The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1774-11-25 00:00:00

THE New-Hampshire AND HISTORICAL CONTAINING the Freshest ADVICES
Vol. XIX. GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
FRIDAY November 25, 1774.
No. 944 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd. }
S A L E M, November 22.
Captain Forrester arrived here last Wednesday from Falmouth, and the Day following Capt. Sheppard came in from London: The former brought Papers to September 24, and the latter to October 1, from which we have taken the following Advices, viz. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, OCTOBER 1, 1774.
By the KING, A PROCLAMATION,
For dissolving the present Parliament, and declaring the calling of another.
GEORGE R.
WHEREAS We have thought fit by and with the Advice of our Privy Council, to DISSOLVE this present Parliament, which now stands Prorogued to Tuesday the 15th Day of November next: We do for that End, publish this Our Royal Proclamation, and do hereby Dissolve the said Parliament accordingly: and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses, & the Commissioners for Shires & Burghs of the House of Commons are discharged from their Meeting and Attendance on Tuesday the said 15th Day of November next. And We being desirous and resolved as soon as may be, to meet Our People and have their Advice in Parliament; do hereby make known to all Our loving Subjects, Our Royal Will and Pleasure, to call a new Parliament: And do hereby further declare, that with the Advice of Our Privy Council, We have this Day given Orders to Our Chancellor of Great Britain, to issue Our Writ in due Form, for calling a new Parliament, which Writs are to bear Test on Saturday the 1st Day of October next, and to be returnable on Tuesday the 29th Day of November following.
Given at Our Court at St. James's, the Thirtieth Day of September, 1774, in the Fourteenth Year of Our Reign.
G O D S A V E T H E K I N G.
A M S T E R D A M, September 14.
We learn from Paris, that M. Turgot, the new French Comptroller-General has the Reputation of exact Probity. Projects are attributed to him which would be infinitely useful and agreeable to the People, but the several Obstacles to which have always made the Execution to be considered as little probable. Of this Number is that of putting all the Provinces on the Footing of States, that each might have the Assessment of its own Imposts. We remember that all the Parliaments, particularly that of Rouen, demanded urgently this kind of Contribution, which would spare the People immense Sums, and almost double the present Collection. If a like project, the Existence of which many Reasons make still doubtful, should be readily carried into Execution, it would not be one of the least remarkable Singularities of our Age, that France should restore to its Nation the Right of taxing itself, a Right so sacred, and which might appear imprescriptible to every Nation that is not a Slave, while England is labouring to strip of it her Subjects in America, who certainly did not go to grub up the Defects in order to lose the Rights of Denizens and Englishmen.
L O N D O N, September 12.
Lord Mansfield's Journey to Paris, says a respectable Correspondent, you may be assured from the best Authority, is solely on Account of a Challenge that has been given by a certain Ambassador (Lord S.) to a Prince of the Blood (the D. of O.)
There are People who would falsely and maliciously insinuate, that the Conduct of the People of Boston is not approved by the other Colonies. It is in Truth, most universally approved, unless by some needy, cringing, Scotch Miscreants, who fawn at the Foot of Government for Reward.
Whatever Face Administration may put upon the Matter, it is most certain, that the Intelligence of the Desertion of the Troops lately sent to America, is a Matter of real Embarrassment; as it was tho' they could be trusted with the Execution of any Thing.
September 13. Summons, we are told are issued for a grand Privy Council to be held this Day at the Cockpit, Whitehall, on the Affairs of America. Governor Hutchinson, it is said, is ordered to attend at it.
Several Plans for reconciling the Colonies to Great-Britain have lately been proposed to the Ministry, but though they have been several Times the Subject of Consideration, no Judgment can yet be formed, whether either of them will be adopted.
Sept. 14. Two additional Packets are kept in constant Pay to carry Government Expresses to and from Boston.
A Letter from Amsterdam says, "your Disputes with America have so alarmed this Country, that it is with Difficulty we can get some Bills discounted, even at large Premiums."
A facetious Wag, lately supposed to be in a very dangerous Situation, was prevailed upon to make his Will, in which were the two following Articles:—to the Patriots in Boston all my Resolution, Perseverance, &c. together with 40,000l. for the use of their Committee. A grain of Wisdom to the— & his C—; with which (replied he) they might settle all matters which now appear so alarming to their own and their Opponents Satisfaction, without Delay or Bloodshed.
Sept. 22. According to Letters from Venice, Hostilities are actually begun, between the Troops of the Empire, and those of the Venetian State, in some of the Territories of the latter, where the former had intruded themselves, but were forced to retire from the Action with some Disadvantage.
We are informed that it is actually under Consideration at the French Court, to suppress all the Nunneries in that Kingdom.
The unsettled State of our Councils respecting the various perplexing Affairs which the Ministry have now upon their Hands, it is said has quite tired out some of our political Guides; and that, in Consequence, several Changes at the Helm will soon take place.
They write from Cadiz, that several Companies, with a great Quantity of Ammunition and Provisions, had been embarked there for America.
September 24. A private Letter from New-York, says, that General Gage having forbidden the Meetings of the Select Men, the People were exasperated, and a Tumult had arisen; and that it was reported the Troops had been drawn out against the citizens, but would not fire upon them. This we are certain of, that the
private soldiers and the Inhabitants seem to understand each other very well, tho' incredible Pains are taken to keep them separate. Orders it is said, are dispatched to the Commander in chief in North-America, to cause any six of the Deputies to the Congress to be intercepted on their Way, and by that means to frustrate the Intention by not permitting it to be general.
The Ministry are at their old Tricks again in hiring scribbling Mercenaries to keep down, if possible, the Outcry against the two late unconstitutional Measures, the Quebec and Boston Port Bills. In this Group however, none figure away more gaily (as the herself supposes) than a large bear, who, during the late Reign was, exhibited at charging Crops gratis. This curious exotic is well known by the Characters the assumes of, Young Sly Boots, Palinurus, &c. &c.
Yesterday Sir James Estdale canvassed white Cross Street, but met with very little Encouragement. Our Correspondent admires the spirited manner in which Mr. Hudson, a Cheesemonger in that Street answered Sir James. After he had purchased some Cheese, he would take no Denial, but insisted on a Promise of Mr. Hudson's Vote, which was refused, and at the same Time assured Sir James he would not vote for any Man who approved the Conduct of Administration in making the infamous Laws for establishing Popery in Canada, and shutting up the Port of Boston.
Sept. 27 The following is a Copy of the Engagement signed by John Wilkes and John Glynn, Esq's. on their being nominated, at a Meeting of a Number of the Freeholders of Middlesex, to represent that County at the ensuing Parliament.
"WE [John Wilkes and John Glynn] do solemnly promise and engage ourselves to our Constituents, if we have the Honour of being chosen the Representatives in Parliament of the County of Middlesex, that we will endeavour to the utmost of our Power to restore and defend the excellent Form of Government, modelled and established at the Revolution, and to promote Acts of Legislation, for shortening the Duration of Parliaments, for excluding placemen and Pensioners from the House of Commons, for a more fair and equal Representation of the People, for vindicating the injured Rights of the Freeholders of this County, and the whole Body of Electors of this united Kingdom, and an Act for the Repeal of the four late Acts respecting America, the Quebec Act, establishing Popery, and the System of French Canadian Laws in that extensive Province, the Boston Port Act, and the Act for altering the Charter of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, and the Act for the Trial in Europe of Persons accused of criminal Offences in America, being fully persuaded that the passing of such Acts will be of the utmost Importance for the Security of our excellent Constitution, and the Restoration of the Rights and Liberties of our Fellow Subjects in America.
JOHN WILKES, JOHN GLYNN.
It is now expected that a general Change of the Ministry will take Place before the next Meeting of Parliament.
It is said some Advices of the most important Nature were received on Tuesday from America.
A Letter from Philadelphia of August 4th, gives the following Account, viz. "In the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, about eight Weeks ago, the Militia was mustered, which consisted of 119 600 effective Men, belonging to that Colony only, all trained and disciplined as well as the best Troops in Great Britain. They were exercised a few Days ago, in the place where the Regulars are encamped; the Commanding Officer of whom ordered them to disperse, or that he would bring his Troops against them. This occasioned some Words, and the Colonel of the Militia told the Commanding Officer of the King's Troops, that if he would bring double the Number of Regulars into the Field, he with his Men would decide the Fate of America with him; however, Matters being amicably settled, the Colonel of the Militia desired the Officer of the Regulars to exercise his Men, when the Militia fired nine Times in a Minute by Companies, to the Surprise of all present."
General Gage hath absolute Orders from the Court to prevent the Meeting of the Congress, and to seize all such People as attempt to assemble.
A Report prevails that Gen. Gage is killed, and that two Regiments of his Troops had revolted.
At the Close of the Poll for Lord-Mayor of this Day, the Number was as follows: Lord Mayor, 605. Alderman Wilkes, 602. Sir J. Estdale, 388. Alderman Kennet, 566.
It is assured that Government is much deceiv'd in the Conduct of the Americans; their cool, deliberate and prudent Measures, having confounded their Foes, and gained them many Friends.
L O N D O N, Sept. 13.
The following is said to be an authentick COPY of a LETTER very recently received from a General Officer some Time since sent to America, in a very important and critical Situation, to a noble LORD in a very high Office.
My LORD, IT is with the most poignant Regret that I find myself greatly necessitated to demand a total Exemption from all those Restrictions, which are laid upon me by the private Orders, and a fuller Scope to exert more immediate Powers, as the only Means left me to form any Hopes of effecting the great and arduous Task I have undertaken. I have, my Lord, long known the People I have now to deal with; and am well assured, they are to the extent bitter Enemies to all conciliatory Measures, where they think the Entrance upon them may throw an Odium on their Unanimity, or put their public Spirit to the least Doubt. I had the Honour to deliver my Sentiments and opinion to your Lordship, before my Embarkation, on these People and their Prejudices, which, to my great Astonishment, I now find more obstinately rooted; and every Day brings me new Fears, that I shall be reduced to the cruel Necessity of doing my Duty to my Country and my royal Master, in a Way that will, I am certain be as painful to your Lordship, as to myself, and which I have most studiously endeavoured to avoid. According to the express Commands of my most gracious Master, which I had the Honor to receive from him before my Departure, I entered on the most lenient Measures at first, and acted with Circumspection & Secrecy, as my Arrival added Fuel to the Flame of the Party, as it was universally propagated and believed that I came to act more in my Military Capacity than my Civil. I found
the Means, my Lord, to gain the Secrets of the Party and endeavoured, by every Means, to convince some of the Leaders, that I came more as a Mediator than to enforce. I gave them to know that the most soothing Measures would be used if they would deserve them; that the King desired nothing more ardently than the Affection of his American Subjects and a good Understanding with his Colonies, but that it was firmly resolved to gain an honourable and just Reparation for the Insults offered, and the great Disobedience to his M-----'s Government and Authority; and that Reparation must be gained; this return to Obedience must be established by Means the most decisive and severe; but such is their fatal Obstinacy, that every Effort for Conciliation was refused. As the Military Force was indeed feared, the Cunning and Policy of these People immediately suggested the Means of debauching the Soldiers from their Duty, in which they had too great Success, before I could have the Power of exerting my Authority in stopping a Defection, which a short Time should have rendered very general. I have, my Lord, offered such Terms to these deluded Men, as are infinitely more lenient than they deserve, and which should they refuse accepting, I am determined to make some very severe Examples, which I am very certain will prove the ultimate Resource I shall reap any Benefit from, respecting the Intent I am to accomplish. I must assure your Lordship, that I shall have occasion for a considerable Reinforcement of Troops, on whom Duty & Obedience Dependence can be placed; and the more immediate the Supply, the more effectual Service it will render the. Your Lordship's Judgment will point out the most proper, but I could wish that it may be preferred, as my intimate Knowledge with them leaves no Doubt of their Affection, to the Service. I have Pleasure, however, of affirming to your Lordship, that a considerable Number of the most respectable People here are well affected to his Majesty, and have very much distinguished themselves in Opposition to the most extravagant Schemes of the Party, which is indeed a most violent and large Majority. I have my Lord, to the utmost Extent of my Power, executed those private Matters given to me in Charge by your Lordship, and by their Success am still more confirmed in your Lordship's profound political Reach, and extensive Knowledge of Mankind in general. I need not use Argument to assure your Lordship, that I am most firmly attached to an honorable Discharge of my Commission, or that I have the Honor to be, My Lord, your Lordship's, in all Sincerity.
[If this should appear to be a Letter written by General Gage, it is the most extraordinary of the kind that has yet been made public, and requires very particular Attention.]
Copy of a Letter from Governor HUTCHINSON to the Earl of Dartmouth, dated Boston, March 9th, 1774.
My LORD, SINCE the Date of No. 41, the chief Business of the House and of the Council has been to bring about by some Means or other, the Removal of the Chief Justice, and for this Purpose they have turned and tortured the Charter to such a Degree as to frame a Constitution quite different from what was ever intended. The Articles of Impeachment will leave a lasting Stain upon the Character of the Government. Finding that every Attempt to compel me to a Compliance with, or Connivance at their unwarrantable Measures was ineffectual, and having some Intimations that the Indecency with which both the King and the Parliament had been treated by them, would oblige me to put an End to their sitting; the Council and the House each prepared a long Message, both of them rude and abusive to me, the former explaining the Constitution of the Governor and Council in so strange a Manner, and by such futile Arguments and inconclusive Reasoning, that they have greatly dishonored themselves with all the judicious & candid Part of the World, under whose Observation they may fall, and the latter coming but little short of it. There will not be Time to copy them before the Post goes out. I will have the whole Proceedings respecting the Chief Justice copied, and send them by the next Opportunity under the Province Seal. After persisting in a Measure so affrontive to his Majesty, I could not have justified the Omission of a proper Representation, which I expressed in a short Message, and this Morning ordered a Prorogation, great Part of their Business being unfinished. Sunday the 6th Instant a Vessel arrived from London, having on board about 30 Casks of Tea on Account of several Traders in Tea; the next Day the Vessel was hauled to the Wharf where the Vessel lay which had the East-India Company's Tea, and in the Evening a sufficient Number of Persons disguised like Indians, went on Board and destroyed the Tea in the Long Wharf, where Vessels from London generally unload, to take out the rest of her Goods. The Owners of the Tea are very silent, and I think if they could find who were the immediate Actors, they would not venture at present to bring any Action in the Law against them. If they had attempted to land it, it is probable they would have shared in the same Fate of the Consignees of the Company's Teas, neither of which have been able to return to the Town since they were first banished. I am, &c. THO'S HUTCHINSON.
PHILADELPHIA, November 7.
In the Course of last Week two very respectable Families in this City, upon the Death of near Relations, exhibited a laudable Example of public Virtue to their Fellow Citizens, by strictly complying with the Association of the General Congress as to mourning Dresses on the melancholy Occasion.
N E W Y O R K, Nov. 10.
By a Vessel arrived from England at Philadelphia, we have an Account of the Ship Lady Gage's safe Arrival, her Letters were delivered on the 23th of September.
An Account has been received by Way of Canada, that Captain Lord, commanding a Detachment of his Majesty's Royal Regiment of Ireland, at the Casbahs, in the Illionies Country, with 3 of his Men were fired upon, killed and scalped by the Indians; the Particulars we have not been able as yet to procure.

CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.
TO THE PEOPLE of GREAT-BRITAIN, FROM THE DELEGATES,
Appointed by the several English Colonies of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Providence Plantations, Connecticut New-York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. The lower Counties on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, to consider of their Grievances in General CONGRESS, at Philadelphia, September 5th, 1774.
Friends, and Fellow Subjects,
WHEN a Nation, led to greatness by the hand of Liberty, and possessed of all the glory that heroism, munificence, and humanity can bestow, descends to the ungrateful task of forging chains for her Friends and Children, and instead of giving support to Freedom, turns advocate for Slavery and Oppression, there is reason to suspect she is either ceased to be virtuous, or been extremely negligent in the appointment of her rulers.
In almost every age, in repeated conflicts, in long and bloody wars, as well civil as foreign, against many and powerful nations, against the open assaults of enemies and the more dangerous treachery of friends, have the inhabitants of your island, your great and glorious ancestors, maintained their independence & transmitted the rights of men and the blessing of liberty to you their posterity.
Be not surprised therefore, that we who are descended from the same common ancestors; that we, whose fore-fathers participated in all the rights, the liberties and the constitution, you so justly boast, and who have carefully conveyed the same fair inheritance to us, guaranteed by the plighted faith of government and the most solemn compacts with British Sovereigns, should refuse to surrender them to men who found their claims on no principles of reason, and who prosecute them with a design, that by having our lives & property in their power, they may with the greater facility enslave you.
The cause of America is now the subject of universal attention; It has at length become very serious. This unhappy country has not only been oppressed, but abused and misrepresented; and the duty we owe to ourselves and posterity, to your interest, and the general welfare of the British empire, leads us to address you on this very important subject.
Know then, That we consider ourselves, and do insist, that we are and ought to be, as free as our fellow subjects in Britain, and that no power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
That we claim all the benefits secured to the subject by the English constitution, and particularly that inestimable one of trial by jury.
That we hold it essential to English liberty that no man be condemned unheard, or punished for supposed offences, without having an opportunity of making his defence.
That we think the legislature of Great Britain is not authorised by the constitution to establish a religion fraught with sanguinary and impious tenets, or, to erect an arbitrary form of government in any quarter of the globe. These rights, we, as well as you, deem sacred. And yet sacred as they are, they have, with many others, been repeatedly and flagrantly violated.
Are not the Proprietors of the soil of Great-
Britain Lords of their own property? Can it be taken from them without their consent? Will they yield it to the arbitrary disposal of any man, or number of men whatever? You know they will not.
Why then are the Proprietors of the soil of America, less Lords of their property than you are of yours? Or why should they submit it to the disposal of your parliament, or any other parliament, or council in the world, not of their election? Can the intervention of the sea that divides us, cause disparity in rights, or can reason be given, why English subjects, who live three thousand miles from the royal palace, should enjoy less liberty than those who are three hundred miles distant from it?
Reason looks with indignation on such distinctions, and freemen can never perceive their propriety. And yet, however chimerical and unjust such discriminations are, the parliament assert, that they have a right to bind us in all cases without exception, whether we consent or not; that they may take and use our property when and in what manner they please; that we are pensioners on their bounty for all that we possess, and can hold it no longer than they vouchsafe to permit. Such declarations we consider as heresies in English politics, and, which can no more operate to deprive us of our property than the interdicts of the Pope can divest Kings of sceptres which the laws of the land and the voice of the people have placed in their hands.
At the conclusion of the late war—a war rendered glorious by the abilities and integrity of a Minister, to whose efforts the British empire owes its safety and its fame: At the conclusion of this war, which was succeeded by an inglorious peace, formed under the auspices of a Minister of principles, and of a family unfriendly to the protestant cause, and inimical to liberty—We say at this period, and under the influence of that man, a plan for enslaving your fellow subjects in America was concerted, and has ever since been pertinaciously carrying into execution.
Prior to this era you were content with drawing from us the wealth produced by our commerce. You restrained our trade in every way that could conduce to your emolument. You exercised unbounded sovereignty over the sea. You named the ports and nations to which alone our merchandize should be carried, & with whom alone we should trade; and though some of these restrictions were grievous, we nevertheless did not complain; we looked up to you as to our parent state to which we were bound by the strongest ties: And were happy in being instrumental to your prosperity and your grandeur.
We call upon you yourselves, to witness our loyalty and attachment to the common interest of the whole empire: Did we not, in the last war, add all the strength of this vast continent to the force which repelled our common enemy? Did we not leave our native shores, and meet disease and death to promote the success of British arms in foreign climates? Did you not thank us for our zeal, and even reimburse us large sums of money, which, you confessed, we had advanced beyond our proportion & far beyond our abilities? You did.
To what causes then, are we to attribute the sudden change of treatment, and that system of slavery which was prepared for us at the restoration of peace.
Before we had recovered from the distresses which ever attend war, an attempt was made to drain this country of all its money, by the oppressive Stamp Act, Paint, Glass, and other commodities, which you would
not permit us to purchase of other nations, were taxed; nay, although no wine is made in any country, subject to the British state, you prohibited our procuring it of foreigners, without paying a tax, imposed by your parliament, on all we imported. These and many other impositions were laid upon us most unjustly and unconstitutionally, for the express purpose of raising a Revenue.—
In order to silence complaint, it was, indeed provided this revenue should be expended in America for its protection and defence.—These exactions, however, can receive no justification from a pretended necessity of protecting and defending us. They are lavishly squandered on court favourites and ministerial dependants, generally avowed enemies to America, and employing themselves, by partial representations, to traduce and embroil the Colonies. For the necessary support of government here, we ever were and ever shall be ready to provide. And whenever the exigences of the state may require it, we shall, as we have heretofore done, cheerfully contribute our full proportion of men and money. To enforce this unconstitutional and unjust scheme of taxation, every fence that the wisdom of our British ancestors had carefully erected against arbitrary power, has been violently thrown down in America, and the inestimable right of trial by jury taken away in cases that touch both life and property.—It was ordained, that whenever offences should be committed in the Colonies against particular acts imposing various duties and restrictions upon trade, the prosecutor might bring his action for the penalties in the courts of Admiralty; by which means the subject lost the advantage of being tried by an honest uninfluenced jury of the vicinage, and was subjected to the sad necessity of being judged by a single man, a creature of the Crown, and according to the course of a law which exempts the prosecutor from the trouble of proving his accusation and obliges the defendant either to evince his innocence or to suffer. To give this new indicatory the greater importance, and as, if with design to protect false accusers, it is further provided, that the Judge's certificate of there having been probable causes of seizure and prosecution, shall protect the prosecutor from actions at common law for recovery of damages.
By the course of our law, offences committed in such of the British dominions in which courts are established, and justice duly and regularly administered, shall be there tried by a jury of the vicinage. There the offenders and the witnesses are known, and the degree of credibility to be given to their testimony can be ascertained.
In all these colonies, justice is regularly and impartially administered, and yet by the construction of some, and the direction of other acts of parliament, offenders are to be taken by force, together with all such persons as may be pointed out as witnesses, and carried to England, there to be tried in a distant land, by a jury of strangers, and subject to all the disadvantages that result from want of friends, want of witnesses, & want of money.
[ To be continued. ]
Choice Stone LIME to be sold
By JACOB SHEAFE, junr.
Also, PORK per Barrel, PITCH per Barrel.
A few Cask of Sherry WINE,— Lisbon Lemmons per Box,— Philadelphia IRON, Ship BREAD,— Russia DUCK,— and an Assortment of English GOODS, cheap for Cash.
Wanted an Apprentice
At the BAKER'S TRADE. Enquire of the Printer.

An ANECDOTE of the late King.
Quere if not prophetic.
THE Intimacy between the Right honorable Henry Bilson Legge and Doctor Chandler was grown into real Friendship.
One Evening in St. James's Park, they happened to meet, says Legge, "My dear Friend I am glad to see you; I have wished to see you for some Time, and if you are not engaged we will spend a few Hours at my House, have a little serious Chat on the Times, as none shall be with us;" which Invitation the Doctor most readily accepted. In the Course of Conversation, Legge said my good Friend, his Majesty a few Days ago vailly surprised me, he sent for me to come to him; (Mr. Legge then was in Administration) as my Duty, I waited immediately on his Majesty, after being in his Presence some Time, the King said, "Mr. Legge, I am greatly distressed, my Lord Bute has behaved very ill, which I did not know till within this very little while, I find he has brought George up in such arbitrary despotic Principles, that I dread the consequence.—O my poor dear People of England, such Principles must by and by throw you into the utmost Confusion, I foresee Calamities will be great, as the Disposition of the English is such that they will not submit to such arbitrary Power." Mr. Legge then concluded by saying, he would not forgive Lord Bute in his dying Minutes, for the base arbitrary Principles he had brought the Prince of Wales up in.
***** A good ASSORTMENT of STATIONARY, JUST IMPORTED,
And is to be SOLD at the SHOP of ALFORD BUTLER, opposite Messieurs Williams and Stanwood, in Queen-Street, viz.
WRITING PAPER of most Sorts,—as DEMY, thick and thin POST,—best FOOLSCAP—common and best POT—LETTER PAPER gilt and plain—ACCOUNT BOOKS—QUILLS,—INK POWDER,—best CAKE INK, SEALING-WAX,—WAFERS, &c.—At the same Place, a good and neat Assortment of Books in various Branches of LITERATURE—with large and small BIBLES,—SCHOOL BOOKS, SPELLING BOOKS,—PSALTERS,—PRIMERS,—BONNET BOARDS,—CARTRIDGE PAPER,—and NEW ALMANACKS for 1775. BOOK BINDING of all Sorts gilt and plain perform'd with Neatness, and at the cheapest Rate at the same Place.
West-India and English Goods.
OYL, SALT, CHOCOLATE, INDIGO, SUGAR, COFFEE, PEPPER, ALSPICE, NAILS, KNIVES, SCISSARS, LINNEN, CAMBRIC, WORSTED HOSE,—OZNABRIGS, CLOTHS, SHALLOONS, &c. &c. at the lowest Rate, Sold by
HENRY SHERBURNE.
—Likewise the following Books.—SWIFT'S WORKS, the latest and most elegant Edition, with the finest Cuts.—PARKHURST Greek and English LEXICON, and Hebrew ditto. 4to.—BASKERVILLE'S Vocabulary and English GRAMMER,—The WHIGGS PETITION. HELL—R—and COWLEY'S WORKS,—HUBERAS with Cuts,—GIL BLAS,—FIELDING'S WORKS 12 Vol.—Late President DAVIES SERMONS 2 Vol Octavo.—SANDEMAN'S LETTERS,—HISTORIES of * * —POOLS ANNOTATIONS, second Hand,—LETTER WRITERS compleat INSTRUCTOR.—YOUNG MAN'S BEST COMPANION.—ARABIAN NIGHTS—TRIAL of the Soldiers at Boston for the Murders on March 5th.—The CLERK'S GUIDE, second hand,—MARINERS CALENDAR,—EDWARDS on joint Agreement for PRAYER.—LETTERS from a Peruvian PRINCESS 3 f.—LADIES TRAVELS thro' SPAIN, 2 Vol. 6/6.—GUARDIAN 3 Vol. 11/6 The Palladium of Conscience.—WATTS'S PSALMS and HYMNS.—PAPER,—INK POWDER,—WAFERS.
DANIEL PEIRCE
Has just Imported from London, in Captain Thompson, A Few GOODS; which he will sell at a low Advance for Cash.—He also sells West India GOODS, Groceries, &c, &c.
§ Conway. §
Province of New Hampshire, Graften, ff. NOTICE is hereby given, to the following delinquent Original Proprietors in CONWAY, that unless they pay the TAX now due, which has already been advertised in the New Hampshire Gazette, according to Law so much of each delinquent's Right or Share of Land will be sold at public Vendue at my Dwelling House in Conway, on Tuesday the sixth Day of December next as will pay the TAX with incidental Charges. The Delinquents are, viz. Peter Parker, John Marston, junr. Richard Ayers, Joseph Eastman, junr. Joseph Eastman, William Ingalls, David Hicks, Ebenezer Burbank, Obadiah Eastman. DAVID PAGE, Collector. Conway, November 14. 1774
To be sold at public Vendue
At the Dwelling House of Captain Meshch Bell, Innholder in New Castle, on Monday the 28th of this Instant November, A DWELLING HOUSE, WARE HOUSE and LAND adjoining, in said New Castle—A FEW in New Castle Meeting House—A piece of Land between Land of William Quimby and Henry Prescott, Esq; in New Castle—Also sundry House Furniture, and a NEGRO MAN about 28 Years of Age, being the Estate of Capt. Benjamin Underwood, deceased. JOHN UNDERWOOD, Administrator.
§ Excise. §
PUBLICK NOTICE is hereby given, that I have purchased the EXCISE on Spiritous Liquors in the County of Strafford, from November 1st 1773 to November 1st 1774, and as Notice at publick Vendue has in great Measure Failed, I appoint to collect at the House of Mr. Barnabas Pease in Rockport, on Monday the twenty eighth Day of this Instant November, and the 29th Day at Jeremiah Tibbetts at Barrington, and the next Day at Lt. Winborn Adams at Durham, and the Day following at John Burson Hanson's at Dover;—and I desire all Taxpayers and Retailers would take Notice and attend punctually to meet me at the above Places, and exhibit their Accounts as the Law directs. JONATHAN WENTWORTH, Excise Master.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the time for examining the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of Capt. Ebenezer Hale, late of Hampstead, deceased, is lengthened out to the last Wednesday of this and the three following Months, at which times the Commissioners will attend at the House of the Widow Hale in said Hampstead. Jesse Johnson, } Commissioners. John Caste, } Hampstead, Nov 9, 1774
ALL Persons who have Demands against the Estate of Joseph Mead, late of Greenland, Yeoman, deceased, Intestate, are hereby Notified, to bring in the same to William Weeks and Nathan Johnson, Administrators of said Estate—And all Persons who are Indebted to said Estate, are hereby called upon to settle and pay the same as soon as may be, that the Estate may be settled as soon as possible. Greenland, Nov. 9, 1774.
§ Saville. §
APPLICATION being made to me the Subscriber by the Proprietors of more than one sixteenth part of the Township of SAVILLE, in the Province of New Hampshire, to call a Meeting of said Proprietors to meet at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton, Innholder in Portsmouth, on Friday the 25th Instant, at five o'Clock P. M. then and there to act upon the following Matters, viz. 1. To chuse a Moderator for said Meeting. 2. To chuse a Committee to examine the Accounts of any Persons having Claims on the proprietary for making Roads, building Mills, and other purposes. 3. To raise a Sum by assessing the original Rights of the proprietors to enable the Treasurer to discharge such Claims as may be allowed by the Committee for Accounts. 4. To chuse Assessors and Collectors for said TAX or Assessment. 5. To know whether the proprietors will give any further Encouragement in Land or money for adding a Bolting Mill to the Mills now built, and to make a Grant of the same with a confirmation of a former Grant voted for building the present Grist Mill and Saw Mill in said Town. 6. To confirm to any proprietors any Land that may be pitched upon to make up Deficiencies as per former Votes. 7. To confirm all Pitches of the first Division Lots, and to continue the Lease of pitching said Lots until each proprietor is suited, to be performed on certain Conditions. 8. To agree upon a Method of paying his Majesty's Quit Rents now due, or which may hereafter become due. 9. To consider of any other Matters which may benefit or advance the Settlement of the Township:—In Compliance with said Request, and by Virtue of a Power to me committed, I do hereby notify and warn the said Proprietors to meet at the above Time and Place, to act upon the Premises aforesaid. JOHN WENDELL, Portsmouth, Nov. 9, 1774. Prop. Clerk.
AT THE Hatt and Beaver in Queen-Street PORTSMOUTH,
ALL sorts of Beaver, Beaveret, Castor and Felt HATTS are made and sold by JOHN BECK, who has to sell at the lowest Rates, a General Assortment of ENGLISH HATTS, from 28 s. down to 2 s. 6 d. Among which are,—Black-Ruff Hatts for Children.—White Riding ditto for Women—Also, A good Assortment of Hatters trimmings, such as black Linnen, Linings of all Kinds.—Yellow Holland and brown glazed ditto—Large Gimp Loops and Buttons.—Coarse ditto of all Kinds used here—Chasing and Looping of all Kinds.—HATTERS and others who want any of the above Articles, may be supplied on the most reasonable Terms; and those who send shall be as well used as if present to choose for themselves.
|| UNITY. ||
WHEREAS the Proprietors of UNITY, in the County of Cheshire, in the Province of New Hampshire, at a legal Meeting held at Kingstown, on the 16th of March 1774, voted to raise a TAX of six shillings on each 100 Acre Lot, and three shillings on each 50 Acre Lot in said UNITY, to clear Roads in said Unity, the Subscriber being chosen to collect said Taxes, takes this Method to inform the said Proprietors, that unless they pay said taxes by the second Tuesday of December next; if not then paid, so much of their Land will be advertised for Sale as will pay the same with incidental Charges. JONATHAN GIDDEN, Collector. Deerfield, Nov. 2, 1774.
--Ten DOLLARS Reward.--
Stolen off a Cart in Salem, in Massachusetts, a BOX of LAWNS, the Box since found, but the Lawns withheld; there was two yards and eight yards in a Piece; the Box contain'd twenty five Pieces of each, mark'd with Letters PACELEY or GLASGOW; the Lawns it is expected were taken by a Pedlar, as they have been heard of. Whoever takes up the THIEF, so that he be brought to Justice, and the Goods recovered, shall have ten Dollars Reward, or eight Dollars for THIEF or Goods, paid by DAVID BLACK of Boston. November 17, 1774.
ALL Persons indebted to the Estate of WILLIAM WHITE, Esq; late of Boston, deceased, are desired to pay the same to PHILLIPS WHITE of South Hampton, in the Province of New Hampshire, Executor of the last Will and Testament of the said WILLIAM WHITE; and those to whom said Estate is indebted are desired to send in their Demands to said Executor.
For the Convenience of many concerned, he proposes to be at Boston from the 6th Day of Dec. next, 10 Days; from the 1st Day of Feb.—6 Days; and from the 20th Day of March—6 Days.
Enquire for the said WHITE, at the Shop of Mrs. Margaret Phillips, in Cornhill.
TO BE SOLD Part of the Estate of the above said WILLIAM WHITE, at Publick Vendue, to the highest Bidder, on Thursday the 8th Day of Decem. next, viz. The House where the said Deceased lately dwelt, pleasantly situated at the North End of Boston, with a Brick Store, Stable, Wood House, &c. Three beautiful Gardens adjoining, &c. & a small Piece of Land near Charles-town Ferry,—Also a small Dwelling House in Hull Street; and a large Store in Queen Street.—The Vendue to be at the last mentioned Store, at 10 o'Clock in the Forenoon of said Day.—The Conditions of Sale to be seen at the Time and Place of Sale. N. B. The Premises may be viewed on Tuesday and Wednesday preceding the Day of Sale.
Strayed or stolen from the Pasture of the Subscriber in Portsmouth, on Monday Night last, a FAT OX of a Brindled Colour, Four Years old last Spring, the Back spotted white Spots, and White under the Belly, carries his Head low, and has short white clear Horns, which hang forward. If any Person has found said OX, and will return him to the Subscriber, he shall receive a Reward of ONE DOLLAR, and all necessary Charges. In case the said OX was stolen, and any Person will give Information thereof to the Subscriber, so that the THIEF or Thieves may be convicted thereof and brought to Justice, he shall receive a Reward of Twelve DOLLARS from SAMUEL LANGDON. Portsmouth, Nov. 16, 1774.
Strayed away about the 20th of September last from the Subscriber seventeen SHEEP, old and young, two of them black, the rest white; they were all marked with a square Notch cut out of the upper Side of the left Ear.—Whoever will inform me where they are, shall be handsomely Rewarded for their Trouble by me. JOSIAH BARTLETT. Kingstown, November 15, 1774.

NEW-YORK, November 10.
An Estimate of the Number of Souls in the following Provinces, made in CONGRESS, September 1774.
In Massachusetts, 400,000. New Hampshire, 150,000. Rhode-Island, 59,678. Connecticut, 193,000. New-York, 250,000. New-Jersey, 130,000. Pennsylvania, including the Lower Counties, 350,000. Maryland, 320,000. Virginia, 650,000. North-Carolina, 300,000. South-Carolina, 225,000. Total 3,026,678.
Two additional Packets are kept in constant Pay to carry Government Expresses to and from Boston.
Sir John Johnson, Knight and Baronet, is appointed Major General of the Militia, both Horse and Foot, in the Northern District of this Province, vice his Father, the worthy Sir William Johnson, deceased.
Last Friday, Hugh Finlay, Esq; Joint Post Master General, for North America, arrived here from Quebec, by way of Boston. He found the Roads from Quebec, much better than he expected, and the distance between the Governments about 160 Miles.
On Monday last a discovery being made, that 18 Sheep were on board a Sloop in the harbour, bound for the West Indies a number of Citizens waited on the Captain, and informed him that the exportation of sheep was contrary to a resolution of the Continental Congress, and thereupon obtained his promise that they should be re-landed, and not carried out of the harbour. The people were satisfied and patiently waited till evening, when a report prevailing that the vessel was to sail that night; about two hundred inhabitants assembled on the wharf, appointed and sent four persons to wait on the Committee of Correspondence, and request their advice concerning the measures proper to be taken. By their advice the Merchant to whom the vessel came consigned, was sent for, and desired to cause the sheep to be landed and delivered to one of the Committee, appointed on this occasion, by the people, which person gave his promise to return the sheep as soon as the vessel had sailed. Accordingly the sheep were landed, delivered, and soon after the vessel was sailed, returned to the Proprietor; on which the people being well satisfied, peaceably dispersed.
This Day the Ships London, Capt. Thomas Miller, and the Earl of Dunmore, Capt. Lawrence, each with a Number of Passengers, are expected to sail for London.
At a late Meeting of the Distillers of this City, (in Support of the Proceedings of the Continental Congress) they unanimously resolved,
To distill no Molasses or Sirrups that may hereafter be imported from any of the British West-India Islands, or from Dominica. Nor to sell any Rum, or other Spirits, for the Purpose of carrying on the Slave Trade, or that they shall have Reason to apprehend is intended to be so applied.
Since our last arrived here, his Excellency Josiah Martin, Esq; Governor of the Province of North Carolina.
Last Thursday one Mr. Van Gelder, of Staten-Island, was seized with a Fit as he was at Dinner on board his own Vessel, then here, and expired without speaking a Word. It being supposed that he was choked in attempting to swallow the Meat, then in his Mouth, several Gentlemen of the Faculty were immediately collected, but upon Examination, the Passage was found to be clear.
A considerable Sum is subscribed in this City for the Relief of Boston, and we hear that most Parts of the Province intends to follow the laudable Example.
Extract of a Letter dated the 9th of October, 1774. from a Gentleman in Montreal, to his Friend in New-York.
I must beg Leave to trouble you to get the inclosed printed in Mr. Holt's Paper, as soon as possible, and send me an Account the Charge, for which shall be paid (together with the Postage of this Letter) --The Paper contains the Resolves of all the English Inhabitants of Montreal, at a full Meeting, where they shewed their Abhorrence of the Quebec Act, which establishes the French Laws in this Province, and puts the Lives and Properties of every Person in it, in the Power of the Governor; who when the Act takes Place, will have a much greater Power than a Spanish Vice-Roy. The Canadians in general are greatly alarmed at being put under their former Laws, of which they had long severely felt the bad Effects--tho' the French Noblesse and Gentry, indeed, are well pleased with the new Act, which restores the old, as they expect to lord it over the industrious Farmer and Trader, and live upon their Spoils, as they did before the Conquest. These Latter, tho' greatly dissatisfied and alarmed at this Act, dare not complain for fear of the Displeasure of their Priests, who rule and govern this whole Country as they please; however, all the English in the Province (except a few Tools and Dependents of the Governor) are unanimous, and determine to struggle hard to obtain a Repeal of this abominable Act; which, if continued, would greatly hurt the Trade of New-York, and the other Colonies joining on us. It has been said that some Canadian Regiments would be raised and sent against you; but depend on it, none will go willingly except their Officers; and for the others it will require a Regiment of Soldiers, to a Regiment of Canadians to make them go; besides they cannot without ruining the Country spare 2000 Men out of it.
"You may acquaint the Printer with all the foregoing Particulars, that he may be able to undeceive the Publick, and contradict, what has been said relating to this Matter, in Mr. Gaine's Paper, &c."
At a General Meeting of the English Inhabitants of the Town of Montreal, to consult on the most proper and best Method to represent to his Majesty and the Parliament, a true State of this Province, by acquainting them of the Share we have of the Trade, the landed Property we possess, the miserable State we found this Province in, and the flourishing State we have brought it to; the Recompence we are to receive by a late Act of Parliament is, to be deprived of those valuable Parts of our Constitution, the Trial by Jury, and the Habeas Corpus Act, and subjected to Laws made by a Legislative Council, composed of People entirely dependent on the Governor, and agreeable to the despotic Laws of France. And that, if such an Act takes Place, as we shall have no Security for our Property nor Religion (the Roman Catholic Religion being, by said Act, the established Religion of the Country) we must be reduced to the unhappy Necessity of living as Slaves, or abandoning the Country, and a great Part of our Property; and the Province must return to its former miserable Situation. There was the greatest Unanimity amongst the English, in the following Gentlemen, viz. Thomas Walker, Esq; Isaac Todd, Esq; Mr. James Price, Mr. John Blake, Mr. Alex. Patterson, Mr. John Porteous, were chosen a Committee, to repair to Quebec, to act in Conjunction with the English there, on this alarming Occasion. They likewise entered into a very generous Subscription for the Expence that might attend their obtaining Relief.
NEW-POR T, Nov. 17.
The Rose Man of War, lately arrived here, and hauled into Winter Quarters, is now preparing to sail again: It is said she is ordered Home with the very ill News to Lord North, that the Canadians will not join General GAGE in the Ministerial plan of enslaving or Massacring their Protestant Neighbours.
Accounts from many different Quarters, assure us, that the Spaniards have sent a large Fleet of capital Ships, Frigates, &c. with 12,000 Land Forces, which are to rendezvous at the Havana, before they open their Commission. The most probable conjecture is, that they are intended against some of the British Dominions in America: and that it is expected France will either join them, or make a Diversion in some other Part.
BOSTON, November 17.
Tuesday last, the Encampments were broke up, and the Troops are gone to Houses, Stores, &c. in different Parts of this Town.
The same Day, the Regiments that lately arrived from Quebec and New-York, landed and went into Barracks also.
We have now Eleven Regiments in this Town, besides the Artillery.
In the last Transports that arrived here, came a large Quantity of Powder, Cannon-Balls, Shells, &c.
At a Meeting of the Inhabitants of this Town by an Adjournment, November 7th, the Committee appointed for that Purpose, made the following Report, which was accepted by the Town.
WHEREAS sundry Regiments of his Majesty's Troops are, contrary to Law, and to the great Annoyance and Detriment of his Majesty's good Subjects of this Province, now stationed in the Town of Boston, in a Time of profound Peace, for the avowed Purposes of carrying into Execution sundry Acts of the British Parliament, tending to enslave the People, and to subvert the Constitution of the Province, which it is our Duty to protect against on all Occasions; yet, nevertheless, we, the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, in Town Meeting legally assembled, taking into serious Consideration, the distressed Circumstances of this Metropolis, and being anxious still to use our best endeavours to preserve that Decency and Order for which the Town has ever been remarkable, relying on the Justice of our Cause, and confiding in the united Endeavours of the Colonies, the Wisdom of the Continental CONGRESS, the Justice and Clemency of our SOVEREIGN, and the Smiles of Divine Providence, that our Grievances will shortly be redressed, and our unalienable and precious Rights, Liberties and Privileges be restored and secured to us upon a just and permanent Basis. Therefore we recommend,
That as his Excellency the GOVERNOR has assured the Town, that he will do all in his Power to secure the Peace and good Order of the Town;
That the Town on their Part will exert their best Endeavours to effect the same desirable Purpose; and to this End would augment the Town Watch, and it is recommended to the Select Men of the Town, that they increase the Watch to the Number of twelve Men in each Watch House, for the Safety & Security of the Inhabitants, and that they be directed to patrol the Streets of the Town for the whole Night the ensuing Season.
And it is earnestly desired that his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, and other Peace Officers would exert their Authority for the Observance of the Laws, and Preservation of Peace and Order, and that when they hear of any Disturbance, they would not wait for a Complaint, but call on the Inhabitants, who will at all Times be ready in assisting to disperse such Persons, or in bringing Offenders of what Rank or Order soever to Justice.
As in our present Situation it is incumbent upon us particularly to attend to the peace and good Order of the Town, it is therefore earnestly recommended to the Inhabitants to do all in their power to prevent and suppress any Quarrels or Disturbances. And it is seriously recommended to all Masters of Families that they restrain their Children and Servants from going abroad after Nine o'Clock in the Evening, unless on necessary Business.
And it is further recommended to the Select Men of the Town to enjoin upon all Retailers and Taverners of the Town, that they strictly conform to the Laws of the province, relating to disorderly persons. Attest W. COOPER, Town Clerk.
BOSTON, Nov. 21.
Extract of a Letter from Quebec, dated October 24, 1774. "AT the Request of the Gentlemen of a Committee from Montreal, I send you the inclosed, with an Assurance that it is a true Translation from the French Original, and beg you would insert it in your useful Paper, that the Sentiments of a very (if not most) considerable Number of our Canadian Brethren and Fellow-Subjects in this Province may appear in a just Light to our Brethren in the Province of the Massachusetts, Yours, &c."
INSTRUCTIONS to the English Gentlemen of the Committee at Montreal from the Canadian Farmers, &c.
WE the Canadian Farmers and others, being greatly alarmed at a late Act of Parliament, which re-establishes the ancient Laws of this Country, the bad Effects of which we too severely felt during the French Government, and being entirely satisfied under the English Laws as administered in this Province, beg Leave to acquaint the Gentlemen of the Committee for Montreal, that any legal Steps they shall take for the Repeal of the said Act will be approved of by us, and we sincerely hope and pray that they will use all Means in their Power for the same, by petitioning his Majesty & representing to the Merchants of London the flourishing State of the Trade and Agriculture of this Province since the Conquest thereof, which we attribute to that Freedom which every one has enjoyed under the English Laws, and we hereby declare, that we never had any Hand in a certain Petition said to be sent to his Majesty in the Name and in Behalf of all the Canadians for obtaining said Act, nor have we, nor any part of the Country where we reside been in any wise consulted thereupon; therefore we verily believe the said petition was contrived and obtained in a clandestine and fraudulent Manner, by a few designing Men, in Order to get themselves into robs of profit and Honour.
Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman of Eminence in London, to a Gentleman in Boston, dated Sept. 3d, 1774.
"THE Coolness, Temper and Firmness of the American proceedings; the Unanimity of the Colonies, in the same Sentiments of their Rights, and of the Injustice offered to Boston; and the patience with which those Injuries are at present borne, without the least Appearance of Submission; have a good deal surprised and disappointed our Enemies, and the Tone of publick Conversation, which has been violently against us, begins evidently to turn; so that I make no Doubt that before the Meeting of parliament it will be as general in our Favour. All who know well the state of Things here, agree, that if the NON CONSUMPTION Agreement should become general, and be firmly adhered to, this Ministry must be ruined, and our Friends succeed them. You will see a stronger Opposition in our Favour at the next Meeting of parliament than appeared in the last. But we depend chiefly upon Ourselves."
Extract of a Letter from Philadelphia, Nov. 9.
"A Letter inserted in our Gazette from General Gage to Lord North, was taken from the London Chronicle of the 13th of Sept. published by Strahan one of the King's Printers. It is dom'd here, as authentic."
It is said that the Assemblies of Pennsylvania and New-York will soon be summoned to meet, by the Governors Penn and Colden, in Consequence of Letters received from Lord Dartmouth; in which
it is desired that the Members would state the Grievances of the people, in Order to their being laid before his Majesty.
The following Donations has been received during the course of the Week past, for the Relief of the poor, suffering by Means of the port-Bill viz. From Chestertown and Candy Parish, in the province of New-Hampshire, 31. and 84 sheep. From Concord, on Pennebec River, New-Hampshire, 30 Bushels of Peas. From Rehoboth 141. From Rehoboth and East-Greenwich, 112 sheep. From Tiverton, 72 sheep. From Glassenbury, 260 Bushels of Grain. From Southington, 150 Bushels of Grain. From Weathersfield, 73 Bushels of Grain. From Middletown, 1080 Bushels of Grain. From Mr. Samuel Moody, School-Master, at Newbury-Falls, 5 Guineas.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 25.
We hear from Newmarket, that Mr. NATHAN FOLSOM of that place perished with the Cold, in a Gunderlow laden with Boards, last Monday Night. There were two more persons with him, who were much froze; but are like to recover.
BROKE OUT OF HIS MAJESTY'S GOAL in Amherst, in the County of Hillsborough, and Province of New Hampshire, on the Night of the 15th instant, the following Persons, viz. James Damerly, a Prisoner for committing an Assault and Battery; Thomas Clarke, for aiding and assisting one Joseph Keilly to make his Escape from prison; Jonathan Fisk and Mary Foster, both convicted of the Crime of Adultery. Said Damerly is a tall, well set fellow, near six Feet high, dark short Hair, had on a blue short Jacket, light coloured Waistcoat, and a dark coloured Breeches. Clarke is about five Feet ten Inches high, thin favour'd, dark Hair tied behind, had on a cloth coloured Coat and Breeches. Fisk is about five Feet nine Inches high, well set, had on a light cloth coloured Serge Coat, Red Waistcoat, and new leather Breeches. And the said Mary Foster is about five Feet four Inches high, black Hair and black Eyes; wore a red Calamance Gown, and a red quilted Petticoat. Whoever will apprehend and secure the above mentioned Persons, or either of them, so that they are reconveyed to his Majesty's Goal in said Amherst, shall be entitled to a Reward for each of them; Also, Whoever will give Information of any Person or Persons that aided or assisted the above mentioned Prisoners in making their Escape as aforesaid, so that he or they are legally convicted thereof, and brought to condign Punishment, shall receive TWENTY DOLLARS Reward. And all Masters of Vessels, and others are cautioned against concealing, harbouring, entertaining, or carrying away any, or either of said Prisoners, as they will thereby be liable to the Penalty of the Law.
BENJAMIN WHITING Sheriff of said County. Amherst Nov. 16th 1774.
WE the Subscribers being appointed by the Hon. 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 Sarah Weed, late of Poplin, in said County, Widow, deceased, Represented Insolvent, and six Months from the 20th Instant being allowed for that Service, this is to give Notice, that we will attend that Business at the House of Lieut. Benjamin Bean, Innholder in Raymond, on the last Tuesday of November next, and the four next following Months from two to five o'clock, P. M.
Raymond, Octob. 31, 1774. } Jeha Dudley, } Commissioners. Samuel Fellows }
SIX Months longer being allowed to us the Subscribers Commissioners, appointed by the Hon. Judge of Probate of Wills, &c for the County of Grafton, to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of Alexander Phelps, Esq; late of Lime, in said County, deceased, Represented Insolvent, Notice is hereby given, that we will attend said Business at the House of Capt. Aaron Stearns, Innholder in Hanover, in said County, on the last Monday of this and the second Monday of the five following Months, from one to Four o'clock Afternoon of said Days.
Hanover, Nov. 14, 1774. Beza Woodward, Aaron Stearns.
THE DELINQUENTS may depend upon PIERMONT D it, so much of their Lands will be sold at PUBLIC VENDUE on Monday the 28th last at the House of Capt. Zechariah Fols, Innholder in Portsmouth, as will pay their Taxes now due; Notice has already been given according to Law.
Sundry Lots was sold last Monday at the above Place, and will be continued 'till so much is sold as will pay the taxes with incidental Charges. Richard Jennens.
Wanted,
A careful PERSON that will undertake to attend the LIGHT HOUSE at FORT WILLIAM and MARY. Any Person that has a Mind to undertake the same, may know the Terms by applying at the Secretary's Office.
Whereas Ruth, the Wife of me the Subscriber has for a long time behaved in such a Manner, that I am under a Necessity of forbidding any Person trusting or giving her any Credit on my Account, as I am determined not to pay any Debts of her contracting.
Joseph Bickford. Newington, November 23d, 1774.