The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1775-03-31 00:00:00

THE New-Hampshire AND HISTORICAL CONTAINING the FRESHEST ADVICES
Vol. XIX. GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
FRIDAY March 31, 1775.
No. 962 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd. }
Province of New-Hampshire, Rockingham ss. A T the annual Town-Meeting held at Portsmouth, on Saturday the 25th Day of March 1775, the following Persons were chosen as Town-Officers for the present Year.
 THOMAS HART, Moderator.  John Penhallow, Town-Clerk.  Selectmen; Benjamin Akerman, Samuel Cutts, Esq; George Gains; George Hart, William Langdon.  Overseers of the Poor; Hon. John Sherburne, Esq; John Pickering Esq; Ammi R. Cutter, Esq; Nathaniel Treadwell, Joseph Whipple.  Assessors; Hunking Wentworth, Esq; Jacob Sheafe, Esq; Capt. John Dennett.  Auditors; Jacob Treadwell, John Parker, Esq; Capt. William Whipple.  Agents for the Town; Samuel Cutts, Esq; Captain William Whipple.  Attorneys for the Town; John Pickering, Esq; Samuel Hale, jr. Esq;  Firewards; Major Samuel Hale, Esq; Hon. John Sherburne, Esq; Jacob Sheafe, jr. Jacob Treadwell, Capt. William Whipple, William Knight, Esq; Captain Woodbury Langdon, Joshua Wentworth, John Marshall, Jeremiah Libbey.  Constables; Clement March, Richard Mills, Samuel Jackson, Nahum Akerman.  John Cutt, Clerk of the Market.  Fence-Viewers; Samuel Sherburne, Nathaniel Peverly, William Brewster, Leader Nelson, Abraham Elliot, William Ham.  Searches & Sealers of Leather; Jonathan Ayers, Nathaniel Jackson, jr. George Dame.  Surveyors of High-Ways; Tho's Seavey, Alexander Morrison, Captain Peirce Long, Abraham Elliot, Samuel Sherburne, George Gains.  Lot-Layers; Capt. Thomas Peirce, Wm. Hart, Capt. John Dennett.  Bread-Weighers; John Fernald, Temple Knight, George Dame, Benjamin Mackey, Joseph Allcock.  Cullers and Packers; William Brewster, George How, Joseph Walton.  Joseph Whight, Pound-Keeper.  Surveyors of Boards; Gershom Flagg, Captain John Briard, Samuel Waters, John Cutt, Paul Leighton, Joseph Cotton.  Hogg-Reeves; William Waldron, Joseph Wincol, David Lowd, John Thomas, Joseph Benson.  Measurers of Wood; Shackford Seaward, Captain John Briard, Richard Shortridge, Ephraim Ham, John Beck, Reuben Snell, John Dennett, jr. Joseph Cotton.  Corders of Wood; George Abbot, Sam'l Yeaton, John Lang, jr. John Dennett, Joseph Benson.  Sealers of Weights and Measures; John Griffith, John Fernald.  Tythingmen; Jeremiah Libbey, Captain Supply Clap, Captain George Wentworth, Abraham Elliot, Capt. Peirce Long, Capt. Edmund Coffin, Neal McIntyre, John Beck.  Measurers of Wood, brought into Town by Land; Jonathan Skillibarn, Alexander Morrison, Rich'd Mills, Jeremiah Libbey, Daniel Lunt, Capt. John Pickering, Robert Neal. 
PORTSMOUTH.
Thursday the 27th of APRIL next, is appointed by AUTHORITY to be observ'd as a Day of Publick FASTING and PRAYER throughout this Province. CUSTOMHOUSE, PISCATAQUA March 30th. Entered in Nowell, Hovey, and Perkins from North Carolina; Tredick from Maryland; Gerrish from Grenada; Jones from St. Lucea. Cleared outwards. Jenkins for Newfoundland; Fernald, Tappan, Coombs and Harmon for West-Indies; Newell for Philadelphia; Willicott for Virginia.
BOSTON, March 27.
IT is Matter of Encouragement to the true Friends of a Restoration of Harmony between Great Britain and the Colonies upon constitutional Principles, that the Proceedings of the Continental CONGRESS are so highly approved of, not only by the Friends of Liberty on the other Side of the Water, but by the Merchants and Manufacturers in general, who now appear to be thoroughly awake and active in the common Cause; however, as we have not yet obtained the Redress of our Grievances, the Elanss is not to be put off, and we are to look about us with as piercing Eyes as ever, to prevent every Thing that may be contrived & represented by our enemies as a Deviation from the Plan recommended by the ever to be revered CONGRESS: In contending for Liberty, the Constitution should be held in one Hand and the Sword in the other, and our Union under Providence, is the Rock of Salvation. The following Letter from the Agents of several Colonies, giving us the KING's Reply on the Reception of the Petition from the CONGRESS, as delivered them by L d DARTMOUTH, together with his Lordship's circular Letter, not a little militating with it, may serve to shew the Propriety of the foregoing Remarks, and that the present Administration are capable of pursuing Measures at Home and Abroad, as degrading to themselves, as they are delusive and injurious to others.
SIR, LONDON, Decem. 24, 1774. THIS is just to inform you, that having received the Petition of the General CONGRESS to the KING, we immediately communicated it to LORD DARTMOUTH, Secretary of State for the American Department, as the regular official Method, and that by which only we could have Expectation of obtaining an Answer. His Lordship this Day informed us, that he had laid the same before the KING; that his MAJESTY had been pleased to receive it very graciously, and say, IT WAS A MATTER OF SO GREAT IMPORTANCE, THAT HE SHOULD, AS SOON AS THEY MET, LAY IT BEFORE HIS TWO HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.
We can now only add, that we are, with Great Respect, Sir, Your most obedient, And most humble Servants, W. BOLLAN, E. FRANKLIN, To EDWARD BIDDLE, Esq; Speaker of the Hon. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania. (CIRCULAR.) ARTHUR LEE, WHITEHALL, Jan. 4. 1775.
SIR, DARTMOUTH. CERTAIN Persons styling themselves Delegates of his Majesty's Colonies in America, having presumed, without his Majesty's Authority or Consent, to assemble together at Philadelphia, in the Months of September and October last; and having there, among other unwarrantable Proceedings, to Resolve that it will be necessary that another Congress should be held in the same Place, on the 10th of May next, unless Redress for certain pretended Grievances be obtained before that Time, and to recommend that all the Colonies in North-America, should choose Deputies to attend such Congress. I am commanded by the KING, to signify to you his Majesty's Pleasure, That you do use your utmost Endeavours, to prevent any such Appointment of Deputies, within the Colony under your Government; and that you do exhort all Persons to desist from such an unwarrantable Proceeding, which cannot but be highly displeasing to the KING.
I am, SIR, your most obedient, humble Servant. EXTRACT of a LETTER from ENGLAND, dated Jan. 15. "IT is not known yet what Plan the Ministry will adopt; but as Lord North has given out that no more Troops will be sent to BOSTON, it is not intended to enforce it vi & armis , but withdrawing the Troops and blocking up your Harbour, which would be aiding your Measures. It is my private Opinion that they will be obliged to repeal the obnoxious Acts this present Session, provided you remain firm, and they see no Prospect of breaking the Union of the Colonies."
EXTRACT of a LETTER from a GENTLEMAN in SOUTH-CAROLINA, March 1. "WE have now appealed to the remaining Justice of the Nation: We have endeavoured to averse them to a Sin of their own Danger; we have appealed to the mercantile Interests for our Defence. Our Hopes are not yet damped by any Thing, but the Possibility of Discord among ourselves. We have the Pleasure to inform you, that in this Colony the Association takes Place as effectually as Law itself. Sundry Vessels from England have already been obliged to return with their Merchandise, or have thrown it overboard as common Ballast. We may assure you of our fixed Determination to adhere to the Resolutions at all Hazards and that Ministerial Opposition is obliged to be silent."
A LETTER from Taunton, dated last Saturday, mentions, That a Person (who appear'd credible and intelligent) pass'd thro' that Town from Dartmouth, who reported, that on the Tuesday before, two Corn Vessels arrived at Bedford and informed, that near Long-Island they spoke with a Ship from London bound to New York, who told them the American Acts were repealed; and that the News gained so much Credit at Dartmouth great Rejoicings were made there on the Occasion.
Hercules Langrishe, Esq; is appointed a Commissioner of the Board of Revenue in Ireland, in the Room of Sir Francis Bernard, Bart. who is allowed a Pension of 1000l. a Year on that Establishment.
Extract of a Letter from Bristol, dated Jan. 12. 1775. "Petitions are preparing in the several maritime and manufacturing Towns, to be presented to Parliament, which meets the 10th Inst. when it seems to be the general Expectation that all your Grievances will be redressed. I shall be able soon to form a Judgment with Respect to American Affairs, at present am very easy about you, as it is resolved to send no more Troops to Boston. Your Enemies think you obstinate and rebellious, but your Friends here, the most virtuous, firm and spirited People in the World."
Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman in Barbadoes. "A Subscription was opened at the House of John Prettyjohn, Esq; for our worthy, but distressed Brethren of Boston, to be sent Rum, the first Week in April. It is imagined the Sum will exceed 1000l. this Currency. The Assembly are forming a Petition to send to his Majesty by the first European Vessel."
Wednesday last the Provincial CONGRESS met at Concord, Present near Two Hundred MEMBERS. In Provincial CONGRESS, Concord, March 24, 1775. WHEREAS it is indispensably necessary for the Safety of a free People, and the Preservation of their Liberties, that they at all Times keep themselves in a State of actual Defence against every Invasion or Depredation, and this Country being still threatened by a powerful Army posted in its Capital, with a professed Design of executing certain Acts of the British Parliament, calculated to destroy our inalienable Rights and Liberties, and the Government of this Colony as by Charter and Law established:
Therefore, RESOLVED, That the Measures that have heretofore been recommended by this and the former Provincial Congress, for the Purpose of putting this Colony into a complete State of Defence, be still most vigorously pursued by the several Towns, as well as individual Inhabitants; and that any Relaxation would be attended with the utmost Danger to the Liberties of this Colony and of all America; especially as by the latest Advices from Great-Britain, we have undoubted Reasons for Jealousy, that our implacable Enemies are unrelenting in their Endeavours by Fraud and Artifice, as well as by open Force, to subjugate this People; which is an additional Motive to the Inhabitants of this Colony to persevere in the Line of Conduct recommended by the Congress, and be ready to oppose with Firmness and Resolution, at the utmost Hazard, every Attempt for that purpose. Signed by Order of the Provincial Congress. JOHN HANCOCK, President. A true Extract from the Minutes, BENJAMIN LINCOLN, Secretary.
***** In the House of Representatives of the Colony of Connecticut, assembled at New-Haven, March 3, 1775.
Although many Donations have been made the Town of Boston, by this, and the other Colonies: Yet upon authentic Intelligence, appears they are inadequate to the real Distresses, in which Thousands of their innocent and virtuous Inhabitants are involved by the Means aforesaid.
This House taking the Matters aforesaid into their serious Consideration, do Resolve, that it be, and it is hereby earnestly recommended to the several Towns in this Colony, to continue cheerfully and liberally to contribute to the Relief of their suffering Brethren in said Town, according to the several Abilities, which divine Providence has given them; esteeming it an incumbent Duty, and an acceptable Service in the Sight of God, and their Country. By order of the House. WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Speaker.
SALE, March 23. We hear that Capt. Jewett arrived at Newbury-Port last Friday, from the West-Indies, and informs, that 10 Days before he got in he spoke with a Vessel which had been out 30 Days from London, bound to Virginia, by whom he was told, that there were GOOD NEWS for AMERICA; which was all Capt. Jewett could hear as he passed her very quick.
LONDON, Jan. 12. We hear that a Subscription is on to be opened, under a very respectable Patronage, for the Inhabitants of Boston, who are bravely suffering all the Rigours of a Siege, in Opposition to arbitrary power.
CHOICE
Philadelphia Flour
To be Sold by JOHN SPARHAWK, at a Store on Mr. Evans's Wharfe cheap for Cash.
St. George de Viart,
PROFESSOR of the polite ARTS, BEGS Leave to acquaint the Public, that he will open his Academy for Dancing in April, at the Assembly ROOM, where Ladies and Gentlemen who have not perfected themselves in that agreeable Accomplishment, may be taught in such a Manner as to add Grace and Beauty to the Deportment of either Sex, in the genteel Characters in Life. He shall endeavour to follow exactly the Rule of Horace concerning the Education of Youth.
"Maxima debetur pueris reverentia." Also the said VIART teaches the French Language in the easiest Method, so that Scholars of the least Aptitude in the Course of Six Months may be sufficiently acquainted with the Rudiments of the Language, and pronounce and write it with Delicacy and Propriety; those who intend continuing, or sending their Children for either Branch, he begs will honor him with their Names at Mrs. LIVERMORE's this Week, as he shall establish himself accordingly.
Portsmouth, March 29th 1775.

BOSTON.
MASSACHUSETTENSIS continu'd. To the INHABITANTS of the Province of MASSACHUSETTS-BAY.
T HE principal argument against the authority of parliament, is this, the Americans are intitled to all the privileges of an Englishman, it is the privilege of an Englishman to be exempt from all laws that he does not consent to in person, or by representative; the Americans are not represented in parliament, and therefore are exempt from acts of parliament, or in other words, not subject to its authority. This appears specious; but leads to such absurdities as demonstrate its fallacy. If the colonies are not subject to the authority of parliament, Great-Britain & the colonies must be distinct states, as compleatly so as England and Scotland were before the union, or as Great-Britain and Hanover are now: The colonies in that case will owe no allegiance to the imperial crown, & perhaps not to the person of the King, as the title to the crown is derived from an act of parliament, made since the settlement of this province, which act respects the imperial crown only. Let us wave this difficulty, & suppose allegiance due from the colonies to the person of the King of Great-Britain, he then appears in a new capacity, of King of America, or rather in several new capacities of King of Massachusetts, King of Rhode-Island, King of Connecticut, &c. &c. For if our connection with Great-Britain by the parliament be dissolved, we shall have none among ourselves, but each colony become as distinct from the others, as England was from Scotland before the union. Some have supposed that each state having one and the same person for its Sovereign, is a sufficient connection; were the Sovereign an absolute Monarch it might be, but in a mixed government, it is no union at all: For as the King must govern each state by its parliament, those several parliaments, would pursue the particular interest of its own state, and however well disposed the King might be to pursue a line of interest that was common to all, the checks and controul that he would meet with, would render it impossible. If the King of Great-Britain has really these new capacities, they ought to be added to his titles; and another difficulty will arise, the prerogatives of these new crowns have never been defined or limited. Is the monarchical part of the several provincial constitutions to be nearer or more remote from absolute monarchy, in an inverted ratio to each one's approaching to, or receding from a republic. But let us suppose the same prerogatives inherent in the several American crowns as are in the imperial crown of Great-Britain, where shall we find the British constitution that we all agree we are entitled to. We shall seek for it in vain in our provincial assemblies. They are but faint sketches of the estates of parliament. The houses of representatives or Burgeffes have not all the powers of the house of commons, in the charter governments they have no more than what is expressly granted by their several charters. The first charter granted to this province did not empower the assembly to tax the people at all. Our council-boards are as destitute of the constitutional authority of the house of lords, as their several members are of the noble independance and splendid appendages of peerage. The house of peers is the bulwark of the British constitution, & thro' successive ages, has withstood the shocks of monarchy, and the sapings of democracy, & the constitution gained strength by the conflict. Thus the supposition of our being independant states, or exempt from the authority of parliament, destroys the very idea of our having a British constitution. The provincial constitutions, considered as subordinate, are generally well adapted to those purposes of government for which they were intended, that is, to regulate the internal police of the several colonies; but have no principle of stability within themselves, they may support themselves, in moderate times, but would be merged by the violence of turbulent ones, & the several colonies become wholly monarchical or wholly republican, were it not for the checks, controuls, regulations and superts of the supreme authority of the empire.
To be continu'd.
BOSTON.
NOVANGLUS to be continu'd. To the Inhabitants of the Colony of MASSACHUSETTS-BAY.
My FRIENDS,
I HAVE heretofore intimated my Intention, of pursuing the Tories through all their dark Intrigues, and wicked Machinations;-- and to shew the Rise and Progress of their Schemes for enslaving this Country. The Honour of inventing and contriving these Measures, is not their Due. They have been but servile Copyers of the Designs of Andross, Randolph, Dudley, and other Champions of their Cause towards the close of the last Century. These latter Worthies accomplished but little: and their Plans had been buried with them, for a long Course of Years, until in the Administration of the late Gov. Shirley, they were revived, by the Persons who are now principally concern'd in carrying them into Execution. Shirley, was a crafty, busy, ambitious, intriguing, enterprizing Man;-- & having mounted, noMatter by whatMeans to the Chair of this Province, he saw, in a younggrowingCountry, vastProspects, of Ambition opening before his Eyes, and he conceived greatDesigns of aggrandizing himself, his Family & his Friends. Mr. Hutchinson and Mr. Oliver, the two famous Letter-Writers, were his principal Ministers of State-- Russell, Paxton, Ruggles, and a few others, were subordinate Instruments. Among other Schemes of this Junto, one was to raise a Revenue in America by Authority of Parliament.
In order to effect their Purpose it was necessary to concert Measures with the other Colonies. Dr. Franklin, who was known to be an active, and very able Man, & to have great influence, in the Province of Pennsylvania, was in Boston in the Year 1754, and Mr. Shirley communicated to him the Found Secret, the great Design of Taxing the Colonies by Act of Parliament. This tagacious Gentleman, this eminent Philosopher, and distinguished Patriot, to his lasting Honour, sent the Governor an Answer in Writing with the following remarks upon his Scheme. Remarks which would have discouraged any honest Man from the Pursuit.
The Remarks are these.
 "That the People always bear the Burden best, when they have, or think they have, some share in the Direction."  "That when publicMeasures are generally distasteful to the People, the Wheels of Government must move more heavily."  "That excluding the People of America from all Share in the choice of a grand Council for their own Defence, and Taxing them in Parliament, where they have no Representative, would probably give extreme Dissatisfaction."  "That there was no Reason to doubt the Willingness of the Colonists to contribute for their own Defence."  "That the People themselves whose all was at Stake, could better judge of the Force necessary for their Defence, and of the Means for raisingMoney for the Purpose, than a British Parliament at so great a Distance."  "That Natives of America, would be as likely to consult wisely and faithfully for the Safety of their native Country, as the Governors sent from Britain, whose Object is generally to make Fortunes, & then returnHome, and who might therefore be expected to carry on the War against France, rather in a Way by which themselves were likely to be Gainers, than for the greatest Advantages of the Cause." 
"That compelling the Colonies to pay Money for their own Defence, without their Consent, would shew a Suspicion of their Loyalty, or of theirRegard for the Country, or of their commonSense, and would be treating them as conquered Enemies, and not as free Britons, who hold it for their undoubtedRight not to be taxed but by their ownConsent, given through their Representatives."
"That Parliamentary Taxes, once laid on, are often continued, after the Necessity for laying them on, ceases; but that if the Colonists were trusted to tax themselves, they would remove the Burden from the People, as soon as it should become unnecessary for them to bear it any longer."
Mr. PRINTER.
I N your Paper of the 17th inst. I observed a Piece signed by a Person who calls himself Monitor, full of ill-natured Reflections upon an Agreement entered into by a Number of Persons in Durham, to assemble once a Week for the Space of six Months, to instruct each other in the military Art.--- The feeble attempt of this scurrilous Writer, to display his Wit in the former & latter Part of his nonsensical Piece, can deserve nothing but Contempt and Ridicule.
His Assertion, that a Number of Persons assembling for the Purpose of instructing each other in the Art of War, and appointing Persons to give the Words of Command, interferes with the Royal Prerogative in the Appointment of Officers, and amounts to an Evasion, if not a Violation of the Province Laws, fully demonstrates his Ignorance, both of the Law and Constitution.
The curious Calculation he makes of the Loss New-Hampshire must sustain, if the same military Ardor (which he ignorantly calls an Infection) should prevail throughout the Province, merits the Ridicule of all Mankind.
I am surprised, that this curious Calculator (while his Hand was in) did not inform us of the amazing Loss this Government sustains by devoting a seventh Part of the Time to religious Exercises; and endeavour to convince us, that as our Cloathing costs a large Sum, it would be best to go naked.
After which, I should be glad to know from him, if we were to lay down our Arms, and make the infamous Submission he contends for; how much Money we should be able to earn in a Day, and how much of our Earnings we should be able to keep in our Pockets.
I hope the Public will excuse my not giving a more serious and particular Answer to the Production of a distempered Brain, as that might make him wise in his own Conceit; and induce this nonsensical Scribler to think himself a Person of some Consequence.
I shall conclude with reminding him, "that a Shoe-Maker never ought to go beyond hisLast." Your's JOHN SULLIVAN.
Mr. FOWLE,
The following is an Association signed by a Number of Persons in this Town, with a few Strictures thereon; inserting of which in your useful Paper, will oblige a great Number of your Customers.
PORTSMOUTH, New-Hampshire, 17th Jan. 1775.
W E the Subscribers, considering the disorderly State of the Times, and being deeply impressed with a Sense of the inestimable Value of constitutional Liberty, think ourselves under an absolute Necessity of associating together for the Support of the wholesome Laws of the Land; and also, for the Preservation and Protection of our Persons and Properties which we find, at least as to many, have been threatened of late, & we do therefore solemnly engage to and with each other.
1st. That we will maintain the Laws of the Land to the utmost of our Power.
2d. That we will also defend and protect each other from Mobs, Riots, or any other unlawful Attack whatsoever, & upon the first Notice of any Attempt upon either of the Subscribers, each and every one of us will immediately repair to the Person attacked, & him defend to the last Extremity.
To the SUBSCRIBERS of the above ASSOCIATION.
GENTLEMEN,
T AKE this Association under your mature Consideration, as I hope some of you to be Gentlemen of Penetration, and Knowledge; and after a serious Examination of the above Association, you will find, instead of supporting and maintaining the Laws of the Land, you are asking in direct Violation thereof; as you say you will support and maintain the Laws of the Land.--- and as you have not made any Distinction between the Province Law, and the late unconstitutional Acts, established by the King and Parliament, we must suppose you mean to support and maintain both. Permit me, Gentlemen, to tell you, that your Zeal overbalances your Knowledge; pray examine the Province Law thro'-out, and all other Law Authorities that ever were held in Repute by the English Nation, and you will not find one Instance wherein they justify a Number of Men, in combining together in any League whatsoever, to support the Law, but quite the Reverse; for the Law is supported in another Manner; it is maintained by Majestates and Officers that are legally appointed, as the Laws direct, and not by a Number of Men combining together. "You say, you will also defend and protect each other, from Mobs, Riots, or any unlawful Attack whatsoever, and that on the first Notice of any Attempt upon either of the Subscribers, each and every of you will immediately repair to the Person attacked, and him defend to the last Extremity."
Is this Law, Gentlemen? in what Book, and Page will you find it? or what Legislative Body ever established such Measures to support Laws; Was it ever known in the King's Dominions, for a Number of Men to assemble together in order to suppress any Mob without Authority; for so doing they are themselves a Mob in the Eyes of the Law to all intents and Purposes; though I am convinced, if you had been prudent enough to have examined into the Law of the Province, by which our Lives and Properties are protected, before you undertook to support it by Mobs, as you have solemnly agreed to do, you would have been ashamed ever to have subscribed your Names to such an unlawful Combination.
Gentlemen, I beg Leave to ask you what it is you are afraid of? is it because you have honest Hearts, and act upon well grounded Principles? is it because you stand strong for the Colonies and her Liberties? or is it because you strike against American Freedom? and because you are trying to enforce the late unconstitutional Acts, and to plunge America into a State of Slavery? Surely it must be Guilt and Remorse of conscience, and from thence springs Fear, ah! Fear indeed, and Reason enough for Fear, for any Person to sell his Country and the Liberties thereof for the Sake of false Honour, and the poor Pittance of sordid Gain; he will live in Fear and die in Fear, and will run the greatest Risk of being tormented hereafter.
SPECTATOR.
Thrice is he arm'd who has his Quarrel just, And he's but naked tho' lock'd up in Steel Whose Conscience with Injustice is corrupted.
Neal M'Intyer,
H AS Removed from the Store he formerly kept on Spring-Hill, Portsmouth, to the House opposite;---where he has for Sale, A Quantity of choice TOBACCO of every Sort, by Wholesale or Retail; likewise a large Assortment of Earthen and China WARE, among which is a compleat Sett of CHINA, which will be sold for sterling Cost & Charges; also, Rum, Sugar, Molasses, Coffee, Indigo, Pepper, Spices, Snuff; and all Kinds of Groceries;---Orange, Clove, Anniseed, Snake-Root, and Dr. Stevens's WATER, by the Cask, cheap for Cash or short Credit.

Wakefield.
WHEREAS the Proprietors of Wakefield, (formerly called East Town) in the County of Strafford and province of New Hampshire, having been legally Notified to pay sundry Taxes to me the Subscriber; and several of them being yet delinquent in the whole or Part; this is therefore to notify such Persons that so much of each delinquent Proprietors Land will be exposed to Sale at public Vendue at my House in Rochester, on Tuesday the 18th Day of April next, at ten of the Clock in the Forenoon, to pay said Taxes, with incidental Charges. The delinquent Proprietors Names are as follows, with the Sums due.
   1st. Division. 2d. Div.   l. s. d. l. s. d.    Thomas Miller 2 2 9  Joseph Hussey 1 0 3 0 9 0  Isaac Horn 0 4 6  Mathew Livermore Esq; 0 2 6  James Kelley 0 4 6  Moses Gage 1 14 6 2 2 9  John Evans 4 5 6  John Wentworth Esq; 0 10 6  Samuel Alley 2 0 6  Ebenezer Roberts 3 8 6 0 9 0  Solomon Hanson 2 13 0 0 9 0  Thomas Miller, jun. 12 9  William Stills 8 3 4 5 6  John Roberts 0 12 6  Leve Roberts 1 10 10 2 2 9  Paul Gerrish 0 9 0  Benjamin Roberts jun 0 12 0  Daniel Young 0 9 0  Stephen Varney 0 9 0  Capt. Stephen Evans 0 9 0  John Hussey 1 14 0  William Twombley 2 11 8  Hezekiah Cock 0 16 0  John Downs 16 6 0  Ebenezer Wentworth 2 2 9 2 2 9  John Brown 0 9 0  Joseph Roberts 1 5 6  Samuel Austin 2 8 6  Ge:them Downs 2 10 6  Joseph Hicks 2 9 3  Samuel Rendel 0 0 0 0 16 6  Thomas Downs 0 6 6  Robert Hanson 4 5 6 2 15 8  James Caney 1 2 9  William Hussey 2 4 6  Lt. John Ham 0 9 0 2 0 6  John Miller 3 14 1  William Downs 0 9 0  William Gerrish 1 0 6  Timothy Hanson 4 5 6  Philip Yeaton 0 9 0 0 9 0  Richard Downs 4 5 6  Samuel Down 4 5 6  Solomon Emerson 0 9 0  Ebenezer Tuttle 0 9 0  William Willard 0 9 0  Job Clements 1 18 6  Samuel Dam 0 9 0  Thomas Miller jr. 1 7 0  
BARNABAS PALMER, Collector.
Rochester, March 23d, 1775.
Lancaster.
WHEREAS the Proprietors of Lancaster, at a legal Meeting held in said Township, on the Ninth Day of August 1774, voted to Raise Four Dollars on each original Right or share in said Township, for building Bridges and Repairing Roads in said Town; and also Eight shillings and Four pence Lawful Money towards building New Mills in said Township; These are to Notify the Owners of said Land, to pay their respective Taxes to me at my Dwelling House in said Township, on or before the twenty fifth Day of April next, or their Lands will be advertised for sale, as the Law directs. Edward Bucknam, Collector.
Lancaster, Feb. 13. 1775.
Choice Flour of MUSTARD,
BY the Dozen or single Bottle to be sold at the Shop adjoining the House of Joseph Whipple, & next Door to Capt. George Turner—where also may be had a Variety of English Goods, and where is wanted a Quantity of the following Articles of the Manufacture of this Country; viz — Cotton Cloth; Check'd Woollen ditto: Yarn Stockings, and Mens Shoes.
THE Creditors to the Estate of Richard Calley, late of Epping, in the county of Rockingham, Taylor, deceased, Represented Insolvent, are hereby Notified, that the Commissioners appointed to receive and examine their several Claims, to said Estate, will attend that Business at the Dwelling House of Lieut. Colonel Samuel Folsom, Innholder in Exeter, on the third Monday of this and the four following Months, from five to seven o'clock P. M. of said Day.
March 14th, 1775.
John Adams,
Has removed to the Shop the Corner of Bromfield's Lane, a little Southward of the Province House, BOSTON, which was lately improved by William Blair Townsend, Esq;—Where he has for Sale,
GARDEN SEEDS,
Imported from LONDON, which he warrants good, and all of the last Year's Growth, viz:
   Early Golden Hotspur Best curld Parsley,   Pease, Peppergras,   Early Charlton ditto, White Mustard,   Ormorods Hotspur, blue, Summer & Winter Spinage,   Rouncivals, Ledmans Salmon, scarlet, short   Dwarfs, Spanish Morattoes, large & dwarf Marrowfats, and crooked top'd Sallad and Turnip   Sugar Pease, Radish,   Large Windsor, early Lisbon, large Toker and Italian and solid Celery,   green Norfolk Beans, Beet, Parsnip,   early yellow Dwarfs, Green and white Endive,   white and speckled Pole and Kidney Beans, Early and long prickly   White Spanish, Portugal white, Blood red, and Cucumber,   Silver skin Onion, Musk and Water Mellon,   Early Dutch, early lew Summer & winter Squash,   Dutch, early Yorkshire, Essex Pepper,   Sugar leaf best read and Asparagus, Thyme,   large Winter Cabbage, Sweet Majoram,   Early and late Cauliflower Summer Savory,   Green and yellow curld Beum, Sage,   Savoy Cabbage. Bush Basil,   Green and white Cobs, Rosemary, Lavender, and   brown Dutch, Silas, Hysop,   hardy Green, Marble, Blue Lupins, Necturnians,   Honey, Tennisball and with a great Variety of   best Head Lettuce, Flower Seeds,   Early yellow and Orange Hemp, Rape, Canary and   Carrot, Maw Seeds for Birds.   Early Dutch, long French Red and White Clover,   and Winter Turnip, and Herds Grass,   Spi't Pease and boiling   Beans,   Earthen WARE & Groceries as usual.  
WE the Subscribers Commissioners appointed by the Hon. John Sherburne, Esq; Judge of Probate of Wills, &c. for the County of Rockingham, to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors of the Estate of Timothy Murry, late of Newmarket, deceased, represented insolvent, hereby give Notice that we will attend that Service at the House of Mr. Benjamin Mead, Innholder in Newmarket, the last Monday of this & the five next following Months, from Three to Eight o'clock P. M.
WENTWORTH CHESWILL, JOSHUA FROST,
Wanted to hire immediately
For six or eight Months, five or six good Labourers, who are acquainted with the Business of clearing of Land; one or two Carpenters, and one Blacksmith, who can shoe Horses— Also, Wanted two or three Bushels of well cleaned Hards Grass SEED. Enquire of J. seph Whipple.
Went adrift from Spring-Hill
The 15th Instant, a Fourteen Foot Moses BOAT, double Timber'd Midship, somewhat Weatherbeaten, no Paint about her, Fore Throat Split; about a year old: Whoever will take said Boat and return her to Neal McIntyre, shall be well Rewarded for their Trouble.
ALL Persons indebted to the Estate of Waldo Emerson, late of Wells, deceased, intestate are once more requested forthwith to pay the same to Edward Emerson of York, or Samuel Hancock of Wells.
March 20th, 1775.
THE Hull of a new Vessel burthen'd about 150 Tons, double deck'd, to be sold cheap for Cash or good Security, by Edward Emerson at York,—who also has to sell good Indian CORN, and an Assortment of English and West India GOODS, PORK and Molasses, cheap for Cash or White Pine Boards delivered at York.
ALL Persons having Demands on the Estate of Deacon Daniel Jackson, late of Portsmouth, Blackmaker, deceased, are desired to exhibit their Claims; and those who are indebted to said Estate, are desired to make speedy Payment to the Subscribers, Administrators of said Estate,
Portsmouth, George Jackson, March 21st, 1775. John Jackson.
Eight or Ten Settlers,
ARE wanted to set down immediately in a good Township in this Province, to each of whom will be given One hundred ACRES of Land.
Enquire of the Printer.
New-Brittain.
Province of New Hampshire, Rockingham ss. THE Proprietors of the Township of New Brittain, (so called) are hereby Notified to meet at the House of Capt. Caleb Sanborn, Innholder in Hampton Falls, on Monday the 11th Day of April next, at one of the Clock Afternoon, to act on the following Articles, as they shall see fit. 1. To chuse a Moderator for said Meeting. 2 A proprietors Clerk, a Committee, to call proprietors Meetings, Assessors, a Collector and Treasurer. 3. To see what said proprietors will do concerning clearing & repairing Roads in said Township. 4. To see if said proprietors will agree to hire preaching in said Township some part of this present Year, and for how long. 5 To see if said proprietors will agree to raise any sum or sums of Money for the purposes aforesaid. Anthony Emery } 3 Hampton, March 20, 1775: Caleb Sanborn. { 3
Unity.
WHEREAS the proprietors of a Township of Land called UNITY, in the county of Cheshire, and province of New Hampshire, who have not paid their respective Taxes in said Town, are hereby Notified, that so much of their Lands in said Town as will pay Taxes, will be exposed to sale, according to Law, at a public Vendue, unless previous payment prevent, on the first Tuesday of April next, at two o'clock in the Afternoon, at the House of Solomon Wheeler in Kingstown, Innholder, by me the subscriber, Jonathan Glidden, Collector.
Deerfield, March 15th, 1775.
The Names of the above Delinquents are as follows,     l. s. d. l. s. d.    Simon French 0 13 6 Jerem. Philbrook 0 18 0  William Long 1 16 0 Jacob Garland 0 9 0  Samuel Wislow 1 16 0 Nathan Taylor 0 9 0  Nathaniel French 1 16 0 Phillip Huntoon 1 16 0  John Sherburn 1 16 0 John Malon 0 9 0  Samuel Judkins 1 16 0 Edward Fifield 1 16 0  John Sweet 1 16 0 James Bean 1 16 0  Thomas Scrivner 1 16 0 Samuel Dearborn 0 9 0  Moses Sleeper 1 16 0 Thomas Clough 1 16 0  Tristram Sandborn 1 16 0 John Webbler 0 18 0  Daniel Moulton 1 7 0 William Buswell 0 10 9  John Moulton 1 7 0 T. Atkinson, Esq. 0 15 0  Benja. Sandborn 1 7 0 Nathaniel Barrell 0 15 0  Isaac Godfrey 1 7 0 T. Atkinson junr 0 15 0  William Godfrey 1 7 0 Messrs West, Esq. 0 12 9  Samuel Colcord 0 18 0 B. Wentworth, Esq. 1 10 0  Capt. John Webber 0 9 0  
Cambridge.
Province of New Hampshire, Grafton, ss. WHEREAS Application is made to me the subscriber, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for said County, by the Proprietors and Owners of more than a 16th Part of a Tract of Land in the northern Part of said Province lately granted by his Excellency Governor WENTWORTH, in Council, by the Name of Cambridge, that a Meeting of the Proprietors of said Township or Tract of Land, may be called and held at the House of Mr. Nathaniel Rogers, Innholder in Orford, on Wednesday the 12th day of April next at 3 o'Clock P. M. then and there to vote on the following Articles, viz. 1st. to chuse a Moderator. 2d. A Proprietors Clerk. 3d. To chuse a Committee, Assessors, Treasurer and all other Officers necessary to transact the Affairs of said Proprietors. 4th. To raise Money to defray Charges of procuring the Charter of said Cambridge, looking it out, & surveying it, and other Contingencies; likewise, such other Matters as may be necessary for fulfilling the Conditions of said Charter. 5th. To determine how Proprietors Meetings shall be called & held in future.
PURSUANT to which Application, I do hereby notify and warn the Proprietors of the Township or Tract of Land called Cambridge, to meet at the place and day aforesaid, at 3 o'Clock P. M. to vote and act on the several Articles aforesaid.
Orford, March 6th, 1775. ISRAEL MOREY.
Broke Open, on the Night
Following the Fifteenth Instant, the subscriber's Shop, at Exeter, and was stole from thence the following Articles, viz. Sixty pair of Copper and Brass cut Rimed Shoe Buckles, and about thirty pair of Knee dit. sundry pair of Brass Sleve Buttons, sundry new Files, chiefly of the glazing Kind; also sundry small Boxes with a Quantity of second handed Stones for Sleve Buttons in them, and also another small wooden Box with a Tea Spoon and some Money in it, together with sundry other Articles in the Goldsmith and Braziers Business. Whoever shall apprehend the Thief or Thieves, so that he or they may be brought to Justice, shall have Three Dollars Reward, and all necessary Charges paid by Ichabod Shaw Davis.
N. B. 'Tis apprehended that some or all the above mentioned Articles may be offered to some Goldsmith for sale; if so, it is desire'd they may be stopped.
Exeter, March 16, 1775.

Mr FOWLE;
Really think myself so much injured by the Whole of Stephen Boardman's Conduct to me, whether I consider him as an Officer in a Church, as one of the Committee of Correspondence, as he proudly styles himself in his first Publication; or as one of the Committee of Inspection for the Town of Stratham, as in his last, that I am constrained once more in this Way to make my Appeal to the impartial Public; and altho' the poor Man seems to be very angry that I should dare ever reply to his first, and from his own known Want of Ability to write for himself, judges I had an Assistant, "Whom he fancies is well known to every Person of Penetration who has enjoyed his private Conversation, or been an Auditor of his Public Performances in Rofra, by the usual Embellishments of Grammar and Rhetorick." As little as I am acquainted with Grammar and Rhetorick, I find no Fault with this poor Creature for this unusual Embellishment, and leave those of my Readers who have enjoyed his private Conversation, to judge whether our great Committee-Man hath not been obliged in his Turn to call in some learned Assistant. When Boardman as a Deacon, as a Committee-Man, or as a Narrator of plain Facts, sets me a good Example, I think myself obliged to follow it; but when his Conduct is such as cannot be justified upon those common Principles which Men have agreed to adopt, whatever Authority he may vainly fancy himself invested with, or from whomsoever he may think he received it, I am as fully resolved not only to refuse any Obedience to him, but while I am favoured with the public Ear to justify my own Conduct, and bear open Testimony against such Part of his, as appeareth to me to have a direct Tendency, not only to injure me, but the Community, of which I am a Member. And although he hath, with all that Importance and self-sufficiency, which he usually assumes, determined to take no further Notice of what I may have to offer respecting himself, yet I am sensible every impartial Man, (and to such only I appeal) will readily hear any Thing that I, or any other Person, who may be so much abused as I have been by this Man's false and scandalous Misrepresentations, can say in their own Defence. Had Boardman, when he first promised a plain Narration of Matters of Fact, stuck to plain Truths, or when I had offered to the Public what I had to say in my own Defence, and he condescended to reply, had he then stated Matters fairly, or produced two or three of those numerous Evidences, whose Depositions, if necessary, may hereafter be made public to support one of those ill-natured, false Charges which he brought against me, and which I now (however daring it may think it) as I ever have done, whether in a State of natural or political Intoxication, absolutely deny and again defy him to prove; had he done this, I had not Occasion to trouble the Public with a Repetition of any of the Sentiments contained in my Reply to him; but as he has notoriously failed in all, and only given his bare Assertion, which I think no better Authority than my positive denial; and he has notwithstanding his Whining, meaning Cant, and pretended unwillingness to injure me or any other Man in his Person or Property; done all in his Power to injure me in the Minds of my Countrymen, and to prevent my Customers from any Sort of Dealing with me, especially from buying my Malt, as being Tory Malt; in short, as he was the chief Cause of the Abuse I met with at Portsmouth, and that from far different Motives, than appear to the public View, which may hereafter, if necessary, be fully proved, so he has ever since been, and still is, restless in his Endeavours to ruin me, and not content with what he falsely asserted of me, he is now endeavouring to injure my Hon'd Father, and would insinuate, that he is taking Part with me, as an Enemy to my Country, and treating him in-juriously. As he falsely says, "he had done a worthy Deacon in the same Church some years ago, when to support me, his Son, in a very bad Cause, be endeavoured as far as his Influence reached; to ruin the Character of that Gentleman, and get him dismissed from his sacred Office;" How base and unmanly are such Reflections, and how little like a Christian such Insinuations, against an aged Man, a Member of the same Church in which this base Man yet sustains the Office of a Deacon; and that without the least Foundation for the Cause which he mentions; and falsely calls a very bad Cause, was a Dispute about the Bounds of our Land, & which my Father no Way joined in, which Dispute was for final Decision, referred to the late Andrew Wiggin, Esq; Cornet Wiggin, Mr. John Folsom, & others, who most certainly judged it a very good Cause; for they supported my Claim, and ordered the Person he hints at, to pay all Costs; I think there needs no other Proof of their good Opinion of the Cause; as to my Father's using his Influence to ruin the Character he mentions, or to get him dismissed from his sacred Office; my Father on his Part declares it an absolute Falsehood; as for myself, I declare upon the Forfeiture of that Esteem I ever wish to hold in the Breast of my Countrymen; I never heard of it till Boardman published it in the News-Paper; and if this was as justly true, as I am convinced it is most scandalously false in every Part, how can this pious Deacon Boardman & his Brother, who both so long supported the sacred Office which he holds, adorning it with Christian Virtue, & a Steady impartial Discharge of its Duties, answer their Conduct, in allowing such a Man as Boardman intimates my Father to be, a regular Standing in the Church so many Years, without complaining of such a Conduct, and requiring from him Christian Satisfaction, which they never so much as pretended to ask; a good Proof this, of what Boardman thinks a steady impartial discharge of the Duties of his sacred Office; and much like the Inconsistencies which follow; for the Reader, if he will please to advert a Moment, will find him, after charging my Father with as great a Crime as I think a Man can be guilty of to his Neighbour (that of endeavouring to ruin his Character, not only as a private Man, but trying to get him dismissed from his Office in the Church) he then, with his usual Cant, adds, I would not willingly write or say any Thing to the Disadvantage of Mr. Pottle, who I charitable hope is a gracious Man. I believe very few gracious Men would be guilty of such a Conduct, tho' I find some graceless Ones charge them with it. I have, I think, a very fair Opportunity to remark on some other of this Man's Inconsistencies, and sing back some of his own Words; but I forbear, the Example is evil, this is one of those which he as a Deacon, hath set, and which I do not choose to follow.
When he, as a Narrator of what he calls plain Matters of Fact, had asserted some Things, which in my Reply I did, and still do deny, I humbly conceived it his Duty to have produced some other Proof than his own Assertion in his last Production, and to have left the Public to judge of the Force of his Evidence: but all the Evidence he has produced, and left them to determine on, is his own Assertion a second Time, adding, of these Things I have numerous Evidence; all which must appear to the public Eye like a long String of Cyphers at the left Hand of the small Figure 1! He hath indeed pointed more particularly at two of his Charges in his last Piece, and no doubt thinks himself very witty in his Manner of speaking of the Mock-Meeting, and the hiring Men to work on what he calls the Fast Day: If there be any Thing like Wit in his sagacious Observation, it is of that low Kind, which is only to be treated with silent Contempt. As to certain Things which he asserts to be actually Matters of Fact, I actually declare them both to be a LIE; I neither hired any Person from Green-land, nor employ'd any one who did not statedly work with me on that Day," and defy him with all that Malice which has prompted
him thus basely to insinuate several Things in his last Piece, which were not in his first to prove. A Number of Persons (whose Words are of equal Value with Boardman's) were with me on Business the greater part of the Day, on which he affirms a Mock-Meeting was held at my Shop, viz. Messrs Stephen Thurston, Jonathan Leavitt, Joseph Morel, and Nathaniel Wiggin the 3d, who are all ready to declare on Oath, that no such Thing was transacted by me or any other in my Shop. The Time may possibly come, when I may have Opportunity to produce those and many other Evidences to prove the repeated Insults I have received, and the Damage I have sustained, and which I again charge him as the blameable Cause of my suffering. I have no Inclination to mix those Colours of which this Man's Character is composed, nor do I think it is possible for me, if I should attempt to lay them on, to make him appear blacker than his own Conduct must in the Eyes of every sober Man, when they view him as making great Profession of that Religion which was ever intended to promote Peace and good Order among Men, yet doing all in his Power to stir up Strife and Contentions; when they see him rejecting the wise and holy Precepts of the Gospel; and trampling upon the good and wholesome Laws of this Province, both which expressly forbid the raising or spreading any evil Report, and doth not suffer any Man to avenge himself of his Neighbours; Laws which it never was, nor ever will be in the Power of any Association on Earth to abrogate. Whatever Boardman may think he has Power to do with me, or my supposed Assistant, or into whatever hand he may have delivered him; when the Person is pointed out, and the World is favoured with his History, he no doubt will be able to answer for himself; if he should not do it with that Elegancy of Style, that Sublimity of Thought, and Looseness of Expression, which may please Persons of so great Penetration as our Committee-Man, it may be done with that Plainness and Perspicuity which is calculated to convey simple Truths to an impartial Mind; and if it should fail of some of the Embellishments of Grammar and Rhetoric, the Reader will only be led to conclude that my Assistant, like some others, after having Admission into that Place where an Acquaintance with the Sciences is to be obtained, was so unhappy as to incur the Displeasure of his Superiors, and obliged him to finish his Education &c. Had I any Reason from any Part of Boardman's Conduct to think he paid any real Regard to the Writings of the wisest of Men, I would recommend to his serious Consideration; that it is an Honour for a Man to cease from Strife, but that every Fool will be meddling. WILLIAM POTTLE Jun. Stratham Feb. 22. 1775.
NEW YORK, March 20. In our last we gave a short Account of the Proceedings of this City and County, on Monday the 6th instant, when by a very great Majority, the following Mode of proceeding was assented to, viz. That the general Committee should nominate eleven Persons, to be on Wednesday the 15th proposed to the Choice of the Freemen and Freeholders as Deputies to meet on the 20th of April, such Deputies as the other Counties might elect, and join with them, for the sole Purpose of appointing out of their Body, Delegates for the next general Congress, agreeable to the Recommendation of the last. Accordingly, the Committee nominated the following Persons, viz. Philip Livingston; John Jay, James Duane, John Alsop, Isaac Low, Francis Lewis, Abraham Walton, Abraham Bleecker, Alex. M'Dougall, Leonard Lisperard, Isaac Roosevelt. From the Time of the Nomination every Artifice was used (by the same Party, who have constantly exerted their utmost Abilities, to obstruct and disconcert every Measure of Opposition to the tyrannical Acts of the British Ministry) in order to prevent the Election of the Deputies, nominated by the Committee, and to frustrate the Design of a Provincial Congress, and sending Delegates, (at least with full Powers from the whole Province) to the next General Congress. Before the Day of Election a great Number of Pieces were published on both Sides; full of Artifice and specious Pretences on the ministerial Part, and of sound weighty Argument on the other. Between the two, the Arguments, and the Views of each Party, were pretty well understood at the Day of Decision, when the Votes of the Freemen and Freeholders were fairly taken as follows, viz.    For the Deputies:  Against them.    Out Ward  66     North do.  99  30    East do.  225  22    South do.  42  23    West do.  213  23    Dock do.  52  32    Montgomery do.  223  27     825  163    Besides great Numbers of the Majority, who finding their Votes not wanted did not Vote. It is hoped the Transactions of this Day, will, in some Measure restore the Generality of the People to the good Opinion and Esteem of the neighbouring Colonies. Copy of a LETTER sent by the Committee of Correspondence for the City and Liberties of Philadelphia, to the Committee of Correspondence in New York.
GENTLEMEN, Philadelphia, Feb. 16, 1775. WE are directed, by the Committee of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia, to acquaint you, that they have lately, with Concern, seen frequent Publications from New-York, containing false Representations; and holding out to the World Ideas of Dissensions here, which do not exist. As Publications of this Kind are evidently intended to injure the Cause in which this great Continent is embarked; by creating Jealousies and Distrusts among the Colonies, when mutual Confidence is so essential to common Safety, the Committee think they can in no Instance better discharge the important Trust committed to them, than by contradicting and exposing such pernicious & wicked Designs. For this Purpose we think it necessary to declare the Committee have not met with the least Impediment or Obstruction, in carrying into Execution any one Resolution of the Continental Congress; But on the contrary, a cheerful and ready Acquiescence in their Proceedings has been manifested here by all Ranks and Orders of People. We have the Pleasure also to assure you, from the most extensive Informations, that the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania continue, immovably firm to the Cause of Liberty; and will with inviolable Faith, observe the Rules of Conduct prescribed to them by the Continental Congress; Any Infraction of which, they deprecate as the greatest Evil, and consider as productive of their political Ruin. Under such favourable Circumstances, the Committee are apprehensive of no Association or Combinations whatever that can in the least disturb them in the Regular and exact Discharge of their Duty: In which they shall persevere, trusting, for their Support in it, to those just and liberal Sentiments that possess the Breasts of their Countrymen. We doubt not this State of Things, founded upon the strictest Truth, will have the good Effect to silence any unjust and groundless Reports which may have obtained Credit in New-York, concerning our City and Province; --- Reports, propagated and encouraged only by a few Persons (and such, unfortunately for Mankind,
are to be found in every large Community) who setting up their private Interest in Opposition to the general Good, have a malignant Pleasure in exciting Discords and Dissentions: by which alone the Law and Constitution of this free, and once happy, Country, can be laid prostrate at the Feet of our Enemies.
We are, Gentlemen, &c. Messrs John and Robert Murray having in a clandestine Manner taken out some Part of the Cargo of the Ship Benajah, lately arrived from London, (chiefly Duck, Oznabrigs and Linnens) & landed them at Elizabeth Town in New Jersey, but upon more mature Reflection, & with a View to satisfy the Public, they wrote to the Committee here, acknowledging their Sorrow for the imprudent Step they had taken, and condemned the same as an unjustifiable Measure! and as a Proof of their Willingness to conform to the Resolutions of the Congress, engaged to reship all the said Goods, or deliver them into the Possession of the Elizabeth Town Committee upon Oath, to do with them as they should think proper, also to give any further Satisfaction that might be recommended; and likewise, further to testify their Sense of the imprudent Measure they had taken, as well as the Concern for the Trouble & Uneasiness it had given their fellow Citizens, they wished to make them further Satisfaction, and therefore cheerfully engaged to give 200l. to repair the Hospital lately burnt here. The Committee at Elizabeth Town have taken Possession of the Goods, as set forth under the Oath and Affirmation of the said Murray's, and no doubt, will be protected with according to the Continental Association.
NEW LONDON, March 3. Capt. Atwell from the West Indies, advises that a Sloop, Jacob Goodwin, Master, who sailed from this Port the 16th of Decemr, fine Wind at N. W. on the Evening following, between 10 & 12 o'Clock, being bright Moon Light, under her Main sail and Head of the Squaresail, run down a large Sloop, Timothy Pease, Master, from Fort Dauphin, belonging and bound to Rhode Island: She was laying to, about three Leagues from Block Island--- she sunk immediately, when the Captain and Crew, all but one Man (who was sick in the Cabin) sav'd themselves by catching hold of Capt. Goodwin's Bowprit Shrouds. The Cargo left consisted of Sugars, Coffee, and Molasses,---the Captain had 200 Half Johannes in his Chest which went down with the sick Man, &c.---
TO BE SOLD By Josiah Gilman of Exeter, A FARM containing 75 Acres of good Arable, Pasture and Wood Land, situate on the Main Road that leads to Epping, about three Miles from Exeter, with a House, Barn, Orchard, and good Well; about 30 Loads of Dung can'd out, & several Acres broke up last Fall; it is well water'd in all Parts with Brooks and Springs; a Stock of Cattle and one good Horse, for Saddle or Chaise, to be sold either with, or without the Place; as also sundry Utensils for Husbandry, viz. a large Pair of Iron bound Wheels, Yokes, Chains, &c. Said Gilman takes this Opportunity to intreat all Persons, especially those whose Debts have been of long Standing, to make speedy Payment, as they would avoid further Trouble:
† Dummer † THE Proprietors of Dummer are desired to meet at Capt. Tilton's in Portsmouth on the 19th of April next, at 6 o'Clock, P. M. PAUL LANGDON, Proprietors Clerk. Portsmouth, March 28th, 1775.
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 Jonathan Colby of Sandown in said County, Jointer, deceased, represented Insolvent, and six Months, from the 24th of January, 1775 being allowed for that Service: This is to give Notice that we will attend that Business at the House of the Widow Mary Colby's in Sandown the last Tuesday of this instant Feb. from two to 6 o'Clock in the Afternoon, and the 1st Tuesday of the first following Month. Ichabod Shaw, Sandown, February 4th 1775. Ezekiel Eaton.
WE the Subscribers being appointed Commissioners by the Hon. JOHN SHERBURNE, Esq; Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c to examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of Nathaniel Griffith, late of Portsmouth, Goldsmith, deceased, represented Insolvent, hereby give Notice, that we will attend upon that Business at the House of Mr. Samuel Bowles at Portsmouth, on the last Wednesday of this and the 5 following Months from 5 o'Clock till 8, in the Afternoon of said Days. Nathaniel Marshall, Portsmouth, March 3d, 1775. Samuel Bowles, Province of New Hampshire.
FIVE Months more being allowed by the Hon'ble JOHN GOFFE, Esq; Judge of Probate for the County of Hillsborough, to the Commissioners on the Estate of John Steel, late of Hillsborough, deceased, represented Insolvent; This is to give Notice that we will attend that Business at the House of Timothy Kendall, Tenant in Litchfield, on the last Tuesday in April, May, and June next. James Underwood. Litchfield, March 9, 1774. Wm. M'Question.
A long PIECE is received by the Printer sign'd Z.---He would be glad to see the Author before it is publish'd Warrantee and Quitclaim Deeds, Justice Writs, Biping Papers, Bail Bonds, &c Sold at the Printing Office.