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Georgia, Nov. I, 1775.
To All Men in all civilized Kingdoms, States,
Provinces, Colonies and Inlands ;
PATRICK MACKAY, Esq; of the island
of Sapello, in the province of Georgia, here
by gives notice of a most daring and flagitious rob
bery and piracy, and requests their aid and assist
ance to seize, flop, and bring to punishment, the
perpetrators of the crime to be set forth at large in
this advertisement, for the public good of all com
mercial countries, as well as for the recovery of his
own property.
About eleven o'clock on the night of Tuesday
the 31st of October last, nine armed men came on
board a schooner, then lying moored off the point
of Sapello, in the province of Georgia, cut both
her cables (which were all that were on board) and
proceeded immediately to sea. Of the perpetrators
of this piracy two only are known, viz. SAMUEL
PRICE and SAMUEL WELLS. Price is afhort
slim man, rather well made, about 35 years of age,
and was lately master and owner of a coasting
schooner in this province; Wells is a tall, slender
young man, about 25 years of age, and was ' born
in Rhode-Ifland.
There were on board the schooner at the time
when the pirates boarded her, a white man, John
Bacon, and three negro men; when they got near
the bar, they put on board a boat belonging to the
schooner the abovementioned John Bacon, and two
of the negroes; the other negro fellow named Jack
(who is about 5 feet 8 inches high) they carried off
with them.
The schooner is 53 feet keel, 22 feet beam, and
about 9 feet in the hold; Ihe is quite new, built in
South-Carolina, may carry about 300 barrels of
rice, her stern square and painted light blue, had
bright sides, fix port-holes and two quarter-lights
on each fide. The ports and dead-lights were not
painted, nor the windows faffied: neither was there
any joiner's work done in her cabbin, being just out
of the builder's hands. She is taunt rigged, with
topmasts standing, but had no yards across; her
forefail new, and her mainsail and jib halt-worn.
The hook over her boltfprit had been carried away,
and was fixed with a hawser. She was lately pur
chased by the subscriber at the Marshal's sale at
Savannah in Georgia.
When the schooner was boarded by the said pirates
ihe was in ballad; the only provisions then on board
were about 5 bushels of potatoes, and a few calks
of water. From their being so scantily provided,
they may be obliged to put into some port or inlet
on the coast of North-America, in order to pro
cure, by theft a freffi supply; it will, therefore,
behoove all persons on the coast to keep a good
look out, in order to prevent their accomplishing
any such purpole; or they may probably offer the
abovementioned negro fellow Jack for sale, that
they may, with the purchase money, procure ne
cessaries.
A Reward of FIFTY DOLLARS is hereby
offered to any person who ffiall apprehend, and
bring to justice, the above-mentioned Samuel Price,
Samuel Wells, and their accomplices; also a reward
of FIFTY DOLLARS for the recovery of the
negro fellow Jack; and likewise a reafbnable and
generous Salvage for recovering and delivering the
said fchoonerto Mr. Alexander Rose, Merchant,
in Charleftown, South-Carolina, or to me in Geor
gia; to be awarded and determined upon by any
three merchants or indifferent persons, or other
wise according to law or custom.
Patrick Mackay.
WAS found last Saturday evening, a short
Cloth CLOAK, the owner by applying
to the Printer, proving property and paying char
ges, may have it again.
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WHALE OIL In Tierces and Barrels,
To be SOLD for Cash only, by
CHARLES EDDY,
In Second-street, between Market and Chefnut
ftreets, Philadelphia. $
PENNSYLVAN IA
WEEKLY
January 6, 1776.
Or the Virginia, Maryland,
SATURDAY,
PRINTIN G,
In Englijb, German, and other Languages.
"HE subscribers being provided with a general
[ assortment of new and elegant Types, and
Other printing materials, have opened an office, at
the corner of Coats's alley, in Second-street, above
Race street, opposite to the sign of the Buck; where
they intend carrying on the Printing Bufmefs in all
its different branches, with care fidelity and expedi
tion: And as they are determined to use their utmost
endeavours to give latisfadion to those who may be
pleased to employ them, they humbly request the
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and their friends and acquaintance in particular.
MELCHIOR STYNER,
and CHARLES CIST.
N. B. Blanks and Hand-bills are done on the
shortest notice, in a neat and corred manner.
TWENTY SHILLINGS REWARD.
RUN-AWAY from the subscriber, last Tues
day week, an English Servant LAD, named
SAMUEL ROBINSON, he is about 16 or
17 years of age, about 4 feet 8 inches high. Had
on when he went away, an old felt hat, an old
fwanfkin striped jacket, and a brown under ditto,
about four inches longer than the upper, old buck
skin breeches, white flockings, and half-worn shoes,
capped on the toes. Whoever takes up said Serv
ant, and secures him in Philadelphia Work-house,
shall have the above reward.
MATTHEW RICHARD.
N. B. Captains and others are forewarned from
enlisting him, or taking him off. §
Just Publifoed, and To be Sold, By
JAMES HUMPHREYS, junr.
In Front-street, the Corner of Black-horse Alley,
THE
Universal Almanack,
For the Year of our Lord, 1776.
containing:
The motions of the fun and moon; the true
places and afpeds of the planets; the fifing
and setting of the fun; the rising, setting, and
southing of the moon; the lunations; conjunctions;
eclipses; judgment of the weather; rising and set
ting of the planets; length of days; fairs; courts;
roads, &c. together with ufeful tables; chronolo
gical observations; entertaining remarks; and a
full explanation of the whole. Also
The following Ufeful and Entertaining Pieces.
A CURIOUS Description and Figure of a
Syren, or Mermaid, lately caught, now ex
hibiting in London. Anecdote of Lieut. Obrien.
The Bellows differed. The Young Lion's Court
Method of preserving Corn hundreds of Years.
Method of destroying Caterpillars on Trees. Pe
trarch's Domeftick's, two curiousCharaders. Whim
fical Alliterating Lines upon the Alphabet. Sun
dry excellent Receipts. Anecdote of the late Duke
of Cumberland. Anecdote of Count de Lauzun.
The happy Fire-fide. An Epigram. Verses from
a straight Lady to a crooked Gentleman. An ex
traordinary and mortal Instance of Surprize.
Please to observe, that the Calculations
of this Almanack are the Performance of the
ingenious D. RITTENHOUSE, A. M.
This is to give Notice, that the
Shlp ELIZABETH,
'°" rt C am pbell, Matter;
WILL fail on the 15th of Janu
ary next, wind and weather per
mitting, FOR
Cork, Falmouth, and London:
ALL perlon who intend to go passengers in the
laid ship, are desired to apply, as soon as pos
sible, to the Commander on board, at Mr. Bickley's
wharf, the upper fide of Market-street wharf, or at
the London Coffee-houfe, to pay their passage mo
ney and choose their births, that provision may be
made accordingly. Dec. 27.
THE
ADVERTISER.
L E D G E R:
A few more of the
Search after Happiness,
A PaHoral Drama, by Miss H. MOR E, with
Armine and Elvira,
A Legendary Tale,
To be had of the Printer; Also a few of the
Man of Real Sensibility.
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The Proceis for extrafling and refining S A L F
PETRE, according to the method praGifed at
the provincial works in this city. Publifoed by ore
der of the Committee of Safety.
SALT-PETRE, or Nitre, is found in a large
quantity in different materials, sometimes mix
ed and incorporated with Hones, and in earths which
are exposed and open to all weathers; but the most
common places where it is found, is in the earth
which forms the floor either of sheep, horse or cow
Hablesand sheds, in old out-houses, in cellars and
under barns where any animals usually shelter, or
any other covered place where any animal or vege
table substances mixed together with earth have
been colluded and have laid a long time; and it is
said those places where tobacco is manufactured,
&c. produce it. A very important part of the falt-'
petre maker's knowledge consists in a judicious choice
of the materials, and no directions can be given
that will avail much; a few experiments properly
attended to will afford more inftrudion than' any
written directions; nevertheless, by way of caution
it may be proper to observe that where Hables are
constantly used you must take the earth which lays
near the manger, otherwise it will have too great'a
mixture of tlie urine and dung of the animals
which will produce Sal Ammoniac instead of Salt
petre*, and it is considered as a rule for the choice
of materials that the longer they have lain together
the greater chance there will be of getting falt-pe
tre out of them.
* At the Provincial Works in this city, cellar dirt
is chief, used, as it has been found to contain a greater
proportion of Nitre than an, ether earth the, hav<
met with.
Pennsylvania, & New-Jersey
When the materials are cohered they extras and
refine the falt-petie by the following easy process
which I shall divide into fix parts, to render it plaiu
and easy of comprehension, viz.
1. To make the lye.
2. The firft boiling to prepare it for filtering.
3. Filtering or straining the lye.
4. The second boiling to separate the sea fall
and prepare it for chryftalifing.
5< Chryftalifing the salt petre. ,
6. Refining the falt-petre.
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Bookseller in Third-street,
A WELL chosen LAW LIBRARY, con
taining all the latest, with some of the earlL
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N. B. At said BELL's may be had, Chefter
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3 vols. Cullen's Lectures on the Materia Medica.
Jones on Wounds, Fradures, Camp and Military
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STRAYED into the plantation of Dr. Thomas
Bond, near the Falls of Schuylkill, last June,
a large Black C O W, with her face, belly, and
hind feet white. The owner coming, proving pro
perty, and paying charges, may have her again.
. § RICHARD BROW N.
TO BE SOLD, '
WILLIAM SYKES, & Comp.
In Front-street, three doors below Arch-ltreet,
A Quantity of the best
Copper Indigo and Soal-leather,
And a few casks of Providence Lime Juice.
January 6, 1776.
Numb. L,