The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1774-03-11 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the FRESHEST ADVICES
Friday March 11, 1774
Vol. XVIII.
GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
NO. 907 } Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd.
Quicquid republicæ proderit, libenter afferro. U NDER a mild Monarchy, where the Laws are the Limits as well of the King, as the People, when we cannot only think what we please, but can also freely express and publish our Sentiments, under no other Restraint than what Decency and good Manners enjoin, I purpose to take a Liberty, not as a Superior in Learning and Piety, but with all Diffidence and Modesty, conscious of the Abilities of the Men whose Conduct I mean to arraign, to enquire into, and investigate the Part, or rather no Part, that a christian Minister ought to take in political Disputes.— I know of no better Rules to which we may adhere in the Discussion and Determination of this Question, than recurring to the Book of Institutes of their Order , or the last Will and Testament to which they say they are appointed Executors. The Founder of their Order, who laid down his Life for the final Preservation of his Followers, has left them sufficient Rules to direct them (I believe I may say) in almost every Circumstance of Life. In referring to this Book, I shall attempt to report the natural Meaning and Import of the Words, as I should do with any other ancient Author. If I mistake the right Rule of Construction, I shall be sorry for it, at present I know of none other, or better, to be depended upon. By this you will easily perceive, I pretend to no spiritual Discernment, and shall be, I believe a bad Antagonist to any Man that does.— "Whether it be lawful to pay TAXES to Cæsar" was a Question agitated at Jerusalem. Much might be said on both Sides. On the First it was urged by the Sons of Liberty of that Day, we may suppose, that the Romans had acquired by Force, all the Right they had— That that Right could continue no longer than the Force continued— When therefore that Force could be destroyed by another and greater, that Right must cease of Course— Besides they were not represented in the Senate of Rome, and I do not recollect that they ever had an Agent there— They were God's peculiar People— The Romans, a Pack of lawless Banditti, subject to every strongest Invader, ruined by Luxury, and immersed in Corruption. On the other Side— The Jews received their Protection from the Roman Power— Were so divided into Cabals and Parties— That the Intervention of some other Power was absolutely necessary to prevent their murdering and destroying each other, &c. &c.
To decide the grand Difficulty, or rather entangle infinite Wisdom, they had recourse to our Saviour, whom by the by, they esteemed no other at best, than some Prophet to settle the Dispute. But he knowing their Intention, told the Jews, for Jews there were in that Day, simply to render to Cæsar, the Things that were Cæsar's, and to God the Things that were God's— He left the Question just where he found it, and them to settle the Dispute as they saw fit, nor do I remember that even in his Moments of Retirement, among his Friends and Confidants, he ever told which Side of the Question he took. I am apt to think he took neither; for he somewhere observes, his Kingdom was not of this World, much different from the Opinion of many of his pretended Followers.— This Example appears to me sufficient to settle the Question we set out upon, and fully to point out the Duty of a Christian
Clergyman, in our present political Disputes. Taking for granted that it does not, we will examine further in the same Book, what Part his primitive Followers took, and what Directions they have laid down to be observed by Christians in succeeding Ages. The only Instance on Record, that I can find, of any Christian's speaking evil of Dignities, or reviling, is that of Paul— The natural Warmth of his Temper might be alledged in his Excuse, besides the High-Priest had most scandalously perverted the Law, as well as the common Rights of Humanity, in commanding "to smite him" Paul then exclaimed "God will smite thee", &c. But Paul was immediately called back to a Sense of his Duty, and his Fault; "I wist not" says he, "that he was God's High-Priest." The same Paul was accused at the Instigation of the Jews, by a certain timeserving Lawyer, named Tertullus, in a Speech highly flattering to the Roman Governor, of being "a pestilent Fellow, and a Mover of Sedition." But Paul, conscious that if guilty of such Charges, he must be highly criminal, plumply denies the Facts, and challenges them to prove it. "I was not found" says he, "with any Man disputing in the Temple, or raising an Insurrection among the People, either (in their Town Meetings, he might have said) "in their Synagogues or in the City" In his Epistle to the Romans he exhorts every Soul to be subject to the reigning Powers, and assigns this Reason, "they are ordained of God." In short he asserts, as some Translators have it, that "there is no Authority but from God," and avers, the Powers then existing, are appointed of God; "and who-soever should set himself in array against them," as the Word signifies, "withstandeth the Disposition of God, and shall receive to himself Condemnation." I am well aware of the Apostle's subsequent Words, but will venture to assert, that they cannot contradict what had been before advanced, without being inconsistent with other Parts of the sacred Writ; and nobody will suppose the Apostle capable of such Absurdities.
To be continued.
***** BOSTON, March 1.
On Tuesday the 22d of February his Excellency the Governor sent for the House of Representatives to the Council Chamber, and made the Speech to them, inserted in our last, which by Mistake we said was a Message sent to the House:
When the House returned to their Chamber, they resolved by a very great Majority to impeach the Chief Justice, and appointed a Committee to bring in the Articles, which were brought in and agreed in the House, by a Majority of 92 to 8.
On Friday they voted the following Message, viz. In the House of Representatives, Feb. 25, 1774. ORDERED, That Mr. Adams, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Greenleaf, Col. Bowers, Col. Thayer, Col. Lincoln, Mr. Gorham, Col. Bacon, and Capt. Heatb, be a committee to wait upon his Excellency with the following Message. T. CUSHING, Speaker.
May it please your Excellency, THE House of Representatives beg leave to acquaint you, that they have resolved to impeach Peter Oliver, Esq; Chief Justice of the Superior court of Judicature, court of Assize & General Goal Delivery over this whole Province, before the Governor and council of High crimes and Misdemeanors: That they have prepared the Articles of Impeachment, and pray that your Excellency would be in the chair that they may have an Opportunity of laying them before the Governor and council.
On Saturday Morning his Excellency sent the following Message to the House, viz.
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, BY your Message of Yesterday you informed me that you had resolved to impeach Peter Oliver, Esq; Chief Justice of the Superior Court, &c. before the Governor and Council of High Crimes and Misdemeanors, and that you had prepared the Articles of Impeachment, and you prayed that I would be in the Chair that you might then have an Opportunity of laying them before the Governor and Council.
I know of no Species of High Crimes & Misdemeanors nor any Offence against the Law committed within this Province, let the Rank or Condition of the Offender be what it may,
which is not cognizable by some established Judicatory or Judicatories, and I do not know that the Governor and Council have a concurrent Jurisdiction with any Judicatory in Criminal Cases, or any Authority to try & determine any Species of High Crimes and Misdemeanors whatsoever.
If I should assume a Jurisdiction, and with the Council try Offenders against the Law without Authority granted by the Charter or by a Law of the Province in pursuance of the Charter, I should make myself liable to answer before a Judicatory, which would have cognizance of my Offence, and His Majesty's Subjects would have just Cause to complain of being deprived of a Trial by Jury, the general Claim of Englishmen, except in those Cases where the Law may have made special Provision to the contrary.
Whilst such Proceeds as you have attempted to commence shall appear to me to be unconstitutional, I cannot shew any countenance to it. T. HUTCHINSON.
Milton, 26th February, 1774. Upon receiving the above Message, the House on Saturday last sent up a Committee with the Impeachment, which was laid on the Council Table till Monday the 28th ult. when the Honorable Board agreed on and sent to his Excellency the following Message:
May it please your Excellency, THE last Saturday, the 26th Instant, the House of Representatives in their own Name, and in the Name of all the Inhabitants of this Province, by a Committee impeached Peter Oliver, Esq; Chief Justice of the Superior Court, of High Crimes and Misdemeanors, and laid on the Council Table, Articles of Impeachment against the said Peter Oliver, Esq; and pray that your Excellency & the Council would appoint a Time to proceed with, examine, try and judge the said Peter Oliver, Esq; as may be agreeable to Law and Justice.
The Board desire your Excellency will please to inform them when you will be present with the Council to proceed on this Business.
The next Day, viz. on Tuesday last the Honorable House by a Committee sent up another Impeachment of the Chief Justice, differing from the first only in Form, without retracting however the first Impeachment. Both Impeachments are in the Hands of his Excellency, who has not yet sent an Answer to the foregoing Message of the Council.
Thus the Matter stands at present. The Honorable Superior Court is adjourned to the First Tuesday in June next, being the 7th of the Month.
Province of MASSACHUSETTS-BAY. ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT OF HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS against PETER OLIVER, Esq; Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature, Court of Assize and General Goal Delivery over this Province, by the House of REPRESENTATIVES, in General Court assembled, in their own Name & in the Name of all the Inhabitants of this Province, February 24, 1774.
WHEREAS their late Majesties King William & Queen Mary of glorious Memory, from their great regard to the English Constitution, and earnest Desire to establish the same in this his Majesty's Province, did by their Charter made and granted in the Third Year of their Reign, establish and ordain, that all and every of the Subjects of them their Heirs and Successors, which shall come to and inhabit within this Province and Territory, and every of their Children which should happen to be born there, or on the Seas in coming thither or returning from hence, should have and enjoy all Liberties and Immunities of free and natural Subjects within any of the Dominions of them, their Heirs and Successors, to all Intents, Constructions and Purposes whatever, as if they and every of them were born within the Realm of England.
And in the said Charter it is further granted and ordained that the Great and General Court or Assembly of the Province, which is before established in the same Charter, shall forever have full Power and Authority to erect & constitute Judicatories and Courts of Record, or other Courts, for the Hearing, Trying and Determining of all Manner of Crimes, &c.
And the said General Court or Assembly hath by the same Charter, full Power and Authority to impose and levy proportional and reasonable Assessments, Rates and Taxes, upon the Estates and Persons of all and every the Proprietors and Inhabitants of the Province, for his Majesty's Service in the necessary Defence and Support of his Majesty's Government of the Province, and the Protection and Preservation of the Inhabitants thereof: To the Intent, that the Inhabitants of this his Majesty's Province might always have and enjoy that essential Privilege of the English Constitution, of supporting the executive and judicial Officers in the Government of this Province by THE FREE GRANTS OF THE PEOPLE.
And whereas the Great and General Court or Assembly of this Province in pursuance of the Power and Authority granted as aforesaid, and of the good Intention thereof, have uninterruptedly and exclusively from the Granting of the said Charter, made Provision by their own Grants for the Support of his Majesty's said Superior Court; But many evil-minded Persons, not regarding the said Charter nor the good Intentions of the same, have of late Years combined and conspired together to put divers Constructions on the said Charter wholly inconsistent with the aforesaid Manifest Intent and Purport of the same, & destructive of English Liberties: and to introduce and establish another form of Government, and a new Mode of supporting the executive and judicial Officers of the Government. For which Intent they did by false Representations, procure to be made and passed by the Parliament of Great Britain, an act for the Establishment of a Revenue to be levied in America, & appropriated among other things for the defraying of the Charges of the Administration of

Justice in such Colonies where his Majesty should judge proper; and also by false Representations & evil Advice, have procured the Royal Grant of large Sums of Money, to be paid annually out of the said Revenue, to the Justices of the said Superior Court; by the Establishment of which, the said Justices of the said Superior Court would be aliened from any Connection with the People of this Province, for whose benefit they are and ought to be appointed, and would be indebted to his Majesty for his Grants made to them for their Services; and by Means thereof become subject to the Influence and Direction of his Majesty's Ministers of State, in Matters appertaining to the distribution of Justice in this Province; whereby a Foundation will be laid of a Union of the Department of the Judicial Powers here, with that of the King's Ministers of State in Great-Britain, than which nothing is more to be dreaded by a FREE PEOPLE.
And whereas PETER OLIVER, Esq; Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature, Court of Assize and general Goal Delivery over this Province, a Court wholly erected and constituted by the Great & General Court or Assembly by a Power granted to the said General Court by the Clause in said Charter aforementioned, well knowing the Premises but not regarding the same, with design to pervert the Constitution of this Province as established by the said Royal Charter, and to introduce into the said Court a partial, arbitrary and corrupt Administration of Justice, declining to take and receive any more the Grants of the General Assembly of this Province, did, on or about the tenth Day of January, 1774, at Boston, in the County of Suffolk, take and receive, and resolve for the future to take and receive from his Majesty's Ministers and Servants, a Grant or Salary for his Services as Chief Justice of the said Superior Court, against his own Knowledge of the said Charter & of the Way and Manner prescribed therein for the support of his Majesty's Government in the Province, & contrary to uninterrupted and approved usage and Custom, since the erecting and constituting of the said Court. And the said PETER OLIVER, Esq; continues in his said Resolution so to do, against the Opinion & Conduct of the other Judges of the said Court each of whom has declared respecting himself his Resolution to the Contrary. And whereas the unremitted Sum of FOUR HUNDRED POUNDS STERLING, granted by his Majesty and annually to be paid to the said PETER OLIVER, Esq; for his Services as Chief Justice of the said Superior Court, together with the hopes of its Augmentation, if he is still suffered to continue in his said Office, cannot fail to have the effect of a continual Bribe in his judicial Proceedings, and expose him to a Violation of his Oath.--- And by his accepting & receiving the said Sum, he hath betrayed the Corruption and Baseness of his Heart, and the sordid lust of Covetousness: In breach of his Engagement to rely solely upon the Grants of the General Assembly, necessarily implied and involved in his accepting said Office.---
And the said PETER OLIVER, Esq; by his taking and receiving the said Grant out of the Revenue unjustly levied and extorted from the Inhabitants of the American Colonies, hath as far as lay in his Power, put a Sanction on and established the said Revenue, which is a most destructive infraction of the Constitution of this Province, and a violation of the natural and most essential Rights of the People-----the exclusive Right of giving, granting and appropriating their own Property, and of judging of the Merits of their own Servants: And hath counteracted the reasonable Petitions of the Representatives of the People to his Majesty, and other their constitutional Endeavors to obtain Redress of this Grievance.
And the said PETER OLIVER, Esq; by his Conduct as aforesaid, in Defiance and Contempt of the known Sense of this People, expressly and repeatedly declared and published by their Representatives and otherwise, hath wickedly and perversely endeavoured to continue and increase the discontent and Jealousies of this People, and the Grievances aforementioned, at a Time when there is Ground to hope that his Majesty, if not otherwise determined by the Conduct of the said Peter Oliver, Esq; and the continued false Representations of others, will be graciously pleased to revoke said Grants, & order a full Redress. And the said PETER OLIVER, Esq; did on the Eighth Day of February Inst. direct and cause to be delivered to this House, a Writing under his own Hand, dat. Middleborough, February 3, 1774; the Tenor of which Writing is in the Words and Figures following, viz.
To the Honorable House of Representatives in General Court convened February 1774.
May it please your Honors,
ON the second Instant I received the Resolves of the Honorable House of the first Instant, requiring me to declare whether I had received in full of the Grants of the General Assembly made to me the last Year, and to declare explicitly whether I would for the future accept the Grants of the General Assembly of this Province as a Justice of the Superior Court, without accepting any Grant from the Crown for my Service as Justice of said Court. Permit me May it please your Honors! to state the Circumstances of my Case, as a Justice of the Superior Court.
In 1756 I was appointed as a Justice of that Court, and accepted the Office contrary to my own Inclination, but by the Persuasion of Gentlemen who were Members of the General Assembly. In this Office I have continued for above seventeen Years; and I hope your Honors will excuse me if I say, that I was never yet conscious that I had ever been guilty of any Violations of the Laws of my Country in a judicial Capacity, but have always endeavored to act with that Fidelity required in so important a Character; and with this Sentiment I doubt not of ever consooling myself in the Approbation of my own Mind.
During this seventeen Years, I have annually felt the great Inconveniences of serving in my judicial Office, by suffering in my private Business, and not having a Salary which would any Ways support my Family, which was large, and I cannot charge myself with any Degree of Extravagance in the Support of it; and I wish I may not have been too parsimonious for the Dignity of the Province, in my judicial Character.
May it please your Honors!
I can with the strictest Truth assert, that I have suffered since I have been upon the Bench of the Superior Court, in the Loss of my Business and not having sufficient to maintain my Family from my Salaries, above THREE THOUSAND POUNDS STERLING!---I have repeatedly thrown myself on former Assemblies for Relief, but never have obtained any Redress:--- I have repeatedly attempted to resign my Office, but have been dissuaded from it, by respectable Gentlemen of former Assemblies, who encouraged me with Hopes of a Support, but I never received any Relief in that Way.
When his Majesty, of his great Goodness and Favour granted me a Salary (as he did to several others on the Continent in my Station) it was without any Application of mine; and when it was granted, I thought it my incumbent Duty, from the Respect and Gratitude which I owed to his Majesty: from a Sense of that Fidelity which I owed to my Country, by being enabled to discharge the Duty of my Office in being less embarrassed in my Mind whilst in the Execution of it, and being more at Liberty to
qualify myself for the Duties of it in Vacation Time: as also from a Principle of Justice due to my Family, & to others: On these Accounts, & not from any avaricious Views, I was obliged to take his Majesty's Grant from the 5th of July 1772 to 5th of January 1774, and have taken the Grant of the Province only until July 1774.
These Considerations, May it please your Honors; urged me to take his Majesty's Grant; and I cannot but hope that the Candor of the Honorable House of Representatives will excuse me in so doing, as what proceeded from Necessity and not Avarice or the least Disregard to the Sentiments of the honorable House. May it please your Honors!
With Respect to my not taking any future Grant from his Majesty; permit me to say, that without his Majesty's Leave I dare not refuse it, least I should incur a Censure from the best of Sovereigns. And as the Tenor of the Grant is during my Residence in the Province as Chief Justice, I receive it as during good Behavior, which in my Opinion preserves me from any undue Bias in the Execution of my Office.
I am with the most profound Respect for the Honorable House of Representatives, their most obedient humble Servant, Middleborough, Feb. 3. 1774. PETER OLIVER.
In which writing the said Peter Oliver, Esq; hath ungratefully, falsely and maliciously laboured to lay Imputation & scandal upon this his Majesty's Government; insolently and contemptuously insinuating, that by the Parsimony, Injustice and Ingratitude of the said Government, in withholding from him an adequate and due Reward for his Services as a Justice of the said Superior Court, he hath been greatly Impoverished, & that therefore he was obliged to take his Majesty's Grant from a Principle of Justice due to his Family and others. Whereas, in fact, the Rewards granted to him by this Government were always fully equal to the Merit of his Services as a Justice of the said Court; and it is well known that the said Peter Oliver, Esq; before his Advancement to a Seat in the Superior Court, had been usually employed in the Business of Trade, Husbandry and Manufactures, to which he had applied his Mind: And that he was appointed to said Office without previous Education and regular Study in the Law.
And the said Peter Oliver, Esq; by his Conduct as aforesaid, hath misrepresented & traduced this Government, & endeavoured to alienate the Hearts of his Majesty's liege People of this Province from his Majesty, and set a Division between them; to introduce into said Court a partial and corrupt Administration of Justice, destroy the present Form of Government in this Province, & establish an arbitrary and tyrannical Government in its stead.
Wherefore this House of Representatives, in their own name, and in the Name of all the Inhabitants of this Province, DO IMPEACH THE SAID PETER OLIVER, Esq; of the high Crimes & Misdemeanors aforesaid. And saving to themselves by protestation, the Liberty of exhibiting at any Time hereafter, to the Governor and Council, or to the Council only, any complaints or allegations against the said Peter Oliver, Esq; for any Incompetency, Incapacity or Disability for the Execution of his High Office; or any other Accusation or Impeachment against the said Peter Oliver, Esq; for any other Crimes and Misdemeanors by him done and committed. Also of replying to the Answers which the said Peter Oliver, Esq; shall make to the said Articles, or any of them; and of offering Proof of the Premises, or any of their Impeachments, Accusations & Complaints that shall be exhibited by them, as the Case shall require. They pray that the said Peter Oliver, Esq; Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature, Court of Assize and General Goal Delivery over this whole Province, may be put to Answer to all & every of the Premises; and that such Proceedings, Examinations, Trials & Judgments may be had thereon, as may be agreeable to Law and Justice.
HARTFORD, February 25.
We hear from Woodstock, that on Monday the 4th of Jan. one Hannah Corbin, belonging to that place, was apprehended for forgery, & being brought before Nathaniel Child, & Samuel Chandler, Esq; for trial, confessed that she had forged a note of hand of 6l. against Lt. Leonard of Killingly, and carried it to Mr. Pain, Merchant at the same time presenting him with an order from the said Leonard, to let her have Goods to the amount of said note, which order she confessed to have also forged. Mr. Pain, a little surprised that Lt. Leonard had not made application personally, asked her the reason, but being determined not to be caught by so slender a gin, she told him that Mr. Leonard had broke his leg.---Mr. Pain knowing Lt. Leonard to be good enough for the Money, furnished her with what she wanted. She then dressed herself in man's apparel, assumed the name of John Heart, went to Mr. Lemuel Morris and requested that he would entrust her with 6l. in Goods telling him she was the son of Mr. Abraham Skinner in the west society of Woodstock; but being a stranger to him, he refused to trust her without a recommendation, she visited him a second and third time, and had forged a recommendation from Mr. Ebenezer Pain, but Mr. Morris began to be suspicious of the pretended Mr. Heart, and finally refused to let his goods go without cash.---Startled at being suspected by Mr. Morris, and fearing a discovery, resolved to make the best use of her time, she waited on her former friend Mr. Pain (still assuming the name of John Heart) and told him that Lt. Leonard was dead, and that he had come thither with an intention to marry Miss Hannah Corbin, that he intended to carry her down the country to live with his parents, till he should get matters in order for house-keeping, that Hannah had informed him of a note of hand and an order she left with him the said Pain, and as the man was dead that the note of hand was against, she was desirous that the affair should be settled before she left the parish, and that he being a stranger did not imagine that Mr. Pain would trust him without a recommendation, for which reason he had obtained one from Mr. Carter, Tavern Keeper in Dudley; but unluckily for poor Hannah, a man happened to be in Mr. Pain's shop, who told Mr. Pain that it was no other than Hannah Corbin who was then talking to him; on which the pretended Mr. Heart went off, but was followed, apprehended, and after the trial aforementioned, she was committed to Windham Goal.
PHILADELPHIA, February 9.
Yesterday was slaughtered A STEER, allowed by good Judges to be the fattest and most beautiful Beef ever killed in this City. He was under six Years old, and, although far being the largest killed here, many bets were depending on his weight, which was determined by 3 Gentlemen of the first character, who were present and saw him weighed.---His four Quarters weighed 1332 lb.---Hide 149---Tallow 113---Head 30. Tongue 11---Heart 10---Feet 33---In the whole 1978 lb.---The Belly was not weighed but it sold
for 3 Dollars. This steer when three Weeks old was drove with its Dam 70 miles to this City. May the Friends of America be FED with SUCH BEEF, and may her Enemies LONG for it, and be disappointed!
Boston, Monday March 7.
YESTERDAY Afternoon, Capt. Gorham arrived here in a Brig, in 9 Weeks from London, by whom we have Advice of the Arrival of the Captains White, Symes, Callahan, and Cales, from this Place, also the Earl of Halifax Packet in 36 Days from New-York. By Capt. Gorham we have the public Prints to the 31st of December, which contain but few Articles of Intelligence, which are as follows, viz.
To the PRINTER of the Morning CHRONICLE.
SIR,
FINDING that two Gentlemen have been unfortunately engaged in a Duel, about a Transaction and its Circumstances of which both of them are totally ignorant and innocent, I think it incumbent on me to declare (for the Prevention of further Mischief, as far as such a Declaration may contribute to prevent it) that I alone am the Person who obtained, and transmitted to Boston, the Letters in Question.---Mr. W. could not communicate them, because they were never in his Possession; and for the same Reason, they could not be taken from him by Mr. T. They were not of the Nature of "private Letters between Friends;" They were written by public Officers to Persons in public Station, on public Affairs, and intended to procure public Measures: They were therefore handed to other public Persons who might be influenced by them to produce those Measures; their Tendency was to incense the Mother Country against her Colonies, and by the Steps recommended, to widen the Breach, which they effected. The chief Caution expressed with Regard to Privacy, was to keep their Contents from the Colony Agents, who the Writers apprehended might return them, or Copies of them, to America. That Apprehension was, it seems, well founded; for the first Agent who laid his Hands on them, thought it his Duty to transmit them to his Constituents. B. FRANKLIN, Agent for the House of Representatives of the Massachusetts-Bay.
Craven-Street, December 25, 1773.
L O N D O N, December 3.
Orders have been dispatched in the Course of the last Week to Ireland, for the immediate Embarkation of Three Regiments to be sent to Boston and New-York.
The Worcester Election, we hear, has cost the returned Candidates no less a Sum than 24,000l
Extract of a Letter from Leghorn, Nov. 10.
"We have just received Advice from the Archipelago, of an Action which lately happened between a Squadron of Russians, and a Fleet of Turks, consisting of Seven Ships of War, and several Gallies, off the Isle of Scio: The Action lasted several Hours, and with great Fury on both Sides, but at last Victory declared for the Russians, who took several of the Vessels, and sunk Two of the largest; the Rest made their Escape to Sea, but much shattered."
Dec. 7. On Sunday the Lizard Man of War, Capt. Finless, arrived at Portsmouth, with an Express from Boston.
Dec. 8. Lord Temple, though he has totally declined taking any Part in Administration, means, we hear, in Conjunction with his noble Brother-in-law, to attend closely to his Duty in Parliament the ensuing Sessions, in order to defend the Liberties, and to watch over the Interests of his injured Countrymen.
It is imagined that a certain Party, who have partly lain by since the Death of the late Mr. Grenville, intend to take a very important and decisive Part in public Affairs, at the Meeting of Parliament.
The following Change in Administration was yesterday publicly talked of at St. James's; Lord North to resign, and be created a Peer; Mr. Jenkinson, to be Chancellor of the Exchequer; Lord Gower First Lord of the Treasury; Mr. Cornwall a Lord of the Treasury; Lord Sandwich Lord privy Seal; and the Duke of Grafton to be first Lord of the Admiralty, with Mr. T. Bradshaw for his private Secretary.
Dec. 15. The Magazine which blew up at Abbeville, we are assured, contained no less than 46,595 pounds of powder; and the total Loss occasioned by it in Houses, Goods, &c. amounted on the lowest calculation to 472,318 livres, or above 40,000 l. It is thought to be one of the greatest Explosions that has happened since Gunpowder was first invented or discovered.
Dec. 16. If the Licentiousness of the Press should be corrected, Mr. Wilkes, it is reported, will put himself under the infectious Paw, and turn Methodist Preacher. Preparatory thereto, it is said, he hath already barter'd some Copies of the Essay on Woman, for a Set of George Whitefield's Sermons, and was lately seen with a gloomy and rueful countenance in the Bird-cage Walk, reading the Pilgrim's Progress.
A Letter from Boston mentions, that several Outrages had been committed against his Majesty's Ships at Rhode Island; and that Admiral Montague was preparing to sail for that Place, in order to enquire into the Disturbances which frequently happen in that Island.
Dec. 17. A general Officer of high Distinction, we are assured, is to be shortly sent to Berlin, in order to negotiate a Matter of great Importance relative to the Arrears of his Prussian Majesty.
Wednesday Gen. Keppel kissed his Majesty's Hand on being appointed Commander in chief, of the King's Forces in Ireland.
Dec. 18. A Scheme, it is said, is in contemplation, if not in great Forwardness for putting our Trade to North America, upon a respectable, Permanent, and advantageous Footing, and that entirely (it is believed) to the satisfaction of the Colonies and the Mother Country.
The above is one of the first Objects intended to be taken under Consideration in the ensuing Session; and, it is said, will do equal Honor to the Disposition and political Knowledge of the Minister.
The Susannah, Smith, from Boston, and Goulborough, was lost on an Island near Shetland.
Dec. 21. We are assured from good Authority, that Governor Pownall will positively go over to Boston early in the Spring, in order to take the Management of that Quarter under his Care, as he is daily pressed by the Ministry as the only Person who can restore Peace and Tranquility to that disordered Part of the Globe.
25. Yesterday, about half an hour after 11 o'clock, a Court of hustings was held at Guildhall for the Sheriffs to make a declaration on whom the election fell to represent this city in Parliament, in the room of the late Sir Robert Ladbroke; when the Sheriffs made the report, that the Right Hon'ble, the Lord Mayor had a majority of 214 voters, & they declared him duly elected.
By a letter from Berlin, dated the 19th instant, we are informed, that her Majesty, the Queen of Prussia, is dangerously ill, so that her life was not expected.

Dec. 29. An English man of war lying too near the coast off Algiers, the Dey desiring the Captain to push further off in the sea, the Captain complied, but the Dey not thinking the ship far enough, sent a second time, adding, he should not afford protection to any Christian slaves, who might escape, with intention to take refuge on board. The Captain replied, he could not comply with this order; upon which the Dey ordered the English Consul (Mr. Murray) to quit the city of Algiers that instant; and he is now on board the man of war.
Dec. 24. It is said that 4000 additional Men for the Navy will be voted for the Service of the Year 1774.
Dec. 30. A treaty of marriage is now said to be on foot between Prince Earnest of Mecklenburgh, her Majesty's eldest Brother, and a Princess of the House of Wolfenbuttle, a relation of our Sovereign.
We are informed that a plan has been framed by the Ministry, which will produce great emoluments to government, & render the East-India company more respectable than it has been at any former period.
Important dispatches, said to be relating to some new terms of pacification between the Turks & Russians, were received a few days since at St. James's, and answers to them are now preparing at the Secretary's Office.
Extract of a Letter from his Majesty's ship Raven, in the Mediterranean.
We are now bound express to the Admiral, at Mahon; we have been off Algiers with the Alarm, which ship is immediately sailing with the Consul to England. The Algerines seem determined to commit hostilities; if so, they will greatly annoy the trade before we can prevent them.
BOSTON, March 3, 1774.
Departed this Life, February 26th, Mr. JOSEPH ROBERTS, aged 80. He descended from a Branch of an ancient Family, long seated in the County of Cornwall, in England: whose Great Grandfather was Brother to Sir Richard Roberts of Truro, Knight Baronet, created Baron of Truro, by King James the First. His Grandfather who came over into New-England about the Year 1649, was Simon Roberts, the youngest Brother of John, Marmaduke, and Arnold Roberts, one of whom (or one of their Uncles) was one of King Charles's Generals. He, said Simon Roberts was Cousin to Lady Jane Roberts, who married to Charles Lumbert, Earl of Cavan in Ireland, and to Lord John Roberts of Truro, who was Lord Privy Seal to King Charles 2d., who was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, created Viscount of Bodmin and Earl of Radnor by King Charles the 2d, A. D. 1679. Grandfather of this Mr. Joseph Roberts; by his Grandmother's side, was Alexander Baker, one of the first Settlers of this Metropolis. In Governor Belcher's Day, when he was in his Prime, he was noted for celebrating the Charter Liberties of this Government: He has left a Widow, two Sons and a Daughter. His Eldest Son was Educated at Harvard College, and graduated there 1741.
BOSTON, March 7. Capt. Graham, we are told, has about 40 Casks of Tea on Board, said to be private Property, & consigned to some Persons here; but what will be the Fate thereof, a very short Time will discover. Certainly not suffered to be landed in Boston.
Last Saturday the House of Representatives ordered the Secretary to lay on their Table, a complete List of the Appointments of Civil Officers, which have been made, during the Administration of Governor Hutchinson; together with the Names of the Councillors present at each Appointment.
Saturday last being the anniversary of the 5th of March, upon which Day, agreeable to a Vote of the Town last Year, a Meeting was duly notified, and accordingly met at Faneuil-Hall at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon; and after choosing Mr. Sam. Adams, Moderator, they adjourned to the Old South-Meeting-House, where, after the Moderator mentioning the Occasion of their thus assembling, the Hon. JOHN HANCOCK, Esquire delivered an ORATION, on the dangerous Tendency of Standing Armies being placed in free and populous Cities, and to perpetuate the Memory of the horrid Massacre on the Evening of the 5th of March 1770, by a Party of Soldiers under the Command of Captain Thomas Preston, belonging to the 29th Regiment. At this Meeting a vast Concourse of People attended to hear the ORATION, which lasted about three Quarters of an Hour, and was received with universal Approbation. After it was delivered, a Committee was appointed to return the Orator the Thanks of the Town, and also to request a Copy for the Press: Another Committee was also chosen to engage a suitable Person to pronounce an Oration at the next Anniversary; after which the Meeting was dissolved.
At the breaking up of the above Meeting, a very generous Collection was made for the poor unfortunate Christopher Monk, now about twenty one Years of Age (then present, and on whose piteous Condition Mr. Hancock very affectionately addressed the Audience) who was thought to be mortally wounded on the fatal Evening of the Massacre, but yet remains a Shocking Monument of that horrid Transaction.
As the Anniversary this Year happened on Saturday, the Evening of which Day being considered by many Persons to be the commencement of the Sabbath, the Exhibition Portraits of the premeditated Murderers, and the slaughtered Citizens, was put off till this Evening, when they they will be exposed to public View at Mrs. Clapham's Balcony in Kingstreet.
We hear from Princetown, New-Jersey, that the Officers & Students of the College there, have unanimously agreed to drink no more TEA.
Salem, March 8.
In Consequence of the Rescue of the 2 Prisoners, an Account of which was inserted in our last, the High Sheriff of the County, on Monday Afternoon, last Week, gave Orders to his Deputy in this Town to command the Inhabitants to meet in School-Street at 9 o'Clock the next Morning, with Arms and Ammunition according to Law, to assist the High Sheriff in the Execution of his Office; in Pursuance of which Orders, several Rundres were commanded to appear. This Body, when assembled, was to march to Marblehead, and assist the Sheriff in retaking the said Prisoners, as well as to apprehend the Principals concerned in breaking the Goal. On the other Hand, it was given out, that the Marblehead People, to the Number of 6 or 800, were arming, and were determined to repel, to the last Extremity, any Force that should be brought against them. In this critical Situation of Things, a Number of the principal Gentlemen of Marblehead were happily instrumental in effecting a Compromise; the Proprietors of the late Essex Hospital being influenced to relinquish all Demands that they might have either on the County or Sheriff, in Consequence of the Rescue and Escape of the abovementioned Prisoners, and to discontinue all Proceedings respecting the burning of the Hospital. This Measure, which restored Peace, was reported abroad just before the Time at which the People were ordered to assemble, and the Cause of much Joy and Satisfaction to the Town in general.
Capt. Edward Allen, of this Place, left Charlestown, South-Carolina, on the 19th ult. and arrived at the Vineyard last Week where he left his Vessel. He informs that the East-India Company's TEA, at Charlestown, was like to be all ruined by being stored in a very damp Place. Yesterday's Boston Gazette says
was all destroyed.-----Capt. Allen left the following Vessels at the Vineyard, last Friday viz.-----The Captains Ingersol, Phelps and Brown, of this Place.-----Captains Dennison, Smith, Parsons, Gee and Burnam of Cape Ann.-----Captain Hill of Portsmouth, and six Fishing Schooners. Captain Allen in crossing the Sound saw a Ship standing to the Westward, which he took to be the Packet, by her Pendant's flying.
DIED. Mr. Joshua Richardson, of this Town. Æ. 28. Mr. George Felt, Æ. 16.-----At Danvers, Capt. Thomas Porter, -----At Boston, the Hon. ANDREW OLIVER, Esq; Lieutenant-Governor of this Province, Æ. 68.-----Mrs. Sufannah Wheatley, Æ. 65.-----At Northborough, Mr. Tho's Taylor, Æ. 80.
PORTSMOUTH, March 11.
Last Monday Evening was Married, by the Rev. Dr. HAVEN, the Rev. JOSEPH WILLARD, of Beverly, in the Massachusetts, to Miss Polly SHEAFE, fourth Daughter of JACOB SHEAFE Esq; of this Town, Merchant.
We hear from Boston, that the SAVAGES of that Place, on Monday Evening last, having Information, that 40 Casks more of that precious Herb TEA, had arrived the Day before in Capt. Gotham, proceeded to the Long Wharf, & consumed the whole.
On the 3d Inst. came on before the Honorable the Superior Court, in this Town, in the Presence of a great Concourse of People, the Trial of John Tolford of Chester, for the Murder of Mr. Thomas Wells, of the same Place, in Dec. last, when it was clearly proved he shot Wells dead on the Spot with a loaded Musket; but it also appearing by a number of Witnesses, he was at the Time disordered in his Senses, he was acquitted.
It is hop'd and expected, that this will be a sufficient Warning, and that the Friends of the above Mr. Tolford, and the Friends of all other disordered Persons will take proper Care of them in Time, particularly keep Guns, &c. out of his and their Way.
Last Wednesday arrived here from the West Indies the Vessel in which capt. Haynes went out Master, by which we have a confirmation of Mr. John Odiorne's Death.
   CUSTOM HOUSE, PISCATAQUA, March, 10th, FROM.     Inward Entries,   Sloop Betsey, and Polly, James Johnson, Tobago.   Schooner Non Pareil, Robert Follett, Dominica & St. Eustatia.   Clear'd for Departure FOR.   Sloop Hannah, Abner Lowell, Philadelphia.   Sloop Polly, William Noyes, West-Indies.   Brig Elizabeth, Samuel Briard, Ditto.   Brig Two Brothers, William Stickney, Ditto.  
Province of New-Hampshire, By his EXCELLENCY JOHN WENTWORTH, Esq; Captain-General, Governor, and Commander in Chief, in and over His Majesty's Province aforesaid, and Vice-Admiral of the same.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the ASSEMBLY of this his Majesty's Province aforesaid, stands prorogued to Thursday the 10th of March current, & the Time of their legal Dissolution approaching so near, that it will not be for his Majesty's Service for them to meet at that Time:
I Have therefore tho't fit to, and hereby do Dissolve the said Assembly; and the said Assembly is in his Majesty's Name hereby Dissolved; of which all Persons are to take Notice, and govern themselves accordingly.
GIVEN at the Council-Chamber, in Portsmouth, the 7th Day of March, in the 14th Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of GOD, of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, KING, Defender of the Faith, &c. Annoque Domini, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Four.
J. WENTWORTH. By His EXCELLENCY's Command, GEORGE KING, D. Sec'y.
***** A Quantity of the best new Waterfowl and Lisbon FEATHERS, TO BE SOLD BY Joseph Bass, At the Shop next Door to the Printing-Office, Cheap for Cash.
LOST, by the Subscriber,
between Durham and Portsmouth, on the Road, over Stratbam Bridge, about the 10th of February last, sundry Notes of Hand, Receipts, & other Papers, wrapped up in an old News Paper, and tied with a red String. Whoever shall take up or procure the same, so that the Subscriber may have them again shall be handsomely Rewarded, by JOHN SULLIVAN. Portsmouth, March 2d, 1774.
ALL PERSONS Indebted to, or that have Demands on the Estate of Lt Thomas Hutchins, late of Kittery, deceas'd, are desir'd to bring in their Accounts to Nicholas Weeks, Junr. of Kittery, aforesaid, Executor to the last Will of said deceas'd, in order for settlement.
Friday April the Fifteenth,
At the House of Capt. JOHN STAVERS, Innholder in Portsmouth, at 4 o'Clock Afternoon, WILL BE SOLD AT PUBLIC VENDUE,
A New Dwelling-House,
Pleasantly situated on Spring Hill, as well accommodated for Trade as any in the Town; it is almost finished together with a good Ware House, Yard, Garden Spot, and almost every Convenience that can be mentioned; with an excellent Cellar, in which is two good Arches; Now in the Occupation of Mr. Benjamin Parker. Conditions of Sale to be known at time & place of sale.
EDWARD HACKETT
Opens his DANCING SCHOOL on the 24th of March Instant, at the Assembly House in Portsmouth, where he will instruct such GENTLEMEN and LADIES as incline to attend; and the utmost Pain and Care will be taken with them. The time for Attendance will be on Thursdays in the Afternoon, and Fridays in the Forenoon. Said HACKETT gives Notice also, that he keeps School at Newbury Port and Haverhill.
NOTICE is hereby given, that
the charitable IRISH SOCIETY intend to celebrate the FEAST of St. PATRICK, on Thursday the 17th Instant, at the House of Mr. John Stavers, Innholder in Portsmouth: Tickets to be had at the Bar of said Hou's.-----Dinner to be on the Table precisely at 2 o'Clock.
JUST PUBLISH'D, THE Royal American Magazine,
OR, UNIVERSAL REPOSITORY AND AMUSEMENT, FOR JANUARY AND FEBRUARY 1774. The Subscribers in Portsmouth, York, Berwick, New Castle, Dover, Windham, and Kittery, are desir'd to apply to Mr. ISAAC WILLIAMS of Portsmouth for their BOOKS. PRINTED by I. THOMAS of BOSTON.
TO BE SOLD A Likely Negro Wench,
About Nineteen Years of Age, born in this Country, and can do any Sort of Household Work, with a fine healthy Female Child three Weeks old. Enquire of the Printer.
LOST some time this Week,
Off of Chebicho Point, a small Mast roughly hew'd to a nineteen Inch diameter, about 63 Feet long, not marked, the Wood in some places not touched with the hewing, is considerable sweeping one Way, about one Foot of the unbew'd Wood left above the Head, something galled in hauling since hew'd. Any one that shall take up said Mast, and give Notice to the Subscriber, shall be handsomely Rewarded by Ebenezer Sullivan. Berwick, Feb. 4, 1774.
GEORGE BOYD,
BOUND for Europe, in April next, requests all Persons in America, that have any Demands on him for Cash, to apply to him and receive the same, also requests those who are indebted to him for Cash to make immediate Payment. He likewise notifies the Country in general that he will execute any Orders for Goods committed to him, agreeable to their own Memorandum, at an Advance that may be agreed on, and give Twelve Months Credit, after the Arrival of the Goods at this Port. Said BOYD would be willing to encourage every industrious Person, that is settling the New Lands, and any that can be well recommended, may be supplied at the above Credit. Post Ash and other Produce will be taken in Pay. He likewise would be glad to supply any Shop Keepers in Town with Goods, at a very low Advance, and give the above Credit, as said Boyd is desirous of keeping the Money in the Province. Portsmouth, 24th Feb. 1774.
To be sold, a PEW, in the Rev.
Doctor Langdon's Meeting House, well situated. Enquire of Richard Cutts Shannan.
To be sold a small Schooner about eighteen Tons Burthen, suitable for Fishing, one half to be paid in Cash on delivery, the other in twelve Months. Enquire of Edward Sargent at New-Castle.
*****

PROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Province Excise.
ON THURSDAY the Thirty-First Day of MARCH Inst. will be exposed to SALE at PUBLIC VENDUE, to the highest Bidder, by the Committee appointed by Vote of the GENERAL-ASSEMBLY, for that Purpose, at the House of James Stoodly, Esq; in Portsmouth, the PROVINCE EXCISE on SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS, granted by an Act passed in the 5th Year of his late Majesty's Reign, entitled an Act for granting unto his Majesty an Excise on several Liquors, &c. &c. The said EXCISE will be sold for only one Year, to commence from the second Tuesday in November last, and in Five separate Divisions, in the following Manner.
COUNTY of ROCKINGHAM.
The First Division to include all the Towns & Parishes within the County of Rockingham.
COUNTY of STRAFFORD.
The Second Division to include all the Towns & Parishes within the County of Strafford.
COUNTY of HILLSBOROUGH.
The Third Division to include all the Towns & Parishes within the County of Hillsborough.
COUNTY of CHESHIRE.
The Fourth Division to include all the Towns & Parishes within the County of Cheshire.
COUNTY of GRAFTON.
The Fifth Division to contain all the Lands in the Province, not comprehended in the other Divisions, including all the Towns and Parishes within the County of Grafton.
Conditions of Sale shall be made known at the Time and Place of Sale.
JONATHAN WARNER, Chairman. Portsmouth, March 1st 1774.
St. George de Viart,
Who has resided for Three Years last past at Salem, and taught Dancing, Fencing, and the French Language, there, at Marblehead and Gloucester, to general Approbation, having been favoured with encouragement to open Schools in this Town for teaching the same polite and useful Accomplishments, begs leave to acquaint the Public, that he proposes to attend his Dancing-School every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, from Two o'clock in the Afternoon, till Five, at the Assembly-Room; his Fencing-School on the same Days, from Five o'clock in the Evening, till Eight, at the same Place; and French School from Six o'clock, till Eight in the Evening, at the same Place on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. He proposes also to Teach Dancing to any young Gentlemen whose Business will not permit them to attend in the Day, at the same Place on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday Evenings, from Eight o'clock till Ten.
Mr. De Viart intends opening his Dancing-School, on the above-mentioned Days, in the First Week of March next; and his other Schools as soon as a sufficient Number of Schollars apply.
Mr. De Viart's Terms may be known by applying to him, at his Lodgings, at Mr. Gerrish's, in King-Street.
Portsmouth, 16th Feb. 1774.
Bretton-Woods.
Whereas the proprietors of the Township of Bretton Woods, at a legal Meeting held in Portsmouth in the County of Rockingham, in the Province of New Hampshire the 29th Day of October 1773, Voted that a Tax of Two Pounds thirteen Shillings should be assessed on each Proprietors Right of Land in said Township; and also at said Meeting, voted another Tax of one pound four shillings should be assessed on each Proprietors Right of Land in said Township, and I having a Warrant from under the Hands and Seals of the Assessors committed to collect the same; I do hereby Notify and Warn the Proprietors of said Bretton-Woods to pay the said Taxes or Assessments to me at Portsmouth by the 22d Day of March next, or their Lands will be advertised for Sale, for the Payment of the same, as the Law directs.
D. FOWLE, Collector.
Portsmouth, February 24, 1774.
Warrantee and Quitclaim Deeds, Justices Blank, Bail Bonds, Shipping Papers, &c. Sold at the Printing Office.
TO BE SOLD OR LETT.
An exceeding good FARM,
Lying all together, well Fenced, in Deerfield, within half a Mile of the Meeting House, well weeded, together with good Pasturing, Plowing and Mowing, with a young Orchard; and is well watered: On the Premises is a good House, Barn and Well, &c. with other Accommodations; now in the Occupation of THOMAS SIMPSON, Esq; Whoever inclines to buy or hire the same, must apply to CLEMENT MARCH, Esq; of Greenland, before the 25th of March, for then it is to be enter'd upon.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Dartmouth Township.
TO THE WORSHIPFUL SAMUEL PENHALLOW, Esq; One of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Rockingham, in the Province aforesaid, Greeting.
WE the Subscribers Owners of more than one sixteenth part of the Township of Dartmouth, in said Province, desire you would call a Meeting of the Proprietors of said Township, at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton, Innholder in Portsmouth, on the 16th Day of March current, at six o'clock P. M. then and there to act on the following Matters. 1. To choose a Moderator and Proprietors Clerk. 2 To agree upon & vote such Sum or Sums of Money to be raised on each original Grantee's Right, as will pay their proportion of the Cost of taking out the Charter, surveying the Out Lines of the Town, and cutting and clearing two principal Roads through the Town already finished. 3. To choose Assessors, and a Collector for said Taxes. 4. To choose a proprietor's Treasurer. 5. To consider of and agree upon the necessary Measures to prosecute the Settlement of the Township. 6. To agree upon some Method to call future Meetings.
JOSIAH WILLARD, JOHN HURD.
In Pursuance of the foregoing Request, I do hereby notify and warn a Meeting of said proprietors of Dartmouth, to be held at the time and place above requested, then and there to act upon the several Matters therein mentioned.
SAMUEL PENHALLOW.
Portsmouth, March 2, 1774.
Province of New Hampshire.
[ Samborton. ]
WHEREAS the Proprietors of the Township of Samborton, have been legally notified to pay an Assessment on each Proprietor's Right or Lots of Land in said Township, to me the Subscriber, and several of them being yet delinquent in the Whole or Part; this is therefore to notify such Persons, that these delinquent Proprietors Lands will be exposed to Sale at public Vendue, at the House of Mr. Simon Dearborn, Innholder in Epping, the 20th Day of April next, at one of the Clock, in the Afternoon, to pay said Taxes, with incidental Charges, the delinquent Proprietors Names are as follows, with the Sums due.
Lawful Money.
   1st. Division. 2d. Division.   l. s. d. l. s. d.     Daniel Samborn 0 0 0 0 4 7   Jonathan Samborn 0 4 0 0 0 0   Aaron Rawlins 0 8 0 0 0 0   John Fogg 0 4 0 0 0 0   Jonathan Longfellow 0 8 0 0 16 0   Jethro Pearson 0 0 0 0 5 6   John Rawlins 0 0 0 0 16 0   Jeshah Fogg 0 4 0 0 0 0   Jeshah Samborn 0 0 0 0 13 6   Jeshah Smith 0 8 0 0 16 0   Thomas Rawlins 0 0 0 0 7 6   Joseph Hoit 0 1 5 0 0 0   Caleb Rawlins 0 0 0 0 12 0   Benjamin Mason 0 4 0 0 0 0   Jonathan Chase 0 0 0 0 2 6   Edward Taylor 0 0 0 0 7 3   William Chase 0 0 0 0 16 0  
SETH FOGG, Collector.
Epping March 1, 1774.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Feb. 15, 1774.
§ Canaan. §
THE Proprietors of the Township of Canaan, are hereby Notified, that by Assessment there is a TAX laid on each Right or Share of Land in said Town, by a Vote of said Proprietors, at a legal Meeting held Nov. 22d 1773, the Sum of three Dollars: the proprietors are desired to pay said Sum of three Dollars to me the Subscriber at my Dwelling House in said Canaan, by the first Day of April next, or their Land will be advertised for Sale immediately, agreeable to Law.
SAMUEL JONES, Collector.
N. B. The above Sum of three Dollars was voted for the Purpose of compleating the Four first Divisions of Lots in said Town.
TO THE WORSHIPFUL
Hunking Wentworth, Esq;
WE the Proprietors, of more than one sixteenth Part of a certain Tract of Land, within the Township of SUCCESS, containing Eight Thousand Acres, Voted and granted by the Proprietors of said Township to us the Subscribers upon certain Conditions, mentioned in a Vote of the Proprietors of said Township at their Meeting August 3d. 1773. Request that a Meeting of the Proprietors of said Tract of Eight Thousand Acres, may be called on Thursday the 17th Day of March 1774, at six o'clock, P. M. at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton, Innholder in Portsmouth, to chuse a Moderator, Clerk, and other Officers; likewise to raise Money to defray all necessary Expences for performing the Conditions of said Vote, also to agree upon some Method for calling Proprietors Meetings in future and to transact any other Business that may be necessary.
Benjamin Mackay John Wigglesworth Supply Clap George Libbey Richard Hart Hugh Henderson,
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Rockingham, ff:
PURSUANT to which Request, I do hereby notify and warn the Proprietors of the aforesaid Tract of Eight Thousand Acres, to meet at the time and place and for the purposes aforesaid.
H. WENTWORTH, Justices Peace.
Portsmouth, Feb. 22. 1774,
|| Northumberland. ||
THE Proprietors of Northumberland are Notified to meet at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton, Innholder in Portsmouth, on Friday the 18th Day of March next, for the following Purposes, 1. To choose a Moderator. 2. To choose a Collector to collect what taxes remain due. 3. To see what Money they will vote toward building a Bridge over Ammonoosuck River. 4. To receive the Report of the Committee for recording the Lots pitched, and to confirm the same; also to receive the Report of the Committee for ascertaining the Deficiency of some of the Meadow Lots, and to make such Additions as shall be thought equitable. 5. To see what Encouragement they will give to a Blacksmith to move into said Town. 6. To determine concerning the Land from Bog Brook to tree No. 15. 7. To see if the Proprietors will have the dividing Lines of Meadow and House Lots run and spotted; and if they will furnish a Canoe or Boat with other Necessaries for crossing Ammonoosuck until the Bridge shall be built. 8. To vote any Moneys that may be thought necessary for compleating the Road, and a Collector to receive the same. 9. To know if the Proprietors will pay the Bill for looking out Land back of said Township.
THOMAS MARTIN, Pro Clerk.
Portsmouth, Jan. 10. 1774.
Three Months is further allowed
From the first Day of January last, by the Honorable JOHN SHERBURNE, Esq; Judge of Probate of Wills, &c. for the County of Rockingham, for the Commissioners to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of Elisha Bryard, late of Portsmouth, in said County, deceased, Intestate, represented Insolvent, We the Subscribers do hereby Notify said Creditors, that we will attend that Business at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton, Innholder in Portsmouth, on the first and last Mondays in March next, from 5 to 8 o'clock P. M. on said Days.
Portsmouth, Feb. } GEORGE HART, 25, 1774. } JOSHUA BRACKETT!
A FARM in Kittery,
TO BE SOLD THIS SPRING,
By JOHN NEWMARCH, Esq;
Of PORTSMOUTH,
Together with a large Dwelling HOUSE, BARN and ORCHARD, with upwards of 40 Acres of Mowing, Planting and Pasture Land, well water'd, adjoining the Country Road, leading from Kittery Ferry to Old York, and near the Ferry. For further Information, enquire of said NEWMARCH.
WE the Subscribers, being appointed Commissioners by the Honorable JOHN FENTON, Esq; Judge of the Probate of Wills in & for the County of Grafton, to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of ALEXANDER PHELPS late of Lime, in said County, Esq; deceased, represented Insolvent; and Six Months being allowed for that Purpose; Notice is hereby given, that we will attend said Business at the House of Mr. Aaron Storrs, Innholder in Hanover, in said County, on the last Monday of this and the First Mondays of the Five following Months, from Two to Four o'clock, P. M.
Hanover, Feb. } BEZALEEL WOODWARD, 18, 1774. } AARON STORRS,