The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1787-08-04 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE,  AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.
SATURDAY,
AUGUST 4, 1787.
PORTSMOUTH:
PRINTED and PUBLISHED
By JOHN MELCHER,
in MARKET-STREET.
"WHEN ANGRY NATIONS PART IN LEAGUES OF PEACE, LET PRIVATE FEUDS AND CIVIL DISCORDS CEASE."
The DYING ADVICE of a Great Man. I WILL conclude with that, which is the most important of all other things, and which alone will carry every thing else along with it; which is to recommend, in the most solemn and serious manner, the study and practice of religion to all sorts of men, as that which is both the light of the world and the salt of the earth. Nothing does so open our faculties compose and direct the whole man, as an inward sense of God, of his authority over us, of the laws he has set us, of his eye ever upon us, of his hearing our prayers, assisting our endeavours, watching over our concerns, and of his being to judge and reward or punish us in another state, according to what we do in this. Nothing will give a man such a detestation of sin, and such a sense of the goodness of God, and of our obligations to holiness, as a right understanding, and firm belief of the Christian religion; nothing can give a man so calm a peace within, and such a firm security against all fears and dangers without, as the belief of a kind and wise providence, and of a future state. An integrity of heart gives a man courage and a confidence that cannot be shaken. A man is sure that by living according to the rules of religion he becomes the wisest, the best, and happiest creature, that he is capable of being. Honest industry, the employing his time well, and a constant sobriety, and undefiled purity and chastity, with a quiet serenity, are the best preservers of life and health; so that, take a man as a single individual, religion is his guard, his perfection, his beauty, and his glory; this will make him the light of the world, shining brightly, and enlightening many round about him.
Thus religion, if truly received, and sincerely adhered to, would prove the greatest of all blessings to a nation. But by religion, I understand something more, than the receiving some doctrines, though ever so true, or the professing them, and engaging to support them, not without zeal and eagerness. What signify the best doctrines, if men do not live suitably to them, if they have not a due influence upon their thoughts, their principles, and their lives? Men of bad lives, with sound opinions, are self-condemned, and lie under a highly aggravated guilt; nor will the heat of any party, arising out of interest, and managed with fury and violence, compensate for the ill lives of such false pretenders to zeal, while they are a disgrace to that which they profess, and seem so hot for. By religion, I do not mean an outward compliance with forms and customs, in going to church, to prayers, to sermons, and to sacraments, with an external shew of devotion; or, which is more, with some inward forced good thoughts, in which many satisfy themselves, while this has no visible effect on their lives, nor any inward force to subdue and rectify their appetites, passions, and secret designs. These customary performances, how good and useful soever when well understood and rightly directed, are of little value, when men rest on them, and think that, because they do them, they have therefore acquitted themselves of their duty, though they continue still proud, covetous, full of deceit, envy and malice. Even secret prayer, the most effectual means, is designed for a higher end, which is, to possess our minds with such a constant and present sense of divine truths, as may make them live in us, and govern us; and to draw down such assistance as may exalt and sanctify our nature.
So that by religion, I mean such a sense of divine truth, as enters into a man, and becomes a spring of a new nature within him; reforming his thoughts and designs, purifying his heart, sanctifying him, and governing his whole deportment.
Duncan Forbes, late Lord President of Scotland, a man of extensive knowledge, agreeable manners, and unblemished integrity.
ment, his words as well as his actions; convincing him, that it is not enough not to be scandalously vicious, or to be innocent in his conversation, but that he must be entirely, uniformly, and constantly pure and virtuous; animating him with zeal to be still better and better, more eminently good and exemplary, using prayers and all outward devotions as solemn acts, testifying what he is inwardly and at the heart, and as methods instituted by God, to be still advancing in the use of them farther and farther, into a more refined and spiritual sense of divine matters. This is true religion, which is the perfection of human nature, and the joy and delight of every one, that feels it active and strong within him. 'Tis true, this is not arrived at all at once; and it will have an unhappy atlay, hanging long even about a good man. But as those ill mixtures are the peculiar grief of his soul, so it is his chief care to watch over and to mortify them. He will be in a continual progress, still gaining ground upon himself; and as he attains to a degree of purity, he will find a flame of life and joy growing upon him. Of this I write with the greater concern and emotion, because I have felt this the true, and indeed the only joy, which runs through a man's heart and life; it is that which has for many years been my greatest support; I rejoice daily in it; I feel from it the earnest of that supreme joy which I part and long for; I am sure there is nothing else can afford any true and complete happiness. I have, considering my sphere, seen a great deal of all that is shining or tempting in this world; the pleasures of sense I did soon nauseate; intrigues of state, and the conduct of affairs, have something in them that is more specious; and I was for some years deeply immersed in these, but still with hopes of reforming the world, and of making mankind wiser and better: But I have found that what is crooked cannot be made straight. I acquainted myself with knowledge and learning, and that in a great variety, and with more compass than depth: But though wisdom excelletth folly as much as light does darkness; yet as it is a fore travel, it is so very defective, that what is wanting to complete it can never be acquired. I have seen that two are better than one, and that a threefold cord is not easily broken, and have therefore cultivated friendship with much zeal and disinterested tenderness; but I have found this also vanity and vexation of spirit, tho' it be of the best and noblest sort.
So that, upon great and long experience, I could enlarge upon the preacher's text, "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity;" but I must conclude with, "Fear God, and keep his commandments," for this is the all of man, the whole both of his duty and happiness. I do therefore end all in the words of David, of the truth of which, upon great experience, and long observation, I am so fully assured, that I leave these as my last words to posterity—"Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord. What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their cry. The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all troubles. The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as are of a contrite spirit."
GREAT men, as disappointment tells, Are ministerial moons; Their promises but fruitless spells, Addresses AIR-BALLOONS.
Impost ACT.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
In the Year of our LORD, One Thousand, Seven Hundred and Eighty Seven.
An ACT in addition to an act, intitled "An act to establish certain Impost Duties on various foreign Articles imported into this state."
WHEREAS the before recited act, is in sundry respects insufficient to empower the Impost-Officer to enforce the collection of the revenue intended to be raised: Therefore,
BE IT ENACTED, by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court convened, that the Impost-Officer, or in his absence, one of his deputies properly authorised for that purpose, by said Impost-Officer, may enter on board any vessel coming into any port, haven, or creek, within this state, and remain on board said vessel himself, or place a deputy to remain on board, until the time appointed by law for making report to the Impost-Officer. And after said report is made, the said Impost-Officer, or deputy, is hereby empowered, to examine and compare the cargo imported, with the report made: And in case any part of the cargo, consisting of dutied articles, shall not be reported, such articles shall be forfeited; one third part thereof, for the use of the said Impost-Officer, or deputy, (complaining) and the other two thirds, to and for the use of the state: To be recovered as in and by said act is provided.
And be it further enacted, That all bonds given for impost duties, shall be discharged in silver or gold, according to the tenor thereof; any tender act, or acts for off-setting mutual demands, to the contrary notwithstanding.
And in case any bond given for the payment of impost duties, shall not be paid at the time limited in the condition thereof; the Impost-Officer shall lodge the same with the Treasurer of the state, who shall within thirty days after his receiving the same, issue an extent thereon, in the same manner as is now practised by law on bonds given for the payment of excise.
And be it further enacted, That the Impost-Officer, shall give bond in the sum of three thousand pounds, to the Treasurer of this state, for the time being, conditioned for his accounting with the Treasurer of the state, quarterly, for the duties by him received. And in case of failure of his duty, the Treasurer shall within thirty days after the expiration of any such quarter, issue his extent in common form, against said Impost-Officer and his sureties.
And be it further enacted, That the said Impost-Officer, shall not allow any drawback of duties on imported articles, for, or on account of monies imported, unless the Captain shall make oath before the said Impost-Officer, and prove by the oath of one witness at least, that the said money was on board the vessel when she sailed from some foreign port, and shall produce and count said money in the presence of the said Impost-Officer.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE:
In the House of Representatives, June 17, 1787: The foregoing bill having been read a third time, Voted, That it pass to be enacted.
Sent up for concurrence.
JOHN SPARHAWK, Speaker.
In Senate, June 27, 1787:
This bill having been read a third time, Voted That the same be enacted.
JOHN SULLIVAN, President.
A true copy,
Attest, JOSEPH PEARSON, Sec'ty.

L O N D O N, May 26.
Orders were some time since sent to Ireland for the following regulation to take place in all the ports of that kingdom from the day the operations of the commercial treaty with France commenced, with instructions for a punctual discharge thereof, viz. all foreign masters of ships that go there on a trading account, either for provisions or barter of goods, are to deliver up on their arrival an account of all spirituous and other liquor, as well as of every other species of goods not intended for sale, which are to be kept safe under the care and inspection of the officers of the revenue till the time of such vessel leaving the port; and, if any part thereof is attempted to be smuggled ashore, the whole shall be liable to confiscation.
The King of Prussia is furnishing his palace entirely with the manufactures of this country, which he finds superior in workmanship, superior in materials to those of any other kingdom; and last week a large order in the cabinet and upholstery line, consisting of every article of furniture of the most costly and exquisite workmanship was furnished at one of our first houses, and shipped on board the Hamburg packet, which also contains woolens and other goods, and a suit of steel buttons, made at Birmingham, which cost two guineas and a half each button, all for his Prussian majesty. The chairs, tables, and library furniture did honour to our workmen; being finished in a style that displayed taste, neatness, and elegance. Many of our nobility and people of fashion viewed the goods before they were put on board.
By letters from Lisbon, we learn, that an insurrection has lately happened in that city, on account of new taxations, in which many citizens were wounded.
The new edict issued by the Emperor respecting bankrupts ordains that those who cannot prove they are forced to become so by real misfortunes, are to be punished; those who are suspected of running away, are to be arrested; and those who do not pay eighty-eight per cent. to their creditors, are to be declared incapable of trading in future, either in their own name, the name of any other, or in partnership.
Translation of an interesting account from Paris, dated the 16th of April last, extracted from the Amsterdam Gazette of the 24th of the same month.
The last meeting of the board, over which the Count d'Artois presided, was rather spirited, and his Royal Highness could not help showing his displeasure to the Marquis de la Fayette in particular. The King had complained that the memorial which had been conveyed through him by M. Calonne, on the various points for deliberation to the Notables, had not been signed. The Marquis de la Fayette, whose patriotism is as pure and active as his courage and readiness were useful to the Americans, asked that it might be permitted him to read a memorial signed by himself, supplicating, at the same time, the Count d'Artois to be pleased to carry it to his Majesty as coming from him only. The whole board having declared themselves for the reading the Marquis's memorial, and having approved the whole contents, the Bishop of Langres promised to report to the assembly, after Easter, all judicial papers of the facts advanced. Before the reading, the Marquis found himself in a very delicate situation. The Count d'Artois had made it known, that this memorial appeared to him too pointed and too personal, even from the first phrase—It requires a presence of mind more than ordinary, and patriotism highly disinterested, not to be intimidated; the Marquis was not, and replied with freedom to his Royal Highness, That in quality of a gentleman, he had a right to carry his representations to the foot of the Throne."
M A Y 30.
Extract of a letter from Wellington, Somersetshire, May 24.
This Day, between Eleven and Twelve o'Clock, there was a most violent storm of Rain attended with what some think a tornado, others a Shock of an Earth Quake. It was, however, dreadful beyond description: I was standing at Mr. Horsey's Shop Door, with the door at my Back, when there was such a dreadful Sound, as I cannot express; it seemed like the Explosion of a Cannon, and at the Time there fell a large Shower of Tiles, Bricks and Glass, far beyond my power to describe; Houses unroofed, Chimnies falling, &c. and the whole Town in an uproar.
The Storm took its direction S. E. Thatch was carried more than a Mile; our Garden Wall stripped, many Lives miraculously preserved, among the rest Mr. Horsey's: A vast number of Trees blown up by the Roots. The Standings in the Market for the Bankers, turned topsy-turvy; Carts, Waggons, and Chaises, carried up into the Air, and turned upside down; one in
particular, at Mr. Butler's Door, the White Hart Inn, was carried beyond Mr. Holmes's (about 40 or 50 Yards Distance) with the Wheels upwards. —I am, myself, so much indisposed from the Fright, I cannot add more at present."
June 7. By letters immediately from Holland we are informed, that the utmost tumults and confusion are approaching. A general rebellion prevails at Amsterdam. Fourteen of the stadtholder's party were seized by the patriots of the country, and hanged in the street the next day. Military law is now proclaimed. All orders for payment of money from the bank, rejected. Two cannon are planted in the house of La Cope; and every window of the wealthy are planted with musquetry, for the protection of their lives and property.
P H I L A D E L P H I A, July 21. The following is an authentick extract from a letter written by a gentleman in Dominica, to a friend in this city. It contains something to awaken the resentments, and to excite the genius of America. It proves that nations may feel the low spite of individuals, and it should instruct us to oppose with economy, industry, and vigilance, the putulant politicks of Britain.—The resources of this continent were superior to her attacks in war, and, properly employed must be superior to her attacks in peace.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Dominica, dated June 25.
"Mr. R. who arrived here in the packet from England, about a week ago, brings an account of a bill having been brought into the house of commons by Mr. Grenville for making Rufeau, in this island, Kingston, and three other ports in Jamaica, and New-Providence in the Bahama islands, free ports. It is probable the port at Grenada will likewise be opened; the American trade will derive no advantage from this alteration in our commercial system, as the vessels of those states are rigorously excluded from the Free Ports, whilst the French and Spanish will meet with considerable advantage from frequenting them. The same packet brought out instructions to the officers of the customs, not to admit American lumber or provisions in the English islands from foreign ports, although they might be imported in British bottoms; this regulation will materially affect, if not totally annihilate the trade of St. Eustatius, and St. Bartholomew's; Martinique will likewise suffer considerable from this arrangement."
"I will make no comment or draw no consequences from the wisdom of the aforesaid plans, nor on the effects with which they are likely to be followed. Mr. Pitt seems to be possessed of the most liberal ideas respecting trade in general; his comprehensive mind begins to expand itself, opening channels for trade with all nations, except the United States of America."
Thursday last arrived in this port, in the schooner Nassau, from New-Providence, Captain William Cannon and son, late of the sloop Little Robert, of New-York. Captain Cannon sailed from the last mentioned port in January last, bound on a trading voyage to the West-Indies. On the 30th of May, being then at anchor at the island of Heneaga, in company with the French schooner Deux Amis, about eleven at night Capt. Cannon's sloop, then bound to New-York, was suddenly boarded and taken by the armed schooner's boat, the Vigilant, belonging to New-Providence.—The assailants, upon coming on board, instantly shot one dead, by name of John Rodon, badly wounded another, and Captain Cannon was very near losing his own life, by the violence of these unprincipled ruffians. The American and the French vessel were then both carried to New-Providence, and condemned, with the cargo, consisting of sugar, coffee molasses hides, cotton and cocoa.—Another vessel, a schooner called the Friendship, Capt. Vallance, of this port was also captured, at least 20 leagues distant from Turks-Island, having taken a cargo of salt from thence. This was reported to the aforementioned custom-house vessel, who thereupon pursued the Friendship and captured her: Both vessel and cargo are condemned.—The schooner Vigilant is an American built vessel, and has no British register; in consequence of an act of parliament not long since made, she is therefore now up for sale on that account. It is thought strange, however, (says an observer) that a vessel legally incapacitated from holding a British register (as being built in the United States) should nevertheless be allowed a commission to capture other vessels. At the time she took Capt. Cannon's sloop and Amis, she was under command of one Tatnall, a licitmate son of the very worthy, honest, upright and disinterested admiralty-judge Tatnall, of New-Providence.—Capt. Cannon further relates, that notwithstanding his active, long, and well known attachment to the United States, he met with
very polite usage in general from the inhabitants of Nassau, some of whom seemed inclined to assist him in re-purchasing his vessel; but he soon found to his mortification, that the real day of sale would not come on during his continuance on the island of Providence. He confirms the account of the great discontents among the Bermudians, on account of the prohibitory act relative to wrecking—that all business is at a stand at Providence, many hundreds of Negroes being unemployed, and absolutely perishing of want; while schemes of plunder and piracy are constantly disclosing themselves among the no less miserable refugees, who bid fair, if countenanced by Great-Britain, to be as troublesome in the western parts of the Atlantick, as ever the Barbary corsairs were on the Mediterranean.
N E W-Y O R K, July 23.
On Tuesday the 24th inst. arrived here the brig Jane, George Suter, master, from St. Martins, in France, but last from Newfoundland. Captain Suter sailed from France in company with a brig belonging to Tinmouth, and the 4th day after they left St. Martins, being in lat. 44: 19, and 5, 20: W. long. they fell in with a Turkish cruiser under American colours, which boarded the brig in company, supposing her to be American, as they showed no colours till after they hailed her.
B O S T O N, Aug. 3.
Accounts from Philadelphia, received last evening, mentions, that the federal convention will continue their deliberations about a month longer; and that there will then be presented to the public a scheme of continental government adapted to the circumstances and habits of the people, without regard to the fine-spun systems of elementary writers.
We hear from good authority, that his excellency the governor, by advice of council, has put a stop to any further enlistments of troops ordered to be raised by the legislature in its last session, agreeably to the powers vested in him by the celebrated resolution of the 19th of June last, for quieting the disorders in this commonwealth:—and, at the same time, has directed the officer in command, to reduce the number in service, to two hundred men, officers included, on the 20th of August next ensuing.—We most sincerely congratulate the public on this event, as it carries the very pleasing evidence of the commotions which have disturbed this state in the course of the last winter, being in a fair way to a happy adjustment.
NEWBURY-PORT, (Mass.) August 1.
A letter from Mr. Benjamin Pearson, at Norton, in this commonwealth, to his brother in this town, dated June 29th, 1787, contains the following remarkable account, viz.
"Two or three men being at work in a field at Mansfield, were obliged, by a shower, to take shelter in an uninhabited house near by.—While there, to their great surprise, they saw five or six white mice run from under the hearth and back again.—One of the men proposed taking up the hearth, upon doing which, they found an infant's bones and skull, together with a knife laying by the side of the bones, the handle almost rotten, the back very rusty, but the edge quite bright.—It is thought, from what information they have been able to obtain, that the murder was committed about thirty years ago.—Strange noises had been heard by a family which formerly lived in the house."
P O R T S M O U T H, August 4.
On the 29th ult. arrived here the brigantine Dispatch, Captain Wingate, who sailed from this port on the 12th ult. for the island of Tobago, with horses, and on the 18th fell in with the brigantine Carbonear, Capt. Briard, who sailed from this port on the 6th for Cape Francois, but unfortunately sprung a leak and was foundered in lat. 30 degrees North, and long. 65 degrees West, where Capt. Wingate fell in with her, and having taken off the crew, water and provisions, for them, with as much of her riging as rendered his vessel unsafe for his horses, which obliged him to heave overboard some of his hay and water, for which he has returned back to this port.—On the 23d in lat. 40, North long. 65 West, he spoke with the ship Thomas, belonging to Boston, from Virginia, bound to France, James Shephard, master—all well.
Died since our last, a daughter of Daniel Peirce, Esq. of Kittery, in the 6th year of her age.
PORT OF PISCATAQUA, August 4, 1787.
   ENTERED.  FROM.      Ship Atlantic,  Trefethern,  Cape Francois.    Schooner Mary,  Frost,  Ditto.    Brig Irish-Gimblet  Turner  Martinico.    Brig Olive  Smallcorn,  Tobago.     C L E A R E D, FOR.     Brig Patty Wentworth,  Mendum,  West-Indies.   

For the NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE TO THE PUBLIC.
WHO knows but he, whose hand the light'ning forms,
Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms; Pours fierce ambition in a Cæsar's mind, (kind! And turns young Ammon loose to scourge man- Who knows but he, who for the world's offence, Sends wars, famine and fatal pestilence; Inspires dark deceit in a traitor's brest, And forms a tory for his country's pest; Instills fell hatred in his harden'd heart, And thus inures him to the blackest art; Or permits the malignant prince of hell, To raise to power a bold infidel?
Satan's malice can sure no further go, Since to make a third he joins the other two.
While thus a tory, infidel and traitor, Are the odious burden of my song, And the horrid subject of my metre; Attend ye impious and faithless throng, And ye pious and faithful saints rehearse, The solemn truths contained in my verse: Let the angels above the notes resound, And the fiends below tremble at the sound!
And now ye sacred nine with skill divine, Aid my design and breathe in every line: Let truth and justice thro' the whole prevail, That honest men may smile while villains rail. Those justly doom'd to wear a lasting brand, They who run, may both read and understand.
God's ways to man be ever justifi'd, And his great name ador'd; The ways of man to man let be decry'd, And his vile arts abhor'd.
To be continued at the writer's leisure And to be perus'd at the reader's pleasure.
Ex opem sapientiæ suæ divinam, ac Numinis ipsius lumen cœlestis, scribenti det mihi Deus.
Finis in presenti. S E N E X.
A FATHER'S ADVICE to his son going to travel.
GIVE thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act: Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar; The friends thou hast and their adoption try'd, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel: But do not dull thy palm with entertainments Of each new hatch'd, unsedg'd comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear it, that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man. Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This, above all, to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
T A R A G O N A, April 14.
One of our coasting pilots being at the distance, of two leagues from this port, encountered with a fish of an enormous size, which did some damage to his vessel; but having, by great perseverance and address, with the assistance of another vessel, taken and secured it, they drew it ashore, where it excited infinite wonder, as if it was supposed to be of the whale kind; no person could ascertain its species. It was 37 spans and a half in length, and 17 in circumference, in the thickest part; of the colour of an elephant; it had a most pro- digious throat, sharp teeth and small eyes; it was supposed to weigh about 75000 pounds.
D U B L I N, May 31.
Notwithstanding the English papers continually set forth, with such avidity, the distressed situation of America, the general want of money, and the insufficiency of American credit, for the purposes of carrying on trade, &c. we however find by the latest accounts from India, (brought by the Cornwallis Indiaman, from China) that the five following ships were then in that country, and in all likelihood would make very great returns:
 The Experiment, Deane, of Philadelphia,  The Canton, Truxton, Ditto,  The Hope, Bell, New-York,  Empress of China, Green, Ditto,  The Grand Turk, Nicholson, Boston. 
These vessels make the number of eleven sail of Indiamen already fitted out from different ports in the United States, since the commencement of the year 1783, for China and India. Besides which, there are two vessels gone from Maryland to the Isles of Mauritius, and one from Philadelphia to Cooke's River, or the Great River of the West, situated near the North west extremity of that continent, and purposely fitted out for the fur
trade from that quarter to China and Japan, as described so very beneficially by Capt. Cooke.
H A L I F A X, June 21.
By the latest intelligence from England, we find the Russian and Turks are actually at war —That France seems determined to take part with the Turks.—That the other powers appear rather disposed to stand aloof at present, than to engage on either side.—A Fleet of 33 sail of Russian men of war were expected in England; an agent having arrived to provide stores, &c. for them— The House of Commons have gone through the charges against Mr. Hastings, and he was soon to be brought to trial before the House of Lords—It is in general thought he will not be able to excu- pate himself.
C H A R L E S T O N, (S. C.) June 26.
Great complaints are made by the people on the frontiers of Georgia against the Spaniards who are accused of harbouring runaway slaves, in defiance of applications made by their owners.
Friday last the house of Captain George Warley, in Wentworth street, was struck with lightning, which defended the chimney, struck dead a Negro girl, who at that instant was opening an adjoining closet; the lightning thence made its way through the floor into the cellar, where tearing up the ground, it assended and went out by the cellar door, shattering the frame in its passage. Mrs. and Mr. Warley had just rose up from din- ner, and got into another room at the moment of the shock.—A sufficient caution not to approach a chimney in a thunder storm!
In addition to the account published the 19th ultimo, we learn, that Captain Alexander at- tacked a party of Indians in their encampment, killed 7 (report says 25) and took a quantity of plunder; several other parties of Indians were seen, but made their escape. The 14th of June, 200 men, under command of Colonel Alexander, (the Captain's brother) marched from Georgia to surprise one of the Indian towns, said to con- tain 200 warriors.
THE subscriber having designs of moving into the country, would SELL the HOUSE he now lives in, and would give to ten good men fifteen hundred acres of choice good land, for set- tlements in the township of Dummer, near the upper Cohas. JACOB TREADWELL. Portsmouth. July 11. 1787.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the following towns, viz. Amherst for 1777 and 1779, Bath from 1774 twelve years, Newport from 1777 six years, Lime from 1775 eight years, Dorchester from 1776 six years, Alexander and Barrington from 1783 four years, Canaan for 1783, Wolfborough and Peters- borough Slip for 1784 and 1785, Acworth and Alstead for 1785, Allenstown for 1784 and 1786, Cockermouth, Epsom and Barnstead for 1785 and 1786, Oflpe, Salisbury, Canterbury, Cambells Gore, Wakefield and New-London for 1786, Protestworth for 1787; that their lands in said towns are taxed and if the taxes are not paid within eight weeks from the first publication of this advertisement to the collectors or subscriber they will be advertised for sale.
Exeter, August 1, 1787. THO'S ODIORNE, Receiver of non-resident taxes.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non- resident owners of land in Rindge, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1785, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, on Thursday, the 30th day of August next, at two o'clock in the afternoon, at the house of Mr. Samuel Whiting, Innholder in said town, as will pay the taxes and charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
State. 1st coun. 2d.
N. R. Q'ty s. d. d. q. d
  Heirs of Col. Braddyll Smith 20 4 66 2 4 4 3 3   Jacob Foster 12 2 100 4 1 8 4 4 
DANIEL RAND, Constable.
Rindge, July 4th, 1787.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non- resident owners of land in Rindge, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1785, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, on Thursday, the 30th day of August next, at three o'clock in the afternoon, at the house of Mr. Samuel Whiting, innholder in said town, as will pay the taxes and charges, unless prevented by previous payment. State tax. N. R. s. d.
  Samuel Parker 18 10 4 8 
SAMUEL WHITING, Constable.
Rindge, July 31, 1787.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors of New-Durham, in said county, upon which the taxes have not been paid for the year 1784, will be exposed to sale at public vendue on Tuesday the 14th day of August next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at the dwelling house of Captain John Bennett, in said New-Durham, unless said taxes with all incidental charges should be previously paid me at my dwelling house in said town.
The proprietors names, the sum of the taxes, &c. are known by the following Schedule.
   No. Div. s. d.     Thomas Chesley jun. 79 2 4 8   Jeremiah Burnham 13 2 4 8   Joseph Smith, jun. 34 2 3 6   Jer'h Drisco & Peter Mow, 1 half 28 1 1 9   Jer'h Drisco & Peter Mow 1 half 28 2 2 4   John Willey, jun. 44 2 4 8   Samuel Smith, jun. 30 2 4 8   Benjamin Jenkins 42 2 4 8   Nathaniel Porter 9 2 4 8   Theodore Willey and John Bickford } one half 6 2 2 4   John Durgin and Francis Durgin 17 1 3 6   Benjamin Jackson 52 2 4 8   Samuel Sias and Solomon Sias 92 2 4 8   James Smith 89 2 4 8   Francis Drew & Abr'm Stephenson 65 2 4 8   Jotham Odiorne, part of 76 1 1 6   Phillip Chesley 53 2 4 8   Stephen Jones 90 2 4 8   Joseph Sias 80 2 4 8   Joseph Sias 80 1 3 6   John Andrews 7 2 4 8   Job Runnals 81 2 4 8  
NATHAN KENISON, Constable. New-Durham, July 2d, 1787.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Grafton, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1785, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue on Thursday the 23d day of August next, at my dwelling house in said town, at one o'clock in the afternoon, as will pay the taxes and charges, unless prevented by previous payment
   D. N. R. Q'ty s. d.     Capt. Aaron Barney 1 6 3 34 6 2   1 22 14 50 8 3   1 23 14 50 8 3   Banoni Williams 2 9 2 8 3   2 7 1 8 3   1 15 7 8 3   1 1 12 8 3   1 4 12 8 3   Shubal Peirce 1 16 8 8 3   1 17 8 8 3   Benjamin Martin 2 1 2 8 3   2 2 2 8 3   1 16 3 8 3   2 13 2 8 3   1 7 7 8 3   1 8 7 8 3   1 10 8 8 3   1 3 11 8 3   1 19 11 8 3   1 16 13 8 3   Capt. Stephen Smith 1 7 2 8 3   1 24 8 8 3   1 24 7 8 3   2 10 2 8 3   1 5 5 8 3   1 8 5 8 3   1 3 7 8 3   1 4 7 8 3   1 23 7 8 3   1 23 8 8 3   1 15 1 8 3   1 6 12 8 3   1 7 12 8 3   1 23 13 8 3   1 19 13 8 3   1 21 14 8 3   Constant Barney 1 17 11 50 8 3   1 18 11 8 3   1 8 12 8 3   1 24 5 8 3   Capt. Aaron Barney 1 2 3 8 3   Constant Barney 1 3 3 8 3   1 9 2 8 3   1 6 3 8 3   1 21 3 8 3   1 22 3 8 3   1 11 4 8 3   1 16 5 8 3   1 11 12 8 3   1 9 13 8 3  
JONATHAN NICHOLS, Constable. Grafton, June 27, 1787.

(Orford.)
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Orford, who have not paid their taxes from the year 1780, to the year 1787, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, on Tuesday the 4th day of September next, at the house of Dea. Simeon Avery, innholder in said town, at one o'clock in the afternoon, as will pay the taxes and charges, unless prevented by previous payment,
   N. Emiſs. Certifi't. Silver. Facilities.   N. R. s. d. l. s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q.     Jona. Moulton undivided 0 0 0 7 0 5 0 0 11 3 0 3 2   John Moulton 3d. 13 9 2 2 19 6 3 11 2 1 2   Undivided 7 5 11 3 3 2   Thomas Rand 18 4 1 8 16 9 3 3 2 1 2   Undivided 7 5 11 3 3 2   James Brown 16 8 2 2 19 10 3 11 2 1 2   17 4 2 2 19 10 3 11 2 1 2   Undivided 7 5 11 3 3 2   John Wayson 1 2 1 1 16 8 3 6 1 9   1 6 1 8 16 9 3 3 2 1 2   Undivided 7 5 11 3 3 2   Samuel Blake 19 11 2 2 19 10 3 11 2 1 2   13 8 2 2 19 10 3 11 2 1 2   Undivided 7 5 11 3 3 2   Joseph Palmer undivided 7 5 11 3 3 2   Ward Cotten 12 7 4 2 7 5 9 2 4   20 11 2 2 19 10 3 11 2 1 2   15 4 2 2 19 10 3 11 2 1 2   Undivided 7 5 11 3 3 2   Settling Lot 17 3 4 1 9 8 7 4 1 9   Samuel Perkins 18 5 7 2 5 11 9 2 2 4   1 3 5 2 17 2 3 6 1 9   1 8 7 9 19 7 4 1 1 9   Undivided 7 5 11 3 3 2   Jeremiah Sanborn 19 5 7 2 5 11 9 2 2 10   2 2 7 9 19 7 4 1 1 9   10 4 2 2 19 10 3 11 2 1 2   Undivided 7 5 11 3 3 2   Josiah Dearborn 19 6 1 1 19 1 3 6 1 9   Josiah Moulton, jr. 6 6 7 9 19 7 4 1 1 9   2 4 2 2 19 10 3 11 2 1 2   Undivided 7 5 11 3 3 2   Jonathan Philbrook 2 1 1 8 1 7 8 5 8 2 10   19 4 1 1 17 2 3 3 1 2   Undivided 7 5 11 3 3 2   Jeremiah Dow 2 3 7 1 5 4 4 2 10   Undivided 7 5 11 3 3 2   Walter Neal 4 2 3 7 2 3 4 10 6 3 5 2   20 4 1 8 16 9 3 4 1 2   Undivided 7 5 11 3 3 2   Clement March 16 7 2 2 1 3 3 4 9 1 9   19 9 2 2 1 3 3 4 9 1 9   Undivided 7 5 11 3 3 2   Samuel Wentworth 15 8 2 2 1 3 3 4 9 1 9   17 9 2 2 1 3 3 4 9 1 9   Undivided 7 5 11 3 3 2   Christopher Toppan 27 7 6 10 1 5 7   Witham Wallace 28 7 6 10 1 5 7   Josiah Lane 29 7 6 10 1 5 7   Wiseman Claget 30 7 6 10 1 5 7   15 7 2 9 1 1 6 5 4 1 9   2 6 2 2 19 10 4 1 4   Undivided 7 6 1 4   Byfield Lloyd 31 7 6 10 1 5 7   9 6 2 2 19 10 4 1 4   14 4 2 2 1 1 7 4 9 1 9   Undivided 7 5 1 4   Samuel Dow 32 7 6 10 1 5 7   Cotton Ward, undiv. 7 5 1 4   William Marsten 12 2 2 2 1 7 2 5 6 2 4   Nicholas White 2 5 2 2 1 7 2 5 6 2 4   Undivided 7 5 1 4   John Weeks jr. 16 3 2 2 1 7 2 5 6 2 4   16 4 2 2 1 7 2 5 6 2 4   Undivided 7 5 1 4   (William Smith 10 6 2 2 1 4 2 4   1 4 3 4 1 10 5 11 1 9   Undivided 7 5 1 4   Josiah Moulton 3d 3 5 3 4 1 10 5 11 1 9   4 5 3 4 1 10 5 11 1 9  
   N. R. Q'ty s. d. l. s. d. s. d. s. d.     Undivided 0 0 0 0 7 0 5 0 1 4   Jonathan Sanborn jr: 59 0 0 0 7 0 6 10 1 5 0 7   9 2 7 6 10 1 5 7   Jonathan Moulton jr: 61 2 2 1 4 2 4   4 6 2 2 1 4 2 4   Undivided 7 5 1 4   Abraham P. Towl 60 2 2 1 4 2 4   Simon Marsten 62 3 4 1 10 5 11 1 9   16 11 2 2 1 18 10 4 1 2   1 7 2 2 1 18 10 4 1 2   Undivided 7 5 1 4   Samuel Garland 63 3 4 1 5 11 1 9   7 4 3 4 1 5 11 1 9   18 9 2 2 1 18 10 4 1 2   Undivided 7 5 1 4   Jonathan Moulton 4th 64 3 4 1 5 11 1 9   7 6 1 8 17 9 3 10   2 7 1 8 17 9 3 10   Undivided 7 5 1 4   Jonathan Leavit 65 4 5 1 6 7 2 1 9   Jonathan Marsten jr. 66 4 5 1 6 7 2 1 9   8 6 2 2 1 18 10 4 1 2   9 5 2 2 1 18 10 4 1 2   Undivided 7 5 1 4   George Marsh 67 4 5 1 6 7 2 1 9   13 6 4 5 1 6 7 2 1 9   3 4 4 5 1 6 7 2 1 9   Undivided 7 5 1 4   Benjamin Batchelder 68 1 8 17 9 3 10   15 3 2 9 1 5 11 1 9   Undivided 7 5 1 4   Joseph Philbrook 3 3 7 6 10 1 5 7   Undivided 7 5 1 4   Nathan Moulton jr. 70 8 9 3 12 14 3 6   13 2 2 2 1 5 11 1 9   Undivided 7 5 1 4   Phillip Hooker 71 8 9 3 12 14 3 6   1 1 4 5 1 6 7 2 1 9   3 6 4 5 1 6 7 2 1 9   Undivided 7 5 1 4   Benning Wentworth, Esq. 70 4 5 1 6 7 2 1 9   ditto 4 30 4 5 1 6 7 2 1 9  
JEREMIAH MARSTON, Constable. Orford, June 28, 1787.
State of New-Hampshire,
THIS is to notify the non-resident owners of land in the town of Nottingham, that are delinquent in paying the taxes assessed thereon for the year 1786, that so much of their lands as will pay said taxes and incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling house of the subscriber in said Nottingham, on Monday the third day of September next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment.
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