The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1774-02-25 00:00:00

BOSTON, February 17.
Tuesday last the Superior Court, Court of Assize & General Goal Delivery was opened here: The Hon. Judge Trowbridge, in the Absence of the Chief-Justice, having given the Charge to the Grand Jury, the said Court was adjourned to Tuesday next.
Tuesday Afternoon his Excellency the Governor was pleased to send the following Message to the Honorable House of Representatives, viz.
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
THE Secretary has presented to me a written Paper purporting a Remonstrance against Peter Oliver, Esq; Chief Justice of the Superior Court, for receiving and for having declared that he will continue to receive the Salary which has been granted to him by the King, thereupon praying in the Words following, "That your Excellency and Honors would be pleased to order, that the said Peter Oliver, Esq; be not suffered any longer to sit and act in his Office of Chief Justice, and that he be forthwith and without Delay removed from said Court." This Remonstrance the Speaker who has signed the same in the Name & by Order of the House, directed the Secretary to deliver to me. Considering that some Expressions in your Remonstrance carry another Aspect, it may be necessary to observe to you that the Council, except when they are considered in their Legislative Capacity, or as a Court for the Probate of Wills and granting Administration, and for determining Cause of Marriage and Divorce, are by the Constitution to be advising and assisting to the Governor, and do not make one Court or Judiciary Body with the Governor; but the Governor is considered as an integral Part and has Authority from time to time at his Discretion to assemble and call the Council together. Any thing in your Remonstrance which has a contrary Aspect may have proceeded from Inadvertence.
There are other Parts of your Remonstrance which appear to me very exceptionable, but I chuse to avoid all Controversy with you except it shall be my indispensable Duty.
I think it proper to acquaint you that his Majesty having been pleased to direct Warrants to be prepared for the payment of Salaries to the Chief Justice and to the other Justices of the Superior Court, I received, as Governor of the Province, the earliest Notice of this Declaration of his Majesty's Pleasure, in order as I conceive that, as far as might appertain to me, I should conform thereto.
If I should comply with your Request or take any Steps in order to the Removal of the Chief Justice from his Place, merely for receiving what is thus granted him by the King, I should make myself chargeable with counteracting his Majesty and endeavouring to defeat his Royal Intentions expressly signified to me, with a Contempt of his Royal Authority, & with a Breach of the Trust reposed in me by my Commission, & I should fear some Mark of his Royal Displeasure. I am therefore in Duty to the King obliged to decline your Request.
I will by the first Opportunity transmit a Copy of your Remonstrance to be laid before the King, and I shall conform to such further Signification of his Majesty's Pleasure as I may hereafter receive.
T. HUTCHINSON.
Province-House, 15th Feb. 1774.
QUEBEC, January 16.
On Tuesday the 4th inst. one Francis La Montagne, of the Parish of St. Michael, killed his own Son, a Boy about 11 Years of Age, by striking him on the Head and Face, Four Blows with an Axe. About 4 Years ago he had been under a Doctor for Lunacy, and a few Days before he committed this horrid Action, had shewn some Signs of insanity. He was brought to Town on Monday last, and committed to the public Goal.
WILLIAMSBURG, Jan. 20.
Capt. M'Larty has favoured us with the following particular Account of his taking up the Crew of the Brigantine Polly, Walter Humphreys Commander, from Georgia, bound to Jamaica: In the Morning of the 20th ult. being in Lat. 32, Long. 70, he discovered a Sail to leward, which shewed Signals of Distress; upon which he immediately bore down, & found her a mere Wreck, nothing but the Stump of the Foremast standing, the Boat, and all the Sails gone, both Pumps at work, the Sea running Mountains high, and it blowed very hard. In this Situation Capt M'Larty could not get his Boat out to save the People, but threw the End of a Hawser overboard, by which he kept them in tow till next Morning; and the Weather being then a little easier, he hoist-
ed out his Boat, and took the whole Crew in, Eight in number, and a young Lady, Miss Hannah Dempster, who behaved with the greatest Resolution, standing by the Pumps when most of the Men gave out. As it still blew very hard, he could not attempt getting out any of the Cargo, but brought all the People safe into Norfolk.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 7.
Extract of a Letter from Dover.
"On Sunday, the 23d ult. the Wife of a poor Labourer here was delivered of Four living Children, Three Daughters, and one Son, who are all now in perfect Health, and like to remain so.
A Lady's Adieu to her TEA-TABLE.
FAREWEL the Tea-Board, with it's gaudy Equipage Of Cups and Saucers, Cream-Bucket, Sugar-Tongs, The pretty Tea-Chest also, lately stor'd With Hylon, Congo, and best double Fine. Full many a joyous Moment have I sat by ye, Hearing the Girls tattle, the Old Maids talk Scandal, And the spruce Coxcomb laugh at---may be---Nothing. No more shall I dish out the once lov'd Liquor, Though now detestable, Because I'm taught (and I believe it true) Its Use will soften slavish Chains upon my Country, And LIBERTY's the Goddess I would choose To reign Triumphant in AMERICA.
NEW-YORK, February 10.
Last Monday Morning, about 10 o'clock a Challenge was sent by Mr. Le Chevalier de Port-tis, Officer of the 18th Regiment of Foot in his most Christian Majesty's service, to one Mr. Caill-re-de la T---r, of Martinica, formerly an Officer of Light-Horse, in the Presence of Two Gentlemen of this City; but the Latter, not much liking the Invitation, begged to be excused fighting on his Majesty George King of Great-Britain's Dominions. On which the former proposed for Rendezvous, Guadaloupe, Martinica, Cape Francois, or some other Place, offering him the Passage on Board the New-ark Brig; which he also refused to accept of. How this Quarrel will end we can't tell.
We hear from Brattleborough, in the County of Cumberland, that 22 Couple were married in that new Settlement, and Sixteen Children born, in the short Space of 6 Weeks.
Captain Daniel Moore, from the West-Indies, informs us, that the Schooner Polly, Capt. Sandeman, and the Schooner Polly, Capt. Atwel, both from Connecticut, for Jamaica, were cast away on the 29th of December last, near Cape-Francois, Vessels and Cargoes entirely lost; and that on the 25th of the same Month, Capt. James Creighton, in a Sloop, from this Port, were cast away on a Reef going into Cape Francois: Vessel lost, and greatest Part of the Cargo, but the Crew saved.
On Sunday Morning sailed for Falmouth, the Harriot Packet, Capt. Oak, with the Mail for England.
NEW-LONDON, Feb. 11.
The Assembly of Maryland have come into Resolves similar to those of the other Colonies.
One Day last Week a Child of Mr. James Haughton's of the North Parish in this Town, about five Years old, fell into a Dish-Kettle of hot Water, which scalded it in such a Manner that it died in Forty-Eight Hours.
We hear that a Cow, fatted by Mr. Experience Robinson, in Windham, was last Week sold in Boston for 60 Dollars.
We hear from Sharon, that last Monday
Night se'nnight, a Man and his Wife in that Place, went to Bed in good Health, and were heard by the Family to talk together about break of Day; but at about Eight o'Clock in the Morning they were both found dead in their Bed.—They were aged Persons.
"On the 27th ult. about 2 o'clock P. M. the following melancholly Accident happened in Coventry, North Parish, viz. As Mr. Jacob Brewster was dressing Flax, he carried several Bundles by the Fire-Side in order for drying, which suddenly took fire, and the Wind being very High, in less than Two Minutes it was impracticable to enter that Part of the House; but by the Dexterity of the People present, they entered other Parts of the House, and threw out at Windows some few Articles; and as a Number of people had by this Time collected, they, by drawing off the Timber as it fell, and quenching the Fire on the Floor with Snow, saved great Part of the Provisions in the Cellar. The Loss must be very considerable, as the House was 30 by 35 Feet, and nearly finished. About 50 Bushels of Corn, and Part of his English Grain is consumed."
Norwich, Feb. 10, 1774.
Yesterday Mr. James Burnam of this Town brought to Market a Sled-Load of Wood, which compleats the Number of 2500 Load, which he has sold in this Town since the Year 1754. The whole of which he has drove in himself about 4 Miles, a great Part of which he cut himself and all except above 50 Load on his own Land; all which he has done without ever up-setting a Cart, or breaking a Wheel or Sled, or even bruising a Finger, or by any Means damaging an Ox or Horse by any Wound.
N. B. Said Burnam imagines he has about Five Times as much more Wood, for market, which he intends leaving to some other Person to cut and draw, as he thinks he has done his full Share that Way. The 2500 Load he has sold for about £.820 Lawful.
St. George de Viart,
Who has resided for Three Years last past at Salem, and taught Dancing, Fencing, and the French Language, there, at Marblehead and Gloucester, to general Approbation, having been favoured with encouragement to open Schools in this Town for teaching the same polite and useful Accomplishments, begs leave to acquaint the Public, that he proposes to attend his Dancing-School every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, from Two o'clock in the Afternoon, till Five, at the Assembly-Room; his Fencing-School on the same Days, from Five o'clock in the Evening, till Eight, at the same Place; and French School from Six o'clock, till Eight in the Evening, at the same Place on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. He proposes also to Teach Dancing to any young Gentlemen whose Business will not permit them to attend in the Day, at the same Place on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday Evenings, from Eight o'clock till Ten.
Mr. De Viart intends opening his Dancing-School, on the above-mentioned Days, in the First Week of March next; and his other Schools as soon as a sufficient Number of Schollars apply.
Mr. De Viart's Terms may be known by applying to him, at his Lodgings, at Mrs. Gerrish's, in King-Street.
Portsmouth, 16th Feb. 1774.

Mr. FOWLE, Your publishing the enclosed, for the Benefit of this Province, will much oblige your constant Reader.
Pro bono Publico. A CTUATED by that Philanthropy every good Man must with to possess; and being particularly stimulated, at this critical Juncture, to excite that Watchfulness and Industry in- separable from a truly commercial Colony, I shall with all Dis- fidence take the Liberty to Communicate a few Sentiments, thro' the Channel of your Paper, for the Consideration of the Public, in humble Hope that the Weight and Importance of the Subject, as far as it respects the Good of this Province, will sufficiently apologize for my presuming to appear in Print: and I am the more induced to embrace the earliest Opportunity so to do; as the Time approaches for a new Choice of Repre- sentatives, who it is to be hoped will think it an Object worthy their earliest Attention, & the Exertion of their utmost Abilities.
That the Existence of the American Colonies in General, depends upon commercial Principles, I am certain I need not take much Pains to evince, it being a Postulatium generally too well understood to need a particular Discussion, this then being a self-Evident Proposition, I shall not take up either my own or the Reader's Time in entering into multifarious Reasons, why neither this, or scarce any other Colony upon the Ameri- can Continent, can expect to arrive at a conspicuous Degree of Opulence or Respectability, without paying the utmost Atten- tion, and using the most effectual Methods toward the Comple- tion of it.
That the Inhabitants of this Province are blest with as fine a Territory, both as to Climate, Soil, innumerable Rivers, Ponds and Streams, as any in the American World, none will or can gain say: That they have been for these Seven Years past pe- culiarly fortunate in having a Gentleman at the Head of their Affairs, who has not only paid the greatest Attention to, but absolutely expended a great Deal of his private Property, in bringing the Province into a very conspicuous point of View, must be gratefully acknowledged on all Hands; and that thro' his paternal Affection and Attention, Numbers of our new Set- tlements (which were not in Existence upon His first coming to the Chair) are now actually so forward in their Improvements, as to grow uneasy at not having it in their Power to transport their Produce to this Capital for a Market; but are drove to the unnatural Alternative of carrying it to sundry Towns in the Massachusetts-Bay, for Want of sufficient Communications thro' the Government! to the great Emolument of our Neigh- bour Colony, and alarming Detriment of this, which if not spe- cifically remedied by the Attention of the different Branches of the Legislature, must prove destructive to the Province in general!
Least that I have urged on this Head should give Umbrage to those heretofore concerned in the Management of public Af- fairs, as having a Tendency to throw Obloquy upon their past Transactions; I am induced to assure them, I have no such Thing in Contemplation, neither do I think them any Way culpable, as till lately the most that could be expected from our new Settlers, was to provide sufficient for their domestic Expen- diture: Therefore those public Inconveniences, which now stare us in the Face, in Reality had not then an Existence; be- side, it will be found that Laws and Regulations, which prove very effectual for small Communities, and that serve to keep them within the strictest Bounds of Decorum, &c., will by no Means answer the same good Ends, when they, either through Emigrations from other Provinces, &c. or their own natural Population, become more Extensive---because it's apprehended that as Numbers increase, Difference in Opinion, Ways and Means for Support, opposite Interests, &c. grow in Proportion, which must inevitably render the Plan formed by the Few, in- sufficient for the Many.
From what I have already said, I am encouraged to hope, it will be agreed on all Hands, that some Scheme should be adopt- ed for the immediate Opening the necessary Communications between this Capital, and it's very extensive and flourishing Settlements; in order to prevent the Ruin pending over it; whose Situation as a Sea Port, is as advantageous as any in A- merica for a general Commerce, it's internal Advantages nu- merous, and to be envied by its Sister Colonies. Upon these Premises I must further urge that parsimonious Plans, by Way of saving trifling Sums to the Public, at this Time, will by no Means cure the growing Evil: Some spirited and generous Me- dium must be adopted to induce our back Settlers to bring their Produce to Portsmouth, instead of bending their Course to Ha- verhill, Newbury, Falmouth, &c. which last mentioned Town in particular, we find at this Moment blowing into Consequence, thro' the Trade carrying on from our new Settlements, which must in a few Years reduce this Capital to a mere fishing Village!
Here my Countrymen, you must, at a single View, perceive that those industrious People have stole a March upon this Pro- vince, giving every possible encouragement to our new Settlers, by opening Roads, &c. &c. to induce them to transport their Produce to their Port; and assuredly none can be so short- sighted, as not to know the Difficulty, nay, almost Impossibility of recalling a Trade once turned out of it's natural Channel: the Advantage is very soon lost; the Inconvenience almost irremediable: Then may it not with Propriety be said, that as a Commercial People, we have got to the Brink of a Preci- pice, from which dangerous Situation it is our indispensable Duty to retreat as speedy as possible: However I shall not at this Time presume to lay down the particular Mode to be adopted for the Remedy of this growing Evil, it being a Subject of too much moment to be superficially handled, as the future well- being of this Town and Province depends on the due Execution of the Remedy. Indeed if the People are but once made sen- sible of the Utility of my Proposition, I am no Way apprehen- sive but that sufficient Ways and Means can and will be speed- ily adopted to render the Town of Portsmouth, and Province, as extensive & opulent, as nature has intended by it's bountiful Hand it should be. Before I close this I can't help requesting the friendly assistance of my fellow Citizens, in publishing their Sentiments freely on this interesting Subject; and that they will offer such Plans as strike them most forcibly for the pub- lic Good; for in the Midst of Counsellors, it's said there is Safety.
From the PROVIDENCE GAZETTE. The Subscriber, in October, took up the Stock of a grey Bush Bean, which had sprung out of dry Litter, in my Barn Yard, for which I labor'd no more than Jonah did for his Gourd; yet notwithstanding its unfavourable Situation the severe Drought, and Neglect of Husbandry, I gathered from the same, of well- grown Beans, a Number, which, had it grown one Week longer and produced one Bean for each Day, the whole Number pro- duced would have been sufficient for Adam to have eaten one Bean a Year during his Life, from the Birth of Seth.
Woodstock, Jan. 1, 1774. SMITH BARRET. S A L E M, February 22.
Last Friday Capt. Ingersol arrived here from South-Carolina. He informs that the East-India Company's Tea, lately sent to that Province, is to remain stored till the Collector hears from England; and that there is not the least Probability of any of its being purchased there, while the Revenue Act continues un- repealed.
Barrington Resolves.
A T a Meeting of the qualified VOTERS of the Town of BARRINGTON, convened at the Meeting-House in said Town, according to Notification, on February 7th, 1774, to consider of the present State of Affairs;
Voted, Capt. SAMUEL BREWSTER, Moderator. After which, the Moderator communicated to the Meeting a Letter directed to the Selectmen of this Town, by the Commit- tee of Correspondence at Portsmouth, setting forth the Gri- evances which this Country labours under, respecting the Duties imposed, by the British Parliament, on Teas payable on their being landed here. The Town considering the same; conclud- ed, that though the Consumption of that detestable Herb was inconsiderable here, when compar'd with populous Towns; yet, as many MITES make a considerable Quantity, so by their contributing their Mite towards the general Association against the use of it, they might in some small Degree strengthen the Cause of LIBERTY: From this Motive as well as from a Re- gard to Posterity they enter into the following Resolves:
First, That Liberty is the Birth-Right of every Englishman; an essential part of which is a Power vested only in themselves or their Representatives to dispose of their Property; and as the Inhabitants of this Town are a part of his British Majesty's liege Subjects, & have a right to all the Privileges of such Sub- jects and of Englishmen, so we apprehend, we cannot be legally taxed by any Power on Earth, but what is delegated by ourselves.
Secondly, That the laying a Duty, by the British Parliament, upon TEAS to be paid upon their being landed here, is an in- fringement upon the natural Rights of Englishmen, and is cal- culated to carry into Execution the plan of DESPOTISM, adopted by the British Ministry, has a tendency to subvert our happy Constitution, and to reduce us to a State, little short of African Slavery.
Thirdly, That it is the Duty of every honest Man to exert his utmost ability in opposing every Effort of the Enemies of our Liberty to enslave us; that by this Means we may be instru- mental of transmitting, unimpair'd, (through the Ravages of Time) our Liberty down to the latest Posterity.
Fourthly, That we will not, "directly or indirectly," pur- chase any of the Teas sent here by the East-India Company, or suffer it to be used in our Families; and that those who dissent from this Resolve, we shall esteem as Enemies to their Country; as Pests to Society; as Friends to Slavery, and that they ought to be treated with neglect by every true hearted Briton.
Fifthly, That the Thanks of this Town be given to every Community and Individual that have exerted themselves in the noble and glorious Cause of Freedom.
After a repeated reading of the above, it was unanimously consented to by the Meeting. And as our Sister Towns have chosen Committees to correspond together; it was unanimously voted to follow their laudable Example, and made choice of the following Gentlemen, Capt. Paul Hayes, Capt. Samuel Brew- ster, Deacon James Marden, Messieurs Samuel Fols, and David Dew, or either three of them for that Purpose. Also,
Voted, That a Record of the above be enter'd upon the Town Book. SAMUEL BREWSTER, Moderator.
A true Copy, Attest, JAMES MARDEN, Towns-Clerk.
***** BOSTON, February 17.
An Account is published of the Quantities of Flax-Seed ex- ported from the Ports of New-York, and Philadelphia, to Ire- land, by which it appears that there has been exported,
   Of the Growth of 1772.     From New-York, 17187 Hhds. | 29710.   From Philadelphia, 12523   Of the Growth of 1773.   From New-York, 14,852 Hhds. | 27042.   From Philadelphia, 12 160.  
By the Bill of Morality last Year in the City and Liberties of Philadelphia, it appeared, that out of 1344 who died there, above 300 of them perished with the Small-Pox in the natural Way; and as the chic of them were the Children of poor People, a Number of Gentlemen in that City have formed a Society for Innoculating the Poor, free of Expence to them, and are providing a Fund for that Purpose.
The late much regretted Earl of Orrey in one of his Letters from Italy, dated Jan. 1755, lately Published, writes in the fol- lowing prophetic stile. "Tuscany was to Italy, (says Mr. de Voltaire) what Athens was to Greece." "What Greece is, Tus- cany possibly may be, perhaps Italy, perhaps Europe.---The ball of Empire may hereafter roll Westward, and may stop in "Americas; a World unknown when Rome was in its meri- "dian Glory; a World that may save the Tears of some fu- "ture Alexander."
No Packet, no TEA-SHIP, nor any other Vessel from Eng- land, arrived at New-York by last Thursday's Papers.
***** BOSTON, February 21.
ON Monday last the two Houses of Assembly passed a Re- solve for the Adjournment of the Superior Court of Judic- ature, Court of Assize, &c. from Tuesday the 15th Inst. (being the Day on which it was by Law to be holden) to a further Day; it being judged by the two Houses altogether improper that the Chief Justice should sit and act under the present Circumstances, and uncertain what Opinion or Resolution he might have for- med on the Matter. The Resolve was laid before the Governor, but his Excellency declined giving his Assent thereto; the Su- perior Court was of Course opened (the Chief Justice being ab- sent) and adjourned itself till Tuesday the 22d, which will be To-Morrow.
In the House of Representatives, February 16, 1774. ORDERED, That Mr. Hancock, Mr. Phillips, Major Haw- ley, Captain Greenleaf, and Mr. Allen, be a Committee to carry on the following Message to the Honourable Board, viz. May it please the Honourable Board,
THE House of Representatives beg Leave to acquaint the Ho- norable Board that Peter Oliver, Esq; Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature over this Province, declining any more to accept and receive the Grants of this Assembly for his Services as Justice of said Court, hath contrary to the known Constitution of the Province, and the invariable Usage & Cus- tom of said Court, accepted and received a Salary and Reward granted to him by his Majesty for his said Service, from the 5th of July 1772, to the 5th of January 1774; which Salary and Reward he hath taken and received, as has been fully made to appear to this House, out of the Revenue unjustly and uncon- stitutionally levied & extorted from the Inhabitants of the A- merican Colonies, and the said Peter Oliver, Esq; hath also given this House clearly to understand, by a Writing under his Hand, a true Copy of which, together with certain Resolutions of this House thereupon, will be laid on the Council Table, that he is determined for the future to accept the Salary & Reward, which he affirms is granted to him by his Majesty during his Resi- dence in the Province as Chief Justice of the said Superior Court. The House would further acquaint the Honourable Board, that they did on the 12th of this instant February, pass a Remon-
strance and Petition to his Excellency the Governor and Coun- cil, setting forth that the said Peter Oliver, Esq; by his Con- duct as aforesaid, acting against the known Sense of the Body of the People of this Province, most fully and expressly declared in the several Resolutions of divers Houses of Representatives and otherwise, had detached himself totally from his Connections with them, and lost their Confidence; and praying that he might not be suffered any longer to sit and act in the Office of Chief Justice of the said Superior Court: but that he might forthwith be removed therefrom: Which Remonstrance and Petition the House did on the same Day specially charge the Secretary to deliver to the Governor without Delay.
The honorable Board will please further to be informed, that his Excellency by his Message of Yesterday, acknowledged that the said Petition and Remonstrance had been laid before him, and expressly declared to this House, that "he was obliged in Duty to the King to decline their Request;" and also signified to the House, that he should not take any Step for the Removal of the said Chief Justice on that Account. A Copy of said Re- monstrance and Petition, with his Excellency's said Message, will also be laid on the Council Table.
Now this House having after the most mature Deliberation, judged the Matters aforesaid to be of the most weighty Importance, to this Province, do think themselves bound in Duty to their Constituents, thus explicitly to represent them to the honorable Board, that the honorable Board may duly advise thereon, and act and determine as in their own Wisdom they shall think proper.
The Papers refer'd to in the foregoing Message were after- wards by Order of the House laid on the Council-Table.
And on Friday last the Whole House of Representatives waited on his Excellency the Governor in the Council-Chamber, where the Speaker delivered to him the following Petition for the immediate Removal of Peter Oliver, Esq; from the Su- perior Court, viz.
Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. To his Excellency the Governor.
THE House of Representatives being still deeply impressed with a Sense of the Importance and Necessity of removing Peter Oliver, Esq; Chief Justice of the Superior Court, now wait on your Excellency with this repeated Petition, to which we hope your Excellency will not give a Denial, and pray that your Excellency would be pleased to take our Remonstrance and Petition to the Governor and Council of the 12th Instant into your further Consideration; and although your Excellency has signified to this House that you shall not take any Steps for the Removal of the Chief Justice from his Place, yet as it is in the Judgment of this House a Matter of the most weighty Concern- ment to this Province, We pray that your Excellency would please to take the Advice of his Majesty's Council thereon.--- We do with the greatest Propriety urge this Matter, as we find in the Royal Charter, that the principal End of the Institution of the Council is to be advising and assisting to the Governor in ordering and directing the Affairs of the Province, and that they are expressly appointed for that very End: And your Ex- cellency's determining on this Matter by yourself, would be to order and direct one of the most important Affairs of this Pro- vince without the Advice and Assistance of the Council, and contrary to the most Evident Design of the Charter.
We do assure your Excellency that the "written Paper" which you are pleased in your Message of Yesterday to say "purported a Remonstrance against Peter Oliver, Esq;" was in Truth, the Remonstrance and Petition of this House, passed after the most mature Deliberation, by a very great Majority, in a very full House.
Your Excellency will please to consider that this House is well knowing to the general Sense of their Constituents in this Matter; and we can now assure you, that the Continuance of the Chief Justice in his Place will increase the uneasiness of the People without Doors, and endanger the public Tranquility. We therefore earnestly intreat your Excellency, that while we are in this Instance "employing the Powers with which we are intrusted in promoting the Tranquility and good Order of the Government," we may agreeable to your Declaration in your Speech to both Houses, find that you are ready to give your Con- sent to a Request of the House intended for that and other great and important Purposes; and that your Excellency will imme- diately take every Step for the Removal of the chief Justice from the Superior Court.
[Thus the Reader hath a true Account of this most momentous Affair as it hath hitherto been transacted among the several Branches of the Legislature.]
***** TO THE WORSHIPFUL
Hunking Wentworth, Esq;
WE the Proprietors, of more than one sixteenth Part of a certain Tract of Land, within the Township of SUCCESS, containing Eight Thousand Acres, Voted and granted by the Proprietors of said Township to us the Subscribers upon certain Condi- tions, mentioned in a Vote of the Proprietors of said Township at their Meeting August 3d. 1773.
Request that a Meeting of the Proprietors of said Tract of Eight Thousand Acres, may be called on Thursday the 17th Day of March 1774, at six o'- Clock, P. M. at the House of Capt. Jacob Titton, Inholder in Portsmouth, to chuse a Moderator, Clerk, and other Officers; I kewise to raise Money to defray all necessary Expences for performing the Conditions of said Vote, also to agree upon some Method for calling Proprietors Meetings in future and to transact any other Business that may be ne- cessary.
Benjamin Mackay John Wigglesworth Supply Clap George Libbey Richard Hart Hugh Henderson,
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Rockingham, ss: PURSUANT to which Request, I do hereby petitly and warre the Proprietors of the aforesaid Tract of Eight Thousand Acres, to meet at the time and place and for the purpose aforesaid.
H. WENTWORTH, Justice Peace. Portsmouth, Feb. 22. 1774.
To be sold, a PEW, in the Rev. Doctor Langdon's Meeting House, well situated. En- quire of Richard Catts Shannan.

CHARLESTOWN, South-Carolina, December 31. T HEY write from Philadelphia, that General Gage, on his Arrival in England, assured Administration that the settling the projected Colony of Vandalia on the Ohio, would inevitably involve this Continent in a War with the Indians, and that the said Scheme was thereupon postponed, if not entirely given up.
We hear the Earl of Dartmouth has, by express Command of his Majesty, sent Circular Letters to all the Governors in America, containing a Number of Queries relating to the Provinces over which they preside, and to which they are to transmit Answers as speedily as may be.
Jan. 14. Letters from London inform us, that the Land-Offices in North-America will soon be opened again; and it is said, nearly on the former Footing.
On the 25th of last Month, a Person named White and his whole Family, consisting of six Persons, were found murdered in his own House at Ogechee in Georgia. The Perpetrators of this horrid Act are supposed to be Creek Indians.
RICE is now sold at 55s. the 100lb. and best Copper Indigo at 30s. to 35s. the Pound.
January 28. Since our last we have had several alarming Accounts of Hostilities committed by the Creek Indians against his Majesty's Subjects in the Province of Georgia.
The Murder of the Person named White, and his Family, at Ogechee, on Christmas Day, formerly mentioned, served only to alarm that Settlement, and induced another Settler named Shirrol, who proposed to make a stand against the Indians, to set about erecting a Stockade Fort, one side of which he had completed on the 14th of this Month, when a Party of Indians, about 15 in Number, came upon him about 9 o'Clock in the Morning, attacked and killed seven, and wounded four others; one having run off at the first Onset, the People in the House were reduced to three, viz. two White Lads and one Negro, who behaved with great Bravery till four o'Clock in the Afternoon, when the Negro had the good Fortune to shoot one of the Indians, supposed to be their Leader, as they immediately drew off without carrying off their dead Bodies of four of their Number killed during the Attack. After this, Serjeant Stuart, with a Party of the Rangers, came to their Relief. Capt. Bernard of the Rangers buried the dead, reconnoitred the Boundary Line, and returned, having dispatched Lieutenant Keating, with a Party of Rangers to Williams's Creek, near the Old Line, where some People intended to build a Fort.
On the 17th of this Month, Col. Grierison set out from Augusta for the Frontiers, with a Detachment of the Militia, for the Protection of the Inhabitants, and to make Discoveries of the real Intentions of the Indians. At Wrightsborough he was joined by some other Detachments, and mustered in all 100 Men. On the 20th they marched to the Old Boundary Line, and encamped at Williams's Creek, and sent out Parties who returned without making any Discoveries. On the Application of the Survivors of Shirrol's Family, two Officers and 12 Men were detached to protect them, and to assist in bringing off their Cattle and other Effects, who hearing of 2 or 3 Indians being seen within 2 Miles of them, the Officer who had the Command, insisted on their retreating immediately, and they returned in the Night of the 23rd to the Camp, where a Court-Martial was held, and the principal Officer, being found guilty of Breach of Orders and of Neglect of Duty, was cashiered. It was thought necessary to send another Party on the same Service, and Capt. Goodwin, Lieut. Grant and 2 other Officers, readily offered themselves, and set out with about 35 Men. When they came within a Mile or less where Shirrol lived, they were surprised by a considerable Number of Indians who fired upon them from an Eminence and killed Lieut. Grant, with 6 others, & wounded 2, one of them mortally. The Indians were all naked and painted black, with a little red about their Eyes, the Signs of War. Their Number is said to be upwards of 100. The Remainder of the Party got back to the Camp a little after Sunset, and immediately all the Detachments deserted, except between 20 and 30 Men, who had only in their Power to assist the Out-settlers in getting down the Country to Places of greater Safety.
A Letter from Augusta, dated on Tuesday last, January 25th, says, "It is now beyond a Doubt that the Creek Indians are our Enemies, and that they mean to extirpate us if they can. They have lately killed near Thirty white People, and it is generally believed there is not a Trader left alive in the Nation. All the People up this River are moved off, and the Place is now become the Frontier of the Province. Col. Grierison, who has been out with a Party of the Militia, as far as Ogechee, returned yesterday afternoon, after a small Skirmish with the Indians, in which poor Grant and some others fell."
We learn from Fort Charlotte, that Capt. Taylor, of Colonel Savage's Regiment of Militia, was to set out, as this Day, with a Party of Volunteers, to destroy the Indian Settlements on the Okonee and ockmulgee Rivers; a Measure which many wish may not be attempted, as they are apprehensive it will be attended with fatal Consequences.
This Day a Messenger arrived express from the Country of the Upper Creeks, with Dispatches to the Hon. John Stuart, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, who is now in Georgia concerting Measures with Sir James Wright in the present critical Juncture. The Messenger was Seventeen Days on his Journey, and says there were no Disturbances in the Creek-Nation when he left it, the principal Indians were all from Home. The late Murders, it is said, were committed by the Cowetas and other Lower Creeks.
Jan. 7. On Monday last, a Ship arrived here from the North of Ireland, having on board about 150 People, intending to settle in this Province.
Wilmington, (North-Carolina) December 1.
We hear from Salisbury, that a Number of People, who were going from this Province to Pennsylvania, the new Colony on the Ohio, were attacked in their Encampment on Louisa River, by a Party of Indians, who killed John and Richard Mendenhall from Guilford; a Son of Daniel Boon's and a Son and Negro Fellow of Capt. Ruffels of Rowan, besides a Sixth Person, whose Name our Intelligence did not know. Their Bodies were found ripped open, but they were not scalped, and a Parcel of painted Hatchets, War-Clubs, &c. were lying near them; by which it appears that the Murderers must have been in great Haste. As these unfortunate Adventures were in the hunting Grounds of the Delawares and Shawanese, they are supposed to be the Perpetrators of this cruel Massacre. This Account is said to have been received from some of that Party of emigrants, who fortunately made their escape.
L O N D O N, November 4.
Extract of a Letter from Sligo, in Ireland, Octo. 14.
"On Saturday the 4th Instant our Assizes ended in this Town, at which (after a trial of eight hours) Samuel Slack (better known by the name of Serjeant Slack) was found guilty of having murdered his Wife, for which he received Sentence to be hanged, his Head cut off, and his Body quartered. At the Gallows, this Day, he behaved with a Resolution surpassing anything I had ever conceived from a Man in such Circumstances. On the Ladder he made a well connected, sensible Speech, of upwards of half an Hour long, and in the most solemn
Manner denied the Fact, and very sensibly cautioned all present who were Freeholders, to be extremely careful when on Juries, that they should not convict on Circumstances [which only appeared against him on his Trial] After he had finished his Harangue, he called in a settled resolute Tone of Voice for the Executioner to do his Duty; but no Hangman appearing the High Sheriff was obliged to do the Business himself, and just as Slack was going to be turned off, he declared that he was sorry so worthy a Magistrate should be compelled to perform so disagreeable an Office."
PHYSICIANS more Numerous than any other Profession.
An ITALIAN ANECDOTE.
I T was formerly Customary to retain in most of the Courts of Europe, a Fool, Jester, or Buffoon, who by his Puns, Pleasantries, and Impertinences, might serve to divert the Prince.
NICHOLAS III. Marquis d'Este & Ferrara , had at his Court a Man of this Sort, called Gonelli , who made himself very famous by his Facetious Humours. This Master of Buffonery was particularly artful, in making every Wager he laid turn to his Advantage, being one Day attending the Marquis at Dinner, a Question was asked which was the most numerous Profession in Ferrara? All seemed divided in their Opinions: whereupon the Marquis asked Gonelli what he thought? "My Lord" said the Jester, "you may be well assured that Physicians compose the most numerous Body in this City." "Thou art a Blockhead, answered the Marquis," and quite Ignorant of what passes in the City; for my certain Knowledge, there are not above 3 or 4 Physicians in it." Gonelli remained still so positive in his Opinion, that he provoked the Prince to answer a Wager he proposed for deciding the doubt. The next Morning he appeared at Court, with his Head wrapped in a Wollen Night Cap, and a folded Handkerchief put over his Cheek and Mouth, as one who suffered greatly from the Tooth-Ach. All the Courtiers asked him, what he ailed, and every one prescribed a remedy for him. Gonelli took care to write down all the Names of the pretended Physicians, and their different Remedies; the Marquis himself pitied him on Account of his Pain, and advised him to do so and so. Gonelli thanked him, and said he would go Home immediately, and do as he desired. The next Day he returned, as if cured, to pay his Court to the Marquis, and told him he had won his Wager, at the same Time presenting him with a long List of all those who had pointed out Remedies for the Cure of his Tooth-Ach. The Marquis taking the List, and seeing himself at the Head of it, could not help Laughing: allowing that Physicians were the most numerous Profession in Ferrara, and every where else, and ordered the Jester to be paid the Wager.
PORTSMOUTH, February 25,
Mr. Porter, the Post or News Carrier, is now in Town, and this Day, precisely at 12 o'Clock he starts from the Printing-Office, for Dartmouth-College, situate on the delightful Connecticut River, and that flourishing Part of this Province, called CO'OS; by whom all Persons may be supplied with this Paper, and have any other Business done with great Care. This Route he performs every three Weeks in all sorts of Weather.—Those Gentlemen in Portsmouth, who have Sons at the aforesaid College, are desired to send their Letters or other Commands by Twelve o'Clock to the Printing-Office, and to bare in Mind that this Day three Weeks he comes again and so to continue.
DIED. At Pomehagg, in Connecticut, Her Saffron coloured Majesty ANN, Queen Dowager of the Monehagen Indians. Her Remains were interred in a Manner suitable to her Rank, in the Indian Burying Ground at Chelsea.
Bretton-Woods.
W Heres the proprietors of the Township of Bretton Woods, at a legal Meeting held in Portsmouth in the County of Rockingham, in the Province of New Hampshire the 29th Day of October 1773, Voted that a Tax of Two Pounds thirteen Shillings should be assessed on each Proprietors Right of Land in said Township; and also at said Meeting voted another Tax of one pound four shillings should be assessed on each Proprietors Right of Land in said Township, and I having a Warrant from under the Hands and Seals of the Assesors committed to collect the same; I do hereby Notify and Warn the Proprietors of said Bretton Woods to pay the said Taxes or Assessments to me at Portsmouth by the 22nd Day of March next, or their Lands will be advertised for Sale, for the Payment of the same, as the Law directs. D. FOWLE, Collector.
Portsmouth, February 24, 1774.
GEORGE BOYD,
B OUND for Europe, in April next, requests all Persons in America, that have any Demands on him for Cash, to apply to him and receive the same, also requests those who are indebted to him for Cash to make immediate Payment. He likewise notifies the Country in general that he will execute any Orders for Goods committed to him, agreeable to their own Memorandum, at an Advance that may be agreed on, and give Twelve Months Credit, after the Arrival of the Goods at this Port. Said BOYD would be willing to encourage every industrious Person, that is settling the New Lands, and any that can be well recommended, may be supplied at the above Credit. Peat Ash and other Produce will be taken in Pay. He likewise would be glad to supply any Shop Keepers in Town with Goods, at a very low Advance, and give the above Credit, as said Boyd is desirous of keeping the Money in the Province. Portsmouth, 24th Feb. 1774.
Friday the 11th Day of March
next, at the House of Capt. JOHN STAVERS, Innholder in Portsmouth, at 4 o'Clock Afternoon, WILL BE SOLD AT PUBLIC VENDUE;
A New Dwelling-House,
Pleasantly situated on Spring Hill, as well accommodated for Trade as any in the Town; it is almost finished together with a good Ware House, Yard, Garden Spot; and almost every Convenience that can be mentioned; with an excellent Cellar, in which is two good Arches; Now in the Occupation of Mr. Benjamin Parker. Conditions of Sale to be known at time & place of sale.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE Feb. 15, 1774.
§ Canaan. §
THE Proprietors of the Township of Canaan, are hereby Notified, that by Assessment there is a TAX laid on each Right or Share of Land in said Town, by a Vote of said Proprietors, at a legal Meeting held Nov. 22d 1773, the Sum of three Dollars: the proprietors are desired to pay said Sum of three Dollars to me the Subscriber at my Dwelling House in said Canaan, by the first Day of April next, or their Land will be advertised for Sale immediately, agreeable to Law.
SAMUEL JONES, Collector:
N. B The above Sum of three Dollars was voted for the Purpose of compleating the four first Divisions of Lots in said Town.
|| Northumberland. ||
THE Proprietors of Northumberland are Notified to meet at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton, Innholder in Portsmouth, on Friday the 18th Day of March next for the following Purposes: 1. To choose a Moderator. 2. To choose a Collector to collect what taxes remain due. 3. To see what Money they will vote toward building a Bridge over Ammonoosuck River. 4. To receive the Report of the Committee for recording the Lots pitched, and to confirm the same; also to receive the Report of the Committee for ascertaining the Deficiency of some of the Meadow Lots, and to make such Additions as shall be thought equitable. 5. To see what Encouragement they will give to a Blacksmith to move into said Town. 6. To determine concerning the Land from Bog Brook to tree No. 15. 7. To see if the Proprietors will have the dividing Lines of Meadow and House Lots run and spotted; and if they will furnish a Canoe or Boat with other Necessaries for crossing Ammonoosuck until the Bridge shall be built. 8. To vote any Money that may be thought necessary for completing the Road, and a Collector to receive the same. 9. To know if the Proprietors will pay the Bill for looking out Land back of said Township.
THOMAS MARTIN, Pro Clerk.
Portsmouth, Jan. 10 1774.
An Emblem of the Resurrection, figur'd out by a Worm and a Butterfly.
A DESPICABLE Creature is a Worm--- His Name in contempt, serves for every Turn: He feeds upon the Dust, from whence he came; And when he dies lies moulding in the Same. Entomb'd in his dark Cell, confin'd doth lie, Yet from that Dust is rais'd a Butterfly. He's rais'd indeed to a superior Light, And now appears more beautiful and bright: He soars aloft and takes a pleasing View Of what each Day and Hour produces new. The flowry Fields yields him delight and Food, Where he enjoys the best created Good.
When Man had fin'd, he then became accurs'd, And ever since is grov'ling in the Dust: His Time is short, his Life is spent in Pain, And then returns to Dust from whence he came, Where he must lie till Time shall be no more, Yet will he rais'd more glorious than before. His Sorrow's fled, his Tears are wip'd away, His Night is turn'd to one eternal Day. To heavenly Mansions, there he takes his Flight, Transported with the Raptures of Delight: Where he enjoys his God in full Perfection, Till he has part in the first Resurrection.
Falmouth Resolves in our next.

AN ODE on WINTER.
S INCE the Hill's all around us do penance in Snow, And Winter's cold Blasts have benum'd us below; Since the Rivers chain'd up, flow with the same Speed, As Criminals move towards the Pail they can't read: Throw whole Oaks at a Time, nay whole Groves on the Fire, To keep out the Cold and new Vigour inspire; Ne'er waste the dull Time in impertinent Thinking, But urge and pursue the grand Pleasure call'd Drinking. Come pierce your old Hogheads, ne'er stint us with Sherry; For this is the Season to drink and be merry. That reviv'd with good Liquor and Billets together, We may brace the dull Storms, and defy the cold Weather; We'll have no more of Business, but Friends as you love us, Leave it all to the Care of the good Folks above us. Whilst your Appetites strong, and your Humour remains, And active brisk Blood does enliven the Veins; Improve the sweet Minutes in Scenes of Delight, Let your Friends have the Day, and your Mistress the Night; In the Night you may try if your Phillis is kind, For the dark, for Intrigues was ever design'd: Tho' she runs from your Arms and retire to a Shade, Some friendly, kind sign will betray the coy Maid; All trembling you'll find her poor bashful Sinner, Such a Trespass is venial in any Beginner; But remember this Council, when once you have met her, Get a Ring for the Nymph, or something that's better.
ANECDOTE from SULLY's MEMOIRS.
H ENRY IV. of France, when hunting one Day, happened to be separated from his Attendants, and, in endeavouring to find them, he saw a Peasant on a rising Ground. The King asked him what he was doing there? he Answered, that he stood there to get a Sight of the King, and was very solicitous to know if he would pass that Way. Upon which his Majesty had him get up behind him, and he would bring him to the Place where the King was. Accordingly he mounted, and as they rode along, amongst other Questions that passed in Conversation, the Peasant asked how he should distinguish the King from the Nobility that attended him? very easily says Henry, for all the rest will have their Hats off. It was not long before they fell in with the Company, who all uncovered immediately; upon which his Majesty leering over his Shoulder, asked the Peasant if he now could guess which was the King? by my faith, replied he, it must be either you or me, for all the rest have their Hats off.
HARTFORD, Jan. 15.
Friday Morning last, about Three o'clock, a Person call'd at a private House in Weathersfield, went to a Bed where Two young Men lay, and putting a male Child 4 Months old, into the Bed desired they would take Care of it until he went for Doctor Porter whom he wanted to set his Wife's Bones, which he pretended were broke by a Fall from his Horse.—They received the Child, and took Care of it till the Morning, when being apprehensive they had been imposed upon, and making enquiry of Doctor Porter, found that no such Person had applied to him, they were immediately convinced of the Cheat, and made Application to the Select Men of Weathersfield, who gave Orders that suitable Care be taken of the Child.—It is generally thought that the Person who left the Child with the young Men, was the disguised, unnatural Mother of it.
PROVIDENCE, Feb. 12.
A Letter from Capt. Abisha Luce, of the Whaling-Sloop A, belonging to this Port, to his Owners, mentions, that having failed from Tarpaulin Cove on the 21st of November, the 4th of December following, in Lat. 34, 30, Long. 52, 30, they met with a hard Gale of Wind, from S. S. E. to S. S. W.—That after lying too Three Hours, in which Time one Boat was stove, and the Trysail split, they were obliged to scud, and in about Two Hours after shipped a Sea over the Stern, which carried away the Quarter, Boats, Oars, Boards, Binnacle, Companion and Breastwork, and washed Four Men overboard, two of which got in again, the Two others, viz. Asa Forbes and Thomas Medbury were lost: And the Main-Deck Boats being likewise half stove to Pieces, they were obliged to bear away for the W. Indies, and arrived at St. Eustatia the 24th of December.
The Frailty of MAN.
L IKE Leaves on Trees the Race of Man is found, Now green in Youth, now with'ring on the Ground: Another Race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise. so Generations in their Course decay, so flourish these when those are gone away.
A FARM in Kittery,
TO BE SOLD THIS SPRING, By JOHN NEWMARCH, Esq;
OF PORTSMOUTH, Together with a large Dwelling HOUSE, BARN and ORCHARD, with upwards of 40 Acres of Mowing, Planting and Pasture Land, well water'd, adjoining the Country Road, leading from Kittery Ferry to Old York, and near the Ferry. For further Infor- mation, enquire of said NEWMARCH.
WE the Subscribers, being appointed Commissioners by the Honorable JOHN FENTON, Esq; Judge of the Probate of Wills in & for the County of Grafton, to receive and examine the Claims of the several Cre- ditors to the Estate of ALEXANDER PHELPS late of Limb, in said County, Esq; deceas'd, represented in- solvent; and Six Months being allowed for that Pur- pose; Notice is hereby given, that we will attend said Business at the House of Mr. Aaron Storrs, Innholder in Hanover, in said County, on the last Monday of this and the First Mondays of the five following Months, from Two to Four o'Clock, P. M.
BEZALEEL WOODWARD, AARON STORRS,
Hanover, February 18. 1774.
ALL PERSONS Indebted to, or that have Demands on the Estate of Lt Thomas Hutchins, late of Kittery, deceas'd, are desir'd to bring in their Accounts to Nicholas Weeks, junr. of Kittery, aforesaid, Executor to the last Will of said deceas'd, in order for settlement.
TO BE LET.
And entered upon the beginning of APRIL next, A FARM in Little-Harbour, containing good Pasturing, Plowing, Mowing and Or- charding, with a good HOUSE and BARN, with Stock, as Cattle, Sheep and Swine. Whoever inclines to hire the same, may know further by applying to JONATHAN WARNER, Esq; of Portsmouth.
ALL PERSONS Indebted to, or that have any De- mands on the Estate of ELIZABETH WIBIRD, late of Portsmouth, Widow, deceas'd, are hereby desir'd to adjust the same with the Subscriber, Administrator on said Estate. JOHN PENHALLOW.
Portsmouth, Feb. 15, 1774.
WHEREAS the Proprietors of Land in the Town- ship of Leicester on Otter Creek (which Town- ship was granted by the Governor and Council of New- Hampshire) did at their Meeting in January 1773, Vote, That the Sum of 4 Dollars should be raised and levied on each original Right, and also at their Meeting in March following, Voted, That the Sum of 1 Dollar as aforesaid, for the bounding and lotting out said Town- ship, and for the managing and carrying on any other Affairs, for the common Good of said Propriety, and that a Committee be appointed to assist the same— Therefore we the Subscribers being appointed a Commit- tee for the Purpose aforesaid, do a second Time notify the Proprietors to pay the same to Mr. Isaac Stone, Collector, or to Capt Elisha Child, Treasurer, at or be- fore the adjourn'd Meeting of said Propriety, which will be on the second Day of March next, at one o'Clock on said Day, at the House of Nathaniel Child, Esq; of Woodstock, in the County of Windham, and Colony of Connecticut; otherwise their Rights will be exposed to Sale, at the House of the said Nathaniel Child, Esq; at 4 o'clock P. M. on said Day, according to Law.
Woodstock, Nov. 16, 1773. Nathaniel Child, } Com- Elisha Child, } mit- Samuel McClelland, } tee.
Taken in Execution,
AND TO BE SOLD AT PUBLIC AUCTION, On Monday the 28th Instant, 3 o'Clock P. M. at the Venue Room of PHILLIP BAILEY in Queen Street, and to continue from Day to Day 'till the whole is sold, SUNDRY SORTS of ENGLISH GOODS, consisting of Scarlet and color'd Broad Cloths, Ser- ges, Bayse, Shalloons, Tamies, Durants, Callicoes, Check Linnens, Mistle Buttons, Twiss, Cruels, Worsted; Locks and Hinges of all Kinds, Desk Furniture, Sadlery, with a great Variety of other Articles. Also a Quan- tity of Merchantable, Jamaica, and Scale Fish, St. Martin's Salt, and a Parcel of Junk.
JOHN PARKER, Sheriff.
Portsmouth, Feb. 9, 1774.
$ New-Almsbury $
THIS is to give Notice to the Proprietors of New- Almsbury, so called, (in the County of Hillsborough) and Province of New Hampshire, that unless they pay a TAX of three pounds eighteen shillings, to me for each Right, by the first Day of March next, their Rights will be expos'd to public Sale. EZEKIEL EVENS,
Collector for the Proprietors of New Almsbury New Almsbury, Feb. 7, 1774.
NEW - P O R T, Feb. 7.
On the 19th of Jan. Mr. Gideon Tomkins, of Little Compton, went alone in a small Canoe, in Coacquet River, and, as is suppo- sed, accidentally fell over and was drowned; his Body was taken up the next Day. He had for many Years been Deacon of the congregational Church in Tiverton, and his Death is greatly lamented.
A L L Persons that have any
legal Demands against, or Accounts open, with the Town of Portsmouth, are hereby desired to call upon the SELECTMEN of said Town, and their Claims shall be ad- justed.— Also, those that are Indebted to said Town, are requested to make Payment to said Select-Men immediately; and the several Collectors of Taxes in said Town, are required to pay their respective Ballan- ces immediately, as the Time is elapsed, which was allowed them by Law, and agree- able to their Warrants; which will be the only Method to prevent Extents being taken out against them.
TO BE SOLD
An extraordinary good FARM
containing 80 Acres, lying all together, well fenced, in Northampton, with a Mile of the Meeting- House, well wooded, together with good Mowing & Pasture Land; a young Orchard, with 300 Apple Trees; is well water'd. On the Premises is a good double House and Barn, Well, &c. with other Ac- commodations. For Particulars, and the Price, en- quire of Samuel Page, who lives on said Farm, or the Printer hereof.
The Subscribers being appointed
a Committee by the GENERAL COURT , for Sur- veying and Clearing a ROAD from CONWAY to Connecticut River, have caus'd the said Road to be survey'd and open'd, and the Proprietors of the undermen- tioned Tracts are hereby Notified, that the Sums annu- ex, are due to the Committee for the surveying and clearing said Road through the same, with other con- tingent Expenses, the Proprietors are desired to pay the several Sums to the Committee by the 10th Day of March next, if not then paid, the Lands will be ad- vertised for Sale as the Law directs.
  Richard Grid's Esqrs. Location 19 15 3   Township of Durand 40 5 2   Township of Dartmouth 48 8 8   Township of Lancaster 10 0 8 
AMMI R. CUTTER, THOMAS MARTIN, Committee. JACOB TREADWELL,
Portsmouth, February 9, 1774.
TO BE SOLD, a commodious New Dwelling-House,
Pleasantly situated on Spring Hill, as well accommodat- ed for Trade, as any in the Town; it is almost finished; together with a good Ware House, Yard, Garden Spot, and almost every Convenience that can be mentioned; with an excellent Cellar, in which is two good Arches: Now in the Occupation of Mr. Benjamin Parker. Enquire of the Printer hereof.
TO BE LET, and entered upon the beginning of APRIL next,
A FARM in Kittery,
at the Head of York River, containing about 180 Acres of good pasturing, plowing, mowing, orcharding, and some Wood Land: Now in the Occupation of Mr. George Ham:—there is on said FARM a good House and Gar- den, two Barns, a Brook running thro' for half a Mile, never dry; with some Stock, as Cattle, Sheep, & Swine. Whoever inclines to hire the same, may know further by applying to JOHN MOFFAT, Esq; of Portsmouth.
Stavers's STAGE-COACH, NUMBER ONE,
Continues to ply weekly from PORTSMOUTH to BOSTON , with FOUR HORSES , equal to any in AMERICA , and sets out on Tuesday Mornings eight o'Clock, reaches BOSTON next Day—Leaves Boston Friday Mornings, reaches PORTSMOUTH next Day at said STAVERS's House, where is good Entertain- ment for Passengers and others; and good Accommoda- tions for Carriages and Horses—He takes Care and pro- vides good Drivers—His Carriages, for twelve Years has never been overlet, nor any Passengers met with any Hurt. One half the Freight paid at Entrance. Warrantee and Quitclaim Deeds, Justice Blanks &c. Sold at the Printing-Office.