The Pennsylvania journal, or, Weekly advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-02-07 00:00:00, page 3

• rhe weather is now very cold, fculd it continue s o for
0^- week longer, think we shall have a good bridge to
Boston.
" There is nuw here the chiefs of three tribes of Canadian
Indians, thirteen of the Chicknawagah's have been here eight
days;, the two other tribes came but yesterday; the former
has dined with generals Washington and Putnam, and Spend
one half their time at colonel Mifflins, wbW together with
some tawdry cloarliing that has been given ffiem, has pleased
them much, and they desire that we may look upon them as
our assured friends."
b,xtraG ofa letter frm Acc^macle, January 27, 1776.
" I have to acquaint you that lad Monday a new cedar
built brig, inward bound from the Weft-Indies loaden with
;000 bushels of salt, belonging to Mr. Chridian, of North
ampton count;, Eastern foore, was chafed into Cherryftone
harbour by a iloop tender ; the Capt. feeing that he could not
escape the tender, ran the brig allure and took to his boat
and gained the fliore ; the tender boarded her and was two
days endeavouring to get her off, but proving unfuccefsful,
they set her on fire and burned her. The brig was not within
mulket Shot of the diore, else the men Rationed on that coast
might have prevented their boarding her. Before this reaches
you, you will perhaps be informed that the governor has for
several days been bombarding Hampton, but by the last ac
cent had done no mifehitf, the mips arc expected every day
at York to burn that town."
In COMMITTEE of Inspection and Observation,
February sth, 1776.
WHEREAS the CON FINENTAL CONGRESS did lately
resolve, “ That if any person thould be so loft to all virtue
" and regard for this country, as to refute to receive the BILLS
" of CREDIT emitted by the authority of Congress, or
" should obftrua or difamurage the currency thereof, and be
" convicted by the Committee of the Ci.y, County or Dis
" tri& ' " ere he should reside; such perlon thould be deem
" ed, published and treated as an enemy of his country, and
" and be precluded from all trade or intercourse with the ib
" habitants of these Colonies." And whereas, JOHN
DRINKER. Hattei ; THOMAS and SAMUEL FISHER, of
the House of Joftua Fifoer and sons, Merchants, all ot this
city, having been charged with a breach of this resolve, in
refuting to receive the above Bills of Credit in payment, ap
peared before this Committee; acknowledged the truth of the
charge, and alledged in their defence, fcfuples of conscience
thereupon, as being money emitted for the purpose of war.
This Committee pursuant to the trust reposed in them, pro
ceeded to eonfider the charge and defence, and are of opini
on, that if such allegation was true, yet as the Congress have
made no exception, and as such conduct tends to subvert the
*moft essential rights and liberties of their fellow citizens, and
by destroying the means of defence, to expose their lives and
properties to unavoidable ruin, it ought not to be admitted.
But if appears to this Committee, by their own acknowledge
ments, that the above persons have heretofore received and
do continue to receive Bills of Credit emitted in this and the
neighbouring provinces, though frequently issued for the pur
poles of war, therefore such objection is not well founded, or
the present pretence confident with their former conduct.
This Committee therefore (the parries having declared they
did not mean to appeal to any other Board) do hold up so
the world, the said JOHN DRINKER, THOMAS and
SAMUEL FISHER, as ENEMIES to their Country, and
precluded from all Trade 01 Intercourse with the inhabitants of
chefe Colonies.
Ordered, that tie above be pnblijhed.
Extras from the Minutes.
PETER Z. LLOYD Secretary.
THE Committee of Berks County being juftiy burned at
the attempts of the enemies of America m the different parts
of this province to depreciate the continental currency, and
having received information that Gaius Dickenfon, a public
friend, had been one of the instruments in propagating so fa
tal a measure. The committee being determined to support
the said currency, sent for the said Gaius Dick# nfon, who be
ing brought before them, made he following declaration,
which was voted fatisfa&ory. Whereat I the fubferiber have
unfortunately been guilty of endeavouring to depreciate the
conHi ental currency ; but being now convinced and fatisfied
that such a conduce is highly unbecoming the duty of an
American, and tends immediately to obftrueft the measures
calculated to preserve the liberties of this country from the
cruel and unrelenting oppreflions of the British court, do
most sincerely acknowledge the heinousness of such offence,
do beg pardon ' of my offended countrymen, and do also here
by solemnly engage and promise not to be guilty of a like
offence in future, buy to conform to such measures as shall be
adjudged necessary for the preservation of the rights of Ame
rica Trusting and confiding that nothing will be expected
from me, inconsistent with the religious principles of the so
ciety with which I profefs, and as a further atonement for
my mifcondu&, I request this acknowledgment to be made
public, in hopes it may deter others from committing the
like offence. Witness my hand, this thirtieth day of the f r ft
month, in the year of our Lord one thousand, fevea hundred
and seventy fix, GAIUS DICKINSON.
At the fame time one William Gilliland, who had been
some time in confinement by order of the committee, was
brought upand difeharged, after fubferibing the following ac
knowledgment of his mif-condudL —Whereas I, the fubferi
ber, have been so very wicked and abandoned as to speak at
sundry times dif-refpetftfully of the honourable the Continent
al Congress, and also have endeavoured to depreciate their
currency, for which de eftabie conduct I have deservedly been
confined in the goal of this county, by the committee of said
county, but being now fully convinced of the heinousness
and horrid tendency of such condua, do hereby in the ful-
Jest manner most sincerely beg pardon of my justly incensed
countrymen, and do promise hereafter never to be guilty of
the like, but in all instances to conform to such rules and re
gulations as may be instituted by that very refpe&able body,
for the preservation of our invaluable, but invaded rights and
liberties, and do further requ- ft that this my acknowledg
ment may be made public, that others may be deterred from
following my Ihametul and wicked practices. In witoefs
whereof I have hereunto set my hand this thirtieth day of
January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hun
dred and seventy fix, WILLIAM GILLILAND.
B, order of the Committee,'
Reeding, Jan. 3016,1776. MARK BIRD, Chairman.
On the 24th ult. departed this life, in the Bad year of his
age, Mr. JAMES WHITEHEAD of this ci y; 1 man who
for a long series of years has, with an unexcepti enable cha
racter, difeharged many of the social and civil duties of life:
As a husband, kind, as a parent, tender and Indulgent, as a
citizen, just, charitable, and benevolent; bore his aft illness
with patience and true chriftian fortitude: Aid his remains,
attended by a great number of refpedable citizens, were in
terred in the burying ground of the Second Presbyterian Church
in this city.—As he lived much beloved and refpe&ed by his
fellow citizens ; so he died greatly lamented, and seemed like
a fleck of wheat fully ripe.
RUN-AWAY from the fubferiber, on the tenth day of
last August, a servant man, by name THOMAS MAR
TIN, an Engliffiman born, a taylor by trade, about five
feet five or fix inches high, pitted with the small-pox and
bunkcles in his face, has a swelling in his right knee.—Had
on, when he went away, a country cloth ftone° Goloured coat,
a pair of linen drawers, a red cloth jacket, and yellow'
carved buttons, a felt hat, a pair of new shoes and plated
carbuckles, and took with him a flriped blue silk jacket. The
said servant is f u fp, &ed to be gone to the Jerseys, with one
JAMES WHEALER, an Englishman.—Whoever takes up
and secures the said servant in any gaol, or delivers him to
his master, shall receive TEN POUNDS reward, if in the
province, and if out fifteen, with rcafonable charges paid
by me the fubferiber, f ° '
ANDREW ROBERTSON, at Pittsburgh.
RAN away from the fubferiber, living in Derby township,
. Chester county, on the 4th instant; an Irilh servant lad
named ANDREW NELSON, eighteen or nineteen years of
age, about five feet vine inches high, dark blown hair, grey
eyes, has an issue in the calf of his righr leg.—Had on and
took with him an old mixed broadcloth co t lappe led rhe
buttons all broken except three, onn fwa ±io waiftc a dou
cuffed, check flrirt, buek-fkin orceches, one pair drilling
ditto, one pair grey worked flockings, one pair walnut colour
ed yarn ditto, with a little white mixed in them, two pair
shoes, one pair plated buckles, an ha!f'worn beaver hat, a
narrow brim, with a button, near which is a cut covered
by the loop.-—He was seen in the barracks of Philadel
phia the day he went away.
Whoever secures the said runaway so that his master may
have him again, shall receive EIGHT DOLLARS Reward,
and reasonable charges paid by,
§ SAMUEL LEVIS, jun.
T O BE L E T,
And entered upon the firth day of April next,
TH E noted Sc. George's GRIST-MILLS in New-Cadle
county, now in the tenure of Benjamin Hudson. The
mills are well situated tor the bed of wheat, and near two
Rages' that run to Philadelphia every week; there aie two
pair of stones, the one four feet burs, double geared; the
other the best country made; boultiug cloths the best; run
ning gears all good ; a three acre lot, dwelling" house, cellar,
kitchen, stable, Cooper's fnop, garden, some orchard, and a
maple iwamp joining the mills for fire wood.—Whoever in
clines to take the fame, and is well recommended for
honesty, and understands millering, may apply on the
premises to § 4 w ISAAC DUSHANE.
JAMES CANNON, Clerk
N. B. Frederick Hagener, Michael Shubert, William Ad
cock, Edwa d Ryves, George Nelson, Robert Bell, Andrew
Porter, Patrick Login, and James Cannon, are appointed a
Committee of Correspondence for the foregoing purpole, and
every letter to the Committee, directed to either of them,
shall be attended to with care, and aufwered with punc
tuality.
By advice from Chriftfanna Bridge, in the county of New»
caftleupon Delaware, we are informed, that on the i#th of
hft month Mrs. Mary Dunn, the widow of Thomas Dunn,
Esquire of that county, was removed by death from the trou
bles and trials of this mortal Bate,t'n the 44th year of her age.
She filled her different Nations in life without noise, but with
great prudence and dignity ; flie was religious without Brow
or ostentation, was a loving wife, a tender parent, affection
ate to her relatives, indulgent to her servants, charitable to the
poor, and just, courteous, and benevolent to all. She was es
teemed in life, and died lamented. Her forrowful friends
may comfort themselves with the firm persuasion that foe is
now among the spirits of the just that are made perfect with
their redeemer.
*** Whereas I WILLIAM JARRET, of Horfham town
flu,, Philadelphia county, have refuted Continental Currency,
and was led thereto from an opinion of its value and legality,'
but on mature confideratibn, and being flicked the Refolvos
of the Congress, am fully of opinion such money is both le
gal and of equal value with any other currency now passing
among us, and that I shall io future receive such money, and
am heartily sorry for my prefeut refufal of it.
WILLIAM JARRET.
To the PRIVATES of the MILITARY ASSOCIATION
belonging to the province of Pennfylvaoia.
Committee of the Privates of the association, be-
J Llonging to the city and liberties of Philadelphia, are of
opinion, that the bed thing which c' he done at present, for
the good of the general cause of American liberty and the
support of our military association, is, that the associators
sign the Articles of Association given out by the Hon. House
of Assembly, with all convenient expedition, and'they do
mod Heartily recommend the fame to every associator through
out the province. Andas the Mon. House of Ass mbly have
expressed an intention of changing or altering the Articles as
occasion may require; and as the defers and impervious
of any law are best afeertained by experience, and a recipro
cation of sentiments upon it, the Committee would gladly
enter into a friendly correspondence with the privates of
those battalions' throughout the province, which sign the Ar
ticles, that they may know the sense of the afrociators in
general on any part of the Articles, which may heed amend
ment, and that any future applicarin to the Hon. House of
Assembly may express the defoes of the whole body of Asso
ciators. But they mod earnestly recommend the mod perfect,
chearful and implicit submission to the present set of military
Articles, until they be hereafter altered or amended by legis
lative authority, as the mod effectual means of giving
ftreogth and energy to the operations of the friends of liber
ty and America who are intruded with the care of the Dub
lic# Signed by order of the Committee,
TO BE SOLD,
A Small PLANTATION, of about 50 acres, situated
five miles from the city of Philadelphia, one mile be
yond the lower ferry, joining the place which belonged to
Capt. Couliice. It is divided into four fenced inclolurcs of
cleared land, and hath upon it a square log house of four
rooms, with a cellar underneath, a barn and stables with
a never failing spring of excellent water, and a spring house ;
an excellent bearing orchard of good fruit trees, and about
twelve acres of woods. Besides some few acres of upland
meadow, there are several acres of the woods in a low bot
tom, of a rich foil, partly inclofed; bounded on one end by
Cob's creek, and upon the other fide by a small run of water
which watereth the other inclofures ; a part of this is near
cleared, to be made into low meadow. The place is healthy
and pleasant in summer.—Any person inclinable to putebafe
it, may receive fatisfa&ion by applying to Mr. PETER
MILLER, in Third-Street.|
NICHOLAS BROOKS,
In Secoad-Strecet three Doors above Black horse Alley;
ACQUAINTS the Public, that he has the most effeftual
Medicine upon earth for the cure of an enveterate Scurvy,
Leprosy, and pimpled Faces, of ever so long ftaudiog, so as
never to return again ; iikewife the evil, Filtulas, Piles, and
all the vexatious irritation and itchings often found in the
feat of the Piles And he has in his possession many affidavits
of Gentlemen of probity apd rank, expressive of its great
success in the most desperate foropholous cases. It is called
MAREDANT's DROPS,
and Sold by him for SEVEN SHILLINGS sterling a bottle.
It any person, doubtful of what is asserted in their favour,
will be pleased to call on Mr. Brooks he will ffiew them the
atteftatioris in his pefleffion, and refer them to persons in this
and the neighbouring colonies, for a confirmation of what he
averts, for they have been happily restored to health by
tiling them. ' '
T O-M O RR O W,
At nine o'clock, at FOOTMAN and JEYS'svendue store
in Second- Street, will begin the SALE of a large assortment of
MERCHANDIZE;
Confiding of,
A VARIETY of fluffs, such as tammies, durants calli
mancoes, Walloons, rattinets, Camblets, &c. hatters
trimings, felt and caftor hats, cambricks, lawns, hat-band
crapes, black fattins, ribbands, worsted hose, cotton hose
bla&k perfian, book muslins, broad cloths, velverets &c &c.
Also, The remains of a country store, confiding of a
great variety of articles °
Houfbold furniture and wearing apparel.
February 7, 1776. zw .।
THE LAND OFFICE,
IS ir w open both for the province and lower counties. The
t*ms are so e pounds fterhng for evAy hundred acres,
and one penny furling per acre, per annum, quit rent for ever'
The purchase money to be paid down at the time of obtain
mg the warrant, and the la d to be surveyed and patented
within two years from the date of the warrant; and if not?
patented in that time the warrant and survey to be void.
No person will be allowed to take up more than three hun
dred acres without the G Pernor's fp, cial licence. And
whereas in the lower counties, many poor people not having
an opportunity of taking up lands, the office not being open
have made small feolements on vacant land, on which they
live and which are the.only means of their fubfift^ce; and
others have cleaned and fenced pieces of vacant land adjoin
ing their plantations, and it is but reasonable that such per
sons should be prefered in the taking up and purchasing such
lands; Notice is hereby given to all such persons that if they
apply within fix months from this time, they will be prefcred
in taking up their land; and if they fail of doing it in that
time, such lands will be liable to be taken up by the tird
applier. JAMES TILGHMAN, Secretary
r a iii, of the land office.
Land-office, Philadelphia, January 27, 1776.
II 'ij^kLAS the fubferiber became bound to a certain
VV Henry Alward, Esq; of Somerset county, in the pro
vince of East New-Jersey, in three feparatc obligations bear
ing date the 23d day of October 1775; one of them condi
tioned for the payment of XSOL one other of them conditi
oned tor the payment of i© o i. and the other of them coi di,
ti ned for the payment of 50). and as part of the money on
said bonds has been already paid, and the consideration for
which they were given, neither has, mor is,likely so be com
plyed with, on the part of the said H.nry Al,ward; I &o here
by forewarn and difeharge any person or peifons whomsoe
ver to take an assignment of the said Bonds, or either of them
, '?™ determined not to pay any further part of them, until
the laid Alward fulfill his engagements for,which be bonds
were given. JOHN HINDS.
January 30, 1776. *
Series Weft New Jersey, Jan. 29 1766.
FOUR DOLLARS Reward.
RAN AWAY fr,m the fubferiber Jaft Saturday night a
servant man named JOHN EYANSON, about 5 feet
8 or 9 inches high; had on an old hat, a light coloured lap
pelled jacket, bucklkin breeches, milled yarn dockings 2
pair of new shoes his other cloaths unknown. He is fupp'ofc
cd to he gone off with a certain Daniel M'Graw, about 5 feet'
9 or 10 inches high, he is a black looking Iriffiman, takes a
great quantity of fnuff. Whoever secures said John Ey-nfon
so that his master may get him again shall receive the above
reward fjISAAC M'O S S.
10 the Military Gentlemen in particular, and the
Public in general.
A'f'"" thoroughly Skilled in the following branch
offers his service, To make all forts of cannon and
mufquet cartridges, in the best manner; also, port fires, quick
match, ball fires, and lead fires, for the difeovery of the ene
my in the darker night. All orders duly attended to either
in town or country, by applying to the printers.
A' " e '" " a ' ''" fo^faaion of making upwards
of thirty thousand cartridges for different Gentlemen, and
due fatisfa&ion, he flatters himfelf of being honor
ed with the commands of those Gentlemen not already pro
vided. He also casts musket bullets. §_
TO BE SOL D,
A NEGRO m^ %t 17 years of age, who can tend
table, and understands all kinds of house work well
He knows how to take care of horses, and is honed and fober'
Enquire of the Printers.
GOT out, or was taken out of the fubferibers yard, the
14 b of lad month in the evening a brown MARE
with foal; has a small star, several faddh marks, low in fl fl?
about 13 hands high, branded on the off shoulder T. A with
ow (hoes, arid eight years old. Whoever 'takes up said mare
?nd brings her to Jacob Hiltzheimer in Seventh street
near Market-ftrcet, shall receive TWENTY SHILLINGS'
1 JACOB HILTZHEIMER.
TO BE SOL D,
A HOUSE and LOT in Mount-Holly, New-Jersey. The
house supposed to be about 25 or 30 st e t front, situ
ated in an high pleasant part of the town, is framed, and
weather-boarded with cedar. On the fame lot is a framed
work (hop, and near the house is a small pasture lot, through
which there is a run of water. It will be fold reasonable—
Enquire of JOHN PEMBERTON, in Philadelphia
Philadelphia, 2 month, 7th, 1776. f