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State of New-Hamp^re. Rockingham, IT.
To the honorable fuftices of the Superior Court of
Judicature, bolder at Portsmouth roilbin and fa
I said county of Rockingham, on the jirft Tuefday ;
of February, in the year of our Lord one thou
sand eight hundred and four.
HUMBLY SHEWS, John Jeffries of Bos
ton, in the county of Suffolk and Com
monwealth of MafLehufetts, Fhyfician, that he
is guardian of George Jaffrey, a minor under
the age of twenty-one years, that the faid'
George is seized in fee simple of the following *
tracts of land situate in said county of Rocking
ham, to wit, one trad situate in said Portsmouth
on the northerly fide of Bow-street, and bounded
eafteriy by land of Ebenezer Thompson, south
erly by said Row-street about twenty-five feet,
westerly by land of Jfaac Rindge, and northerly
by Pifeataqua ri/er.—One traft situate in said
Portsmouth on the westerly fide of mirode road,
being part of the lot of land now in pofieffion of
Joshua Wentworth, beginning at said middle
road, thence running westerly by land of Silas
Holman to the northwederly corner of said lot,
then northerly by said Holman's land thirty
feet, then Southerly to the placetf beginning in
eluding the northwesterly corner of laid lot.—
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bounded easterly by middle road, southerly by
a highway lately laid out, called Broad-street,
westerly by land of John Haven and Jeremiah
Mason, and northerly by land of said Haven
and by Islington road, containing about two
acres.— One tra& of land situate in said Ports
mouth, bounding'eafterly about thirty feet by
said middle road, southerly by land of William
Ham and northerly by said Broad-street.—One
other trad of land in said Portsmouth, bound
ing easterly by land of said William Ham, west
erly by land of Richard Shapley and northerly
by said Broad-sheet, and one undivided half
part of a certain trad of land situate in Ep
ping in said connty of Rockingham, containing;
twenty-two acres and one halt, being the famei
land, which was on the thirteenth day of No-I
vember in the year of our Lord one thousand
seven hundred eighty-fix, set off on an execu
tion in favor of George !-%% ''? C- ^eb-4
eQhiuifbaran Hanlon, as by the return of fa'd .
I efeution appears.—That it would f Sere"??!
l o .^—©xad^c^-t —J^-— A ^ tou-rntner rod
?mike sale of said fcveral trades of land —wherein
fore tie said John Jeffries prays that he may be
authorised and empowered to fell and convey
the fame. ,
JOHN JEFFRIES, bv his Attorney
JEREMIAH LIBBEY.
Rocking!ant,y. Superior Court FebrkaryTerm 1804.
Ordered by the Court that the petitioner no
tify all persons concerned, to appear before the
Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature to
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NATH'I ADAMS, Clerk.
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John P. Evans,
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his (hop near Portsmouth stone, Congress-street,
cheap as can be purchafcd in town or elfewbere,
also, Thompson's warranted Scotch and Rappee
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TUESDAY, July 24, 1804.
OF ALL THE DISPOSITIONS AND HABITS
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re ,GION and MORALITY ARE INDISPENSA
BLY bUPPOR PS. Wajligion's Legacy.
MISCELLANY.
- ——— 3»o*®<T~
HISTORY OF THE
I Proceedings of the Legislature.
To the printer of the Courier of Neve-llarcfrhire.
The inclosed isthe copy of a letter from a gen
t^man who attended at Concord, during a greater
,' of the late seseoii of rhe Legislature, to hie
. r nd in a distant part 0, the S'ate. It is said
^ contain a very correct account ofthe ftrocc?d ; nt,s
W that session. You wll ohlige cue of your cits
', rs byifdishing it in the Courier. It is Inter
mit ''= —' : A alarming,
'July 2d, le&l.
L 7 ar Sir,
iN compliance with your request, I shall present
you with a sketch of the proceedings of the first
Session of the democratic Legislature of New-Hamp
shire. I well remember your prediction, that should
the eff-ct of the arts practised last winter lie the
election of a majority of democrats to the Legislature
the same overbearing, persecuting spirit would at
once appear in them, that has been manifested in
all other democratic Assemblies. 1 did not at that
time yield a full belief to your prophecy ; and the
reason, why I did not, was grounded on a persua
sion that a majority of the people of New-ILuep
shire were not democrats; that although ait and
intrigue might place in the Legislature a small ma
jority of Antifedcralists this year, yet as they must
oc impressed itch a like opinion of the sentiments of
die body to the people, this consideration would ope
rate to restrain them from violent measures.—l now
acknowledge year option to have been the most
correct.\
Os the Representatives elected this year, there
were an unusual number of new members ; many of
them young men whose inexperience made them f.+
subjects for intrigue, and whose youth marked them
out as objects for battery to assail with hopes of suc
cess. The opportunity was zealously improved by
he democrats, to secure them to their interest : and
!pany, whose election was obtained by federal votes
I fell victims to their able arts. Another, and a more
%rffertual aid to the furtherance of democracy, has
I ©user, .from the extraordinary conductof the brothers'
Gr-PT^te Gilman 1 who, hi gratify iresc^menft; „
^^^^ffragh^-n own regdatiue should in
f! ever to !.lAn from the world foi'med an
rural connection with persons inimical to their,
hostile to the t&wn ofExeter, and decidedly
opposition to the processed politics of one of these
brothers, and if the information of this brotiicr was
correct, to the politics of both. Had they been a
vowed democrats, much less injury would have ari
sen ; but passing with some for federalists, their
influence by this means became more extensive, and
was improved to promote the object of the Antifed
eralists : there conduct has placed them in a situation
far from being enviable ; they have lost the confi
dence of the federalists, without securing the good
opinion ever, of the democrats. It is true, that one
of them has been chosen President of the Senate,
and the other has been appointed Treasurer ; yet
it is well known this did not proceed from any attach
ment the Portsmouth interest had to them person
ally, but (to adept the language of one of the dem,
carats^ from a wish to break the d d Exeter
knot, ty dividing the house against itself.
Such was the situation of things when the Legisla
ture assembled.— The election of a Speaker, and
filing ,p one vacancy in the Senate, was decided
ths firs) day,(Wednesday and pretty nearly demon
stratedthe state of parties. The papers have al
ready 'given you notice of them.
Thdsecond day of the session, (Thursday) being
usually, the day for public exercises, not much legis
lative lousiness was transacted. The sermon, by
the Rev. Mr. Porter, of C nway, was sensible, in
genioufyand patriotic ; such as every true Ameri
can w&d approve—such as every Gallo-American
would condemn.—As the election of a Treasurer
was elected to take place on t%c following day
toward the close of this day a motion was made by
a federalist member of the House, “ that a joint
comnfcee should be raised to take into donsidera-
I ticn tfc statement of the Treasurer's Account, made
I p receding se<fen, and report thereon." This
idid not arise from any doubt of the integri
le Treasurer, or of the correctness of his ac
dluded to ; for this statement, when exhib
st winter, met the unanimous approbation of
tgislature ; and the form in which the ac
was exhibited, was exactly similar to the
:e for seven successive years ; and this form
;tablished by, or hud tlie full concurrence of,
the most intelligent democrats in the State,
r many years, hag been one of the committee
iy appointed to settle the Treasurer's accounts,
joint committee consisted of seven persons,
of whom were democrats ; they reported the
corning—Their approbation of the Treasur
:counts was fully and unanimously expressed
unanimously agreed to by the Legislature.
L, 1 do not believe there was one member of the
ature who liad any doubt of the correctness of
counts, previous to this re-examin^tion ; !»^
otion for a committee was highly proper, un.
e existing circumstances; though had it orig
with the Treasurer's political opponents, it
have been more honourable to then), consid*
that the necessity of the measure arose out of ,
=— ^c— =^^^^^^
a wicked and evidently malicious publication against
him, which had its origin in a newspaper notoriously
prostituted to their party ; I mean the “ Observa
tory," printed at Walpole, and edited by a man who
was once a minister of the Gospel, but now a fiery
zealot in the cause of democracy, and remarkable
for his artful mistatements, and his wilful persever
ance in them—This man appears like the infamous
Marat in France, boasting of his Icve to the people
and denouncing all who are to become victims to
democratic rage.
The Governor having been notified of his re-el
ection, on the third day of the session (Friday) ap
peared in the Representatives room, to declare his
acceptance of the office, and take tlie requisite bath,
On this occasion, he made a short but manly and
patriotic address ; implying, that as his political
p" uciples wc.ro grid I c n the system of Washing
too, the same ieder/ system would still be his guide
€v nt:mugh ms f, ex suovid be thereofuis own house'
On the at^noon of this day tlie election of a Sec^
retary and Treasurer came on.—As the election of
toe tatter which attended with peculiar circum
stances ; not merely becuure much proof was fur
nished oy this, of the rancour of democracy when
clothed with power ; but also because by the evi
dence ry siting from this, it appears, that Mr. Pea
body was really elected Treasurer ; 1 shall be par
ticmr.r in the relation of tlie transactions.
The two branches being in convention, and the
epeaker of the House of Representatives in tlie
chair, the election of a Secretary first took place
this, the President of the Senate assisted the
, Speaker in suiting and counting the votes : but on
the ballots being returned for Treasurer, he did net
as in the termer cace, assist the Speaker ; doubtless
this was from motives of delicacy, his brother beiny
a candidate. Ihe only assistance the Speaker had;
was from the member from Dover ; he had been
active in collecting the votes, and he lent his aid to
the Speaker m sorting, but not in counting them :
the Speaker alone counted the votes : they were
not, as is often the case, cross-examined, or twice
county—He th, declared them to stand thus :
For Nathaniel Gilman % for Oliver Peabody 83.
for John Langdon I—the total were 172. The
votes were then thrown under the table. In a few
minutes, it occurred to one of the members that the
number of 172 was mere than the whole number of
the convention. On inquiry, the Clerk stated the
whole numberef the qualified members of the House
to be Ij9, and Mr. Nathaniel Gilman being ab
sent, there could be only 158 of the House ; end
there were only 11 of the Senate ; the whole ram
mer oi the convention was consequently three less
plan the amount of votes declared. This discovery
caused considerable agitation in the convention:/
(but the votes having been thrown under the t&&-
rod mixed with others of the formerbarottr.
ter Spouse, diere appeared
:T e rr^tive than to assign a time th? tolled
&?%fo:ftffrateh R>G'Decknex^orai
tffoc,u It is to oc regretted, that a new
ballot count net have been immediately taken on the
discovery of an excess of numbers ; it would have
closed the door to any further intrigue in this elec
tion. It was apparent, that some whom the demo
crats counted in their files had independence e
nough to vote mr Mr. Peabody. They would not
ail sacrince to party views the better feelings of
man, which delight in expressions of attachment to
superior merit ; nor could they be wholly regard
less of the obligation upon them to support his elec
tion, alter the slanderous publications against him,
and which the Legislature had that very day pre
pounced, were without foundation,—The removal of
Mr. Peabody was an important object with the lead
ing democrats ; it had become mere so, if the conjec
ture is well founded, that it was the price at which
principles bad been bartered : accordingly every
endeavor was made to persuade those d^nocr-ts
who voted for Mr. Peabody the first day, to vote
sci 1/L. Giinlan, on the second. The excess of
votes remained unaccounted for, and it was doubt
ful which candidate would have the highest number
on a fair trial ; it was also evident that some de
mocrats had voted for Mr. Peabody. These con
siderations called forth the energies u the anti-fed
eiali'ets ; first, to prove that the excess of vot^ was
not on their part ; next, to secure the election of
there candidate ; and lastly, to call back to their
party those whose independence and'regard to me
rit had induced them to vote for the federal candi
date. The zeal of the democrats to prove that the
excess of votes was not on tiieir part, was very
apparent ; and this probably led some of them to
imagine twit they could fix it upon tlie federalists •
and the more respectable and influential the cha^
r~~ te% A ~hc, Siiould inipncate, the more important
in its consequences to their partv—Whether this
was ,remi±tated cr not, I think you will agree with
me, that die evidence adduced carries some such
appearance. On Saturday morning, it was very
generally and industriously reported, that Mr.
Chamberlain, a respectable and influential member'
from Alstead, at the balloting for Treasurer the
preceding day, had put in two votes : it was stated,
that it could be proved, positively by two members
of the House, and circumstantially by a third. This
report being mentioned to, Mr. Chamberlain b^ 3
friend ; as soon as the convention formed, Mr
Chamberlain rose in his place, and stated the infor
mation he had received—and called open the per
sons from whom the charge came, for an explana
tion. The positive proof turned out to be, first,
that a Mr. Hait, a member from Bradford, saw Mr'
Chamberlain put a vote into the hat brought to hiri
when in his seat, This information Mr. C. said
was correct ;he did vote in his seat. The other
evidence was a Mr. Morrill, member from Chi
chester, who stated, that at the same balloting, h^
saw Mr. C. carry a vote and lay it on the Speak
er's desk, after the hats were returned. The
members weie called upon to state, whether any
other of them were witnesses of the same. Not a
nother, beside Merril, had any recollection of it -
many of those who sat nearest, rose and declared
they saw po such transaction ; and the Speaker
candidly remarked, that he had no knowledge of
Mr. C coming to the desk at that time. Mr.
Chamberlain then stated a circumstance which
:might give rise to a conjecture in Mr. Merril's
mind that he went to the desk ; and gave Morril
an opportunity to acknowledge his errer, and free 1
himseh irom tlie charge of a criminal intention-—
this was, that a friend ot his, coming into tlie House
alter the ballots were generally given in, and going
) to write one at the Clerk's table, he stepped up £
[No. 42.