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THE Massachusetts Spy
Or, Thomas's Boston Journal.
MAY 2 1903
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. II.]
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1772.
[NUMB. 94.
FRIDAY, November 27. BOSTON.
At a general council held at the council chamber on Wednesday the 25th of November, his Excellency was pleased to nominate, Abner Cheever, Esq; to be a Justice of the peace for the county of Essex. William Gorham, Esq; to be a Justice of the peace for the county of Cumberland. Ezekiel Pattee, Esq; to be a Justice of the peace for the County of Lincoln. Mr. Samuel Pool, a coroner for Middlesex. To which nominations his Majesty's Council did advise and consent.
With Capt. Jenkins from London, a person came passenger who carried on the Button-making business, and has brought over the materials for making all sorts of gilt buttons.
Sr. JOHN's [Antigua] October 7. We hear from St. Vincents, that on Monday night last, the Caraibs burnt the works and dwelling house of Andrew Bruce, Esq; and on the Wednesday following burnt the dwelling-house and offices of John LeCrow Esq; they also took a detached party of the 23d regiment, consisting of a Corporal and four men, whom they killed. A scouting party of Caraibs some time before this, had nearly fell in with and taken General Leyborne prisoner.
On Thursday morning last, one of the transports arrived at St. Vincents with a party of the 21st regiment from St. Augustine in West-Florida, and the rest are hourly expected: so that a general attack on these desperadoes may be every day looked for.
The militia here are under the greatest hardships on account of the fatigue of their military duty.
SATURDAY November 28. BOSTON.
The Captains Reed, Farrel, and Richardson, with troops from St. Augustine, arrived at St. Vincents between the 6th and 11th of the same month, the brig Pompey, Capt. Healy, was ready to sail from Providence for St. Vincents, and Capt. Fullerton sailed from Bermuda the 21st, with the troops for the general rendezvous.
Thursday the 16th of December next, is appointed for the trial of Amell Nickerson; he being the supposed murderer of the three men and boy, as mentioned in our last.
On Wednesday the eleventh instant, Mr. Obadiah Parsons was ordained Pastor of the third church in Gloucester.
On Wednesday last Mr. Joseph Willard was ordained Pastor of a church at Beverly.
We hear that the operations against the black Caraibs at St. Vincents are commenced.
HALIFAX, November 17. On Friday last at the Supreme Court, William Lambert of the 65th Regiment received sentence of death for committing a rape on Hannah Baur; and is to be executed on the 25th instant.
We hear that his Majesty's ship Tartar is ashore in Canio Gut.
PHILADELPHIA, November 11. On Saturday last Kayahtuta, the great Seneca Chief, returned to this city from Johnson's Hall; where he had been on a visit to Sir William Johnson, of the greatest importance to the colonies.
The forts Chartres and Pitt are, by orders from England destroyed; the barracks levelled to the ground, and abandoned by the garrisons, who are soon expected, as they are on their way to this city. We are assured the frontier inhabitants of this province have presented the Governor with a petition on that subject, who have referred them to General Gage, at New-York, but we fear the application is without success.
FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS SPY. Mr. THOMAS,
THE following transcript from Sidney on government V. I. 386, will be found to have reference only to the times wherein the author lived; or those preceding, we shall then have the pleasing satisfaction to find ourselves in a better situation; if the contrary, we may be admonished to throw our influence into the scale which opposes so dreadful a usurpation of the rights of mankind as are made in an absolute monarchy.
The just magistrate is the minister of God for our good: but this absolute monarch has no other care of us, then as our riches and multitude may encrease his own glory and strength. We might easily judge what would be the issue of such a principle, when the being of nations depending upon his will must also depend upon his opinion. The judgment of a single man is not to be relied upon, the best and wisest do often err, the foolish and perverse always. The riches, power, number and courage of our friends is for our advantage, and that of our enemies threatens us with ruin; those princes only can reasonably believe the strength of their subjects beneficial to them, who govern so as to be assured of their affection, and that their strength will be employed for them: But those who know they are, or deserve to be hated, cannot but seek to diminish that which creates their danger. This must certainly befall as many as are lewd, foolish, negligent, imprudent, cowardly, vicious or any way unworthy the places they obtain, for their reign is a perpetual exercise of the most extreme and ruinous injustice; every man that follows an honest interest is prejudiced: every one that finds the power that was ordained for his good, to be turned to his hurt, will be angry and hate him that does it; if the people be of uncorrupted manners this hatred will be general, because every one of them desires that which is just; if composed of good and evil, the first will always be averse to the evil government, and the others endeavouring to uphold it, the safety of the prince must depend upon the prevalence of either party. If the best prove to be the strongest, he must perish: And knowing himself to be supported only by the worst, he will always destroy as many of his enemies as he can; weaken those that remain; enrich his creatures with their spoils and confiscations; by fraud and rapine accumulate treasures to encrease the number of his party, and advance them to all places of power and trust, that by their assistance he may crush his adversaries; and every man is accounted his adversary, who has either estate, honour, virtue or reputation. This naturally casts all power into the hands of those who have no such dangerous qualities; nor any thing to recommend them but an absolute resignation of themselves to do whatever they are commanded. These men having neither will nor knowledge to do good, as soon as they come to be in power, justice is perverted, military discipline neglected, the public treasures exhausted, new projects invented to raise more; and the prince's wants daily encreasing, through their ignorance, negligence or deceit, there is no end of their devices and tricks to gain supplies: To this end swarms of spies, informers and false witnesses are sent out to circumvent the richest and most eminent men: The tribunals are filled with court parasites of profligate consciences, fortunes and reputation, that no man may escape who is brought before them. If crimes are wanting, the diligence of well chosen officers, and prosecutors, with the favour of the judges, supply all defects; the law is made a snare; virtue suppressed, vice fomented, and in a short time
honesty and knavery, sobriety and lewdness, virtue and vice, become badges of the several factions; and every man's conversation and manners shewing to what party he is addicted, the prince who makes himself head of the worst, must favour them to the overthrow of the best, which is so freight a way to an universal ruin, that no state can prevent it, unless the course be interrupted.
He that is just and become grateful to the people by doing good, will find his honour and security in encreasing their number, riches, virtue and power: If on the other side, by doing evil, he has drawn upon himself the public hatred, he will always endeavour to take from them the power of doing him any hurt, by bringing them into the utmost weakness, poverty and baseness."
How contemptible must be the understanding of the man, who in the measures of the present administration sees nothing tending to the establishing of such a monarchy; and how detestable his principles, that seeing such endeavours, and realizing their destructive consequences, can be prevailed upon by any consideration, to abet or even connive at such a fatal usurpation? Some, who for more than thrice thirty pieces of gold, have sold their birth right, have justified, or rather excused the treason, by the plea of necessity; but what can excuse the man who cannot plead even the promise of a farthing, nor any thing more tempting than the smile of a creature, who is himself beneath the dignity of any one honest and independent freeman in the community? Honours, commissions, civil and military, says one, are in the gift of the first magistrate. Granted. These are confessed to be honourable, when the service of the community is the sole motive of accepting them: But for a man who was formerly known to cry out against the open violations of the rights of his fellow citizens, and brand the administration with all the epithets they have so richly deserved; when such a man I say, barely by being created a captain, or perhaps a corporal, finds out that he was totally mistaken in his former apprehensions of oppressions and grievances; and is now truly convinced, that a man of the Governor's piety and religion could never countenance an oppression, and indeed that we must have been altogether deceived, in our notions of grievance by some designing men, who for base ends of their own, have set themselves in opposition to government, it must certainly lead a considerate man, strongly to suspect the head, the heart, or both together of such a convert.
The whole religion of the Bible is wrapt up in two simple precepts, inseparably connected with each other; of which the latter is however the best evidence of our possessing the former. The man then, whose conduct leaves it very doubtful whether his concern for himself does not so much engage his whole mind that he little regards the interest of his neighbour, or even the whole collection of his neighbours, inhabiting the country and civil community of which he is a member, has but a slender demand on our faith respecting the truth and servency of his religion. The light of the Gentiles, seems to have a peculiar reference to such religion, in those memorable words, Many shall say unto me in that day, Lord, Lord! But I will say unto them I know you not, depart from me YE WORKERS of iniquity!
Let the miserable daubers, who would cover the most treasonable purposes with the cloak of religion, before they exhibit another invidious harangue on lip religion, read soberly a few chapters in either of the evangelists, and mark carefully against what class of sinners they find the most frequent and solemn denunciations of divine vengeance!!
EUSEBIUS.
FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS SPY. Mr. THOMAS,
SEEING in your paper of the 13th current, Doctor Young's call upon Mr. Aaron Davis, junior, to produce the grounds of his charge against him, as being a man of no principles; and Mr. Davis's answer in the next paper: It brought to my mind a dispute held by some very intelligent persons, concerning which of the nights, Saturday or Sunday, should be kept as holy time. After each had exhausted his store of argument to very little purpose, one Tom Wood, a noted flax dresser, stood up among them, and addressing himself to the audience in a very important attitude, exclaimed, "My dear friends it is in vain to dispute this matter any further, for it is not written in plain words? Babel I go before you into Galilee. "
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From the [London] GAZETTEER, of Oct. 7. To the PRINTER.
THERE never was a time when more caution was necessary to prevent the total extinction of liberty, than at this period of government. The invidious arts of government, industriously propagated by its various emissaries, continually undermining every support of that once glorious fabric, the impartial and equitable administration of the laws; the spirit of luxury universally diffused and adopted, encouraged by those very men who are placed at the head of administration to prevent its destruction, evidently shews the impropriety of trusting indiscriminately to the professions of such artful governors. The rights of the people invaded, their complaints rejected, neglected and despised, and universal corruption of morals and manners countenanced and approved, denotes the downfal of an empire unless a speedy remedy be applied. The true road to despotism is not by an open attack upon the rights of the people; the public would be alarmed, opposition would raise its head. To attack successively the defenders and supporters of liberty, to crush the man that dares assert its rights, to insinuate that the public welfare is not the concern of an individual; these are the arts by which the artful and despotic ministers forge the chains for a free people, until by degrees accustomed to the yoke they tamely submit to the oppression of tyrants, whose very existence was owing to their supine indolence and inactivity.
PROBUS.
MONDAY, November 23. BOSTON.
Last Thursday morning a valuable Negro fellow, belonging to Mr. Shirley, Butcher, in driving a cart of Beef at the south part of the town, was thrown down by another cart, passing by, when the wheel went over one of his legs and broke it in two places.
The next day, just after a ship was launched at the North-end, a young man, Son of Mr. Richardson, head builder, in crossing the ways, fell among the timber and broke one of his legs short off.
Last Friday Capt. Tree arrived here in fourteen days from Newfoundland; on his passage he spoke with a brig from Liverpool, bound to Plymouth, which had lost her rudder and was then steering with a cable.
DIED. Of a cancer, in the 66th year of her age, much lamented, Mrs. Mercy Smith, relict of the late Mr. John Smith, of this town, merchant, and daughter to Elder Bridgham, long since of this town deceased, at whose house our quarterly charity-meeting originated. Mrs. Hopkins, wife of Captain Caleb Hopkins. At Needham, Mrs. Ester Kingsbury wife of Capt. Caleb Kingsbury, and daughter of the late reverend Mr. Towne of Needham.

For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
To Mr. AARON DAVIS, jun.
SIR,
HAVING in the last Evening Post given my sense of your becoming a catpaw to a traitorous and designing section, who with the words, government, religion and christianity continually in their mouths, are incessantly endeavouring to rob their fellow citizens of every blessing those salutary institutions were intended to secure to them: I shall now go a little further into the consideration of that rancorous libel palmed upon the world as the production of Mr. Aaron Davis, jun. of Roxbury.
But even here, Mr. Davis, you are not to expect to find yourself lashed, mauled and exposed with that severity to which your behaviour has laid you extremely open: I shall rather make your apology, and honestly inform the public how this strange farce originated. Mr. Aaron Davis, jun. without many advantages from fortune or education, pretty early in life engaged in trade, where by his honest industry and obliging attention, he has obtained a fair reputation, and probably a competent estate. Respecting religion, the matter now so much in question, I verily believe him to have a sincere regard for its honour and advancement at heart; but in common with many other conscientious christians, I fear his zeal for some particular modes of faith too much diverts his attention from that charity, forbearance and gentleness, so repeatedly inculcated in the gospel. However, as an honest and worthy member of society, Mr. Davis, by a diligent use of the talents God had bestowed upon him, gained money and esteem. I will further suppose that in the late glorious revival of a military spirit in this province Mr. Davis caught a spark of the rising flame, and became more than indifferent towards the honours of a commission. It is well known to what kind of gentleman our candidates for military preferment must apply, what powers of address, representation and persuasion he possesses, and what terms he requires of those he covets those mighty favours upon. In all candor, I would have it constantly borne in mind that this Roxbury-meeting, with Mr. Davis, was the critical period, the peculiar hour of temptation. A measure was ripening from whence the very existence of ministerial tyranny in this province was threatened: If it could not be checked in Roxbury, the chance was a million to one but it prevailed through the colonies. Mr. Davis might really be so far imposed upon as to imagine no good could come of a measure in the planning of which one or two unconverted men were concerned; but unless he had been imprudently urged to it, no one believes he would have proceeded so far as publicly to reproach gentlemen by their names. But thus it happened, and no doubt the mild expostulation, rather aimed to afford than require a public satisfaction, was represented to him, as an insolent attack upon his honour, which at all adventures it behoved him to repel with vehemence. The adversary was believed under great disadvantages from prevailing prejudice, and the opportunity was really inviting. But unpractised in the exercise of polemic artillery himself, he was necessitated to look out for auxiliaries; the means of the first to whom he applied, were found on review to be so weak as by no means to pass muster; the latter now under consideration is violent enough, and charged sufficiently with charcoal; but miserable stuff to reclaim gainstayers to a cordial affection for the species of christianity it holds up to the public.
The very introduction, Mr. Davis, is mere Billinggate. It is no vanity in me, Sir, to think myself important to the public. The public has demonstrated I am so, by your own confession, if we had no other evidence of it; and how you can believe there is no person with whose character the interest of the country is less connected than with mine, you are left to explain at leisure, as it is certainly dark at present how you or any one else can believe so.
Your insinuation of my palming myself on the vulgar for a christian or any thing else, is villainous, Mr. Davis; for of all men that breathe in air, there is none whose universal character is freer from disguise. The fault, if any there be in that respect, lying all on the other side.
Your oracle (no doubt a gentleman of keen optics, much above the vulgar and incapable of any bias from party zeal) sees nothing in my creed to distinguish me from the most thorough paced infidels and virulent opposers of your holy religion. If a virulent opposer of any religion can be
conceived to be doing justly, loving mercy and walking humbly with his God; to be doing unto others as he would they should do unto him, the while he is carrying on this virulent opposition, he must be miserably mistaken respecting the holiness of the religion he thus virulently opposes. This gentleman must know that men of my persuasion are the downright reverse of the virulent opposers of any religion, saying with the catholic Mr. Pope,
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
The following train of interrogatories is impudent, insidious and intended to ensnare me. Things no honest man denies are artfully blended with others, concerning which the most orthodox daily withstand each other to the face; and which respect no man's conduct in civil life. But it is easily perceived that your party would be highly gratified to change our present political into a religious scuffle. Puritans as my fellow citizens are, and honourably as their good sense, fervent zeal for virtue and true piety, maintain that character, they are not to be cajoled by the craft of all the bagbearers among you, to discard a man as zealous and determined in defence of their religious liberties as the warmest of themselves; and fill his place even with an apostle whose religion and patriotism too can very conveniently yield to the smallest overtures from the adverse party. Nothing has distinguished me more than my constant defence of the Magna Charta of Heaven, in matters of faith, entire liberty of conscience. We have no business Mr. Davis, with any man's creed, further than its peculiar articles plainly threaten the peace of society. Whoever cannot be contented to worship the author of his being and giver of all his enjoyments, in the manner most agreeable to his own understanding and conscience, and quietly suffer his neighbour to enjoy the same privilege, may pretend what he will, but I will aver and maintain, that his temper is as opposite to the spirit of true religion as that which would countenance robbery and murder.
I own, Sir, my language but too frequently transgresses the bounds I would willingly confine it to; but whoever considers the innumerable occasions administered by the right execrable conspirators to remove the landmarks of our happy constitution, and thereby plunge ourselves and posterity into all the miseries of slavery, will readily pardon the sallies of a mind as impatient to these measures as every thinking freeman ought to be.
I ever thought the preservation of ourselves and the society we belong to, were principal duties, and in order to this, I concluded that the expulsion or destruction of the inveterate enemies of such society was indispensable.
I never could become master of those high strained measures of loyalty or christianity, some preach up so strenuously, as to suffer myself to be hand-cuffed and plundered by any one, be their pretensions in these matters just as they might be. The man who would deprive me of one ace of my constitutional liberty, would rob me of that blessing which gives worth to all the rest, and I am a conniver, at least, at my own destruction, if I neglect to oppose him to the utmost of my power.
Your personator does not think a set of Atheists and Deists, men of profligate manners and profane tongues, are fit persons to be entrusted and suffered to lead in the interesting concerns of public liberty and happiness. I beg leave to ask him, if he knows who does think so? If trees are to be judged by their fruit, Atheism and profligacy of manners are chargeable on quite another set of people than the indefatigable supporters of the rights of mankind. If a man love not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen. To acknowledge God in words, and in works to deny him, so barefacedly as to deprive his creatures of the enjoyment of their birthright, is such aggravated impiety, that real Atheism (if such stupidity be possible) is in comparison of it a mere foible!
My account of my parentage is far from pompous, Mr. Davis, and it was inserted, as is the sketch of your history, to let our readers into some acquaintance with their men. You know what pains have been taken by the party, and even by the colourer whose writing you adopt, to represent me as a very mean and insignificant fellow, culled from the very dregs of human nature; void of every species of worth that could entitle one to any measure of respect from the good and sober part of mankind. And to put an end to this villainous strain of falsehood, slan-
der and unsufferable defamation, in addition to what I have already said; know further, Mr. Davis, that, of choice, I never kept other than the best of company. It is such, Sir, I now daily associate with, and were I the common curser and blasphemer you pretend, 'tis probable Boston would by this time have been as well knowing to it as some very knowing and conscientious gentlemen in Roxbury are. Some of my nearest neighbours who have familiarly known me from my first settlement here, were first informed of any thing of this kind by the celebrated Major Joseph Mayo, whose promotion pretty quickly succeeded the notable trial of Capt. Preston, for the massacre in King-street.
But could a convenient change be wrought in my politics, I doubt not in the least, I should be as agreeable company to the gentleman whose eminent piety has furnished abundant matter for the harangues of your late meeting, as the chaste —, or any other gentlemen, at a chance oath, in whose conversation no exception would have been taken, even by the precise Mr. Davis.
The serious turn I contracted in youth, I have carried through life, and do on all occasions speak reverently of God and religion, when those sacred subjects are the topics of conversation. I am tender of the consciences of all men, and would not designedly disturb any man in his way of worship.
How it comes that my solemn appeals to God seem to any man to favour of prophaneity I know not; but thus much I know, that the author of this paragraph has here discovered a temper which no honest man will emulate.
I greatly mistake, if the imputation of Apostasy be not one day retorted with the general consent of all men.
Had a sufficient number of my countrymen been of my mind, you should long ere now have had proof of my courage, far on this side Canada. But if you feel much interested in the question, and please to dispute it in Boston, and in consequence give or receive a drubbing, I am positive no impartial gentleman will think either of those circumstances, a whit more incongruous with your profession, general character and deportment, than the abusive vindication you have adopted of a proceeding, yourself nor any one for you can justify, or tolerably excuse.
However, Mr. Davis, we are at present out of all manner of apprehension, respecting the success of the offensive measure, notwithstanding all the force of the Governor's raw troops and all the informations of thin meetings, so industriously propagated by the Court Gazette, whose credit, by the way, is so low that a neighbouring town dared not to confide in its relation of so small a matter as the list of the committee.
The measure you were so unlucky as to oppose, Mr. Davis will speak for itself; and speak such truths, such moving and important truths, that all the tools of despotism will labour in vain to discredit them, or any way materially frustrate their effect. You must then of consequence curse your ill-sated stars, which cast you into the sink ng bucket the very moment the one you must wish to be in was beginning to rise. Retract Mr. Davis, be still the man and the christian! Characters unfeignedly revered by your friend and humble servant,
THO. YOUNG.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY. Mr. THOMAS,
I Have heard a letter read, directed to Dr. Young, wherein the writer, A. Davis, jun. makes many queries, viz. "Do you believe the scriptures of the old and new testament, or any part of them, to be truly a revelation from God" and so on. If I was as Dr. Young, I would reply in queries, viz. pray, Sir, are you demonstratively, and fully convinced, that what you here introduce is really an extraordinary and true revelation from God: &c. Let us have a plain, positive, unevasive answer to the foregoing plain question. Are you fully convinced of it, or do you play the hypocrite, in persuading the world that you believe what you do not believe? As I am not Dr. Young, I shall not answer the rest of the queries, being unacquainted with his conduct and character. In regard to them, Mr. Davis has ideas of Deists quite contrary to truth; a Deist adores and admires one only infinite being, and cannot comprehend three Gods, equally perfect, co-eternal and co-equal according to Athanasius's Creed, whom perhaps Mr. Davis, reckons amongst the particularly inspired writers. In regard to an apostate, I wish the author would explain himself a little better, I do not think that a man whose gossips promise, without his consent, to follow a doctrine which is repugnant intirely to his reason, can
be called an apostate; otherways, Martin Luther, John Calvin, and so on, must be called by him so.
Sir, I was obliged to dictate the above, as I could not write it myself, being an honest almost blind countryman.
WEDNESDAY, December 2. CHARLESTOWN, [South Carolina] In the COMMONS HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, the 30th of October, 1771.
ORDERED, that the report of the Committee on Grievances, as agreed to by the House this day, be printed and made public.
By order of the House, THOMAS FARR, jun. Clerk. THE COMMITTEE on GRIEVANCES REPORT,
That they have considered the several matters referred to them, the 22d and 24th instant by the house; and, though the committee are of opinion, that the Governor's calling the Assembly to Beaufort, keeping them there three days, without permitting them to do any business, and proroguing them on the very day that, by law, was the last that the General Assembly could be discontinued, were such measures as call for the utmost resentment of this house, and would well justify their coming immediately to a resolution to do no business with his Excellency, until he had given them satisfaction in the premises; yet, as the people have been long deprived of the benefit of representation, and his Majesty's service and the interest of the colony, require the immediate sitting and proceeding of the General Assembly on the arduous affairs of our country; the committee, therefore recommend, that the house do not carry matters to that extremity, but that they enter into the following resolutions, viz.
Resolved, That as this house did not exist when his Excellency formed his plan of calling the General Assembly to Beaufort, his Excellency's proceeding seems to be founded upon his ill will to the body of the freemen of this province, inasmuch as he thereby shewed his purpose of injuring and affronting whomsoever the freeholders of the colony should choose to represent them.
Resolved, That his Excellency's calling the General Assembly to Beaufort, a place very distant from Charlestown where such Assemblies have always been held (except when malignant and contagious disorders rage therein) where all the public offices and records are kept, at a time highly dangerous to the health and inconvenient to the private affairs of the members, was a most unprecedented oppression, and an unwarrantable abuse of a royal prerogative which hath never been questioned by the people of this colony.
Resolved, That the Governor's keeping at Beaufort, the fullest house that ever met at the beginning of any session, three days, before he would receive them with their speaker, and then immediately proroguing them, was adding insult to injury, and plainly manifested his contempt of the people's representatives.
Resolved, That his Excellency's proroguing the General Assembly, without suffering them to sit one moment as a legislative body, is at least an evasion, if not a direct violation of the election law, which enacts, that the sitting and holding of General Assemblies shall not be discontinued or intermitted above six months; that time being intirely expired when his Excellency prorogued the house.
Your committee recommend, That the agent be ordered to make the strongest representations to his Majesty, of the arbitrary and oppressive proceedings of the Governor, and to use his utmost endeavours to procure the removal of his Excellency from this government, or such other marks of his Majesty's royal displeasure, as may prevent Governors for the future from thus oppressing the people, by abusing those prerogatives which were intended for their benefit.
And, as his Excellency's speech at Beaufort, seems wholly calculated to throw the blame of all the inconveniencies which the public labours under, upon former Houses of Assembly, and his charges have been sufficiently confuted by them; it is unnecessary to have their conduct vindicated by the house.
To be SOLD, cheap. A HEALTHY, strong NEGRO Man, fit for farming or shipping. Enquire of the Printer. Sold for no fault. CASH given for FLAX-SEED, And a good price, At JOHN WINTHROP's store, south side of the Market.

FRIDAY, December 4. BOSTON.
We are desired to publish the following votes and proceedings of the town of Plymouth, the most ancient in the province, at a late town meeting held there; together with a letter of their committee of correspondence to the committee of this town.
At a meeting of the town of PLYMOUTH, regularly assembled and held in the court house in Plymouth, the 24th day of November, Anno Domini 1772.
Voted, to choose two committees as below, viz.
1st. A committee be chosen to report to the town, at the adjournment of this meeting, what is best for the town to do, and to report a draft of such votes, or resolves, as they may think it best for them to come into; and accordingly made choice of James Warren Esq; Deacon John Torrey, John Cotton Esq; William Watson Esq; Thomas Mayhew Esq; Mr. Nathaniel Torrey and Mr. Thomas Lothrop for that purpose.
2d. A standing committee, of communication and correspondence be chosen, freely from time to time, to communicate and correspond with the town of Boston, and any other town on the subject of our present difficulties, and of the measures proper to be taken upon the occasion; they to apply to the Selectmen to call a town meeting upon any emergency, to consider of any intelligence of importance they may have received, and to act and do what further they may then think proper, and then made choice of James Warren Esq; Deacon John Torrey, Mr. Stephen Samson, Mr. Samuel Cole, Mr. Ephraim Cobb, Doctor William Thomas, Capt. Thomas Jackson, Capt. E. Kiah Watson, William Watson Esq; Mr. Thomas Lothrop, Mr. Isaac Lothrop, Mr. Nathaniel Torrey, and Thomas Mayhew, Esq; for that purpose.
A true copy of record, Attest, EPHRAIM SPOONER, Town Clerk. Plymouth, November 26, 1772.
GENTLEMEN,
THIS town having met on Tuesday last for the purposes of taking into consideration, the unhappy, and very dangerous situation of our publick affairs, and to endeavour to come into such measures, as should have a tendency, as far as their influence would extend, to form a band of union with other towns, necessary to repel, and prevent, if possible, this country being overwhelmed, by that torrent of tyranny, which has already nearly broken down and destroyed all the barriers of our rights and liberties; and having among other things, thought proper to vote a standing committee of communication and correspondence, and honoured us with their choice to be on that committee, it is therefore become more particularly our duty, to transmit you a copy of their proceedings, so far as they have gone, as well as to improve the earliest opportunity, to express our readiness to correspond with you, and the committees that are, or shall be appointed by other towns, upon the same plan, and to give and receive such communications, as may be thought by any of us, advantageous to the good of the whole. We have therefore inclosed you the votes and proceedings of this town at their meeting, which we have the pleasure to inform you was full, and that the inhabitants discovered a spirit, and unanimity, expressive of sentiments totally different from the representations of our enemies, as well as consistent with their former conduct on similar occasions, and the original plan of their forefathers. We shall only add at present, our fervent prayers to the director of all events, that the good people of this province may be awakened to a sense of their danger, and directed to such measures as shall effectually disappoint the machinations of their enemies, and place the rights and liberties of this country, upon a basis as durable as the foundations of the earth.
We are Gentlemen with the greatest respect, sincere friends and well wishers to the happiness and prosperity of this country, and your most humble servants.
JOHN TORREY, per order To the gentlemen of the committee of communication and correspondence at Boston.
Yesterday was observed as a day of public Thanksgiving throughout this province.
The meeting of the town of Marblehead is appointed on Tuesday next, to take into consideration, the alarming condition of the good people of this province under the repeated infractions of their civil constitution, more especially, in the articles of taxation without their consent, and disposing of the monies thus raised to render the principal officers of this government, absolute dependents on the crown of Great-Britain.
Twelve persons have lately been taken up in York government, for counterfeiting and passing their bills of credit. There were also found with them implements for making dollars.
DIED. At Spanish-Town, Jamaica, the hon. Samuel Pickman, Esq; Deputy-Governor of that place: A native of Salem. —At St. Eustatia, Capt. John Tarbet, of Newbury-Port.—At Marblehead, Joshua Orne, Esq.—At Boston, Mrs. Sarah Gray.
** The piece, signed A COUNTRYMAN is received.
NEWPORT, November 16. Last Wednesday a shot was fired from the Mercury ship of war lying in Brenton's Cove, as a signal for her boat to go on board which was in town; which shot struck within about three yards of our long-wharf, directly in range with Col. Wanton's wharf at the point, on both which wharves were a number of people, and had the shot rebounded which most commonly happens, 'tis probable some lives would have been lost.—If we have no laws to restrain such things across our harbour, it high time some were made, inflicting a severe corporal punishment and a heavy fine.
November 23. Last Thursday morning his Majesty's ship Swan James Arscough Esq; commander, sailed from this harbour in quest of the pirate.
MARINE LIST.
PORT of BOSTON, November 22.
ARRIVED. Miller from New-London; Tripp and Gardner from North Carolina; Doble, Ken; Arnold and Atwood from Quebec; Collings from Nova-Scotia; Hidden from St. Lucia; Jenkins from London; Potterfield from Greenock.
PORTS of SALEM & MARBLEHEAD, Nov. 23
Arrived. Macon from St. Nicholas; Power from Lisbon.
PORT of RHODE-ISLAND, November 23.
Arrived. Frazier, Olney and Allen from Hispaniola; Ramsdell, Nantucket; Jones from Sawco; Rhodes from Maryland; West from Machias; Burgess, Downes and Crowell, Filding; Field, Nantucket.
PORT of NEW YORK, November 23.
Arrived. Cox, Carpenter, Warner, Freebody, Nicholson and Rogers, from Rhode-Island; Gray from North-Carolina; Gubb, from Musquito Shore; Ricker, from St. Thomas's; Ritchie, from South-Carolina; Tilley from St. Eustatia; Outerbridge, from Bermuda; Offat, from Pensacola; Lightbourn, from St. Croix; Hamilton, from Bilboa.
PORTS of PHILADELPHIA, November 18.
Arrived. Cresbie, Hopewell and Carlisle from St. Kitts; Robertson, from Honduras; Graham from Surinam; Etheridge from North-Carolina; Williamson from Halifax; Eve, Holden and Bunting from Virginia; Freeman, Nova-Scotia; Green, New Providence, Hood from Bristol.
IRISH LINENS.
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, 9-10ths wide Sheetings, white Ticken, brown Hollands, &c.
At said Store are also to be sold by wholesale and retail (being a fresh importation)
A great variety of European and India Goods, amongst which are, broad Cloths, Lambkins, Coatings, Baizes, &c. silk and worsted Stuff, Poplins, Crapes, Denmark Lustres, Missinets, Dorsetteens, Camblets, worsted Damasks, &c. Sattins and capuchin Silks of all colours, with lace and fur trimmings, Ducares, striped and plain Lurestrings, English Damasks, &c. a large assortment of Ribbonds, Gauzes, striped and flowered Sarsnet and 6 4 wide book Muslin of all prices; Jersey, Aberdeen knit, and patent ribbed men's worsted Hose, ditto plain of all colours, for men, women and children; too great a variety 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. &c.
The PETITION of a number of the Freeholders of Marblehead, which was delivered to the Selectmen on the 13th instant, and is to come before the town on Tuesday next.
To the Selectmen of MARBLEHEAD.
GENTLEMEN,
It is now currently reported, that the Judges of our Superior Court are rendered independent of the grants of this province for their salaries; and therefore imprudent for us any longer to neglect a matter of such weighty concern.
We already see the day (and are sorry to say it) when the people of the British empire have a government over them without check or controul.—This government was established by their forefathers, for their own and posterity's benefit, and it has become the indispensable duty of every generation since to support, alter or pull it down, as that grand object, the good of the people, has been attended to, or neglected.
It has proved the wisdom of the best Parliaments that ever Britain experienced, to attend to the complaints of the people against any of their acts, and to suspend enforcing them contrary to the repeated remonstrances of a considerable part of the empire; it being thoroughly known to those wise men, that the greatest advantage arising from a mixed government consisted in this, "the republic part of it, that part which issues from the people, is best able to direct the end of a law," and the people by their experience of its operation to judge whether it is salutary and mild, or oppressive and distressing.
But such wisdom does not distinguish the present era: The complaints of so considerable a part of the empire as is made up of North America are unattended to; their petitions, remonstrances and resolves neglected and despised; Acts of Parliament contrary to the apparent rights of mankind, and British subjects, carried into execution and crammed down their throats; acts assuming a power unknown before to Englishmen, a power to grant their monies without their consent, a power which (if supported) leaves to Americans not the least appearance of property, and at best makes them only tenants of their real and personal estates at the will of a government infinitely beyond their reach and controul.
These, gentlemen, must be allowed great evils in any community, especially so in an English government; but they are comparatively small to what is now offered. Our Judges, men that we at present esteem and regard for their integrity and understandings, are to be made the instruments of carrying these oppressive measures more thoroughly into execution. In this province, they are (as we fear) to be dependant for their salaries on British establishments; they, thus biased and connected, are to judge of our conduct in the support of our rights and liberties; they are to determine of our actions and to judge them legal or criminal as they agree or mitigate with those oppressive measures. In short they are to establish the odious doctrines of passive obedience and non-resistance.
We therefore desire you will convene the town on Tuesday, the first day of December next, to make enquiry into, consider of, and act upon these most interesting matters, that, when those to whom we look for counsel and direction in the most weighty affairs of life are pursuing our ruin, we may, by a manly unanimity with our brethren in the province, agree upon some suitable means for redress, and pursue the same with steadiness and resolution.
November, 1772.
Providence, November 7, 1772. To the Friends of Liberty and useful Knowledge.
PROPOSALS
For Re-printing, by Subscription,
ENGLISH LIBERTIES, or THE Free born Subject's Inheritance.
[Contents and Conditions in our next.]
Subscriptions are received by JOHN CARTER, the publisher, in Providence, and by I. THOMAS, near the Mill-Bridge, Boston.
JOSEPH GREENLEAF,
Hereby notifies his friends and customers, that he has removed from his Store in Marshall's-Lane, to that lately occupied by Mr. William Smith, opposite the Golden-Ball, over the Store of Messrs. J. Palmer and son, where he has to sell cheap for cash, the following goods, viz.
A GREAT variety of Broad Cloths, of fashionable colours, from 5s. to a guinea the yard; a good assortment of Irish Linens, Dowlas, Russia Linen and Sheetings of most prices; Shalloon, Calamancoes, Russells, Pound and No. 4 Pins, Cotton Veivets and Velverets, Linen and Silk Handkerchiefs, German Serges, Osnaburgs, writing and printing Paper, Fustian.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
Mr. THOMAS, You are desired to insert, in your next paper, the following Letter to Mr. Richard Draper, Printer of the M. ssachusetts Gazette.
Boston, December 2, 1772. To Mr. DRAPER.
IN your paper of last week, a letter was published from H. High-m, dated November 24, in which there is reference to the following marginal note, viz. "It is reported with some confidence, that when the vote passed for sending the letter of correspondence, which was about ten o'clock Friday evening, there was not twenty men present, beside the Gentlemen Selectmen and some of the Committee, and that not Ten persons voted for it. The country ought to be satisfied whether the report be true or false." We think it our duty, in order to satisfy the country, to declare that there was a very respectable number of the inhabitants, who attended the meeting through the day; and when the letter, which had been twice read and amended in the meeting, was accepted and voted to be sent, it appeared to us, and we are well satisfied, that there were not less than three hundred inhabitants present, and in the opinion of others the number was much larger. We presume you were not present at the meeting, nor had opportunity to be very particular in your enquiries, or you would not have suffered what was so different from the fact to be inserted in your Gazette.
JOHN SCOLLY, JOHN HANCOCK, TIMOTHY NEWELL, THOMAS MARSHALL, SAMUEL AUSTIN, OLIVER WENDELL, Select Men of Boston.
This Day was published, price 1s. lawful money, And to be sold by
JAMES FOSTER CONDY, At his store in Union-street, directly opposite to the Cornfield, Boston,
A POEM, entitled the GRAVE:
By ROBERT BLAIR, The house appointed for all the living. Jon. To which is added,
An ELEGY, written in a Country Church-Yard. By Mr. GRAY.
This pamphlet will fully recommend itself to the best judges and lovers of poetry.
Said CONDY, has by the several vessels last from London, received a general Supply of the most modern
BOOKS,
In Law, Physick, History, Divinity, and every branch of polite Literature—Bibles, Testaments, Psalm-Books, Psalters, Primers, Books for the amusement and instruction of children, &c. &c. &c.
STATIONARY, &c.
Writing Paper of every sort, press Paper, account Books of every size and quality, gentlemen and ladies, pocket Books very neat, also skin and ivory memorandum Books, Quills, Pens, Ink-Powder, leather Ink-Pots, various sorts of Penknives, writing Books, glass Ink-Pots, glass sand ditto, Slates, Wafers, red and black sealing Wax, wooden sand Boxes, shiping Sand, Pounce and pounce Boxes, black lead Pencils, Trunks, Ink Jugs, slate Paper, Parchment, ivory Folders, nose Spectacles, temple ditto, ditto green Glasses, double temple Spectacles, mathematical Instruments, ditto half Cases, Dividers and steel Pens, sliding Rules, &c. &c. &c.
A L S O,
Barometers, air Thermometers, ditto for boiling Water, Diagonal Machines for viewing of prints—reading Glasses, glasses for near-sighted persons, concave and convex Glasses, watchmaker's Glasses, a convex Glass for drawing landscapes, actomatic perspective Glasses, perspective Glasses from four inches to four feet in length, pocket Globes, small ditto mounted, Microscopes steel pen-Engines, Maps of New-England, ditto of New-York, ditto of the world, &c. &c. &c.
This day was published. And sold by E. RUSSELL, in Union-street,
THE Massachusetts CALENDAR, or Wonderful ALMANACK,
for the year of our Lord 1773. Containing, besides the usual calculations, &c. An account of a young giant.—A new matrimonial creed.—A method to raise Wheat—Useful hints to those who would be rich.—Useful receipts.—Entertaining anecdotes—Thoughts on various subjects.—Journal of a Matrimonial week.—Poetry, &c.

TALLOW CANDLES, At 8d. L.M. or 5s. O. T. by the single pound. BEST Spermaceti White OIL, Clarified for LAMPS, by the barrel, or in smaller quantities. Sold by JOHN LANGDON, In Fleet Street, at the head of John Han- cock, Esq's. wharf, near the Old-North meeting-house.
To be sold at JOHN SAVAGE'S Store No. 13. on the Long wharf, two hundred barrels of Philadelphia FLOUR, a few barrels of superfine ditto, a quantity of Cocoa and Chocolate, Bar Iron, cheap for Cash.
ALL Persons indebted to WIL- LIAM WINGFIELD, whose ac- counts, notes, &c. have been standing above one year, are desired to make speedy payment or they may depend they will be sued to Ja- nuary court without any further notice, as a great many have been deficient in paying their accounts and notes a number of years He begs that they would not want to be call- ed on any more. He has for Sale at his shop in Uni- on-street, Boston, a great variety of GOODS, suitable for all seasons, which he is deter- mined to sell exceeding low for Cash only. All favours gratefully acknowledged.
Boston, Nov. 5. 1772. To the Inhabitants of the Town of BOSTON. GENTLEMEN, AS I have had the pleasure, to deliver my thoughts in public, upon the Beauties of LIBERTY ; it is requested that those thoughts may be published, at this alarming season: But as it would be very unpolitic in a stranger to take this freedom, without ask- ing the approbation of the Gentlemen of Boston, the author therefore with permis- sion takes this humble method, to invite a subscription to a concise Essay upon the Bea- uties of LIBERTY in its Political and Sacred branches; entitled, The AMERICAN ALARM, Or, a Confirmation of the Boston Plea, for the Rights and Liberties of the People. Humbly addressed to the King and Council, and to the Constitutional sons of Liberty in America, by their humble servant, A BRITISH BOSTONIAN. Subscriptions are taken in by D. KNEELAND, & N. DAVIS.
To be SOLD , by JONATHAN DAVIS, At his Store on Bull's wharf, TWO hundred barrels of Tar, Brimstone, West-India and New- England Rum, Jamaica Spirits, Salt, a few bales of Cotton-Wool, Long-Island Hay in bundles.
JOHN WINTHROP, Advertises the public, THAT he has removed from the store situated between Mr. Ben- jamin Andrews, and Mr. Samuel Elliot, jun. near the Swing-bridge, to that lately improved by Mr. Thomas Symmes, op- posite the South side of the Market, Where he has to sell as cheap as can rea- sonably be expected. Choice Philadelphia Duck, flour, Ticklenburghs, Bar Iron, Window glass of all Cordage, forts, Loaf and brown su- Osnaburgs, gars, Nails, &c. &c. Cod Lines, &c. Pepper. Best Nova-Scotia Peas.
Bottles and Coals. LARGE handsome Quart Bot- tles in Hampers, a gross each; and Choice Newcastle Coals, suitable either for Grates or Smiths; to be sold on board the Brigantine Dolphin, James Scott, master, just arrived, lying at the Long-Wharf; or at WILLIAM DENNIE'S Store in King- street. Also, To be SOLD or LET, Said BRIGANTINE, About 7 years old, 180 tons, and well found.
STOLEN out of the house of Mr. Perrey, innholder, on the road between Woods-Hole and Boston, on the 10th instant, the following articles, viz. One broad red striped jacket, one coarse linen shirt, one child's fine linen ditto, one gauze handkerchief, two pair of worsted stockings, one pair blue the other blue and white spotted, one worsted night cap, one pair dimity drawers, one pair long trow- fers made of sail cloth: They are supposed to be stolen by one John Chambers, (as he has been seen since the robbery was commit- ted with part of the cloaths on) he is a well- set fellow, about five feet five or six inches high, wears his own short curled hair, rather sandy, pitted with the small pox, has lost the use of one of his eyes; he has been a fishing at the Island of St. John's this sum- mer, he came from Halifax in the Schooner Mary, Capt. French, and was landed at Martha's-Vineyard a few days before: Whoever will apprehend the thief so that he may be brought to justice, shall receive Two Dollars reward and all necessary charges paid, by CHRISTOPHER POTTS. Boston, November 19, 1772.
WANTED immediately, a WET NURSE, with a good breast of Milk, to go into a family. Enquire of the Printer.
A WOMAN, who can be well recommended, would be glad to go into a genteel family, to take the care there- of, and oversee the COOKING, as she pro- fesses herself experienced in that art. En- quire of the printer. Imported in the several ships from England, this fall, and in Capt. Brown, just ar- rived, by
THOMAS LEE, And to be sold at his Store near the Swing- bridge, A General assortment of Piece GOODS, which being purchased by him from the first hands only, he will sell at the lowest advance:
Among which are, A great variety of Broad Cloths, Lambskins, Coatings, Duffs, Blankets, Coichester and Drapery Baizes, Devonshire Kerseys, German Serges of all colours, em- broid' Serges, a complete assortment of Shalloons, Tammies, Durants and Cala- mancoes, Stuffs of various sorts for womens wear, Irish Linens of all widths and prices, very cheap.
A beautiful variety of new fashion- ed ribbonds, ladies collars and trimmings of all sorts, Pelong satins, Persians and Sar- nets of most colours, black flowered Satins and capuchin Silks, black China Taffeties, hair and other coloured Grogams, worsted cotton, thread and silk Hosiery of all sorts; amongst which are an exceeding great varie- ty of women's silk mits and gloves, men's silk hose of most colours, spun silk ditto, black silk breeches patterns, men's silk gloves, &c. &c. &c. &c.
LADIES SILKS. A beautiful variety of fashionable Silks, consisting of almost every sort in use. An elegant assortment of fancy and other colour- ed satins for ladies cloaks, of the very new- est patterns. A great variety of book and thick Mullins, Tombour worked ditto ruffles and aprons, Mecklin and Brussels Laces, &c. &c. Gold and silver Laces, and a fresh assortment of gold and silver spangle But- tons, and basket worked ditto. Also, Gun-Powder, Shot, Brimstone, Nails, Taylor's window Glass, Verdigree, &c. SILVER WATCHES.
To be SOLD , by NATHANIEL RUSSELL, In Common-street, a little to the north- ward of Dr. Byles's Meeting-House, BOSTON,
A Compleat assortment of HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, con- sisting of Clocks, Tables, Chairs, Bedsteads, dumb Waiters, &c. &c. Cheap for Cash.
A NUMBER of small BOOKS for Children, also Writing-Paper, Bonnet Paper, Brown Paper, Sealing-Wax, Wafers, Slates, &c. to be sold by I. THOMAS.
New Book-Store. JOHN LANGDON, Opposite Mr. THOMAS LEVERETT'S leading to the Market, Informs his friends, and the Public, that he has received in the several last ships from London and Scotland, A LARGE and Grand Assort- ment of BOOKS in all Arts and Sciences, which, with his former importations, make as large a collection as is to be found at any Store in America. As he intends for Eng- land in the Spring, every Gentleman who may please to favour him with their cus- tom may depend on purchasing at a little more than the sterling cost and charges. The least favours gratefully acknowledged.
JACOB HEMET, DENTIST to her Majesty and the Prin- cess Amelia.
BEGS Leave to recommend to the Public, his newly discovered Es- sence of Pearl, and Pearl Detrifrice, 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 pre- serve the Teeth in a perfect sound state, even to old age; they render them white and beautiful, without in the least impairing the enamel; so 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 re- medy almost all those disorders that are the consequence of scorbutic gums.
Sold (by appointment of Mr. Hemet) wholesale and retail, by W. Bayley, Perfu- mer, in Cockspur-street, near the bottom of the Hay-market, London, and at Willi- am Scott's Irish Linen Store, near the Draw- bridge, Boston, New-England.
DANIEL SCOTT, At his Medicine Store the Sign of the Leopard, South End.
TAKES this method of inform- ing all Gentlemen, Ladies, and o- thers, who have had the Misfortune to lose their Teeth, that he still continues the Bu- siness 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 unfound Teeth, may have them removed with a pe- culiar Dexterity and Ease.—And all Persons who have the Scurvy in their Teeth, which threatens their removal though sound, may have them cleaned without hurting the Ena- mel, or in the least degree impairing them, and may be supplied with his DENTUM CONSER- VATOR, 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 Pub- lic: It will cure the Scurvy in the Gums, bring the Teeth to their original Whiteness, and by a continuance of its Use, will Pre- serve 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 pre- vent 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—Brigisen's famous Bug Li- quid, which effectually destroys those hate- ful Vermin,—be they ever so numerous.—
An assortment of genuine patented and other Medicines of the best quality, and Medicine Boxes for Families or Shipping, with exact and particular directions for use- ing them, and a variety of other articles cheap.
The above Powder may be had also of Cox and Berry in Boston, Doctor Kast in Salem, and Dummer Jewett, Esq; at Ipswich.
To be sold by Samuel Sloane, at his Distil-House, opposite the Blue- ball and Mason's-Arms, formerly Green-Dra- gon, 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.
ALL Persons that are indebted to the Printer hereof, will greatly ob- lige him by making speedy payment.
THIS may give notice, to any gentle- men in the country towns, that if they have occasion for a SCHOOL MASTER for this season, they may hear of one, that would be glad to serve them, on as low terms as they can in reason desire.
N. B. Any gentlemen wanting such a one, may hear of him, by enquiring of the Printer.
MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS. WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Mathematical Instrument Maker, Has to SELL
At his Shop, at the Sign of Sir Isaac Newton, At the Head of the Long- Wharf, BOSTON,
THE largest assortment of Had- ley's and Davis's Quadrants ever in New-England; also hanging and standing Compasses in brass and wood; Gauging and Surveying Instruments, Cases of Ma- thematical Instruments with steel joints, half cases ditto; Telescopes of various lengths, in ivory, wood and fish-skin; Plotting Scales and Protractors, Gunter Scales and Dividers, four and two pole Surveying Chains, arti- ficial Magnets with cases, Sand-Glasses from two hours to a quarter of a minute; Instru- ments of a new construction to measure Boards; an assortment of Brass Pocket-Com- passes; Box Rules, Jack-Knives, brass and pewter Ink-Stands, plated Shoe and Knee Buckles, Pinchbeck, Block-tin and Brass do. Compass Scales, Watch Keys, &c.
BOOKS. Straits and Mediterranean Pilot, Southern Pilot, Mariner's Calendar, Daily Assistant. Wilson's Navigation. Young Man's best Companion. Patoun's Treatise of Navigation, Atkinson's Epitome. A Complete System of Navigation. By John Barrow. Practical Navigation. By John Seller. Large Charts of the English Channel. Large Charts for the Coast of Guinea. Nine Leaves Charts for the Channel and Straits.
Ditto for West-Indies. STATIONARY. Writing Paper. Dutch Quils. Sealing-Wax. Wafers. Slates. Black Lead and Slate Pencils. Quire Books covered with Marble Paper. Ditto ruled for Journals.
A Variety of Instruments, too tedious to mention, are made and sold at the above place, and as he has had a thorough experi- ence, he doubts not of giving satisfaction. N. B. All instruments with said William's name, will be made true without charge.
This Day published, And sold by J. GREENLEAF, at his Store in Marshall's-Lane, Boston,
THE general Practice of the Churches of New-England, relating to BAPTISM vindicated. &c. By JOHN COTTON, A. M. of Plymouth.
At said store may be had, A Dissuasion to Great-Britain, and the Colonies, from the SLAVE TRADE.
JAMES MORTIMER, TALLOW-CHANDLER, At the head of Hancock's Wharf, near the Old North Meeting-house, will sell GOOD CANDLES, for twelve Coppers by the single pound; and will give half a pistareen a pound for mer- chantable tried Tallow by the barrel, &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 Charles-town , Mr. J. Hiller, Watchmaker in Salem ; Mr. B. Emerson, Bookseller, in Newbury-Port ; and Mr. M. Belcher, in Bridgewater .