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New-Hampshire Gazette.
[ Vol. I. ]
SATURDAY, September 28, 1776.
[ No. 19 ]
Cash for RAGS,
At the following Rates, viz. Two Pence L. M. pr pound, for white Cotton, Linnen, or Cotton & Linnen; One Penny, for white Canvass,—and— One Copper for mix'd colours,—will be given by the Publisher of this Paper.
P. S. It is requested of those who take any Satisfaction in exhibiting Saving Examples, encouraging Manu- factories, serving the Interest of their Country, or being served themselves with the News-Paper, that they would comply with the trifling, tho' necessary article of saving their R A G S.
Just come to hand, & to be sold at the Print- ing-office, and at the shop opposite Mr. William Appleton's Book-Store,—
The fall of British Tyranny, Or AMERICAN LIBERTY TRIUMPHANT,
Also An easy plan of Discipline for a Militia, By TIMOTHY PICKERING jun.
PHILADELPHIA. IN CONGRESS, Aug. 26, 1776.
WHEREAS in the course of the present war, some commission- ed and non-commissioned officer of the army and navy, as also private soldiers, marines and seamen, may lose a limb, or be otherwise so disabled, as to pre- vent their serving in the army or navy, or getting their livelihood, and may stand in need of relief;
Resolved, That every commissioned officer, non-commissioned officer, and private soldier, who shall lose a limb in any engagement, or be so disabled in the service of the United States of A- merica, as to render him incapable, af- terwards, of getting a livelihood, shall receive during his life, or the continu- ance of such disability, the one half of his monthly pay, from and after the time that his pay as an officer, or sol- dier ceases; to be paid by the commit- tee as hereafter mentioned.
That every commander of any ship of war, or armed vessel, commissioned officer, warrant officer, marine or sea- man, belonging to the United States of America, who shall lose a limb in any
engagement, in which no prize shall be taken, or be therein otherwise so disa- bled as to be rendered incapable of get- ting a livelihood; shall receive during his life, or the continuance of such dis- ability, the one half of his monthly pay, from and after the time that his pay as an officer, or marine, or seaman cea- ses, to be paid as hereafter mentioned.
But in case a prize shall be taken at the time such loss of limb, or other dis- ability shall happen, then such sum as he may receive out of the net profits of such prize, before a dividend is made of the same, agreeable to former orders of congress, shall be considered as part of his half pay, and computed accordingly.
That every commissioned officer, non-commissioned officer, and private soldier, in the army; and every com- mander, commission officer, warrant- officer, marine or seaman, of any of the ships of war or armed vessels, belong- ing to the United States of America, who shall be wounded in any engagement, so as to be rendered incapable of serving in the army or navy, though not totally disabled from getting a livelihood, shall receive such monthly sum towards his subsistence, as shall be judged adequate by the Assembly, or other Representa- tive Body of the state, where he be- longs or resides, upon application to them for that purpose, provided the same doth not exceed his half pay.
Provided, That no commission offi- cer, non commissioned officer, and pri- vate soldier in the army; commander, commission officer, warrant officer, ma- rine or seaman of any of the ships of war, or armed vessels, belonging to the United States of America, who shall be wounded or disabled as aforesaid, shall be intitled to his half pay or other al- lowance, unless he produce to the com- mittee, or officer appointed to receive the same in the state where he resides or belongs, or to the assembly or legi- slative body of such state, a certificate from the commanding officer who was in the same engagement in which he was so wounded, or, in case of his death, from some other officer of the same corps, and the surgeon that attended him, or a certificate from the comman-
der of the ship of war, or armed vessel engaged in the action in which any officer, marine, or seaman, received his wound, and from the surgeon who at- tended him, of the name of the person so wounded, his office, rank, depart- ment, regiment, company, ship of war or armed vessel to which he belonged, his office or rank therein, the nature of his wound, and in what action or en- gagement he received it.
That it be recommended to the seve- ral Assemblies or legislative Bodies of the United States of America, to appoint some person or persons in their respec- tive states, who shall receive and exa- mine all such certificates as may be pre- sented to them, and register the same in a book, and also what support is ad- judged by the assembly or legislative body of their state, to those whose case requires but a partial support, and also of the payment from time to time of e- very half pay and other allowance, and of the death of such disabled person, or ceasing of such allowance, and shall make a fair and regular report, of the same quarterly, to the secretary of Con- gress or board of war, where a separate record shall be kept of the same.
That it be recommended to the As- semblies or legislative Bodies, of the se- veral states, to cause payment to be made of all such half pay, or other al- lowances, as shall be adjudged due to the persons aforesaid, on account of the United States.
Provided, That all such officers and soldiers that may be entitled to the afore- said pension, and are found capable of doing guard or garrison duty, shall be formed in a corps of invalids, and subject to the said duty; and all officers marines, and seamen of the navy, who shall be entitled to the pension aforesaid, and shall be found capable of doing any du- ty on board the navy, or any department thereof, shall be liable to be so employ- ed. By order of congress,
JOHN HANCOCK, President.
In CONGRESS Aug. 30. Resolved, THAT the communication of intelligence with frequency and dispatch from one part to another of this extensive continent, is essentially requi-

site to its safety; that therefore there may be employed on the several Post roads, a rider for every 25 or 30 miles; whose business it shall be to proceed through his stage three times in every week, setting out immediately on receipt of the mail and travelling with the same by night and by day, without stopping until he shall have delivered it to the next rider; and that the Postmaster General be desired either by the use of way bills, or by such other means as he shall find most efficacious to prevent delays with riders, or to discover, where they happen, that such dilatory riders may be discharged.
And as it is requisite, that the deputy postmasters should attend with punctuality at their several Offices for the receipt and delivery of Letters,
Resolved, that it be recommended to the Assemblies and Conventions of these States, to consider how far it may be consistent with the policy & good of their respective States, to excuse such Deputy Post Masters from those public duties which may call 'em from attendance at their offices, and to proceed therein as to their wisdom shall seem best.
Extract from the minutes,
Cha. Thompson, Sec.
PORTSMOUTH.
In consequence of the foregoing Reso've, for "the more speedy and frequent communication of intelligence," the surveyor of the General Post Office is now on a Tour through the Northern States, in order to carry this necessary and important Business, into Execution.
On Thursday Morning last the Post on the new Establishment, set out from hence with the Southern Mails, and will hereafter perform his Stages regular three times in every Week. In a future Paper we shall mention the particular Time of Arrival and Departure.
The POST OFFICE is now kept by JEREMIAH LIBBEY, Esq; in Queen Street
On Thursday last arrived here the Prize-ship Royal Exchange , Lawrence Bowden late master, she was taken by the Continental ship Columbus , Abraham Whipple, Esq; commander, on the 29th ult. on her passage from Grenada to London, having on board a valuable cargo, consisting of two hundred and eighty four hogheads and 2 tierces of Sugar, fifty-five hogheads of Rum, 11 hhds Coffee, 2 bales Cotton, and some Madeira Wine. The Prize-master (Mr. Onely) informs of two other prizes being taken by the Columbus , just before this, on their passage to Europe from the West-Indies; and in his passage hither spoke with the Providence Brigantine belonging to the United States, who informed him of her taking two valuable prizes, and sent in to Providence.
The following Letter and Petition are taken from the Nova Scotia Gazette , of May 31.
I R E L A N D.
CORKE, May 31.
The following is a copy of a letter from the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Middleton to Sir John Conway Colthurst, Bart. To which is subjoined a copy of the Petition from the Protestant Inhabitants of this city, presented to his Majesty by his Lordship.
SIR,
MARLBOROUGH Street, May 10, 1776.
I HAVE this day had the honor of presenting to his Majesty the petition which I received from you by last Tuesday's post, at which time I also received a letter from you, for which I return you my sincere thanks.
I must take the liberty of troubling you to make my most grateful acknowledgements to those gentlemen who have done me the honor to look upon my parliamentary conduct in so flattering and favourable a light, as to have fixed upon me to present their Petition to his Majesty.
It gives me great pleasure to observe that the sentiments which they have there
expressed perfectly concur with my own; it gives me concern to think that their apprehensions are so well grounded. Be the success and consequences of what they will, I sincerely lament that the legislature of this country is willing to deny the blessing secured to us by the glorious revolution, to any of the members of this once flourishing and united empire.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
your most obliged humble servant,
MIDDLETON
To the KING's most Excellent Majesty The humble PETITION of the Freemen, Freeholders, Citizens, Merchants, Traders, and Protestant Inhabitants of the City of Cork.
WE your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Freemen, Freeholders, Citizens, Merchants, Traders, and Protestant Inhabitants of the city of Cork, beg leave to approach your Majesty with a state of our feelings on the present crisis of our foreign and domestic affairs, conscious that however dubious the Success, and whatever the EVENT, it is the privilege and duty of a loyal, manly and free people to conduct TRUTH to the foot of the THRONE, where her voice may be distinguished from those of CORRUPTION, INTEREST & ADULATION.
We think ourselves particularly called upon at this time, to declare our sentiments, lest your Majesty should be influenced by an ADDRESS now surreptitiously preparing here, purporting to be the act of this Corporation, and affecting to convey the real sense of this ANTIENT LOYAL and OPULENT CITY.
The present unnatural dispute with America, originally grounded on the most arbitrary claims of former Ministers, progressively sustained by the usurpations of succeeding administrations, & most impolitically carried on by the president, cannot but fill us with the most GLOOMY and ALARMING APPREHENSIONS.
In the pursuit of an inexpedient, unnecessary, & perhaps illegal power of taxation, over a bold numerous, experienced, free and distant people, we have seen our armies defeated, our fame tarnished, our AMERICAN TRADE totally destroyed, which formed the broadest basis of British wealth and prosperity; our W. India trade, dependant on AMERICA for supplies of provisions and lumber, mouldering into ruin, our NATIONAL HONOUR, lowering to the dust, by an introduction of foreign Mercenaries to fight our domestic quarrels, on the most inequitable and disadvantageous terms, and the glory of the BRITISH ARMS, for ever sullied by the newly adopted mode of WAR, which in the destruction of many unoffending maritime cities of AMERICA, displays a spirit of dark revenge and gloomy depredation, unprecedented in the annals of any enlightened age or polished nation.
Whatever may be the event of this expensive and dreadful contest, it must be alike fatal to the victor and the vanquished, nothing can remain to either but poverty, ruin and desolation.
As Members of your Majesty's widely extended dominions, we must share in this general mass of public calamity. As Members of this opulent and commercial city, and natives of this maritime and lately rising kingdom, we find ourselves more particularly interested.
Our Linnen Trade , the great support of the nation, is in imminent danger through want of its usual marts, and the extreme dearness of Flax seed, now no longer supplied from the colonies, but at a great expence scantily imported from the Northern parts of Europe.
The Linnen Trade which enabled us to carry on the export of provisions to our Southern provinces is almost entirely ruined.
Commerce is a mighty chain, in which the weakness of a single link destroys the union and strength of the whole. Thus have all the other parts of our commerce sensibly declined by their connection with those already enumerated. We cannot pass in silence the state of this now defenceless kingdom, deprived of almost all its stipulated force, and left an easy prey to the first invader; when we throw our eyes on the continent, and behold the prodigious power and warlike preparations of our most dangerous neighbours and usual enemies, we cannot but shudder at the humiliating comparison.
We thus Sir, have presumed to submit to your royal and benign consideration a small part of the grievances under which we labour; one of the great Axioms of our Law places an easy remedy in your Majesty's hands to be employed for the national interest without any injury to the prerogative, or any diminution of your Majesty's personal honour.
"The King can do no Wrong" is the great rule we allude to, which preserving the sovereign dignity from insults, consults the right of freedom without the danger of anarchy, and by transferring faults from the supreme Executive Power to those officially employed in Administration, determines a mode of responsibility, which has ever proved the surest safeguard of this often threatened constitution.
Under new Ministers, new measures may be adopted without inconsistency, and with the utmost attention to every just and lawful prerogative. The State may thus be, as it often has been, saved by the intelligent, the incorrupt, and the intrepid, from that destruction into which it is plunged, by the dastardly, the venal, and the ignorant.
The following was pick'd up in the entry of the Printing-office, which for its novelty (if no other reasons) merits a place:
Mr. Dearborn,
If you would wish to support the character of an unprejudiced impartial Printer, you will give the following a place in your useful paper, and oblige many of your readers.
WELL done Namora, you talk sense, you preach liberty, real genuine liberty, downright alamoide liberty by G-D. I must observe however, that I was at first a good deal alarmed on discovering your design of abolishing looks & nods, these dear conveyors of our secret meaning, but when I found you only meant significant ones, and that out of the abundance of your great goodness and impartiality you had confined it to tories, I was immediately reconcil'd to it and discovered by the help of certain political microscopic glasses, that it tended to the public good.
It is indeed no less true than alarming, that these damn'd tories have the impudence to meet, speak, eat and drink together as other men do; yea, they have the effrontery, in open violation of the laws both of God and man, to cast at each other as they pass, their significant looks and nods; intolerable! and still they go unnoticed by the committee; amazing! 'Tis a disgrace to the state to allow of such significant looks & nods, and if the legislative body of these states have not, in their great wisdom already provided a punishment adequate to the diabolical nature of so black a crime (which hardly admits of a doubt) I think the honorable committee of this town, if they desire that the trumpet of fame should sound their praises to after ages, cannot have a fairer opportunity of immortalizing their names, than by enacting laws against such treasonable and unheard of practices; which would at once discover their

patrotic zeal for their country, their wise and godlike penetration into the nature and cause of things, and their unerring knowledge of mankind, who carry on daily the most villainous conspiracies in no other language than looks and nods; O most shocking! what dreadful ills have not been done by nodding? I humbly think a significant look ought to be punished by a burning out of the optics, and a nod by severing off the offending bead from the unoffending body; this would be going justly and regularly to work; it would be removing causes, as the surest way to prevent effects.
And now Mr. Printer, in case you or any of your readers, should be so abandoned to to-ryism, or so full of that brutish feeling humanity, as to think the above hints towards enacting laws for the regulation of tories, are too severe, even for that infernal set of beings; or if either of you should be so unwise or unacquainted with the unbounded power of committees, as to imagine, that (though that same cumbersome feeling above mentioned, could be stifled) yet these laws are in their nature chimerical, wild, and not reducible to practice, and consequently that my worthy friend Namora (who to tell you the truth is no other than a double headed monster, bred behind a Spring hill counter) and myself are wicked designing devils, & foolish withall, I hereby certify & declare to all men, that tho' I may be a foolish devil, yet, I am neither a wicked or designing one, and that these two last epithets with all the detestable ideas attending them are only applied to my double headed friend; this being only a kind of explanatory supplement to his piece. I am What you will.
By a letter from Ticonderoga, dated at Mount Independence September 15, we are informed, that we have now twelve vessels and row galleys on Lake George, and three more will be compleatly fitted this week; they carry 75 men each.
The Boston Post not expected 'till this Afternoon.
PHILADELPHIA.
Extract of a letter from New York dated Sept. 1.
"Last Monday morning we went over to Long Island, and about midnight we were alarmed by the return of some of our scouting parties, who advised us that the Enemy were in motion and coming up the island with several field pieces. It was generally thought not to be the main body, but only a detachment, with a view to possess themselves of some advantageous heights. On which near 3000 men were ordered out, consisting chiefly of the Pennsylvania and Maryland troops, to attack them on their march. About sun rise we came up with a very large body of them.
The Delaware and Maryland battalions made one part. Col. Atlee, with his battalions a little before us had taken post in an orchard and behind a barn, and on the approach of the enemy he gave them a very severe fire, which he bravely kept up for a considerable time, until they were near surrounding him, when he retreated to the woods. The enemy then advanced to us, upon which Lord Sterling, who commanded, immediately drew us up in a line, and offered them battle in the true English taste. The British army then advanced within about three hundred yards of us, and began a very heavy fire from their cannon and mortars, for both the balls and shells flew very fast, now and then taking off a head. Our men stood it amazingly well, not even one of them shewed a disposition to shrink.
Our orders were not to fire until the enemy came within fifty yards of us, but when they perceived we stood their fire so coolly and resolutely, they declined coming any nearer, although treble our number. In this situation we stood from sunrise to twelve o'clock, the enemy firing upon us the chief part of the time, when the main body of their army, by a rout we never dreamed of, had entirely surrounded us and drove within the lines, or scattered in the woods, all our men, except the Delaware and Maryland battalions who were standing at bay with double their num-
ber. Thus situated, we were ordered to attempt a retreat, by fighting our way through the enemy, who had posted themselves, and nearly filled every field and road between us and our lines. We had not retreated a quarter of a mile before we were fired upon by an advanced part of the enemy, and those upon our rear were playing upon us with their artillery. Our men fought with more than Roman virtue, and I am convinced, would have stood until they were shot down to a man. We forced the advanced party, which first attacked us, to give way, through which opening we got a passage down to the side of a marsh, seldom before waded over which we passed, and then swam a narrow river; all the time exposed to the fire of the enemy. The companies commanded by Captains Ramsay and Scott were in the front, and sustained the first fire of the enemy, when hardly a man fell.
"The whole of the right wing of our battalion, thinking it impossible to march through the marsh, attempted to force their way thro' the woods, where they were almost to a man killed or taken. The Maryland battalion has lost two hundred and fifty nine men, amongst whom are twelve officers: Captains Veazy and Bowey, the first certainly killed; Lieuts. Butler, Sterrett, Dent, Courtey, Mule, Prawl; Ensigns, Coats and Fernandes; who of them are killed, or who prisoners, is yet uncertain. Many of the officers lost their swords and guns. We have since entirely abandoned Long Island, bringing off all our military stores.
"Generals Sullivan and Sterling are both prisoners. Cols. Atlee, Miles and Piper, are also taken. There are about a thousand men missing in all. We took a few prisoners. By a Lieutenant we took, we understand they had about 23,000 men on the island that morning. Most of our Generals were on a high hill in our lines, viewing us with glasses. When we began our retreat, they could see the enemy we had to pass through, though we could not. Many of them thought we would surrender in a body, without firing. When we began the attack, General Washington wrung his hands, and cried out Good God, what brave fellows I must this day lose! Major Guest commanded the Maryland battalion, the Col. and Lieut. Col. being both at York. Capt. Adams and Lucas were sick. The Major, Capt. Bamsay, and Lieut. Plunket, were foremost, and within 40 yards of the enemy's muzzles, when they were fired upon by the enemy, who were chiefly under cover of an orchard, save a few that shewed themselves and pretended to give up, clubbing their firelocks until we came within that distance, when they immediately presented and blazed in our faces; they instantly overshot us, & killed some men away behind in the rear. I had the satisfaction of dropping one of them the first fire I made. I was so near I could not miss. I discharged my rifle 7 times that day as deliberately as I ever did at a mark, & with as little perturbation."
HARTFORD, Sept. 23.
By the best accounts we are able to collect from head quarters, we learn, that about 10 o'clock on Sunday the 15th instant, a large party of the ministerial army landed between Turtle Bay and Curle's Hook, near New York, under a heavy fire from their shipping, at which time the remaining part of our army, in New York, evacuated the town, and marched up on the west side of the island, and joined the main body, about 9 miles above the city, having previously carried out the greatest part of their cannon & baggage.
That on Monday a party from the enemy attacked our men, when a battle ensued, and continued about two hours, when the enemy gave way, and were pursued by our party about two miles. In this action the brave and intrepid Col. Knowlton, of this State was killed, and it is said Col. Seldon of Lyme is among the slain. The loss the enemy sustained is said to have been very considerable. Our army is now between the 9 and 10 mile stones, where they are strongly fortified, & intrenched; the enemy's lines are about a mile and half below them.
Were obliged to omit a few articles, which will be in our next.
WATERTOWN, Sept. 23.
The New York Post informs, that on Monday last about 5000 of the enemy landed about 7 or 8 miles above that city, when a body of our troops attacked them, killed about 500, took a number prisoners, 4 field pieces, two standards, and a number of small arms. Our loss in this affair it is said is about 100 killed.
The same day 2 of the enemy's frigates, in attempting to get up the North river, were burnt by our people.
A letter from New York mentions, that when the Tories on Long Island went to congratulate General How, on his success in driving the Rebels from thence, he replied, "that he tho' they ought rather to condole with him on the loss of eighteen hundred brave men and three Generals."
BOSTON, Sept. 26.
Last Monday was sent into this harbour by the Eagle, Capt. Paine a ship of 160 tons, from Grenada bound for London, having on board 150 puncheons rum, 109 hhds sugar, some cotton, &c.
A letter from Providence, of the 23d inst, says "The Columbus vessel of war, has sent a prize brig into Newport, loaded with lumber, bound for Europe."
Yesterday morning a sloop laden with dry fish, was carried into Salem by Capt. Waters, in the Schooner Dolphin, mounting only six swivels.
NEWBURY PORT Sept. 27.
Last Friday was brought in here by the Washington Privateer, a Brig bound to the West-Indies, to fetch soldiers for the enemy; she had on board a quantity of Provisions, and a few pieces of cannon.
Yesterday was brought into this harbour, taken by a privateer belonging to Salem, a ship from Grenada, bound to London, having on board 290 hogheads of sugar, 40 of rum, and 2 of Coffee.
We also hear that a Schooner of about 90 tons, laden with salt, linnen, and household furniture, was carried into Ipswich, about 2 days ago.
The Woman who took a Piece of black Taffety Ribbon off the counter, in a shop in Queen Street, between 12 and 1 o'clock at noon, on Friday the 20th instant, is hereby informed, the proper owner is not at all disposed to give it her; therefore, would advise her to return or pay for it, without further notice, or expect a visit from some one more inquisitive than polite.
State of New-Hampshire, Rockingham, ss.
A Libel being filed before me, against the ship named the Royal Exchange, burthen about one hundred and fifty tons, her cargo and appurtenances commanded by Lawrence Bowden; which vessel is said to have been the property of some inhabitant or inhabitants of Great Britain, and taken and brought into the county of Rockingham, This Notice is given, agreeable to the Laws of said State, that the Maritime Court erected to try and condemn all vessels found in the sea coasts of America, and brought into the county of Rockingham, will be held at the court house in Portsmouth, on Thursday the 17th day of October next, at 10 o'clock before noon, to try the justice of said capture, that all persons concerned may appear and shew cause (if any they have) why said vessel, her cargo and appurtenances, should not be condemned.
J. BRACKETT,
Judge of said Court.
Portsmouth, Sept. 26, 1776.
Rockingham ss. Exeter Sept. 6. 1776.
THE Superior Court of Judicature, is adjourned to the third Tuesday in November next, then to meet at this place, when all business heretofore pending may be entered.
GEO. KING, Clerk.
By order of Court.
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POET'S CORNER.
Mr. Dearborn,
In looking among some old papers the following Parody made its appearance—It was wrote in Sir Edmund Andros's time, and will answer as a pattern for modelling a Creed for some of our modern double-fac'd Gentry. If worth a place in Poet's Corner, you are at liberty to insert it.
I Love with all my heart Episcopacies cause To take New England's Is quite against God's part For righteous to the cause, To try for such a thing Own New-England's laws Will England's ruin bring. My conscience gives consent T'be on th'Bishop's side To be of that intent I ever have deny'd. This is my mind and heart, Of this opinion I Tho' few will take my part, Intend to live and die,
L O N D O N. April 18th,
A correspondent informs us that to morrow, the 19th, being SAINT YANKEY's day (as tutelary Saint of North America) and also anniversary of the famous battle of Lexington! the same will be most honorably observed by all the true and loyal FRIENDS TO GOVERNMENT from that country. There will be a grand procession from the Crown and Anchor, the place of rendezvous in the Strand, to St. Dunstan's, where a Sermon suitable to the occasion will be preached by the Rev. Mr. CORIOLANUS, from New-York. The procession, first being joined by the Reverend Band of Martyrs (from their place of meeting in St. Paul's church yard) will move a little before eleven o'clock in the following order.
Governor HUTCHINSON, in his speckled velvet, as a representative of SAINT YANKEY, with Machiavel's works richly gilt and lettered, in his right hand, and supported by Governor BERNARD and Governor GAGE both of them in armour.
The CORD and the FEATHER on crimson cushions, carried by their two Secretaries. The Mandamus Counsellors in their best apparel, two and two.
The Admiralty judges in their party-coloured robes, two and two.
The Fugitive Clergy in their canonicas, two and two.
The American Commissioners, of the Revenue with scarfs and Cypress leaves in their caps, two and two. Their Commission and Seal of Office on a black cushion, carried by their Secretary.
The fugitive Colonels of the militia, in yellow, with wooden swords or scils, two and two.
The under Officers of the American revenue in Harlequin dresses, two and two.
The author of the Calm Address, Taxation no Tyranny, the Plain Question, and other writers in favour of American taxation, two and two.
Such North American merchants as, at the time they publicly went up to the throne with a petition in favour of the Americans, were privately soliciting ministry to indemnify any loss they might sustain by sending over cargoes of goods, in order to defeat the non importation agreement, two and two.
Messrs Knox, Mauduit, and other agents for the friends of government in North America, two and two.
Governor Pownal, with the best map that is extant of that country in one hand and a typographical description of it (especially of his own province) in the other.
The many respectable gentlemen who from time to time have been tarred and feathered for their loyalty and attachment to the constitution, to appear in that dress, two and two.
All those prudent knowing ones, who by refinement on duplicity, have in some measure persuaded the Colonists (say rebels) to think them their friends, but are now lately come over to give private information, and to avail themselves of something beneficial from the general confusion, to appear in their party-coloured dominos with black crapes over their faces, two and two. The procession will be preceded by the Doctor of Music from
Rhode Island, with his newly raised band of Highland bagpipers; and the whole to move upon the quick step, to the tune of YANKIE DOODLE. After the sermon is over the procession will return in the same order to the place from whence they came; where an elegant entertainment will be ready at four o'clock, and the ceremony, it is expected, will conclude with great festivity in the evening.
N. B. The nobility and others who honour the procession with their attendance, are requested to give orders to their coachmen not to stop up the passage in the narrow part of the Strand.
A TAVERN
JUST opened by WILLIAM BREWSTER, at the sign of General Washington, a few rods back of the state-house in Portsmouth; where Gentlemen and Ladies may be accommodated with genteel Lodgings, a good table, and the best Liquors the times afford; also good stabling for horses, and constant attendance, &c. &c. &c.
N. B. Said Brewster has for many years kept a house of Entertainment for the members of the Hon. General-Court, and other Gentlemen of distinction, and now hopes to merit the approbation of all good customers. Portsmouth Sept. 26, 1776. 9-1
EDWARD EMERSON, earnestly desires all those who are indebted to him, to make immediate payment, that he may be enabled to fulfil his engagements with his Creditors. As he has lately lost great part of his interest by our unnatural enemies, hopes his debtors will cheerfully comply with his request, otherwise they must expect their notes and accounts will be put in suit. Said Emerson has to sell the bulk of a new double deck'd BRIGANTINE—and at his shop opposite the Town-House in York, a small assortment of English and West-India GOODS, which he is determined to sell as cheap as the times will admit. York, Sept. 26, 1776. 9-1
Public Auction.
TO be sold at public Auction, on Tuesday the 8th. day of October next, at the wharfe of Mess. Daniel & Samuel Sherburne, 10 o'clock forenoon, the prize-ship Nelly Frigate; burthen about 310 tons (with her appurtenances,) being well found, and has near a double suit of sails, good cables and towlines, with five anchors. Also the Cargo of said ship, consisting of 120,000 feet Mahogany, (from the Bay Honduras) and about forty tons of unchipt and chipt Logwood, two double fortify'd four pounders & four double fortify'd two pounders. The said ship and cargo having been decreed forfeited to the United Colonies and captors, by the court maritime for the State of New-Hampshire.
JOSHUA WENTWORTH, Agent. Portsmouth Sept. 14, 1776. 17-19
Two Dollars Reward.
RAN away from me the subscriber, the 26th of Aug. last, a Negro man named Cato, about 25 years of age, 5 feet high, speaks good English; carried with him a light coloured fustian coat, grey homespun breeches, striped woolen shirts, &c. Whoever takes up said negro, and conveys him to me, shall have two dollars reward, and all necessary charges paid by
WILLIAM HALEY.
Kittery Sept. 13, 1776. 7-19
TO BE SOLD,
GOOD Brown SUGAR, Pomatum, &c. by Moses Safford, at his House near the County House in York—Cash given for good live brown human HAIR, by said Safford. 18-20
Thomas Martin.
Has for Sale at his Shop on the Parade, a small quantity of English Goods, amongst which are some linnen handkerchiefs, mullin ditto—blue flower'd fustian—farsnet & persians—velvet caps,—carpeting—fine lawn, Room papers, &c. &c.
A small parcel of Hard Ware—7 by 5 and 6 by 8 window glass,—jappand waiters, pound beads, Frying Pans, &c. &c.
Rum,—Sugar,—Molasses,—Raisins,—Cinnamon,—Cloves,—Mace,—Mustard,—Snuff,—Almonds,—Pepper,—Flour and Redwood—Madder; Fustick—Whalebone—Exceeding good Porter by the barrel or dozen—White Lead—Spanish Brown, dry and ground in Oil,—Spanish Yellow—Umber, &c. He has also for sale,—
A variety of near-sighted GLASSES: 8-0
NOTICE is hereby given, that on Thursday the 3d day of October next, at three o'clock in the afternoon, at the dwelling house of Mr. Robert Calef in Chester, in the county of Rockingham, will be sold at public VENDUE, by James Calef, administrator of the estate of James Calef, late of Haverhill, in the county of Essex, and colony of Massachusetts Bay, deceas'd, Forty Acres of Land, laying in said Chester, being part of the real estate of said deceas'd, in order to pay the demands on his estate, pursuant to a licence from the Judge of the probate of wills, &c. for said county of Rockingham.—Conditions of Sale will be made known at the time & place abovemention'd.
James Calef, Administrator: Sept. 16, 1776. 18-20
Five Dollars Reward.
DESERTED from on board the Ship of War Raleigh, commanded by Thomas Thompson Esq; Edward Thorp, an Englishman five feet six inches high, dark complexion, has a cast with one eye—William M'Daniel, an Englishman, five feet eleven inches high, dark complexion,—And Michael Brown an American, five feet eleven inches high, dark complexion,—Benjamin Gerrish, five feet eight inches high, dark complexion,—Joseph Howard, five feet 4 inches high, brown complexion—John Allen, five feet nine and three quarter inches high, dark complexion—Whoever will apprehend said deserters, and return them on board said ship Raleigh, or secure them in any of the colony gaols shall receive FIVE DOLLARS REWARD for each, and necessary Charges allowed.
PETER SHORES.
Portsmouth Sept. 18, 1776. 8-0
Two Dollars Reward.
STOLEN out of the house of the subscriber, the 31st of August last, a silver CAN, marked with the letters S E, the makers name Porwine, if the same should be offered for sale, it is hereby desired that it may be stop'd, that the thief may be detected and brought to justice, and whoever shall discover said thief, shall receive a reward of TWO DOLLARS and all necessary charges paid by
EBENEZER SAYER.
Wells Sept. 6, 1776. 17-19
ALL Persons indebted to or that have any demands on the Estate of Lieut. Jacob Sethery late of Hampton-Falls Saddler deceased, are desired to bring in their accounts to the Widow Sarah Sethery, and Abner Sanborn jun. administrators to said estate, in order for a settlement.
Hampton-Falls Sept. 4, 1776. 17-19