The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1790-06-11 00:00:00, page 1

DEBT contraded immediately by] pr. ~.
the Officers of Congress funded |£. Ct.
on the resources of the Union ; the inter- i ^ X
est paid quarterly at the National Ban ~
in Specie. The price falling on account I
of the clamors of the State creditors. J
g,DEBTS contraaed &ajfamed b, iNbiVl bt'Al
stateo for the support of the mar, and benefit of the
union..
NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Certificates issued on the recommen-"
dation of Congress, to the continental
troops of said State for deprecation of . 3/6fl I7|
pay, and,for services done by the Mi
litia and supplies furnifhed.;
Amount supposed to be 300,000 dol
gp No provision made for. paying the interef, but
certain portions of tie debt receivable in payment of
taxis, and a great number of collectors or State
Bcokershand/omel, Supported by the commiffons received
bn the negotiations.
MASSACHUSETTS. ,
Debts contrasted and certificates 7
Ranted as aforefaid. J 2
Amount upwards of 5,000,000 dollars.
^ TbeState unable to pay the interest Jinee the fur
bender of the Import to the union ; and the creditors
claiming the right of being put on afooting with the
holders of continental Jec arities..
RHODE-ISLAND.
Certificates granted, &c. • W # Iu
The amount unknown, fay, 100,000 dollars,
^^ The State out of the union and devoid of every
principle of benefty, compelling the creators to receive
payment' of the principal by inftallmehts in paper mo
ney; depreciated to \^for 1. The creditors praying for
tedrefs froth the government of the union upon tie plea
o fjufti ce > becduje the debts there contraaed on the cre
dit of the Firm ; add altho' they bd<ve not the compa
ny's Jiguature as in the case of continental frcufSties,
th, can bring full proof of the copartnership..
CONNECTICUT.
Certfiicates granted, &c; . - - 2/6 | 12|
Amount near 2,000,000 dollars.
g^ The people groaning under tie prfure of direQ
taxes, and justly complain ng of an undue proportion
y the National Debt.
NEW-YORK.
Certificates granted,&c. - .^l^l
Amount upwards of 1,000,000 dollars.
g> No interest paid, their Land-Office almost ex
htfed, and the creditors praying for a participation
bf the benefits arifog from the late funding JJJhm.
NEW-JERSEY.
Certificates granted, &c. -3/6 [ 17%
Amount exclusive of interest rtear i,000,000.
03 No funds but direct taxes, arid both the people
and their representatives extremely anxious for such ar
rangements as will tend to equalize the burthens of the
different States, and strengthen the union.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Certificates granted, &c. . - 4^|%4
Amount about 2,000.000 dollars.
/ ^ The interest greatly in arrears and ,aid in a de
preciated paper currency, both the people and the cre
ditors displeased with their members in Congre/s i^ the
,(ar 1790, for not advocating a proportion that was
•< warranted by the confitution, and by the fourtdeft
principles of finance, &of national policy ;" and for
fufferi^g tbemfelves to be persuaded by a few design
ing partisans, not in Congress ; that the measure
would be disagreeable to their conftituenta.
DELAWARE.
Certificates granted, &c. - , y[2o
Amount supposed to be 150,000 dollars.
g, The provifio^ conftdered precarious, owing to
the interefied and opposite views of members in the le
gifature ; and she people dif,ofed to acquiesce in what
ever meefure; ma, be deeded conducive to the general
^
THE NEWHAMPSHIRE GAZETTEER.
Os the DOMESTIC DEBT of the UNITED
For July, One Thousand Seven Hundred and
Ninet y-Ohe.
From the Gazette of the United States,
Friday, JUNE ii, 1790,]
PRICE CURRENT
STATES,
Publilhed by H. Ranlet, in the Main Street; Exeter.
CHARLESTON, MAYfr
Mr. Keith planter, on Pedee river lately fuffer
ed an inhuman death. He had been on business at
WINCHESTER, [VIRG.] APRIL %
A lette, from Kentucky, dated march 7, men
tions, 6 that a Ration has been taken by the
Shawanefe, above the Three Iflahds—that it con
sisted of fourteen men, besides women and chil
dren, who were inade prifofiers of, arid conveyed
to the Indian country;'
On Monday last, a man; his wife and four
children were crossing the river Shanandoah,
(which had been swelled to an amazing height
by the late rains) between this town and Har
rifonburg, in a waggon ; the rapidity of the flood;
Carried the bed of the wriggon off the axletrees,
by which unfortunate accident the woman arid
children were all drowned, and it was with the
Utmost difficult, that the matt escaped Sharing a
similar fate. Their bodies were not found on
Tuefday, though diligently fought for.
NASSAU, APRIL 30:
On the ifth of last month the hull of a two mail
ed vessel was found ashore on the Gut-Fish Key;
north end of little Abico, by a wreeking vessel be
longing to this port.— In the hold were found a
few barrels of American herrings and Mackarel,
foriie white pine boards, arid white oak ftaves. Her
keel measured about fixty-five feet, the appeared
to be a new American built vessel and from her
cargo is supposed to have been bound from Nova-
Scotia to the Weft-Indies.
MARYLAND.
Certificates granted, &c. - VI 20
Amount about 800,000 dollars.
CT The people being much attached to the general
government and welfare of the union, lament exceed
ingly that their representatives of last year were go
verned so much by a mijiaken State policy, as to oppose
the best means that could be devijed for the efabhjb
ment of national credit.
VIRGINIA.
Debts contracted, &c. •^]i3
Amount about 3,600,000 dollars.
0, The citizens complaining that they have to pay
so large a portion of the continental duties b, their great
consumption, and derive no ken, from the payment of
interest ; and disapprove of a diferimination between
the continental and State creditors that is So ver, un„
favourable to the latter.—Their representatives con
vinced that their condua was not calculated to gain
popularity, and diSpofed 10 aa infutuse upon national
principles ; now beliedsiug that publick credit cannot
be eftablijhea in an, oth, way, but b, an adequate
provifionfor all debts incurred by the war.
NORTH-CAROLINA.
Debts contraded, &e. ^ r /6 |7!
Amount supposed to be about 2,500,000 dols,
(^ The legislature speculating on the creditors in
makingwhat the, call a provifon fir the deb:,b, oblig
ing them to take 4s. in the pound in paper money that is
depreciated 10) per cent, ant the citizens fully sensible
when it is too late, that however well acquainted Some
of their former representatives may be <with<Fti„C,
Mathematik:, and Natural Phytofophy, that the, were
altogether ignorant of the bufmeSs of Finance; did of
the Prue interests of the State.
SOUTH-CAROLINA,
Debts contracted, &c. - !if\ io
Amount upwards of, 5,000,000
ts The Creditors demanding juficte, dnd the State
rendered incapable, by the continental funding fyrtem,
to Satisfy their demands.
GEORGIA.
Debts contraaed, &c. - bjo
Amount supposed to be, 400,000 dollars.
K, The State will not make an, p^ovijion for its
creditors, nor allow it to be done „ the Union, leaf it
Should encourage [peculation and is determined " to
keep the debts perpet all, in being, as a jecurity "a
gainft a consolidation of the Government!'
Philadelphia, May 15; 1790.
AMERICAN OCCURRENCES.
tert. ,
American Museum informs that a single farmer
in the State pfNew-York, with a capital of five
thousand pounds, lias cleared one thousand a yeir
by the manufadure of potash alone.
. WORCESTER, JUNE 3.
On the 15th olt. Mr. Daniel Kendrick, of Hol
lis, Newhampfhire, whohad been for some time
An OX, fed by Edward Hall, Esq. ofWhiley, id
the county of Northumberland, Great-Britain, was
l tely killed, and found to be of the following ex
traordinary weight, viz. Ib.
The 4 quarters 20 94
Tallow 271
Hide 147
Head and toriguli §2
Feet
Heart ig
PHILADELPHIA, MAY 22.
Thomas Dobbs, gardener to John Parker, Est.
of Marlhfield, near Settle, has lately made an ex,t
periment in setting potatoes, which deserves atten
tion. One he planted whole, without cutting, and
on the fame piece of ground planted another, cut
into setts, and found the produce as follows ; From
the whole potatoe 217 were produced, one fourth of
them large, and the others of a common size; and
from the potatoe which was cut or Biced only 120
were produced.
Extras if (letter from Paris, March 20.
" Within these thirty years a great and import
tant revolution has taken place in the ideas of
mankind. The public opinion has at this morant
a force throughout Europe which cannot be refilled;
and we may hope that tyrants of all forts will soon
be seen to tremble before the universal cry. Ex
cellent spirits hate beeri formed among the magis
trates. The citizens ate enlightened and pre--
pared to aft courageously to the fame object. War
is declared between men of letters and the great.
The great will lose the battle ;] they hate the
light and the men who carry it; but the rights of
men are now underflood, and tyrants look eftonifc
ed. Voltaire combated fanaticifm and superstition
sixty years together ; it was he that gave the mor
tel stroke to the monster which others before him.
had wounded. The monster carries the arrow in
his vitals. He may for a while struggle, bat must
at last expire, and fatisfy the universe. There are
at least 100,000 of the inhabitants ofParis who view
with pity the nonsense of Our publick worffiip. The
churches are almost deferred.—An angry Bishop
was afked—of v hat do you complain; has any bod,
committed sacrilege ; has a single philosopher abu
sed your catechism ; are you ever contradicted ?—-
The bishop anfivered, " would to God they would
now and then commit i sacrilege, that we might
not think ourselves beneath their notice."
A Marine or Naval Academy is proposed to be
creded at Fell's Point, near Baltimore for the in
ftrudion of youth in naval and commercial mat-
NEWYORR, May 22..
On Saturday last happened a melancholy acct:
dent in this city. A daughter of Captain Hamil
ton, in Crown Street, an amiable girl of near
fixtetH yean of age, went with her brother in her
arms (an infant of two years old) into the steeple
of the New Dutch Church, within a small distance
Os her father's dwelling Hbute. Unfortunately,
when she had afeehded as high as the fourth story,
and inadvertently treading upon some loose boards;
they gave way, and both came to the pavement
ffiockingly bruited, and the girl with part of her
scull beaten in. The latter died instantly, the
infant survived about three quarters of an hour.
£ln a 'l 3 0 3 2
The above account is communicated to the pub:
lie, in hopes that it may contribute to raise in out
farmers, that spirit of emulation, which pervades
the fame body of men in England, and has pushed
the science and pradice of agriculture among thefn,
to so great a heighth of improvement.
three of his Negroes, one of which (hot him in th°
breast. They have since confeffed the foul confpi*
racy against the life of their matter, and are con,
signed over to the punishment which they merit.
1 . • . 2618
Liver, blood; lights & antrails 414.
ALBANY, MAY 10.
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