The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1778-04-15 00:00:00, page 3

the INHABITANTS of the UNITED
bTATEb.
]', R 0 M the great number of Deputies and
J, Agents ucc^frily employed in the Qur
wr-Maiter-Gcncral's department, and from the
unavoidable hurry in which much of the bufi
r©3 has been tranUaed,-which has greatly
increased the number of those Deputies and A
gents, and, in f>me instances, has occasioned
the employment of improper persons, many
irregularities have taken place in. the depart
inent. That order and regularity which is ne
refiry to the weil-conduaing a buhnefs so
i important and executive, has been muni broken
in upon; and many of the good people of the
Country have complained or disappointment's
and ill treatment, in order to remedy the
manifold inconveniences arising from these
codes, and, as much as poffibl~, to guard a
gunft abuses in futuie, great care will be taken
t<. engage such perlons in the department who
are the belt adapted to the buhnefs of their fe
vcal employments, and the most likely to pre-
A: ve a proper deportment and to give fatisfac
tit:) to the well-disposed part of the community,
id the refpedtive diftrias affigbed them. To
this end punctuality in payment for fu'ch arti
cles as shall be purchased, will be Highly ne
ctTry; and we mean to preserve it as far as
ycffible: But as it will be impracticable to
make such a d;Briburion of cam as will enable
every person employed in pmrhaAng to pay as
hd goes, regular printed Certificates Ull be put
into the hands of the De put) -Qia, ter-Maflers
to be filled up and delivered our to the people
from whom purchases ffiall be made. In every
State where these certificates are diflnbuted,
persons will be appointed to attend and pay
therfo off at certain Tort periods, and at such
places as will best dccommodae the inhabi
tants ; of which public notice will be given.
This mode, it is imagined, will relieve the
fellers of produce from the difficulties and dif
appoiatments so much complained of. The
Certificates, having a fettled form, arid being
put into the hands of hone but those who will
have authority to fijn and pass them, will at
once save the receiver from the delay and diffi
culty frequently happening from the want of
form, and from the doubt and uncertainty of
the authority of the signers o^fthem; and, as
they will be paid to any person who may pos
sess them, having the fiift proprietor's name
thereon endorted by himfelf, they may be ne
gociated as cath m the intervals of payment,
or at least be presented at the pay-office with
the less trouble to the proprietor.
As it is our earnest desire, and will be our
constant endeavour to accommodate the whole
business of our department to the eufe and con
venience of the inhabitants of the country, as
far as (hall be confident with the good of the
service, we hope to receive their cheerful aid
and assistance on all occasions in promoting the
common cause of American Freedom, and the
rights of mankind.
Cam, Galley. Brge, March 28, 1778.
NATHANIEL GREENE, Q M. G.
JOHN COX, A. Q M G.
CHA. PETrir, A. Q M. G.
FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS
REWARD.
^, H! $ is to acquaint the public, ^h-t oneGEQRGE
A WELPS, foihArlya very promding youth, and
ipparmtiy of so benevolent a difpofiticn as to take a
/memo oath never to hurt mtn, w< man or child, has
h: ly broke out into the mult outrageous madnefc, oc
cibioned, his thought, by a villainous school-matter
ufa dlftinguifhed family in Scotland, who, under pre
: ferret of promoting hit pupil's fortune, and advancing
him in the world, gave him an unlock? wound in the
head with a folio edirinn 0: Filmar's Patria^cha, and
overloaded his tender-Art^ch with an unconloonahle
quantity cf Hobbes's Mclmfur, Sturgeon. In hi- fits
of dirtraftion,'tie {wears like a pirate that he hah Uif
covered a plot to rob himof a certain Feather, which
be never h^d, bur which the laid pedagegee hath made
him believe that he really h.,+, as an heirloom
fain his grand father, and is in perpetual danger of
defing by means of the confpirac, againd him. Dur
ing the paroxifins of his phrenz', be claims a kind of
omnipotent strength of tying neck and heUs al! per
{b 8 whatsoever (and upon ad oceTmus) who deny Ids
power of doing if; arid virtually acknowledging his
want of such drength white he is anally lifting of
hiring it, he wII ramble in the mod fertile babilc
ment, th ,' wfoh his pocket full of guineas, over the
bop, of Ireland and the mountain- of Scotland, thru'
the kennels of London and the foefa of Germany,
pr curing at the mft extravagant wages, to assist him
in De epileptic whim of binding loak of the bell of
his old acquaintances, all the cudgellers, prize-fighters,
banditti, boxers, bruiteis, bravos, gladiators, ^
assassins, he can possibly cuilea ; these he will lend
feme thousands of miles to knack on the head every
man who refutes to be tied as afotefaid ; and very of
ten those who do not. He aifo employs this band of
ruffians in dripping women to their knocks, and fre
quently deflowering them ; robbing orchards and hen
roofts ; dealing theep ana horned cattle, and Hories
and hogs; burning houses and churches; letting
people in the decks, and keeping them three or lour
days without victuals, and finally threading to starve
them unless they content to join his gladiators, and
take ^n oath to kill their own fathers and brothers.
He is farther remarkable for ordering all his banditti
to call every thing they meet with animate and inani
mate, brutal and rational, by the nick-name of Re
bel; and, contrary to the eftabL&d rubs of the nobe
Science of defence, and the invariable Prague of all
fair boxers, to bang and bruise, fl lh and g^h, a vau
quithed man after he is down and cries enough; and,
in a word; to commit endlels and needless a Faults,
trtfpades, murders, rapes, robberies, burglaries, ar
„foils, and all other the mod atrocious and cetera le fe
lonies that can poflioly be invented by the arutHt wit,
human or 'diabolical, againd all perlons whatsoever,
who ref^fe to be bed as aforefard. This is therefore
to give notice, that wiruever shall rettore the laid
George Welps to his lober senses, so far as to remove
his nonfenfieal freaks about the laid Feather, which he
never bad; nor his grandfather before him ; and moe
especially, whoever (hail ledute him to such a degree
of (Arity as to prevent his repetitions of the enormities
enumerated, and make him refrain in future from his
mad pranks and irantic vagaries, cf i. filling to tie n
nocent people neck and,eels, (hall be entitled to the
(aid reward of Five Thousand Pounds Proclamation
Money of N^w-Jerfey, to be paid in Continental Dol
lars (the mod honourable and p triotic money in the
world) upon producing ^certificate of the cure, either
from Doilor CAMDEN c.rDedor Abingdon, the two
only Pa, ficians whole ttftimonials will, in a case so
peculiarly cucumdanced, be accepted by the feb'eri
ber. TOM. READYMONEY.
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W AN T E 1),
4 MAN of good character, w&r undtiftrnds
1"3. woking a CUPOLA or AIA FURNACE
for Inciting of lead. Such a person will meet with
fuitahle encouragement, and employment in this State,
by applying to Daniel Roberdeau, in York-Town,
by letter or in pifcu.
T^be SOLD by PUBLIC VENDUE
in Lincafler, on the 7th of May nex°, if not before
fold at private fate,
A NEAT CHARIOT, with HARNESS crmpleit.
Also sundry pieces of sash onable PLATE, and
some very good HOUSHOLD FURNITURE. En
qmre of the Printer.
TO BE S O L D,
ONE ton of CASTINGS, very fuitaole for
mikng es Salt : They contain two pans, 4 feet
long and 3 feet wide; two kettles, ea h 45 gallons,
and one ditto 17 gallons. For further particulars en
q rire of the Printer.
S TIL LS for SALE,
By the fubicriber, in Kent County, Marti nd, v>z.
F 1 O U R containing as follow:, 156, 118 add a half,
68 and 63 gallons: Also a Copper Boderof about
ico gallons, and a Sheet of Copper upwards of golb.
w- ight. He has also for sale, a good pair of Cologne
Mdi (tones, and a pair of Brandywine ditto.
ISAAC PERKINS.
"10 be SOLD by the Subscriber,
A PLANTATION containing about 116 acres
of land, situate in Eaff-Town Townthip, Chester
County, eighteen miles from Philadelphia, on the
Lanc^fter road ; about haifthe land is cleared, under
good che'nut rail fence, and good fm tillage; the rest
well timbered. There are on th'epremifes a good log
dwelling-house, with three fire-places below and one
above stairs, and a good cellar thereunder, a log barn
and convenient Tabling, a well of water at the door, a
young bearing orchard, and another newly planted.
There are several lime-kilns in the neighbourhood.-—
Any person inclining to purchase may know the terms
bv applying to the Rev. David Jones, living rear
the premiles, who is authorized to treat with the pur
chaser. A good title will be given, bv
JOSEPH GILBERT.
The noted HORSE
PENNSYLVANIA FARMER,
STANDS at Brice Clark's stable, in Lampeter
O Township, Lancaster County, to cover Mares, at
Twenty Dollars the season. He is an imported
full-blooded Horle, of a chelnut sorrel colour : As to
his carriage and beauty, there is none can excel him.
The cath to be paid at the liable.
N. B. Good pefturage will be provided for Mares,
at a reasonable rate.
A M E to the plantation of the fubferiber,
in New Providence Town (hip, Philadelphia Coun
ty, on rhe 17th of September last, an iron-grey Mare,
about fourteen hands high, branded on the near but
tock, but the mark not known; thirteen years old.—
The owner is desired to come, prove kis property, pay
charges and take her away, or (he will be fold for the
charges. THOMAS REES.
CAME to the plantation of the fubferiber,
in New Holland, Earl Townthip, Lancaster Cerna
t, ibiiietime last fad, a black HORS E, about eleven
or twelve hands high, about twelve years old, branded
on the near buttock B, and trots. The owner is de
sired to prove his piopcrtv, p?v charges and take him
„„ y.' ' " HENRY RODE.
One Hundred Debars Reward.
CTOLEN out of the fable of the fubferiber, living at
° Little Cbukir, on Harris's Road in Mountjoy feiun
fof, Lancajser County, a dark ba, Station, jourteen and
a half hands high, w.ih a roje and feather on each fide of
his neck a black fgot on the pit of his breast a rose ox each
°J bitfore highs, his "wo kind feet vsbite, fixyears old this
,r@/s, a 10/t, carriage and afmart runner. The above
"reward forthe herfeand thief er Fifty Dollars jur
the borfe only, will be paid b,
GEORGE PRITZ.
SIXTEEN DOLLARS REWARD.
§A'" ""'' '$ " certain Morris Mahoney, on
WW the qtb infl. (Apt!)fole a bay Horse from a cer
tain Robert Allison, of Little Britain fownftip, and
came to the houft 0/ thefab/criber, in Paxton Towrfhip,
and fraudulent obtained a kwa, ofbireforfaidflolen borfe,
for which be get a ba, borfe with a bad pace, and ringle
e,ed, a natural trotter, about twelueyears old. Whoever
takes up fall horse andthief and fecurts theta, so that the
owner may get his borje again and the thief be brought to
jufi^e, fall bane Ten Dollars for the korfe &ndSix
Dollars for tbeilief.
SIMON REARDON.
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD.
OTRAYED or STOLEN outoftbefaklcok fobn
C fordan. Tavern keeper, in Lancaster on the 26th of
March lafl. a black HORSE, with a ratcb down bis
la # e a damo?xl above the ratcb under the foretop, leng
beaded, kt, near bind foot white above the fafiern joint,
trots a^dpaces fix,ears oldpafl, bis mane trimmed The
^ove rewardand reasonable charges will be paid on leav
ing him with Mr. Jordan, or thefubferiber timing in Upper
Paxton, Lancafler Coun,.
SAMUEL COCHRAN.
Ffeen Ana's Count,. Mar,.and, sWes 2, 1776.
FIFTEEN POUNDS REWARD.
R AN dW AY from the fubferiber, living nearßfeen's
Lown; an indented Eng if servant named WilliA M
Tucker ;he is about fivefeet andabalj bi^b, hasfart
light coloured hair which bangs loose about his neck, jioops
a good deal, has a pimpled face with small eyes, is a ver,
mean looking fellow, much addicted to liquor, and vbea
intoxicated is no fy and in, lent: He bas served in the Eri
ti, light infamry, and was in the Continentalfervicefoma
time in one or the Maryland regiments; when in liquor be
is apt to boafl of bis military knowledge, and seems much
attacked to bis country : He had on when he went away,
a lighi cohered napped cloth coat, scarlet vef with eld
jilver/pa; flex unions, buck,in br^ecots, boors withfmait
turned up teps and double vamped. He took with him,
belonging to the fubferiber, a large bright bay Horse, full
fifteen hands high, a natural trotter, and is about eight
years old; also an old fuddle andgood faaffle bridle. He
was fan to cress George Town Ferry the da, be make ku
escape. and has not been heard cf since. It is fuppefed he
willfell the korfe to raise mone, to pursue bis intended route.
Whoever apprehends the said fervent and,cures him in
an d gi°l , tkat the fubferiber ma, have him again, fall
receive a reward of Five p unds, 4 # ^Ten Pounds
for the horse, or the above reward for man and bo,'e
and if brought home all renfeeble charges paid.»
THOMAS WILLSON.
THIRfr DOLLARS REWARD.
t STOLEN lafi night, out of the fable 01 the
fubferiber in London grove, Chester County, a likely
sorrel HORS E, jour years old this firing, about fyieeiz
bands kigh, whtti, man, and tail long docked, bald face,
three (if not four) white hoofs, feme white hairs under
the saddle, round (hod, is a natural facer and goes heavy.
Whoever fecuresfaid horse and the thief, so that the owner
ma ? g et kie korfe and the offender be brought to jufice,
foal receive she above reward, or for the ber, only.
Twenty Dollars, paid by
Aprils, ,ts. EDWARD CROOKS.
FIFE POUNDS REWARD.
DANAWA Y from the fubferiber, living over the Blue
" Mountains, a Dutch apprentice named F R ANCIS
MILL £R, about seventeen years ®J age, fivefeet high;
bad on when he went away, a round wool bat, aycilow
hunting,irt, a flripedjacket, a fair of country made trow
fers, blue flockings, and new Jboes with krafs buckles —.
Whoever takes up the said apprentice, that bsmmfier ma,
get him again, jball have the above reward and reason
able charges, paid b, Lorentz Mingerd.
FIF^rDOLLARS REWARD.
INTA. TOLENabout the fixteentb f Januar, left,
three miles below Reading, from the Continental ser
vice, a bright bu, Gelding, about fifteen bands high, rifag
fix , ears old, has a fmallfar, with fornefaddie marks, a
middling large head, a little,uggifo eared and finks in the
neck, bis mane hangs to the near fide, a round bodied clean
limbed korfe, with a long bob tail which be carries well
when rode ; be is a natural trotter, has neither brand nor
ear mark, unle, put on fir.ee folen; bad on when taken
awry, the bind geers of a waggon. Whoever takes up said
horse and the thief, so that rhe thief ma, be brought tojuftice
and the korfe delivered to Col. William Chambers,
near Carlfe. Cumberland County, foall have the above
reward, and/or the borje onl,, Twenty Dollars, and
reasonable charges, paid b,
JAMES ARMSTRONG.