The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1782-11-07 00:00:00, page 4

William Prichard,
BOOKSELLER and STATIONER,
Between Front and Second- Greers, in Market-street,
opposite Laetitia- court,
Is happy to inform the generous encouragers of Lite
gators, that be has just published an additional Ca
talogue to hi# CIRCULATING LIBRARY ; and
begs leave to assure them, that his belt endeavours
will be u'ed, to provide Food for the mind the en
duing Winter:
Among many other valuable Bocks for sale, he has the
following, viz.
F OLI O,
CIATESBY's Natural History of the Carolinas, Ba
3 hama Iflandz, &c. with aoo,elegant copper plates,
masterly executed, and beautifully coloured from life,
in 2 vela.
Complete collections of S ate Trials, 6 v.
Ru(h ^ortb'e Historical CoHeaicns, including Lis Trial
of L rd Stafford, 3 v.
Howard's History of the World, 3 v.
Rolle's Abridgement, 6 v.
Bacon's Abridgement, 3 v
Peere William's, Cooke's, S^undeis's and Hobbart's
Reports, &c. with a general coikaion of the most
modern authors in laz.
Chambers's Diaionary of Arts and Sciences, 2 v.
Millets and Gardiner's D^ionary on Botany, &c. 2 v.
James's Medical Dictionary,
An It io D aionar,
Salmon's Natural History of Plants, with plates, Ware's
Architecture, in four bock:,
Horning's complete Body of ancient Geography,
Natural Hi^orv of B^rbadoes, with cuts,
QU ARTO and OCTAV O.
Gravefend's Experiments of Natural Philosophy, 2 v.
Defagalier's ditto, ditto,
The London Chronicle for 1757,
Monsieur de Blainvillt's Travels through Europe,
Philosophical Tranfaftions, 37 v.
Literary M gazines, or the Works of the learned, 12v.
Monthly Reviews, 31 v.
Universal History, gilt, 20 v.
Universal History, half bound, 20 v.
Cullen's Materia Medics,
History of England complete, by Smolkt, 15 v.
Robertson's History of Scotland, 2 v.
Hiftory of Charles the Vth, 3 v.
—History of America, 2 v.
Locke's Effav on Human Understanding, % v.
on the Epistles
The Preceptor, or a general Course of Education, 2 v.
Orrery's Pliny, 2 v.
Butler's Remains,
Genty's Leaures, 3 v.
Sharp's Surgery,
Van Swielen's Commentaries,
Quincey's Lexicon,
Potter's Antiquities of Greece, 2 v.
Potters's Chirurgical Works, 4 v.
Complete Body of Huflandry, 3 V.
Smith's History of New Jersey,
Raleigh's Works, 2 v.
Franklin's History of Pennsylvania,
Salmon's Geographical Grammar,
French,Englifh, Latin, Italian, and Dutch D ftionanes,
With a very general Collection of Divinity, Law, Phy
sic, Mathematics and the Classics, not inserted.
NOVELS and BOOKS of Entertainment.
SpeCtator, Tatlcr, Guardian, Rambler, Peregrine
Pickle, Tcm Jones, Roderick Random, Don Quixotte,
Gil B'% female Quixotte, Roufellt's Letteis, Persian
and F, uvran Letters, Pamela, Prince of Abyffinto,
Bellefarius, Guiphw^a, Ward's Nuptial Dialogues,
Triumph of Truth. Ovid's Ari of Love, Madame de
Granton, Vicar of Wakefield, Longsword, Earl of Sa
lisbury, Viaud's Voyage, Trigram Shandy, Hawkf
worth's Telemachus, the Ladies Travels through Spain,
Sterne's Works complete, Muse in Good Humour, Ju
lie de Rohign% Drifted Village, Magazines, Plays,
Periodical Pamphlets, &c.
*#* The above is part of Four Thousand Volumes,
of a very Scarce and valuable Collection, many w
which are not to be met with in this City, 01 on the
Continent of America, and are now felling on the
lowest Terms, for Cash.
SCHOOL BOOKS.
Bibles, Testaments, Spelling Books, Lowth's and
Buchanan's English Grammar, Croxal's and Dodfley'e
Slop's Fables, Pantheon, Art of Speaking, Oecono
of Human Life, Primers, Battledores, &c. &c.
7 STATIONARY.
Best Writing Pap f r, ditto gilt and mourning, Q ills,
Penknives and Sciffars, Waters red and black, \V^x
ditto, Pencil , leather and pewter Ink-stands, Ink pow.
d^r, Ink-Sticks, &c. ivory Pounce Boxes and Folders,
Bonnet and Ha: Boxes, G< Id Scales, silk Purses, Cork
screws, Jones's genuine Powders tor taking out ftaina
and spots, Pocket-books, Piaurrs, Merchants Ac
count Books ruled and plain. Receipt and Copy Books,
German Flutes, and Music Paper ruled and plain.
Great Allowances, in the above Article s, will bit
made to Country Traders, by the Quantity
BOOKS bought, fold, or exchanged.
R-dlev Town Ship, Chester County, 0&. 16.
RAN-AWAY ftom ki&bail, a certain ARCHIBALD
MAGREGER, 5 feet 5 or fix inches high, and
w.ll Set, ad on when he wsnt away a linen coattee and
jacket of the fame, striped linen trowfers, and a small,
old wool hat. He il a Scotchman born, and talks bad
English, He had a pals from John Gardner, enquire,
who cleared him from gaol, which it is thought he will
make use of. Any person who will apprehend the said
Magreger, and bring him to Chester goal, (ball receive
the above reward, paid by JOHN CHISEM.
Philadelphia; Printed and Sold ^ DA^II) C. CLAPP 00 L E, in Market-Street.
Four Dollars Reward,
D AN-AWAY from the subscriber, liv
ing in Leacock township, Lancafttr county, on the
20th of O&obe r , a Servant B 0 Y, n^med JACOB
TOUT, about 5 feet 6 inches high, thick set, about
18 years of age ; had on when he went away, a coat,
waistcoat and overalls of gre n linen, the coat h?s flaps
at the breast; took with him a woollen coat and
waistcoat of an ash colour, buckskin breeches, white
hat. DAVID DICKY, a German, about 5 feet 11
inches high, a cutler by trade ; had on a)inen coat and
waistcoat dyed yellow, linen trowfers and leggins, an
old hat; both talkative and love liquor. The above
mentioned persons stole cloaths unknown. Ail matters
of vessels are forbid harbouring them at their peril°
Tout stole his indenture. Ten Dollars will be givenfor
each, if secured in any gaol in this ftat“,and reafonri Ie
charges if brought home to their master. JACOB MYR.
N wrk, O&ober 18, 1782.
Five Dollars Reward,
STOLEN out of the stable of the subscriber, cn the
night of the 17th inften', a large B!ack HORSE,
about 15 hands high, ftven or tight years old, h.s a
star in his foie; ead, and a (m; P white foot on his back,
occasioned by the fiddle, tro s and centers, and ws
(hod only before. Whoever will return the iaid horse
to the subscriber in Newark, shall have the above re
ward and reasonable charges paid, by
PETER H. KIP.
Two Dollars Reward. ,
^^„AS taken out of the (hop cf the u'ofcriber, in
Chefnut-ftreet near Fourth-street, about one
month ago, a small fcrew-tarrei'd POCKET PISTOL,
with T. Ewing engraved on it, the pan much wom and
the cock battered; also a Braf# PISTOL BARREL
in the icugh. Whoever takes up said Pistol and Barrel,
shall have the above reward, or for each One Dollar,
paid by JAMES WALSH, 0&. 24.
Baltimore, Sept. 10, 1782.
RAN AWAY from the fubicriber, living in Bal
„ tinu r* county, about 18 miles from the town, a
MULATTO BOY, named JACK; about 15 years
old, but (mail of his age; his hair is pretty thick, curs
and is much fun burnt. I think be has a fear under
his throat, wheie he was burnt or scalded feme years
ago, and another r car on his right eye-brow, is a re
maikabie (mart boy, has been some years a waiting
boy, and has knowledge of most parts of the (late of
Maryland, -<id part of Virginia. He Hole a horse, bri
dle and iadth, with some cloaths, the night he went
off. It :s supposed he will make for Philadelphia, or
Annapolis, and endeavour to pals as a free man, or
some gentleman's waiting-boy, as he has done before ;
he cr ffed at George-town when the Baltimore light
horfe marched, and get far down into Virginia ; his
apparel is a giry, full'd linfey coat and breeches, trim
eel with eld blue cloth at the (leaves, cuffs, collar, &:.
white, country linen (birt, ball worn country wool hat.
the blacking ,lmoft all out, pretty good (hoes, with
straps, &r.
Whoever takes up the said boy and horse, and brings
him to the Subscriber, (hall have Ten Dollars ; ^nd if
abeve fifty miles from heme, Twenty Dollars : if one
hundred miles, Tlity Dollars; if one hundred and
fl ty miles, Forty Dollars, and if five hundred miles,
the above reward, paid by
RAN-AWAY on the 3d of OTober, at night, from
the fubferiber, living in Suffe/county, Delaware
state, a Negro MAN, named HARRY, hut mry per
haps change his name, born in Kent county, formerly
belonging to Mr. Dickinson, is about thirty years of
age, nearly 5 feet 8 inches high, a thick Sett likely
fellow, of a yellow complexion, when drunk looks
very ill-natured: Had on and took with him a grey
coat lined with white flannel, a white flannel under jac
ket, three co rfe Shirts, one pair of tow trowfers, two
pair of (hort breech s, and a pair of large plated (hoe
buckles, and sundry other articles. Whoever takes up
and secures di ( aid Negro, so that hit master may get
hm again, sh II have the above reward and reasonable
charges pad, by JOHN DAGWORTHY.
Gaoler 5.
N. B. The al ove is a bright bay horse, between
13 and 14 hunt's high, nine years old rext spring,
branded on the near (boulder and buttock thus, W
RAN-AWAY on the 9th September, from the
fu f:rib<r, a n:gt Fellow named STAFFORD,
about 18 )ears of age, thin visage, with pr try
large lips and (mail legs, and in general dees not lock
very pleasant. He s very artful and no doul t wil en
deavour to par's as a free man : had on when he wo t
away, a small black hat w th a :mal| black feather in it,
(hort brown cloth coat with a red velvet cape, scarlet
waistcoat, brown breeches with thread ftorkinge,=nd a
pair of pumps with pinchbeck buckles in them. Who
ever will deliver the fad N^o to the Warden of the
Work-house or the (übferiter, living in Philadelphia,
in Third street between Vine aid Race (beets, fliall have
the above Reward and all reasonable Charges paid, by
O&o. 18. EDWARD NORTH.
N. B. The coat and waistcoat has been turned,
which is visible by the button holes.
One Hundred silver Dollars Reward.
Twenty Dollars Reward,
Thirty Dollars Reward.
Ten Dollars Reward,
SAMUEL WORTHINGTON.
N. B. A reward of four dollars will be given to any
peifon who will inform the said Peter Lemajgre, where
one John Pleiny slides now. He kept (hop the begin
ning of last year in front-ftreet, between Market and
Arch-streets.
TO BE SO-IT- Di A,
Healthy Negro Lad, well grown,
about 17 yefrs old: Sold for no other Lult but his
Master's w nt of money. Enquire of the Printer.
A SHOP to be Let in Mar
ket street, near Third street. Enquire of the Printer.
rT D /IV G
With letters, difyat has or matters of trust, upon any
occasion, at an hour's notice, to every distance, will be
executed by a person of a fair and good chara&er ; rea
sonable security for performance of the undertaking will
be givn it dtfir-d. Those persons who may chufe to
employ him will enquire of the Printer.
CAME to the plantation of the subscriber, living in
Leacock township, Lancaster county, about the
mi^ le of last June, 3 (potted STEER, about four
years old, marked with a crop in the near ear, and a
pie e cut out cf the other; Likewise came with him a
black COW. that j^ ear-marked in the fame manner.
The owner is desired to come and prove his property;
pay charges and take them away, or they will be fold
for the feme. WILLIAM WALLACE. Oft. 23.
TO BE SOL D,
A Negro Wench and Child,
part of the rftite of the late colonel George Noarth.
She is unde- a mortgage and will be fold cheap on that
account. Please to a, ply to WILLIAM GEDDES,
adminiftratcr.
A fr, To be hired cne or two Negro Lads.
T O BE L E T,
Genteel, ready furnifhed Lod%
ings, confiding of two parlours, a kitchen, two cham
berr, and a room over the kitchen for servants, and a
convenient cellar. Enquire of he Printer.
SATTINS, Peelong &
Sarfnettr,
Plain and coloured
mers and womens silk cot
ton and horded Hole,
Yard wide Barcelona Hand
kerchit fs,
Neat bordered linen and
check ditto,
Sewing Silk,
Silk waistcoat Patterns,
With many ether ARTICLES too tedious to
enumerate, wiich will be SOLD on reafonabb
Terms, for Cash, Bills of Exchange, or Country Pro
duce, By
KUHN & RISBERG,
The north fide of M rket street, between Fourth and
Fifth-ftreefr. Sept. 24.
Best Holland Quills and Sealing
Wax, Iri(h Wafers, Writing Paper, Ink
powder, Inkholders, Penknives, Account
Books, School-Bibles and Testaments,
Dilworth's Spelling-Books and Schoolmas
ters Assistants, Boyers French Grammars,
Surveyors Compasses, Slates and Rate-
Pencils, English Playing Cards, Wrapping
Paper, Parchment, &c. &c. &c.
TO BE SOLD BY
DAVID C. CLAYPOOLE,
In Market-street, Philadelphia.
Who gives the best price for clean Linen
Rags.
Just OPENE D, a VARIETY of
Superfine CLOTHS,
Of the firfl QUALITY and most fafhionable CO
LOURS ALS 0,
Peter Lemaigre,
Has for Sale, at his ftnre in Water-street, between
Maiket ard Arch streets,
AQiantity of different coloured Woollens, and di
vers other articles $ also a quantity of Vir'giniaTo.
bacco ; all of which he will fell at the lowest rate foffi.
He, for ready money or biPs of exchange upon Europe.
As the said PETER LEMAIGRE is a stranger in
this country, end is ebfoous of returning to Europe,
he desires all tlofe to whom be is indebted, to apply at
bis store for payment when h's engagements with them
are expired. He also begs those who are indebted to
him, to m ke as speedy a settlement as pcffible, other
wise he will be under the disagreeable necessity of oblig.
ing them.
Kidd Gloves, fine Linens,
Brown, crimson, flelh and
cinnamon colour'd Cam
bists,
Callimancces,
A neat Assortment of
Chintzes and Calicoes,
Checks,
Bedticks,
Three-quarter and yard
wide Britannias.