The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1782-10-03 00:00:00, page 4

The Stihferiber begs leave to inform the
Gentlemen Freeholders, and other Elec
tors in the City and County of Philadel
phia,
TH A The proposes offering himfelf a Candidate
for the Sheriff's Office, at the expiration of Col.
Will's time. Should he meet their Approbation, he
requests to be returned with the present Sheriff at the
ensuing Ele&ion ; and the Favoar will ba gratefully ac
knowledged,
By their obedient, very humble Servant
WILLIAM DEAN.
Moreland township, Philadelphia county, June 28.
By ISAAC FRANKS,
In Second- street, between Market and Chefnut-ftreets,
who is acquainted with every (pecies of the Broker's
Bufinef,, and is conversant in the Laws of Exchange
and Barter: At his 0 FFIC E
Daily Attendance is given ; Secrecy and the u most
Punctuality are observed, in trarifaSing every kind
of Business incident to this Office.
Bills of Exchange, &c.
FOREIGN Bills of Exchange, either upon France,
Spain, Holland, Got tenburgh, or any part of Eu
rope; also Inland Bills, Notes and Certificates are ne
gociated, difeounted or fold with the greatest attention
to the interest of the party concerned.
Officers Notes and Certificates, I oan-Office
Certificates, and New-York Depreciati
on Notes,
Are negociated on the best terms : Cash will be given,
at a very reasonable difeount, for Officers Notes,
Money Put Oue,
From time to time, upon such security, interest or
allowance, as shall be agreeable to the parties, either
for a week, month or year.
Merchandize of every Sort,
Where money is wanted to be raised immediately by
strangers or others, is received, and fold upon commis
sion ; in the tranfa&ing of which business Fidelity may
be depended on.
Houses and Lands
May be bought or fold by applying to this Office,
held either in fee Ample, for life or years; in the dispo
sal of which, due regard will be paid to the legality of
title and the right of persons to transfer.
N. B. As the Business of this Office is
become very extensive, and greatly exceeds his most
sanguine expectations, it will be tranf^ed upon such
easy terms as cannot fail to ensure a continuance of Bu
siness.
are—
CALICOES and Chintz,
Cambricks & Lawns,
Kentings and Mullins,
Plain and coloured Nan
k?enr,
Irifb, French and Flemish
Linen),
Dowlafs and Britannias,
Striped Ginghams,
Striped Bedtick,
Rnffii Sheeting,
Ffcmifh ditto,
Russia Drilling,
Ditto Rava's Duck,
Ditto Sailcloth,
Ticklenburgs,
Oznahrigs,
Modes and Sattins,
Peelings and Mantua#,
Sarfnets and Persians,
Thread and cotton Hose,
India silk & cotton Hand
kerchiefs,
TO BE SO L D,
A strong, well made Chaise, and
HARNESS, (half wore) with or without a good, strong
HORSE, all fit for a journey at a day's notice. En
quire of the Printer. Sept. 13.
Isaac Franks, Broker, hath for Sale
SEVER AL very valuable Trafb cf Land,
Twelve Lots of Ground in the city,
A Brick House and Lot in Wainut-ftreet, between
Front and Second- streets,
And a Variety of Dry Goods,
A large Quantity of the best Maryland and Virginia
Tobacco, in good order,
Brown and white Havanna Sugars,
Excellent Bohea Tea by the Chest,
A few Pipes of good Wine,
A Quantity of good Pepper,
A few Boxes of Spermaciti Candles,
A few Barrels of Salt Pork. Atig. 12.
Just IMPORTED from France, Gottenburg and St.
Thomas, and now OPENING, by
William Sitgreaves,
At his STORE in Market-street, between Front and
Second -Greets, at the corner of Laetitia-court, A
large Assortment of DRY GOODS : Among which
Philadelphia; Printed and Sold by DAVID C. CLAYPOOLE, in Market-Street.
Broker's Office,
, Check linen ditto,
Clouting Diaper,
Russia Linen for towelling
India Jeans and Dimities,
Plain & trimming Gauzes,
Calamancoes and Durants,
Jone's Spinning,
Superfine black Russel,
Camblets,
Velvets,
Superfine Broadcloths,
C'affimers,
Seven-eights, yard and
apron-wide cotton Checks
Threads,
Twist,
Bobbin,
Tapes,
Pina,
Paper,
; Black Pepper, &c. &e.
I With a Variety of other
I Articles.
To the Freeholders and other Electors of
the City and County of Philadelphia.
GENTLEMEN,
AS I intend offering myfelf a Candidate for the
Sheriff's Office, at the expiration of colonel Will's
time, I thus earnestly fclicit your votes and interest, to
place me on the return with him at the ensuing eleCton;
which favour shall be gratefully acknowledged by gen
tlemen, your refpeaful friend and humble servant,
SAMUEL NICHOLAS.
CAMPHOR,
Calomel,
Cantharideg,
Peruvian Baik,
Opium,
Gum Affafceled,
Myrrh,
Arabic,
Jalap,
luecacuans,
Gentian,
Also the following PATENT MEDICINES, viz.
Bateman'4 Drops, Daffy's Elixir, Harlem Oil, Tur
lington's Balfaui, Walker's Drop#, James's Powders,
Hill's Medicines, Andsrfon's, Hooper's, Keyfer's and
Lockyer's Pills.
MEDICINE CHESTS for sea carefully put up,
and all orders from country Physicians punaually at
tended to. August 19.
DAKIS BEKAN,
Has for SALE, at his Store in Second.ftreet, one
door from Pine-street, A
Quantity of best James river
Tobacco,
Some very fine Hams, Shoulders and Fletch Bacon,
Madeira Wine by the quarter-calk or gallon,
Old Rum by the gallon,
A few barrels of very good Pork,
An Assortment of DRY GOODS, &c. &c. Jure 14.
David Jackson,
Has removed his DRUG and MEDICINAL STORE
to the House lately occupied by Debtor PHILE,
in Second-street, about midway between Market and
Chefnut-ftreets, and oppefite to Brick horse alley,
where he has for SALE, a neat Assortment of such
DRUGS and MEDICINES as are now in common
pea green, Londonerown,
claret, blossom, flefh,
olive, lead, plumb nut,
purple, dark and light
grey, laylock and mixed
coloured (uperfine and se
cond Cloths.
Green Cloth suitable for
billiard tables,
Light and dark ground
Cottons, Calicoes and
Chintzes,
Sailcloth,
Royal, lava!, Flanders and
Britannia Linens.
Sattins and Brocades,
Just OPENED, a VARIETY of
Superfine CLOTHS,
Of the firfl QUALITY and most fafhionable CO
LOURS- A LSO,
SATTINS, Peelong &
Sarfnetts,
Plain and coloured
mens and womens silk cot
ton and worsted Hole,
Yard wideßarceionaHand
kerchicfs,
Neat bordered linen and
check ditto,
Sewing Silk,
Silk waistcoat Patterns,
With many ether ARTICLES too tedious to
enumerate, which will be SOLD on reasonable
Terms, for Cath, Bills of Exchange, or Country Pro
duce, By
KUHN & RISBERG,
The north fide of M rket-ftreet, letween Fourth and
Fifth-ftreets. Sept. 24.
Have just Imported in the (h;p Nenficb. Captain
Wells, and the I+ft vessels from Fiance, the follow
ing MERCHANDIZE, which they will Sell on
reasonable terms, at their STORE in Water-llcct,
the third Door below the Draw-bridge:
DARK and light blue,
scarlet, deep and
Imported in the iatt vessels from 'France, and in the
Herr Ad#m~, just arrived from Amfterd^m, and to
be Sold by t:e Bile or Package, at the STORE of
H. SHIEL L,
In Market-ftrtet. between Sixth and Seventh streets.
SUPERFINE Broad Cloths, Flannels, FlarJere
Sheeting, Britannia, Laval, Ponthias and Non
batteau Linens, clear Lawnt, Cambric ks, Checks, S-t
---tins, Lutftrings and Mantua# of different colours, tlk
tambour Waiftcoatr, faun and kidikin Cloves. Sept, 18
Use: Among which ate the following articles, viz.
Dean & Purviance,
I Orange Peel,
I Glauber and Epsom Salts,
; Saltpetre,
Cream Tartar,
Flour Sulphur,
Red Precipitate,
Manna,
Rhubarb,
Tartar Emetic,
Sal Amoniac,
Qaickfilver, &c.
Kdd Gloves, fine L nens,
Bowr, crimson, fl sh aid
cinnamon colour'd Cam
blets,
Callimancoes,
A neat Assortment of
Chintzes and Calicoes,
Checks,
Bedticks,
Three-quarter and yard
wide Britannia*.
Cembricks and Lawns,
Plain and cordid Dimities,
Shalloons, Durants and
Calamancoes,
Checks and Bedticking,
Crimson, blue and pink
Perfianr,
Marseilles Quilting and
Brilliants,
Black and white Prunellas,
Black, blue, claret, olive
and (ported belt Velvets,
Striped, Ipotted and plain
black and white Gauze,
Window Glass,
Paint ground in oil,
Pins, &c. &r.
August x.
To the Freemen of the City and County
of Philadelphia.
Just IMPORTED and to be SOLD, by
John Donnaldfon, & Co.
At their STORE in Walnut-street, between Front and
Second streets,
A Quantity of French Brandy in Hog
'' (heads, Grenada Rum, byfon, Congo and bohea
Ters, Spanish Cordage and fail Twine, German Steel,
Barcelona Handkerchiefs, black Mode, royal Linens,
Dowlailes, Ticklenburgs, Chintzes, Calicoes, fuper
fine Broadcloths, and olive Oil in jars. Aug. 9.
GENTLEMEN,
A Report being generally circulated through the
city and county within two weeks last past, that
I had declined soliciting the interest of my friends, to
be on the return with colonel Will, as Sheriff for the
city and county of Philadelphia, at the ensuing Elt&i
on. I take this early opportunity of informing the
Gentlemen, that I still continue my intentions of soli
citing my friends for said office at the expiration es co
lonel Will's time ; which, if my fellow citizens think
worthy of, will be esteemed and acknowledged a favour
done, Gentlemen, your most obedient,
THIS ato forwarn all performs from trusting SAR AH
PHILLIPS, the wife of THOMAS PHILLIPS, aa
he will pay no debts of her contra&ing, from the date
hereof. THOMAS PHILLIPS.
Philadelphia, September 25, 1782.
THOMAS IRWIN
Has a few Bales of Beaver
Has for SALE at his Store, the south-east corner of
Market and Fifth-ftreets,
BEST old Madeira, Sherry, Lisbon and Port
Wines, Jamaica Spirits, Weft-India Rum, French
Brand,, double and fingl* refined sugars, &c. &c.
N. B. The Madeira Wine is of the vintage 1775,
and of the best Quality. Aug. 23.
I 0 be Sold or Exchanged for Dry Goods,
A likely Young Horse,
full 16 hands tigh, trots and canters, and goes well
in a chair. Enquire at A. WALKE'sLivery -Stable,
in Church-ape. Sept. 11.
BROKE GAOL,
In the night of the Twenty-Sixth Instant, the follow
ing persons, belonging to the gang that robbed the
Treasury at Newtown, in the county of Bucks, viz#
(IALEB PAUL, about five feet seven inches high,
j twenty-two years of age, (freight built, brown
thin beard, grey eves, had on a white Chirt, white over-'
alls, white Corduroy jacket, dark fuftian coat, broke at
the elbows, new hat and no (hoes.
LEVY DOAN, about nineteen years of age, re
m^kable black hair, swarthy complexion, flend,r
built, had on a white homespun shirt, a pair of over
ahs of the fame, a blue broad cloth jacket without
sleeves, a grey coloured great coat, old (hoes, brafa
buckles, an old 'mail brimmed beaver bat, and very apt
if not in conve+ftion to hare his mouth open. Who
ever apprehends the said robbers, or either of them,
and f cures them in any gaol, shall receive FORTY
DOLLARS for rach, and if brought to Philadelphia,
or Newtown gaol, reasonable charges paid, by
JOHN REYNOLDS, Gaolar,
Sept. 27. of Philadelphia County.
One Shilling Reward.
RAN AWAY from the twhferiber, living in Land
ertfer, on the 15th inflart, a Servant GIRL, name-
HANNAH HALE, about 17 years of age. Whoever
secures the said Setvant,[fo that the owner may have her
again, shall receive the above reward from.
Lancaster, Sept. 16, 1712. GEORGE MUSSER.
FOK SA L E, A
Most excellent Family Horse,
For Chair or Saddle: Also a good R'ding CHAIR
and HARNESS, almost new. Enquire of the Printer.
A PARTNER in a valuable branch of manufac
ture, that will not be aff-&ed by a peace, but
rather ben filed thereby. It will require a capital of
nine hundred pounds. The profits arising from said
manufacture, will be greater than any thing said sum
can he employed in with fafety : it is already triep,
proved, and in good order for working. As the sub
scriber means to give good security for performing
what he undertakes, it is requeued that none but a per
son of integrity and good charader would give them
(elves the trouble to apply. Any person this may suit,
and are inclined to treat, will be waited on, by leaving
a lire d reeled to H. Z. at Mr. Joseph Jewell's tavern,
in Wate r .ttreer, between Market and Arch-streets.
Philadelphia, Sept. 25. A. C.
humble servant,
BENJAMIN M'VEAGH, lieut. col.
id bat. P. C. militia.
Frankford, Mty 17, 1782.
WAN T E D,
William SheafF,
(Of the Fitft Qualify) For SALE.