The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1771-06-21 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the Freshest ADVICES
Friday June 21, 1771.
THE
Vol. XV.
GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC NO. 766 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd. }
Messieurs Fowles, Please to insert the following.
To CHARLOTTE,
Y OUR Complaint of the scarcity of Gentlemen fit for Companions, is common, and my own Observations confirm the melancholly Truth.—But the grand Enquiry is, "how to remedy the Evil?" We must first investigate the Cause, before we can prescribe a Remedy. Women are said to "govern the World," if this be true, the Evil we complain of may originate with our Sex, and flow from an Error in Female Government.—If any deny that our Sex "govern the World," all will allow that our Influence is very extensive—This Influence should be applied to rectify the Errors, polish and refine the Minds of Men, and make them in all Things such as we would have them be.—If all our Sex would unite, and join their Efforts to reform the Gentlemen of the present Age, we should soon effect a glorious Reformation. We are sorry to mention their Errors and expose their Follies, but however painful, it must be done; the Wound must be prob'd before it can be heal'd. How rare a sight at this Day, is a virtuous Man in the Bloom of Youth, that amidst the enchanting Scenes of Life, keeps the End of Life in view, and treads in the shining Steps of Virtue and Honor? What Multitudes throng the dirty Paths of Vice, and go down the ignoble Stream?—Many there are whose Lives are not stain'd with fashionable Crimes, nor their Tongues defil'd with impious Oaths, yet discover no Traces of real Virtue, no celestial Beams in the Mind—Negative Goodness is but a Blank at best, and cannot suit a Mind animated with noble Views and warm with heavenly Prospects.
To accomplish the grand Design in View, we must study ourselves, (the most important of all Studies) rectify our own Minds, and govern our Conduct by the nicest Rules Reason can suggest enlightened by Revelation. Let our Example be a shining Lesson of the best Instruction. This is the Way, the only Way in which we can hope for success. We may some Times give a gentle Admonition, but it must be done with exquisite Skill—the Minds of Men are impatient of Reproof; we must not attempt to move them to Virtue by Force, but turn the various Springs of their Minds by delicate Touches.—Heaven has stamp'd Beauty and Majesty upon Virtue, and the human Mind cannot behold it without Admiration; it penetrates the most insensible Heart, and darts its Beams into the darkest Mind; at once awes and charms every Beholder! Then let us ever adorn our Minds with this irresistible Charm; and Vice in all its hateful Forms will flee before us like the Gloom of Night before the rising Day; the profane Tongue will be dumb with Silence, and the immodest Eye cease to roll: Every thing below the Dignity of Man will blush in our Presence.
We never must countenance the least Deviation from Virtue, even by a Smile, but reprove it by the amiable and striking Language of a Female Blush. The universal Desire that all Men have to obtain our Approbation & Smiles gives us a mighty Power over their Minds to form them to Virtue—Let not the present dim Aspect of Manners, prevent our Exertions, the very Attempt will be glorious, and Success will insure us immortal Honor and Pleasure. We shall then see more polished Times, and noble Companions will be as remarkably Plenty as they have been extremely scarce—Men will esteem it an Honour to wear the Hymenian Chain, and every one that findeth a Wife will with Pleasure and Gratitude acknowledge he has found a good Thing; their Minds having a noble Turn, will see the Beauty of the sacred Union, and the Blessings that attend this Divine Institution: By uniting two Streams of Pleasure in this golden Channel, the Tide of Bliss will rise to a sublimity unknown in the Circle of Celibacy—Disgraceful Scenes no more will torture the Sight, pain the virtuous Mind, or wound the delicate Ear—Thus the Mind will expand in new Fields of Pleasure and travel through the delightful Scenes until the destined Hour cuts the vital Thread and calls it to the Skies.
LUCRETIA,
Messieurs Fowles,
A MONG all the Discoveries which human Sagacity has made, one of the most important and useful to Mankind is PRINTING.—The Press has ever been patronized by the most shining Characters in every Age and Nation where its Beams have shone, and esteemed a very distinguished Blessing of Providence. None but sordid Minds, "who hate the Light lest their evil Deeds should be seen," ever wished to extinguish this Light of Heaven, or contract its freedom by inspecting Slaves.—The most able Peas have touched upon this Subject and done it that Honour which mine cannot pretend to, but the Press is such a Source of Blessings among a Free People, as to be altogether inexhaustible by the Pens of Men. I shall mention a few obvious Advantages that accrue to common People by reading the News Papers; which are designed as an Inducement to them to encourage the Press, and support its Freedoms as a Fountain from which innumerable Benefits are derived. It is the interest of every one to have some Knowledge of history, the Laws of one's Country, the Transactions of the Senate, and all publick Officers and Servants to the State; the new and useful Discoveries in the Arts and Sciences, together with innumerable other Parts of Knowledge which are conveyed in this Channel: By reading the Weekly Publication we see the important Changes that are constantly taking Place in the World, have the Characters of the most distinguished Persons as they go off the Stage of Action, are warned by the Folly and Fate of evil Men, to shun the Paths that lead to Ruin; and are instructed by the noble Example of the Wise and Good, to tread in the Steps of Virtue and Honor at the same Time we are admonished by their Departure to be active in our Day and improve the Candle of Life while it burns.—Also our Children and Servants are taught the most Useful Lessons without any Trouble or Expence; their Minds are drawn by Curiosity to read the News, whereby they learn to Read, and at the same time receive Instruction, are forming their Minds to Virtue and Honor, and are storing up useful knowledge. In short, there is no End to the Advantages which result from this great Spring of human Happiness. It is like a spacious River running through a vast Continent, whose numerous Branches and winding Streams refresh Hills and Vales, Trees and Plants of every Kind, turning Machines of various Forms, for the use of Man, quenching the Thirst of every Creature, and spreading Beauty and Pleasure over universal Nature!—But where Tyrants controul this great this important Engine, it conveys nothing to the People but a Stream of Poison which clouds the Rays of Light puts out the Public Eye, quenches the Fire of Patriotism, and excludes every celestial Beam from the human Mind! Then how important, how precious is this Gift of Heaven? Let us cultivate and defend it as we do the vital Flame! and use our utmost Endeavours that it be handed down in its full, native Freedom, to the latest Period of Time, and its golden Rays be of equal Duration with the Beams of the Sun.
F.
WILLIAMSBURG, April 19.
On Friday the 15th ult, one John Stott (an overseer for Mr. Henry Custis in Accomack county) who appeared to be a man of a lively disposition, and very industrious, came in from labour to breakfast, and after eating remarkable hearty, took a gun, that was charged, and primed her (seemingly in great hast) went out of the house as if he intend to shoot at fowl (the river being near the door); about three or four minutes after he went out, the gun was heard to go off very near, upon which a Negro wench in the kitchen, run into the house to enquire if the gun was not discharged within by some accident (Mr. Custis and his wife being then from home, and a young woman
only there); after finding she was mistaken, she returned to the kitchen, but about ten minutes after, looking out, saw a smoke at the end of a chair-house, and suspecting the wad being carelessly left had set fire to the house, again informed the young woman the chair-house was on fire; they both run round the house in order to extinguish the fire, and found the said Stott sitting upright against the end of the house, with the gun stick in his right hand, and the gun fallen on the left, and the whole load discharged in his breast which must have killed him without the least struggle. He had on two jackets, which were burnt to his breast, together with his shirt, and handkerchief to the knot. His flesh was burnt to a crisp. It was remarked after his death that the night proceeding it, he said he should be glad to be eighty years old, as his fate was to labour hard for his livelihood, and if his life was thus far advanced, his misery would be sooner at an end. The coroner's inquest brought it in self-murder.
PHILADELPHIA, May 16.
By Capt. Souder, from Georgia, we learn, that on the 23d of last Month, the new Assembly met there, and the House rechose their old Speaker, who was disapproved of by the Governor; that they proceeded to the Choice of another (who was approved) and ordered the Thanks of the House to be given to their late Speaker, for his steady, impartial, and faithful Discharge of that high and important office.—They afterwards came to the following Resolution, "That the Speaker, elected by the unanimous Consent of the House, is a high Breach of the Privilege of the House, and tends to subvert the most valuable Rights and Liberties of the People, and the Representatives, and the Members being unwilling to delay the necessary Business of the Province (already too much protracted by a hasty Dissolution of the late Assembly) did proceed to the Choice of another Member as Speaker, yet do nevertheless declare, that it ought at no time to be admitted as a Precedent." That on the 26th an ordinance was ordered to be brought into the House, for re-appointing Benjamin Franklin, Esq; Agent, to solicit the Affairs of that Province in Great-Britain, but the same Day his Excellency was pleased to dissolve the Assembly.
May 30. On Tuesday last an Express arrived here from Fort Pitt, by whom we learn, that Ensign Howard, of the 18th Regiment, was lately found drowned in Chartree's Creek; and that a Number of Indians were just come in, from their Excursions against the Southern Indians, and bro't several Scalps. Letters from Illinois, of the First of April, mention they were all well there, and very quiet.
NEW-YORK, May 23.
The 23d Inst. one Mary-Ann, a Negro-Girl, about 13 Years of Age, belonging to Mr. David Devoor, at Turtle-Bay, was found drowned near that Place.—It appeared on the Coroner's Inquest, that she had met with a Disappointment from her Sisters, who went to a Frolick (as it is termed) without taking her along with them, which had such an Effect upon her, that it was the Occasion of her destroying herself.
HARTFORD, May 21.
At East-Windsor, on the 13th instant, died very suddenly (it is supposed of an apoplexy) Zevian Evans, about 31 years of age.—She had finished, the day she died, her usual day's work of spinning, set down to sewing. As she fell on the floor, with her work in her hand, was observed by a woman in the same room, instantly taken up, and after a few gasps, all appearance of life and motion ceased.
PROVIDENCE, May 25.
We are told the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Massachusetts-Bay has received a Letter from Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Agent for the House at the Court of Great-Britain advising, that in case no irritating Accounts are received there from America, all Matters relating to the Colonies would be happily re-established on their former desirable Footing.
Since our last the Vessels that carried the 64th and 65th Regiments from hence, returned from Halifax: In Capt. Brown, came Passengers John Newton, Esq; of the Customs, and the Lady of Lieut. Governor Franklin of Halifax.
The following Paragraph is taken from a Paper under the Title of THE DEVIL.—The Meaning of it we do not know.
London, April 19.
A Plot of a very diabolical Nature for changing the Form of Government of the Mass—its Province into an independent Republic has been defeated just in the Moment of Execution, by a Difference of Opinion in regard to the first Stadholder; some inclining to Mr. O—s, others, though inferior in Number, to Mr. Cu—h—g. From high Words both Parties had Recourse to the Sword, and not a living Soul escaped the Carriage. By this lucky Event Faction is totally extirminated at Boston.
SALM, June 11.
We had, last Thursday, very severe Thunder and Lightning, by which several Trees, near this Town, were shivered, and three Oxen and a Horse killed at Danvers. A Woman at that Place, at the same Time, received a considerable Shock, but happily recovered.

Account of a bloody Battle at Alamance, in North-Carolina, between the Loyalists and Regulators, so called.
The following Account of Governor Tryon's setting out, is taken from the Southern Papers.
CHARLESTOWN, South-Carolina, May 20. Advices from North-Carolina, by Post, informs us, That his Excellency Governor Tryon marched from Newbern on Wednesday April 24th attended by Several Members of his Majesty's Council, and other Gentlemen, at the Head of Three hundred Men, a Train of Artillery, and a Number of Baggage-Waggons, for the Settlements of the People called Regulators. The same Advices add, That his Excellency was arrived at Colonel Bryan's on Neuse River, appointed for the general Rendezvous, where he reviewed the Troops under his Command, amounting to Twelve hundred Men, all in Health & high Spirits. An Express was arrived at the Camp from General Waddel to the Governor, informing his Excellency that the General was at Hillsborough, in Orange County, at the Head of Eight hundred Men, ready to march. The whole Body was expected to be at Hillsborough, in Orange County, the principal Resort of the Regulators, on Wednesday last the 17th instant.
NEWBERN, North-Carolina, April 26. The dangerous and precarious situation of the province, in having such a number of deluded and infatuated men, armed in the heart of it, made it absolutely necessary to oppose them with a force that may at once be decisive, and restore peace & tranquility to that part of the province.
The very short time in which such a number of men have been enlisted, the cheerfulness, spirit and alacrity, with which they marched, and the great emulation among gentlemen of the first rank and fortune in the province to attend the campaign, bids fair, under divine providence, to quell this dangerous insurrection, and return to their allegiance a body of men, who, under colour of redressing nominal grievances, have had nothing more in view, than overturning the civil government of this province, and reducing it to a state of anarchy and confusion.
His Excellency our Governor, is now appointed to the respectable station of governor of New-York, and, did he consult his ease and interest, would be preparing to repair thither with all imaginable speed and convenience. Instead of which we see him at the head of the provincial troops of the province undergoing a tedious and painful march of near 200 miles, exposed to all the perils of war, and sacrificing health, and domestic felicity, to the internal peace and good government of this province. Such a conduct can be actuated only by a true regard for the honour and service of his royal master, and the ease and happiness of the people of a colony committed to his government.
N. B. One or two Paragraphs in the Supplement were printed off before the Account of the Battle was received.
BOSTON, June 13.
Yesterday Morning arrived here Capt. Freeman from Cape Fear, who has favoured us with the following Account, from the CAPE-FEAR MERCURY.
WILMINGTON, May 22d.
ON Wednesday last his Excellency the Governor marched at the Head of 2000 Men into the Regulators Encampment near great Alamance; being told the Regulators intended to surround him he ordered the Artillery to fire, which they returned with a fire of small Arms; a hot Engagement ensued, which lasted an Hour and three Quarters with an almost incessant Fire on both Sides.
Butler, one of their Principals, and above 40 other Regulators were killed, and a great many wounded. Of the Loyalists 7 were killed, their Names unknown, but no Officers of Distinction. Col. Harris of Greenville and Mr. Cornell were wounded: A Ball went through the Butt of the Governor's Gun, but his Excellency was not hurt, as was at first reported.
The Regulators had 2300 Men and they expect a Reinforcement of 1000; when that arrives they intend to attack the Governor. His Excellency has sent Orders to different Counties to have more men raised. General Waddell has not yet joined the Governor, and Mr. F Campell, did not get up till after the Battle.
Mr. Gibson is raising a Company of Light Horse at Cross-Creek, and every body there that can, is going to join the Governor. It is hoped the same noble Spirit will prevail here.
Some days before the Engagement, the Regulators took Lieut. Ashe and Mr. John Walker, whom they whipped and would have put to Death, but for the Intercession of Rednad Howell; who was next Day taken by the Loyalists, when Mr. Ashe and Mr. Walker returned Howell's Civility, by interceding for him with the Governor.
There are some Letters in Town which say, James Hunter was supposed to be mortally wounded---that the Engagement lasted only half an hour and that the Regulators fled, leaving the Loyalists Masters of the Field.
In Consequence of this Intelligence, the Inhabitants of this Town and Neighbourhood thereof, assembled themselves together and in order to raise a Sum of Money by Subscription, to embody a Company of Men to assist his Excellency the Governor against the Regulators, and for defraying the Expences incident thereto.
FREDERICK GREGG, Esq; in the Chair,
The following Paper was agreed upon, and subscribed to, by almost every one of the Inhabitants, when Five Hundred Pounds Proclamation Money was subscribed in a few Hours.
North-Carolina.
WHEREAS the People who style themselves Regulators, have daringly presumed to give Battle to His Majesty's Forces commanded by his Excellency the Governor, in the back Country, and although they have happily been defeated, threaten another Attack with superior Force: WE therefore His Majesty's Dutiful and Loyal Subjects, whose Names are hereunto subscribed, being the Inhabitants of Wilmington, and the Country adjacent, in order to encourage Men to enlist in the service of the Government, - - - do hereby promise to pay to Mr. Robert Hogg, (as Treasurer) or to his Order, the Sums of Money mentioned and annexed to our respective Names as a Loan to the Public, and to be applied to pay such Expences as it may be thought necessary for the public Safety, and to give each able bodied Man who shall enlist and go to the immediate Assistance of the King's Army in this Province, against the Regulators, Three Pounds, Proclamation Money, as a Bounty, over and above what the Public may think proper to allow, exclusive of this Sum of the said Monies by us so subscribed, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be paid by Mr. Hogg to the Person or Persons who shall be chosen to command the Forces to be raised, in Consequence of this Subscription. Then the following Resolutions, upon a Motion, were agreed to:
Resolved, nem. con. That every Person in this Town or in the Neighbourhood thereof, to whom the Cause of this Meeting has been duly made known, who shall not, either by going in Person against the Regulators, or contributing of his
Estate as much as his Circumstances, will prudently admit of for the Encouragement of others to go, is an Enemy to Government, and to the Peace and good Order of this Province, and ought to be held and deemed of the Number of those who call themselves Regulators, and that their Names be inscribed in the Cape-Fear Mercury.
Resolved, nem. con. That John Quince, Esq; Captain-----Nichols, ----- Chadwick, and Henry Mc Clariman, Traders; Thomas Moore, Shipwright; Jonathan Watson, Planter; and Cleveel Ormsby, Carpenter; have been duly summoned to attend this Meeting; and that the said----- Nichols, ----- Chadwick, and Henry Mc Clariman, have refused to attend, & that though the said John Quince, Thomas Moore, Jonathan Watson, and Cleveel Ormsby, have attended, they have refused to subscribe, or give any Assistance to Government.
Resolved, That Messrs. Robert Hogg, William Hooper, and Archibald MacLaine, be a Committee to procure Arms, Ammunition and other Necessaries for the Soldiers to be raised by Virtue of the present Subscription, to establish Expresses between this Town and the Army, and to give Directions in all Things necessary to fitting out and equipping the Men to be embodied.
Resolved, nem. con. That Arthur Benning, Esq; have the Command of the Company to be raised by Virtue of this Subscription, until his Excellency's Pleasure shall be known.
His Excellency the Governor has ordered a Court of Oyer and Terminer for the Trial of some of the Regulators, lately taken into Custody; and the Judges are to be at Hillsborough by the 30th instant for that Purpose.
We hear from Core-Sound that a Ship, 42 days from London was cast away there some time last week.
Yesterday Morning arrived here Capt. White from Bath-Town North-Carolina, just as he came away he saw a News-Paper which contained an Account of the Battle, but as he could not obtain it, he copied the whole, and favoured us therewith, and is as follows:
From the NORTH-CAROLINA GAZETTE.
NEWBERN, MAY 24. 1771.
ON Wednesday last an Express arrived in Town from his Excellency the Governor, with an Account of his having had a Battle with the Regulators, and gaining a most signal and compleat Victory: The Particulars of which as we can collect from the several Accounts of this decisive Stroke are as follows:
His Excellency having reached Hillsborough with about 1300 of the Troops, and finding the Regulators were at about 40 Miles distance above him embodied and in Arms to oppose the Provincial Forces under his Command, immediately marched from thence to attack them, in case they should refuse to comply with the Terms he offered them, which were to give up their Principles, lay down their Arms, and swear Allegiance to His Majesty.
On the 16th Instant being within a Mile of them his Excellency received a Messenger from them with Terms of an Accommodation, but they being wholly inadmissible, he marched to within a small Distance of them, and formed in one Line about half his Men, the other half forming a second Line at about 200 Yards distance, by way of Reserve. --- The Regulators to the Number of at least 2500, immediately formed within 20 or 30 Paces distance, and behaved in a most daring and desperate Manner.---His Excellency again proposed Terms to them, which they spurned at, and cried out for Battle!---His Excellency then immediately ordered the Signal of Battle to be given, which was a Discharge of the Artillery, when instantly ensued a very heavy and dreadful Firing on both Sides for near two Hours and an half, when the Regulators, being hard pressed by our Men, and sorely galled by the Artillery, which played incessantly on them with Grape-shot, gave way on all Sides, and were pursued to the Distance of a Mile thro' the Woods and Bushes, our Troops making great Slaughter among them, as they did not make a regular Retreat, but ran in great Confusion to all Quarters from whence they apprehended the least Danger.
The Killed and Wounded on our Side in this Battle, through the immediate Interposition of Divine Providence, are very inconsiderable, the Killed not exceeding 10, and the Wounded about 60, among which is the Hon. Samuel Cornell, Esq; of this Town, who received a slight Wound in his Thigh; but of the Regulators 300 were found dead on the Field, next Morning, and a very great Number wounded, about 20 or 30 were made Prisoners, and chief of their Ammunition and Baggage, consisting of hunting Shirts, Wallets of Dumplings, Jackets, Breeches, Powder Horns, Shot Bags, &c. were taken with a Number of Horses.
To the glorious and signal Victory of this Day, gained over a formidable Body of lawless Desperadoes, under Divine Providence, is much to be attributed to the cool intrepid and Soldier like Behaviour of his Excellency the Governor, who was in the centre of the Line during the whole Engagement, and in the most eminent Danger, having had his Bayonet shot away with a Musket-Ball.---Nothing could equal the Firmness and Intrepidity with which our Troops behaved; the Craven and Beaumont Detachments on the Right Wing sustaining a very heavy Fire for near half an Hour, and the Carteret and Orange Detachments on the left Wing performing Wonders for raw and inexperienced Militia, who scarce had Time since their enlistment to learn the Exercise.
We have the greatest Probability to think that this signal Victory will cool the regulating Spirit, and put a final End to the most formidable and dangerous Rebellion that ever arose in America.---But if they are still infatuated, and will rush on to their Destruction, his Excellency is now joined by the Wake, Johnston, and Cumberland Detachments, also by Col. Waddle from Salisbury, and in a much better Condition to reduce them to Obedience.
The following is a Copy of what the Governor gave in public Orders the 17th of May, the Day after the Battle of Alamance.
THE Governor impressed with the most affectionate Sense of Gratitude, gives Thanks to both Officers and Soldiers of the Army, for the vigorous Support they offered him Yesterday in the Battle near the Alamance.---It was to their Valour and steady Conduct that he owes, under the Providence of God, the signal Victory obtained over obstinate and infatuated Rebels.
His Excellency sympathizes with Loyalists for the brave Men that fell and suffered in the Action; but when he reflects that the Fate of the Constitution depended on the Success of the Day, and the important Services thereby rendered their King and Country, he considers this Loss (though at present the cause of Affliction to their Relations and Friends) as a Monument of lasting Glory and Honour to themselves and Families.
The Dead to be interred at five o'clock this Evening in the Front of the Park of Artillery. Funeral Service to be performed with military Honours to the Deceased.---After the Ceremony Prayers and Thanksgiving for the signal Victory it has pleased Providence Yesterday to grant the Army over the Insurgents.
Newbern May 24. Yesterday Divine Service was performed in the Church in this Town by the Rev. James Read, Mi-
nister of this Parish to offer up our Prayers and Thanksgivings to the Almighty, for the very signal and glorious Victory obtained by his Excellency the Governor, over obstinate and desperate Rebels, near the great Alamance River in Orange County, on the 6th of this Instant ---A Day that ought to be had in perpetual Remembrance by every loyal subject of this Province, for their very great Deliverance and Rescue from the Hands of a lawless and furious Mob.
The following Extracts of Letters are by Capt. Hewit, from Bath Town, who arrived also Yesterday.
Extract of another Letter from Benjamin Randol, Adjutant in the Train of Artillery under Governor Tryon, to Mr. Salter at Bath, Brother to the Captain of the Train.
Orange-County, May 17. 1771.
YESTERDAY we had a very hot Battle: On our Side 6 were killed on the Spot, and about 60 wounded, some mortally.---Thomas Ferguson who stood close by me in the front of the Battle was shot through the Head; seven of our Company were wounded. From the first Round of the Cannon they began for to run: The Battle was held very hot for three Quarters of an Hour. We hear to Day that there is 303 killed of Regulators, and how many wounded we cannot tell; We took Prisoners wounded and all 25. We took a great many horses, Guns and Provisions from them: They threaten to give us another Battle; but I believe the Heart of them is broke: There is a Party sent out this Morning to take Hunter and Husbands; some say that Hunter is wounded. General Waddel was drove back, they have not had any Fight, he found he was not able to stand them. The Army is in good Heart and expect to march through the Country in a few Days. Some of our wounded died this Morning.
Extract of a Letter from Bath in North-Carolina dated May 27.
The News from the Army is, the Governor and his Party have taken and killed about 300 Regulators: They have killed 150 Men of the Governor's: The Company that went from this Place was commanded by Capt. Pettin; he had 10 Men wounded, and lost one of his Fingers in Fight.---It is expected that they have had another Engagement by this Time.
NEW-POR-T, June 10.
Last Thursday arrived the Schooner Phenix, Capt. Daniel Hunt, in 19 Days from Newbern, North-Carolina, with whom came Passenger Capt. Richardson of that Place; who informs, that Governor Tryon marched from Newbern with 200 Men about a Fortnight before they sailed, joined by 60 Men from Carrington County, all in good Spirits. They had covered Waggons, &c. Two Brass 3 Pounders, with other suitable Artillery. About the 10th of May his Excellency was encamped at Hillsborough, 180 Miles from Newbern, in the Heart of the Country of Regulators, his Army having increased to about 1500 strong; where he intended to wait 'till joined by General Waddle with a body from Cape-Fear, and others from different Parts, who were on their March.---Two Days after his Excellency received an Express from Gen. Waddle, informing that he was intrenched on good Ground 60 Miles northward, and beset by 800 Regulators, he having but 350 Men, but expected to be joined by 150 more, by the Time the Express would reach his Excellency, and as soon as he was joined by them, he intended at all Events to attempt a Junction of the main Body. As soon as the Express arrived at the Camp, which was on Sunday the 12th of May, late in the Afternoon, the Governor beat to Arms, struck his Tents, and marched 7 Miles that Night, and expected to be up with the Regulators the next Tuesday Evening, and cut his way thro' the 800 who were between him & Gen. Waddle, in case they offered to oppose his Junction with that General. The 16th May an express arrived from his Excellency to Martin Howard, Esq; Chief Justice of the Province, requiring and directing him & his Associates, with the Attorney-General, to adjourn the Court then in being at Newbern, and repair to the Camp by the 31st of May, in order to try 20 Regulators his Excellency had in Custody, among whom was the famous Dr. Yorke, Capt. Richardson says he parted with Judge Howard the 18th of May, who told him he should set out for the Camp the 21st May, and told him that, by what he could learn, Herman Husbands was at his house with 800 Regulators to protect him, and they did not intend to attack the Governor unless he came to take said Husbands, or his Estate; in which Case they would give his Excellency one Volley with their Rifle Guns, and then Bush fight him.
'Tis said the Regulators have 500 Highlanders among them. Last Monday arrived the Sloop Hope, Capt. Henry Grenvill, from the Mole and informs that 6 Days after he sailed on his outward bound Voyage, two of his Men were killed by a Flash of Lightning; one a Stranger, the other was Mr. Joseph Frost, a promising young Man, of this Town.---All other Persons on Deck were stunned at the same Time.
We have had more thick, foggy and rainy Weather, and more Thunder and Lightning for several Weeks past, than for many Years before at the same Season.
On Wednesday last a Number of Ladies met together at the Rev. Dr. Stiles's, where they laudably employed themselves in spinning upon 70 Wheels; and afterwards presented upwards of 190 Skeins of good Linnen Yarn to Mrs. Stiles.
BOSTON, June 13.
Tuesday returned the Boston Man of War from Halifax.
Capt. McCarthy in a ship for this place from the Coast of Africa, we hear was arrived safe with slaves at Barbados.
The Lord Hyde Packet, Capt. Brailey, sailed last Week from New-York for Falmouth.
Arrived at New-York, Capt. Clark in 6 Weeks and 3 Days from Bristol: Capt. McKenzie in 6 Weeks from Belfast: Capt. Fullerton in 41 Days from Dublin: and Capt. Miller in 8 Weeks from London.
The Accounts from England by Vessels that have lately arrived are no later than those already published.
At Rainham, on Friday last, Mr. ----- Jones was killed by the falling of a Tree.
We hear from Holden, that one Isaac Wheeler, a Shoemaker by Trade, having been deprived of his Reason for about 7 Months past, and made divers Attempts to make way with himself, but did not effect it 'till the 30th of May last, when he was missing, and on Saturday was found in the Woods, hanging on a small Pine Tree, with a Birch With round his Neck: He has left a sorrowful Widow and a Number of Children to bewail his astonishing, surprising and awful Death!
Monday last two Houses were struck by Lightning, at Kensington near Hampton-Falls; one Person was much hurt, but recovered.
Last Sunday Afternoon, the Dwelling-House of Mr. ----- Ives of North-Haven, was struck with Lightning, which ripped off the Clapboards from one End of the House, broke the Windows, and stunned several of the Family, who soon recovered.
We hear from New-London, in Connecticut, that at a Superior Court lately held there, an Action was brought by one Pardon Clarke of Stonington, against one Asa Miner, of the same Place, for some Defamatory Words uttered by said Miner against said Clarke; after the Case was put to the Jury, they withdrew, and in a few Minutes returned with a Verdict of One Thousand Pounds Damages, and Costs of Suit, in favour of said Clarke. This Case appeared with such aggravated Circumstances, that the Judges unanimously gave their Consent to the Ver-

dis, and ordered it to be accordingly recorded.---Which Example of Justice to an injured Character, it is imagined, will have a very good Effect in keeping the Tongues of evil and malicious Persons within due Bounds.
Yesterday Morning arrived from the Southward, the Bonetta Sloop of War, Capt. Wallace.
Died at Charlestown, Mrs. Margaret Dowie, aged 47 Years, Consort of Capt. Nathaniel Dowie, of that Town.
S A L E M, June 8.
A Dwelling-House at Malden, improved by Mr. William Waitt, and owned by his Father, took Fire on the Roof, by a Spark from the Chimney, last Sunday Forenoon, and was entirely consumed. The People were at Meeting except the Maid and Children, when the Accident happened; but being quickly alarmed, saved most of the Furniture.
CONSTANTINOPLE [capital of the Turkish Empire] March 4. TWO thirds of the Suburbs called Galata, were on the 18th of last month destroyed by fire. 3000 persons perished in the flames, or by the cold, or by the hands of the Russians who took this opportunity of plundering the houses, and massacring their owners. The Camscham, and other great officers went to the place where it raged, and the former seeing some wretches pillaging the inhabitants of what little they had saved, in order to deter others, ordered them to be thrown into the flames.
ROME [Italy] March 20. The Pope is going to make a new Saint, to wit, Cardinal Buralio, whose Beatification is already approved of. Brother Nicolas Longobardi is likewise in a fair way of being made a citizen of heaven.
N A P L E S, (Italy) March 12.
ADVICES from the Levant assure us, that Ali Bey has taken Jerusalem; but Damascus holds out still. Some ships, that were carrying the usual tribute from the islands of the Archipelago are taken by the Russians.
We hear from Bridgewater, that one Day last Week two Lads about 16 Years of Age, named Matthew Reed and David Pool, going to an Island in Nipinittick or Nepahonset Pond, in that Town, in a very leaky Canoe, which sunk before they could reach the Island, and the Youths were both drowned; their Bodies were taken up a few Hours after.
L O N D O N, April 16.
Lord Mansfield, we hear, is very solicitous to resign; but it is said a Great Personage has expressed a Wish that his Lordship will continue to execute the high Office, which he fills with so much Honor, though attended with much Envy.
A Censoriori has removed all the Proceedings against Whittem the Messenger , into the King's Bench.
Edward Twine Carpenter appeared Yesterday, had the old Recognizances discharged, and entered into fresh to abide the Consequences of the Bill found by the Grand Jury.
Peas were sold last Saturday in Covent-Garden Market for 18s. per Quart, Cucumbers for 6s. a Piece, and it is feared unless we have Rain very shortly, Mutton will be 9d. per Pound.
April 18. The Premier Yesterday received the following Letter from very respectable Authority:
"I have great Pleasure in informing you that a political Convulsion has been felt at St. James's, not unlike the first Shock of an Earthquake. The King himself at last sees how necessary it is to give way, and the whole ministerial System totters.---When Lord North asked the King whether the whole of the Prince of Wales's Household was fixed, he was told, with a gracious Sneeze, that every thing was settled. As soon as the Session is finished, he must retire with Dishonour, and those, who are nearest his Majesty, see plainly that he is determined upon an entire Change of Measures. A Dissolution of Parliament will certainly take Place and then perhaps the King may recover the Affections of his Subjects. Z. Z."
April 19. The last accounts from the Baltic, are full of the vast preparations, both by sea and land, on the eastern coast thereof, as if more powers than one were soon to be involved in a war.
Extract of a Letter from Modbury.
"A Rev. Divine in this neighbourhood was last week sent to the county goal, for committing a rape upon the body of a girl about 17 years of age. This ornament of the Church has a living worth at least 500l. per annum. He regularly takes the tithes of leeks, parsley, and greens, in kind, from the poor; but his plucking this virgin flower will cost him dear, it is thought. He is about 60 years of age. If the Ladies are not provided with a Chaplain for their Coterie, I would humbly recommend him."
A Gentleman reading the Anecdote, which lately appeared relative to the late Rev. Mr. Whitefield's using the Phrase, that he was beating up for Volunteers for the Lord , observed, that having raised as many Recruits as he could, he was now gone to join his Regiment.
We can assure the public that the French King has no less than 17 ships of the line and frigates at this hour, on different stocks of Sweden.
It is certain, that Carlton-House has not been once consulted in all the late violences against the press, and the city. They have all originated from the new appointed cabinet of Buckingham-house.
An express is arrived from the Island of St. Croix, in America, which brings the news of the discovery of a gold mine; the vein is eleven feet wide solid. Four expressies are despatched for Copenhagen with this great news for the King of Denmark. The mine is on the estate of Baron Von Britton.
Bets were yesterday upon Change five to one, that Mr. Wilkes will not be chosen Sheriff this year.
Messieurs FOWLES,
HAVING just received your last Friday's-Gazette, my Indignation at finding there lives in this Age a Person so void of Tenderness and Humanity, as the very Name of Syphax conveys, induces me to resume my Pen; and as I flatter myself the Sentiments of the impartial Public with respect to that Performance will coincide with mine, I submit them to their Perusal, leaving it to Time to discover who was its Author.---But who can this false ill-natur'd old Batchelor be, that fancies himself so well acquainted with the turn of a female Mind, as to imagine that nothing but Folly and Nonsense has Charms to captivate their Hearts? What Fop has rival'd him and carried off his Dulcinea in Triumph, while a Person of the Merit and Virtue he fancies himself, is left to regret in secret the fatal Disappointment? I make no doubt this is his Case, and that some of the most worthless of her Sex, has taught him those Sentiments by sad Experience.---But give me leave to acquaint him, we are not obliged to his superior Judgment for the Character he has drawn, and tho' some may allow the Piece to be well wrote, the Satirical and ill-natur'd Reflections cast upon us by no means discover him to be a Man of Sense.
Portia is sensible of the Compliment paid her, in supposing her Ears open to the Voice of Flattery; and as a Specimen of it he has taken the Liberty to address her in a Language that will never make her vain: and tho' the sacrifice of Incense was offered upon the Altar for his whole Sex, he may be assured he is unacquainted with her, if he imagines she is ever pleased with any thing so gross and vile.---I believe Portia is more obliged to the length of his instructive Piece for not being more severely criticised upon, than to any merit of her own; but as she is convinced the Pieces, intended to imitate a female Style and lately published, are all fictitious, written only to make the Sex appear ridiculous, she fancies she has an undoubted right to vindicate the Honour of her injur'd Sex, tho' the heartily wishes a more eloquent Pen would undertake the important Task. If Charlotte was pen'd by a female hand, it would justly deserve all the Venom old Syphax has cast upon it. But how truly deserving of Pity is our Situation, our Names and Characters are introduced and set to the most trifling and ridiculous Performances by one, while another will take occasion therefrom to blast the Reputation of the whole Sex. Cruel Reflexion! Nature at first destin'd us to your Care, and we fly to you for Protection, but alas! we often fly to Wolves in Sheeps Cloathing, who seek to destroy us,---often find when it is too late, the poisonous Snake that lurks in the Grass. If we happily discover it in Season and endeavour to avoid it, your next Resource is Detraction. Malice will lead you in return for your Disappointment to fully the fairest Characters, and blast the strictest Virtue. But this Wonder of the Age fancies he has unravell'd a grand Mystery; and big with the important Secret, he flies to the only Method he can obtain to arrive at Fame, the New-Hampshire Gazette, there to divulge it, expecting to enroll his Name in immortal Honour. O Foolish Thought! misguided Man! Thou hast some Talents, apply them to a more useful Purpose than to degrade a Sex, who will despise thee for thy Folly, a Sex endowed with a Nature with a peculiar softness joined with a Delicacy of Sentiment and modest Reserve, that would make them blush to own those Pieces that have dar'd assume their Name and detest those Reflections Syphax in his great Penetration and Judgment thinks they deserve.
Mankind in general suppose us to be the weakest Part of the Creation, how much more glorious, then would be the Attempt to instruct us in the Path of Virtue and Honour---than the Pride (for it is nothing else) of exposing to the World, these little Follies and Weakness some of us are guilty of? this and this only is the way for you to arrive at Fame, and make you esteem'd by Women of Merit, for such there certainly are, and however below your Notice you may think them, they are worthy the Regard of Men of the greatest Worth and Genius. If there lives a Syphax in this age, who would think himself employed on a noble Errand to steal a virtuous Maid, and bring her to the Arms of a Seducer---I hope there is still a Juba that will detest such dishonest Thoughts; and if Knowledge of the World makes Man perfidious, would wish to live in Ignorance forever.
PORTIA.
† The Brethren of the ancient and honourable SOCIETY of FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS, are hereby notified, that the Right Worshipful MASTER and Officers, design to celebrate the Festival of SAINT JOHN the BAPTIST, on MONDAY NEXT, being the 24th of JUNE, at the House of Brother JOHN COCHRAN, at His MAJESTY'S FORT, WILLIAM AND MARY on New-Castle, where ALL the BRETHREN are desir'd to give their Attendance on said Day. per Order,
JOHN MARSH, Secretary.
§ N.B. Dinner precisely at Two o'Clock. Portsmouth, June 20th, 1771.
Custom-House, Piscataway, June 20.
  Inward Entries,  FROM    Schooner Wismenog, Dalling,  St. Martins.    Schooner Joanna, Lindsey,  St. Kitts.    Brig Merriam, Noyes,  Guadaloupe.    Sloop Endeavour, Trefethen,  R. Island.    Outward Bound,  FOR    Brig Charming Molly, Guppy,  W. Indies.    Brig Charming Betsey, Stacpole,  Ditto.    Schooner Wismenog, Dalling,  Ditto.    Clear'd for Departure  FOR.    Schooner Martha, Winflow,  Newfoundland    Schooner Jenny, Nowell,  Ditto.    Schooner Jolly Robin, Trefethen,  R. Island.    Schooner three Friends, Browne,  W. Indies.    Sloop Victory, Sewall,  Ditto.    Sloop Cynthia, Harris,  Ditto.    Brig Stork, Coombs,  Ditto.    Brig Betsey, Haynes,  Ditto.    Brig Conway, Wiggleworth,  Ditto.    Brig Hannah, Shores,  Ditto.    Brig Shellaley, Falls,  Ditto.  
WE the Subscribers appointed Commissioners by the Hon. John Wentworth, Esq; Judge of Probate of Wills, for the province of New Hampshire, to receive and examine the claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of Mr. Benjamin Whitemore, late of Nottingham West, Husbandman deceased, represented Insolvent, and six Months being allowed for that purpose, from the 24th Day of February last, we hereby give notice, that we will attend on that service, on the third Tuesday in this and the five following Months, from two to five o'clock in the Afternoon, on said Days at the House of Sanders Bradbury, Landholder in Nottingham-West. Hezekiah Hutchins. Nottingham, March 3d. Joseph Kelly.
Middletown---next Tuesday.
NOTICE is hereby given, that a Committee, for the Proprietors of Middletown, in said Province, purpose, on the last Tuesday in June inst. at the House of Ephraim Hanson, Landholder in Dover, at Two o'Clock Afternoon, to let out the Building a Meeting House, in said Middletown, the ensuing season, which will be let out to one or more persons as may then be agreed on by said Committee. Any Person or Persons inclined to undertake to build said House are desired to attend on said Committee at said Time and place. Rochester June 5th 1771.
TO BE SOLD BY Jacob Treadwell, At his Store in Portsmouth, A very fine Assortment of China WARE! TEN DOLLARS REWARD!
Last Monday Evening a small Schooner, lying at a Wharfe at the North End, whereof I the subscriber am Master, was Rob'd of about 60 Fathom of Cordage, and the Vessel considerably damaged. Whoever shall discover the Thief or Thiefs, that was concerned in this piece of Villianry, shall have the above Reward of Ten Dollars, paid by Epes Greenough.
JAMES GROUARD, Hatter, At his shop opposite the Rev. Dr. Langdon's Meeting House on the parade in Portsmouth, makes & sells Bever, Beveritt, Castor & Felt HATS, of the best kind. Cash given for Lamb skins, with the Wool on. N. B. PAPER BILLS of this province will be yet taken by said Grouard.
A List of Prizes in Stratham & Newmarket LOTTERY, is come to Hand, and will be publish'd next Week. Also, the scheme of the Fifth Class. Those who are desirous of knowing their Fortune in Class No. 4, may see the List at the printing Office, in the mean Time.
Mendum Janvrin, At his Shop near Dr. HAVEN's Meeting House, and in the Street leading to Liberty Bridge, has to sell the following Articles, West India and New-England RUM, Molasses, Loaf and Brown Sugar, Cotton Wool, Coffee, Tea, Pepper, Indigo, Salves, Snuff, Starch, Brimstone, Rosin, Nutmegs, pins, sorted Crewels, Flower, Tobacco, Gun powder, Shot of different sorts, Salt, &c. &c. The above Rum is of the best kind, which he will sell at 3l. 10s. per single Gallon, and Sugar at 10s. lb. The other Articles in proportion.
For other new Advertisements, see Supplement. NEW-YORK, June 10.
Extract of a letter from Kingston, Jamaica, April 10.
"The 18th of March last was tried and convicted at a court of oyer and terminer held here, Capt. Zachary Day, for the murder of Samuel Long, his boatswain, on the high seas; and the day following in the same court was convicted Thomas Bell, late chief mate of a Sloop belonging to Montego Bay, for piratically robbing and plundering a Spanish Schooner, near Cuba, of 14,000 dollars.---This is the person who was concerned with Capt. Yarr, in October last, in the above mentioned piracy; they were convicted upon the testimony of some of their vessel's crew, whom they had turned adrift at sea (to the number of twelve, in the Spanish Schooner, after they had robbed her) without water or provisions, but who fortunately arrived here a few days afterwards. Day was executed the 25th of March, and Bell the 1st of April; the former had taken a quantity of laudanum in rum, and was very much intoxicated, tho' he had with Bell, taken the sacrament the day before. The later died very penitent.
Justices Blank Writs for the County of York in the Massachusetts, together with all sorts of Blanks for the new Counties in this Province, are now printed and ready for sale at the Printing-Office.

PORTSMOUTH, June 12, 1771. 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 in and by an Act of this Province, intitled "An Act for dividing this Province into Counties, and for the more easy Administration of Justice," among other Things it is enacted, That the Province be divided into five Counties, limited and bounded as in and by the said Act is set forth; but by a Paragraph in the said Act four Months was allowed after his Majesty's Royal Approbation of the said Act should be made known, for settling the Counties, &c. and that the several Courts of Judicature &c. now established in the Province, should continue to exercise their several Powers and Authorities, until the Expiration of the said four Months, as if the said Act had not been made. And all Courts established by said Act, are suspended from exercising their respective Powers and Authorities, for the said Space of four Months; excepting the Court of General Sessions of the Peace for each County, which shall Set for the Purpose only of raising Money for building Court Houses, Prisons, &c. in each County.
AND for as much as the several Civil Officers within this Province, were by their respective Commissions, directed and impowered by the aforesaid, in Part recited Act, to exercise their Authority throughout the Province; which after the said Nineteenth Day of July next, must be restrictive to the Limits of the respective Counties. And to prevent any Mistake that may arise in or about the Premises, I HAVE thought proper to issue this Proclamation, Hereby directing all Civil Officers respectively, whose Commissions extend their Jurisdiction throughout the Province, to exercise their said Authority, agreeable to their said Commissions, until the said 19th of July next; after which Day their respective Commissions, and the Authority therein conveyed, are to cease and be determined; and they are hereby inhibited exercising any Authority of what Kind or Nature so ever thereby.
Given at Portsmouth, the 12th Day of June, in the Eleventh Year of His Majesty's Reign. Annoque Domini, 1771. By His EXCELLENCY's Command. THEODORE ATKINSON, Sec'y.
Leather, and Leather Breeches,
As neat, as good, as handsome, as cheap, as ever was, or can be fabricated in New England, made and Sold by James and Mathew Hasket, at their Shop in King Street, Portsmouth.
Province of New Hampshire, June 4th, 1771.
WHEREAS the Proprietors of
LIME, in said Province have been legally notified to pay to us the Subscribers sundry Assessments levied upon each Proprietors Right or Share of Land in said Lime, and a number of said Proprietors have hitherto neglected either in whole or in part to pay the same; These are therefore to notify said delinquent Proprietors that there will be Sold by publick Vendue, if not prevented by payment, on the fifteenth Day of August next at one o'clock P. M. at the dwelling House of William Bell, junr, in said Lime, so much of their Rights or Shares of each delinquent Proprietors Land in said Lime, as shall be sufficient to pay the Sum or Sums as shall then remain due with incidental Charges.
Isaac Fellows } Collectors. John Sloan }
RUN AWAY from the Subscriber a servant Boy named James Gilman, about nineteen Years of Age of a light complexion, about five feet nine Inches high, bad on when he went away (which was the ninth instant) a dark Homespun Coat lined with Shalloon of near the same colour, and Brass Buttons on the same, and light homespun Jacket lined with red Baize and white Mettal Buttons, a pair of blew large Breeches lined with Leather and mohair Buttons and a Pair of blew yarn Stockings, carried with him 2 pair of light worsted Stockings; whoever will take up said Runaway and convey him to me or secure him in any of his Majesty's Goals and send word to me shall have two Dollars reward and all necessary Charges paid by me
Epping, June 11. Stephen Thing.
All Persons who are indebted
to, or have any Claims on the Estate of William Boynton, late of Kingstown in the Province of New-Hampshire, Yeoman, deceased are desired to settle with Richard Boynton of Boston Esq; Administrator on said Estate, or with Ebenezer Batchelor of said Kingstown, Attorney to said Administrator.
June 1st 1771.
To be sold by Public Vendue,
At the House of Lieut. Jonathan Leavitt, Innholder in Hampton, on Tuesday the 25th Day of June, Inst. at Three o'Clock in the Afternoon, about
Twenty-five Acres of Mowing
and Pasture Land, situate in Hampton, between the Meeting House and Free's Landing (so called) Conditions of Sale to be seen at Time and Place of Sale. Portsmouth, June 13th. 1771.
Imported, and to be Sold by  John Penhallow, At his Store near the Rev. Dr. Langdon's Meeting-House, in Portsmouth, cheap for Cash,— A general Assortment of English GOODS, among which are, the following. Broad Cloths, Shalloons, Tam-mies, Calamancoes, &c. 6 by 8, 7 by 9, 8 by 10 Crown Glals— 4d, 6d, 10d, and 20d, Nails. Also, a good Assortment of Looking Glasses.
For any of the above Articles, Paper Money will be received in Payment.
(BARNSTEAD)
THIS is to give notice to a Number of the Proprietors of Barnstead aforesaid, to pay to me the Subscriber at my Dwelling House in Newington the sum or sums, hereafter fixed to each of their Names, at or before the sixteenth day of July next, Otherwise shall sell so much of their Lands as will pay the Taxes with all other Charges as the Law Directs at public Vendue, at the Parish House in Newington— Said Vendue to begin at two o'Clock P. M. on the above said Day.
JOHN NUTTER, Collector
A List of the Proprietors of said Barnstead, who have not paid their Taxes, and what is due as yet.
 John Walker, 2 2 3  John Nutter 1 15 0  John Fabian 2 1 6  George Walton 2 1 6  Joseph Fabian 1 19 0  John Decker, junr. 1 17 0  Cyprian Jeffrey 2 2 6  Jethro Forbur 1 10 0  Thomas Beckford 1 15 0  John Thompson 1 17 6  Benning Wentworth 2 1 6  Ebenezer Weare 2 1 6  Francis Jennels 1 15 0  Mathew Plant 1 15 0  Zebulan Dam 2 1 0  Nathaniel Merrill 2 10 0  Samuel Shackford 2 1 6  Samuel Huntriss 1 19 6  Capt. John Downing 2 1 6  William Fellows 2 0 6  Richard Jennels 1 19 0  James Jaffrey 0 15 0  Benjamin Clark 2 0 6  Samuel Shute, Esq; 1 15 0  Col. Mark Hunking 1 19 0  Benjamin Downing 1 15 0   Newington, June 6th, 1771.
Province of New Hampshire.
WHEREAS Josiah Willard, of Winchester in said Province, Esq; hath presented a Petition to his Excellency the Governor and Council of said Province, setting forth, that there are sundry Grantees in the Township of Chesterfield in said Province, viz. John Wheelwright, Joseph Wheelwright, Jeremiah Wheelwright, Nathaniel Wheelwright, Thomas Paine, John Arms, & Oliver Butler, who have themselves been totally delinquent in the Conditions stipulated in the Charter of said Township, for Improvement and Cultivation of the same; and also that the Petitioner has been at considerable Expence in improving some part of the said Rights respectively. He therefore prays, that the Forfeiture of the said Rights may be exacted, agreeable to the Tenor of the said Grant, and that the said Shares may be regranted to him the Petitioner; or that he may be otherwise reimbursed the Charge he hath been at in paying the Rates and Taxes accruing on the said Rights, and improving them, as aforesaid: This is therefore to notify the Original Proprietors aforesaid, that the 11th day of July next is appointed by the Governor and Council aforesaid, that they may appear and shew cause if any they have why the prayer of the Petitioner may not be granted: THEODORE ATKINSON Sec'y.
WILLIAM WARDEN, STAY-MAKER from LONDON,
HEREBY informs the Ladies of Portsmouth, and others, that he makes cheap for Cash, the newest fashion'd Stays, either turn'd, plain, back-thread or French Hips.—Those that incline to favour him with their Custom, may depend on being well used.—Apply to Mr. Edward Griffith's, Queen Street, next to Mr. John Griffith's.
[ RUMNEY. ] Province of New Hampshire.
WHEREAS the Proprietors of Rumney have been legally notified to pay sundry Assessments, levied on each Proprietors Right or Share, to me the Subscriber and several of the Proprietors have hitherto neglected either in whole or in part; These are therefore to notify said delinquent Proprietors, that there will be sold by publick Vendue, on the 23d. Day of July next at two of the clock afternoon, at the Dwelling House of Daniel Brainerd Esq; Innholder in Rumney, so much of the interest or property of each delinquent Proprietors Right or share of Land, in said Rumney, as shall pay the sum or sums that remain due, with incidental Charges. The names of the delinquent Proprietors are as follows Viz.
 Timothy Boogue, 2 7 The late Gover  Israel Spencer 5 3 nors five hundred  Joseph Arnold 5 3 acres equal to  Ebenezer Spencer 5 3 two Rights  John Wright 5 3 Alexander Craigue  Joshua Brainerd 5 3 Edmund Elliot  Amasa Brainerd 5 3 Charles Clarke  Humphry Lyon 5 3 Aaron Brainerd  Sylvanus Tinker 5 3 William Pease  Jabez Chapman Jr. 5 3 Humphry Colby  Daniel Brainerd 3d 5 3 George Shannan  Hezekiah Brainerd 5 3 Henry Champion  Ebenezer Dutton 5 3 Asahiel Brainerd  Thomas Mesely 5 3 Joseph Wright  Samuel Emmons 5 3 Barzilla Brainerd  Samuel Solden 5 3 Ebenezer Brainerd  Christopher Holmes 5 3 Trest Coffin Sleeper  Nathaniel Read 5 3 Moses Seves  Bickford Long 5 3 Ozen Dowst Junr,  Danl. Brainerd 3d, 5 3 Samuel Wells  Moses Smart 5 3 Joseph Brown  James Heath 5 3 Francis Locke  Benning Wentworth   June 6, JAMES HEATH, Collector.
(Gilmantown)
Province of New Hampshire.
Whereas the General Court of this Province, have passed an Act to authorise the Select Men of Gilmantown, to make an Assessment on all the Land within the said Town at so much per Acre, as will be sufficient to raise the Sum of 331l. 9s. 5d. for to pay Richard Jennels and John M'Duffee, Esq; for making a Road or High Way, through said Town. Notice is hereby given to all the Proprietors and Owners of Land in said Town, that said Tax is made, and committed to the Constable to collect, and they are desired to pay their respective Taxes to Ephraim Morrel, Constable of said Town, or to Joseph Badger, Esq; by the 8th of July next, or they may depend upon their Lands being Advertized for sale, immediately after that Time, in the New Hampshire Gazette, according to Law, as will be sufficient to pay said Taxes with incidental Charges. The Tax on each Forty Acre Lot is 4s. 4d. and on each Hundred Acre Lot 10s. 10d. and each of the Governor's Rights in said Town are taxed at 2l. 18s. 6d. and other Lands in the same proportion. Attendance will be given at the House of Joseph Badger, Esq; in said Town, 4 Days in every Week, viz. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, to receive the Taxes.
Gilmantown, June 1st, 1771.
Province of New Hampshire.
MONADNOCK, No. 4, May 5, 1771.
WHEREAS the proprietors of said Township have been legally notified to pay sundry Grants of Money, legally assessed on each Proprietors Right or Lot of Land in said Township, to me the Subscriber, and several of the proprietors being yet delinquent in the whole or part; these are therefore to notify such proprietors, that so much of each delinquent proprietors Lands will be exposed at sale at public Vendue, at the House of James Reed, Esq; Innholder in said Township, on the last Wednesday in August next, at Two o'Clock afternoon to pay said Taxes with incidental Charges.
The delinquents Lots being as followeth with the Sums due.   Jonathan Blanchard's Lot, No. 4 in the 5th Range, and No. 11 in the 1st Range, 4l. 1 0  Mathew Thornton, Esq; No. 13 in the 12th Range, 3 0  Samson Stoddard, Esq; No. 22 in the 8th and No. 23 in the 8th Range 1 10  Samson Stoddard, Esq; No. 20 in the 10th Range 3 6  Nathaniel Treadwell, No. 10 in the 6th and No. 17 in the 12th Range 2 8   DANIEL MELLEN, Prop's Collector.