New-Hampshire gazette, or, State journal and general advertiser (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1779-02-09 00:00:00

Rules for preserving LIBERTY In a Republic.
 1. L ET elections be frequent.  2. Let a rotation be established in all those offices that are lucrative or honorable, civil or military.  3. Let the form of the government be such as to defend it from arbitrary power on the one hand, and licentiousness on the other.  4. The doors of all popular assemblies should be open. This is more especially necessary when large sums of money are expended, or when persons are appointed to offices of high trust. A people cannot remain long free where the deliberations of the sovereign power are concealed from them. The Journals of a Legislature are not sufficient to shew the public the state of parties, or the abilities, zeal and integrity of individuals. A knowledge of these necessary facts can only be acquired by ear witnesses of them.  5. Rulers should be men of fair moral characters—famed for their love of virtue and attachment to the religion of their country.  6. A strict regard to justice is absolutely necessary in all republican assemblies. This extends to the time and forms of administering justice. To delay it is to deny it.  7. Avoid standing armies, and mix as much as possible the character of citizen and soldier together. It is an error to suppose that tyranny is introduced by giving military men a seat in the counsels of a free country.—There is infinitely more danger from precluding them, for by this measure we make them a distinct body of men, and they adopt views and interests accordingly. The principal officers of an army should be chosen annually. This was the practice of the republic of Rome, in the wise and happy ages of the common wealth.  8. Encourage schools and churches. Liberty cannot exist in the society of ignorance and vice. Let no sect of Christians be established, but let christianity be protected and supported, by laws made for that purpose.  9. Let not oaths be multiplied unnecessarily. The only bond of society is weakened when oaths are imposed or taken upon improper occasions. Perhaps the only occasion in which they ought to be taken is in Courts of Justice. Custom-house oaths should be banished from all free countries. It is enough for a man to lose his vessel and cargo, without adding the guilt of perjury to his misfortune.  10. The safety of a republic should never rest upon the life or virtue of a single man. When a citizen has acquired so much popularity that his countrymen expected salvation from his wisdom or arm alone, he becomes dangerous to the community. Cicero grieved that the safety of Rome was thought to depend upon the life of Brutus, and Marcus inveighed bitterly against the Romans for their idolatrous attachment to Pompey. The safety of a republic consists entirely in the number of its wise Senators and able Generals. 
11. The study of eloquence should be encouraged. For this purpose orations, declamations, and pieces of music should be composed, and delivered or performed on certain days, to commemorate remarkable events, or to perpetuate the memory of great men. The only time in which it is safe to praise the saviour of a country in a republic, is after his death.
12. All the branches of the military art should be taught in a republic in schools formed for that purpose. The whole world is in arms against liberty—it can only therefore, be maintained by arms. The military life should be made honorable, and visible badges of distinction should be given to officers and soldiers who have performed remarkable exploits in the day of battle.
13. As virtue and true religion are the only basis of a republic, the wisdom and power of the Legislature should be perpetually exerted to promote good morals, and the fear and worship of God among the people, and to suppress vice in every shape, whether it appears in open drunkenness swearing or uncleanness, or in the more courtly forms of horse racing, cockfighting, gaming, or stage entertainments.
HARRINGTON.
AN Account of extraordinary services incurred and paid by the Right Hon. Richard Rigby, Paymaster General of his Majesty's Forces, between the 9th of March 1775, and 31st of January 1776, and not provided for by Parliament.
The whole Amount— £. 845165 14 8 Deduct sundry expences at } 92789 7 7 Gibraltar, Jamaica, &c &c.
Extraordinaries, America only 752376 7 1
Amount of Warrants granted by his Excellency Gen. Gage for Extraordinary Expences of his Majesty's Forces in North America, between January 1, to September 30, 1775. 140670 3 0
Amount of Warrants granted by Gen. Howe, from 1st Oct. to 31st Dec. 1775, 75946 13 6b
£. 2166167 16 6b
The following are included in the above. Josiah Edson, John Murray, Abijah Willard, Richard Lechmore, Nathaniel Hatch, Foster Hutchinson, William Brown, & Joshua Loring, Esq; and dated Sept. 30, 1775, being an Allowance made to them in Consequence of his Majesty's Orders, 200 0 0
Hon. Timothy Ruggles & Daniel Leonard, Esq; Councillors of his Majesty's Province of Massachusetts Bay, dated 30th Sept. 1775, being an Allowance made to them in Consequence of his Majesty's Orders, 200 0 0
Capt. Oliver De'Lancey, being the Expences attending the purchasing Troop Horses for the Use of the 17th Regiment of Light Dragoons, Sept. 30. 352 0 0
Hon. Nathaniel Ray Thomas, one of his Majesty's Council for the Province of Massachusetts Bay, dated November 24, 1775,
being an Allowance made to him in Consequence of his Majesty's Orders 100 0 0
Mr. Crean Brush, dated 31st December, 1775, being his Pay for taking and receiving into his Care, all such Goods, Chattels and Effects, as may be delivered into his Charge by the Owners, leaving the Town of Boston, from the First October to 31st December 1775, being 92 Days at 10/ per Diem. 46 0 0
Pelham Winslow, Esq; dated 31st Dec. 1775, being for two Months and 23 Days pay due to him as Fort Major of his Majesty's Fortress of Castle William in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, from 9th Oct. to 31st Dec. 1775. at £ 100 per Ann. 22 15 8
An Account of the Increase of the Navy on the 31st Dec. 1775.
Debt of Navy on the 31st December 1775. 2698579 0 0b
Debt of Navy on the 31st December 1774. 1886100 8 3
£ 812478 11 9b
† If such was the Increase of the British Debts the First Year of the American War—what an amazing Sum must it have amounted to at this Time!
From the General Advertiser, &c. POLITICAL EPIGRAMS.
THO' Bute o'er earth and seas, or Kings had pow'r, Why should he nature's fairest child devour. The church's voice his very no strikes dumb; And all her dup's lie mute beneath his thumb. And now fair freedom he'd extinguish quite, Without whose beams ev'n stars would turn to night;
For yokes, for chains, East, West, and North prepare,
Scarce Heav'n is free, or light, or vital air, As well might man be banish'd light of Heav'n,
As patriot souls be from their freeholds driven;
For if ner social right, nor Freedom's there, What soul would wish to be an angel's peer.
TWO parties slay whole hecatombe to Jove, They bribe, they canvass all the pow'rs above. Slay on, cries Jove, you glut our pride in slaying,
Should warriors whine, or spend their breath in praying,
Know ye for what ye pray, or what ye fight? Nor fate could set two logerheads* to right: Pandora's box was fraught with divers evils, But Bute's cabal's a cabinet of devils, With such Court plagues, what nation's more accurs't?
If aught there be, the devil take the worst.
What makes the Yankies such enthusiasts hot? The very blood that fires a Hottentot: A love for fishing, hunting, freedom, ease, Thus nature's charms the faint and savage please.
Then why should nature be by despots cramp'd While freedom's o'er the human image stamp't.
The Howes would root up ev'ry freedom's fence While few, like Wilkes, stand up in her defence; Yes, Boston's thousand's round her standard crowd,
Tho' Europe's deaf, cry nature e'er so loud, Earthquakes or thunders scarce could pierce her ears,
For she's been deaf these dozen hundred years.
* Jove's decision between two competitors.

BOSTON, February 4.
It is painful to repeat the indubitable accounts we are continually receiving of the cruel and inhuman treatment of the subjects of these States from the Britons in New York and other places. They who hear our countrymen who have been so unfortunate as to fall into the hands of these unrelenting Tyrants, relate the sad story of their captivity; the insults they have received, and the slow, cool, systematical manner in which great numbers of those who could not be prevailed on to enter their service, have been murdered, must have hearts of stone not to melt with pity for the sufferers, and burn with indignation at their tormentors. As we have daily fresh instances to prove the truth of such a representation, public justice requires that repeated public mention should be made of them. A cartel vessel lately brought about 136 of our prisoners from the prison ships in New-York to New London. Such was the condition in which these poor creatures were put on board the Cartel, that in this short run, 16 died on board; upwards of 60 when they were landed were scarcely able to move; and the remainder greatly emaciated and infirmed, many who continue alive, are never likely to recover their former health. The greatest inhumanity, we are told, was experienced by the prisoners in a ship, of which one Nelson a Scotchman had the superintendence. Upwards of 300 American prisoners were confined at a time on board this ship. There was but one small fire place allowed to cook the food of such a number. The allowance of the prisoners was, moreover, frequently delayed, inasmuch that in the short days of November and December, it was not begun to be delivered out 'till eleven o'clock in the forenoon, so that the whole could not be served 'till three o'clock: At sunset the fire was ordered to be quenched; no plea for the many sick, from their absolute necessity, the shortness of the time, and the smallness of the hearth was allowed to avail. The known consequence was, some had not their food dressed at all; many were obliged to eat it half raw. On board this ship, no flour, oatmeal, and things of like nature, suited to the condition of infirm people, were allowed to the many sick: Nothing but ship-bread, beef and pork. This is the account given by a number of prisoners, who are credible persons; and this is but a part of their sufferings. So that the excuse made by the enemy, that the prisoners were emaciated, and died by a contagious sickness, which no one could prevent, is futile; it requires no great sagacity to know, that crowding people together without fresh air, and feeding, or rather starving them in such a manner as our prisoners have been, must unavoidably produce a contagion. Nor is it want of candour to suppose, that many of our enemies saw with pleasure this contagion which might have been so easily prevented, among the prisoners who could not be persuaded to enter their service. Some of them, no doubt, tho' they acted in all this, with the true spirit of the British parliament; who began hostilities against America, by shutting up the port of Boston, interdicting the fishery & those branches of trade that were deemed necessary to our subsistence; and when some members objected to the cruelty of such acts, some well known friends to the ministry, had the face to ring in the ears of others, Starvation, Starvation to the Rebels. — Starvation is the only thing that will bring them to their senses. In short, the inhumanity of the Britons, from the beginning of this war, & through every stage of it, is without a parallel in the annals of any civilized nation. These things ought never to be forgotten, tho' some would fain wink them out of sight. We are not indeed to resolve never to make peace with our enemies; but never to make a peace that will leave it in their power to act over again their intolerable oppressions and cruelties. We can never secure ourselves against this, but by maintaining at all adventures, the Sovereignty and Independence of these States. Nothing but this can effectually prevent the present generation from enduring the severest punishment for their noble resist-
tance to the tyranny of Britain; nor our posterity from groaning throughout all generations under the most abject & cruel bondage.
We have advices from Newport, Rhode-Island, as late as the first instant, by which we can give our readers the following intelligence, viz. That the enemy there are seven thousand strong, chiefly Hessians:—That they are short of provisions of all kinds, their bread one day made of rice, the next day flour; the common allowance of the men were reduced one third:—That four transports arrived there about a fortnight ago, three loaded with Indian corn, and one with coal; but the short allowance still continued.—That they were preparing to make a descent on the Main, for forage:—That a schooner and sloop arrived two days before with horses from the Main, but were very poor, and they greatly lamented they could get no cattle:—That a wood fleet, consisting of fourteen sail, mostly small vessels, arrived there above three weeks ago:—That it was generally thought the Cork fleet were taken, not being arrived, which was doubtless a severe disappointment to them, as well as those at New York:—That the enemy gave out they intended to burn the town of Newport in May next:—That Admiral Byron sailed from thence with thirteen sail, frigates included:—That it was an undoubted truth, the Culloden, of 64 guns, one of Byron's fleet, had foundered at sea, and every soul perished:—That it was strongly reported there the last week, that the French had taken three English Islands in the West Indies:—That the seamen at Newport were very uneasy and discontented:—And that the Renown, of 64 guns, Reasonable of 50, Thames frigate, 32, and a brig of 16 guns, are all the force now in the harbour of Newport, and no more than about 15 sail of other vessels.
Advices from London of the 26th of September last says, That the provision transports were to sail from Cork, for New York, the 12th of October. These transports were certainly not arrived at New York the last of December.
The 28th of last month, there was a most bloody engagement between Capt. Smith, in a privateer brig belong to Jamaica, of 16 guns, and a ship of 18, six pounders, called the General Moultrie, from South Carolina, Newton, master, when the former was forced to yield with the loss of many men, and was carried into Charlestown.
Letters from Constantinople, dated Sept. 3, received in London the 26th, brought an account that the plague had raged terribly in that city, by which two hundred thousand people had died, and that that great city was almost like a desert.
The privateer Pelgrim arrived at Salem last Saturday, from a cruise of 12 weeks; during which time she took six prizes, which are hourly expected to arrive. One of the prizes had a quantity of gold, and other valuable articles on board, which the Pelgrim took out and brought in with her.
A sorrowful accident happened at New-London a few days ago—two negro boys being at play with a loaded pistol, it unhappily went off, and shot one of them in the head, that he died soon after.
We have an account from the Eastern part of New Hampshire, of the following extraordinary affair, viz. That as two men went into a wood lot in order to cut wood, and having separated themselves at a considerable distance from each other, one of them was attacked by about a dozen wolves, and after a terrible combat, fell a prey to their ravenous jaws. The companion of the unfortunate man that was devoured, found him in a shocking situation, and found seven of the wolves that he had killed with his ax, lying dead round him.
Capt. White, in a schooner from Bedford, was taken by the enemy from a wharf at a port in Connecticut, and carried off.
Since our last, several vessels, laden with molasses, sugar, coffee, &c. have arrived at the eastward.
A gentleman of character writes from New London, that a schooner is just arrived there from Martinico, which he left the
day after Count D'Estaing came to that port, with four British frigates and seven transport vessels from Cork. The latter were loaded with provisions, and bound to New York. Before the schooner left Martinico, news had been just received there, that Ad. Barrington had subjected St. Lucia to the Iron rod of Great Britain. Neither the circumstances respecting the success of Count D'Estaing, nor the place where it was obtained, are yet known.
Capt. John Leach of Boston, left Salem Nov. 4, in the Brig Franklin, on a Cruise; on the 17th do. he took a Snow with 3000 Quintals of Fish—on the 22d do. he took a Brig of 16 Guns, from England bound to Antigua, laden with dry Goods; she gave the Franklin a Broadside, which the Franklin immediately return'd and she struck directly, having some of the people killed—on the 25th do. he took a Brig laden with 80 Tons of Butter, which is safe arrived at Salem—The Franklin was left off Cape Finister on a Cruise, all well on board, not having lost one Man since they sailed.
HARTFORD, February 2:
Tuesday last 1000 of the British light infantry and Grenadiers embarked at New Port Rhode Island, with their Camp Equipage, &c. Their destination is unknown, but suppose to be for New York.
Extract of a letter dated Poughkeepsie, January 25, 1779.
“The enemy take the greatest care to prevent desertion, notwithstanding which, more than sixty have very lately been sent to Gen. M'Dougall. They all agree that they have no bread, but oatmeal, which many of them have brought out.”
In CONGRESS, December 18. 1778. WHEREAS it is represented to Congress, that it will be more agreeable to adventurers in the Lottery of the United States, to have the blanks drawn as well as the prizes, and that the public will thereby have an opportunity, during the time of drawing, to purchase the tickets which may remain unsold at the commencement thereof.
Resolved, That the Managers be directed to draw the blanks and prizes of the second class of the said Lottery. Extract from the Minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
Treasury Office, December 19. 1778.
Ordered, That after the 1st day of January next, the sale of the said tickets be continued by the Managers of the Lottery in the city of Philadelphia, and in no other place.
In consequence of the above Resolve of Congress, the Managers acquaint the public, that after the first day of January next, the time the Lottery commences drawing, tickets will be sold by the Managers at their office, where the Check Clerk, with a Majority of the Managers will attend in order that adventurers may be assured the tickets bought are not drawn. The above sale of tickets will be made from eight o'clock in the morning till eleven, the time the drawing commences, and from five till seven o'clock in the afternoon, and at no other time or place.
[The different Printers throughout the States are requested to continue the above while the drawing continues.]
§§§ The Managers of the States Lottery have the pleasure to inform the public, That they began drawing on Friday last, at the College, agreeable to a Resolve of Congress, and will continue from day to day, until the whole be finished. Jan. 4.
Wanted, a Man well acquainted with Agriculture, and who can be recommended for his Honesty as well as Industry; to be hired by the Month or Year, and the most reasonable Encouragement will be given to any Person that may be willing to engage by the last of March or first of April next. For further particulars, enquire at the Printing Office in Portsmouth. Jan. 18, 1779.
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Saint Martin's Salt To be Sold at a Store on Long Wharfe, Enquire of John Beck in Portsmouth.

PHILADELPHIA, January 16: Philadelphia, January 13, 1779.
SIR,
IT is with real satisfaction that I execute the order of Congress for transmitting to you the enclosed copy of an Act of the 11th inst. on a subject rendered important by affecting the dignity of Congress, the honor of their great Ally, and the interest of both nations.
The explicit disavowal and high disapprobation of Congress relative to the publication referred to in this Act, will I flatter myself, be no less satisfactory to his most Christian Majesty than pleasing to the people of these States: Nor have I the least doubt but that every attempt to injure the reputation of either, or impair their mutual confidence, will meet with the indignation and resentment of both. I have the honor to be Sir With great respect and esteem, Your most obedient and most humble servant,
JOHN JAY.
The Honourable Sieur GERARD, Minister Plenipotentiary of France.
In CONGRESS, January 12, 1779.
CONGRESS resumed the consideration of the publications in the Pennsylvania Packet of the 2d and 5th inst. under the title of "Common Sense to the Public on Mr. Dean's affair," of which Mr. T. Payne, Secretary of the Committee for foreign affairs, has acknowledged himself to be the author; and also the memorials of the Minister Plenipotentiary of France, of the 5th and 10th inst. respecting the said publications, whereupon
Resolved unanimously, That in answer to the memorials of the Hon. the Sieur General Minister Plenipotentiary of his Most Christian Majesty, of the 5th & 10th inst. the President be directed to assure the said Minister, that Congress do fully, in the clearest and most explicit manner, disavow the publications referred to in his said memorials; and as they are convinced by indisputable evidence that the supplies shipped in the Amphitrite Seine, and Mercury, were not a present, and that his Most Christian Majesty, the great and generous Ally of these United States, did not preface his alliance with any supplies whatever sent to America, so they have not authorised the writer of said publications to make any such assertions as are contained therein, but, on the contrary do highly disapprove of the same:
Extract from the Minutes, CHARLES THOMPSON, Sec'y.
To which Mr. Gerard returned the following answer:
Philadelphia, January 14, 1779.
SIR,
I HAVE received the letter with which you honored me the 13th inst. inclosing me the Resolve of Congress in answer to the representations I had the honor to make them on the 5th and 10th.
I entreat you to receive, and to express to Congress, the great sensibility with which I feel their frank, noble and categorical manner of destroying those false and dangerous insinuations which might mislead ignorant people, and put arms into the hands of the common enemy.
To the King, my master, Sir, no proofs are necessary for the foundation of a confidence in the firm and constant adherence of Congress to the principles of the alliance; but his Majesty will always behold with pleasure the measures which Congress may take to preserve inviolate its reputation; and it is from the same consideration, I flatter myself,
he will find my representations on the 7th of December, equally worthy of his attention.
I am, with respect and consideration, Sir; Your most humble and Most obedient servant,
GERARD.
Published by order of Congress, CHARLES THOMPSON Sec'y.
In CONGRESS, January 14, 1779.
The Committees to whom was referred the letter of the 7th Dec. 1778, from the Hon. Sieur Gerard, brought in a report, which was taken into consideration, and thereupon Congress came to the following Resolution:
Whereas it has been represented to this House by the Hon. Sieur Gerard, Minister Plenipotentiary of France, that "it is pretended the United States have preserved the liberty of treating with Great Britain separately from their Ally, as long as Great Britain shall not have declared war against the King his Master;" therefore
Resolved unanimously, That, as neither France or these United States may of right, so these United States will not conclude either truce or peace with the common enemy without the formal consent of their Ally first obtained; and that any matters or things which may be insinuated or asserted to the contrary thereof, tend to the injury and dishonour of the said States,
Extract from the Minutes, CHARLES THOMPSON, Secretary.
To be sold by Joseph Whipple, Of Portsmouth,
TWENTY-five Lots of unimproved Land, containing 100 Acres each, lying on the Road to the Great Cohas, on Connecticut River, and about 100 Miles from Portsmouth. These Lots will be sold to those only who will settle thereon, and not more than two Lots to one Settler. The Terms will be very advantageous to the Purchaser, as the Payment may be made in Labour, Money, or the Produce of the Lands when cleared, in three, five, or seven Years—The Land is good, and the Soil well adapted to the Culture of Wheat, Flax and Hemp, of which (especially the two former) Experience hath given abundant Proof.—Carpenters or other Tradesmen that are wanted in that Neighbourhood, will meet with peculiar Encouragement—And those who shall engage and enter on Business this Year, may be supplied with Wheat for their Bread, on reasonable Terms.
To be sold also by said WHIPPLE, Three Thousand Acres of Land in Lots of 500 Acres each, or the whole together, as may suit the Purchasers—This last Quantity will well suit those who are overburthened with our present Medium, the several Emissions of which will be equally acceptable, and the Land will be sold at a reasonable Price.—It is well known that the rapid Increase of the Value of New Lands renders the Investiture of Property in that Article the most profitable as well as the most secure Estate that can be possessed in America—Any Gentleman who may become a Purchaser, and shall be dispos'd to clear and cultivate one or more Plantations immediately, shall be afforded every necessary Assistance from a neighbouring Plantation.
Wanted an Apprentice Boy,
Out of the Country, to learn the Tanners Trade, who can be recommended for his Honesty & Industry. Enquire at Printing Office in Portsmouth.
To be SOLD,
A valuable commodious Dwelling House, with a good Cellar, Barn, Garden and other Accommodations, situated near the Rev. Dr. Haven's Meeting House.—For further Particulars, enquire at the Printing-Office in Portsmouth.
PORTSMOUTH, February 9, 1779.
By a Gentleman who arrived here on Saturday Night, we are informed that the DEAN FRIGATE has sent a Privateer into Boston, a Ship mounting 16 six pounders: She was fitted out at Liverpool, in England, and had just before taken a Brigantine off Bermudas, belonging to Newbury, which we hope the Dean soon after retook, as she was in Sight when the Privateer struck. The Dean had taken a Transport before, & had destroyed her.
We hear the Ship Hamden, which failed from this Port about seven Months ago, had taken a Provision Vessel last October, and sent her into the West-Indies. All the Hands on Board were then in good Health.
We also hear, that the Privateer Fair Play, was sunk in the West-Indies, and 17 of her Hands lost; a Son of the Rev. Mr. MacClintock of Greenland, was one that escaped, and is returned home. The particulars we do not learn.
TO BE SOLD,
By MOSES WOODWARD,
TEA, Sugar, Flour and Salt.
No Continental Money will be refused except Counterfeit. Portsmouth, Feb. 8.
Wanted a Woman, who well Understands taking Care of a DAIRY, &c. to reside on a good Farm within 4 or 5 Miles of the Town of Portsmouth.
Rellhan Proprietors Meeting,
Stands adjourn'd to the last Wednesday of this Instant February, to meet at Mrs. Tilton's, Innholder in Portsmouth.
To be sold at public Vendue,
On Wednesday the 24th Instant, at Mrs. Tilton's, at 11 o'Clock A. M.
(if not sold before at private sale)
A Convenient Dwelling HOUSE, with Four Rooms on a Floor, and a remarkable fine Cellar under the whole, with a Barn and Garden adjoining—The Land is 40 Feet on High-Street, and 120 Feet on School-Street—For further Particulars, enquire of John Parker. Portsmouth, Feb. 8. 1779.
At the same Time and Place,
Will be SOLD,
TWO or three Hundred Acres of Land belonging to the Estate of Joshua Peirce Esq; late of Portsmouth, deceas'd, lying in Nottingham, being the Lots Number'd two and three in the third Division, butting on Cross-Street, belonging to the original Right of Joseph Dodge, deceas'd.
To be sold at Publick Vendue,
At the Dwelling House lately occupied by Mr. James King, near Capt. George Wentworth's, on Wednesday the 17th of February current,
Sundry Household & Shop Goods,
An Inventory of which may be seen by applying to Jeremiah Libbey, Vendue Master.
‡ The Gore. ‡
State of New-Hampshire, Strafford, ss.
Whereas the proprietors or owners of lands in that tract of land called The Gore , lying adjoining Gilmantown and Barnstead, have been legally notified to pay a certain tax or assessment laid by virtue of a law of said state on each right or lot in said Gore for the year 1777, to me the subscriber, and several of them having neglected to pay the same, this is therefore to notify such delinquent proprietors or owners, that so much of their rights or lots of land will be exposed to sale at public vendue, at the house of Joseph Roberts, Esq; in said Gore, on the last monday in February next, at one of the clock in the afternoon as will be sufficient to pay said tax, with incidental charges, if said tax and charges be not paid before that time. The delinquent proprietors names are as follows, with the sums due, upon their respective lots or parts of lots in said Gore exclusive of the charge.
   No. R. 1. 2. 4.     12 4 Solly and March 2 6   11 4 Walter Bryant Esq's part 0 9   11 3 Walter Bryant Esq's part 0 9    Jacob Chamberlain, Constable Gore, December 25, 1778.

WAR - OFFICE.
Wanted immediately for Use Of the TROOPS of this State in the Continental Service,—A Quantity of Shirting Linnen, or Shirts, Yarn Stockings, and Neats Leather Shoes; for which a generous Price will be paid at the War Office at Portsmouth or Exeter;—And the Farmers in the Country are earnestly requested to exert themselves to effect as large & speedy a Supply of said Articles as may be in their Power. War Office, Portsmouth, Jan. 32.
BEAVER.
A Few Packs choice Beaver, West India RUM, COTTON, MADEIRA and PORT WINE, Sold by McINTYRE, at his Store, in Portsmouth.
Flour and Sugar
To be sold by Joseph Bass , For Money emitted in May 1777, and April 1778. Cash given for FLAX SEED, At the Store of Richard Wibird Penhallow, on Long Wharfe, Portsmouth.
Caillere Delatour
Has for Sale at his Shop opposite Captain Geo. Wentworth's, the following Articles, Teneriff Wine by the Gallon or Quantity—Lisbon Salt,—striped fatten,—red and blue striped luestring,—fans,—silk and cotton striped for gowns,—striped camblets,—silk and worsted dit.—French calamanco—black serge—nankeen—plain mullin,—chincies,—cotton gown patterns, cambricks,—threads of all sorts,—tapes of all sorts,—looking glasses,—knives and scissars,—pins and combs,—womens silk shoes, and sundry other sorts of ditto,—snuff boxes,—Also, a variety of flower'd and earthen Ware, such as plates, dishes, &c.
N. B. Any of the Monies emitted by Congress of May 20, 1777, and April 11, 1778, will be taken for the above Articles.
A Choice Lot of LAND,
Containing about 200 Acres, in the Township of Acworth, well situated, and adjoining to Settlers, to be sold for Continental Money of May and April Emisions, that is stopped by Congress.
Enquire of the PRINTER
Notice is hereby given, that the Driftway through the Farm belonging to the Heirs of Benjamin Piper, late of Stratham, deceased, will in future be stopped up, as said Farm will be Occupied in future in a different manner than has been heretofore improved—by order of the Administrators of said Benjamin Piper and Nathaniel Piper, deceased.
Stratham, January 20th, 1779.
All Persons Indebted to, or that
have any Demands on the Estate of William Clifford, late of Candia, in the County of Rockingham, Yeoman, deceased, are hereby desired to call on Sarah Clifford of said Candia, Administratrix to said Estate in order for a speedy settlement. Candia Jan. 23, 1779. The several Creditors of Daniel Gale, late of Raymond are hereby desired to call on John Dudley, Esq; Administrator on his Estate to receive their proportions of the same, as allowed by the Judge of probate. Raymond, Jan. 23, 1779.
A few Thousand of PINS;
Thread and Cotton Stockings, a small Quantity of Annotto Dye, and sundry other Articles, to be sold for the Monies emitted by Congress in May 1777 and April 1778. Enquire of the PRINTER.
LOST, last Wednesday Evening, between the Town House and Mrs. Tilton's Tavern, a CHEST-KEY: Whoever has found said KEY & will be so kind as to leave it at the Printing Office shall be thankfully Rewarded for their Trouble, as said KEY can be of no service to any one but the Owner. Portsmouth, Jan. 31st, 1779.
TO BE SOLD
A FARM
Lying in Gunthwaite, fifteen Miles above the Court House in the lower Coos, containing 265 Acres of excellent Land, 100 of it Interval, under Improvement; has on it a very convenient, and well finished House and a Barn seventy Feet in length. For further particulars enquire of SAMUEL GILMAN WHITE in Haverhill. Also,
A FARM
Lying in the Town of Northumberland, in the upper Coos, containing about 2000 Acres of excellent LAND, three hundred of it Interval, fifty of it under good Improvement; has on it two new Barns, one eighty Feet in length, the other forty.
The Sale of Lands in Barnstead is put off to Wednesday the 24th of March.
THE Subscriber being in right of his Wife, one of the Heirs of the late Thomas Wallingford, Esq; of Summerworth, deceased, Intends selling all his share, or Interest that he may have to all the Lands the said Thomas Wallingford died possessed of in the County of Hillsborough and Cheshire, except his right in the Township of Weare. William Pearne. Portsmouth, January 26, 1779.
Six pence Reward.
RANAWAY from me the Subscriber, on the night of the first instant, an indentured Apprentice, named Jonathan Edwards. Whoever will take up said Runaway, and bring him to me, shall have the above Reward, and all necessary Charges paid, by me, JOHN MORRILL. Kingston, January 26, 1778.
To be sold at public Vendue,
at the House of John Philbrick, Yeoman, in Deerfield, on Monday the second Day of March next, at one of the clock, the 6th part of Lot No. 1, in the second Range, in Deerfield; and a third part of a Saw Mill on the same.
LOST between Mr. Thurston's Tavern, and Jeremiah Leavitt's, in Exeter, about five weeks ago; A pair of SADDLE BAGS with a Canteen therein. Whoever has found them, and will return them to the Printing Office in Exeter, shall be well rewarded. Exeter Feb. 5, 1779.
THIS is to forbid all Persons from trading or dealing with Mary Stevens, wife of me John Stevens of Kingston, as they would avoid the Penalty of the Law, for I will not ratify nor confirm any Bargain she shall make hereafter. John Stevens. Kingston, January 28th, 1779.
The Creditors to the Estate of
James Marston, late of Chichester, Blacksmith, deceased, intestate; represented insolvent; are hereby notified that the Subscribers appointed to examine their several Claims, will attend that Business at the Dwelling House of Capt Dyer Hook, in Chichester on the first Monday of the six ensuing Months, from two to six of the Clock P. M. on said Days. Chichester Octo. Jonathan Leavitt, Commissioners. 28, 1778. Smith Morrill.
To be sold at Publick Vendue
In Rochester, the 10th Day of March next, at the House of Mr. Wentworth, Innholder in said Rochester,
An extraordinary Lot of Land
Lying in the second Division, No. —, containing near three hundred Acres. The Goodness of said Land is well known. A great Number of Persons have heretofore applied to purchase it, offering almost any Sum: And as the Possessor, for singular Reasons, hath refused disposing of said Land in Time past, he now determines to give all an equal Chance, being unwilling to disoblige any, who heretofore applied for it. The most reasonable security will be taken; sufficient Time of payment allowed the person who may chance to buy it, and even the produce of the country will be received in part payment, on Terms then and there agreed on. The Lot of Land mentioned for sale is in the Town of Rochester.
Portsmouth, Jan. 18th, 1779.
Piermont.
To Mr. Joseph Pierce, Clerk of the Proprietors of PIERMONT:
WE the subscribers, owners of more than one sixteenth part of said township, request you to notify and call a meeting of said proprietors, to meet at Widow Tilton's in Portsmouth, on Tuesday the second day of March next, at two o'clock P. M. to act on the following particulars, viz. 1. To chuse a moderator to govern said meeting. 2. To chuse such other officers and such committees, as they may judge the affairs of the propriety require. 3. To raise money by tax to pay their agents expence in the dispute with Haverhill. 4. To see if the proprietors will exchange or sell to the Rev. Mr. Richards a piece of common land that lays very convenient for him; and to consider other matters which may be beneficial to the propriety. Jonathan Moulton, Jos. Moulton, jun.
Jan. 16, 1779.
New-Hampshire, Rockingham
To the Proprietors or Owners of the Town of Piermont, in the County of Grafton, in said New-Hampshire: IN Pursuance of the above Request, and by virtue of a vote of said proprietors, impowering their clerk, upon application made to him, by the owners of more than one sixteenth part of said town. You are hereby notified and warned to meet at the dwelling house of Mrs. Tilton, innholder in Portsmouth, in said county of Rockingham, on the second day of March next, at two of the clock P. M. to act on the several articles in the foregoing request.
JOSEPH PIERCE, Clerk of the proprietors of the Town of piermont. Portsmouth, Jan. 18. 1779.
Errol.
State of New-Hampshire.
WHEREAS application hath been made to me the subscriber, one of the Justices of the peace for the county of Rockingham, in the state aforesaid, by proprietors, owners of more than one sixteenth part of the rights of land in said township of Errol, to notify and call a meeting of the proprietors of said township, to be held at the house of Mr. Goodhue, innholder in Salem, in Massachusetts-Bay, on Wednesday the 17th Day of February next, at one of the clock P. M. to act on the following particulars, viz. 1. To chuse a moderator, Proprietors clerk, collector, assessor and treasurer. 2. To choose a committee to lot out the township in such manner as shall be agreed on. 3. To raise such sums of money as may be necessary for the above purpose, and to do whatever may be thought proper to forward the settlement of said township and to agree upon a method for calling proprietors meeting in future—In pursuance of which application, I do hereby notify and warn the proprietors of Errol to meet at the time and place for the purposes aforesaid. H. WENTWORTH, Just. Peace. Portsmouth, Jan. 18. 1779.
Dummer.
State of New-Hampshire.
WHEREAS application has been made to me the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace for the county of Rockingham, in the state aforesaid, by the proprietors, owners of more than one sixteenth part of the right of land in the township of Dummer, to notify and call a meeting of the proprietors of said township, to be held at the House of Mrs. Tilton, innholder in Portsmouth, on Thursday the 18th of February next, at 3 o'clock P. M. to act on the following particulars, viz.
 1st. To chuse a moderator and proprietors clerk.  2dly. To agree upon a method for calling future meetings.  3. To examine the state of the accounts of the propriety.  4. To receive the report of any former committees who have not yet reported to said proprietors.  5. To consider what is necessary to be done in order to forward the speedy settlement of said township, & act thereon as said proprietors shall think best.—In pursuance of which application, I do hereby notify and warn the proprietors of Dummer, to meet at the time and place for the purposes aforesaid.  H. WENTWORTH, Just. Peace. Portsmouth, Jan. 21, 1779.
To be sold at public Vendue,
On the 20th Day of February next, at Mrs. Tilton's in Portsmouth, if not before sold at private sale,
A House & Land on Pickerin's Neck, with the Barn, Store House and Wharfe thereto belonging, situate between the House that was the late Major Wentworth's and the House of Mrs. Cate.—There is a good Well of Water, and many other Conveniences appertaining to said House &c. For Conditions of sale, apply to Thomas Martin or John Peirce. Portsmouth, January 18, 1779.
Portsmouth, Printed by D. FOWLE