The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle — Portsmouth, N.H., 1772-06-05 00:00:00, page 1

~/^^ THE Vol. XVII
NEWHAMPSHIRE GAZETTE,
and
H I S T O R I C A L C H R ONtC L E.
: Containing the Freshest A DVIC E S '°"''° " AND DOMESTIC.
Friday June ;, 1772. re^^^^^r no.Bi;i Weeks since this Paper 2
J J( was hrft Publish'd. ,
B OS T O N, bti?^ 1772.
YESTERDAY being the Anniversary of the Day ap
pointed by the Royal Charter for the Election df
Councellors for this Province, the Great and General Court or
Assembly met at Harvard-College in Cambridge, at N ; ne o'-
clock in the Morning ; when the ufoal Oaths were admini
ftred to the Gentlemen, who were returned to serve as Mem
bers of the Honorable House of Representatives, who also sub
scribed to the Declaration : The House then made Choice
of Mr. SAMUEL ADAMS for their Clerk ; after which they
chose the Hon. THOMAS CUSHING, Esq; their Speaker.
About Nine o'Clock His Excellency the Governor, His Ho
nor the Lieutenant-Governor, with those Gentlemen of the
Council who resided in Town, set out from the Province House
escorted by the Troop of Guards, and arrived at Harvard-Col
lege at Ten o'Clock : Being in the Chair, a Committee of the
House presented the Speaker eleft to Hi's Excellency, who af
terwards, sent a Message in Writing, agreeable to the Royal
Explanatory Charter, that he approved of their Choice.
At Eleven o'Clock: His Excellency the Governor, accompani
ed by the Honorable His Majesty's Council, the Honorable Ad
miral Montague, and a Number of other Gentlemen, preceeded
by a Company of Artillery commanded by Capt. Gardner,
went in Procession to the Meeting-House, where a Sermon
suitable to the Occasion was preached before His Excellency
the Governor, and both Houses of Assembly, bythe Rav'd Mr.
MOSES PARSONS of Byfield, from those Words in Pro
verbs xxi. 1. The Kings heart is in the band of the Lord, as
the rivers of water : he turnetb it whithersoever be will.
After Divine Service, the Procession returned to Harvard-
Hall, wherean Entertainment was provided, at which the Ho
norable Admiral Montague, and a Number of other Gentlemen
who had been invited by his Excellency the Governor and
Council.
At Noon the Guns at the Batteries in Boston were fired,
and at the Cattle at One o'clock.
The following Gentlemen were elefted Councellors for the
ensuing Year viz.
For the late Colony of MASSACHUSETTS-BAY,
The HONORABLE
Samvel Danforth, Esq; Samuel Dexter, Esq;
Isaac Royal, Esq; Thomas Sanders, Esq;
John Erving, Esq; Artemas Ward, Esq;
William Brattle, Esq; Benja.Grenleaf, Esq;
iAMES Bowdoin, lifq; Stephen Hall, Esq;
'homas Hubbard, Esq; Caleb Cushing, Esq;
Harrison Gray, Esq; Timo.Woodbridge, Esq;
James Russell, Esq; *John Hancock, Esq;
James Pitts, Esq; *Bamuel Phillips, Esq;
For the late Colony of P LYMOU T H. -
James Otis, Esq; ' Walter Spooner, Esq;
William Sever, Esq; | *Jerathmeel Bowers,Efq;
For the late Province of MAI NE.
Nathaniel Sparhawk, Esq; ! Jeremiah Powell
John Bradbury, Esq; | Esq;
For Sagadahock, | James Gowen, Esq;
At Large
James Humphry, Esq; | George Leonard, j'unr. Esq;
The Gentlemen with this [*] Mark, were not of the
Council last Year.
The Lift of Councellors chose Yesterday being this Day,
agreeable to the Direction of the Royal Charter, presented to
his Excellency the Governor, His Excellency was pleased to
consent to the Election of the Gentlemen before mentioned
except JERATHMEEL BOWERS, Esq;
JOHN HANCOCK, Esq; declined taking his Seat at the
Board.
Before the'Ere&ion of Councellors the Hon. JOSHUA
HENSHAW, Esq; resigned his Seat at the Board on Account
ofhis ill State of Health. SAMUEL PHILLIPS, Esq; was
chosen in his Room.
This Day ^ Excellency was pleased to
make the following Speech to both Houses.
Gentlemen of the Council and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
IN Conformity to the Powers and Privileges granted by the
Royal Charter you have been convened at this Place in or
d^r to the Election of Counfellors for the ensuing Year ; and
this Business beiagfinifhed you have now an Opportunity of
proceeding to the Consideration of such other publick Affairs as
may properly come before you. Ira every Measure, as far as
ihall consist with my duty to the King and with the Welfare
and Prosperity of the Province, I will chearfully concur with
you.
I have nothing in special Command from his Majesty to lay
before you. Most of you are so well acquainted with the usual
Business of the General Assembly at this annual Session that
I need n, t particularly point it out to you.
I tranimited by the firft Opportunity to His Excellency the
Governor of New-York, a Copy of the Act of the last Assem
bly appointing Commissaries in order to the Settlement of the
Line between the two Provinces. I doubt not I ffiall soon re
ceive an Aniwer and be able to communicate it th you. In
the f °"'' e °f the Session I /hall probably proper to you by
Meflage the Consideration of feme other public Matters for
which at present I am not fully prepared.
°"%# T. Hutchinson
The House of REPRESENTATIVES consist of Mem
3, of which were net of the House last Year.
(CANAAN)
Province of New Hampshire, ff, Canaan, May ig;
NOTICE so hereby given to all the Proprietors
of laid Canaan that at a legal Meeting es bid
Proprietors held at laid Canaan May 19th, 1777,
voted and laid ten Dollars on each original Right or
Share es Land in said Town. This is therefore to
give Notice to all the Proprietors of laid Canaan,
that unless payment thereof be made to me at my
Dwelling House in Lebanon, in the Province afore
faid, by the firft Dy es July next, so much of each
artynal Right er Share of Land in said Town, will
be adyertrfed for Sale agreeable to Law, as will an-
Uer the Demand aforefaid, with incidental Charm
JEDIDIAH HEBBARD-C9II&
BEGS Leave to acquaint S.? Public, that
he has just now received from Home an
Assortment of Scotch and English
GOODS, which will be fold extremely
low for Cash, either by Wholesale or
Retail, at his Shop in Newbury-Port,
exactly opposite to Nathaniel Carter's,
Esq; and lately improved by Moses
Little Esq.
Amongst the Assortment are the following.-
GERMAN Serges, Bemgals and Pe
neafcoes, Calicoes and Chinces,
Crapes and Dorfetteens, English
and India faffety, Persian Taffety, Per
sian, black and light Coloured Sattins,
Mode and Alamode, white pink and light
blue Sar^t, Romall Handkerchiefs,
Linen and Silk ditto, Check'd linen ditto,
Men's brown and white thread Hofe,Men's
worsted ditto, Women's ditto ditto, Nan
keen. and Damafeus, plain and flowered
Lawns, Lawn Aprons and Handkerchiefs,
Silk Gauze Aprons and Har ,kerchiefs, red,
green and light blue bordered ditto, black
and white Catgut, Parifnett, Pignett, and
Patent-Nett, Rich laced Nett, black Gauze
Ribbons, Linens of all Widths, plain Mus
lin and silk Gauze, Barcelona Handker
chiefs,Breeches Patterns of all Prizes, black
Everlasting, double and single Camblets,
Cambricks, sewing Silks, Ribbons, Cap-
Wire, Women's black and white silk
Gloves, Women's black silk Mitts, wor
sted Mitts, colour'd Thread,Nun's Thread
from No. 6 to 50,Gartering and Qualities,
Plad Calamancoes, Shalloons, Tammies,
worsted Knee Straps, silk Twist, Kippen's
Snuff, Mohair and Scarftwift Buttons, No.
4 Pins, Giafs, Paper, Bedtick, Kilmarnock
Caps, striped worsted Caps. A few Pounds
of hyfon green Tea, in half Pound Canni
sters, Whalebone and Chip Hatts, Ozna
brigs, a genteel Assortment of Checks, a
few Doz. of feledt Plays.
Edward Parsons.
BEGS Leave to inform the Poblick, that he
has lately fettled in the Praftice of the Law,
at New Fields in Newmarket in the County
of Rockingham, where he will Readily attend on
(hit Business. That he will be much obliged to
my Person for their Cullom, and serve them to the
Extent of his Abilities, with Fidelity and Dispatch.
Jonh Grozart
FROM a Principle of felf preservation, I find my:
felf obliged in this way to inform the Public;
that at a Meeting of the Proprietors of Rumnay A
pnl 10, 1771, I as Agent for said Proprietors afleed
the Rev'd Mr. Thomas Niles whether he would
wuharaw his Aaron, which he had brought against
said Proprietors for his Salary, and pay the Coftsf
t© which he in open Meeting exprafly answered,
that he would pay no Ceft, and thereupon faidMeet^
:°^ d a T ' 5 '° d "'" y the Charge in defending
laid Suit—And a number of the resident proprietors
at said Meeting cheerfully manifefted their
Wihngnch to raise a Tax far that purpose, and I
further fay, that I never put in any Vote at
putters Meeting, by Virtue of any power of Attorj
ney, but have always governed myfelf in the Num4
ber of my Votes, by the Number of Rights, which
were my own — And I further fay, that the
Friends to Mr. Niles, have practiced voting by
powers of Attorney from Nonresidents, and all'the
votes the Inhabitants es Rumney at any Meeting
ever could muller against me, in voting on their own
Rights and the Rights of feme Nonresidents, were
no m,re than 13 & half Rights, and I have always
owned till since April 1771,0 greater Number of
Kights, in laid Rumney, and never carried a Vote
n the Concurrence of fame of the Inhabitants
of said Rumney.
The above in Answer to a Piece in the Hamp- 1
mire Gazette, of April 24, 1772, signed by laid
N '"° DANIEL BRAINERD.
ALL Persons indebted to, er that have any D*3
mands against the Eilat# of Capt. JOHN LEY
dialed, are desired to fettle the fame with
L MARY LEY, Admiaiftratrix.
Fcrifmouih, May 28th, 1772.
Profoe of N^ Hampfoire, Rockinfo,
[)||(] Piermont [)||(]
AT the Request of the Owners of more than one
fifteenth Part of the Towaffi p of PIERMONT
their Hands, and by Virtue of a Vote of thJ
fiid Proprietors, impowering their Clerk to call
Proprietary Meetings when so requested,
I hereby notify and Warn the Proprietors afore-'
f , ?? ™ e ? “, the Dwelling House of Captain 2,.
cherish Foss, Innholder in Ponfmeoth, on Wed
nsfday the fiventtenth Day of June next, at threw
o ciock, P. M. then and there, 1. To chufe a Mo
derator for said Meeting, and such other Officers as
may be Necessary for the Propriety. 2 To raifo
such Sums of Money, on each Proprietor's Right as
then and there be thought naceffary far defrey
ing the Charge of clearing Highways, the Co ft of as
extending Charter, the Expence of a Lawful nosy
pending between the Town of Haverhil and th©
said Town of Piermont, and for defraying any ether
Charge that may or hath already accrued. Tro
chonfe a Committee to fettle all Accounts that aa,
Person has open with said Propriety. 4. To trans
a& any other Business that then and there may he
thought neceffsry.
D J"^! 1 ''""' Proprietor's Clerk;
Forumouth May 26th 1772.
[ CANAAN.]
Province of Naw Hamplhire if. Canaan, May zz
NOTICE is hereby given to all the Delirqmt
Proprietors of the Town of Ca BU „ afraid
that the Vendue Meeting far taid Prepriatars fcd&
adjourned to the firft Monday in August next, at two
o'clock afternoon, at the Dwelling House of Mr 1
Charles, Hill Innholder in Lebanon,
Test JEDIDIAH HEBBARD Coll,;
A NUMBER OF
Likely BOYS and GIRLS,
from five to ten Years of Age,
To ba bound Apprentices to Persons who can bi
well recommended. Enquire of the Overfem of
the Poor of the Town of Pertfmouth.