The Pennsylvania gazette — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-01-17 00:00:00, page 1

Province of Pennsylvania.
PURS' ANT to th? Act cf Aflembly for emitting
_ £ 150,000 on Loan, the Trustees have attended
at their Office, in Philadelphia, on Tuesdays and
Wednesdays in every Week i nee the First of Sep
tember last, in order to receive the Quotas and In
terest then due from all M r^igers in this Office,
notwithstanding which, unary of them ha c not yet
difeharged their Payn ents ore as aforefoid.
Public Notice is therefore given, That
the Trustees will continue to attend, for the fame
Purpose, three Montis linger, on Tuesdays and
Wednesdays, at their OFFICE, at the oufe of
Samuel Preston Moore in bird-Street, in the
City of Philadelphia; after which lime, the Bor
rowers in Arrear will pleas to observe the folio ~-
ing Extract from the The or Ariemhly abovemention
ed, vi~ " If Default mail be roade or fofrered,
" in Payment of anj Part, of the ITortgage Monies
" afureiaid, whether of the Prindpai or,lntereft,
" which the Mortgagers, their Neirs, Executors, Ad
“ minifrators or AL^ut faonld or ou,+ to pay,
" according to the Pays of Payment aforehtid, in
" their refpe&ive Deeds of Mortgage fpecified, the
" said Trustees, afrr fix Months, next fdloAing
“ such Default madt as a:''• • nd, shall iliac their
“ Precept to the Slerif of the County where the
" mortgaged Pfemifis shall lie, commas ing him to
" enter upon the M&Tuages, Lands, Rents an .1 Here
“ ditaments, refpe&vely in the >eeds cf Mortgage
" fpecified, and th fame, or such Part thereof as
" shall be Efficient :o discharge and fatisfy the Mert
" g a g e Monies wrl the lirered thereof, and Coda
" accruing on the Erie, to Til, on the Premises, by
" public y uftiin oj Vendue, and convey to the high
" est Bidder, after at lead thirty Days public Notice
" given of Inch He, by advertising them in the
" Nev fpapers, and.by ..di..'ng dvertifements in force
"of t'w m'°. tiVth : N,c<b^ .•ri. Ct udty, and cut
" of the ionics writing by such Sale, to raise the
" principal Same due a^j to become due, w:T the
" Inters :, Costs ana Charges accrued, returning the
" Overplus, if any, to the Owners of such Lande and
“ Hereditaments ; and aifo to pay and deliver the
" said principal Sums and Interest to the said Trustees,
" for the Use of the Province ; which Did Precept,
" the said Sheriff is hereby enjoined and required
“ fully and impartially to execute."
Philadelphia, December 5, 1775.
juf „'lifted, and t^ le fold
NICHOLAS BROOK S,
& Second freet, 3 doors ah e ErcWhorfe Alley [llluhrared with
a beautiful and accurate copper-plate pha cf T city of New-
York.]
gaine's universal register,
O R,
AMERICAN and British KALENDER,
For the VEA R 1776.
GO NTAINItC, the Kalehdef ; Royal Family of Great-
Brita n, and extent and fituatioi cf England, Scotland
and Ireland; Royal Family, ^rc. o' France, Spain, Portugal,
Denmark, Norway, SweC.r.Germany, Poland, Ptuffia, Russia,
Sardinia, Orange, Italy arm I'm key; Fa/lith Nobility, Scots
Nobility, Archbishops and Biffing of Lo, nd, Privy Council,
Knights of the Garter, Knuhts of the Thistle, Kights of the
Bath, Secretaries cf State, Lords of Treasury, Lords of Trade,
Lvrds if Admiralty, high Court o r ditto, Peftroafters General,
Array, House of Commons, rank of Army and Nav-, Royal
" a vy. Holydays at the Cuftm-houfe, pay of the Navy, r pay
of the Army, precedency among men, precedency among wo
^"l Ki^s and Queens of England—-of Scotland---of Great
^lritain; Irifi Nubility, Aichbi/hops and Biihons; enumerated
goods fubja& to duty in America, description of America, Gene
ral Eftabliihmsnt, Government of WeQ Florida—East Florida---
Georgia —South-Carolina—-North-Carolina-— Virginia Ma-
Tyland-—Penofylvania and Lower Counties of Newcastle, Kent,
and &uffex, upon Dehware—New-Jerfey—-New-York; evapo
ration for the Reli f of t e Widows and Children of Clergy
men of the Church os I rgland ; Government of Connecticut—
Thode-Ifla&i — Maflathuff tts-Biy New-Hampfhir Nova-
Scotia—Nawfaundland —St, John's Canada; Minifies and
.Con^rtfioty, belonging to the Rev. Synod pf New-York, &c,
HiTociate Presbytery of Philadelphia, his Mffe"y's forces at
Buffon, Governors of New York from the year 1664 to the
prefers time, Governors of New-Jersey, Governors of the Weft-
Jndia Blands, Staff of the Army of the Thirteen United Pro
vinces in North-America, State of the four regiments railed in
.he Colony of New-York, Royal Artillery raised in New-York,
Ulcers in the troop of Light Horse in New York, I ^dependent
Companies in New-York. Nw-Jerfey bills reduced to New-
York currency, table of Interest, Reads, &c.
N.B. Likewise to ke ftid by said Brooks,, a good affort
,ent of the very Mft black, white and mixed colour silk stock.-
4nfs ; worfled, cotton and thread ditto, and forks ; a good assort
! lent of jewellery, pi&ures and maps, copper-piae writings, and
drawing-books, ait usual; a variety of mufick; the best London
1 ade fiddles and fifes, Roman fiddle-firings, with a great va-
Dje y of other curious and ornamental Goods.
A LL performs indented to the eitaie of Andrew Crocket,
deceased, late of the Northern Liberties of the city of
Philadelphia, are defred to make speedy payment to Ann
socket, in toe Manor of Mooreland, Philadelphia county,
Emayvel Eyre, in Kenfington § and ail th fe who have
y demands again! the Aid ohate, are desired to bring in their
r counts te 6 Ann Crocket, Executrix, fl
The Pennsylvania
GENERAL LOAN-OFFICE of the
Containing the Frefoeft /Id-
January 17, 1776.
Pbiiadelpbia, 'January 15, 1776.
W r HEREAS Jacob Parker, .t Mou^t-Holly, has
advertised hrs premises in the said town fur sale, where
in be mentions a convenient fituatien for a mill, if the water of
an adjoining saw-mill was led across the road : This is to inform
the public, and particularly any who may incline to purchase the
said premiss, that though the said Parker may rave |th of
the saw-mill alluded to, that we, the fubferibers, will, with
great propriety and jo&ice, as we apprehend, oppife him or
any pumhafing under him, to his or their right, fiom taking said
water across the road intended, or divert it from tie common
Cream as it now runs. Ellis and Robert Lewis, junior.
'A L ' ? er f°" s indebted to the fate $f Edward Haray. de
ce^d, late of Cumru to^nfei,, Berks county, and province of
Pennffania, arc hereby defied to take notice, that urlejs they make
payment cf fueb debts, on Monday, the ,6tb day of February next,
at tie houje cf Erhard Rose, tavern-keeper, in Reading (w^re at
tendance will be given) they will be compelled thereto by law. Like
wise all creditors to said estate are defred to come and receive their
, money ; and all frefors bating fatlemrats to make are requeued to
attend on said %6tb d.y of February,'
lIARRY, Adminiflratrix.
AML to He plantation of the % livmg^L^-
/ Menon, Philadelphia county, A large brindle C O W
with a white face. The owner is defireci to come, prove his
property, pay the charges, and t?;ke her away.
$ THOMAS DAVID.
At thrir Store, in Water- rec', between Arch and Race-streets,
AG OOD ASSORTMENT of fuperfine, fine a"d
inferior broadcloths, Wl: is and faggathhs of various
col ors, black and cloth colouid quilted petticoating ; allo
rattinets, fhaloons, anteloons, urants, tammies and J an's spin
ning or house-wise fluffs, double allopeens, strip d c?mblets ; a
variety of cotton velvets, vellures or fp tted velvets; thnkfets;
mens worsted hf^; womens worked mitts, and black lather
gloves and mitts; br # ad and ;<& ow worsted quality ; silk ard
hair and metal buttons; silk and hair and scars twist ; silk
knee garters; Hcil^ d and fine ^ bite tapes; fine yard wide Irith
linens; a good choice of fine long lawns and mulling; cam
breks; table cloths; printed cottons, calicoes, and chintzes;
mas on carva^; a variety of phin and figured ribbands; black,
blue wh re, ^ coth-cpl ured India taffatis; cl th-c loured
silk dam fk; h^f-yard and half- h wde black perfians ; hlk
dilate ^s; rcek silk cravats ; Leghor hats aiL an affttment
of felt and ca or hats; Englih.ppfleboar s; I earth and dust
brufbes 3 thread f ne twine GO makers sewing and bolt
r pr ditto ; Enghfh .m Philadetia made cor age; a parcel of
china plates < nd dilhes, and crate- of ciestr-coloured or Quan's
rare, write ffime w r e ; fnh-q< art ovl bottles; win ow glass
®f several size- ; Lo d n-pewtet baUrg diffies, plates spoons,
and bed-pans; copper tea-kettle ( . per and brass warning
pans; br 4 fs handles and efeutrhe ns f r furniture; brass c cks;
pinchbeck, white a dye lm met Ifh -buckles; flove links;
fnuff boxes; temple Ipecac les; packet looking piaffes; fifh
hocks, stay-hooks, horsewhips; placed handled table-knives
aaid for Its aifo best London made • a,,-handed an! silver-capped
ditto ; razors ; 4%0e knives wo e feiff rs and floats German
Or Dutch fcitbes and cutting knives; br ad f © 1 point shovels,
broad weeding hoes § bras and iron-headed f.r.t- Novels and
tings; plain and brass b lled iron sandlefticks, dish ditto; fnuf
fers ; clothiers or jack cards; m 11, pitt or frame hand and
wood-cutters saws ; smith's files; cress-cut files, &c. gimblets,
black and bright augers, tap borers, facket chizzels, carpenters
anc shoe hammers, ihoe pincers, carpenters box rules and car
penters compasses; splinter padlocks, flock, chest, cupboard,
till, rimbed-clofet and brass knobbed locks ; H, HL, and table
butt hinges; pump and trunk nails, and 6d. ffiarp and flat
pointed Rails, also th ashing nails and /heading paper; wood
ferews; Uniting nee-.les; dripping pans; fad irons, smith's
anvils and vizes; flares and fl.te pencils ; Weymouth bridle-bitts ;
2 quantity of copper-raised furnace bottoms and flat bottoms; a
quantify of whale fins, logwood, marnus, lump and powdered
hyanifh blown.
N. C,H CAS & iXv-, viz.
Puts and ketch;, of various sizes, from 3 to 45 gallons ;
Dutch b Ice-ovens, with covets ; firsts, of different fixes ; cart
and waggon boxes ; fa(h weights; bake plates ; fix and ten-plate
close stoves, of uveral fixes; open or Franklin hover, of a large
and final! fixe; iron cogs for Dutch fans.---The metal of thefc
catlings is remarkably tough, and they are neatly finished.
Also I lit and B4R IRON. Fifl Month 3, 1776.
MrHE most violent foothach cured in a few minuses with
£ out drawing, by an essence which gives immediate ease
therein ; by applying this Efface outwardly it will remove all
kinds of swelling in the cheeks or pain in the ears, and is an
zhfolute cure for the headacla if ever so violent; it likewise
cases the rheumatic pains in ary part cf the body; it is so
harmless that it may at any time be made use of agreeable to
the directions : This valuable Essence is prepared and fold in
bottles, at ss. each, with particular directions in print for using it.
I he true Italian Pomade de Venus, whefe excellent virtues
are well known in the great world, for preventing the hair from
falling, preserving it in its pristine vigour and colour, and even
in case of baldness, it causes the hair to grvw thick and strong,
it beguiles rime if used as a walh, not furring the least appear
ance of,wrinkles, scars, or grey hairs, it plumps up the skin,
adds ach arful bloom to,the countenance, and though it gives a
sudden ana healthful luftre to twe features, it is so innocent that
it may be eat with the greatest fafety; it is excellent as a lip
salve : 1 his valuable acquisition is fold at 3s. per pot, with di
re&ions in print for using it.
Golden Medical Cephalic Snuff, excellent for relieving head
achs, cimnefs of the eyes, and seldom or ever fails in curing re
cent deafneffes, &c. &c. (Price zs. 6d. per bottle) with direc
tions for using it.
Bririffi Tooth-powder and Tincture for the Gums, it takes
off foulnefs from the teeth and gums, renders them beautiful,
fattens such as are lopfe, prevents their decaying, and entirely
cures the furvy^and all diferders of the gums. (Price zs. 6d.
per box, and zs. 6d. per bottle.) To be fold at Samuel
Dellap's Boek-fhop, in Market-fret, between Second and
Third-facets, 3 doers above Strawberry-alley; by Mr. James
Gallisar, in Frunt-ftreet, near the Drawbridge ; Mr. Tho
mas Huggins, Merchant, at the Head of Elk ; and Mr.
Gabriel Lewins, Jeweller, opposite the Market-House, in
Baltimore- Town.
TO BE SOLD BY
JAMES AND DRINKER,
PY^ f/
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vices. Foreign and Dotaeftic.
As % following deefc.. ®ftbe Supreme Court of Nezv-Jer
fey on the jff of the nth and 7.3 th cf Anne, directing
the mode of manumitting serves, eras given after great
deliberation) and fettles a point of i:nfeortar.c to the inha
bitants, jou twill much oblige a number oj yen' readers b,
the publication of it in your paper,
A Freeholder of New-Jersey was possessed of two No
=1 grce liaves, a man and his wife. The master, in his
Ike time, gave to both their freedom, declared in his lit
will that he had done so, and died about the year 1756.-=
The Negroes, after this manumission, had several chil
dren, who all enjoyed a state of freedom until last winter,
when one of the daughters and residuary legatees of th?
Earner master seized and detained one of the young Ne
groes, and insisted that the manumission of the parents
was void, because the maser had not given security burfuant
to the act above-mentioned, which, reciting “ that free
Negroes are an idle, Qothful people, and prove very
" often a charge to the blace where they are, enacts, That
“ any master or mistress, setting at liberty any Have, shall
enter into Sufficient security to her Majesty, her heirs
" and successors, to pay yearly to such Have Twenty
“ Pounds during life, and if such slave ihali (e marie free
by any will,jhe executors shall enter into the Security,
'• which, if refufed to be given, the said manumission to
" be void and of none efed."
On a Habeas Corpus, issued for the purpose, the Ne
groe was brought before the Court in May last, and the
case was argued by council on both sides; but, as it ap
peared to be a case of the firftiapreffiert, and of consi
derable importance, the Judges took time to confider of
it, and ordered another argument.
in November lad the case was again argued, and on
the day f Lowing th" two Judges who attended the court
gave their opinion, that the young Negroe was entitied'to
her freedom, and ordered her to be set at liberty from the
illegal detention of the claimant ; because the manumission
of pe old Negroes was good, as to the late master and the
claims nturrier him,altho'> N curit „vas not given as direfted
by mil ad. On this occafiot it was declared fromthe Berce,
that the evident intention of the legislature war v.Y '3
prevent Negroes fiom being set free, but u, movent the
parish trom fufler'ng by their bein«<r, de so. and 'T^- tap
1. - f mid ^cci^ ~ks'^r
which indemnifies tbe.pari;h from the niu emitted ilavea
Ihat to conllrue the act in such a manner as to,make the
manumission void, as to th: person manumitting, l^eaufr
the law directed such security to be given, er tne manu
mission to be void and of none effeft, would be, to pre
fer a literal conftruftionjo the clear intention cf the le
gifiature, and that nothing was more common than for
the Judges to construe an act according to the spirit of it,
where the letter and spirit did disagree—That to pi\ fer a
literal conftrudion of the aft, so as to render the manu
mission void as to the maker, for his neglect of entering
into the security required, would be, to permit him to
illude the spirit, by refortirg to so unjust and iniquitous
a principle, as that of punishing another person for the
fault he himlerf had committed, and would promote de
ceit and imposition, for, by the manumission itfelf, the
Negroe supposes himfelf to be perfectly freed, the matter
by that aft intends to make him believe the fad to be so,
and to put it in the power of the master, after the Negroe
had exerted his induftry^ and had procured fomethin^
considerable for his children beg< tten in this supposed
state of freedom, to fay the Negroe was not free, because
the master, either through design or negle&, had emitted
to give the security directed by the law, would be a con
ftrudion too absurd for a Court of Justice to make of any
art of the legiflaturc ; and that it was a solid diftinrtion,
that an art may be good as to one person, and void as to
another.
It may not be improper to add, that by a late art,
passed in the loth Geo. 111. the clause, upon which this
decision was made, is repealed, and a maker or mistress
manumitting a Have, is dire&ed to enter into a bond, to
indemnify the township from any charge or incumbrance,
which may happen by any manumission made after the
publication of that aCT; in failure whereof, such manu
mission is (as in the old art) declared to be void, and of
none effert.
By a inbiequent fertion it is declared, that every master
or mistress of a Have, not manumitted according to this aid,
shall always be obliged to support such slave ; so that the
determination on the clause of the former art, so repeal
ed, will very clearly be a rule of conftrurtion of the one
at present in force.
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To be LET T, for a Term of Years,
A CON LENIENT Stire-Houfe, in the Township of
Coventry, Chester County, ? bout 34 Miles from Phila
delphia, which has been occupied for feme Yeats past by John
Murray, and is, perhaps without Exception, the best ^cuC^ed
Store in theCounty, lying near several great Roads, as also several
lion-w iks, on French Creek. For further Particulars, enquire
0: Joieph Moore, living in Elbow-Lane, opposite rhe Pref
tertan Meeting-House, in Market faeet, Philadelphia, or ire
Subscriber, in Coventry aforefaid. John Pugh.
A r . B. Any hngle Person inclining to rent the far , who can
be well recommended, may have Board and oteher neceff^y Accom
midations, on reafogable hern s, of the Subfrriber af^e aid. ff
ONE DOLLAR Reward.
WE NT away, 6 „ tbs teb of the Twelfth forb, 377,,
from the fubfe&r, living in ^terfod, Gl r rco^h
an Irife fervent fellow, named Thomas Hendrik. Her 20 or 21
,%rt of age, 5 feet §or 10 inches bigb, br^nl \ thick
bad on, cr took wish him, e pair of shoes, a paro^ ^ ^ot [) -
fin bribes, check feirt, twoja&ts, cn. light cohEd, c'^ad ; o,b
coatte, ahnf new, and a felt bat. Whoever tah up ! 1 / u nt
end fares bim, Jo as bi^ er may have bima^,fall tb.
alive reward, paid ty josKrH Bup @wg # . ±
Mafieurt HA LL and SELLERS.
Numb. 24^6.