October 25, 1759

The Pennsylvania Gazette

Paxton, Lancaster County, October 4, 1759.

Borrowed or stolen, out of the House of John Harris, of Paxton Township, Lancaster County, a certain Gun, stocked with wild red Cherry Tree, about four Feet long in the Barrel, near one Foot next the Breech square, and the other Parts of the Barrel filed round, and near the said square Part the Gun is brazed, and the Brass appears on the Barrel, and on the Side Plate marked thus I H with an Iron Sight behind after the Rifle Form, and a raised Silver Sight before, pretty long, and neatly finished off, as is the whole gun. Whoever returns said Gun to John Harris, in six Weeks from this Date in good Order, shall have no Questions asked; but on the contrary, if any Person or Persons secure the Gun and Thief, so that the Owner may get his Gun, and the Thief be brought to Justice, shall receive Three Pounds Reward, paid by JOHN HARRIS. 

June 4, 1761

The Pennsylvania Gazette

Just imported in the last Ships from London, &c. and to be sold by FRANCIS and RELFE, At their Store in Front street, the Corner of Chestnut street, the following Goods, his NEW England and West India rum, melasses, Canary, Madeira and Lisbon wines, choice shrub, lemons, raisins, capers, anchovies, spermaceti, Candles, rum, pepper, saffron, rice, hyson, souchon and bohea tea, looking glasses, writing and sheathing paper, scythes and scythe stones, brass and iron ware, tin, rifle gun barrels and locks, gunpowder, oil flints, china and delph ware, toys by the chest, alabaster images, straw cutting knives, cullin mill stones, hempen and flaxen ozenbrigs, German dowlas, brown and white quadruple silesias, Britannias, ravens duck, Flanders bed ticks, Russia huckaback and diaper, ditto plain and curdled linens, clouting diapers, 3 qr. 7 8ths and yd. wd. Irish linens, yd. wd. 9 8ths and ell wd. ditto sheeting, 9 8ths brown Russia ditto, gulix holland, pistol and silesias lawns, clear lawns in pieces and patches, cambricks ditto, ditto Hamburgh and Holland whited long lawns, yd. wd. and six qr. muslin, cotton and chints furniture, printed cottons, linens and calicoes, diaper and damask table cloths, printed linen and check handkerchiefs, pencil worked ditto, brown buckrams, 3 qr. and 7 8ths china handkerchiefs, fastracondie, lungee and cotton romals, bordered bandanoes, spotted blue ditto, India damasks, ditto paduasoy, ditto striped brocaded lutestrings, ditto sattinets, china and persian taffeties, black English paduasoys, white watered tabby, pink and white persian, alamode, velvets, fine, super and superfine broad cloths, frizes, duffils, strouds, halfthicks, German and other serges, druggets, French prize cloths, shaloons, tammies, durants, calimancoes, worsted damasks, yd. wd. stuffs of various patterns, flowered and plain ruffels, worsted and silk camblets Norwich crapes, packet ditto, black, buff, green, blue, scarlet and cloth coloured hair shags, plain and naped white kendal cottons, spotted ditto, Welch cottons, striped linceys, red flannels, rugs and blankets, Scotch thread, stitching and coloured ditto, sewing silk, scarff twist and buttons, shirt buttons, stock tape, knee garters, needles and pins, mens and youths leather gloves, womens and girdles ditto and mitts, mens and womens hose, Hose's shoes, dandriff, ivory combs, horn ditto, horse and chair whips, boot legs and feet, boot soals, buck and bone table knives and forks, seal end and buck caped penknives, brass stamped handle ditto, razors, scissars, steel spring snuffers, steel spurs, awl blades and shoe tacks, womens brass thimbles, mens iron ditto, spectacles, snuff and tobacco boxes, brass and leather ink pots, cork screws, shoe and knee buckles, fine stone buttons, plated and gilt metal ditto, horn powder flasks, copper tea kettles and sauce pans, brass mortars, brass pans, brass candlesticks, London pewter dishes, plates and basons, water plates and dishes, quart tankards, pots and mugs, pint ditto, pint and half pint and 3 qr. pint tea pots, milk pots, porringers, table and tea spoons, quart and pint glass decanters, half pint cans and tumblers, worm'd and engrav'd wine glasses, water cups and saucers, crewets, mustard pots and salts, ale glasses, syllabub and jelly ditto, mens and womens saddles, with proper furniture, &c. &c. &c.  The said Francis and Relfe, give ready money for pork, beef, wheat, Indian corn, flour, bread, pipe, hogshead, barrel staves, and other kinds of lumber.

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