The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser — Portsmouth [N.H.], 1789-03-18 00:00:00, page 3

Porthe G A -2 .BB.T T B
Mr. MELCHER,
Lioking over some old papers the other
day that belonged to one of my ancefiors,
1 light upon a letter, of awhich the fol
lowing is an extralfl, 1t avas dated -
at London, in 1787, and was sent by
a 8 gentleman of that city to bis friend
in Lincolnfbire. ~lf you think it will
afford any amujement to your readers,
you hawve my consent to publifs it in
your uleful paper. Yours,c. A.B.
S for news, I can tell you of none,
A only of the city 3 and thatabout
choosing our Lord Mayor. It has made
a pleasing racket among us on account
of the arts and wiles used by one of
our-candidates—this was your old ac
quaintance #7lly the oil merchant ;
whom you used -to call a genius, and
one that could frike a bold firoke. —
the other candidate was Optimus, ano
ther oil merchant ; and 1s the fame
whom you used to wish yourfelf better
acquainted with. Now Optimus is
one of your fair dealers, of whom no
body ean fay &lack is his eye. An
honester fellow never retailed oil; or
any thing else, I dare fay, Willy,
you know, has been stiled My Lord
Mayor twice before ; and so could fee,
to an hair’s breadth, how to better
himfelf by it. The honour of the
post was another thing with him.
But then the principal reason why
Willy wanted it, and which set him
on to try with all his might to get it,
was to gain a tack upon Lockum,
his old enemy, with whom he had been
at {words points for some time, and
had ouat general’d intwo former trials.
Bat the last trial they had, Lockum
carried his point in {pite of all oppo
sition ; which made W#illy fret aund
fume at adreadful rate ; and the more
so as he thought he had loft the day
by his own former condu&, and con
aivance at that of §crope his p-mp in
ordinary. For he and Scrope must
then needs parade it round the city
and suburbs to fee how the citizens
look’d—and the citizens would thew
out the best they could ; and some of
them would draw up in a body that he
might fee what a figure they could
cut. ‘This would have past off very
well (for all it put the citizens to some
extraordinary coft)—but when night
came onthere was swearing, drinking,
hallowing and huzzaing.—This, you
may be sure, did not suit the sober
fort. But what made the citizens more
huffy than any thing else was that some
of them had the bungs of their beer
barrels ftopt up, and in such 2 manner
too, that their beer, which they kept
for their own and their neighbours
use, was soured. Nay, it was hinted
that some of their barrels were filled
with a kind of trumpery that was ra
ther an incumbrance upon them : and
it was whispered round that 7://ey and
Scrope had a hand in it.—Bat to go
on—Lockum, at this last election, hap
pened to be gone to some foreign place
on business for the city. 1 don’t think
Willy had any thoughts of being My
Lord again till Lockum went off—but
then snap, fays he, now is my time or
never. And now he begaa to try to
;}}eafe the Aldermen and Elefors.
hen to work he goes with all his
might to make up with some whom he
had quarreled with, particulary Prink
the apothecary,who had been at swords
points with him for some time. Mr.
Prink, fays he what fignifies itfor you
and I tobe against one another. Prink
up with his great pestle and was going
to hithim a horrible stroke—Don’t be
in a paflion, fays #illy, if you’ll help
me to be Mayor, I’ll help you to be an
Alderman.—Done,cries Prink, throw
ing down his pestle. So to.werk they
went to help each otheras if their lives
were at {take. A thousand pretty sto
ries were {pread, as how well #i//yhad
behav’d before—~how well he’dbehave
again, &c.—Willy, in his interreg
num(if I may so callit)had behav’d as
tho’ the———had been in him; quarrel
ling with some ; {p-tt-ng upon, and
mauling others ;—profecuting some,
particularly two fellows who had been
Jsound apprentices to him in the oil
trade—Subter Lignum and Clericus
Sappy—poor Sappy was twisted into
all shapes in the world, except that of
a wife man ; and was left with {carce
ly a pair of breeches to his a—. But
Lignum came off with flying colors —
everybody thought he would have been
cruthed to atoms—but at the court of
king’s bench at Weftminiter he reco
vered costs against Willy—which put
Willy into such a ferment that he took
his bed upon it,as ’twas said—so that
by all these means (and fifty more,
which I will inform you of another
time if you desire it) he had gotacon
fiderable of a hornets nest about his
ears. And now, not only to hinder
their flinging him, but also to make
them sting Oprimus, certainly required
no {mall share of art. Soto work he
goes ; and by means which any being
short of I—l would b—tfh at, made a
considerable progress. He goes on to
set all the cunning ones to work for
him he could get dr-v-ag, c-x-ng and
pr-m-s-ng, {o that it feem’d as though
‘——~—had broke loose.
All this while Optimus fat wrapt up
in the consciousness of his own integ
rity and virtue, looking on and defpi
ing, in his heart, the Tr-cks of #illy,
nor would his noble foul stoop an iota
to counteract his plottings. But he
could not help feeling it. If Willy
gets it by such means, fays he, heis
welcome to it. I will not stir a step
from theroad I have always walked in.
But his friends (for he had many in
all parts of the city) began to bestir
themselves.
I can’t stop to tell you how the
whole was condu@ed, for the poftis
just going out---be it fufficient to fay,
that all /7:l}y’s fine {chemes turned
out against him---peoples eyes began
toopen---a rumour, foundedon truth,
{pread, like wild fire, throughout the
city---so that when the ele&ion came
on, Optimus’s friends carried it for
him, in spite of all fubterfuges, with
{carcely any opposition ; and—but
I am ever yours &c.
CAN 4 4 N.
State of New-Hampshire,
NOTI CE is hereby given to the
proprietors and owners of lands in
the township of Canaan, in the coun
ty of Grafton ; that at a legal meet
ing of the proprietors, held in said
Canaan, on the 25th day of Decem
ber 1786 ; a vote was pafled to raise
a tax of sixty pounds lawful money, to
be affefled on each hundred acre lot of
each proprietor’s rightin said town, to
pay formaking aftate road in said town;
also, another vote was past to lay a tax
of one shilling and fix pence on each
hundred acres in the town, to pay for
fettling the lines of said town ; that
unless they pay said tax and cost tome
the subscriber on or before the fourth
Thur{day of March inst. so much of
their lands as will pay the fame, toge
ther with accruing charges, will be fold
at public vendue, at ten o’clock in the
forenoon, by adjournment, at the
dwelling-FEoufe of Capt.Robertßarber,
ir said town, unless prevented by pre
vious payment.
N. B. The rates and divisions with
the sum due on each division in each
rate is as follows.—
60/ . rate. Üb. rate.
g BR 8-8 8
SHOmE ey
- N o -t N N
s 8: sid. s.dis,d.sud.s.d.
Goverw’srightsl6 12098 303030
Tofeph Eames 49 16
Ebenezer Peck 49 16
Samuel Dodge 25 09
T bomas Parker 86049161616
Daniev Braspewr, Proprietors
Canaan, March 2, 1789. . (Collettor.
LL Persons indebted to, or that
A have any Demandson the Estate
of Capt. SAMUEL DALLING, late
of Portsmouth deceased, are desired 1o
fettle the fame with the Subscribers,
Executors to the last Will and Testa
ment of the deceased.
HALL JACKSON,
JEREMIAH LIBBEY.
Portsmouth, Feb. 20, 1789.
NOTTINGHAM. 2
State of New-Hampshire.
INOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors and owners o{ land in the the
townfthip of Nottingham, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1787,
that unless they pay the fame to me the fub{criber,on or before Monday the sixth
day of April next, so much of their land will be fold at public vendue, at ten of
the clock in the forenoon, at the house of Mr. Jacob Burnham in said town, as
will pay said taxes together with incidental charges, unless prevented by pre
vious payment. .
Original proprietors | No. Continental’| Continen’l State State | Repre
and present owners’ of |bard money | Certificate | Certificate | hard | fenta~
names with the acres tax. tax, tax. money. | tive,
Sreets and ranges. s de o )8 At tideigs Favd. 40V 5 &
Col. Stephen Evans. 154 910 3 7 2 2 3 13 1"4 1 10"3
John Sias 27 X 8 % 030 gL O G g g
JohnWendelLbEfg. 200 5§ 6 0 4 0 0 1 9 0 0 9 o 6 o
Oriyginal proprietors names.
William Peirce, ] N
inWinter ﬁrcet,} 27 430 10 Qe Sl SR Y e 19
D 3 .
?Z&‘n},itgfegéi: 2610 .021 -0 % o¥B 00 2 o 1
Cross street upper Range. :
Mary Wheeler - °18'76 b t-gg "G oty "1 ‘0 3.3\ ‘v
Lower Range. A
Job Giddinge, 118 ¢ B TR B 3 01 1 0%
Peter Gibbens, 9139 2. 8 ¢ 1 680 7 3 0 32 3.}
Joseph Dodge 350 08 ¢ @6 % 8§ 0 }'3 0:63F 0. %
ZechariahFitch,}33 25 QOOK O Fg 3 0.8 0 0.0 8 63
in winter street,
JACOB BURNHAM, Constable.
Notttingham, March 2, 1789. ;
State of New-Hampshire.
To the Hon. JonaTHAN WARNER,
Efg. one of the Fuftices to keep the
Peace in and throughout the said slate
Humbly [heaws
efubfcriber,ownerof more than
I one sixteenth part of the lands
in Tuftonborough, lying in common
and undivided, 1n the county of Straf
ford, and state aforefaid, that a meet
ing of the proprietors of said Tufton
borough is neceflary for the following
purposes, viz.
Ift. To choose a moderator to go
vern {aid meeting.
2d. To choose a proprietors clerk.
. 3d. To choose an agent or agents
for {aid proprietors, to ascertain and
establish the lines and boundaries of
said Tuftonborough.
4th. To appoint the method of call
ing proprietary meetings in future,
and to do and tranfaét any other busi
ness which may be then and there
thought neceflary.
And therefore prays your honour to
notify and warn a meeting of {aid pro
prietors, to be holden at the house of
Col. William Brewster, in Port{mouth,
in the |county of Rockingham, and
state aforefaid, on the twenty-third day
of March next, at three of the clock,
P. M. for the purposes aforefaid.
WoopßurYy Lancpon.
et e,
State of New-Hampshire,
Rockingham fT,
PURSUANT to the foregoing ap
plication, Ido hereby notify and warn |
a meeting of the said proprietars, at
the time and place, and for the pur
poses therein mentioned,
Portsmouth, aforefaid, this 26th l
Given under my hand and seal at
day of February, 1789. :
JonaTaan Warner., |
FROTBCTWORTH
State of New-Hampshire.
OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the township
N of Prote&worth, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1786, that un
less they pay the fame to me the subscriber, on or before Tuesday the 31t day
of March next, so much of their land will be fold at public vendue, at two
o’clock in the afternoon, at the house of Mr. Ebenezer Loverin,innholder in said
town, as will pay said taxes together with incidental charges unless prevented
by previous payment. No. Q’ty specie. certificates. indents,
6 200 bR dig el .4 q.
Col. Henry Dearborn T °°~ } o 1.6 3 4 A 106 o
4 200
13 - 200 s
Capt. William Rowel 36 200 } o gb 3 $: 2 3 g
33 200 .
34 200
Samuel Corfer 80 o 58 3 o 3 g "y %
Robert Wilson, Esq. 3 100 } o 9 0 3 §. 73,0
3 100 ;
3 200
Moses Burbank % o &gy o 2 o e
Maj, Jofthua Tolford 23 200 o 3 0.0 I.¢ 248
John Wendell, Efg. 7450 5 8. 00
ISRAEL CLIFFORD, jun. Constable.
Prote&tworth, February 16, 1789.
THE fub{cribers being appoint
- ed commissioners by the Hon.
Phillips White, Efg. judge of Pro
bate of Wills, &c. for the county
of Rockingham, to receive and ex
amine the claims of the several cre
ditors to the estate of John Lewis,
late of Portsmouth, thip carpenter,
deceased, represented inlolvent ;
hereby give notice that we shall at
tend the business at the dwelling
houfe of Daniel Peirce in Port{mouth
the last Monday of this and the four
following months,from 6 to g o’clock.
JOHN EVANS, ‘lC:)m-
DANIEL PEIRCE, §miffi-
JACOB WALDEN, §oners.
Portsmouth, March g, 1789.
‘[ HE commiflioners appointed by
the hororable judge of probate of
wills for the county of Rockingham, to
receive and examine the claims of the
several creditors to the estate of Nath
aniel Batfon, late of Newcaitle, de
ceased, represented insolvent, give no
tice that they will attend {aid business
at the house of Capt. Shadrack Bell,
innholder in said town, on Monday
the 23d of March instant, and on the
firt Mondays of the five following
months, from fix tonine o’clock, P. M.
on {aid days. New-castle, March 14.
TO BB 'S OQLED
A valuable FARM,
at Nottingham-Weft, by Hill’s ferry,
containing one hundred and fixey
acres, .jpon which there is an inter
val of sixty acres ; there is a house
and barn upon the place, which will
be fold very low, and payments made
exfy. For particulars enquire of the
Hon. JOHN PRENTICE, of Lon
donderry, Efguire. ;