The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1783-10-25 00:00:00

5 THE NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE. AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.
Vol. XXVII.]
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1783.
[No. 1408]
To the AUTHOR of a piece in the NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE, signed a MEMBER of CONVENTION.
S I R,
As your publication, in reply to the Citizen of New-Hampshire, will not admit of an answer; the following Queries are submitted for your serious consideration. If any performance is made up of groundless assertions, and futile arguments, can any thing but a denial of the facts alledged, and a refutation of the puerile arguments advanced, be expected in answer thereto?
Can you produce a shadow of evidence, "That the advocates for the late proposed Constitution with a Governor, have assumed the airs of extraordinary knowledge and study, especially in the principles of government; and have represented their opponents as weak and ignorant, altogether unskilled in that profound science," or is this like your other assertions, the genuine offspring of your own fertile imagination?
Did not the writer, who signed himself a Citizen of New-Hampshire, deny all the assertions in your first publication, how then can you with propriety say "That the facts are left unimpeached"?—Have not the Convention in the 37th article of the bill of rights (twice offered to the people) informed them, that the three essential powers of government, ought to be kept as separate from, and independent of each other, as the nature of a free government will admit; and pointed out in their several addresses, the evils which must follow from their being united?
Can it therefore admit of a question, whether the Convention prior to their last session, were clearly in favor of what they had repeatedly recommended; unless we suppose them to be the most trifling, and dishonest set of beings on earth?
Is it possible for you to conceive that your assertions, unsupported by any kind of evidence, will induce the people to believe, that the members changed their sentiments at the last session, and with sincerity did unanimously recommend the alternative, as better calculated than the former plan, to secure the liberty of the subject, and promote the blessings of a free government? Were there not seven of the committee appointed to frame the last address? Have not all except yourself agreed to it? Is it not signed by the President? Does it not therefore favor a little of that arrogance, and vanity with which you accuse others; to pretend that you were the only person on the committee, capable of understanding the sentiments of Convention; the only honest man in the nomination, and the only member who had no private views, and was proof against despicable and dishonest arts?
Can you be serious when you say, that the late plan, and the alternative, are not different in their nature; if they were not essentially so, why are you so zealous in persuading the people, to reject the former, and accept the latter? Are not the essential powers of government separated by the late plan? Are they not blended in the alternative? How then can it be said, that they are not in their nature essentially different?
Did you expect that your low epithets, and ironical expressions, such as, "The great oracle of politis law in New-Hampshire,"—
"A most learned and important gentleman indeed,—Poor gentleman,—The man of wise, and upright intentions,—The man of uncommon attainments," and "the man of great abilities," near twenty times repeated, in one dull, dirty performance, would pass for wit, and satire; or did you mean to avail yourself of them as conclusive arguments, in support of your favourite scheme; and worthy of the highest notice and consideration?—Do you imagine that your efforts will induce the inhabitants of New-Hampshire, readily to believe, that a person who has through the whole contest with Great-Britain, been a steady and zealous advocate for British tyranny, an anti-revolutionist, a foe to independence, and a sworn enemy to every free constitution in America; after warmly contending for so long a time, in support of the most arbitrary claims, of the most unjust, and oppressive power on earth, could suddenly change his sentiments, and become in reality the most accomplished and zealous republican in New-Hampshire, the great guardian of the peoples liberty, the most distinguished patriot in Convention, the only honest man among those appointed as a Committee for framing the late address, and the select champion to contend for the blessings of a free government? Could those persons who agonize, to re-establish British government in America, adopt any plan so likely to answer their wishes, as to use every endeavor under the mask of patriotism, to render our Constitutions to popular, that for want of proper energy the wheels of government may cease to move, and render some other system necessary?
May not this possibly be the motive, which influenced you to spend so much time in fabricating a plan replete, with political absurdities; which was deservedly rejected, when offered by yourself at the first Convention; which you attended as a member? And may not this be the reason of your uniting so closely in Convention, with the famous supporter of Vermont claims; whose duplicity of conduct renders him a proper instrument to assist you in obtaining a Constitution, which may answer your secret wishes?
Did the author who signs himself a Citizen, when he recommended a perusal of the several publications for, and against the proposed plan of Government, intimate whether those for, or against it, ought to have the most weight; and would it not be unnatural to suppose him the author of all the publications upon the subject?
Might not that writer with some degree of certainty conclude, that when your political conduct through the late revolution was fully considered, the duplicity of your character weighed, and the part you are now acting thoroughly examined, that your appointment would be matter of real concern to every friend of the community? And although he has not given the least room for your ungenerous conjecture, that he wishes to have the power of appointing members, who would answer his wishes, assist him in framing a perfect model of Government, with a full expectation of being himself placed at the head of it; is it unnatural to suppose if the power of appointment was lodged with him, that he as a friend to the liberties of the people, would
forever exclude from the Convention, persons who can with so much facility leap from the summit of despotism to the extreme of republicanism, and who under the mask of patriotism carry secret and hidden designs, dark and mischievous as themselves?
A WATCHMAN.
State of New-Hampshire. Rockingham ss. THIS is to give notice, that the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the County of Rockingham, by law to be holden at Portsmouth on the first Tuesday of November, A. D. 1783, will be adjourned from that day, to Tuesday the twenty fifth day of the same November, at ten of the clock A. M. at said Portsmouth; when and where all parties, Sutors and Jurors, concerned at said Court, and witnesses summoned, or to be summoned to attend said Court, are to take notice hereof and govern themselves accordingly.
By order of Court, October 10, 1783. NOAH EMERY, Clerk.
WE the subscribers being appointed Commissioners by the honorable Judge of Probate for the county of Rockingham, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of Joseph Clifford, late of Kingstown, wheelwright, deceased, represented insolvent, and six months from the 24th of September last being allowed for the purpose, do hereby give notice that we will attend on said business on the first Monday of November next, and the four following months, at the house of Solomon Wheeler, innholder in Kingstown, from two to five o'clock in the afternoon.
Simmons Seccombe, Solomon Wheeler, Kingston, Oct. 21.
State of New-Hampshire.—Grafton ss. WHEREAS application hath been made to me by more than one sixteenth part of the owners and proprietors of the town of Stratford, to call a proprietors meeting at the dwelling-house of Mr. James Curtis, in said Stratford, on the second Tuesday of November next, at nine o'clock A. M. to act upon the following articles, viz.—1st. to chuse a Moderator to govern said meeting.—2d. to chuse a Proprietors Clerk.—3d. to see if the proprietors will raise a sum of money, or give a certain tract of land in said Stratford, for building a saw mill and grist-mill in said town.—4th. to see if the proprietors will lay out and make roads in said town, and to raise money to pay for the same; also, to chuse Assessors and a Collector, to assess and collect the same.—5th. to make and establish bounds round said town.—6th. to lot and lay out the undivided lands in the town.—7th. to see what method proprietors meetings for said town, shall be called in future; also, to lay out three public rights in said town for the use and benefit thereof, and to transact any business of the propriety.
John Holbrook James Curtis, } Proprietors. James Brown, Joseph Barlow,
THESE are therefore to notify and warn the proprietors of Stratford, to meet at time and place for the purposes aforesaid. Jeremiah Eames, Justice Peace. Northumberland Oct. 1. 1783
WHEREAS I have been informed that a certain Reuben Tucker, now in Boston goal, pretends that he has in his possession a note of hand for 2500 Spanish milled dollars, which Thomas Saxville Tufston, gave to me, and that the same is by me indorsed, I do hereby caution all persons against the purchasing of any such note, declaring that I never indorsed or passed any such note; and that if said Tucker, or any other person, hath any such note purporting to be indorsed by me, it is forged.—As witness my hand, October 16, 1783. Nathan Raymond.
A hundred acre lot of land in Gilmantown, and several lots in other towns, to be sold on easy terms; the pay will be taken in State securities, beef, pork, butter, cheese, and cash. Enquire at the Printing-Office in Portsmouth.

Messieurs Printers,
IT has been alledged that Amator's Address, was the production of ill nature, and indebted for its origin to so bad a motive as to gratify a fit of resentment; I felt severely pained at the reflection, and really wounded by the suspicion; was sensible of equal violence offered to my feelings, as injustice done to my sentiments. Surely nothing could be produced sufficient to justify, excuse, or palliate, a disposition to illiberal and ungenerous, an indulgence so malevolent.—To assign a motive, would be vain, happily there is no necessity.—The original is known from the portrait, or it is not a good likeness;—when, therefore, it is denied to have any such motive, it stands in need of no great persuasion of argument to gain belief. It is neither particular nor local, nor has it any of those virulent asperities, or railing expressions which are the distinguishing traits of passion. To suppose it wears the mask of dissimulation, is hardly admissible; should any entertain such an opinion, it is apparent they have but an incompetent knowledge of the affections of the mind, or have not sufficiently considered how extremely difficult and almost impossible it is, to find warmth of temper and heat of anger, united with coolness and moderation, or restrain invectives in the fire of indignation; which seem to flow, the one from the other, almost as naturally and consequentially as pain from a wound.
The truth is, some perceiving little that is good or laudable in their own minds, and 'tis impossible to form any conception of the nature and operation of that of others, but by comparison with their own—and nothing can operate where it is not—they are reduced by necessity to attribute it to such cause as in their minds are adequate to, or productive of the same or similar effects. There are minds I am induced to compare to the Bee, who performs her necessary excursions industriously, collecting balmy dew from almost every thing which she finds in her range, which her heart expanded by benevolence, treasures up for the good of her friendly society. There are others, whose envious malignant dispositions, like the hateful Spider, spin webs of deceit around, and extract baleful poison from the fairest flowers; to which insuspecting innocence, is ever the most exposed; their arts, their toils demand attention, and require penetration in order to detect.
Alas! Virtue has so few sincere friends, it is difficult for her to maintain her ground; her post, is a post of danger; should vice by the poisoned shafts of ridicule, or other means, detach honor from her cause, she will be voted out of repute; to be her advocate has already become quite unpolite, very unfashionable, and truly excentric from modern practice.
When one thing succeeds another, as its consequence, as naturally and almost inevitably as effect from the cause, it little merits our pity; for surely, our compassion is justly excited, only in proportion as the event was unforeseen, or providential, allowing for the frailty of humanity.
Let candor attentively examine the whole of that address, or the most exceptionable paragraph, and determine, whether it was painted by the unjust hand of rage, or the impartial finger of truth.—Compassion mourns, and rigid justice drops a tear when truth is severity.
O candor, thou constant associate of the
benevolent heart! to you I appeal, and will abide your decision, if there is just foundation to be out of humor with the Mirror because it presents the true resemblance; and there is little, very little reason to complain of tears and distortions which are of our own making, or done by our approbation or concurrence— Noble, generous minds are ever open to conviction ; but little, sordid souls sooner multiply faults than correct errors.— There are converts from ignorance and error, but none from Malice .— Caveant qui sunt concii.
AMATOR.
AT a meeting of a number of the Fair Sex at CHATTY HALL, on the 20th day of October instant, to consider in what manner they should convey their acknowledgments to a late writer in the New-Hampshire Gazette, under the signature of AMATOR, of the receipt of his manful Address to the LADIES, for which he promises to appear their CHAMPION, and engages to promote their PLEASURE to the utmost of his abilities, and many other kind expressions of friendship, which deserve our attention; therefore it is unanimously voted, that the following address be presented to AMATOR, and that the same be carried by VENUS, one of our servants, to the printers; and desire them to convey it to their GUARDIAN, through the channel of the press, as the only vehicle by which we can communicate our sentiments to him, as he has not been pleased to tell us where we shall find him, in cases of want, danger or necessity.
Signed per Order,
To AMATOR.
LEONORA.
BE pleased to accept our thanks for your GRACIOUS address to us from your DESK; we should be wanting to ourselves, not to pay the strictest regard to your cautions, instructions and principles , so far as they are consistent with our safety; we have been always sensible, that your sex seldom mean what they say or write; and we are more confirmed in our opinions, by the sanction of your's. You should have pointed out some criterions, by which we might have discovered when they are sincere, and when they are not so; we might then have put more implicit confidence in your's; but if we are to judge of you as of others, we must believe none of you, and so of course you might as well have said nothing, for we are still left to the dictates of our own natures, and inclinations; and if through the inclinations of your artful sex, we are injured in our reputations, we must have more charity for one another, than not to attribute the injury to the real cause, and draw a veil over the supposed crime. We never mean to encourage prostitution, but we think marriage makes full satisfaction to the injured Fair one, as that is her ultimate expectation. We are not so superstitious as to suppose the benediction of the priest, makes the married pair more affectionate to each other, than they would have been without it; but while we are thanking you for your advice, you must give us leave to question your sincerity, and to imagine that you are playing off the airs of a young PEDANTIC SCHOLAR, who would have his dogmatical opinions pass for Seneca's morals. We have too much cause to suspect you, since you assume the character of a Lover, and address us under that name, when we cannot think you ever felt one spark of love, or know its intrinsic value; we must believe your ada-
mantine heart not capable of impression, if we judge by your spurious address.—Plato himself, could not moralize more rigidly; you are so stoical, that if all men were of your constitution, the human race would be in danger of annihilation; you may assure yourself, the Fair Sex will dread a connection, with such a finical figure of a man, whose mind is so disturbed with indigested ideas, whimsies and vagaries, and in want of sensibility, candor and generosity, when you expose the foibles of the Fair, which are but the incidents of human nature. You appear to be the offspring of an English mother, and Italian or Latin father, and ushered into the world by a French midwife, from whom you have learnt a smattering of each language, and would palm yourself upon us as very learned; but you need not have taken so much pains, for those of us who have heard you attempt to sing, know well that you can much better bray.
HALIFAX, September 9.
By accounts from the West Indies we learn, that the stores were removing from St. Lucia, previous to the final delivery of it to the French,—and that the French were making the same preparations for the delivery of our islands.
RICHMOND, (Virginia) Sept. 17. Extract of a letter from Washington county, dated August 10, 1783.
“We hear from good authority that various deputations have lately arrived at Louisville, they express a hearty and ardent desire to be at peace; acknowledging their mistake for not observing a neutrality, and humbly beg our protection; some of them tell us, our troops are in possession of Detroit, and that Commissioners from Congress had arrived at Sandusky: This is the real cause perhaps of their now so clearly seeing their error.—Notwithstanding this flattering prospect of peace presents itself, we are not a little alarmed at the rash and wicked conduct of a party of North Carolina people, settled on the Cumberland or Shawanese river, joined by a body of Chickasaws, attacked one of the Spanish settlements on the Mississippi; happily they were repulsed, and most of them fell a sacrifice to their villainous attempt. This unlucky affair, we find, was set on foot by some Tories that had taken refuge in Cumberland settlement, after the conquest of West Florida, particularly one Trumbull, and Phillip Aston (the famous money counterfeiter) but early intelligence of their infamous project, was given by a Virginian, whom it does honor to, to the Spanish Governor, by which means our friends were somewhat prepared to defend themselves: Would to God the Spaniards had them—perhaps they would satisfy their thirst for gold, by keeping them digging for it all their lives, as the Governor demands all those who have escaped to be given up, or he will send a sufficient force to make reprisals.”
ALL persons having demands against the estate of Nicholas Gilman, Esq; late of Exeter, deceased; or against the late company of Nicholas and Bartholemew Gilman, are requested to present them to the subscriber: And all persons having accounts unsettled with the said deceased, or late company, are desired to call on the subscriber (who is empowered to adjust them) for an immediate settlement; and those who are indebted, are earnestly desired to make payment without further delay. NICHOLAS GILMAN. Exeter, Sept. 24, 1783.

PHILADELPHIA, October 8.
The city of New York has lately been much infested by robbers: inasmuch that fifteen of them were at one time last week taken up.—Notwithstanding this, scarcely a night passed without a robbery. The inhabitants have formed associations for a nightly watch.
Extract of a letter from Hackinsack, Aug. 30.
“I was lately over at New York, though I did not meet with any considerable personal insults, I had the mortification to see some overgrown Tories stalking about, whose looks I did not altogether approve of. There is one Tilton I saw there in particular, whose practice has been these six or seven years to burn grist mills and meeting houses without the lines. This fellow walks constantly with a speer cane, and talks of nothing but rebels, and rebellion.”
“There is no end to auctions and vendues; every thing is selling off, and I believe a great deal more than the vendors can make a good title for. Among other articles, there are immense quantities of house furniture exposed to sale, either new painted or disguised in such a manner as to prevent the former proprietors from knowing it again. Few or no negro slaves are given up. My chief errand to town was to look up one of mine, and I saw the rogue, but found he had formed such connections with a certain great personage that I could no longer look upon him as my own. He told me he was going to Novy Koshee .”
“An American officer was lately in town (I believe he was of the militia) and having met with some ill usage, complained to David Matthews.—This father of the city, it is said, treated him very roughly, and by way of shortening conversation, wished all dam'd rascals in hell. The General then hurried away, and by a speedy embarkation narrowly escaped a good pelt-ing with stones, with a volley or two of which he was complimented after the boat left the wharf.”
“The Meeting Houses are in the most deplorable condition, the receptacles of filth and nastiness.”
NEW-YORK, October 11.
By a gentleman arrived in town last night we are informed of the safe landing, in good health, on Thursday at Philadelphia Mynheer VAN BERKEL , Ambassador to the the United States of America, from their High Mightinesses the United States of Holland.
NEW-HAVEN, October 16.
Wednesday night we had a severe N. E. storm, and the fullest tide that has been known for these forty years; which has done considerable damage along shore, by carrying off fences, lumber, &c.—In the storm a Virginia built boat, with a wooden grapnel, was drove ashore at Greenwich, and went to pieces. She was seen the preceding evening to run on a rock and overset, and three of her men to be on her side; but no relief could be afforded them, and it is supposed they all perished, as one dead body came ashore with the wreck; which had on a claret colored coat, with white metal buttons, a red jacket, and a pair of woolen overhalls.
HARTFORD, October 21.
Died at Coventry, one Elias Kreamer, a German; the manner of his death being somewhat singular, it is thought proper the circumstance of it should be made public:—On Sunday the 4th of August last, he in
company with a young man of the family in which he resided, made a collection of a quantity of Toad stools , under the notion of Mushrooms , which having fried, they eat the evening following; but not having made proper discrimination in their collection, their supper proved a poison to them, operating much like a Cholera Morbus , of which said Kreamer expired on Wednesday morning on the 7th; the other happily recovered, though affected in the same manner except in degree.
Married at East Haddam, the 7th inst: Mr. Jonathan Bebee, in the 87th year of his age, to Mrs. Remember Nye, in her 85th year.
BENNINGTON, September 28. Extract of a letter from Albany, dated Sept. 25.
“Several people have lately arrived at this place and neighbourhood from Canada; Strange as it may seem, none but military prisoners have yet been regularly discharged either at Montreal or Quebec. Those not under that denomination, that have reached this place, say they made their escape thro' the woods, after having repeatedly petitioned for passes to no purpose. Some of these people have been six or seven years in Canada, either in close confinement, or paroled within the limits of some town. One of them has informed me, what would seem most incredible, were it not for the evidence of other accounts, that Cornwallis's capture was a matter of uncertainty in Canada, for more than one year after that event took place. The disposition of the Indians, it is added, is at present very pacific, though in the course of the war it was no uncommon thing for them to come to the jail, where the prisoners of the United States were confined, and to demand such as they thought fit. These objects of vengeance were more than once given up and their scalps taken in cool blood.”
“P. S. General Haldiman commands at Quebec, but is upon very ill terms with the inhabitants. Not long since, his effigy was found, one morning, hanging at his own door—the people of the town, said the good General, are determined to make this a hell to me—but they shall find there is a d——l in it.”
BOSTON, October 26.
Capt. Parsons from Newfoundland, informs, that the day before he sailed from thence, a vessel arrived there in 40 days from Ireland, the master of which reported, that in consequence of orders received there from England for disarming the inhabitants, the Volunteers of Ireland, to the amount of upwards of an hundred thousand, had assembled and were determined to repel any force that should attempt to use any coercive measures; the consequences expected were dreadful—And that they were in great confusion in England.
We hear that the British Court has given orders to cut a post road from Halifax to Quebec. This road is to go round the head of the Bay Fundy: The distance of the road, it is thought will be somewhat more than 400 miles. Vast numbers of the poorer refugees from this country, and about three score of Cape Sable Indians, have been employed for some time in cutting this road, which he expects will be finished next summer.
Saturday and Sunday last, we experienced here the most severe N. E. storm, for the season, that has been known for several years. A new ship from Portsmouth, bound
to this port, and a Schooner from Halifax are ashore at the Cape. Many other misfortunes of the kind have undoubtedly taken place. Considerable damage was done to the shipping and wharves in this port.
S A L E M, October 23.
By the ship Robin Hood , Capt. Smith, who arrived at Cape Ann yesterday, in 36 days from London, we have the great pleasure of announcing, That the Definitive treaty of Peace, finally agreed upon by the late belligerent powers, was, on the 2d or 3d day of last month, signed by their respective Ministers.—As soon as we can procure a copy of this most important document, we shall not fail to lay it before our readers.
NAVAL-OFFICE, PORT OF PISCATAQUA, October 25.
CLEARED.
Brig Love Knot , A. Paris, for St. Peters. Brig Catharine , J. Mendum, Martinico.
Goods of every kind,
Taken in at the
Vendue-Room,
Adjoining the Printing Office, and sold out at Public Auction. Those persons owners of Goods, that would wish to attend the sale, may be accommodated with a back Room, very convenient for them to see how their Goods are sold, but will not be admitted to bid in said Room. Every secret desired will inviolably be kept.
Portsmouth, October 22.
THE Plan for forming the Society of the CINCINNATI, together with the Emblems of the Order, and the several Resolutions passed relative thereto; having been transmitted to me by his Excellency the President of the Society; with directions to take the proper steps for establishing a STATE SOCIETY, in New Hampshire.—
In obedience to the Instructions received, I take the liberty of requesting all Officers, who have served three years as such, in the New Hampshire Line; and others residing in this State, who have served as Officers in the American Army three years in the present war; as well those who have been deranged or resigned with honor, as those who are in actual service, to meet me at the house of Col. Samuel Folsom in Exeter, on Tuesday the 18th day of November next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, to elect a State President, and other proper officers of the Society; and to agree upon the necessary measures for complying with the regulations established by the Society at their general meetings.
JOHN SULLIVAN.
Durham, Sept. 10, 1783.
THE Commissioners on the estate of Brigadier General ENOCH POOR , late of Exeter, deceased, give notice that the judge of Probate has allowed six months from the second Monday of September last, for the creditors of said estate to bring in their accounts; and that they will attend at the house of Deacon Isaac Williams, in said Exeter, on the second Monday of the four following months, to receive said claims.
ALL persons that have any demands on, or that are indebted to the estate of Daniel Robinson , late of Exeter, shipwright, deceased, are hereby desired to settle the same, with Gideon Lamson, administrator on said estate.
ALL persons that have any demands against the estate of Mr. Benjamin Akerman , late of Portsmouth, Tanner, deceased, are desired to exhibit the same; and all those that are indebted to said estate, are requested to make speedy payment to Walter Akerman, and Joseph Akerman, Administrators on said estate.
STRAYED or stolen from Col. Samuel Sherburne's pasture, a dark brown STEER , coming three years old, about 12 days since: Also five SHEEP .—Whoever will return them to Mr. Benjamin Bigelow, shall be handsomely rewarded for their trouble.

TO BE SOLD. For one quarter part cash, the remainder in Corn, Rye, Beef, Pork, Boards, Flax Seed or State Securities.  A T  PUBLIC AUCTION, On Tuesday the 28th Inst. at 3 o'clock P. M. At the House of Samuel Pickering innholder in Greenland.
Sundry valuable lots of land, one in Northwood, containing about 200 acres, being lot No. 9 in the 10th range, one in Canan, one in Gilmantown, and one in several other valuable townships. Octo. 10.
T O be sold at public Vendue at the house of Hannah Dalton in Londonderry, on Thursday the 30th day of October next at three o'clock P. M. One half of the following lots of land viz. No. 82 in the great division of lots in Sanborntown,---No. 25 and 26 in north range Society Land---No. seven in south range in the Gore adjoining New Durham. The above is to be sold by virtue of a licence from the Judge of probate, towards paying the debts of Michael Dalton of said Londonderry, trader, deceased, represented insolvent. At the same time and place (if agreeable to the purchasers) the owner of the other half of said Lots will sell his part. Also, the lots No. 113 & 114 in Peterboro' of 200 acres. Likewise that fine tract of land called Holland's location, containing about 2500 acres, adjoining the town of Thornton; and about 20 rights in the State of Vermont, lying near Connecticut River, Onion River, Otter Creek, &c. For further information enquire of JOHN NEAL of Londonderry. Conditions of sale will be made as easy as possible, and seen at time and place. September 30, 1783.
State of New Hampshire.  W HEREAS a petition hath been preferred to the General Assembly by Benjamin Evans of Salisbury, in the county of Essex, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Esq., administrator to the estate of Jabez Tucker, late of Salisbury, deceased, Cordwainer, deceased, setting forth, that the said Jabez, by his last will and testament, devised his real estate to and amongst his children, as well his real estate in the State of New Hampshire, as elsewhere; and likewise bequeathed his personal estate as by the tenor of said will it may appear: That many, & some large debts were owing and due from said Jabez to divers persons, the whole of which debts exceed the amount of the appraised value of the personal estate of the said Jabez by a considerable sum. That the personal estate consisting of live stock and furniture, is indispensably necessary for the comfort and convenience of the family of the said Jabez; that, that part of the real estate of the said Jabez lying in Gilmantown was purchased of one Joshua Bates, to whom, for said purchase, a large debt is due, and by whom for the recovery of said debt, a suit is now pending against him the said Evans as administrator as aforesaid. And whereas the heirs of the said Jabez are desirous that the real estate in said Gilmantown may be sold: Therefore he prays that he may be legally authorised to sell and convey the said real estate late of the said Jabez, consisting of about 130 acres, & lying in Gilmantown aforesaid, he consenting to give bond to the Judge of probate for the county of Strafford in the State of New Hampshire, to apply and dispose of the net proceeds of said sale as personal estate of the said Jabez undisposed of.
Upon which petition the General Assembly ordered, that the petitioner may be heard thereon before them on the first Friday of their next session, and that in the mean time he cause the substance of the petition and order of Court thereon to be published in the New Hampshire Gazette three weeks successively, that any person or persons may then appear and show cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted. Exeter, June 25, 1783. Attest, J. PEARSON, D. Sec'y.
T O be sold at public vendue on Monday the twenty-seventh of October instant, at one o'clock P. M. at the dwelling house of Captain Samuel Douglass, innholder in Raby, by us the subscribers, collectors for the town of Raby for the year 1782 so much of the following lots or tracts of land as will pay the taxes assessed thereon, with necessary charges, unless sooner paid. Brown's list. State tax Rum tax County. Sever's list
   1. s. d. 1. s. d. 1. s. d. 1. s. d. 1. s. d.     Jones Cutler 0 10 2 0 7 0 3 0 0 10 1   Peter Cummings 1 8 2 0 2 1 0   Blood farm so called 1 23 6 0 9 3 2 1 1 8   Land N Patten lives on 1 3 0 1 2 11 2 1 2 1   Rose Lot so called 5 8 0 6 2 0   Benjamin Nutting 3 4 2 2 0 3 2   Common land north of the Pond 2 2 6 1 3 6 2 2 20 2   Common land south and east of Sever's meadow. 0 5 8 4 0 1 3 5 8  
CLARK BROWN, Constables. Raby, October 7, 1783. ROBERT SEVERS.
State of New Hampshire, Rockingham ss.  THE Commissioners appointed to receive and examine the claims of the creditors to the estate of the Widow Mary Tilton, late of Portsmouth, deceased, notify said creditors that six months longer from the 24th of September last, is allowed by the Judge of probate, to receive and examine their claims, on which business they will continue their attendance at the office of the Recorder of deeds in Exeter, on the last Monday of this, and the five following months, from two to six o'clock P. M. Those creditors that had accounts open with the deceased, are requested to settle and adjust them with the Administrators as soon as may be, that their claims may be laid before the Commissioners. All the claims to be well made out and properly attested, otherwise they must not complain if no notice is taken of them. Exeter, Octo. 4, 1783.
TO BE SOLD.  A Good FARM, in Loudon, containing 170 acres, with two houses and two barns, a tan-yard, a shoemakers shop, a good orchard of 250 apple-trees, and plenty of maple and beech wood thereon; 25 tons of hay can be cut on the same on a common season.---Five years will be given for payment of the principal. Inquire of John Sanborn, of Newmarket.
Just imported from England, by  Gilbert Horney, And TO BE SOLD, cheap for cash, at his SHOP opposite Mr. Stavens's tavern, the following GOODS, viz.  BROAD-CLOTHS, superfine, midling, and low priced.---Beavers, Duffsels, Ratteens, Serges, Flannels, Swanskins, strip'd lincey Kersey Blanketing, rib'd and plain Worsted Hose, Bed Blankets, Mill'd Caps, Slops of every kind, Worsted Patterns, Silk, Twist and Buttons, Women's Shoes, Men's ditto, Velverets, Jeanets, Jean, Sattinets, Hair Shag, yard wide and seven eighth Irish Linnens, Cotton Check, Linnen Check, printed Linnen, Calico, Bed Ticks, Chintz, Patches, ell wide Holland, Napkins, India Dimity, Dutch ditto, Princes ditto, figur'd ditto, Prussian Cord, Mock Quilting, Brocades, Lute strings, Ribbons, Cambricks, Lady's Swan-down Hats, Men's Beaver, Beaverit and Felt Hats, Silk Handkerchiefs, black and figur'd Linnen Handkerchiefs, Cotton Hose, Thread ditto, white Gauze, black ditto, English Saddles, Leather Breeches and Gloves, Ticklinburgs, Oznabrigs, Fishing Netts, Hamburg Lines, Bank Lines, St. Peters ditto, Mackrel ditto, Sewing Twine, Herring Nett ditto, Spike Nails, Deck ditto, 3d, 4d, 6d, 8d, 10d, 12d and 20d Nails; Bristol Crown Glass in sides, Shovels and Tongs, Flat Irons, Ironing Boxes, Plain Irons, Augers, Gouges, Chisels, Rasps, Files, Hammers, Steel plate and common Hand Saws, Gimblets, Stock Locks, Chest Locks, Rheme ditto, Cupboard ditto, Pad Locks, Latches and Ketches, Drawing Knives, Scythes, Knives and Forks, Jack-knives, Penknives, Scissars, Razors, Tobacco Boxes, Snuff Boxes, Shoe and Knee Buckles, Thimbles, Spoons, Bank Hooks, Quarter ditto, Small ditto, Sail Needles, Sheet Lead, Pigg ditto, Shott, Gunpowder, new and common twice laid Cordage, second hand Rigging, English and Russia Canvis, Anchors, New Castle Coals, &c. &c. &c.
State of New Hampshire.  NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Goffstown on the north side of the river, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1782, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue on Thursday the 30th day of October next at two o'clock P. M. at the house of Robert McGregory, Esq.; innholder in said Town, as will pay the taxes and charges, unless prevented by previous payment.      No  R  Q'ty  s.  d.  d.  s. d.      Benjamin Stevens  57  14  140  4  4  2  2 1    James McKnight  3  9  100  11  8  8  4 7    Thomas Parker  5  12  72  2  5  1  1 0    Peter Herriman  2  1  100  7  3  2  3 0    Ditto  6  R  140  14  6  4  5 11    John Goffe, jr.  2  6  100  8  7  3  4 0    Job Kidder  6  11  70  5  6  1  2 7    Thomas Packer  3  6  100  8  7  3  4 0    Sampson Stoddard  6  5  100  8  7  3  4 0    Benjamin Richards  1  7  100  11  9  4  5 2    John Jewel  1  9  100  7  3  2  3 4    John Goffe, Esq  3  10  50  4  5  1  2 1    Ditto  4  13  102  7  3  2  3 0    James Kennedy  5  10  20  1  10  1  10    Ditto  3  13  140  8  7  3  4 0    James Walker  2  13  90  7  3  3  4    Matthew Patten, Esq.  1  6  100  7  3  2  3 4    Thomas Fermer  4  12  68  3  3  1  1 6    Thomas Folsomby  6  12  70  2  5  1  1 0    Solley and March  5  13  120  7  3  2  3 11     ISSACHAR RING, Constable. Goffstown, September 29, 1783.
RAN-AWAY, an apprentice boy named John Stannell Gilman, about 18 years of age from his master Stephen Bean, of Gilmantown: Whoever will take up the said ran away and return him to his master, free of expence, shall have one Spanish peice reward: All persons are forbid crediting said boy on his master account. Octo. 12.
State of New Hampshire---Grafton ss.  W HEREAS the Owners of the Township of Haverhill, in the County of Grafton, have been legally notified of a Tax or Assessment of Four Pounds Lawful Money on each Original Right or Proprietors Share of Land in said Township, divided, proportioned, and affixed to each Division in the following Manner, viz. Meadow or Interval Lot, One Pound six Shillings and eight Pence; House Lot, Thirteen Shillings and four Pence; Hundred Acre Lot, One Pound; Undivided Land, including a Tract laid out into Eighty Acre Lots, One Pound; and very few have paid said Tax.---These are therefore to notify those who have not paid said Tax, that unless they pay the same, with incidental Charges, to me the subscriber, at my dwelling house in said Haverhill, on or before Tuesday the 4th day of November next, so much of each Delinquent's Land in the several Divisions of each Right, as will pay the Taxes with incidental Charges, will be sold at public Vendue, at the House of Capt. Timothy Barron, in said Haverhill, at Ten o'Clock, A. M. of said Day.
The Names of the Delinquents are as follows, viz.
   Ephraim Bagley, James Philbrick,   Reuben Mills, John Hazen, jun.   Edmund Colby, David Hall,   Lemuel Tucker, John White,   Benjamin Moors, William Hazen,   Robert Peasee, Timothy Beadel,   Jafiel Herriman, Jacob Kent,   Ebenezer Hale, Samuel Hobart,   John Hale, Maxi Haseltine,   Thomas Johnson, John Mills,   Abraham Dow, Uriah Morse,   Enoch Hall, Jacob Hall,   Benoni Wright, John Page,   Josiah Little, John Taplin,   Jonathan Foster, Joseph Blanchard,   Richard Patee, Moses Foster,   Enoch Heath, William Page,   Joseph Kelly, Aaron Horsemore,   John Herriman, John Lamson,   Stephen Knights, John Hall,   David Hobart, Simon Stevens,   John Moors, William Toburn,   David Page, James White,   Benjamin Merrill, Nathaniel Merrill,   John Church, James Nevins,   John Nelson, Theodore Atkinson, jr.   Nathaniel Barrell, William Syms,   George March, John Hastings,   Richard Emery, Nehemiah Lovewell,   Henry Sherburne, John Wentworth,   Samuel Wentworth, Byfield Lyde,   Gov. Francis Bernard, Moses Hazen,   Governor Benning Wentworth, two Rights, Eight Pounds. Asa Porter, Collector.  
Haverhill, Oct. 13, 1783.
TAKE NOTICE.  A LL Persons that have sold LIQUOR within the County of Rockingham, from October 1, 1782, to October first 1783 without being Licenc'd, that there is Forty Shillings due for every Offence; that we have a List of such Persons in almost every Town in said County, and in the Town of Portsmouth upwards of 50. All Persons of that Description have now another Opportunity given them to settle with the Receivers of Excise for said County, as one of them will attend for that purpose at the House of Captain William Brewster, in Portsmouth, on Tuesday & Wednesday the twelfth and thirteenth of November next. After that Time every Delinquent will be prosecuted without Respect of Persons. John Neal for himself, James McGregory.
Rye F A R M,  W ILL begin on the last Tuesday and Wednesday of this instant, October, at the house of ABRAHAM LIBBEY, in Rye.
PRINTED AT PORTSMOUTH.