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•SATURDAY, SEPTEMBE R 9 , ft
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O R .' I THE
GENE R A L li^Oiliß ADVERTISE'
To be SOLD Cheap, by
JOSEPH HA L L,
At MR, DUNLAP's Printing-Office.
Part of a Gentleman's, Library,
Confiftiqg of the following Choice BOOKS, viz.
HA WRING'S Pleas of the Crown, fol.
Males History of the Common Law, 8 vol.
Trials per Pris, 8 vol.
The Compleat Arbitrator, 3 vol.
Cokes Tr&ay, 8 vol.
Every man his own Lawyer, 8 roL
Reports and Cases of Pr^&ce,
Blackstone's Analyfc, 1 vol.
Introduction to the Laws of England, 8 vol.
Collections of Precedents, 8 vol.
Law of Executions,
Law of Arrests,
A Guide to Justices,
Practice of the Courts,
Law Grammar,
Clarendon's History of England, 7 vol.
Philadelphia, September 1. 1780.
THE QUARTERLY'MEETING
1 of the United Illinois and Wuabache Land Com
panies, ^ill be held on Monday the 25th inst. at the
City Tavern, at Six o'clock in th: evening, when the
Proprietors or Attorneys lot fitch are particularly rc
queft^d to attend.
BERNARD GRATZ, Secretary.
— FiTV^ s QyTR-E?-
TO he Sold, a Two Story Brick M^ffuaft or dwel
ling House, and Lot or Piece of Ground, situate
between Pine and Spruce Greets, at a lma!l distance
from the improved part of the city, being the next Square
but one from Broad-street, containing between four and
five acres, with a brick Kitchen* adjoining the said m^f
lunge. The home is about 36 feet front, arid has two
robjnt.on each floor. Ther^ are on the premises various
kinds of fruit trees, a good orchard and gaden/anda
well of excellent water, betides other improveme- ts ---
For further particulars apply to ASHETON HUM
PHR^YS, at his Office in Rlaek-hcrfe Alley, near
Front-^r^et, where Deeds, Mortgages, Berds, Wills,
Letters of Attorney, and all ot^er Increments in Wri
ting are drawn with care and dispatch.
Philadelphia, September 7, 1780.
E S IF l' D,
A TWOSTORYHOUSEand Lot of LAND,
situate it the corner of High or Market-street and
Water fceet hear the public Whari, and aimoft oppo
site the lower Market in the ci y of Burlington, having
four rooms on the lower floor, and four rooms on the
upper floor, with large garrets, a good kitchen and piaz
za, and a well of water in the yard, containing in front
of hid lot thirty-seven and one half feet,,and in depth
forty-three feet and one halt. Fer farther paricuhs
enquire of the fubferiber in Church Alley—-who conti
nues felling indigo on co nmiffion, and has cm hand Ca
rolina indigo in tierces and barrels, and by retail. Also,
fit ft crop meadow h%y, which he will deliver in the city,
or at the meadow. Also, in elegant filter colice-pot, tan
kard, waiters, cruet stands, punch ladle, ionp fpnon,
table and tea spoons, &c.
THOMAS SHUTE.
Five Hundred Dollars Reward.
WA S stolen out of the pasture of John Car
penter, living in Lane her counts, Snefburgh
townihip, on the 3^4 of August, a likely Bay MAKE, a.
bout 15 hands high ,3 years old iaft spring, and is branded
with the letters I B on the near (boulder, a natural trot
ter, has a small far in her forehead. Whoever takes
up fail Mare and Thief, (hall nave the above reward,
or TWO HUNDRED and FIFTY DOLLARS for the
Mare only, so that the owner gets her a,ain.
JOSHUA BAILY.
To be SOLD at private Sale,
At the house of the Subscriber, on the Welt fide
of Nefhameny Ferry.
CO WS, Horses, Sheep, S%ine, a good new two
horse waggon, with compleat sett of harness for
two horfes,cart and harness, sundry houfehcld and kitch.
en furniture, two Negroe men, one aged 28 ycarsihe
other 24, a likely Negroe girl aged 19 years; the above
Negroes arc fold for no fault, as the lubferiber is going
to move tnd will have no employment for them.
, August 28, 1780. JOSEPH VANDEGRIFT.
N. B, The house and ferry to be let and entered upon
the firft day of November next. Enquire at the ferry.
[ Published every Tuesday, and Saturday.
August 23.
'^ 'HE Subferiber being determined to make
A a general and final fettument of his public ac
counts, does hereby request all perfect who yet have un
settled accounts with him to bring them in, with every
necessary voucher, to the house of Mr. David Rick
ets, near the head of Elk, where himfelf or Assis
tants will duly attend for this purpose.
And being anxious to have all such matters proper
ly adjured by the middle of next month, he expats
that those concerned, will avail themfeivea ®f this in
formation. Such as have due bills from him are also
desired to bring them in for payment
PATRICK EWEN.
A. C. P.
• Philadelphia, September 9.
AL L Persons having demands against the
Estate ct Sarah Gilbert, decealed, are ie
quefted to bring in their accounts properly altered, that
they may be fettled and paid.
GEORGE ORD, Executor.
NOTICE is hereby given,
T" AT on Sunday the 20th of August was taken up
at Eafton, Jernes Fisher and John Ward, (both
of Lancaster county) had with them two Bay Mares, sup
posed to bs stolen ; the cn^, a natural trotter, 15 hands
high, is branded on thencar fore buttock, with thelet
t^rs I B; the other a natural pserr, 13 hanrtfhigh.---
'1 ne owner or owners are detired to come, prove pro
property, pay charges, arid take them away.
JACOB BAB L E.
September 7.
NOTICB is hereby given,
?T9 O all perfens who may have any demands against
JACOBMILL E R, late es Forks Township,
in the County of Northampton, .Weaver, who Ltriy
absconded from his usual place of abode, that a writ of
attachment was issued by the fubferiber, at the suit of
Conrad Zritel, and that Saturday the 30 h day of Sep
tember infant, is appointed for the laid Creditors to
roett ar the house of the fubferiber in Forks Township a
iorefaid, that thsir i&pr&ive demands may be adjusted.
THOMAS SILLYM AN.
September 3 1, 1780.
One Hundred Dollars Reward.
WAS ROBBED on the night of the
4th instant. by a lodger that lived in the house
of tue fubicriber, and took from thence fix suits of Wo
men's (.LEATHS, 1 silk, 2chintz, 2 damp linen, and 1
white mudn, a cunfiderable quantity of other wearing
appirel, and/a quantity of money, fam unknown ; Ins
name is fappofed to be Ptter Lromgfion, as he changes
his name very often, he is a Frenchman.born, Lnout 5
fret high, 30 years of age, and a Ship Carpenter by
trade ; had on when he went away, a (hurt white linen
coatee and trowfers, a sword, one luffie shirt and one
plain one. Whoever takesup (aid thief, and secures him
in any goal on the Continent, (hail havj the above re
ward, by applying to
Septembers, THOMAS WILLIAMS.
' 7 *°W^ In Shipped street.
— —— —
, September 6.
CA MT to the Place of the Subferiber, on
the 2d infant, living on Abd James's place, near
Frankford, a Black H ORSE, about 14 hands high,
is branded on each fore (boulder with the letter P. and
is reckoned a very old Horse, and is a natural trotter.
Whoever has loft fuel Horse, by proving property and
paying charges, may have him ^>ain ty applying to
GEORGE MICHEL.
living on said Place.
Port of Philadelphia, Pennfylva^ia, ff.
TO ALL whom it may concern.
XT OTICE is hereby given, That a Court of Ad
miralty will be held at the State-houie in the city
of Philadelphia, on the eleventh day of September infl.
for the trial of the (loop or vessel called the Ddpatcb,
and her cargo, burthen about ninety tons, late com
manded by jam's Phillips, taken at sea on her intended
voyage from Jamaica to New-York, Ont into rids port
and libelled againtt by Samuei HdlHngfhtad and other,
(qui lam, &c.) To the intent that the owners, or any
person concerned therein, may appear and (hew cause,
if any they have, why a decree should not p«f^, pursu
ant to the prayer of the bill, &c.
By order of the Judge,
September 4. ANDREW ROBESON, Reg.
Some of the DE POSI TlO NSof Witoeffes in support
of the irft charge, exhibited to the Court Martial on
the trial of Dogtor WILLIAMSHIPP£ N.
junior, viz. fraud in felling H&fpital Stores as private
properly, and making use of Continental Waggons for
the transportation thereof.
WILLIAM BENNET, Tavern keeper, in
Buckingham Township, Bucks County, deoofed
as follows :
That Dr. William Shipp^n, iuo s Dire&tQr General
of the General Hospital of the United States, calling fe.
veral times at the deponent's house, as be travelled the
road, took an opportunity to inquire of him whether he
wanted any wine or sugar, for he had some to difoofe of,
and could afford to supply him with those articles as cheap
as any person, and that in cenfequence thereof, he pur
chased of said Dr. Shipped, firft, a quarter calk cf win ,
which he sent from Philadelphia in a waggon, about the
month of July, 1777 ;—that Dr Shippen afterwards cal
led on him again, and the deponent perchafed from (aid
Dr. Shippen, in the month ot December, 1777, a tierce
of sugar, which he sent to the deponent's house from Beth
lehem *, together with another cask of wine, in a waggon,
which the deponent took to be Dr Shippen's own wag
gon, and wrote word by the waggoner, Nickolas Rim
reel, for the deponent to (end tin money by him, for it
was no time to trust ; that he charged the deponent at the
rate of 42L a hundred for the sugar, and one hundred
pounds for the quarter ctik of wine, which money the
deponent accordingly sent by the waggoner, agreeablyto
the account inclofed for that purpose, and the waggon
er's receipt as follows ]|,
Mr. William Behner,- to-—Thomas Brown, Dr.
Bethlehem, Dec. 23, 1777.
To one tierce of brown sugar, - 6 ct. g qrs. ^olb.
at 4.21. per ct. - - 293 5/. od. ~
To i quarter calk of best
Madeira winty - - 100 o o
£- 393 5 °;
Dec. 24, 1777. Received from William Bennet,
L 393 5/ for Dr. Shipper. f
Nicholas Kimmel.
RIMMEL's DEPOSITION.'
Nicholas Kimmel being (worn, deposed, that his wag
gon was prefled by force, as he was returning from Beth
lehem with meal for his family, and he was compelled
(under circuxifiancesof the greatest danger to his health)
to carry the said wine and sugar, from Bethlehem to Mr.
Bennet's tavern, which was delivered out to the driver
of his waggon, John Marricle, by Hugh James; Com
missary General of the Hospital Stores, the deponent be
ing obliged 10 accompany them itimL.f, altho' he had
hired a driver for the pwrpefe, and to bring bank tiie mo
ney, or give hii bond of 3951. f er kcurity, (A certifi
cate being given to John Marricle that his waggon was
employed in the public service of the hospital, bo prevent
his beihg pressed by any other person fheuld it be attempt
ed) -That the deponent delivered the wine and fug.tr and
received the money for Dr. Shippen, and on his return
to Bethlehem, a certificate was given him to entitle him
|o receive pay for that service, as a public waggoner f,
and accordingly he was paid for it, as such, at the expence
of the United States ; and he further deposed s that Al
though he was employed five days in all with his team and
driver, yet he received but four days pay for the fame,
for himfsif and his ream, at the Continental price, which
was then but 4 dollars a day, far below the value, and no
thing for the driver, whereas, if he had had it in his pow
er to refufe, which be attempted in vain, he would not
have gone the journey for three times that price, beioga
considerable loser by it, exclusive ct rhe fatigue he under
went ; tuHt it was on account of his indifpofcion that he
hired John Marricle, hoping that would excuse his ^bin/
in person ; that he sent him with the team to Bethlehem,
the firft day, and remained behind, but John Marricle
returned with a message that he must go, at which he
was very angry, that he ihoul 1 be compelled to go so long
a journey, in that cold weather, and he not well, but was
obliged to submit.
John Marricle being sworn, deposed, that he was em
ployed by Nicholas Rimmel to go from Bethlehem, De
cember 2t, 1777, to Bennet's tavern in Bucks county,
with a tierce of sugar and quarter cal of wine, which
wine, Mr. Hugh James, Commissary of the General
Hospital, under Dr. William Shippen, delivered to him
from the wine cellar belonging to Dr. Hotfefield, con
taining hospital floret, the sugar being rolled from out
of a flab flore at Bethlehem, containing other hogiheads,
barrels and stores ; with orders to accompany Nicholas
Rimmel with said wine and sugar, to the above named'
* The Hospital Stores were then kept at Bethlehem.
| | The account was made out in the fictitious name of
Thomas Brown; under which Dr. Shipper chefe to oafs
in that tranfa&ion.
t Instead of receiving pay from Dr, Shipperi or Hugh
James, °