The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1779-02-06 00:00:00, page 4

Philadelphia, January ^§
TO BE L E T,
On Leases for five years,
THE following Plantations in Eafton township,
Cheder county, about sixteen miles from Philadel
phia, on the Lancaster road, viz. one tra& of one hun
dred and twenty five acres, two tracts, each one hundred
acres, and one tra& of fiaty-eight'acres. Also two
plantations each one hundred and fifty acres, in Norri
ton townffii,, Philadelphia county, nineteen miles Lorn
the city. The above tracts have 'welling hoofer ^nd
other improvements on them. For terms apply to
Charles Thomson, in Market-Street, or Jonathan
Mifflin, jun. in Second-Street, below Walnut-ftibet.
To be SOLD fy Public Vendue,
At the Coffee-houe, on Saturday the fixtl of February •
I ir.ft. at ti/e o'clock in the evening,
A VALUABLE coiner lot of ground, whereon
are erected fix buildings, situate on the weft fide
of Front street and north fide of Chriftian-ftteet, in the
diftria of Southwark, fronting on Christian street one
hundred aud twenty eight feet, on which front are two
brick houses eighteen feet each front, with two story
brick kitchens, one frame building sixteen feet front,
twolftories high, with a vacant lot weft of said frame
house, twenty feet front, and fronting on Front-Street
fever; 'feet, on which front is eroded a two-dory brick
houty i yenteen feet front, and with its back buildings of
brick, and two Rories high, Seventy feet deep; on the
back part of laid large lot is likewise ereded one large
fra.ne building two stories high, twenty-four by nine
teen feet, built so, 1 P. lughter-houfe and almost new,
and a brick building built for a frhoke house, ten feet
fix inches by nine feet fix inches, with a large vacant
lot on the corner of said described lot, fifty-three feet on
Front street and fifty three feet on Chriftian-ftteet : The
whole fubje& to a ground-rent of seven pounds curren
cy per annum. Far further particulars and conditions
of sale enquire of the fubferiber in Southwark, where a
plan of the whole may be seen.
EDWARD BARRAT,
N. B. In said Barrat's custody is a young bright bay
Mare, about thirteen hands high. The owner proving
property and paring chrjes may have her again. 6.
TO BE SO L D,
On Tuesday the ninth day of February instant, at the
late house of Joseph Comely, in the manor of More
land, near Buffel-town,
AHORSE, a Cow, all forts of Houfhold Goods
and Kitchen Furniture, Hay, &c. Likewise the
day following will be fold, at the houses of John Burk
and John Loughborough, a likely Negro Boy, fourteen
years of age, has had the small pox, is smart and a&ive;
also Hories, Cows, ten Hogs, Houfhold and Kitchen
Furniture, Hay, and many other things too tedious to
mention. The sale to begin at Ten o'clock on each
doy. Seized and to be fold by
GEORGE SMITH, Agent.
To be SOLD by Public Vendue,
On Tuesday the ninth day of February instant, at Four
o'clock in the afternoon, on the premises,
TW 0 neat well finished Dwelling-houses and Ven
due-ftore, situate on the corner of South and
Front streets, containing forty feet on Front-street and
thirty five feet on South street, with a paved yard forty
feet long and twelve feet wide, and the privilege of a
pump of good water near the back gate. For particu
lars apply to John and Chamless Hart, at said store.
Philadelphia, January z§.
To be SOLD at Public Sale,
On Saturday the thirteenth day of February next, at
Five o'clock in the afternoon, at the Coffee house,
(if not before disposed of at private sale)
ACER TAIN frame tenement, and lot or piece
of ground, fi(u te in Wicacoe, (In the district of
Southwark) on the w^ft fide of S^ animn street, between
Qjeen and Catharine streets, containing in breadth on
S^anfon-ftreet, eighteen feet, and extending in depth
two hundred and hirteen feet; late the estate of Mary
Jones, deceased. For terms apply to Philip Leng
aud Hannah Jones, in Vine-Street, near Second-street.
N. B. The above premises are clear from ground rent,
and the title is indisputable.
TAMES n ew port, DiftiHer,
Within the next gate-way below the Bunch of Grapes
tavern, in Third-Street, (being the DdtilUiy for
merly occupied by Mr. Samuel Burge) has fer Sale,
NEAT plain BRANDY,
RASBERRY ditto,
GENEVA,
ANISEED WATER,
SPIRITS of WINE, (proper for raising low proof
liquors.)
N. B. He informs his customers that he keeps a con
stant supply of the above articles, which may at all
times be depended on as excellent in quality; and at
the lowest rates ri ffible, 24 . t.
OFFICE for CONVEYANCING and SALE
of REAL ESTATES.
TO BE SOLD,
A NVMBER of Houses and Lots in and near this
1 ci fr y, Plantations in the country, and a great quan
tity of unimproved Tra&s of Lahd in most of the dif
ferent counties. For a more particular description of the
above premises and the terms of sale, apply to Edward
Bonsall and Abraham Shoemaker, at their Of
fic^ in Fourth street, between Spruce and Pine streets,
and opposite the end of Union-Greet, where Deeds,
Mortgages, Bonds, Wills, and all other kinds of Writ
ings are drawn with tl : greatest care, neatness and dis
patch, and money let uut at interest.
PHILADELPHIA: Printed and Sold by JOHN DUNLAP, in Mafket-ftreet.
q^O BP SOLD, for Continental Bills of May to,
' 1777, and April 11, 1778, called out of circulation,
A BRICK HOUSE andLOT of GROUND,
situate on the north fide of Hill-street, sometimes caked
Cherry-street, between Third and Fourth-Streets. The
Lot contains seventeen feet and an half in Breadth and
one hundred and thirty nine feet in length : the House is
twenty-five feet deep and three stories high, with a brick
Kitchen, twenty-five by eleven feet and an half, and two
stories high. The whole free from ground-rent, or any
incumbrance whatever. For terms apply to
BENJAMIN HARBESON, in Market-Street.
Longer Dublin Tonvnfoip, Jan 3c.
AL L persons indebted to the estate of Wil
liam Sutton, deceased, are desired to chi on
the fubferiber in two weeks from this date, and make
payment; and those who hrze any demands against the
said estate are defined to tail for payment.
WILLIAM SUTTON, Administrator.
THIRTY DOLLARS REWARD.
LOST, between Philadelphia and the Lower Ferry,
about fix weeks ago, a Silver WAT C H, wth a
China face, a steel chain and silver seal, and a chafed
case. Whoever taa found said Watch and will return
it to the fubferiber, living on the Lower Ferry road,
(hall have the above reward.
Feb. 1. FREDERICK DESMONG.
N. B. Should said Watch be offered for sale to any
persons, tb y are desired to stop it.
ALL persons who have any kind of business to tranf
a& with the Officers of the Pennsylvania Line, are
hereby notified, 'hat there will be a ready conveyance
for their letters, &c. by leaving them at Mr. Funk's,
inn keeper in Seeond-ftreet, er at Mr. Thomas Brad
ford's book store adjoining the Coffee house, from whence
they will be immediately forwarded to Camp by runners
appointed for the purpose, who start from Philadelphia
every Thursday morning.
TO BE SOLD, a young, hearty, found NEGRO
' GIRL, sixteen or seventeen years old. For further
particulars enquire of Mr. John Jarvis, at the Sign of
the Conneftogoe Waggon in Market-Street.
TO BE SO L D,
For Continental Money only,
ON E hundred and twenty three acres of land on
Powell's Creek, in Upper Paxton Town Ship, in
the County of Lancaster.
Five hundred and twenty-five acres of land in Tur
butt Township, in the County of Northumberland.
An undivided half of one thousand and fifty-five and a
half acres of land on the Shawney-Cabin Creek, in the
County of Bedford.
An undivided Share of Indiana, containing a large
body of land on the River Ohio, granted to the funfer
ers of 1763.
A 44th part of two undivided large tra&s of land on
the Miffifippi River, in the Illinois country.
For terms of sale apply to the fubferiber, living in
Lancaster. 6. LEVY ANDREW LEVY,
T O BE SO L D?~
W O Tenements and three Lots in Southwark,
3 containing in front one hundred and three feet, and
in depth about eighty feet. Enquire of George
Campbell; in Walnut-street, Philadelphia, ts.
Camp, Millflone, January 6.
THIRTY DOLLARS REWARD.
DESERTED from the third Pennsylvania Re
giment, in July 1777, Peter Bowerman, for
merly of Weefeberg townffiip, Northampton county,
supposed to be now on the weft branch of Susquehanna,
Machatungy township, Northumberland county. Who
ever takes up and secures said deserter, so that, he may
be delivered to the Regiment, Shall have the above Re
ward and reasonable charges, paid by
THOMAS CRAIG, Col. 3 d P. Reg.
TO BE SO L D,
For Continental Money, in the country,
A LIKELY healthy Negro Man, has had the
fmalLpox and mealies, aged twenty-one years.
Enquire at Michael Clark's, at the sign of the Blue
Bari in Chefnut-ftrecr, or at the Work house in Phila
delphia.
WA S taken up between Marcus-Hook and
Jhefler, a Negro Man named BEN, fays he
lately belonged to one Wilson, in Water-street, Phila
delphia : He is now in Chester gaol. His owner is de
sired to come, prove his property, pay charges and take
him away, otherwise he will be fold for his fees, this
being the second time he has been advertised.
ROBERT SMITH, Sheriff.
TO BE SOLD BY
JOHN D UNL A P,
In Mafket-ftreet, Philadelphia,
AFE W sets of CHESTERFIELD'S LETTERS,
.n four volumes.
Leland's History of Ireland.
A few sets of Josephus's Works, neatly bound.
A number of odd volumes of Blackstone's Com
mentaries.
Rural Oeconomy.
Dilworth's Spelling-Books.
AL S O,
Adminiculum Puerile: Or, an Help for School-Boys.
By P. Davys.
Greece Grammatics Inftitutio Compendaria. In ufam
Scbolarum. Autbore Edv. WETTENHAL, D. D. Nuper
Epifeopo Kilmer, & Ardag.
DURING the time the enemy were in
p&ff.ffion of this city there were t«ken eut of the
house of the Rev. Doftvr Ewing, in Third-street, three
pine tables, a dozen of walnut chairs without bottoms,
the lower half of a large walnut theft of drawers, a low
mahogany chest of draweis, an iron chett, a walnut ta
ble with a screw fixed on it for sealing indraments of
writing, a low bedfiead with a sacking bottom, and a
cot bedstead. If any perlon can give information where
the above mentioned articks, or any of them are, io
tha. the owner may have them again, the kiednefs shall
be gratefully acknowledged and rewarded, by
JOHN EWING.
N. B. There is a walnut chest of drawers on a fcnl
left in the house, not belonging to me. The owner is
desired to come and take it aw?y.
L. FISHER, Dentist.
Living in Fourth-street, between Race ani Arch streets,
opposite the new German Church, Philadelphia.
Hr' A KES this method to inform the p üblic, that he
& continues to practice the art of Dentistry in all its
branches. Those persons who have had the misfortune
of losing their teeth, by applying to him may have teeth
transplanted er r Tural teeth grafted. He also cleans teeth
iu the neatest manner, and sets artificial ones from a fina
le teoth to a compleat set, which will look so natural
that they cannot be difeerned from the true ones, he has
given fufficient proof of his judgment in this art both in
New-York and this city.
N. B. He will wait on ladies and gentlemen who will
please to fc vor him with their commands.
Chester Town, Kent County, Maryland, Jan. 16.
WA S taken up in Knt County, feme time in
June last, and committed to the county gaol,
three Negro Men : Two of them broke f. id gaci in tww
or three days and made their escape : The other who
stayed calls himfelfJACK, fays he is the property of
one John Gordon, of Cumberland county, Virginia ;
he is about ax or 23 years of ags, 5 feet 3or 9 inches
high, lender made, has a remarkable fear on one tide
of his neck which he fays was occasioned by a burn when
he was final! ; when takn he had on lome foidier's
cloaths. The owner is defined to com- % prove his pro
perty, pay charges and take him away.
ANDREW MYERS.
THE partnerfllip of BUDDEN and
STRAKER having dissolved some time
past, all persons indebted to them are desired to difeharge
their accounts immediately, and all those who have any
demandsagainft the said partnership, are desired to call
on JAMES BUDDEN, who will difeharge the fame.
THE fubferiber has for sale, at his house
in Front-street, opposite Mr. Thomas Pen,ofc's
Ship-yard, in Southwark, a quantity of good Welt-
India and French RU M, in hogsheads and tierces,
which will be Sold at the lowest prices for circulating
cash. JOHN TURNER.
N. B. Likewise a few tons of HAY to be fold fog
the cm ffi ms called in by Congreis.
TH E Citizens of Philadelphia who wish to
become fubferibers for the New-Jersey Gazette,
may enter their names with Moses Bartram, Apo
thecary, in Second street, a few doors above Arch
ftreet, or with Robert Aitken, Printer and Book
seller, in Front-street, nearly opposite the Coffee-houfe,
at+One Dollar and an Half per quarter, the money to
be paid at the time of entrance.
to B^ sOL D,
CEVERAL Houses and Lots of Ground in and
0 about the city, Plantations in the country, and about
fix thousand acres of unimproved Land, lying in diffe
rent tracts or parcels of about three hundred acres each,
in Northumberland County. For terms of sale apply
to Assheton Humphreys, Conveyancer and Attor
ney at Law, at his office in Second-ft cet, between
Spruce and Union-Streets.
Philadelphia, Jan. 19.
—TO BE L~E T
On reasonable terms, and may be entered on immedi
ately,
ASMALL Plantation situate at the four-mile stone
on Wiffahickon road, containing near twelve acres
of land, having thereon a small stone dwelling-house,
milk-houSe, Stable and barn, with a pump of good wa
ter at the door. The mansion-house will be reserved,
and is to let separate for a summer feat, unless it is most
agreeable to the tenant to have the whole together.—
Also to be let on ground-rent, a small lot lying on the
south fide of Lombard-street, between Second and Third,
streets, adjoining Mr. Shute's foap-chandlery, being
twenty feet in breadth and seventy-seven feet in depth.
Enquire of Elizabeth Harris, opposite the Church
Burying-ground Gate in Arch-street.
Ran away about a month ago, a very Short, thick-set,
well-made young Mulatto Man Slave, named JACK,
alias John Morris, about twenty years old, a taylor by
trade, full faced, has a large bulhy head of curled hair,
is very talkative, and much given to liquor; had on
when he went off, a suit of lightish cloth cloaths, &c.
As he lived sometime with Doctor Hutchinson, is well
known by most of the officers' black servants, some of
whom fay, that he is working at his trade in or about
camp. Whoever may apprehend him and will convey
him to the fubferiber, or secure him so that he may be
had again, Shall be generously rewarded by
ELIZABETH HARRIS.
—— B~E sO L D,
At RICHARD BARRY's, the sign of the Bull
and Dog in Market-street, a few doors from the cor
ner of Second-Street,
Several dozens of Red Port WINE.