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GENERA L
FISHING TACKL E,
Of all forts, for ofe cf either sea or river, made and
fol I, wholefde and retail, by
EDWARD P O L E,
At Burlington, in the State of New-Jersey, viz.
HOLLOW and fclid filing-rods, of every kiad;
beftkerby and common fiflh hooks, cf all sizes;
6,8, io and iz Rave pocket-reels; hair, filkand
hemp, fly, angling and trolling lines, of every kind;
together with every other article in the Fifhmg way,
making a compleat assortment.
All orders with the cash, post paid, will be thank
fully received and duly executed; and as the goods
are light, they may be sent by post to most parts of the
Continent.
FRANCIS GIjRNEY^rCo.
Have for sale, in the Town of Lebanon, Lancaster
County, the following articles, viz.
GREEN and bohea tea, coffee, black pepper,
copperas, Walloons, ruffled fh:rts, packets of
puis, sewing needles, best fnuff, and tobacco in hogs
heads,
'To be SOLD by Private Sale,
A LEA G E for three young lives of a lot of ground,
fl containing about twenty five acres of ex client
land, situate in Bohemia Manor, Ca^il County, Ma
ryland, on which is a tan yard, with every conveni
ence for carrying on the tinning-bufineis; also a to
lerable good dwelling-hcufe, with kitchen, meat
boufe, corn house, chair house, dice-maker's fbep for
eight hands, Tables for fix horses, overt with a shed,
a g^rd n, yard, and from the house to the great road
each fide piled, a d also in front, with an %egart gate ;
all the ^forefiid improvements except the dweiling
bufe are entirely rew, rs the greacG: part of t'em
w-r only done last summer; t:ere is also a nuft of
excellent vrter which fusplies both the house and tan
yard, and, in short, there is no place will (tit a t adef
roan of any kind better than it will, as it is in the heart
o* a ire : |.Settle I wholesome country. Any perfim in
cHo^ble to putch de may know the terms by =,/ying
to the owrer on the place.
6 w. ROBERT HODGSON.
F O R S A L F,
CFX thousand ^s cf good land, in sundry trmfr,
L, viz Twelve her fred arr< s adjoining the town of
Carh&' : T is will be fold in lots from twenty to one
hundred acres, as may tub the purchaser. Afo one
other tra& adjoining the town aforefil, containing
four hundred acres, wib valuable improvements,
whereon is erected a large flone mill house 45 feet
fq^re, two water-wheels, three noidtiug-c'o.hs, and
ev^fotber cenvenienby in cem,feat 0 e'er, eighty odd
acres of meadow ground, thirty of which under good
Ttmothv gr s. Oreothe lot, three miles from Car
litie, adjoining Mtthew Miler, containing one hun
dred ant fifty acres. One other lot containing two
hundred a%d fi ty acres, four miles from Caebfle, ad
joining J ones Wakey, Oneohrr lot, fourteen milts
from C:tiifT, upon the Provincial tend to Shippenf
burg, known by the name of the Rich Lands, or Boult
ing's Tree, c^ntcioing five hundred acres. Two
tra&- in Sherman's Valley. Three tra&s in Armagh
and Derry Townships, Juniata. Also three thoufind
fire hundred acres, in the Counties of Bedford and
Weftmoreland, of the belt quality. For terms apply
to the fubioiber, near Caddie.
EFH-AIM BLAINE.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
WAS SFOLE N cut of the house of Andrew
M Kee, in Brandywine Hundred, Newcastle
Counts, a out the 6th of May indent, a neat filv^r
WATCH, the maker's name forgot, but supposed
to be Wklender or Walden, has a China face or dial
plate writ half-hour marks in three gilt foots. Who
ever will feure toe bid Watch, so that the owner,
living in 'Wilmington, may have it again, shall have
the above reward and no questions asked.
SAMUEL BUSH.
Edfi Ca'n, Cbcfler C unty, Ma, 15, 1778.
WA S taken up the 12th day of April last,
about a mile from the sign of th; Ship, a bay
HORSE, about fix years old, near fifteen hands
high, has a hole torn in his nostrils. The ovner is
detired to come, p^ove hi; property, pay charges and
take him away. ANDREW DECKER.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 20th, *1778.
Potts-Toivn, April 16, 1778.
WANTED for the United States,
m NUMBER of experienced TEAM-DRIVERS,
£% to serve tor one year from the time of enlistment,
for which they shall receive Ten Pounds per month :
If required, one month's pay will be advanced to each,
and at the expiration of fix months, if tl 7 produce a
cert fixate of their good behaviour from the Waggon-
Matter General, they shall each receive, as a bounty
and reward for their good conduct, a new suit of
cloaths. Those who arc willing to serve their country
and enlist as Team-drivers, may apply to me in Potts-
Town, Col, Frederick Antis, in Frederick Towd
fhip, or Peter Evans, Eq; in M nrgomery Town
ship. Wanted to hire, a number of good four
horfe TEAMS; lor terms apply to my office in Potts-
Tewn.
NOTICE is hereby given to all persons who have
concealed; or otherwise got into their peffi ffion any
horses, waggons, carts, gears, tenfs, or other eff As
belonging to the United States, that they forthwith de
liver ud the fam' to me in Potts Town, or to some of
rriy Assistants : Those who conceal any of the proper
ty cf the United States after this notice, may expert
to be prosecuted with the 1 most rigour.-.All persons
who know of, or can d feeder any such concealed
property, are hereby reqrfted to give immediate in
formation thereof, for which rff rtHl service to their
country they shall be amply rewarded.
JOHN MITCHELL, D. Q. M G.
TO ~T D,'
On Monday the Gift day c* June next, (or the next
fair da) in Frederick fbhrg, Virginia, for ready
money,
r_ W O t- mf T o r LAN D. enc lying in Spotfyl
^ varia County, fi c md^s from Fredeiickfburg,
contain rg four hundred acr es; fifty acres of exceed
ing go d meadow ground is on th? 4 *~^, —hi} with
very little exptuce, may be cleared and laid under Ti
mothy ; the whole can be watered through the fum
me - with convenience; tbc<e are at Raft goo acres of
woodland to clear, two waggon loads of which may
be carried to town in a day in the winter season with
case ; a finall house with tro rooms and three closets
below, and a ftade and barn. The other tr,?& con
tins mar one tbenOnd acres, and lies in (Ylp.pper
County, Virginia, fifty m les from Fr^deri kfomg and
Durafri :s; about two hundred and eighty acres of it
is low ground of the fi:ft quality: Most of the h : gh
kind is good, and produce grain of every kind well;
thirty acres ts now in meadow, andeffyrds great crops
of hay every year, 70 acres more can be laid down in
grass tlxs fall: A dwelling house and srery edifice for
farming or pla ting is already built: There is not any
plantation better watered in the country, or fitted
in a mo!a healfhy or agreeable neighbourhood. Who
ever in lines to porch Ie may be shewn the land ry ap-
PW R ^ to ^J oveGher on the premises.
WILLIAM THOMPSON.
FOR 1Y DOLLARS REWARD.
CTRAYED or S TO LE N from
L_, the fubferiber, on the 26th cf September last, at
BethLhem, a bay M A R E, nearly full-blooded,
about fourteen hands high, very lengthy made, t ots
naturally and very raft, no brand to my knowledge,
has one of her hind legs cut with a cord above the ham,
which has occasioned grey^hairs a/moft round her leg;
had some appearance of two or thr e white foots on
the near fide, very near her IhocldGh Any person
giving irformaion to Mju - Clark, of the 3 h Vir
ginia regiment, or to myrlif in Hampshire County,
Virginia, f> th^t I can get h-r again, (bill have
TWENTY DOLLARS reward, orifthey Should fend
her home to me, the above reward.
2w. ABEL WESTFALL."
~| o HIS is to forworn all persons from
A taking an assignment of a note of Twen y
Founds, given Tft October to Charles Hughes, which
he obtained b fraud, not hiving fulfilled the bargain
agreed up n, as I intend to difoue it at law. °
THCM AS PATTEN.
C 1 A M.^ to the plantation of the fubferiber,
, living in Brecknock T t wnihiy, LancufterCoun
ty, on the 12th of December lad, a grey MARE,
food round, about fifteen years old, and about four
teen haiids high ; the paces trots, and gallops. The
owner is dehred to com, prove his property, pay
charges &nu take her away.
DANIEL ZUBER.
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ADVERTISER.I
Lancafler, Ma, 19, 177%.
Just imported from Bourd^aux and St. Euttatius, and
to b be fold by
GEORGE DOUGLASS,
At Mr. Paul Witefeli's, in Cheen-ftreet,
BEST old Cogniac brandy, old J^miic r spirits,
bohea and green tea in quarter chetts, coffee in
barrels, calico s, fine Holland, fewi'-g fi k and thread
in half-pound papers, mens neat pumps and shoes,
sewing needles, nutmegs, cinnamon, mace, cl >ves, and
f ffron. An assortment of Medicines, confuting of
j tuits bark, rhubarb, manna, calomiie, sago, opium,
Soanifh flies, affdtetida, ipecacuana, senna, jalop,
qubkfilver, camphor, and tartar emetic.
TT R A Y.E Door's TOLE N,
From the fubferiber, living in Sunbury, in Northum
berland Conner, on th 19th of April last,
A DAPPLE DUN MARE, three years old thii
spring, about fourteen hands high, very fat and
round bodied, white mane and tail, one of her hefs
linked, paces and trots, has not been shod lately; she
is very remarkable for the final! dapple spots. Who
ever secures the said mare so that the owner may get
her again, shall have SIXTEEN DOLLARS reward
and if stolen, THIRTY DOLLARS and reafonab^
charges if the thief he brought to j^ftice. paid by
WILLIAM DE WAR T.
TWENTY SHILLINGS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the fubferiber, living in
Northumberland Town, on Monday right, the
zift of April last, a servant girl named OLIVE
OATLEY, about sixteen years of age, fie feet
high, fair, complexion; had on and took wih her, a
wh : te pudC&zL a JLiftJ ^i?, .ih rt gown cf the
fame, and a white linen bonnet. Whoever secures
fail servant girl in any gyol of this State, shall hav^
the above reward and reafonahle charges, p id by
LAUGHLIN MCaRTNEY.
W AS taken awa Y "° m Falmouth, in
1 V Virginia, by amm pretending a right to im
press him as being on an express to camp, a roan
HORSE, fix years old, fifteen hands high, his gait
a oace; the property of Col. Alexander Spotfwood^ of
Virginia ; the horse may be known by a fear on the
top of his neck, occasioned by a hurt from a collar.
The name of the exmeft was Fanar, of the North-
Carolina cavalry. Whoever wi 1 bring the above de
scribed horse to Col. Meade, at Head Quarters, Col.
George Ross, at Lancaster, Mr. Barrister or
M pr Nicholas, at York Town, shall receive from
either of thole Gentleman a rewaid adequate to hi#
trouble.
EIGHT D.JLLARS^EWARS
CTR AYED or STOLEN out
O of the Barrack Y rd, on W dnefday the wh
init. (May) a large dun HORSE, upwards of sis.
teen nands high, ten or twelve years old, h s a white
mane and tail, is low in fWh, aM has a very fore back
wis shod all round, but has loft his off fore sh le.——^
Whoever will bring him to the fubferiber, living j n
the Barracks Hospital, shall receive the above reward
paid by CATHERINE ROBERTS, Matron.'
THIRTY DOLLARS REWARD:
WAS STOLEN out of the house of the fnb
fcriber, at the Bull-head Tavern, in Weft-Nant
mill Township, Chester County, by a certain Andrew
Kneary, about Twenty-five Pounds in money, and
a pinchbeck Watch with fhagreen covering, the fha
green a good deal worn off, has a green fi k ribband
infteud of a chain, and a fcal set in fiiver. Said Knearv
is a stout well-made man, five feet nine or ten inches
high, about twenty-two years of age, of a fair com
plexion, fair hair turned up before, and speaks with
the brogue; had on a new ftlt hat, a white coat,
jacket and breeches of home made cloth, and a pair
of brogue (hoes. Whoever Secures the said thief in
any gaol in this State, io that be may be brought to
justice and the money and watch be had again, shall
receive the above reward and reafenable chAoet ^u
by_. JOHN FEANEY
C> AME to the plantation of the fubferiber,
/ living in Weft Nrntmill Township, Chester
County, about the firft ot March last, a black MARE
eight or nine years old, thirteen hands high, and trot/
The owner is desired to come, prove his property pay
charges and take her away.'
JAMES ANDERSON.