The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1774-04-01 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the Freshest ADVICES
Friday April 1, 1774
Vol. XVIII. GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC NO. 910 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd. }
To the Publisher of the New-Hampshire Gazette
HEAR him debate of Common-Wealth Affairs, You'd say it hath been all in all his Study.
HARRY V.
IN this critical Time, when our most darling Privileges are invaded, you will excuse any who can offer any Thing that has the Appearance of Reason. The Time is approaching when we are to exercise a Right peculiarly English, the Abuse of which, in the 17th Century, brought Ruin upon the Liberty of the bravest People, who made this Agreement with their KING, at his Coronation, "While you seek our Interest, we will submit to your Government, which when you neglect, we will neglect you." We of this Province ought to be extremely cautious in our Choice, as our Situation is strikingly different from any other Part of the British Dominions. Our Property, when contested, if more than £. 100 Sterling Value, may finally be decided by a Court, whose Constitution is destructive to the most sacred Privileges of Englishmen, viz. Trial by Jury. 36 good and lawful Men may have given a Verdict consonant to Reason and Law; and yet that, may be overthrown by a Judicature, whose Jurisdiction is so indeterminate, that it is either a Court of Law, Chancery or Equity, as the Existence of the Case may require.
The most known Rules of the common Law, may be overturned by the capricious Rule of Equity. Or the Equity of the Case may strongly glare on the other Side, & the unhappy Sufferer must submit. Poor unhappy Fowler will remain 'till Death commiserates his Condition, a striking Monument of the Wisdom and Impartiality of the Court of Appeals. So righteous have been their former Determinations, that I am credibly informed, no one Cause has been carried to England by Appeal from them, but what has been reversed. Perhaps I am mistaken. We justly complain, that the British Parliament imposes its Taxes upon us without our Consent. But are our internal Grievances less, or have we ever yet tried to obtain a Redress of them? Let us, Gentlemen, chuse for our Representatives, Men who have Abilities to assist us in this Matter, who will withstand Oppression to its Face, who, liberal of their own, are yet extremely frugal of the public Money, who will not entail upon us a North-Carolina Massacre, by building in this Scarcity of Cash, another American Palace: Men tenacious of our Liberties, who will hand them sacred to Posterity with an Increase of Freedom. But there is a Junta of Wiseacres in this Town, who have in their nocturnal Assemblies, over a Bowl of Punch determined quite otherwise; who having consulted upon the weighty Matters of the Constitution, have picked out the Men whom the Freeholders SHALL chuse, and as far as in them lies, have destroyed the very Basis of Liberty. But who are these Heroes, these choice Representative Choosers? The Council surely cannot be of the Number, whose profound Heads and exalted Understandings have accomplished such great Things. They represent in our Constitution the House of Peers; in England they are prohibited from intermeddling with the Election of Commoners. Besides, we are not to expect they will neglect the Rights of the Prerogative, intrusted to their Care, for the People's Privileges they can have no interest to serve, for no poor Peasant has had his Land re-granted by Advice of Council, and himself exposed to Poverty and Indigence. Having acquitted the Council of this Charge, and all the Members thereof, let us examine the Horse Guards with the Col. at their Head, ransack an Apothecary's Shop, trace the Herald's Office, or pry into the darker Parts of a Policy of Insurance, and see if we can find these sage Imposers of Parliament-Men, and canvass their Pretensions. You must not chuse a Man "who deaf to the Cries of the Poor and industrious stops up the Avenues" &c. which supply the Poor with Bread, saith the independent Freeholder, and that he saith in Print too. As the Character is strongly caricatured, we can easily discern the Likeness. But how is this and the other Charges against this Gentleman supported? By an anonymous Writer who writes to please a Party, and passes round Assertions upon us, as if he thought them strong as Proofs of holy Writ. Upon an Examination will it appear that he ever wished or even attempted to enslave the People, paid his Court, or sold his Conscience for the gaudy Trappings of Office? Has he lavished the publick Money, or been deaf to the Voice of the Peoples Complaints? Let Malice scrutinize his private Life, and it must confess him an honest upright Dealer, punctual in his Payments, and one who has ever afforded Bread to the industrious Tradesmen by his constant Employ. Another and a more striking Character claims the Attention of the independent Freeholder. His Charge against him is complicated; he first calls in Question his publick Conduct, and then like the Assassin that walketh in Darkness stabs his private Life. He is embroiling the Government, by artfully endeavouring to procure a dangerous Innovation in our Courts of Justice. But how does this appear? Has that Gentleman crossed the Atlantic, and buzzed in Lord Dartmouth's Ear that our present Chief Justice does not or will not---Has the accused ever took Part against the Law and Constitution of his Country? Whether this first Charge Contains most Falstity or Folly, would puzzle the ablest Casuist to determine. Curious are the Methods some Men take to carry their Point, they urge against this Gentleman as a Fault the very part they acted themselves at a late Town Meeting; with this Difference, he had no Lesson while they had---He opposed some Irregularities, as he thought them, not because he was against the Non-Importation of Teas, but because he tho't the same Matters might have been carried more fairly. His private Sentiments and public Conduct have ever evinced the Regard for the Liberties of his Country, and a Study of the Constitution has convinced him that a British Parliament can never legally tax British Subjects while they are unrepresented. So much for the political Conduct of this Gentleman.
We will try his private Character; and as they have reduced it to one Fact, we will examine that, and give such a State as can be proved by Affidavits.---The House in London, to whom this unhappy Person was indebted, directed this Gentleman to secure their Demand; in Obedience thereto, he caused him to be arrested, at a Time when Security might easily be obtained; he owning the Hull of a Brigantine of the Value, which was then out of the Government, just ready to launch: In this Situation this Gentleman repeatedly told him, in the Presence of the Sheriff and another Person, that all that his Employers wanted was Security for the Debt; but he, instead of securing any Part of the Vessel for the Payment of the Debt, chose rather to apply to the Horse-Guards for Relief, and the Regiment not being raised, the Colonel himself turns out to his Assistance. But mark the End: The Colonel pawned his Honour to the Sheriff, that he would either discharge the Demand, or give Bail to the Process. Two Days elapsed, until the Colonel had got every Thing into his Hands, an Attachment made for his Friends, and his own Debt certain, in all which the Prisoner was very assiduous, upon the Presumption of the first Debt's being discharged--- But this seeming generous Friend, the Col. after he had secured the Effects of the Prisoner for himself and Friends, disregarding his Promise, delivered him to the Sheriff, who was obliged to commit him. Thus was the poor Fellow jockeyed by the Colonel, and obliged to encounter the Horrors of a Goal. Here was no Room for interceding Friends. This Gentleman could not release him without paying the Debt himself. The Prisoner and the Sheriff had been shamefully imposed upon, by a notorious Falshood, and Pity itself would have been ineffectual to obtain from this Man Relief, more than from any other Person being equally unconcerned in the Matter. Accident produced a Fault in the Colonel's Process, which possibly might have turned out to the Benefit of the first Attacher.
Here again was Room for the Colonel's Talents, and here again the poor Fellow fell a Victim to the Colonel's Soldierish. Did the Independent Freeholder know all this, or did he wilfully prevaricate and falsely represent it? The Knowledge might easily have been acquired from the Debtor, or any of his Friends. But if the Pravity of his Heart hath not erased the Lines of Shame from his Countenance, the independent Freeholder must blush, when he is informed that notwithstanding such repeated Imposition, this Gentleman actually long since hath wrote for Orders from England to release the unhappy Prisoner, conscious as he is, that this unfortunate Person has been grossly duped by this Military Heroe. How wretched the Cause that needs such Arts and Advocates to support it, how abandoned the Man who could be guilty of such Villany! Why all this Pains, what have they to fear, is there some secret Iniquity which they apprehend will be dragged to light, or will this Candidate uncover their Nakedness, that they are driven to such Straits. Humorous indeed to see! Men of no Religion charging him with the want of christian Charity. For shame Gentlemen, let us despise such Directors, and reject such Intruders with the Contempt they justly merit. Let us examine for ourselves the Merits of the Candidates, and chuse none but such who are Friends to their God, the Law, and their Country, who unawed by Power will steadily pursue our best Interest, and transmit our Liberties inviolate to Posterity.
REIPUBLICÆ AMICUS.
Portsmouth March 29th, 1774.
Province of New-Hampshire, Rockingham ss.
AT a Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Portsmouth, at the North Meeting House on Friday the Twenty-Fifth Day of March 1774, Mr. THOMAS HART was then chosen Moderator, and the following Town-Officers for the Year ensuing, viz.
 John Penhallow, Town-Clerk.  Select-Men; Samuel Cutts, Esq; Benjamin Akerman, George Hart, George Gains, 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; John Dennet Esq;  Auditors; Jacob Treadwell, John Parker, Esq; Capt. William Whipple.  Agents; Samuel Cutts, Esq; Capt. William Whipple.  Attorneys for the Town; John Pickering, Esq; Richard Cutts Shannon.  Firewards; Major Samuel Hale, Hon. John Sherburne, Esq; John Griffith, Jacob Treadwell, Capt. William Whipple, William Knight, Esq; Capt. Woodbury Langdon, Joshua Wentworth, John Marshall.  Constables; Clement March, Richard Mills, Nahum Akerman, Samuel Jackson.  Charles Banfield, Clerk of the Market.  Fence-Viewers; Samuel Sherburne of the 
Plains, Nathaniel Peverly, Perkins Ayers Leader Nelson, Abraham Elliot, William Ham.
Searchers and Sealers of Leather; Jonathan Ayers, Perkins Ayers, George Dame.
Surveyors of High-Ways; Capt. Thomas Pierce, Thomas Seavey, Abraham Elliot, Walter Akeritah, Samuel Sherburne of the Plains.
Lot-Layers; Capt. Thomas Pierce, William Hart, John Dennet Esq;
Bread-Weighers; John Fernald, Temple Knight, George Dame, Benjamin Mackay, Joseph Alcock.
Cullers and Packers; William Brewster, George How, Joseph Walton.
Joseph White Pound-keeper, Surveyors of Boards; Gershom Flagg, Capt. John Briard; Samuel Waters, John Cutt, Thomas Bickford.
Hogg-Reeves; Theodore Dame, Benjamin Talton, Edward Ayers James Melcher, Benjamin Quint, Daniel Walker, Alexander Jones.
Measurers of Wood; Capt. John Briard, Richard Shortridge, Gershom Flagg, Daniel Grant, Ephraim Ham, John Beck, Reuben Snell.
Corders of Wood; Alexander Jones, John Ayers Jun. Mark Foster, John Ayers, sen. Currier, Samuel Yeaton.
John Griffith, Sealer of Weights & Measures, To enquire who kills Deer contrary to Law; Jonathon Ayers, Capt. Thomas Pierce.
Tything-Men; Capt. John Langdon, Samuel Hale junr. Richard Cutts Shannon, Abraham Elliot, John Beck, Capt. Thomas Pierce, Nathaniel Sherburne, Capt. George Jerry Osborne, Nathaniel Cotton.
YORK RESOLVES.
AT a Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of York, regularly assembled at the Town-House on Monday the 20th of January 1774, the Hon. JOHN BRADBURY, Esq; chosen Moderator.
The Town immediately proceeded to choose a Committee, namely, the Hon. John Bradbury, Esq; Thomas Bragdon, Esq; Captain Joseph Holt, Capt. Daniel Bragdon, Capt. Edward Grove, Captain John Stone, and Mr. John Kinsbury, to consider in what Manner the Town's Sentiments may be best express'd on the present important Crisis, and make Report to this Meeting upon the Adjournment to-morrow.
The Meeting was accordingly adjourned.
The next Day Tuesday January 21. 1774, being met according to Adjournment, the said Committee reported, which with the Amendments, is as follows:—
"The Committee appointed by the Town to consider in what Manner their Sentiments may best be expressed on the present Crisis; beg Leave to report,
 1. That the People in the British American Colonies, by their Constitution of Government, have a Right to Freedom, & an Exemption from every Degree of Oppression and Slavery.  2. That it is an essential Right of Freemen to have the Disposal of their own Property, and not to be taxed by any Power, over which they can have no Controul.  3. That the Parliamentary-Duty laid upon TEAS landed in America, for the express Purpose of raising a Revenue, is in Effect a Tax upon the Ameicans without their Consent.  4. That the several Colonies and Provinces in America have ever recognized the Protestant 

Kings of Great-Britain as their Lawful Sovereign, and it doth not appear that any Parliament have been Parties to any Contract made with the American Settlers in this howling Wilderness.
5. That this Town approve of the constitutional Exertions and Struggles made by the opulent Colonies through the Continent for preventing so fatal a Catastrophe as is implied in Taxation without Representation; and that we are, and always will be ready in every constitutional Way to give all Assistance in our Power to prevent so dire a Calamity.
6. That a Dread of being enslav'd ourselves and of transmitting the Chains to our Posterity is the principal Inducement to these Measures.
7. Voted that the sincere Thanks of this Town are justly due, and hereby are given to all such Persons in this and the several Provinces and Colonies on the American Continent, especially to our Brethren of the Town of Boston so far as they have Constitutionally exerted themselves in the Support of their just Liberties and Privileges."
Which was read Paragraph by Paragraph and accepted. And thereupon Voted that the Town Clerk transmit a fair Copy to the Town Clerk of Boston, and then the Meeting was dissolved.
A true Copy,
DANIEL MOULTON, Town Clerk.
Mr. FOWLE,
Please to insert the inclos'd, which was written by a LADY of the very first Distinction in Europe, in your next Paper, and you'll oblige several of your constant Readers, as well as your humble Servant, S. C.
On praying for the glorious Light of God's Grace & Protection thro' Life's uncertain Stage.
SING heavenly Muse, and ye celestial Choir, With Strains divine my humble Thoughts inspire. Smoothly in tuneful Numbers teach my Lays, To sing Creation's mighty Sovereign's Praise: Tempestuous Storms my peaceful Scenes impart, Calm the wreck'd Soul, and warm the Icy Heart. Oh! may I then his gracious Smiles possess, Nor Light nor Darkness, shall my Mind oppress, Let him but to my Conscience whisper Peace, And the fine Voice of Eloquence may cease. Then his dread Silence shall more pleasing be, Than Musick's soft melodious Strains to me. Let his Perfections but my Soul adorn, And I'll not ask the Glories of a Morn, Of those possess'd for nothing more I'd sigh, But those Celestial Realms of Bliss on high, Realms crown'd with Joy---secure from gloomy Night, Where my Redeemer, is th' Eternal Light.
Deus Religione intelligendus, Piestate profitendus, Sensus vero persequendus non est, sed Adorandus, SOLI DEO TRI UNI GLORIA.
L O N D O N.
HIS MAJESTY's most gracious SPEECH to both Houses of PARLIAMENT, on Thursday, January 13, 1774.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
THE unusual Length of the last Session of Parliament made me desirous of giving you as long a Recels as the public Service would admit.---I have therefore, been glad to find myself under no Necessity of calling you from your respect Counties at an earlier Season; and I doubt not but you are now met together in the best Disposition, for applying yourselves to the Dispatch of Public Business.
You will I am persuaded agree with me in regretting, that the Peace so long expected, and so very desirable, is not yet effected between Russia and the Porte; but it is with real Satisfaction, I can repeat, that the other foreign Powers continue still to have the same pacific Disposition with myself. I can have no other Wish than to see the general Tranquility restored: For the Establishment and subsequent Preservation of which, no Endeavours of mine, consistent with the Honor of my Crown and the Interests of my People, shall ever be Wanting.
In the state of foreign Affairs, you will have full Leisure to attend to the Improvement of our internal and domestic Situation; and to the Prosecution of Measures more immediately respecting the Preservation and the Advancement of the Revenue and Commerce of the Kingdom.--- Among the Objects which, in this View, will come under Consideration, none can better deserve your Attention than the State of the Gold Coin; which I must recommend to you in a more particular Manner, as well on Account of its very high Importance, as of the peculiar Advantages which the Present Time affords, for executing with Success such Measures as you may find it expedient to adopt with respect to this great National Concern.
The Degree of Diminution which that Coin had actually suffered, and the very rapid Progress which the Mischief was daily making, were truly alarming. It is with much Satisfaction that I have seen the Evil, in a great Measure, checked by the Regulations made in the last Sessions of Parliament.---I trust, however, that you will not stop here, nor think that you have discharged your Duty, either to your Country or to your Fellow Subjects, without using your best Endeavours for putting the Gold Coin upon such a Footing, as may not only completely remove the present Grievance, but render the Credit and Commerce of the Kingdom sufficiently secure from being again exposed to the like Danger.
Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
I have ordered the proper Estimates for the current Year to be laid before you; and rely on your Readiness to grant me such Supplies as shall be found requisite in the present Situation of Affairs. My Lords and Gentlemen,
The Experience I have had of your past conduct leaves me no Room to doubt, either of your Zeal or Prudence, in your Endeavours to promote the Welfare of your Country. You will not suffer any Parts of the public Service to escape your Attention; but, various and extensive as those are, you will be careful to select, for your immediate deliberation, such of them as shall appear to be most important: And you can propose no Measures, that will serve either to secure or advance the Happiness and Prosperity of my People, in which you may not always depend on my most hearty Concurrence.
Mr. FOWLE, OBSERVED in your Papers about three Months past, some Animadversions on a PAPER-CURRENCY, wherein the Author fully represented many Advantages that would arise to the Province from an Emission of it (within Bounds) to serve as a Medium of Trade & Commerce; I have since conversed with some sensible and cautious Men, and find they approve of a Loan-Office, and in every Point of View, such an Office would serve the Public. The COUNTRY INTEREST would be advanced beyond Conception; every Farmer's Estate would immediately rise 10 per Cent. at least in its Value and be daily increasing. Such Money is supported by its own Credit, and stands unconnected with the other Currency of the Government;--- There is nothing wanting but a public Act to give it a Sanction; the Legislature should have nothing to do with the Interest arising out of it, but only to empower the Trustees to collect and apply it to the making of Roads; for if the landed Interest should become its only Support, all the Benefit accruing or arising therefrom, should be applied towards the opening Roads, which would encourage such Trade with the inland Towns as would be beneficial to the whole Province. If you examine the Objection against Paper Currency, you will find them trivial, and of no Force, comparative with the Advantages arising therefrom. The Governments of Virginia, Philadelphia, the Jerseys, New-York, and Rhode-Island, have all got Loan-Offices; and what are the Notes of the Massachusetts-Bay and Connecticut, and even if our own Treasurer's, but Paper Money issued upon the Credit of Government; and I believe any Man would sooner lend his Money upon a private Estate mortgaged one Third of its intrinsic Value, than any Government Note whatever: I can see no other Objection, in Reality, to a Loan-Office, than that it will bring Men more upon an Equality, by helping the industrious Farmer to increase his Stock, and in a short Time to vie with the present Men of Consequence, who are disposed to cramp the Growth of every Man's Farm, but their own.---The two Cities of Philadelphia and New-York are the richest in America, and are become so by no better Means than their Loan-Offices, as may be seen by the following Advertisement, so late as the 1st of last Month, extracted from the Philadelphia Gazette, of the 2d of March 1774.
Loan-Office, Philadelphia, March 1. 1774.
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
THAT the GENERAL LOAN-OFFICE of the Province of Pennsylvania is this Day opened, at the House of Dr. SAMUEL PRESTON, in the City of Philadelphia;---where the Trustees will attend upon every Tuesday and Wednesday succeeding, until the whole Sum of One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds shall be lent out in Sums, not exceeding Two Hundred Pounds, nor less than Twenty-five Pounds, to any one Person, agreeable to the Directions of an Act of Assembly, intitled, An Act for emitting the Sum of One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds, in Bills of Credit, on Loan, and providing a Fund for the Payment of public Debts.
And in order to prevent Disappointments to those who may apply to borrow Money, the Trustees inform the Public, that the Act of Assembly abovementioned authorizes and impowers them to judge of and determine the Value of all Lands and Tenements, Rents and Hereditaments, situate in Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester & Lancaster Counties, which may be offered in Mortgage, and as they are also to judge of the Validity of the Titles of all Lands proposed to them as Securities, every Person, applying to borrow Money, must produce to them the Originals or authentic Copies from the Records, of all Patents, Wills, Deeds, or other Conveyance, which will be necessary to deduce a legal Title from the Proprietors to the Applicant, for the Lands which he shall offer as Security: If any Messages, erected upon Ground subject to the Payment of Groundrent, should be offered in Mortgage, such Applicants must previously discharge the Groundrent & Quit-rent in Arrear; and in all Cases the Pre-
mises proposed to be mortgaged must be of treble the Value, of the Sums requested to be lent: To comply with the Act of Assembly, it will be further necessary for all Borrowers, upon the Security of Lands which lie in any other than the 4 Counties abovementioned, to procure a Certificate, under the Hands of any two of the Commissioners of such County, certifying the Value of such Lands."
Now from the foregoing Advertisement we see, they have emitted 120,000. Lawful Money on a Loan, and we are afraid to emit only one quarter of that Sum; we may reasonably suppose they have experienced the great Benefit of such a Loan, or they would not presume to issue such a heavy sum; the Fact in Truth is this, they have a great inland Country, from which most of their Flour, &c. are brought 150 Miles and more by Waggons, sent by the Farmers who are the principal Men that hire the Money; and they immediately find a Sale for their Produce in Silver or Gold; but they are as ready to receive the Loan Money in Pay as the other, and many rather sooner; for they know their Estates depend upon the Credit of this Money. Let me bring the Argument nearer home; It was even in the last Winter, that we had, for the first Time, near 100 Barrels of FLOUR bro't to this Market, from Co-os, and CASH was so very scarce, that the Bakers could not purchase it; and they were obliged to sell it to a discouraging Market: but if Loan-Money had been plenty, they wo'd have sold, & received the Cash immediately, if they had bro't even 500 Barrels instead of one, they would have been so far from refusing to take such Money, they would rather have sought for it, as well knowing that by giving Credit to it, they effectually enhanced the Value of their whole Estates:---I think the Matter is so plain, that I am surprized, such an Office has not been long since erected: And I am so sanguine in the Success of it, not from my own Judgment alone, but from seeing the Wisdom of almost every Legislature on the Continent adopting the same Measures. I could wish that the Members who may be returned to our next Assembly, should be instructed; at least, to examine into the Feasibility of such a Scheme, and how far it may comport with the true Interest of the Community; one Thing I take Notice of in, the foregoing Advertisement: That no Man has a Right to take up more than 200l. which is very prudent & Cautious, as thereby the Money is Diverted into many Channels, and the more Estates that are mortgaged in Security, the greater Number of Persons are interested in supporting the Credit of the Money; for no Man who has taken out that Sum from a Loan Office, and even consents to pay Interest for it, and gives his Estate in Security at 6/ per Dollar, would be so stupid, as to depreciate it himself; or wish others to do it, for he knows he must redeem it again with the same Paper or Silver & Gold at 6/ per Dollar. If any Person should say that they would not give it a Currency, let all such then live upon their own Means; and leave it to others that will; I dare venture to assert they will soon change their Notes, and be as glad to get it and take as much Pains for it as others; and be as careful of it when they have obtained it. I frankly own, that I had rather have a Bill upon the Security of a good Estate, than any private Mans Note in the Province; and there are many Gentlemen in Philadelphia, New-York, & Rhode-Island, that put their Silver and Gold into such Securitys, & will readily exchange for Paper when thereto requested. One thing may be said here, that they Trade more within themselves, and do not want to send away their Money into other Governments as we do; I am convinced that we have the Means of doing the same ourselves; but while we remain of so contracted & confined Sentiments, we must expect to be cramped in our Trade and Agriculture, and leave it in the Power of other Governments, and a few Men of Interest in this to reap the Benefit arising from our supine Negligence in consulting the General Good of the Community; and if we do not

do something of a public Nature soon, we shall certainly lose the whole Trade, the Inhabitants of Falmouth (as was justly observed in your last) have laid a Foundation to engross the Trade of the North East Parts of the Province, by giving every Encouragement to bring their Flour to them; The Benefit of the River Transportation carries all the Flour from Co's to No. 4, and from thence & thereabouts 600 Barrels have been sent the last Winter to Boston. And the Gentlemen in New-York and Albany have laid a Plan of opening, a very level Road from No. 4. to Hudson's River, about 70 Miles Distance only by which they will turn the Course of the Trade wholly that Way; and being Men of great Capitals, will credit our Farmers and thus will effectually keep us in a State of Dependency upon them & other Places for our Provisions; and whilst we amuse ourselves with Hopes, others will feed and grow Rich upon Realities; In short, if we don't use some public Maneuvre to secure the Inland Trade of this Province, we must silently submit to our Fate; but if these Things are really so, should we not instruct our Representatives, to do their utmost to promote such Useful Plans as will certainly counteract the Designs of our crafty Neighbours of the other Governments.
AMICUS REIPUBLICÆ.
NEW-YORK, March 21.
Our Tea Ship is hourly expected, she having sailed from Antigua for this Port 28 Days since.
Notice is hereby given, that the Sons of Liberty will meet on Thursday Night, at seven o'Clock, in every Week, at the House of Jasper Drake, 'till the Arrival and Departure of the Tea-Ship.
The Williamsburg Papers, of March the 3d, bring us Accounts of the safe Arrival there of the Countess of Dunmore, on the 26th ult. attended by Capt. Foy and his Lady. His Excellency the Governor, upon this joyful Event in his Family, has been addressed from all Quarters, to which were added Illuminations, and every other Mark of Congratulation.
NEW-PORT, March 21.
Extract of a Letter from St. Eustatia, Feb. 23. 1774.
"Admiral Perry, with a Fleet of six Sail of Men of War, and several Transports, passed by this Road about 12 Days past; some of the Officers came on Shore and got Liberty to press out of the English Vessels; it soon took Wind, and the different Captains balked the Admiral's Intentions. Various were the Conjectures of People: The Destination of the Fleet was a great Secret; no getting the least Intelligence from the Officers or Men: However, Yesterday arrived a Vessel that bro't Intelligence of the Fleet's being at Anchor at Crab-Island; where the Admiral has absolutely hoisted English Colours. This Island the Spaniards have laid Claim to, & even gone so far as to take English and other Foreign Vessels that have been Watering, &c. at the Island. It is very plain in Sight of Porto-Rico; and one of the Frigates, it is said, is gone into St. John's, to acquaint the Spanish Governor of this Proceeding: And it is reported that two Packets were immediately dispatched to Old Spain. The Spaniards are in the greatest Consternation, as they are absolutely hemmed up, and they will be more so if Crab-Island be strongly Fortified. It is a very valuable Island. It is said to be as fine and large as St. Christopher's; it will make great Noise in Europe. The Dutch Factors here have acquainted their Correspondents in Holland with this Intelligence. "The Lord send a War is the general Cry here."
We hear the Blustering, Hectoring Lindzee was lately broke; that the Murderous Captain Preston died of a Bleeding at the Mouth; and that the infamous Duddingston took his Departure from France to the Realms of Darkness a few Months past. So may all our Enemies Perish!
BOSTON, March 28.
Extract of a Letter from Philadelphia, March 17.
"Capt. Love, who is arrived here, left London the 19th of January, and the Isle of Wight the 30th. We have a few Papers, one as late as the 27th of January. The Account of the Destruction of the TEA at Boston is published in the Papers of the 22d of January; but no Remarks in the Papers about it, &c. The Paper of the 20th of January, says the Affairs of America will not be taken up by Parliament till the Sessions are pretty far advanced. By the Papers there has been great Insurrections at Peterborough, but cannot find out Particulars. The Russian Troops are ordered out of Poland, and many Regiments from the Grand Army on the Turkish Frontiers, are going for Peterburg; the Remainder of the Russian Troops are gone to Winter Quarters, and a Letter from Paris, dated 17th January, says, it is positively asserted that Orders are given to all our Regiments to hold themselves in Readiness to take the Field upon the earliest Notice, and that an Army of 100,000 Men will be assembled on the Rhine in the Spring."
A Gentleman in England, writes his Friend in Philadelphia, "That the Warlike Preparations of the French he imagines will alarm all Europe; but what their Designs are, Time must bring forth: The Insurrection at Peterborough was thought to be set on Foot by them; and his Prussian Majesty to be at the Bottom of the Scheme. And that it was expected there would soon be fitting out Fleets and sending Armies to different Parts, as the English will certainly not be tame Spectators."
Capt. Craig, who arrived at Philadelphia, informs, that the Brig -----, Capt. Packwood, from New-England, overset in Lat. 29, and the People were taken off her Bottom & carried into Antigua.
Yesterday arrived here the Brigantine Brothers, Capt. Chambers, in 16 Weeks from Falmouth, but last from Statia; having with the Loss of her Main-Mast been blown off the Coast.
The Jamaica Planter, a large new Ship, that sailed from this Port last Winter for Jamaica, John M'Fadzean, Master, we hear was cast away on a Reef of Rocks as she was going up the Harbour of Kingston, and beat to Pieces: The People and most of the Cargo saved.
Captain Wilson, in a Brig belonging to Philadelphia, was seized at Leogane, in the Island of Hispaniola, the latter End of Jan. last, for having on Board a few Kegs of Hog's Lard.
Mr. Fowle,
I observed, in your Paper of the 29th Inst. a most scandalous and false Piece of Detraction under the Signature of an Independent Freeholder; very evidently level'd at the Character of two worthy, opulent Merchants of this Town, who are in general (among the Inhabitants) proposed as most suitable Persons, to represent them in the next Assembly. But as most Places are infected with a Race of Animals, whose sordid Minds can't bear the Prosperity of others; it's not to be wondered at, that this Place has its Share; the foremost of which I believe the impartial Public will place this independent Writer.
I shan't take the Trouble to answer the Matter fully; tho' I think there is a large Field; shall only say, that as to the first Gentleman pointed at by this M-----, who says that he is "deaf to the Cries of the Poor and Indigent" Is it not shameful my fellow Citizens, does it not make your Blood boil, to hear such false and cruel Insinuations endeavouring to destroy a Character, which thro' a long Course of Years has been unexceptionable; as he is well known to be one of the most honest upright Men, that we have among us; and above all a steady Friend to the Liberties of the People; which is the very Thing that makes this independent Creature dislike him, as he the Independent never thinks of any Thing but Despotism.
The other Gentleman reflected on is too well known to need my going into his Character, which is fair and unimpeached; unless by Falshood; the Public will judge whether his being a Friend to a supposed Chief Justice is any Discredit or not; for my own Part, can't help thinking it's a high Compliment paid that Gentleman, which proclaims aloud, that he is the very Man who is most proper to represent us in the next Assembly, and oppose any tyrannical Measures; for it will appear ridiculous to suppose, that it's in that Gentleman's Power, to assist the said Chief Justice, in any Way in procuring a Salary independent of the People.
The next Thing alledged, is the unfortunate Man confined in Prison. The Public is too well acquainted with that Affair to need much Altercation; shall only say, that that Man was taken by the Sheriff, for a Sum of Money due to a considerable House in London, to which this Gentleman is Agent, and of Course obliged to take proper Methods to secure the Debt due from that Man, whose Affairs were very precarious at that Time: On his being taken by the Sheriff a certain Mushroom Colonel; (as I understand the Matter) promised to be his Friend, and give Bills to the Amount of his Debt; if this Man would secure all his Estate to him, the Colonel; but notwithstanding this Promise (the said Colonel having a Demand on this very Man for a large Sum of Money due to a Friend of his in Bristol) falsely and deceitfully deserted him; after having secured all his Property; of Course nothing remained but go to Prison.
The State of the Matter was soon laid before the House in London, upon which Orders were sent to this Agent, not to release the Man from Prison, as it was thought he had treated the House very ill in the Matter.
From this State of the Affair, the Public will see that this Man cannot be released without Orders from London, or Payment of the Debt; which plainly proves those dirty Affections to be false and Scandalous. If this independent Gentleman had considered a little, he would of Course, as he was obliged to rake the Prison for Slander, asked a couple of self-sufficient Gentlemen, why another Man by the Name of Fowler, is not set at Liberty, who has been so long cruelly confined. I hope my Fellow Citizens will stand Fast, and not suffer such cruel Falshoods, nor even the ungenerous and unmanly interference of ill minded Counsellors prevent them from acting themselves.
A POOR MAN.
For LONDON, The SHIP FELICITY, HENRY NUTTER Commander, Lying near Spring-Hill, has good Accommodation for Passengers, and will sail in 15 or 20 Days. For Passage, apply to the Master. Portsmouth, March 24th, 1774.
A SCRAP.
As a Party-Spirit now prevails in this Town with Respect to the Choice of fit Persons to represent us in the next Assembly, and the political Fever runs high, yet a too sudden Check, may be of dangerous Consequence, as in Civil Affairs, such good Effects have been found from Discord, that some Princes made Divide et impera their Motto--- but after all, it is not to be wondered at, if we consider, that among all the Creatures, there is none stranger than Man; and among all Men, there is none so strange and unaccountable as a COURTIER.
In Reality, Man is the Quintessence of the Oddities of the World; and a Courtier is the Quintessence of the Oddities of Men--- He is wise and foolish, thoughtful and prating, avaricious and liberal, bumble and proud, merry and sad, active and passive, promising all Things, and performing nothing. We can see by his Countenance, as by a Weather Cock, what Wind it blows at Court. He is a King to Day and a Cat To-Morrow. He is like a Mupbroom that boots up in the Night, and withers in the Day---and often seems Born for nothing but to Die.
TO THE PRINTER, Pray publish the following QUERIES? Do not the Threats of the Rich to Distress the Poor in any Shape, if the last should not in the approaching Election give their Votes for such Men as the Former direct, discover an inllaving Disposition?
Can we expect Representatives chosen in this Manner, will be faithful to preserve our Liberties?
Have not the Tradesmen & Labourers a glorious Opportunity, now offered them, of asserting their Freedom, by Voting one & all, according to their own Minds & Consciences, without paying the least Regard to the lordly Dictates of their Employers?
JOHN WIGGLESWORTH, HAS for Sale at his SHOP near the Printing Office, an Assortment of Garden Seeds.
Likewise a Quantity of good MOLASSES, Cheap for CASH.
Twenty Dollars Reward.
TAKEN out of the Entry of Messieurs DANIEL & SAMUEL SHERBURNE'S House a Sword and Hatt, supposed to be on the 11th Inst. Whoever will bring said Articles to Mess. Sherburnes, shall receive Four Dollars Reward, and if any Person will detect the Thief so that he may be brought to Justice, shall receive Twenty Dollars Reward.
D. and S. SHERBURNE.
The Co-partnership
Of the Subscribers being mutually dissolved the hitherto Partnership, they request all those who have Accounts open with them, to come and settle the same. And all who are Indebted to them by Book or Note, to make Payment without Delay, as they determine to bring their Affairs to a close as soon as possible.
JONATHAN JACKSON, JOHN BROMFIELD.
Newbury port, March 22. 1774.
THE Subscriber having quitted the Business he has been in of late Years, desires all Persons with whom he has Accounts open, to call and settle the same--- And all who are Indebted to him, either upon Book or by Note, to make speedy Payment, more especially those whose Debts have been long standing.
The Business will be carried on as usual by his Sons. PATRICK TRACY.
Newbury port, March 22.
Jackson, Tracy and Tracy
BEG Leave to inform the Public that they have taken the Business lately carried on by their Honoured Father, in which they request the Continuance of his good Customers and the Custom of all others, with whom a mutual Advantage is to be obtained. They shall carry on the Distillery as usual, They have by them an Assortment of English Goods, which they will sell by wholesale upon reasonable Terms, and so as to afford a Profit to the Purchaser.
[Middletown.]
WHEREAS the Proprietors of Middletown have been legally notified to pay an Assessment on each original Proprietor's Right or Lots of Land in said Township, to me the Subscriber, and several of them being yet delinquent in the Whole or part; this is therefore to notify such Persons that the delinquent Proprietors Lands will be exposed to sale, at public Vendue, at the House of En. Jonathan Wentworth, in Somersworth, Lambdaler, the 20th Day of April next, at one o'clock in the Afternoon, to pay said Taxes, with incidental Charges. Delinquent Names are as follows, with the Sums due:
   John Gage Esq; 1 4 Nathaniel Young 1 4   James Clements 1 4 Timothy Roberts 12   Jonathan Gage 1 4 Daniel Hanson 1 4   Samuel Heard 1 4 Nathaniel Austin 12   Richard Philpot 1 4 James Philpot 1 16   Thomas Bickford 6 Job Hussey 1 4   Mark Wallingford 12 John Roberts 12   Joseph Varney 12 Benjamin Wentworth 12   Joshua Stackpole 1 4 Benjamin Mason 12   Samuel Varney 3 16 Jonathan Morrow 19   Benjamin Stanton 1 4  
Somersworth March 25. 1774.
CHARLES BAKER Collector.
ALL Persons indebted to or that have any Demands upon the Estate of John Steel jun. late of Hillsborough, in the Province of New Hampshire, Yeoman deceased, are desired to settle the same with the Subscriber, who will attend that Business, at his Dwelling House in Londonderry, on Monday the 25th Day of April next, and upon Monday the 23d Day of May next; from Two to 6 of the Clock, P. M. on said Days. He will likewise attend that Business at the House of Mr. Jacob Hildrick Innholder at Amherst, on Wednesday the 27th Day of April aforesaid; and upon Tuesday the 24th Day of May aforesaid, from Ten to Three of the Clock Afternoon, at said Hildrick's on said Days.
HUGH MONTGOMERY, Administrator. Londonderry March 28th 1774.
WE the Subscribers being appointed by the Hon. JOHN SHERBURNE, Esq; Commissioners to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of Capt. Samuel Haynes, late of Portsmouth, deceas'd, Represented Insolvent, and six Months being allowed for that Purpose, hereby give Notice, that we will attend said Business at the House of James Steedley, Esq; in Portsmouth, on the first Monday of the next six following Months, from the Hours of seven to nine o'Clock in the Evening of said Days.
RICHARD HART, JOHN SPARHAWK.
WE the Subscribers being appointed by the Hon. JOHN SHERBURNE, Esq; Commissioners to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of Mr. Samuel Griffith, late of Portsmouth, Shopkeeper, deceas'd, Represented Insolvent, and six Months being allowed for that purpose, hereby give Notice, that we will attend said Business at the House of James Steedley, Esq; in Portsmouth, on the first Wednesday of the six next following Months, from the Hours of seven to nine o'Clock in the Evening of said Days.
Portsmouth, March 30, 1774. JOSEPH WHIPPLE. JOHN SPARHAWK.

New Rice, Philadelphia Flour
Of a superior Quality,  CONNECTICUT CORN and PORK just imported, & to be sold by JOHN EVANS. Portsmouth, March 24, 1774.
CHOICE PORK
Fit for FISHERY, by the large or small Quantity, to be sold at a reasonable Price. Enquire of DANIEL EVANS at the south End. Portsmouth, March 17, 1774.
John Adams
(Opposite the Old South Meeting House Boston) Has received by the last Vessel from LONDON, A Fresh Supply of
Garden Seeds
Which he doubts not will be satisfactory to the Purchaser, as they are warranted Good, and of the last Year's Growth.
Early golden Hotspur PEAS, early Charlton Dit. Ormerods Hotspur, blue Round-vals, Spanish Marrowfats, large black Eyed & Dwarf Marrowfat Peas;—large Windsor, early Lisbon, and early yellow Bush Beans—large and small white Dwarfs, white and speckled Peas, and Kidney Ditto—Silvery skin'd, white Spanish, Portugal white, and Blood Red Onions—Early Yorkshire, early Dutch, early Battersea, Sugar-Leaf, best Red, and large Winter Cabbage—Green and Yellow curled Savoy Cabbage—Early & late Cull Flower—best Cabbage, green and white Cote, brown Dutch, hardy Green, Silesia, Marb'e and Honey Lettuce—Early Yellow, Orange and Purplish Carrot—Early Dutch, long French, large White & Winter Turnip—best double Parsley and Peppergrass—Summer and Winter Spinage—white Mustard—Salmon, Scarlet, short Top, Salsaf and Turnip Radish—Italian and Solid Celery,—warranted Best and Parsnip—Green and White Endive—best early and long prickly Cucumber—large Musc and Water Mellon—Summer and Winter Squash—Squash Pepper Seed—Asparagus—Sweet Marjoram, Tyme, Summer-Savey, Baum, Sage, Rosemary, Bush Basil, Hemp, Rape and Canary—With a large Assortment of Flower Seeds, Red and White Clover, and Herbs Grass Seeds,—Split PEAS, &c.
Likewise, a great Variety of GLASS and EARTHEN WARE , Groceries, with a Number of other Articles, very Cheap.
|| Aptorp. ||
THE Proprietors of the Township of APTHORP, are hereby Notified, that a TAX of seventeen shillings and six pence on every hundred Acres was legally assessed at a Meeting of the proprietors August 22, 1771; they are desir'd to pay the same to me at my House at Newbury, on or before the 20th Day of April, or they will be immediately adverti'd for sale as the Law directs.  MOSES LITTLE, Collector. Newbury, March 23, 1774.
ALL PERSONS having any Demands against the Estate of JOTHAM ODIORNE, late of Portsmouth, Mariner, deceas'd, are desir'd to bring in the same to PETER PEARSE, Administrator.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE,
|| Sandwich. ||
THE Proprietors of Sandwich, are hereby Notified, to meet at the House of Capt. Samuel Folsom, Innholder in Exeter, on Monday the 11th Day of April next, at one o'Clock in the Afternoon, for the Purposes following. 1. To chuse a Moderator. 2. To chuse a Committee to prosecute Col. Jonathan Meulen, and any other Person or Persons who have committed Trespases on the Proprietors Land in said Township, or who may hereafter trespass on any of the said Lands, to final Judgment and Execution, in Behalf of said Proprietors. 3. To see if the Proprietors will pay the Expenses of prosecuting any Persons or Persons who have committed Trespases on any Lot or Lots in said Township belonging to private Persons. 4. To see what encouragement the Proprietors will give to a Number of Persons to settle in said Town. 5. To see what Sum of Money the Proprietors will vote for the above Purposes, to be raised by selling the Common and undivided Lands, or by a Tax on the Proprietors. 6. To chuse a Collector. 7. To see if the Proprietors will give Elias Ladd the Remainder of Lot No. 11, in the fifth long Range, on which he is settled. JOSEPH GILMAN Pro Cl. Exeter March 21st 1774.
$ Killington in New-York. $
WHEREAS the Proprietors of the Township of Killington, in the Province of New York, at several legal Meetings, have voted to raise three Dollars upon each Right or Share of Land in said Killington, for the Survey thereof and other Charges—these are therefore to Notify the said proprietors to pay the above said taxes to me the Subscriber at my Dwelling House in Newport, Rhode Island, at or before the first Day of April next, otherwise so much of their Land will be advertised and sold as will pay the same with Charges.  JO. THAN OTIS, Collector.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE,  $ Grafton, $ March 16, 1774.
PURSUANT to a Vote of the Propriety of said GRAFTON, that at the Request of a sixteenth part of said propriety, with the Concurrence of the Clerk of said propriety, that the Meetings of said propriety shall be warned for the future,—These are therefore to warn the proprietors of the Township of Grafton, in the County of Grafton, and province aforesaid, to meet in proprietors Meeting, at the Dwelling House of Seth Martin, in said Grafton, on Monday the 18th Day of April next, at one o'Clock P. M. then and there to act upon the following Articles, viz: 1. To chuse a Moderator to govern said Meeting. 2. To see whether said propriety will grant a Sum of Money to defray the Expense of making necessary Roads in said town. 3. To chuse a Committee to look out and mark said Roads. 4. To see whether said propriety will take into their consideration the twelve hundred Acres granted by said propriety to the twelve first Settlers in said Grafton, and act and determine thereon as they shall think proper. 5. To see whether said propriety will determine in what Manner the Assessors of said propriety shall proceed to assess the Lands in said Township of Grafton, for the payment of such Sums of Money as have already or may hereafter be granted by said propriety.  Test SETH MARTIN, proprietor's Clerk.
[ Concord & Pembroke. ]
THE original Proprietors of a Township called Pennicook, now Concord, and the original Proprietors of a Township called Suncook, now Pembroke, (both in the Province of New Hampshire) or the Heirs or Assigns of said original Proprietors; are hereby Notified that the General Court in their present Session, hath granted to each Propriety a Township in the late Province of Maine, and appointed the Subscribers a Committee to exhibit a List to said Court, within 10 Months from the Date of the Names of the Persons that have been Sufferers, who have a just Claim to an Interest in the one or the other of said Townships: This is therefore to give Notice to the said Pennicook Proprietors, and the said Suncook Proprietors, that the Committee will attend said Service at the House of Mrs. Hannah Osgood, Innholder in said Pennicook, on the second Wednesday in October next, ensuing, to receive authenticated Evidence of said Sufferers Claims to an interest in the Township granted to the said Pennicook Proprietors, and that they will attend said Service at the House of Mr. Samuel Canner, Innholder in said Suncook, on the third Wednesday in October aforesaid, to receive like Evidence of the said Sufferers Claims to an Interest in the Township granted to the said Suncook Proprietors.
Samuel Phillips, } Feb. 22, 1774. Joseph Gerrish, } Committee. Jonathan Webster, }
$ Leicester on Otter-Creek. $
WHEREAS the Proprietors of Land in the Township of Leicester on Otter Creek, (which Township was granted by the Governor & Council of New Hampshire) did at their Meeting in January 1773, vote, that the sum of Four Dollars should be rais'd and levied on each original Right; and also at their Meeting in March following, voted that the Sum of one Dollar as aforesaid, for the bounding and letting out said Township, and for the managing and carrying on any other Affairs for the common Good of said propriety, and that a Committee be appointed to assist the same—therefore we the Subscribers being appointed a Committee for the purpose aforesaid, do a third Time notify the proprietors to pay the same to Mr. Isaac Stone, Collector, or to Capt. Elisha Child, Treasurer, at or before the adjourn'd Meeting of said propriety, which will be on the last Tuesday in April, which will be the 26th Day of said Month, at Nine o'Clock in the Morning, at the House of Nathaniel Child, Esq; of Woodstock, in the County of Windham, and Colony of Connecticut; otherwise their Rights will be expi'd to sale, at the House of the said Nathaniel Child, Esq; at ten o'Clock on said Day, according to Law. Woodstock: Nathaniel Child, } March 3. Elisha Child, } Committee 1773. Samuel Mc Clelland, }
Warrantes and Quitclaim Deeds, Justices Blanks, Bail Bonds, Shipping Papers &c. Sold at the Printing Office.
[ Eastown. ]
WHEREAS the Proprietors of Eastown, so called, in the province of New Hampshire, and County of Strafford, having been legally Notified to pay sundry TAXES voted and assessed on the several Rights or Lots in said Eastown, to me the Subscriber, and several of them being yet delinquent in the whole or part, this is therefore to Notify such Delinquents, that so much of their Rights or Lots of Land will be exposed to Sale, at public Vendue, at my Dwelling House in said Rochester, in the County, aforesaid, on Thursday the 21st Day of April next, as will pay said Taxes with incidental Charges; the Sale to begin at ten o'Clock in the Forenoon. Some of the delinquent Proprietors Names are as follows, with the Sums due on their several Lots.
   First Div. Second Div.   l. f. d. l. f. d.     Samuel Alley 3 16 6 3 16 6   Daniel Young 0 0 0 3 16 6   Louis Roberts 0 0 0 1 18 3   Paul Gerrish 1 18 3 3 16 6   William Willard 0 0 0 3 16 6   Samuel Downs 0 0 0 3 16 6   Stephen Evans 0 0 0 3 16 6   Richard Hussey 0 0 0 3 16 6   Samuel Jones 0 0 0 3 16 6   Stephen Varney 0 0 0 1 5 6   Ebenezer Wentworth 0 14 6 1 18 3   Isaac Horne 0 0 0 1 18 3   James Kelly 0 0 0 1 18 3   Samuel Gerrish 1 18 3 0 0 0   Samuel Dam 0 0 0 3 16 6   Joseph Hussey 0 0 0 3 16 6   Solomon Emerson 0 0 0 3 16 6   Benjamin Ham 3 16 6 0 0 0  
BARNABAS PALMER, Collector. Receiver March 25th 1774.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE || UNITY. ||
WHEREAS Application hath been made to me the subscriber, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Cheshire aforesaid, by more than one sixteenth part of the proprietors of the Township of Unity in the County aforesaid, desiring that a Meeting of said proprietors be warned to be held at the Dwelling House of Abner Chase in said Unity, on Thursday the 14th Day of April next, at ten o'Clock A. M. then and there when met, to act if they cause, on the following Articles. 1. To chuse a Moderator to govern said Meeting. 2. To chuse a Proprietors Clerk, Assessors, Collector, and other necessary Officers. 3. To chuse a Committee to lay out Land. 4. To vote some Encouragement (if they see cause) to build Mills in the Easterly part of said Town. 5. To levy a Tax for raising Money for making or repairing of Roads or other necessary Charges. 6. To agree upon a Method how to call or warn proprietors Meetings for the future. These are therefore to warn the proprietors and owners of the aforesaid Township of Unity, to meet at the time and place aforesaid, to act on the foregoing Articles. BENJAMIN GILES, Justice of Peace, Cheshire, March 10. 1774.
$ NEW-DURHAM. $
THE Proprietors of NEW-DURHAM, in the County of Strafford, in the province of New Hampshire, are hereby Notified, that at a legal Meeting of said proprietors held at Durham, in said County, the second Day of June 1773, voted, that a TAX of twenty shillings be laid on each original Right in said Town in order to settle a Minister and pay his Salary, and the Subscriber was chosen Collector;—these are to Notify said proprietors if said town to pay me said tax of twenty shillings at my House in Durham, by the tenth Day of April next, or their Lots will be advertised for Sale for payment of the same as the Law directs.  VALENTINE MATHES, Collector. Durham, March 16. 1774.
John Fogarty,
BREECHES MAKER & LEATHER DRESSER, Respectfully acquaints his Customers and the Public, That he has at his Shop, nearly opposite Maj. Samuel Hale's in Queen street Portsmouth a large Assortment OF BUCK, DOB, and MOOSE SKIN BREECHES, and all sorts of GLOVES, which he makes and fits in the neatest and best Manner; therefore prays the Favour of their Custom. Constant Attendance is given, and the smallest Favour thankfully acknowledged.
WHEREAS one John Clark, a Pedler, unjustly detains in his Possession a NOTE of Hand sign'd by the subscriber, which is paid, and is given for the Sum of £. 18 19 s. 10 d. Lawful Money, dated in 1771; This is to desire, that no Person purchase said Note, as I shall not pay it again, unless compelled by LAW Epping, March 12, 1774. Phinehas Blake
Wanted one hundred thousand Feet of good MERCHANTABLE Pine BOARDS (without any Plank or Joist) Enquire of the Printer.