New-Hampshire gazette, or, State journal and general advertiser (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1781-02-05 00:00:00

THE NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE ; OR, STATE JOURNAL, and GENERAL ADVERTISER.
[ Vol. XXIV. ]
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1781.
[ No. 1267. ]
From the Continental Journal.
To the INHABITANTS of MASSACHUSETTS. Friends and Countrymen,
W ILL you suffer one who is neither governor, senator, or representative, debtor or creditor, to address you upon the present important crisis of your public affairs : It is a crisis that claims (for your own salvation) every exertion within your power. And should self-interest, or any other motive call your attention from your country's weal, and cause you to cease those noble, and generous efforts you have been wont to make upon each instance of public distress, the consequence will be big with horrors, such as you have never yet seen, and which will plunge you, and your posterity in the depths of inextricable woe and misery. If you want proof of this, look to your brethren in South Carolina, there you will see cruelties at which nature recoils, and the untutored savage weeps. The British lion there with a ghastly mixture of disappointment, victory and revenge, stands grinning horribly over his helpless prey.—Every person there who has fallen within the enemy's power, is sent to the inclement clime of Augustine, or imprisoned on board close ships in Charlestown, their personal property taken and their habitations reduced to ashes. If this is done in a green tree, what shall be done in a dry ? If this partial and precarious conquest induces such cruelties, what will be done should their conquest be complete ? I do not intend this to supply the place of argument ; but wish it to arouse your attention, that your ideas may be lifted far above the trifling consideration of private debtor or creditor to the interest and safety of your country, which can never be secure while injustice and iniquity are established by law.
In the year 1775, there was not specie enough in America to raise and support an army ; you then had no connexion with foreign powers, and no expedient remained but that of emitting bills of public credit.—This was repeated until from a redundancy of medium, it sunk to a very small value when compared with silver and gold : the exchange is now seventy five for one. It would have been an injury to all America to redeem it at its nominal value, more especially as a great part of it was in the hands of foreigners, who took it at the great discount above mentioned : Congress therefore made a new currency which they estimated as one being equal to forty of the old, this was put upon interest, and to be redeemed by the States with hard money. But Congress when they issued this currency could have no idea that it was equal to silver, being but mere matter of credit, and depending for its value upon the necessity the possessor should have for specie, upon the time of payment, and on other contingencies ; it was therefore left to operate by its own weight, Congress knowing that the interest payable annually would prevent its sinking so low as the old money ; and though it might depreciate for a time, yet as the day of redemption drew nigh, it would approximate to the value of silver. Congress have more wisdom than to suppose that laws can impress value upon paper money by any other way than by providing funds to redeem it. They may compel an honest creditor to take a sum not worth half his demand, but yet the next man
to whom it is offered for something useful in life, will raise the price of his commodity in proportion to the discount he places upon the medium. The General Court made it a tender ; but it rested in such a state, that four silver dollars would purchase seven of it ; the value of every specie of money must arise from its usefulness among, and the common consent of the people ; it is you yourselves and not your representatives, that must establish the value of currency. The value of medium is founded in ideas and belief, and a legislature may as well make a man believe that two and one is four, as to make him believe that one paper is worth one silver dollar, when he can buy two with it—should you see your General Court solemnly enacting, that irregularity of features should be beauty, and disproportion symmetry or parts, that lead should be specifically lighter than wood, and that darkness should not obstruct vision, you would suppose them distracted. And yet there would be as much propriety in measures of this kind, as endeavoring to regulate the public opinion with respect to the value of property ; but the attempt has produced a train of public and private evils, which have raged to a degree of violence heretofore unheard of. The public faith is destroyed, our army is dissolving for want of that money which you are unable to raise by taxes, and which cannot be borrowed without the restoration of public credit—widows and orphans who were once in affluent circumstances, are reduced to the necessity of receiving their morsels from the hand of charity, and the industrious and wealthy part of the community are born down by hawks and sharps.
Honesty alone can restore the public credit at this dangerous crisis of our affairs : And this the General Assembly are now attempting by repealing that unjust and pernicious law, which compels the honest man, who had lent his money to support the common cause, to give up his demand for the four sevenths of its value—they now intend that you shall establish the value of your medium yourselves by your own common consent, this you do with all your other property, and why should you be debarred the privilege of doing of it in this ? You would not suffer the legislature to fix the value of your other property by regulating acts, and why should they do it in this ? I attended the debates in the House upon this measure, and the arguments, or rather the objections against it, were, that to repeal the tender act would be to take off the great barrier which was placed to prevent depreciation, but you will judge of the weight of the objection from the effect which similar measures have produced. During the whole time of the depreciation of the old currency there were laws in existence, which were almost unanimously made, not only establishing the paper bills as a tender, but annexing heavy penalties to the crime of refusing to take them for silver money debts, and did they support the credit of the money ? Does the act, making the new money a tender, prevent the subjects buying seven paper for four silver dollars ? and while these vain acts have not force enough to support the credit of the bills, equal with that of silver, shall they compel those persons, who have lent their property to save their country, to take but four seventh of their just demands ? Another objection to the measure is, that these bills being redeemable by silver, they will be gathered up at four seventh of their redeem-
able value, and those persons who hoard them will make immense sums by it—but has not this same difficulty prevailed, the tender act notwithstanding ? The remedy proposed for this evil, if adopted, will prove fatal to all public credit. It is to repeal the law which provides for the redemption of the new money with silver, this will at once make it but blank paper—and if an act should be made to redeem it at half its nominal value, it would sink instantly, so that twenty of the old, would purchase one of the new dollars, and the same advantages be then, as may be now made by hoarding it. But do not same advantages arise upon silver ? Does not the produce of our country bring twice so much silver as it used to do ? and will not they who hoard it up make an hundred per cent by it if it should again return to the value it held in 1774 ?
The necessity of repeal, an act, so replete with public and private injustice, will be acknowledged by every honest debtor, and applauded by each indifferent person.—Let us then do justly, love mercy and walk humbly with our God—let us get an army in the field to defend those rights for which our brethren have so nobly bled.—Our public debt, and the aspect of our public affairs, I shall honestly state to you very soon, unless your representatives do it themselves.
A COUNTRYMAN.
State of New-Hampshire.
In the HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES, January 27, 1781.
W HEREAS the Bills of Credit of the new Emission of this State's Quota of Continental Money, are daily issuing from the Treasury, and the Time when the Interest on said Bills ought to commence, has not been generally understood ; and it appearing, as well from the Act of Congress directing the issuing said Bills, as by the Act of this State to which the said Bills refer, that the Interest ought to commence from and after the 31st Day of December 1780 :
Therefore, RESOLVED That the Interest on said Bills commence on the first Day of January 1781.
Sent up for Concurrence,
Wm. WHIPPLE, Speaker P. T.
In COUNCIL, the same Day read and concurred. E. THOMPSON, Secr'y.
True Copy, Attest.
J. PEARSON, D. Secr'y.
State of New-Hampshire.
In the HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES, January 27, 1781.
VOTED , That the Treasurer of this State, be directed to receive into the Treasury Continental Bills of the old Emission in Exchange for Bills of the new Emission, at the Rate of Forty Dollars of the Old for One of the New.
Sent up for Concurrence,
Wm. WHIPPLE, Speaker P. T.
In COUNCIL, the same Day read and concurred. E. THOMPSON, Secr'y.
Copy examined,
J. PEARSON, D. Secr'y.
TO BE SOLD.
444 Acres of LAND at the Gore & 140 acres in the township of Epsom, No. 87 ; one third of a 200 acre lot, No. 17, in the 6th range, in the third division, in the township of Nottingham also, one half of two wharf-lots in Exeter.
Inquire at the Printing-Office, Portsmouth.

RICHMOND, Dec. 30.
Extract of a letter from Col. Campbell to the Governor, dated Washington county, Nov. 27, 1780.
The extracts taken out of originals in my possession I send to elucidate Col. Clark's error, and may show the world with what kind of beings we are contending with.
Wax Saws, Sept. 23, 1780.
SIR,
I HAVE just received yours of the 19th and last night had the satisfaction to hear from Lieut. Col. Cruger, that he had arrived in time to save Brown, had re-taken the guns, and totally routed the enemy, who had retired with great precipitation; that the Indians had pushed and scalped many of them. I have no objections to your making any allowance to the militia you may think they deserve, but had rather it should be called gratuity than pay, even if it is a quid pro quo to the same sum.
Fashion is better, and was moved to-day in a litter, his illness * I shall †
† I heard a report that Major Davis, who commanded a corps of about 80 horse, milia had marched against you. You will know whether this is true before this can possibly reach you.
I am, &c.
CORNWALLIS:
M jor Ferguson
P.S. As soon as I have consumed the provisions in this settlement, I shall march with as much expedition as possible to Cross-Creek. I am told the climate will be healthy there by the middle of next month.
Extract of a letter from Major Ferguson to Lord Cornwallis.
My Lord,
A doubt does not remain with regard to the intelligence I have sent your Lordship; they are force joined by Clarke and Campbell, of course are become an object of some consequence. Hoping their leaders are obliged to tend their followers with such hopes, and to flatter them with accounts of our weakness, and that it is necessary I would hope for success against them as far as I can see a comparison that must be but doubtful. I am on my march towards you by a road leading from the broken ford south of King's mountain. There are four hundred good soldiers, part dragoons, won't finish the business. Something must be done soon — I am in their last post in this quarter &c.
PATRIK FERGUSON
Extract of a letter from Lieut. William Stevenson, to Mrs. Susannah Kennedy, in New-York, dated Gilberstown, North-Carolina, September 25, 1780.
Dear Aunt,
The people in Georgia finding the army marched towards North Carolina, took up arms and attacked Col. Brown in Augusta, who being weak, was obliged to give way, and retreat into a fort, where he had his stores for the Indians; but on the approach of Col. Cruger, from Ninety Six, and a party of Indians coming down, found means to get into the fort, which enabled Col. Brown to sally out; he then drove them out of the town, and in their retreat took between two and three hundred of them; by this time being joined by Col. Cruger, and Allen of our brigade, they pursued them and took a great many more, several of whom they immediately hanged, and has a great many more yet to hang. We have now a got a new method that will put an end to the rebellion in a short time, by hanging every one that has taken protection, and is found acting against us."
Camp, Fair-Forest, in S. Carolina, Nov. 4.
Dear Sir,
I embrace this opportunity of writing to you, which will inform you that we are on our way back to our own country; but finding the strength destined for Georgia, not to be so large as was reported to me before I erred from your side the mountains, we beg leave once more to ask your assistance in opposing the enemy in these southern parts of the States; and make no doubt but you, and all the true friends of America in your country, will feel resentment for the singular cruelties that have been exercised in Georgia since we left that place. Several men of credit lately from that State, who have escaped the general massacre, relate the matter in
* Remainder of this sentence in cyphers.
† This also.
‡ This report is not true, Davis being gone towards Salisbury.
words to the following purport: — That, after the unexpected blow I gave the enemy under Brown, in Augusta, about the middle of September last, and my necessary retreat from that country to your side the mountains, a Col. Cruger, from Ninety Six, with Brown, and a body of Tories and Indians, followed us into the upper settlements of Georgia; and finding us out of their reach, fell upon our sick and wounded, together with old men, women and children of the families of those that adhered to, or retreated with me; also several Tory families; I suppose through mistake of the Indians, were all murdered in the most cruel manner; women and children stripped, scalped and suffered to welter in their gore unassisted, until they expired with hunger and pain; lads obliged to dance naked between two large fires, until they were scorched to death; men stripped, dismembered and scalped, afterwards hung up. It is too painful for me to dwell on this gloomy subject, my own family being lost in the general calamity. What assistance you can possibly send, the sooner the better; and you may assure those that voluntarily turn out to join us, if we prove successful, will have no reason to complain of not being amply rewarded for their time and trouble, as the enemy's property and stores in that country are very considerable; and it will be but justice to serve them as they have done us.
It is improper for me to fix a place where to meet your men; but on their arrival in the south, a friend of mine will seek for them, and give necessary information.
I am, dear Sir, with respect,
your very humble servant,
ELIJAH CLARKE.
To Col. Campbell, of Washington, Virginia.
Extract of a letter from Col. Campbell to the Governor, dated Washington, Dec. 4, 1780.
"By recent intelligence from the Cherokee country, it appears that the whole of the towns had agreed in a late treaty with our enemies to the southward, to take up the hatchet, and attack the inhabitants of Virginia and Carolina settled on the back of the mountains immediately; which country was to be given them by the King over the great water, besides a stipulated quantity of goods for every scalp they might take. Some of the American traders were murdered and others confined, and every preparation making by the Tories & Indians to give a general & unexpected blow to our defenceless inhabitants, when Mr. John Martin, with three other traders, by the goodness and address of an Indian woman, made their escape from the towns. From the traders account, that have got in, which I am satisfied may be depended on, our warning is but short, the enemy intending to set out within two or three days after they left the towns. I am however endeavouring to raise a force that I hope will not permit them to advance far in the country until succours can be sent from the more interior parts of the state, where families can be safe in the absence of men."
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 17.
Extract of a letter from a Gentleman in Virginia, to his friend in this City, dated Fredericksburg, Jan. 8, 1780.
"The enemy came to Richmond on Friday, at two o'clock in the afternoon, with 1500 infantry and sixty horse, not well mounted, remained there till twelve o'clock next day, when they departed. They destroyed public stores, burnt the public buildings, and ordered the merchants to deliver up all the rum & salt; the rum they staved in the streets, and the salt they threw into the river. They also destroyed a rope-walk, and went to West-Ham, 8 miles from Richmond, where they destroyed the foundery and magazine, but the arms and ammunition had been removed to Manchester, in Powhatan county, where the Governor and Baron Stuben was. We are in hopes to have a force collected to give them a check before they get to their shipping again. The militia turn out well."
The British forces which lately embarked at New-York have landed in Virginia. We hear that Major General Phillips (of Burgoyne's convention troops, but lately exchanged) commands on this expedition, al-
though it is said Arnold acts as a principal officer; this is confirmed by the following letter from Fredericksburg, received per post:
"Arnold, with about 1500 men and a few light horse, landed fifteen miles below Richmond, and marched into that town on Friday, about 12 o'clock. They have destroyed Weillham and all the public works, great quantities of rum and sugar, but don't understand they destroyed any tobacco. They retreated on the Saturday, about 12 o'clock, the same way they came. General Nelson is collecting the militia as fast as possible, and following them in order to harass their rear. We hourly expect the particulars."
Extract of a letter from a Gentleman in high office under the United States, dated Amsterdam, September 20, 1780.
"Yours of 13th of July is received. — Your account of the resurrection of the spirit of 1775 and 1776, is refreshing. The ladies having undertaken to support American independence, settles the point. Surely no gentlemen will dispute it against so many of the fair. The ill bred fellows at St. James's will continue to quarrel about it, but we knew long ago they have no manners."
"Lloyd's will afford but a sorry subscription this year, to Lord North's loan for 1781. They are deeply taken in. May they soon hear of more respectable additions to the list of their losses."
"My best compliments to Mrs. —, and desire her to move in the Assemblies of the Ladies, that their influence may be exerted to promote privateering. This and trade, is the only way to lay a foundation of a navy which alone can afford a solid protection to every part of their country."
"If I could have my will, there should not be the least obstruction to navigation, commerce or privateering: because I firmly believe, that one sailor will do more good than two soldiers."
"Keppell is thrown out at Windsor, Burke and Cruger at Bristol, and Sawbridge in the City. It is necessary in England for a man to be an enemy to his country in order to be popular — When this is the case all is lost."
B O S T O N, February 1.
We hear that Congress have recommended to the several States to pass acts forbidding any trade with the enemy, under penalty of death.
'Tis reported that a British 74 gun ship was lately lost upon Long Island, and a 64 dismantled.
A New-York paper of Jan. 8, says, That Admiral Hood was arrived at Barbadoes, from England, with ten sail of the line, and four thousand troops.
A New-York paper of the 18th ult. declares the arrival of the Traitor Arnold, at Richmond, in Virginia, from which they are in high expectation of the most pleasing accounts.
Arrived at Bedford last Saturday, Captain Saunders, in 21 days from Port-au-Prince, who informs, That the day before he left that Port (which was the 29th of December) there was a French fleet, consisting of three ships of the line, two frigates, and several transports, with a considerable number of troops on board, had sailed from Cape-Francois to the Havannah, where they had orders to land part of them, and from thence proceed to New-Providence, there to burn and destroy all that lay in their power.
A late letter from Barbadoes, speaking of the hurricane there, says, "The number of dead in town was so great, that the Governor employed a party of soldiers to bury them; and though they only dug holes and threw them in as they were, three days were employed in this melancholy business, and the smell became very offensive before it was completed: It is computed between 6 and 7000 whites & blacks, have lost their lives."
By Captain Fraizer who arrived lately at Philadelphia from Orient, in France, and who came to Town by land on Monday last, we are inform'd that before he left that port, a large embarkation of troops took place, said to be bound to America, and to be conveyed by nine or ten sail of the line.

THE FIRST CLASS of STRATHAM and NEWMARKET LOTTERY , commenced drawing this Day; but so many Tickets remaining unaccounted for in Agents Hands, the Managers were obliged to adjourn the further drawing 'till Tuesday the 13th Day of February next, by which Time they hope the Account of Sales will enable them to proceed without Delay.---They will then be ready to receive Proposals from any Person or Persons to procure sundry Materials that will be wanted in the Spring to repair the Bridge.
Stratham, 31st January, 1781.
THE Proprietors of Non-Resident LANDS in Gilmanstown , will take Notice that their Lands are not to be sold on Wednesday the 21st Day of February instant, as advertised in the Gazette of last Week; but that the Sale of those Lands on which Taxes are not paid, is put off to some future Day, of which Notice will be given, according to Law.
Paul Bickford, Constable. Gilmanstown, Feb. 1, 1781.
ALL Persons indebted to, or that have any demands on the estate of Simeon Merrill, shipwright, late of Exeter, deceased , are hereby desired to bring in their accounts to Seth Pogg, and Elizabeth Pogg, his wife, administratrix to said estate, in order to a settlement. Exeter, Feb. 5, 1781.
State of New-Hampshire. Rockingham ss. The non-resident proprietors or owners of Estates, in said State and County, who have not paid their taxes on their lands in said town, for the year 1780, are hereby notified that unless they pay their respective taxes, that so much of their lands in said town, will be sold at public vendue, at the house of Mrs. Elizabeth McClary, landholder in said town, on Wednesday the 7th day of February next, at ten o'clock, A. M. as will pay said taxes, with incidental charges. The names, &c. of the delinquents are as follows, viz.
   Names. Lot. Acre. Range. Div. 1st Tax. 2d Tax.    Nathan White, 1 82 1 1 13 12  James Seavey, 2 83 20 8  Samuel Harn, sen. 1 30 7 10  John Underwood, 13 110 24 0  Alice Clark, 26 54 15 0  Joseph Weeks, 28 0 12 0  Samuel Harns, 31 78 12 18  Benjamin Nudd, 32 89 24 0  Mary Randall, 33 63 12 0  William Berry, 35 69 9 0  Jeremiah Wentworth, 36 41 26 0  Samuel Chapman, 37 139 39 0  J. B. Wentworth, 51 77 2 40 0  Samuel Allen, 2 30 3 4  Solomon Dyer, 5 30 1 4  Nicholas Doyen, 72 88 20 4  Job Brown's part of 75 103 3 51 0  Solomon Dyer, 76 60 11 18  Joseph Meloon, 80 64 9 0  Richard Nash, 87 140 22 2  Benjamin Morrill, 104 23 2 11  Sam. Wallis's part of 104 50 13 10  Thomas Dyer, 107 &c. 4 70 0  Daniel Seavey, 109 97 16 15  Joshua Harns, 120 48 4 10  Samuel Weeks, 124 102 18 0  James Randall, 126 11 0  Nathaniel Morrill, 128 53 6 0  William Holt, 1 2 24 0 13 12  John Shaw, 5 100 15 6  John Conner's part of 4 10 2 11  Ebenezer Lock, 6 33 3 0  Andrew McClary, 8 77 13 19  Dyer, 9 31 9 0  Daniel Holt, 1 2 7 13  
JAMES GRAY, Collector for Episcopalian Church. Exeter, Jan. 16, 1781. (for the year 1780.)
To be sold at PUBLIC VENDUE, At the house of Mr. T. URSTON's, landholder in Exeter, on TUESDAY the 13th of February next, at one o'clock, P. M.
A Lot of LAND lying in Meredith, in the county of Strafford, containing 95 acres of choice Land; of which 52 acres of trees is fell, and 9 is into grass, and 23 has been fell two years; and also 180 bushels of chaff hay-seed, on said lot. Conditions of sale to be known at time and place of sale. Zebulon Neal.
Newmarket, Jan. 19, 1781.
State of New-Hampshire, Grafton ss. NOTICE is hereby given to the Proprietors and others, owning Lands in Cockermouth, in the State and County aforesaid, that have not paid their State & Continental Taxes for the Year 1780, that unless they pay them to me the Subscriber, by the 21st Day of February next, by ten o'clock A. M. with incidental Charges, that so much of their Land will be sold at public Vendue at the House of Captain Ebenezer Melven in said Town, as will pay them. The Names are as follows, viz.
   Names. Div. Number. Range. Sum. Unpaid.    John Hale, Esq; 3 5 8 1. 8. d. 12  John Thomson 3 4 9 3 6 0  Stephen Powers 1 6 1 2 4 0  Rufus Thomson 3 6 7 4 7 9 12  Hugh White 3 10 3 4 7 9 12  Lem'l Blackmore 2 8 2 1 4 0  Hen. Thomson 1 13 3 2 4 0  Tho's Coleburn 3 5 7 2 4 0 12  Wm. Prescott's half lot 3 6 13 4 7 9 12  Jona. Eastman, 1 1 2 1 2 0 12  Amos Eastman, jr 2 3 2 2 4 0  James Taylor 3 10 13 4 7 9 12  Wm. Taylor 1 9 3 2 4 0  Sam'l Cummings 3 7 1 4 7 9  John Atwell 1 15 3 2 4 0  James Goold 3 6 6 5 17 6 12  Ebenezer Fisk 3 7 8 4 7 9  Thomas Pratt 3 7 8 4 7 9  Mat. Thomson 1 4 4 2 4 0  Thomas Pevery 3 4 9 4 7 9  Sam'l Hobart, Esq. 3 15 13 5 17 6  Noah Thomson 1 4 3 2 4 0  B. Blanchard, jr. 2 5 6 2 4 0 12  Phineas Lovejoy 3 14 13 7 5 9 12  Daniel Lovejoy 2 9 2 2 4 0  Stephen Ames 2 4 1 2 4 0  H. Thomson, jr 3 8 3 4 7 9 12  Benja. Abbot 3 11 1 4 7 9  Amos Phillips 1 35 0 14 6  Caleb Farley 3 7 4 4 7 9  Jona. Lovejoy 2 20 3 2 4 0 12  The heirs of James Wilson 3 8 1 4 7 9  
NICHOLAS GILMAN, Constable. Cockermouth, January 22, 1781.
To be sold a PUBLIC VENDUE, 140 Acres of LAND, in Deerfield, at the house of Mr. James Thurston's, in Exeter, on Tuesday the 13th day of February next. Conditions of sale to be seen at time and place of sale. Fifteen acres of trees is fell on said lot.
BLANKS of different sorts, may be had at the Printing-Office in Exeter.
JUST PUBLISHED, And to be sold by JOHN MYCALL, at his Printing-Office, near the Rev. Mr. Cary's Meeting House in Newbury-Port, and BENJAMIN DEARBORN, in Portsmouth,---
An ORATION, Delivered at Haverhill, on the 10th of Sep. 1780, at the Interment of the Hon. Brigadier ENOCH POOR, General of the New Hampshire Brigade. By ISRAEL EVANS, A.M. and Chaplain to said Brigade.
TO BE SOLD, By RICHARD CHAMPNEY, At his STORE on Messrs Sherburne and Langdon's Wharfe, the following Articles, by Wholesale or Retail, at the lowest Cash Price, viz.---
Molasses, Russia Duck, Sugar, Ozabags, Coffee, Irish Linnens, Cotton, Bohea Tea, N. E. Rum, St. Martin's & Lisbon German Steele, (Salt, The best Swedish Iron, Oyl pr Bb. Ship Bread, &c. &c.
Many of the above Articles to be exchanged for Merchantable, Jamaica, and Scale FISH.--- Also, A small Cargo for West India Markets, consisting of various sorts of Lumber--- Hhds of Fish, Oyl, Barrels of Beef, Ship Bread, &c. &c. can be delivered at the shortest Notice.
Portsmouth, Jan. 17, 1781.
STATE of NEW HAMPSHIRE, THE Non-Resident owners of land in the following Towns viz. Haverhill, Candia, Peterborough, Slipstead, New Boston, Derryfield, Deerfield, Dublin, Tamworth, Middlesex, Dunbarton, Piermont, Andover, Hennestown, Mason, Lyndeborough, Northwood, Raby, Temple, the Gore, Wakefield, Barnstead, Alexandria, Saville, Newport, Dering, second tax, Canterbury do. Loudon do. are hereby notified that their Lands in said Towns were taxed for the year 1780, and if not paid within eight weeks from the first publication of this advertisement they will be notified for sale. Thomas Odiorne. Exeter, January 28th 1781.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors of lands in Dunbarton, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1779, that unless they pay the same to the subscriber, on or before the 20th day of February next, so much of their lands will be sold as will pay said taxes, with incidental charges, at the house of Israel Clifford's innholder in said Dunbarton, at one o'clock, P. M.
The first column was to be collected May 30, 1779. The second column was to be collected Sept. 29, 1779.     Lot. Range. Names. 1. s. d. q. 1. s. d. q.    6 1 Coningham & Stark, 3 7 5 1 4 5 3 3  5 1 North side 50 acres, } Wallingford, 2 3 8 2 3 18 6 3  13 2 Samuel Stinson, 8 7 5 1 14 8 6 3  6 5 Rogers & Putney, 4 7 5 1 7 17 3 3  5 6 Scovey & Romley, 4 7 5 1 7 17 3 3  1 7 Foulton & Varnum, 4 7 5 1 7 17 3 3  2 7 So. side 50 acres, Elliot, 2 3 8 2 3 18 6 3  7 7 Samuel Foulton, 4 7 5 1 7 17 3 3  11 6 Hugh Dunfee, 4 7 5 1 7 17 3 3  5 7 No. side 50 acres, } James Varnum, 1 3 8 2 2 2 6 3  9 1 North side 50 acres, } McGregory & McCurdy, 2 3 8 2 3 18 6 3  1 9 James McGregory, 4 7 5 1 7 17 3 3  14 Capt. Todd, 7 17 3 3    Joho Church, Constable. Dunbarton, Jan. 10, 1781.
State of New Hampshire. Strafford ss. NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors of Middleton, in said State and County, that a proprietors meeting of said proprietors is to be held in said Middleton on Tuesday the 6th of February next, at the house of Francis Mathers, at two o'clock in the afternoon of said day, then and there to act on the following articles, viz. 1st. To choose a moderator to regulate said meeting. 2d. To see if the proprietors at said meeting will vote to make good the Rev. Mr. Ordway's settlement and salary, as the money has greatly depreciated, and if the said proprietors do not at said meeting vote to make good said settlement and salary, then to see if the said proprietors will vote to join with Mr. Ordway in calling a Council for his discharge; and to act any thing relating to the above, as the then convened proprietors shall think proper. All concerned are desired to attend at time and place aforesaid. By order of the Committee.
Joha Gage, Proprietors Clerk. Dover, January 7, 1781.

NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of the following lots of lands in Canterbury, who are delinquent in paying their taxes for the year 1780, that so much of said lots will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of David Mc-Crillis, in said town, on the 22d day of February next, between the hours of ten o'clock, A. M. and six o'clock, P. M. as will pay said taxes with incidental charges, unless sooner discharged.
   1st div. 2d div. 3d div.   l. s. d. l. s. d. l. s. d.     John Thompson, jr. 2 9 6 0 0 8 5   John Reed, Atty. 2 9 6 9 18   Benjamin York, 2 9 6   Daniel Davis, 2 9 6 6 12   Thomas Davis, 20 16   Ezekiel Leathers, 2 9 6   Gerhom Wentworth 4 19   Jonathan Thompson 9 18   Richard Waldron, Esq.: 3 19   Stephen Jones 11 11   Henry Tibbetts 13 4 13 4   William Damerit 5 15 6   John Knight 13 4   Job Clement 2 9 6 3 17   John York 10 8   David Davis 6 12 13 4   Nathaniel Hill 17 10   William Glines, jr. 6 12   Shadrick Walton 13 4   Col. Mark Hunkin 3 6 9 18 9 18   Joseph Jenkins, jr. 6 12   Samuel Doe 13 4   Richard Waldron, jr. 3 6 6 12   Eli Clark 8 5   John Runnals 13 4   Andrew Wiggins 6 12   Jonathan Woodman 1 13   Micha Emerson 27 8 6 12   Benjamin Wentworth 13 4   Joseph Davis 6 12   John Willie, jr. 9 18 17 10   James Gooden 5 15 6   Robert Thompson 6 12 9 18   John Sheppard 2 9 6   Thomas Drew 2 9 6   John Ambler 2 9 6 9 18   Robert Burnam 9 1-6   John Damerit 2 9 6   Samuel Chesley 2 9 6   John Carter 6 12   Jonathan Chesley 5 5   John Carl 3 6   Joseph Huffy 3 6   Edward Tibbetts 2 15 4 19   Edward Evans 9 18   Ichabod Follet 3 6   John Pitman 17 10   Job Bennet 2-17 6   George Jaffery, Esq.: 1 18 6   Thomas Rines 2 9 6 13 4   John Waldron 3 17   John Rollins 4 19   Col. Thomas Westbrook 4 19   Joseph Perkins 2 15   William Leathers 8 5 6 2   Thomas Willee 1 13   Joseph Ellison 6 12   Henry Tibbetts 2 4 13 4   Nathaniel Lummucks 14 17   James Jaffery 5 15 8 5   Henry Dearborn 6 12   Richard Blanchard 16 16  
Ephraim Carter, Collector. Canterbury, Jan. 18, 1781.
LOST , on Saturday the 20th Instant, A Gold WATCH , either at Portsmouth or New Castle, (but supposed to be the later) belonging to an Officer of his Most Christian Majesty's Army at Rhode-Island. Any Person finding the same and returning it to the Subscriber, shall be amply compensated for their Trouble.
S. PENHALLOW, junr. Portsmouth January 22, 1780.  A meeting held by the proprietors of Dorchester in said town, July 6, 1780, Voted to raise a tax of Three shillings and four Pence, upon each hundred acres, for the procuring of Mill Irons, and other necessary charges for the erecting of Mills for the benefit of said town. The proprietors are requested to make speedy payment to Caleb Clark, of Canaan, Collector. Dorchester, Jan. 24, 1781.
To be sold by Public Vendue,
At the Dwelling House of Michael Dalton, is holder in Londonderry, on WEDNESDAY the 4th day of April next, pursuant to orders from the honorable the Judge of Probate for the county of Rockingham, in the State of New-Hampshire, by ROBERT SMITH, of said Londonderry, gentleman, Trustee of the confiscated estate that belonged to STEPHEN HOLLAND, late of said Londonderry, Esq; an absentee from said State, the Tracts and Rights of Land lying in said State, hereafter mentioned, being parts of the said confiscated estate viz
The Barr Lot (so called) in Londonderry, containing 70 acres and three quarters; Col. John Goff's right in Thornton, one third of one eighth of one fifteenth part of Mason's patent, lately belonging to Jotham Odiorne, Esq; deceased, bought of William Preston; a Location containing 2000 acres, adjoining to the town of Thornton, and Goff's Location, so called; two whole rights of land in Dunbarton, viz. the right of Hugh Ramsay, and the right of Samuel Fulton; one eighth part of the original right of Jotham Odiorne, Esq; deceased, in the town of Dunbarton; one eighth part of a right in Dunbarton, bought of William Appleton; lands in Dunbarton, bought of Odiorne, Treadwell and Pierce; one hundred acres of land in Dunbarton, bought of John Stinson; said Holland's right in the undivided lands in the Society Lands, so called; also his right in the Gore, so called; also his right in the following towns, viz. Washington, Dubois, Hillsborough, New-Chester, Stoddard, Moultonborough, Alexandria, Fishersfield, Sandborntown, Fane, New Ipswich, Temple, Peterborough-Slip, Parrytown, New-Amity, Boscawen, Alexandria Addition, New-London, Moultonborough, New-Hampstead, Merrimack, Hopkinton, New-Boston, Lyndeborough, Wilton, Mason, Peterborough, Weare, Goffstown, Dunbarton, Amherst, Gilmanstown, New-Durham, Middlesex, Wakefield, Meredith, Allenstown, Effingham, Wolfborough, Bedford, Salisbury, Andover, Henniker, the Gore by Winnepesaukee, Camden, Limpsick, Packersfield, Marlborough, Fitz-William, Jaffrey, Rindge, Derryfield, Society lands, Bradford, Lands between Effingham and Conway, Lands between Wolfborough and Effingham, Lands between Fishersfield and Camden, Slip of lands between New-Porton and Weare, Strip of land at the head of Old-Dunstable Lands adjoining to Kitterage, Campbell's Gore (so called) a hundred acre lot of land between Derryfield, Litchfield, Chester and Londonderry.
The Sale to begin at ten o'clock in the forenoon, and to be continued from day to day until all be sold. The conditions of sale to be then and there made known. And all persons who have received a deed or deeds of any of said lands or rights of and from the said Holland, are hereby requested to shew the same to the said Trustee, at or before the said day, to prevent any further trouble. ALSO,
At said time and place will be sold, A valuable GOLD WATCH, late the property of said Holland. Londonderry, January 4, 1781.
State of New-Hampshire  NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of the foregoing lots in the parish of Loudon, who are delinquent in paying the taxes on the same, for the year 1780, that so much of said lots will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Nathan Batchelder, Esq; in said Loudon, on the 22d day of February next, between the hours of ten o'clock, A. M. and six o'clock, P. M. as will pay said taxes, unless sooner discharged.     First hundred acre division.   No. l. s. d. q.     Joseph Mason 74 6 13 10 3   Joseph Huffy 75 6 13 10 3   George Jaffery, Esq.: 76 6 13 10 3   John Rawlings 95 10 0 7 2   William Glines 128 10 0 7 2   Thomas Drew 133 6 13 9 2   Joseph Perkins 164 13 7 6 0  
   New or second hundred acre division.     Richard Waldron 75 20 1 3 2   William Damerit 90 13 7 6 0   Edward Tibbetts 96 6 13 9 0   Francis Durgin 101 8 7 2 0   Elias Critchet 129 11 13 11 3   Joseph Davis, jr. 131 10 0 7 2   Benjamin Mason 130 10 0 7 2   Nathaniel Lummucks 135 10 0 7 2   John Damerit 157 10 0 7 2   Ebenezer Stevens 166 8 7 2 0   Joseph Perkins 179 8 7 2 0   Daniel Davis 183 10 0 7 0   Richard Waldron 186 10 0 7 0   William Fellows 188 10 0 7 2  
Samuel Chamberlain, Collector. Loudon, Jan. 18, 1781.
TO BE SOLD, Land in almost any Township in Mason Patent, for particulars Enquire at the Printing Office, Portsmouth.
THIS is to certify to Notify the Creditors to the Estate of John Odiorne late of New-Castle, deceased; that unless they bring in their Claims by the 20th of February next they must expect to have them shut out, without any farther Notice. Benjamin Odiorne, Administrator. New-Castle, Jan. 21st, 1781.
WHEREAS Elizabeth Marston of Chichester, has made Application to me, and given me a Power of Attorney to recover her Right of Dower for her in all the Lands that was her late Husband's Obediah Marston, deceased. — This is to notify all Persons in the County of Rockingham, that has Lands that was said Marston's, now in their possession, whereof the Widow has Right of Dower, that unless they speedily come and settle with me for the same, I shall take the Steps of the Law touching the Premises.
SIMEON LADD. Exeter, January 29, 1781.  THE Gentleman, who borrowed a Celestial Globe of the Subscriber, some Years ago, is desired to return it, and pay the Printer for this Advertisement, unless he thinks a long Possession gives him a good Title to it — And another Gentleman, who borrowed a Terrestrial Globe, is requested to return it, as he also has had that long enough to have practised or taught others every Geographical Problem commonly necessary or useful to be known: And as both said Globes are wanted to be again lent to a public School, it is expected that they will be sent to me immediately, in good Order. JOHN WENDELL. Portsmouth, January 22, 1780.
Jonathan Hale, in behalf of himself and others, Inhabitants of the Town of Concord, in the State of New Hampshire, having petitioned the General Assembly of said State, setting forth, That said Town was granted to their Ancestors by the General Court of Massachusetts Bay in the Year 1725: That the Settlement of a Town at the early Period so far up in the Indian Country, was an Attempt hazardous and expensive. That in the Spring of the Year 1726, the said Town was laid out and described by visible Monuments, which are well known at this Day. That in the Year 1733, the Proprietors having to a Pacatiko completed the Conditions of their Grant, were made a Town by the Name of Rumford. That in the Year 1740, by a Settlement of the Line between Massachusetts-Bay and New-Hampshire, said Town fell into New-Hampshire. That from the Year 1740 until the Year 1749, by several Temporary Acts of the General Court of New Hampshire, the said Town was incorporated without any Alteration of Name, Limits or Privileges, had Precepts sent for Choice of Representatives. That they submitted to every Order of Government with Cheerfulness. That from the Year 1749, until the Year 1765, they were destitute of any Corporate Powers. That in the Year 1765, the General Court of New-Hampshire without their Knowledge incorporated them as a Parish in the Town of Bow, by the Name of Concord, but curtailed their Limits, and restrained their Power. Wherefore he prayed that said Concord might be extended to the ancient and known Boundaries of said Rumford, and have the same Powers and Privileges extended to them as other Towns in this State have and enjoy. On which Petition the General Court ordered, that said Petitioner should be heard thereon before them on the second Wednesday of their next Session, and that in the mean Time the Petitioner should cause the Substance of said Petition and Order of Court thereon to be published in the New Hampshire Gazette three Weeks successively; that any person may then appear and shew Cause why the prayer thereof should not be granted.
AUST F. THOMPSON, Sec'y. STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Rockingham ss. TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.  NOTICE is hereby given, that a Libel is filed before me, in behalf of Benjamin Folsom, commander of the private armed Schooner Rambler, and all concerned therein, against the Schooner Ranger, of the burthen of twenty five tons, her cargo, tackle & appurtenances, Betsy Hopkins late master, which vessel is said to be captured about the twenty six day of November last, and brought into the Port of Piscataqua the 4th day of January Instant — For the trial of the just cause of said capture, a Maritime Court for the State aforesaid, will be held at the Court House in Portsmouth, the 7th day of February next, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon — when & where any persons concerned, may appear and shew cause, (if any they have) why the same should not be decreed forfeit, and condemned. JOSHUA BRACKETT, Judge of said Court, Portsmouth, January 16, 1781.