Gazette of the United States. — Philadelphia [Pa.], 1796-02-12 00:00:00, page 1

For Freight, or Charter,
General Wafhingtcm,
William Perry, nujicr,
BURTHEN 2600 barrels; now in the Carpenter's
hands, and will be ready to receive a cargo in two or
three days. Her accommodations for paflengers are
excellent. For terms of which, or freight, apply to the
Captain, or , KEARNY WHAR TON.
Feb. 9.
ABOUT 157 tons burthen; is now in
complete order to receive a cargo on board, and lays the
fecon'i wharf below Pine-street. Enquire of
N D U S T R r,
LYING at the Wharf of Mr. Henry
Vratt; a staunch, good vet Tel; well found; about fix years
old, and burthen 185 tons. For terms apply to
yofeph Anthony Ss° Son.
§jt-
F° r Sale or Charter,
The new (hip SUCCESS,
Robert Wclfti, matter; lying at Stam
per's wharf; a strong faithful built vessel, fails extreme
ly well, and is also well found ; burthen 159 tons.
For terras apply to
Joseph Anthony 8c Son.
Who have received by said veflel,
A few casks Madeira Wine, mould
and dipt Candles, and bed Boston Chocolate.
Decsmbtr 29. dtf
jy||«. roebuck.
Will begin to take in in a few days, and is in-
tended to fail with all' expedition. For freight
or pillage, apply to
Thomas & John Clifford,
Who have Imported in said Veffel y and have for Sale.
Besides their usual assortment of Ironmongery, Cutlery, &c.
A few crates of Flint Glass Ware, crates of Phials,
crates of cream colour* d Ware, boxes of Long and short
Bipes, cases of mens, womcns and childrcns Hats a floated,
London and Bristol pewter, best Englifti crown Glass of
the different sizes from 8 by I a to 9 by 7 inches, bull s-eye
Glass, boxes of Tin Plates, Bar Lead and Shot, and a
quantity of Copper in (beets and bottoms.
They have like-wise received.
An assortment of Garnett & Company's patent systems for
Blocks for {hips ofe, and other purposes, which arc found
from several years experience, to be a very confiderahle
saving of labour, as well as saving in the wear of cordage,
and are now generally used for the principal blocks in new
No. 313 Hieh-ftreet.
GEORGE DAVIS,
IN addition to his general collection of Books, on hand,
has received by late arrivals at Ntw-York, Baltimore,
aa d this port, from Dublin, a further large fu Pl fly—
Amone which are Bacon's Abridgement, 5 vols. Comynss
Diced 6 vols. Loft's edition of Gilbert's Law of Evi
dence; Tremaine's Pleas of the Crown, a vols, and
Fitzherbert's Natara Brevium. These, with all other
publications that he offers for sale, are of the latest edi
tions ; and Gentlemen may depend upon being Furmihed
with every Book wanting to form a mod cxtcnfive Law
Library, at the fame moderate prices which for several
years pad have so univerfaUy distinguished them, and
which his ready sales enable him to continue.
Orders from any part of the United States punctually
and thankfully attended to. f
vcflcls'
Also, a few Pipes of Old Madeira WINt,.
January 14. law
MEDICINES.
JOSEPH HUGGEFORD,
druggist,
No. 3X9 Pearl-street, la'e Queen-Street,
INTENDING to retire from business, will dispose of his
whole {lock of Medicines together with a complete
Ihop furnifhed, which are of the latest imported and best
quality.
Any persons inclining to purchase the whole will be
only charged a small advancc on the original cost and the
terms of payment rendered easy. The purchaser will
have the advantage (if he chooses) of taking immediate
poffefiion of the (hop and cellar as the house is engaged
tor another year, and on the firft of May next he may have
poffefiion of the whole Which is an excellent stand for bu
siness and no medicalftore better eftabliflied nor more ex
tensively connected in trade on the continent.
Persons not inclining to purchase the whole may be
accommodated with any quantity at very reduced prices.
Those persons who are indebted to the co-partnership
of Peter and Joseph Huggeford, will be pleased to pay the
fame to Joseph Huggeford, on or before the 15th day of
April next, as after that time all outftar.ding debts will b«
put into the hands of an attorney.
New-York Feb. 6.
JUST PUBLISHED,
And for sale by THOMAS DOBSON,
At the Stone House, A*o 4 1, South Second Street.
In one handsome volume, printed with a goed type, on
fine paper, price one dollar,
A narrative of the Bi'itifhEmbaJJy to China,
Intheyear 1792, 1793, and 1794, containing the
various circumstances of the Embafl'y, with accounts
of the customs and manners of the Chinese, with a des
cription of the country, towns, cities, &c.
By AENEAS ANDERSON.
An Embassy to Chinais anevont which naturally ex
cites general cunofitv, from the ignorance which pre
vails refpe<sling the interior parts of that Empire, whose
jealous laws forbid the intrusion of any other people.
The novelty of an authentic description of it must at
traa the attention of an enlightened people.
The author has accurately related every circumstance
which came under his own observation, with muck in
formation drawn from unquestionable sources calcula
ted to gratify reasonable curiosity and enlarge the know
ledge of a country so little known to the other nations
of the Globe. ' Dec. 29. 4w»aw.
February 4.
Jehu Hollingsivorth & Co.
February 8. §
NuMBEk 1070.J
For Falmouth, and a Market,
FOR CHARTER,
law-book store,
FOR SALE,
Ewum oCffclimteb States
§3 Wi
Boarding School for Young Ladies.
MRS. GROOMBRIDGE having removed from Lodge
Alley, to the corner of Eleventh and Spruce-streets,
for the advantage of a large, convenient House, in a dry,
healthy situ at ion; hope 9 for the continuance of the encou
ragement flie ha* hitherto so highly experienced; and for
which Ihe returns her sincere acknowledgment.
igjt Mrs. Groombridge is afiifled by tyfafters of the
firft ability ; and the ufeful> as well as ornamental branches
of education are particularly attended to.
A Quantity of James River Tobacco,
Carolina Pork.
Herttngsin barrels,
corn meal in Hhds. and Bbls.
Rye fl«ur &c. to be fold by
Levi Hollingjivorth Iff Son.
S H O T,
OFiJI fizts, from 3a lb to Grape,
Cambonles, Pots, and «ther callings executed at the
fhortcfl, notice,
Nail,rods, from rod to spike,
Hoop Iron, of all sizes, for casks or cutting into nails, from
a brad to lid nails,
Anchors, from 17 Cwt. to loolb.
Bar Iron,
HAVE just received by the late veflels from London,
Liverpool and Bristol, and whi«h they are felling
at the molt reduced prices for calh, or a (liort credit,
a very large and extensive alTortment of iheet Copper
and Bottoms, compi ifing flieets fron. j to loolb. and
bottoms from 16 inches to 5 feet—Alfo a handsome as
sortment of the most approved flieathitig Copper v ith
nails, and'bolt», Tin'in boxes, Block'-tln, Spelter in
caiks, Spelter fodder, pig lead, &c. &c
COACH if harness maker,
RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and the public,
that he has removed fran> Arch-itreet, to No. 23 in
north Fifth-ftreet, adjoining the Epii'cQpal Burial Ground,
where he continues the buli'ief* of
He makes all kinds of crane neck and perch Carriages
such as- Coaches, Chariots, Phretons, and Coachee*; alft*'
Chairs, Kittereens Gigs, Sulkcys ; and all kinds of Har
ness, with plated or brass mounting. Hs hath a good
supply of the bed materials, and a stock of the best sea
soned wood.
Order? from any part of the United States will be du
ly attended to with the greateS. pun&'iality and difpatcli.
His long experience in bufiaefs, iiis care in the execu
tion of hifc work, and an unremitted attention to the 4<j
fires of his employers, h6 flatters himfelf will prove Suffi
cient recommendations. ,
He has fevenrt- second-hand Carri'gcs for falc, viz. a
complear Coachee, with a coachman's feat and Venetian
bliudsall round; a Phaeton; a Chair; and a Sulkey with
a falling top. . v
All kinds of Carriages fold on Commiflion, and Car
riages taken in to stand by the month or year.
Apprentices wan red to the Bu fin eft.
Philadelphia, November 2i.
THAT agreeable to a bye Law of the Stock Hold
ers, Subscriptions will be opened at the Compa
ny's Office in Philadelphia, on Wednef lay the 10th
day of February next, for one hundred additional
fbares of Capital Stock in said Company —The l'urn to
be demanded for each (hare will be three hundred Dol
lars with Interest at 6 per cent, on the different instal
ments, from the time thef were severally called for to
be paid by the origiaal Stock Holders, one hundred
Dollars thereof to be paid at the time of fubferibing,
and the remainder in three equal payments at 30, 60
and 90 (lays.
No p'erfon to be permitted to fubferibe more than
one Ihare on the fame day.
JUST' PUBLISHED,
By Thomas Dobfon, at the Stone house, No. 41, south fe
Or a Treatise on the Prevention atid Cure of Dis
eases by Regimen mi Simple Medicines, with; an Ap
pendix, containing a Dispensatory for the use of pri
vate Praflitioners.
By WILLIAM BUCHAN, M. D.
Replied and adapted to the Climate and Diseases of the
Profeffor of Materia Mcdica in the University of
The merit of Dr. Buchan's Domestic medicine is
too well known to need any encomium ; indeed the
very extensive sale of the original work speaks it«
worth abundantly. But however well calculated for
the climate ofßiitam, for which it was originally de
signed, it is obvious that it was not fufliciently adapted
to the climate and diseases of America.
No. 2. North Fourth Street;
GEORGE £sf HENRY WESCOTT
The design ©f this improved edition was to remedy
this deficiency, and to render this valuable and popu
lar work more intelligible and more ufeful to the citi
zens qf the United States, and the improvements
being the result ef experience and' observation, it is
hoped will render this work more truly valuable and
ufeful. Dec. 17. m&th6w
WANTED,
ON Loan, for two or three years—iooo Dollars, for
which a mortgage on Land will be given asfecurity.
The land is clear of every iocumbrance.
Jan- 9-
February ; B
T.b'E STOCKHOLDERS
In the Insurance Company of North-
America, are desired to meet at their Office, on Wednes
day, die 17th February next, at 11 o'clock, a. m.
/By order of the Directors,
EBEN. HAZARD, Secretary.
A mft 4
Philadelphia and Lancajier \turnpike
Company,
Jinuary 13th, 179*).
Notice is hereby given,,
Several Apprentices to the Printing-
Business. Apply at the Office of the Gazette of the
Jill. 2
COLUMBIA HOUSE
Tar.. 13
January 28
Coach making in all its Branches.
Copper Ware-Houle,
D omeftic Medicine ;
United States.
By Samuel Powell Griffits, M. D
George Bringhurft,
Pennsylvania.
In one very large volume oUavo.
(Price two dollars and a half.)
By order of the board,
WM< GOVETT, Secretary.
w&t.
cond ilrset,
FRIDAY EVENING % FEBRUART 12, 1796.
£ D,
W.sawflo
§»w.sjm
W & fa
No. 147, Market'Jlrect, Philadelphia,
DODD's reflexions on Death, price 80 ce.it»,
Hervey's Meditations, 80
Thompson's Seasons, with an elegant engraving 75
The Columbiad, a Poem, on the American war 18
The American Farmer's Guide, a new and ex
cellent Treatise on Agriculture- 20
Dilworth's Book-Keeping
History of the Pelew Islands
J. Johnson & Co. will publish in a few days,
The Flowerj of Ancient and Modern Hi/lory—z vols,
February >. 3 taw2m
AN ADDRESS
To the House of Representatives of the United
SOUTH SECOND-STREET,
STEPHENS's
Philadelphia Directory,
for 1796*
ByMATHEWCAREY, No. 1 iS.Market-ftreet,
A variety of elegant CHAI ,*IS;
And many other articles in the line of Watch-Making,
which l>e will fell low for cash.
Weri of every kind, done as vfual.
January 23.
Jit No. 25, South SecondJlreety
HAS, in addition, to his assortment of fuperfine Cloths
and Cailime'rs, Received by the Fa&or from Lon
don, a vdify elegant afiortwient of Gentle metis* Waistcoat
Patterns; such as Sattin, Silk Caflimcr, and
Mcriei!lcs. which will be fold at their juit prices.
January 9. d.
Cap'd and Jewel'd Watches,
Asfoeton and "James Humpbreyr,
CONVEYANCERS,
HAVING conneitcd themfehrris in bufmcfs, at their
Office No. 63j South Third Street, next door but
one to the corner of Dock Street. Draw at a moderate
charge, deeds, bonds, mortgages, contra&s agreements
memorials, petitions, Sue. &c.
They likewise buy and fell Real Estates upon commif
{ion, and procure money. upon loap on good security.
The business of an Attorney at Law and Notary Pub
lic is alio tranfa&ed at the said Office by the fubferiber.
ASSHTON HUMPHREYS.
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DEEDS to the proprietors in the agency of Winthrop
Sargent,' are deposited with Thomas M'Euew, No.
78, Chefnut-ftreet, Philadelphia, and ready to be deliver
ed when called for. A second dividend of the Funds has
been declared, which proprietors may receive by a draft
upop the treasurer of the company.
N. B. Eight dollars are due upon each share, for ex
pences of the agency.
BY JACOB JOHNSON ?9° CO.
Paterfon Manufactory.
AT a special Meeting of the Board of Dire<stors for
eftabljfhing ufeful Manufactures, held a,t Paulus-
Hook, January 25th, 1796.—"The Board taking into
confederation the'general "alfairs of the Society, think ft
necessary that a meeting of the Stockholders should be
called as soon as the Law will permit; it is therefore re
solved, that the Stockholders be called to meet on the firft
Tuesday in March next, at Egerley's Hotel, at Paterfon,
of the clock of the forenoon of the fame day, then
and there to take into serious confide ration, affairs of the
utmost importance to the said Society; and that every
Stockholdei be earnestly requested to.attend either in
person or by proxy."
January 18.
A WELL built three story brick HOUSE and LOT of
GROUND, on the highest land iji the city, situate
in Arch-street within 27 feet of Ninth-street. The house
is about two-thirds finifhed, is built in the very best man
ner and of the best materials; it is 32. feet front and 53
feet deep; the drawing room below is 21 feet 6 inches,
by 26 feet; the back or dining room is 20 feet 6 inches
by 24 feet, with a large entry thro' the whole. The draw
ing room upstairs is 30 feet by 26, the back room is 20
feet by 24 —the third story may be divided into three
rooms. The Lot is 32 feet front by 130 feet deep, fub
je& to a ground rent of 6 dollars per foot, which may be
bought off at a rate. For further particulars
enquire of William Powell, Carpenter, Seventh-street,
between Arch and Race-flrects; or at No. 29, north Se
venth-street.
Jannary 27. tu&f3w '
A number of building Lots to be let on grotind rent,
lvim* OH the south fide of Arch-itreet—enquire as above.
WAGNER,
Woolen Draper and Mens' Mercer,
50 Pipes Cogniac Brandy,
February 2,
December 31
Dec. I 2
Jan.4
December 29.
P. COLT, Superintendant.
New-York, January 26, 1*96. v §titM
City of Philadelphia,
No. 38 t south Seco/idJlreety
Has jufl received a capital Afforttment ©f
An elegant House for Sale.
PUBLISHED,
JOHN J. PARRY,
? MADEIRA, ")
'' SHERRY and C WINES
PORT J
Corks, in bale,&, and
Holland Gin, in pipes,
For Sale by
Benjamin IV. Morris.
ON LORD GRENVILLE'S TREATY.
Price Three-Fourths of a Dollar,
For Sale by
EDWARD STOW, jun
No. 4, South Water-Street.
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED,
OHIO COMPANY.
JUST PUBLISHED,
WJTH A PLAN OF TUE
A true extract of Minutes,
[■Price 15 cents]
No. 60,
StatesJ
3
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ANY Person may be supplied with Ram, Gin, Cor
dials, and other Spirits-, upon application to tha
Subscriber, at tiis Difcillery, No. itj Story, or Ne\v»
street, between Third and Fourth {beets.
THOMAS CAVE.
January 25. ni4%v
N. B. Whiflcey asd Molasses will be purchafcd upon
For SALE, by the SUBSCRIBERS,
IN PENN STREET,
13® quarter Chests frefli Hyion ,T/»;
roo ditto do. frefli Souchong Te|l;
30® Boxes China, contaiiamg Jmall tea setts of 43
pieces;
No. 8, North Front-Jlreet.
Printed Calico and Muslin
WAREHOUSE.
RICHARD b* JAMES POTTER,
Have jujl received a superb ajfortment of the following artciles,
•which they offer for file.
PRINTED calicoes Gentlemen's neck handkfs.
4-4 wd. book myflins New.fafliionable shawls
6-4 wd. ditto ditto Madras han kerchiefs
Book muslin handkerchiefs
Pocket dittJJ
Colored, bircdered, muslin
handker chiefs y
Very new fancy ditt©
Elegant tambore muslins
Laced figured ditto
Colored work ditto
Brocaded ditto
Ladies plaids
And a variety of oth<
Many of the above goo<
for the Weft-India market.
December
James J iffin,
IFHOLESALE & RETAIL HOTTER,
No. south Second street. near the City Tavern,
HAS just received by the late arrivals from London
and Bristol, a large md elegant assortment of Ladies
and Gentlemens falhionaMe HA'fS.—•Allp, a variety of
Childrens HATS of different colours, which will be lojd
on the lowed terms for cnlh.
N. B, Ladies Hats trmnM in the newell fifliion froin
London. Oift 12.
f O R S A LE,
A Commodious Frame House,
Situated in North Second-street, No. 145, lately occupied
by Leonard Jacoby,coniiiting of a good thret story frame,
'.wenty-five feet in front; a two story Brick building
ehind, with a Kitchen and offices; also, a Garden plot,
• >ne hundred feet deep, a fiable and walh house, which
las a communication to Rac.-ftrcec, four years of the
ficafe is unexpired on the firft day of January next*
These premises are in good repairs, and the pur chafer
may have immediate poifeffior. JFor particulars enquire
of Robert Coe, No, 46, south Second-street. r
APL A.TION, in the town of Woodbury, coun
ty of Gloucester, and state of New-Jersey, contain
ing about oneJmndred and fifty acres; a suitable propor
tion of which is woodland and improved meadow. A
part of th: arable land is in a highftatc.of cultiva
tion, and very natural to the production of red clover*
On said plantation there is a genteel two story brick
house with four rooms on a floor, a good dry cellar
under the whole; together with a barn, corn-cribs, and
carriage-house The garden is large, and contains a good
colle<slion of the belt kinds of grafted and inoculatcd
fr\iit trees; the orchard confifls of about three hundred
grafted apple trees. Any pej-fon incline# to purchase
said premises, may be informed of the terms, by. apply-
ing to
February 8.
Notice is hereby given that an at
tachment was ifTued out of the inferior court of Common
Pleas in and for tT*e county of Cumberland, in the state of
New Jersey, returnable o»n the twenty-fijth day of Febru
ary last,- against the gOOds and chattels, rights and credits,
lands and tenements of George HtitZ (not being a refi'dent
at that time within the state of New Jersey) at the iuit of
Jonathan Ballinger, indorsee of Job Butcher, which was
levied by the sheriff of the county of Cumberland " on
a certain floopor shallop called the Fly of Philadelphia"
with its appurtenances, as by the return of the said sheriff
will more particularly appear—and rtotice is also hereby
further given, agreeably to the direction of an a& of the
Legislature of the state of New-Jersey in such cafe made
and provided, that unless the said Ge9rgc I.lutz shall ap
pear and give special bail to answer the suit so as afore
said instituted against him by the fa d Jonathan Ballinger,
within such t'irne as is prescribed by law, " that then and in
Lhat cafe judgment shall be entered" again ft the said George
Hutz u by default, and that the said lloop or shallop so as
aforefard seized on the said attachment" will be fojd for
the fatisfaction of all " creditors who shall appear to be
justly entitled to any demand thereon, and shall apply for
that purpose."
Dau* .t Salem, in the county of Salem, in the fai
hogftieads;
Old Mountain Wine, in quarter cases.;
Sugar Candy, in boxes of 8a to yOlb each.;
Jaiap in powder;
Refined Camphor;
Englilh Sail Canvas, No. I a 7 5
A quantity of Mahogany;
A parccl of good green Coffee, in bags.,
February 8.
Delaware and Schuylkill Canal.
A GENERAL MEETING of the Stock-
will be held at the Company's office
on Saturday, the J2th day of Match next, at io
o'clock, A. M. As the butinefe of the meeting
is of very great importance, not only to the Com
pany in-particular, but to the citizens in general,
it is earnellly requ,cfted and expected that f .he at
tendance will be pijfi&ijal and numerous.
By order of the Board of Managers,
WM. MOORE SMITH, Sfec'ry.
Philad. 6, 1796. w&ft 12. h ,
U AVE FOR SALE,
Earthen W;.re, in crates, well assorted;
Msdira Wine, in pipes, hogflieads, and quarter caik* 5
Red Port, Wine, of excellent quality, in Pip" in S
January 30,
>lication as above.
Lucius Horatio Stockton, ")
Attorney for the PlfF. J
April I
December I
400 piepes Bandaness;
4 BaJes.Englifh Sail Canvass, No. 4, 5, and 6;
Willings £3° Francis.
3 taw -
PHILIP NICKLIN CO.
state, the thirty first day of Miirch A. D. 1795.
GILES, Clerk.
TO BE SOLD,
SPIRITS.
Tambour'd muslins
Guruahs
Humhums
Coffaes &c &"c
An elegant and fre(h afiort*
meat of ribband* and
Cotton (lockings
Worfled ditto
articles, just opened,
are particularly calculated
ANBREIV HUNTER.
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