The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1779-05-22 00:00:00, page 4

To be SOLD by Public Vendue,
Qu Thursday the twemy-fc^nth of May instant, at
tffi duelling-kerf of the fubferiber, in Second ftrett,
near the Dock bridge, at Nine o'clock in the m rning,
A NUMBER of empty calks, confuting of hogf
,\ heads, tierces and barrels; one large* on bound
7^.1 that will contain fix hundred gallons, the ftavea
made of good white oak? near two inches thick, and it
would fust well for a distiller, brewer or (tore keeper;
one fmrJlei iron bound tub or vtffel that will hold one
hundred gnilun?, it has been made use cf far holding .
oil, the haves an inch and a half thick, made of good
cedar, and painted within and without ; one large case
for holding dry goods, with Aiding sash doors centain
ir.^ thirty lights of glaQ; a quantity of iron hoops,
some dye-wood, a final! quantity of Crumcreek scythe
ftone^, tome handsome maps, a few empty gin c-fe„ a
large corner cupboard, foint joiners tools, somep wter,
a few (mail articles of tilver, two or three frames, or
horses for fixing hbgfheads on, and a number of other
articles too tedious to mention.
ABRAHAM WAYNE.
T O BE SO L D,
At Mm MAGDALEN DEVINES, in Second-
Iteet, opposite to the Golden F,eece,
A parcel of English PASTEBOARD,
Three quarters and one yard.
TO B E S OLD,
A NEAT four-wheeled CHAISE, wrthharnefs
• for two hurfes, armpit new; a fn-iebsrfe
CHAIR, with a leathern top, and h^rnafs; and a
li,;ht four-wheeled WAGGON, with a covered top,
very little the worse for wear. Enquire of the Fritter.
F!;%A KPN UP the eleventh ihft. (May) by the
A subscriber at tbcFalls ofSchuvlk:ll, afoy Hoi,E,
.fourteen or fifteen years old, branded P on *he thoy^er,
about fourteen hands high, trots, t^o hind fe.t white,
and has a large Rar. The owner Is d fired to come,
prove his property, pay charges and tike him away.
AARON HUNTER.
/"^ AM E to the fubferiber's, in Oxberry
I, township, Philadelphia County, near Schuylkill,
a young bay MAR E, about fourteen hands high, her
age is not rightly kho,n, but is believed to be two or
three years old this spring. The owner ir defined to
come, wove bis property, pay charges and take her
away.' JAMES THOMAS.
Port of Philadelphia, Pennfylvar.it, ff.
TO ALL whera it may concern.
NOTICE is hereby given, That a Court of Ad
miralty will ba held at the'Copr-houfe in the city
es Philadelphia, on the ninth day of June next, at Ten
o'clock in the forenoon of the lame day, then and there
to try thi truth cf the fads alledged in the bill of Robert
Chhins, &c. (who as well, &c.) against the brig or
vessel called the Sally, her tackle, apparel, furniture
and cargo : To the erid and intent that the owner or
owners, or ny person or perlons concerned therein, m,y
appear and ftiew cause, if any they have, why thefame
brig, kz. foould not bp condemned according to the
prayer es the laid bill.
May <B. GEORGE ROSS, Jul%
Philadelphia, May io.
^TZ HER EAS I the fubferiber fland in-
V debted by bond in the sum of One Hundred
Pounds p ineipab ^d lonic interest therein, unto
George Ksorr, of the fai.l city, bgr, .who assigned
, the laid ooud to J;hn Pemberton, of Re said city, gen
t^m^n, to whom I pave offered payment of the princi
pal, and iatereft dwe on the said Bond, by making him
a tender of the money, which he, the laid John. Pember
ton, has refufed to receive; and on my application to
him for that purpose, he declared to me that be had
aliened the faA bond to (9me.othrr.pe: fey, whose name
hejeiufes tp make known to mt. Whete/cue Ido here
by inform tfe perfori er persons to whom such assign
Asht may be made, that if the bond and papers relative
thereto are not produced, and a demand of the debt
nude, on or before the firft day of July next, that I
intend to pay the. fame into the.hinds of the Treafu er
appointed by Law to receive debts forfeited in like
^RUDOLPH LEHR^
Germantown, May 14.
f ~lT' H E Union Sthool-houfe at Germantown
g is now become vacant; two Maftirs are immedi
ately wanted, one to teach English, the other the Ger
man language. There is a house, garden and orchard
rent free for each of them, in a fine healthy pah of the
country. The Truftfes Will meet >t the said Schools
house on Thurlby the twenty seventh infant, at Three
o'clock in the afternoon, to receive such proposals as
may then offer. Na person will be accepted but those
who come well recommended. A Mistress to teach
young women the use of the needle will be vfry accept
able.
T O B~E ~S 0 L 1),
A FAMILY COACH, that opehs in the front,
with harness for a pair of horfrs; also two good
SELKIES, with h.rnefs compl^at. Enquire of
Alexander Quarrier and Co, in Fourth ffreet, near
the Indian Queen.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
To R EN T,
A HOUSE for a find! family, with paftur^ge, near
the city; or part of a houle with a good family;
for which a generous price will be given. Enquire of
the Printer.,'
PHILADELPHIA: Printed and Sold by JOHN DUNLA P, in Market-ftre%
Ei ILLS of EXCHANGE on any ^rt of Ett
} rope are wanted toy COXE, FURMAN and
COX E, who have for fete, fail and Leaing needles,
edgings, ribbands, coarft (hoes, lignum vit% refined
bar lion, &% ts.
~T~O BT LTT
q, W O Dwelling-houses, of which peffeffiun will be
1 given in a few wecka. One cf them has on the
lower floor a small hall, two parlours, an office and/ a
kitchen ; the chambers arid garrets are pretty gocd.
The other is a small house fit for a tradefinaru Apply
to TENCH COXE."
TO BE SOLD BY
T H OMAS GOUCHER,
Scythe and Sickle maker, at the fi r of the Scythe and
trickle in hfoket-ttreet, next door to the sign of the
Black H wfe, between Fourth and Fifth ftrecU; Ftri
ladelphia,
F^ RASS and Cradling Scythes and Sickles, warrant
'ed or unwarranted good, by whelefiie and ret 0 ;
also English Steel by the faggot, excellent good. 8.
^^7AS STOPPED at the Seen Stars tavern,
VV on the Lancaster rord, twelve m'les from Phi,
on the fourth inftart, (May) a black HORSE, fit
teen han 1s I i^h, fsur stars old, fupp®fed to be Rolen.
The owner is hereby^fi^ed to g'e^e, prove bis propers
'tv, pay charges and take Ipm a^y.
DAVID BRIS£S,
TO BE SOLD BY
JOS EP H PA L, ME R,
At his 1 store in Water street, next door but one ab^ve
Mess Harricy.nd Ports, and nearly opposite the Old
Pert), Philadelphia,
OLD Madeira wine by the pipe, hoglhead, quarter-,
calk or gallon ; eld spirit by the hagfhead, barrel
or gallon; Weft India rum by the bedhead, barrel cr
gallon ; molaffea by the hogfynd or gallon ; loaf, clay
ed and raufwovado sugars, by the loaf, ho^frad or bar
rel ; coffee by the rie<, or barrel; chocolates fine hyfon,
fouchabg and bphe, ha; mate, tinnamofy nutmegs,
cloves, black pepper, allspice, ginger, rice, cotton,
indigo by the tierce or barrel, che+ fe, &c. &c.
All the ^bove Goods are of the firit quality ; be keeps
- a conft^rt iffortment, fills them cr the molt rehfouabie
terms wholesale or mail, and win be obliged to thole
who may be pl afed to favour him with their custom.
T O B E "so LD,
j N elegant HACKNEY Any person wanting
<+ to purchase fyeh a one, may perhaps Ite fruited by
enquiring of Mr. Imlay, at M s. Rivers's, in Arch
.ftr*et,. Philadelphia.'i
—
A HEALT H Y, aftive Negro Man, brought up to
" farming, and is capable cf doing abreft all kinds
of plantation wo/k, Also a neat Riding Chair. For
terms apply to Andrew Carscn, in Market street
above Fifth-ftreet, Philadelphia.
TOBES O L D,
A LIKELY floor ^EGRO MAN, tweraty-
A ftven years of age, fitfor town of country and is
remarkable for hi -aversion to liquor. Enquire of
JOHN PATTERSON, Bl^krfmith.
,TWENTY DOILARS REWARD.
qTRAYED or STOLEN from the fubferiber,
' living in Race fLett, near Fifth-ftreet, Philadelphia,
the latter end of April la,ft, a small hlick MA RB,
about three y^ars old, and about thirteen hands high,
her mane cut ihort on the offside, a short switch tail,
trots and canterg, newly shod before. Whoever takes
up and secures the said m.re so that the owner may
have her again, fliall receive the above reward and re&
finable charges, paid
lACOB WTNEY.
E OR 3 A L E,
At BATCHFLER's Store-cellar, at the corner of
' Wrinut rrd F ont ftrgets, (underneath Mr. John
Rwmold's)
EXCELLENT bottled Cyder, ^y the groce or
dozen, much preferable to any low wines, and he
Will engage it to keep in any climate. Also fine bottled
Beer, and good Vinegar, &c. &c.
N, B. Merchants aird Captains of v^fills may be fu,-
plied with try quantity on the shortest notice
Philadelphia, May 10.
WAS TAKEN UP, out of the Glou
cester meadows', on this fide,of Hollanders Creek,
the ninth of this infant, a light bay HORSE, thirteen
hands high, between eight and nine years old, branded
HT. Whoever has left, the said horse may have him.
again by applying at the fi # n of the Battle of Monmouth,
in. Market-ftiect, near Seventh street, proving property
and paying charges. «
WA S taken up adrift fame time ago, be
low Fort Miffl,n, a large Moles built BOAT,
with her stern broken, and fall of mud and water —
Whoever has loft said Boat is desired to apply to the
Commanding Officer on board the Hancock Galky, now
lying at Fort Mifflin, prove property, pay charges arid
take her away, omerwife fee will be difpbfed of.l
—r —— — E -- — EC
AN elegant CHARIOT, with harness complex'.
Likewise a COACH and WAGGON, with
harness for four horses, or one pair of harness Separate
from the waggon. Enquire of HsnryEsper, Coach
maker, in Second-street near Uniop-ftreet, Philadelphia.
,g DTI C'E is hereby given, That it a^y
1^ p^bTc Pumps in the city of Philadelphia fnall in
future be out of re,sir, the inhabitants below Man^t
ftreet are requeued to make application to Mr. Willi
am Tharp, and those abeve Market-street are requeu
ed to make application to Ms. James Craig, Junior,
and give them the numbers and condition of the Pumps
out of order, to have them speedily repaired.
Aliy n, 1779. , ri
T^Od UNDR^D DOLLARS REWARD,
IO S T, a POCKET-BOOK with upwards
of one hundred pounds, and many papers cf great
value to the owner ; supposed to be left on the counter
of a (hopin Strawberry Alley, Philadelphia, from whence
it must have been taken up by &me one of.the country
people then prefen'. It is a worked pocket-book, mark
ed R. M. One paper therein contained 47L 12s, 6d,
marked for Mr. rlbel James ; another masked John
Spencer, containing forty one defers ; another con
taining eighty-cne dollars, the mark^ not recoilca%l ;
fom^ rows of pins, &c. &c, &c. Any perlon that c.:
mfke any difeovery so-that the owner mty recover bis
pocket-book and papers; fliall have the above reward
by applying ^ y/iLpAM Finton, in Strawbe„y Al
ley, Mr. Thomas Say, in Second- (tree:, or to the
Printer hereof., ,
g TOPP E D on suspicion of being stolen,
q, left week, with a Woman now in gaol, w-o re,
iufel to teli her nunc, a BAG, containing force da
zem of locks ^nd keys, brats and ion hinges, Iw^fs
knobs and f i'ws, Scanned 'tCTtolte, feme bundles of
white thread, &c. Also flopped feme time ago, Tome
y-rds of black India Persian and sprigged muffin, feme
duffed buck and ih^ep (kins, fame blue and other rat
tinet, and a pair of Iheets- Whoever has loft any of
fail Goods, may apply to Plunket Fleeson, Efa; in
'Chefnut ftree,t, and have them on proving their pro
perty. May ^.
, Philadelphia, May ic.
twenty dollars reward.
STRAYED or STOLEN from the fubferiher,
3 living in Race-street, near Sixth-street, on . Thurs
day lad, a ferrri MARE, three years old, about
thirteen hands high, with a white-men" and fail, a bald
face, her mane cut on the irifid, her right knee a little
thicker than the other, ffiod before, arid trots. Who
ever take's up and secures hid mate so that the owner
may have her again, mail receive the above rewaidhad
rafonable charges, pvid by
, GEORGE SPECHT.
THIRTY DOLLARS ERHARD,
STRAYED or STOLEN onjh, -6 h of April
'laft, a dark'br.y M A RB, about h:rt <-;hands high,
fifing four „ars o<d, with a large for on her forehead,
a,wall eye on the off fide; her mine h^gs ch the felt
fide, trots and gallops well, is in good ruder, the dead
hairs df her mane on each fide a%d on her heel, trimmed.
Whoever brings said mare to William Wall or
William Piel, near the new Play-Acute in Southwark,
shall have the above reward and reasonable charges.
To be SOLD by Private Sale,
r^HE CHATHAM MILLS, situate in th*
State of Maryland, and within a few perches of
the river Potomack, on the great rord leading from Fre
derick Town to Winchester ; confiding cf one hundred
acres of land, near half of- which if and may be made
into the best of meadow. There are on said premises a
good new log dwelling-house, kitchen and ftdre-houfe,
with (tables, &c. It is conveniently cUtrila ed for, and
in one of the foremoft situations for a pcblic-houfe in
the State. Said mil) is two stories high and fifty odd feet
fau/re, on a never failing stream of water, calculated
for two pair of ftone^, the botilting-cloths found and
godd, end in a very goad neighbourhood for grain or
country custom ; the dam may always be maintained at
a trifling expence. There is also on said premifa a ve
ry well con&ruAed saw mill above the grist mill dam,
so that each mill has the advantage cf the whole stream,
and in a convenient place for all kinds of timber, espe
cially walnut; which there is always a great demand for
in Frederick Town, only eighteen or nineteen miles dis
tant from it; There are also small hoafes for 2 sawyer
and farh, wth a Imith's shop and coal-house.. Boating
of flour down the river is found to be of great advan
tage, and attended with much less ceft than land carri
age, and if the river (hould be opened it will then be tfe
mofi compleut filiation for trade in the neighbourhood.
Any prion inclining to purchase the above est-ate mzy
know the terms by applying to the fubferiber, living in
Berkeley County, in the Stete of Virginia, near the head
0 Bul fk:n. Or any person knowing the advantageous
situation cf the above estate may know the terms by ap
plying to Isaac Eyre, near Chelter, in Chester Coun
tr,, State of Pennsylvania.
'May 3. WILLIAM ASKEW,
f Q BE r o LD,
A SMALL quantity cf OIL of VITRIOL.
Enquire at Thomas M'Cormick's, at the sign of
the Straggler, in Fifth-ftreet, near Arch-street, Phila
delphia,
Philadelphia, May yz.
WAS FOUND, at the Inop of the sub
scriber, in Market ffreet, next door to the Cof
fee house, on bis return to the ' city after the evaluation
of the enemy, a large SCALE-BEAM, makers
names Whitehead and Jonathan Humphreys. The
owner is desired to prove property, pay the charge of
this advertisement, and take it away.
ROBERT M c G EE.
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