Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1775-04-24 00:00:00, page 4

TO BE SOL D,
A HEALTHY servant Woman, who has near
I two years and an half to serve ; she can spin
and knit, and is fit for country business. Enquire
of the Printer.
TO BE $ O L D,
To the highest bidder, at Mr. Ninian Beall's, of
Ninian, on the zoth day of August next, if fair,
if not, the next fair day,
CT' WELVE hundred acres of good land, ly
( ing on Great Seneca Creek (near the mouth)
i- Frederick County, Maryland. Wherft are three
1 nations, a great quantity of valual le meadow
i 1 md, and two exceeding good mid feats : The pur
-6 ih\r or purchaUTS to have immediate ^offeffion,
11 giving bond with approved security payable the
zoth day ofNovember, 1776, to carry interest from
the date if not pun&ually difeharged at or upon
the aforefaid 20th day of November. The land
will be laid out in lots suitable to the purchasers.
Any perl'on inclinable to view the land before th^
day of falr, may apply to Ninian Beall; of Ninian.
CHARLES BEALL.
April 10, ^775.
1™ HIS is to give notice to the Creditors
- of Henry Voorhees, prisoner, confined
for debt in the gaol of Burlington, that they be
and appear before the Honourable Justices of the
Supreme Court held at Burlington, in and for the
province of New-Jersey, at the Court-house, on
Wednesday the tenth day of May next, to /hew
cause why the said debtor should not be difeharged,
agreeable to an a& of the legislature, entitled, An
AT for the relief, of insolvent debtors.
J ~ —*—
April 14, 1775.
THESE are to give notice to the Cre
ditors of James Davis, Samuel Johnston,
and Garrit Voorhees, prisoners confined for
debt in the gaol of Burlington, that they be and
appear before the Jnftices of the Court of Common
Ideas for the county of Burlington, to be held at
the Court-house in Burlington, on Tuesday, the
fifteenth day of May next,' to (hew cause why the
fan! debtors fh®u'd not be difeharged, agreeably to
an a& of the legislature, entitled, An a& for the
relief, &c. of insolvent debtors.
LAURENCE BIRNIE,
Watch and Clock Maker, from Ireland, who
for Come time pad has carried on said business at
Mrs. Fearis's, in Arch-street,
1) EGS leave to acquaint his friends and the
j) public, that he has removed to Second-street,
nearly opposite the Baptist meeting, a few doors
below Arch-street, where he intends making and
rediini all forts of repeating, horizontal and
plain watches; likewise eight-day, spring, chime
and repeating clocks.
H returns his most sincere thanks to those La
dies and Gentlemen who have favoured him with
their commands, and hopes, by his assiduity and
cue, to merit their future favours and the afteera
es the public, _
PR O PO S Al S
For Printing bv Subscription,.
THE
POCKET ASSISTANT.
CONTAINING,
I. A CONCISE table for buying and felling
any commodity, /hewing the amount of
any quantity from 1, to 3000 ells, yards, pounds,
ounces, &c. &c. at any rate, from 1 farthing, to
6 pounds.
z. Comprehensive tables of simple interest, Shew
ing at one view, the interest of any sum of money,
from i farthing, /t° 1000 pounds; and for any
time, froin 1 day to 365, from 1 month to 11, and
from i year to 10, at 5 and 6 per cent, per annum.
3. A table of time, (hewing the number of days
between any two in the year, or from any day in
one year, to any in the succeeding year.
4.. Tables of exchange, /hewing the amount of
any sum of money, currency from 1 farthing, to
jooo port'?, reduced into sterling; and the amount
of the lik. sum sterling, reduced into currency, at
any rate of exchange, from 120, to 175 per cent.
Accurately calculated, and carefully examined,
peculiarly for the use of Virginia, Maryland and
Frnnfylvania. By which any person may be ena
bled to calculate the price of any quantity of goods;
the interest of any sum, for any time; and the true
value of any bill of exchange, with expedition and
accuracy, even to a fra&ion ; which will undoubt
edly obviate many difficulties, which mutt other
wise arise to persons wholly unacquainted with the
intricacies attending the negotiation of such buu
nefs, in concise operations by the pen.
By THOMAS BALL, School-matter in Annapolis.
CONDITION S.
I. That the work will be printed in one small
volume duodecimo, upon good paper, neatly bound.
11. That the price to the (übferibers will be one
dollar, to be paid upon delivery of the book.
Such Gentlemen and Ladies who are inclined to
promote this ufeful undertaking, are desired to fa
vour the author with their name's as soon as possible,
as he is demons of prosecuting the publication with
the utmost expedition.
Sjubfcri ptions are taken in by Mr. John Dunlap and
Mr. John Sparhawk, Booksellers, in Philadelphia.
To Mr. THOMAS BALL,
SIR, Annapolis, zzd Feb. 1775.
WE have perused the manufeript copies of your
book, called the Pocket Assistant, and think
it a work of public utility. From the testimony of
the Gentleman who examined the copies, we are
induced to believe it accurately calculated ; we,
therefore, wiM you success in the publication of it,
and are, S IR, Your very humble servants,
Thomas Brooke Hodgftin, William Rooke,
John Davidson, John H. Maccubbin,
Thomas Hyde, Thomas Gafamay, jtm.
fames Wiltiams, William Wilkins.
,ofepb Wililiims,
T O B E SO L D,
^^"n HRE E thousand one hundred acres of
f LAN D, situated upon Pokoteilico Creek
and the Kanhawa river, about forty miles above
the junction of the Kanhawa with the Ohio. It is
part of a traT of 219,1 acres, furveyeu and patented
under Dinwiddie's Proclamation, made at the com
mencement of the late war, is equal in quality to
any in that part of the world. Quitrent free for
eighteen years to come, and after at the moderate
rate of Two Shillings Sterling per hundred acres.
The whole fees are paid, so that the purchaser will
be at no other trouble or expence, than dividing
with the other proprietors. For terms enquire of
Mr, William Semple of Philadelphia, or the sub
scriber in Prince Willi,in county, Virginia.
CUTHBERT BULLET.
P HILA DEL P HIA: Printed by JOHN DUNLAP, at the Newefl Printing-Office in Market-Street, where
Subscriptions at Ten Shillings per Annum, Advertisements, &c. are thankfully received for this Paper.
'Baltimore Town, March 2s, 1,75-
TO BE R + E N T E D,
And entered on the tirft day of May next,
CT-4 HE LONDON COFFEE-HOUSE at
I Fell's Point, in Baltimore Town; a noted
and much frequented tavern. Any person who
will undertake the management of the fame, and
can give fatisfa&ion to the Public, will meet with
proper encouragement from.
JOHN STEVENSON.
WHEREAS a certain GEORGE
MICR AL, of Spring Garden, received
a note of me, bearing date the fifteenth of March,
1775, payable in December next 5 but as the said
Mickal 'has not fulfilled his bargain, this is to
acquaint the Public in general that I am resolved
not to pay the fame, until compelled thereto by law.
WILLIAM CAR TE R.
JOHN KA I G H N,
IRIS H linens, 7-8 and yard wide, of various
prices; 10 and 11 nail and 3-4 linen checks and
stripes; 3-4, 7-8 and yard wide cotton checks ;
striped cotton hollands; 6-4 and 8-4 bed bunts ;
worsted bed furniture check ; mens and womens
cotton, thread and worsted hose ; mens fine patent
rib'd silk stockings; a large assortment of best scars
twi/t; fafhionable best scars death-head and basket
needlework coat and jacket buttons ; white-metal,
pinchbeck and black horn ditto; best beladine
sewing silk ; silk knee-garters ; Scotch and Pitch
ing thread; drab, brown, red, green, blue, brick,
and Mix'd all colours ditto ; Manchester and fine
Holland cap, apron and filleting tapes; nail and
spike gimblets, tap borers, /hoe tacks, awl blades,
hob nails, sealing wax, brass and steel thimbles ;
(harp buck, black horn, ebony and stag handled
tabfe knives and forks; best large flag carvers with
bosom forks ; buck handle penknives, large /ham
buck and (tag handle butchers knives, Hool's pis
tol cap'd pocket knives, womens neat small and
Taping feiffars, taylors (hears, plated pinchbeck
dice and knee buckles, London hard metal large
diflies, pewter tea pots, knitting needles ; common
and Whitechapel sewing, glovers, and worsted
darning needles; hand-saw and mill-law files, best
refined steel plate and common hand-saws; worsted
and hair pluffi, cord-cki roy, and a large assortment
of velverets an ft^illed cotton velvets; scarlet cal
limanco, white and green tammy; London fcbool
bibles, and elafped testaments; Dilworth's spelling
books; whip-makers gut and silvered wire ; 8-4
silk laces, black cravats, fattin rind Mrfanet rib
bons, womens plain silk gloves, cotton romal and
printed linen handkerchiefs, fine gold end mullin ;
a large assortment of London quality, coat, day
and shoe binding ; silk ferreting ; green, Hue, and
white half-yard and half-ell Persian; half-yard and
half-ell white farfanet ; very rich plumb coloured
English paduafoy, and straw coloured watered tab
by; blue°allopeen; hairbine, silver watches, locket
sleeve buttons, iron Dutcßovens, plate warmers,
mens and boys felt hats. Likewise, a quantity of
woollens, confining of fuperfine, second and coarse
broadcloths; Yorkshire plains ; red, black, and
blue Spotted fwanfkin ; red and blue duffils, cloth
coloured bearlkin, Bath coatings, red and white
flannel and baife, double milled drabs for great
coats, red serge, fine blue ratteen or napt 6-4 frize.
Also, best falt-petred hams, hogs lard in kegs, and
country cheese.
Port Penn, March if, 1775.
FIRE W O O 1),
MA Y be purchased at Port Penn, ata mode
rate price; yet some person is so niggardly
or vicious, as to make a pra&ife of supplying him
felf with that article from a few pannels of rail fence
which I am obliged to maintain on theline, between
my meadow and my neighbours; by which aft my
meadow is often unexpectedly laid open, and my
grass much damaged yearly, before it is fit to be
mown. This was repeated the 19th of January
last in the evening, and once since, supposed to be
done by a coalter waiting for a fair wind. Who
ever informs on the wretch who has been, or is
hereafter guilty of the fa&, so that he is brought
to justice, fhail receive THREE POUNDS,
from DAVID STEWART, Jun.
Hath for SALE, at his store on the weft fide of
Second-street, between Market-street and the
Church, a great variety of articles, remaining of
his last importations from Great-Britain, on mo
derate terms for cash or short credit, among
which are the following, viz.
TO BE S O L D,
A REMARKABLE fine breeding MARE,
half blooded, inferior to none of that blood
in America. She is a fine bright bay, well mark
ed, fifteen hands three inches high, and is remark
able for her moving and carriage either in harness
or under the saddle ; Me is now with foci bv that
famous horse Lofty, imported from England by Mr.
John Allin, and is known to be as well bred a herfe
as ever was imported into any part of America.
The mare is from the firft rate horse ever imported
to America, and a pedigree of which will he giv n
with her : She will foal about the middle of April.
Enquire of Joseph Fox, black-fraith and farrier, in
Seventh-street, Philadelphia.
Harford County, Mar,land, March 21, 177%
SIXTEEN DOLLARS REWARD.
R AN AWAY from the fuhfcribers, on Sun
day night last, two Irifli servant men, one cf
them named PATRICK TWOME Y, about
eighteen years old, five feet five or fix inches high,
with Ihort light hair ; had on when he went away,
a light grey coat with a red flannel cape, and trim
med with metal buttons, jacket and breeches of the
fame, with the fame buttons, a light grey bearskin
furtout with a red flannel cape, two white dowlas
ffiirts, yarn and thread stockings, and good shoes
tied with strings. The other named PATRICK
CALIGHAN, about five feet four inches high,
well set, a down look ; had on a light coloured
fearnought jacket, white kerfey breaches, old oz
nabrig shirt, white knit yarn dockings, old shoes
with odd buckles, and a small felt hat : They took
with them many cloaths unknown, and it is likely
they will change their dress and names, as they are
artful chaps. Whoever takes np the said servants
and secures them in any of his Majesty's gaols, shall
have Twenty Shillings if ten miles from home,
if twenty miles Forty Shillings, and if out of
the province the above Reward for each, paid by
JAMES GILES.
NATHAN GALLION.
Also to be fold a genteel Horse, five years old this
spring, fourteen hands three inches high, paces well
and goes well in a carriage ; any Lady may iide him
fafe as he is a good tempered horse.
N.B. Said Fox has began to cut horses for the
summer as ufiial, and has provided pasture for such
horses as may be entrusted to his care.
On the north fide of Walnut-street, a few doors
below Second - dreet, and dire&lyoppofite the Pro
thonotary's Office, hath for SALE, wholesale
and retail, the following valuable assortment of
MERCHANDIZ E,
The greated part of which were imported in the
ship Jamaica, from London^ last December, and
were publicly fold at the City Vendue-ftore, un
der the direction of the Committee, pursuant to
the Association of the Congress,
niXTY pieces of fuperfine BROADCLOTHS,
0 confuting of a variety of the colours most com
monly worn in this city ; green, garnet, buff, white
and pearl coloured caffimers; white and buff bed
silk breeches pieces; four thread worsted ditto, of
black, buff and drab colours ; crimson, blue and
spotted silk feather velvets and serge deroy, for
linings of Gentlemens dress suits ; buff caffimer
and India nankeen waistcoat patterns, beautifully
worked in tambour, to a variety of patterns; a
large quantity of embroidered buttons, elegantly
worked in gold and silver, pearl and spangle; broad
and narrow lap gold and silver basket and gold and
silver spangled buttons ; poliflied Reel ditto, with
plain or pierced borders and white or yellow rims
rattinets, brown hollands, death head and basket
buttons, knee garters; black and buff vest burtons
in bags, 24. dozen ; India nankens; best scars and
nankeen cptton twist ; all silk and silk and cotton
ditto, mottled purposely for spotted velvets.
Also the following
MANCHESTER GOODS, viz.
White jeans, dyed jeanets, pillow fudians, broad
and narrow corded dimities, fpstted velvets and
thicksets ; blue, black, pearl, olive and drab co
loured thread and cotton, and all cotton corderoys
and corderets ; dennets and cordets ; new fashion
ed goods, calculated for furamer wear ; printed
jeans, and a few patterns of waidcoats stamped on
fine j^ans, in imitation of tambour; very fine white
Russia drillings ; Quakers best black paduafoys, and
part of a piece of beautiful clear white whole fattin.
Six months credit will be given for the cloths, at
the prices affixed in the pattern card, with a dis
count of 5 per cent, for prompt pay, but cash will
4 be expected from every purchaser of the other goods.
DO ÜBLE foldßuf
fia Meetings,
Ravas duck,
Ticklenburgs end Oz-
Oznabrugs,
Dowlaffes,
White and brown Irish
Meetings,
3-4, 7-8 and yard wide
low priced Irish linens,
10 nail, 3-4 and 7-8 lin
en checks,
3-4, 7-8, yard, and yard
3-8 cotton checks,
3-4 bed ticking, bed
bunts and Flanders
ticks,
French cotton stripes for
mens trowfers,
Cotton hollands and lin
en stripes,
Turkey ftiipes for saddle
cloths, &c.
Brown Silefias,
6,7, 8 and 10-4 diaper
& damaik table cloths,
3-4 napkenmg diaper,
Huckaback and Russia
towelling,
A great variety of cotton
and calico furniture
patterns,
A neat assortment of cal
licoes, cottons and
chintzes,
A variety of India calli
coes,
Marseilles quilting,
10, ii and 12-4 cotton
counterpains,
Flower'd yd. wide draw
boys,
Plain & corded dimities,
Dutch cord,
Plain and figured velvets
and velverets,
Coloured and white cor
duroys and cordurets.
A variety of fuftians,
jeans and jeanets,
Coloured and black fat
tineft, denims and
lastings,
A beautiful assortment of
half-ell figured jeanets,
A few jeanet Mapes for
waistcoats,
' Best India nankeens,
Silk Damascus,
Lorettoes and fattinets,
Paduafoys and ducapes,
Striped and plain lute
ftrings,
Plain and changeable
mantuas,
Hair grazets,
Black, white, blue and
cloth coloured fattins
and half fattins,
WILLIAM BARRELL,
Hath for SALE, a large and general assortment
of MERCHANDIZ E, imported by himfelf,
in the Jamaica and other the last fall vessels from
Europe, which he will dispose of, aubolefale and
retail, on the most reasonable terms, at his Store
tire north east corner of Market and Second
ftreets, Philadelphia;
'Among wbiib GOO DS are the following ufeful and
neceffar, Articles, <vi~.
JOHN BATE S,
Plate Iron Worker in general, from Birming
ham, at John Duncan's, hatter, opposite the Bunch
of Grapes, in Third-street, near Arch-dreet.
MA KES tea-kettles, coffee-pots and sauce
pans, tinned ; fifh kettles, Duch ovens and
dew pans, which are much sweeter, wholefomer
and cheaper than copper utensils, and are much
used in London and most parts of England. He
likewise makes oval, fqnare and round dripping
pans, ashes pails, cocoa and coffee roasters, coal
scoops, pot covers, and puts new frying pans to old
handles. He hopes to give the Public fatisfa&ion,
not only by the neatness of his work, but by the
dispatch with which he will endeavour to execute
all favours they may please to confer on him.
N. B. He tins and mends copper tea-kettlesand
sauce-pans, and gives most money for old pewter.
PE TE R STRETC H,
Black, white, crimson,
green, blue and cloth
coloured fattins and
'peelongs, figured and
plain,
Sarfanets and Persians,
A large assortment of
ribbonds,
Silk ferretings,
Dutch, blond, bone,
trolly and Flanders ,
lace,
Silk breeches pieces, sort
ed colours,
Silk, thread, cotton rind
worsted hose,
Mens and womens silk
gloves and mitts,
Superfine, second and
low priced broadcloth,
with suitable trimings,
Superfine and fecend
caffimers, of various
faMionable colours,
with suitable trimings,
A meat assortment of
blossom and other co
loured wiltons,
Moreens and programs,
Camblets & camblettees,
Masquerades, brilliants
and dorfetees,
Crapes, bombazeens and
poplins,
Double and single wors
ted damasks,
Ruffels and calimancoes,
Durants and tammies,
Rattinets and fhallocns,
Hair & worsted plushes,
with a few pair of very
fine io and 11-4 rose
blankets.
AL S O,
T. Crowley's No. 3 steel,
Sheathing & other nails,
London made glue,
Knives and forks,
Piftolcap'd and cutteaus,
Barlow and other pen
knives,
Plated, steel, yellow and
white metal ffioe
buckles,
Plated, lacquered, Dun
combe and other me
tal buttons,
An assortment of Pins,
Playing cards,
Writing paper,
Dutch quills,
Red & black patent cake
ink, of Holman's ink
powder,
Sealing wax, &c.&c.&c.
Together with an assort
ment of silver &pinch
beck WATCHES.
For BR IS T 0 1,
.t p TheSNOW
DICKENSO N,
JAMES JOHNSTON,
Master;
' a " '" a " conve ~
VV nient speed, having her
cargo ready to take on board.
p or passage apply to Bayard,
Jackson and Co. or said matter on board the
snow, at Stamper's wharf.
For CHARLESTOWN, (S. Carolina)
BThe Brigantine
J E N N Y,
WILLIAM WORKMAN,
Master;
'TOT O W laying at the Old
0^ Xpffirt^ Ferry-house wharf, has
genteel accommodationsfor pas
sengers, and will fail with all convenient speed,
having the greatest part of her cargo ready to go
on beard. For freight or passage apply to the said
matter on board, or to Mason and Patton, who
have'for sale, a quantity of NEW RICE, of
the best quality.
March zzd, 1774.
The SUBSCRIBER has purchased that note#
HORSE
W HYN O T,
Rifirig eight years old.
From his Excellency Governor EDEN,
AN D he will cover mares this season, till the
firft of August, at the plantation of Whitten
Cripps, within one mile of Salem, Weft Jersey, at
Forty Shillings the single leap, Three Pounds the
season, cash, and Four Pounds if credit fix months.
TO BE SO L D,
A VALUABLE tra& of LAND, lying in
t\ Somerset county, Maryland, and within half
a mile of Wicomoco River, containing about 560
acres ; about 200 acres of said land are cleared and
cultivated, which produce corn, wheat and tobacco
exceedingly well. There are on one part of said
plantation, a small brick dwelling-house, 30 feet
by 16, a sawed log quarter, with several other ne
cessary houses ; also a valuable orchard : On ano
ther part is a small boarded dwelling-house 20 feet
by 16, with several other small houses. Several of
the buildings are out of repair, but may be rectified
at a trifling expence. There are also about 30 or 4c»
acres chiefly cut down and ditched, and may be
made into excellent meadow. The woodland is
low, well timbered, and hath great conveniences
for draining. The purchaser may have any reason
able indulgence for the money, with giving bond
on interest and approved security. Further terms
may be known by applying to William Allen,
Esq; on Pocomoke River, Worcester County ; Mr.
John Shir riff, merchant, in Princess Anne Town,
or the fubferiber,
WILLIAM DAVIS ALLEN.
SIX DOLLARS REWARD.
DANAWAY this mprningabout eighto'clock
from the fubferiter, living in Third-street, Phi-
Ldelphia, a Dutch fe v nt m n, n med PHILIP
MARKS, a Jew, he is a Mort thin fct fellow,
fpeiks very bad EngliM, of a Hack completion,
we.rs his own hdr of +bl ck colour, sometimes ti
ed behind : Had on and took with him when he
went aw y, a dark blue coat, dou le brewed, with
br fs buttons, also a blue under jacket, an orange
coloured fu tout, with white met ! buttons, one
pdr of brown fufti n breeches, one prirof n>nkeen
ditto, good shoes :,nd fiockings, nd as he has took
with him sundry changes of closthes, he will cer
t inly change his apparel. Whoever secures said
servant in my of his Majesty's goals, so that his
master may h ve him ag in, /hall have the above
reward and all reasonable charges, paid by me
JOHN RASER.
N. B. Al! m fters of vessels and others are forbid
to ha hour or carry him off at their peril.
FIVE POUNDS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from his bail, on Sunday night
" the 12th inst. (March) a certain LAMBENT
FLOWERS, about five feet ten inches high, of a
fair complexion, yellow hair and white eye-brows ;
had on when he went away, a light red furtout, a
pretty good hat cocked behind, which he wears
pretty much over his eyes, a pair of iky coloured
blue breeches about half worn, a new pair of large
rib'd flockings, new leather shoes, and large white
metal buckles. He dole a sorrel HORSE, about
sixteen hands high, with a dar in his forehead as
big as a dollar, about five years of age, branded on
the off buttock with an A. a thin looking horse,
trots rough and gallops very high. He also took
with him a new gun with a yellow dock. Who
ever takes up and secures said Lambert Flowers,
so that he may be brought to justice and the horse
may be had again, (hill have the above Reward,
and reasonable charges, paid by the fubferiber,
living near Whitechapel Church and near the head
of Hunting Creek, in Caroline county, Maryland.
NEHEMIAH ANDREW.
Whynot is a beautiful bright bay, full fifteen
hands high, with a star and snip, black legs, main
and tail ; and is allowed by competent judges, to
be one of the handsomest horses on the Continent.
Whynot was got by Fearnought, a son of old Re
gulus, his fire the Godelphin Arabian, Whynot's
dam was got by Othello, his grandam by Spark,
and his great grandam was an imported mare, cal
led the Old Field mare. He won the following
purses, in seventy-three, £.50 at Nottingham ;
in seventy-sour, £. 50 at Nottingham ; £. 50 at
Baltimore; £. 50 at Newtown Chester ; he like
wise won a purse of £. 50 in Virginia, when in the
possession of Mr. Lee. He will be sent to Mr.
Cripps the 25th of March, and vh'll be Misted eve
ry ten days from Mr. Cripps, to my plantation, as
it will be the proper time to try the mares at each
place.—Good pasture will be provided at each place
at two Millings and fix-pence per week. Any
Gentlemen inclining to fend their mares, Mall be
gratefully acknowledged, by their humble servant,
JAMES TALMAN.