The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1773-04-23 00:00:00

on the other hand, whether from pique, from resentment, of the "insolence of office," orders the Noble Peer to be dismissed, pretends he hath not leisure to confer with him, though in his hearing the Aid de Camp announces to some servile by standers, that his Excellency can find to see THEM. This between man and man, much more between Peer and Peer, is an insult far too gross to be silently passed by, but the matter ends not here, Lord Townsend, at the end of his administration, returns to England, relates we may suppose, this amongst other occurrences to the King; Lord Bellamont attends the Levee, and perceives himself singled out by his Royal Master as an object of disgust; in short, the King treats him with visible marks of disdain. This circumstance, let every well-polished mind determine by its own feelings, on the propriety of the Noble Peer's subsequent conduct. It was not in the nature of human laws to afford him redress; they could not take cognizance of his case; his dignity, as a Peer, was sullied, and they who carp at the mode of deciding those points of honour should be told, that he who made us has formed some minds so susceptible of the finer sensations, that a look, a word, a gesture indicating contempt, piques the pride of their noble natures, alarms their virtue, and renders it agonizing pain to live.
The Ministry is again restored to a state of unanimity, and nothing but smiles appear in the cabinet; the King has held different consultations with his different great men, and convinced them that concord is the only method either of serving him, or of doing the business of their country.
Feb. 19. The Cleveland cutter at Deptford is taking in six months provisions and stores, the being appointed to carry dispatches to New-England.
Feb. 25. The committee of the whole House, to consider of the subscription to Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England, is postponed for six months.
We are credibly informed that a meeting of the convocation was lately advised by a certain prelate, on account of the disputes subsisting with the Dissenting Clergy, but prudently rejected by the Ministry, who observed, that there was no knowing where religious disputes may terminate; and that the compliers of the liturgy were at least as remarkable for their wisdom and piety, as any of the modern reformers.
The 22d of February, the Gallery of the House of Commons, Lobby and different Avenues were fuller of Clergymen of different Denominations than the House itself of Members, in expectation of great debates coming on relative to the relief of his Majesty's Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England; and after Governor Pounall's harrangue relative to General Officers executing Civil Offices in North-America was finished, the Speaker quitted the Chair in favor of the Chairman of the Committee of the whole House upon the occasion; when Sir Harry Haughton moved for leave to bring in a Bill: The Debate closed the Business of the Day. It was easy to discern the opposite Interests espoused by the Gentlemen in the Galleries, by the opposite passions of hope and fear, so visibly portrayed in their countenances, the more intelligent of the Party, were solicitous for the introduction of the Bill, saw sufficient to convince them of the complexion of the House, & looked on the permission to bring it in as a matter of mere form, from whence no success could be inferred; whilst others deemed the division amongst the Dissenters themselves fatal to their cause; and it must be allowed, that nothing could obstruct the bringing in and passing such a Bill more, than a party of the Dissenters objecting to the measure as unnecessary, dangerous, and answering no good end.
The Hon. Mr. Grenville Montague, we are told, is to succeed Sir W. Trelawney in the government of Jamaica; Lord Wm. Campbell to succeed Mr. Montagu in the government of Carolina; and the Hon. Mr. Legg to be governor of Halifax.
The principal Officers of his Majesty's
Ordnance have given Notice, That on the 26th of February they would be ready to receive Proposals for 1000 Ton of Shipping to carry men to America and bring back others from thence.
Sailed. The Earl of Halifax Packet, Capt. Boulderson, for New-York from Falmouth.
Arrived at Dover, Hood & Jenkins from Boston. Cooper & Bunyan from New-York, Neptune, Coffin, from Nantucket.—Smith from Piscataqua.—At Malaga, Ann, Gifford from Nova-Scotia.—The Derby, Hornblowe, from Bristol, for North-America, carried away two of her Masts in a Storm, and put into Plymouth, the 24th of Jan.
The Industry, Savage, from Philadelphia to Drogheda, was lost on that Coast the 17th of January, and several Hands perished.
L O N D O N, Feb. 6.
A correspondent remarks, that France takes advantage of every private opportunity to give offence to her Neighbour Great Britain; it seems as if the private passion of hatred never will be extinguished in the heart of France against Great Britain. But why? says he, for no other reason, than that which the wise Aristotle gives "Hatred, which is generated by envy, never will cease!"
The East-India Company lay a great stress on their territorial revenues, and they were granted by the Mogul's phirmaund, & therefore they think that the nation cannot justly take them into their own hands; but the Mogul had no more power to grant them dominions which he did not possess himself, than George the third has to make them a present of Paris, merely because he is a nominal King of France. The British empire in India was obtained by the British, not by the company's arms, & of course is the property of the British people.
Among the losses sustained by the great storm at Glasgow, the 19th ult. the brigantine Juno, James Paton master, with pitch and tar, coming into Greenock, was driven on the Cockle Bank, where she overset, and all on board perished.
On the 16th of last month the Ship Phoebe and Peggy, belonging to Philadelphia, burthen about 250 tons, David M'Cullough, master, bound from Philadelphia to Newry in Ireland, laden with flax seed and barrel staves, was driven on the rocks in St. Bride's Bay near the harbour of Solva in the county of Pembroke, where she was beaten to pieces, and the greatest part of the cargo lost, three of her crew, twelve passengers, and 4 men who went in a boat to their assistance from Solva, were drowned.
A letter from Dublin mentions that the Earl of Harcourt has begun his administration in a most laudable manner, by opening his purse liberally for the relief of the poor.
Two additional forts are ordered to be built in the course of next summer, for the better protection of the English trade on the coast of Guinea.
A large ship which was slaving on the African coast last September, was cut off by the natives, and every soul on board killed.
Signor Francis Spinola having declined the dignity of Doge of the Republic of Genoa, the Council has elected Signor John Baptist Cambiasso in his room.
Feb. 9. By an extract from the monthly returns of the mortality among the cattle, in the province of Holland only, it appears, that there have died of the dinemper, from April 1, 1769, to Sept. 1, 1772, 183,429 head of cattle.
Feb. 11. Yesterday the House of Commons, after going through a long examination of written evidence relative to the St. Vincent's affair, and adjourned the further consideration of the matter till to-morrow.
Yesterday the Generals Oughton and Tra-paud were examined at the bar of the House of Commons relative to the St. Vincent's affair, and the latter read part of two letters from a correspondent of his at Barbadoes.
It is said that the expedition to St. Vincent has already cost Government 10,000l. besides the loss of about 1500 men, either killed by the sword of the enemy, or by that more fatal weapon the unwholesomeness of the climate.
B O S T O N, April 16.
Capt. Hervey came Passenger in Captain Morth from Liverpool, as also Mr. George Dobson, sen. with their Families, and several of their Connections, who we hear intend to purchase Settlements either in this Province or Nova-Scotia. The whole Number of Passengers were Eleven Men, Eight Women, and Eight Children.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in London dated January 25, 1773.
"I am extremely obliged to you for the pamphlet and papers inclosed in your last.—I cannot describe how much I am pleased with the spirit with which the inhabitants of the town of Boston oppose the infringements of your rights, and hope every town in the province will harmonize with them. From the justice of the ruling powers in this country you are to expect nothing; from their fears and necessities, every thing. The last signal act of Lord Hillsborough was his declaration of war against the Caraibs; it is impossible to conceive a measure so wicked in its principle and so weak in its plan. His letters are now before the House."
From the Public Advertiser of Feb. 2.
If the establishment of a Bishop in North America should take place thro' the influence of the Governors Bernard and Hutchinson, or by any other means, it is said the Rev. Mr. Walter, Dr. Elliot, Dr. Pemberton, and Dr. Byles the younger, all of Boston in New-England, are to be appointed Prebends or Canons resident of that city.
MONDAY, April 19.
A Letter from London dated 20th of Feb. mentions, That it was determined the Naval Force in America should be reduced, and that the Arethusa, Gibraltar, Mercury, and Lively Ships of War, would soon be ordered Home.
"We hear from Waltham, that last Monday Morning sixteen of the acute Gunners in that Town spent the Forenoon in hunting of Robbins, and at one o'clock the same day they brought in Six-Hundred and Eighty-Six Robbins, besides other Game."
Yesterday Morning the Admiral's Flag was removed from on board his Majesty's Ship the Captain to that of the Fowey, as the former with some other of the Men of War, we hear, are soon to sail for Halifax. At Sun-rise, when this Ceremony was performed, a Salute was paid and returned by the two respective Ships, to the great Disturbance of those in Town who are particularly fond of indulging in Bed on Sunday Mornings.
We hear from Grafton, that on Tuesday the 6th Instant, about Five o'Clock. P. M. the two Hooks holding the Irons that supported the Canopy over the Pulpit gave way, after a faithful Discharge of their Office for above forty Years; whereupon it fell, taking off the Top of the Desk, and breaking the upper Piece on each Side, and rested in an inverted Order upon the Breast-work of the Deacon's Seat and the two Fore Seats.—This Catastrophe happening so soon after, or in the Time of so many other striking Changes, both natural and moral, among them, leads some of the thinking or unthinking People there to shrewd Conjectures as if some dismal Event is hereby pronosticated; and the most cool, sage and dispassionate among them, in all the Calmness of Reason, cannot but take this, together with many other visible and most infallible Signs, as a sure Token that it is high Time for them to build a New Meeting-House, or to new model and enlarge the old one.
Extract of a letter from Albany, dated April 3.
"John Wall, and two others were executed here yesterday, for being concerned in counterfeiting the Paper currency of this province: Wall was a hardened villain, and I believe a great rogue; after he hung on the gallows, I had the curiosity to take up his cap, and saw, as I before heard, that he was cropt.—Such work as he and his fellow prisoners made the day before they were executed was never known here before; they got off their bolts in the night, and made their escape out of goal, but were soon apprehended, and their irons renewed; the next morning (when they were to have been executed) they had them off again, barr'd the room they were con-

lined in, bid defiance to the Sheriff and his party, and were determined to kill any person that should attempt to take them out; the militia of the whole city was obliged to be got under arms. Wall and his two fellows kept them off, and none dare go in, as they were to die at any rate.—Wall set fire to the goal, and expected to die so; but the inhabitants soon brought the engines and extinguished it.—His next contrivance was thus; He got about two pounds of powder from some malicious fellows, put it in a bottle, and a match to put to it when the Sheriff or any other person dare venture in; They thus kept the city in an uproar for some time; at last a party suddenly broke in upon them, and according to his scheme, set his match to the bottle, which he held in his hand, but through the mercy of providence, the powder did not take fire. After which they were carried to the gallows, and executed according to their deserts.—Wall seem'd to die a penitent, and sung psalms at the place of execution.
His Majesty's Writs are issued for convening a Great and General Court or Assembly of this Province to be held at the Town-House in Boston on Wednesday the 26th of May next, agreeable to the Royal Charter.
PORTSMOUTH.
Last Friday Afternoon, a melancholly Affair happened at the Globe Tavern on the Plains of this Town, viz. Mr. John King, who kept the said Tavern, being in his Garden at Work, Mr. Joseph Moulton jun. a deputy Sheriff attempted to take him for a Sum of about Forty Dollars: King observing Moulton coming towards him, and suspecting his Design, ran to a Tree where he had left his Gun; when Moulton came near him, he told him to keep at a Distance, for he would not be taken by him; however when he had got within about ten Feet of King, he fired a full Charge of Goose Shot in his Face; Moulton was taken up by a Person who saw King shoot—It was tho' he would soon have expired; however he is alive at present, there is but little hopes of him; He is attended by three Doctors, who think both his Eyes are out, Part of his Nose, and five or six Teeth shot away, and the Whole of his Face and Head in a terrible Condition. About a Dozen Shot has been extracted from his Head already—By this unhappy Affair two Families are in deplorable Circumstances.
The 12th of this Instant, as a son of Daniel Pulman of Cornish, about 7 years of age, was playing by a Canoe, which lay in Connecticut River, he fell in and was drowned.
We hear from Hartford, in the Province of New-York, that on Monday the 5th Day of April, a remarkable Affair happened there. A tall Structure was erected, the Saturday before; the front Post of which was thirty feet high; A heavy or rather Urocydon Wind blowing at about North, crushed the whole Frame to the Ground: What is most remarkable, six Roe-Buck, that were in full Chace, at that Instant came into a Garden almost within Reach of the Top of the Post as it came to the Ground, and were so affrighted at the Catastrophe, that the Owner of the Building being present, by the Help of his Son of about 12, and a Daughter of 14 Years of age, he recovered the whole six Bucks, which he esteems as a considerable Retaliation for the Loss of his Building. (An old Maxim) 'tis an ill Wind that blows nobody any Good.
Died on Saturday, the 10th Inst. at Falmouth, Mr. James Milk, aged 29, of a Consumption. FALMOUTH, (Casco-Bay,) April 1.
This Day was tried here, at our Inferior Court, a Fellow who calls himself Jones, for breaking into a Store here last December, and was convicted, and for his Punishment he is to receive twenty Stripes at the public Whipping Post, & sold for 18 Months.
Dartmouth College.
Hanover, in New-Hampshire, April 10. 1773. NOTICE is hereby given, that a Meeting of the Trustees is appointed to be held at the Council-Chamber in Portsmouth, on Monday the 24th Day of May, next ensuing the Date hereof; at which Time and Place a general Attendance of the Trustees is desired. ELEAZAR WHEELLOCK, President.
   CUSTOM-HOUSE, Piscataqua, April 22d, 1773.   Inward-Entries FROM.     Sloop Dolphin, John Hammon, St. Croix.   Sloop Besley and Polly, James Johnson, Tobago.   Sloop Dolly, Benjamin Lurvey, Virginia.   Schooner Hannah, Samuel Sewall, St. Martins.   Schooner Fair Rosamond, James Nowell, North Carolina.   Schooner Sally, Patrick Byrn, Virginia.   Ship Three Brothers, Henry Clark, Bideford.   Clear'd for Departure FOR.   Schooner Industry, Obe Hubbs, New-Haven.   Schooner Britannia, Thomas Jones, West-Indies.   Schooner Good Intent, Moses Browne Ditto.   Brig Occasio, Epes Greenough, Ditto.   Brig Woodbridge, Joseph Newman, Ditto.  
Twenty Dollars Reward.
WHEREAS Joseph Moulton, jun. being a Deputy Sheriff, under me, and having a Precept against one John King, who kept the Globe Tavern on the Plains, two Miles out of this Town, did on Friday, the 16th Instant, attempt to serve said Precept on said King, being then at work in his Garden, with a loaded Musket by his Side, which he took up, and told said Moulton he would shoot him if he advanced any further; but said Moulton not thinking he would dare do it, came up within a few Feet of him, when said King discharged the Musket full in his Face, and it is feared has mortally wounded him; upon which he immediately absconded—Therefore, I hereby promise the above Reward of TWENTY DOLLARS, to any Person or Persons that will apprehend the said John King, and commit him to any of his Majesty's Goals in this Province, or any other, or secure him in such a Manner that he may be bro't to condign Punishment.—said King is a Frenchman born, dark complexion, thick-sett, about five Feet six or seven Inches high, wears his own Hair, and talks broken English.
JOHN PARKER, Sheriff. Portsmouth April 17, 1773.
[East-Town.]
Province of New Hampshire, Strafford Ss. WHEREAS the Proprietors of EAST TOWN have been legally notified to pay an Assessment on each Proprietor's Right or Lots of Land in said Town, to me the Subscriber, and several of them being yet delinquent in the Whole or Part, This is therefore to notify such Persons that these delinquent Proprietor's Lands will be exposed to Sale at public Vendue, at the House of Mr. John Tibbetts, Innholder in Dover, on the second Tuesday in May next, at one of the Clock in the Afternoon, to pay said Taxes with incidental Charges. The delinquent Proprietor's Names are as follows, with the Sums due.
   1st. Division. 2d. Division.   l. s. d. l. s. d.     Joseph Hufsey 1 2 9   Love Roberts 2 5 6   James Caney 2 5 6   Capt. Stephen Evans 2 5 6   John Hartford 2 5 6 1 10 6   Paul Gerrish 1 2 9   Solomon Emerson 2 5 6  
ICHABOD CANEY, Collector. Medbury, April 23, 1773.
The Copartnership
OF JAMES & MATHEW HASLETT being dissolved, it is desired all Persons having Accounts unsettled with them, would bring them in, in Order for Settlement, to James Haslett, who still carries on the Dressing of Leather and Breeches Making, in the neatest and best Manner, cheap for Cash or Lumber delivered at Portsmouth.
V E N D U E.
To be sold at public Vendue, a genteel small Dwelling House and Barn, being the real Estate of Mr. William Fullerton, late of Portsmouth, deceased, with the Lot of Land thereto belonging, at the House of Jacob Tilton, Innholder in Portsmouth, at 5 o'clock P. M. on Friday next.
House and Land to be sold, by JOHN NOBLE, lying on the Street leading from Dr. Haven's Meeting House to Liberty Bridge, 40 Feet of Land on the Street, 60 Feet deep, being one Story, three Rooms, very convenient. Enquire of the Printer.
GEORGE S. HOMANS
Hereby informs his Customers and others, that he has opened Shop opposite Doctor Hall Jackson's, where he carries on the Taylor's Business in all its Branches. Any Gentlemen who chuse to employ him, may depend on being served with the greatest Dispatch, and at the cheapest Rate.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, To the worshipful SAMUEL PENHALLW, Esq; One of His Majesty's Justices, of the Peace for the County of Rockingham, in the Province aforesaid, Greeting.
WE the Subscribers being Owners of more than one Sixteenth Part of the Township of Weedbury in said Province, desire you would call a Meeting of the Proprietors of said Township, at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton, Innholder in Portsmouth, on the seventh Day of May next, at two o'clock, P. M. then and there to act upon the following Matters and Things. 1. To chuse a Moderator for said Meeting. 2. To chuse a Proprietor's Clerk, pro Tempore. 3. To choose a Proprietor's Treasurer, or any Collector or Collectors that may be found to be necessary. 4. To Agree upon some Method to call all future Meetings. 5. To adopt, confirm and establish all such Votes and Transactions at any former Meetings, held at Stratford, or elsewhere, out of said Province of New Hampshire, agreeable to the Records of such Meetings as they now stand Recorded in the Proprietors Book. 6. To choose a Committee of one or more Proprietors to defend any of the Proprietors or others acting under them, in any Suit or Suits for supposed Trespasses committed in the Bounds of Woodbury, brought by the Proprietors of Northumberland, as supposed to have been done within the Bounds of said Northumberland, and to empower the said Committee to compromise any such Disputes by a Reference of the Whole to one or more Persons, and that for the better ascertaining and establishing the true Limits and Bounds of both Townships, to empower said Committee to join in a mutual Agreement of any Committee that may be appointed by the Proprietors of Northumberland, to submit the Settlement of the dividing Lines of both Townships, to any such Person or Persons that may be mutually chosen, as the sole Arbitrators of said Limits; and further, if need be to make a Surrender of said Charter, and it's Renewal for the better and more final Adjustments of all Controversies about said Limits and Boundaries. 7. To determine at what Place to hold Proprietor's Meetings in future.
   Wm. Saml. Johnson Augur Tomlinson   Joseph Holbrook Isaiah Brown   Samuel Beers Elijah Hinman   Samuel Averill Daniel Judson   William Thompson Joseph Tomlinson   Stephen Cottis Izariah Wetmore   John Wendell.  
In Pursuance of the above Request I do hereby notify and warn a Meeting of said Proprietors of Weedbury, at the Time and Place above requested, then and there to act upon the several Matters therein mentioned. SAMUEL PENHALLOW. Portsmouth, April 21, 1773.
Monadnock No. 6.
NOTICE is hereby given to all the Proprietors of Menadnock No. 6, aforesaid that there is a Tax of Nine Shillings Lawful Money, granted on each settling Right, to defray Proprietor's Charges, and also one eighth of a Penny per Acre, voted for to hire Preaching in said Township, which was voted the twenty-ninth of this Instant, March, and as a List of the same is committed to me the Subscriber. These are therefore to give Notice to all said Proprietors that unless they pay the aforesaid Taxes to me at my Dwelling House in said Township, by the first Day of June next, that each Delinquent's Land will be posted for Sale, with incidental Charges, as the Law provides in that Case.
ABIJAH BROWN, Collector. March 30, 1773.
The Proprietors of Relhan
who are delinquent in paying their several Taxes, are desired to send them immediately, to the Printing Office, otherwise their Rights or Shares will be advertised for sale at publick Vendue. There has been three Taxes laid on each Right: The First was noted September 13, 1768 — Second Tax of 18s April 1770 — Third Tax 42s Nov. 1772. Daniel Fowle, Collector.
Lately Imported, And TO BE SOLD BY
Jacob Sheafe jun.
At his Store near the Long Wharf, extrem low for Cash or short Credit.
NEAT ASSORTMENT of ENGLISH GOODS.—Also, Maderia, Lisbon, and Teneriff WINE.—Choice BOHEA TEA. INDIAN CORN.—PORK—TURFEN. TINE—TAR—Large Iron KETTLES—POTS, New England RUM—A few Hogsheads of MOLASSES, &c.
A PIT PEW In the Rev. Dr. Haven's Meeting-House, to be sold; Enquire of the Printer.

WILLIAMSBURG, March 11.
The Honorable House of Burgesses upon the Memorial of Robert Boiling, Esq; of Buckingham, have directed the Treasurer to pay to that Gentleman fifty Pounds Sterl. yearly, for the Term of five Years, in order to enable him to prosecute his Scheme of cultivating Grapes, for the making of Wine; which he is convinced, from Experiments, may be propagated in the upper Parts of the Country, with singular Advantage to those possessed of such mountainous Lands, as are scarcely fit for any other Purpose. He has engaged a Foreigner, thoroughly acquainted with the Business, in all its Branches, to instruct him therein; which we heartily wish Success to, as it appears to be an object of the greatest probable Utility to this Colony.
BOSTON, April 8.
Capt. Elisha Towers arrived here from St. Martins, informs that on the 20th of March in Lat. 40 : 10, Long. 71, he came across a small sloop about 35 Tons burthen, full of Water, Lumber Loaden, with Shingles, &c. on Deck, no Person on board : He took from her, Cables, Anchors, and stript of the greater Part of her Rigging, Fore sail & Jibb, and several other Articles ; There was a Shirt & Blankets mark'd S. P. and Bed ; two Compasses, one made in London the other at New-York.
Several Thefts have lately been committed in this Town : On Saturday Night two or three Warehouses on the Long-Wharf were broke open, and a Number of Articles stolen and carried off ; the Night following the same Warehouses were again broke open and it is said there appeared to have been a Design to set fire to them, but providentially the Villains were disappointed : They have not yet been discovered.
We hear from Worcester that on Saturday last, seventeen Prisoners in the Goal there, having broke the Lock of the inner Apartment and got into a Room where the Debtors were confined, the Goal-keeper opening the outside Door, to let out a Debtor, when before the Door could be shut they all rushed towards the Door, knocked down every one that stood in their Way, & 6 of them escaped ; but a Hue and Cry being immediately made, two or three Hundred People collected and went in Pursuit of them, and by the Vigilance of the Pursuers in about three Hours they were all re-taken & committed again ; and it is hoped the Villains will have their Deserts.—The chief of the Prisoners are for counterfeiting Dollars.
We hear from New-London that on the 12th Day of February and on the 15th of March last, the Store of Mr. James Mumford was broke open, and a Quantity of Goods therein, that had been seized by Captain Ayscough of his Majesty's Sloop Swan in Dec. last, and were under the Care of the Officers of the Customs, were stolen & carried off. The Gov. of the Colony has issued a Proclamation offering a Reward of 100 Dollars, and the Collector and Comptroller of the Customs have advertised a Reward of 50 £. sterling, for the Discovery of the Persons that were concerned in the Robbery, to be paid upon Conviction.
We hear that an Act passed the General Assembly of New-York in their late Session, for appointing Commissaries to treat with the Commissaries appointed by the General Assembly of this Province upon the boundary line between the two Governments ; and that the 12th of May is agreed upon for their first meeting at Hartford in Connecticut, and that the Governors of the two Provinces are to be present.
The Culture of Silk in Pennsylvania has encreased prodigiously the last Year, if we may judge from the Account of the Premiums given by the Society for the promoting of the Culture of Silk, beside such as were not entitled to Premiums or did not apply. The Amount was 377,783 Cocoons.
PROVIDENCE, March 27.
Yesterday John Ellis Noble stood 1 Hour in the Pillory, and was whipped at a Cart's Tail through the Town, for robbing the shop of Holden and Grainger, in Sept. last.
Province of New-Hampshire, Rockingham ss. N OTICE is hereby given that there has been seized as forfeited to his Majesty's Use, two Thousand white Pine LOGS, of various Dimensions, from twelve Inches to twenty four Inches diameter ; lying at different Places in Merrimack, River above Goff's Falls, so call'd, in Pemigewasset River, which Logs will be condemned as forfeited to his Majesty's Use, unless claimed as the Property of some private Person or Persons, and that Claim supported and made good at a Court of Vice-Admiralty, to be held at Portsmouth, for that Purpose, on Monday the 26th Day of April Inst. at three of the Clock Afternoon ; at which Time such Claimants may put in, if they can support their Claim.
JOHN SHERBURNE, Dep. Reg. Portsmouth, April 13, 1773.
ROAD to the Upper-Cohoss. W HEREAS the GENERAL COURT have Enacted, that a ROAD shall be made three Rods wide from Conway to Shelburne, from thence to Connecticut River, in the upper Cohoss, any Persons disposed to undertake about 15 Miles of the same, through ungranted Lands, are desired to apply with their Conditions to A. R. Cutter, T. Martin, J. Treadwell,
CHOICE NEW Philadelphia Flour
And a few Hogsheads of SUGAR of the first Quality, to be sold by
John Evans
at his Store on Capt. Janvrin's Wharf. Portsmouth, April 7. 1773.
A few Hogsheads of choice
Granada old Rum,
TO BE SOLD
By George Turner
for LUMBER.
§ Northumberland. §
T HE Proprietors of Northumberland, in the County of Grafton, and Province of New-Hampshire, are desired to meet at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton at Portsmouth, in the County of Rockingham, and Province aforesaid, on Wednesday the 5th Day of May next, at 6 o'clock, P. M. First. To chuse a Moderator. 2. To choose a Committee to settle the Dispute between the Proprietors of Woodbury and Northumberland with Power to refer it. 3. To vote a Sum of Money towards clearing a Road from Conway to Connecticut River, and likewise for cutting a Road through Northumberland. 4. To choose a Committee for cutting the said Road through the Town. 5. To chuse Collectors to collect said Taxes, and what remains unpaid of former Taxes ; and lastly, To transact any Matters that may be thought beneficial to said Township, by Order of the Assessors.
THOMAS MARTIN, Pro. Clerk. Portsmouth, April 14, 1773.
§ Conway §
W HEREAS the Proprietors of Conway, in the County of Grafton and the Province of New-Hampshire, have been notified according to Law, to pay unto me a Tax of Fifty four Shillings, on each original Right in said Town, being forty Shillings and six Pence on each first Division, and thirteen Shillings and six Pence on each undivided Right, to clear Roads and to pay the Expence of Law Suits and other incidental Charges, notwithstanding said Notice, the Owner of the original Right of Francis Cor has neglected to pay the above Tax. Notice is hereby given that so much of said Lands will be sold at public Vendue, at my dwelling House, in said Conway, on the Eighth Day of May next, at three o'clock P. M. as will pay the above Tax, with incidental Charges, unless prevented by Payment before that Time.
DAVID PAGE, Collector. Conway, April 3. 1773
CHOICE LONDON BOHEA TEA, by the Hundred, Dozen or single pound, to be Sold by JOHN MARSH, at the lowest Price, for Cash only. Likewise excellent Southong TEA, very cheap.
§ Conway §
W HEREAS I the Subscriber, Collector for Taxes for the Town of Conway, in the County of Grafton, and in the Province of New-Hampshire, have an Assessment committed to me to collect, of twenty five Shillings on each Right or Proprietor's Share in Conway, voted the 30th Day of March, 1773. Seven Shillings thereof to pay out standing Debts and other incidental Charges, the other Eighteen Shillings on each original Right or Proprietor's Share, to pay the Expence of laying out a Division of one Hundred Acres of Land in said Town, and to pay other Charges that may arise for future Services for said Proprietors. Eighteen Shillings and Nine Pence of said Sum, laid on the divided Land, and six Shillings and three Pence on the undivided Land. All which the said Proprietors or Owners are notified and warned to pay the same to me at my Dwelling House in said Conway, on or before the last Wednesday of May next, or their Land will be exposed to Sale. DAVID PAGE, Collector. Conway, April 3. 1773.
§ Conway. §
T HE Proprietors of CONWAY are hereby Notified, that the proprietors Meeting of this Day, at the House of Mr. Joshua Heath in Conway, is adjourned to the last Tuesday of May next, at three o'clock P. M. then to meet at the above said Heath's, in order to prefix a place to set a Meeting House on ; as also to rectify and confirm any former Vote or Votes that may be thought want either Regularity or Form. At which Time and Place said Proprietors are desired to attend.
THOMAS MERRILL, Prop. Clerk. Conway, March 30, 1773.
W HEREAS the subscribers were appointed Commissioners to examine the Claims against the Estate of John Roberts, late of Somersworth, deceased, Intestate, and Represented Insolvent, these are to give Notice, that the Commissioners will attend the Examination of the Claims, at the House of John Burnham Henson, in Dover, on the last Tuesday of this and the five following Months, from ten o'Clock A. M. 'till five o'Clock Afternoon ; six Months being allowed by the Judge of Probate for that purpose.
Dover, April 13. 1773 John Burnham Henson, } Commissioners. Benjamin Peirce. } Charles Baker, } Vendue.
N. B. THE PERSONAL ESTATE of said Roberts will be sold at Publick Vendue, at the Dwelling of his Widow, on the first Tuesday of May next, at two o'Clock Afternoon: Conditions of sale to be seen at time and place of sale, viz. at Somersworth.
The right Heirs at Law,
Of SAMUEL, JOB, JOHN, JOEL, and BENJAMIN JUDKINS, and MARY WELCH, SARAH FRANK, HANNAH WEBSTER, and KATHARINE QUINBY, late Brethren and Sisters of JOSEPH JUDKINS, late of New-Market, deceased, are hereby NOTIFIED, that there is an ESTATE fallen to them as Residuary Legatees to the said JOSEPH JUDKINS, for which they may apply to WENTWORTH CHESWELL of Newmarket, in the Province of New Hampshire, Executor to his Last Will and Testament, to receive the same, giving Security to indemnify him against the legal Demands of other Claimants.
Newmarket, April 6, 1773.
Sabbath Night 4th of April 1773.
W AS Stolen out of the Stable of the Subscriber, at Nottingham in New Hampshire, a likely and valuable Gelding HORSE, about Eight Years old, 14 Hands high, well spread, of a pale red Colour, a white Strip scattered down his Face, and White remarkably scatter'd over his Right Eye, branded with the Letter H. on his Left Thigh, paces and trots well, carries a good Head and Tail, supposed to be stolen by a Negro or Molatto Fellow, as such a one was seen riding full Speed on such a Horse next Morning thro' Kingston towards Newbury. Whoever will take up and bring said Horse to me, or send Word, so that I may have him, shall be well Rewarded, & all necessary Charges paid by BENJAMIN BUTLER.
R AN AWAY from his Master, a tall young Man, about 18 or 19 Years of Age, named Callistus Chiseldine ; whoever will take up said Apprentice, and bring him to ELIPHALET LADD of Exeter, free from Charge, shall receive a REWARD of THREE PENCE, L. M.