New-Hampshire gazette, or, State journal and general advertiser (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1781-02-12 00:00:00

T M E NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE ; OR, STATE JOURNAL, and GENERAL ADVERTISER.
[ Vol. XXIV. ]
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1781.
[ No. 1268. ]
NEW-YORK, (City) December 20.
W HEN his Majesty's ship Yarmouth departed from this port for England about 70 masters and mates of vessels that had been taken from the rebel privateers were shipped on board her, and we hear there are a number more of the same denomination, selected from the prison ship and from the provost, who per adventure will stand eligible candidates for the same destination.
PHILADELPHIA, January 17.
IN CONGRESS, Jan. 5, 1780.
The Committee to whom were referred the letter of Abraham Skinner, Commissary General of prisoners, and other papers relative to the treatment of prisoners, in the hands of the enemy, delivered in a report as follows:
"That, notwithstanding every effort of Congress to obtain for our people, prisoners in the hands of the enemy, that treatment which humanity alone should have dictated. The British commander, unmindful of the tenderness exercised towards their men, prisoners in our hands, and regardless of the practice of civilized nations, has persisted in treating our people, prisoners to them, with every species of insult, outrage and cruelty. Officers and men are indiscriminately thrown into the holds of prison ships & into loathsome dungeons, and there deprived of fuel and the common necessaries of life, by which means many of the citizens of these States have been compelled to enter into their service to avoid those distresses which a conduct so contrary to the law of nations had brought upon them. Our seamen taken upon the American coast have been sent to Great Britain, or other parts beyond seas to prevent their being exchanged, or to force them to take arms against their country: That, in the opinion of the committee, an exercise of the law of retaliation has become necessary, as a justice due to those citizens of America, whom the fortune of war has thrown into the power of our enemy."
Whereupon Resolved, That copies of the letter of Mr. A. Skinner, and other papers referred, be transmitted to the commander in chief, and that he be directed to enquire into the manner in which our people, who are prisoners, are treated by the enemy, and that he give immediate orders to the commanding officers at different posts to take particular care that British prisoners receive the same allowance and treatment in every respect, as our people, who are prisoners, receive from the enemy.
Resolved, That it be recommended to the respective Executives to take effectual measures for carrying into execution the act of Congress of January 13, 1780, respecting prisoners taken by the citizens, troops or ships of particular states:
That the Board of Admiralty issue orders not to exchange any British sea officers or seamen, until the enemy have returned to some of their garrisons in America, such seamen as they have taken upon the American coasts and sent to Great Britain, or other parts beyond sea; and that the Board of Admiralty give orders for continuing the treatment of prisoners as herein directed, until they receive orders to the contrary from Congress or the Commander in Chief.
Published by Order of Congress,
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
BALTIMORE, January 16.
A late letter from the West Indies, mentions the arrival in those seas of ten sail of men of war of the line, and twelve regiments, from Great Britain. The men of war and troops are as follows, viz.
Men of war under command of Sir Samuel Hood: Barfleur, Gibraltar, Monarch, Princess, Monarcha, Alfred, Prince William, Belliqueux, St. Alban, Panther.
Regiments: 2d, 3d, 13th, 19th, 25th, 30th, 32d, 67th, 69th, 78th, 81st and 83d.
A gentleman arrived in town from the Southward, asserts, that General Greene's head quarters were, a few days ago, at Camden, the British troops having abandoned that post. That Lord Cornwallis, who had only received a reinforcement of about 400 men, from New York, had taken post at Ninety-Six. That our army, under command of General Greene, was daily increasing, and were in such circumstances as promised further success to the American arms.
A body of American troops, it is said, lately took possession of Georgetown, South Carolina.
By the latest accounts, Gen. Arnold, and his troops, were encamped about ten miles below Peterborough, and that the Virginia militia had marched to attack them.
CHATHAM, January 24.
Last week a detachment of Col. Crow's regiment of militia went over to Staten Island, and completely surprised a picket of the British light infantry. They killed three, brought off two prisoners, and fifteen muskets.
Extract of a letter from an officer of the Southern army, dated Hick's Creek, Pender, South Carolina, December 31, 1780.
"The troops of the enemy which left Virginia under Leslie, have arrived at Charles Town, and are said to be on their march to join Lord Cornwallis who has assembled his forces at Camden. General Greene's head quarters are at this place."
NEW-LONDON, January 30.
Yesterday week, four ships from the British fleet in Gardiner's Bay, came to sail, and went as far Eastward as Narragansett Bay, (it is supposed their views were to fall in with three of the French fleet who that morning sailed from Rhode Island, but returned into port again the same day) at night there came on a heavy gale of wind from the N. E. attended with a very thick snow, which scattered the above British ships; one of them (the Culloden, said to be of 74 guns) the same night was drove on Shagwagion-ick-Reef, about 3 or 4 leagues to the Eastward of Gardiner's Island, where she is entirely lost, and it is said that all her crew perished; a second (said to be of 64 guns) rode out the gale a few miles S. E. of the Gull Islands, but lost all her masts and bowsprit, and threw over all her upper tier of guns; she was towed into Gardiner's Bay on Wednesday; a third rode out the gale near the same place, but it is said sprung her masts and threw part of her guns over: The fourth came too near Watch-Point, but parted her cable in the night, and has not since been heard of. About 70 fathom of her cable has been since taken up by some people from Stonington.
In the flag which arrived here last Tuesday from New-York, came 30 American prisoners, belonging to different parts of New England, who are all sick, and in a distressed situation. They left about 170 others in the prison-ship, great part of whom are also sick. Another ship at N. York has also about 200 American prisoners on board. Before these were brought from the ship 7 or 8 died every 24 hours.
PROVIDENCE, February 3.
A flag of truce arrived at New-London yesterday se'nnight from New-York, and brought 33 prisoners, most of them in a very sickly and emaciated condition, owing to the inhuman treatment they experienced while with the enemy. Capt. William Malem, of this place, came in the above flag, and has since arrived here, having been near six months closely confined on board a prison-ship and in the provost, although a prisoner was sent from hence about four months since to exchange for him. Capt. Malem informs (and from his present languishing state veracity will not be questioned) that the sufferings of our unfortunate fellow-countrymen in captivity are beyond description, and, if possible, exceed the enemy's former refinements in barbarity; that the prisoners were subsisted entirely upon condemned provisions; that, from this cause, numbers of them have been deprived of their sight; that even a sufficiency of water was denied them, so that many, after having in vain offered a silver dollar for half a pint of water, were obliged to allay their thirst with urine; that the prisoners had repeatedly petitioned the Admiral, but their petitions remained unanswered, and their sufferings unredressed; that latterly about 7 or 8 die in a day, and that during his confinement upwards of 750 had fallen victims to British cruelty; that he left 350 on board the prison-ship, and 50 in the provost, about 100 of them totally blind; and that their last spectacles of human misery were daily paying their debt to nature---the enemy boasted that the rebels dare not retaliate.
On Thursday Capt. Phineas Potter arrived here in 21 days from Cape-Francis. He informs, that advice was received there that the British Fleet and army had made an attack on the island of St. Vincent, and were repulsed with great loss.
The French and Spanish Fleets were said to be at the Havanna when Capt. Potter failed. Capt. Harding in the Confederacy, was arrived at the Cape from Philadelphia.
A gentleman from the Westward informs, that last week General Parsons, with a detachment from the army, marched to Morrisania, where he surprised Gen. Delancey, killed a number of the enemy, and took about 60 prisoners; he also released 50 of our people that were prisoners with the enemy, among them a Captain who was under condemnation as a spy. Gen. Parsons, it is said, had 3 men killed, and a few wounded; among the latter is Capt. David Dorrance, of Voluntown, who received a ball through his thigh.
BOSTON, February 8.
The following is an account of the late excursion at Richmond in Virginia, under command of that paricide of the age, Benedict Arnold.
Intelligence of the enemy's having quitted the station at James-Town, from which it was supposed they meant to land for Williamsburgh, and that they had got to Kennebec, reached Richmond at five o'clock in the morning of the fourth of January; this was the first indication of their meaning to penetrate towards Richmond or Peterborough. They marched from Westover at two o'clock in the afternoon of the 4th, and entered Richmond at one o'clock in the afternoon of the 5th. A regiment of infantry and about 50 horse continued on without halting to the foundery, they burnt that, the boring mill, the magazine and two other houses, and proceeded to Westham; but not being in their power there, they returned to Richmond. The next morning they burnt some buildings of public and some private property, with what stores remained in them; destroyed a great quantity of private stores, and about 12 o'clock retired towards Westover, where they encamped within the neck the next day. The loss sustained is not accurately known. At Richmond about 300 muskets, some soldiers cloathing to a small amount, sulphur, some quarter-masters stores, of which 120 fests of leather
was the principal article, part of the artificers tools, and three waggons; besides which 5 brass 4 pounders, which had been sunk in the river, was discovered to them, raised and carried off. At the foundery, about 5 tons powder was thrown into the canal, of which there will be a considerable saving by re-manufacturing it. Part of the papers belonging to the Auditor's office, and the books and papers of the Council office, which were ordered to Westham, but in the confusion carried by mistake to the foundery, were also destroyed, the roof of the foundery was burnt, but the stacks of the chimnies and furnaces not at all injured. Within less than 48 hours from the time of their landing, and 19 from knowing their destination, they had penetrated 33 miles, done the whole injury, and retired. The militia dispersed over a large tract of country, can be called in but slowly. On the day the enemy advanced to Richmond, 200 only were embodied, they were of that town and neighbourhood, and were too few to do any thing effectual.
Monday evening last Capt. Friend, in a ship belonging to Salem, from the West Indies, ran ashore on Moon Island, and is entirely lost. Seventeen of the hands were drowned.
E X E T E R, February 12, 1781.
Extract of a Letter from His Excellency General WASHINGTON to the Honorable the PRESIDENT of this State, receiv'd the 9th Instant.
"SIR,
"IN the Letter which I did myself the Honor of writing you the 22d of January, I informed you of the Revolt of the Jersey Troops, and of the Measures I intended to pursue in consequence. I have now the Pleasure to inform you, that Major General HOWE, with the Detachment under his command, surrounded the Mutineers in their Quarters on the Morning of the 27th, brought them without Difficulty to an unconditional surrender, and had two of the most active Instigators immediately tried and executed. It was judged unnecessary to extend the example further, as there was every Appearance of genuine Contrition.
I cannot omit doing Justice to the Detachment which was sent on this Service. There was in its Behaviour every Mark of Fidelity, Obedience, Disapprobation of the Conduct of the Mutineers, and a Conviction of the Necessity of bringing them to Submission and Punishment. They made a long March over Mountainous Roads & through a deep Snow with the greatest Patience, and obeyed every Order with Alacrity."
On January 31st last, the Reverend Mr. Foster, late Pastor of the first Church of Christ in Berwick, who had obtained an honorable Dismission, was installed Pastor of the new Church incorporated at Packerfield, with great Unanimity and Harmony. The public Services were performed by the following Gentlemen. The Rev. Mr. Fisk of Wilton, opened the Solemnity by Prayer, the Rev. Mr. Farrar of New Ipswich, preached a suitable and seasonable Discourse from Hebrew 4. 2. latter part, the Rev. Mr. Emerson of Hollis, gave the Charge, the Reverend Mr. Sprague of Dublin, gave the right Hand of Fellowship, the Rev. Mr. Hall of Keene, made the concluding Prayer. The whole was performed with great Decorum and to universal Satisfaction.
The soldiery of the Pennsylvania line have returned to camp to their duty, perfectly satisfied, after receiving (from a Committee of Congress, and of the Council of Pennsylvania) a favorable interpretation of the term of their enlistments, and a redress of their other pretended grievances.
LOTTERY OFFICE,
Portsmouth, Feb. 2. 1781.
On Tuesday the 5th day of February, the Renewal of Tickets for the FOURTH CLASS of the UNITED STATES LOTTERY, will commence and continue until the 24th of March, and NO LONGER. No person can be permitted to purchase more Tickets in the 4th Class, than he can produce in the Third.
N B. All Tickets that shall be unrenewed at the expiration of the above limited time, will become the Property of the United States.

State of New-Hampshire, Grafton ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the Proprietors and others, owning Lands in Cockermouth, in the State and County aforesaid, that have not paid their State & Continental Taxes for the Year 1780, that unless they pay them to me the Subscriber by the 21st Day of February next, by ten o'Clock A.M. with incidental Charges, that so much of their Land will be sold at public Vendue at the House of Captain Ebenezer Melven in said Town, as will pay them. The Names are as follows, viz.
   Division. Number. Range. Sum. Undivided rights.   l. s. d. | s.     John Hale, Esq; 3 5 8 4 7 9 12   3 4 9 3 6 0   John Thomson 2 5 6 2 4 0   1 0 1 2 4 0   Stephen Powers 3 6 7 4 7 9 12   3 1 7 4 7 9   Rufus Thomson 3 10 3 4 7 9 12   Hugh White 1 8 1 4 0   2 8 2 2 4 0   Lem'l Blackmore 1 13 3 2 4 0   Hen. Thomson 3 5 7 2 4 0 12   3 6 7 2 4 0   Tho's Coleburn 3 5 14 4 7 9 12   3 6 13 4 7 9   Wm. Prescott's half lot 1 1 2 1 2 0 12   2 3 2 2 4 0   Jona. Eastman, 3 3 5 4 7 9 12   3 10 13 4 7 9   Amos Eastman, jr. 1 9 1 4 0 12   1 9 3 2 4 0   James Taylor 3 7 1 4 7 9   1 15 3 2 4 0   Wm. Taylor 3 6 6 5 17 6 12   3 7 8 4 7 9   1 4 4 2 4 0   Sam'l Cumings 3 4 9 4 7 9   3 15 13 5 17 6   1 4 3 2 4 0   John Atwell 2 5 6 2 4 0 12   3 4 4 4 7 9   3 5 5 4 7 9   James Goold 3 3 9 4 7 9   Eleazer Fisk 1 36 3 3 3   1 8 4 1 9 3 12   Thomas Pratt 1 18 1 2 4 0   3 6 5 4 7 9 12   2 1 4 1 5 6   Mat. Thomson 3 4 1 4 7 9 12   3 11 3 4 7 9   Thomas Peverly 2 5 5 2 4 0 12   Sam'l Hobart, Esq. 3 7 7 4 7 9   Noah Thomson 3 14 13 7 5 9 12   B. Blanchard, jr. 2 9 2 2 4 0   3 2 7 4 7 9   2 4 1 2 4 0   Phineas Lovejoy 3 8 4 4 7 9   3 6 5 4 7 9   Daniel Lovejoy 3 7 3 4 7 9 12   2 16 2 2 4 0   Stephen Ames 3 11 1 4 7 9 12   3 14 3 4 7 9   1 35 0 14 6   H. Thomson, jr. 1 7 4 1 4 0   3 4 3 4 7 9 12   3 7 14 4 7 9   Benja. Abbot 2 17 2 2 4 0 12   Amos Phillips 3 3 4 4 7 9   Caleb Farley 2 20 3 2 4 0 12   Jona. Lovejoy 3 8 1 4 7 9   The heirs of James Wilson 2 8 0  
NICHOLAS GILMAN, Constable. Cockermouth, January 22, 1781.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the proprietors Meeting of the proprietors of Middleton held the six h day of the instant February, at the house of Mr. Frances Mathers in said Middleton, is adjourned to Tuesday the twentieth day of February instant, at the house of Mr. Frances Mathers in said Middleton, at two o'clock, P. M. of said day; and the proprietors are desired to give a general attendance at said Meeting. JOHN GAGE, pro. Clerk Dever, February 8, 1781.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of the following lots of lands in Canterbury, who delinquent in paying their taxes for the year 1780, that so much of said lots will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of David Mc-Crillis, in said town, on the 22d day of February next, between the hours of ten o'clock, A. M. and six o'clock, P. M. as will pay said taxes with incidental charges, unless sooner discharged.
   1st div. 2d div. 3d div.   l. s. d. l. s. d. l. s. d.     John Thompson, jr. 2 9 6 0 0 8 5   John Reed, Att'ry. 2 9 6 9 18   Benjamin York, 2 9 6   Daniel Davis, 2 9 6 6 12   Thomas Davis, 20 16   Ezekiel Leathers, 2 9 6   Gershom Wentworth 4 19   Jonathan Thompson 9 18   Richard Waldron, Esq; 3 19   Stephen Jones 11 11   Henry Tibbetts 13 4 13 4   William Demerit 5 15 6   John Knight 13 4   Job Clement 2 9 6 3 17   John York 10 8   David Davis 6 12 13 4   Nathaniel Hill 17 10   William Glines, jr. 6 12   Shadrick Walton 13 4   C. L. Mark Hunkin 3 6 9 18 9 18   Joseph Jenkins, jr. 6 12   Samuel Doe 13 4   Richard Waldron, jr. 3 6 6 12   Eli Clark 8 5   John Runnals 13 4   Andrew Wiggins 6 12   Jonathan Woodman 1 13   Micha Emeron 27 8 6 12   Benjamin Wentworth 13 4   Joseph Davis 6 12   John Willie, jr. 9 18 17 10   James Gooden 5-15 6   Robert Thompson 6 12 9 18   John Sheppard 2 9 6   Thomas Drew 2 9 6   John Ambler 2 9 6 9 18   Robert Burnam 9-1-6   John Demerit 2 9 6   Samuel Chesley 2 9 6   John Carter 6 12   Jonathan Chesley 5 5   John Carl 3 6   Joseph Hufsey 3 6   Edward Tibbetts 2 15 4 19   Edward Evans 9 18   Ichabod Follet 3 6   John Pitman 17 10   Job Bennet 2-17 6   George Jaffery, Esq; 1 18 6   Thomas Rines 2 9 6 13 4   John Waldron 3 17   John Rollins 4 19   Col. Thomas Westbrook 4 19   Joseph Perkins 2 15   William Leathers 8 5 6 2   Thomas Willee 1 13   Joseph Ellison 6 12   Henry Tibbetts 2 4 13 4   Nathaniel Lumacks 14 17   James Jeffery 5 15 8 5   Henry Dearborn 6 12   Richard Blanchard 16 16  
Ephraim Carter, Collector. Canterbury, Jan. 18, 1781.  AT a legal meeting held by the proprietors of Dorchester in said town, July 6, 1780, Voted to raise a tax of Three shillings and four Pence, upon each hundred acres, for the procuring of Mill Irons, and other necessary charges for the erecting of Mills for the benefit of said town. The proprietors are requested to make speedy payment to Caleb Clark, of Canaan, Collector: Dorchester; Jan. 24. 1781.
At the Shop directly opposite the North Door of the State House in Portsmouth, may be bought, viz.  CORDAGE from two to four and half Inches—Sixty or seventy Quintals of good Fifth—A large Net, used for the Cod Fishery. Together with Bohea Tea, Coffee, Sugar, Cotton, Duffels, Check and white Linnen, some China, Earthen and Glass Ware, &c. Portsmouth, Feb. 9, 1781.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of the foregoing lots in the parish of Loudon, who are delinquent in paying the taxes on the same, for the year 1780, that so much of said lots will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Nathan Batchelder, Esq; in said Loudon, on the 22d day of February next, between the hours of ten o'clock, A. M. and six o'clock, P. M. as will pay said taxes, unless sooner discharged.
First hundred acre division.     No. l. s. d. q.     Joseph Mason 74 6 13 10 3   Joseph Hufsey 75 6 13 10 3   George Jaffery, Esq; 76 6 13 10 3   John Rawlings 95 10 0 7 2   William Glines 128 10 0 7 2   Thomas Drew 133 6 13 9 2   Joseph Perkins 164 13 7 6 0    New or second hundred acre division.     Richard Waldron 75 20 1 3 2   William Demerit 90 13 7 6 0   Rowe d Tibbetts 96 6 13 9 0   Francis Durgin 108 8 7 2 0   Elias Coucher 129 11 13 11 3   Joseph Davis jr. 131 10 0 7 2   Benjamin Mason 130 10 0 7 2   Nathaniel Lumacks 135 10 0 7 2   John Demerit 157 10 0 7 2   Ebenezer Stevens 166 8 7 2 0   Joseph Perkins 179 8 7 2 0   Daniel Davis 183 10 0 7 0   Richard Waldron 186 10 0 7 0   William Fellows 188 10 0 7 2    Samuel Chamberlain, Collector.
Loudon Jan. 18 1 81  Jonathan Hale, in behalf of himself and others, inhabitants of the Town of Concord, in the State of New Hampshire, having petitioned the General Assembly of said State, setting forth, That said Town was granted to their Ancestors by the General Court of Massachusetts Bay in the Year 1725. That the Settlement of a Town at that early Period so far up in the Indian Country, was an Attempt hazardous and expensive. That in the Spring of the Year 1726, the said Town was laid out and described by visible Monuments, which are well known at this Day. That in the Year 1733, the Proprietors having to a Petition completed the Conditions of their Grant, were made a Town by the Name of Rumford. That in the Year 1740, by a Settlement of the Line between Massachusetts Bay and New-Hampshire, said Town fell into New-Hampshire. That from the Year 1740, until the Year 1749, by several Temporary Acts of the General Court of New-Hampshire, the said Town was incorporated without any Alteration of Name, Limits or Privileges, had Precepts sent for Choice of Representatives. That they submitted to every Order of Government with Cheerfulness. That from the Year 1749, until the Year 1765, they were destitute of any Corporate Powers. That in the Year 1765, the General Court of New-Hampshire without their Knowledge incorporated them as a Parish in the Town of Bow, by the Name of Concord, but curtailed their Limits, and restrained their Power. Wherefore he prayed that said Concord might be extended to the ancient and known Boundaries of said Rumford, and have the same Powers and Privileges extended to them as other Towns in this State have and enjoy.
On which Petition the General Court ordered, that said Petitioner should be heard thereon before them on the second Wednesday of their next Session, and that in the mean Time the Petitioner should cause the Substance of said Petition and Order of Court thereon to be published in the New Hampshire Gazette three Weeks successively, that any person may then appear and shew Cause why the prayer thereof should not be granted. Attest. E. THOMPSON, Sec'y.
ALL Persons indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of DANIEL GILMAN, late of Exeter, Esq; deceased, are requested to bring in their Accounts to NICHOLAS GILMAN, NATHANIEL GILMAN, and JOHN TAYLOR GILMAN, Executors to the last Will and Testament of the said deceas'd, for an immediate Settlement. Exeter. February 9. 1781.
To be sold at PUBLIC VENDUE, On the first Day of March next, at the Dwelling House of Chase Smith, Innholder in Brintwood, at three of the Clock Afternoon:  Ten Acres of LAND situate in said Brintwood, being Part of the late Homestead of John Gilman, late of Kingston, deceased, and is bounded Northerly on White Pine Plain, so called, Easterly on Land of John Gilman. Westerly on Land of John Gilman, and Southerly on Land of Parker Tandy, and of Edward Stevens, with a Dwelling-House thereon, and is to be sold by Virtue of a Licence from the Judge of Probate, for the Payment of the Debts of said deceased. pr NICHOLAS GILMAN. January 31st, 1781.