The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1778-02-04 00:00:00, page 3

N*v. fr We he^r, that yesterday mGfning some
merchants Wai eri on Lord Germaine; to know if the
news, propagated on Monday in the city, lefpe^ing
the defeat of the rebels at Philadelphia, was true:
Eis LirElhp replied, that they had not received it
officially, arid therefore could not cer ify it as a fa&,
but believed that some part of it was true; however,
he was daily expecting to receive fume d:fpatches
fiom Genera! Howe.
Yeflerdav a meflenger Was lent from L^rd Wey
mouth's, office, with cdpaxhes for the Lords of the
Regency at Hanover.
To the Inhabitants of the States of
Pcnnfylvania, New Jerfe) and Delaware.
r,^ H E good people of the State of Penn
s fylvauia, and particularly those in the
vicinity of this Camp, having exprefid a delire
of furnishing the Army with the produce of the
country were Markets regularly effabl^&d for
that purpose: In order to encourage b lauda
ble a defer?, I have thought fit to make known,
that cn the second Monday in February; at
eight o'clock in the moining, the Market will
be opened at the Stone-chimney Picket, in
front of toe Camp, and that the fame will be
continued on every Monday and Thursday fol
lowing at that plact : I hat on every Tuesday
and Fr'da the Market will be held on the east
fide of Schuylkill, near the New Bridge : And
on every Wednesday, and Saturday, in rear
ofthe Camp, near the Adjutant-General's Of
fice. That a Cie kof the Market, an inhabi
tant of this State, will attend on the refpe&we
days and at the places before-mentioned, whose
dutv it Ihall be to piotect the inhabitants from
any kind ot abuse or violence that may be cf
feted to theiiprfm< or effete, and to feethat
they receive pay for their articles according to
the prices heic^er amtwoneJ, and for others
not paiticuliil, enumerated in like proportion,
viz
F;cL Pork perlb. - - 0 1 0
I nailing Pig do, - - - 1 6
Elution do. - - 0 10
\eal do. - - - 0 10
Far Turkey do. - - - 1 4
Fat Goose do. - - 1 0
Fat Ducks each - --3 g
Fat FoMs do. - - 2 6
FiNh Butter perlb. - - 3 9
Firkin ditto do. - - 3 0
Hogs Lard do. - - 3 0
Cneefe do. ^ - 3 0
haulages do. - " 3 9
Eggs per doz^n, - - - I 6
Kough-fkinned Potatoes per bufliel, 10 0
Spanish ditto peido. - - 7 6
Turnips do. - - - 5 0
Cabbages per head, - - 1 0
Onions per half-peek, - - 2 6
Beans per quart, - - 13
bour-Crout per half-perk, - - 3 9
Apples do. - - 10
Dried ditto do. - - 3 9
Indian Meal do. - - - 2 0
Leaf Tobacco perlb. - - 4 0
Vinegar per quart, - - - 2 6
New Milk do. - - 1 0
Soft Soap do. - - 1 0
Cider per barrel, - - 4 0 0
Small Beer ° do. - - 110 0
The Cleik of rhe Market is also to take ef
fedual care that there be no fraud in weight or
measure, and that whatsoever is offered to lale
be of good quality.
All persons coming to the Markets aforesaid
In the purpose of supplying them, or return
ing from the Gme, may depend th^ir carriages
and cattle shall not be impreded or otherwise
detained. The inhabitants are to take notice
tnat they will not have liberty to receive from
the Soldiery any kind of eloathing or military
fores in pay for their provision, or upon any
pretence whatsoever.
It is hoped that all persons well affected to
then country, both for their own advantage and
from a regard to the accommodation of the
Army, will manifeft their zeal upon this occa
fon, and chearfully contribute to the success,
of a plan intended to answer the mofe valuable
purposes.
G. WASHINGTON.
Iftad Quarters, Valley Foige,
January 30, 1778.'
LANCASTER February 4.
The report mentioned in our last, that General
Lee had been dfmiffed from NeW-York on parole,
is not confirmed. It was certain he was ftili priso
ner, with the liberty of the city, on the 16th ult.
Major Ackland, late of Gen. Burgoyne's army, had
procured his exchange for Major (now Col.) Wil
liams, of Maryland, who is arrived here in good
health, after a long captivity. This gentleman was
t*ken in Fort Washington. it appea sthat the Ame
rica? prisoners in New York are Rill treated very
inhumanly.
By a letter from Fifli Kill of January ift, we
learn, that the British frigate Mercury, of 28 guns,
had feme days before run against the cheveaux de
trze in the North River, when the funk in a few
minutes after: The crew were mostly drowned. This
is confirmed by an advertisement in Gaine’s New
To-k Mercury of January ph, requiring the stores
fared from the wreck to be delivered up, and pro
mising ravage.
O- the 2oh of January last died, Mr. BEN
JAM !N MARS H ALL, late a very refpe&a
ble merchant of Philadelphia, at his place of refuge
about twenty miles from that unfortunate city. His
warm a tAchment to the cause of Liberty and of his
Country, his attentive and generous hospitality to the
sick officers and soldiers who were obliged to remove
from camp for the recovery of their health, must en
dear his memory to every lover of either. His in
tegrity in his mercantile tranfadions, and his friend
ly ftdebility in private life, will ever keep him dear
to those who had the pleasure of his acquaintance.
The Courts of General Charter deflians of the
Peace, and of Common Picas, tor Lancaster county,
ore now fitting in this borough. The Courts of York
equity were lad werk hoiden at Yorktown. Those
of Berk-Hit next week at Reading.
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ROSIN AND LAMP-BLACK,
TO BE SOLD BY
JOHN FIS H E R,
BRUSH-MAKER in LANCASTER.
WAS F O'U N D,
The 20th of January last, ?t W ight's Ferry, on Suf
qu~l a^na,
1 SILVER WATC A. The owirr defcrib
^ nig hn property anb paying charter, may have
t a;ain by applying to Mr. Samuel Boyd, at laid
Fer y.
|T HIS is to notify the Public, That the
^ tub cri erhas r d port for force time pB, arid
has engaged to ride weekly from Lancaher past Cheb
nut-Leval Meeting-houle to Pc^chbottom Ferry, past
John Warnock'-, Baldwin's in Nottingham, and the
Brick Meeting house, to the Head ofElk, to Charles
?own, to the Lower Ferry on Suqu^hanna, and to
Mr. J ;hh Rodgers's who keeps the Poll-office ; from
thence to return to the Poft.office at Lanc?riter : Re
intends to car.y ths weekly News' papers, and any
Gentlemen who chooie to be fupplitd therewith, or to
ettnft him with the care of any letters or other com
mands, ma/ depen 1 on being served with fidelity and
on the molt reaft nable terms, by
Their most obedient humble servant,
GEORGE WILSON.
Donee-, Kent County, Delaware State, Jan. 1, 1778.
ESERTEI) from the American army,
D toe following foldi is belonging to the cump 3
n of the übterb.r, viz. John Denney, a likely
wel-made man, five feet ten inches oigb. Andrew
Tinney, alias Finny, a rough hewn fellow, and has
an aukward appearance, five feet nine inches high :
They have been seen since they deferred on Bombay
Hook, in company with Thomas Tilton; E q; one cf
the Judges ot the Court of Common-Pieas of said
County, who hath since taken bis quarters with the
enemy in Pniladelphia. William Maddin, fix feet
hi,h, a likely well-made fallow, and has been seen
hulking ot con at Richard Smith's, E q; another of
Did Judges. Henry Waters, a likely well-made
man, about fix feet high, has been seen at Little-
Creek Neck, in laid County, in company with J+cob
Sout, Eq; a Member cf Ass mhly and Justice ofthe
Peace for laid County. Robert Sollcway, five
feet nine inches high, a thick well set fehow, is har
boured in the sorest of Dover Hundred, County afore-
Bid, and h<th worked for some time past on the firm
of Thomas Printer, of fa?d County. As the fubferi
bet has po nted out the places where the above desert
ers have be n (ten since they deserted, he fl tiers him
felf that the virtuous inhabitants will exet themselves
iu apprehending them, and as an extraordinary en
couragement for so doing beyond what is offered by
C<mgrefs, he will give to the person who apprehends
each < f th m, the one half the penalty due to him as
the officer of said deserters, bv an act cf Assembly of
laid State, puffed Feb. 21, 1777, en'aaing, That any
person harmuiing, Concealing or assisting a deserter,
or buying any of the a> ms, cloathmg or accoutrements,
&c. ska 1 forfeit Twenty Dollars : and any person who
knows of such, and do^h not inform a Magistrate in
fix days, forfeits Ten Dollars, one hair to the inform
er, and the other to the officer of such deserter.
ALLEN ML AN E, Captain.
W A 0 s T,
On the 4th of September last, ttetween Wilnorctdß
and Christiana Bridge,
A LARGB black Bather TRUNK. together
A three new 0 AMP STOOL S. ° Ihe
trunk had on its top a piece cf paper with “ J, hn
Cropper, Junior, Accomack Count,, Virginia,' who^
thereon ; it contained a number cf ra:ua le eloaths
among which were feverel regimental coats, brows
faced with Scarlet; alio books and p p ers that might
ihew the owner's name. The camp.ftool, had I. C.
engraved on their legs. Any person giving informal
tion thereof to the Adjutant-General, r o the Printer
hereof, or to the fubferiber; of the 7 ih Virginia re^U
merit, so that they may he l^d again, (hall be han°d^
foniely rewarded. JOHN CROPPER
Lieut. Col. from Virginia.'
S T O,L E G
From the Camp near the Valley-Forge, on the 12th
day of rhe fi.lt month, 1778,
A BLACK MARR, with a fadeHznd bridle;
v« p file is about nftcen hands high, aocut ten years
old, her mine hangs on th^ neai fide, has a final! (be
in her forehead, one hind foot white, afm li whif^
f r ot on her buttock, a feather mark on the off fide of
her neck, and is shed before. Whoever femes Did
m. re, riddle and bridle, and brings them to John
Dowdney, Inn keeper, in Bristol, or to rhe o^ner
in Lower Makifi Id Township. Bucks Coontv, P^nn
l)ivania, foall receive TWENTY DOLLARS rewards
JAMES MOON, Jun.
T O BE SO L D,
H E dwelling plantation whereon the fuhferiber
„ lives, on Swan Creek, in Hartcrd County, Ma
ryland, confuting of about five hundred Rues of land,
p easily situated on the water, either for a gentled
mas 3 feat or a farm, the foil good and adapted for
meadow a con fiderable quantity of which is already
made: I here a:eon the pientiles a large and c^nveni.
eit unc Gwedmg-houie, kitchen arid wash house ; it's
Dupion on navigable water, and public, with the
conven ence of firing, fowling and market, and im
provement of meh rds 0 all kinds on tre plac^ ren
ders it impend to almost any place j n the part of the
county it lies in. The pu chsfer may have liberty of
entermg on toe premiss in order to put in a bring
.f h ° e ?'™F convener houses exTufive of tiie
iUnkribrr s owelbng. It cannot he delivered up till
une next. Tae purchaser, if he has occasion, may
be Applied ,h stock of various kinds, an d , mp ^
menft of husbandry, now on the pi^e. Frr termg
and tit.e apply to the fubferiber on the premies.
N R AMOS GARRETT.
( r ~ about 60 acres of whe.t and rye
town, whicn will be fold wit h the ore m ife s .'
" e fi-Nantmiil/'January 26, 1778.
TO BE S O L D,
"^''rib^r, on the premises,
^l^ hundred acres of LAND, well improved, fi t ^
T ,? a r°" r ° ad le - din ^ from Downing's
Downin' ^T™ ' F '" r %° n S^ehanna, dritant f^ n
Downing s Town ten miles an d from Laric^r twen
ty-.uree; the dwelhng-hcufe and Itabiing are large,
;,, er .v^^ ,^te for public bufmefs; the plow!
land good, anl a great proportion of excellent n^a
dow, watered by Little Brandywine which runs thro'
tie pr^fa, and might accommodate a merchant
mill with water. Likewise to be fold, several very
good cows, heavy with calf'
, of Jacob Cochran, and his widow (de
'f' T d ^ fi ' ed '° ca " on me ^ receive t!je bo^ds,
for themf^ves and the minor children, and pro
peily leLafe me fiom mv guardianship.
WILLIAM GIBBONS.
C IX head of stray CAT TLeT^L
u toe paAtnim of Adam Eichelberger and
Ludwig U agoner, in Manheim Townfllip, York:
County, ab. u . three months ago, viz. a red cow, a
brown deer branded on the buttock C, one brindle
one red, and two spotted. The owner is defirea to
prove h ls property, pa; charges and take (hem away.
Tobe SOLI) by PUBLIC VENDUE
on Friday the 20. h day o February inst. at the
dwelling-boule of the fubfenber in Farn Fowrfhip
Y irk County, near Peachbottom Fciry, on Suioue:
hanna,
A VALUABLE PLANTATION, con
l% taming three hu. deed and (event, acrce of land
about ninety de red, ten or twelve acres ofg^od wa^
tered meadow, and more may be made, thelemainder
weh timbered and watered: There is on laid place a
good saw mill, a square log dwelling.haute, barn and
other office houses, &c. the whole in good repair
pleasantly situated, and convenient to both m^'ani
meeting. Any perlon inclining to purchase may tee
the nr-mues and know the terms by apulvirip m
fubfaiber. The fate to begin at Ten o'clock in i 1
morning, when due attendance will be given hv
t PATRICK SCOTT.
Kent Coun+j, January 8, 1778.
NOTICE is hereby given, That a pe
tition will be preferred to the General Affair,
bly of the State of Delaware, at their next fitting, for
the building a Bridge over Duck Creek, in said State.
Any prfons that have any objection thereto are de
filed to a "end to ihew cause.
§ CHARLES POPE.