The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1789-06-04 00:00:00

The New-Hampshire Gazette, and the General Advertiser.
Volume xxxiv.—Number 1709.)
THURSDAY, June 4, 1789.
(Letter-Box in the window.)
PORTSMOUTH: Published by JOHN MELCHER, at his Office in Congress-Street, where Advertisements, Articles of Intelligence, &c. are thankfully received and carefully inserted.—This Paper contains all the Laws of the State passed since January 1787.
Proceedings of CONGRESS.
(Continued from our last.)
In the HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES of the UNITED STATES.
Saturday, May 16, 1789.
MR. Seney presented an act of the legislature of the state of Maryland, offering to Congress, the exclusive jurisdiction of ten miles square, in any part of that state, for the permanent seat of the federal government.
Mr. Sylvester presented a petition from Donald Campble, praying a reimbursement of monies expended by him on account of the United States, during the late war,
The consideration of Mr. Maddison's amendment to the impost bill, providing for a limitation to the existence of the act, was then resumed—it being intimated that the yeas and nays would be called for, an animated debate ensued.
The motion was then varied by Mr. Maddison, but after some further observation, the original amendment was put, and carried in the affirmative; and the yeas and nays entered on the journals as follow.
—For the motion,
Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Benson, Mr. Bland, Mr. Burke, Mr. Carroll, Mr. Coles, Mr. Contee, Mr. Fitzsimons, Mr. Floyd, Mr. Gale, Mr. Gerry, Mr. Gilman, Mr. Goodhue, Mr. Griffin, Mr. Grout, Mr. Hathorn, Mr. Heister, Mr. Huntington, Mr. Jackson, Mr. Lee, Mr. Leonard, Mr. Livermore, Mr. Madison, Mr. Moore, Mr. Muhlenburgh, Mr. Page, Mr. Parker, Mr. Partridge, Mr. Renfellear, Mr. Seney, Mr. Scott, Mr. Smith, Maryland, Mr. Smith, South-Carolina, Mr. Sturges, Mr. Sylvester, Mr. Trumbull, Mr. Tucker, Mr. Vining, Mr. Wadsworth, Mr. White, and Mr. Wyncoop.
—Against the motion,
Mr. Ames, Mr. Boudinot, Mr. Cadwalader, Mr. Glymer, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Sinnickson & Mr. Thatcher.
Ayes 41
Noes 8
Majority 33.
The clause for limitation being annexed to the bill, it was agreed that it should continue and be in force from the 15th of June next, until 1st of June 1796. The bill then passed the House, and was sent up to the Senate for their concurrence.
The House agreed to take up the report of the committee on the memorial of Dr. Ramsay, on Thursday next.
Mr. Hathorn had leave of absence for a few days.
Monday, May 18.
The House resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the second reading of the bill to regulate the collection of the impost.
The object of this bill being a temporary arrangement, applying the revenue systems already extant in the several States to the purposes of the Union—and in those States where no such regulations existed, directing the adoption of the laws of a neighbouring State.
Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Huntington, Mr. Jackson, Mr. White and Mr. Vining, severally objected to the bill, as incompetent to the purposes intended—as radically bad—as creating insurmountable difficulties, owing to various rates and modes of impost, and its collection in the several states—It would cause an interference with the pre-conceived maxims of particular States, by making the laws of one, the rule of conduct for another—it would sanction the receiving a depreciated paper medium, and other regulations of some of the States, which were inconsistent with the Constitution.
It was therefore moved, that the committee should rise, and the bill lie on the table—this motion was seconded, and carried in the affirmative.
On motion of Mr. Parker, a committee was appointed to bring in a bill for laying a tax on slaves imported into the United States, prior to the year 1808.
On motion of Mr. Goodhue, a committee was appointed to bring in a bill, providing for the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, agreeably to the Constitution.
The House, agreeably to the order of the day, resolved itself into a committee of the whole, on the report of the joint committee respecting the rules to be observed by the two Houses for the enrollment, attestation, publication and preservation of the acts of Congress and regulating the mode of presenting addresses, &c. to The President of the United States—and having discussed and amended several paragraphs, the
committee rose, and the chairman having reported progress, the House adjourned.
Tuesday, May 19.
A message was read from the Senate, informing that they had appointed Mr. Lee a committee, to join with a committee on the part of the House, to present to THE PRESIDENT the engrossed bill, regulating the taking certain oaths. The House voted a concurrence, and Mr. Parker and Mr. Floyd were appointed.
In committee of the whole, on the state of the Union, Mr. Trumbull in the chair.
Mr. Boudinot, according to previous notice, introduced a resolve in which the first object was the establishment of an office of finance, agreeably to the constitution; the superintendence and direction of which should be committed to an officer, to be entitled "The secretary of finance for the United States."
Mr. Benson proposed a resolve as an amendment, that it should first be determined how many departments there should be, and proposed a resolution that there should be three, viz.
The department of foreign affairs.
The department of the treasury, and
The war department—
To those it was proposed by Mr. Vining, to add a fourth, viz. The secretary of the United States for the domestic department.
After some conversation upon the amendment, Mr. Boudinot withdrew his proposition for the present, after which Mr. Maddison proposed a resolution on which Mr. Benson consented should supercede that introduced by him—it was to this effect—That to aid the supreme executive in the discharge of his important trust, there should be three subordinate departments established, viz.
The secretary of the United States for the department of foreign affairs.
The secretary of the United States for the department of the treasury.
The secretary of the United States for the war department.
The respective heads of these departments to be nominated by THE PRESIDENT, and appointed by him with the advice and consent of the senate, and to be removed by THE PRESIDENT alone—The addition of the domestic department, was again proposed.
The question whether there should be three departments, passed unanimously in the affirmative.
It was then proposed to strike out the words "with the advice and consent of the senate," as an unnecessary clause—This was voted in the affirmative—The last clause "to be removed by the president," occasioned a very long and interesting debate. It was then moved, that "with the advice and consent of the senate" should be added after the word "President,"—in the last clause; this was negatived, and the vote being taken on the whole as amended, it passed in the affirmative.
The second article, viz. "Secretary of the United States for the department of the treasury," was next in order:—when it was moved that the further consideration of the resolve, should be postponed—This being seconded, the committee rose, and the chairman reported progress.
The joint committee appointed to determine upon the subject of news-papers, and to receive proposals for executing the public printing, reported in part to this effect—That it was expedient to diminish the number of papers which it had been customary to have handed in to the members of congress, and therefore, that every member be furnished with one paper only, at the public charge, each member to take such paper as he may think proper—This report to lie on the table.
Adjourned.
Wednesday, May 20.
In committee of the whole,
The propositions presented yesterday by Mr. Maddison recurred, and the committee proceeded to consider the propriety of appointing a secretary or minister of finance.
Mr. Gerry entered into a lengthy discussion, to shew that the powers which seemed to be in the contemplation of some members to be given to the financier, would be more safely lodged in a board of treasury; he thought he was supported in this position by the experience and the voice of the people of America.
Mr. Wadsworth contradicted Mr. Gerry's position, and declared, from his own experience of official boards, that generally there was neither system nor respectability in them; that the business of

them was conducted without energy or decision, though a greater expence than when a department was under one man. He made some animadversions upon what the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Gerry) said, relative to Mr. Morris's administration of the finances, declaring that he believed the reason why Mr. Morris's accounts were not passed already, was the want of power in the constitution of the present board of treasury for that purpose.
Several gentlemen spoke further on the subject; but at length the proposition for having the finances administered by one man, was carried almost unanimously.
Thursday, May 21.
Order of the day
The great departments.
Mr. Vining renewed his motion for considering the propriety of adding a fourth, viz. the domestic department; but after some time spent on the motion, it was waved for the present: and a committee of eleven members was appointed to bring in a bill or bills for the arrangement of the foregoing.
[Since the above, we have received those of FRIDAY, the 22d, which principally consisted in the discussion of the merits of the election of the Hon. Mr. Smith, one of the Representatives chosen in South-Carolina; and which terminated in a motion, confirming his eligibility to hold a seat.]
Historical Anecdote of a remarkable DUEL.
THE fame of an English dog has been deservedly transmitted to posterity by a monument in basso relievo, which still remains on the chimney piece of the grand hall at the castle of Montargis, in France. The sculpture represents a dog fighting with a champion, and was occasioned by the following circumstance:
Aubri de Mondidier, a gentleman of family and fortune, travelling alone through the forest of Bondi, was murdered and buried under a tree. His dog, an English blood-hound, would not quit his master's grave for several days, 'till at length, compelled by hunger, he went to the house of an intimate friend of the unfortunate Aubri's, at Paris, and by his melancholy howling, seemed desirous of expressing the loss they had both sustained. He repeated his cries, ran to the door, then looked back to see if any one followed him, returned to his master's friend, pulled him by the sleeve, and with dumb eloquence entreated him to go with him.
The singularity of all the actions of the dog; his coming there without his master, whose faithful companion he always had been; the sudden disappearance of his master; and, perhaps, that divine dispensation of justice and events, which will not permit the guilty to remain long undetected; made the company resolve to follow the dog, who conducted them to the tree, where he renewed his howl, scratching the
earth with his feet, to signify that that was the spot they should search. Accordingly, on digging, the body of the unfortunate Aubri was found.
Some time after the dog accidentally met the assassin, who is stiled, by all historians that relate this fact, the Chevalier Macaire; when instantly seizing him by the throat, it was with great difficulty he was made to quit his prey.
Whenever he saw him after, the dog pursued and attacked him with equal fury. Such obstinate virulence in the animal, confined only to Macaire, appeared extraordinary to those persons who recollected the dog's fondness for his master, and at the same time several instances wherein Macaire had displayed his envy and hatred to Aubri de Mondidier.
Additional circumstances encreased suspicion, which at length reached the Royal ear. The King (Lewis VIII.) sent for the dog. He appeared extremely gentle till perceiving Macaire, in the midst of twenty noblemen, he run directly towards him, growled, and flew at him as usual.
In those times, when no positive proof of a crime could be procured, an order was issued for a combat between the accuser and accused. These were denominated the judgment of God, from a persuasion that Heaven would sooner work a miracle than suffer innocence to perish with infamy.
The King, struck with such a collection of circumstantial evidence against Macaire, determined to refer the decision to the chance of war, or, in other words, he gave orders for a combat between the Chevalier and the dog. The lists were appointed in the isle of Notre-Dame, then an unclosed, uninhabited place: Macaire's weapon was a great cudgel.
The dog had an encampment allowed for retreat, to recover and take breath. The combatants being ready, the dog no sooner found himself at liberty, than he ran round his adversary, avoiding his blows, menacing him on every side, till his strength was exhausted; then springing forward, he griped him by the throat, threw him on the ground, and forced him to confess his crime before the king and the whole court. In consequence of which the Chevalier, after a few days, was convicted upon his own acknowledgment, and beheaded on a scaffold in the Isle of Notre-Dame.
The above curious recital is translated from the Memoirs sur les Duels, and is confirmed by many judicious, critical writers, particularly Julius Scaliger, and Mountfaucon, neither of them relators of fabulous stories. G.
PHILADELPHIA, May 21.
We hear from New-Providence, that, as several vessels belonging to the Bahama islands, were lately wrecking near Heneaga, they were taken by a Spanish guarda costa schooner of 8 guns and 45 men, commanded by L'Degora, and carried to the Havana: and that, in consequence thereof, the governor of the Bahamas immediately commissioned a sloop, mounting 8 guns and 45 men, commanded by Hunter, the government pilot, and sent in quest of the guarda costa.
A gentleman who has lately visited the country between the Delaware and the Susquehanna, has calculated that there are Sugar Maple Trees enough in the state in Pennsylvania to make as much sugar as could be consumed in the United States. This maple sugar has been examined in Philadelphia, and yields loaves equal in qua-
lity to that which is made from the juice of the West-India sugar cane. To freemen its sweetness ought to be enhanced by the reflection that it is not stained with the sweat and blood of negro slaves.
NEW-YORK, May 19.
The ship Chesapeake , from Bengal, JOHN O'DONNEL, Esq. owner and commander, arrived at Amboy, has brought a valuable cargo, consisting of almost every production and manufacture of Asia. He has had a very quick passage, being only four months (including five or six days stay at the islands of St. Helena and Ascension) from Bengal. By Mr. O'Donnel's arrival we are favoured with the following intelligence:—
The Chesapeake was the first American vessel allowed to hoist the colours of the United States in the celebrated river Ganges, and to trade there. When Lord Cornwallis the Governor-General, then at a great distance up the country, was applied to by letter from Calcutta to know in what manner the Americans were to be received—his answer was—on the same footing with other nations. This answer being probably conformable to his instructions from Great-Britain, evince the friendly disposition of that nation in that quarter: For the American ships pay no more at any of the English settlements of Bengal, Madras and Bombay, which Mr. O'Donnel visited, than other foreigners. It is to be noticed also, that the supreme council of Bengal have taken off a heavy duty, called governmental customs, which included exports as well as imports—this duty all other nations, except the English, were liable to. This on Madeira wine was so high as 18 rupees the cask; and one rupee, or 2s. 6d. sterling on all wines in bottles.
All sorts of European goods; wines spirits, &c. were selling at the different European settlements in India, considerably under prime cost, in consequence of the markets being overstocked. The best Madeira wine would not net twenty pounds sterling the pipe.
Capt. Kerby, in the Betsy , from Philadelphia, arrived safe at Bengal, but in a very leaky condition; her cargo of wine, &c. was unloading. The vessel was to be sold and not to return.
Capt. Randall in the Jay , was safe arrived at Bavia from Madras. It was supposed she would winter there, and proceed early next season to China.
Capt. Metcalfe, in the brig Eleanor , belonging to New-York, lying in the river Tygris, was boarded, we understand, by a number of Chinese bandits; but by the spirited conduct of the crew, who brought a gun, loaded with grape, to bear on them, they were repulsed with the loss of some of their gang—the captain was up at Canton.
Extract of a letter from London, dated March 9.
"The friends of your country are very anxious to know the operations of your federal system, in order to be able to oppose the general opinion that prevails, of your people being impatient under good government, and unwilling to be controuled by legislative authority."
"The election of General WASHINGTON to the Presidential Chair, and the expected choice of Mr. ADAMS as Vice-President, will have an auspicious tendency. Europe as well as America, concur in the praises due to that great and good man, and are well convinced, that nothing which can degrade your national character, or diminish your national consequence, will ever meet with his assent."
"Mr. Adams, by being employed in the diplomatic line in England and Holland must have had the best opportunities of making observations on the politics of Europe, as well as on the internal systems of policy and public credit, which have aggrandiz-
ed these nations, and rendered them so conspicuous for their resources. Such knowledge must be of eminent service to you, in your arrangements of Finance."
"I am happy to observe, that our opinions on the subject of the United States are already essentially changed—they are no longer treated with that supercilious contempt, which their former insufficiency of government, and disunion of sentiments, gave too much reason to justify."
"Your situation and resources entitle you to hold a high rank amongst the powers of the world. If your government is well administered, you will soon feel your consequence."
In the English House of commons, March 13th, The House, upon motion for that purpose, went into a committee "to consider of the trade between the subjects of his majesty's dominions and the inhabitants of the territories belonging to the United States of America."
MAY 22.
We are informed, that Capt. Brant is using his influence to rouse the Indians against the inhabitants on the frontiers, and to dissuade them from paying any attention to their agreement at the late treaty.
May 23. Yesterday the first act passed by the Congress of the United States, prescribing the form of the oath to be taken by all persons holding offices under the government of the United States, and of the individual states, and the manner of administering the same, was presented to THE PRESIDENT, for his signature, by a committee of both Houses.
The REVENUE SYSTEM is now in train to be established upon an extensive and permanent plan. The IMPOT BILL has undergone very essential variations & alterations in the Senate, and the duties in general are much curtailed. It has not yet found its way back to the House. The proposed plan of collection, agreeably to the existing revenue laws of the several states, is intirely abandoned, and a very long original bill has had two readings, and is printed for the use of the members—The great departments having been voted, and a large committee is sitting upon the arrangement. There being several committees on important subjects now out, the sessions of the House for several days have been short and not very interesting.
Of the votes for governor, examined; Gov. Clinton has 3568, and Judge Yates 2889.
Although the President makes no formal invitation, yet the day after the arrival of Mrs. Washington, the following distinguished personages dined at his house, en famille .—Their excellencies the Vice-President—the Governor of this state—the Ministers of France and Spain, and the Governor of the Western territory—the Hon. Secretary of the United States for foreign affairs—the Most Hon. Mr. Langdon, Mr. Wingate, Mr. Izard, Mr. Few, and Mr. Muhlenburg, Speaker of the Hon. House of Representatives of the United States.
SERGEANT AT ARMS,
Is the Executive officer of the legislature—he attends the speaker—serves all writs issued by that body—and when the attendance of absent members is required, is sent with the Mace to execute the requisition. We recollect, that some time since, when 16 members of the legislature of Pennsylvania, ceded therefrom, that an officer, styled Sergeant at Arms was sent with the Mace to require their attendance—and, with the assistance of some of the citizens, obliged a sufficient number to make a quorum to attend.
"In England, the Sergeant at Arms , or Mace , is an officer to attend the person of the King, to arrest traitors, and such persons of quality as offend, and to attend the Lore High Steward when sitting in judgment on a traitor."

The number of these officers, is by statute limited to 30. There are now eight at court, who are created with great ceremony. They attend in the presence-chamber and receiving the King at the door, they carry the Maces before him, when he goes to chapel, or to the House of Lords. There are four other Sergeants at Arms —one of whom attends the Lord Chancellor; a second, the Lord Treasurer; a third the Speaker of the House of Commons; and a fourth, the Lord Mayor of London on solemn occasion.
Rhode-Island being a foreign State, a correspondent would query, whether the Sergeant at Arms lately appointed, ought not previous to his appointment, to have been naturalized.
LITCHFIELD, May 11.
Sunday morning sennight, about four o'clock, several families in town were alarmed, not with the professional cry of— sweep chimney sweep ,—like a genuine son of the brush and scraper —but of murder , attended with piercing groans; and had not the luckless midnight sweeper been discovered, the solemn dirge proceeded from his hidden retreat might have been more panic-striking than the croaking of frogs at Windham.—Right happy are we, contemplating the recent battle of Hackinjack ghost , that supernatural conjectures had no chance to inflate the imagination; for upon examining the chimney of a store lately improved by Mr. Adams, a lily-white gentleman was found compressed; who must inevitably have died, had not part the chimney been taken down to relieve him. In attempting to descend, by help of a rope, his feet probably slipped, and being thus precipitated down chimney, which was very contracted, stuck fast.—Inveloped in foot—in sable mantle clad —his first appearance exhibited an unaccountable phenomenon indeed to himself he was unaccountable; for he pretended not to know where he was, from whence he came, or what he was after.—It was assuredly only an innocent adventure ;—perhaps he had no other intention than experiment; and could he have succeeded in his entire new plan of entering chimnies a-top, expected by a priviledge of exclusive right to have engrossed the business of chimney-sweeping.—He is committed for trial at the next supreme court; 'till the session of which, William Little cannot resume the broom.
BOSTON, May 30.
His Excellency the Governor, and His Honor the Lieutenant Governor, when they appeared to take the oaths of office yesterday, were in complete suits of American manufactured Broadcloth. The buttons on the coat of his Excellency were of silver, and of American manufacture—the device a Shepherd shearing his sheep—The motto—“ You gain more by our lives than by our deaths. ”
Last Tuesday evening a very singular affair happened in this town: A sailor who had arrived a few days ago in the ship Diana , Captain Folger, by the name of John Harrison, a native of New-York, having formed an affection for a woman at the North part of the town, whose husband is at sea, finding he could not obtain the object of his wishes, determined to put an end to his existence; he accordingly procured from an apothecary, under pretence of poisoning rats, an ounce of white arsenick, and returning to the nymph of his choice, being again denied, swallowed the whole quantity of poison: he then told the family of what he had done, and going to another house where he was acquainted, laid himself down on a bed, and expired in about three hours, in horrid convulsions. A coroner's inquest sat on the body, on Wednesday last, and brought in their verdict “ that he had been guilty of SUICIDE. ”
June 1. A Bill to regulate the collection of Impost (which by the last accounts from New-York was under the
consideration of Congress) contain the following clause:—“ And whereas the State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, and the State of North-Carolina, have not yet acceded to the present Constitution of the United States, and therefore are not subject to the laws made under that Constitution. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That until the said states shall have adopted the said Constitution, all Goods, Wares and Merchandizes, not the growth, production or manufacture, of said states, that shall be imported from either of the said states, into any other of the United States, shall be subjected to the same duties as goods imported from foreign countries; and the said duties shall be collected thereon, in the same manner as is provided by this act for the collection of duties on goods imported from foreign states. ”
His Excellency the Governor of the state of Connecticut has issued a proclamation, giving notice, “That from and after the 18th ult. no person or persons shall transport out of that state, by water, or Ship on board any vessel, boat or water-craft, for transportation as aforesaid, any wheat, rye, Indian corn, or any wheat or rye flour, or Indian meal, upon pain of incurring the forfeiture of double the value of any of the articles shipped or transported as aforesaid.
The Honourable Theodore Sedgwick, Esq. is elected a Representative to the Congress of the United States, in the upper district.
PORTSMOUTH, June 4.
The season for summer goods being now at hand, it is hoped that the friends of American manufactures will not forget the excellent brown and white thread and cotton hosiery made at Philadelphia, known by the name of Germantown stockings. They are cheaper, and much more lasting than those of any nation in Europe.
On the 25th ult. the barn of Mr. Daniel Cutting, of Marlborough, was blown down by a strong north wind—at the time of the barn's falling, Mr. Cutting's eldest daughter was milking a cow, who, with six cattle and a horse, were also buried in the ruins, but happily escaped any material injury.
A very singular event has lately taken place at Machias: A gentleman there visited a lady, by way of courtship, five evenings—they were married, and madam five days after marriage became the mother of five daughters, who were all born alive, and like to do well; and in five days after the birth of the daughters, the mother rode five miles to meeting.
Died since our last, Deacon Thomas Marden, aged 84 years.
NAVAL OFFICE, Port of Piscataqua, June 4, 1789. ENTERED Brig Catharine, Gerrish, Trinidad. CLEARED
Brig Betsey, Long, West-Indies. Schooner Success, Jackson, ditto. Brig George, Moore, Great-Britain. Brig Maria and Eliza, Blunt, ditto. Brig Polly, Smith, West-Indies. Sloop Leafflower, Trefethen, Baltimore.
THE MONITOR.
THE charms of rural nature, especially in the months of spring and summer, afford pleasure to the eye, fruit to the taste, music to the ear, and instruction to the mind; the birds on every bough, the flowers on every side, and variegated scenes presented to the view around, all conspire to excite pleasure, admiration, and devout acknowledgments in the thinking and serious spectator, while sun, moon, stars, and all the orbs above appear,
‘To sing the God of seasons as they roll.’
But what are nature's charms, when put in competition with the beauty and loveliness of the GOD OF GRACE? Whose smile alone makes heaven, with all the glorious inhabitants thereof, rejoice, with joy unspeakable and full of glory. The world, with all it can afford to felicitate and en-
noble the possessors of its riches, honours, joys and pleasures, is but a meer blank when compared to HIS all-gracious presence and the joys at HIS right hand, where there are pleasures for evermore. Oh, then, my soul! Let it be thy constant wish to know more, love more, serve more and better, HIM, whose handy works all nature shows, while grace and glory speak his matchless praise, and teach both heaven and earth to spread abroad his fame.
Earth flies with all its charms it has in store, Its snares and gay temptations are no more; Creatures no longer their allurements boast, Creation's self, with all her beauty's lost; The sun, moon, stars, and yonder fields of light, Withdraw and vanish from my gaz- ing sight, While GOD is all in all.
State of New-Hampshire.
Grafton ff.
Concord, April 4, 1789.
TO ISAAC MOORE, Clerk of the proprietors of said township, the subscribers, proprietors and owners of more than a sixteenth part of the township of Concord, aforesaid, request you to warn, according to law, a meeting of the grantees, and proprietors of said Concord, to be holden at the dwelling-house of Benjamin Whetcomb, in said Concord, on Tuesday the 28th day of July next, at one of the clock in the afternoon, to vote on the following articles, namely.
1st. To choose a moderator to govern said meeting.
2d. To choose a proprietors clerk, committees, agents, treasurer, and any other proprietary officers they may think necessary.
3d. To consider and allow any accounts against said proprietors—make grants to any person or persons, for services done for said proprietors, whether with or without their express direction, as they may think just and reasonable.
4th. To see how much money they will raise, to be dispos'd of to any purpose or purposes whatsoever, as they may think for the interest of said proprietors, and in a particular manner, for surveying and allotting said township, and for prosecuting or defending any action or actions in law, that hath been, or that may hereafter be commenced for, or against said proprietors.
5th. To see if they will appoint and authorize some person or persons to give deeds to the settlers in said township, under said proprietors who may apply therefor, at their own expence.
6th. To ratify and confirm any and all former votes of said proprietors, and make such alterations as may appear best, and for the good of the said proprietors and inhabitants, whether the said votes were passed in meetings legally warned or not.
7th. To act and vote on any other matters and things they may think best.
John Young, John Young, for Dan. Bull, Robert Young, for himself and H. Ingals, Benjamin Whetcomb.
Haverhill, May 7, 1789.
Grafton, ff.
APPLICATION having been made to me, as above, this is therefore to notify and warn the said proprietors and grantees, to meet at the said time and place for the purposes above-mentioned.
ISAAC MOORE, propr's Clerk.
THE Printer hereof informs his friends & customers, that he has removed his OFFICE to the house lately occupied by Mrs. Gerrish, in Congress-Street, where he solicits a continuance of their favours.
TO BE LET,
A convenient house
For a small family, with a shop, situate in a pleasant part of the town—Apply to the printer.
A Few Thousand of BRICKS,
to be exchanged for Lumber. Enquire of BENJAMIN DEARBORN.
State of New-Hampshire, Rockingham ff.
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors and owners of lands in the township of Lancaster, in the county of Grafton, that their lands are taxed one penny on the acre, for the year 1789, agreeably to an act of the legislature, passed the 12th day of February 1788, to be laid out in building bridges, and repairing roads, &c. at three shillings per day for a good labourer, finding themselves tools and diet, that those who incline rather to labour on said roads than pay their money, may be employed on the first Monday of June next, by applying to
Edward Bucknam, } Select- Jonas Wilder, } men. John Weeks, } Lancaster, April 22, 1789.
BARRINGTON. State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the township of Barrington, who have not paid their taxes for the years 1784 and 1785; that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before the 29th day of June next, so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, at ten o'clock A.M. at the dwelling-house of Isaac Waldron in said town, as will pay the same together with incidental charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
For 1784.
   N. R. Q. s. d.     Richard Waldron 100 3 26 1 11   Capt. G. Walker 181 5 30 3 7   George Townson 183 5 40 3 9   Benjamin Cross 189 5 120 7 6   John Edmons 222 5 13 0 6   Henry Sherburne 224 5 156 8 10   James Statley 229 5 60 1 10  
For 1785.
   Richard Waldron 101 3 26 1 6   Capt. G. Walker 181 3 30 2 0   Thomas Main 59 2 72 2 2   George Townson 183 5 40 2 8   Benjamin Cross 189 5 120 4 10   Henry Sherburne 224 5 156 4 1  
SAMUEL BREWSTER, Collector. Barrington, May 20, 1789.
BLANKS of all sorts printed and fold at J. Melcher's Printing-Office, VERY CHEAP.

Parnassian Spring.
EPITAPH.—On a Mr. PECK.
HERE lies a Peck! which some men say Was first of all a Peck of clay; This, wrought with skill divine, while fresh, Became a curious Peck of flesh, Through various forms, its Maker ran, Then, adding breath, made Peck a man. Full sixty years, Peck felt life's bubbles, 'Till death reliev'd a Peck of troubles, Then fell poor Peck, as all things must, And here he lies—a Peck of—DUST.
CONCORD.
State of New Hampshire.
Grafton, ss.
WHEREAS the proprietors of the township of Concord, in said county, at their legal meeting holden at the dwelling-house of Major Samuel Young, in said Concord, on the 15th day of May last, voted a tax of five dollars on each grantee, or share of land, in said township, public rights excepted, for the purpose of supporting their title to said township, and making surveys and allotments therein, and the subscriber being appointed collector, to collect said tax—This is to give notice, that unless the said sum is paid to me at Concord, aforesaid, by the last day of July next, their lands will be advertised for sale, for the payment of said tax, as the law directs.
Benjamin Whitcomb, (Collector.)
Concord, May 12, 1789.
WINDHAM.
TO BE SOLD,
At public vendue, at the house of Job Pingree, in Windham, on the last Tuesday of June next, at three of the clock in the afternoon, to much of the nonresident land lying in said town of Windham, as will pay the tax for the year 1785, with incidental charges, unless paid before that time.
s. d.
Capt. Oliver Saunders 4 11 3/4 JAMES ANDERSON, Constable. Windham, April 13, 1788.
WHEREAS the proprietors of a township formerly called Rumford, now Concord, in said state, did on the 15th day of March, 1773, grant a tax of six pounds, upon each private right in said town, and commit the same to me to collect, which tax was assessed in the following manner, viz.
   l. s. d.     Upon each house lot, 0 2 6   Each six acre lot, 0 11 6   Each five acre lot, 0 11 6   Each twenty acre lot, 0 10 6   Each eighty acre lot, 2 2 0   Each common right, 2 2 0  
£. 6 0 0
And whereas the general court of said state, did on the 17th day of January 1789, ratify and confirm said tax, and gave authority to me the subscriber to compleat the collection thereof: Therefore
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors and owners of said lots, that unless they pay said tax to me the subscriber, at my dwelling-house in said Concord, at or before the first day of August next, so much of said lots will be advertised and sold as shall be sufficient to pay said tax, with incidental charges.
TIMOTHY WALKER, Collector.
Concord, May 23, 1789.
COCKERMOUTH. State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Cockermouth, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1786, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before Thursday the 18th day of June next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at two o'clock in the afternoon, on said day, at my dwelling-house in said town, unless prevented by previous payment.
   D. N. R. Qty. specie. indents. county.   certif. s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q.     John Hale, Esq. 1 20 1 50 0 6 3 0 7 0 0 1 2   Samuel Hobart 2 5 5 50 0 6 3 0 7 0 0 1 2   Henry Thomson 3 5 7 100 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 3 0   undivided 3 6 7 100 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 3 0   Stephen Powers undivided 4 2 0 4 1 0 0 3   Benjamin Blanchard 2 8 4 50 0 6 3 0 7 0 0 1 2   3 3 6 100 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 3 0   Jonathan Lovejoy 3 8 1 100 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 3 0   3 9 13 100 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 3 0   Matthew Thomson 3 4 1 100 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 3 0   Phineas Lovejoy undivided 4 2 0 4 1 0 0 3   Hugh White 8 0 10 0 4 2 0 4 1 0 0 3   1 8 2 50 0 6 3 0 7 0 0 1 2   Lemuel Blackmore 0 6 0 10 0 4 2 0 4 1 0 0 3   1 13 3 50 0 6 3 0 7 0 0 1 2   Jonathan Johnson undivided 4 2 0 4 1 0 0 3   Samuel Haselton undivided 4 2 0 4 1 0 0 3   Thomas Calborn undivided 4 2 0 4 1 0 0 3   Jonathan Eastman 3 3 5 100 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 3 0   James Taylor undivided 4 2 0 4 1 0 0 3   William Taylor 1 15 3 50 0 6 3 0 7 0 0 1 2   3 6 6 100 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 3 0   3 7 8 100 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 3 0   undivided 4 2 0 4 1 0 0 3   Daniel Lovejoy 3 3 2 100 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 3 0   3 7 3 50 0 6 3 0 7 0 0 1 2   William Tenny undivided 4 2 0 4 1 0 0 3   Samuel Cummings, jr. undivided 4 2 0 4 1 0 0 3   Caleb Farley 3 10 2 100 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 3 0   3 11 2 100 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 3 0   Stephen Ames undivided 4 2 0 4 1 0 0 3   John Atwell 3 5 5 100 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 3 0   James Gould 1 7 3 50 0 6 3 0 7 0 0 1 2   3 3 9 100 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 3 0   undivided 4 2 0 4 1 0 0 3   Thomas Pratt 1 18 1 50 0 6 3 0 7 0 0 1 2   2 10 2 50 0 6 3 0 7 0 0 1 2   Amos Fisk 1 8 1 50 0 6 3 0 7 0 0 1 2   Thomas Wentworth 3 12 1 100 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 3 0   Thomas Peverly 0 11 0 10 0 4 2 0 4 1 0 0 3   1 11 3 50 0 6 3 0 7 0 0 1 2   2 1 5 50 0 6 3 0 7 0 0 1 2   3 7 11 100 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 3 0   3 7 12 100 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 3 0   undivided 4 2 0 4 1 0 0 3   James Hoit undivided 4 2 0 4 1 0 0 3   John Wentworth 2 1 6 50 0 6 3 0 7 0 0 1 2   Michael Martin undivided 4 2 0 4 1 0 0 3   Amos Eastman 3 5 13 100 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 3 0   John Moshere 3 10 1 100 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 3 0   Vendue lots on Cumming's hill. } 0 3 0 0 0 6 3 0 7 0 0 1 2   0 4 0 0 0 6 3 0 7 0 0 1 2   Henry Thomson, jr. undivided 4 2 0 4 1 0 0 3  
ABRAHAM BUEL, Constable.
Cockermouth, April 30, 1789.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the delinquent proprietors and owners of lands, in the township of Lancaster—that said proprietors at their meeting, held in said town, the 8th day of June, 1773, by adjournment—Voted, four dollars on each right, to pay David Page, Esq. for rebuilding the mills in said town; and three dollars on each right—to open and repair the roads—and at their meeting held in said town the 26th day of August 1773—Voted, fifteen pounds to be assessed on the proprietors as their proportion for opening a road to the eastward of the White-Hills, being four shillings and three pence on each right; and at their meeting held in said town the 10th day of August, 1774—by adjournment—Voted, four dollars on each right to be laid out on the roads in said town; and eight shillings and four pence more on each right to pay David Page, Esq. to rebuild the mills in said town, after being consumed by fire—and at their meeting held in said town, the 25th day of February, 1785.—Voted, two dollars on each right for lotting out said town—and also at their meeting, held in said town the 25th day of Decem-
ber 1787, by adjournment—Voted, three dollars more in addition to the aforesaid two dollars for lotting, &c.—that unless the delinquent proprietors and owners of land in said town, pay cash, and all the aforesaid sums or taxes to me the subscriber or to Col. Joseph Whipple of Portsmouth, by the 1st day of June next—that their rights or shares of land will be advertised for sale to pay said taxes with incidental charges.
Edward Bucknam, Collector.
Lancaster, April 20, 1789.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Epitom, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1787, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, on the 11th day of June next, at one o'clock in the afternoon, at the house of Elizabeth M'Clary, innholder in said town, as will pay the taxes and charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
   No. R. Q. sp. fp. ind. cer.   s. d. s. d. s. d.     John Trundy, 55 2 50 3 0 5 2   Henry Payne 106 3 50 1 6 2 0  
Thomas Babb, Constable. Epitom, May 9.
PIERMONT.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Piermont, who have not paid their taxes for the years 1786 and 1787; that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before the 15th day of June next, so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, at three o'clock in the afternoon, at my house in said town, as will pay the taxes and charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
   N. R. Qty. Specie. Ind. Cert.   1786. 1786. 1787. 1786. 1786. 1787. 1786. 1786. 1787.     George Levins 1 1 100 0 11 1 3 0 5 1 7 1/2 1   Thomas Packer 7 1 100 0 11 1 3 0 5 1 7 1/2 1   House lot 36 1 45 0 11 1 10 3/4 0 5 1 7 1/2 1   Undivided   Charles Paxton 1 6 45 0 11 1 3 0 5 1 7 1/2 1   Undivided   R. Auchmady 1 4 100 0 11 1 3 0 5 1 7 1/2 1   Undivided   Nath'l. Barrell 2 6 100 0 11 1 10 3/4 0 5 1 7 1/2 1   Undivided   H. Henderson 3 2 100 0 11 1 3 0 5 1 7 1/2 1   Sam'l Wentworth 4 2 100 0 11 1 3 0 5 1 7 1/2 1  
Undivided Russel S. Richards, Collector. Piermont, May 12, 1789.  ALL persons having demands against the estate of JOHN BURNAM HANSON, late of Dover, Esq. deceased, are requested to present them,