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Stephen Hardy,
TTAS just received a large assortment of fafh
ionable Gold Ear Rings; Finger Rings ;
Gold Handkerchief Pins ; do. Broaches ; Chi
na and Japan'd Snuff Boxes ; Sciffars; Pen
knives ; Rafors with cases; Jacknives ; silver
Thimbles ; Pocket Books ; ivory and horn ,
Combs ; Tea Pots; Graters ; Sieve Buttons ;
Spoons ; plated Candlesticks, &c. &c.
Portsmouth, March 2,1804.
Just received and for fate by
EDWARD PARRY
Market-Street,
if large assortment of
"Superfine Broad & Forest Cotton, Cambrick, and
Cloths, Cambric Muslins,
Coatings & twill'd Duffils, Chambroy Muffins of the
Flannels & Baizes, latefl fafeion,
Kofe & Duffil Blankets, Callonade & sprig Mullins
Muffs and Tippets, of every description,;
India Cottonsrema,kablccbeap | Irish Linens & Sheetings,
10 clefts BOHEA TEA, of the firft
quality, 1
15 & 18 thread Cod Lines, cheap, by
wholesale and retail February 4, 1804
For J ale at No. 5, Langdon's Wharf,
lOObbls.FreshSuperfineFlour
by J. LANGDON, jun.
FISHING GEAR:
Samuel Hill
Informs bis friends and customers, that be bas lately
imported a large assortment of Fishing Gear,]
•which be bas for sale by q»bolefale or retail, viz. l
Eighteen, 15, 12, and 9 thread I
Filing Lines ; Bob & Gig lines ; herring
Netts of all sizes ; salmon and hardhead Netts ;
2 and 3 thread herring and mackerel Twine ; I
salmon and seine Twine; Cod Hooks ; large,
middle and small quarter Hooks; mackerel
Hooks.
May be had at the fame place,
Russia, Swedes, and Philadelphia Iron;
Steel of several forts ; and a variety of other
Goods as usual, which will be fold very low for
calh or approved credit.
Clover & Herds Grass Seed.
Ca/h, and the highest price given for
Shipping Furs, at his store, N° 7, Merchant's
Row,Portfmouth.
Feb. 18, 1804.
fabtrn — ^dim ut —re pc&tefotttt —«_■ to
Lines, Nets, & Twines,
Lately Imported.
18, 15, & 12 thread Bridport Lines,
per bale, dozen or single ; deep sea, mackerel,
squid and chalk Lines ; Herring Nets, per bale,
or single ; Seine Twine, and Herring Net Twine,
pr bale, dozen or single lb. ; Marline and
Houfline; best I P, Bank and large quarter
Hooks, pr box or groce ; middle quarter, small
ditto, & Mackerel Hooks. also on band,
50 quintals Pollock Fish, beftquality;
a quantity of Liverpool 7 by 9 Window Glass ';
Russia Iron ; and a few quarter casks of Malaga
Wine. *, The above articles will be fold low
for caffi or approved credit, by.
ROBERT RICE,
Fore-street, North end.
Boston Glass
THEBofton Glass Manufactory Com
pany, inform the Public, that they are now
enabled to furnifh Sheet Glass, for Pictures, as large
as 38 by 26 inches, of their own Manufa&ure as
also, all kinds and lizes of Coach Glass, likewise all
sizes of Window Glass.
^Orders for any quantity of GLASS,
may be left with the fubferiber, who is agent fur
the Company.
SAMUEL LARKIN,
Portsmouth, Febnag 2^, I^o4. -
For Sale by
T. MORTON,
, Sign efthe Golden Key, Congrefs-Jireet,
Two Doors; from the Portfroouth stone.
HYSON, Young Hyfon, Hyfon-fkin,
Soufhong and Bohea Teas warranted. C<g
niac and Barcelona Brandy ; Holland's and Amer
ican Gin; Rum per hhd. or otherwise; Madeira
Sherry, Lisbon, Claret, Port, and Sweet Wines, per
quarter calk or less quantity; Loaf, India and
Brown Sugars ; Coffee; Flour; Pollock Fish;
Salt ; Cotton Cards, &c. together with a general
assortment of
Wed-India Goods and Groceries.
of the firft quality, and very low for ready cafli.
Attendance from fun-rife, until 9
o'clock in the evening. (t.f.)
Portfroouth, December 3, 1803.
Lines and Netts. '>
LADD and SMITH,
HAVE imported direct from the
Manufaaories and now ready FOR SALE
by the bale, dozen or single 18, 15, 12 and 9
Thread Fifliing Lines; Herring Netts of all sizes ;
2 and 3 thread Herring and Salmon Twine.
Also For Sale,
Best Bank Steel I P Cod Hooks ;
large, middle and small quarter de. ; Mackrel, Bob,
and Gig do. ; frith Leads of different sizes ; Fiflier
man's Splitting and Throat Knives, &c. &c.
No. 5, Merchants Row, Feb. 3, 1804.
To Let,
A GOOD Farm in Stratham, half a
Imile above the Meeting-House, about 300
ecm — Also, wanted to hire, a Good Man by the
va#r, and another for the feafon—enquire of
Eliphalet Ladd.
Nathaniel White,
HAS removed from the Shop which
be has improved in Congrefrftreet, to a
store in the fame street, at the corner of Maughan
ffireet, where he has for sale, a general assortment
of GROCERIES,
very cheap, and of an excellent quality.
Should his friends wish a supply, they may be
furnifhed with
Havannah Segars pr. box or retail ;
Best Philadelphia Loaf &; Lump Sugars;
Brown Sugars, various qualities ;
Raisins pr. cask or retail ;
31oom and Muskadel Raisins pr. box
or retail;
Rice per cwt. or pound ;
Warranted good Florence Oil;
Weft-India Rum, and Old Spirits;
Cogniac & French Brandy ;
Wines; Cayenne;
I Gin; Nutmegs;
Cotton; Cassia;
Coffee; 'Salt Petre;
Chocolate; Powder and Shett;
Hyfon, 1 Corks;
Young Hyfon, H Demijohns;
Hyfon-fki'n, ► andl es; v
Souchong, and ^ GoodAmericanSegars;
Bohea J ' Tobacco;
Ginger; Seiyes§
Tepper ; Good (having Soap;
Pimento-; Bed Cords;
AMuftard; Cloaths Lines;
IORANGES pr. hundred or doz.
Fresh LISBON LEMONS pr. box
jor retail. SALT— with warty other articles in
\ the Grocery lint. January 7.
Just received and for sale by
Quincy & Pierrepont,
A FEW half chests Souchong) mr Ad
and quarter chests of BoheaJ '
of a superior quality. —ALSO —
Baltimore Superfine FLOUR.
Portsmouth, February 25, 1804.
BRICKS for sale,
ABOUT thirty thousand Bricks of an
excellent quality, may be delivered cither by
Redding, or early in the spring by water. —Enquire
of the printers. February 18.
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For sale by
Joseph Noble,
A QUANTITY Superfine FLOUR;
A 24 bbls. SHIP ST^FF;
e .lie.——— o \. m •eewmtmr
Perkins' Patent Pumps, 1
KEPT constantly for sale at No. 5
Merchant's Row, Where may be bad
R u ffi a IRONSDUCK &SHEETING.
- 1.11 l Ml. ^ ■■. ..■..,'.'.»■ —
THE Copartnership of Swett &
WEEKS was by mutual corifent dissolved
on the firft inst. All P&rfon> having demands on
said firm, will please to call on the Subferiber for
fettleirent, and all indebted are informed that
immediate payment is expeded.
Daniel Weeks.
Portsmouth, March § 1804.
TO be fold ) by virtue of a licence
from the Court of Common Pleas in the
countv of tiffex, on the 2, th day of March next,
at 2 o'clock, P. M. at the Dwelling houte of John
Lado Rodwell, Innholder, in Methuen-One
wimble Right of Land in Shelburne, numbered
Nine, on the fouth fide of the River, also, one half
of Lot number Twenty-eight, on Great Island in said
town —Also four hundred acres of Land lying on
Rumford fouth line, io the county of Cumberland,
and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, all being the
estate of Oliver PeabodY late of said Sbelburue,
decea fed,
Thomas Poor, Adminiftrator^^
February 20, 2804.
T H . E . Members and Stockholders of
the Exeter Bank, are notified and required
to meet at Ezra Hutchins' Dwelling House, in
Exeter, on Monday the twelfth day of March, 1 804,
at 2 o'clock P. M. to do and tranfad such matters
and things as are authorized and required by
the ad of incorporation, to be done at the flrft
meeting ; particularly to choose the firft board
of Diredors, and such other officers as they (hall
fee fit ; to determine the amount of payments
to be made on each (hare, and the time when the
fame shall be made ; also, the mode of transfer
ring and disposing of the Stock of said Bank,
and the profits thereof ; to eftablilh a common
seal to be used by said corporation ; and general
ly, to ordain and establish such by-laws, ordi
nances, and regulations, as to them shall appear
necessary and convenient for the government of
said corporation, and the prudent management
of their affairs.
JEREMIAH SMITH,
PAJNE WINGATE,
NATH'I ROGERS.
Exeter, March 1, 1804.
Young Ladies Academy.
MRS. Hart informs the public that a num
ber of young ladies may be accommoda
ted with board at her Academy, and inftruffed
in Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Geography/
English Grammar, plain and embofed needle
work. Terms for board and tuition may be
known by applying at No. 3, Ladd-ftreet.
A suitable person is wanted to inftru& on the
Forte Piano Guitar—a generous compensation
will be given apply as store March ,
NEW GOODS.
Peter Coffin,
"d S '"""' P e r 'he Amphion from London, &
Packet from Liverpool, an extensive assortment
Fafliionable, Fancy, & Staple
GOODS,
which are now opened, wholesale and retail, viz
BEST Superfine and low priced
Broad Cloths ; Habit Cloths; Daffimeres; Coat
fl Ratteens; Kerfeys ; Fearnaughts ; Forest
Cloths ; erges ; Baizes ; Flannels ; Blankets; Wild.
. es j ° am '' e " 3 Crapes ; Denmark Luftres ;
Hairbines ; Durants; Tammies ; balloons; plain
and rib'd Calimancoes; Ruffe's ; Moreens; Tabo
reens ; attinetts ; 'Florentines. A great variety
Fafliionable Waistcoating ; black
& olive Velvets; Hunters ords; black, crimion,
and green hag; worsted and silk Plush ; men's
plain and striped Black attins ; Fustians ; Jeans ;
Denims; Quiltings ; silk Velvets ; Thickictts.
A large assortment of
Latest fafhion Calicoes and Chintzes ;
Chintz and Dimity Furnitures ; Copperplates ;
Muflinets ; Dimities. A great variety of
Book, jacconet, cambrick & tambor'd
Mullins ; a few elegant India Mullins; fafliionable
iarfene tambricks; Mullin Handkerchiefs; men's
Neckerchiefs.
• amel's hair, cambrick, purple, chintz,
and large silk bawls; cambrick, linen, cotton, ro.
mal, bandanna and black silk Handkerchiefs.
A great variety of
Italian Silks ; fafliionable Pelice Silks ;
India and English Luftrings ; India Persians;
Modes.; Satins; Sarfnets; Tiffanies ; Italian Crapes;
Gauzes; Millinets. A large assortment
Thread Laces and Edgings ; black
Laces ; black Lace loaks ; black and white Lace
Veils. A great variety of
cork foies ; Rofetts; Shoe Ties ; Morocco Slips.
gieat variety of
Fafliionable Ribbons ; cotton and silk
Gown Trimmings ; Fringes ; Gown Buttons ; gold
and silver Lace; and Fringes; gold and silver
Cords ; gold Ear-drops; Neck-laces ; gold and sil
ver Epaulets; pangles; Straw Trimmings.
A large assortment of
Men's and Youth's worsted, cotton,
and silk Hose ; Women's white and black cotton
& fflk Hose; Women's cotton and silk Gloves and
Mitts; whiteand color'd Kid Gloves ; Men's and
Women's Black Gaiters ; Men's and Women's
Worsted Cocks ; Men's and boy's worsted Gloves;
women's werftedGloves and Mitts ; men's mill'd
and color'd worsted Caps ; men's white and black
Hose Gauze ; men's silk and beaver Gloves, some
lin'd with flannel ; cotton and silk Braces ; jftuck
,iffners; Emigrant Cocks and Boots ; worsted
Drawers. A great variety of
, Mock fable, fox, goat's beard, bear and
ennet Muffs and Tippets ; Fur Trimmings; cotton
Waddings. ^
Fafliionable straw, new imperial fancy
Leghorn, white chip, and Spanish dress Hats and
Bonnets ; a few fafliionable silk Bonnets, full
trim'd ; men's and boy's Hats. A variety of
Black and fancy Feathers ; fafhiona
ble velvet Flowers and Wreaths ; a few elegant dress
Fans ; black Crape Fans ; Parasols; Umbrellas.
A large affirtment of
Kid and Morocco Shoes, some with
linens ; Irish Sheetings ; Table Cloths
l of all sizes ; Diapers; Brown Hollands; Checks ;
India Cottons; Threads, Embroidering and other
Sewing Silks ; Bindings; white and chintz Bed
Lace ; Cords and Tassels.
Fafliionable gilt, plated, and basket
Buttons ; steel Knee Buckles; silver Thimbles
Watch Chains, Seals and Keys.
Carpets and Carpeting.
{ Porfmouth, Feb. 3. ,
Banks, or Sealers of Weights,
MAY be furniflied with GOLD STAND
ARD BALANCES, by applying to
Benjamin Dearborn, near the weftern end of
the Theatre, BofloH. Gentlemen who may con
template ordering those instruments, may recede
information refpeding the different kinds and
prices, by applying as above ; and a knowledge
of their accuracy can be obtained from any of
the Banks in Bfoon, Portsmouth, New Hampfoirl,
Newport in Rhode-Inland, or almost any in the
State of Massachusetts.
HYDROSTA TIC BALANCES,
For detecting Counterfeit Coins, and for ascer
taining the proportion of alloy in coins which
are more or less valuable than the American
Standard, are furniflied as above.
The process with this instrument is rendered
fn peculiarly simple, by an improvement hereto
fore unknown, that it if rarely necessary to make a
Jinglefigure^ either for proving a Coin to be coun
terfeit, or for calculating the sum at which a
foreign coin should be undervalued, or over ra
ted in consequence of a greater or less propor
tion of alloy, than is admitted in the American
Standard for Gold or Silver. Feb, 11,1804.
BENJAMIN DEARBORN.
FRENCH LANGUAGE.
MR. MARECHAUX, a French
Gentleman who has been educated in a
celebrated College at Paris, and whose business
in St. Domingo, threw him into America some
years ago; presents his refpeds to the Ladies
and Gentlemen of Portsmouth, and begs leave
to offer them Lessons in the French Language,
for which it would seem unnecessary to seek pat
ronage, since that ufeful and fafliionable language
has become an indispensable part of a liberal ed
ucation,efpecially to those who devote themselves
to commercial business, and who wi(h to enjoy
the beauties of its literacy riches. The fob
fcription is open at Mr. Cazbaux's office, who
will communicate the terms.
Fortfaoutha M,ch ~ 180$,,
TO be Sold it Public Auction, on
Tuefday the tenth day of April next, at io
o'clock in the foren Don, at the late DwellingHoule
of Major Henry Moore, late of Chester, deceas
ed, so much of the Real Estate which belonged to
Lid Moor, as will amount to the film of Fourteen
Hundred and Six^y Dollars. Said property consists
of a piece of land lying opposite the Dwelling
House of John Wilson, efq. in said Chester,
Containing fix acres. Alto one lot of Land con
taining forty Acres by measure, in Chester woods.
—Alfo,a good Wall-Pew in the Rev. Mr. Brad
street's Meeting.houfe. Also, one sixth part of
the North-branch Mill, so called, lying in Ray
mond. Also, so much of the Homestead Farm of
the late Major Henry Moore, as with the pro
perty above named, will amount to the sum above
mentioned. The above property will be fold by
virtue of a licence from the Hon. Nathaniel
Rogers, Esq. Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c.
for the county of Rockingham, for the purpose of
discharging the debts due from the estate of said
Moor.—Conditions made known at time and place
of file, or by applying to
William Morr, AdminiJirator
on said Estate.
Chester, February 22, 1804.
Rockingham,fo.
TO the Hon. Nathaniel Rogers judge
of Probate, for said county, —Shew Sarah
Gowdy of Portsmouth, finglewoman, and Samu
el Willey of Rye, school-master, in right of
his wife, That they ate tenants in common with
the other heirs of Benjamin Lear, lateof Portsmouth
afarefaid, yeoman, deceased, in about fixry acres,
more or less, of Upland ; and about three acres of
Salt Marfli, lying in laid Portfmoutb, belonging to
the estate of said deceased.--That to your petition
ers belongs one half of the laid premises, viz. one
fourth part to each of them—They therefore pray
your Honor to cause partition of the fame to be
made, and their several parts divided and let off to
them refpeaivcly from the rest — And they as in
duty bound will ever pray.
by Charles Cutts, Aft'y to the Petitioners,
Rockingham,fs. Court of Probate,
February >g, 180%.
Upon considering the foregoing peti
tion, Ordered that the Petitioners be heard thereon
before the Probate Court to be holden a: Exeter in
said County, on the third Wednesday of March
next, —and that they cause a copy of said petition,
and this order, to be published in tbe Oracle, print
ed at Portfmoutb, three weeks prior to said day of
hearing, that any person may then appear and ihew
cause why the prayer thereof may not be granted;
Attest, William Parker Regiflm
'A true Copy,
Attest, William Parker, Regifer.
^m^—te## net—=^—=- _ ^=h—,P+_QQ.
Marshall on Insurance.
PROPOSALS OF
DANIEL JOHNSON, ,
For Printing by übfeription,
A TREATISE on the, LAW or
INSURANCE.
In Four Books.
IR. Os Marine Insurance.
2d. Os Bottomry and Refpondentia.
3d. Os Insurance upon Lives.
4th. Os Insurance against Fire.
From tbe firft London edition of " tbat clear, acute, ahd to
fruaive writer,
SAMUEL MARSHALL,
Sargeant at Law.
CONTAINING ALSO,
A complete & well-digested Analysis
of the work.
TOGETHER WITH
A copious and accurate Index of the
whole, pointing tbe reader to the most
material parts of the work,
CONDITIO NS>
1, This Treatise on Insurance fhlll be heatl, printed, oh
good paper and new type ; and contained in one royal
odavo volume, handsomely bound and lettered.
S$ Tbe price to fubferibers will be Live Dollars, payable
on delivery (about half the price of the London edition,)
To non-subscribers the price will be considerably ad
vanced.
3. The work will be put to press, as soon as a fubfeription
Ihall be obtained, in feme measure fufficient to juftify
the undertaking.
(Prefatory Extracts JbaM appear next Saturday)
NOTICE is hereby given, that the
Commiffiouers appointed by the Hon. Wil
liam Whitmore judge of Probate in and for the
county of Hancock, Commonwealth of Maffachu
lettsjo receive, examine and adjust the several claims
to the estate of Levi Robinson, late of nc^fa/f, in the
fame county, yeoman, deceased, represented insol
vent, will attend on that bufineG on the firft Mon.
days of March, Apri!, and May, next at two of the
clock in the afternooon, at the Dwelling House of
Mr. Aron Nickerson in laid Belfaft.
Newmarket, February 14, 1804.
Jonathan Robinson,
in behalf of foil Commiffiones.
' NOTICE !
A LL persons having demands on the
A eftateof DANIEL PROWS,
late of Portfmoutb, mariner, deceased, are tequefled
to present them for adjustment— and all who are
indebted to said estate, are detired to make payment
without delay, to NATH’I A. HAVEN,
Admimftratot of said Efate.
Portfmoutb, Feb. 16, 1804.;
Jhe Portsmouth Oracle
is published every Saturday mornfor the town and rife
ity, and thc
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every Tuefday morning for tbe Country, by William
&DanielTreabwell, at their Boek and Stationary
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Terms, 1,50 cents per ana—so cents, in advance— punct
ually forwarded tb all parts of this State, and the Dillrict
of Maine.
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