The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1781-09-11 00:00:00, page 4

Old Jamaica & Barbadoes Cane
SPIRITS.
Welt-India RUM.
Madei a, Litbon, and Tencriff WINES.
POR I and CLARET in Bottles.
SUGAR.
COFFEE. &c. &c.
TO BE SOL D, BY
Adam Hubley,
In the old burnt STORES in Water-street, a few doors
below Walnut street.
Samuel Mackean,
n Second-street, the second door below Chefnut.ftreet,
has just opened an Assortment of
fuperfine and second Cloths,
of the most fashionable Colours,
Ca&mer'j, Mens Silk Stockings, &c, &c.
Haym Salomon, Broker,
At his office in Front-street, between Market
and Arch streets,
TRANSACTS all kinds of business on Commission.
A Buys and tells Bills of Exchange on any part of
Europe. As also,
Pennsylvania and other
State Money,
And which he receives in payment for
Bills of Exchange,
At the highest price given.
He gives constant attendance at his Office, from nine
to one in the forenoon; and from three to Given in the
afternoon.
Dellaps Commission-Store,
The corner of Chefnut-ftreet, in Third street, Has for
SALE the fallowing Articles ;
SUGAR and Coffee,
Gunpowder,
Fine Umbro,
Ditto Roman Blue Black,
Ditto Stone Oker,
Chimney Tiles,
Plaifterers Trowels,
Superfine black Cloth,
Shoe and knee Buckles,
Six Plate Stoves, with
Pipes,
Quantity of writing and ,
wrapping Paper,i
Fullers Prefa-Board#,
Bonnet Boards,|
At the above Store is to be disposed of
A neat Collection of Books,
Among which are Bell's British Theatre, 18 vols.
Josephus's Works, 4 vols. Buchan's Family Physician,
Clafics, Law Books, Magazines, Monthly Reviews,
Annual Registers, Novels, Hiftorics and School Books,
&c. &c.
Reed and Forde,
H:ve now opined, at the STORE formerly occupied
by Budden, Lawrence, and Company, in Front-finest,
two doors above Market-street,
A neat Assortment of MERCHANDIZE,
Which they will fell low for Specie, Bills of Exchange,
or the new EmiHons of any us the flatet.—
Among which are
BEST fuperfine and second Clothe, of white, blue,
green, brown, orange, and Barree colours,
Caffimers of different colours,
Tish and French Linens, Britannia# and Dowlafe,
Cotton and linen Checks,
Chintzes and Calicoes,
Camblets, Cambleteks and Mecklingbergs,
Crapes, Poplins, Meffinets and Brilliants,
A near variety of verry fine thread Hose,
Cambricks, Lawns and Kentings,
Catgut and Gauzes,
Belt Luteftrings, Sarftnets and Persians,
Peelongs, AlLmodes, &c. A L S O,
Weft India Rum and Jamaica Spirits by the hogshead,
Mufcovado Sugars,
Coffee in barrels and bags,
Soap and Candles in boxes ; with a variety of other ne
cessary Articles.
GOODS received on Commission at said
Siore; and thole who please to favour them with their
custom may depend on punctuality and dispatch.
N. B. Ready Money for undreft Quills, new and old
Books, linen Rags, old Ropes and S-ils, and empty
Phials#
WANTED, Four or Five MINERS, to work on
a regular vein of ore, to whom good Wages
will be given. Enquire of the fubferiber at Durham
Furnace. RICHARD BACKHOUSE.
WHOLESALE and RETAIL.
MINER S.
Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by DAFID C. CLAPPOO LL.
Playing Cards,
Leather and brass Ink-
Pots,
Ink Stands,
Sand Boxes,
Ink-Powder,
Spelling Books,
Primmer*,
Childrens Books,
Wafers,
Sealing- Wax,
Quills.
Pocket-Books,
Slate ditto,
Blank account Ditto,
From the 4th battalion Artillery, now Rationed at
Lancaster, Mattroffes, JOHN SHUTZ, 30 years of
a ge> 5 f eet 8 inches high, fair complexion, brown,hai ,
by trade a Paper-maker, supposed to be working near
Philadelphia. ANDREW HAMILTON, 37 years cf
T' 5 fe et 5 inches high, a farmer, horn at Chester,
dark hair and complexion, lame in his right hip,
SAMUEL KINSEY, 20 years of agr, 5 feet 7 and a
quarter inches high, brean complexion, a labourer,
born in Philadelphia. JOHN MULLEN, 21 years ts
age, 5 feet 8 inches and a h?lf high, fair complexion,
bei to the sea, born in Irdmd. JOHN REMONS,
22 years of ape, 5 feet 7 inches high, swarthy com
plexion, black hair, born in Germany, by trade a
trayior. WILLIAM WEISE, drummer, ,6 years of
age, 4 feet 8 inches high, fair bail and complex on.
Whoever secures the above D-f^ttrs, and gives in
formation to the commanding officer at Lancofter, fhM
receive twenty (hillings each, as a reward, from
BENJAMIN EUSTIS, Major com
manding the 4th battalion of artillery.
rAME to the Plantation of the fubferi
ber, living in Reading township, York counts,
near the Round hill, the 7th day of May, 1781, Tso
STRAYS: The one a Black HORSE, about 5 years
old, 14 . bands high, branded with W on the near
shoulder, and with G B on the off and near buttocks:
The other is a Black MA RE,6 or 7 years old, 14
hands high, has a small star in th# forehead and a
white (pot on the nose, is branded on both buttock
and shoulder, but not discernable, near bind foot white ;
both have (witch tails. The owner is desired to come
and prove their property, pay charges and take them
them away. JOHN MIRES
Genteel private Lodgings to be
had at a reasonable rate. Enquire of the
printer.
To be Sold a CHAISE and pair of
HORSES. Enquire as above.
WALTER ROE & Company,
At their Store, on the north fide of Market street,
four doors below Fourth-^rect, in Mr. Oreo Jcr.:s'b
house,
£ RE now opening a large and next assortment cf
merchandize, imported in th? latt vcflels from
Europe, which they will fell by wholesale and retail,
on the most reasonable terms, for ready mere,, viz.
Superfine Bread Cloths of
various coleus
Second ditto
Brown, claret, olive, black
blue and spotted C'ordu #
roys
Black Everlastings
Serge Denefme
Duran's o' all colours
Shalloone ditto
Cord'd & flowered Dimity,
Blue, black, -and crimion
calamancoes,
Bengal* and Ginghams,
A large assortment of
beautiful Chintzes and
calicoes
Muftillts Quilting
Blick and white Sattins
Bhek and white Modes
SsHnttts and JVlnngs
White, brown, gr^n, blue
and rtriped ell-wide Per
sians
Half yard ditto
Taff^tys and Mattias,
Brocades and Luteftring*
Sewing Silks of all colours
Cambrics and Lawns
Flowered and Minionet
Latent
Muffin and Keating
Handkerchiefs
Plain and striped Muffin
Bandanoe and Barcelona
Sdk Handkerchiefs
Irish and Ruffin Sheetings
Said Roe and Company hope for encouragement
from the public, as they a % e determined to pay the
ftri&eft attention to business, and, as far at in their
power, give fatisfa&ion to thole who please to favour
them with their custom.
They hope to be excused the common mode of tel
ling the public, their goods are remarkably low: they
with, and only wait, for an opportunity of convincing
them, by Blowing the quality, and telling the prices
of th?ir goo ds, which they flatter themselves, will be
the best and most pleasing method to convince the
purchasers that their prices are moderate.
Has for SALE, at hit STORE or . the south fide of
Walnut street, the third door from Second street,
PONTIVY, Nonbutta, and Laval linens; double pur
-1 ple, chocolate coloured and laylock calicoe, dark
grounded chintzes, light do. white, pink, peagreen,
striped and clouded luteftring. Also, Bohea tea in
chests and quarter chests ; brown sugars, in ho^fheads,
barrels and b xes ; white sugars do.
DESERTED
Tench Coxe
I Irish, French and German
Linens
• Lavall Linens t
Thret-iou.ths and Yard
wide Britannia's
Fine and coarse Scoch
Threads
Coloured ditto
Silk, Cotton, Thread and
Worsted Hole
I Silk and Werfted Breeches
Patterns
Purple and white Gloves
Ladies Fans
Tapes and Bobbins
Black, Blond and Thread
Lace
Ribbands
Seven-eights, yard-wide,
and yard and three-
I eights cotton Checks
t Spotted and coloured
Jeans
Pins by the Packet
Pocket Handkerchiefs
Writing Paper
Snuff in Bottles
A neat Assortment of
Glass and China Ware
A imall Assortment of
Ironmongery
Clock Movements and
Faces
Salt
Cotton by the Bag and
smaller quantity
Bohta Tea, &:. &c. &c.
PROCLAMATION.
Whereas the honourable Thomas
M'Kezn, enquire, chief justice, the honourable Wil
liam Augustus Atlee, esquire, second justice, the ho
nourable John Evans, elquire, third justice, and the
honourable George Bryan, enquire, fourth joft ce of
the Supreme Court, and of the Courts of Oyer and
Terminer and General Gaol Delivery, for the Com
monwealth cf Pennsylvania, have issued their precept,
hearing date the 27th day of Awgu^, inffant, to me
dire^ed, for holding a' Court of Oyer and Terminer
and General Gaol Delivery, at the btate-Loufe, in the
city ol Philadelphia, for the city and county of Phila
delphia, on Monday the twenty-fourth day of Septem<
ber next:;
And whereas the said honourable Thomas M'Kean,
Francis Hopkinfon, William Augustus Atlee, John
Evans and George Brya% enquires, have issued their
pc:ept, bearing date the said twenty Seventh day of
August, to me dirraed, for holding a Court of Admi
ralty Sessions for the State cf Pennsylvania, at the said
State House, on the said twenty-fourth day of Septem
ber : NOTICE is hereby given, to all justices of the
peace, the coroners, efcheator# and constables within
the said city and county, that they be then and there
in their, own persons, with their rolls, records, indi&-
ments and other remembrances, to do those things which
to their offices, in that behalf, appertain to be done;
aifo, all they who will prosecute against the prifoner#
that are or then fh^ll b^ io the ga<l of the said city and
county, are to he then and there, to prefecute against
them a, fush be just.
Dated at Philadelphia, the twenty-ninth day of
August, in the Year of Our Lord One thouf
an ' seven hundred ard righty-one, and in the
Sixth Year of American Independence.
William Will, Sheriff.
GOD SAVE TH? COMMONWEALTH.
A Half-Joe Reward.
RAN- AWAY, yefterdav, from the fubferiber, 4
certain NEGROE MAN, named CTE SA R,
about 5 feet 11 inches high, well made, and about 40
yaars of age: Had on a foort, brown foftian coat, buff
coloured cloth vest, oznabrig or ticking trowfers ; and
took with him a light coloured broadcloth great coat,
with wooden buttons and a red cloth cape to it.
It is fwppofed he is gone to Philadelphia, with an
Intention of enlisting or getting on board a veffd.
Whoever takes him up, and secures him in any gaol,
dull have the above Reward, and all reasonable charges
paid if brought home.
Burlington, Sept. 3d. BOWES REED.
Five Pounds Reward.
RAN-AWAY from the fuhferiher, on the 29th of
this inhant, one MARY M'CALVEY, and
has taken with her, on* la%kuk rown, a black apro n ,
one pair of silver buckles marked M. B one queen's
grey bonnet, one queen'# night cap of gauze, one Mar
eillee petticoat, one white cotton and on* Griped ditto.
She is a Ihor, ,are Girl, with her teeth out before.
Whoever taker up said GiJ, so that the may be h^d
again, shall have the above Reward.
Aug. 30. MARGARET CUNINGHAM.
And whereas the honourable Francis Hopkinfon, efq
judge of admiralty, for Pennsylvania, and the honour
able William Augustus Atlie, John Evans and George
B.yao, fiquite?, justices, as aforefaid, of the Supreme
Court, aforefaid, have issued their precept, bearing date
the said twenty ftventh day of Augoft, to ms directed,
for holding a Court of Admiralty Sessions for the
United-States of America, at the Aid State-house, on
the said twenty fourth day of September:
Whereas the Partnership of Armstrong & Toland
dissolved on theist of June Uft, by mutual Consent:
ALL persons indebted to the said Part
nei (hip are r^quefled ro mike immediate Pay
ment to Henry Toland, at their late store in Third
ftreet opposite Churrh Alley. And those who have
any Demands against the Partnerfllip are desired to
bring in their accounts, that they may be pud.
ADVERTISEMENT,
fyj R. M'Fall, who conduced a brigade
1 4 @f teams, railed in Bucks county, from Trenton
to Camp, near Hackenfack, in August, 1780, laden
with eloathing and ftcren for the Pennsylvania line, is
requested to take NO TICE, That a Box of Cloathing
in one of his teams, driven by William Delaware, had
been broken open, and Two FUR HATS (which cost
in Philadelphia, at that time, a Half-Johannes each,
taken out ; I made the dicovery immediately after the
teams left camp; Mr. M'Fall will therefore please to
flop that sum in payment from William Delaware, zs I
will call on him Shortly for the Money ; having been 0-
biiged to pay the gentleman te whom the Ha s belonged.
ANDREW LYTLE, lieut. sth P nr. Reg.
A, that time state Commissary to the
Reading, Aug. 20. Pennlylvania Line.
Went adrift irom Lad's Cove, about two
weeks ago, a large FISHING BOAT nude of black
Walnut timber. Whoever takes up laid boat, ^d deli
vers her to CHARLES WEST, at th ? mruth of Tim
ber creek, or to WILLIAM HUG, at Glcucsfterm
1 receive the a^ove reward.
A.:,;uft 29.
Four Dollars Reward.