The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1790-01-09 00:00:00, page 4

SEAToftbe MUSES.'
Negro's prayer.
CT'HE Poet's corner in Gazette,
A It often fill'd by some Coquett;
Or Cap in band to do his duty.
Will fatarizd his female beauty:
But as I now have room to spare.
I'll here infett a Negro's Pray'r.
Lord if thou dost with equal eye.
See all the sons of Adam die ;
Why do'ft thou hide thy face from
slaves,
Conlign'd by fate to serve the knaves?
Stolen or fold in Africa,
Imported to America,
Like bag, or Cheep at market fold.
To stem the heat or brook the cold,
To work all day and half the night,
And rife before the morning light,
sustain the lash, endure the pain,
Expos'd to storms of snow and rain,
Pinch'd with hunger and with cold,
And if we beg we meets fee!!.
And after all the tedious round,
- A,iot to stretch upon the ground.
Has Heaven decreed that negroes
By cruel men,he ever curs'd ! fr* ±
Pore rdrag the t^g chain,
I And ne'er enjoy themselves as men!
When will Jehovah hear our cries !
When will the fun of freedom rife !
When will a Mofa for us stand,
And free us all from Pharo's hand !
What tho' our skin be black as jet,
Our hair be curl'd, our noses flat,
Must we, for this, no freedomhave.
Until we find it in the g~ave ?
—'■ ' ^ 11,1
MISCELLANY."
From the GAZETTE of the
United States,
THE GUEST—No. VI.
'Hiftor, is the refurreaion of past ages.'
PER MIT me to recommend to my
young redears the ft ndy of hifto
ry, as the best and most ufeful source
of knowledge: here the volume of
nature is unfolded, whose pages are
the record, of experience— Here wc
may learn wisdom of the most dura
ble and important kind—and .enjoy
the benefit of those rules which result
from the trials of virtue, arid the mist
fortunes of folly, at the expense of
past ages, Hiftory inspires caution;
without darkening the mind with
prejudice or fufpicion—lt teaches us
ajuft chimate of mankind,and abates
the awkwardness of farprife and won
der so natural to the uninformed.
The study of hiftory is at once plea,
sing and profitable—lt does not re
# quire intense application—lt may be
taken up at a moment of leisure, and
relinquished as other avocations inter
vene—and thus may be made a fave
all of the scraps of time, none of
which ffiould be ioft-foras has been
observed, "of all prodigality, that of
time is the most fhameful."
Hiftory elevates the mind to a lofty
eminence, from whence we take a
perfpe&ive view of the tranfaaions
of mankind—Of those mighty events
and over-ruling providences, which
have determined the, fate of king
doms, fates ® tmpires—and while
the flora bn the world's great thea
tre pass in review before us, we are
deterred from adopting the habits of
infamy, by the general fate of vici
ous examples—and charmed to a love
of virtue, by the glory and happiness
which crown the a€ts of the wife and
benevolent.
It is difficult to account for the
general fentimenQ that hiftory writ
ten at the period when the tranfafli
ons recorded take place, is common
ly partial, without stigmatizing hu
man nature ; but the observation has
too often been verified,to be denied—
Fear, favor and affection, in fpme
form or other, have almost uniformly
found means to influence the pens of
cotemporary writers : —However u
niversal this opinion may be; it is to
be hoped, for the honour and advan
tage of mankind, that America will,
if (he has not already, produced his
torians who shall intripedly, and im
partially relate, the great events that
her intriped sons have atchieved :—
The relation of the moment, if falfe,
may be detected ; but if time rolls
his oblivions waves over the transac
tions of our country, before they are
inferibed on the page of hiftory, ma.
ny glorious actions will be loft —and
many a hero will be robbed of the ho
nors that immortality ought to im
press on his memory.
Truth is a (hort but compreheu
five motto—An historian (hoald make
" "his polar far— rejecting trifles ——
•zraordinaries, both good and bad,
th mid be faithfully recorded: The
iriith, told of bad characters, in a
well -wrote hiftory, holds them up to
everlasting infamy—and makes them
f,rve as beacons to future ages—while
lit proves the belt elogium on the be
nefactors of mankind—whose exam
ple excites the admiration, and en
sures the imitation of the wife and
good, while they contemplate the
fame glorious reward.
To learn the pad and future fate of
man,.
With critic eye the page of hist'r y
lean ;
From fads alone, wisdom her maxims,
draws,
And traces consequences to their
cause•
Here ages to the mind pass in re
view,
And nature in the justest mirror (hew.
Happy the youth whose free unfet
ter'd mind,
Draws from this source, truth, sim
ple and refin'd ;
Who builds on facts the fyflem of
his treed,°
And only follows where rbeir didatee
lead..
. .fr—,fl r , &, f:
WAS never a friend to the love
of God, or man, to duty or
conscience, truth, 'probity or honor :
It therefore can never make a good
fubje&, a good citizen, or a good sol
dier, and fait of all a good chriftian.
The world has substituted good
manner: in the place of good.nature :
Whoever confirms to the former, is
dispensed with from any observance
of the latter. tf^^
ANECDOTE.
WHEN theFrefident of the Uni
ted States, in his late tour,
was at Lexington', viewing the field
where the firft blood was shed in the
late war ; he with a degree of good
humour, told his informant, and o
thers that were present, that the Bri
tons complained to Dr. Franklin of
the ill ufuage their troops met with
at Lexington battle, by the Yankies
getting behind the stone walls, and
firing at them ; the Dodor replied,by
arcing them whether there, were net
two fiats to the wall.
'Weatherwise's genuine
ALMANAC K,
- FOR 1700, <<
May be had nt this office.
PublicAuaion.
By licence from the Judge
of Probate.
To be Sold at Public Auction,
On TUESDAY the 26th January,
1790 f at ten o'clock, A. M. precifo
lj—at tbs late manfan boufe of Jo
nathan Moulton, late of Ha„ton,Efq.
deceased ; the following PERSONAL
and REAL eftdte of said deceafed,wi%,
THE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE,
CONSISTING OF
Tables, Chairs, Beds, an elegant
Chime Clock#; and a Variety of other
articles aifo, The Farming Uten
sils— A PAIR of HORSES, CUR
rICLE, &c. &c.
A Valuable
F A RM
In Hampstead,containing of one
hundred aid twenty ACRES; with
HOUSE and BARN—pleasantly si
tuated, and only twelve miles from
Haverhill,-
About 16 Acres of Land,
well cultivated, in Romney ; late in
possession of Col. Craigot 1
About 150 Acres in
Piermont—palely improved.
A small FARMin
Piermont ; containing of sixty Acres
with the buildings.
' About fourteen Acres
in said Piermont, under cultivation,
late belonging to Fenton.
Six common Shares,
or undivided rights in said Piermont.
—ALSO—
All the Buildings at
Center-Harbour, so called, in New-
Hampton, on land not owned by said
deceased . also,
Lands in Gilmantown,
and other towns, lately advertised and
not fold.
Conditions of sale known at time
and place.
THOMAS,LEAVITT,
One of the Executors of said Moul
ton's l^ft Will.'
Hampton, Dec, 21, 1789.
C^ SH,
and the highest price,
s - GIVEN FOR
New-Emission Money,
Os any State:
INDENTS,
Final-Settlements,
STATE-NO FES.
ra—„et—c
# —A L S O —•
WANTED,
FLAX-SEED and
Shipping FUR S,
& WIGGIN.
Exeter, Dec. Bth, 178,,
{1 Y i r&' '
1 I ''A Tiw COPIES OF THAT^e
] I Excellent Pattern for Children,
Oecongmy of Human Life,
wy be bad at H. Ranlet’j &<e.
Debtors & Creditors.
^LL persons indebted
to, or that have any
demands against the es
tate of John Thompson,
late of Exeter, deceased,
are requested to exhibit
them for settlement, to
Benjamin Boardman,
[Adminif rater.
Exeter, 18th Det. 1789.
Debtors & Creditors.
A LL perlons who are in
' A debted to, or have aoy demands
against the Estate of JOHN KEN
NISON, late of Newmarket, deceas
ed , are desired ffeedily to fettle with
the fubferiber, Administratrix of said
Estate.
ELIZABETH KENNISON. _
Newmarket, Dec. 3d 1789.
=—---— —-':."'z'"T =_-==?:
Debtors & Creditors,
ALL Perlons that hate
' l any demands against the eltate
of ELIZABETH PAGE, late of
Exeter, in the County of Rocking,
ham, widow, deceased, are requested
ro exhibit them to the fubferiber, At
torney to the Executors, that a spee
dy settlement may take place.
OLIVER PEABODY.
Exeter, Dec. loth, 1789.
Take Notice!
CREDITORS to the estate of Jo
nathan Moulton, late of
Hampton, Esq, deceased, are inform
ed, that the commissioners appointed
tq receive and examine the claim# a.
gainft said estate will attend at his
late dwelling-hoafe in Hampton, on
the last Thursday and Friday of thi^
and she eight following months for.
that purpose.
Persons having claims still to exhi
bit are detired to offer them— —and
those who have accounts and demands
open with the said estate, which can
be fettled with the executors, with
out an application to commissioners,
are requested to apply to them on any
intermediate days.-^Thofe indebted,
to said estate will prepare to make im
mediate payment, as the speedy fete <
element thereof will oblige the exe
cutdrs to exa& it.
Hampton, 08. 19, I,^9°
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A Mathematical Question,
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VICEGERENT of the World „
ANSWERED BY TH£
KING of GLORr-,
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Demonflratiwfy opened
BY JOHN JOHNSON, A. M- <'
Printed by Henry Ranlet, and to
be Sold at bis Office opposite Maj.
M'Clure's in Exc/cr,
gThofe who bale fu hferibtion for ^
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