The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1780-09-23 00:00:00, page 1

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 „ 1780:
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GENERAL li^G^ ADVERTISED
SAMUEL HOLLINGSHEAD,
Commanderof the Ship GENERALGREENE,
ORD ERS all the officers ;nd crew of said ship to
be onboard at Nine o'Clack on Saturday morn
ing, being the 33d instant, or they shall be deemed de
fertera, and, as not in future to belong to said ship.
Philadelphia, September 19, 1780.
t'o BE SO L D,
AV ARIETY of goods, manufactured by the sub
scriber, in South Alby, between Market fticet and
Arch-street, and between Fifth 3nd 'i<t Streets, on Hud
son's fqutre, viz. Coatings, Blanketings, Janes, Evf
iaftings, Shalloons, &c. He has also for Ale ftvetal good
Loom:. Spinners employed as usual, by
SAMUEL' WETHERILL, Junior.
Five Hundred Dollars Reward.
p AN AWAY from the schooner Experiment, on
" Wednesday nght last, a Nigro Fellow, by the name
cf MINGO MI FCHEL, about thirty five
years old, coal black, about fix feet high, Render made,
h, s a very a&ve smart countenance, and a ldp in his
speech, which is remarkable, he is a good Gilor, car
penter, and corker; he carried off with him sundry
fuitsof cloaths. If any perlon th mid apprehend the
said Negro, and deliver him to the fubfcrib^r, who may
be found at the£offee-Houfe, or to Media. Andrew
and James Caldwell of this city, IhVI receive the above
Reward. It is tikewife difired of all Matters of priva
teers and merchant vtffels, that are going to sea, net
to carry the said Fellow off.
HENRY HILTON.
"$ T~P HEN GIRARD,
Has for Sale, at his Store in Water street, between
M Market and Ar h greets,
WSCOVADO Sugar in hogsheads and barrels,
Goffee in hogsheads, tierce^nd barrels,
French Brandy in tierces, three years old,
Taffia in tierces. -
Gun-powder in half barrels,
Superfine Clothe, Chaicuns, Plztilles,
Cambists, men's cotton Stockings,
Fine Woolen ditto for women, and a quantity of com
pleat Mufquets with Bayonets, &c. &c. &c.
TO B E SO L D,
TWO FAR M S.
%fl H E one on which the subscriber lives, containing
M two hundred and seventy-three acres of land,
foty acres of which is good mowing ground, thirty
acres more is force! with graft feed and will he fit to
mow rhe ensuing year ; eighty acres is cov%r d with fine
white oak timber ; the remainder is good arable land,
fit for rising ad kinds of grain ; the whole under com
pleat fence, (chiefly new r?ik) and in fmdl entlofurv,
and well watered : There isen said farm a good dwell
ing house two Tories high, almost new, a large and
commodious new kitchen with a well & good water by
the door, a Large Dutch barn, new cyder works com
pleat, fmoakhoufe, barracks, cowsheds, &c. a large
apple orchard in full growth, a young apple orchard
containing near three hundred trees of the best grafted
fruit, a number of peach tries, and a peach nurlny that
will be fit to pbnt out next fpnng. The punchier Sy
be accommodated with an ample quantity of all kinds
of farming utensils, borlei; cattle, Cheep, hogs, &c.
grain and root# fora fam ly, and forage for the ftek.
N. B. There is cut into proper lengths and piled up on
this farm as much good wood as will be iuffici&nt for
two years fuel.
The other farm joins this, and contains one hundred
and sixty-three acrer, above one third of which is well
timbered woodland, fifteen acres of it mowing ground,
the rest good arable land : There is on it a good farm
houfe one and an half Rories high, has three rooms on a
filer, a good kitchen, with a well of good water at the
door, a fhep and a good English barn, two fine apple
orchards which annually produce a large quantity of
cyder, a number cf peach, cherry and pear trees. This
farm was rented in February 1778, fir seven years, at
fifty pounds per year rent, and the proprietor to hive
half the fruit that the orchards produce every year ; the
tenant is bdurid to have the whole farm 'endofed at the
expiration of the lease under a fence of eight rails high
with flakes and riders, and the clear land divided into
seven fields and under fence of seven rails 'with flakes
and riders. Both farms lie at sixteen miles distance from
Brunswick Landing and twenty-two miles frem Eliza
beth town. For ter®3 Apply to Mr. Alexander Stewart,
merchant, in Philadelphia, or the owner,
JOHN SHAW.
Bernard's Town, ^omerfet County, New-Jersey.
[ Published every Tuesday, and Saturday.
FORTY DOLLARS REWARD.
DAN AWAY on the jerth inst. (September) two
Lads, one an apprentice named William Golden,
about seventeen years of age; had on when he went
away a bearskin coat with pewter buttons lettered P, a
flaxen shirt, ftrioed tow trowfers, and new ftices with
pinchbeck buckles ; he is a slender built pale locking
lad, with light coloured ftrai,bt hair. The other a fer
vant lad named Richard Oliver, about fourteen
years of age, a Him raw-boned lad, with piss-burnt hair,
and has a fear in his right hand ; he took with him t^u
coarse thirts, two pair of tow troffers, one homespun
Wilton coat,- one short linen jacket, &c. Whoever
takes up said lacs and brings them to Robert Power
at Marcus Ho k Crofcread, in Cheibr co ty, or to
the fubferiber in Filth ftrect, near Market Street, Phi
ladelphia, mail receive rhe above reward, or Twenty
Dollars for either of them, paid by
WILLIAM PERKINS.
Philadelphia, Srpt. 15, 1780.
Four Hundred Dollars Reward.
OTRAYED er STOLEN from the fubfri^er,
' living in Love Lane, a dark chefnut fe, r 1 Horse,
about fourteen and a half hands high, (hod before, h.s
alow carri,ge, no brand, a 'null blazein ids face, Tme
white on his near hind foot, long sprigged tail pretty
thick, fhert main, h s fore:op being cut square. Who
cxer takes up law! horse so that the fubferiber may have
him again, (hall receive the above reward, p^d by
WILLIAM WALKER.
Jwo Hundred Dollars Reward.
T, A N AWAY from the fuofcriber, on the ninth
rest, a Ngroe man named CATO, had on a
CDh cqlopred jacket or a brown one, leather breeches,
and sundry other apparel. He is about 5 feet 7 inches
high, aged 33 years, has remarkable imall handsome
features, pby# cn the violin, and took one with him.
Whoever brin s the said Negroe to the fubferiber, or
John Kidd of BHi falem, Bucks county, E(q ; Captain
Thomas Reed of Whitehill, near Bordentown ; or John
Redman, merchant in Front Ibect, Philadelphia, fhali
receive the above reward, and all reah n?ble charges.
WILLIAM PARR, LancHter.
September 9, 1780,
To 3e SOLD by Public Vendue,
At the Coffee-Houfe in Philadelphia, on Wednesday the
27th instant (September) precisely at XII unlock, if
not foener fold by private falc.
A SMALL PLANTATION
IN Hatfield township, Philadelphia county, about 25
miles from tme city, con mining 50 acres, 6 of which
are gepd meadow, 25 acrec woodland, the rest arable
and gafture, the whole under good fence, with a log
houfi and barn thereon. It was late the property of
John Weight, and the land is not inferior to any in the
country.
For farther particulars inquire of Henry Cfo >rne, Esq;
Attorney at Law, in Front ftieet, Philadelphia, or the
fabfcriber in Germartovyn. OWEN FERRIS.
To be S OLD by Public Audlion,
At the Coffee House, on Weunefday the 27th instant,
at Twelve o'clock.
VALUABLE Plantation or piece of land, eon
t^^ ng seventy acres, with allowances for high
va,&, situate and lying in the townffiip of Depford, and
county of Gloucr.fter, in the State of New-Jersey, of
which there is twelve acres cleared, and under good
fence, wih a quantity of good bearing fruit trees on
the same; the remainder well timbered with oak, hick,
cry and pine, convenient to feveial f»„ mills and gr ft
mills, and within seven miles 01 a landing, either on
Mantua er Timber creeks ; with a good square log dwel
ling house, three rooms on the lower floor, and two
fire places, a good cellar under the fame, and a good
well of water near the door ; the situation is fitting for
any public byfinefy Inch as tavern or store, it lying on
the great road leading from Glouceftcr to Cape May
and great Egg-harbour.
Philadelphia, September 12, 1780.
BY Virtue of an Order of the 0 R
FHANS COURT of the city and county of Phiia.
uelphia, will be fold by the fubferiber, at Public Ven
due on the premises, on Thursday the twelfth d_ of
October next, at ten o'clock in the morning, the i^ci
ety or half part of a brick meffeage or tenement and
lot of ground, together with a brick shop adjoining
the said meffuage, situate at the north-east corner of
Callow Hill street, in the Northern Lib^ties, late the
real estate of I(aac Pearson deceased.
ABIGAIL PEARSON, Administratrix,
To the Printer of the Pennsylvania Packet
SIR,
RM 11 E accidents to which inhabitants ofeities situated
J, near the lea or rivers, are e„pofed to, from that
particular filiation, are daily and sincerely lamented.
Toe loss of a parent, an only child, a dearconnexion, or
indeed of any ufeful member of the community, by drown
ing, is afflicting in the most poignant degree. Itis some
consolation even io dea'h, to be encircled by lamenting
relatives, and the melancholy fympatby of surrounding
friends feeme to fofien the bed offekne^, and (mooth toe
passage to eternity. How hard then? Dow te\ erely dif
tr^ffing, to be suddenly and unexpectedly deprived of a
lan look, and of a last, though fid farewell !
Humane contideratmas of this kind, added to a patrio
tic desire ofbeing ufeful to fociery, have not long fioce
prompted men of literature in Europe, to endeavour to
re-animate the un'oitunate persons who have fallen into
water, or have been fuffocated in various manners. How
far they have succeed.-d, may be learned from their feve.
ral publications. It is not our defgo in this paper,, to
enter tuly and particularly into the detail of the<r fee
cefs— Let it befufficient for us to fay, that we often have
seen a mother weeping over the pale corpse of her beloved
child, the father's boftm burning with unutterable an
goilh ; When the kind and speedy habd of relief, has in
a few minutes changedthe tear of maternal sorrow, into
the tear of joy, and the anguish of a father into grateful,
inexpr+ffible rapture. -
After the success of a few instances, the benevolent in
terefled themselves in proftcuting the ufeful difeovery,
with eagerness and vigour. For this purpose, societies
were instituted in many capital cities of Europe, and libe
ral fubfcr;ptiops promoted as funds for the necessary ex
pences. In the cities of London and WeflminGer, a large
and generous fund was eftabjifned by great numbers of
the Nobility and G-ntry. M,ny gentlemen of the medi
cal line, engaged to affiftall unfortunate peffons brought
to them : But as their distance from the water, and their
various avocations often precluded immediate assistance,
“ the Society 'or the relief of drowned perfocs," fixed
upon a numbor of assistants, whole dwellings were conti
guous to the river. Inorder to Simulate these more pow
erfully to exert themfeives assiduously and pundually, an
bandfome bounty was allowed to each assistant, for 'every
renovated person, upon fufficieat teflimony, or upon the
persons appearing at the office of the Society, to make
his acknowledgments: This example was soon followed
by all the trading towns io England. Dubi n, ever re>
markable for ufeful and beneficent invitations, soon emu
lated Lendon. Amfierdam and other cities of Holland,
(if we mifiake not) had preceded London—the general
distribution of water, making accidents more common,
and affording numerous fubjeds for experiment-
To those laudable institutions, numbers of ufeful mem
bers of ftciety, owe a long continuance ofexiftence § and
many a father of a numerous family, has been preserved
to procure them the decent subsistence which 'indufir,
ever will afford.
To make their endeavours of more extensive utility,
the Societies have recommended a method of cure foun
ded upon principles ftridly philosophical : And pub
lished their directions in a plain and concise manner. But
it is absolutely necessary for us t® observe ;
ift. That even if the person has lain a configurable (pace
of time under water, (for inflance, an hour and an half,
or longer,) it is incumbent upon the by flan Do to at
tempt his recovery.
2d. That the means directed be immediately employ
ed, and although nd signs of re-animation should appear,
they should be Readily and industriously persevered in for
many hours.
3d. In the various casualties of fuffbeations from ful
phurous damps of mines, condeofed air of long confined
wells or pits, of air received from fermenting liquors by a
narrow aperture, fleams of burning coal, effluvia of ful
phurous mineral acids, arsenic, &c. persons firuck by
lightening, or seemingly dead by any violent agitation
of the passions : The (übfequent directions are also to be
pursued.
DIRECTIONS.
Immediately upon taking the body out of the water, let
the deaths be ft.-ipped off; let it be wiped perfectly dry,
and put intoa bed (well warmed) between two blankets.
Under the nethermost blanker strew a very large quantity of
hot alhes, whicu must be conftlntly renewed as ther heat
diminishes.f by no means let the body be laid across a log,
rolled on a barrel, &c. these methods producing always
mod fatal confequepces.
A by-fland^r should apply his mouth tu that of the pa
tient, and enc'.ivour to inflate the lungs and renew their
suspended action, by blowing forcibly down his threat.
The fumes of tobacco infested by a pipe into the fun
dament, prove of molt essential service. The affiftant^
t In cold weather, the warm bath may be used
with great propriety, instead of the blankets, but if the
water is frozen to the furface of the body, it will not be
so convenient. In thatcafe the body maybe rubbed whir
clcths dipped in cold w^r.