The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1777-12-31 00:00:00, page 1

By His Excellency
GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq;
General and Commander in Chief of the
Forces of the United States of
America.
BY virtue of the power and direc
tion to me especially given, I
hereby enjoin and require all persons
residing within seventy miles of my
Head Quarters to thrGh one half of
their grhin by the firfl day of Febru
ary, and the other half by the firft
day of March next enfeing, on pain,
*in case of failure, of having all that
shall remain in sheaves after the period
* above-mentioned, seized by theCom
miffaries and Quarter- Masters of the
army, and paid for as Straw.
GI7 ENunder my band, at Head
Quarters, near the Valley Forge,
in Philadelphia:County, this 20th
'fh day '^December, 1777.
G. WASHINGTON.
OR
GENERAL
By His Excellency's command,
Robert H. Harrison, Sec.
Just puklifoed and now felling by
JO H N D U N L A P,
At his Printing-office in Queen-street, Lan
caster.
Father ABRAHAM's
a lmana c k,
For the year of our Lord 1778.
f§l Our ctfomers are requested to observe, that
the ingenious David Rittenhouse, A. M.
has favoured us with the agronomical calculations of
our Almanack for this year, therefore they may be
rnf ferity relied.on.
publifbed and to be fold by
FRANCIS BAILE Y,
At the south fide of King-street, a few doors
below the Market, Lancaster,
The LANCASTER
ALMANAC K,
For the year of our Lord 1778.
By ANTHONY SHARP, Philom.
FORTY DOLLARS REWARD.
STOLEN from the fubfcriber,fyn the 20th of No
vember last, at Howell's tavern, eight mile; from
the Sweede's Ford, on Schuylkill, a white HORSE,
about fourteen and a half hands high, ten years eld,
natural pacer, (hod round, has neither bran ' nor ear
mark, and has an hollow in the offfhouhler, occasion
ed by a wound. Whoever takes up fiid horse, and
the thief, and secures them so that the owner may have
his horse and the thief be brought to condign punifh
xnent, (hall receive the above reward, or one half for
the horse alone. The owner lives near Samuel Geliy's
tavern, in Cumberland township, York County, Penn
sylvania. § JOHN LEVINGSTON.
TO B E S C) L D,
% HOUSE and LOT, with a stable thereon,
liquate in Main street, Lamcaftcr. Enquire of
the Printer.t
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3 1, 1777.
Lancaster, December ,9, 1777.
N'OTICE is hereby given, by order of
the Qj mter-Maffer General, That on Thurs
day the zzd of January next will be fold at public sale,
at Mr. George Reihm's, the sign of the White Horse,
on Lancaster road, three miles from Reading, about
One Hundred HORSES, for cash to be paid on
the foot.
Those that have loft horses are desired to appear be
fore the diy of sale, prove their property before a Ma
gistrate, pay charges, and have them delivered by
t JACOB HILTZHEIMER.
Lancaster, December 22, 1777.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
DESERTED from Capt. Gourley's company,
of the Ninth Pennsylvania Regiment, a certain
JOHN BROWN, by trade an armourer, about
five ?eet seven inches high, peek marked, fair com
plexion ; had on a light coloured coat, white linen
jacket, leather breeches, end a beaver hat.
Ac a certain FRANCIS HARRIS, lately
difehatged from one of the floating batteries, by trade
a mill weight, about five feet eleven inches high ; had
on when he deserted, an old light jacket with fleev^s,
and flowered, flinqri breeches ; be is much given to
drnk, and apt to fay in bis difeourfe, Fleafe goodness,
or by way of oath, By he that made little apples or poop
lanthorm. Whoever takes up said deserters, and se
cures them in any of the gaols of the United States, so
that they may be returned to their regiment, (hall re
ceive the above reward and reasonable charges, paid by
JOHN BICKHA M,
X Lieut. 9th Pennsylvania Reg.
Earl Baiun. December 2, 1777.
HIS is to give notice to all persons on
X the Continent, not to trust any thing to Peter
Stall upon my account, or upon my childrens estate,
as I will not pay any debts of his contracting.
1 BARBARA STALL.
Montgomery County, Maryland, Dec 12, 1777.
IH AVE for SALE, five hundred acres of well
improved LAND, on which are thirty acres of
good Timothy meadow, situate about fifteen miles
below Frederick Town, near the mouth of Monocacy.
I will also fell four thousand acies of very rich LAND,
at sixty pounds currency per hundred acres, lying in
Washington County, about twenty miles above Fort
Cumberland. The purchafir will have tie option at
the expiration of four years either to receive the pur
chase money without interest, or keep the land.
X FRANCIS DEAKINS,
near the mouth of Monocacy.
MADE their escape from Leefburg, Vir
ginia, the following people, viz. ISAAC
JOhNSTON, about twenty years of age, about
rive feet ten inches high, smooth face, and dark hair.
BENJAMIN KING, a well made man, about
five feet eight inches high, pitted with the small-pox,
and appeared to be a middle aged man. JOHN
PORTER, a stout fellow, near fix feet high, and
about twenty two years of age. All the above.men
tioned prisoners were born in the neighbourhood of
Shrewsbury, in the Jerseys, and were taken by Gene
ral Sullivan on "Staten Ifl<nd : each had on a green
coat, a white waistcoat and breeches. Whoever brings
them to me io Leefburg, or confines them in any gaol,
(hall receive what the law allows.
I IS. THOMSON MASON,
Commiflary of Prisoners for Loudoun County.
December 6, 1777,
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
D AN AWAY from the fubferiber, living in P?x
ton Township, Lancaster County, on the 4th of
this inst. a Negro man named J O E, about twenty
five ye^rs old, a thick whiffet fellow, speaks the Eng
li(h and German tongues well; had on when he went
away, an orange coloured coat, a lead coloured jack
et, a cosrfe drift, and leather breeches. He took with
him a black MARE, big with foal, about fix years
old, a natural trotter and carries herfelf well, and has
no brand : It is supposed that he intends to go to
Howe's army. Whoever takes up said Negro and
Mire, (hall receive the above Reward, or for any one
of them, secured so that the owner gets them again,
tie one half,of the above Reward, and reasonable
charges, paid by X JACOB AWL.
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ADVERTISER.
December sz. 1777.
SIXTY DOLLARS REWARD.
^TOLE N left Monday night, from the fiibferiber
° in Hempfield Township, a bay HORSE, with
faddie and bridle, his a Ear in his forehead and a
blemidi in the right ever the right foot is white, shod
all round, is about nine or ten yerrs old, and pices.
The thief is one of the Virginia Lridiers, who was go
ing homewards; bad on a blue coat with white binn
ing on rhe button holes ; about five feet four or five
inches high : He also dole a blue and black mixed
country made great coat. Whoever freures said horse,
faddie and bridle, and will return them to the sub
scriber, shall receive the above Reward, besides rea
fonabie charges, from
X JOHN NEWCOMER.
WHEREAS David Hayes, of
Oxford Township, Chester County, and State
of P nnfylvanir, hath bought of Johr Cooler, a tra&
or parcel of land, lying in <h- Township, County and
State aforefaid, and gave William Bunting for bail ;
and the said David Hayes gave up his right to me,
now on the premises, and I have paid the firrt bord ;
the second becomes due in the year 1774, and the
third in the year 1776. This is therefore to warn the
Public that I will pay no more until John Cooper and
the legatees come and make me over a right for said
place. § ALLA N SIMPSON.
IF Mr. Theodore Barrell, brother to the
late Mr. William Barrell, Merchant, of Mar
ket-street, Philadelphia, is yet on the Continent, he
is earnestly requeued to give notice to the Printer
hereof, or to Mrs. Barrell, at Mr. Mullan's, in
Wlritc-ftreet, Mount-Holly. It is hoped, if any of
his friends can assist her in the requested information,
they will not withheld so great an obligation, as die
slitters herfelf it would nothe conferred on an ungrate
ful mind.
Reading. December ,3, 1777.
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.
STOLEN last night, from Mrs. Wethington's
house in this town, a small PORTMANTEAU,
containing the following articles, viz. a new silver grey
Bath coating furtout ; a new black broadcloth coat and
waistcoat, faced with the fame, without lining, and
the packets of blue fhalloon, with a plain death-head
button ; two pair of black prunella breeches, without
lining; one pair of linen drawers ; eight shirts, five of
which, if marked, have the letters T P, and three
marked EE; five stocks, marked on the button-hole
fide T. PLEASANTS; two purple-ground printed
handkerchiefs; two light ground ditto; two check
linen ditto ; one pair of country made mixed black
and white yarn stockings; four pair of light blue
worsted ditto ; one pair of neat country made mixed
black silk and white cotton ditto ; one pair of white
cotton ditto ; one pair of (hoes ; one pair of small open
work oval silver buckles ; one pair of fqua<e fashion
able ditto; two Servants Shirts, oznabrigs and white
linen ; one pair ditto of blue thick set breeches; two
pair ditto of stockings; a curry-comb and brush,
buckle-brush, cloaths-bru(h, a bed blanket, and three
bundles of letters for officers at head- quarters and gen
tlemen in Philadelphia, one of which contained a
quantity of old Pennsylvania paper currency. Who
ever will dete& the thief and recover the said articles,
shall have the above Reward, or in proportion to the
articles received, on application to Mr. JOHN
JORDAN, Inn-holder, in Lancaster, or Mr. RI
CHARD HUMPHREYS, in Reading.
N. B. The Portmanteau has been found without any
of the articles which it had contained.
Lancaster, December I, 1777.
MADE his escape from the fubferiber, Con
stable of Sadfbury Township, Chester Coun
ty, a certain THOMAS BULLER, appre
hended for treasonable practices against the United
States: He is about 5 feet 8 inches high, well built,
of a red complexion and yellowhair; had on a white
coat, light coloured breeches, and blue yarn stock
ings ; formerly lived in Chester County. Whoever
takes up and secures said Buller, so that he may be
brought to justice, shall receive SEVENTY-FIVE
DOLLARS Reward, and reasonable charges, paid
by $ JOHN BOGGS.