New-Hampshire gazette, or, State journal and general advertiser (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1780-07-08 00:00:00

THE NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE; OR, STATE JOURNAL, and GENERAL ADVERTISER.
[ Vol. XXIV. ]
SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1780.
[ No. 1237. ]
THE AMERICAN CRISIS, No. IX.
AD AMERICA pursued her advantages with half the spirit she resisted her misfortunes, she would, before now have been a conquering and peaceful people; but lulled in the lap of lost tranquility, she rested on her hopes, and adversity has only convulsed her into action. Whether subtlety or sincerity, at the close of the last year, induced the enemy to an appearance for peace, is a point not material to know; it is sufficient that we see the effects it has had upon our politics, and that we sternly rise to resent the delusion.
The war, on the part of America, has been a war of natural feelings. Brave in distress; serene in conquest; drowsy when at rest; and in every situation generously disposed to peace. A dangerous calm, and the most heightened zeal, have, as circumstances varied, succeeded each other. Every passion, but that of despair, has been called to a tour of duty; and so mistaken has been the enemy of our abilities and disposition, that when she supposed us conquered, we rose the conquerors. The extensiveness of the United States, and the variety of their resources; the universality of their cause, the quick operation of their feelings, and the similarity of their sentiments, have, in every trying situation, produced A SOMETHING, which, favored by Providence, and pursued with ardour, has accomplished in an instant the business of a campaign. We have never deliberately fought victory, but snatched it; and bravely undone in an hour, the plotted operations of a season.
The reported fate of Charlestown, like the misfortunes of seventy-six, has at last called forth a spirit, and kindled up a flame, which perhaps no other event could have produced. If the enemy has circulated a falsehood, they have unwisely aggravated us into life, and if they have told us a truth, they have unintentionally done us a service. We were returning with folded arms from the fatigues of war, and thinking and sitting leisurely down to enjoy repose. The dependence that has been put upon Charlestown, threw a drownsiness over America. We looked on the business done—the conflict over—the matter settled—or that all which remained unfinished would follow of itself. In this state of dangerous relax, exposed to the poisonous intusions of the enemy, and having no common danger to attract our attention, we were extinguishing by stages the ardour we began with, and surrendering by piecemeals the virtue that defended us.
Afflicting as the loss of Charlestown may be, yet if it universally rouse us from the slumber of a twelve months past, and renew in us the spirit of former days, it will produce an advantage more important than its loss. America EVER is what she THINKS herself to be. Governed by sentiment, and acting her own mind, she becomes as she pleases the victor or the victim.
It is not the conquest of towns, nor the accidental capture of garrisons, that can reduce a country so extensive as this. The sufferings of one part can ever be relieved by the exertions of another, and there is no situation the enemy can be in, that does not afford to us the same advantages she seeks herself. By dividing her force, she leaves every
post attackable. It is a mode of war that carries with it a confession of weakness, and goes on the principle of distress, rather than conquest.
The decline of the enemy is visible not only in their operations, but in their plans; Charlestown originally made but a secondary object in their system of attack, and it is now become their principal one, because they have not been able to succeed elsewhere. It would have carried a cowardly appearance in Europe had they formed their grand expedition in seventy-six, against a part of the Continent where there was no army, or not a sufficient one to oppose them; but failing year after in their attempts here, and to the eastward & northward, they desired their first capital design, and prudently contenting themselves with what they can get, give a flourish of honor to conceal disgrace.
But this piece-meal work is not conquering the Continent. It is discredit in them to attempt it, and in us to suffer it. It is now full time to put an end to a war of aggravations, which, on one side, has no possible object, and on the other, has every inducement which honor, interest, safety and happiness, can inspire. If we suffer them much longer to remain among us, we shall become as bad as themselves. An association of vices will reduce us more than the sword. A nation hardened in the practice of iniquity, knows better how to profit by it than a young country newly corrupted. We are not a match for them in the line of advantageous guilt, nor they to us on the principles we bravely set out with. Our first days were our days of honor. They have marked the character of America wherever the story of her wars are told; and convinced of this, we have nothing to do but wisely & unitedly to tread the well known tract.
The progress of a war is often as ruinous to individuals, as the issue of it is to a nation; and it is not only necessary that our force be such, that we be conquerors in the end, but that by timely exertions we be secure in the interim. The present campaign will afford an opportunity which has never presented itself before, and the preparations for it are equally necessary, whether Charlestown stand or fall. Suppose the first, it is in that case only a failure of the enemy, not a defeat. All the conquest a besieged town can hope for is not to be conquered; and compelling an enemy to raise the siege, is to the besieged a victory. But there must be a probability amounting almost to certainty, that would justify a garrison marching out to attack a retreat. Therefore should Charlestown not be taken, and the enemy abandon the siege, every other part of the Continent should prepare to meet them; and on the contrary, should it be taken, the same preparations are necessary, to ballance the loss, and put ourselves in a condition to co-operate with our Allies, immediately on their arrival.
We are not now fighting out battles alone, as we were in seventy-six. England, from a malicious disposition to America, has not only not declared war against France and Spain, but, the better to prosecute her passion here, has afforded those powers no military object, and avoids them, to distress us. She will suffer her West-India Islands to be overrun by France, and her southern settlements taken by Spain, rather than quit the object that gratifies revenge. This conduct, on the part of Britain, has pointed out the
propriety of France sending a naval and land force to co-operate with America on the spot. Their arrival cannot be very distant, nor the ravages of the enemy long. In the mean time the part necessary to us needs no illustration. The recruiting the army, and procuring the supplies, are the two things needful, and a capture of either of the enemy's divisions, will restore to America peace and plenty.
At a Crisis, big, like the present, with expectation and events, the whole country is called to unanimity and exertions. Not an ability ought now to sleep, that can produce but a mite to the general good, nor even a whisper suffered to pass that militates against it.—The necessity of the case, and the importance of the consequences, admit no delay from a friend, no apology from an enemy. To spare now, would be the height of extravagance, and to consult present ease would sacrifice it, perhaps forever.
America, rich in patriotism and produce, can want neither men nor supplies, when a serious necessity calls them forth. The slow operation of taxes, owing to the extensiveness of collection, and their depreciated value before they arrived in the treasury, have in many instances, thrown a burthen upon government, which has been artfully interpreted by the enemy into a general decline throughout the country. Yet this, inconvenient as it may at first appear, is not only remediable, but may be turned to an immediate advantage; for it makes no real difference, whether a certain number of men, or company of militia (and in this country every man is a militia man) are directed by law to send a recruit at their own expence, or whether a tax is laid on them for that purpose, and the men hired by government afterwards. The first if there is any difference, is both cheapest and best, because it saves the expence which would attend collecting it as a tax, and brings the man sooner into the field than the modes of recruiting formerly used: And on this principle, a law has been passed in this State for recruiting two men from each company of militia, which will add upwards of a thousand to the force of the Country.
But the flame, which has broke forth in this city since the report from New-York of the loss of Charlestown, not only does honour to the place, but, like the blaze of seventy-six, will kindle into action the scattered sparks throughout America.—The valour of a country may be learned by the bravest of its soldiery, and the general cast of its inhabitants, but confidence of success best discovered by the active measures pursued by men of property; and when the spirit of enterprize becomes so universal, as to act at once on all ranks of men, a war may then, and not till then, be styled truly popular.
In seventy-six the ardour of the enterprising part was considerably checked by the real revolt of some, and the coolness of others. But in the present case there is a firmness in the substance and property of the country to the public cause. An Association has been entered into by the merchants, tradesmen, and principal inhabitants of the city, to receive and support the new State money at the value of gold and silver; a measure, which, while it does them honor, will likewise contribute to their interest, by rendering the operations of the campaign convenient and effectual.

TO BE LETT,  A large, genteel and convenient STORE, pleasantly and advantageously situated for a trader, in Portsmouth.
Inquire of the Printer.
State of New-Hampshire, June 20, 1780.  A PETITION having been preferred to the General Assembly of this State, signed by a considerable Number of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the Town of Hillsborough, in the County of Hillsborough, in said State, setting forth, That the late John Hill, Esq; of Boston, who was sole Proprietor of said Town, did promise to give one hundred Acres of Land towards Building a Bridge over Contoocook river in said Town, which Bridge they should have built long before this time, if the War had not prevented it, tho' they have at last completed it, and have applied to the heirs of the said John Hill (who is dead) to fulfil the promise made by their Father, which they refused to perform. Wherefore they prayed leave to levy a Tax on the Land of the Non-Resident Proprietors in said town to defray the charges of building said Bridge: On which the General Assembly voted to hear said Petitioners on the first Friday of their next session, at which time any Person or Persons may appear and shew cause why the prayer thereof should not be granted: Attest. E. THOMPSON, Sec'y.
To be sold for taxes, at public Vendue, at the house of Capt. Solomon Cutler, innholder in Rindge, on Wednesday the 12th day of July next, at one o'clock in the afternoon, so much of the following lots of land lying in Rindge, as will pay the taxes and cost, if said taxes and cost is not paid before, viz.—Simon Rogers, east part of No. 15, in the first range, James Read, Esq; No. 22, in the first range, being rated for the year 1778; also, Ebenezer Eaton, No. 14 and 15, in the first range; Peter Perham, No. 16 and 17, in the first range; Eleazer Blanchard, No 7, in the 5th range; Nathaniel Meserve, No. 21 and 22, in the first range; Phillip Guittridge, No. 3, in the 4th range. All rated for the Continental and other legal taxes.
JOHN KILLS, Constable of Rindge (for 1778 and 1779.) Rindge, June 3, 1780.
State of New-Hampshire.  The non-resident owners of lands in the town of Nottingham, who have not paid their taxes on said lands for the year 1779, are hereby notified that so much of their respective lands will be sold at public vendue as will pay said taxes with incidental charges, at the house of Benjamin Butler, Esq; innholder in the said town, on Monday the 24th day of July next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, unless said taxes are paid at or before that time, with all incidental charges.
Delinquents in Gile's list, with the taxes due, Joseph Cram, 14l. 8s. 8d.—200 acre lots in the first range—No. 9, Cutt and Moulton, 3l. 11s. 10d. Second range—24, Daniel Sawyer, 4l. 8s. 10d.—Woodbridge's gore—2, H. Sumerby, 4l. 8s. 10d.—3, B. Woodbridge, 4l. 8s. 10d.—Davis's list.—In Winter-street—No. 29, Joseph Malum
MOSES DAVIS, } Constables for Nottingham for 1779. ASA GILE, } Nottingham, June 15, 1780.
To be sold at public Vendue, agreeable to an Act of the General Court of the State of New-Hampshire, entitled "An Act for clearing and making passable the road from Upper Coos through unappropriated lands to Conway"—1000 acres of choice land in lots of 100 acres each, being part of a tract of land, late belonging to William Stark, adjoining to the town of Conway, the proceeds thereof be applied to the making said road, for which purpose ten or fifteen hands are wanted immediately to whom good encouragement will be given, by applying to the subscriber, or to Thomas Merrill or Andrew McMillan, Esq's. at Conway. The sale will be at the house of Andrew McMillan in Conway, on Monday the 14th of August next. J. WHIPPLE.
N. B. The said LAND is said to be equal, if not superior to any in the State, a great part of it being interval land, of the best quality. June 20.
All Persons indebted to, or that have any demands on the estate of William Elliot, late of Exeter, deceased, are desired to bring in their accounts to Mary Elliot, administratrix to said estate, in order for a settlement. Exeter, June 30, 1780.
State of New-Hampshire. Hillsborough, ss.  Notice is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors, and others, owning land in the township of Andover, that has not paid their taxes for the year 1779, that unless they pay them to me the subscriber, at or before Monday the 24th day of July next, at one o'clock, P.M. so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, as will pay said taxes with incidental charges, at the house of Thomas Blake, in said Andover, on said day.
Their names are as follows:—
   No. 1 st Div. 2 nd Div. 3 rd Div. 4 th Div. 5 th Div. 6 th Div. 7 th Div. 8 th Div. 9 th Div.     Ezekiel Worthen, 3 80 3 11 10 3   Joshua Pierce, 48 50 100 80 14 17 9 1   Richard Smith, 58 60 3 5 7 1   Jeremiah Roberts, 60 40 15 9   Daniel Sanborn, 68 70 4 3 4 2   Daniel Marston, 5 80 100 100 11 7 4 1   Archelaus Lakeman, 12 50 100 9 5 4 2   Benjamin Leavitt, 20 100 100 2 11 1   Benjamin Sweat, 28 50 3 7 1   David Norton, 32 50 10 4 3   Thomas Packer, 46 100 3 3   Joseph Gove, 15 80 5 13 2 2   Robert Miller, 25 60 1 11 5 2   Amos Dunnels, 31 100 100 7 1 6 3   William B. Clough, 41 80 3 11 10 3   John Marston, 61 100 3 5   Jesse Prescott, 65 100 80 11 19 5 2   John Brown, 71 100 3 1 9   John Hoyt, 77 90 90 5 3 1   Israel Blake, 4 50 5 5   Thomas Cilley, 22 100 100 7 17 1 2   Samuel Bathrick, 51 80 2 5 4   John Leavitt, 78 100 80 9 16 2   Joseph French, 10 60 50 2 15 10   Walter Williams, 8 100 1 19   Daniel Weare, 6 80 3 16 10  
Thomas Blake, Constable.
Andover, June 21, 1780.
PURSUANT to an Order from the Hon. Maj. Gen. HEATH, will be Sold at Public Vendue, at 10 o'Clock before Noon, on Wednesday the 12th Day of July Instant, at the Continental Store on the Wharfe of George Jaffery, Esq; in Portsmouth, a Quantity of BEEF, PORK and FLOUR.
To be sold at public Vendue, for taxes, at the house of Capt. Solomon Cutler, innholder in Rindge, on Wednesday the 12th day of July next, at one o'clock in the afternoon, so much of the following lots of land lying in Rindge, as will pay the taxes and cost that is not paid before, viz. Peter Powers, jun. No. 22, in the 8th range; Peter Stevens, 70 acres of No. 4, in the 10th range; Jonathan Parker, jun. south half of No. 18, in the 10th range: All rated for the year 1779, for the Continental and other legal taxes.
JAMES CARLTON, Constable of (Rindge for the year 1779.)
Rindge, June 3, 1780.
State of New-Hampshire, Strafford, ss.  WE the Subscribers, Commissioners duly appointed to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of Samuel Pinkham, late of Madbury, in the County of Strafford, and State aforesaid, Yeoman, deceased, Intestate, hereby notify said Creditors, we will attend that Business from 10 o'clock A.M. to 5 o'clock P.M. on the first and last Mondays of July, August, September, October and November next, at the Widow Lois Pinkham's, in said Madbury, at which Times and Place the Creditors are desired to attend, with their Claims properly vouched.
June 24, 1780. } David Daniels } Commissioners. } John Williams }
STOLEN or strayed out of a pasture in Poplin, last week, a yoke of black OXEN, nine years old, measured upwards of six feet each; one of them hath short legs, a large belly, wide horns, and a white spot or star in his forehead; the other long legs and a straight body. Whoever will take up and convey said oxen to the subscriber, in Exeter, shall have ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS reward, and all necessary charges paid by me. BENJAMIN GRAVES. Exeter, June 26, 1780.
Warrantee and Quit Claim Deeds to be Sold at the Printing-Office.
Whereas a small number of HORSES
are immediately wanted for the use of the United States: Whoever has any good Waggon Horses to sell, may find a purchaser by speedily applying to Jedidiah Jewet, of Exeter.
Notice is hereby given to the owners of the following divisions of land in Canterbury who are delinquent in paying their taxes on the same for the year A. D. 1778, that so much of said lots will be sold at public vendue at the house of David M'Crillis, innholder in said town on the 17th day of July next, as will pay said taxes with incidental charges, unless said taxes with incidental charges are paid to me before said day.
   Original rights. Forty acre division. Acre division. Vision.   s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d.     Eli Demerit 1 5 10 11 6 1   Abraham Bennick 2 1   Benjamin York 2 1   Daniel Davis 2 1   John Allen 2 1   Jonathan Thompson 7 3   George Chesley 7 3   Stephen Jones 8 6   Samuel Hill 4 10   John York 14 6   Samuel Smith, jr. 9 8   William Brown 9 8   John Thompson 13 4   William Jenkins 2 5   John Sanborn 10 11   Isaac Watson 9 8   Nathaniel Hill 12 1   Benjamin Mastine 9 8   Joseph Jenkins, jr. 3 8 4 10   Richard Waldron, jr. 2 5 4 10   Robert Hutchins 9 8   Richard Blanchard 6 1 7 3   Israel Hodgdon, jr. 4 6   Samuel Chesley 2 1   John Carter 2 10 4 10   John Carle 2 5   Joseph Hussey 2 5   Edward Evens 7 3   Job Bennets 4 6   Thomas Rines 4 10 9 8   Joseph Even 2 10   Col. Tho's Westbrook 3 8   William Brock 2 1   John Smith, 3d 2 1   Joseph Smith 2 1 7 3   John Moore 1 8 5 3   Nathaniel Lummucks 10 11  
The sale to begin at ten o'clock A.M.
GIDEON BARTLET, Constable.
Canterbury, June 26, 1780.
To be sold, at the house of Abraham Taylor, of Stoddard, in the county of Cheshire, on Thursday the 2th of July next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, the following lots of land to pay the state, county and town taxes, laid or assessed on said lots for the year 1779, together with the incidental charges; except said taxes, with the lawful charges, be paid before said day, to the subscriber, viz
Rhoding Cotton, No's 23 in the 10th range, 3 in 4th, 11 in 8th, 9 in 10th, 5 in 2d, 10 in 10th, 1 in 3d. & 8 in 5th range, each 2l. 15s 8d.—Nathaniel Cotton, No. 23, in 8th range, 18s 6d.—Jonathan Blanchard, 14 in 16th and 13 in 12th range, each 2l. 15s 8d.—Matthew Thornton, 2 and 5, 2l. 7s 10d.—15 in 5th, 20 in 14th, 28 in 13th, 27 in 9th, 2 in 13th, 27 in 5th, 26 in 5th, 22 in 3d, 26 in 2d, and 23 in 2d, each 2l. 15s 8d.—Stephen Powers, 1 in 9th and 17 in 3d, each 2l. 15s 8d.—Hugh Wilson, 5 in 14th, 8 in 10th, 4 in 5th, 16 in 4th, and 12 in 4th, each 2l. 15s 8d.—Ebenezer Peirce, 20 in 5th and 19 in 5th, each 2l. 15s 8d.—John Chamberlin, 21 in 10th, 3l. 5s 9d; 28 in 6, 11 in 6, 2l. 15s 8d; 24 in 5, 2l. 2s 8d; 18 in 2, 2l. 3s 6d.—4 & 7, 2l. 16s 6d.—2 in 2d, each 2l. 15s 8d.—16 in 7th, 1l. 3s 4d.—Josiah Willard, 14 in 10th, 2l. 15s 8d.—Joseph Reed, 16 in 2d, 1l. 13s 7d.—Sarah Richardson, 1 in 14th, 2l. 15s 8d.—William Steel, 21 in 9th, 4l. 13s 4d.—Joseph Blanchard, 19 in 3d and 18 in 3d, each 2l. 15s 8d; 20 in 2d, 14s 2d; 25 in 2d, 13s 9d; 3, 11s 5d; 1, 1l. 9s 9d.—Jeremiah Fletcher, 14 in 3, 18s; 23 in 13th, 5s 9d; 20 in 3, 2l. 15s 8d; 2 in 3d, 27 in 3d, 26 in 3d and 25 in 3d, each 5s 3d; 14 in 15th, 14 in 14th, 4 in 14th, 21 in 3th, 3 in 12th, 28 in 11th, 7 in 7th, 12 in 7th, 25 in 6th, 21 in 6th, 18 in 6th, each 5s 9d. Abraham Taylor, Stoddard, June 1, 1780. Constable.