The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1783-01-18 00:00:00

THE NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE, AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.
Vol. XXVII.]
SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1783.
[No. 1368.]
T HE Subscriber having received several letters from Committees of other States, respecting the supporting of the Credit of the Continental Securities, thinks it necessary that the Creditors to the Continent, in this State, should meet and consult what measures should be taken to obtain the payment of the Interest and Principal of such Securities. The holders of Continental Loan Office Certificates within this State, (or as many as conveniently can attend) are therefore desired to meet at Mr. Brewster's tavern in this town, on Thursday the 30th of this month, 10 o'clock, A. M. to advise on this important matter; and to take such measures as to them may seem most meet.
JOHN LANGDON.
Portsmouth, January 14, 1783.
KINGSTON, (Esopus) November 19.
On Friday last their Excellencies General Washington and Governor Clinton arrived at this place, and were received with the greatest marks of public gratitude and esteem; and spent the day in company with many of the most respectable characters of this place; during which the following toasts were drank:
1. The United States in Congress. 2. His Most Christian Majesty. 3. The other powers engaged in war with us. 4. The States. 5. The American army in the northern department. 6. The American Ministers abroad. 7. Count Rochambeau and the allied army. 8. Admiral Vandreuil and the French squadron. 9. Gen. Green and the southern army. 10. The friends of freedom and virtue throughout the world. 11. The memory of the heroes who have fallen in the present contest. 12. May the gratitude of America towards her sons be equal to their merit. 13. A safe, lasting, and honorable peace.
The following address of the Trustees of the town was presented to his Excellency General Washington, on the occasion
S I R,
WE the Trustees of the freeholders and commonality of the town of Kingston, for ourselves and in behalf of those we represent, beg leave with the most unfeigned love and esteem to congratulate your Excellency on your arrival in this place.
To a people whose principles of liberty were early decided, and whose actions have been correspondent, the appearance of a character among them, who by his wisdom has directed, and by his fortitude has led the arms of America to victory and success, affords a joy more sensibly felt, than is in the power of language to express.
While, Sir, we take a retrospect of the past campaigns, and in every vicissitude of the war observe your Excellency exhibit
the most steady patriotism, the most undaunted courage; and while as a consequence of this we are informed, the Ministry of Britain are sunk into negotiation, and their armies into inaction; we trust—it is our prayer! that the same benign Providence, which has hitherto guided, will enable you speedily to terminate the present contest, in the unmolested glory and freedom of this extended empire. And when that era shall arrive, and the welfare of your country shall permit, may you then exchange the fatigues of the camp for the sweets of domestic retirement; and may your well-earned fame run parallel with time, and your felicity last through eternity.
To which his Excellency was pleased to return the following answer.
Gentlemen,
I RECEIVE, with peculiar pleasure, the affectionate address of the Trustees of the freeholders and commonality of the town of Kingston.
Your polite and friendly reception of me is a proof of its sincerity.
While I view, with indignation, the marks of a wanton and cruel enemy, I perceive, with the highest satisfaction, that the heavy calamity which befel this flourishing settlement, seems but to have added to the patriotic spirit of its inhabitants; and that a new town is fast rising out of the ashes of the old.
That you and your worthy constituents may long enjoy that freedom for which you have so nobly contended, is the sincere wish of,
Gentlemen, Your most obedient and humble servant, GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Kingston, Nov. 16, 1782.
The following is a copy of an address of the Minister, Elders, and Deacons of Kingston, to his Excellency - General Washington.
S I R,
AMIDST the general joy which instantly pervaded all ranks of people here, on hearing of your Excellency's intended visit to this place, we the Ministers, Elders, and Deacons, of the Protestant reformed Dutch church in Kingston, participated in it; and now beg leave, with the greatest esteem and respect, to hail your arrival.
The experience of a number of years past has convinced us that your wisdom, integrity and fortitude, have been adequate to the arduous task your country has imposed upon you; never have we, in the most perilous of times, known your Excellency to despond; nor in the most prosperous, to slacken in activity; but with the utmost resolution persevere, until, by the aid of the Almighty, you have brought us thus near to independence, freedom and peace.
Permit us to add, that as the loss of our religious rights was partly involved in that of our civil; and you being instrumental in restoring the one, affords us a happy presage that the Divine Being will prosper your endeavours to promote the other.
When the sword shall be sheathed, and peace reestablished, and whenever it is the will of heaven that your Excellency has lived long enough for the purposes of nature, then may you enter triumphantly through the blood of the Lamb into the regions of bliss, there to take possession of that crown of glory, the reward of the virtuous, and which fadeth not away.
To which his Excellency was pleased to make the following return.
GENTLEMEN,
I AM happy in receiving this public mark of the esteem of the Minister, Elders and Deacons, of the reformed Protestant Dutch church in Kingston.
Convinced that our religious liberties were as essential as our civil, my endeavours have never been wanting to encourage and promote the one, while I have been contending for the other. And I am highly flattered, by finding that my efforts have met the approbation of so respectable a body.
In return for your kind concern for my temporal and eternal happiness, permit me to assure you, that my wishes are reciprocal; and that you may be enabled to hand down your religion, pure and undefiled, to a posterity worthy of their ancestors, is the fervent prayer of,
Gentlemen, Your most obedient servant, GEORGE WASHINGTON.
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1 COR. xiv. 15.
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LONDON, October 15.
It may be said that times are changed in favour of America since the year 1776; upon which it is to be observed, that from the great support rebellion received in our own Senate , the colonies persisted in their determination to shake off the British government, and gained some important advantages in the field; but if it be asserted that at the time Mr. Fox was in office, the provinces were in a state to prosecute the war with vigour, or indeed to support it with a chance of success, for another campaign, we directly appeal to the rebel accounts, describing their own necessities and impoverished state, as an incontrovertible evidence of the contrary. The address of the Loyalists to the British Commissioners at New York, published lately in this paper, states the miserable situation of the colonies, and laments that at a moment when we had the fairest prospect of bringing them once more under the dominion of England, a vicious system in the Cabinet at home, should, in a moment, blast all hopes. However, the public will soon be officially informed on this very important subject, as Sir Guy Carlton's dispatches are shortly expected. He will truly inform us respecting the temper and condition of the colonies, and from thence the people will be enabled to judge, with tolerable precision, what species of reward Mr. Fox is intitled to for the services he has done his country.
Lord Cornwallis is appointed to the chief command in the East Indies.
Formerly the French never suffered their King or Prince of the blood to go to a siege, except when the General who commanded at it, was sure that the place must surrender; thus the honor of reducing it was politely resigned to the King or Prince: how hard is the fate of poor Comte d'Artois, that in his first essay in arms, he should be made an exception to this rule; and that he should be present at the siege of Gibraltar, only to have the mortification of being a witness to the disgrace of his brother's and cousin's arms, in raising of a siege, which after so many years, they flatter themselves, would end in the restoration of Gibraltar to its former masters!
October 16.
Upon the late advices from Ireland several cabinet councils have been held in succession, and so many consultations on their tendency, among the Ministers, as most plainly evince how much they are alarmed. The county of Tyrone, distillers, victuallers, vintners, and all sorts of manufacturers, supported by their armed associations, have come to resolutions to pay no excises whatever. Londonderry and Donegal, with part of Antrim, are in a state little short of anarchy, from the resolutions which spread very rapidly, not to pay any tythes whatever to the clergy. The late act of parliament relating to the stamping of linens, has been dispensed with by an armed force. The weavers of Dublin have declared that not a yard of English broad cloth shall be imported. Add to this the flaming resolutions of all the corps throughout the north of Ireland, against the scheme of raising fencible regiments; in which they determine it to be unconstitutional, and threaten the severest resentment to any of their own bodies that accept commissions in them: These, and a variety of other circumstances, have alarmed the government exceedingly. Mr. Fox has procured very particular intel-
ligence of the whole; and intends to reprobate, in the severest terms, the fencible scheme, as a most ill timed, undigested and offensive proposition. Thus it is that the affairs of Ireland are likely to prove the sharpest thorn in the side of the present Administration.
At the last assizes at W——, a man was tried for having beat his wife, so that she was supposed to die of the contusions and bruises. The prisoner was allowed counsel; and in defence of the man it was alledged, that a husband had a legal power of chastising his wife. The Judge objected to the pertinence of the allegation, because the prisoner had used a faggot. It is allowed a husband may correct his wife, but not with a faggot. The counsel asked what size the stick should be, which might be so applied? He gravely put out his hand, and said, " of the size of my thumb. " All the ladies in W—— sent messages to his Lordship's thumb; and the lawyers have given their opinion, that if a husband should use a stick, differing in dimensions the breadth of a hair from Judge ——'s thumb, an action will lie, and heavy damages be recoverable by the wife!
St. JOHN'S, ANTIGUA, Nov. 2.
A neutral vessel arrived here yesterday, the Captain of which says, that, the day before, he had spoken a vessel coming out of Guadalupe, by which he was informed, it was very currently reported and believed, that a British squadron had arrived at Barbadoes, with a great number of troops.—The Marquis de Bouille had arrived in a frigate, but we do not understand that the enemy have received any other reinforcement.
His Majesty's ship Argo has carried a large ordinance store ship into St. Lucia; she is an old 64, armed en flute, bound from France to Martinique, with brass cannon, powder, cloathing, and every kind of warlike stores.
PHILADELPHIA, December 25.
In the Royal Gazette of the 21st. is the petition of the New-York refugees to the British King, which was presented by Governor Franklin. In this petition, after expressing their surprize at the intimation by General Carlton that the provinces were to be declared independent, and after holding up the idea of conquest as still easy and practicable, they conclude with praying his Majesty, (if America is to be acknowledged independent) "That no treaty of peace may finally take effect in America nor the army be withdrawn, until full and sufficient security be had for our future personal safety, and restitution of our property; and some asylum prepared for such of us as cannot remain in this country." Mr. Rivington does not inform us what answer was given to this modest petition.
The legislature of Virginia at their last session passed an act, allowing all the inhabitants of that State the liberty to manumit their slaves.
NEW YORK, December 24.
Extract of a letter from one of the principal gentlemen in Nova-Scotia to his friend here, dated Halifax, November 16.
"Should you or any of your friends come this way, I will render you or them every service in my power; and from my own knowledge of this country, I can inform you, that the land round the Bay of Fundy, is far preferable to any between
Portsmouth and Philadelphia, and a sufficient quantity for 10,000 families, which might on an average winter eight cows the first year, and raise their bread and corn the next. This country has been ruined by large grants without settlers, which are and will soon be escheated. This province is surrounded by a fishing bank that will prove an inexhaustable source of wealth to the inhabitants. Ten thousand people might be fully employed in catching and curing fish, and never go out of sight of land. In short, was this province as well peopled as Connecticut, I should rather have it for a principality than the four New-England States, together with New York and the Jerseys; they have indeed the melons and the peaches, that we have not, but we have real substantial advantages that they can never enjoy."
From Rivington's Royal Gazette of December 11.
On the 4th of November last, the clergy and selectmen of Boston paraded through the streets after a crucifix, and joined in a procession in praying for a departed soul out of purgatory; and for this they gave the example of Congress, and other American leaders on a former occasion at Philadelphia, some of whom, it is said, even went so far as to sprinkle themselves with what they call holy water.
NEWPORT, January 4.
We have been favoured with the following Copy of a letter from a Gentleman in Weathersfield, in the State of Connecticut, dated December 14, 1782:
"SIR,
"The occasion of my addressing you at this time is truly melancholly; 'tis no other than the untimely death of the whole family.—Last Wednesday morning Mr. William Beadle of this Town, was left of God to perpetrate the most horrid Murder that this or any other Country, I believe, ever heard of, and with the utmost coolness and forethought.
"He arose before sunrise, and having dispatched his maid (the only person who lived in the house with him, except his wife and four children) to Doctor Farnsworth, under pretence of his wife's being sick; with a letter, and which announced his hellish purpose, in rather ambiguous terms. He proceeded to murder his wife and four children, first by knocking each of them on the head with an ax, and then cutting their throats from ear to ear, with a large carving knife, which he had prepared with the keenest edge for the business, 'tis highly probable that not one of the five ever knew what hurt them—a strong opiate was found in a glass on the table, which it is believed he gave to each the night before to lay them fast asleep; the girl was called early, and bid to rise gently and not to wake the children, and says she left them asleep. This done, he went down into the lower room, laid aside his ax and knife, and with two pistols, one at each ear, he put an end to his own life; both were found discharged lying by him.—I suppose all was done before the girl reached the Doct's, but the discharge of the pistols was not heard by the neighbours. You can better conceive than I can describe the horror and consternation of all around us at the execrable deed.—He has left many and very lengthy writings and papers, addressed principally to Col. Chester and Mr. Mitchell, and to several other gentlemen, the principle design of those to Mr.

Mitchell are to justify his principles, which are, he says, truly deistical, and also, to justify his carrying his theory into practice; among these papers there is an instrument which he calls a WILL, in which he desires his wife's three nearest female relations may have all his estate (except a few small legacies) and has ordered Col. Chester to deliver all the monies he can collect to Thaddeus Burr, Esq; for their use; he has also appointed him his executor, and given him his blessing in case of his punctually fulfilling his will, and a most terrible curse in case of neglect in any particular. His will begins thus:
“November, 1782.
“The Will of William Beadle addressed to Colonel J. Chester.
“Let the dead bury the dead, but let the living be first thought of,”—then after giving orders to dispose of his house, hogs, and fowls, he says, “Now for the dead, in this case I have a whim that I suppose must indicate distraction more than any of the rest, I mean that we be buried in the cloaths we usually wear, let not one of the least things be added, let a wooden box or case be made full large enough to contain us all, and let all be put therein, let this box be of the natural colour of that God gave to the wood, let no BLACK come near it, for the hearts it contains will be pure and white. It will not do for one of my principles to approach holy ground, and if it would, I beg to be excused.—The place I live on belongs to the public and may be called common ground, I therefore beg that a hole may be dug in the grass lot before the garden, large enough to contain the box that contains us, let us be covered up; and each man to his farm and his merchandise, for I believe the sun will still shine on that spot with the same benign influence it ever did.”
“Authority ordered the murderer to be drawn by a horse on a small sled, tied on a board with his cloaths on, and head foremost and with the bloody knife on his breast, to a point at the river's edge, just where a creek puts up, and a hole dug at low water mark, and to be buried without any kind of coffin or box.
“The mother and four children were buried in the common burying ground, in one grave, attended by a numerous company of mourners.”
PROVIDENCE, January 11.
We learn by a flag of truce that General Leslie, late commandant of the British army in South-Carolina, came in the fleet from Charlestown which arrived last week at New York, and it was generally said and believed there that the evacuation of Charlestown was completed.
The ship Cato, Capt. Tappan of Newbury, we learn, is cast away in the Texel, occasioned by a large ship running foul of her in a gale of wind—part of her cargo is saved.
BOSTON, January 16.
A letter from on board the Jersey prison-ship, in New-York harbour, dated December 25, says, “The Britons will not exchange any that are taken in privateers; nor parole them unless obligated by oath not to take up arms during the war.”
Poor Jemmy Rivington as he draws near his end, speaks much of religion; and having devoted for a number of years his Royal Gazette to the service of his royal master, in political falsehoods and lies, he is
now anxious for the preservation of religious truth. Accordingly he publishes to the world, that he dies in the protestant faith, and is extremely distressed for the souls of all the members of Congress, and the inhabitants of these States. But in stating the grounds of this distress he discovers how hard a thing it is to shake off an old evil habit, even at the approach of death, and reminds us of the saying of a great man, that some people have a scurvy trick of lying for the truth. How great is the benevolence of the British King in employing among us so very faithful and zealous a missionary! For though that best of princes has long made war upon us in a most cruel and inhuman manner; though he has excited against us the barbarity of savages and negro slaves; though he has burnt our towns, ravaged our estates, and cut our throats, yet who is not sensible what abundant compensation he has made for all this in sending the great British Apostle, Mr. Rivington, to save our souls.
Poor Jemmy is the same in life or death; And gives up lying only with his breath.
A Hint to the Testy.
OF the County Taxes for Rockingham, for two Years past, not one Shilling hath been received for building the New Goal in Portsmouth.
GEORGE GAINS, (one of the Committee.
January 15, 1783.
Lands to be sold in Canterbury, Barnstead, Chichester; or in a number of out Towns: for which the pay will be taken in Ranging Timber, Pine Ton Timber, Boards, Shingles and Clapboards. Enquire at the Printing Office in Portsmouth.
Joseph Senter, of Plymouth, hereby gives notice, that Dr. Peter Emerson, of Hawke, has one Note of his, in his hands, which he has paid; therefore, forbids any person or persons purchasing said note, as he has paid the full value of it, and can produce receipts therefor.
JOSEPH SENTER.
January 18, 1782.
State of New-Hampshire. THE Commissioners appointed by the Hon'ble Matthew Thornton, Esq; Judge of probate for the County of Hillsborough, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of John Quigley, Esq; late of Francesstown, an absentee; do hereby give notice, that six months is allowed said creditors to bring in their claims, and that we shall attend said service at the house of Capt. Oliver Holmes, innholder in Francesstown, on the last Thursday in this, and the five following months, from two till six o'clock P. M. on said days.
Francesstown, Dec. 4th, 1782 Peter Clark, } Commissioners. David Starret. }
JUST PUBLISHED, And now selling at the Printing Offices in Portsmouth and Exeter, by the quantity or single;
Sewall's ASTRONOMICAL DIARY: OR ALMANACK,
For the Year of Christian Era, 1783. Being the third after Bissextile or Leap Year, calculated for the Meridian of Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, Lat. 43 Deg. 5 Min. North, Long. 70 Deg. 44 Min. West; and will serve for any of the New-England States. It contains, besides the usual astronomical Calculations, many entertaining Pieces in Prose and Verse.—Also, the Scale of Depreciation for the State of New-Hampshire.
PORTSMOUTH, January 18.
Mess PRINTERS,
Please to give the following a place in your next paper, and you will oblige one of your constant customers.
“O YE Tories and your Tools of N. H. “at what time you hear the sound of the Bell for Town or Parish Meetings, take yourselves off to the island of little Britain, and there worship your own IMAGE—and no longer trouble the land you would not lend a hand to protect.”
Mess. Printers,
IF the pretended subjects of N. H. appear solely to counteract and confuse, when “they hear the sound of the Bell for Town or Parish Meetings, why should they not” be exposed and punished?—Send them before the Albion Calf, where they may bow down and worship at the feet of their darling fallen IMAGE, whom they wish again to set up in the land of America.
A MILITARY ANECDOTE.
IN the year 1687, when Austria, Poland, and Venice, united in a formidable confederacy against the Turks, the Polish general, entering Moldavia, laid siege to the fortress of Nedez. This important place, which had been abandoned by all the inhabitants, was garrisoned by only 19 Moldavian chasseurs, whom accident had brought thither. These brave men raised the draw-bridges, shut the gates, and refused to surrender. The Poles, ignorant of the weakness of the garrison, cannonaded the place for four days successively. The chasseurs defended themselves courageously, and killed a great number of the besiegers, among whom was the commander of the artillery. On the fifth day, having lost ten of their number, this little garrison demanded to capitulate. An honorable capitulation was immediately granted, with liberty to retire wherever they pleased. As soon as the articles were signed, what was the astonishment of the besieged army in beholding six men who supported on their shoulders three others that were wounded. At this instant, all the sentiments of admiration, of shame, and of indignation, were successively uppermost in the bosom of the Polish general. For some moments he remained thunderstruck. The dictates of honor, however, at length prevailed; and strictly adhering to the capitulation, he dismissed the brave besieged with every mark of military applause.
A few of the Singing Master's Assistant, Or, Key to Practical MUSIC, Composed by William Billings: To be sold by William Appleton of Portsmouth.
A small Boat, suppos'd stolen, and used in a yard near Spring Hill. The Owner may have him, by enquiring at the Printing Office, in Portsmouth, and paying Charges.
State of New-Hampshire. Rockingham ss.
WE the subscribers being appointed commissioners by the Hon. Joseph Gilman, Esq; Judge of probate, &c. to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of Benjamin Hale, late of Atkinson, in the county aforesaid, gentleman, deceased, testate, represented insolvent; and six months being allowed for that purpose, give notice, that we will attend for that service at the late dwelling-house of the deceased, on the third Monday of this and the five following months, from one to nine o'clock in the afternoon.
Moses Greenough.
John Ayre.
Atkinson, Jan. 1, 1783. David Bryant.

EXCISE.
State of New Hampshire.
Pursuant to an Act of the General Court, will be farmed at public vendue, at the house of Col. Samuel Folsom, innholder in Exeter, on Thursday the 30th day of January current, at two o'clock in the afternoon, the Excise on Spirituous Liquors, for the county of Rockingham, for one year from the first day of October last. Articles of sale to be seen at the time and place above mentioned.
Nathaniel Folsom, } Ephraim Robinson, } Committee. Noah Emery, jun. }
Exeter, January 2, 1783.
State of New Hampshire. Grafton ff.
PURSUANT to an Act of the General Court of the State of New-Hampshire, the subscribers being appointed a committee to farm the Excise on Spirituous Liquors in the county of Grafton, for the present year, give public notice, that the Excise on Spirituous Liquors in the county of Grafton, will be sold at public vendue, to the highest bidder, at the dwelling-house of Capt. Amos Fisk, innholder in Haverhill, in said county, on Thursday the 13th day of January next, at eleven o'clock, A.M. Conditions of sale will be exhibited at time and place aforesaid.
Moses Dow, for himself, } Charles Johnston, and } Committee. James Woodward, }
Dec. 28, 1782.
State of New-Hampshire. Hillsborough ff.
PURSUANT to an Act of the General Court of the State of New-Hampshire, the subscribers to farm the Excise on Spirituous Liquors in the county of Hillsborough, for the present year, give public notice, that the Excise on Spirituous Liquors, will be sold at public vendue, to the highest bidder, at the dwelling-house of Mr. Jonathan Smith, innholder in Amherst, in said county, on Thursday the 23d day of January next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon. Conditions of sale will be exhibited at time and place aforesaid.
Moses Nichols, } Francis Blood, } R. Cutts Shannon. }
Dec. 28, 1782.
State of New-Hampshire. Cheshire ff.
PURSUANT to an Act of the General Court of the State of New-Hampshire, the subscribers to farm the Excise on Spirituous Liquors, in the county of Cheshire, for the present year, give public notice, that the Excise on Spirituous Liquors, in the county of Cheshire, will be sold at public vendue, to the highest bidder, at the dwelling-house of Mr. Aaron Eames, innholder in Keene, in said county, on Tuesday the 4th day of February next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. Conditions of sale will be exhibited at time and place aforesaid.
Daniel Kingsbury, } (in behalf of said Committee.)
Dec. 28, 1782.
THE subscribers (a committee for selling Excise, &c.) appointed by an Act of the General Court, passed at their last session, give notice, that the Excise on Spirituous Liquors for the county of Strafford, will be sold at public auction, on Thursday the 13th day of January next, at two o'clock, P. M. at Mr. Shannon's tavern in Dover. Conditions of sale will then be made known.
John Wentworth, } John McDuffee, } Committee. John Plummer, }
Dover, Dec. 30, 1782.
NATHANIEL S. GRIFFITH
hereby informs his customers, that he has procured a compleat workman to assist him in repairing, cleaning & regulating watches. Those persons who may please to favour him with their custom may depend upon being well used. He will oblige himself to be responsible for all watches committed to his charge; dispatch, faithfulness and a moderate charge will be observed with strictness to all his employers.
PROPOSALS
For printing by SUBSCRIPTION,
EPISTLES:
OR, THE GREAT SALVATION CONTEMPLATED;
IN A SERIES OF LETTERS TO A CHRISTIAN SOCIETY.
BY JAMES RELLY.
Glory to God in the highest; and on earth peace, good-will towards men. Luke ii. 14.
What shall we, then, say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? Rom. viii. 31.
Who will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 1 Tim. ii. 4.
Subscriptions for the above Work, will be taken in at the Printing Offices in Portsmouth and Exeter; by most of the Printers and Booksellers in New-England; and by all who are entrusted with proposals.
Those who subscribe for twelve copies, shall be entitled to a thirteenth gratis.
This Work will be printed on good paper, and with a large elegant type; will make a neat octavo volume in large crown; and (stitched in blue paper) the price to subscribers will not exceed one dollar. As soon as a sufficient number are subscribed for, barely to defray the expence of publication, it will be put to the press.
Those who wish to encourage the undertaking will be pleased to signify their pleasure to the Printers in Portsmouth, by the last of this instant, that they may be able to ascertain whether the encouragement will warrant the publication.
Portsmouth, January 1, 1782.
TO BE SOLD.
ABOUT 700 acres of LAND, on Conestoga river, in the township of Lancaster, Great Cohoes, 120 miles from Portsmouth, near 40 acres into grass.
WANTED.
An honest, industrious Husbandman, with a small Family, to go on a farm in said Cohoes, stocked with 30 head of horned cattle, and 20 sheep. Such a person may have said farm on very advantageous terms, if he should apply very soon. For said land and farm, enquire of the Printers. Jan. 3.
State of New-Hampshire, Cheshire ff.
NOTICE is hereby given, to the proprietors or owners of land in the town of Fitz-William, who have not paid their propriety taxes for the year 1780, and 1781, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before Wednesday, the 22d day of January next, by 10 o'clock before noon, that so much of their lands will be sold at public vendue, as will pay the taxes with incidental charges, at the house of Capt. Sylvanus Reed, innholder in said town. The tax on each lot for the year 1780, is 6s. 4d. and for the year 1781, 6s. 9d. Delinquent lots and part of lots are as follows, viz. for 1780.
   Names. No. R. Accts. Names. No. R. Accts.     William Bruce 21 9 0 Joseph Stone half 8 6 0   Daniel Gould 22 9 0 John Stephens 1 9 28   John Mellon, Esq. 14 1 0 Widow M. Bruce 23 9 0   Jesse Cheney half 14 8 0 Daniel Gould 22 9 0   For 1781. heirs of G. Libby 10 10 77   Joseph Bellows 4 3 0 Berja. Tolman 20 10 0   Joseph Bellows 5 3 0 Col. Stoddard half 5 12 0   Berja. Edwards 2 4 0 Thomas Clark 18 12 0   James Reed 3 5 18 Ebene. Stone half 19 12 0   Col. Stoddard 7 5 0 Col. Stoddard 22 12 0   Sampson Stoddard 8 5 0 Jesse Cheney half 14 8 0   Phoe. Butler half 16 5 0  
Samuel Osborn, Collector.
Fitz William, December 14th, 1782.
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands on the estate of Benjamin Moulton, late of Hampton-Falls, gentleman, deceased, are desired to bring in their accounts to Benjamin Moulton, of Kensington, and Thomas Moulton, of Hampton-Falls, Administrators to said estate, in order for settlement.
Hampton-Falls, December 25, 1782.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the estate of John Dudely, late of Brintwood, in the county of Rockingham, yeoman, deceased, is represented insolvent: the subscribers are legally appointed commissioners, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors; on which business they will attend at the office of the recorder of deeds in Exeter, in said county, on the last Monday of this and the four next following months from 3 to 6 o'clock P. M.
Samuel Brooks, } Samuel Hobart, } Commissioners.
Exeter, December 15th, 1782.
WE the subscribers being appointed commissioners by the honorable judge of probate for the county of Rockingham, in the State of New-Hampshire, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of Richard Trufell, late of Portsmouth, victualler, deceased, represented insolvent; and six months from the third day of January instant, being allowed for that purpose, do hereby give notice, that we will attend on said business the second Monday of this and the five following months, at the house of Capt. William Brewster, innholder in Portsmouth, from six to eight o'clock in the afternoon. No accounts will be received unless properly attested.
Thomas Bickford, } Daniel Peirce, } Portsmouth, Jan. 10, 1783. Jacob Walden. }
THE subscribers being appointed commissioners by the Hon. Joseph Gilman, Esq.; judge of probate for the county of Rockingham, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of Edward Parsons, Esq.; late of Newmarket, in said county, deceased, represented insolvent, hereby give notice, that they shall attend for that purpose at the house of John Shute, innholder in said Newmarket, on the first Monday of this and the five following months, from two to five o'clock, P. M.
Nathaniel Rogers, } Samuel Baker, } Newmarket, Jan. 1, 1783. John Shute. }
ALL persons indebted to said estate, are desired to pay the same to William Parsons, Administrator; or to Josiah Adams, Esq.; of Newmarket, Attorney to said Parsons, immediately.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the vendue for sale of land for the taxes assessed on the land in the town of Piermont, stands adjourned to the 1st Tuesday of January next, at two o'clock in the afternoon, at the house of Capt. John Weeks, innholder in Greenland, will be further adjourned until the 2d Tuesday in February next, at said Weeks's, eleven o'clock in the forenoon. It's hoped the delinquent proprietors will settle and pay the several taxes before that time, as long indulgence has already been given; and those that don't pay them before the time now fix'd, with incidental charges, may expect that so much of their lands will be sold as will pay said tax and charge, without further notice.
Jonathan Moulton, Collector.
Hampton, Dec. 28 1782.
State of New Hampshire, Rockingham ff.
TO be sold at public vendue, at the house of Stephen Prescott, innholder in Deerfield, on Monday the 10th day of February next, at ten o'clock forenoon, so much of the following lots of land in Deerfield, as will pay the taxes assessed on them for the year 1782, with incidental charges, unless paid before that time.
   No. R. Accts. Names. No. R. Accts.     1 4 90 Richard & Stephen Brown 1 16 0   15 4 50 Samuel Durant 0 10 0   2 5 200 Sarah Boardman 1 3 3   12 5 100 Samuel Shackford 1 6 6   13 5 30 Samuel French 0 12 0   1 6 124 Robert Light 1 0 6   2 6 37 Abigail Folsom 0 6 7   14 6 100 Mary Sumenby 1 3 3   17 6 33 Ezekiel Walker & sixth part 0 6 9   21 6 104 Stephen Lufe 1 6 6   20 6 200 Samuel Jones 7 8ths of 1 8 11   34 0 100 Richard Jencks 1 3 3   32 0 100 Samuel Jencks 1 3 3   23 8 156 Jeremy Calf 1 6 6   24 8 156 James Odal 1 6 6   0 0 0 Rawlings & Stephens 0 16 6   14 4 185 Daniel Barber 1 9 9  
Adonijah Fellows, Collector.
Deerfield, January 7th, 1783.
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