The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1781-11-15 00:00:00, page 4

Whereas the Subferiber has rode
post from Philadelphia to Nottingham, Christiana ;
Newport, Head of Elk, &c. &c. and his employers have
not been so kind as to Comply with their promises in
paying him for the trouble and expence he has been at
Tn serving them. He therefore requests all perfon# in
debted to him, will please to discharge his demands on
Chern, by complying with the terms of their agreement.
And he takes this method to inform all those gentlemen
who may please to employ him, that the following are
his terms from the 7th of next month, viz One dol
Jar a quarter for each paper, the half of which to be
paid at beginning, and the remainder at the expiration
of one half of the last quarter.
DAVID MORGAN.
- W ANTE D,
either to hire or purchase,
A Good COOK, also a middle aged WOMAN, to ta e
rare of children. None need apply hut those who cm
be well recommended. Apply to the Printer.
Imported in the ship Nenfuch, captain Well#, from
Nantz, and to be fold, on the most reasonable terms,
Wholesale ?nd Retail, by
Smith & Tilton,
At their store in Second street, next to the Friend's
Meeting- house,
, FEW Pipes Fyall
A Wine,
Xifbon Wine,
Fine old Jamaica Spirits,
tWeftlndia Rum,
Country ditto,
Taffia,
French Brandy,
filolland Gin,
Molasses,
Double aad tingle refined
Loaf Sugars,
White and frown Box
Sugars,
Mufeovado ditto,
Shuchong Tea,
Jlohea ditto.
Coffee,
Chocolate,
Barley,
Mice,
Raisins,
Pepper,
AHfpice,
Ginger,
Nutmegs,
Indigo,
Illium,
A NEATassortment of
fuperfine. focond and
coafe broadcloths, of all
colours, with fik ferger,
rattincts, /balloons, and
other suitable trimings.
Coatings.
,Frizes and fwanfkins.
Scarlet, yellow, aad white
flannels.
S,tti^€ts, prunellas, and
princefa fluff.
A variety of velvets and
velverete.
Durants.
Tamies.
Callimancoes.
Me,ne worsted and fills hose.
A large assortment of lin
ens.
Calicoes and chintzes.
Flanders bedticks.
GEORGE A. BAKER,
(At the SLIP ,% Arch-street FERRY, Philadelphia,
Has to dispose of by Wholesale and Retail,
For Cassi, orin exchange for Country Produce,
Reed and Forde,
Have new opened, at the STORE formerly occupied
by Budden, Lawrence, and Company, in Front-street/
two doors above Market,ftreet,
A neat Assortment of MERCHANDIZE,;
Which they will fell low for Specie, Bills of Exchange,
or the new Emissions of any of the states.—
, „ Among which are
BEST fuperfine and second Cloths, of white, blue,
green, brown, orange, and Barree colours,
Caffimereof different colours,
J 4& and French Linens, Britannia# and Dowlafs,
Cotton and linen Checks,
Chintzes and Calicoes,
Cablets, Cambictecaand Mecklingtergs,
Crapes, Poplins, Meffinets and Brilliants,
A neat variety of verry fine th ead Hose,
Cambricks, Lawns and Kentings,
Catgut and Gauzes,
Best Lutestrings, Sarfenats and Persians,
Prolongs, Alfamodes" &c. A L S O,
Weft India Rum and Jamaica Spirits by the hog&ead,
Mufeovado Sugars,
Coffee in barrels and bags.
Soap and Candles in boxes ; with a variety of other ne
flffary Articles.
Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by DAKID C. CL A YPO 0L E,
Copperas,
Brimstone,
Chalk,
Rorin,
Tar,
Wireftenes.
Powder and Shot,
Lead, ''
Fine and coarse Salt,
Mens Shoes,
Writing and Wrapping
P*,%
Cotton,
An Aflefftment of neat
Iron Cuttings,
Frying Pans,
Linseed Oil,
Indian Corn,
A few Firkips excellent
Irish Butter,
Window Glass of 7 by 9,
Bby us, b y", 10 b y
12, and 12 by 14, by
the Box, half Box, or
left Quantity,
Long and short Pipes by
the Box and Groce, &c.
&c. &c.
Yard aid 5 4 muslins. .
Ca,m, bricks and lawns.
Oznabrigs.
Black fattins & peelongs.
Ditto modes and mantuas.
Persians and faffn^ts.
A variety of neat silks for
gentlemens wear.
Bbandano and silk romal
handkerchiefs,
black and coloured Bar
celona ditto.
Printed linen ditto#
Black rice.
Gold ditto.
Buckrams.
Black ribbons.
Pins and needles.
Loaf sugar.
Indigo.
And an elegant eight day
clock, &c. &c.
ALSO to be SOLD,
A sorrel Colt, three years old,
A natural pacer, suitable for a woman's hackney.
And a genteel Chariot, almost new.
Baltimore Stage-Waggon.
THE Subscribers inform the public, that they have
a convenient Stage-waggon, with four horses.-
fuita^le for carrying passengers and their baggage,
Will set out from the Bunch of Grapes, in Third- street,
between Market and Arch-ftreeti, Philadelphia, every
Monday and Thursday mornings, precisely at fix o'clock
breakfaft at Chester at the house of Mr. Branton, dine
at Wilmington at captain O'Flin's, from thence to the
Head of Elk ; the next morning's breakfaft at Sufque
hannah Tuesday and Friday, there to meet colonel
Vanhorn's Baltimore Stage, fhift piffengers, and reture
from thence the fame at two o'clock, and proceed to the
Head of Elk every Wednesday and Saturday, from the
Head of Elk to Philadelphia ; so that any p.ffenger Net
ting out from Baltimore on Monday morning, may de
pend on compleatihg their journey to Elizabeth- Town
by Friday at two o'clock.
1 The price for each naffenger from Philadelphia to
Sufquehannah four hard dollars, from Sufquehannah to
Baltimore two dollars and two-thirds, and the like sum
for 150 pounds of baggage, and every letter one-eighth
of a hard dollar, to be paid by the person fending the
said letter. NATHANIEL TWINING,
Sept. 25,1781. GERSHOM JOHNSTON.
Came to the Plantation of the
Subferiber, living in the Northen L berths, about the
beginning of July, a bay MARE, about four years old,
14 hands high, branded on the near buttock : few white
hairs on the forehead, paces and trots. Another bay
MARE, five years old, 13 hands high, a star in the
forehead, no brand, her off hind foot white, paces and
trots. A black MARE, about nine years old, 14
hands high, a star on her forehead, paces and trots.
The owne ror owners are desired to come, prove pro
perty, pay the charges, and take them away.
DUNCAN LEECH
KAIGHN and AT TMORE,
At their STORE in Second-street, near the Baptist M <d •
•ing-Hcufe, have for SALE,
BURLINGTON Pork,
H Hogs Lard in kegs,
Spanish Brown and Yellow
Oker in kegs,
Pepper,
Laval Linens,
Superfine Bread cloths of
different colours,
Shalloons,
Black Serge Denim, Satti
net, and Everlastings,
BlackCallimanco,
Orange colour and white
Chinese Ribbons.
Black and white Modes,
Black half ell Paduafoy,
Pink coloured ell wide Per
sians,
Crimson Cotton Velvets,
Womens lamb and kid
Mitts,
Scar.ff Twist of different
colours.
Fine white Threads,
Book Muslin and Gauze
Handkerchiefs,4
White Barcelona ditto,
A few pieces es double
purple Calicoes, and e
legant Furniture Cot
tons,
FOR SA L E,
AFAR M, with valuable improve
ments; four miles from the ci<y of Philadelphia,
on the road leading from Franokfort to Germanton n ;
containing one hundred and forty acres, on which
Mrs. LAWRENCE now resides, known by the name of
C L. ER EM 0 N T.
On this place there is an elegant done house, fifty
three feet front, and twenty eight feet deep, finifhed
in the best manner; under the firft floor, which is con
siderably ra^d from the ground, is a very large and
convenient kitchen, pantry and cellars ; at the back of
the house a piazza fifty-three feet in length, command
ing a view of the Delaware, from two or three miles
above the city, to Red-Bank ?bp*c the fame difiance
below it, with 34 eflepfiye propped of the Jerfqyi.
There is a brick house on said farm, within a ftnyll dif
lance of the mansion-house, having one large room be
l%w, and two above, with a convenient cellar ; also a
large frame coach-house, with federal out,houfes, con
fining of afmoak-houfe, corn-house, and spring- house,
over the latter is a commodious granary ; a good
frame dwelling- house, foitabie for a tenant, islikcwife
on part of the land ; the whole enclosed with cedar
pqft and rail fence, and divided into several lots. There'
is between forty and fifty acres of orchard, bearing
great plenty of choice fruit, and producing annually a
large quantity of the best: cyder. The garden contains
two acres, well hid out, enclosed with a cedar board
ferce, and having a colleen of the fined fruit. The
tgrips and conditions of sale will be made known to
any person inclining to purchase, hv applying to Colo
nel JOHN SHER, or to Mr. JOHN LAWRENCE, in
Philadelphia.
Fine Linen Strip's,
Shirt Buttons,
A small Anchor, with an
iron Sock, faitabie for a
(hallop,
Two elegant brass hanging
Compasses for (hips cab
bins,
Sundry Srilg suitable for a
Brig,
A large Screw Jack for
flowing ships holds.
Black Lead Pencils,
Small Pins,
Silk Knee Garters of vari
ous colours,
Striped Waistcoat but
tons,
Bees Wax,
'Jefuite Barkin bottles,
A Copper Still of about
50 gallons, with a Worm
fqitable, '
Iron Pots, Kettles, and
Cart Boxes,
Cun Flints,
Cinnamon,
Japanned Plate Warmers,
A large quantity of Log
wood to be fold by the
ton.
TO BESOL D,
The valuable Merchant
MILLS ani SAW MILLS, with two pair of stones,
one whereof is French burs of the best quality, the
other colongs ; the bolting-cloths are good; the mills
are in good order, water plenty in the driest season,
with little exp^nce of keeping the dam in repair, as it
is turned by the main Brandywine-Creek : the mill- house
is built of ftonr, about ;8 feet square. Also, a good
dwelling-houfc, part frame and part stone, a good
frame barn, stables and other out-houses, with about
30 acres of good land, nine acres whereof is good wa
tered meadow, and as much more may be made with
very little expence : a good bearing orchard of the best
fruit. It is pitafantly ficuated in a healthy part of the
country, within 30 miles of Philadelphia, 15 of Mar
cus Hook and Wilmington. L.ktwife, a Lot of
Ground publicly situated in the borough of Wilming
ton, Newcastle county. Any person inclining to pur
chase, by applying to DAVID BRINTON, at theln
dian King, in the borough of Wilmington, or the
fubferiber living at the mills, m?v know the terms.
BENJAMIN POWEL.
East- Bradford. Chester county, Nov.
TO be SOLD by the Subferiber,
In Second street, one door from the corner of Pins
ftreet,
Best double and finale Gloucester CHEESE,
One hogshead of GIN,
Madeira and Lisbon WINE, by the quarter calk or
gallon,
COFFEE by the bag,
English CLOATHS BRUSHES,
An affoitment of TIN WARES, DRY GOODS, &c.
_ DAVIS BEVAN.
To be hiked by the day or jobb,
A genteel light WAGGON and good HORSES, with
a careful! driver- Enquire of William Sowerby, at
the white-horfa god fountain, in Chefnut- street, where
hoiles are taken to stand at lively. Those who please
to employ them may depend on the greatest care and
attention.
Six Silver Dollars Reward.
STRAYED ct ftolcn on the 7th of September
last, off the Commons of this city, from the &eb
fcriber living in Fifth street near Spruce-street ; two
MARES, the one a bay with a lag# blaze in her face,
and never wac decked, and was branded on her near
Moulder but dull to be f^n, the is about ten or eleven
years old, thirteen and half hards high and a natural
iroter; the other a grey, qate blind, about thirteen
and a half hands high, a natural pacer. Whoever take#
up said Marcs and brings them home or secures them,fo
that the owner may get them again, (hall have the
above reward, viz. four for the bay Mare and two fl
ver DOLLARS for thegrey, and all reasonable charge,
paid by SAMUEL DICKINSON,
October 18, 1781.
Philadelphia, November 6, 1781.
ALL those that have any demands pn the estate of
ISSAC COREN, deccafed, by bond, note, or
cthtrwiie, are desired to bring in their accounts, attest
ed. for ettlement; and all those who are indebted, are
desired to make speedy payment.
RUTH COREN, E&qutrlx.
TO BE SOIL'D, °
A quantity of Wood, Handing
about jour miles from the city on this fide Schuylkill.
Likewise a frame building, 60 teet long by 24 feet broad,
can be divided into four tenements. For terms enquire
of the Printer. :
TO BE SOL D,
A light Stage Waggon,
With HARNESS for two Horses. Enquire at the
Store EZRA JONES, south fide of Market-street, near
Fifth street. November 9.
On the night of the 29th
of October last, the house of the fuhferiber was BROKE
OPEN, and Robbed cf MONEY, to the amount of
ONE HUNDRED and SIXTY-FIVE POUNDS, a-“
mongft which was Two Hundred and Fourteen Hard
Dollars, the rest in Gold. The Robbery was commit
ted by two Fellows, the one about 5 feet 10 inches
high ; the other short and chuncky. Any person se
curing said Robbers in any goal, so that they ma, be
brought to „uftice, ffiall receive a Reward of SIXTY
POUNDS Sp-ci?, paid by
DANIEL FETTET, Colledor.
S-'fb-iry, Bucks county.
Three Founds Reward.
STOLEN out of the Pdfture of the fubferiber, living
in Upper Merrian township, Philadelphia county
on the night of the 3d inst. a small B y STALLION'
about 13 hands high, neither brand uor car-mark, he
has a few white hairs in hi# forehead, paces and trots.
Whoever takes up the laid HORSE and THIEF, and
secures them, so that the Owner gets his Horfe' and
the Thief brought to 'cur iaion, (hall have the above
Reward, or THIRTY SHILLINGS for the Horse
only, and redonable Charges, paid by
Nov. 9. THOMAS DAVIS.