New-Hampshire gazette, or, State journal and general advertiser (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1780-12-11 00:00:00

THE NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE ; OR, STATE JOURNAL, and GENERAL ADVERTISER.
[ Vol. XXIV. ]
MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1780.
[ No. 1259. ]
By His Excellency Sir HENRY CLINTON , Knight of the most Honorable Order of the Bath, General and Commander in Chief of all his Majesty's forces within the Colonies lying on the Atlantic ocean, from Nova Scotia to West-Florida, inclusive, &c. &c.
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS there are several deserters from the British and Foreign troops under my command, who are serving with the enemy, or are concealed in the Rebel Country ; I have thought fit to issue this my Proclamation, offering a free and unlimited pardon to all such deserters, who shall surrender themselves to any of his Majesty's troops before the first day of November next.
And whereas there are many of his Majesty's European subjects at this time serving in the Rebel Army against their King and country, who stung with remorse, and sensible of the heinousness of such an unnatural proceeding, would be anxious to return to their allegiance, did not their demerits, before their arrival in America, make them doubtful of meeting with protection and support within these lines.---I do therefore hereby promise to all such who shall come in before the abovementioned first of November, in addition to the benefits, protection and support, to which they would be entitled under any Proclamations, to procure for them his Majesty's most gracious pardon, for all felonies and treason, (murder excepted) which they have heretofore been guilty of, provided they will take up arms in his service, and give their assistance to the quelling this unnatural Rebellion against his government.
Given under my hand at headquarters, in New-York, this 23d day of Sept. 1780.
H. CLINTON.
By his Excellency's command, JOHN SMITH.
THE above Proclamation of Sir H. Clinton's is taken word for word from Rivington's New-York paper of October 25, 1780, and we now challenge all the records of the most licentious banditti, to produce its equal.
The first paragraph we admit. But in the second Sir Harry turns a Recruiting Serjeant, and that his speech may have all the oratory it deserves I have put it into its true stile and meaning, viz.
" All you Gentlemen Volunteers, who have been transported from England for picking of pockets, house-breaking, horse-stealing, sheep-stealing, perjury, high-way robbery, and street-robbery---All you who ought to be hanged, and are not hanged---All you who desire to be hanged, and will yet be hanged---All you who are too bad to live and not fit to die---All you whom the laws of your Country sent into banishment for being rogues and thieves, Come and shake hands with his most gracious Majesty---Come and join the Royal Standard of Great-Britain---Come and assist the Great Pick-pocket of England, George the Third, to pick the pockets of all America. And I do promise you, in addition to the benefits, protection and support you are entitled to by any other proclamation, to procure for you his Majesty's most gracious pardon for all the crimes and felonies for which you were transported, upon condition that from being thieves, you will turn Devils, and join George the Third."
Now, Sir Harry, do you feel no shame, no confusion of heart, or embarrassment of countenance in thus exposing the wretchedness of your cause. We know it is a bad one, and that none but pickpockets will join it ; but are you not a fool to tell it yourself ? How will you look in the eyes of Europe ? How will you appear in your country, when it shall read under the sanction of your own name, that you are courting to your assistance the outcasts of your own nation, banished by your own laws, and by those very laws punished with death if they returned. Here they have committed no crime, it is against you and your laws only they are criminals.
Have you not published to Europe, have you not imposed upon your own nation, that the GOOD and VIRTUOUS in America were your friends ? That those GOOD and VIRTUOUS were flocking to your standard, aiding your Councils & strengthening your arms ? And now it appears that those GOOD
& VIRTUOUS, O shame to your cause, are the pickpockets of London, the out-casts of St. Giles's, the scourings of Rag Fair, and the Scum of Moorfields.
O ! what a fine market the Tories have driven their hogs to---O ! shame to human nature---Your friends, your worthy friends, who were not convicts, are now to keep company with transported pickpockets, foot-pads, house-breakers, horse-stealers, sheep-stealers, highway-robbers and street-robbers, and all this under the authority of Great-Britain.
Why, Gentlemen Tories, Lady Tories, Gentlemen Quakers, and Gentlemen who are not Quakers, do feel a little dignity for yourselves, do be above Jacks of the Mint, and Moll Trollops, for if one of you stir after this, by the Lord, all the world will say, that you went in consequence of this proclamation for vagabonds.
COMUS.
NEW-PORT, Nov. 23, 1780.
At the Honorable Superior Court of Judicature, Court of Assize and general goal delivery, held in this place the last week, Samuel Dyer, Thomas Wilkham, & John Warren, were brought upon their trial, on certain bills of indictment found by the grand jury and charging them with high crimes and misdemeanors, in having aided and assisted the King of Great-Britain, his fleets and armies, enemies of this and the United States ; and being thereupon found guilty by the petit jury, they were sentenced by the Court to pay as a fine to the use of this State, the said Samuel Dyer, the sum of 7000 Spanish mill'd dollars ; the said Thomas Wilkham, 5000 Spanish mill'd dollars ; and the said John Warren, 333 Spanish mill'd dollars, and to be imprisoned in the goal at Newport ; the said Sam'l Dyer, and said Thomas Wilkham, for the space of six months and the said John Warren, two months---to recognize each in the sum of ten thousand Spanish mill'd dollars, with two sufficient sureties to the Governor and Company of this State, conditioned for their demeaning themselves as good citizens of this State, during the present war ; to pay all costs of prosecution & conviction, and to remain in custody until the sentence be performed,

THE CRISIS EXTRAORDINARY, By the Author of COMMON SENSE.
IT is impossible to sit down, and think seriously on the affairs of America, but the original principles on which she resisted, and the glow and ardour they inspired, will occur like the undefaced remembrance of a lovely scene. To trace over in imagination the purity of the cause, the voluntary sacrifices made to support it, and all the various turnings of the war in its defence, is at once both paying and receiving respect. The principles deserve to be remembered, and to remember them rightly is republishing them. In this indulgence of generous recollection, we become gainers by what we seem to give, and the more we give, the richer we become.
So extensively right was the ground on which America proceeded, that it not only took in every just & liberal sentiment which could impress the heart, but made it the direct interest of every class and order of men to defend the country. The war, on the part of Britain, was originally a war of covetousness. The sordid and not the splendid passions gave it being. The fertile fields and prosperous infancy of America appeared to her as mines of tributary wealth. She viewed the hive and disregarding the industry that had enriched it, thirsted for the honey. But in the present stage of her affairs, the violence of temper is added to the rage of avarice; and therefore, that which, at our first setting out, proceeded from purity of principle and public interest is now heightened by all the obligations of necessity; for it requires but little knowledge of human nature to discern what will be the consequences, were America again reduced to the subjection of Britain. Uncontrolled power, in the hands of an incensed, imperious and rapacious conqueror, is an engine of dreadful execution; and woe be to that country over which it can be exercised. The names of whig and tory would then be sunk in the general term of rebel, and the oppression, whatever it might be, would, with very few instances excepted, light equally on all.
Britain did not go to war with America for the sake of dominion, because she was then in possession; neither was it for the extension of trade and commerce, because she had monopolized the whole, and the country had yielded to it; neither was it to extinguish what she might call rebellion, because before she began, no resistance existed. It could then be from no other motive than avarice, or a design of establishing, in the first instance, the same taxes in America as are paid in England (which, as I shall presently show, are above eleven times heavier than the taxes we now pay for the year 1780) or in the second instance, to confiscate the whole property of America, in case of resistance and conquest, of the latter of which she had then no doubt.
I shall now proceed to show what the taxes in England are, and what the yearly expence of the present war is to her—what the taxes of this country amount to, and what the annual expence of defending it effectually will be to us; and shall endeavour concisely to point out the cause of our difficulties, and the advantages on one side, or the consequences on the other, in case we do, or do not, put ourselves in an effectual state of defence. I mean to be open, candid and sincere. I see an universal wish to expel the enemy from the country, a murmuring because the war is not carried on with more vigour, and my intention is to show, as shortly as possible, both the reason and the remedy.
The number of souls in England (exclusive of Scotland and Ireland) is seven million, * and the number of souls in America is three millions.
The amount of the taxes in England (exclusive of Scotland and Ireland) was, before the present war commenced, eleven millions six hundred and forty-two thousand six hundred and fifty-three pounds sterling; which, on an average, is no less a sum than one
* This is among the highest number that the people of England have been, or can be rated at:
pound thirteen shillings and three pence sterling per head per annum, men, women and children; besides country taxes, taxes for the support of the poor, and a tenth of all the produce of the earth for the support of the bishops and clergy. Nearly five millions of this sum went annually to pay the interest of the national debt, contracted by former wars, and the remaining sum of six millions six hundred and forty-two thousand six hundred pounds was applied to defray the yearly expence of government, the peace establishment of the army and navy, placemen, pensioners, &c. consequently the whole of her enormous taxes being thus appropriated, she had nothing to spare out of them towards defraying the expences of the present war, or any other. Yet had she not been in debt at the beginning of the war, as we were not, and like us had only a land and not a naval war to carry on, her then revenue of eleven millions and a half pounds sterling would defray all her annual expences of war and government within each year.
But this not being the case with her, she is obliged to borrow about ten million pounds sterling yearly, to prosecute the war she is now engaged in (this war she borrowed twelve) and lay on new taxes to discharge the interest; and allowing that the present war has cost her only fifty millions sterling, the interest thereon at five per cent. will be two millions and a half, therefore the amount of her taxes now must be fourteen millions, which on an average is no less than forty shillings per head, men, women and children, throughout the nation. Now as this expence of fifty millions was borrowed on the hopes of conquering America, and as it was avarice which first induced her to commence the war, how truly wretched and deplorable would the condition of this country be, were she, by her own remissness, to suffer an enemy of such a disposition, and so circumstanced, to reduce her to subjection.
I now proceed to the revenues of America. I have already stated the number of souls in America to be three millions, and by a calculation I have made, which I have every reason to believe is sufficiently right, the whole expence of the war, and the support of the several governments, may be defrayed for two million pounds sterling annually; which, on an average, is thirteen shillings and four pence per head, men, women and children, and the peace establishment at the end of the war, will be but three quarters of a million, or five shillings sterling per head. Now throwing out of the question every thing of honor, principle, happiness, freedom and reputation in the world, and taking it up on the simple ground of interest, I put the following case:
Suppose Britain was to conquer America, and as conqueror was to lay her under no
† The following is taken from Dr. Price's state of the taxes of England, page 96, 97, 98.
An account of the money drawn from the public by taxes annually, being the medium of three years before the year 1776
   Amount of customs in England, 1. 2528275   Amount of the excise in England, 4649892   Land tax at 3s. 1300000   Land tax at 1s. in the pound, 450000   Salt duties, 218739   Duties on stamps, cards, dice, advertisements, bonds, leaves, indentures, newspapers, almanacks, &c. 280788   Duties of houses and windows, 585369   Post Office, seizures, wine licences, hackney coaches, &c. 250000   Annual profit from lotteries, 150000   Expence of collecting the excises in England, 297887   Expence of collecting the customs in England, 468703   Interest of loans on the land tax at 4s. expences of collection, militia, &c. 250000   Perquisites, &c. to custom-house officers, &c. supposed, 250000   Expence of collecting the salt duties in England, 10d. 1 2 per cent. 27000   Bounties on fish exported, 18000   Expence of collecting the duties on stamps, cards, advertisements, &c. 5 and 1 4 per cent. 18000  
Total, 1. 11,642,653
other conditions than to pay the same proportion toward her annual revenue which the people of England pay; our share in that case would be six million pounds sterling yearly; can it then be a question, whether it is best to raise two millions to defend the country, and govern it ourselves, and only three quarters of a million afterwards, or pay six millions to have it conquered, and let the enemy govern it!
Can it be supposed that conquerors would chuse to put themselves in a worse condition than what they granted to the conquered? In England the tax on rum is five shillings and one penny sterling per gallon, which is one silver dollar and fourteen coppers. Now would it not be laughable to imagine, that after the expence they have been at, they would let either whig or tory in America drink it cheaper than themselves? Coffee, which is to considerable an article of consumption and support here, is there loaded with a duty, which makes the price between five and six shillings sterling a pound, and a penalty of fifty pounds sterling on any person detected in roasting it in his own house. There is scarce an article of life you can eat, drink, wear or enjoy, that is not there loaded with a tax; even the light from Heaven is only permitted to shine into their dwelling, by paying eighteen pence sterling per window annually; and the humblest drink of life, small beer, cannot there be purchased without a tax of nearly two coppers a gallon, besides a heavy tax upon the malt, and another upon the hops, before it is brewed, exclusive of a land tax on the earth which produce them. In short, the condition of that country in point of taxation is so oppressive, the number of her poor so great, and the extravagance and capaciousness of the court so enormous, that were they to effect a conquest of America, it is then only that the distresses of America would begin. Neither would it signify any thing to a man whether he be what we call a whig or a tory. The people of England and the ministry of that country know us by no such distinctions.—What they want is clear solid revenue, and the modes they would take to procure it would operate alike on all. Their manner of reasoning would be short, because they would naturally infer, that if we were able to carry on a war of five or six years against them, we are able to pay the same tax which they do.
I have already stated, that the expence of conducting the present war, and the government of the several States, may be done for two millions sterling, and the establishment in time of peace for three quarters of a million. §
As to navy matters, they flourish so well, and are so well attended to in the hands of individuals, that I think it consistent, on every principle of real use and economy, to turn the navy into hard money, (keeping only three or four packets) and apply it to promote the service of the army. We shall not have a ship the less; the use of them, and the benefit from them, will be greatly encreased, and their expences saved. We are now allied with a formidable naval power, from whom we derive the assistance of a navy. And the time in which we can prosecute the war, so as to reduce the common enemy, and benefit the alliance most effectually, will be by attending closely to the land service.
I estimate the charge of keeping up and maintaining an army, officering them, and all expences included, sufficient for the defence of the country, to be equal to the expence of forty thousand men, at thirty pounds sterling per head, which is one million two hundred thousand pounds.
I likewise allow four hundred thousand pounds for Continental expences at home and abroad.
§ I have made the calculation in sterling, because it is a rate generally known in all the States, and because likewise it admits of an easy comparison between our expences to support the war and those of the enemy. Four silver dollars and one half is one pound sterling, and three pence over.

And four hundred thousand pounds for the support of the several State governments, the amount then will be,    For the army,  £. 1,200,000    Continental expence at home and abroad,  400,000    Government of the several States  400,000    Total,  £. 2,000,000    [To be continued.]
L O N D O N, August 17.  The following is a list of the Russian fleet arrived in the Texel and the Downs.  First squadron, in the Texel, the St. Sedair; Rear-Admiral Barreloff, Captain Cavalier Gibbs, 74 guns, 670 men; Azai, Captain Speridoff, 64 guns, 550 men; America, Capt. Cocuffoff, 64 guns, 550 men; Slovoroffoy, Capt. Bofcaruff, 64 guns, 550 men; Therdoo, Captain Sillmaruff, 64 guns, 550 men; Portriche, Captain Dennison, 32 guns, 230 men; Semeone, Capt. Golankin, 32 guns, 230 men.  Second squadron, in the Downs, Pantoleman, Chevalier Rear Admiral Keuze, Capt. Chevalier Bu ke, senior Captain of the fleet, 74 guns, 670 men; St. Nicolai, leading the van, Cavalier Robert Dugdale, 66 guns, 575 men; Alexander Neiss Key, Capt. Boocaring 64 guns, 550 men; Ingamolandy, Captain Poverleashing, 64 guns, 550 men; Blagapouki, Captain M'Inicuff, 64 guns, 550 men; Maria, Capt. Crusanuff, 32 guns, 240 men.  Third squadron, arrived in the Texel, Ickniel, Commodore Cavalier Pleabian, Capt. Cavalier Huncuff, 74 guns, 670 men; Spiriden, Capt. Addinoff, 66 guns, 575 men; Prince Validimer, Capt. Prince Shacaffrey, 64 guns, 550 men; Derifi, Capt. Cavalier Thomas M'Kenzie, 64 guns, 550 men; ---- Alexander, Captain M'Kernuff, 52 guns, 230 men.
The fifteen Russian men of war, in the channel, have under their convoy 20 transports, loaded with hemp, pitch, tar, masts, &c. Five more Russian ships, and 16 Danes and Swedes, were left in the Baltic; so that the neutral fleet, including frigates, consists of above 40 ships of war.
The following is a moderate estimation of the value of our fleet taken off the Madeiras.    Five East India ships, with their stores, valued at 30,000l. each  £. 150,000    Their cargoes, at 50,000l. each  250,000    Bullion and coin on board  20,000    Private ventures, at 5000l. each.  25,000    Forty-seven West-India ships and victuallers, valued at 5000l. each on an average  235,000    Their cargoes, at 10,000l. each  570,000    1200 troops, costs 10l. each, on an average  12,000    Their arms, accoutrements, and cloathing, at 7l. per man  8,400    Money to be paid by our commissioners, for the maintenance of the prisoners, at 6d per day per man, for three months only, reckoning the cartel to take place so soon, viz. 99 men in each East-Indian 495  1645    35 men in each other on an average  2140    2140 men at 6d. each per day 5310l. for 91 days  4873    12000 troops, prisoners for the same time, and at the same rate  2730    Total,  £. 1,278,003  
P H I L A D E L P H I A. In C O N G R E S S, November 10.  Resolved, That the Commissioners of the Continental Loan Offices in the respective States, be and hereby are directed to forward to the Continental Treasury at Philadelphia, all such Continental Bills of credit as may have been, from time to time, lodged in their offices, pursuant to an act of Congress, of the 18th day of March last, having first cancelled them in the mode prescribed by the resolution of the first day of September last, that they may be examined and burned. Extract from the minutes,  CHARLES THOMSON, Sec'ry.
The following officers were exchanged at the late meeting of the American and British Commissaries General of prisoners, at New-York. Major General Lincoln. Brigadiers General Thompson, Waterbury, Du Portail. Colonels Magaw, Webb, Swoop. Lieutenant-Colonels Ramsey, Lutz, Bilinger, Hobby, Anill, Bruyn, M'Cloughry, Thomso, Laurens. Majors Edward Tillard, Francis Muray, William Darst, Tarlton Woodson, Leven Joynes, Oliver Towles, Samuel Logan, Aquilla Giles, Mathew Clarkson, William Ellis, John Eccleston.
In C O N G R E S S, October 14, 1780.  RESOLVED, That a monument be erected to the memory of the late Major-General Baron de KALB, in the city of Annapolis, in the State of Maryland, with the following inscription;
Sacred to the Memory of  The BARON De KALB, Knight of the Royal Order of Military Merit, Brigadier of the Armies of France, And Major-General in the Service of the United States of America. Having served with Honor and Reputation for three Years. He gave a last and glorious Proof of his Attachment to the Liberties of Mankind and the Cause of America, In the Action near Camden, in the State of South-Carolina. On the 16th of August, 1780. Where, leading on the Troops of the Maryland and Delaware Lines against superior Numbers, And animating them by his Example to Deeds of Valour, He was pierced with many Wounds, and On the 19th following expired, in the 48th Year of his Age. The C O N G R E S S of the United States of America, In Gratitude to his Zeal, Services and Merit, Have erected this Monument. Extract from the Minutes,  CHARLES THOMSON, Sec'ry.
N E W - H A V E N, November 30. On the 22d instant, a party of 80 men under the command of Major Talmage, crossed to Long-Island, and having left 20 men to guard the boats, marched by a circuitous rout, of upwards of 20 miles, to Fort St. George, (in Suffolk county, south side of Long-Island, the principal object of their enterprize) which they reduced in a few minutes; killed and wounded eight; took one half-pay lieutenant Colonel, one Captain, one Lieutenant, and fifty five privates, destroyed 400 tons of hay, and demolished as much of the fort as was practicable, in the short time they tarried. We had one private wounded. After the fort was taken, the enemy fired from a house, on returning of which, a woman was unfortunately wounded. The prisoners were landed at Fairfield, and we hear, are since sent to the army.
N E W - L O N D O N, Nov. 23. About two hundred counterfeit forty shillings bills, in imitation of those of this State dated March 1st 1780, were a few days since found in a bundle on the shore at Black Point, partly covered with sand.
B O S T O N, December 8.  Extract of a letter from Martinico, dated November 10, 1780. "My letter being not yet sealed, permit me to add a few lines to inform you of the news we have received from Barbadoes, which makes us shudder. That Island has never before been subjected to any hurricane, but now has experienced its horrors. All the houses and fortifications have been carried off by the violence of the sea. The goals were opened to the prisoners in general, who saved themselves upon the heights of the mountains; they no sooner got out of them than they were carried off; and they are now at work at two shilling sterling per day. It is asserted that 6000 whites, and at least as many negroes, have been drown'd. All the ships and vessels that were at anchor in the harbour were lost, and not a single man saved. St. Christophers has suffered also. 17 London ships, loaded and ready to sail, have been drove on shore, and all the cargoes lost, not even a single bag of Coffee has been saved. A great number of coasting vessels were lost upon the shore, and they have not any news from the vessels that had put to sea before the storm."
Extract of a Letter from St. Poir, Martinico, November 12. "The 11th ult. we had here the most severe hurricane ever known; this town has met with great losses, 80 houses beat down by the surf; two frigates and fifty sail of merchantmen arrived here from France the day before the gale came on; they all put to sea, and only one heard of since; the St. Eustatia traders are almost all lost; numbers perished in the road; the island of Barbadoes is almost ruined; there is not a house standing in the town; their plantations torn to pieces, and their mills and cane all blown down; upwards of 6000 souls lost, and the rest in a starving condition. The island of St. Vincents is torn to pieces, not a building standing on the whole island. We learn by the way of Statia, that the island of Jamaica and Bermudas has suffered very much; all the vessels at Bermuda were drove ashore, 300 sail are gone ashore at Jamaica; this last is a report, but the former are facts, as I have talk'd with people that have seen the ruins. Two British frigates and a forty gun ship foundered in the gale about seven leagues to windward of the island; they were seen to sink by a schooner which has since arrived here."
The Western post due last Wednesday evening was taken by the Tories between Fairfield and Stratford, and carried to New-York.
Admiral Rodney, it is said, sailed from Sandy-Hock on Sunday the 12th ult. supposed to be bound for the West-Indies. We hear that one of the enemy's copper bottomed frigates was lost going through Hell-Gate, and most of her crew perished.
E X E T E R, December 11. Married, on Tuesday last, by the Rev. Mr. ROGERS, Dr. WILLIAM PARKER to Miss POLLY TILTON; both of this Town. Last evening, being the 10th instant, three Sisters (agreeable young women) were married by the Rev. Mr. MCCLURE, at their Father Mr. Jacob Low's house, in Stratham; where, after the solemnization of matrimony, the evening was spent in innocent festivity and joy—an example worthy the observation of the Fair Daughters of America. May the praise and properties of a good wife, so naturally and beneficially described by Solomon, in the 31st chapter of his Proverbs, be their attendants.
TO BE SOLD, By public Vendue, On THURSDAY, 21st. instant, At three o'clock, P. M. At Mr. BENJAMIN LAMSON's, in Exeter, The valuable House, Land, and Out-Houses, fronting on the street by the water-side, and contiguous to Major Tilton's, being the House and Land formerly occupied by Capt. James, deceased; a pleasant situation, and very convenient for trade. For further particulars inquire of the Printers, Exeter, 11th December, 1780.
All Persons (within the State of New-Hampshire) who are indebted to JOHN EMERY, of Exeter, by Account or Note, are desired to come and settle the same with his Attorney NOAH EMERY, of Exeter, as soon as may be, to prevent further Trouble. Exeter, Nov. 30, 1780.
LOST, on Tuesday last, in this Town, a large GOLD SLEEVE BUTTON. The Person who has found the same, and will leave it at the Printing-Office, shall meet with ample Compensation. Exeter, 11th Dec. 1780.
All Persons indebted to, or that have any demands on the estate of Ebenezer Brown, late of Kensington, deceased, are desired to bring in their accounts to Lieut. Richard Brown, of Hampton Falls, in order for a speedy settlement. Hampton Falls, Dec. 6, 1780.

Scheme of a Lottery,
GRANTED by an Act of the General Court of the State of NEW HAMPSHIRE, 9th November, 1780, to raise Money for repairing and supporting STRATHAM & NEWMARKET LOTTERY-BRIDGE, (so called) in said State; wherein Capt. HUBARTUS NEAL, Major MARK WIGGIN, SIMON WIGGIN, Esq; JOSIAH ADAMS, Esq; and Mr. WENTWORTH CHESWELL, are appointed Managers, and sworn to the faithful Discharge of said Trust.
The FIRST CLASS contains 8,000 Tickets, at two Dollars per Ticket, of the new Emission of Continental Money; 3075 of which are Prizes of the following Value, viz.
   No. Dol. Dol.     1 of 500 is 500 500   2 100 100 200   4 50 50 200   6 40 40 240   10 30 30 300   12 25 25 300   40 10 10 400   100 5 5 500   2900 4 4 11600   The first Number drawn a } 40   Bounty of - - - } 40   The last Number drawn a } 60   Bounty of - - - } 60   14340   Remains for the Bridge 1660  
Total Dollars, 16000
The absolute Necessity of having said Bridge immediately repaired, and the small Number of Tickets in this Class, give the Managers Reason to hope for such a speedy Sale of said Tickets as to enable them to draw this Class soon enough to contract for the necessary Materials to be procured the ensuing Winter; as the present Temporary Repairs, cannot be expected to answer any longer than 'till next Spring.
The old as well as new Emission of Continental Money will be received at the usual Rate of forty for one.
Seasonable Notice of Time and Place of Drawing will be given, and a List of Prizes published in some public News-Paper in this State.
Benefit Tickets will be duly paid in twenty Days at the Lottery-Office, near said Bridge, and Notice given of the Days of Attendance for that Purpose.
Prizes not demanded in twelve Months from the Time of Drawing, are not to be demanded afterwards, but deemed given to the Use of the Bridge, and applied accordingly.
November 23, 1780.
ALL Persons who have Demands against the Estate of Joseph Wills, late of Portsmouth, deceased, Intestate, are desired to exhibit the same to James Gooch, of Portsmouth, Administrator de Bonis, &c. And all Indebted to said Estate, are requested to make speedy payment.
Portsmouth, Nov. 25, 1780.
Just Published,
And may be had at the Printing-Office, in Exeter,
SERMON,
PREACHED AT EPPING,
IN NEW HAMPSHIRE,
ON LORD'S - DAY, September 19. 1779.
By JOSIAH STEARNS, Pastor of a Church there.
*†* SUBSCRIBERS for the above SERMON, are desired to call on DAVID LAWRENCE, Esq; or Mr. SIMON DEARBORN, in Epping, and receive their Books.
Just Published,
And now selling by Wholesale and Retail, By JOHN CARTER, at the Post Office in Providence,
The American Latin Grammar; or, a complete Introduction to the Latin Tongue. Formed from the most approv'd Writings of this Kind, as those of Lilly, Ruddiman, Phillips, Holmes, Bishop Wettenhall, Cheever, Clarke, Read, &c. originally compiled by the Rev. Mr. Rofs; revised and corrected in former Editions by the late Presidents Burr, Finley, and others; and now republished for the Use of the Grammar Schools throughout the United States.
"The American Latin Grammar, originally compiled by the Rev. Mr. Rofs, with further Improvements and Illustrations, is hereby recommended as excellently calculated for the general Use of the Schools."
James Manning, President of Rhode Island College. Ezra Stiles, President of Yale College. David Hoel, Fellow of Rhode Island College. Providence, October 1780.
Doctor G. WOOD,
Gives Advice, gratis, from nine o'Clock in the Morning to twelve at Noon, every Wednesday, in all Physical and Chirurgical Cases, at his Dwelling-House in Stratham.
TO BE SOLD,
At NOTTINGHAM-SQUARE, West-India and New-England Rum, Molasses, Sugar, Tea, Coffee, Cotton-Wool, Foreign Salt, Pepper, Allspice; and a Variety of ENGLISH GOODS.
ALL persons that have any demands against the estate of Major ANDREW McCLARY, late of Epsom, deceased, are desired to bring in their claims to ELIZABETH McCLARY, Administratrix to said estate, in order for settlement. And those persons who are indebted to said estate, are requested to make speedy payment, otherwise they must expect to suffer the consequence without further notice.
ELIZABETH McCLARY, Administratrix, Epsom, November 22. 1780.
LOST last Wednesday, a LEATHER POCKET BOOK, in the Town of Portsmouth, in which was about 400 Dollars, and a number of papers—Whosoever finds said Book, Papers, &c. and returns them to Ichabod Warren of Berwick, or the Printer at Portsmouth, shall receive Fifty Dollars Reward— Portsmouth, November 17, 1780.
Found a Deed not recorded,
From Goodwin to Hogan, left with the Printer at Portsmouth, of whom the Owner may have again, paying for this Advertisement.
Rock Salt, to be sold for Cash, or exchanged for Beef, Pork, or Red Oak Shook Hogheads. Enquire of J. Foster. Portsmouth, Nov. 11, 1780.
Several Lots of Land to be sold in Wolfborough and other Places: Enquire at the Printing-Office in Portsmouth.
ALL Persons that are Indebted to, or have any Demands on the Estate of Damarus Wheelwright, of Portsmouth, deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts to John Wheelwright, Administrator, for Settlement. Portsmouth, Octob. 31. 1780
WANTED,
A small Iron STOVE, for which a reasonable Price will be given. Inquire at the Printing-Office, Exeter.
TO BE SOLD,
By SPENCE AND SHERBURNE, At their Store on Spring Hill, Portsmouth, WEST INDIA and EUROPEAN GOODS, Consisting of
SCARLET and other color'd Broad Cloths, Lambkins, Baizes, Frizes, Ratteens, Shags, Bed Blankets, Duffels, Vaivets, Prunels, Camblets, Cambletens, Durants, Calicoes, Persians, Irish and German Linnens, check Linnens, Dowlass, Bed Ticks, Sheeting, Nankens, Buckram, Cagut, Cotton and Worsted Hose, Women's Winter Gloves, cotton and silk Handkerchiefs, quality and size Bindings, white and colour'd Threads, Tapes, Laces, Ribbands, sewing Silks, Caps, Hats, writing and pack Paper, paper Hangings, Powder and Shot, London Pewter, block Tin Tea Pots, Table and Tea Spoons, Lauches, Locks, Warming Pans, Ironing Boxes, Shoeshoes and Tonges, Hearth and Clothes Brushes, Window Glass, Nails, Slates, Crockery WARE,—STARCH, RAISINS,—NUTMIGS and other Groceries,—RUM, Sugar, Molasses, Coffee, Cotton & Chocolate, &c. &c. Salt, Tea, &c. &c.
N. B. Pot and Pearl Ashes, Bees Wax, and Flax Seed taken in at said Store.
To be sold at Public VENDUE,
On Wednesday the 13th of December Instant, at Ten o'Clock P.M. on the Wharfe of George Westworth,
The Prize Brig COOPER,
of about 100 Tons, British built, three years old.— A L B O.
The Prize Brig MINERVA,
Of about 120 Tons, British built— Inventories to be seen at the time and place of sale.— Likewise, three CANNON, two pounders, with their carriages, &c. Four Brass Swivels; a number of Casks of French WINE, some Cordage, Train Oyl, &c. A quantity of Jamaica Fish; some Glass and Earthen Ware in Lots. Also, a small parcel of English Goods, amongst which are, Mens and Boys Hats; some Millinery, Chints, Broad Cloths, Cotton Velvets, Cassimaries, Gold Lace, Lutestrings, &c. &c.
ALL Persons having Accounts open with, or Demands against the Estate of Joseph Simes, late of Portsmouth, Painter, deceased, are desired to call and settle the same with Ann Simes, and John Simes, Administrators. Portsmouth, Dec. 1. 1780.
Cash Given by JOHN GOOCH, OF PORTSMOUTH, FOR OLD PEWTER, BRASS, OR COPPER: OR, ONE POUND OF NEW PEWTER, FOR TWO POUNDS OF OLD; — WHO MAKES and sells all KINDS OF NEW PEWTER.
ALL Persons Indebted to, or that have Demands on the Estate of Peter Cushing, late of Dover, deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts to Mary and Thomas Cushing, Administrators to said Estate, in order for a speedy settlement, at the late Dwelling House of the deceased in Dover. Dover, November 30. 1780.
TO BE SOLD,
By PEARSE LONG,
Near the South Meeting-House, SCARLET and Chocolate Broad Cloths, with Trimmings to suit the same— The best of Irish Linnens— An Assortment of Cutlary and other Hard Ware— Silk Handkerchiefs of sundry Qualities— Lutestrings— Mode—Peling—Ribbons—Gauzes— Queens Crape—Silk Hose—Nutmegs—Sewing Silks; Callicoes, &c. &c.—Likewise, West-India RUM by the Hoghead or smaller Quantity. Sugar,—Molasses,— Cotton,— and Coffee— which he will sell for hard Cash, or Paper Money of either of the Emissions. Portsmouth, October 18. 1780.
Choice Rock, and other Salt,
To be sold by James Hickey in Portsmouth, for Continental Bills, or Corn, &c.
THIS is to forbid any Persons from trusting J. A. Cooper, formerly the Wife of me the subscriber, on my account, as I am determined not to pay any Debt she may contract at any time. Phillip Cooper. Portsmouth, November 15. 1780.
A WOMAN with a good Breast of Milk, and a Child, would go into a Family for half wages. Enquire at the Printing-office in Portsmouth.
Watches Repaired,
And cleaned in the best Manner, by Samuel Place, Goldsmith, in Portsmouth.