The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1782-06-22 00:00:00

THE NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE, AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.
[Vol. XXVI.]
SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1782.
[No. 1338.]
To Sir GUY CARLETON.
IT is the nature of compassion to associate with misfortune; and I address this to you in behalf even of an enemy, a Captain in the British service now on his way to the Head Quarters of the American Army, and unfortunately doomed to death for a crime not his own.—A sentence so extraordinary, an execution so repugnant to every human sensation, ought never to be told without the circumstances which produced it: and as the destined victim is yet in existence, and in your hands rest his life or death, I shall briefly state the case and the melancholy consequence.
Captain Huddy, of the Jersey militia, was attacked in a small fort on Tom's river, by a party of refugees in the British pay and service, was made prisoner, together with his company, carried to New-York, and lodged in the provost of that city; about three weeks after which, he was taken out of the provost down to the water side, put into a boat and brought again upon the Jersey shore and there, contrary to the practice of all nations but savages, was hung up on a tree, and left hanging until found by our people, who took him down and buried him.
The inhabitants of that part of the country where the murder was committed, sent a deputation to General Washington, with a full and certified state of the fact. Struck, as every humane breast must be, with such brutish outrage, and determined both to punish and prevent it for the future, the General represented the case to General Clinton, who then commanded, and demanded that the refugee officer who ordered and attended the execution, and whose name is Lippencut, should be delivered up as a murderer; and in case of refusal, that the person of some British officer should suffer in his stead. The demand, though not refused, has not been complied with; and the melancholy lot (not by selection, but by casting lots) has fallen upon Capt. Asgil, of the guards, who, as I have already mentioned, is on his way from Lancaster to camp, a martyr to the general wickedness of the cause he engaged in, and the ingratitude of those he has served.
The first reflection which arises on this black business, is, what sort of men must Englishmen be, and what sort of order and discipline do they preserve in their army, when in the immediate place of their Head Quarters, and under the eye and nose of their commander in chief, a prisoner can be taken at pleasure from his confinement, and his death made a matter of sport.
The history of the most savage Indians does not produce instances exactly of this kind. They, at least, have a formality in their punishments. With them it is the horridness of revenge, but with your army it is the still greater crime, the horridness of diversion.
The British Generals who have succeeded each other, from the time of General Gage to yourself, have all affected to speak in language they have no right to. In their proclamations, their addresses, their letters to General Washington, and their supplications to Congress (for they deserve no other name) they talk of British honor, British generosity and British clemency, as if those
things were matters of fact; whereas, we whose eyes are open, who speak the same language with yourselves, many of whom were born on the same spot with you, and who can no more be mistaken in your words than in your actions, can declare to all the world, that so far as our knowledge goes, there is not a more detestable character, nor a meaner or more barbarous enemy than the present British one. With us you have forfeited all pretention to reputation, and it is only by holding you like a wild beast, afraid of your keepers, that you can be made manageable.—But to return to the point in question.
Though I can think no man innocent who has lent his hand to destroy the country which he did not plant, and to ruin those he could not enslave, yet abstracted from all ideas of right or wrong on the original question, Capt. Asgil, in the present case, is not the guilty man. The villain and the victim are here separated characters. You hold the one and we the other. You disown or affect to disown and reprobate the conduct of Lippencut, yet you give him sanctuary; and by so doing you as affectionately become the executioner of Asgil, as if you put the rope on his neck and dismissed him from the world.
Whatever your feelings on this extraordinary case may be, are best known to yourself. Within the grave of your own mind lies buried the fate of Asgil. He becomes the corpse of your will, or the survivor of your justice. Deliver up the one and you save the other; withhold the one and the other dies by your choice.
On our part the case is exceedingly plain; an officer has been taken from his confinement and murdered, and the murderer is within your lines. Your army have been guilty of a thousand instances of equal cruelty, but they have been rendered equivocal and sheltered from personal detection. Here the crime is fixt; and is one of those extraordinary cases which can neither be denied nor palliated, and to which the custom of war does not apply; for it never could be supposed that such a brutal outrage would ever be committed. It is an original in the history of civilized barbarians, and is truly British.
On your part, you are accountable to us for the personal safety of the prisoners within your walls. Here can be no mistake; they can neither be spies, nor suspected as such; your security is not endangered, nor your operations subjected to miscarriage, by men immured within a dungeon. They differ in every circumstance from men in the field, and leave no pretence for severity or punishment. But if to the dismal condition of captivity with you, must be added the constant apprehensions of death; if to be imprisoned is so nearly to be entombed; & if after all, the murderers are to be protected, and thereby the crime encouraged, wherein do you differ from Indians, either in character or conduct.
We can have no idea of your honor or your justice in any future transaction, of what nature it may be, while you shelter within your line an outrageous murderer, and sacrifice in his stead an officer of your own. If you have no regard to us, at least spare the blood which it is your duty to save. Whether the punishment will be greater on him
who, in this case, innocently dies, or on him whom sad necessity forces to retaliate, is, in the nicety of sensation, an undesired question? It rests with you to prevent the sufferings of both. You have nothing to do but to give up the murderer, and the matter ends.
But to protect him, be he who he may, is to patronize his crime; and to trifle it off by frivolous and unmeaning inquiries, is to promote it. There is no declaration you can make, no promise you can give, that will obtain credit. It is the man and not the apology that is demanded.
You see yourself pressed on all sides to spare the life of your own officer, for die he will if you withhold justice. The murder of Captain Huddy is an offence not to be borne with, and there is no security we can have, that such actions, or similar ones, shall not be repeated, but by making the punishment fall upon yourselves. To destroy the last security of captivity, and to take the unarmed, the unresisting prisoner to private and sportive execution, is carrying barbarity too high for silence. The evil must be put an end to; and the choice of persons rests with you. But if your attachment to the guilty is stronger than to the innocent, you invent a crime that must destroy your character; and if the cause of your King needs to be so supported, for ever cease, Sir, to torture our remembrance with the wretched phrases of British honor, British generosity, and British clemency.
From this melancholy circumstance learn Sir, a lesson of morality. The refugees are men whom your predecessors have instructed in wickedness, the better to fit them to their master's purpose. To make them useful, they have made them vile; and the consequence of their tutored villainy is now descending on the heads of their encouragers. They have been trained like hounds to the scent of blood, and cherished in every species of dissolute barbarity. Their ideas of right and wrong are worn away in the constant habit of repeated infamy, 'till, like men practised in executions, they feel not the value of another's life.
The task before you, though painful, is not difficult; give up the murderer, and save your officer, as the first outset of a necessary reformation.
COMMON SENSE.
Philadelphia, May 31, 1782.
L O N D O N, March 27.
One of the greatest exertions made by the French in naval architecture this war, was building the Royal Louis at Brest: she carries 112 brass guns, chosen out of 240, cast for the purpose; the lower deckers 54 pounders, the middle deckers 36, and the upper ones 24 pounders, which is such a weight of metal as no other ship now in the world can boast; her full compliment is 1340 men; and her burthen 2700 tons. Her timbers are proportioned to her size, and were chiefly imported from Silesia, by way of Hamburg. It is calculated, that her building cost nearly as much as four 74's. Two other ships of equal size and force, and to be built on the same model, are now on the stocks at Brest, and expected to be launched during the course of the year 1784.

LONDON, March 21.
A grant is said to have been preparing to pass the Great Seal of a pension of 1000l. per ann. to Benedict Arnold, and Elizabeth Arnold, or the survivors of them, on the British establishment.
April 2. The Chancellor has refused to put the Great Seal to Mr. Arnold's pension of 1000l. a year; the Brigadier will therefore be now totally disappointed in his views from this country.
RICHMOND, May 25.
By an officer who left the southern army the 28th ult. we have the following account of an attempt to surprise Gen. Green's camp.
Captain Pendleton obtained a flag with a view to mitigate the severity of the imprisonment of his brother Henry Pendleton, Esq; Chief Judge of South Carolina, who had been lately taken by the enemy, and upon his return stopped at a gentleman's house, where his servant exchanged saddles, mounted the Captain's horse with his portmanteau, and went into Charlestown. Captain Pendleton sent a flag requesting his servant, horse and portmanteau, to which request he was informed, the horse and portmanteau he might have by sending for; but his servant having claimed their protection could not be delivered up. Upon which, he sent a sergeant Peters of the Maryland line (who was General Green's cook) whom they bribed to corrupt the sergeants and men of Gen. Green's army; for which purpose a considerable sum of money was advanced him. Upon his return to General Green's camp, he made several overtures, and finding himself successful, he went twice to Charlestown, or the Quarter House, for money, &c. and returned early in the morning time enough to pass unnoticed. In the last of these excursions he finally settled the plan with the enemy. The sergeants of the army who were concerned with him, were to secure all the officers at a certain hour, and fire a gun as a signal. One hundred and fifty of the enemy's horse were at the same time to be within one mile of our camp, and upon that signal were to rush in and take possession of the officers, while the sergeants marched the army where they were desired. Thus was every matter finally settled with the enemy.
The next night sergeant Peters had the conspirators gathered together, to fall upon the necessary measure to put the plan into execution. Fortunately, one of the sergeant's wives, who suspected something was going forward, curiosity prompted her to follow them and listen, by which means she discovered the whole plan, and communicated it to Gen. Greene next morning; upon which the sergeants and principal conspirators were apprehended; but refused to enter into a full acknowledgement until the party of 150 cavalry of the enemy (who had remained all night waiting for the signal, within a few yards of our pickets) had made their escape next morning, which was in consequence of their not hearing the signal. Peters had previously pointed out the way, by which they were enabled to get so near the picket.
A sergeant of the Pennsylvania line (who was at the head of the revolt in the Jersey's, in 1779) was immediately shot. Peters is condemned to be hanged; and the officer understood he was executed two days after he left camp. A number of others were concerned whose fate was not determined.
We hear, that by the vigorous measures of General Pickets, and the powerful interposition of the Spaniards, the disturbances among the Indians on the head waters of the Mobile, are entirely quelled, and that no farther dangers are apprehended from that quarter.
Lately arrived in Hampton road several flags from New York, for the tobacco due for the purchases made of the British capitulants at York. Another flag vessel has also lately arrived from Charlestown, but in open violation of her flag and contrary to the laws of nations, has seized and ran off with a vessel and cargo belonging to this state. Such flagrant breaches of faith, added to the barbarous massacre of prisoners in the persons of Colonel Haynes, Captain Huddy, and others, must mark the perfidy and malice of our enemies in the strongest colours.
Extract of a letter from Ebenezer, in Georgia, April 17.
"The garrison at Savannah appear very peaceably inclined; their number from the best accounts, does not exceed 800; deserters daily come in to us, and their troops are greatly disaffected—The Hessians are not trusted on advanced guards."
"A detached party from the horse of this state, commanded by Col. Jackson, having the advantage of a house, defeated about thirty of the enemy commanded by a Major Dill: after the enemy's firing once, seventeen balls of which passed through the house, they retired—Our party, however, returned the fire, and Dill fell dead on the spot."
BALTIMORE, May 21.
In the debate in the British house of commons, on the 28th of February last, Mr. Rigby observed, that it was as idle to talk of the sovereignty of Britain over America, at that period, as it was to add the title of King of France to that of his Sovereign's other titles. He held other doctrines, he said, at another time, and his principles were still the same, but time and accident had altered the system of things. He called Mr. Fox, to know what he meant by his words substantial connection with America . —Mr. Fox answered, by those words he meant no act of sovereignty to be exercised by Great Britain over America; but such substantial connections as should derive from mutual interest, like that subsisting between Portugal and Britain.
Sometime ago Mr. Rivington's paper abused the minority twice a week regularly; —now they are great, godlike and adorable: —they were lately stiled the gabbling minority, and Britain's worst enemies; they now are called the saviors of their country.
PHILADELPHIA, May 25.
Extract of a letter from Sunbury, May 13.
"You must have heard of the misfortune which attended the party under poor Lieut. Vancampen, who proceeded from Muncy up Bald Eagle, in which 15 privates with himself (a brave and valuable officer) were killed and lost. I am sorry to acquaint you, that here our distress did not terminate: we had but a small interval of peace, when the savages commenced their scalpings again in the beginning of this month, and in a few days killed several of our inhabitants and poor women and children, in different parts. This has thrown their families into the deepest distress imaginable. The wife of one Trinkle near Penn's Creek, endeavored to escape with an infant in her arms; but so close was the pursuit, she dropt the child, was overtaken and tomahawked; the little child scalped, and having some small remains of life, made way by the traces of blood to its mother, and was afterwards found expiring on her breast. The party since fled, having plundered the country, and taken a number of people. Never, since the British sable headed allies have been
massacring us, were we so weak of inhabitants, nor so naked and destitute of troops, as at this day. Our frontiers are swimming with blood, and at the mercy of a merciless enemy, a savage enemy, the worst of enemies. I cannot help saying, I think we merit some attention from government. However insignificant we may be treated and considered, we are certainly a cover and defence to three of the interior counties, which must be exposed to their wanton cruelties, if we give way. I hope something will be done for us, and that ere long the key of communication may fall in our hands, between the Royal Brute of England and his savage allies. This accomplished, we shall be at peace, and our country must flourish as formerly. It was once esteemed and admired, and though neglected and abandoned in some measure, to its own security, must on some future day be not a little respectable. Northumberland will then acknowledge the favors she hath received from the hand of administration, and hold in grateful remembrance those persons and characters, who have so gloriously contributed to her assistance. Communities, like individuals, possess nearly the same affections, and they cannot be ungrateful."
June 5. The gallant Capt. Hyler has lately taken four vessels near New York; one of which was retaken, and the other 3 the captors run on shore and strip.
CHATHAM, June 5.
Monday arrived here from Lancaster, escorted by a party of light dragoons, Major Gordon and Mr. Charles Aigill, a Lieut. in his British Majesty's guards, but ranks as Captain in the line. The latter of these gentlemen is fixed upon to appease the manes and expiate the blood of Capt. Huddy, unless the perpetrator of that horrid act is immediately given up.
BOSTON, June 29.
The account of the Count de Guichen having lately captured 5 sail of the line and 98 transports, in the channel of England, as has been published, appears to be premature. —The report it is conjured, arose from his capturing 5 sail of merchantmen, which he has arrived in port with.
On Monday last arrived in this town, the Hon. Mr. Montgomery and the Hon. Mr. Root, members of Congress (being a Committee from that august body) upon business of great moment, and yesterday they had a conference with the two branches of the General Court.
Extract of a letter of the 4th instant, from a gentleman of distinction and veracity, from the Eastermost parts of this State:
"I have to acquaint you that by late intelligence from the river St. Johns, a large reinforcement is arrived at Fort How (on that river) of men, cannon and mortars. This event threatens us with the loss of this country, and our interests with the Indians, unless averted by the hand of providence."
To be sold at public Vendue,
On MONDAY the 8th day of July next, (if not sold before at private sale) at the house of Samuel Drowne, in Portsmouth, Sundry parcels of GOODS , among which are a number of Men's CLOATHING . Sale to begin at ten o'clock, before noon.
HEREAS a bond as Fogg, of Epping, has reported that he has a note of hand given him by me for sixty pounds lawful money; this is to caution all persons against purchasing the same, for I never gave him a note for such a sum, and will never pay it.
JEREMIAH LEAVITT,
Exeter, June 10, 1782.

NEW YORK, (City) May 28.
We are informed of a letter from Kingston, of as late a date as May 1st. which says that martial law had been taken off in Jamaica, that an expedition either had failed or was about to sail from thence against Cu-racoa.
It was the Cæsar, not the Glorieux (as mentioned in our Gazette of Saturday) that was blown up by the carelessness of a marine, and 400 of her crew unfortunately perished, the people who boarded her did not belong to the Triton, as was also mentioned. The Glorieux was dismasted, and not taken possession of until the next morning. The Ville de Paris did not strike till it was dark. She had been attacked by several of our ships, and was making off when that brave officer Sir Samuel Hood, in the Barfleur threw himself in her way, and after battering her for some little time, she struck to him, and was taken possession of by Capt. Deacon, then Sir Samuel Hood's first Lieutenant. A little more day light would have made a considerable addition to our capture, but the enemy stole away under cover of the night, in a most wretched condition, particularly in their hulls, their chain pumps going continually.
NEW LONDON, June 14.
Wednesday returned into port, the brig Hancock, Capt. Lodowick Champlain, and brought in the brig Thetis, Peter Robinson, late master, which he captured on Monday evening near the Hook. She had left New-York the same day, bound to Charlestown, laden with various articles of merchandise, as tea, wine, dry goods, soap, candles, &c.
We learn by the prisoners taken in the above brig, that 50 sail of empty transports lately sailed from New York bound, as it was thought, to Charlestown.
It is reported that the Spaniards, after garrisoning Providence, were to proceed either to St. Augustine or Bermuda, with a view to the reduction of those places.
S A L E M, June 20.
Capt. Gardner, in a sloop from the Eastward, bound to Boston, was taken in the Bay, on Thursday last by a privateer armed with 8 swivels and 25 small arms. Capt. Gardner, with 6 men, 2 swivels, and three small arms fought the enemy a considerable time, and was killed in the action. Capt. White, in the privateer sloop Banter, of this port, laying in Marblehead harbour, sailed in pursuit of the privateer; but the wind slackening, she rowed in with the land, and finally escaped. Capt. White, however, retook the sloop.
Capt. George Williams, jun. arrived here on Friday last from the Havanna. On his passage he spoke with a vessel from Georgetown, the Master of which informed, that two or three days before he sailed, an account was received there, that General Leslie had marched out in force from Charlestown, and attacked General Greene; and after a very severe action, the enemy were defeated, leaving 500 men, killed, and wounded, on the field of battle.—Georgetown is 60 miles from Charlestown.—This engagement is supposed to have been fought about the last of May.
Captain Babson, we are informed, arrived at Newbury-Port on Saturday last, in 14 days from Cape Francois. He advises, that the combined fleet would soon sail for this coast.
The Captains Leach and Elwell, in two brigs belonging to this port, arrived at Casco-Bay, on Sunday last, in 41 days from Cadiz. They left 36 sail of the line in that port; but brings no news, as we have yet heard.
Last Monday the prize brigantine Neptune, of about 100 tons burthen, laden with
lumber, arrived in a safe port. She was taken, on her passage from Halifax to Antigua, by the privateer ship Pilgrim, Cap. Robinson, of Beverly.
Yesterday Capt. Ingersol, in a letter of marque brig of 4 guns, arrived here from Cape Francois. He sailed in company with a French fleet of merchantmen, bound to Europe, under convoy of several men of war.
Capt. Ingersol, on his outward passage from hence, took a sloop laden with naval stores, which he carried into the Cape with him, where she was sold. In his passage homeward, he took two other vessels; one of which was loaded with lumber bound to Long Island, and said to be from Kennebec, and consequently employed in an illicit trade with the enemy. The other was a small sloop loaded with rum and sugar, which he retook in sight of a N. York privateer to which she was a prize. After manning these 2 prizes, Capt. Ingersol had but 4 men left. He, however, in order to deceive the privateer, respecting the weak state of his vessel, gave chase to her. The false succeeded; she made the best of her way off, leaving Capt. Ingersol to proceed on with his prizes. The privateer mounted 8 carriage guns, and had on board 20 men.
PORTSMOUTH, June 22.
The General Assembly of this State, having politely recommended to the gentlemen of this town to express their joy on the auspicious event of the birth of the DAUPHIN of France, and last Thursday being appointed for that purpose, the day was ushered in by the ringing of bells and display of colours. At twelve o'clock thirteen cannon were fired from the forts, the same was taken up by the America 74 gun ship, commanded by the Chevalier Paul Jones, the ship being dressed under proper colours, and having the flag of France displayed on the fore part, and followed by the batteries in the town; then a royal salute from the forts; and the America, immediately succeeded. At the same time, a large number of respectable inhabitants and strangers assembled at the State House, partook of a cold collation, and drank the following toasts, viz.
 1st. The American States in Union.  2d. His most Christian Majesty.  3d. The Queen of France.  4th. The Dauphin.  5th. His most Catholick Majesty.  6th. The United Netherlands.  7th. Our Ambassadors at foreign Courts.  8th. Mons. la Chevalier de la Luzerne, Ambassador of France to Congress.  9th. General Washington and the American Army and Navy.  10th. May the wisdom and firmness of Congress ever continue equal to the importance of their trust and the exigency of publick affairs.  11th. May the present illustrious Monarch of France never want a Descendant to inherit his resplendent Throne and Virtues.  12th. May our Alliances be strengthened by a reciprocity of kind offices and benefits.  13th. May the means used to destroy, serve but to establish the Independence of America. 
Which were accompanied with royal salutes from the America. At sunset the royal salutes were repeated by the forts and the America. In the evening and till midnight, the America was beautifully illuminated, and the illumination attended at proper intervals with an irregular discharge of cannon and musketry, and an exhibition of various kinds of fire works from the ship and land, and upon the river. The delightful echo arising from the report of the guns, produced by the peculiar form of the river and situation of the ship greatly heightened the scene. The whole transactions of the day and evening, were conducted with a propriety and decorum, and concluded with a brilliancy becoming the joyous occasion.
On the 31st ult. the birth of the Dauphin was celebrated at West Point, in the most brilliant manner, by the American army stationed on the banks of the Hudson.
LEMMONS
By the Box or smaller Quantity, TO BE SOLD, BY John and Nathaniel Sparhawk, Portsmouth, June 22.
J. & N. Sparhawk, Have just opened a fresh Assortment of European and India Goods, which they still sell at the lowest rates, viz.
Superfine and midling Broad Cloths of various colors—blue, white, buff, and straw color'd Cammere— elegant India Patches, Chincos and Callicoes—Satin, bever, and white corded Dimity—Lush Linnens, Dow las, and Britannia—Cambric Gauze and Catgut—Brocaded Satin, Lure string, and Modes—Kives and Forks, Pewter, S. Steel, and Files—German Steel, Nails, and Glass—Sterling M deira—Loaf and brown Sugar—Tea, Coffee, and Chocolate—Oil, Raisins, and Currants—Spices of all kinds— Pepper, Indigo & many other articles
TO BE SOLD, By Thompson & Gardner, At their Store on Spring Hill, Very cheap for Cash. The following Articles, viz.
A Beautiful Assortment of striped, check'd and corded Muzlins—Muzin Hankerchiefs, lawn ditto, yard square fine linen ditto—Men's and Women's thread Hose, silk ditto—Broad Cloths— white Linnens of various kinds, check'd ditto—Cambric—Lawns—a small assortment of Silks—Raisins per jar, &c. &c.
Portsmouth, June 6.
NOTICE is hereby given that so much of the following lots of land in New Durham will be sold at public vendue, on Thursday the 11th day of July next at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at the house of Mr. John Benne, in said town, as will pay the taxes for the year 1781 with incidental charges, unless they are paid to me before that time
   No. Div. New Em. Silver.   l. d. s. d.     Solly and March, 86 1 6 5 4 2   86 2 7 7 4 2   Joseph and John Drew 82 1 6 4 4 2   82 2 7 7 4 2   John Egerly, 62 1 12 9   62 2 15 2 8 4   John Bickford, 64 2 15 2 8 4   John Willey, jun. 44 1 12 9 8 4   44 2 15 2 8 4   Walter Bryant, Esq; 74 2 15 2 8 4   Daniel Rogers Esq; 24 2 15 2   Thomas Wallingford, 60 1 12 9 8 4   60 2 15 2 8 4   John Adams, 41 2 5 8 8 4   William Jackson, 47 2 15 7 8 4   Thomas Fash Esq; 99 2 15 7   Ichabod Dinsbow, and   Winthrop Burnham 97 2 15 2 8 4   Nathaniel Porter, 9 2 15 2   Wakeham & Dinsbow, 9 2 3 6 8 4   John & Francis Drew, 17 1 8 4   17 2 8 4   Abraham Mathews, 39 2 8 4   Robert Kent, 35 1 8 4   35 2 8 4  
N. B. Knowlne, Constable. New Durham, June 10, 1781.

State of New-Hampshire. Rockingham ss.  To RICHARD DOWNING, Esq; one of the Justices of the Peace for the county aforesaid, in said State:
WE the subscribers proprietors and owners of more than one sixteenth part of the township of BARNSTEAD, in the county of Strafford, in said State, request you to call a meeting of said proprietors, to be held at the parish house in Newington, on Tuesday the 25th day of June next, at one o'clock, P.M. being agreeable to a vote of said proprietors at a meeting in March last, to vote on the following particulars, viz. — 1st. To choose a Moderator to govern said meeting. — 2d. To receive the report of the committee appointed to settle all outstanding demands against said proprietors. — 3d. To see what compensation said proprietors will make the committee appointed to prosecute and defend actions in behalf of the proprietors, especially those prosecuted against Dodsah Bunker, a settler under said Barnstead, for money advanced by and for services of said committee. — 4th. To see if the proprietors will vote to raise money to pay the cost of an action of ejectment commenced and prosecuted by the proprietors of Chichester, against said Bunker, and other purposes; and to determine what shall be done respecting said action. — 5th. To see what the proprietors will do to quiet or compensate those holding lands under the proprietors of said Barnstead, reputed to be within the bounds thereof, but claimed by other towns or proprietors; or what the proprietors will do about the disputed lands in Barnstead. — 6th. What method shall be taken with any who have entered upon any lands sold and warranted by the proprietors of said Barnstead, as within the bounds thereof. — 7th. To see if the proprietors will prosecute the proprietors of Chichester, within the county of Strafford. — 8th. To choose a committee to take care of the proprietors land in said Barnstead, lying in common, and prevent the same being sold, or taken up by others in Barnstead. — 9th. To see what shall be done respecting the remainder of the money not collected, in a list committed to Ephraim Pickering, collector, in the year 1775, as may appear by said lists. — Likewise, to do any other matter or thing the proprietors may think proper, when assembled.
Benjamin Adams, Joseph Adams, junr. Joseph Colman, Samuel Rollins, jun. Charles Hodgdon, Jonathan Warner, John Gee Pickering, Ephraim Pickering.
WHEREAS application has been made to me the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace for the county of Rockingham, in said State, by the proprietors and owners of more than one sixteenth part of the township of Barnstead, in the county of Strafford, in said State, to notify and call a meeting of the proprietors of said Barnstead. In pursuance of which application, I do hereby notify and warn the proprietors and owners of said Barnstead, to meet at the time and place for the purposes aforesaid.
RICHARD DOWNING, Justice Peace. Newington May 30, 1782.
State of New-Hampshire. Cheshire ss. WHEREAS the Hon Thomas Sparhawk, Judge of Probate for said county, hath appointed me the subscriber Trustee of the estate of Simon Baxter, late of Alstead, in said county, an absentee, and hath impowered me to sell said estate: These are to give notice, that the real estate of said Simon consisting of a dwelling-house in said town, and sundry lots of good land, viz. Part of the lot Number 5, in the 8th range, containing about 100 acres, and part of the lot No. 17, in the north range, about 18 acres, and two citadel lots, will be sold at public vendue, on the first Tuesday of July next. The vendue to begin at nine o'clock in the morning, at the house of Major Shepard's, in said Alstead, and hard money or state notes will taken for pay, by
Absalom Kingsbury, Trustee. Alstead, April 23, 1782.
WE the subscribers being appointed commissioners by the Judge of Probate of Wills for the county of Rockingham, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of Moses Robinson, late of Hampton-Walls, clothier, deceased, represented insolvent, and six months from this date being allowed for that purpose, do hereby notify said creditors, that we will attend that service at the house of Capt. Caleb Sanborn, innholder in Hampton Falls, on the fourth Monday of this and the five following months, from three to five o'clock afternoon of each of said days.
Caleb Sanborn, Jonathan Burnam, } Commis's. Samuel Weare, }
June 3, 1782.
THE Creditors to the Estate of James Arnold, late of Portsmouth, Mariner, deceased, represented Insolvent, are hereby Notified, that the Subscribers appointed Commissioners by the Hon. Phillips White, Esq; Judge of Probate for the County of Rockingham, &c. to receive and examine their Claims, will attend that Business at Mrs. Brewster's, Innholder in Portsmouth, on the last Monday of this Month, and the first Monday of the four next following Months, from 4 to 7 o'Clock in the afternoon of said Days. No Accounts will be received, except such as are sworn to.
Portsmouth, Samuel Shephardne, } Commis. June 6th, 1782 Joseph White, } Richard L. Nelson, }
State of New-Hampshire, Dover, May 31, 1782.  NOTICE is hereby given, that the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Hillsborough, which now stands adjourned to the last Tuesday of June next, will be further adjourned to the fourth Monday of September next. By Order of Court, NATHANIEL ADAMS Clerk.
THE non resident proprietors or owners of land in the township of Epsom, who are delinquent in paying the taxes: as set upon their lands for the year 1781 are hereby notified that unless they pay the said taxes with incidental charges, to me the subscriber at Epsom, before the 25th day of June next; that so much of their lands will then be sold at public auction, at the house of Elizabeth M c Clary in Epsom, aforesaid, as will pay the same. The sale to begin precisely at ten of the clock A.M. on said day. The delinquents names as follows.
   No. Range. Quantity. State tax. County tax. School tax. Ref tax. Ref tax.     Samuel Haines, part 1 1 23 0 8 3 1 0 1 6   Jehua Bracket, part 8 6 3 1 1 2   John Underwood, part 13 1 6 1 6 3 9   Alice Clark part 26 18 6 2 2 0   Mary Randal, part 33 18 6 2 3 0   Jehua Berry, part 34 6 6 1 9 0   Samuel Chapman, part 37 1 10 1 0 9 5   Hibbard Morrill, part 47 2 1 4 9 2 4   James Gray, one of the Collectors for Epsom, for 1781.   Epsom, May 27th, 1782.  
State of New Hampshire. To the Hon. M c LECH WEARE, Esq; one of the Justices assigned to keep the Peace throughout the State aforesaid:
THE subscribers being owners of more than one sixteenth part of the township of COVENTRY, in the county of Grafton, in said State, humbly request your Honor to call a meeting of the proprietors of said township to be held at the house of Mr. Joseph Atkinson, innholder in Boscawen, in said State, on Monday the fifth day of July next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, to act and vote on the articles and matters herein after mentioned, viz. — 1st. To choose a moderator for said meeting. — 2dly. To choose a proprietors clerk. — 3dly. To choose assessors, a collector, a treasurer, and such other necessary officers for conducting business respecting said township, as the proprietors may then adjudge expedient. — 4thly. To agree on some equitable and expeditious method for paying and discharging the arrears of public taxes due on said township. — 5thly. To agree on and vote such sum or sums of money to be raised on the right of each original grantee, as will pay their proportion of the cost and charge of procuring the Continental soldiers, beef, rum, &c. appropriated to said township by authority of the State. — 6thly. To receive and examine the accounts of expenditures for clearing roads, building mills, laying out lots, and for transacting such other matters for the benefit of the proprietors, and to advance the settlement of said township. — 7thly. To agree on and vote to raise such sum or sums of money as may be adjudged expedient to discharge the claims that may be brought against the proprietors, as shall be by them allowed, and to be further expended to promote the future settlement of said township. — 8thly. To agree on some method for calling proprietors meetings for the future, and to transact any other matters or things for the benefit of the township that may be thought proper.
Nathaniel Peabody, Samuel Atkinson, Simson Atkinson, Jedediah Jewett.
Rockingham ss. AGREEABLE to the foregoing request, the proprietors of said township of Coventry, are hereby notified to meet at the time and place, to act on the several particulars above mentioned. M c LECH WEARE, Justice of the Peace (throughout the State).
A FEW Nova-Scotia Grindstones, To be sold next door to the Post-Office, Newbury-Port.
TO BE SOLD,
Samuel Bowles,
At his Shop in Portsmouth, just below the State House,
Broad Cloths, Redwood, Logwood Linnens, and Fustick, Cambricks, Pepper and Spices of Lawns, all sorts, Muslins, Wool Cards, black & white Gauzes, Whalebone, a variety of Chindies, Cups and Saucers, black & white Laces, Knives, Fans, Pins & Needles, Buckles and Buttons, Velvets, Satins, Fish Hooks, Lute strings, Lynn Shoes, Alimode, Sewing Silks, Men's and Women's silk, cotton, linen and Leather Shoes, gauze Handkerchiefs, Clogs & Gallowshoes, a variety of Ribbons, Locking Glasses, Writing Paper, Iron Ware, Spelling Books and Powder, Shott and Primers, Flints.—And a va- Rum, Sugar, Molasses, riety of other articles Coffee, Chocolate, not mentioned, cheap Tea, Indigo, Coperas for cash. and Allum,
State of New Hampshire.  NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Francestown, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1781, that so much of their lands will be sold at public vendue, on Wednesday the 34 day of July next, at two o'clock in the afternoon, at my house in said town as will pay said taxes and charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
   No. 2d £. s. d. £. s. d.     John Quigley 12 100 0 6 9 0 10   13 100 0 6 9 0 10   14 100 0 6 9 0 10   Daniel Birby 2 0 1 0 3 0 0   Adam Dickey 8 40 0 2 9 0 4   Thomas Boyd 7 0 0 6 9 0 10   Mr. Pearce 0 100 0 6 9 0 10   Galse 24 50 0 3 4 0 5   Hill & Day balse 3 100 0 3 5 0 5   Caldwell 12 100 0 6 9 0 10   Coffin 10 75 0 6 9 0 10   Unknown 11 100 0 6 9 0 10   Proprietors of Peaces right 0 200 0 13 6 1 0   Wilson 0 400 1 7 0 2 15   Jenkins 43 100 0 1 9 0 10   Hatch 50 37 0 2 9 0 3  
James Fisher, Constable.
Francestown, June 4, 1772.
THE non-resident proprietors or owners of land in the parish of Loudon, who are delinquent in paying the taxes assessed upon their lands for the year 1781, are hereby notified that unless they pay the said taxes, with incidental charges, to me at Loudon, before Wednesday the twenty sixth day of June next, that so much of their lands will then be sold at public auction, at the house of Lt. Paul Morrill, innholder in said Loudon, as will pay the same. The sale to begin precisely at one o'clock in the afternoon of said day.
   Silver. Paper.   £. s. d. £. s. d.     George Jeffrey, 76 £. 0 6 1 £. 0 4 8   Samuel Smith, 99 9 1 7   Thomas Willey, 134 6 1 4 8   Edward Tibbetts, 96 6 1 4 8   John Hase, 119 15 2 11 3   Ichabod Chesley, 130 9 1 7   Nath. Lummon, 151 9 1 7   Joseph Tibbetts, 133 10 10 7 8   Rich'd Waldron, 186 9 1 7   Daniel Davis, 183 9 1 7  
NATHANIEL BATCHELOR, Constable Loudon, May 29 1782.
NOTICE is hereby given, that if the following taxes are not paid before the 30th of June, the land will be sold to discharge them, at public vendue, at the house of James Grimes, innholder in Derry, with incidental charges thereon.
   John Moffat, £. 5 7   Thomas Packer, 13 16   James Grimes, Constable.  
Derry, June 8, 1782.
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