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0
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16,65
12,50
13,33
21,42
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13,54
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15,55
25,00
1
3
20,83
15,62
16,66
26,78
4
22,22
16,66
$7,77
28,57
23,61
17,73
18,88
30,35
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18,75
20,00
32,14
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26,38
19,79
21,11
33,92
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20,83
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35,71
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22,91
24,44
39,28
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31,94
23,95
25:55
41,07
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33,33
25,00
26,66
42,85
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26,04
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44,64
2
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36, 11
27,08
28,89
46,42
2
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37,50
28,12
30,00
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29,16
31,11
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6,24
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10,71
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|N.E.&c.|N. Y. &c. | N. Jer. &c. |S. Car. &c ..
s. d.
cents.
cents.
cents.
cents.
2
5
40,27
30,20
32,2.2 -
51,78
2
6
41,66
31,24
33,33 ..
53,57
2
7
43,05
32,28
34,44
55,35 .
2
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44,44
33,32
35,55
57,14
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45,83
34,37
. 36,66
58,92
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47,22
35,41
37,77
60,71
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48,61
36,45
38,88
62,50
3 0
50,00
37,50
40,00
64,28
3 .1
51,38
38,54
41,11
66,70
3
2
52,77
39,58
42,22
67,85
3
3
54,16
40,62
43,33
69,64
3
4
55,55
41,66
44,44
71,42
3
5
56,94
42,70
45,55
73,2 1
3
5
58,33
43-75
46,66
75,00
3
7
59,72
44,79
47,77
76,78
3
8
61,11
45,83
48,88
78,57
3 9
62,50
46,87
50,00
80,35
3 10
63,88
47,91
51,11
82,14
3 II
65,27
48,95
52,22
83,92.
4 0
66,66
50,00
53,33
87,71
4 I
68,05
51,04
54,44.
87,50
4
2
69,44
52,08
55,55
89,28
4
3
70,83
53,12
56,66
91,07
4
4
72,22
54,16
57,77
92,85
4
5
73,61
55,20
58,88
94,64.
4
6
75,00
56,24
00,00
96,42
4
7
76,38
57,28
61,11
98,21.
4
8
77,77
58,32
62,22
100,00
4 9
79,16
59,37
63,33
4 10
80,55
60,41
64,44
4 11.
81,94
61,45
65,55
5. 0'
83,33
62,50
66,66
5 1|
84,72
63,54
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DIRECTORY.
275
¡N.E.&c .N. Y. &c.
N. Jer. &c.
(S. Car. &c.
d.
cents,
cents.
cents.
5
2
86,11
64,58
68,88
5 3
87,50
65,62
70,00
5
4
88,88
66,66
71,11
5 5
90,27
67,70
72,22
5
6
91,66
68,75
73,33
5
7
93,05
70,83
75,55
5
9
95,83
71,87
76,66
5.10
97,22
72,91
77,77
5 II
98,61
73,95
78,88
6
0,100,00 I -
76,04
81,11
6 6
2
77,08
82,22
78,12
83,33
6
4
79,16
-84,44
6
5
80,20
85,55
6
6
81,24
86,66
82,28
87,77
83,32
88,88
1
84,37
90,00
6 10
85,41
9I,II
6.11
86,45
92,22
7 0
87,50
93,33
88,54
94,44
89,58
95,55
7
3
90,62
96,66
91,66
97,77
7
92,70
98,88
7
93,75
100,00
7 7
7 8
95,83
7
9
96,87
7
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97,91
7
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98,95
8
NO
100,00
7 7
2
7
4 5
6
94,79
6 6 6
7
8 9
69,79
74,44
5
8
94,44
75,00
80,00
6
3
276
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One Dollar is 100 Cts.
One half do. 50
One quarter do. · 25
One eighth do. 12 1-2
One fixteenth do. 6 1-4
-
One-half do. 55
One Piftareen 20
One-half do. 10
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TABLE
Shewing the value of Dollars, from 1 to 10,000, in the currencies of the different States.
Dollars.
IN.Eng. Ver[N. York & N. Jer. Pen. (S. Carolina ' Virg. &c |N. Caroli. |Del.& Mar. &Georgia.
€
6.
s.
s. d.
L. s. d.
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8
0.76
0. 48
2
0
12
0
16
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18
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1 80
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14
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3.76
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4 0
3 15 C
2 68
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6
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4 16
4.10 C
2 160
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4
4 17 6
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4
4
5 12
5 50
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15
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6 0
5 12 0
3 100
16
4 16
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6 16
6 76
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18
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4 40.
19
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7 26
4 88
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4 13 4
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One Crown is 110 Cts.
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DIRECTORY.
Dols. N. E. &c. N. Y. &c. N. T. &c. |
S. C. &c.
L. s.
L .. sol
f. s. d.
£. s. d.
26
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6
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27
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28
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6 10 8
29
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12
1
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31
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7
48
31
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4
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18 8
35
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26
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36
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16
14
8
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37
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39
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14
15
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20
40
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16
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18
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16
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18 16
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10
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19
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18 76
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15
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20
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60
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27
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120
160
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187 100
93 116 134
900
270
360
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STEPHENS'S
Dols. | N.E.&c. |N. Y. &c.| N. J. &c.| S. C. &c.
3,000
900
1,200
Oj1, 125
0 0
700 0 0
4,000
1,200
C
1,600
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0
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5,000
1,500
2,000
c 1,875
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9,000
2,700
3,600
C 3,375
2,100
10,000
3,000
0
4,000
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A TABLE fhewing the value of any number of pounds fhillings and pence, from Id, to 10001. of the currencies of N. Jerfey, Pennfyl. and Maryl. in dollars and cents.
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s. d.
Dols Cts.
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73
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77
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39 42 45
99 67 33
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67
2
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1
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55
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2
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100
266
67
2
3,32 4
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200
533
33
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14
10 6417
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300
1666 67
2
5 321 4
11 65 7
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400
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31571
92
850
The denominations of money of account, as they are by law required to be used in the public offices, and is
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DIRECTORY.
all judicial proceedings of the United States, are dollars, (the dollar being the unit) dimes or tenths, cents or hundredths, and mills or thoufandths of a dollar.
POST-OFFICE ESTABLISHMENT. . No. 34, South Front Street. .
J OHN HABERSHAM, poft-mafter general. Salary 2400 dollars. Robert Patton, Poftmafter; Charles .. Burral, affiftant.
Rates of Poftage."
SINGLE letters carried by land, for any diffance Not exceeding 30 miles, 6 cents-from 30 to 60 miles, 8 cents-from 60 to 100 miles io cents-from 100 to 150 miles, 124 cent :- from 150 to 200 miles, 15 cenis -from 200 to 250 miles, 17 cents-from 250 to 350 miles, 20 cents-from 350 to 450 miles, 22 cents-from 450 miles, 25 cents.
Double letters are double, and triple letters, triple of thefe rates. A packet of the weight of one ounce, avoirdupoife weight, at the rate of four fingle letters, and in like proportion tor one of a greater weigh !. News Papers, one cent each, for any diftance, not ex- ceeding 100 miles, to any diftance in the fame ftate where printed, the fame ; and for any greater diftance from ,one ftate to another, one and a half cents.
All letters or packets conveyed in private veffels, four eents, with the addition of legal poftage, if def- tined to any other place than where fuch vefel may arrive.
All packets to and from the Prefident and Vice-pre- fident of the United States; to and from the fecretary of the treafury, the comptroller, the auditor, the re- gifter, the commiffioner of the revenue, the treafurer, the fecretary of ftate, the fecretary of war, the poft- mafter general and his affiftant, are free of poftage. And alfo all letters and packets, not exceeding two ounces ja weight, to and from any member of congrefs, the fe-
280
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cretary of the fenate, and the clerk of the houfe of re- presentatives, during any feffion of congref's, and twenty days after it. But no public officer can frank any let- ters, except his own ; and any letter enclofed to any of them, and directed to another perfon, fhall be put into the poft-office, and be charged with the ufual poftage.
Pamphlets and magazines, not exceeding fifty miles, one cent per fhect ; not exceeding one hundred iniles, one and a half cents ; and any greater diftance, two cents per fheet.
Times of receiving and clofing the Mails at Philadelphia.
THE eafern mail for New York is clofed every day in the week, except Sunday, at 12 o'clock, and reaches New York every fucceeding morning, except Satur- day's mai!, which is not delivered until Monday morn- ing. This mail proceeds to Bofton and to Albany on Tuefdays, Thurfdays, and Saturdays.
The mail from New York leaves that city every day in the week (Sunday excepted) at 12 o'clock, and arrives at Philadelphia the next fucceeding day at 10 o'clock, A. M. with the fame exceptions as to Satur- day's mail as in the preceding article.
The fouthern mail is clofed on Mondays, Wednef- days, and Fridays, at to 'clock, A. M. and arrives in Philadelphia on Tuefdays, Thurfdays, and Saturdays, at II A. M. The mail that continues through to Georgia is made up only on Fridays.
The mail for the Eaftern Shore of Maryland, which goes as far as Cheftertown, is clofed at half paft eight o'clock, A. M. on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fri- days.
The weftern mail through Lancafter, Carlifle, &c. to Pittfburgh and Kentucky, is clofed every Satur- day morning at 11 o'clock.
The weftern mail through Pottfgrove, Reading, Har- rifburgh, &c. is clofed every Tuefday at thece o'clock, P. M.
28;
DIRECTORY.
The mail for Bethlehem, Eafton, Suffex Courthoufe, Gofhen, Kingfton, &c. is clofed on Wednesday morn- ing at nine o'clock.
The inail for Woodbury, Swedefborough, Salem, &c. is clofed on Wednesday at three o'clock, P. M.
The mail for Frederica, Milford, Horn Town, Ac- comack, and Northampton, C. H. is clofed every other week at half paft eight o'clock, A. M. on Monday fince 20th of April 1795 ..
LIST OF POST-TOWNS IN THE UNITED STATES, With their Diftances, as eftablified by the Poftmuifer Gen.
Main Road from Wifcaffet in the Diftrict of Main, to Sunbury in Georgia.
Miles. ..
Miles. .
From Wifcaffet, to
Norwalk
12375 2
Bath
13
Stamford
10:335
Brunfwick
I 2
25. Kingfbridge N. Y.
331415
N. Yarmonth
1 5 40! NEW YORK
14:429
Portland
I 5 .55||-Newa: k
9,438
Biddeford
14.
69
Elizabeth-Town
6,444
Wells
14
831
Bridgetown
6.450
York
16:99, -
Woodbridge
4454
Portfmouth, N. H.
12.III
New Brunfwick :.
10.464
Newburyport
22 133
Princeton
18 482 -
Ipfwich
12,14511
Trenton
12.494
Beverly
10,1558
Briftol
P.
10,504
Salem
2 157 | PHILADELPHIA
20,524
Lynn
6.163 Chefter
15,539
BOSTON
13.1761.
WILMINGTON D.
13.552
Worcefter
48 224
Chriftiana Bridge
11:563
Springfield
49:273
/ Elkton M.
10:573
Hartford C.
28,301 , Charlefton .
10,583
Middleton
14:315
Havre-de-Grace
6 589
Newhaven
26:341 ; Hartford
12,60I
Stratford
14:355;
BALTIMORE
25 626
Fairfield
8.363 !!
Bladenfburg
38 664 .5
A 2 2
282
STEPHENS'S
Georgetown
8,6721 Tarrburgh
37| 939
Alexandria V.
8,68 Smithfield
65 999
Colchefter
16,696| Fayetville 50 1049.
Dumfries
12 7081 Cher. Court-houfe 75|1124
Frederickfburg Bowling-Green
2 5 733
Cambden
551179
22 755
Columbia
35 1214
Hanover Court- H.
25 783
Cambridge
85 1294
RICHMOND
22.802 Augufta G. 50 1344
Peterfburg
25 827 Savannah
120 1464
Halifax
75922. Sunbury
49 1513
CROSS ROADS.
Miles.
Miles.
From Portimouth
From Springfield
to Exeter N. H.
1.5
toNorthampton, M 20
Concord
40
55
Greenfield 21
4 1
Hanover
60
115
Brattleborough, V 20
61
From Salem to
Weftminfter 18
79
Marblehead Maff. Gloucefter
I 2
16
Windfor Ver.
19
IIO
From Bofton to
Hanover N.H.
20
132
Taunton
36
New Bedford
27
63
From Springfield toStockbridge, Ms. Kinderhook N.Y. From Hartford
44 25
69
Fron Bofton to
41
C. to Middleton
14 41
55
From Bofton to
From New York to Ridgefield
65
Warren R. I.
21
57
Danbury
10 70
Briftol
6
63
New Milford
13, 83
Newport
12
75
Litchfield
23.103
Frem Newport to
Hartford
32135.
Wefterly
10
New York, N. Y.
Stonington C.
5
45
to Kingfbridge
I 5
New London
14
59
Peckfkill
35 50
Saybrook
18
77
Fifhkill
20 70
Guilford
18
95
Poughkeepfie
14 84
New Haven
18113
Rhinebeck
117101
From Providence
Redkook
8 109
Lo Worcefter
40, 40
Clermont
6,115
4
Charlefton N.H.
12
9 L
Nantucket
53113
Plymouth
Barnftable
33
71
New London
Taunton
35
DIRECTORY.
283
Hudfon
161131
Suffex Court-houfe $17,100
Kinderhook
14
145
29.129
Albany
201 165
12 14I
Lamfburg
9
I74
Wardfbridge
10.151
Bennington Ver.
28 232
Shawangunk
13,161
Mancheiter
22 224
New Paltz
12173
Rutland
35 259
Kingfton
14,187
Vergennes
44
303
Burlington
22 326
From Bethlem, P.
Montreal. Canada
to Wilkfbane
67
From Albany, NY
From Philadelphia
to Pottfgrove
36 1
Connajohanie
36
52
Reading
CE 56
German Flats
Lebanon
28 8.4
Whiteftown
Harrifburg
25 109
From Hudfon to
Carlifle
17126
Catfkill
6
From Philadelphia
Harpersfield
52
58
to Reading
56 -
Oulinot
36
94
Northumberland
70,126
Chenango
50
144
Lycoming
40 166
Union
9 1 53
Painted Poft N.Y.
66 232
Ofwego
7165
Bath
18,250
Newton
45 205
Williamfburg
10 290
Painted Poft
15 220
Niagara
30 370
Woodbridge, J.
From Philadelphia
to Amboy
3
to Lancafter
66
Elizabethtown
York Town
23 89
to Morritton
18
Carfhile
31123
Rockaway
Shippenfburg
21 141
Booneton
Strafburg
Suffex Court-boufe
50
Bedford
[210
From Philadelphia
Greenfburg
67 277
to Woodbury
9
Pittfburg From Philadelphia
33 310
Woodftown
to Wilmington D.
28 1
Salem
36
Cantwellfbridge
23
Bridgetown
18
54
12 63
From Philadelphia
12 75
to Bethlehem
53
7.82
Eafton
12
65
Clowes M.
12.94
Hope N. J.
18
83
Dagfborough
27.121
to Shenne tady
16
Rhinebeck
6.193
Warwick N. Y. Gofhen
Sweedfborough
DuckCreek, C.road Frederica
Milford
284
STEPHENS'S
Snowhill
311152
Horntown
16 168
Drummond, or V.
26
194
Accomack C.H.
Bellhaven
20 214
Northampton C H Norfolk
20,234
43:277
From Philadelphia to Wilmington, D. 28
Warwick M.
25 53
Georgetown, C R.
9
62
Chefter-town
16 78
Chefter Mills
15!
93
Eafton
221115
Vienna
28:143
Salifbury
15:158
Snowhill
19177
From Baltimore
to Annapolis
30
Upper Malboroughi2 1
51
Pifcatawa
16
67
Port Tobacco
1 6
83
Newport
94
Chaptico
8:102
Leonard's-Town
113
Baltimore to
Frederick's-Towni52
Sharfburg
2-1 76
Hager's-Town
14
90
Chamberfburg P.
12 III
Fr. Alexandria, V.
Smithfield
Suffolk
22 85
Shepherd's-Town
IO 88
From Peterfburg
Winchefter
22 110
to Suffolk
85
Stevenfburg
8118
Edenton
54 139
Strafburg
10 128
Plymouth
23 :62
Woodftock
12 140
Wafhington
381200
Rockingham
133 173
Newbern
38,238
Staunton
37 210
From Frederickf- burg to Leed's-to. Weftmoreland Kinfale Northumberland Urbanna
From Frederickf- burg to Port Royal Tappahannock Urbanna
From Richmond to Williamfburg York Town
Hampton
Norfolk Portfmouth
From Richmond to Columbia
Charlottefville
46 40
40 126
Staunton Lexington
Fincaftle
-
Montgomery Ct H. Wythe Court Hou. Abingdon
Hawkin's Court-h. in tire S. W. Teri. Danville in Kentu. From Peterfburg to Cabbin Point
26 37 63
to Leefburg
46
32 78
Portfmouth
28 113
931331
40 14 54 20 1 5 74 89 301119 20 30 50 78 .
28
68 I2 18 98 - 85 18 116 1117
331159 401199 55,254 471301 56,357
66.423 201 624
Martinfburg
Wilmington
285
DIRECTORY.
From Hallifax
to Bluntfville
Williamfton
33 25
55
Plymouth
24
79
Charleftun, S.C.
65
From Hallifax
to Warrenton. 35
18
53
Hillfborough
48.101
Jackfonborough
36:156
Guilford Court-h. Salem
25 176
Coofawatchie
36.192
Salifbury
35211
Savannah, G.
47,239
From Edenton to Hertford
16
From Augufta
Nixinton
12
28
to Washington 50
Sawyer's Ferry
15
43
Greenfborough
28 78
Indian Town
II
54
George Town
32.11@
Augufta
40.1.50
BANKS.
The Bank of the United States
AS kept at Carpenters Hall (in Philadelphia. ) Was incorporated by an act of congrefs, in the year 1791, to continue until the year 1811. It is under the di- rection of a prefident, and twenty-four directors, chofen annually. The capital is 10,000,000 of dollars, di- vided into 25,000 fhares. Open every day, except Sunday, Chriftmas, and 4th of July, from nine in the morning until three in the afternoon. Wednefdays and Fridays are the difcount days .- Thomas Willing, prefident, George Simpfon, Cafhier.
Bank of Pennsylvania.
IS kept in Lodge Alley, Philadelphia, and was in- corporated by an act of affembly, in the year 1792, for the term of 20 years. It is under the the management of a prefident and twenty-four directors ; fix of the die
From Fayetville to ElizabethTown Wilmington
-
36 47 83
to George-town Cambden, S. C. to Stateibarg Charlefton
20
Williamfborough
100123
50151 -
Sunbury
49 288
2 86
STEPHENS'S
rectors are appointed by the affembly, and the remain- der are chofcn by the ftockholders annually. The ca- pital is 2,000,000 of dollars, divided into 5000 flares, and may be increafed to 7500. Open every day, except Sundays and 4th of July, from nine in the morning until three in the afternoon. Difcounts to be applied for on Tuefdays and Fridays .- John Bar- clay, president, Jonathan Mifflin, cafhier.
Bank of North-America
IS kept at No 99, Chefnut ftreet, Philadelphia ; in- corporated in the year 1781. Is managed by a prefi- dent and eleven directors, chofen annually. The ca- pital is 750,000 dollars, and may be encreafed~to 1,000,000. Is open every day, except Sunday, Ift of January, Good Friday, Chriftmas, and 4th of July, from nine to one, and from three to five. Difcount days are Mondays and Thurfdays. John Nixon, prefi- dent, Richard Wells, cafhier.
At all thefe banks bills or notes may be left at any - time to be collected, which is done free of expence ; but in cafes of non-payment and proteft, the perfon leaving the bill or note mutt pay the expence. Notes or bills payable on any day when the banks are fhut, muft be taken up on the preceding day. Three days grace are allowed on all notes payable. Difcounts are made only on perfonal fecurity, and fixty days is the longeft credit. If errors happen in payments made at the banks, they must be rectified at the time. The dividends are mnade every fix months. In July laft the bank of North America declared a dividend for the preceding fix months, of fix per centum. The United States bank, for the fame time, of fixteen dollars on each fhare ; and Pennfylvania, nineteen dollars on each . fhare.
PHILADELPHIA.
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T HE capital of Pennfylvania, aud Prefent feat of the Federal government, lies in Lat. 39º 56 North and Long. 75º 8 m. Weft from the meridian of London, upon the Weftern bank of the Delaware, which is here about a mile in breadth and about one hundred and twenty miles from the Atlantic Ocean, -by the courfe of the bay and river, and about fifty-five mniles from the fea, in a South-Eaftward' 'direction. The Delaware is navigable from the fea to the falls of Trenton; about thirty miles above the city, by veffels of confiderable burthen ; and by boats of twenty and thirty tons, in the-time of frefhes, 'near two hun- dred miles into the ftate of New-York.
It was laid out by William Penn, the firft proprietor and founder of the province, in the year 1683, and fettled by a colony from England, which arrived in that and the preceding years ; and it was increafed by a conftant and regular influx of foreigners to fo great a degree, that-in lefs than a century, and within the life-time of the firft perfon born within it of European parents, it was computed to contain 6,oco houfes and 40,000 inhabitants.
The prefent number of houfes is about 9,500, and there are at prefeut building in the city and fuburbs .not lefs than 400, of which the principal are, RO- BERT MORRIS's Efq. by. Ma VES ENFANT.
L. The firft Prefbyterian Church by Mr. TRUMBUL- and the New Bank of the United States,. by SAMUEL BLODGET, Eiq.
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A SHORT ACCOUNT
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The ground plot of the city is an oblong fquare, a- bout one mile North and South, and iwo miles Eaft and Weft, lying in the narroweft part of the iithmus between the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers, about five miles in. a right line above their confluence. The plain is fo nearly level, except upon the bank cf the Delaware, that art and labour were neceffary to dig common fewers and water courfes in mahy places, to drain the ftreets. In the beginning of this fettlement it was expected that the fronts on both rivers would be firft improved for the convenience of trade and navi- gation, and that the buildings would extend gradual- ly in the rear of each until they Should meet and form cne town extendingfrom Eaft to Weft; but experience foon convinced the fettlers that the Delaware front was alone fufficient for quays and landing places, and that the Schuylkill lay at too great a diftance to form part of the town upon its banks ; whence it followed that the town increafed Northward and Southward of the original.plot, upon the Delaware front, and now.occu- pies afpace near three miles in length, North and South, while the buildings in the middle where they are moft extended do not reach. a mile from the Dela- ware.
The city has been twice incorporated, and the limits thereof reftrained to the oblong, originally laid out by William Penn, without including the Northern. or Sou- thern faburbs. This plot is interfected. by a number of ftreets at right angles with each other, nine of which run Eaft and Weft from Delaware to Schuylkill, and twenty-three North and South croffing the firft at right angles, forming one hundred and eighty-four fquares of lots for buildings, The ftreets running Eaft and Weftare named (except . High street near the middle,pf the city ) from the trees found in the country on the arrival of the colony : Vine, Saffafras, Mul- berry,. High, Chefnut, Walnut, Spruce, Pinc, and Cedarftreets, and thofe running North and South from their numeral order, Front, Second, Third, Fourth &c. to Broad Street, which is midway between the two rivers. In deeds and other defcriptive writings which require exactnefs ..; thefe, itreets have the Delaware .. or Schuylkill presxey , their numeral ,names; to diftin- guiih to which they nelag ; as Delaware Second Street, &c. but as there are very few buildings Weit-
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OF PHILADELPHIA.
ward of Broad Street this addition is rever made in common converfation; but when they are named they are always underftood to be Delaware, front unleis Scuylkillis added:
" Of thefe High Street is Ico feet, Broad Street, 1132 Mulberry 60, and all the others so feet wide. Within the improved parts of the city they are paved, in the iniddle with pebble ftones for carts and carriages which ufually contain three fifths of the whole breadth, and on each fide with bricks for foot paffengers. Between the brick and ftone pavements are gutters paved with brick to carry off the water, and the foot-ways are dc- fended from the approach of caniages, by rows of pofts placed without the gutters, at the distance of 10 or 12 feetfrom each other.
Befides the forementioned main freets, there are many others not originally laid down in the plot ; the oft public of which are Water Street and Dock Street. Water Street is about 30 feet wide, running below the bank, at the Giftance of about do feet Ean- ward from the parallel to Front Street. extending from the North line of the city Southward, to the bridge c- ver the dock, which was formerly a draw bridge, and retains that name in common ufe, altho' it was con- verted into a ftone archabove thirty years fince. From the bridge it is 4 feet wide in a right line to Pire Street, and leaves a row of houfes without yards, on the bank, in its whole length, between it and Front Street.
Southward of Pine Street thereis an offset of about 80 feet Eaftward, and the ftreet from thence to Cedar Street is 45 feet wide and called Penn Street. This ftreet in the original plan was intended only for a cart way toaccommodate the wharves and ftores to be erec - ted under the bank, and not to rife more than four feet above it, fo as to leave the river open to the view from the Welt fide of Front Street : but. the inhabitants were foon convinced that the ground on both Streets was too valuable to be kept unimproved, in any de- gree, merely for the fake of a profpect, and now it is clofe built with lofty houfes (except a very few va- cancies here and there ) throughout the whole front on both fides, and commodious wharves are extended into the river, that the largeft fhips that ufe the port, can lie in fafety to difcharge and receive their cargoes, and
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A SHORT ACCOUNT
are defended from the ice in.the winter by the piers made of logs, extending into the river, funk with ftone and filled with earth fo as to be equally firm with the main land. This Street has been called in different parts King Street and Plumb Street, but thofe names are now difufed, and the whole ftreet is called Water Street, except that part called Penn Street between Pine and Cedar Streets.
Dock Street is the only crooked ftreet in the city ; be- ginning at the bridge in Front Street, and extending North-Weftward in a ferpentine track, through.two fquares acrofs Second and Walnut Streets, and termi- nating at Third Street. Another branch of it extends South-Weftward acrofs Spruce Street, and terminates at Second Street. The ground occupied by this Street and by an open fpace between it and Spruce Street, be- low the bridge was formerly a fwamp, and was given by William Penn to the corporation for the ufe of the city. It was intended as a place to dig a bafon and docks to fhelter the fhipping, but experience proved that fhips could be defended from the ice by the piers extended into the river, and that the dock could not be kept clean but at an expence far beyond its utility, it was therefore neglected till it became a nuifance of- fenfive to the fmell and injurious to the health of the inhabitants and was by act of Affembly ordered to be arched over and covered with earth whereby the city has acquired a beautiful ftreet more than 100 feet in breadth towards the water, and not lefs than go in the narroweft part.
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