The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1773-03-05 00:00:00

L O N D O N.
The humble ADDRESS of the Right Hon. the Lords Spiritual & Temporal, in Parliament assembled, to the KING.
Die Javis, 26 o Novembris, 1772.
MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN,
WE, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled, return our humble and most unfeigned Thanks to your Majesty, for your most gracious speech from the throne.
We gratefully acknowledge your Majesty's goodness, in the gracious assurances we have received that your Majesty would have consulted our private convenience, if some very interesting public concerns had not required the early meeting of Parliament.
Your Majesty may be assured, that we will apply ourselves diligently to whatever may concern the commerce or revenue of the kingdom, or the rights and interests of any part of your Majesty's subjects; That we are thoroughly convinced the affairs of the East India Company deserve and require our most serious consideration; and that we will not neglect an object of such national importance.
Permit us, Sir, to express the happiness we feel, at having reason to hope, from the communication your Majesty has been pleased to make to us, that the war, which has so long prevailed in one part of Europe, is drawing to a conclusion: A happiness that is greatly increased, by the additional prospect it affords of the duration of peace; which, we trust, the alterations that have happened in Europe will not, in their consequences effect; being ever firmly persuaded, that your Majesty's uniform endeavours to preserve the general tranquility will be directed, on all occasions, by a due regard to the honour of your crown and the interests of your people.
With hearts deeply affected, we learn that the produce of the late harvest has not given the relief so essentially necessary to the poorer sort of your Majesty's subjects: And, conscious that we can do no act so acceptable to your Majesty, as exerting our utmost efforts to contribute to the ease and comfort of all your people: we beg leave to assure your Majesty that this object, which your paternal care and tenderness have so particularly pointed out, shall engage our utmost attention.
HIS MAJESTY's most gracious ANSWER.
My LORDS,
THANK you for this dutiful and affectionate address:
The zeal you express in it for the honour of my crown and the rights and interests of my people, gives me the highest satisfaction.
I firmly rely, that all your deliberations will tend to such measures as shall be most conducive to the great object you have before you. Among these, I am sure, you will not forget to provide for the distresses of the poor, as far as it is in the power of human wisdom to alleviate them.
The humble ADDRESS of the House of Commons to the KING,
MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN,
WE, your Majesty's most dutiful & loyal subjects the Commons of Great Britain, in Parliament assembled, beg leave to return your Majesty our humble thanks, for your most gracious Speech from the throne.
We acknowledge, with the warmest gratitude, your Majesty's great goodness, in your constant attention to whatever concerns either the commerce and revenue of your kingdom at large, or the private rights and interests of considerable numbers among your people. And we return our most dutiful thanks to your Majesty, for having given us an early opportunity of informing ourselves fully of the true state of the affairs of the East-India Company: And assure your Majesty, that, impressed with a due sense of the great Importance of the business we will, without delay, proceed to the consideration of it; and endeavour to provide, in the most effectual manner that the nature of the case will admit, for the common benefit and security of all the great & weighty interests recommended to our care by your Majesty.
Your faithful Commons cannot but rejoice, to hear that your Majesty has reason to hope, that the war which has so long unhappily prevailed in one part of Europe, is now drawing to a conclusion; and that the favorable prospect of the duration of peace, which the probability of this event affords us, will not be affected by the alterations which have lately happened: And we feel the highest satisfaction, at the assurances which your Majesty continues to receive from foreign powers, of their pacific dispositions towards this country; and at the same time we most gratefully acknowledge your Majesty's most gracious declaration, that it will be your constant endeavour to preserve the general tranquility, as far as is consistent with the honor of your crown, and the interests of your people.
Your Majesty may be assured, that your faithful Commons will cheerfully grant such supplies as the services of the ensuing year shall require: And although we are convinced, that it must ever be for the interest and reputation of this country, to have a considerable strength at sea; yet we learn with much satisfaction, that your Majesty has been enabled, during the course of this year, to proceed in the reduction of your naval establishment.
Permit us to offer to your Majesty our most humble and unfeigned thanks, for the paternal and affectionate concern, which your Majesty has expressed, for the distresses which the poor continue to suffer, from the dearth of corn. And we assure your Majesty, that a diligent attention shall not be wanting, on our part, to consider of the most proper means for preventing the increase of the evil; and for alleviating the present distresses, as far as they are in their nature capable of relief; being, persuaded, that we cannot render any service more acceptable to your Majesty, than by contributing to the happiness of all your people.
His Majesty's most gracious Answer to the Address of the House of Commons:
"GENTLEMEN,
I Return you my hearty thanks for this very dutiful Address. "The assurances you give me of your resolution to enter into the immediate consideration of the important affairs which I have recommended to you, afford me great satisfaction, and I have the fullest confidence, that you will endeavour, as far as lies in your power, to alleviate the distresses of my people, who are the constant objects of my care and affection."
Monsieur De Viart
Begs Leave to inform those GENTLEMEN and LADIES, who design to favour him with the Instruction of their Children in the Art of DANCING, that he has always endeavoured to merit the Approbation of those who have hitherto favoured him with their Custom, by having at all Times obliged himself to instruct his PUPILS in those Principles which he received in that Profession himself. — It is not every one who pretends to teach this delicate Art, who will take the Pains to instruct their Scholars in those Rules of Decorum and Politeness which are absolutely necessary to be known, before young Persons can step abroad into the World with Elegance and Ease . — And it often happens that Scholars, through the Ignorance of their Masters, are guilty of great Rudeness and commit gross Blunders on their first going into Company.
He designs to open his ACADEMY at his Lodgings in a House belonging to the Hon. DANIEL WARNER, Esq; near the long Wharf, on the first Monday of April next, and to hold his School three Days in the Week, viz. Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays, from Two to Six o'clock, P. M. Those Scholars who attended him the Summer past, are to pay only Two Dollars Per Quarter, and those that are new Comers, are to pay Two Dollars Entrance, and two Dollars per Quarter.
N. B. Said VIART teaches Minuets , French Jiggs , Horn-Pipes , Rigadoons , and English Country Dances of all Kinds.
If any Gentlemen have a Mind to be taught privately in the Evening, he will be ready to wait upon them any Time at their Leisure: and he likewise teaches the French Language in the easiest Method, so that Scholars may understand it in a very little Time; and several other Arts and Sciences which he is Master of; those Gentlemen and Ladies, who will honor him with their Custom may depend upon all the Satisfaction in the Power of their most humble and obedient Servant.
L O N D O N, Dec. 1.
A letter from Paris, dated Nov. 16, says, "A very unhappy affair happened a few days ago, Two rich merchants, relations, and intimates, who met on the Road to Bourdeaux about ten in the evening. One of them being informed thereof by his attendants, who knew the other, he alighted from his chaise to salute him; when finding him asleep in his carriage he called out in jest, "Your purse or life." The other waking in surprize, seized his pistol, and blew out his friends brains."
They write from Venice that the Republic are equipping a squadron of men of war to put to sea early next spring to watch the motions of the Turks.
We learn from Paris, that the Bastile and the Castle of Vincennes daily fill with gentlemen of all ranks.
They write from Lisbon, that the island of Lancerotta in the East-Indies, belonging to Portugal, is entirely depopulated by a volcano which issued forth in April last.
According to letters from Gallipoli, 15 Turkish men of war had just arrived in that port on their way to the Morea, with 4000 land forces on board.

L O N D O N,
Dec. 7. Never had the Ministry such a prospect of unlimited power in the House of Commons as the present Ministry in the present session. The opposition is so feeble, that the Premier laughs at it, and considers all the measures intended to be laid before them, as already carried.
The Duke of Richmond intends to make a motion in the upper assembly, relative to the Middlesex election; a motion of the like nature will be made in the lower house soon after the holidays.
Edmund Burke, Esq; is in so much esteem with the leaders of the ministerial party, that he may at this time name his own terms; we are assured there is a tide in human affairs, which, taken on its flux, leads on to happiness.
We hear the ingenious Mrs. Wright from America, at No. 30, Great Suffolk-street Strand, has lately sent over to New-York two of her inimitable Wax Figures, representing Dr. Franklin and Mrs. Mackauley; and that she is now making, (to go by Capt. All for Philadelphia,) another of a well known character in America, as a present to the American Philosophical Society.
Extract of a letter from Copenhagen, Nov. 20.
"The post which arrived here this day from Stockholm, brought advice that his Swedish Majesty had been set upon and shot at twice, but happily escaped unhurt."
PORTSMOUTH, Dec 10. An order is just come down, for discharging 800 marines from the division. We hear an order is also arrived, for all the guard ships at Spithead, to come into the harbour, and the complement of men to be reduced to the same number as in 1770.
L O N D O N, Dec. 13.
It is now confidently asserted, that advice has been received of a reconciliation between the King and the Queen of Denmark, and that she will shortly return to Copenhagen.
Extract of a letter from Dublin, Dec. 12.
"Our new Lord Lieutenant (the Earl of Harcourt) has been addressed by the City, the dissenters, the quakers and the French protestants; and has gone through a course of dinners with the officers of state, and by his easy deportment and unconstrained affability, gives universal satisfaction."
Extract of a letter from Lisbon, Nov. 17.
"We have just received the disagreeable news here, that a general disaffection now reigns thro' all the Brazils, among the Negroes, Indian slaves, &c. In the Capital ships of Para and Margarar, they have frequently risen, and when defeated fly to the Indians, in the internal parts of the country, where it is said they have a formidable body; and as most of them understand the European manner of fighting, and are furnished with arms, &c. the report of their attention to extirpate the Portuguese entirely, gains ground daily, and fills all persons with apprehensions for their lives and properties. Every method is taken to suppress these fears. The garrison of Corpura is added to that of Para or Belem, and the guards on the frontiers, towards the Amazon country, are doubled."
A letter from the Hague dated Dec. 11, mentions that France has secretly made a considerable augmentation of her troops, and proposes adding 10 men to each company in all the regiments in the service of that crown. Hence it is supposed they are meditating some important design.
Dec. 19. We have advice from Paris, that the troubles there, instead of subsiding increase daily.
A bill is likely to pass, to secure foreigners in lending Money on the West-India Estate.
We learn from Madrid that the Spanish Ministry have at last granted Permission for English ships of war to enter into the Ports of Spain.
Extract of a letter from Paris, Nov. 13.
"Some Gentlemen at Normandy have been arrested at their own Houses and sent to the Bastile, or to Vincennes, for it is not certainly known which. Among those who are known are the Marquis de Try, and the Marquis de Monpeuson; Mr. du Fosse, Counsellor of the Great Chamber, and Mr. de Belbeuf, late Attorney-General; besides
Mr. le Maître, the celebrated Advocate before-mentioned. Twenty-five Members of that Parliament who were at first banished into the Country, have since received Letters de Cachet, which direct them to go farther off. The volunteers of Soubise are ordered into Normandy, to prevent the disturbances that are apprehended there.
Mr de Bruegnon is appointed Commander in Chief of the Navy at Brest."
Extract of a Letter from Edinburgh, Nov. 20.
"Yesterday Joseph Banks, Esq; Dr. Sclander, and Dr. Lind, set out for London. In visiting the Western Islands of Scotland, they went ashore at the Island of Staffa, which is reckoned one of the greatest natural Curiosities in the World: This Island is about three Miles in Circumference, it is surrounded by a Row of Massy Pillars of different Shapes, such as Pentagons, Octagons, &c, they are about 55 Feet high, and near 5 Feet in Diameter, supporting a solid Rock of a Mile in Length, and about sixty feet high above the Pillars. There is a Cave in this Island which the Natives call the Cave of Fingal; it's Length is 371 Feet, about 115 Feet in Heigth, and 51 Feet wide; the whole Sides are solid Rock, and the Bottom is covered with Water 24 Feet Deep. The Giant's Causeway in Ireland, or Stonehenge in England, are but Trifles when compared to this Island, elegant Drawings of which are taken on the Spot."
S A L E M, March 2.
By several Vessels from the West-Indies, we learn, that in Consequence of some Representations made to the Governor of Martinico, by the Commanders in the present Expedition against the Caraibs of St. Vincent's, he had published an Ordinance, for preventing those People receiving any Supplies from the French Inhabitants under his Government.
Capt. Henry Williams arrived here last Friday from St. Eustatia, in 23 days Passage and informs, that he read in the St. Kitts Gazette, of Jan. 29, an Account of the Caraibs of St. Vincents being almost conquered: That they had sent to know, of the English General and Admiral, on what Terms they might leave the Island, as they were willing to depart as soon as permitted; That they were in great want of Provisions, as well as Ammunition, being reduced to such a Situation as to be unable to procure any further Supplies of either: That there had been considerable Loss on both Sides, and that 6 Sail of Men of War, and twenty Transports, were laying at that Island.
Capt. Williams, off St. Eustatia, spoke with Capt. Mountford, in the Brig Occasio, which, having sprung a Leak, had been hove down & repaired, & was then (Jan 30.) bound to St. Martins; all well.
A top-sail Schooner from Casco-Bay was spoke with last Thursday, about 30 leagues from the Land, all well. And the next day a Schooner from Boston, 10 Leagues from Land, was also spoke with, all well.
Saturday last, four Men in a Boat from Marblehead, who had been here with a Quantity of fresh Fish to sell, in returning home, the Boat overset, and two of them were drowned.
BVERLY March 1, 1773.
On Tuesday the 23d ult. died, and the Saturday following was buried, the Rev. Mr. JOSEPH CHAMPNEY, senior Pastor of the first Church in this Town, in the 69th Year of his Age, and 44th of his Ministry.
He was born in Cambridge, and sent early to Harvard-College in that Place; where he took his Degrees of Bachelor and Master of Arts, in the Years 1721 and 1724.
He devoted himself to the Study of Divinity; was invited to settle in the Work of the Ministry here August 25th, 1729, and was ordained the 10th Day of December following. He served the People of his Charge, without Interruption, till the last Year of his Life, when he was taken off from his public Labors by a general Decay.
An affectionate Regard for his People, which manifested itself both in their Prosperity and Adversity—A Readiness to serve
them upon all Occasions—A peaceable Temper and Behaviour—and a steady and prudent Conduct, which they have all along experienced the happy Effects of—distinguished his Ministry among them, & gained him the Love and Regard of all.
His Life appeared to be that of a sincere Christian, and his Close was serene. "Mark the perfect Man, and behold the upright, for the End of that Man is peace."
In him the Widow has lost a kind and affectionate Husband, and his Children a tender and faithful Father. We trust their Loss is his Gain, and that through the Merits of Jesus Christ he is now reaping the Fruits of a well spent Life.
B O S T O N, March 1.
The 16th ult. the Hon. House of Representatives sent the following Message to his Excellency the Governor.
May it please your Excellency.
THE House of Representatives think it of the last Importance to wait on your Excellency, & pray that you would be pleased to inform them, whether your Excellency can now satisfy the House that the Justices of the Superior Court have refused or will refuse to accept of their Support from the Crown. A Matter which appears to have filled the Minds of the good People of this Province with great anxiety; and a Determination of which in the Affirmative will tend to promote his Majesty's Service, and the Peace and Happiness of the People.
His EXCELLENCY's Answer.
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, Most certainly am not able to inform you that the Justices of the Superior Court, have refused or will refuse to accept of their Support from the Crown. All that I thought necessary for me to do before I gave my Assent to the Grants, which you had made, was the taking proper Caution to prevent their being intitled to a Salary from the Province, after a Salary from the Crown should commence, if the Warrants for the Payment of such Salary should hereafter be received.
Council Chamber, 16 February, 1773.
T. Hutchinson.
On Friday se'nnight His Excellency the Governor was pleased to send the following Message to the Honorable House of Representatives.
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, THE Province House is in a much more ruinous State than when I recommended to you to make provision for the repair of it the last Session of the General Court.
The present inconveniencies which I submit to by having continued to reside in it, I hope, will, have some weight with you, but the dishonour, which must reflect upon the Province from its appearing to be unfit for any Person to dwell in, I hope will have much greater weight with you and induce you to provide for its thorough repair.
I am well assured that his Majesty does not expect from me that any part of my support should be applied to the repairs of this House, and I have reason to think that if you should continue in your refusal, which I hope you will not, provision will be made for the decent residence of the Governor; and I do not thus repeatedly press you to make this provision for the sake of my own future convenience, but from a real regard to the honour and the interests of the Province.
Council-Chamber, 19 Feb. 1773.
T. HUTCHINSON.
Thursday last the following Message was presented to his Excellency the Governor. (In Answer to his Message to the House of the 19th ult.) by Capt. Derby, Col. Bowers, Col. Thaxter, Col. Thayer, and Capt. Morse, viz.
May it please your Excellency,
THE House have with great Attention considered your Excellency's Message of the 19th Instant, and beg Leave to say, that they are not unacquainted with the present State of the Province-House, and are sensible that it might be repaired at less Expence now than in future.

The Governor of the Province when this Building was purchased by the Government for his Residence, was constitutionally dependent upon the Free Grants of the Representatives of the People for his Support; but as the Connection between the Governor and the People in this Respect, is now to the great Grief of the Inhabitants of this Province so materially altered, this House conceive that they are not only not bound in Honor or Justice, but they cannot, consistent with the Duty they owe their Constituents, proceed to make the Repairs which your Excellency desires at this Time.
The House are so far from being influenced by any the least personal Disrespect, that they beg leave to assure your Excellency, if the Time was come, as they wish it soon may, when your Excellency shall think best to receive your whole Support from this Province, it would give them great Pleasure to provide your Excellency a convenient and elegant House, such as should be honourable to the Province, and suitable to the Dignity of the chief Magistrate of this Province.
The Hon. House of Representatives, after his Excellency the Governor had consented to the Grants to the Judges of the Superior Court for their Services the year past, voted the same sums to the Judges of the said Court for the Year ensuing to be paid quarterly, which Vote was concurred by the Hon. His Majesty's Council;—On Tuesday last His Excellency was pleased to send the following Message to both Houses, viz.
Gentlemen of the Council, and of the House of Representatives, THE Secretary has laid before me the Votes of the Two Houses for granting Salaries to the Justices of the Superior Court for the current year, commencing the first of Jan. to be paid Quarterly.
I have acquainted the House of Representatives with the Information I have received that his Majesty has been pleased to allow Salaries to the same Justices so long as they shall reside in the Province, or be absent with his Majesty's Leave, and I have no doubt that such Salaries were intended to commence before the first of January last.
As there has been no Instance since the Charter of an Allowance made to the Judges for their Services until such Services have been actually performed, and as those Grants are made to look forward, and were passed in so short a Time after the Information I gave to the House; my Assent to them would carry with it the strongest Appearance of counteracting the King, whose Servant I am.
Whilst this Difficulty continues, you cannot reasonably expect I should give my Assent, and I am obliged to decline it. I will however transmit your Votes, by the first Opportunity, to be laid before his Majesty that I may receive the earliest Signification of His Royal Pleasure.
Council-Chamber, T. HUTCHINSON. 23 Feb. 1773.
BOSTON, Feb. 25.
We hear the Sum of £.800 lawful Money is already subscribed towards erecting a Bridge from Providence to Rehoboth across Seacunk River.
We hear that a Discovery has been made of a large Gang of Money-Makers in Connecticut; but have not as yet learnt any Particulars.
We learn from Weymouth that the Measles has had a very quick and general Spread through the South Parish in that Town; 460 Persons having had that Distemper in the Space of one Month, and more than 500 in the Whole, which is near two thirds of the People there. Thirty-eight Persons have also had it out of eight Families belonging to the Town of Abington, who attend public Worship at Weymouth: But notwithstanding the rapid Progress and distressing Nature of this Disorder, it proved mortal to two Persons only, one of them an Infant Child.
We are told that two or three Persons were found frozen to Death the Beginning of this Week; among whom was a very ancient Negro Man, by the Name of Sambo.
This Town has been alarmed ten Times with the Cry of Fire since Sunday Morning.
MONDAY, March 1.
Last Thursday came on at the Superior Court, the Trial of James Bell, Cordwainer, for the Murder of his Wife: The Jury bro't in a Verdict, Manslaughter, when he plead the Benefit of the Clergy, and was accordingly burnt in the Hand on Saturday, and then discharged.
PORTSMOUTH, March 5.
ON Tuesday the 23d of February died at Dover Mrs. CHRISTINA BAKER. She was born there in March 1688, and when the Town was taken and destroyed by the Indians in June following, she was carried captive with her Mother to Canada; & there brought up in the Romish Faith, married, and had several Children! but upon her Husband's Death a strong Desire led her to return to the Land of her Nativity upon an exchange of Prisoners in 1714. After her Return she married Capt. Thomas Baker, then of North-Hampton, where she renounced the Errors of the Romish Religion, and joined with the Church under the Care of the Rev. Mr. Solomon Stoddard. An Attempt was made to recover her by Monsr. Sigournet, a Romish Priest, who sent a long and affectionate Letter to her from Canada, which being laid before the late Governor Burnet; his Excellency wrote a solid and judicious confirmation of the erroneous Principles therein advanced.— Both the Letter and Answer were printed at Boston. Removing to Dover she lived there in good Reputation, being a Pattern of Industry, Prudence and Economy; and retained to the last, a grateful Sense of God's Goodness to her, in delivering her from the Errors and Superstitions in which she was educated. She bore a tedious Illness with much Patience and Calmness, being supported by a prevailing Hope of Salvation through Christ.— The Number of her Posterity of three Generations is seventy two, of whom fifty-seven are now living.
We hear from Casco-Bay, that on Tuesday the 16th of February, that a House there suddenly caught on fire and was entirely consumed with every Thing belonging thereto.
Portsmouth New-Hampshire, Feb. 22, 1773.
DESERTED from his Master's Service on Thursday last, an Apprentice-Boy, named John Baptist Canavan, by Birth a Canadian, but talks good English, about twelve Years of Age, short and thick sett, of a ruddy swarthy Complexion, with short black Hair, dressed in a green lappet'd Jacket and Waistcoat, the latter with a Gold Binding and a blue Surtout Coat, with a narrow Brim'd round Gold laced Hat. Whoever will apprehend and cause the said Boy to be delivered to his Master, the Subscriber hereof, shall be rewarded for their Trouble. And all Persons, as well Masters of Vessels as others, are hereby warned from harbouring, detaining or taking away the said Apprentice Boy, upon Pain of being prosecuted to the utmost Rigour of the Law.
THO. WRIGHT.
L O N D O N, October 14.
An Englishman having remarked on the general depravity of the age, and instanced in the particular depravities which mark the conduct of all degrees of people, from the Peer to the Pick-pocket, concludes that we shall soon be ripe for the tyranny of man, or the vengeance of Heaven.
They write from the North of Ireland, that the insurrections formed by the Hearts of Steel, are now happily suppressed, and that every thing is again in a state of tranquillity. But the same accounts add, that emigrations to America were never so frequent, and that the principal gentlemen are using every possible means to keep their tenants resident on their estates.
The sailors who were present at the taking the Havanna, say, that Lord Albemarle, lately deceased, has now received his full dividend.
PORTSMOUTH.
We hear from Amherst, that last Saturday was married in close Goal there, one Elizabeth Ushed, an agreeable Person, to one James Robinson, confin'd for Debt:—An Instance of sincere Love!
   CUSTOM HOUSE, Piscataqua, March 4.   Inward Entries FROM.     Schooner Union, Joseph Amazasa, New Haven.   Cleared Outwards FOR.   Schooner Plenty, John Bunt, Georgia.   Brig New Market, Thomas Leigh, West Indies.   Brig Resolution, Richard Keating, Ditto.   Brig Martha, John Churchward, Ditto.   Brig Peggy, Isaac Nelson Bristol.   Ship Abigail Nathaniel Daws, Ditto.   Outward Bound FOR.   Ship Termola, George Snell, West Indies.    * Excise. *
WHEREAS I the Subscriber purchased the Excise on Spirituous Liquors in the two North Counties, viz. Grafton and Strafford, a few Towns only excepted, from the first of September 1771 to Nov. 1772, and the major Part of the Tavern Keepers and Retailers, also those that have sold without Licence, are yet backward in paying their Excise and Fines. Notice is hereby given, that unless they immediately settle the same they must expect Trouble. I intend to be at Portsmouth at Capt. Fols's the ninth and tenth Day of this Instant March, and at Dover, at the Hauls of Mr. John Burnham Hanson on Monday the 22d. of March Instant, from ten o'clock in the Forenoon to five in the afternoon. All those concerned are desired to take Notice accordingly.
RICHARD JENNESS Receiver. Rye March 2, 1773.
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PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Rockingham, ss.
WHEREAS Application is made to me the Subscriber, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for said Province and County, by the Proprietors and Owners of more than a sixteenth part of a Tract of Land in the Northern Part of said Province, lately granted by his Excellency Governor WENTWORTH, by the Name of SUCCESS, that a Meeting of the proprietors of said Township or Tract of Land, may be called and held, at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton, Innholder in Portsmouth, on Tuesday the twenty third Day of this Instant MARCH, at Four o'Clock P. M. then and there to vote and act on the following Articles, viz. 1. To choose a Moderator to govern said Meeting. 2 To choose a Proprietor's Clerk. 3. To raise Money to pay the Charges of procuring the Charter of said Township or Tract of Land, looking it out, and surveying it, and other Contingencies, and which may be further necessary for fulfilling the Conditions of the CHARTER. And to choose proper Officers to collect and receive such Sums as may be taxed and raised. As also some Person to receive and keep said Charter in Trust for said proprietors. 4. To make Choice of any Officer or Officers, Committee or Committees, to transact all necessary Business for said proprietors. 5 To agree on some Method for calling and holding proprietors Meetings in future.
Pursuant to which Application, I do hereby Notify and Warn the proprietors of the Township or Tract of Land called Success, to meet at the place and Day aforesaid, at Four of the Clock in the Afternoon, to act and vote on the several Articles aforesaid. H. WENTWORTH, Just. Peace. Portsmouth, March 4. 1773.
AL PERSONS INDEBTED TO
OR have any Demands on the Estate of Elisha Briard, late of Portsmouth, Sailmaker, deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts to Samuel Briard, Administrator on said Estate, in order for a speedy settlement.
Lost,
Supposed to be taken out of the Store of the Subscriber, a small Bundle of Papers, containing four Notes of Hand, and sundry Accounts, whoever will give Information of the said Bundle of Papers, so that the right Owner may have them again, shall be handsomely rewarded by WILLIAM APPLETON.

To Thomas Merril, Esq; Clerk to the Proprietors of CONWAY, in the County of Rockingham and Province of New Hampshire, We the Subscribers Proprietors of said Conway, and owners of more than one Eighth Part of said Township, desire you to call a Meeting of said Proprietors to be holden at the Dwelling House of Mr. Joshua Heath in said Conway, on the Thirtieth Day of March next at ten o'clock in the Forenoon, to act on the following Articles: 1st. To chuse a Moderator. 2d. To chuse a Committee to settle with the Proprietors of Mason's Right, for their Claim in said Town. 3d. To see if they will lay out one or more Divisions of Land in said Township. 4th. To settle all Accounts respecting said Proprietors. 5th. To see if they will make a Grant of eighty Acres of Land to the Town for a Parsonage, and five Acres to set a Meeting-House on, and for other Public Uses. 6. To see if they will make a Grant to said Town of Conway of a sum not exceeding Twenty Five Shillings on each Right or Proprietor's Share to assist them in building a Meeting House, and Support of a Minister in said Town, provided the Town shall set the House in such Place as shall be agreed on by the Proprietors, at the Adjournment of this Meeting, which shall be determined at said Heath's, on the last Tuesday of May next, at three o'clock, P. M. and also agree that the Money that shall be voted by the Proprietors towards building a Meeting House, shall be laid out for that Purpose, according to their Directions. 7th. To see what Money they will vote or grant for the Purposes aforesaid. 8. To chuse such Committees as shall be thought proper for the Purposes aforesaid, and Assessors and Collector or Collectors for the aforesaid. 9. To rectify and confirm any former Vots or Votes that shall be thought to Want either Regularity or Form.
Dated this 8th Day of Feb, 1773 Joseph Odell David Page Joshua Heath Ezekiel Walker Abiel Lovejoy Enoch Webster Eben. Burbank Thomas Russel Enoch Merril Rockingham, ff Conway. Agreeable to the aforesaid Application, I do hereby notify and warn said Proprietors of Conway, to meet at the aforesaid Time and Place, for the Purposes aforesaid in the Application. Given under my Hand this 9th Day of Feb. 1773. THOMAS MERRIL Prop's Clerk.
[ New-Durham. ]
WHEREAS more than a sixteenth Part of the Proprietors of the Town of New-Durham in the County of Rockingham or Strafford, adjoining Rochester, in the Province of New Hampshire, have applied to us the Subscribers to call a Meeting of said Proprietors to consider what is necessary to be done relative to certain Vots, passed, and Measures passed, and partly pursued by the Inhabitants of said Town, towards the settlement of a Minister among them; and to determine what Method will be best for the Propriety to enter upon, in Order to promote and facilitate his Settlement, and Maintenance, that it may not be burthensome to the Inhabitants; this is therefore to notify the Proprietors aforesaid to meet at the House of Mr. John Griffin, Inholder, in Durham, in the Province aforesaid, on Wednesday the 24th Day of March next ensuing, at ten of the Clock in the Forenoon, there and there to pass any Vote or Votes relative to said Affair, that they shall then think proper; and likewise to vote upon any other Matters which may then be thought proper by said Proprietors. Daniel Rogers Thomas Tash Valentine Mathes
SAMUEL MOSES
HEREBY informs his Customers and others, That having left the Shop he worked in, he now works in Partnership with his Brother, opposite Capt. Foss's Tavern, where good Attendance will be given; and where WIGS of any sort are made cheap for Cash or good Pay. And all Favors gratefully acknowledged by the Subscribers, THEODORE MOSES, SAMUEL MOSES. N. B. They also beg those who have Accounts open, to settle them up to the First of March. Portsmouth, Feb. 25. 1773
All Persons
HAVING any DEMANDS on the Estate of Michael Whidden, late of Portsmouth, Joyner, deceased, are hereby desired to bring in their Claims properly attested, to Michael Whidden, Administrator on said Estate. And those who are Indebted to said Estate, are hereby desired to make immediate payment to said Administrator, in order for a speedy settlement. MICHAEL WHIDDEN, Administ.
Philadelphia Flour
TO BE SOLD by GILLAM BUTLER, at his STORE near LIBERTY BRIDGE, cheap for Cash
[Monadnock No. 4.]
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, County of Cheshire WHEREAS the Proprietors of the Township of MONADNOCK, No. 4, have been Notified in the New Hampshire Gazette, according to LAW, to pay sundry Grants of Money legally assessed on each proprietor's Rights or Lots of Land in said Township to me the Subscriber, and several of the proprietors being yet delinquent in the whole or part, these are therefore to Notify such proprietors, that so much of each delinquent proprietor's Lands will be exposed to sale at PUBLIC VENDUE, at the House of James Reed, Esq; Inholder in said Township, on Wednesday the Nineteenth Day of May next, at Two of the Clock in the Afternoon, to pay said Taxes, with incidental Charges. The Delinquents Lots are as followeth, with the Sums due in Lawful Money.
Table with 4 columns: Lot description, L, S, D. Rows include: Jonathan Blanchard's Lot, No. 11 in the First Range (2 14 0); The 22d Lot in the 9th Range, granted to Daniel Mellen, taxed to Thomas Tolman (0 12 0); Jeremiah Butterfield, taxed to Henry Poor, No. 1 and 2, in 12th Range (2 8 0); Thomas Spalding half No. 6 in the 2d Range (0 12 0). Total: DANIEL MELLEN, Collector.
ALL PERSONS INDEBTED TO, OR that have Demands on the Estate of Lieut. JOSEPH SANBORN, late of Hampton Falls, Yeoman, deceased, are desired immediately to bring in their Accounts to Joseph Sanborn of Brimswood, and Jeremiah Lane of said Hampton Falls, Administrators on said Estate, in order for a speedy settlement. Hampton Falls, Feb. 23. 1773.
TO BE SOLD,
A SHIP of about 160 Tons, Lying at Kittery Point;— she is about six Years old, and can be well recommended: For further particulars, enquire of JOHN SPARHAWK, Esq; at Portsmouth, or of Mr. ISAAC WINSLOW, jr. at Boston. — N. B. Any reasonable Credit will be given, provided the Payment of the Sum agreed on, and the Interest thereof is well secured.
TO BE SOLD, (near the Canoe Bridge) a DWELLING HOUSE, WAREHOUSE, and WHARFE; Also a Bake House and Garden Spot, now in the Occupation of George Walton, junr. of Portsmouth. Also to be sold a Lot of Land lying opposite the Mansion House of the Honorable Theodore Atkinson, Esq; 40 Feet on the Street, and about 100 deep. Also a Pasture of about nine Acres, within a Mile of the State House, adjoining Mr. Samuel Langdon's Land, and sundry other Pieces of Land, together with a Tanyard. For further Particulars, enquire of said Walton.
JUST IMPORTED, and to be SOLD By SAMUEL HILL In PORTSMOUTH, A Neat Assortment of COFFINFURNITURE, of all Sizes, viz.
LETTES, FIGURES, PINS, ANGELS DROPS, ESCUTCHEONS, Cherubim's Heads; Handles and Plates; Flower Pots; Angels, Breast Plates; Open Lacing and Nails.
‡ Canaan. ‡
THE Proprietors of the Township of CANAAN, in the Province of New Hampshire, are hereby NOTIFIED, that the Vendue for the Sale of Lands in Canaan, is adjourned to the second Wednesday in June next, at One o'Clock P. M. at the Dwelling-House of Mr. John Scofield, in said Canaan. GEORGE HARRIS, Proprietors Collector. N. B. The Time when the Vendue was adjourned, was the 3d Day of January 1771, at Thomas Well's, in Colchester in the Colony of Connecticut.
Several Rights of Land, to be Sold, cheap for Cash, in different Townships, some of which is very good—Enquire of the Printers. Blanks of all sorts, &c. sold at the Printing Office.
Province Excise.
ON THURSDAY the Eighteenth Day of MARCH next, will be exposed to SALE, at PUBLIC VENDUE, to the highest Bidder, by the Committee appointed by Vote of the GENERAL-ASSEMBLY, for that Purpose, at the House of James Stoodly, Esq; in Portsmouth, the PROVINCE EXCISE on SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS, granted by an Act passed in the 5th Year of his late Majesty's Reign, entitled an Act for granting unto his Majesty an Excise on several Liquors, &c. &c. The said EXCISE will be sold for only one Year, to commence from the second Tuesday in November last, and in five separate Divisions, in the following Manner;
COUNTY of ROCKINGHAM.
The first Division to include all the Towns and Parishes within the County of Rockingham.
COUNTY of STRAFFORD.
The second Division to include all the Towns and Parishes within the County of STRAFFORD.
COUNTY of HILLSBOROUGH.
The third Division to include all the Towns and Parishes within the County of Hillsborough.
COUNTY of CHESHIRE.
The Fourth Division to include all the Towns and Parishes within the County of Cheshire.
COUNTY of GRAFTON.
The Fifth Division to contain all the Lands in the Province, not comprehended in the other Divisions, including all the Towns and Parishes within the County of Grafton.
CONDITIONS of SALE shall be made known at the Time and Place of Sale.
JONATHAN WARNER, Chairman. Portsmouth, 16th February 1773.
Stavers's Stage,
AT THREE DOLLARS, for Passengers, as usual, sets out on Tuesday Mornings from his House in Portsmouth, at Eight o'Clock precisely, for Boston and returns on Saturdays with the MAIL.
Bohea Tea.
CHOICE LONDON BOHEA TEA, by the Hundred, Dozen or single pound, to be Sold by JOHN MARSH, at the lowest Price, for Cash only. Likewise excellent SOUSHONG Tea, very cheap.
TO BE SOLD, a good
FARM lying in Madbury, containing 40 Acres, with a HOUSE 38 and 28 Feet, a BARN 30 and 51 Feet,—Also a good ORCHARD; and is well situated on the Road for a Tavern. Enquire of John Roberts, living on the Premises.
TO BE SOLD, A
GOOD HOUSE and LAND, with a BARN, and WELL: The Land is 40 Feet Front and 150 deep, lying in King Street, Portsmouth. For Particulars, enquire of the Printers.
ALL PERSONS Indebted to the Town of Portsmouth, are earnestly requested to pay their respective Ballances immediately to the Selectmen of said Town.
And all Persons that have any legal Demands on said Town, are desired to bring in their Claims to said Select Men in Order for Settlement.
We hear from Hingham, in the Massachusetts, that one Day the Week before last, Mr Daniel Burrel and Mr. Marshall Lincoln, going a gunning in a small Canoe, to the black Rocks at Cohasset, the Canoe overset and they were both drowned.—Marshall Lincoln served his Apprenticeship with Mr. Crafts, of this Town, and lately free.