The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1775-01-27 00:00:00

THE New-Hampshire AND HISTORICAL CONTAINING the Freshest ADVICES
Vol. XIX. GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
FRIDAY January 27, 1775.
No. 953 } Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd.
The following was design'd for our last Paper, but came too late. To the Delegates of New-Hampshire, Assembled in Congress at Exeter this 25th Day of Jan. 1775.
GENTLEMEN, THE Cares of yesterday being ended, I had scarcely collected the Apparatus for Smoking, when a gentle Rap at my Door introduced a Friend to his Country, and a much valued Neighbour; not less conversant with History than News Papers; by whom, (before my third Pipe was exhausted) I was furnished with the following Hints --which, in the honest Dress of Simplicity, (and with humble Diffidence) are presented for Consideration, before the united WISDOM of NEW HAMPSHIRE.
In a Land of LIBERTY every Man has an undoubted Right to communicate to public or private Bodies, what Sentiments he pleases--provided, the Matter advanced, tends neither to subvert the Order of Society, or the Happiness of Individuals.
By the late Grand AMERICAN CONGRESS were recommended Measures the most lenient and pacific--But to little Purpose is it to employ in bodily or political Disorders, the most skilful Physicians, without a due Attention to their Prescriptions.
"Stand still and see the Salvation of the LORD;" has been echoed from one End of the Continent to the other.
The Colony of New Hampshire, though verging to Maturity, (compared with others) is yet in Infancy, and stands the most in Need of Nurture and Protection. How far a recent and memorable Transaction may tend to their Obstruction Time will unfold.
Our Friends across the Atlantic, will doubtless give it the most favourable and candid Construction--but-----when the Salutation (tenfold exaggerated) shall grate the Ear of Sovereignty-----the Effect may be learned from an Idea of Regal Dignity.
The Movements in a Sister Colony and the Reports (propagated I fear with no good Design) previous to this Step, might justly exasperate a People jealous of their Rights--and could hardly fail to excite the Commission of Acts, which on cool Reflection appear rash and impudent.
To secure the Means of Defence on a sure Prospect of Invasion, is not only excusable, but a Duty incumbent--but-----when Danger from a particular Quarter has vanished--and common Fame told a Lie--to desist is Honor--to persevere Madness.
Should the unhappy Period arrive, when, for the Defence of our Liberties, ARMS are the only necessary Weapons--a small Part (only) of the late Booty can be truly beneficial--and, to say it would ever have injur'd us, without Insult and Provocation on our Part-----would be to say one Thing and think another-----Experience shews, that Patience, Virtue and Moderation are our best Weapons, and what our Enemies are least inclined to combat.
A considerable Wound with good Attendance may be soon healed-----which by Neglect may become incurable-----To close the present Breach the Eyes of the Confederate look on you as the proper Instruments.
No Expense I apprehend, will ever deter a Friend of his Province from aiming to procure a complete Restoration--that in my Opinion being the most likely (if not the only) Means to restore us to the same Favour with our gracious Sovereign, and sober fellow Subjects, which we enjoyed before the Intervention of an unguarded Minute.
Every Lover of his Country will fervently pray for a speedy Termination of the present unhappy Controversy.
How far the same may be impeded by a Neglect on your Part to effect it? and whether in that Case, you are not in Equity accountable for the Consequences that may ensue? are Questions which my Neighbour declined answering.
While reaching for his Hat and Cane, he said-----at the present Juncture every one should speak the honest Dictates of his Heart, should say that, and that only which he believes--and added-----
"Who dares think one Thing and another tell,
"My Heart detests him as the Gates of Hell."
Having bid him a "Good Night," and my own Situation being very recluse, any Thing that I could offer, would not be worth the Hearing-----and therefore only beg Leave to say, that I hope I am a Friend to my Country, and an honest FARMER.
Province of New Hampshire, Rockingham, ff. At a legal Meeting warned and held in the Parish of Hawke, this 5th Day of Jan. 1775;
Voted MR. DAVID TILTON, Moderator.
Voted, To carry into Execution the Measures recommended by the late American Congress.
Voted, Deputies to send to Exeter the 25th of this Instant, to join in choosing Delegates to represent this Province at the general Congress proposed to be held at Philadelphia the 10th of May next.
Voted, To empower such Deputies, when met, to join in choosing a Committee out of their Body to ascertain each Town or Parish's Proportion of defraying the Charges.
Voted, To empower the Select Men for the Time being, to pay the same, when ascertained by the above Committee.
Voted, Five Men to be a Committee of Correspondence.
Voted, Fourteen Men to be a Committee of Inspection, to carry into Execution the Association Agreement of the late Continental Congress.
Voted, Our Thanks to the Members of the late American Congress, especially to those of our Province.
Resolved, That the most grateful Acknowledgements are due to the truly honorable patriotic Members of the late Continental Congress, for their Affidavit in so nobly defending and supporting the Rights of America, against the wicked Machinations of an abandoned Ministry, to enslave us and our Posterity. We are so far from subscribing to the Authority of Parliament, to abridge us of our Privileges, that if Death must be our Portion, in the Defence of them, we are ready to sacrifice our Lives for Liberty.
A true Copy Attest, MOSES COLBEY, Clerk.
BOSTON, Jan 23.
DONATIONS received since our last.
From Massachusetts-Bay. Templeton, 40 Bushels of Rye.---
West Springfield, 23 Hogs. West Parish in Barnstable, 61. 13s. 7d
From the aboriginal Natives at Nashpee, 16s. From Warwick, in Rhode Island, five Cattle.
Mr. PRINTER,
WHEN the obvious Design of a Writer is to traduce and vilify his honest Neighbour, ought his Productions (however otherwise recommended) to obtain a Place in your valuable Paper?---Are not the late Publications concerning Col. MARCH, written with such apparent Design?--- How doth it concern the Public, whether the Col. did or did not speak the very Words set forth in those finish'd Pieces of Composition? But as if it was an Object of public Concernment, they have been twice called upon to give their Attention to this Writer's bold Assertions; which he declares may be proved by the Oaths of three Gentlemen whom he names.--- If the Gentlemen named will testify to the Truth of the Writer's Declaration, not their Veracity, but their Infallibility will be questioned.--- From the known Character of those Gentlemen it's presumed, they will not lay claim to the latter, as that Perrogative is the peculiar Blessing of very few Mortals except the Writer! Is it not possible nay probable, that the Minds of those Gentlemen were so agitated at the supposed Insult offered to Liberty Pole, that they might misconceive or misremember the very particular Words?
On the other Hand, Col. March is ready to depose on Oath that he never uttered the Words with which he is charged? And Mels. John Huggins, Robert Tufton Philbrook, Jonathan Seavey, Job Chapman, James Berry and William Pain have respectively made Affidavit that they were then present, and well remember the Words spoken by Col. March, and that no such Words were then uttered by him. Upon this State of the Matter, the Public may judge (if they think it an Object worthy Attention) whether less Assurance and more Diffidence would not have better become the Writer of those Pieces?
But behold! other high Crimes and Misdemeanors are charged upon the Colonel. What are they? Why, he hath no Talent for writing or Composition, therefore he could not have used his best Endeavours to serve his Town and Country. This truly is a most undeniable Consequence from the Premises: And another natural Conclusion followeth from this Doctrine; therefore he cannot be a Friend to his Country! To exemplify and illustrate the Truth of this Position, the Writer adduces a grand Simile from the Kennel of the Dogs, by which he pays a vast Compliment to the Understandings of his fellow Townsmen. But he seems not so lucky in the Specimen he gives of C---l M---ch a Spelling, as the benevolent Sons of Æsculapius commonly use Marks, Characters, and technical Terms peculiar to the Faculty, and indeed understood by few besides themselves. It is recommended to the Writer of those notable Pieces, to postpone any further Performances of the Kind, until the Writs for a new Election of Representatives for this Province issue, lest his literary Talents should be forgotten before that Time.
A FRIEND to the Injur'd. BOSTON, Jan. 19.
The Separation of the Colonies from Great Britain, was much feared in England, when the last Advices came away.
It is said that there is a Letter in Town, from a noble Lord in England, who gives it as his Opinion; that those unjust Acts of Parliament (which all America complains of) will in all probability be soon repealed; and likewise adds, that he thinks a Spanish War is now inevitable, in Consequence of which, the Troops will be more honorably employed, than dragooning their fellow Subjects into a Compliance to the ministerial Plan of Slavery.
We hear from Stafford, that in the Morning of the 30th of December, Josiah Blodget, a Youth about 15 Years of Age, and Son to Mr. Silas Blodget of that Town, went to Mill in order to cut off the Ice which was froze upon the Wheel, and as he was cutting Ice, standing upon the Wheel, it suddenly turned, & drawing him under it against the Breast Work, instantly put an End to his Life.
We hear from Sandwich, that one Night last Week, a large Idol lately erected there, fell to the Ground by some Accident and broke to Pieces.
BOSTON Monday Jan. 23.
There have been lately several Instances of flagrant Abuse offered by some of the Officers of the Army to the Inhabitants of this Town without any Provocation. A few Evenings ago, two young Lads, Sons of Mr Richard Hunnewell, going to their Father's House in Essex Street, South-End, were fired upon by an Officer from the Window of a House where he was; but happily the Shot with which the Muskett was charged passed between the Lads without hurting either of them, and lodged in a neighbouring Fence. And last Friday Evening there was a high handed Riot in King-Street, occasioned as we are inform'd, by a Number of Officers attempting to rescue a Prisoner out of the Hands of the Town-Watch. As Inquisition is now making into this Affair before a Magistrate, we shall defer the Particulars till our next. On Saturday Night last three Officers stopped at the Watch House in King Street, and insulted the Watch, threatening to have their Heart's Blood before Morning, &c. Two of the Selectmen went on the Governor the same Evening, to inform him of this Affair.
We hear from Newbury, that some Time last Week it was discovered that 3 or 4 Casks of Tea had lately been smuggled to that Place & sold to different Persons, but as soon as it was known to the Committee they applied to the Person who disposed of it (it being impossible to come at the Tea) and obliged him to give up the Profits arising from the Sale thereof, amounting to about 50l. L. M. for the Benefit of the Poor.
NEW-YORK, Jan. 12.
The Schooner Elizabeth, Capt. Jenkins, from the West-Indies for this Port, was cast away off the Point of Sandy Hook, on the Night of the 27th Ult. in a Snow Storm. Vessel and Cargo entirely lost, and two Men drowned, one of which was named Jam Miller, the other Daniel Ramsay.
Saturday last Capt. Cheevers, arrived here from Cork, in seven Weeks, with about 40 Passengers; the Snow Betty Greg, her Ship, Montgomery, Master, sailed for this Place three Days fore Capt. Cheevers.
HARTFORD, Jan. 9.
His Honor Governor Trumbull, with the Advice of the Council, has appointed Wednesday, the 1st Day of February next, to be observed as a Day of Fasting and Prayer thro'out this Colony.
NEW-PORT, January 16.
A Gentleman in this Town is now in possession of a cartridge Box, with 30 Cartridges, put up in the time of Queen Ann's War, and at this Time in good Order for use: Some of the Powder in these Cartridges have been lately tried, and is tho' to be better than what is commonly made.
POWDER bears a very good Price in this Town; the People from all Parts of the Country, the Fall past, having bought up almost all there was, to defend themselves against Wolves, and other Beasts of PREY.
By a Gentleman from Susquehannah we are assured, that at the Time the Powder was stolen from Cambridge, &c. and the Alarm went thro' the Country, there were a large Number of Indians mustered and equipped for War, 200 Miles beyond Susquehannah, and absolutely marched near 30 Miles determined to assist the New England Colonies.
WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia, Dec. 22.
At a Meeting of the Officers, under the Command of the Right Honourable the EARL of DUNMORE, convened at Fort Gower, Nov. 5th, 1774, for the Purpose of considering the Grievances of BRITISH AMERICA; An Officer present address'd the Meeting in the following Words:
GENTLEMEN, HAVING now concluded the Campaign, by the Assistance of Providence with Honour & Advantage to the Colony, and Ourselves, it only remains that we should give our Country the strongest Assurance, that we are ready at all Times, to the utmost of our Power, to maintain her just Rights and Privileges. We have lived above three Months in the Woods, without any Intelligence from Boston, or from the Delegates at Philadelphia. It is possible, from the groundless Reports of designing Men, that our Countrymen may be jealous of the use such a Body would make of the Arms in their Hands at this critical Juncture. That we are a respectable Body is certain, when it is considered that we can live Weeks without Bread or Salt, that we can sleep in the open Air, without any Covering but that of the Canopy of Heaven, and that our Men can march and shoot with any in the known World. Blessed with these Talents, let us solemnly engage to one another, and to our Country in particular, that we will use them to no Purpose, but for the Honour and Advantage of America in general, and of Virginia in particular. It behoves us then, for the Satisfaction of our Country, that we should give them our real Sentiments, by way of Resolves, at this very alarming Crisis."
Whereupon the Meeting made choice of a Committee to draw up and prepare Resolves for their Consideration, who immediately withdrew, and after some Time spent therein, reported, that they had agreed to and prepared the following Resolves, which were read, maturely considered, & agreed to, Nemine Contradicente, by the Meeting, and ordered to be published in the Virginia Gazette.
Resolved, That we bear the most faithful Allegiance to his Majesty King George the IIIrd, while his Majesty delights to reign over a brave and free People; that we will, at the Expence of Life, and every Thing dear & valuable, exert Ourselves in Support of the Honour of his Crown and the Dignity of the British Empire. But, as the Love of Liberty, and Attachment to the real Interests and just Rights of America, outweigh every other Consideration, we resolve, that we will exert every Power within us for the Defence of American Liberty, and for the Support of her just Rights and Privileges, not in any precipitate, riotous or tumultuous Manner, but when regularly called forth by the unanimous Voice of our Countrymen.
Resolved, That we entertain the greatest Respect for his Excellency the Right Honorable Lord DUNMORE, who commanded the Expedition against the Shawanese, and who, we are confident underwent the greatest Fatigue of this singular Campaign, from no other Motive than the true Interest of this Country.
Signed by Order and in Behalf of the whole Corps, BENJAMIN ASHBY, Clerk.
WILLIAMSBURG, Dec. 22.
Last Saturday arrived in Town Col. Macdonald of Frederick County, with the four Shawanese Hostages, and an Interpreter. Three of them are Warriors, viz. Imcarewahwaya, or the Black Wolf; Wissecapoway, or Capt. Morgan: Genufa, or the Judge; and the other is a young Man called Neawah, who is the Snake's Son, a principal Warrior of that Nation.
The Dunmore, Tomkins, cleared out Yesterday, from the up per District of James River, with 2681 Bushels of Wheat, & 513 Bushels of Corn, collected for the Relief of our suffering fellow Subjects in Boston.
and all those who make it appear to said committee that their Right was settled, and obtain a certificate from him or the major part of them, that to be all sufficient to discharge said tax; and the Collector to govern himself accordingly; These are therefore to notify all the Grantees of said Moultonborough, that each of the Lots are assessed, viz. Fifty shillings on each first Division Lots, fifty shillings on each second Division Lots, and five pounds on each third Division Lots, and committed the List to me to collect the same--and all those of the proprietors who have settled their Right agreeable to the Grant or Charter, are desired to make it so to appear by the second monday in February 1775, in order that their tax be discharged; and those who have not settled agreeable to the intent and meaning of the Grants and the forementioned Vots, are desired to pay said tax to me by said second monday in February next, otherwise their tax will be advertised for sale agreeable to the Law of the province.
JONATHAN MOULTON, Collector, Hampton, Dec. 28th, 1774.

Continental Congress continu'd
Friday, October 7th, 1774.
THE congress resumed the consideration of the letter from the committee of correspondence in Boston, and after some debate, Resolved,
That a committee be appointed to prepare a letter to his Excellency general Gage, representing "that the town of Boston & province of the Massachusetts-Bay, are considered by all America as suffering in the common cause for their noble and spirited opposition to oppressive acts of parliament calculated to deprive us of our most sacred rights and privileges."
Expressing our concern, that, while the congress are deliberating on the most peaceable means for restoring American liberty, and that harmony and intercourse, which subsisted between us and the parent kingdom so necessary to both, his excellency as they are informed, is raising fortifications round the town of Boston, thereby exciting well grounded jealousies in the minds of his Majesty's faithful subjects therein, that he means to cut off all communication between them & their brethren in the country, and reduce them to a state of submission to his will, and that the soldiers under his Excellency's command are frequently violating private property, & offering various insults to the people, which must irritate their minds, and if not put a stop to, involve all America in the horrors of a civil WAR.
To intreat his Excellency, from the assurance we have of the peaceable disposition of the inhabitants of the town of Boston, & the province of the Massachusetts-Bay, to discontinue his fortifications, and that a free & safe communication be restored and continued between the town of Boston & the country, and prevent all injuries on the part of the troops, until his Majesty's pleasure shall be known, after the measures now adopting shall have been laid before him.
Mr. Lynch, Mr. J. Adams, & Mr. Pendleton, are appointed the committee to draught a letter agreeable to the foregoing resolution. For the 8th & 10th of Oct. see Paper dat. Oct. 28.
Tuesday, October 11th, 1774:
Here follows a Copy of a Letter to Gen. Gage, &c see Papers dat. Oct. 28, and Nov. 11.
Resolved unanimously,
That a memorial be prepar'd to the people of British America stating to them the necessity of a firm united and invariable observation of the measures recommended by the congress, as they tender the invaluable rights and liberties derived to them from the laws and constitution of their country.
Also an address to the people of Great-Britain, Mr. Lee, Mr. Livingston, and Mr. Jay, are appointed a committee to prepare a draught of the memorial and address.
Wednesday, October 12th, 1774.
The congress met according to adjournment.
BOSTON.
To the INHABITANTS of the Province of MASSACHUSETTS-BAY.
IN moderate Times, a Representative that votes for an unpopular Measure, or opposes a popular one, is in Danger of losing his Election the next Year, when Party runs high he is sure to do it. It was the Policy of the Whigs to have their Questions upon high Matters determined by yea and nay Votes, which were published with the Representatives Names in the next Gazette. This was commonly followed by severe Scriptions and the most illiberal Inuendoes upon the Dissentients, sometimes they were held up as Objects of Resentment and Contempt; at others the Abuse was in Proportion to the Extravagance of the Measure they opposed. This may seem not worth Notice, but its Consequences were important. The Scurrility made its Way into the Dissentient's Town, it furnished his Competitor with Means to supplant him, and he took Care to shun the Rock his Predecessors had split upon. In this Temper of the Times it was enough to know who voted with Cassius, and who with Lucius, to determine who was a friend and who an Enemy to the Country, without once adverting to the Question before the House. The Loss of a Seat in the House was not of so much Consequence, but when once he became stigmatiz'd as an Enemy to his Country, he was exposed to Insult, and if his Profession or Business was such, that his Livelihood depended much on the good Graces of his fellow Citizens, he was in Danger of losing his Bread and involving his whole Family in Ruin.
One particular Set of Members in Committee, always prepared the Resolves and other spirited Measures: At first they were canvassed freely, at length would slide through the House without meeting an Obstacle: The Lips of the Dissentients were sealed up; they sat in Silence, and beheld with infinite Regret the Measures they durst not oppose: Many were borne down against their Wills by the Violence of the Current, upon no other Principle can we reconcile their ostensible Conduct in the House to their Declarations in private Circles. The apparent Unanimity in the House encouraged the Opposition out of doors; and that in its Turn strengthened the Party in the House. Thus they went on, mutually supporting and uplifting each other. Assemblies and Towns resolved alternately, some of them only omitted resolving to snatch the Sceptre out of the Hands of our Sovereign, and to strike the imperial Crown from his sacred Head.
A Master-Stroke in Politics respecting the Agent ought not to be neglected. Each Colony has usually an Agent residing at the Court of Great-Britain. These Agents are appointed by the three Branches of their several Assemblies, and indeed there cannot be a provincial Agent without such Appointment. The Whigs soon found that they could not have such Services rendered them from a provincial Agent as would answer their Purposes. The House therefore refused to join with the other two Branches of the General Court in the Appointment. The House chose an Agent for themselves, and the Council appointed theirs. Thus we had two Agents for private Purposes, and the Expence of Agency doubled, & with equal Reason a third might have been added as Agent for the Governor, and the Charges been trebled.
The additional Expence was of little Consideration, compared with another Inconvenience that attended this new mode of Agency. The Person appointed by the House was the ostensible Agent of the Province, though in fact he was only the Agent of a few Individuals that had got the Art of wielding the House at their Pleasure. He knew his continuing in Office depended upon them. An Office that yielded several Hundred Pounds sterling annually; the Business of which consisted of little more than attending the Levees of the Great, and writing Letters to America, was worth preserving. Thus he was under a strong Temptation to sacrifice the Province to a Party; and ecchoe back the Sentiments of his Patrons.
The Advices continually received from one of the Persons that was thus appointed Agent,
had great Influence upon the Members of the House of more moderate Principles. He had pushed his researches deep into Nature, and made important Discoveries; they thought he had done the same in Politics, and did not admire him less as a Politician than as a Philosopher. His Intelligence as to the Disposition of his Majesty, the Ministry, the Parliament & the Nation in general, was deemed the most authentic. He advised us to keep up our Opposition, to resolve and re-resolve, to cherish a military Spirit, uniformly holding up this Idea, that if we continu'd firm we had nothing to fear from the Government in England: He even proposed some Modes of Opposition himself. The spirited Measures were always ushered into the House with a Letter from him. I have been sometimes almost ready to suspect him of being the Primum Mobile , & to think, that like the Man behind the Curtain at a Puppet-Shew, he was playing off the Figures here with his own secret Wires. If he advised to these Measures contrary to his better Knowledge, from sinister Views, and to serve a private Purpose, he has wilfully done the Province an irreparable Injury. However I will do him Justice, he enjoined it upon us to refrain from Violence, as that would unite the Nation against us; and I am rather inclined to think that he was deceived himself with respect to the Measures he recommended, as he has already felt the Resentment of that very Government which he told us there was nothing to fear from. This Disposition of the House could not have produced such fatal Consequences, had the other two Branches of the Legislature retained their constitutional Freedom and Influence. They might have been a sufficient check.
The Councillors depended upon the general Assembly for their political Existence, the Whigs reminded the Council of their Mortality. If a Councillor opposed the violent Measures of the Whigs with any Spirit, he lost his Election the next May. The Council consisted of twenty-eight. From this Principle near half that Number, mostly Men of the first Families, first Note, Abilities, with every possible Attachment to their native Country, and as far from Temptation as Wealth & Independence could remove them, were tumbled from their Seats in Disgrace. Thus the Board which was intended to moderate between the two Extremes of Prerogative and Privilege, lost its Weight in the Scale, & the political Balance of the Province was destroyed.
Had the Chair been able to retain its own constitutional Influence, the Loss of the Board would have been less felt but no longer supported by the Board that fell likewise. The Governor by the Charter could do little or nothing without the Council. If he called upon a military Officer to raise the Militia, he was answered, they were there already. If he called upon his Council for their Assistance, they must first enquire into the Cause. If he wrote to Government at Home to strengthen his Hands, some officious Person procured and sent back his Letters.
[To be continu'd.]
WE the Subscribers, appointed Commissioners to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of Benjamin Holt, late of Pembroke, Gentleman, deceas'd intestate, represented Insolvent, give notice that we will attend that Business at the late Dwelling House of the said Deceas'd, on the last Tuesday of January next, and the first Tuesdays of the five following Months, from one to six o'clock, in the Afternoon of said Days.
RICHARD BARTLET, JOSEPH BAKER.
Dec. 28, 1774:
ALL Persons having any Demands on the Estate of John Thirlston, late of Stratham, deceas'd, are hereby Notified to bring in their Accounts attested, to Stephen Piper, Executor.
Stratham, December 27th 1774.
ALL Persons Indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of John Walton, late of Newington, deceas'd, are desired to bring in their Accounts to George Walton of Portsmouth, and Shadrack Walton, of Barnstead, in order for Settlement.
ALL PERSONS having Accounts open with Suppl d Clap, are earnestly requested to settle the same with him. Portsmouth, Jan. 10, 1775.

§ Rochester. §
PROVINCE of NEW HAMPSHIRE, Strafford ss. Whereas the Proprietors and Owners of Lands in Rochester, have been repeatedly notified in this paper, to pay the taxes on said Lands in labour or money for the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, which tax is one half penny an acre per annum, and was laid on said Lands by an Act of the General Assembly, for the express purpose of clearing and repairing the Roads through the unsettled part of said Town, — yet many are delinquent in part or the whole of said tax, therefore you are hereby notified, that on the 31 st Day of this Instant January, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of said Day, at my Dwelling House in Rochester, will be sold at public Vendue, so much of each delinquent proprietor's Right as will pay the Sums affixed to their Names, and incidental charges, unless the Sums and the charge of this Advertisement is paid by or in behalf of said proprietors, on or before said Day. The Sums in Lawful Money are as follows,
   l. s. d. l. s. d.     Governor Shute 0 11 8 Thomas Young 15 9   S. Penhallow, Esq; 1 8 9 John Buffum 1 3 9   C. T. Westbrook, Esq; 1 19 7 Ebenezer Varney 1 3 4   Gov. J. Frey, Esq; 1 3 9 Eli D. Merit 1 5   Em. Israel Hodgdon 1 18 9 Jonathan Woodman 7 1   Capt. Paul Gerrish 1 13 9 Joseph Kent 18 6   Col. James Davis 7 6 John Thompson 13   Lt. Joseph Roberts 3 9 Wm. Leathers 1 2 6   Capt. Timothy Gerrish 17 6 Peter Varney 1 1 3   Lt. Trustram Herd 1 13 Epbraim Tibbet 2 6   Capt. Tho's Tibbet 16 3 John Downing 1 3 4   Archib. M c Phedras 11 3 Benja. Bickford 14 7   Lt. John Ham 1 14 5 John Dams 17 6   Cp Paul Wentworth 2 8 9 John Willb 2 1 3   Benja Wentworth 2 7 6 James Durgin 2 3 3   Ephraim Wentworth 17 9 John Doe 18 4   Gov Wentworth jr 5 9 Thomas Drenn 17 9   Capt. Stephen Jones 11 3 Joseph Jenkins 7 6   Lt. Joseph Jones 8 8 James Bunker 1 11 3   Capt. Fran Mathes 1 10 8 Thomas Roberts 1 5   Benjamin Gamble 7 8 Clement Hughes 7 6   Capt. John Knight 1 8 9 First Minister 6 3   One Share between two Men.   Lt. Joseph Beard Richard Plumer 17 6   John Burnam Robert Burnam 2 16   Henry Tebbets Ensign John Tebbets 1 13 3   Nicholas Harford John Kenny 1 4 10   One Share between three Men.   Tho's Hanson John Hanson, Nat'l Hanson, 2 3   Tobias Hanson Jos. Hanson, Benj. Hanson, 1 9 2   John Hayes Peter Hayes, Ichabod Hayes, 11 3   Sam'l Hayes Wm. Hayes, Benja. Hayes, 16 2   Job Clement John Clement, James Clement 2 1 11   Philip Chese Jona. Chese, Ichabod Chese, 13 3   Silvanus Nock Tho's Nock, Zachary Nock, 17 10   Rich'd Hufsey Job Hufsey, Joseph Rankin, 13 9   Ger. Downs Tho's Downs, Eben. Downs, 1 11 3   John Ricker Meturia Ricker, Ephr. Ricker 1 17 6   Jos. Ricker George Ricker, Jere. Rollings, 13 8   Valentine Hill John Nutter, James Nutter, 1 10   James Nute Sam'l Nute, Tho's Tuttle, 8 4   Daniel Horn Wm. Horn, Wm. Horn, jr. 1 12 6   Rd. Pinkham Sol. Pinkham, Amos Pinkham, 1 1 3   John Trickey Tho's Trickey, Hat. Nutter 1 5 0   Edward Evans Jos. Evans, Benja. Evans, 2 8 9   Hat. Nutter Henry Nutter, Eleaz. Colman, 1 3 4   Pet. Cook Tho. Starbord, Tho. Starbord, jr. 1 8 9   Ben Mason Wm. Dorne, John Leigh ton, 1 14 2   Jos. Small Zechariah Small, James Bafford, 13 2   John Bickford Jos. Bickford, Eleaz. Bickford, 2 8 9   John Sise James Burrum, John Sise, jr. 1 7 6   Sam. Edgerly John Edgerly, W. Wormwood 2 1 0   Jos. Daniels Jos. Daniels, jr. Jethro Bickford 1 2 3   Moses Davis Tho. Willie, Wm. Jackson, 1 11 3   John Hall Tho. Hall, Sam'l Cearl, 1 2 1   Eben. Tuttle Wm. Twombly, James Guppy, 8 9   Sam'l Herd James Herd, David Watson, 2 13 9   James Hebb Jos. Ham, John Pearl, 12 11   Ebene. Gartin Jab. Gartin, Tho. Wallingford, 1 14 2   Sam. Willie John Norway, Ed. Whitehouse 10 0   W. Blackstone Rich'd Hammack, Jam. Hanson, 18 10   Tim. Robinson Sam'l Corson, John Rollings 1 6 3   John Drew John Cook, Benja. Pimper, 1 6 8   Jos. Stephenson John York, John Amblee, 2 1 3   John Allen Jona. Crosby, Ens. Jos. Chese, 16 3   Joseph Chese Sam'l Chese, John William 6 3   Jona. Ronald Jos. Ronald, James Clark, 2 1 8   Nath'l Lammas Jos. Wheeler, Dan. Harvey, 1 2 6   Moses Davis James Hutchins, Sam. Williams 2 7 6   Jona Williams Wm. Hill, Abra. Clark, 1 11 3   Wm. Ellis George Watson, John M c Phedras 18 3   Nich. Follet John Bucke, John Corner, 0 10 0   John Bantum Benedict Toir, Daniel Page, 0 15 9   One Share between four Men.   Benjamin Pierce Ebenezer Wire, John Conner, 1 1 3   James Conner Hugh Conner, Thom. Stevens, 1 0 2   John Gray Abner Thurston, Thom. West 18 3   Morris Fowler John Hoit, Thom. Alden, 0 13 2   Benjamin Green  
The Land will be sold in every Division where the
Delinquency is, and perhaps the Vendue continued by Adjournment from Time to Time till all is sold or paid for by Jonathan Dams, Collector: Rochester, January 2d, 1775.
[ New Salisbury ]
Whereas the delinquent proprietors of New Salisbury have been notified from Time to Time to pay the following Taxes, yet have neglected the same, this is therefore to give Notice that their Lands will be sold at public Vendue on the last Tuesday in February next at the House of Lieut. John Pearson, Innholder in Kingstown, unless the above Taxes are paid before that Time, to me at my House in Kingstown, with incidental Charges. JOHN CALEF, Collector. Kingstown, January 9th, 1775.
The above Rate was made september 28, 1773, and there was a Number of delinquent proprietors before this Date.
The Rates are laid on the original Rights, the first Column next to the Name is the sum laid on the 100 Acre Lot, the next the 80 Acre Lot, the next the 60 Acre Lot, the 4th the Interval Lot, the 5th the then undivided share.
   l. d. l. d. l. d. l. d.     Ebenezer Page 4 8 3 6 2   Samuel Beem 3 6 2 10   Samuel Concord 5 10 1 9 2 10   Benjamin Stevens 3 6 2   Jonathan Greeley jr. 5 10 4 8 3 6 2   Nathan Sweat 1 9 2   John Fifield jr. 3 6 2   Eliza Winslow, 5 10 3 6 2 10   Henry Morrill 5 10 4 8 3 6 2   Moses Quimby 4 8 3 6 2   John Huntoon 5 10 2 10   John Huntoon jr. 3 6 2 10   Tristram Sanborn jr. 5 10 4 8 3 6 2   John Lad jr. 4 8 2 10   Ebenezer Long 5 10 4 8 3 6 2   Benjamin Wadleigh 3 6   Nathaniel Lad 3 6 2   Nathaniel Huntoon 5 10 2 10   Tristram Quimby 5 10 4 8 3 6 2   Samuel Eastman jr. 5 10 3 6   Samuel Fifield 3 6 2 10   Rev. Joseph Secombe 4 8 3 6 2   Joseph Clifford 5 10 4 8   James Toppan 5 10 4 8 2 10   Tristram Sanborn 3d 5 10 4 8 3 6 2   Peter Sanborn 2 11 3 6 2   Samuel Sanborn 5 10 4 8 3 6 2   Wm. Bushell 3d 4 8 2 10   John Darling jr. 2 11 2 4 1 9   Jeremy Webster 5 10 4 8 2 10   Joshua Webster jr. 5 10 4 8 3 6 2   John Currier 5 10 4 8 3 6 2   Jonathan Sanborn 3 6 2 10   Ephraim Collins 5 10 3 6 2 10   Jacob Quimby 5 10 3 6   Jonathan Greeley 5 10 3 6 2   Samuel Stevens 5 10 4 8 3 6 2   Peter Ayer 3 6   David Greeley 5 10 4 8 3 6 2   Benjamin Sanborn 5 10 4 8 2 10   Philip Call 5 10 3 6 2   Nathaniel Miloon 5 10 4 8 3 6 2   Tho's Wallingsford, Esq; 3 6   Mark H: Wentworth, Esq; 3 6   Mathew Livermore, Esq; 3 6 2 10  
|| Dartmouth. ||
PROVINCE of NEW HAMPSHIRE, Application having been made to me the Subscriber, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace through the Province, by the Proprietors or Owners of more than one sixteenth Part of the Township of Dartmouth in the County of Grafton, and Province aforesaid, requesting me to call a Meeting of said Proprietors for the following Purposes, viz. — 1. To choose a Moderator to govern said Meeting. — 2. To choose a Clerk, Assessors, Collector, and Treasurer. — 3. To vote such Sums of Money as may be necessary for making Bridges, building a Saw Mill & Grist Mill, or any other Purposes that the Proprietors shall judge for the Benefit of the Township. — 4. To see what Encouragement they will give to the first Settlers. — 5. To act on any other Matter the Proprietors shall think proper for bringing forward the Settlement of said Township. — 6. To agree upon a Method of calling Meetings in future.
In Consequence of said Application, I do hereby notify & warn the Proprietors of said Township of Dartmouth, to meet at the House of James Stoodley, Esq; Innholder in Portsmouth, on Monday the 6th Day of February next, at six o'clock, P. M. for the Purposes aforesaid.
DANIEL ROGERS Just. Peace:
Portsmouth Jan 17, 1775.
R ICHARD MILLS, hereby forbids any person crediting his Wife ANNA, on his Account, as he will not pay any Debts by her contracted. Portsmouth, Jan. 19. Richard Mills.
TO BE SOLD on reasonable and advantageous Terms, to such Persons as may incline to become Purchasers, THE several Tracts and Lots of LAND which the late Sir WILLIAM PEPPERREL, Baronet, deceased, died seized and possessed of in Fee, in the Town of Berwick, and in the second Parish in York. The Berwick Lands are principally in one hundred Acre Lots, and many of them well wooded and Timbered, and suitable for Farms. Any Person inclining to be a Purchaser in the Premises, may be fully acquainted of the easy and advantageous Conditions of Sale by applying to the Hon. Benjamin Chadbourne, Esq; at Berwick, Edward Cutt, Esq; at Kittery, or, David Sewall, Esq; at York. Dec 28th, 1774.
RUNAWAY BOY, (three Spanish Potatoes Reward) TO any Person that will take one William Jennings bound to one David Robinson of Brintwood, let out to one Josiah Tilton of Epping, where said BOY, runaway last October, had on when he went away a striped Jacket, and a pair of Trowsers, short flax curled Hair; said Boy is about 15 or 16 Years of Age, whoever takes up said Boy, and conveys him to his said Master free from Charge, shall receive the above Reward, per David Robinson.
|| Moultonborough. ||
Whereas at a Meeting of the proprietors of Moultonborough, held at Hampton, at the House of Lieutenant Jonathan Leavitt, on Tuesday the 6th Day of December Instant, the proprietors took under consideration several matters respecting the settlement of said Township; also the additional Grant of said Township; and as it appeared that Jonathan Moulton, Esq; was at the Expense in obtaining said additional Grant, and at a Meeting of the proprietors of said Moultonborough, held at Hampton on the 3d Day of March 1776, did vote to allow Jonathan Moulton, Esq; 50 acres off of each of the Lots laid out in said Addition, being the third Division of Lots, it being in full consideration for all the expense and trouble he was at to obtain said Grant — as it appears that several of the proprietors neglected and did not comply with said Vote, and gave said Moulton a Deed of said 50 Acres, therefore it was considered and voted to lay a tax of ten pounds on each of the Grantees Lot in said Addition, for the purpose that said Moulton be satisfied for the aforesaid Expense, &c. and choose Assessors to assess said Lots, also a Collector to collect the same, also choose a Committee to examine and find out who had comply'd with said Vote and who had not; all those who have comply'd, & make it appear to said Committee, and obtain a Certificate from them or the major part of them that they have settled with said Moulton, according to the intent and meaning of their former Vote, shall be a full discharge from said tax, and the Collector to govern himself accordingly: — These are to notify all the Grantees of said Moultonborough, that each of their Lots laying in the third Division called the Addition, are assessed of ten pounds, and committed a List to me to collect the same, and all those who have comply'd and settled agreeable to the Vote of the proprietors passed March 3d 1776, are desired to make it appear to me by the second Monday in February next 1775, in order that their tax be discharged. — And those who have not comply'd agreeable to the intent and meaning of the aforesaid Vote, are desired to pay said tax to me by said 2d monday in February next, otherwise their Lots will be advertised for sale agreeable to the Law of the Province.
JONATHAN MOULTON, Collector:
Hampton, Dec. 28th, 1774.
§ Moultonborough. §
Whereas at a Meeting of the proprietors of Moultonborough, held at Hampton, at the House of Lieut. Jonathan Leavitt, on Tuesday the 6th Day of December Instant, took under consideration the settlement of said Township, and by examining into the condition of the Grant or Charter of said Town, found that each one of the Grantees was to have done his equal proportion in making settlement — therefore it was considered and voted to lay a tax of ten pounds on each of the proprietors Rights in said Town, liable to taxes, to be proportioned on their several Lots — and choose Assessors to assess the same — also, choose Jonathan Moulton, Esq; Collector, they likewise choose a committee to examine into the particular circumstances of all the Grantees to know who were settled, and were not; and all those who make it appear to said committee that their Right was settled, and obtain a certificate from them or the major part of them, that to be all sufficient to discharge said tax; and the Collector to govern himself accordingly; — These are therefore to notify all the Grantees of said Moultonborough, that each of the Lots are assessed, viz. Fifty shillings on each first Division Lots, fifty shillings on each second Division Lots, and five pounds on each third Division Lots, and committed the List to me to collect the same — and all those of the proprietors who have settled their Right agreeable to the Grant or Charter, are desired to make it so to appear by the second monday in February 1775, in order that their tax be discharged; and those who have not settled agreeable to the intent and meaning of the Grantees and the aforesaid Vote, are desired to pay said tax to me by said second monday in February next, otherwise their Lots will be advertised for sale agreeable to the Law of the province.
JONATHAN MOULTON, Collector:
Hampton, Dec. 28th, 1774.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 4.
Extra of a Letter from an Officer late under the Command of Lord Dunmore, against the Indians, dat. at Fort Augusta, Nov. 31, 1774. "I returned from the Shawanese Expedition to my own House, on the 11th Instant; an Account of which is as follows: Left Home, with my Company, the 25th of August, and arrived at the Levels of Greenbrier, (which was the Place of general Rendezvous) on the 1st of Sept. and again the 5th, we had about 1100 Men assembled; but the Fincastle Men, were not yet arrived. However Col. Charles Lewis, with the Augusta-men, which were about 600, marched from that Place the 6th of Sept. and arrived at the Mouth of Elk River (which empties into New-River about 60 Miles from the Mouth of New-River) the 21st of the same Month, where we encamped, and got to making Canoes to carry our Flour down New-River.
Col. Andrew Lewis, with the Botetourt Troops, joined us at Elk, on the 23rd or 24th, we made 27 Canoes, and on the first of October, crossed Elk, loaded our Canoes, and fell down into New River: and next Day being very wet, we encamped on the other Side of the Mouth of Elk; the following, we proceeded down New River, and arrived at the Mouth of it on the 5th of October. In all this March we were never disturbed by the Enemy: Our back Horse-Men said, they saw Indians at Times; and at Elk, the Indians viewed us, and stole some of our Horses. On our Arrival at the Mouth of New-River, or Great Canaway, we sent out Spies to search if Indians were in those Parts, but they could not discover any. Our Men went a hunting every Day, and on Monday the 10th of October, by break of Day, a number of our Men went out as before; two of whom were fired on by the Indians, about a Mile and a Half from the Camp; one was killed the other came into the Camp with the Alarm, that he had discovered about 30 Indians, and that his Companion was killed; on which the Drum beat to Arms. Our Men started up from their Tents, (Numbers being in Bed, for the Sun was not yet up.) Orders were immediately given, that 150 Men from each Line, should go in quest of the Enemy; on which Col. Charles Lewis, with 150 of Augusta Troops, and Col. Fleming, with 150 of the Botetourt Troops, marched out; the Men of each Line were ordered to form on their own Ground.
In a few Minutes three Guns went off, within about 120 Poles of the Camp, which was immediately followed by several hundreds; on which 200 Men were ordered out, who, on their Approach, found our Men giving Way before the Enemy; but that Reinforcement turned the Matter.
The Battle continued. Several Companies were again ordered out, among whom I was ordered out, with 50 Men, at a certain Place, to prevent the Indians getting round our Camp. I with my Men, run about half a Mile, and came to some of our Men by a Hill: The Indians had retreated, we then pursued from Tree to Tree, till rising a small Ridge, they had placed themselves behind Logs, fired on us, killed 3 Men near me, and wounded 10 or 12 more: We pushed up farther, there made a Stand, which the whole Line from the Ohio to us, did at the same Time: This happened about 1 o'Clock. There we remained watching the Indians, and they us, till near Night; now and then firing, as Opportunity offered, on both Sides.
The Indians, at the Approach of Night, skipped off, and left us the Field: But carried away all their Wounded, and many of their Slain. However we got 21 of them dead on the Ground, and we afterwards heard, they had 233 killed and wounded, but I cannot say that is true. We had 40 Men killed that Night, & 66 Wounded! 20 odd of whom are since dead. On the 17th, we crossed the River to go to the Towns, and marched on with about 1100 Men, leaving 300 at the Camp to take care of the Wounded and Provisions: (For know that the Fincastle Troops, 300 in Number, joined us the Night after the Battle. But on the 24th, we were stopped by Express from the Governor, informing us that he had made Peace."
Yesterday a Butcher bro't ewe Mutton to the Market of this City, contrary to the Resolves of the Committee; but he soon found that his best Way was to send it to the Prisoners, and tho' himself happy that he got off at so small a Price. Probably the meat may not get off so well.
PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 27.
THESE are to certify that the Advertisement lately in this Paper sign'd by Benjamin Whiting, setting forth that I broke Goal at Amherst, wherein ten Dollars Reward was offered for raking me up, was made either through Ignorance or Mistake; as I was not a Prisoner at that Time. I thank his Excellency and the People for compelling those who forced me in to let me out, as their Proceedings towards me were illegal.
January 20, 1775. JOSEPH KELLY.
Extract of a Letter from New-York, January 6th.
"The Writings of the Farmer, and friendly Addresser have greatly abated the Political Fever in this Province."
CUSTOM-HOUSE, Piscataqua, Jan. 26.
Inward Entries. Ship Polly, John Gregory, from West Indies. Clear'd Outwards. Ship Glasgow, John Holmes, for West Indies. Ship Boston, Moses Harris, West Indies. Brig Charlotte, William Wicker, Great Britain. Brig Betsey, John Eastman, Belfast.
Whereas Elizabeth Corey
of Windsor, in the county of Cumberland, in the Colony of New York, who has been brought in guilty of murdering her Child, has absconded from me her Keeper, the 3rd Day of January instant; This is therefore to give Notice, that if any Person or Persons will take her up, and bring her to Cumberland County, so that she may be secured, shall have TEN DOLLARS Reward, and necessary Charges paid by me
ALEXANDER PARMELE, Constable.
N. B. She is about 19 Years of Age, a comely Woman, has a large blackish Eye, midd' sized Person, black Hair, and low of Speech.
Windsor, January 14th 1775.
ALL persons Indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of Nathaniel Griffith, late of Portsmouth, Goldsmith, deceased, are desire'd 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 Maj. Benjamin Mathes of Durham, in the county of Strafford, deceased, intestate, are desire'd to bring them in for speedy settlement to Valentine Mathes and Samuel Mathes Administrators.
[Leavitts Town.]
WHEREAS the Proprietors of the Township of Leavitts Town in the County of Strafford in the Province of New Hampshire, who are delinquent in paying their Taxes some Time since advertised for Payment, are advertis'd that unless Payment prevents, their Rights, or so much of their Land will be expos'd to Sale at public Vendue as to pay the Taxes and incidental Charges at the House of John Leavitt, Esq; Innholder in North-Hampton, on Monday the 13th Day of February next, at one of the Clock in the Afternoon. Their Names are as follows.
   First Division. 2d. Division.   s. d. l. s. d.    Joseph Towle 7 0 1 3 0  David Marston 7 0 1 3 0  Daniel Samborn 7 0 1 3 0  David Wedgwood 1 17 6  David Knowles 7 0 1 3 0  David Knowles jun. 7 0 1 3 0  Ebenezer Smith 7 0 1 3 0  Ebenezer Smith 7 0 1 3 0  Ebenezer Levering 10 6 1 17 6  Jonathan Wedgwood 7 0 2 12 0  Jonathan Knowles 7 0 1 3 0  John Sheppard 7 0 1 17 0  Jonathan Marston jun. 7 0 1 17 0  John Taylor 1 3 0  Jonathan Norris 7 0 1 3 0  Jeremiah Avery 7 0 1 3 0  John Dearborn 7 0 1 3 0  Jedidiah Prescott 7 0 1 3 0  Jonathan Marston 7 0 1 3 0  Levi Dearborn jun. 1 17 6  Moses Leavitt 7 0 1 3 0  Samuel Robbie Fogg 7 0  Simon Marston 7 0 3 0  Samuel Wedgwood 7 0 3 0  Simon Dearborn 7 0 1 3 0  Simon Leavitt 7 0 1 3 0  Thomas Robbie 7 0 1 17 6  Thomas Parsons 7 0 1 3 0  Thomas Parsons jun. 7 0 1 3 0  Zechariah Batchelder 7 0 1 3 0  
JOHN DEARBORN Collector.
North Hampton Jan. 18, 1775. N. B. The Proprietors Meeting stands adjourned to the above Time and Place.
[Dorchester.]
THE Proprietors of the Township of Dorchester in the County of Grafton, in the Province of New Hampshire, who are delinquent in paying their Taxes (sometime since advertis'd for Payment) are notified that unless Payment prevent, so much of their Rights as will pay the same with incidental Charges, will be expos'd to Sale at public Vendue according to Law at the House of John House, Esq; Innholder in Hanover, on Wednesday the first Day of March next, at two o'clock in the Afternoon. The delinquent Proprietors are
N. B. The first Sum is on the first Hundred Acre Lot, the second on the 2d Hundred Lot, and the third on the undivided Land: l. s. d. l. s. d. l. s. d.
  John Wright 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 6 0  Nathaniel West 6 6 6  David Woodward 6 6 6  Otis Little 6 6  Ambrose Cushman 6 6 6  Thomas Porter 6 6 6  Asa Parker 6 6 6  Thomas Floyd 6 6 6  Thomas Davinlen 6 6 6  Joseph Sherburne 6 6  Maj John Wentworth, Esq; 6 6  Jacob Marston 6 6 6  Giles Tiffany 6 6 6  William Yeaton 6 6 6  James Melcher 6 6 6  Samuel Hobart, Esq; 6 6 6  Daniel Pierce Esq; 6  John Parker Esq; 6  John Hurd Esq; 6  Samuel Parker 6  Richard Curtis Shannon 6  John Nelson Esq; 6 6 6  John Pingrey Williams 6 6 6  William Gardner 6 6 6  Nathaniel Ray Thomas Esq; 6  Wileman Claggett Esq; 6 6 6  John Spachawk 6 6 6  Joshua Brackett 6 6 6  Ebenezer Lewis 6 6 6  Beezager Salter 6 6 6  Joseph Ward 6 6 6  Paul Langdon 6 6 6  Joshua Wentworth 6 6 6  John Marshall 6 6 6  Ephraim Ham 6 6 6  George Marshall jun. 6 6 6  Henry Sherburne 6 6 6  
Jan. 21, 1775. CALEB CLARK Collector.
§ Frances-Town. §
THOSE Proprietors and Owners of Land in Frances-Town in the County of Hillsborough and Province of New Hampshire, who have hitherto been delinquent in paying the Taxes laid upon their respective Lands in said Town, by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of this province, for the purpose of building a Meeting House in said Town, are hereby notified that unless Payment be made of the aforesaid Taxes with the Cost of this Advertisement, so much of their respective Lands will be sold at public Vendue to the highest Bidder at the House of Lieut. Oliver Holmes, Innholder in said Town, on the Third Tuesday of February next, as will pay said Taxes with all other incidental Charges. Their Names & Sums affixed are as follows, in L. M.
   l. s. d. l. s. d.    Mason's Proprietors, Own Thomas Ackin 1 3 0  ers of Crotch William Ackin 1 3 0  Mountain so call'd 10 0 0 Daniel Bixbe 1 10 3  Right No. 9, Isaac Brattle 1 8 6  formerly drawn to Jetham Odiore. 41 5 0 Robert Alexander 1 10 3  John Mc'Neal 2 18 0 Asa Bixbe 1 6 6  John Densmore 4 7 6 John Ackin 18 0  Andrew Armor 1 14 3 Widow Barnard 18 0  Adam Dickey 2 10 0  Alex. Parker, 2 10 0  Spencer & Swift 1 5 0  
JOHN QUIGLEY Collector.
Frances Town January 26, 1775.
Province of New Hampshire, Rockingham ss.
[Bretton Woods.]
APPLICATION having been made to me the subscriber one of his Majesty's Justices of the peace through the province, by the proprietors or Owners of more than one sixteenth part of the Township of Bretton Woods, in the county of Grafton & province aforesaid, requesting me to call a Meeting of said proprietors for the following purposes, viz. — 1. To chuse a Moderator to govern said Meeting. — 2. To chuse a clerk to the proprietary, assessors, collector and treasurer. — 3 To vote such sum as they shall think proper towards building a Saw Mill and Grist Mill in or near said Town; 4 To determine what more they will do on the Road, and vote Money for that Purpose. 5. Determine what farther Encouragement they will offer to the first Settlers, and to lay out Lots for them. 6. To act on any other Matters that they may judge necessary to promote the Interest of the Proprietary. 7. To appoint Committees to carry into Execution any Votes of the Proprietors. 8. To agree on some Method to call Meetings in future. — In Consequence of said Application I do hereby notify and warn the Proprietors of said Township of Bretton Woods to meet at the House of James Stoodley Esq; Innholder in Portsmouth, on Monday the 13th of February next, at six o'clock P.M., for the Purposes aforesaid.
DANIEL ROGERS Just. Pac.
Portsmouth Jan. 24th 1775.
THIS is to Notify the proprietors of the Township of Bretton Woods, in the county of Grafton, that at a legal Meeting of said proprietors, the sum of three pounds seventeen shillings was voted and assessed on each original Right in said Township, & a List thereof committed to me by the Assessors with a Warrant to collect the same; this is therefore to desire the said proprietors, and each of them, to pay the said Tax to me at the Printing Office in Portsmouth, on or before the 25th Day of February next, or the Rights of those who shall then be delinquent, will be advertised to be sold at public Vendue, agreeable to the Law of the province.
Daniel Fowle, collector.
Portsmouth, January 23, 1775.
§ Hanover §
THE Proprietors of HANOVER are notified that my Vendue of Land is adjourned to my Dwelling House in said Hanover on the first Day of March next, at two o'clock P. M. for the Sale of Land in said Hanover. The delinquent Proprietors are as follows.
  John Knight £0 18 Prince Aspenwell £0 18  Phinehas Allen 0 18 Nathaniel Hopkins 0 18  Heman Atwood 0 18 JOHN HOUSE Col'r.  
WE the Subscribers being appointed by the Hon'ble JOHN SHERBURNE, Esq; Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. for the County of Rockingham, Commissioners to receive and examine the Claims of the Creditors to the Estate of Thomas Wells, of Chester, in said County, Cordwainer, deceased, represented Insolvent, and six Months from the 5th Instant, being allowed for that Service: This is to give Notice that we will attend that Business at the House of Timothy Ingalls, Innholder in Chester, on the first Tuesday of February next, and the first Tuesdays of the four next following Months, from two to five o'Clock, P. M. Chester, Jan. 10th, 1775. Samuel Emerson,
Sundry Pieces must be defer'd for want of Room.