The Freeman's journal, or, New-Hampshire gazette — Portsmouth, N.H., 1777-06-28 00:00:00, page 1

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
In the House of Repfefentatives,
June rt. 1777.
Voted,, —W~^H AT the Twenty Eight
I Thoafand Pounds in Bills
of the long Form, issued
by this State, from the
Denomination o' Five Slittings, & upwards,
bearing Date in July, August, and Novetn
bcr in the Year 1775, be called in & funk
as soon as may be. That the Treasurer of
this State be impowered and directed to re
deem the fame by issuing bis Notes to those
Persons that bring into the Treafory the
Sum of Ten Pounds, or upwards ( not trans
ferable) with Imereft at the Rate of Six per
Cent per Annum, not toexceed one Year
from the Date ; and also by Borrowing
from any Person, or Persons who will lend
the fame on such Interest such Sums as shall
be found necessary to redeem the smaller
Sums that may be b r ru°ht in^—Th^t rhe
lame bds oe drought in on or oetore the
last Day of September next.
Sent up for Concurrence,
JOHN LANGDON, Speaker.
In Council the fame Day, read & co curr'd,
E. THOMPSON, Sectary.
A Copy Examined by E. Them,fan, Secry.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
In the House of Representatives,
June 111777.
Voted ^1 H A T Thomas Odiorne and
& Samuel Brooks, Efqr; be a
Committee to recieve all such
Counterfeit Bills made in Imitation of the
Bills of Credit of this Stare, as shall be
brought to them by any Person or Persons,
on or before the last Day of September
next— which Committee shall kee, a fair
Record of such Persons Name, Place of A
bode, the Sum received, and of the Evi
dence of such Persons receiving such Coun
terfeit Bills honestly, or for a valuable Con
sideration. Sent up for Concurrence,
JOHN LANGDON, Speaker.
In Council the fame Day read & Concurr'd
E. THOMPSON, Secretary.
A Copy Examined by E. Tbomtfon, Secry.
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Wanted immediately,
For the TROOPS Rationed in and about
Pifcataqua Harbour, a Quantity of Flour,
Wheat, Rye, Indian Corn, Salt Beef arid
Pork;—Any Persons having those Articles
to dispose of, are defiied to apply to
Supply Clap, Agent Vidual!ef.
/ neat fi/ver billed Sword,
Tohfed. Enquire at the Print Office
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New-Hamplhire Gazette.
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RO T, Tide 19, 1777.
ON Sunday lad, a person arrived in this
town fron Eallifax who leftit the 29th
of May, iron whom we have collected the
following 'rite n ic Advices, viz.—— That a
fleet of?^7: 0 transports arrived in that
harbour'll roof New-York, in pursuit
ot provifiqn /~c,urfder convoy of the pirate
Frigate Tare..., of2B guns; so destitute is
Howe's army < '-v, 7 necessary of life.-That
16 fail of trir <, r (part of the above fleet)
failed from the cc the begining of May, for
the Bay of Fu r. I y, in quest of cattle, hay &c.
under convoy oft j Scarborough,of 20 guns,
and Brig Difeeno : ,of 12 ; the former now
criiifing at the ea'ward, and the latter en
tirely loft on Gannet Rock, in Nova-Scotia;
fa that the : -n; orts have now only the
Vulture 14 gu. : fleop of war, to prote& them
from the ro'ae' n^y ; and. were chiefly at
Annapolis 17 c ; y f <? g o > taking injheir Car
goec,—Tf/r the 1 diowing pirat ships failed
from Hah, x, force time since, on a cruize,
all bound or he New, England Coafi,viz.
the Grerh nn; : of 3 ^"ns ; th* Diamond,
bany Philadelphia filip, Of 18 ; Dawson, in
the Brig Hope, of 16 ; they arc very poorly
manned, and one third of them by American
tailors, whom they compel to enter their ser
vice.— That a French brig, from France,
laden with ^loathing, bound for this port, was
sent in there by a Britii'h sea plunderer. That
a fleet of transports, confining of 12 fail, with
200 invalids on board, and eloathing for
12,000 men, failed in April last for Quebec,
only one frigate to accompany them.—That
6 transport skips were preparing for sea in or
der to take on board (to transport to New
York) two companies of the 37th and two
of the 14th, britifh regiments ; and 200 of
the marines, mostly invalids, to fill up the
vacancies on board the britifh navy, at New
York; that the noted Frank Green, with a
small cargo of goods intends failing with 'em
for York — That the American prisoners, to
the number of 200, confined on board the
lord ftanley prison ship, in that harbour,
are treated in the most barbarous and inhu
man manner possible ; and was it not for
the kind interpositions of some of the inha
bitants of Halifax, the last winter, in sup
plying them with necessaries, numbers of
them must inevitably have perished, they
having but 4 britifh soldiers allowance for 6
of them (poor allowance indeed) and that
thrown to them, as ifto dogs ; our navy-men
and merchantmen are considered on an e
quality of footing, and are treated more like
lavages than chriftans, when they fall into
the hands of perjured George's emissaries.---
That the famous, blustering tar, Arbuthnot
(at present, a&ing as lieut. governor) and
the politic, human General Massey (com
mander of the tyrant of britains troops there)
have been employed, this force time past, in
compelling the inhabitants of the town and
country, to take the oaths of allegiance and
fidelity to the good George of Little-Britain,
—That 200 britifh marines, accompanied
with too draughted militia men, from their
OR
THE
own were under orders to proceed to Cobit*
quid, in that province, in a short time, in
order to unpole on the inhabitants, the oaths;
of attachment to their tyrannic, flavifl?; ar
bitrary government.—Tnat the 2 cartds(one
from this port, the other from Porifmoutt)
are detained in that port, by order of the
poor, simple, harmless GeorgeX'ollier, depu
tized commander of the brinih pirate fleet
there ; but on what account was not known•
It is conjectured by feme, on account of the
well concerted aft in regard to the Ameri
can captives, (lately published here) that has
paHed the britifh Parliament : Others think
they are delayed, till the fleet in that har
bour have failed, to prevent their giving any
account to the Continental fleet of their de-
Ilination —- = —— _ ^^-^,
That Malachy Salter, Esq; a juftic^ of
th? Peace in that province, has been tryed
lately for his life, on account of feme ex
pressions which he made in favour of the In
dependent States of America, in presence of
a well-known quack Do&or, Jeffries, once
of this town, who fed with the britifh fava
a tedious tryal he was honorably acquitted.—*
That the Rainbow man of war, ot 44 guns,
is fitting out with greatest expedition,for sea,
to cruile (they fay) in Boston-bay : When
she fails, there will not be a ship of war left
in the harbour—That Capt. Sampson, late
of the State brig Independence, was in good
health and high spirits, wishing to be ex
changed, to take another flap at the mighty
navy of britain.—That the enemy there, are
daily fortifying ; and their whole force in
the province, consists of 1000 men, chiefly
marines, commanded by a Major Souter.—
That a ship, called the Adamant, arrived
inhere from London, the day our infor
mant made his escape, in a very short paf~
sage ; but what news she brought, he could
not learn, only, that three days before her
arrival, she parted company with 45 fail of
store-ships, &c. bound to New-York, under
convoy of one frigate.—That Arbuthnot,
the anting governor there, has been pleased
to appoint an Infpe&or to thePrinter's office;
whose duty is, to fee that he publishes no
thing favourable to the Americans ; th^t
what paragraphs he publishes, are firft to be
remarked upon, &c. Oh thou witty wretch,
is this thy method.—— That the run-a
way tory wretches, from this place, are treat
ed with the greatest contempt, by a larger
part of the inhabitants; and that those trou
blesome vermin are continually bellowing
against the cause of these United States, and
propagating daily the most infamous fal
hoods : If they receive no news favourable
to them on any arrival, they make it, and
retail it out as frefh and important news
(from their hellish banditti, at New-York)
with a design to keep up the spirits of the
more timerous fort.—That the Milford, es
28 guns, now on a cruise, commanded by a
Sir William Barnaby,has been careened late,
ly, her sheathing taken off, and her bottom
soaped and tallowed ; she is painted very
black, and is to feive as a coy iri our bay /
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