The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1772-03-20 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE
AND HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the Freshest ADVICES
Friday March 20 1772.
GAZETTE,
CHRONICLE,
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
NO. 804 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd. }
Province of New-Hampshire.
BY HIS EXCELLENCY
JOHN WENTWORTH, Esq;
Captain-General, Governor and Commander in Chief, in and over his Majesty's Province of New-Hampshire aforesaid, and Vice-Admiral of the same.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the General-Assembly of this Province, now stands Adjourned to Monday the Thirteenth Day of March Instant, and it being expedient for his Majesty's Service, that the said General-Assembly should be Prorogued to the 19th Day of May next:
I HAVE therefore thought fit to Prorogue, and I DO hereby PROROGUE the GENERAL-ASSEMBLY aforesaid to Tuesday the 19th Day of May next, then to meet at the State-House in Portsmouth, at ten o'Clock A. M. for the Dispatch of the necessary Public Business of the Province; whereof the Members of the said General-Court, or Assembly, and all others whom it may concern, are required to take Notice & to govern themselves accordingly.
Given at the Council-Chamber in Portsmouth, the 13th Day of March, in the Twelfth Year of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of GOD of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, KING, Defender of the Faith, &c. Annoque Domini, 1772.
J. WENTWORTH.
By His Excellency's Command,
THEODORE ATKINSON, Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE KING.
NEW-LONDON, February 21.
Last Friday Morning there was the greatest Freshet at Norwich Landing that has been known for 30 Years past, occasioned by a sudden Thaw and breaking up of Shetucket River. The rise of the Water was so sudden that there was not Time to secure but a small Part of the Goods which were exposed—Upwards of 5000 Bushels of Salt, a large Quantity of Sugars & other West-India Goods, also of European Goods to a considerable Amount are lost:—Add to this the Loss the Town has sustained in Bridges this Season, and 'tis said the Town has suffered about £. 3000 Damage.
Last Tuesday Capt. Angel arrived here in 23 days from Guadeloupe. Capt. Fanning from this Port, arrived at Dominica in about 40 Days, with the Loss of all his Horses. Captain Griffing of Killingworth, is arrived at Guadeloupe, with the Loss of 14 Oxen. A sloop belonging to Sagarbour, Long-Island, was arrived at Guadeloupe, having in her passage from the Eastward to Sagarbour, been blown off the Coast before the Sloop got into port; she run on a Reef of Rocks off Port Louis, but did not receive much Damage; (— Foster, was Master or Passenger on board said Sloop.) Capt. Wilson is arrived at Antigua, Captain Braddock (with the Loss of 5 Oxen & 2 Horses) at Guadeloupe, and Capt. Leeds at St. Eustatia, all from this Port. Captain Brown in a Brig belonging to Stonington, is arrived at Grenada.
PROVIDENCE, Feb. 29.
Wednesday last, the Wind blowing very hard at West, a Sloop belonging to Middletown, Buckley, Master, homeward bound, was drove out of Connecticut River, both her Cables being parted by the Ice. The people were all on Shore, except the Mate and a Boy, who could not prevent her running on the East End of Saybrook Bar, where she lay near an Hour, and then beat over.
They afterwards made Sail, intending for Newport, and got safe round Point-Judah, when hauling their Wind to stretch in, the Jib-Sheet gave Way, & she ran on Brenton's Reef, where she beat off her Keel, and filled. The Wind continuing to blow hard, she beat over the Reef in the Night, and struck about 11 or 12 Rods from the Beach. The Mate held the Boy all Night in his Arms, wrapped in a Blanket, and in the Morning swam to Shore, leaving the Boy on the Quarter-Deck, who being much Frost-bitten died before any Assistance could be had.—The Vessel was loaded with Cocoa and Salt.
The same Day a Brig from Connecticut-River, going to take in Horses at New-London, was drove into the Sound, and lay on her Beam Ends 15 Minutes. She lost her Boat, Anchor and Cable, and got into Newport.
Three Connecticut Sloops, homeward bound, failed on Tuesday from Newport, & put back on Wednesday, with the Loss of some of their Sails; the Captain of one of them, who came in sick, died the same night.
By a Vessel arrived at Newport from the West-Indies, we learn, that Capt. William Sole, in a Brig from this Port, bound for Hispaniola, lately put into Antigua, having lost his Masts, all his Horses, and every thing off Deck.
Choice Bohea Tea,
At Four Shillings per Pound, two Shillings per half Pound, and one Shilling per Quarter, with a Variety of ENGLISH and WEST INDIA GOODS, to be sold cheap for Cash, or any Kind of Provisions—By GILLAM BUTLER, at his Shop lately improved by Captain George Turner.—Said Butler expects a Fresh Assortment of Garden SEEDS, and would be glad to supply those People that usually had them from Boston. Also good BROWN SUGAR at Ten Shillings Old Ten. per Pound.
CHARLES-TOWN, SOUTH-CAROLINA,
Feb. 12. A letter received yesterday from St. Eustatius, dated Jan. 17, informs us, that "about three weeks before, the Spaniards took a Schooner as she lay at Crab-Island loaded with pots. Crab Island is mentioned in the Governor of Tortola's commission as one of the Virgin-Islands under his command. Admiral Man sent down a Frigate to demand the Schooner and her crew, but the Frigate returned Jan. 16, without either. The Spanish Governor told the Captain of the Frigate that he had orders for what he did, and that he would continue to do as he had done, till his orders were countermanded. The British officers who went ashore were treated like criminals, being put under a double guard of Spaniards as soon as they landed."
NEWPORT, March 2.
Early last Wednesday Morning a very extraordinary Affair happened in this Town, viz. A Negro named Primus, owned by Thomas Cranston, Esq; having borrowed two Dollars of his Wife, who lived with Evan Malbone, Esq; lost them at Gaming; and finding his Wife had three Dollars more in her Trunk he broke it open and took them, with two Handkerchiefs, which he lost in like Manner. After they had got to Bed on Tuesday night, she asked him about the Money & told him he must have it again; upon which a Quarrel ensued for some Time. Towards Day the Fellow got up, went down into the Kitchen, and set Fire to a Partition, carried some Fire into the Garret, where his Wife lay, and put it among her Clothes, and then got her on the Floor, endeavouring to break her Neck; upon which she cried out Murder and Fire! This alarmed the House and Mr. Malbone jumped out of Bed, and running into the Kitchen with his Buckets to get Water, found it in a Blaze; however, he happily soon extinguished that, & hearing the Cry of Fire up stairs still continue, he told them to leave off hallowing, for the Fire was all out; but finding the Noise did not cease, he took his Buckets with Water and ran up Garret, which he found full of Smoke, and the Negro Fellow still striving to break his Wife's Neck; but he broke the Fellow's Hold, before he had quite executed his Design, pushed him down Stairs, and out of the House. Mr. Malbone went up Garret again, and put all the Fire out, and then went and waked Mr. Cranston, who got up & dressed himself, to go in Search of the Negro, & looking towards the Still House, which is near his Dwelling House, saw one of the Windows open, so concluding he was there, got the Key, and with Mr. Malbone, went & unlocked the Door; where they found every Cistern opened, & a Fire just blazing up against the Rum Room, which they extinguished; but looking round, immediately discovered another Fire breaking out in the Wood Room, which they also extin-
guished; and then proceeding to shut the Cisterns, found the Negro drowned in one of them. This Negro Fellow had always been an excellent Servant; and was never known to have any Difference with his Wife before, but having lost his own Money, and that which he had borrowed and stolen, by the pernicious Custom of Gaming, too much practised by Whites as well as Blacks; 'tis probable he could not bear the Thoughts of the Reproach, which would be cast upon him, and to prevent any Discovery being made by his Wife, determined to murder her.
The Morning on which this Scene was acted, the Wind blew very high at West; and, in all Probability, in a Quarter of an Hour more the Fire would have got to such a Head, that great Part of the South-End of the Town must have been destroyed.
PROVIDENCE, Feb. 29. "A four years old Bull, raised and fatted by elder Joseph Windsor, of Gloucester, was killed here a few days since, and weighed 1141 lb."
NEWPORT, March 9.
Last Wednesday se'nnight a very high Mill-Dam, in S. Kingstown, belonging to Mr. Champlin, was broken down by a great Freshet, when the Dam and a vast Flood of Water fell on a small House which stood close under it, and drowned a Negro Woman and Child, who were asleep in the House.
Last Saturday arrived the Brig Revenge, Captain EVAN MALBONE, in 18 Days from the Mole, by whom advice is received from Hispaniola, that all Trade with the English is stopped in all Parts of that Island, except at the Mole.
Not long ago a Gentleman, who was not a Native of Ireland, went to a Stationer's Shop and proposed buying a Map; upon being asked what Map he would be pleased to have, replied that, He wanted a Map of some UNKNOWN Part of the World!
Last Saturday, at the Superior Court held in this Town, came on the Trial of Conrad Flack, for the Murder of his Wife, as mentioned in this Paper last November. The Case appeared so clear to the Jury, that he had no premeditated Design of Murder, they gave in their Verdict Man-Slaughter , without leaving their Seats.
BOSTON, March 12, 1772.
Died at Sudbury, the Rev'd and venerable Mr. Israel Loring, aged about 90 Years, Pastor of a Church in that Town.
The Case of Ebenezer Richardson, who by Verdict of a Jury was found Guilty of the Murder of Christopher Seider, having been certified and laid before the King, His Majesty has been pleased to grant his most gracious Pardon, the Evidence of which, in the usual Form being laid before the Judges of the Superior Court on Tuesday last, and the said Richardson having then entered into Recognizance to plead the said Pardon, when called upon, he was liberated from Prison, where he has been confined near two Years.
We are informed, that great improvement hath lately been made in the method of illuminating LIGHT-HOUSES, by an Invention of the Hon. HENRY NEWTON, Esq; of Halifax, Nova-Scotia.—In the former method, the oil decreasing left the wick dry, which of course occasioned a faint Light; the smoke also, darkened the Glasses and obscur'd the Light: To remedy which, Fountain Lamps are constructed that burn 20 Hours without any seeming Decrease of Oil, by which means the Wick has the Oil floating constantly to it and wants no Snuffing (at most but once in a Night) and are so contrived that the waste Oil falls back into the Fountain: And to keep the Glasses clean, Tin Funnels, somewhat in the Shape of Speaking Trumpets, hang over each Lamp & pass through the Roof of the Lantern, with rais'd Caps of Tin upon them to prevent Rain or Snow falling down. By this means the Attendant at the Light-House has only to light the Lamps in the Evening and they burn bright all night; whereas, formerly, the Lamps wanted to be supplied two or three Times in a Night, and snuffed every Hour, and the Glass could not possibly be kept clean from Smoke. Each Lamp has three Spouts which run into a Basin at the Bottom of the Fountain and thereby keep the Oil so warm that it never chills while they are burning. Another Advantage is, that they burn a less Quantity of Oil than others.—The Halifax LIGHT-HOUSE is lately alter'd upon the above Plan, and is now acknowledged by all Masters of Vessels to exhibit a remarkably bright and constant Light.
TO BE SOLD.
The Rigging, Sails, Blocks, CABLES and ANCHORS of a SNOW, about 160 Ton, some of the Sails almost new, Cables 10 & 11 Inches, Anchors about 1000 wt each; ten Iron bound Gang Casks, two Harnesses Tubs, Buoys, &c Enquire of CHARLES CHAUNCY of Kittery.

His Excellency the GOVERNOR, with the advice of Council has issued a Proclamation, appointing Thursday the 24th Day of April next, a Day of Fasting and Prayer throughout this Province. The same Day is also appointed in the Massachusetts for the like Purposes.
NONE of the Boston Papers published last Monday have yet been brought to Town, the bad Travelling, having prevented the Post Riders from Performing regularly, and, but few Advertisements offering, will Apologize for our Publishing half a Sheet only this Week. The Mail, due last Saturday, was not brought till Monday night. The Eastern and one of the Boston Posts, are both confined by Sickness.
We hear from Hampton, That Mr. Jonathan Dearborn, about sixty Years of Age was found dead on Sunday Morning, at a small Distance from his own House, it is supposed he was going to his Daughters, who lived about a Mile from him.
[ Bretton-Woods. ]
Whereas Application has been made to me the Subscriber one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, for the Province of New Hampshire by the Proprietors or Owners of more than a sixteenth part of the Township of BRETON-WOODS, in the County of Grafton, and Province aforesaid, requesting me to call a Meeting of said proprietors for the Purposes and Articles following viz. First, To chuse a Moderator, for, & to govern said Meeting, also, a Clerk, Collector & Treasurer, and any necessary Committees. Secondly, To divide said Town into such Parcels or Lots, as shall be thought proper. Thirdly, To see what Method the proprietors will come into, for immediately getting on a number of Settlers, and agree on the Encouragement for that Purpose. Fourthly, To lay such a Tax on all the Rights and Shares, as shall be sufficient to pay past, and some Charges that will immediately arise, and do, and act on any other Matters and Things, that the proprietors when assembled, shall think proper, for bringing forward the Settlement of said Township, and agree on a Method for calling Meetings in future.
I do therefore in consequence of said Application hereby Notify and Warn said proprietors, to meet at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton, on Friday the 3d of April, for the Purposes aforesaid, at five o'Clock, Afternoon.
HUNTING WENTWORTH, Justice Peace.
Portsmouth, March 17, 1772.
Bretton-Woods is about Forty Five Miles from his Excellency's Seat in Wolfborough, and near the same Distance from the upper OS; the Great Road, known by the Name of the Co's Road, goes through said Township, for which Reason a House or two directly erected there, would be very convenient for Travellers bound into that excellent Part of the Province, and beneficial to the Person who should first erect one, and the more so, if he should open a sort of Tavern,—therefore any leading good Man or other Persons, able to carry up all Necessaries for that Country, and willing to settle on the choice Lands of BRETON WOODS, this Spring, may have good Encouragement by applying to the Printers hereof.
Notice is hereby given to the Proprietors of HAVERHILL, that at a legal Meeting of said proprietors, a Tax of Forty two shillings has been laid on each original Right or Share, in said Township, which Tax is committed to me to Collect. I therefore desire the proprietors aforesaid, to pay the same to me the Subscriber at my House in Haverhill, on or before the eighteenth Day of April next, otherwise their Rights will be Advertised for Sale as the Law directs. Joshua Hayward, Collector.
Haverhill, March 10, 1772.
Province of New Hampshire, Rockingham, ss. To the Proprietors of the Township of Barnstead, in said Province.
Pursuant to Charter, Ye are hereby Notified to meet at the Parish House in Newington, on Tuesday the 31st Instant, at two o'Clock P. M. 1st To chuse a Moderator. 2dly. To chuse all necessary Officers for said propriety this Current Year. 3dly. To hear the report of the Committee chosen by the propriety, to sell and exchange the common Land on the North side of said Barnstead, for making a Road thro' said Town, called the Province Road. 4thly, To hear the report of the Committee appointed, to adjust the Accounts of sundry Persons, who have done Service for the propriety, and to accept the same. 5thly, To see if the propriety will make any allowance, or pay those proprietors who repaired the Bridge, that was carried away with the Freshet, on Suncook River the last Spring; Finally, to pass any other Vote or Votes which may be thought necessary.
BENJAMIN ADAMS, } Selectmen: EPHRAIM PICKERING, }
Newington, March 16, 1772.
Blanks of most Sorts, to be Sold at the Printing Office, Portsmouth
On Spirituous Liquors,
WHICH was to have been Sold at Public Vendue on Thursday the 21th of this Instant March, at the House of James Stoodly, Esq; is adjourned to the first Thursday in May next, by reason of the bad Travelling, People not being able to attend; then to be Sold by the Committee of the General Court for that Purpose, to the highest Bidder, at the said House, in three Divisions, from the 4th of September last, to the first Day of November 1772. CONDITIONS of Sale to be made known at the Time and Place of Sale. By Order,
JONATHAN WARNER, Chairman.
Province of New Hampshire, Hillsborough, ss. Whereas Application is made to me the Subscriber, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, for said County, by more than the 16th part of the owners or proprietors at Cockermouth, in said Province, that a Meeting of said proprietors may be called, to meet at the Dwelling-House of Samuel Cumings, Innholder in Hollis, in said County on Monday the 8th Day of April next, at One o'Clock Afternoon, to vote, and act on the following Articles, viz. 1st, To chuse a Moderator, to regulate said Meeting. 2dly, To chuse any Committee or Committees, to settle any matter or matters transferred, or to transact, any matter or things for said proprietors. 3dly, To see if the proprietors will lay out any part, or the whole, of the remaining undivided Land, and in what manner, and to raise any Sum, or Sums of Money by Tax, or by disposing of Lands, to defray the necessary Expenses of making and repairing Roads, Mills, and other Charges in said Town. I do in Consequence of said Application, Notify and Warn said proprietors to meet at Time and Place, and for the purposes aforesaid.
SAMUEL HOBART, Justice Peace.
Hollis, March 10, 1772.
( Orford. )
WHEREAS the Proprietors of Orford, in the County of Rockingham, and Province of New Hampshire, at a legal Meeting, voted and laid three Pounds Lawful Money on each original Proprietors Right or Share of Land in said Township, and chose me the Subscriber Collector of said TAX; This is therefore to give Notice to all said Proprietors, that unless Payment thereof be made to me at my Dwelling House in Hampton, in the County and Province aforesaid, by the third Monday in April next, so much of each original Proprietors Right or Share of Land in said Orford, will be advertised for Sale, agreeable to LAW, as will answer the Demands aforesaid, with incidental Charges.
JONATHAN MOULTON, Pro. Collector. Hampton, March 11. 1772.
TO BE SOLD or LETT,
A FARM lying in Stratham, distant eleven Miles from Portsmouth, and four from Exeter. It contains One Hundred and Fifty Acres of Mowing, Tillage, and Pasture Land, with several Acres of Salt-Marsh, has a fine Growth of young Wood upon it, an Orchard, and a large Dwelling House and Barn. This FARM is situated on the Country Road, and extends as far as Exeter River, is within 40 Rods of the Meeting House, and within half a Mile of a Saw Mill and Grist Mill.
Also a FARM in Brentwood ( seven Miles from the former ) containing about sixty Acres of Wood, Pasture, and Tillage Land.
The FARM at Stratham will be sold with, or without that at Brentwood. Both are well watered, and together are sufficient for keeping 40 Head of Cattle, and a good Flock of Sheep.
For further Particulars, enquire of Mr. John Wingate at Hampton, Mrs. Love Chase, Tavern keeper at Stratham, or Mr. Mary Leavitt, at Salem. Any Person inclined to purchase said FARMS, are desired to apply immediately, for by the 25th of March they will be Let to Hire. Salem, Feb. 20, 1772.
MARY HOMANS,
LIVING opposite the Printing Office, begs leave to inform the Public, that she shall open a BOARDING SCHOOL for Misses, the first of April, to be taught any Sort of Needle Work. Likewise Reading and Spelling.
All Persons indebted to, or that have any demands on the Estate of Theophilus Smith, Esq; Deceased, are desired to settle the same immediately, with Theophilus Smith, Esq; of said Exeter, sole Executor of the last Will and Testament of the Deceased.
TAKES this Method to inform the Publick, That he has moved into a House belonging to the Hon. JONATHAN WARNER, Esq; at the lower end of King Street, and next below his Store, where he Continues to carry on his business as usual.
Said Hardy has for Sale a few Choice ENGLISH CHEESES, and a quantity of English Goods of various Sorts.
TO BE SOLD,
A Strong young Negro Man, brought up to the Farming Business, for Particulars enquire of Theophilus Smith, Esq; of Exeter.
[ Stevens-Town. ]
WHEREAS at sundry legal Meetings of the Proprietors of Stevens Town, lately so called, new Salisbury, in the Province of New Hampshire, several TAXES have been voted to be raised on each original Right in said Town, in order to bring forward the Settlement thereof which have been duly notified as the Law directs. This is therefore to notify the Owners or Claimers of the following original Rights that are delinquent in paying said Taxes that unless they pay to me the Subscriber at my House in Kingstown, the following Sums in Lawful Money, by the 6th Day of April next, so much of their original Rights will be sold on said Day, at two o'clock afternoon, at public Vendue at the House of Solomon Wheeler, Innholder in Kingstown, as will pay said Taxes with incidental Charges.
  The delinquent Original Rights are as follows:   Tristram Quinby 2 19 0   The sixty Acre Lot, of the Right of John Huntoon Junr. 0 13 8   Ephraim Collins 1 06 0   John Huntoon 1 02 8   Peter Dearborn 0 15 2   Ebenezer Page 0 07 11   Nathaniel Lad 0 15 2   Joseph Clifford 0 07 6 
JOHN CALEF Collector.
WHEREAS the Proprietors of Moultonborough, in the County of Rockingham, and Province of New Hampshire, at a legal Meeting, voted, and laid Five Pounds Lawful Money on each original Proprietors Right or Share of Land in said Township, and chose me the Subscriber Collector of said TAX; This is therefore to give Notice to all said Proprietors, that unless Payment thereof be made to me at my Dwelling House in Hampton, in the County and Province aforesaid, by the second Monday in April next, so much of each original Proprietors Right or Share of Land in said Moultonborough, will be advertised for Sale, agreeable to LAW, as will answer the Demands aforesaid, with incidental Charges.
JONATHAN MOULTON, Pro. Collector. Hampton, March 4. 1772.
ALL PERSONS indebted to the Estate of BENJAMIN ROLFE, Esq; late of Concord, in the Province of New Hampshire, deceased, are desired to make immediate Payment to Timothy Walker, junr. Attorney to Sarah Rolfe, sole Administratrix on said Estate: And all who have any Demands upon said Estate, are desired to bring them to the said Attorney, in order to a speedy Settlement.
Russia Duck, Tick-
lingburgh, Oznabrigs, Cod and Mackrel Lines and Hooks— Bar lead, with many other Articles, suitable for the Fishery.
A Variety of English and West-India Goods, Grocery, Hardware, Stationary, Ship Chandlery,—to be sold for Cash, or short Credit, as cheap as may be bought in Boston or Newbury, by
THOMAS MARTIN.
N. B. A small Assortment of Mantua, Ducape and Padusoy Silks.
The delinquent Proprietors of RELHAN, are once more called upon to pay their Taxes, unless they propose to lose their Rights. R. FOWLE, Collector.
Portsmouth, March 12, 1772.