The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1782-01-01 00:00:00, page 4

STAYED or stolen, out of Greenwich meadow#,
near the Point.houfe, the latter end of last month,
Two Black HORSES; one a likely horse, about 15
hands high, with a stat and some of his feet white, with
a long tail, 4 or 5 years old, natural trotter ; the other
about 14 hands and a half high, crooked hind legs,
paces mostly, about 5 or 6 years old: Also, an old
Black COW, with some white on her belly, branded
on the horns J. Penrofe. The subscriber has a stray
Bay HORSE, about 14 hands high ; he came into the
above meadows with a rope about his neck. The owner
is desired to come, pay charges, and take him away.
Four Dollars will be given for each Horfs, Eight if
stolen, and Two Dollars for the Cow.
JOHATHAN PENROSE.
Philadelphia, Dec. i.
SCARLET, brown, I
purple, black, green, !
blue, light coloured, fu- 1
perfine and second B'oad
cloths,
Scarlet, brawn, blue,
light and coloured fu
perfine Knaps & Coat
ingi.
Blue, grey, light and
Icarlet Duffih & Frizes,
White, buff and scarlet
Caffimers and Wiltons,
Crimfun, brown, blue,
striped, I lack, spotted
and corded Velvets and
Velvereta,
©live & white Corduroys,
Tiklets and Durooni,
Barragons,
Childrens worsted Hose,
Pink, blue, black and
cloth coloured Duroys,
Prunellas and Durants,
Tammies and Sattinets,
Crimson, green, (ky-hlue
and pink Rnffels, Mo
reens and Callimancoes,
Jeans, Fustians and Beav
ers,
Cambists and Hairbines
of all colours and fine-'
nefs,
Corded Worsteds and
Everlastings,
Serges and Serge de Jeans,
Blue and white Plains and
Halfthicks,
7.8, g 4, and apron-wide
cotton & linen Checks,
An assortment of Irilh
Linens,
Fine and coarse Hollands,
Yard and half yard and
, $ brown and white
Sheetings,
Brittaunias and Plattella
royals,
Lavals, Ponturies, Ozna
brigs and Tickleuburgs,
Sail and Duck Cloth,
Marseilles Quilting,
Plain and corded Dimities
and Diapers,
Wide and narrow Russia
Sheetings, Dowlafs and
Flanders Ticking,
Jaconet and book Muslins,
Tapes, Bobbins & Laces,
Plain and figured Kent
ings, kenting Handker- ;
chiefs and Catgut,
Plain & millionet Lawns, I
Cambrick,
Three story Brick House,
near the centre of the city. It has fix chambers, a par
lour, kitchen, and large cellar. For terms enquire of
the Printer.
JUST IMPORTED,
In the last Vessels from Europe,
WILLIAM NICHOLS,
Ai his STORE, on the North Side of Market street,
oppoite the Indian Kinc,
Spermaceti Candles,
And SPERMACETI for Apothecaries, Sold, by
RICH ARD WELLS, in Arch-street above Sixth-street.
A Large and General Afforcment of the
FOLLOWING ARTICLES, viz.
Said NICHOLS returns his best
Thanks to thole who have heretofore fa
voured him with their Custom, and hopes,
in future, from his Attention to Business,
and Willingness to Please, that it will be
the Interest of his Customers to continue
their Favours.
Philadelphia; Printed and Sold b, DAYID C. CLAYPOOLE, in Market-Street,
TO BE LE T, A
AND TO BE SOLD, by
Millionet Handkerchiefs
and figured' Apron Pat.
terns,
Pla n and figured Gauzes
and gauze Handker
chiefs,
Womens Gloves of all co
\ Urs,
Ditto silk Mitti,
Mens silk Glove#,
A beautiful Assortment
of dark and light
Chintzes,
Elegant chintz Bed-pat
terns,
Fine and coarse Calicoes
and Cottons,
Ginghams and Bengalis,
Nankeens and Damafeus,
Ducapes,Paduafoys,Man
tuas, Luteftrings, Bro
cades, Modes and Taf.
fities,
Green, blue, claret,
bloom, orange, and
white 1-4 and 5-4 ell
Persians and Sarfnets,
Peking#, Mexican# and
Mufflemans,
Ell wide Persians, black
and coloured,
Mens, women and child
rens cotton and thread
Hole,
Elegant Tambour Waist
coat Patterns,
Best Sewing-silk,
Black Thread,
Coloured ditto,
Silk and linen Handker
chiefs,
Black and coloured Bar
celona ditto,
Belt scars Twist, Mohair
and Buttons,
Black and white Blond
Laces and Edgings,
Thread ditto,
Painted, figured and plain
Ribbands,
Superfine, second and
coarse Bolting-Cloths,
Plated Buttons,
Skelleton and hoop Wire,
Best Tully Gartering,
Cotton Cord and Toffels,
Bandana, silk and cotton
Romalls,
Quality and narrow Bind
ings and Ferrete,
; Snuff Boxes,
With many other Arti
cles, too tedious to enu
merate.
OLD cane-juice Spirits,
Weft-India Rum,
French Brandy,
Madeira,
Sherry, l
Lisbon, } WINES,
Mountain,l
& Tenerife J
Loaf,
mZQ SUGAR %
and Spanish)
Gunpowder ,
and Hyfonl
in chests of (
is pounds, I 1 E '
Soufhong 1
and Bohea"
Jjfeph Mercier, their agent in Philadelphia at Peter
Le Mrigre and company's store, in Water-street, be
tween Market and Arch-streets, will take upon-himfelf
to receive and eaufe any one's orders and commiffion# to
be carefully and in the best manner executed in France.
The chiefs of the French nation in all continental sea
ports will make clear all that one could with to know on
the good name and solidity of M. M. Coulougnac and
company.
By th* means of those proposed exchanges, the mer
chants ahe will fed the future fend cargoes there may
spare the commission, and storage expence#, by apply
ing to the aforefaid gentlemen, as feon as their ships are
arrived there; and by finding in M M. Coulougnac
and company's Store, all the goods their captains or
agents may possibly desire ; their voyages will for the
time to come be much shorter than formerly. Theafore
faid gentlemen will likewise accept of the dire&ion either
of the (hips and cargoes, or of part of them only, that
one will chufe to trust their care in Nantes or L'Orient.
Will have opened and ready fur
nWhed with all kind of dry goods, the firft of January,
178 a, a store-house as well in Nantes a# in L'Orient, in
which any one may have a general assortment of Cloths,
Coating*, Siiks, Linens, &c. Ac. &c. proceeding from
their own manufactures in Sedan, Louviers, Elboeuf,
Lodeve, CarCAffonne, Laval, Calma, Caftres, French
Flander, Lvon, Paris, &c. Ac. &c.
M. M. Coulougnac, and company, will treat of those
goods for money, or suitable bills of Exchange on every
place in Europe, er in Tobacco, Indigo, Furs, Skins,
or any other production, either of North America, or
Weft India Islands, at the rate then current in those two
cities.
George Hughes, and Co.
HAVE FOR SALE,
At their STORE, on the south fide of Market-street,
next the wharf,
To be Sold or Exchanged,
TOR a HOUSE and LOT in this city, a TRACT
' of LAND that Drodrces exceeding good grain of
all kind, within five miles of Christiana, and nine
or ten of Wilmington, and has on it a fine place for a
mill , as also a valuable Lot in the town of Christiana,
40 yards in breadth and too yards in length, and the
only convenient place to build a vessel on or to raft
timber from ; as also the Lot has a Ten-yard on it,
with a imad stream running through one corner of it.
For terms apply to the Printer.
LOST, on the 20th of November, a Black Leather
POCKET BOOK, containing a Two (hilling
Bill, of State Money, and sundry other (mail Bills ;
together with some Notes es Hand, &c. Who ver will
deliver it to the printer (hall be genteelly rewarded.
TO BE SO L D,
A Valuable Negro Wench,
She cm Wa(h, Iron, Sew, Spin, and Milk, is an excel
lent Chambermaid, has never had any children, and
is honrft and sober. She may be seen at the Cro r s
Key# Tavern, kept by Mrs. Bogart in Chefnut-ftreet,
at the corner of Third-street, where further particulars
may be learned, or by enquiring of the Printer.
Wish fendry other ARTICLES, all of the very best
Quality, which they will dispose of on the most re
fonable Terms.
To the Contractor for Supplying the Ar
my with Rations for the Post of Phila
delphia, during the Year 1782.
AS the article of Beef is a material part of the Ra
tion above, I have thought pre perto make you
the Proposal of furnifhing that Article, which I
will iffae at my daughter- house, at 455. per hundred
weight, to be paid monthly.
PETER SUMMERS.
Philadelphia, Dec. 17, i,Bi.
A Negro Woman to be Sold.
SHE it a good house and chamber servant, can wa(h,
iron, milk, and few plain work, is very handy and
likely, and is free from the fault# of stealing and drunk
enness.
M. M. Coulougnac, and Co.
MERCHANTS in Lyon, a City in France,
To the TRADING PEOPLE of AMERICA.
Coffee,
Chocolate,
Rice,
Flour,
Indigo,
Salt,
Copperas,
Allum,
Pepper,
Allspice,
Ginger,
Mace,
Nutmeg#, and
Cinamon:
Head Quarters, Philadelphia, December 16,
ORDE R S.
TH E Town-Major is desired, „ soon „ pof
ble, to procure and deliver to the Adjutant Ge
neral a Retorn of the Officers of the Continental Army
in this city, exclusive of those attached to the corps
stationed here, fpecifying their names, rank, the corp#
they belong to, their quarters, and the occasion of their
being in town.
EDWARD HAND, Adjutant General.
The Officers affe&ed by the above Order, are re
quested to fend their Returns to my Office in the Bar
racks, as soon a# possible.
Twenty Pounds Specie Reward.
WA S broke open, last nighi, the house of Levi
Hollingtworth, and the following ARTICLES
stolen;
6 silver Table- spoons, marked H P.
5 ditto Tea-spoons, ditto.
H
4 ditto, ditto, L H.
I ditto Cream-pot, CAH in a cypher
1 ditto Sugar-Tongs, HP.
2 pound Cannister Tea.
x half-gallon Bowls of enamelled China.
1 quart Decanter of Wine.
3 Razors in a case, Razors marked A, B, C, and Case
L H.
1 large damaft Tablecloth, L H.
I small ditto, ditto, ditto.
1 drab Great-Coat, with cloth Cape, half worn, let
ter V. in the cape.
1 men# Beaver Hats, one cocked the other round,
bound with edging.
1 pair mens Boots.
3 pair and one odd mens worsted Stockings new, and
run in the heels.
11 ditto, old.
4 ditto, yarn, ribbed, 3 pair of which was white, the
the other mixed blue.
a ditto womens worsted ditto.
Silversmiths and others are requested to flop said
Goods if offered for sale, for which they (hall be re
warded, and if the Robbers (hall be apprehended and
br< ught to justice, the above Reward and all reasona
ble Charges, paid by LEVI HOLLINGSWORTH.
Philadelphia, December 21, 1781.
The contractors are to issue the rations, and the
propolals are to contain the lowest prices and longet
terms of payment, as also th# price es the component
parts, which are
LEWIS NICOLA, Town-Major.
The report has got abroad, that lord Cornwallite
wearied out with duty and fatigue, is upon his return
for the recovery of hi# health.
To be SOLD or LE T, and may be
entered on the 15th of January next,
THAT well accustomed TAVERN, the RAINBOW,
1 situated on the weft fide of Second street, above the
barracks, now in the tenure of Mr. James Nevil: it it
a commodious, well finifhed three story Brick House,
with a Frame House adjoining, th# whole fubjea to a
ground-rent of eight pounds a year. To be Sold, a
new two story Brick Houle, on the east fide of Sixth
ftreet, between Arch and Race-streets, fubjea to a
ground, rent of three pounds a year. Likewise a Bil
liard Table to be disposed of. For further particular#
enquire of Mr. HENRY GURNEY, in Chefnat-ftreet.
Philadelphia, rath December, 1781.
PROPOSALS will be received in this office until
the firft day of February next, for the following
Contrasts, to supply the Rations deliverable by the
United States, from theist day of April to the last
day of December next, inclusive, to those Persons en
titled to draw them :
WA $ stolen, on the 19th instant, from the fub#
(eriber, near the borough of Wilmington, a
dark Bro^n MARE, 12 years old, about 14 hand#
high, with a star in her forehead, and some white hairs
on her back, and * hen let loose is pretty hard to catch.
Any person finding the said Mare, and will deliver her
to Mr. DAVI» BRINTON, Tavern-keeper in Wil
mington, (hall have the above Reward, paid by me,
Nov. ay. SAMUEL BYARS.
Stolen last night, from the fub
criber's thhle, in Willis- town, Chester county, a dark
Bay MARE, near 15 hands high, full blooded, trot#
well, with a long tail and that set ; (he has neither
brand nor ear mark, but some fears on her near buttock,
and one on her rump, caused by a fall, supposed to bo
fix leariold this (pring ; (he has no (hoes. Whoever
takes up said Mare, and secures the thief, (hall have
SIX POUNDS, or Forty Shillings for the Mare only#
Dec. 14. PHINEAS MASEY.
A contra& for the post of Boston, \ln Maflachu-
A contraa for the post of Springfield,, setts.
A Coatraa for the posts to the northward of
Poughkeepfi; in New-York.
A contraa for the post of Frederick-Town, in Ma
ryland.
ilb beef or 3-quarters pound pork,
11b bread,
1 gill rum or whiskey,
i quart fait and a quart# vinegar per too rations,
Sib soap and gib candles per ,ee rations.
Four Dollars Reward.
Office of Finance,