Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1775-11-27 00:00:00, page 1

VOL. V. NUMB. 214.
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MONDA Y,
City of Philadelphia, November 27, 1775°
The ASSIZE of BREAD.
Fine Flour, at Eighteen Shillings per Ct.
Middlings, at Fifteen Shillings per Ct.
Rye, at Ten Shillings per Ct.
Whitebread,b.oz. Midd. do.lb.oz. Rye do. lb. oz.
id.loafiso 7 id.loafiso 8^ id.loafiso 11
2d.ditto,o 154 2d.ditto, 1 11 2d.ditto, I 6|
4d.ditto,i 14* id.ditto, 2 22 4d.ditto, 2 12%
.'.ditto,3 I 2! Bd.ditto, 4 5 Bd.ditto,s 9
I2d.ditto,s 10^ 12d.ditto, 6 7 izd.ditto,B 6
Sei by SAMUEL RHOADS, Mayor.
ANDREW ALLEN, Recorder.
JACOB DUCHE.
WILLIAM FISHER.
SAMUEL POWELL.
Experiments made fines Friday last by Capt. Pryor
and Mr. Thomas Pain, for the purpose 6f fixing
feme eafi, cheap, and expeditious method of mak
ing Salt-Petre in private families, in order to
Jbev the practicability of a plan, proposed by Mr,
Pain,' @f forming a Salt- Petre riffociat:on, for
voluntarily fu, plying the public Magazines mith
Gun powder.
FIRST EXPERIMENT.
]F,RIDAY afternoon we sawed an old calle,
1 (of little or no value) into two tubs, and
bored an hole in the bottom of each near to the fide,
of about the size of a common cork, and flopped
it with a wooden peg; over each hole we put a
full handful of straw, then tilled the tubs with
* earth, taken from the bottom of a cellar, and
poured water therein, filling it up as it funk in,
till the water flood about an inch above the earth.
This is the fame as letting a lye tub.
Second, Saturday morning we drew the liquor
off, throwing it up till it run clear, the quantity
was about three gallons, which we put into a ket
tle, and boiled to about three quarts.
Third, We took a little wooden keg, bored an
hole, as in the former ones, flopped it with a cork,
and covered the bottom of the tub with cut straw
to about three or four inches, on which we put
about the fame depth of wood allies, and gently
poured thereon the hot liquor, so as not to make
holes in the allies ; after letting it stand a few mi
nutes to fettle, we drew it off, (throwing it up
a;ain till it run clear) when it ceased running we
put on about a quart of cold water to drive out
the lye which the ashes had fucked up.
Fourth, We boiled this fecund liquor to about
a pint and an half, then poured it gently off into
a bafon, leaving the feum and sediment behind;
after it had flood about a quarter of an hour to
fettle, we again poured it into two earthen foop
plates, set them in a cool place till next morning,
at which time the sides and bottoms of the plates
were beautifully covered with ctyftals of Salt-
Petre sprung up like large blades of grass, being
in quantity about a quarter of a pound.
SECOND EXPERIMENT.
As we judged we had not got all the Salt-Petre
from the earth in the tubs, we poured thereon
(i. e. on the fame earth) some boiling water; on
Monday we drew it oft and proceeded with it as
before ; on Tuesday morning it produced A larger
quantity of Salt-Petre than in the former experi
ment, and about two ounces of common salt.
N. B. The lye which remains is called Mother
of Nitre, and is to be put by and boiled up with
the second lye of the next process, when it comes
from the ashes.
As thele experiments were made to promote
the public good, it is hoped the several Printers
will give them places as soon as they can.
Philadelphia, November 14, 1775.
* The earth of cellars, fables, barns, and out
Foufes, open to the air, but cohered from rain and fun,
is impregnated with Nitre or Salt-Petre more or less ;
fakewife the foil under the floors of barns, which are
&aifed from the ground, where fowls, bogs, &c. Jbel
ter, will afford a large quantity.—We took about an
inch and an half from the furjace.
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TO BE LE T,
PART of a convenient HOUSE, lituate in
Second street. For further particulars enquire
ot the Printer.
WHEREAS a certain Woman came
to my house in Newport, Newcastle Coun
ty, bn Delaware, on or about the 23d day of Octo
ber latt, and left with me a black silk CLOAK,
which die said the found on the King's great road,
directing me to give it to the owner when called
for, him or her paying charges on the fame : And
whereas said Woman nor the owner of said Cloak
have never since appeared, I think proper to give
this public notice to any person who has loft such a
Cloak, to come and prove his or her property, pay
charges, and have it again.—LOST at the fame
time, a fine white shirt, a blue and white flriped
cotton jacket, a pint decanter, a wine glass, and a
half gallon case bottle. Whoever returns said arti
cles in such order as when taken away, may depend
®n proper charges to be paid by me
fa ELIZABETH BEATY.
ROBERT B E L L,
Printer and Bookseller, next door to St. Paul's
Church, in Third-street, Philadelphia ; complete
in three volumes, with neat bindings, (Price 365.)
That new and interesting Work of great merit and
integrity,
POLITICAL DISQUISITIONS;
An E N QUIRY into Public Errors, Defects,
and Abuses: illustrated by, and established up
on Facts and Remarks, extracted from a va
riety of Authors, ancient and modern ; calcu
lated to draw the timely attention of Government
and People, to a due consideration of the necessi
ty, and the means, of reforming those Errors,
Defects, and Abuses, of restoring the ConAitu
tion and saving the State.
By J. BURGH,. Gentleman; Author of the
Dignity of Human Nature, and other Works.
The American EDITOR to bis Countrymen.
IN this Work are freely and justly exhibited, by
the mod able politicians, and the greatest legis
lators of antient and modern times, the errors and
corruptions of those governments, which always
hath, and forever will bring ruin and deftruaion
upon the liberties of mankind.
The inhabitants of Britain, whose organs of fight
are become so very dim, that their rulers daily de
ceive them with the rradow, instead of the sub
stance, are throughout the whole held up as woe
ful and convincing meirtentos : How, and by what
means, the royal, ministerial, and parliamentary
managers cajole, tempt, and bribe the people to
commit fu<cide on their own liberties, and after
wards hang them in chains of everlasting Qavery, for
rhe great crime of believing placemen and pension
ers ever intended, or were capable of intending
any good to them or their country. Americans,
behold them ! There they are molt effectually gib
beted! and there they are likely to remain, almost
unpitied ; because dear bought experience hath
taught those, whose faculties of feeling, as well as
of feeing, are not entirely extinguished, that the
immediate extirpation and absolute annihilation of
all exorbitant incomes, even of the King, as well as
tho'e near him, is the only probable or possible way
to keep men virtuous citizens, and to make the li
berties of any country perpetual.
For no man should ever be admitted near the
helm of government, except those honest and ex
alted beings, whose chief actuation of fcul arifeth
from, and is continually pervaded with a love of
honor, liberty, and their country. The felfifh
part of the world, along with all those who are
conscious of possessing either bad or narrow fouls,
will tell us these are obsolete words that have no
meaning. We shall leave that to a future deter
mination, after inferring and averring they may
and ought, in plain English, to mean a conitant
attention, and invariable attachment, to the good
of the whole community.
The perusal of the work, at this important peri
od, will be attended with the most salutary and cer
tain advantages, if the inhabitants of America will
be so rational as to aft wifely, in taking warning
from the folly of others, by permitting no ministe
rial extravagances to enter into their plan ; they
will then start fair for laying a sure foundation that
freedom shall lart for many generations, and the
great expence of blood and treasure which the pre
tent grand conflict must cost, will in some meafitre
be compensated for by the goodness and perma
nency of the new erection, which must be coh
ftrufted if the infatuated Ministry of Britain conti
nue to perfilt in the ignominious attempt of making
Freemen Slaves.
*#* The American Physicians, who wifli to ar
rive at the top of their profeflion, are informed that
the great Profeffor C ULLE N's Lectures on the
Materia Medica, containing the very cream of
physic, are now felling by said BELL, in Third
ftreet—Price Five Dollars.
Wilmington, zoth of nth Month, 1775.
THREE POUNDS RE SVARD.
SUPPOSED to be Stolen, from the
borough of Wilmington, about the firft of this
infant, a light bay H ORSE, about fifteen hands
high, shed before with Iteeled shoes, has a large
head, Imalldh neck, and narrow breast, off which
the hair was chafed with a brealt-plate; paces well,
but has in his trot a kind of hop with the near fore
foot; is high hip and crupper boned, and when
hard rode has a lump or puff of wind on the near
fide of his neck, where he is trimmed for the bridle;
is a well carriaged horse, fix or seven years old.
It is supposed that he was Itolen by one Welch,
who is advertised and deicribed by David Cowpland,
of Chester, in the Penufylvania Journal, No. 1719,
and had such a horse at said Cowpland's. Who
ever secures said horse, so that the owner may have
him again, ihall have the above Reward, and it
brought home reasonable charges, pad by
JOHN YARNELL.
N. B. It is thought laid Welch took him over
Dunk's Ferry into the Jerieys. f
Philadelphia, November 20, 1775.
GRAINS and YEAST,
TO BE HAD OF
ROBERT HAR E and Co.
At the Porter Brew-House between Vine and
Race Greets, in Water-dreet.
* # # The bale of Grains will bt^in on Thursday
the 23d indent, and that of Year, vn Friday the ill
of December,
All the Printers on the Continent, who will be so oblig-t
ing as to insert the whole of this and the following
advertisement, tn their News-papers for three
weeks, fall be compensated with full payment, ei
ther in cafo or fentimentalfood, by their bumble ser
vant, the Proroedore to the Sentimentalifs.
Lately published, and now fcll : ng by
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\&^.ecmi reM±WßCtairat^t^^^OTtettP.tmttfltaßoLarf" Q tfJ
TO BE S O L D,
And may be entered upon next April,
A LOT of LAND situate in Newtown, Bucks
County, 50 feet front by 150 feet deep, on
which there is a new log stable, a new stone d^ell
ing-houfe two Tories high, the dimensions of which
are 19 by 27 feet, two rooms on each floor, and a
cellar under the whole. The said House and Lot is
plea fantly situated, and convenient for public or
private business. The terms of sale will be made
known by applfing to the fubferiber on the premites.
ANDREW M'MINN.
N. B. It might suit a Stocking-weaver well, as
that trade is much wanted in the town, &c.
BY virtue of a writ to me dire&ed, will be fold
by public vendue, on Thursday, the 30th day
of November inst. at the house of Elijah Weed, the
corner of Arch and Fuurth-ftreets, at three o'clock
in the afternoon, a certain two ttory brick meffua; e
or tenement, and an unfinifhed frame meffuage or
tenement, and lot or piece of ground thereunto be
longing, situate on the north fide of Apple-tree Al
ley, and south fide of Cherry Ailey, in the iquare
between Arch and Race and Fourth and Fifth
dreets, containing in front 25 feet, and in depth
140 feet, bounded by ground of Robert Crawford
and others, fubjeQ to a ground-rent of 211. per
annum ; late the estate cf John Meyer; seized and
taken in execution by
WILLIAM DEWEES, Sheriff.
BY virtue of a writ to me directed, will be fold
by public vendue, on Friday, the firft day cf
December next, at three o'clock in the afternoon,
on the premises, a certain two story frame meffuage
or tenement, ball alley and frame meffuage or te
nement, and lot or piece of ground, with the ap
purtenances, and lot or piece of ground thereunto
belonging, situate on the south fide of Plumb-street,
between Second and Third-streets, in thediftrift of
Southwark, nearly opposite Mr. Robert Black's,
containing in front 36 feet, and in depth 90 feet,
bounded by ground of Menis Pryor and others,
ful>j,e& to a ground-rent of 61. currency per annum;
late the estate qf James Brown ; seized and taken
in execution by
WILLIAM DEWEES, Sheriff.
CarliJlc, November 15, 1775.
To all Persons concerned in the Lands situate on
the Ohio, granted by the Six Nation Indians
to the fuffering Traders, &c. Anno 1763.
WHER EAS the fubferibers, by desire of
William Trent, and others, grantees of the
above lands, met at Pittsburgh the zzd day of last
September, did call a general meeting of the laid
grantees to be held at this place the 13th of this
present month, and did ad vertife the fame in the
Pennsylvania Gazette and other news papers. And
whereas a considerable number of the said grantees
did accordingly meet, but to little effed, as the said
William Trent's pretence was absolutely necessary
for the designed purpose, and he did not attend.
We are therefore direfted to call another general
meeting of the grantees, to be held at Lancaster on
the iith day of next month, then to agree on Inch
matters and things as may be effeemed most benefi
cial for their interest; and to infill that the said
William Trent do meet the said grantees at the said
time and place, then and there to render just and
true accounts of all his transitions made and done
by virtue of their powers of attorney to him, and
that he bring with him all his papers and accounts
relative thereto. All persons interested are request
ed to attend. ROBERT CALLENDER
GEORGE MORGAN.
JOHN BA
Plate Iron Worker in general, from Birming
ham, at John Duncan's, hatter, opposite the Bunch
of Grapes, in Third street, near Arch-ttreet,
MAKES tea-kettles, coffee-pots, sauce-pans,
stew-pans tinned, filh-kettles, Dutch ovens,
which are much sweeter, wholfomer and cheaper
than copper utensils, and are much used in London
and mod parts of England : He likewise makes oval
and Square dripping pans, ashes buckets, fire hoods,
coal scoops, pot covers, cocoa and coffee roasters,
Dutch Roves and pipes, on the lowest and most
reasonable terms; and puts new frying pans to old
handles. He hopes to give the public fatisfa&ion,
not only by the neatness of his work, but by the
dispatch with which he will endeavour to execute
all favours they may please to confer on him.
N. B. He tins and mends copper tea-kettles and
sauce-pans, and gives molt money for old pewter, j
-J 77aTa S PH ILL IPT
Has for Sale, at his (tore in Market-street, near
the Coffee-heufe,
_ LARGE assortment cf DRY GOODS,
which will be fold exceeding cheap for ready
money, confining es the following articles, viz —
Pink, green and light colours (upeifine calimancoes
and taberets; black worked bindings; Irish linens,
calicoes, tammies, rattinet:, fine cambists, Queen's
duffs, furniture calicoes, red and blue pencilled
bandano lilk hankerchiefs, royal rib and thickset,
Harla&n Gripes, ribbands of all colours, felt hats,
large black Barcelona handkerchiefs, tapes, threads,
gilt buttons, Itriped Mantua at 6s. 6J. per yard,
Superfine fencey raencey muslin at 16s. per yard,
black tafla ies and India Persians, mohair and twist,
needles, bed double fi!k fhaminy white kid gloves
for ladies, silk umbrellots, paper fnufF boxes, (beep
(hears, shoemakers hammers, fine fans, velvet
bindings and colours, golufhoes and pattens, cin
namon, mice and alfpice, raisins, Florence oil,
bed Holland and councry made gin in cases, bran
dy, clove and orange cordial, Frontiniac and Tent
sweet wines, claret and Port, belt French and Ca
rolina indigo, belt northern beaver and raccoon
skins, and sundry other Merchandize.
Goods receive! every day, at the said Store, to
be disposed at at Public Vendue.t
^SWW^R^W^
T II E
ADVERTISER.
NOVEMBER 27th, 1775-
Kent County, Maryland, Nov. 177 c.
TO BE REN TE D,
By the Subferiber, so- the space of three years, to
commence from the firft day of January next,
THE plantation whereon James Hodres now
lives, called White Rock Hall Ferry :
The conveniency of its situation for keepin, a fer
ry to Annapolis and Baltimore Town, cr any part
of Chefopeake Bay, is so well known that any thing
said in favour thereof would be unnecessary. There
is on the premises a good dwelbng-houfe with two
rooms, a passage, and two shed rooms below stairs,
and three rooms above, and an exceeding good dry
stone cell; r under the whole house, a good kitchen
and passage between that and the dwelling hcufe,
well finished and in good order, a good stable, meat
house and quarter, and a well of water close by the
door. There is also very good pasture ground on
the premises, and a plenty of fills oysters and wild
fowl to be had very convenient. The whole is
in good repair, and may be entered on the firft day
of January next. Any person inclinable to rent
the premises, may know the terms by applying to
§ THOMAS SMYTH.
Ceecil County, November 6, 1775.
THIS day was committed to my cus
tody as a Run-away, by the name of JOHN
M'AFEE, an Irifliman, about thirty years of age,
five Get ten inches high ; has on an old blue fear
nought great-coat, old hat, and leatherapron : He
acknowledges himfelf to be a servant to Mr. Curtis
Grubb. His master is desired to pay charges and
take him away.
t JOHN HAMILTON, Sheriff.
T OB E S O L D,
THE TIME of a German servant Girl, vlo
has been upwards of two years in the coun
try, has near five years to serve, has no objections
to go live in the country, and is fold only f er want
of employment. Enquire of the Printer.^
TOBE SOL D,
AN English servant M A N, about twenty-five
years of age, has three years and four months
to serve : He is well acquainted with the care of
horses, driving carriage, and can do many kinds
of work : He would suit the country best. Enquire
of JOHN MIFFLIN, in Second-ftrett, near
Walnut-street, Philadelphia.
November 4, 7775.
TWENTY SHILLINGS REWARD.
STRAYED or STOLEN from the fubferi
ber, a BAY HORSE about seven cr eight
years old, about fourteen hands high, with one
hind white foot and a switch tail, paces and trots,
newly shod before, and trimmed under the bridit.
Whoever takes up said horse so that the owner in ly
have him again, shall have the above Reward and
reasonable charges, paid by me H UGH J ONES,
living in Marple Townfbip, Chetter County, or
CHRISIIANGROVER, at J>feph Turner,
Efqr's plantation, in Paffyunk Townflrip, Phila
delphia County.l
October 26, 1775.
SIX DOLLARS REWARD.
WHEREASacertain JOHN GORDON
has absconded from the province of Penn
sylvania, and counties of Northampton, Bucks and
Philadelphia, being there engaged as a Post-rider,
and by various pretences has got from sundry peo
ple sums of money to be paid in Philadelphia, the
fobfcriber being one of them who has entrusted him'
with a considerable sum, with which he has gone off
and defrauded him, as well as many others in the
fame manner: He is about five feet eight inches
high, thin visage, brown hair, has an impediment
in his speech, sometimes talking coarse and then
thrill, his foreteeth mostly gone ; had on when he
went away, a suit of uniform, brown ceat faced
with yellow, and it is supposed the others the fame;
He is this country born, defeended from Scotch
parents. Whoever takes him up and ftcures him
in any of his Majesty's gaols, id that ba may he
prosecuted and brought to justice, shall have the
above Reward, and reasonable charges, paid by
Hugh Ramsey, living in
Secouddirtet, Philadelphia.
N. B. He is gone about three weeks, and sup
posed into some part of Virginia.
CAME to the plantation of the sub
scriber, living in Brandywine Hundred, and
Newcastle County, about the twentieth of May hft,
one yoke of OXEN, the one pied, and the other
brown; also a brown CO W. The owner is here
by desired to come and prove his property, pay
charges, and take them away.
t PAUL RAULSTON.
rbilridelhbia, Sept. 29, 1775.
FORTY SHILLINGS REWARD.
STRAYED or STOLEN out of a patture
near this city, a black II ORS E, about four
teen and an half hands high, between fevto and
eight years old, trots and canters, at the time he
went away lime in the off shoulder, lately rovel d
and not yet healed up, brawled on the near but.
tock 0, without thoes. Whoever takes up fid
bore and thief if stolen, flnll have the above Re
ward on conviction of the thief, &id for the hufe
alone, THIRTY SHILLINGS paid by
ALLEN M'LLA N.
A few PIPES of choice
TENERIFFE WINE,
PORT WINE by the quarter-cask or doz)
And Old BARBADOS SPIRIT,
By the hogshead or quarter-calk,
TO BE SOLD BY
GEORGE MEADE and Co;