Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1774-04-04 00:00:00, page 3

of Pennsylvania, New-Jersey or Maryland, or the
three lower counties on Delaware, viz.
For all merchantable cocoons of the firfl crop,
brought to the Filature before the 15th of July,
Three Shillings per pound, from thence to
the 25th of the fame month, Three Shillings,
and Six-Pence, from thence to the sth of Au
gust, Four Shillings, from thence tothe 2 sth
of the fame month, Four Shillings and Six-
Pence, from thence to the end ofthe fealon Five
Shillings, or Five Shillings and SIX
PENCE if extraordinary good, and thoroughly
dried. For cocoons of the second crop, a price in
proportion to their quality and drynels.
“ SILK is the happiest of all inventions for
cloathing ; wool ules a good deal of land to pro
duce it, which, if employed in raising corn, would
afford much more subsistence for man, than the
mutton amounts to. Flax and hemp require good
land, impoverish it, and at the fame time permit
it toproduce no food at all; but mulberry trees
may be planted in hedge-rows, in walks or ave
nues, for ornament or for shade, near a boufe,
where nothing else is wanted to grow. The food
for the worms, which produce the silk, is in the
air, and the ground under the trees may still pro
duce grass, or some other vegetable, good for man
or beast; besides the wear of filkeo garments con
tinue so much longer, from the strength of the
materials, as to give it greatly the preference.
Hence it is, that the most populous of all coun
tries, China f, clothes its inhabitants with silk,
while it feeds them plentifully, and has betides
vast quantities, both raw and manufactured, to
spare for exportation." This produce cannot
be increased or advanced too much ; it is impolii
ble to overstock the market, as the demand is con
tinually increasing, silk being more and more worn,
and daily entering into the composition of more
and greater variety of manufactures. The back
inhabitants of the province, who have not the
means of water carriage, are no less immediately
ioterefted in the growth of this commodity than
others, as it may, from its lightness and great va
lue, be conveyed three or four hundred miles, at
a very trifling and much less expence than any other
kind of produce that can be raifed,or has yet been
found out ; the importance whereof did not escape
the notice of thejudicious firft proprietor of this
province, as it appears in his conditions with the
firft settlers.
" That in clearing the ground care be taken to
leave one acre of trees for every five acres cleared,
especially to preserve oak and mulberries for (hip
ping and yf/L'' A primary and principal obstacle
to raising silk in this country, where hands are
scarce and labour dear, appears by experience to
arise from the present difficulty of procuring mul
berry leaves to feed the worms; which, inftcad of
being gathered at an inconvenient distance, ought
to grow as near and commodious to the places where
the worms are railed as possible, whereby less time
and labour become requisite, and the leaves pro
duced more conttantly frefh and fit for the worms.
In order, therefore, to remove this grand obsta
cle as much as possible from the culture of this
very valuable and important commodity, and to
render the raising of silk as easy, cheap and bene
ficial to the people as may be, the managers have
procured a quantity of mulberry feed of the Italian
kind, which, with a number of young trees, and
silk worms eggs, they will give gratis, with printed
directions, to such persons as incline to propagate
them, and will apply to the fubferiber, near the
church, in Second-street, Philadelphia.
JOHN KAIGHN.
A plain and fare method to raise the Italian Mul
berry Tree, which produces the best food forjUk
morins.
TAKE a spot of your best garden land, and
prepare it well, as is done for lettice or cabbage
feed, divide it into beds of four feet broad, and
as long as you please ; let there be on each fide a
small path, that you may come at it, to weed and
to water it duly. In the Spring, when you sow
your other garden feeds, make in each bed, length
ways, three small furrows, one and a half or two
inches deep, and sow therein vour mulberry feed
(that it may not fall too thick, you may mix the
feed with some coarse sand) then cover it with fine
earth; if the ground Ihould be too dry at the time
of fowiog, you muff water it well some hours be
fore you sow the feed, and ifit does not rain with
in three or four days after, you will do well to
water it again; but take care, that by your water
ing, the ground is not clodded or beaten hard; to
prevent which, put amat or some draw upon the
rows, that the ground be not hardened about, or
washed away from the tender roots of your plants;
keep them clean from weeds, and water them from
time to time, if the weather proves very dry. In
the spring following, you may transplant them in
the months of March or April into nurseries or
hedge-rows, contiguous to your dwelling-house,
or elfwhere ; taking care that no cattle come near
them, whilu they are young.
f China produces the best fi'k, the capital of cubicb
lies in the fame latitude with Philadelphia.
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On F R I D A Y Next,
The Bth inst. at Nine O'CLOck in the morning,
A T
WILLIAM SITGREAVES's
VENDUE-HOUSE,
The upper end of Second Street, will begin
the SALE of
ONE hundred pieces of calicoes ; 80 pieces of
clear lawns; 100 pieces and patches of cam
bucKS; 30 pieces of kenting lawns ; 30 pieces of
striped, flowered and plain gauzes ; 40 pieces of
Itriped, flowered, plain and book mullins; 12 pieces
of humhunis ; 10 pieces of muslin handkerchiefs';
60 dozen of kentiug handkerchiefs; 15 pieces of
long lawns ; 20 pieces of figured and plain modes ;
14. pieces of Persians ; 10 pieces of burdets ; 200
pieces of plain and figured ribbons ; 40 dozen of
inens and womens beaver and kid gloves and mits;
100 pieces of gimp ; 20 bed bunts ; 60 groce of
faces; 10 pieces of fuftian ; and a large allortment
of otker goods.
N. B. The Sales to continue on Saturday the 9th
inst. —Goods are received at William Sitgreaves's
Lore, in Market-Rreet, to be fold at vendue.
AN advertiferrt^nt having appeared in the hte
papers, refpe&ing certain letters said to have
been broke open and to have mifearried, after
having been delivered to my care, or to the care
of some of my people; further infintiating that this
has been done either thro' the negle& or design of
thole to whom they were intrufted, in order to an
finer wicked and malevolent purposes : I thought it
incumbent on me toaffure the public, that no such
letters were ever detained of broke open by me
or by any other perlon, with my knowledge and
consent: And further, that if I could believe any
of my boatmen or waggoners would be guilty of an
action so base and dilhonourable, I would imme
diately difeharge the offender from my employ.
Altho' the epithet of sage-maser hath been applied
to me with triumph, as a term of reproach and
fcandai, yet I am proud to assure the public, I
(hall continue to serve them in that capacity to the
best of my power, and that no care Ihall be want
ing on my part to execute tire trust reposed in me
with fidelity and dispatch.
It is not my intention to trouble the public with
any little private animosities in which I may be un
happily engaged, or to take up their time with dis
putes in which they are no ways interested. Not
all the sarcasms of the (hrewd Humphrey Travel
ler, nor the alarming cautions of the important
* Sheet Leinabtan ihonld have drawn from me any
reply, had not ouroffended author thrown out some
infinuatioos aimed at my integrity: But I flatter
myfelf, that my conduct in life hath been such as
will stand unmoved against the furious attacks of
my puny adversary. In answer to all his inveterate
malice, I Ihall only fay as Uncle Toby said to afly
which had teized him for some time— Go little
Gnat! There is room enough in the world for thee
and for me.
Borden-son, JOSEPH BORDEN.
March 27, 1774.
* It is scarce worth ^bferviag, that this is an inge
nious device of our author's to conceal his real name.
Read it backwards and Nathaniel Lewis will unravel
the amazing millers,
TO BE SOLD BY
DAVID HU B E R,
At the stall No. 46, on Saturday next, the 9th inst.
r O H E largest and most beautiful four years old
^ fleer, ever brought to this market, allowed to
be to by all who hare leen him; railed by Mr. Sa
muel Hugg, on Tunber Creek, Gloucester county,
at which time and place the lovers of roast beef are
requeued to repair, where they may depend on the
mod genteel usage from their humble servant,
DAVID HUBER.
Philadelphia, April s, 1774.
A BUNDLE of BUCKSKINS,
directed to William Brady, at George
town, in Maryland, being some time in Jan. last,
by miltake, left on board a wrong (hallop at the
Draw-bridge; the perlon who took the fame in
poffelfion, is desired to return them to the fubferiber,
ikinner and breeches-maker in Market street, be
tween Third and Fourth-Fleets, or otherwise he
may expect to be prosecuted according to law.
FREDERICK 3HENCKEL.
TRENTON FERRY.
THE SUBSCRIBERS, ever desirous of
obliging the Public, and to give the utmost
fatisfaction in their power, even by a Sacrifice of
their own intertit, and at a rate really not to be
afforded, do hereby give this public notice and af
lurance, that from and after the firft day of April,
they will ferry all perlons, horses, carriages, &c.
upon the lame terms, and at as low a rate anu price,
as any ferry within trie distance of four miles on the
river.— The superior conveniences of the above
ferry to any other on the river, both with refpe&to
its direct lituation on the great road between the
cities of Philadelphia and New York, nearer by a
conliderable diltance than the ferry below, and nar
rower by upwards of one hundred yards, are all
such inducements for the Public, joined with the
facrifice now made, as flatter the subscribers to
hope for every preierence from the generosity of the
Public, which their readiness anu intentions to
oblige give them some right to expert, 111 favour
of an old eftablijbed jerry,
March 27, KENSELAER WILLIAMS.
1774. PATRICK COLVIN.
FORTYSHILLINGS REWARD.
RAN AWAY on the 27th of March last,
from the fubferiber, living in East Bradford,
Chester county, Pennsylvania, an Englilh servant
man named PHILIP JONES; he is a Him
bodied man, about 23 years of age, 5 feet 7 or 8
inches high, was born in Brittol and has been in
Ireland, speaks broad Englilh, has a large high
thin nose, wears long black hair tied behind, and
underftaods farming ; Had on when he went away, a
new felt hat, a Itriped lincey jacket with the stripes
across, and wooden buttons on it, a ihort blue coat
and blue breeches, old blue-grey stockings, good
(hoes tied with firings, good tow shirt, and two
handkerchiefs. Whoever takes up laid servant,
and secures him in any gaol, so that his master may
have him again, Ihall have the above Reward, and
reasonable charges, paid by
ABLE BOAKE.
N. B. All matters of vessels are forbid to take him
off at their peril.
Just Published and to be Sold by
WILLIAM WOODHOUSE,
Bookseller and Stationer in Front-Street,
Price ONE SHILLING,
HAPPI N E S S,
A CHARACTERISTIC POEM,
Written by a Gentleman of Newcastle upon
Tyne in Old England
Philadelphia, April z 7, 1774.
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the fubferiber an in
dented servant man named WILLIAM
MITCHEL, who for some time pall followed
the bufmefs of a pedlar in this city, had on when
lie went away, a beaver hat a good deal wore,
a brown coat with darned buttons, fnuff coloured
jacket with metal buttons, white linen breeches,
Germantown grey stockings, nis left ancle i, re
markably large, about five feet five or fix inches
high, wears his own hair cut short of a dark brown
colour, is much given to strong liquor, and low
company, and is supposed to be either ntgh the
barracks or some part of Southwark. Whoever
takes up and secures the said servant so as his mailer
may have him again, Ihall have the above reward,
and reafonablecharges, paid by JAMES BRADLY,
or by JAMES GALLAGHER, the coiner of Front
and Spruce-Erect}.
TO BE SOLD CHEAP,
FI NE Liverpool (loved SALT; Irish BEEF;
Jamaica and Dominica R UM. Apply to
SAMUEL CARSAN, or
BARCLAY and MITCHELL.
GREEN TEAS and INDIGO,
TO BE S o'lD BY
RICHARD BAC HE,
At his store on the south fide of Mirket-ftreet, be
tween Third and Fourth-db ee^s ;
BESIDES his conttant fuoply of Madeira,
Lisbon, Claret, Frontiniac, Sherry, Mountain,
Rum, Spirits, Brandy, and other liquors, all ge
nuine of their kinds, and at the lowest rates, wlidle
(ale and retail.
BA R I R 0 NT-
By the ton or quantity, warranted of the best qua
lity, neatly drawn, fit for the London and Welt-
India markets, to be S OL D by
PETER TURNER,
At his Ware house the south fide of Market-street,
the fourth door above the London Coffee-houfe,
Also, an affoitment of European and East-India
GOOD S, suitable for the season, among
which are,
AC HOICE parcel of fuperfine, middling and
coarse BOULTING CLOTHS; where
miners and others may depend on being supplied
with ail forts, suitable for every branch of that
business.
10 be LET, and entered on immediately, the
ware-boufe or store above mentioned, completely
finished in a good stand, being a noted and well
accustomed place as is in the city for any kind of
business.
N. B. The said Turner intending to quit the
dry goods business, will dispose of his remaining
stock on hand exceeding cheap for Cash only:
And all persons indebted to hnn b, bond, bill, or
book debt, as well as those whole accounts are ofa
long standing, ar desired to make immediate pay
ment, to prevent trouble, otherwise they may de
pend on having their accounts put into an Attor
ney's hands, without refpea: of perlons, in three
months from this date.
Philadelphia, April 4, 1774.
Philadelphia, April 2, 1774.
Tobe SOLD by PUBLIC VENDUE,
at the London Coffee-Houfe on Wednefdav the
27th day of April (instant.)
J HOUSE and lot of ground, situate on the
- north tide of Market-street, near Eighth-ttreet,
in the city of Philadelphia, and to be (truck off pre
cilely at fix o'clock in the evening, to the highest
bidder. The house is sixteen feet and a half front,
two dories high, well built of brick, adjoining
which ,is a two story framed kitchen. The lwt is
one hun 'red feet deep, and has the privilege of a
four feet alley leading from the b,ck end of it into
Eighth ftr&<t , The whole rents for 201. per annum.
The title is indisputable. An, per on inclining to
purchase the premises before the day of file, may
know the terms by applying to JOHANNA HILL,
living in Carter's Alley.
Newcafle County on Delaware, March 17, 1774.
WHEREAS I the Subferiber, on
the 31st day of January last past, at the
Head of Saffafra fs, in Kent county, Maryland, on
the great road, was attacked by Nicholas Wood
and William Wood, of Ceicel county, Henry
Simmons and Thomas Simmons, of Maryland
aforefaid, with several others to the fubferiber not
known, who forcibly carried him to the house of
Simon Cox, in Kent county aforefaid, and there
by force kept him two days and two nights, and
then by threats and abuse obliged him to lign two
bonds, one for an hundred pounds and one for
fifty pounds, also another piece of writing of which
the fubferiber knows not the contents, the bonds
payable to William Wood aforefaid ; all which
bonds and writings the fubferiber signed by force,
(his life being threatened) without any considera
tion received by him in lieu thereof: These are
therefore to desire all persons not to take any assign
ment on said bonds and writings, as the fubferiber
is determined not to pay any of said bonds, or
other writings, unless compelled thereto by law.
WILLIAM ANDERSON.
Newcajlle upon Tyne, Dec. 3, 1773.
WHEREAS William Robertson, of
Newcastle upon Tyne, linen-draper and ha
berdasher, about the spring of the year 1763, went
from London for Maryland ; and by a letter from
him to some of his friends here, soon after his arri
val there, it appears he was engaged with one
Johnson, to go up Potowmack, or some other river
in Maryland, in order te keep a school, and his
friends here having never since heard from him;
This is therefore meant to requett the said William
Robertson, if alive, to inform Joshua Fisher
and Sons, of Philadelphia, thereof; and to write a
line, with his own hand, to Jonathan Ormston,
linen-draper, in Newcaflle aforefaid, acquainting
him with his fitti.ition, and where he lives, who,
on receipt thereof, will immediately inform him of
something to his advantage ; or if he is dead, it
will be deemed a particular favour from any person
in that part of the country who knew him, to inform
the laid Jonathan Ormston, or Joshua Fisher
and Sons, when and where that event happened.
Philadelphia, March 30, 1774.
TEN POUNDS REWARD.
STOLEN from the fubferiber, living in Third
ftreet, in t is city, yesterday the 28th inttant, a
loan horle, about 14 hands high, has a liar on his
foiehead and white legs, carries high, and mostly
pacet; an old fiddle, new girt, new curb bridle,
and black reins; likewiie Itolen from a French
gentleman, who lodges at the subscribers, a gold
watch, with a chaled case, black silk itring, gold
seal and key, and a small gold hlh ; the name of the
place where made Bourdeaux, but the maker's name
unknown. The thief, who is the noted Doctor
LOUIS a Frenchman, but Ipeaks allo Englilh, is
a tall well made man, has a smooth and full face,
wears his own hair, curled on both tides of bis head,
and tied behind. He wears a luit of light blue
cloth, and took with him a white frock, he has al
so with him several very good French books ot phy
£c and largely ; likewise a fine let of lurgcons in
itruh cuts. Hehas the leuut a cut over bis left
eye, and another Imall fear in his upper lip, and
dresses gentleman-like. Whoever takes up the laid
thief and horse, and secures the thief, lo that he
may be brought to justice, and the goods be had
again, Ihall have the above reward, or for the horse
only THREE POUNDS, and realonable
charges, paid by
SUSANNAH CRYDE R.
N. B. He has travelled through Germany, Spain,
France, Italy and England, and underitands lome
German, Spanilh and Italian, but speaks Latin very
well. He allo took with him the silver hilt of a
ftford, having taken off the blade on purpole.
Philadelphia races.
ON TUESDAY, the 7th of June, will be .
Kun for, over the Centre Course, a Purse of
One Hundred Pounds, given by the Jockey Club,
free loi any horle, mare or gelding, carrying wen lit
tor age ; four years old to carry 7 done 7 pounds,
five years old, 8 stone y pounds; fix years old,o
stone 3 < inns and aged, 9 stone 10 pounds ; the
belt of three four mile heats. Fillies allowed 3
pounds —Not lets than three reputed running hbrlel
will be albwed to Itart for this purse.
On W EDNESDAY th Bth, a Purse of
Fifty Pounds, given by the Jockey Cub, free only
•for four and five years old ; tour years old to carry
8 store, five years old, 9 stone; the best of three
two mile heats. Fillies allowed 3 pounds.
And, on T HURSDAY the gth, the City-
Puile of Fifty Pounds, tree for an, horse, mare or
gelding, not being full blood, carrying weight fr
age and blood, as follo s —Four years old, half
blqod, to carry 6 Hone 10 p unds, three quarters;
7 stone, and all otters 7 hone 4 pounds; five , ars
old, half blood, 7 stone 10 pounds ; thrbe-quaiters,
8 stone ; and all above 8 Rone 4 potions. Six
years old, hall blood, 8 done 7 pounds; three
quarters, 8 stone 11 pounds; and all above, 9 ftord
1 pound. Aged, half blood, 9 ft^he 4 pounds ;
three-quarters, 9 stone 8 pounds; and all others,
9 stone 12 pounds. Th^ bit of three two-mile
heats. Fillies allowed 3 pounds.
Tire horses, &c. to be (hewn ard entered on Sa
turday thr 4th of June, betuernthe hour oftwelve
and fix, with Mr. Jacob Hiltzheimer, paying
5L for the hundred, and 50s. tor each fifty, or dou
ble at the post. Proper certificates to be produced
at the time of entrance, under the hands of the
breeders, of the age of all the horses, &c. under
seven, nd of the blood of all the horses, &c. who
are to Itart the last day.
To run according to the usual terms, and all dis
putes to be determined by the members of thd
Jockey Club.
Th noted HORSE
P Pennsylvania Farmer,
\X/ !LL cbver this season,
VV at the fubfe iber's fta
bles atChriftiana Bridge, Newa
cattle county : He ^, w it out
exception, one of the gre teffi
beautit< ver tied in, or ex
porter to Arnciica ; and is allowed to be hub by
the belt of judges : he is a right bay, islands
high ; his fire and dam both imp rted from Eng
land, and he bred by Col. Taylor, of Virginia, and
when in his pofftffion beat the molt capital horses
in the North and South goverum nt of Carolina,
particularly; in one season, he won four nudes, at
one of which he beat eight ot theii eit horses after
running four four mile heats, which proves hint
to be a horse of bottom. He covered last feafort
upwards of 40 mares, not one of which mifibd being
with foal.—'l he terms are, three pounds these don,
thirty fhil in s the single leap, er five pounds to in
luie a olt, with five sh Lings to the groom. Go>d
patturage, for mar s that may cm; ny distance, at
two Fullings and fix pence per week. The money
to be paid before the mar s re taken away.
THOMAS SCULLEY.
March 23, 17744
gThe famous Bay Horse
S CIPI O,
^ O well known and approved
^ for getting urfcommon fine
colts, as to render it ufelels to
fay any thing about his good
qualities or pedigree, will cover
at Benjamin Davids's, at the
sign of the George in Second street, at the corner
of Arch-street, from the p elent time until the firft
day of May next, at thirt\ (hillings for so much
of the season, or fifteen (hillings for a single leap.
Mares will be tken care of bv B njamin Davids.
The'Horse galla nr,
_+2=^==To cover this season, at three
=:--,== =' ^ dollars a mare ? at the ftabla
0 °' '' e fubferiber, j n the
town(hip of Norriton and
county of Philadelphia.
O ALLANT is anAme
t^^ I fl ^ IJ rican horse, bred in the
'government of New-York, is
noted for his line (being of the
high mark) and is allowed by good judges to be
one of the best adapted for the coach or carriage of
any on the continent, the colts of his breed having
been fold at forty and fifty pounds before they were
foaled. Care of mares and pasture at two millings
per week, by JOHNBULL.
FIVE POUNDS R EWAR IX
WAS STOLEN, out of the fubferiber's
liable, in Sad(b'ury townihip, Lancaster
county, on the 29th of March last, a dark bay
MAKE, about fourteen hands and one inch high,
fix years old, supposed to be with foal, has a b inp
on her off fide, a Imall switch tail, both trots and
hand-gallops; (he is half blooded, got by Bully
Rock, and was seen in Philadelphia 011 the 30th of
March, rode by a man in a blue 'urtout coat, of a
middle size. Whoever will secure the mare, so that
the owner may have her again, fliall receive
THREE POUDNS for her alone, or the
above Reward for mare and thief, if brought to
Henry Funk, at the Bia k Bear in Market street,
Phil tdelphi%ortoJA C6B MILLER.
Baltimore, March 21, 1774.
EIGHT DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AW AY, about the eighteenth ot March
(inst.) from thefubferiber, an indented servant
man, nam'd WILLIAM KNELLERS,
born in London, brought up to surgery; about
twenty two yeais of age, five Icet fix or seven iuc es
high, wears hi own hair tied behind, brown cloths
ruffled Ihitt, &c. Whoever takes tip said servant,
and secures him in any goal, fe that his m tiler may
have him again, shall be entitled to the above ie^
ward and reasonable charges, paid by
MICAJAH JAMES.
N. B. He took with him other cloaths, and a
case of surgeon's inftruments.—lt is supposed he is
gone towards New York.
Fok CHARLESTOWN, (S. Carolina)
The Brigantine
SEA NYMPH,
JOSEPH BLEWER,
A Master;
ANEW vessel, conveniently
"provided with genteel ac
.b^^^P^F^irt cornntodations for passengers ,
r <-.^^f ~•.<. w p| fail with all convenient
speed. For freight or passage apply to Joseph
Rlpwer, at his house in Southwark, or on board,
at Mr. Joseph Sims's wharf, or to Daniel Robin
son, IE his store on said wharf, who has fertile,
Carolina SOAL LEATHER, NEW RICE,
PINK ROOT and TORACCO.