich Fox-tails,
blue Broadcloths, Linfies, a few pieces Camblets and
Rattinets, a Variety of ready made Cioaths, fupeifine
cloth, some black and parfon'sgrey ; Ditto of second
cloths ; an elegant Assortment of oval Tea Trays, 14
by 22 inches ; Roman Waiters, 16 by 20 inches; j a .
panned Tea Cannisters.
TOBE L E T,
A small HOUSE in Walnut- street, near the corner
of Fifth street; a LOT of 11or 12 acres, well fenced
and new ground, on the Wiflahiccon read, 3 miles and
a quarter from the Court house, and another LOT,
containing 20 acres, on Mount Airy, near Mr. Al
len's house, Germantown. For Terms apply to fad
O'CONNOR. Feb
Lately IMPORTED and to be SOLD, By
Newes & Anthony,
On the north fide of Chefnut. street whaiff,
SUPERFINE Broadcloths of various colours, with
Trimmings; Gauzes, Dimities, Marseilles Quilt
ing, Alamodes, black Calimancoes, Barcelona
Handkerchiefs, sewing Silks, silk Stockings, green Tea,
Nutmegs, Alllpice, fpermaceti Candles, Weft-India
Rum, French Brandy, tanners Oil, mufquet Powder,
&c &c.
ALSO, A parcel of neat framed SLATES and
part-worn CABLES, some almost new, of different
sizes, from 7 to to inches. March 20.
TO BE SO L D,
By Thomas Randall & Co.
In Front-street, a few Doors above Market-street,
Weft-India RUM by the hhd.
and a quantity of Salt, Lead and Tin in boxes.
Likewise a Variety of DRY GOODS,
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VOL. XIIJ
SATURDA Y,
GENERAL ADVERTISER.
J^^ EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY.—Price Sixpence.
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the honorable Thomas M'Kean, e r q.
chief justice, the honorable William Augustus
Atlee, efq. freond justice, the honora >le John Evans,
e(q. third justice, and the honorable George Bryan,
efq. fourth justice cf the supreme court, and the courts
cf Oyer and Terminer and general jail delivery, for
the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, have issued their
p ecept, bearing date the fifth day of March, instant,
to me directed, for holding a court of Oyer and Ter
miner and general j il delivery, at the State-houfc,
in the city of Philadelphia, for the city and county of
Philadelphia, on Monday the seventh day of April
next.
NOTICE is hereby given, to all justices of the peace,
the coroners, efcheators and constables within the said
city and counts, tut they be then and there in their
own persons, wjih their rolls, records, indumenta and
other remembrances, to do thole things which to their
offices, in that behalf, appertain to be done: also, all
they who will prosecute against the prisoners that are
or then shall be in the jail of the laid city and county,
are to be then and there, to prosecute against them as
(hall he just.
D«ted at Philadelphia, the seventh day of March,
in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven
hundred and eighty thr^e, and in the seventh
year of American Independence.
WILLIAM WILL, fl^riff.
GOD SAVE THE COMMONWEALTH.
N O TICE is hereby given,
To such of the inhabitants of the city and
county of Philadelphia, who have not yet rendered ac
counts of damages the, have sustained by the British
troops, or their adherents, that they makeout such ac
count cr estimate, according to law, and delver the
lame to the Zffcffors of their refpeaive townships,
wards or diftridts, on or before the tenth day of next
month. By older of the board of commissioners.
March 2t, 1783. GEO. HONEY, junr. clerk.
Office for Confifeated Estates.
Annapolis, January 23, 1783.
PURSUANT to an a& of assembly pass-d the last
riffions, will be exposed to SALE, by way of
AUCTION, at Baltimcre town, on the 10th day
of May next, teveral Thousand Acres of LAN D,
late the property of the Principio company. The lands
will be surveyed and laid off in convenient farms and
feats for gentlemen ; the quality of the lands and their
centiguity that flourishing town, from which they are
distant but a few miles, render item extremely valuable.
One or mote persons will attend on the premiss, where
Kingibury furnace stands, for three days before the day
of faie, to fliew the different lots to any person who
may incline to view the lame. One-third cf the pur
chase money to be paid in 30 days ; another third in
two years, the remainder in three years ; bond and se
curity will be required on the day of file.
Bv order, J. DORSEY, cbrk.
Wanted for a term of years, a
BOY or GIRL, white or black, between the age of
ten and fifteen, capable of running errands and tend
ing young children, in a small family. Any person hav
ing on^ to dispose of, will be generously treated with by
applying to the printer hereof.
Doctor William Currie,
Now resides in Second street, between Spruce and
Union.ftreets;
WH ERE he may be consulted in all cases that
belong to his profeffion.
He has hkewife a few of the Medicines in common
us: to fell;
And has occasion for Two or Three APPRENTI
CES; which he would take on eas y terms. Match 1*
To be LET for a TER M,
A Brick MESSUAGE, Kitchen, Stable, Wharff
and I.nt of Ground, fi uate in the Northern-Li
berties, at Pook's-bridge. For terms apply to
Feb. 18. WM. WILL, fheriff.
Wanted, a Lad that can write
tolerably well, as an Apprentice to a Merchant. En
quire of the Printer. March 18.
O R, THE
THE
tore so l d, by
Nixon & Fofler,
At their STORE in Pine-street, between Front and
Penn streets,
A Variety of Merchandize, viz.
LIN ENS of different kinds,
Sheeting Linens, 3-4 and ell-wide from to
6s. per yard, 3
Diaper, Furniture Checks, and Thread of different
kinds,
Bedticking,
Everlastings, black, blue, pink and grecn.
Broad Inths,
An Assortment of English Files,
D tto Hinges,
White Le:d, \
Red ditto, ) ground in oil.
Yellow O ker,'
Weft India Rum, of the best quality,
French Brandy,
Bohea Tea,
English Glass in whole and half boxes, 8 10, 79 and
11 f 3. M.rch 20.'
Made and Sold by the Subferiber,
Wholesale and Retail,
IN- Ware, Frying-Pans:
al 0 to be fold, Waiters of diffeiert sizes, neat
ly finifhed, Pewter-War?, K iv 9 and F.> ks, &k
JOHN BATES, in Tuiid sheet,
near Church-alley.
N. B. A LOT of GROUND situate on the south
tide of Market street, 20 feet front and 306 feet deep
adjoining col. Prodor's lot and a lot formerly occupi:
ed by John Cunningham, to be fold. Enquire as
above - March 20.'
To be S OLD cheap for C AS H,
(between the hour, of 8 in the morning and 5 afternoon)
At Mr. LUBERNARD's, the southwest cor^r o f
Pine and Front-ftretts,
DRY GOODS,
Lately arrived from France, viz
nIN E fnie and black Gauzes, silk, Cotton and
r linen H ^kerchiefs, fine velvet Ribbands .m
---broidered waiftroat Patters, an assortment of foti
ful silk and fluff Serges, fik and leather Gloves for
men and wowen, several pieces of Lowered L^n Over
alls (unable for seamen, some dozens of ruffled 'shirts
Dmines of different weidths, a variety o f Calicoes'
'"' t!': Cki t°r^ s ^ ani °' S ' lk '> 6|v ^ r mounted
Swords, gold leaded Canes, fkelleton Wire, &c. &c.
T O FT L E T,
A good House genteely fur.
niched ; or PART cf a House. Enquire of the Prin
tcr° March 20.
Dean & Purviance,
Have just Imported in the (hip# Con^refe and r„
taped from Fiance, a d are now opening th
^ l'n° D l' i at "" ir S T° RE i" Warer-ftreet,
third Door below the Draw-bridge, which they
Sell on very reasonable terms. ' "
BLUE, brown, laylock,
blossom, grey, hazJ,
g^een, chefnut, white,
olive, faun, boue de, Pari,
mixed ana light coloured
tuperfin,, middling and
coarse Cloths.
Nonbattu and royrl Lin
nens,
Three quarter and yard
wide Britannias,
Cambricks and Lawns,
Striped and bordered lawn
Handkerchiefs,
Millonet Lawns,
Printed linen Handker
chiefs,
Marseilles Quilting,
Plain and corded Dimities
and dyed Jeans,
Womens white & colour-
K di Gloves,
MARC H 29, 1783;
A great Variety of plain
and printed broad and
narrow Ribbons,
Striped, fir wr^d and plain
French & Itai an Gauze,
A large Assortment of
white and black blond
Lace,
M-n and womens silk
Hose,
'' c ^? o hite, cinnamon,
role, fiber grey, plumb,
and Paris m >de coloured
Saitins and black T^ffi
ties,
Brick Psduafoy and Pru
neUas,
Crimfun, pink and light
blue Persians,
Striped Tickings,
Pns,
S : k Shoe Pattern, j. n 9 .
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