The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1782-02-09 00:00:00

THE NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE.
Vol. XXVI.]
S A T U R D A Y, February 9, 1782.
[No. 1319.]
Conclusion of the piece began in the first page our last paper.
LET us now consider what pretension the few people (for there is but a few compared with the whole in the towns east of the river) have for a revolt: they say, they were granted by the same Governor, as the towns on the west, and if those are allowed to be Independent, they have the same right; besides they say that New-Hampshire, so called, originally extended by grant, no further than the line granted to Robert Mason by King James, which was a strait line and not curved, as now run out by the present proprietors; the lands north and west of said Mason's line were granted to certain individuals in separate tracts, as so many distinct corporations, and that New Hampshire did not extend beyond said line, because it was not by any grants, but only an extension of jurisdiction by different Governors commissions; and after the late King's authority ceased in America, the people had a right to make their stands agreeable to their grants, and that in fact New-Hampshire could not be called so further than said Mason's line, as there was no commission to authorize a further jurisdiction; and that every corporate town was now an independent state, and had a right to exist so, or join together amongst themselves for conveniency, or join to any other state they pleased, that was organized; they therefore thought best to join with Vermont, who had formed themselves into a government, in preference of joining with New-Hampshire, who was as yet in a confused and chaotic state.—These are the leading sentiments of the disaffected inhabitants, to obviate which it is necessary to observe, it is not Governors who grant the land, but the reigning Kings, who cause the seal of the government wherein the land lies to be affixed to the grants, and witness their instruments by their Governors; this formality being used to discriminate between a crowned head and a subject, who signs, seals and delivers them in presence of two witnesses. One King of England granted a certain tract of land to a certain Mr. Mason, and called it by the name of the province of New-Hampshire with governmental privileges; this is allowed to be good: another King grants a number of smaller tracts to various people by certain names, with corporate privileges, and least they should consider themselves independent of any government, he expressly annexes them in the grant to New-Hampshire, in this manner, viz. "All that tract or parcel of land situate lying & being within our said province of New Hampshire, and the inhabitants of said tracts are intitled to all and every privilege that other
towns exercise and enjoy by law within our said province of New Hampshire, and the first meeting for the choice of town officers shall be agreeable to the laws of said province, and the moderator of the said first meeting is to govern the same agreeable to the laws and customs of our said province;" the acceptance of these grants, was a tacit consent to, & an acknowledgment of the jurisdiction of New-Hampshire, and that they were within the same, and that they were willing to be govern'd by the laws and customs thereof: they have acquiesced in this state from ten to twenty years and have since taken an active part in the present revolution, in advising, consulting and determining, as inhabitants of New Hampshire what measures to adopt and pursue, and have supported those measures, not only by paying taxes to New Hampshire, but by personal service in the war at their call, and have accepted commissions and taken oaths of fidelity to this state; and after all this being done—with a quaint , they say they don't belong to New Hampshire now, because it suits them better to be connected somewhere else , and if they are asked why they do not chuse to belong here, they can give no better reason than an old women's, I'd rather not ; time must discover the secret springs of all these political movements, the people at large are unacquainted with them: if one King has an acknowledged right to call any tract of land by the name of a province, surely another King has equal right to call other tracts by what names he pleases, and to annex his grants to the same province; giving a name to a town and not fixing what state it lies in, is not ascertaining its locality, because there are towns in every state of the same names. Let us examine a little further what privileges by their charters were these inhabitants to enjoy, not those of New York, Connecticut or other provinces; no, they were satisfied with the laws and customs of New Hampshire; the calling the first meeting, and every annual meeting afterwards was confirming their election; if they have not had these laws equally administered, and have been but partially represented in the making of them, they should have addressed the people at large upon the merits of their complaints, and they would have been redressed, by particular instructions in their favour—Dr. Page and others have desired to be heard, and to have a conference with New-Hampshire, but they well know they could not be admitted; did they ask it in propriis personis , or as committee men from the pretended state of Vermont? If the former, they should have petitioned as the subjects of an acknowledged state; if the latter, they should have waited 'till their authority was recognized; they must have forgotten, that when the British
To be SOLD, if applied for soon, One whole Right of LAND, in that valuable town of Reading, on Connecticut- river, for a trifle of cash, and the rest in country produce. Inquire of the Printers.
er; and until this affair is settled, the people filling themselves subjects of Vermont, as in- dependent, must be considered as foreigners, or the subjects of New Hampshire & New York, which last it is thought will soon be the case.
INDEPENDENS.
end; just so, the state of New-Hampshire have refused them an audience without con- sent of Congress to acknowledge them as a committee of the confederated states; they certainly know this must have been the issue, or they have never read the articles of con- federation, which expressly forbid any one state to treat separately with any foreign pow-
commissioners desired a conference with Congress, a committee being appointed for that purpose, the commissioners declined to treat with them, unless as private gentlemen, as thereby it would have been a tacit acknow- ledgement of their Independence, the Com- mittee of Congress would not treat otherwise, and so their errand to America was at an

From the Sentimental Magazine.
THE REASONER.
Point de jour que l'on ne parle de "la corruption de mœurs nationales." Que doit-on entendre par ce mot?—"Le détachement de l'intérêt particulier de l'intérêt général." HELVETIUS.
If Morality has hitherto contributed little to the happiness of mankind, it is not to be ascribed to any defect in the language or in the sentiments of moralists, but to a narrowness of apprehension; while they have wasted their talents in declaiming against vice, they have failed to discover its source; they have seldom considered the vices of nations as necessarily resulting from their different forms of government: yet it is only by considering morality in this point of view, that they can be of any use to society.—The vices of a nation are rooted in the bottom of its legislation: there he must dig, who would eradicate the principles of corruption; and he who wants either capacity or courage for such an undertaking, can be of little service to the manners of a people. To attempt to extirpate the vices annexed to the legislation of a state, without suggesting a change in the laws, is to reject the just consequence after admitting the principle.
What for instance, can be hoped from the many declamations against the incontinence and infidelity of women, if these vices be the necessary effect of an opposition between the desires of nature and the conduct which, in these kingdoms, the laws of religion and decency require of women?—I am far, however, from affirming that this is really the case; I only say, that women cannot reasonably be reproached with a breach of morality for violating a law of custom which clashes with the necessities of nature; that, where female conduct is thus circumscribed, female libertinism will continue, and that all declamations against it will be found as ineffectual as if addressed to the rushing torrent, or the raging whirlwind.
For a second instance we shall take defamation. This is a vice, but a necessary one; because in every country where the body of the people have no share in the administration of public affairs, conversation must stagnate without it: but if, in such a country, it be the fashion to contract a numerous acquaintance, to frequent public places, and if loquacity is accounted a mark of talents, he who is ignorant of things must necessarily make persons the subject of his discourse; and panegyric being disgusting, and satire entertaining, the superficial, to avoid being insupportable, are obliged to talk scandal. Hence this vice cannot be suppressed without abolishing the productive cause; without giving the people more interest in public transactions; and, consequently, without altering the form of government. Why is the man of fashion more loquacious in private companies than the man of business?—because the man of the world must either defame or be mute; whereas the man of business speaks only of things as they affect his interest, and never defames but by way of revenge, by which means he seldom does it at all.
What I say of defamation, I say likewise of sensuality, against which Moralists have at all times so violently inveighed. Sensuality, even as it relates to the passions, is so necessary a consequence of luxury, that any proof of it would be superfluous. Now if luxury, as is generally supposed, be useful to a state; and if, as may be easily shown, the taste for it cannot be extinguished without altering the form of government, then some such alteration must take place, before any hopes can be entertained of abolishing sensuality.
Every harangue on this subject is good divinity, but bad policy. The object of policy and legislation is the opulence, power and happiness of a people. Now if luxury be really useful to Britain, it would be ridiculous to attempt to introduce here an austerity of manners incompatible with a taste for luxury. There is no proportion between the advantages which commerce and luxury procure to such a state as our's, and the evils occasioned by the love of women. To complain of this, is to complain of finding in a rich mine of gold some streaks of copper intermixed with the native ore.
Whenever luxury is necessary, it is a solecism in politics to account gallantry a moral vice; but, if it must be called a moral vice, the consequence is, that, in some countries and some ages, there are useful vices, as Egypt owes its fertility to the mud of Nile. In short, from a political examination of the behaviour of women of gallantry, it will be found that, though in certain respects blameable, they are, in others, of great advantage to the public; in the use which they make of their money, in particular, they are more beneficial to the state than the most virtuous of the sex. It is the desire of pleasing which sends a woman of gallantry so frequently to the mercer and milliner; by which means she not only saves a great number of manufacturers from indigence, but, by exciting the industry of the most ingenious, renders them of more service to the community. Virtuous women, therefore, in bestowing their money in alms, are not so wisely directed by their piety, as women of gallantry by the desire of pleasing: the first support public nuisances, the second useful members of society.
From what has been said is necessarily follows, that no change can be expected in the ideas of a people till after a change has taken place in their legislation; that the reformation of manners must be begun by the reformation of laws; and that declamations against a vice, useful in the present form of government, would be politically hurtful, were they not found fruitless. But so they will always be; for it is only the force of laws that can ever influence the bulk of a nation.
Moralists, however, by substituting the soft language of interest for the clamour of invective, might go a great way to establish their principles. Their admonitions are too dogmatical and imperious; yet they must be sensible, that precept will never prevail against sentiment, and that a passion only can overcome a passion. To bring a loose woman, for instance, to more modesty and reserve in public, her vanity must be contrasted with her coquetry; it must be urged to her, that modesty is an invention of love and refined delight; that it is to the gause, which covers a woman's beauties, that the men owe their ardour and the women their adoration; that at Malabar, where the young girls appear in company half naked, and in certain parts of America, where the women wear no covering, the desires of men have nothing of that keenness which curiosity would impart to them; that, in such countries, beauty serves only for the call of necessity: but, on the contrary, among those nations where modesty has placed a veil between the desires and their object, this veil is the magic charm which chains the lover at his mistress's feet; that modesty, in short, puts into beauty's feeble hands the sceptre to which power submits.
It is enough to have hinted at this, by the way; I shall therefore return to my subject, and conclude with observing, that all men tend towards their happiness; that it is
and that the important intelligence which he carried, had diffused a general joy among our allies.—A Dauphin of France was born the 22d of Oct. on which occasion there had been great rejoicings throughout the kingdom.
F I S H - K I L L, January 31.
We learn from New-York, that Arnold's, and some other new raised corps, are preparing to embark for Charlestown.
PROVIDENCE, January 26.
Capt. Worth, in the brig Sally, of this port, arrived in the river on Sunday evening last, from Nantz, which he left the 28th of November. By him we learn, that the Duke de Lauzan, who failed from the Chesapeake in a frigate soon after the capture of Lord Cornwallis and his army, arrived at Brent the 19th of November, after a passage of 23 days;
whence I conclude, that, if moralists would be of use to the world, they should survey objects from the same point of view with the legislator. Though not invested with the same power, they ought to be actuated by the same spirit. The moral philosopher should indicate the regulations of society, while the legislator insures their success by stamping them with the seal of his authority.
a tendency from which they cannot be diverted, that the attempt would be fruitless, and even the success dangerous; consequently, it is only by incorporating personal and general interest, that mankind can be rendered virtuous.
This conclusion being granted, morality is evidently no more than a trivulous science, unless blended with policy and legislation:

RICHMOND, (Virginia) January 3.
By a gentleman who left Gen. Green's head-quarters on the 12th of December, at the Round O, about 40 miles from Charlestown, we are informed, that Gen. Marion had taken a number of horses, and a large quantity of stores from the enemy at Hadrel's Point, amongst which were a considerable quantity of cloathing and blankets. Lt. Col. Lee has also with his legion surprised the enemy at the Quarter-House, about six miles from Charlestown, and taken a number of prisoners amongst whom were nine or ten officers. The legion now lies about 20 miles from Stono, and the enemy are confined to Charlestown.
Major General Sinclair, with the troops under his command, detached by General Washington to reinforce Gen. Greene, from the last accounts, must have reached his army on the fourteenth of December.
Extract of a letter from an officer in General Greene's army, dated camp, at Round O, South-Carolina.
"The army moved from the high-hills of Santee the 19th of November; the enemy were then in possession of Monk's Corner, returned below Goose-Creek; the post at Dorchester, which was a redoubt strongly picketed with abatis they still occupied. This post commanded the country south of the Edisto, and enabled them to draw the resources from thence; to dislodge them was an important object; but our numbers were too small to effect it by regular movements; it could only be done by one of those masterly strokes which mark the genius and character of a great officer. General Greene put himself at the head of a small detachment, composed of infantry and cavalry, and by secret and rapid marches moved from the Congaree, to Dorchester, drove in the pickets, and by a bold and judicious display of his numbers finessed the enemy into a belief that the whole army was present. Impressed with this idea, they destroyed their stores & works, and under cover of the night, precipitately retired, as well as those at Goose Creek, to the quarter-house upon Charlestown Neck. Thus have they left us in possession of the whole country, and their boasted conquest of Georgia and South-Carolina, is now reduced to a few acres in the neighbourhood of Charlestown and Savannah."
"I cannot sufficiently admire the abilities of my General, and I think his country cannot do too much for him. Seconded by a little army, he has obtained great and important advantages against an enemy, always his superior, and sometimes three times his number."
Cheap for Cash,
AT
RICHARD CHAMPNEY'S STORE,
On Mess. Sherburne & Langdon's Wharf, SUNDRY GOODS, viz.
BEST Hylson TEA per doz
or smaller quantity; Sweed's and Spanish Iron, per ton or hundred; Russia Duck; best French Brandy, per pipe; Clarret Wine, per pipe; Molasses per hogshead; Lisbon and St. Martin's Salt; Coffee, per hundred; and a variety of piece Goods. — Also, a good Assortment of Cuttoes, Penknives, Scissors, Razors, Knives and Forks, &c. &c. &c.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 23.
By recent arrivals from the West Indies we are informed, that St. Eustatius and the Dutch quarters of St. Martin's, are again made free ports for all nations.
Last week it was reported in this city, that the British house of commons had denied the supplies for the American war. This is evidently an invention of the enemy at New-York, calculated to lull us into inactivity; for the parliament of Britain did not meet till late in November; and though it be barely possible that such a vote might reach this side of the ocean by this time, yet we know not of any conveyance for such intelligence. It will be best to treat with our enemy after making every preparation for continuing the war.
It is observable that the arrival of Prince William Henry at New-York, filled the British and loyalists with 'joy ineffable and universal,' the very chimney-sweepers smitten with the poetic flame, composed odes in his praise, some of which were inserted in the Royal Gazette; yet not a word is said about his departure. Many are at loss how to account for this; some suppose they were tired of the lad; others, with more probability, that they were afraid to let the time of his departure be known, lest Count de Grasse, after the surrender of Mr. Cornwallis, should have thought him an object worthy of his attention:
BOSTON, February 7.
A theatre is established for the winter, in the city of New-York; but altho' that place abounds with families of rank, taste and fortune (as we have been told) it is not able to support a regular company of actors. To supply their place, the gentlemen of the army, giving up the vain project of conquering America, have turned fiddlers, pipers, dancers, and stage players, GRATIS. Mr. Rivington sells fiddles, flutes, bagpipes, hautboys, clarinets, fifes, French horns and jews-harps; so that, let what will happen in the Spring, they seem determined to pipe away the Winter as merrily as so many crickets. It is further added, that a certain gentleman at present in New-York, well known for his delicate taste in the belles lettres studies, is engaged in writing a tragedy for speedy representation, entitled, The Siege of York Town, in Virginia . By some specimens it is tho' this piece will melt the most obdurate hearts, and draw tears even from the eyes of blind men .
A frigate, belonging to his Most Christian Majesty, is arrived in York-River (Virginia) from France, with about 150,000l. sterling, for the payment of the French army under the command of his Excellency Count de Rochambeau.
SALM, February 7.
The public interest having suffered by the lenity of government in allowing permits to be granted to divers persons, for the purpose of transporting effects to and from Nova-Scotia, the General Court, in the present session, have passed a Resolve, absolutely interdicting, in future a commerce so highly injurious to the common cause: And all vessels, with the effects on board, going to, or coming from, Nova-Scotia, or any other place in possession of the enemy (excepting such persons as have already obtained permission for themselves and property, and, have not deviated from such permission) shall be liable to capture and condemnation.
PORTSMOUTH, February 9.
Thursday evening last, was married by the Rev. Dr. Haven, Mr. Thomas Penhallow, merchant, to the amiable and accomplished Miss Hannah Bunbury, both of this town.
The Drawing of the United States Lottery began at Philadelphia on the 15th of December last.
THIS is once more to desire all Persons Indebted to, or that have any Accounts open with, or demands against the Estate of Mr. Joseph Simes late of Portsmouth, deceas'd, to call immediately and settle the same with the subscribers to prevent further trouble.
ANN SIMES, Administratrix. JOHN SIMES, Administrator.
a legal meeting held in said town the twelfth day of July 1775. Vote to raise one farthing per acre on all the ratable land in said town, which assessment being made was committed to me, the subscriber to collect: These are to notify the owners of land in said town, to pay their respective taxes to me at my dwelling house in said town, on or before the first day of March next, or their land will be advertised for sale.
DAVID WHEELER, Collector.
Marlborough, Jan. 16 1782.
continue; they therefore can have no apology for being deficient in bringing wood, provisions, &c. which will be receiv'd of those who can't conveniently advance the cash.
February 9, 1782.
WHEREAS the proprietors of land in Marlborough, in the State of New-Hampshire, did at
use, as well as for the immediate necessaries of life. — 'Tis expected they settle up to the first of March next; and those who wish to continue customers after that time, will advance 6/ which is the stated rule at Boston, Salem, &c. — Those of the Country, will recollect that it has been good bedding for some time past, which it's probable will
ALL Persons indebted for this Gazette, are once more requested to settle their accounts with the Publishers, (especially those who have been long in arrears) as they find it impossible to continue the publication of it much longer, without that piece of justice is done them, being obliged to pay the cash down for every sheet of paper they

PUBLIC notice is hereby gi-
ven, That Daniel Newcomb , trustee to the estate of Dr. Josiah Pomeroy , late of Keene, an absentee, hath preferred a petition to the General Assembly, sitting forth, that the said Josiah had, before his absenting himself from Keene, purchased, taken deeds of, taken into possession, paid for, and was the proper owner of the following tracts of land lying in Keene aforesaid, viz. two house lots, No. 42 and 43, containing about sixteen acres with a barn and orchard thereon; one piece of meadow land in ash-swamp (so called) containing about twelve acres, being two six acre lots laid out to the right of house lot No. 42; one other piece of meadow land lying in ash-swamp (so called) containing about twelve acres, laid out in an after division to the right of house lot No. 42; one tract of meadow land, containing about eleven acres, being the westerly part of the eight-acre lots No. 26, 27 and 28, and lyeth partly on Bullards-island (so called) one tract of land lying northerly of the meeting-house in said Keene, containing about seventy acres; one other tract, of land lying northerly of said meeting-house about ten acres. Also one eight-acre meadow lot No. 24, laid out to house lot No. 4. Also one tract of land lying on east-beech hill (so called) being part of thirty-acre lots No. 3 & 4, containing about forty acres. And one tract of unimproved land in said Keene, ninety-three acres and ninety-six rods, which includes part (viz. forty acres) of a sixty-acre pitch in the ninth division of land in said town, and was drawn to house lot No. 62. The remainder of said tract consists of two pitches in the tenth division of land in said town, the one drawn to house lot No. 62, and the other to house lot No. 25, excepting out of said tract of land one undivided part twenty-five acres belonging to Benjamin Archur . That the said Pomeroy's deeds of the aforesaid tracts of land have never been recorded, but are concealed so as not to be come at by the said trustee; and the said trustee is apprehensive that he cannot lawfully make sale of said tracts of land for the use of said state, without some special act of Court for that purpose; therefore, he prays for direction how to proceed relative thereto. And if the said tracts of land are confiscated, and in the care of the said trustee, he further prays, that the said tracts of land may be declared to be forfeited to said state, and he be as effectually secured in making sale of said lands as if the said deeds had been duly executed and recorded.
Upon which petition, the General Assembly ordered that the petitioner should be heard thereon, before them, on the second Wednesday of their next session; and that in the mean time, he cause the substance of the petition and order of Court thereon to be published three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette , that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof should not be granted.
Attest. JOSEPH PEARSON , Dep'y. Secr'y. Exeter, December 25, 1781.
THE proprietors of the township of Britton-Woods are hereby notified, that the sale of the delinquent proprietors lands which was to have been made on the 15th day of October last, as formerly advertised, was at that time put off—Those of said proprietors who are still delinquent, are once more notified that so much of lands as shall pay the arrearages due with incidental charges, will be sold without further delay, at the house of Mrs. Tilton innholder in Portsmouth, on Monday the 11th day of February next at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.—The original proprietors names of the delinquent rights are as follows, viz.
   Names £. s. d. Names £. s. d.     Saml. Hall, Salem 2 16 1 Isaac Rand 3d. 1 18 7   James Grouard 2 16 1 John Rand 1 18 7   Joseph Moulton jr. 1 1 1 Edward Rand 1 18 7   Richard Jennels 2 16 1 Nathaniel Austin 1 18 7   Nicho. Pickering 2 16 1 Mark Langdon 1 18 7   Francis Jennels 1 1 1 Mark Nelson 1 18 7   Isaac Rand 1 18 7 Mark Rogers 6 3 0   Isaac Rand, junr. 1 18 7 Tho. M'Donough 6 3 0   Samuel Jennels 1 2 0 Robert L. Fowle 2 16 1   Joseph Bass 0 18 0 Jacob Shefe junr. 0 18 0   Ezekiel Gummere 18 0 0 Thomas Lynde 0 18 0   Peter Curts 0 18 0 Geo. S. Homans 0 18 0   Joseph Ward 0 18 0 Vere Royce 0 18 0   James Hassett 0 18 0 John Sprague 0 18 0   Samuel Bowles, Collector.  
Portsmouth, January 22d, 1782.
To be sold at public Vendue, On Tuesday the fifth day of March next, at three o'Clock P. M. and so from Day to Day until finished, at the House of Capt. Eliphalet Giddinge, Innholder in Exeter, in the State of New-Hampshire, for Specie or State Securities:
The Remainder of the Real Estate of the late Governor Wentworth, an Absentee, consisting of about
Ten Thousand Acres of LAND in the North Division of the Town of Protectworth, in said State, lying on the Curve Line (so called) about 20 Miles Eastward of Connecticut River.
One Thousand Acres of LAND , being a Gore commodiously situated between the Patent Line and Gratton.
Two whole Rights of LAND in the Town of Thornton, in said State, being the Original Rights of Elias Smith and John Flagg. Likewise,
Eleven Rights or Shares in the Town of Lime , in said State, being the Original Rights of the said John Wentworth, John Cutts, John Libbey, John Green, Thomas Peverly, George Fernald, Edward Ayers, John Langdon, Mark-Hunking Wentworth, Thomas Martin, and Nathaniel Dowe.
Likewise, Twenty-two whole Rights or Proprietors Shares in the Town of Dorchester , in said State, being the Original Rights of John Langdon, John Cutts, John Libbey, John Green, John Bryard, Thomas Peverly, James Holt, Michael Martin, Amos Beck, John Green, Samuel Hart, George Fernald, Daniel Peirce, John Parker, John Sullivan, John Hurd, William Simpson, John Wendel, Isaac Rindge, Samuel Parker, Richard Cutts Shannon, and Joseph Patterson.
The Original Right of Timothy Osborne, in the Town of Woodbury, in said State.
The Original Right of Samuel Wentworth, in the Town of Haverhill, in said State.
Also, the Original Right of Punder-ton Austin, in Lyman in said State.
Also, a Pair of Dutch Mill-Stones, brought from Europe, for the purpose of making Flower, for which they are peculiarly adapted, now in the Care of the Hon. Thomas Westbrook Waldron Esq; at Dover.
Any Person claiming Property in any of said Lands, by producing their Deeds or other Evidence to the Trustee, at or before the Time of Sale, may prevent Trouble and Expence in future.
Pursuant to Licence from the Hon. Judge of Probate for the County of Rockingham in said State, by SAMUEL GILMAN , Trustee to said confiscated Estate.
Newmarket, Jan. 19, 1782.
Rockingham, Portsmouth January 30th. 1782.
THE Commissioner appointed by the Hon. Judge of Probate for the County of Rockingham, in the State of New-Hampshire, to examine the Claims on the Estate of Capt. Thomas Pickering late of Portsmouth, deceased—give notice that a further time is allowed by the Judge to receive the Claims on said Estate, and that they will attend that business for the last time, at the House of Mrs. Tilton in Portsmouth, on Tuesday the 26th Day of February next, at 6 of the Clock, P. M.
Pearce Long, John Sparhawk, Thomas Martin, } Commissioners.
A few Copies of the Form of Government, may be had at the Printing-Offices in Portsmouth and Exeter.
PRINTED AT PORTSMOUTH.
Just come to hand, and may be had at the Printing-Office, the Fourth Number of the History of the WAR in AMERICA , between Great-Britain and the United States, embellished with an elegant copper-plate Frontispiece of the Hon. SAMUEL ADAMS , Esq; first Delegate to Congress, for the Massachusetts.
THE SUBSCRIBER has opened an OFFICE of INSURANCE, in the front Room, at the Bunch of Grapes Tavern, in State-Street, BOSTON; where Vessels and Merchandise of every Kind, may be insured at the lowest Premium. Constant Attendance given, and every Favour gratefully acknowledged. JOHN HURD.
Boston, December 1781.
with said woman at said Peck-Kill, and had utterly forsaken her the petitioner:—For which reason, she prayed that a divorce from the said Peleiah, a vinculo matrimonii might be granted her.—On which petition, the General Court ordered that the petitioner be heard before said court, on the second Tuesday of their next session; when any person may appear and shew cause why the prayer of said petition should not be granted. Attest. E. THOMPSON , Sec'y.
January 11, 1782.
ANNAH WHITTEMORE , of New-Ipswich, in the county of Hillsborough, and State of New-Hampshire, wife of Peleiah Whittemore, late of said New-Ipswich, having petitioned the General Court of said State, representing that she had been married to the said Peleiah about nineteen years; and that he without any just cause on her part, had within eighteen months last past at a place called Peck-Kill, in the State of New-York, married another woman, and now actually lives and cohabits