The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1779-02-23 00:00:00, page 1

P HI L A D ELPHI A.
In GENERAL A S S,EMB L Y,
Tuesday, February 16,1779-
The bill intilled "An aft to impower the Trustees for
" building a Court-Heufe and pnfon in and for the coun
“ ty ofßedford, to fell a meffuage and lot es ground in the
“ town of Bedford, purchased by them to serve as a tem
« porary prison, and to appropriate the monies arising by
“ such sale," being read a second time, and debated
by paragraphs, was thereupon ordered to be transcribed
for a third reading, and published in the mean time for
confederation. • Extras from the Minutes,
JOHN M ORRIS, Junior,
Clerk of General Assembly.
An ACT to imfe^er tbe Trustees for building a Court-
Heufe and Prison in and for the county of Bedford, to fell
a mefoa^e and lot of ground in tbe tomr. of Bedford, pur
chased by them to serve as a temporary Prison, and to
appropriate tbe monies arising by f^cb sale.
WHEREAS the said Trustees have by their petition
represented to this House, that they were under
the necessity, immediately after the said county was erec
ted, to provide some place to serve for a prifo^'tid a proper
house for that purpose could be built ; that they therefore
purchafed a house and lot from James M'Cafhlan, situate
on the east-side of the main cross street in the town of Bed
ford, numbered fix in the gen ral plan of the said town,
bordered on the weft by thefaid street, on the south part
ly by the public square and partly by lot number seven,
on the east by a twenty feet alley, and on the north by lot
number five, which the said James M'Calhlan, by his
deed poll dated the thirteenth day of November, in the
year of our Lord one tho'ufand seven hundred and feventy
©ne, for the confederations therein mentioned, conveyed
to Arthur St. Clair, Barnard Dougherty, George Woods
and William Prosier, Esquires, and Thomas Coulter,gent,
the Trustees aforefaid, in trust for thefaid county, that
the find Trustees have since procured a more convenient
lot, on which they have builta Court-House and Prison,
by 'which the said temporary Prison is become unoeceffary;
and praying this House would pass a law to enable them
to fell the fame, and to apply the money arising from the
sale thereof, towards defraying the debt incurred by the
said county, in purchasing the said lot and building the
said Court- House and Prison.
Ee it therefore enabled, agd it is hereby enacted, by
the Representatives of the Freemen of the Commonwealth
of Penfrylvania in General Assembly met, and by the au
tharity of tire fame, That the said Arthur St. Clair, Ber
nard Dougherty, George Woods, William Procter and
Thomas Coulter, or any three of them, ihall be, and they
or any three of them are hereby enabled and empowered
to grant, bargain and fell the said meffuage and lot of
ground, with the appurtenances, "as the fame is above
bounded and described, and to convey a lawful right and
title to the fame by deed indented uxdcr their hands and
seals, or under the bands and seals of any three of them,
to such person or persons as may purchase the fame, to
have and to hold the fame to the proper use, benefit and
behoof of such purchaser or purchasers, as fully and for
the fame.eftate as the said Trustees as aforefaid had held
and enjoyed the fame, and under and fubjeft to the fame
groundrent or other incumbrance, favir^ to all persons,
bodies politic and corporate, their heirs and successors,
Executors and Administrators ( other than such as claim
under the said Trustees ) all such right, title and interest
as they or any of*them have or may have to the said mef
fuage, lot and appurtenances, so bounded and described
as aforefaid, or to any part thereof, this aft or any thing
therein contained to the contrary in any wife notwith
standing.
And be it further ena&ed by the authority aforefaid,
That the said Trustees or such and so many of them, as
fhail fell and convey the said meffuage and lot, ihall ap
ply and pay all the monies arising from such sale ( after
deducing the necessary charges arising from making
said sale) forand towards defraying the debt incurred by
them as aforefaid.
In GENERAL ASSEMBLY of PENNSYLVANIA.
Saturday February 20, 1779.
The bill intitled "An aft for vesting the house and
" lots therein described in Trustees for the use of the Pre
" fident of the Supreme Executive Council of the State for
" the time being," being read a second time and consider
ed by paragraphs, was thereupon ordered to he transcrib
ed for a third reading, and printed in the mean timefor
public eonfideration.
Extrafl from tbe Minutes.
JOHN MORRIS, Junior,
Clerk of General Assembly.
An ACT for -we,ling tbe house and lots therein described in
Trnfiees for tbe use oj'tbe PreJident of tbe Supreme Exe
cutive Council of tbe State for tbe time being.
WHEREAS by an aft of General Assembly of
this commonwealth intitled, An aft for the attain
der of divers traitors, &c. Joseph Galloway, late of this
TUESDAY,
WIOIW^
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GENERAL
[Price Fifteen Pence single, One Shilling by the quantity. Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.]
State is convifted and attainted of high treason, and all the
estate real and perfon,al which he was feizedof or intitled
unto on the fourth day,of July 1776 was by the said aft
forfeited to the State.
AND WHEREAS on the said fourth day of July
the said Joseph Galloway, was seized inter alia of a certain
meffuage or tenement and lot of ground in the city of
Philadelphia, lituate on the south fide of High street, con
taining in breadth on the said High -street sixty feet, and
in length or depth on Sixth-street one hundred and eighty
feet. Bounded eastward with the meffuage and lot of
Richard Penn, southward with Minor-street, weftw^rd
with Sixth-street, and northward with High- street afore
faid, and also of and in a certain other lot or piece of
ground situate on the south fide of Minor-street aforefaid,
containing in breath on the said street sixty feet, and in
depth, eighty fix feet bounded northward by Minor-street
aforefaid, eastward and southward by ground of Elizabeth
Church, and westward by Sixth-street aforefaid..
AND WHEREAS it is suitable and necessary that a
proper house be provided by the public, for the residence
es His Excellency the President of the Supreme Executive
Council of the State for the time being.
Be it therefore enabled, by the Representatives of the
Freemen, of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in Ge
neral Assembly met, and by the authority of the fame,
That the said meffuage or tenement, and two lots or pie
ces of ground with all the buildings, improvements andap
purtenances thereunto belonging, shall be, and the fame
are hereby granted to and veiled in
to have and to
hold the said meffuage or tenement and lots of ground,
and all and Angular the appurtenances thereunto belong
ing, unto them the said
and the Survivors and Survivor of them, and to the heirs
of the Survivor of them for ever. Yet nevertheless to the
uses, intents and purposes herein after fpecified, and to
ho other use, intent or purpose whatsoever, that is today,,
to and for the use of the President of the Supreme Exe
cutive Council of the State for the time being, and to and
for such other uses, intents and purposes as the General
Assembly of this commonwealth shall hereafter direct and
appoint. And on this further trust and confidence that
they the said Trustees and the Survivors and Survivor of
them, and the heirs of such Survivor do and shall permit
and fuffer the President of the Supreme Executive Coun
cil of the State for the time being, to have the exclusive
care and management of the said house and lots with the
appurtenances, either to occupy the fame or to lease and
receive the rents, issues and profits thereof to his private
use and advantage.
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Philadelphia, February I^.
To the P ÜBL I C.
re HE Subscriber hereof having some years ago fol-
I lowed the VENDUE BUSINESS in South
walk, now intends following that business, with ft rift
attention to the prefect reftriaions; and therefore offers
his service to any person or persons who may have any
thing to expose to public sale by way of Vendue, agree
able to Law: And for the conv^niency of those who
may be pleated to employ him, h^ has opened an Office
cn the east fide 'of Front street, below Chefnut-ftreet,
next door to that marked City Vendue-Store, where he
may be met with, Goods received and fold, (until the
Honorable Hou ( e of Assembly fee proper to regulate or
remove the prelent reitri&ions on that business) and all
those who may be so kind as to employ him, may be
assured that justice will ba done to them and the pur
chaser, By their most humble servant,
WILLIAM BROWN.
W A N T E D,
A PERSON who can be well recemnpnded, writes
well, and uudeiftands accompts. Apply to the
Printer.
To be LET for a term of years.
And en ered on the firft of April next,
THAT ancient T AVERN on the Gulph-Mill
A road, fourteen and a half miles from Philadelphia,
known by the sign of The Bird in-hand: It is a go&d
stage and place of much resort, and in a good neigh
bourhood: There are nine acres of excellent watered
meadow, two young bearing orchards, and a good com
modious houle with five rooms cn the firft floor, stables,
sheds, &c. on said place, all in good repair; also a good
spring of water rising in the ceder. For further parti
culars enquire of the fubferiber living en the premises.
Feb. 16. PHILIP REES.
RU M, Taffia, Sugar, Molafles, Coffee, and
Tuks-Uland Salt, just imported and to be fcid by
JOHN DONNALDSON,
In Walnut street, Philadelphia.
THE
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FEBRUARY 23, 1779.
THE
ADVERTISER
DRUGS and MEDICINES.
A large and frefh ^fatment just opened and to be fold
By FREDERICK PHI LE,
In Seconddfreet, between Market and Chefout-ftreets,
and opposite Blark-horfe Alley ;
, Among which are the following Art cies, viz.
JESUIT S Bark, * Spirits Sal Ammon.
Antimony, Mercurial Ointment,
Calomel, I Gum Arabic,
Tartar Emetic, I Gum Ammon.
S,a, I Gura Galbanum,
Hera Piera, Gum Guaicum,
J a '"?>Turlington's Balsam,
Ipecacuanha, Stoughton's Bitters,
Manna, Eau de luce,
, Opium, Keyfer'sPub,
Glauber and Epsom Saits, Anderton's Pills,
Diuretic Salts, Hooper's Prils,
Flower of Chamomile, Flowers of Benzoin,
Flower of Brimrtone, Sulphur Aurat. Antim.
Cremor rartar, Lunar Cauhic,
Roman Vitriol, Lunar Com,
Diaphoretic Antimony, Oil of Pennyroyal,
Magnolia Alua, oil of Rosemary,
S^o, oil of Saffafrafs,
Sri Fe're, oil of Rhodium,
Aniseed, oil o f Peppermint, &e.
Carraway Seed, Red Precipitate,
Fennel Send, A U kinds of Plaifters and
Carolina Pmkroot, . Salves.
Crude Tartar, Allo, a variety of Painters
Gum Ifingl&fs, Colours, White Lead,
Volatile Salts, R e d Lead, Vermillion,
Spirits of .Hartlhorn, Lytharge of'GJd, Pow
—£U of S " Voiat. - der Blue, &c.
MobrehToewH, Burlington County, Feb. 18.
Ore Iff red and Fifty Dollars Reward.
RAN A Vv A /Jaft evening, from the fubferiber,
a Dutch lei vant man named Justus Crammar,
about twenty-one years of age, five feet fix or seven
inches high, a well built, likely fellow, with black
curled hair, dark eyes, has a fear cross-ways betwixt
his under lip and chin, speaks tolerable good English,
and 'tis thought speaks Dutch but imperfeaiy; Had on
and took with him, a lead coloured homespun broad
cloth coattee with a final! falling collar, almost new,
an old patched upper broadcloth jacket nearly of the
fame colour, a striped worked and wool under jacket;
patched on the fore part with cloth of the fame; had
two pairs of breeches, one of the fame cloth of his coat
tee, almost hew, the other of leather, old and patched ;
he had wooden buttons to all his cloaths except his lea
ther breeches, part of which were brass : He had on an
old (hirt made of tow and linen, a pair of double-foaled
neats leather shoes with plated buckles in them ; he had
arfo a pair of plated knee-buckles, a pair of old yarn
flockings mixed red and black, and a c<ftor hat about
na.f worn. Whoever takes up said servant and fecurgs
him in any gaol, and gives notice to his master so that
he may be had again, mail have the above reward, and
if brought home all reasonable charges defrayed, by
EPHRAIM HAINES.
Philadelphia, February 18.
ALL per sons 'indebted to the estate of Da
l niel Meredith, late of this city, Brale-found
er, deceased, are once more requested to pay the fame
to the fubferiber, (living in Second-street opposite to
Ahnond-ftreet) within two weeks from the date hereof,
otherwise their accompts will be put into an Attorney's
hands for prosecution : And those who haye any de
mands against said eliate are desired to bring in their
aefompts, properly proved, to
MARY MEREDITH, Administratrix.
T 0 'B™E SD,'
Separate or together,
'"THREE small tracts of LAND contiguous t®
g each other, situate in the townDiips of New-Lon
don and Londonderry, in Chester County; one tra6t
containing near two hundred acres, well proportioned
with meadow and woodland, a convenient dwalling
houfe, kitchen, barn, stables, coopers and weavers
ffiops, two good apple orchards, with other necessary
improvements, in good order. The other tracts chiefly
woodland. Any person inclining to purchase may know
the terms by applying to Walter Finney, C^ot. 6th
P. Reg. at Camp, or to John Finney and tavto
Hunter, on and near the prenaifes.
N B. Any emissions of go^d money, or draughts on
the Continental Treasury, wi#lbe taken in payment, if
fcid before the firft of June next. 4.
Bills of exchang Fonr^
for SALE. Enquire of the Printer.