The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1789-02-11 00:00:00

The New-Hampshire Gazette, and the General Advertiser
Volume xxxiv.—Number 1693.)
WEDNESDAY, February 11, 1789.
(Letter-Box in the window.)
PORTSMOUTH: Published by JOHN MELCHER, at his Office in Market-Street, where Advertisements, Articles of Intelligence, &c. are thankfully received and carefully inserted.—This Paper contains all the Laws of the State passed since January 1787.
On IDLENESS.
THE Hebrews have a saying among them, "That he who does not bring his son up to some business, makes him a thief."—Idleness they look upon as the ground of all evil, whether public or private, for the mind of a man will be employed, and rather than do nothing, it will work mischief.
The Parthians were such enemies to idleness, that they did not suffer their children to eat till they had sweated at their exercises; and Scipio, surnamed Nasica, fearing peace should introduce this bane into the commonwealth of Rome, said, that he looked upon the Romans, (after the destruction of Carthage) to be in greater danger than ever they had been, for they had no enemies.
Idleness was esteemed a more terrible enemy to the state than Carthage had been, though that commonwealth had reduced the Romans to the greatest extremity.
There are some who actually profess idleness, who boast they have done nothing, and thank their stars they have nothing to do, and whose existence cannot be called any other than a mere nothing; who wake each morn but to enable them to sleep at night; whose study is only idleness, who live in a state of stupidity; and who, when they cease to breathe, cannot be said to die, as they never could be said to have lived.
There are numbers contaminated with this vice, yet think themselves entirely free from it:—He who spends his whole time in the stable and on the course, he who is ever found with cards or a dice-box in his hand—he too that flies to a bottle or a strumpet, to kill thought and prevent time's laying heavy on his hands; and those ladies that pass their time in talking scandal; and when that fails, divert their time in impertinent visits to shopkeepers, asking a thousand questions, and tumbling over their goods without even a thought of purchasing any, these may well be ranked among the idle. He that neglects his duty and real employment, naturally endeavours to fill his mind with something that would bar out the reflection of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do, with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favor.
Solon introduced a severe law into his commonwealth against idleness, and the Aeropagites
(judges in criminal cases) were very vigilant in enquiring into the life and manners of every particular subject, and in seeing this law put into execution, as may be seen by the following story.
There were at Athens two poor young men, Mendemus and Asclepides, who were greatly addicted to the study of philosophy; they had no visible means of support, yet, kept up their flesh and colour, looking hale, well, and in good case. The judges had information given them of the retired life of those two, and of their not having any thing to live on, nor apparently doing any thing to maintain them; consequently as they could not live without sustenance, they must have some clandestine means of subsisting. On this information the young men were summoned before the judges, and ordered to answer to the charge; one of the accused saying, little credit was given to what a man could urge in his own defence, it being natural to believe that every criminal will either deny or extenuate the crime he is charged with, and as the testimony of a disinterested person was not liable to suspicion, desired that a certain baker, whom he named, might be summoned to answer for them. The baker being come, he declared that the young men under examination, took it by turns to grind his corn every night, and that for every night's work he every morning paid the young man who ground at his mill a drachma (or groat). The judge surprised at their abstinence and industry, ordered a reward of two hundred drachmas to be paid them out of the public treasury.
Had we those judges among us, how many cheats and sharpers, who live by defrauding the unwary public, would be obliged to lay aside the name of gentlemen, and work for their livelihood in an honest manner? and how many fine ladies and gentlemen, whose whole time is taken up in doing nothing, would be condemned to some severe penance, which would perhaps awaken them to a sense of their being reasonable beings? How happy for us would it be if there were laws against idleness, such as would oblige every man to give an account of his time, and be answerable for his way of life.
Seneca says, we all complain of the shortness of time, and yet we have much more than we know what to do with. Our
lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or else in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, yet acting as if there would be no end to them. We wish away whole years, and travel through time as through a country filled with many wastes and wilds, which we fain would hurry over that we may arrive at those several settlements, or imaginary points of rest which may seem dispersed up and down.
Every member of society is under a tacit obligation to contribute to the general good! he is unjust if he does not, and ought to be looked upon as a burthensome member; and as he will do nothing for the public, ought to receive no protection from it.
An ACCOUNT of the BURNING WELL at BARRAHCOON.
[From the Oriental Magazine]
MY curiosity being excited by the many reports I had heard of this prodigy, I was determined to see it, and accordingly set out in company with two gentlemen, from Islamabad, in the province of Chittagong. We proceeded as far as Jaffrabad in our palanquins; but we here found the creeks so full of water, it being then the rainy season, that we were obliged to relinquish that mode of conveyance, and were under the necessity of applying to the natives to get us some elephants, which in about an hour afterwards they brought us. We were now preparing to mount them, when their keeper presented us with some plantain, and informed us, that by offering them to the elephants we proposed riding, it would procure us their friendship during the journey, and make them very careful of us in passing through the woods. We followed their advice, and presented the fruit, which was very gratefully accepted, and the grand salaam given us by the elephants with their trunks on the tops of their foreheads. After this salutation they immediately lay down, holding one of their knees in the manner of a step, that we might with greater facility get upon their backs.
We rode about eight miles, when we approached the mountain of Barrahcoon, and very soon afterwards entered a cavity between two small hills. We had advanced but a little way when a variety of insects surrounded us, and began to be very trou-
blesome, which the elephants no sooner observed, than they relieved us from this misfortune. Each of them broke a branch of a tree, which he put in his trunk and continually kept fanning us with it, so that the flies had no opportunity of annoying us. At first we were very much alarmed, fearing that the elephants in defending themselves against the insects, should shake us from their backs. However we soon lost all apprehensions on this score; for we perceived they used the greatest precaution not to hurt us, but very gently shook the branches over our heads for the purpose of keeping off the flies. Whenever they had, by fanning us in this manner, worn off the leaves from one branch, they would immediately break a fresh one. We proceeded further, about four miles, through the most disagreeable road that was ever seen, and had not the elephants shewed the utmost attention to our situation, we must have been bruised and torn to pieces by the boughs of different trees of an immense large size. We at length arrived at the place which was the object of our journey; but a little before we reached it, a very romantic scene presented itself to our view. We were obliged to ascend a flight of steps, to an amazing height, in order to get to the top of the hill, where the burning well was. As soon as we approached the top, we were met by several Faukeers, who live in small temples, and attend the sacrifices frequently made there. They conducted us into one with a dome over it; but before we came up to the entrance of it, we heard a hollow noise, resembling that of thunder, and on entering we found it emitted from a shocking sulphurous smell. We discovered on looking down a flight of steps, a quantity of water issuing out of the sides of rocks and a blue flame covering the whole surface of the water, which every bubble that came from below, used to increase, and make to go off in a kind of explosion. The scene was really frightful. One of us went down notwithstanding the noxious vapours it sent forth, as we were determined to see whether it was not a piece of priestcraft, occasioned by a sulphurous furnace at the bottom, in order to impose on the ignorant, and to sanctify in some measure the superstitious ideas of the Faukeers. The gentleman who descended dipt his cane into the water, and to his

great surprise found it possessed not the least warmth: he then put his hand into a place that was clear from the flames, but the water there was discovered excessively cold. He observed that the stones where the water issued out, appeared very hot, and imagined that through this means the flame might be communicated to the water. He called for a kedgeree pot, and poured some water upon the stones, which cooled them immediately; but still, when the water bubbled up again, he perceived the flash directly the same, and the stones very quickly re-assumed their former red color. The water tasted as if there had been some sulphur and verdigree infused in it. The color of the stones about the well varied—those nearest to it were red, but others at a greater distance were quite blue. During our stay several of the bearers bathed in the well.
Having heard there was fire constantly issuing from a rock at Secacon, we visited the place; it was about four miles distant from the well. The blaze was not so violent or great here as at the former place—the flame in any part did not exceed what a cup of spirits set on fire might produce.
On a neighbouring hill, there were many Hindoo temples. We went to view them, but took notice that in our approach the Faukeers rung a bell for some little time. We entered one of the temples, in which we perceived a large hard blue stone, and on the top a small figure of a bacchanalian form: there was so much dew on the stone, that in running off at one of its corners it resembled a small stream. We suppose that about a common wine bottle might be filled by the water that ran down in the course of an hour. It seemed strongly impregnated with sulphur. After amusing ourselves for sometime with this sight, we mounted our elephants and returned home.
GOTTENBURG, [Sweden] Oct. 14.
On the 6th instant, the king assembled the burgesses in the town-house, where he made an elegant, concise and moving speech; paid the inhabitants very great compliments, and recommended to the inhabitants the defence of the town; which they echoed they would do to the last man; and after making an energetic prelude, he concluded his speech with these words:—Friends and subjects! Your own freedom and liberty are at stake—my crown, and even my sons succession to the Swedish throne! Gottenburg is the key of our kingdom, and we must defend it to the last man!" To which they exclaimed in an ecstasy of loyalty, "Yes! yes! Long live Gustavus! We will defend him as long as we have powder and ball!" at the same time shedding tears of joy. But I must not omit mentioning, that the same day in the forenoon, the Prince of Hesse who was at no greater distance than five Swedish miles with his army, had the stupid effrontery and impudence to send in his adjutant-
general, with two trumpeters, to demand possession of the town. We had then piquets out as far as Myabro, about two miles from hence; at which place, when they arrived, they were immediately blindfolded by our dragoons, and in this manner carried before the King, who told the General, that, in place of such a messenger, he ought to be received as a spy. However, after one or two minutes detention, the King discharged him with every mark of indignity, and desired him to tell the Prince of Hesse "Gottenburg was ready to receive him!" Upon this he was returned again as he came, blindfolded, amidst the clash and clang of military arrangements; for just then, the alarm beat for all the troops, horse and foot to come out and be reviewed. These messengers alarmed the inhabitants; and, as the weather was most inviting, about eleven o'clock in the forenoon, every one was in the streets.
LONDON, November 17.
The law in England never supposes the King to die; his death is called his demise, and his next heir is instantly King, without even the ceremony or coronation: In France, the doctrine is the same: When the Monarch expires, a herald publickly proclaims in the palace— Le Roi mort! Le Roi mort! Le Roi mort!—Vive le Roi! Vive le Roi! Vive le Roi!—
WILMINGTON, (N. C.) Jan. 1.
The number of vessels that have arrived in this port since our last, exceeds any that has ever been known in so short a time. A correspondent of information informs us, that a considerable part of the freight of the above vessels is— Spanish Milled Dollars.
RICHMOND, (N. C.) Jan. 1.
We hear that the North Carolina Assembly, have voted an army of 1500 men to be raised, to chastise the Indians and bring about a peace.
PHILADELPHIA, January 23.
A gentleman from Virginia, whose information may be relied on, asserts that the controversy between federalists and anti-federalists, which have for some time past distracted and divided the councils of the several states, has entirely subsided in that quarter, relative to the proposed amendments to the new constitution of the United States; it being agreed, on all hands that a bill of rights, declaratory of the freedom of the press, trial by jury, &c. ought to be annexed, and other essential points explained and defined, so as to fix the liberties of the people on the most safe, and permanent foundation; and that the only question amongst them now, is, whether the poll or capitation tax, should be levied on the people, both parties being convinced the impost will be inadequate to the expences of the general government? The federalists are for the measure; the anti-federalists oppose it; and this, at present, seems to be the bone of contention, among the people of the ancient dominion.
NEW-YORK, Jan. 23.
Extract of a letter from Nassau, dated November 22, 1788.
"On Thursday last, the ordnance store ship, General Elliot, commanded by Lieutenant Ross, arrived here from Gibraltar.
"The Emperor of Morocco, after giving every assurance of amity and good understanding, has, all at once, without any apparent reason, altered his mind; and the garrison at Gibraltar is denied all supplies from his dominions.
"When the General Elliot left Gibraltar, there was a Portuguese squadron there, whose object was to prevent the Algerine corsairs getting out of the Mediterranean."
BOSTON, February 9.
The Hon. ELBRIGE GERRY, Esq. is chosen a Federal Representative for Middlesex County; and the Hon. BENJAMIN GOODHUE,
Esq; for the County of Essex.—Worcester, and the Western Counties have made no choice.
Some time in the month of October last, a Calf, belonging to Mr. John Salisbury, of Hingham, was killed, which weighed 433 pounds.
The Representatives and Electors of Maryland, will be all federalmen.
It is said, by persons acquainted with political characters, that the votes for President and Vice-President will be,
   For Washington. For Adams. For Clinton     N. Hampshire , 5 5 0   Massachusetts 10 10 0   Connecticut , 7 6 1   New-Jersey , 6 6 0   Pennsylvania , 10 10 0   Delaware , 3 2 1 Dickinson   Maryland , 8 6 2 P. Henry .   49 45 4  
So that if the above should prove to be genuine, of which there can hardly be a doubt, whatever may be the votes of Virginia, S. Carolina, and Georgia (from which accounts have not yet been received) the President and Vice-President of the United States, will be Washington and Adams .
Our accounts from Europe wear a more peaceful aspect than they have heretofore done—Through the mediation of the Courts of London, Berlin, &c. an accommodation is likely to take place between the belligerent powers: And the allied powers of Russia and Austria, after expending several millions of money—and having lost near 50,000 men, seem contented to recede from their project of driving the descendants of Mahomet out of Europe, with the reflection, that they have made the attempt, and the consolation—"That he who fights—and runs away, May live to fight another day."
PORTSMOUTH, February 11.
Wednesday last, agreeably to the resolution of Congress, and of the Legislature of this state, the gentlemen appointed electors of President and Vice-President, assembled at Exeter, and gave in their votes unanimously for
HIS EXCELLENCY GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq. and the honorable JOHN ADAMS, Esq. as President and Vice-President of the United States. The aforesaid illustrious characters were likewise unanimously made choice of, the same day, at Boston, by the electors of Massachusetts.
Among the acts of the legislature of Connecticut, passed the last month, is one, entitled, "An act to suspend all suits on actions in favor of any citizen of Rhode Island, now brought, or which may hereafter be brought in this state."
The legislature of Maryland have passed an act ceding to Congress a district of ten miles square, for the seat of government of the United States.
The legislature of South Carolina, at their last session, passed an act prohibiting the importation of negroes, by land or water, for the term of four years.
The honorable the Legislature of this state, having finished their session at Exeter, on Saturday last, adjourned to Tuesday the 26th day of May next, then to meet at Concord.—The following are the heads of the acts, &c. passed previous to their adjournment:
An act to establish a ferry between the towns of Litchfield and Merrimack, in the right of William Reed, his heirs and assigns.
An act for the better observation of the Lord's day, and to repeal all laws heretofore made in this state for that purpose.
An act to prevent the spreading of the small pox, and for allowing hospitals to be erected under certain restrictions.
An act in addition to an act, entitled an act issuing an alias execution against Joseph Clark late of Antrim, in the county of Hillsborough, yeoman, and to enable Ephraim Barker, to make return thereon, in the room of one which was lost.
An act to prevent the destruction of salmon and shad in Connecticut river.
An act to prevent the destruction of salmon, shad, and alewives in Merrimack river; and for repealing all the laws heretofore made for that purpose.
An act appointing Sylvanus Reed, Roger Gilmore, and James Macgregor, Esq's, to hear and determine a dispute now subsisting between Robert Wier and Samuel Adams.
An act for a grant of land equal to eight miles square, in the northern and unlocated territory within this state, to the trustees of Dartmouth college.
An act annulling certain deeds given by James Swain to Benjamin Varnum.
An act to encourage the manufacture of paper within this state.
An act for carrying into effect an agreement between Enoch Johnson, on the one part, and Samuel White, Esq. and his son Samuel White, jun. on the other part.
An act authorizing the hon. John Dudley, Joshua Wentworth, Christopher Toppan, John Calfe, and Supply Clap, Esq's, to hear and determine certain matters in difference between Jonathan Warner, Esq. and Richard and Simon Jenness, Esq's.
An act for admitting John Poor, to return to this state, and for exempting him from all further prosecutions on account of a bill of indictment found against him at the superior court held at Exeter in September 1784, or upon the recognizance given for his appearance at said court, &c.
An act to enable John Neal, and Mary Neal, administrators to the estate of John Neal, of Londonderry, in the county of Rockingham and state of New Hampshire, Esq. deceased, to collect and recover excise, &c. from the several inhabitants of the county of Hillsborough, in said state, and others who have sold spirituous liquors in said county, between the first day of October 1784, and the first day of October 1787.
An act to vest the exclusive right of keeping a ferry over a certain part of Connecticut river, in William Dana, &c.
An act to authorize and empower Thomas Sheafe, of Portsmouth, merchant, to take administration on the estate of Edward Butler, mariner, and on the estate of Eliza Butler, deceased, wife of said Edward.
An act for confirming to James Smith, of Durham, in the county of Strafford, gentleman, and Eleanor his wife, in her right two hundred and forty acres of land in Rochester, in said county, in lieu of an equal quantity of lands devised to her by her father Thomas Westbrook Waldron, late of Dover, &c.
An act to empower the executors of the last will and testament of Jonathan Moulton, late of Hampton, Esq. deceased, to redeem certain lands mortgaged, &c.
An act to establish Nathaniel Meserve, of Barnstead, in the county of Strafford, to review at the next Superior Court of Judicature, to be held in said county, an action heretofore brought by said Meserve against one Benjamin Hill.
An act to restore Samuel Fifield to his law.
An act to vest in the selectmen of Haverhill, for the time being, and their successors forever, for the use of said inhabitants, the exclusive right of all ferries over Connecticut river, against said town.
An act for taxing lands in the towns of Littleton and Dalton.
An act to authorize and empower Samuel Mansfield, of Henniker, in the county of Hillsborough, in said state, to make sale of the real estate of Shubael Bayley, late of said Henniker, deceased.
An act for annexing a certain part of the town of Peterborough, in the county of Hillsborough, to the town of Temple.
An act to encourage the erecting of proper buildings for carrying on the manufacture of sail cloth or duck, within this state.

An act to empower Nathan Adams and Joanna Adams, to sell the real estate of Dimon Cressey, deceased.
An act for opening sluices in each dam across Ashuelot river, so that salmon and other fish may have free passage through the same from Connecticut river.
A resolve lengthening out the time for examining invalids, until further order of the general court.
An act to authorize and empower the proprietors of Rumford, alias Concord, to collect a certain tax assessed on the common and undivided land in said town, &c.
An act making valid the title of certain lands in the town of Hanover.
An act restoring Robert Wier to his law.
An act empowering certain persons to set off the dower of Sarah Moulton, widow, in the estate of her late husband Jonathan Moulton, esq. deceased.
An act for taxing lands in the town of Bradford.
An act to enable David Page, esq. to collect certain taxes for the proprietors of Conway, committed to him to collect before the late revolution.
An act taxing the lands in the town of Sutton.
An act to enable Solomon Hutchinson, of Merrimack, to have a re-hearing of the cause between him and one Jesse Marshall, of Weisford.
A resolve that the Naval-officer of this state, be and he hereby is directed to receive orders drawn by the President upon the Treasurer, payable out of the revenue arising to the State from the Naval office and the treasurer is also directed to receive from said Naval-Officer all such orders as he may receive from time to time in payment of such Revenue.
An act to set off and incorporate a number of inhabitants living in the northerly part of Amherst with a number of other inhabitants in said town by certain lines into a parish.
An act empowering certain persons therein named to act for and in behalf of a person non compos mentis and three minors to whom they are guardians.
An act to vest the exclusive privilege of keeping a ferry over a certain part of Connecticut river, in Parker Stevens, of Piermont, &c.
An act vesting certain powers in the commissioners appointed to receive and examine the claims against the estate of Jonathan Moulton, late of Hampton, esq. deceased, and in the execution of his last will and testament.
An act to empower the hon. Henry Knox, esq. agent, appointed by the state of Massachusetts, on the estate of the late Thomas Flucker, esq. deceased, and Isaac Winslow, merchant, executor to the last will of Isaac Winslow, late of the same state, esq. deceased to execute Deeds of certain lands in Nottingham-west.
An act to nullify and make void a judgment of Court obtained by Bradbury Cilley, against Zebulun Edgerly.
An act for settling testate estates.
An act for altering the time of holding the courts of general sessions of the peace for the county of Strafford.
An act to restore Joseph Hicks to his law.
An act to authorise and empower Daniel Campbell, of Amherst, in the state of New Hampshire, esq. to make sale of a certain piece of land lying in said Amherst, &c.
An act to confirm and establish Benjamin Hayes, of Dover, in the county of Strafford, yeoman, his heirs and assigns, in the title of a certain tract of land, &c.
An act to enable Jonathan Chase to enter an action at the next superior court of judicature to be holden in the county of Rockingham, against Clement March, and Stephen March, esq's.
(The remainder of the acts will be in our next.)
The hon. William Gardner, treasurer of this state, agreeably to a vote of the hon. Legislature (previous to their rising) communicated the following general statement of the accounts, as reported by the committee that settled with the late treasurer, viz.—Outstanding at the close of the late treasurer's accounts, the following sums:
 On Excise Bonds, £.4442-11-9½  in state specie.  On Impost Bonds, 454-15-9  in state specie.  On Daniel Rindge, and John Pierce, esq's Bonds, 240--0-0  in state specie, and in state notes. 12000--0-0  On state specie taxes, in specie orders. 13181--6-10  On state certif. taxes, 47057-17-5  In deficiency of soldiers, with interest to Nov. last, 3090-13-4  Continental spec. tax, 26868-16-11  Continental facil. taxes, 40704--3-5  New emission tax, 555--9-4 
State of New-Hampshire. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the following towns, viz. Mason 1783, 1784, and 1787. Hopkinton 1784. Wilton 1784 and 1787. Cornish 1785. Gilsum 1785, 1786 and 1787. Windham, Keene, Thornton, Pembroke and Lyndeborough, for 1786. Piermont 1786, 1787 and 1788. Boscawen, Lebanon, Barrington and Meredith, 1786 and 1787. The Gore, 1787 and 1788. Alstead, Hancock, New-London, Epsom and Peterborough-Slip, for 1787. Portsmouth, Stoddard, Lyman, Northumberland, Weare, Marlborough, Washington, Hillborough, Antrim, Dublin, Bridgewater, Francistown, Andover, Fitzwilliam, Wentworth, Orford, Moultonborough, Loudon, Northwood, Fisherfield, Lime and Bradford, for 1788. That their lands in said towns are taxed for the years aforesaid; and if they are not paid within eight weeks from the first publication of this advertisement, to the collectors or the subscriber, they will be advertised for sale.
THOMAS ODIORNE, (Receiver of non-resident taxes. Exeter, February, 2, 1789.
State of New-Hampshire. Rockingham ss. THE subscribers being appointed commissioners, by the Hon. Phillips White, Esq. Judge of Probate of Wills, &c. for the county of Rockingham, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of Joseph Wiggin, late of Stratham, in said county, deceased, represented insolvent, give notice that we will attend that business on the third Wednesday in March at two of the clock in the afternoon, and on the four following months, from two to six o'clock P. M. on each day at the house of the widow Martha Folsom, innholder in Stratham. JONA. WIGGIN, NATHAN BARKER, MARK WIGGIN, } commissioners. Stratham, February 4, 1789.
THE subscriber, appointed by the Hon. Phillips White, Esq. Judge of Probate, for the county of Rockingham, Guardian to Noah Wiggin, late of Loudon in the State of New-Hampshire, but now of Stratham, being non compos mentis, hereby cautions any person or persons trading with said Wiggin or Sarah his wife on any pretence whatever, as they will after this notice be dealt with as the law directs in like cases. WILLIAM WIGGIN. Stratham, February 5, 1789.
TO BE SOLD At PUBLIC VENDUE, on Tuesday the 24th inst. at 10 o'clock A. M. at the dwelling-house of JOHN MOFFATT, late of Portsmouth, Esq. deceased.
All the personal estate of said deceased, consisting of household Furniture, &c. &c. Portsmouth, February 4, 1789.
TO BE SOLD At PUBLIC VENDUE, at the house of the widow Martha Folsom, innholder in Stratham, on Monday the second day of March next, at one o'clock in the afternoon.
By virtue of a licence from the Hon. Phillips White, Esq. Judge of Probate, &c. for the county of Rockingham, several pieces of land lying in Stratham aforesaid, also a Wall Pew below in the Meeting-house, being the estate of Corner Thomas Wiggin, late of Stratham, deceased. Conditions of sale to be known at time and place. (trator. NATHAN BARKER, Administ- Stratham February 11, 1789.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the EXCISE on SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS, and other exciseable articles enumerated in the excise act for the county of Strafford, will be farmed at the house of Jonathan Gage, innholder in Dover, on Thursday the 19th day of February instant, at 2 o'clock, P. M. at which time and place the conditions of sale will be made known.
JOHN WALDRON, } Com- JOSEPH BADGER, jr. } mittee. JAMES CALEF, }
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands on the estate of Mehitable Odiorne, late of Portsmouth, widow deceased, are desired without delay to settle the same with the subscribers, executors of the last Will and Testament of the said deceased.
SAMUEL PENHALLOW, DANIEL ODIORNE.
WHEREAS at sundry legal meetings of the proprietors of the lands called Amherst, lately Souhegan-West, No. 3, in the state of New-Hampshire, several taxes have been voted to be raised on each right or share in said town, which has been advertised in the New-Hampshire Gazette, according to law; yet sundry persons neglect to pay the same to the collectors of said town.—This is therefore to notify those that are delinquent, that unless they pay the following sums in lawful money, annexed to the name of each proprietor or owner of said delinquent's land, at or before the first Tuesday in April next, so much of their rights and lots will be sold at public vendue, on said day, and so from day to day until the whole is sold, at the dwelling-house of Ephraim Hildreth, innholder in said Amherst, as will discharge the said sum assessed on each lot, with incidental charges. The number and division of their lots, rights, and shares, are as follows, viz.
One first division lot, No. 23, charged 12s 5d 2q. One fourth division lot on Bell's right, 6s 3d 2q. The heirs of Samuel Bradford, No. 108, 3d division, 14s. The heirs of col. John Shepard, No. 106, 1st division, and two 3d division lots No. 11 and No. 15, 4l 13s 3d. The original right of Fry, 4th division lot, 6s 3d 2q.—One 4th division on Symond's right, 6s 3d 2q.—One 4th division on Preston right, 6s 3d 2q.—One 4th division on Rament right, 6s 3d 2q.—One 4th division on Collins right, 6s 3d 2q.—One 4th division on Marth right, 6s 3d 2q. One 4th division on Dodge's right, 6s 3d 2q.
WILLIAM PEABODY, Collector. Amherst, Dec. 22, 1788.
State of New-Hampshire. To the Hon. NATHANIEL FOLSOM, Esq. one of the Justices assigned to keep the Peace in and throughout the said State.
Humbly shew THE subscribers, owners of more than one sixteenth part of the land owned and claimed by the heirs of the Hon. Samuel Allen, Esq. deceased, and their assigns, as proprietors thereof, in the right of the said Samuel, deceased; more especially that part of said lands commonly called and known by the name of Mason's Patent, lying in New-Hampshire and elsewhere.—
That a meeting of said proprietors is necessary for the following purposes, viz.
1st. To choose a moderator to govern said meeting. 2d. To choose any officer or officers that may be found necessary for said proprietors.
3d. To receive and consider a report of the doings of the agents for said proprietors.
4th. To choose other agents or trustees to transact the business of said proprietors, if by them adjudged expedient; and to give them, or the present agents, such further or greater powers as the said proprietors, may adjudge necessary, for carrying into effect the good designs of their former votes and instructions, and for fully ascertaining the limits of and title to said lands, with power to make sale of the whole or any part thereof, as may be thought for the good of said proprietary, and to pass such deed or deeds, or other instruments of conveyance as may be necessary for that purpose.
5th. To ratify and confirm any former votes or grants, that the proprietors may find necessary.
6th. To make any further grants of the land that the proprietors may think proper, and to choose such committees and pass such votes as the proprietors may judge expedient for effecting any or all the foregoing purposes, and for the benefit of said proprietors.
7th. To agree upon and vote some method for calling proprietary meetings in future.
And therefore pray your Honor to notify and warn a meeting of the proprietors, heirs, and assigns aforesaid, to be holden at the house of Capt. James Thurston, in Exeter, in the county of Rockingham, and State aforesaid, on Friday the 27th day of February next, at one of the clock, P. M. for the purposes aforesaid.
Samuel Launchlen, Moses Little, William Mercer, James Sullivan, Willis Hall, Leonard Whiting, John Sullivan, John Neal.
State of New Hampshire, Rockingham ss.
PURSUANT to the foregoing application, I do hereby notify and warn the owners and proprietors therein described, to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes mentioned and set forth in said application.
Given under my hand and seal, at Exeter, in the county of Rockingham aforesaid, this 4th day of February, 1789.
NATHANIEL FOLSOM. TO BE SOLD A complete pair of Millstones for making the finest flour (imported from Europe) with bolting cloths for that purpose.—Inquire of the Printer.