The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1775-02-24 00:00:00

THE New-Hampshire AND HISTORICAL CONTAINING the Freshest ADVICES
Vol. XIX. GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
FRIDAY February 24, 1775.
No. 957 | Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd.
PORTSMOUTH. T HE Parliament of Great-Britain having claimed the Right of Legislation & Taxation of America, in all Cases whatsoever, in Consequence thereof have made several Acts in support of their Claim; and the Colonies on their Part, in their several and respective Legislatures, have denied that Right, as totally subversive, & incompatible with the natural Rights of the Americans, as Freemen, & contrary to their solemn Compact by Charters. A too nice Disquisition into this parliamentary Claim, has brought the Controversy to a narrow Compass; for while she attempts an exertion of it by the Power of the British Nation; the Americans are taking every Measure to prevent a total Deprivation of their just and natural Priviledges as Citizens of the World; Almost every Town in America has solemnly agreed to support the Association recommended by the Continental Congress, chosen to consult the general Interest of the Colonies; The Resolutions of the said Congress are pacific and conciliatory, yet firm and manly; they solemnly avow ALLEGIANCE to HIS MAJESTY, Affection and Regard for their fellow Subjects in Great-Britain, and elsewhere; and discover the deepest Anxiety at the Grievances with which America is oppressed. They express the greatest Tenderness, and use the most prudent Precautions to prevent Riots, Tumults and Disorders; firmly relying on a good Providence for Protection, and the justness of their Cause for the Success of their Councils; and the Uprightness of the People for an exemplary View to all the European Nations of a Unanimity unparalleled in History, and a Firmness that will eventually surprise the World. I humbly conceive, that a proper Exertion of these Resolutions must be the only Means, under God, in preserving us from Bloodshed and intestine Wars—the Horrors of which are too dreadful to describe, & of the last Moment not to prevent by a steady Adherence to every particular recommended by them; these, and these only, will prove the Salvation of this Country; while Tumults, and Disorders will only tend to divide us, and perplex the adopted Plans—I must own, I am extremely sorry for the late unhappy Affair of the Cannon and Powder belonging to his Majesty's Fort William and Mary, being taken away—as the Controversy is thereby changed, and carried into another Channel, I am fearful his Majesty will doubt our Allegiance to him, which we, and in short the whole Continent of America, have solemnly avowed; The Violence offered by this precipitate Act will be thought personal and affrontive to the Crown, & as such be resented upon us: When the Passions are excited by violent Presumptions, we are hurried into Acts which on reflection, we should shudder at; and though our good Friends of the other Colonies, would wish us to be provided with every military Accomplishment, and even with Arms and Ammunition for any desperate Attempt upon us from any Quarter, yet they surely meant only to secure the Ammunition belonging to every Town, and private Property, which we have been led to suspect would have been seized upon by Administration, to enforce Obedience to their cruel Measures— There are many Things to palliate this unhappy Affair, and to relieve the Actors in it from the Dangers, they are exposed to in their different Destinations; and I humbly conceive his Excellency the Governor might with great Propriety attempt to lessen, and even appease his Majesty's Resentment against us for this sudden Attempt, yet I must own we ought first to signify some sort of Evidence of the Error we
have fell into; and if it be publickly advised to have them restored in Statu quo, that in that Case; it be done at the Province Expence, this Measure is the only one in our present distressed public Affairs, to wipe off the Imputation that his Majesty may lay to our Charge, of personally despising his Crown and Dignity. And tho' we have an indubitable Right to counteract the parliamentary Claim of taxing us, yet the pacific Measure adopted by the Congress, will prove the only Means of securing us, & convincing Administration that our Unanimity and Virtue in abstaining from British Consumptions, will render their Fleets and Armies useless and their Designs upon us abortive. I would gladly have every Mark of Contempt against the Crown removed, and to be reinstated in his Majesty's Favours, that he may distinguish between us and his British Parliament in the present Controversy, as not deviating from our professed Allegiance to him, his Crown and Dignity.
AMICUS PATRIAE.
Province of New Hampshire, Grafton ss. At a Meeting of the Freeholders of the Town of Plymouth in said County, on Friday the 17th of February 1775. Voted, Mr. JOHN WILLOUGHBY, Moderator. Voted, That the Hon. JOHN FENTON, Esq; represent this Town in General Assembly. Voted, That the following Instructions be given to the Hon'ble JOHN FENTON, Esq; as our Representative, and that a Copy of the same be forwarded by the Town Clerk, to the Printer of the New-Hampshire Gazette, to be published together with the following Address from him to the Freeholders of this Town. To the Hon. JOHN FENTON, Esq; Representative for the Town of Plymouth in the County of Grafton.
SIR, W E the Freeholders of the Town of Plymouth, being highly impressed with the most favourable Sentiments of you, from the many eminent Services confer'd on this County, and the Town of Plymouth in particular, since your first Acquaintance with us; should think it needless, at any other Time than this, to give you INSTRUCTIONS respecting your Conduct as our Representative in General Assembly: But when we reflect on the momentous Affairs that are now pending between Great Britain and her Colonies, and the eminent Danger that threatens them (for we look upon the Interest to be mutual) we trust you will not construe our instructing you to arise from any Distrust or want of Confidence; but from an anxious Wish, and hearty desire to see the strictest Harmony once more established between our Parent State and her Colonies (which we apprehend can never be the Case) but by confirming the just Rights and Priviledges of the different Colonies, according to their Charter and other Rights as they have been practised from the first Accession of the August House of Hanover to the Time of the Stamp-Act. We therefore think it our Duty to instruct you as our Representative.
 First, That you will do every Thing in your Power, to preserve the Laws of the Land inviolate; and by every legal Means prevent a Diminution of them in every Respect whatever: For should the People either throw them aside, or in any Manner disregard them, We apprehend that Anarchy and Confusion, must quickly ensue.  Secondly. We recommend to you in the strongest Terms, to discountenance every Act of Oppression, either as to the Persons, or Properties of Individuals, as we look upon such Proceedings to be highly prejudicial to the common Cause, and directly tending to fill the Minds of the People with Jealousies and Distrusts; the bad Effects of which must appear obvious to every Man of common Understanding.  Thirdly. We desire you will not on any Account give up or in any Manner suffer a Diminution of the Rights and Priviledges we now enjoy, as we live under good and wholesome Laws.  And Fourthly, That you will do the utmost in your Power to keep Harmony in the House, that the public Affairs of the Province, may be discussed with Coolness and Impartiality; much depending on such Conduct, at this Time of our Difficulties.... Also, that you will endeavour to have the House open that those out of Doors may be acquainted with the Debates of their Members—the practice of Secrecy heretofore used, tending much to the Disquiet of Numbers of their Constituents. 
To the Freeholders of the Town of Plymouth. Gentlemen, I Return you my hearty Thanks for the Honor you have confer'd on me, by chusing me to represent you in General Assembly: I also accept your Instructions with that Pleasure that every Loyal Subject and good Citizen should feel, from such evident Marks of good Sense and Prudence (which I have most thoroughly experienced in your general Conduct from the first Moment I knew you to this present Day) you may therefore rely on my using the most strenuous Endeavors to preserve the due Execution of the Laws, the true Rights and Priviledges of the People, and of doing every Thing consistent with the Essence of the Constitution to serve my Country, and this Town in particular. A true Copy Attest, ABEL WEBSTER, Town Clerk.
The Meeting of the Members who are to compose the Assembly which was to have been yesterday, is by his Excellency's Proclamation put off to the 4th Day of May next.
PORTSMOUTH. Mr. Priester, Be pleased to insert the following Piece in your valuable Paper; and you will oblige some of your good Customers.
Advice to New-Hampshire. BRETHREN and FELLOW CHRISTIANS, A T a Time when the Sound of Liberty runs so high, when the very Earth (as it were) trembles at the Echo, and the Friends to Government are threatened by Mobs and every Outrage of Violence, by the modern Sons of Liberty, I say, at such a Time when so dark a Cloud hangs over New England, when we are told that our Rights and Priviledges, both civil and sacred are in Danger of being taken from us; my Brethren, to remove these Judgments that we feel, and prevent those we fear, let us, with one Heart and Voice, firmly join in a universal Reformation; and not put too much Confidence in our Liberty-Polls. In Order for this, let every Head of a Family take good Joshua's Resolution, and command his Children and Household that they keep the Ways of the Lord; and not suffer their Children & Servants to frequent Taverns, and set up shooting Matches, and follow Gaming, as it appears such Things are carried on, and encouraged in a Neighbouring Town, N---gt-n, before the Eyes of their Committee of Inspection, without being check'd, notwithstanding the good Advice of the Continental Congress. Consider my Brethren your deplorable Condition. You Sons of Liberty, and you Committees of Inspection in every Town exert your Authorities and see that those Disorders be put to an End, lest it be with you as it was with good old Eli, when his Sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
EXCUBITOR. CUSTOM-HOUSE, PISCATAQUA, Feb. 23. INTERED IN Sayward from Turkey Island; Millet, Stanwood, & Marchant from Virginia. OUTWARD BOUND. Moore, and Stacy, for West-Indies. CLEARED OUT. Hodge for Connecticut; Stanwood for Virginia; Sewall, Briard, Hodge, Friend, and Stacpole, for West-Indies.
BOSTON, Feb. 20. Extract of a Letter from a worthy Gentleman in Kingston, Jamaica, dated January 1, 1775. I Have taken up this Paper to give you a Hint on the State of our Jamaica Politicks; I find the many excellent Publications sent hither from the Continent have had a wonderful Effect in softening the Minds of our Opponents, enlightening those who were uninstructed, and confirming the faithful. I owe little Merit to myself for having transmitted those Papers; tho' it is of that inferior kind which was due to the Sexton who toll'd the Bell at the Church of the late excellent Dr. Sherlock. I have now a choice Piece of Intelligence for our Friends, at which they will be agreeably surprized: The Assembly of this Island, by a Majority of 16 to 9, have passed a Memorial to his Majesty, and have petitioned for a Repeal of all the late Acts of Parliament respecting America: It is spirited and judicious, tho' not expressed in the elegant Diction which may be found in the Papers offered by the Congress. You may be indulged with a Sight of it in the Hands of my worthy Friend Mr. -----.
F. S. The Memorial is to be sent Home by the Grantham Packet, which is to sail the 7th Instant. We hear from Falmouth, in Casco Bay, that one Day last Week as 4 or 5 Men belonging to the Casco (one of the armed Cutter's on the American Station) were attempting to go ashore, in the Boat, were fired at from the Vessel and one of them kill'd; they however landed with the dead Body, and a Jury of Inquest was summoned, who bro't in their Verdict WILFUL MURDER; upon which the proper Civil Officers went off with Intent to secure the Murderer, but were not permitted to go on board.
NEW-YORK, Feb. 9. The Ship James, Capt. Watson, which arrived from Scotland within the Hook at 9 o'Clock in the Morning, the 2d Instant, has neither landed her Cargo, nor entered, as she did not arrive in the Time allowed by the Association of the Congress, for importing Goods from Great Britain or Ireland, &c. &c. She has been at Anchor since Saturday last in our Bay, accompanied with a Boat on board which, is a sub Committee to observe her Conduct. The Spas and other Necessaries which she wants for her Voyage, are provided, and the Owners and Consignees of her Cargo have signed the proper Papers to enable the Captain to depart, which we understand will be on Friday next.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 6. Extract of a Letter from London. I HAVE by the last Packet an Extract of the Resolves of the Congress held in your City—I lament and dread the Consequences of these Resolves, and the Measures that will be taken by the Government. Whether the Colonists are right or wrong I will not say, but I am of Opinion the Legislature of Great-Britain will enforce their Authority over them, and indeed it seems to be the Sense of the British Nation in general, that it ought to be done, but I tremble at the Event. Extra of a Letter from an eminent Merchant in London, Dec. 7. T HE present unhappy Troubles between Great-Britain and her Colonies will prevent the Merchants here from executing any Orders, till they subside, whatever may be the Result of the American Congress.
LONDON, Nov. 26. There is a Man now living as a Livery Servant in Somerset House, who is in the 119th Year of his Age. He has lived in that Station Ninety-Eight Years. Dec. 8. Two young Men in Ayshire, partners in Trade, convened a Meeting of their Creditors, in Order to give up their Effects and obtain a Release. The Dividend appearing so trifling the Creditors advised them to purchase a Lottery Ticket with it. They took the Hint, and the Ticket, No. 41,791, drew a Prize of 5000l. which enabled them to pay all their Debts, and had a comfortable Reversion to carry on Business with. Dec. 10. The India Company propose to send out in the next Fleet, 10,000 Stand of Arms.
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Continental Congress continu'd.
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Wednesday, October 26, 1774.
The committee appointed to prepare a letter to the agents reported a draught, which was read, and being debated by paragraphs was agreed to and is as follows,
Gentlemen,
W E give you the strongest proof of our reliance on your zeal and attachment to the happiness of America and the cause of liberty, when we commit the enclosed papers to your care.
We desire you will deliver the petition into the hands of his Majesty, and after it has been presented we wish it may be made public through the press, together with the list of grievances, and as we hope for great assistance from the spirit, virtue, and justice of the nation, it is our earnest desire, that the most effectual care be taken, as early as possible to furnish the leading cities, and manufacturing towns throughout the united kingdoms with our memorial to the people of Great Britain.
We doubt not but your sense and discernment, will lead you to avail yourselves of every assistance that may be derived from the advice and friendship of all great and good men, who may incline to aid the cause of liberty and mankind.
The gratitude of America in the enclosed vote of thanks, we desire may be conveyed to the deserving objects of it, in the manner that you think will be most acceptable to them.
It is proposed that another congress be held on the 10th of May next at this place, but in the mean time we beg the favour of you, Gentlemen to transmit to the speakers of the several assemblies the earliest information of the most authentic accounts you can collect of all such conduct and designs of ministry and parliament, as it may concern America to know, We are, with unfeigned esteem and regard, Gentlemen.
The committee to whom the address to the inhabitants of Quebec, was recommitted reported a draught which was read, and being debated by paragraphs was approved.
The address to the king being engrossed and compared, was signed at the table by all the members.
Resolved, That the address of the congress to the people of Canada, be signed by the president, and that the delegates of the province of Pennsylvania, superintend the translating, printing, publishing, and dispersing them, and it is recommended by the congress to the delegates of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, and New York, to assist in & forward the dispersion of the said address.
Resolved, That the thanks of this congress be given to the honourable house of representatives of the colony of Pennsylvania, for their politeness to this congress, and that the delegates for this colony be a committee to communicate to the said honourable house of representatives this resolution.
CHARLES THOMPSON, Sec'y.
Here concludes the Affairs of the Grand Continental Congress from Day to Day, except the Address to the Inhabitants of the Colonies; and also another to the Inhabitants of Quebec, which will be inserted.
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ALL persons indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of Nathaniel Griffith, late of Portsmouth, Goldsmith, deceased, are desired to settle the same with Mary Griffith, Relict of said deceased, and sole Administratrix of said Estate. Jan. 25, 1775.
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of Majr Benjamin Mathes of Durham, in the county of Stranord, deceased, intestate, are desired to bring them in for speedy settlement to Valentine Mathes and Samuel Mathes Administrators.
BOSTON.
MASSACHUSETTENSIS continu'd.
To the INHABITANTS of the Province of MASSACHUSETTS-BAY.
T HE great Extent of Sea Coast, many Harbours, the variety of Islands, the numerous Creeks and navigable Rivers, afford the greatest Opportunity to drive an illicit Trade in these Colonies without Detection. This advantage has not been overlooked by the avaricious, and many Persons seem to have set the Laws of Trade at defiance: This accounts for so many new Regulations being made, new Officers appointed, and Ships of War from Time to Time stationed along the Continent. The Way to Holland and back again is well known, and by much the greatest Part of the Tea that has been drank in America for several Years, has been imported from thence, and other Places, in direct Violation of Law. By this the Smugglers have amassed great Estates, to the Prejudice of the fair Trader. It was sensibly felt at the India-House, the East-India Company were prohibited from exporting their Teas to America, they were obliged to sell it at Auction in London; the London Merchant purchased it, and put a Profit upon it when he shipped it for America; the American Merchant, in his Turn, put a Profit upon it, and after him the Shopkeeper; so that it came to the Consumers Hands, at a very advanced Price. Such Quantities of Tea were annually smuggled that it was scarcely worth while for the American Merchant to import Tea from England at all, not because the Dutch was usually sold at a lower Rate to the Consumer, People in general were no Gainers by it, but because it lessened the Demand for that Article. Some of the principal trading Towns in America were wholly supplied with this Commodity by Smuggling; Boston however continued to import it, until Advice was received that the Parliament had it in Contemplation to permit the East India Company to send their Teas directly to America; The Boston Merchants then sent their Orders conditionally to their Correspondents in England, to have Tea shipped for them in Case the East-India Company's Tea did not come out; one Merchant, a great Whig, had such an Order lying in England for sixty Casks, on his own Account, when the Company's Tea was sent. An Act of Parliament was made to enable the East India Company to send their Tea directly to America, and sell it at Auction there, not with a View of raising a Revenue from the 3 Penny Duty, but to put it out of the Power of the Smugglers to injure them by their infamous Trade. We have it from good Authority, that the Revenue was not the Consideration before Parliament, and it is reasonable to suppose it, for had that been the Point in View it was only to restore the former Regulation, which was then allowed to be constitutional, and the Revenue would have been respectable. Had this new Regulation taken effect, the People in America would have been great Gainers. The wholesale Merchant might have been deprived of some of his Gains; but the Retailer would have supplied himself with this Article, directly from the Auction, and the Consumer reap the Benefit, as Tea would have been sold under the Price that had been usual, by near one Half. Thus the Country in general would have been great Gainers, the East-India Company secured in supplying the American Market with this Article, which they are entitled to by the Laws of Trade, and smuggling suppressed, at least as to Tea. A Smuggler and a Whig are cousin Germans, the Offspring of two Sisters, Avarice & Ambition. They had been playing into each others Hands a long Time. The Smuggler received Protection from the Whig, and he in his Turn received Support from the Smuggler. The illicit Trader now demanded Protection from his Kinsman, and it would have been unnatural in him to have refused it; & beside, an Opportunity presented of strengthening his own Interest. The Consignees were connected with the Tories, and that was a further Stimulus. Accordingly the Press was again set to Work, and the old Story repeated with addition about Monopolies, and many infatuated Persons once more wrought up to a proper Pitch to carry into Execution any violent
Measures that their Leaders should propose. A bold Stroke was resolved upon. The Whigs, though they had got the Art of managing the People, had too much Sense to be ignorant that it was all a meer Finesse, not only without but directly repugnant to Law, Constitution and Government, and could not last always. They determined to put all at hazard, and to be aut Cæsar aut nullus. The Consignees saw the approaching Storm, and detained the first Ship that arrived with the Tea at Castle-William, a body Meeting was assembled at the Old-South Meeting-House, and a body Meeting has great Advantages over a Town Meeting, as no Law as yet ascertained the Qualification of the Voters; each Person present, of whatever Age, Estate or Country, may take the Liberty to speak or vote at such an Assembly; and that might serve as a Skreen to the Town where it originated, in Case of any disastrous Consequence. The body Meeting consisting of several Thousands, being thus assembled, with the leading Whigs at its Head, in the first Place sent for the Owner of the Tea Ship, and required him to bring her to the Wharf, upon Pain of their Displeasure; the Ship was accordingly brought up, & the Master was obliged to enter at the Custom-House: He reported the Tea, after which 20 Days are allowed for landing it and paying the Duty.
The next Step was to resolve. They resolved that the Tea should not be landed nor the Duty paid, that it should go home in the same Bottom it came in, &c. &c. This was the same as resolving to destroy it, for as the Ship had been compelled to come to the Wharf, & was entered at the Custom-House, it could not by Law, be cleared out, without the Duties being first paid, nor could the Governor grant a Permit for the Vessel to pass Castle-William, without a Certificate from the Custom-House of such Clearance, consistent with his Duty. The Body accordingly, ordered a Military Guard to watch the Ship every Night until further Orders. The Consignees had been applied to, by the Selectmen, to send the Tea to England, they answered that they could not, for if they did, it would be forfeited by the Acts of Trade, & they should be liable to make good the Loss to the East India Company. Some of the Consignees were mobbed, and all were obliged to fly to the Castle, and there immure themselves. They petitioned the Governor and Council to take the Property of the East India Company under their Protection. The Council declined being concerned in it. The Consignees then offered the Body to store the Tea under the Care of the Selectmen or a Committee of the Town of Boston, & to have no further Concern in the Matter until they could send to England, and receive further Instructions from their Principals. This was refused with Disdain. The Military Guard was regularly kept in Rotation till the Eve of the Twentieth Day, when the Duties must have been paid, the Tea landed, or become forfeit; then the Military Guard was withdrawn, or rather omitted being posted, and a Number of Persons in Disguise, forceably entered the Ships (three being by this Time arrived) split open the Casks, and emptied all the Tea, being of 10,000 Pounds Sterling Value, into the Dock, and perfumed the whole Town with its Fragrance. Another Circumstance ought not to be omitted, the Afternoon before the Destruction of the Tea, the Body sent the Owner of the Ships to the Governor, to demand a Pass, he answered, that he would as soon give a Pass for that as any other Vessel, if he had the proper Certificate from the Custom-House, without which he could not give a Pass for any, consistent with his Duty. It was known that this would be the Answer, when the Message was sent, & it was with utmost Difficulty that the Body were kept together till the Messenger returned. When the Report was made, a Shout was set up in the Galleries and at the Door, and the Meeting immediately dispersed. The Governor had, previous to this, sent a Proclamation by the Sheriff, commanding the Body to disperse, they permitted it to be read, and answered it with a general Hiss. These are Facts as truly and fairly stated, as I am able to state them.
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Social Library.
WHEREAS by the State of the Social Library in Portsmouth, by the Catalogue taken upon the Delivery thereof, by the Rev. Doctor Langdon the late Library Keeper, it appears there are a great Number of Books out: The Possessors of them are hereby desir'd without any Delay to return them into said Library, and the Proprietors of said Library are desir'd to meet at Union-Hall in said Portsmouth, on Monday the 27th of February inst. at 6 o'clock P. M. to consider & determine upon Methods that may then appear most interesting.
SAMUEL PENHALLOW Clerk. Portsmouth Feb. 7, 1775.
TO BE SOLD, by Benjamin Austin, Junr.
At his Shop on Spring Hill, Exceeding cheap for Cash, Compleat Assortment of HARD WARE GOODS, containing too many Articles to be particulariz'd.— Also Molasses, Sugar, West India and New-England Rum, by the Barrel, Coffee pr C: doz. or less; Ginger, Allspice and Rice pr. ditto, Chocolate, Cotton and Sheeps Wool, Redwood and Logwood pr C: Allum, Coperas, best French Indigo pr doz. or less; All Sorts of Spice, Mustard, Poland Starch, Raisins, &c. &c. &c. A genteel Assortment of silver plated Shoe-Buckles of the newest Fashion.
THOMAS WARREN,
Painter from Boston, BEGS Leave to inform the Public, that he has opened a Shop near the Parade in Queen Street, where he carries on the Business of painting in general, also Gilding and Varnishing, &c. He also paints Carpets and Floors in imitation of Carpets, in the newest Fashions. He also paints Coats of Arms,— makes and gilds Picture-Frames &c. in the genteellest Taste.
N. B. All Persons who will be so kind as to favor him with their Custom, may depend on having their Work done with the greatest Care and Dispatch possible.
GEORGE DOIG,
Painter from LONDON, HEREBY informs the Public, that he draws Coats of Arms in the neatest Manner of any in the Province of New-Hampshire.— At his Shop in King-Street.
Also, Painting in all its various Branches, as usual, either in Town or Country.— Those Gentlemen, who please to favour him with their Work, may depend on the greatest Care and Diligence.
Also, wanted an Apprentice at said Business.
ALL Persons that have any Demands on the Estate of the Hon. JOHN GAGE, Esq; of Dover deceased, are desired to bring in their Claims to JOHN GAGE Administrator to said Estate, immediately. Also those that are indebted to said Estate, are desir'd to make speedy payment, otherwise may depend upon their Notes and Accounts put in Force against them. Dover Feb: 15 1775. JOHN GAGE.
THE Proprietors of the Township of BRETON WOODS, in the County of Grafton, are hereby notified that at a legal Meeting of said Proprietors held at Portsmouth on Monday thirteenth of February inst. a Tax of one Pound Four Shillings was voted on each original Right, and the Assessors having committed a List thereof, with a Warrant to collect the same to me the Subscriber, I hereby desire said Proprietors to pay the said Tax to me at the Printing-Office in Portsmouth, on or before the 20th Day of March next, otherwise their Rights will be advertis'd to be sold at Public Vendue, agreeable to the Laws of the Province. Daniel Fowle, Collector. Portsmouth Feb. 15, 1775.
WANTED A BOY about thirteen or Fourteen Years of Age for the Barbers Business. Enquire of the Printer.
§ Rochester §
THE Proprietors and Owners of Lands in Rochester are hereby notified that the Vendue for the Sale of the Lands, is adjourned to the first Tuesday in March next, at the House of Stephen Wentworth, Innholder; at which Time it must not be expected the Collector will know any Man. Rochester, February 8th, 1775. Jonathan Dame, Col.
§ New-Durham. §
PROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, STRAFFORD ss. NOTICE is hereby given to the Proprietors of NEW-DURHAM, to meet at the Meeting House in said Town on the first Monday in March next, at 10 o'clock in the Forenoon; to act on the following Articles if they think proper, viz. 1st. To choose a Moderator. 2. To vote what Sum they will give towards the Salary of Mr. Porter this present Year. 3. To vote what they will do towards the finishing Mr. Porter's House in Order to assist the Inhabitants of said New-Durham, and encourage them in exerting themselves in the Support of Mr. Porter, as their Circumstances, and Numbers are not large, being young Settlers, in a new Town; and to act on any other Matters and Things that may then be thought necessary for the Benefit of said Town and Proprietors.
THOMAS TASH, } Committee VOLENTINE MATHES } to call Prop's Durham Jan. 31, 1775. Meetings.
Province of New Hampshire. THIS is to give Notice to the Proprietors of WARNER that there was voted to raise four Dollars on each original Right to pay Charges for the Year 1774, and that unless the Delinquents pay said Tax to me the Subscriber by the first of March next, so much of their Land will be sold as to pay said Tax and all Cost and Charge. Salisbury Feb. 7th 1775. STEPHEN MERRILL Col.
§ Dartmouth. §
THIS is to notify the Proprietors of the Township of Dartmouth, in the County of Grafton, that at legal Meetings of said Proprietors several Sums have been voted by them for Purposes in said Votes mentioned, the whole amounting to five Pounds eight Shillings on each original Proprietors Right, a List whereof with a Warrant to collect the same is committed to me— The said Proprietors are therefore hereby desired to pay said Taxes to me at my House in Portsmouth on or before the 10th Day of March next; the Rights of those who shall then be delinquent will be advertis'd to be sold at public Vendue agreeable to the Laws of the Province. J. WHIPPLE, Collector. Portsmouth February 9, 1775:
A good FARM
TO be sold in Nottingham West, and may be entered upon immediately; the Pay will be taken in an old Sloop or Schooner or live Stock or Goods, all except one 100 Dollars, or that may be taken in Cows Oxen or Sheep and the Remainder will be waited for one or two Years with good Security. Said Farm contains 60 Acres of Land, and no one will need complain of the Price. A good House, Barn, and 30 Acres of Wood Land may be had with it; for further Particulars enquire of Capt. Joseph Kielly at Dunstable.
N. B. A good Title will be given to the Purchaser. Dunstable January 30th 1775.
TO BE SOLD
AT PUBLIC VENDUE the first Monday in March next, at the House of Capt. Abijah PINKHAM in Barrington, at one o'clock in the Afternoon, a valuable Farm, containing one Hundred Acres of good Land, Mowing, Pasturing and Wood Land in Proportion, with a one Story House, two Barns, two Orchards, late the Estate of Jethro Sherburne, lying in Barrington, within three Miles of the Meeting House; one Half of which a Warrantee Deed will be given for immediately, by James Sherburne of London upon the Sale, the Remainder being the Widow's during her Life. Conditions of Sale may be known at Time and Place of Sale. Enquire of Richard Randal who lives on the Premises.
WHEREAS I the Subscriber gave Charles Glidden of Canterbury a Note of Hand for fifteen Pounds Lawful Money on Demand, and having received nothing in Consideration therefor, and he refusing to deliver it up; this is to desire any Person to be cautious of purchasing said Note of said Glidden or any other Person whatever, as it is unjustly detained from me. As witness my Hand, JAMES SHERBURNE. Greenland, Feb 1, 1775.
ALL Persons indebted to, or that have Demands on the Estate of Joseph Abbot, late of Portsmouth, deceased, are desir'd to bring in their Accounts to Sam'l Hall, Administrator to said Estate in Order for Settlement. Feb. 8, 1774.
PROPOSALS
For re printing by Subscription, A NARRATIVE of the INDIAN WARS in New England, from the First Planting thereof in the Year 1607, to 1677, containing a very particular Account of the War with the Pequot, the War commonly call'd King Philip's, the Narragansett War, and the Wars from Piscataqua to Pemaquid. By WILLIAM HUBBARD, A. M. late Minister of the Gospel in Ipswich. Together with a Preface, and some marginal Notes by another Hand.
This brief, though exact Narrative, is now in but few Hands; and unless re printed, must soon be entirely lost, and with it, in a great Measure, the memorable Salvations of divine Providence to this People in their Infant State, worthy to be kept in everlasting Remembrance. In order therefore, that the present, as well as future Generations may be made acquainted with the Miseries and Hardships which their renowned Ancestors underwent in bringing forward the Settlement of New England, the Publisher, at the Request of a Number of respectable Gentlemen hath issued these Proposals, not doubting but a sufficient Number of Subscriptions may be procured amply to compensate for the Undertaking.
This Work was published by Authority in the Year 1677, as appears by the following Recommendation prefixed thereto, viz.
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WHEREAS the Proprietors of the Township of Leicester on Otter Creek (granted by the Governor of New Hampshire) at their Meeting, in April last, granted a Tax of two Dollars and an Half, on each original Right, for letting a 2d Division in said Town— These are to give Notice, that all those Persons, who do not pay said Tax to Mr. Isaac Stone, of Woodstock, in the County of Windham, & Colony of Connecticut, Collector, or to Capt. Elisha Child of said Woodstock, Treasurer, at or before the 28th Day of March next, their Rights will be exposed to sale, at the House of Landlord Rice, in Brookfield, in the County of Worcester, and Province of the Massachusetts Bay, on Tuesday the 28th Day of March next, at ten o'clock in the Morning according to Law.
Nathaniel Child Elisha Child Samuel McClellan. } Committee
Woodstock, February 7th, 1775. Boston January 10, 1775.
ALL Persons having Demands against the Estate of Jonathan Colby, late of Sandown, deceased, are desir'd to bring in their Demands against said Estate to Mary Colby and Moses Colby, who are Administrators on said Estate: the sooner the Creditors bring in their Demands the better it will be for them, as the Want of the Demands much retards the Settlement.
Sandown, December } Mary Colby } Administrators. 12th, 1774. Moses Colby }

In PROVINCIAL CONGRESS,
Cambridge, Feb. 9, 1775.
To the Inhabitants of Massachusetts-Bay.
Friends and fellow-Sufferers,
WHEN a People invited to that Freedom which our Ancestors have nobly preserved, as the richest Inheritance of their Children, are invaded by the Hand of Oppression, and trampled on by the merciless Feet of Tyranny, Resistance is so far from being criminal, that it becomes the Christian, and social Duty of each Individual.
While you see the Lives of your fellow Men, in other Nations, sported with and destroyed, and their Estates confiscated by the Princes; only to gratify the Caprice, Ambition, or Avarice of a Tyrant, you ought to entertain and cultivate in your Minds the highest Gratitude to the supreme Being, for having placed you under such a Form of Government, as, when duly administered, gives the meanest Peasant, the same Security in his Life and Property, as his Sovereign has in his Crown.
This Constitution of Government secures to each one subject thereto, such an entire Property in his Inheritance, and the Fruit of his Industry, that they cannot be taken from him, without his personal or representative Consent; and as the Evidence of entire Property arises from the uncontrollable Power of disposing, when your Estates shall be brought into such a Situation, or under such a Form of Government, as that they can be disposed of, or granted by Persons who are by no Means accountable to you therefor, you cease to have any thing more than a licenced and precarious Property in them.
Notwithstanding these Principles have been warmly contended for, and nobly defended at the Expence of much Blood and Treasure, by your British Ancestors, who have ever been seriously alarmed at the least Infringement on this Branch of their happy Privileges, the House of Commons there, over whom you have not the least Controul, and in whose Election you have no Voice, have claimed and exercised the Powers of granting your Money without your Consent; and what renders the same more aggravated is, that the Money extorted from you, is applied to the vile Purpose of maintaining a Set of Men, who through depravity of Mind, and cruelty of Disposition, have been and still are endeavouring to enforce certain Acts of Parliament, made with express Purpose to take from you your Charter Rights, and reduce you to a State of Misery, equal to that ever attendant on those, whose Prince has the sole Disposal of their Lives and Properties.
Fleets, Troops and every Implement of War, are sent into the Province, with apparent Design to wrest from you that Freedom which it is your Duty, even at the Risk of your Lives, to hand inviolate to Posterity.
Those Strides of Tyranny have fixed the united Attention of all America, and being greatly and justly alarmed, the Wisdom of the whole Continent has been collected in that Congress, whose salutary Resolutions have pointed you to effectual Means of Redress, and the Execution of the Plan projected by that honourable Assembly, has been warmly recommended to you, by your former Provincial Congress.
The Transactions of your former Congress, with regard to placing the Militia on such a Footing, as may serve to defend you from each Act of Hostility that may be offered, have been carefully transmitted to you, and we rejoice to hear, that you have cheerfully paid the strictest Attention to them, and ardently wish that the same martial Spirit, which so remarkably prevails among you, may be encouraged and increased.
Though we deprecate a Rupture with the Mother State, yet we must still urge you to every Preparation for your necessary defence; for unless you exhibit to your Enemies such a Firmness as shall convince them, that you are worthy of that Freedom your Ancestors fled here to enjoy, you have nothing to expect but the vilest, and most abject Slavery.
The foregoing Pages contain the Resolutions * of your former Congress, respecting the Improvement of your public Monies at this critical Juncture of your public Affairs,---Such is the alarming State of this Province, that the Necessity of punctually complying with these Resolves, can by no means need any further Argument to stimulate thereto, than what naturally arises from Facts, under your constant Observations; but as necessary Preparations for your Defence, require immediate Supplies of Money, Duty and Faithfulness to you, compel us to take leave to hint, that should you be so unhappy as to be driven to unsheathe the Sword, in Defence of your Lives & Properties, the having proper Magazines duly prepar'd, may give that Success which cannot be expected without them.
Subjects generally pay Obedience to the Laws of the Land, to avoid the Penalty that accrues on Breach of them; and on the same Principles we are well assured, that as you hitherto have, you will continue still, strictly to adhere to the Resolutions of the several Congresses; for we can conceive of no greater Punishment, for the Breach of human Laws, than the Misery that must inevitably follow your disregarding the Plans, that have, by your Authority, with that of the whole Continent, been projected.
Your Conduct hitherto under the severest Trials, has been worthy of you as Men and Christians; and notwithstanding the Pains that have been taken by your Enemies to inculcate the Doctrines of non-resistance and passive Obedience, and by every Art to delude and terrify you, the whole Continent of America has this day Cause to rejoice in your Firmness. We trust you will continue stedfast, and having regard to the Dignity of your Characters as Freemen, and those generous Sentiments resulting from your natural and political Connections, you never will submit your Necks to the galling Yoke of Despotism prepared for you; but with a proper Sense of your Dependence on God, nobly defend those Rights which Heaven gave, and no Man ought to take from you.
Signed by Order of the Provincial Congress,
JOHN HANCOCK, President.
A true Extract from the Minutes,
BENJAMIN LINCOLN, Secretary.
* These RESOLVES (which are now published in a Pamphlet) relate chiefly to a Recommendation to the several Towns and Districts in the Province to cause their respective Proportion of the Province Tax to be paid into the Hands of Henry Gardner, Esq; of Stow, who had given bond and sufficient Sureties to the Satisfaction of the Congress.
IN PROVINCIAL CONGRESS,
Cambridge, February 15, 1775.
WHEREAS it appears to this Congress, from the present Disposition of the present British Ministry and Parliament, that there is real Cause to fear that the reasonable and just Applications of this Continent to Great-Britain, "for Peace, Liberty and Safety," will not meet with a favourable Reception: But, on the contrary, from the large Reinforcement of Troops expected in this Colony, the Tenor of Intelligence from Great-Britain, and general Appearances, we have Reason to apprehend, that the sudden Destruction of this Colony in particular is intended, for refusing, with the other American Colonies, tamely to submit to the most ignominious Slavery.
Therefore RESOLVED,
That the great Law of self Preservation, calls upon the Inha-
bitants of this Colony, immediately to prepare against every Attempt that may be made to attack them by Surprise. And it is upon serious Deliberation, most earnestly recommended to the Militia in general, as well as the detached Part of it in Minute Men, that they spare neither Time, Pain, nor Expence, at so critical a Juncture, in perfecting themselves forthwith in Military Discipline; and that skilful Instructors be provided for those Companies which are not already provided therewith.
And it is recommended to the Towns and Districts in this Colony, that they encourage such Persons as are skilled in the Manufacture of Fire-Arms and Bayonets, diligently to apply themselves thereto, for supplying such of the Inhabitants as shall be deficient.
And for the Encouragement of American Manufactures of Fire Arms and Bayonets, it is further RESOLVED, That this Congress will give the Preference to, and purchase from them, so many effective Arms and Bayonets as can be delivered in a reasonable Time, upon Notice given to this Congress at its next Sessions.
Signed by Order of the Provincial Congress.
JOHN HANCOCK, President.
A true Extract from the Minutes.
BENJAMIN LINCOLN, Secretary.
Good Encouragement.
Jonathan Moulton
Of Hampton,
Will give good Wages to ten good Joiners, and twenty smart active Labourers, that can work cheerfully and diligently,---The Joiners to be employed Four Months, from the First Day of June next; and the Labourers six Months, from the first Day of April next, in several New Townships where he is carrying on Settlements, viz. Moultonborough, Moulton's-Gore (to called) Tamworth, Orford, and Piermont; but more especially in the three first.---The Situation of some of them, particularly Moultonborough is such, that it's evident it will be a Place of great Inland Trade, which already begins to discover itself; and there is now much wanted a Number of Tradesmen, and Mechanicks to be settled there.---Those who may be so disposed, may depend upon having the Land on easy & reasonable Terms.---Said Moulton, from eight or ten Years Experience, is so thoroughly convinced of the Advantage of improving the new Lands, that the Price which He proposes to let them have them at, is such, that if they will but improve them, in a common good Husband-like Manner for three Years, he will engage to pay them at the End of said Time double to the first Cost of the Land, and for all the Labour they shall have done on it, deducting the Profits that may arise in the mean Time from the Produce of the Land.---Not to say any Thing of the Rise of the Value of uncultivated Land in Townships where the Settlements go on with Sprightliness and Vigour, which is now pretty generally understood in this Province. And as said Moulton is largely interested in New Lands, he would agree to pay those Persons whom he now wants to hire (if it may best suit them) three quarter Parts in some of the above New Lands, and the other Quarter Part in Cash. And all those who are dispos'd to engage with said Moulton, are desir'd to apply to him soon.
N. B. Cash for a Number of good COWS and SHEEP will be given by said Moulton.
ALL Persons who have DEEDS in their Possession from DANIEL PEIRCE, Esq; late of Portsmouth, deceas'd, Intestate, are hereby desir'd to cause the same to be Recorded in their proper Counties, that the Administrators of his Estate may know what Land the deceas'd in his Life-Time conveyed.---It will prevent much Trouble to the Administrators, and will more especially benefit the Persons themselves, because the Administrators may possibly sell some Part of that already conveyed, which will greatly incommode the present Owners.
Richard Wibird Penhallow
Has for Sale, at the Warehouse on Long-Wharfe, (lately occupied by Mr. Jacob Sheafe jun.) the following Articles, cheap for CASH only, viz.
RUSSIA DUCK, 24d. 30d. and 40d. Deck Nails, English and German Steel, Loaf-Sugar, Sheathing Nails, 4d. 10d. and 20d. dit. Sheet Lead, Frying-Pans, Pewter, Check Linens, Blanketts and Coverlids, Role Brimstone, Barr Iron, Sewing and Netting-Twine, Houseline and Marline, Burford Cod-Lines, Cod-Hooks, Tar-Brushes, Time-Glasses, together with many other Articles, all which were imported before the 1st Day of December.
Boston, Feb. 16.
Extract of a LETTER from New-Haven, Feb. 7, 1775.
"A Man lately went from Hartford to New-York, to buy the Town Stock of Powder, and as he was bringing it up by land, it was seized by a King's Officer, an Account of which got to Hartford last Saturday Night, whereupon about Twenty-Eight Persons immediately set out, well armed, in order to rescue it, and they arrived here towards Sabbath Day Morning; they proceeded as far as Fairfield, and there they got it, for it was seized at Stamford; and Fairfield People had rescued it before the Hartford People had got there. They arrived here last Night with the Powder, and I suppose have set out for Hartford with it to day. They had an Attachment for the Officer who seized it, and they intended to take, and put him in Goal for Trial; whether they have effected it or not, I am not certain."
Refin'd BAR IRON,
By the Hundred or Ton, Potash KETTLES of the best Kind and ANCHORS weighing 300 to 500, to be sold reasonable by JOSHUA WENTWORTH.
To be LETT for any Time that may be agreed on, TWENTY ACRES of LAND in Greenland, with the Dwelling House and Out Houses that lately belonged to ENOCH CLARK, Esq; deceased. There is now and for a long Time past hath been a Tavern kept in the same Dwelling-House. Any inclined to hire the Premises may know upon what Terms they will be leased, by applying to MARY CLARK, Administratrix of the Estate of said Deceased.
Greenland Feb. 21, 1775.
ALL Persons Indebted to, or that have Demands on the Estate of Daniel Johnson, junr. late of Hampshire, deceas'd, are desir'd to bring in their Accounts to Dolley Johnson, Executrix to said Johnson's Last Will and Testament, in order for settlement.
Province of New Hampshire, Court of Vice Admiralty. NOTICE is hereby given, that there is an Information exhibited against 3000 White Pine Logs, seized for being cut contrary to the Acts of Parliament in such cases made and provided, being of 16 inches diameter and upwards, lying in and on Pemigewasset River, in the Townships of New Chester and New Britain, mark'd P. S. I. q. W. S. TI. T. C. T. I. S. A. And that any person or persons claiming property in the same Logs, may be heard on such claim, at a Court of Vice Admiralty to be held on Thursday the Ninth Day of March next at Portsmouth, at three of the Clock in the Afternoon.
JOHN SHERBURNE, D. R.
Portsmouth, Feb. 22, 1775.
Province of New Hampshire:
[ Fitzwilliam ]
WHEREAS the proprietors of the Township of Fitzwilliam, have been legally notified to pay sundry Grants of Money legally assessed on each proprietors Right or Lot of Land in said Town 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 to sale at publick Vendue at the House of John Melens Innholder in said Town, on the 17th day of May next, at 2 of the Clock in the Afternoon, to pay said Taxes with incidental Charges, the delinquent Lots being as follows with the Sums due.
   l. s. d. l. s. d.     55 Acres in Lot No. 1 & 2 in 12 2 8 0   No. 11 in the 6th No. 23 in 10th 1 4 0   Range 1 19 11 No. 10 in 12th 1 3 0   Lot No. 13 in 8th 12 5 No. 16 in 11th 1 3 0   Lot No. 2 in 8th 1 4 10 No. 14 in 5th 1 3 0   Lot No 4 in 7th 1 4 0 No. 2 in 1st 1 3 0   Lot No. 19 and No. 11 in 6th 1 4 10   20 in 4th Range 2 8 0 No. 6 in 2d 1 4 0   Half Lot No. No. 18 in 4th 1 3 0   6 in 2d Range 0 12 0  
EDWARD KENDALL, Collector.
Fitzwilliam, February 14th 1775.
BY Licence of the Hon. Judge of Probate for the County of Rockingham, to Wyseman Clagett and Samuel Penhallow, Esq; Administrators on the Estate of Jotham Odiorne, late of Portsmouth, Mariner, deceas'd, will be sold by Public Vendue (if not sooner by private sale) on Monday the 13th of March next, 6 o' clock P. M. at the late Mansion House of the deceas'd, said Mansion House and Land thereto belonging. At the same Time and Place, and by the same Authority, is to be sold by Peter Pearse, Administrator to the Estate of Jotham Odiorne, Mariner, deceas'd (Son of the above) two thirds of one eighth of a Right in Mason's Patent in Reversion; also two thirds of one eighth in the Mansion House of Jotham Odiorne, Esq; deceas'd, in Reversion.
Portsmouth, Feb. 22d 1775.
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