Fowle's New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser ([Portsmouth, N.H.]), 1785-09-02 00:00:00

PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 2.
Since our last arrived in this port, Capt. Smallcomb, in seven weeks, has made a voyage from Lee, whither we have received orders to 6th of July, from which the following is selected:—
L O N D O N,
May 28. Wednesday was married, Mr. John Hopkin, of Milbank-street, aged 80, to Mrs. Mary Jonson, a widow lady of Carey Street, aged 90.
None of the taxes that have been offered as substitutes to those to be laid upon retail shops and excise, are approved. This may be owing to a prejudice of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in favour of his own labour, a foible that is common to us all: however, a correspondent of ours hath to propose an addition which he thinks will move the Minister to drop favourite taxes, and adopt the following, to wit:
A tax of twenty shillings a year on every person who, in the early part of the late most unfortunate war in America, has set and subscribed his name to an address to a great personage, beseeching him not to desist from carrying on that accursed war, and offering him both his life and fortune in the prosecution of it, which had such an amazing influence upon those whose business it was to grant the money to pay the expence, that the measure did not meet with any objection worthy to be spoken of. The number of persons can be known exactly, as also who they are, by referring to their addresses. This plan, our correspondent is of opinion, would raise more than 500,000l. and flatters himself it will meet no objection, as it is grounded upon principles of justice and morality; for, as they have profited by the distress brought upon the nation, in a variety of contracts, commissaryships, loans, jobs, and an infinity of other good things, it is just they do now contribute some things more than their neighbours, who petitioned against the war, and had no opportunity to make money by it; it is moral, as it is making them act up to their promises. Many of those addressors are undoubtedly dead and gone by this time; and though it might be thought rather hard that the successors to their fortunes should pay the tax, it would, however, work this good, that this tax would make them mind their business better another time.
June 3. At Exminster revel, in Devonshire, held yesterday se'nnight, a man (who had formerly acted in the capacity of a Merry Andrew) had the presumption to stand twice on his head on one of the battlements of the tower, to the astonishment of a great number of spectators, and being liberally rewarded for so doing, was induced to make a third attempt, in the performance of which he fell down, and was killed on the spot; his body being mangled in a shocking manner.
Mrs. and Miss Adams, wife and daughter to the American Ambassador, would have attended at the levee and ball on the King's birth day, had they arrived in town time enough to have prepared equipage, &c. suitable to their rank.
A the late sale of Mr. Reynold's (the clerk of the Arraignment) property, a small miniature picture of Fairfax, a famous republican General, against King Charles the First, painted by Cooper, sold for sixty guineas.
June 18. The Emperor has lately published a law, which it would be worthy of the wisdom of the British legislature to adopt: It declares that in future no clergyman shall hold two benefices to which cure of souls is annexed, because it is impossible that they should duly attend to the duties of one, without neglecting the functions of the other; and so strictly is the law to be observed, that it is to extend even to bishops, and prebendaries of the metropolitan churches, so that those who had hitherto been permitted to hold several rectories which were served by curates, must now resign them all but one. Were this law to take place in England, how many fat pluralists would become thinner; and how many half-starved curates turn rectors, and gather flesh!
The monarch who said that scratching was too great a pleasure for subjects, gave a literal description of the beau monde .
If Rumour is to be implicitly trusted, there are not above a dozen noblemen in the kingdom who are not corrupted.
J U L Y 6.
Last Monday upwards of two thousand letters from New-York were delivered out of the general Post-Office: they contain great remittances to the merchants.
The dispute between the Emperor and the Dutch is at last finally settled, through the mediation of France; and though the terms of accommodation is not made public, yet so much of them are known, that the Dutch have carried their favourite point of not entirely opening the Scheld, but in lieu thereof are to pay the Emperor a handsom douceur.
It is very probable that the Dutch are more obliged to the Turks for their peace with the Emperor than to any mediation of France, the late alteration in the Ottoman Court forbidding an approaching storm, and the change of their pacific Ministers for warlike soldiers, who now entirely govern the empire, pointing out a change of measures which is likely soon to take place.
It is said a treaty offensive and defensive has been made between the Imperialists and the Russians; and in particular, if the Turks should commence hostilities in Europe, these two powers are to assist each other, in which case the Ottomans may perhaps get into a war which will not be concluded, but by their quitting all European dominions to the conquerors.
The Dutch Deputies, who are gone to Vienna, in consequence of the mediation of France, have not the power of submission to the Emperor more for their object, than to represent the inability of the Republic to pay him he requires; which is about half a million. In fact is, the Dutch have no money; and the main purpose of the mission is to obtain a remission of the sum demanded. It is an undoubted truth, that the Dutch nation is become extremely poor; the individuals, who a few years ago discounted bills at two per cent
have now no money. This extraordinary translation may seem strange to many but it is true.
North America is unquestionable in a very singular situation at present. The trade to that quarter is precarious. Much credit has been given, and the remittances are not only uncertain but doubtful. The French can give the Americans little or no credit; and the English and Dutch, who have done it, have suffered by it. Every day fresh failures happen in this line. The last mail from the Continent brought an account of an eminent house in Holland having stopped, which was an American trader. We know of the houses in London.
V I E N N A, June 11.
Last Week great Damage was sustained in the Vineyards and fields in this Neighbourhood, and particularly towards Krem, by the fall of a prodigious Quantity of Hail, in Consequence of which the Temperature of the Air was greatly chilled, but the Warmth is now restored. They write from Styria, that the Weather there is still exceedingly cold, & that all the Mountains are again covered to a considerable Depth by a great Fall of Snow on the 1st.
G E N O A, May 21.
We have Accounts from Spain, that in the Night of the 9th of last Month there was a violent Storm in the Straights of Gibraltar, which extended to the Bay of Malaga, by which 27 Merchant Ships, with most of their crews were lost. Some Days afterwards 217 Crops were thrown upon the Coasts by the Sea; three Vessels were lost in the Bay of Malaga, one of which was a Spanish Cutter, newly built.
V E N I C E, May 23.
The government of this republic has come to a determination of negotiating a loan of 2000 ducats at 3 per cent per annum. The conditions of this loan are comprised in 11 articles, approved by a resolution of the senate of the 7th instant. It is uncertain what will be the determination of government with respect to the propositions of the Bay of Tunis to the Chevalier Emo, whose last dispatches include the above adventures.
J U N E 13.
Great works are in progress in this City; they are at work Day and Night in the Arsenal, where upwards of 20 large Cannon are in Battery, which have been lately cast. We expect to see the result of their labours.
It has been spread that the Grand Vizir, who for some time past has been confined to the Republic, by the result of his head has been exposed to the view of the people. This Pacha is an intimate friend of the late Vizir. Two Agas of the Janissaries have been exposed, and, after execution, their heads exposed also.
A Y, near the Lake of Geneva, June 7.
A late in this neighbourhood, the utmost consternation is the Sieur Saveur was this morning about five o'clock enlarge building in the lower court of M. Triquet, and not the smallest trace of either of these buildings is to be known. The number of persons drowned is not known.
P E T E R S B U R G, June 8.
By letters dated the 18th of May, his Excellency Lieutenant Tascherdtkow, has communicated intelligence of an event which will at once appear extraordinary, and afford great room for speculation to the faculty. This Nobleman writes to the following effect:—A young Russian peasant living at a farm in the above district, being bit by a mad dog, no unfavourable symptoms was apprehended from the accident. —Some time after being invited to a wedding, he ate and drank promiscuously with the company, whereby the poison with which he was infected was so rapidly communicated, that before they rose from the table 58 men and 41 women were at the same moment attacked by the most alarming symptoms; some were afflicted with a violent pain in the head, some discharged blood from the mouth in great quantities, and others dropped down in a state of total insensibility. Those who came to the assistance of the unfortunate people observed that their tongues were covered with blisters of a blueish cast, and about the bigness of a grain of barley, which constantly increased in size. These protuberances being pierced with a needle, they emitted a black blood, after which the wounds were rubbed with fine salt. This operation was repeated no less than nine times upon some of the patients, on account of fresh matter collecting upon the tongue. This application was made to the young man who had infected the rest of the company, but without effect, in consequence, it is supposed, of the blisters breaking while he was eating, and his swallowing with his food the blood issuing from them. After chewing
all the symptoms of the hydrophobia, he expired in violent convulsions. To the rest of the company administered, night and morning, a large glass of the infusion of the plant in botany called Genista-Tinctoria , and they now appear to be perfectly recovered.
M O N T E G O - B A Y, (Jamaica) July 19.
On Thursday his Majesty's ships Janus Comodore Packingham; Flora, Captain Stoney, and Ariel, Captain Morgan, put into Lucea to water, on their return from the Misquito shore. They left the troops at Black-River, under the command of Colonel Etherington, in perfect good health; all appearance of hostilities of messages have taken place between Colonel Etherington and the General of Guatemala, that the differences should be left to the adjustment of the two Courts.
S H E L B R N E, (Nova-Scotia) July 21.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Beaver-Harbor to his friend in this town, dated July 15. 1785. "We have had a confounded fire here about eight days ago, which has put every thing at a stand. The fire was so dreadful that it threatened, and nearly accomplished, the total ruin of the settlement. Twenty-one houses were destroyed, and a number of others damaged. Very few people escaped without losing something—nearly every garden in the place was ruined."
N E W - Y O R K, August 15.
We are informed that Captain Allibon's brigantine, formerly used as a trader between the cities of Philadelphia and Charleston, has lately been purchased, is arrived in this port, and named the INFANTA, commanded by Captain Lafera, intended as a constant Packet between this port and the Havana.
The treaty proposed to be held on the first of October next, at the mouth of the great Miami is expected, will close all business with the Indians for the present. A great additional cession of land is expected from them—Congress have appointed Major General Robert Howe, of North-Carolina, distinguished on many occasions by his great abilities and exertions in the late war, one of the commissioners for Indian affairs, to attend at the above treaty.
A melancholy instance of the fatal effects of the bite of a mad dog presented itself lately to the faculty in England.—A man was severely bit in the hand on the morning of February 22. In the afternoon the parts were cut out, and causticks applied. He was put on a mercurial course, but could not be prevailed on to continue it. On the 13th of May he began to complain of pains in the arm and hand that were bitten, which increased for two days. On the 21st the hydrophobia began and was very severe, and could take no drink, though very desirous of getting any liquid down. On the 23rd he got down sometimes a spoonful of drink with difficulty, on the 24th he swallowed both drink and spoon meat with less pain; but in the afternoon he was attacked with faintings, and about five in the afternoon died.—He was perfectly sensible at the same time.
Extract of a letter from London, June 6.
"I begin to suspect I have been completely mistaken in my ideas, respecting the unfavourable appearance of the politics of this country, and my expectation that those of the United States would grow better—I believe the very reverse will be the case; for in America, I can neither perceive an improved system of government or an increase of commerce; and the publick faith seems to have no other consequence but the name. We are growing better here daily—our funds are rising—commerce flourishes—the course of Exchange is in our favour from all parts of the world—the taxes are efficient in almost every class, and super abundant in many: the revenue is reformed, and further improvements are in contemplation—Smuggling, that bane to commerce, and canker to the constitution, is almost annihilated; and all this reform is from the abilities of a young man not twenty-five years of age."
Extract of a letter from Kingston, (Jamaica) dated July 16.
"By a gentleman just arrived from Hispaniola, we learn, that the late order, excluding American vessels from all their different ports, does not extend to such as are loaded with fish and lumber, taking only taffa and molasses in return; but so determined are the French, with respect to other articles of the island produce, that a Schooner belonging to New-London was lately seized at Port-au-Prince, having on board only two hogsheads of sugar, and ten bags of coffee, but, released on the Captain agreeing to pay a fine of 100 pistoles."
James McCormick, of Dutchess county, Hieronimus Swingle, of Ulster county, and Jeremiah Arnold, a free negro man, were lately convicted of horse-stealing, and have all received sentence of death.
The play house at Amsterdam, when the price for the highest ticket is only 2cd. furnishes a revenue to that city of near four thou

land pounds per annum? In the same manner, says a correspondent, I would make the play-house here a means of bringing in a revenue for the support of the poor, with this alteration, that, instead of taxing the players two-thirds of their income, would only demand one quarter; by which plan a revenue might be raised sufficient to support our poor-house, without laying any other burthen upon the citizens.
AUGUST 22.
On the 9th instant arrived at Baltimore, directly from China, the ship Pallas, commanded by its owner, Capt. O'Donnell. She has on board a most valuable cargo, consisting of an extensive variety of teas, china, silks, satins, nankeens, &c. &c. We are exceedingly happy to find the commercial reputation of that town so far increased, as to attract the attention of gentlemen who are carrying on this distant but beneficial trade. It is no unpleasing sight to see the crew of the ship, Chinese, Malays, Japanese, and Moors, with a few Europeans, all habited according to the different countries to which they belong, and employed together as brethren; it is thus commerce binds, and unites all the nations of the globe with a golden chain.
The cargo of the Pallas East-Indiaman, lately arrived at Baltimore from Canton, consists of every species of tea, china, silks, satins, gauzes, velvets, umbrellas, paper-hangings, &c. &c.—the sale of which is to commence at Baltimore, on the first of October next by public vendue, and to continue till the whole is disposed of under the following conditions: The purchaser immediately to pay ten per cent. on the amount of whatever lots he may buy, & either give undeniable and satisfactory security for the due payment of the balance in two months or leave the goods as a deposit until they are cleared out, which must be at the expiration of two months from the date of the purchase; otherwise they are to be resold immediately on the first purchaser's account who is to be answerable to the proprietor for any deficiency, and the expenses attending the second sale.
HARTFORD, August 22.
Died, on Wednesday last, at his seat in Lebanon, his Excellency JONA. TRUMBULL, Esq. late Governor of the State of Connecticut, in the 75th year of his age.—The political actions and moral virtues of this truly venerable patriot have placed his character above the effect of panegyric; his memory will be immortal, and excite the gratitude of America, as long as her political existence shall continue to be a blessing to mankind.
It is confidently reported, That by means of some wisecares drawing the string too close, it snapt, whereby this State has already lost above one thousand pounds, computed at the rate of the former small duties.—Several foreign vessels have already altered their course to the Southward.—If there had been a proviso in the Commercial Act, not to have taken place till the other States had passed a similar one, we should have seen before our eyes were shut.
NEWHAVEN, August 17.
Wednesday last, two children were bit by a mad dog at East-Haven; the dog was pursued and killed.
Thursday last, before the Hon. Superior Court, then at Litchfield; came on the trial of one Goss, for the murder of his wife some months past, of which he was found guilty, and received sentence of death.
PLYMOUTH, August 10.
Last Wednesday arrived here the brig Sally, Capt. William Harlow, in 25 days from Guadalupe. The night before he sailed, they were alarmed with a heavy shock of an earth quake; but leaving the island next morning, did not hear of any damage being done.
WORCESTER, August 4.
From Upton we have the melancholy intelligence, that two or three of the persons who were lately bitten by a mad dog, as mentioned in a former paper, died last week, subjects of all the horrors resulting from this fatal disorder. The skill of eminent physicians proving ineffectual.
The many melancholy instances lately exhibited of the fatal effects of the bites of mad dogs ought to put every person on guard. Every owner of a dog (who chuses to risk keeping him) should watch him critically every morning, and on the least symptoms of madness appearing he ought, without hesitation, immediately to dispatch him.
BOSTON, August 25.
The following singular affair, we are assured by a correspondent, is fact, and lately occurred within a few miles of the city of London. An old gentleman, formerly a considerable trader in the metropolis, but who had retired for some years past, generously left a profitable trade, with the aid of a considerable part of his capital, to his three servants, whom our correspondent calls Peter, Charles and James. He imagined this triumvirate (though in no degree related to him) had formed large expectations from his death; his intentions were kind towards them, but he had a great desire to make a trial how far they were deserving his favour. To prove this, he made a will, took to his bed, and ordered his house-keeper (who was entirely in his confidence) to write to his old servants, first that he was very ill, and by the next post that he was dead. Down they came in the post chaise and four, but with different feelings: Peter and Charles could not conceal the joy of their hearts, which shone through the affected sorrow of their countenances:—Poor James loved his old master, and felt what his companions counterfeited. The house-keeper met them with tears in her eyes (for women when they list can cry) and as he imagined they would choose to see the will, before
they went over the corpse, produced it to them. There they found four thousand pounds given to Peter, two thousand to Charles, and to poor James nothing at all.—Now for the effect:—Peter fell into a violent passion, and said, "You are to observe, he has used me very ill, in not giving me three times as much, and in fact I won't go into mourning for him."—Charles said "I do not think myself at all obliged to him, I deserved a great deal more." Poor James sighed—"We had none of us any right to a shilling, said he; in his life time he was very good to us all, but one thousand pounds would have made me quite happy." The supposed corpse had heard enough, out he jumped from a closet tweaked Peter by the nose, kicked Charles's breech and with the assistance of the house-keeper, cuffed them out of the house; then caught James in his arms and said, "My boy, thou deservedst, and shall have encouragement; those fawning sycophants ought to be restored to their primitive nothing, from which I raised them; but men of their disposition are sure to be miserable in every station:—Thou hast a good heart, and shall find I have a liberal hand." The honest old man made good his words; by an immediate absolute present of ten thousand pounds.
One of the most important chemical discoveries, that of the fixing of mercury, which has so long been searched after by the curious, has at last been made at Vienna, in the empire of Germany, by a lady of the name of Orbelin, who has for some years employed her leisure hours in chemical operations: This lady invites any person to be an eye witness to her having discovered means of fixing mercury, and rendering it fusible as other metals are, without the invention of any other metallic substance; and after its fixation by a process of no great length or labour, this able chymist submits the mercury to the greatest heat, without its resuming any of its former volatility, the principle, of which is absolutely destroyed. On the contrary, this volatile metal becomes so entirely fixed, that the greater heat is placed, the more compact and dense it becomes, even to a state of bitterness. Thus we are indebted to the fair sex for one of the greatest chemical discoveries of this age.
SALÉM, August 30.
Extract of a letter from an English gentleman on the coast of Africa, to his correspondent in Charleston, South-Carolina.
"The professed patriotick publick spirit of your New-England friends, in endeavouring to liberate those who differ from them in colour, and in discouraging the slave trade, appears to have vanished, in some degree, like the morning cloud and early dew; and however much, in this instance, they differ from us in profession, yet in practice their conduct amounts to no more or less than this:—that they have now here, from Boston and its vicinity, six vessels, five of which, I am told, have positive orders to take slaves only, and more are daily expected.—By reason of some disagreement or misunderstanding among their Captains, the price of slaves is much enhanced; and the Factories, all along the coast, are so well supplied with rum, that the demand, and of course the price, are considerably lessened.—But such enterprising geniuses are the New-Englanders, that I expect to hear of their sending vessels for slaves round the Cape of Good Hope; for when they find (which they soon will do) the disproportion between the profits of some of the first vessel's voyages and those that are now about leaving the coast, and when to this they will add the prospects of markets hereafter, and the embarrassments they are liable to from our frigates, methinks the time is not far distant for such an event to take place.—I wish them success, because I think the trade may be a beneficial one, more especially to the publick, for it may not only be a means of preventing a quantity of circulating medium (which I presume they cannot well spare) being exported, but, on the contrary, it may be frequently giving them seasonable reinforcements of it.—Besides, it may have a tendency of our receiving our remittances faster than we otherwise should, more especially as the French West-India islands are, in general, partly sold for Bills of Exchange on Paris: and so far as it may serve as a substitute for what we have deprived them in the sale of their oil and ships, so much the better."
Died at Boston, on Friday last, Captain JOHN GILL, for many years a Printer in that metropolis, aged 54.—He was one of those Conductors of the Press who made it subservient to the great cause of LIBERTY, at a time when many Patriots, now in office, thought that any measure which embarrassed the printing, or obstructed the circulation of News-PAPERS, was a crime little short of Treason against the Majesty of the People. But this was at a period when those publications were considered as essential to Freedom, machinations of the tools of arbitrary power, and in rousing the people to activity in defeating them.—Capt. Gill, for disseminating principles destructive of tyranny, suffered (what many other Printers were threatened with) a cruel imprisonment.—He, however, was so fortunate as to survive the conflict; but had the mortification, lately, of seeing the Press ready to be shackled by a Stamp-Act, fabricated in his native state;—he therefore resigned his business, not choosing to submit to a measure which Britain artfully adopted as the foundation of her intended tyranny in America.
State of New-Hampshire, Strafford ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to all persons that have any demands against the proprietors of Wakefield, to bring in their accounts, and we the subscribers will attend on the last Monday and Tuesday in September next, to receive and settle at the house of David Copp, Esq. inholder in Wakefield. No accounts will be allowed after said days.
DAVID COPP. JONATHAN PALMER, } Proprietors committee. SAMUEL CHAPMAN, } Wakefield, August 24, 1785.
L O N D O N, July 6.
His Excellency John Adams has pressed the Marquis of Carmarthen to open a negotiation for the payment of the negroes that were taken from the subjects of the American States during the war. The Marquis has refused, declaring that the American States have in no instance complied with the Definitive Treaty of Peace, and until that shall have been fulfilled, he must decline entering into that or any other negotiation.
The execution of the late Grand Vizir, with the many instances of similar outrage, shew the miserable condition of a despotic government, in which the lives and safety of the people depend on the caprice of the Sovereign, how much is British liberty to be prized, which is a sworn foe to tyranny in every shape. Much is due to those watchmen of the state, who oppose every encroachment, even the least, on those invaluable privileges, which form the strength of our government, and the happiness of the people.
St. CHRISTOPHER, July 6.
Extract of a letter from Dominica, dated in Roseau, July 2, 1785.
There has been more rain here these four weeks last past, than you have had in St. Christopher for twenty years. On Thursday morning last, about eight o'clock, the river came down with greater force than was ever known before, it overflowed the whole town except the market place, filled the cellars, and carried away several houses, and did considerable damage to many of those that resisted the flood;—damaged vast quantities of dry goods and sugars, the river was several feet higher than it was in the flood of the year 1768; it could not have risen less than from fifteen to twenty feet;—no lives were lost, and it was a happy circumstance that we had day light for it."
We are informed that the above flood was occasioned by a water-spout breaking on a mountain above the town; the water of which poured down in a vast sheet on all sides: a vessel that arrived here from Europe, and was then under the island of Dominica, informs, that the torrent of water, upon the opposite side of the island to Roseau, was immense, and poured down the mountain with astonishing rapidity—The Latona frigate, within 3 miles of Roseau, perceived the water-spout to break on the mountain, and the amazing body of water making directly for the town, lowered and hoisted his topsails several times, and fired alarm guns to give the inhabitants notice of the approaching danger.
PORTSMOUTH, September 2.
DIED Captain Alexander Caldwell, aged 79; a child of Mr. Goodhue's; a child of Mr. Joseph Henderdon's; a negro woman drowned, late the property of Mrs. Wibird.
M A R I N E L I S T.
PORT of PISCATAQUA, September 2
E N T E R E D,
Ship Hero, Smalicorn, from London. Brig Dragon, Oram, West-Indies.
C L E A R E D,
Brig Susannah, Mendum, for West-Indies Schooner Tryall, Lord, Ditto.
SENTIMENTS of Mr. ENGEL, Member of a Society of Agriculture, &c. in Switzerland.
EUROPE astonished at the immense trade of the English; at their successes, their power, and their wealth, enquires into the cause of that superiority—and discovers their prosperity is chiefly owing to encouragements given to Agriculture.
Some of their public spirited citizens, in societies, and even separate persons, have industriously applied their talents to the discovery of the principles of this most useful art: The English government, their parliament, have protected and encouraged them by rewards: Those United efforts secured to Britain advantages greater, more certain, and more lasting, than could be derived from the mines of Peru.
Other nations, excited by this example, push for a share of those advantages. Academies are every where established; and now, in Switzerland, we have the pleasure to see ingenious, curious, industrious men, supported by the public, make experiments, propose improvements, and establish rules, for extracting from the earth (our common mother) every usual production in greater plenty and perfection; and who continually find in the study of nature, reasons for adoring the infinite wisdom and goodness of the Creator.

ON TRUE HAPPINESS.
L ONG have I sought, the wish of all, True happiness to find Which some will wealth, some pleasure call; And some a virtuous mind,
Sufficient wealth to keep away, Of want the doleful scene, And joy enough to gild the day, And make life's course serene.
Virtue enough to ask the heart, Art though secure within? Hast thou perform'd an honest part? Hast thou no private sin?
This to perform, these things possess, Must raise a noble joy, Must constitute that happiness Which nothing can destroy.
TOBACCO.
I HAVE just received from Virginia a quantity of Excellent Tobacco, which is ready for Sale by the Hhd. or Retail.—Also, N. England Rum, pr. the Cask, of a very good Quality—Choice Bohea Tea pr. dozen (warranted good) Naval Stores &c. &c.
N. McIntire.
Portsmouth, August 5, 1785.
TO BE SOLD. A few CASKS of Excellent Fresh Raisins, By SAMUEL PENHALLOW, jr.
A LL Persons indebted to the Estate of George Knight , late of Durham, in the County of Strafford, joiner, deceased, are desired to make immediate payment, and all Persons having Demands on said Estate, are desired to exhibit them for Settlement, to the Subscriber, Executrix of the last Will and Testament of the said Deceased. SUSANNAH KNIGHT.
DURHAM, July 26, 1785.
A LL Persons having any Demands against the Estate of EPHRAIM FOLSOM , late of Durham, deceased, are desired to exhibit the same to EPHRAIM PICKERING , Esq. of Newington, Attorney to DOROTHY FOLSOM , Executrix of the last Will of the deceased; and all Persons indebted to said Estate, are requested to make speedy Payment to said Attorney.
August 8, 1785.
Strayed or stolen from
out of Col. Samuel Sherburne's Pasture, a large red-roan colour'd HORSE, height not exactly known, supposed to be upwards of ten Years of Age, Trots and Paces, but most natural to a Pace; his Tail is short, and his Back, instead of sinking rises in a Swell something similar to that of a Camel's. Whoever will give intelligence of the above Horse, so that he may be returned to the Printers hereof, shall from them receive a Reward adequate to their Trouble and Time.
TO BE LET, (on reasonable Terms)
A SHOP, situate in Buck-Street; also to be sold a Shop, in Congress-Street. For further Particulars enquire of the Printers
[ Raby. ]
HILLSBOROUGH, fs
NOTICE is hereby given to the Owners of Non resident Land in Raby, who are delinquent in paying their Taxes and incidental Charges, on or before Wednesday, the Sixth Day of October next, so much of their Land will be sold at Vendue, on said Day, at the House of Capt. Samuel Douglass, Inholder, in said Raby at One o'clock, Afternoon as will pay said Taxes and Charges: The Taxes are as follows:
   Names. No. Acres. State Tax. War-Tax.   f. d. q. f. d. q.     John Davidson, 100 7 6 1 11 0 2   Simeon Gillson, 58 1 0 1 4 5   Abraham Morse, 60 3 9 2 5 6 1   Common Land, 50 2 9 2 5 6 1   Com. Land, No 1 150 10 10 0 14 3 3   where Partial lives  
JAMES McINTOSH, Constable.
Raby, August 18, 1785
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-Resident Proprietors or Owners of Land in the Town of Fitzwilliam, who have not paid their Proprietary Taxes for the Year 1784, that unless they pay the same to me the Subscriber, on or before Thursday the 8th Day of September next, by Ten o'clock, A. M. so much of their Lands will be sold at public Vendue, at the Dwelling house of Capt. Sylvanus Reed, jr. Inholder in said Town, as will pay the Taxes and Charges unless prevented by previous Payment. The Taxes on each Lot is six Shillings and five Pence two Farthings.
   No. Range.    Isaac Goodenow, 2 1  Joshua Willad, half 13 1  Ditto, 3 2  John Wilson, 5 2  Thomas Spaulding, half 6 2  Samuel Bent, 66 acres, 8 2  Esquire Jenks, 2 3  Ditto, 3 3  Ditto, 4 3  Ditto, 5 3  Levi Wilder, 6 3  Ditto, 7 3  Matther Osborn, 10 3  Joseph Farewell, 11 3  Col. Stoddard, 12 5  Salmon Whitney, 17 3  Benjamin Edwards, 3 4  Levi Wilder, half 6 4  Ditto, 8 4  Philip Amadon, 10 4  Col. Stoddard, 75 acres, 13 4  Samuel Winch, half 17 4  James Butler, 18 4  Jonathan Haven, 19 5  Samuel Kittridge, 21 4  Col. Stoddard, 1 5  Nathan Hall, 23 4  John Whitney, 69 acres, 3 5  Sampson Stoddard, 8 5  Benjamin Davisou, 8 acres. 15 5  Levi Wilder, half 2 5  Ditto, 1 6  Ditto, 2 6  Joseph Stone, 28 acres 8 6  Jason Stone, 31 acres, 21 6  Daniel Farrer, half 23 6  Jesse Forristall, 1 7  Levi Wilder, 6 7  John Allen, 14 7  Daniel Mellen, half 10 7  Joseph Hemmingway, half 18 7  John Bowker, 20 7  Isaac Stone. 21 7  John Farrer, 23 7  Levi Wilder, 1 8  Ebenezer Boutwell, 7 8  Thamer Bringham, 8 8  Heirs of Jonathan Bruce, 62 acres, 21 8  Levi Wilder, 9 9  Curwin Wallis, 15 9  Levi Wilder, half 17 9  Daniel Farrar, 21 9  Daniel Gould, 22 9  Thomas Tolman, half 23 9  Levi Wilder, 3 10  Ditto, 5 10  Silas Colborn, 6 10  Jonas Geany, half 7 10  Ebenezer Bourwell jr. half 7 10  Heirs of George Libbey 10 10  Nathaniel Brooks, 11 10  Col. Stoddard, 12 10  Ditto, 13 10  Levi Wilder 15 10  Daniel Gould, jr. 66 acres 20 10  William Clark, 21 10  Daniel Adams, 22 10  Isaac Jackson, 23 10  Josiah Goodale, 40 acres, 1 11  Asa Bennett, 7 11  Nathaniel Brooks, 10 acres 11 11  Col. Stoddard, 12 11  James Reed, 14 11  Levi Wilder, 17 11  John Gooding, 21 11  John Sweetland, 22 11  John Batchelor, Esq. 59 acres 4 12  Jacob Serjent, 1 12  Benjamin Bennett, 2 12  Allen Grant, 7 12  Levi Wilder, 8 12  Ditto, 9 12  Poter Wheeler, 33 acres 10 12  Levi Wheeler, 11 12  M. Thornton, 13 12  Col. Stoddard, 16 12  Nathaniel Treadwell, 17 12  Thomas Clark, half 18 12  Rufus Buckland, 19 12  Ezekiel White, 35 acres, 20 12  Lyman Bringham, 21 12  Agabus Bishop, 22 12  Jonathan Whitney, 19 9  John Whitney, 20 8  William Farrar, half 23 7  John Allen, 72 acres, 15 7  Samuel Patrick, half 17 5  Samuel Barnard, 44 acres 14 6  
JONATHAN WHITCOMB.
Fitzwilliam, July 22 1785
State of New-Hampshire.
PUBLIC Notice is hereby given, that a petition has been preferred to the General Court, by General John Stark, setting forth, that he purchased sundry lots of land lying in this state, of persons who served in the late war with Great-Britain and France, which tracts were granted by the late Governor Benning Wentworth, to those persons pursuant to a proclamation of the King of Great-Britain as a reward for the bravery of those officers in his service during the said war, who at the conclusion thereof were disbanded:—That the lands where those grants took place, are now claimed by gentlemen, called the Masonian Proprietors, who have asserted their claims in such a manner, that he cannot dispose of said lands, nor persuade people to settle them, lest they in future, should not hold them, notwithstanding their grants are considerably above sixty miles from the sea, which is the utmost extent of the Masonian Grant: That the expence and hazard of a law trial with men of their opulence is such a serious matter, that he in this state of life cannot think of entering into, and without the aid of the General Court, must sit down under the loss, wholly occasioned by a set of men who have made a great stride to monopolize great part of this state for a very trifling consideration:—That he would not thus trouble the General Court with an history of this kind, did he not think the state might reap great profit by attending to this matter, and by running out and ascertaining the boundaries of that patent, many thousand acres will be found to belong to no bona fide purchasers, and is really and justly state property, and if properly applied, would redeem a very important sum of our public securities, and do no person any real injury, for it is a matter of great notoriety, that the Masonian Proprietors (so called) in marking out their grant did it ex parte, and have greatly exceeded its just extent. Therefore he, in behalf of himself and the good people of the state, recommends to the General Court, that they take such effectual measures as will ascertain the true boundaries of Mason's patent, which may be done by measuring sixty miles from the mouth of Naumkeag river westward, and sixty miles from the mouth of Piscataqua river northward, and then mark such a line from the two extremes as the grant dictates, as this grant is so precisely bounded there cannot be the least perplexity in marking out its just extent. That an examination into this matter by persons who have the good of the state so much at heart as to induce them to do it with faithfulness, will certainly be attended with many real benefits, and be injurious to no person, if caution is used with respect to bona fide purchasers, and if any claimers appear under any other description, it cannot be thought, they merit favour in distinction to the many poor inhabitants of this state, who have poverty to struggle with, not only to provide for themselves daily bread, but in supporting government.
Upon which petition, the General Court voted, that the hearing on the aforesaid petition, which was to have been before them on the second Thursday of the present session, be heard on the second Wednesday of the next session; and that in the mean time the Secretary be directed to publish the substance of the petition and order of Court thereon six weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
Attest. JOSEPH PEARSON, Dep. Sec'yry.
Portsmouth, June 24, 1785.
TO BE SOLD, (on reasonable Terms)
A VALUABLE Lot of Land, laying on the West Side of the Road leading from Col. Boyd's Mills to Newington; together with the Potter's House on the same. Said Land has a good Brick Yard on it, and will answer for a Potter or Brickmaker. Enquire of WILLIAM COTTON.
Portsmouth, August 24, 1784.
ROCKINGHAM, fs.
THE subscribers being appointed commissioners to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of JAMES DWYER , late of Portsmouth, in said county, inholder, deceased, represented insolvent, give notice, that six months are allowed said creditors from the 20th of July to bring in their claims, and that attendance will be given to receive the same, at the house of Capt. WILLIAM BREWSTER , inholder in Portsmouth, on the last Wednesdays of the five following months, from 6 to 9 o'clock P. M.
THOMAS MARTIN } JOHN PARKER } Commissioners. SUPPLY CLAP, }
Portsmouth, July 28, 1784
NOTICE is hereby given, that there is to be a sale by public Vendue, by the Subscriber, Collector of Taxes of the Parishioners of the first Parish in Portsmouth, at the North Meeting-House in said Portsmouth, on Monday the fifth Day of September next, at Ten o'clock, Forenoon sundry PEWS, of the following Numbers, or the parts thereof owned by delinquent Parishioners, viz. No. 2, 10, 21, 71, half Pew; 43 ditto to, 46, 47 two Thirds; 50, 52, one Third; 57, 58, 66, 68, half Pews; the following in the lower Gallery, No. 80, 83, 95; half Pews; 98, 99, 84.
WINTHROP BENNET.
Portsmouth, August 10, 1785.
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