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THE Massachusetts Spy
Or, Thomas's Boston Journal.
MAY 2 1908
A Weekly, Political, and Commercial PAPER:--Open to ALL Parties, but Influenced by None
DO THOU Great LIBERTY INSPIRE our Souls,--And make our Lives in THY Possession happy, Or, our Deaths glorious in THY JUST Defence.'
[VOL. III.]
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1773.
[NUMB. 152.]
To the honourable SAMUEL DANFORTH , Esq; one of his Majesty's justices of the peace throughout the province of the Massachusetts-Bay.
WE the subscribers, some of the proprietors of a township of land called Silverster-Canada, of the contents of seven miles square, lying on a river called Androscoggin river, and adjoining to Baker's town, so called, in the county of Cumberland, the plan of which was confirmed to the proprietors thereof by the General Court of said province in June 1768, humbly request your Honour to issue a warrant for calling a meeting of said proprietors, to be held at the dwelling house of Cornelius Turner, Inn-holder in Hanover, in the county of Plymouth, on Tuesday the 9th day of February next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon; then and there to act on the following articles, viz.
 1. To choose a Moderator, Clerk, Treasurer and Collector of taxes.  2. To confirm any or all former votes and grants of said proprietors at any former meeting or meetings, as they shall see fit.  3. To raise a sufficient sum or sums of money by tax or otherwise, for discharging their debts due or that may become due.  4. To choose a standing Committee to transact the affairs of said proprietors, settle the accounts, adjust the debts that are or shall be due from the said proprietors, and order payment of the same, and agreeable to law to make sale of those proprietors lands who are delinquent in paying their taxes; and to determine where the settling lots shall be laid, and how much in a lot, and about convenient ways, and procure a plan thereof, to be lodged with the Clerk as soon as may be.  5. To agree what shall be allowed the clerk and the committee for their service.  6. To choose a committee for calling meetings for the future, and to agree on the method thereof.  7. To appoint an agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, with power of Substitution, to commence any action or actions for said proprietors, and in their names to prosecute the same in any court of law, or otherwise simply, to all intents and purposes, until final judgment and execution, and in like manner to defend them in all actions brought or that may be brought against them.  8. And to agree on any other thing which said proprietors shall judge necessary for carrying forward the settlement of said township. 
JOHN CUSHING, CHARLES TURNER, WM. SEVER, JA'S WARREN, DAVID LITTLE, jun.
Scituate, November 23d, 1773.
Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, To CHARLES TURNER, of Scituate, in the county of Plymouth, in said Province, Gentleman, one of said proprietors, gentleman, one of said proprietors, Greeting,
In pursuance of the foregoing application and request you are hereby required to give notice (in time and manner as the law directs) to the said proprietors, that a meeting of said proprietors is to be held at the time and place, and for the purposes mentioned in the above written petition. Given under my hand and seal, this 22d day of December, A. D. 1773.
S. DANFORTH, Justice of the peace throughout the province aforesaid. Scituate, Dec. 23d, 1773.
By virtue of the above written warrant, to me directed, I do hereby notify and warn the proprietors of the aforesaid land to meet at the dwelling-house of Cornelius Turner, Inn-holder in Hanover, on Tuesday the ninth day of February next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon for the purposes therein mentioned.
CHARLES TURNER
To be SOLD, A SCHOONER. Of upwards of 80 Tons, has been three or four times at Sheepscut. For further particulars enquire of RALPH CROSS at Newbury-Port.
Drugs and Medicines.
imported in the last Ships from LONDON And to be sold by Nathanial Kidder, At his shop in Union Street, near the sign of the Cornfield, Boston
A FRESH Assortment of Drugs and Medicines.
Ground Madder and other Dye stuffs.   Spices,  Hungary water,    Currants,  Lavender water,    Raisins,  King's honey water,    English oatmeal,  Turkey figs,    Small ivory syringes,  Jordan almonds,    Cases of apothecaries,  Court plaster.    Scales and weights,  &c. &c.   Also genuine Patent Medicines, viz. Turlington's balsam, Essence of pepper mint, Bateman's drops, James's feaver powders, Walker's jesuits drops, Lockyer's pills, Godfrey's cordial, Anderson's scots pills, Hill's balsam of honey, Hooper's female pills, British oil, Cephalic snuff.
Doctors boxes for ships or families, use upon a new and more extensive plan, with ample directions, suited to the respective climates they are intended for.
Apothecaries Vials.
Very neat Surgeons Instruments, As neat Pocket Instruments, in silk skin cases, or to, larger apparatus in velvet pouches with silver clasps.
  Instruments for  Amputating    do.  Lithotomy    do.  Tanning    do.  Dislocating    do.  Couching    do.  Midwifery, much improved   Male and Female Catheters, according to Dr. Hunter. Cases of best Lancets, four in a case, fifth skin. Ditto two in a case, or single: Crooked Needles in cases, Teeth Instruments, viz. Paces, Pelicans, stump paces, and exceeding neat spring-key Instruments in Ivory, with three claws, Smelling Bottles, Lint, &c.
This Day PUBLISHED, and to be Sold at GREENLEAF'S Printing-Office, in Hanover-Street, BOSTON,
A DECLARATION of the warrantable grounds and proceedings of the first Associates of the GOVERNMENT OF NEW-PLYMOUTH in their laying the first foundations of this government, and in their making laws and disposing of lands within the same; with the general Fundamentals; one of which is as follows: We the Associates of the Colony, &c. do enact, ordain and constitute, that no act, imposition, law or ordinance, be made or imposed upon us at present, or to come, but such as shall be enacted by consent of the free-men or Associates, or their Representatives legally assembled; which is according to the free liberties of the free born people of England.
Also, Just PUBLISHED, A DISSERTATION on the rise, progress, views, strength interest and characters of two parties of the WHIGS and Tories.
ON THURSDAY next, At ELEVEN o'Clock, Will be Sold by PUBLIC VENDUE, At BECKER'S Auction-Room, Near the Conduit, A GREAT variety of GOODS, as usual. M. BECKER, Auctioneer.
IRISH LINENS. William Scott,
At his Irish Linen Store, in Ann-Street, between the Flat Conduit and Draw Bridge, B-fion, has imported from Ireland.
A LARGE quantity of 3-4ths.
7-8ths. and yard wide Linens, Diapers, Table cloths, Sheetings. Said Store is also furnished with a great variety of European and India GOODS, Suitable for the season amongst which are some nice cinnamon coloured and mixed Bath coatings, superfine blue and scarlet knapped ditto, cloth coloured scarlet and crimson broad cloths, forest cloths, baizes, duffles, &c. Double Cambless, Cambleteens, Denmark and Prussian muslins, crapes, do. sercens, Irish camblets, grizes, silverets, missioners, &c. Black and cloth-coloured India stuffs, flowered and plain black, white, crimson and pink satins, capuchin silks, fassenets and modes of all colours. Hosiery plain and ribbed.
A fresh assortment for Men's and Women's wear consists of two great a multiplicity to be enumerated in a public advertisement. All which will be sold by wholesale and retail at the lowest reduced prices for ready money only, a few very large Scotch Carpets.
A fresh Importation of Doctor Hemet's celebrated Essence of Pearl and Pearl Dentifrice for the preservation of the Teeth and Gums, to be sold at the London prices, cakes for the liquid shining Blacking for shoes, boots and Leather bottom chairs.
A few pieces of Ducapes, Lutestrings and Enlish Damask, to be sold at the sterling cost; a large quantity of flowered Scots Lawns, on the same terms.
New Auction-Room, Cornhill, To-Morrow morning at ten o'Clock, Will be sold by PUBLIC VENDUE, At GREENLEAF'S Auction-Room, A variety of Goods for the season, consisting of middling and low price broad cloths, blue flannels, red and blue duffs, Rattens, forest cloths, plain serges, plain and figured duroys, black and cloth coloured draw boys, worsted caps, shallons, Tammies, checked Brussels, velvets and velverets, tassies, lute strings, metal buttons, silver watches. W. GREENLEAF, Auctioneer.
New Auction-Room, Cornhill. On TUESDAY next, Will be SOLD by PUBLIC VENDUE, At GREENLEAF'S Auction-Room, in CORNHILL,
A N Assortment of Goods, as usual. W. GREENLEAF, Auctioneer.
The following is the conclusion of Lord Harcourt's speech at the opening of the parliament of Ireland, began in our last.
My Lords and Gentlemen, The laws of your country will naturally present themselves as the first and most important object of your consideration: It is my duty to call your particular attention to such as respect the religion and morals, the security and good order of the people. It is in vain that laws are made for the punishment of offenders, unless their morals can be reformed, and their minds impressed with principles of virtue.
I am firmly persuaded that we are met together, animated with the same intentions of maintaining the honour and dignity of his Majesty's Government, and of promoting the good of this kingdom. Your conduct has convinced me that I shall receive from you the fullest proofs of your loyalty and attachment to the King, and of your zeal in the public service: mine, I trust will show that I have nothing more sincerely at heart than the welfare and prosperity of Ireland. Your protestant charter schools, the seminaries of true religion and industry, deserve your particular consideration; and your linen manufacture, the great source of wealth to the nation, is an object of the highest importance. You will consider, whether any new laws may be
wanting to improve, regulate and extend this most beneficial trade; or to support its reputation at foreign markets.
FRIDAY, December 24. BOSTON.
The following are the proceedings of the town of Portsmouth, in New-Hampshire, viz. PORTSMOUTH, December 16
A meeting of the FREEHOLDERS, and other inhabitants of the town of Portsmouth, held at the North-meeting House, for the purpose of consulting, advising, and determining upon the most proper and effectual method to prevent the receiving or vending the TEAS sent out by the East-India Company.
Voted, SAMUEL HALE, Esq; Moderator.
The question being put to the meeting, Whether they will act upon the articles mentioned in the notification for calling this meeting? Voted, That the matters contained in the Notification shall be considered at this meeting.
UPON a serious consideration of the late act of Parliament subjecting the Colonies to pay a duty upon Teas in America, and more especially the act of Parliament passed at their last session, whereby the East-India Company in London, have full power to export their Teas to the Colonies, liable to a duty, upon being landed here, it appears manifestly, the latter was artfully designed by the Ministry, to carry more effectually into execution the former, which was made for the express purpose of raising a revenue from the Colonies, by the authority of the British Parliament only, without our consent, wherefore, from a due sense of the value and importance of our liberties and properties, and from just apprehensions of the horrors of slavery, we are induced to make the following RESOLVES:
 1st. Resolved, That the measures of late pursued by the ministry of Great-Britain in their attempts to subject the Colonies to taxation, by the sole authority of the British-Parliament, are not only unjust, arbitrary and inconsistent with the fundamental principles of the British Constitution; but directly tend to hasten on the destruction of an Empire, which by preserving in all its parts those original rights which first gave rise to its present glory, might increase in wealth and power, become the envy of all nations and continue in full strength and grandeur for ages to come; therefore, in the foregoing view, we cannot but think ourselves bound by our duty to the King, and love to the nation of which we are members, to oppose such measures to the utmost of our power.  2d. Resolved, That it is the natural right of men, born and inheriting estates in any part of the British Empire to have the power of disposing of their own property, either by themselves or their Representatives.  3d. Resolved, That the act of the British Parliament, laying a duty upon Teas, landed in America, payable here; is a Tax whereby the property of Americans is taken from them, without their consent.  4th. Resolved, That notwithstanding the preamble to the Act, laying a duty upon Teas, asserts that the act is made for the support of government, the administration of justice, &c. in America, yet this is not only unnecessary, but has a direct tendency to subvert our constitution, render our assemblies useless, and the government arbitrary.  5th. Resolved, That every virtuous and public spirited Freeman ought readily to oppose to the utmost of his ability, every artful attack of the Ministry to enslave the Americans.  6th. Resolved, That the power given by Parliament to the East-India company 

ay, to send out their Teas to the Colonies, subjected to the payment of duties, on their being landed here, is a plain attempt to enforce the ministerial plan, and a direct attack upon the liberties of America, and that it is the indispensable duty of all true-hearted Americans, to render this effort abortive.
7th. Resolved . That the Union of all the colonies appears to be the most likely method under God, of obtaining a repeal of all those acts which are so subversive of the freedom of the British Colonies, and destructive of the whole nation.
8th. Resolved . That in case any of the Company's Tea should be brought into this port, in order for sale, we will use every method to prevent its being landed or sold here.
9th. Resolved . That whoever shall directly or indirectly, promote, or in any way aid or assist in the importation of any of the East-India Company's Teas; or any Teas subject to the payment of a duty here, by an act of the British Parliament, shall be deemed an enemy to America.
10th. Resolved . That this town do hereby return their thanks to all their brethren in the several governments upon this continent, for their noble exertions upon this important and alarming occasion.
11th. Resolved . That the proceedings of this meeting be published and sent to every considerable town in this government, and that a Committee be chose to correspond with them, and also with the several Committees in the other governments.
Therefore Voted , The Hon John Sherburne, Esq;  John Pickering, Esq;  George Gains, Esq;  Jacob Shaeffer, Esq;  Samuel Cuts, Esq;  Samuel Hale, Esq;  Capt. John Langdon, or any other of them, be and hereby are a Committee for the purposes aforesaid. The meeting was then dissolved.
Hon. Theodore Atkinson, Esq;  Hon. George J. Fry, Esq;  Hon. Daniel Rogers, Esq;  John Parker, Esq;  Capt. Woodbury Langdon and George King Esq; entered their dissent against the proceedings of the aforesaid meeting.
B O S T O N.
MONDAY December 27.
The people at New-Port, Rhode-Island, have advised the tea-sellers to sell at the usual prices: And that every one who gives more than 4/6 lawful money for the best Bohea by the single pound, will be deemed an enemy to this country.
NEWPORT, December 20. 'It is amazing,' says a correspondent, 'that the legislatures of the colonies do not lay a duty of ten dollars on every pound of Tea imported from Great-Britain!'
CHARLESTOWN. [S Carolina,] Nov. 10 We are informed that some alterations in the military establishment in North-America, will soon take place, that General Gage is to return to take the chief command of the forces; that the office of Brigadier-General, is to be abolished, and that a Major-General on the American staff is to reside with the commander in chief, at New-York. Several other new arrangements are likewise talked of.
NEW-YORK, Dec. 16. The following advertisement was handed about the city, viz.
"THE members of the Association of the Sons of Liberty, are requested to meet at the City Hall, at one o'clock, to-morrow, (being Friday) on business of the utmost importance;—and every other friend to the liberties and trade of America, are hereby most cordially invited, to meet at the same time and place.
The Committee of the Association Thursday, New-York, 16th. Dec.
December 17th, 1773.
"IN pursuance of this advertisement altho' the weather was bad, at one o'clock P. M a very numerous and respectable number of the citizens, met at the city Hall, when Mr. John Lamb, a member of the association, addressed the meeting, and informed them, that he was desired, by a number of his fellow citizens to communicate to them, that there were several letters received from the committee of correspondence of the town of Boston, and a letter from Philadelphia, relative to the importation of the East-India company's tea; which it was desired might be communicated. The letters were accordingly read; and a committee of fifteen Gentlemen was chosen to answer those letters and to correspond with our sister colonies on the subject of the dutied tea. The association of the Sons of Liberty was then read, the conclusion of which is as follows, viz.
"We the subscribers, influenced by a regard to liberty, and disposed to use all lawful endeavours in our power, to defeat the pernicious project, and to transmit to our posterity, those blessings of freedom, which
our ancestors have handed down to us; and to contribute to the support of the common liberties of America, which are in danger to be subverted, DO, for these important purposes agree to associate together, under the name and stile of the SONS of LIBERTY of NEW YORK, and engage our honour, to and with each other, faithfully to observe and perform the following RESOLUTIONS, viz.
1. Resolved . That whoever shall aid, or abet, or in any manner assist, in the introduction of tea, from any place whatsoever, into this colony, while it is subject by a British act of parliament, to the payment of a duty, for the purpose of raising a revenue in America, he shall be deemed, an enemy to the liberties of America.
2d. Resolved . That whoever shall be aiding or assisting, in the landing, or cating of such tea, from any ship, or vessel, or shall hire any house, storehouse, or cellar, or any place whatsoever, to deposit the tea, subject to a duty as aforesaid, he shall be deemed an enemy to the liberties of America.
3d. Resolved . That whoever shall sell, or buy, or in any manner contribute to the sale, or purchase of tea, subject to a duty as aforesaid, or shall aid, or abet, in transporting such tea, by land, or water, from this city, until the 7th Geo. III. Chap. 46, commonly called the revenue act, shall be totally and clearly repealed, he shall be deemed an enemy to the liberties of America.
4th. Resolved . That whether the duties on tea imposed by this act, be paid in Great-Britain, or in America, our liberties are equally affected.
5th. Resolved . That wheever shall transgress any of these resolutions, we will not deal with, or employ, or have any connection with him.
New-York, Nov. 29.
Mr. Lamb then put the question, whether they agreed to these resolutions? It passed in the affirmative. Nem. Con.
The Mayor and the Recorder came into the meeting, and informed them that they had a message from government to deliver to the people; and to take their tea upon it. Whereupon it was agreed that the Mayor should deliver the message; which he accordingly did in the words following:
"Gentlemen, I have a message from government to deliver to you. The Governor declares that the tea will be put into the fort at noon day; and engages his honour that it shall continue there, till the council shall advise it to be delivered out, or till the King's order, or the proprietors order is known; and then the tea will be delivered out at noon day. Gentlemen is this satisfactory to you?" This was answered with a general No, No, No.
Mr. Lamb, then read to the people, the act of Parliament, that imposes the duty on tea imported into America, and after making some pertinent remarks on the commons of Great-Britain's giving, and granting, the property of the Americans; and that the duty was due on the landing of the tea, put the following question. "Is it then your opinion, Gentlemen, that the tea should be landed under this circumstance? This was carried so generally in the negative, that here was no call for a division.
Whereas this body is informed from unquestionable authority, and the letters that have now been read; the patriotic inhabitants of the city of Philadelphia, and the town of Boston have determined, that no tea, subject to a duty by a British act of Parliament, for the purpose of raising a revenue in America, should be landed in either of those places,
Resolved , nem. con. That this body highly approve of that spirited and patriotic conduct of our brethren, of the city of Philadelphia, and the town of Boston, in support of the common liberties of America Then the question was put, whether this meeting should be adjourned, till the arrival of the tea ship, or be dissolved. It was carried, that the meeting should be adjourned, till the arrival of the tea ship.
Voted . That these proceedings should be published, and transmitted by the committee to the other colonies.
TUESDAY, December 28.
B O S T O N.
We hear that Capt. Loring's Brig, the fourth vessel from London, with the East-India Company's Tea on board for this place, mentioned last week to be drove on shore at Cape-Cod, was stove to pieces there yesterday evening; but that most of the Cargo had been landed, though some of it damaged.—We have no certain account of the safety of the Tea.
NEW-YORK, December 23 By Capt. Hunt, in fifteen days from Charlestown,
we have an account that two hundred and seventy chests of tea were arrived there in a ship commanded by Capt. Curling, on which the inhabitants were called together on the 4th instant; they assembled in such numbers as to occasion the main beams of their Exchange to give way. The meeting was opened with debates upon the measures to be taken on this critical occasion. It was alleged that tea had ever been spontaneously imported, and the duty paid; that every subject had an equal right to send that article from the mother country into their province, and therefore it was unreasonable to exclude the East-India company from the same privilege. This produced a general resolution of the citizens that from that time no tea should be permitted to be landed in South-Carolina whilst the article was subject to a duty; and also that the tea, then brought by Capt. Curling, should be peremptorily sent back to England, without being landed. In consequence of which Capt. Curling was preparing to protest against the consignees: proposed to land the other goods, to ship the tea between decks, and when he had fired the ship's hold with rice, &c. set sail for the port of London.
We have inexpressible satisfaction in acquainting our readers, that it is determined, on the arrival of the ship Nancy, Capt. Lockyer, with the tea from the East-India company, the commander will be made acquainted with the sentiments of the inhabitants respecting the shipping that article, which will undoubtedly occasion his return with it in statu quo, to England, and that he will be provided with every necessary for his voyage home; by which discreet intention, every fatality, both to this colony and the company, will be most happily prevented, and a succession of that blessed tranquillity, which we enjoy under the present wise and serene administration, will be secured.
By the ship Renown, Capt. Steele, which arrived yesterday morning from Newcastle on Tyne, but last in two days from Philadelphia, we are informed, that he saw a ship lying at anchor about ten miles within Delaware Bay, which his pilot told him was Capt. Ayres's ship, with tea for that port, from the East-India company.
WEDNESDAY December 29.
B O S T O N.
At a meeting of a large number of the principal dealers of tea in Boston, the 20th, and continued by adjournment to the 23d of December, 1773.
HAVING maturely considered the many evils that would inevitably flow, from the execution of a late ministerial movement in favour of the East India company, and that this flagrant attempt against our liberties has justly alarmed America, and excited a laudable spirit of emulation in her sons, to distinguish themselves in opposing a measure which it permitted to operate, would have drained the colonies of the greater part of their specie, would have been construed an acquiescence in the right assumed by the British parliament to tax them, and might have ended in a total privation of our just rights.
Impressed by an ardent solicitude for our country—ourselves—and posterity—whose future welfare greatly depend on a repeal of the duty long complained of, and which hath been a principal cause for several years together, of an unhappy interruption of that reciprocal affection, that were wont to subsist between the parent state and the colonies; the restoration of which is essential to the prosperity of both.—Apprehending it may be in some degree in our power, to facilitate this wished for state, by our late connections, as sellers of the article thus nurtured, and the consequent influence we must have in suppressing its use: This consideration, hath begot an expectation in many of our fellow citizens, and countrymen, that we do unite our endeavours with theirs in exterminating this destructive herb from the province.
It must be evident to our friends and countrymen, in the seaports, and other towns, that a coadjutry of action at this important crisis, is as necessary, as a unanimity of sentiment; and that this instance of disinterestedness we are about to exhibit, by a voluntary surrender of an advantageous article of commerce, when opposed to the public good, will stimulate them to adopt similar measures to ours; in this confidence supported by a recollection of their inflexible virtue, frequently, and recently manifested, We cheerfully enter into the following resolves;
 1. That from and after the 20th January 1774, we will totally suspend the sale of all teas, until the sense, and determination of the inhabitants of the seaports and other towns, can be known, with respect to its total expulsion; or until a repeal of the revenue act may take place.  2. That we will not in the mean time, purchase on our own account, or receive on commissions, or otherwise, any tea whatever.  3. That the tea we have by us unfold, which cost us five shillings shall be sold at no more than four pence advance, until the time limited for suspending the sale. 
4. That a committee be appointed to apply to all the dealers in tea, in this town, to obtain their compliance to these resolves, and make report of the same, with the names of those who decline, (if any there may be) at our next meeting.
5. That if from the change of circumstances, or the intervention of other causes, any ten of our number shall judge it necessary to call a meeting, to make any alterations, or to adopt other measures to effect the aforesaid purpose, they have our consent to do it.
N. B. It is desired that all persons concerned would consider the importance of a just determination, and be prepared to give answer to the committee, who will apply to them in a few days.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman of rank and reputation in New Hampshire.
"The letters of correspondence sent here from Boston, have had much greater effect than I expected. The spirit of liberty is at length roused again, and in a very full town meeting resolves similar to yours at Boston, were passed in spite of all endeavours of a few Tories to prevent them."
Extract of a letter from a gentleman of character and distinction in New Hampshire, dated December 21, 1773.
I heartily congratulate you upon the noble and patriotic spirit of liberty which so remarkably prevails through this extensive continent. I think it is an indication that the smiles of heaven are with us, in our endeavours to frustrate all the designs of a corrupt ministry and their tools, to enslave millions of loyal good subjects, who are as justly intitled to all the freedom the British constitution will admit as any of his Majesty's subject in England."
"This town met the 16th instant and in a very full meeting passed a number of resolves, which I now enclose you I doubt not but all the towns in this province, of any consequence, will immediately manifest the same disposition to oppose every art in the ministry to enslave the colonies; and I hope soon to see a compleat union take place through this continent, which I apprehend will be with the favour of heaven, sufficient to render any attempt of a future corrupt ministry to tax the Americans fruitless."
DIED , J. Mr. John Gardner Jackson, aged 26.—Mrs. Ruth Sinclair, Widow of the late Capt. Sinclair of this place:—Mr. Timothy Kneeland, printer, aged 34.—Mr. John Jones, at Watson, aged 88. His death was occasioned by swallowing a bone of a chicken 3 days before.—At South-Carolina, Mrs. Anne Simmons, the amiable Consort of James Simmons, Esq;—At Paris, John Hulke, Esq; late of this town, Merchant.—At New-Haven, Mrs. Abigail Babcock, Wife of Mr. Abijah Babcock.—
Charlestown, December 25th.
WE the dealers in and sellers of tea in this town, taking into consideration the recent alarming designs and attacks upon our rights and privileges, and considering how essentially the said designs may be carried into execution by the sale of tea, while subject as it now is to an American duty by the authority of the British parliament: Have upon mature deliberation unanimously resolved and agreed, that we will not after this day, directly or indirectly, by ourselves or any for or under us, buy or sell or suffer to be used in our families, any TEA, until the duty is repealed.
And whereas some of us may have more tea on hand than others, in order that the loss may fall equally, voted, that the same be bought at the joint expense of this company and destroyed.
Also voted, that three of the gentlemen present be a committee to inform some of the principal tea sellers in Boston and Medford of these resolutions, and desire their influence, that similar measures may be taken by the dealers in this article in their respective towns.
Monday next will be published,
MILLS & HICKS'S BRITISH and AMERICAN REGISTER, and to be sold at their Printing-Office in School-street.
To be SOLD, At POWELLS warehouse No. 14, On the Long Wharfe, French COFFEE in small casks, suitable for shipping off to the out ports.
A black roan HORSE, about fourteen hands high, strayed from the subscribers stable in Hanover-street, last Tuesday Evening. Any Person returning him, shall be paid their charges, and handsomely rewarded for their trouble by ELIAS GRAY.
WANTS employment, a man in the capacity of a waiting man, who understands fa-rying, and can be well recommended. Enquire of the Prince.

For the MASSACHUSETTS S P Y.
Mr. THOMAS,
BEING a native of the town of Plymouth, and having many connections there, I have upon all occasions been solicitous for its honour. I have ever esteemed the inhabitants of that town almost universally, as men who place the love of their country among the first of their moral virtues; and as such are ever ready to exhibit to the world the practice of that virtue in promoting the safety, happiness and reputation of the community in which they are born; and in supporting the constitution under which they live. Such being my sentiments of the Plymouthians, conceive, Sir, if you can, what was my joy and secret satisfaction, when at a late meeting of the people at Boston, the patriotic resolves of that town were read and applauded by the universal eclat of the assembly; it was too great to be expressed: I thought myself on this occasion honoured; but upon being informed, a few days after, "that there was a protest entered against those resolves subscribed by forty respectable inhabitants," I confess it somewhat damped my joy; being therefore desirous to know who these respectable inhabitants were, I appealed to Draper's Gazette, and upon reading over the names I could scarcely refrain from laughter. In short, respectable as these inhabitants were, I was so far from being fearful of the loss of the town's honour, that I was convinced there could be no better evidence of its existence. I found six or seven of the first names in the second column to be the soul of all the rest; and when the public are informed, that those few are composed of a Colonel (a relation to his Excellency) a Judge, Clerks of Court and Barristers at law, they can easily determine by what motives they were influenced. One half of the others are so extremely poor, that their qualifications for the election of a representative (if they attempted to vote) would be undoubtedly disputed; (I mean not to impute poverty to them as a crime) but to account for the strangeness of their conduct, upon this principle, that the necessity of their circumstances required their compliance with the demands of those, on whom they are dependent for their daily subsistence. These must sign the protest, or starve. The other half is made up of boys, and men of weak understandings, who like Esau of old, not knowing the value of their birthrights, were easily prevailed upon to sell them for a mess of pottage. This being a just representation of the persons I am, that their protest will not leave a single impression on the mind of any honest individual, unfavourable to the town or Plymouth: But that it will be considered, as it is, the impotent attempt of a few to render ineffectual the laudable exertions and virtuous zeal of the inhabitants of that town. The puff of a little party of men, who, by toying with children, bribing the necessitous and pampering the ignorant, have endeavoured to render themselves considerable, to represent the opposition to the present ministerial or Hutchinsonian measure as chimerical and vain, and to suppress those exertions of the people, which are the best proofs of their virtue and religion. I trust their enterprize will be as unsuccessful, as their intentions are wicked. And I know not whether it would be more to the honour of their fellow townsmen to punish them, for their political sins, after the modern form, than to leave them, with dumb contempt, to the indignation of heaven, and the remorse of their own consciences.
AN OLD COLONIST
For the MASSACHUSETTS S P Y To the LADY, who in No. 151 of this paper signs a WOMAN.
MADAM,
IN your essay above referred to, I observe you are pleased to enumerate a great number of arguments, used to persuade the ladies to leave off the use of tea; the first mentioned, being that it greatly injures your health. This among others you conclude insufficient to convince persons capable of using their reason of the necessity of discontinuing it. In this question Madam, I concieve myself interested, as I have maintained it, both in public writing and speaking; the former of which you doubtless refer to, in your first paragraph. In a piece some time since published in Messrs. Fleets Evening Post, I offered several things to the public, which, I conceive deserve a more regular refutation than you have been cause to bestow upon them. I there alleged that the tea plant was possessed of a corrosive juice, which, in curing took the skin off the hands of the persons concerned in roasting it. In all the coarser teas, the best au-
thors inform us, this juice is very imperfectly extracted. The effect of a corrosive liquor on the soft, nourishing fluid, which goes to the repair of the animal machine, you have not considered; nor shown the absurdity of such a position. Much less have you rendered it improbable that tea may be reasonably suspected of augmenting the frequency of consumptions, palsies, apoplexies, scurveys, hypochondrias, and the whole train of flatulent and nervous disorders. You indeed affect an ignorance that it ever was suspected of any insalubrious quality, till the patrons of liberty thought fit to invent a number of frightful stories about it, to serve a present political purpose no doubt. This pretence is hardly consistent with the candour of an author who ought at least to remember the contents of papers he appears to be considering. A very respectable character in this town, was said to have inveighed bitterly against the evil qualities of tea, some thirty five or forty years ago, and no one has called this story into question. Besides I presume it would puzzle your ladyship to manifest what political bias influences Short, Tiffot, Cullen, and many other European authors to declare against it. It has been long and well known to many, to be a baneful plant or drug, and so has its bitter opium, yet thousands have persevered in the use of the latter as obstinately as you seem determined to do in the former; declaring that they could not live, or did not value life without it. The many persons, gentlemen as well as ladies, whose health it has really bettered, have altogether escaped my observation. I am certain my experience in my own person directly contradicts it. One thing I will readily grant respecting its apparent relieving persons in very uneasy circumstances, which may be mistaken for removing a distress which it only suspends, or at best transmutes into one more permanent, though less sensibly affecting. An extract or even infusion of tea is known to be sedative and anodyne; a double quantity of the extract is said to produce all the effects of opium. This is universally known to diminish the irritability of the parts, and take off the sense of pain. The irritability of the stomach being lessened diminishes its action upon the food it receives; which in consequence must be the longer retained; and if the contents of the stomach be prone to fermentation or putrefaction, the injury from it will be so sensible as to cause the patient to forbear the use of them. Hence in process of time will ensue an incapacity of using freely the gifts of nature; the pulsemortal being restricted to a few very inactive substances, which in consequence can never be expected to fill the vessels and supply the solid parts with much invigorating nourishment. A stomach which can without offence bear the strong and hard kinds of aliment, and indeed all kinds indifferently, may be esteemed the basis of a sound and vigorous constitution; whereas it is notorious, that those persons who have quit a more substantial diet, in the first place, for Bohea tea, and that for the yet finer sorts, have at length arrived at so extreme a delicacy of stomach, that nothing but the very finest can be borne by any means. This of itself may well be considered as a great misfortune, but when the consequent train of evils which follow it are also taken into the account, the general weakness of habit, the proneness to every disease of the low nervous, flatulent, corbutic, hypochondriac kind; and what is infinitely unkind, the entailment of the miserable disposition to hapless posterity. A bad legacy indeed! A feeble, lax, effeminate, constitution, overset by every alteration of air or regimen. I presume, Madam, you would hardly wish to be the mother of such puny race, at a time when the vigour of Macedonians, and the strength of Patagonians are wanting to retrieve and secure our invaded rights.
The other stories you are pleased to ridicule may be in substance true, at least the greater part of them. There is nothing so very improbable in the circumstance of the tea's being trod into packages with dirty feet. This relation is extracted from an author of good credit, and does not appear so absurd as to induce a doubt of the persons non capacity who might really credit it. Its harbouring insects, when kept some time, may as to be a fact, for all I know of the matter; and when I read or hear such a relation, of which I cannot readily come at the foundation, I pass it in silence, rather than cry it much up or down.
Ladies, as well as Gentlemen, who demand polite treatment, would do well to avoid an apparent disposition to sneer at things in ways extravagant. Such airs commonly provoke reprisals, in which such portions of respect frequently insinuate themselves as finally derogate much from the proposed politeness.
The full and plain narrative of matters of fact, pregnant with political reasons for discarding the use of tea, has been once and again published. It is laddled with a tribute imposed without our consent, for the purpose of raising a revenue among us, to maintain a pack of villains, who have done every thing in their power to subvert our civil constitution, and reduce us to slavery. If this be not reason enough to induce any rational being to leave it off, no other will at this time be proposed by
Madam, your most obedient humble servant, T. YOUNG.
THURSDAY, December 30. BOSTON.
Monday evening Mr. Paul Revere, returned here from New York.
The News of the destruction of the Tea, as it was the only way left to prevent the coining prepared for us, from being riveted, we are well informed, gave satisfaction to all the Friends of American Liberty, who heard of it.
The tea ship was not arrived at New York on Thursday last, when the post came away, and we are informed that Capt. Alscough, commander of the Swan, on that station, has orders, whenever he arrives to supply her with necessaries, that she may immediately return from whence she came, with the Tea on board. On receiving this intelligence, and hearing likewise that the tea had arrived at Charlestown, South Carolina and that the inhabitants there had determined it should return to London on the bottom on which it came, all the bells in town were rung.
It is said the behaviour of Governor Tyron at New-York, with regard to the tea, will redound much to his honour—whilst the conduct of Hutchinson will be execrated to the latest period of time!
At a meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants, qualified by law to vote, of the town of Lynn, duly and legally assembled on the 16th day of December, 1773, among other spirited resolves, passed unanimously, was the following, viz
"Resolved, that those Consignees have shown a ready disposition to become the tools of a vile and corrupt ministry, supported by a venal and tyrannical Parliament, to oppress and enslave their native country, and come under the same class of infamous creatures, with the Governors, the Commissioners and their dependants, that of Enemies and Traitors to their country; have manifested the stupidity to sacrifice Liberty to avarice, and the wickedness, when occasion shall serve, to riot on the spoils of their brethren; and have forfeited their right to personal protection and security."
Saturday next, the brigantine Lydia, Capt Adam Winthrop, sails for London, wind and weather permitting.
The great and general court of this province, is further prorogued to the 26th day of January next, then to meet for the dispatch of business.
Very circumstantial accounts were published in the New York papers of Thursday last, of the destruction of the Tea in this place.
Tuesday Capt. _____ arrived here from London, who brings intelligence to the 6th of November. Nothing has transpired very interesting to America.
We hear that the Tea in Charlestown, is all bought up, and that it will be burnt there this day.
DIED.] Suddenly, Mr. Cunningham, master.
The proceedings of the governor and his Majesty's council of this province, in consequence of a petition from the tea consignees to them, some time past, being lengthy, we are obliged to omit for want of room, but as they are published in the other papers, to them we would refer our readers.
* Cobham, An American, An Accroscopic, Z. A. Tom Bowline, &c. &c. came too late for this day's paper.
CHARLESTOWN, (South-Carolina) Dec. 6
LAST Wednesday evening came in over the bar, and the next morning anchored before the town, the ship London, Alexander Curling master from London; with no less than two hundred and fifty seven chests of tea on board, which were shipped by the East-India company in London, and consigned to Roger Smith, Esq; and Messrs. Leger and Greenwood, merchants here, to be by them received and disposed of in this province, after the payment of a duty of three pence sterling a pound, imposed (in the year 1767) by the very same act of parliament of Great-Britain, which also laid the (since repealed) duties on paper, paints and glass, for the express purpose of raising a revenue in America, without our consent, and which duty on tea was, by the ministry, expressly declared to be retained, not for the sake of the revenue it might produce, but merely to establish a precedent to confirm the power assumed by the same parliament, in the declaratory act, to pass laws binding upon the colonies in all cases whatsoever—which, if admitted in America, will be acknowledging an equal power, to raise hearth money on, and to tax the colonists for even the light of heaven—and
render representatives of their choice nominal.
So great a quantity of tea arriving once, under such circumstances, justly an universal alarm: For though the importation of a few chests, from time to time, in the several London ships, had been overlooked (not being suspected) those who thought it would be criminal tamely to give up any of our essential rights as British subjects, and involve our posterity in a state little better than slavery, began to look about them, and to think it high time to contend, legally, and to dispute the assumed power.
In these circumstances, hand bills were distributed on Thursday, and advertised a stuck up at all the usual and most public places, inviting all the inhabitants, without exception, particularly the Landholders, to assemble in the Great Hall over the Exchange at three o'clock on Friday afternoon, as well with a view to prevent any rash or violent proceedings, as to take the sense of the people so collected, what would be absolutely necessary to be done in the present case?
The inhabitants accordingly met on Friday—and a very worthy and honourable Gentleman, having been unanimously requested to take the chair, was placed therein.
After some time spent in calm deliberation, it appeared, to be the sense of the people, that the Gentlemen in trade should be requested to enter immediately into a written agreement, not to import any more teas, that would pay duties, laid for the unconstitutional purpose of raising a revenue upon us without our consent—which sense being declared by Mr. Chairman, the form of a proper agreement was called for, approved of, and signed, by several of the gentlemen present.
It was next proposed and agreed to, that the Gentlemen to whom the East-India company's tea had been consigned, should be desired to attend; and that Mr. Chairman should acquaint them, that the receiving the said tea, subject to a duty which they apprehended to be unconstitutionally laid, would be exceedingly disagreeable to their fellow citizens, and the body of inhabitants of this province; and that therefore it was requested, they would not accept the said commission, but return the tea, to the proprietors thereof in the same bottom that brought it.
Mr. Smith, and Messrs. Leger and Greenwood accordingly attended; And Mr. Chairman having delivered what he had in charge, those gentlemen severally shewed the regard they had for their country, by declining to receive the tea, as the people had requested—and Mr. Smith added, to his lasting honour, that he had determined some weeks before it arrived, not to have any concern in a business, which his countrymen conceived to have so fatal a tendency. This was followed by repeated thanks, and loud shouts of applause.
Capt. Curling apprehending himself involved in some difficulties, by this determination, then desired to be informed how he should extricate himself from them. He was answered, "by keeping all the tea on board his vessel, and returning with it to England."
A committee was then appointed, to wait, the next day, upon such gentlemen in trade, and other importers, as were not present, with the agreement already signed by several, not to import any more teas, subject to the aforesaid duty, in order that they might add their names.
On Saturday the said committee diligently and faithfully performed what was requested of them.
In the mean time the principal planters and landholders have thought it proper to enter into another agreement, which is signing very fast.
Duncan Ingraham, jun. Has now for Sale at his shop in Union-Street, Boston, a compleat assortment of European Piece Goods.
Suitable for the present Season, Which he will sell great Pennyworths for cash. The following
Articles of Hard Ware, He will sell for near the cost, on examination; they will be found to be very low charged. (Particulars in our next.)
To be BOLD cheap, a superfine Scarlet Cloth Riding-Hood, al- not new. Enquire of the Printer.
This day was published, price 6d. The Boston Sheet Almanack
ack, for the year of our Lord 1774. Proper to put or hang up in stores or shops.
Printed and sold by I. THOMAS, near the Market, and by MILLS & HICKS in School-Street.

POETS CORNER.
From the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.
PARAPHRASE of the LORD'S PRAYER.
FATHER of all! eternal mind, In uncreated light enthron'd, Immensely good and great!
Thy children form'd and blest'd by thee, With filial love and homage, we Fall prostrate at thy feet.
Thy name in hallow'd strains be sung, Let ev'ry heart, and ev'ry tongue, The solemn concert join,
In loving, serving, praising thee, We find our chief felicity, But cannot add to thine.
Thy righteous, mild and sov'reign reign, Throughout creation's ample plain, Let ev'ry being own.
Lord, in our hearts, where passions rude, With fierce tumultuous rage, intrude, Erect thy peaceful throne.
As angels round thy seat above, With joyful haste, and ardent love, Thy blest commands fulfil;
So let thy creatures here below, As far as thou hast giv'n to know, Perform thy sacred will.
On thee we day by day depend, Our being's author, and its end; Our daily wants supply:
With healthful meat our bodies fed, Our souls sustain'd with living bread, Our souls that never die.
Extend thy grace to every fault; Each sinful action, word, and thought, Oh! let thy love forgive;
For thou hast taught our hearts to show Divine forgiveness to our foe, Nor let resentment live.
Where tempting snares beset the way, To lead unwary minds astray, Permit us not to tread;
Unless thy gracious aid appear T' avert the threatening evil near, From our unguarded head.
Thy sacred name we thus adore, And thus thy choicest gifts implore, With joyful, humble mind;
Because thy power and glory prove Thy kingdom built on wisdom, love, Unceasing, unconfin'd.
A Theft.
ON Sunday night last, one or more villains, broke into the back part of THOMAS WALLEY's store, on Dock Square, but finding the door fast between that and the front shop, they attempted no further that way, but got into the Window of I. THOMAS's Printing Office, over said store, and after having rummaged a Desk and taken some small money out of it, they cut a hole through the Printing office floor, and got down into said Waller's store where they broke open the Money-Draw, took about 50s. in coppers, a small quantity of Tea and Coffee, and then went off the same way they came in. If any suspicious persons are seen selling the articles above-mentioned, it is desired they may be stopped.
N. B. Said store has been broke open three times in less than two years, notwithstanding there are two watches paid by the town, one within 40 and the other within an 100 yards of said store.
To be SOLD cheap for Cash, by Cyrus Baldwin.
At his shop in Cornhill, near the State-House, CHOICE Bohea and Souchong Teas, best Hyson ditto at 18s. L. Mon. the pound. Naregafet CHEESE, Cinnamon, Cloves, Mace, Nutmegs, Pepper, Allspice, Kippen's snuff, and Indigo, a parcel of Parchment Deeskins. Also,
A general assortment of English, India and Scotch Goods, suitable for all seasons in the year.
WANTED, at the same place, a quantity of good large LYNN SHOES.
N. B. The above teas were imported before the East-India Company's teas arrived, or it was known that they would send any here on their own account.
All persons indebted to the PRINTER hereof, will greatly oblige him by making speedy payment.
For private Sale,
At the NEW AUCTION ROOM, South Side of the Town House, viz.
H andsome mahogany desks and book case, chest on chest of drawers, dining and spring tables, beaureau tables, mahogany hair and leather bottom chairs, straw bottom do. several handsome eight day clocks, silver and pinchbeck watches, chamber tables, harratee curtains, feather beds and bedsteads, handsome sconce and other looking glasses, small dressing ditto. Also, blue, orange, lead, grey and clou-oured broad cloths; cott & velvet, shaloon, tamies, stuffs of all colours, drab and mint duffsils, copper and mint frizes, calamancos, capuchin silks of all colours, buckskin breeches, men's silk and worsted hose, white baize, black silk handkerchiefs, black satin and chip hats, silk gauze, black gauze handkerchiefs, black blue, white and pink sarfnetts. A small box of well assorted ribbons the newest fashion; Scotch carpets, superfine button hole twill, camp and basket buttons, blue fized cotton, glass pitchers, &c. A small quantity of choice Rhubarb, &c.
At said Auction Room constant attendance is given to receive all kinds of Goods for Public and private SALE.
SILKS
And Superfine BROAD CLOTHS.
A Prime assortment of Padusoys, Ducapes, Lu. e. strings; plain and figure-kins, damasks, sarfnetts, &c. — superfine, fashionable coloured broad cloths, with suitable Linings and Trimings.
To be sold at an exceeding low rate, by JOHN BARRETT & SONS, At their Shop near the Mill-bridge, Boston, Where e may be had, all kinds of
English, Scotch, India, Hard-Ware and Cutlery GOODS.
By Wholesale or Retail. Extremely cheap for cash or short credit.
Samuel Eliot,
Informs his friends, and the Public, that he has imported in the Hayley, Capt. Scott,
A n assortment of 3-4ths. 7-8ths. and yard wide IRISH LINENS, which have been procured on the best terms.
A variety of Hosiery, &c. which with the Goods he had before received this Fall compleat a general assortment of English, Scotch and Irish Piece GOODS.
He has also imported a variety of Cutlery and Hard WARE. Pepper, Cinnamon, Cloves and Nutmegs, A few casks of Gun Powder.
All which will be sold by wholesale and retail, at his shop near the head of Dock's square and at his store in Wilson's lane.
Moses Deshon,
TAKES this method to acquaint the public, that he proposes, on suitable encouragement, to open a singing school for the instruction of youth in the arts of psalmody, Tuesdays and Friday evenings, from six to nine o'clock in the evening, at his Auction room, in Ann-street, if a suitable number appear.
To be SOLD by, SAMUEL AYES, At his store at the North-end,
CHOICE Lisbon WINE, LEMONS, sweet OIL, Malaga WINE, jai OLIVES.
To be LET on reasonable terms, A CONVENIENT and safe DOCK, where one or two vessels may be taken good care of through the whole or part of the ensuing winter. Enquire of the Printer.
MISSING,
A SMALL box, imported in the Hayley, Capt. Scott, marked L. Whoever has it in possession, will much oblige Capt. Scott by informing him of it, or by leaving word at the shop of Mr. Samuel Eliot.
JUST ARRIVED, And now opening,
A fresh ASSORTMENT of English, India and Scotch Goods, To be SOLD by
Parkman and Melvill,
At their Shop, in Cornhill, formerly improved by Mrs. Mehitable Torrey.
N. B. They have just received in the last vessels from London, a handsome assortment of WINNER STUFFS for Ladies Gowns, which will be sold extremely low.
To be SOLD at the Shop of Charles Lowe,
In Marshall's Lane, facing the BOSTON STONE,
FINE Lisbon OIL, by the gallon, Quart or less
Best Durham Mustard, by the pound or less.
Red Herrings, by the hundred or less.
Choice Dorchester Beer, by the gallon or quart.
Fine Currants and Raisins, by large or small quantities.
Dumb and Merchantable Fish, by the Quintal or smaller quantity.
ALSO, Loaf and brown Melasses, Sugars, Cotton Wool, Rice, Indigo, Flour, Raisins, Allspice, Pepper, Nutmegs, Spermaceti Oil, Coffee, Dumb Fish, Chocolate, Indian and Rye Meal
James Foster Condyl,
has Imported in the ship Haley, Capt. Scott, from London,
A FRESH Collection of Books, &c., in every branch of polite literature and science; which with his former supplies makes up a very large assortment, and are sold at his Store in Union street, directly opposite the Cornfield, Boston, upon the lowest terms.
Horses wanted,
To purchase, or upon Freight. ANY Person having good Horses to dispose of, may apply to ELISHA TYLER, master of the Sloop Betsy and Sally, lying at Bull's wharf, who would also take Horses upon freight to Jamaica, having good accomodations for them.
CANDLES.
Mould and DIPT, tallow candles, PURE Bayberry wax (unmixed and unstained) candles, DRY spermaceti candles. Also, refined Spermaceti oil by the barrel, or less quantity. SOLD by JOHN LANGDON, At the head of J. HANCOCK, Esq's wharf, Near the Old-North Meeting-house.
Lee and Jones,
Have imported by the Hayley, Capt. Scott and other vessels from England,
A Compleat assortment of PIECE GOODS suitable for this season, which are for sale at their store near the Swing-bridge, at the lowest rates. ALSO,
A very great variety of LOOKING GLASSES of all sizes—Remarkably Cheap. A quantity of silver and pinchbeck WATCHES.
Duncan Ingraham, jun.
Has just received, per the Dolphin, Capt. Scott, from London.
A VARIETY of lambkins, beavers, and coatings for fur coats, which (with a very genteel assortment of European Goods before on hand) he will sell great penny worths, at his shop in Union Street, Boston.
N. B. A few elegant chiniz patterns just arrived to be sold if soon applied for, uncommonly low. Hyson tea, none superior, China ware, Kippen's snuff, &c. &c.
This Day published, price 9d.
HYMNS and Spiritual SONGS, on several occasions. By BRIDGET FLETCHER, Late of Wesford, deceased.
Printed and sold by I. THOMAS, for R. FLETCHER, of said Wesford.
This Day published, price 1s. 4d.
A NEW Book of POEMS; On several Occasions. By ELHANAN WINCHESTER, jun. Preacher of the Gospel, and author of the Collection of Psalms, Hymns and Poems, designed for the use and edification of Christians. Printed by I. THOMAS, for the Author.
Sold by P. FREEMAN, in Union-street, and by P. FREEMAN, jun. near Liberty-Tree.
This day was published, [The SECOND Edition.]
Illustrated with a neat Engraving of the Wicked Statesman, or the Traitor to his Country, at the hour of Death.
The Massachusetts Calendar;
or an ALMANACK for 1774; containing besides what is necessary in Almanacks, many things, both useful and entertaining. Printed and Sold by I. THOMAS,
American Magazine.
To the generous Patrons and Promoters of useful KNOWLEDGE, throughout AMERICA.
THE Editor of the ROYAL AMERICAN MAGAZINE, presents his most respectful Compliments, and informs them, that the first Number will undoubtedly appear for JANUARY next, humbly requesting the Favour of their LUCUBRATIONS, which he promises to convey to the World with the greatest Care and Attention. The general Disinterestedness of the Parties addressed, renders it incongruous to petition strenuously for their Favours, but can never diminish the sense of the Obligation their Reception will lay upon ISAIAH THOMAS.
Prise to direct to ISAIAH THOMAS, Printer in Boston, who will lay the several Productions that may be handed him before a Society of Gentlemen, for their Inspection and Approbation.
Those Gentlemen and Ladies who incline to encourage the Royal American Magazine, by subscribing therefor, are desired, if they abuse not to be disappointed of the first Number, to send in their Names with all convenient Speed.
The PRINTERS of all the Public Papers in America, are requested to insert this advertisement as soon as may be, for which they shall be fully satisfied by their humble servant ISAIAH THOMAS.
Lately published in Philadelphia, PRIESTLY'S Remarks on Dr. BLACKSTONE, &c.
Sold by I. THOMAS, at his Printing Office near the Market, Boston.
Just published, price 1s. and 6d.
SERMONS to Doctors in Divinity; being the second Volume of Sermons to Asses. Sold by I. THOMAS, near the Market.
Just published, and to be sold by
JOSEPH GREENLEAF,
At his Printing Office in Hanover street, Boston A N Abridgment of Burn's Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer: To which is added,
An Appendix, containing some general rules and directions, necessary to be known and observed by all Justices of the Peace.
Subscribers for said book (stitched) are desired to send for them. Those who are to have them bound, may have them the beginning of next week.
N. B. This Abridgment includes all that is applicable to the practice here, and may be had for nine shillings stitched, or eleven shillings bound. The London edition of this book cannot be had under six dollars.
Also to be sold at said office,
The following PAMPHLETS, viz.
A calm Answer to the Question, Why are you a Dissenter from the Church of England.
The cause of the dissenting ministers; by Israel Morduit.
England's Warning Piece; a sermon occasioned by the Murder of Mr. Williams Allen, by a party of soldiers in George's Fields. An anniversary sermon, being a sequel to the above.
The Adulator; a Tragedy. By a Lady.
A Diffusion from the Slave Trade.
With a number of other pamphlets, also Testaments, Psalters, Spelling books, Psalm books, Primers, Writing Paper, Ink pots, and other Stationary; also blanks of various sorts, some never before printed, particularly for the use of Justices of the Peace.
To be sold, two eight day Clocks, made in London, warranted to strike Enquire of the Printer.
Choice pickled Salmon, to be SOLD. Enquire of the Printer.
BOSTON: Printed by ISAIAH THOMAS,
At the Bottom of ROYAL-EXCHANGE-LANE, near the MARKET, Dock-Square, (over Mr. T. WALLEY's Store) 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 HANG-BILLS at an Hour's Notice. SUBSCRIPTIONS for the S P Y are also taken in by J. Larkin, Chairmaker, and Mr. W. Calder, Painter, in Charles-town; Mr. J. Haller Watch maker, in Salem; Mr. B. Emerton, Bookseller, in Newbury-Port; Mr. M. Belcher, in Bridgewater; and by Dr. Elijah Hewins, in Stoughtonham.