Philadelphia County PA Archives News.....Letter from Jacob Schreiner November 21, 1778
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Pennsylvania Packet November 21, 1778
The following articles were left in the house of Jacob Schreiner, in Second 
Street, when the enemy took possession of this city last fall, viz. an eight-
day clock, makers name Thomas Wagstaff, London, a walnut desk, one ditto high 
drawer, one dressing table, one oval ditto, one stand, one tea-table, one 
large square mahogany table about six feet wide and five feet long, one 
kitchen ditto painted brown, six walnut leather bottom chairs with claw feet 
and two shells on each, four leather bottom ditto, New England make, ten 
Windsor and two rush-bottom ditto, one blue painted high-post bedstead and 
sacking bottom, two green painted ditto, one cot bedstead painted blue, one 
small children’s ditto, two mattresses, one filled with wool and the other 
with hair, one new feather bed and bedstead, one home made coverlid, one plush 
table carpet, one large white pine chest, one pair of steelyards, one pair of 
copper scales and beam, two large maps, one pair of andirons, shovels and 
tongs, two axes, two wheelbarrows, one six plated stove with an iron foot made 
by a smith, one large brass kettle, with a variety of kitchen furniture and 
other articles, also all his tools belonging to the skin dressing business. It 
is said that one          Mc Michael, a Commissary or Quarter-Master in the 
British Army, blind of one eye, who took possession of the house and goods 
when the enemy entered the city, has stolen and carried the chief of the above 
goods off with him. Should any of said articles be in the possession of any of 
the inhabitants of this place, it is expected they will have honesty and 
virtue enough to return them, which will be thankfully acknowledged, and all 
reasonable charges paid, otherwise they will be looked upon as pillagers of 
said property.

Bills of Exchange on France are wanted. Enquire of
				
							JACOB SCHREINER 


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