The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1774-09-23 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the Freshest ADVICES
Friday Sept. 23, 1774.
THE
Vol. XVIII.
GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
NO. 935 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd. }
BOSTON, September 15. 1774.
At a Meeting of the Delegates
of every Town and District in the County of Suffolk, on Tuesday the sixth of September, at the House of Mr. Richard Woodward of Dedham, and by Adjournment at the House of Mr. Daniel Vose of Milton, on Friday the Ninth Instant, JOSEPH PALMER, Esq; being chosen Moderator, and WILLIAM THOMPSON, Esq; Clerk, a Committee was chosen to bring in a Report to the Convention, and the following being several Times read and put Paragraph by Paragraph, was UNANIMOUSLY voted, Viz.
W HEREAS the Power, but not the Justice; the Vengeance, but not the Wisdom of Great-Britain, which of old persecuted, scourged and exiled our fugitive Parents from their native Shores, now pursue us their guiltless Children with unrelenting Severity—And whereas this then savage and uncultivated Desert was purchased by the Toil and Treasure or acquired by the Valor & Blood of those our venerable Progenitors, who bequeathed to us the dear bought Inheritance, who consigned it to our Care & Protection; the most sacred Obligations are upon us to transmit the glorious Purchase, unfettered by Power, unclogg'd with Shackles, to our innocent and beloved Offspring. On the Fortitude—on the Wisdom & on the Exertions of this important Day, is suspended the Fate of this New World, and of unborn Millions. If a boundless Extent of Continent, swarming with Millions, will amply submit to live, move and have their Being at the arbitrary Will of a licentious Minister, they basely yield to voluntary Slavery, and future Generations shall load their Memories with incessant Execrations.—On the other Hand, if we arrest the Hand which would rack our Pockets, if we disarm the Parricide who points the Dagger to our Bosoms, if we nobly defeat that fatal Edict which proclaims a Power to frame Laws for us in all Cases whatsoever, thereby entailing the endless and numberless Curses of Slavery upon Us, our Heirs and their Heirs forever; if we successfully resist that unparallelled Usurpation of unconstitutional Power, whereby our Capital is robbed of the Means of Life, whereby the Streets of Boston are thronged with Military Executioners, whereby our Coasts are lined, & Harbours crowded with Ships of War, whereby the Charter of the Colony, that sacred Barrier against the Encroachments of Tyranny, is mutilated, and in Effect annihilated; whereby a murderous Law is framed to shelter Villains from the Hand of Justice; whereby that unalienable and inestimable Inheritance, which we derived from Nature, the Constitution of Britain, which was covenanted to us in the Charter of the Province, is totally wrecked, annulled and vacated;—Posterity will acknowledge that Virtue which preserved them free and happy; and while we enjoy the Rewards and Blessings of the Faithful, the Torrent of Panegyric will roll down our Reputations to that latest Period, when the Streams of Time shall be absorbed in the Abyss of Eternity.
Therefore, WE HAVE RESOLVED, AND DO RESOLVE,
1st. T HAT whereas his Majesty GEORGE the Third is the rightful Successor to the Throne of Great-Britain, & justly entitled to the Allegiance of the British Realm and agreeable to Compact, of the English Colonies in America.—Therefore we the Heirs and Successors of the first Planters of this Colony, do cheerfully acknowledge the said GEORGE the Third to be our rightful Sovereign, and that said Covenant is the Tenure and Claim on which are founded our Allegiance and Submission.
2. That it is an indispensable Duty which
we owe to GOD, our Country, Ourselves and Posterity, by all lawful Ways and Means in our Power, to maintain, defend and preserve those civil and religious Rights & Liberties for which many of our Fathers fought—bled—and died: and to hand them down entire to future Generations.
3. That the late Acts of the British Parliament for blocking up the Harbour of Boston, and for altering the established Form of Government in this Colony; and for screening the most flagitious Violators of the Laws of the Province from a legal Trial, are gross Infractions of those Rights to which we are justly entitled by the Laws of Nature, the British Constitution, and the Charter of the Province.
4. That no Obedience is due from this Province to either or any Part of the Acts abovementioned; but that they be rejected as the Attempts of a wicked Administration to enslave America.
5. That so long as the Justices of our Superior Courts of Judicature, Court of Assize, & General Goal Delivery, & Inferior Courts of Common Pleas in this County, are appointed, or hold their Places by any other Tenure than that which the Charter & the Laws of the Province direct; they must be considered as under undue Influence, & are therefore unconstitutional Officers, & as such no Regard ought to be paid them by the People of this County.
6. That if the Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature, Court of Assize, &c. Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, or of the General Sessions of the Peace, shall sit and act during their present disqualified State, this County will support and bear harmless all Sheriffs & their Deputies, Constables, Jurors and other Officers, who shall refuse to carry into Execution the Orders of said Courts: And as far as is possible to prevent the Inconveniences that must attend the Suspension of the Courts of Justice, we do earnestly recommend it to all Creditors to exercise all reasonable and generous Forbearance to their Debtors, and to all Debtors to discharge their just Debts with all possible Speed, and if any Disputes concerning Debts or Trespasses should arise, which cannot be settled by the Parties, we recommend it to them to submit all such Causes to Arbitration; and if the Parties or either of them shall refuse so to do, they ought to be considered as co-operating with the Enemies of this Country.
7. That it be recommended to the Collectors of Taxes, Constables and all other Officers who have publick Monies in their Hands, to retain the same, and not to make any Payment thereof to the Province or County Treasurers, until the Civil Government of the Province is placed upon a constitutional Foundation, or until it shall otherwise be ordered by the proposed Provincial Congress.
8. That the Persons who have accepted Seats at the Council-Board, by virtue of a Mandamus from the King, in Conformity to the late Act of the British Parliament, entitled "An Act for regulating the Government of Massachusetts-Bay have acted in direct Violation of the Duty they owe to their Country, and have thereby given great and just Offence to this People. Therefore,
Resolved, That this County do recommend it to all Persons who have so highly
offended by accepting said Department, and have not already, publickly resigned their Seats at the Council-Board, to make public Resignations of their Places at said Board, on or before the TWENTIETH Day of this Instant September; and that all Persons neglecting so to do shall from and after said Day be considered by this County, as obstinate and incorrigible Enemies to this Colony.
9. That the Fortifications begun and now carrying on upon Boston Neck are justly alarming to this County, and give us Reason to apprehend some hostile Intention against that Town, more especially as the Commander in Chief has in a very extraordinary Manner removed the Powder from the Magazine at Charlestown, and has also forbidden the Keeper of the Magazine at Boston to deliver out to the Owners the Powder which they had lodged in said Magazine.
10. That the late Act of Parliament for establishing the Roman Catholic Religion, and the French Laws in that extensive Country now called Canada, is dangerous in an extreme Degree to the Protestant Religion, and to the civil Rights and Liberties of all America; and therefore, as Men and Protestant Christians we are indispensably obliged to take all proper Means for our Security.
11. That whereas our Enemies have flattered themselves that they shall make an easy Prey of this numerous, brave and hardy People, from an Apprehension that they are unacquainted with military Discipline, We therefore for the Honor Defence and Security of this County and Province advise, as it has been recommended to take away all Commissions from the Officers of the Militia, that those who now hold Commissions or such other Persons be elected in each Town as Officers in the Militia as shall be judged of sufficient Capacity for that Purpose, and who have evidenced themselves the inflexible Friends to the Rights of the People, and that the Inhabitants of those Towns and Districts who are qualified do use their utmost Diligence to acquaint themselves with the Art of War as soon as possible, and do for that Purpose appear under Arms at least once every Week.
12. That during the present hostile Appearances on the Part of Great-Britain, notwithstanding the many Insults and Oppressions which we most sensibly resent; yet nevertheless from our Affection to his Majesty which we have at all Times evidenced; we are determined to Act merely upon the Defensive, so long as such Conduct may be vindicated by Reason and the Principles of Self-preservation, but no longer.
13. That we understand it has been in Contemplation to apprehend sundry Persons of this County who have rendered themselves conspicuous in contending for the violated Rights and Liberties of their Countrymen, we do recommend that should such an audacious Measure be put in practice, to seize and keep safe in Custody every Servant of the present tyrannical and unconstitutional Government throughout the County and Province, until the Persons so apprehended be liberated from the Hands of our Adversaries and restored safe and uninjured to their respective Friends and Families.
14. That until our Rights are fully restored to us, we will to the utmost of our Power (and recommend the same to the other Counties) withhold all commercial Intercourse with

Great-Britain Ireland and the West-Indies, and abstain from the Consumption of British Merchandise and Manufactures, & especially of East-India Teas & Piece Goods, with such Additions, Alterations & Exceptions only as the Grand Congress of the Colonies may agree to.
15. That under our present Circumstances it is incumbent on us to encourage Arts and Manufactures amongst us by all Means in our Power, and that Joseph Palmer, Esq; of Braintree, Mr. Ebenezer Dorr, of Roxbury, Mr. James Boies and Mr. Edward Preston of Milton, and Mr. Nathaniel Guild of Walpole, be and hereby are appointed a Committee to consider of the best Ways and Means to promote & establish the same, and report to this Convention as soon as may be.
16. That the Exigences of our public Affairs demand that a provincial Congress be called, to concert such Measures as may be adopted & vigorously executed by the whole People; and we do recommend it to the several Towns in this County, to chuse Members for such a Provincial Congress, to be holden at Concord on the second Tuesday of October next ensuing.
17. That this County confiding in the Wisdom and Integrity of the Continental Congress now sitting at Philadelphia, will pay all due Respect and Submission to such Measures as may be recommended by them to the Colonies, for the Restoration and Establishment of our just Rights, civil and religious, and for renewing that Harmony and Union between Great-Britain and the Colonies, so ardently wished for by all good Men.
18. Whereas the universal Uneasiness which prevails among all Orders of Men, arising from the wicked and oppressive Measures of the present Administration, may influence some unthinking Persons to commit Outrage upon private Property:—We would heartily recommend to all Persons of this Community, not to engage in any Routs, Riots or licentious Attacks upon the Properties of any Person whatsoever, as being subversive of all Order and Government; but by a steady, manly, uniform and persevering Opposition, to convince our Enemies that in a Contest so important, in a Cause so solemn, our Conduct shall be such as to merit the Approbation of the Wise, and the Admiration of the brave and free of every Age and of every Country.
19. That should our Enemies, by any sudden Manoeuvres, render it necessary for us to ask the Aid and Assistance of our Brethren in the Country, some one of the Committee of Correspondence, or a Selectman of such Town, or the Town adjoining, where such Hostilities shall commence, shall dispatch Couriers with written Messages to the Selectmen or Committees of Correspondence of the several Towns in the Vicinity, with a written Account of such Matter, who shall dispatch others to Committees more remote, 'till proper and sufficient Assistance be obtained; and that the Expence of said Couriers be defrayed by the County, until it shall be otherwise ordered by the Provincial Congress.
Attest, WILLIAM THOMPSON, Clerk.
B O S T O N, Sept. 19.
A melancholy Accident happened at Roxbury on Monday last, as two young Men were diverting themselves with military Exercise one exchanged his Gun with the other, who gave the Words of Command; at the Word FIRE! his Companion discharged his Piece, not knowing it was loaded, and a Ball entered the Head of Mr. Henry, and killed him on the Spot.
We have received from Worcester the Recantation of John Chandler, Esq; and 42 others, of the Professors, against the Proceedings of that Town, which gave such Cause of Offence to the Public; as also the Acknowledgement of six Justices of that County, for having aspersed the People in an Address to General GAGE.
Last Wednesday Night all the Cannon in the North Battery were spiked up, said to be done by about 100 Men, who came in Boats from the Men of WAR.—They were, however, cleared again in the next Day without much Difficulty.
The Newport Mercury of last Monday says, that 'the Alarm which went thro' the Country last Saturday and Yesterday se'nnight, reach'd New York on Monday, & had not the Accounts been soon contradicted, it is very certain there would have been Sixty or Eighty Thousand Men in Arms, near Boston, in 2 Days, not as some Tories infamously insinuate, for the Purpose of REBELLION; but in Defence of ALL that's valuable, dear, holy and sacred.'
Last Week the Cannon at the Batteries back of Governor's Island were removed by Order of the General.
The TEA lately arrived in the Mary and Jane, Capt. Chapman, at Norfolk in Virginia, is to be returned in the same Ship by Orders of the Owners; in Consequence of their having been waited on by the Committee of that Town.
We hear from Shutesbury, that on Monday se'nnight the Inhabitants of that Place met and erected a Pole with a Flag of LIBERTY! as a Signal of the general Spirit of Resistance in that Town, to the late oppressive Acts of Parliament.
By a Gentleman who left Philadelphia on Wednesday the 7th Instant we learn, that no Part of the Proceedings of the Grand Congress had transpired, except their Determination on the Mode of voting, which was, that each Colony should have one Voice.
The following is an authentic Copy of a Letter which was lately thrown into the CAMPS, directed, "TO THE OFFICERS and SOLDIERS of his MAJESTY'S TROOPS in BOSTON."
IT being more than probable that the KING'S Standard will soon be erected, from Rebellion breaking out in this Province, it's proper that you Soldiers, should be acquainted with the Authors thereof, and of all the Misfortunes brought upon the Province, the following is a List of them, viz. Mess. Samuel Adams, James Bowdoin, Dr. Thomas Young, Dr. Benjamin Church, Capt. John Bradford, Josiah Quincy, Major Nathaniel Barber, William Molleneux, John Hancock, William Cooper, Dr. Chauncy, Dr. Cooper, Thomas Cushing, Joseph Greenleaf, and William Deuning. The Friends of your KING and COUNTRY and of AMERICA, hope and expect it from you Soldiers, the Instant Rebellion happens, that you will put the above PERSONS immediately to the SWORD, destroy their Houses and plunder their Effects; it is just that they should be the first Victims to the Mischiefs they have brought upon US.
A Friend to GREAT BRITAIN and AMERICA.
N. B. Don't forget those TRUMPETERS of SEDITION, the Printers EDES and GILL, and THOMAS.
Extra of a Letter from Philadelphia, Sept. 8, 1774.
"The Congress opened last Monday, when the Honorable Peyton Randolph, Esq; was chosen Chairman, and Mr. Charles Thompson, Secretary: There is a Guard kept at the Door of the House, (Carpenter's Hall) in which they meet, and the Result of these Meetings are confined so close among themselves, that scarce the least Syllable of their Proceedings reach the Ears of the expecting Public: The worthy Farmer, together with Thomas Willing, Esq; are both, by the united Voice of the respectable Body of Delegates, called in, to give their Assistance, to the great Satisfaction and Pleasure of the People. We were alarmed last Tuesday by an Express from Boston, & Yesterday by another from New-York; it is now in some Measure subsided. The Physicians here, it is said, have agreed to Inoculate no Patients for the Small Pox, during the sitting of the Congress, as several of the Northern and Southern Delegates have not had that Disorder."
We hear that Collections are making in the several Towns in the Colony of Rhode-Island, for the Suffering Inhabitants here: It is said 1500 Dollars are already raised in the Town of Newport; and that the Hon. Joshua Babcock, Esq; of Westerly had generously subscribed 100 Dollars for the like Purpose.
A Correspondent observes, that should the general Congress advise that the East-India Company be paid for the TEA destroyed at Boston; they will establish for them one of the finest Markets in the World; for the Company need only ship their Teas to such Provinces, as will chuse rather to destroy it than pay the Duty, and they will be sure of receiving for it an advanced Price.
A great Number of Hands are now employed in erecting Barracks on the Common for the Troops there encamped.
Advices from London of July fifteenth, says,
"That notwithstanding all the Reports of a Non-Importation Association being entered into by the several Provinces on the Continent of America, 17 Ships have been cleared at the Custom House in the Course of a Fortnight; and tho' Boston is not among the List, there are several for New-England, and about a Dozen more are now up at the Coffee House. It is said to be resolved, at all Events, not to repeal the Boston Port Bill, as Lord North says, "It will keep good for Years in America, tho' not used."
S A L E M, Sept. 20.
Letters from a Gentleman in Philadelphia, to his Friends in this Place, dated the 2d Inst. say,—"The whole Attention and Conversation is wrapped up in the Congress, & every Mouth wishing them Success—they are greatly respected, as Men of Wisdom, from whom the People ardently expect the Salvation of America. Every one prays for their Success. The Canada Bill serves greatly to cement our Welfare, and the Unanimity expected in their Councils almost assures them of it.----- What Measures will be adopted is as yet very uncertain; some think Non-Exportation and Non-Importation to the West-Indies and Great-Britain, others only to Great-Britain: But by what I can gather, it will be only with Great-Britain for the present, and the West-Indies conditionally, at some future Meeting of the CONGRESS, if they find the first ineffectual. General Gage is most severely handled in the Papers here and at Virginia, for his taking his Appointment. Government has not in this Place one who dares appear its Advocate. The Members from Virginia were just now received with Ringing of Bells, and other Marks of a most hearty Welcome. Upon the whole, every Thing bears the most promising Appearance for the future Welfare of America."
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 5.
Extra of a Letter from London, July 8.
"The Fox Indian, bound to New-England, has on board 30 Casks of Tea, shipped on the 6th of July, by Anthony Bacon, Esq; of London. This Tea is generally supposed to be a Speculation of the Minister."
Extra of a Letter from Boston, August 20.
"Letters by Capt. Scott have this Moment arrived:—He brings Intelligence that the People in England are rubbing up their Eyes, and begin to awake. Governor Tr—n is said not a little to contribute to this: He told the Lords of Council, that it would not do to treat the Yorkers as he did the Regulators; they were a very different kind of Men. He said all the Force he had could not have saved the TEA, and therefore he sent it back. He was asked what he tho't of the present Measures adopted towards the Americans? He answered, they would undoubtedly produce a Congress: And what would be the result of that? He replied, he could not take upon him to say; perhaps the Loss of all North-America."
WILLIAMSBURG (Virginia,) Aug. 18.
By an Express from the Frontiers, we learn that Col. McDonald had just arrived from Wahatomie, a Shawanese Town on the Muskingham, which he has destroyed, with all the Plantations round it, taken 3 Scalps, killed several of the Indians, and made one Prisoner, with the Loss of only two of his People, and 6 wounded; and that an Expedition is planned against some of their other Towns, which, if successful, will probably put an End to the War. Several Parties of Indians are daily seen on this Side of the Allegheny Mountains, but they have done but little Mischief of late, except scalping one Family on the Head of Cedar Creek.
PORTSMOUTH.
Last Tuesday arrived here Capt. Mendum Janvin, in 7 Weeks from London, by whom, from the public Prints, we have the following Articles, viz.
FROM THE LONDON PACKET July 27, 1774.
To the PEOPLE.
THUCYDIDES says, "COLONIES were as FREE as MOTHER CITIES, though not so reverently mentioned, because of their Dependence."
The same may be said of paying Tribute, because that may be for redeeming an Injury, or for some Acknowledgement of a Deliverance; but that paid, it is all that can be demanded. The People of England, and the People of Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New-York, &c. are the People or the Plants of this Soil, and one common Interest governs both. It is the People whom I now address. Their future LIBERTY is at Stake: And it now remains alone with them to save themselves, or to sink with their FREEDOM into irretrievable RUIN.
The Corruption of our Nobles, the Apostasy of our Judges, the Tameness of our Peers, the Venality of our Parliament, the Supineness, Dulness, Suppleness of our Bishops, the Profligacy of the inferior Clergy, the Luxury and Extravagancy of Gentlemen, and the pacific, lullaby Innocence of the . . . are such a Train of Evils, that if Britannia had thrown her Shift aside, and put on the fatal, poisonous, and infernal Shirt of Nessus, she could not be more tormented, nor by a Train of excruciating Ills drove to a more desperate Despair.
The seeden Villains, which are now ripe with yellow Infamy, that fill every Department of the State, and prostitute the Wealth of the People on ignoble and abandoned Wretches, who have no Pursuit but the most chequered Vices, now lord it over the Land, and scatter Ruin from their infected Hands wherever they go. Have they not ham-strung the Tendons of TRADE? Have they not annihilated the East-India Company? Have they not prostituted Lotteries to the basest and meanest Purposes, to retrieve cozening Builders and Makers of Toys and Baubles? Have they not trampled on the pure and upright Trial by Jury? Have they not robbed a branch of Trade of its literary Right? Have they not sown the Seeds of Dissention and War amongst our Colonies? Have they not attempted to strangle our sister America in her Infancy, loaded her with a very abominable Chain, and given Countenance to papists, in Opposition to the pure Religion of our Country? Have they not by a partial and ignominious Inclusion of Commons, destroyed the Cottagers who were the Supports of our Market, and (by Propagation) the Recruits of our Navy and Army? Have they not, by a lawless and exorbitant Rise of the Price of Lands, driven the Husbandmen from England, Scotland and Ireland? Have they not destroyed our Manufactures, and driven the Workmen of them into foreign Lands for bread? Have they not loaded ye with such exorbitant Taxes, and disregarded Monopolies of all Kinds to even starve you? Have they not, by granting Acts of Parliament for the cutting of Canals, destroyed your Coasting Trade, and ruined your Nursery of Seamen? Have they not suffered your Cod-Fishery in America to be infringed, and wink at the hourly Insults and encroachments of the French? Have they not put up with the most impudent Affronts from the Spaniards with a cowardly Tameness unbecoming Englishmen? Have they not loaded your Lands with Taxes, your Light, your Apparel, your Carriages, your Meat, and most infamously laid one Halfpenny on every Quart of Porter, which is the sole support and Comfort of the hard working Man? Have they not done all these with Impunity, and are they not still riding with the Gygantic Steps to forge more Chains, and pass more Oppressions? and can ye tamely, punily, pulingly see such Havock made amongst your Birthrights and Liberties, nor raise a Hand, or open a Mouth to keep ye up from sinking?
O shame ye Englishmen! ye merit not the Name, when your Country can be saved by you, and yet you suffer your Rights to be trampled on, nor turn again with the humble Spirit of a Worm. The Spirit of a Worm would save ye, but ye have it not; and Ruin must pursue the Man, who can stand with his Fingers in his Mouth, and suffer the Slaves of Power to pick his Pockets.
The next Election may, in some Measure, snatch you from the Brink of Destruction, if ye can withstand the Potations offered you by the venal Candidates of Government. Retain yourselves sober, pride yourselves in a blunt and manly Refusal of Bribes, and give your Votes to such honest Men only, who can and will stand by you in the Hour of Need and in the Day of Destruction.
Let no intoxication warp your Resolutions; drink with your own Money, nor swallow a Draught of Corruptions, that will most inevitably ruin ye all. There is scarce a Borough but will have Candidates of both Complexions.---You cannot be so blind as not to discern the white from the Black. Call up that ancient Spunk and Virtue that so long distinguished your Forefathers; and let the World see that though Kings and Nobles study to ruin a People,---that Englishmen alone can save their Country, in spite of all the Evils of evil Men. Rouse, Britons, rouse from your Lethargy; nor forget your ancient Spirit, that hath so often reclaimed this Land in the Hours of Sorrow and Despair. The Virtue is alone with you---if you tamely fold your Arms and talk of Maladies, without administering a Cure, this Island in fifty Years will be a Colony of France, and your Children the miserable Slaves of Arbitrary Power. Remember with Tears I give you the Caution,---remember the Prophecy; or save the Land, by adopting the Advice of your steady and unshaken Friend MARVELL.
L O N D O N, July 28.
According to an Estimate, it is said, the Navy of France at Midsummer last, consisted of 100 Ships of the Line and Frigates, said to be esteemed, upon an Average, superior in Strength to 100 English 64 Gun Ships.
It is said that a French Nobleman of great Quality is in London incog. settling some Business relative to Poland. He is so cautious of being seen that he never goes out of his Lodging till late at Night, when he goes in a Chair to Down-Street, from whence he is conveyed in a Coach, attended by a certain Lord, to such Places as their Business may require. 'Tis thought this will make the King of Prussia Sweat and Fret, when he is acquainted with it.
Orders are given for a general Survey of all the Fortifications in Great Britain, Ireland, and the Isles of Man, Jersey, Guernsey and Scilly. Engineers are gone off for that Purpose. Every place of Strength is in future to be kept in thorough Repair.---Some of the old Castles on the Sea Coasts are to be pulled down, and the old Materials applied towards the Building new Fortifications and Barracks for Soldiers at every Place where the former are erected.
July 30. There are now fitting out, in different Yards, three Men of War design'd for the Coast of Africa, where they are to be stationed for some Time, for the better Protection of the Trade, and are afterwards to sail down the Coast, to join the Fleet on the North-American Station.
We are assured that some further Orders and Instructions of an important Nature were last Week sent off to General Gage, Governor of Massachusetts Bay in New-England.

Imported from LONDON, And to be Sold by John Penhallow,
At his Store in Portsmouth, cheap for Cash only, Dark blue, Sky blue, blue grey, black grey, green, buff-color'd, superfine black, crimson, scarlet, and other colored Broad CLOTHS, — Buttons, Shalloons, and Twist to match, — light color'd Kersemeer, Wiltons, German Serges, Worsted Damask, Gold Hat Laces, Gold & Silver Prussian Bindings, — Gold and Silver Thread Buttons, Fives, — Plain, striped and changeable Lutestrings, black, cloth, changeable and sky blue Tassities, Damask, Padusoy, Ducape, — blue, white and pink color'd half ell Persians, Chinces, Callicoes; green, blue & cloth color'd Brolios, — blue and white Copper Plate Furniture. — Three qrs. 7 eight, and yard wide Linnens, check Linnens, striped Cotton Holland, plain black Lasting, — plain, white, striped and black Gauze, flower'd dit. — flower'd Gauze Aprons, flower'd Lawn ditto. — black and white Cargut, Cambricks and Lawns, plain and striped Camblets, Hair Bine, double and single Allopeans, — yard wide Crapes, Poplins, — blue, black, green, worsted and hair Plush, — green and cloth color'd worsted Grograms, — green and blue Chaney for Curtains, China Cups and Saucers, Plates and Dishes, green Linsey, Velvel and Velverets, — black, white, and blue Feathers, black, blue and white fatten Hatts, Men's and Women's thread, worsted and cotton Hose, Children's dit. — Men's black and white silk Hose, black Breeches Patterns, silk Damascus, plain and corded Dimothy, Fustians, white Lamb Gloves, black glaz'd dit. white Kid dit. Women's unglaz'd Lamb Gloves, — black, blue, white and pink colour'd Sattins, — plain and figur'd Stuffs, Calamancoes, Durants, Shalloons, Bombazeen, Children's red Morocco Shoes, Cloth, Shoe and Floor Brushes, Looking-Glasses, Desk Furniture, — White Chapel Needles, white Buckram, Black and white Laces, Cheveux de Frize Laces, Women's Horn and Tortoise-shell Combs, Cinnamon, Mace, Cloves and Nutmegs, Sewing Silks, colour'd Threads, — 3 4ths napkinng Diaper, Diaper Table-Cloths, — Men's and Women's black and white silk Gloves, pink and white figur'd Mode, — Quart and Pint black Jacks, Sagathees, Velvet Clogs, crimson, scarlet, green and cloth Cape Velvet, — 4d, 6d, 10d, 20d, Nails, 3d, 4d, 5d, 6d, Brads, 24d, 30d, Deck Nails, 6 by 8, 7 by 9, 8 by 10 Glass, — —A good Assortment of PEWTER.— Large Stock Locks, — SYTHES and SICKLES, — Hatters Trimmings — Hard WARE of all Kinds, — Molasses, — Cotton Wool, — Coffee, — Chocolate, — Loaf and Brown Sugar.
N. B. A few Bolts of Russia DUCK.
Just arriv'd from Virginia, And to be SOLD by
Neal McIntyre,
On Spring-Hill, Portsmouth, A Quantity of Excellent
TOBACCO, By Wholesale or Retail.
Cash given for FLAX-SEED by said McIntyre
TO BE SOLD
One Half of a Right of Land, In Rochester, originally belonging to Nicholas Harford, excepting the first Dividend.
Enquire of the Printer.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
§ New-Durham §
WHEREAS the Proprietors of New Durham have been legally Notified, to pay sundry Assessments levied on each Proprietor's Right, notwithstanding which, many of said Proprietors have neglected paying the same, either in whole or part, which obliges the Subscriber to give Notice, that on the tenth Day of October next, at 10 o'Clock in the Forenoon will be Sold at Public Vendue at the House of Mr. John Burnam Hanson, Innholder in Dover, so much of each Delinquent Right or Share of Land as shall be sufficient to pay said Taxes with all incidental Charges. The Delinquents are the Owners of the following original Rights, viz.
   l. s. d. l. s. d.     Ebenezer Smith 1 15 0 John Burnam 1 3 6   James D.isco 1 15 0 John Footman 1 3 6   Joseph Duda jr. 2 7 0 The Stevenjon 1 3 6   Theo's Tabb 2 7 0 Win'p Burnam 1 3 6   Sam'l Wills 2 7 0 Ichabod Duda 1 3 6   Joseph Sias 2 7 0 Benmor Duda 2 7 0   Thomas Wills 2 7 0 Nicho. Duda 2 7 0   Miles Randal 2 7 0 The Ch. fly jr. 2 7 0   Job Rannall jr. 2 7 0 John Johnson 1 3 6   Jona. Durgin 2 7 0 Nat'l Frost 2 7 0   Abid Leathers 2 7 0 Theo's York 2 7 0   Joseph Ch. fly 2 7 0 Wm Durgin 1 15 0   Daniel Rogers 2 7 0 Joseph Smith jr. 2 7 0   Simon Randal 1 3 6 Eleazer Bickford 1 15 0   Sam'l Adams 2 7 0 Valentine Hill 2 7 0   John Edgerley 2 7 0 Benja. Bennet 2 7 0   Stephen Jones jr. 2 7 0 John Mason 2 7 0   Abra. Bennick 2 7 0 Rich'd Duda 2 7 0   Wm. Jackson jr. 2 7 0 Caleb Wakelam 2 7 0   Eliphalet Daniel 2 7 0 Lemuel Ch. fly 2 7 0   John Durgin & } Francis Durgin 2 7 0 Nicho's Periman 0 17 6   Joseph Smith 0 17 6  
Durham, September 14th, 1774.
VALENTINE MATHES, Collector.
At Time and Place aforesaid will be sold at Public Vendue, to satisfy a former Tax, so much of the Rights or Shares that follow (in said New Durham) as will pay the Sums affixed to the Names of the undermentioned Proprietors, with incidental Charges.
   l. s. l. s. d.     John Footman 1 17 0 John Johnson 1 17 0   The Stevenjon 1 17 0 Nat'l Frost 1 17 0   Samuel Wills 1 14 0 Joseph Duda jr. 2 16 0  
Dover, September 14th, 1774.
JOHN BURNAM HANSON, Collector.
Whereas on the twentieth Day
of October, A. D. 1761, the Proprietors of the Town of STOCKBRIDGE, formerly in the Province of New Hampshire, at a Legal Meeting then held, voted that a TAX or Assessment of Three Hundred and sixty DOLLARS be raised and assessed on the original Proprietors of said Town, to defray the necessary Charges of the said Town— And whereas each Proprietors Share of said TAX is Five DOLLARS, as mentioned in the List committed to me as Collector of the said Town— And whereas sundry of said Proprietors have to this Day omitted paying me their proportion of said TAX, altho' they have been legally notified and warned to do so many Years ago, whose Names with the Sums due from each of them, are as follows, viz.— Joshua Henthaw, Esq; Five Dollars— Jeremiah Green, Esq; Five Dollars— John Cunnable Five Dollars— Andrew Belcher, Esq; Five Dollars— Joshua Orne Five Dollars— James Friend Five Dollars— Daniel Warner Five Dollars— James Nevin Five Dollars— George Wentworth Five Dollars— John Sherburne Five Dollars— Henry Deering Five Dollars— John Winthrop, Esq; Five Dollars— Edward Wiggleworth Five Dollars— Rev. Nathaniel Appleton Five Dollars— Joshua Wentworth Five Dollars— Samuel Wentworth, Esq; Five Dollars— Samuel Warner Five Dollars— Nathaniel Warner Five Dollars— His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, Esq; Five Dollars. Han. Jacob Wendell, Esq; Five Dollars— Benning Wentworth, Esq; late Governor, Ten Dollars—
THESE are therefore to notify and warn the delinquent Proprietors aforesaid, and all other Persons concerned, that unless they pay me the several Sums aforesaid, raised as a TAX on their several Rights, on or before the twenty fourth Day of September Instant, that so much of their original Rights in the said Town of Stockbridge will be Sold by me at public Auction at the House of Henry Wife, Innholder in Ipswich, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, on the 26th Day of September current, at Three o'Clock Afternoon, to defray said Taxes. WILLIAM DODGE, Col. Ipswich, Sept. 1, 1774.
To be sold, a LOT of Interval, in New-Hopkinton, the Property of the Reverend Dr. HAVEN of Portsmouth. Enquire of the Printer.
Whereas on the twentieth Day
of October, A. D. 1761, the Proprietors of the Town of BERNARD, formerly in the Province of New Hampshire, at a legal Meeting then held, voted that a TAX or Assessment of Three Hundred and Forty five DOLLARS be raised and assessed on the original Proprietors of said Town, to defray the necessary Charges of the said Town— And whereas each Proprietors Share of said TAX is Five DOLLARS, as mentioned in the List committed to me as Collector of the said Town— And whereas sundry of said Proprietors have to this Day omitted paying me their proportion of said TAX altho' they have been legally notified and warned to do so many Years ago, whose Names with the Sums due from each of them, are as follows, viz.— Richard Champney Five Dollars— Daniel Warner, Esq; Five Dollars— Jonathan Lovewell, Esq; Five Dollars— Samuel Sherburne, Esq; Five Dollars— George Jaffrey, Esq; Five Dollars— Rev. Anthony Wibird Five Dollars— Elisha Story Five Dollars— Thales Greenwood Five Dollars— John Wendell Five Dollars— James Mc Donough Five Dollars— Hunking Wentworth, Esq; Five Dollars— Joseph Newmarch Five Dollars— Richard Emery Five Dollars. Samuel Wentworth, Esq; Five Dollars— Benning Wentworth, Esq; late Governor, Ten Dollars—
THESE are therefore to notify and warn the delinquent Proprietors aforesaid, and all other Persons concerned, that unless they pay me the several Sums aforesaid, raised as a TAX on their several Rights, on or before the 24th Day of September Instant, that so much of their original Rights in the said Town of Bernard, will be Sold by me at PUBLIC AUCTION at the House of Henry Wife, Innholder in Ipswich, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, on the 26th Day of September current, at three o'Clock Afternoon, to defray said Taxes. WILLIAM DODGE, Collector Ipswich, Sept. 1st, 1774.
All Persons that have any Demands on the Estate of Samuel Walton, late of Seugobegon W. St. No. 3. (now Amberst) deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts immediately to William Walton, of said Amberst, Administrator on said Estate, in order for Settlement— And immediate Payment of all Debts due to said Estate is also requested. September 6th, 1774.
Whereas Mary, the Wife of me the Subscriber, has of late run me greatly in Debt, this is therefore to forbid all Persons trusting her on my Account, as I will not pay One Penny she may contract from the date hereof. Kittery, Sept. 14th 1774. JOHN LILLEY.
TO BE SOLD,
About 14 Acres of good Land, a good DWELLING HOUSE, Barn, Orchard, and other Accommodations, very conveniently situated for a Trader or Tradesman, upon the public Road to Exeter, and about half a Mile from Greenland Meeting House. Enquire of James Sherburne, living on the Premises, Greenland August 25th 1774.
THREE Months further being allowed us by the Hon. JOHN FENTON, Esq; Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. in and for the County of Grafton, to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of ALEXANDER PHELPS, late of Lime, in said County, Esq; deceased, Represented Insolvent, Notice is hereby given, that we will attend said Business at the House of Capt. Aaron Storrs, Innholder in Hanover, in said County, on the third Monday of the three next following Months, from two to 4 o'Clock, P. M. Hanover, | Aaron Storrs, } Commissioners July 25, 1774. | Beza. Woodward, }
TO BE SOLD at private Sale, very cheap,
Two Houses with Land
Adjoining them, situate in Portsmouth, one of which stands on the Northerly Side of the Street leading from Gregory Purcell, Esq; out of Town, commodiously situated for a Trader or Tradesman, with a Sufficiency of Land for a Barn, Garden, &c.
The other of said Houses
Stands on the Northerly Side of the Street leading from Mr. William Brewster's to Mr. Joshua Wentworth's, well situated for a Tradesman, with a large Garden thereto adjoining. For further Particulars, Enquire of Richard Cutts Shannen, Esq; of said Portsmouth.
Choice Stone Lime
To be sold by JACOB SHEAFE, junr. in Portsmouth.