The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1779-11-23 00:00:00, page 1

Father Abraham's ALMANACKS,
For the YEAR 1780,
TO BE SOLD BY
JOHN DUN LAP.
german" aIm ANAc KS,
For the YEAR 1780,
TO BE SOLD BY
JOHN D UNL A P.
Just published and to be fold by Joseph Crukshank,
POOR WILL'S
POCKET A LMA N AC K,
For the YEAR 1780,
Just yubtifhed and to be fold by JOHN DUNLAP,
FATHER ABR&HAM'a
POCKET ALMANACK,
For the YEAR 1780.
Philadelphia Manufacture.
TO BE SOLD by tha fubfcrco^r, at his Manu
' fa&ory in South-Alley, be ween Market a: a Arch-
Greets and between Fifth and Sixtb-ffreet#, on Hudson's
square, an assortment of Costings Blanketing, Saga
tbies, Jeans. Everhftings, &c.
SPIN NERS employed as ufual.by
as. SAMUEL WETHEkiLL, Jun.
To be SOLD by Public Vendue.
& Ten o'clock this morning, at the hovfe of jAaoB
Harman, in Second- ftrert, rear Spruce-Street .<
pART of his FURNITURE, htbeingabo.it
' moving into the coun y, viz. An elegant pair of
mahogony chert of draweis, a ditto tea tafre, a mining
table, iundry chairs, elegant maho^ony bedheads, a next
settee look ng-glafe, moreen window-curtains, br^fs^nd
ton andirons, Shovels 2nd tongs, a neat brass finder,
Confer, water-Jiffies and plates, a large ja,an'd whiter, a
gld's pyramid, Several wire bird-cages, and sundry other
articles. Nov. 23.
To be SOLD by Public Vendue,
On Monday the zgth of November infant, at ten .'clock,
on the place wh^re the fubfcri:,cr now lives, in Paffyunk
t>wn<hip, for cash only,
TT ORS ES, three very likely Milch Coos, a quanti
ty of the best fort of Poretb#% and between ana and
two hundred bu She's of Indian-corn and o.ts, ten or twelve
tons of excellent fitff and facond crop Hay, the growth of
the place. Also a ve x y good frame building, 26 fat by
20, Very firing, and fit to move, the thingies and weathr
boards all cedar. Attendance wdl be gven, by
BENJAMIN HEMING.
N. R. The Indian corn end Potatoes will btola in
small lo ts of five or ten bezels each, and will be deli
vered at a moderate expence to such as require it at their
refp?aive dwellings.
Nov. 20.
To be SOLD by Public Vendue,
At the Coffee-Haufe, an Wednesday the fir# day of D:-
cembar next, at hx o'clock in the evening,
A CERTAIN LOTT of GROUND, laying in Prf
n fyunk township, contains ntwalva acrosand fifty
perches of good land, a (mall wooden tenement thereon
ere&ed, a very good well of water at thedoor, the whole
well fenced, and laying about 3 miles from he city, tr,d
a quarter of a mile from Schuylkill, and joining budsof
Christian Derick. For further particulars apply to Ma
ry Brown, in Market-street.
WOOD WANTE D.
ANY person having a quantity of W OeO D with
-1 in 5 miles of Philadelphia and d'fires fto ddpde
thereof, are requested to communicate their terms to
GIBBS JONES, at his office in the barracks.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
A NUMBER of good WOOD-FLATS, to
" engage for two months, or longer, if the navigati
on in Delaware is not impeded. Apply to G. JONES,
at his office in the Barracks.
CAME to the plantation of the fubferiber
in Norrinton township, femetime in June last, a
fmail red and white spotted BULL, about two years
old. The owner proving his property and paying cefts
may have him again, otherwise he will be fold accord
ing to law to pay carge#.
October 27. WILLIAM DEWEES.
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HBOSBI
GENERAL
TUES^.. Y,
O R
[ Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. ]
Philadelphia County, ff.
PURSUANT to a writ to me directed, under the
hand and leal of the Honorable John Bayard, Esq;
Speaker of the Honorable Houle of Representatives of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, dated at Philadel
phia the tenth day of November, one thou sand seven
hundred and seventy-nine, commanding me that I Should
canfa to be elected one fuftable person far a Representa
tive in the General Aikmbly for th: laid county of Phi
ladelphia, in the room of the Honorable Archibald
Thompson, E'q; deceased. These are therefore to
give public notice to the Freeholders and others of the
county of Philadelphia, qualified to vote, to m:et on
Wednesday the twenty-fourth day of this inftimt, (No
vember) at Ten o'clock in he forenoon, at the three fe
ver*! dirtria, in the said county: And the Judges of
Elation and Inspectors of the different to^nShips who
fervid t the last general election, are hereby required
to attend at their refpeaive places of ele&ion for each
diftrift at the time aforefaid, m order to proceed to the
election aforefaid. Dord at Philadelphia the eleventh
day of November, 1779.
JAMES CLAYPOOLE, 'Sheriff.
IN pursuance of the lall Will and Testament
of W lliam Jones, lath 01 s.fuel townfnip, in the
county OK Lancatfer, yeoman, deccafed, th?re will be
fold by >y Puric Vendue, cn the fifteenth day of
December next. te Yearly Rent and Income o f town
called William burg, fruuc in the forks 0! Little
an:; Bi S*ag^ C^ ^, together with a Plantation and
T/^a 0! L^d lyi'ig cdjacrnt to laid town, containing
about eihy a„>u. The file to begin at Ten o'clock
in du fen..con, at the I cite of Matthes Henning,
where due attendance will he given by
SAMUELJONES, Executor.
WE the fubferibers, a Committee of Griev
ances, here y give notice to the Public, That
the Did Committee will meet in the Library Room
(up-stairs) in the Siate-boufe, at half past Nine o'clock
in the morning of M ?ndays, Wednesdays and Fridays,
during the prebn! fiiini/ of the General Affembiv.
CHARLES W PEALE, ABRAHAM SMITH,
ROBERT KNOX, JONATHAN JONES,
ARTHUR WATTS, JOHN RALST ON,
DAVID THOMAS, JOHN BURD,
JOHN WHITEHALL, ROBERT MARTIN.
JAMES DIXON,
Committee Chamber, Nov. 17, 1779.
Philadelphia, November . 7. 1779.
Notice is hereby giren, That the Sub
scribers *ill attend in the Committee Room, in
the St^te hou<e, it Nine o'chek in the morning on
T usfday, Thu/hUy and Saturday every week during
the fitting of the General AtCmbly, to examine and
fettle such public accomptt as mail be brought before
them. WILLIAM HARRIS,I
WILLIAM COATS,
JAMES JACKS. , ,
MICHAEL SHWBART, > Committee of
JONATHAN HOGE, 1 Accompts.
s-imuel dale,
DANIEL HEESTER, jun.'
JOHN REDMAN and Co.
At their store in Front-street, near the corner of Cbaf
nut-ftreet, formerly occupied by Mr. Nathan Bulh,
have >'or SALE, wholesale arid retail,
01, D Jamaica Spirits, Wait-India Rum by the hog
shead or gallon, bohea tea, ci ffc% pepper, indigo,
loaf and mufcovado sugar in box^; a few pipes of old
Madeira wine, of whivh they intend to keep a constant
supply.
OUEEN's WARE PLATES,
China Bowie and Nib rs , exaft measures,
Ditto handled enamelled Coffees,
Ditto half pint Bowls Mid Saucers,
Ditto Tea Cups and S-ucers,
Blue and white Slop- Bowls,
Ddhei and Pattipao, 1
Cut stemmed Win, Gb ffe*,
Seiling at S TANBURY's S ore in Front-ftr^t, near
Black herfe Allay, Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, November 17,
TWENTY DOLLAR S REWARD.
STRAYED or STOLEN from a lot on the
Commons of this city, a fttawberry roan MARE,
about thirteen and a half hands high, rising four year*
old, a natural trotter, shod all round, and has a star in
her face. & Whoever will deliver laid Mare to James
Byrne, in the Commons, ihall have the above reward
no and questions asked.
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ADVERTISER
NOVEMBER 23, 1779.
An ACT more effectually to prevent counterfeiting the
Continental Loan Office Certificates; the Continental
Loan-Office Bills of Exchange, and tie Paper Money
of the United Stales of America, or any of them
WH EREAS the wa^t of a fufficimt quantity of
gold and filter, to anfver the purposes of com
merce, the exigencies of government, and to tarry on
the prefentjuft and necessary *ar agai^fl the Kin, of
Great Britain, induced the Congrris f the Uni^d Co
lonies, '-nd now St^cs of America, and aifo rhe Affemidies,
Congresses and Conventions ofthe several Thirteen Co
lonies, and now States of America, to emit and c r^rc
late certain paper Bills of Credit,t) pass in payments or
limited pr^.lb, when their redemption is provided
for, the counterfeiting of which, or toe ottering the feme
so counterfeited, as and tor true, goodan. I genuine bills,
knowing the fame to be so counterfeited, hath usually been
made felonies in these United States refpe€hvely. AND
IV HERE AS by An Aft intitled ' A^ Aft for making
the Continental Bills of Credit, and the Bills of Credit emit
ted by Resolves of the late Affembiies legal tender, and
for other purposes therein mennoaed," the counterfeiting
of such paper Bills of Credit, or uttering any ol tnem so
counterfeited, knowing them to be such, which were issued
before the twenty-eighth day otJ Dairy, iu the yrar one
thousand seven hundred and severity fev<n, are made felo-'
nies of death without benefit of Clergy ; and the counter
feiting the Bills of Credit of this Commonwealth, made and
issued by virtue of An Ad, intitled ''Ao Ad for emit
ting the sum of two hundred thousand pounds in Bills of
Credit, for the defence of this State, and providing
a fund for finking the fame by a tax on ail estates
real and perioral, and on all taxables within the fame,"
or emitted and made current by the refolvee of the late
Assemblies of Pennsylvania, or the ottering such Bills,
knowing them to be counterfeit, as aforefaid, is, by the
said A& made a felony of death, but not ousting the be
nefit of Clergy. AN DWHEREAS the counterfeit
ing the Certificates of the Continental Loan-Offices, or a
ny of the Bills of Credit, emitted by the resolves of the
Cengrefs of the United States, or felling, giving in
payment or otherwise uttering ® r diftriburing any o' the
said counterfeit Certificates or Bilk of Credit knowing
them to be such, is, by an Aft intitled " An Aft for , u
nifhing the counterfeiting the Continental Loan-Offi rmCer
tificates and Lottery Tickets," made a felony of death, not
ousting Clergy; and the counterfeiting any ofihe f a : d pa
per Bills of Credit, or Continental Loan-Office Certificates
or uttering any of them, knowing tnem to be so counter
feited, which have issued since the twenty fifth dry of
May, 1778, and also the counterfeiting or utte<ing as afore,
said, any of the Continental Loan Office Bills 0 Ex
change, punishable only by the common law. AND
WHEREAS it is just and right that off-nos and
crimes of equal enormity and guilt mould receive the
like punishments, and it highly interest. each of the Uni
ted States, by all means in their power to provide against
the debasing of their medium of commerce,
Be it therefore enabled, and it is hereby enabled by the
Representatives of tie Freemen of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and by the autho.
rity of the fame, That from and afrer the publication of
this Act, if any person or perfon® (hall, within this tate
®r elsewhere, prepare, engrave, stamp, for. e or print or
cause or procure to be prepared, engraved, slumped formed
or printed, the counterfeit rtfemblance of any 'paper fils
of Credit issued, emitted or made by the CongreC of rhe
United States of America, or by the Assemblies, Congrefrs
Conventions, or other legislative authority of this, or of
any other of the said States, or which Shall be issued, emit
ted or made by them refpedively, on or before the firft day
of January now next ensuing, or of any of the Certificates
of the several Continental Loan Offices, or Continental
Loan Office Bills of Exchange issued or m de, or wh^ch
Shall at any time hereafter be issued or made; or Shall
counterfeit or fen the name or names of the Signers of any
'% Bills or Loan Office Certificates, or Continental Lean-
Office Bills of Exchange, to such counterfeit paper, with
an intention that such counterfeit paper Shall be passed in
payments, or received as genuine and good Bills Certi
ficates or Bills of Exchange, whether the fame be so passed
or received, or not; or if any pe r son or persons Shall, in
fans State, pass, pay, or tender in payment, any such
counterfeit Money or Certificates, or Bills of Exchange
or deliver the fame to any other perlon or period
with an intention that they be passed; paid or received, ^
In GENERAL ASSEMBLY, November 19, 1779.
The Bill intitled " An Aft more effranahy to prevent
counterfeiting the Continental Loan-Office Certificates,
the Continental Loan Office Bills of Exchange, and the
Paper Money of the United States of America, or any of
them," was read a second time, and being debated by pa
ragraphs, was ordered to be trans ribed and published for
consideration. Extract from the Minutes',
THOMAS PAINE,
Clerk of the General Assembly.
PHILADELPHIA.
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