The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1770-08-10 00:00:00

EXCISE.
PROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
THE Excise-Master desires all licenced Persons or others, that have sold Liquors throughout this Province, to make up their Accompts in Writing, of all Sorts of Spirituous LIQUORS they had by them the first Tuesday in September 1769— Also the Quantity of each Sort they have purchased and sold since that Day, up to the first Tuesday in September 1770,— taking Account at this Date of what they have of each Sort in Hand; this will compleat one Year's Sale of said Spirituous Liquors—And that in said Accompt they give in the Names of those they purchas'd of, as well as the Names of those to whom they have sold so large a Quantity as twenty-five Gallons or more (which is exempted by Law from Excise)— The Excise-Master will attend them to receive the Excise and their Accompts upon Oath at the House of Stephen Holland, Esq; in Londonderry, on the 4th Day of September by Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon— At John Webber's, Esq; in Chester, the Fifth Day by Nine o'Clock, A. M.—At Capt. Jonathan Gilman's in Exeter the 6th Day by Ten o'Clock, A.M. And at Mr. James Dwyer's, Innholder in Portsmouth, from the 7th Day in the Morning to the 14th Day at Noon; constant Attendance will be given from Eight o'Clock, A. M. to One o'Clock; and from Two o'Clock, P. M. to Four o'Clock in each Day, Sunday excepted. Those in the Western Parts of this Province, may have an Opportunity to settle their Excise at Capt. Carr's, Innholder in Goffs-Town, from the 17th Day of September to the End of the Month.—If those Persons who have lent or otherwise disposed of Liquors without Licence, are inclined to save themselves Trouble, they are advised to settle within the Time limited, at the respective Places above-mentioned, considering they are liable to a Prosecution, not only by the Excise-Master and other Officers, but also to any private Informer— But if after this fair Notice, any should refuse complying, let them take the Consequence, and remember, that tho' their Distance be at the extreme Parts of the Province, it will be no Security against Discovery— they may be assured that no Pains or Care will be wanting on the Part of the Excise-Master to detect those who shall attempt to wrong the Government in this Regard— A large List of unexpected Names being already in the Excise-Master's Hands.
For further Information, and to correct a common mistaken Notion respecting the lending or exchanging Liquors, as if no Breach of the Law, and being unwilling to prosecute any Man, the following Clause of the temporary Act is here inserted, viz:— "Be it enacted, That all giving, lending, commuting of any Kind of said Liquors, either as a Reward, or for Labour, or Encouragement for Labour; that may diminish the Hire or Wages, or to charge upon any Commodity or Thing whatsoever, whereby the Person so giving or lending or commuting directly or indirectly, be remunerated or reimbursed therefor, shall be esteemed, construed, and adjudged to be a Sale, and shall be subjected to the Regulations and Penalties aforesaid, &c."
By inspecting the above Clause, I flatter myself that many will be convinced of the Necessity of settling their Excise Accompts, which will doubtless prevent Prosecutions.
SAMUEL BLODGET, Excise-Master.
Goffs-Town, July 26. 1770.
L O N D O N,
May 15. The French, since our late Insults on their Territory, have formed a Coast-Guard which, by Beacons, can assemble Troops sufficient to oppose any Landing, and in three Days will gather 100,000 under Arms. These Men never march but attend the Sea Coast.
A prognostic of the loss of liberty, is the shameful, shocking slave-trade, so long carried on by a nation that makes her boast of Liberty; that calls herself Protestant and Christian! It is said England supplies her American colonies yearly with more than one hundred thousand slaves. In order to procure such, they encourage the African Princes to go to war with one another, and to spread wretchedness among their own humane, innocent, well-disposed subjects. What adds to the horrid barbarity, no less than ten thousand of these unhappy human creatures, die on the voyage; and one fourth of the hundred thousand, in what is called, the seasoning. It is affirmed of Liverpool, that her vessels alone import to America more than thirty thousand slaves yearly; they did so in 1753. See Anthoni Benezet's Caution and Warning, p. 40, 41.
In the Characters which appeared on Monday night at the Masquerade, a Chimney-sweep was exceedingly humorous; one political stroke of his must not be forgotten; he approached Mr. Wilkes with 'God bless your Honour, won't you employ me, I Sweep for Soot, ho! and I signed the Remonstrance, your Honour?— A Figure representing Alderman Wilkes; a Mask was observing to the Philosopher the Drollery of their being in Company both a real and imaginary Mr. Wilkes; "O Sir, returned the Philosopher, the Shadow will naturally pursue the Substance."—A Figure of Razor; a Ditto of Quidnunc; both in the Farce of the Upholsterer; One Circumstance of Humour is worth relating here; Col. Lutterel and Mr. Wilkes were both in Dominos, and unmasked; the Colonel had been sitting some Time on a Sopha, and presently after the Colonel had left it Mr. Wilkes by Accident came and sat down on the same Sopha; Quidnunc seeing this, ran in great Haste up to Razor and cried, "Good News, brave News for Old-England, Brother Razor, Mr. Wilkes has at last taken Col. Lutterell's Seat."—There Characters of Players, Sailors, Friars, Nuns, Quakers, Shepherds, Shepherdesses, a Beggar, and a St. Giles's Bunter. An Old Maiden Prude was continually crying out, "that she should lose her Reputation in such Company." Several of the Nobility appeared in Dominos.
The entertainment given by Sir Watkin Williams Wynne, Bart. at Whynstay, April 19, 1770. Thirty Bullocks, 1 ditto roasted whole, 50 hogs, 50 calves, 80 sheep, 18 lambs, 70 pigs, 51 Guinea fowls, 37 turkies, 12 turkey pouls, 84 capons, 25 Sea fowls, 300 chickens, 360 fowls, 95 ducklings, 48 rabbits, 13 snipes, &c. 1 leveret, 5 bucks, 41lb. salmon, 50 brace tench, 40 brace carp, 36 pike, 60 dozen trout, 108 flounders, 109 lobsters, 150 gallons milk, 60 quarts cream, 30 bushels potatoes, 6000 asparagus, 200 French beans, 3 ditto green peas, 21 cucumbers, 70 hogheads of ale, 120 dozen of wine; brandy, rum, and shrub in plenty; 96 crabs, 10 quarts shrimps, 200 crawfish, 60 barrels of pickled oysters, 20 quarts of oysters for succes, 166 hams, 100 tongues, 125 plumb puddings, 108 apple-pies, 104 pork pies, 30 beef pies, 34 rice puddings, 6 venison pasties, 60 raised pies, 80 tarts, 30 pieces cut pastry, 24 pound cakes, 60 savoy cakes, 30 sweet meat cakes, 12 black racoon, 144 rice crumps, 18 thousand eggs, 4 tons of bread, salt butter cost 36l. besides fresh butter, rock work, shapes landscapes in jellies, bol-
manges, &c. a great quantity of small pastry, a large cask of ale, containing 26 hogheads.
Letters from Constantinople in form, that every day brings a confirmation of the most melancholy accounts of the revolt of the Turkish provinces, and that the Asiatic territories had refused their assistance in the present distraction of affairs; — — — — and even Tripoli, Algiers, Morocco, Tunis, and all the Barbary powers stand aloof, and behold as from afar, with difference, the desolation coming upon the race of Ottoman.
PHILADELPHIA, July 23. Thursday last JOHN DICKENSON, Esq; was married to Miss MARY NORRIS.
We are informed that a Cause of a very singular Nature is coming on to be tried in the Superior Court of New-Jersey, wherein a young woman is Plaintiff, and a Gentleman of Fortune Defendant; for Breach of a Promise of Marriage made in Writing to the Plaintiff by the Defendant, in the Life Time of his Wife, since deceased, to be contracted with the Plaintiff after the Death of the Wife, provided she would continue in her single State, until such Contingency might happen: Which the Plaintiff in her Declaration sets forth she hath done, pursuant to, and in Virtue of the Defendant's Promise and Assumption as aforesaid; and by Reason thereof hath lost her Marriage. The Action is laid for £. 3000 Proc. Money.
New-York, 26th July. 1770. IN Consequence of a printed Advertisement for the Purpose, a considerable Number of Inhabitants met Yesterday Evening at Hamden-Hall, where a Protest against the Conduct of those who have broke the Non-Importation Agreement (whereby they have destroyed that Union of the Colonies so essential for the Preservation of their Liberties) was read, unanimously agreed to, and signed by a considerable Number.—The said Protest is left at the House of Mr. Jasper Drake, where due Attendance will be given (for Persons to sign) from 9 o'clock in the Morning 'till 12 at Noon; and from 3 in the Afternoon 'till 7 in the Evening; 'till Saturday the 4th of August. It is hoped that the Counties, will likewise Protest; as it will be the only Means to preserve the Reputation of the Colony, which has been meanly prostituted to serve the vile Purposes of a Party.
BOSTON, August 2. It was observed, that on Tuesday last the Heat was so intense that the Barometer rose five Degrees higher than it has been for two Years past.
The same Evening Mr. John Aish of this Town, Cordwainer, jumping off a Wharf at the North-End into the Water to cool himself, his Blood it is supposed was suddenly chilled, and immediately drowned.—He has left a large Family of small Children.
We hear from Luneburg, that last Monday se'nnight, as a young Man named Chace, who attended in the Store of Dr. Taylor was drawing Rum from a Hoghead into a pail, & a lighted Candle in his Hand, the Blaze catch'd the Rum on Fire, and burnt, and the Rum burning flew on the young Man, set Fire to his Cloaths and burnt him in such a terrible Manner that he expired in great agonies, in about an hour after: By timely Assistance the Store was preserved.
NEW-HAVEN, July 27. Last Tuesday one Tim o . Metaukus, an Indian, was committed to Goal in this Town, charged with the Murder of one Joseph Charles, another Indian, who he stab'd in the Thigh about two Months since, of which Wound he died last Monday.

From the PENNSYLVANIA-GAZETTE, Messieurs Hall, and Sellers, (the Printers) The Impartiality of your Conduct, leaves the Author of the inclosed Paper no Doubt, y u will immediately insert the same in your useful Paper, which will oblige,
A Number of your Readers.
THE Importers of Dry Goods in this City have, for a considerable Time past, made a voluntary Sacrifice of their Commercial Interest, by suspending their Orders to Great-Britain; in Hopes thereby to obtain a Repeal of an Act of Parliament, considered by Americans not only as unconstitutional in itself, but introductory of further and greater Impositions---and have had the Satisfaction to find, that their Efforts have not been altogether ineffectual---an Act of Parliament having passed, repealing the Duties by the former Act imposed, that on Tea excepted.---If this Commodity be indeed essential to the Well-being of America---If the Colonists could not do without their Tea---it might then be acknowledged, that retaining the Duty thereon, was of as evil a Tendency, as if the whole Act remained unrepealed! That this is not the Case, I conceive must be granted, and it will be no great Hardship to do without it.---If then no Tea is imported, or any Article, paying a Duty for the Purpose of raising a Revenue in America---I should be glad to be informed, how the Liberties of America can be effected by a partial Importation from Great-Britain.---If it is found (as it will, if nothing is imported whereon a Duty is laid) that taxing particular Articles operates as a sumptuary Law, we may reasonably hope those Duties would soon be taken off as inexpedient also.---Why would we make a real Evil of that which, by a prudent & steady Conduct may be turned to the Advantage of the Colonies? It is a strange Way of fighting an Enemy, to fire upon our Friends with relentless Fury! it shews at least Passion has got the better of Reason. If it should be coolly asked those Gentlemen, who are most violent for the Continuance of the Non-Importation Scheme, who happen in general to be Men little or not at all interested in the Trade, & who are carrying on other Branches of Commerce, I am sorry to say it, as destructive to the Liberties of America, as the Importation of Tea, would be---whether the parliamentary Right to tax the Colonies, is not as fully supported by the Duties paid on Wine, Molasses, foreign Sugar, Coffee, &c. as it could be, were the Dry-Goods Importers base enough to import Tea, whilst it is subject to a Duty?---And yet those zealous Patriots, where their Interest is not at Stake---those Duty-article Importers and Dealers, confidently stand forth, and tell the Dry Goods Trader, that if he even imports Articles which pay no Duty, he is an Enemy to his Country! Does not this argue Blindness and Stupidity, or something worse, in those Men, who pretend to be all Eye for the Public Good? Ye, who want to lay Burthens too heavy to be borne! where are the Instances of your Self-denial, equally incumbent on you, but not equally attended to by you, as by your Fellow-Citizens, who deal in Dry Goods? Can you give a satisfactory Answer? If not, and you have remaining Modesty to produce a Blush, no Doubt your Prudence will induce you to hide it from your Friends, whom you have endeavoured to persuade, that you are the only Patriots? the Sons of Liberty! Affect not Surprize! this is no News to you, you have often been told of it,---but the Love of private Interest has not yet suffered you to give up one commercial Advantage for the Public Good---tho' you assume towards others a dictatorial Character.---Are you in earnest to brand the Enemies to American Liberty, and to publish their Names, who have made the largest Strides towards its Destruction?---Look into your own Waste-Books---turn to your Ledgers---and cast up the Amount each of you have paid towards the American Revenue! then, if your usual Effrontery fail not, stand forth, and claim the foremost Rank in the List of Patriots: and evince your Right thereto (by the principal Proofs you have yet exhibited) ungenerously branding those who have strove hard to serve the Public, with the odious Name of Enemies to their Country! a Charge as groundless, as it is from you, peculiarly base and ungrateful.
PHILADELPHIA, July 19. PHILO-VERITAS.
From the PUBLIC LEDGER, April 21. If the following meets with a kind reception, please to favour it with a place in your instructive paper, the very first opportunity, and you will oblige the writer thereof.
A WORD of ADVICE
Addressed to this infatuated, distracted Nation.
Dear Countrymen.
NOTWITHSTANDING all the party rage that at this time agitates the breasts of the Governors and governed of this once
happy nation, and threatens the subversion of our constitution, there is not an individual amongst us that does not value himself upon being a rational creature, & would be thought to be guided in all actions by reason & justice. But was this the real fact, how soon the face of things would be changed! The dark and affecting prospect that is now before us would soon brighten up, and all our tumults have an end, and be succeeded by national unanimity.
Is it not, however, shameful to reflect, that all the real and imaginary evils that have been laid to the charge of government (and which have now been the source of a long ten years strenuous contention) might all be contained in half a sheet of paper, and amicably adjusted in half an hour, by two or three moderate men, blessed with common sense and common honesty; who among all this uproar by both parties about patriotism, possessed but ten grains of the real thing itself?
But, alas! the love of our country, though every-where talked of, is no where to be found but in the good man's breast: And every good man sees and laments, that a corrupt, selfish, worldly spirit, which lives wholly to, and for itself, has long seized upon church and state. Its deadly poison has penetrated into the heart of the kingdom, and preys upon its vitals: And what wonder! when a nation is given up to that spirit, which sacred authority expressly assures us is the root of all evil; that heaven, justly offended with us, has withdrawn its divine influence, and left us (if a speedy reformation does not soon take place) to fall a sacrifice to our own passions, to our national animosities, to our hatred and revenge.
As the great malady of the nation certainly lies here, to let us, my dear countrymen, with a resolute and generous purpose, deliver ourselves from this most deplorable of all slaveries, the dominion of our own vices, which makes us see every thing through a false medium, & renders us incapable of forming a sound judgment of things; for passions blind our understandings. Let us then, for our King's, our country's, and posterity's sake, for all that is near and dear to us as Britons, have some pity and compassion upon one another, and moderate our intemperate animosities before they are insensibly carried too far: Let us put a stop to the miseries that will overflow the kingdom, if a civil war should break out among us; in which all will be involved in one common calamity, in which desolation will spread wide through the land, and perhaps, when we have thoroughly weakened ourselves, we shall become an easy conquest to the sons of slavery, and to become ourselves slaves indeed!
My dear countrymen, turn not a deaf ear to this salutary counsel: Ye Governors, do the thing that is just in the eyes of God and man: Ye Governed, pay a dutiful cheerful obedience to those who are set over you by lawful authority, & ever with candour make a reasonable allowance for the imperfections that cleave to human nature, and which, therefore, must in some measure be inseparable from all governments. Consider we are men, and not angels; think it therefore inequitable to expect that perfection in other men, which you are conscious you yourselves do not possess.
To conclude, were we what we too much feign ourselves to be, real lovers of our country, how truly sensible should we be of the manifold blessings we enjoy from the nature of our situation and government, that other kingdoms are deprived of! And how would our hearts be filled with love & gratitude to the bounteous author of all good! How, instead of hunting & worrying each other, distressing government in every measure, right or wrong, & planting a crown of thorns about our amiable and virtuous young monarch's head; I say how would our delightful employment be, who should most contribute to make his reign glorious, his person beloved, and ourselves happy! This would be acting the part of wise men, whose common interest is inseparably united.
A real Lover of the British Nation.
To the Printer of the New-London Gazette.
Sir,
SLAVERY is the Establishment of a Right, which gives to one Man such a Power over another, as to render him absolute Master of his Life and Fortune.
Montesquieu.
SLAVERY in many hideous forms, I have seen in many parts of the world: In Denmark, where Nobles, on their knees, have begged the King to strip them of their lands, for
that they were taxed at more than they were worth. I have seen fifteen gentlemen and merchants rise from table to make their lowest reverence to an Ensign of the King's troops, & precedence given him.---In Prussia I have seen a gentleman ask a permit of the commanding officer for leave to go to his own country house, who gave it to him for a limited number of days: Nay, his very army are prisoners, for they have not leave to go out of the gates, but in their corps.
The whole Empire is in the same state.---At Hanover, Lunenburg, and Zell, one scarce hears or sees any thing but soldiers, drums, and fife; even the conversation of the women turns on grenadiers, dragoons, squadrons, and battalions. There is no property in Germany, it's all the Princes, a few hanse towns excepted.---In Holland, I have seen a man who came from Brussels, who succeeded, by the death of his brother, to a large estate: at a public ordinary some Dutchmen asked him how much he inherited? The poor man evaded an answer; but being push'd, said it was not interest to tell; for if prince Charles should hear of it, he would certainly, under some pretext or other, take it for the Queen's use.
Five years since, I spent some time in France; whoever says that nation is the gayest, in spirit, and apparel, is greatly mistaken; for whatever gaiety there is, is only at Paris; whilst the villagers & peasants are miserably poor; & along the Mediterranean mostly barefoot. Just before I was at Montpellier an edict came from court, imposing a tax,---against which the people had remonstrated, but in vain. They rose, and thousands of them appeared in the market-place: The duke of Fitz James, who commanded in Languedoc, ventured among them in order to expostulate; but finding that would not do, he pointed at the brazen horse and his rider, Lewis the fourteenth, who with his truncheon of command, looks as terrible as Hercules; and in many cities of France are such statues, in order to awe and terrify the people: However, the act was repealed; but such an instance of lenity was never known in that kingdom before, a kingdom; which although it contains eighteen millions of people; has, for ages, been enslaved by means of standing armies, and from which almost all Europe has taken the fatal example, of keeping up an exorbitant number of troops, even in times of peace.
I have seen, in that country, a man demand his money from an officer, who paid him half his bill for the whole; on the creditor complaining, the officer held up his cuff; then bid him to remember whose livery that was.
Such are a few of the many instances that I have seen of slavery in Europe; but if we look a little further eastward, we shall find that the whole of Asia is kept in the most abject state of bondage: there is not a man in that vast region that breathes liberty. Chains, irons, & whips are there the concomitants of power, & therefore always attend the monarch.
May the colonies of North America, which at present have such a noble sense of liberty, ever retain it; and may they always remember that soldiers have undone the world.
Yours,
MARCUS AURELIUS.
NEW-YORK, July 26.
The last Maryland Paper contains an Account of the Proceedings of another of their Committees of Inspection in the District under their Care, by which it appears, that they, as well as all the other Committees of Inspection in that Province are extremely careful & exact in examining the Invoices of all the Goods that arrive; & that every Article, however small, imported contrary to the Non-Importation Agreement, is immediately stored and sent home for England by the next Opportunity. The Committee for Pig Point Districts in Arundel County, Report the Examination of 10 Cargoes of Goods lately imported, viz. 3 from Mr. John Buchanan, Merchant in London, two from Perkins, Buchanan and Brown, 1 from Mr. William Molison, 1 from Mr. Thomas Philpot, and 1 from Mr. James Russel, in all of which were Articles not allowed by the Agreement, which are to be sent back; another Cargo from the said Russel and 1 from Messrs. West and Hopson, had not an Article contrary to Agreement.
This Morning the Body of a man unknown was taken up near Barton's Point, 'tis supposed he had been some Time drowned, as his Face was much disfigured.

PHILADELPHIA, July 23, 1770. We are advised from Lancaster, that on Saturday the 14th instant, Mr. Isaac Myer, of Tulpehocken Township, in the evening of that day, walked from his house to a small village adjoining his plantation, where he sat in a public house conversing with the innkeeper his tenant, and another person, the evening warm, and the windows of the house all open—that between nine and ten of the clock, two guns were fired into the house, from the field behind the same, that a ball from one of the guns grazed the innkeeper's head, without further damage to him, and the ball from the other gun, struck the shoulder of the said Myer, passed thro' the neck, and lodged in the other shoulder, of which wound he languished until 4 o'Clock in the afternoon the next day, and then died. The authors of this horrid Murder are not yet discovered.
N E W - P O R T, July 30.
Last Week as Messrs. Sanford and Gladding of Bristol, were taking in Wood on board the Sloop Hester, in Connecticut River, Twenty odd Men came down upon them, and inflexibly forbade their taking in any more Wood, and said no Rhode-Island Men should have any Trade there; and then went to heaving the Wood over-board; but upon Examination they found that the whole Number of Connecticut Men, then present could muster but barely Eight Shillings & Six Pence, lawful Money, and not daring to take the Wood without paying Sanford and Gladding for it, they threw out only what that large Sum of 8s. & 6d. came to at 6s. per Cord, then try'd to make them swear not to take any more Wood on Board in that River, till there should be a free Trade, which was not comply'd with; after which they hauled up the Sloop's Anchor and ordered them down the River to prevent further Trouble.
B O S T O N, August 6.
By Capt. Packwood, who is arrived at New-London from Cape-Nicholas, which Place he left the 4th of July, we learn, That since the Earthquake at Hispaniola, on the 3d of June, there had been a daily trembling of the Earth, not only at Port au Prince and the Villages adjacent, but at the Cape, 150 Miles distant; that the Destruction occasioned by the first Shock at Port au Prince surpassed Description, and any Account of it was forbid by the General to be published there, least it might too much terrify and discourage the Inhabitants, most of whom had taken Shelter on board the Shipping for near a fortnight after the first Shock, but on a seeming Probability that the Shocks should subside, numbers of them returned to the Town with design to rebuild their Habitations; however, on the 20th of the Month they had another Shock, still more violent than the first, which threw down the only 5 Houses which survived the former, and had so much intimated the Inhabitants, that it was thought the Town would be entirely abandoned and another built in a new Spot. The Town of Port au Prince was computed to contain 2500 Houses, and was the Seat of Government; that since the Earthquake it was very sickly there, & they were in the greatest Distress imaginable for want of Provisions. At Leoganne every House was also thrown down, and at Petit-Guava the Water flowed where the Town formerly stood. It's said the Shock was so great at the Cape as to shake off the Sheathing from sundry Vessels, and that the Anchors of others fetch'd Way.
Last Week arrived at Marblehead, Capt. Glover from Gibraltar, in 6 Weeks Passage: There was at Gibraltar a Danish Fleet, consisting of 4 Ships of the Line, 3 Frigates, and 3 Bombs: They were bound to Algier, to demand Satisfaction for some Captures and Insults on the Danish Subjects: A very large Number of the English Merchants Vessels were at Gibraltar, who were obliged to wait till the said Fleet were supplied with Water: They had put into Cadiz, but were refused Supplies.
A Letter from Gibraltar, says, "Eight Sail of Danish Men of War and two Bomb Ketches arrived there, and that it was expected that the Turks will declare WAR with all the Christian Nations, except the English, for the Russians gain of the Turks daily; That the Turks put to Death in April last 18,000 Greeks on account of some of the Greeks in another Place rebelling and turning to the Russians."
We hear that in and near the Town of Hatfield the People have lately suffered greatly by an uncommon Storm of Hail, which destroyed much Grain, &c.
Last Thursday in the Afternoon, the Steeple of the Meeting-House in Walbam was struck by Lightning and set on Fire, but timely discovered and extinguished. The first visible Effect of the Lightning is below the Ball covered with Lead (which Ball is at a small Distance from the Foot of the Spindle that supports the Weather-Cock) where the Shingles are greatly injured) when it came to an Iron hoop that fastens the upper End of the Rafter of the Steeple, it tore all off quite round: Below this Hoop its course was chiefly on one side, rending off Boards and Shingles, thence down to an Iron Stirrup on the Top of one of the Posts in the Balcony, and so to the Foot of said Post, at the Top of the Tower, which is covered with Lead: When it came to the Lead (which turns up on the Post 2 or 3 Inches) it appears to have divided into three Parts or Branches, which fell upon 3 of the Tower Posts; over the Top of one were three Holes, as tho' melted thro' the Lead about the Size of Swan Shot; its Passage down this Post was mostly with the Grain of the Wood, throwing off many Splinters. Another Post appears to be but little injured. The Passage down the other was between the Post and the outside Covering, forcing off the Boards and Clapboards from Top to Bottom, when it entered the Ground.
Query, Might not Conductors, or Points properly fixed, have, in all probability, prevented any Damage from the Electrical Fire in this Case? If so, it is a faulty Omission in not guarding Buildings in such a Way, especially high Steeples, when above all near Objects.
Last Week died at Newport, Rhode-Island, the Honourable Benjamin Smith, Esq; of Charlestown, South-Carolina, in the 53 Year of his Age.
Last Tuesday Evening the Rev. Mr. Whitefield arrived at Newport from New-York.
Extract of a Letter from Philadelphia, July 16. YOU will see by the Pennsylvania Chronicle of yesterday the whole of our public transactions respecting the defection of New-York; on which I would here observe, that the meeting at the State-House was numerous and respectable, and the resolutions quite unanimous, nor was there any debate, unless it was on the insertion of some very hard terms and epithets which all acknowledged the Yorkers deserved, but we thought were below the dignity of our city and censure to insert. You may depend on it, that the resolutions will be practiced as well as voted; we are well assured that the Southern Colonies will concur with us, and expect that you and Connecticut will also, and we care little about the rest. It grows a more and more prevailing opinion here, that we can very well do without English goods, except a very few articles, and be better without, than with them, though the beginning to break thro' the old habit of using them, may be somewhat irksome to us, like as a drunkard, when he first renounces his cups, feels all the force of corrupt appetite, which nevertheless is soon succeeded by that easy, natural, and happy flow of spirits, which arises from a temperate use of necessary refreshments, we do really begin to get over the first of these mortifying feelings, and have a little of the other; for 'tis obtained here already, that money is much more plenty than usual, families less extravagant, and more industrious: We have in Embrio, almost every necessary manufacture, which will soon supply our wants; it becomes reputable to be frugal and industrious, and we think ourselves much more happy, while busied about some manufacture immediately under our view, at home than in negotiating distant and largely extended connections, which never fail to be attended, more or less, with risk, vexation and disappointment, and at best leaves but a poor inheritance to a family; nothing being more liable to be dissipated by a young unexperienced heir than a trading stock: so that, we think, if we
do not grow rich so fast in a manufacturing as in a trading way, yet we can make what we do get at home, more durable, and more likely in the end to establish our families. In fine, we have not thought of giving back, till we are basely defeated by the other colonies, another instance of which we can hardly expect. Indeed we grew easy about the importation, in the view of interest, as well as that of resentment against Great-Britain, or that of a means of redress of grievances. My paper is poor, but 'tis American made, which I hope will give you patience in reading and pleasure in reflection."
Extract of a Letter from Virginia to a Friend in New-York, dated July 2.
"I am sorry to find the noble Cause of America likely to be betrayed by its pretended Friends with you, can it be possible that Men who have soard so high as to attract the Admiration and Esteem of all the virtuous Part of Mankind should at once sink so low as to become the Contempt & Derision of every Individual! But I hope it is not possible, that for a Mess of Portage you should sell your invaluable Liberties and entail the curse of Slavery upon your Descendants for ever, when Perseverance only for a little longer, secures the prize and makes your Names Immortal."
"We are all Patriots here, and will hold no Intercourse or Connection while you basely defeat the Cause."
We hear from Virginia, that the Ship Sharpe, Capt. Spier, who was dismissed from this Place and Philadelphia without being suffered to unload, on Account of having Goods on board not allowable by the Non-Importation Agreement, as mentioned in the Papers, failed from Philadelphia, address'd to Messrs. William and John Brown, Merchants in Norfolk, where the Committee of Inspection finding his Cargo not admissible according to the Non-Importation Agreement, he was not permitted to unload, but was preparing to sail the third Time, in Search of a more favourable Clime. From the above Account, just from Virginia, it appears that the Story circulated here, That the said Ship had delivered all her Cargo in Philadelphia except a few Parcels, is an infamous Falshood, intended to Discredit the Philadelphians, and weaken the Non-Importation Agreement. There were indeed a few Articles smuggled into Philadelphia, from the said Ship, but the Goods were secured, & those concern'd in the fraudulent Attempt, duly called to Account.
Monday Afternoon the Ship York, Capt. Marshall, arrived here from Alicante, but last from Gibraltar in 8 Weeks, by whom we learn, that the Russian Fleet, under the Command of Admiral Elphinstone, was at Port Mahon when he sail'd, and that there was a great Sickness on board the Ships, whereof great Numbers of their Men daily died.
Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman at New-York, of July 30.
"I had Yesterday the Pleasure of receiving yours per Post; but what was my astonishment, to find the Merchants of Boston intend to propose a relaxation in the Non-Importation agreement at their next Meeting. I do assure you, that the defection of New-York did not give me so much real Concern, as I now feel on account of Boston. If the Measure you mention is adopted, adieu to American Liberty! On the Virtue of the Bostonians I thought I could rely; the Philadelphians maintain their Agreement inviolate, without the least Alteration. But if you relax in the least, the Resolutions of all the Colonies will be rescinded immediately. It was the Danger attendant on the least Alteration that made our People so averse to the Congress proposed by our Merchants. It certainly would have been more consistent for your Merchants to have agreed to the proposed Congress, than now to adopt the Measure you mention; for they only proposed a small Alteration, which had something specious at least. O my Friend! how am I astonished, can it be possible that the Inhabitants of Boston will pattern after New-York? If they do, I shall believe that Merchants are all alike every where, that they are the Pests of Society, and will enslave every Nation where they get footing. Remember by whom the brave Corsicans were enslaved? As to its being necessary to alter the Agreement on account of some Article we can't do without, it is nothing but mercantile Avarice; we can do without them if we please to do so."
PORTSMOUTH, August 10, 1770.
We hear from Epping, that last Sunday Night, the Lightning struck a large Barn there, in which was about 20 Ton of Hay, and consumed it.
Thursday July 19, was observed as a Day of Fasting and Prayer by several Towns at the Heads of the River, and the same Day there fell a plentiful and refreshing Shower throughout those Towns and some in the Neighbourhood. At Rochester it was accompanied with a violent Tempest, whereby some Houses and Barns, many Trees and Fences, and much Corn were blown down, the Meeting House & other Buildings much shattered, many Windows broke by the Hail, which left Marks on the Sides of the Houses like Bullets; 13 Sheep were killed by the Lightning, and a Cow by the falling of a Tree: the Canker-Worms are mostly gone, they have been devoured by Swine, Birds, and even the Fish taken in Rivers and Ponds have been found full of them.
We hear from Londonderry, That last Monday Evening a young Man was drowned in a Pond there, in attempting to cross it in a Canoe, which overset.
The General Assembly of the Massachusetts, is again Prorogued to the 5th of September, having done no Business, and determine to abide by their Resolutions till the Court is removed to Boston: Several warm and long Addresses have passed between the Governor and House on the Subject.
IT being Fourteen Years, next Month, since this Paper was first publish'd, a Settlement with the Customers is become necessary, as soon as possible. Those who do not comply with so reasonable a Request, and pay off, their Papers will be stoped, and their Accounts put in suit. It is an easy Matter for every one, who intends to pay, either in Town or Country, to call or send to the Printing-Office, in the space of two or three Weeks, and advance at least half a Year. Likewise, Those who are Indebted for Advertisements, are desired to pay immediately; and for the future it is expected that those who send Advertisements for this Paper, tend the Pay for them at the same Time, otherwise they must not take it amiss, if they are not publish'd.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, Piscataqua, August 9.
   Inward Entries, FROM.     Brig Pitt, Wingate Newman, Guadaloup.   Schooner true Britain, John Hill, Antigua.   Sloop Victory Richard Adams, St. Kitts   Schooner Merrimack, Francis Rust, Guadaloup.   Outward Bound, FOR.   Ship Pitt, Thomas C. Chivers, Great-Britain.   Brig Argo, Jotham Blanchard, West-Indies.   Cleared for Departure, FOR.   Schooner Mermaid, Andrew McKenzie, jun. Africa.   Snow Friendship, Andrew McKenzie, Ditto.   Brig Sally, William Friend, West-Indies.   Brig Charming Molly, Joshua Guppy, Ditto.   Sloop Success, Job Weatherhill, Rhode-Island.  
$ UNITY $  WHEREAS at sundry Legal
Meetings of the Proprietors or Owners of the Township of UNITY, in the Province of New Hampshire, several Taxes have been voted to be raised on each original Right or Share of Land in said Town, to pay for raising the Lines round the Town, and laying out the Lots, and building a Saw Mill, and clearing a Road, ordered by the General Court, and other necessary Roads in the Town, which has been advertised in the New Hampshire Gazette, according to the Law of said Province, yet notwithstanding sundry Persons neglect to pay the same to the Collector of said Township. This is therefore to Notify those who are thus delinquent, that unless they pay the following Sums in Lawful Money annexed to each Owner's Name, by the twenty seventh Day of August Instant, so much of each original Right or Share will be Sold at Public Vendue at the Dwelling House of Ensign John Hooton, Landholder in Kingston, on the twenty seventh Day of August Instant, at Three of the Clock in the Afternoon of said Day, as will discharge the said Sum of each Owner with incidental Charges, unless prevented by the Payment thereof at my House in Kingston by the aforesaid Time. The delinquent Owners are,
   L. s. d. L. s. d.     Hon. Benning Jacob Garland 2 2 0   Wentworth, Esq 10 10 0 Nathani. Sanborn 2 2 0   Simon French 2 2 0 Nathan Taylor 2 2 0   Ebenezer Stevens 4 4 0 Philip Hunt 7 10 0   Cornelius Clough 4 16 0 John Mason 2 2 0   William Long 3 15 0 Edward Field 7 1 0   Samuel Wilbow 7 1 0 James Beane 7 1 0   Nathaniel French 5 11 0 Samuel Deaiborn 2 2 0   John Sherburne 8 8 0 Thomas Clough 5 0 0   Samuel Judkins 4 16 0 John Webster 4 4 0   John Sweat 6 9 0 William Boswell 1 4 0   Thomas Scrivner 7 19 0 Nathaniel Hunt 1 4 0   Moses Sleeper 7 14 6 T. Atkinson Esq; 1 15 9   Tristram Sanborne 6 12 0 Nathaniel Barri 4 4 0   Daniel Moulton 6 6 0 T. Atkinson junr. 4 4 0   Benjamin Sanborne 16 0 0 John Moulton 6 6 0   Isaac Godfree 6 6 0 William Godfree 3 12 0   Henry Wadleigh 1 13 0   Samuel Coe 2 8 0   John Webster Esq; 1 4 0   Jeremiah Philbrick 4 4 0  
JOHN JUDKINS, Collector. Kingston, August 5th 1770.
724/14 52 204 208
TO BE SOLD, At PUBLICK VENDUE, the 30th of this Month, TENEMENT situated in the Street leading from the Ferry Place up the new Country Road over the Bridge, passing by the Mills, containing three lower Rooms and two Chambers, with a good Cellar and Well. Also an ORGIN, that contains 146 P. pes.
Vendue to begin at three o'Clock Afternoon. N. B. Any Person inclin'd to purchase either, may see and examine them, by applying to Isaac Tucker, living in said House.
RUNAWAY from the me the
Subscriber, last Tuesday se'nnight, an Apprentice Boy named Thomas McServe, 16 Years of Age, thick set, 5 feet high, something Cat hamed—had on a blue Kersey Jacket, Scarlet Plush Breeches, black cut Wigs, &c—He carried off with him a Sum of Money stolen from his Master. He Runaway from Cape Ann, & is supposed to be now concealed in some bad House in Portsmouth—Whoever takes up said Runaway and Thief, and conveys him to me at Cape Ann, or Mr. Thomas Chadburne in Portsmouth, shall have two Dollars reward and necessary Charges paid.
Aug. 9. Moses Woodward All Masters of Vessels and others, are forbid harbouring concealing or carrying off said Boy.
ALL PERSONS Indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of Samuel Smith, late of Durham, deceased, are desired to bring in their Claims to John Smith, of Durham, aforesaid, Administrator on said Estate, in order for a speedy Settlement. Aug. 9.
THIS may Certify all whom it may concern, that as Mr. Timothy Wilcot was taken up upon Suspicion of breaking open the Store of me the Subscriber, and has been duly examined and found innocent by me, and has convinced me he is not the Person that did the Fact, and have acquitted him upon the same. Witness my Hand at Portsmouth, 26th July 1770. GEORGE BOYD. Attest. D. Peirce, D. Peirce, junr.
THE CREDITORS to the Estate of Stephen Parsons, late of Portsmouth, Mariner, deceased, are ONCE MORE desired to bring in their Claims to the Commissioners, without any further Delay. Joshua Brackett, Portsmouth Aug: 2 1770. Peter Pearse.
A small Fishing SCHOONER
Of about Eighteen Tuns, well fitted, To be sold, Enquire of the Printers.

W HEREAS I the Subscriber on the 26th of Feb. 1770, gave to Samuel Dyer my NOTE for the Sum of £. 22 9 s. 4 d. Lawful Money, as the Balance of an Account then settled. This is to inform the Public, that said Note was obtained of me in the following Manner:—After I had received his Account, and given said Dyer my own, he propos'd that I should sign a Note for the said Balance; I told him I did not choose to do it 'till I had examined his Account; to which he said, the Note should refer to the Settlement, and if there was any Errors they should be rectified immediately; upon which I signed said Note, and that very Evening I found out some of the most plain Errors and Overcharges, and other Mistakes; and went to said Dyer to convince him thereof, but he refused, and still refuses to listen to an Accommodation; I therefore desire that no Person will take the said NOTE in Payment, for I am determined to dispute the same, and all the whole Account of said Dyer but what I find just and right. MARK LANGDON. Portsmouth, July 24. 1770.
§ Monadnock, No. 4. §
W HEREAS the Proprietors of MONADNOCK No. 4. in the Province of New Hampshire, at a legal Meeting held at James Reed's in said Monadnock, Esq; on the Eighteenth Day of last April, voted to raise a TAX of Two Dollars on each Lot in said Monadnock:—NOTICE is hereby given to the Proprietors aforesaid, to pay their respective Taxes to me Daniel Mellen, Collector, at, or before the 13th Day of September next; and that I will attend said Business at the House of Mr. Howard, Innholder in Concord, on the 13th of said September. If the same is not paid by that Time, the Delinquent Lots will be advertised for Sale.
July 26. 1770. Daniel Mellen, Collector.
[Monadnock, No. 4.]
N OTICE is hereby given to the several delinquent Proprietors of MONADNOCK, No. 4. so called, in the Province of New Hampshire, that have not paid their respective TAXES, agreed upon and voted to be raised on each original Right, in said Monadnock, at sundry legal Meetings of said Proprietors (whereof Notice hath already been given in a former Advertisement, agreeable to LAW) that so much of said Delinquent's Rights or Lots will be sold at PUBLIC VENDUE to the highest Bidder, at the House of James Reed, Esq; in said Monadnock, on the twenty sixth Day of September next, at Ten of the Clock, A. M. as will be sufficient to pay the following Sums in Lawful Money annexed to each of said Delinquent's Names, with the incidental Charges, unless they prevent the same by paying said Taxes with incidental Charges, before the Time of Sale, to me Daniel Mellen, Collector of said Proprietors, or to John Mellen, of said Monadnock.
The delinquent Proprietors, the Number of Rights, Lots and Range.    The Sums in Lawful Money, are as follows,   Jonathan Wilson, No. 14, in 4th Range, £. 1. 4   No. 21 in 8th, No. 11 in 2d, and No. 19 in 4th Range, 4 7   Sampson Stoddard, Esq; new claimed by Francis Fullum, No. 14 in 2d Range 2 2 0   Sampson Stoddard, Esq; alias Jedediah Boynton, No. 4 in 8th, and No. 5 in 8th Range, 4 4   Thomas Ball, No. 14 in 11th Range 1 2   Mathew Thornton, Esq; alias Jonathan Medcalf, No. 16 in 5th Range, 2 2   John Woods, No. 8 in 7th Range, 1 7   Bazali Rice, No. 19 in 4th Range, and No. 20 in 4th, 1 10   Amos Brown, No. 19 in 5th Range 1 0 7   Sampson Stoddard, alias Gidden and Ebenezer Tiffany, No. 22 in 8th, and 23 in 8th Range, 2 14   Henry Poor, No. 1 in 12th, and No 2 in 12th Range, 4 4   Monadnock, No. 4.   July 26th 1770. DANIEL MELLEN, Collector. 
Cash given for POTASH, By JAMES MC MASTERS, At his Store on Spring-Hill, on Colonel WALLINGFORD's Wharfe: At which Place is sold various Sorts of ENGLISH GOODS at so low a Rate as may induce Shopkeepers and Country Traders to purchase.
A Gentlewoman, who has kept SCHOOL in this Town, informs the Publick, that as she intends to go into the Country for her Health, will undertake for a reasonable Encouragement, to open a SCHOOL in any of the neighbouring Towns to teach Children to Read, Write, and Plain Work, in the best Manner. For further Particulars, enquire of the Printers.
TICKETS in Newmarket & Stratham Lottery selling off at the Printing-Office.
§ Piermont §
W HEREAS Application has been made to me the Subscriber, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, for the Province of New Hampshire, by more than one sixteenth part of the proprietors of the Township of PIERMONT, in said province, to call a Meeting of said Proprietors, to be held at the House of Capt. Zechariah Fols, Innholder in Portsmouth, on FRIDAY the TENTH Day of August ensuing, at Two o'Clock in the Afternoon, then and there to act on the following particulars, viz.
 1. To chuse a Moderator to regulate said Meeting.  2. To chuse a Proprietors Clerk, and agree upon what Method to call Proprietors Meetings for the future.  3. To see if the Proprietors will accept and allow the Report of the Committee who were chosen to examine the Treasurer's and Collectors Accounts.  4. To see what Money the Proprietors will raise for Encouragement for Settlers that will settle on said Township by the First Day of November next ensuing; or by any other Time the Proprietors shall then think proper to fix, and to defray other necessary Charges for the settlement of said Township.  5. To see if the Proprietors will chuse Assessors to assess a TAX on the Rights of those Proprietors that don't settle their Rights by the said first Day of November, or by any other Time the Proprietors shall then fix; and chuse and impower a Collector to collect the same.  6. To see if the Proprietors will consent that the first Thirty Families that will settle on said Township, may make choice of their House Lots out of those that are or may be laid out on the Land between the Interval Lots and the Hundred Acre Lots; the first Settler to make his first Choice, then the second, third, and so on as they settle until the Thirty Families are settled on said Rights.  7. To see if the Proprietors will accept and allow Samuel Emerson Esq's; Account for his Assistance in laying out said Township.  8. To chuse and impower a Committee to settle the Lines between said Township and the Township of Haverhill, and to prosecute any person or persons who have or may make any Infringements on said Township of Piermont.  9. To see what Method the Proprietors will take to make all necessary Roads in said Township.  10. To see if the Proprietors will allow Col. John Goffe part or all the Charge he was at by being sued as Committee Man, in laying out said Township; and to act on any other Matters they may then think proper. 
Pursuant to the above Request, and the Law of this Province, I hereby Notify and Warn the Proprietors of said Piermont, to meet at the above Time & Place for the purposes before mentioned.
CHRISTOPHER TOPPAN.
Hampton, July 18, 1770.
BY ORDER of His Majesty's Justices of the Superior Court, This is to give NOTICE to the Proprietors of a Tract of Land, lying and adjoining, for the Length of one Mile, on the West Side of Saco River, containing 1200 Acres, conveyed from one William Phillips, to one John Gifford, in the Year 1669, which said Tract lies in common and undivided;—that John Frost, junr of York, and George Frost of Durham, have petitioned his Majesty's Justices aforesaid, shewing that they are each of them interested one eighth part in said Tract of Land, and that they and the Heirs and Devisees of Charles Frost, late of Falmouth, Esq; deceased, and Joseph Frost, late of New Castle, in New Hampshire, (several of whom are Minors) are Tenants in common in two other eighth parts thereof, and pray'd the Court to cause Partition to be made of the same, and their respective Interests to be set off to them to hold in severality; and that the Consideration of said Petition is refer'd to the sitting of the said Court in Boston, on the last Tuesday of August next, when and where you or any of you may be heard touching the same, if you see meet.
SAMUEL WINTHROP, Clerk.
(Sandbornton.)
N OTICE is hereby given to the Proprietors of SANDBORNTON, that at their legal Meetings held at the House of Capt. Josiah Robinson, Innholder in Exeter, January 8th, and June 25th, 1770, a TAX of Twelve Shillings Lawful Money was voted on each original Right of Land in said Township, to forward the Settlement of said Town; which Tax is committed to me to collect: Those who neglect paying the aforesaid Sum by the 27th Day of August next, to me at my House in Exeter, will have their Rights advertised for Sale, agreeable to LAW.
SAMUEL FOLSOM, Collector.
Cash for RAGS,
By James and Mathew Haslett, Taken in at their Shop in King Street. It is desired, that all Persons would save their coarse and fine RAGS, and bring them clean and in good Order, to the above place;—where the said Hasletts carries on their Trade of Breeches Making; and where any Gentlemen may be supplied with Breeches Making; and where any Gentlemen may be supplied with Breeches as good and cheap as any where in New England. Cash also will be given for Sheep and Lamb Skins with the WOOL on.
Thomas Martin,
At his Store in Portsmouth, sells at the lowest Cash Price, the following Articles, viz.
TEA, Coffee, Chocolate, Loaf & brown Sugar, Raisins, Currants, Almonds, Anchovies, Capers, Pepper, Nutmegs, Cinnamon, Cloves, Mace, Allspice, Oatmeal, Hair Powder, Poland and common Starch, Crown Soap, Florence Oil, Flour, Rice, Mustard, Salt, Salt Petre, Ginger, West India and New-England RUM; Molasses, Spermaceti Candles, Red-wood, Logwood, Fustick, Copperas, Alum, Rosin, Pressing Paper, Clothers Cards, Wool Cards, Red Lead, white Lead, Spanish Brown, Spanish Yellow, Whiting, and Brimstone, per the Cask or smaller Quantity;—Powder, Shot, Bar and Sheet Lead, 4d. 6d. 8d. 10d. 20d. 30d. 40d. Nails, by the Cask or smaller Quantity—Sheathing, drawing, pump, scupper, clapper and shoe Nails, 8 by 10, 7 by 9, and 6 by 8, and sheet Bristol Crown Glass, per the Box, or lesser Quantity.—Hammers, Gimblets, Files, Cod and Mackerel Lines, Cod, Mackerel, Pollock and small Hooks, Bunting, Sail, Bolt-Rope and other Needles, Palms, Twine, Time Glasses, Oznabrigs, Ticklinburg, China, Glass, Iron and Stone Ware & Bellows, Heaters, Ironing Boxes, Flat Irons, Whalebone, Knitting Needles, Thimbles, Combs, Spring Knives, Knives and Forks, Table Spoons, Tea Spoons, and Tongs, Sieves, Hearth Brushes, Mops, Scrubbing Brushes, Iron Dogs—Kerseys, Broad Cloths, handsome colour'd WILTONS, German Serges, Barcelona Handkerchiefs, Hats, Irish Linnens, Checks, Tammies, Shalloons, Calamancoes, Patches, Fans, Breeches Patterns of various Colours, Stockings, Camblets, Men's and Women's Leather Shoes, Lynn Shoes, Tapes, Sewing Silk, Threads, Alamoide, Saitin, Cloak Silk, Worsted and Mill'd Caps, Buttons, Twist, Knee Straps, Fustians, Long Lawn, Gauzes, Bedticks, Laces and Stay Laces, Brass Kettle, Awl Blades, Pewter Dishes, Plates, Basins, Blanketts, Philadelphia Iron, &c. &c.
Thomas Achincloss,
Has for Sale at his Shop next Door to Jacob Tilton's, at the Sign of the Marquis of Rockingham, King Street, a Variety of English Goods, suitable to the Season, at the lowest Rate, amongst which are the following, viz.
IRISH Linnens, 3 qrs. 7 eight and yard wide of various Prices; China and Calicoes of genteel Patterns; plain and flower'd Lawns, some six quarters wide; Cambricks; black Persian and Taffity; plain black Satten; black Barcelona Handkerchiefs; Romalls ditto; a neat Assortment of Check Handkerchiefs; Bed Ticks 7 eight; check Linnen and stript Holland; black Breeches Patterns; Ravens Duck; Ticklingburgs and Dowlass; handsome stript Camblets; plain and flower'd silk Gauze; a neat Assortment of Hard Ware; plain and figur'd Ribbons; black and color'd silk Mitts; worsted ditto; black and knit worsted Hose; Kippen's Snuff by the Dozen or single Bottle warranted; Womens Shoes; choice Indigo, &c. &c.
Ais.
Blue, scarlet, drab and brown BROAD CLOTHS.
To be sold cheap for Cash only,
By GILLAM BUTLER, An Assortment of Scots Lawns, plain, stript, flower'd and spotted; a few Pieces of Gauze; some very neat Gauze Aprons and Handkerchiefs; and a Cask of Kippen's Snuff.—As the above Goods are consign'd for Sale, they will be sold much cheaper by Wholesale or Retail than can be bought in any Shop or Place in Portsmouth. Lawns from 2 s 6, to 6 s. per Yard. Warrantee and Quitclaim Deeds, Justices Writs, Indentures, &c. sold at the Printing Office