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Bett old Holland Geneva, in cases.
Florence Oil, of the best quality, in cherts, or by the
dozen.
Loaf and Lump Sugar.
Mufcovado Sugars of all kinds, by the hogshead,
tierce, or barrel.
Bohea Tea, warranted good, by the chert, half-chert
or dozen.
Bert Green and Ilyfon Tea, by the dozen or
pound.
French and Carolina Indigo, of the best quality, by
the barrel or dozen.
Carolina Rice, Pepper, Alfpice, Allum, Chocolate,
Melaffes, Cotton, Ground Ginger, Copperafs,
Madder, Coffee, Ground Redwood, Brim
flone, Whale-bone, Raisins, Nutmegs, Cinna
mon, Mace, Cloves, &c. &c.
N. B. He has just imported a large and general
assortment of yard wide, y-Sths and 3-qr. wide
Liih Linens, g-Sths and 5-qr. wide Irish Sheetings,
and a general assortment of Damask, Diaper and
Huckaback Table Linen and Towelling.
As lie is determined to keep a constant supply of
the above Articles, all of which he will be careful to
have the bid of their kinds, the Public may depend
en being served on the molt reasonable term's ; and
his friends in the country may depend on being as
well and' punctually supplied by letter, as if they
were personally present.
Iff Nottingham, Chefer county, Nov. 30, 1774.
SIX DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the fubferiber, on the
-izth inltant, an Irish servant man named
JOHN O'DONELY, about five feet ten inches
high, with red hair tied behind ; had on when he
went away, abrown coat, red jacket, black breeches,
Wack worsted flockings, and an old felt hat : He
is about 22 years of age, and came over a four
years servant with Joseph Kerr, in the ship Wolfe,
from Londonderry, in October 1772. Whoever
takes up laid servant, so that his mailer may have
him again, shall have the above Reward, and rea
sonable charges, paid by
JOHN WELCH.
Baltimore, November 8, 177/.
TO BE SO L D,
And entered on immediately, being a most excel
lent stand for an Inn,
4 GOOD brick dwelling-house, kitchen, sta
bles, &c. with ten acres of land in Harford
v,i, (formerly Bush) Harford county, Maryland;
'.ehoufe rtands on the fide of the post road from
Philadelphia to Baltimore, is well calculated, and
it is supposed there is not at this time a better stand
3! I opening on the continent for a good Inn. The
curebaler may have any reasonable credit for the
w.p!e or part of the purchase money as he chufes,
on giving security.
Likewise to be fold, a plantation consisting ofone
hundred acres of land, whereon is a dwelling-house
end some out houses, with a very good orchard
A>out five miles fiom Harford and a mile from the
~ ^er Cross Roads and Presbyterian Meeting-house
in Ha;ford county. Reasonable credit will be given.
For terms apply to Mr. Thomas Miller, in
Harford, or in Baltimore to
JAMES CHRISTIE, Jun.
N. B. If these places are not fold in two months
they may be rented by applying as above.
YEAST AYoGRAIN S
TO BE SOLD BY
KOBER T HARE AND Co.
At the Porter Bre\v ery in Water street, near
Viae-^reetrf-by whom are wanted,
CELLARS for storing Beer; likewise a quan
tity of DRY FAGGOI S.
Vo B E SO LD,
AT R ACT of valuable LAND, in Caroline
county, (formerly Dorchelier) in the pro
vince of Maryland, containing 516 acres, lying
between the north-east and north-weft fork of
Wanticocke River, about five miles from navigable
water, and twenty two miles from Mufmelion
Landing, on Delaware : About 130 acres of the
laid tra& are cleared, with good improvements
thereon, 50 acres may be made into meadow, the
remainder well timbered ; it lays high, and is ex
cellent for wheat. Time will be givenfor payment
if required, upon good security.
For terms apply to WILLIAM ENNALLS,
Junior, in Dorchester county.
TO BE SO L D,
Or exchanged for a FARM within twenty miles
" of the City of Philadelphia,
TW ENTY-S EVEN acres of Meadow, and
fix acres of Upland, with a good brick house,
barn, and a very fine orchard, with a variety of
other fruit trees: It lies in Paffyunk township,
about four miles from the city of Philadelphia, and
can,be rented for ninety pounds a year. Also, a
House and Lot in Second street, between Union
and Pine-street, near the New-Market in Philadel
phia, which can be rented for forty pounds a year.
Enquire of ' JOSEPH PENROSE.
—TO BE SO L D,
At JOHN MITCHELL'S
Wine, Spirit, Rum, and Sugar Stores,
In Frpnt-ftreet, between Chefnut and Market
, Greets)
BEST genuine Madeira WINES, by the pipe,
hogthead, quarter-calk or gallon.
Excellent bottled Claret, by the dozen.
Genuine new and old Port Wine, by the quarter
cade or dozen.
Best LiPaon Wine, by the pipe, quarter-calk, or
dozen.
Sherry Wine, of the belt quality, by the quarter
cafk or dozen.
Old and new Mountain Wines, both dry and sweet,
by the quarter-calk or dozen.
Teneriffe and Fyal Wines, by the pipe, hogshead, or
quarter-calk.
Genuine Frontinac Wine, by the dozen.
Muscat Wine, by the dozen.
French White Wine, by the dozen.
Excellent old Hock, by the dozen.
Red Lisbon Wine, by the quarter-calk or dozen.
Genuine old French Brandy, by the quarter-calk,
anchor, or gallon.
Spanish Brandy, by the pipe, quarter-calk or gallon.
Old Jamaica and cane juice Spirit, and old Anti
gua Spirit, of the belt quality, by the hogshead,
calk or gallon.
Shone's, Ben. Kenton and Parker's best London
bottled Porter, by the hogshead, hamper or doz.
Genuine Burton and Taunton bottled Ale, by the
dozen.
Welt-India and New-England Rum.
P 11 ILA DEL PHIA: Printed by JOHN DUNLAP, at the Newcfi Printing-Office in Market-Street, where
Subscriptions at Ten Shillings per Annum, Advertisements, &c. are thankfully received for this Paper.
BACHE's WINE-STORE.
RICHARD BACHE has for sale, at his
store on the south fide of Market-street, be
tween Third and Fourth-streets, the following ar
ticles—Best old Madeira Wine, Sherry, Lisbon,
Teneriffe, Mountain, old Jamaica Spirits, Welt-
India Rum, Brandy and Cherry Rum by the pipe,
hogshead, quarter-calk or gallon ; very excellent
Claret, Port and Frontiniac by the dozen ; newly
imported London Porter in hampers of four dozen;
Green and Souchong Teas, Indigo and Loaf Sugar
by the pound.
Orders from the country carefully attended to,
and executed with the greatest punctuality.
JOSEPH STANSBURY,
At his store opposite Christ Church in Second-street,
Hath for SALE,
Looking glasses, from 141. to 3s.
each, some of them highly finifhed, in oval
frames, carved and gilt. China.—Bowls from two
gallons to half a pint, compleat dining table setts,
enamelled and pencilled tea-table setts, soup tu
reens, two sizes, dirties of all forts and sizes, cream
tureens, two sizes, table and desert plates, patti
pans in fixes, pickle saucers, tea pots, sugar dirties,
cream pots, coffee pots, sauce boats, mustard pots,
pickle leaves, squares for a desert service, tea, cof
fee and chocolate cups handled and plain. Orna
mental China—Jarrs and beakers, myrtle pots,
chimney vases, images of all forts and sizes, some
uncoloured and unglazed, Japanned cabinets,
dressing boxes in fans, fnuff boxes, tea trays,
waiters, tea tongs, bottle stands or coasters, fire
screens, various trinkets. Glass—Cut candlesticks,
decanters, wash tumblers, wine glafles, bitter bot
tles, tumblers, fallad diflies, sweetmeats, fweet
water bottles, butter tubs and sugar dishes. A ge
neral assortment of common glass wares, fneet
glass in crates, window glass 9by 7, 10 by 8, 11
by 9, j 8 by 13, and 17 by 12 and a half; crates
of furted phials, a few Turlington bottles, an as,
fortment of apothecaries furniture, marble and
glass mortars, separating and common funnels,
ointment and pill pots, shop tyles, gallipots, spice
bottles, retorts, boltheads, alembicks, nipple shells,
fl ek flones, tubes for barometers, magnus, mad
der, pipes in boxes, crewet frames from 41. 10s. to
7s. 6d. each, guns from 51. 10s. to 275. each, pistols
50s. a pair, pinchbeck buckles, plated tankards,
spurs and buckles, pinchbeck and steel watch
chains, seals of a new composition, yielding im
pressions equal to the true antiques, common black
quart bottles, bottles ofthis country pattern which
hold a full quart. An extensive assortment of all
kinds of earthen wares, as plain and enamelled
Queens ware ; plain, enamelled, and blue and
white stone ware ; tortoise shell, black and colli
flowered Dutch stone and Bristol stone wares ; jugs
from five gallons to a pint; crates of yellow dishes
and porringers ; delft, checquered and Portobello
wares ; red and brown China ; Egyptian China
after Etruscan models; curious pocket bibles. 455.
each; black lead pencils, &c.&c. &c. most of
which will be fold very low for ready money.
T O B E L E T,~
THE large and convenient Stores on the Dock,
lately occupied by Reese Meredith and Joseph
Wharton, which will contain above two hundred
hogsheads. Apply to SAMUEL MORRIS,
in Market-street.
NO TICE is hereby given to all persons
indebted to the estate of Doctor Hugh
Matthews, deceased, late of Csecil county, Ma
ryland, to pay off or fettle their refpeßive debts,
to the fatisfaftion of the fubferiber, without delay;
and those that have any demands against the laid
estate, are requeued to bring them in, legally
proven, that they may be paid by ° '
TO B E SO L D,
A P A 1R of elegant dapple grey HORSES.
For further particulars enquire of John Hales,
at his Livery-stables in Lombard-fl rett, near the
New Market.'
• F O U N 57
A PARCEL of Pedlary Ware. Any person
proving their property, and paying for this
advertisement, may have it again, by applying to
John Hales, at his Livery-stables in Lombard
ftreet, near the New-Market.
THEODORE MEMMINGER,
At the Golden Pelican, on the welt fide of Second
ftreet, betwixt Arch and Race-streets, near An
thony Morris s brew-house, has just imported
from London, and other parts of Europe,
A LARGE and general assortment of the best
kind, of Drugs, genuine patent Medicines,
Painters Colours and Brushes, from London ; var
nish, gold leaf, spices and feeds for cordial distillers,
juniper berries, juniper and Haarlem oil, &c.—He
continues distilling cordials, rose ^nd other simple
waters of most forts.
Orders of physicians and store-keepers, in town
and country, are thankfully received, and with all
care and dispatch complied with
*t* He gives the best price for snake-root.
At tie Request of a @mler bf bisFELLdW
ICITIZENS,
DOCTOR RUSH will deliver eight Lec
tures on such parts of Chemistry as abound
with the greatest variety of the most ufeful and en
tertaining fads and experiments, in the College of
this city. The fubje^s ofthefe Leftures will be
as follow:
Of the offers of heat upon all bodies. Of thte
history of cold. Of climates. Of the hru&ure of
thermometers, &c. Of the phenomena of mixture,
and of the laws of chemical attra&ion. Of the che
mical apparatus. Of the objects of chemistry. Of
simple and compound Alts. Of the manufactories
of falt-petre and gun powder. Of the irregularity
in the arrangement of the strata of earths on the
furface of the globe. Of the manufactories of glass
and porcelane. Of inflammable bodies. Of phos
phorus. Of aether. Of the causes of meteors, fire
damps, &c. Ofthe metals. Of the art of alchemy,
or the Philosophers stone. Of the causes of earth
quakes and volcanos. Of mineral waters. Of the
nature, origin and uses of fixed air. Of the che
mical history of vegetables. Of fermentation. Of
wines, beer, &c. Ofthe chemical history of ani
mal bodies. Of the elements or principles of
agriculture.
These Lectures will begin on Tuesday the 10th of
January, at fix o'clock in the evening, and will be
continued three times a week until the whole are
delivered. Tickets at One Guinea each may be
had of Mr. John Dunlap, Mr. Robert Aitken,
and at the London Coffee house.
Of NICHOLAS BROOKS,
In Second-street, three doors above Black-horse
Alley, may be had,
^ VARIETY of Christmas Pieces, suitable
v% for writing schools at breaking up; a great
variety of the very best copper-plate writings, in
books and flips ; a good assortment of drawing
books ; Middleton's black lead pencils; colours
of the Deft quality, in shells or lumps; mufick in
books or sheets ; compliment and visiting cards ;
cads of history and geography; the Roval Amuse
ment, or the European Traveller, being a very
pleasing and mod improving game for young Gen
tlemen and Ladies to spend the winter's evenings.
AN I M P 0 S TO
W HEREAS on Monday the 7th of Novem
ber last, a certain person who called himfelf
Robert Cleland, came to the house of the fub
feriber, living near Queen's Town, Maryland, and
upon a pretence of an intention to open a school in
that neighbourhood, artfully procured the loan of
an horse, saddle and bridle for two or three days
only, but unluckily has forgot to be punctual in
returning any of them. Whoever will apprehend
and secure the delinquent, so that he may be
brought to justice, and the horse and furniture re
stored to the right owner, shall have TWENTY
DOLLARS Reward for the whole, and for the
horse and saddle alone, TEN DOLLARS,
paid by DENNIS CAREY.
N. B. The said Cleland is about five feet fix
inches high, stoops in his gait, is thin faced, looks
very fly, has had the small-pox, and has loft two of
his upper jaw teeth which causes him to lisp a lit
tle ; has chefnut coloured hair tied behind, and
had on a drab great coat with a large collar to it,
a brown mixed close bodied coat, a blue Bath coat
ing jacket bound at the edges, and a pair of new
buckskin breeches, but it may be supposed that be
has got others to change them. The horse a bay
roan colour at this season, but changes in the
spring to a bright roan, is better than fourteen
hands high, paces naturally, has a small star in
his forehead, and a lump under the left jaw as hard
as the bone itfelf, occasioned by riding him with a
curb bridle, and is branded with the letters D. C.
whereof the C is the plained. The saddle newly
seated, and the under Skirts cut close off each fide
of it.
T'-HEWIDOW CASEY i^his
method to acquaint the Public, that she can
perfectly cure the Falling Fits ; and that the has
cured several, and never failed : Also the Wet and
Dry Scurvy. —She lives in Front-street, between
Chefnut and Walnut-streets, Philadelphia.
CAME to the plantation of the fub
feriber, in Durham township, Bucks county,
about the 26th of July last, a dark brown CO W,
with some white in her face and on each jaw. The
owner is desired to come, prove his property, pay
charges and take her away.
THOMAS LON G.
Bordentoiun, 12/b month i6tb, 1774.
WHEREAS the partnership between
Frettwell and Jonathan Wright
is dissolved, this is therefore to desire all persons
who have any accounts against them since their be
ing in partnership, to bring them in that they may
be fettled.
FIFTEEN FOUNDS REWARD.
RAN AWAY, about the 24th of June, 1774,
from the fubferiber living in Philadelphia, a
Nerro man named C2ESAR, of a middling black
colour, about 22 years of age, 5 feet 3 or 4 inches
high, well made, with a long neck and falling
shoulders; walks very upright, hasban Jy well made
legs, with thick mufeuiar calves, a large mouth
and lips; is much inclined to laugh, and when he
laughs fliews much of his gums and teeth; is talk
ative and impertinent, with often an elevated voice,
where he dare make free ; is insolent and ready to
box amongst his companions, and is fond of play
ing scraps of tunes on the fife, of which he has se
veral: He having taken a Bristol pipe-box, about
two feet and a half long, with sundry cloaths, may
change his dress, but may have cn either a mend
ed cloth colour, or an old dark blue, fuperfine
cloth coat, a blue knip round-about, or short, sea
jacket lined with white flannel, a red and white
narrow striped waistcoat, green plush or black flock
ing breeches, remarkable narrow striped Irifli tick
et breeches and trowfers, thread stockings, &c.—
The reward of FIVE POUNDS with reasona
ble charges, on delivering the said Negro at Phila
delphia, or the above reward of FIFTEEN
POUNDS, on proving and prosecuting to con
vi&ion the person who aided, aflifted or carried him
off, will be punctually paid by
PHILIP WILSON.
N. B. He was born at Jamaica, lived with Tho
mas and James Lucas and Co. of the Grenades,
anno 1766 ; they fold him to Captain Godfrey
M'D unell, who fold him to James Wallace of
Philadelphia, anno 1767.
December 12, 1774.
EIGHT DOLLARS REWARD.
„; AN AWAY on Saturday night last, from
£l. the fubferiber, living in Tuckahoe, Queen
Ann's County, Maryland, an Irish servant man,
named THOMAS TOLBERT, about 18 or
19 years of age, 5 feet 6 inches high, well made,
somewhat pitted with the small-pox, and has short
black hair : Had cn and took with him, a fine
beaver hat bound with black velvet round the brim,
an old fafhioned furtout, and a redifh fagathy coat,
a white cotton jacket, two pair of white drilled
breeches, one pair of nankeen ditto, striped hol
land trowfers, three pair of coarse yarn dockings,
one pair of country thread ditto, four white shirts,
one silk handkerchief, and a pair of shoes with
double rimmed pinchbeck buckles: He also took
off with him, a bay Mare, with a white star in her
forehead, branded on the buttock, with an I.
Whoever apprehends the said servant so that his
master may have him again, if taken in the county
shall have" FOUR DOLLARS Reward, and
if out of it and in the province, the above Reward,
besides what the law allows, paid by
ANDREW LEVINGTON.
December 3d, 1774.
TWO DOLLARS REWARD.
DAN AWAY from the fubferiber, the 21st
" of Nov. ult. a Negro Boy, named CA TO,
about 4 feet 7 or 8 inches high, strong and well made;
had on when he went away, a scarlet coatee, a fu
perfine purple jacket, and a small hat. Whoever
takes up said negro and brings him home, or secures
him so that his matter may get him again, shall have
the above reward arid reasonable charges, paid by
WILLIAMTO D.
Imported and to be fold by
HOWELL and DOUGLASS,
At their store in Chefnut-ffreet, nearly opposite
Strawberry-alley,
OL D Jamaica spirit, in hogsheads and porter
casks; best scale mufcovadofugar in hogsheads;
coffee in tierces and barrels; pimento, cotton, and
dry cow-hides.
CONVEYANCING.
ABSTRACTS of titles made and fettled,
arbitration and other bonds, awards, bills of
sale, charter parties, declarations, pleas, demurrers,
copartnership deeds, wills, letters of attorney,
deeds of gift, marriage settlements, mortgages, and
every other branch of conveyancing drawn, perus
ed, and fettled in the most accurate manner and
with the greatest dispatch, by WILLIAM
GRIFFITHS one of the Attorneys of his Ma
jesty's Court of King's Bench, Sollicitor of the
High Court of Chancery, and son of the late Tho
mas Griffiths of Clifford's Inn, Special Pleader
and Commissioner of Bankrupts.
N. B. He lives at Mrs. Sarah Whitebread's in
Front-street, between Arch and Race-streets.
O ^ E S O L
Thirty Thousand ACRES of LAND,
gITUATE on the centers of Juniata, in Cumber
land and Bedford Counties, in the province of
Pennsylvania ; belonging to the late fartnerjhip of
Baynton, Wharton and Morgan,
Common/, knoven b, the name of THE COMPANY
LANDS, viz.
4000 acres on Auglmick Creeh, moflly in Clerk's
Valley.
1000 do. on Tufearcro Creek, in the Path Valley
zoo© do. on the head of Little fudata.
4000 do. on Crooked Creek, including the Great
Springs, and running down both fdes of the
creek to the mouth of it, and extending in
j%nt on the Juniata several miles.
1000 do. at the mouth of the Eaf Branch of Juniata,
and extending Jeveral miles in front along
that and little Juniata upward.
1000 do. on Shaver's Creek.
,000 do. on the Leaver Dam branch of Juniata, in
cluding the Great Beaver Dams.
800 do. at and near the mouth of Frank's Town
branch;
2000 do. on Vineyard Creek, and in Woodcock Valley.
2000 do. on Dunning's Creek, a few miles from
Bedford.
1000 do. in the forks of Yellow Creek, 12 miles
north east from Bedford.
500 do. on Friends Cove Creek, 9 miles foutb east
from Bedford.
300 do. on Brufo Creek, 10 miles south east from
Bedford.
300 do. 5 miles south weft from Bedford, andon the
great road from thence to Fort Cumberland.
1000 do. on the Shawanefe Cabbin waters, 12 miles
'weft from Bedford, and on the great road to
Pitt/burgb.
600 do. on the main branch of Juniata.
1500 do. on tbe foutb weft branch of Little Juniata.
30,000
Likewise I 000 acres or more on Savage River and
Laurel Run, near to Fort Cumberland, in Mary land.
There is water carriage from most of tbefe lands or
their neighbourhood to Harris's Ferry, or to Miadle
lown, in Lancafler county, from whence there is a
great trade up the Sufquebanna and Juniata rivers,
by means of fat bottom boats, which carry from 309
to 500 buJbels of wheat. The tranfpertation of which
from the above lands to the Middle-Town market
cofs from 6d. to led. per bujhel only.
The quality of tbefe lands is well known. They will
be divided or fold as they lay, as fall kef fait the pur
chasers. 7he terms of sale may be known by aptlyir,
to RICHARD NEAVE, Jun. ] ' 3
THOMAS WHARTON, Sen., Merchants in
Or GEORGE MORGAN, 5 Philadelphia.
Letters from persons living at a difance, inclining
to purchase any part of the above mentioned lands, shall
be duly answered.
JOHN YOU N G, Jun.
At the Sign of the En?,lifh Hunting Saddle and
Fire Buckets, in Market-street, next door to the
New Printing-Office,
MAKES in the best manner, and fells at the
molt reasonable rates, mens and womens
saddles of the newest fafhions, also foot cloths, bri
dles, pillions, housings, saddle cloths, pistol bags,
saddle bags, portmanteaus, and all kinds of faddie
and military furniture, &c.
Portmanteau hair trunks for travelling, made of
any dimension, at the shortest notice. .
Fire buckets, leather caps and holders.
lie has also a large and very neat assortment of
faddlery ware which he retails at the lowest prices,
for cash.
Likewise black, green, blue, and purple silk vel
vet New-Market riding caps, (London make) ex
ceeding neat.
N. B. Said Young has several tra&s of valuable
land in Bedford, Cumberland, and Northumberland
counties that he will fell cheap, or rent on very easy
terms.
THIRTY SHILLINGS REWARD.
RAN AWAY on the 23d inst. (November)
from the fubferiber, living in Front-street, a
little below the Drawbridge in Philadelphia, an
Irish servant man named SAMUEL SHORT,
about five feet eight or nine inches high, slim made,
of a swarthy complexion, down look, and has a
cast with one of his eyes ; had on when he went
away, a black coat and jacket of fuperfine broad
cloth, dove coloured velvet breeches, and fine hol
land shirt; he had also two silk jackets and a white
cloth one, worsted stockings and white metal
buckles. Whoever takes up the said servant and
secures him in any gaol, so that his matter may
get him again, shall have the above Reward, and
reasonable charges, paid by
JAMES THOMSON.
FOR SA L E,
AVERY valuable Plantation ip Berkeley coun
ty, Virginia, about ten miles from Watkins's
Ferry, on the great road from Philadelphia to
Winchester, known by the name of the Red House,
containing five hundred and thirty-fix acres, of
which about seventy acres of upland and ten acres
of meadow are cleared, and about fifteen acres
more fit for meadow to clear : The said land is
very rich, commodious for farming, and has plen
ty of lime-hone on the fame ; there are also on the
premises a convenient dwelling-house, kitchen,
liable, and other out-houses suitable for a public
houfe, and has been a noted stage for travellers
many years past. For terms apply to Edward
Beeson, who lives adjoining said Plantation.