Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1774-06-06 00:00:00, page 1

Tobe SOLD by PUBLIC VENDUE, on
the firft day of July next, at fix o'clock in the
evening, at the London Coffee-houfe,
THE FORGE called TANTON, situate
in Burlington County, Weft New-Jersey,
within four miles of a furnace, seven miles from a
good landing on Ancocus Creek, and seventeen
miles from Philadelphia: The forge, coal-house,
and other buildings, are in good repair, and the
stream of water plentiful. Tie tra& ofland, which
will be fold with it, contains about 1500 acres, meft
of which is pretty well timbered, about 30 acres
cleared, and some meadow. Any person inclining
to purchase will be (hewn the premises, by applying
to Charles Read. DANIEL ELLIS,
CHARLES READ,
THOMAS FISHER.
Fairfax County, Virginia, May 15, 1774.
IN the month of March last the fubferiber
sent out a number of carpenters and labourers,
to build houses and clear and inclofe fields on his
patented lands on the Ohio, intending to divide the
Several tracts which he there holds, into convenient
sized tenements, and give leases thereof for lives,
or a term of years, renewable forever, under cer
tain conditions which may l>e known cither of him,
or Mr. Valentine Crawford, who is now on
the land.— ^— The Situation and quality of these
lands having been thoroughly described in a former
advertisement, it is unnecessary to enlarge upon
them here. Suffice it generally to observe, that
there are no better in that country, and that the
whole of them lay upon the banks either of the
Oiiio, or Great Canhawa, and capable of receiving
the highest improvement.
r pHE partnership of LILLEY and
MULLEN having expired the tenth day
of April last, all persons having any demands against
said partnerfllip are desired ts bring in their ac
counts, that they may be fettled by James Mullen,
at his store in New-Britain township, Bucks county:
Likewise all persons that are indebted to said part
nerfllip, cither by bond, note or book account, are
desired immediately to pay off their refpc&ive ba
lances to laid James Mullen, or to JohnWentz,
tavern-keeper, in Whitpain township, Philadelphia
county (who has part of the accounts in his hands
at present) or otherwise they will be under the dis
agreeable necessity of putting their accounts into
the hands of a Lawyer, without refpe& of persons.
Winebefler, in Virginia, May 23, 1774.
TO BE DISPOSED OF,
By Public Vendue, on the ill of July next,
A PLANTATION or trad of LAND,
containing 3000 acres, situate on and near
Back Creek, in Frederick County, Virginia, about
twelve miles from Winchester, on the road leading
to the Warm Springs, whereon are newly erected
an extraordinary good law-mill, on a never failing
stream, which has also every convenience for a grist
mill, with two final! dwelling-houses and a barn :
There are on said land about no acres of bottom
ground, fit either for meadow, corn or hemp; 6
acres of upland cleared ; about half of the land is
tolerable good for wheat cr other grain, and ex
traordinary well timbered with oak and pine.•
About half of the lind, wi.h the saw-mill, is now
rented on a lease of ten years, at £SO Virginia cur
rency, per annum : The above place is laid off for
two tenements, and an indisputable title will be
given to the purchaser. Any further description of
the premises, the fubferiber apprehends to be un
necessary, being convinced that those persons in
tending to purchase will be governed by their own
judgment of the estate, and not by his mere de
scription of it, which will effectually obviate any
partiality on his part, as well as any ill natured
and groundless assertions of envious neighbours,
who Sometimes, under the mask of religion and
friendfhip, take a pleasure in endeavouring to de
preciate the property of their neighbours. The
fubferiber is particular in this point from having
Suffered an injury of this kind from a person in a
neighbouring county, who knows very little of the
Subscriber's concerns, and never saw any part of the
above land. Reasonable credit will be given to
the purchaser, and the fubferiber may at any time
bi fern and treated with at his house, at the sign of
M liliam Pitt, in Winchester.
TO BE SO L D,
A PAIR of likely brown HORSES, full
. 15 hands high, one five, the other fix years
old, warranted found: They are well broke, both
to a single and double carriage, and are good saddle
horses. Enquire at JOHN HALE's fables.
Baltimore, April 19, 1774.
CHRISTOPHER HUGHE S,
'Goldsmith and Jeweller,
INFORMS the public, and very particularly
and gratefully those ladies and gentlemen who
have hitherto encouraged the partnership between
him and JOHN CARNAN, that the said part
nership is now dissolved: All persons indebted
thereto are requeued to pay their refpe&ive balances
to said Hughes, who is duly authorifed to receive
the fame, at their former shop the corner of Mar
ket and Gay-streets, where he fill continues the
business on his own account, in its most extensive
branches, and humbly solicits the countenance and
cnftom of his friends, and the public in general,
whole kind favours will be thankfully acknowledged
by a Ready observance of their commands, and his
utmost skill used in the execution thereof.
N. B. He gives the highest price for old gold,
silver, and watches.
^im
T^NTON FORGE.
G ENERAL
VO L. 111.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
MONDA Y,
MESHACH SEXTON.
O R,
For CHARLESTOWN, (S. Caroltna)
The Brigantine
fa& CHARLESTOWN PACKET,
SAMUEL WRIGHT,
Master;
ILL fail with ^ con
^EY^ZT'^ '▼ venient speed, having
, the greater part of her cargo
ready to go on board. For freight
or passage apply to Uriah Woolman, William
Sykes and Co. or said matter on board at Milnor
and Hough's wharf.
N. B. Good RICE just imported and to be fold.
Enquire as above.
New-Port, May 29, 17,4.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED or STOLEN from the sub
scriber, living in Chrikiana Hundred, New
castle county, a likely black MARE, about fix
years old, between 13 and 14 hands high, a natu
ral trotter, has a star in her forehead, Ivalf a hog
mane, short switch tail, a lump on her neck near to
her near ihoulder about the iize of a musket bullet,
both lier hind feet hath a little white, the one with
a ring round it and the other with a little white be
hind. Whoever takes up the thief and mare, shall
receive a reward of SIX TEEN DOLLARS forrhe
thief, and FOUR DOLLARS for rhe mare, with
reasonable charges, paid by
CONRAD GRAY.
THREE POUNDS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the fubferiber, living in
Chanceford township, Y^k County, Penn
sylvania, on the 21st inst. (Mav) an Irish servant
man named MICHAEL GALLAGHER,
about 2% years of age, and 5 feet 3 inches high,
pock marked and much freckled, has short curled
fair hair, and a final! speck or pearl on one of his
eyes; had on when he went away, a good whitish
coloured fly coat, lined with old cloth of a darker
colour, an old green jacket patched in the sides, a
pair of home made check trowfers patched, a pair
of half worn shoes, brass buckle, and a final! fur
hat. Whoever secures said servant in any of his
Maiefty's gaols, so that his matter may have him
again, shall have the above reward, and reafanable
charges, paid by
WILLIAM BOHANNAN.
Salem, May 21, 1774.
WHEREAS my wife JAN E hath eloped
from me, I therefore warn all persons not
to trust her on my account, as I will pay no debts
of her contrasting from the d te hereof.
THOMAS Rowell.
FORTY SHiTIYngS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from tlie fubferiber, living in
Lancaster, on the 28th of May, an Irish boy
named JOHN JOHNSON, a house-carpenter
by trade, about 18 yeais of age, 5 feet 5 inches high,
long legs, a long red face, and black hair; had on
when he went away, a white fliirt, striped jacket,
new leather breeches, white cotton flockings, a pair
of pumps, and a wool hat. Whoever tikes him up
shall have the above Reward, and all reasonable
charges, paid by DIETERICH HEI P.
N. B. All masters of vessels are forwarded not to
have any thing to do with him at their peril.
T O -MOR RO W,
At ONE o'clock in the afternoon, AT
JOHN HA R T's
V ENDUE - STO R E,
At the corner of South and Front-Streets,
Will begin the SALE of a neat afforiment of
M E RC HA N 1) 1 Z E.
64$$§4- s4§<, $$ 4* * -4$ *4
Extract of a letter from Weflerly, May 19th, 1774,
addrefed to the Committee of Correspon
dence in Boston.
Gent 'erne's,
WITH mingled concern and indignation the
Committee of Correspondence for this
town have seen an ad for blocking up the harbour
of Boston.
Rome designing to destroy the city of Carthage,
barbarously required of the Carthaginians that they
Should forfake their city and remove theirhabita
tions twelve miles from the sea : the consideration
of the inveterate hatred occasioned by the long
and bloody wars which had lubfifted between
Rome and Carthage, the remembrance of several
hundred thousand Romans killed in those wars,
and several hundred towns plundered by the Car
thaginians is some excuse for the Roman severity.
Philadelphia, 'June 6, 1774.
FIVE SHILLINGS REWARD.
STR A YE D from the Commons of this city,
about the 24th of lalt month, a black CO W,
about 6 or 7 years old, a good deal of white in her
face, a white foot on the top of her Ihoulder, and
a long white streak under her belly. Any person
who has found said cow, and will bring her to
George Kner, baker, in Fourth-lbeet, between
Arch and Race-streets, fliall have the above Reward.
But the cruel and unnatural treatment which
the town of Boston has received from Great-Bri
tain, will admit of no kind of palliation ; the me
tropolis of a most affectionate and loyal colony,
which in all the wars of Great Britain hath glo
riuufly fupparted the Baulh iutcreft in America,
D U N LA P's
p —--Y L. .■■---■''"' 2g=g?l
We have long felt for the town of Boston:
We heartily sympathize with our brethren upon
this alarming occasion: We are much pleased with
the noble firmnefs with which this cruel edict is
received in Boston ! We highly approve the mea
sures taken by the town, and are entirely of opi
nion that the joint resolution of the colonies to
flop all importations from and exportations to
Great-Britain and the Weft-Indies, until the a&
is repealed, will infallibly produce the desired effect.
The country which we possess, blessed be God,
affords every necessary of life : We are morally
certain that with the common blessings of Heaven
upon our industry and frugality, we can live com
fortably without importing a single article from
Britain or the Weft-Indies: And we are equally
certain that neither England or the Weft Indies
can subsist long without us. Their own preser
vation therefore will compel them to do us justice.
This horrid attack upon the town of Boston
we confder not as an attempt upon that town singly,
but upon the whole continent. We are therefore
determined to use our whole influence for the sup
port of the town of Boston in the fame manner as
if the attack had been made in the metropolis of
this colony. Ard we doubt not but the other
colonies will confider this arbitrary and tyrannical
edj6 lin the fame light, and heartily unite with
the friends of liberty in Boston in fiipport of the
common cause.
Ihat infinite wisdom may diredand preserve all
the colonies, is the ardent prayer of.
Extract of a letter from the Committee of Corrtfpon
dence for Portsmouth, dated Blay 19, 1774. to
tie Committee of Correfpo7ider.ee Jor tie town of
Boston.
'' think the late ad of Parliament to
VV shut up the port of Boston of a most
extraordinary nature and fatal tendency; adminis
tration are taking every method to disunite the
colonies, thereby to render the nobleoppofition to
their arbitrary and deftrudive measures abortive:
We hope a firm union of all the colonies will ftilf
subsist and that such a pian may be deviled and
resolutely pursued by all, as may prevent the cruel
effects of this ad.
We heartily sympathize with you, under your
present difficult and alarming fituation,—We will
exert ourselves to carry any plan intoeffeft which
may be concerted by the colonies for the general
relief.—We fincer^ly wish you resolution and
prosperity in the common cause, and shall ever
view your interest as our own, and ere with the
bigheft efteein, &c."
Meffiears Edes and Gill.
n'HIS country never yet saw a time, in which,
I the people—and of course their Fathers
and Representatives ought to fland more firm
and play the man. Never was there a time in
which a wife, upright and Ready Council of the
Land was more neceflary to dur common fafety.
—A weak and pusillanimous Counfellor at this
period may do nitre mifehief than many wife and
intrepid ones will be able to remedy in an age.
Let us throw aside personal attachment and
private connexion ; let us confider the evils which
we may do by a bad choice—evils that it will never
be in our power to corred, tho' we weep tears of
blood.
If we have ever given our fuffrages for wicked,
base or unworthy characters, let us now repent of
that great fin, and make the best reparation to
our injured brethren and posterity, that we have
now power and opportunity, by giving our voices
to none, but such who.h^e. understanding inte
grity and zeal to guide.the Commonwealth—in
this storm of power arid uppreffion.—Should we
be careless and unconcerned, indifferent or inadtive,
at this season, we not only endanger the great ship
of the Rate, in which our treafurcs are laden ; —
but let us bear weightily on our mind, that we
are all embarked in one common bottom—lives
and fortune, children and posterity must be over
whelmed and fink in case of shipwreck.
Let none of us therefore, make shipwreck of our
confeiences, left we not only perish in this world' —
but meft miferabiy perish in that which is to cerne.
An OLD COMMONER.
LETTER 11.
To the INHABITANTS of the
BRITISH COLONIES in
AMERIC A.
Brethren,
IT is not my design to travel through all rhe
ministerial maneuvers respecting us, Since the
commencement of the present reign. It is rot
necefTary. Sufficient, I trust, it will prove, to
and even by their wife and vigorous efforts made
a conquest which gave peace to Europe, is now
threatened with deftru&ion, for no other cause
but because the people have bravely determined
not to become slaves.
From ts BOSTON GAZETTE.
(Sign d by tie Committee of Correftondence)
ADVERTISER.
J U N E 6th, 1774.
lay before you such a series of correspondent fads,
as will thoroughly convince you,—that a plan has
been deliberately framed, and pertinaciously ad
hered to, unchanged even by frequent changes of
ministers, unchecked by any intervening gleam of
humanity, to facrifice to a passion for arbitrary
dominion, the universal property, liberty, fafety,
honour, happiness, and prosperity of us, unoffend
ing, yet devoted Americans—And that every man
of us is deeply interested in the fate of our bre &
thren of Boston.
If such a series is not laid before you, the
combined force of which ffiall tear up by the roots,
and throw out of your bosoms, every lurking
doubt, censure me as an enthusiast too violently
warmed by a sense of the injustice pradifed
against my beloved country.
The danger of a father's life once racked words
from a dumb son. Worse than death in ray view
threatens our common mother. Pardon, there
fore, a brother's imperfedions.
Amidst a volume of institutions called regula
tions—wrong at firft—correded into other errors
—again correded—dill requiring regulation—
and remaining after all their editions, if not like
Draco's codes of blood, yet codes of plunder—•
confounding by the intricacy and multiplicity of
their inventions—and confiscating for having con
founded* —appears the fourth of George the
Third, chap. 15th, stiled, “ An ad for granting
" certain duties in the British colonies and plan
“ tations in America, &c," This was the firft
comet of this kind, that glared over these colori s
since their exigence. Here firft we find the com
mons of Great-Britain " giving and granting" our
money, for tie exprefsgurpofe of " raising a reve
nue in America."
We, busy in guiding our ploughs, felling our
timber, or failing in the circuits of traffic prescrib
ed us, and still veering like bees to their hive,
with millions of our gains, to Great-Br t in, the
center of our toils by land and sea, poor harmlcfs
husbandmen and traders ? scarce observed the
blow given us. Our hearts filled with confidence
by contemplating the pleasing images of her gene
rous distinguished virtues, from the fplendour of
which, in our judgment, those of ancient Greece
and Rome hid their diminished heads—suspicion
could find no entrance. We saw, in the pream
ble, something of the usual forms “ for extending
and iecuring navigation and commerce," were lull
ed into security, nor could suppose the stroke was
aimed at our vitals. An infant that had tottered
along a directed walk in a garden, and loaded with
flowers had presented them to a mother, would as
soon have expeded to be knocked down by her. —
Not long were we fuffcred to enjoy cur tran
quillity. The sth of George the third, chapterthe
12th, the ever memorable Stamp-Adt, quickly fol
lowed. By this, reciting the former a&, the com
mons of Great- Birtain " gave and granted" du
ties, so called, of our money on almost every
piece of parchment, vellum or paper to be used in
these colonies, and declared every instrument of
writing without a stamp to be void. Tax gather
ers of a new kind were appointed to colk& these
duties. The petitions of our aflemblies, previous
to its passing, on notice received of the defigh, as
serting our rights, and Supplicating a refpe& for
them, were treated with contempt. You remem
ber thetime and its distress. lou behaved as you
ouglit.f Convinced that a people who rei/b to
be free, must refove to be free, you abolished the
“ abominable thing"—and proceeded in your usual
business without any regard to the illegal edict ob
truded upon you.
Permit me to add two observations, relating to
remarkable attendants on the taxation comprized
in that a^, the memory of which is perhaps grown
faint, from length of time, in some minds.
By the statutes granting stamp duties in
gland or Great-Britain, especial caution has been
taken, that nothing more fliould be levied upon the
fubjed, under any pretence whatsoever, than the
duties themselves. These words run through those
ads—“ That the officers (hail receive the federal
" duties—and stamp and mark the vellum, parch
" ment, and paper. &c. without anx other fee or
" reward —which stamp or mark shall be a fufi
" cient difeharge for tl^ refpe&ve duties, &c."
(For the remainder fee the Fourth Page)
* " Omitting the immense increase of people, by na
tural population, in the more northern colonies, and the
migration from emery part op Europe, lam convinced
the mobile commercial fyflem oj America may be alter
ed to advantage. Gou have prohibited where you
ought to hqme encouraged, and you have encouraged
where you ought to have prohibited. Improper re-
Jiraints have been laid on the continent in favour of
the ifands. You have but two nations to trade with
in America. Woudyou bad twenty ! Let ash of Far-
Lament in confr^utnee cj treat 0 remain, but let not
an En<liih Millitter become a Custom-house Officer
far Spain, or for any foreign power. Much is v^ong.
much may be amended jor the general good 'ihe
w/dc." Mr. Pitt's Speech.
f " I rej ice that America has reybed. Thro rdl.
lions of people, so dead to all the jeeiings of ddr,;. as
v&luHtarii; to conjent to be flaws, would have b&a tit
inji)umenis co makefavesfthe ref."
Mr. Pitt's Speech
T HE
NUMB. q 7.