Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1775-02-06 00:00:00, page 4

it a fecial meeting ofthe Boarri of General Proprie
tof' fthe Kirton Divifon of New-Jerjey, at the
Lit)' of Burlington, on khurfday and Friday, the
iotb and iitb da,s of November, 1771 , ^ r ^as
Refolded,
rp H A r as it is evident the Eastern Proprietors
I are not difoofed to come into the equitable
mcufures proposed by this Board, for fettling a true
line of partiton between them, this board will as
sert and maintain th^ir right to the lands lying to
tie wefcvard of a line, to be run from the Mouth
of Machackamack, lately established as the North
ern Boundary of this province, to theStation Point
at Little Egg-harbour, and to the eastward of the
exparte line, run by Mr. John Lawrence.
Afo Refolded and Ordered, That every Proprietor,
er others holding under them, who have a right
to locate lands within any of the firtt four divi
dends, may be allowed to fiirvey tl.e fame on any
part of the lands within the angle, lying to the
Westward and Ea/twlrd of the lines before men
tioned, fubjeft to the Resolutions of this Board
already agreed 'upon. And provided also. That
those who have warrants now to locate, (hail locate
and return the fame to the Surveyor-General, with
in fix months from this time, and all others who
may obtain warrants hereafter, within fix months
from the date of such warrants. Refolded also,
That a Sixth dividend be granted, to be located
within the angle only, at the rate of 1500 acres to
each Propriety, the warrants therefor to be grant
ed by the Council of Proprietors, at their meeting
in February next, or any subsequent meeting.
At another special meeting of the said Board, on the
fifth of December, 1774.
This Board having understood that very ungene
rous anl undue means have been taken by the
Extern Proprietors, or their Agents, to induce
such persons living within the angle, and who are
a&uallv bona fide purchasers under the said Eartern
Proprietors, to believe that the Western Proprietors
mean and intend to disturb their polßffions and
improvements, and to take their lands from them ;
this Board do resolve and agree, that they have no
such tiniftcr intention, but mean to give to every
such purchaser, or those under whom they hold,
the full opportunity of covering such their pofftlli
ons and improvements with West-Jersey rights, at
a reasonable and moderate price ; and that, in the
mean time, such possessions and improvements be
secured to them without interruption or disturb
ance, or until an act of Alfembly can be obtained
to regulate the fame, and finally determine all
matters in controversy between the said Proprietors;
but that it is nevertheless to be understood, that no
such favour is intended or can be Shewn to any
person whatever, who may hereafter chufe to run
the rifque of malting any future purchases of the
Eafterji Proprietors, of any of the lands that are
contained within the said angle—this Board pro
telling againtt any sales of the Edftern Proprietors,
which they may hereafter think proper to make.
The above Resolves aie dirtied to be published,
for the information of the General Proprietors, and
ail others who may be concerned.
By order of the Board,
DANIEL ELLIS, Register.
PHILIP MARCHINTON,
At his STORE at No. 4, in Market-street, be
tween Second and Front streets,
HATH imported by Capt. Cook, from Lon
don, which he is felling wholesale and retail,
a neat assortment of chintzes, callicoes and cottons,
6 <]r. low priced cloths, milled drabs and beaver
hunters, which he is felling with almost every article
belonging to woollen and linen drapery, fi:k mer
cery, hosiery and haberdashery, all which he is
felling at the very fame prices he did fix months
ago, except those that came higher from home;
and he is determined to continue the fame to the
end of his sales, and he will kindly thank his good
friends and the public for a continuance of their
good favour, as he will make it his particular Study
to merit their esteem.
He has a large quantity of Bolton Shoes and Bar
•cefoni handkerchiefs for sale.
SIXTY POUNDS REWARD.
RAN AWAY'oo the 26th of December last,
from the fubferiber, living on Little Pipe
Creek, in Frederick county, Maryland, fix English
fervent men, viz. John Pollard, 5 feet 6 or 7
inches high, frefh colour, brown hair, grey eyes,
has a large fear on his breast and neck by a cold,
and a large fear on his left hand by a cut. -
Edward Rilot, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, down
look, pale and dark complexion, Straight black
hair, black eyes, has a large fear on his back, has
had fore leg-, and one is fore now.—William
Norris, 5 feet 2or 3 inches high, frefh colour,
flit nose, brown hair, much fun burnt, down look,
has a fc r on one of lis legs, a pot belly, fore
month, bow legged, and is a sawyer by trade.—
Henry Witmon, 5 feet 2 or 3 inches high, black
curl d hair, frefh colour, brown complexion, pock
marked, very dim and small legs, black eyes, and
has a large fear on his head.—John Byset, 5 feet
5 or 6 inches high, brown hair, grey eyes, pale
complexion, much pock-marked,by trade a butcher.
—James Brian, 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, dark
hiir, pale complexion, pock-marked, hazel eyes,
a large fear on one of his arms cut with an ax, and
his shoulders are marked by being whipped in the
regiment; he is a well made fellow, by trade a
sawyer; they are all handy fellows and good far
mers : They took with them all new blanket jack
ets, the Stripes goes round, five under ditto kerfey
wave, and one ditto brown cloth, one caftor hat
bound round the edges, three old felt hats, two
ditto white, all old coarse Shirts, five of them old
country kerfey breeches, black and white, pladed
about one inch square, and one ditto old leather
breeches patched with Sheep Skin, all of them black
and white wool stockings, all country made Shoes,
heels and foals nailed : They also took with them
axes, and many other things. Whoever takes up
the said servants, if one mile from home Fifteen
Pounds, if fifty miles from home Thirty
POUNDS, if one hundred miles from home Forty
Five Pounds, if one hundred and fifty miles from
home, or more, the above Reward, if brought
home to the fubferiber, and in proportion for each ;
two thirds of the above Reward in proportion if
put in any gaol, so that the fubferiber may get
them again, paid by
EDWARD STEVENSON.
WAS left at the house of Henry
Rankin, Tavern-keeper, in Lancaster,
in the month of June last, a good GREAT COAT,
almost new. The owner thereof is desired to come
and prove his property, or otherwise fend the de
scription of said coat, pay charges, and he shall
ha,ve it again by applying as aforefaid.
' £II L^ DE L P IIIA: Printed by J OHN DUNLAP, at the Neiveft Printing-Office in Market-Street where
Suofcriptions at Ten Shillings per Annum, Advertisements, &c. are thankfully received for this Paper.
Che,er, January 20, 1775.
IN PURSUANCE of an Order of
Orphans Court, will be fold by Public Vendue,
oil the 24th day of February next, at two o'clock
in the afternoon, on the premises, the valuable
MERCHANT MILLS and SAW MILL
of the late John Cox, deceased, with a half-breaft
water wheel 1 1 feet head and fall, two pair of Stones,
one wliereof is burrs, 4 feet and an incn diame
ter, of the very belt quality, double geared ; the
other is good country Itones, 4 feet diameter, sin
gle geared, with three boulting chests and cloths
which go by water, two whereof are new, one used
and answers exceeding well for grills and country
work, the others for boulting fuperfine, and are
proved to he of the belt quality ; the chest for fu
perfine will easily contain 25 barrels of flour; and
an excellent meal loft large enough to cool 600
bushels of meal, with a Dutch fan and screen that
turns by water; the whole in good order to manu
fafture wheat to the best advantage, having been
lately repaired, and a good conveniency for ano
ther water wheel and pair of stones: The saw-mill
lately rebuilt, and near the mills, haring water
out of the fame race, going with a flutter wheel
and Strikes at lealt 100 Strokes per minute, and in
a plentiful place for timber ; there is two-thirds of
the year water plenty for three mills, and in the
driest seasons enough for two; situate within four
miles of the borough of Cheder, and one and a half
of a landing on Chester Creek. Also a large done
dwelling-house, two ftcries high; with three rooms
on a floor and fire places in each : Likewise a good
done kitchen, two Stories high, and a well of water
at the door; also a barn, Stables and good coopers
Shop, near the mills, with about 53 acres of good
land, whereon is a good bearing orchard, and 10
acres of meadow, all in very good order, being plea
santly Situated in a healthy part of the country.
Also will be fold thedame day and place, a done
meflua'ge or tenement, wharf, and lot of ground,
situate in the borough of Chester, bounded by
ground of Joseph Afhbridge, and by Front-Street
and Chester Creek ; has been lately occupied as a
store, and will contain 600 barrels of flour below,
and 4000 bushels of wheat above flairs; was built
for, and is a convenient dwelling-hofue : The
wharf is found and good, 33 feet in breadth. The
title indisputable. Any person inclining to view
the premises before the day of sale, may apply ts
Mary Cox, living at said mills.
M A R V COX, Adminiftatrix.
JOHN LEWIS, Administrator.
N. B. To be fold at the fame time and place, a
good pair of Timber Wheels and Screw.
~W A N T E D,•
A YOUNG NEGRO WENCH, from
fourteen to twenty years'of age ; the muff be
Sober, honest, industrious and good tempered :
one that has been bred up in the country will be
mod agreeable. Whoever has got such a one to
dispose of may hear of a parchafer, by applying to
the Printer.
1 0 B E S OL D,
THE TIME of an English servant GIRL,
fold for no fault, who has three years and se
ven months to serve, and can be well recommend
ed for her honefly. She is handy at the needle,
and fond of children. Enquire of the Printer.
Philadelphia, Januay 23, 1775.
TF the person who came into Doctor
Harris's entry last Saturday night, and took
a large silver SOUP SPOON, marked R.H.H.
from a little boy, will bring it back, and whatever
else he stole at the fame time, he may prevent him
felf from being more publicly exposed.
Silversmiths, or any to whom it may be offered
for sale, are requeued to flop it.
B A R L E Y.
AN Y Persons willing to contrast for railing a
quantity of BARLE Y, (not less than
four hundred bushels) are desired to apply to the
Printer hereof.
Thomas duggan, whocame
to Philadelphia in May, 1773, and lived
within three miles of Lancaster, in the county of
Lancaster, in March, 1774, i, requeued by his wife
Bridget Duggan, who came to Baltimore, in
Maryland, in December last, to write to her, and
let her know where be is: And her brother,
Henry Roark, who also came to Philadelphia
about three years ago, and lived with Mr. Jona
than Adams, fnuff-maker and tobacconist, in Mar
ket Street, Philadelphia, is desired also to write to
her, directing to Mr. David Rusk, Inn-keeper, in
Baltimore.
TWENTY SHILLINGS REWARD.
LOST on Thursday the fifth inlt. (January)
at Sarum Forge, or between that and the
Black Horse, a silver WATC H, maker's name
Francis Peacock, London. Whoever has found
the fame, and will return it to Mr. Job Fallows,
at the said Forge, or to Mr. Alexander Bar
tram, in Philadelphia, shall have the above Re
ward.
THE Subscriber, living in George Town,
Maryland, being in a bad state of health, and
thereby unable to follow business, would lett, fell,
or join in partnership with any perfen willing to
undertake the management of the fame, his dwell
ing house and mill, and some privileges on a farm
adjoining the mill, with 20 acres of land, on which
there is some meadow : The dwelling-house has
three rooms above and three below, a pailed gar
den, and kitchen, oven, milk-house, meat house,
a large stable and carriage -house, and a coopers
(hop and dwelling-house; a large mill-house cal
culated for merchant or country business, with
two pair of stones, one pair burrs and the other
cullins, and every other necessary, situated in a fine
wheat country in Kent county, Maryland, about
two miles and an half from George Town, on.Saf
fafrafs River, twelve miles from Chester Town,
twenty miles from Duck Creek Landing, and
eighteen miles from Apoquinimink Landing. For
terms apply to
PEREGRINE BRO WN.
BLUEfor WASHING,
, Made in imitation of that used in England.
THIS BLUE is much easier to ule for the
purpose of wafliing, than Indigo; it readily
dissolves in warm water, without pounding, or fett
ling on the linen in spots ; an ounqe isfu fficient
for fifteen shirts. To be had of Mrs. Kreider, at
the Golden Swan in Third-street, Philadelphia,
at Five Shillings the pound.—An allowance of
Ten per cent, to those who take a quantity.
CHOICE old Jamaica spirits and
Weft-India rum, by the hoglhead or gallon ;
coniac brandy; cherry ditto ; Holland Geneva by
the case or gallon ; old Madeira, Lisbon, Moun
tain and Teneriffe wines, by the quarter calk or
gallon ; excellent white wine and cyder vinegar;
French indigo ; cotton by the bag ; English double,
middling and single refined loaf and lump sugars;
mufeovado ditto in hogsheads and barrels; moiaffes;
Florence oil by the chest or bottle; lamp oil;
mackarel by the barrel ; citron ; almonds, jar and
keg raifirfs; powder, (hot and bar lead; gun flints;
excellent Cheshire and Gloucester cheese ; ginger
by the keg; mustard, starch, oatmeal, pearl bar
ley and grots; katchup, olives, capers and pickled
cucumbers; pepper and allfpi<e ; coffee and cho
colate ; fpermaceti candles by the box or pound ;
a few calks of rice; corks by the groce, with every
other article usual in the Wet Goods business ; to
gether with a general assortment of scales, weights
and meafure<, as usual: Likewise Cordials distilled
and fold at the lowest rates, by
GARRIGUES and ROBINSON,
The south fide of Market-street, directly cppofite
the Meal Market, and third door from the Indian
King, where all orders from town or country will
be thankfully received and duly executed.
N. B. A stable and chaise house to be let,'in
Carter's Alley.
W A N T E D,
As an Overseer on a Gentleman's place within three
miles of this city,
^, PERSON well acquainted with Farming:
4 l Also a person that is a compleat Gardener,
and one that is a perfect mafler of that branch of
business. They must be single men that can be well
recommended for honelty and sobriety ; none other
need apply. Such perlons will meet with encou
ragement by applying to Mr. Benjamin Davids,
at the sign of the George, in Second-street, or to
the Printer hereof.
N. B. A small Plantation to be let. Enquire as
above.
FIVE POUNDS REWARD.
STOLEN out of the stable of the fubferiber,
in New Garden township, Chester county, on
the roth instant, (January) a dark brown or black
MAR E, with a small Itar in her forehead, dish
faced, fourteen hands one or two inches high, low
carriage, thin short mane, both hind feet white,
branded C D on the buttock, paces a travel, and
trots smart, five or fix years old, shod all round,
and has a windgall on the near fore foot at the
pasture joint: Was taken at the fame time, a new
bag, marked in full, Henry Dixson-, with ver
million. Any person or perlons securing the Mare
only, so that the owner may have her again, shall
have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward, and
all reasonable charges ; and if the thief be brought
to jultice, the above Reward, paid by
HENRY DIXSON.
Just published, and to be fold 1,
JOSEPH CRUKSHANK,
In Market-street, between Second and Third
ftreets, Philadelphia,
THE MIDbLE LINE; or
an Attempt to furhifh some H INTS for
ending the DIFFERENCES subsisting be
tween Great Britain and the Colonies.
Boarding and lodgin' g
for a few BOY 3, in a genteel family, and
in a healthy commodious part of the town. En
quire of the Printer.
N. B. To be let for the summer fenfon, or long
er, a very pleasant Country House, &c. on Wiffa
hickon Road, near four miles from town.
At the Desire of federal Gentlemen.
PROPOSALS
For Printing by Subscription,
AnAMERICAN EDITION of the
SPIRIT OF LAWS.
By the great and immortal M. DE SECONDAT,
Baron DE MONTESQUIEU, (so honour
ably mentioned by the Continental Congress.)
Translated from the French by Mr. N UGEN T.
CONDITIONS.
TH E work to be printed in two volumes, octa
vo, page for page with that most elegant Lon
don edition, printed for Nourfe and Valliant, in
the Strand, on a good paper, and neatly bound,
lettered, and edgerolled with gold.
The price to fubferibers will be Twenty Shillings,
Pennsylvania currency ; Seven Shillings and Six
pence to be advanced the time of fubferibing, and
Twelve Shillings and Six-pence on the delivery of
the work.
When three hundred fubferibers are pleased to
approve of these conditions, the work shall imme
diately be put to the press, and finished as soon as
possible.
A lift of the fubferibers will be given in the fiift
volume.
Subscriptions for this valuable work aie
thankfully received by John Dean, (the Editor)
bookbinder, in Laetitia Court, Mr. Joseph Dean,
merchant, in Front-street, Mr. John Dunlap, and
Mr. Joseph Crukfhank, printers, Philadelphia ;
Mr. James Adams, printer, Wilmington ; Mr.
William Aikman, bookflier, Annapolis; Mr.
Isaac Collins, printer, Burlington; Mr. Hugh
Gaine, printer, New-York; and Mr. Robert Wells,
printer, Charles-Town, South-Carolina.
inVirToTrN'DV-R-EW-A R D.
WAS STOLEN out of the stable of the
fubferiber, living in Wilmington, New-
Castle County, in the night of Wednesday the'zgd
of November last, a large sorrel HORSE, about
15 or 16 hands high, upwards of 8 years old, has
a small star or a few white hairs in his forehead,
his mane on the left fide is cut in a comb, and the
right fide hangs down ; he was shod all round some
time ago, when landing keeps his feet nigh toge
ther, and has a small neckband head according to
his size; he is a natural ,acer, but can trot and
hand-gallop, and goes well in a chair. Whoever
takes up the said horse and thief, so that the owner
may get his horse again, and the thief be brought
to justice, shall have the above Reward, or Thir
ty Shillings for the horse only, with reasonable
charges, paid by DAVID BUSH.
Best genuine OLD SAC K,
• Or CANARY WINE,
Accounted a great restorative to a weak constitu
tion, to be fold by
EDWAR D PO L E,
In Market-street, by the dozen in pint bottles.
Pliluehflia, January 27, 1775.
ALL Petfons indebted to J 0 fl N
GOODWIN, late of this city, Houle
carpenter, deceased, are requeued to make pay
ment, and those who have any demands are defied
to bring in their accounts.
PURSUAN T to the last will and testament
of said Goodwin, will be fold by public vendue,
at the London Coffee house, in the evening of the
eleventh of March next, if not fold before at pri
vate sale—A House and Lot of Ground on the east
fide of Front street, three stories high, 20 feet in
front and 40 feet deep; bounded northward by
ground of Daniel Offley, aud southward by Willi
am Frichard. Also a House and Let of Ground on
the south fide of Union-street, between Second and
Third-streets ; the lot is 16 feet front and So feet:
deep; the house is two stories high, with a two
Itory kitchen.
SARAH KIRLIN, ? Executrixes.
HANNAH GOODWIN,)
JACOB HARMAN, Executor.
PETER STRETC H,
On the north fide of Walnut-street, a few doors
below Second-street, and directly opposite the
Prothonotary's Office, hath for SALE,
A NEAT assortment of fuperfine B ROAD
CLOT HS, confining of a beautiful variety
of the most fashionable colours now wore in Lon
don—buff and scarlet of an excellent quality for
gentlemens waistcoats ; peer! colours of different
ihades, suitable fdr womens long cloaks ; drab,
olive, lead, and a number of other plain colours ;
fine, super and fuperfine double milled drab< for
great coats, from 20s. to 40s. per yard ; copper,
brown, London brown, blue, scarlet, drab, and
light and dark beaver colour Bath coatings, froiu
12s. 6d. to 255. per yard ; a great variety of cur
deroys, corderets, spotted velvets and thicklets,
of different patterns and prices ; an assortment of
plain gilt and polished steel buttons; blue, crimson
and spotted feathered velvets, and white silk serge
for linings of gentlemens dress suits ; cloth buttons
embroidered in gold and silver, to match the most
fafhionable colours; elegant gold and silver span
gled ditto; gold and silver balket ditto; fuperfine
four-thread black, buff and drab coloured worsted
breeches patterns ; white and buff belt silk ditto ;
three pieces of black paduafoy, of the belt quality
that can be manufa&ured in England ; one piece,
of beautiful clear white whole fattin ; rattinets,
death-head and scars basket buttons, silk knee gar
ters, scars twist, and belt belladine sewing silk to
match the cloths ; white and brown buckrams,
brown hollands, black and buff death-head and
scars basket vest buttons in bags of 24 doz. Ac. &c.
—The Public may rest assured that the above as
sortment are all fre(h Goods, none older than the
last spring importation, and the greatest part of
them were Shipped the latter end of last August, in
London, on board the Ship Jamaica, Capt. jermyn,
and arrived here since the firft of December and
have been exposed to sale at the City Vendue-ftore,
under the direction of the Committee, pursuant to
the tenth article of the Congress. Notwithstanding
the additional expence accruing from the storage
and sales of his Goods at vendue, they are now of
fered to the Public at the fame prices that Goods
of the fame quality have been usually fold for in
this place, in any quantity from a piece to a yard.
Philadelphia, December 23, ,774.
P AN AWAY from the fubferiber, Cooper,
" on Market-street wharf, the 17th instant, an
apprentice boy named WILLIAM M'DONNAL,
about nineteen years of age; had on when he went
away, a blue coat and buckskin breeches. Who
ever brings him home to his laid matter, or secures
him in any of his Majesty's gaols so Shat his matter
may have him again, shall have ONE SHILLING
Sterling Reward, and all reasonable charges, paid
by WILLIA M_S HIPPIN.
TO B E S'O
Thirty Thousand ACRES of LAND,
SITUATE on the abaters of Juniata, in Cumber
' land and Bedford Counties, tn the province of
Pennfyl-vania ; belonging to the late partnerjbi, of
Baynton, Wharton and Morgan,
Common 1 , known by the name of THE COMPANY
LANDS, viz.
4000 acres on Augbwick Creek, mofly in Clerk's
Valley.
1000 do. on Tufcaroro Creek, in the Path Valleys
2000 do. on the bead of Little Juniata.
4000 do. on Crooked Creek, including the Great
Springs, and running down both sides of the
creek to the mouth of it, and extending in
front on the Juniata federal miles.
1000 do. at the mouth oj the Eaf Br^w b of Juniata,
and extending jcveral miles in jront along
that and little Juniata upward.
1000 do. on Shaver's Creek.
,000 do. on the Leaver Dam branch of Juniata, in
cludin the Great Beaver Dams.
800 do. at and near the mouth of Frank's Tower
bunch.
2000 do. o\ Vineyard Creek, and in Tordec:k Valley.
2000 do. on Dunning's creek, a few miles from
Bedford. ,
1000 do. in the forks of Yellow Creek, 12 miles
north east from Bedford.
500 do. on Friends Cove Creek, 9 miles foutb east
from Bedford.
300 do. on Brufb Creek, 10 miles foutb eafl from
Bed/ord.
300 do. 5 miles foutb weft from Bedford, andon the
great road from thence to Fort Cumberland.
1000 do. on the Shawanefe Cabkin waters, 12 miles
weft from Bedford, and on the greet road to
Pitt/burgb.
600 do. on the main branch of Juniata.
1500 do. on the foutb weft branch oj Little Juniata.
30,000
Likewise 1000 acres or more on Savage River and
Laurel Run, near to Fort Cumberland, in Maryland. l
There is grater carriage Jrom most of these lands or
their neighbourhood to Harris's Ferry, or to Miadie
lown, in Lancaster county, from whence there is a
great trade up the Sufquebanna and Juniata rivers,
by means of flat bottom boars, which carry from 300
to 500 bushels of wheat. The tranftortatin of which
from the above lands to the Middle-Town market,
c ^ s from 6d. to sod. per bufoel only.
The quality of these lands is well known. They will
be divided or fold as they lay, as shall bed fait the pur
chasers. Ibe terms of sale may be known by , „l}irg
to RICHARD NEAVE, fun. ? , ,
THOMAS WHARTON, Sen. }
Or GEORGE MORGAN, J I^adel/km.
Letters from perf ns liwng at a aifance, inclining
to purcbaje any part of the abovementioned la^ds, fall
be du'y unfwered.