The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1788-07-24 00:00:00

AN ACT
Passed February 2d, 1788.
To lay out and clear a Highway from Barnstead to Northwood, in this State.
WHEREAS a petition from sundry inhabitants of this State has been presented to the General Court, setting forth that the Road commonly called the Province Road, laid out from Durham to Cobas, is in some parts thereof very much incumbered with hills, rocks, &c. and thereby rendered almost impassable for loaded waggons;—that a Road from Barnstead, through a corner of Pittsfield to the main Road in Northwood, might be made, which would remedy the aforesaid inconvenience and prayed that Jonathan Clark, Esq. of Northwood, Col. Richard Sinkler, of Barnstead, and Capt. Reuben Hill, of Lee, or any two of them, might be appointed a committee, to lay out said Highway, and fully empowered to have the same cleared and made passable. Upon reading and considering the same, the prayer thereof appearing reasonable, and that making said Road would be serviceable to the public.
Therefore,
BE IT ENACTED BY THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN GENERAL COURT Convened, That Jonathan Clark, Esq. of Northwood, Richard Sinkler, Esq. of Barnstead, and Capt. Reuben Hill, of Lee, be a Committee, they or any two of them, and fully empowered to lay out by metes and bounds, a Highway, four rods wide, in such a course as shall to them appear most convenient, from the main country road in Northwood to the province road (so called in Barnstead.) And when they have laid out and marked the same, that they notify the Selectmen of the towns of Northwood, Pittsfield and Barnstead respectively, to clear and make the same a good waggon road as soon as may be. And in case said selectmen, or the selectmen of either of said towns, shall neglect to perform the same for the term of six months after such notice, said Committee are hereby authorized to proceed to clear and make said road passable in the manner aforesaid;—And they shall be entitled to recover all the reasonable expenditures they may be at on said road, with cost of prosecution of such deficient selectmen.
And the selectmen respectively of the aforesaid towns, are hereby empowered to assess and cause to be collected such sums of money as shall be sufficient to make the aforesaid highway in their towns, in the same manner as money is raised for the State Tax, unless such towns,
or any of them shall vote to pay the expence of making said road in some other legal manner, and perform the same.
For the New-Hampshire Gazette.
Mr. PRINTER,
IT would have done your heart good to have seen them; there were twenty five of them.— "What! wild geese?" No sir; farriers sir, all then and there intent on determining whether a horse that was brought before them had any disorder upon him or not.— There was one particular jockey who stood up and accused the horse of being foundered; and that too he said not by hard service, but by gluttony: The horse he said had broke into Mr. Snug's barn floor and had feloniously purloined, eat and carried away one full bushel of good winter rye then and there the property, &c. against, &c. He said this was a disorder in the said horse, and that he must be cured of it by either being made to restore to the said Mr. Snug one bushel of as good rye as he had eat, with the addition of two more to it; or by a good threshing or two, well laid on the naked back of the said horse; after which he must be clapt up in close quarters for the space of thirty days, and then be rid the Lord knows where. The method of cure proposed by the said jockey appeared to me to be very just, and I can't say but that I liked it extremely well. Twenty-one of the farriers liked it full as well; for they immediately motioned that the horse should be dealt with, &c.— The other four said they had better hear the other side of the question; or, in other words, what the horse had to say for himself. This being agreed to, another jockey, who seemed most knowing in horse-flesh, stood up and averred that the horse had no such disorder upon him; nay, said, he had no disorder at all; but was as sound a horse as ever went upon four legs. He then went on to point out the health and good properties of the horse, and did it in such a manner—for my part, I could not see a blemish in him. The twenty-one farriers thought so too—they moved for the horse to go about his business. But the other four said they had better hear what Mr. Snug's jockey had further to say. The first jockey stood up again, and said the horse was a sick horse; begged the farriers to examine him, and see if he did not look like a sick horse. He then went on and laid it down so plain that the horse was sick—the twenty-one farriers concluded for good and all that the horse was really sick, and said he must certainly be cured.—But the other four
spoke a few words to twelve deputy farriers, chosen for that purpose—I hope you apprehend me. I mounted my horse and moved slowly towards home, musing all the way as I went upon this strange adventure. I turned and twisted it into all possible shapes I could think of, but could not, for the soul of me, make any thing of it. Who set it a going? what is it for? what supports it? were questions I could not answer. I was determined, however, to know; so the next morning I went to Squire Travers (who knows all kinds of business but his own) told him my adventure, and asked him the three questions that had puzzled me so much. He answered them as follows:—viz —
1st. Physicians in the first place prescribed for brutes as well as for the human species; but finding that the charge grew upon their hands, and that they could not carry all on together, they ordained that all diseased horses within such and such particular towns, should be cured by farriers belonging to the town, the horses were sick in.— That every farrier might attend if they pleased at a particular house within their own town four times a year to feel the pulse of all horses brought before them, and to prescribe in conformity to certain rules laid down by the physicians.
2d. Though I have partly answered your second question in answering the first, yet to be more explicit—the physicians ordered that "for the better conservation of the health of horses and cure of their several disorders, be it ordained," &c. &c.
3d. Each farrier has a certain sum per diem for his attendance paid out of the town treasury; so that every man in the town has a proportion of the expence to pay according to his rateable estate, whether his horse is sick or no.
Now Mr. Printer, to lump it all together, it amounts to this:— Farriers are necessary; but then for the town to pay twenty-five of them for what four actually does—the inference is plain—please to draw it your self sir. But if you do, and leave out the word ridiculous , you have a better knack at drawing than I have. Four out of twenty-five will commonly pass muster pretty well—for the rest, though they might, perhaps, answer a very good purpose to make post and rail fence, (I did not say with ) yet here they occupy the same post that a fifth wheel would in a coach. Suppose I should hire a taylor, a blacksmith, a shoe-maker, a basket maker, a miller, and a carpenter to make me a coat? Suppose you had a watch to sell,
and, in the course of the bargain, should tell me it was made by a watch-maker, a caulker, a barber, a butcher, a cooper and a currier.— I will not buy your watch sir.— "But you must, if you want one." I have a dial sir. "Whether you buy it or no, you must help pay for it." How to? "Why it is a vote of the —" And did they order that caulkers, barbers, &c. should help make watches? "Yes."— And do they do any good? "O no; rather hurt." Now what a ridiculous piece of work here is; and yet it is far short of the length it will go. Twenty-five farriers upon one horse—paid by the whole town. It carries a great sound with it; but then, like our parish bell, it sounds as though it was crack'd; and I believe in my soul it is. With great respect to these twenty-one gentlemen farriers, who, I doubt not, are full as well as they know how, and some of them a great deal better, being led to it by the others—taking great care (which I confess requires some judgment) to keep in a parallel line with the said four who carry the compass for them to steer by—with great respect, I say, to these Gentlemen, I would, had I an opportunity, address them as follows:
GENTLEMEN,
I would advise you,
1st. To have no hand in prescribing at the quarterly meetings; but to stay at home, and take care of your own business—or, in other words—to keep your knowledge to yourselves.
2d. You who thus stay at home, being in possession of different degrees of knowledge, ought to divide yourselves into two classes, at least.
3d. Let the first class have full power and authority to prescribe for all horses brought upon their own farms either to summer or winter. But not one step farther for your lives.
4th. Let the second class be obliged to prescribe for their own horses. But if you should think this too hard, let your wives prescribe for your horses, as they do for you.
This whole address you will think, Mr. Printer, ought to have been directed to the physicians.— It had so; and if the farriers should not take the hint, perhaps it will not be too late.—But I want to ask you what you think of all this? ———Don't understand one word of all I've been saying! you surprise me! I thought it as legible as A, B, C.—Do read it again—perhaps you may understand it better; in the mean time I am
Sir your very humble servant ROBERT SAWNEY.

By last Evening's Mail.
Proceedings in the New-York CONVENTION.
NEW-YORK, July 16. Extract of a letter from Poughkeepsie, dated on the morning of the 11th inst.
ON Wednesday the Convention did no other business than to adjourn until the next day 12 o'clock, in order to give further time to the antifederalists to arrange their plan for the amendments.
"In reading the amendments, Mr. Lansing observed, that they had not only been changed in form, but in substance. One of them has been changed indeed; it is Melancton Smith's first amendment, and about which there was several day's debate: The original amendment was for having the House of Representatives doubled in the first instance, and that it should encrease at the rate of one for every 20,000, until it go to 300. As it now stands, it is that there shall be a representative for every 30,000, until it get to 200; beyond which it may not go.
"After the amendments were read, it was proposed by Mr. Lansing, that the Convention should adjourn, and that a committee of both parties should be informally appointed, who should endeavour to make such an accommodation, and so to arrange the amendments as to bring the business to a quick and friendly decision: Accordingly the Convention adjourned.
"When the committee met, Mr. Jay declared that the word conditional should be erased before there could be any discussion on the merits of the amendments; this occasioned about an hour's debate, and the Anties determining not to give up that point, the committee was dissolved without effecting any thing. In this committee I am told that Mr. Jones and Mr. M. Smith, discovered a disposition somewhat moderate; the others it is said were quite violent.
"How the matter will now terminate, I know not. It is expected that something of importance will take place this forenoon, of which I shall give the earliest information." Extract of another letter from the same place, dated July 11, 3 o'clock, P. M.
"This morning, Mr. Jay brought forward the grand question, by a resolution for adopting the Constitution, he spoke forcibly, and commanded great attention; the Chancellor also spoke with his usual energy and brilliancy. Our worthy Chief Justice was also on his legs. Mr. Smith, Mr. Lansing and the Governor, spoke against the resolution, and from what fell from them, they seem determined to support a conditional adoption: this the Federalists consider as a rejection under another name, and no doubt will proceed against it. I am at a loss what opinion to offer; I fear much from the pride and perverseness of some, and more from the wicked ambition of others."
JULY 17. The antifederalists met frequently in the course of last week, in these meetings there was much warm debate: Some were for rejecting the Constitution; but
the majority, more moderate, insisted on an adoption, with certain conditions; this at length was agreed on, as the extreme point of concession. The plan was accordingly formed, and brought forward in Convention.
Accounts received by last evening's mail, inform, that the question, for ratifying the Constitution, on condition of amendments, was urged to be taken on Monday last, but was postponed until Tuesday.
Whether such a mode of ratification was advisable, or whether it would be received by the union as valid, has been a subject of animated discussion.
Further accounts, by a gentleman who left Poughkeepsie, at 4 o'clock, P. M. on Tuesday, state, that the federalists requested to be indulged until yesterday, when it was supposed that the question would be put, or an adjournment moved—Also, that Col. Hamilton had brought forward a system of amendments.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Poughkeepsie, dated June 30.
"Upon the whole I believe, that in no State in America has the new Constitution been fairer canvassed, abler defended, or more powerfully opposed. What will be the result I dare not divine. It may unfortunately happen, that the proposed plan, notwithstanding its acceptance by ten States, will be rejected in such a manner as to be a cry of havock and the letting loose the dogs of war—or, as I devoutly wish, accepted: only attended by proposed amendments similar to those of Massachusetts and South Carolina. In the former case, scenes of carnage and confusion may again shock the heart of sensibility and drench the eye of pity. In the latter, peace with all her delightful appendages will here probably erect a dome to be shaken only with the dissolution of the globe."
NEWPORT, July 17. By the Dutch papers, brought in the late vessels from Amsterdam, it appears, that the Prince of Orange and the aristocratic party have effected a complete victory over the ancient Constitution of that once free republic.
Star after star went out—and all is night.
So that while the goddess of liberty beholds on this side the Atlantick, a splendid temple, dedicated to her name, rise and flourish; on the other side she beholds an ancient one razed to the ground.
BOSTON, July 23. OF NEW-YORK.
A letter from New-York, received last night, has the following article, "This day (the 17th inst.) the great question is to be taken in the New York Convention, but I have no great hopes."
Another letter mentions, that the prevailing opinion in New York is that their Convention will adjourn for a month.
OF NORTH-CAROLINA. A gentleman of information from North-Carolina, informs us, that he left that State since its Convention were in session—and that he had such information from several gentlemen belonging to the Convention, as warranted him to assure us, that a few days, would give us the pleasing information of
that State's having ADOPTED the CONSTITUTION.
Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, dated July 12, 1788.
"We are in momentary expectation of receiving the recommendation of Congress, to our Legislature, respecting the appointment of ten electors to meet for the purpose of making choice of President, &c.—No other persons are talked of among the knowing ones to execute the new government than the Great American Fabius, and his Excellency Governor Hancock. The former will undoubtedly be President General—and as he latter will have the next highest number of votes, he will unquestionably be Vice-President. Mr. Adams will undoubtedly be Chief Justice of the federal judiciary. At the southward the same sentiments prevail."
We are told that the Thirteen States are now all represented in Congress.
The opposers of the Constitution some time since, appeared much terrified at the idea, that the " ultima ratio regum " should be urged to effect its adoption. To shew their consistency of character, it need only to be mentioned, that in three States the antifederalists have already resorted to arms, to defend their opposition to the measure. On such conduct comment is unnecessary.
A few days since Capt. Edwards, of Willingford, in Connecticut, in hiving a swarm of bees, was stung in the temple by one of them—and died of the wound in about 15 minutes.
We hear from an Dover, that on Wednesday the 9th inst. during a thunder shower there, hail descended so severely as to destroy a great number of windows, and many pieces taken up, exceeded an inch and an half in circumference.
PORTSMOUTH, July 24.
It is with singular pleasure that we inform the publick, of the progress of manufactures in the united States.
The Porter made in Philadelphia in the opinion of the best judges, is equal to the London Porter imported into America. This Porter sells for 8/4, while the price of English Porter is 17/6 per doz n . Two hundred barrels of this Porter were lately exported from that city in one vessel.
A White-Glass manufactory has lately been set on foot in New Jersey, and the glass pronounced equal to the English white glass. It is sold in Front, above Arch street, cheaper than the imported glass.
Should every inhabitant of the United States wear as much more of the manufactures of our country, than he used to do, as would amount to only twenty shillings a year, it would save three millions of pounds yearly to our country. A few pairs of cotton or thread stockings, or of worsted shoes, or a single coat, or a few cotton waistcoats, would make up this trifling saving to each individual. The aggregate sum would in a few years render America one of the richest countries in the world. It would build many hundred ships and houses, establish and promote many useful manufactures, and clear and im-
prove many thousand plantations, every year.
It added to this saving in the articles that have been enumerated, every person whose business it was to ride on horseback, together with all the boys between five and fourteen years of age, and all the servants in the United States, wore LEATHER BREECHES, manufactured in America, a sum not much less than a million per year would be retained in our country.
The members of different parties, in foreign countries, have occasionally been distinguished by different or peculiar dresses. Suppose similar distinctions should be made between the federal and antifederal citizens of America. Let American made hats, shoes, buttons, breeches, stockings, &c. be wore by the federalists . Let every thing that is eaten, or drank, or used in diet and furniture, that is made in America, be called federal And further, let justice and patriotism, be called federal virtues and gold and silver federal money. By these means we shall incorporate our federal government in every idea of the mind, and blend it with every noble feeling of the heart.
The manufactures of America, says a correspondent, certainly deserve serious attention. No man doubts the propriety, and even the duty of using such articles as can be made here as low as they can be imported, since the introduction of carding and spinning machines, it is found that jeans can be made so as to undersell those imported from England, with the unavoidable charges of importation. Every public-spirited man is supplied with this article at the factory , where the sale is very rapid, and purchases have been made by every description of the citizens of Pennsylvania, by the citizens of the adjacent states, and by some foreigners of distinction. Another article adds our correspondent, calls for the attention of the friends of American manufactures, and of every frugal man— bread, cotton and worsted hosiery . Several gentlemen have made a careful and impartial examination of the stockings manufactured in this city, in Germantown, in the town and county of Lancaster, Bethlehem, and Reading, & they find that the thread stockings made in Pennsylvania, and sold generally at a dollar per pair, are of the same fineness with imported stockings which are sold at 8/4 and 8/6. They also find that mixed stockings of thread & cotton, made in Pennsylvania, are sold lower in proportion compared to those of Great-Britain. Besides this difference in price, it is a well known fact that three pair of Pennsylvania made stockings will wear longer than four pair of those imported. There are now about 250 stocking looms in the different parts of the city and state, each of which make, on a medium, one pair & a half of stockings every day, these, deducting Sundays, will amount to 117.375 pair per annum, which at 7/6 a pair, is £.44015 12.6. The increase of wool and flax, the reduction of labor, provisions and rents, the cultivation of cotton in the Southern States, and above all the use of machines to card and spin and twist cotton thread, will greatly promote this article of which at two pair to each person annually,

the United States acquire a supply of near six millions of pairs—a capital domestic demand, certain, and steadily increasing with our population. The charges of importing hosiery, under the general impost of five per cent, will be twenty three per cent exclusive of any profit to the importer or retailer. Should the adoption of the general government tempt any, either Americans or foreigners, to push manufactures here, this branch promises great profit and will no doubt be among the first that will engage attention. [Philadelphia paper.]
Fashion in Europe is reduced to reason—each one studies convenience and propriety—the maypole no longer totters upon sticks, nor the dwarf stoop to court heels—the maids consent to wait patiently the allotments of Providence, and not make a premature display with corks and bishops. Even the beaux have laid aside their party coloured stripes, their saucer buttons, their harness buckles, and their frippery—The few adorateurs of this tyrant instead of agreeing that this is a reform, call it the Hegira of fashion.
Extra from the JOURNALS of CONGRESS, Wednesday June 25th, 1788.
On motion of Mr. Clark, seconded by Mr. Dalton.
Resolved, That the sum of twenty thousand dollars, in addition to the fourteen thousand dollars already appropriated, be appropriated for defraying the expenses of the treaties which have been ordered, or which may be ordered to be held on the present year with the several Indian tribes in the northern department, and for extinguishing the Indian claims; the whole of the said twenty thousand dollars, together with six thousand dollars of the said fourteen thousand dollars, to be applied solely to the purpose of extinguishing Indian claims to the lands they have already ceded the United States, by obtaining regular conveyances for the same, and for extending a purchase beyond the limits hitherto fixed by treaty: But that no part of the said sums be applied for any purpose other than those above mentioned.
From a late London paper.
A very extraordinary fact.
Some weeks since the daughter of Mr. Capon, a considerable farmer at Silsoe, near Shefford, in Bedfordshire, rapidly declined in health the cause of which several of the faculty, who were consulted on the case of this unhappy child, who labours under the affliction of a defect of intellects, were utterly at a loss to account for. About ten days ago she was seized with a sudden violent vomiting, and to the amazement of her parents and the rest of the family, discharged from her stomach forty-two brass pins; and what is still more wonderful, she has since bro't up a small pincushion, stuck full of pins and needles, together with the iron chain, by which the cushion had been usually suspended at her side, besides a pair of leather gloves, and several pieces of check window curtain, which she had cut into long strips, and rolled up into the form of balls of various sizes. Such is the strange propensity of the child to swallow substances not intended by nature to be received into the
stomach, that it is necessary for her to be continually watched with the utmost strictness.
A very extraordinary phenomenon has lately engaged the attention and curiosity of the medical world. A lady whose death was announced in the papers more than a fortnight since, remains still unburies, from the singular circumstance of her body's not having undergone the smallest change; although the faculty are unanimous in their opinions that there does not exist the smallest probability of her being in a trance. They are still unable to account for or explain the matter, and her friends, as may be supposed, have determined not to inter her until some appearance of change shall be discovered.
TO BE SOLD
At Public Vendue,
Pursuant to a licence granted by the Honorable Phillips White, Esq. Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. for the county of Rockingham, in the State of New Hampshire.
The whole of the real estate of JOSHUA HAINES, late of North Hampton, deceased, with the reversion of the Widow's thirds—The sale will be at the late dwelling House of said deceased, on the 26 day of August next, at ten o'Clock, A. M.
SHOBEL PAGE PHILBRICK, (Administrator.)
North Hampton, July 22, 1788.
State of New-Hampshire.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given to all the proprietors and owners of lands in the township of Franconia, in the county of Grafton, in said State of New-Hampshire, that there is three proprietors taxes voted on each original right of land, in said township; one of thirty shillings on each right, for surveying and allotting out the township; one of forty shillings to pay the proprietors debts and expenditures, in bringing forward the settlement of said township; one of twelve shillings, for laying out and making roads in said township; which are committed to me to collect; which if not paid to me at my dwelling house, in Concord, (Massachusetts,) before the first day of September next, the delinquent rights will be advertised for sale as the law directs, by
JONAS MINOT, Collector.
Concord, June 26, 1788.
WHEREAS THOMAS HUTCHING LEWES of Kittery, has in his possession a note of hand signed by the subscriber, and ISAAC CHAPTMAN and WILLIAM MUGRIDGE, dated April 8th, 1783, for the sum of one hundred and seventeen dollars, and said sum has been fully paid by me: This is therefore to caution any person or persons from purchasing said note, with any expectation of being paid by me,
JOHN BELLAMY.
Kittery, July 17, 1788.
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors of Malon's Patent, otherwise called the masonian proprietors, to bring in to the clerk of said propriety, within thirty-one days from this date, compleat lists or schedules of all the lands by them severally holden divided and undivided, between the curve head line of said Patent, and a straight line lately run by order of the General-Court; in order to an assessment being made on said lands agreeably to a late Act of the General-Court, authorizing such assessment.—If any proprietor shall neglect to comply with this notice his lands will be assessed according to the best information that can be procured thereof by the assessors. GEORGE JAFFREY, Proprietors Clerk. Portsmouth, July 21, 1788.
C A R D I G A N.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Cardigan, who have not paid their taxes for the year, 1786 and 1787, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, on Friday the 15th Day of August next, at my dwelling house in said town, at ten o'clock in the forenoon and then by adjournment until all is sold, as will pay the taxes and charges unless prevented by previous payment. Each right contains 232 acres, 100 acres of which is drawn, the remainder not drawn. The 100 acre lots taxed 1s. 7d 1 in specie, 4d 1 in certificates, and 2s. in facilities, the undivided lot is taxed 2s. 1d 1 in specie, 6d 1 in certificates, and 2s. 7d 1 in facilities. The original proprietors are as follows, viz. Zachariah Waldo, Elkanah Cobb, jun. Aaron Cleveland. Theophilus Clark. Rev. Abel Leonard, Varney Fellows, Sam'l Payne, Daniel Payne, Amos Payne, John Batholomew, Thomas Baker, Ebenezer Craft, Silas Bowen, George Hodges, Ebenezer Gray, Thomas Gray, George Wentworth, William Darby, Isaac Fellows, Sam'l Gray, John Wendell, Rosel Morgan, Isaac Morgan, William Robertson, Ezekiel Pearce, Jonathan Douglass, Jeremiah Cady, Edward Ayers, Zadoc Spaulding, Joseph Spaulding, jun. Andrew Baker, Joseph Shepard, jun. Daniel Clark, Daniel Foster, Joseph Spaulding, John Cady, Ezekiah Spaulding, Oliver Spaulding, Ephraim Spaulding, jun. Joseph Shepard, Isaac Coit, Esq. Timothy Larabe, William Burns, Esq. Richard Saltinsul, James McHurd, Benjamin Hurd, John Larabe, Alexander Miller, Joshua Dunlap, William Faranuer, Nathaniel Rogers, Daniel Payne, jun. James Bradford, Rev. John Fuller, Thomas Sumner, Benjamin Cady, John Williams, Sam'l Chandler, Eliza Payne, Eliphalet Dyer, Ebenezer Child, Elkanah Cobb, Benjamin Spaulding, Sam'l Adams, 3d. Nathaniel Peirce, jun, David Shepherd, John Pearse, Nathan Waldo, Ichabod Ormsby, Sam'l Adams, jun. David Payne, James Brown, John Greene, Thomas Stevens, Perry Clark, Eliza Perkins, Jabez Eansworth, Ephraim Spaulding, Sam'l Chandler, jun. Joseph Eaton, Rosel Stevens, William Robertson, William Farnam, Curtis Spaulding, Simeon Forbes, Nehemiah Stevens, Richard Smith, Joseph Spaulding, Robert Walburn, Ephraim Jones, Ebenezer Brown, Ezekiel Peirce, Theophilus Clark.
JONATHAN HOYT, Collector. Cardigan, July 10, 1788.
WE the subscribers appointed Commissioners to receive and examine the claims of the creditors to the estate of Mayhew Clark, late of Wakefield, in the county Strafford, deceased, represented insolvent, give notice, that we shall attend for that purpose, at the dwelling house of David Copp, in said Wakefield, on the third Monday of July next, and the five following months, from three to seven o'clock in the afternoon.
DAVID COPPS, } Commissioners. JOHN WINGATE. Wakefield, June 20th, 1788.
THREE months longer from the 19th of June last, are allowed the creditors to the estate of JOHN MOFFATT, Esq. deceased, to exhibit their claims. Portsmouth, July 21st, 1788.
A FURTHER time of 6 months being allowed for the settlement of the estate of JOHN WENTWORTH, Esq. late of Dover deceased, the commissioners will attend that service, at his late dwelling house, in said Dover, on the first Tuesday of the next, and of the four following months, from two to six o'clock in the afternoon: MOSES WINGATE } Comiss's. W. ATKINSON } Dover, July 17th, 1788.
To the Hon. JOSEPH BADGER, Esq. one of the Justices assigned to keep the peace in and throughout the State of New-Hampshire:
THE subscribers, owners of more than one-sixteenth part of the rights or shares of the original grantees proprietors of the township of Landaff, in the county of Grafton, and State aforesaid, request you to notify and warn a meeting of said proprietors to be held at the dwelling-house of JOHN CLARK, Esquire, in said Landaff, on Tuesday the 9th day of September next, at ten of the clock. A. M. to act and vote upon the following articles,—viz.
 1st. To chuse a moderator to govern said meeting.  2d. To chuse a proprietor's clerk, assessors, collectors, and all other officers necessary for said proprietors.  3d. To vote to raise such sum or sums of money as may be adjudged expedient to defray proprietor's charges, & to re-imburse such sums as may have been advanced or expended, for the benefit of said proprietors, and order how and in what manner the same shall be assessed, collected and appropriated.  4th. To agree upon some method to regulate the pitches in said township in future, and see if the said proprietors will vote to confirm to the whole of the present settlers, or to any part of them, their respective polices, whereon they have settled and made improvement.  5th. To agree upon and vote some method for drawing the lots already laid out in said township, and dividing the same among the several proprietors, and for laying out and dividing the undivided lands in said township.  6th. To agree upon and vote some method to ascertain, take proper care of, and appropriate to public use, certain rights of land mentioned to be reserved in the original charter of said township.  7th. To make such grants of lands for schools and other public uses, in said township, as may be adjudged proper by said proprietors, and to make any other grants of land for the advantage of said proprietors, that they may suppose just or equitable.  8th. To agree upon and vote some method for calling proprietors meetings, and where they shall be held.  9th. To chuse a committee for effecting all or any of the purposes aforementioned, and to do and transact any other matters that may be given them in charge, for promoting the settlement of said township, and to the advantage of said proprietors.  10th. To agree upon some method for adjusting and settling all demands against said proprietors. 
NATHANIEL PEABODY. PETER GREEN. SAMUEL ATKINSON. Concord, June 3d, 1788.
State of New-Hampshire, County of Rockingham.
PURSUANT to the foregoing application, I do hereby notify and warn the aforementioned proprietors of Landaff, to meet at the time, place, and for the purposes therein mentioned. Given under my hand and seal, at Concord, in said county, this 9th day of June, Anno Domini, 1788. JOSEPH BADGER, Justice of Peace throughout the State.
N A V A L - O F F I C E.
Port of Pica'aqua, July 24, 1788.
E N T E R E D From
Brig Izewe, Drisco, Martinico. Schooner Charlotte, Burnham, Shelburne. Sloop Nymph, Couklin, New-York. Schooner Industry, Treserben. Tobago.
C L E A R E D For
Sloop Dolphin, Colwill, N. Carolina. Brig Mary-Ann, Gerriss West-Indies. Brig Dauphin, Cuts, Ditto.
W E E K L Y A L M A N A C K.
FOR PORTSMOUTH,—Lat. 43. 5m N. July. 1r O. 1F. Sea. 1r. f.l. Calendar.
  24 4 40 8 3 6 9 43 Perhaps rain.   25 4 41 8 3 52 00 15 Dog Days.   26 4 42 8 4 40 16 53 Oll. cl. 6m.   27 4 43 8 5 32 11 37 10th past trin.   28 4 44 8 6 28 mora. Improve the   29 4 45 8 7 27 0 29 moments e'er   30 4 47 8 8 29 1 37 they fly. 

Parnassian Spring.
NO TRUE FELICITY BELOW. WHILE anxious mortals strive in vain. The summum bonum to obtain, Each takes a different way, Their aims are levell'd in the dark, Their arrows drop before the mark, Or far beyond it stray. The miser heaps up golden ore, Surveys the glitt'ring mammon o'er, And thinks he's gain'd the prize; His bliss, alas! is soon destroy'd, His treasures vanish unenjoy'd, And he repining dies. Others pursue the path of fame, Striving to gain a lasting name, Toil up the steep ascent; Whilst the least blast, that scandal breathes, Mildews their never-fading wreaths, And mars the true content. So empty bubbles, rais'd on high, The gaudy rainbow's livery By faint reflection wear; But the first gale, that rudely blows, Dissolves their essence as it flows To mix with common air. Bacchus does some to joy invite, who in the jolly god delight, And fills the goblets up; But while he freely does dispense; They drown their happiness and sense In the two generous cup. Others from wine to women fly, And center their felicity In things that always change; In search of constancy they rove Thro' all the labyrinths of love, And still are doom'd to range. The fickle boy with double darts, A bitter and a sweet imparts To every human soul: With so much gall the honey's mix'd That when we think our joys are fix'd, We loath the tasted bowl. Among the herd, some few more wise, The mazy paths of learning prize, And towards its temples bend; But all their labours only shew, He that knows most, does nothing know, And there their searches end. God who is love decreed it so, Lest we should fix on things below, And never look to him, Who only has the power to bless, From whom derives all happiness, The fountain and the stream.
Thomas Manning HAS FOR SALE.
A FEW pieces of Irish LINEN, and checker'd ditto.—Also—a quantity of SALT from the Island of Rea, which he will dispose of on very reasonable terms. Credit will be given to fishermen.
Portsmouth, June 25.
(DEARING, ) State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the township of Dearing, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1787, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before Tuesday, the 2d day of September next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at the dwelling house of Robert Hagg, innholder in said town, unless prevented by previous payment.
   Specie. Continental. Facilit. Certif. Specie. Continental. Facilit. Certif. Specie. Continental. Facilit. Certif.     John Dustin 1 4 1 0 0 4 5 10 0 4 2   Fit. Gibbons 1 4 1 0 0 4 5 6 0 4 1   Sl Philbrook 1 4 1 0 0 3 5 1 0 4 2   Eq. Moffatt 1 3 1 9 6 2 6 4 2 4 8   John Clough 1 4 1 0 0 3 5 1 0 4 2   J. Shackford 2 8 1 10 0 6 9 2 0 8 2    MATTHEW FORSITH, Constable. Dearing, June 27, 1788.
(FITZ WILLIAM, ) State of New-Hampshire,
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the Township of Fitzwilliam, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1787, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before the 3d day of September next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at ten o'clock on said day, at the dwelling house of Major Sylvanus Reed, innholder in said town, unless prevented by previous payment.
   N. R. s. d. q. N. R. s. d. q.     Timothy Rockwood 4 1 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   Robert Ware 14 1 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   Col. Stoddard 1 3 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   Levi Wilder 6 3 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   ditto 7 3 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   Matthew Osborn 10 3 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   Joseph Farwell 11 3 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   Col. Stoddard 1 4 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   James Reed 4 4 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   George Libbey's heirs 5 4 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   Levi Wilder 6 4 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   ditto 8 4 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   Col. Stoddard 1 5 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   James Reed 2 5 3 3 1 1 1 1 1   Col. Stoddard 7 5 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   Levi Wilder 1 6 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   ditto 2 6 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   James Stone 8 6 1 9 0 1 1 1 1   Col. Stoddard 19 6 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   Jason Stone 21 6 2 1 3 1 1 1 1   Bartlet Bowker 20 7 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   Levi Wilder 1 8 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   Jonathan Whitcomb 3 8 3 3 1 1 1 1 1   Abner Morse 9 8 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   Joseph Forristall 19 8 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   Levi Wilder 17 9 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   Daniel Gould 22 9 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   Levi Wilder 3 10 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   Michael Switzer 4 10 4 4 1 1 1 1 1   Jonas Gary 7 10 3 3 1 1 1 1 1   George Libbey's heirs 10 10 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   Eb. Tolman & H. Jackson 23 10 3 3 1 1 1 1 1   Nathaniel Brooks 11 11 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   Col. Stoddard 12 11 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   John Rite 22 11 3 3 1 1 1 1 1   Col. Stoddard 16 12 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   Nathan Treadwell 17 12 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   Thomas Clark 18 12 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   Rufus Buckland 19 12 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   Ezekiel White 20 12 3 3 1 1 1 1 1   Lyman Brigham 21 12 4 8 3 1 1 1 1   Agabus Bishop 22 12 6 6 2 1 6 6 2   Col. Stoddard 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1 1   John Swulland 22 11 3 0 0 1 1 1 1  
DANIEL MELLEN, Collector. Fitzwilliam, June 30, 1788.
(FITZ WILLIAM, ) State of New-Hampshire,
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in Fitzwilliam, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1786, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before the first Wednesday in August next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at the dwelling house of Sylvanus Reed, innholder in said town, unless prevented by previous payment.
   N. R. s. d. q. N. R. s. d. q.     Col. Stoddard 3 2 6 7 2 1 6 6 2   Esq. Mellen 17 2 2 7 3 1 1 1 1   Col. Stoddard 1 3 6 7 2 1 6 6 2   Levi Wilder 6 3 6 7 2 1 6 6 2   ditto 3 6 7 2 2 1 6 6 2   Col. Stoddard 1 4 6 7 2 1 6 6 2   James Reed 4 4 6 7 2 1 6 6 2   George Libbey's heirs 5 4 6 7 2 1 6 6 2   Levi Wilder half 6 4 3 3 1 1 1 1   Nathan Hall 23 4 6 7 2 1 6 6 2   Col. Stoddard 7 5 6 7 2 1 6 6 2   Jonathan Nurse 16 5 2 7 3 1 1 1 1   Joseph Dun 21 5 3 5 0 1 1 1 1   Levi Wilder 1 6 6 7 2 1 6 6 2   ditto 2 6 6 7 2 1 6 6 2   Joseph Stone 8 6 2 2 0 1 1 1 1   Col. Stoddard 19 6 6 7 2 1 6 6 2   Levi Wilder 6 7 6 7 2 1 6 6 2   John Fopper 23 7 5 4 0 1 1 1 1   Levi Wilder 1 8 6 7 2 1 6 6 2   Jonathan Whitcomb 3 8 2 6 0 1 1 1 1   Asa Johnson half 17 8 3 3 1 1 1 1   Joshua Herington 23 8 1 7 2 1 6 6 2   Levi Wilder half 17 9 2 1 1 1 1 1   Nathan Brooks 11 11 2 6 0 1 1 1 1   John Sweetland 22 11 2 1 1 1 1 1 1   Peter Wheeler 10 12 2 2 2 1 1 1 1   Agabus Bishop 22 12 6 7 2 1 6 6 2   Nathan Treadwell, half 77 12 3 3 3 1 1 1 1  
SYLVANUS REED, Collector. Fitzwilliam, June 30, 1788.
(ANDOVER, ) State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the township of Andover, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1787, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before the third Wednesday in August next, so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at my dwelling house in said town, as will pay said taxes and incidental charges, unless prevented by payment.
<    Continental. specie. facilit. cert. spec. spec.   N R Q'ty s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q.     Joseph French 10 4 50 0 7 2 0 6 0 0 3 0 1 1 0 6 0   Samuel Blake 11 1 80 1 3 1 0 11 3 4 3 2 2 1   Daniel Cram 13 1 80 1 3 1 0 11 3 4 3 2 2 1   William Swain 14 2 75 2 2 1 1 8 8 3 3 1 8   Joseph Gove 15 1 50 0 5 1 4 2 8 4   Edmund Brown 20 2 100 1 5 3 1 1 3 5 3 3 1 2   Samuel French 21 1 55 0 5 3 4 1 2 9 5   Robert Miller 25 1 50 0 5 1 4 1 2 3 4   Benjamin French 26 3 60 0 7 3 5 3 2 2 1 2 6   Law Lott 1st 30 2 100 3 9 3 2 10 1 2 2 7 1 3   David Norton 32 4 100 1 3 9 3 5 2 2 10   Jonathan Leavitt 34 4 100 2 6 2 1 11 2 9 2 4 3 2   J. Weare 37 1 80 0 10 1 7 3 3 1 1 2 8   Simon Marston 37 3 100 1 11 1 5 1 7 1 3 2 1 6   Law Lott 2d 40 2 80 1 3 1 11 2 9 2 4 3 2   Joshua Peirce 48 4 80 1 3 9 3 5 2 2 2 0 0 10   Joshua Towl 50 1 60 0 7 2 5 1 2 1 1 1 6   Solly and March 50 2 80 2 6 2 1 11 1 9 2 4 3 2   John Marston 52 4 53 0 7 3 2 3 8 6   Thomas Wallingsford 61 3 68 1 4 1 5 2 1   John Brown 67 3 100 1 3 1 11 2 4 3 2 2 1   David Lowell 67 4 60 1 8 1 1 3 2 6 1 3 1 1 4   Tobias Lakeman 71 3 75 1 3 2 1 4 2 2 2 1   J. Prescott 74 2 100 1 3 1 11 2 4 3 2 2 1   John Hoyt 75 3 95 1 3 1 11 2 4 3 2 2 1   John Leavitt 76 2 100 1 10 2 7 3 3 1 1 2 8   77