The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1775-03-03 00:00:00

THE New-Hampshire AND HISTORICAL CONTAINING the Freshest ADVICES
Vol. XIX. GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
FRIDAY March 3, 1775.
No. 958 } Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd.
To the KING's most excellent Majesty, in Council.
The humble PETITION and MEMORIAL of the Assembly of JAMAICA.
Voted in ASSEMBLY, Decem. 28th, 1774.
MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN, WE your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Assembly of Jamaica, having taken into our Consideration the present critical State of the Colonies, humbly approach the Throne, to assure your Majesty of our most dutiful Regard to your royal Person and Family, and our Attachment to, and Reliance on, our Fellow Subjects in Great-Britain, founded on the most solid and durable Basis, the continued Enjoyment of our personal Rights, and the Security of our Properties.
That weak and feeble as this Colony is, from its very small Number of white Inhabitants, and its peculiar Situation from the Incumbrance of more than 200,000 Slaves, it cannot be supposed that we now intend, or ever could have intended Resistance to Great-Britain.
That this Colony has never, by Riots, or other violent Measures opposed, or permitted an Act of Resistance against any Law imposed on us by Great-Britain, though always truly sensible of our just Rights, and of the pernicious Consequences, both to the parent and infant State, with which some of them must be attended; always relying with the most implicit Confidence, on the Justice and paternal Tenderness of your Majesty, even to the most feeble and distant of your Subjects, and depending that when your Majesty, and your Parliament should have maturely considered and deliberated on the Claims of Great-Britain and her Colonies, every Cause of Dissatisfaction would be removed.
That justly alarmed with the approaching Horrors of an unnatural Contest, between Great-Britain and her Colonies, in which the most dreadful Calamities to this Island, and the inevitable Destruction of the small Sugar Colonies are involved; and excited by these Apprehensions, as well as by our Affection for our fellow Subjects, both in Great-Britain and the Colonies: We implore your Majesty's favourable Reception of this our humble Petition and Memorial, as well on Behalf of ourselves and our Constituents, the good People of this Island, as on behalf of all other your Majesty's Subjects, the Colonists of America; but especially those who labour at present under the heavy Weight of your Majesty's Displeasure, for whom we intreat to be admitted as humble Suitors: That we may not, at so important a Crisis, be wanting to contribute our sincere and wellmeant, however small Endeavors, to put an end to Disorders, which may otherwise terminate in the Destruction of the Empire.
That as we conceive it necessary for this Purpose to enter into the different Claims of Great-Britain and her Colonies, we beg Leave to place it in the Royal Mind as the first established Principle of the Constitution, that the People of England have a Right to partake, and do partake of the Legislation of their Country, and that no Laws can affect them, but such as receive their Assent, given by themselves, or their Representatives; and it follows therefore, that no one Part of your Majesty's English Subjects, either can, or ever could legislate for any other Part.
That the Settlers of the first Colonies, but especially those of the elder Colonies of North America, as well as the Conquerors of this Island, were a part of the English People, in every Respect equal to them, and possessed of every Right and Privilege at the Time of their Emigration, which the People of England were possessed of, and irrefragably, to that great Right of consenting to the Laws which should bind them, in all Cases whatsoever; and who emigrating at first in smaller Numbers, when they might have been oppressed; such Rights and Privileges were guaranteed by the Crown, to the Emigrants and Conquerors, to be held and enjoyed by them in the Places to which they emigrated; and were confirmed by many repeated solemn Engagements, made public by proclamation, under the Faith of which, they did actually emigrate and conquer; that therefore the People of England had no Rights, Power, or Privilege to give to the Emigrants; as these were, at the Time of their Emigration, possessed of all such Rights, equally with themselves.
That the Peers of England were possessed of very eminent, and distinguished Privileges in their own Right, as a Branch of Legislation, a Court of Justice in the dernier Resort, for all Appeals from the People, and in the first Instance, for all Causes instituted by the Representatives of the People; but that it does not appear that they ever considered themselves as acting in such Capacities for the Colonies, the Peers having never to this Day, heard or determined the Causes of the Colonists in Appeal, in which it ever was, and is their Duty to serve the Subjects within the Realm.
That from what has been said, it appears that the Emigrants could receive nothing from either the Peers or the People; the Former being unable to communicate their Privileges, & the latter on no more than an equal Footing with themselves; but that with the King it was far otherwise; the Royal Prerogative as now annexed to, and belonging to the Crown, being totally independent of the People who cannot invade, add to, or diminish it, nor restrain or invalidate those legal Grants, which the Prerogative hath a just Right to give, and hath very liberally given for the Encouragement of Colonization; to some Colonies, it granted almost all the Royal Powers of Government, which they hold and enjoy at this Day; but to none of them did it grant less, than the first Conquerors of this Island, in whose Favour it is declared by a Royal Proclamation, "That they shall have the same Privileges to all Intents and Purposes, as the free born Subjects of England."
That to use the Name or Authority of the People of the parent State, to take away or render ineffectual, the legal Grants of the Crown to the Colonists, is delusive, and destroys that Confidence, which the People have ever had and ought to have, of the most solemn royal Grants in their Favour, and renders unstable and insecure those very Rights & Privileges which prompted their Emigration.
That your Colonists and your Petitioners having the most implicit Confidence in the royal Faith pledged to them in the most solemn Manner, by your Predecessors, rested satisfied with their different Portions of the royal Grants, and having been bred from
their Infancy to venerate the Name of Parliament, a Word still dear to the Heart of every Briton, and considered as the Palladium of Liberty, and the great Source from whence their own is derived, received the several Acts of Parliament of England, and Great-Britain, for the Regulation of the Trade of the Colonies, as the salutary Precautions of a prudent Father, for the Prosperity of a wide extended Family; and that in this Light we received them, without a thought of questioning the Right, the whole Tenor of our Conduct will demonstrate, for above one Hundred Years.
That though we received these Regulations of Trade from our Fellow Subjects of England and Great-Britain, to advantageous to us as Colonists, as Englishmen and Britons, we did not thereby confer on them a Power of legislating for us, far less that of destroying us & our Children, by divesting us of all Rights & Property.
That with Reluctance we have been drawn from the Prosecution of our internal Affairs, to avoid with Amazement, a Plan almost carried into Execution, for enslaving the Colonies, founded as we conceive, on a Claim of Parliament to bind the Colonies in all Cases whatsoever.
Your humble Petitioners have for several Years, with deep and silent Sorrow, lamented this unrelained Exercise of Legislative Power; still hoping from the Interposition of their Sovereign, to avert that last and greatest of Calamities, that of being reduced to an abject state of Slavery, by having an arbitrary Government established in the Colonies, for the very attempting of which, a Minister of your Predecessor was impeached by a House of Commons.
With like Sorrow do we find the Popish Religion established by law, which by Treaty was only to be tolerated.
That the most essential Rights of the Colonies have been invaded, and their Property given and granted to your Majesty by Men not intitled to such a Power.
That the Murder of the Colonists hath been encouraged by another Act, disallowing and annulling their Trials by Juries of the Vicinage; and that Fleets and Armies have been sent to enforce those dreadful Laws.
We therefore in this desperate Extremity, most humbly beg Leave to approach the Throne, to declare to your Majesty that our fellow Subjects in Great-Britain, and consequently their Representatives, the House of Commons, have not a Right, as we trust we have shown, to legislate for the Colonies; and that your Petitioners and the Colonists, are not, nor ought to be bound by any other Laws than such as they have themselves assented to, and are not disallowed by your Majesty.
Your Petitioners do therefore make this Claim & Demand from their Sovereign, as Guarantee to their just Rights, on the Faith & Confidence of which, they have settled, and continue to reside in these distant Parts of the Empire, that no Laws shall be made and attempted to be forced upon them, injurious to their Rights as Colonists, Englishmen or Britons.
That your Petitioners, fully sensible of the great Advantages that have arisen from the Regulations of Trade in general, prior to the Year 1760, as well to Great-Britain and her Colonies, as to your Petitioners in particular, and being anxiously desirous of increasing the good Effects of these Laws, as well as to remove an Obstacle which is new in our Government, & could not have existed on the Principles of our Constitution, as it hath arisen from Colonization, We do declare, for ourselves and the good People of this Island, that we freely consent to the Operation of all such Acts of the British Parliament, as are limited to the Regulation of our External Commerce only, and the sole Object of which, is the mutual Advantage of Great-Britain and her Colonies.
We, your Petitioners do therefore beseech your Majesty, that you will be pleased, as the common Parent of your Subjects, to become a Mediator between your European and American Subjects, and to consider the Latter, however far removed from your Royal Presence, as equally intitled to your Protection, and the Benefits of the English Constitution, the Deprivation of which must dissolve that Dependence on the Parent State, which it is our Glory to acknowledge, whilst enjoying those Rights under her Protection; but should this Bond of Union ever be destroyed, and the Colonists reduced to consider themselves as Tributaries to Britain they must cease to venerate her as an affectionate Parent.
We beseech your Majesty to believe that it is our earnest Prayer to Almighty Providence, to preserve your Majesty in all Happiness, Prosperity and Honor, and that there never may be wanting one of your illustrious Line to transmit the Blessings of our excellent Constitution, to the latest Posterity, and to reign in the Hearts of a loyal, grateful and affectionate People.
The following Calculation, taken from a List of the Poll-Tax for the Year 1767, may give the Reader an Idea of the importance of the Island of Jamaica to the Kingdom of Great-Britain.    Sugar, 68,160 Hogsheads,  7,029 Tierces and Barrels.    Rum, 12,149 Puncheons.     Pimento, 10,545. Cotton 1,947 Packages,     Ginger, 5,031 Bags and Casks.     Mahogany, 15,328 Planks.     Fustic and Logwood, 3,222 Tons.     Negroes, 190,914.     Cattle, 135,773.     Mills, 369 cattle, 235 water, 44 Wind.     Sugar Plantations, 647.   
Boston, Feb. 27.
We are told, that some Blacksmiths in Town are employed in making a great Number of Iron SHACKLES, but for whom design'd we know not, certainly not for Boston Folks! as they are already shackled, and are now only endeavouring to prevent their being rivetted on them and their Posterity; in which GOD grant they may happily succeed, as it will most certainly tend to the mutual Benefit of Great-Britain and the Colonies.
Buried last Week, 17 Whites, and 10 from the Army & Navy. We hear from Wilbraham, that since the Settlement of that Town there has been 784 births, and but 233 deaths, 19 of whom have died within about two Months of the Camp Fever.
We hear from Barbadoes, that the Inhabitants of that Island have adopted, or intend to adopt the Measures recommended by the late Congress.
S A L E M Feb. 28, 1775.
LAST Sabbath the Peace of the Town was disturbed by the coming of a Regiment of the King's Troops, the Particulars relative to which are as follows.---A Transport arrived at Marblehead, apparently manned as usual. Between two and three o'clock (as soon as the People had gone to Meeting) the Decks were covered with Soldiers, who having loaded and fixed their Bayonets, landed with great Dispatch; and instantly marched off.---Some of the Inhabitants suspecting they were bound to Salem, to seize some Materials there preparing for an Artillery, dispatched several Messengers to inform us of it. These Materials were on the North Side of the North River, and to come at them it was Necessary to cross a Bridge, one Part of which was made to draw up, for the Convenience of letting Vessels pass through. The Inhabitants kept a Look-out for the Appearance of the Troops.---The Van Guard arrived, and took their Rout down in Town as far as the Long Wharfe; perhaps to decoy the Inhabitants thither, away from the Place to which the Main Body were destined.---The Main Body arrived soon after and halted a few Minutes by the Town-House. It is said Inquiry was immediately made for a Half-Brother of Col. Browne, a Mandamus Counsellor.---Be that as it may, he was very soon whispering in the Colonel's Ear, in the Front of the Regiment; and when he parted from the Colonel, the Regiment marched off with a quick Pace, in a direct Course for the North Bridge; just before their Entrance upon which, the Draw-Bridge was pulled up. The Regiment however pushed forward till they came to the Draw-Bridge, not observing (as it seemed) that it was drawn up. The Colonel who led them expressed some Surprise; and then turning about, ordered an Officer to face his Company to a Body of Men standing on a Wharfe on the other Side the Draw-Bridge, and fire. One of our Townsmen (who had kept along side the Colonel from the Time he marched from the Town-House) instantly told him he had better not fire, that he had no Right to fire without further Orders, "and if you do fire (said he) you will be all dead Men." The Company neither fired nor faced. The Colonel then retired to the Centre of his Regiment, assembled his Officers, and held a Consultation; Which being ended, the Colonel advanced a little, and declared he would maintain his Ground, and go over the Bridge before he returned, if it was a Month first. The same Townsman replied, he might stay there as long as he pleased, no Body cared for that. The Half-Brother before mentioned (it is said) made towards the Bridge, but seeing the Draw-Bridge up, says "it is all over with us." He has since disappeared. Mean while two large Gondolas that lay aground (for it was low Water) were scuttled, left they should cross the Channel in them. But whilst one Gentleman with his Assistants was scuttling his own Gondola, a Party of about twenty Soldiers jumped into it, and with their Bayonets charged against our unarmed Townsmen (some of whom they pricked) compelled them to quit it; but before this a sufficient Hole had been made in the Bottom. This Attack of the Soldiers and some other Occurrences, occasioned a little Pickering, but by the Interposition of some of the Inhabitants the Disputes subsided.
At length some Gentlemen asked the Colonel what was his Design in making this Movement, & why he would cross the Bridge? He said he had Orders to cross it, and would cross it, if he lost his Life with the Lives of all his Men. And now (or before) asked, why the King's High-Way was obstructed? He was told it was not the King's Road, but the Property of the Inhabitants, who had a Right to do what they pleased with it. Finally the Colonel said he must go over; and if the Draw-Bridge were let down so that he might pass, he pledged his Honor he would march not above thirty Rods beyond it, and then immediately return. The Regiment had now been on the Bridge about an Hour and a Half, and every Thing being secured, the Inhabitants directed the Draw-Bridge to be let down. The Regiment immediately passed over, marched a few Rods and returned, and with great Expedition went back again to Marblehead, where they embarked on Board the Transport without delay.
The Regiment brought with them Lanthorns, Hatchets, Pick-Axes, Spades, Hand-Spikes and several Coils of Rope.
When all the Circumstances are considered, there can remain no Doubt that the sole Purpose of this Manoeuvre was to steal away the Artillery Materials before mentioned. In the first Place the Regiment was taken from the Castle, so that the Inhabitants of Boston might be prevented giving us any Intelligence: The Transport arrived at Marblehead a considerable Time before the Regiment was landed, but the Men were kept Snug under the Hatches: As soon as the Inhabitants of Marblehead had got to Meeting, the Troops landed and pushed on their March to Salem, and proceeded to the very Spot where the Materials for the Artillery were lodged. But meeting with this sad Rebuff, and finding their Plot was discovered, they then made a Retreat.---'Tis regretted that an Officer of Col. Lillie's acknowledged Worth, should be obliged, in Obedience to his Orders, to come upon so pitiful an Errand.
Various Reports were spread abroad respecting the Troops,---the Country was alarmed; and one Company arrived in Arms from Danvers just as the Troops left the Town. We immediately dispatched Messengers to the neighbouring Towns to save them the Trouble of coming in; but the Alarm flew like Lightning. (and Fame doubtless magnified the first simple Reports) so that great Numbers were in Arms, and some on the March, before our Messengers arrived.
Last Saturday Philip Gutlip, Thomas Morse, and Robert Joplyn, were apprehended on Suspicion of stealing sundry Goods from Capt. John Derby. The two first were committed to Goal for Trial at the next Court of Sessions.
The same Day said Gutlip was whipped ten stripes at the public Whipping-Post in this Town, for stealing sundry Articles from Capt. Nathan Brown jun. And
Yesterday one John Knowland was whipped ten Stripes, for stealing three Dozen Bottles of Porter, from Capt. Nathan Coffin.
NEWPORT, Feb. 20.
Last Tuesday Week two Bales of English Duck, arrived here since the 1st of December, via N. York, amounting to £ 87 sterling, including charges, were sold at Vendue, agreeable to the regulation of the Congress, which went at £ 87 18.
This Harbour and Fogland Ferry, is very narrowly watched by the Rose Frigate and Swan Sloop of War.

Continental Congress continu'd.
To the INHABITANTS of the COLONIES of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations; Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of Newcastle, and Kent, Sussex on Delaware; Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, and South-Carolina.
Friends and Fellow Countrymen.
WE, the delegates appointed by the good people of the above colonies to meet at Philadelphia, in Septem. last, for the purposes mentioned by our respective constituents have in pursuance of the trust reposed in us, assembled, and taken into our most serious consideration the important matters recommended to the congress. Our resolutions thereupon will be herewith communicated to you. But as the situation of public affairs grows daily more and more alarming; and as it may be more satisfactory to you to be informed by us in a collective body, than in any other manner, of those sentiments that have been approved, upon a full and free discussion by the representatives of so great a part of America, we esteem ourselves obliged to add this address to these resolutions.
In every case of opposition by a people to their rulers, or of one state to another, duty to almighty God, the Creator of all, requires that a true and impartial judgment be formed of the measures leading to such oppositions; and of the causes by which it has been provoked, or can in any degree be justified: That neither affection on the one hand, nor resentment on the other, being permitted to give a wrong bias to reason, it may be enabled to take a dispassionate view of all the circumstances, and settle the publick conduct on the solid foundations of wisdom and justice.
From councils thus tempered arise the surest hopes of the divine favour, the firmest encouragement to the parties engaged, and the strongest recommendation of their cause to the rest of mankind.
With minds deeply impressed by a sense of these truths, we have diligently, deliberately and calmly enquired into, & considered those exertions, both of the legislative and executive power of Great-Britain, which have excited so much uneasiness in America, & have with equal fidelity and attention, considered the conduct of the colonies. Upon the whole, we find ourselves reduced to the disagreeable alternative, of being silent and betraying the innocent, or of speaking out & censuring those we wish to revere.—In making our choice of these distressing difficulties, we prefer the course dictated by honesty, and a regard for the welfare of our country.
Soon after the conclusion of the late war, there commenced a memorable change in the treatment of these colonies. By a statute made in the fourth year of the present reign, a time of profound peace, alledging "the expediency of new provisions and regulations for extending the commerce between Great-Britain and his Majesty's dominions in America, and the necessity of raising a revenue in the said dominions for defraying the expences of defending, protecting & securing the same," the commons of Great-Britain undertook to give and grant to his Majesty many rates and duties, to be paid in these colonies. To enforce the observance of this act, it prescribes a great number of severe penalties and forfeitures; and in two sections makes a remarkable distinction between the subjects in Great-Britain and those in America. By the one, the penalties and forfeitures incurred there are to be recovered in any of the King's courts of record at Westminster, or in the court of Exchequer in Scotland; and by the other, the penalties and forfeitures incurred here are to be recovered in any court of record, or in any court of admiralty or vice-admiralty, at the election of the informer or prosecutor.
The inhabitants of these colonies confiding in the justice of Great-Britain, were scarcely allowed sufficient time to receive and consider this act, before another, well known by the name of the Stamp-Act, and passed in the 5th year of this reign, engrossed their whole attention. By this statute the British parlia-
ment exercised in the most explicit manner, a power of taxing us, and extending the jurisdiction of courts of admiralty and vice-admiralty in the colonies, to matters arising within the body of a county, directed the numerous penalties and forfeitures thereby inflicted, to be recovered in the said Courts.
In the same year a tax was imposed upon us, by an act, establishing several new fees in the customs. In the next year, the Stamp Act was repealed; not because it was founded in an erroneous principle, but, as the repealing act recites, because, "the continuance thereof would be attended with many inconveniences, & might be productive of consequences greatly detrimental to the commercial interest of Great-Britain."
In the same year, and by a subsequent act it was declared, "that his Majesty in parliament, of right, had power to bind the people "of these colonies by statutes IN ALL CASES "WHATSOEVER."
In the same year another act was passed, for imposing rates and duties payable in these colonies. In this statute the commons avoiding the terms of giving and granting, "humbly besought his Majesty that it might be enacted &c." But from a declaration in the preamble, that the rates and duties were "lieu of" several others granted by the statute first before mentioned for raising a revenue, & from some other expressions it appears, that these duties were intended for that purpose.
In the next year (1767) an act was made to enable his Majesty to put the customs & other duties in America under the management of commissioners &c." and the King thereupon erected the present expensive board of commissioners, for the express purpose of carrying into execution the several acts relating to the revenue and trade in America.
After the repeal of the Stamp Act, having again resigned ourselves to our ancient unsuspicious affections for the parent state, & anxious to avoid any controversy with her, in hopes of a favourable alteration in sentiments and measures towards us, we did not press our objections against the above-mentioned statutes made subsequent to that repeal.
Administration attributing to trifling causes, a conduct that really proceeded from generous motives, were encouraged in the same year (1767) to make a bolder experiment on the patience of America.
By a statute commonly called the Glass, Paper, & Tea Act, made 15 months after the repeal of the Stamp Act the commons of Great-Britain resumed their former language, and again undertook to "give and grant rates and duties to be paid in these colonies," for the express purpose of "raising a revenue, to defray the charges of the administration of justice, the support of civil government, and defending the King's dominions," on this continent. The penalties and forfeitures, incurred under this statute, are to be recovered in the same manner with those mentioned in the foregoing acts.
To this statute, so naturally tending to disturb the tranquility, then universal thro'out the colonies, parliament, in the same session, added another no less extraordinary.
Ever since the making the present peace, a standing army has been kept in these colonies. From respect for the mother country, the innovation was not only tolerated but the provincial legislatures generally made provision for supplying the troops.
The assembly of the province of New-York having passed an act of this kind, but differing in some articles, from the directions of the act of parliament made in the 5th year of this reign, the house of representatives in that colony, was prohibited by a statute made in the session last mentioned, from making any bill, order, resolution or vote, except for adjourning or choosing a speaker, until provision should be made by the said assembly for furnishing the troops within that province, not only with all such necessaries as were required by the statute which they were charged with disobeying, but also with those required by two other subsequent statutes which were declared to be in force until the 24th day of March, 1769.
To be continu'd.
BOSTON.
MASSACHUSETTENSIS continu'd.
To the INHABITANTS of the Province of MASSACHUSETTS-BAY.
THE ostensible Reason for this Conduct, was the Tea's being subject to the three Penny Duty. Let us take the Advocates for this Transaction upon their own Principle, & admit the Duty to be unconstitutional, and see how the Argument stands. Here is a Cargo of Tea subject upon its being entered and landed, to a Duty of three Pence per Pound, which is paid by the East-India Company or by their Factors, which amounts to the same Thing. Unless we purchase the Tea we shall never Pay the Duty, if we purchase it, we pay the three Pence included in the Price; therefore lest we should purchase it, we have a Right to destroy it. A flimsy Pretext, and either supposes the People destitute of Virtue, or that their purchasing the Tea was a Matter of no importance to the Community; but even this Gauze-Covering is stript off when we consider that the Boston Merchants, and some who were active at the Body Meeting, were every day importing from England, large Quantities of Tea, subject to the same Duty, and vending it unmolested; and at this Time had Orders lying in their Correspondent's Hands, to send them considerable Quantities of Tea, in case the East-India Company should not send it themselves. When the News of this Transaction arrived in England, and it was considered in what Manner almost every other Regulation of Trade had been evaded by Artifice, and when Artifice could no longer serve, Recourse was had to Violence, the British Lion was roused. The Crown Lawyers were called upon for the Law, they answered High Treason. Had a Cromwell, whom some amongst us deify and imitate in all his imitable Perfections, had the Guidance of the national Ire, unless Compensation had been made to the Sufferers immediately upon its being demanded, your proud Capital had been levelled with the Dust, not content with that, Rivers of Blood would have been shed to make Atonement for the injured Honor of the Nation. It was debated whether to attain the Principals of Treason. We have a gracious King upon the Throne, he felt the Resentment of a Man, softened by the Relentings of a Parent. The Bowels of our Mother Country yearn'd towards her refractory, obstinate Child.
It was determined to consider the Offence in a milder Light, and to compel an indemnification for the Sufferers, and prevent the like for the Future, by such Means as would be mild, compared with the Insult to the Nation, or severe as our future Conduct should be; that was to depend upon us. Accordingly the Blockade Act was passed, and had an Act of Justice been done in indemnifying the Sufferers, and an Act of Loyalty in putting a Stop to seditious Practices, our Port had long since been opened. This Act has been called unjust, because it involves the Innocent in the same Predicament with the Guilty, but it ought to be considered that our News-Papers had announced to the World, that several Thousands attended these Body Meetings, and it did not appear that there was one Dissentient, or any Protest entered. I do not know how a Person could expect Distinction in such a Case, if he neglected to distinguish himself. When the Noble Lord proposed it in the House of Commons, he call'd upon all the Members present, to mention a better Method of obtaining Justice in this Case, scarce one denied the Necessity of doing something, but none could mention a more eligible Way. Even ministerial Opposition was abashed. If any Parts of the Act strikes us, like the Severity of a Master, let us coolly advert to the aggravated Insult, and perhaps we shall wonder at the Lenity of a Parent. After this Transaction all Parties seem to have laid upon their Oars, waiting to see what Parliament would do. When the Blockade Act arrived, many and many were desirous of paying for the Tea immediately, and some who were guiltless of the Crime, offered to contribute to the Compensation, but our leading Whigs must still rule the Roast, & that inauspicious Influence that had brought us hitherto, plunged us still deeper in Misery. The Whigs saw their Ruin connected with a

Compliance with the Terms of opening the Port, as it would furnish a convincing Proof of the Wretchedness of their Policy in the Destruction of the Tea, and they might justly have been expected to pay the Money demanded themselves, and set themselves industriously to work to prevent it, and engage the other Colonies to espouse the Cause. This was a Crisis too important and alarming to the Province to be neglected by its Friends. A Number of as respectable Persons as any in this Province, belonging to Boston, Cambridge, Salem and Marblehead, now came forward, publickly to disavow the Proceedings of the Whigs, to do Justice to the much injured Character of Mr. Hutchinson, and to strengthen his influence at the Court of Great-Britain, where he was going to receive the well deserved Plaudit of his Sovereign; that he might be able to obtain a Repeal or some Mitigation of that Act, the Terms of which they foresaw, the perverseness of the Whigs would prevent a Compliance with. This was done by several Addresses, which were subscribed by upwards of two Hundred Persons, & would have been by many more, had not the sudden Embarkation of Mr. Hutchinson prevented it. The Justices of the Court of Common Pleas and general Sessions of the Peace for the County of Plymouth, sent their Address to him in England. There were some of almost all Orders of Men among these Addressers, but they consisted principally of Men of Property, large Family Connections, and several were independent in their Circumstances, & lived wholly upon the Income of their Estates. Some indeed were called Party-Men, but a very considerable Proportion were Persons that had of Choice kept themselves at a Distance from the political Vortex, had beheld the Competition of the Whigs and Tories without any Commotion, while the Community remained safe & looked down on the political Dance in its various Mazes and Intricacies, and saw one falling, another rising, rather as a Matter of Amusement; but when they saw the Capital of the Province upon the Point of being sacrificed by political cunning, it called up all their Feelings.  ‡ To be continu'd ‡  *****  A LL Persons who have DEEDS in their Possession from DANIEL PEIRCE, Esq; late of Portsmouth, deceas'd, Intestate, are hereby desir'd to cause the same to be Recorded in their proper Counties, that the Administrators of his Estate may know what Land the deceas'd in his Life-Time conveyed. It will prevent much Trouble to the Administrators, and will more especially benefit the Persons themselves, because the Administrators may possibly sell some Part of that already conveyed, which will greatly incommode the present Owners.
§ Rochester §
THE Proprietors and Owners of Lands in Rochester are hereby notified that the Vendue for the Sale of the Lands, is adjourned to the first Tuesday in March next, at the House of Stephen Wentworth, Innholder, at which Time it must not be expected the Collector will know any Man. Jonathan Dams, Col. Rochester, February 8th, 1775.
WANTED A BOY about thirteen or Fourteen Years of Age for the Barbers Business. Enquire of the Printer.
ALL Persons Indebted to, or that have Demands on the Estate of Daniel Johnson, Junr. late of Hampshire, deceas'd, are desir'd to bring in their Accounts to Dolley Johnson, Executrix to said Johnson's Last Will and Testament, in order for settlement.
WHEREAS I the Subscriber gave Charles Glidden of Canterbury a Note of Hand for fifteen Pounds Lawful Money on Demand, and having received nothing in Consideration therefor, and he refusing to deliver it up; this is to desire any Person to be cautious of purchasing said Note of said Glidden or any other Person whatever, as it is unjustly detained from me. As witness my Hand, JAMES SHERBURNE. Greenland, Feb 1, 1775.
ALL Persons Indebted to, or that have Demands on the Estate of Joseph Abbot, late of Portsmouth, deceas'd, are desir'd to bring in their Accounts to Sam'l Hall, Administrator to said Estate in Order for Settlement. Feb. 8, 1774.
Richard Wibird Penhallow
Has for Sale, at the Warehouse on Long-Wharfe, (lately occupied by Mr. Jacob Sheafe jun.) the following Articles, cheap for CASH only, viz.
R USSIA DUCK, 24d. 30d. and 40d. Deck Nails, English and German Steel, Loat-Sugar, Sheathing Nails, 4d. 10d. and 20d. dit.. Sheet Lead, Frying-Pans, Pewter, Check Linnens, Blanketts and Coverlids, Role Brimstone, Barr Iron, Sewing and Netting-Twine, Houseline and Marline, Burford Cod-Lines, Cod-Hooks, Tar-Brushes, Time-Glasses, together with many other Articles, all which were imported before the 1st Day of December.
Good Encouragement. Jonathan Moulton
Of Hampton; Will give good Wages to ten good Joiners; and twenty smart active Labourers, that can work chearfully and diligently; The Joiners to be employed Four Months, from the First Day of June next; and the Labourers six Months, from the first Day of April next, in several New Townships where he is carrying on Settlements, viz. Moultonborough, Moulton's-Gore (so called) Tamworth, Orford, and Piermont; but more especially in the three first. The Situation of some of them, particularly Moultonborough is such, that it's evident it will be a Place of great Inland Trade, which already begins to discover itself; and there is now much wanted a Number of Tradesmen, and Mechanicks to be settled there. Those who may be so disposed, may depend upon having the Land on easy & reasonable Terms. Said Moulton, from eight or ten Years Experience, is so thoroughly convinced of the Advantage of improving the new Lands, that the Price which He proposes to let them have them at, is such, that if they will but improve them, in a common good Husband-like Manner for three Years, he will engage to pay them at the End of said Time double to the first Cost of the Land; and for all the Labour they shall have done on it, deducting the Profits that may arise in the mean Time from the Produce of the Land. Not to say any Thing of the Rise of the Value of uncultivated Land in Townships where the Settlements go on with Sprightliness and Vigour, which is now pretty generally understood in this Province. And as said Moulton is largely interested in New Lands, he would agree to pay those Persons whom he now wants to hire (if it may best suit them) three quarter Parts in some of the above New Lands, and the other Quarter Part in Cash. And all those who are dispos'd to engage with said Moulton, are desir'd to apply to him soon.
N. B. Cash for a Number of good COWS and SHEEP will be given by said Moulton.
§ New-Durham. §
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, STRAFFORD ss. NOTICE is hereby given to the Proprietors of NEW DURHAM, to meet at the Meeting House in said Town on the first Monday in March next, at ten o'clock in the Forenoon; to act on the following Articles if they think proper, viz. 1st. To choose a Moderator. 2. To vote what Sum they will give towards the Salary of Mr. Porter this present Year. 3. To vote what they will do towards the finishing Mr. Porter's House in Order to assist the Inhabitants of said New Durham, and encourage them in exerting themselves in the Support of Mr. Porter, as their Circumstances, and Numbers are not large, being young Settlers, in a new Town; and to act on any other Matters and Things that may then be thought necessary for the Benefit of said Town and Proprietors.
THOMAS TASH, } Committee VOLENTINE MATHES } to call Prop's Meetings. Durham Jan. 31, 1775.
To be LETT for any Time that may be agreed on, TWENTY ACRES of LAND in Greenland, with the Dwelling House and Out Houses that lately belonged to ENOCH CLARK, Esq; deceas'd. There is now and for a long Time past hath been a Tavern kept in the same Dwelling-House. Any inclined to hire the Premises may know upon what Terms they will be leased, by applying to MARY CLARK, Administratrix of the Estate of said Deceased.
Refin'd BAR IRON,
By the Hundred or Ton, Petah KETTLES of the best Kind and ANCHORS weighing 300 to 500, to be sold reasonable by JOSHUA WENTWORTH.
Province of New Hampshire:
[ Fitzwilliam ]
W HEREAS the proprietors of the Township of Fitzwilliam, have been legally notified to pay sundry Grants of Money legally assessed on each proprietor's Right or Lot of Land in said Town 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 publick Vendue at the House of John Mellens Innholder in said Town, on the 17th day of May next, at 2 of the Clock in the Afternoon, to pay said Taxes with incidental Charges, the delinquent Lots being as follows with the Sums due.
   l. s. d. l. s. d.     55 Acres in Lot No. 11 in the 6th Range No. 1 & 2 in 12 2 8 0   Lot No. 13 in 8th Range No. 23 in 10th 1 4 0   Lot No. 2 in 8th Range No. 10 in 12th 1 3 0   Lot No. 4 in 7th Range No. 16 in 11th 1 3 0   Lot No. 19 and 20 in 4th Range No. 14 in 5th 1 3 0   Half Lot No. 6 in 2d Range No. 2 in 1st 1 3 0   No. 11 in 6th 1 4 10   No. 6 in 2d 1 4 0   No. 18 in 4th 1 3 0  
EDWARD KENDALL, Collector. Fitzwilliam, February 14th 1775.
THE Proprietors of the Township of BRETON-WOODS, in the County of Grafton, are hereby notified that at a legal Meeting of said Proprietors held at Portsmouth on Monday thirteenth of February inst. a Tax of one Pound Four Shillings was voted on each original Right, and the Assessors having committed a List thereof, with a Warrant to collect the same to me the Subscriber, I hereby desire said Proprietors to pay the said Tax to me at the Printing-Office in Portsmouth, on or before the 20th Day of March next, otherwise their Rights will be advertised to be sold at Public Vendue, agreeable to the Laws of the Province. Daniel Fowle, Collector. Portsmouth Feb. 15, 1775.
W HEREAS the Proprietors of the Township of Leicester on Otter Creek (granted by the Governor of New Hampshire) at their Meeting in April last, granted a Tax of two Dollars and an Half, on each original Right, for letting a 2d Division in said Town. These are to give Notice, that all those Persons, who do not pay said Tax to Mr. Isaac Stone, of Woodstock, in the County of Windham, & Colony of Connecticut, Collector, or to Capt. Elisha Child of said Woodstock, Treasurer, at or before the 28th Day of March next, their Rights will be exposed to sale, at the House of Landlord Rice, in Brookfield, in the County of Worcester, and Province of the Massachusetts Bay, on Tuesday the 28th Day of March next, at ten o'clock in the Morning according to Law.
Nathaniel Child Elisha Child Samuel McClellan } Committee Woodstock, February 7th, 1775. Boston January 10, 1775.
Province of New Hampshire, Court of Vice Admiralty. NOTICE is hereby given, that there is an Information exhibited against 3000 White Pine Logs, seized for being cut contrary to the Acts of Parliament in such cases made and provided, being of 16 Inches diameter and upwards, laying in and on Pemigewasset River, in the Townships of New Chester and New Britain, mark'd P. S. I. q. W. S. TI. T. C. TI S. A. And that any person or persons claiming property in the same Logs, may be heard on such claim, at a Court of Vice Admiralty to be held on Thursday the Ninth Day of March next at Portsmouth, at three of the Clock in the Afternoon, JOHN SHERBURNE, D. R. Portsmouth, Feb. 22, 1775.
BY Licence of the Hon. Judge of Probate for the County of Rockingham, to Wyseman Clagett and Samuel Penhallow, Esqrs; Administrators on the Estate of Jetham Odiorne, late of Portsmouth, Mariner, deceas'd, will be sold by Public Vendue (if not sooner by private sale) on Monday the 13th of March next, 6 o'clock P. M. at the late Mansion House of the deceas'd, said Mansion House and Land thereto belonging. At the same Time and Place, and by the same Authority, is to be sold by Peter Pearse, Administrator to the Estate of Jetham Odiorne, Mariner, deceas'd (Son of the above) two thirds of one eighth of a Right in Mason's Patent in Reversion; also two thirds of one eighth in the Mansion House of Jetham Odiorne, Esq; deceas'd, in Reversion. Portsmouth, Feb. 22d 1775.

From the [London] Public Ledger.
To the Printer.
State of TRADE in the Country,
SIR,
Y OU know I am in a Way of wholesale Trade, that obliges me once in a Year to visit and settle with my numerous Correspondents.
I have been my Round from London by the East, calling at Colchester, Ipswich, Norwich, and many other great Towns and Cities; and then in return, by the West Coast I called at White-Haven, Liverpool, Derby, Birmingham, Manchester, Coventry, and other manufacturing Towns, from whence I went to Bristol; and then passed to the Woollen-Weavers in the West. I can say with Truth, I have seen more of England than I can relate in many Pages, from all which, by comparing the State of Trade with that in which I saw it in the Year 1761, I find Ruin and universal Misery threatened to all, though already felt by the numerous Labourers out of Employ.
I find as great an abhorrence of the Acts passed against America, as ever was in Ireland against Wood's Half-pence. Some blame the Injustice, some the Ignorance of the Projector of those Measures, but the Poor curse them in the Bitterness of their Souls, because they feel that the American Acts have occasioned their want of Work, & consequently want of Bread.
Every sensible and rich Merchant at Bristol shewed me the Letters they had written to their Members before the Bills against America passed. In those Letters they proved that the Taxes and Excises paid by the Manufacturers and Labourers in England, are really paid by the Consumers of the Manufactures, & Produce of their Labours in whatever Country they are consumed. Therefore every Person who wears English Shoes in America pays the leather Tax in England; those who wear English Woollen Goods, or silks, pay the Excises charged upon the Manufactures in England for Beer, Window-Lights, Candles, &c. in short, all the Charges of Living.
To illustrate this by adducing an Instance.
If the Manufacturer drinks a Quart of Porter, which cost before the Excises and Taxes in King Charles the second's Reign, one Penny, and which by Reason of Taxes, now costs three Pence Half-Penny, that Excence must be charged on the Price of his Work; for he cannot Pay, but by what he gains by his Labour; this must therefore make his Work more than two Thirds dearer. This is the Reason why English Goods are raised in Price, or reduced in Goodness (which is the same in Consequence,) for the Person who buys and consumes the Manufactures at the present advanced Price, he it is who pays the Taxes which occasioned the advancing the Price; but this Advance in the Prices of our Goods has lost our Trade to many Places, and has enabled others to undersell us at foreign Markets. This has diminished our Turkey, Lisbon, and Spanish Trades; and our Trade to many other Places is much lessened, if not entirely lost. But our Trade to America kept up and increased before the wicked Arts of the French prevailed on our Ministry to believe Projectors and Informers; and to adopt those ruinous Measures the Effects of which we shall severely feel to the latest Period of our Existence as a Nation."
BOSTON, Feb. 20.
DONATIONS received since our last.
MASSACHUSETTS BAY. From Brookfield, 19 Bushels Corn, Northborough, Cash, 101. 19s. 4d. and 80 Bushels of Grain, 36lb. of Chees, and 6lb. of Pork.
Milton, 55 Loads of Wood, containing 24 Cords of Wood. Littleton, Cash, 41. 3s. & 26 Bushels of Grain, one Check Handkerchief, home-made, and half a Pound of Pink Flowers. Brookline, Cash, 311. 4s. 6d. 38 Bushels of Grain and Meal, 7 Pair of Men Shoes, 17 Loads of Wood, two Bushels of Potatoes, and one Bushel of Turnips.
*Concord, Cash, 111. 4s. 6d. 118 Bushels of Meal. *Lunenburg, four Bushels of Wheat, 82 Bushels of Rye, and two Bushels of Indian.
*Lincoln, Cash, 11. 15s. 5d. 29 Bushels of Meal 19 Load of Wood. *Dracut, Cash, 31. 17s. 1d. 45 and a half Bushels of Meal. *Acton, Cash, 31. 17s. 4d. 41 and a half Bushels of Grain, & 32lb. of Pork and Beef.
Shrewsbury, 53 Bushels of Grain, CONNECTICUT. From Mr. Joseph Denison, jr. of Stonington, Solv. of Chees. Those Towns marked * delivered their Donations to the Charlestown Committee.
N. B. 13 and a half Bushels of Corn, four Bushels of Rye 17 Loads of Wood, 2 Bushels of Potatoes, and 1 Bushel of Turnips, being Part of Cambridge Donation, delivered Charlestown Committee.
BOSTON, Feb. 27.
DONATIONS received since our last.
MASSACHUSETTS BAY.
From a Gentleman unknown, 1. 1. 14 3. From a Gentleman in the Country, 1. 2. Martha's Vineyard, 1. 6. 10. Brookline, 2 Fat Sheep, and 200 wt. Rice. Bolton, 33 Bushels of Grain. Sandwich, 1. 19. 0. 3. Malden, Rev. Mr. Willis's Parish, 1. 3. 1. 0. One pair Shoes, 2 Load of Wood, and 2 ton of Hay. Lancaster, 2d Parish, 78 Bushels of Grain and 12 s. Truro, 1. 11. 16. 0. Sturbridge, 8 Ceeses, 2 Barrels and one Bag of Indian Meal, five Barrels and one Tierce of Rye and Wheat Flour, one Barrell. Pork, one Barrell of Malt, and Cask, 1. 4. 13. 0.
CONNECTICUT. Preston, 1. 18. 13. 0. PENNSYLVANIA, Dover, Kent County on Delaware, 1. 80. 0. 0. Province of CANADA, Montreal, 1. 100. 4. 6. Extract of a Letter from Charlestown, S. Carolina, Jan. 11, 1775.
"I am very sorry that public Affairs appear with such a gloomy Aspect with you. I heartily wish every Thing may be settled to the mutual Satisfaction of both Parties, and that Matters may not be carried to greater Extremities. Our Provincial Congress are met this Day; it is not certain that they will choose the same Delegates; many People are very much dissatisfied that Rice should be excepted in the non-Exportation Agreement at the last Congress, and let who will be chosen they will have positive Instructions to put a Stop to the Exportation of that Article in September, when the non-exportation Agreement takes Place; this no Doubt will be looked upon as a noble Sacrifice of the Planters of this Province, which it certainly is; they do this in order that there should not be the least Cause of Jealousy given to the Northern Colonies. I sincerely Wish every Colony on the Continent may be as firm and steady as South-Carolina, who cheerfully give up more than any Province on the Continent."
PORTSMOUTH.
Province of New-Hampshire, Rockingham ss. At a Town-Meeting, convened at the North Meeting House, on Thursday the 26th Day of Feb. 1775, for the Purpose of Electing Members for the Town of Portsmouth to serve in the next General Assembly.
Voted, unanimously, THOMAS HART Moderator. JACOB SHEAFE, Esq; Capt. WOODBURY LANGDON, } Representatives. Capt. JOHN LANGDON.
CUSTOM HOUSE, PISCATAQUA. March 2d. Inward Entries, Muchmore, and Hawley from New-Haven; Trefethen from Virginia; Clear'd Outwards. Mitchel, Shackford, and Gidding from West-Indies. Pottle's Reply to Boardman, coming too late for this Week, must be deferr'd 'till our next.
TO BE SOLD
By William Bell,
Lately from Scotland, now of Greenland, the following BOOKS, viz.
Flavel's Works, 8 Vol. Fisher's Catechism. Confession of Faith; Boston's four fold State; Boston on the Covenants; Owen on indwelling Sin; Owen on the Person of Christ. Call on God's Sovereignty; Watt's Psalms & Hymns; Hervey's Letters; Ambrose looking to Jesus; Gray's Works; York's Sermons, 2 Vol. Rodrack Random, 2 Volumes. Josephus's Works, 4 Vol. Col. Gardner's Life; Spectator, 8 Vol. Boston's Body of Divinity, 3 Vol. Fisher's young Man's Companion; Hervey's Dialogues, 2 Vol. Salmon's Geography; Pilgrim's Progress 3 Parts;—Pope's Essay on Man; Young on the last Day. Moors Sermons; Scot's Psalm Books;—Whole Duty of Man, 4 Vol. MTewen on the Types; Collections of Confessions of Faith; Boston's Sermons; large Bibles, Testaments, and small Bibles; Willison's Sacramental Discourses and Catechisms; Willison on the Sanctification of the Lord's Day; Afflicted Man's Companion; Balm of Gilead. Also, English and West-India GOODS.
A Quantity of VERY GOOD
New Ship-Bread,
New-York CRACKERS, and BUTTER-BREAD, To be sold by
NOAH PARKER.
Garden Seeds,
To be Sold by SAMUEL HILL
At his Shop near the Assembly House, North End, Portsmouth. Likewise,
Painters Colours, Owl, Paper Hangings, Looking Glasses and Coffin Furniture of all Sorts, cheap for Cash.
WE the Subscribers being appointed Commissioners by the Hon. JOHN SHERBURNE, Esq; Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c to examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of Nathaniel Griffith, late of Portsmouth, Goldsmith, deceased, represented Insolvent, hereby give Notice, that we will attend upon that Business at the House of Mr. Samuel Bowles at Portsmouth, on the last Wednesday of this and the 5 following Months from 5 o'Clock till 8, in the Afternoon of said Days.
Portsmouth, Nathaniel Marshall, March 3d, 1775. Samuel Bowles,
PROPOSALS
For re printing by Subscription, NARRATIVE of the INDIAN WARS in New England, from the First Planting thereof in the Year 1607, to 1677, containing a very particular Account of the War with the Pennacook, the War commonly call'd King Philip's, the Narragansett War, and the Wars from Piscataqua to Pemiquid. By WILLIAM HUBBARD, A. M. late Minister of the Gospel in Ipswich.
Together with a Preface, and some marginal Notes by another Hand,
This brief, though exact Narrative, is now in but few Hands; and unless re printed, must soon be entirely lost, and with it, in a great Measure, the memorable Salvations of divine Providence to this People in their Infant State, worthy to be kept in everlasting Remembrance. In order therefore, that the present, as well as future Generations may be made acquainted with the Miseries and Hardships which their renowned Ancestors underwent in bringing forward the Settlement of New England, the Publisher, at the Request of a Number of respectable Gentlemen hath issued these Proposals, not doubting but a sufficient Number of Subscriptions may be procured simply to compensate for the Undertaking.
This Work was published by Authority in the Year 1677, & appears by the following Recommendation prefixed thereto, viz.
"The worthy Author of this Narrative (of whose Fidelity we are well assured) by his great Pains and Industry in collecting and compiling the several Occurrences of this Indian War, from the Relations of such as were present in the particular Actions, hath faithfully, and truly performed the same, as far as best Information agreeing could be obtain'd, which is therefore judged meet for public view; & was whose Names are underwritten, deputed by the Governor & Council of the Massachusetts Colony to peruse, and licence the same, have had and do accordingly order it to be printed, as being of public Benefit, and judge the Author to have deserved due Acknowledgement and Thanks for the same."
Simon Bradstreet, B. for, Merch 29, 1677. Daniel Dennison, Joseph Dudley."
CONDITIONS.
 I, Hubbard's History of the Indian Wars will contain about 300 Pages in Octavo, to be printed on a good Paper and a neat Type.  II. That is truly valuable and entertaining a Work may be more universally spread among Mankind, the Publisher has put the Price to Subscribers to be as two Pissareens, sewed in blue, which will be much cheaper than any Book of the kind, ever printed in England or America, a Book of that Size being commonly sold at four Shillings Lawful Money.  III. If any of the Subscribers should choose to have them bound, they are desir'd to signify it at the Time of Subscribing, and the Publisher will have them done for 11. Lawful Money, in plain Binding, and 1/. and 4d. gilt and letter'd.  IV. The Work will be put to the Press as soon as a sufficient Number of Subscribers are obtained bare to defray the Excence, which the Publisher flatters himself will be in a few Weeks.  V. Those that subscribe for 6 will have a 7th gratis.  SUBSCRIPTIONS are gratefully received by John Boyle the Publisher, in Marlborough Street:—Nich Thomas, Printer near the Mill-Bridge: and Edes & Gill Printers in Queen-Street Boston: by S. & B. Hall Printers in Salem: and by William Appleton and D. Fowle in Portsmouth.
WE the Subscribers being appointed by the Hon. JOHN SHERBURNE, Esq; Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c, for the County of Rockingham, Commissions to receive and examine the Claims of the Creditors to the Estate of Jonathan Colby of Sandown in said County, Joiser, deceased, represented Insolvent, and six Months, from the 24th of January, 1775 being allowed for that Service: This is to give Notice that we will attend that Business at the House of the Widow Mary Colby's in Sandown the last Tuesday of this instant Feb. from two to 6 o'Clock in the Afternoon, and the 1st Tuesday of the five following Months. Ichabod Shaw, Sandown, February 4th 1775. Ezekiel Eaton.
TICKETS in Harvard College Lottery, (which is to be drawn the first Day of June next) to be sold by SAMUEL FREEMAN of Falmouth. Price 6 Dollars. N. B. The highest Prize is 5000 Dollars, & there are not two Blanks to a Prize.
NOTICE is hereby given to the Proprietors of Wakefield, (formerly East Town,) that there is a Tax of Eighteen Shillings Lawful Money, voted to be raised on each original Proprietor's Right or share of Land in said Town, for the Year 1774, which Tax they are desir'd to pay to me at my Dwelling House in Rochester immediately, otherwise their Land will be advertised for Sale at the Law direEt. BARNABAS PALMER Col.