The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1779-07-17 00:00:00, page 1

ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from 'he fubt< r ib»r re?rLmcafter,
on tie 23.1 of June but, a Negro Weach n med
G R AC E, anout twenty fix years of age, bag left her
fore teeth, has several remarkable fears on one or both
of her elbows, as if occasioned by burning or Raiding,
speaks plain E.^liih, ano can tell more ftsries than nA
ceffary. She was b^rn with Mr ViLntine Dufy', in
George Town, was a ervant to Mr. Huston near Mid
dletown in NewcaftL county, likevrh'for sometime with
Mr. Downing in Queens Town, Q^een Anns county,
aifo with Mrs. Potter, who br^ughth?r to Cb/fter corin',
ty and fold her to Mr. Jones, nar Fags Manor Meet
ing-house, and it is tho i ght she has made her way for
one of hefe places. Whoever takes up laid Wench and
delivers her to the owner ne r Lancaftr, (had have the
above rewar ! , or if fecued ; n any gaol, FIFTY DOL
LARS, besides reasonable charges.
SEBASTIAN GRAFF,
r 0 B E rO LD,
IftLIKELY young and hand” NEGRO MAN,
eighteen years old, talks both French and English'.
Enquirers the Printer.
r 0 BE S O D,'
A NEGRO WENCH, about twenty five years of
are, can cook and do all kinds of house-work.
Enquire of the Printer.
The HIGHEST PRICE
IS GIVEN FOR
CLEAN LINEN RAGS,
' BY
JOHN D UNL A P.
To be SOLD by Public Vendue,
At Capt. Kendal Co'e's in Gloucester County, three
miles above Haddonfield, on Monday the 26th inst.
at Twelve o'clock,
A DROVE of CATTLE, confining of ox?n,
steers, bulls, dry cows, cows and calves, and florae
young cattle, with several horses. July 14.
To be SC L D by Public Vendue,
On Tueiday the tenth of August, at Nine o'clock in the
morning, at the d „elling-hcule of the fubfcribets, in
the township of Morris Riv^r, Cumberland county,
FORTY head of C ATTLE, among which are
oxen, cows and calves, steers and heiffirs; aifo
two horfet, some iheep, and sundry Loufhold goods and
farming utenfirt.
As the subscribers intend to move out of the State,
the Public may ;tpend an the above to be ftru k <ff to
the highest bidder, and the conditions of the vendue
are calh only.
Jul 15 JACOB and PETER PE TERSON.
State of New Jsrfey, ff.
T () A LL whom it may concern.
XTO ; ICE i# hereby given, Th?; a Court of A^vi: dry
will be held at the home of Gilbert Bartow, ta
vern keeper, in Alien,Tawu, in the (aid State, or . the
twelfth day o' Augtift n; xt, 4 T n o'clock in the fore
noon of rhe fame day, thh and there to try the truth
of the faffs alledged in the ''di of George Graces, (who
as well, &c.) against Lu (now Friendship. .hefc.takle,
apparel, furniture and cargo : To the end and intent
that the owner cr owners or any perlon concerned
therein, may appear and shew caue, if any they have,
why the fame should nor be goniemned according to the
prayer of the fan' bill.
fy order of the fudge.
July 14. Joseph Bloomfield, Reg.
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.
Si RAYED AWAY on the 20th of June sass,
from the 111>fc iber, I ving with John Betz, in Fal
comai Swamp, Philadelphia coun y, on tue great road
nea the 34. mile done, two HORSES; orca grey,
abou' fill cn hands high, nine or ten years < Id, well
made, trots, paces and centers, his legs and buttocks
rather blacker than the foots on his boy, his near eye
was fore when he w at awry and it run considerably, he
is remarkably well turned behind § the other a brown,
about ouitetn hands high, strong built, Even or eight
eigb years old, bis hind feet white, a biaz- in bis face,
branded on .the near Moulder and near buttock R. a
sh CT oufhy mane which hangs on each fide, has a white
speck in his off eye, p#cfs and canters well, and trots
but feldrm. They are both (hod all round. Whoever
secures aid horses so that the owner may get th m again,
shall be entitled to the above reward and all reasonable
ch.lges, paid hy JOHN HELLINGS.
SATURDAY,
J U L 1 17, „ 7 „
THE
OR ' THE
GENERAL ^^^^*^^ ADVERTISE R
[ Price 2S. 6d. single, 2s. by the quantity.
1"' H E Surgeons and Surgeons Mates of the
Army of the Middle Department, who are ab
sent, are dtfired immediately to repair to their re^edive
Regiments. JOHN CQ HRAN. Surgeon Gen
to the Army M. Department.
Smith's Clone, Jul, 2.
SALE of forfeited Efai>s.
Q N the tenth dcy of Augult nix', at E^ver(o'cl< ck
in the forenoon, will be exposed to public sale at the
Court h ue in the city of Philadelphia, a certain let < f
groun 'fruate on the north fide of Mulleny-ftreet, be
tween Front and Secord-ffreets, in the said city, con
taining in breadth on Lie Mulbeiiy-fhee! .boot triemv
four feet eight inches, and tx< ndirg in depth about
one I undred and eighty-four feet, mere ting 01 fidera
bly in breadth on each tide near the b^ k md, with the
privilege of a twelve fee; alley extending from the hack
end of fa ; d lot into Front street; bourd.d taft^aid by
ground of John Gillingham and ethers,' writward by
ground of Thoma Maier, Jtcob Cooper, M cQI-Hif.
Ir/a, Samuel Mi rs and others, northw^b by ground
late of Edward Brocks, ard 'cu fn,,d b # Mn'b,rrv
ftreet afoielaid; on which laid lot are eroded ai-G
and elegant three fl? ry brick meffuape, kitchen, fbbtes,
coach route, &c, and a pump in the yard; formerly
the ettate of Samuel Shoemaker, late of the Lid city,
Esq; forfeited and te % z.d in due rourte of lew, nd to be
fold by CHARLES W PFALE )
WILLIAM WILL, ' , Averts.
ROBERT SMITH, J "
A: the time and place afo^faid w 11 Ifo b- exposed
to public tale, a certain three-0 r y brick meffi>a,e
kitchen and lot of ground, fi uate on the fouth-^Hkrly
corner of Walnut and Front street, in the said c % t\ of
Phihde'phi , the let containing in breadth on Front-
Oreet about nineteen feet, and extending in d^tb on
Walnut street abcur eighty feet, be hr fame in b're dth
or depth more or leb; bounded sou hward by a meffu
age and let of Patrick Byrne, wefward by an alley ex
tending from Walnut-street fouth^rd, northward by
Walnut ftteet, and eastward b; Front.ftreet; formerly
the estate of Dayid Sproat, late of the laid city, mer
chant; forfeited and seized in due course of law, and
to be fold ty CHARLES W. PEALE,)
WILLIAM WILL, f Agents.
ROBERT SMITH, J °
Philadelphia, July 6.
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.
DESERTE D from the eleventh Pennsylvania
regiment, lying at Sunbury, about the twenty
firlt of June last, two Soldiers, viz DA N. GRIMES
an Irishman, aneut five fert eigh inches high, pitted
with the small pox. The other named RIC HARD
MOO RE, an Irishman, about five feet nine inches
high, well made, ?nd pitted with the fm 11 pox. It is
thought they are skulking about Philadelphia, and in
tend going on boa d dome outward bound armed v<ffe!s.
It is expc&ed no Captains of vessels will harbour or take
them on board. Whoever secures Lid deserters shall
receive the above reward apd reasonable charges.
GEORGE BUSH, Capt. eleventh P. R.
^^^^d^ &^d^^^^:±~^^
The Remainder of the LETTERS and CERTIFI
CATES referred^ in DOCTOR MORGAN's
Vindication.
(Concluded from our lafl.)
CERTIFICATES given by the gentlemen who
afted as Surgeons in the General Hospital, under the
direaion of Doaor Morgan, from his firfl taking the
cl arge of the General Hospital to the time of his difmif.
fion.
DOCTOR WARRE N, now Superintendant
of the Hospitals at Boston, declares as follows :
'That having been employed as Surgeon in the General
' Hospital at Cambridge, and had the management and
' fuperintendancy of the Hospitals at Long Island and
' Hackinfack under the direaion of D r . John Morgan, he
' was ever attentive to every call I made upon Lm' for
' the Applies of the Hospital, for procuring comfortable
accommoduion suitable provision, necessaries and re
' freffiments for the sick ; that he visited the Hospitals in
' person consulted readily, and gave every assistance
"called for, as ocafio'n required, and efpeciallyin per
' forming chirurgical operations, and that the sick were
' well taken care of, as well at Long- Tfland as at Cambridge.
And I do further certify, that beinc appointed to car
‘ ry into execution Dr. Morgan's plan for eftablilhieg a
' General Hofpit lat Hackinfack, in OAober, r, 7 6. Dr.
')l< para prerent and assisted, as well as directed in
r°n" e "" ''" days that within a few days from
,f. 'e'^ng about to establish an Hospital there, the
lick, including the wounded, brought to that place, a-
Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. ]
6 mounted to upwards of a thonfand, and increased dib,
? a,terwards ; that I was a witness to the conflate appiica
vtion and attrition of the fid Dr. Morg n, in the dis
• charge of his duty, in which his care, diligence and'affi
dusty were fufficieudy evident, that he then left the care
and management of the sick to me the fubferiber with
P rc 'Psr jnftruaions, in order to hafleu over himfelf t®
tee Whue-Flams, to be prefect at an important engage
.(L'^expeaed be ween the two armies of General
Vvafhin; ten and General Howe'; .that so far as I ever
bad opportunities and abi ity to judge, no fuf^rinrs of
trie Ihk were to be afenbed to any want vs are or atten
tion in the Diceßor General, Dr. Morgan, or to any
crtumltances that were in his power to r<m^dy. And
7 "' tumble opinion, that.no person whatever,
acting in the Ration of Dir^or General, under the fame
c "^^f^^^, could peffi !y have given universal fatis-
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed
my name at Buffon, this 231 day of April, 1? 7.
'JOHN WARREN'
SAMUEL ADAM S, Esqui CT S.ni r Sur
geon of the Gene, d HUpital at Danbury, November ,
1778, t<fnfcs in [b manner to the con ^a of Dr John
Morgan, ! drfflor General, aed m< re especially adds,
luat he the said Dr Morgan was ever attentive in
' procuring accommodationsard refreshments for the sick,
''° '' in ^ the Hospitals, intonDliin with, and giving
assistance to the Surgeons of the H dpital and in p^
' form ng capital operations , and not only so, but in ron
' defeerwur todo the duties ofa mere Mate, by Hrifling
the most simple s well as dangerous wounds; that af-'
' '™" e 01 Long - Ifhnd, Dr. Morgan examined and
‘ dressed every wounded patient in the General Hosp tal
' < at t '„:^°''9 "''" h 's °" n " al " ' tfiat apthdbattle of
' the v.The Pkhns he rpaired with a ! lhh D'-fobO ,rc.
' cers ami Mates to the lines, and remained there by the
e General's orders, till the enemy quitted tl e field ; that
' (if Dr. Morgan did not; in his^pin on, no person, a&-
c iim as Dirtftor G neral, un Jer t! e fame circumft rices
( could have given universal LtM a ain' ''
' SAMUFI ADAMS, fond
CHARLES MiKNIOHd, Esquire, nor Sur eon
General of the army, tefiirfrs to the Yame, and h s finned
the General Certificate alnady riven at length, and having,
confirmed the particulars in Dr. W rrenl nd Dr. Ter . r's
certificates, he declar s in his letter of May 30, 1-77 Fly
mg Hospital, Head. Quarters
' That the prejudices whi h had arisen to ' r . Met an
' from exercising the dut es of his department, fa ! o^
6 ther foundation than the cruel, rascally afoerfi ns, so
' carefully propogated by some of his m ^ df er; ,^ ire
' tenaed friends.
'CHARLES McKNiGHT?
Dr. PHILIP TURNER, now Sur.Ge
neral of the army, who had the management of the Hos
pital at Stamford, under Dr. Morgan's immediate direc
tion, teftifies,
q 'Stamford, February 10 1777.
That he has been an ey@ ^itnefs of the conflant and
unwearied attention wni<h Dr. Morgan had shewn, in
the Ration of ireftor General, in 'he difehar eof that
important trust, and has lad re son to entertain a very
high opinion of his skill, abilities and assiduity in the
conduct of such an extensive department, under all the
' complicated difficulties :t laboured under from the de
fective establishment by authority f. r taking care of the
sick, ah opposition, on that account, from Regimental
Surgeons, repeated movements of the army, rapid chang
' es of the situation of the Hospitals, the irregularity and
number of the sick and wounded, suddenly crouded into
' the Hospitals, on pressing emergencies, and the dole T
‘ finance that could be obtained, at times, from deficien
cies in the Qnrter- Master's department, unavoidable in
' a new army, in the infancy offervice and in such an ac
' tiye campaign ; that the orders and inftruflions which
c he the said Philip Turner had received from him or tak
' ing care ofthe sick, were clear and difima ; and that
<regulating himfelf thereby, he'had the firisfadion to
' declare, that although from November 5, 1776, they a
' mounted to between twelve and thirteen hundreds, tney
' were reduced by February 10 1777, to twenty five, most
' of them being discharged, well and fit for duty , so that
' if the sick fuffered in any infiances, it was from causes
' unavoidable, and not in his power to remedy.
'PHILIP TURNER?
DOCTOR WILLIAM EUSTIS Surgeon in
the General Hospital, (east of Hudson's river) certifying
such particulars, as came under his immediate notice, as
Surgeon, touching the conduct and management of Dr.
Morgan, Director General of the Hospitals, in hiscertiff
cates d Ted at Norwalk, February j 3 th, and Profptd Hill,
May tctb, 177 , teflihes,
'That Dr. Morgan has ever appeared to him to have
' been industrious to have the business ofthe Hospital con
< eluded with regularity; to have the patients provided
' with the best quarters, accommodations, so d and me
'dicines, which their situation would allow of an : he could
' any ways procure; that he has been ready, at all times,
( For the remainder fee the Fourth Pa^e.,