The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1775-03-10 00:00:00

THE New-Hampshire AND HISTORICAL CONTAINING the Freshest ADVICES
Vol. XIX. GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
FRIDAY March 10, 1775.
No. 959 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd.
PORTSMOUTH.
Mr. FOWLE, WHEREAS some evil-minded and malicious Persons have asserted that a Number of People in the Town of Durham, are about forming themselves into a Company, in order to throw off all Obedience to the Militia Officers, and set at Defiance the Laws of the Government,-----I desire you to publish the Articles of Infiniteness in your next Paper, that the Public may judge how little Foundation there is for so scandalous a Report. The Articles are as follows;
"WE the Subscribers, do hereby agree to form ourselves into a Company, and meet at Durham Falls on every Monday Afternoon, for 6 Months next coming, to acquaint ourselves with the Military Art, and instruct each other in the various Manoeuvres and Evolutions which are necessary for Infantry in Time of Battle;---We also agree to appear each Time, well furnished with Arms and Ammunition: And at our first Meeting to nominate and appoint the several Officers who are to preside over us for the first Month, and then proceed to appoint others for the next Month, always avoiding to re-elect any that have served until all the others have gone through their Tour of Duty as Officers:---And at any Muster or Field Day, we shall hold ourselves obliged to incorporate with the respective Companies to which we belong, and yield all due Obedience to the proper Officers of the Militia appointed by the CAPTAIN GENERAL: and endeavor to instruct those who are undisciplined, in the best Manner we are able."
Signed by Eighty-two reputable Inhabitants. This is an exact Copy of the Articles which any Person that yet remains in Doubt, may be satisfied of by applying to me and viewing the Original, a Sight of which may at any time be had; and was there nothing more illegal and injurious in a late Paper signed by several Persons in this Province, I believe the Signers would not take so much Pains in keeping it from the public View. But whatever may be the purport of that, I rejoice in laying the Contents of this before the People, that they may judge whether it has the least Appearance of an illegal Combination, or whether on the contrary, it does not appear to be a well concerted Plan to promote and encourage the Military Art. I flatter myself that even Malice itself could not adjudge this to be an unjustifiable Measure, or suggest that any part of it looks like Treason or Rebellion; and I can account for the scandalous Report concerning it in no other Way, but by supposing that these Defamers expected (according to the Custom of this Day), to be rewarded for their Slander by some Posts of Honor or Profit.
Yours very humble Servant, JOHN SULLIVAN. Durham, March 4th, 1775.
PORTSMOUTH.
Capt. Butler arrived here in sixteen Days from St. Croix, and informs us, that three Days before he left St. Croix, a Vessel arrived at St. Kitts in 31 Days from London, which brings Accounts of 16 Sail of the Line, and 20,000 Troops being order'd to this Continent, and that the Parliament was dissolved. Capt. Butler also informs us of 40 Transports, and 20,000 Spaniards sailing for the Havannah with 18 Spanish Men of War.
Last Sabbath being the Anniversary of the horrid Massacre in King-Street, Boston, 1770, perpetrated by a Party of Soldiers under the Command of Capt. Thomas Preston, an elegant and spirited Oration was pronounced, at the old South Meeting House in Boston, by Joseph Warren, Esq; in Commemoration of that bloody Tragedy.
FALMOUTH March 4th 1775.
LAST Thursday in the Afternoon, a small Sloop from Bristol arrived here, with the Rigging, Sails and Stores, for a new Ship lately built here. In the Evening the Committee of Inspection were convened, & chose a Sub Committee to appoint a Watch on board the said Sloop, to prevent the landing any Part of her Cargo, during the Debates of the Committee. And yesterday they resolved that the Whole that said Sloop brought ought forthwith to be sent back again without breaking any of the Packages.
The Sloop has not yet left this Port, being very old and wants repairing, but the Public may rest assured that the Inhabitants of this Town will cheerfully support their Committee of inspection, and by their Vigilance prevent the Landing of any Goods but what are agreeable to the Continental Association, which they determine strictly to adhere to.
NEW-PORT, Feb. 13
We are informed that there was but one Tory in all New Shoreham on the 30th of January, at which Time the Sons of Liberty had a Meeting, and requested him to renounce his wicked Principles, but he refusing, they began to enquire for some Tar & Feathers, which not being ready at Hand, they then took some Fish Gurry & made a Beginning to give him a new Coat; upon which he frankly confessed he was no Tory, had acted only from a Spirit of Opposition, and despised and hated a real Tory as much as he did a highway Robber, or the Devil, their Principles and Practices being exactly similar, and tending to the same End, viz. plundering and enslaving Mankind. He promised to support the Liberties of his Country for the future, and was taken into their Favour.
Last Wednesday Col. Thomas Gilbert of Freeport, and a 30 more vile Traitors to their Country, marched armed to the Town of Berkley, with a determined Resolution as they thought, to cut down the Liberty Pole in that Town; but when they had got within a little Distance of it, some Lads, who saw them, discharged a Musket, and gave three Beats upon an old Drum head, which struck those respectable HEROES with such Terror that they fled, some one Way and some another, helter skelter, as tho' the D---l had been there after them; and thus the whole Campaign was ruined, and the noble Col. and his Maj. G---, most sadly disappointed; as 'tis thought that by effecting the Downfall of the Pole, one expected to be made high Sheriff and the other a Deputy, under the new fangled Government-----when established. To be sure, were I to give you a Description of the wretched Group of Raguemuffs who set out upon this Expedition, you would-----; but I'll spare the poor Devils, as they are rather to be pitied for their Poverty and Ignorance.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, PORTSMOUTH, in Lat. 43 4 15. N o
Long. 70 43 15. W. from Greenwich. Meteorological REGISTER, in Portsmouth, for February 1775.     February. Sunrise. Sunset. Deg. Barom. A. stands for Forenoon. P. Afternoon. Winds. WEATHER.   at noon. T.    1 33 33 30 29 5 2 W Fair and Pleasant A P  2 25 37 42 29 7 0 W B N Rain & fair A fair P  3 39 33 28 30 0 0 N N W Fair, bright and pleasant T  4 15 26 25 29 9 9 N W dit. dit. dit T  5 16 36 36 30 1 3 N N W dit. dit. dit T  6 19 40 3 30 3 0 E S E dit. dit. dit T  7 27 45 43 30 2 3 W N W dit. dit. dit T  8 38 43 45 29 6 0 W B S Rain A pleasant P  9 38 35 31 30 1 0 N Fair but cloudy A P  10 28 30 21 29 4 0 E Cloudy A Snow P  11 19 36 27 30 1 0 W Fair & bright A P  12 25 28 25 29 4 7 E N E Snow A P  13 8 31 23 29 9 0 W Fair and pleasant A P  14 12 17 16 30 5 0 N N W Fair and bright T  15 2 31 26 30 4 3 W Pleasant and bright T  16 27 40 38 30 0 0 W Ditto dit. T  17 27 35 33 29 9 1 E Fair A Snow P  18 25 34 26 30 4 0 N Pleasant and Fair A P  19 12 29 30 30 1 0 E Overcast A Snow P  20 30 40 36 29 5 2 W S W Fair A a thick Rime P  21 26 54 46 29 8 0 W B S Fair & bright almost T  22 33 54 44 30 3 0 W S W Fair and bright T  23 34 33 38 30 0 0 E S E Rain, Sleet, Snow & Rime A P  24 25 30 33 29 9 7 E do. do. do. A P  25 35 45 39 29 7 0 W Fair and bright A P  26 31 38 34 30 3 0 W N W do. do. T  27 21 39 34 30 4 0 W S W Fair A Cloudy & Snow P  28 32 40 35 30 5 8 W B S Fair & pleasant A P  
As the Publisher of this Paper has continued a Performance sign'd Massachusetts for several Weeks past, there is now an Answer by one Novanglus; which it is thought is so well executed, that he may be look'd upon as a Champion on the other Side, and ought to accompany Massachusetts, as it would be ridiculous to judge in Matters of Controversy, if we hear, read and think only on one Side;---for if our rational Faculties are so fetter'd and trammel'd, we might as well have been made Horses or Mules, for all the Advantage Reason would do us. Let us read both Sides with an impartial Mind, without which we must unavoidably grope in a maze Labyrinth of Error.
WILLIAMSBURG, (Virginia) Feb. 2.
At a Meeting of the Freeholders and others in Northampton County, Virginia, Mr. John Bowdoin, Chairman, among other Matters, they Resolved, that all the Tea in that County be delivered to Col. Savage, to be stored by him, at the Risk of the Proprietors [which had been accordingly done, amounting to 416lb.] Some Gentlemen desir'd their Tea might be burnt, in which reasonable Request they were instantly gratified.---And in Order to promote and encourage American Manufactures, they have offer'd a Premium of 40lb. sterl. to the first Wool Card Maker that shall settle in that Colony, and cause to be made under Direction 1000 Pair any Time within 18 Months, which they engage to pay for at 2s. sterl. a Pair: They have likewise offer'd a Premium of 40lb. sterl. to the first Person who shall in 18 Months make, or cause to be made 5000lb. of good merchantable Gunpowder.
NEW-YORK, Feb. 23.
On Thursday Night, the Ship Beulah, Capt. William M'Buffet arrived at the watering place, about three Leagues from this city, in nine weeks from London.----- The pilots, we are informed, were ordered not to bring her up, left her being in the harbour should give uneasiness to this city. The same night, a sloop, with some members of the sub-committee of observation and other citizens on board, went down and anchored near the said ship to observe her conduct, and they will continue there, till she departs. The ship wants a new bowsprit, when she is furnished with this, and other necessaries for her voyage, she will be despatched without delay. She has neither entered nor broke bulk, and we are informed will be ready to sail about Sunday next.
We hear it was determined on Friday Night last at a Meeting of the Owners of Goods in the Beulah lately arrived from London, that she should return with all her Goods, agreeable to the Resolves of the Congress.
The Trade of the Colony of Rhode Island is greatly infected by those whose profession and honour ought to make them despise the character of Custom House pimps.
Extract from the Votes and Proceedings of the General Assembly of this Colony.
Die Jovis, 10 bo. A. M. the 23d February, 1775. A motion was made by Mr. Thomas, in the words following. Mr. Speaker.
I move that the sense of this House be taken, on the necessity of appointing Delegates for this Colony, to meet the Delegates for the other Colonies on this Continent, in general Congress, on the 10th day of May next.
And Debates arising on the said Motion, and the Question being put thereon, it was carried in the negative, in manner following, viz.
For the Negative. Mr. Walton, Mr. Jauncey, Mr. Brinckerhoff, Col. Seamen, Mr. Buth, Mr. DeLancey, Mrs. Coo, Mr. Van Kleeck, Mr. Rapalje, Mr. Nicoll, Mr. Billop, Col. Philips, Mr. Ten Eyck, Col. Wells, Mr. Wilkins, Mr. Kiffam and Mr. Gale.
For the Affirmative. Mr. Clinton, Colonel Woodhull, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Baerum, Captain Seaman, Col. Ten Broeck, Mr. DeWitt, Col. Schuyler, Col. P. Livingston.
BOSTON, March 6.
The General Assembly of the Island of Barbados have drawn up a spirited Petition to be transmitted to Great Britain, and to be presented to his Majesty in favour of America.
We learn from Madeira, that on the 18th of Dec. last, about 3 o'Clock in the Afternoon, a very heavy and sudden Gale came on there from the South, and continued to blow with such unrelenting Fury as to prevent the Shipping from getting out; so that, about Midnight, 6 Sail out of 7 were dashed to Pieces, their Names are as follows: The Aurora, Capt. Keys, from London, with 3 Men; the Betsy Grigg, Capt. Griffith, the Master, the Captain, and whole Crew (15 in Number) perished; the Peggy and Betsy, from Maryland, Capt. Lewes, Ship lost, the Crew saved; a Danish Ship, Capt. Bee, the Vessel lost, with 14 Hands and one Woman Passenger; two Portuguese Vessels wholly lost, but the Crews saved by being ashore: The Ship Davokini, Capt. Stavropo, from London, for Jamaica, was the only Vessel that rode out the Storm.
Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman in Salem, a true Son of Old England, dated March 1, 1775.
"I Saw the Minutemen, and think they are just as they are represented in the Salem Gazette. In my Opinion, People could not have acted with more Prudence and more Resolution. They out-General'd the General."
DONATIONS received since last.
MASSACHUSETTS BAY. Roxbury, 2d Parish, Cash, 15l. 12s. 6d. 3 Bushels of Grain 13 Cords of Wood, and 40lb. Cheese. Brookline One Load Wood. Dedham, 45 Cords of Wood. Plympton, Cash, 4l. 16s. 6d. Medway, East Parish, Cash, 7l. 2s. 6d. and 53lb. of Cheese. Nattaniel and Josiah Walker, of Scharbridge, 1l. 15s. 6d. Daggett, North Parish, 26l. 15s. 4d. 10 Pair of Shoes, 8 Yards of Check, 2 Ounces of Thread, 1 Pair of Mole Skin Breeches. Nantucket, from the Rev. Mr. Bezael Shaw's Parish, 26l. 16s. 6d.
RHODE ISLAND.
Providence (from the Committee of Inspection, they received on the Sales of a Cargo from Liverpool, agreeable to the Resolves of the Grand Continental Congress) Cash, 16l. 16s. 1d.
VIRGINIA.
From St. Eustatia, the Amount of Sales of a Cargo of Corn from Essex County, in Virginia, per the Schooner Sally, James Perkins, Master, blown off the Coast last Fall, 128l. 11s. 6d. Mrs. Isaac Van Dam disposed of this Cargo, and generously gave his Commissions and Charges for the Benefit of the Sufferers by the Port Bill.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Charles-Town, from Roger Smith, Esq; 78l. 13s. 3d.
Salem, March 7, 1775.
THE South Carolina Provincial Congress, in their late Session unanimously resolved, that no Action for any Debt shall be commenced in that Colony, nor any such Action depending there, which was commenced since last September Return, be proceeded in without the Permission of the Committee of the Parish or District in which the Defendant resides, until it shall be otherwise determined in their Provincial Congress. The Committees are, however directed, upon Application, to give Permission for the bringing or proceeding on such Suits wherein the Debtors refuse to renew their Obligations, or to give reasonable Security, or are justly suspected of Intention to leave the Colony, or to defraud their Creditors, or where there shall appear, to the Majority of the Committee, any other reasonable Cause for granting such Permission. The Congress voted to indemnify the Committee.
We hear from Danvers, that last Week one Quarter Part of the remaining Soldiers of that Town insisted themselves as Minute-Men, agreeable to the Recommendation of the Provincial Congress.
Last Friday Night Twenty seven Pieces of Cannon were removed out of this Town in order to be out of the Way of Robbers.
In New-York Government, some ignorant and unwary People, especially such as do not well understand the English Language, have been deluded and ensnared to sign a Paper against the Measures of the Continental Congress. They were told by the Tories, that the Committee was authorised to enter and break open their Houses in Search of Tea;---that if they did not sign that Paper, they were Enemies to the King; that to sign was the only Way to save their Lives and Properties; for that those who did not sign were liable to be hanged,---with many other Stories equally false and infamous.
Last Saturday Capt. Benjamin West arrived here, and the next Day Capt. Pearson arrived at Cape-Ann, both from St. Eustatia. They inform us, that on the 9th of February a Whaling Vessel belonging to Nantucket, arrived at St. Eustatia from Antigua, the Master of which (who appeared to be an honest, intelligent Person) asserted, that on the 7th, just before he sailed, a Ship from Liverpool arrived at Antigua, in about 30 Days Passage: that he went on board her before she anchored, and on asking the Captain what News he brought, was answered, "The Parliament is dissolved." The old Parliament? says the Whaler: No, says the Captain, the New---This Intelligence was confirmed by 4 or 5 Passengers. On the Whaler's asking the Occasion of the Parliament's being dissolved, he was told, that it was owing to their opposing the King's Measures.
We have inserted the above extraordinary Intelligence just as we heard it related. We only add, that the two Captains agree in their Accounts, and that the News occasioned great Speculations at Antigua.
Col. Leslie's ridiculous Expedition, on the 26th ult. occasioned such an Alarm, that the People of all the neighbouring Towns, as well as those at 30 or 40 Miles Distance, were mustering, and great Numbers actually on their March for this Place; so that it is thought not less than 12 or 15,000 Men would have been assembled in this Town within 24 Hours after the Alarm: had not the precipitate Retreat of the Troops from the Draw-Bridge prevented it.
Capt. Leighton arrived yesterday from Virginia, with 1000 Bushels of Indian Corn, and 90 Bushels of Wheat, for the Poor of Boston.
Buried in Boston, last Week, Nine Whites and Six Blacks; 16 in the Army and Navy.

Continental Congress continu'd.
The Address to the Inhabitants of the Colonies, continu'd from our last.
THESE statutes of the year 1767 revived the apprehensions and discontents, that had entirely subsided on the repeal of the stamp-act; and amidst the just fears and jealousies thereby occasioned, a statute was made in the next year (1768) to establish courts of admiralty and vice-admiralty on a new model, expressly for the end of more effectually recovering the penalties and forfeitures inflicted by acts of parliament, framed for the purpose of raising a revenue in America, &c.
The immediate tendency of these statutes is, to subvert the right of having a share in legislation, by rendering assemblies useless; the right of property, by taking the money of the colonists without their consent; the right of trials by jury, by substituting in their place trials in admiralty and vice admiralty courts, where single judges preside, holding their commissions during pleasure; and unduly to influence the courts of common law, by rendering the Judges thereof totally dependant on the Crown for their salaries.
These statutes, not to mention many other exceedingly exceptionable, compared one with another, will be found, not only to form a regular system, in which every part has great force, but also a pertinacious adherence to that system, for subjugating these colonies, that are not, and from local circumstances, cannot be represented in the house of Commons, to the uncontroulable and unlimited power of parliament, in violation of their undoubted rights and liberties, in contempt of their humble & repeated supplications.
This conduct must appear equally astonishing & unjustifiable, when it is considered how unprovoked it has been by any behaviour of these colonies. From their first settlement, their bitterest enemies never fixed on any of them a charge of disloyalty to their Sovereign, or disaffection to their Mother-Country. In the wars she has carried on, they have exerted themselves whenever required, in giving her assistance; and have rendered her services, which she has publickly acknowledged to be extremely important. Their fidelity, duty and usefulness during the last war, were frequently and affectionately confessed by his late Majesty and the present King.
The reproaches of those, who are most unfriendly to the freedom of America, are principally levelled against the province of Massachusetts-Bay; but with what little reason, will appear by the following declarations of a person, the truth of whose evidence, in their favour will not be questioned—Governor Bernard thus addresses the two Houses of Assembly—in his speech on the 24th of April 1762. "The unanimity and dispatch, with which you have complied with the requisitions of his Majesty, require my particular acknowledgment. And it gives me additional pleasure to observe, that you have therein acted under no other influence than a due sense of your duty, both as members of a general empire, and as the body of a particular province."
In another speech on the 27th of May, in the same year, he says,—"Whatever shall be the event of the war, it must be no small satisfaction to us, that this province hath contributed its full share in the support of it.--- Every thing that hath been required of it hath been complied with; and the execution of the powers committed to me, for raising the provincial troops hath been as full and as complete as the grant of them. Never before were regiments so easily levied, so well composed, and so early in the field as they have been this year; the common people seemed to be animated with the spirit of the general court, & to vie with them in their readiness to serve the King."
Such was the conduct of the people of Massachusetts-Bay, during the last war. As to their behaviour before that period, it ought not to have been forgot in Great-Britain, that not only on every occasion they had constantly and cheerfully complied with the frequent requisitions, but that chiefly by their vigorous efforts, Nova-Scotia was subdued in 1740, and Louisbourg in 1745.
Foreign quarrels being ended, and the domestic disturbances, that quickly succeeded on account of the stamp act, being quieted by its repeal, the assembly of Massachusetts-Bay transmitted an humble address of thanks to the King and divers noblemen, and soon after passed a bill for granting compensation to the sufferers in the disorder occasioned by that act.
These circumstances and the following extracts from Governor Bernard's letters in 1768 to the Earl of Shelburne, Secretary of state, clearly shew, with what grateful tenderness they strove to bury in oblivion the unhappy occasion of the late discords, and with what respectful reluctance they endeavoured to escape other subjects of future controversy.—
"The house, (says the Governor) from the time of opening the session to this day, has shewn a disposition to avoid all disputes with me; every thing having passed with as much good humour as I could desire, except only their continuing to act in addressing the King, remonstrating to the Secretary of state, and employing a separate agent. It is the importance of this innovation, without any wilfulness of my own, which induces me to make this remonstrance at a time when I have a fair prospect of having, in all other business, nothing but good to say of the proceedings of the House."
"They have acted in all things, even in their remonstrance with temper and moderation; they have avoided some subjects of dispute, and have laid a foundation for removing some causes of former altercation."
"I shall make such a prudent and proper use of this letter, as, I hope, will perfectly restore the peace & tranquility of this province, for which purpose considerable steps have been made by the house of representatives."
The vindication of the province of Massachusetts-Bay contained in these letters will have greater force, if it be considered, that they were written several months after the fresh alarm given to the colonies by the statutes passed in the preceding year.
In this place it seems proper to take notice of the insinuation in one of these statutes, that the interference of parliament was necessary to provide for "defraying the charge of the administration of justice, the support of civil government, and defending the King's dominions in America."
As to the two first articles of expence, every colony had made such provision, as by their respective assemblies, the best judges on such occasions, was thought expedient, and suitable to their several circumstances. Respecting the last, it is well known to all men the least acquainted with American affairs, that the colonies were established, and have generally defended themselves, without the least assistance from Great-Britain; and, that at the same time her taxing them by the statutes before mentioned, most of them were labouring under very heavy debts contracted in the last war. So far were they from sparing their money, when their Sovereign, constitutionally, asked their aids, that during the course of that war, parliament repeatedly made them compensations for the expences of those strenuous efforts, which, consulting their zeal rather than their strength, they had cheerfully incurred.
Severe as the acts of parliament before mentioned are, yet the conduct of administration has been equally injurious, and irritating to this devoted country.
Under pretence of governing them, so many new institutions, uniformly rigid and dangerous, have been introduced, as could only be expected from incensed masters, for collecting the tribute, or rather the plunder of conquered provinces.
By an order of the King, the authority of the Commander in chief, and under him of the Brigadiers general in time of peace, is rendered supreme, in all the civil governments in America; and thus an uncontroulable military power is vested in officers, not known to the constitution of these colonies.
A large body of troops and a considerable armament of ships of war, have been sent to assist in taking their money without their consent.
Expensive and oppressive offices have been
† January 22, 1768. ‡ Jan. 30, 1768. § Feb. 2, 1768.
multiplied, and the acts of corruption industriously practised to divide and destroy.
The judges of the admiralty and vice-admiralty courts are impowered to receive their salaries and fees from the effects to be condemned by themselves; the commissioners of the customs are impowered to break open and enter houses without the authority of any civil magistrate founded on legal information.
Judges of courts of common law have been made entirely dependant on the crown for their commissions and salaries.
To be continu'd.
BOSTON.
MASSACHUSETTENSIS continu'd. To the INHABITANTS of the Province of MASSACHUSETTS-BAY.
THEIR Motives were truly patriotic. Let us now attend to the Ways and Means by which the Whigs prevented these Exertions producing such Effects. Previous to this, a new and till lately unheard of, Mode of Opposition had been devised, said to be the Invention of a fertile Brain of one of our Party Agents, call'd a Committee of Correspondence. This is the foulest, subtlest & most venomous Serpent that ever issued from the Eggs of Sedition. These Committees generally consist of the highest Whigs, or at least there is some high Whigs upon them, that is the ruling Spirit of the whole. They are commonly appointed at thin Town-Meetings, — or if the Meetings happen to be full, the moderate Men seldom speak or act at all when this Sort of Business comes on. They have been by much too modest. Thus the Meeting is often prefaced with "At a full Town-Meeting," and the several Resolves headed with nem. con. with strict Truth, when in fact, but a small Proportion of the Town have had a hand in the Matter. — It is said that the Committee for the Town of Boston was appointed for a special Purpose, and that their Commissions long since expired. However that may be, these Committees when once established think themselves amenable to none, they assume a dictatorial Stile, and have an Opportunity under the apparent sanction of their several Towns, of clandestinely wreaking private Revenge on individuals, by traducing their Characters, and holding them up as Enemies to their Country wherever they go, as also of misrepresenting Facts & propagating Sedition through the Country. Thus a Man of Principle and Property, in travelling through the Country, would be insulted by Persons whose Faces he had never before seen, he would often feel the Smart without suspecting the hand that administered the Blow. These Committees, as they are not known in Law, and can derive no Authority from thence, lest they should not get their Share of Power, sometimes engross it all; they frequently erect themselves into a Tribunal, where the same Persons are at once Legislator, Accusers, Witnesses, Judges and Jurors, and the Mob Executioners. The Accused has no Day in Court, and the Execution of the Sentence is the first Notice he receives. This is the Channel through which Liberty Matters have been chiefly conducted the Summer and Fall past. This accounts for the same Distempers breaking out in different Parts of the Province at one and the same Time, which might be attributed to something supernatural, by those that were unacquainted with the secret Conductor of the Infection. It is chiefly owing to these Committees, that so many respectable Persons have been abused, and forced to sign Recantations and Resignations: That so many Persons, to avoid such reiterated Insults, as are more to be deprecated by a Man of Sentiment than Death itself, have been obliged to quit their Houses, Families and Business, and fly to the Army for Protection, that Husband has been separated from Wife, Father from Son, Brother from Brother, the sweet Intercourse of conjugal and natural Affection interrupted, and the unfortunate Refugee forced to abandon all the Comforts of domestic Life. My Countrymen I beg you to pause and reflect on this Conduct, have not these People that are thus insulted as good a Right to think & act for themselves in Matters of the last Importance as the Whigs? Are they not as closely connected with the In-

terest of their Country as the Whigs? Do not their former Lives and Conversations appear to have been regulated by principle, as much as those of the Whigs? You must answer, yes. Why then do you suffer them to be so cruelly treated for differing in Sentiment from you? Is it consistent with that Liberty you profess? Let us wave the Consideration of Right and Liberty, and see if this Conduct can be reconciled to good Policy. Do you expect to make Converts by it?
Persecution has the same Effect in Politics that it has in Religion, it confirms the Sectary. Do you wish to silence them that the Inhabitants of the Province may appear unanimous? The ill-treatment they receive for differing from you is undeniable Evidence that we are not unanimous. It may not be amiss to consider, that this is a changeable World, and Time's rolling Wheel may ere long bring them uppermost; in that Case I am sure you would not wish to have them fraught with Resentment. It is astonishing, my Friends, that those who are in pursuit of Liberty, should ever suffer arbitrary Power in such an hideous Form, & squalid Hue, to get a Footing among them. I appeal to your good Sense, I know you have it, and hope to penetrate to it, before I have finished my Publications, notwithstanding the thick Atmosphere that now envelopes it.— But to return from my Digression, the Committee of Correspondence represented the Destruction of the Tea in their own Way: They represented those that addressed Governor Hutchinson, as Persons of no Note or Property, as mean base Wretches, and seekers that had been sacrificing their Country in Adulation of him. Whole Nations have worshiped the rising, but if this be an Instance, it is the only one of People's worshiping the setting Sun. By this Means the humane and benevolent in various Parts of the Continent, were induced to advise us not to comply with the Terms for opening our Port, and engage to relieve us with their Charities, from the Distress that must otherwise fall upon the Poor. Their charitable Intentions ascend to Heaven, like Incense from the Altar, in sweet Memorial before the Throne of God; but their Donations came near proving fatal to the Province: It encouraged the Whigs to persevere in Injustice, and has been the Means of reducing many an honest Man into the Commission of a Crime that he did not suspect himself capable of being guilty of. What I have told you, is not the mere Suggestions of a Speculist; there are some Mistakes as to Numbers and there may be some as to Time & Place, partly owing to miscopying, and partly to my not always having had the Books and Papers necessary to greater Accuracy, at Hand; but the Relation of Facts is in Substance True, I had almost said as holy Writ. I do not ask you to take the Tracts of them from an anonymous Scribler in a News-Paper: The Evidence of most of them is within your Reach, examine for yourselves:—I promise that the Benefit you reap therefrom will abundantly pay you for the Trouble of the Research, you will find I have faithfully unriddled the whole Mystery of our Political iniquity. I do not address myself to Whigs or Tories, but to the whole People. I know you well. You are loyal at Heart, Friends to good Order, and do Violence to yourselves in harbouring one Moment, disrespectful Sentiments towards Great-Britain, the Land of our Forefathers' Nativity, the sacred Repository of their Bones; but you have been most insidiously induced to believe that Great-Britain is rapacious, cruel and vindictive, & envies us the Inheritance purchased by the Sweat and Blood of our Ancestors.— Could that thick Mist that hovers over the Land and involves it in more than Egyptian Darkness be but once dispelled, that you might see our Sovereign, the provident Father of all his People, & Great-Britain a nursing Mother to these Colonies as they really are, long live our gracious King, and Happiness to Britain, would resound from one End of the Province to the other. I have yet many Things to say, but have already trespassed on the Printer's Patience, perhaps the Readers, and promise to be shorter in my future Publications.
MASSACHUSETTENSIS.
An Answer to the above Massachusetts by Novanglus, will be begun in our next, and carried on together.
Garden Seeds.
A Fresh Assortment of GARDEN SEEDS, with the following GOODS to be Sold by
JOSEPH BASS,
At his SHOP in PORTSMOUTH, as cheap for CASH as can be bought in the Province, viz.
  Early golden Hot- True tennis ball Let-   spur Peas tice   Early charlton ditto Head Lettuce   Ormerods ditto Marble ditto   Large Marrowfats Round Spinnage   Dwarf ditto Prickley ditto   Spanish Morattoes Red Beet   Black eyed sugar Peas Green ditto   Crooked sugar ditto White ditto   Ramshorn ditto Upright Cellery   White Roundivals Solid ditto   Blue Union Peas White Mustard   Early Lisbon Peas Double Parsley   Large Windsor ditto Single ditto   Early white kidney Early Colliflower   ditto Early battersea Cab-   Early yellow bush dit. bage   Speckled ditto Early low Dutch dit.   White Spanish Onion Early Yorkshire ditto   Red Portugal ditto Early sugar-loaf ditto   Yellow Spanish ditto Large winter and red   Lemmon Carrot Cabbage   Orange ditto Green & yellow cuil'd   Purple ditto Savoys   Best swelling Parsnip Early prickley Cu-   Early Dutch Turnip cumber   Long French ditto Long green ditto   Turnip Radish Long Roman ditto   Scarlet ditto Sweet Marjoram   Crimson ditto Summer Savory   Black Spanish ditto 
ALSO 8, 9 & 10 qr. Bed Quilts; 8, 9 & 10 qr. Cotton Counterpanes; blue, red & purple Copper Plate Furniture; red, blue, green and yellow Furniture Check; crimson and green Harrateen; crimson, green & blue Chaney; 7 8 & 3 qr. English Bed Ticks; green, blue, and red Buckram; black figur'd Horse Hair for Chair Bottoms; crimson and white; scarlet and white; green & white; blue & white; yellow & white; all Crimson and all Green; Tossels & Cord for Curtains; handsome Chaney and print Curtains; all Sorts of Laces; Rings & Tapes for Curtains; Matrasses; Sea Beds and Rugs; Oznabrigs; crimson, green and blue Sleeve Silk; strip'd Swanskin; wide Persian; yard wide Mode; scarlet & green worsted Caps; letter'd Gartering; quality Bindings; large and small Barcelona Handkerchiefs; sewing Silk;—Threads; Crewells; Pins and Needles;—Looking Glasses; Girth-Webb; Brass Nails; 14 oz. Tacks; Shoe Nails; brass cloak Pins; Leather Casters; Seives and Seive Bottoms; Playing Cards; Snuff and Snuff Boxes; Pewter Dishes; Quarts, Pints, Basins and Potringers of all Sizes;—Coffee; Chocolate; Pepper; Allspice; Ginger; long and short Pipes; coarse Sheeps Wool;—Coppers; Logg and Red Wood;—An Assortment of Cream colour'd WARE.
Choice French INDIGO, &c. &c.
Likewise to be had at the above Place— Bed and Window Curtains; Squabs; Cushions; Sophas; Settees; easy Chairs; Feather Beds, —with all other Kinds of Upholstery WARE, made in the genteellest and neatest Manner, at the shortest Notice.
Just arrived from Connecticut, And to be Sold at the Long Wharf, on board the Sloop Sally, DAVID HAWLEY Master,
CHOICE good PORK, HOGS FAT, FLOWER, WHEAT, CORN, RYE, OATS, FLAX; all to be sold cheap for Cash, or the Rye to be exchanged Bushel for Bushel for Flax Seed.
Garden Seeds,
A general Assortment, lately imported, To be Sold by SAMUEL HILL At his Shop near the Assembly House, North End, Portsmouth. Likewise,
Painters Colours, Oyl, Gold Leaf, Paper Hangings, Looking Glasses and Coffin Furniture of all Sorts, cheap for Cash.
§ Chichester. §
WHEREAS the Proprietors of the Township of Chichester in the County of Rockingham, in the Province of New Hampshire, at several of their annual Meetings (hereafter mentioned) voted to raise certain Sums of Money to be assessed on each original Right in said Township. Viz. at their Meeting held March 8th 1769, 6/ on each original Right. At another held March 14 1770, 12/ on ditto. At another held March 13, 1771 24/ on ditto. And at another held March 10, 1773 12/ on ditto; and chose me the Subscriber Collector to collect the same; of which the Proprietors have been legally and frequently notified; Notwithstanding many are yet delinquent in whole or in Part. This is therefore to notify such delinquent Proprietors that so much of their Rights or Lots of Land will be exposed to public Sale at the House of Lieut. Jonathan Leavitt Innholder in Hampton, on Tuesday the 4th Day of April next at one of the Cocks in the Afternoon as will pay said Taxes with incidental Charges. The delinquent Original Proprietors Names are as follows with the Sums due on the several Lots, and undivided Lands.
N. B. The first Column is the original Proprietors Names, the 2d, the Sum due on the 1st Division.— the 3d on the 2d Division, the 4th on the 3d Division, and the 5th on the undivided Lands.
   1. d. 2. d. 3. d. 4. d. 5. d.     Colonel Atkinson 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6   Moses Braks 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6   Capt. Currier 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6   Thomas Cram 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6   Abraham Drake 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6   Joseph Dearborn 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6   George Frost 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6   Jonathan Fifeild 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6   John Frost, Esq; 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6   Jonathan Garland 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6   George Jeffrey 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6   Hezekiah Jennels 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6   Nathan Longfellow 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6   John Odlin 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6   Jotham Odiorne 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6   Christopher Page 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6   Matthias Plant 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6   John Prescott 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6   Jarvis Ring jun. 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6   John Robinson 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6   Shubel Sanborn 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6   Stephen Sanborn 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6   John Sanborn 13 6 16 6 13 6 13 6   Samuel Thing 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6   Jehro Tilton 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6   John Webster 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6   Daniel Weare 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6   Rev. Joseph Whipple 13 6 12 6 13 6 13 6   Thomas Webster 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6   John Wentworth 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6   Bradstreet Wiggins 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6   Ebenezer Wedge 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6   Richard Wibirt 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  
Samuel Jennels, Collector.
Rye February 23d, 1775.
N. B. The Collector will deduct to any Proprietors or Owners of Right of Lots what they have paid in Part, tho' no allowance could be conveniently made of the same in the above List.
§ Packerfield. §
WHEREAS the Proprietors of the Town of Packerfield in the County of Cheshire, and the Province of New Hampshire; at a Meeting of said Proprietors held by Adjournment, Tuesday the thirteenth Day of September, 1774, at the House of Mr. Breed Batchelder, Innholder in said Township, it was voted to raise two Pounds lawful Money on each Acre in the settling Rights in said Township, to defray Proprietors Charges; and the Assessors for the said Proprietors have given me an Assessment of that Sum, and proportioned as follows: Three Pounds eleven Shillings and two Pence on each settling Right; and seventeen Shillings and four Pence on each Hundred & four Acres Lot, and a Warrant under their Hand and Seal, to collect the same according to Law. These are therefore to notify the Owners of said Land to pay the said Taxes to me the Subscriber at my Dwelling House in said Packerfield, by the thirtieth Day of March next; and if Payment be not made accordingly, the Money will be levied by Sale of the Interest and Property of the delinquent Proprietors as the Law directs in such Cases.
ABIJAH BROWN Collector.
Packerfield January 25th 1775.
[ Sanborntown. ]
THIS is to give Notice to the Proprietors of Sanborntown 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 House in Epping, at or before the first Day of May next, otherwise I shall notify their Lands for public Sale as the Law directs in such Cases.
SETH FOGG Col.
Epping March 8th 1775.

PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 10.
By a Vessel arrived from St. Eustatia we are informed that two Vessels lately arrived at Dominico from Connecticut, having on board about 80 Sheep; the Inhabitants of Dominico were much offended with the Masters for their Perfidy in breaking through the Association of the Congress and insisted that the Sheep should be sold and the Proceeds inverted in Cocoa, transmitted to the Committee for receiving Donations for the Poor of the Town of Boston.
By the Master of a Vessel just arrived from St. Croix, we are informed that while he lay there a Vessel arrived from the Southward, having on board six Sheep contrary to the Resolves of the Congress held at Philadelphia. The worthy Danes filled with Resentment at their Treachery, seized on the Sheep and hung them up as Monuments of their Resentment against the Owners; and collected to the Amount of 400 Men and went in pursuit of the Master, who had fled to the Bushes; but by the Interposition of the Intendant he was screened from personal Punishment.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, Piscataqua, March 9. Inward-Entries from, Butler, St. Croix; Perkins, Dominica; Harmon, Virginia. Outward Bound for. Jackson, West-Indies; Clear'd Outwards for. Moore, Tappan, and Tappan for West-Indies.
The SHIP Exeter Galley,
Capt. Byrn, sails for LONDON, the first fair Wind; — a Bag for Letters is up at Captain Martin's Store.
A Few Cask of
Choice New Raisins
To be sold by JACOB SHEAFE, junr. Also, Malaga WINE per Cask, Lisbon FEATHERS per Bag, and Stone LIME per Hhd. cheap for Cash.
TO BE SOLD
By William Bell,
Lately from Scotland, now of Greenland, the following BOOKS, viz.
Flavel's Works, 8 Vol. Fisher's Catechism. Confession of Faith; Boston's four fold State; Boston on the Covenants; Owen on indwelling Sin; Owen on the Person of Christ. Call on God's Sovereignty; Watt's Psalms & Hymns; Hervey's Letters; Ambrose looking to Jesus; Gray's Work's; York's Sermons, 2 Vol. Rodrack Random, 2 Volumes. Josephus's Work's, 4 Vol. Col. Gardner's Life; Spectator, 8 Vol. Boston's Body of Divinity, 3 Vol. Fisher's young Man's Companion; Hervey's Dialogues; 2 Vol. Salmon's Geography; Pilgrim's Progress 3 Parts; — Pope's Essay on Man; Young on the last Day. Moors Sermons; Scot's Psalm Books; — Whole Duty of Man, 4 Vol. M'Ewen on the Types; Collections of Confessions of Faith; Boston's Sermons; large Bibles, Testaments, and small Bibles; Willison's Sacramental Discourses and Catechisms; Willison on the Sanctification of the Lord's Day; Afflicted Man's Companion; Balm of Gilead. Also, English and West-India GOODS.
A Quantity of VERY GOOD
New Ship-Bread,
New-York CRACKERS, and BUTTER-BREAD, To be sold by
NOAH PARKER,
ALL Persons who have DEEDS in their Possession from DANIEL PEIRCE, Esq; late of Portsmouth, deceas'd, Intestate, are hereby desir'd to cause the same to be Recorded in their proper Counties, that the Administrators of his Estate may know what Land the deceas'd in his Life-Time conveyed. — It will prevent much Trouble to the Administrators, and will more especially benefit the Persons themselves, because the Administrators may possibly sell some Part of that already conveyed, which will greatly incommode the present Owners.
Richard Wibird Penhallow
Has for Sale, at the Warehouse on Long-Wharfe, (lately occupied by Mr. Jacob Sheafe junr.) the following Articles, cheap for CASH only, viz.
RUSSIA-DECK, 24d. 30d. and 40d. Deck Nails, English and German Steel, Loaf-Sugar, Sheathing Nails, 4d. 10d. and 20d. dit. Sheet Lead. Frying-Pans, Pewter, Check Linens, Blanketts and Coverlids, Role Brimstone, Barr Iron, Sewing and Netting-Twine, Houseline and Marline, Burford Cod-Lines, Cod-Hooks, Tar-Brushes, Time-Glasses, together with many other Articles, all which were imported before the 1st Day of December.
Barnstead.
THE Proprietors of Barnstead, are hereby Notified, to meet at the House of Ezekiel G. Adams, Inn-holder in Newington, on Tuesday the 28th Day of March Instant, at one o'clock in the Afternoon, agreeable to Charter; viz. 1. To chuse a Moderator to govern said Meeting. 2. To chuse all Proprietors Officers for said Propriety this current Year 1775. — 3. To see if the Proprietors will vote to raise Money to settle the Damages and Cost recovered by the proprietors of Chichester against one Dedivah Bunker, a Settler under Barnstead. 4. To raise Money to carry on and defend an Action of Ejectment commenced by the proprietors of said Chichester against said Bunker. 5. To vote how said Money shall be raised either on each proprietors share or on the Acre. 6. To chuse a Collector to collect said Money, and vote or act on any other Matters or Things the proprietors may think necessary. Benjamin Adams Newington, Samuel Shackford } Select Men. March 8, 1775. John Gee Pickering }
Moultonborough.
WHEREAS the proprietors of the Township of Moultonborough, in the province of New Hampshire, have been lately Notified, to pay an Assessment of Ten pounds Tax on each of the proprietors Right or Lot of Land in said Township to me the Subscriber, and several of them being yet delinquent in whole or in part, — This is therefore to Notify such delinquent proprietors, that so much of their Right or Lots of Land will be exposed to Sale at a public Vendue, at the House of Lt. Jonathan Leavitt Innholder in Hampton on Monday the 10th Day of April next, at one of the Clock in the Afternoon, as will pay said Tax with incidental Charges.
The delinquent original Proprietors Names as follows with the Sums due on their several Lots.
N. B. The first Column is the original Proprietors Names; the second the Sums due on the 1st Division Lots; the Third on the 2d Division Lots, the 4th on the 3d Division Lots.     1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1.     John Taylor 2 10 2 10 5 0   Christopher Tappan, Esq; 2 10 2 10 5 0   Worthington Moulton 2 10 2 10 5 0   Simon Nudd 2 10 2 10 5 0   J. Ish Dearborn 2 10 2 10 5 0   Thomas Rand 2 10 2 10 5 0   Jonathan Shaw jun. 2 10 2 10 5 0   Joseph Garland 2 10 2 10 5 0   John Garland 2 10 2 10 5 0   Benjamin Masey 2 10 2 10 5 0   George Place 2 10 2 10 5 0   Samuel Robertson 2 10 2 10 5 0  
JONATHAN MOULTON, Collector
For Philadelphia,
The Sloop Molly, BENJAMIN PARTRIDGE Master, will sail in a few Days. For Freight or Passage, apply to said Master in Portsmouth.
Province of New Hampshire.
FIVE Months more being allowed by the Hon'ble JOHN GOFFE, Esq; Judge of Probate for the County of Hillsborough, to the Comm'rs on the Estate of John Stee, late of Hillsborough, deceas'd, represented Insolvent; This is to give Notice that we will attend that Business at the House of Timothy Kendall, Innholder in Litchfield, on the last Tuesday in April, May, and June next. James Underwood. Litchfield, March 9, 1774. Wm M'Queston.
TO be sold at public Vendue to the Highest Bidder, sundry fifty Acre Lots of good Land in Chichester, one in Epom, one in Esw, and 2 or 3 Acres of good Cedar Swamp in Greenland, a Yoke of young Cattle, and a good dwelling House, Barn, and Shop, standing on Hampton Road all to be sold at the House of the Widow Mary Clark, Innholder in Greenland, on Tuesday the 28th of March instant, at 2 o'Clock Afternoon. Robert Tufton Philbrook.
BY Licences of the Honorable Judge of Probate for the county of Rockingham, to Nicholas Gilman, Administrator on the Estate of John Gilman, late of Kingston, Yeoman, deceas'd, will be sold by PUBLIC VENDUE on Tuesday the 28th Day of March next, at one of the clock in the Afternoon, at the Dwelling House of Chase Smith, Innholder in Brentwood, Ten Acres of Land with a House and Barn thereon in said Brentwood, and about ninety Acres of Land in said Kingston, with the Buildings thereon, belonging to the said Deceas'd. Raymond, Feb. 28, 1775.
ALL Persons Indebted to, or that have Demands on the Estate of Daniel Johnson, junr. late of Hampshire, deceas'd, are desir'd to bring in their Accounts to Dolley Johnson, Executrix to said Johnson's Last Will and Testament, in order for settlement.
Province of New Hampshire
[ Fitzwilliam ]
WHEREAS the proprietors of the Township of Fitzwilliam, have been legally notified to pay sundry Grants of Money legally assessed on each proprietors Right or Lot of Land in said Town to me the Subscriber, and several of the Proprietors being yet delinquent in the whole or part; These are therefore to notify such proprietors that so much of each delinquent proprietors Lands will be exposed to sale at publick Vendue at the House of John Mellens Innholder in said Town, on the 17th day of May next, at 2 of the Clock in the Afternoon, to pay said Taxes with incidental Charges, the delinquent Lots being as follows with the Sums due.
   1. 1. d. 1. 1. d.     53 Acres in Lot No. 1 & 2 in 12 2 8 0   No. 11 in the 6th Range No. 23 in 10th 1 4 0   Lot No. 13 in 8th No. 10 in 12th 1 3 0   Lot No. 2 in 8th No. 16 in 11th 1 3 0   Lot No. 4 in 7th No. 14 in 5th 1 3 0   Lot No. 10 and 20 in 4th Range No. 2 in 1st 1 3 0   Half Lot No. 6 in 2d Range No. 11 in 6th 1 4 10   No. 6 in 21 1 4 0   No. 18 in 4th 1 3 0  
EDWARD KENDALL, Collector. Fitzwilliam, February 14th 1775.
WHEREAS the Proprietors of the Township of Leicester on Otter Creek (granted by the Governor of New Hampshire) at their Meeting in April last, granted a Tax of two Dollars and an Half, on each original Right, for letting a 2d Division in said Town.
These are to give Notice, that all those Persons, who do not pay said Tax to Mr. Isaac Stone, of Woodstock, in the County of Windham, & Colony of Connecticut, Collector, or to Capt. Elisha Child of said Woodstock, Treasurer, at or before the 28th Day of March next, their Rights will be exposed to sale, at the House of Landlord Rice, in Brookfield, in the County of Worcester, and Province of the Massachusetts Bay, on Tuesday the 28th Day of March next, at ten o'clock in the Morning according to Law.
Nathaniel Child Elisha Child Samuel McClellan } Committee.
Woodstock, February 7th, 1775. Boston January 10, 1775.
BY Licence of the Hon. Judge of Probate for the County of Rockingham, to Wyleman Clagett and Samuel Penhallow, Esqrs; Administrators on the Estate of Jotham Odiorne, late of Portsmouth, Mariner, deceas'd, will be sold by Public Vendue (if not sooner by private sale) on Monday the 13th of March next, 6 o'clock P. M. at the late Mansion House of the deceas'd, said Mansion House and Land thereto belonging. — At the same Time and Place, and by the same Authority, is to be sold by Peter Pearse, Administrator to the Estate of Jotham Odiorne, Mariner, deceas'd (Son of the above) two thirds of one eighth of a Right in Mason's Patents in Reversion; also two thirds of one eighth in the Mansion House of Jotham Odiorne, Esq; deceas'd, in Reversion. Portsmouth, Feb. 22d 1775.
NOTICE is hereby given to the Proprietors of Wakefield, (formerly East Town, that there is a Tax of Eighteen Shillings Lawful Money, voted to be raised on each original Proprietor's Right or share of Land in said Town, for the Year 1774, which Tax they are desir'd to pay to me at my Dwelling House in Rochester immediately, otherwise their Land will be advertised for Sale at the Law directed. BARNABAS PALMER Col.
WE the Subscribers being appointed Commissioners by the Hon. JOHN SHERBURNE, Esq; Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. to examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of Nathaniel Griffith, late of Portsmouth, Goldsmith, deceas'd, represented Insolvent, hereby give Notice, that we will attend upon that Business at the House of Mr. Samuel Bowles at Portsmouth, on the last Wednesday of this and the 5 following Months from 5 o'Clock till 8, in the Afternoon of said Days. Nathaniel Marshall, Samuel Bowles, March 3d, 1775.
WE the Subscribers being appointed by the Hon. JOHN SHERBURNE, Esq; Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. for the County of Rockingham, Commissioners to receive and examine the Claims of the Creditors to the Estate of Jonathan Colby of Sandown in said County, Joiner, deceas'd, represented Insolvent, and six Months, from the 24th of January, 1775 being allowed for that Service: This is to give Notice that we will attend that Business at the House of the Widow Mary Colby, in Sandown the last Tuesday of this instant Feb. from two to 6 o'Clock in the Afternoon, and the 1st Tuesday of the five following Months. Ichabod Shaw, Sandown, February 4th 1775. Ezekiel Eaton.