The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1779-05-13 00:00:00, page 3

.GH ARLEaTOWN, (S^tb-Cmihia) March 24.
According to advices from Bermuda, the inhabitants
tvere in a starving condition ; the British, Soldiers (who
had Do other provisions thdn seven herrings, and an allpw
ance of oatmeal per day) having destroyed, and defiroy
ing, all the live ftcpk of every kind. In Abort, both in
habitants and soldiery were in so alarming a situation,
that the Governor has permitted fait to be exported to this
continent, upon condition that the vessels return with no
thing but provisions to the weft end, which, for that pur
,me, is put into a kind of neutral date, azd he has con
descended to write passports, entreating that the cruisers
•11 both sides may not molest the vessels so employed.
It is remarkable, that in the account published in
Georgia, by authority, of the taking of Savannah, after
the number of prifoaers is particularly mentioned, it is
added, that " eighty-three rebels ^ere found dead on the
common, not a syllable of any abounded! A gentleman,
lately efraped from Georgia, gives as the reason, that Sir
James Baird's light infantry, in tenderness to thev-ounded,
difpatehed them ail with eight or ten stabs of the bayonet,
except Cel. Walton, who happened to fall into the hands
•fa gentleman that had not renounced humanity.
Cel. Campbell, in his letter to Sir Henry Clinton, dated
Savannah, the r,th of January, mentions the fame num
ber of dead found on the field, but adds eleven wounded;
a very uncommon proportion indeed in the usual way of
military rencounters! But the Colonel fays, Sir James,
" with bis ufalgallantry, terminated the fate of the day
with brilliant success"
April 7. The bayonets to the British light infantry
pieces, taken at Beaufort on the 4th of February last, are
•f the moderate length of eighteen inches.
W ILLIAMSBUR G, April
By an express which arrived here a few days ago from
the frontiers, we are informed es the following barbarities
having been lately committed by the savages in those parts,
viz. That on Friday the 19th ult. Thomas Campbell and
his two children; of Yohogania county, John Vannatree's
family, on the Ohio, and a family or two on the frontiers
el Pennsylvania, were killed and scalped by the Indians;
and on the 27th following, Samuel Glass's wife and child,
a negroe wench, and three children, were likewise killed
and scalped by the Indians.
We art informed, by good authority, that the States
of Holland have at length ordered reprisals to be made on
the E^glifh for the injuries which their commerce hath
fuflained from them, and that in confequeuce thereof, and
as a farther security to the trade of the States, a number
of ships of war, frigates and other armed vessels, have
keen equipped to cruize against the English.
BOSTO N, April zg.
We hear the plundering tories have latety made a fecorid
visit to Nantucket. Last Monday fe'nnight they went in
four small schooners to that iflaad, armed with only swi
vel guns. They carried off fix hundred barrelsof oil, five
hundred of which belonged to a jew at Newport, and
four final! vessels. They left the island on Friday follow
ing. A fiugle well armed brtg or schooner might with
ease have taken them all. Upon the appearance of a fail,
they weroia cohfternation; all hands embarked with their
plunder, and rowed from the iflaad against wind and tide.
It is raid the prizes taken by the Warren, &c. turn out
richer than was at firft expected ; every day, in unlading
them, new difeeve fas are made of valuable articles, not
included in the invoice. The collective value, it is now
supposed, will exceed an hundred thousand pounds sterling.
Captain Richard Salter arrived at Portsmouth last Mon
day from T eneriffe in a short passage, and fays that the
French have taken Senegal, on the coast of Africa.
FISH-KILL; May 5 .
Last week a party of tories perpetrated a most horrid
murder on the. body of Capt. Hopper of Peramus : Some
villains were heard breaking open the stable door, in or
der to carry off his horses ; his wife hearing the noise, cal
led t® iter hulband. who went out in his shirt on the bal
cony, and civilly called to them, Lads what are you a doing?
@n which their centine! Ihot him through the body. After
they had taken the horses <rat of the fiable, they came to
the house, forced it open, and coming to the wounded man,
who had cast himfelfon the bed, immediately thrust their
bayonets into his body several times, continuing the bar
barity while they heard a groan ; and, least life might be
hill remaining in him, they cut both his arms with a knife,
in the most inhuman manner. The villain who (hot him,
had been his neighbour and companion from his youth.
Notwith handing the many wounds Capt. Hopper received,
he lived two days, and told the names of his attrocious
murderers. Providence, 'ere long, we doubt not, will
fuffer the murderers to fall into the hands of justice, to re
ceive the reward es their evil deeds. It is surely time for
us to be roused ! every one should exert himfelf in taking
up strolling vagrants, who have been fuffered too long to
rove at large ; many of whom knew the country well, and
improve it to the most villainous purposes, by trepanning
the credulous and unwary, and count it a merit to rob and
murder.
PHILADELPHIA, May 13.
, On Friday last, a fleet of %£ square rigged vessels, and a
number of sloops and fchsoners put to sea frtm Sandy
Hook, under convoy of Sir George Collier, in the Rain
bow, of 44. guns : On board of which were a number of
troops, feme fay 4000, others, that the embarkation of
treops-was three Hessian and five British regiments, with
a few light-horse. Reports fay, that General Clinton was
also on board the fleet, though it is much doubted.
On Sunday evening the ninth instant, after a tedious
and painful illness, departed this life, in the sixty-second
year of her age, Mrs. PRISCILLA BROWNE, Relift
of Mr. CHARLES BROWNE, late of Queen Ann's
County, in Maryland.
Of this amiable Lady it may be truly said, that, with
out the affectation of piety, there were, perhaps', but fety
actions of her life, in which the was not influenced by ir.
Sh# was a pattern of conjugal affection; a warm friend;
an indulgent mistress ; and to crown and fill tip the bufl
nefs of her life, her charities were as great and extensive
As her well-known hospitality.
Three sons and a daughter, with unaffected grief, lament
the loss of a most tender and affectionate parent.
Married at Princetan, Col. WILLIAM SCUDDER
to Miss SKELTON.
LG T TERY-0 F FIC B,
Thursday Morning, May 13, 1779.
q° IHERE are now in th^ Wheels of the United States
& Lottwy the following Prizes, viz.
3 of 5000 Dollars,
40 Of 1008
266 of 500
6777 of 30
PAUL FOOK S, Check Clerk.
N. B. The Adventurer# may know the fate of their
Tickets by applying at the Lottery-Office at the usual
hours.
4,&frt4- 4# 44 + s+4#+*# * ++
TO BE SOLD BY
JOSEPH PALMER,
At his Hore in Water street; next door but one above
Mess. Hartley 2nd Potts, and nearly opposite the Old
Ferry, Philadelphia,
OLD Madeira wine by the pipe, hoglhfad, quarter,
calk or gallon ; old spirit by the hogffiead, barrel
er gallon ; Weft India rum by the bogfhead, barrel or
gallon ; molasses by the hogfread or gallon ; loaf, clay
ed and mufcovado sugars, by the leaf, hogfhaad or bar
rel ; coffee by the tierce or barrel ; chocolate ; fine hyfon,
fouchong aad bohea tea j mace, cinnamon, nutmegs,
cloves, i)iask pepper, allspice, ginger, rice, cottoh,
indigo by the tierce or barrel, cheese, &c. &c.
Ail the above Goods are of the firft quality ; he keeps
a constant affortinent, fells them on the mart reasonable
terms wholesale er retail, and will be obliged to those
who may be pleased to favour him with their custom.
Notice is hereby given, That if any
public Puraps in the city of Philadelphia thall in
future be opt of repair, the inhabitants below Market
ftieet are rgquefted to make application to Mr. Willi
am THARP, and those above Market-street are requeu
ed to make application to Mr. James Craig, Junior,
and give them ths numbers and condition of the Pumps
out of order, to have them fpsedily repaired.
May ir, 1779.
TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD^
LOST, a POCKET-BO®K with upwards
of one hundred pounds, and many papers of great
value to the owner ; supposed to be left on the counter
of a (hop in Strawberry Alley, Philadelphia, from whence
Lt must have been taken up by some one of the country
people then present. Iris a worked pocket-book, mark
ed R. M. One paper therein contained 471. 129. 6d.
marked for Mr. Abel James; another marked John
Spencer, containing forty one dollars ; another con
taining eighty-one dollars, the marks not recolte&d ;
f>me rows of pins, &c. &c. &c. Any person that can
make any difeovery so that the @wher may recover his
pocket-book and papers, shall have the abeve reward
by applying te William Pintom, in Strawberry Al
ley, Mr. Thomas 3ay, in Second-street, or to the
Printer hereof.
To BE S-O~L~
A N elegant CHARIOT, with harness corapleat,
L^wife a COACH and WAGGON, with
harness for four horses, or one pair of harnels separate
from the waggon. Enquire of HenryEsler, Ceach
meker, in Second street near Unien-ftreet, Philadelphia.
STOPPED on suspicion of being stolen,
last week, with a Woman now in gaol, rao re
fufed to tell her rtime, a BAG, containing some do
zens of locks and keys, brass and iron hinges, brafg
knobs ahd fcrew^ japanned tea-tongs, some bundles of
white thread, &c. Also flopped some tin&e ago, some
yards of black India Perfiah and sprigged muslin, feme
dressed buck and Cheep fkiris, some blue and other rat
tinet, and a pair of Sheets. Whoever has loft any es
said Goods, may apply to Plunket Fleeson, Efy in
Chefnut street, and have them on preying their pre
perty. May^
Philadelphia, May 10.'
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED or STOLEN from the fubferiber,
living in Race-street, near Sixth-street, on Thurf
d^y la^, a sorrel MARK, three years old, about
thirteen bands high, with a white mane and tail, a bald
face, her mane cut on the inside, her right knee a little
thicker than the other, &od before, and trots. Who
ever takes up and secures said mare so that the owner
may have her again, Ihall receive the above retard and
reasonable charges, paid bv
G EORGE SPECHT.
WANTED T"MMEDIATELY,
A WET NURSE with a good bfeaft of milk;
* one from the country will be most acceptable. Any
one that can be well recommended will meet with good
encouragement. Enquire of the Printer.
THIRTY DOLLARS REWARD.
qTRAYED or STOLEN on the 26th of April
last, a dark bay MAKE, about ^fteen h^nds high,
rising four years old, with a large Car on her torehrad,
a wall eye on the off file, her mane hangs on the left
fide, trots and gallops well, is in gobd oraer, the dead
h&i;s es her mane oi each fide and on her heels trimmed.
Whoever brings said mare to William Wall or
William Peel, near the new Play.houfe in Southwark,
shall have the above reward and reasonable charges.
C^ A M E to the place of the fubferiber, near
, the Fails of Schuylkill, in the Northern Liberties,
on the 6th intt. (May) two stray MARES, both na
tural pacers; one a dark chefnut, with a l^rge liar in
her forehead, and white feet ; the other a dark sorrel,
with a large ftsr in her forehead, no brand nor ear mark.
The owner or owners of said strays are desired to come,
prove property; pay charges and take them away.
JOHN RENSHAW/
Poila^tysia, Ma, lE.
To he SOLD by Public Vendues
On Wedn^fday the nineteenth instant, at seven o'clock
in the evening, at the Coffee house in this city,
AVERY valuable traft of four hundred and
eighteen acres of land, firuate in Roxborough
townihip, in the county of Morris, and state of New-
Jeifty: It is very well timbered wiffi la^ge oak apd
kickory, and lays within one mile of Andover Iron
works, and but abeg: five miles from Hackee's Town,
being very convenient to either of those places. On this
traft are low ground, f#amps and cripples, which pro
duce plenty of grass in its teafen, and there has been
go®d hay made on the fame though wild ^nd unculti
vated. Any perfe ctinclining to porcbafe may be fur
ther informed by applying to William Shaw, living
near the Old Ferry, in Water-street, Philadelphia.
^ be SOLDlyPrivaTelak,
THE CHATHAM MILLS, lituate in the
State of Maryland, and within a few perches of
the river Potomack, on the great road leading from Fre
derick Town to Winchester ; confirting of one hundred
acres of land, near half of which is and may be made
into the best of meadow. Ttiera are on said premises a
good new log dwelling house, kitchen and store-house,
with stables, &c. It is conveniently calculated for, and
in cne of the joremoft fituatibns for a public-house in
the State. Said mill is two Tories high and fifty odd feet
fauare, on a never failing stream of water, calculated
far two pair of flones, the boulting-cloths found and
good, and in a Very £o®d neighbourhood for grain or
cou &. r y c^dom ; the dam may always be maintained at
a trifling expence. There is alfy on said premises a ve
ry well conftruaed saw mill above the grist-mill dam,
fa that each mill has the advantage of the whole stream,
had id a convenient place for all kinds of timber, e!p^=
s', walnut, which there is always a great demand for
in Frederick Town, only eighteen or nineteen miles dis,
tan ' ~"f There are also small horses for a lawyer
and unitb, with a fmith'sdrop and co^-house. „ Boating
of flour ddwn the river is found to be of great advan
tage, and attended with much less ceft than land carri
age, and if the river thould be opened it will then be tho
complect fixation for trade in the neighbourhood.
Any perlon inclining to purchaft the abovs estate may
know the terms by applying to the fubferiber, living in
n County, in the State of Virginia, near the head
of Bulllkm. Or any person knowing the advantage's
fatuation of the above estate may know the terms by
plying to Isaac Eyre, near Chester, id Cheftcr Cen:-
ty, State of Pennsylvania.
^3. WILLIAM ASKEW.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
ABSCONDED from her ball, 2 certain
Catharine M'Gvirr, a red haired woman.
'^{inches high : She served her time
with Joseph I arks, in Cnefter county, and lived fame
'^ °S ''" C ° fi eftogo Waggon, in Maiket.
Philadelphia. Whoever takes up said woman
and secure, her in any fate gaol, so that she may be had
?V, n '., ^ e . e^Htled to the above reward, paid by the
fubfenber, living in Chester county.
Jaguar, io, x 7 7,. ZEPHANIAH DAVIES.
-„ Philadelphia,
WAS FOUND, at the ffiop o fth e
,! in Market freet, next door to the Cos
fee house, on his return to the city after the evacuation
of the enemy, a large SCALE-BEAM, makers
names Whitehead and Jonathan Eamphreys The
owner is desired to prove property, pay the charge of
this advertisement, and take it away.
ROBERT M'GEE.
TO BE SO LD,
A N, r „ HACKNEY Any person „ n fyg
1 3 to purchase such a one, may perhaps be suited by
enquiring of Mr Imlay, at Mis. Rivers's, in Arch
ftieet, Philadelphia.
t 0 TT' T-o-l—dT
A SMALL quantity of OIL of VITRIOL
Enquire ar Thomas McCormick's, at the of
'?! J'"" 1 "' ln Fifth-ftreet, near Arch-street, Phila
delphia.
One Hundred and Fifty Dollars Reward.
ST°l" N ' r ^! tbe fub'eriher, livin/on Re'd-ft'm
Creek, near Thomas Geft's, Laurel Hill, o n the
fide of the Alleghany Mountain, a light bay Horie
seven years eld this spring, a natural trotter, branded
R on the near Mulder or buttock, has a star in his face
about fourteen hands high. Whoever takes up said
horse and brings him to the fubferiber shall receive the
above reward ; and if the thief be found and secured in
any gaol so that he may be brought to justice, One Hun
dred Dollars more will be paid, by
Hugh Rankin.
'■ 1 TO. _
FORTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the fubferiber, living in Up
per Dublin township, Philadelphia county a
Scotch servant boy named Donald Morhon, about
seventeen years of age, very fliort for that age, of a fair
complexion, innocent look, and has brown hair Had
on when he went away, a new felt hat bound round ;
a redifh brown broadcloth coat newly turned with a
final! cape, the fore parts lined with redifh fhaiaon ; a
good homefptin Qiirt; a pair of trowfers striped with
deep blue, pale blue, and yellow; a pair of white cot
iP""' ° f J°° d ^9" witb ft:i ^ s in them,
fi k , ° c '' . a ,, hlte ,uflm ditto, and a pewter
^•buckle. It is likely the said servant will mike to.
r ard ICr " k : '" Y °' k count y, where his parents
Whoever takes up fad servant and secures him in
I hiladelphia gaol, or brings him to his master, shall
have thl above reward and reasonable charges, paid by
M ^^ JOHN JARRETT.