The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1780-02-03 00:00:00, page 4

DE S E it, E D,
from Caption Parke's company, in Colonel B. Flowers'll
regiment of Artillery and Artificer,, (rationed in Phi
ladelphia,
JAMES WEEK, (defeated in the month of June
hit) fifteen year# of age, well let, frefh complexion,
(bort bothy hair, and has been since feca in Cut,iter with
,a light cel >und coat faced,with blue.
HENRY TUX,N ER, (del rted in July bft) twen
ty-five ye#ls o' age, fix feet hi^h, dark hair tied behind,
b, trade a Ilio maker.'
GEORGE SMITH, (deferred the twenty-fifth
of November last) twenty one years of age, five feet
eight inches high, redift hair tied behind, by trade a
Ihotmake^ At the fame time deterted WILLIAM
RIVELY, twenty years of age, fire feet five inches
high, fwauhy complexion, thin dark hair, &nd a little
pitted with the fmdl-pox, by trade a shoemaker.
JOHN GWILLIM, went on furlough to Frede*
ricklbu/gh the fourth ol December last, but has not re
turned agreeable to his furlough; he is twenty-nine
years of age, five feet five inches high, thin made, fair
hair which curls round , blue uniforms faced with red;
by trade a fho,maker.
ELIN ALURD, a Frenchman, (deserted the fc
venteenth ot January) twenty one years of age, talks
no English, five feet five inches high, well made, a smart
looking fellow, with a good he^d of hair tied and plat
ted, and large arch eye brows; had a short ligh: colour
ed coat, white Lockings, long quartered (hots of waxed
start-leather, eiofed in the infideou the grain ; by trade
a ihoemaker, and carried off sundry ihoemakeia tools,
the property of the States.
Whoever takes up any of said deserters and secures
them, fothat they may be returned to their regiment
and company, firll receive for each and every ot them
ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR S reward, and rca
fonable expenses, pjd by'
A. D O W, Lieutenant.
AM IDDLEAGED WOMA N, that will un
dertake the management of a kitchen, who can be
well recommended for her honesty and sobriety. Enquire
„es the Printer.
'was' TA KEN U P,
On Sunday the sixteenth taftant, (January) by the fab*
scriber, living in George's-street, Southwark,
AN iron grey HORSE, with a piece of a rope
round his neck, about ten or twelve years old,
some saddle foots on his back, and about thirteen hand#
high. The owner is defined to come, prove his pro
perty, pay charges and take him away.
JOHN BURNES.
ON E Lot of Ground fitaate on the east fide of
Fourth and south fide of Union-streets, on which
is eia&ed a good three story brick houfa ; the lot is
sixteen feet on Fourth-street, and extending on Union
ftreet forty feet ; fubjed to a ground- rent of four pounds
currency per annum.
One other Lot of Ground adjoining the former, twen
ty feet on Unien-ftreet, and extending eighty teat, or
half way from Union-street to Pine-street, on which is
erected a good two-Aorv brick house ; fubjeA to a
ground-rent of five pounds currency per annum, paya
ble to the Pennfyivania House of Employment.
Two other Lots of Ground on the cast fide ofFourth
ftreet, and ne r Walnut-flreet, with two good boules
and kitchens thereon ejected ; the lots are each seven
teen feet front and thirty-three feet in depth; clear of
ground,rent.
The whole will be fold together or separate, as will
bast fait ths purchaser. Enquire of the Printer.
CA M £to the plantation of the fubferiber,
in Haycock township, Bucks county, on the a,th
day of. November left, two MARES; one a brown,
with white hind fat, about five years old, fourteen
haud# high, pace^ and trots: The other a black, with
some while on one foot, thirteen hands high, seven or
eight years old, paces and trots. The owner or owners
are defied to come, prove property, pay charges and
take them away.
LEONARD BIDLEMAR
CA ME to the plantation of the fubferiber,
living on Joseph Warton's place, in Love Lane,
about two weeks ago, a black HORSE, twelve or
thirteen hands high, with one shoe on the off foot, a
fwito tail, ths greatest part of his mane hangs on the
off fide, and has a stroke of white on each fade of bis
neck. The owner is desired to come, prove his pro
perty, pay charges and take him away.
MICHAEL PIPER.
January at, 1780.
CA ME to the plantation of the fubferiber, living
m Middle- Town township, Chester county ; a (mail
ba, HORSE, ahout is hands high, black main and
tail. The owner is desired to come prove his property,
pay charges, and t?ke him away.
Jan.ro ROBERT MCLELLAN.
CAME to John Marshall's, near the New
Play Huufe in South-street, on Sunday the 2d in
,% (January) a forrri GELDING, with a
ft xen mane and tail, has some faddie fyots on bis back,
a star in bis forehead, shed all round, about five or fix
years old, and about fourteen and a half hands high.
The owner is desired to come, prove his property, pay
charges and take him away, or he will be fold ina
month's time to pay hu expence#.
WANTE D,
PHILADELPHIA: Printed and Said by JOHN DUNL AP, to Market-fired;
NrQ%rjey, yaxuar, is, 1710,
TH E Subscriber proposes attending in Phi
ladelphia from the firft to the eighth of February
htxt, in crer 10 receive the monies due him on the
files 0< Prizes in New-Jersey ; and desires ill those who
do no : call on him in Bordentown before that time and
difeharge thrift accounts, to ba punctual in paying with
in tfetim, above-mentioned. All accounts not paid as
above will be put in suit.
Joseph potts,
Late Marshal.
NOTICE is hereby given, That by an
A& of Afcmblf, made and puffed at a session of'
Affemb'y of the State of Maryland, begun and held at
the city of Annapolis, on the eighth day of November,
<77,> the bills of credit, dated January 1, 1767, emit
tyd aid made ru r-nt by an Aft of Aflembly passed No
vember session, 1766, are directed to be brought in and
deposited with the Western Shore Treasurer, on or be
fore the firft of Juns <ext, or thereafter irredeemable ;
for which the holders of said bills of credit may, at their
option, receive either bills of exchange drawn on the
Trustees of laid State at L nd n. or State Loan office
certificates, bearing an annual inters ft of fix per cent.
N. B. The Printers ih the adjacent States are requeu
ed to inbrt th^ ?bove in their refpe&Ne papers.
A R OB^-?~R Y
Four Hundred Dollars Reward.
VI RQk E into the Louie of toe fu scriber, in Upper
Doby, Carter court, in the night 0, the 230 in
ft^nt, Two M EN, one a out fivr feet eight Of nine
in h$ high, thin vif>ge fair complexion, had on a linen
fiock and thick woolen cap. The other about five feet
fix or (even inches high, dirk complexion, had on a Hue
ragged jacket, or fo'dier's roat, turned up with some
other colour; h's name James. They tock away fcmf
dollar,, some Eng ifh ha,'r cio#nx, some frail silver moi
me,, fnch at qa^ter dollars, piftareens, &c. one half
joh^nnts, two guineas and one half guinea, some Conti
nental and a coufiaerable quantity of old paper currency ;
a Urge fliver-faced w$t r b, with brats hand >nd biafs
dots between the hours, the da, of the month in the dial
plate, maker's name john May, Loudon, both oa the
face and inside; half a dozen Lrg< silver spoons damped,
and engraved on the under fide of the handlol M.
t^o pair of fiN^r knee-buckles, one plain, one pair car
ved, maiked RS a carved flock-buckle RS. cm-large
silver buckle, rims plain and worn out, one of them
br ke; a pinculhion, light blossom coloured silk, work
ed with red and greu silk in imitation of a bunch of
Cranberries on one fide and a iprig on the other file,
hooped with silver; a new home m^de cloth great coat
of a light co our a little on the Moflom ; a grey coating
furtout not much worn; a new broadcloth picket with
out fleets alight blcffom colour; a pair of leather
brmrche? almost new, a prirof co^deroy breech-s, one
fine Holland md several other forte and neckclo+hs ; a
quittit, or mens and boys stockings, linen, worked And
woolen; a purple Persian gown Ined, a famped linen
ditto flir eotyfed, a black paduafoy cloak, a blck
ruffel qu It lined with h< mefpun striped wotft d, a fine
new (bitt with Holland sleeves, a pair of blue dani^ik
Ihoesof Heft's make, a pair of new blankets, a new JR if
fi, (heet, with fundiv other things of various kinds.
It is supposed one of them cut his filter by breaking
open differs, as some 01 the linens left were bloody,
luppofed by being handled. Any perlon taking ;nd
Louring the goods *nd m^ny so that the owner may
h-ve them again, shall receive Two Hundred at d Fifty
Dollars reward, and for the felons so that they may be
convicted, One Hundred and Fifty Dollars, paid by
JAMES STEEL.
N. B. It ii imagined the above articles are in Rhifa
delphia, as the fubferiber's horse was taken out of the
(table to c4rry them, and was found near the Bridge
coining back. J. $.
ANY person wanting a NEGROE BOY
4 X • f about eleven years old, who has had the fmali
p#% and merles, and is capable of waiting in a house,
ana tending horses, msy hear of such a one by apply
in^to ARCHIBALD MSP ARRAN, four doors
bclo^he Draw-bridge, who has for tide a quantity of
Ruffi. Dick, as also a good Saddle Horfc.
January 14.
in ;ICT —— - —.-- _i-mrn - . ,- ,— r ._ t r ^
TO BE SOLD BY
SHINKLE and GRAFF,
At the corner of Market and Second greets,
A I rge QU ENTITY of
QUEEN'sWARE and GLASS,
Among which are---
N.B. They continue to fell GROCERIES at
usual. *
TO 8 E S OL
A YOUNG NEGRO WENCH with two chil
dren; She is good tempered, and capibit of any
kind of houle-work. For term# of fate apply to Joseph
Heister, living in Reading.
TO BE SOL D,
A very genteel second-hand SLEIG H.
Inquire of the Printer.
PLATES,
r Diffies,
Mugs,
Tea Pots,
Coffee Pots,
Tureens,
Sugar Bilges,
A N
Sallad Diffies,
Wine GUffes,
Decanters,
Castor Stands,
And sundry other article#
too tedious to mention.
WE the Subferibers, Trufyes appointed ia
and by an Aft of Afllably entitled, "An Alt
" for veiling the efface of William Alexander, Ear, of
" Stirling, within this State, in Tiuftecs, to discharge,
“ by the rale thereof or as much as mayiLffice, the debts
“ and intumbrences affecting the fame, and to convey to
" him the remainder, if any there be ;" piss d at Tren
ton, in New-Jersey, the thirty firft of Ma, last, PO,
in pursuance of the directions of the laid Alt, hereby
notify all whom it may concern, That on t^t twentieth
day of September new lift pad was, agreeably torthe
fame Act, fold at public vendue at Porter's Town, four
farms or lots of land, fitnated, lying and being in the
township of Tuexberry and county ol Hunterdon, in
Nev Jertey aforefaid, viz. One farm containing i2{
acre#; in possession ot Archibald Aurifon 1 One other
f^m containing 410 acres, in puffiflion of Joseph Eve
r-tti Orr other farm containing 179 acres, in pofLffion
of Jacob Tygeri Ore other farm containing 223 acre#,
in podeffim of Chriltoplur Tee:#: Alio one hail 0! 55
acres, including the town foot of Porter’s Town. Allo
on Mun ay the twenty. Seventh ol September now last
patt was, agreeably to the fame A&, fold at the house
of William Davifon, at Pitts- Town, in Hunterdon
county aforefaid, owe farm or lot of land, situated, ly
ing and being in the township of Alexandria, in raid
county, containing 261 acres, in ,Off ,-ffion of Daniel
Syms: One other, farm containing s,t area, in poffef
iion of Benjamin Jones, junior : One oth± rfarm con
taining 24.0 acres, in p ff ffion of Philip Palmer: One
bther farm containing its acres, in p.fl ffion of William
Craig: One other farm containing 273 acres, in poflef
foa of J^cob Achman: One other farm containing 21,
acres, in po^ffion of Daniel Brink : One othe : lot con
taining 51 acres, in puff ffion of Frederick Joden : One
other farm containing 145 acre., in poifedion ot —
Epg"rt: One other lot containing 4 acres, in pe ffef
firm ot —- Hou,^ out : One otharlot mraihin^ 61
acres, being one half of 136 sera, In pofleffion o r j^m
Martin. A'loon the thirteenth, fourteenth ^nd fiucauh
of barber now last past wat, agheab y to ,e font A&,
fold at Conger's twrru in the county of Morre, and
at Barton's kVtrn at Balk bridge, in (hr^fr) cf'So
merfeG ^d Stare 01 N;w-Jerfcy aforefiid, fortify lots
\,cf land, fouate, lying and being in the Gr^t Swamp, in
Jaid county of Morris, as follows, viz. 1 >dve lots
containing 9% acr^ ejch, adjoining each ether, ii raid
foamgi Ailo twelve other tyfel-joining, containing
86 acres tach. Abfo on th* fixinnth of October now Ift
pall was, agreeably to the fame 62, so d ar laid Con
ner's tavern, eight other lots on tte north raff part of
hi 1 tamp, confaicin , from 50 tc 65 acres exh : A'fo
cue o'her iot, on which there is an dm huge, contain
iug 125 acres 0? I nd, adjouiiog hr aforefaid eight let#
on the north r<ft part of @d swamp. Also or Monday
the firft of November no* lab part %s, ayreen^y to rhe
fame A& foil tt the Qop3 comn.onb, CTlfd Steel's Ta
vern, nar Middle Brook in Somerset count,, 4 trr&
of land containing abou^ 1000 acres, on the w~ft trefich
of said M idh-Brook, beiwe n the foil and krond
mountain in said cou „. Also on Wton^ay the third
of November now last _^ was, affably to th^ fame
Act, foli at Phadips'ttavern at Fiv-kemify a tr^& of
land containing ahuut Soo #%, aej inmg to or near
the Artillrr c , Prik >t F uckemip, in hrid county of So
merset. Also on Monday and ^ uefdey the fifteenth and
Sixteenth of Nuvem^er nov left put wa., agreeably to
the fame A&, fold at Levy James's tavern at Hackett's
Town, in toe county of Suffix, a tfa& ot land conven
ing about 2500 acres, being one half part of a trft of
SOOO acres commonly called Loft Stalin 'sand Liv ng
don's T^a, adjoining to and lying near laid Hit keit's
Town, in Suffix county aforesaid. Also on Wednesday
the firft of December row lall part v as, agreeably to the
fame Aa, fold at Cross ricks, a part of the 526 %c.-es of
land adjoining Plural ad's and Willccck's land ir Upper
Freehold, in Monm uth county. Aho cn the fifteenth
of December now kft past was, a r eably to the fame
A&, fold at Britton's tavern in B Ikenridge aforefaid,
eleven lots of lard in the Graat Sw-mp aforerid, con
taining 671 22-ieo acres. Also on thelixt enth pf De
cember row last pad was, agreeably to rhe fame All,
fold at Conger's tavern in Morri- county afqrefnd, four
teen lots of lan d in the Gnat Swamp aforesaid, con
taining 578 53-100 acres. *,
And every perion who has, by mortgage or otherwise,
any just claim or demand upon the aid farms, tra&sand
lets of land, er either of them or any part of them, or
against the said William Alexander, Eari of Stirling, iff
hereby warned and dafired to put in bis or her claim
to the fubferibe s, within three months from the date
of this advertif ment ? in order that the tame may be
fettled and adjusted agreeable to the A& aforefaid.
Given under our handsin New-Jersey, this twentieth
day of December, 17,9.
RICHARD STEVENS, living near
iPitt's-Tu?n, in Hunterdon county.
JOHN MEHELM, nea: Putter's Town,
in raid county..
N. B. If the caring# are offered for file, it is hoped
they will t>e fton'd.
January 19, 1780.
L O S T,
ON Monday evening last, between the Northern Li
bart- F^ry, and Samuel C^O, r't, on the road
•ver theice; a Womans POCKE I 'BOOK, much
worn, containing about Two Hundred dollar in Conti
nental money, malty large bills, a prir of double set
p^fte earing let-in gold, also sundry other things. The
person who has found the fame need be at no loss for the
owner, as there is in it a tick t for the City Aftmb 1 ,
containing the owners name. Whoever has found it and
will return it with the o # her contents, to the owner or
the printer her of, (hall have the money for their trou
ble.