The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1779-12-09 00:00:00, page 3

A SUPPLEMENT toan ACT, intitled "An ACT for
the relief of the poor."
WHE REAS the rate or afferent direded by the.
A& of Assembly, intitled “ An Ad for the relief of
the poor, priori on the twenty nintn day of March, in the
year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seven
ty one, not exceeding Three Pence in the pound on all
/flat s real arid personal, and Six S rillings per head n
every freeman not otherwise rated for his estate within the
several counties of this State, is found to be very inade
quate to the Support of the Poor of the (aid counties, dif
trids an Townships, and the frequent repetition thereof
would be very inconvenient to the Overseers of the Poor,
and very troublesome to the inhabitants: For remedy
" Be it enaded, and it is hereby enabled by the
Representatives of the Freemen of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and by the au
thority of the fame, That it fhdl and may be lawful far
any two of the Justices of the Peace ®fany county, drftnct
or township, upon complaint of the Overseers of the Poor
that a sum of money is wanted or likely to be wanted for
the support of the poor, to issue their warrants, under their
hands and seals, directed to the Overseers of the Poor of
the said county, diftrift or township, requiring them forth
with to levy, colled and raise, by an equal affefment upon
the clear yearly value, as they fhail reasonably estimate the
fame, of all real and personal eflares within the said coun
ty district or townfllips refpedively, a rate er tax not
exceeding Seven Shillings and Six Pnce in the pound
upon all taxables, and a sum not exceeding Six Pounds per
head, nor less than Three Pounds, on all freemen not
otherwise rated for such tax for the relief of the poor; and
the said rate fhail be repeated as often as the said Justices
and Overseers fhail find the fame necessary.
And be it further enabled by the authority aforefaid,
That the said recited Aft for the relief of the poor, passed
the twenty ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord
one thousand seven hundred and seventy one, except so
much as is herein before altered and repealed, fhail conti
nue, be and remain, and is hereby declared to be in full
force and effed. . rt ,
JOHN BAYARD, Speaker.
Enabled into a Law at Philadelphia on Saturday
the twenty Seventh day of November, Ano Do
mini one thousand seven hundred and feventy
nine.
THOMAS PAINE,
Clerk of General Assembly.
*, The AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIE
TY meets on Friday evening next, at the usual place and
time.'
„§ The TRUSTEES of the UNIVERSITY of the
State of Pennsylvania, meet by adjournment on Saturday
evening next, at fix o'clock, in the Library Room in the
University,, of which the members of that Board are hereby
notified By order of the Board,
December s, 1,79< T, M ATLACK.
Wit liamiburg, (Virginia) Nov. 11, 1779.
JO APTAIN LEMAIRE, who was lent to Europe by
the government of Virginia, on pubfic business, in
the year 1778, and is lately returned to give an account
of his proceedings; having been gratified by the State in
recompence of his services, and as a testimony of appro
bation of his conduct, with 2000 acres of 1 md in one of the
best diftridsin the country, and with acommiffion of Lieu
tenant Colonel Commandant of dragoons; takes this me
thod of expressing his gratitude to the governm nt for the
favours it has conferred upon him, and of returning his
thanks to several private gentlemen for the civilities they
have Shewn him during his short residence in this place.
These favoursand civilities in themselves highly valuable,
are rendered to him doubly so, by the honorable proof
they afford of the diflinaion with which the fubjefts of
France are treated, in a State whose alliance is so much
esteemed by their Monarch.
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Philadelphia, December 7.
Just imported and to be fold by
JONAS PHILLIP S,
At his store the South fide of Market Street, four doors
below Mr. Dunlap's Printing office,
THE following Goods, (tor ready money) viz. fine
and coarse beaver and caftor bats, fhUloons and
callimannces, kerfey, w mtns silk and kid gloves and
mitts, ribbed and plain mens fi k and worked Hockings,
thread and sewing silk; an assortment of striped, plain
and flowered luteftrings and fattins of different colours ;
ducapes, fcleton wires, mens buckskin and lamb gloves
of different colours, gilt coat and jacket buttons, horn
moulds, ivory and horn combs, an assortment of hard
ware, brass knob door locks, brass nails nd tacks,
carpenters plains and saws, best fifhing kirby hook<,
needles; 4d, 6d, 8d and itd nails; brads; Pruffi n
blue and Spanish brown, ground in oil; 10 by 12 nd
8 by 10 window glass, long tobacco pipes, mufeovado
and loaf sugars, bohea and congo tea, lemra?ns, brim
stone, rhubarb, manna, and sundry ether goods.
N B. He takes in all knds of Merchandize for sale
on Commissions. Those who Ihall please to favor him
with the sale of their Goods may depend on a speedy
remittance.
December 7, 1779.
Two Hundred Dollars Reward.
WA S STOLEN Ift night, out of the (table of
the fubferiber, in Upper Dublin township, Phila
delphia county, a dark sorrel MARE, about fifteen
hands high, four years old lad Spring, a natural pacer,
has some white in her forehead, food all ound, a thin
mane and switch tail. Whoever takes up And Secures
the thief so that he may be broughtto justice, and deli
vers the mare to the owner, fhail have the above reward,
or One Hundred Dollars for the mare only, and all rea-
Anable charges, paid by
SUSANNAH WRIGHT.
THE Commissioners for the city and county
of Philadelphia take this method 10 inform the
taxable inhabitants of said county of the days of ap
peal, and where held, for the tiift Continental Tax for
the year 1779
For Lower Marion, Lower Dublin, Kingfeffing and
P ffyunk, in the upper chamber of the Courthouse on
Monday the 27th of December, 1779.
For Blockley, Oxford, Bristol and Cheltenham, on
Tuesday the 28T.
For North, High-street and Upper Delaware Wards,
on Wednesday toe 291 b.
For Dock, Walnut, Chefnut and Lower Delaware
Wards, on Thursday the 30th.
For the Northern Liberties, Est and Weft, and
Moyamenfing, on Friday th, [fi
For Mulberry, South and Mingle Wards, on Mon
day the 10th of January next.
For the following townships, at the house o' Jacob
Wentz, Jun. in Worcester tounfhlp:
For Providence, Marlborough, Frederick, Upper
Salford, Lower Salford, Upper Hanover and Hufirid
townships, on Tuesday the 4th of January next.
For Douglass, Upper Merion, Whitpsine, Frankford
and New- Hanover, Limerick, Perkiomen ano Skippack,
Gwinedth, Montgomery and Franconia townships, 0.1
Wednesday the sth of January next.
Fur Plymouth, Norriten, Worcester and Towamcn
fing townships, on Thursday the 6th.
For the remaining townships, at the house of John
Heffer, in Germantown, viz.
For Upper Dublin, Horfham, Whjtrmai sh, Raho
rough, Bibury and Springfield townships, on Friday the
7 rh of January next.
For Germantown, Manor of Morela :d and Alring
ton townfllips, on Saturday the Sth.
The appeals to begin each day at Nine o'clock in the
morning.
Ad persons having estates in townships or wards wl^re
they do not reside, will take notice that there is no trans
fer cf property, each estate must pay the tax in the
township nr ward where it is. It is exp fled that all
persons intending to appeal will attend cn the days ap
pointed, as they cannot be hea*d any other time, u he
ing abfolutel) necessary that the tax be polked and
paid into the Treafur, with the ut^ft expedition.
By order of the Board,
GEORGE HONEY, Junior, Clerk.
GEORGE HAUGHTON,
Acquaints his Friends, and the Public in general,
r^ HAT he has taken the HOUSE and coramo
g dious STABLES, late Anthony Fortune's, in
Shippen-ftrect, between Third and Fourth streets, the
sign of the White Horse; where he will be obliged to
thole Gentlemen who will favour him with their custom,
as ,hey may depend on the best of entertainment.
N B. Horfts kind at Livery.
Louver Merion, December 2.
To the P U BL I C.
WHEREAS the plantation No. 1. late belong
ing to the estate of John Roberts, Miller, de
ceased, is adverttfed to be fold at public vendue on the
15th instant, (December) with all the mills thereunto
belonging, We the fubferibers, Administrators of the
estate &f Conrad Sheets, Paper maker, deceased, make
known unto such as Should purchae the said plantation,
that we object to the dam belonging to the grist mill
adjoining the land of the said Conrad Sheets, as being
considerably too high ; and toat we shall dispute the
fame at law, except the pu chaier or purchasers will
lower the fame to its proper heighth.
CATHERINE SHEETS, Administratrix.
BENJAMIN SHEETS, ],. . ,
HENRY K \MMERER,] Adm "" ftrator *°
Philadelphia, December 3, 17 9.
TO BE SOL D,
For Caf* cr Lo^n-Office Certificates,
ON E undivided h-ls of 1700 acres of LAN D,
situate on Stony Creek, the weft fide of the Ale
ghany Mountain, one mile distant from the great road
leading from Bedford to Ligonier, being part of a tra&
of land known by the name cf Hurst's Township, sur
veyed in pursuance o' 2 grant from the Honorable Wil
liam Penn, Elq; to Las itia Penn, dated the 13th day
of September, 1683, one fourth pa t of which may eafily'
be converted into excellent watered meadow, the up
land strong and we'l timbered, the mountain adjacent
affording an inexhaustible bank of iron ore and ftene
co d, with convenient dreams for ere&ing the firft iron
or steel works on the Continent, from whence every
kind of produce may for a trifling expence be trans
ported by water to the Ohio.
Three hundred acres of improved land in Turkey
foot township, in the county of Bedford, on which are
erected ago # d log house, barn and Spring -house, with
fifty acres of land cleared, twenty of which are good
meadow; now in the tenure of Frederick Unfel.
One hundred acres adjoining the last mentioned trs&,
well improved ; now in the tenure of Paul Erafberger.
Six hundred and forty-five acres of land on Coxe's
Creek, in the township and county aforefaid, adjoining
lands cf Col. Richard Brown, Abraham Cable, Esq;
and others; on which are two good dwelling houses, a
spring house, Indian-corn- house, a large new double
barn with a Singled roof, and upwards of three hundred
and twenty acres of meadow of the firft quality cleared,
fr< m whence the greatest part of the neighbourhood are
yearly furphed with hay ; now in the tenure of James
Black, Eq;
T e whole of those lands are situate in the center of a
large German Settlement, and not thirty miles from the
river Potomack. For further particulars apply to
6 JOHN VANDEREN, Junior.
ANDREW AND JAMES CALDWELL
Hive for SALE,
A NE AT ass rtment of Broadcloths, ribbed Cali
mancoes, Worsted Hose, Bohea Tea, &c. &c.
WILLIAM HARRI S,
BEGS leave to inform the Public, That he has
taken that old, eftablikied and convenient Inn and
Tavern the Black Horse, in Black horse Alley. The
Tables are new, and put in good order for the reception
of horses.
N. B. Horses taken at livery.
Philadelphia, November 28, 1779.
Five Hundred Dollars Reward.
TW O buckskin bags, with firings of the fame, con
taining four Holland Shirrs marked G. M four
mukin stocks, one pair of yarn hole, fix yards of dark
chintz, a case of razors and (having implements, a
pound of hyfon tea in two black bottles, three Spelling
books, one JE fop's fables, four cotton handkerchiefs,
one napkin, a half pound of coloured th cad, Some sew
ing silk, and several other small articles ; likewise a pair
of boots newly foaled and heel-tapped, and fox'd high
toward the instep, and a pair of plated fpurs.—ln the
night of the 23d irtft. the above articles were taken out
of Ms. Baynton's front parlour by feme villain or vil
lains, who found means to force open the window.
The above reward fhail be paid for the thief or thieve#
and goods, or Four Hundred D biars for the latter on
ly, and in proportion for anv part, by
GEORGE MORGAN.
TOBE L E T,
The following PROPER TY in th County of Cope
Ml;, in ifte Sta s € of New-Jerle,.
ON a lease for a certain r^ru —One third of the
herbage of the Seven-mile Be t ch, which will Sup
port ferry cattle annually froth October till July, with
out ay person to take c re of them.
()1 . least for any number ^ y\ars, for such a pre-'
portion or the produce as will be advan ageous as well
to tae tenant ^ I^.dlord, —Three p^ntroerh n tr^&i
of land and marsh, laving on the waters of Denhts'sCreek,
two of which have good landings f/om which the e may
be An eari carriage in fhiileps to P. ii^delphia, and tine
third within hrif a mile of a 1/nGing ; each t.a& will keep
thirty or forty cattie, the Und<qal to ^ny in ihat coun
ty; will bear a plentiful c, op of every k % nd of grrin,
and the tenant will have liberty to clear my quanta, of
land he chafes upon teims beneficial to him.
' A large quantity of very valuable timber within one
mik of, a ringing, to be made into pipe, hegfhead and
bauet ft^ves, by delivering the Owner one bail at the
stump..
Aho & number of lots of cedar swamp, on a (hire.
In Short, any performs who have plenty of labourers
may be assured 01 making a pofi:a< 1: corar ft by apply
ing to Thomas Teaming, Senior, near the premises,
or the lucocnno in W 4 ier ft.eb below the D awbrid ~
Philadelphia. ~
THOMAS LEAMING, Junior.
Just imported for Sale at P WHITESIDE and Cu'sf
in Walnut (tret
J, I N E and coarie Woollens and Blankets,
4 Cutie y,
A vaiet) of Silks and S^tine,
Modes Cambricks, Gauze, and Clear Lawns,-
Sail Duck, &c.
Alto a quantity o' Leather, Morocco and Srirffh
Skins, Ri ifi : and dressed Deer skins, and jeiuitsßrk
of the firif quality.
Philadelphia, December 3,
Two Hundred Dollars Reward.
C FRAYED or S TOLEN otr. of a pasture on the
" Commons ot this city, between t e Bettering house
and the Light horse Stables, on the n'ght o' the 29th
of November l^tt, a large brown OX with long wie
horns, both eats ciopped, branded cn one fide U S,
though nut eafiv fern, and is in excellent order. Abo
a large black C O W, with a white face, nine or ten
years eld, in gooLorXer and within a few days of
calv ng. Whoever will give information 0 the above
described catcle so that the owner may get them again,
fhril receive, if Strayed, One Hundred Dollars, bur if
stolen and the thief brought to justice, the ibov. reward,
paid by JOSEPH OGDEN.
Two Hundred Dollars Rew ird.
STOLEN on the night of the 21ift (D .embe )
U out of the fubhriber's tt*ble in Em-ftr^tt, ngrey
HORSE, about fifteen bends high, nine or tn years
old, Short fwiicb tail and n^^e, bad Some marks of tar
on his neck and Shoulders, and a fm?ll uhck mark in
his forehead owin', to the hair being rubbed 0, lately
rough Shod with ft el. Likewise a Saddle and Bridle,
double reined, with bitt and bordo n almost new ; the
saddle-cloth white with blue edge. Whoever will give
information of rhe fame, so that rhe horse, & , may be
recovered again, Shall have the above reward, cr in pro
portion for laddie or bridle, paid by
EDWARD GARRIGUES.
woo wTn" te'd'
ANY person having a quantity of WOO D°with
in 5 miles of Philadelphia and defines to dipole
thereof, are requ fted to communicate their turns to
GIBBS JONE S, at his office in h oarck>.
WANTED!MM£DIATELy7
A NUMBER of good WOOD FLATS, tq
engage for two months, or longer, if the navigati
on io Delaware is not impeded. Apply to G. JON ES,
at his office in the Barracks.
NOW OPENING at the Commission Store in
Front street, and to be SOLD by
BUDDEN, LAWRENCE and C®.
Wholelale and Retail,
AV ARIETY cf low priced coarse Woollens,
Mecklenburgs, worsted Hose, womens white kid
Gloves, and a number of other articles.