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TEN POUNDS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber, living in
Kent county, Maryland, on the Bth instant,
(April) two Irish indented servants, each of whom
has about three years to serve, viz. FRANCIS
MA NE S, about thirty years of age, a very stout
well set fellow, about five feet ten inches high, ve
ry full faced, short dark hair ; had on and took
with him, a good brown broadcloth coat, black
velvet jacket and breeches, a pair of black everlast
ing breeches with yellow metal buttons, ah old
blue coat with new serge sleeves, shirts, fh>es and
stockings: He is a collier, ditcher and brickmaker.
JOHN DEL AN Y, about twenty fix years of
age, five feet eight inches high, . well made, fair
skin and ruddy complexion, short brown hair; had
on and took with him, a green jacket made sailor
fafhion, a purple under jacket, a white shirt, and
one or two check shirts much worn, a new felt hat,
a black silk handkerchief round his neck, a pair of
white kerfey breeches, a pair of blue serge ditto,
one pair of Scotch Kilmarnock, and one pair of
Kendall rib'd hole mixed black and white, a pair
of half worn (hoes, and square Reel buckles ; he
writes a good hand: They have both been in dif
ferent parts of Pennsylvania. Whoever takes up
the aforefaid servants and secures them, so that the
subscriber may have them again, (hall receive the
above reward if taken out of the province, if in the
province SIX POUNDS, or half the above re
ward for either, paid by
RICHARD GRAVES,
Nor ICE is hereby given, That
whereas a certain JOHN GRAFT, of
Lancaster county, fold a mare to me tke subscriber,
for which I gave him my note for Twenty-seven
Pounds, payable against the 17th day of June next:
And whereas the said mare hath proved to be un
sound, and 1 can make it appear the was unsound
before I bought her ; this is therefore to fo'rwarn
all persons from taking an alignment on said note,
as I am determined not to pay it unless compelled
by law. Given under my hand this Bth day of
April, 1775. JAMES BONNER.
City of PkTadelphia, f,ri! 17, 1775.
The ASSIZE of BREA D.
Fine Flour, at Twenty-one Shilling; and Nine
fence, per Ct.
Middlings, at Fifteen Shillings and Six-pence
per Ct.
Rye, at Ten Shilling, per Ct.
IFbit^read !b.oz. Midd. do. IF oz3fye do. 11. 0~.
id.loafiso 7 id.loafiso 8,1 id.loafiso 11
2d.ditto,o 134 2d.ditto, f I 1 zd.ditto, 1 6,
#d.ditto,l if, 4d.ditto, 2 1^ 4d.ditto, 2 12,
Bd.ditto, 3 7 sd.ditto, 4 3 I Bd.ditto, ^ 9
I2d.ditto,s 2' 12d.ditto, 6 4, izd.ditto, 8 6
Set by SAMUEL RHOADS, Mayor.
SAMUEL SHOEMAKER,?
SAMUEL POWEL, j Aldermen.
N. B. Those who have any demands against her,
are desired to fend in their accompts; and all that
are indebted to her by bond, note or book debt,
are once more requeued to make speedy payment,
as. (he is determined to put their accounts, &c.
(without refpeft of persons) into a lawyer's hands,
if not paid within two months from the date hereof.
BY virtue of a writ of venditioni exponas, to
me directed, will be fold at public vendue, on
Wednesday, the 10th day of May next, on the pre
mises, a mefluage, and tract of 30 acres of land,
situate in Durham, in the county of Bucks ; late
the property of John Cyphers; seized and taken in
execution, and to be fold by
SAMUEL BILES, Sheriff.
Cumberland County, April 4, 1775.
WHER EAS John M'Connel ob
tained three bonds from me the fubferiber,
one of them for the sum of Fifty Pounds, payable
on the firlt of June, 1776, another for the fam of
Fifty Pounds, payable on the firft of June, 1777,
and the other for the sum of Twenty Pounds, pay
able on the firft of June, 1778 : These are to for
warn all persons from taking an alignment on said
bonds, as I will not pay them until I shall be obliged
by law, I not having had value for them.
ROBERT IRWIN.
BY virtue of a writ of venditioni exponas, to
me directed, will be fold at public vendue, on
Saturday, the 6th day of May next, on the pre
miles, a certain metluage, and tra& of 80 acres of
land, lituate in the township of Wrights-town,
Bucks County ; late the property of Dennis Smith ;
leized and taken in execution, and to be fold by
SAMUEL BILES, Sheriff.
BY virtue of a writ of venditioni exponas, to
me directed, will be fold at public vendue, on
Munday, the Bth day of May next, at the house of
William M'Call, Inn keeper, in Plumfted town
ship, one moiety or equal undivided half part of a
certain tra& of 180 acres of land, lituate in the
township of Finicum, Bucks cornty ; late the pro
perty of Matthew Hughes; seized and taken in
execution, and to he fold by
SAMUEL BILES, Sheriff.
street,
HAVING now on hand the remainder of her
Itock in trade, confuting of a general assort
ment of Dry Goods, suitable to the approaching
lesion, (and being determined to decline business,
as the intends for England fhor.tly) would fell the
whole, or any considerable part thereof, at a very
low advance.
In Second-street, ^the fifth door below Chelnut-
GENERAL ^^ADVERTISER.
M O N D A Y, ’^&^r^.- v j^^^^ APßlL 17th, 1775.
Philadelphia, April 17, 1775.
MAGDALEN DEVINE,
VOL. IV.
WILLIAM BARRELL,
Hath for SALE, a large and general assortment
of M E R CHANDIZ E, imported by himfelf,
in the Jamaica and other the last fall vessels from
Europe, which he will dispose of, ivbolefale and
letai!, on the most reasonable terms, at his Store
the north east coiner of Market and Second
ftreets, Philadelphia;
Among cwbicb GOODS are tbe following ufcful and
necessary Articles, viz.
WHEREAS the subscriber bought a
piece of land, with the improvements there
on, in Turkeyford township, Bedford county, of
a certain John Weneel, living in said townthip
and county," for which I gave him a bond for
fifteen pounds and a note for nine pounds five
Killings ; and having since heard that another man
hath a warrant upon said land : This is therefore
to desire that no person may take any^flignment
on laid bond and note, as I am determined not to
pay them until the said Weneel delivers me the
land which he fold.
HERMAN BLAESER.
T O-M O R R OW,
At ONE o'clock in the afternoon, a t
JOHN H A R T's
V E*N DUE-STORE,
At the corner of South and Front-Streets,
Will begin the SALB of a neat assortment of
M E RCHA N DI Z E.
LINEN PRINTIN G,
In all its Branches, performed by the Subferihers,
at their Manufactory, near the Three-Mile Stone',
on Germantown Road.
MUSLIN S, callicoes, nankeens and linens
of all kinds, printed for gowns, furniture,
handkerchiefs, and shapes for mens waistcoats, of
the molt durable colours ; Irilh and other linens
dyed of the most beautiful and durable nankeen
colours, at reasonable rates; callicoes dyed rose
and pink colour for skirts to wear under muslin
gowns ; velvets of all kinds printed. Ladies may
have linen gowns dyed Nankeen colours without in
juring the colours already on them, at a very small
expence ; mens waistcoats the fame.
The fubferibers hope for encouragement, as what
they do will be in all refpe&s equal to what comes
from Europe, and cohfiderably cheaper. One of
the fubferibers will attend every Wednesday at
Benjamin Davids's, at the George in Second-street,
where, on a message being left, he will directly at
tend any person at their own house.
JOHN WALTERS,
THOMAS BEDWELL.
DO ÜBLE told Rus
sia fneetings,
Ravens duck,
Ticklenburgs and Oz
nabrugs,
Dowlases,
White and brown Irilh
fheeiings,
3-4, 7-8 and yard wide
low priced Irish linens,
10 nail, ^.4 and y-Slin
ep checks,
3 4' 7-8, yard, and yard
3-8 cotton checks,
3-4 . bed ticking, bed
bunts and Flanders
ticks,
French cotton stripes for
mens trowfers,
Cotton hollands and lin
en stripes,
Turkey stripes for saddle
cloths, &c.
Brown Silefias,
6,7, 8 and 10-4 diaper
& damask table cloths,
3-4. napkening diaper,
Huckaback and Russia
towelling,
A great variety of cotton
and calico furniture
patterns,
A neat assortment of cal
licoes, cottons and
chintzes,
A variety of India calli
coes,
Marseilles quilting,
10, 11 and 12-4 cotton
counterpains,
Flower'd yd. wide draw
boys,
Plain & corded dimities,
Dutch cord,
Plain and figured velvets
and velvwets,
Coloured and white cor
duroys and cordurets.
A variety of fudians,
jeans and jeanets,
Coloured and black fat
tinets, denims and
listings,
A beautiful affortmentof
half-ell figured jeanets,
A few jeanet shapes for
waistcoats,
Best India nankeens,
Silk Damascus,
Lorettoes and fattinets,
Paduafoys and ducapes,
Striped and plain lute
ft rings,
Plain .and changeable
mantuas, *
D UN L A P's
Hair grazets,
Black, white, blue-and
cloth coloured fattins
and half fattins,
Black, white, crimson,
green, blue and cloth
coloured fattins and
peelongs, figured and
plain,
Sarfanets asd PerGans,
A large assortment of
ribbonds,
Silk ferretings,
Dutch, blond, bone,
trolly and Flanders
lace,
Silk bieeches pieces, sort
ed colours,
Silk, thread, cotton and
worded hose,
Mens and womens silk
gloves and mitts,
Superfine, second and
low priced broadcloths
with suitable trirpings,
Moreens and grograms,
Camblets & camblettees,
Masquerades, brilliants
and dorfetees,
Crapes, bombazeens and
poplins,
Double and single wors
ted damasks,
Rullels and calimancoes,
Durants and tammies,
Rattinets and fhalloons,
Hair & worsted plushes,
with a few paif\>f very
fine 10 and 11 4 rose
blankets.
A L S O,
T. Crowley's No. 3 steel,
Sheathing & other nails,
London made glue,
Knives and forks,
Piftolcap'd and cutteaus,
Barlow and other pen
knives,
Plated, steel, yellow and
white metal shoe
buckles,
Plated, lacquered, Dun
combe and other me
tal buttons,
An assortment of Pins,
Playing cards,
Writing paper,
Dutch quills,
Red & black patent cake
ink, of Holman's ink
powder,
Sealing wax, &c. &c.&c.
Tog ther with an affbrt
ment of silver &pinch
beck WATCHES.
April 10, 1775.
TH 1 S is to give notice to the Creditora
of Henry Voorhees, prisoner. confined
for debt in the gaol of Burlington, that they be
and appear before the Honourable Justices of the
Supreme Court held at Burlington, in and for the
province of New-Jersey, at the Court-Louse, on
Wednesday the tenth day .of May next, to fliew
cause why the said debtor should not be difeharged,
agreeable to an aft of the legislature, entitled, An
Aft for the relief, &c. of insolvent debtors.
DAVID R E
Gardener and Seedman, from London, living
in Spring-Garden,
WILL supply any Gentleman or other per
son with any quantity of Garden Seed,
which he will warrant to be of good quality: They
may be had at his flall at the Court-house every
day of the week (Sunday excepted) or at the
Widow Lawrence's in Second-street, near the Mar
ket, Philadelphia.
T O
By the SUBSCRIBER,
THE time of a stout, able, young man, having
about two years to serve, fit for any hard la
bour ; also a house in Fifth-ftreet, the corner of
Walnut-lireet, 20 feet front, and 109 feet deep. It
now lets at £.20 per year, fubjeft to a ground-rent
°f £-7 peryear. Apply to
WILLIAM WESTON.
YAAAS hired from the fubferiber, ablack HORSE,
Y about 14 hands high, trots all, has white feet
behind, which had no ihoes on them, a white nose
and a large knot in his tail ; almost a new fiddle
with blue laddie cloths and red binding. Theper
fon who hired the above horse, is a young man,
about five feet- eight or nine inches high, had on a
white cloth fliort coat, pinchbeck buckles in his
flioes, a pair of plated spurs and a new cowfkin,
said he was under clerk to Mr. Chew, and that be
was going to Chatter about his business ; last Wed
nesday morning he was seen at Samuel Rayn's, Ta
vern-keeper on the Paffyunk road, with a brace of
pistols by his fide. FIVE POUNDS for the
man, and TWENTY SHILLINGS for
the horse, and reasonable charges paid, by me
WILLIAM WESTON.
THE Subscriber, who has carried on
the Soap-boiling and Tallow-chandling bu
siness for some years part fbr Mr. George Kennedy,
takes this method to inform the Public in general
and his friends in particular, that he has opened
said business in Second-street, opposite the City
Tavern, between Walnut and Chefnut-ftreets,
where he intends carrying it on in the most exten
sive manner; and as said Kennedy has declined,
hopes for the encouragement of his friends, as he
will make it his particular study to serve bis cus
tomers with the greatest care and punctuality, and
their favours (hall be gratefully acknowledged by
the Public's most obedient humble servant,
WILLIAM GILMORE.
N. B. Merchants, Captains of veftels and coun
try store-keepers mail be supplied on the Ihorteft
notice,.
T O BE SO L D,
At PUBLIC VENDUE, in the Town of Carlifle,
on the 20th day of April inst.
A PATENTED Tra& of very valuable
land, well timbered, situate in Hopewell
Township, in Cumberland County, containing 322
acres, with the usual allowance of fix per cent for
roads, bounded hy George Croghan, Edward Ship
pen, Efa; and others, within a few miles of Ship
penfburgh, commonly known by the name of Stu
art's land, being part of the estate of SAMUEL
NEAVE, deceased. One third of the purchase
money to be paid at the time of sale, another third
on the firft day of May 1776, and one other third
on the ill day of May 1777, with interest from the
sale.
T O BE SOL D,
To the highest bidder, at Mr. Ninian Beall's, of
Ninian, on the 20th day of August next, if fair,
if not, the next fair dav,
TW ELVE hundred acres of good land, ly
ing on Great Seneca Creek (near the mouth)
Tn Frederick County, Maryland, whereon are three
plantations, a great quantity of valuable meadow
land, and two exceeding good mill feats : The pur
chaser or purchasers to have immediate possession,
on giving bond with approved security payable the
2oth day of November, 1776, to carry interest from
the date if not punctually difeharged at or upon
the aforefaid 20th day of November. The land
will be laid out in lots suitable to the purchasers.
Any person inclinable to view the land before the
day of sale, may apply to Ninian Beall, of Ninian.
CHARLES BEALL.
BY virtue of a writ to me directed, will be fold
by public vendue, on Monday, the 17th of
April inst. at 6 o'clock in the evening, at the Lon
don Coffee-houfe, all those two brick and frame
meiluages or tenements, and lot or piece of ground
thereunto belonging, situate on the south fide of
Vine-street, between Third and Fourth-streets, in
the city of Philadelphia, containing in breadth 20
feet, and in depth 82 feet 6 inches, with the appur
tenances, among which are a fkinprefs; bounded
by ground of Messieurs Chevaliers, and ethers ;
seized and taken in execution by
WILLIAM DEWEES, Sheriff.
REESE MEREDITH, ]
HUGH Roberts,
LUKE MORRIS, >Executors.
JACOB HARMAN, J
For CHARLESTOWN, (£. Caroltna.)
— The Brigantine
SEA NYMPH,
JOSEPH BLEWER,
Master;
AN E W vessel, conveniently
' provided with genteel ac
"lcommodations for passengers ;
U^re&^T^ will fail with all convenient
speed. For freight or passage apply to Joseph
Blewer, at his house in Southwark, or on board
at Mr. Joseph Sims's wharf, or to Daniel Robin
son, at his store on said wharf, who has for sale,
Carolina foal-leather, new rice, pink-root, an as
sortment of English cordage, and a quantity of fine
Mufcovado sugars in hogsheads.
For CHARLESTOWN, (S. Carolina)
t^^^^The Brigantine
JENN Y,
[^,?..><-& WILLIAM WORKMAN,
Master;
NT ° " la y in g at the Old
Ferry-house wharf, has
£ /v ^ ^^ g entee ] accommodationsfor pas
sengers, and will fail with all convenient speed,
having the greatest part of her cargo ready to o-o
on board. For freight or passage apply to the said
master on board, or to Mason and Patton, who
have for sale, a quantity of NEW RICE of
the best quality.
T O BE Sol D,
A COACH and CHARIOT, two of the
most elegant carriages ever imported into
America, and equal to any in London, both crane
necked, and calculated for the climate, having the
pannels made to let down on all tides ; they have
their firft set of wheels on, and are in high preser
vation. Enquire of Mr. Johnson, Coach-maker,
in High-street, Philadelphia.
T O BE S O L D,
Or LET for a term of years,
A LOT of GROUND whereon is a very
commodious dwelling-house, tan-yard, and
other conveniences for carrying on the said business,
all in very good repair, and may be entered upori
immediately ; situated in the Northern Liberties of
Philadelphia, near the city. Enquire of the Printer.
TO BE SOLD BY~
JACOB BERK ET,
Fence-Maker, in Budd-street, near the sign if
the King of Prussia, in Campington,
A QUANTITY of White-oak and Chefnut
" POST S, well seasoned, and already mortikd
fit for making of fence immediately. Abo %
quantity of the largest kind of Colly-flower SEED,
found on trial to be extraordinary good.
To BE SOLD,
A HEALTHY servant Woman, who has near
1 two years and an half to serve ; Ihe can fpm
and knit, and is fit for country business. Enquire
of the Printer.
For B RIST O L,
for-fr The SNOW
DICKENSON.
JAMES JOHNSTON,
Master;
y 7 ILL fail with all conve
v- 'VV nient speed, having her
^^^M^ , r ^° , ad y to , ake , board.
For passage apply to Bayard,
Jackson and Co. or said matter on board the
Inow, at Stamper's wharf.
RUSSIA IRO N,
AFE W tons of excellent quality, in br ad
bars suitable for cart tire ; also a few crds of
running and standing R IGGI NG, and a
CABLE of 13 inches, to be fold b,y
JOHN PRI N GL E,
At Captain LAKE's, near the New-M^rk^t, in
Second-street, Philadelphia.
TO BE SOL D,
By PUBLIC SALE, at the London Coffee
house, on the 20th inst. at the 6th hour in the
evening,
ATR AC Tof patented Land, containing 623
acres, situate on Wyalufing Creek, in North
urnberl^nd county, being the late settlement of the
Indians connected with the Moravian Brethren,
about one half of which is cleared, near ieo acres
thereof good mowable meadow, and near one half
the tra& capable of being made into excellent mea
dow or paftwe land ; the upland is rich, and would
yield hemp, wheat, &c. very easily tilled. There
is a good navigation down the Susquehanna to Sun
bury, Harris's Ferry, and Middletown ; ieveral
good buildings of logs, dovetailed and covered
with Singles, and various other advantages ; per
haps few tracts of land in the province better or
more advantageously situated. One half the pur
chase money being paid, the remainder will be
taken in proportionable payments, giving security
and paying interest.
t A draught of this land may be seen at the Coffee
House, and at Jesse Lukens's ; Samuel Tallis, Robert
Lettis Hooper, Junior, Timothy Matlock, and sundry
other persons in Philadelphia, having seen the land,
can, by applying to them, give further informati
on to those who may incline to purchafe.—Enquire
also of 'fob Cbiiloway, at ,obn Lukens's, in Straw
berry-alley, or Reuben Haines, in Market-street.
NUM B. 182.