The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1771-04-05 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the FRESHEST ADVICES
Friday April 5, 1771.
Vol. XV. GAZETTE,
CHRONICLE,
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
NO. 755 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd. }
Messieurs Fowles, Please to insert the following Observations upon HEALTH, and the many excellent Virtues of MILK.
HEALTH is universally esteemed the greatest Blessing in human Life, and the Means to preserve this inestimable Jewel, has been the study of all Ages. What I would now offer upon the important Subject of Health, is a Recommendation of MILK. Perhaps Nature does not afford one Article besides, so universally friendly and salubrious to the human Constitution as Milk. It is Food double refined, easy of Digestion, and soon prepared in the Stomach to pass into the Blood, and convey that fine balsamic Nourishment to every Part of the human Body, which is requisite to re-inkle the vital Flame and make the Lamp of Life burn bright to old Age. How many Fevers, Dropies, Consumptions, with a long Train of other Disorders, might the use of Milk prevent?--- And what vast Numbers have ruined their Health and brought on Disease and Death, by the corrosive, enervating Tea, and the acid stiptic Coffee! For a Proof of these Things, let us look into other Nations, view past Ages, and the present Generation, with their different Ways of Living. The Antients lived upon the Produce of their own Country, and very much upon Milk, agreeable to the Advice of the most eminent and enlightened Physicians and Philosophers, who judged that Vegetables and Animals nourished in the same Climate and Air that we breathe in, are most agreeable to our Constitutions; and that Milk being a fine Extract from all the various wholesome Vegetables, must be extremely nutritious and greatly contribute to Health and long Life. This is justly supposed to be one principal Reason why the Antients had such robust Constitutions and lived to such great Ages. Our own Observations upon the present Generation confirm the Truth of the above Remarks; for in England, Ireland, Scotland, and many other Parts of Europe, as well as in America, those People who reject Foreign Luxury, and live upon the Produce of their own Farms, enjoy the finest Health, live to the greatest Ages, their Minds are serene and clear, unclouded with those Mists which Luxury creates, like a Lamp fed with pure Oil, the Candle of Life burns bright to the last. What Infatuation has seized upon such Multitudes of Americans, to depart from the wise Example of their noble Ancestors, from the Maxims of Reason, and become Enemies to themselves, to their Country, to Posterity, and the human Species, (for a bad Man, or an ill Example, is an injury to Mankind in general,) and for momentary Gratifications, to sacrifice their Health, their Estates, and all that is dear to human Nature!--- Can Humanity forbear weeping over such stupid Mortals, and dropping a Tear at their untimely Graves!--- FORESIGHT.
From the New-London Gazette of March 1.
To the Printer.
WHEN you have room, please insert the following arrogant and blasphemous declaration of war, denounced by Amurath the Third sixth emperor of the Turks, against Rodolph, Christian emperor of the Romans, in the year of their prophet 1001, A. D. 1593: Taken from Knowles's Turkish History, which may be new to some of your readers, and may serve to give an idea of that merciless race of tyrants, which the Almighty has permitted as a scourge to the Christian world, for their impiety and abuse of the holy religion of Jesus, for these 1200 years. AMURATH the Third, by the grace of our great God in heaven, the only Monarch of the World, a great and mighty God on earth, an invincible Cæsar, King of all Kings from the East unto the West, Sultan of Babylon, Sovereign of the most noble families of Persia and Armenia, triumphant Victor of Jerusalem, Lord Possessor of the Sepulchre of the crucified God, Subverter and sworn enemy of all them that call upon the name of CHRIST.
BY our crown and empire, we denounce unto the Rodolph, and to all the nations taking part with thee open war; with the power of thirteen kingdoms, and hundreds of thousands of men, horse and foot. Turks and Turkish armies, and with all our strength and power (such as neither thou or thine hath ever seen or heard, much less had the proof of) to besiege you in your chief and metropolitan cities, and with fire and sword to destroy you and all yours, and whosoever shall give you any aid or assistance; to burn, destroy and kill, and with the most exquisite torments we can devise torture to death all christian captives that may fall into our hands, or else to keep
them as dogs in perpetual misery, and to enmale alive upon stakes your fairest sons & daughters; and further to aggravate your calamity and disgrace, your wives and daughters shall be deflowered, and the wombs of your women great with child shall be ripped up, and their infants devoured by ravenous dogs: for we are fully resolved to bring you, which rule but in a small country, and your kingdom into our subjection, by force of arms; and to crush, root up and destroy the christian religion; and we will try whether your crucified Jesus will help and assist you, as you are persuaded---Believe and trust in him, see how he hath supported his messengers that put their confidence in him; we neither believe, nor can we endure such incomprehensible things, that he can save, who has been dead so many years ago, who could not save himself, nor deliver his own country from our power, over which we have so long reigned. These things, O ye poor and miserable of the earth! we thought good to signify unto you, that you with your princes and confederates might know what to depend upon.
GIVEN in our most mighty and imperial city of Constantinople which our ancestors took from you Christians and destroyed her inhabitants, saving only her most comely youths for slaves, & their beautifullest wives and daughters for their pleasure, to your everlasting envy, sorrow and disgrace.
PHILADELPHIA March 18.
THE Sloop Mease, is just arrived here from Charles-Town, South-Carolina, the Master of which informs, that the Day he failed it was reported on 'Change, that a Ship was arrived there in 21 Days from London, and brought Advice that WAR was declared in England against Spain on the 10th of January last.
Saturday last the General Assembly of this Province adjourned to Monday the 16th of September next.
The Schooner Betsey and John, Beamish, from Halifax, was drove ashore near Christeen, where she lost both her cables and anchors, but borrowing one from a vessel in company, she got off without any further damage, and is since come up.
Monday last came up from below, his Majesty's Schooners St. John and Calpe, tenders, for the purpose of recruiting.
In the Storm of Wind and Rain, on Saturday Night the 9th Inst. Brigantine Queen of the May, Capt. Samuel Chancellor, who failed from hence a few Days before, with a Cargo of Flour for Lisbon, was cast away about a Mile within the Pitch of Cape Henlopen---by which unfortunate Event, Capt. Chancellor, a Boy and a Negro Man perished with the Cold. It is supposed Part of the Cargo will be saved.
A few days ago as a Number of Boys were teasing an old blind Harper in Second street, he struck one of them (a Lad about 16 Years old) so violent a Blow with a stick on the Back of his Neck, that he died next Day. The Man was committed to goal.
Shrewsbury, March 2. On Saturday Evening, Thomas and Silvester Brinley, two Brothers, and both Masters of Families, having been at the Launching of a Sloop, on their Return, in crossing the River in a small Canoe, when it swimed very fast, they lost their Way, as it is supposed, and were not heard of till the Monday following, when they were found both froze to Death.
BOSTON, March 25, 1771. THURSDAY the Gentlemen of the Bar waited on his Excellency the Governor with the following Address.
To His Excellency THO: HUTCHINSON Captain General and Governor, in and over His Majesty's Province of Massachusetts-Bay.
SIR!
THE Barristers and Attorneys at Law, usually practising in this Metropolis, beg leave to approach your Excellency with our sincerest Congratulations on your late Advancement to the Head of the Administration of Government in this Province.
When we consider your Excellency as one born and educated among us. When we reflect on the long Experience we have had of your great Abilities and integrity, of your thorough Knowledge of and regard to the Principles of the British Constitution and Laws, our Hearts are warmed with the most unfeigned Gratitude to the best of Kings; and, it is with the highest Pleasure, we contemplate this Event, as a fresh Instance of our most gracious Sovereign's Paternal Care for the Interests and Happiness of his loyal Subjects in his Province of Massachusetts-Bay.
From your distinguished Conduct in the first Department of the Law, we flatter ourselves that its Professors, so long as they make the Advancement of Justice the principal Object of their Attention, will ever find, in your Excellency, a Friend and Patron.
We again, most sincerely congratulate your Excellency on this joyful Occasion:--- and permit us to assure you, SIR, that we shall always esteem it our peculiar Felicity, by all lawful Means in our power, to render your Excellency's Administration easy, prosperous and happy.
His Excellency's Answer.
GENTLEMEN,
I AM greatly obliged to you for this Address. I have thought, for many Years, that I was serving my Country by my Endeavours in another Station to keep up that Esteem and Honor which is due from the People to the Gentlemen of the Bar, an Order of Men so useful and necessary to the Community.
I shall lose no Part of my Regard for you by my change of Station; and will continue to patronize, favour and encourage you every Way in my Power.
Just Publish'd,
And Sold at D. & R. Fowle's Printing-Office, near the State-House; Price 1s. 6d.
A Plan of Exercise,
extracted from the Plan practiced by the Norfolk Militia; and is ordered by His EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, to be observed throughout this Province---containing the Manual Exercise, with Explanations---The Officers Exercise, and the manner of Saluting---The Halberd Exercise, and the Funeral Exercise, &c. &c.
ALSO, to be sold at the Printing-Office, An ACT for dividing this Province into five Counties, By the Names of Rockingham, Stafford, Hillsborough, Cheshire, and Grafton.

Important Advices.
Saturday last arrived at Boston from Liv- pool the Brig Aurora, Capt. Hosea, which Place he left the 7th of Febr- ary, but bro't only one Print, the first of that Month, from which the following Advices were extracted, viz.
L O N D O N, January 26. The Public may be assured the following are AUTHENTIC.
ABOUT Three o'Clock Yesterday Afternoon, the Right Hon. Lord North laid before the House of Commons, by His Majesty's Command, the two following Papers. TRANSLATION of the DECLARATION signed and delivered by Prince de Maserano, Ambassador Extraordinary from his Catholic Majesty, dated the 22d day of January 1771.
IS Britannick Majesty having complained of the violence which was committed on the 10th of June, 1770, at the island commonly called the Great Malouine, and by the English Falkland Island, in obliging, by force, the commander, and subjects of his Britannick Majesty, to evacuate the port, by them called Egmont a step offensive to the honour of his Crown;---the Prince de Maserano, Ambassador Extraordinary of his Catholic Majesty, has received orders to declare, and declares that his Catholic Majesty, considering the desire with which he is animated for peace, and for the maintenance of good harmony with his Britannick Majesty, and reflecting that this event might interrupt it, has seen with displeasure this expedition tending to disturb it; and in the persuasion in which he is, of the reciprocity of sentiments of his Britannick Majesty; and of its being far from his intention to authorize any thing that might disturb the good understanding between the two Courts; his Catholic Majesty does disavow the said violent enterprise;---and in consequence, the Prince de Maserano declares, that his Catholic Majesty engages to give immediate orders, that things shall be restored in the Great Malouine, at the port called Egmont, precisely to the state, in which they were before the 10th of June, 1770: for which purpose his Catholic Majesty will give orders to one of his officers to deliver up to the officer, authorized by his Britannick Majesty, the port and fort called Egmont: with all the artillery, stores, and effects of his Britannick Majesty, and his subjects, which were at that place, the day above-named; agreeable to the inventory which has been made of them.
The Prince de Maserano declares, at the same time, in the name of the King his Master, that the engagement of his Catholic Majesty, to restore to his Britannick Majesty, the possession of the fort and port called Egmont; cannot, nor ought, any wise, to affect the question of the prior right of sovereignty of the Malouine Islands, otherwise called Falkland's Islands. In witness whereof I the underwritten Ambassador Extraordinary, have signed the present Declaration with my usual signature, and caused it to be sealed with our arms. London, the twenty-second day of January, one thousand seven hundred and seventy one.
(L. S.)
Signed
Le Prince de Maserano.
TRANSLATION of the Earl of Rochford's Acceptance, dated the 22d day of January 1771, of the Prince de Maserano's Declaration of the same date.
IS Catholic Majesty having authorized the Prince de Maserano, his Ambassador Extraordinary, to offer in his Majesty's name, to the King of Great-Britain, a satisfaction for the injury done to his Britannick Majesty by dispossessing him of the Port and Fort of Port Egmont; and the said Ambassador having this day signed, a declaration, which he has just delivered to me, expressing therein, that his Catholic Majesty being desirous to restore the good harmony and friendship which before subsisted between the two Crowns, does disavow the expedition against Port Egmont, in which force has been used against his Britannick Majesty's possessions, commander and subjects; and does also engage that all the things shall be immediately restored to the precise situation in which they stood before the 10th of June, 1770. And that his Catholic Majesty shall give orders, in consequence, to one of his officers, to deliver up the officer, authorized by his Britannick Majesty, the Port and Fort of Port Egmont, as also all his Britannick Majesty's artillery, stores, & effects, as well as those of his subjects, according to Inventory, which has been made of them. And the said Ambassador having moreover engaged, in his Catholic Majesty's name, that what is contained in the said declaration, shall be carried into effect by his Catholic Majesty; and that duplicates of his Catholic Majesty's orders to officers, shall be delivered into the hands of one of his Britannick Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, within six weeks. His said Britannick Majesty, in order to shew the same friendly dispositions on his part, has authorized me to declare, that he will look upon the said declaration of Prince de Maserano, together with the full performance of the said engagement, on the part of his Catholic Majesty, as a satisfaction for the injury done to the Crown of Great-Britain. In Witness whereof, I, the under-written, one of his Britannick Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, have signed these presents with my usual signature, and caused them to be sealed with our arms. London, the 22d day of January 1771.
(L. S.)
Signed
ROCHFORD.
[As the Ministers did not favour the House, neither in writing, nor by speech, with the King of Spain's instructions to his Ambassador in London; we shall here give what is authentically the purport of them, though perhaps it may not be exactly the tenor.
The King of Spain condescends, out of his regard for his loving Brother the King of France, to relinquish Falkland's Island. But at the same time Protests against any Claim the English may set up to the Right.]
After the Clerk had read the papers,
Lord N---th said, when the merits of the Spanish declaration came under the Examination of the H---e, he would avow the part he had taken in the negotiation.
Mr. D---ll moved that all papers, letters, instructions to our M-----rs, &c. &c. &c. relative to the taking of Falkland's Island, and the negotiation on with Spain upon the subjects, might all be laid before the H---e.
Lord N---th consented; only he desired the papers might be moved for in three distinct motions, instead of being all included in one.
Mr. M---ng made an objection as to the idleness of the distinction, between one motion and three, for the same thing.
Mr. D---ll agreed to Lord North's request.
Mr. D---n made a foolish quibble about some words in the motion, conveying (as he pretended) a meaning contrary to a part of the K---s's Speech, at the opening of the present session.
Colonel B---e shewed, that the words objected to, were copied exactly from the K---s's Speech. He compared Mr. D---n to a snow ball, & was very severe upon him. He then called the Spanish Declaration, scandalous and infamous, dishonorable to the crown, and disgraceful to the nation. He said, when the merits of this Declaration came under examination, he should speak fully to it; for he had much to say upon it; and should therefore reserve himself for that day.
But at present he could not help observing, there was not a man in England who did not condemn that Declaration. What four months arming! and four months negotiating! and is this all! The noble Lord (Lord N---th) said in this H---e before the Holidays, that Spain should pay a part of the expence we have been at, in making preparations to resent the insult. But there is not a word of the expence in the Declaration. The enemy was not ignorant of the weakness and cowardly disposition of the M-----rs. The enemy know you dare not go to war (to Lord N---th) and therefore refuse to make us any satisfaction. There is not an honest man in England, who does not abhor the present set of M-----rs. There is not a petty Prince in Europe, who does not laugh at and despise them. Thus it is in the power of any individual to put us to an enormous expence, and our M-----rs dare not avenge the affront. They dare not go to war, because they are afraid they shall lose their places. Thus the nation is exposed to insults abroad; and it is left a prey to jobbers and sharps at home. A French Secretary, being in your secrets, has made near half a million of money by gaming in your funds. And some of the highest among yourselves [Lord H---d, Lord H---d, &c. &c.] have been deeply concerned in the same scandalous traffic. But a day of reckoning will come. This country cannot be quiet, while every thing that is dear and valuable to the people, is thus ravished from them.
Lord N---th denied, that he had ever said Spain should pay a part of the expence. He declared, that he could not have said so, because he had never entertained the least idea of making such a demand.
Mr. C---es F---x said, he did not remember the noble Lord to have ever made use of any such words,
[He looks very much like his father.]
Colonel B---e said, he had not trusted to his own memory only, for his account of that fact. He had asked several other m-----rs, who all remembered the words.
Mr. B---ke said he remembered the words. He condemned the declaration in very severe terms. He called it scandalous, infamous, and treacherous. He said, the nation would demand the blood of those who made it. Nothing else could---nothing else would satisfy.---This declaration, this wisdom, this spirit of the M-----rs, this vindication of the honour of the Crown, this security of the right of the subject, which all lies in a nut-shell, has cost the nation above two million of money! The Land Tax was prematurely voted; or rather, the country gentlemen have been duped out of 500,000. The trade of this country has been greatly distressed and injured; 40,000 seamen have been voted; an additional army of 13,000 men have been voted, and they must all be paid; a great number of ships have been put into commission, at a great expence to the public; and all this for what? Why, to procure that scandalous, base, and dishonourable Declaration that lies upon the table.
The M-----rs made no reply.
While Mr. B---ke was speaking, there was such a confusion and noise in the room from some of the members going out others coming in, and others talking, that he was obliged to sit for a short time. When he got up again, he began with words to the following purport: Is this society so irregular, so lost to decency and good manners, that I cannot be heard when I am speaking to a question of the utmost importance to these kingdoms in general, and to our constituents in particular; are the ears of this Assembly to be wilfully misled from giving attention to me, when I am urging on a point of such a nature, there must be Blood, I say BLOOD I to atone for the misconduct of those who transacted this dark affair? The day may not be immediately at hand; but it cannot, it must not, be at a very great distance; it will come, when the lives of some concerned in this business must make atonement to this injured nation.-----
When the debate was over, several new writs were moved for. But when Mr. W-----n was mentioned, the members expressed their contempt of it, by a loud and dismal groan, (such as the livery of London generally give in Guildhall, to the name of an Alderman whom they dislike) and it was negatived by several of the m-----rs crying out no! no! no!---A circumstance so extraordinary and peculiarly disgraceful, as not to have happened in the memory of the oldest member of the H---e of C-----rs, and must cover the apostate with shame.
L O N D O N Jan. 5
On Monday last John Temple, Esq; Lieutenant Governor of New-Hampshire, arrived in town from North-America.
Some letters from Holland, of good authority, by the last Mail advise, that the States General have ordered 18 men of war to be fitted out immediately.
(The intermediate Papers not received)
Jan. 25. This day the Right Hon. Lord Grantham kissed his Majesty's hand on being appointed the King's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to his Catholic Majesty.
A correspondent informs us, that the Spanish Ambassador's Declaration is by no means satisfactory to the people; and the general opinion of it is more contemptible, if possible, than the language it is couched in.
We are informed that very little confidence is placed by the principal traders and mercantile men in this city, on the stability of the late Accommodation with Spain.
We hear that on Wednesday last Mr. Potter was again sent with Dispatches to the court of Spain.
Sir George Bridges Rodney, is, we hear, going out Commander of the Fleet on the Jamaica station.
It is said the Warrants for impressing Seamen will be continued till the full complement for 40,000 Men shall be raised.
This morning a duel was fought by the Lords Milton and Powlett, in which the former was wounded in the Belly.
It is said that Admiral Montague is to be joined by several more Men of War, and than to sail to the Mediterranean, to watch the motions of the Spaniards.
A correspondent says, that notwithstanding peace is determined on, a standing navy will be kept, and none but the impressed men will be discharged.
The reigning Toast, is, "May the accommodation with Spain, if honourable, be durable, but no disarming yet."
Feb. 1. We hear that matters were at length carried so high between our Ministry and the Spanish Ambassador, that when the last Requisition was made to his Excellency, he was allowed no longer than 48 hours to give his final answer.
Rear Admiral Harland is fitting out, with all expedition, for the East-Indies, attend with a fleet of five sail of the line, to protect our settlements.
We can assure the public, from undoubted authority, that before the Spanish minister would condescend to explain himself
in any shape, he insisted that a courier should be sent to Mr. Harris, to order him to stay at Madrid, or to return thither if in consequence of the orders sent him on the 21st of last month, he should have left that place. Our Ministry received the law and it is supposed this courier will find him at Paris. This is the way in which the King of Spain makes satisfaction to the King of Great-Britain. The publick will find the definitive treaty exactly of a piece with the preliminaries.
Upon the arrival of the Spanish Governor of Buenos Ayres in Old Spain, the King of Spain immediately appointed him Vice-Roy of Upper Navarre, a post of great honour, power and trust.-----Does this look like disapproving of his conduct of Falkland Island?
Notwithstanding our disputes seem for the present to be adjusted with the Court of Spain, yet it is asserted that there are some very material points still to be settled with the French Court; and that Lord Rochford sent last week a very spirited memorial on this head to Lord Harcourt, our Ambassador at Paris.
Yesterday there were full Houses of both Lords and Commons, and Lord Chatham spoke for a considerable time in the Upper Assembly.
Yesterday an appeal of the Earl of C-----m, from a late decree of the Court of Chancery, was presented to the Upper Assembly, and received by their Lordships.
Extract of a Letter from Plymouth, Jan. 24.
"Orders are come down to stop the press-warrants for the present, but to continue to enter such as offer, either for sea or land service. All hands in the dock yard are still employed: and there are great preparations carrying on. Orders are this day received for the fitting out several more men of war as fast as possible.
St. James Jan. 23. His Majesty this day has been graciously pleased to deliver the Great Seal to the Right Hon. Henry Lord Apsley, and by his Majesty's command sworn one of his Majesty's most Hon. Privy Council, and Lord High Chancellor of Great-Britain.
Dec. 13. It is now said to be not only the fixed resolutions of the enemies of Great Britain to involve us in a war, but likewise that some great blows will be struck pretty nearly all at once in the undermentioned places: From Mauritius, and the Isle of Bourbon, France is to send a fleet, which is to attack our settlements in the East-Indies, while the forces of Spain are to fall upon our establishments in the West. Ireland is to be broke into by her old invaders the Spaniards, while the French are to endeavour to make an impression upon England. Besides these, France is known to be fitting out a formidable Squadron at Toulon, the object of which is supposed to be Minorca, while Spain is drawing a very considerable part of his forces towards the lines St. Roche, who are further to be supported by a fleet from Cadiz, in order to form the siege of Gibraltar by sea and land. Such at present are said to be the designs of the inveterate enemies of Great Britain, the above-mentioned haughty and restless branches of the House of Bourbon. It remains for our Ministry, if these advices be true, to contract them on their part, and thereby convince both the foreign and domestic foes, that they are not, as has been reported, either inattentive or blind to their interests and safety of their country.
CHARLESTOWN, (South-Carolina,) February 19.
The Choctaw and Creek Indians have again commenced Hostilities, and seem as inveterate against each other as ever. There have been sundry and various reports for some time past in this province and Georgia, concerning the Cherokee Indians, and their hostile intentions against his Majesty's subjects, which appeared to have been much exaggerated. The story of their having attacked and driven away the Virginians, is not true.---It is however certain that the Western Indians, who are greatly disgusted on account of encroachments made on their land; are very diligent in forming a confederacy to give weight to their Representations on that head; and by the last accounts from the country of the Cherokees, it appears that they had a great number of deputies and emissaries soliciting those Indians to join the Great Western Confederacy above mentioned.
N E W - Y O R K, March 14.
Extract of a Letter from St. Thomas's, dated Feb. 6, 1771.
"The Spaniards at Porto Rico, are making great preparations for a war; they have 3000 regular troops, and 1000 militia, doing duty; their fortifications are very strong, and they are transporting cannon every day to the bays where they think an enemy will land: This information I had from a gentleman who belonged to the factory, & was ordered to leave that Island about a month ago: He left this place ten days since for said place; and on his arrival there wrote a letter to the governor desiring permission to go on shore to settle his business, as he had lately been under a burgher of Santa Croix. The Governor ordered him to depart the port the next day, by the advice of the attorney-general. This gentleman failed from Porti Rico the first instant, in the evening. Next morning he met a Spanish man of war going in, in which a lieutenant-general was expected, and some more troops."
N E W P O R T, Rhode-Island, March 25.
Saturday last arrived the Sloop Neptune, Capt. James Nixon, in 28 days from the Mole, Capt. Nixon brought part of Three Whaling Crews belonging to Dartmouth, whose Vessels had been taken by two Spanish Guardacostas, on the South side of Hispaniola, in Sam-Bay; the Masters of said Vessels were Silas Butler, William Roberts, and Richard Welding; also Ephraim Pease of the Vineyard was taken at the same Time, but had his Vessel and Cargo of 200 Barrels of Oil given him, to bring away the other Hands: The other three Vessels were carried to St. Domingo, having each 100 Barrels of Oil on Board.---These four Vessels were all taken in the Morning of the 11th of February.
Providence, March 23. Capt. Christopher Whipple, from Cape-Nichola Mole, informs, that he came Passenger to Newport in the Brig Industry, Samuel Lawton, Master; and that on Sunday Morning last, about 3 o'Clock, in Lat. 40. Long. 69, lying to in a Gale of Wind at N. W. with a large Sea running, a Sloop ran on board the Brig, and carried away her Main-Topmast, Main-Topmast-Yard, and all the Main-Chain-Plates: The Sloop disappeared in four Minutes, and by the Cries of the People on board, it was thought she went down, as they saw nothing of her when Daylight appeared.
A few Days before Captain Lawton left the Mole, 2 Transports arrived from Old France, with Troops and warlike Stores; notwithstanding which, the Rumour of an approaching WAR has in a great Measure subsided.
B O S T O N, April 1, 1771.
Captain Hosea informs, that it was the general Opinion at Liverpool, that War would not be declared, at least for some time to come, though the Press for Seamen still continued very hot in all parts of the Kingdom.
Capt. Hosea informs, that notwithstanding the Accommodation of the Matter in Dispute with the Court of Spain, the Press for Seamen still continued very hot in England.
Capt. Crawford, who is arrived at Providence from Surranam, informs that he left at that port sixteen sail of Northern Vessels, and that a Brig belonging to this place, John-Foster Williams, Master, was condemned there, being judged unfit to return.

The Packet arrived at New-York brings Advices no later than the 4th of January.
Extract of a Letter from Liverpool, of February 5.
"Matters with Regard to War, seem at a stand, notwithstanding the Court of Spain has offer'd Satisfaction (as it is called to our Court) for the Insult given, which believe was accepted by the Ministry, but greatly to the dislike of both Lords and Commons, as well as the public. How the Dispute will terminate we cannot at present say, but the general Cry seems for W A R.
We hear that Capt. Butler, in a Vessel belonging to Wood's Hole, was lately lost on Ocracoke Bar, North-Carolina, and all the Crew perished.
Last Thursday Charlotte Bourgate, the noted French Boy, was set in the Pillory for Perjury; and on Saturday he receiv'd 25 stripes at the public Whipping-Post: A Man, for counterfeiting a Pissereen, stood in the Pillory at the same Time with said Boy; also another Man and a Woman received the Disciplinary of the Post, agreeable to their Sentence, as mentioned in our last.
Besides the Intelligence in the preceding Page, we have taken the following Extracts, viz. "THAT the Russians have retaken the Isle of Lemnos, and all the Turks found there were put to the Sword; they have also taken Discharchewo, the last Fortress the Turks had on the Danube, with a considerable Slaughter, and Twenty Thousand Tartars who submitted to the Russians last Year, have taken Arms against the Turks: That the Earl of Sandwich, as First Lord of the Admiralty has declared that no new Lieutenants shall be made in the Royal Navy, 'till all the half pay Lieutenants are first provided for: That 'tis said if Peace should ensue, 25,000 Seamen are to be retained in His Majesty's Service for the future.---That notwithstanding the Agreement to our Requisitions on the part of the Court of Spain, it is said their Ambassador would not continue long in England; and it is the Opinion of many that the Spaniards are more politic than honest, and some say their Intentions are hostile, tho' their Professions are peaceful:---That the Russians have taken and carried into Messina 7 Ships of different Nations, laden with the Production of Egypt, and were bound to Constantinople:---That the Court of Spain had given Orders to discharge every Subject of Great-Britain from the Naval Service of Spain:---That 'twas said all the Military Preparations in Great-Britain are to be carried on 'till finished, and then to remain on that Footing, and if England would keep Thirty Thousand Seamen in Pay, perhaps we might not experience a War in the Course of Thirty Years:---And that Orders were sent to Portsmouth to postpone the Embarkation of the two Companies of the Royal Train of Artillery for Gibraltar, till further Orders."
S A L E M, April 2.
Substance of a Proclamation issued by his Excellency the Governor.
"Whereas His Majesty's Pleasure has been signified to me by the Right Hon. the Earl of HILLSBOROUGH, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, that I should exert my utmost Endeavours to give Efficacy and Dispatch to a Plan of Augmentation of the King's Troops, by assisting His Majesty's Officers in raising Recruits within this Province:
"I have therefore thought fit, with the Advice of his Majesty's Council, to issue this Proclamation, requiring all the Civil Officers within this Province to be aiding and assisting to any Recruiting Parties for the Purpose aforesaid, and to their Recruits, and in all Respects to conform to the Directions of an Act of Parliament, intitled, An Act to amend and render more effectual in His Majesty's Dominions in America an Act past in this present Session of Parliament, intitled, An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters," as they would avoid the Penalties imposed by said Act for their Neglect. And I recommend to all His Majesty's good Subjects to endeavour, in their respective Stations and Capacities, to promote and forward His Majesty's most gracious Purpose for the Protection and Defence, as aforesaid."
One Day last Week a Man at Newbury, out of Curiosity, put his Hands upon the Cogs of a Wind-Mill there, while it was going with a fresh Gale, by which imprudent Conduct he was drawn between the Wheels and crushed to Pieces in an Instant.
The Rev. Mr. Prince, who is noted for being a Preacher of the Gospel under the Disadvantage of the Loss of his natural Sight, preached at the Rev. Mr. Bradstreet's Meeting-House, in Marblehead, last Sunday, when (his Circumstances being known to be poor) a Collection of Ninety-four Pounds, Old Tenor, was made and presented to him by Mr. Bradstreet's Congregation.
B O S T O N March 28.
THIS DAY the CORPORATION of Harvard-College waited upon His Excellency the Governor with the following Address.
TO HIS EXCELLENCY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, Esq; Captain General and Governor in Chief of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay.
May it please your Excellency,
THE President and Fellows of Harvard College wait upon your Excellency to congratulate you on your Appointment to the first Chair of government in this Province.
It reflects an honor on the College, that one of its Sons, after having sustained, with great dignity and reputation, a variety of public offices, is advanced by the King to this high Station.
Your Excellency's thorough Acquaintance with the advantages of Literature; The affectionate regard you have always expressed for this seat of learning; and the important Services you have rendered it, afford us the pleasing prospect that we shall find in your Excellency a Patron & a Friend ever ready to protect the Rights and promote the interests of a Society, founded by our Fathers on the most catholic plan, and upon which the welfare of the Community greatly depends.
It shall be our constant endeavour, that the Youth committed to our care may be taught all due Submission to Government, as well as the principles of civil and religious Liberty.
We devoutly implore the great Governor of the Universe, to direct and succeed your Excellency's Administration; and make it honorable to yourself and happy to this People.
To which His Excellency was pleased to return the following Answer.
GENTLEMEN,
I Return you my sincere and hearty Thanks for your Address, which expresses so much Duty and Loyalty to the King, so much Kindness and Respect to me.
My Services for the College have fallen short of my Desire and Endeavours.
This publick Notice of them by the Corporation is very obliging.
I am bound to embrace every Opportunity and to improve every Advantage which my present Station may afford for the Encouragement of this eminent Seat of Learning, which has been of such signal Use to the Province in civil as well as religious Regards.
PORTSMOUTH, April 5.
Yesterday a Woman (said to be disorder'd in her Senses) was brought to Town, from Dover, and after Examination committed to Goal, charged with murdering a Boy 9 Years old, the Sunday before last, while the rest of the Family were gone to Church.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, Piscataqua, April 4.
   Inward Entries, FROM.     Sloop Sarah, Samuel Hatch, St. Lucea.   Schooner Hawk, Jonathan Jewett, Antigua.   Schooner Irish Oak, William Trefethen; Virginia.   Schooner Polly, Joseph Odiorne, Ditto.   Schooner Samuel, Isaac Sherwood, New-Haven.   Sloop Dolly, John Newman, Virginia.   Sloop Industry, Seymour Sherwood, New-Haven.   Sloop Molly, James Johnson, Tobago.   Sloop Sally, Paul Simpson, Barbados.   Schooner Dolphin, Eleazer Johnson, Cape-Sables.   Outward Bound, NONE.   Clerk for Departure, FOR.   Ship Mercury, Colleen Campbell, Virginia.   Sloop Almsbury, William Wyer, Philadelphia.   Schooner Occasco, Mark Fernald, West-Indies.   Ship New-Hampshire, George Fishley, Ditto.  
An ESSAY upon the Death of Mrs. Deborah Dote, of Durham, who departed this Life, February the 25, 1771, aged 23 Years; She was an agreeable young Lady, who for her singular Virtues, her pious Inclinations, the brightness of her Genius, the nobleness of her Mind, and the great Proficiency she made in Learning, and graceful Personage, occasioned her Death to be much lamented, not only by her Relations, but by all her acquaintance.
I ask, what means those Tears Profuse! Or what might be the direful News, Why every Nymph and every Swine, With Tears be dew'd the object plain. Oh! alas, with Sighs, they said, See, Clarafina, she is dead; Her Virtues and her Charms are fled; By grisly Death, a Captive led. No more her grace'ul Form she shows, Like Lillies mingled with the Rose; No more a Patron to the Youth, In Neatness, Eloquence and Truth. Her Mind capacious, clear and bright, On Virtue fix't her whole Delight; The Base and Vile before her Dumb, And hid like Ow's before the Sun. Stay, Stay, my Friends, the immoderate Grief, Such Thoughts as these should give Relief; That 'tis a Truth, none can deny, The Soul that's pious, cannot die. The Sun may be disrob'd of Light, With th' Constellations of the Night, The Earth into a Chaos turn, And all in wild Confusion burn, And melting Elements on Fire, With labouring Nature thus expire, The Virtuous have a surer State, That cannot suffer such a Fate. Though they, like Lillies, drop their Heads, Their Bodies lay'd in Earthy Beds; At the GREAT MORNING they will rise, Like Constellations of the Skies.
WHEREAS Edea, the wicked Wife of me the Subscriber, makes a constant practice of squandering away my Substance, and spends the most of her Time in running from House to House, chatting about those Things of neither Advantage nor Profit, running me in Debt, wherever she can get credit, and takes no care of my House nor Family. Therefore I am obliged, and do hereby Advertise, and forbid all Persons harbouring or crediting her on my Account, as I shall pay no Debts contracted by her from the Date, nor trouble myself any further with her, till she behaves more like an obedient Wife.
his Benjamin Wills. W Mark.
WE the Subscribers being appointed by the Hon. John Wentworth, Esq; Judge of Probate of Wills, &c. for the Province of New-Hampshire, Commissioners, to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of Elias Merrill, late of Stratham, deceased, Intestate, represented Insolvent, and see how they are made out; do hereby give Notice, that six Months time from the Date hereof, is allowed for that purpose; and that we will attend that Business, at the House of Mr. Jonathan Robinson, junr. Innholder in Stratham, on the second Monday in April next, and the five following Months, from three to six o'Clock in the Afternoon.
Stratham, March 27, 1771. Samuel Lane, Mark Wiggin.
WHEREAS THOMAS COTTON, junr. of North Hampton, in the Province of New-Hampshire, Husbandman, in the Month of September last, being confin'd in his Majesty's GOAL in Portsmouth, in said Province, for Debt, I the Subscriber released him out of said Goal, on his securing to me by Deed, by him duly executed, all his Estate situated at said North Hampton, with Liberty to sell the same if he did not pay me the said Debt I had obligated myself for in one Month:---that in November following, he sent me an urgent Letter, acquainting me that he had an Opportunity of selling his Meadow, and that if I would give him a Deed of said Meadow, with the Money it sold for, and his Cows, he would pay me the Money I had engaged to pay for him; accordingly I executed a Deed of said Meadow, and of that only, to him; which Deed was drawn by one Joseph Banfield of said Portsmouth; and as I was not so careful as to make proper Dashes on the Blank part of said Deed under the Description of said Meadow, the said Thomas Cotton and Banfield wickedly contriving to cheat and defraud me, the said Banfield filled the Blank by inserting all the rest of said Cotton's Estate, which he had conveyed to me by his Deed aforesaid: These are therefore to forewarn all Persons against purchasing the Estate mentioned in the Deed, executed by me to said Cotton, as the same has been thus altered and adulterated by them the said Cotton and Banfield, without my Knowledge or Consent, after I had executed the said Deed; and for which Fraud I have now an Action against them pending in the Superior Court, &c. for this province.
WILLIAM COTTON, junr. Portsmouth, March 25. 1771.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all PERSONS who have any Claim on the Estate of David Heath, late of Salem, in the Province of New Hampshire, deceased, Intestate, represented Insolvent, to bring them to us the Subscribers, appointed Commissioners to Receive, Examine and Allow such of said Claims as shall be well made out, that we will attend that Service at the House of Israel Ober, Innholder in said Salem, on the last Tuesday of April Instant, and the five Months next following, from Four to Eight o'Clock in the Afternoon of said Days.
April 4 1771. Joseph Wright | Commissioners. Timothy Ladd
I forbid all Persons trusting my Wife, Mary Richardson, any Thing on my Account from this Date. Samuel Richardson. March, 23, 1771.
TO BE SOLD, (if applied for immediately, )
A Schooner Of between Forty and Fifty TONS, as compleat a VESSEL for the FISHERY Business as was ever built. Enquire of the Printers.
TO BE SOLD By William Maxwell, OF BOSTON,
A LOT OF LAND in Nottingham, and Province of New-Hampshire, containing One Hundred Acres, lying and being in Summer Street, No. 22. about half cleared, and about 20 Acres of it good Plowing and Mowing Land, that has lain a common Pasture about 25 Years, with a pleasant Brook running through it, lying on the great Road to Durham, and within seven or eight Miles of the Landing, where good Ships are built.
The Pay will be made easy, a Quarter Part in Hand, and good Security for the Remainder.
If any Gentlemen want to see the Land, Mr. James Keese, who lives near will direct them, or Mr. John Hervey, jun. or of Messrs Fowles, Printers in Portsmouth.
Boston, March 28, 1771.
Newmarket Lottery certainly draws next Tuesday. About Ten Tickets may be had at the Printing Office.
Handwritten numbers: 145, 174, 145, 201, 72, 541.

An Assortment of Stationary,
TO BE SOLD BY John Sparhawk,
At his Shop opposite Messrs Williams and Stanwood's Shop in Queen Street, Portsmouth, viz.— A variety of
Paper, Ink Powder,
ACCOUNT - BOOKS of different sizes; Quills, Ink Holders, Penknives, Pounce, Stands, Merry Andrew, Henry the 8th, and Great Mogul CARDS, &c. &c. &c.
A L S O,
A few Pieces of fine Oznaburghs, and Ticklenburghs,—very low for Cash.
Nathaniel Sheaff Griffith,
Clock and Watch Maker in Portsmouth.
REPAIRS and clean WATCHES in a faithful Manner—And has for sale, all sorts of Watch Ware, such as Springs, Chains, Seals, Keys, &c. &c.
NOTICE is hereby given that
at sundry legal Meetings of the proprietors of Plainfield, a Tax of Three Pounds, six Shillings and eight Pence, was voted to be raised on each original Right in said Town; These are therefore to desire all those who are delinquent to pay the above Tax to me the Subscriber, on or before the first of May next, otherwise their Rights, or so much of them will be advertised for sale at Vendue in this Paper, as the Law directs, as will pay said Tax, with incidental Charges.
John Stevens, Collector.
Plainfield, in New Hampshire, March 15, 1771.
WHEREAS the Proprietors of
COCKERMOUTH, have been legally notified to pay their Assessments, raised on each Right or Share to me the Subscriber, and several of said proprietors have neglected either in whole or in part; these are to notify said Delinquent Proprietors, that there will be Sold at Public Vendue, on the 24th Day of April next, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, at the House of Samuel Hobart, Esq; in Hollis, so much of the Land of each Delinquent Proprietor, as will pay the Sum or Sums that remain due, with all incidental Charges.
The Delinquent Proprietors Names are as follows, viz.
   £. s. £. s.     Amos Phillips, 3 13 James M'Leen 1 16   Caleb Farley 3 13 Hugh White 1 16   Samuel Hazelton 3 13 Henry Thomson, Jr. 1 16   James Good, 2 18 Ben. Wentworth 1 16   John Thomson 1 16 James Taylor 1 16   Henry Thomson 1 16 William Taylor 1 16   Rufus Thomson 1 16 Jona. Danforth 1 16   Ebenezer Fisk 1 16 Abraham Hunter, Jr. 1 16   John Nelson, Esq; 1 16  
By Order of said Proprietors,
Hollis, March 12 1771. John Atwell, Collector.
N. B. The Proprietors Meeting stands adjourned to Time and Place aforesaid.
THE Proprietors of the Town-
ship of New Britain (so called) are hereby Notified, to meet at the House of Capt. Caleb Sanborn, Innholder in Hampton Falls, on Monday the 22d Day of April next, at One of the Clock, Afternoon, 1st. To chuse a Moderator for said Meeting. 2d. To chuse a Proprietors Clerk; a Committee to call Proprietors Meetings; Assessors; a Collector; a Treasurer, &c. 3d. To see what said Proprietors will do relating to clearing and repairing of Roads in said Township. 4th. To see if said Proprietors will agree to hire Preaching for any Part of this present Year, and how much, for the Benefit of said Proprietors and Inhabitants. 5th. To see if said Proprietors will agree to raise any Sum or Sums of Money for the Purposes aforesaid, or to defray any Charge that has or may accrue towards the Settlement of said Township. 6th. To see in what Way and Manner said Proprietors will improve or dispose of the Grist Mill in said Township.
Hampton, March 25th. 1772. Anthony Emery, } Com. Caleb Sanborn, } mitt. Nath. Healey. } tee.
A few of the TRIALS of the SOLDIERS in Boston, are just come to Hand, and may be had of the Printers hereof.
TO BE SOLD, cheap for Cash, or good Security, About fifty Acres of Land, in Barrington, a little more than half a Mile from the Meeting House, with a good House and Barn upon it, most of the Land under improvement; on which the Rev. Mr. Prince, lately lived. Enquire of Deacon Garland, of said Barrington, or of Major Samuel Hale, of Portsmouth.
Barrington, March 25, 1771.
The MANAGERS of Stratham
and Newmarket LOTTERY, began Drawing the same last Week, being the Time appointed, but a violent Storm setting in, and other Reasons, obliged them to adjourn to the second Tuesday in April next, when they will certainly proceed and finish drawing.
|| A few Tickets may be had of the Managers and at the Printing Office.
On the same Day will be Sold
at VENDUE, the Building of two Piers of the Bridge, now erecting between Stratham and Newmarket. Conditions of Sale to be seen at Time and Place.
New and Old West-India Rum,
Coffee, Cotton Wool, and Lignum Vitae, Also, a parcel of Cross-Cut Saws, and some Bar Iron, just imported, and to be sold by
John Evans,
At his Store on the Long Wharf
Province of New Hampshire.
THE Proprietors of the Town-
ship of BOW in said Province, are hereby Notified, to meet at the House of Mrs. Love Chase, Innholder at Stratham, on Thursday the 4th of April next, (agreeable to Charter) at one of the Clock in the Afternoon, to act on the following Articles; viz. to chuse a Moderator, and all necessary Officers, and Committees for said Proprietors. To receive the Report of the Committee chosen at the last annual Meeting, to treat with a Committee appointed by the proprietors of Rumford (now Concord) relating to purchasing the Lands of Bow within their Claims. And whereas it appears, that said proprietors of Rumford, have voted to purchase the 100 Acre Lots in Bow, of the Owners thereof; therefore to see if the proprietors of Bow, will vote to quit to said proprietors of Rumford, all their common Land within said Rumford Grant, except 162 Acres, in case they purchase said 100 Acre Lots as aforesaid. And chuse a Committee with Power to settle that whole Affair with Rumford Proprietors, or their Committee.
And likewise to see if they will vote at said Meeting, that in case any proprietor or proprietors, shall refuse to sell and settle on the Terms proposed by said Committee; that he or they, so refusing shall defend their Right at their own Cost, without any aid or help from said proprietors of Bow.
Also, to see if said proprietors will vote to sell the 9th Lott in the 3d Range, in the first Division, or any of the common Land towards paying their Debts, and prosecute any Trespassers on the Commons.
And whereas there has been for some Time, considerable Sums of Money, belonging to said proprietors, lying dead in sundry Gentlemen's Hands, to see if said Proprietors will chuse a Committee to recover the same in order to pay their Debts. And to pass any other Vote that may be proper at said Meeting.
Stratham, March 6, 1771.
Samuel Lane, Prop's Clerk.
ON Tuesday the 9th of April,
will be sold at public Vendue, at the House where the Newmarket Lottery is to begin Drawing that Day in Stratham, at Four o'Clock, Afternoon.
Seven Acres of choice LAND,
lying in Newmarket, being Part of the Estate of Mr. Jacob Treadwell, late of Portsmouth, deceased, and now sold by Samuel Treadwell, Executor to said Estate.—Conditions of Sale to be seen at Time and Place.
Twenty Settlers immediately
are wanted to settle in the Township of TRECO-THICK, to whom the choice of Land will be given and such Encouragement as most suit any Persons that incline to go, as now is the Season, for that Purpose. Those who first apply will be more particularly benefited, by being employed on the Roads. Enquire of Capt. Hubartus Neal, of Newmarket, or John Wendell, Esq; of Portsmouth.
BLANKS of most sorts, &c.
With a Number of Books, Sold at the Printing Office.
Notice is hereby given to all the Proprietors of Monadnock, No 3, that at a legal Meeting held in said Monadnock on the 23d Day of January, 1770, a Tax of One pound sixteen shillings, Lawful Money, was assessed on each Right for making Roads in said Township; and at another Meeting held the 14th of February 1771, another Tax of One pound ten shillings, Lawful, on each Right, towards building a Meeting House in said Township. These are therefore to desire the proprietors to pay the said Taxes to me the Subscriber, at my House in said Monadnock, by the 22d Day of June next, or their Lands will be advertised for sale, or so much as shall pay said Taxes and incidental Charges.
Joseph Greenwood, Collector.
Monadnock, No. 3, March 14, 1771.
TO BE SOLD or LETT,
26 Acres and half of Marsh, at
Scotter's Hill—Likewise, to be sold, a proprietors Grant, No. 6, about 57 Acres, near Carter's Mills, both in Scarborough, by Alexander Kirkwood.
TO BE SOLD
At PUBLIC VENDUE,
This Afternoon, more than one half of a large Dwelling House, at the North End of this Town, late in the Occupation of Mr. Isaac Tucker; three Rooms below, two Chambers, four Fire Places, a good Cellar,—The Sale to be at said House, at Four o'Clock Afternoon.
The Commissioners on the
ESTATE of Mr. NATHANIEL ADAMS, give NOTICE, that the Time for exhibiting the Claims expires on the thirteenth Day of April next, when all those who neglect giving in their Claims, will be wholly excluded. Portsmouth, March 21. 1770.
TO BE SOLD AT PUBLIC VENDUE,
On MONDAY the Fifteenth Day of APRIL next, at the Dwelling House of Mr. NATHANIEL ADAMS, deceased,
ALL the Personal Estate of
said deceased; the Sale to begin at Four o'Clock, P. M. and to continue from Day to Day 'till the whole is Sold.
And on Tuesday the 23d of April next, will be Sold,
All the Real Estate of said
deceased, except the Widow's Dower, consisting of a very genteel DWELLING HOUSE near the Parade, with a convenient STORE and BARN adjoining; and a large GARDEN.—Also an ISLAND situated in the POOL (so called) where the Masts-Ship generally load, containing about ten or twelve Acres, more or less, with a Dwelling HOUSE and large WARE-HOUSE on the same, and a very good WHARF, more than one half of which is built with Stone. For CONDITIONS of SALE, enquire of JOHN PARKER. Portsmouth, March 22. 1770.
JUST PUBLISHED, AND TO BE SOLD AT
William Appleton's
BOOK STORE in Portsmouth, (American Edition) Vol. I. of the
HISTORY of the REIGN of CHARLES the Fifth, EMPEROR of GERMANY; and of all the KINGDOMS and STATES in Europe during his Age: To which is prefixed a VIEW of the Progress of SOCIETY in Europe, from the Subversion of the ROMAN EMPIRE, to the beginning of the sixteenth Century: confirmed by HISTORICAL PROOFS and ILLUSTRATIONS. By WILLIAM ROBERTSON, D. D. Principal of the UNIVERSITY of Edinburgh, and Historiographer to his MAJESTY for SCOTLAND.
This Volume can only be Sold to those Gentlemen, who are now willing to subscribe for the second and third Volumes of this celebrated History, which will soon be published, and sold by said APPLETON, price One Dollar each Volume.
WE the Subscribers, being ap-
pointed by the Hon. John Wentworth, Esq; Judge of Probate of Wills, &c. for said Province, Commissioners, to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of Abner Herriman, late of Plaistow, in the Province of New-Hampshire, Yeoman, deceased, intestate, represented Insolvent; and six Months from the 22d of February last, being allowed by the Judge for said Creditors to bring in and prove their Claims, DO hereby Notify said Creditors, that we will attend that Service at the House of John Hall, Esq; in said Plaistow, on the third Tuesday of this, and the four following Months, from One to Seven O'Clock, P. M.
March 4th. 1771.
Thomas Noyes,
Enoch Noyes, and Moses Kelly.