Fowle's New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser ([Portsmouth, N.H.]), 1787-01-27 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE,  A N D  GENERAL ADVERTISER.
"WHEN ANGRY NATIONS PART IN LEAGUES OF PEACE, LET PRIVATE FEUDS AND CIVIL DISCORDS CEASE."
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From the MASSACHUSETTS GAZETTE.
Mr. HALL, The following account of the manner of raising and curing Tobacco was lately communicated to the Committee on Agriculture, and they desire you would give it a place in your paper.
Maryland, Baltimore, August 2, 1786. TOBACCO is raised and cured in this state nearly according to the following process. In March, a bed is prepared in some rich spot on the plantation, by burning a large quantity of brush upon it, and raking the furrow fine about the first of May the seed is sown in it, broad cast, and generally mixt with ashes, in order to disperse it more equally.—The young plants are cleansed of weeds in the same manner as are onions or cabbage-plants; and, like the latter, are fit to be transplanted when about two inches high.
The ground to receive them, when set out or transplanted, is prepared by digging, with a narrow hoe, holes of about a foot square, and as deep, three feet apart every way, in rows.—This is termed holing . The earth about the hole, and that which came out of it is next formed into a hill over the hole, like cabbage hills, only larger. This is termed scraping . The hills, being thus prepared, the first succeeding rain, which wets the ground sufficiently, the plants are drawn from the beds and planted in the same manner as cabbages, and are filled up in the same manner, by replanting those hills where any fail. When the plants are well fixed, and begin to grow, they must be kept very clean from weeds with broad hoes, which reduces the hills quite down. The next hoing is to bring up the hills again, round the stalk; and this weeding and hilling succeed each other during the whole growth. The plant must be top'd when high enough, which is performed by breaking off the top with the finger and thumb, leaving from six to ten leaves, according to the apparent strength and vigour of the plants. Every week or ten days, during its growth, it puts out suckers between the stalk and every leaf: these must be constantly broke off, with the thumb, as they appear. About the first of September, and from that till frost comes, the tobacco ripens, and must be cut. There is some difficulty in describing it in this state, so as to be certainly known:—however, in general, it is known to be ripe by the leaf putting forth yellowish spots, pretty thick, over it; and having attained a considerable substance and richness. It is then cut down, with a small hatchet, near the ground, and let lay till the sun has softened it from its brittle state, and it may be housed without the leaves snapping off. It is then pegged, and hung up in a house in the manner that bacon generally is, only so thick that the plants touch each other, and in tiers one above another, from within a yard of the ground floor to the ridge of the house; the peg is drove through the stalk, and the hanging is on sticks about 4 feet long, laid from beam to beam. It hangs in the house about six or eight weeks, to dry; and in damp weather a gentle fire is made and kept under it, to prevent its mouldering. Many of the
best planters give the of it late-foot a colour by curing it altogether by hickory fires under it constantly, until it is dry. When cured, as they term it, (or dry) it can only be handled in damp weather, called seasons . In such weather it is taken down, and stripped. This is performed by holding the but-end of the plant in your left hand, and with your right cutting off the best leaves (leaving the smaller, or those of a different quality, which are commonly on the same plant) until you have enough gathered to form a hand of tobacco , (or bundle); then you wrap one leaf round the ends of the stalks, gathered neatly together in the hand, by beginning at the extremity, with the little end of the leaf, and turning it round and round, forming a head of about two inches and a half long; then the end of the leaf, with which you have would the head, is tucked into the bundle; and the tobacco being stripped and sorted into different qualities, is packed up in bulks, as the planters term them, which is only laying the hands even upon one another (as bricks are piled) to any convenient height: from hence, at any other season, (or damp weather) it is taken and packed in hogheads. This operation is performed in the following way:—the packer gets into a hoghead, placed under a prize, fixed in a post like a cider prize, and a person outside hands him the tobacco, which he begins to pack away in the bottom of the cask, with the heads next the staves, all round, and then across the cask, until the cask is about one fourth filled, with the weight of the packer sitting on it—boards or tall heading is then laid evenly on it, and blocks, one upon another, up to the prize. This quantity will press down to about three inches thick in the bottom before it becomes a firm and solid cake. The prizes remain on it until it is firm, which will take several hours; during which time, the planter packs other casks, or goes about other business. These packings and prizings are thus repeated until the hoghead is filled to the top, quite solid. The weight of a hoghead is from 750lb. to 1150lb. net, in this state; in Virginia, much heavier.
CONSTANTINOPLE, August 9.
The people have again began to shew their discontent in the old way, by setting fire to different parts of the city, and in one part upwards of 130 houses have been burnt down.
L O N D O N,
August 18. A letter from Naples, dated July 13, says, "The king has given orders for the fleet of men of war to sail immediately to join the Portuguese and the other confederate powers, which are to act against the Algerines; the nations which formed the general confederacy are the Portuguese, Maltese, Genoese, Venetians and Leghorners: they will also be joined by some frigates from the ecclesiastick states, which, when together, will make a prodigious armament."
Aug. 23. The American commercial negotiation is not stopped or checked by Mr. Adams's journey to the continent; on the contrary, Colonel Smith, the American charge des affaires, has frequent interviews with government, to bring this matter to a conclusion.
Against for ward or latent Revenge.
"The favorite of a sultan threw a stone at a poor dervise who had requested an alms. The insulted man dared not to complain, but carefully searched for and preserved the pebble, promising himself he should find an opportunity sooner or later to throw it in his turn, at this imperious pitiless wretch. Some time after, he was told, the favorite was disgraced, and by order of the sultan led through the streets on a camel, exposed to the insults of the populace. On hearing this, the dervise ran to fetch his pebble; but, after a moment's reflection, cast it into a well. I now perceive, said he, that we ought never to seek revenge when our enemy is powerful; for then it is imprudent; nor when he is involved in calamity, for then it is cruel."
Sept. 30. The wife of Charles Carone, formerly a grenadier, and now a labouring man at Dampiere, in the diocese of Auxerre, in France, was on the 25th and 26th of June brought to bed of four children, all alive; they were each of them 14 inches long when born; the mother suckles two of them, and the two others are out at nurse. It was seven years since this woman had borne any children, and in a week after her delivery she attended the market at St. Amand.
October 13. Stamp duty first occasioned the commotions in America. The new legislators of that country have now introduced the very measure which raised the first outcry; a stamp duty on news papers forming an article of finance!
In consequence of the new stamp act in America, several of their newspapers have been given up, and some of them turned into six penny magazines, to avoid the tax.—Great hopes must be formed of a people thus united in the glorious cause of establishing national consequence!
Letters from Tunis of the 15th of August, represent the towns of Bifertia, as reduced to a heap of ruins, the Venetian squadron having totally destroyed it by a severe bombardment which lasted till there was not a house left standing.—Such a havock, it is added in that letter, seems to have had no effect on the Dey. Some of his courtiers representing to him in the liveliest colours the distress of those unfortunate inhabitants, and the death of so many brave and faithful officers—"So much the better, replied the Dey, with the utmost composure, this bravado of Chevalier Emo will cost the Venetians a great number of ducats and zechins, in addition to those which I insist upon being paid by them to my treasury."
Oct. 15. They write from Besiers, in France, that some workmen, employed in digging a well at Autignack, a village three miles from thence, got to the depth of about 6 toises the 3d of last month when, observing water to rise, they redoubled their activity, and were presently astonished by a most violent subterraneous explosion. Having recovered from their surprise, they again approached the pit, at the bottom of which they perceived one of their comrades, to whom they called, but received no answer. One of his brothers, apprehensive of his safety, descended in a bucket, in order to yield

him assistance; but this man shewed no signs of life after he reached the bottom. He was followed by a third, who experienced the same fate. A fourth had the courage to descend, his companions taking the precaution of fastening a rope to him; and, following him with the eye, as he was gently lowered, they soon perceived his head to droop, and his whole frame to be violently agitated: being immediately drawn up, he continued without motion for two hours. Recourse was now had to experiments which ought to have been first adopted. They let down a cock in the bucket, and on being drawn up, it was found on the point of expiring, with its feathers burnt. The same was done with a cat, which was almost dead when drawn up. By means of hooks, and other implements, the three persons were raised out of the pit, being quite lifeless, and all their skin appeared to be calcinated. The letters further say, that the subterraneous noise still continues, and that chymists are endeavouring to discover the cause of the explosion, and of the vaporous gas, which has proved so fatal in its effects. It is added, that vitrified matter has been taken from the pit, which it is supposed must have been in a state of fusion.
Nov. 1 A posthumous work of Mr. de Tressen has just been published in Paris, wherein the cause of the tides is accounted for in a manner entirely new, it being ascribed by him to the power of electricity.—That author has been the first to try an experiment, which seems to cast the light of evidence on this phenomenon. If you place an electrified ball near a basin full of water, you will see the water rise and fall in proportion to the approximation: nor does the phenomenon vary if the water is electrified instead of the ball, or even if it is so by reason that this fluid has, by an inviolable law, a constant tendency to equilibrium. The same effects are demonstratively presented by the moon, and the large basin of the ocean.
Extract of a letter by the Osterly, Capt. Rogers, from China
“The Sea Otter, Capt. Hannah, is arrived from King George's Sound, on the west coast of America, after one of the most prosperous voyages, perhaps, ever made in to short a time. This brig, which is only 60 tons, and manned with 20 men, was fitted out in April, 1785, by Capt. M'Intosh, the Contractor, and some other gentleman in the Company's service, as an experiment, while the Capt. is gone to England to procure a licence from the East India Company, for the carrying on this trade. Should he succeed in his application, of which I presume there is little doubt, I am sensible it will secure them a tremendous fortune. You will be astonished when I tell you that the whole outfit of the vessel did not cost them 100l. and though she was not more than one month on the coast, the furs she had collected were sold at Canton for upwards of 30,000l. Had they had goods to have bartered, and had been two or three months more on the coast, Capt. Hannah assured me, he would have collected above 100,000l.—worth of furs. The beauty of these furs is beyond description, and held by the Chinese in the highest estimation; it is astonishing with what rapidity they purchased them. Capt. Hannah acquainted me that there were several sent home to England as presents.”
A Bookseller in the North, remarkable for his wit, sold a book to a gentleman, which on examination was found to want the title page, and a few leaves at the end—“This book is imperfect (said the purchaser) it has neither beginning nor ending.”—“Then answered the Bookseller, “it is a prodigious bargain, for it is infinite!”
Mr. Cassie, near Fareham, in Hampshire, has made one of the greatest discoveries, with respect to manufactures, that has been known in Europe for many years. It is a method of making cast iron more valuable than any that is imported; from 10s. it becomes worth 20l. per ton. It is done by using coal instead
of charcoal, and the operation takes but five hours. Experiments have been made before lord Howe, and various persons skilled to judge of the performance, and to their entire satisfaction.
It is asserted that the Carron company have agreed to give the above gentleman 4000l. a year for liberty to use his method, for which he has already obtained the King's patent.
NEW-YORK, January 11.
A correspondent observes,—that within a few weeks past a magazine of powder in this city has been robbed of thirty-odd quarter casks of its valuable contents!—several of the water pumps in this city have been filled up!—the southern mail feloniously taken and carried away!—gangs of British and others have been discovered plodding! &c. &c.—Perhaps this powder was taken by indigent persons to purchase a piece of bread!—perhaps the wells were filled up to save the expense of draying the rubbish to a farther distance!—perhaps this mail was robbed by some jealous lover to detect the secret correspondence of his rival!—perhaps this gang are accomplishing themselves in the Chesterfieldian art of gallantry, that they might, with greater facility, deceive their projected good friends! &c. &c.—Farther our correspondent saith not at present, only that, perhaps some of your readers, Mr. Printer, may affix perchances of a different complexion to these strange manœuvres.
BOSTON January 23.
We hear that a brig belonging to Salem, supposed to be from the West-Indies, was cast away some time last week, on the island of Nantucket. The men were saved; but the vessel and cargo, it is said, were lost.
The inhabitants of the town of Worcester, at a legal meeting held yesterday se'nnight, dismissed their members of convention. Peterham and several other towns, it is said, have done the same.
On Friday last, the troops furnished by this town as its quota of the army, ordered to Worcester for the protection of the Courts of law, and for suppressing the rebellious proceedings prevalent in the three Western Counties, commenced their march.
The next day, the Hon. General LINCOLN, with his suite, set off from this town, in order to take the command of the army.
We heard, on Saturday last, that General Shepard, with 1000 or 1200 men, had taken a position near the Federal Arsenal in Springfield; that about 250 insurgents, under the orders of Luke Day, had assembled at West-Springfield, and that some other bodies of them, in different places, were collecting.
Our advices from the Westward, which were received last evening, and which may be relied on, are—That the several divisions of the army, raised in this and the neighbouring counties, were at Marlborough on Sunday last, and were to march for Worcester yesterday morning, at day-break; so that they undoubtedly reached that place in the afternoon: That the inhabitants, in general, of the several towns through which the troops passed, were cheerful, and appeared to be well pleased with the spirited measures which Government had adopted for protecting the Courts, and apprehending the insurgents: That no regular returns had been made to the General, on Sunday last, of the number of men then at Marlborough; but it was concluded they amounted to upwards of 2000, and appeared to be excellent troops: That the remainder, which were ordered to be raised, would join the General at Worcester; and that every thing portended a favourable issue to the expedition.
Our intelligence last evening afforded nothing further, respecting the insurgents, than what was received on Saturday last.
'Tis reported, that General Shays is mustering all his force to oppose the Courts of Justice sitting at Worcester to-morrow.
January 25. Yesterday the army under General Lincoln, arrived at Worcester, in good spirits, and within an hour after, were all provided with good and comfortable quarters.
PORTSMOUTH, January 27.
The following are the titles of the acts, which (in addition to those published in our last) were passed during the late sessions of the General Court:
An Act, To empower the several towns and parishes to chuse constables and collectors, in the room of such as have deceased, or may hereafter decease, or have absconded, &c.
—To restore Elisabeth Lamson to her law. —To enable the executors of Abiather Winn to sell land in Nottingham West.
—To alter the time of holding the annual meeting in the town of Stoddard.
—To exempt sundry persons in the town of Portsmouth from training.
—To supply the treasury with 76, 268 dollars in specie, and 56, 452 dollars in indents.
—To enable Mary Hart to sell land belonging to her children.
—To erect a poll parish in Pelham.
—To restore Stephen Barker to his law.
To empower S. Hobart and E. Robinson, to collect the taxes of the town of Exeter, for the year 1786.
—To confirm the title of Thomas Lewis to certain lands in Packersfield.
—To confirm the title of James Banks to certain lands in Packersfield.
—To restore Samuel Adams to his law.
—To enable Sarah Chapin to sell the real estate of Hiram Chapin, deceased.
—In addition to an act for opening and making passable, an highway from Dartmouth College to Boscawen.
—To restore James Saunders to his law.
—To restore Samuel Thompson to his law.
—To direct the mode for the assessing and collecting of the taxes against Gunthwaite.
—For the support of invalids.
—To invest the privilege of keeping a ferry in Eliphalet Hale, of Chesterfield.
—To invest the privilege of keeping a ferry in the inhabitants of Charlestown.
An Act, To incorporate a town by the name of Langdon.
—To appoint new Managers for Dartmouth College Lottery.
—For the regulating the gauging of casks.
—To disannex a tract of land from Hollis, and annex the same to Raby.
—For extending the powers and authority of the Maritime Court.
—To empower the selectmen of Bedford to appoint some proper person to collect taxes in the town of Bedford for the year 1783.
—To empower the selectmen of Exeter to collect the outstanding taxes for the year 1783, 1784, and 1785.
—To empower the selectmen of Exeter to appoint a collector of outstanding taxes.
—To enable D. Loring and A. Goodenow to refer all demands between them to referees.
—To enable Elizabeth Wallingford to renew her action against Samuel Sherburne, Esq. and others, at or before the Superior Court.
—To empower John Bellows, Esq. and others to sell certain lands.
—To establish a certain highway laid out in Portsmouth by the selectmen thereof.
—To disannex certain persons from the town of Piermont, and annex them and their estates to Wentworth.
—To enable the selectmen of Bath to raise the sum of three farthings on each acre of land in said town for three years, for the purpose of making and repairing highways and bridges.
—For ascertaining the waste land belonging to this State.
—In addition to and amendment of the act establishing a table of fees.
—To reverse a judgment of the Superior Court of Judicature against Jonathan Gove.
—For raising £. 7200 in facilities, and £. 3000 in specie for the use of this State the current year.
MARINE-LIST.
NAVAL-OFFICE Port of Piscataqua, JAN 26. ENTERED FROM Brig Mary, Stokell, Pool: CLEARED FOR Schooner Betsey, Salter, West-Indies.

B O S T O N, January 19. A correspondent informs us, that the people of the respectable and loyal county of Essex, upon the late call for a part of the militia, to defend and support our free and happy constitution, and the laws, against the hostile attacks of our open and secret enemies, manifested the warmest zeal and patriotism, and that five times the number of men, that were required, might have been insisted with the greatest ease, if there had been need of them: but that some few individuals, who are greatly embarrassed in their circumstances, and have been a long time suspected, at least, of favouring the insurgents; who, for very good reasons, are strenuous advocates for a depreciating paper currency, and for obstructing the channels of law and justice, were very industrious and open, in the exertion of their little powers, to counteract the public opinion: it is, however, to be hoped, that such characters will be marked, as well as known, by the people; and that, upon the meeting of a certain Assembly, that part of the Constitution which provides, that the House shall be the judge of the qualifications of its members, will be attended to, and put in practice;—indeed it is high time for a legislative opinion to be declared, that no man should be permitted to hold any place of trust or profit, under the Constitution, who discovers, whatever he may pretend, that he is a radical enemy to that Constitution, and consequently to the rights, privileges and properties of the GREAT MAJORITY of the state.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Worcester dated Tuesday, January 16, 1787.
“We have this day raised our quota of men for the expedition, about 60.—Reports are, that the insurgents will not shew themselves at our Court; and I am told many of them cry out, “What shall we do to be saved?”
“The leaders of the insurgents I am told, met this day at Rutland, to consult what was best for them to do; but have not heard of the result.”
Yesterday, afternoon, a writing, called a Petition , directed to his Excellency JAMES BOWDOIN, Esq. and the Honourable the Council, from a Committee of Insurgents assembled at Rutland, signed Samuel Slocum, moderator , said to be in behalf of the Insurgents of the counties of Worcester and Hampshire, was brought to town, and presented to his Excellency, by whom it was laid before the Council. In this petition , as it is called, they propose, that if government will not send a body of militia to Worcester, they will return peaceably to their respective homes, and not obstruct the sitting of the Court at that place. But this Committee of Insurgents, according to the report of their messenger, consisted only of persons belonging to the county of Worcester, and therefore could not engage for the orderly conduct of the Hampshire and Berkshire Insurgents; and it is hardly probable that even those of Worcester, when they see no body to oppose them, will regard the stipulations of their committees any more than they have the recommendations of their Conventions.—Considering the contents of the above paper in the most favourable light, as far as we can learn, they are informal and absurd, and can by no means justify Government in relaxing their efforts for restoring the due administration of law and justice.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE In the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES , January 17, 1787.
VOTED , That the Treasurer be directed to send out each town's proportion of the foreign, domestic, and state debt; and that the selectmen of the several towns proportion the same to the inhabitants, that they may avail themselves of the final settlements, while they may be had at the present low rate,
Sent up for concurrence,  JOHN LANGDON, Speaker. IN SENATE , January 18, 1787. READ and concurred, with this amend-
ment, That a copy of the proportion list to and among the inhabitants of the respective towns and districts, be lodged with the state Treasurer; and that upon any town, district, or individual, paying his or their proportion of either or all the debts aforesaid, he shall give him, her, or them, a receipt therefor, which shall discharge such person, town, or district, from being afterward taxed for or toward the principal or interest of the debt or debts so paid.
J. PEARSON, Secretary. In the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES , The same day read and concurred,  JOHN LANGDON, Speaker. A true copy, Attest, J. PEARSON, Secretary.
LISTS of the CIVIL, MILITARY and ECCLESIASTICAL DEPARTMENTS of the STATE of NEW-HAMPSHIRE, from June, 1786, to June 1787.
FIELD-OFFICERS of the TRAIN BAND.    7th reg.  John Calef, Col.  Kingston     David Quimby, Lt. Col.  Hawke     Philip Tilton, Major.  East-Kingston     Joseph Tilton, 2d Major.     8th reg.  Daniel Reynolds, Col.  Londonderry     James Gilmore, Lt. Col.  Windham     Joseph Gregg, Major.  Londonderry     Thomas Hardy, 2d Major.     9th regiment      10th reg.  Ebenezer Smith, Col.  Meredith     Joseph Badger, Jr. Lt. Col.  Gilmantown     Chase Taylor, Major.  Sanborntown     Richard Sinkler, 2d Major.  Barnstead    11th reg.  Aaron Kinsman, Col.  Concord     Jeremiah Clough, Jr. Lt. Col.  Canterbury     James Cochran, Major.  Pembroke     Joseph Tilton, 2d Major.  Loudon    12th reg.  Francis Blood, Col.  Temple     Philip Putnam, Lt. Col.  Wilton     Ezra Town, Major.      Samuel Gregg, 2d Major.     13th reg.  Azariah Webb, Col.  Piermont     Obadiah Clement, Lt. Col.  Warren     Uriah Stone, Major.  Piermont     Joshua Young, 2d Major.  Haverhill    14th reg.  Moses Baker, Col.  Campton     Alexander Craige, Lt. Col.  Rumney     Benjamin Gould, Major.      M. Dwyer, 2d Major.  New-Helderness    15th reg.  Samuel Athley, Jr. Col.  Claremont     Moses Whipple, Lt. Col.  Croydon     Joseph Kimball, Major.  Plainfield     Diah Spaulding, 2d Major.      Amos Shepard, Col.  Alstead     Josiah Goldsmith, Lt. Col.  Walpole     Silas Wright, Major.  Stoddard     Timothy Fletcher, 2d Major.     17th reg.  Nathaniel Emerson, Col.  Candia     William White, Lt. Col.  Chester     Stephen Dearborn, Major.      Daniel Norris, 2d Major.  Raymond    18th reg.  Michael M'Clary, Col.  Epsom     Joseph March, Lt. Col.  Deerfield     Joseph Harvey, Major.  Northeast     Henry Butler, 2d Major.  Nottingham    19th reg.  John Palmer, Col.  Wakefield     Nathan Hoit, Lt. Col.  Moultonboro'     Jacob Smith, Major.  Sandwich     Joshua Heath, 2d Major.  Conway    20th reg.  Benjamin Stone, Col.  Atkinson     Abraham Dow, Lt. Col.      Ezekiel Gile, Major.      Moses Little, 2d Major.     21st reg.  G. Aldrich, Col.  Westmoreland     Joseph Burt, Lt. Col.      Jonathan Smith, Major.  Surry     Ebenezer Britton, 2d Major.     22d reg.  Ebenezer Wister, Col.  Salisbury     Joshua Bayley, Lt. Col.      Robert Wallace, Major.      Enoch Gerrish, 2d Major.     23d reg.  Daniel Rand, Col.      Jedediah Sanger, Lt. Col.  Jaffrey     Sylvanus Reed, Major.      Richard Roberts, 2d Major.     24th reg.  Ebenezer Brewster, Col.  Hanover     Edmund Freeman, Lt. Col.  Lebanon     Samuel Jones, Major.      2d Major.     25th reg.  J. Whipple, Col.  Dartmouth     Edward Bucknam, Lt. Col.  Lancaster     John Young, Major.  Guntbaite     Asa Bayley, 2d Major.  Landaff    FIELD-OFFICERS of the ARTILLERY.     Thomas Thompson, Col.  Portsmouth     James Hackett, Lt. Col.  Exeter     Caleb Hogdon, 2d Lt. Col.  Dover     Samuel Atkinson, Major.  Boscawen     Samuel Young, 2d Major.     GENERAL and FIELD OFFICERS of the LIGHT HORSE.
Nathaniel Peabody, Brigadier-General.
  1st reg.  Amos Cogswell, Col.  Dover     William Brewster, Lt. Col.  Portsmouth     Jonathan Cals, Major.  Exeter    2d regiment,  Col.      Peter Green, Lt. Col.  Concord     Davenport Phelps, Major.  Orford    3d regiment  Col.      Lt. Col.      Major.   
(To be continued.)
NOTICE is hereby given to the nonresident proprietors and owners of land in the township of Stoddard, who are delinquent in paying their taxes for the year 1785, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber at my dwelling-house in said town, on or before the third Thursday in February next, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at ten o'clock in the forenoon on said day, at the dwelling-house of Capt. Israel Towne, in said town, unless prevented by previous payment.
State. County.     No. R. s. d. q. d. q.     John Chamberlin 2 7 2 4 0 4 0   ditto 24 5 1 4 3 2 2   Capt. Jona. Keep 10 9 1 9 0 3 0   Moses Gennson 10 13 1 5 1 2 2   Abel Longly 9 13 1 5 1 2 2   John Vernum, Esq. 19 14 1 4 3 2 2   Col. Sampson 9 16 0 10 1 1 2   Stoddard's 10 16 1 2 0 2 0   Heirs 8 15 1 4 3 2 2   ditto 9 15 1 2 0 2 0   ditto 11 14 1 2 0 2 0   ditto 20 8 1 4 3 2 2   ditto 22 6 1 9 0 3 0   ditto 28 5 0 10 1 1 2   ditto 3 4 0 10 1 1 2   ditto 18 5 1 0 0 2 0   ditto 4 3 0 10 1 1 2   ditto 28 2 0 10 1 1 2   ditto 27 2 0 10 1 1 2   ditto 17 2 0 8 0 1 2   ditto 13 2 0 7 0 1 0   ditto 13 5 0 8 0 1 2   Philips Bardins 21 4 1 4 3 2 2   Sarah Richardson 1 14 1 2 0 2 0   Elijah Bardins 13 7 1 2 0 2 0   Mary Parker 7 10 1 9 0 3 0   ditto 23 6 1 4 3 2 2   ditto 11 3 1 5 1 2 2   ditto 21 2 1 2 0 2 0   Peter Hunt 10 5 0 7 0 1 0   ditto 11 5 0 7 0 1 0   James Dunn 26 13 1 4 3 2 2   Joseph Blanchard 3 No. 1 4 3 2 2   ditto 14 15 1 4 3 2 2   ditto 19 2 0 8 0 1 2   ditto 25 6 0 8 0 1 2   ditto 14 16 0 10 0 1 2   ditto 26 3 1 4 3 2 2   ditto 19 3 1 4 3 2 2   ditto 10 3 1 4 3 2 2   Joseph Reed 26 4 1 2 0 2 0   ditto 18 4 1 9 0 3 0   ditto 16 2 0 7 0 1 0   Hugh Wilson 5 14 1 9 0 2 2   ditto 15 3 0 10 1 1 2   Mathew Thornton 2 No. 0 7 0 1 0   ditto 5 No. 1 4 3 2 2   ditto 2 13 1 2 0 2 2   ditto 23 2 1 4 3 2 2   Titus Curch in No. 1 4 3 2 2   Samuel Stevins 9 11 0 8 0 1 2   Col. Stoddard's 28 7 1 2 0 2 0   Heirs 12 5 0 10 0 1 2   Joseph Blanchard 28 3 1 2 0 2 0   Nathaniel Cotto 9 12 0 2 0 0 2    JOHN N. MATHER, Collector. Stoddard, December 12, 1786.

Parnassian Spring.
An ADDRESS to the MOON.
From DARTHULA.
DAUGHTER of heav'n! fair regent of the night! How sweet thy silence! how sublime thy light! Thou comest forth in radiant beauty dress'd, Around thee, stars unnumber'd shine confess; With twinkling homage thy bright empire own, Attend thy glorious course, and glitter round thy throne. Chear'd by thy smiles, the clouds confess thy rays, And brighten their dark edges in thy blaze. Who in the heav'ns is like thee? peerless Queen! The countless gems that crowd th'etherial scene, At thy unclouded presence leave the skies, And hide with envy their green sparkling eyes. Whither, retiring, dost thou seek repose, When o'er thy face night's sable mantle grows? Hast thou, like Ossian, thy dark, lonely cell? In grief's dim shadow chusest thou to dwell? Have thy lov'd sisters fall'n from heav'n? (blest pow'r!) Are they who erst rejoic'd with thee no more? Yes—they have fall'n, fair light! and thou forlorn, Dost oft, to thy lone hall, retire to mourn! But thou thyself, from thy pale empire driv'n, Shalt fail: and leave thy azure path in heav'n. The Stars will then revive, resume their reign, Nor at thy presence be abash'd again.
THOSE of our good customers, who have promised to pay for the GAZETTE in Wood, Corn, Grain, &c. are informed that those articles, or other country produce will still be received, notwithstanding their great inattention to former promises, if presented soon.
An Order on the State Treasurer to be exchanged for FLOUR or WHEAT. Apply the Printer hereof.
The collector of Excise for the county of Strafford, from October 1st 1785, to October 1st 1786; gives notice that he will attend to receive the several sums due from the Taverners and retailers, in said county on each quarter respectively, at the several places hereafter mentioned: In Dover, at his own house on Tuesday the 23d of January inst. in Durham, at the house of Col. Samuel Adams, on Wednesday, the 24th of January inst. at ten o'clock, forenoon; in Lee, at the house of Paul Giles, at four o'clock in the afternoon of the same day; at Solomon Emerson's, in Madbury, at seven o'clock in the afternoon of the same day; in Barrington, at the house of Isaac Waldron, on Thursday, the 25th at eleven o'clock forenoon; in Rochester at Solomon Perkins's, on Friday the 26th at ten o'clock forenoon; and in Somersworth, at Mr. Moses Yeaton's, on Saturday the 27th at eleven o'clock forenoon.
The excise master requests a general attendance, and that true accounts be exhibited. Also those who have sold without Licence, are requested to exhibit fair and just accounts, of the spirituous liquors they have had, and sold, within the said term. And if any should not attend, they may expect to be called on as the law directs, By JAMES CALEF, Excise Master.
Just come to hand, and ready for sale, Thomas's genuine Almanack.
ALL persons who have Accounts with the Overseers of the Poor for the past year, are requested to exhibit them immediately for adjustment. Portsmouth, January 24, 1787.
BLANKS cheap.
BLANKS of every sort printed and sold at the Printing-Office in Market-Street, as cheap as at any Office in this town, or in the United States, for cash or produce.
State of New-Hampshire,
NOTICE is hereby given to the non resident owners of land in the township of Tamworth, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1784, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before the 22d day of February next, to much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at ten o'clock on said day, at the dwelling-house of Jacob Eastman in said town, unless prevented by previous payment.
   No. R. Q'ty. d. q. s. d. s. d.     Benj. Chamberlain 4 east 50 1 2 0 10 0 2   John Bolton 9 east 50 1 2 0 10 0 2   James Quimby 8 1 50 1 2 0 10 0 2   John Hubbard 154 4 2 2 6 3 3   Original Rights 253 acres each   Lt. John Webster 7   Daniel Stickney 7   Jonathan Morrison 7   James Coffin 7   Walter Bryant, Esq. 7   Clough 7   Enoch Webster 7   James Head 7   James Cochran, junr. 7   Jonathan Merrill Half right 3 2   John Merrill 7   John Cochran 7   Peter Coffin 7   George Abbott 7   Samuel Cochran 7   Robert Fulton 7   William Rogers 7   William Coffin 7   John Moore 7   Stephen Holland 7   Robert Barnett 7   John Kimball 7   Samuel O'good 7   Joseph Emery 7   John Noyes, Esq. 7   James Olgood 7   Jonathan Cochran 7   Thomas Wallace 7   William Cochran 7   Moses Barnett 7   Robert Rogers, junr. 7   John Webster, junr. 7   James Wallace 7   Moses Coffin 7   Jonathan Stickney 7   Abel Chandler 7   Phineas Vergen 7   Thomas Stickney 7   Samuel Dickey 7   Josiah Miles 7   Isaac Cochran 7   Jonathan Bennett 7   Joseph Hall, junr. 7   John Davidson 7   John Webster, Esq. 7   Samuel Moore 7   Hamilton Davidson 7   James Dwyer 7   Enoch Cochran 7   Israel Gilman 7   Samuel Gilman 7   Col. Todd 7   Lt. Col. Barre 7   Jacob Fowler 7   WILLIAM EASTMAN, Collector.   Tamworth, January 10, 1787.  
State of New-Hampshire,
NOTICE is hereby given to the non resident owners of land in Alstead, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1784, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, on the third Monday in January next, at one o'clock, P. M. at the house of Capt. Nathan Fay, innholder in said town, as will pay the taxes and charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
   acres. s. d.     Lot No 3 3d Range, 100 2 0   Lot No 10 Second Div. 27 10   Lot No 4 3d Range, 50 1   Lot No 3 6th Range, 130 2 8   Lot No 3 4th Range, 30 8   Lot No 2 4th Range, 30 8   ELI HARRINGTON, Collector.   Alstead, October 30, 1786.  
State of New-Hampshire, To the Honorable Matthew Thornton, Esq. one of the Justices of the Peace throughout said State.
WE the subscribers, proprietors and owners of more than one sixteenth part of the township of Gunthwait in the county of Grafton, and State aforesaid, request you to call a meeting of the said proprietors to be held at the house of Captain William M'Hard, in Portsmouth, in the county of Rockingham and State aforesaid, on Wednesday the 21st day of February next, at two o'clock afternoon, for the following purposes, viz.
To chuse a Moderator—a Proprietors Clerk, Assessor, a Collector and any other necessary officers for said Proprietary.
To vote such a sum of money as may be thought necessary on each Proprietor's share for defraying their necessary expences, and expedite the settlement of said township.
To receive, examine and allow any accounts that may be exhibited against said Propriety.
To chuse an agent or agents, and give them full instructions and power to agree with any settlers that have already settled in said township, or may agree with the agents to settle therein; what lands shall be given them, and to make the necessary deeds and conveyances, and to do and transact any business for said Proprietors agreeable to such instructions as may be then given them.
To empower the Clerk of said Propriety to call Proprietors meetings in future, on such application as shall then be agreed on.
GEORGE ATKINSON, } Proprietors. JONATHAN WARNER, } JOHN PARKER, } LEONARD WHITING, } ISAAC RINDGE, }
State of New-Hampshire, Portsmouth, Jan. 11, 1787.
IN consequence of the above application to me the subscriber, I hereby notify said Proprietors to meet at time and place and for the purposes therein expressed.
M. THORNTON, Justice of the Peace, (throughout said State.)
State of New Hampshire,
NOTICE is hereby given to the non resident owners of land in the township of Packerfield, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1785, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before Tuesday the 20th day of February next, to much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges will be sold at public vendue, at ten o'clock on said day, at the house of Uriah Wheeler, innholder in said town, unless prevented by previous payment.
   N. R. Q'ty d. q. s. d. q. d. q.     William Tolfordo 0 400 9 0 4 4 1 9 0   John Tolford 0 400 9 0 4 4 1 9 0   E. Glibot's heirs 0 100 2 0 1 0 0 2 0   Jno. Rindge & Moses Tucker 1 4 100 5 2 2 6 3 5 2   Unknown west branch 40 0 3 0 4 1 0 3   Ebe. Carpenter 2 6 30   Cap. Jonas Minot 2 11 35   Timothy Fox 100   John Daney 3 1 100   Unknown 4 1 100   Francis Green 1 2 100   Unknown 4 2 100   Unknown 4 3 100   Unknown 5 2 100   John Spinney 83   Brenton's Farm 30   James Phillips 80   Thomas Davis 70   Elijah Stocker 2 7 50  
JACOB WHEELER, Collector: Packerfield, January 3, 1787.
PUBLICK notice is given to all the owners of land in Fitzwilliam, that there is a proprietors tax of five shillings and seven pence two farthings on each lot in said town, to pay the Rev. Mr. Bingham's salary, and unless the same is paid to me the subscriber immediately their land will be potted for sale. SYLVANUS REED, Collector. Fitzwilliam, January 1, 1787.