Fowle's New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser ([Portsmouth, N.H.]), 1785-09-23 00:00:00

FOWLE's NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE,
AND GENERAL
THE ADVERTISER.
F R I D A Y,
SEPTEMBER 23, 1785.
P O R T S M O U T H: By MELCHER AND OSBORNE,
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED IN PAVED STREET.
VOL. XXIX.]
"OPEN TO ALL PARTIES—INFLUENCED BY NONE:—WE AIM ONLY TO BE JUST."
No. 1509
TO THE PUBLIC.
I EARNESTLY and respectfully request the particular attention of the reader to the following letter, wrote by Judge Hubbard to President Weare and his Privy Council, in March or April last, when they finished at Hampton what they began at Exeter, in October or November preceding.
GENTLEMEN,
I think it happy for the State, that the President of the Superior Court is as superior as his station; a station, which, if he leaves it, I would never, if I might, engage in. Next to myself on the bench is Judge Bartlett; a gentleman of great abilities, in the full vigour of life, to whom I should most certainly give place, and have ever declar'd this. After yielding thus much, I can't but humbly be of opinion, that retaining my present seat in the Superior Court, joined with three most capable judges, cannot be injurious to the public; but if that suffers by my being any longer a Judge of that Court, no arguments drawn from humanity towards an indigent individual, grown old in the service of the public in this office, ought to prevail. A word to the wise is enough.
I am gentlemen,
with great respect and esteem, your most obedient humble servant. L. H.
This letter may appear to the reader so humble, as even to be mean and abject; but I think he will change his mind, when he considers, that necessity justified the writer in descending to any lawful means, to recover a subsistence for himself and family; but the letter, it seems had no effect on the predetermined minds of those to whom it was addressed. What was written is plain and intelligible, and the subject matter of it easy to judge of. The persons in the romance (for the real truth of facts is scarce credible) are well known to the public. I ask then, was Judge Hubbard so deficient, either in morals, literature, or natural abilities, as to disqualify him for the office he held? If he was, the State has reason to approve of the conduct of the late President and Council in dismissing of him from so important a trust, as judging between contending parties must ever be esteemed; but if this was not the case, the public have reason to reprobate their proceedings in this matter, as well as in the dismissal of other Judges, if undeserving of such disgraceful and affrontive treatment. The former President and Council have, not long since, been pretty roughly handled in the Essex Journal. Those who have seen that paper upon the present subject, have waited till this time, expecting some reply from them, whom it so much concerns. What is the reason they have taken no notice of the high charges against them contained in the paper refered to? Is it, that conscious innocence supports them, in a secret and silent contempt of their rude and false accusers, or does conscious guilt strike the wicked dumb? It is all important to the State, to have this question truly answered and determined: For the Essex Journal travels through the continent and beyond it; holding up to the view of the world the public transactions of New-Hampshire; and where that and the constitution of the State are read, if the President and Council for the last year have been to blame, as essentially as has been represented, without meeting with deserved and constitutional strictures, the reflection of the reader will not be confined to them only; but will extend to the Representatives of the State in General Court assembled, if they neglect due notice of such public offenders by impeachment, if their misdoings deserved and demand it; but if this department of the legislative power and authority, discharge their trust, as guardians of the constitution, then the reflection will pass to the Senate, if they prove unfaithful in deciding upon such impeachment; and finally, will rest upon the people at large, if they suffer an essential infraction of the constitution; though it should be done by the united voice of the whole General Court: But rather would I, that the whole Court meet with the most humiliating disgrace, than, that the honor and majesty of the respectable citizens and good people of New-Hampshire, should be in the least degree
tarnished; but as we well know, the legislature to be most honorable, we may rest satisfied, that they will preserve inviolate and unfulfilled, their own honor and that of the State; and that, both constituents and substitutes will harmonize, in preventing either public injury or private wrong.—To be continued at convenient periods between this and the next meeting of the General Court, if I should think, that what I have already offered, needs any addition or amendment; for having no pretence to infallibility, I stand open to just conviction of error from any quarter; either from my own reflection, or the suggestions of others, whether friends or foes to an impartial
SPECTATOR.
The following is a copy of the circular letter sent by the Committee of the tradesmen and manufacturers of the town of Boston, to their brethren of the several seaports throughout the United States:
BOSTON, August 20, 1785.
GENTLEMEN,
W E being appointed by the association of tradesmen and manufacturers of the town of Boston, to write to our brethren throughout the several States, do now address you on the very important and interesting subject of our own manufactures.
The late system of commerce pursued since the peace of importing such articles as can be manufactured among ourselves, must discourage the whole body of tradesmen and manufacturers of the States, who depend for the support of themselves and families on their various occupations; and this practice, unless speedily check'd by the prudent exertions of those who are more particularly interested, must eventually prove ruinous to every mechanical branch in America.
Impressed with these sentiments, and finding the evil daily increasing—the tradesmen and manufacturers of the town of Boston, awakened by a sense of the danger which threatened them, assembled to deliberate on measures to relieve themselves from the destructive tendency of such importations.
An ASSOCIATION was accordingly formed, consisting of a Representative from each branch; and in this body the whole manufacturing interest of this town becomes an object of general attention.
The first measure adopted by this association was to pass resolves respecting the importation of certain articles from Europe by our own merchants, and numbers of British agents residing among us; but knowing that nothing could be effected to any radical purpose unless we had the authority of the laws, we petitioned the legislature of this State, praying that duties might be laid on the several articles enumerated in our petition. In consequence of which application our legislature complied, in a great measure, with our request, by enacting laws for the encouragement of industry and for the promoting of our own manufactures.
However we are sensible that our present situation requires an extensive co-operation to compleat the purposes we wish, we take this method to bring forward a confederated exertion, and doubt not from a union of sentiment the most permanent benefits may arise. We therefore apply to you, Gentlemen, to lend us your assistance, and like a band of brothers, whose interests are connected, we beg you to join in such measures to advance the general good, as your prudence shall suggest and your wisdom dictate.
We would with submission recommend an association of your tradesmen and manufacturers, formed upon the most extensive basis, and supported upon the most liberal principles; we may then hope the manufacturers of this country will flourish, when each man becomes interested not only in his own branch, but in those of his brethren; encouraged by such extensive patronage, each individual will be animated to pursue his business with alacrity, knowing that he acts in concert with those on whose friendship he can with confidence rely.
An association being established in your State, we shall ever be happy to correspond with; and we flatter ourselves from the social intercourse, a general
harmony will prevail throughout the whole manufacturing interest of this country.
As we hope to experience the good effects of the late acts of our General Court we would recommend a petition for a similar purpose to your legislature; and from the known disposition of your State to promote the welfare of AMERICA, we doubt not some plan will be devised by your General Assembly to prevent the importation of such species of articles as are commonly manufactured in America.
We need not urge the necessity of some measures being immediately taken by the whole CONFEDERACY. The embarrassments of our navigation; the large debts contracted in Britain; and the remittances of our currency, all serve to put every real friend to his country upon serious attention; and if any mode can be adopted to remedy these evils, we are convinced no American will be backward in the cause, but will join heart and hand to promote the desirable purposes.
The means we propose, we conceive, are calculated to put each State upon deliberating on a subject highly important to the manufacturing interest; and we cannot but hope that some lasting benefits will accrue from the united voice of the tradesmen and manufacturers of America.
These States are so extensive in their boundaries, so various in their climate, and so connected in their national interest, that if a plan could be adopted throughout the CONFEDERATION for the exchange of the produce and manufactures of each State, we conceive it would serve to cement a general union, and prove a means to promote the interest of the WHOLE.
The northern States might furnish many articles of manufactures which are now imported from Europe; and in return might receive those supplies peculiar to the growth and climate of the southern.
An association formed throughout the States upon so liberal a plan, would establish many extensive branches of manufactures; and if prosecuted with spirit, would put this country above the humiliating state of lavishing her stores of wealth to promote the manufactures of Europe.
We wish you to communicate this letter to such towns of your State as you shall think proper.
We are Gentlemen,
With every sentiment of respect, Your most obedient servants, JOHN GRAY, GIBBINS SHARP, BENJAMIN AUSTIN, jun. SARSON BELCHER, WILLIAM HAWES, JOSHUA WITHERLE.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
By his Excellency
JOHN LANGDON, Esq.
President of the State of
New-Hampshire.
I T having been made to appear to me, that DIEDERICK LEERTOUWER, Esq. hath been duly recognized by the United-States of America, in Congress assembled, as Consul of their High Mightinesses the States-General of the United Netherlands, for the States of New-Hampshire & Massachusetts, to reside at Boston:
I do therefore, by and with the advice of Council, by these presents, make known to all concerned, that the privileges, pre-eminence, and authority legally belonging to the character and quality of the Consul as aforesaid, are due to the said Diederick Leertouwer, within the jurisdiction of this State; and that I have ordered this exequatur, or notification of his quality, to be recorded in the Secretary's office.
Given under my hand, and the seal of the State, this seventh day of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five and in the tenth year of the Independence of the United-States of AMERICA.
JOHN LANGDON.
By his Excellency's Command. JOSEPH PEARSON, D. Sec'ry.

M A D R I D, May 17.
The Ordinances relative to the new East India Company is dated the twenty-eighth of last Month; the fund of that Company is to be 30,000,000, of which the Caraccas Company, which is returned to it, is to furnish nine, the King five, the bank of Madrid three, and the Inhabitants of the Phillippine Islands a similar Sum. The remaining 10,000,000 are to be divided into shares of 1000 Livres each. The Company will be charged with the Equipment of the Merchant Ships destined for Spanish America, where they will find the Merchandise necessary for that Country; and are to receive in Exchange Piaftres, Corn, and fruits, which they are to carry to the Phillippines, where they will purchase the Goods of India and China. The King permits to all Nations the free Entrance into the Ports of the Phillippines. The company will have there a Council of administration; another is to be established at Manila, and one at Madrid, with which the other two are to correspond.
N E W - Y O R K, September 6. Monday arrived at Philadelphia, the ship Harmony, Capt. Willet, from England, she had only 31 days passage from land to land, and brings London papers to the 19th of July, from which we have extracted the following:
L O N D O N, July 8. Saturday morning, previous to the commencement of the review, the following experiment was made in Woolwich Warren. A range of five inch timbers being erected to resemble the side of a ship, behind them were placed eleven inch, and lastly nine inch timbers, the whole being bolted and keyed together with stout Iron, so as to form a compact body of oak. Against those timbers five red-hot four and twenty pounders were discharged from the distance of two hundred yards, and they making a clear passage through the whole, lodged in a bank of earth thrown up behind; but the sixth shot penetrated above five inches, and set fire to the timber, which in less than an hour was entirely consumed.
Extract of a letter from Newcastle, July 2. "The long continued drought we have experienced in this neighbourhood has occasioned the most unpleasing prospects of the crops of hay, oats, barley, peas, beans, &c. which it is apprehended will not amount to one quarter of last year's produce; the crop of wheat is very promising. During this week the temperature of the air has been more intensely hot than has been experienced in this neighbourhood for some years."
The following trait may serve as an illustration of the character of the present Captain Pacha or Turkish High Admiral:
He has long had it in view to restore the Turks to their former hardness, by banishing luxury of every kind. Not long since, while he was taking his round through the public places, he saw some ladies going to the bath in very magnificent dresses when he caused their sakka or veils to be cut in public, they being, he said, so large, that any one of them contained enough to make three. For any other man this would have been a very dangerous experiment in such a country as Turkey, where the men are so jealous of the honour of the women, and it certainly will by no means ingratiate him with the fair sex; but he is fourscore years of age, stands high in the Sultan's esteem, and the integrity of his views, and intrepidity of his heart, set him above all apprehensions to which ordinary men are subject.
Last week as some workmen were sinking a well at Powick, near Worcester, they found 21 feet deep in earth, a large oak tree; also an elm tree; and below that a nut tree; with nuts on. The leaves of the trees and fibres were very perfect, and it is supposed they must have lain there a great length of time.
A new club is about to be instituted in the West end of the town, to be called the HODGE-PODGE Club; the qualification is, that a member shall be the last man in the world whom one should expect to find in such a society. The names of the members already enrolled are, Lord North, Mr. Adams, the American Minister, Lord Sackville, General Arnold, Mr. Fox, Mr. Galloway, General Burgoyne, Baron Lynden, General Clinton, and Lord Cornwallis. In case Messrs. Franklin and Washington should arrive in London, they will be elected into the club; in the mean time they are considered as honorary members!
There is at this time an uncommon number of American Quakers in town; these men, to the credit of their profession, have been regular in payment of debts contracted before the war, during the war, and since the war has been over.
July 8. The late Charles Townshend being engaged in a convivial party with the principal men of Banbury, the conversation turned on the state of oratory—and one of them said, that he was informed there was better speaking at the Robinhood Society, the President of which was a Baker , than in the House of Commons.—"It is not at all to be wondered at (says Charles) gentlemen go to the Baker for oratory—but they go to the House of Commons for bread."
July 9. Friday last a servant girl of farmer Pitkin of Mursley, Bucks, committed suicide in a very extraordinary manner. While her master and his men were weeding in the field, she took a cord and tied it tight round the upper part of her left thigh, and with a fleam and stick used in bleeding cattle, made a deep incision through the artery, and bled to death before any assistance could be procured. The inquest brought in their verdict Lunacy.
July 18. It is no less remarkable than true, that a cause was a few days since determined in one of the courts below, which commenced in the reign of King William. The Solicitor-General was one of the counsel.
Extract of a private letter from Paris, dated May 29. "This age will be remembered by the latest posterity, as the era of new and wonderful discoveries.—A person who, no doubt, "deals with the devil," has
lately set up a shop of Divination, in the Pithonian style. By means of some powerful conjurations, he contrives to bring before his customers, such persons as are absent, no matter for the distance. They cannot remain above a quarter of an hour, but in this short space many things may be said and done.—Now for a proof of his skill.—Sometime ago a man of the first rank, having an important secret to impart to a lady then in London, he applied to the Conjuror, who, after many intreaties, consented to grant his request. In an instant prestige be here!—Lo! the lady made her appearance, but the shock was so sudden that the gentleman was frightened into a fainting fit. The quarter of an hour elapsed and the vision disappeared. By the next post the gentleman had a letter from the identical lady, complaining that she had been lately affected by disagreeable dreams, and that on the preceding Tuesday, (the very day of the conjuration) she thought herself in his company, but saw him seated in an arm chair, with his hand over his face, and himself in a deep swoon. She concluded, by requesting him to quiet her fears, and let her know the real state of his health.—Sure no inquisitor of the past, present, or future times, would doom a man to the stake for disbelieving the story; improbable as it may appear, at present it engrosses all the conversation of our fashionable circles.
Extract of letter from Smyrna, May 18. "They write from Alexandria, that a kind of epidemic disorder reigns there, of which near 2000 persons die daily. This disease is considered as the natural consequence of the famine which lately prevailed in those countries. However, notwithstanding the scarcity of provision experienced on Alexandria, this city hath hitherto been free from the plague and other contagious maladies."
J U L Y 19. It is singular that the clamour first raised by the Americans against the mother country was in consequence of the Stamp act, which was represented to be a monster of iniquity; yet the first act of the Legislature of Massachusetts, after obtaining their Independence, was to lay a stamp duty on new-papers, &c.
A number of Italian noblemen and gentlemen saw the execution on Wednesday from a window, and we are sorry witnessed a superstition as weak as any in their own country—no less than four diseased persons had themselves rubbed with the sweaty hands of the malefactors in the agonies of death, and believed this would cure them.
At Bristol on the day the shop-tax took place a fine transparent figure representing Commerce, was chained to the ground, and a certain gentleman striking a knife at her heart.
The court of Spain have not, as reported, given up the intended attack against Algiers, but only postponed the same, on account of the plague raging among the Moors, and it still appears to be the firm resolution of all the powers in the Mediterranean, to humble those pirates, by the total destruction of Algiers.
While we are recognizing the authority of Congress, by receiving an Ambassador in their name, they have not even a shadow of power in their own country; for by the best accounts from the Continent, there is not, at this moment, any one of the United States, as they are pompously called, that acknowledge the supremacy of such a Head, or pays the least regard to their ordinances and decrees. Each acts by itself as sovereign and independent; nor will their respective citizens submit to any laws or regulations but such as are enacted by their own particular assemblies. In this state of anarchy, the admission of a representative from Congress, is a solecism in politics which can hardly be accounted for. If trade was the view of our ministers in doing so, they certainly took the wrong way to effect their purpose. It can be no great recommendation to the commercial part of the Americans, that we have, so far given our sanction to an authority which they consider as odious, and seem determined to resist.
A Lodge of Female Freemasons is now established at Paris, who differ from the other societies, and from their own sex only in one particular, that they do not allow any man to be admitted into their lodge!
P H I L A D E L P H I A, September 3. The good effects of the Bank of North America, says a correspondent, extend not only to the young merchant of slender capital, but to the farmer and mechanic. The former gets his bills paid as soon as they are presented, by means of a discount of six per cent. per annum; and the latter obtains cash, through the medium of the bank, for his produce as soon as he comes to town. This bank draws and confines the money of the United States to the city of Philadelphia, from whence it is diffused, as from a reservoir, to every part of the State. Any attempt, therefore, to destroy this bank, or lessen its usefulness, can only be ascribed to the spirit of faction and party, and must be considered as an act of state suicide in Pennsylvania.
We have authority to assure our readers that a few days after the bill for taking away the charter of the bank was published, a merchant in this city received an order from a merchant in London to purchase him as many shares in the bank of North-America, as would amount to four thousand pounds sterling. All this money would have been kept from exportation, had the gentleman been able to comply with the request of his friend.
To attempt to enforce the credit of government emissions of money by destroying the bank, which is as much the offspring of a law of the State, as any paper money can be, is as absurd as it would be for a man to think he could strengthen his right hand by cutting off his left.
Our correspondent wishes our customers to attend to the conduct of the British refusing to give up our posts, &c. In setting the Indians on our backs, and to ask themselves, should a war become inevitable, to what quarter must we look for money to raise, feed, and pay an army, if we cut off the only sinew that ignorance and bankruptcy have left us to carry on a war—viz. the bank of North-America.
Extract of a letter from St. Eustatia, dated July 22.
"I have nothing new to inform you of, except that on Monday morning the 11th instant, about half after two o'clock, we were much alarmed here by a violent shock of an earthquake, which lasted upwards of a minute. As I in general sleep very sound. I believe I should not have heard it had I not been awaked by the shrieks of the ladies of the house. On my awaking I was much terrified; for my bed shook almost like the rocking of a cradle, and the house rattled as if it would come down about our ears. Add to this the dismal cries of the family, which were sufficiently terrifying. It however went off without doing damage. They say here they have not felt so severe a shock these 40 years. It was experienced by all the neighbouring islands much about the same time, and several vessels a number of leagues out at sea felt it, especially a small one off St. Kitts, which by the commotion it made in the water lost her rudder, split her pump and fore-top, and was so shook that the Captain was afraid she would have gone to pieces."
State of New Hampshire. PUBLIC Notice is hereby given, that a petition hath 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'y. Portsmouth, June 24, 1785.
ALL Persons having Accounts
open with JOSEPH SIMES, late of Portsmouth, Painter, deceased, are once more earnestly desired to call and settle the same immediately. It is now become absolutely necessary to have the estate settled without loss of time; therefore the Administrators will be under the necessity of putting the accounts of all those who neglect to settle with them, into the hands of an Attorney, without respect to persons.
Portsmouth. September 13, 1785. T O B E S O L D, (on reasonable Terms) A HOUSE and LAND, Pleasantly situated near the Mansion-House of Mr. Joseph Moulton, in this Town; said House contains four Rooms on a Floor, besides a Shop, &c.—For further Particulars enquire of SAMUEL SHEREVE. Portsmouth. September 15, 1785.
A FARE will be held at GREENLAND on the first Tuesday and Wednesday in October.

CHORUS to the Tragedy of BRUTUS.
By ALEXANDER POPE Esq.
STROPHE I.
YE shades, where sacred truth is sought; Groves, where immortal fages taught: Where heav'nly wifons Plato fir'd! And Epicurus lay inspir'd! In vain your guitlefs laurels flood Unfpotted long with human blood. War, borrid war, your thoughtlefs walks invades, And fteel now glitters in the Mufe's fliades.
ANTISTROPHE I.
Oh heav'n-born fifters! fource of art! Who charm the fenfe or mend the heart; Who lead fair Virtue's train along, Moral Truth, and myftic Song: To what new clime, what diftant fky, Forfaken, friendlefs, fhall ye fly? Say, will ye blefs the bleak Atlantic fhoar? Or bid the furious Gaul be rude no more?
STROPHE II.
When Athens finks by fates unjuft, When wild Barbarians fpuvn her duft; Perhaps ev'n Britain's utmoft fhoar; Shall ceafe to blufl with ftranger's gore; See Arts her favage fons controul, And Athens rifing near the pole!
Till fome new tyrant lifts his purple hand, And civil madnefs tears them from the land?
ANTISTROPHE II.
Ye Gods! what juftice rules the ball? Freedom and arts together fall; Fools grant what e'er ambition craves, And men, once ignovant, are flaves; Ob curf'd effects of civil hate, In ev'ry age, in ev'ry ftate! Still when the luft of tyrant pow'r fucceeds, Some Athens periftes, fome Tully bleeds.
State of New-Hampshire,
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in EFFINGHAM, who have not paid their State and War taxes for the year 1782, and 1783, that so much of their lands will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling house of Weare Drake, inhoulder in said town, on Tuesday the 4th day of October next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, as will pay said taxes and incidental charges, unless prevented before by previous payment: and if said lands are not all sold on said day, the sale to continue from day to day until the whole is sold. I shall set the quantity as they are commonly called, and sell according to unequality, or if so much remains unfold.
   Div. No. Q'ty. s. d. s. d.    Abner Fogg, jr. 2 7 200 3 0  Abner Fogg, 1/2 paid 2 6 150 2 3  Benjamin Palmer, 1 88 56 12 10  Joshua Wingate, 3d, 2 3 200 9 0  Nathaniel Drake, 1 29 56 2 5 2 11  Ditto, 2 32 200 2 5 2 11  Levi Dearborn, 2 46 200 2 5 2 11  Abner Fogg, jr. 2 7 200 3 0 4 0  Abner Fogg, 1/2 paid 2 5 150 3 0 4 0  Nathaniel Gookins, 2 35 200 9 2 12 2  David Knowls, jr. 1 31 56 2 5 2 11  Ditto, 2 47 200 4 7 6 1  David Knowls, 1 64 56 2 5 2 11  Ebenezer Lovering, 1 17 56 1 4 2 2  Moses Leavitt, 2 48 200 2 5 2 11  Simon Leavitt, 1 45 56 1 4 1 2  Ditto, 2 40 200 9 2 12 2  Simon Marston 1 15 56 0 8 0 8  James Marston, 1 48 56 0 8 0 8  David Marston, jr. 2 36 200 6 8 9 2  Thomas Parsons, jr. 1 24 56 0 8 0 8  Jedediah Prescott, 1/2 2 68 50 2 0 2 0  James Wedgwood, 1/2 1 19 25 0 4 0 4  Ditto, 1/2 2 57 100 3 4 4 7  Ezekiel Russel, 1 30 56 2 5 2 11  Jonathan Wedgwood, 1 52 56 0 8 0 8  Joshua Wingate 3d, 2 3 200 4 7 6 1  Ebenezer Smith, 2 62 200 6 8 9 2  Benjamin Perkins, 1 77 56 1 3 2 11  Thomas Nudd, 1 90 56 1 9 2 3  John Weeks, 1 72 56 1 9 2 5  
WEARE DRAKE, Collector.
Effingham, August 2 1785.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident Owners of Land in Deerfield, who have not paid their Taxes for the Year 1784, that so much of their Land will be sold at Public Vendue, on Wednesday the 28th Day of September next, at the House of Lieut. David Robinson, inhoulder in said Town, at One o'-Clock in the Afternoon, as will pay the Taxes and Charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
   N.R. Q'ty. f. d. L. f. d. f. d. f. d.    John Wadleigh, 28 1 200 7 0 5 8  Jotham Odiorne, 18 2 200 9 9 8  Josiah Hook, 6 2 30 9 9  Kinsley H. James, 9 2 100 5 3 4 6  Mary Wheeler, 29 1 128 4 6 3 8  Richard Tobie, 3 6 8 7  Scribner Gorden, 11 30 1 1 2 6 1 1 1 6 1  Gen. Jos. Cilley, 14 1 200 5 1 1 6 8 6 9 1 5  Daniel Sanborn, 3 1 1 1 2  
ENOS SANBORN, Constable.
Deerfield, August 12, 1785.
John Sparhawk,
HAS JUST IMPORTED FROM LONDON,
DEMY printing Paper, Writing Paper, Account Books, a variety of Books in the several branches of Literature, &c. &c. all which he will sell cheap for Cash—he has also on hand an assortment of EUROPEAN & INDIA GOODS, which he will sell as cheap as usual, Portsmouth, September 7, 1785.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
PUBLIC Notice is hereby given, that a petition hath been preferred to the General Court by Thomas Odiorne and others, a committee in behalf of the new parish (so called) in Exeter, in said State, setting forth, that Nicholas Gilman, jun. formerly of said Exeter, (now deceased) did, by his last will and testament, dated January 28, 1745, give and bequeath a certain dwelling-house and tract of land in Exeter aforesaid, in the manner following, viz.
I give and bequeath unto my brother Peter Gilman, Esq. and Mr. Daniel Thing and Samuel Gilman, Esq. all of Exeter aforesaid, my dwelling-House, barn, orchard, and twenty-two acres of land on which they stand, and adjoining to them, be the same more or less, with all the privileges and appurtenances thereto belonging or in any ways appertaining, which land is bounded as followeth, viz. beginning at the high way by my brother Peter Gilman's land, near the bridge, commonly called the great bridge in Exeter aforesaid, and from thence running southerly and southwesterly by said Peter Gilman's land, until it comes to land heretofore belonging to Jonathan Folsom of said Exeter deceased, and from thence to run by the land that was said Folsom's until it comes to the southerly corner thereof, and from thence to run northwesterly bounding by the land which was said Folsom's, until it comes to the southerly corner of Jonathan Gilman, jun.'s land, and from thence to run southwesterly bounding by the land belonging to the heirs of Nathaniel Gilman, Esq. of Exeter aforesaid deceased, and by Samuel Gilman, Esq.'s land until it comes to the aforesaid Peter Gilman's land, and from thence to run southwesterly on a straight line by the said Peter Gilman's land, and by land I purchased of said Peter Gilman until it comes to the great fresh river, and from thence to run down said river bounding on every part thereof until it comes to the highway by the bridge aforesaid, and from thence to run westerly by said highway to the bounds first mentioned; to be improved by the said Peter Gilman, Daniel Thing and Samuel Gilman, for and towards the support of a minister or ministers, which shall or may hereafter be settled in the ministry in the church of Christ, which usually meet or assemble together for the public worship of God in the new meeting-house lately erected in said Exeter, on the northerly side of the highway which leads from Exeter old meeting-house to Kings-town and between Mr. Josiah Gilman's dwelling-house and the dwelling-house of Mr. John Dean, in said Exeter;—or for any other pious use—according to their direction, or to the direction of any two of them,—as long as they, or any two of them shall live, and be capable and agree to improve the said premises for the uses aforesaid, and in case of refusal, incapacity or decease of any two of them, my will is, that the said premises shall be improved for the uses aforesaid by the deacons of said church, when there are any such, and if said church shall at any time be without deacons, or in case of said deacons refusal, or incapacity to improve said premises, my will is, that said premises shall be improved by such person as said church shall make choice of from time to time, to improve the same. And my will is, that the yearly rent or income of the said premises shall be applied to the uses aforesaid, and no other forever hereafter.
They also further shew, that the said premises have to this time been used and improved as aforesaid for a parsonage; that two of said persons, to whom the devise was made in trust for the use aforesaid, are deceased; that it is doubtful whether any other persons can legally hold and improve said premises for the use aforesaid agreeably to the pious intention of the donor: That the inhabitants belonging to the said new parish taking the premises into consideration, did at their meeting on the 29th of March last pass a vote to prefer a petition to the General Court, that the above said land and building might be confirmed to the said new parish, and appointed them a committee to make application for that purpose: Wherefore they pray that an act may be passed for confirming the land and building aforesaid to the said new parish, that the pious intention of the donor might not be frustrated.
Upon which petition the General Court ordered, that the petitioners be heard thereon before them on the first Friday of their next session, and that in the mean time, the petitioners cause that the substance of the petition and order of Court thereon, be published three 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'y.
Exeter, August 17, 1785.
[Pembrook.]
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of lands in Pembrook, in the county of Rockingham, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1782, that so much of their lands will be sold at public vendue at the house of Richard Bartlet, Esq.; inhoulder in said Pembrook, on Thursday the 22d of October next, at ten o'clock before noon, as will pay said taxes with incidental charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
   Range No. Names. State tax. War tax.   s. d. s. d.    5 7 Jonathan Rollings 4 3 1 10  7 17 Hon. John Wentworth 3 6 1 7  7 15 Benjamin Palmer 3 6 1 7  7 3 Nicholas Perriman 3 6 1 7  8 16 Richard Colley, junr. 3 3 1 6  8 4 Jonathan Dearborn 7 6 3 6  
N. B. All the above Lots are 40 acres each, except the last, which is Jonathan Dearborn, which is 100 acre lot. BENJAMIN NORRIS, Collector. Pembrook, Sept. 1 1785.
[Cockermouth, &c.]
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that a petition hath been preferred to the General Court, by the proprietors of COCKERMOUTH, in said State, setting forth, that in October 1780, the State made an Act, entitled an Act, to survey and establish the bounds of sundry towns in the counties of Strafford and Grafton, which towns are particularly mentioned in said Act; and also, in and by said Act, among other things, empowering a committee to survey and lay out the following towns, viz.
Rumney, Wentworth, Warren, Plymouth, Campton, Piermont, and Orford; and a return of said survey being made into the Secretary's Office under the hands of said committee, or any three or more of them in one year from the passing said Act, should be binding and conclusive in law upon all persons upon certain conditions and limitations therein mentioned.
That the running of the lines of the aforesaid towns will be very detrimental to the town of Cockermouth, for the following reasons, viz.
1. That although said Act sets forth, that public notice had been given, and no person had appeared to oppose the same, yet that the proprietors of Cockermouth, who are mentioned in said Act, and are materially concerned in the issue of running said lines, never were notified, neither was said Cockermouth even notified as a town.
2. That the lines of the towns of Lime, Dorchester and Cockermouth, were all surveyed by order of the Superior Court for the Province of New-Hampshire, more than ten years ago, which surveys were made use of in trials of actions at law, then depending, between the said proprietors of Cockermouth and Plymouth; and that agreeable to said surveys, said proprietors of Cockermouth recovered in all actions, and have constantly possessed, occupied and improved said lands, paid the taxes thereof, and defended the same against the common enemy, throughout a tedious war, and that a considerable part of the land in said Cockermouth, has been sold for State and proprietary taxes within that time.
3. That by the return of the committee, who were authorised by the before-mentioned Act, they are informed, that the town of Plymouth will have one line of about two miles in length more than their charter gives them, whereas in fact, it appears, that they should come to a point, and leave out the said line of two miles, whereby a very large tract of land is included more than Plymouth charter contains.
Wherefore they pray, that a day of hearing may be assigned them, and that in the mean time, the said town of Plymouth may be ordered not to make any assessment upon the poles and estates of the inhabitants within the claim of the township of Cockermouth, until the boundaries of said Plymouth and Cockermouth, shall be established by the General Court, and that they would be pleased to pass such further order thereon as they in their wisdom shall think fit.
Upon which petition, the General Court ordered, that the petitioners be heard thereon before them, on the second Thursday of their next session, and that in the mean time the petitioners cause that the proprietors of Plymouth be served with a copy of the petition and order of court thereon; also, cause that the substance of said petition and order of court thereon, be published three 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.
Sent up for concurrence,
JOHN SULLIVAN, Speaker.
In Senate the same day read and concurred.
JOS. PEARSON, D. Sec'y.
Exeter, August 17th 1785.
Attest, JOSEPH PEARSON, D. Sec'y.
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