Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1775-11-06 00:00:00, page 1

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GENERAL
City of Pbi'addphia, November 6, 1775°
The ASSIZE OF BREAD.
Fins Flour, at Eighteen Shillings per Ct.
Middlings, at Fifteen Shillings per Ct.
Rye, at Ten Shillings per Ct.
Whitebread Ib.oZp Midd. do.lb.o^. Rye do. lb. oz.
id.loafiso 7 id.loafiso 8| id.loafiso 11
zd.ditto,o 151 2d.ditto, 11; 2d.ditto, 16|
4d.ditto, 1 14; qd.ditto, 2 2-%-qd.ditto, 2 12%
Bd.ditto, 3 l2= Bd.ditto, 4 5 Bd.ditto,s 9
x2d.djtto,s io| izd.ditto, 6 7 izd.ditto,B 6
Set by SAMUEL RHOADS, Mayor.
ANDREW ALLEN, Recorder.
JACOB DUCHE.
WILLIAM FISHER.
SAMUEL POWELL.
TOHN HOWAR D,
Has for sale, wholesale and retail, at his Grocery
Store in Second-street, two doors above Chefnut
ftreet,
OLD Jamaica spirits; Weft India rum ; Hol
land Geneva; Madeira, Lisbon and Teneriffe
wines; cordials of all forts ; loaf, lump and muL
covado Sugars ; molasses, raisins, nutmegs, cinna
mon, mace, cloves, alfpice, pepper, chocolate ;
raw, burnt and ground coffee; rice, arid a quan
tity of good Jersey cheese, &c. &c. &c.
Sea Stores put' up at the shortest notice, where
matters of vessels and others may be supplied on
the most reasonable terms.
He also makes and fells Fishing Tackling of all
forts, for use of either sea or river; ho has I kewife
a large quantity of Joiners Work, consisting of
mahogany chests of drawers, tables of all forts,
chairs, desks, &c. and a quantity of very fine Ma
hogany boards, plank, and chair ftuff, cut out, all
which he will fell on very reasonable terms. §
October 24, 1775.
WHEREAS a certain John Joyce,
a Doctor, came to the house of Arthur
Miller, in Lprgan Township, Cumberland Coun
ty, on the 17th day of this inttant, andon the 19th
died and his body was committed to us the fu.b
fcribers, overfeeds of the poor of said Township:
We therefore delire, that if the said John Joyce
has any friends or legal heirs, they will come pro
perly attested, pay charges, and receive his goods,
within thirty days after the date hereof, or we will
be obliged to make public sale thereof to defray
his funeral expences.
X FRANCIS GRAHAM.
WILLIAM MONTGOMERY.
TEN POUNDS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber, living in
Socking Township, Northamp on County, a
Dutch servant man named PHILIP SUPER T,
twenty years of age, about five feet high, wears his
ewn brownish tiair; had on when he went away, a
brown jacket without sleeves, Russia linen (hirt and
trowfers, and old (hoes with brass buckles in them
Whoever Secures said servant so that his master may
get him again, shall have the above Reward, paid
by $ WILLIAM BAKER.
Oflober 26, 1775.
SIX DOLLARS REWARD.
WHEREAS a certain 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
subscriber 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
Shrill, his foreteeth mostly gone ; had on when he
went away, a suit of uniform, brown coat faced
with yellow, and it is supposed the others the fame:
He is this country born, descended from- Scotch
parents. Whoever takes him up and secures him
in any of his Majesty's gaols, so that he may be
prosecuted and brought to justice, shall have the
above Reward, and reasonable charges, paid by
HUGH RAMSEY, living in
Second-street, Philadelphia.
N. B. He is gone about three weeks, and sup
posed into some part of Virginia.
WHEREAS the subscriber, John
Sparing, of Eafton, in the county of
Northampton, proposes to ride post, and to go the
following courses, viz. to leave Philadelphia every
Wednesday evening from this date to the firft of
January next ; and from the firft of January to the
firft of April, once every fortnight ; and from the
said firft of April to the firft of January, every week ;
so go by the way of German-town, Buffel-town,
Fourlane-end, Newtown, Durham, Eaften, Beth
lehem, and the town of Northampton. All Ladies
and Gentlemen who are pleased to encourage this
undertaking may depend upon being punctually
served, and that the gfeateft care will be taken of
such letters, or other things, as (hall be delivered to
Their humble servant,
0.7.29, 1775. JOHN SPERING.
W E the subscribers do hereby recommend the
within-named John Spering, as a Rider, as we
believe he will perform his duty therein faithfully
and honestly, he having been a resident in Eafton
for upwards of thirteen years, where he has, during
that time, behaved himfelf very well. Dated at
Eafton, the 23d day of October, 1775. Signed,
Leavis Gordon, Efa; Henry Fuliert, E'q; Doctor
Andrew Ledtie, Jacob Orndt, Esq; Harman Scbnj
der, Adam Jobe, Mjer Hart, Cbriftian Streigbt,
Isaac Sidman.
V 0 L. V.
M O N DA Y,
Cbrifliana Bridge, Nevocafle County, on
De avjare, November 5, 1775.
To be EXCHANGED or SOLD,
By the Subfcribtr, living at Christiana Bridge, New
cartle County, on Delaware, the following LO TS
and PIECES of LAND, viz
ON E lot situate in the town of Christiana afore
f.id, containing 78 feet front on the main
Sheet, on which is ereCted and lately finished a good
two Story brick house, two rooms on a floor, a gar
ret, and a cellar under the whole; a good brick
fmoak-houfe and kitchen, with a p^mp at the door ;
a frame tenement adjoining, which, with verv little
expenc, may be converted into a store, it being an
excellent Stand for that bufinUs; also a brick lia
ble, 23 feet by 27 feet, divided into apartments,
with a well boarded loft that will contain eight
tons of hay. Also twenty eight acres of land, ly
ing about 500 yards from the above described pre
m,fcs, twelve acres of which is watered meadow,
the Stream never failing, and has and will produce
as much good Timothy and clover hay as any
marSh or cripple meadow whatsoever : On the mea
dow part of the land is lately ere&ed a frame build
ing, weather boarded with cedar boards, that will
hold eighteen tons of hay, and a filed at the end
thereof divided into four stalls for cattle. The
Subscriber has, for a considerable number of years,
cairied on the fhalloping business from this pla< e to
Philadelphia, and intends lo to do unless he should
diipofe of the premises above described ; the pur
chafer, therefore, may be fuin fried with a Shallop
that will carry 480 barrels of flour at a reasonable
price, and may nave the stores and wharf which he
has rented a number of years as usual ; by Urs any
perlon buying may enter into immediate business.
Allo, thirteen acres of marsh meadow n Muffcl
Cripel, about two miles from this place, now un
der Timothy grass, and which has, and now doth
(the lealc expires trie 25th of March next) rent ler
thirty-two pounds per annum : Adjoining to this
meadow is twelve acres of upland, about half of
which is timber land. Likewise about one acre and
three quarter, of land, lying about half a mile on
the main road from Christiana afore,faid, whereon
is erected a frame tenement, under a lease three
years unexpired, at ninz pounds per annum. One
third ot the purchase money will be wanted on ei
ther of the above places fhuull they be fold ; and
as it is fuppoted thst the brick home. &c. with the
hrlt described meadows, would luit one perlon for
carrying on the store and fhalloping business, there
fore they will be frid feperatc from the rest, or al
together. All the above described places will be
exchanged lor a good farm wuhin this government,
or either ot the well inhabited parts of Maryland,
the Jerseys, or Virginia ; and Should the farm, on
viewing, be thought wurh more (Lr it mutt be
well improved with tol table buildings thereon
erected) ready money will be paid tor the residue,
and allo tor the stock that may De thereon, if agree
able. For further particulars enquire of the sub
Scriber, at Cuiftima Bridge aforesaid, who has to
fell a Negro Man about 27 years of age, rematka
ble Strong and an excellent waterman.
18 JAMES PARTRIDGE.
CAME to the plantation of the fub
fcriner, in Rockhill Township, Bucks Conn
t), on the 9th of October last, a black CO W,
about twelve years old, with a crop and flit in each
ear, a white face, and upright horns. The owner
is desired to come, prove his property, pay charges
and take her away.
X WILLIAM INCERSHBOII.
'juft publifoed, and to be fold by
FRANCIS BAILEY, Printer,
In King-street, near the Market, Lancaster,
The Lancaster A LMAN ACK,
For the YEAR 1776.
CONT AINING the motions of the fun and
moon ; the true places and afpe&s of the pla
nets , the rising, setting and southing of the moon;
the lunations, conjunctions, eclipses, rising, setting
and southing of the planets; length of days; judg
ment of the weather ; festivals and other rem rka
<ble days; high-water at Philadelphia ; tables of
interest at 6 and 7 per cent, a table of the value
and weight of coins; Quakers yearly meetings ;
fairs, courts, roads, &c. &c. &c. Also, a number
of ufetul and instructive ellays, felefted from good
authors, viz. A new method of making hay, which
saves one third of the time and labour usually em
ployed, and by which that valuable vegetable is
better made than by the customary pra&ice. Of
the Wert-Indies: illustrated with a neat and accu
rate map of thole islands. Anecdote of the great
DoCtor Defaguliers. The character and prayer of
Prince Eugene. Excellent remedies for several dis
orders incident to the human body, viz. for the
dry belly-ach, nervous cholic, inflammatory fevers,
whooping cough, scald head, wafting away of chil
dren, worms, &c. Cures for sundry diseases in
horles, viz. for a horse pricked in the (hoeing, for
a horse or cow that maketh red water, for foulnefs
in the yard, for the fwift cut, or hewing on the legs,
for galling between the legs, for the wind cholic,
&c. Poetry. A moral reflection on the last day
of the last year. The parting bell. An ode written
in sickness. An epigram. The robber robbed. The
atheist arid acoin. The kite, or pride mutt have a
fall. Liberty tree, a new long, &c. &c. &c.
At the fame place may be had a general assort
ment of blanks ; where all manner of printing work
in the English and German languages, is carefully
and expeditiously performed.
*** Those Gentlemen who have taken in sub
scriptions for Schema Sacrum, &c. are request
ed to fend them to the Printer aforefaid, as the
work is now in the press, and will be published
with all possible expedition.
German Calenders, for the year 1776, may be
had of laid Printer.+
D UN L A P's
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PHILADELPHIA, November 6.
ENTRACTSfrom the Notes of Assembly.
Wednesday, Oflober 25, 1775. P. M.
AM EMORI A L from the Committee chosen
by the Free holders of the Counties ot Northum
berland and Northampton, to lolicit assistance, and
device means, for keeping the peace of the said
Counties, and defending them against the Connec
ticut Intruders, was presented to the House, read,
and is as follows, viz.
To the Honourable the REPRESENTATIVES
of the Freemen of the Province of Pennsylvania,
in General Assembly met.
The MEMORIAL of the Subscribers, being
Committee chosen by the Freeholders of the
Counties of Northumberland and Northampton,
to solicit assistance and devise means, for keeping
the peace of the laid Counties, and defending
them against the Connecticut Intruders,
Sbevuetb,
THAT the late House of Assembly taking in
to confederation “ the intrusion of a number
" of people into this Province, under a pretended
" claim of the Colony of Connecticut, to the great
" annoyance of the good people of this Province,
" did Specially direct their Delegates to lay the
" fame before the Congress, with the mischievous
" tendency the pursuing such measures will have,
" and to procure the aid of Congress, to quiet the
" minds of the good people of this Province, and
" present further intrusions and extension of fettle
" ments under the said claim, until the matter Shall
" be determined by the King in Council, to whom
'' both Sides have submitted the dispute."
That the Honourable Congress were pleased to
appoint five of their body as a Committee to hear
tne parties, and to devise some effectual means for
;nfwering the aforefaid purposes; a-d the said
Committee being attended by your Memorialifts
on the part of the Freeholders of the Counties of
Northumberland and Northampton, and by the
Connecticut Delegates in behalf of the Claimants
and Intruders from that Colony, did condefeend,
with great patience and candour, to hear what was
offered on each fide; declaring, that as it was not rhe
; ,. ent '° n °' 'he Congress to take upon them the de
.clfipp of any matters touching the merits of the con
troverfy, it would he fufficient for the parties to
confine themselves to inch points only as might en
able the said Committee to answer the purposes of
their appointment, namely, to " devise some way
by which the recommendation and authority of
‘ ,°ngrefs may be reafohably interposed for keep.
iag the peace till a decision of this matter, agree
“ able to the aforefaid request of the Assembly."
Wherefore, waving the principal arguments
touching the merits of the controversy, and parti
cularly the settlement of the Wejiern bounds of Con
necticut, under a Royal Commission in 1664, then
Solemnly assented to and accepted by themselves,
and since that adjudged absolute and final in several
instances (as we doubt not it will in the present);
we fay, waving these points, your Memorialists in
firted-on the following, viz.
^ hat were it even portible for the Connecticut
Claim to derive the least Support from the Charter,
they have prosecuted it in an unwarrantable and ri
otous manner, holding their present possessions only
by forcible entry, and unjust depredations upon the
property of the good people of this Province.
Tnat near fifty years ago all that part ofDelaware
which they now claim, from 4.1° upwards, was fet
tled by Pennsylvanians, as far as then purchased
from the Indians ; and the Settlements still extend
ed farther as new purchases were made, without
any claim made known, or interruption offered, on
the part of Connecticut.
That their claim is a novel thing, or at least was
not heard ®f among Pennsylvanians till a little be
fore the Indian Treaty and Congress at Albany in
! 754> and was hardly considered by any body as a
Serious thing, till at that Treaty it was made known
that they were privately dealing with the Indians,
by two's and three's at a time, at the house of one
Lydius, for some lands on Sufquehannah.
That the deed (if any), Signed by the Indians at
that time, was not obtained as usual from their
Chiefs in Public Council or Treaty, but privately,
and through the persuasion of the said Lydius, and
also contrary to the laws of Connecticut itfelf,
which prohibits all purchases from the Indians
without leave of their General Court.
That if the said pretended deed were not void on
the foregoing account, it is absolutely so for the
following reasons,
First, Because at a Solemn Treaty held between
the Governor of PennfylvaFia and the Indians Oc
tober the 25th, 1736, in a deed for the lands from
the Mouth of Sufquehannah up to the Mountains—
The Indians made a further Covenant and Decla
ration of Trust, in the words following: “ That
" neither they, nor any in authority in their nati
“ ons, would at any time bargain, fell, grant, or
“ by any means make over, to any person or per
“ sons whatioever, whether White Men orlndians,
" other than the Proprietors of Pennsylvania, chil
" dren of William Penn, or to persons by them au
“ thorized and appointed to ^gree for, and receive
" the fame, any lands within the limits ofPennfyl
“ vania, as it is bounded Northward byNew York.
" But when we are willing to dispose ofany further
“ rights to lands within the said limits of Pennfyl
" vania, we will dispose of them to the said Willi
“am Penn's children, and no other." And the
consideration mentioned by the Indians, as in
ducing them to make this Deed and Declaration
was the upright conduct of William Penn, who,
although he had in the year 1696 purchased the Suf
quehannah lands within the Northern part of his
Charter from Governor Dungan, who had pur
chafed them for him, the said William Pern, in
1683, yet was willing to pay the Indians over again,
as he had occasion to fettle them.
AN©>Qrc£ -r/rf~)('=V ^A^/z/I{r¥ =&ft4™^
T H E
ADVERTISER.
NOVEMBER 6th, 1775.
!1 hat on the 6th day of July, 1754, in a Public
Council at Albany, Colonel Johnson and the Com
missioners or Delegates of all the neighbouring
Provinces being present, the Indians gave a deed
to the Proprietors of Pennsylvania for another par
cel of the Su quehannah lands from the Mountains
nearly up to the Forks, including also a great part
of the lands on Delaware now claimed by Connec
ticut, but declared they would not yet feh theS a^
mokin and Wyoming lands, but reserve them for
*heir hunting-grounds, and appointed John Shicka
lamy, a noted Chief, to live on them, and prevent
any settlements of White People.
But it being then suggested to the Indians that
some private perlons were endeavouring to 0 tain
deeds from Some of their people for part of these
lands, and the aforefaid deed of 1736 being Shewn
to them, by which they declare, that they held the
said lands in trust, to be difpefed of only to the
children of William Penn, they did accordingly the
rinth day of July, 1754, sign and execute an in
dorsement on the back of the deed of 1736, " for
" themselves, their children and c ildren's children,
" confirming, ratifying, and holdinggood thefame,
" covenanting, promising, and engaging to and
" with Thomas and Richard Penn, E quires, that
" neither they, nor any under their authority,
" Should fell, grant or convey to any other than
" the laid Thomas Penn and Richard Penn, their
" heirs and assigns, any lands within the limits of
" their Province," &c..
That on the 9th day of the said month of July,
1754, the Cominirtioners of the Colonies met, in
Congress, drew up a Rate to be laid before his Ma
jelty ; and as if forefeeing the evil consequences
that would ensue from private purchases of lands
from the Indians, and the exorbitant and unwieldy
claims of Some Northern Colonies, under their
Charters, agreed to the following, articles, viz —
birft, " That ail future purchAfes of lands from
" the Indians be void, unless made bv the Govern
“ ment where Such lands lie, and from the In ians
" in a body in their Public Councils."— econd,
" That the bounds of those Colonies, whi.h ex
" tend to the South Sea, be contradfed and limited
" by the Allegheny or Apalachian Mountains, and
" meafuies be taken for fettling from time to time
" Colonies of his Majority's protettant iubje&> Weft
'' ward of said Mountains, in proper Cantons "
That the pretended Indian deed to force per fins in
Connecticut, neing posterior 10 all this, and dated
July 11, 1754, mutt, in every sense and view, be
Jraudulent and void —lt mult be void, because the
Indians could net convey that on July 11, to any
persons, which they had twice before declared they
held in trust, to be conveyed only to the Pi oprietois
of Pennsylvania It is Jraudulent, not only as be
ing obtained privately, contrary to a resolution of
the Colonies in Congress, made two days before,
with the assent of Comroiffiorers from Connecticut
itfelf, but also as extending beyond tie Mountains,
which they had agreed should limit all Colonies,
claiming to the South Sea.
That the Connecticut claimants, no doubt con-
Icious ot the weight of these reasons, did net pre
tend to make any kttlemert under their own Char
ter, or the said pretended Indian purcbafe, but
thought pioper to petition his M jdi\, “ that it
" might be his koyal Plealure (not to extend the
" Old Colony) but to grant them the laid lands to
" ereC tana fettle thereon a Nene Colony, in such
66 form, and under such regulations, as might be
" confident with his Riyal Wadom."
That failing in this application, (as it might be
justly expected his Majerty would not gran those
lands a second time, which were before granted to
William Penn) they recurred to their pretended In
dian purchase, and let up their Charter Claim, but
never durlt fettle any ot the lands in their own
right, till they were firft purchased by the Proprie
taries of Pennsylvania in November, 1768, at which
time the Indians in Public Council folemi-ly denied
ever having made any sale of the lends in question
to the people of Connecticut ; as the Six ations
had before disclaimed the fame y the Sachem Hen
drick, and other Chiefs, sent to Philadelphia for
that purpose in January, 1755.
That the Connecticut Claimants were not only
thus prevented by the Indians from fettling under
their own preten Jed purchase, and obliged to wait
till they could come in under the purchaft of Penn
sylvania ; but even now daie not fettle one foot of
their said puichafe, which reaches over or beyond
the Pennlylvania purchase ; and that upon the
whole, they had intruded themselves inte this pro
vince without any shadow of right, and hold their
prelent pGfl'e flions by jorcible entry and invasions of
the property of persons holding under this Province.
In proof of which, your Memorialifts produced
numbers of affidavits and other vouchers, setting
forth their firft intrusion, and attempt to dispossess
Mr. Ogden, and other settlers at Wyoming, in Fe
bruary, 1769; their being twice taken by the She
riff of Northampton, and defeated in their defigrs;
their elcapes from prison and bail ; breach or their
faith ; returning again to the lands, and taking to
tiieit assistance fugitives from the justice of this pto
vince, till at length they succeeded in their present
lodgement at the laid Wyoming, a place within the
undoubted charter limits of this Province, and to
which its laws and jurisdiction were adu-lly extend
ed by our Legislature, long before any act of the
Colony of Connecticut for tliat purpose.
That the peace of the province has for several
years palt been constantly interrupted by these in
truders, endeavouring to extend tbeir settlements,
and to draw off our inhabitants to their part by eve
ry undue means in their power ; tempting some of
the lowest of them with otters of commissions, civil
and military ; and others, particularly tbofe who
hold as tenants, to become landlords themselves,
by offers of the lands on cafier terms than those of
Pennsylvania.
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