The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1773-01-22 00:00:00

Messrs Printers, If you have nothing of greater Consequence, please to insert the following. To the Public.
I WOULD immediately let you know, that I am a School-Master, who, by long Connection with the younger Part of my Species have contracted a great Regard for their Happiness, as for any other Part of Mankind; hence it is that the Public, which is the Parent of the Youth, is troubled with this Address.-----None will affirm that any Part of the Species stands in Need of greater Care and Attention, than Youths who are beginning to form proper Sounds, and learning, by external Circumstances, what Ideas to join with such and such Words as come within their Observations.
If then, in their early Days, they should connect wrong Ideas to any Words, it will be almost impossible, in any future Time to separate those that are wrong, and apply those that are true and real in their Stead. Hence, 'tis evident, should any who are instructed how to read, be led by the Situation of the Words, to connect Ideas to them that do not in Reality belong to them, they would unavoidably receive greater Detriment thereby, than the Benefit which may be thought to arise from their Reading. As it is thought absolutely necessary by all Authors of Spelling-Books, &c. to put down in exact alphabetical Order, a large Catalogue of unconnected Words of two, three, four, or five Syllables, where the Learner is led to connect Ideas that have no such Connections in Nature;----- I humbly conceive that it might be a practicable as well as useful Undertaking, to place them in such a Manner, as that they might contain something of Instruction, as well as barely to teach how they ought to be spelt. The Practicability of this, I shall here attempt to show in setting down a few Words, in Order to convey my Meaning, & leave the Execution of the Plan for some more able Undertaker. Nor have I transgressed any former Rules so far as to prevent the first Letters from being placed alphabetically, or even to join Words of different Syllables or Accents.
Thus, Doctor Gamester Lady Tory Gallantry Deformity Deadly Gallows Lap-Dog Traitor Gingerbread Desirable
Female Heiress Poet Virtue Modesty Matrimony Frailty Homage Purblind Vomit Mockery Melancholly
Popish Lawyer Riot Wedlock Abestimonous Popularity Feather Lucre Robber Wharfage Absurdity Prejudicial
For Want of attending to this, many promising Youths have been led into a Thousand Mistakes. Whence could arise that unaccountable Fondness for marrying at all Events, and as strange an Aversion to all unmarried People, unless from that Inadvertency of the worthy Mr. Dillworth, in placing on one Side of the Word unmarried , the Words unmannerly unfortunate , and on the other unmerciful unnatural . However, to do Justice to that Author, after the Word Sovereign he has placed the Word Spectacles , which for the good of America, I pray may still remain there. PEDAGOGUS.
LONDON, Extract from the Life of the illustrious and discreet Queen-Elizabeth, published for the perusal of the Macaronies.
NOTHING memorable in public affairs passed in England during this year (1574). The people being quiet and easy, began to sink into licentiousness and joppery.
In order to avoid excess in apparel, which had spread itself all over England, the Queen, by proclamation, commanded that every one should, within 14 days wear cloathes of such a fashion, which herself began to wear in her own court.
Camden is very particular in his account of the excess of apparel at that time in England; his words are thus: "In these days, a great excess of apparel spread itself all over England; and that habit of our country, though a peculiar vice incident to our apish nation, grew into such contempt, that men by new-fashioned garments, and too gaudy apparel, discovered a visible depravity of mind, jaunting up and down in their sleeves, glittering with gold and silver, either embroidered or laced. The Queen had observed, that for maintaining this excess a great quantity of money was carried yearly out of the land to buy silks and other foreign goods, to the impoverishing the common wealth; and others, that they might seem noble, not only wasted their patrimonies, but also run so far in debt, that of necessity they fell into the danger of the laws, and sought to raise troubles and commotions when they had wasted their own estates; although she might have proceeded against them by the laws of King Henry VIII. or Queen Mary,"
and thereby have exacted a great sum of money, yet she chose rather to deal by way of commandment. She commanded therefore by way of proclamation that every man should, within 14 days, conform his apparel to a fashion prescribed, lest they should provoke the severity of the laws; and she began herself in her own court."
NEW-YORK, January 4. Thursday last arrived here the Ship Sampson, Capt. Couper, in 40 Days from London, from the public Prints we have the following Advices, viz.
CONSTANTINOPLE, September 14. ALL the Turks who do not belong to this capital are either sent to the army or the places they belong to. All persons who were out of the work are employed on the public buildings, and in short every method is taking as if a revolution was apprehended.
Warshaw, Octo. 14. The Russians have delivered Lubawski, one of the King's assassins, to the tribunal of the marshal of the crown.
October, 15. Many of the nobles of great Poland, have caused to be printed and published a declaration, importing that since the ministry of the King of Poland, in Warshaw take no measures to end the troubles of the kingdom, they have resolved to constitute a permanent council, of which the Prince Augustus Sulowski, Palatine of Gnesna, is nominated President, with 14 Assistants. They have empowered this council to treat with foreign courts, declaring they can no longer depend on the government of Warshaw.
Tripoli, July 15. The grand Emir of the Druses has made an incursion, on some horde of mutualists, established near Gebail, in places dependant upon him, and suspected to be in league with their Countrymen. About 300 of their unfortunate people were massacred, and about forty families are retired to Tripoli, where they are protected.
Constantinople, Sept. 3. Advice has been just received here, that a large fleet of Russians, some of the ships apparently of very great force, has been seen in the black sea, off Trebisond; likewise that they had landed a great number of men between the above place and Amasia. This news has occasioned much consternation, and as every person conjectures that it is designed against the capital; therefore every necessary preparation is making to oppose their design. A body of 30,000 Janissaries and 8,000 Spahis are ordered to march immediately into Anatolia, to stop the march of the Russians before they reach Angari; orders also given to reinforce the fleet, which is to proceed up the black sea, with the utmost dispatch; and an express is sent up to the balsa of Kayfaria, commanding him to take the field with all the troops under their direction.
Vistula, Octo. 15. It is assured that the court of Berlin, in consequence of the representations that have been made respecting the new duties imposed upon all Ships that go in and out of the port of Dantzick, has found out a qualification, which, it is hoped, will be approved of by all the nations interested in the commerce of that city.
Berlin, Octo. 24. The King has published an edict, by which the trade of the sea salt is granted to a company of merchants exclusively; and the same edict prohibits the sending to foreign countries any of the products of the bishoprick of Ermeland.
LONDON. Canterbury, Sept. 5. On monday in the afternoon, a ball of fire fell upon Chatham hill, very near to a gentleman on horseback, and some company in a chaise; the horse with the rider fell instantly to the ground, the company in the chaise were extremely terrified, and when the ball burst, we are well assured, the explosion exceeded the report of a cannon. The gentleman whose horse fell with him received no hurt, but assures us, the rapidity of its motion, added to its vast effusion of light, totally deprived him of sight and sense, and by the sudden fall of the horse supposes he must also have experienced the same. The ball burst in a field close by the road, but left no appearance of its effects but by throwing up a small quantity of mould.
ALL PERSONS indebted to the Town of Portsmouth, are earnestly requested to pay their respective Ballances immediately to the Selectmen of said Town.
And all Persons that have any legal Demands on said Town, are desired to bring in their Claims to said Select Men in Order for Settlement. t b c t f
ALL Persons indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of Job Rowel, late of Goff's Town, Yeoman, deceased, are desired immediately to bring in their Accounts to Jonathan Rowel, the Executor, or to Lieut. John McCurdy of Dunbarton, in Order for Settlement. Goff's Town, Jan. 10th, 1772.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Rockingham, ss. [Conway.]
WHEREAS the Proprietors of CONWAY in the County of Rockingham in said Province, chose me the Subscriber Collector to collect a Tax of fifteen Shillings lawful Money on each original Right in said Conway, voted the 31st Day of August 1769. And whereas I have given proper Notice to said Proprietors in this Paper to pay the aforesaid Tax, and many of them have neglected to pay the same: This is therefore to notify those that are delinquent, that unless each of them pay the aforesaid Tax to me on or before the 23d Day of February next, so much of their Lands will be sold as will pay said Tax with incidental Charges, at the House of Andrew McMillan, Esq; in Concord, on Tuesday 23d of February next.
Table with 2 columns: Name, s. d. Lists names like George Abbot, Andrew Bunten, Eben Beerbank, etc. with their respective tax amounts.
[BOW]
Province of New Hampshire, Rockingham, ss.
WHEREAS the Proprietors of the Township of BOW at their meeting held at Stratham, in said County on the 29th Day of September, 1761, by Adjournment, voted that there should be a Tax of thirty Pounds old Tenor forthwith assessed and raised on each Proprietor's Right or Share of Land within said Township; And that twelve Pounds of said Tax should be laid on the forty Acres Lot belonging to each Right, and twelve Pounds thereof on the hundred Acre Lot belonging to each Right, and the remaining Six Pounds should be laid on the common Land belonging to each Right, making in the Whole thirty Pounds, O. T. to be raised on each Right, as aforesaid.
And the same hath been assessed, and the Assessment thereof with a Warrant to collect the same, hath been committed unto me, these are therefore to notify the said Proprietors, or such of them as are still delinquent, forthwith to pay said Tax to me at my Dwelling House in Newmarket, otherwise their Land will be advertised and sold for the same, according to Law. WALTER BRYANT, Col. Portsmouth, Jan. 16, 1773.
Cockermonth.
NOTICE is hereby given to the Proprietors of COCKERMOUTH, that a Tax of £3 3 0 is raised on each original Right, to defray the Expense of making the College Road, Bridges, &c. through said Town, which Tax is committed to me, and am directed to collect the same immediately, and sundry of the Proprietors are in Arrears for former Taxes; and unless all the said Taxes are paid to me, at or before the first Day of February next; their Lands will be advertised for Sale, in the New-Hampshire Gazette, as the LAW directs. Hollis, Jan. 4th, 1773. JOHN ATVILL.

REFLECTIONS ON NIGHT, Night is fair Virtue's immemorial Friend.
NIGHT THOUGHTS.
THE approach of Night naturally intimidates the heart of man; its solemn silence, and its awful darkness creates in the benighted travellers a sudden fear of danger when none is near, and even makes the hardy soldier start, and stand aghast, at a rustling of a leaf, who, but the day before, could face undaunted the cannon's roaring and the clash of arms. Silence and darkness, the friends of robbers and the beast of prey, are but the too convenient seasons for the approach of both the spiritual and temporal enemies of man; yea, such is the thoughts of danger in these dull, and dark, and dreary hours, that an infidel could almost pray; for, to use the words of a celebrated writer, "By night an atheist half believes a God."
This is the season when men is exposed to innumerable hazards, and unless protected from on high, liable to the greatest dangers. Sleep locks up his senses, and renders him incapable of the least resistance. The bloody murderer may stand beside his couch, ready to transfix the fatal dart. The devouring flames may be even bursting thro' his chamber-door, while, bound in sleep's infatuating chains, he lies as senseless of his danger as the child unborn. In these dreary hours such are the vagaries of the wisest brain, that the most social breast frequently puts on the most pitiless savage, or, in the words of Mr. Hervey, "Knows not the Father that begat him, and takes no notice of the friend that is as his own soul; the wife of his bosom may expire at his side, and he lies more unconcern'd than a barbarian." The bloody monster to compassion, may be glutting his cruelty in the murder of his children, and he, tho' in the same chamber, remain as untouched at their dismal fate as tho' he knew them not. This is the season when sense resigns her seat and office, and man becomes the captive of each silly dream, eagerly pursues the fleeting phantom of each inventive thought, and is made, perhaps, a monarch, tho' a beggar stretched on a bed of straw; or shudders at the sight of the dangers that surround him, tho' all the while he lies reclining on a soft and easy couch; or is starving with hunger, tho' surrounded with the greatest plenty. "Here it is that the intrepid warrior, who never declined the battle, is seen to fly with timidity before imaginary foes: it is here the abstemious stoic, who contemns all the pleasures in the field of sense, is found pursuing ideal pomp, and eagerly catching at the airy lures of inventive thought." Such are the mad delusions of the brain, while sleep maintains its dominion over the senses, and keeps our bodies locked within its chains: but too just a picture of these unhappy sons of folly, whose minds are overspread with darker shades, even than the dusky shades of night; and all the faculties of whose souls are fast bound in folly's chains, than ever the chains of sleep bound the limbs and senses of the man reposed within its arms.
Thus even dull night may become instructive, and teach us the most important truths even to embrace and spend in virtue's cause the present short lived day of life, that so we may be well prepared for that long and darksome night, the night of death which soon will spread its awful shades around us all; at which decisive period, if the short and fleeting day of this life has not been spent and laid out in pursuits after the celestial wisdom, little will all our other pursuits then stand us in stead. Such are some of the important truths the wise may learn from the dark and silent night: which, notwithstanding its darkness and silence, conveys to the attentive mind instruction truly celestial and divine. Thus even night itself becomes instructive, "Nor sport vain dreams in vain;" since their fleeting shadows, which instantly disappear when morning light awakes the man, present to our view a near resemblance of what this world calls happiness and joy, whose highest satisfactions but too nearly resemble the empty shadows of each transitory dream, and
whose fairest promises will at the last as much deceive its unhappy votaries, as ever the airy visions of the night did the man awaked from his slumber.
PHILADELPHIA, January 4.
By a gentleman arrived in Captain Cunningham from Antigua, we are informed, that a vessel arrived there in two days before he sailed, from St. Vincents, and gives the following account:—That on the 20th of November, in landing the troops, one lieutenant & 17 men were drowned; † and they were afraid they would be obliged to run one of the transports ashore to supply the troops with provisions, being very scarce and the surf running so high, the boats could not venture off—That a corporal and four men were left as a guard over some of the Charibs then prisoners; but they not keeping so good a look-out as they ought to have done, the Charibs murdered every one of them and joined their party again. The 6th regiment of foot was arrived at St. Vincents, from England
† belonging to the 70th regiment.
Boston, January 18.
We hear from Bridgewater that seven hundred and twenty-one persons have had the Measles in the North Parish in that town since the 20th of September last; more than six hundred of whom have had it since the 20th of November; Yet notwithstanding that distressing distemper raged so violently there, only four persons died of it in that parish, one of them a person upwards of 80 years of age, the others were children under five. The Measles are now very ripe in the other parishes in that town, and it is thought they will not be wholly clear of it before the spring.
Last Monday the Hon. Admiral Montagu set out from hence for Rhode-Island, and on Wednesday he arrived there, when the blue flag was hoisted on board the Mercury under the discharge of the cannon of that and the other ships of war lying there:—No salute was paid by the Colony Fort;—at which neglect the Admiral signified his dislike to the Governor who returned him a suitable answer.
The Court of Commissioners for enquiring into, and reporting to his Majesty's, "a full and true account of all the Circumstances relative to the attacking, plundering and burning the Schooner Gaspee," &c. still continue to set at Newport for the dispatch of business:—They have appointed James Brenton and James Clarke, Esqrs. to be their Secretaries, who, by order of the Commissioners, have published the following notification:
Colony of Rhode-Island, &c.
Newport Jan. 6. 1773.
THE Public are hereby informed, THAT the Honorable the Commissioners, appointed by a Commission under the great seal of Great-Britain, for enquiring into the circumstances of attacking, plundering and burning his Majesty's Schooner Gaspee, under the command of Lieut. Duddington, on the 10th of June last, and to the assembling, arming and leading on the persons who made the said attack, and to the concerting and preparing the same; are now convened, and continue to set every day, Sundays excepted, at the Colony-House in Newport: Wherefore all persons, who can give information to the said Commissioners, relative to the attacking, plundering & burning His Majesty's said Schooner, and to the assembling, arming & leading on the persons who made the said attack and to the concerting & preparing the same, are requested, forthwith, to give information thereof to said Commissioners at the above-mentioned place.
"A molatto fellow and a person from Smithfield, who pretend to give evidence concerning the Gaspee schooner, we hear are confined in irons on board one of the King's ships at Newport." (Prov. Gaz.)
S A L E M, January 19.
On Wednesday last the Rev Mr. THO'S BARNARD, jun. was ordained to the pastoral Office over the North Church, lately gathered in this Town.
FORGED Bills of Exchange,
WHEREAS some evil-minded person hath forged a Set of BILLS of Exchange, in my Name, drawn on Messieurs Lane, Son and Fraser, Merchants in London, bearing Date 1st January, 1773, for One Hundred and Fifty Pounds Sterling, which Bills were sold to Messrs Amorys, Taylor and Rogers, Merchants in Boston, I do hereby promise a handsome Reward to any Person that will give Information of the same, to be paid on Conviction thereof. A Person in this Government is strongly suspected, and if he will settle the same with me in ten Days from the Date hereof, he will have the greatest Lenity shewn him, otherwise he will be prosecuted to the utmost Rigour of the LAW, on his being convicted.— When the Bill was sold, he had on a blue Hussar Cloak and a large white Bushy Wig, being a thin young Man, rather tall, and pass'd by the Name of Jonathan Webster.
GEORGE BOYD.
PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 21.
PORTSMOUTH.
Messieurs FOWLES, Please to insert the following in your useful Gazette. THIS is to give public Information, that counterfeit Half-Johannes are now currently passing, finished by such masterly Hands as to deceive at first View, the nicest Eye: However upon a narrow Inspection the Deceit is easily detected, the Check of the Image being jetted out on one Side of them, The Opposite a little hallowed; dated Ann. 1759, 1768, and appear as new as tho' they were just coined—by cropping them with one known to be good Gold, on Brick, Stone, or Bodies of equal Solidity, and the Difference of Sound will prove them base Metal—Tis to be hoped, as the foregoing will sufficiently warn the Public, all necessary Caution will be used that such thoro' pac'd Villains may be brought to Justice, and punished according to their Deserts, viz. with crep'd Ears. Jan. 21st. 1773. REPUBLICAE AMICUS.
As it has been already advertised, that one of the Publishers of this Paper intends soon to leave the Province, the Customers are earnestly desired to bring or send what they think may be due, to the 1st of January, excepting those few that have lately entered their Names. Custom-House, Piscataqua, Jan. 21, 1773.
   Invaird-Entries NONE.     Cleared outwards FOR   Brig Charming Molly, Ebenezer Recker, West-Indies.   Sloop Mary, John Eastman, Ditto.   Ship Martha, William Parker, Ditto.   Ship Hill, Edmund Coffin, Ditto.   Ship loyal Briton, James Holmes, Granada.  
Province of New-Hampshire Rochingham ss.
[ New-Holdernefs ]
PURSUANT to the Petition of the proprietors or Owners of more than one sixteenth Part of the Town of New Holdernefs and agreeable to the Law of this province, in that Case made and provided.—These are to notify and warn the proprietors of said Town of New Holdernefs, to meet at the House of Mr. James Dwyer, Innholder, in Portsmouth, on Monday the 22d Day of February next, at three of the Clock, Afternoon. First to chuse a Moderator of said Meeting. 2. to raise Money to pay for renewing the Charter of said Town, and other contingent Charges, and if Need be to chuse Officers to assess and collect the same; also some proper person to receive said Charter. 3. To choose a Committee to demand and receive the Books and papers belonging to the Propriety, from the late Clerk, and deliver the same to the present Clerk of said propriety, or to prosecute any Action or Actions that may be needful in Behalf of said propriety.
HUNKING WENTWORTH, Jus. Pac. Portsmouth, Jan. 21, 1773.
William Knight,
PERUKE MAKER and HAIR DRESSER, from London, hereby informs the Public, that he has open'd SHOP near LIBERTY BRIDGE, where he will be ready to serve any Persons on reasonable Terms, who incline to employ him, and at the shortest Notice.
Wanted,
A Strong Healthy WOMAN with a good BREAST of MILK: Such a Person would hear of a Place by enquiring at the Printing Office
L O N D O N, October 22.
Yesterday the Lady of Captain O'Neal of Greenwich was brought to Bed of Twins, being the first Time of lying-in after a Marriage twenty-one Years.

ALL PERSONS having ACCOUNTS open with SUPPLY CLAP, are earnestly requested to settle the same with him immediately—Those to whom he is indebted, may receive their Pay, and where the Balance falls in said Clap's Favor (except it be Cash) a NOTE only will be required, payable as the Debt was contracted.
Province of New Hampshire, Rockingham, ss.
(New-Britain.)
WHEREAS sundry Sums of Money have been voted and assessed on each Proprietor's Right or Share of Land, in the Township of New Britain, so call'd, in the County and Province aforesaid, and a List of said Assessments committed to me to collect, of which legal Notice has been given of Time and place for paying said Assessments, yet sundry of said proprietors are delinquent in whole or in part in paying their respective proportions,
These are therefore to Notify said delinquent proprietors, that so much of their Lands in said Township, as will be sufficient to pay said Taxes with incidental Charges, will be sold at public Vendue, at the House of Capt. Caleb Sanborn, Innholder in Hampton Falls, on Monday the First Day of March next, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, unless payment be made to me at my Dwelling House in Hampton Falls before that Time.
Jan. 19, 1773. BENJAMIN LEAVITT, Collector.
A List of the original proprietors, and sums now due on their respective Rights, here follows, viz.
   l. s. d. l. s. d.     Edmund Brown 0 15 0 Nath. Longfellow 0 15 0   John Brown 0 15 0 Tobias Lakeman 0 15 0   Israel Bake 0 5 0 Eben. Lovering 0 15 0   Edward Brown 0 15 0 Jonathan Leavitt 0 12 0   Saml. Borthrick 0 15 0 David Lowel 0 15 0   Saml. Blake Jun. 0 15 0 Daniel Marston 0 15 0   Samuel Blake 0 15 0 Robert Miller 0 15 0   Nath. Batchelor 0 15 0 John Marston 0 15 0   Wil. B. Clough 0 15 0 Simon Marston 0 7 0   Daniel Cram 0 15 0 David Norton 0 12 0   John Chapman 0 10 0 Nath. Prescott 0 15 0   H. zekiah Carr 0 2 6 Nathan Row 0 7 6   Amos Dwinels 0 15 0 Joseph Rollings 0 5 0   John Ellis 0 2 6 Berj. Sweat Jr. 0 15 0   Anth. Emery Esq. 0 15 0 Daniel Sanborn 0 15 0   Saml. French Jr. 0 15 0 John Sanborn 0 15 0   Joseph French 0 10 0 Richard Smith 0 15 0   Joseph Gove 0 15 0 Jona. Sanborn 0 15 0   John Hoyt 0 10 0 Berj. Shaw 0 15 0   Nath. Healey, Esq. 0 15 0 Walter Williams 0 15 0   Arch. Lakeman 0 15 0 Daniel Weare 0 15 0   Bonja. Leavitt 0 2 6  
These Sums are in Lawful Money,
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Rockingham, ss.
§ New-Britain. §
WHEREAS sundry Sums of money have been voted and assessed on each Proprietor's Right or Share of Land in the Township of New-Britain, so call'd, in the County and Province aforesaid, and a List of said Assessments committed to me to collect, of which legal Notice has been given of Time and Place for paying said Assessment; Yet sundry of said Proprietors are delinquent in the Whole or Part, in paying their respective Proportions, These are therefore to notify said delinquent Proprietors, that so much of their Lands in said Township, as will be sufficient to pay said Taxes with incidental Charges, will be sold at public Vendue, at the House of Capt. Caleb Sanborn, Innholder in Hampton Falls, on Monday, the first Day of March next, at ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, unless Payment be made to me, at my Dwelling House in Kingston, before that Time. SAMUEL PRESCOTT, Col.
Jan. 19. 1773.
A List of the original Proprietors, and Sums due on their respective Rights here follows, viz,
   l. s. d. l. s. d.     Edmund Brown 0 6 0 Nath. Longfellow 0 6 0   John Brown 0 6 0 Tobias Lakeman 0 1 0   Israel Bake 0 2 0 Jonathan Leavitt 0 4 0   Edward Brown 0 2 0 David Lowel 0 6 0   Saml. Borthrick 0 4 0 Eben. Lovering 0 6 0   Saml. Blake Jun. 0 6 0 Robert Miller 0 6 0   Samuel Blake 0 6 0 John Marston 0 2 0   Nath. Batchelor 0 6 0 Simon Marston 0 2 0   Wil. B. Clough 1 1 0 Daniel Marston 1 4 0   Daniel Cram 0 6 0 David Norton 0 2 0   John Chipman 0 6 0 Nath. Prescott 0 6 0   H. zekiah Carr 0 9 0 Nathan Rowe 0 6 0   Amos Dwinels 0 6 0 Joseph Rawlins 12 9 0   John Ellis 0 10 0 Daniel Sanborn 0 4 0   Anth. Emery, Esq. 0 6 0 John Sanborn 0 6 0   Joseph French 0 4 0 Jona. Sanborn 0 6 0   John Hoyt 0 2 0 Berjamin Shaw 0 2 0   Nath. Healey, Esq. 0 1 0 Daniel Ware 1 1 0   Arch. Lakeman 0 6 0  
These Sums are in Lawful Money,
TO BE SOLD or LETT,
A FARM in Brentwood,
Containing about One Hundred Acres of Land, with good Buildings thereon, for further Particulars enquire of Philips White of South Hampton, or John Waite, who lives on the Premises— Said Philips White has good Land he would give to those who would settle on the same, in the Township of Warren, also in the Township of Wentworth, where are a Number of Families, some of them have been settled there several Years.
Province of New Hampshire.
* Cockermouth. *
WHEREAS Application is made to me, by more than the sixteenth Part of the Owners or Proprietors of the Town of Cockermouth, in the Province of New Hampshire, that a Meeting of said Proprietors may be appointed to be held, at the House of Samuel Cummings, Innholder in Hollis, in the County of Hillsborough, on Tuesday the 9th Day of February next, at one o'clock, P. M. to vote and act on the following Articles. 1. To chuse a Moderator to govern said Meeting—To make Choice of any Officer or Officers, Committee or Committees, to transact all necessary Business for said Proprietors. To see if the Proprietors will regulate and accept of the Accounts for making the College Road, and other Roads, Bridges, laying out Land, &c. in said Town.—To see if the Proprietors will agree to a new Survey of said Town.— To see if they will draw the remaining Lots that are laid out, and exchange or dispose of some of the Lots that shall be convenient and necessary.— To raise any Sum or Sums of Money that is necessary in Order to defray all the Proprietors Just Debts and Charges.— To agree on some Method for calling and holding Proprietors Meetings in future.
In Consequence of said Application, I do hereby notify said Proprietors to meet at Time and Place, and for the Purposes aforesaid.
JOSIAH BARILET Just. Pac.
Jan. 15th 1773.
[ Barrington ]
WHEREAS Application is made to me the Subscriber, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Rockingham, in the Province of New Hampshire, by the Owners of more than one sixteenth part of the common and undivided Land in the Township of BARRINGTON, in the County aforesaid, to warn and call a Meeting of the Forty-Two Settlers of said Barrington, to be held at the Dwelling House of Capt. Samuel Brewster, in said County, on Monday the Eighth Day of February next, to act and vote on the following particulars; viz. First, To chuse a Moderator for said Meeting; 2. To chuse a Settler's Clerk. 3. That whereas sundry Persons has transgressed by taking into possession some of the common and undivided Land belonging to the Forty-Two Settlers of said Town; therefore to see if they will chuse a Committee to prosecute & reject them out of their possession. 4 To see whether the settlers will vote that part of the Money already raised by the sale of part of their common Land, in the Hands of their former Committee, shall be drawn out by a Committee which they shall appoint when met, for to prosecute all those that have taken into possession any of said Land belonging to said Forty-Two settlers. 5. To chuse a Committee to do and perform any of the aforesaid Matters and Things as shall be agreed upon and voted at said Meeting.
Pursuant to which Application, I do hereby Notify and Warn the said settlers of Barrington, to meet at the Place and Day aforesaid, at One of the Clock in the Afternoon, to Act and vote on the Premises aforesaid. JOHN GAGE, Just. Pac.
Dover, Jan. 18, 1773.
* Lancaster *
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors of the Town of Lancaster, in the County of Rockingham, and Province of New Hampshire, that at a legal Meeting of the proprietors of said Town, held at the House of David Page, Esq; in said Lancaster, on the fourth Day of December last, an Assessment of seven Dollars was laid on each original Right or Share of Land in said Town, to build Mills, clear Roads, &c. and chose me the Subscriber Collector of said Assessment.—This is therefore to notify the proprietors aforesaid to pay the same to me at my Dwelling House in said Town, by the second Tuesday in March next, upon Failure thereof their several Rights will be advertised for Sale in the New-Hampshire Gazette as the Law directs.
EDWARD BUCKMAN, Collector.
Lancaster Jan. 16. 1773.
Blanks of all sorts, &c. sold at the Printing Office.
FROM THE NEW-LONDON GAZETTE, JAN. 8. 1773. To Mr. GREEN, and the other PRINTERS on the Continent. Please to insert the following in your next, from many of your constant Readers.
Audi utramque partem.
One Tale's good 'till another be told.
A LATE itinerant Preacher, on his transit through this town, has so much engrossed the attention of the public, that almost all the laity are yet swallowed up in the praise of Mr. MURRAY—Whilst the pulpit still thunders against him with grumbling animadversions; either the people are incapable of judging in such matters for themselves, or the p----- assume infallibility equal to that of the pope. For they have been remarkably attentive both to his public and private discourse; whilst on the other hand, a sullen obdurate slip'd every opportunity to be personally acquainted with the merits of the man. What an insufficient ground for censoring his expositions of sacred texts must second hand relations then be; The old adage tells us that "Hear say, is unfair play;" yet such is the only foundation for charging this preacher with heterodox and dangerous doctrine. I am very willing to pay all due deference and respect to the dignity of clerical judgment; at the same time altogether as averse to forego that of my own. Yet to avoid (if possible) the appearance of dogmatical sufficiency, I here present you with Mr. MURRAY's picture, as adumbrated by an ingenious and respectable friend; together with a poetical eulogium, addressed to him while at Norwich, by another hand. The first thus depicts him;
Mr. MURRAY, has the approbation of his most judicious hearers:—without the least motive to partiality in his favour, all the fountains of reason and persuasion, appear open to his discerning intellects. There is no resisting the force of his oratory, without opposing reason, and the sacred oracles of God. He has a marvellous facility and copiousness, in all his discourses yet disdains to stoop to the affected pedantry of words, for he dispises the flimsy and flashy loquacity of learned fools; his aim being only at clear and powerful expressions; such as inform the understanding, press upon the soul, and engage the affections with such absolute command, that the stupidity of inattention to what he says, is strongly mark'd in the "adder, at the voice of the charmer, charm he ever so wisely" surely he is animated with the Holy Spirit, and breaths celestial fire into the hearts of dead sinners, and, as the poet says, "He melts the obdurate in their frozen tombs."
The diction of his sermons is nervous, and I think the doctrine sound; whilst a vigorous pulse gives such a striking action to every allustration, as wraps up all the attention of his hearers—His description of divine glories is strong, and more illustriously seen, than thro' a glass darkly—and when set in contrast with the insufficiency of all terrestrial enjoyments, (in his way) they appear, with more wretched disparity, than toys and baubles of children do, to the sager pleasures of the adult. Blessed be God, the religious influences of his endeavours, are yet to be traced through this town, and its precincts;—O that it may continually improve! and give more abundant reason, affectionately to remember the name, and pray for the appearance again, and again of Mr. MURRAY.
TRIUMVIRATE.
* The Writer has not mentioned the Name of the Town. To Mr. JOHN MURRAY, Preacher of the Gospel, by one of his numerous Admirers.
MURRAY,
I love thee, for thy JESU's Sake, Thy fervent Zeal—Thy open, generous Make, Like him, who spake as never Man yet spake.
With lovely Arguments behold him press, E'en Publicans to love, admire and bless; Love infinite display'd to all the Race.
He deign'd to visit the Abodes of Sin, To sit, converse and eat with Men unclean; That he might break the rocky Heart within.
Thus like thy Master—earnestly intent— Thy Days, thy Nights, and ev'ry Moment's spent In kind Perswasions—Sinners to repent.
Thy Charity is such—thy Godlike Views Delights to spend, and publish Gospel News, The Darling Subject of thy heavenly Muse.
Yet, O remembre, Murray, thou art Dust; On human Rectitude thou dar'st not trust, For CHRIST is lost to them, who plead they're just.
Thy System too, as human Systems may Not all be true; for who will dare to say, Except the Pope, infallibly say—yea.
Go on my Friend, and Study most to know The Will of him, who kindly bid us go And preach Salvation, to this World below.
Deserto, Neminem.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE,
(Frances-Town)
WHEREAS a Number of the Inhabitants of Frances-town, in the County of Hillsborough, have presented a Petition to the General Assembly, setting forth, that there are no Lands left, or laid out by the original Proprietors of said Town, for the Encouragement of the first Gospel Minister, who shall settle among them; and therefore praying, That an Act may be passed, to lay a Tax of one penny half penny per Acre, more or less, as the General Assembly shall see fit, upon all the unseated Lots of Land in said Town, except every Lot, at present settled or possessed by an Inhabitant, and also all the Lots owned by the Masonian Propriety at present, formerly belonging to that part, known by the Name of the New Addition to New Boston, for the Settlement of their first Minister, & building a Meeting House.
These are therefore to give Notice, that a Hearing is granted on said Petition, on the third Day of the sitting of the General Assembly, after the first Day of March next, for any Person to shew Cause, why the Prayer thereof may not be granted.
GEORGE KING, D. Sec'y.

[Monadnock No. 5]
WHEREAS the Proprietors of Monadnock, No. 5, in the Province of New Hampshire, have been legally notified to pay sundry Assessments, levied on each Proprietor's Right or Lots to me the Subscriber, and a Number of the Proprietors or Owners of Lots are yet delinquent either in the Whole or Part. These are therefore to notify said delinquent Proprietors or Owners of Lots that there will be sold at public Vendue, on Thursday the fourth Day of February next at the House of Lieut. Benjamin Tucker, Innholder in said Township, at ten o'clock forenoon, so much of each delinquent's Right or Lots as shall be sufficient to pay the Sum that remains due, with all incidental Charges unless payment be made before the Time mentioned. The Number of Delinquent Lots are as follows with the Sums due on each Lot,
   No. l. s. d. No. l. s. d.     No. 12 in the 3d Range 0 10 6 No. 93 0 2 1   No. 2 in the 8th Range 0 16 1 No. 62 0 8 9   No. 10 in the 4th Range 0 4 6 No. 23 0 10 6   No. 3 in the 4th Range 0 2 1 No. 40 0 1 7   No. 5 in the 3d Range 0 2 1 No. 54 0 5 4   No. 10 in the 7th Range 0 15 0 No. 2 0 9 3   No. 2 in the 4th Range 0 19 2 No. 90 0 16 9   No. 3 in the 6th Range 0 1 0 No. 36 0 2 10   No. 2 in the 5th Range 0 2 1 No. 80 0 8 6   No. 12 in the 5th Range 0 10 11 No. 53 0 16 9   No. 13 in the 4th Range 0 8 2 No. 15 0 10 7   No. 8 in the 4th Range 0 18 11 No. 37 0 19 3   No. 7 in the 1st Range 0 10 8 No. 98 0 19 7   No. 4 in the 8th Range 0 5 3 No. 100 0 8 2   No. 9 in the 1st Range 0 19 3 No. 3 0 11 4   No. 13 in the 5th Range 0 16 3 No. 9 0 18 7   No. 3 in the 1st Range 0 10 5 No. 71 0 8 4   No. 12 in the 7th Range 0 6 2 No. 75 0 9 1   No. 3 in the 2d Range 0 2 1 No. 49 0 10 7   No. 1 in the 8th Range 1 0 9 No. 102 0 8 10   No. 5 in the 2d Range 0 8 4 No. 83 0 18 10   No. 13 in the 1st Range 0 2 0 No. 41 0 11 5   No. 1 in the 3d Range 0 19 10 No. 65 0 9 3   No. 9 in the 4th Range 0 6 3 No. 70 0 9 11   No. 3 in the 5th Range 0 8 5 No. 46 0 10 6   No. 4 in the 4th Range 0 2 1 No. 85 0 1 7   No. 6 in the 3d Range 0 2 1   No. 1 in the 5th Range 0 12 3   No. 1 in the 4th Range 1 2 0   No. 4 in the 6th Range 0 2 1   No. 2 in the 2d Range 0 10 5   No. 6 in the 2d Range 0 10 11   No. 5 in the 8th Range 0 1 7   No. 1 in the 2d Range 0 8 6   No. 13 in the 7th Range 0 7 0   No. 7 in the 2d Range 0 18 7   No. 9 in the 2d Range 0 19 3   No. 5 in the 6th Range 0 10 10   No. 6 in the 6th Range 0 9 3   No. 11 in the 4th Range 0 2 1   No. 9 in the 6th Range 0 19 1   No. 13 in the 3d Range 0 6 11   No. 12 in the 1st Range 0 15 9   No. 11 in the 2d Range 0 19 6   No. 13 in the 6th Range 0 2 1   No. 10 in the 2d Range 0 11 2   No. 12 in the 4th Range 0 10 6   No. 9 in the 3d Range 0 10 5   No. 8 in the 3d Range 0 8 9   No. 10 in the 5th Range 0 2 1  
JAMES BREWER, Collector. Monadnock No. 5 Dec 30, 1772. Wanted 12 good COWS, to put on a FARM: Enquire of the Printers.
Wentworth
Province of New Hampshire. WHEREAS the Proprietors of the Township of WENTWORTH, have been legally notified to pay sundry sums of Money, legally assessed on each Proprietors Right or Lots of Land in said Township, to me the subscriber, and several of the Proprietors being yet delinquent in the whole or part— These are therefore to Notify such Persons, that so much of each delinquent Proprietors Lands will be exposed to sale, at public Vendue, at the House of James French Innholder in Southampton, on Monday the 22d of February next, at one of the Clock Afternoon, to pay said Taxes with incidental Charges. The delinquent Proprietors Names are as follows, with the sums due.
   Jacob Hook, Esq; 2 8 Dier Hook 2 8   Jacob Stevens 2 8 Thomas True 2 8   Col. Atkinson 4 19 Jacob Currier 2 8   Joseph Greeley 4 19 Jonathan Page 2 8   Samuel Page jr. 2 8 Nathaniel Greeley 4 19   Ebenezer Page 2 8 Joseph Page 2 8   David Evans 4 19 Nathaniel Currier 2 8   Jonathan Evans 2 8 Col. Stevens 2 8   Jonathan Greeley Esq; 2 8 Ebenezer Stevens jr. 2 8   John Page 2 8 Thomas Martin 2 8   Theophilus Stevens 3 19 Abel Davis 4 19   Daniel Fogg 2 8 Jeremiah Fogg 2 8   Samuel Page 2 8 Lemuel Stevens 2 8   John Page Esq; 2 8    Salisbury, Jan. 5. 1773. JOSEPH PAGE, Coll.
William Pearne,
DESIREs all Persons that have accounts open with him, that they would send or bring them in to him as soon as possible; and all Persons that have Accounts open with the Estate of Mr. JOSEPH Buss, deceased, are desired to bring them in to the aforesaid William Pearne, that they may be settled. —The said PEARNE, has a good assortment of English Goods, which he will sell cheap for Cash, or Fish, or for Lumber of different kinds, which he will want to be delivered next Summer. Portsmouth, Jan'y. 5th, 1773.
TO BE SOLD, on easy Terms, Five Hundred Acres of good LAND in Wolfeborough, pleasantly situated on Winipiseokee Pond, one half of which is fence'd by Water, whereon is a good House, Barn and Corn House; a good Well within 2 Rod of the House, 35 Acres of clear'd Land, chiefly into Grass, seven Acres of which is sow'd with Rye, 25 Acres of fell'd Trees, most of which have been down 2 Years, 5 Acres of which is well into Pasturing; also, a young Orchard of upwards of a hundred App'e Trees.— For further Particulars enquire of John Flag, who lives on the Premises, or Gershon Flag at Portf.
LANDS in NEW-BOSTON
TO BE SOLD immediately,     1 Lot No. 121, Containing 150 Acres.   1 64, 150 Acres.   1 94, 150 Acres.   1 20, 100 Acres.   1 22, 50 Acres.    Jan. 3. Enquire of JOHN SPARHAWK.
TO BE SOLD A HOUSE of one Story high, with four Rooms on the Floor, two finished, with one Quarter of an Acre of Land, lying in Pepperhill-borough, now in the Occupation of Samuel Cutts, jr. very convenient for a Trader or Tradesman.— Enquire of Deacon Thomas Cutts of Kittery.
LATELY IMPORTED, and TO BE SOLD cheap for CASH, by JACOB SHEAFE, junr. At his STORE near the Long Wharf, a neat assortment of English GOODS, also, superfine and common Philadelphia FLOUR, Ship Bread, Bar Iron, Tyre ditto. Iron Shovels, Rum, Sugar, Tar, Turpentine, a few Quarter Cask of Lisbon, White, and Teneriffe WINES, &c.
TO BE SOLD BY William and Joseph Whipple, A Few Hogheads of choice Grenada RUM, Also a few Barrels of SUGAR.
Cash given for good Pot-Ash Salts, By SAMUEL FREEMAN of Falmouth, Cape Bay.
WHEREAS there has been great Neglect on the Part of the Owners of sundry Vessels in the Plantations in not complying with the Act of the 7th and 8th WILLIAM 3d. C. 22, and more particularly the 21st Sect. wherein it is enacted, "That no Ship's Name registered shall be afterwards changed without registering such Ship de novo , which is required to be done upon any Transfer of Property to another Port, and delivering up the former Certificate to be cancelled, and in Case there be any Alteration of Property in the same Port, by the Sale of one or more Shares in any Ship after registering thereof, such Sale shall always be acknowledged by Indorsement on the Certificate of the Register, before two Witnesses, in Order to prove that the entire Property in such Ship remains to some of the Subjects of Great-Britain, if any Dispute arises concerning the same."
AND WHEREAS all Vessels trading at or belonging to any Port in America, the Owners or Masters of which shall omit to comply with the Directions given in the said Act, will be liable to the same Prosecutions and Penalties as if such Vessels were owned entirely by Foreigners:
The Commissioners of his Majesty's Customs therefore give this Notice, that all Persons concerned may govern themselves accordingly.
By Order of the Commissioners, SAM'L MATHER, pr. Secretary. Custom-House, Boston, 15th December, 1772.
TO BE SOLD, A first Division Lot in the Town of Middletown, in the County of Strafford, containing 100 Acres of exceeding fine Land; 12 of which was Plow'd, Harrow'd, and Sow'd, last Fall, with Rye & Clover: The Conditions will be made vastly easy to any good Person who inclines to purchase and will go immediately on to live. Enquire of THOMAS MARTIN. Portsmouth, Jan. 5,
Stavers's Stage,
Now carries Passengers for One Dollar & Half. NOTICE is hereby given, that the Subscriber's STAGE, will set out on Tuesday Mornings, from his House in Portsmouth, at Eight o'Clock precisely, for Boston, and return on Saturdays with the Mail; and intends to oblige his old Customers and others at the low rate of One Dollar and a Half, from hence to Boston, and doubts not as he was the first Promoter of a Stage Coach in this Province, the Public will think he ought to have the Preference, and not countenance others in taking Passengers the beginning of the Week, as he has always been ready to serve them on Monday, as well as Tuesdays, if their Business required it; and accordingly expended a large sum of Money to accommodate them. JOHN STAVERS.
|| Sanbointown. ||
THIS is to give Notice to the Proprietors of SANBORNTOWN, that at their last Meeting they voted a Tax of four Dollars on each original Right or whole Share, therefore this is to desire said Proprietors to pay the above Tax to me the Subscriber at my Dwelling House in Epping, at or before the Ninth Day of February next, otherwise I shall notify their Lands for public Sale as the Law directs in such Cases. SETH FOGG Collector, Epping, January 5th 1773.
JUST IMPORTED FROM Philadelphia,
Choice new FLOUR, Bread, &c A few half Barrels of the best Superfine FLOUR, TO BE SOLD By GILLAM BUTLER, At his Store near Liberty Bridge.
ALL Persons Indebted to the said Butler, (tho' ever so small the Sum) would greatly oblige him, if they'd make immediate Payment.