The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1779-04-03 00:00:00, page 4

JOSEPH SIMS AND SONS,
Have for SALE at their store in Water-street, below
the Drawbridge, Philadelphia,
MUSCOVADO Sugars of different qualities, in
hogsheads and barrels ; a few tierces and barrels
of excellent green Coffee ; B ?hea Tea, &c.
N. B. A likely brown Horse, fix years old, fit for the
carriage or saddle, to be fold. Enquire at said store.
/1 AME to the plantation of the fubferiber,
in Ridley townfllip, Chester county, on the third
of November last, an old grey stone Horie, about thir
teen hands high, shod all round, branded on the cff
ffioulder O, marked on the backside of the off ear with
a half-penny, and lame in the gambril joint. The own
er is desired to come, prove his property, pay changes
and take him away. ELISHA WORRALL.
te ' '"'" "'" '"'" °'"' Orphan's Court ter HU
c 'ty ° n d county of Philadelphia, will be exposed
to tale at the Cpffee-houfe, at Six o'clock this even
ing, a certain lot or piece of Ground, situated on the
east file of Third street, a little above Spruce street,
containing in breadth nineteen feet ten inches, and in
depth ode hundred and eighty fret, extending to a new
street called Laurel street, with a two-itory 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-street, and
two wooden tenements in the center of the said lot :
The whole ful,ft to a ground rent cf ,1. B<. 6 '. per
annum ; late the estate of James Black, deceased. For
further particulars refpe&ing the premises, appb to
Edward James, in Queen street, in the difaia cf
Southwark, or to
MARGARET JAMES, Administratrix.
rpWO Plantations in Eafton township, Chester esun-
I ty, about sixteen miles from this city, one contain
ing one hundred, the other sixty eight acres. Good
farmers are wanted for tenants. For terms apply to
Charles Thomson, in Market- street, or Jonathan
Mifflin, jun. in Second-street, below Walnut-street.
MILL S AWS
TO BE SOLD BY
JOSEPH R I G B Y,
In Third-street, near the corner of Market-street,
Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, March 26.
T O BE L E T,
On Leases for five years, and may be entered on imme
diately,
Newcafle County, March 29.
To be SOLD by Public Vendue,
On Friday the ninth day of April, at Mr. H^ndrickfor/s
Tavern, in Christiana Hundred, in hid county,
Philadelphia, March 29
BY virtue of a writ of Venditioni Exponas to
me directed, Public Notice is hereby given, That
on Saturday the seventeenth day of April, at Eleven
o'clock in the forenoon, at the house of Dietrick Mat
thias, in Putts Grove, will be exposed to tale by Public
Vendee, a certain Plantation or Tr& ol Land, contain
ing one hundred and thirty-two acres, more or lets, on
which are a large stone dwelling-house, commodious
barn, and other out-houses, a very good orchard, about
fourteen acres of fine meadow, &c. lying and being in
Faulkner's Swamp, in New Hanover township, joining
lands of John Slonaker, deceased, George Streu s, Pe
ter Lough, and Thomas Trafs, deceased; fe ; z-d and
taken in execution as the estate of George Adam Ston.--
ker, at the suit of Jacob Leichtel, by
JAMES CLAYPOOLE, Sheriff.
LA BOURERS wanted immediately, and
good wages given. Apply to Nicholas Diehl,
or Christopher Graff, on Tinicum Island. 6t.
Philadelphia, April 1.
IN consequence of an order of the Orphans
Court of Philadelphia County, of Tuesday the 30th
ult. will be exposed to Public Sale, on Saturday the
tenth day of April instant, at Nine o'clock in the fore
noon of fame day, on the premises, a certain two-story
brick Mtffuage or Tenement and Kitchen, and Lot or
Piece of Ground, situated on the south fide of Union
ftreet, between Second and' Third-ftreet#, in this city;
late the estate of Capt. Edward Bingley, deceased.
All perlons indebted to the said estate are hereby re
quested to difeharge the fame ; and such as have any de
mands against the said Edward Bingley in his life time,
are also desired to bring in their accounts, properly at
tested, to the fubferiber.
JOSEPH CARSON, Administrator.
All persons indebted to said estate are de fired to make
immediate moment; and those who have any demands
against faideftat^ are desired to bring in them accounts,
that t^ey may be fettled.
April 3 .
,1 VALUABLE Plantation, situate in said hun-
Zl 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 said 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, fituste on Christiana Creek, near the town
of Newport afcr^laid : The above were advertised for
sale formerly, but the day proving bad. the sales were
put off till the above dar, when they will be fold as the
late estate of Christopher Wilson, of laid county, being
confifeated for the tile of the Delaware State, ad to be
fold by WILLIAM M'CLAY, Commissioner
for Newcastle County.
PHILADELPHIA: Printed and Sold by JOHN DUNL AP, in Market-street
Sunbury, N rthumber'and County, March 4.
IP™ ' committed to my cuflod, the zgd of October left, ora
fufyicion of defining to go to the enemy, or being run
awa, slaves, two Negro Men; one named James Hays,
fays be drone a team in the Continental fernice for William
Stull, li^ng at the Head of Elk; the other named Richard
Pierpoint, fays be also drone a team in the Continental
service for Henry Stud, of the fame place. James Hays is
a lihly intelligent fellow, about five feet ten inches high,
twenty three ,ears of age, or thereabouts, is sober and man
nerly. Richard Pierpoint is about twenty-fix,ears of age,
about five feet three or four inches high, has large eyes and
thick lips, seems fend offrong liquor, but is ver, civil and
bidable. The above described Negroes fa, that they, with
their waggons, were taken by the enemy nt Rhode Island,
and carried to between White Plains and New-lork, from
whence the, made their escape, and on their return miffed
their road, and wandered about until the, flruck on the
N. E. branch of the river Sufauebanna, above Shamokin,
where the, were taken up. The, both fa, the, are free,
and were difeharged by Proclamation at the last Court of
General Quarter Sessions of the Peace held for the couuty
aforefaid, on the 23d of February lafl, from the impeachment
of their intentions of going to the enemy, no witnesses appear
ing againfi them ; the, are therefore now confined on no other
accusation than a suspicion of being run-awa, Jla ves. Their
maser or maflers, if an, the, have, are desired to come,
prove their property, pa, charges and take them away ir.
fix weeks from the date hereof, otherwise the, will be fold
out for their fees, b,
GEORGE KEISER, Gaoler.
WHEREAS sundry trails of unseated
lands have been duly rated and valued by the
Assessors of said county, and the owners have neglc&ed
to pay the ttxes thereof : This is therefore to give no
tice, that unless the said owners co pay or cause to he
paid unto John Agnew, Elq; cf the town of Cailifl ,
the sums due on their unseated land's, before the firft
day of May next, they may exp ft to be dealt with as
the law dire&s. JOHN M'CLURE,] n
JOHN CARTON, ]Com mi ffioners.
Carlifle, March s, 1779.
NO TICE is hereby given to all persons that have
any demands on the estate of Aaron Depui, Esq;
deceased, re reqmftd to bring in their accompts be
fore the fi ft day of August next, that they may be ad
justed : Likewise all. persons indebted to said estate are
defined to make speedy payment to
JEMIMA DEPUT, Administratrix.
Lower Smithfield townfof, Northampton
count,, Pennsylvania, Feb. 18, 1779.
AMBASSADOR,
COVERS MARES this seas n at the fubferiber's
liable at the Bridge across the Middle. Ferry on
Schuylk 11, at Fifty Dollars the season, er Twenty-
Five Dollars the tingle k.p, and One Dollar to
the groom, the money to be paid at the fi ft time ot co
vering. He is a fine bay, rising four years old, fifteen
hands three inches high, has a beautiful ttar and inip,
black mane, tail and legs, is remarkably lengthy, bony
and strong made, and is allowed by good judges that
have seen him to be thebeft horse ever bred in this State.
Those who incline to fend their mares to this ho fe, are
desired to enter their names, and the number they pro
pole fending, as he will be limited to fifty mares; when
that number is fubferibed for, no mere will be taken.
Ambassador was got by the noted horse Lofty, im
ported from Great-Britain in the year 1773, his dam by
Northumberland, out of a three quarter blooded mare#
JOSEPH OGDEN.
TH E Members of the Philadelphia Con
tributionfbip for the Insurance of Houses from
loss by fire, are to meet at the Court-house on Monday
the twelfth day of April next, between the hours of Two
and Five in the afternoon, in order to choose twelve
Directors and a Treasurer for the ensuing year, and to
confid^r of and determine feVeraJ matters relative to the
institution, which will then be l&id brfoe them.
B, order op the Directors,
Marches, 177,, CALEB CARMALT, Clerk.
Has for SALE, at his stores upon the third wharf
below the Drawbridge,
BA RLEY for horse feed, wheat by the bufliel or
quantity, old Jamaica fpirts, W<ft India and Con
tinental rum, Madeira wine, coffee, pepper, tea, su
gar, indigo, allum, coarse and French felt, best Virgi
nia and Maryland tobacco by the hegfhead or quantity,
also powder and foot.
Philadelphia, March 4..
LEVI HOLLINGSWORTH
Cumberland Count,, ff.
p.^^ : \l
Middle Ferry on Schuylkill, March !,, 177^
The ELEGANT HORSE
T O BE SO L D,
BILL of EXCHANGE on Charleftown,
South-Carolina, for Fourteen Hundred Dollars.—
Enquire of the Printer.
Springfields Burlington County, March to,
SIXTEEN DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY on First day evening, the seventh
instant, a servant lad named RICHARD HOGG,
about sixteen or seventeen years of age, an Englishman
born, and is wanting to get to the English army : He
had on and took with him a light coloured upper jacket,
and breeches of the fame, a striped lincey under waiff
cort, and a woollen shirt; he took with him neither hat
n@r shoes, but may have got them since Whoever takes
up said lad and will bring him to his master, or confine
him in any gaol and give notice thereof, ffiall receive
the above reward, and reasonable charges, paid by
ARNEY LIPPINCOTT.
T O BE S O L D,
A CORNER LO I", eighty feetfrontin A ch street,
and one hundred in Seventh street: On toe lot are
a two story brick and a (mail done buildings, with a
cellar under each, and a pump before the door. En
qui e of PHILIP HALL,' in Race street.
N. B. Continental money out of circulation vrill be
taken in payment.
FORTY DOLLARS REWARD
W 1 L L be paid by the fubferiber for apprehending
and securing in any gaol, (s o that he may be
brought to justice) a certain WILLIAM GRAY,
who made his escape from the neighbourhood cf E k in
the night of the 6th instant. Hr is an ill-looking fellow
with remarkable red hair, about five feet three or four
inches high, a talkative insolent fellow, fond of liquor,
and frequently boasts of his honifty, (though a villain)
he is a great finger, appears to be about twenty-five years
°' a g e > and is by trade a wool-comber.He is a native of
England, and (peaks in the weft country dialed ; fays
he is a deserter from the British army, arid for feme time
after his desertion resided at or near Chad's Ford, in
Chester county : He was in the employ of Mr. Zebulon
Holiingfworth, at Head of Elk Landing, a few weeks
last fall, fr@m which place he has made a pradice of
fleeing public stores, and (by help of his accomplices)
carrying them about four or five miles hence into Upper
or North Milford hundred, and there making sale of
them among the inhabitants. He was seen on Sunday
the 7th instant on the road leading from Newark to Phi
ladelphia. JAMES DARAH,
Head of Elk, March 10. A. C. of Issues.
THIRTY DOLLARS, as an additional reward,
full be paid for apprehending the above described thief
by ZEBULON HOLLINGSWORTH."'
Lafon, March io
A L L persons indebted to re efta*e of Lewis
Gordon, Esq; late of Eafton, in Northampton
county, deceased, either by bond, note or book-debt,
are r<quefted to make speedy payment to the fubferibers:
And all those who have any demands against laid estate
are desired to bring in their accounts, properly attested
for payment. ~GEORGE PALMER',],
JOHN GORDEN, jExeewors.
ROB ER T COC KS,
Has removed from Market street to the east fide of Se
cond street, the third door below the corner of Arch
ftreet, Philadelphia, where may he had,
EST old Spur, Weft.lndia Rum, Muscovado
P Sugars in hogsheads and barrels, Madeira Wine,
Gn in cases, good Cheshire and Glouccfter Cheese, and
a few Tamarinds.
JAMES CLARK continues to dye, as formerly,
fiiks, cloths, linen, cotton, woollen yarn and worked,
blue, green, red, &c, fuftians and jeans dyed various
colours, and dressed; fkaine silk dyed and dressed as at
London; mens cloaths cleaned ; stains taken out of fear
let cloth and cloaths, and the colour brightened.
Work received and delivered at his dwelling-house in
Second-street, between Chefnut and Market streets, and
at my dye-house in Water street, betwixt Walnut and
Chefnut-ftreets, Philadelphia.
Fbiladelpbia, March 8,
TO BE S 0 L D,
CARLISLE IRON-WORKS, situate in the
townships of East and Weft-Penrfborough, in Cum
berland county, Pennsylvania, about five miles from,
the county town Carlifle : They consist el a furnace, a
forge with five fires and two hammers, and the usual
dwelling and out-houses. The furnace and forge are
within two hundred yards of each other, and enjoy the
peculiar advantage of being wrought by the largest
springs in thi<, or perhaps any other State in America,
well known by the name of The Boiling Springs. The
water rises within a quarter cf a mile of the works, is
rmply (efficient for the works already ere&d, and even
fer additional, and is never afliaed with droughts,
frofts or frefhes ; feme of the ore banks are within a
mile, others more distant, and on trial have been found
of various qualities, well suited both for codings and
bar iron, and ccnimodioufly situated for coaling. There
is on the premises, now offered for sale, a good planta
tion of excellent lime stone land, containing five or fix
hundred acres, situated about three miles from the
works, besides Several smaller at various difcnces^ Ad
ditional natural advantages, more conspicuous to the
accurate view of a judicious observer than descriptive
in an advertisement, are referred to actual infpe&ior.
Any persons inclining to purchase may know the terms
of tale and other particulars by applying to General
Armstrong, at Carlifle, and in his absence to Wil
liam Lyon, Esq; there; or to Amos Strettell,
Samuel Morris, Joseph Morris, or John Morris,
Junior, in Philadelphia.
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