The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1773-01-08 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the Freshest ADVICES
Friday Jan. 8, 1773.
Vol. XVII. GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
NO. 847 { Weeks since this Paper } was first Publish'd.
WHEREAS there has been great Neglect on the Part of the Owners of sundry Vessels in the Plantations in not complying with the Act of the 7th and 8th WILLIAM 3d. C. 22, and more particularly the 21st Sect. wherein it is enacted, "That no Ship's Name registered shall be afterwards changed without registering such Ship de novo , which is required to be done upon any Transfer of Property to another Port, and delivering up the former Certificate to be cancelled, and in Case there be any Alteration of Property in the same Port, by the Sale of one or more Shares in any Ship after registering thereof, such Sale shall always be acknowledged by Indorsement on the Certificate of the Register, before two Witnesses, in Order to prove that the entire Property in such Ship remains to some of the Subjects of Great-Britain, if any Dispute arises concerning the same."
AND WHEREAS all Vessels trading at or belonging to any Port in America, the Owners or Masters of which shall omit to comply with the Directions given in the said Act, will be liable to the same Prosecutions and Penalties as if such Vessels were owned entirely by Foreigners:
The Commissioners of his Majesty's Customs therefore give this Notice, that all Persons concerned may govern themselves accordingly.
By Order of the Commissioners, SAM'L MATHER, pr. Secretary. Custom-House, Boston, 15th December, 1772.
B O S T O N, December 13.
The following may be depended upon as a genuine extract of the letter from L. Dartmouth, to the Governor of Rhode-Island, dated Whitehall, September 4, 1772.
THE particulars of that atrocious proceeding (referring to the burning the GASPEE schooner) have by the King's command been examined and considered with the greatest attention; and although there are some circumstances attending it, in regard to the robbery and plunder of the vessel, which separately considered might bring it within the description of an act of piracy; yet in the obvious view of the whole transaction, & taking all the circumstances together, the offence is in the opinion of the law servants of the crown, who have been consulted upon that question, of a much deeper dye, & is considered in no other light, than as an act of high treason, viz. levying war against the King.
"And in order that you may have all proper advice and assistance in a matter of so great an importance; his Majesty has thought fit, with the advice of his privy council, to issue his royal commission, under the great seal of Great-Britain, nominating yourself and the Chief Justices of New-York, New-Jersey, and the Massachusetts-Bay, together with the Judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court established at Boston to be his Majesty's commissioners for enquiring into and making report to his Majesty, of all the circumstances relative to the attacking, plundering and burning the Gaspee schooner. The King trusts, that all persons in the colony will pay a due respect to his royal commission, and that the business of it will be carried on without molestation, at the same time the nature of this
offence, and the great number of persons who appear to have been concerned in it make every precaution necessary. His Majesty has therefore for the further support in the execution of this duty, tho' fit to direct me to signify his pleasure to Lieutenant-General Gage, that he doth hold himself in readiness to send troops into R. Island, whenever he shall be called upon by the Commissioners for that purpose, in order to aid and assist the civil magistrate in the suppression of any riot or disturbances, and in the preservation of the public peace. I have only to add upon that head, that his Majesty depends on the care and vigilance of the civil magistrates of the colony, to take the proper measures for the arresting and committing to custody, in order to their being brought to justice, such persons as shall, upon proper information made before them, or before his Majesty's commissioners, appear to have been concerned in the plundering and destroying the Gaspee schooner.
"It is his Majesty's intention in consequence of the advice of his privy council, that the persons concerned in the burning the Gaspee schooner, and in the other violences which attended that daring insult, should be brought to England to be tried; and I am therefore to signify to you his Majesty's pleasure, that such of the said offenders as may have been or shall be arrested and committed within the colony of R. Island, be delivered to the care and custody of Rear Admiral Montagu, or the commander in chief of his Majesty's ships in North America for the time being, or to such officers as he shall appoint to receive them; taking care that you do give notice to the persons accused, in order that they may procure such witnesses on their behalf as they shall judge necessary; which witnesses together with all such as may be proper to support the charge against them, will be received and sent hither with the prisoners."
St. JOHN'S IN ANTIGUA, Nov. 11.
Extract of a letter from St. Vincent's, October 30.
WE were this morning alarmed by a constant firing, occasioned by a party of Caraibs attacking a party of eighteen men of the 31st regiment, under the command of Captain Crafter, who had been left sick behind.
They killed 7 men and a sergeant, and wounded 3. Crafter's party however put them to flight, and found 5 of their Carcasses in the woods also several fuzes, haberlacks, handkerchiefs, &c. thrown away in their precipitation.
"We are informed, that the Caraibs shot a centinel as he was bathing in the river Niambo, and that a sergeant who was posted at the head of a detachment at some little distance from the camp, was murdered in an inhuman manner by the savages: they cut off his Nose and right Arm, and scooped out both his Eyes."
By a vessel from St. Vincent's last week, we learn, that nothing very material had happened between the troops and Caraibs, nor had the loss on either side been very considerable in killed and wounded, but that the sick were numerous. The troops were at last permitted to cross the river Niambo and take possession of the enemies entrenchments on the other side, a well thrown shell opened a free passage in one place, and in another, where they hoped to surround a body of the enemy, the guide mistaking the intended route, led them against a precipice, which gave the enemy time to get away; and that upon this occasion it appeared the Caraibs did not know how to defend themselves against regulars. That the Caraibs have other entrenchments further on in the quarter of Grand Sable, but that the troops only wish they would make such a work as they could trust themselves in to be attacked. That the inhabitants are not apprehensive the regulars would find it difficult to force their way over all the accessible parts of the Caraibs country; but at the same time it is a doubt whether this will promote the object of the present enterprize, or, on the contrary, involve that unhappy Island in still further calamity. That there seems no want of freedom in censuring the General's conduct out of his presence. That the inhabitants of St. Vincent's are still obliged to continue upon their guard on the frontiers of their settlements: that their prime negroes form a considerable body, which attend the regulars, and behave well; yet the distraction in affairs, and the effect on the credit of the island in Great-Britain, make it hard to say whether the Caraibs or the inhabitants suffer most.
One of the Caraibs that had delivered himself up last week to the General, was found in arms against his Majesty, and on Wednesday he was hanged.
The Caraibs have burnt several valuable plantations, and killed many of the negroes belonging to them, and had it not been for the vigilance of a detachment of the southern regiment of militia, they would also have destroyed not only Mont. Pradie's, but every estate in the valley of Ouarinaroo.
The lady of Major Dundas, and the commander of one of his Majesty's ships, died lately at St. Vincent's.
Nov. 18. Nothing material has happened at St. Vincent's between the regulars and Caraibs, since the above: All the men of war had failed with a train of artillery to the Indian coast, in order effectually to blockade them, so that in a few days we expect to hear of the enemy's surrendering or being conquer'd.
His Excellency the General has ordered a transport vessel for Granada, in order to bring here the remainder of the 70th reg.
CHARLESTOWN, South-Carolina, Nov. 27. We learn that ----- Holliday, Esq; of Yorkshire, in England, is appointed collector of his Majesty's customs for this port, in the room of John Hughes, Esq; deceased. And,
That John Robinson, Esq; is again appointed one of the Board of Commissioners at Boston.
N E W L O N D O N, Dec. 25.
Last Tuesday one James Picket, a labourer, belonging to Middletown, was drowned in the river, near that place.
"Last Saturday failed from hence the sloop Mississippi, Capt. Goodrich, bound for Pensacola and Mississippi, (via New-York) having on board a committee appointed by the company of military adventurers, to reconnoitre the lands lately granted by the crown to Major General Lyman, and the company of military adventurers, bounded West on the river Mississippi, and North on river Yaou, between latitude 32 and 34."
B O S T O N, December 31.
Wednesday the Great and General Court or Assembly of this Province meets at the Court House in this Town.
We hear that the Chief Justices of New-York and of the Jerseys were expected at Newport this Week, and that Judge Auchmty was to set out from Roxbury this Morning for Middleborough, & from thence to accompany the Chief Justice of this Province to Newport: So that on Saturday next it is probable the whole Number of the Commissioners will be assembled, and ready to proceed on Business.
The Court at Albany was opened the 11th Instant for the Trial of the Money-makers. They had attempted to break goal but were timely discovered and prevented.
The Mercury Packet, Captain Dillon, arrived last Thursday at New York in nine weeks from Falmouth, with the Octo. Mail.
Boston, Monday January 4, 1773.
Thursday last Captain Daniel Waters of Malden, and Mr. William Eustis of Chelsea, being below a gunning after wild-fowl, discovered on the Graves, part of a wreck, and went ashore to see what it was. After observing it, they came up to Malden; and next day, with several others, went down with a lighter to the wreck, and saved from thence the cables, anchors, three pair shrouds, some small rigging, a small part of the sails, and the foretop-sail. In hawling up one of the anchors in 10 or 12 feet water, they drew up one of the people, with mittens on his hands, who had black hair, and appeared to be about 19 or 20 years of age: He had on a blue furtout, a jacket, a pair of striped trowsers, and blue yarn stockings, without shoes; him they buried at Malden last Saturday night. By sundry things drove ashore at different islands, and a chest taken up, the papers therein contained make it apparent that she was a topsail schooner, commanded and partly owned by Capt. Pike of Newbury, bound from the Mole to this port, and is supposed to have unfortunately run on the Graves Saturday night the 26th ult. it being then very dark and stormy, when every soul perished. All persons claiming property in the goods saved, and proving the same, by applying either to Captain Waters, or Mr. Eustis, aforesaid, may receive them on allowing customary salvage.
Last Saturday morning an express came to town from Newport to Admiral Montagu; and at noon the same was dispatched back again.
We hear that Admiral Montagu, who was to deliver the commissions to the commissioners, when met, forwarded the same last Saturday, by Captain Simons, of the Captain, now in this harbour. Boston Gazette.
A letter from Plimouth in England, dated October 4, says, "Yesterday came in a fleet of transports, to take in troops for St. Vincent's in the West-Indies."
"About a fortnight ago the following accident happened in Casco-Bay, viz. As two men, and a lad about 15 years of age, a foreigner, named Thomas Lamy, were carrying a bullock in a small boat to an island, the boat was overlet; by which means the lad, in attempting to swim ashore, was unfortunately drowned; the other two were providentially saved, one by swimming on his oar to an island, at a considerable distance; the other by keeping on the boat, till it surprisingly drifted against the wind, to the same island."

NEWPORT, December 28. 1772. Last Saturday arrived here the Arethusa frigate, Captain Hammond, from New-York. We hear that a house in this town is preparing for the reception of Admiral Montagu and his Lady so that it is not probable the ships, which are drawing near the town, have any hostile intentions.
SALE M, January 5, 1773.
Extract of a Letter from Philadelphia, Dec. 17.
"Our City is filled with Play-Actors, and Horse-Riders, W---es, and Thieves, and I had like to have said Men-Slayers: ----We have also a Sort of moving Machines; they resemble Women about the Heels, but have as monstrous Heads as ever was seen, nearly as large as a Bushel. If I meet any of these Creatures in the Street, I endeavour to give them room, for Fear, if I should jostle them, and their Heads fall off, it may occasion a great Deal of Trouble to right them, as they appear to be top-heavy."
"N. B. My Reason for saying Men-Slayers is, that three of our Philadelphia Bucks, in the Night, lately attacked one of our Watchmen with Swoords, for reprimanding them for breaking of Windows; and before he got Relief they wounded him, of which Wound he died. One of them made his Escape, two are taken; one of those a reputable Merchant's Son in this City; the other a Merchant's Clerk, unknown to me. Various are the opinions concerning them, what will be their Fate. They are, I hear, loaded with Irons in the Dungeon."
George-Town, December 18, 1772. Last Wednesday was married, by the Rev'd Mr. Emerson of this Town, the Rev'd Mr. JOHN MURRAY, of Booth-Bay, to the amiable Miss SUKEY LITHGOW, Daughter of the Honorable Colonel WILLIAM LITHGOW, Chief Judge of the Inferior Court for the County of Lincoln.
We hear the October and November packets are arrived at New-York from Falmouth; the letters for this place by the latter are not expected till next Thursday's post comes in.
PORTSMOUTH.
Died on his Passage from the West Indies to this Place, Capt. SAMUEL LANGDON, eldest Son of the Revd. Dr. LANGDON, of this Town--- A young Gentleman well respected. He has left a Widow and one Child---The Vessel of which Capt. Langdon was Master, arrived with this Intelligence last Friday Evening.
We hear from Piermont, that on the 24th of December last, as Simeon Root and one Welch were digging a Well there; after they had dug about 16 Feet, made a Scaffold within eight Feet of the Top, one being below, and the other on the Scaffold, when the Earth suddenly burst in, and buried them both. One was taken out dead in a few Minutes after, the other next Morning; Simeon Root of that Town has left a Wife and eight small Children; Welch came from Canada, a Well-Digger by Trade.
We also hear from Cockermouth, that about three Weeks ago, as a Boy 16 Years of Age, was crossing a Pond of Ice there, fell into an Air-Hole and was drowned. He was taken out in 24 Hours after he was missing.---His Name was Melvin, Son of Ebenezer Melvin of that Place.
At Chesterfield in this Province, the 31st December, 1772, was separated to the pastoral Office in that Place, the Rev'd ABRAHAM WOOD; an introductory Prayer was made by the Rev'd Mr. Gay of Hinsdale, a Sermon preached pertinent to the Occasion, from 1 Cor. 16, 10, by the Rev'd Mr. Biglow of Sudbury; the Prayer at Imposition of Hands, by the Rev'd Mr. Hubbard of Northfield; the Charge given by the Rev'd Mr. Bridge of Sudbury; the conclusive Prayer by the Rev'd Mr. Hedge of Warwick, and the Right Hand of Fellowship given by the Rev'd Mr. Lawrence of Winchester; the Whole performed in a very solemn and edifying Manner.
It must give all the Friends to Zion a very sensible Pleasure to observe the rapid Encrease of our Churches.
Custom-House, Piscataqua, Jan. 7, 1772.
   Inward-Entries FROM.     Schooner Britannia, Abel Tappan, Philadelphia,   Schooner Friends Adventure, Robert Follet, Ditto,   Schooner Unity, Seth Clark, St. Martins.   Brig Sally, Edward Snell, Antigua.   Brig Betsey, John Grant, Anguilla.   Cleared for Departure, FOR.   Schooner Nancy, Shadrach Bell, Connecticut.   Schooner Dolphin, Joseph Harris, West-Indies.   Schooner Industry, Robert Parker, Ditto.   Schooner Sea-Flower, William Davis, Ditto.   Schooner Endeavour, Richard York, Ditto.   Sloop Polly, William Noyes, Ditto.   Sloop Betsey and Polly, James Johnson, Ditto.   Brig Sally, Samuel Haynes, Ditto.   Ship Leybourne Frigate, George Wentworth, Ditto.  
Province of New-Hampshire.
WHEREAS the Proprietors of the Township of WENTWORTH, have been legally notified to pay sundry sums of Money, legally assessed on each Proprietors Right or Lots of Land in said Township, to me the subscriber, and several of the Proprietors being yet delinquent in the whole or part--- These are therefore to Notify such Persons, that so much of each delinquent Proprietors Lands will be exposed to sale, at public Vendue, at the House of James French Innholder in Southhampton, on Monday the 22d of February next, at one of the Clock Afternoon, to pay said Taxes with incidental Charges. The delinquent Proprietors Names are as follows, with the sums due.
   John Hook, Esq; 2 8 Dier Hook 2 8   Jacob Stevens 2 8 Thomas True 2 8   Col. Atkinson 4 19 Jacob Currier 2 8   Joseph Greeley 4 19 Jonathan Page 2 8   Samuel Page jr. 2 8 Nathaniel Greeley 4 19   Ebenezer Page 2 8 Joseph Page 2 8   David Evans 4 19 Nathaniel Currier 2 8   Jonathan Evans 2 8 Col. Stevens 2 8   Jonathan Greeley Esq; 2 8 Ebenezer Stevens jr. 2 8   John Page 2 8 Thomas Martin 2 8   Theophilus Stevens 3 19 Abel Davis 4 19   Daniel Fogg 2 8 Jeremiah Fogg 2 8   Samuel Page 2 8 Lemuel Stevens 2 8   John Page Esq; 2 8    Salisbury, Jan. 5. 1773. JOHN PAGE, Coll.
JUST IMPORTED FROM Philadelphia, Choice new FLOUR, Bread, &c A few half Barrels of the best Superfine FLOUR, TO BE SOLD By GILLAM BUTLER, At his Store near Liberty Bridge. ALL Persons Indebted to the said Butler, (tho' ever so small the Sum) would greatly oblige him, if they'd make immediate Payment.
TO BE SOLD A HOUSE of one Story high, with four Rooms on the Floor, two finished, with one Quarter of an Acre of Land, lying in Pepperhill-borough, now in the Occupation of Samuel Cutts, jr. very convenient for a Trader or Tradesman. Inquire of Deacon Thomas Cutts of Kittery.
LANDS in NEW-BOSTON TO BE SOLD immediately, 1 Lot No. 121, Containing 150 Acres. 1 64, 150 Acres. 1 94, 150 Acres. 1 20, 100 Acres. 1 22, 50 Acres. Jan. 8. Enquire of JOHN SPARHAWK.
TO BE SOLD, A first Division Lot in the Town of Middletown, in the County of Strafford, containing 100 Acres of exceeding fine Land; 12 of which was Plow'd, Harrow'd, and Sewed, last Fall, with Rye and Corn: The Conditions will be made vassily easy; any good Person who inclines to purchase and will go immediately on to live. Enquire of THOMAS MARTIN. Portsmouth, Jan. 5.
[ New Durham. ]
WHEREAS more than a sixteenth Part of the Proprietors of the Township of NEW DURHAM in the County of Rockingham, in the Province of New Hampshire, have applied to us the Subscribers to call a Meeting of the said Proprietors, to consider what is necessary to be done, relative to certain Votes passed, and measures planned, and partly Pursued by the Inhabitants of said Town, towards the Settlement of a Minister among them; and to determine what method will be best for the Propriety to enter upon, in order to promote and facilitate his Settlement, and Maintenance, that it may not be burthensome to the Inhabitants. THIS is therefore to Notify the Proprietors aforesaid, to meet at the House of Mr. John Griffin, Innholder in Durham, in the County and Province aforesaid, on Thursday the 31st Day of January next ensuing, at 11 of the Clock in the Forenoon. Then and there to pass any Vote or Votes relative to said Affair they shall think proper; And likewise to vote upon any other Matters which may then be laid before them. Durham, December 15th. 1772. Daniel Rogers, Thomas Tash, Valentine Mathes, } Committe
[ New-Durham. ]
NOTICE is hereby given, once more, to the delinquent Proprietors of NEW DURHAM that there has been one TAX of Two Dollars, and another Tax of Two Dollars and half assessed on each original Right or Share of Land in said Township, and appointed me the Subscriber Collector, part of which Taxes some have already paid: Those who are still delinquent, unless they bring said Tax to the Subscriber within three Weeks from the Date hereof, their Rights will be advertised for Sale as the Law directs, in the New Hampshire-Gazette, Valentine Mathews, Esq; Collector. Durham, December 30, 1772.
ALL PERSONS Indebted to the Town of Portsmouth, are earnestly requested to pay their Respective Ballances immediately to the Select-Men of said Town. And all Persons that have any legal Demands on said Town are desired to bring in their Claims to said Select Men in Order for Settlement.
ALL Persons having Accounts remaining unsettled with the Estate of Samuel Demerit, late of Durham, Gentleman, deceased, are desired to settle the same speedily with Eben. Demerit of Madbury, Administrator on said Estate, in order for him to settle with the Heirs of said Estate.
William Pearne,
DESIRE all Persons that have accounts open with him, that they would send or bring them in to him as soon as possible; and all Persons that have Accounts open with the Estate of Mr. JOSEPH BUSS, deceased, are desired to bring them in to the aforesaid William Pearne, that they may be settled. The said PEARNE, has a good assortment of English Goods, which he will sell cheap for Cash, or Fish, or for Lumber of different kinds, which he will want to be delivered next Summer. Portsmouth, Jan'y 5th, 1773.
TO BE SOLD, on easy Terms, Five Hundred Acres of good LAND in Wolfeborough, pleasantly situated on Winipiseokee Pond, one half of which is fenc'd by Water, whereon is a good House, Barn and Corn House; a good Well within 2 Rod of the House, 35 Acres of clear'd Land, chiefly into Grass, seven Acres of which is sow'd with Rye, 25 Acres of fell'd Trees, most of which have been down 2 Years, 5 Acres of which is well into Pasturing, also, a young Orchard of upwards of a hundred Apple Trees. For further Particulars enquire of John Flag, who lives on the Premises, or Gershon Flag at Port.
NOTICE is hereby given to each and every Proprietor, Grantee of the Township of Meredith, in the County of Rockingham, and Province of New Hampshire, that there is a TAX or an Assessment of Twenty One Shillings, Lawful Money, made on each and every of said original Rights or shares of Land in said Township, and the said Assessment is made on the several Lots, in said Rights, as followeth, viz. The first Division 7s. Second Division 7s. 8d, and the Third Division 6s. 4d; and the Owners of such said Lot or Lots, are hereby notified, to pay their several respective Sums to Ebenezer Smith of said Meredith, Collector for said Proprietors, at or before the 10th of April next ensuing, or those that are delinquent therein, will have so much of their Lots advertised for sale, at public Vendue, as will pay said Sums with all incidental Charges. Ebenezer Smith, Collector. Meredith, December 24th, 1772.
N. B. If the Owner or Owners, of the above said Lands, shall incline to leave the Tax for any of said Lots or Rights, with Col. Samuel Folsom, Innholder in Exeter, within one Month from the above Date, at which Place I shall endeavour to call to receive any such Sum, and give a proper discharge for what I shall so receive. per E. Smith.
Province of New-Hampshire, UNITY,
WHEREAS the Proprietors of UNITY, in the Province of New Hampshire in the County of Cheshire, have been Notified to pay their Tax to me the Subscriber; notwithstanding divers of the Proprietors have neglected to pay, This is to Notify those Persons that unless they pay the same by the 26th Day of January next, so much of their Lands will be sold at Publick Vendue at the House of Capt. John Huntoon, Innholder in Kingston, at one of the Clock in said Day as will pay their Tax with incidental Charges. Delinquent Names are as follows, viz.
   l. s. d.     The original Right of William Long 7 10 0   The original Right of Moses Sleeper 3 17 8   The original Right of Philip Huntoon 4 4 0   The original Right of Daniel Moulton 2 2 0   The original Right of John Moulton 1 4 8   The original Right of John Webster, 2 17 0    JOHN JUDKINS, Collector. Kingston, Dec. 24, 1772.
ALL Persons that have any Demands upon the Estate of Deacon James Milk, late of Falmouth, in the County of Cumberland, deceased, are desired to bring them in to Moses Little, of Camp-ton, in the Province of New Hampshire, Esq; Executor of his last Will and Testament; or to Theo. Bradbury of Falmouth aforesaid, Esq; the said Executors Attorney, in order for Settlement; and all Persons indebted to said Estate are requested to pay the same to said Executor, or his Attorney, as soon as may be. December 24, 1772.
ALL PERSONS Indebted to the Estate of Charles Libby, late of Berwick, in the County of York, deceased, are desired to make Payment to Daniel Libby, junr. and Ebenezer Libby, Executors of the Last Will and Testament of said deceased, And all Persons that has any Demands upon said Estate, are desired to bring in their Claims in order for Payment. Berwick, Dec. 12. 1772.
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