The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1792-01-21 00:00:00, page 3

too pailful to detail-In this ^4^^
nefs io the year 175%, Major /^^3-
i%,0% nov Prefiicni of <hd United
Sates with a body of militia, tailed
pf the bitter cop, and ths next year
General Braddock, at the head of a
regular army,drank a deadly draught
—it is here co be oaferved,frotri wh it
has been related of the late ad 3a,
and from what took place ; that the
Indians had carefully watched; and
Attentively rioted the mriveni nh,
fleftribution of troops, and order of
battle of otr army, and the. mode of
parading^ and difnvffitg the troops
in the Corning—and had fettled their
Attacks in a very jidicious & fk,lful
manner, improving the favourable
moment when it offered.—-! cannot
my dear fir, omit on every occasion,
to express my grief and mortification
that such a.kind of war is adopted-^
We have now been twice unfuccefslul ;„
in the firft, the Indians learnt that;
neither cavalry or regular infantry'
although behaving with ? the utmost
caNantry ^ere invincible —thby have
mow learned, that a regular, and well
appointed army ably commanded,
with a numerous train of artillery
('or the wildcrneL) is net invulnera
lie—th,t even in their present Ravage ,
wav Os fighting they can become
nailers of the field, the camp, the
artillery and: baggage-- What ideas
inuft thete repeated lucccfcs infpite
in their minds ?--fs it any marvel
that they are found to fight with un
common valour? Are we not in the
-present way daring them by degrees
to attempt enterprizes,which neither'
we or they ev'er entertained aferidus
idea of.—And instead of Gambling;
them, and reducing them to a condi
tion to foe for peace,will they not ra
ther think themselves equal, if not
Superior to os ? This brings.us back
ro enquire where the remedy is t%^d
found ; 1 prefome that fa will joih
wih me, that the remedy is not to.
be found in the way that has hitherto
been adopted, and P° r ADIEU!'
numerous, and supposed to have been I
well appointed in every refpeCt; it had
advanced into the clderaefs moro
than one hundred miles from Fort-
Washington, and had arrived, as was
supposed, within 15 miles of the
MlamiVißges—On the afternoon of
the fl ofNjvem>er,it encamped on an
advantageous ground ; the army in
two lines about 70 yar s diltint from
each other —a creek 12 yards wide
covered the front, the righ flanka
fcep bank, and on the lflr,fome light
troop —The militia were advanced
over the Creek about a quarter or a
mile — Some Indians had been d.f
covered, but soon disappeared —nigh
came on, and all was qcc:—4 ne
morning of the 4th, the fatal day
opened —The troops were paaied as
had beenufual, & had been difm Ted
from the parade-- About half an hour
before funrifethe advance was attack
ed', and soon drove back on the front
line ; this line 'hrov/n into feme con
fufion from which it never was whol
ly recovered ; their firft lire however
checks for a moment the advance of
lie Indians, but soon the whole are
warmly engaged--as is afo the se
cond line ; the center of each in par
ticalar have a heavy fire formed in
upon them from the enemy almost
concealed from view; yet their fire
is fatally dire^s4- Tha macroffe
are killed by the fid: of their guns,
and ffiefe soon fitenced=Th, Bayonet
is now made use of, and the Indians
on every charge (1; is commonly the
^fe with irregular.,) give way ; but
fctur, almost lulHntlv to that dftir.ee
where their fire takes effect-- Foe ar
my noyretreats,or rather takes flight .
fromthe field, leaving, their camp,
their cartnon, and baggage to the
vi dorsala their flight many throw
away their arms ; and by a li'tle af
ter fan feeing, reach FofC^J-fcrfon
l, miles in the rear, and 'M a few
hours refomethhir re rear, . anl con
tinue it all the night,.- -Gliner with
m 2 my dear friend, for a moment,
your ideas to this horrid scene. It is
Extras of a letter from a gentleman in
the country, to his friend in this city.
" a MELANCHOLY news from
lvl 'he Weliward — Are not iuch
repeatea Itrokes indications that our
cause in that country is not good ? 1
think fo—[ fear we are too rath in odr
operations that way. No doubt the
Indians, diCurbed on their native foil
feel all the boilings of injured inno
cence—and were a few of their chiefs
in audience before Congress, perhaps
they might plead their cause to the
onfufion of many who :hink little of
them —their rights —or of what ought
o be said in their favour.
" 1 hope such measures will be ta
ken, or resolutions gone into in con
req ence of this defeat, as shill be
-onfiftpat withjhe great principles
^juitice as well as national policy.—
Have tbero been any measures taken
by government to make peace with
thele unhappy people : If so, it
would tend to fetisty the minds of
our fellov citizens by making ihem
public —ls not, what has not our
government to answer for ?—Doubts
on this head give real distress to ev
ery feriou# friend to their country."
Two important bills are now be
fore the Senate of the United States
—one for tne encouragement of the
Bank—and the other for the ellablilh
ment of a Mint.
The project of uniting the Dela
ware and Scuykill by a t^al, is an
undertaking worthy the enterprizing
Spirit of the times, and will doublets
be carried into execution.
The number of paffengere which
have arrived in the port of Philadel
phia in one year, with a view to be
come settlers in this country, amount
to two thoafands (even hundred and
forty perform
WINSOR, DEC.. 2^
A couple of the county orCurriber
land lately entered into the holy Rate
of matrimony. They dined with
b h;ir friends at two —fapp'd at nine—
retired to bed between eleven and
twelve .o'clock in the evening ; and
to the iftoagh nent of the r©v marri
ed man, hit wife, before fix o'clock
in cue meriting, §vai delivered of two
chopping boys ! He acknowledged
to hi, friends, that " he -would boar
hisblafhing honors thi k upon him ;'
but that they were mu^h more than
ihe deferred.
PHILADELPHIA, DEC. 2s.
AMERICAN ADVICES.
SALEM, JAN. 3.
Captain Nehemiah Andrews arri
ved here 011 Sunday night from Aux
Cayes, whence he failed on the 27 h
of November. That quarter of the
ffl.nd had hitherto been happily fee
from thole tragic feenes which the Ne
groes have ailed in other parts of Hi
fpaajola.ihey having here been close
ly watched 5y the whites and mulat
roes, whole interest, in that refpea,
is a common one. It however par
takes in a degree of the general ca
lamity : The mulattoes feeling ag
grieved by the repeal of the decree
which was intended to give them e
qnal liberty, and which is dlfo with
held from them by the government
of the colony, have reformed to arms ;
and almost at the moment of the de
flrwaian of Tort-au-Prince, the mu
hattoes seized on L a strong fort of
Port-Louis, three imagoes from Aux-
Cays, oh'Jqcq^l and other places ;
arid^ftithe considerable bodies were
within four miles of the town when
Captain Andrews failed.
That quarter df the Island must
!therefore be considered al in poffeffi
,on of the mulattoes, who are superior
linI in nuihbeh, in arms, perhaps in pro
perty and ^aivity. No deftru&ion of
prqfoty had been committed by them
—there is no union between them
and the negroes—their demand is, an
equal participation with the whites.
DOVER, JAN. 11.
Last Oatuiaay evening an unfortu
nate accident happened at Barrington
—A Mr. John Stiles was nocking
fame old Iron in a forge, among
which was a gun barrel.—While the
iron was in the fire, Mr. Stil.s was
relating a Kory of a person who was
working a gun barrel in the manner
he then was, when the gun (being
charged) went off and killed the man.
While Mr. Stiles was giving this ac
count, the gun in the hre, Ghich was
loaded difeharged its contents into his
thigh.—His ph)ficians have pronoun
cea his wound incurable.
A Loudoa paper uiou. io lays,
Last week a dreadful murder was com
mitted in the street of St. Martin, in
Paris :— A woman, who had receiv
ed the addresses of an Unbella Mer
chant, thought proper to difeharge
her lover two months ago ; this rail
ed his refcntment to such a great
height, that the woman was obliged
to apply to the police lor protection ;
having heard nothing of him for a
month, this unfortunate femde con
cluded she was fife, but on Wednes
day evening this manlier entered her
apartment by means of a key he had
10 his peffeffion, and effected his hor
rid parpefe, by nine and twenty
wounds with a knife. The villain
is more than fifrv vears of age.
EXETE R, January 21.
DIEDj-r-On .pc 27 h OCt. iafi,
Miss Betley Gors.ol, in .he i§ih year
of her age---On the 26th of Dec. Miss
Hannah Gordon, in the ißih year of
her age ; boh daughters of Cap.
Thomas Gordon of Brintwood —Ori
the 7th inst. Mrs, Mary Gordon,
wife of Mr. Gilman Go/con, aged 22
---The 12h inll Mis. Dorothy Gor
don, wife of the above laid Thomas
Gordon,aged 46 —all from one house.
*€> @G>9@&G>®o^4>^^^4
lathe House 0 Representatives,
Dec. zgb, 1791.
r—HEREAS the Inferior
Court of Common Pleas, by
law to be hoMen at Portsmouth in he
county of Rockingham on the firft
Tuefday of February next, and the
inferior Court cf Common Pleas by
aw to be holden at Dover on the
bird Tuefday cf February, and the
Court of General Suffices of the Peace
a the County of Strafford to be hol
den at said Dover, on the Thursday
next following th. third Tuefday of
February next, will probably happen
ax the time when hsCoovention of this
State will be in S- £i?n,& many mem
bers of the Convention having business
to iranfafl at laid Courts of Law ; —-
Therefore Refolded, That the said
nferiour Court of Common Pleas by
law to be holden at said Pbrtfmouth,
on the firft Tuefday of February next,
be and hereby is adjourned to the left
Tuefday of February next, then to be
holden at Portfinouth aforefaid ; and
that the said inferior Court of Cym
moa Pleas by law to be holden at
Dover aforefaid on the Third Tuef
day of February next, be, and here
jyjs adjourned to the second Tuef
-4y of March next ; and the Court of
teGdubtal Sessions of the Peace to be
holderi at Dover on the third Thurs.
day next following the third Tuefday
of February next, be, and hereby is
adjourned to the Thursday next fol
lowing the second Tuefday in March
next. And all suits and pleas pend-|
ing at said Courts, and all writs and,
processes returnable to said Courts to
be holden by law, as aforefaid, shall
be returned to, arid fuffaihed by said
refpe&ive Courts, At the time! and
places to which'faid Courts are by
this Resolve fcfpedively adjourned ;
and that all persons concerned, take
notice thereof/ and govern the'rofelves
accordingly. Sent upfor concurrence;\
WILLIAM Pl um a r'. Speaker.
In Senate, Dec. fl, 1791, ke#d and
Concurred,
JOSIAH BARTLETT, Pr@nt.
Atrue copy--AUeft,j.PEABi©NSO.
State 0/ Rew-Hampfoire.
In the year of ourLoßD,one
thousand leven hundred
and ninety-one.
^" ^7 to limit the
time of ,rejecting aetnands
against the estate oj Thomas
Simpson, late of Parts
, - fe mouth, Esq. deceased.
WHEREAS Thomas Simpson,
of Porifmo&h, in the county
of Rockingham^& Sate of New.
Hampshire, menffint, son of the de
ceased, hath petitioned the General
Court. reprefjfyg that his said fa
ther devised m real and personal
estate to his wife Martha, with
power to dispose of any part thereof
for her fopport : That the Honorable
Jam^s Sullivan, Efi, who since
intermarried the fad Martha, had
joined with.her in relating all their
righ to the estate afofefaid, to the
said Themes the son and his two
fillers, Anna Frost and Rachel.
upon the express condition that the
laid Thomas, Anna Frost arid Rachel,
should indemnify the said James and
Marsha fromthe payment of any de
mands again^ the fame estate ; that
as there is no time limited for the
creditors, if any to prosecute heir
demands, the heirs to whom it is so
released cannot, tell when the estate
will be cbfdlutely theirs— Wherefore
he prayed for himfeTand fillers that
a time might be limited beyond which
no demand agair.ll said estate fhotrki
be fupporled. The fads allcdged
being proved and the prayer of the
petition appearing reasonable ard a
greeable to the intention of the Hand
ing laws of this llatc— Therefore, Be
it enabled by the Senate and Hoefe
of Representatives in General Court
convened. That all debts .and de
mands ageinft the estate of said de
ceased not prosecuted within one year
from and after the palling ofthis fa,
be forever barred, and this a& ma,•
be offered in evidence without being
specially pleaded to any a&ion which
may be brought for any such demands
after the term of one year as'aforefaid
—provided that an attested copy of
this ad (hall be published three weeks
successively in some one of the News
papers printed in Portfmcurh, afoie
faid, and the Newspaper printed in
Exeter, within one month from the
enabling thereof.
STATE OF NEWHAMPSHIRE.'
WE the subscribers being
appointed, by the HHorible
Judge of Probate for the,County of
Rockingham, to receive and examine
the claims of the Several creditors to
the Estate of J IMES MAkQEN,late
of Cbt<bftr, in hidebuntf ^hut
man deceafed,reprefented ihfol&ent—
hereby give notice that nd trill attend
upon rat bufineft a t the hbvfe of,
|Capt. John Langrihi^, in said Chi,
chefter,on the last Monday of this and
;the five following north's, frbm ten
I of the Clock befcietioon till five of the
Clock in the aftertobn on said days:
MiCH'iM'CLARY, 7 C^^\
AMOS MORR LL, ,0^-
DUDLEY SANDBORN.) ^.
,^^7,18^,1792. f'
LOST on thoft inft.pear the house
of the fubferiber ? a Saddle with
out any hoofing—whoev^yUfctu^^
the fame fhal.l be paidfogjheir trpu^
hle. NAT^I CR^S^
l Enter, Jan. 9, 179 2 *
State of New-Hamp- hire.
fa the Houle of R^refnatives, Dcc'r.
26, 1791.
The foregoing bill having been
read a third time paffrid to be enaded.
Sent up for concurrence. ( '*
E. PAYNE, Speaker, P. T.
in Senate, December 27,1791-
This bill having been read a third
time voted that the Yame be chaffed.
JOSIAH BARTLETT, Prefix.
A true copy— A:teft,
J^EPH Pea rson. Scc'rv.
ROCKINGHAM 11.