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

JAN ARY 36 1779 Price ifteen Peace Angle One Shilling by the quantity Publiihed every Tuefday Thurfday and Saturday the highest PRICE will I be given for dean LINEN or COTTON RAGS by JOHN PUN LAP THE ADVERTISER A DQUANTITY of neat Mahogany and Walnut A hqU (hold urniture of the neweft patterns Acy perfon having fuch to difpofe of may hear of a purchafer by applying to the Pi inter 6 SOMETIME in the fall of the year 1777 came to the farm near the borough of Wilming ton in Newcaftle county a fmall dark brown Gelding about thirteen hands high paces a fmali travel has neither brand nor ear mark and appears to beojdv Alfo in the beginning of the tenth month laft broke in to the faid farm an old fcrrel Gelding (hod all round appears to bare been ufed to the geers and was very poor when he came has neither brand nor ear maik The owner or owners of the faid creatures are defired to come prove their property and pay reafdnable char es before the 15th of the third month next otherwife they wi'l then be fold for the fame and the overplus if any frcured fur the owner It is though the (aid ftrays have been brought here Irom fome confiderable diftance fornotwithftanding all the reafonable endeavors that have been u(ed to give the owners notice (if the bad been near) of faid ftrays no perfon has yet appeared to claim either of them JOHN STAPLER TOBE SOLD AVER valuable trsS of A fituate oh the Raritan Kivr two mile from the town cfNew Brjnfwick in the (fate of New Jv ('ey commonly known by the name cf the Ifland arm containing ab'Ut two th ulind acres There is a very large proportion cf wo nd to it which renders it particularly valuable as from its vicitvtv to the river the conveyance of the fame to the New York market will be attended with ve ry little expence The land is in gerer gcod and reiooni rails 01 prouucirrgcoa mops its mu won is vernmentT have left them in poffeffion of every thme be rema kably high and hed hy commanding a moft loDgin t0 th and 0B ii'ui ana exteriive proipecr rrem tne place wnere me houfe flood fo much fo that the city of Amboy lies open to view There a large quantity of ftefh and fait meadow and much more mpr be made a fine Snrllfltt! at aS I am bisuving ubu suiiuiy vmu Hilf I uvciHUUl dim advantages whicn are unneceflary to enumerate as the chr rafter of the firm is fo well known and eflablifhed The trail was divided in the furvey into three fepcrate farms on one of whith are a houfe and barn and feme improvements and will be fold together or fepei ate as may beft fuit the purchafer The dwel inj houfe barn and out hourei having been deftroyed by ths enemy aid the oprietor being obliged to refid at a diftance from the rm induce them to difpofe of it Tnofs who are jnclinable to view the premif arerequeftsd to call on Mr John Dennis in New Brunlwick and for the terms are defired to ap ply IoThomas Lawrencf or John Lawrence Jun in Philadelphia or to Anthony White Eo now refiding at the Union Iron Works in Suffex in the application to you nare or jeriey As the Pi oprietors will not have occafian for the mo ney the purch 'fer may have any time for the payment of rhe fame on giving fecurity and paying intmft Philadelphia Dec 8 1778 requeft that their corpfe may be permitted to be brought I cannot avoid upon the prefect accafion to complain cf the equally ruinous and difgraceful warfare carried on by the troops under your command while your King af fects to wilh a pacification with America' his officers are heightening the refentments of the people by the moft con trary to pood offices What advantages or confohtion do ou derive from cruel Burnings re not rne citeits ot war iufnciently calami tous for the community that you fhould transfer them to individuals and in a manner too without diferimination? Britons did not ufe todo fo it is their practice only in thefe latter days Having fought io their fervice feel a rignc ro remonnrate againit it and winch 1 the more ear neftly do that it may prevent the horrors of re aliation I am Sir with proper relpefl Lieut Cel Prevost WHITE Commander oj the King's troops St Parifli Nov 1778 6 I I HAD the honor of yours relative to Brigadier General Screven and Mr Strother The former I am haupy to inform you is likely to do well (from the report of the Surgeons) the other I believe is I fliall give direc tions for his buri When you come to confider that many of the troops un der my command are irregulars that many of them have refentments to accobnt for many afls which I heartily abhor and that the calamities of war you complain of have been (by people under your immediate command! given us as a precedent at Ifland the definition previous to that of every fettlement on St river the wanton deflruflion of every building and animal crea ture on the Ifland of Amelia and the murder of Captain Moore and others in cool blood you will own I hope that if the retaliation has been fevere it might have been forefeen andexpefled and though more cofily it will be lefs felt than that of the poor people who loft their all at the fame time I pofitively ifclaim any order er even appro bation of fuch proceedings my heart bled for the foffer ers though authorized by the laws of war I have forbid den in the ftrifltfl manner the burning of any houfes and wherever any people have been found to take care of their property though known to be inimical to the 1 IT norm to fbm and 1 iuvuj ivicnidiijQuieriy and peaceably at their own houfes The hoftile appear ance of the inhabitants and your indecent proclamation when your laft attempt againft Eaft lorida was threatened would juftify any thing if I could recon cile it to myfelf At the fame time I muft declare to you that whenever I fliall meet with oppofition from the plant ers and inhabitants their property muft anfwer for their imprudence The deflruflion of provifidns which I know1 to be a capital lofs to a planter will at leaft attone for their raflinefs I have to acquaint you that I have accounts of a large number of Indians' anxious to join me the horrors attend ing their mode of carrying on war have always fliocked me and I could wifh thatlcould be juftifiablein fending them back again previous to their entering the heart of the fettlements Think not that I am vain or mean to threat en by demanding a tamely fubmiflion of the provinceun til the fate of America is determined vou will find that my humanity and my wifli to fave Georgia diflates my I have the honour to be with rqfpeft Sir your moft obedient humble fervantj PREVOST lieutcnantCokmel Commanding the tr in Georgia Brigadier General Screven being defirobs to re turn I was glad to fend him when he could meet with pro per a fli fiance I am really unhappy to hear from him that one of the rangers (hot him after he was already dif ituu niiunnn will! eight WsPfl nPfkfC fn him fata vm mU wvnvi U4U! IdiV JUU1 VclUip dim LU vLUt luiixivw saccijr 1 Uvg lie Hdy DOS yOu flag was detained no longer than to give proper attend an to the General lam Sir yours PREVOST Copy of Brigadier General A MAT I is hereby given to all Inhabit ints Planters A ia the date of Georgia that they are to remain at their dwelling places and not to interfere in the de fence of their province All perfons whatever not belong ing to the Continental troops who (hall be found in arms or in any hoftile afl or wbfent from (heir families may expefl to have their houTes their plantations and thsir PLANTATION in Gloucefter New A rfey with a large quantity of banked meadow fitnated on the river oppofite to Chefter Apply to John Lardnbr in Second ftreet WA taken up between Marcus Hook and Chcfler a Ngro Man named fays he lately belonged to one Wilfon in Water ftreet Phila delphi He is now in Chefter gaol His owner is de fired to come prove hit property pay charges and take him away otherwife he will be fold for hit fees this being the fecond time Ip hat been advertifed ROBERT SMITH Sheriff TO Philadelphia January tg A A A (Georgia) December 3 On Tuefday th eighth day of ebruary next at te Camp at Midway Nov as 1778 lite houfe of Jofeph Comely in the manor of More On Leafet for five years SIR land near Buffel town Hp following Plantations in Eafton townfhip jjr'lENERAL Screven aed Mr Strother having been til nr Mniiinoia ujuub rnnntv annul Tixreen rniies irem rniiauci aa riihhip nnre 1 I 1 a KJ vwwvj IY A and Kitchen urniture Hay the phia on the Lancafter road viz onetraftof onehun fent Major Haberman) to know whether they have fellenti sLa kAnfa Tnhn Burk firn nnf nr 2rP nrifnnrs in vonr hanrlft in flr fAarrta fiiAmtn 0111 ne iaiu ai iuc uvus ang John Loughborough a likely Negro Boy veart of tge hathad the fmali pox itfanrt and aflive alfo Hvr'es Cowt ten Hogs Houlhold and Kitchea urniture Hay and many other things too tedious to nticB The (ale to begin at Ten on each day Seized and to be fold by jin 1 GEORGE SMITH Agent Ti be 0 by Public Vendue On Tuefday the n'nth day of ebruary next at our in the afternoon on the ptemiiei rgWO neat well finifhed Dwelling hcufts and en due ltore lituate on the corner of South and nt ftreett containing forty feet on ront ftreet nd thirty fi feet on South ftreet with a paved yarJ forty feet Ion? and twelve feet wide and the privilege of a pump of good water near the back gate or parbcu lartapply to John and Chamless Hart at (atdftore Philadelphia January zg 0 be 0 at Public Sale On Saturday the thirteenth day of ebruarynext at ive in the afternoon at the Coffee boufe fif not before al private taitj A CERTAIN frame tenement and lot or piece A oil ground fituate in Wicacpe (in the diftrifl of Southwark) on the writ fide of Swanlen (treet between 0'iren and Catharine ftreets containing in bnadth on sanfon fireet eighteen feet and extending in depth fw hundred and thirteen feet late the eftateof Mary ton deceafed or terms apply to Phlip Leng L1 Hannah Jones in Via ftreet near Second ftreet The above premilci are dear from ground rens and the title is inOilputable Head garters Camp Nenu jerfiy "jan 14 WHEREAS many Soldiert of the fift Penn fy'vania brigade belonging to the firft Pcond feventh and tenth Pennfylvania regiments have Jefert ed and othert over ftayed their furloughs Deferters thit (hall join their refpeflive regimentt in confluence of this public notice on or before the aoth of March may expefl pardon So diers who have over ftayed their furloughs are or dered immediately to join on pain of being deemed and treated at deferters allowing a retfonable time avreeable to the diftance each foldier it from hit regi ment RICHARD HUMPTON Col Com ift Brigade the ikirmifll with your troops I have dred and twenty five'acres two traflt each one hundred or are prifbners in your hands arid in tbe formerc fe to acres and one trad of fixty eight acres Alfo two requeft that their corpfe may be permitted to be brought plantations eaeh one hunded and fifty acres in Norri in for interment ton townfhip rhiiaaeiphia county nineteen miles rrem the city The above traflt have dwelling houfes ard other improvements on them or terms apply to Charles Thomson in Market ttreer or Jonathan Mifflin juo in Second fttei below Walnut (beet DURING the time tbe enemy were in poff flion of this city there tferfe taken oqt or the ho rfe of the Rev fljr Ewing in Third ftiW three pine tables a dozen ot walnut chairs without bottoms the lover half of a large walnut cbeft of drawers a low mahogany cheft of drawers an iron theft a walnut ta ble with a fere fixed on it for fealing inftrvments of writing a low bedftead with a lacking bottom and a cot bedftrad If any perfon give information where the above mehtioned aricles or any of them are (o that the owner may have them again the kindnefi (hall be gratefully acknowledged and rewarded by JOHN EWING NB There is a walnut cheft of drawers on a (land left in the houfe not belonging to me The owner is defired to come and take it away TO BE SOLD BY A I Afr ft Di All 1 llltLkj TIP rs nrrrrmn A VV VI I LLAlLKOj £1 four volumes Hiftory of IrelafiJ A few feta of Works neatly bound A number Of odd volumes of Com mentaries Rural Oeconomy Spelling Books A Admiuiculum Puerile: Or an Help for School Boys By Davys a Gracee Grammatics Injlitutio Cempendaria In ujum Sc belar uv: Autbore EdV Wbttenhal DD Nupcr pifcopt Kilmer SATURDAY fe 1 I GEN A 1.