The Pennsylvania ledger, or, The Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, & New-Jersey weekly advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-05-25 00:00:00, page 4

' JOSEPH POTT S,
At his Store in Sixth street, near Market-street, and
at the Slitting-Mill in Chester county.
? HI L A D E L P ft I A.
In CO MMITTEE of SAFETY, /Ifo i 6.
The Committee having already made known to
the inhabitants of this city the pressing occasion there
is for a lar^e quantity of LEAD, to be employed
in the defence of this country, and requeued them
to i'pare, for the public use, the various Ipecics ot
leaden weights in their refpedive families —The
Committee, as the moll easy and expeditions method
of procuring such LEAD, have appointed Thomas
Novell, Frazer Linfley, William Colliday, and John
Darev, to go round the city and receive it at the
several houses, they paying at the rate of Six-pence
per pound, as formerly specified; it being underhood
that clock-weights are 'not at preTent comprehended
among them, as the iron weights to replace them
are not yet made.
It is expected that every virtuous citir^n will im
ihediately and chearfully comply with this requifo
tion; but if any perlons should be so loft to all sense
ofthe public good as to refufe, a lift of their names
is directed to be returned to this Committee.
p-traß from the Minutes, Wm. GOVETT, See.
In COMMITTEE of S AFETY, May 21.
Col. Cadwalad.tr having introduced the report
of the several gentlemen appointed by this Board,
to examine the musket cartridges made up by the
commissary.—Ordered, that the fame be published in
the different news papers. Extract from the Minutes,
WILLIAM GOVETT, Secretary.
We the fubferibers appointed by the board of
officers of the aden* :tors of the city and liberties
of Philadelphia, for the purpose of examining the
cartridges delivered by the Commissary to the
said aflociators, have carefully examined the fame,
and find the weight of powder therein contained is
two fifth parts ofthe weight of the ball. It appears
clearly, from experiment that the powder is very
good, that the above proportion is fully fufficient,
and that mere would be useless if not dangerous.
T. Matlack, Col. Rifle Bat.
Philadelphia, Fr. Wade, Capt. 2d Bat.
May 20, 1776. Fr. Gurney, Capt. 3d Bat.
Wm. Will, Capt. ill Bat.
In COMMITTEE of InfpeCion and Observation
Philadelphia, Blay 18, 1776.
WHEREAS a quantity of Salt, supposed to be
about four thousand bushels, belonging to Jofoua
Fifoer and Sons, imported in December 1774, con
trary to the Continental Association, was then ffored
under the care of the Committee of Infpedion and
Observation for the City and Liberties of Philadel
phia, and now remains unfold; The said Jofoua
Lifter and Sons having refilled to fell it, according
to the recommendations of Congress and dill con
tinue contumaciously so to do.—And the said Jofeua
Fifoer and Sons, by their letter dated the Bth of this
month, diredled to this Committee, and received
the iitli of the fame, have proposed, that if the
fame be delivered to them without any conditions
whatsoever, they will retail it in final! quantities to
the coufumer at Three Shillings per bushel. I his
Committee being well informed that the aforefaid
proposal was spread through the country before it
was made to the Committee; was calculated to in
volve them in difficulties, and has a tendency to in
duce the people to believe, that the Committee have
fume finitter views in detaining the Salt in their
possession.—The Committee think it their duty to
remind the public, that Thomas Fifteen and Samuel
Fifber, of the house of Jofoua Fifber and Sons, have
been adjudged and advertised as enemies to their
country, and incapable of all trade and intercourse
with the people of these colonies; and therefore,
that the Salt cannot be delivered to them, nor, if
it were in their poffeflion, could it be purchased of
them by any friend to American liberty.—The
Committee at the fame time assure the public, that
thei t V: under their consideration a mode of dif
pofin ^' W said Salt, so as to serve the public in
the mod T &ual manner, without doing the least
injustice to the said Jofoua Fifber and Sons.
PubH/bed by order of Committee,
SAMUEL C. MORRIS, Secretary,
cfo sc^ascCr^^ * c*>cfocfoctyoc^^
The best Price and ready Money
Is given for
Clean Linen Rags,
By the PRINTER hereof.
r HE Copartnership of MASON and PATTON
I being rifTolvcd, all those who are indebted to
them by Bond, Note, or Book Debt, are desired to
make immedi l payment to Phineas Bond, Esq;
who is prop rly authorifed to receive and fettle the
fame, and all thole who have any demands against
the laid IMrtnerfhip, are requeued to apply as above:
And public notice is hereby given to all thole in
debted to the said Partnership, that unless they dis
charge their refpedive debts, as above, on or before
the 20th day of May next, they will be sued with
out refpe& to Persons. Philadelphia, April 30.
N A FL rod $
/ Of different sizes, to b^ had of
Several Sums of Money,
To be Lent, at Interest, on good Security,
By JAMES HUMPHREYS,
Notary Public and Conveyancer;
In Front-street, Corner of Black-horse Alley.
HE Members of the Library Company of Phi-
Uladfphia are requested to attend at the Libra
ry room, on Thursday the thirtieth day of May,
inst: at two o'clock in the afternoon, in order to
confider of the propriety of impowering the direc
tors to remove the books and effects of the company,
and determine on the place where they ihall be de
posited, in case any future event should render that
measure necessary. By order of the Directors,
ANDREW ROBESON Secretary,
The, all went off in their uniform, being brown
faced with white, with N o# 3 on both coat and waif
coat buttons, buckskin breeches, new fooes and flock
ings ; their hats are laced with white tape.
As tbe Public in general fuffer by such impoftions,
their eloathing not being paid for by them, it is there
fore hoped, that the gentlemen officers and soldiers, in
the militia, will take .an active part in apprehending
the said Deserters, and lodging them in any prison, or
conveying them to me, at my quarters, in the Phila
delphia barracks. Philadelphia, May 15.
JOSEPH DAVENPORT, Captain.
Just printed,publifhed and now felling by R. BELL,
in Third-street (price ten Shillings neatly bound)
no HE DI S EASES incident to ARMIES, with
A the Method- of Cure; translated from the
original of Baron Van Swieten, phyficiah to their
imperial Majesties. To which are added the Na-
ture and treatment of GUM SHOT WOUNDS,
by John Ranby, Elq; Surgeon General to the
British army. Likewif Directions to be observed
by sea surgeons in engagements. Also Preventa
tives of the Scurvy at Sea, by William Northcote,
surgeon many years in the sea service. With Rules
for preserving Health in warm and cold climates, by
DoAor Lind published for the use of military and
naval surgeons 4
Memorandum. It is presumed that whatever
contributeth to promote the health and happiness of
such valuable lives as those of American soldiers
and sailors, should meet with a generous reception,
not only from those who are more immediately
engaged in the pecuniary fuperintendment of their
welfare, but also from all the friends to liberty and
humanity, who are in opulent circumflances, and
especially from all the capital land and sea officers,
whose personal fafety, either from or in diseases
(as well as the very large number of privates under
their command) are so very dependent on the know
ledge and abilities of their physicians.
*, All the newest political pamphlets, either for
or against independency, may be had -at said Bell's.
Just printed, published, and now felling by
ROBERT BEL L, in Third-street,
Price Two Shillings,
With large Allowance to those who buy per the
Dozen,
THE Second Edition of PLAIN TRUTH;
addressed to the Inhabitants of America,
containing remarks on a late pamphlet, intituled
COMMON SENSE: Wherein are shewn, that
the Scheme of Independence is ruinous, delusive
and impracticable: That were the author's assevera
tions, refpe&ing the power of America, as real as
nugatory reconciliation, on liberal principles, witli
Great-Britain would be exalted policy; and that,
circumstanced as we are, permanent liberty, and
true happiness, can only be obtained by reconcilia
tion witli that kingdom. Written by Candidus.
Will ye turn from flattery, and attend to this fide?
There truth, unlicenc'd, walks; and dares accost
Even Kings tbemfelves, the Monarchs of the free !
Thompson on the liberties of Britain.
N. B. To this pamphlet is subjoined a Defence of
the Liberty of the Press, by the sagacious and pa
triotic Junius, author of the celebrated Free Letters
to his present Majesty, and his Ministers.
AL L Persons indebted to the Estate of MAR
GARET SIMS, late of this city, inholder,
deceased, are desired to make speedy payment; and
those that have any demands against the said estate,
are desired to bring them in properly proved, that
they may be fettled, by
Thomas Middleton, Administrator.
Philadelphia. May 16. 1776.
reifrd.
DESERTE D from the Company of the Sub
friber, in the Third Battalion, commanded by
Colonel fohn Shee, the following Soldiers, viz,
JAMES WELCH, a flout, well-made fellow, a
bout § feet 6 inches high, and of a fair complexion ;
he is supposed to have gone towards Reading-Town,
in Berks county.
JACOB BOYER, about 20 years of age, and of a
fair complexion; he is supposed to be also gone towards
Reading as his father lives there.
THOMAS BENNET, about 5 feet 10 inches
high, and of a dark complexion.
PAUL HOOKE, about 5 feet 7 inches high, and
of a light, fair complexion; is supposed to have gone
towards Pottsgrove, in Berks county, he having a
wife there.
DR. YELDALL, whose abilities in the several
branches of his profeffion is well known thro'
mod parts of the United Colonies, is to be consulted
at his Medicinal Ware-house, three doors above the
Bank meeting house, in Front-street, in all cases
of Physic and Surgery. The Dodor has not only
qualified himfelf for his profeffion, by attending the
lectures, as well as the practice of several eminent
men in Europe, but has spent more than five years
in travelling through great part of this continent,
during which he diligently noted and attended to
the different disorders each province is fubjeA to, as
also the various means made use of for obtaining a
cure, and to this, added to an extensive 'practice,
is owing, under God, the great success that has
attended his undertakings.—The extirpating wens
and lumps from any part of the body, and in some
curing the wound in a few hours; the cutting that
deformity the hare-lip in less than one minute, and
curing it in lour days, is scarce credible were it not
attested by so many stubborn fads; but to take a
way all doubt, where prejudice has not prevailed
over reason, all operations will be performed, no
Cure no Money.
Those that live in the city may be waited on at
their houses; those that live remote may, by fend
ing an account of their complaint, have advice and
medicines font.
The. Donor's Family medicines, and most Patent
medicines, together with bark, camphir, rhubarb,
&c. may be had on reasonable terms.
TO BE SO L D,
A LOT of GROUND, adjoining the town
of Manheim, in the county of Lancaster,
containing two acres and one hundred and four
perches, being that out-lot, which in the plan of
the said town, is marked and called Number ten.
Also, one other L 0 T, in or near the said
town of Manheim, containing ten acres and forty
four perches, adjoining the lots of Frederick Leifer,
Nicholas Candour, and others, being that part of a
trad of seven hundred acres of land divided into
lots, which in the plan of the said division is marked
and called Number thirty. The title and terms
may be known by applying to
3m. 'MIERS FISHER
Talbot County, Maryland. May, 6, 1776
SIX POUNDS Reward.
RAN 1W \ Y from the lubferiber, on the night
of the 4th inflant, two convicts, viz. WILLI
AM MANLY, a well made man, five feet seven
inches high, thirty or thirty-five years of age, witli
black hair cut short, of a surly bad countenance, is
a sawyer or labourer, and understands horles: had
on a short blue coat much worn, spotted fwanfkin
jacket and trowfers, good strong shoes with small
nails in the soles and heels, a cap made of English
sole leather and painted blue, and had an iron collar
about his neck; he is a mod impudent infamous
villain, this being the third time he has run away,
and once he broke jail afterdie was taken up and
committed.
THOMAS PEARSON, a slender simple young
fellow, witli light coloured short foft hair, about
eighteen or twenty years of age, five feet fix inches
high, has large eyes and very small fingers, is a
sawyer or labourer: had on a drab coloured coat
and jacket about half worn, spotted fwanfkin trow
fers, and a leather cap and shoes the fame as Man
ly's they both speak the North of England Dialed.
Whoever takes up and secures the said servants,
so that I get them again, shall receive if taken in
this province Forty Shillings for each, and if taken
up out of this province Three Pounds for each.
When taken up I desire I may be inform'd by an
advertisement in the Pennsylvania Gazette.
JAMES BRADDOC K.
N. B. 'Tis probable they will change their names
and perhaps some part of their cloaths, and 'tis
likely they will lurk in the woods in the day time and
travel in the night.
TO BE SO L D,
I FOURTEEN Acres of Good LAND, situate
_ in Springfield township, Burlington county,
twenty-fix miles from Philadelphia, twelve from
Burlington, and seven from Mount-Holly, in a
village called Julius town. There are on said pre
mises, a handsome two story dwelling house neatly
painted, very pleafently situated in a healthy part
of the country, with good stables and a large hay
loft, a waggon house, fmoak houfe,&c. a good well
of water with a pump at the kitchen door, a large
garden neatly paled witli a variety of fruit trees, a
large orchard containing 180 apple trees : There is
also on said premises two small dwelling houses that
rent for seven pounds per annum.
Any person inclining to view the fame and know
the terms, may apply to William Hewlings,
Esq; in Burlington, or to the subscriber on the
premises. James Smith.
N. B. The above place would suit any gentle
man chufing to retire from the city.
Mr. Burke's Speeches,
With sundry others on American Affairs,
To be had of the Printer.