The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1773-06-11 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the FRESHEST ADVICES
Friday June 11, 1773.
GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
NO. 869 { Weeks since this Paper } was first Publish'd.
PORTSMOUTH.
Extract of a private LETTER from London Dated the 23d of April, 1773, by the Dartmouth, Capt. Hall, to a GENTLEMAN in this Town.
IT is almost universally believed, that we are upon the EVE of a WAR with FRANCE;— Annexed is a LIST of the MEN or WAR now actually put into Commission; and it is said, there were this Day sixteen more ordered.—It is conjectur'd the TOULON FLEET will assist the TURKS against the RUSSIANS; and our Fleet is intended as a Check upon their Proceedings in Behalf of Russia.—
   Guns. Guns. Guns.     Ocean 90 Lenox 74 Torbay 74   Barfleur 90 Royal Oak 74 Boyne 70   Marlborough 74 Terrible 74 St. Albans 64   Resolution 74 Albion 74 Worcester 64   Egmont 74 Dublin 74 Somerset 64  
Sixteen Sail of the Line.
LORD CAMDEN'S SPEECH To the PUBLISHER of the NEW-HAMPSHIRE-GAZETTE.
As very few of your Readers, I believe, have had the Pleasure of perusing the following SPEECH of Lord CAMDEN, in the HOUSE OF LORDS 1765; on the Declaratory BILL of the SO- VEREIGNTY of GREAT-BRITAIN over her COLONIES, I presume it will be as agreeable an Entertainment to them as an Advertisement who has the latest Importation and best Assortment of English Goods to dispose of.
My LORDS, WHEN I spoke last on this Subject, I thought I had de- livered my Sentiments so fully, and Supported them with such Reasons, and such Authorities, that I apprehended I should be under no Necessity of troubling your Lordships again. But I am now compelled to rise up, and to beg your further In- dulgence: I find that I have been very Injudiciously Treated; have been considered as the Broacher of new-fangled Doctrines, contrary to the Laws of this Kingdom, and subversive of the Rights of Parliament. My Lords, this is a heavy Charge, but more so when made against one stationed as I am in both Capa- cities, as Peer and Judge, the Defender of the Law & the Con- stitution. When I spoke last, I was indeed replied to, but not answered. In the Intermediate time, many things have been said. As I was not Present, I must now beg leave to Answer such as have come to my Knowledge. As the affair is of the utmost Importance, and in its Consequences, may involve the fate of Kingdoms, I took the strictest review of my Arguments; I re-examined all my Authorities; fully determined if I found myself mistaken, publickly to own my Mistake, and give up my Opinion: but my Researches have more and more convinced me that the British Parliament have no right to Tax the Americans. I shall not therefore consider the declaratory Bill now lying on your Table; for to what Purpose, but loss of Time, to consider the particulars of a Bill, the very Existence of which is illegal, absolutely illegal, contrary to the fundamental Laws of Nature, contrary to the fundamental Laws of this con- stitution? a constitution whose foundation and center is Liberty, which sends Liberty to every Subject that is or may happen to be within any part of its ample Circumference. Not, my Lords, is the Doctrine new, 'tis as old as the Constitution, it grew up with it, indeed it is its support; Taxation and Repre- sentation are inseparably united; God hath joined them, no British Parliament can separate them; to endeavour to do it, is to stab our very Vitals. Nor is this the first time this Doc- trine has been mentioned: Seventy Years ago, my Lords, a Pamphlet was published, recommending the levying a Parliamen- tary Tax on one of the Colonies: this Pamphlet was answered by two others, then much Read; these totally deny the Power of taxing the Colonies: and why? because the Colonies had no Representatives in Parliament to give Consent; no an- swer Public or Private, was given to these Pamphlets, no Censure passed upon them: Men were not startled at the Doctrine, as either new or illegal, or derogatory to the Rights of Parliament. I do not mention these Pamphlets by way of Authority, but to vindicate myself from the Imputation of having first Broached this Doctrine.
My position is this.—I repeat it—I will maintain it to my last Hour—Taxation and Representation are inseparable;— this Position is founded on the Law of Nature; for whatever is a Man's own, is absolutely his own; no Man hath a Right to take it from him without his Consent, either expressed by himself or Representative; whoever attempts to do it, attempts an Injury, whoever does it, commits a Robbery, he throws down and destroys the Distinction between Liberty and Slavery. Tax- ation and Representation are coeval with and Essential to the Constitution. I with the maxim of Machiavel was followed, that of examining a Constitution, at certain Periods, according to its first Principles; this would correct Abuses and supply Defects. I with the Times would bear it, and that Mens minds were cool enough to enter upon such a Tax, and that the Representative authority of this Kingdom was more equally settled. I am sure some Histories, of late published, have done great Mischief; to endeavour to fix the Era when the House of Commons began in this Kingdom, is a most Pernicious and destructive Attempt; to fix it in an Edward's or Henry's Reign, is owing to the idle Dreams of some whimsical, ill judging An- tiquarians; but, my Lords, this is a point too important to be left to such wrong-headed People. When did the House of Commons first begin? when my Lords? it began with the Constitution, — it grew up with the Constitution; there is not a Blade of Grass growing in the ob- scure corner of this Kingdom, which is not, which was not
ever Represented since the Constitution began; there is not a Blade of Grass, which, when Taxed, was not Taxed by the consent of the Proprietor. There is a History written by one Carte, a History that most People now see through; and there is another favourite History, much Read and admired. I will not name the Author, your Lordships must know whom I mean, and you must know from whence he pilfered his Notions, con- cerning the first beginning of the House of Commons. My Lords, I Challenge any one to Point out the Time when any Tax was laid upon any Person by Parliament, that Person being unrepresented in Parliament. My Lords, the Parliament laid a Tax upon the Palatinate of Chester, and ordered Commis- sioners to collect it there; as Commissioners were ordered to col- lect in other Counties; but the Palatinate refused to comply; they addressed the King by Petition, setting forth, that the En- glish Parliament had no Right to Tax them, that they had a Parliament of their own, that they had always Taxed themselves, and therefore desired the King to order his Commissioners not to proceed.
My Lords, the King received their Petition; he did not declare them either Seditious or Rebellious but allowed their Plea, and they Taxed themselves. Your Lordships may see both the Pe- tition and the King's answer in the Records in the Tower.— The Clergy Taxed themselves; when the Parliament attempted to Tax them, they stoutly refused; said they were not repre- sented there; that they had a Parliament of their own, which represented the Clergy: that that they would Tax themselves: they did so. Much stress has been laid upon Wales, before it was united as it now is, as if the King, standing in the place of their former Princes of that Country, raised Money by his own Authority: but the real Fact is otherwise; for I find that, long before Wales was subdued, the Northern Counties of that Prin- cipality had Representatives and a Parliament or Assembly. As to Ireland, my Lords, before that Kingdom had a Parliament as it now has, if your Lordships will examine the old Records, you will find that when a Tax was to be laid on that Country, the Irish sent over here Representatives; and the same Records will inform your Lordships, what Wages those Representatives re- ceived from their Constituents. In short, my Lords, from the whole of our History, from the earliest Period, you will find that Taxation and Representation was always united: so true are the Words of that Consummate Reasoner and Politician Mr. Locke. I before alluded to his Book; I have again con- sulted him; and finding what he writes so applicable to the Subject in hand, and so much in favour of my Sentiments, I beg your Lordships leave to Read a little of his Book.
"The supreme Power cannot take from any Man, any Part of his Property, without his own Consent;" and B. II. p. 136 —139, particularly 140. Such are the Words of this great Man, and which are well worth your Lordships serious Atten- tion. His Principles are drawn from the Heart of our Con- stitution, which he thoroughly understood, and will last as long as that shall last; and, to his immortal Honour, I know not to what, under Providence, the Revolution and all its happy ef- fects, are more owing than to the Principles of Government laid down by Mr. Locke. For these Reasons, my Lords, I can ne- ver give my Assent to any Bill for Taxing the Americans, while they remain unrepresented; for as to the Distinction of a virtual Representation, it is so absurd as not to deserve an Answer; I therefore pass it over with Contempt. The Forefathers of the Americans did not leave their Native Country, & subject them- selves to every Danger and Distress, to be reduced to a State of Slavery: they did not give up their Rights; they looked for Protection, and not for Chains, from their Mother Country: by her they expected to be defended in the Possession of their Property, and not to be deprived of it: for, should the present Power continue, there is nothing which they can call their own; or, to use the Words of Mr. LOCKE, "What Property have they in that, which another may by right take, when he pleases to Himself?"
Extract from a letter on Libels, Warrants, &c. Sixth Edition, Page 108.
"If any Law-Privy-Counsellor (Lord Mansfield) should, by way of Introducing an Arbitrary Government in the Planta- tions, lay it down to Counsel as a Principle, that English set- tlers, by going from hence to People American Colonies, thereby lost the Privileges of Englishmen, and the Benefit of the English common Law, and were to be Governed ever af- ter by the Charter of the King, and by Prerogative, without the Intervention even of a British Parliament, and that the Board would judge them accordingly 'let them be hanged, and afterwards quartered.'
NEW-YORK, May 31.
Thursday last Capt. Roach arrived here in 20 Days from Cape Nicholas Mole, and confirms the Account inserted in our Last under the Rhode-Island Head, of all the Vessels at that Port be- ing seized by a Frigate from Old France, among which Num- ber he was, and says farther, That the Frigate abovementioned, and another of the same Kind, were fitted out at the Expence of the Chamber of Commerce of France in order to regulate the Trade of Hispaniola, and that for the future no Vessel from this Continent, would be admitted into any Port of that Island, with any other Commodities than Lumber and Cattle.
NEW-PORT, May 31.
Last Tuesday arrived in Town, the Hon. Judges Oliver and Auchmury; and the next Day 'tis said, they met at President Wanton's House, on the Business of the GASPEE; And Yes- terday arrived Capt. Freebody from New-York, with whom came the Hon. Judge Horsmanden and Lady, and the Honora- ble Judge Smyth.
We hear that two of the Gaspee's men arrived on Board one of the Men of War in this Harbour, from Boston last Week said to have been sent for from England, as Witnesses to support some extraordinary Charges.
BOSTON, June 8.
Last Sunday the Captains Coffin and Jenkins, and Yesterday Capt. Hall arrived at Boston from LONDON, by whom we have the fol- lowing Advices, viz.
PARIS, April 5.
THE Rumours of a War are now renewed with more Force than ever, and have greatly influenced our public Funds; which have fallen considerably within these few Days. An ap- proaching Rupture between the Courts of Stockholm and Pe- tersburgh is full talked of, and it is said we are to send 12 or 15000 Men to the Assistance of the former, in whose Favour a certain Crown in Germany will also declare itself, whilst ano- ther Power of the same Empire is to enter Swedish Pomerania: These Reports are founded on Letters written by Persons wor- thy of Credit; and what adds thereto is, the Arrival of a Cou- rier from Vienna, with Dispatches, which have occasioned a Council to be held.
LONDON, April 3.
Notwithstanding all that has been said to the contrary, we are assured, that there is now a good Understanding between the King of Great-Britain and the Empress of Russia.
It is Reported at the Bank, that Sir George Colbroke will have one Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds after the Set- tling his Affairs.
April 5. An Evening Paper says, "By an express by the Way of the Low Countries we are informed for certain, that the Empress of Russia, by her vigilant Machinations, has absolute- ly seized the unhappy King of Poland, and carried him off mur- dered, is without Doubt.—If this sanguine Heroine, who has a knack at kidnapping Kings, continues to succeed in such Stra- tagems, she may take a Fancy to the Crowned Heads of all Eu- rope, as Herodias did to that of the Baptist's."
April 7. The Duke of Cumberland Packet is arrived from New-York in 32 Days Passage.
April 8. The Prussian Ambassador set out from his House Yesterday Morning on his return Home, without taking leave of the Court as usual; his Recall is said to be occasioned by the Treaty lately negotiated between Great-Britain, Spain, and France.
The Alliance now entered into between Great-Britain, France and Spain, against the King of Prussia and other of the conti- nental Powers, was preferred chiefly for the following Reason; because, should an Alliance with Prussia, have taken Place, the Payment of a certain Subsidy due to the magnanimous Frede- rick for his Services last War, would have been stipulated for, previous to adjusting the Articles of the compact.
It is strongly Reported that the King of Prussia hath demand- ed of England the Sum of 300,000. that has been due to him ever since the last War, according to Treaty.
Another Report is, that the King of Prussia has offered to re- linquish his Demand, provided the King of Great-Britain will enter into an Alliance to Assist him in opposing any Attempt that may be made against him by France or Russia.
Yesterday great Bets were laid at several Coffee-Houses a- bout 'Change, that War would break out between several Pow- ers of Europe on or before the first of June.
Yesterday it was confidently asserted, that France and Russia, have entered into an Alliance to attack the King of Prussia, and drive him out of Poland, and take Possession of that unhappy Kingdom.
However erroneous the People of Boston may be in their Ideas of Liberty, and the exemption of the Power of the British Par- liament, yet the extreme honesty of the means of them sur- passes Conception, of which the following Proof should be made known to their Mother Country, where such different Prin- ciples prevail. A Fire suddenly broke out at Capt. Jordan's, Commander of his Majesty's Ship Fowey, his Plate, Lady's Jewels, Trinkets, and all the Furniture were thrown out of Windows among a very numerous Mob, with little expectation of recovering a single Article; but to his astonishment he has not lost the Value of Six-Pence, for the next Day the whole was brought him by various Persons, even part of a Bottle of Wine in a Decanter which they were drinking at the time the Alarm was given. How different the daily conduct of their a- bandoned Parent!
April 9. The House of Commons is adjourned to Wednes- day the 21st of this Month.
We are told (but as it comes from anonymous Authority we can hardly credit it) that the Prussian Ambassador was Yesterday at Court, and that he had returned from Dover in Consequence of an Express sent after him, desiring him to receive an Expla- nation at St. James's relative to some Claims made by the King his Master, and Dispatched by the English Ministry.
A Report prevails, that the King of Denmark is actually up- on the eve of being Married; if so, we are assured the Ceremony will be concluded with a Rupture with England, which will certainly lay the King of Prussia under the Necessity of Assist- ing the Royal Dane: for it seems he is the chief Promoter of this Matrimonial Alliance. It must be owned, that Frederick is a great Politician and a very enterprizing Man; but 'tis now, without Doubt, out of his way, and has set on Foot a piece of Business that will, in all Probability, involve him and his Scholar in inextricable Troubles, and make them unpitied by every Court in Europe.
A private letter says, that the King of Prussia has given or- ders for 30,000 of his best Troops to hold themselves ready up- on the first Notice.
A Correspondent says, the Prussian Minister was heard to say on the Evening before his unexpected Departure, that his Ma- ster would soon do by Hanover as he had done by Poland, if our Court did not remain quiet respecting his Conduct towards the latter. [See more London News, &c, in the last Page.]

Boston, June 3:
In COUNCIL, June 1. 1773.
T HE Committee having reported to the Board the following Answer to the Governor's Speech at the Opening of the General Court, the same was read and unanimously accepted, and thereupon Ordered, That William Brattle, Jeremy Powell, James Pitts, Benjamin Greenleaf, and Jediah Preble, Esqrs. be a Committee to present the same to his Excellency.
THO'S FLUCKER, Secr'y.
To His EXCELLENCY
THOMAS HUTCHINSON, Esq;
Governor and Commander in Chief of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, &c. THE ADDRESS of His Majesty's COUNCIL
May it please your Excellency,
T HE Board having duly considered your Excellency's Speech at the opening of the General Court,
It gives us great Pleasure that the Boundary Line between this Province and New-York is so amicably settled. By this Settlement, if confirmed by His Majesty's Gracious Approbation, the Animositie among the Borderers, which have been carried to a great Height will probably be quieted, and not again disturb the Peace of the neighbouring Parts of the two Provinces.
We humbly hope for that Confirmation; and in the mean Time shall be ready to concur in any suitable Order for running the agreed Line as soon as may be. We thank your Excellency for the Part you have had in this Negotiation.
Agreeable to your Excellency's Recommendation, we shall take into Consideration the Right Hon'ble the Earl of DUNMORE's Letter, with the Act accompanying it, passed by the General Assembly of Virginia, for preventing the counterfeiting the Paper-Money of the other Colonies. As we are happily without a Paper Currency in this Province, we can have no Benefit from the Act of Virginia. Notwithstanding which, we have, as your Excellency justly apprehended, the same Disposition to do a good Office for a neighbouring Colony, as if the Benefit were to be reciprocal: especially for a Colony which has rendered itself Respectable by its laudable Concern for American Liberty.
We shall also consider what your Excellency has recommended relative to some further Provision for preventing the counterfeiting the Gold and Silver Currency established by the Laws of this Province;—and shall be ready to concur in any Act, that shall be proper and most effectual for that Purpose.
With respect to the Application made by the Indians on the Eastern Frontiers, we think your Excellency judged right in not giving them Encouragement to expect the Indulgence of a Priest. However, if they would be satisfied with a Protestant Missionary, we should think it an advisable Measure to send one to reside among them. We are of Opinion with your Excellency, that it may be very proper to furnish them with Goods, agreeable to their Desire, at some place nearer to their Settlement than Fort Pownall: and this good Effect, beside others, would result from it, that in that Case, having less Occasion to be among the English Inhabitants near the Fort, there would be proportionably the less Danger of Quarrels, and Contention with them.
Your Excellency having expressed your Readiness chearfully to concur in all Matters that may properly come before the two Houses "so far as the Duty which you owe to the King & to the Province will permit," The Board on their Part, with equal Chearfulness will be ready to concur in all such Matters, if the Concurrence be consistent with the like Duties they owe; which Duties so long as the Constitution shall be a Rule of Conduct, they humbly conceive cannot possibly militate with each other.
His EXCELLENCY Answer.
I THANK the Gentlemen of the Council for this Address. It always gives me Pleasure when my Endeavors for the Public Service meet with their Approbation.
BOSTON, June 3.
Saturday last arrived here the Ship Lydia, Capt. Hood, from London; brought Papers to the 2d of April.
LONDON, April 2.
A great number of artificers in the stocking branch of business have within these few days engaged themselves for Boston and N. York to be employed in that Manufactory, now carrying on with success in those Places.
Yesterday the Earl of Dartmouth as Secretary of State for the Colonies had a numerous Levee of Colony Governor's, Agents, and West-India Merchants, at his Lordship's House in Charles-Street, St. James's Square.
Died of a broken Heart Mr. Henry Neale, late Partner with Mr. Fordyce.—In Mortimer-Street, Peter Jameson, Esq; late Secretary at Jamaica.
Capt. Jenkins in a Ship for this Place came out with Captain Hood,—Capt. Coffin in a Ship was to sail in three Days after him, and Capt. Hall in about 3 Weeks.
Yesterday arrived Capt. Winter in one of the armed Schooners from Halifax.
We hear that his Majesty's Ship Captain in heaving down on the Dock-Yard at Halifax to careen, sprung her Main-Mast, but she would be ready to sail some time the Beginning of this Month.
We hear from Hingham, that on Saturday last about Noon, the House of Mr. Seth Wilder, caught on Fire by a Spark from the Chimney, and entirely consumed.
Extract from a Dublin Paper of the 12th of March.
"Duels upon Duels seem to prevail thro' out his Majesty's Dominions; there have been two in Particular within this Week, in this Kingdom.—One of them between Col. Jephson and the Eldest Son of Sir John Colthurst, Esq; in which the latter received a Ball in his Thigh, which was soon Extracted, and he is in a fair way of Recovery. Mr. Colthurst is young enough to be the Colonel's Son. The other was between Beauchamp Bagnell, Esq; a Gentleman of 14,000l. Sterling per Annum, and Thomas Kelly, Esq; (and not Captain Bunbury, as in another Paper, which we have Authority to Contradict; nor did the Quarrel arise in the Manner or Place related, but at the House of a Gentleman of Rank in Palace-Row. In this Duel, which was fought in his Majesty's Park the Phoenix, both Parties were wounded. Mr. Bagnell received a Ball in his Right Arm, which was immediately Extracted, though it is thought he will lose the use of it. Mr. Kelly received a Flesh Wound in his Side, from which not the least Danger is apprehended.
PROVIDENCE, May 22.
The Commissioners for enquiring into the Gaspee Affair are to meet again at Newport by Adjournment, on Wednesday next, the 26th Instant. The Hon'ble Daniel Horsmanden, and Frederick Smyth, Esqrs. two of the said Commissioners, are daily expected to arrive at Newport, in a Vessel from New-York.
LONDON, Feb. 23.
The following particulars of the unhappy fire at the house of Mrs. Collier and Miss Smith, Milleners, in Bishopsgate street, are nearest the truth of any that have appeared. On Thursday morning a little before six, a Sawyer going to work, heard a crackling like something burning, and communicated his suspicions to another person coming by, and both stooping down, saw the kitchen in flames, on which they alarmed the family. The first person who was awaked was the man servant (who lay up three pair of stairs) as the bell went into the room; he immediately ran to his master's door, who answered him; from thence he ran to the door of Mr. Fewson, who lived in the house, and informed him, when he had but just time to make a precipitate retreat out of the window, on a beam into the window of a public house, which lay behind Mr. Collier's; while on the beam, he perceived two of the young women attending him, one of whom begged him to assist her in saving her life, which he did, but in her fright she missed her hold, and fell into the
little Court; she escaped with her life, but was much bruised; the other was supposed to be Miss Smith, sister and partner to Mrs. Collier, who fell in with part of the house before she could attain the window. Mr. Fewson, on opening the door of his chamber, found the smoke and flame to ascend very fast; he called to his wife to follow him, and he groped his way into the dining room, and got out of the window, and was taken down safe into the street; but the floor giving way before his wife reached it, she sunk into the ruins. One of the maid servants and Miss Milne, flung themselves out of a two pair of stairs window, and were killed on the spot. The unfortunate master and mistress of the house sunk also in the ruins, as well as the other maid servant, and Miss Noble, an apprentice; so that out of eleven persons that went to bed over night in perfect health and seeming security, three only were alive at seven in the morning, viz. Mr. Fewson, the man servant, and the young lady, who was most violently bruised. The catastrophe was occasioned by a large fire being made when the family went to bed, the flames of which were communicated to some cloaths left on a horse to dry. The remains of the unhappy sufferers are placed in two Coffins, in which they are to be interred together.
To the PRINTERS.
I do not see why the whole matter in controversy at present, between the whigs and tories, may not be properly reduced to these two points: First, Americans are either entitled to all the privileges and immunities of British subjects, or they are not entitled to any of them. Secondly, if the Americans are not entitled to all those privileges, then they are not, nor ought to be under the control of the British parliament.
First, that Americans have a right to all the privileges of British subjects, and ought peaceably to enjoy the same, appears by the compact our ancestors made with the King of England and his successors; which rights are expressed in the American charters, as they are called; which charters ought not to be considered as grants, because the people of England never had sufficient authority to make such grants, any ways obligatory on the part of the Americans, any otherways than by compact; therefore that compact ought to remain entire, until both parties consent to alter it, and in fact, it does, in the nature and spirit of it, remain so; for neither party alone can alter it, but by those powerful arguments of fleets and armies. The Americans cannot alter it, because of the restriction, that the laws they make be not repugnant, &c. which restriction is much the same on the part of the Americans, as the coronation oath is, on the part of the King; which oath lays as great an obligation on the Kings of England, not to alter the English constitution, as is laid upon the Americans by the compact; therefore the said compact is not altered, and the Americans now have a right to all the privileges that British subjects enjoy. If I were to mention the opinion of others upon this point, it would be that of Robert, archbishop of Canterbury, who, referring to Magna Charta one of the grand pillars of the English constitution, after a most solemn introduction, says, "that all those, that in any manner hereafter resist, or break those ordinances, or go about it, by word or deed, openly or privately; we the aforesaid archbishop, by our authority in this writing expressed, do excommunicate and accurse; and from the Body of our Lord Jesus Christ, and from all the Company of Heaven, do sequester and exclude." To the same Purpose, did the Bishops in England with the greatest solemnity express themselves in the presence of King Henry 3d. Hence it appears, that the English privileges were certainly in those times, thought to be very sacred, and of great importance, or those venerable Fathers would not have pronounced such direful curses against those that should break or resist them; therefore let those that "go about, by word and deed, openly and privately," to alter those ordinances, reflect, that possibly, and not improbably, the aforesaid curses may be rendered significant, by falling on them, as Joshua's did on the re-builder of Jericho.

Some have taken abundant pains to prove, that the people of England have a right to tax the Americans, which in other Words is proving the Compact to be altered, and if that be proved, then the American Privileges are only Ideal, very like a pleasing dream and titles of honor. It is vain to say, that those Privileges are not all taken away yet, for in that case, the Americans would have no privilege nor right at all, because what properly & solely belongs to another, I have no Right to; therefore from these Principles it will follow, that Americans hold their lands neither by feudal nor by socage tenure, for if they hold their lands by either of those tenures, they certainly have a right to hold them so long as they perform those services annexed to the Tenure by which they hold; and besides the Americans in such case, are tenants at will to the people of England: But that they are, and how they came to be so is not very easy to prove.
Thus I think, I have sufficiently proved, that the Americans have a right to all the privileges of British subjects: But if they have not such a right, then it will follow, in the second place that the Americans are not under the authority of the people of England; for if the said Compact be not of sufficient validity to entitle the Americans to all the privileges of British Subjects, then it is not of force sufficient to bind them to any obedience to the people of England; for it is very absurd to suppose, that one party in a Covenant has a Right to render null and void, what parts of the Covenant he pleases; and besides it must be a very odd sort of government that lay the people under Obligation to maintain, support, and defend it, and at the same time provide no privileges for the Subjects of it; and if the Americans are not bound by the said compact to obey the people of England, then they are not bound to obey them at all; and that the Americans are not bound by the said compact to obey the people of England, is evident from the aforesaid restriction; for if the Americans have not a right to make laws for themselves, then there is no room for that restraint, and if America is within the dominions of the King of England, then there is no room even for the said compact itself. As the Americans have a Right to make laws for themselves, provided the laws they make, be not repugnant to the laws of England, it is notoriously absurd to suppose, that the people of England, at the same time, have a right to make laws for the Americans that are repugnant to the laws of England; for in such a case, the Americans would be under two legislative bodies, and as laws made by them, may be diametrically opposite to each other, the Americans would be obliged to serve two masters, which, if the supreme Lawgiver is right as to this point, is impossible.
TERTIUS CATO.
Connecticut Pork, Maryland Corn,—Carolina Pork,—South Carolina Corn,—New Rice,—Fresh Flour and Ship Bread,—Also Sugars,—Cotton-Wool,—and Salt,—Just Imported, and to be Sold by JOHN EVANS, at his Stores on Capt. Janvrin's Wharfe. Portsmouth, June 1. 1773.
WE THE SUBSCRIBERS, being appointed COMMISSIONERS by the Hon. JOHN WENTWORTH Esq; Judge of the Probate of Wills, and for Granting Administration within and for the County of Rockingham, to receive and examine the Claims upon the Estate of JOHN DREW SEAWARD, late of Portsmouth, in said County, Caulker, deceased, intestate, and represented insolvent, and six Month being allowed us for that Purpose, hereby give NOTICE, that we will attend that Business from five to seven o'clock, P.M. on the first Monday of the next and the five following Months, at the House of JAMES STOODLEY, Esq; Innholder in Portsmouth, dated at Portsmouth aforesaid, the 22d Day of May, A. D. 1773.
GILLIAM BUTLER, } Commissioners. SAMUEL HALE, }
Two or three hundred Pounds, L. M. is wanted, upon real or personal Security. Enquire of the Printer.
Just Imported, and to be sold by George Bell & Co'y
At their Shop at New Fields in Newmarket, A large and general Assortment of English, India and Scotch Goods, among which are— BROAD-CLOTHS, Calicoes, Crapes, Taffity's, Cambricks, and Lawns flower'd and plain; flower'd Aprons, strip'd flower'd and spotted Gauze, plain ditto; Gauze Handkerchiefs, a fine Assortment of Ribbons of the newest Patterns, Silk Mitts, Breeches Patterns, silk Handkerchiefs of different Colours.—A fine Assortment of crockery and hard Ware.—Tea, Coffee, Chocolate, Sugar, Molasses.—Deer and Moose-Skin Leather—With many other Articles, too tedious to mention; which they are determined to sell as low for Cash as can be bought in any Part of the Province. Those that please to favour them with their Custom, may depend on being well used and their Favours gratefully acknowledged.
N. B. constant Attendance given at said Store.
|| Northumberland. ||
THE PROPRIETORS OF NORTHUMBERLAND, in the Province of New Hampshire, are desired to meet at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton, Innholder in Portsmouth, in the County of Rockingham, and Province aforesaid, on Tuesday the 22d of June next, at three o'clock P. M. First to choose a Moderator. 2. To receive and confirm the Report of the Committee chosen for settling the Dispute about the Bounds, between the Proprietors of NORTHUMBERLAND and WOODBURY; and to choose a Committee to make and execute any Quit Claim Deed or Deeds, in Behalf of the Proprietors, that may be thought necessary for fixing the said Bounds. 3. To let the Proprietors will vote a new Division of the Interival Land and House Lots in said NORTHUMBERLAND, and in Case a new Division of such Land should be thought expedient, then to appoint a Committee to make it. 4. To raise such Sums of Money as may be thought necessary for making Roads, allotting said interival Land and House Lots, and for forwarding the Settlement of said NORTHUMBERLAND. 5. To choose a Collector or Collectors, and a Committee to examine and settle the Treasurer's and all other Accounts respecting said Proprietors, and to transact any other Matters that said Proprietors may then judge convenient to be done.
THOMAS MARTIN Pro. Clk.
By Order of the Assessors. Portsmouth May 20th, 1773.
§ New-Grantham. §
Whereas the Assessors for the PROPRIETORS of NEW GRANTHAM, have given me an Assessment of Thirty six Shillings Lawful Money on each original Right in said TOWN, with a WARRANT under their Hands and Seals dated the 20th Day of May 1773, to collect the same, according to LAW, these are therefore to NOTIFY said Proprietors to pay me the said TAX by the 24th Day of June next, otherwise their respective Lands will be sold to raise the same according to Law.
ABEL STEVENS, Collector for the proprietors of New Grantham. May 22, 1773.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. PETITION having been presented to the GENERAL ASSEMBLY, by JOHN DUDLEY of DEERFIELD, Gentleman, setting forth that in the Month of May, A. D. 1772. he was compelled by the Fear of going to Prison to make and execute a Deed to SIMON MARSTON and PATTIN SIMPSON, both of said DEERFIELD, (to whom he was then indebted) of two Hundred Acres of Land, which Land they afterwards sold at private Sale, although he had paid them near all their Demands against him, which at the Time of giving said DEED were far short of the Value of said Land; and therefore praying the Interposition of the LEGISLATURE, in his Behalf; and that the said DEED may be declared null and void. These are therefore to give public NOTICE that a HEARING is granted on said PETITION on the third Day of the Sitting of the GENERAL ASSEMBLY, after the fifteenth Day of June next, for any Person or Persons to appear, and shew Cause why the DEED aforesaid shall not be declared void, agreeable to the Prayer thereof.
GEO. KING, D. Sec.
May 18, 1773.
§ Dummer. §
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Rockingham, ss. WHEREAS APPLICATION is made to me the Subscriber, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for said Province and County, by the Proprietors & Owners of more than a sixteenth Part of a Tract of Land in the Northern Part of said Province, lately granted by his Excellency Governor WENTWORTH, by the Name of DUMMER, that a Meeting of the Proprietors of said Township, or Tract of Land, may be called and held at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton, Innholder in Portsmouth, on Thursday the tenth of June next, at Four o'clock, P. M. then and there, to vote and act on the following Articles, viz. 1. To choose a Moderator. 2. To choose a Proprietor's Clerk. 3. To raise Money to pay the Charges of procuring the CHARTER of said Township or Tract of Land, looking it out and surveying it, and other Contingencies, likewise such other Monies as may be necessary for fulfilling the Conditions of the CHARTER. And to choose proper Officers to collect and receive such Sums as may be taxed and raised. 4. To make choice of any Committee or Committees, to transact all necessary business for said Proprietors. 5. To agree on some Method for calling and holding Proprietors Meetings in Future.
Pursuant to which Application, I do hereby notify and warn the Proprietors of the Township or Tract of Land called DUMMER, to meet at the Place and Day aforesaid, at Four o'clock in the Afternoon, to act and vote on the several Articles aforesaid.
DANIEL ROGERS, Just. Pac.
PORTSMOUTH, May 25 1773.
§ Stratford. §
APPLICATION being made to me the Subscriber by more than one sixteenth part of the Proprietors of STRATFORD in the County of GRAFTON, in the Province aforesaid, to call a Meeting of said Proprietors, at the House of Mr. JOSEPH HOLBROOK, in said STRATFORD, on the 14th Day of June next ensuing; at 9. o'clock, A. M. then and there to act on the following Matters and Things.
1. To choose a Moderator. 2. To choose a Proprietor's Clerk. 3. To choose a Clerk, pro tempore. 4. To agree upon a Method for calling and adjourning future Proprietor's Meetings. 5. To determine where the first Meeting should be adjourned to. 6. To appoint a proper Person or Persons to allot out the Interival Lots to each Proprietor pro Rata, to it's Quantity. 7. To see whether the Proprietors will consent that those Proprietors who settle first, shall have their first Choice of the Lots. 8. To agree upon the proper Spot where to make the Town Plat and House Lots. 9. To see whether the Proprietors will raise a Tax to defray the Charges of procuring the CHARTER, making Roads, &c. 10. To choose Assessors, and Collectors, to gather said Tax. 11. To consider and approve all the Transactions of any former Committees, who were concerned in managing any Disputes of the Township while called Woodbury. 12. To appoint proper Persons to lay out the Main Road. 13. To Appoint a Committee of three or five Persons, into whose Care to commit all the prudential Matters of settling the Township, so as that their Power does not extend to convey Lands. 14. To see if the Proprietors will exchange any Lands in said Township with any of the Proprietors, who may offer any Conditions that may be thought reasonable.
In Pursuance of said Request, I do hereby warn a Meeting of said Proprietors, at the Time and Place aforesaid, for the aforementioned Purposes.
ISRAEL GILMAN, Just. Pac.
Portsmouth, May 20, 1773.
All Persons who have Demands on the Estate of JAMES MILK, late of Falmouth, deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts.—And all those indebted to said Estate, are desired to make speedy payment to SARAH MILK, Administratrix, or JACOB ADAMS, Attorney to said SARAH MILK. Falmouth, May 19, 1773.
The Estate of Samuel Noldred, late of PORTSMOUTH, in the County of Rockingham, deceased, intestate, being represented Insolvent, and the Subscribers appointed Commissioners to receive and examine the Claims thereon: they hereby NOTIFY the Creditors to said Estate, that they will attend that Service, at the House of James Stoodley, Esq; on the last Monday of this and the five next ensuing Months, from six to nine o'Clock P. M.
Portsmouth, May 26, 1773. Samuel Parker, } Commissioners. Joseph Pierce, }
Thomas Conner
HEREBY INFORMS the PUBLICK, that he mends all Kinds of Braiser's Ware; and China Ware; mends Billows; tins Copper inside, &c. at his House next to Mr. John Stavens, or will wait on any Persons at their own Houses.

It is said that Lord Rochford, Secretary of State for the Southern Department, finding his Health and Abilities so much on the decay, that he is determined to resign immediately after the present Session; and it is said Lord Weymouth will succeed him.
April 15. A divided Nation, divided Colonies, a divided Parliament, and a miserably divided national commercial House, divided against itself, who are to be the glorious Instruments of a general Conciliation, the great Prince of Peace, we fear alone can know.
It is an undisputable Fact that Lord Chatham has declared that he will not accept any Post or Place in the Administration.
Last week Maj. Gen. Dalrymple arrived from St. Vincents. Mr. Oliver has given an undoubted Proof of his inflexible Patriotism, by summoning Mr. Wilkes to attend the House of Commons on the 26th Instant, as Member for the County of Middlesex.
The Ministry are exceedingly embarrassed about the Mode of Proceeding of the next Call of the House of Commons. Mr. Wilkes, is determined to attend, agreeable to his Summons.
April 17. It is almost self-evident that a general Rupture throughout Europe is not far off, and at the same Time that Britain, (like the insipid Athenian, who was banished the Town because he did not engage on either Side of the Question) has formed her Alliance with such Powers as may enable her to recover that Credit she had gained at the Eve of the late memorable Peace, and which she could not have lost, but from choosing a weak and pusillanimous Council.
The Rumour is very current at the West End of the Town, that the present Ministry will be soon totally changed; and that Lord Chatham must once more quit his Sabine Farm, where he has been long revolving in his Mind the Folly of Ambition, however plumed, and return to save his Country.
April 20. Matters are said to be now in a right Train for accommodating the Disagreements, between the Courts of Berlin and London, in a Manner equally advantageous and satisfactory to both Parties.
Last Week a Gentleman in a Company which consisted of sixteen or seventeen, offered to lay any of them twenty Guineas to one, that War would be declared in England before the first of June next. They all refused this Offer.
April 21. A Patent is said to be making out for the Creation of his excellency William Dalrymple, Esq; to be a Baronet of the Island of St. Vincents.
It is a confirmed Fact, that whatever France and Spain may do, the Italian Princes and States, are determined to observe the Neutrality between the Russians and Turks.
L O N D O N April 22.
Orders were yesterday given for equipping, with all possible Dispatch, 16 Ships of the Line, and 4 Frigates. They are to be commanded by three Admirals. Lord Howe is one.----- The Courtiers, about St. James, allow we are on the most friendly Footing with France and Spain; What then is the Object of this Fleet? Is it to escort the French Transports, carrying a French Army up the Baltic? Or is it to act in Concert with the combined Fleets of France and Spain, against the Russians, in the Archipelago.
The Approach of War is now so strongly confirmed from all Quarters, that the Creatures of Lord Mansfield can no longer deny it. France has been preparing these four Months; and till within these few Days has lulled us into a fatal Security of neutrality.-----Can we be neuter, and behold her Fleets riding in the Baltic and Mediterranean? The Quay at Dunkirk is nearly finished; her Coasts are filled with warlike stores and Men.----- In a Word her Object in the North is, to support Sweden against Denmark and Russia; and in the Mediterranean, to support the Turk against Russia and the Emperor: And we have not only hitherto been the Dopes of this accursed Policy, but are, so long as France pleases, to continue in this dark and blundering Situation; unless the Flames of War alarm us to a just Sense of our Folly and Danger. The Plan laid down, and now pursuing by France, will inevitably draw every Nation in Europe into the War; & we, from being the great Umpire in such Disputes, are sunk to the low State of Tools to France, acting by a second or third Hand, under French Councils. But how should it be otherwise, when it is notorious to the whole World, that ever since the last infamous and treacherous Peace, we have had an Administration without Abilities, and a Court without Honor. No Man can be at a Loss where to find the most ungrateful of the human Species-----The consummate Hypocrite. At Home and abroad he is equally despised. None commend him but those who find their Interest in it. A Set of low Wretches he keeps about him, who flatter him with Ideas of Greatness, of which Nature denied him all Comprehension. The King of Prussia's Claims on the Mouth of the Vistula, will prove fatal to our Baltick Trade; the State of Ireland will prove fatal to the linen Manufacture; the State of the East-India Company, and of all public and private Credit, in England will prove fatal to our Manufacturers at home.-----The People will, and they do, daily, emigrate to America; where the Impotence & Tyranny of this Reign are now despised. Our natural Strength is exhausted in Corruption, and a ten Years War, carried on by the Court, at an enormous public Expence, against all the old tried Friends of the House of Brunswick. Every Trick of Law every Engine of Tyranny, and every Nerve of Corruption, set up to destroy these Men. The Actors in this horrid Business, have been the Earl of BUTE and Lord MANSFIELD.----- No Wonder the civil List is so shamefully in Arrear. Does the Sovereign of this once respectable Country live with the Dignity of a private Gentleman, of only five Thousand Pounds a Year? Yet he has eight Hundred Thousand Pounds, clear of all Deduction, from England: The clear Revenue of Hanover, after defraying all the Expences of the Establishment, is above two Hundred Thousand Pounds more; with the Crown Revenues of all the Conquests during the last War, amounting to no inconsiderable Sum. Yet all these are not sufficient; the civil List is notoriously in Arrear. Is it not astonishing, that the King should continue his Confidence in those Men who have brought him into this distressed Situation? How can he think, that under them, the English Nation will take a Part in the approaching War? The Public, so far from having any Confidence in them, utterly abhor them. Who will lend Money to a Set of Gamblers, Sharpers and Plunderers? Not even Jews. The public Revenue is no Security; for our Trade being very much on the Decline, the public Revenue must sink.
B O S T O N, MONDAY, June 7.
Capt. Hall left London the 23d of April, and while he lay in the Downs, they received an Account that 1400 Men were impressed in one Night, in order to man a Fleet to be immediately fitted out to join the Russian Fleet, in Opposition to France, who had fitted out a large Fleet to join the Turks.-----Proclamations were likewise issued, offering a Reward of £. 3. to all able bodied Seamen who would Voluntarily enlist.-----
Last Thursday his Excellency the Governor was pleased to send the following Message to the House of Representatives.
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, I Am informed that certain private Letters said to have been wrote by me to a Gentleman in England, lately deceased, were yesterday laid before your House, and that you have come into a Resolution or Vote, that they tend to subvert the Constitution.
I have never wrote any public or private Letter with such Intention, and am not conscious of any Letter which can have such an Effect. Before you take any further proceedings, I must desire that a Transcript of the proceedings of yesterday be laid before me, and that I may be informed to what Letters they refer, in Order to my considering what Steps are proper for me to take upon the Occasion. T. HUTCHINSON.
To which the House on Saturday returned the following Answer.
May it Please your Excellency, IN Answer to your Message of the Third of June, the House of Representatives have resolved, that the Date of certain Letters now before them, referred to in the Message, together with a Transcript of the Proceedings of the House thereon, as requested by your Excellency be laid before you.
And as your Excellency has been pleased in your Message to say, that you have never wrote any public or private Letter, with an Intention to subvert the Constitution, it is the Desire of this House, that your Excellency would be pleased to order, that Copies be laid before us, of such Letters as your Excellency has written of those Dates, relating to the public Affairs of this Province, together with such other Letters as your Excellency shall think proper.
Salem, June 8.
Extract of a Letter from London, dated April 23d. "There is now great Talks of a War. Orders are gone for 16 Sail of the Line to be in Readiness to go up the Mediterranean, some say to join the French Fleet; others with more Propriety, that they are to protect the Russian Fleet from being destroyed by them. Pres. Warrants, it was said yesterday, were to be sent off last Night for manning all the Guard Ships, and as many more are to be commissioned in their Stead."
We hear that Mrs. Howe, Wife of Mr. Jacob Howe, of Ipswich, has had seven Children at three Births, within five Years and an Half; and that six of them are now living.
DIED.] At Boston, Jacob Royal, Esq; £9 91. At Tiverton, Joseph Strafford, Esq; a very celebrated noted Astrologer.
P O R T S M O U T H, June 10.
Last Thursday died, and on Saturday was decently interred, Mrs. SARAH PENHALLOW, the virtuous and agreeable Consort of Mr. JOHN PENHALLOW, and eldest Daughter of HUNTING WENTWORTH, Esq; in the 47th Year of her Age.
Last Monday as one John Haman, of this Town, was riging a Ship, at the North End, he fell from the Mizzen Top, on the Deck, and expired in about an Hour.
Yesterday a Son of Capt. Robert Parker fell overboard and was drowned.
DIED.] A Child of Capt. Burnes. A Child of Mr. George Homans. BAPTIZED since our last, Three.
Last Friday sail'd for the Eastward, His Majesty's Ship the Cancer, Capt. Moet, in whom went His Excellency Governor WENTWORTH and LADY, with several Gentlemen.
CUSTOM HOUSE, PISCATAQUA, June 10.
   Inward-Entries FROM.     Sloop Dunmore, Abraham Bates, New-Haven.   Sloop Polly, William Noyes, Martinico.   Sloop Speedwell, Henry Swan, St. Lucea.   Sloop Advance, Joseph Smith. Rhode-Island.   Schooner Sally, John Chase, Ditto.   Schooner Return, James Guppy, St. Martins.   Schooner Unity, Seth Clark, St. Lucea.   Brig William, Samuel Paul, St. Kitts.   Ship Exeter Galley, John Stokell, Exeter.   Outward-Bound FOR.   Schooner Industry, Robert Parker, Philadelphia.   Clear'd for Departure FOR.   Brig Dove, Jonathan Jewitt, West-Indies.   Brig Dalton, James Brown, Ditto.   Brig Stork, William Coombs, Ditto.   Sloop Hannah, John Coombs, Ditto.  
On the most reasonable Terms,
For CASH or short CREDIT, TO BE SOLD, A LOT OF LAND in Portsmouth, of about one hundred Feet square, excellently calculated to carry on the SUGAR REFINER'S & BOILING BUSINESS. On the aforesaid Lot, now stands a choice Building for that Purpose, finely accommodated with every Utensil necessary to carry on that Business with the greatest Ease and Dispatch, the Coppers, Coolers, and every other Material, almost as good as new, not in the least injur'd by wearing, with an excellent Variety of Moulds, many of them new; Also, a Warehouse and Store-Room enough to house and secure any Quantity of Sugar with the greatest Security; with an Accompting-House neatly fitted to answer not only the Refiner's Business, but also any Merchant's whatsoever; with a mathematical Beam, and Weights: Also, one other good Beam and Weights. The Cisterns are in good Order; with a fine Well of Water very handy. For the Particulars, enquire of WILLIAM TORREY in Portsmouth.
ALL PERSONS Indebted to, or that have Demands on the Estate of Capt. SAMUEL WARNER, late of Portsmouth, Merchant, deceas'd, are desired to bring in their Accounts to the Honorable DANIEL WARNER, Esq; of Portsmouth, Administrator on said Estate, in order for a speedy Settlement.
Good Newcastle COALS
TO BE SOLD
By WILLIAM PEARN, At his STORE in Portsmouth; Also, an
Assortment of English Goods, Among which are the following Articles, A Variety of Broad Cloths,
of different Colours and Prices—Shalloon, Tammies,—Durants,—Stuffes,—Irish Linens,—Garlix,&c.—Check Linnen,—Bed Tick,—Chinces,—Callicoes,—Bengalls—Ginghams,—Handkerchiefs of different Kinds,—Taffity Patterns,—Cambricks,—Men's, Women's and Children's Worsted Hose,—Cotton & Thread Hose,—Men's dit.—Caps of different Kinds,—Felt Hats and Dutch Caps,—A Variety of Cutlery and Hard Ware,—Japan Ware of different Kinds,—Nails of different sorts, from large Deck Nails down to 4d,—Fish Hooks of different sorts, from large Cod Hooks down to Trout Hooks,—Cod Lines,—St. Peter's Lines, &c.—Mackrel dit,—Window Glass 7 by 9, and 8 by 10—And a Number of other Articles,—LUMBER, FISH or WEST-INDIA GOODS, will be receiv'd in Payment for any of the above Goods. Portsmouth, June 9, 1773.
Will Cover this Season,
At the House of Mr. JOHN STAVERS, Portsmouth, The Horse call'd the Raven, He is a HORSE of Size, Strength, and Beauty, equal perhaps to any in America; English Breed; 9/ a Leap; he is of a beautiful Black.
WE the SUBSCRIBERS being appointed Commissioners by the Hon. JOHN WENTWORTH, Esq; Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c for the County of Rockingham to examine the Claims against the Estate of DENNES DREW, late of Portsmouth, Shipcarpenter, deceas'd, Intestate give Notice, that we will attend the Business on the first Mondays of the six following Months at the House of JAMES STOODLY, Esq; Innholder in Portsmouth, from six o'clock till eight, P. M. June 10th, GILLAM BUTLER, } Commiss 1773. SAMUEL HALF, } Soners.
TO BE LET,
A House opposite the Market. Enquire of CHARLES BANFIELD.
Ranaway from George Berry of Falmouth, May 27th 1773, a NEGRO MAN named DICK, about Five Feet and 4 Inches high; bad on when he ranaway, a Mouse color'd hemelpun Coat, peuter Buttons; a listed homepun Jacket with the Lits round him; and a red Jacket and Breeches, with peuter Buttons; mix'd homepun Stockings blue and white together; a pair of new single soled Shoes; Bra's Buckles; a small Felt Hat; a blue mill'd Cap; the said NEGRO is about 40 Years of Age, something pock-broken, with a Scar on his Under Lip; is something bow legged; and walks with his Toes turn'd in. Who ever will take up said Negro, and return him to his said Master, shall have three Dollars Reward, and all necessary Charges paid by me GEORGE BERRY.
Whereas the Estate of CHARLES LIBBY, late of Berwick, in the County of York, deceas'd, has been Represented Insolvent, and six Months being allowed by the Judge of Probate for said County, for the several Creditors to bring in their Claims and prove their Debts; we the Subscribers Commissioners appointed to receive & examine said Claims do hereby give Notice that we will attend that Service at the Dwelling House of Mr. NAHUM MARSHAL, Innholder in said Berwick, on the last Monday of this and the first Monday of the next five following Months, from three to six of the clock in the Afternoon BENJAMIN CHADBOURN, } Commiss WILLIAM ROGERS, } Soners. Berwick, May 7. 1773.
Sold at the PRINTING OFFICE, Warrantee and Quit claim Deeds.—Justice Writs and Executions.—Rail Bonds—Shipping Papers—Powers of Attorney, Indentures, Judge of probate Blanks.