The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle — Portsmouth, N.H., 1770-04-06 00:00:00, page 3

P’g{R TSMOUTH, April 6, 1770. #
T the annual Town-Meeting held at Portsmouth, March 26,
1779, the following Persons were chosen to their respective
for the ensuing Year, viz.
The Hon. Danier Rogers, Esq; Moderator.
Mr. John Penhallow, Town Clerk. 8
Seletimen, Hon. Daniel Rogers, Esq; Samuel Penhallow, Efg;
Jobn Dennet, Efg; Mr. John Langdon, Capt. William Knight.
O M{wx of the Poory Hon. Daniel Rindge, Efg; John Sherburne
g 3 Mr. John Griffith, Dr.Jothua Bracket, Mr. John Penhallow,
~ Assessors, Hunking Wentworth, Efg; James Stoodly, Efg; Mr.
Jacob Sheafe.
Auditors, William Parker, Esq; Samuel Cutts, Efg; and Captain
William Whip)le, ,
Clerk of the Market, Mr. Benjamin Mackey.
Firewards, Mr. John Griffith, Hon. Jonathan Warner, Esq;
Feon. Theodore Atkinson, Esq; Hon. Mark Hunking Wentworth,
Efg; Capt. William Whipple, Samuel Hale, Esq; John Sherburne,
Esq; Capt, William Knight, Mr. Joseph Alcock.
Fence Veiqvers, Mefli’rs Samuel Sherburne, Nathaniel Peverly,
Moses Miller, Perkins Ayers, Leader Nelson.
Surveyor of High Ways, Thomas Peirce, Efqg;
Agents, Samuel Cutts, Esq; Capt. William Whipple.
« Lot Layers, Thomas Peirce, Efg; Verc Royss and John Ham.
Artorney’s, William Parker and Samuel Livermore, Esquires.
Conflables, Mefli'rs Clement March, Richard Mills, and Thomas
Chadburne,
Searchers and Scalers of Leatier, Mefit’rs Jonathan Ayers, Per
kins Ayers, and George Dame.
Bread Weighers, John Furnald, Alexander Morrison, Temple
"Knight, John Cutt, and George Dame. -
Packers and Cullers, Mefii'rs Wiiliam Brewster, George How,
and Joseph Walton.
Pound Keeper, Mr. Samuel Cate. i
Surweyor of Boards, Capt. John Briard, Mefli'rs Gerfhom Flagg,
John Cutt, and Capt. Samuel Dalling.
Tything-Men, Capt. Samuel Dalling, Mr. Benjamin Mackey,
Thomas Peirce, Esq; Meffi'rs Abraham Elliot,Nehemiah Wheeler,
Robert Neal, Captain Samuel Langdon, Mr. Samuel Cate, Walter
Akerman, Henry Sherburne, William Blunt, Nathaniel Melcher.
Hog-Reaves, Meffi’rs Pitman Coolbroth, James Holmes, Ed
ward Ayers, and Joseph Sherburne. g
Meafurers of Wood, Capt. John Briard,Mefii’rs Richard Shortridge,
Gerfhom Flagg, Daniel Grant, Ebenezer Dearing, and Epr. Ham.
Meafurers of 'Wesd by Land, Mefli'rs Joseph Shillaba, Richard
Mills, John Pickering and Jonathan Ayers.
Corders of Wood, Meffi'ts Joseph Benson, Alexander Jonts, John
‘Ayers, junr. Thomas Priest, Edward Ayers, Thomas Sherburne,
and Josiah Leach.
Sealer of Weights and Measures, Mr. John Griffith. ‘
To enguire who kills Deer contrary to Law, Thomas Peitce,Efq;
‘and Mr. Johathan Ayers. o
RECEIPE to Cure the biting of 1 MAD DOG:
TAKE the Leaves of Rue pick’d from the
Stalks and bruised, Six Ounces ; Garlick
picked from the Stalks and bruised ; Venice
%reacle and Mithridate and the scrapings of
Pewter, of each Four Ounces ; boil all these
over a flow Fire in two Quarts of firong Ale
tlll one Quart be consumed, then keep itin z
Bottle close stopped, & give of it Nine Spoon
fuls to a Man or Woman warm, {even Morn
ings Fasting, and Six to a Dog. This the
Author believes will not by God’s Blessing fail
ifit be %liven within Nine Days after the bit
ing of the Dog. This Receipt was taken from
the Register of 2 Church in England,
By Reason of the undue Liberty of Negro and Mo
lotto Servants and Slaves, in the Night Time,
and their unseasonable Hours, the following Att
is now publifb’d. o R
Anno Regni Reginz Annz Decimo Tertio.
An A& to prevent Disorders in the Night.
WHEREAS great Disorders, Intolences,
and Burglaries are often Tinies raised
and committed in the Night Time, by Indian,
Negro and Molatto Servants and Slaves, to the
Aifzuft and hurt of her Majesty’s good Subjetts, -
For prevention whereof,
Be it enaited by his Excellency the Governor,
Council & Reévrefentatives, convened in General
Aflembly, and by the Authority of the fame,
T hat sto Indian, Negro or Molatto Servant,or
Slave, may pretume to absent from the Family
where they respectively belong, or be found
abroad in the Night Time after Nine o’Clock,
unless it be upon Errand for their respective
Masters or Owners.
And all Justices of the Peace, Constables,
Watchmen, and other her Majesty’s good Sub
jeéts being Houfholders withinthe fame Town,
are heteby refpe@ively impowered, to take
up and apprehend, or cause to be apprebhend
ed, any Indian, Negro, or Molatto Servant, or
Siave, that shall be found abroad after Kine
o’Cloek at Night, and shall not give a good &
fatisfa@ory Account of their Business, make
any Diﬁurgance‘ or otherways mifbehavethem
{elves, and forthwith convey them before the
next Justice of the Peace, (iif not over late in
the Night) or to restrain them in the common
Goal, Watch-House, or Constables House, un
til the Morning, and then cause them to ap
pear before a Justice of the Peace, who shall
order themto theHoufe ofCorrection to receive
the Discipline of the House, and then be dif
mift, unless they be charged with any othef
Offence than absence from theFamilies where
to they refpeétively belong, without Léave
from their refpeétive Masters or Owners. And
in such Town where there is noHoufe of Cor
“reltion tc be openly whipped by the Constable
not exceeding ten Stripes. . ;-
_TO BE SOLD
By John Mofat,
P " Au his Store on Spring Hill, - ‘
Fithing Strings of three and half
and four Inches ; CasrEs of eight and half and nine
Inches ; allo St. Martns Salt. -
* Leavitts-Town. *
PROVINCE OF NEW BAM‘_P‘su’mz. ,
VWHEREAS Application has
been made unte me the Subscriber, one of his
Majesty’s Justice’s of the Peace for said Province of
NewHampthire by the Proprietors or Owners of more
than one sixteenth Part of the Rights or Shares of Land
in the Township of Leavitt’s Town, in said Prevince,
to notify asnd cail a Meeting of the Proprietors of {aid
Townfh'p, to be holden at the Dwelling House of
Capt -fiah R-bivfon, Innhoelder in Exeter,in (aidPro
vince,cn Monday the 23d Day of Apiil next,at two of
the Clack, Afiernoen, to come into the following Mea
fures and pass the foliowing Vates, vz. ---To choose
8!l pecefiary Officers, To open and clear a Road from
Phillip’s T'own, (new calied Stanford) @ {a:d Leavitt’s
Toewn, and what Rosds are wanted in said Leaviu’s.
Town ; snd also a Road from fsid Leavitt's Town
to his Excellency’s Seat in Wollfborough, in said Pro
vince ; 2nd how many Families they will indent with
to move and fettle in {did Leaviit’s Town, and what
Confiieration they will give te each Family for ma
kng said Sentiemear, .T@ chufe Agenis to prosecute
those who heve rnot fulfilled the Bonds they (gave to
make a Setclemert in fad Township the Y car patt,and
a'{o prosecute these who are incebied to said Proprie.
térs by Notes of Hand orotherways 3 and to choefe a
Commiite 0 cali upan the Afl-flars and ColleQtors to
sccount tor the Sums of Money they have 2flcffed and
réceived of (3:d Proprietors. To grant and raise by
Tax what Money is further wanted to defray the Char
ges of clearing Roads and fettling said Towith'p. To
fettle snd agred upon {ume particu’ar Method for cal
ling Proprietors Meetings for the future ; and to efta
blith and to torfirm the Tranfa&ions of any former
Meetings, if the Préprietors shall fee-fit. —— And to
chufs a Committee to wait cn the Honourable Gran
tors and inform them what has obftreéted and hindered
thé Fu'fi iment of the Settlement of said T'owrthip, and
how far the Grantees have proceeded towards fu'fi ling
the Grant of {zid Towofhip, and fee if said Grantors
will give a longer Time to said Grantees to fu fill said
Grap:, and empicy {:me of the Inhabitants of said
Leavit’s’Town to_fall ten Acres of Trees upon the
Schoo! Lett far the Bepefit of a School. In Confe
qusnce of which Application, I d¢ hereby notify the
fa'd Proprielors of Leavit’s Town, to meet tegether
a: the Time and Piace aforefaid, for the Purposes afors
{aid. - Joun LeaviTT, Just. Peace.
* Northampton March 2d 177».
W E the Subscribers being ap
pointed Commiflieners by the Hon. Judge of Probates
for the Province of New Hampshire, to receive and ex
amine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate
of Nathaniel Prevere, late of Sandown, Yeoman, de
ceased, represented Insolvent, and Six Months being
sllowed for that Purpose, do hereby give Notice, that
we will sttendron said Business, on the last Monday of
thie. and the five following Months at the House of Mr.
Nathanie! Batchelder, nnholder in Sardown, from one
o'{lock till fix in the Afternoon of said Days.
Sandswn March 17. Fethro Sanborn,
, « *Reubin Clough.
NOTICE is hereby given to the
{avera] Persons Indebted to WYSEMAN CLAGGET
%(q; that unless fpecdy Payment prevents, their several
NMOTES and ACCOUNTS must be puat inSuit to the
next lerm. Dur%, March 29, 1770.
J3HMN SULLIVAN, Attorney to {aid Claget.
"TO BE SOLD Cheap for Cofb or fbart Credit,
A likely NEGRO MAN, about
thirty Yeanrs of Age, well built, and. fit for any fort of
Labour. Alfe a NEGRO GIRL, abaut eighteen
YVears of Age, understands Cockery, and most ether
forts of Houfhold Wark 1 both fold for want of Em
ployment. For farther Particulard, enquire of Fobnm
Sillivan of Darham, " ’
' TO BE LETT,
A convenient Store with a Shop
Fronting the Street on Spring Hill, next to Samuel
Curtss Elg; Also, 8 good Wharfe acjoining the fame
very conyenient for a Me:chant,or any Person in Trade,
For further Particulsrs énquire of Davip Moors, or
the Printers, =~ SR TR
A good Silver China faced Watch
va'lued at 14 Dollars, to be shot for on the Piains, near
the Globe Tavern, on Friday next, at 3 o’Clock P. M.
Tickets to be bad at said Tavern, and of Mr. William
Bhaerburne, at the Plains, at one Dollar each. =
.1 Middletown. +
- | » » GRS
WHEREAS the Proprictors of
MIDDLETOWN, so calied, in the Frovince of New
Hampthire, have at {undry legal Meetings held in Do
ver, in said Provigce, at the House of Ephraim Hanson,
lonholder in faid%ov’ir, have veted, that the Sum of
Ten Pounds Lawful Maney, should be raised on each
Preprietors Right, apd have aflcfled the Pro‘p'ri%n fer
the fame : Ard whereas the proprietors. whose Names,
are hercunto subscribed, are delinquent, and haye Failed
to pay their Aflefiment, these a:e therefore te, give
NOTICE that unless the Sums annexed to eech Name
_are paid to Fobn Kielle, ColleQor to said Proprieters, at
his Hoafe in Dover, on or befare the 3oth of April
Inttant, the Rights of each delinquent’ sroptieb‘r will
be advertised for Sale ; and in Failure'of payment will
be fold, parfusnt to a LAW of this Prevince ih that
Cale provided. The Names of the dslinquent pro
prictors are as follows, with the Sum to each Name.
Lawful Money. /. Lawful Meney. [.
Jab Clements the 3d 10 James Phiipet 10
EphraimWeniworih 10 Berjamin Evans . 10
Ebenezer Horn 10 Thomas Bickferd ~ 10
Benjamin Mason 10 Nathanie! Willand . 10
Timoihy Roberts 10 Geerge Harfon 10
James Gug‘;;y, janr 10 Stephes Roberts 10
Benjamin Weymouth 10 Jeob Hufley . Y
Love Robers, jusr 10 Mack Wallipgferd 10
Jebn Bickford 10 Joleph Varney 10
Nathaniel Austin 10 Samuel Clements '~ 10
John Tafker 10 Zechariah Pitmian 10
Richard Philpet wlO Jofhus Stagpole ° 10
Jonathan Marrow 10 Jonathan Gage < 10
Daer, April 3. 1770. - £
JOHN KIELLE, Colle&lor,
- To Be SOLD or LET,
On reasonable Terms, .
I'he ManfionHoufe
Of Col.. JOHN TUFTON MASON, with 2
good Garden, and small Pasture adjoining,
pleasantly situated on the main Street near the
State-House in Portsmouth, Enquire of
JonaTHAN WARNER. s
~ TO BE SOLD Chrap for Cap, .
A likely, a&ive Negro BOY;
nineteen Years of Age. Sold for no Fault, but for
want of Empley. Eaquire of the Printers.
-~-Publick Vendue.~--
To be Sold at publick Vendue;
to the highest Bidder, on Thursday fthe Z6th Day. of
April next, at Five of the Clock Afterncon, at the
Houle of Fames Staodley, Efg; in Portsmouth, about a
Quarter of an Acre of Land in
Port{moath, a little below the Mill Dam, and is fituste
en theWeftern Side of the Read that leads from the
Miil Dam te Little Harbeur, and fronts o said Road
about one hundred and fifty Feet, and has a Number
of good Apple Trees thereon. Conditien: of Sale to
be seen at Time and Place.
70 BE SOLD, .
Ry the Subscriber, at PUBLICK VENDUE, to
the highest Bidder, at the House of Capt. Samuel
Folsom, Innholder in Exeter, on Monday the 16th
Day of April next, at Two of the Clack Afiernoon,
A Val uable Traét of LAND;
with a Dwelling Hoafe thereon, situate in the
Parith of Epping, contaihing about Fifty twe Acres,
near the Dwelling Hoole of Mr. George Puringten.
Aifo one sixteenth Part of 8 Saw Mill at Petuckway
Lower Mill. Coeditions of Sale to be seen at Time.
and Place abeve mentioned. 4
. March 26, 1770, . M. WEARE,
We the Subscribers being appoin=
ted to carry on the Building of s MEETING HOUSE
in the New Parith in Londonderry, Notice if hereby
given, that the best and cheapest Werkmen we can get
will be employed : Any Workmen that inclines ty
undertake the Framing of said ‘Meetipz by appearing
at the House of Adam Dickey, juer. in said Parish the
second Tuesday in April next, st Oneof the Clock,
P. M. where they may hear the Conditions, and agree
if they please with their humble Servants, ..
Robert Wallace, Com 3
Londonderry, samuel Anderson llttz
March 14, 1770: Peter Peterson, e
§ Trecothick. § 2
Twelve Settlers that incline to
fettle on the Townthip of TRECOTHICK, adjoining:
to Rumney and Campton, iq_tf:is Province, may hear
of the Encouragement by applying to Fobs Windelly
or the Printers hereof. Sy : :
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