The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1773-09-24 00:00:00

Boston, September 16.
Monday last arrived here Captain Cales, and the Day following Captain Callahan, from London, in seven Weeks Passage: By whom we have the following Articles, viz.
L O N D O N July 9. 1773.
It is currently reported, that Mr. Pow-nal has accepted the Government of New-England, at the strong solicitations of Administration, from principles the most praiseworthy, viz. that of restoring unanimity and harmony between our most gracious sovereign and that loyal People.
July 8. The hearing of the important American Cause which was to have come on before the Privy Council at this Day, is deferred till next Week at the Instigation of the Governor's Solicitor, who lodged the Appeal from the Report of the Lords of Trade.
July 9. Yesterday morning, precisely at 9 o'clock, came on in the Court of King's Bench, Westminster, the much-talked-of action of Scandalum Magnatum, laid by Lord Sandwich, against Mr. Miller, the Printer of the London Evening-Post.
After the Evidences were gone through, the Attorney General replied, then Lord Mansfield gave a short charge to the jury, wherein he did little more than recapitulate the evidence; concluding, that in respect to the damages, they were competent judges how they should act, without his interference. The jury at about a quarter after one retired, when about three o'clock they returned, and brought in a verdict for Two THOUSAND POUNDS Damages.
July 11. All the Letters from the Continent agree, that the Electors of the Empire are extremely solicitous to know the Intention of his Prussian Majesty in making such vast warlike Preparations, and most of them are in Pain for the Security of their Territories.
July 13. The Ocean, Namure, Terrible, Kent, Thunder, Resolution and Triumph Men of War arrived at Plymouth from a Cruise.
Yesterday an extraordinary Board of Trade was held at the Plantation Office, Whitehall, on special Affairs, at which the Earl of Dartmouth presided.
On Tuesday Evening died the Right Hon. Lord Tyrawley, Colonel of the 2d Regiment of Foot Guards, Field Marshal of his Majesty's Land Forces, and one of his Majesty's most Hon. Privy Council, in an advanced Age, after a lingering Illness.
July 16. Earl Walgrave will be appointed Colonel of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, late Tyrawley.
Lord Townshend is to have the Queen's Regiment of Dragoon Guards, not the Coldstream, as mentioned.
General Harvey will be appointed Governor of Portsmouth.
On Sunday his Majesty's Hair was cut off, and he wore a fine Spanish Fly Wig of the exact Colour of his Eyebrows. This kind of Hair is exceedingly scarce, and it was with the utmost Difficulty it was procured at a Warehouse in Spital-fields.
The Reports of the Lords of Trade and Plantations upon the Conduct of an American Governor, (which was to have come on a fortnight past) is finally determined to be rehearsed on Thursday next the 22d inst. at eleven o'clock precisely at Whitehall in the Council Chamber. The Lords have Summons to attend, and the Parties are to be heard by their Council, : Mr. Dunning and Mr. Ambler for the Report, Mr. Skinner and Mr. Hotham for the Governor.
July 20. Letters from Rome, dated the 29th ult. assure us, that all the effects and papers of the Jesuits, in their colleges and houses, have been seized & sealed up, thro' out the Ecclesiastical State, and that they are to be all banished by the 15th of Aug. next. The Bull for their suppression has already appeared, & begins with the words Soli Deo, &c. In it, among other crimes, the Jesuits are accused of having falsified Bulls of the Sovereign Pontiffs.
July 22. There are Letters in Town from Carthagena, in the Spanish West-Indies, which relates that the Revolution of the
Natives of Chili and the Southern Provinces of Peru was entirely compleated in the Month of December last; that the Spaniards were totally driven out of the Country, and Descendants of the ancient Incas placed on the Throne of those extensive Territories.
A Piece of very rich Silk Brocade is now making for a great Personage, by an eminent Weaver near Spitalfields, which without either the Ornament of Gold or Silver, it's said will amount to 50 Guineas per Yard.
A Merchant of Charles-Town, in the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, has invented a Method to save the great Expence Distillers of all kinds of Spirit are at to condense the Vapour or Steams arising in the Worm, Tub, or Steam Vessel of any Form, and, by a simple Method, to keep cold Water for that Purpose constantly applied to the Worm, strait Tube, or Vessel of any shape that any one shall prefer.
July 24. We are extremely glad to acquaint our Readers, that her Majesty is entirely recovered from her late Indisposition.
Some Dispatches were received on Wednesday from the Court of Madrid, said to be particularly relative to the expected War between the Spaniards and the States of Barbary; and immediately after they had been perused, Summons were issued for a Privy Council to meet for the Purpose of taking them under Consideration.
We hear that Col. William Taylor, Aid de Camp to his Majesty, is appointed Col. of the 28th Regiment, in the room of Lord Townshend.
The Privy Council adjourned the Report of the Lords of Trade and Plantation upon the Conduct of an American Governor till Thursday next at Eleven o'Clock, precisely in the Forenoon. The Hearing was attended by a respectable and crowded Audience; among them many of the principal Gentry from all the American Provinces, and from the West-India Islands were present. The Council on the other Side will be heard on Thursday. An Appeal upon a Report of this Nature was never before argued, and it was termed a very heavy course and strange Performance by the Council against it, and otherwise much censured, This being a Cause of much public Expectation for more than eighteen Months past, the Lords are detained in Town a Week longer, and a Decision will be concluded upon before the usual Summer Recess.
It is impossible to conceive the Distress the late Act concerning light Coin has occasioned in England, it exceeds all description.
Gravesend, July 22. Passed by the Hingham, McFarland from Boston.
Arrived at Barcelona, Three Brothers, Bartlett, from New-England.
At Cadiz. William, Brace, from Boston. Phenix, Lee, from New-England.
Peterburgh, June 21. The Russian fleets have never before been so respectable as they are at present. At Revel there are 28 ships of the line, four of which are new built, under the inspection of Sir Charles Knowles, each of 74 guns. The greatest part of the new ships are the work of some of the most celebrated English ship builders, and the majority of the officers who command them are English, Scotch, and Irish. The Russian maritime forces in the Archipelago are still more considerable. They consist in the whole of 40 ships of the line at least, exclusive of frigates, & many other small vessels.
Paris, July 9. The whole village of Erpy, in the jurisdiction of Rheims, with the church, parsonage-house, &c. is burnt down. A woman, and three children perished in the flames. 300 and 17 inhabitants, without bread, without shelter, and nearly without garments, are now wandering in the midst of the ashes of their old habitations. The Intendant of the province being informed of their calamity, hath ordered bread and rice to be distributed amongst them, and barracks for their refuge to be erected as soon as possible.
L O N D O N, July 20.
Extract of a letter from Zittau, in Upper Lusatia, June 26.
"A most violent storm of hail, accompanied by an excessive high wind, on the 18th instant, has not only destroyed all the corn in the country round, but almost ruined the neighbouring villages. The element appeared entirely green at the time of this dreadful calamity, and the hail-stones were prodigious big; in one village 29 houses were beaten down, several trees were spilt asunder, and the general damage done to the farmers is incredible. We had a most promising prospect of a fine crop at the ensuing harvest, before this dreadful catastrophe, by which our hopes are at once overturned, and we now see nothing but distress before us."
A Poetical Chronology.
  Of crown'd Depravity,---the spurious cause!  James I.    Of fatal Zeal, infringing sacred Laws:  Char. I.    Of Usurpation,---yet compleatly great,  Cromw.    Which rose to thine, and rule the ruin'd state;    Who, from a Captain, govern'd like a King,  Char.    Made Spain to tremble, France her Presents bring.    Of barren Indolence, and fruitful vice;  Jam. II.    Of papal Tyranny, and Cowardice,    Who did to France and Priests the Laws betray,  Revolu.    And from a Crown and Sceptre stole away.    How Subjects dar'd with their supreme contend,  Q. Anne.    And their lov'd Laws and Liberties defend!    What Meekness, Merit, Majesty possess'd  Geo. I.    What poison'd Shafts pierc'd her unguarded breast!    Why Right established, justified a Claim,  Geo. II.    Why more to an Hero dignified a Fame.    With noble Sentiments he mounts the Throne,  Geo. III.    Subdues his Foes, and makes the World his own.    May he still flourish, may he nobly shine;     Nor North Wind blast, or Fox corrupt the Vine.    So sing, historic Muse, in boldest Lays,    Nor Critic Censure fear, nor covet praise.  
Fresh Advices by Capt. Cymes.
UTRECHT, July 15. We have received from Constantinople the following detail of the success of the Ottoman arms, dated June 9th, "Dagessangi Ali Pacha being informed that a body of Russians had passed the Danube two leagues above Giurgewo, in twenty-one large barques, the Pacha, who had marched with the greatest expedition, fell suddenly upon the Russians, and intirely dispersed them, who took to their barques, after having great numbers killed, and leaving 600 prisoners, among whom is a brother of Prince Repnin. Of the above barques six were afterwards taken by some Turkish barques from Russia, and ten others were driven on shore, or very roughly handled. It is added that the Turkish artillery did great execution among the Russians, who were drawn up in order to cover the retreat of the above body. The Grand Vizir has caused a quantity of aigrettes and an hundred purses to be distributed among his troops in the above expedition."
L O N D O N, July 10.
A correspondent assures, that within this fortnight it snowed for three Days successively at Kidderminster.
A few days since a young woman about fifteen years of age, daughter to a tradesman at a certain market town in Berkshire, was delivered of a bastard child, which she has sworn to her own father.
Major General Carlton succeeds General Gage, as Commander in Chief of the forces in America.
On Thursday General Gage, commander in chief of his Majesty's forces in North-America, arrived in town, and yesterday he attended the levee at St. James's and had a long conference with his Majesty.
July 19. By the new Gold Coin Act the ministry have trampled upon some acts of parliament which are held among the most sacred in our body of laws, and they have evidently withheld a right from the people which was never before disputed. When the coin is become improper for currency, the legal method is to call it in, and give in return for it new gold, an exchange for which the nation amply compensates.
We have heard in England of cutting a King's head off;---but before the passing of the new Gold Coin Act, we never heard of a King's head being cut asunder.
Quere---Does not the new Gold Coin Act authorize the cleaving asunder the King's head in effigy---as obnoxious people are sometimes hanged in effigy.
July 20. It is said that a considerable number of French Refugees, well skilled in the management of silk worms, and making of wines, have within these few days engaged themselves on very advantageous terms to go to New-York and S. Carolina, where the cultivation of these two lucrative branches of business is carrying on with great spirit.
We are assured that a lady of pleasure at the west end of the town has realized 1500l. per annum, from the profits of her occasional service at the altar of Venus.
It is said that Col. Ord, who lately received a grant of land from the Crown, will embark soon with his family for Lake Champlain, to settle there.
His Majesty having for some time complained of the Head-ach, has cut off his Hair by the advice of his Physicians, and many of the Nobility will soon follow his example.
It has been often conjectured that the three vast continents of Europe, Asia, and America, are so joined as to form but one; taking this for granted, and it will follow, that the whole four continents are united, for it is an unquestionable fact, that the continent of Africa is joined to that of Asia by the Isthmus of Suez, which some have not improbably deemed the Goshen of the ancients. The eastern parts also of European Muscovy join Asia, and that again in some very high latitudes joins the northern parts of America; from hence it should seem, though our discoveries have not as yet ascertained the fact, that there is somewhere a junction of the four continents; & this will solve the difficulty under which historians have laboured, when attempting to account for the manner of peopling those immense tracts of land, which by vulgar error are supposed to be separated by the ocean from other continents.
It is talked of at the West end of the town, that the distinction next winter between the Ministerial and Patriotic Members will be as follows, the former will wear all black bob wigs, and the latter their own hair. Hair has rose upon the above occasion 25 per cent.
July 24. A Scotch Peruke-maker was employed to make a Great Personage's Spanish fly, so that now both the out, as well as the inside of his head, is entirely furnished by Scotchmen.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 8.
Since our last arrived here the Snow Sally, Capt. Jones, with 80 English and Dutch Servants; the Ship Rea Galley, Capt. Hunter from the Isle of Lewis, with 300 Scotch; and Snow Sarah, Capt. Correy from Dublin, with 120 Irish Passengers and Servants.
NEW-YORK, Sept. 13.
We have some Expectations by Letters from London, that the Parliament will meet again the Beginning of this Month, agreeable to Prorogation, in Order to correct the Imperfections in the late Act for the Regulation of the East-India Affairs, and bring them to a judicious and Permanent Arrangement. Some Hints are likewise dropped of a Design to dissolve the Parliament presently after the Weighty Business is effected, and that a new one will be called.
Lord Rockingham's Friends begin to look up again, as it is generally expected the Marquis will soon have the Golden Key once more entrusted to him, and Lord North retires from the Treasury into a more comfortable and serene Station with the privy Seal; indeed he has been baited long enough, but he has met with no more than the customary Fare of all Ministers and Premiers.
By Letters from Jamaica we learn, that one Third of the 50th Regiment which arrived there after the Capitulation of St. Vincent, are already dead, together with Lieut. Miller and the Sergeant Major; whereas the first Battalion of the well-smoked and Well-seasoned Royal Americans, which arrived there last November have lost very few of their People.
Extract of a Letter from London, dated July 7, 1773.
"If the Success of the Russian Arms should not meet with a very severe Check, the City of Constantinople will in all Probability be in their Hands before the Winter, especially if the active Emperor should do, as it is shrewdly suspected he will, take a Part in the War this Summer, by aiming at a Recovery of those Territories on the Side of Belgrade, which, formerly belonged to the House of Austria, but had been wrested from it by the Turks. The Disposition of his Forces on that Side lead us to a Suspicion of his hostile Intentions; in this Case, good bye to the August Ottoman Empire. The Spaniards have their Hands full with the Moors in Africa, and the Defections in Chili will call for all the Strength they can Spare at such a Distance, to reduce them again under their Yoke. These are fortunate Incidents for Old England, and for the Interest of her present Ministers, who would be firm enough in their Posts if they could agree among themselves, but the Bedford Connection will not be contented with the Share of Power they have hitherto enjoyed, grasping at the whole they will risk what they have got; a little Time will determine whether Lord Gower or Lord Rockingham is to be at the Head of the Treasury, for, to keep out the former, the King's Advisers seem much more disposed to accept of the latter with his numerous Friends, who seem far more eligible to his Majesty, as all the principal old revolution Families will come into Administration if the Marquis should be preferred, a Circumstance that our good King is not indifferent about; he has declared himself to this Effect, and I do not know any thing that would put his Majesty in better humour. Mr. Cornwall refused the Chancellorship of the Exchequer, but he is to be Speaker in Norton's Room, who is to be Lord chief Justice. We are apprehensive the French are still about to play us a Trick; Spy is sent out with a Fleet, and another Squadron is ready for the Admiralty's Orders. If the French go to Sea, it will be to embarrass the Russians, by which we shall commence a Naval War, but more of this by the August Packet, when possibly I shall give you the Operations of Romanzow, in his searer Approach to antient Byzantium; what immense Treasures will the Savage Scythians reveal in, when they again sack that superb City."
NEW-PORT, Sept. 6
Last Saturday arrived here Capt. Bradford in a Sloop from Hispaniola, and brought in Capt. Hales and Crew, late of the Schooner Three Brothers, bound to Boston, which was cast away about the 18th of August, at Annabourg; some Part of the Cargo, rigging, Cables, Anchors, &c. saved.
BOSTON, September 13.
In Capt. Gales came Passengers. Capt. Hillhouse and Lady, Mr. Aleing; also PHILLIS WHEATLEY, the extraordinary Poetical Genius, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley.
In Capt. Callahan came Passengers. Mr. Lee, Mr. Martin, Capt. Ross, Mr. Goldfinch, Mr. Brewer and Mr. Nichols.
This Morning arrived the Jamaica Packet, Capt. M'Fadgean from Sunderland, who left the Land's-End the 9th of August.
A Storeship sailed from Land's-End for Halifax, the same Time with Capt. M'Fadgean.
At the Public Commencement at New-Haven the 8th of September Instant, 36 young Gentlemen educated at Yale-College, and one at Dartmouth College received the Degree of B. A. and 25 the Degree of M. A.
We hear that Advice is received of the Death of Capt. Crofs, of his Majesty's Ship Tamar, at Carolina.
BOSTON, September 20.
By Capt. Symmes Advice is received that Governor Pownal has had the Offer of this Government; but that he declined accepting it only on Consideration that he would not be subjected to the Instruction of the Minister, in the Manner that the present Commander in Chief is.
Extract of a Letter from London, July 21, 1773.
"Mr. Harrison to the great Satisfaction of all ingenious Men in the Mechanical Way, has received the other Moiety of 10,000 Pounds, which was allowed by this last Session of Parliament; and now has received the whole Premium according to Act of Parliament, viz. 20,000 Pounds for his great Pains in the Discovery of the Longitude."
Thursday last the noted Joseph Atwood, and a Soldier received Twenty Stripes, well laid on, at the public Whipping-Post for Theft.
Salem, Sept. 21.
Capt. Henry Williams, from the West-Indies, spoke with the Captains Newman and Noyes, of Newbury, 26 Days ago, off Guadalupe, bound home.
DIED J. Capt. Jonathan Lambert, of this Town.
---At Manchester, Mr. John Edwards, AE. 69.
---At Boston, Capt. Trail, a noted Sea Commander.
---At Cambridge, Miss Sally Inman,
---At Newbury, Joseph Coffin, Esq;
---In Scotland, Rev. John Freebairn, Rev. Alex. Kennedy.
---At Bysfield, Joshua Noyes, jun, A. M.
PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 24.
On Wednesday the 8th Inst. the Rev. Mr. Nathaniel Porter, was ordained to the Work of the Ministry, and the Pastoral Office over a new gathered Church at New-Durham, a Township near Winnepesaukee Lake: The Rev. Mr. Belknap, open'd the Solemnity with Prayer. A Sermon was preached from Ezekiel IId, 4th and 5th Verses, by Dr. Langdon; Dr. Haven made the Prayer before the Charge, which was given by the Rev. Mr. Pike. The Right Hand of Fellowship was deliver'd by the Rev. Mr. Hall, & the Rev. Mr. Tenny, concluded with Prayer. There was a great Concurrence of People on the Occasion, who behaved with great Decency.
Extract of a Letter from New-Ipswich, Sept. 13, 1773.
LAST Tuesday the most melancholy Accident, of the kind, happened at Wilton, in New-Hampshire Government, that perhaps has been known in the Country:---A large Company was collected there to raise a Meeting-House, and they got up the Body of it, the Beams and Joists, and on these had laid a large quantity of Boards for the more convenient standing; they had also raised part of the Roof, in doing which they had occasion for a number of Crow-bars and Axes, which rested on the Building while the People got together, and were in the act of raising another double pair of Principles with a King-Post, when on a sudden the Beam under them broke at the Mortise in the middle, by which upwards of fifty Persons fell to the Bottom of the House with the Timber, Bars, Axes, &c. and exhibited a Scene to the astonish'd Spectators around the House (for there were no Persons in the Bottom of it, all having withdrawn thro' fear of what might happen) which can't be describ'd; and could only be equalled by the Blood and Brains, Shrieks and Groans of the dead and wounded, which were immediately seen and heard.---Three were killed outright another survived but a short time, and several others have since died of their Wounds; of fifty three that fell not one escaped without broken Bones, terrible Bruises, or Wounds from the Axes, &c. And as they were Men pick'd from that and the neighbouring Towns, and many of them heads of Families, the News of their Catastrophe filled those Places with Weeping, Lamentation and Woe, and may fitly mind us all that "Man knoweth not his Time," but "at such an hour as we think not the Son of Man cometh," and it therefore concerns us to be always ready."
The following is a List of the KILLED and WOUNDED.
Belonging to WILTON.
Killed instantly. George Laney.
Mortally Wounded. Francis Putnam, and Ebenezer Coffer (both supposed to be dead before this Time).
Wounded. Joseph Parker, Joseph Stiles, Isaac Frye, Oliver Holte, Jacob Adams, Fiefield Holte, Alexander Mulliken, Samuel Mulliken, Joseph Putnam, Archelaus Putnam, jun. John Stevens, John Cram, jun. Simeon Riggs, and Benjamin -----.
Belonging to NEW IPSWICH.
Killed instantly. Simeon Fletcher.
Wounded. John Dutton, Simeon Rite, Francis Fletcher, Wm. Clary, Joseph Tucker, Daniel Stratton, & Elijah Flagg.
Belonging to TEMPLE.
Wounded. Peter Brown, Benjamin Crayon, Nathaniel Sheltucks, Joseph Foster, Isaac Brewer, and Stephen Lander.
Belonging to LYNDENBOROUGH.
Killed instantly. Reuben Stiles.
Mortally Wounded. Joseph Surancer, Timothy Calton, and Benjamin Jones; the first died the next Day, the second lived but four Days, and the third is supposed to be since dead.
Wounded. David Calton, Jonathan Chamberlain, Thomas Bese, Andrew Thompson, Benjamin Senter, Ebenezer Gardner, Uriah Cram, Edw. Bevans, Nehemiah Hutchinson & John Row.
Belonging to ANDOVER.
Wounded. Joseph Blanchard, and Joshua Chandler.
Belonging to MILLS-SLIP.
Wounded. Daniel Parker, and Stephen Blanchard.
Abel Blanchard of Mason, John Blanchard of New-Concord, James Maconey of Pepperell, and Ephraim Barker, of Stratham, were also wounded.
The Person mentioned in our Paper, 9 or 10 Months since, to be committed to Amherst Goal for killing his Father, was last Week tried at said Amherst before the Superior Court, and brought in Guilty of Manslaughter.
Since our last was taken up, and decently interred the Body of Mr. Abraham Shaw, who was drowned a short Time since, as mentioned in this Paper.
DIED Mr. Joseph Moses, AE. 83.
A Child of Mr. Hunt.
Baptized one.
We hear from Wells that last Monday P. M. as Capt Hog, with two Men were coming into the Harbour in an open Sail-Boat, just upon the Bar, they shipped a Sea, and the Boat sunk immediately, whereby the Two Men, viz. Nathan Buckland and John Emery were drowned. Capt. Hogg saved himself by holding by the Top of the Mast (which was just above Water) till another Boat came to his Assistance.
MIDDLETOWN (Connecticut) Aug. 31.
To the Printers.--- A young Woman, my Neighbour, (18 years old) making an Effort to Clear her Ear of Wax with a Pin, the Pin slipped out of her Fingers and lodged in her Ear.--- Various Methods were tried to extract it, but to no Purpose. She complained much of Pain on the Side of her Head, extending to her Eye. The above Accident happened on Friday Night; the Tuesday Night following, she made great Complaint of pain in her Ear, &c. after a While observed, that the Pin that had been in her Ear, had got into her Nose, and desired some of the Family to get it out; the Pin finally fell from her Nose on the Floor, and she has been free from all Complaints since.--- The Family Physician observed on the above Case, to this effect; he said, allowing the Pin to pass as above, from the Ear, into the Nose, it must pass over the Bass of the Eye, and enter one of the Puncta Lachrimaria, and made it's Exit from the Nose by the same Passage the Tears take. Another physical Genius asserted it must have passed through the Brains into the Nose; if so, we should have Reason to expect some violent Spasms, from what Physiologists say of the Irritability of the Brain.--- We wish some of your physical Correspondents would give us a Rationale of it's Rout from the Ear to the Nose. Your's &c.
Mr. DRAPER,
Observed an Article in the Papers dated Middletown in Connecticut, containing an Account of a Pin having passed through the Ear of a young Woman and out at her Nose, and likewise some medical Observations upon that Fact very humiliating to the general Character of Physicians in that Colony; together with a Request that some one would explain the Rout of the Pin in its Passage from the Ear to the Nose.
You may, therefore, assure the Enquirer that there is a natural Passage, called the Tuba Eustachiana or meatus auditorius internus, leading from the Cavity of the Ear to the Inside of the Nose by the Nares, thro' which the Pin passed and by which Surgeons sometimes attempt to syringe the Ear in Deafness.
I cannot sufficiently express my Surprize that any Physician should be so ignorant as two of them are in that Account represented to be, especially as a pretty tolerable Stock of anatomical Knowledge, may be acquired, at a cheap Purchase at that of Cheselden's Anatomy.
ANATOMICUS.
As this GAZETTE compleats the 17th Year since its first Publication, it is desir'd that those of the Customers who are in Arrears for one Year or more, would pay off;--- and those who have sent by, or paid any Money to Post-Riders, or others, are also desir'd to let it be known, and send or bring the Receipts they have received, that a final Settlement may be made, and the proper Persons charg'd, that there may be no Misunderstanding.--- Attendance will be given at the Printing-Office for the Purpose aforesaid.
Portsmouth, Sept. 24, 1773.
TO BE SOLD, By PETER PEARSE, VERY good Smith's COAL, just arrived, and a few Casks of Maderia WINE, of the first Quality, if applied for soon.--- Also, two second hand CABLES, very cheap.
RUN-AWAY from me the Subscriber, a Servant BOY, about 19 Years of Age, named Robert Dikko, 5 Feet 9 Inches high, with a large bushy Head of Hair; had on a brown Coat, stript Jacket and short Trowles; went away the 22d of June. Whoever will take up said Servant, and bring him to me at Nottingham, shall have a Reward of Four Dollars, and all necessary Charges,--- paid by John Langmaid, Nottingham, Sept. 22d, 1773.
ALL PERSONS Indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of Col ALEXANDER PHELPS, late of Lyme, in the County of Grafton, deceased, are desired to adjust the same with the Subscriber, sole Administratrix of said Estate, as soon as may be. THEDA PHELPS. Lyme Sept. 16, 1773.
§ Cardigan. §
PROVINCE of NEW HAMPSHIRE, Grafton, ss. WHEREAS the Proprietors of the TOWN of CARDIGAN, in said County, at a legal proprietors' Meeting, voted to raise Four Dollars upon each Right or Share of Land in said Cardigan, for defraying the Cost and Charges of building of MILLS and making of HIGHWAYS in said TOWN; which said TAX should have been paid in more than a Year past: These are therefore to give Notice to said proprietors to pay the aforesaid TAXES to me the Subscriber, at my Dwelling House in said Cardigan, by the first Day of November next, otherwise so much of their Lands will be advertis'd and sold as to pay the same with Charges! Sept. 15, 1773. ELISHA PAYNE, Collector.
PROVIDENCE, Sept. 4.
"Wednesday last being the Anniversary Commencement in this Town, at ten o'clock in the Forenoon the Corporation, together with a numerous and polite Audience, assembled at the Rev. Mr. Snow's Meeting House, when the President introduced the Business of the Day by Prayer; after which the Assembly were addressed in a Latin salutatory Oration by Mr. Nash; then followed an English Oration, pronounced by Mr. Foster, upon the Discovery, progressive settlement, present State and future Greatness, of the American Colonies; which was succeeded by a syllogistic Disputation in Latin, "An voluntati competit Libertas," wherein Mr. Litchfield was the Respondent, and Messieurs Drown, Paddleford and Tilinghaft, the Opponents; after this Mr. Tilinghaft delivered an English Oration on Politeness, which finished the Exercises of the Forenoon. Those of the Afternoon began with an English Oration upon civil Liberty, by Mr. Dennis. The Degree of Bachelor of Arts was then conferred on the following young Gentlemen, viz. Messieurs Solomon Drown, Joseph Litchfield, Jacob Nash, Philip Paddleford, & Henry H. Tillinghaft; and the Degree of Master of Arts, on Messieurs John Dennis, Theodore Foster, Samuel Nash, and Seth Read; also, on Doctor Thomas Eyre, Secretary of the College, and late of Yale College: To which succeeded a valedictory Oration, pronounced by Mr. Drown; and then a most solemn and pathetic Charge, by the President, to the Graduates.
"The young Gentlemen performed their respective Parts with great Propriety, which justly procured them the universal Applause of a judicious and candid Audience.
"Afterwards the honorary Degree of Master of Arts was conferred on several Gentlemen in England."
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   £. s. d. £. s. d.     14 0 Mr. Pope's Works, with all his Notes, 6 vols. 18 0   12 0 Translation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, 4 vols. 1 7 0   12 0 Lord Bolingbroke's Miscellaneous Works, 4 vols. 1 10 0   1 7 0 Stackhouse's History of the Bible. 6 vols. 3 3 0   1 1 0 Whitby on the New-Testament, 2 vols. 2 10 0   1 16 0 Dr. Doddridge's Family Expository, 6 vols. 4 4 0   0 3 0 Hervey Meditations and Contemplations, 0 6 0   1 0 0 Shakespear's Works, 8 vols. 1 8 0   1 5 0 Rollin's Ancient History, 10 vols. 2 2 0   0 15 0 Vertot's Knights of Malta, 5 vols. 2 2 0   0 6 0 Revolutions of Rome, 2 vols. 0 10 0   0 6 0 The Adventures of Gil Blas, 2 vols. 0 12 0   0 3 0 The Devil on Sticks, with Cuts, 0 6 0   0 10 0 Dr. Winslow's Anatomy, 2 vols. 0 15 0   0 7 6 Dr. Macquer's Chemistry, 3 vols. 0 10 0   0 15 0 Duke of Sully's Memoirs, 5 vols. 0 18 0   0 6 0 Baron Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, 2 vols. 0 12 0   0 7 6 Rousseau's Emilius, 3 vol. 0 12 0   0 7 6 Marmontel's Moral Tales, 3 vols. 0 9 0   0 5 0 Dr. Tissot on Health, 2 vol. 0 7 0   0 2 6 On Diseases of People and Sed. Persons, 0 6 0   0 2 0 Moor's Fables for the Female Sex, 0 5 0   0 9 0 The World, with the Mottos translated, 3 vols. 0 12 0   0 2 6 Milton's Paradise Lost, 0 3 6   0 1 0 Oeconomy of Human Life, 0 2 6   0 5 0 Fielding's Amelia, 2 vols. 0 12 0  
£. 14 0 6
£. 27 2 6
By the above Comparison of the Prices, it is evident that you can buy of J DONALDSON for Fourteen Pounds and Six Pence, the same Articles which the London Booksellers charge at Twenty-seven Pounds two Shillings and six Pence; so that, in this small Parcel, Thirteen Pounds and two shillings are saved, which it is hoped will induce all Book-buyers to look at those cheap Editions, before they lay out their Money elsewhere.
Imported in the last Ships
From LONDON,
By John and Phillips White, jr.
And to be Sold at their Shop in Almsbury, between the Rev. Mr. Hibberd's Meeting-House, and the Ferry, a great Variety of English and India GOODS.
Also, have to sell GROCERIES, &c. &c. all cheap for Cash.
A Quantity of PORK, Black eyed Pease, and Calavances, just imported, and to be sold by
JOHN EVANS.
TO BE SOLD A FARM, in Wolfeborough, by JACOB SCAGEL, containing 100 Acres of choice Land, pleasantly situated on the south side of Smith's Pond, within one Mile of the Governor's Seat, near 30 Acres fell, twenty of which is mowing and planting Land: a good House frame up forty by thirty, and several small Buildings. Whoever inclines to purchase the same, shall have it cheap, & a Time to pay it in; for particulars inquire of said Scagel or Stephen Wentworth of Rochester.
The said Scagel, informs his Customers & others, that he shall move 2 Miles above where he now lives, and that he has to sell ENGLISH GOODS, SALT, and RUM, cheap for Cash.
Wolfeborough, Sept. 13th, 1773.
[ Bretton Woods. ]
PURSUANT to an Application made to me the Subscriber, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Rockingham, in the Province of New Hampshire, by the Proprietors or Owners of more than one sixteenth Part of the Town of Britain Woods: And pursuant to a Law of this Province, in such Cases provided: These are therefore to Notify and Warn the Proprietors of said Town, to meet at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton Innholder in Portsmouth, on Friday the 29th day of October next, at Five o'Clock Afternoon, for the following Purposes, viz. 1. To chuse a Moderator for said Meeting. 2. To chuse a Clerk, Collector, Assessors, and other Officers necessary to transact the Affairs of said Town. 3. To lay it out in Lots, and determine on some Method, to bring forward the Settlement, &c. and in what way the Meetings in future, shall be call'd.
Pursuant to which Application, I do hereby Notify and warn the Proprietors of the said Town of Britain Woods, to meet at the Place and Day aforesaid, in the Afternoon, to vote and act on the several Article aforesaid.
HUNKING WENTWORTH, Justice Peace. Portsmouth, September 17, 1773.
THIS is to give NOTICE to the proprietors of SANBORTON, that at their last Meeting they voted a TAX of TWO DOLLARS on each original Right or whole Share, therefore this is to desire the said proprietors to pay the above TAX to me the Subscriber at my Dwelling in Epping, at or before the first Day of November next, otherwise I shall Notify their Lands for publick Sale as the LAW directs in such Cases.
SETH FOGG, Collector. Epping. Sept. 14. 1773.
[ Cockermouth. ]
WHEREAS the Proprietors of the Township of COCKERMOUTH, in the County of Grafton, and Province of New Hampshire, have been legally notified to pay sundry Sums of Money, legally assessed on each Proprietor's Rights or Lots of Land in said Town, to me the Subscriber, and several of the Proprietors being yet delinquent in the whole or in Part, these are therefore to notify said delinquent Proprietors, that so much of their Land respectively will be exposed to sale at public Vendue at the House of Mr. Samuel Cummings Innholder in Hollis in the County of Hillsboro' on Tuesday the 19th Day of October next, at 10 o'clock A. M. to pay said Taxes with incidental Charges.
The delinquent Proprietors are as follows, with the Sums due.
   £. s. d. £. s. d.     Henry Thompson 4 18 0 James Taylor 6 14 0   Benja' Blanchard 1 15 0 William Taylor 4 18 0   Ben. Blanchard jr 1 15 0 Daniel Lovejoy 6 14 0   Rufus Thompson 1 15 0 Jona' Danforth 1 15 0   Jonathan Lovejoy 3 11 0 Sam'l Cummings jr 6 14 0   James McLellan 4 18 0 Amos Philops 8 11 0   Hugh White 4 18 0 James Good 1 15 0   Hen. Thompson jr 1 15 0 Eleazar Fisk 1 15 0   Jona' Johnson 6 14 0 Abn. Hunter jr 4 18 0   William Prescott 5 13 0  
The above Sums of Money are equally proportioned to and among five Lots, belonging to each of said respective Rights, according to Law.
Also a Tax on sundry other Lots as follows, viz.
   Lot No. 1 upper } 0 14 0 Lot No. 4, ditto. 0 6 0   Interval. } 0 14 0 Lot No. 3, ditto. 0 6 0   Lot No. 5, on } 0 8 6 Lot No. 6, ditto. 0 5 0   Cumming's Hill } 0 8 6 Lot No. 7, ditto. 0 4 0   so called. } 0 8 6  
JOHN ATWILL Collector.
Hollis Sept. 6, 1773.
THE Subscriber desires all
Those Indebted to him, on Account or Note of Hand, to settle the same immediately, otherwise they will be Sued next Term.
Josiah Clark. Nottingham, Sept. 8th, 1773.
[ Cambridge. ]
PROVINCE of NEW HAMPSHIRE, GRAFTON, ss. WHEREAS Application is made to me the Subscriber, one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for said County, by the Proprietors and Owners of more than a sixteenth Part of a Tract of Land in the Northern Part of said Province, lately granted by his Excellency Governor WENTWORTH, by the Name of CAMBRIDGE, that a Meeting of the Proprietors of said Township or Tract of Land may be called and held at the House of Mr. Nathaniel Rogers, Innholder in Orford, on Wednesday the twenty seventh Day of October next, at five o'clock P. M. then and there, to vote and act on the following Articles, viz. 1. To chuse a Moderator. 2. A Proprietor's Clerk. 3. To chuse a Committee, Assessors, Treasurer and all other Officers necessary to transact the Affairs of said Proprietors. 4. To raise Money to defray Charges of procuring the Charter of said Cambridge, looking it out, and surveying it, and other Contingencies; likewise, such other Monies as may be necessary for fulfilling the Conditions of said Charter. 5. To determine how Proprietors Meetings shall be called and held in Future.
Pursuant to which Application I do hereby notify and warn the Proprietors of the Township or Tract of Land called Cambridge to meet at the Place and Day aforesaid, at 5 o'clock P. M. to vote and act on the several Articles aforesaid.
Orford Sept. 1, 1773. ISRAEL MOREY.
[ New-Holderness. ]
STRAFFORD, ss. PURSUANT to an APPLICATION made to me the Subscriber, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Strafford aforesaid, by the Proprietors or Owners of more than one sixteenth part of the TOWN of NEW HOLDERNESS, in said County—And pursuant to a LAW of this Province in such Cases provided, THESE are therefore to Notify and Warn the Proprietors of said Town of New Holderness, to meet at the House of Samuel Gains, in New-Holderness aforesaid, on Monday the 25th Day of October next, at ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, for the following Purposes, viz. 1. To chuse a Moderator for said Meeting. 2. For the proprietors to act what they may think proper concerning the dividing the common Land in said Town. 3. To chuse a Committee to join with the proprietors of MOULTONBOROUGH or their Committee, in settling the Boundaries between said Towns. 4. To chuse a Committee to call proprietors Meetings, and to agree on some Method for notifying the same for the future. 5. To raise any Sum of Money that may be thought needful for all or any of the Purposes aforesaid. Sept. 10, 1773. EBENEZER SMITH, Justice of Peace.
[ Canterbury. ]
THE Proprietors of Canterbury are hereby Notified, that the Meeting held by Adjournment on the 25th Day of August Instant, is further Adjourned to the first Wednesday of October next, at One o'Clock P. M. Also said Proprietors Meeting held the same Day, is also adjourned to Wednesday October sixth, at two o'Clock P. M. DAVID FORSTER, Proprietors Clerk. Canterbury August 27th 1773.
ALL PERSONS Indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of the Rev. JOHN TUCK, late of Golpert, deceas'd, are desired to bring in their Accounts to the Rev. JOHN TUCK, of Epiphany, Administrator to said Estate, in order for a Settlement.
[ Chichester. ]
NOTICE is hereby given to the Proprietors of Chichester, in the County of Rockingham in the Province of New Hampshire, that a Tax of twelve Shillings is voted and to be raised, on each original Right, to Defray the expence of a Lawsuit, and completing the Roads in said Town; the said Proprietors are desired to pay their Taxes to me the Subscriber, at or before the fifth of October next, or their Lands will be advertised for Sale, as the Law directs. There are some former Taxes due, which must be paid at or before said Time, or their Land will be sold. Rye, Aug. 30th. Samuel Jennings, Collector.
Whereas Sarah, the Wife of me the Subscriber, has absconded from my Bed and Board, and refuses to live with me on any reasonable Terms: This is therefore to forbid all Persons crediting her, on my Account, as I shall pay no Debts of her contracting from the Date hereof. Rye, Sept. 7th, 1773. REUBEN LEBBEE.
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