The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1783-09-23 00:00:00, page 4

WAS flopped by justice Moore, in Germantown,
on the 25th of this instant, Five Silver TA
BLE SPOONS, supposed to be stolen by a cer
tain Sarah Brown. The owner or owners are desired
to call and prove their property, that the offender may
be brought to justice. August 29
N. B. The Spoons are marked with different letters.
LANDSto be SOL D.
J^IF TY Th uhnd acre, lying on the river 0 rio,
about 20 miles brio# the falls ; this Land is of
excelnt qua ity and the 6tu>t<on good.
Thirty Thousand ditto on Concy^reek, a branch of
Grr-n river; on which are great quantities of Iron
Ors and several Coal P tig.
VALUABLE FARM of about goo ac es, situate
in B icks county, about 3 miles from the river
De: wire, and 15 from Philadelphia.
There are on the premises a good dwelling house,
large b:r^, and an apple orchard containing between
2 and 300 trees of the belt grafted fruit ; upwards of
too acre of the above is woodland and 90 acres mea
dow pround, part of which is cleared and in grass : it
is in te ne ghbomhood of feverzl grist and saw mills,
and there is on the premises a quantity of valuable ship
timber.
^TH E noted Farm ROCKINGHAM, lying at
& R >cky hill, about 5 mftes from Princeton, in the
Rail of New-Jer^y, at § relent occupied by his excel
lency general Wrihingteu. This firm is most pleafantiy
titrated on th, river MULtone •, the house is very large,
c^ntaiing upwards of 20 rooms, beside, very conve
ni nt out houiet ; there is 320 acres of land well wood*
ed nI watered. For further particulars apply to the
fubferiber in Princeton. MARGARET BERRIAN.
Philadelphia, August 30, 1783.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the fubferiber, feme
time tgo, bought from a certain John Butler,
three COWS, one of which has since been proven to be
the property of Thomas Wilkey, which gives a fufpi ion
that the others belonging to somebody in this place. The
owner or owners are defied to come, prove property,
pay chaiges and take them away. The one is a black Cow
the other a brindle. WILLIAM RUSH. Sept 2.'
Also, a LOT of GROUND on the weft fide of Se
cond rtree', between Rice and Vine ftreetv, containing
i breadth 27 feet 11 inches, and in depth 300 'eet.
For tems of fa'e apply to TUOMAS FRANKLIN or
CHARLES JAVI\ in Philadelphia, or to JOHN
HULMES, near the above farm. S pt 13. 6w.
TIV 0 valuable LOTS of GROUND situate on
tha weft fide of Second-ffreet, near Race-street,
containing in breadth 46 feet one inch, and in
d^pth about 300 feet. For terras of sale apply to CA
LEB carmalt or charles jarvis. Sep. 2 .
THE Freeholder* and others, entitled to Vote for
Members of Assembly for the County of Philadel
phia, are requeued to meet on Saturday the 4th
of October next, by 11 o'Clock in the Morning, at the
House of Captain GEORGE ECKHART, in White
marfh, in cro'er to form a Ticket for the ensuing Elec
tion. Philadelphia County, S<pt. 4, 1782.
I tee Fi^u nd Five Hundred ditto, at and near
t^e Jis of the Oh, of an excellent good quality, and
abounding with Salt Springs, Iron Ore, &c. For
te m o' sale, and further particulars, apply to John
May, ner pt ft rgh in Virginia, Siniud Pleasant,
0; William Cmutable in Philadelphia. Aug. 6. Bw,
In Front street, two doors below the Coffee House,
Where all foreign and domestic Negociations, incident
to the various branches of this Office, are tianfafted
upon truly moderate and liberal terms. The ut
meft (ecrecy, candor and fidelity to the interest cf
his Employes, will be found (as usual) the leading
principles, on which he means to eftabliffi the confi
dence an I approbation of a difeerning Public,
He BUYS and SELLS
Bills of Exchange upon France,
Spain, Holland, or any part of Europe, the continent
of America, cr Weft-ladies.
Officers Notes, Loan Office Certificates, negotiated
on the left terms.
Money procured upon such interest and fecority as
flub be agreeable to the parties, either for a month or
year.
Promiffary Notes and Bonds discounted or fold.
Merchandise of every tort disposed of upon the°moft
advantageous terms, tor which he has proper st or es
provided.
Haufes and Lands bought, fold or mortgaged.
Continental and State Money, of this or any other
state, bought or fold.
Whenever sudden Emergencies require Money to
be railed upon any pap ir Security, Merchandise or
Produce, every effort will be used to accomplish it on
the best terms, by applying as above : where the ut
mott attention will be paid to the interest of all those
who may favour him with their business, and nothing
left undone that can possibly be effided by Fidelitv
Care and Dispatch. Jan. 2. ''
BROKERS OFFICE,
By Ifoac Franks,
P^ade^ Printed and ^ by DAVID C. C LAYPOOLE, in Marfa-Strffl.
TO BE SO LD, A
FOR
TO BE SOLD,
S A L E,
Very neat Pocket Dictionaries, a variety of Chil
drens Books and Chap Books, Ballads by the Ream
or Qutre, &c. &c. August 2 ,
|Mr. C EN A S,
Dancer of the Opera, and Dancing-Master from
Paris,
INTENDS opening bis SCHOOL the beginning of
September, 1783. Those who will honor him with
the care cf this part of their education, may be per
(uaded, Chat neither attention ncr talents shall be want
ing to teach his Scholars all the graces that dancing
admits of. Those Ladies who would with to learn at
home, are reque fled to be so good as to leave their
addreffts at Mr. WILLIAM M'CLATCHIE's, where
his School is kept, in Chancery-lane, in Arch-street, be
tween Second and Front- Itreets. Aug. 27.
Bibles,
Psalters,
Reading made easy,
Horn Books,
New Testament with cuts,
Baily's Dictionary,
Dyche's ditto,
Salmon's Geographical
Grammar,
Tytler's ditto,
Buchan's Family Phyfici
Paper Hangings
Selling at WILLIAM POYNTELL's
S '°^ '^" d °° rs bel ° w Market > in Second street.
AN Affortmenf consisting of Two Thousand Five
Hundred Pieces—very handsome patterns for
P L "'°"^ ^" s a " d flai rc a fes.-Th e low prices at which
th u e y. be Sold> " il] make Papering cheaper than
whitewashing. o r
At fame Place may be had,
CYPHER SEALS to suit almost every Name
Best Roman VIOLIN S TRINGS.'
And the following BOOK S.
Losr in this city, on Saturday last,
in or near Front street, a Wtch Seal of red
Cornelian, gold mounted ; on one fide the owner's
a m; engraved, and on the other, his cypher, whoever
will driver the fame to colonel Of^ald, at the Coffee-
House, shall have the above reward. S. DEANE.
Annual Register
for 1781, by Mr.
Butbe,
B fkerville's folio Bibler,
with cuts,
Gutherie's Geography,^to,
with coloured maps,
Brown's family Tertament
with notes,
Cooke's Last Voyage, evs.
Albin on Englith Song
Birds,
Pott's Chirurgical Works,
Muller on Fortification,
Raniy on Gun Shot
Wounds,
Buchan's Domestic Medi
cine,
Kalm's Travels through
North- America,
Nugent's Grand Tour, 4VS.
Dr. Roberson's Hirtory of
America, 3 vcls.
Mo re's Travels through
France and Italy,
History of Modern Eu
rope,
Johnson% complete art of
Wifug Letter*,
The Ladis Letter Writer,
Hoyle's G^mts Improved,
The Beauties of Pope,
of Shakefpear,
of Sterne &;.
Entick's Pocket Diction
ary,
Large and (mail Bibbs,
Quarto, octavo and duo
decimo
Common Prayer Books,
T eftamentt, Prammers,
and a Variety of Mo
dern Novels and Plays.
Ledgers, Journals, and
Waste Books of differ
ent frz%
Accountßooks, ruled and
plain,
With almoftevery Arti
cle in the Stationary
war, Imported from
Britain, of the firft qua
lit,
Very best thick and thin
Port Paper, folio and
quarto, gilt, or plain.
Riley's new invented Black
Five doors above the Coffse-boufe, in Market-street.
Where may be had the following Articles,
Books, Stationary, &c.
And now Opened for SAL E, by
THOMAS SEDD O N,
Three Dollars Reward.
Just Imported from LONDON,
an printed in 1781, with
considerable additions,
Mair's Book-keeping,
Ward's Mathematics,
Brooke's Gazateer,
Hill's Arithmetic,
I Fiber's ditto,
Young Mans Companion,
! Ready Reckoner,
(Robinson Crusoe,
Maps of the United States.
L-ad Aiding Pencils,
which are so conftrufted,
that on drawing the
Aide, they not only dis
cover the quantity and
, quality of the Lead, but
allo answer the purpose
of a case, by pielervmg
the point,
, Gentlemens Pocket Books,
; with Inftruraenti and
silver Lockr,
Ladies Etwee Cases and
Pocket Books with In
ftruments, with sil ve r
and Gold Locks,
An elegant affortmert of
Penknives, with Tor
toise shell handles,
mounted with silver and
>highly firifhed,
M: Aage Cards,
Ink Powder, Red and
IBlack,
Qyi Is and Sealing Wax,
Wafers in Boxes,
Gunter Scabs,
I A few casts Mathematical
Instruments, Telefcopcs
and Night Glasses,
Leather Sniff Boxes
mounted with silver or
, naments,
A hrataffortment of Smel
fng Bottler,
lokftand^ of various kinds
Leaf Gold,
Silver Pencil Cases,
Fine policed leather Snuff
Boxer, and Ink Cases,
with silver top pieces
for a cypher,
Travelling Cases with
(having Apparatus,
Landfeapee,
Humourous Meizofento
Printr, plain and co
loured,
Watch Prints,
Maps of the United States
of America, fettled ac
cording to the prelimi
nary articles of Pear.
An affoitment of Jewelry,
Sadlerv, Brdes, Whips
and Walking Canes.
° B E SO LD,
.T'" E ,F°° SE and LOT on which the fubferiber
' l w 'i?\ situate in Front-Areet, a little above
Pool's bridge The house is almost new, 19 feet
front and 73 feet deep, well built of stone and brick
three stories high, finished from bottom to top One
^ th r h °^ % f !° r nt a ? d 36 feet dee P ' tb re e flories
high, well finished from bottom to top; together with
a large Wharff, and large Stores thereon erected,fuffi
cient to accommodate a man in a large trade • a Sta~
b!e, Hay-loft, Chaise house, and a Pump of good Wa
ter. Credit will be given for three-fourths of the pur
chase money, giving security and paying interest. Ap-
PETER KNIGHT.
Philadelphia, August 9.
R AN-AWAY from the fubferiber, living in Front
street between Walnut and Chefnut-ftreets, Phila-
Rented Servant LA D, named JOHN
..,? fPP? r$ to be about 18 years of age, 5 feet 7
^ ^ P ?™ P * nd '"" made ' bad pimples
on his chin 3rd wes born in the weft of Ireland. Who
ever taken him up, and fecuris him so that his master
gets him again, shall have the above reward.
All a f WILLIAM MOORE.
of veffris 2nd others are forbid to harbour
or carry mid Servant at their peril. Sept. 16.
Six Guineas Reward,
. fr ° m , the fubferiber, a Negro FEL
pv 'u° f . ratber a bg ht complexion, named HAR.
1 , 27 y "" of ^ wel] made, has a
''<" °L' e upper part ° f his nose ? ^ nd
V:V'^"^^ 7°"'- H * had ° n w ^n hewent
c ° a ^ d wrth red - Whoever will f e .
r cl ^ the United Stata > and give in
'°r?",n, thereof to his master, so that he may get him
so" 'b "r" El ab ° ve reward. As the fellow has
% hL""""^ behavour > and might have ab
hh^'lf " ro ^ h ^pprebenfion of punithment, he
a vo ' i ""' y retur ° in?uce
rurnilhed Lodgings to be let in
toV'n p '"'"7 r rt n° f ti ' e cit r- For further particu
lars rnqrnre of the Printer.'
—= — June 24.
fhuaoelpnid, Sepumoer 1
Whereas Patrick Lond ./ , be the
fubfcril er, having a various times, by his al
most continual broken frocks, run into ex
a c ° n „ er able amount, which I have as yet by
hard labour dfcharged ; but „ I have now left him, by
reason of his ill treatment to me, and determined to
support him in his drunkenness no longer: this is there,
fore to forwarn -J1 per fon 3 truing him any more upon
my account, a, i will pay no debts of ^ central
from the date hereof. MARY LONDEY. "
RAN- AWAY from th, fubferiber, an frith Man,
named SAMUEL ERHUTIN, 21 years old;
nan on a brown coat and red jacket, felt hat, old white
breeches and black yarn flockings, tock also with him
4 (h ' r %° ne white, 3 brown ditto, by trade a Wea
up said Runaway, ffiall have
TdR^E POUNDS Currency Reward, and all reason
able charges, paid by
... ROBERT CRAFT, Bife^it baker
living rear the New-Market, in Second-•
Nr n 4 d °°" w ' ft ° f Pine-street.
,° ™ k f rom me °' e P air half worn
rduroy breeches. He is supposed to have gone ever
An Office for Sale of Real Estates
OPENED BY
ENNION WILLIAMS,
"" !": N r, ^°^ e in "' rk ' county, 80 miles northwest
of Philadelphia, 24 miles from Reading, 3 miles
south of the Blue Mountain, on a branch of Swatara
and on the new bed waggon road from Philadelphia
to Sunbury and Shamckin i—'
performs, in lining to purchase or rent
VV improved or unimproved lands, may have an
opportunity cf feeing the drafts and descriptions of &
n :, ber of tra& ' of excellent land, in Berkr, Lan
carter, Northumberland, Cumberland, and other coun
and t th ° fe wh ° wi(h to fell lands ma y he *r of pur
chasers by furroflrmg him with the drafts and defcrip.
° nd *' , znd ^^"^^g in what township,
or on what stream, they ere surveyed.
His situation, so near the extensive fertile country on
the wafers of the SchuylkiGnd Sufquehannah, and the
knowledge he already poffies of the kinds over the
m °n™°'\ together with the further information
which he will make it a point of procuring, will put it
in Ivsi power to give very particu'ar and true descripti
ons o, the quality and natural advantages cf the lands
tn taat quarter, and the best and shortest roads cr paths
leading to them. r
He hopes, by h's c ? re, integrity, and dispatch in the
°'an 1 entruf , d to h' m , to render general fatisfa&ion.
All letters, descriptions, and drafts of land, or ether
papers, left for him at Jeremiah Warder, Parker, and
in T^rd street, near Market-fret,
Philadelphia, or at Thomas Dundas's store in Reading.
1" Thomas Clark's, in Lebanon, or at Godfried
Kehrer's tavern, in Tulpehocken, will be duly attend
ed t °' August 20, 1783. 6%
ALL persons indebted to the estate of JAMES
CUMING, late of this city, merchant, deceased,
are requeued to make p yment to the fubferibers ; and
those who have any demands will p ? e afe to deliver in
their Accounts to SUSANNAH CUMING,\Admx
S 'P^ 9- JOHNJVIXON, jAdmr.
Three Pounds Reward.