The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser — Portsmouth [N.H.], 1788-04-02 00:00:00, page 3

PORTSMOUTH, Apnla.
A gentleman in North-Cardlina fays,
¢ am just arrived at this place, on my
return from the northward, having spent
more than a year past in travelling thro’
those parts of the United States bounding
on ts% Ohio and Miffifippi. The situation
and foil of those territories, in general,
areextremely flattering ; butthe immense
populatien, which has already taken place
in these parts,has really astonished me.—
The face of these counties is every day
visibly improving : Foreits, as old as the
creation, are hourly falling before the ax
ofthe hardy emigrants from the old States;
elegant farms, in abundance, are already
fettled along the banks of some of the
deepest and most beautiful rivers that
America can boast of ; and, in thort,
every circamitance seems to point out
that country, as the future {zat of a great
and powerful empire of confederated
republicks.———The people cannot hear
with patience cos the Spaniards claiming
an exclusive right to the navigation of the
Miflifippi—What is of very great conse
quence, therefore, is, that these countries
abound with /ead mines as well as faltpetre ;
and | speak within bounds, when I fay,
thercis timber enough to build a thousand
navies, without going a mile from the
banks of the rivers.”
On Sunday last the Right Reverend
the Bishop of Connellicut, preached a
Charity Sermon, in Trinity Church, Bos
ton, before the Episcopal Charitable
Society.
And on Thursday, he, in the fame
place, ordained the Rev. Joun C. Oc
pEN, of this tewn, a Priest. At this
solemnity attended his Excellency Go
vernor Hancock, several members of
the Council, and General Court of
Maflachufetts, most of the Clergy, anda
large number of gentlemen and ladies,
of differentdenonmiinations. The Bishop
delivered a much admired sermon suited
to the occasion; and explanatory of the
ordination {ervice used by the Church.
On Saturday morning, he fat out on his
return to his Diocese in Conne&icut,
having met with.every mark of deserved
refpelt, from the Governor, and other
citizens of Boston, as well as from the
Church in Marblehead, where he
preached on Easter Sunday to a crouded
assembly, and administered the Apostolic
Rite of Confirmation to one hundred and
thirty persons.
By order of Congress, a redu&tion of
postage of 25 per cent. commenced ye{-
terday.
Died since our last, Mrs. Pillow, wife
of Mr. Thomas Pillow, of this town ;
also a child of Mr. Timothy Ham.
Annual Town-Meeting.
T the annual meeting held at the
A State-House in this Metropolis, on
2gth ult. for the purpose choosing Town-
Officers, &c.the following officers were
made choice of, viz.
Yown-Clerk. Mr. John Evans.
Sele@@men. Samuel Cutts, Efg. Col.
George Gains, Mr. Nathaniel Tread
well, Mr. Samuel Bowles, and Mr. John
Noble.
Qwerfeers 'of the poor. Hon. John
Langdon, Esq. John Pickering, Esq. Mr,
Jacob Sheafe, jun’r, Mr. Thomas Sheale,
Mr. Richard Champney, Captain Moses
Woodward, Nathaniel Adams, Esquire,
Do&or A. R. Cutter, and Mr. Benjamin
Dearborn.
Assessors. Woodbury Langdon, Esq.
Do&. A. R. Cutter, Col. Samuel &her
burne, fen’r. Jeremiah Libbey, Efg. &
Mr. Samuel Sherburne,(Plains)
Auditors. Hon. John Sherburne,
John Parker, and Woedbury Langdon,
Esquires.
Firewards. Woodbury Langdon, E{q.
John Parker, Esq. Joshua Wentworth,
Esq. Capt, Ephraim Ham, Daniel
Rindge, Esq. Mr. Neal M’lntyre, Maj.
William Gardnaer, Mr. Nathaniel Fol
som, Jeremiah Libbey, Es. Col. James
Sheafe, Mr. Aaron Hill, and Mr. Jacob
Sheafe, jun’r.
Committee of Police. John Pickering,
Esq. Col. George Gains, Daniel Rindge,
Esq. Woodbury Langdon, Esq. John
Pickering, Esq. Peirle Long, Etl!q. Mr.
John Pierce, Do&. A. R, Cutter, John
Sherburne, Esq. and John Parker, Esq:
School Committee. Rev. Do&t. Haven,
Rev. Joseph Buckminfter, Rev. John
C. Ogden, Samuel Hale, Efg. John
Pickering, Esq. and Do&. A. R. Cutter.
Con/iaflz:. Meflieurs Clement March,
Thomas Chadbourne, Edward Hart, Na
hum Akerman, William Vaughan, and
John Davenport.
Lot-Layers. Samuel Hale, Esq. Mr.
William Hart, and Nathaniel Adams,
q’mte-}’imuen. Mr. Samuel Sher.
Esq.
bgrne, (Plains) Capt. Samuel Hall, Mr.
Abraham . Elliot, Mr William Ham,
Mr. Walter Akerman, and Mr. Joseph
Whidden. ,
Searchers and Sealers of Leather, Mes
sieurs Nathaniel Jackson, Perkins Ayers,
& George Dame. \
Agents. SamuelPenhallow,and Samuel
Cutts, Esquires.
Attornies. John Pickering, and Oliver
Whipple, Esquires.
Sealer of Weights and Measures. Mr,
Daniel Lunt. '
To enquire avho kills Deer out of season.-
Capt. George Wentworth.
Keeper of the Magazine. Jeremiah
Libbey, Esquire. ¥
Cullers and Packers of fifb——and Cullers
of Hoops and Staves. Meflieurs Joseph
Walton, George Howe, Richard Savory,
and John Pitman.
Pound-Keeper. Mr. John Dennet.
Meafurers of lood by Land and Water.
Meflieurs John Beck, William Yeaton,
Shackford Seawards, Samuel Beck,Henry
Sherburne, John Melcher, Thomas
Chadbourne, and Joseph Cotton. .
Tythingmen. Capt. Samuel Hall,
Mr. Richard Jackson, Mr. Robert Ham,
Mr. James Haslett, Mr. Samuel Moses,
and Maj. Samuel Langdon.
Hog-reeves, Messieurs William Wal
dron, Charles Waters, Samuel Ham,
(Plains) and Joseph Wincoll.
Corders of MWood. Meflieurs Joseph
Benson, Thomas Priest, jun’r, Richard
Peverly, Benjamin Lowd, James Mel
cher, and George Abbot.
LIST of Votes given in for President :
Hampton-falls, Hon. J. Langdon,Efq. 40
His Excellency President Sullivan, 8
Greenland, Hon. John Langdon, Esq. 57
President Sullivan, 9
Stratham, for President Sullivan, 48
Hon. John Langdon, Efg. 23
Nortkill, Hon. John Langdon, Efg. 100
President Sullivan, 5
Judge Bartlet, 3
Rye, John Langdon,Efq.[unanimons] 95
Dowver, President Sullivan, 17§
Hon. John Langdon, Esq. 15
Newcastle, unanimous for the Hon. John
Langdon, Efg.
SENATORS.
Hon. John Bell, Esq. 38
Joshua Wentworth, Efg. 37
Pierfe Long, Esq. 34
Christopher Toppan, Efg. 37
John Pickering, Esq. " .
Joseph Gilman; Esq. i 1
WEEKLY ALMANACK
For PorTsmouTh,—Lat. 43d. SN,
Apr. Ir. ©.IF .Sea.lr. @{.] Calendar.
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3 SR 8 37 13 %
4 538719 21| 4 Soﬂ.cl.gm.
s |s377]to 6|4 35| Fogers
6 |53571t0 54 | D lets
7 [5347]11 45 | 7 stf7%sfetohrqm
* 8 [s327hiz 39 | 9 1l Jqually.
Solution to the Rewus in our lass.
HE ladies wear a wei/, to hide
That beauty whichis nature’s pride ;
A harlot’s foul is base and wile,
Of ev’ry vice, the proper foil ;
Levi, an ancient, Hebrew, name,
By Moses was confign’d to fame ;
To live, and breathe this vital air,
Of all’s the wish, desire and prayer ;
A bad man’s way’s are full of evi/,
And copied from his friend, the devil.
SIX n:o;h;;_lor;gw being allowed the
Commiflioners to receive and exam
ine the claims against the estate of
Danier Fowre, Esq. deceased, give
notice that they shall attend for that
purpose at the Post Office, on the last
Thursday of this, and the five follow
ing months, from 4 to 7 o’clock, P.M.
Portsmouth, Feb 21, 1788,
GARDEN SEEDS.
A frefb Assortment of European
and American
TJo ¢ SOLD ¥
Fofeph Bass,
At his Shop in PoRTSMOUTH,
Among which are,
Peafe, Beans, Cabbage,
Cauliflower, Turnip, Parsnip, Beet,
Carrot,Onion, Lettuce, Cellery, Endive,
Radish, Spinage, Mustard, Pepper-grass,
Sage, Parsley, Cucumber, Mellons, Mar
joram, Thyme, Summer-Savory, &c. &c.
&c. LIKEWISE, .
Clover, Herds' Gralfs,
and Red Top.
. State of New-Hampthire.
NOTICE is hereby given that a tax
of two pence pr. acre is assessed on
each and every acre of land in the town
of Lancaster, for the purposes of building
bridges and repairing the roads in said
town, agreably to an aét of the General-
Codurt, pafled at their last feflion.—Such
of the non-residents who are disposed to
perform labour, rather than pay their tax
1n money, are hereby requested to apply
to the feletmen of said Lancaster, as
early in June next as may be, when they
will be employed.
_ The original proprietors names, with
the amount of their afleffiments are as fol
lows, viz. L W
Benn’g Wentworth,Efq. 2 rightss 3 8
James Neven, Esq. 2 11 10
Rev. Jothua Wingate 211 10
Benjamia Stevens 311 50
David Page 211'%
David Page, jun'r 2 11 10
Abraham Byam 2 11 10
Ruben Stone 2 31 W
John Grout 2 11 10
Johe Grout, jr. 2 11 10
Jonathan Grout 2 3190
Solomon Will{oa 2'%1 18
Jolfeph Stowell z 11 10
Joseph Page 2 11 10
William Page 331 10
Nathaniel Page PN DL
John Warden $ if o
Silas Bennett ® Il 1O
Thomas Shattock 2 11 10
Ephraim Shattock 3 it 10
Silas SKattock 3 %10
Benjamin Man 1130
David Miles 2 11 to
Thomas Rogers 2 11 1o
John Duncan 2 11 10
Nathaniel Smith 21110
Charles How 21y 10
Israel Hale 2 11 10
Israel Hale, jr. 2 L 10
Daniel Hale 2 11 10
William Doggett g 11 10
Isaac Ball 2 11 10
Solomon Fay 2 11 30
Jonathan Death 2 11 1o
John Sanders ; 2 11 10
Elisha Crosby ® 1t 10
Luke Lincoln s 11170
David Lawson 21t 10
Silas Rice 2 11 10
Thomas Carter 2 11 10
Ephraim Starns 2 11 10
James Reed 21 10
Timothy Whitney 2 11 10
Thomas Rice 2 I 1 10
Daniel Searls 2 11 10
Isaac Wood 2 11 10
Nathaniel Richardson 2 1130
Ebenezer Blunt 2 I 1 10
John Harris g 2 11 30
Ephraim Noyce 2#ll 10
Benjamin Sawyer 2 1190
John Sawyer 2 11 10
John Willfon 2 15 10
Samuel Marble 2 11 10
Joseph Marble 2 11 10
Jonathan Houghton 2 5P
John Rogers 211 %0
Abner Waldron 331 10
Stanton Prentice 2 KlO
Benjamin Willfon 2 31 10
Stephen Emes 2 31 30
John Phelps 2 11 10
William Reed 2711 10
Benjamin Baxter 2 11 10
Mathew Thompson, Esq. or } PG
Mathew Thornton, Efg.
Andrew Wiggins, Efg. glt 1o
Mefhech Were, Esq. 2 1) 10
Major John Tolford 21110
Hon. Nathaniel Barrell, Esq. 2 11 10
Hon. Joseph Newmarch, Esq. z 11 10
Hon. Daniel Warner, Esq. 211 1Q
The proprietors are desired to pay the
above taxes to us in Lancefter : but such
of the non-residents a find it most con
venient may pay their tax to Joss®H
WaiprLE, Esq. in Portsmouth.
EpwarD BUCKNAM,} Selecimen of the
SAMUEL JOHNSON, townofLancafier
March zoth, 1783.
State of New-Hampshire.
X 7L the subscribers being appointed
VV by the Hon. Phillips White,Efg.
judge of probate, &c. for the county of
Rockingham, to receive and examine
the claims to the several creditors to the
estate of Robert Thirltin, late of Strat
ham, marriner, deceased, represented
insolvent, under the administration of
John Marble, of said town, hereby give
noticethat we will attend on said bufinefls
on the firft Monday in April inst. and
the firft Monday of the five following
months, at the house of Major Dudley
Chafe, innholder in said town, from 3 to
6 o’clock, P. M. of each of said days.
JonaTnan Wi6GGIN, } Comaniffiomers,
Simon WiGGIN, ¢
Stratham, April 1, 1788.
Reward.
ON the night of the 1 4thof last month,
the work-shop of the subscriber in
Daniel-Street was opened, and the fol
lowing articles stolen from him, viz.—
A {mall gold watch ; a number of pri
vate persons notes to the amount of
£240 L. M. in silver ; eight pair of
women’s large everlasting shoes, (Lynn
made) ; four pairmen’s silver shoe buc
kles, round & diamond cut ; a number of
heart and crown silver broaches ; three
pair silver knee buckles and two silver
stock buckles : ——And on the evening
of the 28th of last month, the fame shop
was again opened and then stolen the
following things, viz. Three pair of
large Lynn shoes of everlasting ; one
pair men's leather shoes ; one pair
women’s leather ditto ; one cheese, and
2bout nine pounds of light coloured
flax ;=——And on the nightof the 18th
instant, not contented, the {fame persons
opened the fame shop and again stole the
inside work of a silver watch, then mend
ing ; one small tin box, cuntaining gold
earing drops, with Rones, silver watch
seals, plain and stone gold rings, one
man’s large garnet ring and a parcel of
small flock gold ; a brass Dutch box
with buttons and earing fones, thewhole
amounting to the value of £3O L. M.—
The aforegoing thefts were evidently
committed by means of a falfe key, and
at the two firft robberies, to cover their
villainy, they set fire to the said shop,
which aggravates their crime, as they
thereby endangered the whole town.—
It has been thought best not to advertise
the particulars before now, in expeétation
that.they would betray themselves, but
as full discovery has not yet taken place,
a reward of ONE HUNDRED and
FIFTY SILVER DOLLARS will be
given to any person or persons who
discovers the offenders, so that they may
be brought to justice, and make fatisfac
tion.—ltis now become the serious duty
of my fellow citizens to aflit me in
discovering these daring incendiaries,
who are thus sporting with our lives and
properties to gratify a thirst of revenge
for imaginary injuries.——The loss of
my property is comparatively small, to
the injury I sustain, by the fell malice of
cruel infinuations,that itwas possible that
Iwae knowing tothe pretended loffes,and
that I was even the incendiary.
Gracious heaven defend an innocent
person, from such execrable and horrid
suspicions, and let me excite the guar
dians and inhabitants of this town to ex
ert themfelveson thisimportantoccafion,
before it is too late, and not be luil’d by
such abominable, malicious and ground
less furmifes.~—lfany accomplice will
turn states evidence,and conviét the prin.
cipals, he shall be intitled to receive
FIFTY DOLLARS, and a pardon upon
such convi&ion, the above reward shall
be punétually and honourably paid by
NATHANIEL S. GRIFF?TH.
N. B. Sincethe abovewas preparing
for public notice, the tin box and the
brais box, containing the gpld watch
and the inside work of the silver watch
(all the gold work and other things of
value taken out) were found at the end
door of said shop, early this morning.—
A plain proof that the firft and last
robbery were committed by the fame
persons. ;
Deliver me, O Lord from ewil men, who
¢magin m:[chief in their hearts, and Rir up
JSirife all the day long, they bawve fbarpencd
their tongue: like a serpent, Adder’s poijon
is under their lips, Keep me O Lord from
the bands of the ungodly and wicked men
aho Jeek my ruin.
Portsmouth, March 24, 1788.
TO BE SOLD
At Public Vendue,
On Tuesday the 22d. day of April inst,
at 3 o’clock, P. M.
at the house of Thomas Chadbourne in
Port{mouth,
The hull ofa new double
decked veflzl,
of about 1o tons burthen, well built of
white oak timber, lying at the upper-
Town Wars, near said Chadbourne’s,
payment will be made easy, and con
ditions of sale made known at time and
placeof sale. ;
Portsmouth, April 1, 1788.
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> Advertisements, &c, omitted, will
be duly noticed in our next.