Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1775-03-06 00:00:00, page 1

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General
TobeSOLD by PUBLIC VENDUE,
on the premises, on Monday the 27th instant,
(M arch) if not before fold at private sale,
AV ALUABLE Plantation and tra& of Land,
fit late in Southampton tov <nihip, Bucks coun
ty, containing about 14.0 acres, whereof 20 acres
or more is woodland, and about 10 acres meadow,
great part of which is watered ; with a good bear
ing orchard. On the premises is a good grid and
merchant mill with two pair of stones, pleasantly
seated on the public road leading from Wrights
town to Pniladelphia, from which city it is distant
eighteen miles and an half, and about ten miles
from a landing and ftore-hoofe on Delaware. The
dwelling-boufe, mill-house, barn, and stabling, of
which there is sufficient, are all of stone. The
whole is in good repair, and now in the occupation
of Joseph Walker, who, on application, will (hew
the premises.
Also at the fame time and place will be fold, a
good flour waggon, with a valuable team of horses
and their geers. The sale to begin at one o'clock,
when due attendance will be given, and the terms
made known, by JOSEPH HART.
TobeSOLD by PUBLIC VENDUE,
on Wednesday, the 12th of April next, on the
premises, in pursuance of the left will and tefta
merit of James M'Connell, deceased,
AVERY valuable Plantation, situate in Eift-
Pennlbofough township, Cumberland county,
on Conedogwainet creek, and within four miles of
Harris's Ferry; containing 150 acres of extraordi
nary good lan I, about one half cleared, and in
very good repair, having a good square log dwell
ing-house, a barn and other convenient buildings,
a good bearing apple orchard, and a great number
of very good peach trees thereon. The sale to he
gin at ten o'clock, when due attendance will be
given, and the terms of sale made known, on the
day and place above mentioned, by
WILLIAM GEDDIS,)
JAMES OLIVER, Executors.
JAMES PURDY, \
TO BE SO L D,
TH E Indentures of a Dutch Girl, about four
teen yeafs of age, who has four years to serve.
Her matter having quit house keeping die is fold
for want of employ. Enquire of SAMUEL
JACKSON, in Front-street, near the Draw
bridge, Philadelphia.
'Juft pubUfad, end to be fold by
JOSEPH CRUKSHANK,
In Market street, between Second and Third
ftreets, Philadelphia,
THE GENTLEMAN FARRIER's
REPOSITORY, of elegant and approved
Remedies for the Diseases of HORSES; in two
books. Cont dning, I. the Surgical, 11. the Me
dical part of Practical Farriery; also, di
reaions for the proper treatment of post chaise and
other horses, after violent exercise. With suitable
remarks on the whole.
To which are now added, Observations on broken
winded Horses, endeavouring to prove the feat of
thet malady not to be in the lungs.
By J. BARTLET, Surgeon.
rib'' " E Subscriber, who has carried on
l the Soap-boiling and Tallow-chandling bu
fiaefs for some years past for Mr. George Kennedy,
takes this method to inform the Public in general
and bis friends in particular, that he has opened
said business in Second-street, opposite the City
Tavern, between Walnut and C'hefnut-ftreets,
where he intends carrying it on in the most exten
sive manner ; and as said Kennedy has declined,
hopes for the encouragement of his friends, as he
will make it his particular study to serve his cus
tomers with the greeted care and punctuality, and
their favours drill be gratefully acknowledged by
the Public's most obedient humble servant,
WILLIAM GILMORE.
N. B. Merchants, Captains of veflels and coun
try store-keepers fliall be supplied on the (horteft
notice.
THIRTY SHILLINGS REWARD.
RAN AWAY on the 7th of February last,
from the fubferiher, living in Newcastle
county, an indented servant man named THOMAS
M'DERMALD; he came from Ireland with Capr.
M'C'utcheon in the year 1772, and has since had
for inafters James Ray, Joshua Jackson, John Dick
son, Peter Robinson, and the fubferiber, and has
been in Philadelphia gaol : He is about five feet
four or five inches high, red faced, and his nose
turns up; had on a thick black and white mixed
jacket, with no collar and neither hemmed nor
bound round the neck, the sleeves blacker than the
body, long trowfers of the fame, black dockings,
and good fines. Whoever takes up and secures
said 'fervant, to that his matter may have him again,
(hall have the above reward, paid by
JOSEPH OGLE.
Philadelphia, Dec, 3d, 177^.
THREE POUNDS REWARD.
^.cft p AN AWAY from the fub
fo, " 'fcriber, the 21st of Novem
ber, lalt, a Negro Boy named
C AT 0, about four feet seven
tkl'^t^ or eight inches high, strong
O ^n' an< ' we " made; had on when
V *Util he went away; a scarlet coattee,
a fuperfine purple jacket, and
Ga^A ^ome^x^, a [mall hat. Whoever takes
W)faid Negro and brings him home, or secures him
io that his matter may get him again, (hall have
*.e above reward, and reasonable charges, paid by
WILLIAM TOD,
V 0 L. IV.
MONDA Y,
TO-MORRO W,
At ONE o'clock in the afternoon, at
JOHN H A R T's
VENDUE-STOR E,
At the corner of South and Front-Streets,
Will begin the SALE of a neat affortraent of
merchandiz e.
JOHN ACKEROY D,
At his store in Third-street, between Market and
Arch-ftieets, is now opening the remainder of
his GOODS, imported in the London Packet,
Capt. Cook, from London, amongst which are
the following articles,
FINE and second 7-4. broa (cloths, yard wide
sorest cloths and plains, beaver hunters, lamb
skins, caffimers and German serges, rattinets, dial
loans, plain and figured callimancoes, durants and
tammies of almsit every colour, hair and worded
plushes, worsted barrogans, plain and corded list
ings, cotton velvets, velverets, fattinets, thicksets,
jeans, tuftians, ; 4. cotton drabs, Dutch and Itali
an cords; half yard and yard wide corded, flower
ed and bordered dimothies ; yard and 9-8 wide
Marseilles quiltings; 9 4, 10-4 and 11-4 cotton
counterpanes ; 64, 7 4 and 8-4 bed bums ; 3 4
7-8 and yard wide Irish linens; white and brown
Russia and Irish sheetings, white and brown drill
ings, Ravens duck, striped cotton and linen hol
lands; 3-4, 7-8 and yard wide cotton and linen
checks ; together with a quantity of Queen,'s ware,
of an excellent quality, to be fold cheap for cash only.
The importation of Goods from Britain being
flopped, obliges the said ACKEROYD to difnofe of
his dock on hand and return to England as soon as
he can ; he therefore requests that all accounts past
due to him, may be balanced as soon as possible.
FORTY SHILLINGS REWARD.
RAN AWAY on the 15th of February last,
from the fubferiber, living in Kent county,
M dryland, an English servant woman named AN N
B URDON, about 22 years old, lusty and full
faced, with brown hair; had on and took with her
when (he went away, a striped lincey petticoat and
jacket, a pair of mens shoes and a pair of yarn
flockings; she likewise had three aprons, two of
them rapping and the other check. Any person
that will take up the said servant woman and secure
her in any of his Majesty's gaols, fliall have Twen
ty Shillings iftaken in the county, ifout of the
county Thirty Shillings, and if out of the
province the above reward, paid by
BENJAMIN COLLINS.
Trenton, March 1, 1775.
THIRTY SHILLINGS REWARD.
ABSCONDED from the fubferiber, a cer
tain DANIEL MURRIN, a native of
Ireland, by trade a butcher, with a sum of money
that he was intruded with : He is about five feet
high, well set, with black hair commonly club'd;
took with him a light coloured cloth coat with
wooden buttons, a cotton velvet jacket, and lea
ther breeches; a claret coloured coat and scarlet
jacket, two new check shirts and one white one, a
silver watch, a pair of silver buckles, and a pair of
square plated buckles in his (hoes. Any person se
curing said Murrin, so that I may have my pro
perty again, (hall have the above Reward.
WILLIAM SMITH.
FIVE POUNDS REWARD.
STOLEN out of the liable of the fubferiber,
living in Christiana hundred, Newcastle county,
a light bay HORSE, about thirteen hands three
inches high, eight or nine years old, neither brand
nor ear mark, shod all round, paces and trots, and
canters well. Whoever takes up the horse and
thief, so that the owner may get the horse again,
and the thief be brought to justice, (hall have the
above Reward, or for the horse only FORTY
SHILLING S, and reasonable charges, paid by
ANDREW ANDERSON.
FIVE POU N iTs" inTwTRD.
RAN AWAY on Sunday night, the 26th
of February last, froth the fubferibers, near
Carlisle in Cumberland county, two Irish servants;
one named PETER HAGAN, about nineteen
years of age, five feet fix or seven inches high, a
frefh looking, full face !, fat lad, with short dark
brown hair; had on when he went away, an old
beaver hat, a good common linen shirt, a black
silk neckcloth, a brawn coat made of beaver coat
ing, with mohair buttons of the fame colour, a red
beaver coating jacket with red mohaii buttons,
new deer-skin breeches, the buttons covered with
the fame, coarle grey woven dockings almost new,
new shoes, and plain steel buckles. The other
named WILLIAM ELLIOTT, aged about
twenty-one years, by trade a tinman, about five
feet high, a frefh looking lad but rather thin faced,
black hair with a falfe cue, a little wool hat bound
with black binding, an homespun linen shirt, a
white stock and plated stock buckle, a brown home
spun coat with white metrl buttons, a brown jacket
of low priced broadcloth wi:h white metal buttons,
buckskin breeches, grey home made dockings,
good shoes lately half foiled, and plain yellow
buckles: He is a little bndy legged, and talkative.
They both love strong drink, have but little mo
ney, but a good deal more eloathing, which they
will probably fell or exchange. Whoever secures
the above described servants so that their matters
may have them again, fliall receive THIRTY
SHILLINGS reward for each if taken in the
county, and FIFTY SHILLINGS for each
if taken out of the county, with reasonable charges
if brought home to their mailers.
WILLIA M THOMPSON,
JOHN DAVIES, Junior.
D U NL A P's
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To BE S O^L D BY
PHILIP BENEZET,
At his Store the corner of Market and Third-streets,
BEST English gun flints by the thousand, bar
lead, needles, sealing wax, mace, faffron,
I urlington's balsam by the dozen, black silk cra
-lats and silk handkerchiefs, sewing silk, black gauze
handkerchiefs, ribbonds, blue longcloths, red paint
edlooking-glades, Chapmans books, ftrrits, and
a large assortment of India callicoes.
RUSSIA IRO N,
A FEW tons of excellent quality, in broad
bars suitable for cart tire ; also a few coils of
running and standing RIGGING, and a
CABLE of 13 inches, to be fold by
J OHN PRI NGI, E,
'it Captain LAKE's, near the New-Market, in
Second street, Philadelphia.
- I hiladelpbia, January 27, 1775.
A RD Persons indebted to JOH N
GOODWIN, late of this city, Houfe
carpenter, deceased, are requeued to make pay
ment, and those who have any demands are desired
to bring in their accounts.
SUANT 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-
A House and Lot of Ground on the east
tide of Front street, three stories high, 20 feet in
fiont and 40 feet deep; bounded northward by
ground of Daniel Cfflev, aud southward by Willi
am Prichard. Abb a House and Lot of Groundon
the south fide of Union-street, between Second and
I hird streets; the lot is 16 feet front and 80 feet
deep ; the house is two (lories high, with a two
dory kitchen.
SARAH KIRLIN, ? Executrixes
HANNAH GOODWIN, J LxccutriXCT
?A£°B HARMAN, Executor.
Tobe SOLD by PUBLIC VENDUE,
at the London Coffee-houfe, on the 15th diy of
the Third month (called March) at fix o'clock
in the afternoon,
AS MALL brick meffuage or tenement, and
~a or piece of land, (late part of the estate
of William Bettle, Tanner, deceased) about three
miles diflant from the city, situate on Turner's
Lane, in the Northern Liberties of the cit) of Phi
ladelphia, and on another lane lately laid out 33
feet wide, containing 8 acres and 76 perches, firia
measure, whereon is a young orchaid, a well of
choice water by the doer, and sundry other im
provements. Ihe above described premises are
very suitable for a Gentleman's country-feat. Any
person inclining to purchase the fame may have
credit for the greatest part of the purchase money,
giving fatisfa&^ry security and paying int^refl.—
For further particulars apply to
SARAH BETTL E, Executrix.
SAMUEL BETTLE,?,
JOSEPH HOWELL, J Ex - cutors -
Philadelphia, February to, 177;.'
TO BE S O L D,
Or exchanged for a House and Lot in this city,
A PLANTATION containing one hundred
and sixty odd acres of land, part cleared and
fit for plowing, and part hath good oak wood on
it, a small dwelling.houfe, some fruit trees, good
water, and the inhabitants may be supplied with
fifu all the year : Ir is situated about twenty miles
from this city, and there is a good road to it. The
title is indisputable. Any person may know the
terms by applying to the fubferiber, at the corner
of Second and Lombard-streets, near the New-
Market. SARAH BROUGHTON.
N. B. If it suits the purchaser the money may
lay in his hands, on giving security and paying
interest.
February 9, 1775.
TO B E Ll i T,
For a term of years, and may be entered on in the
Spring,
AT ANY AR D compleat, with a dwelling
houfe, garden, &c. and some meadow : Also
two Farms, with a confi lerable quantity of very
fine meadow to each. For terms apply to the fup
fcriber, who proposes to be on the. premises, at the
head of Cheder, K°nt county, Maryland, from
the 15th of this month until the 20th of March
next. THOMAS GILPIN.
T O B E SO L~D,
By the Subscriber, living in Little Britain town
ship, Lancaster county,
AV ALUABLE Plantation, or traft of pa
tent land, containing two hundred and two
acits, with the usual allowance : About one half
es said land is cleared, the remainder good thriv
ing timber ; there is about fifteen acres of meadow
made and mortjy well watered, and as much more
may be made; also a good log dwelling-house and
barn, a good stone spring-house over a good spring,
and a young bearing orchard ; the whole in pretty
good repair, well watered and pleasantly situated.
Any person inclining to purcbafe, may know the
terms of sale by applying to the fubferiber, living
on the premises.
THOMAS PLUMMER.
^H O C O L~A T LU
Manufa&ured in the best manner, and SOLD by
SAMUEL GARRIGUES, Junxor,
In Market street, near the London Coffee-houfe,
WHERE country store keepers and others
may be supplied with any quantity, on the
molt reasonable terms, and at the (horteft notice.
T HE
ADVERTISER.
M ARC H 6th; 1775.
For LIVER POO L,
=^f+|| The SHIP
B A RCLA?Y,
^W^^ PAUL COX, Master;
NT ° " loading at Cuth-
A™ Bert's Wharf; will tail
" ™° wct k sb For freight or
passage apply to Barclay and
Mitchell, who have for sale, old Lisbon white
,rre of an excellent quality, Liverpool coarse fait,
for curing fifh, a few quoils of English cordage,
Scotch oznabrugs, fail canvas, taffaties, bandanoes,
and a frefli assortment of printed linens, cottonsand
callicoes.
For CHARLESTOWN, (£. CarolinZ)
a^^'a'\- n The Brigantine-
SEA NYMPH,
r^%\ JOSEPH BLEWER,
MASTER;
f\A NEW vessel, conveniently
\U''^?^£^ '' provided with genteel ac
comm°dations for passengers ;
^%^^ will fail in eight days. For
freight or passage apply to Joseph Blewer, at
his house in South&a k, or on board at Mr. Joseph
Sims's wharf, or to Daniel Robinson, at his
store on said wharf, who has for sale Carolina foal
leather, new rice, pick-root, an assortment of Eng
lish cordage, and a quantity of fine Mufcovado fa
gars in hogsheads.
Lor CHARLES I OWN, (S. Carolina)
fc^^;™— The Brigantine
J E N N Y,
ft% WILLIAM WORKMAN,
/' MAS '**i
NT 0 " la ying at Good
t'^•^ra IV man's wharf, has genteel
' accommodations sos R.l{ngeis
and will fail with all convenient speed, havm^the
greatest part of her cargo now ready to go on board
For fieight or paflage apply to Mason & Patton*
or the laid Matter.
Tobe SOLD by PUBLIC VENDUE^
on, the fifteenth day of March inil. at Two
o'clock in the afternoon, cn the premises,
A L^ that meflusge or tenement, pubic inn
fl or tavern, where Thomas B^bb non dwells,
known by the name of Grubb's Tavern, situate
in brandywine hundred in the county of Newcastle
on the great road leading from Philadelphia thro''
Chester to Wilmington, together with the planta
tion and tra& of land thereunto belonging, con
t lining about 145 acres, of which 30 acres, is choice
woodland, is acres of meadow ground, cf whi^h
3 acres is banked improved marsh, the rest arable
land. Its front on Delaw re liver renders it very
convenient and easy to mud and improve the whole
at pleasure. The beautiful and extensive profpe&
of the said premises, with its situation abcut mid
way between Chester and W.lining ton, render it
extremely convenient either for a Gentleman's Tat
or for a tavern, or any public bufineL, and is fw
well known that it is unnecessary to fa) more about
it. Attendance will be given on the day of sale,
and the conditions made known by
adam Grubb.
N. B. The premises may be entered upon the
25th of M irch.
TO BE SOLD BY
Thomas and Jonathan Penrofc,
On Society - Hill,
BRISTOL BEER, in hampers; a few
crates of QUART BOTTLES
SHEATHING PAPER aniINAILS.
TOBE SO L D,
A TRACT of valuable LAND, in Caroline
county, (formerly Dorchelte ) in the pro
vince of Maryland, containing 516 acifs, lying
between the north-east and north-well fork of
Nanticocke River, about five miles from navigable
water, and twenty two miles from Mufmeliun
Landing, on Delaware : About 130 acrejs of the
said trad are cleared, with good improvements
thereon, 50 acres may be made into meadow, the
remainder well timbered ; it lays high, and is ex
cellent for wheat. Time will be given for payment
if required upon good fecuritv.
For terms apply to WILLIAM ENNALLS,
Junior, in Dorchester county.
W A N° T E D,
AS MAR T lively Negro Boy, about fourteen
or fifteen years of age. Any person having
such an one to dispose of, may hear of a purchaser
by applying to the Printer.
Pettie's Island CASH LOTTERY,
For railing 3601. toward finifhing a Bridge over
Pickering Creek.
rCT H E Managers of said Lottery are sorry they
£ are obliged to inform the few adventurers
whohave thought the feheme worthy of encourage
ment, that after using their utmost industry to dif
pole.of the tickets in said Lottery, they find so ma
ny yet on hand as renders it impossible for them
to draw upon such principles as would answer the
end proposed : And the impatience of the adven
turers, together with the little encouragement
given of ever felling the remainder, has induced
them thus publicly to notify those who have pur
}chafed and paid for tickets, to return them to ihe
; persons of whom they bought and receive back
I their money.
NUM B. 176.