The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1779-04-01 00:00:00, page 4

%Be SOLD by Public Vendue,
At the Coffee-Houfe in the city of Philadelphia, on Thurs
day the firft day of April, if not fold before at private
file, at fix o'clock in the evening,
- LOT of GROUN D situated on the Delaware, in
the city of Burlington, about 4.00 yards below the
Town wharf, commonly known and called by the name of
Green Bank, bounded as follows, viz. Beginning at the
corner of the fence as it now ftandeth, being the corner of
Fourth-Greet and Pearl-street, and runs thence in the line
®f Pearb street westward seventy-three feet to a lot now in
the tenure of James Verree, then northerly by the line di
viding the before-mentioned lot three hundred and fixty
fix feet, thence running an eastward course twenty-three
feet along the garden fence, then northwardly a firaight
course down to low water mark on Delaware river, thence
eaftwardly fifty feet along the said river, and then up
Pearl- street to the place of beginning, be the fame more
or less. There is upon the premises agenteel brick House
well GniGied, two Gories high, fifty feet front, two hand,
some parlours below, and three chambers besides garrets
for servants, each room hath a handsome tiled chimney
place and marble hearths, a good kitchen, two ovens, a
pump of good water in the yard, a milk house, smoke
house, a large well built Gable and coach-house, the loft
of which is capable of holding eight tons of hay, with a
great many other ufeful out-buildings; the garden is
flocked with a variety of plumb, pear, cherry, Englifli
walnut and other fruit-trees, besides currants, ralberries,
gooseberries, strawberries, &c. The ground is as rich as
any in Burlington, and is now in good order, as it has
been turned up with a spade this Winter. To conclude,
the healthy and elegant situation, the beauty of the pro
fpe&, the convenience of the buildings, and the garden
Gored with such a variety of fruit, mult make it a suitable
Summer retreat for a genteel family, or the constant resi
dence of a gentleman retiring from business.
Any perlon may view the premises, by applying to Col.
Jones who now lives in the house. A good title and im
mediate possession will be given to the purchaser, but the
cash will be expected at the delivery of the deed. The
emissions that are called out of circulation, will be taken
in payment.
Any person inclining to purchase before the day of sale,
may know the terms by applying to the fubferiber, at the
New Mills, Burlington county, New-Jersey.
, Marchi. PETER STRETCH.
To be SOLD by Public Vendue,
On Saturday the third of April inst. at Two o'clock,
on the premises, if not fold at private sale before that
time,
CT" 1 H REE brick Houses in the Northern Liberties, on
' Front street continued, and opposite to Col. Wil
liam Coats's ; one is a two-story house, Seventeen feet
front and seventeen feet fix inches back; the lot is Se
venty nine feet deep to a four feet alley. One three
ftoiy house adjoining the firft, seventeen feet front and
thirty-two feet back ; the lot is feventy-five feet deep to
said four feet alley: a groundrent of 51s. Pennsylva
nia currency, on each of the above lots, payable to Col.
William Coats. One other three story house, sixteen
feet four inches on Front Greet and twenty-four feet
deep ; the lot feventy-five feet back to the aforefaid al
ley, which runs from the firft described lot into a pub
lic landing place, otherwise called Coats's street: This
last house and lot is clear of ground-rent; there is a
kitchen back of the house nineteen and a half feet by
ten and a half, two stories high. Any person or persons
inclining to purchase before the day of sale may apply to
the fubferiber in Lombard-street, between Front and
Second-Greets, on the south fide, and near the New-
Market, where they may fee a plan describing the par
ticulars, and may know the terms. The two firft houses
are insured, commencing the sth day of February 1777,
and have iron rails on the top.
THOMAS CUTHBERT.
Philadelphia, March 24.
TO BE S O L D,
On Thursday the firft of April,
THE SLOOPS SALLY and DEFIANCE;
a FLAT; two G ALLIE S, and a number of
BOATS ; all the property of this State.
The sale will begin at Three o'clock, P. M. on Mr.
Arthur Donridfon's wharf. 4t.
N. B. If the day appointed for sale should prove bad,
the sale will ba postponed to the Bth instant. The fub
feri ber has two or three other houses which he will fell
at private sale ; likewise a new anvil, and some augers
of different sizes.
CAME to an Bland in the river Susquehanna,
near the Blue Rock, whereon the fubferiber lives,
a Gray sorrel M ARE, with a blaze in her face, mid
dle sized, branded on the near buttock and shoulder,
but the brand cannot be. made out, about ten or twelve
years old, and paces. The owner is desired to come
prove property, pay charges and take her away.
Dec. 1778. THOMAS MALSON.
Neiucafle Count,, March 29.
To be SOLD by Public Vendue,
On Friday- the ninth day of April, at Mr. Hendrickson's
Tavern, in Christiana Hundred, in bid county,
A VALUABLE Plantation, situate in said hun
dred, about four miles from Wilmington, con
taining about one hundred and fifty acres of very good
land, about twenty acres whereof watered meadow:
Very good improvements on laid place, two bearing
orchards, and the whole in good repair.
And on Saturday the tenth, at Mr.'Allen's tavern in
Newport, will be fold, a Lot of about fix acres of mea
dow ground, situate on Christiana Creek, near the town
of Newport aforefaid: The above were advertised for
sale formerly, but the day proving bad, the sales were
put off till the above days, when they will be fold as the
late estate of Christopher Wilson, of said county, being
confifeated for the use of the Delaware State, and to be
fold by WILLIAM M'CLAY, Commissioner
for Newcastle County.
PHILADELPHIA: Printed and Sold by JOHN DUNLA P, in Market-street.
To be SOLD at Public Suk,
On Thursday the firft day of April, on Chefnut hill in
Germantown Townftlip, Philadelphia County,
AT W O story Gone HOUSE, with a valuable or
chard of one acre possessed of the belt apple and
pear trees: There is a Gable and exceeding good well
belonging to said house. The title is indisputable. At
tendance will be given by
MARTIN HAUSER.
BY virtue of an order of the Orphan's Court for the
city and county of Philadelphia, will be exposed
to sale at the Coffee house, on Saturday the third of
April, a certain lot or piece of Ground, situated on the
east fide of Third street, a little above Spruce street,
containing in breadth nineteen feet ten inches, and in
depth one hundred and eighty feet, extending to a new
street called Laurel street, with a two-story brick tene
ment on Laurel-street, formerly in the tenure of Col.
Thomas Pro&or: Also one brick tenement intended as
a kitchen to a house to be built upon Third-Greet, and
two wooden tenements in the center of the f^d lot :
The whole fubj^a to a ground rent of 71. Bs. 6d. per
annum; late the estate of James Black, deceased. For
further particulars refpe&ing the premises, appl* to
Edward James, in Queen Greet, in the di£ri& of
Southwark, or to
MARGARET JAMES, Administratrix.
All persons indebted to said estate are desired to make
immediate pacment, and those who have any demands
against said estate are desired to bring in their accounts,
that they may be fettled.
To be SOLD by Public Vendue,
On Wednesday the fourteenth of April, at the Coffee-
House,
A COMMODIOUS two - Gory brick Mefluage or
Tenement and frame Kitchen, with the Lot of
Ground thereto belonging, situate on the north fide of
George's Alley, commonly called Coates's Alley be
tween S^ffafrafs and Vine-streets, in the citv of Phila
delphia ; containing in breadth east and weft sixteen feet,
and in depth ninety feet, adjoining ground of Hugh
M'Culloch and others : There is a well on the premises
for a necessary, twenty fret deep. The whole clear of
ground-rent. The title indisputable.
Likewise a frame Cooper's Shop, eighteen feet square,
erected on a lot late of John Parrack's, since forfeited
to the State, on the north fide of Saffafrafs- Greet, near
Delaware.
1 A $ ' e ''with the fubferiber, taylor, in
v 7 Water-Greet, betwen Cnefnut and Walnut
ftreets, Philadelphia, a LETTER to Adam Primer,
in which was inclofed a letter to Elizabeth Ccningham,
and some loose papers of great consequence concerning
Hugh Cannon : And as the fubferiber has not been able
to deliver the letter to Elizabeth Coningham, nor the
Icofe papers, he takes this method of informing the
owner of said letters and papers that they may be had
by applying to Adam Primer, in Sixth-street, rear
Market-street, or to JACOB KLINE.
Printer.
To be SOLD by the Subscriber,
In Second-street, five doors above Race-ltreel, Phila
delphia,
A LARGE quantity of Peach and Apple Brandy,
Cyder-Royal, and Rum of a good quality; also a
quantity of Lampblack, Saffron, and Soap by the box,
together with most kinds of Groceries, &c. &c.
DANIEL SUTTER.
WANTS A PLACE,
AYO UNG MAN who can be well recommend
ed, and writes a good hand. Enquire of the
JOHN YOUN G, Junior,
In Market-street, Philadelphia,
AVERY elegant colle&ion of new and London odi
" tion BOOKS, by the most approved authors in
History, Law, Physic and Divinity, consisting of about
nine hundred volumes, among which are a grand edi
tion of Albinus's Tables, two feet wide by two feet four
inches long; Pope's Works, Blackstone's Commentaries,
Wood's Institutes, Burkett on the New Testament,
Cruden's Concordance, Attorneys Pra&ice, Sydney on
Government, Locke on Toleration, Window's Anatomy,
Bradley's Houfewife, Glaffc's Cookery, Robertson's
Hiftoiy of Charles the Fifth, ditto Navigation, ditto
Aftronemy, Hale's Husbandry, Young on Agriculture,
Shaw's Chemistry, Northcote's Anatomy, Rollin's Arts
and Sciences, Entick's HiGory of the War; Bailey's,
Bowyer's, Byche's, Stone's and Fenning's Di&ionaries ;
Smart's Horace, Smith's Formula, Martyn's Virgil,
Latin Testaments, ditto Grammars.
Baltimore, February 22, 1779.
TH E Subscriber proposing, in the course
of a few months, to remove with his family to
France, offers his House and Lot in tewn for sale. The
fortunate situation of this lot, bounded by Gay, Market
and Frederick-streets, and dire&ly opposite the Market
houfe, being fe well known, requires little description,
either for its superior advantages in any public busi
ness, its agreeableness and conveniency, or extensive ca
pacity for improvement. The house may well boast two
of the best stores in Baltimore, either in the retail or
wholesale way, for size or ufefulnefs ; there are apart
ments Sufficiently capable of accommodating the largest
family, and the whole so contrived as to admit of two
or three divisions without injury. Any person wishing
to purchase this estate, may treat with the fubferiber on
the premises, who has three Copper Stills, Coolers and
Mailing-tubs to fell, and Flax-feed. Current Conti
nental money, gold, lilver, or bills of exchange on
France or England, will be taken in payment.
Catalogues of the whole to be had gratis at said store.
Just opened and to be fold by
THOMAS USHER.
B A B R AH A M
Will be kept for Mares the ensuing season, at Jacob
Hiltzheimer's stable, in Seventh Greet, near Mar-
ket Greet, at Forty Dollars a Mare the season, Tivent,
Dollars a single leap, and two Dollars to the groom,
BAB RAHAM is a fine bay, fifteen hands high,
Seven years old, and was got by eld Juniper, im
ported by Colonel Syme, of Virginia ; Babraham's dam
was got by Samuel Galloway, Esquire's horse Selem, his
grandam by the late Colonel Hoper'shorfe Pacolet, hiy
great grandam by old Spark, his great great grandam
was Qneen Mab, and great great great grandam was
MTs Criwell.
The money to be paid at the Mere's firft coming to
the Hrfe. J. HILTZHEIMER.
Philadelphia, March 6. iz.
TO BE SO L D,
For the emissions of the 20th of May 1777, and 11th of
April 1775, or any other ;
SIX THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED and FIFTY
ACRES of LAND, that is to fay, five thousand
cares lying between Kats and Katers kill, on the weft
fide of Hudf®t's-River, in the county of Albany and
Gate of New Yoik, between forty and fifty miles below
the city of Albany, fix to ten ,niles from the landing on
the said river, and in the midst of a full fettled country.
This traft, besides the great advantage of cut drift for
cattle forever in the mountains adjacent, it exceedingly
well watered by Katers-kill, which affords Several falls
of water, on which grist and law mills may be ere&td
at a Small expence; and as the land is well timbered with
oak and pine, great advantages may be made in time of
peace, by transporting the sawed timber and boards to
the city of New-York, upon much easier terms than
from any other landing place up the said river. The 0-
ther Twelve Hundred and Fifty acres are also in the
county of Albany, in the patent of Shenondehewah, a
lias Clifton Park ; from twelve to sixteen miles above
the city of Albany, four to eight miles above the
Cohoes, or Great Falls, fix to ten from the township
of Scheneaady, and in the midst of a delightful, plenti
ful and full fettled country. For terms apply to the sub-.
fcifbee at Beverwyck, near Morris-Town, New-Jersey ;
or to M ffrs Meade and Co. in PbUadelphia.
Beverwyck, Feb. 15. ABRAHAM LOTT.
LA BOU REKS wanted immediately, and
good wages given. Apply to Nicholas Diehl,
or Christopher Graff, on Tinicum Island. 6t.
Best LAMP OI L,
A Small quantity to be SOLD at the Spermaceti
Works in Arch-street, above Sixth-street. 6.
Neiv-Windfer, Buchs County, March to.
TO BE SO L D,
A LIKELY, healthy Negro Man, about thirty-fix,
" years of age, a compleat coachman, farrier and
groom, is master of every branch of cultivation on a
farm, &c. ^c. For terms apply to
THOMAS RICHE.
WANTE D,
AMAN capable of driving a carriage, that is ac
" quainted with the care and management of hotfes.
Such a person who can be well recommended for hones
ty, Sobriety and diligence, may hear of a place by ap
lying to the Printer hereof.
TO BE S O L D,
CT I WO Tenements and three Lots in Southwark,
containing in front one hundred and three feet, and
in depth about two hundred feet. Enquire of Georgs
Campbell, in Walnut-street, Philadelphia.
TO BE SOL D,
ABOUT two thousand five hundred acres of good
land, in the county of Northumberland, situated
on the east branch of Susquehanna, thirteen miles above
the town of Sunbury. The two emissions called out of
circulation will be taken, in payment, The whole will
be fold together or in tra&s of about three hundred
acres. Enquire of the Printer.
Navy Board, Philadelphia, Feb. 28, 1779.
AL L persons having demands against this
Board are desired to bring in their accounts ;
and all those to whom the Board hath advanced money
for public uses, are hereby called upon to render an ac
count of the expenditure (with proper vouchers) with
out delay.
The Honorable Marine Committee of Congress hav
ing ordered this Board to fettle their accounts as Soon as
possible, induces the above notice, to which .it is ex
pelted due attention will be paid, by all concerned.
JOHN WHARTON,!,
4. JAMES READ, fomnuffioners.
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