The Pennsylvania gazette — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-11-20 00:00:00, page 1

TO BE SOLD, on the PREMISES,
On TUESDAY, the Third Day of December next, for CASH,
to the bigbeft Bidder,
THAT noted PLANTATION, belonging to the
estate of the late Capt. Howard, situated on the post-road
about a mile from Princeton, containing 160 acres, with a proper
proportion of meadow, pasture, arable and woodland, 21 acres of
the latter being about 3 miles from the buildings, which consist
of an excellent dwelling-house, kitchen, barn, Rabies, coach,
pidgeon and other out-houses; there is an inclofed garden,
and a good well of water ; also a good apple orchard, and a
great variety of fruit trees : A considerable part of the fence is
well-laid stone, and the other part in good repair. The pleasant
and healthy Situation of this feat is too well known to need men
tioning.—At the fame time and place will be fold, horses, cows,
flieep and hogs; hay, waggons, a cart, plows, and a variety of
other farming utensils; together with beds, tables, looking
glaffes, and a quantity of other genteel houfhould and kitchen
furniture. Possession of the farm may be had, and a good title
given, as soon as the purchaser pleases. The sale to begin at ten
o' clock in the forenoon.
N. B. There is a crop of wheat in the ground.
To be SOLD by the Subscriber,
AVERY valuable TRACT of LAND, containing
162 acres, about 60 of which are wood, and 18 meadow,
the rest exceeding good for any kind of grain, and remarkable
for early pasture, in a very healthy and pleasant situation, where
on are ere&ed a good brick house, a frame barn (and under the
barn room for 14 cows) a stable, calf, poultry and spring-house,
which spring never fails, a large and good garden pailed in,
a well of excellent water at the end of the house, a young
orchard of 160 trees, and a number of bearing ones ; the whole
situate in Nether-Providence,v.Chefter county, within 16 miles
of Philadelphia and 4 of Chester, and a clear title given by
q THOMAS VICKERS.
NeTU-Jerfey, Roxbury, Morris County.
To be SOLD on reasonable Terms,
TWO Hundred and Twenty ACRES of good LAND,
lying within half a mile of a village, called Flanders, in
said town, and within three miles of two Prefoyterian Meeting
houses, one mile from two good grist-mills, and half a mile
from a good saw-mill ; on the land is a good framed house, two
log-houses, one barn, a young bearing orchard, consisting of 160
grafted trees, a meadow off which may be mown 14 tons of good
English hay, much more may be made ; about 70 acres of up
land cleared, the whole under good fence, the remainder well
timbered. For further particulars, apply to the subscriber, liv
ing on the premises. A good title will be given by
^ Kennedy Dalzell.
TAKE N out of the fubferiber's house, in Front-street, on
the evening of the 9th instant, a new fuperfine brown
purple in grain broadcloth COAT and JACKET, lined with
brown ratinet, with gold basket buttons, and one white SHIRT.
Whoever apprehends the thief, and secures the clothes, so that
the owner gets them again, shall have Three Pounds reward.
([ PETER JANUARY.
P. S. If they Ihould be offered for sale, or otherwise come to
the knowledge of any honest person, their information will be
gratefully acknowledged. Nov. 11, 1776.
Lancaster, November 6, 1776.
IF Anne Marsden, Daughter of David Marsden, late
of Kent County, Maryland, deceased, be living, by applying
to John Hart, of the Borough of Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
may hear of Something to her Advantage. q
ABSCONDED from the subscriber, living in Strafburg
township, Lancaster county, the 14th of September last,
an apprentice lad, named HENRY KEER, about 15 years
of age, 5 feet 5 inches high, well made, has fair hair, and is a
piece of a taylor by trade. Whoever takes up said apprentice,
and secures him, that the subscriber may have him again, shall
have One Shilling and their labour for their pains, and no
cost nor expences nor charges shall be paid by
q JOHN KEER.
Philadelphia, October 29, 1776.
THE Fublifhers of the several weekly NEWS
PAPERS in this City, are under the dis
agreeable Necessity of informing their Subscribers,
that the extraordinary Advance in the Price of Pa
per, and other Materials in the Printing Business,
nas obliged them to raise the Price to FIFTEEN
SHILLINGS per Annum; and they hope their
Customers will not take it amiss to find that Price
charged from and after the First Day of January
next.— Those who fliould not incline to have the Pa
pers sent after that Time, are desired to call and dis
charge their Arrears ; such as do not, we shall con
clude they agree to the advanced Price, and shall
continue to fend them accordingly.—Persons sub
scribing for the Papers after this Date to be charged
Fifteen Shillings per Annum, one Half of which
to be paid at Entrance.
W M . and THOMAS BRADFORD.
JOHN DUNLAP.
"JAMES HUMPHREYS.
HALL and SELLERS.
The Pennsylvania
Cartifle, November I„ 1776.
NOW in the goal of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania,
the following persons, viz. Two NEGRdE men, the one
calls himfelf JACK, and fays he belongs to John Mitchel, as
advertised in the Newspapers ; the other fays his name is
GEORGE, and that he belongs to Samuel Willick, in Jersey,
opposite to New-Castle. ROBERT WOOD, an Englishman,
who confefl'es he belongs to John Gillis, of Baltimore county,
Maryland. MURDOCK RYLEY, servant to Felix Doyle, of
the Path Valley. And JAMES PARSO NS, servant to Stephen
Gill, of Baltimore county, Maryland. Their masters are desired
to come, pay their fees, and take them out, or they will be fold
for the fame in three weeks from this date, by
f Samuel Pqstlmthwaitk.
Containing the Frefeeft ^d-
November 20, 1776.
SIXTY DOLLARS Reward.
DESERTED from Captain Robert Mullan's company of
marines, lying in the barracks at Philadelphia, the fol
lowing persons, viz.
Thomas Mewbenney, labourer, about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high,
short fair hair, ruddy complexion, strong built, lived near Jacob
Miller's tavern, on the Lancaster road.
John M "dofkey, shoe-maker, about 5 feet 5 or 6 inches high,
well set, short brown hair ; one thumb ftiff at the joint and
withered, so as to appear less than the other; lived in the fame
neighbourhood with the former.
John Fitzinger, labourer, about 5 feet 9 inches high, fair hair
tied, slender built, German extraction, but speaks English well.
Jofefeb Lowrey, labourer, about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high,
short fair hair, full faced, well set, and resided in the fame
neighbourhood with the other three above described men, near
Jacob Miller's tavern, on the Lancaster road.
Thomas Caldwell, labourer, 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, a little
Strop-Shouldered, strong built, and born in Ireland.
Thomas Sappington, labourer, aged zr years, 5 fret io| inches
high, sandy hair, slender built, born in Kent county, Maryland,
and is supposed to have gone towards Warwick.
7# Redding, by trade a blacksmith, about 22 years old,
5 feet 7^ inches high, and born in Maryland.
John MCafeon, labourer, 5 feet 4 inches high, sandy com
plexion, stoops forward, and has rhe appearance of a hard drinker.
Neil Faroon, labourer, born in Ireland, aged 26 years, 5 feet 4^
inches high, short black hair, down look, and dark complexion'.
Jofepb Boyce, labourer, born in Ireland, 5 f ee t 9 inches high,
dark complexion, cannot write, and is supposed to have gone to
wards Cumberland county ; it is probable he may visit his friends
in Chester county.
Hugh Conoley, labourer, born in Ireland, 5 feet 9 inches high,
short black hair curled; was a servant before enlisted with
James Dunn, Weft-Fallowfield township, Chester county, and is
supposed to have returned to that neighbourhood.
William Taylor, carpenter, born in England, aged 36 years,
5 feet 4 inches high ; loft the fore finger of his right hand.
John Hill, born in Ireland, 5 feet 2 inches high, is a sailor.
John Campbell Brown, 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high; left eye out;
well set, and sandy complexion.
Samuel M'Cormick, labourer, about 37 years of age, 5 feet 5
inches high, well set; enlisted at Port-Penn.
Whoever secures said deserters and feuds them to their respec
tive company, at the barracks, in Philadelphia, shall have the
above reward, or Four Dollars for each, and all reasonable charges,
paid by Robert Mullan, Captain of Marines.
November 11, 1776.
RU N away from the subscriber, living in Philadelphia, on
the 3d day of November inst. an apprentice lad, named
Thomas Gregory, about 16 years of age, of a low stature, mid
dling strong built, English born, but speaks very good Dutch ;
had on, and took with him, when he went away, a light long
jacket, a brown under ditto, leather breeches, thread flockings,
strong leather shoes, with yellow buckles, a half-worn hat, also
a pair of blue worked flockings, and a brown double-breasted
regimental jacket. Whoever takes up and secures said appren
tice, so that his matter may have him again, shall have the above
reward of Four Dollars, and reasonable charges, paid by
Frederick Mouse.
ST OLEN from the subscriber, living in the Valley, in
Sadfbury township, Chester county, Nov. 7, 1776, a black
MAR E, 14 hands high, paces and trots, a small switch tail,
one of her hind feet hoofs split ; she has a bright star. At the
fame time was stolen a dark bay COL T, 3 years old, about
14 hands high, paces, a large blaze in his face, 3 white feet,
one hoof split, a small switch tail. Whoever secures the horses
and thief or thieves, so that the owner may have them again, and
the thieves brought to justice, shall have the above reward, or
Thirty Shillings, and reasonable charges, paid for each of them
by J 0 H Q£O T. ^
CA M E to the plantation of the subscriber, in Cheltenham
township, Philadelphia county, on the tenth of November
1776, Three BEEF COWS. The owner is desired to come
speedily, prove his property, pay charges, and take them away.
11 Samuel Leech.
WHEREAS Ann Carslack, wife of David Cars
lack, of Nottingham, in the county of Burlington,
West-New-Jersey, hath some time past gone away from me, her
huSband, without any reasonable cause whatsoever for so doing,
and carried with her sundry of my effects, some of which were
under execution some time before. I do hereby give public no
tice to her, if she returns to me she shall have the best of usage,
and all former difference shall be buried in utter oblivion ; if
not, I do hereby forewarn all persons from trusting her on my
account, or to entertain or harbour her, or conceal any of the
goods she took from me ; for such as do, may exped to be pro
secuted to the utmost extent of the law, by
August 2, 1776. David Carslack.
Province of Pennsylvania, ff.
ALL Persons possessed of the Bills of Credit of this Province
of the several Emissions issued before the Year 1773 [Bills
of Credit of the House of Employ, which are exchanged by the
Treasurer of that Institution, excepted] are hereby earnestly re
queued to bring them to the Provincial Treasurer, in Philadel
phia, in order to have them exchanged, which will thereby be
rendering their Country a Service.---The Treasurer would fur
ther add, that from an anxious Desire of doing all the real Ser
vice to the Public he can, on considering that there is still a
Want of Change in Circulation, notwithstanding the great Quan
tity by him delivered out, he would inform those that are pos
sessed of the Bills of Credit dated 20th July, 1775, issued by
the Resolutions of tlie Assembly, that thev may have them also
exchanged, so far as the small Bills remaining in his Hands will
enable him to do, although the Taxes for the finking those Bills
are not yet laid.
AWII, 1776. Michael Hillegas, Pro. Treasurer.
To be LETT out at Interest, on good Land Security,
Sundry SUMS of MONEY,
From Two Hundred to Three Thousand Pounds.
Enquire of Lewis Weiss, Scrivener, in Second ftrect. 1
FOUR DOLL AR S Reward.
SIX POUNDS Reward.
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G^ZETTE.
vices, Foreign and Domestic.
The CONSIDERATE FREEMAN.
To the PEOP L E.
HAVING pointed out the ruinous tendency of the
measures at present pursuing, I come to the objec
tions raised against the plan of government established by
the Convention. Here I would beseech every man to di
vest himfelf of prejudice and passion, and calmly to re
flet, that it is the general Gaufe, and therefore his own,
which I am pleading.
All men in office, at least with very few exceptions,
are fond of power. And tyranny is a wanton use of that
power to the injury of the people, for whose good alone
it was delegated ; but which rulers employ to promote
their own private interest, however oppressive it may be
to those who have entrusted them with it.
The wisdom and goodness of a eonftitution consists in
delegating this power in such a manner, that the per
sons entrusted therewith flball find no advantage in the
undue exercise or abuse of it. For however prone to
mifehief and wickedness mankind may be, there are few
who do mifehief for mifehief's fake. When any public
officer transgresses the bounds of his duty, it is ever with
a view to the advantages he experts to reap by the trans
gression. If then he can make no advantage by an abuse
of his power, or if he has little or no expectation of
escaping with impunity when he does abuse it, the peo
ple have the bed security in the world against mal-admi
niftration. This principle is so plain and certain that the
merits of every government ought to be tried by it; and
they are to be pronounced good or bad, according as
they approach to, or verge from, this criterion. It is not
the number of parts in the government, but the manner
of their eonftitution, which denominates it good or bad.
By this principle let us try our new frame of government,
and if it can Stand a fair and close examination, I will
not hesitate to pronounce it good, however others may
differ from me in opinion ; if it is not able to bear this
examination, I will pronounce it defective in those in
stances, let who will gainsay me.
To begin with the legislative part of the plan, which
is or ought to be the liigheft authority in every State,
and the dernier resort of the people against all kinds of
oppression. I would observe, that it consists of a body
of men, chosen in every part of the State by the free
voice of the people for whom they are to legislate, and
proportioned on the true principles of representation, so
that every man. has a voice in delegating the man who is
to give away his money, or make rhe laws by which he
is to be bound, and no one man has a greater voice than
another. And being chosen in all parts of the State,
they will be acquainted with the interests of all, and
having their own interest in common with theirs, it mult
be their concern to make good laws, unless they can ob
tain peculiar advantages to themselves by bad ones. This
they cannot obtain. For having no ihare in the execu
tion of the laws, the moment the law is made they are
as much under its influence and operation as any of their
constituents can be ; and can reap no other or greater ad
vantages from it than they *. If they ever make a bad
law therefore it must be thro' ignorance, and the moment
they feel its improper operation, they will be as anxious
as any of their constituents to have it repealed, and be
ing wholly in their power they will repeal it. A nega
tive might prevent a repeal as has often been the case ;
but there is no such let in the way. Here then is the ut
most security for the making of good laws. And good
laws, well executed, being the happiness of society, they
who are so deeply interested in making good laws will be
equally, so in the due execution of 'them. They will
therefore ever be honest upright guardians of the people,
and will take care that the executive officers do their
duty faithfully, and call them to an account when they
do otherwise.
This is fufficient to shew that the legislative part of
the eonftitution is well constituted, and so far from hav
ing reason to dread its authority, the people may ever
with fafety confide in it.
If to this we add that three Legifiators are annually
elective, and so can be removed as often as their con
stituents discover that they are not equal to the talk of
legillation; and that, after they have served four years,
if their constituents think them worthy of such long
continuance, they must give place to a new sett, and in
the mean time mix with the mass of the people, and feel
at their leisure the effects of the laws which they have
made. This will be a frefh inducement to keep them
right ; and they will ever after be a check upon those who
succeed them, being acquainted with the business, and of
course able to detect and expose every improper step which
they take. Hocu can men Jo circumJlanced ^willfully grr ?
These are fufficient to keep any legislature right. But
suppose these infufficient, there are still further Securities.
The doors of the House of Assembly are to be open, the
votes published weekly, and the.printing presses free to
expose every deviation. These will forever secure the
rights and privileges of the people. But if something is
still a wanting, you have that which will yield more
fafety than any thing besides. You have the perusal, and
consequent approbation of every law before it binds you
fo that you must content to be Slaves before you can be
made such. # By tliis means the wliole State becomes its
own council, and every freeman in it is a counfellor, and
the negative lies in the whole body politic, and not in a
few grandees. A council as much to be preferred to the
legislative council of these gentlemen, as the wisdom and
* In a late Packet feme Gentleman re-publi/bed the fen
timen 3 of an EaJlern Delegate against a Jingle legislature,
but any one ^bo mill compare them with the eonftitution of
our legislature mill find, that they can as jufly be applied to
account for the phenomenon of Saturn's king as to our Af
fembty.
Numb. 2500.