The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1792-10-31 00:00:00, page 4

Seat of the Muses.
'The. fair beheld him at a fund,
And failing law it broke ;
Then genii, taking up his hand,
She prefs'd it as the jpoke.
He drove to deal his ebarmer's Cup,
But turning quickly round ;
fuft as he Match'd the plunder up.
He dron'd it on the ground.
Observe th' unce ta n ft ie, my dear,
Attending human life ;
Nor buffo, my only love, to bear,
A Moral from a Wife.
Our hope is but a China Cup,
hi Lib gayly strike; t he view ;
And tho it Dwells the Bojorn up.
Is full (Is brittle too.
As Belmont o'er bis evening tea,
/ bapft, hour enjoy'd ;
With Delia's lips made pretty free,
And with her bo/om toy'd.
But now it would be something hard.
So joft a hope Should miss;
Then jeize, my Love, your own reward,
l won: deny a Ki's.
For the fettling of testate
BE it enabled by the Senate
and Houj'e oj Represen
tatives in General-Court con
vened, That every person
lawfully leized and possess
ed of any estate in lands,
tenements or hereditaments
within this state, of the age
of twenty one years and
upwards, and of sane mind,
dhall have power to give,
devise and dilpofe of the
fame, as well by his last will
and testament in writing,
as by any other a& duly
executed, to and among his
or her children, or others,
as he or she shall think fit.
And that all devises and be
quests of any estate in lands,
tenements and heredita-
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ments shall be in writing,
and sealed by the party de
vising the fame, and signed
by him, or by forne person
in his, or her preience, and
by his, or her express direc
tion, and shall be attested
and fubferibed in the pre
sence of the said devifor, by
three or more credible wit
nesses, or else shall be void
L and of none effed.
OF THE STATE OF
New-Hampshire.
LAW S
THE TEA-CUP.
A Fable.
. estates.
Faffed Feb. 3, 1789.
An ACT
And be it further enabled.
That any child, or children,
or their legal representatives
•in case of their death, not
having a legacy given him
or them in the will of their
father or mother, shall have
a portion of the estate of
the testator assigned unto
him, her or them, as though
such parent had died intes
tate. Provided such child,
children, or grand-children,
have not had an equal pro
portion of the deceafed's
estate bestowed on him, her
or them in the deceafed's
life time. And when any per
son, having a device of real
or personal estate, shall die
before the teftator,and leave
lineal defeendants, such
defceqdants shall take the
estate devised in the fame
manner the devifee would
have done, had he or she
survived the testator. And
the widow may wave the
provision made for her in
the will of her deceased
husband, and have her
dower assigned her in the
fame manner as though he
had died intestate ;in which
case flie shall have no bene
fit from such provision, un
less it,appears to have been
the testator's intention, that
such provision should be in
addition to her dower.
And be it further enabled,
That no will or instrument
And be it further enabled,
That when any child shall
happen to be born after the
death of the father, without
having any provisions made
in his will, every such poft
hurous child shall have right
and interest in his or her
father's estate, in like man
ner as if he had died intes
tate, and the judge of pro
bate shall issue his warrant
as in case of intestates, to
assign to such pofthumus
child a share in laid estate,
equal to what he or she
would have inherited, had
the father died inteftate,and
the fame shall be taken in
proportion from the devifees
and legatees who own the
estate by virtue of such
will.
in writing hereafter offered
for probate, purporting a
disposition of real and per
sonal aftate, not being exe
cuted with the formalities
aforementioned, shall be
approved or considered of
validity to pass or convey
any such estate or estates
whatever.
And be it further enabled,
that all such estate, real
and peffonal, that is not
deviled or bequeathed in
the last will and testament
of any person hereafter to
be proved, shall be distri
buted in the fame manner
as if it were an intestate
estate, and the executor or
executors shall administer
the fame accordingly.
And be it further enabled,
That any executor or exe
cutors of the will of any
person deceased, knowing
of their being io named,ne
glecting for more than thir
ty days next after the de
cease of the teftator,to cause
such will to be proved before
the judge of the probate for
the county where the deceaf.
ed person last dwelt, or to
present the laid will to the
laid judge, and in writing,
to declare his, her or their
refufal of the trust (with
ouvjuft excuse made to,and
accepted by the laid judge
for such delay) shall forfeit
the sum of five pounds a
month for such neglea,from
and after the expiration of
the laid thirty days ; to be
recovered by action of debt
in the inferior-court in the
fame county, one moiety
for him or them that shall
sue for the fame, and the
other for the use of the le
gatees named in the fame
will. And upon any such
refufal, the judge of probate
shall commit administration
of the estate of the deceased,
with the will annexed, unto
the widow or next of kin
to the deceased, or one or
more of the devifees ;or in
case of their refufal to one
or more of the principal
creditors, as he shall think
fit.
ALL persons indebted to, or
having demands on the es
tate of Abraham Tilton,
Ute of Stratham, blacksmith, de
ceafed,are requeued to fettle the
fame immediately with the fob
fcriber.
Abraham Tilton, Ex'r.
rStratham, September 26th, 1792
Whereas Samuel Leavitt
of Stratham, has a
Note of hand against me,
for Four Pounds lawful mo
ney—all persons are hereby
cautioned against purchas
ing said Note as it was frau
dulently obtained I am de
termined not to pay it.
JOHN SINKLER.
Stratham, October 16, 1792.
[Concluded in our next.]
(^ASH and the highest
price given for Loan Office
and Final Settlement CER
TIFICATES—STATE NOTES—
CERTIFICATES—OId and New-
Emission MONEY, &c, &c.
BY the printer hereof, a>
quantity of Green Sheep Shins,
N. B. The Skins must bane been bung \
up and dried in the foade with the a/^/L
on—for if they are dried in the fun
the afoes arc of, they are no? fit for any ufc.
WANTED a few pounds
LAMBS-WOOL Enquire
of the printer. Sept. 1792.
^(^^r^
Seventy Acrss, the greatest part order
good improvement—a good HOUSE
and BARN thereon Any person
inclining to purchase said Farm, fiw|
be treated gentlemanlike by the feb
fcriber.—
By the printer hereof and jold at tbi
Office-
Dr, Watts' Plain and Easy
Catechisms /^Children,
and PRESERVATIVE f^om the
SINS and FOLLIES of
Childhood and Youth ;
TO WHICH 18 ADDED THE SHORTER
CASH, or Writing-Paper,
given for clean Linen,or Cotton
and Linen RAGS, at this Office.
Spelling-Book:
Comprising tbe Firfl Princi
ples 0/ tbe
Fnglifh Language.
Price— if. per dozen—nine pence frgle.
EXETER, OCTOBER, 1 792.
and Striped tioufers on vhen he went
away - All mailers of Vcffels and
other persons are cautioned against
harboring or carrying off faic Boy, as
they will abide the penalty of the law
in that case made and provided——
If laid Boy ffiould be returned, he or
they shall have One Penny Renard for
their trouble and no charges paid.
JOSIAH JOHNSON.
Chichefer, October 17, 1792.
Youths' Inftru&or,
OR
Just Publifted,
By the printer hereof, and to be fold at
bis office on the loiceft termsjor Cajb, )
Unfunded Paper.
RICHAHD SINCLER.
Barnjhad, ORober 15, 1792.
Exeter, Sept. 27th, 1792,
Assembly of Divines
at Westminster
with Explanatory Notes.
JUST PUBLISHED,
For Sale,
Runaway.
CATECHISM OF THE
D ANaway from the
H fubferiber an appren
tice Boy, named DAVID
PERSONS, in the seven
teenth year of his age, short
thick fellote, brown hair—
with a light coloured jacket.
WANTED
S. WIGGIN.
THE
A Good Farm
''lying in Bara
ftead on the province
road near Gilman,
town line—it being
One Hundred and