The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1790-04-14 00:00:00

New - Hampshire Gazette, and the General Advertiser.
Containing the Laws, &c. of the United States, as well as those of this State passed since 1787, with a variety of other matters both useful and entertaining.
PORTSMOUTH: Printed by JOHN MELCHER, at his Office in Market-Street, at nine shillings per Annum.
An ACT of CONGRESS.
Congress of the United States. An ACT providing for the Enumeration of the Inhabitants of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Marshals of the several districts of the United States, shall be, and they are hereby authorized and required to cause the number of the inhabitants within their respective districts to be taken; omitting in such enumeration Indians not taxed, and distinguishing free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, from all others, distinguishing also the sexes and colors of free persons, and the free males of sixteen years and upwards from those under that age; for effecting which purpose, the Marshals shall have power to appoint as many Assistants within their respective districts, as to them shall appear necessary; assigning to each Assistant a certain division of his district, which division shall consist of one or more counties, cities, towns, townships, hundreds or parishes, or of a territory plainly and distinctly bounded by water courses, mountains, or public roads. The Marshals and their Assistants shall respectively take an oath or affirmation, before some judge or justice of the peace, resident within their respective districts, previous to their entering on the discharge of the duties by this act required. The oath or affirmation of the Marshal shall be, "I, A. B. Marshal of the district of do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will well and truly cause to be made, a just and perfect enumeration and description of all persons resident within my district, and return the same to the President of the United States, agreeably to the directions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act providing for the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States," according to the best of my ability." The oath or affirmation of an Assistant shall be, "I, A. B. do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will make a just and perfect enumeration and description of all persons resident within the division assigned to me, by the Marshal of the district of and make due return thereof to the said Marshal, agreeably to the directions of an act of Congress, entitled, "An act providing for the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States," according to the best of my ability." The enumeration shall commence on the first Monday in August next, and shall close within nine calendar months thereafter: The several Assistants shall, within the said nine months, transmit to the Marshals by whom they shall be respectively appointed, accurate returns of all persons, except Indians not taxed, within their respective divisions, which returns shall be made in a schedule, distinguishing the several families by the names of their master, mistress, steward, overseer, or other principal person therein, in manner following, that is to say:
The number of persons within my division, consisting of appears in a schedule hereunto annexed, subscribed by me, this day of one thousand seven hundred and ninety,
A. B. Assistant to the Marshal of Schedule of the whole Number of Persons within the Division allotted to A. B.
   Names of heads of families. Slaves. All other Free Persons. Free White Females including heads of families. Free White Males under sixteen years. Free White Males of sixteen years, and upwards, including heads of families.  
And be it further enacted, That every Assistant failing to make return, or making a false return of the enumeration to the Marshal, within the time by this act limited, shall forfeit the sum of two hundred dollars.
And be it further enacted, That every Marshal shall file the several returns aforesaid, with the clerks of the respective district courts, who are hereby directed to receive and carefully preserve the same: And the Marshals respectively shall on or before the first day of September, one thousand seven hundred and ninety one, transmit to the President of the United States, the aggregate amount of each description of persons within their respective districts. And every Marshal failing to file the returns of his Assistants, or any of them, with the clerks of their respective district courts, or failing to return the aggregate amount of each description of persons in their respective districts, as the same shall appear from said returns, to the President of the United States, within the time limited by this act, shall, for every such offence, forfeit the sum of eight hundred dollars; all which forfeitures shall be recoverable in the courts of the districts where the offences shall be committed, or in the circuit courts to be held within the same, by action of debt, information or indictment; the one half thereof to the use of the United States, and the other half to the informer; but where the prosecution shall be first instituted on behalf of the United States, the whole shall accrue to their use. And for the more effectual discovery of offences, the Judges of the several district courts, at their next sessions, to be held after the expiration of the time allowed for making the returns of the enumeration hereby directed, to the President of the United States, shall give this act in charge to the Grand Juries, in their respective courts, and shall cause the returns of the several Assistants to be laid before them, for their inspection.
And be it further enacted, That every Assistant shall receive at the rate of one dollar for every one hundred and fifty persons by him returned, where such persons reside in the country; and where such persons reside in a city, or town, containing more than five thousand persons, such Assistant shall receive at the rate of one dollar, for every three hundred persons; but where, from the dispersed situation of the inhabitants in some divisions, one dollar for every one hundred and fifty persons shall be insufficient, the Marshals, with the approbation of the Judges of the respective districts, may make such further allowance to the assistants in such divisions, as shall be deemed an adequate compensation, provided the same does not exceed one dollar for every fifty persons by them returned. The several Marshals shall receive as follows: The Marshal of the district of Maine, two hundred dollars; the Marshal of the district of New-Hampshire, two hundred dollars; the Marshal of the district of Massachusetts, three hundred dollars; the Marshal of the district of Connecticut, two hundred dollars; the Marshal of the district of New-York, three hundred dollars; the Marshal of the district of New-Jersey, two hundred dollars; the Marshal of the district of Pennsylvania, three hundred dollars; the Marshal of the district of Delaware, one hundred dollars; the Marshal of the district of Maryland, three hundred dollars; the Marshal of the district of Virginia, five hundred dollars; the Marshal of the district of Kentucky, two hundred and fifty dollars; the Marshal of the district of North-Carolina, three hundred and
fifty dollars; the Marshal of the district of South-Carolina, three hundred dollars; the Marshal of the district of Georgia, two hundred and fifty dollars. And to obviate all doubts which may arise respecting the persons to be returned and the manner of making returns.
Be it enacted, That every person whose usual place of abode shall be in any family on the aforesaid 1st Monday in August next, shall be returned as of such family; and the name of every person, who shall be an inhabitant of any district, but without a settled place of residence, shall be inserted in the column of the aforesaid schedule, which is allotted for the heads of families, in that division where he or she shall be on the said first Monday in August next—and every person occasionally absent at the time of the enumeration, as belonging to that place in which he usually resides in the United States.
And be it further enacted, That each and every person more than sixteen years of age, whether heads of families or not, belonging to any family within any division of a district made or established within the United States, shall be, and hereby is obliged to render to such Assistant of the division, a true account if required, to the best of his or her knowledge, of all and every person belonging to such family respectively, according to the several descriptions aforesaid; on pain of forfeiting twenty dollars, to be sued for and recovered by such Assistant, the one half for his own use, and the other half for the use of the United States.
And be it further enacted, That each Assistant shall, previous to making his return to the Marshal, cause a correct copy, signed by himself, of the schedule, containing the number of inhabitants within his division, to be set up at two of the most public places within the same, there to remain for the inspection of all concerned; for each of which copies the said assistant shall be entitled to receive two dollars, provided proof of a copy of the schedule having been so set up and suffered to remain, shall be transmitted to the Marshal, with the return of the number of persons; and in case any Assistant shall fail to make such proof to the Marshal, he shall forfeit the compensation by this act allowed him.
FREDERICK A. MUHLENBURG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate. Approved—March 1, 1790. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of the UNITED STATES.
MONDAY, MARCH 22. THE amendments to the Naturalization Bill, and Bill providing for the mitigation of fines, &c. were considered.
The Appropriation Bill came down from the Senate amended.
SLAVE TRADE. The committee of the whole had this subject again under consideration—several gentlemen spoke on each side—and several modifications of the report of the committee thereon, took place. At length the committee rose, and the report as amended, was laid on the table.
TUESDAY, MARCH 23. The Appropriation Bill as amended, was considered, and the first amendment agreed to.
THE SLAVE TRADE Under discussion in the House. The motion for taking up the report
of the committee of the whole was opposed by Messrs. JACKSON, SMITH, BURKE and BLAND—and advocated by Messrs. VINING, HARTLEY, and PAGE; and at length passed in the affirmative.
A motion was then made, for entering the report of the select committee, and the report of the committee of the whole, on the journals of the House—which was determined in the affirmative, by YEAS and NAYS, as follows:
YEAS. Messrs. Boudinot, Brown, Cadwallader, Contee, Floyd, Foster, Gerry, Gilman, Goodhue, Griffin, Hartley, Hathborn, Heister, Huntington, Lawrance, Lee, Leonard, Madison, P. Muhlenburg, Parker, Patridge, Schureman, Scot, Sedgwick, Sherman, Sylvester, Sinnickson, Vining, Wynkoop. 29.
NAYS. Messrs. Ames, Baldwin, Benson, Bland, Burke, Carroll, Coles, Gale, Grout, Jackson, Livermore, Matthews, Moore, Page, Van Ransellaer, Smith (M.), Smith (S. C.), Stone, Sturges, Sumpner, Tacker, Trumbull, Tucker, White, Williamson. 25
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24. The Appropriation Bill as sent down from the Senate with an amendment, was agreed to, and ordered to be passed into a law.
The Bill for the remission and mitigation of fines, forfeitures and penalties in certain cases, was then taken up, with the amendment of the Senate; and after considerable debate the House non-concurred with the Senate; and Mr. AMES, Mr. HUNTINGTON and Mr. JACKSON, were appointed a committee to confer with a committee of the Senate on the subject of the said amendment.
On motion of Mr. LAWRANCE, the Bill providing for the intercourse with foreign nations, was recommitted to Mr. SEDGWICK, Mr. HUNTINGTON and Mr. LEE.
THURSDAY, MARCH 25. A motion was then made that the House should go into a committee of the whole on the Bill respecting the South Western Frontiers. Some objection was made to the immediate adoption of the motion—as interesting and important intelligence was daily expected from Gov. ST. CLAIR.
The motion being put was carried in the affirmative—and the galleries were thereon shut.
FRIDAY, MARCH 26. Mr. LIVERMORE presented a petition from the inhabitants of Portsmouth (N. H.) respecting certain duties on tonnage; and also praying that the District Court may be holden in that place only.
In committee of the whole House—Mr. BOUDINOT in the chair—
The Bill to prevent the exportation of goods, not duly inspected according to the laws of the several States, was taken into consideration.
The committee finally agreed to some amendments, which were adopted by the House; and the Bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading on Monday next.
In committee of the whole—on the Bill for accepting the cession made by the State of North-Carolina, of certain lands therein described—
In the preamble to the Bill, the words "THE HONORABLE" were prefixed to the names of the Senators from North-Carolina.
NOTE. * For this report, vide Gazette, No. 5751, March 31.—The substance of the 1st, 3d, 5th and 6th propositions of this report were agreed to by the committee of the whole.

Mr. Page moved, that those words should be struck out. He observed, that however honorable the gentlemen might be, and he was ready to acknowledge they were truly so; yet, agreeable to the usage of the House, he conceived there was an impropriety in giving titles. He hoped never to see the time when a legislative sanction should be given to such distinctions. If a permanent aristocracy was ever established among us, it would be through this medium: Such titles have been productive of infinite mischief in other countries: They were anti-republican, and as such cannot be conferred with any propriety by this House.
Mr. Sedgwick observed, that if the Hon. Gentleman was ready to acknowledge the Senators from the State of North-Carolina were truly honorable characters, he could see no mischief or impropriety in saying so; it comports with the usage of the several States: But, he considered it as a matter of trifling consequence, and hoped the committee would not spend time in altering the subject.
Mr. Page made some reply to Mr. Sedgwick, and the vote being taken, it passed in the affirmative by a great majority.
A condition in the act of cession, relative to the emancipation of slaves—that Congress should not (as in the act for the government of the western territory) provide for their freedom—occasioned some debate; an amendment was proposed and debated—but not adopted.
Mr. Gilman of the committee of enrollment, informed the House—that the appropriation and naturalization bills were presented to the President of the United States for his approbation, 25th inst.
MONDAY, MARCH 29.
The committee of the whole House, to whom was referred the report of the committee on the memorials of the people called Quakers, and of the Pennsylvania and New-York societies for promoting the abolition of slavery, agreed to the following, which was entered on the journals.
That the migration or importation of such persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, cannot be prohibited by Congress prior to the year 1808.
That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them within any of the States, it remaining with the several States alone, to provide any regulation therein, which humanity and true policy may require.
That Congress have authority to restrain the citizens of the United States from carrying on the African trade for the purpose of supplying foreigners with slaves, and of providing by proper regulations for their humane treatment during the passage of slaves imported by the citizens, into the said States admitting such importation.
The Bill to suspend part of the Collection Law was read a second time.
The Petition of the merchants and traders of Portsmouth, N. H. and a memorial of the officers of the late navy of the United States, were committed.
TUESDAY, MARCH 30.
The order of the day being called for, the Speaker read the fifth resolution of the report of the committee of the whole House on the report of the Secretary of the Treasury.
Mr. Gerry moved that all the propositions subsequent to that for assuming the State Debts should be recommitted to a committee of the whole—He observed that these are so inseparably connected with the foregoing, that those who consider the assumption as an object of importance, have associated the subsequent propositions with it, and cannot consistently vote for the latter, but in reference to the former.
This occasioned debate.
It was opposed by Mr. Carroll, Mr. Stone, Mr. Seney, Mr. Jackson and Mr. Williamson; and supported
by Mr. Bland, Mr. Vining, Mr. Lawrance, Mr. Burke, and Mr. Wadsworth.
The motion being put, it passed in the affirmative—31 members voting in favor of it.
The House then went into a committee of the whole—Mr. Livermore in the chair.
The proposition for the assumption of the State Debts being read, the debate on the subject was renewed, and continued until near three o'clock, when the committee rose without coming to a decision.
From the PROVIDENCE GAZETTE.
To the Editor of the Providence Gazette. By inserting the following, from the British Annual Register, you will oblige the cultivators of Barley in this State, as well as your constant reader,
A FRIEND TO AGRICULTURE.
On the use of sleeping Seed Barley in a dry season—By Mr. James Chapple; addressed to the Secretary of the Bath Society.
SIR,
My great success in making the following experiment, occasions my communicating an account of it to you, for the benefit of the public, if thought worthy a place in the third volume of the Bath Society's experimental papers.
The last spring being remarkably dry, I soaked my seed barley in the black water taken from a reservoir which constantly receives the draining of my dung heap and stables. As the light corn floated on the top, I skimmed it off, and let the rest stand twenty-four hours. On taking it from the water, I mixed the seed-grain with a sufficient quantity of sifted wood ashes, to make it spread regularly, and sowed three fields with it. I began sowing the 16th, and finished the 23d of April. The produce was sixty bushels per acre of good clean barley, without any small or green corn, or weeds at harvest. No person in the country had better grain.
I sowed also several other fields with the same seed, dry and without any preparation; but the crop, like those of my neighbours, was very poor; not more than twenty bushels per acre, and much mixed with green corn and weeds when harvested.—I also sowed some of the seed dry, on one ridge, in each of my former fields; but the produce was very poor in comparison of the other parts of the field.
I am, &c.
JAMES CHAPPLE.
[We consider this experiment as a very interesting one, and recommend general trials to be made, both in wet and dry spring seasons, as well of barley as other summer grains.]
LONDON, Dec. 31.
A patent has just passed the Great Seal to a Mr. Hancock for a most valuable invention: It is a portable, compact machine, for winnowing and cleaning all sorts of corn. It will do eight quarters in an hour ready for the market, prevents all waste, and gives the corn a lighter colour than the usual mode.
A courier from Turin has been seized at Grenoble, with papers about him said to be of the greatest consequence. The Packet was immediately dispatched to the National Assembly.
JANUARY 8.
Dr. Franklin's life, written by himself, is just sent over to be ready for publication after his death, and is divided into three parts.—The first takes in his early life, which is said to be very incidental; the second part, his progress up to the commencement of the American war, and the last part, the genuine rise, progress and conclusion of that very memorable Revolution. A remarkable instance of renovated Sanity.
A poor labouring man in the parish of Dilham, in Norfolk, named Daniel Milcham, who had been deprived of his senses near 20 years, and for the
last 12 years chained to the floor in his chamber, was on Friday se'nnight found by his mother stretched out on the floor and supposed to be dead; on the return of her son, his brother, from work, she informed him thereof, who accordingly went to the chamber, but not finding him cold, called him by his name; Daniel instantly got up, and asked him what he wanted; and from that moment has had his perfect senses. He had not any clothes on for more than ten years. He has every day since walked in the fields attended by his mother, and betrays no symptoms of returning malady.
PARIS, Dec. 21.
Duke of Orleans and Bourbon.
A very strong report prevails here, that a duel has been fought in England between the Dukes of Orleans and Bourbon. There are many reasons, both public and private, which give sanction to the report.
The Prince of Conde first threatened to pursue his highness the Duke of Orleans to the farthest corner of the Universe, were this necessary to meet him. The Duke of Bourbon, his son, is supposed to have taken up the quarrel, which is partly domestic and partly political. The house of Conde considers the Duke of Orleans as the sole cause of the humiliating situation of all the Princes now in voluntary exile.
The family dispute relates to eleven millions of livres due to the Duchess of Bourbon, sister to the Duke of Orleans, by arrangement after his father's death: the sum is said still to remain unpaid. The payment of the three millions even, for which the Duchess of Bourbon gave her husband an order upon the Duke, her brother, to purchase an estate, was also delayed, the remaining eight millions the house of Bourbon considers as squandered in the support of an infamous cabal.
The Duke de Ponthevie, father to the Duchess of Orleans, has determined to apply for a separation of his daughter's property from that of her husband, that their children may not, by the consequence of the father's conduct, lose any part of the property their grand father now possesses.
What a pity it is, say the real friends of his Royal Highness the Duke of Orleans, the Duke of Bourbon's shot did not take place in such a manner as to put a final period to all their disputes. Had this, add they, been fortunately the case, it would have been the best thing that could have happened to the nation, to the Duke's own family, and even to his highness himself.
As soon as the ruins of the Bastille can be removed in Paris, a grand national monument is to be erected, and the site to be called, "La place de Liberte!"
WINCHESTER, March 3.
This week several persons have passed through this town from Kentucky; by them we learn, that four men were killed in the wilderness, about the 14th of last month, by a party of Indians; that the barbarians had left their war clubs on the spot where they committed the horrid massacre; that one of the unfortunate sufferers was on his way home from New-Orleans, where he had been trading, and had near 300 guineas with him, which fell into the hands of the bloody miscreants. That the savages in the neighbourhood of Kentucky are continually committing depredations on the property of the white inhabitants, particular in stealing horses; that many persons have also been murdered by them in that quarter, thirty-three within the last four months, to the certain knowledge of our informants. That the ensuing summer is expected to be a very bloody one, as undoubted intelligence has been received in Kentucky of the determined resolution of the Shawanese to wage war, whom it is feared will also be joined by other hostile tribes; and that a prisoner arrived at the falls, who lately made his escape from the Shawanese, informs that fifty warriors of that nation are now on their march, to watch the trace of the wilderness.
PHILADELPHIA, March 17. An Account of the Lead Mines in the county of Montgomery and State of Virginia.
In the month of August last the proprietors began to work these lead mines with ten hands, which they found on an average produced one thousand weight of washed ore per day. This when refined produced 70 to 75lb. per 100lb. of ore. The ten men were not employed to the same advantage as a greater number might have been. To obviate the inconvenience and to increase the quantity of lead to the probable consumption of this country, the proprietors have 75 men employed in this business, which they have reason to expect will produce nine hundred tons of lead per year.
They have also established a Manufactory of shot and sheet lead at Richmond, and of the productions of the Mines five workmen now make one ton of shot per day. Their intentions are to increase the number of workmen in this factory, to the full amount of the demand of shot and sheet lead in this country.
March 26. Last Wednesday night, about 11 o'clock, a fire was discovered in the Counting-House of the Cotton Factory at the upper end of Market-Street, in this city which suddenly spread through the whole of the building, entirely consumed the same, together with the raw materials there, about 20 pieces of unfinished goods, and a principal part of the machinery. Owing to the vigilance of the citizens, the dwelling house adjoining was preserved with part of the machinery and the account books—Fortunately, a large quantity of finished and unfinished goods were removed from the Factory a few days previous to the disaster. The loss is computed at about £.1000, exclusive of the buildings.
March 25. We are happy to be enabled to lay before our readers the following comparison of our clearances with those of New-York, from 1st January, to the 31st December, 1789.
   Philadelphia. New-York.     2 0 Polacres   121 120 Ships   11 0 Snows   303 233 Brigs   253 260 Schooners.   568 494 Sloops  
Total 1258 Phil. Tot. 1107 N. York.
ALBANY, March 18.
On Monday morning, the 15th inst. as Mr. Van Rensselaer, son of Gen. Henry K. Van Rensselaer, and his sister, were accompanying their cousins, two of the daughters of Col. John Vischer, of Green-Bush, to their father's in a sleigh, the ice of the river broke in, within a few yards of the end of their journey, nearly opposite the house of Volkert P. Douw, Esq. Their cries were soon providentially heard by Mr. Douw's family, and his negroes ran to give assistance. When they arrived at the place, the sleigh and the hair of Mr. Rensselaer's head were alone to be seen; a board, that one of the negroes had brought, was then put under Mr. R. and he was snatched from destruction. Miss Rensselaer immediately emerged, near her brother, and was also saved. The eldest Miss Vischer was next drawn upon the ice but sisterly affection checked every rising fear for self-preservation, and as she was extending the hand of assistance to her expiring sister, the ice again broke, and they were both instantly absorbed by the eddy, out of every reach.—The eldest Miss Vischer was 21 years of age, and was to have been married in a few days; the younger was in her 16th year. Every exertion has been made to find the bodies, but that of the eldest only has been found. The horses had fallen into the river with so great velocity, that they broke the traces, plunged under the ice, and were not to be seen after the negroes arrived—This fatal spot has been opened the whole winter, till within two days of the accident: the ice in it was only three inches thick—but within a few feet round it was eighteen.
Readers! pause a moment, and lay to heart this melancholy example of the

Parnassian SPRING.
SEPTENNIAL DIVISION OF TIME.
T HE seven first years of life, man's break of day Gleams of short sense a dawn of thought display; When fourteen springs have bloom'd, his downy cheek, His soft and bashful meaning learns to speak; From twenty-one, proud manhood takes his date; Yet is not strength complete 'till twenty-eight; Then to his five and thirtieth, life's gay fire Sparkles, burns bright, and flames in fierce desire; At forty-two his eyes grave wisdom wear, And the dark future dims him o'er with care: With forty-nine behold his toils increase, And busy hopes and fears disturb his peace: At fifty-six, cool reason reigns entire; Then life burns steady and with temperate fire: But sixty-three unbends the body's strength, Ere the unwearied mind has run her length: And, when from seventy, Age surveys her last, Tir'd, she stops short, and wishes all were past.
MIDDLETON.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Middleton, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1784, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber on or before the 7th day of June next, so much of their land as will pay said taxes together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day, at the house of Waldron Kennison in said town.
State.C'ty cert. filv.
   N o Ac rs s. d. d.    Peter Cook 91 140 1 4 2  Joseph Conner 63 140 2 0 3  Law Lot 61 140 3 4 5  Joshua Stagpole 60 140 1 4 2  Nathaniel Meseve 70 140 2 8 4  Daniel Croxford 99 40 1 8 2  Sam'l Herd 30 140 1 4 2  Love Roberts 62 70 2 4 2  Rich'd Philpot 14 100 2 0 3  William Horn 24 140 2 0 3  Joseph Varney 8 140 1 4 2  John Gage 26 70 0 8 1  Benjamin Roberts 38 140 3 4 5  Isaac Hanson 44 140 2 8 4  James Philpot 42 140 2 8 4  John Herd 90 70 1 4 2  
BENJAMIN CLAY, Collector, Middleton, March 20, 1790.
MIDDLETON.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Middleton, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1785, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 14th day of June next, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, on said day, at the dwelling-house of Waldron Kennison innholder in said town.
S.Cert.
   N o Ac rs s. d. d.    Job Huffey 5 140 1 8  Mark Wallingsford 54 70 1 8  John Herd 90 70 1 8  Samuel Herd 30 140 1 8  Love Roberts 62 35 1 8  Thomas Wallingsford 43 140 3 4  Nathaniel Austin 10 100 1 8  Joseph Varney 8 140 1 8  John Gage 26 70 0 10  Benjamin Roberts 38 140 4 2  Isaac Hanson, jr. 44 140 3 4  Ebenezer Varney 100 140 3 4  James Philpot 42 140 3 4  Job Clements 82 70 1 3  Peter Cook 91 140 1 8  Joshua Stagpole 60 140 1 8  Nathaniel Meseve 70 140 3 4    MOSES WHITEHOUSE, Collector. Middleton, March 20, 1790.
W E A R E. State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Weare, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1788, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before Tuesday the 4th day of May next, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Mr. Jesse Woodbury, innholder in said town, at 10 o'clock, A. M. on said day.
   No. R. Q'ty. s. d.    Joseph Meseve, 83 7 130 3 0  Walter William, 80 7 130 3 0  Gore.  Tho's Wallingsford, 10 0 70 2 6  Thomas Packer, 7 0 80 3 6  Mason & Thomlinson 19 0 120 1 9  Mason's half unpaid 14 0 120 1 0    JONATHAN WORTHLY, Collector. Weare, March 31, 1790.
WOLFBOROUGH. State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Wolfborough, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1787, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before Thursday the 29th day of April next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of the subscriber innholder in said town, at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day.
   N o Ac rs s. d. s. d.    James Stoodley 2 400 7 7 6 7  Joshua Brackett 11 350 6 7 1/2 3 9  William Torrey 17 327 6 2 5 4  Col. S. Evens 7 492 9 6 7 9  W. Torrey's tax from 1786 17 327 3 3 1/2 9 7    WILLIAM ROGERS, Collector. Wolfborough, March 25, 1790.
Last Monday
A Morning-SCHOOL, FOR Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, &c. was opened by Mr. DEARBORN for young persons of both sexes. The hours are from six to eight o'clock, six mornings in the week, the price eight shillings pr. quarter.—His DAY-SCHOOL continues, for Misses and Boys, who may attend the whole or any part of the day at a price proportionable to the above.
Young children who attend only for Reading and Spelling are received for the whole day at nine shillings per quarter.
Those who pay the cash four successive quarters are entitled to a fifth gratis. An excellent English Surveying-Instrument for sale, either with or without a four rod chain. Portsmouth, April 7, 1790.
Public Auction.
B y virtue of a licence from the Hon. Philips White, Esq. Judge of Probate, &c. for the county of Rockingham—will be sold at public vendue, at the premises now occupied by Mr. John Greenleaf, in Portsmouth, One half the Dwelling-House belonging to the estate of Jacob Treadwell, late of Portsmouth, merchant, deceased, with the reversion of the other half—on Monday the 10th of May next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. Portsmouth, April 6, 1790.
A LL persons indebted to, or that have any demands against the estate of Capt. BENJAMIN HOLMES, late of Portsmouth, deceased, are requested to exhibit their accounts well vouched to Benjamin Holmes, administrator on said estate, in order for a speedy settlement of the same.
B LANKS of all sorts printed and sold at J. MELCHER's Printing Office, in Market-Street, VERY CHEAP.
State of New-Hampshire, County of Strafford.
T HE subscriber having purchased the Excise on spirituous liquors and other articles Excised in the county of Strafford, from the first day of October 1789, to the first day of October 1790—hereby give notice to all Innkeepers, Retailers and others liable to pay Excise in said county, that he will attend himself or by his Deputy to receive accounts properly and regularly, made out on oath of the two first quarterly payments for said year, due the first day of April 1790, viz.—At Col. Cogswell's tavern in Dover, on Monday the 12th day of April 1790; At Yeaton's tavern in Somersworth, the 13th of ditto; At Peter Cushing's tavern in Rochester, the 14th of ditto; At his own house for Barrington and Madbury, the 19th of ditto; At Richardson's tavern in Durham, the 22d of ditto; At Gile's tavern in Lee, the 23d of ditto: Attendance will be given at the above mentioned places, from nine to five o'clock of said days.—At Hodgdon's tavern in Barnstead, the 5th of June; at Col. Antipas Gilman's in Gilmantown, the 7th of said June; At Col. Smith's in Merrimack, the 8th of said June; At Esq. Sanborn's in Sanborntown, the 9th of said June; At Benning Moulton's, Esq. in New-Hampton, the 10th of said June; At Col. Hoyt's in Moultonborough, the 21st of said June; At Benjamin Burley's for Sandwich and Tamworth, the 23d of said June; At Col. M c Millan's for Conway, Burton and Eaton, the 24th of said June; At Capt. Brown's for Ossipee and Effingham, the 26th of said June; At Capt. John Martin's for Wolfborough and Tuftonborough, the 28th of said June; Capt. Copp's in Wakefield, the 29th of said June, in the forenoon, and at Richard Hanson's in Middletown in the afternoon of the same day; At Joseph Roberts's, Esq. for the Gore and New-Durham, the 30th of said June.—It is expected that all those that have sold with licence, will be ready to settle up to the time before mentioned, and all those that have sold without licence, are desired to attend at the times and places before mentioned, and exhibit an honest account for settlement, and if after this notice they fail to comply, they must expect no other favour than the Law will allow them.
ABRAHAM WALDRON. N. B. No accounts will be allowed without being Attested to. Barrington, March 24, 1790.
Commission-Store.
T HE subscriber informs his friends and acquaintance in the town of Portsmouth, and throughout the State of New-Hampshire, that he has opened a Commission-Store, at his house in Buck-Street, to receive and sell all sorts of merchandise as will be sent to him to dispose of, at a moderate commission.—Cash, Pot and Pearl-Asb—Lumber, Flax-seed and Dry Fish, will be received in payment of the sales.—He doubts not but this way of business will meet with success—this town being the only seaport in the State, and increasing daily in business—has encouraged the subscriber to open a Store by that name. He intends to transact any kind of commission business in the merchantile line—and shall be punctual in attendance. N. ROUSELET.
A FURTHER time of six months, from this date, are allowed by the Hon. Judge of Probate, for the commissioners to receive and examine the claims on the estate of JOHN GRIFFIN, late of Durham, in the county of Strafford, gentleman, deceased.—Notice is hereby given, that they will attend for that purpose, at the dwelling-house of Mrs. Hannah Griffin, in Durham, on the first Monday of the four months next ensuing.
JOHN SULLIVAN, } Commissioners. EBEN r THOMPSON, } February 18.
A SUBSCRIPTION FOR A MEDAL OF GENERAL WASHINGTON.
M EDALS, from the earliest period of time, have been regarded, by every enlightened people, as the greatest help to history, and the best method of transmitting to posterity the memory of the heroes and patriots of the age, and one of the most honorary compliments a grateful people could confer on their favourites.—As the history of mankind furnishes no instance of a hero or patriot who has better deserved, or has been more justly intitled to the affections or esteem of a grateful people, than His Excellency the President of the United States—General George Washington—an artist is induced to offer to the citizens of America, a medal with a striking and approved likeness, and such inscriptions or allegorical figures as shall best suit so great a character; and he humbly hopes to be honored with their patronage.
To SUBSCRIBERS—a medal will be delivered of fine white metal, to resemble silver, for one dollar; of a fine, gold-coloured metal, for two dollars; of fine silver for four dollars; and of gold in proportion to weight.
SUBSCRIBERS will please to particularise the kind they choose. As the medals are now striking, and will be ready to deliver in a few days after the order comes to hand, it is hoped every gentleman will pay at the time of subscribing.
*** SUBSCRIBERS for New-Hampshire, will be received at the Post-Office by J. LIBBEY, Esq. or any gentleman may have any number of medals sent to any part of the continent, by sending his order and remittance for the same, to J. MANLY, to the care of ROBERT PATTON, Esq. Post-Master, Philadelphia.
COPY—WE, the undersigned, have seen the medal of General Washington, and think it a strong and expressive likeness, and worthy the attention of the United States of America.
Thomas Mifflin, governor of the State of Pennsylvania. Richard Peters, speaker of the house of Assembly. Christian Febiger, treasurer of the State. Francis Johnston, colonel of the late American Army. Philadelphia, February 22, 1790.
Newcastle Bridge Lottery.
NOT TWO BLANKS TO A PRIZE.
T HE subscribers, managers of said Lottery, hereby notify the public, that they have positively determined to commence drawing on WEDNESDAY the 21st of April next, in the West Chamber of the State-House in this town.—A few of the tickets may yet be had of the managers, but none will be sold after the drawing has commenced.
HENRY PRESCOTT, } Managers. SIMON JENNESS, } STEPHEN MARCH, } GEORGE FROST, } STEPHEN CHASE, } Portsmouth, March 15, 1790.
N OTICE is hereby given, that the Commissioners appointed to receive and examine the claims against the estate of Jonathan Moulton, late of Hampton, Esq. deceased, will meet on the last Thursday and Friday of this and the two following months, for that purpose—And as the commission will then expire, and Creditors be excluded from offering their claims; those who have demands on said estate will govern themselves accordingly.—Debtors to said estate are called upon for payment, as no further indulgence can be granted. Hampton, April 3, 1790.