The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1780-08-05 00:00:00, page 1

^ tbt FREEMEN ELECTORS of the Cit,
and ^untj of PHILADELPHIA.
Gen^cm^n?
INI ENDING to ffer myfelf aCandidate for the
ShelPs office, your votes and interest at the ensuing
Election, will oblige your Humble Servant,
WILLIAM HOLLINSHEAD.
August 5, 1780. _
Philadelphia, August 1, 1780.
RAN AW A Y,
FROM the Sloop Weft-Florid^, on or about the
12th of July lad, a likely NEGROFELLO W,
aoout twenty eight years of age, named CZE S A R,
who is supposed to be lurking about this city, calls him
fob' a free man, he is of a yellow complexion, aoout
five feet eight or nine inches high, was taken at Mobil e,
by a Continental veflel, about the 10th or April lift.
Whoever secures him in any goal in the United States
of North-America, or to Captain Philip Lyon, in Lom
bard-street, in this city, shall receive FOUR HUN
DRED Dollars Reward, and all reafenable charges
paid.
PHILIP LYON.
July 29, 1789.
CA ME to the plantation of the Subscriber,
in the townfbip of Towamenfing, in the county cf
Philadelphia, in the month of July 1780, a young black
CO W, branded on both herns with federal letters.
The owner is desired to come, prove property, pay
charges, and take her away in four weeks from this
date, or die will be fold to pay the expenses, by
LEONARD HENDRICKS.
C july 24, 1780.
AME to the hdufe of the Subscriber, li
ving in Upper-Merlon townibip, Phdad- phia
Quaty ; a brown M ARE, with a star, and branded
on the near shoulder and buttock. The owndr is desi
red to come, prove his property, pay charges, and take
her away.
SAMUEL RAMSEY.
FIVE DOLLARS~ REWARD.
AUGUST morting the firft day,
My APPRENTICE LAD he rail away ;
Hsuarne is John Shade I deciare,
Hr? very apt to curie and fweart
Hix age 1 think, doer n^w appear,
lobe at least full twenty years :
H's hair and complexion are both dark,
And histurfy look is one good mark ;
His nose is large as they will fee.
Whoever brings him home to mei
His size about five feet four inches,
Hal on brown coat and olive breeches,
Oid hat, blue stockings, (hues one pair,
And a coarse shirt fomithing worse fir wear p
Bshdes took with him sundry cloaths,
Light coat and breeches and a pair of cotton hole ;
A oat that's very large, and almost new,
A linen jacket and black breeches too :
Li Arch-street at the Taylor's sign,
Pray alk for me, you may me find:
I hid not tell my name at the beginning,
My trade a Taylor, and my name John Reedle a
Ine Poets great for wit and art,
Perhaps may call me funny;
Butl can bear that and some more,:
Co Id I but get m, Johnny.
Whoever fakes him up don't fail
To lay him f : it i n any goal :
1 hey (hail be us a friend regarded,
And as abv? Arii be rewarded.
N. B. All Matters of vends are forbidden to carry him
off at theii peril.
J OHN SERViCE takes this method
J of acquainting his friends and the public in general,
that he has moved from Second street into Third fireet
opposite Church Ailey, where he has just opened a large
and neat assortment of Linens, Scotch Threads, Gauzes,
and several other articles suitable to the season : Tnofe
who favour him with their custom ihall be gratefully ac
knowledged by the public's hum le servant,
JOHN SERVICE.
N. B. Said SERVICE has for sale a quantity of best
fine Cotton by the bag or smaller quantity.
CAM E to the plantation ofNicholas Waln,
in the Northern Liberties, a d^rk brinole CO W.
and ?r °" ^^^ ^ cbar ^
July ijtb, i/fo. WILLIAM LLOYD,
SATURDAY , AUGUST 6, 1780
THE
OR § T HE
GENERA L W^G^ft^ ADVE R TIS E %
Published every Tuesday, and Saturday.
Philadelphia, July zs, 1780.
tyryHEREAS the Estates of Joseph Gris-
YV wold, Oswald Eve, Abraham Piftouus, Law
rence Fagan, and John Knight, all late of the county
of Philadelphia, having beta in due comic of Lav
forfeited and fe zed to the use of this State : We, the
fubicribere, Agents for Lid county, do hechy giv*
notice, that the estates of the feid Joseph Gifwol,
Oswald Eve, Abraham Piftorius, Lawrence Fa,^, ^ri
John Knight, confining of the following meftuages and
tra&i of Land, viz.
One trad Woodland, containing about 30 acres, in
the Northern Liberties, late of Joseph Griswold.
One moiety of a 39 ere Lot io Germantown, late of
Abraham Piss ring.
One traft cf Land in Oxford to&nthip, within 6
miles es this city, with valuable imp:ovemeuta thereon,
late of Oswald Eve, containing a gcoddwelling-hcufa
powder-mill orchard, meadow, &r. &c. &c.
One Lot of Ground in Second-ftrett near the Barracks,
18 best front, 125 fee deep, with a l%e three story
H^uf thereon, l.tti us Liwuh^e Fafcan.
Ard one tr^ct of Land in Abington, late John
K Ichi's containing 107 acres, with a g°od dw^lmg
home, &z. thereon.
Ail which will be fold at the Court Hcufe in this ci
ty, the thirtieth day of A ^utt next : The sale to begin
at Ten o'Clock
Th: turns of file will be according to Law, viz. one
fourth part of the purchase money to be paid in ten
days after sale, or the picmiies a/ain to revert to the
State, and the bidder liable to forfeit the said one fourth
of the pnfchafh money ; the remainder t® be paid in ere.
month alter fate; and on a eTifieate being produced^
from & Agents or either of tl- m, of full paim^nt of
the purchase money, a deed will be given as by Law di
re&d. 5
And to prevent all difficulties with refpe& to p«y
roe t, the Agents will attend t toe boufe cf William
M'Millir, Esq ; below the Naw Marker, on the tenth
da, after sale, ro eceive the fiift payment, ard in like
manner on the 30th day after fate, to receive the !#ft
payment ; after which ho purchase money will be re
received, but the premises again fold for the benefit of
the Commonwealth.
GEORGE SMITH, j. , „
WILLIAM M^ULLI^, ] A ^ n " P C °
Philadelphia, July 25, 1780.
Two Hundred Dollars Reward.
RA N away on Friday night, the 21st
inftoit, a NEGRO WENCH, named Sophia,
(Aaas) Phillis, b s tjren twenty fi«e and thirty years of
age, middle tied, very ft tight and {lender bodied,
Speaks.loft, and is'vegy artful, took with hzr, one 6!k
black bonnet, federal caps, one of them cambrick, with
Fee, three fi k handkerchiefs, onj black barcelona, one
blue and white ^ofs-bar'd ditto; the other a r^d man
toa, two calico gowns, one with large blue flowers, the
other a email red and dark branch, and a kind of Imad
dirk running ,ine between them, one (hurt blue and
w»ite Griped linen jacket, to * petticoats, one a black mo
reen, the other a quilt, m^de stripe faffiion, ^ith a
ftii,e of calico, and white linen ditto, several aprons,
one of them a fl)wtd kertirig, four ffiify, txo tow,
trie others fine, thread and yarn ftockmgs, leather frees
an I silver buckles, and moffly w:ars a gold ring, (lie
may change her name and apparel, and endeavour to
pal's for a free woman. Whoever takes her up, and se
cures her, so that her master may get her again, shall
have the above reward, and if brought home to the Sub
scriber, living in Second-street, in the diftna oi South
wark, opposite to the Swedes Church, reafonablc th^r
ges, paid by
WILLIAM THOMAS.
N. B. All perform are forbid io harbour, cart, or
convey her away at their peril.
Vy AS brought to the liable of the Subscriber, cn the
12th inst nt, by a man unknown, a large bay
HORSE, black main and tail, has a (mail flar in Id's
forehead, with two white hind feet, two laddie marks,
some Scattering grey hairs on his buttock, shod all
round, ana has a filial! white spot ®n his off shoulder
The perlon who brought the said Horie to the liable, is
desired to come, prove property, pay charges and take
him away, or he will be fold on Wednesday week to
pay his expellees. Enquire of
NATHANIEL TW 1N IN G,
at the Bunch of Grapes,
WANTS A PLACE.
A! V E L NU R' E ' w "° ""' bt heard of at
Jacob Toys, in From-ft reef, above Harbuckles
W;
Philadelphia, July 29, 1780.
Ma.DUNLA P,
PLEASE to insert in your next paper, tfe following
Aft of Assembly, for the better information of the Mer
chants and Matters of yrffels cf this part, in or dr that
they m y regulate themfeivu according to the laws of the
Slate, and you will oblige
Sir, your very
Humble. Servant,
Frederick phile.
An ACT for regulating navigation and trade in this
Stale.
IX7 " '''" $ ° e navigation of this and the other
$ Uinted States of Am rica/ has bren heretofore
carried onu^derafb of t-e British P rhament, r r gu!a
ting the trade o' the ,'antators, until by feme refidve,
of the fard States made in (c^grefs and the d clnation of
their Ind prudence anl an Aft of Affembb, inUtul d,
" An,Aft to r<vive Prid put in force, &c." paff-.,be
twenty eighth d; y of January, one thoufind levin hundred
and feveuty-jeven, whereby ,he authority of Great-:?d
tain and all the fil'd afb or Parliament have been vacated
arid luperfe ed "ithm the territories of tie fair ' S '?•
And it is es great-inr.orr.hre to t^i^ Cmnmcir.t.A,
that the trade and navigation in her ports aid h+rbout
and the importation r-nd exportation of allgi c w^rta
and merchandizes in and out of the fame, fhouD ?1 ?u
---lined and afreitained in this Suite bv ri law, TY-
Beit enacted, and it is hereby tn^ded, 0 X-ore
fentatives of the F'euc,n of he Cdorhnn
f/lvania, in Gener 4 Affemb y met,a ytfr authority
of the fame, That the Mafhr of any Crip, crct or vet
fcl, except (hips or vessels of war, prej'a; <: anattrir
prizes, 4rirtteg in any p r t of uris State, shall ^thin
forty-eight hours after such arrival, repair to the N ari-
OfHce in the city o' Fbilade'phia, and there exnibw and
deliver to the Naval Officer cf his State, a true man ifc ft
finned by the said Mafler, of all the Foods, wares atil
merchandize laden and importeo in such fliip or vessel,
setting forth the packages, marks and rumors t>r-c,{
and the nature and quantity of their contents in number;
Height and measure as they are toinmonly counted, efii
mated and fol 4, and also his own n?m< :and firname the
name and burtnen cf his ship or vessel, the names /nd /
bodes of the owner or owners thereof, and the rcDßtr v ,
p^rt or place where the cargo was flipped, together with
such documents as are usu nly furmfhed hi such place of
lading to Mafteis or veuels failing from thence with goods;
wares and merchandize. °
And be it further enaßd by the authority aforefaid
That the Mafler of any ship or other vessel to heladcn
at anj port or pl ted wh^in this State, except flrips or ves
sels of war and privateers taking in necessary floras and
prolific,ns, fha.il firft make his report to the Naval Offi
cer of toe inten led voyage of his veffe, and df tin- goods,
wares and merchandize intended to be Clipped and expor
ted, and mail obtain the (aid officer's permit lor that pur
pose; and before such ship cr veff I ft II proceed or tail,
the said Mader fhul exhibit and deliver at tie aforefaid
Naval-Office, a fair and true mantfefi o f his outward car
go, filmed by him in manner and form as the maniefts
411(1declarations of importers of goods into this State are
by this Alt directed to be made out and dated. And
it is hereby provided aad enafted. that in the mahifeft as
well 01 cargoes imported as of cargoes fllipped off and< up
ward bound the number, weights znd measure cf the
particulars of s a id cargoes shall be exprtff.-d 10 words at
!u£ length and net in figures only. And the said Naval-
Officer being satisfied as to the truth and faimefs of the
mamfeft or declaration, mail adninite an oath or affir
mation to the Matters of veiled coming in and going cut
bf the ports or places of this State, in fobfia ce as follow
,,tff Thatthe —mailed —. OOW at an .
c^r in the port of ——and ter cargo, is the property
of the perfcn or p,f OT . in hs manifefl named ; anti that
no enemy or fubjeft of an enemy to this or ^ ny of the
United States of America, is the owner or proprietor of
the laid — or her cargo, cr has any imereft or con
cern of property in either the said or % car ~ o
or ^y part or (hare o r either of them to his knowledge
and belief: And that the goods, wares and merchandize
novvon baard the Rul f are in number, o uant hy
am quality the Rmy s in his , a , d m^feft fpecTed and
declared to be to toe oeft of his knowledge.”
^ be " f f rtber e ° a&ed ^ the a^ity aforefaid,
I hat during the continuance of the present war between
United Stales of Arnerca and Great Britain, the
r^ a ^ r ° ma ^ ^ l r P^e^ this
Sate, hiall at the laid Naval Office give b nd to th° Pre
f"eat °r Vice President of the Supreme Executive Coun
cil. with two (efficient sureties, reside as in th ; s State
in at leafi double the val ue 0 bis cargo, with condition'
that the fame car^o (ball be landed and delivered at feme
place or port not u nd <r the dominion of the King ofGre nt
-I"'^°' ^"""^ ^° d ( " e Bahama Elands ; and
that he the (aid Matter shall within the fp ce of eighteen
montns from the date of such bond, produce and deliver
to tne said naval officer a certificate from the officer es