The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1792-11-07 00:00:00, page 2

And be it further enabled,
That any person aggrieved
at, or diffatisfied with any
decree, sentence or order of
any judge of probate, by
virtue of this aft made,fhall
have right to appeal there
from/ to the Superior-court
of judicature, provided such
appeal be claimed within
sixty days next after the
making such decree,fentence
order, or denial, and giving
bond in a reasonable sum
with Sufficient lureties, to
prosecute said appeal with
effea, and to pay costs in
case such decree, sentence,
order or denial shall be con
firmed.
And be it further enabled,
That if any such decree,
sentence, order or denial,
shall, upon such appeal, be
reverted or altered by said
superior-court, cost shall be
taxed for the appellant.
And be it further enabled.
That in case of an appeal
being taken, the person ap
pealing shall immediately
give notice in one of the
New-Hampshire newspa
pers, of the appeal having
been claimed and allowed,
and of the term at which
said appeal is to be entered
for trial.
And be it farther enabled,
That the aft entitled, 'f An
aft relating to executors
and adminiftratois, be,and
hereby is repealed : provided
nevertheless, that all pro
ceedings already had by vir
tueof said a&, shall be good
and valid, all orders and
decrees of anyjudge of pro
bate, in pursuance thereof,
shall be carried into effect
Hi the fame manner, as
though said aft had not
been repealed.
Presided always, That
make payment of the debts
and legacies of the testator,
in specie, if luch he hath,
as arfets in his hands ; and
if he hath not the fame, he
shall expose the estate to the
creditors and legatees, to
take their fatisfadion there
of at their election ; the va
lue of such estate to be as
certained by appraisers mu
tually chosen and sworn.
And where judgment and
execution Shall be awarded
for any legacy, or for a debt
due from the testator, the
fame proceedings shall be
had thereon,as the law does,
or may hereafter direct for
levying and fatisfying exe
cutions in other cases.
Extras of a letter from Kingflon, Ja
maica, June 23.
" Prime new negro slaves are now
felling at tool. per head ; women 981.
boys 961. and girls 94k exclusive of
the duty.
On Friday a packet arrived from Si^
erra Leone, which brings the most mek
ancholy accounts from this new settle
ment. So dreadful a mortality has
prevailed, that upwards of two hundred
persons have died fincej^elaft accounts
weie received. Numbers of the blacks
have also fallen facrifices to the in:
clemency of the climate. The natives,
although not qt open war with the
settlement, are far from being friendly
to it they never omit an opportunity
to plunder, and have, in many instan
ces,. committed daring outrages.
Yesterday Mr. Simpson, of the City
Farm-house, at Hoxton, brought with
himJrom that place,the Public-Office,
Worlhip-ftreet, a child between twelve
and thirteen years of age,who had liv
ed with him as a fervaut, and by her
own confeffion, it appeared, ihe had,
at twelve different times, robbed him
of 36 guineas, and various articles of
wearing apparel, all in the space of
fix months. Two poupers, who bad
lived in the fame house, were charged
with receiving the fame, knowing it to
have been stolen ; the former bad re
ceived from the child.3s guineas and
the linen ; the other one guinea, for
which (he was to receive a cotton gown
and shawl as a present for robbing her
master, and a promise of taking her
away from the house to live like a la
dy. Inlligated by those and other
allurements, she had found means,
when her master was asleep, to take his
breeches from under his head, and pil
fer from them, from three to four
guineas at a time, which pradic^ she
had continued till a few days since,
when, from some fortunate circum
stance, the whole was difeovered. They
were all committed. , L
The following curious though mel,,
ancholy circumflance is an absolute
fa& :—On Thursday last afi flierman at
Ihe Spume Point, .near Hull, having
caught several flat filh, be placed /he
head of one of them, when alive, with
in his teeth, when it inflantaneoufly
jumped down his throat, and caused
immediate death. His body was as.
terwards opened by the faculty, and
the fifh was found upon his flomack,
rolled up in a contra^ed state !
Algiers.— The conditions pre
scribed by the Dey,and accepted by M.
Scholdebrand, the Swedilh Consul, are
as follows :—i. To pay immediately
to the Dey the sum of 50,000 Algerine
feduins, and proportional sums to the
Great Officers of State.-^2. Sweden
engages to fornilh the Dey with Twen
ty-four pietes of cannon, 24 pounders.
—3. Sweden engages to pay annual
LONDO N, August 23.
PAUL JONES,
IT has been erroneoafly represented,
that Paul Jones died in distress.
He has left more than 10001. to be
divided between hie two lifters now in
the north of England.
Sir Richaid Arkwright handled im
mensely rich; his real and perlonal
property is estimated at little shore of
half a million of money. From the
humble Hate of a barber at a village
near. Manchester, he gradually rofejn,
the acquifi<ion of this vast wealth, b'j
the accidental purchase of a single
piece of Mechanffm called the spinning
jenny, the invention of an ingenious
carpenter, who, as report goes, offer
ed it for sale from mere necessity.
nothing in this a& contain
ed, shall be construed to af
fe& nuncupative wills, as
provided for by a law of the
late province.
Foreign Intelligence.
St. JOHN'S, August 7 .
YEfterday morning ar
rived in this port the
schooner Bell Nannette, be
longing to this Ifland,James
Lewis, Master, by whom we
have the following melan
choly narrative.
" That he got into the
Carenage atSt.Bartholomew
on Wednesday night, in the
course of which the most
violent hurricane, ever
known by the oldest man
there, commenced : The
wind blew from all points
of the compass in a few mi
nutes, io that no method
could be used for fafety.
There were 15 or 16 fail of
vessels in port, not one of
which in the morning (ex
cept the schooner) were a
float, being either overfet &
funk at anchor, or drove on
shore. The crews of many
were drowned in the vessels
which overfet. The melan
choly fight which presented
itfelf on shore was shocking
in the extreme ; numbers
of houses blown down, and
many inhabitants buried in
the ruins,and in the harbor
the dead bodies of men, wo
men and children floating
about, this added to the
number of burials on the
2d was truly deplorable.
Near 40 houses of some
note were destroyed, (some
being washed into the sea,
and others dashed to pieces)
besides small huts, &c. All
provisions in the island were
deftroyed,except what were
in the King's store, and in
tte ftoreofMr.Rolle,whofe
^humanity upon this distres
sing occasion, merits the
'higheft veneration from his
fellow-citizens, as he dftri
buted his provisions with a
most liberal hand,to all who
wanted relief : And had not
this been the case their dis
tress muftthave been still
greater. —When Captain
Lewis left St.Bartholemew
several of the inhabitant
were miffing, and it was
computed that near 140 had
loft their lives.
ly the sum of 12,000 feqnias in money,
or the value in ammunition, to be de
termined by the choice of the Dey,—
4. If the Regency of Algiers Ibould
be in want of vessels, Sweden under
takes to procure them. The price of
freight to be regulated by the Dey.—
5. Every two years the Confol iball
ailbibute among the Court a prefect
of diamonds, watches gold fluffs, and
woollen cloths, instead of the money
which was formerly distributed at the
fame period.
ANTIGUA.
VIRGINIA.
Co,, of a letter from Ca,t,,oh« Roger?
to his excellency H<nr, Lee.
I reaty-gound, Diffri^of Merc, Terris
tor, lautb of Ohio, Aug. 5.
Dear Sir,
WHEN l got into the Holstein
counry, I found I was in time
to accompany gov. B'oun? to the trea
ty in this diftria : I pushed for Knox
ville,the terri'orial feat of government
which place 1 reached the 4th of July,
and set out for this the next morning,
with the governor and gen. Pickins,
attended by eighty cavalry, raifcd for
3 months doty,for the better prote&ion
of this dillrift. A party of 50 infan
try, many,families, End other pcifonr,
on their way to tbit country, were fired
on by a party of Indians concealed in a
cane brake, on the 10th, of July, a.
bdut 20 miles ahead of us,and 15 from
the fettlement,which they reached the
fame day ; upon the soldiers pressing
forward, they ran, without doing any
damage. We got in to the frontiers of
this diftria the next day ; and learnt
that one Zeigler's fiaticn, at 2 miles
didance from us, had ben taken by the
fdvages. On the night of the 22<1. of
Jone, a man had been killed in the
fields,and a negro girl tomahav kec i&
fcalpcd. That day a party of 3 men,
went to take in the body of a dead man
who lay within fifty ya?ds of a fence
behind which the Indians were full
concealed, who fired upon the men, &
wounded them al!,they however made
their escape to the houses, the Indians
pursued them clo'e,gft their gun<, kil
led two horses near the houses and hen
disappeared. More of the neighbors
assembled in the eve ning, and carried
in the dead man, who then returned 0
their refredive homes,being all alarm
ed for the fafety of their families, lea
ving atZeigler's only the three woun
ded men, and two or three others be
longing to the place : The Indians re
turned in the night, attacked the Na
tion, and found that all the people had
got into one house, to the number of
21 perform, men, women & children,
the Indians then set fire to the adjacent
houses, which soon communicated the
flames to that in which the people were
and soon reduced them to the dreadful
dilemma of periling by the fiames,cr
quitting the house to be tomahawked.
Tgey chose the latter ; the three woun
ded men then escaped ; a woman with
a child in her arms escaped, one Wil
son was wounded in the breast upon
opening the door ; he however fol
lowed his wife and fix children, until
a party of fndians were ready to lay
hold of them ; he then bid them fare
well, fired his gun at the Indians, and
then escaped between the burning bou
fes; Mrs. Wilson, her fix children, &
three of Zeigler's were taken off ;
Zeigler is supposed to have perished
in the flames ; a young man was tom.
ahawked near the houses ; a tegio
wench killed a few miles on their re
treat ; there were bones of several bo
dies appeared in the ashes ; the man
that had been killed, and the girl that
had been tomahawked, but was not
dead, were consumed in the house. I
accompanied Mrs. Zeigler to her plan
tation, with a party .to assist her in
mending up her enclofures,which had
been laid open, and exposed her crop
to the flock.
This country is in a deplorable iitu
ation—detached from the great body
of the union—the inhabitants very
dispersed—almost every part of it a
frontier —so that few are fafe in their
beds, and still fewer in their fields ;
the lands in a measure lie fallow, or
,re tilled with the plough in one hand,
the other the rifle ! Many fields which
have been tilled in this manner are
now deserted, and fine growing crops
left to be deployed by such stocks as
are unvoidably left about the deferred
plantations ; and almost every day it
distinguished by savage murders, 0^
other depredations.
Ihave procured an accurate
the killed, wounded, and miffing,6°,
the firfl of January 17^1 amounting in