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Port of Philadelphia, Pennfjlvania, ff.
TO ALL whom it may concern.
NOTICE is hereby given, That a Court of Admi
ralty wi l be held at the Court-house in the city of
Philadelphia, on the eighteenth day of May next, at
Ten o'clock in the forenoon of the fame day, then and
there to try the truth of the fa&s alledged in the bill of
John Craig, &c. (who as well, &a) agaipft the Hoop er
vessel called the Freemason, lately commanded by Jo
seph Wood, &c. To the end and intent that the owner
or owners, or any person concerned therein, may appear
and shew cau'e, if any they have, why the said (loop
should not be condemned according to the prayer of the
said bill. B, order of the Judge,
April t 9„ ANDREW ROBESON, Reg.
^ INERAL ASSEMBLY of Ponufykania. /
Saturday, March zoth, 1779.
T FE petition of James Martin, and the report of the
= Committee appointed to confider his case, were again
read and considered, and thereupon
^efe^ed, Ti at the said James Martin have leave to
bring in a bill the ne^t feffieii of this Assembly, for the
purposes of divorcing him from his wife Elizabeth Martin :
And that the said James Martin be required to publish this
resolution in toe Pennsylvania Packet, or some other pub
lic newspaper of this state, two months before he brings in
the said bill. Extract frorti the Minutes,
JOHN MORRIS, Junior,
Clerk of the General Assembly.
To be SOLD by,Public Vendue,
®n Tuesday the fourth of'May inst. at eleven, o'clock
in the morning, on the premies, if not before fold by
private sale,
^ LOT of ground situate on the east fide of Third-
Rreet, opposite Berfamn Chew, Equire's, con
taining sixty feet in front and §>e hundred feet in depth,
on which is er &/d a stable and coach house, being a
corner lot to York street, and subj!& to a ground-rent
of 61. sterling per annum.
And on the fame day, at Three o'clock in the after
noon, will be fold on th# prtmifes, if tot before fold by
private file, one half of a lot of ground situate on Pegg's
Run, containing ninety feet in breadth and two hun
dred feet in depth, (adjoining Mr. Howarth's tan-yard)
with the valuable improvements thereon, confiffig of a
cfwelling-houfe, b&k-houfe, curriers shop, leather
houfe, and about one hundred tan pi:ts cr vatt<, toge
ther with every other necessary improvement for carry
ing on the tanning business in a very extensive manner,
and allowed to be one of the molt commodious tan-yards
on the continent.
A d on the fame day, at Six o'clock in the evening,
at the Merchants Coffee house, if not before fold by
private sale, two plantations or tra&s of land, lituate in
Warrington township, Bucks county, twenty miles from
Philadelphia, adjoining Mra. Ferguson's plantation
called Graeme Park ; one of said plantations is now in
the tenure or occupation of Mr. John Bogart, and con
tains about two hundred acres, a very great proportion
of which is meadow, with a farm house, barn, stables,
and other neo ff^ry improvements ; the other plantation
is now in the tenure or occupation of Mr. Henry
M'Kinftrey, and contains about one hundred and fe
venteen acres, a great proportion of which is meadow,
with a farm house, barn, ftablet, and other necessary
improvements. The above described plantations will
be fold together, as they adjoin each other and are ca
pable of very great improvements, one third of said
tracts being very well calculated to be made into meadow
at an e?fy expence: For further particulars enquire of
Mark Freeman, at Afheton Humphreys, Esquire's,
in S cond-ftreet, near Spruce street.
N. B, Any one chufing to view said plantations, will
please to call on Mr. James Paull, who lives conti
guous thereto, and will shew the fame.
Isaac sidma n,
In Eafton,
WILL pay the interest due on Loan-Office Certi
ficates, dated at any time before the firft day of
March, 1778.
State of Neic-Jerfey, ff.
TO ALL whom it may concern.
NOTICE is hereby given, That a Court of Ad
miralty will be held at the Ceurt-houfe in Tren
ton, on Friday the seventh day of May next, at Ten
o'clock in the forenoon of the fame day, then and there
to try the truth of the f 6b alledged in the bill of John
Tilton, (who as well, &c.) against the snow or vessel
called the Polly, lately commanded by Michael Barstow,
with her tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo : To the
end and intent that the owner or owners of the said
vessel, Or any person or persons concerned therein, may
appear end shew cause, if any they have, why the said
vessel, her appatel, furniture and cargo, should not be
condemned according to the prayer of the laid bill.
B, order of the Judge,
Salem, Ahrihi. JOSEPH BLOOMFIELD. Reg.
"Port of Philadelphia, Pennj,l<uania, ft
TO ALL whom it may concern.
NOTICE is hereby given, That a Court of Ad
miralty will be held at the Court-house in the city
ot Philadelphia, on Tuesday the eighteenth day of Mty
next, at Ten o'clock in the forenoon of the lame day,
then and there to try the truth of the fa&s alledged in
the bill of John Douglass, (who as well, &<.) against
the schooner or vessel called the Sally, her tackle, ap
parel, furniture and cargo : To the end and intent that
the owner or owners, or any person or perlons concern
ed therein, may appear and ihew cause, if any they have,
why the fame f hooner, &c, mould net be condemned
according to the prayer of the said bill.
By order of the fudge,
April s,. ANDREW ROBESON, Reg.
PHILADELPHIA: Printed and Sold by JOHN DUNLAP, in Market-street.
^ be SOLD by Public Vendue,
On Thursday the twelfth day of May inst. op the pre
mises,
A VALUABLE SALT WORKS, situate an
Faulkinburg's Ifhnd, Little Egg barbour.The buil
dings are lately rebuilt of the belt whole price pine and
cedar boards, eighty feet in length endtwenty in breadth-,
containing one wrought iron pan that will held three
tooufand gallons, and five thousand weight of cast Iran
pans, the whole set on done walls, built of lime mortar ;,
a quantity of salt balked, case, &~. Also a good new
boat and tithing feme, and between three and four hun
dred cords of wood ready cut, near a landing, which
can be brought by water to the door of the works. The
situation is healthy and pleasant, and allowed by judges
the belt adapted for profitable works of any on the th orc,
having the advantage of water carriage for wood, and a
large and excellent salt pond within ten yards of the
house. The place abounds with fith and fowl. Terms
of sale will'be made known at the time and place, where
attendance will be gieen by
Thomas heston andco.
Alexandria, Virginia, April 16.
To be S 0 L D by Public Vendue,
On the premises, on Wednesday the nineteenth day of
Mav, at Ten o'clock in the morning,
A BOUT two hundred adres of Land, situated a
fl little above the town, with the improvements
thereon. It will be laid out in lots nearly as follows :
One of about fourteen acres, on which is the large
mansion house, with several out hoofer, an excellent
orchard of apple and chehy trees, and has a front on
the rivi Potowmackof 30 rods: Another on the weftem
line will contain about twenty acres, feversl of which
?:e meadow, and having a beautiful eminence on the
back part of it,<contrnands a view of the town and an
extensive profpe& up and down the river from which it
is about one mile distant : Between those lots will be
several cf about five acres each : A lane of thirty three
feet wide will run from the river to the eastern fide of
the twenty-acre lot, between which lane and Alexandria
will be another range of lets cf about five acres each,
extending from the river to the aforefaid twenty acre
lot. They are very luitable for pafture, o being fine and
level. The whole number of lots will be from 30 to 40.
The nearest akout half a mile from town and the fartheft
about a mile and a half. For further particulars apply
to William Hartshorne, in Alexandria. 4.
' 1' H E Contributors to the Pennsylvania Hos
-1 pital are desired to attend the Annual Ele^ion
of Managers and Treasurer, to be keld, according to
Law, ou the third day of the next month, between the
hours ofTwo and Six in the afternoon, in the Manages
room of said Hospital.
April 1 9
J"' HE Creditors of John Reynolds, late of
the county of Philadelphia, Shop-keeper, are
desired to fend in their accounts to Coxe, Furman and
Coxe, on or before the firft day of June next, when a
dividend will be made. All accounts not furnifhed
within the time mentioned in this notice will be ex
cluded. April i.
FORTY DOLLARS REWARD.
CTRAYED or STOLEN from off the Commons
' of Philadelphia, on the seventeenth inst (April) a
black HORSE, about fourteen and a half bands high,
neither brand nor ear mark, fix years old this spring,
saddle marked on several places, a fear on each hip,
trots and hand-gallops remarkably well. Whoever
takes up the said horse, and the thief if stolen,
and brings them to the fubicriber living in Fourth-ftreer,
between Union and Piae-ftreets, Philadelphia, (ball have
the above reward, or Twenty Dollars for the horse
only. WILLIAM BROWN, Capt. Artillery.
N. B. Said horse may be left at Francis Piodor's li
vely stables, in Lombard-street, betwixt Front and Se
cond streets.
Philadelphia, April st.
To be SO L D by the Subscriber,
AN English sorrel MARE, fourteen h^nds and
-one inch high, of a good carriage, beautifully
marked: She would make an excellent pad for a Lady.
Enquire of the Printer, or of
DANIEL CLYMER.
T o' B E _________
AN unimproved Trad of patented Land, of an ex
ceeding good quality, consisting of three thousand
eight hundred and thirty eight acres, situate on the
head waters 01 Little Coueonough, theft and Clearfield
Creeks, in the county of Bedford. Enquire of the
Printer.u
ONE HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD.
ABSCONDED from his bail, on Tuesday the
loth instant, (April) John Shelman, Assistant
Commiffaty at Reading: He was Indiana for forgery at
the Supreme Court held at Philadelphia April the 20th.
Said John Shelman is about fie feet seven or eight
inches high, thin long vuaged, fair complexion, dark
long hair tied behind, a remarkable long nose, slender,
built, talks remarkably quick and fluent ; he wore when
fern at Philadelphia, a short beai&n coatee, a hat cut
in the tafh on, and rode a grey horse, or mare, when
crffing the ferry into Ntw-Jerley. Whoever appre
hends said John Shelman *nd 1, dges him in any gaol on
the Continent, so that he be fond appear at Philadelphia
to traverse the aforefaid indictment at the next ,Supreme
Court held at Philadelphia aforefaid, &all be entitled to
the above reward and reasonable charges, paid by
JAMES FORREST.
TOBIAS RUDOLPH.
_ PHOTON and HARNESS com
" pleat, to be fold at Mr. Quarrier's, in Fourth
ftrset, next to the Indian Queen.
_____ __.
, Neotran Townfeip, Ghucefer County, 4th Mo. 9th.
One Hundred and Fifty Dellers Reward.
WHEREAS three men came to the house of the
fubicriber about One olclock last night, preterd
ing to he Continental fokliers, and demanded entrance
to search for some of their men, and being let in, t^d
for a candle and feared the hcufe, when finding na
men about houfa but myfeif, they presented their bayo
nets to my breast, and threatened to pke my life unlefa
I delivered my money, and allo threatened to break open
the drawers, whereupon myfeif and wife through terror
unlocked the drawee, from whence they took about
One Hundred and Fifty Pounds in old paper money,
Four Hundred and Forty Dollars in Continental money
of those two emissions called in, a bag containing Ten
or Twelve Pounds in Soanifh pieces of Eight and small
pieces of silver, arid a bag containing about Ten Shil
lings in pennies. One cf the said men was of a low sta
ture, wore a blue coat turned up with red, and the
others were of a middling fze ; one of them had on a
red jacket and pair of .rowfers, the other wore brown
or blue turned up with red. Whoever apprehends the
said men, to that they may be brought to jußice, (hall
receive the above reward, paid by
AQUILLA JONES.
Philadelphia, April iz.
TH E fubferiber has rented that commodious
(tore known by the name of Hart's Vendue-ftore,
in Southwark, where he intends to fell at Vendue, lands,
tenements, vessels, rigging, horses, carriages, furniture,
&c. and to receive and fell all forts of goods that are al
lowed by lay to be fold at Vendue; and all strangers or
others who may not have an opportunity cf a ftoru to ex
pose their goods at private sale in, he will receive and fell
for the best account of the owners, for a small cenmifnon.
All those who may be pleased to favour him with their
bufaefs may depend on being faithfully served by their
M.ft humble servant,
WILLIAM BROWN.
TO BE SOLD irY ~
JOHN D U N L A P,
Wholesale and Retail, bound or in sheets, for theemif
fions called out of circulation,
The following BOOKS, in the German Language,
elegartly printed, viz.
Large family bibles,
TESTAMENTS,
PSALM-BOOKS,
Marburg HYMN-BOOKS,
PSALTERS,
Luthetan CATECHISMS,
Calvinist CATECHISMS,
The above Books are also fold by Ludwig Launran,
Esq; Lancaster; Mr. Bilmire, York- Town ; Mr. Hower,
Frederick-Town, Maryland; Mr. John Spangenberg,
Eafton; Mr. Joseph Heister, Reading ; and Mr. Chris.
topber Loughner, Philadelphia.
Baltimore T^m, April ifo
H E Sulfcriber offers his Plantation cn
Elk-Ridge, eight miles distant from the landing
and sixteen from Baltimore Town, consisting of feven
ten hundred acres of land, for tale. The value of this
plantation for set tility of foil, luxuriance of pasturage,
abundance of timber, plealantnefs of situation, health
fulnefs of air, but especially for its immense quantity
of rich bottom, its numberless springs, fine rivulets,
and its various conveniences for water-works, is almost
inestimable. There are four fettfem^nts containing al
tegether about fix hundred acres of upland and meadow
clear, great abundance and variety of fruit trees, one
orchard only confits of one thoufaad apple and pear
trees, best grafted fruit. Among other convenient im
provements »re a grist-mill, saw-mill, diftiliery, and
malt-kiln. There is part of an elegant house begun,
with a coafiderable quantity of the jpiners work for the
whole finifhed, and at a proper distance a good ftorc
houfe fitted, with apartments fufficfent to accommodate
a small f-uwily,,od a large warc-houfe. All the Kock
of negroes, horses, cows, hogs, fneep, and farming
Utensils, will also be fold. Any person defrous of pur
chatiq^this efeate, may treat with the fubferiber in Bal
timore, who will receive Continents! money, gold,
lilver, or bills of exchange in payment.
THOMAS USHER.
Cape. Ma, County, Ne^ferfe,, March 27.
TH E Public is hereby informed, That
a edition will be laid before the Lcgifl?ture of
this State, at their next String, praying that . law may
be puffed to authorife the ^tuioneis to build a Bridge
by fubfaiprion (and to be maintained by the fab
(cribers) -over Turkehoe River, from the sass land or
wharf cf James Willet's, Jun. to the land cf Joseph
Ingolfun ; of which all concerned are defined to take
notice and govern t:\mfelves accordingly.
JAMES WILLETS.
J O HN YOU N G, Junior,
A; his Book^ftcre adjoining M.ffrs. IL.II and Sellers's
Printing Office,
HA S just opened, in addition to his former collec
tion, fever*! hundred volumes of new (and Lon
don edition) Modern, Military and French BOOKS,
and a chtee colie&icn of M USI C.
Catalogues to be ba< gratis at said store,
TO BE, SO L D,
BILLS of EXCHANGE on Cuarkfown,
South-Carolina. Enquire of the Printer.