The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1779-07-06 00:00:00, page 1

THE HIGHEST PRICE
IS GIVEN FOR
CLEAN LINEN RAGS,
BY
J OHN D .U N L A P.
TO BE SOL D,
TWO hundred and fixt^four acres of LAND,
fit ", acred thereof cleared, with a fmel' frimedwdl
ing-hot lie thereon, situate about eight miles Torn Dover,
in Kent: county °n Delaware. A corner lot of ground
in the @>wm cf Dover afoceftid, with a brick store and
three ft ad tern rants thereon; the store fronting the
Court hk>ufe fqutire and King Sheet. A pasture L st near
the towty, containing ten acres, and under good ftn r e.
Any per, on inclining to purchase may know the terms
by applying to the fubferiher, living in Kent county
aforesaid, who has also so fair, thirty head of Cattle,
and one h undred head of good Sheep.
WILLIAM RODNEY.
St. Jone) '3 Neck, June 23.
"VO, BE SOL D,
ON E hu, idred and twenty-three acres of land in P. x
t^n tow. nihip, Lancaster county; quit-rent at half
a penny.
Five tunh ed and twenty-five acres in Turbut town
ffiip, Northumberland county, for which is two deeds,
200 and 3x5 tier s adjoining.
An undivit ted half part of rogd acres of land on the
Shawney Catin Creek in Bedford county.
Some (hares of that valuable trad of land on the river
Ohio, called 1 nctiana Land, granted by the Six Nations
t® the Propriet ors at the treaty at Fort Stanwix in 1768.
For terms of sale apply to the fubferiber, living in Lan
caster. 4 LEVY ANDREW LEVY.
ONE HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD,
n All AWAY last night from the fubcriber, a
convi& fervent man named James Walker,
about thirty year's of age, five feet feveri in .ties high,
strong made, r^uod Shouldered, a very down look,
brown buffi, hair inclining to curl, is a Scotchman and
Speaks broad, talks but little and looks sullen, by t.ade
a breeches maker, can work a little at Skinning; he is
much attached to the fenglifh, and probably may make
towards New York; had on when he went awav, a fmril
,ound wool hat bound with black cloth, a twilled drab
coloured outside jacket, his inside jacket unknown, a
low line® shirt, buckskin breeches, white yarn flockings
and new shoes. Whoever Secures laid servant, so that his
master mny have him again, Shall receive the above re
ward, paid by Jacob lemmon.
TUESDAY, -J ULY 6, 1779.
THE
(; F N ERA L ^^^^ ADVERTISER
One Hund? ed and Ffy Pounds Reward.
WAS SITOLEN en the night of the twenty
sixth of June, from the fubScriher, living near
Wife's Mills in the Dm h Valley, in Roxbury townffiip,
Morris county, New J 0 ley, a bright bay HORSE,
about fourt e; a da h If handrhieh, blind of his right
eye, a white ft;: p <cwn his forehead, newly food before,
eight yeas old ithis spring, a natural trotter, and gal
lops Ihor.. Lihewife an iron grey MA RE, having a
good deal of wbite in her forehead and running over her
.left eye, th d all round, is near fifteen hands high, three
years old, is hair blooded, and trots naturally. Who
ever tales up and Secures said creatures so that the owner
may gat them again, Shall have One Humbert Pounds
rewards and for the creatures and thief the above re
ward, , aid by JOHN SHARP.
Philadelphia, June 25.
WANTE D,
In one of the Public Offices in this city,
AC LE R K who understands 000 k keeping arid
merchants accompts, and can be well recommend
ed. Very genteel wages will be given to one whose
knowledge and character may answer the above descrip
tion. Enquire of the Printer.
~C "T D R,
TO BE SOLD BY
JOHN H ARLA N D,
At his store the corner of Walnut and Second-Streets.
EXCELLENT bottled CYDER, fit for imme
diate use, by the groce or dozen ; Madeira WINE
by the quarter-calk or gallon.
N. B. Tavern keepers in the country are desired to
•bring empty bottle in exchange for the Cyder they may
want.
Gun-Powder Barrens, Baltimore County, June 27;
[Price 2s. 6d. single, 2s. by the quantity.
DOCTOR MORGAN's Vindication.
(Continued from last Tburfd&y'j pap-r.) \
Seventhly '"T "" T the fatal contagion which apl
& peared in a part of the army, broke
out and prevailed among the troops in a diftrid under tbe
particular care oj Dr, William:hhippen
The proofs- in support of my sixth head of vindication
have demonstrated that, on the one hand, no malignant
infections or other fatal diseases, or any uncommon mor
tality ever made its appearance in any part of the General
Hospital under my dire&i n ; but on the other hand, that
contagious fevers prevailed in the Flying C mp, and in the
state ofrhe ferfeys, after the Hospitals in that diftna and
all my Hospital floras were taken from me, by orders of
Congress, at the earnest solicitation of Dr. William Ship
pen, and committed to his sole direction, including not
only the stores sent to me from Philadelphia, but also those
stores which I had preferred at thejiazard of my life, from
falling into the hands of the enemy, at the evacuation of
New York, and which,.as President Reed's letter fays,
were invaluable to us. Here I might rest the proofs in
support of the present head of my vindication, but that I
chute to cftablilh it on a broaderbafis.
When fieknefs and death, raged with most violence,
and made great havock in that department, thus commit
ted to Dr. Shippen's charge, upon his pressing desire,
, which was towards the end of the campaign, the sick in
I e Hospitals on the east fide of Hudson's river, as hath
be en already declared, were comfortably provided for at a
sh& r t warning, and were well taken care of, and near two
thou.' an d recovered in less than four months, and but ve
ry fev died. ±&
Dr. Turner in his certificate, dated February 10, 1777,
declares, ' that the orders and inftru&ions which he re
' ceivedJrom Dr. Morgan for taking care ofthefick, were
' clear ahi-!diflina, and that regulating himfelf thereby,
' he had th e fatisfaftion to teftify, that the number of the,
' sick he received into the General Hospital at Stamford,
' from Nove. Tiber 5, 1776, to that day, amounted to be
-6 tween twelve' and thirteen hundred, and that they were
' then reduced' to twenty-five, and that most of them
' were difehargt d, well and fit for duty.
'PHILIP TURNER.'
6 Dr. Euftis in a letter to me, dated Boston May 10,.
' 1777, teftifies, th at in consequence or Dr. Morgan's per
' formal attendance c n the fpet ; his seeking out quarters for
' the patients, he mas enabled co attend several hundreds
6 for near three monies,much to their fatisfaaion ; that in
' the course of his re t aiming at Norwalk, from November
' 1776, to March, r,,7, upwards of seven hundred sick
' were provided for, by means with which Dr. Morgan
' had fully furnifhed hio, and when he left Norwalk, in
4 March, 1777, their numbers were reduced to right er
i ten. , WILLIAM EUSTIS?
If it fhoufd be objefled Chat the troops that composed
the Flying Camp, were raw militia, so were many of those
under my care, and they were equally txpofed to extreme
fatigue in the summer, and to the feeds of those camp dis,
eases, which are generally affig^ed, as the causes of the
mortality in the depirtment ulder Dr. Shippen's care.
The difference was, whilst the fi&< in my Hospitals were
well attended and provided far, he ^as unacquainted with
the proper arrangement of Military Hospitals, had few
Surgeons under him of any experience or knowledge, had
made no provision, and seemed to depenri on his obtaining
my stores by unworthy practices. But tho' he accomplish
ed his project, and deprived me of them' , affairs did not
turn out well with him, notwithstanding ; for w> ilft the
sick in the General Hospital under my card mostly reco
vered, those in Doctor Shippen's died in great num
bers. \
Dr Ruffi who was a Member of the Medical Commit
tee in Congress, and employed by that Honorable Body,
to assist in putting a hop to the devaftatiobs made ^mong
the soldiery of Do&or Shippen's department, and in the
Hospitals of the Flying Camp under his dlre&on, decides
as follows:' \
4 In the elofe of the year 1776, (fays Dr. Rush) Iwas
6 ordered by the Honorable Congress to affifl in taking
6 care of the sick soldiers, belonging to the Flying Cam,,
' in the city of Phil delphia. They came to town in wag
-4 gons, without Officers, Surgeons, Quarter Masters or
# Commissaries. Many died on the way, in the open
< air, with hunger and cold. They were received b, the
' inhabitants, and for a while they were fed by the hand of
' charity alone. Most of the Physicians of the city affixed
' in taking care of them for several weeks. Most of th®fe
' who could be accommodated in private houses, and who
' had the benefit of good nurses and proper food, recover %
' ed.—Their disorder was a putrid (ever. There were
' buried in the Potters field from November, 177.6, to
6 March, J;7,7, betwixt a thousand and eleveh hundred
' soldiers,. the chief of whom belonged to the Flying
' Camp, and ah' of whom, I under Hood from a fefobue of
6 Congress, were cinder theexclufive direction of Doctor
' Shippen, to whom the care of all the sick troops on
' the Weft fide of the North River had been commit
' ted.'
'BENJAMIN RUSH."
Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. ]
Mr. Chafe, late Member ofCorigrefs, from the State of
Maryland, in a letter to meof September 4, 1777, speak
ing pf the Maryland militia, oh their return from the Fly
ing Camp, fajs, 'I believe we loft two thsufand men dur
-4 iug the campaign, and the neglect in the Hospitals was
' charged with far the greater put..
'SAMUEL CHASE."
That these were under Dr. Shippen's charge is plain
mam his commission, as he was appointed, at the firft
rating of those troops, expreflly for that purpose, Director
of th e Hospitals of the Flying Camp. It is equally cer
tain that, afterwards, not only those but all the sick of the
troop weft of Hudfon'si River fell to his charge, in
virtue iff bis earned; repeated solicitations, to be aiDwed
to take ti is extraordinary trouble upon him. It was at his
earnest re\iueft that Congress, on the 9th of Oftober, 1776,
passed a rewire ( hat 'Df. Shippen' (who but a few months
before was' firft brought into service as Director of the
Hospitals of the F ying C^mp Department) 'provide and
6 fuperantend a Hospital fox ' the army in the State of the
' Jerseys, and <hat John Kurgan, Esq ; provide and
' superintend a itofoita, for the army posted on the east
' fide of Hudson's River.' ty^
Now it is evident from Or. S\ open's letters, that he
considered that River as the XiA'afy of my charge to
the westward.
No sooner had the above refoiSe^ ^^^ than he cam ^
t@ Newark, and demanded of D&borCoHer, my senior
Surgeon, to surrender to him the Wo,rals, medicines,
and other stores ; . himfelf and the M 'te: $ ' m y appoint
ment to relinquish my authority, and to aft un ler hi h iu
virtue of the ^^ Arrangement of Congress, 1 ' he term . ed
it. Dr. Foster having replied tl^t'he coin'd art do jt wlth
fafety to himfelf, without an order from Dr Morgan,
Dr. Shippen toldhim, < tbat ^ateier like ^ ^ Dr °
6 Morgan might have to the propofol, be ueuM findh '" m ^ l f
6 obliged to atquiefee i„. it '*
Meeting me the next dayat General Green's qaA ^
he a^ked me in a very dictatorial manned, "'Why are too'
' not at your.poft.on theeaft fide of the river? What k ,
General Washington think that neither I nor you 2,J .
there ft. betook myfelf ina day or two after to the other
fide of theriver, not because I was commanded by Dr.
Shippen, but because I thought, taking all circumstances
into consideration, it was for the good of the service I
Should do so. -.
EIGHTLY^ I Shall now prove that the new arrangements
in consequence of Dr. Shippen's applications, giving him
the care ofthe sick and of the Hospitals in the Jerseys,
ahd limiting me to those on the east of Hudson's River,
clashed with my exertions in ^id of the,fick, and was 4
great cause of the spreading of the contagious dfeafes in the
army, and of the calamities that followed.
To establish this point, I Shill firft .Shew the ffeps I took
n - t^', I '' a ,d then I Shall Shew in what manner
Dr. Shippen s appointment clashed .with my exertions
In Odober, 1 76, I feat off Dr. Welsh, Surgeon of
Col. Hukhinfon's regiment, from the Camp near Kingf
bridge to Boflon and Rhode- island to purchase medicines
and stores, which bufnefs he performed, and brought
them to the General Hospital at Norwalk, as may be feet)
by ° r ° Welsh's accompt annexed. I then made applica
tion to Governor Trumbull and the Council of Connecti
cut by letter, and also to his Excellency John jay, Esq;
President of Congress, and the Honorable Messieurs Duane
and Duer, Members of the Convention of the State of
New-Y®rk at FiSh Kill. Mr. Jay has been pleased to
give me the following certificate 1
, . _ , Philadelphia, January 22, i, 7 &
At Dr. Morgan s request I hereby certify, that in the
' fall of the year 1776, (I think in the month of Noveni,
' ber) he applied through me to the Convention of + he
' State of New-York for a supply of medicines, and also
' proposed that ^hey Should appoint a Phy^cian or Sur
' geon to assist him in taking care of the sick in the Gene
' ral Hospital, and particularly of such as belonged to the
' troops raised in that State. JOHN JAY?
His Excellency Governor Trumbull's certificate of my
application tohjm and the Council of Connecticut, and of
the good effects, is as follows 1
'Be IT KNOWN, . , ,
< That in the beginning of October, 1776, Dr. John
' Morgan, then Director General of the Hospitals of the
' American Army, made application to me, by letter, for
' assistance in Supplying the troops of the State of Com-.
' neCticut with medicines and other necessaries, for the
4 sick; mentioning the general want thereof, and his ina
< bility (without some aid of this kind) to answer the
‘ numerous demands daily made on him, and the confe
' quest distress of the sick and wounded of the army. In
6 compliance with which request, I immediately sent Dr.
6 Philip Turner with a quantity of necessary articles to his
& assistance, and by that means the complaints of the fol
-6 diery were greatly lessened.
' JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Governor
' of the State of Connecticut.
6 Lebanon, April 7, 1777?
[ Continued in the Fourth Page. J
®-.see Dr. Foyer's account in t^intreduhion !• #» afr
digatios printed at Bofa.