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THURSDAY,JULY 2,, 177 % %
G E N E R A L ^l^^ ADVERTISER
NEW-CASTLE COUNTY, STATE of
DELAWAR E.
At a Meeting of the COMMITTEE for this Coun
ty, at Christiana-Bridge, on Tuesday the 15th of July,
1779,
Rejoiced,.
HP H AT the following regulated prices fhali take place
the 20th instant, and continue until the next meet
ing of this committee, or otherwise ordered, viz.
Wheat, weighing 6olb. a bushel, at 61. per bushel, and in
proportion for more or less weight.
Superfine Flour per Hundred, - - - £l9 10 0
Common ditto ditto, - - 18 0 0
Middling ditto ditto, - - - 14 0 0
Ship-Stuff ditto, - - 6 0 0
Shorts per double Bushel, - - - 112 0
Bran ditto, - - - 1 4 0
Rye per Bushel, - - - - 410 0
Indian Corn ditto, - - - 4 0 0
Barley ditto, - - - 4 0 0
Oats ditto, - - - 3 0 0
Best Clover or Timothy Hay per Ton, - 50 0 0
and in proportion for other Quality.
Better per Found, - - 012 6
Mutton ditto, - - - 0 6 0
Veal ditto, - - 0 5 0
Bacon ditto, - - - 012 0
Wool ditto, - - - 113 9
Swingled Flax ditto, - - - 017 6
Tow Cloth per Yard, - - 1 10 0
Eight Hundred Flax Linen ditto, - - 2 10 0
and other home-made Linen in proportion.
Best Dintle Soal Leather per Pound, - 1 0 0
Neat's Leather per Side, - - - 710 0
A Calf-Skin that will cut four pair of Shoes, - 7 10 0
Best boot legs per pair, - - - 9 0 0
Harness and saddle leather per pound, - - 1 0 0
Bridle leather per fide, - - - 6 14 0
Boots per pair, from 371. to - - - 40 0 0
Men's best leather Shoes per pair, from 61. 15s. to 7 10 0
Women's shoes per pair, - - - 6 0 0
Best bar iron per ton, - - - 7x6 o 0
Wholesale. Retail.
Weft India Rum per Gallon, - £6 5 Q - £6 17 6
French ditto ditto, - 410 0 - 5 00
Country ditto ditto, - 410 0 - 5 0 0
Peach Brandy ditto, - 410 0 - 5 0 0
Apple ditto ditto, - 4 o o - 410 0
Whiskey ditto, - 115 0 - 2 5 0
Molaffea ditto, - 4 5 0 - 415 0
Mufcovado Sugar, (from 701. to 951. per hundred ; from
17s. 6d. to 225. 6d. per pound.
Coffee per Pound, - 015 0 - 017 6
Bohea Tea ditto, - 400 - 5 0 0
French Indigo ditto, - 215 0 - 3 2 6
Carolina ditto ditto, - 2 00-2 6 0
Black Pepper ditto, - 117 6 - 2 5 0
The Hatters, Black-Smiths, Weavers, Taylors and
other Tradelmen, shall be allowed Sixteen Prices and no
more, agreeable to the advanced price of wheat. La
bourers to receive at the fame rate : And all kinds of
Land and Water Carriage to be in the fame proportion.
Also the Tavern-keepers to be allowed the following
rates, viz. For a Breakfaft or Supper of tea or coffee One
Pound Two Shillings and Six-Pence, for a Dinner One
Pound Two Shillings and Six- Bence, for a Bowl of Punch
Forty Shillings, a Bowl of Toddy Seventeen Shillings and
Six-pence, Good Weft-India Rum Seven Shillings and
Six pence per Gill, Country Rum, Apple or Peach Bran
by Five Shillings per Gill, Oats Three Shillings and Nine
pence per Quart, Hay One Pound Two Shilling and Six
pence per night.
Whereas the buying and felling ofgoods for Hird Mo
ney, in part or whole, has a direct tendency to destroy the
Creditor our Paper Currency: — Refolded, That we will
not diredly or indirectly, buy or fell any kind of mer
chandize or property whatever for Hard Money ; nor on
any account, fail of exposing all such persons as refufe to
receive Paper Money for their goods or rents.
Revived, That all those who shall counteract the de
signs of this Committee, by with-holding their effects, or
any ways endeavour to evade the salutary measures pro
posed by them, shall be deemed as enemies to the country,
and not Suffered to remffln among us any longer.
Refolded, That any person or persons taking flour from
any landing in this county to Philadelphia, shall for such
flour take a permit from force member of this Committee,
as also to said member produce a receipt, that said flour
was fold agreeable to the stipulated prices in Philadelphia,
which permits said member is to report to this Committee
at their next meeting.
Refolded, That Mr Samuel M'Clintock and Mr. An
drew Gibson, for Grubb's Landing.—Capt. Thomas Kean
and Mr. Watkins Crampton, for Wilmington,—C^l. Tho-
N. B The Black-Smiths finding iron and other mate
rials, are to be allowed Twenty Prices; but if employers
find the materials, the Smiths to be allowed Sixteen Prices
for their Work.
[ Price 2S. 6d. single, 2s. by the quantity. Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. ]
mas Duff and Mr. Neh. Delaplain, for Newport,—Doft.
William Patterson and Mr. William M'Clay, for Crifti
ana-Bridge,--Col. Gunning Bedford and Mr. John Read,
for New-Caftle,—Gapt. John Clark and Capt. Isaac
Grantham, for Hamburg,—John Thompson, Esq; and Mr
Oliver Gallop, for Dragon Neck,—Col. Henry Foster and
Mr. Joseph Afpril, for Port- Penn,—Col. Thomas M'De
nagh and Mr. John Golden, for Augustine Landing,—
Mr. Jacob Boldin and Mr. Isaac Moody, for Apoquini
my>—Capt. William Clark and Capt. Abraham Stotts, for
Duck-Creek, be appointed to attend their refpeHive ports,
\ to examine permits and grant certificates to such persons,
as they shall judge proper to be recommended to the Com
mittee of Philadelphia to purchase goods and merchandize.
The Chairman, General Patterson, in this Committee,
propofeth to manufacture wheat into flour as much as his
mills can do, at the rate of Fifteen Pounds per hundred
bushels; and a similar proposal has been made by Mr.
William Clark, at Back Creek Mills.
This Committee to meet at Christiana-Bridge on Satur
day the 14th of August, at ten o'clock.
Signed by order of the Committee,
SAMUEL PATTERSON, Chairman.
To rtie PUBLI C.
A S much has been said of late about regulating prices of
goods, and putting a stop to monopoly, &c. And
sundry rational plans proposed for effecting that defireable
end, have been passed over without notice, I can have little
° r n ° ' 10 P" "'at m y advice will be taken ; but as I do not
cenfider that, a fufficient reason for witholding it, I shall
nevertheless offer it as follows.
Let a book of rates be published, containing an Alpha
betical lift of all articles formerly imported, and of all our
country produce and manufactures ; also the former rates
of mechanics, and labour hire, &c. with the former price
set to each article, and piece of work of every quality, as
near as possible. Cause large numbers of this book to be
printed and fold to the people—they'll fly as faft through
town and country as almanacks in December.
Let a Committee of merchants be appointed by the
Council or Assembly of each State, to value the rifque
as near as can be, to, and from all the ports to which we
trade to be allowed to the importers, together with a gene
rous profit at so much per cent. To continue for such
time as may be thought best; and let them also fix and'
publish the felling price for such time; at 10, 15, 20, or
30 for iof the old price that stands in the book. If they
fix 20 for 1, then shall all things go at the fame advance,
with this difference only, that the merchant may charge
the rifque and profit aforefaid at the foot of his bill to the
Ihop-keeper, or other dealer, who shall be allowed to
charge to much more in the (hilling, or pound, on all fo
reign goods, as that shall amount to, and shall keep his
book of rates always on his counter, to compare with his
invoice, when his word is doubted by the buyer.
Would Congress recommend this, or a similar plan, and
all the States concur in the measure, I would flake my life
and fortune, such as it is, on its success; and could easily
obviate all the seeming difficulties that might arise in the
execution.
A FARMER.
J#4 26, 1779.
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State of Neiu Jersey, ff.
TO ALL whom it may concern.
XJOI ICE is hereby given, That a Court of Admiralty
will be held at the house of Gilbert Bartow, in
Alien-Town, on Thursday the twelfth day of August
next, at Ten o'clock in the forenoon of the fame day,
then and there to try the truth of the fads alledged in
the bills of David Stevens, John Field, Abraham Davis
and Robert Snell, (who as well, &c.) against the (loop
or vessel called the Clinton, lately commanded by James
Parke; of Samuel Ingersoll, David Stevens and John
Rield, (who as well, &c.) against the schooner or veflel
called the True Blue; and of Samuel Ingersoll, (who
as well, &c.) against the (loop or vessel called the Fa
vorite, lately commanded by William Gafkim, with their
refpe&ive tackle, apparel, furniture and cargoes: To
t^e end and intent that the owner or owners of the
said vessels, or any person or persons concerned therein,
may appear and mew cause, if any they have, why the
said vessels and cargoes mould not be condemned accord
ing to the prayer of the said bills.
Ry order of the Judge,
July 20. JOSEPH BLOOMFIELD, Reg.
Philadelphia, July 12.
ALL those who are indebted, by book-debt
or otherwise, to the store in Market-street, on
the north fide, opposite the Meal-market, kept for the
fubfciiber by JOHN BAKER, deceased, are de
sired to come immediately and fettle their accompts with
me, to prevent further trouble and expences.
ADAM ZANT^INGER.
' Philadelphia, Juty i§.
THE Proprietors of IN 1)1AN A are to
A meet by adjournment at the Indian Queen Ta~
Vern in Philadelphia, on Monday the second of August
next, at Five o'clock P. M. The fine for non-attend
ance in person or by Attorney 501.
DAVID FRANKS, President.
BY virtue of a warrant under the hands of Richard
Sewell and Francis Gurney, Enquires, two of the
Commissioners for the county of Philadelphia, and the
seal o ; said county, and a subsequent order for file un
der said Commissioners hands and county seal aforefird,
to me directed, will be fold by Public Vendue, at the
house of Benjamin Cotman, of Oxford township, Phila
delphia county, on Monday the fecend day of August
next, at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon, sundry House
hold Furniture, Implements of Husbandry, &c. seized
arid taken in execution as the property of said Benjamin
Cotman, by JAMES CLAYPOOLE, Sheriff.
Philadelphia, July 24.
To be SOLD by Public Vendue,
On Monday the second day of August next, on the
premises,
HAT valuable tra& of Land known by the name
' of Doctor Eckstine's, situated in Bristol town
ship, fix miles from the city, one from Germantown,
and within a quarter of a mile of two grist mills, con
taining twenty - five acres, eight of which are well tim
bered, eight acres of watered meadow equal to any in
he State, the remainder good tillable land, and chiefly
planted with a variety of the bast kind of fruit trees.
There are also upon the premises three dwelling-houses,
two of which are of done, a barn, stable, &a. &c. It's
pleasant situation, and distance frem the city, affords an
agreeable retreat for a gentleman during the summer
season. The vendue to begin at Two o'clock, and con
ditions made known at the time of sale by
THOMAS MASON.
To be SCLD by Public Vendue,
On Tuesday the tenth of August, at Nine o'clock in the
morning, at (he dwelling-hcufe of the fubicribers, in
the»townShip of Morris River, Cumberland county,
FORTY head of.CATTLE, among which are
oxen, cows and calves, steers and heiffers; also
two horfe#, some Sheep, and sundry houfhold goods and
farming utensils.
As the subscribers intend to move out of the State,
the Public may depend on the above to be Struck off to
the highest bidder, and the conditions of the vendue
are cash only.
July x 5. JACOB and PETER PETERSON.
In U N C I L. "
Philadelphia, April 22, 1779.
WHEREAS the Honorable House of General
Assembly on the thirty-firft day of August last,
Resolved, " That it be recommended to the Supreme
Executive Council to appoint Auditors to hear and de
termine the claims of Jehu Eyre, and such other persons
as have had timber and plank taken from them by the
enemy, and employed in building the redoubts and
bridge near this city." And the said Jehu Eyre now
applying to have the said Resolve carried into execution,
Ordered, That William Ball, Esquire, William Moore,
Esquire, and Mr. John Purviance, be a Committee for
the purpose aforefaid ; and that they be dire&ed to give
public notice of the time and place of their meeting,
and report to the General Assembly at their next fitting.
Extras from the Minutes,
T. MATLACK, Secretary.
NOTICE is hereby given, That attendance will be
given according to the above order, on Monday the
second day of August, 177 g, from Nine to Twelve
o'clock in the morning, at the Court-house in the city
of Philadelphia. All those who may be in the said de
scription are desired to attend with their accompts and
vouchers. WILLIAM BALL,
WILLIAM MOORE,
JOHN PURVIANCE.
T O BE S OL D,'
TW 0 large adjoining trads of unimproved Land,
known by the name of Dimfdale's Lands ; situate
at Tulpahocken, near Little Egg-harbour river ; part
of which is choice oak land, and part large pine for the
saw-mills, of which there are Several very handy. A
saw-mill may be built on the premises at a very Small
expence to float boards from the mill tail toEgg-harbour,
without the expence of land carriage. One of these
trafts is called in the old Survey 390 acres ; the other
471 acres, but are supposed to contain a very confidera.
ble overplus. For terms apply to
„. RICHARD S. SMITH,
spring- Hill, at Moore's To%vn,
NewJerfej, July 13.