The Massachusetts spy, or, Thomas's Boston journal (Boston [Mass.]), 1773-03-11 00:00:00

THE Massachusetts Spy
Or, Thomas's Boston Journal.
A Weekly, Political, and Commercial PAPER:--Open to ALL Parties, but Influenced by None.
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VOL. III.]
THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1773.
[NUMB. 110.]
ANDREW NEWMAN, WHITE SMITH.
BEGS leave to inform his friends and the public, that he makes and repairs all kinds of scale beams, steel yards and locks as reasonable as can be done in Boston.
N. B. Said Newman served his apprenticeship to Mr. John McClench late of Boston, White-Smith. By enquiring of Mr. Blake, the Town-Sealer the public may be informed of the quality of his scale-beams and steel yards.
Said Newman works in the shop now improved by Mr. William Jaiper, Cutler, from London, just below John Hancock, Esqrs. new brick buildings near the Mill-Creek, Boston.
Imported from LONDON, and to be sold by ELIZABETH CLARK and NOWELL,
At their shop, between the blue ball and the Mill Bridge, Boston, the following garden seeds, viz
EARLY Charlton, early Hotspur, early golden Hotspur, large Marrowfat, bush sugar, large sugar, dwarf and green marrowfat, and earliest Nicholas Peas, large Windsor and early white and yellow kidney Beans, early Dutch, early Yorkshire, green curled Savoy, early Butterleaf, large Winter, sugar loaf, yellow Savoy and red Cabbage Seeds, early and late Colliflower, large long Orange Carrot seed, early yellow and purple ditto, Swelling Parsnip, red Beet Seed, marble Cabbage, brown Dutch, white and green Gols, and grand Admiral Lettuce Seeds, Thyme, solid Celery, Portugal Onion Seeds, early Salmon Radish Seed, fine red Clover Grass Seed, scarlet and Turnip ditto, early Dutch Turnip Seed, round Spinage, white Mustard, curled Cresses, broad leaved ditto, Silver skinned Seed, choice boiling and split Peas, &c. All warranted new and of the genuine sort.
To be SOLD by JOSHUA BLANCHARD, jun.
At his store on Dock Square, BOSTON.
BOHEA, Hylon and Souchoong Tea, Double and single refin'd Loaf Sugar, Brown Sugars of various sorts, Chocolate warranted pure, Cocoas, Coffee, Pepper, Pimento, New Raisins, Currants, Prunes, Spices of all sorts, Florence Oil, a few quintals of choice Dumb Fish, Narraganset Cheese, best French Indigo, Redwood, Logwood, Brimstone, Allum, Copperas, Salt-Petre, Kippen's Snuff, and Tobacco, best Durham Mustard, Crates of Cream Coloured Ware. 15 and 18 inch T. D. Pipes, Playing Cards, Pins, Large and Small Slates, Velvet, Corks, Sieve Bottoms, English Soles, Powder, Shot, Bar Lead, Split Peas, New Rice, Olives, Capers, Almonds, Turkey-Figs, and a neat assortment of Glass Ware.
N. B. The above articles will be sold in any quantities, and as cheap as at any store in town.
TWENTY DOLLARS Reward.
WHEREAS on the 20th inst. one JOHN KETCHUM, came to the house of the subscriber and hired a black HORSE, about 14 hands and an half high of the following marks, viz a very full eye, the hair cut under his throat, very remarkable switch mane and tail when he went from me, trots and paces, carries his fore feet low, his hind feet wide, and what is more remarkable is that on each side where the girt buckles are placed, the hair is worn off close to the skin, whoever will take up the said man and horse shall have for their double Twenty Dollars, and for either of them Ten Dollars each, and all necessary charges paid by WILLIAM ROGERS.
N. B. Said Ketchum is a tall man near fifty years of age, something marked with the small pox, light eyes, had on a light coloured furcoat, the same morning he took the horse he flipped himself on board the brig America, John Minor, master, for Surranam, and received a month's pay, and it is supposed he is gone to Connecticut or New York, as he had a family in the former province.
A Convenient Blacksmith's shop at the North End. Enquire of the Printer.
FRIDAY, March 5. BOSTON.
By a letter from St. Vincents of the 14th of January, ult. we are informed, that a regiment from Antigua, arrived there two days before, and were then prepared to disembark, in consequence of an order from the camp, and that they were to march by day-light to the head quarters—that the army consists of about 2500 men—that the Indians have but little success, and will not give the troops an opportunity of fighting them openly, preferring their usual method of bush fighting:—That a Lieutenant-Colonel, and three other officers had been killed, besides privates, and that the Caribs seemed determined to stand it out to the last extremity, though they had been obliged to retire to the mountains:—That all the sea coast had been taken possession of, quite round the Island, which prevented their receiving any supplies, and the men of war being constantly cruising:—That the country is very hilly, with a vast deal of under-bush, which obliged the English to cut their way through, and fight at the same time:—That they march all night in parties, and lie by in the day.
Our last advices from St. Vincents are, that Col. Walch, with six men, having penetrated too far into the Caribs country, were attacked by them, and after a most noble defence were all killed on the spot; that the Caribs had sent a messenger to Col. Dalrymple to know what terms he would give them, but that the answer sent them by the Col. was not known by the messenger from thence, which are as late as the 28th of January.
SATURDAY, March 6. BOSTON.
This day his Excellency the Governor was pleased to prorogue the Great and General Court of this province, to Wednesday the 21st day of April next, after delivering the following SPEECH to both Houses of Assembly, viz
Gentlemen of the Council, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives. THINK it incumbent on me to make some observations, before I put an end to the session, upon your last message to me on the subject of your constitutional dependence upon the supreme authority of the British dominions. As the Council admit a partial dependence, and suppose it to be consistent with the principles and nature of government, I shall only endeavour very briefly to shew the contrary.
In your first message, Gentlemen of the Council, you made some strictures upon the nature of the supreme authority in government, both divine and human, the latter of which you determined could not be absolute and unlimited. I thought the distinction between divine and human power not pertinent, and in answer to you, I only remarked, that I had given you no reason to suppose I intended a more absolute power in parliament than what is founded in the nature of government, and this, in your second message you confess an acquaintance in your reasons, which it certainly was not. You go on however to explain your meaning by asserting, that "What is usually denominated the supreme authority of a nation must be limited in its acts to the objects that are properly or constitutionally cognizable by it."
Before you thus defined the nature of supreme authority, I wish you had considered more fully what objects there can be in a government which are not cognizable by such authority. You instance in a subordinate power in government which, whilst it keeps within its limits, is not subject to the control of the supreme power. Is there no inconsistency in supposing a subordinate power without a power superior to it? Must it not so far as it is without control be, itself, supreme?
It is essential to the being of government that a power should always exist which no other power within such government can have right to withstand or control: Therefore, when the word power relates to the supreme authority of government it must be understood absolute and unlimited.
If we cannot agree in these principles which
no sensible writer upon government has before denied, and if you are still of opinion that two jurisdictions, each of them having a share in the supreme power, are compatible in the same state it can be to no purpose to reason or argue upon the other parts of your message. It is enough to observe that this disagreement in our principles will have its influence upon all the deductions which are made from them.
I will also consider the last message from you, gentlemen of the house of representatives, upon the same subject, in as few words as the importance of it will admit.
You say you have not discovered that the principles advanced by the town of Boston are unwarrantable by the constitution. Whether they are or are not, will depend upon the determination of the point which you are now controverting. Your not having discovered that the other towns and districts in the province, were invited by the town of Boston to adopt their principles, must proceed from inattention. Have not the doings of that town been sent through the province, accompanied with a circular letter, "desiring a free communication of sentiments," and, among other expressions of the like tendency, lamenting the extinction of ardour for civil and religious liberty if it should be the general voice of the province; that the rights as stated do not belong to them, and trusting that this cannot be the case. If this is not inviting to adopt their principles, I have mistaken their sense and meaning. The consequent doings of so many other towns shew that they understood them as I have done. I am sure I have no disposition to represent unfavourably the doings of any town in the province.
You assert "that it is the indisputable right of all or any of his Majesty's subjects in this province regularly and orderly to meet together to state the grievances they labour under, &c. I never denied it. Does it follow that it is regular and orderly for the inhabitants of towns in their corporate capacity to meet and determine upon points which the law gives them no power to act upon? You have not asserted that it is, but you have not declared that it is not, as I thought a regard to the peace and order of the province made our duty."
If the fundamentals of our government were not disputed, these irregularities would appear to you in a very strong light and you would join in discountenancing them.
To support your principle that you hold your lands and derive your authority of government from the Kings of England and not from the Crown of England, you have very largely handled the doctrine of Feudal Tenures. I observed to you in my last speech that you had been misled by the authority of an anonymous pamphlet. I am now obliged to observe that you are again misled by having a general view of this doctrine brought before you, as it respects states or governments under absolute monarchs, and not as it is connected with or grafted upon the English constitution. I shall not therefore spend time in examining the principles of your system it being immaterial to the point between us whether they are just or not. Instead thereof I will, in as brief and clear terms as I can, lay this doctrine before you as it relates to the Government of England.
Let me then observe to you, that from the nature of government a supreme legislative power must always exist over all the parts and all the affairs of every dominion—that in absolute monarchies the legislative and executive powers are united in the prince or monarch—that in the English constitution there is, and always has been, a legislative power distinct from the regal or executive power—that the feudal system, in your view of it and without correcting, could not be introduced into the English government without changing the constitution from a mixed to an absolutely monarchical government—that this system nevertheless has been introduced, the constitution of a mixed government still remaining, and consequently the system has been corrected or altered. What this alteration has been will appear from historical facts. Before the reign of William the first the traces of Feudal Tenure are faint, the evidence of a legislative power, an Assembly or Council of wise men, distinct from the regal power is strong and sufficient. After William had obtained the Crown, the other nations of Europe being un-
de this system, and particularly his dominions in Normandy, and wars being more frequent and commerce small, and the means of furnishing money, the finews of war, difficult if not impracticable, merely for the defence of the kingdom this polity was so far established as that all the landholders were made to contribute, by military or other services, to the defence of the state, and for this purpose and by a fiction only, the lands were in form acknowledged to have been originally in the King and held of him by his subjects, and by this form subjected to a supposed just proportion of the defence and support of the kingdom. This establishment appears to have been made, not by an act of regal power alone but by the authority of the great Council of the nation or Assembly of the realm, and the legislative authority still remained, according to its nature, paramount and above all other powers in the dominion, and accordingly from time to time the abuses of the Feudal power either in the sovereign or in such as held under him were corrected by the supreme legislative, and Magna Charta itself was framed and agreed upon, principally if not altogether for this purpose. In succeeding ages, as commerce and money increased and the means of supporting war became more easy, these military services were gradually taken away, either by purchase or commuting for other services or certain rents, so that at the period when America was first granted, the remains were inconsiderable and the lands of the kingdom were held generally by what is called socage tenure or, in other words an acknowledgment of fidelity to the sovereign, and a certain rent which was in name only, or of value so inconsiderable as not to be demanded. The original claim in the sovereign, whether at first a fiction or not, so far remained as that all forfeitures all escheats, all new discovered lands accrued to him, unless the supreme legislative should limit the right to them, or otherwise dispose of them. This was the state of feudal tenure in England at the time when the first charter was granted, and the difference between your system and mine will appear by this familiar instance: Louis the thirteenth of France, I think the same year the Massachusetts patentees obtained a grant of that colony, by a royal edict granted to one hundred associates the country of Canada, with powers of government and all the privileges of natural born subjects of France to all who should go and inhabit or be born there, with other very great powers and privileges. This, then, appears to be the different state of the people of the two colonies. Louis, being an absolute monarch, the regal and legislative power were united in him. The inhabitants of Canada therefore were subject to him, and to every succeeding King of France as their supreme Lord, who by virtue of his uncontrollable power might at any time revoke the royal edict at pleasure, or dissolve any charter whatsoever even though like the famous edict at Nantes it had been declared irrevocable. Charles, having in him the regal power only, could grant no more than was in him, and the legislative power which was in the parliament must still remain there, and consequently the subjects of England, continued when in the colony still subject to the regal constitutional power of Charles and the supreme legislative power of parliament. And I think, nothing is more certain than that the constitutional restraint of the regal power in Charles prevented the charter from being revoked and annulled in less than ten years after the date of it.
If this brief account of feudal tenure as it is part of the English constitution, be just, as I shall think it is until I have better authority than any I have yet seen to the contrary, the fabric which you have raised will still fall of support,

Surveyors of Wheat. John Tudor, Esq.; and Mr. John Lucas.
Surveyors of Hemp. Mr. John Gray. Assessors. Mr. John Kneeland, Mr. Benjamin Church, Belcher Noyes, Esq.; Mr. Jonathan Brown, Mr. Daniel Pecker, Giles Harris, Esq.; and Capt. Samuel Downe.
Collectors of taxes. Mr. Edward Holliday, Mr. Abraham Savage, Mr. Benjamin Henderson and Mr. Benjamin Gray.
Clerks of the Market. Messrs. Thomas Love, Cyrus Baldwin, Richard Salter, John Taylor, John Winthrop, James Cazneau, James Selkirk, William Puts, Robert Ruggles, Joseph Coolidge, John Kneeland and John Barret, jun.
Informers of Deer. Messrs. William Daws, jun. and Thomas Edes.
Assay Masters. Capt. Martin Gay, and Mr. John Skinner.
Finance Viewers. Mr. John Dyer, Mr. Samuel Dyer, Mr. Obadiah Lowe, Capt. John Joy, Mr. William Crafts.
Surveyors of Boards. Messrs. William Nichols, Clement Collins, Jacob Thayer, Joseph Edmunds, John Greenough, Isaac Vergoole, John Champney, Andrew Symmes, Henry Allen, Edmund Ranger, Richard Walker, Thomas Uran, John Bulfinch, Abraham Howard, Joseph Butler, Joseph Ayers, Andrew Townsend, Joseph Ballard, Elisha Homes, Thomas Bayley, John Holland, John Rogers, Obadiah Low, Benjamin Page, D. Nely Wing, Henry Blaisdel and Abraham Rogers.
Callers of Staves. Messrs. Peter Cot-ta, Joseph Dyer, Manassa Masters, John Haskins, David Spear, Jonathan Jenkins, Caleb Heyden, Job Wheelwright, Joshua Pico, Benjamin Sault, Paul Baxter, John Owen, Thomas Knox, Samuel White, Edward Cowell, Peter Ellis, Nathan Spear, Timothy Pease, Jacob Williams, Nathaniel Waterman, Samuel Barnard, John Newell, Henry Lucas, Richard Flood, William Rogers and Samuel Peck.
Scavengers; Wards No. 1. Josiah Vois, Joseph Snelling 2. Caleb Champney, 3. Francis Pulcifer, 4. James Thompson, 5. Joseph Loring, 6. Charles Perrin, 7. John Langdon, 8. Samuel Warden 9. John Fullerton 10. Thomas Chase, 11. Benjamin Wheeler, 12.
Sealers of Leather. Samuel Bangs, Joseph Clark, Thomas Nolen, Benjamin Bais, and Daniel Parks.
Hayward. Mr. Thomas Smith.
Hogreeves. Messrs. William M c Fadden and David Symons.
Constables. Messrs. Augustus Hale, John Coverly, John Wells, Elias Duper, Hezekiah Usher, Joseph Foye, Stephen Symmes, George Thomas, Samuel Greenleaf, John Hammet and John Bennet.
The meeting stands adjourned to Tuesday the 23 d of March instant nine o'clock A. M.
At this meeting it was voted, that a new watch house, shall be erected at West-Boston and a suitable watch appointed;—that six leather buckets should be provided for each Fire Engine.
The report of a committee, for procuring 300 street lamps for the town, was accepted and a committee appointed to procure subscriptions for the same.
BRAINTREE, March 2 d , 1773. At a Town Meeting legally assembled March 1 st , 1773.
VOTED, The pamphlet communicated to the Select-Men from the town of Boston, be committed to a committee for their consideration and report thereon to the town.
Voted, Said pamphlet be read before the town at their present meeting.
Then Deacon Joseph Palmer, Capt. Benjamin Beale, Deacon Jonathan Webb, Deacon James Pennimen, and Deacon Jonathan Wild, were separately chosen a committee for the purpose aforesaid.
The pamphlet above referred to being read, the committee offered their report thereon as follows, viz.
To the respectable town of Braintree in town meeting assembled. We your committee, have most seriously considered the matter this day committed to us and report,
I. That we apprehend the state of the rights of the colonies and of this province in particular, together with a list of the infringements and violations of those rights, as stated in said pamphlet committed to us, are in general fairly represented, and that the town of Boston be hereby thanked for this instance of their extraordinary care of the publick welfare.
II. That all taxations, by what name soever called, imposed upon us without our
consent by any earthly power, are unconstitutional, oppressive and tend to enslave us.
III. That as our fore fathers left their native country and friends in order that they and their posterity might enjoy that civil and religious liberty here, which they could not enjoy there; we their descendants, are determined by the grace of God, that our consciences shall not accuse us, with having acted unworthy such pious and venerable heroes, and that we will by all lawful ways and means, preserve at all events all our civil and religious rights and privileges.
IV. That by the divine constitution of things, there is such a connection between civil and religious liberty, that in whatever nation or government the one is crushed, the other seldom if ever survives long after. Of this history furnishes abundant evidence.
V. That all civil officers are or ought to be servants to the people, and dependent upon them for their official support; and every instance to the contrary from the Governor downwards tends to crush and destroy civil liberty.
VI. That we bear true loyalty to our rightful King, George the third, and unfeigned affection to our brethren in Great-Britain and Ireland, and unto all our sister colonies; and so long as our mother country protects us in our charter rights and privileges, so long will we by divine assistance, exert our utmost to promote the welfare of the whole British empire; which we earnestly pray may flourish uninterrupted in the paths of righteousness till time shall be no more.
VII. That Mr. Thayer our Representative be directed, and he hereby is directed to use his utmost endeavours, that a day of fasting and prayer be appointed throughout the province, for humbling ourselves before God in this day of darkness, and implored divine direction and assistance.
VIII. That an attested copy of the town's proceedings in this matter be transmitted as soon as may be by the Town Clerk to the Boston committee.
All which is humbly submitted to the town by their humble servants,
JOSEPH PALMER, BENJAMIN BEALE, JONATHAN WEBB.
Braintree, March 1 st , 1773.  The foregoing report, being read before the town was voted accepted.
The foregoing contains a true copy of the town's proceedings relative to the above-said pamphlet, communicated from the town of Boston.
Attest ELISHA NILES, Town-Clerk. PROCEEDINGS of the town of HOLLISTON.
The freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Holliston in town meeting assembled this first day of March, A. D. 1773, by adjournment from the eleventh day of January last, the committee who were chosen at that meeting, beg leave to report in the words following.
Having duly considered the letter of correspondence to the towns of this province with a list of the rights of the colonies and this province more especially, and a list of the infringements of their rights, communicated to this town from the town of Boston, whose inhabitants have been unwearied in their care and endeavours to preserve our civil constitution free from innovations, notwithstanding the policy of the British ministry; for we are sure that even the law of nature teaches, that if we make ourselves slaves, or suffer others to do it, when we can prevent it, we thereby act contrary to reason, and thereby violate that law. Having taken these things into our most serious consideration, influenced as we trust by a sense of the obligations which we are under to God, our own consciences, and with regard to posterity, do think ourselves under the greatest obligations, to do all we can in a lawful constitutional way, to prevent that bondage and slavery we are threatened with — Therefore we resolve.
I. That the people of this province have a natural and charter right to all the privileges of the people of Great-Britain.
II. That they have a right to enjoy and dispose of their own property, that it cannot lawfully be taken from them without their consent in person or by their Representatives.
III. That the British parliament have unjustly claimed the power and taken upon them to raise a revenue in the colonies contrary to the minds of the people and greatly hurtful to the peace and good order of the colonies.
IV. That the revenue so unconstitutionally raised, being used in paying some of the chief officers of the province is very hurtful, as it renders them independent of
the province for their salaries, which tends greatly to obstruct the connection that ought to be between them and the people of the province, and thereby the trust and confidence of the people in them, as their rulers, is greatly diminished. By these and many other infringements on our rights and privileges, as freemen we are greatly alarmed. Therefore we hope and trust the Great and General Assembly of this province in their great wisdom, will use their utmost efforts to obtain a speedy redress of these fore and distressing grievances.
V. That the sincere and hearty thanks of this town be given to the town of Boston for the care and attention of so many of its worthy inhabitants in so clearly stating the rights and privileges of the colonies and for their care and attention at this as well as at other times to preserve the rights of the colonies, and we do assure them that what has been transmitted to this and the other towns in this province has received the full approbation of this town.
The above was read before the town who by their vote gratefully accepted and approved thereof and ordered that the same be recorded by the Town Clerk, and that a copy thereof be transmitted to the committee of correspondence of the town of Boston.
A true copy as on record. Attest JOHN STONE, Town Clerk. Holliston, March 6 th , 1773.
To the committee of correspondence in the town of Boston
Saturday se'nnight four men in a boat from Marblehead, to Salem, having been to sell fish, in returning the boat overset, and two of them were drowned.
Last Friday was found drowned off Tiltstone's wharf, Mr. Isaac Allen, blacksmith, belonging to Sudbury.
NEW-YORK, March 4. It is supposed that Sunday the 21 st ult. was the coldest day that has happened in this part of the world for half a century, and that the cold on Monday was more intense, by at least 2 1/2 degrees than it has been known during that time.
Capt. Ross in a schooner from Marblehead for Philadelphia, being drove from the Capes of Delaware, got into the Narrows Tuesday last, and after being three days among the ice in our Bay, came into the harbour Saturday last, having lost an anchor and cable.
DIED Capt. Robert Rogers, of the first battalion of the royal regiment of artillery.
Mr. THOMAS, AT the bottom of the resolves of the General Assembly printed in your last it is noted that they passed by a division of 63 to 19 whereas this related only to the last resolve the others having passed without division and with only 2 or 3 dissentients.
To be SOLD at the Shop of CHARLES LOWE, In Marshall's-Lane, facing the BOSTON STONE.
Loaf and brown Melasses, Sugars, Cotton Wool, Rice, Indigo, Flour, Raisins, Pepper, Currants, Allspice, Figs, Nutmegs, Spermaceti Oil, Coffee, Dumb Fish, Tea, Indian and Rye Meal, Chocolate, &c &c &c. The above articles sold very cheap. Cash given for bottles.
By ORDER of COURT, Will be sold by Public Vendue, on the 20 th of April next at 4 o'clock, P.M.
THE real Estate of Mrs. DORCAS INGRAHAM, late of Boston, deceased, consisting of a commodious dwelling House, with yard and garden Land adjoining, situated in Auchmuty's-Lane, the house in repair.
To be SOLD at JOHN SAVAGE's Store, No. 13, on the Long-Wharf,
A Quantity of superfine and common FLOUR; Bran, Corn, Oats, Rice, Bar-Iron, Sole-Leather, Proof G'asses, Rum, Sugar, Melasses, Chocolate, and cases of Bottles.
LOST, supposed to be stolen at the late fire near the Mill-pond; a bag marked Daniel Rea, a pair of light single sole boots, with sundry other articles supposed to be in the bag; if offered for sale it is desired the person may be stopped and notice given to the printer, or to JOHN SYMMES living near the place where the fire was.
To be sold at PUBLIC VENDUE , On TUESDAY next, the 16 th inst. At the Store next to Mr. FRANCIS GREENLEAF, In King Street;
A PART of the GOODS that have been lately offered for Sale at the neat Sterling cost, consisting of a great variety of articles, suited to all seasons and all tastes. Also several pieces of rich
FURNITURE, of the last fashion and the first workmanship adapted at once to use and ornament.
The proprietors of the above Goods had taken a determination not to expose any of them at Auction; but a desire of finishing the sales and a hope that the quality of the goods would invite at least equal prices to what they sold for at private sale, have prevailed against their other objection.
At the same time and place will be exposed, if not sold before at private sale, two excellent draft HORSES, one a light sorrel colour, above 15 hands high, remarkable strong of his size, passing eight years old, trots all, and is very fleet, he will be sold with or without, a very genteel two wheeled CHAISE, as may suit the buyer; the other is a dark horse, about 14 hands high, a very steady, strong, sure-footed animal, passing seven years old.
In the House of REPRESENTATIVES, Feb 4 1773. WHEREAS doubts have arisen concerning the validity of the sales of the lands of such as were called delinquent proprietors of the township of Ashfield, in the county of Hampshire made by the assessors or committees of the proprietors of the said Ashfield, for the years 1753, 1754, and 1755, and actions are now depending in the law for recovering the possession of said lands from the persons who purchased the same or from such as hold under them: And whereas it will tend to the great disquiet of the said township if such sales should be adjudged invalid and insufficient in law: THEREFORE,
RESOLVED, that George Leonard, jun. Esq.; Jeremiah Foster, Esq.; and Mr. Thomas Dennys, be a committee fully authorized and empowered to repair to the said town of Ashfield, to hear the committee of the proprietors, and also each of the persons or their Representatives who have been sold in the year & in manner as aforesaid, to judge and determine what the lands thus sold were truly worth at the time of the sale so sold, above the sums for which they were in fact sold, together with all the damages, which may have been actually accrued to each of the proprietors of the said lands respectively by means of the sales aforesaid; and the Committee are to make report of their doing, the session of this Court in May next; that such order may be then taken for establishing and rendering valid the sales aforesaid, as to the Court shall then appear to be just and equitable; and all proceedings in the law grounded upon the invalidity of such sales are stayed in the mean time. And the committee of this Court shall give public notice in all the Boston news-papers of the time and place of meeting that all persons interested may attend if they shall see cause. Sent up for concurrence. T. CUSHING, Speaker.
In COUNCIL, Feb 5. 1773. Read and concurred, THO'S FLUCKER, Sec'y. Concurred, T. HUTCHINSON. A true copy. THO'S FLUCKER, Sec'y.
The above-named committee of the General Court hereby give notice to all concerned, that they purport to meet at the dwelling house of Mr. Samuel Bealing, at Ashfield aforesaid, on the 26 th day of April next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, for the purposes in the foregoing order mentioned. GEO. LEONARD, jun. per order.
March 5, 1773. New England COD and MACKREL FISH HOOKS.
ABRAHAM CORNISH, At his Manufactory at the head of Hutchins's wharf North End, Boston.
HAVING received a quantity of the best STEEL WIRE by Capt. Walshman, of which he has been long appointed by a mistake of the shipper, in sending it to Boston in Lincolnshire in Old England, and from thence returned to London — As it is possible such a mistake will again happen; he begs leave to acquaint his friends and the public, that they may now and in future depend upon being supplied with the best Lo and Mackerel Hooks, as the p by wholesale for export on delivery, as they are imported into America; and as the Fishermen who make use of his Hooks at least find them to correspond with his former advertisement, viz their being much superior to those imported from England, and as much depends on the goodness of the hooks in catching fish, he flatters himself with the favours of all importers, and those concerned in the Fishery.

For the MASSACHUSETTS S P Y. To Mr. HUTCHINSON.
SIR, HAD the recent insult imposed on this great people through their Representative body, in the message relative to the province house, fallen into my hands before my last to you, it is difficult to say, what terms I should have kept with you! In this mode of doing business, you have nothing to do with the King's vassals here, but first gently intimate your sovereign pleasure, and if not instantly complied with to tell them the matter will be taken up another way, and they entirely exonerated of the trouble of making public provisions. You are certainly gracious Mr. Hutchinson to discover to us our condition in so plain and striking a manner. I sincerely with that every rider, who mounts that wild beast the people, may call them as furiously as yourself and famous predecessor have done. He was, indeed, not mistaken, when he declared his confidence in his Lieu tenant.
What idea can this people entertain of their power of disposing of their own time or money, if they are only once or twice to be asked and in case of a refusal menaced and dragooned into a compliance? Sir Edmund Andros allowed so much difference between James the second's subjects and other slaves, that the former might not be bought and sold. I presume you have not a slave in your kitchen, who lives on worse terms with you, than obedience to the injunctions of his tyrant on pain of his displeasure. These manifestly seem the terms on which this people are to grant or withhold repairs to your dwelling.
The King, Sir, by charter, has a right to appoint you; and when he has done that, he has no more business with you than with the Judges of England; unless it be to remove you on complaint of the people,
All the provision for your support in every shape and particular is to be made by the free grants of this people, which you may depend, will always be a quantum meruit for your belt services. Till you agree to accept of this on the terms of the constitution, I should for my own part deem it a treasonable submission for the house to grant you a farthing!
I understand you are nettled at my last address to you in the Boston Gazette; I would thereupon beg leave to recite you a story. It is said of a gallant Scotch officer, Sir Andrew Agnew, that having drawn up his corps for an engagement with his enemy, he accosted them in this manner. 'Sogers I am nae great speers maker; but, do you see thae chiefs there! D—n your bluids, an GIN YE DINNA KILL THEM THEY'LL KILL YOU'
If some thing similar to this is not to be apprehended from suffering an arbitrary power to be established in this province the matter is greatly mistaken by E. LUDLOW.
P. S. I am informed, that on your third application to the Council, for their countenance in your attacks upon the press, they have resolved that the first publication with this signature had a tendency to render the people uneasy with you as their Governor; or in terms to this purpose. This, without reserve or hesitation, I admit was my design. And I justify the intention by affirming, that whereas the powers of controul were delegated to the servants of the public, only to restrain the idle and evil minded from making their prey of the honest, weak and indolent; you having basely betrayed your trust, and stricken hands with the party who have conspired, and largely carried into execution, the slavery, plunder and murder of your countrymen, whom every tie of nature and religion obliged you to defend, even at the risk of torture, constitutes you a person with whom every man ought to be rendered uneasy: The liberties of the people directly depending on the hatred and aversion they bear to their invaders!
* Xenophon's memorable sayings of Socrates.
To be LET, The House that Mr. WILLIAM HENRY PRENTICE now lives in, in Dunstable, and has kept a Tavern some years, on the great Road on Wierimack river; there is every accommodation of house and stable for travellers and is much used. Enquire of JOHN TYNG, Esq; of Dunstable, the owner.
To be sold by Samuel Sloane, at his Distil-House, opposite the Blue-ball and Mason's-Arms, formerly Green-Dragon, New England RUM, and all sorts of SPIRITS, cheap for cash or Molasses; and as he makes those articles himself, he will warrant them fit for any market.
This Day was published, price 1s. THE REVOLUTION IN NEW-ENGLAND, [In 1688] JUSTIFIED, AND THE PEOPLE there VINDICATED
From the aspersions cast upon them by Mr. JOHN PALMER, in his pretended answer to the declaration published by the inhabitants of Boston and the country adjacent, on the day when they secured their late oppressors, who acted by an illegal and arbitrary commission from the late King James.
To which is added, A NARRATIVE of the PROCEEDINGS OF Sir EDMUND ANDROSSE And his complices. Who also acted by an illegal and arbitrary commission from the late KING JAMES, during his government in New-England.
By several Gentlemen who were of his Council Boston: Re-printed and sold by I. THOMAS. ** SUBSCRIBERS are desired to call or send for their books.
Just Imported in Capt JARVIS, from LONDON, and to be sold by ANNA JOHNSON, At the head of Black horse lane, near the Ely. Dr. Pemberton's Meeting house: A large assortment of Garden Seeds, Peas, Beans, &c. among which are,
EARLY charlton, early golden hotspur, Ormand hotspur, Spanish moratto, white roundival, dwarf marrowfist and bush paste, large Windsor, true early Lisbon, early yellow six weeks white kidney and fine toker beans, early Yorkshire, Dutch, sugar loaf, batarsea, savoy, red and broccoli cabbage seed, celleyflower, cucumber, onion, carrot, turnip, reddish and lettuce of all sorts, round spinage, endive, celly and asparagus, thyme, baum, sweet marjoram, broad clover, white Dutch clover, la lucerne, rape, canary, and an assortment of flower seeds and herbs grass seed: Also a variety of other seeds not mentioned; all which were imported from the seeds-men in London, and are warranted to be fresh and good and of the last years produce.
Imported in Capt. Jarvis from LONDON, and to be SOLD by SUSANNA RENKEN, At her shop near the Draw-Bridge, in Fore-street,
EARLY Charlton, early Hotspur, early golden Hotspur, large Marrowfist, dwarf ditto, Leadman's dwarf, crooked Sugar, blue and white Roundival, split and boiling PEAS; large Windsor, Toker, early Lisbon, early yellow, and Pole BEANS, early Dutch, early Batarsea, early Yorkshire, Red, and large Winter Cabbage, early and late Colliflower, green and yellow Savoy, marble, green, white, goss, cabbage and imperial Lettuce, double and Hamborough Parsley, winter and summer spinage, early Yellow, Scarlet and Orange Carrots, Celery, Endive, early and late Turnip, white Spanish, Strasburgh, and silver-skinned Onion, summer and winter Savoy, early, late, long, green and Turkey Cucumber, Thyme, Sweet Marjoram, Rosemary, Lavender, Sage, summer and winter Squash, Muskmelon, Hemp, Rape and Canary Seed, red and white Clover, Fowl Meadow and Herd-grass, Burnet, Lucerne, &c. new, and warranted of the last Year's growth—Durham's best flower of Mustard in pound, half pound and quarter pound Bottle, Kippen's Snuff, Figs, a variety of China Bowls and Dishes.
Likewise, an Assortment of English and India GOODS. ELIZABETH GREENLEAF, Informs her customers and others, that she has removed from her shop at the end of Union-street, to the second shop southward of the lane leading to Dr. Byles's meeting-house where she continues to sell as usual,
EARLY charlton, omorods hotspur and golden hotspur peas, dwarf, green and large marrowfist, Leadman's dwarf, roundival and Spanish moratto peas, early yellow, large Windsor, early Lisbon and toker beans, red, silver skin, and white Spanish onion seeds, red, early golden and orange carrot ditto, early prickly cucumber, long prickly ditto, early and large colly flower, early Dutch, large winter sugar-loaf, batarsea, green and yellow curled savoy, cabbage seeds, sweling parsnip, early Dutch and common turnip seeds, short topped salmon, white and pink radish seed, lettuce of all sorts, scarlet beet, curled and common parsley, curled and common pepper grass, summer and winter spinage, sweet marjoram, thyme, baum, summer savoy, endive, asparagus, celery, white mustard, white lavender, hemp, rape, and Canary birds seeds, &c. &c.
Just Imported by Capt. Jarvis from LONDON, And to be sold by LYDIA DYAR, Near the North Battery, Boston.
A FRESH Assortment of Garden SEEDS, which she will warrant to be new and good, and of the last Year's produce, early charlton Peas, early golden hotspur, early ormond ditto, large marrowfist ditto, dwarf do blue and green ditto, large roundival and Spanish and Moratto Ledman dwarf ditto, large Windsor Beans, early Lisbon and early bush and pole Beans, early Yorkshire and Batarsea Dutch and sugar loaf, large winter, red, green and yellow Savoy, early and late Colliflower, early and late Turnip, short top scarlet and salmon Radish, Cucumber and Squash, double Parsley, double Pepper grass, round Spring, red Beets, Celery, Endive, white Spanish and silver skin Onions, red ditto, orange purple and yellow Carrot, Parsnip, Cabbage, Lettuce, green and white Gewes, brown Dutch and marble Thyme, Baum, sweet Marjoram, Summer Savory, Sage, Hemp Canary and Rape, Bird Seed.
Boston, February 13, 1773. TWO DOLLARS REWARD. TAKEN out of the House of the subscriber, at the head of long-wharf last evening, a silver can, mark-
M. ed I. M. maker's name, Revere . If said can is returned to the owner again, two dollars reward will be given, and no questions asked. N. B. If it should be offered for sale, it is desired it may be stopped, and notice given to MARY MAVERICKE
A TAYLOR that is a good workman, being at present out of employ, would be glad to work at low wages by the day or week, in any gentleman's family. Enquire of the Printer.
To be LET, A Building and parcel of land adjoining, in the center of the town of Boston fronting one street or high way, one hundred and fifty feet: The building will be altered to a dwelling, work-house, or shop, as may suit the business of any one wanting the same. Enquire at the ware house No. 14 on the Long Wharf.
INDIAN CORN, just imported and to be sold reasonable, if applied for immediately. Enquire at JOHN WINTHROP'S Store near the market, or on board the Schooner Diamond, now lying at the south side of the Long Wharf.
FEATHERS, CHOICE water fowl feathers, to be sold at Enoch Brown's store, Boston neck, which he will sell as he does every thing else, extremely cheap.
This day were published, SEVEN Sermons, viz. I. Of the Unpardonable Sin against the Holy Ghost: Or, the Sin unto death. II. The Saint's Duty and Exercise: In two Parts. Being an Exhortation to, and Direction for, Prayer. III. The Accepted Time and Day of Salvation. IV. The End of Time and Beginning of Eternity. V. Joshua's Resolution to serve the Lord. VI. The Way to Heaven made plain. VII. The future State of Man: Or, A Treatise on the Resurrection.
By ROBERT RUSSEL, At Wardourst in Sussex. Boston: Printed and sold by I. THOMAS
JACOB HEMET, DENTIST to her Majesty and the Princess Amelia.
BEGS Leave to recommend to the Public, his newly discovered Essence of Pearl, and Pearl Dentifrice, which he has found to be greatly superior not only in elegance, but also in efficacy, to any thing hitherto made use of for complaints of the Teeth and Gums: Particularly they will preserve the Teeth in a perfect sound state, even to old age; they render them white and beautiful, without in the least impairing the enamel; fasten such as are loose, keep such as are already decayed from becoming worse, prevent the Tooth-Ach, perfectly cure the Scurvy in the Gums, and make them grow firm and close to the teeth; they likewise render the breath delicate, sweet, and remedy almost all those disorders that are the consequence of scorbutic gums.
Sold (by appointment of Mr. Hemet) wholesale and retail, by W. Bayley, Perfumer, in Cockspur-street, near the bottom of the Hay-market, London, and at William Scott's Irish Linen Store, near the Draw-Bridge, Boston, New-England.
To be SOLD, by NATHANIEL RUSSELL, In Common-street, a little to the northward of Dr. Byles's Meeting House, BOSTON,
A Compleat assortment of HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, consisting of Clocks, Tables, Chairs, Bedsteads dumb Waiters, &c. &c. Cheap for Cash.
DANIEL SCOTT, At his Medicine Store the Sign of the Leopard, South End.
TAKES this method of informing all Gentlemen, Ladies, and others, who have had the Misfortune to lose their Teeth, that he still continues the Business of making and fixing artificial Teeth as usual, in so elegant a manner as to be but little inferior to the natural, either in Use or Beauty, as many who have experienced them can testify: Where also any Person afflicted with painful Stumps or unsound Teeth, may have them removed with a peculiar Dexterity and Ease.—And all Persons who have the Scurvy in their Teeth, which threatens their removal though found, may have them cleaned without hurting the Enamel, or in the least degree impairing them, and may be supplied with his DENTUM CONSERVATOR, which is an excellent Powder, the best adapted for preserving the Teeth and Gums, and preventing them from Aching, of any Preparation ever offered to the Public: It will cure the Scurvy in the Gums, bring the Teeth to their original Whiteness, and by a continuance of its Use, will Preserve both Teeth and Gums in a pure state during life.—It is not pretended that it will perform Impossibilities, that it will make rotten Teeth sound, or will ease them when they violently ach; but it will assuredly preserve those Teeth found that are so, and cause the Gums to adhere to them and prevent those that are decayed in part, from becoming worse.
At the above Store may be had Morgan's useful Eye-Water, which has in so many cases been found serviceable that it must escape the censure of the most critical Oculist—Brigsten's famous Bug Liquid, which effectually destroys those hateful Vermin,—be they ever so numerous.—
An assortment of genuine patentee and other Medicines of the best quality, and Medicine Boxes for Families or Shipping, with exact and particular directions for using them, and a variety of other articles cheap.
The above Powder may be had also of Cox and Berry in Boston, Doctor Kaff in Salem, and Dummer Jewett, Esq; at Ipswich.
IRISH LINEN. WILLIAM SCOTT, At the IRISH LINEN STORE in Ann-street, near the Draw-Bridge, Boston, Has just imported from Ireland,
A Large quantity of 3-4, 7-8 and yard-wide Linens of all prices, Diapers, clouting ditto, Huckabuck, Dowlas, Table Cloths, 9-8ths wide Sheetings, white Ticken, brown Hollands, &c.
A great variety of European and India Goods, amongst which are, broad Cloths, Lambkins, Coatings, Baizes, &c. silk and worsted Stuffs, Poplins, Crapes, Denmark Lustres, Millinets, Dorsetteens, Camblets, worsted Damasks, &c. Satins and capuchin Silks of all colours, with lace and fur trimmings, Ducapes, striped and plain Lutestrings, English Damasks, &c. a large assortment of Ribbons, Gauzes, striped and flowered Jaconet and 6-4 wide book Mullin of all prices; Jersey, Aberdeen knit, and patent ribbed men's worsted Hose, ditto plain of all colours, for men, women and children; with too great a multiplicity of goods, suitable for the season, to be enumerated in an advertisement, all which will be sold at the lowest reduced prices for ready money only.
Excellent Gloucester Cheese, French Indigo, Teas, Coffee, Spices, &c. patent Cakes for making the liquid shining blacking for shoes and leather bottomed chairs, &c. a number of low priced bound books of divinity, Bibles, Testaments, &c.
BOSTON: Printed by ISAIAH THOMAS,
At the South Corner of MARSHAL'S LANE, leading from the MILL-BRIDGE into UNION-STREET, where all Persons may be supplied with this Paper at Six Shillings and Eight Pence Lawful Money, per Annum, unsealed, and Eight Shillings sealed and directed; and where Articles of Intelligence, &c. are thankfully received;—ADVERTISEMENTS taken in.—PRINTING in its various Branches, performed in a neat Manner, with the greatest Care and Dispatch, on the most reasonable Terms. Small HAND-BILLS at an Hour's Notice. SUBSCRIPTIONS for the SPY are also taken in by J. Larkin, Chairmaker, and Mr. W. Calder, Painter, in Charlesstown, Mr. J. Hiller, Watchmaker in Salem; Mr. B. Emerson, Bookseller, in Newbury Port; and Mr. M. Belcher, in Bridgewater.