The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1774-08-26 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the FRESHEST ADVICES
Friday Aug. 26, 1774.
Vol. XVIII.
GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
NO. 931 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd. }
ON DANCING.
DANCING is the Art of making regular Steps, and keeping the Body in an agreeable Position, according to the Sound of Musick, &c.
Dancing has been used in all Nations; among the first and most civilized, on an Occasion of a happy Deliverance from Slaughter, & the more painful Idea of Servitude: the Daughters of Liberty came forth out of the Cities of Israel Singing and Dancing, to meet King Saul, with Tabrets, with Joy and with Instruments of Musick: &c. vide 1st Samuel XVIII Chap. 6 v. Judges XXI Chap. 21 Verse.
And as it is an innocent Mirth in itself, it was once attempted by a favourite Prince of Israel, and is a lively Expression of Innocence and Joy; vide VI. Chap. 2. Samuel, 14 Verse.
COUNTRY DANCES are very simple and agreeable, & possess the Mind of Youth with pleasing & sprightly Ideas. The Advantages of Dancing add to every Motion of the Body a certain attractive Grace which never can be sufficiently admir'd, gives a free and open Air in the Gait; a happy Address in Company, and adds the finishing Embellishments in the Sexes, to every Species of polite Education.
ON MUSICK.
MUSICK is that Science which teaches to make some Sounds agreeable to the Ear, and rules the Harmony: it refreshes agreeably the Mind, and gives it a new Strength, so that one can apply with more Satisfaction to his Labours; It serves also to soften the Troubles of the human Mind, particularly those Troubles that proceed from Melancholy. See an Example of it in Saul, 1st Sam. XVI. Chap. 23 Ver. "And it came to pass when the evil Spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an Harp and played with his Hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil Spirit departed from him."
The first Invention of Musick was attributed to Appollo; some attribute it to Mercury; but this seems to be very uncertain, what appears more probable is, that the holy Scripture learns us that Jubal; Son of Lamech was Inventor of the Violin and Organ: vide Gen. IV. Chap. 21 Verse.
Its Etymology is derived from the Muses, which the Pagans look'd upon as the Goddesses of Sciences; they knew 9 of them, it has receiv'd its Perfection from the Hebrews, but now it is practis'd with more Eclat & Invention; in fine, Musick has been universally esteem'd by all Nations, principally that, which is made Use of in the Divine Service, because it excites us to Virtue, and animates our Zeal and Devotion: tho' imperfect, yet it gives us a delightful Idea of those happy Concerts that are form'd in Heaven.
Prudens futuri temporis exitum Caliginosa nocte premit Deus.
HORACE.
These Sciences are taught By ST. GEORGE DE VIART, Professor, in the Town of PORTSMOUTH.
BOSTON. August 22.
Extract of a Letter from Newport, Rhode Island. August 19. "Capt. Bull, in a Sloop from Wilmington, North Carolina, arrived here last Tuesday, with a Load of Provisions for the Poor of the Town of Boston; the Captain being Sick is the Reason why she has not sail'd again for Salem."
At a very full Meeting of DELEGATES from the different Counties in the Colony and Dominion of VIRGINIA, begun in Williamsburg the first Day of August 1774, and continued by several Adjournments to Saturday the 6th of the same Month, when a Number of RESOLVES were passed and signed by 108 Persons, being an ASSOCIATION unanimously resolved upon and agreed to. At the same Time the following INSTRUCTIONS were given for the DEPUTIES appointed to meet in GENERAL CONGRESS on the Part of the Colony.
THE unhappy Disputes between Great Britain and her American Colonies, which began about the third Year of his Majesty's Reign, and since, continually increasing, have proceeded to Lengths so dangerous and alarming as to excite just Apprehensions in the Minds of his Majesty's faithful Subjects of this Colony that they are in Danger of being deprived of their natural, ancient, constitutional, and chartered Rights, have compelled them to take the same into their most serious Consideration; and, being deprived of their usual and accustomed Mode of making known their Grievances, have appointed us their Representatives to consider what is proper to be done in this dangerous Crisis of American Affairs. It being our Opinion that the united Wisdom of North America should be collected in a General Congress of all the Colonies, we have appointed the Hon. PEYTON RANDOLPH, Esq; RICHARD HENRY LEE, GEORGE WASHINGTON, PATRICK HENRY, RICHARD BLAND, BENJAMIN HARRISON, and EDMUND PENDLETON, Esquires, Deputies to represent this Colony in the said Congress to be held at Philadelphia on the first Monday in September next.
And that they may be the better informed of our Sentiments touching the Conduct we with them to observe on this important Occasion, we desire that they will express, in the first Place our Faith and true Allegiance to his Majesty King George the Third, our lawful and rightful Sovereign; and that we are determined, with our Lives and Fortunes, to support Him in the legal Exercise of all his just Rights and Prerogatives. And however misrepresented, we sincerely approve of a constitutional Connexion with Great-Britain, and with most ardently a Return of that Intercourse of Affection and commercial Connexion that formerly united both Countries, which can only be effected by a Removal of those Causes of Discontent which have of late unhappily divided us.
It cannot admit of a Doubt but that British Subjects in America are entitled to the same Rights and Privileges as their Fellow Subjects possess in Britain; and therefore, that the Power assumed by the British Parliament to bind America by their Statutes, in all Cases whatsoever, is unconstitutional, and the Source of these unhappy Differences.
The End of Government would be defeated by the British Parliament exercising a Power over the Lives, the Property, and the Liberty of the American Subject; who are not, and, from their local Circumstances, cannot, be there represented. Of this Nature we consider the several Acts of Parliament for raising a Revenue in America, for extending the Jurisdiction of the Courts of Admiralty for seizing American Subjects and transporting them to Britain to be tried for Crimes committed in America, and the several late oppressive Acts respecting the Town of Boston and Province of the Massachusetts-Bay.
The original Constitution of the American Colonies possessing their Assemblies with the sole Right of directing their internal Polity, it is absolutely destructive of the End of their Institution that their Legislatures should be suspended, or prevented, by hasty Dissolutions from exercising their legislative Powers.
Wanting the Protection of Britain, we have long acquiesced in their Acts of Navigation restrictive of our Commerce, which we consider as an ample Recompence for such Protection: but as those Acts derive their Efficacy from that Foundation alone, we have Reason to expect they will be restrained so as to produce the reasonable Purposes of Britain, and not injurious to us.
To obtain Redress of these Grievances, without which the People of America can neither be safe, free, nor happy, they are willing to undergo the great Inconvenience that will be derived to them from stopping all Imports whatsoever from Great Britain after the first Day of November next, and also to cease exporting any Commodity whatsoever to the same Place after the 10th Day of August 1775. The earnest Desire we have to make as quick and full Payment as possible of our Debts to Great-Britain, and to avoid the heavy Injury that would arise to this Country from an earlier Adoption of the Non-Exportation Plan, after the People have already applied so much of their Labour to the perfecting of the present Crop, by which Means they have been prevented from pursuing other Methods of clothing and supporting their Families, have rendered it necessary to restrain you in this Article of Non Exportation; but it is our Desire that you cordially co-operate with our Sister Colonies in General Congress in such other just and proper Methods as they, or the Majority, shall deem necessary for the Accomplishment of these valuable Ends.
The Proclamation issued by General GAGE, in the Government of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, declaring it Treason for the Inhabitants of that Province to assemble themselves to consider of their Grievances and form Associations for their common Conduct on the Occasion, and requiring the Civil Magistrates and Officers to apprehend all such Persons to be tried for their supposed Offences, is the most alarming Process that ever appeared in a British Government; that the said General GAGE hath thereby assumed and taken upon himself Powers denied by the Constitution to our legal Sovereign; that he, not having condescended to disclose by what Authority he exercises such extensive & unheard of Powers, we are at a Loss to determine whether he intends to justify himself as the Representative of the King, or as the Commander in Chief of his Ma-
esty's Forces in America. If he considers himself as acting in the Character of his Majesty's Representative, we would remind him that the Statute 25th Edward III. has expressed & defined all treasonable Offences, and that the Legislature of Great Britain hath declared that no Offence shall be construed to be Treason but such that is pointed out by that Statute, and that this was done to take out of the Hands of tyrannical Kings, and of weak and wicked Ministers, that deadly Weapon which constructive Treason had furnished them with, and which had drawn the Blood of the best and honestest Men in the Kingdom; and that the King of Great-Britain hath no Right by his Proclamation to subject his People to Imprisonment, Pains, and Penalties.
That if the said General GAGE conceives he is empowered to act in this Manner, as the Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Forces in America, this odious and illegal Proclamation must be considered as a plain and full Declaration that this delectable Viceroy will be bound by no Law, nor regard the constitutional Rights of his Majesty's Subjects, whenever they interfere with the Plan he has formed for oppressing the good People of the Massachusetts-Bay; and therefore, that the executing, or attempting to execute, such Proclamation, will justify Resistance and Reprisal.
MARBLEHEAD, Aug. 22.
On Saturday last Capt. Calley, of this Place, arrived here in 39 Days from Falmouth in England, has brought Prints as late as the 6th of July, from which we have taken the following fresh Advices, viz.
LONDON, June 9.
THE following is a Sketch of a popular Nobleman's Speech on American Affairs:
"My Lords, Want of Health has hitherto prevented me from giving my Sentiments on the several Bills which have come under your Consideration with respect to America; I hope I may therefore be indulged in the Opportunity of travelling out of the Line of the present Matter of the Day. I shall endeavour to speak with Tenderness and Caution; I know your Lordships can't bear much; I will be, if possible, void of Offence,----- Was I in Boston I would say they were wrong to destroy the Property of the East India Company; I say here, you have been the original Aggressors; a Law is past which may seal my Lips; but were I to speak what I think, and what I know to be constitutional, I would tell you-----you have in Weakness written a dead Letter-----you have set up an Image which you dare not own, and which the People of America laugh at;----- I would tell you, you had no Right to touch the Pocket, much less the Life, of a fellow Subject in America; he submits himself to the Necessity of your Laws relative to Trade, and the Regulation of a national Commerce, because he sees the Necessity; he agrees to buy the Wool, employ the Weaver, and to be measured by the Taylor you recommend; but when he has put on his Cloathes, he says they are his own; he says, you shall not have his Coat, because he is no longer sure of his Waistcoat and Breeches.
"My Lords, you have lived upon the Support and Industry of America these forty Years; you have the great Materials of Commerce not only cheaper from America than you used to have them from other Countries, but you pay for those Materials with wrought Goods, which overbalances the Account, and draws from them every Shilling they have. This is the great, the solid, the supporting, the salutary Contribution which America pays, and which saves this venerable Fabric from falling into the Dust. They will either laugh at, or resent your present Measures with equal Success: If they have coolness they will make you sensible of what you lose; if they have recourse to Arms, you must be the first, perhaps the only Sufferers; you must be undone; they may work out their Salvation; I am an old Man in public Business, my Advice arises from Experience; it may be worth something; recall your scanty Forces from the Employments of Murder; they are neither able nor willing to execute your Commands; be Friends with America for your own Interest and your own Safety; you will want her Affection when her Sword is turned against you; a few ragged Highlanders obliged you to call upon a Royal General, and a Body of disciplined Troops to save this Country; Half a Million of brave and desperate Men nursed to Arms must eventually prevail.----- I have one Word for that Rev. Bench. I want to know how they reconcile it to the true Principles of Christianity, to spill the Blood of America like Water?"
June 10. We hear that the Ship Cerberus (the three-headed Mastif, Centinel at the Gate of Hell) is appointed to carry the three new Boston Acts to Governor Gage; Duplicates will go by the Packet, together with particular Instructions to every Governor on the Continent.
June 12. The Premier has hinted his Desire to a great Personage of retiring as soon as America is, by his Endeavours, brought to a State of Tranquility. If this is true, we are not likely to have a new Premier for some Years.
June 14. A Writer on the Subject of the Quebec Bill says, "As the Spirit of Liberty, in some of our Colonies has given so much Trouble to Government, it was resolved to cherish the Spirit of Slavery in others: the French Laws and Popery being most conducive to this End, the one enslaving the Body, the other the Mind, they were both adopted by our State Movers behind the Curtain, as most suitable to the Principles they are desirous of engendering. This is the Source of the Quebec Bill! The Policy which gave Rise to it is, however, as short-sighted as it is pitiful; for the Religion established by this Bill as a Favour, enjoins it, as a settled Principle in the Minds of its Votaries, to throw off Subjection to an heretical State the instant a favourable Opportunity offers."
See more late News in the last Page.

TO BE SOLD  By George Craigie At his Store in Portsmouth, A General Assortment of  English Goods,
Exceeding Cheap for CASH, Among which are the following, Viz.
SUPERFINE and low priz'd Broad-Cloths, Wiltons, German Serges, Ratteens, Kerseys, Flannels, Baizes, Swanskins, Thicksets, Fustians, Cotton Velvet and Velverits, Shalloons, Tammies, Durants, Calamancoes, — plain and striped Camblets, — yard wide Crapes, Poplins, figured Stuffs, Grograms, Russells, worsted Damasks, Bombazeen. — A great variety of fashionable Galicoes and Patches, — black, cloth and sky blue Tassities, — Black Satin, Capuchine Silk, — sky blue, cloth and black all wide Persians, French Alimode, Barcelona and other Silk Handkerchiefs, Linnen, Kenting and Cotton ditto, black and white Gauze, black and white Catgut, 3 qrs. 7 8ths & yard wide Linnens, strip'd, plain & flower'd Lawns, demy Cambric, Lawn Aprons, fiesia Linnen, Nankeen, Gingham, Check Linnen, Dowlas, strip'd Holland, yellow Holland, Stay Braid, — black, blue, white, and Crimson Satin Hats, — black and white Laces, snail Trimings. Mens and Womens Thread, Cotton and Worsted Hose, Mens white silk Ditto, silk & worsted Gloves and Mitts, Womens English and Lynn Calamanco Shoes, Castor and Felt Hats, — white Lamb Gloves, black Glaz'd dit. white Kid dit. — Breeches Patterns, Kilmarnock, Worsted and mock Velvet Capps, white and brown Buckram, silk Knee Garters, scarf Twist, sewing Silk, coloured & white Threads, Twist, Metal & Horn Buttons, Shoe Bindings, silk Ferrits, Ostrich Feathers, Ivory, crooked horn and Barbers Combs, Qualities, Garterings, Tapes, Pins, white Chappell Needles, Cap-Wire, Skillets, Looking Glasses, Cloth, Shoe, Buckle, and Floor Brushes, — Horse Whips, Warming Pans, Frying Pans, Flat Irons, Box Irons, Bras and Iron Candlesticks, Shovels and Tongs, Bellows. — A large Assortment of Iron Ware, — Case Knives, Pen, Cuttoe, and Jack dit. Sleeve Buttons, Jews Harps, Spectacles, — Snuff Boxes, Shears, Scizars, Thimbles, Razors, Knitting Needles, Spurs, Tobacco Boxes, Shoe Knives, Awlblades, Shoe Tacks, Shoe Nails, Pinchers, Nippers, Hammers, Gimblets, Tapborers, Hinges, — and Locks of all sorts. — A variety of metal, shoe, and Knee Buckles, Bras Cocks, large and small Files, Glue, — Handfaws, Pewter, Platters, Plates, Pots, Porringers, Basins, block tin Spoons, — Bibles, Testaments, Pсалters, Spelling Books, Primers, Cartridge & Writing Paper, Paste Board, Ink Powder, Sealing Wax, Wafers, Slates, 4d. 6d. 10d. and 20d. Nails, 3d. 4d. 5d. 6d. Brads, Oznabrigs, Ticklinburgs, Powder, Shot, Lead, German Steel, Cod-Lines, Fish Hooks, Twine, Time Glasses, Velvet Corks, Seives, pound Beads, Keppins Snuff, Wool Cards.
A good Assortment of Crockery Ware. West-India and New England Rum. — Molasses, by the Hogshead or Barrel. — Loaf Sugar by the Hundred. — Brown Sugar and Flour by the Barrel. — Cotton, Chocolate and Rice, by the Hundred. — Indigo, Pepper, Allspice, Ginger, Cinnamon, Cloves, Mace, Nutmegs, Raisins, Mustard, Starch, Red Wood, Log-Wood, Allum, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c.
To the INHABITANTS of the Province of NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Remember them that are in Bonds as bound with them, and them that suffer Adversity, as being yourselves also in the Body. Let us consider one another to provoke to Love and to good Works.
MY DEAR BRETHREN, OUR late House of Deputies, which met at Exeter, having recommended it to the several Towns in this Province, to consider the distressed Situation of our poor oppressed Brethren in Boston, who are suffering the Rigour of a cruel & unjust Act of Parliament which deprives them of the Means of Subsistence for an indefinite Time, and lend them what Help we can afford, to support them in their Sufferings: I beg Leave to lay before you some Considerations, which may serve to shew you not how much they need (for that your own Humanity must inform you) but how much they deserve your Assistance.
The People of that Town and Colony have ever been remarkable for their Humanity and Generosity to the distressed. Their Bounty has been extended to Jamaica, Nevis, Carolina and other Places which have suffered by Fires, Hurricanes, Earthquakes and other Calamities, yea London itself has experienced their Kindness, when by the great Fire in 1666 so great Numbers there were reduced to Poverty. To their tender and benevolent Hand this Province in particular is greatly indebted if not for its Existence, yet certainly for its Protection & Support both in Matters of civil Government & in the furious Indian Wars during those 40 Years we were united to that Colony. The Settlements here must have been broken up had we been left to stand alone, vexed as we were by intestine Divisions and the want of an orderly Government, labouring under Poverty, and attacked by a savage Enemy whose tender Mercies were Cruelty. The Sense of their Kindness was most gratefully expressed in a Letter * wrote by President Cutt and his Council in 1680, to that Colony, upon the Separations which then took Place by the King's Authority. And since that Time, every one that is acquainted with the State of this Province, knows that it owes much of its Importance to the Neighbourhood of the Massachusetts Government.
Though the Town of Boston have themselves suffered greatly by Fires, and by the frequent spreading of the Small-Pox among them — yet they have always been at a prodigious Expence in supporting the Poor, most of whom are not Natives of the Place, but Strangers, who have fell in among them. For several Years past, as I have it from the best Authority, their annual Poor's Bill has amounted to about Two Thousand Pounds Sterling; — Besides which, there is a voluntary quarterly Contribution for the Poor at a public Evening-Lecture in Faneuil-Hall.
Distressed Persons of all Sorts have ever found Boston the best Place to go to for Relief. Prisoners of War have there found the kindest Treatment, and returned Captives have been received with the tenderest Commiseration. Mr. Williams of Deerfield, in the Narrative of his Captivity, bears them this Testimony, — "The Charity of the whole Country of Canada, though moved with the Doctrine of Merit, does not come up to the Charity of Boston alone, where Notions of Merit are rejected."
Now, shall such a People as this suffer unpitied, unassisted? He who hath established this Rule "The liberal deviseth liberal Things, & by liberal Things he shall stand," has disposed the Hearts of our Brethren in the Southern Colonies to contribute handsomely already, and when the Crops come in, we expect they will do much more. And shall not we, tho' our Ability is but small in Proportion to theirs, do what we can to enable our Brethren, who are formast in the Conflict, to maintain the Cause in which they are engaged, by a firm and manly Perseverance? Will not such Communications of Charity strengthen the Bonds of Society, and endear us to each other? And when a firm Union is thus cemented, happy in our mutual Affection, in the increased Cultivation of our Lands, in our Frugality and Oeconomy, we * See Hutchinson's History, V. 1st. P. 110, 327.
shall securely bid Defiance to all the Enemies of our Peace, and leave this Land of LIBERTY a sacred Legacy to Posterity.
"Terra-potens armis, atque ubere glebæ." Amicus Patriæ.
L O N D O N, June 1.
The following are the Heads of Lord Chatham's Speech in the House of Lords on Friday last, on the third Reading of the Bill for the quartering of the Soldiers in North-America.
H E began by taking a very extensive and philosophical View of the first Settlements in America, which he said, had they been planted by any other Kingdom than ours, the INHABITANTS would probably have carried with them the CHAINS OF SLAVERY, and a Spirit of Despotism; but as they were, they ought to be remembered as great Instances to instruct the World, to what a stretch of Liberty Mankind will naturally attain when they are left to the free Exercise of themselves. He then condemned several Parts of the late Conduct of the Americans, particularly that of the Bostonians respecting the TEA, which he said was contrary to all the Laws of Policy, Civilization and Humanity; but though he thus, in the Candour of Opinion, and on an important Question, when every Thing should be laid open and impartially examined into, condemned some part of the American Conduct, he must reprobate the whole of Government's Acts relative to Taxation; that this was his former Opinion, & that he should maintain it till death, That this Country had no Right under Heaven to Tax America; that it was contrary to all the Principles of Justice and civil Policy, and that neither the Exigences of the State, the growth of Power, nor even the Acquiescence in the Taxes, could justify it upon any Occasion whatsoever. He concluded by going into the Conduct of the Rockingham Party, which he severely reprehended.
He spoke for an Hour & 10 Minutes, seemed no way impaired in his Voice, strength or oratorical Abilities, and was listened to with profound Attention.
NEW
Philadelphia Flour
Just Imported, and to be Sold By JOHN EVANS.
Also, Burlington PORK — Connecticut and Philadelphia CORN — BEANS, — RICE, and Tyre IRON for Cart-Wheels, with a Quantity of BAR-IRON of all sizes. Portsmouth, 15th August 1774.
John Handasyde,
Being regularly bred to the Practice of PHYSIC and SURGERY in Scotland, and having serv'd as SURGEON in his Majesty's Royal Navy, takes Leave to inform the Public, that he intends following the Practice of PHYSIC, SURGERY and MIDWIFERY in this Town.
N. B. He may be spoke with at any Time, at his House at the Head of Col. WARNER's Wharfe.
Portsmouth 29th July.
[Fifty DOLLARS Reward.]
T AKEN, stolen, and carried away from the Dwelling-House of the Subscriber on the Night of the ninth of August Instant in GOLD and SILVER, contained in two Bags, viz. one made of Oznabrigs, the other being part of a white Thread Stocking, the Sum of ONE HUNDRED & SIXTY POUNDS Lawful Money. Whoever will apprehend the Thief or Thieves, so that they are convicted and brought to Punishment, shall receive FIFTY DOLLARS as a Reward.
SAMUEL PENHALLOW.
Portsmouth, August 10th, 1774.

Some further Particulars relating to the Proceedings at Charles Town, South-Carolina, on the 6th, 7th and 8th of July, at the Appointment of Delegates to represent and act for that Colony at the General Congress from all the British Colonies in America, to be held in Philadelphia in September next.
CHARLESTOWN, South-Carolina, July 11. IN Consequence of the Advertisements lately published by the General Committee, and other proper Means used to obtain the Sense of the whole Colony on the alarming State of American Affairs; on Wednesday last, the 6th instant the largest Body of the most respectable Inhabitants that had ever been seen together upon any public Occasion here, or perhaps any where in America, (for Gentlemen of the greatest Property and Character, animated with an ardent Zeal to relieve their suffering Brethren, and to preserve their own Freedom and the Birthrights of their Posterity, notwithstanding the extreme Inconvenience of the Season, from even the remotest Parts of the Country, attended) met at the Exchange in this Town, in Order to "consider of the Papers, Letters, and Resolutions that had been transmitted to the said Committee from the northern Colonies; and also of the Steps necessary to be pursued in union with the Inhabitants of our Sister Colonies on this Continent, to avert the Dangers impending over American Liberties in general, by the late hostile Act of Parliament against Boston and other arbitrary Measures of the British Ministry,"—and, after choosing the Hon. Col. Powel (who had presided at all the former general Meetings) for their Chairman, and the same Secretary as had hitherto served, continued in solemn Deliberation upon these important Matters, on that and the two succeeding Days, during which the following Resolves were unanimously entered into— [For the Resolutions, see this Gazette of the 29th ultimo.]
July 8. It was further unanimously resolved, that Copies of all the foregoing Resolutions be transmitted to every Colony on this Continent, from Canada to West Florida, accompanied with a Letter to each respectively, signed by the Chairman, inviting them to unite with us; and that, as Capt. Hunt had voluntarily detained his Vessel for some Days, on Purpose to carry an Account of the Transactions of the present Meeting to New York, copies of the whole should be delivered to him, together with the Thanks of the Meeting were also given to Col. Powel, the Hon. Rawlins Lowndes, and the Secretary, after which the general Meeting was dissolved.
Upon the 9th Resolve, (for naming five Deputies,) three several Questions were put, viz. 1st. Whether the Appointment of Deputies was a necessary Measure. 2d. Whether they should be invested with the full Powers therein expressed. 3d. Whether the Number of Deputies should be five? All which passing unanimously in the affirmative, it was proposed and agreed to unanimously, that the Deputies should be chosen by Ballot, and that every free white Person residing in the Province, should be entitled to a Vote; that the Poll should be opened at two o'Clock and closed at six. A balloting Box was accordingly provided; the Votes were received, and at Midnight in Presence of several hundred Spectators, the Election was declared, in Favor of the Gentlemen whose Names are inserted in the Resolution. — And that Lord North may not be misinformed in the Case, as he has been in most others, by being told, that this was the Meeting of a Mob, and the Election of a Mob, we shall take the Liberty here to subjoin a List of the Members of our present honorable Commons House of Assembly; all of whom voted except five, who were by Sickness or Accident prevented from attending. [Here followed the Names of the Commons House of Assembly] Besides these, there were at least as many Gentlemen, who had been Representatives of the People in former Assemblies, who voted on this Occasion.
In the Course of the Debates during these important Transactions (for every Point underwent the fullest Discussion) the greatest Unanimity appeared; — each one considered his Neighbour as a free born American, and ever looked all Distinctions. — As in the Deluge of old, the Wolf and the Lamb swam together, so the Sense of our common Danger extinguished all private Considerations. The set of Advocates for the present misguided Administration, whose Chimes had often been heard to clatter in private Companies, were all struck Dumb, and kept aloof from the public Debates. The Colony was ready to go into Resolutions of Non Importation, and Non Exportation if it had been found necessary; but it was thought most proper to invest our Deputies with absolute Power, to agree with the other Members of a Congress in any Measures; that so they might take Place from one End of this extensive Continent to the other on one, and the same Day; And several of the principal Merchants made a public Declaration, in behalf of the rest, that, in order to quiet the Minds of the People, they were ready and willing to enter into any Agreement, not only to desist from
importing British or East India Goods, Wines and Slaves, but also to countermand all Orders already sent, till the Event of the Congress should be known; which Declaration was received with a loud and general Plaudit. — Rejoice ye Friends of Freedom in GEORGIA! and hasten to do likewise. Be comforted ye oppressed BOSTONIANS! and exult ye northern Votaries of Liberty! that the sacred Rays of Freedom, which used to beam from you on us, are now reverberated with double Efficacy, back upon yourselves, from your weaker Sister CAROLINA who stands foremost in a Resolution to sacrifice her ALL in your Defence. And tremble ye Minions of Slavery! — a Blow will soon be struck, if you urge us to that Extremity, which will convince you, that one Soul animates three Millions of brave Americans, though extended over a large Tract of 2000 Miles. Ye vainly thought we were a Rope of Sand; but you will find, unless we are put upon the same Footing with Englishmen, before nine Months, millions of People, who depend on America for their daily Bread, will curse you with their dying Groans.
Three of the present Deputies appointed to represent this Colony, in a General Congress, to be soon held at the Northward, viz. Christopher Gadsden, Thomas Lynch, and John Rutledge, Esqrs; were our Deputies at the former Congress.
Friday Evening, the new General Committee met, and chose Col. Charles Pinckney, (one of the Representatives for the Parish of St. Philip, Charles-Town) for their Chairman, and Peter Timothy for their Secretary. The said Committee also met this Day, when they agreed to have stated Meetings, and met again on Wednesday the 20th instant at 6 o'Clock in the Evening, at the House of Mr. Charles Ramage, and on every other Wednesday after, at the same Hour and Place.
Copies of the Resolutions of the late General Meetings, accompanied with a circular Letter, have already been dispatched to every Colony on this Continent, from Canada to Georgia inclusive.
--Public VENDUE at Dover--
TO BE SOLD at PUBLIC VENDUE, On Monday the 29th Day of August current, at the House of Mr. JOHN BURNAM HANSON, Innholder in Dover, at ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, The FARMS and Parcels of LAND following, viz.
Two valuable Lots of Land, Containing 115 Acres each, at Beech Ridge (so called) in Berwick, eight Miles only from the Landing; lately owned by Isaac Hill.
A FARM containing 60 Acres, more or less, with the Dwelling House and Barn standing thereon, in Somersworth, 4 Miles from Dover Landing, laying on the Great Road leading from Dover to Wolfborough, lately owned by Edward Elles. — Twenty Acres more of Land in said Somersworth, fit for Mowing or Pasturing. — And Twenty Acres more of Land in said Somersworth, for Mowing or Pasturing, — both said Tracts within about five Miles from Dover Landing. About 60 Acres of fine Land at a place called Norway Plain, in Rochester, near the Mills, pleasantly situated for a Trader, within ten Miles of Dover Landing — And 40 Acres of Land finely wooded, in Rochester, eight Miles from Dover Landing, lately owned by Rebecca Heard. — And also TWENTY FINE OXEN for Beef or Labour, — And a NUMBER of COWS and young CATTLE, — If not before sold at private Sale. — CONDITIONS of Sale may be known at the time and place aforesaid — or before, by enquiring of STEPHEN EVANS of Dover, the Owner of the above Lands and Cattle. Dover, Aug. 2, 1774.
VINEGAR.
CHOICE VINEGAR, by the Barrell or less Quantity — good CHEESE by the Cask or single one. Stone LIME per Hoghead — Also, DUMB COD FISH and POLLOCK per Quintal, — to be sold by DAVID GRIFFITH, — Where may also be had a Variety of ENGLISH GOODS, Barber's Trimmings, — Sadlery — Cutlery, and Hard Ware, Queen's China, — Tin Ware, — Also, very neat made Lynn Shoes and Pumps of all sizes — Mens, — Womens, and Childrens Leather Shoes, — All cheap for Cash. — The GOLD SMITH's and JEWELLERS Business carried on as usual.
TO BE SOLD on REASONABLE TERMS, A Dwelling House,
And one Acre of Land, situate in Berwick, in the County of York, Fronting the main Road leading from New Hampshire Upper Road to Falmouth, (near Doutes Falls or the Iron Works in said Berwick, suitable for a TRADER or TRADESMAN. — Enquire of BENJAMIN MACKAY of Portsmouth, or JOSHUA HUBBARD of Kittery for Particulars.
N.B Good Merchantable LUMBER will be taken for Pay, or short Credit given by said Mackay.
§ Piermont. §
WHEREAS the Proprietors of Piermont, in the Province of New Hampshire, have been legally notified to pay me several Assessments on their Rights and Lots in said Town, and many of them being yet delinquent in whole or part, such Delinquents are hereby Notified, that so much of their Land in said Town will be sold at public Vendue on the second Monday in September next, at Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon, at the House of Captain Zechariah Foss, Innholder in Portsmouth, as will pay said Tax, with incidental Charges. The Names of the delinquent Proprietors with the Sums due are as follows, viz.
  Theod. Atkinson Esq; 3 6 Samuel Greeley 1 6   Richard Wibirt, Esq; 2 8 John Goffe Esq; 5 8   Daniel Warner Esq; 3 6 Ezekiel Worthen 5 8   Job. Newmarch Esq; 2 8 Jonathan Church 5 8   James Nevin Esq; 5 8 Robert Temple Esq; 6 6   T. Atkinson jr. Esq; 3 6 Timothy Biddle Esq; 3 6   Nath. Barrel Esq; 3 6 George Jeffery Esq; 2 8   Henry Sharburne Esq; 2 8 Wiseman Clagget Esq; 3 6   Wm. Parker Esq; 3 6 Leveret Hubbard Esq; 2 8   T. W. Waldron Esq; 2 8 Thomas Packer Esq; 5 8   Peter Gilman Esq; 3 6 Sam'l Wentworth Esq; 6 6   Benjamin Stevens 3 6 Hall Jackson Esq; 3 6   Samuel Barr, Esq; 3 6 Rob't Auchmuy Esq; 2 8   John Page Esq; 3 6 Charles Paxton, Esq; 3 6   Sam'l Emerson, Esq; 3 6 M. H. Wentworth Esq; 2 8   Joseph Wright Esq; 3 6 John T. Mason Esq; 2 8   Joseph Blanchard Esq; 3 6 George Levins 6 6 
RICHARD JENNESS, Collector.
Rye, August 10. 1774.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Cheshire, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the Proprietors of the Town of Alstead, in said County, that the Vendue for the Sale of Proprietors Lands in said Alstead, at the House of Mr. Oliver Shepherd, Innholder in said Alstead, on March the 9th 1774, now stands adjourned to the 13th Day of September next, at Nine o'Clock in the Morning, at the House of said Shepherd.
July 19, 1774. Absalom Kingsbury, Collector.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Cheshire, ss.
WHEREAS the LOT of Land in Alstead, No. 3, in the 3d Range, was advertised for Sale to pay the Proprietors TAX, by a Mistake of £. 3 8s, which should have been £. 8 4s. And one Lot and one half more omitted by Reason of the Owner's promising to pay the Taxes on them, viz. the East half of Lot No. 4 in the 1st Range; and Lot No. 4 in the 3d Range; — these are therefore to Notify the Owners of said Lots, that so much of said Lots will be exposed to Sale at a public Vendue, at the House of Mr. Oliver Shepherd, Innholder in Alstead in said County, as will pay the Taxes they are set at, with the incidental Charges, on the 13th Day of September next, at Nine o'Clock in the Morning:
  The East half of Lot No. 4, in the 1st Range, £. 0: 10   Lot No. 4 in the 3d Range, £. 3 8   No. 3 in the 3d Range, £. 8 4 
ABSALOM KINGSBURY, Collector.
Dated in Alstead, July 18th, 1774.
RUN AWAY from me the Subscriber on Monday Morning the 8th of August, a Negro man named Boston, had on a homespun striped Jacket and brown Homespun Breeches, a Pair of Calf Skin Pumps, with large Brass Buckles in them and blue Yarn Stockings. Said Negro is about twenty Eight Years old, five Feet eight Inches high, thickset and well proportioned. Whoever will take up said Runaway, and convey him to me, shall have five Dollars Reward, and all necessary Charges paid by me.
NOAH RICKER.
All Masters of Vessels and others are hereby forbid to harbour or conceal said Runaway, upon the Pains and Penalties of the Law in such Cases.
Berwick Aug 9. 1774.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Strafford, ss.
§ Rochester, August 8, 1774. §
THE PROPRIETORS or OWNERS of Land in Rochester, that are dispos'd to pay their TAX on said Land in Labour for the Year 1774 on the Roads in said Town, are Notified to meet the Committee at the House of Mr. Daniel Rogers, Innholder in said Town, on the last Tuesday in August, or the first Tuesday in September, or any Day in said Weeks after Tuesdays, at six o'Clock in the Morning each Day, with each Man a good Ax or Hoe. — And those not so dispos'd, are dispos'd to pay the Money soon to the Subscriber, to prevent their Lands being advertis'd for sale at the Law direfts.
By Order of the Committee,
JONATHAN DAME, Collector.
ALL PERSONS Indebted to the Estate of JOH. ALLEN, late of Kittery, Mariner, deceas'd, are dispos'd to settle the same with Furbur Allen, Administrator; and also to receive any Balance that may be due from said Estate. Represented Insolvent.
FURBUR ALLEN, Administrator.

LONDON,
June 13. The Lord President of the Council & Lord North were sent for early yesterday Morning to Kew, where they were sometime closeted by his Majesty; said to be on Account of very important Dispatches received the preceding Night from Berlin. It is said the last Ship from Philadelphia brings the worst cold Tea the Ministry ever tasted.
Yesterday the Lord Mayor, Aldermen Crosby, Lewes and Plover, the Recorder, upwards of 150 of the common Council, and City Officers, went in Procession from Guildhall to St. James's (Alderman Sawbridge joined them in the Way) in order to present an Address and Petition to his Majesty, previous to going to the House, relative to the Bill for the Government of Quebec. They arrived at St. James's a Quarter before one. A little before two the Lord Chamberlain waited on the Lord Mayor with a Message from the King, which he had committed in writing, in order to prevent any Mistake; it was read, & the Purport was, that as the Prayer of the Petition was relative to a Bill that had passed both Houses of Parliament, he could give no Answer; the Lord Mayor immediately sent the Remembrancer to present his Duty to the King, and inform his Majesty that they waited to present their Address agreeable to his Majesty's Order, which in a little Time was complied with; and it was read by the Recorder. After the Petition was read, an Answer was given, said to be in Purport as follows: That as the Business on which they came was before Parliament, his Majesty could say nothing farther to the Petition.
Some of the Populace behaved very rudely when his Majesty was passing from St. James's to the House of Peers, by Hissing, Groaning, and crying out, "no Popery, no French Government."
June 20. By a Vessel that failed from New-York May 14th, Information had been received, that an Account of the Boston Port-Bill had just arrived there; that the Country was extremely inflamed at that severe Act; that a Meeting was to be held the next Day; and that a Non-Importation Association, it was imagined, would be unanimously agreed to by all the Colonies. A Measure that cannot fail distressing, to the last Degree, the unhappy Manufacturers of this Country.
Betts are five to four, at the West-End of the Town, that the Bostonian and Quebec Bills turn out the Ministry before Michaelmas Day next; and five to one WAR or no WAR, that they are out on or before the first of January 1775.
June 25. It may be depended upon, that a Great Personage has signified his Displeasure by Letter, on the Duke of G-----'s dividing against the Canada Bill.
Hints of Restoration, if asked for, have been made to Doctor Franklin, but declined.
June 27. The Quebec Act is the only Statute which has been passed these two hundred Years to establish Popery and arbitrary Power in the British Dominions.
By the most authentic Accounts from Boston we learn, that the Method the Bostonians mean to defeat the late Acts passed by the British Legislature, is not by absolute Resistance, but by a deep laid System of Combination with the other Colonies to break off all commercial Intercourse with the Mother-Country.
Orders were sent off to Ireland in the Course of last Week for four more Regiments to hold themselves in Readiness to embark for Boston on the first Notice.
Capt. Chubb, arrived at Bristol, on the 11th of May, took up a Boat, having on board Capt. Andrew Grove, of the Sloop Jenny, belonging to Falmouth, New-England, with his Crew, 6 in Number, whose Vessel was cast away as they were going to Tobago.
June 28. The Quebec Bill, says a Correspondent, is a well concerted Scheme to give a Check to the rest of our Colonies, and to keep them in awe. A Difference in Religion, Laws, and Dependency, will keep up a strong Animosity; and there is no Doubt but every Encouragement that can possibly be afforded to these licentious Slaves, these Children of Popery supported by a Protestant Court, will be given, in order to Subdue those head-strong Colonists who pretend to be governed by English Laws.
Since the Parliament broke up, Orders have been sent to all the manufacturing Counties to postpone the Completion of the Commissions which were executing for American Exportation.
June 30. The most intelligent Merchants in the Boston Trade are of Opinion that if the Port of Boston is shut up six Months, the Trade will be irrecoverable, and there is no suffering the Act to take Place under a three Months Exclusion from Trade; so that they have a most ticklish Part to act.
July 2. Yesterday Afternoon arrived off Dover, Minerva, Capt. Callahan, from Boston for London, and with him Governor Hutchinson and Family, who immediately set off for Town, and arrived here this Morning.
We are assured the Naval Preparations at the different Sea-ports have been ordered to be expedited ever since the Arrival of the Intelligence from Boston.
Mr. John Malcom, an Officer of the Customs at Boston, who was tarred and feathered, and led to the Gallows, with a Rope about his neck, and threatened to be hanged, and whose House and Furniture were destroyed, is arrived in Town. He came on board the Active Man of War. After he got on board, it is said, he was offered 300l. Sterling by the People of Boston, in Satisfaction of his Damages.
When the Jew-Bill passed, there was but one dissentient Bishop; when Popery was lately established by an Act of Parliament there was not even one.
July 5. They who know the City of Boston, well know that the Merchants who signed the Address to Governor Hutchinson, consisted of 124 Gentlemen, and they who are acquainted with the Town well know that the far greater Part of the Gentlemen of Property are in that List. [Every Body knows (the Addressers excepted) that this is an infamous Lie.]
July 6. We are confidently assured that the Parliament will be dissolved very soon after the Prorogation of it.
The Designs of the Ministry can no longer be kept a Secret; they have already in Fact, though not in Form, declared War against the North Americans; for in the Duties proposed to be laid on all Rums imported into Quebec, they have put the French, Danish, and Dutch, on a Level with those from America, 6d. per gallon being the Duty intended for each.
Upon the King's giving his royal Assent to the obnoxious Quebec Bill, and thereby breaking his Coronation Oath, led me to enquire the Framers and advisers of it; when it was said the Scotch were the first that framed and advised it. Our Resentment then ought to fall upon them, who not content with having every Place of Profit both in and out of the Kingdom, are, Weazel like, snapping, undermining and subverting this once happy Constitution. Is there an Ambassador scarce abroad but but is Scotch, a Governor or Consul but what are Scotch? Look at Home, you will see them in the most lucrative Employ, and the Navy and Army filled with them. Is there a Command in the Navy given but a Scotchman has it; the same likewise in the Army? All this is not to be wondered at: If the Thane & Jeffries issue their Mandate to the respective first Lords of the Treasury and Admiralty, the Secretary at War, &c. it must be
complied with, for they hold their Places upon no other Tenure. Therefore until the Thane and the Jeffries have lost all Confidence in their Master's Ear, the Scotch will ever be promoted in Preference to the English. So prone to Tyranny and absolute Power are the Scotch, that even the Dey of Algiers would not suffer the Consul Frazier to land there for Fear of being desposed by him.
S A L E M, August 23.
Tuesday last the following Gentlemen took the Oaths require to qualify them for a Seat in the new Council, viz. Sam'l Danforth, Peter Oliver, Richard Lechmere, Jonathan Simpson, Josiah Edson, Nathaniel Ray Thomas, Timothy Ruggles, Timothy Paine, Abijah Willard, Thomas Hutchinson, jun. John Murray, Daniel Leonard, George Watson, & Andrew Oliver, Esq's.
Yesterday arrived at Marblehead, Capt. Perkins from Baltimore, with 3000 Bushels of Indian Corn, 20 Barrels of Rye Meal, 21 Barrels of Bread, sent by the Inhabitants of that Place for the Benefit of the Poor of Boston; together with 1000 Bushels of Corn from Annapolis, sent in the same Vessel, and for the same benevolent Purpose.
MARBLEHEAD, August 22.
ON Saturday last Capt. Calley, of this Place, arrived here in 39 Days from Falmouth, in England, who informs us, that when he entered at Falmouth, the People were greatly prejudiced against America; Lord North having artfully insinuated into the Minds of the Nation in general, that the late Acts of Parliament, respecting this Province and its Metropolis, with the hostile Proceedings against them, were but necessary Measures arising from the Destruction of the TEA. Their Eyes were nevertheless opened, before he left the Port, by the Quebec Bill, which incensed the Nation to a great Degree, and convinced it that an Overthrow of the English Government, and Introduction of Papacy, were the grand Designs of the British Ministry: "No Popery," was the common Cry of the Populace. At his leaving Falmouth, our Brethren were so altered in their Opinions, with Respect to America, as to declare, "that if the Colonists submitted to the late Measures, Persecution was too good for them." Doubtless they were convinced that Lord North's Plan to tax the Colonies without Consent, was calculated to support a standing ARMY, independent of the Commons of Great Britain and America, to enslave both; that the Destruction of the Tea was necessary to prevent its taking Place; and that the Minister had imposed on the People of Great Britain, by persuading them to believe that they were insulted by this Loss of private Property, which was a happy Affair both for Great Britain and the Colonies. It is not doubted, but that our Brethren at Home will yet be convinced of our Readiness to serve, instead of destroying their Interest; and although the Property of the India Company may meet with a similar Fate when sent as a Vehicle of arbitrary Taxes, yet they and every Subject of Great Britain, will find Americans ever ready to secure and defend their Interest, when not employed to enslave and ruin them. The Determination of the Colonies not to resign their Rights, or the minutest Part of them, (it is generally acknowledged) must issue in their Happiness as well as immortal Honour; whether they remain connected with, or are driven to separate from the Mother Country.
PORTSMOUTH.
We hear from Cohos (a remote Part of this Province) that some Time last Week, a Number of honest Savages, Friends to the Rights of America, having Information of a small Quantity of Bohea-Tea, lodged by a pedling Trader, at the House of an Innholder in Haverhill, entered the same without Ceremony, and having seized on the execrated Weed, convey'd it into the public Road, and immediately made a burnt Offering of the Whole. A Proof this, that the same Spirit of Freedom pervades & enlivens the remotest Parts of our English Settlements. The 16th Instant a young Lad was unfortunately drowned in Pefumscutt River near the Town of Falmouth.
MARRIED.] At HAMPTON, Mr. EBENEZER HALL, of SALEM, Printer, to the amiable and agreeable Miss POLLY ORNE, Daughter of CAPTAIN ----- ORNE late of SALEM.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, Piscataqua, Aug. 25th.
   Inward-Entries. FROM.     Sloop Betsey, Benjamin Lurvey, Guadaloup.   Sloop Ceres, Samuel Smallcorn, Maryland.   Sloop Dolphin, Daniel Tappan, St. Eustatia.   Sloop Dove, Abraham Tappan, St. Martins.   Schooner Industry, Robert Parker, St. Kitts.   Schooner Richmond Packet, William McIntyer, Virginia.   Brig Polly, Daniel Jackson, Montserrat.   Brig Unity, Joshua Hille, Turks-Island.   Brig Abigail, John Wheelwright, Grenada.   Brig Dolphin, William Gardner, Antigua.   Outward-Bound FOR.   Brig Charming Nancy, Eliphalet Ladd, West-Indies.   Brig Polly, Daniel Jackson, Ditto.   Brig Charming Molly, Ebenezer Recker, Ditto.   Ship Wentworth, James Holland, Ditto.   Schooner Industry, Josiah Smith, Ditto.   Clear'd Outwards FOR.   Schooner Supply, Zachius Jones, Newfoundland.   Schooner Placentia, John Elliot, Ditto.   Schooner Industry, James Thompson, Quebec.   Schooner Non-Pariel, Robert Follet, West-Indies.   Brig Diana, Jeremiah Pearson, Ditto.   Brig Rainbow, Nathaniel Gidding, Ditto.  
Jacob Sheafe, jun r
Hereby acquaints his Customers and others that he has Removed to his Store in Queen-Street, next Door to Captain George King's, and three Doors below his Father's, where he has a small Assortment of ENGLISH GOODS ( among which are some of the newest fashion'd Oval Looking-Glasses ) Also, West-India and New-England RUM per Hoghead; Sugar per Barrell; Philadelphia Flour; Ship-Bread; Bar Iron; and a few Hogheads of STONE-LIME, to be sold very low for Cash.
TO BE SOLD,
A convenient Dwelling-House, very good, a LOT of Land, &c. situat in Portsmouth between Liberty Bridge and Mill Dam. For further Particulars, enquire at the Printing Office.
§ New-Boston. §
WHEREAS the COMMITTEE for managing the Prucentials of the Proprietors of New Boston in New Hampshire, have received a Request from ten of the said Proprietors to call a Meeting of said Proprietors for the following Purposes, viz. To chuse a Proprietor's Clerk, the former Clerk being dead. To chuse a Committee to defend or carry on any Law Suits that are or may be brought against them; or to sue any Person or Persons that may be Trespassers on any of the said Lands in said Town. And as two of the standing Committee are dead, to chuse two in their Room, or a new Committee, as the said Proprietors shall think proper, and to know if said Proprietors will direct the said Committee to sell any of their undivided Land. The said Proprietors are hereby Notified, to meet at the House of Thomas Harrod in Dunstable, on Tuesday the 13th Day of September next, at ten o'Clock in the Forenoon. Dunstable, August 24, 1774.
WE the Subscribers, Commissioners appointed by the Hon. the Judge of Probate of Wills for the County of Rockingham, to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of the Hon. JOHN WENTWORTH, Esq; late of Portsmouth, deceas'd, intestate, Represented Insolvent, and six Months being allowed for that Purpose, hereby give Notice, that we will attend that Service at the late Mansion House of the said deceas'd, the last Wednesday of this and the five following Months, from six to nine o'Clock Afternoon of said Days. SAMUEL PENHALLOW, WILLIAM KNIGHT, Portsmouth, August 23d, 1774.
Four DOLLARS Reward.
STRAYED from the Township of Steuburne, on Amascoggin River, in the County of Grafton and Province of New Hampshire, on or about the 15th of July last, a Chesnut colour'd MARE about 14 Hands high, short Tail and short thin Main, Trot well, and has a Scar on one of her Buttocks. Whoever will take up said MARE, and give Information thereof, or return her to the Subscriber, shall have Four DOLLARS Reward, and all necessary Charges paid by JOHN PEIRCE. Portsmouth, August 24th, 1774.
TO BE SOLD at private Sale, very cheap, Two Houses with Land
Adjoining them, situate in Portsmouth, one of which stands on the Northerly Side of the Street leading from Gregory Purcell, Esq; out of Town, commodiously situated for a Trader or Tradesman, with a Sufficiency of Land for a Barn, Garden, &c.
The other of said Houses
Stands on the Northerly Side of the Street leading from Mr. William Brewster's to Mr. Joshua Wentworth's, well situated for a Tradesman, with a large Garden thereto adjoining. For further Particulars, Enquire of Richard Cuts Shannen, Esq; of said Portsmouth.
Ten DOLLARS Reward.
WHEREAS on the Night following the 23rd Day of August Instant, the Subscriber's Barn in Hampton was broke open, and from thence Stolen and carried away, a RED ROAN MARE, Five Years old last Spring, about 14 Hands high, trots and paces; a small Star in her Face, has a Bunch on her Back Bone, black Main and Tail. Whoever will apprehend the THIEF or Thieves, so that he or they shall be legally convicted and punished therefor, shall be entitled to receive a Reward of Ten Dollars from WILLIAM LANE.
N.B. It is suspected the above Theft was committed by a Fellow who has been at Portsmouth about a Month, calls himself Williams; he is about 5 Feet ten Inches high, is something slim, wears his own black Hair, a mix'd Wilton Coat, a light brown Cloth Sartuit with a narrow Cape, a new pair of Buff Leather Breeches, a scarlet Jacket; and carried with him two pair of striped Long Trowsers, a new Silver Watch and Chain, a new pair of Silver Shoe Buckles and a new Beaver Hat—he went from Portsmouth on the Night of the 23rd Instant, and carried with him a Horse which he had stolen there, belonging to John Newmarch, Esq.
A Pair of Sile-skin Saddle Bags
Containing two Quarts of Rum, one Quarter of Pressed Meat, one Pound of Brown Sugar, some Pepper, &c. was Lost on the Road between Portsmouth and Rye: on the Evening of the 24th Instant. Whoever has found, and will return said Bags to the Subscriber, or give Notice where they may be had, shall be Rewarded with Three Shillings L.M. and all necessary Charges paid by JOSIAH BATCHELDER. North Hill, August 25, 1774.
Advertisements, &c. omitted, will be in our next.