The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1774-11-11 00:00:00

THE New-Hampshire AND HISTORICAL CONTAINING the Freshest ADVICES
Vol. XIX. GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
FRIDAY November 11, 1774.
No. 942 } Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd.
The following is a Copy of the Letter from the Grand American Congress to General Gage, viz.
PHILADELPHIA, October 10.
SIR, THE Inhabitants of Boston have informed us, the Representatives of his Majesty's faithful Subjects in all the Colonies from Nova Scotia to Georgia, that, the Fortifications erecting within that Town, the frequent Invasions of private Property, and the repeated Insults they receive from the Soldiers, have given them great Reason to suspect a Plan is formed very destructive to them, and tending to overthrow the Liberties of America. Your Excellency cannot be a Stranger to the Sentiments of America, with respect to the Acts of Parliament, under the Execution of which those unhappy People are oppressed, the Approbation universally expressed of their Conduct, and the determined Resolution of their Colonies, for the Preservation of their common Rights, to unite in their Opposition to those Acts. In consequence of those Sentiments, they have appointed us the Guardians of their Rights and Liberties; and we are under the deepest Concern, that whilst we are pursuing every dutiful and peaceable Measure to procure a cordial and effectual Reconciliation between Great-Britain and the Colonies, your Excellency should proceed in a Manner that bears so hostile an Appearance, and which even those oppressive Acts do not warrant.
We intreat your Excellency to consider, what a Tendency this Conduct must have to irritate and force a People, however well disposed to peaceable Measures, into Hostilities, which may prevent the Endeavours of this Congress to restore a good Understanding with the parent State, and may involve us in the Horrors of a civil WAR.
In Order therefore to quiet the Minds and remove the reasonable Jealousies of the People, that they may not be driven to a State of Desperation, being fully persuaded of their peaceable Disposition towards the King's Troops could they be assured of their own Safety, we hope, Sir, you will discontinue the Fortifications in and about Boston, prevent any further Invasions of private Property, restrain the Irregularities of the Soldiers, and give Orders that the Communication between the Town and the Country, may be open, unobstructed and free.
Signed by Order and in Behalf of the General Congress.
His Excellency Thomas Gage, Esq; P. R. President.
The Address of the Grand CONGRESS to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies, concludes as follows :
AT this unhappy Period, we have been authorized and directed to meet and consult together for the Welfare of our common Country. We accepted the important Trust with Diffidence, but have endeavoured to discharge it with Integrity. Tho' the State of these Colonies would certainly justify other Measures than we have advised; yet weighty Reasons determined us to prefer those which we have adopted. In the first Place, it appears to us a Conduct becoming the Character these Colonies have ever sustained, to perform, even in the midst of the unnatural Distresses, & imminent Dangers that surround them, every Act of Loyalty; & therefore we were induced to offer once more to his Majesty, the Petitions of his faithful and oppressed Subjects in America. 2dly, regarding with the tender Affection, which we know to be so universal among our Countrymen, the People of the Kingdom, from which we derive our Original, we could not forbear to regulate our Steps by an Expectation, of receiving full Conviction, that the Colonists are equally dear to them. Between these Provinces and that Body subsists the social Band, which we ardently with may never be dissolved, and which cannot be dissolved, until their Minds shall become indisputably Hostile , or their Inattention shall permit those who are thus hostile, to persist in Prosecution with the Powers of the Realm, the destructive Measures already operated against the Colonists; and in either case shall reduce the Letter to such a Situation, that they shall be compelled to renounce every Regard, but that of Self-Preservation. Notwithstanding the Vehemence with which Affairs have been impelled, they have not yet reached that fatal Point. We do not incline to accelerate their Motion, already alarmingly rapid; we have chosen a Method of Opposition, that does not preclude a hearty Reconciliation with our Fellow-Citizens on the other Side of the Atlantic. We deeply deplore the urgent Necessity that presses us to an immediate Interruption of Commerce, that may prove injurious to them. We trust they will acquit us of any unkind Intention towards them, by reflecting that we subject ourselves to familiar Inconveniences; that we are driven by the Hands of Violence into unexperienced, and unexpected public Convulsions, and that we are contending for Freedom, so often contended for by our Ancestors.
The People of England will soon have an Opportunity of declaring their Sentiments concerning our Cause. In their Piety, Generosity, and good Sense, we repose high Confidence; and cannot, upon a Review of past Events, be persuaded, that they, the Defenders of true Religion, & the Assertors of the Rights of Mankind will take part against their affectionate Protestant Brethren in the Colonies, in Favour of our open and their own secret Enemies; whose Intrigues, for several Years past, have been wholly exercised in sapping the Foundations of civil and religious Liberty.
Another Reason, that engages us to prefer the commercial Mode of Opposition arose from an Assurance, that this Mode will prove Efficacious, if it be persisted in with Fidelity and Virtue; and that your Conduct will be influenced by those laudable Principles, cannot be questioned. Your own Salvation and that of your Posterity now depends upon yourselves. You have already shown that you entertain a proper Sense of the Blessings you are striving to retain. Against the temporary Inconveniences you may suffer from a Stoppage of Trade, you will weigh in the opposite Balance, the endless Miseries you and your Descendants must endure from an established arbitrary Power. You will not forget the Honour of your Country, that must from your Behaviour take its Title in the Estimation of the World, to Glory, or to Shame; and you will, with the deepest Attention, reflect, that if the peaceable Mode of Opposition recommended by us, be broken and rendered ineffectual, as your cruel and haughty Ministerial Enemies, from a contemptuous
Opinion of your Firmness, infolently predict will be the Case, you must inevitably be reduced to choose, either a more dangerous Contest, or a final, ruinous, and infamous Submission.
Motives thus cogent, arising from the Emergency of your unhappy Condition, must excite your utmost Diligence and Zeal, to give all possible Energy to the pacific Measures calculated for your Relief: But we think Ourselves bound in Duty to observe to you, that the Scheme agitated against these Colonies, have been so conducted, as to render it prudent, that you should extend your Views to the most unhappy Events, and be in all Respects prepared for every Contingency. Above all Things we earnestly intreat you, with Devotion of Spirit, Penitence of Heart, and Amendment of Life, to humble yourselves, and implore the Favour of Almighty God. And we fervently beseech his Divine Goodness, to take you into his gracious Protection.
NEW-POR T, October 31.
We have certain Intelligence, by Capt. Thomlinson, that the City of London had subscribed 5000l. Sterl. for the Town of Boston, and that it was expected they would make up 7000l.
Last Thursday Evening, it being reported that a Gentleman in this Town, had purchased a Quantity of Blankets to send to General Governor GAGE, a Number of the Inhabitants waited on him to enquire into the Matter, when he informed them he had purchased about 40 Pair for the said Purpose, but did not imagine it would have given Uneasiness to the People; and readily gave his Word the Blankets should not be sent, upon which the People counted the Blankets, and dispersed peaceably; the next Day the Blankets were returned to the Store and Shop where they had been purchased. This may be a Warning to other Merchants not to attempt to support our Enemies.
NEW-YORK, October 31.
Letters from London say, "A War with Spain is daily expected, the British Minister at the Spanish Court having informed his Catholic Majesty, that in case he attacked the Portuguese, an English Fleet would immediately pay a Visit to the Port of Cadiz."
BOSTON, November 7.
On Friday Evening last, in pursuing a Person who had been guilty of breaking the Peace in Charlestown, a Batel and Bag of Tea were stumbled on, which were immediately carried to the Training-Field and committed to the Flames; after they were consumed, it was suggested there was more in the same Place; upon which a Search was made, and enough found to fill a large Hoghead, which was conveyed to a Place called the Green, before Cape-Betton Tavern, and a Quantity of Faggots laid round it, they were set on Fire and the whole consumed: Every Thing was conducted with such Stillness and order, that many People there knew nothing of it until the next Morning. It is supposed the Quantity destroyed was between 4 and 500 Weight.
We hear a Gentleman belonging to Newbury Port was very active in demolishing the above Tea.
Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman in London to his Friend in Boston, dated September 1. 1774.
"I have been a Tour of upwards of 1500 Miles; I do assure you in my whole Travels I have found two out of three in favour of Boston, and the People in general seem to be much pleased that you make such a steady Stand, the People on this Side the Water ever expected you would have submitted immediately; the Ministry are much disappointed, and by what I can gather they much repent what has been done, I have heard it's a Plan of-----, and was determined to gain the Point, I tell them they may break the Necks of the Bostonians but they never will bend them. Nothing but a steady Stand will bring Matters to Rights; I shan't embark any Goods until I find Matters are settled to the Satisfaction of this Country and America. The Friends of America increase daily, I am in Hopes a Subscription will be set on Foot for Boston, I urge it very strongly."
Extract of a Letter from London August 27.
"I add these few Lines to assure you, that the Ministry have extended the Influence of the Treasury, to America.----- People have been consulted here to know who are the fittest Objects of Bribery, and most powerful to create Divisions among you.----- Warrants have been granted to the Secretary of State, for America, expressly for secret Service.----- What can it be for but to corrupt and divide?"
P. S. Publish the above instantly, 'tis true and ought to be known."
The Grand Continental Congress, which met at Philadelphia the fifth of September last, broke up on Wednesday the 26th of October; the Delegates from this Province, are expected to arrive in Town on Wednesday next.----- The Proceedings of this Congress, containing Extracts from their Votes and Proceedings, viz. the Bill of Rights, a List of Grievances, the Association, an Address to the People of Great-Britain, and a Memorial to the Inhabitants of the british American Colonies, will soon be published.
A Correspondent says the following is a Fact, viz. "one of the Addressers and Professors, the ninth in the List, being bound on a Journey to Quebec, fearing the just Resentment of the Country, prudently bought a large Wig and altered his Name to Robert Wolf, and passed thro' the Country in that false Manner."
PHILADELPHIA October 19.
A Correspondent observes, that an old, ingenious Mechanic having taken under his serious Consideration the many audacious Insults given by the Soldiers to the good People of the Town of Boston.----- fired with the Love of Liberty and the Preservation of his Countrymen, he set himself to work, and has completed an Engine that will throw five Hundred Gallons of melted Brimstone, in the Space of one Minute, to the Distance of one Hundred and Twenty Yards. It is judged by every Person skill'd in Mechanism, who has seen this uncommonly curious constructed Machine perform, that it will do more Execution, in one Hour, than any twelve Pieces of the best Cannon planted on Boston Neck.----- This most extraordinary physical Implement of War, it is said will speedily be sent to our brave suffering Brethren in the Town of Boston; and which, if it doth not entirely remove General Gage's Horn-Work, will, it is probable, effectually stop a certain infectious Disease, by curing the scabby ministerial Gang of their itching Disorder.
NEW-YORK, October 27.
Extract of a Letter from London, dated September 3. 1774.
"The Tools of Administration, are at present more than usually calm; a Calm that perhaps may be only a Prelude to a Storm; they are anxiously waiting a Result of the Congress, and judging of the Americans, by themselves, were so sanguine in their Expectations that the Terror of their Armaments would frighten you into a Submission to their Edict, that they cannot yet erase them Ideas, but still expect them to beg Mercy Cap in Hand. An Express was sent to General Amherst, who had a private Conference, but the Result is not known. It is said that it was proposed to him to go with 2000 Hanoverians to America, or the 3d Regiment of the Guards, &c. and that Sir William Draper is appointed a Governor and is going with Troops (it is supposed) to New York, Mansfield is gone to France, many think to concert measures with the French Court against America, or to bring in the Pretender. It is whispered that the Friends at Court will themselves invite him, and lay the blame on the Americans; a similar Conduct has been pursued with regard to the Indies, and with some of your Colony Disputes about Patents and Boundaries."
"Many of your Friends here are horribly afraid that some of the Bait laid by the Ministry to enslave you will succeed. It is said many of your leading men will be tempted by lucrative Places, as Agents or Contractors for Government, in the purchase of Wheat and other necessary Articles; which, beside raising domestic Enemies (the most dangerous of any among yourselves,) will answer the double Purpose of reducing you to Poverty (in the Midst of Plenty) and then to Slavery. Besides it is proposed to lay many tempting Advantages in the Way of those who join in the Scheme, from which all others are to be excluded; in short your Virtue will be tried to the utmost, by those whose long Practice and Experience in all the Arts of Corruption, will be but too likely to ensure them Success, and will make it necessary to exert your utmost Vigilance to guard against Deception, and especially that you be not betrayed by those you confide in among yourselves."
Your Committee Disputes have been published in all the Papers over and over, and have been disadvantageous to your Cause.----- Lord Chatham and all your Friends are anxiously concerned at your critical Situation; but your Unanimity, and the Spirit and Propriety of your Resolutions, rejoiced the Hearts of every Friend to constitutional Freedom, and has done the highest Honour to America. Maintain your Firmness and Unanimity, & depend upon Heaven for Success; hope nothing from the People here----- but if you persevere----- we shall soon join you by Thousands; more and more daily espouse your Cause, and I believe it will shortly be as much ours as yours. It will not be worth while to send here any Deputies from the Congress; they would only be injured and treated with Contempt; but at home they may do all the Business effectually. I expect 1500 respectable People of considerable Property, will shortly remove to reside in America, but the Ministry, in order to discourage Emigration, are endeavouring to make living there as uneasy as it is here, &c.
Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman in London to his Correspondent in New York.
"Something has been done, or intended to be done by Administration to divide the principal Merchants of New-York; I do not know precisely the Sum to be given, but you may risk your Life upon it that the Treasury has been open to some of the leading Men among you; the Minister has taken great Pains to learn who are best worth his Purchase; you may guess who are his Objects, by the Actions and Conduct of the Slaves he has made,----- watch them attentively and you will find them out: They are the first Class with respect to Family and Fortune; be therefore on your Guard, and trust only in the Spirit of the People at large."
Mr. Thomas Charles Williams, who arrived here yesterday in the Ship Samson, Capt. Coupar from London, is extremely uneasy at a Report being spread, that he shipped the Tea lately destroyed at Anapolis in Maryland, as mentioned in this Day's Paper. He assures the Public the said Report is groundless, and intreats they will suspend their Opinion upon that Matter a few Days, when he hopes to give them the fullest Proofs of his Innocence.
CONSTANTINOPLE, (Turkey) July 18.
The twenty Second of last Month, a dreadful Fire broke out here, which burnt eleven Hours. Upwards of 1000 Houses and Shops were reduced to Ashes. Every Day adds to the Misery of the Inhabitants of this Capital.
QUEBEC, October 6.
To his Excellency GUY CARLETON, Captain-General, and Governor in Chief of the Province of Quebec, Vice-Admiral of the same, &c. &c.
The humble ADDRESS of the Citizens of Montreal.
THE Prayers we have so long prefer'd for your Excellency's Return to your Government of this Province are at length granted! You came to diffuse the most signal Favours of the besty greatest and most gracious Sovereign and of his Parliament, among New Subjects who rejoice in living under such an Empire.
May our Hearts overwhelmed with the most perfect Joy and the warmest Gratitude never cease to emit the Raptures of them, may our Voices and Writings transmit the Remembrance of such Favours to the latest Posterity, by forever proclaiming the Clemency, and Humanity of a Nation, that by subduing a People has made them Partakers of its Happiness, and announcing to our most distant Offspring that he was a generous Governor, compassionate, a Friend of Mankind, who risked the Dangers of the Seas in Quest of Means for rendering them happy; while in his Absence they were protected by his Lieutenant Governor, who enabled them by his Prudence to support the melancholy Uncertainty they were then reduced to.
We beseech your Excellency to accept the most unfeigned Assurances of our Affection, Zeal and warm Attachment for His Majesty's sacred Person, our Compliments of Congratulation on the happy Arrival of your Excellency with your amiable Family, and our incessant Prayers to the Almighty for your Preservation and Prosperity.
Signed at Montreal, the 22d of September, 1774.

TO BE SOLD, By George Craigie
At his Store in Portsmouth, A General Assortment of
English Goods,
Exceeding Cheap for CASH, Among which are the following, Viz.
SUPERFINE and low priz'd Broad Cloths, Wiltons, German Serges, Ratteens, Kerseys, Flannels, Baizes, Swanskins, Thicksets, Fustians, Cotton Velvet and Velverets, Shalloons, Tammies, Durants, Calamancoes, —plain and striped Camblets, — yard wide Crapes, Poplins, figured Stuffs, Grograms, Russells, worsted Damasks, Bombazeen.—A great variety of fashionable Galicoes and Patches, —black, cloth and sky blue Taffities, — Black Satin, Capuchine Silk, —sky blue, cloth and black ell wide Persians, French Alimode, Barcelona and other Silk Handkerchiefs, Linnen, Kenting and Cotton ditto, black and white Gauze, black and white Catgur, 3 qrs. 7 8ths & yard wide Linnens, strip'd, plain & flower'd Lawns, demy Cambrick, Lawn Aprons, fiesia Linnen, Nankeens, Ginghams, Check Linnen, Dowlas, strip'd Holland, yellow Holland, Stay Braid, —black, blue, white, and Crimson Satin Hats, —black and white Laces, snail Trimings. Mens and Womens Thread, Cotton and Worsted Hose, Mens white silk Ditto, silk & worsted Gloves and Mitts, Womens English and Lynn Calamanco Shoes, Castor and Felt Hatts, —white Lamb Gloves, black Glaz'd dit. white Kid dit. —Breeches Patterns, Kilmarnock, Worsted and mock Velvet Capps, white and brown Buckram, silk Knee Garters, scarf Twist, sewing Silk, coloured & white Threads, Twist, Metal & Horn Buttons, Shoe Bindings, silk Ferrits, Ostrich Feathers, Ivory, crooked horn and Barbers Combs, Qualities, Garterings, Tapes, Pins, white Chappell Needles, Cap-Wire, Skilletons, Looking Glasses, Cloth, Shoe, Buckle, and Floor Brushes, —Horse Whips, Warming Pans, Frying Pans, Flat Irons, Box Irons, Bras and Iron Candlesticks, Shovels and Tongs, Bellows. —A large Assortment of Iron Ware, —Case Knives, Pen, Cuttoe, and Jack dit. Sleeve Buttons, Jews Harps, Spectacles, —Snuff Boxes, Shears, Scizars, Thimbles, Razors, Knitting Needles, Spurs, Tobacco Boxes, Shoe Knives, Awlblades, Shoe Tacks, Shoe Nails, Pinchers, Nippers, Hammers, Gimblets, Tapborers, Hinges, — and Locks of all sorts. —A variety of metal, shoe, and Knee Buckles, Bras Cocks, large and small Files, Glue, —Handsaws, Pewter, Platters, Plates, Pots, Porringers, Basons, blocktin Spoons, —Bibles, Testaments, Psalters, Spelling Books, Primers, Cartridge & Writing Paper, Paste Board, Ink Powder, Sealing Wax, Wafers, Slates, 4d. 6d. 1od. and 2od. Nails, 3d. 4d. 5d. 6d. Brads, Ozna-brigs, Ticklinburgs, Powder, Shott, Lead, German Steel, Cod-Lines, Fish Hooks, Twine, Time Glasses, Velvet Corks, Seives, pound Beads, Keppins Snuff, Wool Cards.
A good Assortment of Crockery Ware. West-India and New-England Rum.— Molasses, by the Hoghead or Barrel.— Loaf Sugar by the Hundred.—Brown Sugar and Flour by the Barrel.—Cotton, Chocolate and Rice, by the Hundred.— Indigo, Pepper, Allspice, Ginger, Cinnamon, Cloves, Mace, Nutmegs, Raisins, Mustard, Starch, Red-Wood, Log-Wood, Allum, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c.
|| Barnstead. ||
THE Proprietors of Barnstead are hereby Notified, to meet at the House of Ez. kiel G. Adams, Innholder in Newington, on Monday the 21st Day of November Instant, at two o'Clock Afternoon for the following Purposes, viz. — 1. To chuse a Moderator and other necessary Officers. — 2. To see if said Proprietors will vote to raise Money to satisfy the Damages and Cost recovered by the proprietors of Chichester against one Dodavah Bunker, a Settler under Barnstead. — And 3. To see if the proprietors of Barnstead will commence an Action of Ej. etment or other real Action against the proprietors of Chichester, or any claimng under them, for entering upon any Lands within the Bounds of Barnstead, in order to ascertain and settle the Lines between Barnstead and Chichester; and whether they will raise Money for such purposes? — 4. To see if the proprietors will vote and empower another Agent to join their Agent already chosen for settling the Bounds between Barnstead and Chichester, by Action or otherwise, as they may judge proper. And to vote or act any other Matters or Things they may then think necessary. Nov. 2d 1774.
RICHARD DOWNING, Proprietors Clerk.
§ Salisbury §
NOTICE is hereby given to the delinquent Proprietors of Salisbury, that unless they pay their several TAXES to me the Subscriber, at my House in Kingston, (which has been voted at a legal Meeting,) by the 20th of this Instant November, their Lands will be advertised for Sale as the Law directs. JOHN CALFE, Collector. Kingston, Nov. 2, 1774.
§ Dorchester §
THE Owners of Lands in the Township of Dorchester, are hereby notified, that the Proprietors of said Township at their Meeting August 8. last past, voted to raise a Tax of Six Shillings on each hundred Acre Lot in said Township, divided and undivided, to be paid to the Proprietors Treasurer by the 1st Day of October next, to defray Expence of opening and repairing Roads, &c. and have appointed me to collect the same. — This is therefore to notify the Owners of said Lands that unless they pay to me at Dorchester, the Taxes due on their respective Lots by the 18th Day of Novem. next, so much of their Lands will be advertised for Sale as will pay said Tax with the Charge of Advertising.
CALEB CLARK, Collector,
Dorchester, Sept. 22, 1774.
§ Dummer. §
WHEREAS the Proprietors of the Township of DUMMER, in the Province of New Hampshire, at their legal Meetings held at Portsmouth on the 10th and the 24th of June 1773. did at each Meeting vote a TAX of Five Dollars to be raised on each original Right or Share of Land for the Purposes of paying the Survey and Charter Charges; also for the surveying and clearing a Road through said Town — The Subscriber being chosen to collect said TAXES, takes this Method to desire the undermentioned delinquent Proprietors to pay the several Sums annexed to their Names, by the Second Day of December next — if not then paid, so much of their Land will be advertised for sale as will pay the same with Charges.
   1. 1. 1.     Peter Gilman, Esq; 1 10 Joseph Gilman 1 10   John Giddings, Esq; 1 10 Charles Rundlet 3 0   Nathaniel Folsom, Esq. 1 10 Eliphalet Hale 1 10   Nicholas Gilman, Esq. 1 10 Thomas Johnson 3 0   Daniel Tilton, 1 10 Nathaniel Rogers, Esq 3 0   Maj. John Gilman, 3 0 Joshua Bailey, 3 0   Richard Langdon 1 10 Abraham Palmer 3 0   Nathaniel Dewse 1 10 David Weeks 3 0   Walter Bryant jr. Esq. 3 0 Henry Eaton 3 0   John Wheelock, 3 0 Jacob Tilton of Co os 3 0   Samuel Gray 3 0 John Beard 3 0   Levi Frisby 3 0 Jesse Johnson 3 0   Silvanus Ripley 3 0 James Lloyd, Esq; 3 0   Moses Parsons 3 0 George Brimley 3 0   James Grant 3 0 Peletiah Bliss 3 0   William Knight, Esq. 3 0 Andrew Smith, 3 0   Isaac Lyman, 1 10 Sam'l Folsom Esq; 1 10  
A. R. CUTTER, Collector.
Portsmouth, October 25, 1774.
|| Lempster. ||
THE PROPRIETORS of LEMPSTER, in the Province of New Hampshire, are hereby Notified, that their Rights of LAND are assessed to the Amount of two pounds eighteen shillings Lawful Money; and that they pay the same to me the Subscriber by the First Day of December next, at my Dwelling House in Lempster aforesaid, or their Rights will be advertised for Sale at Public Vendue in the New Hampshire Gazette.
WILLIAM MARKHAM, Collector.
Lempster, October 10, 1774.
|| Northumberland. ||
THE Proprietors of NORTHUMBERLAND are desired to meet at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton, Innholder in Portsmouth, on Tuesday the 22d Day of November next, at three o'Clock P. M. for the following Purposes, viz To chuse a Moderator and other Officers that may be necessary for the Management of the Affairs of said Township. — To ascertain the Number of Lots that were confirmed to several of the Proprietors at their Meeting held the 5th of May 1771, and to confirm the Remainder of the proprietors in their Lots pitched. — To see if the proprietors will determine in what Manner the Assessors of said Propriety shall proceed after the Lands in said Township for the payment of such Sums of Money as have already or may hereafter be granted by said Propriety, and chuse a Collector or Collectors to collect the same. — To chuse a Committee to receive and execute Deeds for Lands agreed to be exchanged by the propriety. To determine on the Appropriation of Lands from Tree No. 15, to Beg Brook, and to act on such Matters as shall appear likely to facilitate the Settlement of said Township, and beneficial to said Propriety.
By Order of the Assessors, THOMAS MARTIN, Portsmouth, Oct. 25, 1774. Proprietors Clerk.
To Mr. Joseph Peirce, Clerk of the Proprietors of the Township of PIERMONT.
WE the Subscribers being Owners of more than one sixteenth Part of the Land in the Township of PIERMONT, do hereby request you to call a Meeting of the Proprietors of said Town, to be held at the House of Capt. Zebariah Foss, Innholder in Portsmouth, on the Fourteenth Day of November next, at Three of the Clock in the Afternoon for the following Purposes, viz. 1. To chuse a Moderator to regulate said Meeting. — 2. To chuse another Committee (if necessary) to examine all Accounts against said Propriety, and a just the same, so that it may be known how the Proprietors general Account stands, that the same may be ballanced. — 3. To chuse and empower a Committee to receive or make any Proposals for the Settlement of all Controversies between the Proprietors of said Town of Piermont and the Proprietors of the Town of Haverhill. — 4. To see if the Proprietors will vote any thing to the Inhabitants of said Piermont to enable them to settle a Minister. — 5. To see whether the Proprietors will give any further Assistance towards repairing the Roads through said Town. — 6. To vote such a Sum or Sums of Money towards discharging the Proprietors Debts if they should happen not to have sufficient in Stock. — 7. To chuse Assessors to assess such a Tax as may be found necessary. — 8. To choose a Collector or Collectors to collect said Tax when assessed, or any other Officers necessary. — 9. To see if the Proprietors will vote a certain Sum for the Prosecution of the Law Suits now pending between Piermont and Haverhill.
Samuel Sherburne, Richard Jenness,
Portsmouth Oct. 25, 1774. John Wendell, Joseph Meulton, in Be- half of Jonathan Meulton, Esq;
PURSUANT to the above Request, and by Virtue of a Vote of the Proprietors of said Town of Piermont, empowering their Clerk to call proprietary Meetings, when requir'd, agreeable to said Vote, I hereby notify and warn the said Proprietors to meet at the Time and Place mentioned in the foregoing Request, for the Purposes therein expressed.
JOSEPH PEIRCE Pro. Clerk.
Portsmouth October 26 1774.
§ Percy §
WHEREAS Application has been made to me the Subscriber, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Rockingham, in the Province aforesaid, by the Proprietors or Owners of more than one sixteenth part of the Township of PERCY, in the County of Grafton, to call a Meeting of the proprietors of said Town to act upon the following Matters and Things, viz. 1. To chuse a Moderator and other Officers that may be necessary for the Management of the Affairs of the said Township. — 2. To vote a TAX to defray the Expence already incurred. — 3. To chuse a Committee to view said Township for the Purpose of advising to the most probable Method for immediate Settlement of said Town. 4. To vote a TAX for the aforesaid Purpose. — 5. To chuse a Collector. — 6. To agree on a Method for calling future Meetings, and to transact such Matters as shall be thought for the Interest of said propriety.
Pursuant to the foregoing Application, I hereby Notify and warn the proprietors of said Township of Percy, to meet at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton, Innholder in Portsmouth, in the County of Rockingham, on Tuesday the 22d Day of November next, at six o'Clock P. M. to consider and act upon the Matters and Things before specified.
DANIEL WARNER, Justice Peace.
Portsmouth, October 25, 1774.

Proceedings of the Grand American Continental Congress at Philadelphia, September 5, 1774.
ASSOCIATION, &c.
WE his Majesty's most loyal Subjects, the Delegates of the several Colonies of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the three lower Counties of New-Castle, Kent and Sussex, on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, and South-Carolina, deputed to represent them in a Continental Congress, held in the City of Philadelphia, on the fifth Day of September, 1774, avowing our Allegiance to his Majesty, our Affection and Regard for our Fellow-Subjects in Great-Britain and elsewhere, affected with the deepest Anxiety, and most alarming Apprehensions at those Grievances and Distresses, with which his Majesty's American Subjects are oppressed, and having taken under our most serious Deliberation the State of the whole Continent, find, that the present unhappy Situation of our Affairs, is occasioned by a ruinous System of Colony Administration, adopted by the British Ministry about the Year 1763, evidently calculated for enslaving these Colonies, and, with them, the British Empire. In Prosecution of which System, various Acts of Parliament have been passed for raising a Revenue in America, for depriving the American Subjects in many Instances, of the Constitutional Trial by Jury, exposing their Lives to Danger, by directing a new & illegal Trial beyond the Seas, for Crimes alleged to have been committed in America; and in Prosecution of the same System, several late, cruel, and oppressive Acts, have been passed respecting the Town of Boston and the Massachusetts-Bay, and also an Act for extending the Province of Quebec so as to border on the Western Frontiers of these Colonies, establishing an Arbitrary Government therein, and discouraging the Settlement of British Subjects in that wide extended Country; thus by the Influence of civil Principles and ancient Prejudices to dispose the Inhabitants to act with Hostility against the free Protestant Colonies, whenever a wicked Ministry shall choose so to direct them.
To obtain Redress of these Grievances, which threaten Destruction to the Lives, Liberty & Property of his Majesty's Subjects in North-America, we are of Opinion that a Non-Importation, Non-Consumption, and Non-Exportation Agreement faithfully adhered to, will prove the most speedy, effectual, & peaceable Measure: — And therefore we do for ourselves, and the Inhabitants of the several Colonies, whom we represent, firmly agree and associate under the sacred Ties of Virtue, Honor, and Love of our Country, as follows:
First, That from and after the first Day of December next, we will not import into British America, from Great-Britain or Ireland, any Goods, Wares or Merchandise whatsoever, or from any other Place any such Goods, Wares or Merchandise, as shall have been exported from Great-Britain or Ireland; nor will we, after that Day, import any East-India Tea from any Part of the World; nor any Molasses, Syrups, Panes, Coffee, or Piemento, from the British Plantations, or from Dominica; nor Wines from Madeira, or the Western Islands; nor foreign Indigo.
Second, That we will neither import nor purchase any Slave imported after the 1st Day of December next, after which Time we will wholly discontinue the Slave Trade, and will neither be concerned in it ourselves, nor will we hire our Vessels, nor sell our Commodities or Manufactures to those who are concerned in it.
Third, As a Non-Consumption Agreement, strictly adhered to will be an effectual Security for the Observation of the Non-Importation, we, as above, solemnly agree and associate, that from this Day, we will not purchase or use any Tea imported on Account of the East-India Company, or any on which a Duty hath been or shall be paid; and from and after the 1st Day of March next, we will not purchase or use any East-India Tea whatsoever, nor will we, nor shall any Person for or under us, purchase or use any of those Goods, Wares or Merchandise, we have agreed not to import, which we shall know or have Cause to suspect, were imported after the first Day of December, except such as come under the Rules & Directions of the tenth Article hereafter mentioned.
Fourth, The earnest Desire we have, not to injure our Fellow-Subjects in Great-Britain, Ireland, or the West-Indies, induces us to suspend a Non-Exportation until the tenth Day of September, 1775; at which Time if the said Acts and Parts of Acts of the British Parliament, herein after mentioned, are not repealed, we will not, directly or indirectly, export any Merchandise or Commodity whatsoever, to Great-Britain, Ireland or the West-Indies, except Rice to Europe.
Fifth, Such as are Merchants, and use the British and Irish Trade, will give Orders, as soon as possible, to their Factors, Agents and Correspondents, in Great-Britain and Ireland, not to ship any Goods to them on any Pretence whatsoever, as they cannot be received in America; and if any Merchant residing in Great-Britain or Ireland, shall directly or indirectly ship any Goods, Wares, or Merchandise, for America, in Order to break the said Non-Importation Agreement, or in any Manner contravene the same, on such unworthy Conduct being well attested, it ought to be made public; and on the same being so done, we will not from thenceforth have any commercial Connexion with such Merchant.
Sixth, That such as are Owners of Vessels will give positive Orders to their Captains, or Masters not to receive on board their Vessels any Goods prohibited by the said Non-Importation Agreement, on Pain of immediate Dismission from their Service.
Seventh, We will use our utmost Endeavours to improve the Breed of Sheep and increase their Number to the greatest Extent, and to that End, we will kill them as sparingly as may be, especially those of the most profitable kind; nor will export any to the West-Indies, or elsewhere; and those of us who are or may become overstocked with, or can conveniently spare any Sheep, will dispose of them to our Neighbours, especially to the poorer Sort, on moderate Terms.
Eight, That we will in our several Stations encourage Frugality, Oeconomy, and Industry; and promote Agriculture, Arts, and the Manufactures of this Country, especially that of Wool; and will discountenance and discourage, every Species of Extravagance and Dissipation, especially all Horse-Racing, and all Kinds of Gaming, Cock Fighting, Exhibitions of Shews, Plays, and other expensive Diversions and Entertainments. And on the Death of any Relation, or Friend, none of us or any of our Families, will go into any further Mourning Dress, than a black Crape or Ribbon on the Arm or Hat for Gentlemen, and a black Ribbon and Necklace for Ladies, and we will discontinue the giving of Gloves and Scarfs at Funerals.
Ninth, That such as are Venders of Goods or Merchandise, will not take Advantage of the Scarcity of Goods that may be occasioned by this Association, but will sell the same at the Rates we have been respectively accustomed to do, for twelve Months last past. — And if any Vendor of Goods or Merchandise, shall sell any such Goods on higher Terms, or shall in any Manner, or by any Device whatsoever, violate or depart from this Agreement, no Person ought, nor will any of us deal with any such Person, or his or her Factor or Agent, at any Time thereafter, for any Commodity whatever.
Tenth, In Case any Merchant, Trader, or other Persons shall import any Goods or Merchandise after the first Day of February next, the same ought forthwith at the Election of the Owner, to be either re-shipped, or delivered up to the Committee of the County, or Town wherein they shall be imported, to be stored at the Risk of the Importer, until the Non-Importation Agreement shall cease, or be sold under the Direction of the Committee aforesaid; and in the last mentioned Case, the Owner or Owners of such Goods, shall be reimbursed (out of the Sales) the first Cost and Charges, the Profit if any, to be applied towards relieving and employing such poor Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, as are immediate Sufferers by the Boston Port-Bill; and a particular Account of all Goods so returned, Stored, or Sold, to be inserted in the public Papers; and if any Goods or Merchandizes shall be imported after the said first Day of February, the same ought forthwith
to be sent back again, without breaking any of the Packages thereof.
Eleventh, That a Committee be chosen in every County, City, and Town, by those who are qualified to vote for Representatives in the Legislature, whose Business it shall be attentively to observe the Conduct of all Persons touching this Association; and when it shall be made to appear to the Satisfaction of a Majority of any such Committee, that any Person within the Limits of their Appointment has violated this Association, that such Majority do forthwith cause the Truth of the Case to be published in the Gazette, to the End that all such Foes to the Rights of British America may be publicly known and universally contemned as the Enemies of American Liberty; and thenceforth we respectively will break off all Dealings with him or her.
Twelfth, That the Committees of Correspondence in the respective Colonies do frequently inspect the Entries of their Custom-Houses, and inform each other from Time to Time of the true State thereof, and of every other material Circumstance that may occur relative to this Association.
Thirteenth, That all Manufactures of this Country be sold at reasonable Prices, so that no undue Advantage be taken of a future Scarcity of Goods.
Fourteenth, And we do further agree and resolve, that we will have no Trade, Commerce, Dealings or Intercourse whatsoever, with any Colony or Province in North-America, which shall not accede to, or which shall hereafter violate this Association, but will hold them as unworthy of the Rights of Freedom, & as inimical to the Liberties of their Country.
And we do solemnly bind ourselves and our Constituents, under the Ties aforesaid, to adhere to this Association until such Parts of the several Acts of Parliament passed since the Close of the last War, as impose or continue Duties on Tea, Wine, Molasses, Syrups, Panes, Coffee, Sugar, Piemento, Indigo, Foreign Paper, Glass, and Painters Colours, imported into America, and extend the Powers of the Admiralty Courts beyond their ancient Limits, deprive the American Subject of Trial by Jury, authorize the Judge's Certificate to indemnify the Prosecutor from Damages, that he might otherwise be liable to from a Trial by his Peers, require oppressive Security from a Claimant of Ships or Goods seized, before he shall be allowed to defend his Property, are repealed. — And until that Part of the Act of the 12. G. 3. Chap. 24, entitled, "An Act for the better securing his Majesty's Dock-Yards, Magazines, Ships, Ammunition, and Stores," by which, any Persons charged with committing any of the Offences therein described, in America, may be tried in any Shire or County within the Realm, is repealed. — And until the four Acts passed in the last Session of Parliament, viz. That for stopping the Port, & blocking up the Harbour of Boston — That for altering the Charter and Government of the Massachusetts-Bay — And that which is entitled "An Act for the better Administration of Justice, &c." — And that "For extending the Limits of Quebec, &c." are repealed. And we recommend it to the Provincial Conventions, and to the Committees in the respective Colonies, to establish such further Regulations as they may think proper, for carrying into Execution this Association.
The foregoing Association being determined upon by the CONGRESS, was ordered to be subscribed by the several Members thereof; and thereupon we have hereunto set our respective Names accordingly.
In Congress Philadelphia October 20, 1774. Signed, PEYTON RANDOLPH, President. For New Hampshire, John Sullivan, Nathaniel Folsom. Massachusetts-Bay, Thomas Cushing, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine. Rhode Island, Stephen Hopkins, Samuel Ward. Connecticut, Eliphalet Dyer, Roger Sherman, Silas Deane. New-York, Isaac Low, John Alsop, John Jay, James Duane, William Floyd, Henry Wiitener, S. Boerum. New-Jersey, J. Kinsey, W. Livingston, S. Crane, R. Smith. Pennsylvania, Joseph Galloway, John Dickinson, C. Humphreys, Thomas Mifflin, Edward Biddle, John Morton, G. Ross. New Castle, &c. Caesar Rodney, Thomas Mc. Keane, George Read. Maryland, Mathew Tilghman, Thomas Johnson, William Paca, Samuel Chase. Virginia, Richard H. Lee, George Washington, P. Henry jr., Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison, Edmund Pendleton. North-Carolina, William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, R. Caswell. South-Carolina, Henry Middleton, Thomas Lynch, Christopher Gadsden, John Rutledge, Edward Rutledge.

By the Harriet Packet, Capt. Lee, who is arrived at New-York From Falmouth, we have the following Advices to the 10th of September, viz.
LONDON August 22.
Sept. 6. A Compact is lately signed between our Court and that of the three Northern Powers; by which, in Case of a Continental War, they have stipulated to furnish Great-Britain between them with 60,000 Men, so that there will be no necessity to send a Man out of England.
A letter from Edinburgh says, Accounts are received in Town of a Revolution in Russia; the Empress is said to be dethroned and imprisoned, and the Grand Duke placed in her Stead.
Advice is said to be received, That three Spanish Men of War had sunk a Portuguese Frigate, off the Canary Islands and all on board perished.
By a Letter from Lisbon to a Gentleman at Westminster, we learn that a Squadron of 7 Spanish Men of War of the Line and 2 Frigates, have been cruising off that Port for some Time past.
On Saturday Orders were sent to Portsmouth and Plymouth, for the Guards to be man'd to their full Complement, both Sailors and Marines.
It is not settled when the Parliament is to meet, but a Council will be held the latter End of this Week, when it is expected a Proclamation will be issued for calling them together early in November.
September 8. The following, it is said, is the Foundation of the Dispute between the Courts of Madrid and Lisbon, when the late Disturbance happened in Spanish America about two Years ago, a great many of the principal Inhabitants of Chiloe, after being driven from their native Settlements, crossed the River Plata, and took Shelter in the Portuguese Settlement of St. Salvador, where their Persons were suffered to be free, they were stripped of all their Effects. About a Twelvemonth after, a general Pacification being concluded between the Indians and Spaniards, these Chiefs went back to their own Country, and complained of the Usage they received of the Portuguese, which the Court of Madrid is now contending. It appears that St. Salvador, and all the Lands as far as Cape Thomas, did originally belong to the Spaniards.
On Monday a Messenger was sent with Dispatches to the Commissioners of Portsmouth and Plymouth with Orders for fitting out six Ships of the Line.
Sept. 10. Yesterday a Messenger was sent off to Lord Mansfield at Paris; and another with some to Lord Grantham at Madrid.
An Evening Paper says, "We are assured from good Authority that General Charlton is gone over to his Government of Quebec, with positive Orders to embody 30,000 Roman Catholic Canadians immediately as a Militia, who are to be under the same military Law as regular Troops."
A Letter from Madrid of August 19th, says, "It is really amazing to behold the Ardor with which the Spaniards are making their great Preparations both by Land and Sea, which fully proves their Intentions of carrying on the War they are going to engage in with the utmost Spirit. Recruits are raising in every province and General O'Reilly has just marched with a Body of Horse and Foot to form a Camp near the Frontiers of Portugal; and in a few Days a Manifesto of War will be published."
NEW-YORK, Octo. 27.
The Embarrassments occasioned to Administration, by the refractory Behaviour of the King of Spain, who is on the Point of denouncing War against Portugal, and of quarrelling with the English Nation, will be greatly increased on the Arrival of the Scarborough Man of War, which failed from Boston the 5th of September, with his Excellency General GAGE's Dispatches, presently after the memorable Alarm, which for a few Days occasioned great Agitations in the Eastern Provinces.
Extract of a Letter from London, dated September 4.
THE Unanimity of the Colonies is an Honour to your Cause, and will make even your Enemies respect you. The most embittered Advocates, for Tyranny cannot help approving a Love of Liberty and an undaunted Sacrifice of every subordinate Advantage, for its Support and Preservation. Be as a Body animated with one Soul. Be firm and steady in all your Operations; but as you love Liberty and with Success to its Cause, as you desire to have your present Struggle applauded thro' Europe, let your Measures be concerted in a calm, open and temperate Manner. Riot and Tumult will be construed as Marks that your Opposition proceeds from Licentiousness, and of Consequence that your Cause is only supported by the Multitude. Zeal and Temper blended will discover a fixed and stationary Love of Freedom, not the mad Impulses and Ravings of Passions. Let not any of your Resolves, and if possible none of your Productions contain harsh Reflections against Great-Britain. Such heated Publications alienate from you the Affections of the People in England, and lead them to think you Enemies to the Name of Briton; whereas by mild and distinguished Measures you may gain them to your Favour.
"Petition and Remonstrance seem to be the most probable Mode of succeeding. Administration will be willing to come to an amicable Settlement and Adjustment of the Bounds of your Privileges, and the Authority of Parliament, provided it might be done with Safety to the Dignity of Government. Is it not more reasonable as well as more prudent to attempt a Settlement of your contradictory Claims by Treaty than by Violence? Violence, if attended with Success on either Side, will be injurious to both. An Englishman will reason that, though an American could not be justly taxed without the Consent of the Representative, yet such a Plea will not excuse him in destroying the Property of an Individual or Body of Englishmen; that the India Company should therefore be indemnified by the Bostonians, and Submission made for the Insult offered to Government. To assert that this would be giving up the Point in Dispute is the most ridiculous Position that ever dropt from the Pen of a raving Politician. Is the making Restitution for another's Property destroyed a Concession of Right in the injured Party to Tax you without your Consent? Is the making a due Submission and Acknowledgement when you have done Wrong, to give Government a Precedent of Taxation without Representation? These Ideas have no more Agreement than the paying a lawful Debt has to that of being a Slave, or a French Horn to a Hasty Pudding."
"Such Pretences as these disgrace your Cause, and give your Enemies ground of Triumph. While you contend against the Injustice of others, give a noble Instance of your Readiness to do Justice even to your Enemies."
CUSTOM-HOUSE, Piscataqua.
Nov. 10th.
Inward Entries.
FROM.
Ship Abigail John Rollins, Grenada. Brig Saly. Benjamin Gunnison, Ditto. Schooner Industry, Josiah Smith, Nevis. Clear'd Outwards FOR. Brig Wallingford, William White, Madeira. Brig Bessey, Moses Brown, West-Indies. Ship St. John, Thomas Courtin Chivers, Ditto. Brig Charlotte, Jacob Mills, New-Haven. Schooner Sally, Joseph Muchmore, Ditto. Brig Boyd, Robert Wallace, Bristol. Ship Moon, George Hastings, LONDON.
A particular Account of the burning a Vessel with her Sails and Colours flying, on Board of which was 2320 lb. of that detestable Weed TEA, and was, together with said Vessel, in a few Hours, consumed in the Presence of a great Number of Spectators, ANNAPOLIS (Maryland) October 20.
THE Brig Peggy Stewart, Captain Jackson from London, having on board 17 Packages, containing Two Thousand three Hundred & twenty Pounds of that detestable Weed TEA, arrived here on Friday last. The Tea was consigned to Thomas Charles Williams and Company, Merchants in this City. Those of the Committee for Anne Arundel County who were in Town, hearing of the Arrival of said Vessel, met in the Afternoon, and were informed the said Vessel had been entered in the Forenoon of that Day, and the Duty on the Tea paid to the Collector, by Mr. Anthony Stewart, one of the Owners of said Brig. Four only of the Committee being present, it was thought advisable to call a Meeting of the People. Notice was thereupon immediately given, Many of the Inhabitants, together with a Number of Gentlemen from Anne Arundel, Baltimore and other Counties, who were attending the Provincial Court, met, and having called before them the Importers and the Captain of the Ship, together with the Deputy Collector, The Question was moved and seconded, whether the Tea should be landed in America or not? And the Question being put, was unanimously determined in the Negative. A Committee of twelve Persons was thereupon appointed to attend landing the other Goods on Board said Vessel, and to prevent landing the Tea. After which the Meeting adjourned to Wednesday the 19th, at 11 o'clock. At which Time the Members of the Committee, and other the Inhabitants of the County, were requested to attend at this Place. In Consequence of this Adjournment, a great Number of very respectable Gentlemen from Anne Arundel, Baltimore, and Prince George's Counties met here, and amongst others 8 of the Committee for Anne Arundel County. Those of the Committee proceeded to examine into the Affair, calling before them Messrs. James and Joseph Williams, and Anthony Stewart, and also took into Consideration, an Offer made by said Williams and Stewart, to destroy the Tea, and make such Concessions as might be satisfactory to the Committee and the People assembled. The Committee were of Opinion, if the Tea was destroyed by the voluntary Act of the Owners, and proper Concessions made, that nothing further ought to be required. This their Opinion being reported to the Assembly, was not satisfactory to all present. Mr. Stewart then voluntarily offered to burn the Vessel and the Tea in her, and that proper acknowledgements should be made and published in the Maryland Gazette. Those acknowledgements were accordingly made, and are as follows.
"We James Williams, Joseph Williams, and Anthony Stewart, do severally acknowledge, that we have committed a most daring Insult, and Act of the most pernicious Tendency to the Liberties of America; we the said Williams's in importing the Tea, and the said Stewart in paying the Duty thereon, and thereby deservedly incurred the Displeasure of the People now convened, and all others interested in the Preservation of the constitutional Rights and Liberties of North America, do ask Pardon for the same; and we solemnly declare, for the future that we never will infringe any Resolution formed by the People for the Salvation of their Rights, nor will we do any Act that may be injurious to the Liberties of the People: and to shew our Desire of living in Amity with the Friends to America, we do request this Meeting, or as many as may choose to attend to be present at any Place where the People shall appoint, and we will there commit to the Flames or otherwise destroy, as the People may choose, the Detestable Article which has been the Cause of this our Misconduct."
ANTHONY STEWART, JOSEPH WILLIAMS, JAMES WILLIAMS.
After which Mr. Sewart, and Messrs. James & Joseph Williams, Owners of the Tea, went on board said Vessel with her sails and Colours flying, and voluntarily set Fire to the Tea, and in a few Hours, the whole, together with the Vessel, was consumed in the Presence of a great Number of Spectators.
Annapolis, Oct. 18th, 1774.
The Committee for Anne Arundel County receiv'd information from Baltimore, that a considerable Quantity of Tea was expected on Board the Generous Friends, Captain Nairne: The Ship arrived on Saturday Evening the 15th instant, and on Examination, it did not appear by the Cockets, or Entry at the Collector's Office, that any Tea had been on board. It appear'd by a Letter to Mr. Hodgkin, that six Casks of Tea had been shipped, and that Capt. Nairne refused to sail from London until the Tea was relanded; for which Conduct Capt. Nairne had the Thanks of the Committee. By Order, JOHN DUCKET, Clk. Com.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 11, 1774.
ROCHESTER November 8th, 1774. STRAFFORD ff. TO those that we in these Parts of the Province, are as warm Defenders of our civil Liberties as those in the Capital, and are as much on their Watch against aiding and Assisting arbitrary Men in forging Chains to promote their Country's Ruin, according to their Ability.
Therefore when Fame founded the Report in our Borders that a Number of Artificers were gone from Woolborough, Middletown, &c. to Boston, on the Errand of erecting Barracks for the Soldiers there, we were much alarmed here, and at a Muster of the Companies of Militia here last Week, it being suspected that Nicholas Austin of Middletown was an Accomplice or Agent somehow in sending them, our Sons of Liberty here would have marched directly to have paid him a Visit; but we fearing what might be the Issue of the justly enraged People in such an Undertaking; Numbers of the most considerate warmly withheld it, and proposed to send for him to meet us at some Time and Place that might be agreed on.
Therefore the Committee of Correspondence here wrote to him to meet us at the House of Stephen Wentworth Innholder in Rochester, on Tuesday the 8th instant, at which Time and Place he attended, and before a Number of the Inhabitants of this and the neighbouring Towns, met to hear his Defence, by Examination on his solemn Affirmation before John Plumer, Esq; that he only spoke to four of the Men, and gave them Orders to go to the Governor, and speak to him, and that he did not let the Men know they were to go to Boston, but had a Mistrust they were, by what the Governor said to him at his Return; he further lays the Gov. told him that the People would be dissatisfied when they came to know it, but he thought it would be for the best, and further declares he told the Men that the General of the Army would pay them their Wages. And then on his Knees, when nothing less would satisfy, he made the following Confession.
"Before this Company I confess I have been aiding and assisting in sending Men to Boston to build Barracks for the Soldiers to live in, at which you have Reason justly to be offended, which I am sorry for, and humbly ask your Forgiveness; and I do affirm that for the future I never will be aiding or assisting in any Wise whatever in Act or Deed contrary to the Constitution of the Country, as Witness my hand." NICHOLAS AUSTIN.
This is the true State of the above Transaction before us and a respectable Number of Attendance from the Towns round us to see
the above.
DANIEL WINGATE JOHN PLUMMER JOHN MC. DUFFEE.
Committee of Correspondence.
September 30, Captain Thompson of the Maria, from London, spoke the Brig Charming Molly, George Wilson, from Quebec to Barcelona, out 17 Days, all well.
Choice Stone LIME to be sold
By JACOB SHEAFE, junr. Also, PORK per Barrel, PITCH per Barrel. A few Cask of Sherry WINE, — Lisbon Lemmons per Box, — Philadelphia IRON, Ship BREAD, — Russia DUCK, — and an Assortment of English GOODS, cheap for Cash.
DANIEL PEIRCE
Has just Imported from London, in Captain Thompson, A Few GOODS, which he will sell at a low Advance for Cash. — He also sells West-India GOODS, Groceries, &c, &c.
|| UNITY. ||
WHEREAS the Proprietors of UNITY, in the County of Cheshire, in the Province of New Hampshire, at a legal Meeting held at Kingstown, on the 16th of March 1774, voted to raise a TAX of six shillings on each 100 Acre Lot, and three shillings on each 50 Acre Lot in said UNITY, to clear Roads in said Unity, the Subscriber being chosen to collect said Taxes, takes this Method to inform the said Proprietors, that unless they pay said taxes by the second Tuesday of December next; if not then paid, so much of their Land will be advertised for Sale as will pay the same with incidental Charges.
JONATHAN GIDDEN, Collector.
Deerfield, Nov. 2, 1774.
§ Saville. §
APPLICATION being made to me the Subscriber by the Proprietors of more than one sixteenth part of the Township of SAVILLE, in the Province of New Hampshire, to call a Meeting of said Proprietors to meet at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton, Innholder in Portsmouth, on Friday the 25th instant, at five o'Clock P. M. then and there to act upon the following Matters, viz. 1. To chuse a Moderator for said Meeting. — 2. To chuse a Committee to examine the Accounts of any Person having Claims on the proprietary 10. making Roads, building Mills, and other purposes. — 3. To raise a Sum by assessing the original Rights of the proprietors to enable the Treasurer to discharge such Claims as may be allowed by the Committee for Accounts. 4. To chuse Assessors and Collectors for said TAX or Assessment. — 5. To know whether the proprietors will give any further Encouragement in Land or money for adding a Bolting Mill to the Mills now built, and to make a Grant of the same with a confirmation of a former Grant voted for building the present Grist Mill and Saw Mill in said Town. — 6. To confirm to any proprietors any Land that may be pitched upon to make up Deficiencies as per former Votes. — 7. To confirm all Pitches of the first Division Lots, and to continue the Leave of pitching said Lots until each proprietor is suited, to be performed on certain Conditions. — 8. To agree upon a Method of paying his Majesty's Quit Rents now due, or which may hereafter become due. — 9. To consider of any other Matters which may benefit or advance the Settlement of the Township: — In Compliance with said Request, and by Virtue of a Power to me committed, I do hereby notify and warn the said Proprietors to meet at the above Time and Place, to act upon the Premises aforesaid. JOHN WENDELL, Portsmouth, Nov. 9, 1774. Propr. Clk.
§ Leavitts-Town §
THE Proprietors of Leavitts TOWN, so called, are hereby Notified to meet at the House of John Leavitt, Esq; in North Hampton, on Monday the 21st Day of November next, at one o'Clock on said Day for the following Purposes, viz. — 1. To chuse a Moderator. — 2. To chuse all other Officers necessary to govern and manage the Business which concerns said Proprietors. — 3. To receive the Report of the Committee who is employed to perambulate the Range Lines in the second Division in said Township. 4. To see what the Proprietors will allow the Inhabitants towards repairing the Roads and Bridges the Year past — 5. To chuse a Committee to examine the Assessors Accounts, and lay the same before the Proprietors. — 6. To see what the Proprietors will allow towards hiring a Minister to preach in said Township. By Order of the Committee. THOMAS PARSONS.
Dated October 17, 1774.
Wanted an Apprentice
At the BAKER'S TRADE. Enquire of the Printer.
To be Let a very convenient Dwelling-House, fronting on King-Street. Enquire of George Gains.