The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1780-11-25 00:00:00, page 3

Philadelphia, Nov." 2,
Oil Thursday last a number of persons, lone fwpe^ed
of c^rry ng on an illicit and dangerous co:tfpondencc
with th# enemy, (by way of Shrew^ury,) and depre
ciating our money, wre apprehended. On their ex
amination before the President and V ice President, in
voices of goods brought from New-York, to a great a
mount, accounts of the I fales of gold and silver, rat^of
depreciation, the routes and Rapes to the sea fhore§ &c.
&were found uponthun. I: appeared aho, that by
tbefe means, persons were conveyed privately to New-
York. A n>w feene of villainy, in carrying lumber to
New York, ficin Egg Harbour and its neighbourhood,
wag alio opened. The following ptr'ons were com
nitted, viz. Patrick Garvy, an affiltant apothecary in
th* continental f-rvire, who owns a part of the boat em
ployed between Squan and New-York; Samuel Clark,
;:11 inhabitant of New.Jerfey, living near Prin. etown;
who hasl.org followed this trade; Jdhui Bunting whose
boule was one of the stages; John Cummins; merchant
of this city, and Joseph Griefwtld, partners w ? th Clark;
ahi J feph Sia^fbuiy, deeply concerned in the lumber
bhiiurfg.
William Bradford, junior, efqu're, is appointed At
torney General of this ftste, in the room of Jonathan
Di kenfon Sergeant, enquire, reigned.
Wednesday morning arrived here the fchooncr Buck
fcn, captain Perry man, from the Havarri^, after a te
dious and difagreeabe paffageof five weeks, havingJn
a violent gale of wind, been obliged to cut away his
main mast. Six drips of the line, four frigates, and
one hundred transports, failed on a secret expedition
from the Havanra a few days before captain Perryman.
Thursday last : ribed the fchconer Lively, captain
Correy, in 17 days from St. Euftatia, by whom we are
advised, that about the middle of I,ft month a dreadful
hurricane bad done very confiderabh damage among the
Weff-lndia Islands: that seven v;ff,ls were loft ^t St,
Euftatia : that most of the ot! er islands had also fuffir
cd much. We have not been able to procure further
particulars of this calamitous and diftr< fling event.——
Two schooners from Maryland or Virginia, and a (loop,
were lately taken by a British frigate and carried into
Antigua.
Lately died in England, at an advanced age, JONAH
THOMPSON, an eminent preacher among the people
called Quakers.
Extract of a letter from SJifbury, Rowan county,
North-Carolina, dated October 24, 1789, to a gen
tleman in this city.
" Thank God the enemy are gone from this part of
th# country, and our militia a e in full pUrfuit of them ;
1 make no doubt they will be able to distress them very
much in their retreat. They advanced within forty
miles of us ; the whole country fled before them with
their families, who are now begun to return to their ha
bitations. The consequence is that the torles are com
ing in and {wearing the oaths of allegiance to this
state."
In GENERAL A SSfcMsLf of fennfylvanW
Thursday, November 23d, 1780. A. M.
THE house proceeded to the election of Delegates th
represent this state in Congress the enduing year; and
the ballots being taken it appeared, That the ho
nourable Joseph Montgomery, Samuel Atlee,
George Clymer, Henry Wynkoop, and Tho^
mas SMITH, (of the county of Bedford) acquires, were
duly elected and chosen.
Extr^& from the Minutes,
SAMUEL STERETT, clerk.
State of Pennsylvania.
In GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
Thursday, Nov. 23, 1780. P. M.
The house returned the confederation of
the bill for fettling and adjuftihg the ac
counts of the troops of this state in the
service of the United States, -&c. on the
second reading, and having finished the
fame, ordered it to be tranferibed for the
third readings and in the mean time prin
ted for public consideration.
Extract from the minutes,
SAMUEL STERETT, clerk
An ACT so fettle and adjust the accounts of the troops
of this state in the service of the United States, and
for other purposes therein mentioned.
YX? HERBAS', from a variety of causes, the United
States have not been able to comply with their
engagements heretofore made to the officers and private
men of the Pennsylvania line; which hath occasioned
great injury to those troops, to whose virtuous and
disinterested exertions America is much indebted :
Be it therefore eu^ed, and it is hereby enabled, by
the representatives of the freemen of the commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, in general assembly met, and by the
authority of the fame, -that
be and they are hereby appointed auditors, to proceed
to the army: there to fettle the pay accounts of all
the officers and private men of the Pennsylvania line,
from the firft day of January, 1777, to the firft day of
August, 1780. And the said auditors are hereby im
powefed and directed to estimate, in specie, according
to the value thereof, at the time of payment, all sums
of continental money received by the laid officers and
private men, on account of their pay, within the peri
od ^iorefaid ; agreeable to a scale of depreciation agreed
to by the house and contained in % Schedule hereto
annexed.
And be it further enacted by the authority afore
faid, That in case of the death, refufai, or neglect to
serve, of any of the above auditors, the president, or
Vice-president, in council, is authorised to nominate
and appoint one or more proper persons in bis or their
room or Bead. > .
And he it further enafted by theauthority aforesaid,
That the said auditors, or any two of them, are here
by impowered and directed to give to the officers arid
private men, to whom pay on Such Settlements shall b;
found doe, certificates, Specifying the sums due in spe
cie ; which certificates shall be confi lered as the sole
and exciufive tender, in payment for the estates herein
after reserved and set apart, as a fund for their redemp
tion.
And be it further enacted by the authority afore
faid, That, in order to secure to the officers and pri
vate men of the (aid line, the several sums in specie,
that may be found due to them as aforefaid, all con
filcated estates not already disposed of, or appropriated
to other tifes, shall be and are hereby vetted in
in.tru ft for redeeming t : e
certificates aforefaid, and shall be valued by three dis-
Creet and disinterested freeholders, at Inch prices as,
in their judgments, they would have fold for in specie
in the year 1774; the said valuators to be appointed;
one on the part of the state, another on the part of the
line; and a third to be chosen by the other two, which
said estates or either of them are hereby directed to be
fold and conveyed by the said
to such perfen Or persons who shall firfl apply for and
tender the full valtfe thereof, according to such ap
praifement, in the certificates aforefaid.
And be it further enabled by the authority aforefaid,
That, in order to prevent the said notes or certificates
from being counterfeited, no transfer or affignmeut of
the fame shall be good and valid inlaw, unless attest
ed by the captain or officer commanding a company,
or a field officer of a regiment, in the said line.
But if it Should happen that the estates abovemen
fiori d should not amount in Value to the pvy found due
to the said officers and private men of the said line:
then and in such case ;
Be i:ena&ed by the authority aforefaid, That
be arid they
are hereby appointed commiffibners, whb, in conjunc
tion with commissioners nominated by the line afore
faid, shall, and they are hereby impowered to furvtf
and lay out fb many acres of unlocated and unappro
priated lands in this state as will, when eflimated in
manner aforefaid, together with the said confifeated
estates reserved arid set apart as aforefaid, amount to
the arrerages of pay found due as aforefaid : provided
the said lands are not already fettled and occupied by
persons in thei^ own right, and in quantity not more
than three hundred acres for each person so fettled.
And be it furtherena&ed by the authority aforefaid;
That in case the confifeated and other land; herein be
fore mentioned should not amount to the arrearages of
pay found due as aforefaid, that then and in fucn case
this fiate will provide other and fufficient funds for the
full payment in specie and discharge of the notes given
as aforefaid..
And be it further enabled by the authority aforefaid,
That the auditors aforefaid shall in like manner fettle
and adjust the accounts of all officers and private men
of the line aforefaid, who have fallen or died in trie ser
vice during the said period ; and their widows and chil
dren shall be entitled to such certificates, aid to all the
benefits and advantages hereby granted to the officers
and private men of the said line.
And be it further enabled by the authority aforefaid;
That the officers and private men of the fiate navy,
now in actual service, shall and are hereby declared to
be equally entitled to all benefits and allowances ex
tended to the Pennsylvania line by this sift.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid.
That all auditors and persons Appointed to value
estates, under this a&; previous to their entering on
their refpeßive duties, shall take the following oath or
affirmation severally, to wit ; " I, A, B. do swear or as
" firm, that I will well and truly perform all and fin
" gular the duties required of me by this aft, to the
“ best of my knowledge and abilities, without partiali
“ ty or r^fped to any person or persons whatsoever."
And the auditors aforefaid are hereby fully authorifed
to fettle all accounts upon oath or affirmation, which
oath or affirmation shall be by them administered.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid;
That this or any future arfembly, notwithstanding the
provision made as aforefaid, may or shall, if they
think proper, call in all such certificates given and not
redeemed as aforefaid, and, pay off the fame in specie.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid,
That the said commissioners ffiall, upon the receipt of
any note or notes received as aforefaid, deliver the
fame to'the fiate treasurer, who is hereby directed to
receive and preserve the fame, fubje& to the orders of
the general assembly.
The scale of depreciation abov€ alluded to, is as follows?
177/.!779 #
January 1 i-z January*
February 1 1-2 February 10
March 2 March 10 1-2
April 2 i-z April 17
May 212 May 24
June 2 iz June zo
July 3 July , 19
August 3 August 20
September 3 September 24
October 3 October 30
November 3 November 38 1-2
December 4 December 41 1-2
1778. 1780.
January 4 January 40 1-2
February 5 February 47 1-2
March 5 March 61 1 2
April 6 April 61 1-2
May 5 May 59
June 4 June 61 1 2
July 4 July 641-3
August 5
September§
October §
November 6
December &
To be Sold or Lett,
A Frame HOUSE, Brick KITCHEN, and BAKE
HOUSE, and a Lot of G?ound,wi h a good Fnce,
eppofite the barracks, in Second-street, Northern Li-^
berties, clear of ground-rent, containing in front 35
feet, and in length or depth 150 feet. For te m; ap
ply to the fubfeziber, living on the premises.
Nov. % CHRISTIAN KUNCKLE,
fl+ We are sorry that want of time a«d
room obliges us to omit, in this day's pa
per, the piece signed Civis; but we shall
with much plealure give it a place on Tueft
day.—A. B. &c. will also appear on Tues
day.
§j-§ Do&or Morgan's Remarks on Doc
tor Snippen's Vindication of the 18th shall
have a place in our next.,
On Monday Next,
(The Twenty-seventh Infant,)
At T E N o'Clock in the Forenoon,
N^ r M ffrs, Willing and Morris's Whirff,
Will be Sold by Public Auction,
SOAP and CANDLES in Boxes,
PORK in Barrels; ,
BEEF in Half-barreli, ,
Forty-five Kegiof TALLOW,
Nine Bags of PEASE,
Kegs of NEATS TONGUES and TRIPE,'
Bottled WINE and BEER in Hampers,
A Quantity ot CORDAGE, DRY GOODS, &C#
Being part of the cargo of the prize (hip Susannah, to
ken by the privateer brigantine Ariel.
By order of the C. Urt of Admiralty,
CLEMENT BIDDLE, M^fhaL
On Monday Next,
(The Twenty seventh Inftan)
At TWELVE o'Clock, at nocn, at the Coffee
Houle,
Will be Sold at Public Au&ion,
The BRIGANTINE
AJA X,
With all her Guns, Tackle and Apparel, agreeable t«
an Inventory, to be seen at the Pisce of Sale.
Being a Prize, taken by the Letter of Marque Brigan
tine Friendship, Captain BALL.
AND
On Tuesday Next,
The Twenty-eighth Instant, at TEN e'Clock, in the
Forenoon, on Clifford's and Riche's Wharffs,
Will begin the Sale of the Cargo
Oft e Brigantine AJAX: Confining of
Port WINE in Bottles and C fks,
PORTER and Glasgow ALE in Battles,
LOAF SUGAR,
SOAP and CANDLES,
CORDAGE and SAIL CLOTH,
A large Quantity of DRY GOODS and other Articles#
By Order of the Court of Admiralty.
CLEMENT BIDDLE, Marshal.
—— — &__=. — —I —
TOBE LETT,
Andover Furnace and Forge,
Situate in the county of Sussex, New-Jersey.
They are now in good repair, and may be entered up
on immediately:
And a large Quantity of Wood ready cuff
For terms apply to ARCHIBALD STEWART at
Hacket's town, or to JOHN LARDNER in Phila
delphia.
N. B. Some NEGROES belonging to said Works,
TO be SOLD.
TO BE SO L D,
Two Hundred Pair of
BUCKSKIN BREECHES.
Any person wanting them, will pfeafe to enquire at
the subscriber's ; who lives next door to Mr. Jack
ton's fl ore, in Water and Spruce-streets.
PATRICK M'CLOSKEY.
Six Hundred Dollars Reward.
CTOLEN, from off the plantation of the fubferiber,'
° living at the head of Saffafras river, Kent county,
Maryland, on the night of the 30th of October last, *
grey MARE, 4 years old last Spring, about 13 hands
and an half high, a natural trotter, with a switch tail
and leng made. Whoever takes rip said mare and the
thief, so that the thief may be prosecuted to conviction,
shall have the above reward for the thief and mare, or
Three Hundred Dollars for the mare only, and reifon
able charges, paid by ALEX. BAIRD.
Wants a Place,
Asa House-keeper, a middle aged Woman,
Who can be well recommended. Enquire of the
Printers. Nov. 24.
TO BT
fHt HOUSE and STORE, adjoining, now in the
1 tenure of Mr: John Maxfield Nesbitt. En
quire of thePrinters.
T O ITT LET T,,
And may be entered on immediately,
A genteel Front Room,
Suitable for an Office: Allo, A large, good, dry CEL
LAR, in a public part of the city. Enquire of th<
Printers' Nov. a%
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