The Massachusetts spy, or, Thomas's Boston journal (Boston [Mass.]), 1774-10-13 00:00:00

THE Massachusetts Sun
Or, Thomas's Boston Journal.
MAY 2, 1908
DO THOU GREAT LIBERTY inspire our Souls—And make our Lives in thy Possession happy—Or, our Deaths glorious in thy just Defence.
VOL. IV.) THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1774. (NUMB. 193.
JOIN OR DIE
MR. BERNARD ROMANS begs Leave to inform the Public that his Maps are now ready for Publication, the Copper Work being all done, and the Paper which he was obliged to get manufactured on Purpose, is likewise finished, but not yet received from Philadelphia, or else at least a great Part would have been delivered before now, the Subscribers may rest assured of receiving the Copies within the Time prescribed, which is the first of January next.
As his Edition is small, it is requested that such Gentlemen who incline to have Copies may subscribe, as after Publication none will be to be had for less than 16 Dollars.
JOSHUA BLANCHARD, jun.
BEGS Leave to inform his Friends, Customers and others, that he has removed from his Store on Dock-Square, to the Store lately improved by Mr. JOSEPH TYLER, opposite to Mr. SCOTT's Irish-Linen Store, in Ann-Street, and fronting the North Side of Faneuil Hall, Market, BOSTON: Where is to be Sold, Loaf and Brown Sugars, Raisins, Currants, Chocolate, warranted pure, Coffee, Rice, Flour, Poland and common Starch, Ginger, Pepper, Allspice, Salt Petre, Split Pease, Firkin Butter, Flax Oil very good, Lisbon Oil by the gallon or less, best Durham Mustard, Cinnamon, Mace, Nutmegs, Cloves, Brimstone, Alum, Copperas, Red-wood, Seives and Seive Bottoms, 18 Inch Pipes, Crown Soap, Playing Cards, Slates, Indigo of various sorts, choice Bacon, Cheese, Oatmeal, and GROCERIES of all kinds. Also, West-India and New-England Rum, Jamaica Spirit, Brandy, Dorchester Beer, Taunton Ale, Melasses, &c.
N. B. The above articles will be sold by Wholesale or Retail, uncommonly cheap, and all Favours gratefully acknowledged.
CALEB BLANCHARD,
In Union-Street, near the Market,
Has for SALE,
A LARGE Assortment of GOODS, suitable for the Season, consisting of Woollens, Linens, Silks, Stationery, and all Kinds of Haberdashery Wares; which he sells at the very lowest Prices for ready Money.
Merry Andrew, Highland and Harry VIIIth CARDS.
NATHAN FRAZIER,
BEGS Leave to inform the Public, that in Consequence of the Boston Port-Bill, and with a View of accommodating those of his Customers to whom it may be most convenient to have their Supplies conveyed by Water, he has opened a Store in Salem, (the one lately improved by Mr. JOHN JOHNSON, and next door to Mr. JOHN GOOT's) where he has for sale, An Assortment of GOODS, suitable for the Season.
Said FRAZIER still continues his Business at his Store in Boston, as usual: His Customers may be supplied at either of said Stores, Wholesale and Retail, on the most reasonable Terms for ready Money. He will give his personal Attendance, for the present, at his Salem Store.
JOSIAH QUINCY, jun.
HAVING resigned his Business into the Hands of Mr. PIERCE MORTON, and embarked for England, desires all his Clients who want to know the State of their Affairs, to call on said MORTON, for Information:—All Persons who are indebted to said QUINCY, on Account, are desired to make Payment to said MORTON, and any who may have Demands on said QUINCY, are requested to apply to the same Gentleman for their Discharge. Those Persons who owe the said QUINCY, on Bond, or Note, are hereby notified to make their Payment to WILLIAM PHILLIPS, Esq; Attorney to JOSIAH QUINCY, jun.
SALEM, 4th October, 1774.
WHEREAS a small Cask (said to contain Bohemian Tea) was brought from Boston, Yesterday, in a Waggon, under my Care, in order to justify my Conduct in the Affair, would beg leave to inform the Public that, on Sunday the 2d Instant, a Negro Man belonging to, or employed by, Mrs. SHEPARD, of Boston, came to me and enquired whether I had a Waggon going to Salem the next Day? I answered, Yes; he said his Mistress wanted to send a small Cask, I told him the Waggon was loaded and could not carry it, he replied the Cask was small and light, and that Mrs. SHEPARD would take it kind of me to carry it, to oblige that Lady, I consented (not knowing the Contents) to bring it, I have likewise the greatest Reason to believe, that the Servants who drove the Carriage, committed to my Care, were ignorant of the Contents of said Cask. And furthermore, I most solemnly declare, I never saw the abovementioned cask, until it was brought into School-Street, in this Town, to be committed to the Flames. BENJAMIN JACKSON.
Essex, ss. Salem, Octo. 4, 1774.
THEN Mr. Benjamin Jackson made solemn Oath to the Truth of the above written Deposition by him subscribed. Before me, PETER FRYE, Justice Peace.
Just imported in the last Ships from LONDON, Choice Cheshire and Gloucester CHEESE, (Which will suit the nicest taste,) And to be SOLD by CHARLES LOWE,
Opposite the Boston Stone, in Marshall's-Lane, near the Mill-bridge.
[This quantity of Cheese is equal in goodness, if not superior, to that imported and sold by him last spring.]
Also, excellent FLORENCE OYL, in Flasks, warranted good, and the best of English Mustard, by the bottle, single pound, or less.
OATMEAL by the Bushel, or smaller quantity.
THE respectable Public are hereby informed, that the Subscriber, living in Sutton, intend to leave every other Branch of Business in my Way, and apply myself wholly to that of making HOES. And having prepared Matters, by providing a convenient Shop, necessary Help, and a large Stock, I purpose to begin the first Day of October next, and continue in that Branch only, not doubting but I shall meet with sufficient Encouragement from those whom my Ambition prompts me to serve; I mean those who are well Withered to American Freedom. But those Jacobites that would inflame their Country, by giving their Suffrage for the Execution of any unconstitutional act, shall not through my Hands, nor by any Person for or under me, be supplied with a single one, unless Security be first given, that such Tool is to be employed in making a Grave six Feet deep, to hide one or more of the Heads of those obnoxious Wretches. The Gentlemen in the neighbouring Governments, may be supplied with what Numbers they may want, to carry on their Business, by giving reasonable Notice, whose Favours will be an additional Obligation on me, to acknowledge myself theirs, and the Public's most obedient and very humble Servant, SAMUEL WATERS.
DRUGS and MEDICINES,
Imported from LONDON, and SOLD by
AMOS COTTING,
At his Shop, half a Mile East of the Meeting House, in MARLBOROUGH,
A FRESH Assortment of Drugs and Medicines. Ground Madder, and other Dye Stuffs, Spices, Raisins, Currants, Turkey Figs, Hungary Water, Lavender Water, King's Honey Water, Court Plaster, small Ivory Syringes, &c. Also genuine Patent Medicines, viz. Turlington's Balsam, Godfrey's Cordial, Hill's Balsam and Bateman's Drops, British Oil, Essence of Peppermint, Lockyer's Pills, James's Fever Powders, Anderson's Scotch Pills, Hooper's Female Pills, Cephalic Snuff.
SURGEONS INSTRUMENTS,
(Very neat) Pocket Instruments, in Fish skin Cases, ditto, in Velvet Pouches, with Silver Cases, Midwifery Instruments, much improved, Male and Female Catheters according to Duverney, Hunter, Cases of best Lances, four in a Case, Fish-skin, ditto, two in a Case, or single. Teeth Instruments of all Sorts.
N. B. The above are sold as cheap as can be bought in BOSTON.
JUST PUBLISHED,
(Price Nine Shillings, elegantly bound and lettered)
And to be Sold by JOHN BOYLE, at his Shop, in Marlborough-Street,
TWENTY SERMONS,
on the following Subjects, viz.—I. The Folly and Danger of Duplicity in Religion.—II. The Excellency of the Human Soul.—III. Jesus Christ the only Source of Rest and Happiness.—IV. The Dominion of an Omnipotent Deity a Reason for Joy and Praise.—V, VI, and VII. Charity more excellent than Faith or Hope.—VIII. Christ preaching to the Spirits in Prison.—IX. Redemption by the Blood of Christ.—X and XI. The Connection between the Duties and Comforts of Religion.—XII. The Obligations to Family-Religion.—XIII. The Usefulness and Importance of religious Education.—XIV, XV and XVI. The Table of the Lord rendered contemptible.—XVII and XVIII. Practical Observations on the History of Judas and his tragical End.—XIX. Man doomed to return to the Dust from whence he was taken.—XX. The Bieledness of those who have not seen and yet have believed. By ANDREW ELLIOT, D. D. Pastor of a Church in BOSTON.
Also, just re-printed (price One Shilling) And may be had at the above Shop,
SEVEN SERMONS, viz.
I. Of the unpardonable Sin against the Holy Ghost: Or, the Sin unto Death.—II. The Saint's Duty and Exercise: In two Parts. Being an Exhortation to, and Direction for Prayer.—III. The accepted Time and Day of Salvation.—IV. The End of Time, and Beginning of Eternity.—V. Joshua's Resolution to serve the Lord.—VI. The way the Heaven made plain.—VII. The future State of Man: Or, a Treatise of the Resurrection. By ROBERT RUSSELL, Of Wardour, in Sussex.
Littewife just published, (On Purpose to be given at Funerals) And to be Sold at the above Place,
[Price One Shilling single, and Ten Pence by the Dozen]
A REVIVING CORDIAL,
for a sick Sin-sick, despairing Soul, in the Time of Temptation. The same being an Extract of the worthy Author's Experience of the Particulars following, viz.—I. The miraculous Preservation of his bodily Life from the many Deaths and imminent Dangers which threatened it, while in a State of Nature.—II. The Method God took with him, in awakening him to look into and to mind Soul-Concerns, when about fourteen Years of Age.—III. How the Spirit of Bondage took him, and what fearful Work it made in his Soul.—IV. How the Spirit of Adoption succeeded the Spirit of Bondage, healing and binding up deep Wounds, caused in his Soul thereby.
To be SOLD, in WORCESTER,
A GOOD Dwelling House and Barn, together with a good Garden, and about Half an Acre of Land, with a large Brook running through the Middle of said Land, well situated on the Street, opposite the Court-House, in the most public Part of the Town. Any Person inclining to purchase may enquire of EDMUND HEARD, on said Premises.
N. B. Said Place is extraordinary good for a Shopkeeper, or a Tradesman of any Sort, &c. &c.
KINGSTON, [JAMAICA.] June 25.
A tract of a letter from an English Gentleman in Boston, dated 2d June 1774.
On Tuesday the 31st ult. the people were again assembled at Faneuil Hall, to consider of the most effectual way to mitigate the evils intended for them by the diabolical instruments of tyranny and oppression, (as they call the present virtuous ministry) when after much consultation the following resolutions were unanimously agreed to, viz.
RESOLVED, That a bridge shall be built forthwith from Barton's Point at New Boston over to Charles's Town, and another from Charles's Town over to Penny-ferry, which will make the land carriage from hence to Salem 15 miles.
RESOLVED, That 150 large Waggons shall be built at the public expence, with all imaginable dispatch, to convey all the merchandise of Boston, to and from the port of Salem; and to make the said conveyance or land carriage quite secure from insult and robbery it is
RESOLVED, That a sufficient number of old vessels loaded with ballast, shall, as soon as possible be sunk in the ship's channel at the entrance of Boston harbour to prevent any ships of war from ever entering this port again, and in a violent lawful manner, disturbing the peace and quiet and destroying the trade and commerce of this town.
RESOLVED, That every person in this province, who shall be known to supply the officers of the customs, or the officers, sailors, mariners or others belonging to any vessel of war, employed on this station for such an infamous purpose, either with provisions, fuel or any other necessary whatever, shall be deemed a traitorous enemy to America and shall for ever be treated as such by the inhabitants of this town and all friends to the laws and constitutional liberties of Great-Britain and her colonies.
I am fully persuaded the above resolutions will be punctually observed. For on the day following (the first of June) above 700 people were sent into the woods to cut down timber sufficient and proper for erecting the bridges and waggons besides a large quantity of carts, drays, &c. The masons, carpenters and wheelwrights have also been strictly forbid to engage in any undertaking (on pain of being treated as Aliens) until the above public business, which is of the utmost importance is entirely completed.
Now if the Bostonians do really & effectually block up their harbour, they'll have yet a small channel left through Pudding-point gut, capable of admitting the largest vessels peculiar to their own trade but much too shallow for a man of war to dream of entering—it is true their boats may get in, tho' perhaps not easily there being many boats belonging to this town and men enough to put into them. And as this is the case, how must it gall me, an Englishman to see these Americans carting home their goods from Salem, when they please—without molestation and in open defiance of my naval countrymen, who must now peep over their new artificial bar, without being able to hurt the Bostonians any more than Don Quixote, could hurt Sancho, when tossed at the public house in a blanket. My dear friend with an aching heart I tell thee these truths and am thine most sincerely, ROBERT BARNES.
Mr. Barnes you never will be banged for your LIBERTY!
NEWBURY-PORT, September 28.
At a legal meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Newbury-Port, by law qualified to vote in town affairs, held September 23d at four o'clock P. M.
Capt. JONATHAN GREENLEAF, Moderator.
THERE having arisen some doubts, grounded on rumors from other towns, whether the court of general sessions of the peace and inferior court of common pleas, will not be obstructed, and whether they ought to sit in this town, the next week and do business as usual,
VOTED, That it is the opinion of this town, that the determinations of the delegates of this county at their late meeting at Ipswich, respecting the court ought to be adhered to, and the court supported in the exercise of their constitutional authority; and that we will accordingly as far as is in our power, support them, while they shall continue to act: But if any officers of the court, shall hereafter presume to act under the new unconstitutional and oppressive regulations, they must cease to expect support from us.
VOTED, That a committee be chosen to consult and advise with each other, and if need be to communicate to the town any measures that may appear to be conducive to the public benefit; more especially to be watchful that no encroachments are made on our constitutional rights and liberties, that we may enjoy the blessings we have left in peace, and not be deprived of them from any quarter, but may devise and prosecute the most vigorous and reasonable measures as far as lies in our sphere, to retrieve our former invaluable privileges.
VOTED, To have this committee consist of thirty persons, viz. Hon. Benjamin Greenleaf, Esq; Patrick Tracy, Esq; Dr. John Sprague, William Atkins, Esq; Capt. James Hudson, Mr. Edmund Bartlet, Mr. Ralph Cross, jun. Tristram Dalton, Esq; Mr. Edward Harris, Mr. Enoch Titcomb, jun. Capt. Jacob Bordman, Mr. William Teel, Capt. Jonathan Greenleaf, Dr. Micajah Sawyer, Mr. David Moody, Mr. John Bromfield, Mr. John Stone, Major William Coffin, Capt. Thomas Thomas, Capt. Joseph Huse, Capt. Samuel Batchelder, Mr. Moses Newell, Mr. Jonathan Jackson, Mr. Richard Titcomb, Mr. Samuel Tufts, Mr. John Haisbert, Capt. Moses Rogers, Mr. Moses Frazier, Mr. Jonathan Marsh, and Capt. Nicholas Tracy.
[The following apology for the people of this province, under the disgrace thrown upon them by a number of its inhabitants in their late addresses, &c. is a striking evidence of the candour and generosity of a Carolinian Episcopalian.]
From the SOUTH-CAROLINA GAZETTE.
To the PRINTER.
SIR, LET not your readers be surprised that so many were found in the most faithful of the provinces, capable of signing so base an address to a governor, whose name
the throne itself cannot rescue from rotting in eternal infamy: I take the liberty, through your paper, to account for it, and submit my observations to the public.
In every Province there are, whose Principles are poisoned by Artifice, by Ignorance, by Connection, by Interest. The Size of this Province compared to that of Massachusetts Bay is "Like Shrubs when lofty Cypresses are near."
And yet I fear, if you rake the Kennel of political Filth, you will find an equal Number to lend their Names to any Man who is favoured with ministerial Smiles.
It cannot be thought strange by one who knows mankind that a governor of real talents, great family connections, and good fortune, who in addition to his birth and education in the province, had sustained various offices, and been the means of introducing many others into office, whose dependents of course had always been numerous: It cannot, I say, be thought strange, if such a man in such a country, should find many to cringe to his shadow: Especially if you recollect him now going to the fountain of power to receive the rewards of a King, whom he had served blindfold—if you think of the influence which his recommendation may be supposed to have with the minister of state—if you view the province as about to be mutilated, all its officers changed and the almost certain advancement of those who could prostitute their consciences by such an adze. The future promotions of those on that list will convince you that there was bait enough to tempt the greedy. How many do you find in every community, who with smaller prospects than these, are ready to sell their God?
Another class of puny minds were no doubt influenced by fear. A military governor arrived—a fleet in the harbour—a soldiery parading—the town blocked up—their property, with that of others, little better than confiscated. It is easy to imagine what effect the representation would have upon them, that no man had it in his power to much to help them as Mr. Hutchinson. But your wonder will cease,
When you read the names, and consider the denomination of the greater number of the signers. It is no impeachment of the Church of England to say that, they belong to her. A short state of facts will be her vindication, and show that it is not proper to the Church of England as such, but only the act of a disappointed Minority. The Spirit of the Church of England, in these Southern Provinces, shows that her Members have as high a Sense of the Rights of Mankind as any in the World. The congregational Discipline has been established in those Colonies from their Beginning. Their Ancestors fled from the Hand of Episcopal Tyranny in the intemperate Days of Laud. They brought with them, they have handed down a Spirit of Independence, and a Resolution to think for themselves. Emigrants from Britain of the Church of England, have ever yielded with Reluctance to the Idea of being Dissenters in New-England, and have been unwearied in their endeavours to get a change of government. But the late attempt of an aspiring convention of episcopal Clergy there, to procure a parliamentary establishment of Bishops in each of the provinces, has fixed them all in the ministerial scale. American Episcopates, according to the Bishop of Landaff, "have been the favourite object of the society for the propagation of the Gospel for many years." To episcopate, rather than to gospelize Americans. Observing, that the principles and measures of the present reign bid fair—the hint was given to our Northern clergy, that it was a good time to petition. The clergy we know are fond of ladders to preferment. Don't wonder that a combination was formed accordingly. Petitions went home to the King, to the Lords, to the Commons, to the Universities, &c. &c. copies of sundry of them were procured, containing severe reflections on the American loyalty, and urging the measure as necessary to secure our dependence on the crown.
So gross an attempt upon their reputation for loyalty, as well as upon American freedom in general, could not fail to form a combination of non-episcopalian to defend themselves. They united, they opposed the measures, they employed their agents. They alleged that, "they had no objection to Episcopates upon the primitive plan, i. e. entirely divested of temporal powers: That they had fled from parliamentary bishops, and after innumerable hardships had laboured a new World, in hopes there to enjoy entire liberty of conscience: That it was hard to follow them across the Atlantic: That the design was so plainly to obtain bishops with civil powers, otherwise the Kings, the lords, the commons, need not be petitioned: That the bishops alone could convey all ecclesiastical powers necessary, if they would be content with them. They denied the power of parliament to establish religion in America, or to tax us in spirituals more than in temporals. They complained of the purity of the convention in tacitly disowning the power of our assemblies, and attempting to draw down upon us the arm of parliament. They contended that the millions of freeborn Americans would never submit to the clandestine overthrow of all their constitutions; that the tyranny of courts of admiralty was but too much already, without a new set of spiritual courts, more arbitrary than they. They concluded their brethren not to try insidiously, and without consulting the sense of the colonies, to bring down upon them the tax of an enormous hierarchy. A tax which in England is sufficient to maintain a constant war." They, with difficulty got the measure set aside. The aspiring zealots cannot forgive the disappointment. They still keep in view the same object. The only chance of success in obtaining those ecclesiastical principalities, lies in the support of parliamentary taxation. They therefore treat with disdain all our provincial assemblies, and are heated advocates for parliamentary taxation. Their pulpits, their conversation is only the echo to ministerial measures; and such has been their influence, that they are an episcopalian in the New-England colonies, and I will show you an advocate for the present tyrannical measures of Lord North. These men have invariably joined the governors, and loaded the colonies with eternal misrepresentations as disloyal and rebellious. They are to be considered therefore as highly instrumental in bringing down the present storm.
In such a state of things it is strange, that Hutchinson the great advocate for parliamentary power, should receive the address of their clergy, and find 150 wretches to subscribe his Valeat?
A CAROLINIAN. No. II.
Charleston, September 1774.

B O S T O N. By Capt. Story, who arrived at Newport last Tuesday night, and Capt. Callahan, arrived at Salem on Monday last, we have received the following European Intelligence, viz.
BERLIN, [Germany] July 23. GENERAL CONWAY , after having had a private audience with the King, set out for the Court of Dresden, from whence he will proceed to Vienna; and it is said that the tour of this General to the most eminent Courts of the continent, is about some business highly interesting to Great-Britain.
LEGHORN, [Italy] July 17. The affair between the King of Sardinia and the republic of Venice grows daily more serious. His Sardinian Majesty has not only recalled his Ambassador from the republic, but has likewise given notice to the Marquis de Aigueblanche, the Venetian Ambassador, to leave Turin directly, as hostilities will soon be commenced between Sardinia and Venice. No one pretends to know the real ground of this dispute, but it seems at this time the most trifling affair is sufficient for beginning a war against a free state in order to rob the people of their liberty.
Another quarrel is likely to ensue between the republic of Genoa and the King of Naples, occasioned by the following insignificant affair: A Genoese soldier deserted off his post, and went on board a Neapolitan man of war: The Genoese officers pursued and took him from on board the man of war, at which his Majesty pretends to be inexcusably offended, and has sent couriers to Vienna, Paris, and Madrid, with complaints for the insult offered to the Sicilian flag.
PARIS, [France] July 29. On the 27th instant was performed in the church of the royal abbey, of St. Denis, the solemn service for the repose of the soul of the late King. The clergy, the parliament, the chambers of account, the officers of the mint, the chatelet, and the members of this city and university, attended in consequence of an invitation sent to them for that purpose. Monsieur and the Count d'Artois having taken their places, and likewise the Prince de Conde, mass was performed by the Cardinal de la Roche Aymon; after which the funeral sermon was delivered by the Bishop of Senlis. When divine service was finished, the King of Arms, after throwing into the vault his coat and hood, called to those who carried the several ensigns of honour to do the same. That ceremony being ended, the Duke de Bourbon proclaimed with a loud voice, the King is dead , and the King of Arms repeated three times, the King is dead, let us all pray to God for the repose of his soul . Then a prayer was said, and the King of Arms cried out three times, Long live Louis XVI. which was followed by loud acclamations, and the sound of trumpets, &c. The Princes, Clergy, Dukes, and all the officers who attended were afterwards magnificently entertained in the different apartments of the abbey.
VIENNA, [Germany] August 3. This day at noon a courier arrived here with the news of peace between Russia and the Porte having been concluded on the 17th of July, at the head quarters at Buyuk Canarochi, and signed, on the part of their respective Sovereigns, by Marshal Count Romanzow, and Achmed Effendi, Chiaga to the Grand Vizir. [London Gaz.]
L O N D O N. August 5. At length the last hand is put to the convention between the courts of Petersburg, Berlin and Vienna, for the final settlement of the Polish dominions. The court of Warsaw, now deserted by all the powers on whom they had placed some reliance, must implicitly obey the mandates which are enforced on them. The Poles are a most melancholy proof of the mischiefs arising from intestine divisions, and should be a warning to the ministers of other countries how far they attempt an infringement on the rights of their fellow subjects.
Within these two years, it appears by letters from Newfoundland, that the Spaniards are carrying on the cod fishery in those seas, and that it is expected they will prove as troublesome co-adjutors in that employ as the French have frequently been. If I remember right, says our correspondent, the Spaniards are by treaty prevented from pursuing such measures, but treaties and negotiation are esteemed now a days merely things of course.
A correspondent, just returned from a peregrination through many parts of the kingdom, says the serious, sober, and better sort of people appear every where to be much hurt at the Quebec Bill, and make no scruple to declare, that all who voted for the establishment of Popery in any part of the King's dominions, cannot be considered as zealous friends to the Protestant Church, as established by law, and no candidate at the next election will be believed, when he professes in his advertisement to be "zealously attached to the laws and constitution of his country, and promises to use his best endeavours for the preservation of its civil and religious liberties." It may be said the Jewish religion is endured in the metropolis, and why may not the Roman Catholic religion be tolerated in a country taken from the French? But it must be observed, that the true Christian shrinks at the reflection, that the murderers of Christ should find favour among the faithful, and all true friends to the Revolution start at the idea of establishing Popery by law in the most distant part of the British empire. Those who call themselves men of the world, laugh at principles, when set in opposition to interest, and treat the national flame against the Jew Bill as national folly; but if the zeal which brought about the repeal of the act was over heated, it was a fault of the right side. If the people did not shew themselves men of the world, they proved themselves good Christians; they will shortly prove themselves true friends to the glorious Revolution, and manifest their inveterate hatred to the profane friends of Popery and arbitrary power.
August 6. Yesterday both Houses of Convocation met, pursuant to their last prorogation, when they were further prorogued to the 16th of September next.
The Colonies of North America are of greater importance to the wealth and strength of this country, than people who are not thoroughly acquainted therewith imagine, though they have been called loads and burdens by the Ministry. A stranger to this greatness and trade would be surprised to see their ports and harbours in time of peace, crowded with vessels from all parts of the world. In times of distress what relief have they not afforded us from their pious granaries? The West-India islands are almost entirely supplied by them with every treasure of life, and materials for the manufacturing and curing their commodities.
It has been a long received maxim, that Great-Britain can never be ruined but by the parliament; and if they should ever grow so weak, negligent, or corrupt, as to suffer a partial influence to prevail in their measures and resolutions, we should be stupid indeed to think ourselves any longer secure. If places, pensions, and honours prevail with the individuals of that body, as to make the majority of them the servants of those who have such baits to throw out, what iniquitous jobs may not be transacted, what shares of the revenue may not be picked up and pocketed in secret services?
The Queen of Hungary has at length been prevailed upon by her son the Emperor, to bring out her troops into the field, forty thousand of which are now encamped on the borders of Transylvania; however they are intended merely as an army of observation on the motions of the Turks and Russians in that quarter, as the major part of the Imperial army is employed in Poland.
A great and amiable Lady, as well as her brothers, have for some time past much interested a Great Personage to visit Germany, which, it is said, he has, as far as he can, complied with; and next summer is fixed upon. This is the reason why the naval review was given over this summer; that expense, with what is supposed will attend the above journey, being thought too much to put the nation to.
August 8. It is said that Governor Hutchinson has had several conferences with his Majesty, since the arrival of the late advices from Boston.
The title of the Bostonians in their address to General Gage, together with his answer to their address, is very alarming to the trading part of this kingdom, as it seems not to indicate that mild disposition on either side, which was heartily wished for by every true friend to this country.
The fresh proclamation issued by General Gage, seems as if his instructions were to carry every thing in America with a high hand.
The Ministry are determined to shew no want of spirit against the Americans. 'Tis pity, says a correspondent, they were not more tenacious of the national honour against our natural enemy, from whom they have borne every alarming depredation without complaint.
The accounts received from America have caused several meetings to be held among the Ministry, to consider of the most effectual methods to enforce the acts with respect to Boston; and it is said, orders have been dispatched to prevent the meeting of the Deputies from the different provinces of America, as unconstitutional and illegal. Some methods, it is said, have been already pursued, to prevent the meeting at Faneuil-hall, at Boston, the speeches at which place having served to keep the people in a flame.
August 9. Those persons who are weak enough to blame the Americans for their just, natural, and spirited defence of their ancient rights and privileges, would, no doubt, have condemned our ancestors for their many opposition to the various arbitrary and wicked designs of the Stuarts; and which opposition brought about not only the abdication of that wretched run-away James II. but also the glorious revolution.
Last night at the Robinhood, in the Butcher-Row, the question, "Whether the extent of territory is advantageous to a commercial nation?" was finally determined in the negative. Another question, "Whether the intended non-importation agreement of the Americans is defensible on the principles of reason and justice?" Was likewise entered upon; some weighty arguments were used on both sides; but the question stands adjourned till next Monday evening, when the shew of hands will determine it.
A large quantity of mooring chains, ground swivels, and other furniture, proper for securing his Majesty's ships of war in the harbours and roads, are ordered to be shipped off for North America.
The principal report of the day is the affairs of the Bostonians: The provinces of New York, Philadelphia, South and North Carolina, Nova Scotia, and Halifax, have heartily entered into the American cause. Circular letters are sent to all the trading towns, to call meetings of the inhabitants, for the purpose of settling the non-importation agreement, so that in all probability the British exports to North America will shortly be sunk down at 000,000. os. od.
August 10. The Affairs of America are every day more and more embarrassing to the Ministry. The union amongst the Colonies is very alarming to them. Force attempted against the Colony will be resented as force aimed against the whole; and as the people on that side the Atlantic are growing rich, they in proportion grow sturdier and resolute. Orders have been given for a farther considerable body of troops to be held in readiness for embarkation to North-America.
August 11. Some accounts of a very alarming nature are said to have been received by the ministry concerning the conduct of the Americans.
It is privately whispered that within these few days some very disagreeable things have passed between our ministers and the Dutch ambassador, concerning some late transactions in America, which have hitherto been concealed from the public eye.
Several transport ships are contracted for on government account, to carry more forces to America.
We hear it is under consideration to raise a regiment in the province of Canada, to be called the Royal Canadians, which are to be officered chiefly by natives of that province.
Upon a very moderate computation it appears, that 60,000 men are slaughtered every campaign while the war continues between the Turks and Russians.
August 11. Tuesday night a Prussian courier, said to be a person of great distinction, arrived at St. James's with some dispatches from his Majesty the King of Prussia, which were immediately transmitted to Kew.
Tuesday morning several packets were sent off from the Plantation Office, Whitehall, to be forwarded from Falmouth for the Governors of the respective colonies in America.
August 12. We are told that several transports are contracted for, to carry forces to America. A correspondent says, it would have shewn more wisdom in government not to have made it necessary to have sent any forces there at all.
August 13. An express was sent off three weeks ago to Canada, to arm the militia of that country with all convenient speed. The Reason of this order may be easily guessed at—to have a body of forces in readiness to assist the operations of General Gage in reducing the malecontents of the Provinces.
The two following paragraphs are supposed to be written by John Mein, in London, viz.
"A correspondent says, that among all the caballing of the Righteous of Boston, and elsewhere in the Massachusetts, &c. nothing appears in their resolutions in regard to the payment of the tea they plundered and destroyed; hence he observes may be known, what an admirable assembly of knaves and traitors have been lately grouped together on some late patriotic occasions."
"The same correspondent adds that the patriots may make themselves easy in regard to the naked poles on Temple bar, which they have made such a rout about lately,—as in all probability they will be soon decorated with some of the patriotic nodules of the Boston faints."
August 15. Letters in town from Boston bring accounts, that all hopes of accommodation with the mother country are over. If any hopes had remained, General Gage would only have prorogued, and not dissolved their assembly. The consequences are evident; Their non-importation scheme will likely become general over all America; so that blocking up the port of Boston, instead of being a punishment on the Americans, will, in fact, annihilate our export trade to America, and fall heavy on the British merchants and manufacturers.
The people of America are unanimous in their resolutions never to submit to taxation; and government is now strangely embarrassed how to withdraw, with any degree of credit, their necks from these new impolitic reed traps .
August 16. A gentleman lately arrived from Quebec assures us, that when he was there the protestants were obliged to exercise their religion in secret for fear of the resentment of the Roman Catholics.—What then can we expect will be the fate of the poor protestants, under the late famous or rather infamous Quebec Bill, which we are infinitely told, "is founded on the clearest principles of justice and humanity?"
We hear, that orders are sent off to Ireland, for four regiments to embark immediately for America; they are to take in their provisions at Cork.
One of our Monarchs (probably not King George the second) is said to have exceedingly offended on finding the following lines, written with a pencil, in one of the Pavilions of Richmond Garden: They seem intended for a Parody of the famous Epitaph upon King Charles, by Wilmot Earl of Rochester:
God bless our B——p making King! But send us soon a new one! To do perchance a generous Thing, And sometimes speak a true one. M E R L I N.
The Hague Gazette, under the line London has the following article:
"We have not yet any news of the deliberations of the provincial assembly at Salem. As the court has charged General Gage to make certain proposals to that assembly respecting an indemnity to the East-India Company, it is hoped that their acquiescence will produce the speedy establishment of the liberties and privileges of the city of Boston. The King, determined to maintain the dignity of his crown, is resolved at the same time to procure all con-
sting means to put an end to the contention between England and the colony."
A correspondent informs us, that he has undoubted intelligence that a large body of Jesuits are preparing to settle at Quebec, and that a College is to be erected there for their reception; and that this body of men, who have been persecuted in most Roman Catholic countries as enemies to christianity and the public peace will a length find an asylum in the dominions of a Protestant Prince. Sr. J. Ceron.
A Gentleman just arrived from Birmingham informs us, that at most of the villages in that Neighbourhood particularly at Edgebaston, the Roman Catholic Form of Worship is as publicly performed as that of the established Church; and that the Priests publicly instruct the weak and the ignorant in their pernicious Doctrine, and make many Proselytes.
August 17. Monday morning some important dispatches arrived at Lord Dartmouth's Office, from Sir John Dick, his Majesty's Consul General at Lisbon, which are to be laid to-morrow before the Privy Council.
An express is arrived at Lord Rochford's office, with an account of the peace between the Russians and Turks being signed the 17th of July last.
A Bishop is shortly to be appointed for Quebec, in the manner of Osnaburg and Lubeck; a protestant and papist alternately: England is to have the first nomination.
We hear from good authority, that above one hundred gentlemen, ladies, and families of moderate fortunes, intend next May to embark for North America, with 5 or 600 families of sober and industrious husbandmen, artificers, and manufacturers, who cannot get bread in England. Those who have money, intend to purchase lands at a very moderate rate, and improve them. The climate is good, and provisions of all kinds in great plenty, and extremely cheap. Ladies of 2000l. fortune in the funds cannot, in these expensive times, live with tolerable decency in the cheapest parts of England. In America, they can live with all the conveniences and comforts of life upon the produce of that sum carried over there. The plan of this extensive design will be published, that more persons may take the advantage of going in company with some gentlemen and ladies of the most respectable characters in this kingdom, who will put themselves at the head of this benevolent design.
From the [London] PUBLIC LEDGER, August 13. THE Sporting Calendar of the Royal Exchange on the West-India Walk, proposes the following bets to the consideration of the mercantile part of the community.
TWO to ONE but the whole body of West-India merchants address the Throne within three months for the repeal of the Boston Bills.
SIX to FOUR that one hundred thousand Manufacturers make their appearance at St. James's with an Address, "praying his Majesty to put them in some way of procuring subsistence for their families, as the ruin of the American Trade has involved them in destruction."
An even bet that General Gage is either hanged or forced to quit the province within six months.
A guinea to a shilling but General Gage, notwithstanding his BUCKRAM Proclamations, turns out a BOBADIL.
An even bet that before the expiration of the ensuing winter Governor Hutchinson will not dare to shew his TREACHEROUS head in the streets of London.
Immense odds but that the whole of our American commerce is destroyed beyond redemption.
An hundred to one that if the Americans unite, honesty and freedom will put ignorance, rascality, and oppression, to the rout.
Five to one that if the sword is drawn, General Gage mistakes a WINDMILL for a magazine of arms, and is more intent on gaining BREAD, than VICTORY, for his troops.
A million to one but he wishes the minister at the Devil before the campaign begins.
From the PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL. To GENERAL GAGE. SIR,
THE measures of the British administration have of late been so infamous, that no man can guide them, without being the subject of general censure. The domestic virtues of Lord North, and the religious graces of Lord Dartmouth, have not exempted them from the execrations of the public. These facts have been examined by a new sect of philosophers at St. James's, and have been pronounced the truest touch-stone of merit. The acclamations of millions, are now looked upon as the breath of faction, and the resentment of a nation is esteemed the only reward (to borrow a phrase from the court) for doing one's duty. The times are forgotten when every breath that ascended from Britain, called down blessings upon the heads of Burleigh and Chatham. "Contemptu famæ, contemni virtutem." public virtue, and the love of fame, will always stand and fall together in a free country.
This introduction was necessary in an address to your Excellency. You have learned, since your graduation at the British St. Omer's, to prefer the approbation of your sovereign to the applause of the whole of your fellow subjects in America. You have substituted the former for the approbation of your conscience, and you have branded the just censures of the latter with the name of calumny. Give me leave, Sir, to examine the nature of this vice, and to enquire how far you have a right to charge your loss of character upon it.
Calumny, is a tax imposed by a few bad men only, upon extraordinary merit. The influence of a party has sometimes made it general; but in such cases it is always transitory. A few stragglers upon your character and conduct, will show how far you are entitled to the honor of suffering from this cause.
You are so far from possessing any extraordinary merit, that you have defeated the designs of your friends, who attempted to supply your want of the qualities of a governor, and a general, by ascribing to you the simple virtues of a good man. You have not been condemned by a transitory fashion, but by the permanent unbiased suffrages of every freeman in America. By assuming to yourself therefore, those credentials of merit, which justice and wisdom derive from calumny, you commit a more criminal act of forgery, than ever was expiated at Tyburn.
You have received many flattering addresses since your accession to your government. Permit me to furnish your Excellency with a medium, through which I beg you would read them. The art of embalming dead bodies was contrived only to preserve them from putrefaction. Flattery serves the same purposes upon living characters. It collects the scattered rays of human depravity into a focus. The most flagitious crimes appear like holiness, when compared with the offerings which it has kindled at the shrine of arbitrary power. I blush for my country, when I reflect, that she has discovered in her infancy a relation to her federal head by signs of this original corruption . Men have been found, even in Boston, who have absolved a Bernard and an Hutchinson. The same men have extolled your moderation and equity. They have discovered an olive branch in your mouth. Nay—they have gone further.—They have equalled in maturity of corruption the scyophants in the sty of Westminster. They have ascribed to your Excellency ABILITIES.
It is to no purpose to say, that some of those men are persons of the first rank and fortune in your government. Men of such characters were the first on the list of defection in the United Provinces. I honor public virtue in a rich man, as much as I do piety in a soldier; but I never harbour the idea of America being enslaved, without fancying I see the badges of our subjection sealed with the names of men, who have been fattened upon her breasts. This idea is at all times a fugitive one, for since the spirit of liberty has gone forth among our farmers, I no longer wish to pry into the decrees of heaven. I see already transcribed in the annals of our history: THE AMERICANS ARE AN INVINCIBLE PEOPLE.
The dominion of Virginia has given the signal to the in-
habitants of Massachusetts-Bay for resistance and repulsion. And it is not because your inquiries have not exceeded the price of their blood, that they have not made the severity of military discipline necessary in your government. Their allegiance to the crown of Great-Britain lies upon enthusiasm; but should you provoke them by another illegal proclamation, I tremble to think of the consequences. The savages, who bated you on the banks of the Ohio were gentle as lambs, compared with men, bereaved of their liberties. You will find the strength of the British lion not been impaired by his couching a century or two in the woods of America.
The Americans have hitherto viewed you with pity, as part of that unconscious machine, which was set to work by some invisible hands to destroy the British constitution in America. But you have lately discovered your relation to human nature, by shewing that you possess the principle of revenge. The sovereign of the British empire, the abiter of Europe, and the Neptune of the ocean called forth the wisdom and power of both houses of parliament, together with the flower of his troops, to deprive a merchant in Boston of his property in a wharf. As humble in your imitation of his majesty's reformation, as of his royal proclamation for encouraging virtue and piety, you have chosen the same man as the object of your revenge. You have deprived him of his company of cadets, and have condescended to assign a reason for it, which will be ratified at St. James's.
"Colonel Hancock has used me ill, and has not treated me with that respect that is due to the governor of the province; therefore I dismiss'd him!—I will not be treated ill by Colonel Hancock, nor any other man in the province."
Could the truth of our reflections upon our sovereign be washed away, tears of blood should not be wanting for that purpose. I cannot however agree with the majority of his subjects in attributing to him a single wish to enslave his empire. Tyrants have always made pioneers of their ministers; but the present ministry have placed our sovereign upon the forlorn hope. By investing him with a discretionary power to repeal the Boston port bill, they have staked his popularity in America—his revenues—and his crown, upon the success of a sham engagement.—Let not our suffering countrymen in Boston call the wisdom—justice—and lenity of our king in question. The power of prolonging your misery was forced upon him by his ministers. Let your imprecations for vengeance, fall only upon the heads of Bute, Mansfield and North. Mercy, to such wretches, would transform herself into a common prostitute. Let nothing satiate your rage, 'till the scaffold overflows with the blood. The garden of liberty in England stands in need of such manure. Patriots, American patriots, stand frowning spontaneously from it.
JUNIUS AMERICANUS.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY. To the BRITONS AND AMERICANS.
YOUR contests are now become so serious and important, they engage the attention of all civilized nations, and as the sword of war seems almost ready to be unsheathed, I would beg leave with the voice of reason and humanity, to speak a few words of truth and soberness. What do the Britons want? Riches and honour. —What do the Americans want? Liberty. —Cannot both be gratified? Yes.—Why then do they continue an unnatural and injurious quarrel, which deeply wounds both, their interests? Because they won't follow the plain dictates of common sense.—If the path be so plain wherein Britain may secure her honour and interest, and the Americans their liberty, you will naturally say, point it out? I answer, here it is.
Let Britain secure her honour by demanding nothing but what is honourable and just , and her interest will forever be inseparable from her honour; let the Americans remain perfectly free, and enjoy the blessings of the British constitution in their full extent, equal with Britons in Britain.—Then will the wealth of America flow into Britain through the channel of commerce, as naturally and as certainly as the rivers run into the ocean.—Complaint, wrath, and envy, between the two countries will cease, and mutual love and good will may re-animate your bosoms. This surely would be honourable for Britain, happy for America, and glorious for the whole nation. —Some are so extremely weak, as to talk of Britain's maintaining her honour, by enforcing her laws, however unjust to others, or injurious to herself;—a people governed by such principles , must be considered by all the rest of the world as a nation of fools and madmen. The wisest men sometimes err, and it is a sure sign of wisdom to be willing to correct an error when it is discovered, and all men esteem it honourable . The British parliament has often acknowledged an error, by repealing her own acts, when it was found by experience that they were injurious, and by so doing she increased her honour and her reputation in the world.—Why, then, in the name of reason, should any man suppose that her honour is concerned to maintain the present measures respecting America, when a scheme of policy infinitely more advantageous lies open to every common mind?
I was going to mention the wide desolation and dreadful calamities which await the nation, if harmony is not soon restored, but at present I forbear.
SOLOMON, jun.
JOSHUA GARDNER,
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Plymouth County Resolves.
At a Meeting of the Delegates of every Town in the County of Plymouth, in the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, held at Plymouth in said County, on Monday the 26th, and by Adjournment, at the County House in Plymouth, on Tuesday the 27th Day of September, 1774, viz.
PLYMOUTH. Hon. James Warren, Esq; Mr. John Torrey, Capt. Theophilus Cotton, William Watson, Esq; Mr. Thomas Lothrop.
SITUATE. Nathan Cushing, Esq; John Cushing, jun. Esq; Capt. Israel Vinal, jun. Mr. Barnabas Little, Mr. William Turner, Capt. Joseph Tolman.
WAREHAM. Mr. Ebenezer Briggs, Mr. Barnabas Bates.
MARSHFIELD. Capt. Anthony Thomas, Capt. William Thomas.
ABINGTON. Dr. David Jones, Capt. Woodbridge Brown, Mr. William Reed, jun.
BRIDGWATER. Capt. Edward Mitchell, Mr. Nathaniel Reynolds, Mr. Nathan Mitchell, Mr. Thomas Hooper.
KINGSTON. John Thomas, Esq; Capt. John Gray, Mr. William Drew.
HANOVER. Capt. Joseph Cushing, Mr. Joseph Ramsdell, Mr. Joshua Simmons, Capt. Robert Eells, Dr. Lemuel Cushing.
PEMBROKE. Capt. John Turner, Dr. Jeremiah Hall, Mr. Seth Briggs, Capt. Edward Thomas, Capt. Elijah Cushing.
DUXBOROUGH. Capt. Wade Wadsworth, Mr. George Pettridge, Mr. Peleg Wadsworth.
HALIFAX. Mr. Barnabas Thompson, Moses Inglee, Mr. Ebenezer Thomas.
MIDDLEBOROUGH. Capt. Ebenezer Sprout, Mr. John Miller, Mr. Ebenezer Wood, Mr. Benjamin Tucker, Mr. Nathaniel Foster.
ROCHESTER. Capt. Ebenezer White, Mr. Nathaniel Hammond, Mr. Nathan Nye.
PLIMPTON. Mr. William Ripley, Mr. Samuel Lucas, Mr. Seth Cushing.
VOTED. The Hon. JAMES WARREN, Esq; Chairman. A committee of nine, viz. James Warren, Esq; William Cushing, Esq; Capt. Joseph Cushing, John Thomas, Esq; Dr. Jones, Mr. John Torrey, Mr. Thomas Lothrop, Mr. George Partridge, and Dr. Jeremiah Hall, were chosen to bring in at the adjournment a report to this body, and the following being several times read, and paragraph by paragraph, was unanimously voted, viz.
WHEREAS the British administration, instead of cultivating that harmony and affection, which have so long subsisted, to the great and mutual advantage of both Britain and the colonies, have for a series of years, without provocation, without justice or good policy, in breach of faith, the laws of gratitude, the natural connections and commercial interests of both countries, been attacking with persevering and unrelenting injustice the rights of the colonists; and have added from one time to another, insults to oppressions; till both have become (more especially in this colony) intolerable, and every person who has the feelings of a man, and any sense of the rights of mankind, and the value of our happy constitution, finds it now necessary to exert himself, to the utmost of his power, to preserve them. We who are returned from the several towns in the county of Plymouth, and now met on the ground first trod by our venerable ancestors, and at the place Providence directed them to, as an asylum from the persecuting rage and oppression of their contemporaries in Britain; feeling the same spirit, and actuated in defence of our rights, by the same principles which animated them in acquiring and transmitting them to us and succeeding posterity, in a manner which ever distinguished the heroism and virtue of their characters, DO RESOLVE.
1. That the inhabitants of the American colonies are entitled to all the natural rights of mankind, and are by right subject to the controul of no power on earth, but by their own consent.
2. That the inhabitants of this province have no other political connection with, or dependance on Britain, than what was originally by our ancestors, for themselves and posterity stipulated with the king, and in the form of a grant from him expressed in the charter.
3. That the interposition of any other power on earth in our affairs, and more especially in attempts, to tax or even legislate for us, and that of the King himself, in other manner than is expressed and provided for, in the original compact, is an infringement of our natural and constitutional rights.
4. That the people of this province have at all times been loyal and dutiful subjects, to the King of Great Britain, have observed all the conditions of their original compact, borne great affection to his other subjects, in all parts of his dominions, and are ready, at all times, to render him that allegiance which his protection of our rights, intitle him to, and to sacrifice our lives and fortunes in defence of his person and constitutional government.
5. That the Parliament of Great Britain has not only assumed, but exercised with unexampled severity, a power over these colonies, to legislate for, and tax them without their own consent, and by several acts passed in the late session of parliament, for blocking up the port of Boston, the better regulating the government of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay, the screening the most flagitious violators of the laws of the province from a legal trial, and the establishing the Roman Catholic religion in that extensive country, called Canada, has shewn their determination to deprive us of both our civil and religious rights.
6. That it is a duty every man and body of men, owes to posterity, as well as to God and their country, to oppose with all their power, the execution of said acts, and that we strongly recommend it to the inhabitants of the province never to submit to them in any instance whatever.
7. That the provision made in one of said acts for the appointment of a council and of civil officers, in this province, and the tenure of their several offices, together with the manner of returning jurors, at once destroys every idea of free legislation, and an impartial administration of justice, and breaks down that inestimable barrier of liberty, and security of life and property, a trial by our peers, by rendering the whole of them a set of ministerial tools and hirelings.
8. That those persons, who have accepted seats at the council board, by mandamus from the King, in conformity to a late act of the British parliament, have violated the fundamental rights of the society they belonged to, have traitorously attempted to destroy the constitution of their country, which they were bound by the laws of God and man to defend; and have by their persevering obstinacy, against the entreaties of their fellow-countrymen, exposed themselves to their just resentment and indignation.
9. That the judges, justices, sheriffs and other civil officers in the province, who were appointed to their several offices agreeable to the charter and laws of the same, and refuse to act in conformity to the acts of parliament, or to assist administration in the execution of them, are the only proper persons who are entitled to the obedience of the people; and that we will aid and support them in the execution of their offices, in the manner usual, before the attempt to alter the constitution of the province, and indemnify their persons and property; and that no legal authority can remove them for their respective offices, except that which is constituted pursuant to the charter, and the laws of this province.
10. That all officers and private persons, who shall presume to conform to, or by any means aid and assist the execution of the late acts of parliament, do by such conduct forfeit that protection and friendship good men in society are entitled to, are and ought to be considered and treated as our inveterate enemies, as men lost to every sense of virtue, and the obligations due to God and man.
11. That every people have a right to meet together when they please, to consult upon their grievances, and the proper methods to be taken for their removal; and that
any act which prohibits such meetings, strikes at the foundation of freedom, and will reduce to slavery and misery such as submit to it.
12. That the present exigencies of our public affairs, renders it absolutely necessary that there be a provincial Congress; and we do recommend it to the several towns in this county to instruct their Representatives to form themselves into such a Congress, agreeable to the seventh Resolve of the Delegates for the county of Essex, for the purposes there mentioned.
13. That our enemies may be disappointed, and we be the better enabled to make that last appeal which the law of God and Nature will justify.—We recommend it to the people of this county, to apply themselves with all diligence, and in the most effectual manner, to learn military discipline, and to equip themselves immediately with arms and ammunition according to law.
14. That whereas the present circumstances of the province are such, that if the public monies now raised should be paid into the public treasuries, they may be misapplied, perhaps to purposes detrimental to the interest of the people.—We therefore recommend to the collectors of taxes, sheriffs and other officers in this county, to retain the same in their hands, and not to make any payment thereof to the province treasurer, until the civil government of the province is placed upon a constitutional foundation, or until it shall otherwise be ordered by the proposed provincial Congress; and that they be indemnified in their persons and property for so doing.
15. That the fortification erected on Boston-neck, the seizing the powder in the magazine at Charlestown, the prohibiting the keeper of the magazine at Boston to deliver the powder which is private property, and many other instances of the conduct of the army and commander in chief, are justly alarming, and gives us the strongest reasons to apprehend hostile intentions against the town of Boston in particular, and the province in general.
16. That if any persons who have distinguished themselves by virtuously contending for the violated rights and liberties of this country, should be seized in order to be transported to England, or in any way subjected to the tyrannical power of administration now prevailing.—We do recommend that the good people of this county immediately make reprisals, by seizing and keeping in safe custody, every servant of the present tyrannical government, and all such as are known to have favoured and abetted their measures, and detain them till our friends are restored safe and uninjured to their respective families.
17. That it is highly proper and necessary for the towns to continue to meet and transact their affairs as usual, and we recommend to the selectmen of the several towns in this county, to issue their warrants for calling town-meetings agreeable to the laws of the province, and former usages, and to the constables to warn the same, whenever their circumstances require it, and to the people in the county to support each other in the exercise of a privilege and a right by long experience found so beneficial to their interest and happiness.
18. That it is justifiable in, and proper for, the people at such a time as this to prevent any courts sitting and proceeding to business, or any officer of any court executing his office, who shall refuse when requested to make and sign a full and ample declaration, expressing their abhorrence of the late innovations attempted in our constitution, and that they do not now, nor will at any time hereafter, hold their commissions in any other way than what is prescribed by the charter and well known constitution of this province, and that they will not in any way countenance, aid or support the execution of the late acts of parliament.
19. That the circumstances of the country require and make it necessary that we should (until our rights are fully restored) withhold all commercial intercourse with Great-Britain and Ireland, and refrain from the consumption of British manufactures and merchandise, especially East-India teas, and other goods, subject to such additions, alterations and exceptions only, as the grand Congress of the colonies may agree to.
20. We recommend to the several towns in this county, to make provision for, and to order the payment of their several representatives out of their town-treasuries, in order to do justice to them, and at the same time defeat one of the machinations of our enemies.
21. That those justices of the courts of general sessions of the peace and common pleas for this county, who at the last term, in the name of the whole, addressed his excellency governor GAGE, have therein wantonly, without reason, and without provocation, aspersed the clergy, the committees of correspondence, and other good people of this county, and thereby shewn that they have no tender feelings for the distresses of their country, and can rejoice at their calamities.
22. That this county should entertain a high sense of gratitude for the benevolent alacrity and readiness shewn by our brethren in the other colonies to aid and support this province under our present distresses, and to come to our relief, whenever the blood-thirsty malice of our enemies shall make it necessary.
23. That Edward Winslow, jun. one of the two clerks of the court of general sessions of the peace, and court of common pleas, for this county, has, by refusing this body a copy of an address made at the last term in this county, to THOMAS HUTCHINSON, Esq; betrayed the trust reposed in him, and by refusing his attendance when requested, treated the body of this county with insult and contempt, and by that means rendered himself unworthy to serve the county in said office.
24. That it be earnestly recommended to the inhabitants of this county, that they carefully avoid all riots, routs, tumults, and disturbances, under our present distressed circumstances, and that they maintain all that peace and good order that the nature of our present situation will admit.
A true copy. THOMAS LOTHROP, Clerk.
At a meeting of the inhabitants of the town of DUXBURY on the 19th of September 1774, for the purpose of choosing a Representative; the Hon. GAMALIEL BRADFORD, Esq; personally appeared and made the following acknowledgement, to the unanimous acceptance of said town, viz.
THE address of the justices of the general sessions of the peace and inferior court, court of common pleas for the county of Plymouth, to his Excellency Governor Gage, published in Mrs. Draper's news-paper of the 14th of July, 1774, I acknowledge I voted for. I likewise at the same term, voted an address to our late governor Hutchinson. For both instances of my conduct I am heartily sorry, and am equally sorry, that I said any thing in favour of the same, and humbly ask the forgiveness of this town and whole community; promising on the faith of a christian, that I will neither act upon or receive (if offered me) any commission under the new plan of government, and as I do as heartily disapprove of the late conduct of the British Administration with respect to America as any man of this community, I hope to be again restored to the favour and friendship of the public. GAMALIEL BRADFORD.
At the same meeting Briggs Alden, Esq; made the following recantation, which was equally satisfactory to said town.
THE address of the court of general sessions of the peace, and of the justices of the inferior court of common pleas for the county of Plymouth, to his Excellency Governor Gage, published in Mrs. Draper's news-paper of the 14th of July, 1774, I acknowledge I voted for, and, am heartily sorry for it, and humbly ask forgiveness of this town and province, and promise sincerely and in good faith, that I will neither act upon or receive if offered me any commission on the new regulated plan of government. For I do as much detest the late scheme of administration for subjugating America as any man and as much desire the freedom and happiness as well as friendship and favour of my country. BRIGGS ALDEN.
This day was published, THE Royal American Magazine, No. 8. For AUGUST, 1774.
THURSDAY, October 13. BOSTON.
WEDNESDAY last the members chosen in consequence of Governor GAGE's writ for calling a General Assembly, met at the court-house in Salem pursuant to the precepts; and after waiting a day without being admitted to the usual oath, which should have been administered by the Governor or other constitutional officers; and having chosen the Honourable JOHN HANCOCK, Esq; to be their Chairman, and BENJAMIN LINCOLN, Esq; Clerk, they proceeded to business, and passed the following Resolves.
Province of the MASSACHUSETTS-BAY. In the Court-House at Salem, October 7. 1774. WHEREAS his Excellency Thomas Gage, Esq; did issue writs bearing date the first of September last, for the election of members to serve as representatives in a great and general court, which he did "think fit and appoint" to be convened and holden the 5th day of October instant, at the Court-house in this place: And whereas a majority of members duly elected in consequence of said writs, did attend at said court-house the time appointed, there to be qualified according to the charter for taking seats, and acting as representatives in said Great and general court but where not met by the Governor, or other constitutional officer or officers by him appointed for administering the usual oaths, and qualifying them thereto. And whereas a Proclamation bearing date the 28th of September last, and published in sundry News-papers, with the signature of his Excellency, contains many reflections on this province, as being in a tumultuous and disorderly state; and appears to have been considered by his Excellency as a constitutional discharge of all such persons as have been elected in consequence of his Excellency's said writs.—The members aforesaid so attending, having considered the measures which his Excellency has been pleased to take by his said Proclamation and finding them to be unconstitutional, unjust, and disrespectful to the Province, think it their duty to pass the following Resolves. Therefore,
RESOLVED, as the opinion of said members, 1. That by the royal charter of the province, the Governor for the time being, is expressly obliged to convene "upon every last Wednesday in the month of May, every year for ever, and at such other times as he shall think fit and appoint, a great and general court." And therefore that, as his Excellency had thought fit, and by his writ appointed a great and general court to be convened on the 5th day of October instant, his conduct in preventing the same is against the express words, as well as true sense and meaning of the charter, and unconstitutional; more especially as by the charter his Excellency's power "to adjourn, prorogue and dissolve all great and general courts," doth not take place after said court shall be appointed, until they have first "met and convened."
2. That the constitutional government of the inhabitants of this province being by a considerable military force at this time attempted to be superceded and annulled, and the people under the most alarming and just apprehensions of slavery, having in their laudable endeavours to preserve themselves therefrom, discovered upon all occasions the greatest aversion to disorder and tumult; it must be evident to all attending to his Excellency's said Proclamation, that his representations of the province, as being in a tumultuous and disorderly state, are reflections the inhabitants have by no means merited: And therefore that they are highly injurious and unkind.
3. That as the pretended cause of his Excellency's Proclamation for discharging the members elected by the province in pursuance of his writs has for a considerable time existed, his Excellency's conduct in choosing to issue said Proclamation (had it been in other respect unexceptionable) but a few days before the court was to have been convened, and thereby unavoidably putting to unnecessary expense and trouble a great majority of members from the extremities of the province, is a measure by no means consistent with the dignity of the province; and therefore it ought to be considered as a disrespectful treatment of the province, and as an opposition to that reconciliation between Great-Britain and the colonies so ardently wished for by the friends of both.
4. That some of the causes assigned as aforesaid for this unconstitutional and wanton prevention of the general court, have in all good governments been considered among the greatest reasons for convening a parliament or assembly, and therefore the Proclamation is considered as a further proof, not only of his Excellency's disaffection towards the province, but of the necessity of its most vigorous and immediate exertions for preserving the freedom and constitution thereof.
Upon a motion made and seconded, Voted , that the members aforesaid do now resolve themselves into a provincial Congress, to be joined by such other persons as have been or shall be chosen for that purpose, to take into consideration the dangerous and alarming situation of public affairs in this province; and to consult and determine on such measures as they shall judge will tend to promote the true interest of his majesty, in the peace, welfare and prosperity of the province.
Copy Attest. BENJAMIN LINCOLN, Clerk. A Provincial Congress being thus formed, and having chosen the Hon. JOHN HANCOCK, Esq; Chairman, and BENJAMIN LINCOLN, Esq; Clerk, they adjourned to the town house in Concord, to meet on Tuesday the eleventh day of October instant, at ten o'clock in the forenoon.
We hear that the number of representatives from the several Towns, which met at Salem last week, consisted of 90.
The following paragraph is taken from the Pennsylvania Journal of Sept. 28th, viz. "We are assured that General Carlton, governor of Quebec, is sailed from England, and has orders to raise 30,000 Canadians, who are to act under the mandates of Lord North, who we are told, has sworn that he will lay the Americans at his feet."
On the 26th of July last, in Lat. 38. N. Lon. 38.W. a whaling floop belonging to this place spoke with a snow, having on board the officers and company of the royal Captain East-Indiaman, which had been lost on a shoal, the 17th of December last, homeward bound from China; the people, 105 in number, were obliged to take to their boats for the preservation of their lives, with only the cloaths of their backs, and bread and water to subsist on, and after much fatigue and toil arrived at Balambangan, a new settlement in the Chinese sea, where they procured the above vessel to convey them home.
Yesterday the Rose man of War arrived here from Newfoundland, with troops.
We hear that there has been considerable commotion in Halifax, concerning Tea, and that several Justices of the Peace have lost their commissions. We cannot collect any particulars relative to this affair.
The provincial Congress met at Concord on Tuesday last. A Correspondent observes, "that if Lord North should be suffered to pursue his mad schemes against the Americans, they will be obliged to form an independent state, which they may do in a very short time, by making the Congress their States-General, and each colony chuse all their officers in like manner as Connecticut now does—then offer an alliance and a free trade with those nations who will be the best friends and most powerful allies."—May Britain think of these things, and make peace with America in time.
The vessel in which Dr. Franklin had taken his passage for Philadelphia, is arrived at that place with letters intimating, that when he was on the point of departure, the Earl of Chatham sent for him, and after a long conference convinced him of the necessity of his deferring his embarkation until after the next session of parliament, in which that nobleman, aided with his intelligence of the proceedings of the colonies intends to make the most vigorous efforts in favour of this country.
The people of the country are very desirous of having a list of all those merchants and shopkeepers who have imported British merchandise into this province since the 31st of August last, contrary to the non-consumption covenant; they also intreat that the names of those persons may be
handed to them, who shall purchase any kind of goods such importers.
Extract of a letter from Philadelphia dated September 29. "The Congress have passed the vote for an absolute non-exportation: To take place next September. Capt. Eyles, who was to sail for London this morning, is detained to take the account with him."
We are informed that the courts have been prevented sitting in Barnstable, Plymouth and Nantucket, and we soon expect an account of the proceedings.
Last Monday morning died Mr. Robert Ball, for many years a noted Pilot and keeper of Boston Light-house. His Funeral will be attended to-morrow at four o'clock, from his house, where his friends and acquaintance are desired to meet.
DIED. Mr. Samuel Ruggles, housewright, aged 67.—Mrs. Bailey, wife of Mr. Thomas Bailey, housewright.—Mrs. Whittmore, Widow of Mr. Whittmore, goldsmith, deceased.—Mrs. Eisinger, at the North End.—At Charlestown, Mrs. Mary Rogers, Wife of Mr. Jacob Rogers, late a lieutenant in his majesty's navy.—At Medfield, Miss Dorothy Ellis, a maiden lady, and noted school-mistress 50 years: The last nine days of her life she did not know any kind of substance.—At Marblehead, Miss Mercy Wendell, relict of the late major John Wendell, of this town.—At Princetown, where she lately went on a visit, Miss Nabby Talbot, only daughter of the late Dr. Gilliam Talbot, of this place, deceased.
SALEM, October 11. Last Thursday morning about 3 o'clock, fire was discovered breaking forth from an out-building, made use of as a wood-house, belonging to Col. Frye, and situated between his dwelling-house and the Rev. Dr. Whitaker's meeting-house, in King-street: The flames were almost instantly communicated to the meeting-house, and from that to the other buildings around it, raging with such fury and rapidity as to baffle all attempts for stopping its progress, till one large meeting-house, eight dwelling-houses, the custom-house, and fourteen buildings occupied as stores, shops and barns, besides sheds and other small out-houses, were wholly destroyed. From these buildings, the flaming cinders were carried by the wind to the East side of school-street, where the houses were in the most imminent danger, but were happily preserved. The most remarkable instance of preservation was however observable at the court-house, the saving of which, with a number of large buildings contiguous to it, under God, was wholly owing to the happy and seasonable arrival of several hundred of the most respectable inhabitants of Marblehead, with two of their Engines. At the moment of their arrival the court-house was on fire; but, aided by their generous and vigorous exertions, and by their good conduct in the management of their engines, the flames were extinguished, after the greatest conflagration which ever happened in this town.
Mrs. Field, in every advanced age, mother to Mr. Samuel Field, in escaping from the flames, struck her head against a post, when the tell, and was so much hurt as that she expired in a few minutes after she was taken up and carried to a neighbour's house.
On Friday and Saturday last, three villains were whipped at the public whipping-post, 15 stripes each, for stealing goods at said fire.
With Capt. Calahan came passengers, Mr. Seth Hunt, Mr. George Inman, Mr. Samuel Whitwell, Mr. Barron, Mr. David Black, and a lady.
Intelligence is received by Capt. Calahan, that six regiments more are ordered immediately for Boston.
Mr. Phillips White, jun. Son to Phillips White, Esq; of Haverhill, was a passenger on board Capt. Calahan, but had the misfortune to be knocked over board and drowned 4 or 5 days ago.
PHILADELPHIA. In CONGRESS, Thursday Sept. 22, 1774.
RESOLVED, THAT the Congress request the Merchants and others, in the several colonies, not to send to Great-Britain any orders for goods; and to direct the execution of all orders already sent, to be delayed or suspended, until the sense of the Congress on the means to be taken for the preservation of the liberties of AMERICA is made public.
An Extra from the Minutes. CHARLES THOMPSON, Sccry.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY, To the CANADIANS.
Gentlemen, WE consider you as our brethren, entitled to all the liberties and privileges of Englishmen, and free Americans; and it is our earnest wish that you may forever share with us in freedom and happiness. The only reason why we condemn the Quebec bill, is that it lays a foundation for your and our slavery: we aim to establish a pure system of civil and religious liberty through all America, and that you should in all respects be as perfectly free as ourselves. We expect that the enemies to freedom, will endeavour to persuade you that we are unfriendlily to you on account of your religion, be assured such a suggestion is false, we are your full friends; we know that your interest and ours is closely connected. If we remain free, you will be free also, and whoever endeavours to divide us, is an enemy to both. We trust your generous bosoms are animated with the most free and noble sentiments, and that you will, with us, resolve to exert all your powers, and risk every thing for the defence of AMERICAN LIBERTY. May the radiant flames of freedom forever shine on the inhabitants of Canada. SONS OF NEW-ENGLAND.
To be SOLD, BEST Sperma-Ceti CANDLES. Apply to T. CARTWRIGHT, at Mrs. FOSDICK's, near the State-House. If any Person would buy a Quantity to be delivered at the Out-Ports, it may be done.
STRAYED away, or stolen, from a Pasture, in Worcester, the latter End of August last a BAY MARE, about thirteen Hands and an half high; Paces and Trots, but inclines chiefly to Pace; has a small white Spot on the left Side of her Neck, near her Head, and another on her left Shoulder. Whoever will give Information of said Mare, to the Owner, (Winthrop Chandler) so that he may have her again, shall be well rewarded. Killings, October 18, 1774.
To the PUBLIC. THE Leather-Dressers, at their last meeting in this town, Voted not to ask more than one Piastre per pound for the best Carding-Wool that may be taken off the Skins this year, which is a tenth part less than they have been sold for, for several years: An example worthy of imitation, as it will tend greatly to encourage our own manufactures, which is so necessary at this day of cruelty and oppression. It is not doubted but that the worthy Farmers of this and the neighbouring provinces, who have sheep to dispose of, will make a small abatement in the price of Sheep; and as the Wool Business of almost the whole province is carried on in Boston and Charlestown, who are now greatly suffering in the common cause, we flatter ourselves that the gentlemen, Butchers, will be aiding and assisting in promoting any thing which may tend to the benefit of the distressed: And we have two much charity for our brethren in other towns, to suppose they would take any advantage, or by any means whatever hinder the Wool and Skins coming to this Market.
** IMPORTED before the first of August, 1774, an Assortment of English, India and South Goods, and now to be sold by DUNCAN INGRAHAM, jun. at his Shop in Union Street, Boston, at a very moderate Profit, Wholesale and Retail.

Parnassian Packet.
Thoughts on PRINTING.
THE living speech, sweet virtue's sacred lore, Moves while 'tis utter'd, and affects no more. A longer date the marble built may claim, And give to future days th' ennobled name; From time to time the speaking image charms, And the gay breast with gen'rous ardour warms. Yet Oh! how few from hence improve the mind, The lecture to one narrow spot confin'd! Nor the firm statue still defies the rage Of eating years and injury of age. LETTERS alone the pow'r of time controul, And to the lure of virtue bend the soul: Alone secure th' illustrious hero's praise, While ART from clime to clime the pledge conveys: Far wide the mute instructor spreads, nor fears The tyrant's edict, or the waste of years. A long Hereafter claims the deathless page Improv'd in credit as improv'd in age: Our late descendants, hence (a race unknown) Shall make the world's past knowledge all their own, What skill for e'er discerning time repairs, And ev'ry Science amplified by theirs.
'OUTIS.
THE LAST BOTTLE.
ONE BOTTLE of ARRACK, the last of my store (For your sake and mine, I could wish it were more) From my cave, where quite bury'd in law-dust it lay, Resolv'd once again to the light of the day, To the friends of the muse, whose benevolent care Our labours reward with a plum, or a pear, The Poet presents—and, lest you mistake it,— He sends you moreover instructions to make it— As the bottle is big, and the liquor is rough, Four lemons, I doubt, will be little enough: For sugar, you know, it depends upon taste, But 'twill take, in my mind, half a pound at the least: Let your water be boil'd; and, when it is cool, Pour in just two quarts—an infallible rule— Then stir it three times; the business is done. (If you have not a ladle, make use of a spoon) Fill your glasses all round; and—you know what should follow— Long life and good health to the sons of Apollo!
WRITING and Arithmetic, to be taught in Evenings. The School to be opened the first Monday in October next, at the Writing School-House, in Queen-street, and to be continued for the Season. Where due Care will be taken for Instruction in its various Branches, as usual, and it is hoped will meet with a like Acceptance, which shall be the Aim of the Subscriber—an Assistant in one of the public Schools. Sept. 19, 1774. WILLIAM DALL, jun.
To be SOLD, by JONATHAN DAVIS, At BULL'S Wharf, the following West-India Goods, viz. CHOICE St. Vincent and Barbados Rum, Jamaica Spirits and Sugars, Race Ginger, Cotton Wool, Indigo of the best Quality, Turks-Island Salt. Said DAVIS also has to Sell, Eight Thousand Pipe Staves, which are at Salem, the Terms of Sale of which may be known by enquiring of Mr. HASKETT DARBY, of Salem, or JONATHAN DAVIS, of Boston.
This Day published [Price 8d.] And sold at the Printing-Office in School-street, THE American Querist; or some Questions proposed relative to the present Disputes between Great-Britain and her American Colonies.—By a North-American. As the same Place may be had [Price 8d.] A Letter from a Virginian to the Members of the Congress, now sitting at Philadelphia.
TWO DOLLARS Reward. STRAYED , or stolen out of the Pasture of Mr. JOSEPH HEATH, in Roxbury, a brown Mare, about eight Years old, 17 Hands high, her Mare and Tail cut, Tots all. Whoever will bring said Mare to Mr. HEATH, shall have the above Reward, and all necessary Charges, paid by JOSEPH HEATH.
To be SOLD, by SIMON TUFTS, At the Store adjoining Mr. HENRY PRENTISS, near FANEUIL-HALL. CHOICE Jamaica Spirits, West-India and New-England Rum, Loaf and Brown Sugars, some cheap of an ordinary Quality, Raisins in fine Order, Lisbon and Malaga Wines per Quarter Cask, Frontineac ditto, in Casks; Flax Oil, Pepper, Spices, Green Coffee, Chocolate, &c. but no Tea. Cash for Flax-Seed, and No-feed, or the refuse Seed remaining after the cleaning of Flax Seed, for the Purpose of making Linseed Oil.
WHEREAS the Co-partnership of CURTIS and MAY, was mutually dissolved the 27th of September 1774, it is requested that all Persons who are indebted to said Company will make speedy Payment unto JOHN MAY, and all Persons, that have any Demands on said Company, are desired to bring in their Accounts and receive Payment from the said MAY, who still continues to sell all Sorts of West-India Goods at the Store lately occupied by CURTIS and MAY, extremely cheap for Cash.
NEWHALL and HICHBORN, beg Leave to acquaint their Customers and others, in this and the neighbouring Parts, that they propose carrying on the Cooper's Business in all its Branches, at Salem; and have opened a Shop for that Purpose, near the Distillery of Mr. JONATHAN Ropes, in Salem. N. B. As they also carry on the same business in Boston as usual, one of them may always be found in each Place.
FOUR HUNDRED POUNDS, Lawful Money, to be Let. Enquire at the Intelligence-Office.
STOP THIEF! WHEREAS the Shop of the Subscriber, was last Night broke open, and robbed of twelve Beaver, and six Beaver HATS. This is to promise a Reward of TEN DOLLARS, to any Person who shall discover the Thief or Thieves, so that he or they may be convicted thereof, and the Hats recovered, or in Proportion for any Part of them. JAMES CODNER.
SUNDRY elegant Pieces of PLATE, finished in the most modern Taste, to be sold as Cheap as at Vendue, viz. a Tankard, a Cann, Table Spoons, &c. Also, a good Clock. Enquire of the Printer.
NARAGANSET CHEESE. A Quantity that is extraordinary good, to be sold at the Store of PENUEL BOWEN, opposite to the Golden-Ball.
WILLIAM BANT, Begs Leave to inform his Friends, Customers and others, that he has to sell, by Wholesale and Retail, at his STORE, fronting Dock-SQUARE, A GENERAL Assortment of English and India Goods, suitable for the approaching Season, the whole of which was imported before the 31st of last August. Among which Goods is a prime Choice of superfine scarlet, pompadour, white, green, Pea-Green, Sea-green, barry, black, blue, brown and cloth-coloured BROAD CLOTHS, middling and low priced ditto, with Shalloon Trimmings to match the Cloths; also of SILKS, viz. Padufoys, Ducapes, Mantuas, Lutestrings, India and English DAMASK, a Piece of very elegant white figured LUTESTRING, single and double Satins, black, white and crimson figured Sattin, black, blue, green and white half Yard Persians, ell-wide Persians, half ell and ell-wide Alamos, Brolioes, black, blue and crimson thick Cordufoys for Men's Waistcoats; and a Variety of other Articles that are commonly in Use at this Season of the Year. ** The abovementioned Goods will be disposed of at the very lowest Rates, as said BANT is extremely desirous of exchanging all or any of them for an Article which is more convenient for him in these troublesome Times, viz. CASH.
GARDEN SEEDS. To be Sold, as cheap as usual, by JOHN WHITE, Gardener and Seedman, in Seven-Star Lane, BOSTON, A GENERAL Assortment of GARDEN SEEDS, warranted to be of a superior Quality, saved this Summer; also a Quantity of Hay Seeds, and a large Quantity of Currant Bushes, ready trained, Carnation Plants, and a Variety of other flowering Plants and Roots, now ready to plant out, &c.
To be SOLD, exceeding cheap, (if applied for immediately) A n excellent eight Day CLOCK, one Feather Bed, and one handsome Looking Glass. N. B. As the above Articles are the Property of a Gentleman who is going to remove out of Town, they will be sold at a very great Pennyworth. Enquire of the Printer. Boston, Sept. 28, 1774.
TO THE PUBLIC. WHEN the Conduct of Individuals in a Community is such, as to attract public Attention, others are very naturally led to many Inquiries about them; so when civil States rise into Importance, even their earliest History becomes the object of Speculation. From the principle of Curiosity, many who have but little, or no Connection with the British Colonies in America, are now prying into the Story of their rise and progress, while others wish for a far more accurate Acquaintance with them, from better, though perhaps more interested Motives. The Means of obtaining this Information, are not accessible by every Person, and if they were, are so scattered, that more Time would be necessary for collecting them, than would be requisite for reading them after they were collected. To remove this Obstruction from the Path of Science, and at the same Time to lay the Foundation of a good American History, by preserving from Oblivion valuable Materials, for that Purpose IT IS PROPOSED to form a complete Collection of what may be with Propriety styled, AMERICAN STATE PAPERS.
This Collection will begin with the Grant from Henry 7th, to John Cabot, and his Sons for making Discoveries; and will include every important public Paper (such as Royal Grants, Charters, Acts of Parliament, &c. &c.) relating to America, of which either the original, or authentic Copies can be procured, down to the present Time. The History of the STAMP-ACT, and other Acts of the British Parliament, for raising a Revenue among us by internal Taxation—Resolves of the American Assemblies;—Votes of Town Meetings;—and such political Pamphlets and other fugitive Pieces as are properly connected with the general Design, and are worthy of Perseveration, will also be included; and to the whole will be added an INTRODUCTION, containing an Account of the Constitution of the different British American Colonies, and a very copious INDEX. It is supposed that the whole may be comprised in five Volumes Octavo, and that the Price of each Volume, well bound and lettered, will not exceed One Dollar and an Half. The Compilation is already begun, and shall be sent to the Press as soon as it can be got ready, and a sufficient Number of Subscribers can be procured. Every Person must see that this Undertaking is attended with many and great Difficulties; and that the Compiler needs, what the Work, if well executed will merit, the friendly Assistance of others. He therefore solicits the public Patronage; and as the Work will not only serve to gratify the Curiosity of the inquisitive, but be eminently useful in much more important Points of View, he begs that Gentlemen who are possessed of proper Materials for the Purpose, will be kind enough to favour him with the Use of them, and they shall be carefully returned.—They will be surely forwarded to him, if deposited in the Hands of either of the following Gentlemen, who will also take in Subscription, viz. Peter Timothy, Charlestown, South-Carolina; and William Davis, Printer, Newbern, North-Carolina; John Dixon, Post-Master, in Williamsburg; Catherine Green, and Son, Annapolis; William and Thomas Bradford, and John Sparhawk, in Philadelphia; Noel and Hazard, and John Holt, in New-York; James Lockwood, Bookseller, New-Haven; E. Watson, Printer, Hartford; Timothy Green, Printer, New-London; Robert and Trumbull, Norwich, Connecticut; John Carter, Printer, Providence; Solomon Southwick, Newport, Rhode-Island; Isaiah Thomas, Edes and Gill, Boston; Samuel Hall, Printer, Salem, Massachusetts-Bay; Daniel Fowle, Printer, Portsmouth, New-Hampshire.
ALL persons that have any Demands on the Estate of Mr. JOSEPH JACKSON, late of Boston, Truckman, deceased, are desired to bring in their several demands to ABIGAIL JACKSON, sole Executrix so said Estate; and those who are indebted to said Estate are requested to settle and pay the same to said Executrix, immediately. ISAIAH THOMAS, the Printer and Publisher of this Paper, has REMOVED his PRINTING-OFFICE, from the Bottom of Royal Exchange-Lane, to the South corner of Marshall's Lane, near the Mill-Bridge, where his Office was formerly kept.
WHEREAS the great and general court or assembly of this province, at their session begun and held at Boston on the sixth day of January 1773, by an act then passed intitled, "an act to make provision for the assailing the monies upon the lands of the proprietors in the township of Ashfield, in the county of Hampshire, which are due from the said proprietors to defray the charges hereafter mentioned, and to provide a method for the collecting and levying the same," appointed us the subscribers a committee to ascertain and determine what was then due to the Rev. Mr. Jacob Shaw, minister of said Ashfield, for and towards his settlement in the ministry there by virtue of his contract with the proprietors; also what was due and unpaid towards the building of the meeting-house there and the charges and expenses incurred in and about the same; and certain other charges mentioned in the said act, and to assess such sums as we shall judge due, on the lands already laid out in the said township, (the public rights excepted) such proportion as should appear to us not to have been already paid; and also to ascertain what might be due to the said Mr. Sherwin for his salary, agreeable to his contract with the proprietors, since his settlement, to the time the said act was made, and to assess such sum on the lands of the proprietors already laid out, (the public rights and the lands of the baptists in the said town excepted) each its due and equal proportion according to its nominal quantity, and in case any of the proprietors should neglect to pay such sums as they should be assessed to the collector for the space of ninety days, notice of such assessment, having been given by said committee, in manner as is provided by a law of this province, made in the second year of his present Majesty's reign, intitled, "an act to subject the unimproved lands within this province to be sold for the payment of taxes assessed on them by order of the General Court and votes and agreements of the proprietors thereof, and to enable proprietors of new plantations to levy province and county taxes laid on them," then and in such case the said committee or the major part of them may make sale of so much of such delinquent proprietors land there, as shall be necessary, for the payment of such sums and reasonable charges raising thereon, in such manner as in and by the last mentioned act is provided for the payment of such taxes and charges. And by an act made and passed by the said great and General Court held at Boston in February, 1774, in addition to the act first above mentioned, the said committee were further impowered to determine what sums were due to divers persons, and on divers considerations mentioned in the said additional act and to assess the same agreeable to the directions given in the said act, and also to levy the monies so assessed in the same way and manner as in and by the said first mentioned act, it is provided and directed we should levy the monies we were impowered by the act to assess: And whereas we have made, and duly posted the several assessments we were authorized and impowered by the aforesaid acts to make, and the proprietors or owners of the several lots contained in the following lists refuse or neglect to pay the sums assessed on their lands, which are annexed to the respective numbers, viz.
   House Lots. No. £. 6 18 8 1    4. 2 5 5 3 3 41  5. 2 5 5 3 3 45  6. 12 1 2 4 10 11  10. 3 11 1 50 5 9  11. 10 11 3 52 1 14  12. 10 0 0 53 7 8  17. 10 11 3 54 4 10  20. 10 0 3 55 14 0  21. 18 6 2 56 4 10  22. 4 2 2 57 4 10  26. 4 4 7 59 4 11  27. 10 11 1 60 4 10  28. 1 5 10 62 4 10  29. 2 5 5 63 9 5  30. 2 5 5  31. 3 1 2  32. 2 5 3  33. 3 7 1  34. 2 5 3  35. 2 5 3  36. 7 5 3  37. 15 6 6  38. 2 5 3  39. 2 5 3  40. 2 5 3  41. 2 5 3  42. 2 5 3  43. 2 5 3  44. 2 5 3  45. 2 5 3  46. 2 5 3  47. 2 5 3  48. 2 5 3  49. 2 5 3  50. 2 5 3  51. 2 5 3  52. 2 5 3  53. 2 5 3  54. 2 5 3  55. 2 5 3  56. 2 5 3  57. 2 5 3  58. 2 5 3  59. 2 5 3  60. 2 5 3  61. 2 5 3  62. 2 5 3  63. 2 5 3  
   Mill Lot. No. £. 2 5 6 1    2. 4 10 12 3 3 3  3. 7 1 3 3 3 3  8. 4 13 2 1 1 1  10. 7 3 3 3 3 3  11. 4 10 11 3 3 3  12. 4 10 11 3 3 3  13. 4 10 11 3 3 3  14. 4 10 11 3 3 3  15. 4 10 11 3 3 3  16. 4 10 11 3 3 3  17. 4 10 11 3 3 3  18. 7 8 1 1 1 1  21. 1 1 1 1 1 1  22. 1 1 1 1 1 1  23. 5 19 9 1 1 1  24. 4 10 11 3 3 3  25. 4 10 11 3 3 3  26. 1 0 0 0 0 0  27. 4 10 11 3 3 3  28. 4 10 11 3 3 3  29. 4 10 11 3 3 3  30. 4 10 11 3 3 3  31. 4 10 11 3 3 3  32. 4 10 11 3 3 3  33. 4 10 11 3 3 3  34. 4 10 11 3 3 3  35. 4 10 11 3 3 3  36. 4 10 11 3 3 3  37. 4 10 11 3 3 3  
The owners of the several lots aforesaid are hereby notified that so much of their respective lots aforesaid will be sold at public vendue, to be opened on the 18th day of December next, at the dwelling-house of Samuel Belding, in Ashfield aforesaid, at 10 o'Clock in the forenoon, and continued from day to day, if there be occasion, as shall be necessary to pay the sums annexed to the said numbers respectively as aforesaid, and the reasonable charges, unless the same be paid to one of us, or to Lieut. Obediah Dickinson of Hampshire, proprietors Treasurer, before that day. JED'S FOSTER, Wm. WILLIAMS, Committee. August 25th 1774. TEO'S DENNET.
LEFT in the Hands of BENJAMIN GOLDTHWAIT, and to be Sold at his Shop, just above CONCERT-HALL, Boston, Superfine scarlet, white and pompadour Broad Cloths; superfine, white and buff Kennebecs. Any Gentlemen having Occasion for any of the above Cloths or Kennebecs, and will give him the making them up, may depend on having them on the lowest Terms, and on being used well. Said GOLDTHWAIT has many other Things for Summer wear, such as Silk Breeches Patterns, very good Worsted ditto, 3, 4 and 6 threaded, striped Damaskus, figured Silk, coded Dimity, Silk Tamboor Shapes for Waistcoats, Silk Jane, figured ditto, white Irish Tick very fine, plain Jeans, very neat figured Velvets, Nankeen, Corduroys of various Colours, &c. The above Articles may be depended on to be of the best Kind. The Taylor's Business in all its Branches is carried on in the best Manner at said Shop.
PROPOSALS For printing by SUBSCRIPTION, A COLLECTION of the Laws relating to the NAVAL TRADE of the BRITISH COLONIES in AMERICA.
In which will be included, all the Acts of the BRITISH PARLIAMENT, and the Laws of the several Colonies on the Continent, relating to this Subject. To which will be added, COMPLETE INDEXES, which may serve as an Abridgement of the Laws;—LISTS of DUTYABLE GOODS, with the Duties payable for them;—ENUMERATED GOODS, &c. and ample Directions to MASTERS of VESSELS, for regularly entering and clearing at the CUSTOM-HOUSE. This Book will be printed on a good Paper, with a neat Type, and the Price of it in Boards shall not exceed THREE DOLLARS.
SUBSCRIPTIONS are taken in by Peter Timothy, Charlestown, South-Carolina; William Davis, Printer, Newbern, North-Carolina; John Dixon, Post-Master, in Williamsburg; Catherine Green, and Son, Annapolis; William and Thomas Bradford, John Sparhawk, and Robert Aitken, Philadelphia; Noel and Hazard, James Rivington, Hugh Gaine, and John Holt, New-York; James Lockwood, Bookseller, New-Haven; E. Watson, Printer, Hartford; Timothy Green, Printer, New-London; Robert and Trumbull, Norwich; John Carter, Printer, Providence; Solomon Southwick, Newport; Isaiah Thomas, and Edes and Gill, Boston; Samuel Hall, Printer, Salem; Daniel Fowle, Printer, Portsmouth, N. Hampshire. When it is considered how amazingly the Laws of Naval Trade have been multiplied since the first Settlement of British America , the Utility of a Collection of them, it is presumed, cannot be disputed; especially as the Conduct of a very great Body of People is to be regulated by them, and Ignorance of the Law is no Excuse for Transgression.
The Duty of all Persons engaged in, or connected with Maritime Affairs, will be found in this Collection, as it will contain all the Laws relating to that Branch of Business, now in Force, which respect the British American Colonies. Merchants, Masters of Vessels, and Mariners are principally concerned, but others too will be sensible of its Utility. The Officers of the Customs are particularly interested, as the Lines of their Duty are marked out herein with great Exactness.—Gentlemen of the Law will find such a Collection useful as affording them at once what without it would cost them tedious Researches into voluminous Codes: To Courts of Law it will be important, as containing the Rules by which their Decisions are to be formed:—Legislators may meet with useful Precedents in it; and even Governors are obliged by its Contents:—In short, no Man of Business ought to be without it. The Compiler therefore flatters himself with the Hope of such Encouragement as will render the Publication an Object worthy of Attention.
N. B. On Account of the present unsettled State of public Affairs, and as some Alteration may probably be made in the Laws respecting America, in consequence of the Measures now pursuing on both Sides of the Atlantic, the Compiler proposes deferring the Publication of this Collection until such Alterations (if any) can be added to it, that it may be as complete as possible: He hopes, however, that this Circumstance will not prevent those who propose to become Subscribers, from favouring him with their Names, as upon the Encouragement received from them will depend its being published at all.
SARAH DAWSON, Widow of the late JOSEPH DAWSON, Gardner, at the Cold-Bath, at New-Boston, has got for Sale this Fall, a large Collection of grafted and inoculated English Fruit Trees of all Sorts, consisting of a Number of Pear and Plum Trees of different Sorts; also, a large Number of young Apple Trees, preserved from the Seed; likewise, Garden Seeds, saved this Summer, more suitable for the West-Indies or Carolina, than any imported. Any Person who may want any of the above Articles, and will oblige the said SARAH DAWSON with their Custom, may be assured they will be Sold at the very lowest Rates, and all Favors gratefully acknowledged. N. B. The COLD BATH is now in good Order.
JOHN MAUD, Tailor, BEGS Leave to acquaint his Customers and others, that he carries on the Business as usual, North Side of the Town-House, King-street; where all the various Branches of the Tailor's Business are executed in the most elegant Manner, with Fidelity and Dispatch.—He does not aim at being pompous in his Advertisement, nor to detract from any Man's Merit in his Profession; yet he flatters himself that no one can finish or cut Cloths with greater Elegance and Taste. Regimental Cloathing, and Navy Uniforms, he is well used to, having been employed these many Years by the Gentlemen of the Army and Navy. Any Cloths which may happen not to fit, he will take back according to his former Advertisement: He sincerely thanks his Friends and Customers for the Encouragement they have shown him hitherto, and shall make it his Study to deserve their future Favour.
SILKS And Superfine BROAD CLOTHS. A PRIME assortment of Padufoys, Ducapes, Lutestrings; plain and figured Satins, Damaskus, Sarinets, &c.—superfine fashionable coloured Broad Cloths, with suitable Linings and Trimmings. To be Sold at an exceeding low rate, by JOHN BARRETT and SONS, At their Shop near the Mill-Bridge, Boston, Where 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.
MUSICAL CLOCKS. TO BE SOLD, A NUMBER of Musical Clocks, which play a different Tune each Day in the Week, on Sunday a Psalm Tune. Enquire of BENJAMIN WILLARD, Clock and Watch Maker in Roxbury-street, near Boston. Where all Sorts of Clocks are made in the newest Form, and warranted to measure Time without Variation, and to go many Years without Cleaning. Also, Clock Cases are made at the same Place in various Forms, and in the best Manner, and cheaper than can be purchased in London, and conveyed with Clocks to any Part of the Country. N. B. Said WILLARD likewise informs, that all Branches of this Business are carried on at his Shop at Grafton.
Just imported, and to be SOLD, RICE, Cotton Wool, Coffee and Sugar, by the Hogshead or Barrel, and a small Quantity of Beaver. Enquire of PETER SIGOURNEY, near