The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1774-09-16 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the FRESHEST ADVICES
Friday Sept. 16, 1774.
GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
NO. 934 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd. }
St. CROIX, July 9, 1774.
Account of a most terrible EARTHQUAKE at GAUTIMALA, a City of Mexico in N. America, and Capital of the Province of the same Name, which extends a- bove 3 Deg. along the Coast of the Pacifick Ocean. Lat. 14. 39. N. Long. 98. 2. W.
ON the 3d of June about five o'clock in the morning, some small shocks of an Earthquake were felt at an Indian village, at about six leagues from Guatimala, and very near the coast of the South-Sea, but did then no damage except alarming the inhabitants. The shocks continued with trifling intermissions, 'till 5 o'clock in the evening, when the effects of nature began to break forth in all their terrors; lightning & thunder were incessant, attended with a heavier rain than was ever known there; the sea rose in such a convulsive manner, that it overflowed the highest banks, and at the same time the land was so agitated by the earthquake, that the village was solely destroyed in a short time, and not a trace of it left. The major part of the inhabitants, on the first appearances of the tempest, had fled towards the city of Guatimala, but found no shelter there, that unhappy place being involved in more misery than where they fled from. The two famous mountains near that place were in a state of the greatest eruption: The one which emits a liquid fire and amazing large stones, threw out its most enraged Force, on the devoted city; the other, which, in a likemanner issues out water, deluged the land about, and was full fraught with destruction. The violent shocks of the earthquake, the lightning, thunder, & rain made one dreadful scene of confusion not to paralleled. This war of nature commenced in its full force about 8 o'clock in the evening, and continued raging 'till the night of the 7th day, in which time the university, the public courts of justice, the cathedral, the parochial churches, all the public edifices, were destroyed, either by the earthquake, by the fire and stones from the mountains or by the impetuosity of the river which rose above its banks, and bore every thing before it with the greatest violence. Chasms of a great extent were made in the earth, & many whole houses, with numbers of the miserable inhabitants fell in & were seen no more. But how can the anguish of the unhappy sufferers be described? The acts of devotion which their tortur'd fears prompted them to use were all in vain; their priests swallowed up, struck dead, or otherwise destroyed in the very moment of administering absolution. Many appalled by the scene, stood fixed, & received the inevitable death that awaited; those who escaped from the city were encircled with dangers & death, the fields afforded no shelter, the earth was convulsed, as with pain, & the volcanos & rocks with which that country abound, were raging with fire, & throwing out stones of a most prodigious size.
"On the night of the 7th, about the hour of ten, the mountain raged excessively, the earth shook with great violence, & the thunder increased; this lasted about 5 minutes, when the whole city of Guatimala was destroyed, was swallowed in a wide chasm, a rent in nature, & the fiery earth spread over in a manner which soon obscured it from sight. The elements now as gratified with prey, calmed most surprizingly; by the noon of the next day every thing was again calm and serene, but the face of the earth was altered, the city was gone, the burning moun-
tain shook in its base, and other rocks sunk with their tops on the earth; the river was parted in many places, & formed into standing pools of a bitter, imoky water, & the fine vale was covered with large stones, and the lava (cooled) which had issued from the mountains. The numbers of people lost are not yet, nor possibly ever will be, really ascertained, as those who may have escaped have not yet been heard of, except the President of the audience, the Bishop of the place, and about 170 others, who have providentially escaped to Trimdad, or Sonsonate, about 30 leagues from Guatimala, and about 200 who have arrived here.
"This event may be considered as one of the most dreadful that ever happened: in its beginning, continuance, and consequences equally dreadful and tremendous. The vicious lives of the inhabitants of that fated city, and in fact of many other cities of Spanish America, would justify an opinion that the Creator of all things did not suffer such a punishment to fall in vain."
BOSTON, Sept. 8. Yesterday Capt. Tate, in the Julius Cæsar, arrived at Salem, in seven Weeks from London, by whom we have the following Intelligence.
LEGOHN, [ITALY] JUNE 15. SOME Accounts from Corsica mention, that the 30th of last Month, that there was a smart BATTLE between the Corsicans and the provincial Corsican Regiment in the French Service; in which the latter were beaten, and Col. Gaffori, and some other Officers killed; and on the same Day the famous Pace Maria, with his Men, cut to Pieces a French Piquet; which so encouraged them that they marched immediately to Caccia, in order to attempt taking the French military Chest, which is deposited there.
LONDON, June 29. Friday last was only the fourth time the right reverend Fathers in God, the Bench of Bishops changed their Religion since the Reformation.
EPIGRAM. On the unanimous Vote of right Rev. the Bench of Bishops to the Quebec Bill, which yesterday received the royal Assent. Old Nick hugely pleased at what Yesterday past, With Rapture exclaimed, "We have got it last." "What May nor Charles nor James could achieve "We have partly obtained, by the Crozier and Sleeve; "But let us be grateful, (then calling an Imp) "Do you hear my young Tycho; when next I want Drink "Instead of that Liquid of Brimstone you dish up, "Pray let me be served, every Day with a Bishop."
By the Frenchified Quebec Act, the Roman Catholic Religion is not only to be permitted, but authorized, not tolerated, but established, thus making no kind of Difference between tolerating a Religion through Policy, and approving it through Principle, the one is the Duty of a Legislator, the other that of a Monk.
The Ministry are greatly to blame to kindle their silly & idle Quarrels with the Americans; the Colonies will be still greater to blame if they submit to the late infamous Act of Parliament; and the French and Spaniards must be next to infame if they do not jointly seize the Opportunity, perhaps given them by the Designs of the Thane to crush Great-Britain effectually, which they have often attempted in vain, but now they may be almost certain of Success, even to the given us a ----- to their own liking, a S----- has been a King of England and a Pensioner on France, at the same Time Solomon says there is nothing new under the Sun, and Englishmen say with aching Hearts what has been, may be again.
"The present despicable Junta of a Ministry mislook egregiously if they ever supposed the Americans would determine the Contest by Force of Arms, they will do it more effectually by the Mode which Governor Pownal pointed out in the House of Commons, and which we have since learnt the Americans have adopted. Much has been done already by the Committees of Correspondence towards UNITING THE INHABITANTS of the whole CONTINENT OF AMERICA, ----- and if a GENERAL CONGRESS of DEPUTIES from the several Houses of Assembly takes place, as it certainly will, the Americans will be SECURE, but the Mother Country will be RUINED, for the first Measure taken will be an universal Agreement neither to Export or to Import from England, and if this Prohibition exists but six Months inevitable RUIN to the Mother Country must be the Consequence.
"July 2. It is hoped and believed, that his Holiness the POPE will speedily send a Letter of Thanks to his Majesty for his Piety, in promoting and establishing the Roman Catholic Religion, as the national Church in America: and some are of Opinion, that a Cardinal's HAT will be offered to each of our Archbishops.
A Gentleman wondering to Charles Fox the other Day, why Lord North was not afraid of going through such an unconstitutional Measure as the late Quebec Bill, "You may depend on it, says the other, he has got an Absolution for it."
Large Bets are laid, that the Popish Religion will be established in England as the national Church, by an Act of Parliament and that the HOST will be publickly carried thro' the Street of this Metropolis in less than 5 Years Time.
It is reported that the POPE hath been solicited to publish a Crusade against the Rebellious BOSTONIANS, to excite the Canadians, with the Assistance of the British soldiery, to exterminate those bitter Enemies to the Romish Religion and monarchical Power.
July 13. Yesterday Lord and Lady Chatham came to Town, with Lord PITT, who Yesterday Afternoon set out for Portsmouth, to embark for North-America; after which Lord and Lady Chatham returned to Hayes.
The Commodities exported from Great-Britain to America, on an Average of three Years, have amounted to 3. 370. 900l.--- The Commodities imported into Great Britain from the Colonies, for the same Period of Time, have amounted to 3. 924. 606l. 13s. 4d.
The 20th and 33d Regiments are ordered to be placed on the Irish Establishment; and the 5th and 38th Regiments gone to America, are placed on the British.
July 14. It is generally believed, that the Russian Fleet now under sailing Orders to cruise in the Baltic, is intended to watch the Motions of the Swedish Squadron.
The Porte and Empress of Russia, it is said, have finally agreed to leave the entire Arbitration of the Disputes subsisting between them to the Emperor of Germany.
It is most seriously affirmed, that a powerful northern Monarch whose Demands on a certain Electorate are well known, has signified, that should those Demands not be complied with he shall be compelled to the disagreeable Necessity of enforcing a Compliance.
We are assured that the Conduct of a noble Lord lately high in Office over Colony Affairs, has given such high Satisfaction to Administration, that he has been repeatedly solicited to resume his Station this trying and fiery Times.
July 15. This Day a Cabinet Council will be held at Saint James's upon Affairs of great Importance, but no part of the subject Matter has yet transpired.
It is now whispered, that the Emperor of Germany was in cog. at Versailles at the Time of the Death of the French King, and that it was he that suggested to his Brother-in-Law, Lewis the XVth, those Measures which have acquired that Monarch his present high Reputation.
Of all the Acts of Parliament which the most abandoned Minister ever procured to be passed in this Kingdom, that for the Government of Quebec is the most daring, arbitrary and unconstitutional. It is an Act contradictory to his Majesty's coronation Oath; it is an Act repugnant to the R. writs. L. battles and Religion of this nation; and it is an Act abhorrent to, and subversive of the fundamental Principles of our free Constitution. During the Reigns of those arbitrary Princes Charles the first, and James the second, there was no Act passed which could be compared to this for its tyrannical Principles. What the Scotch Tool of a Minister can mean by getting such a Law passed, as cancels the Cause and removes the Reason, for setting aside the Princes of the Stuart Race from inheriting the Crown of these Kingdoms we know not; but this is well known, they were set aside for being Papists, and for the sake of preserving Englishmen from the Tyranny and Slavery of the Popish Religion. And yet, does not this Arbitrary Act take away that Reason, by establishing the Romish Religion as the national Church, in a large Part of the British Dominions? Certainly, nothing can equal the Presumption of the Minister in daring to get such an Act passed, but the Weakness of the Reason he gives for it. He thinks it good Policy to establish the slavish Principles of Popery and arbitrary Power through an immense Track of the British Dominions in America, as a Check to and Restraint upon the free Spirit and constitutional Proceedings of all our Colonies in that Country: But this Policy is of the same Stamp, as if he had advised his Majesty to introduce an Army of Foreign Soldiers into the Nation, in order to tyrannize over and enslave his People.--- Will the Minister say that such Advice would not be high Treason? Or can he say this Act is not? He is certainly a bold Man, but some People's Boldness proceeds from Want of Brains. If ever any Man in the Kingdom deserved impeachment the Minister does; and if there be any spirit, any Virtue remaining in this Country, his Head will not be long upon his Shoulders. It is a Question which will come naturally into every Man's Mouth, who, could or durst advise his Majesty to establish the Popish Religion in the British Dominions, when King James the second lost his Crown for attempting it? The People of England took the Crown from James the Second, and settled it upon the House of Hanover, for the very Purpose of preserving themselves from Popery and Slavery: But what Return hath the House of Hanover made to the People for so glorious a Crown? Why truly it hath established Popery and Tyranny in a large Part of the British Dominions. This is Royal Gratitude, this is the Justice of the House of Hanover.
July 5. The late spirited Resolutions of the Americans hath thrown the King and the Ministry into a dreadful Quandary.
July 8. The Canada Bill will certainly be of the most dangerous Tendency to Ireland, as the Catholics will necessarily migrate to whatever Part of the Empire their Religion is not only tolerated but encouraged by Law; and the Nobility and Gentry of that Country would do well to Petition Parliament for its Repeal next Session, if they wish to deprecate the ruinous Consequences of that Measure, and prevent a general Migration from the Southern Parts of that desolated and oppressed Country.
It is well known that the Grievances of the Act of Resumption were the Cause of Petitions from every County in that Kingdom; the Damages sustained by that were temporary,

whereas those inflicted on them by the Canada Bill, must necessarily entail Poverty and ruin upon that Country.
We hear that the Bench of Bishops excuse themselves from any Delinquency in voting so unanimously in favour of the Quebec Bill, by saying, that as Ecclesiasticks they were bound to obey the commands of the supreme Head of the Church.
There has been remitted to France from Canada to the Societies of the Clergy 150,000 Livres per annum at an Average, for many Years past, which serves to keep up a Correspondence and Attachment to France, not only to the great Prejudice of the Colony, but to the manifest Injury of Great-Britain.
It is now said that the Merchants and Manufacturers, both in Town and in Country, concerned in the American Trade, are now more alarmed for the Security of their Property, than before the Repeal of the Stamp Act.
July 12. Prince Masserano is expected soon in this Kingdom in his former Character: notice having been last Saturday received of his Highness being on his Journey.
We hear that Sir Joseph Yorke is soon expected here from the Hague, on some Business of a very important Nature.
It is said the Earl of Chatham will set out very soon to make the Tour of Italy, for the Establishment of his Health.
It may be depended upon, that some copious Instructions respecting the Effectuation of a Peace between the Russians and the Turks, were last Week sent off to our Ambassadors at Petersburg and Constantinople.
BOSTON, Sept. 8. Middlesex RESOLVES.
At a Meeting of 150 Gentlemen, being Committees from every Town and District in the County of Middlesex, and Province if Massachusetts-Bay, held at Concord in said County, on the 30th and 31st Days of Aug. 1774. to consult upon Measures proper to be taken at the present very important Day, viz.
The Hon. JAMES PRESCOT, Esq; chosen Chairman. After having read the late Act of the British Parliament entitled, An Act for the better regulating the Government of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay in New-England," and debated thereon;
Voted, That a Committee be appointed to take into Consideration the said Act, and report to this Meeting.
Voted, That Mr. Jonathan Williams Austin, of Chelmsford, Capt. Thomas Gardner, of Cambridge, Doctor Isaac Foster, of Chelmsford, Capt. Josiah Stone, of Framingham, Mr. Richard Dews, of Chelmsford, Doctor Oliver Prescott, of Groton, Henry Gardner, Esq; of Stow, Mr. William Brown of Framingham, and Mr. Ebenezer Bridge, jun. of Billerica, be the Committee.
Who reported as follows, IT is evident to every attentive Mind, that this Province is in a very dangerous and alarming Situation. We are obliged to say, however painful it may be to us, that the Question now is, whether by a Submission to some late Acts of the Parliament of Great-Britain, we are contented to be the most abject Slaves, and entail that Slavery on Posterity after us, or by a manly, joint and virtuous Opposition assert and support our Freedom.
There is a Mode of Conduct, which in our very critical Circumstances, we would wish to adopt, a Conduct, on the one Hand never tamely submissive to Tyranny and Oppression, on the other, never degenerating into Rage, Passion and Confusion. This is a Spirit which we revere, as we find it exhibited in former Ages, and will command Applause to latest Posterity.
The late Acts of Parliament pervade the whole System of Jurisprudence, by which Means, we think, the Fountains of Justice are fatally corrupted. Our Defence must therefore be immediate in Proportion to the suddenness of the Attack and vigorous in Proportion to the Danger.
We must NOW exert ourselves, or all those EFFORTS, which for Ten Years past, have brightened the Annals of this Country, will be totally frustrated. LIFE and DEATH, or what is more, FREEDOM and SLAVERY are in a peculiar Sense now before US, and the Choice and Success, under God, depend greatly upon ourselves. WE are therefore bound, as Struggling not only for ourselves, but future Generations, to express our Sentiments in the following RESOLVES; Sentiments, which we think, are founded in Truth and Justice, and therefore Sentiments we are determined to abide by.
RESOLVED, That as true and loyal SUBJECTS of our gracious SOVEREIGN GEORGE the THIRD, KING of Great Britain, &c. we by no MEANS intend to withdraw our ALLEGIANCE from him; but, while permitted the free Exercise of our natural and Charter RIGHTS, are resolved to expend LIFE and TREASURE in his SERVICE.
RESOLVED, That when our Ancestors emigrated from Great Britain, Charters and solemn Stipulations expressed the Conditions, and what particular Rights they yielded; what each party had to do and perform, and which each of the contradicting Parties were equally bound by.
RESOLVED, That we know of no Instance, in which this Province has transgressed the Rules on their Part, or any Ways forfeited their natural and chartered RIGHTS to any Power on Earth.
RESOLVED, That the Parliament of Great-Britain have exercised a Power contrary to the above-mentioned Charter, by passing Acts, which hold up their absolute Supremacy over the Colonists; by another Act blocking up the Port of Boston, and by two late Acts, the one entitled, An Act for better regulating the Government of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, the other entitled, An Act for the more impartial Administration of Justice in said Province; and by enforcing all these iniquitous Acts with a large armed Force to dragoon and enslave us.
RESOLVED, That the late Act of Parliament, entitled an Act for the better regulating the Government of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New England, expressly acknowledges the Authority of the Charter, granted by their Majesties King William and Queen Mary to said Province; and that the only Reasons suggested in the Preamble to said Act, which is intended to deprive us of the Privileges confirmed to us by said Charter, are the Inexpediency of continuing those Privileges, and a Charge of their having been forfeited, to which Charge the Province has had no Opportunity of answering.
RESOLVED, That a Debtor may as justly refuse to pay his Debts, because it is inexpedient for him, as the Parliament of Great-Britain deprive us of our Charter Privileges, because it is inexpedient to a corrupt Administration for us to enjoy them.
RESOLVED, That in all free States there must be an equilibrium in the Legislative Body, without which constitutional Check, they cannot be said to be a free People.
RESOLVED, That the late Act, which ordains a Council to be appointed by his Majesty, his Heirs & Successors, from Time to Time by Warrant under his hand or their Signet or Sign Manual, and which ordains that the said Councillors shall hold their Offices respectively for and during the Pleasure of his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, effectually alters the constitutional Equilibrium.
renders the Council absolute Tools and Creatures, and entirely destroys the Importance of the Representative Body.
RESOLVED, That no State can long exist free and happy, where the Course of Justice is obstructed, and that when Trials by Juries, which are the grand Bulwarks of Life and Property are destroyed or weakened, a People falls immediately under arbitrary Power.
RESOLVED, That the late Act which gives the Governor of this Province a Power of appointing Judges of the Superior and Inferior Courts, Commissioners of Oyer and terminer, the Attorney-General, Provosts, Marshals, and Justices of the Peace, and to remove all of them (the Judges of the Superior Court excepted) without Consent of Council, entirely subverts a free Administration of Justice, as the fatal Experience of Mankind, in all Ages, has testified, that there is no greater Species of Corruption, than when judicial and executive Officers depend, for their Existence & Support on a Power independent of the People.
RESOLVED, That by ordaining Juries to be summoned by the Sheriff only, which Sheriff is to be appointed by the Governor without consent of Council, that Security which results from a Trial by our Peers is rendered altogether precarious, & is not only an evident Infraction upon our Charter, but a Subversion of our common Rights as Englishmen.
RESOLVED, That every People have an absolute Right of meeting together to consult upon common Grievances, and to Petition, Remonstrate and use every legal Method for their Removal.
RESOLVED, That the Act which prohibits these constitutional Meetings cuts away the Scaffolding of English Freedom, and reduces us to a most abject State of Vassalage and Slavery.
RESOLVED, That it is our Opinion, these late Acts if quietly submitted to, will annihilate the last Vestiges of Liberty in this Province, and therefore we must be justified by God and the World, in never submitting to them.
RESOLVED, That it is the Opinion of this Body, that the present Act, respecting the Government of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, is an evil, deep laid Plan of Oppression & Despotism , that it requires great Skill & Wisdom to counteract it. This Wisdom we have endeavoured to collect from the united Sentiments of the County; And although we are grieved that we are obliged to mention any Thing that may be attended with such very important Consequences, as may now ensue, yet a Sense of our Duty as Men, as Freemen, as christian Freemen, united in the firmest Bonds, obliges us to resolve, that every civil Officer now in Commission in this Province, and acting in conformity to the late Act of Parliament, is not an Officer agreeable to our Charter, therefore unconstitutional, and ought to be opposed, in the Manner hereafter recommended.
RESOLVED, That we will obey all such civil Officers, now in Commission, whose Commissions were issued before the first Day of July 1774, and support them in the Execution of their Offices according to the Manner usual before the late Attempt to alter the Constitution of this Province; nay, even although the Governor should attempt to revoke their Commissions. But that if any of said Officers shall accept a Commission under the present Plan of arbitrary Government, or in any Way or Manner whatever, assist the Governor or Administration in the Assault now making on our Rights and Liberties, we will consider them as having forfeited their Commissions, and yield them no Obedience.
RESOLVED, That whereas the Hon. SAMUEL DANFORTH, and JOSEPH LEE, Esquires; two of the Judges of the Inferior Court of common Pleas, for the County have accepted Commissions under the new Act by being sworn Members of his Majesty's Council appointed by said Act: We therefore look upon them utterly incapable of holding any Office whatever. And whereas a Venire, on the late Act of Parliament, has issued from the Court of Sessions, signed by the Clerk, We think they come under a preceding Resolve of acting in Conformity to the new Act of Parliament. We therefore Resolve that, a Submission to Courts thus acting and under these Disqualifications, is a Submission to the Act itself, and of Consequence, as we are resolved never to submit to Courts thus constituted and thus acting in conformity to said Act.
RESOLVED, That as, in consequence of the former Resolve all Business at the Inferior Court of common Pleas and Court of General Sessions of the Peace next to be holden at Concord, must cease; to prevent the many Inconveniences that may arise therefrom, we resolve that all Actions, Writs, Suits, &c. bro't to said Court, ought to remain in the same Condition, as at present, (unless settled by Consent of Parties) 'till we know the Result of a Provincial and Continental Congress. And we resolve, that no Plaintiff, in any Cause, Action or Writ aforesaid, ought to enter said Action in said Court thus declared to be unconstitutional. And we resolve, if the Court shall sit in Defence to the Voice of the County, and default Actions and issue Executions accordingly, no Officer ought to serve such Process. And we are also determined to support all Constables, Jurors and other Officers, who from these constitutional Principles shall refuse Obedience to Courts which we have resolved are founded on the Destruction of our Charter.
RESOLVED, That it is the Opinion of this Body of Delegates, that a provincial Congress is absolutely necessary, in our present unhappy Situation.
These are Sentiments which we are obliged to express, as these acts are intended immediately to take place. We must now either oppose them, or tamely give up all we have been struggling for. It is this that has forced us so soon on these very important Resolves. However we do it with humble deference to the Provincial and Continental Congress, by whose Resolutions we are determined to abide; to whom and the World we cheerfully Appeal for the uprightness of our Conduct.
On the whole, these are "great and profound Questions," We are grieved to find ourselves reduced to the Necessity of entering into the discussion of them. But we deprecate a State of Slavery. Our Fathers left a fair Inheritance to us, purchased by a waste of Blood and Treasure. This we are resolved to transmit equally fair to our Children after us. No Danger shall affright, no Difficulties intimidate us. And if in Support of our Rights we are called to encounter even Death, we are yet undaunted, sensible that HE can never die too soon, who lays down his Life in Support of the Laws and Liberties of his Country.
Which Report being maturely deliberated, Voted, That the Sense of the whole Body, respecting the same, be collected by Yeas and Nays; which being done, there were 146 Yeas and 4 Nays.
Voted, That it be recommended to the several Towns and Districts in this County, that each appoint one or more Delegates to attend a Provincial Meeting to be holden at Concord on the second Tuesday of October next.
Voted, That a fair Copy of the Proceedings of this Meeting be made out and forwarded to the Grand Continental Congress, and also to the Town Clerk of each Town in this County.
Voted, That the Thanks of this Meeting, be given to the Hon'ble JAMES PRESCOT, Esq; for his faithful Services as Chairman.
Voted, That this Meeting be Dissolved, and it was accordingly Dissolved.
A true Copy, EBENEZER BRIDGE, Clerk.
LORD CHATHAM'S SPEECH
in the House of Lords, on the third Reading of the Bill for the providing the Officers and Troops in AMERICA, with QUARTERS; just come to Hand.
THE unfavourable State of Health under which I have long laboured, could not prevent me from laying before your Lordships my Thoughts on the Bill now before you; and on the American Affairs in general.
If we take a transient View of those Motives which induced the Ancestors of our fellow-Subjects in America, to leave their native Country to encounter the innumerable Difficulties of the unexplored Regions of the Western World, our Astonishment at the present Conduct of their Descendants will naturally subside. There was no Corner of the World into which Men of their Free and enterprising Turn would not fly with Alacrity, rather than submit to the slavish and tyrannical Principles which prevailed at that Period in their native Country. And shall we wonder my Lords, if the Descendants of such illustrious Characters spurn, with Contempt the Hand of unconstitutional Power, that would snatch from them such dear bought Privileges as they now contend for? Had the British Colonies been planted by any other Kingdom than our own, the Inhabitants would have carried with them the Chains of Slavery, and Spirit of Despotism; but as they are, 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. And, my Lords, notwithstanding my Intention to give my hearty Negative to the Question now before you, I cannot help condemning in the severest Manner, the late turbulent and unwarrantable Conduct of the Americans in general, and the Riots in Boston in particular. But, my Lords, the Mode which has been pursued to bring them back to a Sense of their Duty to the parent State, has been so diametrically opposed to the fundamental Principles of sound Policy, that Individuals possessed of common Understanding, must be astonished at such Proceedings. By blocking up the Harbour of Boston, you have involved the innocent Trader in the same Punishment with the guilty Profligates who destroyed your Merchandize; and instead of making a well concerted Effort to secure the real Offenders, you clap a naval and military Extinguisher over their Harbour; and punish the Sin of a few lawless Ruffians & their Abettors upon the whole Body of the Inhabitants.
My Lords, This Country is little obliged to the Framers and Promoters of this Tea-Tax; the Americans had almost forgot, in their Excess of Gratitude for the Repeal of the Stamp-Act, any Interest but that of the Mother Country; there seemed an Emulation among the different Provinces, who should be most dutiful and forward in their Expressions of Loyalty to their Royal Benefactor; as you will readily perceive by the following Extract of a Letter to from Governor Bernard to a noble Lord then in Office.
"The House of Representatives, (says he) from the Time of opening the Session to this Day, has shewn a Disposition to avoid all Dispute with me; every Thing having passed with as much good Humour as I could desire. They have acted, in all Things, with Temper and Moderation; they have avoided some Subjects of Dispute, and have laid a Foundation for removing some Causes of former Altercation."
This, my Lords, was the Temper of the Americans; and would have continued so, had it not been interrupted by your fruitless endeavours to tax them without their Consent: but the Moment they perceived your Intention was renewed to tax them, through the Sides of the East-India Company, their Resentment got the Ascendant of their Duty, and hurried them into Actions contrary to all Laws of Policy, Civilization and Humanity, which in their cooler Hours they would have thought on with Horror; for I seriously believe, the destroying the Tea was much more the Effect of Despair than that of Design.
But, my Lords, from the Complexion of the whole of the Proceedings, I am apt to think, that Administration has purposely irritated them into those late violent Acts for which they now so severely smart; purposely to be revenged on them for the Victory they gained by the Repeal of the Stamp-Act, a Measure to which they seemingly acquiesced, but at the Bottom they were its real Enemies. For what other Motive could induce them to dress Taxation, that Father of American Sedition, in the Robes of an East-India Director, but to break in upon that mutual Peace and Harmony which then so happily subsisted between them and the Mother Country? My Lords, I am an old Man, and will advise the noble Lords now in Office, to adopt a more gentle Mode of governing America; for the Day is not far distant, when America may vie with these Kingdoms, not only in Arms, but in Arts also. It is an established Fact, that the principal Towns in America are learned and polite, and understand the Constitution of the Empire, as well as the noble Lords who guide the Springs of Government; and consequently, they will have a watchful Eye over their Liberties, to prevent the least encroachment of an arbitrary Administration on their hereditary Rights and Privileges.
This Observation so recently exemplified in an excellent Pamphlet which comes from the Pen of an American Gentleman, that I shall take the Liberty of reading to your Lordships his Thoughts on the Competency of the British Parliament to tax America, which in my Opinion, sets that interesting Matter in the clearest Point of View.
"The high Court of Parliament (says he) is the supreme Legislative Power over the whole Empire; in all free States the Constitution is fixed; and as the supreme Legislative derives its Power and Authority from the Constitution, it cannot overleap the Bounds of it, without destroying its own Foundation; for the Constitution ascertains and limits both Sovereignty and Allegiance; and therefore his Majesty's American Subjects, who acknowledge themselves bound by the Ties of Allegiance, have an equitable Claim to the full Enjoyment of the fundamental Rules of the English Constitution; and that it is an essential unalterable Right in Nature, ingrafted into the British Constitution as a fundamental Law, and ever held sacred and irrevocable by the Subjects within the Realm; and that what a Man has honestly acquired, is absolutely his own; which he may freely give, but which cannot be taken from him without his Consent."
This my Lords, tho' no new Doctrine, has always been my received and unalterable Opinion; and I will carry it to my Grave, that this Country had no Right under Heaven to tax America. It is contrary to all the Principles of Justice and civil Policy, which neither the Exigencies of the State, or even the Acquiescence in the Taxes, could justify upon any Occasion whatever. Such Proceedings will never meet with their wished for success; and instead of adding to their Miseries, as the Bill now before you most undoubtedly does, adopt some lenient Measures which may lure them to their Duty; proceed like a kind and affectionate Parent over a Child whom he tenderly loves; and instead of those harsh and severe Proceedings, pass an Amnestry on all their youthful Errors; clasp them once more in your fond and affectionate Arms; and I will venture to affirm, you will find them Children worthy of their Sire. But should their Turbulence exist after your proffered Terms of Forgiveness, which I
* See Dr. Franklin's State of the Contest between Great-Britain and America.

hope, and expect this House will immediately adopt, I will be among the foremost of this illustrious Assembly, to move for such Measures as will effectually prevent a future Relapse, and make them feel what it is to provoke a fond and forgiving Parent; a Parent, my Lords, whose Welfare has ever been my greatest and most pleasing Consolation. This Declaration may seem unnecessary, but I will venture to declare, the Period is not far distant, when she will want the Assistance of her most distant Friends; but should the all disposing Hand of Providence prevent me from affording her my poor Assistance, my Prayers shall be ever for her Welfare. Length of Days be in her Right Hand, and in her left, Riches and Honor; may her Ways be Ways of Pleasantness, and all her Paths be Peace.
S A L E M, Sept. 13, 1774.
Last Tuesday arrived here the Ship Julius Cæsar, Charles Fea, Master, from London, having on board thirty Chests and three half Chests of Tea, the Property of one Montgomery of London, consigned to Messrs. Smith and Atkinson, Merchants in Boston, who were equally surprized and offended at the Consignment, it being intirely unknown to them before the Ship's Arrival; and they solemnly declare, that Mr. Montgomery, previous to this Consignment, never had any Intercourse or commercial Correspondence with either of them. As soon as the Committee of Correspondence here had made Discovery of the Tea, the Master sent an Express to Smith and Atkinson; and the next Morning Mr. Smith came to Town, and frankly declared that the Tea should not be landed, nor any Duty paid on it here, if he could possibly prevent its being done. On Tuesday and Wednesday Nights the Committee set Guards in the Ship.-----On Thursday Messrs. Smith and Atkinson procured a Vessel to take the Tea on board and carry it to Halifax. That Night also a Guard was set. And the next Morning, at Day-Light, the Tea was taken out, and put on board the Vessel procured to receive it, in Presence of the Guard; who having the Marks & Numbers of the Chests, found them to agree with the Bill of Lading and the Cocker. By 7 o'Clock the Vessel, with the TEA on board, got under Sail, and before 10 was out of the Harbour, with a fair Wind.
Messrs. Smith & Atkinson in the whole Affair conducted like Men of Honour, & entirely to the Satisfaction of the Committee, having used their utmost Endeavours to dispose of the Tea in a Manner the least exceptionable.
The 59th Regiment from this Town, and two Companies of the 64th from Danvers, marched to Boston last Saturday. The former is stationed on the Neck, at the Entrance of that Town, where they are Entrenching, and where the most hostile Preparations are now carrying on.
N E W P O R T, Sept. 5.
Yesterday an Express arrived at Providence from Plainfield, to inquire into the Account of the Powder's being stolen by Gage's Orders, informing that there were near Ten Thousand Men in Arms, in that Part of the Country, ready to march to Boston, if needed.
About 10 o'Clock last Night an Express arrived in this Town, for Commissions for a Number of Military Officers in the western Parts of this Colony, and informs, that Col. Putnam had marched from Connecticut, for Cambridge, with 1500 Men, and that Col. Saltonstall was to march this Day with another Body, and that all the Country were prodigiously enraged, they having been informed that a Party of Soldiers had marched to Framingham, to seize the Powder in that Town, and had killed 6 of the Inhabitants outright.
N E W L O N D O N, Sept. 2.
Last Tuesday le'night, Col. Willard, one of the new Council, came to Union to do some Business; when two Gentlemen belonging to Windham, who had been his Attorneys, in a Cafe, met him and publicly refused to assist him any more, as they looked upon him a Traitor to his Country. The People rose, took & confined him one Night, then carried him to Brimfield, where the Province People, about 400 in Number, met them: They called a Council of themselves, and condemned Col. Willard to Newgate Prison in Symsbury, and a Number set off with and carried him 6 Miles on the Way thither. Colonel Willard then submitted to take the Oath they required, on which they dismissed him.-----One Capt. Davis, of Brimfield, was present who shewing Resentment and treating the People with bad Language, they strip'd him, and give him the New-Fashion Dress of Tar and Feathers.
P H I L A D E L P H I A, August 31.
Last Week Col. Nathaniel Folsom, and Major John Sullivan, Delegates from New-Hampshire, arrived here.
On Monday Evening the Honorable Thomas Cushing, Esq; Samuel Adams, John Adams, and Robert Treat-Paine, Esq's Delegates from Boston, arrived in this City.
The Gentlemen Delegates from Connecticut are expected in Town this Evening.
As are those from Virginia and Maryland on Friday.
H A R T F O R D, Sept. 6.
On Tuesday last, being the Day the County Court was to set at Springfield, a great Concurrence of People, judg'd to be about 3000, assembled at the Court-House in that Place, and appointed a Committee to wait on the Court, and request their Appearance among the People, which they immediately complied with, when they very willingly signed the following Engagement, viz.
W E the Subscribers, do severally Promise, and solemnly engage to all People now assembled at Springfield, in the County of Hampshire on the 30th Day of Aug. 1774, that WE never will take, hold, execute, or exercise any Commission, Office, or Employment whatsoever, under, or by Virtue of, or in any Manner derived from any Authority pretended or attempted to be given by a late Act of Parliament, entitled, "An Act for the better regulating the Government of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England."
Israel Williams, Oliver Partridge, Timothy Dwight, Thomas Williams, John Worthington, Joseph Hawley, William Williams, Simeon Strong, Moses Bliss, Jonathan Ashley, Elisha Porter, William Billings, John Phelps, Solomon Stoddard, Justus Ely, Caleb Strong, Samuel Fowler, Jonathan Bliss.
B O S T O N, Sept. 8.
Treasurer Gray, we are credibly informed has not resigned his Office as Counsellor.
Yesterday General Gage, accompanied by Lord Percy, the Admiral, and other Officers, critically surveyed the Mill Creek, which divides the Town.
By Letters from Connecticut, and by several credible Gentlemen arrived from thence, we are informed, that there were not less than FORTY THOUSAND MEN in MOTION, and under ARMS, on their Way to Boston, on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday last, having heard a false Report that the Troops had fired upon Boston, and killed several of the Inhabitants: Twelve Hundred arrived at Hartford from Farmington, & other Places Forty Miles beyond Hartford, on Sunday last, on their Way to this Place, so rapidly did the News fly. But being informed by Expresses that it was a false Report, they returned
Home, declaring themselves ready at a Minute's Warning to arm again, and fight for their Country, and distressed Brethren of Boston.
A Number of the Poor of this Town are now employed about making Bricks at the new Yard, belonging to the Town on the Neck.
Lieutenant Governor Oliver has removed his Family and Goods from Cambridge to this Town.
In several Towns towards Connecticut, the Meeting-Houses were shut up on Sunday last, and the People all under ARMS.
We hear the Hon. Peyton Randolph, Esq; Speaker of the House of Burgessies of Virginia, is appointed President of the Congress.
Last Friday Morning one Valentine Ducket, a Deserter from the 65th Regt. now at Halifax, was shot in the Rear of the Camp in the Common, pursuant to the Sentence of a Court-Martial. Since our last 4 24pounders and 8 nine pounders have been transported from castle William to this town, and are now placed at the fortification on the neck.
The Hon. Mrs. GAGE, Lady of his Excellency the Governor, arrived in Town last Evening from New-York.
EXTRACT of a LETTER from GOVERNOR HUTCHINSON, LONDON, July 8, 1774.
"Let the TEA be paid for by or in behalf of the TOWN, as soon as may be; and I hope you will do as much to promote this as possible.-----I find my APPLICATIONS every where to have more weight than I could EXPECT, and the PROSPECT of your speedy RELIEF to be fairer every DAY:-----It finally obtained, I shall think it one of the most happy CIRCUMSTANCES of my LIFE."
L AST Monday the Select-Men of this Town waited on his Excellency Governor GAGE, to acquaint him that the Inhabitants were much alarmed to find that he had ordered the breaking up the Ground near the Fortification on the Neck; and requested of his Excellency that he would explain to them his Design in that extraordinary Movement, that they might thereby have it in their Power to quiet the Minds of the People; when his Excellency replied to the following Purpose: That he had no Intention of stopping up the Avenue to the Town, or of obstructing the Inhabitants or any of the Country People, coming in or going out of the Town as usual; that he had taken his Measures, and that he was to protect his Majesty's Subjects and his Majesty's Troops in this Town; and that he had no Intention of any Thing hostile against the Inhabitants.
Monday, Sept. 12.
On Friday last the Select-Men of this Town again waited upon his Excellency the GOVERNOR with the following ADDRESS, viz
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY. T HE Select-Men of Boston, at the earnest Desire of a Number of Gentlemen of the Town and Country, again wait on your Excellency to acquaint you, that since our late Application the Apprehensions of the People not only of this but of the neighbouring Towns are greatly increased, by observing the Design of erecting a Fortress at the Entrance of the Town; & of reducing this Metropolis in other Respects to the State of a Garrison.---This with Complaints lately made, of Abuse from some of the Guards posted in the Quarter in assaulting and forcibly detaining several Persons who were peaceably passing in and out of the Town, may discourage the Market People from coming in with Provisions as usual, and oblige the Inhabitants to abandon the Town.---This Event we greatly deprecate, as it will produce Miseries which may hurry the Province into Acts of Desperation. We should therefore think ourselves happy if we could satisfy the People that your Excellency would suspend your Design, and not add to the Distresses of the Inhabitants occasioned by the PORT-BILL, that of GARRISONING the TOWN.
JOHN SCOLLY, Chairman of the Select-Men.
THE GOVERNOR'S ANSWER.
GENTLEMEN, W HEN you lately applied to me respecting my ordering some Cannon to be placed at the Entrance of the Town, which you term the erecting a Fortress; I so fully expressed my Sentiments, that I tho't you was satisfied the People had nothing to fear from that Measure, as no Use would be made thereof, unless their hostile Proceedings should make it necessary; but as you have this Day acquainted me, that your Fears are rather increased, I have thought proper to assure you, that I have no Intention to prevent the free Egress and Regress of any Person to and from the Town, or of reducing it to the State of a GARRISON, neither shall I suffer any under my Command to injure the Person or Property of any of his Majesty's Subjects. But as it is my Duty, so it shall be my Endeavour to preserve the Peace, and promote the Happiness of every Individual; and I earnestly recommend to you, and every Inhabitant, to cultivate the same Spirit.---And heartily wish they may live quietly and happily in the Town.
Boston, Sept. 9. 1774. To the Gentlemen Selectmen of the Town of Boston.
Extract of a Letter by the last Vessel from London.
P ROVISIONS are very dear and so are likely to continue: find but small Quantities of CORN sent in, now our Ports are open: And further we have a very unpleasing Prospect of the next Year's Crop of WHEAT. The poor are greatly oppressed, and many others much straitened.---That BOSTON is the Seat of MINISTERIAL REVENGE we too well know: The Issue we dread---How far the Colonies will yield, we know not; and if they do, how far they must they know not. The Ministry will endeavour, without Doubt, by all Means to carry one Part, while they oppress another; and if they can disunite you, they gain their End; and in Time oppress all by every TAX imposed upon us, for the Support of their Creatures; of this you need no Hints. We shall soon bear how Things will go down with you. May you have divine Direction. Your LIBERTY or SLAVERY are soon to be determined. Our Ministerial Tools are dogged hungry, and want to pick your Bones. The Ease with which Things passed through our Houses affords Matter for some Speculation. Whether the anti ministerial Part did not interest themselves in the Affair, or bad rather the Ministry should by this Step entangle themselves, Time will probably discover.--- You will be careful how you express yourself, that neither of us be brought into Trouble, as it is very likely our Letters may be inspected."
P O R T S M O U T H,
THURSDAY last arrived here Captain NORMAN in the Fox Mastship, with 30 Chests of TEA, consigned to Edward Parry, Esq; who refused the Consignment; upon the People's being acquainted with this repeated Insult (of the East-India Company) to the Colonies, they were greatly alarmed, and had almost absolutely determined to oblige the Ship to return to London, with the Tea only, but through the polite
Behaviour of the Captain, who was ready to submit to any Thing the People thought proper upon the Occasion, he was permitted to send the Tea to Halifax, and it was put on Board Capt. Fernald, who failed for Halifax with it last Sunday. In future no such Indulgence will be allowed to the Enemies of America.
Mr. PRINTER, Please to insert the following, and you will oblige your's, MEDICUS.
O N Saturday last was delivered of a perfect CHILD, the famous Personage Mrs. FOX, who arrived here from LONDON the 8th Instant: It was expected by many, she would have been provided with a MIDWIFE from BOSTON; as it was feared, if she was intrusted to the Unskillfulness of the obstetric Professors in Portsmouth, her tender Offspring might be stunted in the Birth. But as a more than ordinary Caution was observed on both Sides, the Event so much feared, has been happily prevented. The CHILD was immediately sent to Halifax, to be put under the Care of a faithful Nurse, where it will remain, until it be fit to appear in Public. The MOTHER will return to LONDON, when sufficiently recovered to venture abroad.
* By a private LETTER from Boston since the Post. The following is said to be Governor GAGE's Answer to the COMMITTEE of the County of Suffolk, who waited on his EXCELLENCY, on Account of the uneasiness of said County, occasioned by his erecting a Fortress at the Entrance of the Town, &c.
I hoped the Assurance I gave the Selectmen of Boston on the Subject you now address me, had been satisfactory to every Body.--- I cannot possibly intercept the Intercourse between the Town and the Country; it is my Duty and Interest to encourage it, and it is as much inconsistent with my Duty and Interest to form this strange Scheme you are pleased to suggest of reducing the Inhabitants to a State of Humiliation and Vassalage, by stopping their Supplies, nor have I made it easier to effect this, than what Nature has made it. You mention the Soldiers insulting, begging and abusing Passengers as a common Thing; an Instance perhaps may be given of the bad Behaviour of some disorderly Soldiers, but I must appeal to the Inhabitants of both Town and Country for their general good Behaviour, from their first Arrival to this Time.
I would ask what Occasion there is, for such Numbers going armed in and out of the Town, and thro' the Country in an hostile Manner? Or why were the Guns removed privately in the Night from the Battery at Charlestown? The refusing Submission to the late Acts of Parliament I find general throughout the Province, and I shall lay the same before his Majesty.
A Town-Meeting is to be held in this Town on Monday next at 3 o'Clock Afternoon, when Matters of Importance are to be transacted, therefore it is desired there may be a general Attendance.
The Customers of this Paper
are earnestly desired to pay off what they may be in Arrears immediately, as the Publisher is under a Necessity of raising Money to carry on his Business, and purchase Paper, which he does now with great Difficulty and extraordinary Charge, as it is all brought 70 Miles on Land carriage.-----He hopes every Customer will send at least one Dollar, that the Paper may not be wholly stopped, as there are now the most interesting Matters depending that ever were in this Country.
The Merrimack Post-Rider, whose Year is now up, will not carry News-Papers after this Month, unless the Customers punctually pay off; Likewise the Eastern Post, and the other who Rides up Connecticut River to the College.
T HE annual Convention of Ministers is to be held at the House of the Rev'd Dr. HAVEN in Portsmouth, on Wednesday the 21st of September current.
   CUSTOM HOUSE, Piscataqua, Sept. 15.   Inward-Entries FROM.     Ship Fox, Zechariah Norman, London.   Schooner Delphin, Giles Pearse, Rhode Island.   Brig Hannah, William Trefethen, Grenada.   Clear'd Outwards   Schooner Sally, Thos. Merryman, New London.   Schooner Polly, James Tilestone, Newfoundland.   Sloop Polly, William Furnell, Halifax.   Sloop Britannia, John Gray, Nantucket.   Sloop Revenge, Benjamin Donnell, West Indies.   Brig Abigail, John Wheelwright, Ditto.   Brig Success, Edmund Freeman, Ditto.   Ship Polly, John Gregory, Ditto.  
TO BE SOLD
One Half of a Right of Land, In Rochester, originally belonging to Nicholas Harford, excepting the first Division.
Enquire of the Printer.
Whereas Mary, the Wife of me the Subscriber, has of late run me greatly in Debt, this is therefore to forbid all Persons trusting her on my Account, as I will not pay One Penny she may contract from the date hereof. Kierny, Sept. 14th 1774. JOHN LILLEY.
TO BE SOLD, For the Term of seven Years, pursuant to a Decree of Court,
George Madden, An Excellent Weaver---Whoever inclines to purchase the said George, my hear of the Terms by enquiring at the Printing Office. Portsmouth, Sept. 13, 1774.

Richard Champney,
Informs his Customers & others,
That he has just open'd a fresh Assortment of most Kinds of English and Hard Ware GOODS, which he will sell at his shop in Queen Street, as low as can be purchased in any shop in Town.
—Among which are,—
A Good Assortment of Sarges—Shal-lons—Buttons, Twist, Buckrams, sewing Silks, Threads, Tammies, Calamancoes, 3 4ths, 7 8ths, and yard wide Irish Linnens—Callicoes, Chinces, Patches,—A good Assortment of plain and figured Ribbands—Dutch Laces—Black & white plain Gauze—Sattins,—Sarsonets—Lawn Aprons and Handkerchiefs—plain Lawns and Cambric—Linnen, Silk and Cotton Handkerchiefs—black Barcelona Handkerchiefs pr. Dozen—Bengalls—narrow and wide Bindings—Garterings, Pins, Tapes, Combs of all sorts—white, black blonde and blond Laces—Silk and Cotton Stay Laces, Cheiveaux de Frize—Taffities, and Taffity Persians—Wide and narrow Allamode,—Fans, Necklaces, lb. Beads,—Black, white color'd, silk & worsted Mitts,—Men's and Women's black and white Lamb Gloves—and all Kinds of Mourning—Testaments, Platters, Primmers,—All kinds of Spices—Best French Indigo pr Pound—Chinces and Lawns,—Single and double Flint Wine Glasses—Delph Bowls—A great Variety of black, white and yellow Shoe and Knee Buckles—Penknives, Scissars, Cuttoes, Case Knives and Forks—Brass Cocks—A compleat Assortment of Desk Furniture—Chest and Cubbard Locks—Spikes and Nails, Gimblets, Tap-Borers, Chests and H Hinges, Bellows, Iron Candlesticks,—Cotton and Hemp Chaulk Lines,—Slates and Pencils—Brass and Leather Ink-Pots—Powder, Shot, and Gun Flints—Raisins, Oatmeal—Snuff by the Bottle—Coffee, Pepper, Allspice, Ginger, Log-Wood, Red-Wood, Alum, Loaf and brown Sugars, Whale Bone, Oil by Flask or Gallon, Cotton-Wool.
At his Store on the Long-Wharf, may be had, West-India & New England Rum, Molasses by the Hoghead or Barrel, superfine and common Flour by the Barrel, brown Sugar pr. Barrel—Excellent common and clear Pork pr. Barrel, New-York Gammons—brown Bread pr. Cask, Lemmons pr. Box—All the above Articles by retail at very low Prices for Cash only.—All Kinds of Tin Ware made and sold by wholesale or retail at his Shop.
§ SUCCESS. §
Encouragement for Settlers on new Lands. THREE or Four able Men, acquainted with cultivating new Lands, are immediately wanted, in order to making Settlements in the Township of SUCCESS. They must begin their Work in the Course of two Months from the Date hereof, or sooner, if convenient—The said Township of Success is not more than sixty Miles distant from Falmouth in Casco-Bay, with which Town they may have an easy Communication, by about thirty Miles Water-Carriage. Any suitable Person inclining to settle in the said Township of Success, will meet with such great Encouragement both by Grant of Lands and Money for Labour as will be a sufficient Inducement to them to undertake, by applying to BENJAMIN MACKAY, } Committee SUPPLY CLAP, } Portsmouth, Sept. 1. 1774.
Whereas on the twentieth Day of October A. D. 1761, the Proprietors of the Town of BERNARD, formerly in the Province of New-Hampshire, at a legal Meeting then held, voted that a TAX or Assessment of Three Hundred and Forty five DOLLARS be raised and assessed on the original Proprietors of said Town, to defray the necessary Charges of the said Town—And whereas each Proprietors Share of said TAX is Five DOLLARS, as mentioned in the List committed to me as Collector of the said Town—And whereas sundry of said Proprietors have to this Day omitted paying me their proportion of said TAX although they have been legally notified and warned so to do many Years ago, whose Names with the Sums due from each of them, are as follows, viz.—Richard Champney Five Dollars—Daniel Warner, Esq; Five Dollars—Jonathan Lovewell, Esq; Five Dollars—Samuel Sherburne, Esq; Five Dollars—George Jaffrey, Esq; Five Dollars—Rev. Anthony Wibird Five Dollars—Elisha Story Five Dollars—Thales Greenwood Five Dollars—John Wendell Five Dollars—James Mc Donough Five Dollars—Hunking Wentworth, Esq; Five Dollars—Joseph Newmarch Five Dollars—Richard Emory Five Dollars, Samuel Wentworth, Esq; Five Dollars—Benning Wentworth, Esq; late Governor, Ten Dollars—
THESE are therefore to notify and warn the delinquent Proprietors aforesaid, and all other Persons concerned, that unless they pay me the several Sums aforesaid, raised as a TAX on their several Rights, on or before the 24th Day of September Instant, that so much of their original Rights in the said Town of Bernard, will be Sold by me at PUBLIC AUCTION at the House of Henry Wise, Innholder in Ipswich, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, on the 26th Day of September current, at three o'Clock Afternoon, to defray said Taxes. WILLIAM DODGE, Collector Ipswich, Sept. 1st. 1774.
Whereas on the twentieth Day
of October, A. D. 1761, the Proprietors of the Town of STOCKBRIDGE, formerly in the Province of New-Hampshire, at a Legal Meeting then held, voted that a TAX or Assessment of Three Hundred and sixty DOLLARS be raised and assessed on the original Proprietors of said Town, to defray the necessary Charges of the said Town—And whereas each Proprietors Share of said TAX is Five DOLLARS, as mentioned in the List committed to me as Collector of the said Town—And whereas sundry of said Proprietors have to this Day omitted paying me their proportion of said TAX, altho' they have been legally notified and warned so to do many Years ago, whose Names with the Sums due from each of them, are as follows, viz.—Joshua Henshaw, Esq; Five Dollars—Jeremiah Green, Esq; Five Dollars—John Cunnable Five Dollars—Andrew Belcher, Esq; Five Dollars—Joshua Orne Five Dollars—James Friend Five Dollars—Daniel Warner Five Dollars—James Nevin Five Dollars—George Wentworth Five Dollars—John Sherburne Five Dollars—Henry Deering Five Dollars—John Winthrop, Esq; Five Dollars—Edward Wigglesworth Five Dollars—Rev Nathaniel Appleton Five Dollars—Joshua Wentworth Five Dollars—Samuel Wentworth, Esq; Five Dollars—Samuel Warner Five Dollars—Nathaniel Warner Five Dollars—His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, Esq; Five Dollars. Hon. Jacob Wendell, Esq; Five Dollars—Benning Wentworth, Esq; late Governor, Ten Dollars—
THESE are therefore to notify and warn the delinquent Proprietors aforesaid, and all other Persons concerned, that unless they pay me the several Sums aforesaid, raised as a TAX on their several Rights, on or before the twenty fourth Day of September Instant, that so much of their original Rights in the said Town of Stockbridge will be Sold by me at public Auction at the House of Henry Wise, Innholder in Ipswich, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, on the 26th Day of September current, at Three o'Clock Afternoon, to defray said Taxes. WILLIAM DODGE, Col. Ipswich, Sept. 1, 1774.
§ Monadnock, No. 5. §
WHEREAS the Proprietors of MONADNOCK No. 5. did at a legal Meeting, held in said Township, the nineteenth Day of January last, vote to raise two pence half penny per Acre on all the rateable Lands in said Town, these are to notify the Owners of Land in said Town to pay their respective Taxes to me at my Dwelling House in said town, on or before the fifteenth Day of September next, or their Lands will be advertised for Sale, as the Law directs. August 15. 1774. James Brewer, Collector.
ALL PERSONS indebted to, or that have Demands on the Estate of Ephraim Davis, late of Dover, deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts immediately to Lou's Davis of Dover, Administratrix to said Estate, in order for a speedy Settlement.
§ Marlow. §
WHEREAS the Proprietors of the Township of MARLOW, in the County of Cheshire and Province of New Hampshire, have been legally Notified to pay a Tax or Assessment of Three Dollars on each Proprietor's Right or whole Share in said Township, to me the Subscriber Collector of said TAX; and sundry of said Proprietors being yet delinquent in the whole or in part in paying the said TAX; — this is therefore to give Notice to such delinquent Proprietors, that so much of their respective Rights or Shares of Land in said Marlow will be sold at Publick Vendue, as the Law directs, at the new Dwelling House of Samuel Gustin, in said Marlow, on Saturday the twenty Fourth Day of September next ensuing the Date at Nine of the Clock in the Forenoon, as to pay the said TAX with incidental Charges, unless prevented by payment. — The Names of the delinquent Proprietors with the Sums due on their respective Rights, are as follows,—
   s. d. s. d.     Samuel Mather, jr 18 0 Jabez Chalker 6 0   Ephraim Brockway 11 8 Ebenezer White 4 0   Marshall Parsons 4 0 Hopkell Cruttenden 5 0   Jonathan Alger 9 0 Gideon Jones 9 0   Joseph Clark 6 0 Richard Wibird, Esq 18 0   Elisha Ely 14 0 Capt. George King 18 0   John Nelson 5 0 John Bettingham 18 0   Isaac Hall 18 0 Jared Spencer 7 6   John Peck 18 0 William Lay 9 0   Phineas Chapman 18 0 Edward Lay 6 0   Daniel Bushnell 11 8 Samuel Bushnell 2 0   John Bull 18 0 William Ayers 6 0    Marlow, August 22, 1774. Job Johnson.
§ Canaan. §
PROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, Grafton, ss. NOTICE is hereby given to all the delinquent Proprietors of said CANAAN, that the Vendue Meeting of said Proprietors stands adjourned to the second Monday of November next, to the Dwelling House of Samuel Chapman, Innholder in said Canaan, at ten o'Clock before Noon — And if all the delinquent Lands are not sold at said Meeting, to be adjourned to the Thursday following. George Harris, Collector. Canaan, August 27, 1774.
A Pair of Sile-skin Saddle Bags
Containing two Quarts of Rum, one Quarter of Fresh 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.
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, late of Portsmouth, Esq; deceased, restate, 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 deceased, the last Wednesday of this and the five next following Months, from six to nine o'Clock Afternoon of said Days. SAMUEL PENHALLOW, WILLIAM KNIGHT, Portsmouth, August 23d, 1774.
Stolen on Saturday Night, the 27th of August last, out of a Field at the upper Part of Wells, a pale red HORSE, about 4 Years old; he has a light coloured Main and Tail, white Feet, white Face and Nose, trots and paces, about 14 Hands high. — Whoever will take up said Horse and convey him to the Owner William Jepson of Wells, shall receive Four Dollars Reward, and necessary Charges paid — Whoever will discover the Thief, so that he may be brought to Justice, shall have six Dollars Reward. William Jepson.
A Large Whale-Boat
Was taken up at Sea off against Hampton River the second Instant, and carried into Little Boars Head, so called. She is 19 Feet Keel, six Feet within Board, has a square Foresail. The Owner may have her, paying the Charges, by applying to Reubin Marston, Stephen Brown, or Isaac Jencks. Northampton, Sept. 7. 1774.
Whereas ELIZABETH the Wife of me the Subscriber has behaved herself disorderly and left me, without any Provocation given by me, — This is therefore to forbid all Persons crediting her on my Account, as I shall pay no Debts of her contracting from the Date hereof. Thomas Ham. Rochester August 26, 1774.