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[The Pennsylvania Packet].

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08209 Author/Creator: Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Newspaper Date: 26 June 1779 Pagination: Order a Copy

Includes "Dr. Morgan's Vindication," supported by Washington, and a list of those wanted for high treason.

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Philadelphia, June 13.
TO BE SOLD
A HEALTHY likely Negro Wench, sixteen years of age; enquire of the subscriber in Union-street, who has for sale, a Sextant with brass arches, three dark glasses and adjusting screws to indexes, a Telescope and Magnifying Glass in a mahogany box, and a compleat Manual Orrery; Emerson's Algebra, ditto Trigonometry, ditto Conic Sections, Martin's Optics, ditto use of the globes, Keil's Natural Philosophy, Cotes's Hydrostatics, Payne's Architecture, Cunn's Euclid, Martin's Mariners Mirror, Mair's Book keeping, Dilworth's Assistant, Gough's Grammar, &c. &c.

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