Page:Augustine Herrman, beginner of the Virginia tobacco trade, merchant of New Amsterdam and first lord of Bohemia manor in Maryland (1941).djvu/108

Castle are hereby empowered to enjoin the inhabitants at Delaware likewise to clear their proportion.”^[1] The thoroughfare was called “The Old Man’s Road.”

 

1. Yorke’s Book of Laws, pub. by Secretary of Council of Pa. Harrisburg, 1879, p. 449. See also following advertisement in
   PHILADELPHIA GAZETTE & UNIVERSAL DAILY ADVERTISER,
   Tuesday, 29th, April, 1794.
   Philadelphia & Baltimore Land & Water New Line
   PACKETS.*************** For transportation of GOODS, & etc. The subscribers have established good and stout vessels to pass from Philadelphia to Appoquinimink Landing, and from the tide water of Bohemia, to Baltimore, twice a week.
   The object of this Line being the transportation of heavy articles of Merchandize and produce, the proprietors have made choice the shortest portage and best roads between the two bays. Delay arising from the want of teams, & etc. so frequently attendant on more lengthy portages, are here obviated, both by the shortness of distance (which does not exceed seven miles) and situation of the country.
   The contiguous situation of the Landings, the safety of Navigation, the goodness of roads, render this conveyance safe and expeditious, and give the proprietors flattering hopes of becoming useful to Merchants and others in facilitating the communication between Philadelphia and Baltimore. Should the proprietors meet encouragement and support, they have in contemplation to obtain further improvements on the road, which will tend to lessen the price of carriage.
   The packets will start from Morris’ Wharf 2d above the drawbridge in Philadelphia, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and arrive in Baltimore at the county-wharf, on Tuesdays and Fridays, and from thence they will start for Philadelphia, on Thursdays and Sundays.
   Goods to be transported by this Line will be received in Philadelphia, at the stores of Messrs. MADDOCK, JACKSON & CO., on Morris’ Wharf, and by Mr. James Piper, on the County-wharf, Baltimore.

   PRICES.
   For heavy articles, from wharf to wharf, at the rate of 30s per ton,
   pipes & butts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		22s 6. each
   Hogsheads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		03s
   And for others in the same proportion.
   April 12, tu&F tf.	JAMES MOORE, FRISBY LLOYD, WILLIAM BRADY,