New-Hampshire gazette, or, State journal and general advertiser (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1780-07-22 00:00:00

THE NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE ; OR, STATE JOURNAL, and GENERAL ADVERTISER.
[ Vol. XXIV. ]
SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1780.
[ No. 1239. ]
From the PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE.
The SENTIMENTS of an AMERICAN WOMAN.
IN the commencement of actual war, the women of America manifested a firm resolution to contribute as much as could depend on them, to the deliverance of their country. Animated by the purest patriotism, they are sensible of sorrow at this day, in not offering more than barren wishes for the success of a glorious revolution.—They aspire to render themselves more really useful; and this sentiment is universal from the North to the South of the Thirteen United States. Our ambition is kindled by the fame of those heroines of antiquity, who have rendered their sex illustrious, and have proved to the universe, that, if the weakness of our constitution, if opinion and good manners did not forbid us to march to glory by the same paths as the men, we should at least equal, and sometimes surpass them in our love for the public good. I glory in all that which my sex has done great and commendable. I call to mind with enthusiasm and with admiration, all those acts of courage, of constancy and patriotism, which history has transmitted to us: The people favored by Heaven, preserved from destruction by the virtues, the zeal and resolution of Deborah, of Judith, of Esther! The fortitude of the mother of Maccabees in giving up their sons to die before her eyes: Rome saved from the fury of a victorious enemy by the efforts of Volumnia and other Roman ladies: So many famous sieges where the women have been seen forgetting the weakness of their sex, building new walls, digging trenches with their feeble hands, furnishing arms to their defenders, they themselves darting the missile weapons on the enemy, resigning the ornaments of their apparel, and their fortune, to fill the public treasury, and to hasten the deliverance of their country; burying themselves under its ruins; throwing themselves in the flames, rather than submit to the disgrace or humiliation before a proud enemy.
Born for liberty, disdaining to bear the irons of a tyrannic government, we associate ourselves to the grandeur of those sovereigns cherished and revered, who have held with so much splendor the sceptre of the greatest States; the Baridas, the Elizabeths, the Maries, Catharines, who have extended the empire of liberty, and, contented to reign by sweetness and justice, have broken the chains of slavery, forged by tyrants in the times of ignorance and barbarity. The Spanish women, do they not make, at this moment, the most patriotic sacrifices, to increase the means of victory in the hands of their sovereign. He is a friend to the French nation.—They are allies. We call to mind, doubly interested that it was a French maid who kindled up among her fellow citizens the flame of patriotism, buried under long misfortunes: It was the maid of Orleans who drove from the Kingdom of France the ancestors of those same British, whose odious yoke we have just shaken off; and whom it is necessary that we drive from this continent.
But I must limit myself to the recollection of this small number of achievements. Who knows if persons disposed to censure,
and sometimes too severely with regard to us, may not disapprove our appearing acquainted even with the actions of which our sex boasts? We are at least certain, that we cannot be a good citizen who will not applaud our efforts for the relief of the armies which defend our lives, our possessions, our liberty? The situation of our soldiery has been represented to me; the evils inseparably from war, and the firm and generous spirit which has enabled them to support these. But it has been said, that they may apprehend, that, in the course of a long war, the view of their distresses may be lost, and their services be forgotten. Forgotten! never; I can answer in the name of all my sex. Brave Americans, your disinterestedness, your courage, and your constancy will always be dear to America, as long as she shall preserve her virtue.
We know that at a distance from the theatre of war; if we enjoy any tranquility, it is the fruit of your watchings, your labors your dangers. If I live happy in the midst of my family; if my husband cultivates his field, and reaps his harvest in peace; if, surrounded with my children, I myself nourish the youngest, and press it to my bosom, without being afraid of seeing myself separated from it, by a ferocious enemy; if the house in which we dwell; if our barns, our orchards are safe at the present time from the hands of these incendiaries, it is to you that we owe it. And shall we hesitate to evidence to you our gratitude? Shall we hesitate to wear a clothing more simple; hair dressed less elegant, while at the price of this small privation, we shall deserve your benedictions. Who among us, will not renounce with the highest pleasure, those vain ornaments, when she shall consider that the valiant defenders of America will be able to draw some advantage from the money which she may have laid out in these, that they will be better defended from the rigours of the seasons; that after their painful toils; they will receive some extraordinary and unexpected relief; that these presents will perhaps be valued by them at a greater price, when they will have it in their power to say: This is the offering of the Ladies. The time is arrived to display the same sentiments which animated us at the beginning of the Revolution when we renounced the use of teas, however agreeable to our taste, rather than receive them from our persecutors; when we made it appear to them that we placed former necessaries in the rank of superfluities, when our liberty was interested; when our republican and laborious hands spun the flax, prepared the linen intended for the use of our soldiers; when exiles and rogatives we supported with courage all the evils which are the concomitants of war. Let us not lose a moment, let us be engaged to offer the homage of our gratitude at the altar of military valour, and you, our brave deliverers, while mercenary slaves combat to cause you to share with them, the irons with which they are loaded, receive with free hand our offerings, the purest which can be presented to your virtue.
BY AN AMERICAN WOMAN.
IDEAS, relative to the manner of forwarding to the American Soldiers, the presents of the American Women.
ALL plans are eligible, when doing good is the object; there is however one more preferable; and when the operation is ex-
tensive, we cannot give it too much uniformity. On the other side, the wants of our army do not permit the slowness of an ordinary pace. It is not in one month, nor in eight days, that we would relieve our soldiery. It is immediately; and our impatience does not permit us to proceed by the long circuit of collectors, receivers and treasurers. As my ideas with regard to this have been approved by some ladies of my friends, I will explain them here; every other person will not be less at liberty to propose and to adopt a different plan.
1st. All women and girls will be received without exception, to present their patriotic offering; and, as it is absolutely voluntary, every one will regulate it according to her ability, and her disposition. The shilling offered by the widow or the young girl, will be received as well as the most considerable sums presented by the women who have the happiness to join to their patriotism, greater means to be useful.
2d. A lady chosen by the others in each county shall be Treasurers; and to render her task more simple, & more easy, she will not receive but determinate sums, in a round number, from twenty hard dollars to any greater sum. The exchange forty dollars in paper for one dollar in specie.
It is to be hoped there will not be one woman, who will not with pleasure charge herself with the embarrassment which will attend so honorable an operation.
3d. The women who shall not be in a condition to send twenty dollars in specie, or above, will join in as great a number as will be necessary to make this or any greater sum, and one amongst them will carry it, or cause it to be sent to the Treasurers.
4th. The Treasurers of the county will receive the money, and will keep a register, writing the sums in her book, and causing it to be signed at the side of the whole by the person who has presented it.
5th. When several women shall join together to make a total sum of twenty dollars or more, the amongst them who shall have charge to carry it to the Treasurers, will make mention of all their names on the register, if her associates shall have so directed her; those whose choice it shall be, will have the liberty to remain unknown.
6th. As soon as the Treasurers of the county shall judge, that the sums which she shall have received deserve to be sent to their destination, we will cause them to be presented with the lists, to the wife of the Governor or President of the State; & she will cause it to be put down in her register, and have it sent to Mrs. Washington. If the Governor or President are unmarried, all will address themselves to the wife of the Vice President if there is one, or of the Chief Justice.
7th. Women settled in the distant parts of the country, and not choosing for any particular reason, as for the sake of greater expedition, to remit their capital to the Treasurers, may send it directly to the wife of the Governor, or President, &c. or to Mrs. Washington, who, if she shall judge necessary, will in a short answer to the sender, acquaint her of the reception of it.
8th. As Mrs. Washington may be absent from the camp when the greater part of the banks shall be sent there, the American Women, considering that General Washington is the Father and Friend of the Soldiers; that he is himself the first Soldier of the Re-

public, and that their offering will be received at its destination as soon as it shall have come to his hands, they will pray him to take the charge of receiving it in the absence of Mrs. Washington.
9. General Washington will dispose of this fund in the manner that he shall judge most advantageous to the soldiery. The American Women desire only that it may not be considered as to be employed, to procure to the army the objects of subsistence, arms, or cloathing, which are due to them by the Continent. It is an extraordinary bounty, intended to render the condition of the soldier more pleasant, and not to hold place of the things which they ought to receive from the Congress, or from the States.
10. If the General judges necessary, he will publish at the end of a certain time, an amount of that which shall have been received from each particular State.
11th. The Women who shall send their offerings, will have in their choice, to conceal or to give their names; and if it shall be thought proper, on a fit occasion, to publish one day the list, they only, who shall consent, shall be named; when with regard to the sums sent, there will be no mention made, if they so desire it.
A number of warm and very respectable Friends to the Army, and the glorious cause of America, have earnestly desired the Printers in the New-England States, to give the above sketch, (together with the Sentiments of an American Woman) a place in all their Papers. If ever an Army deserved every encouragement from the Country it protects, it is that of America: And nothing could make a deeper impression on the minds of those brave men, who are defending us in the enjoyment of every domestic blessing, of every thing that ought to be dear to us, than such a mark of gratitude and regard, as is proposed from the fairer half of the United States. The Ladies of Philadelphia have already distinguished themselves, by their generosity and public spirit on this occasion; and it cannot be doubted that the Ladies in New-England will exhibit the same amiable disposition, and an equal alacrity in promoting the cause of their Country at this critical season.
A Monday last arrived at Boston, a brig from Europe, by whom we have received London papers to May 8, from which we have selected the following:
L O N D O N, April 1.
At the adjourned General Meeting of the county of York, held at York the 28th of March, 1780.
WILLIAM CHALONER, Esq; in the chair; A MOTION being made, and the question put, Resolved unanimously, That the form of association prepared by the Committee of sixty-one be now read.
The form of association being read, and a motion being made and the question put,
Resolved unanimously, That this form of association be adopted by this meeting.
Resolved unanimously, That the Committee of sixty-one gentlemen, together with Sir William St. Quintin, Sir William Anderson, Mr. T. Weddel, Dr. Swainston, Mr. Grimston, Mr. Prichard, Mr. Childers, &c. &c. be a Committee of association, and that twenty-one gentlemen of the Committee, or more, be empowered to act as a Committee, to add to their number, and to take such legal and constitutional measures as to them shall appear most expedient for promoting the objects of this association.
Resolved unanimously, That it is the opinion of this meeting, that the prosecution of an offensive war in America is most evidently a measure which by employing our great and enormous expensive military operations against the inhabitants of that country, prevents this from exerting its united, vigorous and firm efforts against the powers of France and Spain, and has no other effect upon America than to continue, and thereby to increase the enmity which has so long and so fatally subsisted between the arms of both; can be productive of no good whatever, but, by preventing conciliation, threatens the accomplishment of the final ruin of the British Empire.
Resolved, That it be recommended to the Committee appointed by this meeting, to consider of, and form upon legal and constitutional grounds, a proper plan for the detecting and bringing to justice all persons, who, at the ensuing general election, shall either give or receive bribes for votes for the election of Members to serve in Parliament, that such plan, when settled and agreed upon, be communicated to other associated bodies.
Resolved, That the letter from the Lords to the Chairman of the last general meeting of the 30th of December, expressing their concurrence with the measures agreed to by that meeting, be now read.
The letter being read, a motion made, and the question being put,
Resolved unanimously, That the thanks of this meeting be communicated by the Chairman to the Lords, for their concurrence in these measures expressed by that letter.
Resolved unanimously, That the thanks of this meeting be given to Sir George Savile, for his eminently faithful services in Parliament, and particularly for his strenuous support of the petition of this county in the present session of Parliament.
Resolved unanimously, That the thanks of this meeting be given to those Members of Parliament who have honored this meeting with their concurrence in the plan of association agreed to this day.
Resolved unanimously, That the thanks of this meeting be given to the Rev. Mr. Wyvill, Sir Robert Hildyard, and J. S. Smith, Esq; for their wise, judicious and spirited conduct at the late meeting of the Deputies in London.
Resolved, That the thanks of this meeting be given to the Chairman.
Resolved, That this meeting be adjourned, subject to a call by the Committee of association.
APRIL 4. The following important questions will come under discussion in the House of Commons in the course of the first eight days after it meets, independent of any chance or miscellaneous business.
Mr. Hartley's motion for leave to bring in a bill for disqualifying certain placemen from sitting in the House of Commons.
Mr. Dunning's motion, on taking into consideration the several county petitions on Thursday next.—A great day.
Mr. Hartley's motion, for empowering the crown to offer new terms to the people of America.
Advices were yesterday received in town from Holland which mention, that a body of French troops, to the amount of 20,000 men, are on their march along the Flemish coast, where they are going to take up their station; and that this has caused no small alarm in the Dutch dominions.
APRIL 13. In consequence of the answer given by the States-General to the Memorial presented by Sir Joseph Yorke, on the 21st of March last, claiming the stipulated succours engaged to be supplied by that Republic, in case of war, the British Administration have determined to "consider the United Provinces only as a neutral power, not privileged by any particular treaties, and have suspended, till further orders, all the stipulations of the treaties made in favor of the subjects of the Republic, particularly those of the treaty of 1674, and have resolved to keep only to the right of nations, by which all neutral and unprivileged nations govern themselves."
Lord North's friends are apprehensive of his having a dropsey; his physicians have at least declared, that the rotundity of his belly has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. But his Lordship, with the same indifference that he acts towards the State, tho' he is forced to admit the principle, takes no manner of thought about the mode of reducing it.
APRIL 15. The friends and advocates of the ministerial minority, says a correspondent, advance as an argument against a change in Administration, that America is so reduced, and so tired of the war, that the present Ministers will very soon have an opportunity
of making an honorable peace, if not on unconditional terms with the Colonies; and if the leaders of the opposition should form a new Administration, they will treat with America upon less favorable terms for Great-Britain, than the present Ministers. But why to? says our correspondent. Admitting the Colonies to be as much reduced, and as sick of the war as is advanced, why may not the leaders of opposition conclude peace upon as favorable terms for Great Britain as the present Administration; the latter with to conclude a peace upon terms which are to strengthen the influence of the Crown, and which has been the sole object of the present unnatural war, while the former with only for terms equally advantageous to the Mother Country and the Colonies, without endangering the liberties of either.
By accounts delivered into the Admiralty of the number of French prisoners, which have been exchanged since the settling of the cartel to the 5th inst. it appears they amount to upwards of 14,000.
APRIL 22. The declaration sent by the Russian court to the States of Holland, about which people have expressed so much alarm (says a correspondent) is now universally acknowledged to have only been a political method employed by that Court, to introduce her mediation between us and the Dutch, a few days before our government was compelled to disanul our former treaties with the latter.
MAY 8. A letter from on board the Swan sloop, dated in the Bay of Biscay, April 12, says, "We daily meet with Dutch ships, who swarm in the Bay, and carry on the French trade. We have, however, taken only two; one from Cadez for Brest, with stores sent to Lisbon, the other from Bourdeaux, sent for England; by which conveyance you will receive this: These people appear as if sworn to secrecy; as for what questions you will, the reply is, 'I know nothing.'"
Extract of a letter from Paris, April 24.
"Our ministers have received accounts, that M. de Guichen is arrived with his squadron at Martinico."
"Count d'Estaing is set out for Madrid, and is said he will go from thence to Cadiz, immediately, to take upon him the command of the grand fleet, which, with seven men of war expected from Toulon, will consist of 39 sail of the line; after which he will also take the command of the two divisions under the Count du Chaffault, & Monsr de Bougainville. Count d'Estaing will hoist his flag on board la Terrible of 110 guns, but pierced for 120; there will be three ships of that force in the fleet. All the privateers have orders to be at Brest by the end of this month. These amazing preparations, together with those on the coast, make it imagined that the long intended invasion of the British dominions will certainly take place this campaign, Count d'Estaing commanding the fleet, and Count Maillebois the land forces. It is also said that the Count de Rochambeau will second the operations of the fleet with his army."
N E W - Y O R K, June 28.
Extract of a letter dated London, May 3, 1780.
"Rear Admiral Thomas Greaves is ready to sail from Plymouth the first fair wind, with the following fleet, viz. the London, Resolution, Prudent, Bedford, Royal Oak, Canada, Shrewsbury, Invincible, Defence, Bienfait and America, he will join Commodore Walsingham, whose fleet now at Torbay, consists of the Egmont, Torbay, Thunderer, Ramillies, and Berwick, the convoy amounts to three hundred sail of ships, transports, &c. with augmentations of troops and the trade for the West-Indies, New-York, and Halifax. Admiral Greaves's is a squadron of observation upon Monsieur de Ternay, who lies ready for sailing at Brest, with eight sail of the line, and 6000 land forces, destined (as the French accounts say, and they are not to be relied on) to the assistance of the united states, but I think if you should hear of them in some part of the coast, Admiral Greaves will effectually frustrate their intended operations. We shall have no quarrel with the Dutch. Some troops will be sent to America, but whether more than to supply the deficiencies of the last year and the southern expedition, I cannot yet learn—much will depend upon the success of your active General, in whose zeal and abilities all the virtuous of this country have the fullest confidence."
Wanted, a BOY of about 14 years of age, to serve as an Apprentice to the Peruke Making and Hair Dressing business: Inquire of William Stanwood of Portsmouth.

POUGHKEEPSIE, July 10. We hear several late papers, among which were one from England, and some from New York, have been brought to Poughkeepsie, but as we could not obtain a sight of them, we know not whether they contained any material intelligence.
Just as this paper was making ready for the press, a gentleman who has seen the papers last mentioned, informs us, that they contained the following particulars, viz. That Count d'Estang, in his passage from Brest to Toulon, had captured 1 British ship of 74 guns, 3 frigates and 10 or 12 transports with troops, bound from England to Minorca.—That 12 Spanish ships of the line, a number of transports, with 12 or 14 000 troops on board, had joined the French fleet in the West Indies, which was before equal if not superior to the English. Hence we may soon expect some important intelligence from that quarter.
BOSTON, July 21.
Thursday last arrived in town from Philadelphia, with his Suit, the honorable Major General Lincoln; that inflexible patriot and intrepid officer, who with less than 2000 Continental soldiers and a few marines defended the city of Charlestown in South Carolina above four months, against the invasion of a British army of 13,000 pick'd troops under the most experienced Generals and Officers in the service, and a division of the navy commanded by Admiral Arbuthnot.
When it is considered, that for the last five weeks of the time this small garrison was under the incessant fire of 60 pieces of heavy cannon, 21 mortars and other artillery, besides musketry, from within a small distance, and during 15 days at very short allowance, could have no relief night nor day; and was suffering by intense heat, in lines exposed without a shade to a southern aspect, in such a climate and season of the year, it must appear to every one a dictate of humanity to capitulate with an enemy who possessed every possible advantage—especially as all prospect of succour was cut off.
The gratitude and good sense of America will do General Lincoln justice, while the surrender of a garrison which it became impossible he should any longer maintain, will have the effect, which misfortunes always have upon the virtuous and the brave, to stimulate their future exertions.
Witness the conduct, —may we witness the like success—when GATES, LINCOLN, ARNOLD & STARKS, turned the scale of conquest in the North, and as handsily a General as Clinton surrendered in his turn.
By Rivington's Paper of the 21st June, it appears that the famous Sir Henry Clinton, K. B. &c. in the true spirit of a modern Englishman, hath broken thro' every article of capitulation between Gen. Lincoln & himself. In defiance of the law of nations, he has robbed the inhabitants of their property insulted their persons, and by sundry villainous papers filed Proclamations, and smuggled into the heart of the country (where he dare not come) has endeavoured to seduce the good subjects of the Carolinas from their allegiance to these States, by releasing from their paroles all such as were prisoners; and threatening with military execution all those who refused to take arms against their native country—We may just apply the old proverb, to this Military Thief, "Set a beggar on horse back and he'll ride to the Devil."
The Master of a prize arrived at an Eastern port, informs, That the beginning of last week he spoke with Capt. Williams in the Protector, who acquainted him that he had had a severe engagement with a British frigate, and both vessels being so much damaged, it was a drawn Battle. And that some time after Capt. Williams had repaired his damage, he fell in with a Store-Ship, of 900 tons, and 150 men, when after an obstinate engagement of four glasses, the Store Ship went to the bottom—Capt. Williams saved about forty of her hands. We have not heard the force of the Store-Ship, nor where bound. She was an old India-man cut down.
Extract of a letter from a principal officer at Newport, to his friend in this Town, dated July 31, 1780.
"I wish you were here, you would be delighted, the harbour affords a most pleasing appearance; seven French ships of the line, (the first division) from 80 to 64 guns, a hospital ship of 64 guns, mounted with 40, & a number of transports. You know I was always exceedingly fond of our Allies; but I assure you, I never was more pleased than at present, with the officers of the fleet and army. The last evening the town was illuminated, and joy displayed in every countenance, friendly to our great and good cause. The General and Commodore are most amiable in their appearance and behaviour, and at once display the officer & the gentleman. Indeed it seems this character is applicable to the whole of the Officers from the highest to the lowest. There are many Officers of the best families in France in this army. They have left their Country, ease, affluence and friends, to support our cause;---every attention is due to them, I am determined they shall have mine, and with great pleasure."
About twelve days ago, a Serjeant and ten Hessian Dragoons deserted from the enemy and came to Camp, at Head-Quarters.—Two of them arrived in this Town on Sunday last.
Late advices from England, & thro' a good channel, mention, that the House of Commons had voted down the board of trade and plantations, which looks as if they considered the Colonies as lost to Great-Britain.-----Thro' the same channel we learn, that England was too much exhausted to send any recruits to their army in N. York; and that she was convulsed at home, Ireland falling off from her, and all Europe combined at least in inclination against her, she yet abated nothing of her pride and obstinacy.
Tuesday last arrived a Cartel from New-York, with 170 prisoners, being the whole that remained there belonging to the New-England States.
By this vessel we learn that the arrival of the French fleet at Rhode Island, (of which they received intelligence by two frigates which were chased in on the 11th inst) had thrown that garrison into great consternation; the inhabitants much dejected, and various schemes projecting for the safety of their persons and properties.
By the best accounts from New-York, the enemy have suffered exceedingly in killed and wounded during their late exertions in the Jerseys; a gentleman late from that city assures us, that scarcely a day passed, while they continued there, but cart loads of wounded were brought from thence to the hospital.
The French army, we hear, have encamped on the South side of Rhode Island, and are as fine body of troops as ever were collected together. Notwithstanding their tedious passage of above ten weeks we are well assured there are not 300 unfit for immediate duty.
Since our last several prizes have arrived at different ports at the Eastward.
Yesterday arrived here the privateer ship Viper, Capt. Williams, after a short cruise; in which she captured a schooner, as formerly mentioned, and a privateer brigantine, fresh from Halifax, partly owned by Benjamin Mulberry Homes, formerly of this town; she mounts 16 guns, and was designed to cruise in our Bay,
Tuesday arrived a French transport with troops—she was one of Chevalier de Ternay's squadron; the troops were landed yesterday, and we hear are to march for Providence to-morrow.
PORTSMOUTH, July 20.
Last Monday was sent into this Port, by the Rover Privateer, commanded by Captain Bradstreet, a Prize Brig, from Ireland, bound for Newfoundland, laden with the following Articles, viz. About 250 Barrels of Pork and Beef, 200 Firkins of Butter, 100 Ton Flour, 10 Ton Bread, 50 Barrels Oatmeal, 500 Bushels Salt, a large Cable fit for a 70 Gun Ship, and a large Quantity of Cordage, Sails, &c. The Privateer that took her, was a small Schooner with about 15 or 20 Men.
In the Advertisement of two Men who had enlisted in the Continental Service at Lee, in the State of New-Hampshire, and County of Strafford, and run off with their Two Thousand Dollars Bounty, were both Irishmen, and will be remembered as an Irish Trick.
RETURN of the Killed, Wounded, and Missing in the action of the 23d of June, 1780. at Springfield, as made by Gen Greene, who commanded.
Artillery. Killed: 1 Captain, 2 Serjeants, Wounded: 2 Matrosses.
Angell's Regt. Killed: 1 Serjeant, 5 rank and file. Wounded: 1 Captain, 3 Subs. 3 Serjeants, 25 rank and file. Missing: 3 rank and file.
Shreve's Regt. Killed: 1 rank and file. Wounded: 1 Serjeant, 2 rank and file. Missing: 2 rank and file.
Dayton's Regt. killed: 2 rank and file. Wounded: 1 Sub. 6 rank and file. Missing: 4 rank & file.
Spencer's Regt. Wounded: 1 Serjeant.
Lee's Detachment. killed: 1 rank and file; Wounded: 4 rank and file.
Total Killed: 1 Captain, 3 Serjeants, 9 rank and file. Wounded: 1 Captain, 4 Subs. 3 Serjeants, 37 rank and file, 2 Matrosses. Missing: 9 rank and file.
The return of Davis's detachment I could not get, he having marched off the next morning after the action. The return of the militia I cannot get: They had none killed, but about twelve wounded.
(Signed) F. BARBER, Lt. Col. Published by order of Congress, CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
State of New-Hampshire.
To all whom it may concern,
Notice is hereby given, that a Libel is filed before me, in behalf of Simon Bradstreet, commander of the private armed Schooner Rover, and a I concerned therein, against the Brigantine Charlotte her cargo, and appurtenances, of the burthen of fifty tons, Andrew Pidgley late master; which vessel and cargo so libelled, is said to have been taken on the high seas, about the 25th of June, and brought into the Port of Piscataqua, in the State aforesaid; for the trial of the justice of said capture, a Maritime Court for said State, will be held at the Court House in Portsmouth, on Monday the seventh day of August next, when and where the owners or any persons concerned therein, may appear and shew cause, (if any they have) why the same should not be condemned.
J. BRACKETT, Judge.
Portsmouth, July 17th, 1780.
Wanted 7 or 8 industrious Settlers to carry on settlements in the Township of SUCCESS, in the State of New-Hampshire, lying near Amoskeaggin River, and adjoining to the Township of Shelburne; from the last mentioned Town there is a good road to Falmouth through several new Townships, which are settling very fast, the distance about sixty miles: Any persons who incline to become settlers in the aforesaid Township, shall have for their encouragement 150 acres of land to each settler, and may take their choice out of a tract within said Township about 2400 acres, already fenced round, & likewise shall have such further encouragement in money as shall appear necessary for their assistance in entering the settlements. For further particulars, enquire of SUPPLY CLAPP, JOHN NOBLE, & SAMUEL HILL. Portsmouth, July 3. 1780.
WHEREAS sundry persons, not having the fear of God before their eyes, but by the instigation of the devil and their own wicked imaginations, did falsely and maliciously instigate me to publish my wife Molly Ferguson an eloper from my bed and board, and as cohabiting with other men; therefore, as I think myself grossly injured, I do, consequently, proclaim the affairers of such scandal as persons void of truth and common honesty.---But notwithstanding which, I do again forbid any person trusting her on my account, as I will not pay any debt from the said contract from the date hereof.
Given at Exeter, this 21st day of July, 1780. Ebenezer Ferguson.

PHILADELPHIA.
In CONGRESS, May 19, 1780.
RESOLVED , That if any persons shall take and prosecute to conviction, any person who shall prepare, engrave, stamp, forge, or print, or cause or procure to be prepared, engraved, stamped, forged or printed, the counterfeit resemblance of any paper Bills of credit issued, emitted or made by Congress, or who shall counterfeit or sign the name or names of the signers to any true bills to such counterfeit paper, with the intention that such counterfeit paper shall be passed in payments or received as genuine and good bills, whether the same be so passed or received or not; or who shall pay or tender in payment any such counterfeit money, or deliver the same to any other person or persons, with an intention that such counterfeit paper be passed, paid or received, as and for good and genuine, knowing the same to be forged or counterfeited, upon every such conviction, and procuring a certificate thereof, under the hands of the Judges before whom such conviction shall be had, or either of them, such person or persons shall receive of the Continental Loan-Officer of the State where such conviction shall be had, the sum of Two Thousand Dollars in the present Continental Currency, which the said Loan-Officer is hereby directed and required to pay out of any public money in his hands, and to charge the same to the United States.
Extract from the minutes, CHARLES THOMSON, Sec'y.
Wanted a capable Woman , who can be well recommended for keeping a Gentleman's house; and who understands well the dressing of victuals, and setting it off in a genteel manner, with the assistance she will have. For such a person, good encouragement will be given, by applying at the Printing-Office in Portsmouth.
Broke into the inclosure of THOMAS PACKER, of Greenland, last Friday a dark brown HORSE, seven or eight years old; has a white stripe in his forehead. Whoever has lost said horse, may have him again, paying charges. Greenland, July 10, 1780.
State of New-Hampshire.
Whereas the towns of Tuftonborough, Shelburne, Cockburne, Protection, Dartmouth, Morristown, Colburn, New Bradford, and the tract of land adjoining to the east of Haverhill and north of Warren, within the State aforesaid, in and by an act of the General Court of said State, lately passed, had set to them the sums following, as their proportion of the Continental and State tax, viz.
   Town l. s. Town l. s.     Tuftonborough 23 8 0 Morristown 2722 10   Shelburne 2045 5 0 Coleburne 1361 5   Cockburne 1361 5 0 New-Bradford 1361 5   Protection 2047 10 0 Dartmouth 1363 10  
A tract of land adjoining to the east of Haverhill and north of Warren. } 1703 5 And whereas the said towns have so few inhabitants as to be incapable of choosing officers for assessing and collecting their proportion of the State tax:
NOTICE is therefore hereby given, in pursuance of said act, to the owners (collectively) of the lands in said towns, that unless they pay their proportions aforesaid, as part of said tax, to the subscriber, on or before the 15th day of December next, so much of their lands will be sold by order of the General Court, as will pay their said proportions, with incidental charges. NICHOLAS GILMAN, Treasurer of Exeter, May 20, 1780. (said State.
Stop the RUNAWAYS.
RAN-AWAY , on Monday July 9th, from the town of Lee, TWO MEN, who had enlisted in the Continental service, viz James Sullivan, about 45 years of age, with black hair, blue coat with a red plush cape, light coloured knit breeches — and William McKilsener, about 35 years of age, had on a brown coloured homespun coat and jacket, light coured hair and bald head: Whoever will apprehend said persons, or inform where they may be found and brought to justice shall have all necessary charges paid, and a handsome reward, by applying to Zaccheus Clough, or the Selectmen of said town.
Lee, July 17, 1780.
Whereas I the subscriber being Executrix to the estate of my late Son, Thomas Pickering, commander of the ship Hambleton, and am determined to send to France, to procure the best information I can, relating to his estate, prize money, &c. Therefore, as it will be some considerable charge to employ a person for that purpose, this is to notify all those who had shares or part of shares in said vessel which he was engaged for, to come and agree with me to bear their proportionable part, in order to recover what is deficient in their parts of the prize money, &c. otherwise they may expect no more than what is their proportion in Mr Drowne's hands, as the agent for them. Do. PICKERING.
To be sold by public vendue, so much of the following lots of land in Bedford, as will pay the taxes assessed thereon at the house of Zaccheus Chandler, innholder in said town, on Tuesday the 15th day of September next, unless prevented by payment before that time.
The following are for the first and second Continental taxes, and the rate, town and county taxes: William Gordon, No. 2, 1st range, 41 gs. d. Benjamin Langdon, No. 5, 2d range, and No. 87, 3d division, 81 gs. d. Henry Timberluck, 20 acres of lot No. 7, 7th range, 11 gs. 4d. C. t. Wm. Barron, half of lot No. 4, 4th range, 41 gs. d. John Leigh, 1 and 11, in 6th range, 81 gs. d. John Nelson, 21 in 5th range and 1 in 3d range, 81 gs. d. Richard Abbot, 16 in 4th range, 41 gs. d. James Pitts, 18 in 4th range, 41 gs. d. Edward Dorr, 10 in 3d range, 41 gs. d. Thomas Baker, 3 and 6 in 2d range, 41 gs. d. Samuel Miller, 4 in 1st range, 41 gs. d. Lot 15 in 4th range, 41 gs. d.
The Sale to be at Ten o'clock forenoon. John Aiken, Constable.
Whereas Josiah Dalton, of North-Hampton, for several years past has been insane, and as his Guardian is apprehensive he may needlessly run him in debt; this is to caution all persons from trusting him for the future, as I will not pay any debt he may contract from the date hereof. All persons with whom he has lawfully contracted any debt previous to this Notification, are requested to call on the subscriber and receive payment. Josiah Batchelder, Guardian. North-Hampton, 28th June, 1780.
All persons indebted to, or that have any demands against the estate of Bartholomew Gilman, late of Exeter, deceased, are hereby desired forthwith to settle with Daniel Gilman, Esq. of said Exeter, administrator, de bonis non of said deceased. Exeter, June 24, 1780.
TO BE SOLD A Lot of LAND,
containing one hundred acres, in New-Durham, No. nine, in the 2d division. — Enquire of the Printer at Portsmouth. July 4, 1780.
TAKEN up adrift, a few Days ago a large Pump. The Owner is desired to call, prove the Property, pay Charges, and take it away. New Castle, July 6. Obednego Bell
State of New Hampshire. Rockingham ss.
We the subscribers, commission- ers, duly appointed to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of Jacob Brown, late of Newmarket, in the county and state aforesaid, trader, deceased, intestate, hereby notify said creditors we will attend that business from one to five o'clock, P. M. on the last Monday of this and the five following months, at the house of John Shute's, innholder in said Newmarket, at which time and place the creditors are desired to attend with their claims properly vouched.
Josiah Adams, } Commissioners. Theodore Carlton, Wentworth Cheswell, }
Newmarket, July 12, 1780.
Whereas a small number of HORSES
are immediately wanted for the use of the United States: Whoever has any good Waggon Horses to sell, may find a purchaser by speedily applying to Jedidiah Jewet, of Exeter.
State of New-Hampshire.
Notice is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors, and others, owning land in the township of Effingham, that has not paid their taxes for the year 1779, that unless they pay them to me the subscriber, at or before Monday the 7th day of August next, at one o'clock, so much of their lands will be sold at public vendue, as will pay said tax, with incidental charges, at the house of Capt. John Leavitt, in said town, on said day.
Their names are as follows, viz.
   1st div 2d div. l. s. d. 1 s. d.     Thomas Ned, No — No. 13 8 6 5   Thomas Parsons jun. 24 26 2 0 5 3 17 2   Daniel Sanborn, 18 1 5 9   Jonathan Wedgewood, 55 1 5 9   Joshua Wingate, 100 1 18 7   Jeremiah Emery, 41 2 11 5   Joshua Brown, jun. 22 50 1 5 11 3 18 9   Walter Bryant, 50 27 1 5 9 3 17 4   John Dearborn, jun. 68 31 3 4 7 1 0 6   John Dearborn, 95 54 0 14 0   Nathaniel Grogan, 46 1 5 9   Nathaniel Hoos, 14 8 1 5 9 3 4 11   David Knowles, 31 47 2 11 6 3 1 9   Moses Leavitt, 23 1 18 8   Jonathan Marston, 1 75 3 4 5 1 18 7   David Marston, 11 30 1 5 8 2 11 7   Simon Marston, 15 1 5 8   Sollay and March, 38 6 2 10   Daniel Marston, 93 6 3 4   Josiah Marston, 61 3 4 5   Joneth Norris, 6 2 11 2  
Capt Leavitt, Collector.
Effingham, July 12, 1780.
State of New Hampshire.
Notice is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors, and others, owning land in the township of Wakefield, that has not paid their taxes for the year 1779, that unless they pay them to me the subscriber, at or before Wednesday the 22d day of August next, at 10 o'clock forenoon, so much of their lands will be sold at public vendue, as will pay said taxes with incidental charges, at the house of Capt. David Copp, in said town, on said day.
   Their names are as followeth. l. s. d.     Solomon Hanson, 2 12 5   John Gage, 9 8 0   John Brown, 4 3 9   Samuel Goss, 2 16 0   Eliphalet Cromwell, 11 2 9   John Marden, 5 4 10   Richard Downs, 1 19 4   Thomas Nock, 7 4 2   Benjamin Ham, 1 19 4   James Kelly, 3 18 8   Ebenezer Hays, 2 5 11   Ebenezer Roberts, 3 9 11   Thomas Miller, jun. 1 19 4   Daniel Young, 0 19 8   John Perkins, 3 18 8   Samuel Austin, 3 18 8   Ebenezer Hanson, 3 5 7   Joseph Austin, 2 0 0   Ebenezer Tuttle, 4 16 9   John Gage, Esq. 6 11 0   William Willard, 3 9 0  
Robert Hardy, Collector.
Wakefield, July 12, 1780.
Notice is hereby given to all persons that have any demands on the estate of Deacon Jacob Frees late of Epping, deceased, are desired to bring in their accounts to Andrew Frees of Deerfield, Administrator in order for settlement and all those persons indebted to said estate, are desired to make payment. Epping, June 28th, 1780.
To be sold, at the Printing Office in Portsmouth.
A variety of BOOKS,
among which are a great number of Sermons, by at least an hundred different Authors — for Continental Bills, or Provision, or almost any other necessaries.
CASH, or WRITING-PAPER, given for clean Cotton and Linnen RAGS, at the Printing-Office, Exeter.