New-Hampshire gazette, or, State journal and general advertiser (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1781-01-29 00:00:00

THE  NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE; OR,  STATE JOURNAL, and GENERAL ADVERTISER.
[ Vol. XXIV. ]
MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1781.
[ No. 1266. ]
T HE Members of the Honorable COUNCIL for the State of New-Hampshire, as returned December 20th, 1780, are as follows, viz.
For the County of ROCKINGHAM.
The Hon. MESHECH WEARE , President.  JOSIAH BARTLETT ,  NICHOLAS GILMAN ,  GEORGE ATKINSON , * JOHN M'CLARY , Esquires.
For the County of STRAFFORD,
The Hon. * GEORGE FROST , * J. WENTWORTH , jr. Esq'rs.
For the County of HILLSBOROUGH,
The Hon. * WISEMAN CLAGGETT ,  TIMOTHY FARRAR , Esq'rs.
For the County of GRAFTON,
The Hon. * CHARLES JOHNSTON , Esq;  EBENEZER THOMPSON , Esq; Secretary.  JOSEPH PEARSON , Esq; D. Secretary.
The Gentlemen with this (*) Mark were not of the Honorable Board last Year.
The Members of the Honorable House of REPRESENTATIVES for the State of New-Hampshire, as returned December 20th, 1780, are as follows, viz.
Portsmouth, Col. John Langdon, Speaker. Brigadier-General William Whipple, Major George Gains.
Exeter, Mr. John Taylor Gilman, Mr. Ephraim Robinson.
Londonderry, * John Bell, Esq; * Major Daniel Reynolds.
Chester, Rob't Wilson, Esq; * Jacob Chase, Esq.
Brintwood, Samuel Dudley, Esq;
Stratham, Major Mark Wiggin,
Northampton, * Capt. Moses Leavitt,
Kensington, * Ebenezer Potter, Esq;
Epping, Enoch Coffin, Esq;
Hampton, Josiah Moulton, Esq;
Newton and South Hampton, * Capt. R. Stuart,
Kingston and East-Kingston, * Nathaniel Batchelder, Esq;
Greenland, Major William Weeks,
Nottingham, Colonel Thomas Bartlett,
Newington, Major Ephraim Pickering,
Rye, * Mr. Richard Brown,
Atkinson and Plaistow, * John Webster, Esq;
Hampstead, John Caise, Esq;
Raymond and Poplin, John Dudley, Esq;
New-Castle, Captain John Blunt,
Deerfield & Northwood, * Maj. Simon Marston,
Salem, Timothy Ladd, Esq;
Gandia, Walter Robie, Esq;
Pelham, Mr. David Butler,
Windham, James Betton, Esq;
Pembroke, * Colonel John Whittier,
Concord, * Major Jonathan Hale,
Canterbury, Loudon and Northfield, Abiel Foster, Esq;
Durham, John Smith, Esq;
Lee, Colonel Hercules Mooney,
Madbury, Mr. James Davis,
Dover, * Col. Joshua Wingate, * Mr. John Kielle,
Somersworth, Major Jonathan Wentworth,
Rochester, * Mr. Jabez Dame,
Barrington, * Mr. George Seaward,
Wakefield, Middleton and Effingham, Simeon Dearborn, Esq;
Barnstead & Gilmantown, * Capt. John Drew,
Meredith & Sanborntown, Col. Eben'r Smith,
Sandwich, Moultonborough, } * Major David
New-Hampton & Tamworth, } Folsom,
Conway & Locations adjoining, * Maj. D. Page,
Goffstown, Robert M'Gregore, Esq;
Merrimac, Capt. Samuel Patten, Nottingham West, * Mr. John Burns, Dunstable, * Mr. William Hunt, Hollis, Colonel John Hale, Amherst, * Colonel Nahum Baldwin, * Mr. Samuel Wilkins,
Hopkinton, * Mr. Moses Hills, Salisbury & Boscawen, * Capt. Eben. Webster, Weare, * Mr. Thomas Eaton, Wilton, Mile-Slip, } * Mr. Wm. Abbot, jr. Dunbury School Farm, }
New-Boston, and Francestown, Mr. James Caldwell,
Andover, Warner, New-Briton, } Mr. Toppan Perrystown and Fishersfield, } Evans, Mason and Raby, * Mr. Joseph Barret, New-Ipswich, * Mr. Ephraim Adams, Temple, Peterborough } Francis Blood, Esq;
and Peterborough Slip, } Marlborough & Dublin, * Mr. Rich'd Atwell, Lyndborough, * Capt. Levi Spaulding, Hillborough, Hancock, Henniker, } * Captain Antrim, Dearing & Society-Land, } R. Alcock, Litchfield and Derryfield, Maj. Sam'l Chase, Rindge and Jaffrey, * Capt. Daniel Rand, Winchester, Captain Nehemiah Houghton, Plymouth, N. Londn, Cockermouth, } Mr. Enoch Alexandria, and New-Chester. } Noyes, *
Campton, New-Holderness, } * Major Moses Rumney and Thornton, } Baker, Lancaster, Northumberland, Strat- } Captain ford, Apthorp, and Dartmouth, } J. Eames, Haverhill, * Moses Dow, Esq; Bow and Dunbarton, * Jeremiah Page, Esq; Westmorland * Captain Ephraim Stone.
The Gentlemen with this (*) Mark were not of the Honorable House last Year.
State of New-Hampshire, Hillborough ss.  N OTICE is hereby given that so much of the following lots of land in Perrystown, will be sold at public vendue on the first Monday in February next, at my house in said Town, at ten o'clock forenoon, as will pay the Taxes for the year 1780, with incidental charges, unless they be sooner paid.
   1st division. 2d division.   No. l. s. d. No. l. s. d.     Edmund Page 55 5 1 0   Jonathan Poor 77 18 2 0   Jonathan Plummer 13 5 1 0   John Ayers 43 1 7 6   Timothy Eaton 61 7 11 6 43 15 3 0   Daniel Roberts 51 7 11 6 18 15 3 0   Thomas Whitaker 24 12 12 6 41 10 2 0   John Poor 74 10 2 0 54 10 2 0   James Clements 70 10 2 0 16 15 3 0   Parker Stevens 33 5 1 0   Samuel Little 50 5 1 0   The Beef Tax only.   Steph. Woodward 30 6 18 0   William Stevens 80 4 12 0 48 8 1 0   Samuel Clements 24 13 16 0   Samuel Ayers 56 6 18 0 8 11 10 0   John Cogswell 14 5 15 0   Benjamin Eaton 53 4 12 0   Jacob Woodward 45 16 2 0 28 11 10 0   John Ayers 27 5 15 0   Edmund Page 37 4 12 0 44 5 15 0   Benjamin Eaton 65 2 6 0 57 6 18 0   John Plummer 33 4 12 0   Aaron Serjeant 81 9 4 0   John Pecker 45 4 12 0   Thomas Hale 54 4 12 0   David Marsh 60 5 15 0  
The Lord Proprietors Lots. Law Lot, No. 1, 35l 7s Thomas Wallingsford, No. 18, 35l 7s Meserve and others, No. 12, 35l 7s  DAVID EATON , Constable. Perrystown, January 3, 1781.
B LANKS of different sorts, may be had at the Printing-Office in Exeter.
T HE MANAGERS of STRATHAM and NEWMARKET BRIDGE LOTTERY, propose to commence drawing the FIRST CLASS, at the House of Mr. STILMON TARLTON , Innholder near said Bridge, on Wednesday the 31st Day of January Instant.
January 1, 1781.
** A few TICKETS in the above Lottery, may be had at the Printing-Office in Exeter, if applied for soon.
To be sold by Public Vendue,
At the Dwelling House of Michael Dalton, innholder in Londonderry, on WEDNESDAY the 4th day of April next, pursuant to orders from the honorable the Judge of Probate for the county of Rockingham, in the State of New-Hampshire, by ROBERT SMITH , of said Londonderry, gentleman, Trustee of the confiscated estate that belonged to STEPHEN HOLLAND , late of said Londonderry, Esq; an absentee from said State, the Tracts and Rights of Land lying in said State, hereafter mentioned, being parts of the said confiscated estate, viz.
The Barr Lott (so called) in Londonderry, containing 70 acres and three-quarters; Col. John Goff's right in Thornton; one third of one eighth of one fifteenth part of Mason's patent, lately belonging to Jotham Odiorne, Esq; deceased, bought of William Preston; a Location containing 2000 acres, adjoining to the town of Thornton, and Goff's Location, so called; two whole rights of land in Dunbarton, viz. the right of Hugh Ramsey, and the right of Samuel Fulton; one eighth part of the original right of Jotham Odiorne, Esq; deceased, in the town of Dunbarton; one eighth part of a right in Dunbarton, bought of William Appleton; lands in Dunbarton, bought of Odiorne, Treadwell and Pierce; one hundred acres of land in Dunbarton, bought of John Stinson; said Holland's right in the undivided lands in the Society-lands, so called; also his right in the Gore, so called; also his right in the following towns, viz. Washington, Dublin, Hillborough, New-Chester, Stoddard, Moultonborough, Alexandria, Fishersfield, Sandborntown, Fane, New-Ipswich, Temple, Peterborough-Slip, Perrystown, New-Almshury, Boscawen, Alexandria-Addition, New-London, Moultonborough, New-Hampton, Merrimack, Hopkinton, New-Boston, Lyndborough, Wilton, Mason, Peterborough, Weare, Goffstown, Dunbarton, Amherst, Gilmantown, New-Durham, Middleton, Wakefield, Meredith, Allenstown, Effingham, Wolfborough, Bedford, Salisbury, Andover, Henneker, the Gore by Winnepesaukee, Camden, Limerick, Packersfield, Marlborough, Fitz-William, Jaffrey, Rindge, Derryfield, Society-lands, Bradford, Lands between Effingham and Conway, Lands between Wolfborough and Effingham, Lands between Fishersfield and Cambden, Slip of lands between New-Boston and Weare, Strip of land at the head of Old-Durham, Lands adjoining to Kittery, Campbell's Gore (so called) a hundred acre lott of land between Derryfield, Lietchfield, Chester and Londonderry.
The Sale to begin at ten o'clock in the forenoon, and to be continued from day to day until all be sold. The conditions of sale to be then and there made known. And all persons who have received a deed or deeds of any of said lands or rights of land from the said Holland, are hereby requested to shew the same to the said Trustee, at or before the said day, to prevent any further trouble. ALSO,
At said time and place will be sold,
A valuable GOLD WATCH late the property of said Holland. Londonderry, January 4, 1781.

L O N D O N, October 14.
The Portuguese being at present in no condition to withstand the English, should they be inclined to wreak their vengeance upon them for joining in the armed confederacy. Ten Russian ships of the line have entered the Tagus for their protection. His Catholic Majesty has also given orders for six vessels of the line to sail from his ports for L'Von, where they are to be joined by six others fitting out by order of the Queen of Portugal, to protect her trade and commerce from insult. Measures so preparatory for war, seem to speak nothing else, and will scarce admit of any other aggravation, than an acknowledgment of the Independence of America.
All the neutral powers, says a correspondent, have agreed to declare America free, and to lay the foundation of a general peace; and if either Great Britain, or any other power should be hardy enough to say we will not accede to the terms, they intend to compel them.
From Paris we are informed, that a very fine train of new brass ordnance, consisting of twelve 18 pounders, twelve 24 pounders, and twelve 32 pounders, with several large mortars, with tumbrils, &c. compleat, are ready to be embarked as a present from the Court of Versailles to the United States of America.
The Ministry have plucked up their spirits--the last Gazette has elated them to the utmost. The good news of one army of the English subjects having destroyed another army of men under the same description, has been received at Court with the utmost joy. The spirit of persecution will now continue abroad, like the blaze of a meteor, to enlighten & destroy, while it spends its own strength. What good has resulted to England from the American war? What evil has not? Misfortunes have fallen upon the empire like thunder-claps, unexpected by every one but those who raised the storm. In the midst of this convulsion, a great Magistrate has set calm and sedate, as the poet Petronious, who being at sea in a hurricane, when every person on board the ship expected to perish, serenely meditated on composing an exact description of the tempest.
R I C H M O N D, December 30.
By an officer immediately from the southern army, we have the agreeable and certain intelligence, that on the 10th instant, Col. Taiton's legion, commanded by himself in person, received a severe repulse in an attempt to surprize Colonels Marian and Clarke, who, with a detachment of five or six hundred men, were posted in the district of Ninety-Six; upwards of one hundred of the enemy were left dead on the field, and a great number wounded; the principal part of the latter they found means to carry off: Our loss does not exceed 20 killed and wounded. This is the third attempt in which that enterprising partizan has been repulsed by the vigilance and good conduct of our troops.
In the H O U S E of D E L E G A T E S, Thursday, December 28, 1780.
RESOLVED, nemine contradicente , That a committee of four be appointed to wait on Major-General Gates, and to assure him of the high regard and esteem of this House. That the remembrance of his former glorious services cannot be obliterated by any reverse of fortune, but that this House, ever mindful of his great merit, will omit no opportunity of testifying to the world the gratitude which, as a member of the American Union, this country owes to him in his military character.
(Test) JOHN BECKLY, C. H. D.
Friday, 29th Dec. 1780.
Mr. Henry reported from the committee appointed to communicate the resolution of yesterday to the Hon. Major-General Gates, that the committee had, according to order, communicated the same to that gentleman, and that he was pleased to return the following answer:
Richmond, December 28, 1780.
S I R S,
"I shall ever remember, with the utmost gratitude, the high honor this day done me, by the honorable the House of Delegates, of Virginia.---When I engaged in the public cause of Freedom and the United States, I devoted myself entirely to the service of obtaining the great end of their union: That I have been once unfortunate is my great mortification; but let the event of my future services be what they may, they will, as they always have been, be directed by the most faithful integrity, and animated by the truest zeal for the honor and interest of the United States."
HORATIO GATES.
Extract from the Journals,
JOHN BECKLY, C. H. D.
P H I L A D E L P H I A, January 10. Extract of a letter from an officer of the State of Georgia, Aid to Major-General Gates, dated Hillsborough, Dec. 26, 1780.
I am here with the General, who is returning from the command of the southern army. You may have heard of the compleat victory obtained by the troops under Gen. Sumpter over Taiton's legion, and other troops under his command. General Sumpter was wounded in the arm, and the corps, consisting of between 4 and 500 of our countrymen, & about an equal number of South Carolinians is devolved upon Col. Benjamin Tew, who has since marched against the enemy in the district of Ninety-Six, with a view also of penetrating the frontiers of our State. They breathe nothing but revenge, for the unheard of cruelties committed upon our distressed people.
Extract of a letter from Frederickburgh, January 2.
"About forty-eight sail of vessels arrived in our Bay, Saturday evening last, supposed from New-York."
Friday last arrived here the privateer ship Resolution, from New-York on a cruise; taken by the Saratoga sloop of war, Captain Young.
On Sunday arrived here the Brigantines Patty, Captain Read, and Polly, Captain Frazer, in eight weeks from P'Orient.
Capt. Read on his passage, captured and brought in with him a large Schooner from Penobscot, bound to New-York, laden with spars. The famous Major Rogers, of the British army, was a passenger on board this prize, & is now safely lodged in the new goal.
F I S H - K I L L, January 18.
General Sir Harry Clinton ever willing to embrace an opportunity to farther his master's interest, last week sent over two spies to the revolted Pennsylvanian's camp, with written instructions, that by laying down their arms, and coming in to his camp, they should be paid up their arrearages in hard cash, and cloathed. We learn that the malcontents (for this we give them credit) gave up the spies and instructions to Gen. Wayne; one of them a British serjeant, the guide, a native of New-Jersey, named Ogden; both have received the gallows, as their reward. We sincerely wish, Sir Harry would desist from plaguing us with hanging his spies; and let him keep his money to pay his own troops who are deserting to us in considerable numbers, with loud complaints--that they are poorly paid, ill cloathed, and worse fed.
LOST, on Saturday the 20th instant,
A Gold W A T C H,
either at Portsmouth or New-Castle, (but supposed to be the later) belonging to an Officer of his Most Christian Majesty's Army at Rhode-Island. Any Person finding the same and returning it to the Subscriber, shall be amply compensated for their Trouble.
S. PENHALLOW, junr.
Portsmouth, January 22, 1780.
A legal meeting held by the proprietors of Dorchester, in said town, July 6, 1780, Voted to raise a tax of Three Shillings and four Pence, upon each hundred acres, for the procuring of Mill Irons, and other necessary charges for the erecting of Mills for the benefit of said town. The proprietors are requested to make speedy payment to Caleb Clark, of Canaan Collector.
Dorchester, Jan. 24, 1781.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of the following lots of lands in Canterbury, who delinquent in paying their taxes for the year 1780, that so much of said lots will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of David Mc-Crillis, in said town, on the 22d day of February next, between the hours of ten o'clock, A. M. and six o'clock, P. M. as will pay said taxes with incidental charges, unless sooner discharged.
   1st div. 2d div. 3d div.   l. s. l. s. l. s.     John Thompson, jr. 2 9 6 0 0 8   John Reed, Att'ry. 2 9 6 0 0 9   Benjamin York, 2 9 6 0 0 18   Daniel Davis, 2 9 6 6 12   Thomas Davis, 20 16   Ezekiel Leathers, 2 9 6   Gershon Wentworth 4 19   Jonathan Thompson 9 18   Richard Waldron, Esq: 3 19   Stephen Jones 11 11   Henry Tibbets 13 4 13 4   William Demerit 5 15 6   John Knight 13 4   Job Clement 2 9 6 3 17   John York 10 8   David Davis 6 12 13 4   Nathaniel Hill 17 10   William Glines, jr. 6 12   Shadrick Walton 13 4   Col. Mark Hunkin 3 6 9 18 9 18   Joseph Jenkins, jr. 6 12   Samuel Doe 13 4   Richard Waldron, jr. 3 6 6 12   Eli Clark 8 5   John Runnals 13 4   Andrew Wiggins 6 12   Jonathan Woodman 1 13   Micha Emerson 27 8 6 12   Benjamin Wentworth 13 4   Joseph Davis 6 12   John Willie, jr. 9 18 17 10   James Gooden 5 15 6   Robert Thompson 6 12 9 18   John Sheppard 2 9 6   Thomas Drew 2 9 6   John Ambler 2 9 6 9 18   Robert Burnam 9 1 6   John Demerit 2 9 6   Samuel Chesley 2 9 6   John Carter 6 12   Jonathan Chesley 5 5   John Carl 3 6   Joseph Hussey 3 6   Edward Tibbets 2 15 4 19   Edward Evans 9 18   Ichabod Follet 3 6   John Pitman 17 10   Job Bennet 2 17 6   George Jaffery, Esq; 1 18 6   Thomas Rines 2 9 6 13 4   John Waldron 3 17   John Rollins 4 19   Col. Thomas Westbrook 4 19   Joseph Perkins 2 15   William Leathers 8 5 6 2   Thomas Willee 1 13   Joseph Ellison 6 12   Henry Tibbets 2 4 13 4   Nathaniel Lumacks 14 17   James Jeffery 5 15 8 5   Henry Dearborn 6 12   Richard Blanchard 16 16  
Ephraim Carter, Collector.
Canterbury, Jan. 18, 1781.
State of New-Hampshire. Strafford ss.
WHEREAS the proprietors of Gilmantown aforesaid, have been legally notified to pay their taxes on all the lands in Gilmantown aforesaid, for the years 1779 and 1780; and a number of said proprietors or owners of lots and common rights, have neglected to pay their taxes: These are therefore to notify all the non-resident proprietors or owners of particular lots of land and common rights that are delinquent in paying their taxes, that there will be sold at public vendue, on Wednesday the 21st day of February next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at the house of Antipal Gilman, innholder in said town of Gilmantown, so much of each delinquent's rights or lots of land as shall be sufficient to pay the sums that remain due for the two years above-mentioned, with all incidental charges, unless payment be made before the time of sale.
Samuel Fife, Constable for 1779. Paul Bickford, Constable for 1780.
Gilmantown, Jan. 2, 1781.

B O S T O N, January 25.
Last week arrived at Salem, Capt. Forrester from Cape-Francois, but last from the Havannah in 11 days, and informs that he left the first mentioned port the 15th of December; that two or three days before he left it, a brigantine arrived there from Marseills, which brought news that Count d'Estaing, commander in chief of the combined fleets, consisting of 72 sail of the line, was pursuing his operations against Gibraltar; that he had compleatly cut off all supplies by sea; that he attacked a certain battery on the dock with 4 or 5 ships, battered the walls down which kill'd a great many men in the fort, the ships received little or no damage, that the British refus'd to receive any prisoners in Gibraltar; that a company of British troops that was on some out-post, deserted to a man to the Spaniards; that the garrison of Gibraltar requested supplies from the Turks, who told them that they would sell them as much as they wanted, if they would send for it, but they would not carry it to them. -- The above in part was confirmed by a Captain of a ship from Corunna, which he saw in Havannah. Capt. Forrester sailed from Cape Francois in company with 3 74's, and 1 64, two frigates and two tenders, and arrived at Havannah 28th of December, in company with the above ships; 3 Spanish ships of 74, with some frigates and 20 gun ships were masted, and 2 of 74 and 1 frigate dismasted. -- He also heard that the Spanish troops at Penzcola were waiting for a reinforcement.
By a vessel that arrived at Newbury-Port last week from the West Indies, we have the following extract of a letter from the Attorney General, at Gaudaloupe, to his correspondent in that town, dated Dec. 2. "The gale of wind which happened the 12th Oct. was the most severe perhaps ever known. -- Barbadoes suffered amazingly, 6500 souls perished, Tobago laid waste, Grenado, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Martinique, and Dominique, suffered more than any person can conceive. St. Kitts and Eustatia, did not escape without damage: This island did but just feel it.
"A few days ago arrived at Martinique, from Old France, 60 merchantmen and transports, under convoy of 3 ships of the line, and 4 frigates, The King's ships had 4000 troops on board which were not admitted to land; the Governor ordered them to proceed directly to the Havannah, there to join the fleet which went from Cape-Francois. The Spanish fleet are now preparing to go on some private expedition. Most of the English fleet on these seas are either drove on shore, dismasted, or foundered, in the late hurricane."
A letter from l'Orient of the 8th of November mentions, That the British fleet at Torbay had received a great deal of damage in a gale of wind, which obliged them to put back to Portsmouth to refit, where it was thought they would remain all winter.
We have an account by the Southern post, that the revolted troops of the Pennsylvania line, have returned to their duty.
Sunday arrived a ship from Philadelphia, with a cargo of flour.
CASH, or WRITING PAPER, is given for clean Linnen, or Cotton and Linnen
R A G S
At the Printing-Office in Exeter.
E X E T E R, January 29.
Saturday last the General Assembly of this State adjourned to the second Wednesday in March next, then to meet at the Court-House in this town.
We hear from Canterbury, that the Rev. Mr. SAMPSON GUINEA , departed this life after a short illness; he was a native of Africa. Early in life he discovered a great regard for the christian religion; and in a few years he arrived to so great a degree of knowledge in divinity, that a small number of persons at the West end of this town, accepted him as their minister; where he preached many years. Some time in the latter part of the year 1780, he had a call to preach at Canterbury; he resided with them but a few months; when he was seized with a violent fever which soon put a period to his life; his remains were decently interred by the surviving brethren in Canterbury. -- Hereby our glory is thinned, and a splendid part of the beauty of our Israel fallen, or rather ascended! His congregation is called to mourning on this solemn occasion, as Israel was for their Moses, their Aaron, &c. they should pay all due honors to his memory, as to a Jehoida, of whom it is said he had done good in Israel. May this breach (wide as the sea) be soon repaired, by fixing some eminent man over them, in whose light, influence and usefulness, they may again rejoice.
WHEREAS Elizabeth Marston of Chichester, has made Application to me, and given me a Power of Attorney to recover her Right of Dower for her in all the Lands that was her late Husband's Obediah Marston, deceas'd. -- This is to notify all Persons in the County of Rockingham, that has Lands that was said Marston's, now in their possession, whereof the Widow has Right of Dower, that unless they speedily come and settle with me for the same, I shall take the Steps of the Law touching the Premises.
SIMEON LADD,
Exeter, January 29, 1781.
THE Gentleman, who borrowed a Celestial Globe of the Subscriber, some Years ago, is desired to return it, and pay the Printer for this Advertisement, unless he thinks a long Possession gives him a good Title to it. -- And another Gentleman, who borrowed a Terrestrial Globe, is requested to return it, as he also has had that long enough to have practised or taught others every Geographical Problem commonly necessary or useful to be known: And as both said Globes are wanted to be again lent to a public School, it is expected that they will be sent to me immediately, in good Order.
JOHN WENDELL.
Portsmouth, January 22, 1780.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non resident owners of the foregoing lots in the parish of Loudon, who are delinquent in paying the taxes on the same, for the year 1780 that so much of said lots will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Nathan Batchelder, Esq; in said Loudon, on the 22d day of February next, between the hours of ten o'clock, A. M. and six o'clock, P. M. as will pay said taxes, unless sooner discharged.
First hundred acre division.
   No. 1. a. d. q.     Joseph Mason 74 6 13 10 3   Joseph Hufsey 75 6 13 19 3   George Jaffrey, Esq; 76 6 13 10 3   John Rawlings 95 10 0 7 2   William Glines 128 10 0 7 2   Thomas Drew 133 6 13 9 2   Joseph Perkins 164 13 7 6 0  
New or second hundred acre division.
   Richard Waldron 75 20 1 3 2   William Demerit 90 13 7 6 0   Edward Tibbetts 96 6 13 9 0   Francis Dargin 101 8 7 2 0   Elias Critchet 129 11 13 11 3   Joseph Davis jr. 131 10 0 7 2   Benjamin Mason 130 10 0 7 2   Nathaniel Lummocks 135 10 0 7 2   John Demerit 157 10 0 7 2   Ebenezer Stevens 166 8 7 2 0   Joseph Perkins 179 8 7 2 0   Daniel Davis 183 10 0 7 0   Richard Waldron 186 10 0 7 0   William Fellows 188 10 0 7 2  
Samuel Chamberlain, Collector.
London, Jan. 18, 1781.
Jonathan Hale, in behalf of himself and others, Inhabitants of the Town of Concord, to the State of New Hampshire, having petitioned the General Assembly of said State; setting forth, That said Town was granted to their Ancestors by the General Court of Massachusetts-Bay in the Year 1725. That the Settlement of a Town at that early Period so far up in the Indian Country, was an Attempt hazardous and expensive. That in the Spring of the Year 1726. the said Town was laid out and described by visible Monuments, which are well known at this Day. That in the Year 1733, the Proprietors having to a Punctilio completed the Conditions of their Grant, were made a Town by the Name of Rumford. That in the Year 1740, by a Settlement of the Line between Massachusetts-Bay and New Hampshire, said Town fell into New-Hampshire. That from the Year 1740, until the Year 1749 by several Temporary Acts of the General Court of New Hampshire, the said Town was incorporated without any Alteration of Name, Limits or Privileges; had Precepts sent for Choice of Representatives. That they submitted to every Order of Government with Cheerfulness. That from the Year 1749, until the Year 1765 they were destitute of any Corporate Powers. That in the Year 1765, the General Court of New-Hampshire without their Knowledge incorporated them as a Parish in the Town of Bow, by the Name of Concord, but curtailed their Limits, and restrained their Power. Wherefore he prayed that said Concord might be extended to the ancient and known Boundaries of said Rumford, and have the same Powers and Privileges extended to them as other Towns in this State have and enjoy.
On which Petition the General Court ordered, that said Petitioner should be heard thereon before them on the second Wednesday of their next Session, and that in the mean Time the Petitioner should cause the Substance of said Petition and Order of Court thereon to be published in the New-Hampshire Gazette three Weeks successively, that any person may then appear and shew Cause why the prayer thereof should not be granted.
Ateat, E. THOMPSON, Sec'y.
State of New-Hampshire. Strafford ss. NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors of Middleton, in said State and County, that a proprietors meeting of said proprietors is to be held in said Middletons on Tuesday the 6th of February next, at the house of Francis Mather's, at two o'clock in the afternoon of said day, then and there to act on the following articles, viz 1st. To choose a moderator to regulate said meeting. 2d. To see if the proprietors at said meeting will vote to make good the Rev. Mr. Ordway's settlement and salary, as the money has greatly depreciated, and if the said proprietors do not at said meeting vote to make good said settlement and salary, then to see if the said proprietors will vote to join with Mr. Ordway in calling a Council for his discharge; and to act any thing relating to the above, as the then convened proprietors shall think proper. All concerned are desired to attend at time and place aforesaid. By order of the Committee.
John Gage, Proprietors Clerk.
Dover. January 7 1781.
Lately Published,
And may be had at the Printing-Office in Exeter, on very moderate Terms, for Continental Currency of either the old or new Emissions, or hard Money at the Current Exchange, -- A few of
THE
ACTS and LAWS
OF THE STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE,
IN A M E R I C A.
BY ORDER OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
To which is prefixed, the
RESOLUTION of the AMERICAN CONGRESS, for establishing a FORM of GOVERNMENT in NEW-HAMPSHIRE;
AND THE
RESOLVE of the PROVINCIAL CONGRESS for taking up GOVERN- MENT in FORM.
WITH THE
DECLARATION
OF INDEPENDENCE.
ALL Persons who have Demands against the Estate of Joseph Wills, late of Portsmouth, deceased, Intestate, are desired to exhibit the same to James Gooch, of Portsmouth, Administrator de Bonis, &c. And all Indebted to said Estate, are requested to make speedy payment.
Portsmouth, November 1780.

TO BE SOLD,  AT PUBLIC VENDUE, On Monday the 5th of February, 12 o'Clock  at the lower Town Wharfe, The  NEW , well built, fast sailing Fishing  SCHOONER POLLY— Paper or hard MONEY, Fish, Country Produce, or West-India GOODS will be taken in Payment at the Prices mentioned in Condi- tions of Sale. Portsmouth, Jan. 15. 1780
TO BE SOLD, By RICHARD CHAMPNEY, At his STORE on Messrs Sherburne and Langdon's Wharfe, the following Ar- ticles, by Wholesale or Retail, at the lowest Cash Price, viz.— Molasses, Russia Duck, Sugar, Oznabrigs, Coffee, Irish Linnens, Cotton, Bohea Tea, N. E. Rum, St. Martin's & Lisbon German Steele, (Salt, The best Swedish Iron, Owl pr Bb. Ship Bread, &c. &c.
Many of the above Articles to be ex- chan'd for Merchantable, Jamaica, and Scale FISH.—Also, A small Cargo for West India Markets, consisting of various sort of Lumber—Hhds of Fish, Owl, Barrels of Beef, Ship Bread, &c. &c. can be delivered at the shortest Notice.
Portsmouth, Jan. 17, 1781- THIS is to enclose to Notify the Creditors to the Estate of John Odiorne late of New Castle, deceased; that unless they bring in their Claims by the 20th of February next, they must expect to have them shut out, without any further Notice. Benjamin Odiorne, Administrator. New Castle, Jan. 21st, 1781
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Rockingham ss.  TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. NOTICE is hereby given, that a Libel is filed before me, in behalf of Benjamin Fuller, commander of the private armed Schooner Rambler, and all concerned therein, against the Schooner Ran- ger, of the burthen of twenty five tons, her cargo, tackle & appurtenances, Eliza Hopkins late master; which vessel is said to be captured about the twenty sixth day of November last, and brought into the Port of Piscataqua the 4th day of January Instant— For the trial of the justice of said capture, a Marit me Court for the State aforesaid, will be held at the Court House in Portsmouth, the 7th day of February next, at 11 o'clock in the Forenoon—when & where any persons concerned, may appear and show cause, (if any they have) why the same should not be de- creed for sale, and condemned. JOSHUA BRACKETT, Judge of said Court. Portsmouth, January 16, 1781.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident pro- prietors of lands in Dunbarton, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1779, that unless they pay the same to the subscriber, on or before the 20th day of February next, so much of their lands will be sold as will pay said taxes, with incidental charges, at the house of Israel Clifford's, innholder in said Dun- barton, at one o'clock, P. M. The first column was to be collected May 30, 1779. The second column was to be collected Sept. 29, 1779. Lot. Rangr. Names. l. s. d. q. l. s. d. q. 6 1 Coningham & Stark, 3 7 5 1 4 5 3 3 5 1 North side 50 acres, } 2 3 8 2 3 18 6 3 Wallingford, } 13 2 Samuel Stinson, 8 7 5 1 14 18 6 3 6 5 Rogers & Putney, 4 7 5 1 7 17 3 3 5 6 Scovey & Ramsey, 4 7 5 1 7 17 3 3 1 7 Foulton & Varnum, 4 7 5 1 7 17 3 3 2 7 So. side 50 acres, Elliot, 2 3 8 2 3 18 6 3 7 7 Samuel Foulton, 4 7 5 1 7 17 3 3 11 6 Hugh Dunfee, 4 7 5 1 7 17 3 3 5 7 No. side 50 acres, } 1 3 8 2 2 2 6 3 James Varnum, } 9 1 North side 50 acres, } 2 3 8 2 3 18 6 3 McGregor & McCurdy } 1 9 James McGregor, 4 7 5 1 7 17 3 3 14 Capt. Todd, 7 17 3 3 John Church, Constable. Dunbarton, Jan. 10, 1781.
TO BE SOLD, Land in almost any Township in Masons Patent, for particulars Enquire at the Print- ing Office, Portsmouth.
Just opened, and now selling by  SPENCE and SHERBURNE, At their Store on Spring-Hill, Portsmouth, A fresh Assortment of  EUROPEAN GOODS. Also, West-India GOODS, by Wholesale. N. B. BEES-WAX and FLAX SEED, taken in at said Store.
State of New-Hampshire. Rockingham ss. THE non-resident proprietors or owners of Epsom, in said State and County, who have not paid their taxes on their lands in said town, for the year 1780, are hereby notified that unless they pay their respective taxes, that so much of their lands in said town, will be sold at public vendue, at the house of Mrs. Elizabeth McClary, innholder in said town, on Wed- nesday the 7th day of February next, at ten o'clock, A. M. as will pay said taxes, with incidental charges. The names, &c. of the delinquents are as follows, viz.     Names. Lot. Acres Range Div. l. s. d. q. l. s. d. q.     Nathan White, 1 82 1 1 13 12   James Seavey, 2 88 20 8   Samuel Elkins, sen. 1 30 7 10 4 10   John Underwood, 13 112 24 0 13 12   Alice Clark, 26 54 15 0 8 10   Joseph Week, 28 0 12 0   Samuel Haines, 31 78 12 18   Benjamin Nudd, 32 89 24 0 13 12   Mary Rand, ll. 33 63 12 0 6 16   William Berry, 35 69 9 0 5 2   Jeremiah Waisford, 36 141 36 0 20 8   Samuel Chapman, 37 139 39 0 22 2   John Yester, 51 77 2 40 0 22 2   Samuel Allen, 2 30 3 4 1 6   Solomon Douce, 5 30 1 4   Nicholas Dolbear, 72 88 20 4   Jos Brown's part of 75 103 3 51 0 51 2   Solomon Douce, 76 60 11 18   Joseph Meloon, 80 64 9 0 5 2   Richard Neal, 87 140 22 2   Berj. Maccarritt, 104 23 2 11   Sam Wallis's part of 94 50 13 10 7 13   Thomas Dake, 117 &c. 4 70 0 34 0   Daniel Greenough, 119 97 16 15 9 7   Joshua Haines, 120 48 4 10 2 11   Samuel Weeks, 124 102 18 0 10 4   James Randall, 126 11 0 6 18   Nathaniel Morrill, 128 53 6 0 3 8   William Holt, 1 1 2 24 0 13 12   John Shaw, 5 100 15 6   John Conner's part of 4 4 10 2 11   Ephraim Lock, 6 33 3 0   Andrew McClary, 8 77 13 10 7 13   Ditto, 9 31 9 0 5 2   Daniel Holt, 1 2 7 13    JAMES GRAY, Collector for Epsom. Epsom, Jan. 16, 1781. (for the year 1780.)
To be sold at PUBLIC VENDUE, At the Printing Office in Portsmouth, On the first day of February next, At eleven o'clock forenoon, A House and Lott of Land, leading on the road from Portsmouth to Ilkington, formerly belonging to Capt. Ichabod Libbey, deceased. Portsmouth, Jan. 11, 1781.
To be sold at PUBLIC VENDUE, At the house of Mr. THURSTON's, innholder in Exeter, on TUESDAY the 13th of February next, at one o'clock, P. M. A Lott of LAND lying in Meredith, in the county of Strafford, containing 95 acres of choice Land; of which 32 acres of trees is fell, and 9 is into grass, and 23 has been fell two years; and also 180 bushels of chaff hay-seed, on said lott.— Conditions of sale to be known at time and place aforesaid. Zebulon Neal. Newmarket, Jan. 19, 1781.
STATE of NEW HAMPSHIRE, THE Non-Resident owners of land in the follow- ing Towns viz. Hancock, Candia, Peterborough- Slip, Alstead, New-Boston, Derryfield, Deerfield, Dub- lin, Tamworth, Middleton, Dunbarton, Piermont, Andover, Allenstown, Mason, Lyndeborough, North- wood, Ruby, Temple, the Gore, Wakefield, Barn- stead, Alexandria, Saville, Newport, Dering, second tax, Canterbury ditto, Loudon do. are hereby Notifi- ed that their Lands in said Towns were taxed for the year 1780, and if not paid within eight weeks from the first publication of this advertisement they will be notified for sale. Thomas Odiorne. Exeter, January 8th, 1781.
TO BE SOLD By WILLIAMS and OSBORNE, At the Store formerly occupied by Colonels  BARTLET and DEARBORNE, on Nottingham-Square. For Continental Currency, hard Money, or the Pro- duce of the Country:  West-India and New-England Rum, Molasses, Sugar, Tea, Coffee, Chocolate, Cot- ton-Wool, Indigo, Pepper, Spice, Nutmegs, Brim- stone, Allum:—And a small Assortment of  English Goods, viz. Silk for Bonnets, Sewing Ditto, Men's worsted & mill'd Caps, Linens, Handkerchiefs, Knitting Needles, Pins, Writing- Paper, &c. &c. N. B. Earthen Ware, to be sold at said Store.
State of New Hampshire, Hillsborough ss. We the Subscribers being appointed Commis- sioners by the Honorable Mathew Paton, Esq; Judge of the probate of wills, &c. to receive and ex- amine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of William Stake, Esq; John Stinson, yeoman; John Stinson jr. and Samuel Stinson late of Dunbarton, in said County, absentees from this State; that we shall attend said business at the house of Israel Clifford, in- holder in said Dunbarton on the last Tuesday of this instant January, from three of the clock to six of the clock P. M. and on the last Tuesday of the four fol- lowing Months. Jeremiah Page, } Com- John Higg. } missio- John George, } ners. January 10th, 1781.
WHEREAS there was a mistake in advertising the Non-resident land in this town for public sale, for the state and beef taxes for the year 1780, on the last Monday in this present month, is revoked by me. David Eaton, Constable. Perrytown, January 2, 1781.
CLOCKS and WATCHES Cleaned and repaired in the cheapest and best man- ner, just above Capt. Woodbury Langdon's, at my house leading out of town; where also is to be had Watch Glasses, Keys, Seals, Chains, Springs, &c. &c. Nathaniel-Sheaff Griffith.
State of New Hampshire.  Robert Smith and John Moor, of Londonderry, Guardians to James Blair, David Blair, Robert Blair, and Alexander Blair, Minors, having petitioned the General Court of this State, set- ting forth, That there is forty Acres of Land in said Londonderry, belonging to said Minors, that is one Mile in length, the Fences on it very mean, and not Timber to build more. That there is no Buildings thereon, that it will not rent for enough Annually to pay Taxes, &c. Wherefore they prayed to be impowered to sell said Land, and to lay out the Money arising from the Sale, in wild Lands for the Benefit of said Minors. On which Petition the General Court ordered, That the same should be heard before them on the second Tuesday of their next Session, and that in the mean Time the Petitioners cause the Substance of said Petition and Order of Court thereon, to be printed three Weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gaz- ette, that any Person may have Opportunity to appear and show Cause why the Prayer thereof should not be granted. Attest, E. THOMPSON, Sec'y.
To be sold by public Vendue on Thursday the fifth Day of April next, at three o'clock P. M. at the House of the Subscriber in Amherst:  The real ESTATE of Zacheus Cutler, esq; late of said Amherst, an Absentee Con- cerns to be known at the Time and place of sale. NAHUM BALDWIN, Trustee to said estate Amherst, January 1, 1781.
ALL Persons who have Claims against the Estates (within the County of Rockingham) of Thomas Forsey and Benjamin Forsey, late of Albany, in the County of Albany, and State of New-York, Mer- chants, deceased, are desired to settle the same with the Subscriber, Administrator of said Estates: And all who are indebted to said Estates are desired to make speedy payment to JOHN PEIRCE, Administrator of said Estates. January 10, 1781.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the Vendue ap- pointed on the last Tuesday in this month, for the sale of Non-residents land in this Town, is put off till the first Tuesday in February next, and to be at the house of Nathan Goodwin in said Town, at ten o'clock forenoon. Jediah Jewett, Constable. New-London, January 3d, 1781.