The Pennsylvania journal, or, Weekly advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-02-21 00:00:00, page 4

PHILADELP HIA : Printed and Sold by William and Thomas Bradford, at the Corner of Front and Market-ftreecs, wher
Persons may be [applied with this Paper at Ten Shillings a Year —And where Advertisements are taken in.
To the Military Gentlemen in particular, and the
Public in general.
A PERSON thoroughly (killed 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 fr<s, and lead fires, for the difeovery of the ene
my in the darkest night. All orders duly attended to either
in town or country, by applying to the printers.
N. B. As he has had the fatisfadion of making upwards
of thirty thousand cartridges for different Gentlemen, and
rendered due fatisfadion, he flatters himfelf of being honor
ed with the commands of those Gentlemen not already pro
vided. He also caffs mufktt bullets. §
Manufactured at Batsto Furnace,
In West-New-jersey, and to be SOLD, either at the Works,
or by the Subscriber, in Philadelphia,
A6REAT variety ot iron pots, kettles, Dutch ovens, and
oval fith kettles, either with or without covers, skillets
of different sizes, being much lighter, neater, and superior in
quality to any imported from Great-Britain. —Pot-ash, and
other large kettles, from 30 to 125 gallons; sugar mill gud
geons; neatly rounded and polished at the ends ; grating bars
of different lengths; grist-mill rounds; weights of all sizes,
from ,1b to 5616 ; Ful^s plates; open and close (loves of
different yzes; rag-wheel irons for saw-mills; peGlcs and
mortars; laid weights, and forge hammers of the bed quality.
— Also, BATSTO PIG IRON, as usual, the quality of which
is too well known to need any recommendation.
6 m. JOHN CO X.
A NEGRO man, about 27 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 honest and fobcr.
Enquire of the Printers.
WILLIAM PEARSON
INTENDS leaving this province as soon as poflibl©, and
defines all perlons that have any demands against him to
brinp in their accounts that they may be paid: Ard all per-
Tons who are indebted to him by bond, note, or book debt,
are defined to pay off their reflective balances immediately,
ot before the 15th of February next; otherwise, he will be
under the difagrecable necessity to put their accounts into the
hands of an A torney.
N. B. All perlons indebted to the Ptrtuerfhip of PEARSON
and NEWMAN are requeued to make speedy payment. J
A HOUSE and LOT in Mount-Holly, New-Jersey. The
house supposed to be about 25 or 30 feet 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 shop, 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, z month, 7th, 1776. f
Maryland, Kent couk ty, Nov. 3 1775-
TO BE RENTED,
BY/ the fubferiber, for the space of three years, to com
mence from the firft day of January next, the plantation
whereon James Hodges now lives called WHITE ROCK
HALL FERRY: —The conveniency of its Situation for
keeping a Ferry to Annapolis and Baltimore town, or any
other part of Chefepeak Bay, is so well known that any
tiring said in favour thereof would be unnecefTary; there is
on the premises a good dwelling h u.e, with two rooms, a
passage and two fned rooms below flairs, and three rooms
above, and an exceeding good dry done cellar under the
whole house, a good kitchen and passage between it and the
dwelling house, well finished and in good order, a good lia
ble, meat h<ufe and quarter, and a well of water elofe hy
the door; there is also very good pasture ground on the pre
mises, and a plenty of fib, cyders, and wild fowl to be had
very convenient. The whole is in good repair, and may be
entered on the firft day of January next —Any person incline
able to rent the premises, may know the terms by apply
ingto r THOMAS SMYTH.
RAN AWAY from the fubferiber last Saturday night, a
lervant man named JOHN EYANSON, about 5 feet
8 or 9 inches high; had on an old hat, a light coloured lap
pelled jacket buckskin breeches, milled yarn flockings, a
pair of new shoes, his other cloaths unknown. He is suppos
ed to be gone off with a certain Daniel M'Graw, about 5 feet
9 or 10 inches high, he is a black looking Irishman, takes a
great quantity of fnurf. Whoever secures said John Eyanfon,
so that his matter may get him again, fliall receive the above
reward. 1| ISAAC M OS S.
WHEREAS in and by virtue of a certain order of James
Logan, Esq; late Secretary of the Land Office, and
one of the Commdlioners of propertv, then was surveyed
unto Peter Alien, on the fifth day of November, 1720, a
certain tra& of Land, fituatc on Chickafolungo Creek, then
in Cheder, hut now in Lancaft^r county, containing 200
acres and all- vance; — And whereas the said Peter Alien fold
and conveyed the laid traft ot land unto the Rev. James
Andeifon, now deceased, which said James Anderson fold
and conveyed the fa d tra& unto William Wilkins; and
whereas the heis at law, of the laid Wiliiam Wilkins, have
fold and conveyed the fame trail unto me, who have again
fold and conveyed the fame unto Andrew Herlhy; but, in as
much as the bills of sale or conveyance from the said Peter
Alien to the afmclaid James Andetfon, and from the said
James Anocifon to the aforefaid William Wilkins, cannot
be found, the fa ; d Andrew Herfhy refufed to pay off and
difeharge the remainder of the condition money of the said
land, according t^ his contrast: I do hereby give notice to
the said Peter Allen or his heirs, and the heirs of the said
James Anderton, that I intend applying to the honorable
House of Assembly of this province, at their next setting, on
the twelfth day of February next, for a law to supply the
loss of the two bills of sale and conveyances, when they
may have ah opportunity to be heard thereon, if they have
any jult and reasonable objections against my application.
Lar.caficr Dec. 22, 1775. JOHN LITLE.
Salem, Weft New-Jerfcy, Jan. 29, 1766.
FOUR DOLLARS ' Reward.
TO BE SOL D,
TO BE SOL D,
WAS LEFT at the house of the fubferiber, 01 the night
of the 21st of November last, by a person who called
himfelf WILLIAM COCHRAN, a large BAY HORSE, with
a white face, one hind foot white, a good laddie witli blue
Houzing, the horse appears to be very old, has been much
used in a cart or waggon. The owner is desired to come
prove his property, pay charges and take him away, other
wise he will be fold in oxe month from the date.
JAMES MARTIN.
THE LAND OFFICE,
Is now open both for the province and lower counties. The
terms are five pounds Gerling for every hundred acres,
and one penny Gerling per acre, per annum, quit rent for ever.
The purchase money to be paid down at the time of obtain
ing the warrant, and the las 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 Governor's special 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 settlements on vacant land, on which they
liv„ and which are the only means of their subsist nee; and
others have cleared and fenced pieces of vacant land adjoin
ing their plantations, and it is but reasonable that such per
sons ffiould 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
t : me, such lands will be liable to be taken up by the firft
applier. JAMES TILGHMAN, Secretary
of the land office.
Land-office, Philadelphia, January 27, 1776.
In Second- Streeet three Doors above Black hoife-Alley;
ACQUAINTS the Public, that lie has the mod efferilu.il
Medicine upon earth for the cure of an enveterate Scurvy,
Leprosy, and pimpled Faces, of ever so long Landing, sos
never to return again ;' likewise the evil, Fibulas, Piles, and
all the vexatious imitations and itchings often found in the
feat of the Piles. And he has in his pofieffion many affidavits
of Gentlemen of probity and rank, expreflive of its great
success in the most desperate foropholous cases. It is called
WHEREAS the fubferiber became bound to a certain
Henry Alward, Esq; of Somerset county, in the pro
vince of East New-Jersey, in three separate obligations bear
ing date the 23d day of October 1775; one of them condi
tioned for the payment of 2501. one other of them conditi
oned for the payment of 100 L and the other of them condi
tioned for the payment of 501. and as part of the money on
said bonds has been already paid, and the consideration for
which they were given, neither has, nor is likely to be com
plyed with, on the part of the said Henry Alward ; I do here
by forewarn and difeharg.e any person or persons whomsoe
ver to take an alignment of the said Bonds, or either of them
as I am determined not to pay any further part of them, until
the said Alward fulfill his engagements for which the bonds
were given. JOHN HINDS.
January 30, 1776. *
Tn ENGLISH, GERMAN and other languages.
THE Subscribers, being provided witha general assortment
of new and elegant TYPES, and other Printing materi
als, have opened an office at the corner of Coats's-alley, in
Second-street, above Race-street, opposite the sign of the
Buck, where they intend carrying on the PRINTING BUSI
NESS in all its different branches, with care, fidelity and ex
pedition. And as they are determined to use th'eir utmost en
deavours to give fatisfaction to those who may be pleased to
employ them, they humbly request the favor and encou
ragement of tie public in general, and their friends and ac
quaintance in particular. MELCHIOR STYNER, and
CHARLES CIST.
Philadelphia, December 18, 1775.
MAREDANT's DROPS,
and Sold by him for SEVEN SHILLINGS Gerling a bottle.
If any person, doubtful of what is affected in their favour,
will be pleased to call on Mr. Brocks he will (hew them the
attestations in his peffeffion, and refer them to persons in this
and the neighbouring colonies, for a confirmation of what he
asserts, for they have been happily reftortd to health, by
using them.
RUN-AWAY from the fubferiber, on the tenth day of
lad August, a servant man, by name THOMAS MAR
TIN, an Englishman 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 fwelliagin his right knee.—Had
on, when he went awav, a country cloth done coloured coat,
a pair of linen drawers, a red cloth jacket, and yellow
carved buttons, a felt hat, a pair of new (hoes and plated
carbu^les, and took with him a striped blue silk jacket. The
said servant is fufpeaed 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 reasonable charges paid
by me the fubferiber, f
ANDREW ROBERTSON, at Pittsburgh.
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. Coultice. It is divided into four fenced inclofures of
cleared la^d, 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 purchase
it, may receive fatisfaaion by applying to Mr. PETER
MILLER, in Third-Street.f
NICHOLAS BROOKS,
Worcefler County, Snow Hill, January i 6, 1776
PRINTIN G,
TO BE SOL D,
TO BE SOL D,
A SMALL plantation, within nine miles of the city 0,
Philadelphia, well situated for a gentleman's country
feat, laying very near the river Delaware, and the public
- road leading to New-York; there is on said place a good
new stone house almost finifhed, which may be compleated
in five or fix days, about two acres of good meadow, four
acres of cleared land, and the remainder is excellent wood
land, in all, about thirteen acres.
N. B. The owner cf the above has a good brick house to
Jett, within about five miles of the city, with two rooms on
a floor, two dories high, with a garret, kitchen, and cellar
it has been a (lore for several years, and has at this time
shelves, counter, and every thing necessary for immediate
use. Enquire of the Printers. *
RAN away from the fubferiber, living in Derby towofhifi
Chefler county, on the 4th instant ; an Irilh servant lad
named ANDREW NELSON, eighteen or nineteen years of
age ? about five feet nine inches high, dark brown hair, grey
eyes, has an issue in the calf of his right leg.— Had on and
took with him an old mixed broad-cloth coat lappelled, the
buttons all broken except three, one swan-skin waistcoat dou
ble breaded, check flint, buck skin breeches, one pair drilling
ditto, one pair grey worded dockings, one pair walnut colour
ed yarn ditto, with a little white mixed in them, two pair
flioes, one pair plated buckles, an half worn beaver hat, a
narrow brim, with a bu ton, near which is a cut covered
by the loop. He was seen in the barracks of Pniladcl,
phia the day he went away.
Whoever secures the said runaway so that his matter may
have him again, shall receive EIGHT DOLLARS Reward,
and reasonable charges paid by,
§ SAMUEL LEVIS, jam.
TO BE RENTE D,
THE PLANTATION on Wiffahickon Road, late Doc
tor Zachary's, with part of the dock now thercor.
for terms apply to Reese Meredith, who will agree with an
that can be well recommended, and none else need appi;
Now S ELLING, By
ROBERT BELL
Bookseller in Third-Street,
A WELL chosen LAW LIBRARY, containing all th
latest, with some of the earliest, among the most ex
cellent reporters of the law: Also, common and Gatut; lav
books, with a variety of miscellaneous works, relatin
thereunto.
N. B. At said BELL's may be had, CheGerfield's Letter
4 vols. Burgh's Political Disquisitions, 3 vols. Cullen's Le.
tures on the Materia Medica, Jones on Wounds, Fracture
Camp and Military Hospitals, &c. &c. &c.
TO BE SOL D,
By the Subscriber, living in Horfham Township, Philadelphi
County,
A VALUABLE PLANTATION, situated near Horfhau
Meeting house, containing feventy-five acres of choic
land, eight acres of which are good water'd meadow, and ;
bout four acres of a young bearing orchard, together with #
good two Gory stone house, with a pump before the door,
stone barn, Cabling &c. thereunto belonging: the aforefai
place is well situated for either store or tavern. For terms ap
ply to John Cadwalader, living near the premises.
N. B. The title is indisputable.
a—- FOR
- LONDONDERRY,
THE BRIG
M I N ER V A,
JOHN WINNING, Master;
IX7 ILL be clear to fail by the 20th of
VV February next, at fartheft. For
passage only, apply to Joseph Wilson, or the niafter on
board.
N. B. There will be every necessary accommodation pro
vided for passengers, and those whom this opportunity maY
suit, are desired to be speedy in applying.
RAN away from the fubferiber the 21st of January, a
English Servant Man named JAMES JONES, by trad
a Blacksmith, about 5 feet 9 er ten inches high, seems t
have a certain Giffnefs in his neck when he turns about, ha
on, when he went away, an old felt hat, a fuftian outfid;
jacket, an und@r linfey jacket, Grip'd cross way, a pair c
blue woolen trowfers, a pair of blue ribb'd yarn (locking;
and a pair of old shoes. Whoever takes up said servant c
fecures him so that his Mader may have him again, shall b
entitled to the above reward, and reasonable charges paid b
SAMUEL WHEELER.
N. B. He understands the Manual Exercise, and iti
thought that he will try to deceive people, by telling then
that he is a defefter from the army.,
Gl OT out, or was taken cut of the fubferibers yard, the
' 14th of laG month in the evening, a brown MARE,
with foal ; has a small Par, several fiddle marks, low in flefh,
about 13 hands high, branded on the off fhotfder T. A. with
out shoes, and eight years old. Whoever takes up said mare
and brings her to Jacob Hiltzheimer in Seventh - Greet,
near Market-Greet, mail receive TWENTY SHILLINGS.
% JACOB HILTZHEIMER.
TO BE L E T,
And entered upon the fix:h day of April next,
TH E noted St. George's GRIST-MILLS in New-Caftte
county, now in the tenure of Benjamin Hudson. The
mills are well situated for the best of wheat, and near two
stages that run to Philadelphia every week; there are two
pair of (tones, the one four feet burs, double geared; the
other the bed country made; boulting cloths the best; fun
n'ng gears all good ; a three acre lot, dwelling house, cellar,
kitchen, Gable, Cooper's (hop, garden, some orchard, and a
maple swamp joining the mills for fire wood — Whoever in
clines to take the fame, and is well recommended for
honesty, and undetftands milleripg, may apply on the
premises to § 4 w ISAAC DUSHANE.
FOUR DOLLARS Reward