The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1771-07-26 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE A N D H I S T O R I C A L
CONTAINING the FRESHEST ADVICES
Friday July 26, 1771.
GAZETTE, CHRONICLE,
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
NO. 771 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd }
Messieurs Fowles, Please to insert the following Observations upon an Extract from an "Essay on the English Constitution," published in your Gazette of June 14.
THE Writer of the Essay above-mentioned asserts with great Assurance that the Parliament of Great-Britain has a just and constitutional Right to impose Taxes on the Colonies without their Consent, and that their Claims to Exemption from such Taxation have neither "Law, Constitution, nor Reason to support them."---As the Rights of the Colonies have been so thoroughly discussed by many masterly Pens and enlightened Heads, and their Right to an Exemption from all Taxes but such as they themselves consent to, has been shewn to a Demonstration---and as the Reasoning and Conclusions of this Writer are too big with Unconstitutional Principles and Absurdities, to escape the penetrating Eyes of American Understandings---it was generally thought unnecessary to answer it---But lest some who have not attended to the American Controversy should be deluded by this Writer, I shall reply in few Words to what he has said. It is allowed by all sensible writers upon the English Constitution, that it has its Foundation in Freedom, and that no English Subject can, agreeable to the fundamental Principles of the Constitution, be deprived of his Property without his Consent or the Consent of his Representative. Now the Question is, whether the Colonists are represented in the British Parliament? If they are not (than which nothing is more certain) their Complaints are just, & taking away their Money without their Consent is Tyranny & reduces them to Slaves---for if Britons have a Right to dispose of the Property of Americans, the Americans can have no Property at all---in that Case it is all vested in the Britons, and nothing is left for the Americans but absolute Slavery.---This is so evident a Truth that Common Sense cannot hesitate a Moment to determine.
It is said by this Ministerial Casuist that the Colonies are represented by the Electors in Britain, as many of the Towns in England are who have no Representatives, and that Representation is confined to the Spot where the Constitution was first formed. To which I answer, no Parallel can be drawn between the large Towns in England which have no Representatives and the Colonies, for they are represented in some Degree by their Neighbours and Countrymen, [but they have a Right to be equally represented] and no Laws are made but such as affect every Town nearly alike; one Town is not taxed while another is exempted, their Interests are so connected that all have equal Security from Impositions. This is not the Case with the Colonies. The Interest of the Colonists is not so connected with the Interest of the Representatives in Britain as to be a sufficient Security for the Colonies---and if they find by taxing us they shall lighten their own Burdens, & increase their Wealth, it must be the height of blind Pre-emption to suppose they will have Virtue enough to resist the powerful Temptation of Interest, which will ever urge them to injure us.
As to their grand Hypothesis, that Representation is confined to the Spot where the Constitution was at first formed," it is repugnant to the Essence of the English Consti-
tution which secures the Liberty and Property of every Subject. Nothing can be a more glaring Absurdity than the Supposition that Representation is confined to that Part of the Kingdom where it was first formed, for agreeable to this Doctrine, if the Colonists should become ten Times as numerous as the Britons, (which in a few Generations 'tis probable they will) they would all be represented by the Britons where the Constitution was first formed, and would be liable to all the Taxes and Impositions which they pleased to lay upon them---and the Colonists could be considered only as Slaves to work for the Britons---In process of Time the Colonists may be so numerous as to maintain every Subject in Britain, and the Britons have nothing to do but riot in Luxury and live upon the Labours of their American Slaves!---Glorious Scheme for the Sons of Venality and Corruption---but the grossest Insult that can be offered to human Understanding---With as much Propriety might it be said that the Owner of an Hundred Negro Slaves, represents them and therefore they are free, as that the Subjects in Britain represent those in America---in this Case the Negroes and Americans are equally Slaves.---These are the Consequences that follow from the modern Ministerial Doctrines, and if such Plans are pursued much longer the Destruction of the British Empire will be inevitable---As mutual Interest is the only Cement of political Bodies, and the Americans have long remonstrated against Oppressions, and petitioned for redress of Grievances in vain, may at last make use of an Argument too convincing to be resisted---and their Oppressors will too late be made sensible of their own inexcusable Folly---But I hope the Sons of Freedom, who are the only real Friends to Government, will prevail against all those Hypocrites who call themselves Friends to Government and boast of their Loyalty, for a Cloak to their sordid Ambition and Covetousness, while Gold is their King and their God; and all their Loyalty and Friendship to Government centres in the little despicable Point Self.
If it is asked, what is the constitutional Maxim which should be adopted by Great-Britain with regard to these Colonies, and how shall the several Provinces in the Kingdom be united in one political Body if there are different Houses of Commons? I answer, they are all united in the King, who is the Head of the united Body. When he wants Supplies of Men or Money to promote the Public Welfare, he must apply to his Houses of Commons for Assistance, either himself or by his Representative. The objection, that some of the Houses of Commons would not grant necessary Supplies to the Crown, is without Foundation, for Self-Interest, which is the grand Cement and only Bond of Union in civil Societies, will be a sufficient Motive to stimulate them to grant every necessary Support to Government. Besides, that laudable Ambition which ever prevails in a well constituted State where Merit finds a Reward, will effectually prevent an undue Backwardness in any one Branch of the Government to support the Public Interest.---The other Objection, that it is incompatible with the Safety of the Nation to have the King dependent on any Houses of Commons for Assistance who are not within his Call, is also without Foundation, for the
King has Power enough lodged in his Hands to provide for all Exigences of Government, and a Privy Council to assist and advise him in all Public Matters. In all important national Concerns the Time taken up in sending to the remote Houses of Commons would in many Cases be a great Advantage; it would prevent rash and precipitant Measures, give opportunity to collect the Wisdom of the whole Nation, whereby their Operations would be powerful and decisive---The several Branches of the political Body would be a check upon each other to keep out Corruption, and a Stimulus to noble Exertions for the Public Good.---This is the only rational Foundation for long Life and lasting Prosperity to the Nation, & a Source of most extensive and important Blessings to Mankind.---But if the Parliament of Great-Britain, uninstructed by the experience of past Ages, regardless of the Dictates of true Policy, under the influence of contracted selfish Views, and deaf to the Voice of Reason, and the Remonstrances of the injured Americans, continue to pursue their destructive Plans to tax the Colonies, and stretch the Prerogatives of the Crown, the fatal Period, which we all deprecate, cannot be very far Distant, when the political Union between Great-Britain and these Colonies will be dissolved,---and she forever lose the Blessings she might have received from her affectionate Children---and being weakened by such a Loss, she may fall a Prey to some of the most detestable Tyrants of the Earth---But if she will now listen to the Voice of Reason, and take Wisdom for her Guide, allow the Colonies, and every Part of the Kingdom, that Freedom which the Spirit of the Constitution gives, every Member of the great political Body will conspire to promote the good of the Whole.---This will invigorate and brace up all the Nerves of the State, while every Joint and Member is held to its proper Place by the indissoluble Bond of Interest.---In this Way, the British Nation may become the most glorious that ever existed since Time began, & continue increasing in glory and triumphing in the Arms of Freedom until Time shall end.
FORESIGHT.
HARTFORD, June 11.
Last Week the Body of a drowned Man was taken up at Rocky Hill---He had on a Pair of double soal'd Shoes, tied with strings and a check'd woolen Shirt, and had his Cap in his Hand. The above is all the Description of the Body we have been able to obtain.
L O N D O N, APRIL 20.
The following description of the model of a French privateer, in gold and silver, now finishing by a young artist, may probably afford entertainment to the curious part of our readers. The length of the keel is one inch five eighths, mounting eighteen guns, which are gold, with silver muzzles and weigh all together nine grains; her anchors are blue steel, stocked with gold, & tinged with silver; her masts and yards are all gold, and her sails silver; her running rigging gold, blocks and dead eyes silver, &c. the upper works of her hull are gold, and her bottom silver, which is supported on a supposed northern hemisphere, that moves to any point of the compass required.

Last Week arrived at Boston the Brig Diana, belonging to Piscataqua Capt. Perkins, from London, by whom we have the following Articles, viz.
L O N D O N, May 8. 1771.
This morning as soon as it was certainly known that His Majesty would go to the House, to put an end to the Sessions of Parliament, Summons were issued from Guildhall to the Aldermen and Common Council to attend. At two o'clock some of the Aldermen and a great Number of the Common Council, went from thence to the Tower. On the Lord Mayor and Mr. Oliver, being bro't to the Tower-gate by the proper officer of that fortress, they were saluted by 21 pieces of Cannon belonging to the Artillery Company, the Members of which accompanied the procession in their uniforms, which made a fine appearance; they were 53 Carriages in the train. Sir William Stevenson, and the Aldermen Townsend, Sawbrid, Wilkes, and Trecothick, were in the Procession; Only one of the Sheriffs, Mr. Martin, was present. The greatest Acclamations were continued all the way to the Mansion-House, not only from the People assembled in the Streets, but amazing numbers testified their satisfaction from the windows of the Houses by which they passed. On the Lord Mayor and Mr. Alderman Oliver's arrival at the Mansion-House, the Artillery Company saluted them. They then sat in the state-coach till all the carriages of the Common Council passed, in order to return their salutes. The Lord Mayor and Mr. Oliver then ascended the steps at the Mansion-House, preceded by the mace and sword-bearers, and accompanied by the Aldermen and Sheriffs, amidst the incessant shouts and roars of applause of an incredible number of their grateful fellow-citizens. On their arrival at the ballustrades fronting the great-gate the Lord Mayor and Mr. Oliver bowed in return to the people assembled, and were again saluted with loud and universal huzzas.
His Majesty's SPEECH, at the Prorogation of the Parliament.
My Lords, and Gentlemen,
As the state of public business no longer requires your attendance, I think it right, at this season of the year, to put an end to the present Session of Parliament.
"The satisfaction I have obtained from his Catholic Majesty, for the injury I had received, together with the proofs which the Courts of France and Spain have given me, by laying aside their armaments, of their sincere disposition to preserve the general tranquillity of Europe, have enabled me to reduce my forces by sea and land. The zeal with which you have exerted yourselves, upon the apprehension of a rupture with Spain must convince the world of your affectionate attachment to me, and of your constant regard for the true interests of your Country. On that support I shall always rely for the defence of my honor, and for the security of the rights of my people.
"With regard to the troubles which still agitate some parts of the Continent, my endeavours have never been wanting to bring them to an end; and in those endeavours, you may be assured, I shall persevere."
"Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
"It was with real Concern that I found myself called upon, by the Situation of public Affairs, to ask of my faithful Commons more than ordinary Supplies for the Service of the current Year; and I cannot sufficiently thank you for the Unanimity, Cheerfulness and public Spirit, with which they have been granted."
"My Lords and Gentlemen,
"While we acknowledge the Goodness of Divine Providence, in preserving us from those Calamities with which some Parts of Europe have been afflicted, let me exhort you to employ your best Endeavours, in your several Stations and Countries, to render the National Happiness compleat, by discouraging and suppressing all groundless Suspicions, and domestic Disturbances. I have no other Object, and I can have no other Interest, than to reign in the Hearts of a free and happy People: And it is my earnest Wish, that my Subjects may not be prevented, by any Mistakes, or Animosities amongst themselves, from enjoying, in the fullest Extent, the Blessings of a mild and legal Government. The Support of our excellent Constitution is our common Duty and Interest: By that Standard I would wish my People to try all public Principles and Professions, and to look upon those as their most dangerous Enemies, who, under any Pretence whatsoever, would persuade them to violate those Laws, and undermine that Authority, which the Constitution has provided for the Purpose of preserving the general Liberty and Happiness."
Then the Lord Chancellor, by his Majesty's command, prorogued the Parliament to Tuesday the 23d of July next.
Sir Fletcher Norton, in his Address to his Majesty yesterday, observed, that the Commons hoped a proper use would be made of the Supplies granted this Session, which were larger than had been voted by that House on any former occasion.
Lord Chatham, towards the conclusion of his Speech on Wednesday last night, in the House of Lords, on his motion for a Dissolution of Parliament, said, "That though no man prided himself more on his attachments to his native country, the proceedings of those people, who called themselves its Governors, had rendered it so disagreeable to him, that was he but ten years younger, he would spend the remainder of his days in a country (meaning America) which had already given such earnest of its independent spirit; nor should my advanced age (continued that spirited Nobleman) even now prevent me, did not considerations of the last consequence (my bodily infirmities) interfere."
We are informed, that as soon as news was carried to Hayes, that the Hon. the Earl of Chatham had carried his Cause in the House of Lords, every house was illuminated, and the populace were entertained at his Lordship's charge.
Promoted, 14th Reg. St. John Wallace to be Ensign, vice Pringle, who exchanges. 65th, John Roberts to be Captain Lieutenant, vice W. Roberts; by purchase. Ditto, John Paxton to be Lieutenant; by purchase. Ditto, Henry Miller to be Ensign, vice Tickell; by purchase.
Robert Christian, Esq; of Antigua, is appointed Judge of the Admiralty of the said Island.
Extract of a Letter from Vienna, April 27.
"A report prevailed here, that the Emperor has declared to the foreign Ministers, that he cannot, with an indifferent eye, look on the great advantages which the Russians had gained over the Ottomans; and that he is resolved to make use of his forces to oppose the passage of the former over the Danube, should they attempt it to augment their conquests; that, in consequence, he has sent Prince Lobkowitz to Peterburgh, to inform the Empress of this resolution; and that if her answer, which is expected the 20th of next month, should not be conformable to his expectation, he will order his troops to prevent the Russians from passing the Danube."
It is reported, that the King of Prussia, unwilling to entail to war upon his family, has, by a Treaty agreed to give up Silesia to the Austrians, and he is in return to have the remainder of Prussia and the City of Danzick. The Russians, upon promise of not being molested in the war against the Turks, have acceded to the Treaty.
Temeswar, April 28. The Ottoman army is actually on its march towards the enemy, and is 150,000 strong. Hufsey Bey,
Pacha of Romelia, commands the advanced guard, which consists of a body of 30,000 men, as well as Albanians as Bosniacs. The Grand Vizir is advancing by the way of Kirkele, with the grand army and the artillery, which is very numerous. He has already traced out and fortified a camp between Bazardge and Silistrie, from whence he intends to carry on his operations against the Russians. The number and good discipline of his troops gives us reason to expect he will have better success than his predecessors.
L O N D O N.
May 10. Last Tuesday night a duel was fought in the Green Park between a noble Lord, (Lord L.) and Comte A---, a Piedmontese Nobleman, in which the latter was wounded. The Detection of a criminal amour was the unhappy occasion of this affair.
Portsmouth May 12. The Fleets are now ready for sailing Admiral Sir George Rodney for West Indies, Admiral Montagu for Halifax, Commodore Byron for Newfoundland, Sir Peter Dennis will command a powerful Fleet in the Mediterranean: At Spithead 21 Ships of War.
May 16. Yesterday Admiral Montagu, set out for Portsmouth, to take the Command of the Fleet design'd for North America, which is to consist of 21 Sail.
The Lords Sandwich, Denby Rochfort and Le Despencer, are gone in one of the Yachts to see the Fleet.
Arrived at Portsmouth: Alexander, Dorrington, At Bristol: Juno, Freeman, from South-Carolina.
Letters by the last post from Bourdeaux mention that upwards of fifty sail of ships had been fitted out at that port for the Newfoundland Fishery.
By Letters received from Adrianople, in Turkey, there is advice, that on the 26th of March several severe shocks of an Earthquake were felt there which destroyed part of the City, and the Inhabitants were buried in the ruins; that those who remained alive escaped to the Fields, and pitched tents to preserve them from the inclemency of the weather, which was at that time very rainy. At the time it happened the River Mazar rose considerably, and the effects of the Earthquake were perceived many leagues out at sea, and even as far as Philippi. The King has been pleased to constitute & appoint Sir Ralph Payne, K. B. his Majesty's Captain-General and Governor in Chief in and over all his Majesty's Leeward Caribbee-Islands in America, Chancellor, Vice-Admiral and Ordinary of the same.
S A L E M, July 23.
Yesterday Capt. Stevens arrived
at MARBLEHEAD from FALMOUTH, and brought London Papers to May 23d, from which the following Articles, in much haste are extracted, viz.
W A R S A W, April 24, 1771.
A Courier arrived from Chorzim, has brought the following news. Major General Weisman having passed the Danube the 6th of this month with a detachment of light troops, consisting of 720 men, attacked near Fulca a body of 5000 Turks; killed 900 of them, among whom there was a Bashaw and several Agas; made 100 prisoners, and dispersed the rest. His trophies consist of two pieces of cannon and six standards; twenty-nine pieces of cannon were by his orders thrown into the river. After this happy expedition he returned to the head quarters at Imaul.
L O N D O N, May 13.
On Wednesday the Hon. Robert Conway, second son of the Earl of Hertford, was elected a representative in parliament for the Borough of Orford, without opposition, in the room of Edward Coleman, Esq;
They write from Constantinople of the 3d of last month, that the Russians have taken Sinope on the Black Sea, and burnt 3 men of war that were on the stocks there. They add, that Admiral Arf having demanded a contribution of 100,000 piasters from the island of Chio, which they refused to pay; he had taken possession of that island, and its fortress, in spite of all the efforts of the Bashaw of the Dardanelles, and the Capt. Bashaw, who had sent three Algerine chebecs, two frigates, and several half galleys to their assistance. The three chebecs were burnt, and the other ships dispersed.
Yesterday public notice was given in the drawing-room at St. James's that her Majesty would appear no more there, till after her lying-in.
We hear that yesterday a paper containing treasonable matter was sent to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, and his Lordship immediately transmitted the same to one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State.
Preparations are making at Lord Bute's-house, in South Audley street, for his reception, he being expected in town soon.
May 29. The Marchioness of Rockingham lies dangerously ill at his Lordship's house in Grosvenor-square.
Extract of a Letter from the Hague, May 14.
"According to letters from Madrid, the King of Spain appears firmly resolved and invariably determined to effect, let the consequence be what it will, the suppression of the Society of Jesuits; in order to which, his Catholick Majesty has sent a new order to Mr. Asfaru, his Ambassador resident at Rome, to insist on and labour the point most ardently with the Pope for the dissolution of that pernicious society."
"We are informed that the aversion of the Spanish Monarch to the Jesuits is increased, since a father and more scrupulous search has lately been made in the houses which these sons of Loyola possessed in Spain; whereby it was discovered that those hypocrites had concealed to the value of near 70 millions of Piaftres, and many papers of importance."
Extract of a Letter from Portsmouth, May 13.
"This morning sailed from St. Helen's, the princess Amelia man of war, Admiral Rodney, with the Modeste, Prudent and Diana ditto, under his command, for the West-Indies."
Extract of a Letter from Portsmouth, May 20.
"Yesterday sailed Commodore Byron, for the Newfoundland station, in the Panther, of 60 guns, with the Æolus, of 38 guns."
May 23. We hear, it has been intimated to all the foreign Ministers, that as both Houses of Parliament have resigned the privilege of protecting their servants in case of debt, their Excellencies are no longer to expect that indulgence for their domestics; but that every individual of their train, Secretary and all, must for the future, be open to the just demands of their creditors.
A Man in Office, whose letter is dated St. James May 21, says, "you may assure the public, Lord North will most certainly be out of office before the 24th of June next. He knows it, and is busy in providing for all his poor relations. The King has come into the measure at the express request of all his servants, who can no longer bear his brutality & shameless rapacity."
The head dresses of the ladies in the year 1771, is so enormously high, that a plan is said to be in agitation to raise the roofs of the hackney coaches to prevent the ladies being incumbered in riding.
The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor has but the slightest relish
of the gout in his left hand, and yesterday rode on horseback. A correspondent assures us, that the paragraph which appeared in our paper of yesterday, insinuating, Mr. Alderman Oliver had shown a great want of civility to the Lord Mayor, in not having sent to enquire after his health since their enlargement, is absolutely false; for Mr. Alderman Oliver sent the very day after he dined at the Mansion-House, & has several times since enquired of his Chaplain.
L O N D O N, May 16.
The following imposture was lately detected at a considerable sea-port town in Cornwall:--A person in the character, and with a testimonium of episcopal ordination, applied to the minister of the town for a curacy, who, after a very particular examination, accepted him for his curate. On his first outset in his new office he acquitted himself to the general approbation of his congregation, & gained as much respect out of the pulpit, as attention in it. At length, by his character and masterly address, he recommended himself to the smiles of a young lady of family and fortune, which shortly was to have ended in their nuptials. But oh! unbenign stars! this adventurous Divine immediately proves to be a wolf in sheep's cloathing, a spurious, uncanonical priest! A gentleman of Bristol, who took that town in his travels, happening to see him, enquired what he was doing there; and was answered, Parson Jones is our curate. Jones, says the gentleman, his name is not Jones, and he is no more a clergyman than I am, and then gave his real name and character. Thus blown, the Doctor, on examining narrowly into his testimonial, found the name written on an erasure, and detected the fraud. This discovery, happy for the deluded lady, caused the cheat to fly, conscious of his guilt. The several marriages he has in this disguise performed, have caused the utmost confusion among the several parties concerned.
P H I L A D E L P H I A, July 4. 1771.
On Friday last was held the anniversary Commencement in the College of this City, which was very splendid and crowded both in the Forenoon and Afternoon. There were thirty-six Graduates on this Occasion, viz, Fifteen Bachelors of Arts, Ten Masters of Arts, Seven Bachelors of Physic, and Four Doctors of Physic.
B O S T O N, July 18.
YESTERDAY being the anniversary Commencement at Harvard College, in Cambridge, his Excellency the Governor, his Honour the Lieutenant Governor, a number of the honourable his Majesty's Council, together with the Corporation, and the Governors of the College, proceeded by the candidates for their first degrees in their gowns, went in procession from the Hall to the Meeting-House, where the exercises of the day were introduced with a preparatory prayer by the Reverend President, than followed a salutatory oration in Latin; to this succeeded a dialogue in the Greek, and another in the Samaritan language; after which the syllogistic disputations: These being ended, the audience were entertained with an elegant English Oration on the subjects of Science and Liberty; and a humours sarcastical Oration closed the Exercises of the morning; after which the procession returned to the hall, where a genteel entertainment was provided. Between four and five o'clock P. M. the procession, preceded by the Candidates for their second degree, returned from the hall to the meeting house, when the Rev. President opened the afternoon services with a Latin Oration, after which the candidates for the Master's degree held their usual syllogistic disputations in Latin, which were succeeded by a fine English Oration expressive of the highest sentiments of gratitude to the benefactors of the College. The several degrees were conferred in the usual manner previous to the valedictory Oration, a prayer by the President, and an anthem performed by the Undergraduates closed the academical services of the day.
The degrees of Bachelor and Master of Arts were conferred on the following gentlemen, viz.
BACHELORS of ARTS.
Samuel-Hirst Sparhawk, James Bowdoin, Andrew Bradford, Samuel Paine, Edward Kitchen Turner, William Vassal, Samuel Phillips, Daniel Murray, Daniel Rogers, Joseph Emerson John-Alford Mason, David Parsons, Walter Hastings, Jacob Bacon, Moses Hale, William Gay Ballantine, William Vinal, David Toppan, Samuel Plummer, John Barnard Swett, John White, Winthrop Sargent, Robert Roberts, Joseph Pearse Palmer, William Cheever, Greenleaf Dole, Zedekiah Sangar, Isaac Bangs, John Tracy, Joshua Dodge, John Gill, Ebenezer Putnam, Daniel Tyler, Joseph Avery, John Frothingham, Michael Joy, David Osgood, John Warren, Crocker Sampson, Samuel Nye, William Scott, Samuel Prentice, Abraham Watson, Thomas Edwards, Perez Morton, Jonathan Norwood, Melzer Turner Oakman, Israel Keith, Nathanael Dickinson, John Noyes, Gad Stebbins, Moses Everett, Moses Adams, Samuel Wheeler, Thomas Little, Benjamin Curtis, Jonathan French, Moses Johnson, Jedidiah Estabrook, Ebenezer Allen, William Scales, and Benjamin Hasey.
MASTERS of ARTS,
William Paine, Nathanael Chandler, Hener Sewall, Andrew Henshaw, William Hunt, David Greene, Ebenezer Sayer, Jonathan Hastings, Jacob Diman, Jeremiah Fogg, John Ballantine, Gad Hitchcock, Lawrence Sprague, Timothy Orne, Obadiah Parsons, Joseph Thaxter, William Fessenden, John Coffin, Lemuel Hayward, Samuel Parker, Isaac Knowles, Jonathan Smith, Aaron Bacon, David Tenny, Joseph Cummings, Timothy Upham, Benjamin Hitchborn, Moses Brown, Daniel Newcomb and Samuel Nutting.
The honorary degree of Master of Arts was also conferred on Colonel John Cummings, of Concord; and on the Rev. NATHANIEL DAGGETT, President of Yale College in Connecticut. And the degree of Doctor of Divinity on the reverend, learned and venerable NATHANIEL APPLETON, pastor of the Church in Cambridge.
N E W-Y O R K, July 11.
On Monday last, in the Sloop Sukey, Capt. Yarborough, in five days from North Carolina, His Excellency WILLIAM TRYON, Esq; our newly appointed Governor, with his Lady and Daughter, arrived at the Narrows about 3 o'clock in the Morning, and between 12, and 1 came up to Town, where at his landing he was welcom'd by a Salute of 15 Guns from the Fort, to which he was conducted by the Gentlemen of the Council, and others who waited his Landing.
On Tuesday the Gentlemen of his Majesty's Council assembled at the Fort, where his Excellency's Commission was read, and the Oaths administered, after which, attended by the Mayor and Corporation, the Sheriff and other Officers of the City with many other Gentlemen, they marched in Procession to the City Hall, where his Commission was published, and after the customary Formalities, His Excellency, with the Gentlemen of the Council, return'd to the Fort, where an elegant Dinner was provided. At Night the City was illuminated.
We hear that Col. JOSIAH MARTIN, now in this City, who succeeds to the Government of North-Carolina, will next Week depart for that Place, in the same Vessel in which his Excellency our Governor lately arrived from thence.
On Tuesday Capt. Salmond, in the Carnarvon Mast Ship, sail'd for London, having on board upwards of 30 large Masts for the King's Navy, besides a great Quantity of Timber Planks, &c, and a Detachment of the Royal Train of Artillery.

NEW BERN, North-Carolina, June 19, 1775.  SUNDAY Papers and Letters have been found in the house of Herman Husband (the Cataline of this province) by which it appears, the insurgents were confident they should defeat the Governor, and were determined to put every man in his army to death—that they looked upon themselves as much masters of the province that many of the public officers were already disposed of among themselves—such were the views such were the designs of these people, of whom it has been iniquitously reported, “that they wanted only to obtain justice for their poor oppressed brethren.” But these diabolical schemes are now happily defeated, and Alamance is made their court of record. Yet, though every friend to his country must rejoice at the success of the loyalists, it is impossible not to lament the fate of those unhappy people, who thro’ their own ignorance have been persuaded by a few artful and designing men, to join with them and impiously attempt to subvert the constitution of the province.
June 28. On Monday evening last his Excellency the Governor, returned to the Palace, in good health, from the expedition against the Regulators; and tho’ it was late in the evening before he arrived, yet as soon as it was known, the whole Town was instantly illuminated, & a burn-fire kindled. Many Gentlemen met, and spent the remainder of the evening in festive joy, for the safe return and happy deliverance of his Excellency’s person from the imminent perils to which it has been exposed in the late battle with the Regulators.
Wednesday the whole Town met in a Body and waited on his Excellency at the Palace with a congratulatory Address, to which he returned a very polite Answer.
Just before the Battle between our Troops, and the Regulators began, they sent his Excellency the following Petition.
The PETITION of us the Inhabitants of Orange County. Humbly shewing,
First, THAT we have often been informed of late, that your Excellency is determined not to lend a kind ear to the just complaints of the people in regard to having rogues Officers discarded, and others more honest propagated in their stead; and Sheriffs and other officers in power who have abused the trust reposed in them, to be brought to a clear, candid, and impartial account for their past conduct, and other grievances of the like nature, we have long labored under, without any apparent hopes of redress.
Secondly, That your Excellency is determined on taking the lives of many inhabitants of this County, and others adjacent to it; which persons being nominated in the advertisement we know them to be Men of the most remarkable honest characters of any in our County.—These aspersions, though daily confirmed to us, yet scarcely gains credit with the more polite amongst us; still, being so often confirmed, we cannot help having some small jealousies abounding among us. In order therefore to remove them, we would heartily implore your Excellency, that of your clemency you would so far indulge us as to let us know (by a kind answer to this Petition) whether your Excellency will lend an impartial ear to our petition or no; which, if we can be assured of, we will with joy embrace so favourable an opportunity of laying them before your Excellency, with a full detail of all our Grievances, and remain in full hopes and confidence of being redressed by your Excellency, in each and every of them, as far as lies in your power; which happy change would yield such alacrity, and promulgate such harmony in poor pensive North-Carolina, that the sad presaged Tragedy of the warlike Troops marching with ardour to meet each other, may, by the happy conduct of our Leaders on each side be prevented. The interest of a whole Province, and the Lives of his Majesty’s Subjects, are not Toys, or matters to be trifled with. Many of our common people are mightily infatuated with the horrid alarms we have heard; but we still hope they have been wrong represented. The chief purport of this small petition, being to know whether your Excellency will hear our petition or no: We hope for a speedy and candid answer. In the mean time, your humble petitioners shall remain in full hopes and confidence of having a kind answer.
And as in Duty bound shall ever pray, &c. Signed in behalf of the County, by John Williams, Joseph Scott, Samuel Lewis, Samuel Clark, James Wilson.
To which his Excellency sent the following ANSWER. IN answer to your Petition, I am to acquaint you that I have ever been attentive to the true interest of this Country, and to that of every Individual residing in it; lament the fatal necessity to which you have reduced me by withdrawing yourselves from the mercy of the Crown and the Laws of your country, to require you who are assembled as Regulators, to lay down your arms, surrender up the outlawed Ring-leaders, and submit yourselves to the Laws of your Country and then rest on the lenity and mercy of Government: By accepting Terms in one Hour from the delivery of this dispatch you will prevent effusion of Blood, as you are at this time in a state of War and Rebellion against your King, your Country and your Laws.
To the People now assembled in Arms, who style themselves Regulators.
THE Supreme Court of Oyer and terminer, for the trial of the Regulators in the Back Country, began at Hillsborough the 30th of May, & continued to the 20th of June; during which twelve were tried and condemned for High Treason, the evidence against them being clear, that they, with a large body of Regulators, withstood and opposed the forces under his Excellency’s command, in the battle of the 16th of May last; which act is declared to be Treason by a Law of this Province, passed the last Session of Assembly. Bills of Indictment were found against two others upon the same charge, but the Petit Jury acquitted them. His Excellency the Governor was pleased to suspend the execution of six out of twelve, till his Majesty’s pleasure be known; the other six were executed on Wednesday the 19th instant, at Hillsborough: Among these last the most distinguished was Benjamin Merrill, who had for some years been a Captain of Militia in Roan County.
When the Chief Justice passed Sentence, he addressed himself in the following Manner:
“Benjamin Merrill, you have been indicted and found guilty by your Country of High Treason, which is the greatest Crime that any Man can commit, considered as a member of the community; because thereby he would overturn that state of order and civil government, which secures to us every thing that is valuable or desirable in life.
“To complain of Grievances, and to endeavour a redress of them in a lawful way, is not only justifiable, but praiseworthy; but to snatch the sword from the Magistrate, and to refer to the decision of arms, what the laws of your country should alone determine, is a most detestable crime; for it brings on the miseries of an intestine war, which is perhaps the greatest evil that any nation or people can suffer.
“It is probable, that when you first formed your fatal connection with the people called Regulators, you did neither intend or foresee the mischiefs they would lead you into; but greatly infatuated as you was, it is matter of astonishment that the Act of Assembly, passed the last session could, not restrain you from the rash and violent action which has now brought you to the bar of this court. That act ordained, that if any body of men should withstand or oppose an armed force raised in virtue thereof, that
in such case they should be adjudged Traitors, and suffer accordingly. Divine Providence, which ever acts for wise and gracious purposes, permitted you and your deluded companions to despise this law; you daringly withstood his Majesty’s troops, and warned, and wilful, rushed upon your fate.
“I earnestly beseech you to employ the short time you have to live, in a manner suitable to your unhappy condition; that so, after having satisfied the offended justice of your country, we may yet piously hope, that you will obtain forgiveness at the throne of GOD.
“I must now close my afflictive duty, by pronouncing upon you the awful sentence of the law; which is, That you Benjamin Merrill, be carried to the place from whence you came, that you be drawn from thence to the place of execution, where you are to be hanged by the neck; that you be cut down while you are yet alive, that your bowels be taken out and burnt before your face, that your head be cut off, your body divided into four quarters, and this to be at his Majesty’s disposal; and the Lord have mercy upon your Soul.”
Nine other persons were indicted for robbing a Waggon of 12 pounds of powder, and were acquitted, the Court and Jury being satisfied that the Facts, as proved, did not amount to the Crime of Robbery. They were afterwards indicted for a Trespass, found guilty, and fined each 25 l. Proc. which the most of them immediately paid, and were discharged.
Herman Husband, James Hunter, James Butler and Rednap Howel, the principal authors of this insurrection have made their escape, but it is hoped just vengeance will yet overtake them.
NEW-PORT, July 8.
In North Carolina a Dollar passes for 8s, & we are assured that, that the Sheriffs there often sell fine fat Cattle at 14s. a Head, and the sheep at two Shillings, (which is one Dollar and three Quarters for Cattle, and a Quarter of a Dollar for a fine fat Sheep) to pay Rates; and that very frequently, after the Sheriffs have collected large Sums, they push off, Robber-like, to some of the back Parts of Virginia, South-Carolina, Georgia, &c. and leave the People to pay the whole of their Taxes over again. Now is it possible for any Man, unless he possess the Soul of a Canibal, to wish Success to an Administration so corrupt, so absolutely void of Humanity, and every christian Virtue, as that of North-Carolina! ? Thus far Newport Mercury.
From the NEWPORT MERCURY, July 15, 1771.
MR. SOUTHWICK, I saw your printed News-Paper other Night; O! how I was pleased to hear my Dicky read about the Calicoes, the Ribbons, and the what not’s, to be sold or given away for an old Song. O! me, I must have a new Gown, a Fan, and a Ribbon soon, certain; who knows what may happen.
“O! Ludd, Mr. Printer, I had like to have forgot to tell you we are all in Love with you, (I am certain, next to Dicky my Husband) for telling the filthy Boatmen you will seize their Wood if they continue to cheat us any longer than three Months to come: Dear Mr. Printer, make another Law to punish the Charcoalmen, they make very short measure; they cheat us like the Old-Boy, for certain; O dear, then there is such Cheating among the Cyder-sellers that you seldom have above 23 Gallons to a Barrel, and that well-watered into the Bargain. O Poison, I can’t bear ‘em; pray make the Knaves honest, if you can.”
DOLLY PRATTLE.  BOSTON July 22.
It is currently reported, that two new Instructions to the Governor were communicated by his Excellency to his Majesty’s Council on Thursday last, to be registered in their Books. One prohibiting the Governor signing any Grant to an Agent of either House; the other enjoining him to refuse his Assent to the future Election of any of the Council who shall meet together to write Letters to their own Agent, unless called by him, or without his presence. At the same Time his Excellency informed the Council that it was in Contemplation of the Ministry to make a separate Government of the Province of Maine, and that Sir Francis Bernard will be appointed Governor.
The Accounts from England agree, that since the Prorogation of Parliament, and the Discharge of the Lord Mayor and Alderman Oliver, from the Tower, every Thing is quiet and peaceable, as recommended in His Majesty’s Speech, which was received with great Pleasure and Satisfaction. The Administration, it is said, remain firm.
In the Diana came Passengers Capt. Supply Clap.—Capt. White in a Ship for this Place failed the same Day with Capt. Perkins.—Capt. Jarvis was to sail in a Month after. We don’t learn what Vessel was arrived from hence; in the London Prints are Articles from Boston of March 11.
On the 2d of June, about 50 Leaguers to the Westward of Scilly, Capt. Perkins spoke a Ship from Philadelphia, bound to London, out 26 Days, the Wind blowing fresh Westerly could not understand the Captain’s Name, the Ship had painted Sides.—On the 9th of June in Lat. 46: 26 N. and Long. 23: 0 W. spoke Ship Peter Reynolds, Thomas Blundell, Master from Brumham bound to Charlestown, all well.
We are informed from the County of Hampshire, that on Saturday the 13th Inst. the Famous Joseph Holmes of Hatfield (who has been a frequent Visitor at the Courts of Assise in that County, and has as often broke Goal) was detected at Hadley in carrying away a large Number of Scythes, which he had in his usual neighbourly Boldness taken out of the Shop of Mr. Benjamin Colt of that Place, at several Times within twelve Months last past. Upon a Complaint being exhibited to a Justice of the Peace against him for stealing several Scythes of the Value of Forty Shillings, he was soon apprehended, and on Monday last was brought to Trial, when he confessed the Fact and plead Guilty. About 12 o’Clock the same Day, he was waited upon by the Post by a great Number of Spectators, where twenty Stripes were well applied to his naked Back, agreeable to his Sentence. In return for the kind Treatment he has received, he has faithfully promised immediately to leave this Province, and not to return until he can bring good Credentials of his entire Reformation and good Behaviour for a Number of Years. It is hoped by all that ever knew him, that for once he will perform his Promise.
We are assured that the Aid de Camp who was sent by Governor Tryon to inform the Regulators that the Hour given them was elapsed, and he should immediately fire on them, was JOHN MALCOM, Esq; late Tide-Suveyor at Newport, Rhode Island, now Comptroller of his Majesty’s Customs for Curra-tuck in North Carolina.
We hear from Hopkinton, that some Time since, a young Man aged 22 Years, named Daniel Parmeter, having been flacking Hay, a Shower of Rain came up, when he sheltered himself on one Side of the Stack, till the Rain abated, he then went under a Tree to get his Cloaths, and stooping down to
take up a Bottle of Beer, a Flash of Lightning instantly struck the Tree, and the young Man in his Head, which immediately put an End to his Life.
PORTSMOUTH, July 26, 1771. Last Friday the County Assizes took Place. The first Inferior Court for the County of Rockingham, is to begin at Exeter next Tuesday.
Custom-House, Piscataqua, July 25.
   Inward Entries, From.     Sloop Sarah, Samuel Hatch, Antigua.   Sloop Dolphin, Ioseph Simpson, Philadelphia.   Schooner Industry, Nathaniel Gidding, Newfoundland.   Brig Sally, Samuel Langdon, St. Martins.   Brig Polly, Ioseph Tappan, St. Lucie.   Outward Bound, For   Brig William, James Stoodley, West-Indies.   Sloop Sally, James Budd, Connecticut.   Cleared for Departure, For   Brig Henry, Nichols, Newfoundland.   Brig Minerva, Pickering, West-Indies.   Brig Success, Daniel Jackson, Ditto.   Brig American Soldier, James Holland, Ditto.   Snow Fortune, William Hathorne, Ditto.   Schooner Sally, John Hill, Ditto.   Ship Flora, Edward T. Smith, Ditto.  
I the Subscriber, having purchased the Excise on Spiritous Liquors, of the Province of New Hampshire, for the Year 1771, hereby give NOTICE, that I will attend to receive the said Excise, the second and third Days of September next, at my House in Goff’s Town. The fourth at Stephen Holland’s, Esq; in Londonderry. The fifth at John Webster’s, Esq; in Chester. The Sixth from Noon, to the End of the Seventh, at Capt. Samuel Folsom’s, in Exeter. From the Ninth to the Twentieth, at Noon, at Capt. Jacob Tilton’s, in Portsmouth, Sunday’s excepted. I determine to be punctual as to Attendance, and hope all concerned, will not fail to meet me with their Accounts, prepar’d agreeable to Law, and the Method prescribed last Year, at some one of said Places:—Should any neglect to attend, they may justly expect Severity, as I am determined to spend less Time and Money the present Year, than I did the last. I must beg to be troubled with no such lumping and uncertain Accounts, as some offered last Year, and am determined not to receive any such Accounts, tho’ sworn to; and hope all those Gentlemen of fair Minds, will not be offended at this Resolution, as I find it is absolutely necessary from some late Settlements, which has been made and sworn to a second Time, the last Account differs very widely from the first. I have made some farther Discoveries, which will make it necessary to have some of last Years Accounts corrected: Hence it appears that unless Accounts are settled with great Care, the Province will be greatly injured; nor will the Excise Master ever know when he has done settling, THEREFORE I chuse to settle them myself, unless the last Years Form be complied with that particular Oath.
SAMUEL BLODGET
Six Months from the 22d of August next, being a further Allowance for the Creditors to the Estate of Abner Harriman, late of Plaistow, in the County of Rockingham, deceased, to bring in and prove their respective Claims—The Commissioners to said Estate will attend for that purpose, at the House of Mr. John Hall’s Innholder in said Plaistow, upon the third Tuesday of September next, and the four following Months, from 3 to 7 of the Clock, P. M. upon each of said Days.
Dated July 26: 1771.
On Wednesday the 4th Day of September next, will be sold by public Vendue, at the House of Capt. Jonathan Gilman, Innholder in Exeter, (unless sold at private sale) on easy Terms of payment, a large and convenient
Dwelling-House, Barn Wood-House, Warehouse, and Wharfe, about 35 Rods of Land, with a fine Well, &c. all lying in Exeter, pleasantly situated and convenient for a Trader or a Taverner, &c. Also, 20 Acres of choice Land, lying on the Road leading from said Exeter to Hampton, within one Mile of Exeter Great Bridge. Also two thirds of a Grist Mill, the Iron Work of a Saw Mill, the greatest part of a new Frame of a Saw Mill, with three Acres of Land, lying at a place called King’s Falls, within two Miles of said Bridge, all being the Property of THOMAS PARSONS, of Exeter aforesaid, who having fully determined to remove soon into the Country, 70 Miles from said Exeter, therefore takes Leave in this short Method, to desire all those who have Accounts with him unsettled, or are indebted to him by Note or otherwise immediately to settle the same, or he must leave them with an Attorney for that purpose.
TO BE SOLD
A House, and the Land there to adjoining, within two or three Rods of Deacon Langdon’s Dwelling House, lying in Portsmouth. Also a Bake house, near the said Dwelling House, with the Land adjoining to the same. Enquire of the Printer.

Hatts of all kinds, Made and Sold by John Beck,
As usual, at the Sign of the Hatt and Bever, in Queen Street, Portsmouth.
Notice is hereby given to the Proprietors of Sanboraton, that at their legal Meeting, held at the House of Captain Josiah Robinson, Innholder in Exeter, April 8, 1771, a Tax of Nine Shillings Lawful Money, was voted on each original Right of Land, in said Township, to forward the settlement of said Town, which Tax is committed to me to collect: Those who neglect paying the aforesaid Sum, by the 2d Day of September next, to me at my House in Exeter, will have their Rights Advertised for sale, agreeable to Law.
David Fogg, Collector.
THESE are to notify the Proprietors of the Township of WENTWORTH, in New Hampshire, that at a legal Meeting of said proprietors, held at the House of Jonathan Greely's Innholder in Kingston, on the 27th of March last, the sum of Two Pounds Eight Shillings, Lawful Money, was voted to be raised on each original Right, for the following purposes, to build a Grist Mill this present Year, and to make good the Great Province or public Road, that leads from Portsmouth to Co's through said Town, &c. &c. and have chosen me the subscriber to collect the same; These are to give Notice to said proprietors that unless they pay the said Sum, to me at my House in Salisbury in the Massachusetts, at or before the first of September next, their Lands will be Advertised for sale, agreeable to the Laws of said New Hampshire.
Salisbury, July 4. Joseph Page.
TO BE SOLD
On Wednesday the 31st Day of July instant, at a public Vendue, at the House of Mr. Samuel Baker, Innholder in Newmarket, (if not sold at private Sale before)
A very genteel Dwelling House, Ware House, out Houses and Barn, & all the Land adjoining; and is thought to be one of the best Places in North America, for a Merchant or Trader to make a Fortune, being on the great Road from Nottingham, and many other Towns from whence great Quantities of Lumber of all Kinds is brought to a good Landing in Newmarket yearly, now in the Possession of Captain Nathaniel Rogers. For further particulars enquire of Joseph Hoit, Esq; in Stratham and Daniel Scott of Boston.
Gillam Butler,
INFORMS his Customers and others, That he has remov'd his Shop to the Hou's lately improv'd by the late Major Shackford, in the Street that leads from the Town Wharf to Mr. Sherburne's Wharf, Where he has to sell, a good Assortment of Goods, which are sold on the very lowest Terms, as cheap as at any store in Town, without Exception. Constant Attendance is given.
Notice is given to all Persons having any Demands on the Estate of the late THOMAS PACKER Esq; to bring their Accounts properly proved, that they may be immediately paid; ALSO those indebted thereto, are requested to make speedy Payment, in Order to an immediate and final Settlement of said Estate.
By Order of the Executor, JOHN HURD. Portsmouth, July 18. 1771
Notice is hereby given to the Proprietors of PERRY'S TOWN, so called, in the Province of New Hampshire, that so much of their Rights will be sold by me the Subscriber at public Vendue as to pay the sums herein set against the Name of each original Owners of the rights delinquent and lost, if not paid to present the same, on Monday the 12th Day of August next, at two o'clock, Afternoon, at the House of Oliver Knight, Innholder in Atkinson.
The original Proprietors are as follows, viz.
  James Clement £ 0 15 0   Abraham Perry 1 1 0   Daniel Poor 0 14 3   John Pecker 1 1 0   John Plummer 1 1 0 
JOHN KNIGHT, Collector.
Atkinson July 2 1771.
Province of New Hampshire, Concord, July 4, 1771 WHEREAS Application hath been made to me the Subscriber, Clerk for the Proprietors of the Township formerly known by the Name of Rumford or Pennebec, by said proprietors, Owners of more than a Tenth part of all the common and undivided Land in said Township, to notify and warn a Meeting of said proprietors to meet at the Meeting House, in that part of Rumford, lately incorporated by the Name of Concord, on Monday the 29th of July current, at one of the Clock in the Afternoon, then and there to act on the following particulars, viz. First, To chuse a Moderator, Assessors and Collectors. Second, To vote a Tax on each Right sufficient to defray their part of Expence, that may be supposed to arise in compleating a Settlement with the proprietors of Bow, and others holding Lands under them, within said Rumford. Also, with the proprietors of Mason's Patten and the proprietors of Canterbury. Third, To chuse a Committee to make a final Settlement with said proprietors and others abovementioned, if it can be done on the Terms proposed by the proprietors of Bow, and consented to at their Meeting in April last, and likewise the Terms proposed by Mason's propriety. Fourth, To see what the proprietors will do respecting their Note which some of them gave to Joseph Hall, or order, as security to defray their part of Expence, that might arise by prosecuting or defending any Law suit commenced, or to be commenced by the proprietors of Bow, against the proprietors of Rumford. Fifth, To see if they will dismiss their Committee lately chosen to settle Accounts between the proprietors and the Rev. Mr. Timothy Walker, Benjamin Rolf, Esq; and the Survivors of the Committee chosen by the said proprietors to lay out the common Land, and chuse another Committee to settle with the said Walker, Rolf, and the Survivors of the Committee to lay out Land as aforesaid. Sixth, To see if the proprietors will vote to have Benjamin Rolf, Esq; their former Clerk, deliver the proprietors Books, to John Kimball, their present Clerk. In pursuance of which Application, I do hereby notify and warn the proprietors of said Rumford, to meet at the Time and place above mentioned, for the Ends and Purposes aforesaid. per JOHN KIMBALL, Prop's Clerk.
ALL Persons indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of Mr. John Marshall, late of Portsmouth, Cordwainer, deceased, are desired to bring their Accounts to David Griffith, Administrator on said Estate, in order for Settlement.
NOTICE is hereby given to the delinquent Proprietors of PERRY'S TOWN, so called, that so much of their Rights will be sold at public Vendue, by me the subscriber, as will pay the sum set against the Name of each original Owner, on the 12th Day of August next, at the House of Mr. Oliver Knight, Innholder in Atkinson, at Five o'Clock Afternoon. The Delinquents are as follows,
  l. s. d. l. s. d.   Edward Barnard 1 4 0 Abraham Perry 1 4 0   John Barker 1 4 0 Ebenezer Perry 1 4 0   Thomas Hale 1 4 0 John Pecker 1 4 0   Jacob Hancock 1 4 0 Mark Plummer 1 4 0   Asa Kimball 1 4 0 Thomas Fallambbee 1 4 0   Thomas Hale, Jr. 1 4 0 Jacob Woodward 0 15 0   Thomas Noyes 1 4 0 
Ebenezer Noyes Collector.
Plaistow July 10 1771.
All Persons indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of John Perkins, junr. late of Dover, in the Province of New Hampshire, deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts duly attested, to Patience Perkins, Widow, Relect, of said Deceased, and Administratrix, to said Estate in order for settlement.
INN at Newbury-Port. Robert Calder, From LONDON,
(late Servant to his Excellency GOVERNOR WENTWORTH)
HAS purchased the Lease of the noted INN, lately occupied by Mr. William Lambert; which is now further repair'd and furnish'd with convenient Accommodations for Travellers, and good Stabling for Horses. The public Favor is humbly intreated, and the best Entertainment with diligent Attendance will be provided for Travellers and others, who may be pleased to favour with their Custom. The Public's most obedient Servant, ROBERT CALDER.
July 1. 1771
TO BE SOLD BY Robert Robertson
At his Shop on Spring Hill, near the Market House in Portsmouth, cheap for Cash only, a general Assortment of English and West India GOODS, among which are the following, viz.
F orst Cloths, German Serges, Shallons, Calamancoes, Durants, Tammies, striped Camblets, Dorsetteens, striped and spotted Poplins, Bengalls, printed Cottons and Callicoes, Irish Linens, clear Lawns, Cambricks, Apron wide flowered Lawns, flowered lawn Aprons, striped and flowered bordered lawn Handkerchiefs, Barcelona silk Handkerchiefs, check Linen ditto, printed cotton ditto, black Taffety, black pelong Sattin, black Taffety, Persian Womens black silk Gloves and Mitts, Womens worsted Gloves and Mitts, Mens and Womens worsted Stockings and thread ditto, A genteel Assortment of Ribbons, silver mount Fanns and common ditto, small and large wax Beeds, Cap Laces and Cap wire, Lady's black Plooms and Feathers, black sattin Hats, white Tapes and Bindings, Hair Combs and Ivory ditto, case Knives and Forks, steel Spurs and plated ditto, Jack and pen Knives, Shoos and knee Buckles, Sheers and Scissors, Snuff Boxes, Dutch looking Glasses, 4d. 10d. and 20d. Nails Crown Glass 10 by 8 and 9 by 7, choice West India Rum by the Hoghead or small Quantity, Molasses by the Hoghead or smaller Quantity, Rice by the hundred or small Quantity, choice bohea Tea by the doz. or small Quantity, Loaf Sugar, Cotton Wool, Brown Sugar, Cotton and wool Cards, Whale Bone, Bibles, New Testaments, Psalters, Spelling Books and Primers, &c. &c. &c.
N. B. Cash given for Potash, warranted to be good by said Robertson.
TO BE SOLD Choice Indian Corn at three Pistrareens a Bushel, Pitch and Tar,
Enquire of SAMUEL or DAVID GRIFFITH.
The Proprietors and Grantees of the Township of Barrington, are hereby notified to meet at the Meeting House in said Barrington on Monday the twenty second Day of July Instant at eleven of the clock, before noon, for the following Purposes viz. 1st. to choose a Moderator for the Meeting. 2d. to see if the proprietors and Grantees will vote a further sum of money to be raised by a Tax on the Lands in said Barrington in order to defray the Expence of clearing a Road from Barrington to Barstead. 3d. If a Sum is voted to be raised to chuse a Committee to make a just and impartial Assessment on the Land of the proprietors and Grantees. 4th. To choose a Committee to examine the Accounts of the former Committee. And fifthly to chuse a Collector to collect the money as soon as may be after the Assessment is made.
By order of the Committee, SAMUEL BREWSTER Prop's Clerk. Barrington July 2 1771.
Notice is hereby given to the Proprietors of PERRY'S TOWN, so called, in the Province of New Hampshire, that there was nine Shillings raised on each Right of said Proprietors April 1, 1771, committed to me to collect, which unless paid to me immediately at my House in Plaistow, their Rights will be advertised for Sale at Public Vendue, according to Law, in the New Hampshire Gazette. EBENEZER NOYES, Collector. Plaistow July 10 1771.
Runaway from Robert Barber, the 24th June last, a Prentice Boy, named Levi Champman, sixteen Years of Age, of light Complexion, light Hair, round Shoulders, and goes very stooping, and has on one of his Ankles, a bunch made by a cut, carried with him a dark colour'd Clarrit Homespun Coat, lined with woolen, near the same Colour, flower'd Pewter Buttons, a dark color'd Jacket and Breeches without lining, two woolen Shirts, one cotton and linnen ditto, one pair of blue yarn Stockings, and one new Felt Hat.
And at the same Time Runaway, from Benjamin Pease, a Prentice Boy, named John Mannary, Shoemaker by Trade, 19 Years of Age, of a very small Stature, his left Eye very sore, his Hair growing out; carried away with him a whole suit of pepper and salt color'd Cloaths, a light color'd blue homespun Coat, a gray Jacket, a pair Leather Breeches, three Shirts, one pair blue yarn Stockings, one pair new Shoos, and new Felt Hat. Whoever takes up said Runaways, and conveys them to their said Masters, shall have Four Dollars Reward, and necessary Charges. Robert Barber, Benjamin Pease.