Fowle's New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser ([Portsmouth, N.H.]), 1786-05-04 00:00:00

F O W L E'S NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE, AND GENERAL THE ADVERTISER.
T H U R S D A Y,
M A Y 4, 1786.
P O R T S M O U T H: By JOHN MELCHER,
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED IN PAVED-STREET.
VOL. XXX.]
"OPEN TO ALL PARTIES—INFLUENCED BY NONE:—WE AIM ONLY TO BE JUST." No. 1541.
An ACT
For supplying the Treasury of this State with ten thousand five hundred pounds, for the purpose of discharging the specie part of a requisition of Congress of the 27th of September last, said to be this State's quota of the interest of the foreign debt of the United States.
WHEREAS Congress by their aforesaid requisition, have requested from this State, one hundred and five thousand dollars, for discharging that part of the interest due on the foreign and domestic debt, assigned by Congress to this State, to be paid one third part in specie, and the other two thirds in facilities, which sum though far exceeding the just quota of this State, ought to be raised to prevent a breach of public faith, in full confidence, that when Congress are furnished with proper materials to ascertain the quota of each State, credit will be given for the sums which this State has, or may pay, more than its just proportion of the public debt. And whereas proper measures have been taken for discharging this State's quota of the interest of the domestic debt of the United States, and the specie part of the sum mentioned in said requisition only remains unprovided for:
Therefore, BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General-Court convened, That the sum of ten thousand five hundred pounds, lawful money, be, and hereby is granted for the purpose aforesaid, to be paid into the Treasury of this State, in specie, at or before the first day of May 1786, which sum shall be assessed and levied on the polls and rateable estates within this State, agreeable to the last proportion of taxes for the several towns and places in this State. And the Treasurer is hereby directed and required forthwith to issue his warrants for collecting and paying the same into the treasury, at or before the said first day of May.
And be it further enacted, That the Selectmen and Assessors of the several towns and places within this State, are hereby directed to assess the rateable polls and estates within their respective towns and places, their proportion of said sum, and cause the same to be paid into the treasury on or before the first day of May.
Agriculture.
From the MEMOIRS of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
An Account of an Experiment for raising Indian Corn in poor land. In a letter from JOSEPH GREENLEAF, Esq. to the Reverend JOHN CLARKE, F. A. A. Boston, May 26, 1785.
SIR, WHILE I resided in the country, I found it was the opinion of the farmers, that whoever raised Indian corn paid more for it, in labour, than it was worth: That the land must be strong, highly manured, well ploughed and hoed, or it would not produce a crop half equal in value to the expense bestowed upon it: That the land, in a very few years, would be worn out, and must lie useless a number of years afterwards to recover its fertility.
To convince them of their error, I purchased of one of my neighbours a piece of land, which he affirmed was worn out, and unfit to produce any crop of any kind. The land was dry, and not a stone in it: the soil was very light and shallow, inclining to sand. The ground was over-run with briars and weeds, called St. John's Wort, with here and there a spire of coarse wild grass.
Upon this piece of ground I made the following experiment.—In the first place, I procured a plough, made under my own direction, with a sharp coulter, and a share about a fourth part of the size and weight of common plough-shares; and with a furrow-board, on a new construction, which followed the coulter, edgewise, turning the furrow over in rather a spiral form. With this plough, which required only the strength of a single horse, a furrow was ploughed thro' the whole length of my field, and, returning with the plough on the side next to which the furrow was turned, threw up another furrow against the first. At four feet distance from this, another double furrow was ploughed, in the same manner; and so on, leaving a
space of four feet between the double furrows, thro' the whole field. Upon these double furrows, potatoes were planted, leaving the space of four feet between each hill. This field contained two acres and an half, and was about forty rods in length. It was ploughed and planted in one day with one horse and two boys. When the potatoes came up and wanted tending, the same boys, with the same horse and plough turned another furrow of the unploughed ground towards the potatoes, on each side, and dressed them with their hoes.—This they also performed in one day. At half hilling, it was repeated, and the whole field became ploughed. At hilling, the field was cross-ploughed, the earth thrown towards the crop, each way, and dressed with the hoe. By this mode, two acres and an half were completely tilled in four days, with the labour of only two boys and one horse; which, in the common way of managing ground, would have required ten days labour of one man, one boy, and two horses.
The next spring I ploughed, between every two rows of the old potatoe-hills, two furrows, which were thrown one against the other, and planted my corn upon them, without any manure. The ploughing and planting were performed, by the same horse, plough, and boys, in one day. My corn was husbanded in the same manner my potatoes were the year before. A field on the other side of the fence, much of the description and size of mine, was two days and an half in ploughing and planting, with one man, a boy, two horses, and a common plough. This field was planted on the same day with mine, and was well dunged. My corn made its appearance about two days before my neighbour's, ripened more than a fortnight earlier, and I had the largest crop.
I continued to plant corn in the same land, between the old hills, as before-mentioned, for three years successively, without carrying on any manure—the crops increasing about two bushels every year. My removing to Boston prevented my repeating the experiment.
You will join with me in lamenting the loss to the public of thousands of acres of land, which lie useless in this commonwealth, from a mistaken notion, that such land is worn out, and not capable of producing a crop sufficient to pay even for the seed which is planted.
I am, &c.
The Moral Entertainer.
DETACHED THOUGHTS.
HUMILITY is the guardian of all virtues: if she gives them not their life she preserves it; if she be not their mother she is their nurse; and if she be not pompous enough to serve them for an ornament, she is courageous enough to serve them for a defence.
It is a strange thing, but withal exceedingly true, that of all the virtues there is none more natural, nor yet a greater stranger to man than humility; for she is born with him. He carries the principles thereof in his soul and in his body; in that the one is drawn out of nothing, the other is formed out of the earth. He must forget his extraction to give the least admittance to pride; and he need only study himself to be sensibly affected with humility. Of a happy necessity she makes an excellent virtue; and profiting by her miseries, grows great by diminution; for glory is the portion of humility. She cannot shun that honour she flies from, and that which seems to threaten her ruin, becomes at last her recompense.
Whatsoever you yield to the importunity of a suitor, in the way of marriage, before you are married, will be the subject of your disgrace; and when he shall have wedded you, should you live as chaste as Susanna, he will continually imagine you will be liberal to others, of that whereof you was so prodigal to him.
Neither choose all, nor not at all for beauty. A
cried up beauty makes more for her own praise, than her husband's profit. Let there be no great disproportion in age:—They that marry ancient people merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves; in hope that one will come, and cut the halter.
Miscellanies.
ON HUMAN HAPPINESS. HAPPINESS was the end and design of all creation, and the love of it is implanted in every mind, not to be extinguished. Man may lose his happiness but cannot lose his thirst for it, that desire not satisfied is what we call misery. As soon as we step into the world we are saluted with groans and lamentations, and we hear but little else until we get out of it. From the man that sways the sceptre to him who serves at the gate, every one has a mournful tale to tell, they vary in particulars but unite in the dismal, and form such a din that the voice of reason is seldom heard, and the blessings of heaven although poured down in one ceaseless shower cannot stop the cry of complaint. Ignorance, ingratitude, and profaneness, are the parents of this great evil under the sun.
The great error of mankind, consists in attempting to separate what heaven has united, their DUTY and HAPPINESS ; they will not do their duty, and therefore cannot be happy, and under continual disappointments they continually groan.
The voice of wisdom cries in the ear of reason, "man be wise, honour thy Maker as thy supreme delight, imitate him in universal beneficence, spread your influence to promote human felicity to the most extended circle—pleasure shall then spring up in thy mind to sweeten all the scenes of life, and be a fountain of delight for ever." He who will not hear and obey must be unhappy; he may ride in the chariot of power, possess mountains of wealth, be dandled in the lap of smiling fortune and lean his head on her downy pillow, and yet be wretched, never enjoy even an idea, one moment of pleasure truly sublime, such as touches the noble soul.
Common complaint conveys an idea not much to the honour of him who utters it, it proclaims the absence of virtue, and is often but little better than blasphemy, carrying in it a reflection upon infinite wisdom—and is always destitute of that supreme gratitude which should animate the human mind to breathe nothing but the incense of praise.
Man's felicity consists not in ease but in action—not in present enjoyments but in noble pursuits—our desires are unbounded, cannot be satisfied with limited pleasures, therefore we should pursue infinite good. The most exquisite pleasures arise from beneficence, to communicate happiness gives felicity to the eternal mind; and in this divine channel all rational beings must receive theirs—such pursuits enlarge, polish and ennoble the mind, while it encircles the whole scale of beings in its benevolent arms, and burns with a generous ardour to spread virtue and happiness round the world. Noble deeds are immortal—they do not die with the day nor expire by accident or time, but travel through life and feast the soul through every vicissitude of fortune with unfailing and solid joy: this dissipates the gloom of anxiety which infipidity of vulgar minds who are busied in low scenes and confined to the narrow circle of self, and lights up the soul with the gaiety and sun-shine of true felicity; and this fortifies it against every adverse incident in life: Like Britain's floating castles, it rides out every storm and enters the fair haven. While little barks are buried with the surf and die beneath the waves, the lofty ship feels a propitious gale which wafts her to the port—thus the noble mind sails over the sea of time—and life is one golden stream, "calm as the night and bright as the day," growing in pleasure and shining with brighter beams until rolling years wind up the human scene, and heaven opens on the mind consummate day!
A CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHER.

Foreign Intelligence.
By the British packet SPEEDY, which arrived at New-York on the 18th ult. we have the following European Intelligence.
L O N D O N, January 27.
THE circumstances attending the unhappy wreck of the Halsewell East-Indiaman are dreadful in the extreme. Capt. Pierce, a little while before the ship went down, called Mr. Meriton into the cuddy, where his two daughters, two nieces, and three other beautiful young ladies were clinging round him for protection, and on being told, that it was impossible for the ladies to escape, he nobly resolved to share their fate, and holding in each hand a beloved child, in a few minutes fell a sacrifice to the devouring waves. The unhappy wretches who gained the rocks were in a more dreadful situation; they were, by the force of the returning surge, dashed to pieces, except the second mate, who fell into a fissure of the rock, and was some time up to the chin in water.
The chief mate said, in the fatal moment when the second mate was quitting the ship, that he would die with his uncle the Captain, and his cousins the Miss Pierces; for were he to leave such dear relatives behind him, he could only expect the worst of deaths, to be discarded for ever from the service!
A letter from Alicante, dated December 19, mentions, that a Maltese armed vessel, about six leagues from that place, fell in with an Algerine frigate of nearly the same force, when an engagement ensued, which began about ten o'clock in the morning, and lasted till half past two, in which the Captain of the Maltese ship, who was one of the Knights of Malta, and the Algerine Captain, were both killed, and by some accident the Maltese vessel took fire and blew up, and every soul on board, except one person, was lost; the Algerines had only 25 men saved out of 360, and their vessel so much shattered, that it was with great difficulty they got to Algiers.
Jan. 14. The accounts received from the continent, by the mails of Saturday, are at least equally shocking with those that our own coasts afforded by the late storms. Several vessels were lost between Dunkirk and Havre: but the coast of Holland has been more fatal to very many, the Dutch coast being literally strewed with wrecks. At the Texel, a Dutch man of war broke from her moorings, and is lost; all the people however were saved. In the Zuyder sea a large West-India ship, going from Amsterdam to the Texel, is lost, and many people perished. In the isle of Ulie, or as the Dutch call it, Vlye Landt, the sea has broke in it over the rocks, with which it is nearly environed, in an astonishing manner.—The mouths of the Maese, Scheldt, and Dort rivers, are full of wrecks. Some of the Dutch doggers were lost at both the former, which are boats of such a strength and construction, as to almost bid defiance to weather.—The Maese has overflowed its banks, and in the Scheldt at Sasfingen, which was rendered famous for the first rupture between the Emperor's flag and that of Holland, nine vessels are lost, two of which are carried over a dyke upwards of two miles into the country by an inundation. The town of Schevelingen has suffered considerably, but the principal damage is in N. Holland, where, about 43 years ago, 20 villages were nearly destroyed, the country there being all under water by the breaking of different dykes.
The Trecovich outward bound East-Indiaman, Captain Elder, from London, was totally lost on Tuesday night in Talland bay, a little to the westward of East Looe. Capt. Elder, his son, and 11 others of the crew, were drowned.
Jan. 30. This month has been uncommonly fatal to our shipping. The case of Halsewell East-Indiaman was peculiarly striking, distressing and shocking to human nature. In all its circumstances it may be said to be unprecedented and unparalleled! The commander, with his two daughters, two nieces, and other amiable females, several officers, and a multitude of men, all meeting in one dreadful moment that awful death which had grimly stared them in the face for two days and nights, constituted such a tremendous catastrophe as human nature sinks under the bare contemplation of; it is too much for the human mind to think of long! Many and great are the calamities which have befallen our other ships in all directions; and our surrounding neighbours have not gone without their share of calamity from the desolating tempest.
The Emperor and King of Prussia content themselves at present with waging a war of words—and of words with very little meaning to them as far as we can see; indeed we should think they might be ashamed to take up arms in such a dispute, without assigning much stronger reasons than either of them have. But if they will fight for fighting's sake, we could wish for the good of mankind, they might be left by surrounding Powers to fight it out fairly between themselves, as our boxing heroes do in England, without involving innocent and indifferent nations in the motley quarrel, by which there is not a possibility of their gaining the least good, or reaping any benefit whatsoever.
House of Commons, February 15.
Mr. Jenkinson said, that the regulation of the commerce between the United States of America and our West India islands, and that of the trade between this country and the United States, claimed the attention of the House. Many apprehended, that the plan that had hitherto been adopted in temporary acts of Parliament would prove injurious to our island—but all this apprehension was now removed by experience; and, therefore, he thought it might with safety continue on the same footing. That until the United States should bring forward some regular and permanent plan of commercial intercourse, he was of opinion, that the
temporary act of Parliament for keeping up that intercourse should be prolonged, and that no other measure ought, for the present, to be adopted on our part. He concluded by moving for leave to bring in a bill to prolong the said act; and leave was accordingly given.
Feb. 25. The late letters from Madeira mention, that a large Algerine rover of 38 guns, was blown up off Fayall the beginning of January, and that all the crew, consisting of 128 men, perished.
Extract of a letter from Edinburgh, dated January 28.
The town of Sunderland has been lately much alarmed by an apparition of a female figure, all in white, with a child in its arms, which had appeared to many in the dead of the night, coming from the sea, and advancing with a solemn step up the streets. An unfortunate young woman having been drowned in that neighbourhood, it was generally believed to be her perturbed spirit. Some of the revenue officers prowling in quest of legal prey, meeting her, and not thinking their duty extended to the obligation of examining visionary beings, took care to give her large room; even the centinels, who have boldly looked death in the face,
"Distill'd almost to jelly with their fears,"
"Stood dumb, and spoke not to it."
The story becoming known to the military officers, one of them ordered a soldier to speak to it, if it should appear on his guard; but he begged to be excused, for though he feared nothing living, he said he could not stand before a ghost, on which the officer, enjoining him secrecy, took his firelock, and stood centry in his room, saying with Hamlet on a somewhat similar occasion, and with the proper variation,
"I'll watch to-night, perchance 'twill walk again:"
"If it assume th' inspiring form of woman,"
"I'll speak to it, tho' all hell should gape,"
"And bid me hold my tongue."
He accordingly took his station; the ghost appeared, and when it had advanced nearly opposite to him, he, not like the Royal Dane, with fear-distorted countenance and tumultuous accent received it, but with the coolest intrepidity; and finding it began to quicken its pace as he approached, and that on a nearer view it had more of the masculine than of the feminine in its demeanor, he drew his sword, swearing if it was vulnerable he would run it through; it then stopped, called for mercy, and stooping, delivered itself, not of a child, but of two kegs of Hollands, and throwing off a sheet, discovered not the semblance of a woman, but the real form of a stout smuggler, and surrendered at discretion. Thus the revenue has been happily relieved from the fraudulent interference of supernatural agency. Ghosts will now be suspected of smuggling, and custom-house officers may lay violent hands on the spectres of the night, without fear of premature perdition."
J A M A I C A.
MONTEGO-BAY, March 11. By the last Packet the strictest orders were transmitted to the officers of his Majesty's Customs in this Island, not to admit any ship or vessel built in the American States, since their Declaration of Independence, to pass as British Plantation built, unless they should have been taken at sea, by letters of mart and reprisal, and condemned as lawful prize in the Court of Vice-Admiralty.
In consequence of the above orders, the brig Charlotte, Cornelius White, master, from New-York, with flour, lumber, &c. was seized here last Tuesday (her register, granted at Halifax in 1784, certifying that she had been built at New-London, in 1782.) It is however with much concern, we find ourselves obliged to relate that on the night following, the above vessel, without sails or rudder, was piratically rescued out of the hands of the officers, by four desperate persons, heading armed boats, towed out to sea, and with sails procured from the shore, carried towards Cuba; but, as the Comptroller, in a swift, well found vessel, is in pursuit of the pirates, her recapture may probably be effected at this hour, as the ship Euphrates, which arrived yesterday, saw the Charlotte on Thursday noon, in an unmanageable state, from the deficiency of sails, and the want of her rudder; and yesterday morning about one o'clock, fell in with and spoke the vessel in which the Comptroller is on board, and informed them of the Charlotte's steering a N. E. course; the supposed distance at that time five leagues from Martha Brac.
Those deluded men must have been spirited up to this rash act, by the too successful rescue of the brig Star, David Bowers, master, which, on the night of the 28th ult. was, in a similar manner, carried out of Martha Brac harbour. His Majesty's sloop Porcupine went the next day in pursuit of her, but neither has since been heard of.
March 18. Our last informed the publick of the rescue of the brig Charlotte, which was under seizure in the harbour, the steps that were taken in consequence thereof, and the probability of her recapture. Since that time, no certain intelligence has been received of either vessel.—An arrival yesterday evening from the coast of Cuba informs, that they heard of an American brig being at anchor on the coast, which is supposed to be the Charlotte; but of the vessel which went in pursuit of her, nothing has transpired since yesterday se'nnight, when she was seen at noon by the ship Fortitude, Captain Warden, off Rio Buena, about mid-channel.
A noble spirit.—At the suppression of the rebellion at Preston in Lancashire, in the year 1715, M'Intosh, a man remarkable for his courage, and his strong attachment to the House of Stuart, was, among other prisoners, brought up to London, with his legs chained under a horse's belly. As his name, from his daring behaviour, had been frequently repeated in the newspapers, the mob were continually inquiring, "Which is M'Intosh?" He, who rode rather sulkily, on the horse's neck, being no longer able to contain himself, at last said to the people, indignantly lifting up his head, "Here's M'Intosh! And De'il ha' my faul, gin they had been aw M'Intoshes, ya neadna' ha' spiered which was he!"
American Intelligence.
PHILADELPHIA, April 15.
Tuesday last, arrived here, in 24 days from St. Eustatia, the ship Success, Captain Cadenhead, who informs us, that the ship Hydra, belonging to Rhode-Island, had arrived at Eustatia, from Bengal, East-Indies, in three months and ten days; that all the hands belonging to her, except four, had left her at Bengal; and that the Captain was obliged to get Lascars to man her.
Extract of a letter from Richmond, April 1.
"The Whirlpool, of Salem, and another American ship, to a market, with cargoes of various articles, have been taken by the Algerine corsairs."
N E W - Y O R K, April 19.
In the English House of Commons on the 20th of January last, an order was passed, "That leave be given to bring in a bill for confining the trade between the ports of the United States of America and Newfoundland, to bread, flour, Indian corn, and live stock, imported in British built ships only."
Extract of a letter from London, dated January 12.
"Some merchants of the first eminence paid a visit to Mr. Adams, the American Ambassador, on Thursday, at his house in Grosvenor-Square, and yesterday they had a conference with the Secretaries of State:—In consequence whereof some regulations respecting the commerce of America are now on the tapis, in which these gentlemen have been consulted."
Extract of a letter from London, dated February 4.
"Government have lately granted, at the request of the American minister, that American ships, bona fide touching at Gibraltar, may be provided with passes, and have leave to navigate under the English flag, in order to screen them from troublesome visits of the Barbary corsairs; on condition, however, of their conforming to certain stipulated regulations, and paying the accustomed port duties, &c. at Gibraltar."
Extract of a letter from an English gentleman at Rochelle, dated January 18.
"In the course of my tour, the most active preparations for war were carrying on in all the sea-ports of France and Spain. The Emperor is daily recruiting his numerous army; and it is the general opinion in this country, that Europe is on the point of being involved in the calamities of war; and that the death of a great northern monarch will be the signal for the commencement of hostilities."
Extract of a letter from Cadiz, dated January 16.
"A stout Algerine rover, of 26 guns, was lately sunk off Cape St. Vincent, by two Portuguese frigates, after a very desperate resistance of four glasses, and all on board perished. The rover, during the engagement, attempted several times to board the largest frigate, which was much disabled in her rigging, but was vigorously beat off each time, with the loss of a great many men. The pirates had a prize in company, which they sent away before the engagement."
B O S T O N, May 1.
In the British packet Speedy, which arrived at New-York on the 18th ult. came Mr. Ansell, a gentleman appointed by that government to enquire into the value of the estate of those Loyalists which have been confiscated and sold.
Captain Charles Felly, who arrived at Charleston, South-Carolina, on the 3d ult. in 22 days from St. Christopher's, made oath before the Governor of that state, that on the 3d or 4th of March, at St. Eustatia, he was informed by the mate of an English ship from London, that about 30 leagues to the eastward of Barbadoes, they met three Algerine vessels, consisting of one ship of 22 guns, the other of 14, and one xebec of 12 guns; and that they were told by the Algerines they were cruising for American vessels.
On Monday evening last, a person, in passing from the Long-Wharf to Dock-Square, was assaulted and knocked down, by a single villain, who robbed him of a box, containing a coat, two waistcoats, a pair of corduroy breeches, a piece of calico, in which was wrapped up three watches, and a letter containing money.
P O R T S M O U T H, May 4.
We hear from Baltimore, that a number of patriotic gentlemen of that town have formed themselves into a society for the encouragement and improvement of Agriculture, founded upon these unalterable principles, "the cultivation of the earth is evidently the most certain and independent source of national opulence to States possessed of extensive territory; and will alone afford a sufficient supply to all the wants of a people."
A petition was lately presented to the assembly of Philadelphia, by two gentlemen of Maryland, praying an act to grant them an exclusive right of coining a certain sum of silver and copper (produced from mines in this country) which it is hoped their legislature has assented to.
N A V A L - O F F I C E,
Port of Piscataqua, May 4, 1786.
C L E A R E D,
Brig Susannah, Parker, Turks Island. Brig Astrea, Salter, Port-au-Prince. Schooner Fly, Twombly. Demarara. E N T E R E D, Sloop Sally, Smith, Philadelphia.

MRS. WORMWELL begs leave to inform her friends, and the public in general, that on Monday the 15th inst. she will open a genteel BOARDING SCHOOL , for the reception of YOUNG LADIES , who will be taught every thing necessary to compleat their EDUCATION . Portsmouth, May 3, 1786.
K E T T L E S. A few large  Pot-Ash Kettles To be Sold by Samuel Hill. Portsmouth April 17, 1786.
WHEREAS the proprietors of Stratford, at several meetings legally held, voted, That the following taxes on each original right, viz. August 11, 1773, 40s. December 30, 1773, 18s. February 2, 1779, 4s. January 2, 1781, 6s. and on November 11, 1783, 36s. and as many of said proprietors have neglected to pay the same; notice is hereby given to all such delinquents, that unless payment is made to the subscriber, or to John Wendell, Esq. at Portsmouth who is empowered to receive the same, their lands will be advertised for sale. JOHN CURTIS, Collector. Stratford, Feb. 2, 1786.
‡ Effingham. ‡ State of New-Hampshire.  NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of Effingham, who have not paid their State taxes for the year 1784, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before Tuesday the 13th day of June next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges will be sold at public vendue, at ten o'clock of said day, unless prevented by previous payment. The vendue to be held at Lt. Weare Drakes. No. D. Acres. s. d. q.   Joshua Wingate 3d 3 2 200 4 8 2  Abner Fogg, jr. 5 2 200 2 6 0  John Johnson, jr. 69 1 56 2 6 0  Ditto 25 2 200 6 9 0  John Dearborn 68 1 56 2 6 0  Zekiel Russel 30 1 56 3 4 2  Thomas Marston 42 1 56 2 0 0  David Knowls jr. 31 1 56 3 4 2  Ditto 47 2 200 5 0 0  Benjamin Leavitt 28 1 56 3 4 1  Samuel Smith 33 1 56 2 5 3  Ditto, half paid 2 2 200 3 4 3  Simon Dearborn 54 1 56 1 7 3  Ditto 10 2 200 6 9 1  Jonathan Marston 89 1 56 2 5 0  Henry Batchelder 70 1 56 2 0 0  Ditto 24 2 200 9 5 0  Thomas Parsons, jr. 24 1 56 1 7 3  Nathaniel Drake 29 1 56 3 4 3  Ditto 32 2 200 5 0 0  David Marston, jr. 36 2 200 5 0 1  Levi Dearborn, jr. 27 1 56 2 3 2  Ditto 46 2 200 6 9 2  Moses Leavitt, half paid 48 2 200 5 0 0  Thomas Robie 9 1 56 2 0 0  Enoch Lovering 17 1 56 1 1 1  James Wedgwood 19 1 56 1 1 1  Ditto 57 2 200 6 9 0  Seth Fogg 98 1 56 2 5 3  David Knowls 64 1 56 2 5 3  Thomas Parsons 95 2 200 3 4 3  David Wedgwood 57 1 56 1 7 1  David Marston 98 2 200 6 3 0  John Dearborn 57 2 200 1 7 1  Abner Fogg 7 2 200 2 6 0   CARR LEAVITT, Collector, Effingham, March 1, 1786.
State of New-Hampshire.  WHEREAS the inhabitants of Sanborntown, at a legal meeting held on the 28th day of March, 1786, voted to take all the vacant lands in this town into their own custody, chose us the subscribers for a committee to take care of the same. JOHN SAMBORN, } Committee. NATH'L GRANT, } EUJAH TRUE, }
ANY person having demands on the estate of Henry Tredirk, late of New-Castle mariner, deceased, intestate, are hereby desired to bring in their claims to Edward Tredirk, administrator to said estate, in order for a speedy settlement. New-Castle, April 13, 1786.
|| Coventry. ||  WHEREAS the proprietors of Coventry in the county of Grafton, and State of New-Hampshire, have been legally notified to pay me a tax of NINE POUNDS lawful money on each original right or proprietors share, assessed by a vote of said proprietors, at a meeting lawfully warned, and held the third day of August, A. D. 1782, yet many of said proprietors have neglected to make payment of the same. Notice is hereby given to said delinquents, that unless the said tax, with incidental charges, is paid to me at my house, in Boscawen, in the county of Hillsborough, and state aforesaid, before the second Monday of May next, so much of their respective shares as will pay said tax and charges, will be sold at public auction, the sale to begin at the dwelling-house of Mr. Enoch Knight, innholder in Atkinson, in the county of Rockingham, and state aforesaid, on Monday the 10th day of May next, at 10 o'clock before noon, and the sale to be continued from time to time, until enough is sold to satisfy their taxes as aforesaid. The names of the original grantees of the delinquent proprietors respective rights or shares are as follows, viz. Theophilus Fitch, Esq. John Fanther, Eliphalet Sealy, James Banks, Daniel Stevens, Amos Weed, Isaac Weed, Peter Weed, Ebenezer Hoit, Hezekiah Weed, Josiah Waterbury, Joseph Davenport, Gideon Leads, Samuel Crissey, Obadiah Sealy, Deodate Davenport, Ebenezer Scofield, Isaac Amiddell, Samuel Belding, Ephraim Smith, James Smith, John Bettes, Jesse Smith, Peter Husted, Samuel Bowton, Ithiel Bowton, Zebulon Husted, David St. Johns, Joseph Ambler, Charles Smith, John Bettes, Abraham Weed, Reuben Weed, Nathaniel Lounsbury, Admar Stephens, Obediah Stephens, jr. Nathaniel Weed, Eleazer Sealy jr. Wix Sealy, Sylvanus Sealy, Silas Hoit, William Fanther, Daniel Benedict, Nathaniel Hoit, Enos Weed, Theophilus Honord, Hezekiah Davenport, Nathaniel Waterbury, James Scofield, James Bates, Thomas Saymore, John Fanther, jr. Sylvanus Weed, Matthew Fountain, Joseph Lockwood, Adonijah Brown, Hon. John Temple, Esq. Theodore Atkinson, Esq. Theodore Atkinson jr. Esq. Samuel Weed, His Excellency Benning Wentworth, Esq. two shares. SAMUEL ATKINSON, Proprietors Collector. Boscawen, February 2, 1786.
WHEREAS the Overseers of the poor of this town (in the discharge of their duty, respecting idle and disorderly persons) have discovered that an iniquitous mode of dealing is pursued by some individuals who stole themselves shopkeepers , in the receiving goods of every denomination, under the specious pretence of purchasing them, although fully convinced that they are stolen, both with regard to those they receive such goods from, as well as the low price they give; which vile traffick has a tendency not only to multiply the number of thieves, but render them the more alert in the business, to the great distraction of morality, and the well being of society: —and as complaint thereof is made by the said overseers to us in our official capacity, in order that a stop may be put to such enormities, as far as in our power lieth: Wedo accordingly, hereby notify all persons coming under that description, that unless they immediately desist from such pernicious and unlawful practices, they may depend on having their names exposed in the public Newspapers, and prosecuted to the utmost rigour of the law. Given under our Hands at Union-Hall, in Portsmouth, the 24th day of April, Anno Domini, 1786. PETER COUES. JOHN SPARHAWK, } Selectmen. JOHN NOBLE, } NATH'L FOLSOM, } WM. GARDNER, }
ALL persons having any demands upon the estate of John Leavitt, Esq. late of Effingham, deceased, are desired to exhibit their accounts to Capt. Carr Leavitt, of Effingham, administrator upon said estate, and all persons indebted to said estate, are desired to make immediate payment to said administrator. CARR LEAVITT, Administrator. Effingham, March 1, 1786.
TO BE SOLD, By the hundred or smaller quantity,  Good Clean CLOVER SEED, Inquire of JONATHAN MOULTON, of Hampton, or Mr. GEORGE LIBBEY of Greenland. ††† No doubt those Farmers who have experienced the benefit arising from the practice of sowing Clover Seed, in old Land, will think it worth their notice to purchase and sow it, if it is only for the benefit of enriching their land, exclusive the advantages and benefits accruing from the produce of the feed. Hampton, March 29, 1786.
Thomas Manning Has for Sale, At his Store near Liberty Bridge,  SALT , Tobacco, Tar, Pitch, Turpentine, Limes, Twine, Pork and Hams; —said Manning wants to purchase two yoke of OXEN , and a few COWS with their CALVES , likewise a number of sheep. Portsmouth, April 18, 1786.
The Vendue for the Sale of the Real Estate of John D. Yeaton , that was to have been held the 17th instant, is adjourned to Friday the 5th day of May next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. at which time will be sold, half a house and land, on Islington road, with the incumbrance of the widow's dower; also a lot of land about one hundred feet square, being part of the field, commonly called the great rock field, the sale to be on the premises. Portsmouth, April 25, 1786.
|| Sanborntown. || State of New-Hampshire.  NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in Sanborntown, who have not paid their taxes for 1784, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, on Wednesday the 31st day of May next, at two o'clock in the afternoon, at the house of William Harper, Esq. innholder in said town, as will pay the taxes and charges, unless prevented by previous payment. State. County.   No. D. s. d. q. d. q.  Jabez Sanborn 6 1 2 3 3 3 2  Abraham Sanborn 23 1 1 6 2 2 2  Ditto 36 2 7 4 2 11 0  Solly and March 79 2 2 8 3 4 1  Marsten Sanborn 62 1 4 7 2 7 0  John Rawlins 44 2 2 3 3 3 2   JOHN CLARK, Conitable. Sanborntown, April 11, 1786.
A LARGE number of the inhabitants of this town, have determined to put in execution the laws respecting SWINE ; they therefore give this public notice that all Hogs found going at large in the streets after the 15th of May next, will be taken up, and sent to the alms-house. Portsmouth. April 26, 1786.
E X C I S E.  THIS is to request all persons within the subscriber's district, who have not settled their Excise for the year 1785, to do it before the meeting of the General Sessions of the peace, in May next, or he will be under the necessity of entering a complaint. No character will be excused. Those who settled their Excise by giving Notes of Hand, are desired to take them up immediately, otherwise they will be put in suit. JONATHAN CASS, Excise Master. Exeter April 24, 1786.
ALL Persons indebted to, or who have claims against the estate of JOSEPH PURINGTON , late of Pittsfield, deceased, are desired to settle the same with the subscriber, executor of his Will. JAMES PURINGTON. Pittsfield, April 27, 1786.
[ Northwood. ] State of New-Hampshire.  NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Northwood, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1784, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, at my dwelling-house, on Monday the 8th of May, at 10 o'clock, in the forenoon, as will pay the taxes and charges, unless prevented by previous payment. State. County. War.   R. N. Q'ty. s. d. q. d. q. l. s. d.  Thomas Mosely 7 13 156 4 8 0 3 0 0 7 5  Wm. Langdon 14 156 4 8 3 7 5  George Jaffrey 15 151 4 5 1 2 1 7 5  Cuting Noys 16 130 4 4 3 6 9  John Allen 17 61 1 9 3 3 3  Ann Smith 18 156 5 1 2 2 1 8 8  Richard Kent 12 26 9 1 1 3  Col. Renough 8 7 53 5 1 1 2 1 8 8  Samuel Penhallow 8 156 16 4 1 8 1 1 5 7 7  Samuel Durant 15 129 7 7 4 1 15 15  John Calf 13 156 6 4 3 1 10 10  Benjamin Bickford 19 50 5 1 1 2 1 8 8  John Waite 8 21 156 6 4 1 3 1 10 10  Mary Suminsby 12 40 7 8 4 19 19  Samuel Jones 9 17 18 1 3 2 2 2  Benjamin Harris 21 156 5 1 1 2 1 8 8  Dr. N. Sergent 10 9 94 2 7 1 4 4  William Briggs 10 78 3 9 2 7 7  Jenny Clement 11 130 4 9 4 7 8  Samuel Whitwell 14 108 13 9 1 6 1 1 7   JOSHUA FURBUR, Collector. Northwood, April 18, 1786.