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City of Philadelphia, April 3, I„§.
The ASSIZE of BREA D.
Fine Flour, at Twenty-one Shillings and Nine
pence, per Ct.
Middlings, at Fifteen Shillings and Sixpence
per Ct.
Rte, at Ten Shillings per Ct.
Whitebread Ib.oz. Midd. do. lb, oz. Rye do. lb. oz.
id.loafiso 7 id.loafiso 8 r id.loafiso 11
zd'.ditto,o 133 2d.ditto, 1 % 2d.ditto, 1 6;
^d.ditto,i Ilj 4d.ditto, 2 if qd.ditto, 2 12^
bd.ditto, 3 7 Bd.ditto, 4 3 I Bd.ditto, 5 9
rzd.ditto, § 2,2d.ditt0,6 4% I2d.ditto,B 6
&f by SAMUEL RHOADS, Mayor.
SAMUEL SHOEMAKER,")
SAMUEL POWEL, | Aldermen.
PROPOSALS
Fur Printing by Subscription,
T H E
POCKET ASSISTANT.
CONTAINING,
'' A CONCISE table for buying and felling
any commodity, shewing the amount of
any quantity from 1, to 3000 ells, yards, pounds,
ounces, &c. &c. at any rate, from 1 farthing, to
6 pounds.
2. Comprehensive tables of simple interest, (hew
ing at oqe view, the interest of any sum of money,
from j farthing, to 1000 pounds; and for any
time, from 1 day to 365, from 1 month to 11, and
from i year to 10, at 5 and 6 per cent, per annum.
3. A table of time, (hewing the number of days
between any two in the year, or from any day in
cne year, to any in the succeeding year.
4. Tables of exchange, (hewing the amount of
any fam of money, currency from 1 farthing, to
1000 pounds, reduced into sterling; and the amount
of the like sum sterling, reduced into currency, at
any rate of exchange, from 120, to 175 per cent.
Accurately calculated, and carefully examined,
peculiarly for the use of Virginia, Maryland and
Pennsylvania. By which any person may be ena
bled to calculate the price of any quantity of goods;
the interest of any sum, for any time; and the true
value of any bill of exchange, with expedition and
accuracy, even to a fraction ; which will undoubt
edly obviate many difficulties, which muff other
wise arise to persons wholly unacquainted with the
intricacies attending the negotiation of such busi
ness, in concise operations by the pen.
By THOMAS BALL, School-matter in Annapolis.
CONDITIONS.
I. That the work will be printed in one small
volume duodecimo, upon good paper, neatly bound;
11. That the price to the fubferibers will be one
dollar, to be paid upon delivery of the book.
Such Gentlemen and Ladies who are inclined to
promote this ufeful undertaking, are desired to fa
vour the author with their names as soon as possible,
as he is desirous of prosecuting the publication with
the utmost expedition.
Subscriptions are taken in by Mr. John Dunlap and
Mr. John Sparhawk, Booksellers, in Philadelphia.
To Mr. THOMAS BALL,
SIR, Annapolis, 22^ Feb. 1775.
w E have perused the manufeript copies of your
book, called the Pocket Assistant, and think
it a work of public utility. From the teffimony of
the Gentleman who examined the copies, we are
induced to believe it accurately calculated ; we,
therefore, wi(h you success in the publication of it,
and are, SI R, Your very humble servants,
Thomas Brooke Hodgfin, William Rooke,
John David/bn, John H. Maccubbin,
Thomas Hyde, Thomas Gaffaacay,\wn.
fames Williams, William Wilkins.
fofefeb Willliams,
TO BE SO L D,
Entire or Divided,
AL ARGE lot of ground, fronting on Mora
vian-alley and Fetter Lane. For terms apply
to Lewis Weiss.
TO B E S O L D,
'", HRE E thousand one hundred acres of
A LAN D, situated upon Pokotellico Creek
and the Kanhawa river, about forty miles above
the junction of the Kanhawa with the Ohio. It is
part ofa tra& of 2194.1 teres, surveyed and patented
under Dinwiddie's Proclamation, made at the com
mencement of the late war, is equal in quality to
any in that part of the world. Quitrent free for
eighteen years to come, and after at the moderate
rate of Two Shillings Sterling per hundred acres.
The whole fees are paid, so that the purchaser will
be at no other trouble or expence, than dividing
with the other proprietors. For terms enquire of
Mr. William Semple of Philadelphia, or the sub
scriber in Prince William county, Virginia.
CUTHBERT BULLES.
Port Penn, March iff, 1775.
FIRE WO O D,
MA Y be purchased at Port Penn, at a mode
rate price; ,et some person is so niggardly
er vicious, as to make a pra&ife of supplying him
felf with that article from a few pannels of rail fence,
w hich I am obliged to maintain on theline, between
my meadow and my neighbours; by which a& my
meadow is often unexpectedly laid open, and my
grass much damaged yearly, before it is fit to be
mown. This was repeated the 19th of January
Lit in the evening, and once since, supposed to be
done by a coaster waiting for a fair wind. Who
ever informs on the wretch who has been, or is
hreaftei guilty of the fact, so that he is brought
to justice, ihall receive THREE POUNDS,
from DAVID STEWART, Jun.
O R,
GENERAL
M O N D A Y,
VOL. IV. ; NUMB. .18c.
D UN L A P's
BY virtue of a writ to me directed, will be fold
by public sale, on Saturday, the Bth day of
April next, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, at the
house of Thomas Oliver, in the district of South
wark, a certain yearly rent charge or sum of
three Spanish Piftoles, iffwing out of a lot or piece
of ground, situate in the diftri& of Southwark afore
faid, and on the south fide of Shippen street between
Second and Third-streets from Delaware, in the
tenure of . Also a certain meffuage or
tenement, and work (hop, and lot or piece of ground
thereto belonging, situate on the east fide of Third
ftreet continued into the diftrift of Southwark
aforefaid, and south fide of Shippen-ftreet, contain
ing in front 20 feet, and in depth on Shippen street
aforefaid 90 feet ; bounded by ground of George
Woods, and others ; fubje& to a ground rent of
• per annum. And also a certain other meffuage
or tenement, or work (hop, and lot or piece of
ground thereto belonging, situate on the south fide
of Shippen-ftreet and weft fide of Third street
aforefaid, containing in front 40 feet, and in depth
on Shippen-ftreet aforefaid 98 feet; bounded by
ground of Jonathan Davis, and others ; fubjeß to
a ground rent cf per annum: the whole late
the estate of Joseph Rhoads; seized and taken in
execution by
WILLIAM DEWEES, Sheriff.
BY virtue of a writ to me dire&ed, will be (old
by public vendue, on Monday, the loth day
of April next, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, at the
house of John Trump, on Chefnut-hill, two con
tiguous trails or pieces of land, containing in the
whole about 1031 acres, situate in the township of
Germantown; bounded by lands of Magdalene
Butterfas, John Barge, and others; together with
the appurtenances, &c. late the estate of Jacob
Keebler, deceased; seized and taken in execution
by WILLIAM DEWEE S, Sheriff.
Baltimore Town, March 25, 177 c.
T O BE REN T E D,
And entered on the tirft day of May next,
THE LONDON COFFEE-HOUSE at
Fell's Point, in Baltimore Town; a noted
and much frequented tavern. Any person who
will undertake the management of the fame, and
can give fatisfa&ion to the Public, will meet with
proper encouragement from
JOHN STEVENSON.
J 011 N S PARHAW K,
At the Book Bore in Second street, five doors be
low the Friends Market street Meeting.
HA S imported a frefh assortment of BOOKS,
&c. among which are the works of Flavius
Jolcphus, translated by L'Eftrange, 4 vols. bound
30s. Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, in 2 vols. bound
15s. Family Bibles, Doddridge's Family Expositor,
6 vols. Bvo. VanfWeiten's Commentaries, vols.
15, 16, 17 and 18, to compleat the whole; Mor
gagni's works, 3 vols. qto. most of the modern
authors on Physic and Law. A great variety of
paper hangings, the best writing paper of all fiies,
printing paper, parchment, blank books and Ita
tionary of all kinds.
Some curious HARD WAR E.
Guns, pocket and fuddle pistols, cutteaus, silk
and leather belts, sword canes, powder flafks, fliot
bags, backgammon tables labelled book fafliion,
Purveying inftuments, pocket cases of mathema
tical instruments, globes, thermometers, barome
ters, a viriety of fpe&acles, (having equipage, tea
urns, cruet frames, copper scales foited ; green,
ivory and silver handled knives and forks; com
mon ditto'; plated fpur6, pinchbeck buckles ; stone
and paste shoe, knee and hock buckles ; ladies steel
watch chains; a great variety of pocket-books,
with and without instruments, &c. &c. Catalogue
may be had gratis.
Keyfer's famous pills, Jesuits drops, and patent
medicines of all kinds.
To be had at the fame place, the American editi
ons of the Inflexible Captive and Sethona, tragedies,
is. 6d. each ; New Sermons to Asses, is. 6d. the
story of TEneas and Dido burlesqued, 3s. gd. Tif
fot's Advice to the People with reg rd to their
Health 10s. Dimfdale on the Small-pqx, 3s. gd.
WHEREAS a certain GEORGE
MICKAL, of Spring Garden, received
a note of me, bearing date the fifteenth of March,
] 775> payable in December next ; but as the said
Mickal has not fulfilled his bargain, this is to
acquaint the Public in general that I am resolved
not to pay the fame, until compelled thereto by law.
WILLIAM CARTER,
f O - M O RT'o w,
At ONE o'clock in the afternoon, at
J OH N HA R T's
VENDUE-STORE,
At the corner of South and Front Streets,
Will begin the SALE of a neat assortment of
Merchandize.
9 .
BY virtue ofa writ to me directed, will he fold
by public vendue, on Thursday, the 6th of
April next, at the house of George Lofh, in Ger
mantown, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, a certain
(tone meffuage or tenement, and lot or piece of land
thereunto belonging, situate on the north easterly
fide of Germantown main street, in Garraantown
fhip, containing 6 acres and a quarter, bounded by
land of George Bringhurft, John Bringhurft, George
Donnahewer, John Eckftine, and others ; a very
pleasant situation ; about one acre of very good or
chard, a number of fruit trees of different kinds,
an excellent piece of meadow, about an acre and
a half of woodland ; the whole in good repair ; late
the estate of Michael Brandfon, deceased ; seized
and taken in execution by
WILLIAM DEWEES, Sheriff.
Baltimore, March 27, 1775.
CHRISTOPHER HUGHES,
GOLDSMITH AND JEWELLER,
At the sign of the Cup and Crown, the south-east
corner of Market and Gay-streets, and opposite
Meflrs. Usher, Rowe, and company's (tore, for
merly Mr. Little's Coffee-houfe, in Baltimore-
Town,
BEGS leave to inform his friends, and the
public in general, that he hath for sale, a neat
and elegant assortment of PLATE and J E W
ELLE RY, confining of the following articles,
viz. Silver coffee pots, tea pots, waiters, tankards,
cups, cans, punch drainers, callors, salts and salt
glasses, coasters, cream ewers, Soup spoons, punch
spoons, table and tea spoons, sugar tongs, silver
(hoe, knee, dock and bread buckles, plated (hoe,
knee and dock buckles, Maccaroni (hoe buckles,
fashionable diamond, topaz, emerald, faphir, ame
thift and garnet mens and womens rings; mocho,
pade, foyl-done and plain gold ditto; plain gold
and gilt broaches, garnet and paste fancy-work
ditto, set in gold and silver ; garnet, paste and
plain gold mason broaches, and medals neatly
grayed; brown and white crystal sleeve buttons,
set in gold; mocho, garnet and pebble ditto ; plain
and flowered gold ditto ; plain gold stock buckles;
crystal, paste and foyle-ftone (hoe, knee and stock
buckles ; crystal, mocho, Scotch pebble, paste and
glass sleeve buttons, in silver ; gold, silver, gilt and
pinchbeck Seals and trinkets; silver and steel watch
chains; tortoise-shell and horn combs, neatly set
with paste and marquifet ; silver and Shagreen
watches; watch keys, red Morocco pocket books
with and without instruments, silver spurs with
chains, plated ditto with and without chains, silver
and silver gilt whistle coral and bells, white and red
foyle, hair lockets set in gold and fancy work,
paste and marquifet necklaces and ear-rings, garnet
and, paste ear-rings, draw plates, silver and fteel
top'd thimbles, pincushion hoops and chains, wax
necklaces and ear-rings, wax and paste pins, hair
foriggs, a variety of fashionable stay pins, silver
hafted knives and forks in cases, ladies huffiffs with
and without instruments, billiard balls, gold scales
and weights properly regulated. Also, cutteau du
chafe hangers, small (words and pistols of all forts;
true and falfe (tones of all forts, crucibles, chapes
and tongues, binding wire, borax, rotten (tone,
pumice stone, fait petre, allum, and a variety of
other articles for the use of filver-finiths.
N. B. The highest price given for old gold, silver,
lace, and watches.
JOHN KAIG H N,
Hath for SALE, at his flore on the weft fide of
Second-street, between Market-street and the
Church, a great variety of articles, remaining of
bis last importations from Great Britain, on mo
derate terms for cash or short credit, among
which are the following, viz.
IR IS II linens, 7-8 and yard wide, of various
prices; 10 and 11 nail and 3 4 linen checks and
stripes; 3-4, 7-8 and yard wide cotton checks;
striped cotton hollands; 6 4 and 8 4 bed bunts ;
worsted bed furniture check ; mens and womens
cotton, thread and worsted hose ; mens fine patent
rib'd silk flockings; a large assortment of bed scars
twist; fafhionable best scars death-head and bifket
needle work coat and jacket buttons; white-metal,
pinchbeck and black horn ditto; best beladine
feeing silk ; silk knee garters; Scotch and fetch
ing thread; drab, brown, red, green, blue, bl- k,
and mix'd all colours ditto ; Manchtfter and fine
Holland cap, apron and filleting tapes ; nail and
spike gimbiets, tap borers, (hoe tacks, awl blades,
hob nails, sealing wax, brass and steel thimbles ;
(ham buck, black horn, ebony and flag handled
table knives and forks; best large stag carvers with
bosom forks; buck handle penknives, large fham
btick and stag handle butchers knives, Hool's pis
tol rap'd pocket knivet, womens neat small and
shaping feiffars, taylors (hears, plated pinchbeck
(hoe and knee buckles, London hard metal large
dishes, pewter tea pots, knitting needles ; common
and Whitechapel sewing, glovers, and worsted
darning needles ; hand-saw and mill-law files, best
refined steel plate and common hand-saws; worsted
and hair plush, cord-du-roy, and a large assortment
of velverets and twilled cotton velvets ; scarlet cal
limanco, white and green tammy; London school
bibles, and clasped testaments; Dilworth's spelling
books ; whip makers gut and silvered wire ; 8-4
silk laces, black cravats, fattin and farfantt rib
bons, womens plain silk gloves, cotton romal and
printed linen handkerchiefs, fine gold end muslin;
a large assortment of London quality, coat, stay
and shoe binding ; silk ferreting ; green, blue, and
white half-yard and halfell Persian; half-yard and
half-ell white farfanet ; very rich plumb coloured
Englifli paduafoy, and straw coloured watered tab
by ; blue allopeen ; hairbine, silver watches, locket
sleeve buttons, iron Dutch ovens, plate warmers,
mens and boys felt hats. Likewise, a quantity of
woollens, tonfiftingof fuperfine, second and coarse
broadcloths; Yorkshire plains; red, black, and
blue spotted fwanfkin ; red and blue duffils, cloth
coloured bearskin, Bath coatings, red and white
flannel and baife, double milled drabs for great
coats, red serge, fine blue ratteen or napt 6-4 frize.
Also, best falt-petred hams, Logs lard in kegs, and
country cheese.
TO BE S O L D,
A VALUABLE tra& of Land, containing
623 acres, lituate on the east branch of Suf
quehannah, on Yalufing Creek, in Northumberland
County, on which there are several good two story
houses, well finifhed, about 250 acres of upland
and 50 or 60 acres of meadow cleared. Any per
son inclining to purchase may know the terms by
applying to J 0 B GILLOWAY, or to JOHN
LUCKENS in Strawberry-alley, Philadelphia.
T HE
ADVERTISER.
A PRIL 3d, 1775.
TUCOVE R this season, at the stable of the tub.
Briber, in New-Garden town Ship, Chester county,
the noted young
AMERICAN DRAY HORSE,
GOT by the old English Dray Horse, im
ported from England by Colonel Francis; he
is riling four years old, and is counted by the molt
of judges to be as likely, if not the likeliest colt
ever his fire got in the province: He is a beautiful
dark brown, with two white feet, full sixteen hands
and an half high, proportionably built every way,
being remarkable for Strength, good courage and
lofty carriage. He covered near Sixty ggares last
season, molt of which are with foal. He is to cover
as usual at Fifteen Shillings the season (the money
to be paid as soon as the season is over) or Thirty
Shillings to insure a colt. Those who are pleased
to fend their mares may depend on the utmost care ;
and those who live at a distance may have good
pasture for their mares at One Shilling and Six
pence per week, by
IS AAC RICHARDS.
TO COVER this season, at the (tables of the
Subferiber, That noted full blooded Horse
PENNSYLVANIA FARMER;
WITHOUT exception the greatest beauty
on the continent ; bred by Col. Taylor of
Virginia, got by that noted horse Partner and from
a full blooded mare, fifteen hands high, eight
years old, a dark chefnut, with a blaze in his face.
He ran several capital races, and beat the molt fa
mous horses in the north and south governments of
Carolina. The terms ?re Three Pounds the season;
I hirty Shillings the single leap, Five Pounds to
ensure a colt, with Five Shillings to the grogm :
The firft three days of the week at William Ca
rson's, at the White Hart, and the remainder of
the week at the fubferiber's, in Warwick.
JAIMES M'CULLOUGH.
JAMES RUTLAND,
PRINCE and Lace Maker, from Bristol,
Continues to make and fell the following articles,
either wholesale or retail, in Froht-ftreet, between
Race and Vine-streets, viz.
COACHM AKER's laces of all forts in silk
or worsted, figured or plain, with glass firings,
holders, roles, bearers, French nailing, hammer
clotli fringe, &c. all torts of fringe and laces for
beds and other furniture, with lines and toffels, in
gold, silver, silk, worsted, or thread. Gentlemens
coats of arms, and footmens liveries made to any
pattern, olivets or jacks for gentlemens cloaths,
ladies trimmings for sacks or gowns, made to any
pattern in the English or French tafhions, with
many other articles, in the fancy wav. Said But-
LAND returns his most humble thanks to his friends
and customers for the favours he has already re
ceived (which have been much beyond his expedi
tions) and hopes for a continuance : He also assures
them, that he hath it in his power now to serve
them better than before, and will make it his par
ticular study to do it ; and he likewise assures them
and the public, that no advantage ffiall be taken
on account of the troubles between Britain and
America, as any person that has had any dealings
with him, knows, that he retails his goods cheaper
than ever they were in this country before, andas
good in quality as are imported, although the ma
terials that those goods are made with, cost more
and some of them cost twice the money, before thev
are put into the loom, that those very goods are
purchased for ready made in England, yet as he
hopes to establish a ufeful manufactory in this cit<
he is determined to fell on the lowed terms poffi de'
N. B. An apprentice is wanted to the laid bu°-
£nefs, and also a person that understands making
of any ofthe above works.
JOHN B A T E S,
Plate Iron Worker in general, from Birming
ham, at John Duncan's, hatter, oppofitethe Bunch
of Grapes, in Third-street, near Arch-street.
MA KES tea kettles, coffee-pots and fauee
pans, tinned ; filh kettles, Duch ovens and
ltew pans, which are much sweeter, wholefomer,
and cheaper than copper utensils, and a r e much
used in London and molt parts of England. 113
likewise makes oval, square and round dripping
pans, ashes pails, cocoa and coffee roasters, coal
scoops, potcovers, and puts new frying pahs'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 most money for old pewter.
TO BE SO L D,
TH E Indentures of a Dutch Girl, about four
teen years of age, Who has four years to serve.
Her matter having quit house keeping fie is fold
for want of employ. Enquire of SAM 6 E L
JACKSON, in Front-ftrect, near the Draw
bridge, PhUadelphLrt