New-Hampshire gazette, or, State journal and general advertiser — Portsmouth, N.H., 1781-02-19 00:00:00, page 2

RICHMOND, ( Virginia ) Jan. 20.
Copy of a Letter feat on Shore at Burwell's
Ferry, from on Board his Majesty's Ship
Hope, dated Jan, 2, 1781.
66 SIR,
" Having the Honor to command a Body
of his Majesty's Troops, sent for the Protec
tion of his Loyal Subjects in this Colony, I
am furprized to observe the hostile Appear
arfce of the Inhabitants under Arms onShore.
I have therefore fentLieutenantWhite with
a Flag of Truce, to be informed of their In
tentions.
LOND O N.
Whitehal, November 14, 1780
Copy of a letter from Sir Henry Clinton,
X. B, to Lord George Germaine, one of
his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State
received by Captain St George, one of Sir
Henry Clinton's Aids de Camp, who ar
rived from New York in the Fortune fri
gate.
My Lord, New York, October 12.
" In my feperate letter of yefterday^s date
I had the honour of informing your Lord
ship, that the American Major General
Arnold had quitted the rebel service, and
joined the kings flandard; and lat the
fame time gave your Lordship a circum
stantial detail of the reasons that induced
him to take this fttp, as well as the unfor
tunate failure of a plan, which I had the
molt sanguine hopes, if carried into execu
tion, would have been productive of great
est good consequences to his Majesty's ser
vice, but which terminated most fatally for
Major Andre, my Adjudant General, who
being taken prisoner, was tried by a board
of rebel General Officers, and condemned
by their sentence to fuffer death ; which
feotence was ordered by the rebel General
Washington to be carried into execution
upon this unhappy Gentleman on the 2d
infant—l fwcerely lament the malanchol
]y fate of this officer, who was a very va
luable assistant to me, and promised to be
an honour to his country, as well as an or
nament to his profeffion.
“H had the honor to transmit to your
Lordship, in my dispatch marked 104, a
copy of the inftru&ons 1 proposed giving
to Major General Ln%e, whom 1 had ap
pointed to command the expedition to
Chefepeak, in order that your Lordship
might be informed as to the principal ob
ject of it:
“ This expedition will certainly fail the
firft favourable wind, the troops having
been embarked for Some days, and every
necessary arrangement made for that pur
pose.
" If they offer a vain Opposition to the
Troops under my Command,in their Land
ing, they must be aniwerable for the Conse
quences. At the fame Time, I think it my
Duty to declare, I have not the least Inten
tion to injure the peaceable Inhabitants in
their Perlons or Property ; but that every
Thing supplied the Troops by them, Shall
be punctually paid for. I am, Sir,
Your humble Servant,
BENEDICT ARNOLD, B. G.
To th,e Officer, commanding
the Party on Shore.
Extract of a Letter from an Officer in the
Southern Army.
" It gives me much Pleasure, that I have
ft in my Power to inform you,a Detachment
of the Horie (from General Morgan's Party)
confiding of Baylor'sßegiment of Dragoons
and 200 Militia Horie, commanded by Col.
Washington, has totally defeated a Party of
Tories of about 250, commanded by a Col.
Vernor. This happened about 25 Miles from
Ninety-Six. Col. Waffiington's Party kil
led and mortally wounded 164, and m^de
40 Prisoners, without having a tingle Man
of his Party killed or wounded.
PORTSMOUTH: Primed by DANIEL FOWLE 1781.
tf HEREAS the proprieters of the Tonnfhip of
Bietton Woods, Mt their meetings legally hjd
on the 17th of Jure 17^0, and tc 6h of February
instant, voted fevers! Tsxcs to he rated for the par
pofee set forth ^Lid vote - wh : ch Lexer hath been
assessed on the prefp^Aive proprietors Rights, ard a
Warrant for colL^^g the fame, tegethrr with the
arrearages dee on former Taxes committed to me,
NOTICE is hereby given to the (aid proprietors,
to pay their refpe&ive parts of Lid Taxes and arrear
ages to me, at my house in Portlmcmh by the 6x:h
day of March next ; and if payment i, nor made ac
cordingly, the lands of the delinquents will be ad
verafed for sale, and the Texes 'e^cd thereon, as
the Lsw direds. SAMUEL SOWLES, Colk&or
Portfmcuth, Feb. 10,
The proprietors of freeral traßs
ts LAND, fauate betwen (be Town f Conway and
Cobas, having empowered the Subfo ibe*, to put a tim
ber of Settler; on their /aid Lands —, —Tbofe pe,fo„ % ,;b,
are difpos'd to accept 0/ the mffavou able opportunity
that they will pe'bafts ever bale, to accommodate tbem
felves with Settlement <n the heft Lots • (feme of which
are a few miles from Conway, and witbin the limits cf
that country called Pigwacket, and all to the amount of
20 Settlements or Lot, of 100 acres each, on the New
Road from said C^wa, to Q.bas, which will in a few
years, be the greater Road in that part of the country,
as it is thews eligible fx tran/pvtoti^, to more than
40 towns on GnneacW River, and the New- Hampshire
Grants) are difired to apply immediate.',, and the
terms feall be made known to them. J Whipple.
t, N. B. Several Trade/men are wanted to Jettle
in a Townfeip on the laid Rood, qi%. a Black/mitb,
Cooper, Tanner, Shoemaker ; a Man to take charge of a
Saw mill and G if mill ; to all whom good encourage
merit will be given Several young Men are alto
wanted on hire, to wok at Farming Bufinft, from
✓ip il to November - a „4 as above.
Delivered at Hackinfack on the 10th of
September 1 780, at the Interment of the
Hon. Brigadier ENOCH FOOR, General
of the New Hampshire Brigade.
By ISRAEL EVANS, A. M.
and Champlain to laid E ig^Cc.
TO BE SOLD,
LAND in xfraoft any Township in Me
lons Patent, for particulars Ei quire at
the Printing Office.
At the Shop dire&ly opp r fi<e the North
Door of the State Houle in Portsmouth,
may be bought,-—
CORDAGE from 2 ±O4 & half Inches,
Sixty or Seventy Quintals of good
Fish —A large Net, tiled for Cod Fish
ery. Together with Bohea Tea, Coffee,
Sugar, Cotton, Duffels, Check and white
Linnen, Some China, Earthen and Glass
Ware, &c. &c.
Porfinvuth, February 9, i/Br.
An ORATION,
PORTSMOUTH, February 19, 1781.
On the 17th of January last, the Houle
of Samuel Emmetlon of Dover tools Fire
in the Chamber Chimney, in the Day time
about 12 o'Clock, and was con fumed im
mediately, in which was 100 Bushels of
Corn, besides Wheat,Barley, Several Beds,
Beding and other Furniture, together with
12 Hog Sheds of Cyder, and many other
Articles, —his Loss is at lead Forty thou
sand Continental Dollars.
And to be fold by JOHN MYCALL at his
Printing Office, near the Rev. Mr. Cary's
Meeting House in Newbury Port, and
BENJA. DEARBORN,in Portsmouth-
" Your Lordship will receive herewith a
state of the troops under my command of
the firft instant, together with a distribution
of the fame as they flood on the 6rh of
that month. I have the honour to be,
with the greatest refped, your Lordship's
most obedient and most humble servant,
H. CLINTON.
Just PUBLISH E D,
lown^ip of Protcaworth, in the fa'e of N w-
F^mpfeire, to call a meeting of said p oprietorj, on Wed
nesday the yth day of March next, at th: boufe of Mrs.
Mary Tilton in Pertfmeutb, then and there to aft upon
the following matters refbeEiing said 'Towfhip --- ~ T&
ebuf a moderator. 2. To chafe a proprietors clerk,
in the room of the p^efent, who def; es to resign. — g. 7^
appoint a committee to adjust and liquidate all accounts
now depending with the propriety, and to report what
Sums may be neceffar, to di/cbarge the fame: 4 Ta
corfder and vote fueb Sums at ma, be found neceflar, to
difcba r ge the proprietary debts, and the continental.
Stat, and county taxes by a tax on each original pro
prietors right, or otberways, as the proprietors may judge
b'jl 5. To draw a divifan of
one hundred acre, to each original proprietors Jha-e.
6, To conjider and determine whether the proprietors will
allot out the ref of the Town, and to agree in what
manner the fame /ball be clone — 7 To determine what
Settlers have complied with ibeir contrasts, and a e en
titled to their deeds. 8. To afl upon any other matter
that may promote the ccmpleat settlement of the Townfbip.
By a special vote of the proprietors, impowering me to
call all proprietary meetings, upon application for the
lame, Ido hereby Notify feed f oprietors to meet at the
aforementioned time and place: And the Adminifirator
of Governor Wentworth's Efate, is in a particular man
ner requeued to attend laid meeting, for the purpofg,
afere/aid. Port/m^uth, Feb. 12 1781.
JOHN WENDELL, Proprietors Clerk.
LOST, on Saturday the 20th Instant,
A Gold WATCH,
Either at Portsmouth ot New Caftlej
(but supposed to be the latter) belonging
to an Officer of his Most Christian Majes
ty's Army at Rhode Island. Any perlon
finding the fame and returning it to the
Subfcriber,fhall be amply compensated for
their Trouble.
S. PENHALLOW, junr.
Portsmouth, January 22, 1781.
George Hart of Portsmouth,
in the Conn y of Rockirgham, Gentleman, having
pc jtioned the General Affimbly,fitting font,fat a?
the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the County
afortfaid, May Term, 1778 he commerced two Ac
tions against Berjamin H^rt late of Porlfmouth afore
fa:d, an Absentee, for twe several Sums, amounting j n
the whole to One hundred eighty eight Pounds, eight
Shillings, four Pence and three Farthings Lawful
Money, & caused Attachments to be made on Lands
of laid Benjamin, laying in N<w'ngton in laid Coun
ty, which Actions were continued from Term to
Term until February 1779 when they were difmif
fid in Couftquecce of an Aft of this State, making
void Attachments on Esta es of Abfestees, wherefore
he prayed the General Assembly to consider his Case,
and afford him Relief in the Premises :
Ou which Petition, the General Court ordered,
that the Petitioner be heard before them on the se
cond Tuesday of their next Session; at which Time
any Person might appear, and sh w Caafe why the
Prayer thereof should not be granted.
Stae of New-Hampfhirc, January 27 1781.
Attest E. THOMPSON, Secretary.'
(Proteß^orib, )
Application having been made to me the Jubferi
ber, by a major part of the proprietors of the
Lottery Office
Portsmouth, February 2,1781.
ON Tuesday the sth of Februa
ry the Renewal of Tickets for
theFouRTH Class of the United
States Lottery,will commence
and continue until the 24th of
March, and no LONGER.—No
perlon can bepermitted to purchase
more Tickets in the 4th Clalsthan
he can produce in the Third.
N. B. All Tickets that shall be
unrenewed at the expiration of the
above limited time, will become
the Property of the United States.