Dunlap and Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • 1

TfH'E HfOiWi JblBk it I A A DVERTISER A EMBER 31 1777 By His Excellency GEORGE WASHINGTON Efq General and Commander in Chief of he orces of the United States of America virtue of the power and direc tion to me efpecially given I hereby enjoin and require all perfons refi ling within feventy nriks of my Heid Quarters to threfn one half of their grain by the firfl diy of ebru ary and the other half by the fideday of March next en fifing on painin cafe of failure of having all that ihail remain in fheaves after the period above mentioned feized by theCom mifurics and Quarter Mailers of the army and paid for as Straw GIVEN under my hand at Head i Quarters near the Valley orge in PhiladfphiaGounty this 2otb day'ofDiceniber i WASHINGTON By His command Robert Harrison Sec Juft publijhed and now felling by DUN A At his Printing office in Queen ftreet Lan carter athfrABRAHA ALM a A or the year of our Lord 1778 Our cuftomets arerequefledto obferve that the ingenious David Rittenhouse A has favoured us with the aflronomical calculations of dur Almanack for this year therefore they may be mofi firmly relied on Ju publijbed and to be fold by A 1 A I At the fouth fide of King ftteet a few doors below the Market Lancarter The LAN CAST A A A or the year of our Lord 1778 By ANTHONY SHARP Philom A SR A RD ST from the fubferiber Bn the 20th of No vember left at tern ipht mile fr the ord a white HOR SEbout fourteen and a half hand high ten yeir eld natural pacer (hod round baa neither bran nor ear mark and baa an hollow in the olflhcpMer orcafion ed by a wound Whoever takev up faid horfe and 1 the thief and fecures them fothvt the owner may have i hi horfe and the thief be brought to condign punifn anent (hall receive the above reward or one half for tbe horfe alone The owner live near Samuel in Cumberland towoftip York County nn fylvanja JOHN LEVINGSTON AHOUSE and LOT with a liable tberecn fuuate in Main ftrect LaaciUr Enquire of tbe Printer Jueofter Dtceaibe' 1777 NO IC is hereby given by order of the Qnrter Mafer General That on Thutf day the ad of January het will fold at public (ale at Mr George the fijn vf the White Hoyle on Lannifter road three mile from Reading about One Hundred 8 for ca(h to be paid on tbe fpot Thore that have hS hot fe are defired to appear be fore the dry of fale prove their property before a Ma iriftrate pay charge and have them delivered fiv JACOB HILTZHEIMER Lunttfter Decembir i 1777 TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD DESERTED from Capt company of the Ninth Pennfylvaria Regiment a certain 3 RO WN by trade an armourer about tire feet fevtn inche huh pock marked fair com plexion had on a light coloured coat white liaen jacket leather breechet end a beaver hat Abo a certain RANCIS HARRIS lately from one of the Boating batterie by trade a mill weight about fiv? feet eleven inche high had oh when he deferred in old light jacket with flteve and flowered fhnrtl bfeethe he it much given to drnk and apt to fay in hl difeourfe fltafe goodtefi or bv way of oath By fe that made little apples or poop Untiorai Whoever tkr up faid and fe curr them in any of thy gaol of the United State fo that they may be returned to their regiment (hall re ceive the above reward ndreafonable charge paid by JOHN BICKHA LieutpthPennlylvaniaReg Earl To wn Eereml er 777 fl HI is to give notice to all perfons on Ji the Continent not to truft any thing to Peter Stall upon my account or upon my ch'l 'ren eflate a I will not pay anv debt of hi contracting I AR BAR A ST ALL 1 M'mtgomery Couuty Maryland Dec la 777 I HAVE for SALE five hundred acre of well improved A on which are th irty acre of good Timothy meadow lituate about fifteen mile below rederick Town near the mouth of Monocacy I will allo fell four thoufand acie of very rich LAND at fixty poun currency per hundred acre lying in Wafliinaton County about twenty mile above ort Cumbe land The purchaftr will have the option at the expiration of four year either to receive the pur chafe money without intereft or keep the land RANCIS DE AKINS near the mouth of Monocacy A their efcape from Lcefburg Vir ginia the following people viz ISAAC JOtiNSTON about twenty yean of age about lire feet ten inche high fmooth face and dark hair BENJAMIN KING a well made man about five feet eight inche high pitted with the fmall pox and appeared to be a middle aged man JOHN a flout fellow near fix feet high and about twenty to year of age AH the above men tioned piifoner were born in the neighbourhood of Sbrewfb ary in the Jerfey and were taken by Gene ral Sullivan du 'Staten Iflird each had on a green coat a white waifleoat and breeche Whoever brine them to me ip Lee four or eenfine them in any gaol fliall receive what the law allow 8 THOMSON MASONCommiflary of Piifoner for Loudonn County December 6 1777 TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD RAN AWAY from tbe fubferiber living in Pax ton Townfhip Lancifter County on the 4th of thia inft a Negro man named about twenty five yean old a thick wll (et fellow fpeak the Eng iilh and German tongue well 1 had on when le went away an orange coloured coat a lead coloured jack et a coarfe (hiit and leather breeche He took with him a black MARE big with foal about fix year old a natural trotter and carrie herfelf well and ha no brand It i fuppofed that he intend to go to Howe' army Whoever take up faid Negro and Mare (hall receive the above Reward or for any 01 of them fecured fo that the owner get them again tie one half of the above Reward and reafonable charge paid by JACOB AWL I Mr Theodore Barrell brother to the late Mr W'illiau BaxartL Merehent of Mar ket ftreet Philadelphia is yet on rhe Continent he i earn Illy rrqnefted to give none to the Printer hrreof' or to Mr Barrkll at Mr Mullan in White ftreet Mount it hoped if any inf his friend can anill her in the requefted information they w'H not withhold fo greit an ob'igation at (lie flitters herfelf it would not he conferred on an ungiate ful ir ind December it 777 SIX DO LA RS WA Is fl Mondav night from the fiibfcrbr in Hetnpfield bay HORSE with faddle and bridle a liar in hi forehead and a blemidi in the tight eve the right foot i white (hod allround i about nine or ten ye old and pace The thiet i one of the Virginia kldier who wa go Ing homeward had on a blue coat with white bind ing on ihe button hole about 'five feet four or five inche high He alfo Bole a blue and black mixed country made great coat Whoever fecuret faid horfe fiddle and and will letttrn them to the fub feriber (ball receive the above Reward befidetrea (onable charge from JOHN NEWCQMER WHEREAS David Haves of Oxford Townfhip Cheder County and State o( Pennfylvania haih bought bl John Cooper a traft or parcel of land lying in ihe Tqn(hip County and State aforefaid and gave William Bunting tor bail and the faid David Haye gave up hi right to roe now on the premife and 1 have paid the firftbond the fecond become due in the year 775 and th' third in tbe year 1776 Thi it therefore to wain the Public that I wit! pay no more until John Cooper and the legatee come and nake me over a right for faid place 4 ALLAN Reading December ty 777 I DO ARS REWARD STOLEN laft night from Mr houfe in thi town a final! PORTMANTEAU containing the following article a filvergrey Bath'coating furtout a new black broadcloth coat and waiftcoat faced with the fame without lining and the packet of blue ihullooni with a plain death head button two pair of black prunella breeche without lining one pair of linen drawer eight ftiirti five of which if marked have the letter and three marked five ftockt marked on the lintton hole fide PLEASANTS two purple ground primed handkerchief two light ground dit'o two cheek linen ditto one pair of country made mixed black and white yarn flocking four pair of light blue worfted ditto one pair of neat country made mixed black filk and white cotton ditto one pair of white cotton ditto one pair of (hoe one pair of finall open work oval Giver buckle one pair of fquate fafliion able ditto two fervant (hirtt oznabngt and white linen one pair ditto of blue thick let breeche two pair ditto of flocking a curry comb and bruih buckle brulh doatht hrulh a bed blanket and three bundle of letter for officers at head quarter and gen tlemen in Philadrlphia one of which contained quantity of old PTnfylvani paper currency Who ever will detefl the thief and recover the faid article Stall have the above Reward or in proportion to the article recrivf on application to Mr JOHN JORDAN Inn holder in Lancafter or Mr I CHARD HUMPHREYS in Reading The Portmanteau ha been found without any of the article which it had contained Lancafier December St t'iTD MADE bis efcape from the fubferiber Con ftable of Sadfbury Townfhip Chefter Coun ty a certain THOMAS BULLER appre hended for treafonable praflice againft the United States: He is about 5 feet 8 inches high well built cf a red complexion and yellow hair had on a bite coat light eclome'd breeches 'and blue yarn Rock ings formerly lived ie Chefter Cotrty Whoev er takes up and feezes faid Boiler fo' tbkt Jbe 4ay be brought to juftice (hall receive SEVENTY IVE DOLLARS Reward and reafonable charges paid by JOHN BOGGS.