The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1770-06-15 00:00:00

(JUNE 15, 1770.)
THE
Vol. XIV.
NEW-HAMPSHIRE
GAZETTE,
AND
HISTORICAL
CHRONICLE,
CONTAINING the FRESHEST ADVICES
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
Friday June 15, 1770.
NUM. 713 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd }
Messieurs Fowles, Please to give the following a Place in your Gazette. MY COUNTRYMEN, permit me once more to address you in the Language of Truth, upon the important Subject of Liberty. It is now evident beyond all Dispute, that there is a Plan formed and carrying on to enslave, not only America, but the whole British Nation. This we are told by the wisest, best, and greatest Men in Great-Britain, as well as in America; which is confirmed by the late Protest of upwards of Forty noble Lords. Therefore we must now determine to be FREEMEN, and pursue proper Measures to secure our Freedom, or we may assure ourselves we shall soon be wretched Slaves! Let us no longer be amused with the idle Dreams of those who tell us there is no Danger, and would fain us to sleep in this Tempestuous Season, when our political Bark is in the most imminent Danger of sinking in the Sea of Ministerial Corruption, and being irrecoverably lost.
We, like Adam, act for ourselves and Posterity; and on our Conduct in this important Day, depends, in some Degree, (as far as Means are connected with the End) both our, and their political and eternal Salvation! Tyranny is as great an Enemy to Religion, as it is to civil Liberty, and at once tends to destroy both Soul and Body. Then let us attend to this momentous Concern agreeable to its infinite Importance. The Path of Duty, and Safety is plain before us; if we firmly Resolve, and inviolably Persevere in our Resolution, not to import, nor consume, any Superfluities, nor any Commodities on which the British Parliament have laid, or shall lay a Duty, our Liberties, under Providence, will be secure from the voracious Jaws of any present or future Tyrants. No People upon Earth can with so much Ease preserve their Freedom as the Americans, for it is in the Power of every Man to avoid paying the unrighteous Tax, by refusing those Articles which are burdened with a Duty; whereby he will be an immediate Gainer, by saving his Money for more valuable Purposes, and at the same Time promote the Manufactures and secure the Liberties of his Country. Every Consideration throws Weight into the Scale of Liberty, and urges us to an unshaken Perseverance, and unremitted Ardour in the glorious Cause. But if we stupidly go on regardless of our Liberties, governed by Custom, Pride and Appetite, we shall soon be involved in Slavery and Ruin. Calamities numberless, and nameless, will be our inevitable Portion, and the black Inheritance we shall leave to our Children! The Punishment we shall suffer for such accumulated, deep-died Guilt, we cannot suppose ever entered into the Mind of Man fully to conceive of--- the black Idea far exceeds our human Comprehension. Let us make a solemn Pause, ponder our Path, and proceed no farther in the broad Road to Destruction! Can any one be so deaf to the Calls of Reason, of Virtue, and Religion, as not to hear? So lost to every noble Sentiment which ought to warm the Human Breast, and so dead to all the Feelings of Humanity, as to be regardless of the Welfare of their Country, of the present and future Generations? Can we be so sordid as to gratify our Pride and Appetites at so dear a Rate as that of our own final Ruin, and the Slavery of unborn Millions.
Do not our heroic Ancestors even speak to us from the Dust, and our unborn Posterity mingle their Cries, while Reason and Religion unite their Voice in the pressing Call! If we do not hear, and obey, of all Men we shall be pronounced the most infamous & miserable. Can even Pity weep over such forlorn Wretches. Will not Posterity dig up our sleeping Dust, and with Rage and Indignation scatter it into the Four Winds of Heaven as a Testimony against us. Will they not execrate their vile Progenitors, who were born Freemen, but sacrificed their Liberty for low Gratifications and dyed Slaves, and thereby entailed the Iron Yoke of Bondage upon their Heirs? Surely they who can reflect upon these important Concerns, without feeling their Breasts burn to contribute something to the Salvation of their Country, ought to give up the Human Name, abandon the Society of Men, and herd among inferior Beings.
Messieurs Fowles, THE excellent political Piece in your Paper, written by a Right Worshipful Brother, A Stanch Tory, has given the Fraternity great Satisfaction, and revived our Hopes that the golden Age will soon be renewed, and that Day of Glory dawn which we have so long and so ardently wished for. The infinite Superiority of this Writer's Argument to the idle Declamations of the pertinacious Whigs, is easily seen by common Sense with one Eye shut. By this masterly Performance he has merited Ministerial Favour, and I hope he will be rewarded with a Pension.
Notwithstanding all the ridiculous Clamour that has been made about our Rights being invaded, and against the worthy Ministry, we challenge all Men to point out a happier Period than the present since Great-Britain had a Name. Our Nobility never appeared in greater Splendor, never kept more Hounds and Horses, (a certain Sign of a flourishing Kingdom) than at this Day. Whatever the ignorant Whigs may think, the Character of the Ministry is established all over Europe, and their profound Wisdom & unblemished Virtue is conspicuous to all the enlightened Nations; and I doubt not but his Holiness highly approves of their Conduct. How arrogant, presumptuous, and ungrateful those must appear who calumniate such Wisdom and Goodness, and fill our Ears with Complaints in these halcyon Days? But to come home to the Point in Hand, the late Revenue Laws bear the Stamp of sound Policy, and are calculated to promote many important Purposes; and enforcing them by a standing Army, was a Step directed by Wisdom itself. This Method of proceeding will soon render the Crown independent and pave the Way to that beautiful Form of Government, wherein the Word of the Prince is the Law, and no one dares to hiss the Word Liberty, on pain of Death! And the Word of every Officer is equally binding, because his Authority is derived from the Crown. Therefore opposing a Tide-Waiter, is deemed Treason and punished with Death! This is Glorious! this is what we aim at. And this is as agreeable to Scripture as it is Reason, and as defensible from both as the Infallibility of the Pope. How ridiculous and absurd is the Conduct of the Assemblies in America, in Resolving, Petitioning, &c. about their Liberties, as if the King and the Great-Men did not know their Business. The Duty of Subjects is to be all Obedience and Submission, and remember that an awful Sacredness surrounds Rulers, nor presume to call in Question their Integrity or Wisdom. The Wrath of Great-Men is like the Roaring of a Lion; therefore Subjects are admonished to
Fear and Tremble. The old Maxim, "Great-Men are not always wise," was very true in that Day, but the Times are greatly altered since, and a new Maxim is established, "that Wisdom is inseparable from Titles, Wealth, and Power." Therefore Petitioning for Redress of Grievances, is Foolish and Imprudent, for it implies Imperfection in the Rulers, and is therefore more likely to gain their Displeasure and bring Punishment on the Subjects than to obtain Favour. See what the Bostonians have got for their Audacity to their Honours the Commissioners, and to the Right Worthy Sir Francis of Nettelham. The same Treatment all the Americans may expect if they offend such Worthies as the Bostonians have done; therefore hearken to the Voice of Wisdom, say not a Word about your Rights, for Subjects have none only what the Prince pleases to give. Be submissive, Dutiful, and Humble, and if the Ministry in their wanted great Goodness are graciously pleased to grant you any Favours, receive them with Humility and Gratitude.
What sets the Conduct of the Ministry in the most amiable and advantageous Point of Light, is their increasing Officers and Pensioners, the happy Effects of this Scheme are sensibly felt; and I doubt not but that if the Ministry should give away 100,000. per Ann. in Pensions in America, they might still the Noise about Liberty and hush all to Silence. What has been said I think is sufficient to encourage all my Brethren to clamour against Liberty, and libel their Country, for in this Way they may expect to get Pensions or Posts. I would exhort, and even conjure, the Tories to exert themselves to revive the Custom of drinking Tea, which is now in great Danger of going out of Fashion. This is of infinite Importance to our Plan, for the Duty, collected from Tea in America is computed at 40,000. Sterling per Ann. which will maintain two or three Hundred Place-Men and Pensioners! This surely is a momentous Concern, for if Tea should be laid aside and Frugality and Industry prevail, our Schemes will all prove abortive, we shall lose our Posts and Pensions, and instead of riding in our Coaches we must turn Plough-Joggers, Scavengers, and what not! The thought of which is enough to make a Tory's Blood run cold in his Veins. What I have written I think is sufficient to stop the Mouth of every Gain-sayer, and silence the Tongue of Slander, even strike Folly dumb and Envy Blind.
A JESUIT.
By the Captains Jacobson and Jenkins, arrived at Boston from London, we have the following Advices, viz.
LONDON, April 3.
On Wednesday the assizes ended on the Crown side at Hartford, when 9 prisoners were tried for the murder of William Powell, Esq.; six of whom received sentence of death, and were ordered for execution on Friday last, and their bodies to be dissected; but two were afterwards ordered to be hung in chains near the place where the murder was committed; and three were acquitted. The names of those left for execution were, William Sniggott, David Lewellid, William Charles, David Morgan, William Morris, William Walter Evan, and David Morgan. This trial lasted from seven in the morning till eight at night.
We hear Mrs. Powell of Wales, will not be tried as an accomplice, for the murder of her husband, there being no proof yet that will reach her; Williams, who committed this horrid fact, with a view to obtain at once the possession of Mr. Powell's wife and fortune, has for the present eluded justice, by absconding, nor can he be heard of, notwithstanding the indefatigable endeavours of the gentlemen of the county.
On Friday the convicts were conveyed to execution by the Sheriffs about 12 o'clock, and turned off about half an hour past one. Morris was in a fit, and quite insensible, before he came to the gallows; where he was held up whilst the halter was placed round his neck. Sniggott begged earnestly to be buried in a church yard. The others appeared penitent and resigned; and David Morgan addressed the spectators in Welsh; desiring them to take warning by his fate, and not to suffer wicked men to lead them into villainy. Four of their bodies were delivered to the surgeons to be dissected, and two are to be hung in chains in some part of the county of Hereford.
We hear a great Personage has desired a conference with Lord Camden, on an affair of importance; and a report is calculated that this upright Lawyer will be reinstated in the possession of the Seals.
April 13. Wednesday night died the Right Hon. the Marquis of Montmorency, only son of his Grace the Duke of Montague, at his Grace's house in Privy-Garden, Whitehall.
Wednesday several ballad singers were taken up, singing a new scandalous ballad called the Whisperer Extraordinary. A motion was made yesterday in the Lower Rooms of the Robin Hood Society, by L---d S---ge, for leave to bring in a bill for the encouragement of the Manchester Linen-manufacture, by granting the same bounties as are allowed to the Irish and Scotch manufactures. His L---p supported his motion by producing two witnesses to prove the decline of the Manchester manufacture since the Scotch and Irish had received the aid of Parliament; but Mr. B. ke, Mr. F. ler, and many other gentlemen, were of opinion that a parliamentary support given to the Manchester manufactory would greatly injure, if not totally ruin those established in Scotland and Ireland; however, the question being put, it passed in the affirmative.
It is a circumstance very well known, that the Hon. Charles Yorke was appointed Chancellor, and received the Seals only two days before he died; whereupon a Gentleman observed to the Duke of G---n, that the Seals could travel faster than his Grace's race-horses. How do you make that out? said the Duke. Because, replied the other, they have been to York and back again in two days.
A man who was lately taken up for burglary, on his examination was asked, What profession he was of? When he answered, a Gentleman: A Gentleman, says the Justice, seeing his ragged condition, What do you mean by a Gentleman, or what sort of a Gentleman, are you? Why I am an Anti-Ministerial Writer: Pray what is that? Why I am employed by the Committee at the London Tavern to chalk 45 on all the coaches in London, and sometimes, says the fellow, I add Wilkes and Liberty, to keep up the spirit of the times.
It may appear at first sight wholly ridiculous to make any additional comment on the number 45; and yet it should really seem as if that celebrated number must have more than ordinary connec-
tion with the affairs of Mr. Wilkes, some how or other. Who can read over the last advertisement from the Society of the Bill of Rights, without joining in this observation? The Society mention but six or seven money articles at the patriot, and three of them contain the number 45. They say they have compromised 14345. of his debts; that there remains 5445. to be compromised [and which, by the bye, too, to make another 45, is 5445 read either backward or forward] and that since the meeting of the 13th of March, they have received in subscriptions, for Mr. Wilkes's use, 9451.
Cadiz, March 9. By letters from Mexico we have an account of the death of the Abbe d'Auteroche, and one of the two officers of the Spanish Marine, who had sailed with that gentleman to the island of California. They fell sick, with every one who accompanied them, on the 14th of June, the very day after they had made their observation of the Transit of Venus over the Sun. This observation, according to the same letters, was made with all possible advantages, the day being extremely fine, and the air remarkable serene. We learn, moreover, that the Sieur Paly, the famous geographer, who was among those who fell sick happily arrived, on the 14th of October, at Port St. Blaise, in the White Sea, with all those who had the good fortune to escape the epidemic disease with which they were visited. Much is expected from the success of the observation, which was the grand object of the voyage of these astronomers.
On Tuesday night the houses in the Borough of Southwark, the town of Newington, and great part of Lambeth were illuminated, and the bells were rung on account of Mr. Wilkes's enlargement.
Extract of a Letter from Capt. Fisher, of the Apollo, to a merchant at Liverpool, dated at Little Cape Mount, December 20, 1769.
"I informed you before in a former letter of Capt. Milroy, in the Delight, being cut off, within hail of me; seeing her under way, I weighed anchor and set sail after her, and took her, but they being so very resolute and stubborn, I fired 34 kegs of powder; 24 three pound shot, and three bags of musket-balls at them; they killed one of my white men, but at last we fired a three pound shot, which set a barrel of powder on fire, that tore the skin off five of the slaves; we got on board at that time, and found 63 slaves alive, but six of them wounded, and found afterwards seven more. I have 13 slaves of her's on board, and sent Mr. Barber (the mate) and two of my white people to assist him, to wood and water the vessel, and get rice. I cannot inform you of the number of slaves which are lost, he being down at Montserrat. Capt. Milroy, is killed, with eight more. The Doctor, Mr. Bolton, the cook, and cabin-boy, were saved by getting into the main-top"
Philadelphia, May 24.
Extract of a Letter from Ireland, received by Capt. Carr.
"I hope the prudent steady Conduct of many in your City and Province, will counter-balance the imprudent Fury, Zeal, & mad Declamations made by others, in Abuse of the Word LIBERTY; and that through your Moderation a Repeal of those disagreeable Acts will be obtained. The Earl of Hillsborough having been at his Estate near this Place lately, told me he always looked on the Revenue Acts as anticommercial, and would use all his Powers to have them repealed; and, from the Tenor of his Conversation, it appeared the Moderation of many in your Province would facilitate that acceptable Service.
"Whilst unconstitutional or oppressive Revenue Acts continue, if they had an Effect to excite a Spirit of Frugality and good Oeconomy, and thereby decline the Use of luxurious Importations, it would tend to strengthen the envied rising Greatness of your extensive Country; and by confining yourselves in a great Measure to your Produce, and the Income of your own Estate, render in Time a Friendship, & Intercourse of Commerce, courted on any Terms by the Mother Country. All fierce, angry, hostile Spirits, only defeat their own Views, and protract the Reconciliation so ardently wished on both Sides."
Extract of a Letter from London, March 28.
"A bill is now forming, and will shortly be laid before the House of Commons, to fix Custom-house fees independent of provincial assemblies. It seems by a late act the assembly of Rhode-Island have declared, that the judgment of their inferior Court shall be final in all actions concerning custom-house fees, which prevents the collector from appealing home, as appeals can only lie from the Superior Court. This stroke of policy, however they may admire it themselves, will totally defeat their own purpose. This stride towards independency has rendered custom-house matters an object worthy the attention of Parliament; and the necessity of passing the above-mentioned bill, will chiefly be founded on this new act. A state of the fees for 20 years back have been made out, from which a medium will be struck, and the fees settled."

PHILADELPHIA, May 31.
By Captain Bedlow from St. Croix we learn, that on the 5th Inst. they had a most violent Gale of Wind there, the like not remembered at this Season of the Year, which continued at the Heights about four Hours; that the Wind blowing right on the Shore, caused a prodigious heavy Sea in the Road, and made the Vessels drag their Anchors; that two American Sloops were drove ashore, one of which commanded by Capt. Price, it was thought could be got off, the other had her Side beat in, and was entirely lost, but the People all saved; that considerable Damage was done to the small Craft, and it was thought had the Gale continued one Hour longer, all the Vessels in the Road would have parted their Cables and been drove ashore.
Extra of a Letter from Philadelphia, May 24.
OUR Sons of Liberty make up almost the whole of our People, and are determined to support the non-importation agreement--- are very sorry that any goods were shipped to Boston, &c. but are well satisfied with the conduct of the Bostonians respecting the late importation: However, they seem to think that the goods which cannot be shipped should be burnt or sent somewhere out of British America. We are governed much by this principle, that no stranger by importing shall take the advantage of our self-denial in trade, but as our Merchants have nobly sacrificed their business for the public good, they shall not be deprived of the first run of business, as they would, had others full stores ready to be vend on the first news of a repeal.
"We are highly offended at Rhode-Island---'Tis a pity there is not virtue enough in that place to support their honor, at least modesty enough to forbear the attempt to frustrate the united endeavors of all the Colonies on the Continent to support their Liberty. 'Tis expected here that Boston, New-York, &c. will all unite in expressing their resentment against Rhode-Island, as we have done. I have only to add that there is no danger of our Merchants taking the lead in violation of the agreement, nor will they attempt to support it alone.---'Tis indeed deliberated here, within a few articles, such as pins, sheet copper, Indian-goods, &c. may not be added to the excepted articles. I know not what the result will be, but rather think no additional article will be admitted.---Am glad to hear that manufactures are growing and perfecting with you; the same is in some degree true here."
At a Meeting of a considerable number of the inhabitants of New-York, on Wednesday the 30th of May last, many spirited Resolutions were agreed to relative to the Conduct of the Merchants of Newport in Rhode-Island, in violating the non-importation Agreement; among others, "That they would have no Trade or Commerce with them, or any of the inhabitants of that Colony, but on condition that the Merchants of the Colony solemnly declare on oath, that they will strictly observe and maintain the non-importation agreement, and use their best endeavors to oblige others to conform to it, while the same is adhered to by the capital Towns on the continent; and as an evidence of their sincerity, immediately to re-ship all the goods unshod, to Great-Britain, which they have imported contrary to their agreement, and send them two reputable Merchants who have been witnesses of the other Merchants being qualified as above required, and of the departure of the Goods; and also that they give strict orders to the Masters of their vessels trading to Great-Britain, not to take any Goods on board not allowed by the agreement, for any person whatsoever; and if any Goods should arrive in their vessels, contrary to the non-importation agreement, that they cause them to be re-shipped to Great-Britain, or whatever place they were imported from. That if the Merchants of said Colony do not within one month after the date hereof, comply with the requisitions in the preceding Resolution, altho' the Act of Parliament imposing the aforesaid duties should be totally repealed, yet they would hold the Merchants and Inhabitants of that Colony in the utmost contempt and abhorrence, in order to transmit to their posterity their detestation of the base conduct of the enemies of the Liberties of their country....That it was the opinion of the inhabitants then met, that the vessels trading from Rhode-Island, now in that port, do depart in 24 hours from the dissolution of that convention; and that the Masters of such vessels as have lately arrived from that Colony, be desired to depart without unloading any part of their cargoes.---And that the Goods imported yesterday in Capt. Spiers from Glasgow, contrary to agreement, should not be landed in any part of that colony, under any pretence whatever, but that the same shall be exported without any delay to Great-Britain."
NEW-YORK, May 28. 1770.
We have undoubted intelligence, not only that the duty on Tea would not be taken off this session of parliament, but the repeal of the duties on paper, glass and painter's colours, was not to take place before the first day of December next.
NEW-YORK, JUNE 4.
THE present alarming Crisis, renders it necessary for the Inhabitants of this City and County to be convened, in order to deliberate on Measures to support the Liberties of this Country, which have been invaded by a tyrannical Ministry. This is therefore to give Notice to the Friends of Liberty of all Ranks, that a Meeting for the above salutary Purpose, is to be held this Evening, (being Wednesday) at 6 o'Clock, at the City-Hall, where a Matter of the utmost Importance to the People of this Colony is to be communicated, and deliberated upon.--- Every Friend to his Country is requested to attend.
NEW-YORK, May 30. 1770.
Early on Wednesday Morning, the above Advertisement was posted up in the most public Places of, and carried thro' the City, which brought together at the City-Hall, about 7 o'Clock in the Evening a considerable Number of the Inhabitants of all Ranks, to whom the following Resolutions were twice read and agreed to by a very great Majority.
WHEREAS the Enemies to the Liberties of America, in Great-Britain, have declared, in order to support their Tyranny, that the laudable Agreement entered into by the Merchants of North-America, not to import Goods until the Act of Parliament imposing a Duty on Paper, Glass, Painters Colours and Tea was repealed, was broke thro' and at an End. And whereas the Merchants of Newport in the Colony of Rhode-Island, altho' they acceded to the above Compact very late, by which they have greatly advanced their private Interest, and injured the Cause of Liberty, in which they in common with the other Colonies are interested, have notwithstanding these Considerations, being lost to all Sense of public Virtue, and influenced by a sordid Regard to private Gain, lately received English and India Goods, contrary to their own voluntary and solemn Contract, and thereby violated their Faith pledged to the other Colonies, so that they have given too much Ground for our Enemies to triumph, and to discourage the noble Struggles now making to preserve the Liberties of this Country. In order therefore to prevent the former, and support the latter, and if possible to bring them to a Sense of their Duty,
Resolved, That the Merchants of Newport, or any others who have violated the Non-Importation Agreement, are, for that inglorious Defection from the Interest of their Country, declared Enemies to the Liberties of North-America, and that unless they return to their Duty, we will treat them as such.
Resolved, That we will have no Trade or Commerce with the Merchants of the Colony of Rhode-Island, or any of its Inhabitants, but on Condition that the Merchants of that Colony solemnly declare on Oath, that they will strictly observe and maintain the Non-Importation Agreement, and use the best Endeavours to oblige others to conform to it, while the same is adhered to by the capital Towns on the Continent; and as an Evidence of their Sincerity, immediately re-ship all the Goods unshod, to Great-Britain, which they have imported contrary to their Agreement, and send us two reputable Merchants who have been witnesses of the other Mer-
chants being qualified as above required, and of the Departure of the said Goods, and also that they give strict Orders to the Masters of their Vessels trading to Great-Britain, not to take any Goods on board not allowed by the Agreement, for any Person or Persons whatsoever: And if any Goods should arrive in their Vessels, contrary to the Non-Importation Agreement, that they cause them to be re-shipped to Great-Britain, or to whatever Place they were imported from.
Resolved, That if the Merchants of the said Colony, do not in one Month after the Date hereof, comply with the Requisitions in the preceding Resolutions, altho' the Act of Parliament imposing the aforesaid Duties should be totally repealed, yet we will hold the Merchants and Inhabitants of that Colony in the utmost Contempt and Abhorrence, in order to transmit to our Posterity the strongest Evidence of our Detestation of the base Conduct of the Enemies of the Liberties of their Country.
Resolved, That we will use our Endeavours with the Merchants & Inhabitants of the neighbouring Colonies, to come into Resolutions similar to these.
Resolved, That it is the Opinion of the Inhabitants now met, that the Vessels trading from Rhode Island now in this Port, do depart in 24 hours from the Dissolution of this Convention; and that the Masters of such Vessels as have lately arrived from that Colony, be desired to depart without unloading any Part of their Cargoes.
Resolved, That we will, to the utmost of our Power, by all legal Means, preserve the Non-Importation Agreement inviolate in the City and Colony, until the Act aforesaid is totally repealed; and that we will not buy any Goods from any Person or Persons who shall transgress that salutary Agreement, and that we will use our utmost Influence to prevent others from purchasing Goods from them.
Resolved, That the Goods imported Yesterday in Capt. Spiers, from Glasgow, contrary to the Non-importation Agreement, shall not be landed in any Part of this Colony, under any Pretence whatsoever, but that the same shall be exported without Delay to Great-Britain; and that Messrs. Walter and Thomas Buchanan, and the said Captain, in order to satisfy the Public, declare, without Loss of Time, that they will use their utmost Endeavours, that this Resolution be punctually complied with.
New-York, May 30, 1770.
In consequence of the above meeting, the Committee of Merchants on Thursday evening, published an advertisement, intimating, That the meeting was called without the knowledge of the Committee appointed to inspect into the importation of goods, & there undertook to pass Resolves, on a matter settled the evening before to the entire satisfaction of the person chosen for that purpose; by which irregular proceeding, they considered themselves no longer a Committee. They therefore requested the inhabitants to meet at the Coffee-House on Friday, to choose another Committee. A considerable number of the inhabitants accordingly met at the place appointed, and agreed, that the Committee who had hitherto acted, should still continue; -and returned them thanks for their upright conduct in supporting the Non-Importation agreement; which the inhabitants of this province are determined strictly to adhere to.
H A L I F A X, May 17, 1770.
Last Thursday John Crosswell, a Grenadier of the 59th Regiment, Michael Duffy and Francis Hypion, Soldiers belonging to the 65th, were apprehended and committed to Goal, being charged with the inhuman Treatment & Robbery of Mr. Simon Mackenzie, (Agent Victualler to His Majesty's Ships in this Harbor) whom the preceding Night they knocked down in the Street, and cut and wounded him in a most cruel Manner, after which we are informed they robbed him of Two 40s. Pieces, 2 Moidores, Five Guineas, & one Dollar, and then made off, leaving him senseless. It appeared upon Examination that the Perpetrators of this uncommon Piece of Barbarity had premeditated a Transaction of this kind for some Hours before they committed the Fact, and after being disappointed of several Opportunities for putting their Design in Execution, about Eleven o'Clock they determined among themselves to knock down and rob the first Person they met with: Mr. Mackenzie soon after unluckily passing them on his Way Home, they asked him what was o'Clock, & while he was looking at his Watch to satisfy them, they fell upon him & committed the Particulars above-mentioned. What is more extraordinary, it is said they were perfectly sober when they committed the Fact, and were ignorant of the Value of the Pieces they had taken till the next Morning. We hear that Mr. Mackenzie, from some timely Assistance that was immediately given him, is now in a fair Way of Recovery.---The Vigilance and Activity of the Military Officers in discovering and bringing to Justice the above Offenders cannot be sufficiently admired and acknowledged by the Public.
BOSTON, June 11, 1770.
Our Advises from Philadelphia by the last Post inform us, that the Merchants there had received the Vote of the Merchants and Traders of this Town of the 22d ult. and were determined steadily to adhere to the non-importation Agreement.
Last Thursday Afternoon, being the Adjournment of the Meeting of the Trade, there was a very general attendance, probably on account of the promised appearance of the infamous McMasters, & the proposals of Nathaniel Rogers for a re-admission to the favor & friendship of his fellow citizens. The McMasters, agreeable to the usual generosity of their conduct, left the Trade to make what reflections they pleased upon their good faith; and it is thought, are conveying themselves and property out of town privately.
Mr. Rogers's proposals were read, and strongly urged by Mr. Molineux, to whom he had applied in the most suppliant manner, declaring that he was ready to make any acknowledgments and engagements that could be reasonably desired; in short, to do every thing in his power to satisfy the people and recover their esteem, as life he observed was burthensome to him in his present unhappy condition. The Gentlemen who answered Mr. Molineux observed, that tho' Mr. Rogers appeared now very uneasy with his unhappy condition, it was notorious that for a series of years he had most wickedly abused this his native country, in a correspondence with the Ministry, and was now upon the point of entering upon the reward of his political iniquity---that as Secretary of the province, it would be very convenient for him to have the smiles of the people; and perhaps as much so, to have a good pretence for entering considerable quantities of goods, which, known to be his, could not reasonably be expected to have a very ready sale. The speakers on both sides treated the affair with seriousness and candor, and after a very full debate adjourned the further consideration of it to a future day, probably with design never to take it up again.
Near the close of the Meeting a Letter was read from the Committee of Merchants in New-York, proposing a Congress of the Trade at the Town of Norwalk in Connecticut. The business of the Letter was just opened and adjourned to Friday Afternoon, when there was again as respectable an assembly in numbers and quality as perhaps had ever attended on a like occasion; and after a very thorough and deliberate consideration of the important embassy, it was Voted unanimously, That the Body would at all events firmly adhere to the non-importation agreement, and the standing Committee were desired to inclose the Vote in a decent and respectful letter to the Committee of New-York. The reasons given for non-concurrence with the proposal of our brethren at New-York, were principally these---That any the least alteration in the present agreement now so universally adopted, lately ratified by our unanimous votes, and published to all the world, might shew a levity of disposition probably injurious to the common cause---That Boston being but one of six maritime trading towns in this province, could not think themselves warranted to venture upon the relaxation of a compact in which the rest were equally concerned with themselves, without their advice and consent, which was impossible to be had be-
fore the time appointed for the congress. Finally, that as the object of the proposed relaxation, must respect an augmented importation in the Fall, and that as yet we had obtained no kind of relief from the grievances this measure was entered upon to redress, we could not admit the question whether one iota of it was to be receded from till its effect was thorough, and indubitable.
After this the behavior of the Town of Portsmouth, the capital of New-Hampshire, was agitated, and a Committee appointed to consider of their conduct in importing British goods at this critical conjuncture in a larger proportion than usual, as if intended to take an unfair advantage of the patriotic self-denial of the merchants in the other colonies, and to draw up a Vote respecting them, mutatis mutandis, similar to that passed against Newport in Rhode-Island, and to report at the adjournment, which will be this day se'nnight. A Vote was then passed, importing that whereas a vessel was lately arrived here from Bristol, belonging to Portsmouth in New Hampshire, with about 4000 bushels of Salt, & a parcel of English goods for that place: And as the Trade had lately voted and declined having any intercourse with Rhode-Island for their infamous departing from the non-importation agreement, and that Portsmouth from the same selfish views had never yet come into it, but imported goods indiscriminately, to the great prejudice of the common cause.---Therefore voted, That no person of this Body will purchase any quantity whatever of this Salt on any consideration, nor may any Carter presume to cart, or any person receive it into their store, on forfeiture of the good opinion of their fellow-citizens.---
Last Tuesday died the Rev. Mr. Ezekiel Dodge, of Abington. We hear from Connecticut, that John Avery, jun. of Groton, and a Child of his, were both bit by a mad Dog, a few Days ago.
We are credibly informed, that there was made in the Town of Goshen in Connecticut, in the Months of February and March last (from the Sap of Maple Trees) 40,000 wt. of Sugar. There was made last Year in the same Town, about 37,000 wt.
Extra of a Letter from Bristol, April 5.
"I have just received Letters from our Friends in London, who begin to despair of the Duty on Tea being repealed; but there are not wanting some of a contrary Opinion."
In consequence of Capt. Whitman's return with his Cargo to Newport from Philadelphia, the Inhabitants met together, and insisted upon the few Importers there, who had basely violated their non-importation Agreement, immediately to deliver up the Goods, lately received contrary to said Agreement, into the Hands of a Committee, appointed for that Purpose, which Requisition was directly complied with, and the Goods delivered up accordingly, except those belonging to one Person, who was then out of the Colony. 'Tis said, one Gentleman, among other Articles, delivered up 30 chests of Tea.
We hear the most worshipful Joseph Warren, Esq; Provincial Grand Master of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons in North-America, has been pleased to constitute a Lodge in the Town of Gloucester, by the Name of the TYREAN LODGE.
S A L E M, June 12.
The six Gentlemen of the General Court who voted against the resolution not to proceed to Business out of the Town of Boston, are, Hon. J. Worthington, Esq; Major Benjamin Day, Mr. Elisha Porter, Mr. John Ingersol, Hon. T. Ruggles, Esq; and Daniel Oliver, Esq;
On the 24th ult. Mr. Benjamin Clements, of Newbury-Port, being at Work on a Stage at the Stern of a Ship building in that Place, unhappily fell among a Parcel of Timber, 35 Feet below where he stood; by which Fall the Bones in his Body and Limbs were much broken and dislocated, and was otherwise greatly wounded and bruised. He lingered till last Wednesday, and then died.
It being reported that Capt. Trevitt was intended for this Town as well as Marblehead, we are assured, that the Committee of Inspection in this Place will by no means consent that he or any other, who may come from Rhode-Island, shall have any Commerce with the Inhabitants of this Town, unless we shall have received authentic Intelligence that the Rhode-Islanders have given Satisfaction for their late Defection, in violating their non-importation Agreement.
B O S T O N, May 31.
THIS DAY his Honor the Lieutenant-Governor was pleased to make a SPEECH to both Houses, as follows, viz.
Gentlemen of the Council, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, NOT having received any special Commands from his Majesty to be communicated to you, I have only to recommend to your Consideration the Public Business of the Province which it has been usual for the General Court to act upon at this season of the Year.
Analogous to the Constitution of the Supreme Legislature, it is with you Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, to originate a Bill for supplying the Treasury with a Sum sufficient to defray the necessary Charges of Government; an Estimate of which the Treasurer will lay before you. The Consideration of the Tax for the present Year comes also within the same Rule.---For several Years past the Taxes have been much reduced, and in one Year there was no Provincial Tax, a large Public Debt therefore still remains with which the present Year is burdened, and you will I doubt not think it greater than your Constituents can conveniently discharge at once. I am ready to give my Consent to a Bill for reducing this Sum, and charging a Part of it upon a future Year, but out of Regard to the Public Interest, I cannot help putting you in mind, that altho' we are now in a State of Peace, yet from the Vicissitudes to which all human Affairs are liable, and from the present Commotions in Europe, the Time of our Continuance in this State is very uncertain, and his Majesty's British Dominions, may ere long be again involved in War. If we shall have then a large Public Debt remaining, it will be a heavy Clog upon us, and we may see too late that it is good Policy in Times of Peace to discharge the Debts incurred in Times of War. If I am rightly informed some of the other Colonies are intirely free from their Debts contracted in the last War, and all of them are more so in proportion than we are.
I will not determine, Gentlemen, but I pray you to consider, whether the discontinuing the Excise upon Spirituous Liquors, which used to ease the Tax, upon Polls & Estates, has been of Advantage to the Province, or whether it is not probable, that it has only caused a proportionably greater unnecessary Consumption of such Liquors, to the Detriment of the Health and Morals of the People.
Gentlemen of the Council, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
A Multitude of Petitions came before the General Court the last Year, some of which seemed to be of very small Importance, and I thought it hardly consistent with the Dignity of the Court to take Cognizance of them. The Assembly then passed one Act, which had a Tendency to lessen the Number of private Petitions, and I should be glad if further Expedients could be agreed upon to the like Purpose.
I wish for a happy Harmony in the Legislature, and I will most readily concur with you in every Measure you shall propose, as far as can consist with my Duty to the King, and the Regard I bear to the Interest of the Province.
Council Chamber,
May 31. 1770.
T. HUTCHINSON.

PORTSMOUTH, June 15, 1770.
Extract of a Letter from Boston, by the last Post.
I am very sorry your Province behaves so much from the Character of brave Americans, when the whole Continent, (Rhode-Island excepted) is, and have been struggling this long Time for their invaluable Rights and Liberties. To build Fortunes on the Ruins of so brave a People is beneath the Character of Americans. One of your Merchants I hear has imported Goods to the amount of Ten Thousand Pounds Sterling, from England. I wish New-Hampshire may take Pattern from the brave Bostonians, who have to the utmost sacrificed their Interest for the good of the Whole, before we pass such a severe Resolve as is upon the Rhode-Islanders.
In Capt. Jacobson came Passenger, Mr. Samuel Sherburne, of this Town, Merchant.
Departed this Life, on Tuesday the 29th of May, after a languishing Illness, in the 47th Year of her Age, Mrs. ANNA ROGERS, the amiable and pious Consort of the Rev'd Mr. DANIEL ROGERS, of Exeter, and Daughter of the late Rev'd Mr. THOMAS FOXCRAFT, of Boston. Her Remains were decently interred on the Tuesday following. By her firm Faith in the Redeemer demonstrated in a course of Christian Obedience; the clear Manifestation she had of the Glory of God revealed in the Gospel, with the exercise of holy Affections, the result thereof; and the Patience with which she endured her tedious and distressing Illness, she gave satisfactory Evidence that she is among the Blessed who die in the Lord—who rest in Hope and shall rise in Glory.
The General Assembly of the Massachusetts-Bay, now setting at Cambridge, are doing no other Business, than sending Messages to the Governor, protesting and Remonstrating against the legality of holding the Court there, and for Answer he has repeatedly told them it is not in his Power to remove them to Boston. Finally the House has Resolved not to proceed to Business, by a Majority of 96 out of 102 Members present, unless removed to the Court House in Boston.
The Merchants of Boston at their Meeting last Friday, thought proper to chuse a Committee to draw up Resolves against this Town, similar to those passed against the Rhode-Islanders, and will we suppose be published next Week—A small Specimen we have already under the Boston Head—
All we have to say on this Occasion is, that they ought to confine their Resentment to those who are the Cause of these Resolves, and not to the Town in general, as they have been publickly told many do not import from Principle, and if they would be at the Trouble of Enquiry, they would find as true genuine Sons here, as any where on the Continent, and the numberless spirited Pieces in this Paper might convince them of it—But shall this be accounted Nothing, and the Metropolis of New-Hampshire be discarded and stigmatized in all the News-Papers, and counted unworthy the Name of Sons of Liberty, because a few Goods are lately arrived for two or three Persons only, before which they were so scarce here, that all the Stores in Town could not furnish one handsome Suit of Cloaths—notwithstanding Friend Dabb—d's kindness in importing so largely for us, (as he only saith)—However, many would have been very glad, had this Town came into some Measures of Non-importation, and some were against it; those have acted openly and honestly, and it is much wished some in Boston had, and not pretended they imported Goods for those in other Governments, who are no ways concerned in Trade.
Extract of a Letter from London, March 10.
"I wrote you, Via New-York, advising how doubtful it was whether the Revenue Acts would be repealed or not. Now can inform you for certain, the Duty will not be taken off Tea, therefore no Goods will be shipped this Spring to Philadelphia or New-York. The Boston People are shipping great Quantities of all Sorts of Merchandise, amongst which, a large Quantity of Tea."
CUSTOM-HOUSE, Piscataqua, June 14th
   Inward Entries, FROM.     James Guppy, St. Kitts.   Sloop Susanna, Samuel Newhall, St. Lucea.   Schooner Friendship, Jeremiah Turner, Granada.   Brig Unity, Robert Follett, Antigua.   Outward Bound, FOR.   Ship Temple, John Perkins, Great-Britain.   Brig Irish Gimblet, George Turner, Ireland.   Brig Success, Daniel Jackson, West-Indies.   Brig Charming Molly, Ebenezer Ricker, Ditto.   Brig William, Richard Salter, Ditto.   Clear'd for Departure; FOR.   Schooner Friendship, William Noyes, West-Indies.   Brig Industry, Thomas Jones, Ditto.   Brig Friendship, Abraham Nowell, Ditto.   Brig Greyhound, James Garven, Ditto.  
To COVER,
SCRIP, a beautiful
thoro' bred brown bay HORSE, of good Size, and without any Blemishes; imported from England the last Summer, where he was a noted Race Horse, and won many great Matches and Plates, being particularly remarkable for uncommon Strength and Bottom. As this Horse was imported with an Intention to improve the Breed in New England, HE will this Season cover Sixty Mares, FREE, except only Six Shillings, Sterling each, for the Groom, that attends the Horse. — No Mare under Fourteen Hands high will be admitted, and none after July. Enquire for Thomas Hodgson, at Mr. Stavers's, Innkeeper in Portsmouth.
Choice OLD SPIRIT
At six shillings per Gallon; Granada RUM by the Hogthead; and Muscovado SUGAR by the Barrel or smaller Quantity,
To BE SOLD BY EDWARD BUTLER, near Liberty Bridge,
Scheme of a Lottery
GRANTED by the GENERAL COURT of the Province of New-Hampshire, March 1768, for the raising One Thousand Pounds Lawful-Money, towards building and maintaining a BRIDGE over Exeter River, in said Province; — wherein Messieurs Andrew Wiggin, John Burleigh, Walter Bryant, Thomas Wiggin, Stephen Bordman, and Joseph Young, or the Major part of them are appointed Managers thereof. Who are sworn to the faithful Performance of their Trust.
SCHEME of the fourth Class of STRATHAM and NEWMARKET LOTTERY.
   1 of 100 Dollars is 100 Dollars.   2 of 50 is 100   4 of 40 is 160   6 of 30 is 180   14 of 20 is 280   16 of 12 is 192   18 of 10 is 180   30 of 5 is 150   950 of 4 is 3800  
   Prizes 1041.   Blanks 1959.   The first No. drawn 16   The last No. drawn 32  
   Remains for the Bridge 5190   3000 Tickets at 2 Dollars 810   6000  
The aforesaid Bridge is now in such forwardness in building as induces the Managers to hope for a speedy sale of the Tickets in this Class, so as to enable them to commence Drawing the same soon, which they will assiduously endeavour to do with all possible Expedition, and give previous Notice of Time & Place, that those that incline may attend.
Tickets may be had of the respective Managers at Stratham and Newmarket and at the Printing-Office in Portsmouth.
Benefit Tickets paid off in 20 Days from Drawing by the Managers that signed them. Prizes not demanded in Twelve Months from the time of drawing, are not to be demanded afterward but be deemed as generously given to the said Bridge and be applied accordingly.
Stratham April 7th 1770.
THE PUBLIC ARE HEREBY INFORM'D, THAT
Capt. Eliphalet Neal
Proposes to ride once a Week from Hollis and Amherst to Portsmouth, will carry the News Papers and transact other Business proper for a Carrier or Post, reasonably and faithfully. — Also, will ride or cause some Body to ride for the same Purposes from Merrimack to Charlestown, (No. 4) once a Fortnight, if he can meet with proper Encouragement. All Persons disposed to encourage him, may depend upon being well used: — And he engages to be punctual and constant.
For Cork and Dublin, The BRIGANTINE IRISH GIMBLET, GEORGE TURNER, Master, A Prime SAILER, Good Accommodations for Passengers, WILL certainly sail the 10th of July; For Passage apply to said Master, at his House in Portsmouth.
N. B. Said Turner earnestly intreats all those who have any Accompts open with him, to close them without Delay, as he intends to take his Family with him.
Choice new Philadelphia
F. L. O. U. R
By the Barrel, to be sold by John Beck, at 17 1/2 per Hundred, at the Long VVharfe.
We the subscribers Commissioners appointed by the Hon. JOHN WENTWORTH, Esq; Judge of the Probate of Wills for the Province of New Hampshire, to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of Caleb Marston, late of Newmarket, in said Province, Yeoman, deceased, represented Insolvent, and six Months from the 30th of May last being allowed for that Purpose, hereby give Notice, that we will attend that Service at the Dwelling House of Mr. Samuel Baker, Innholder in said Newmarket, the last Tuesday of this and the five following Months, from Three to Eight o'Clock Afternoon of said Days. Samuel Baker, Newmarket, June 8. 1770. Wentworth Cheswell.
This is to inform the Publick, That I the subscriber still continue to carry on my Business with dispatch, at a much cheaper rate than the original Simnet, altho' he has taken such repeated pains to inform the publick of his great Skill and accuracy, vainly flattering himself that the variety of his dress may induce people to believe he is as great a Watch-Maker as he is a Mountabank, and is inimitable in a Branch that he is a Novice and a Stranger to.
NATHANIEL SHEAFF GRIFFITH.
N. B. I desire to return my thanks to Simnet, Watch Maker, from London, for his good custom for the many Watches I mend and repair after they have been cruelly butchered by him. For after he is paid his price, I have mine paid the more generous.
WATCHES,
As usual by J. SIMNET, Parade.
Most of those who profess this Employ in this Country, are rough Clockmakers; if Rats could speak, they would declare their Sentiments, say they we must eat, and we live by gnawing down what you endeavour to rear. I keep this Creature here, with few Cloaths to cover his Flesh, and but very little Flesh to cover his Bones; if I knew him attempt to eat the Fruits of others Labour, I lash him, Rat like, confin'd; resist, he can't bite me; but Reader take care.
A Copy of a Bill by Nath'l. Sheaff Griffith, on Mr. Samuel Pickering of Greenland, for repairing his Watch—Mr. Pickering desires the Watch may be inspected by Judges, before he pays for it—Griffith refuses, and now keeps it in his Possession.
   Mr. Samuel Pickering, Dr. £. s. d.     To making a new Pivot 0 9 0   For a main Spring 0 9 9   To strating the Ballance Wheel 0 1 6   To getting the Bruses out of the Case 0 1 0   To a Glass 0 1 2   To cleaning your Watch 0 2 6   £. 1 4 11  
APPLICATION having been
made to me the Subscriber, one of his Majesty's Justices of the peace, by the owners of more than one sixteenth part of a right of land in the township of Old Dunstable, in the province of New Hampshire, originally the right of Obadiah Perry, laid out and to be laid out, to notify a meeting of said proprietors to act upon the following matters; 1. To chuse a Moderator. 2. To chuse a Clerk. 3. To agree upon some method to divide said Right, both what is laid out and to be laid out, and to do any thing to effect, the same as shall be agreed on. 4. To agree upon some method for calling meetings for the future: This is therefore to warn the said proprietors to meet at the House of Mr. Thomas Harwood, Innholder in Dunstable, the 19th day of September next, at one of the clock in the afternoon, then and there to act upon the premises.
H. WENTWORTH, Justice Peace. Portsmouth, June 13. 1770.
RUNAWAY or Stolen from
Monsieur Bunbury, about three Weeks ago, an English Water Spaniel Bitch; Mouse colour with a brass collar on, with said Bunbury's Name and the Words New England 1769, engrav'd on it—A Reward of one Dollar will be given to the Person who returns her to his House.
To be sold at publick Vendue
by Walter Philbrook of Greenland, at the House of Lt. Pickering, Innholder in said Greenland, on Thursday the 5th of July next, at three o'Clock Afternoon, a DWELLING HOUSE, with four Rooms on the Ground, two Chambers, and a good Cellar, Barn and Shop, with a Tract of Land about 15 Acres, within 60 Rods the Meeting House, on the main Road that leads from Boston to Portsmouth: Also, about 100 Acres of Land lying in the Township of Epsom, warranted good; with half a PEW in said Meeting. For further Particulars, enquire, of said Philbrook, or the said Pickering: Or, said Premises, if agreeable, at private Sale. Greenland, June 5. 1770.
Whereas the Overseers of the Poor
of the Town of Portsmouth, bound out to the Subscriber about five Weeks ago, a Man named Samuel Dreedey, whom I conducted to my House at New Boston, and whether the Place or Situation suited him or not I cannot say, but he left me the next Morning, therefore all Persons are forbid entertaining or crediting him on my Account. June 6. 1770. John Quigly.
Five Masts were taken up last
Wednesday about four Leagues to the Eastward of the Shoals, fastened together, (by Persons in a Fishing Boat) The Owner may have them again by applying to John Collins of Portsmouth, and paying Charges. June 7.

PROVINCE of } By His Excellency NEW-HAMPSHIRE } JOHN WENTWORTH, Esq; Captain-General, GOVERNOR and Commander in Chief, in and over His MAJESTY's Province of New-Hampshire aforesaid, and VICE-ADMIRAL of the same. A PROCLAMATION. W Hereas the GENERAL ASSEMBLY of this Province is now prorogued to Tuesday the nineteenth Day of June next, and nothing appearing for his Majesty's Service that requires their Meeting at that Time----- I HAVE THEREFORE thought fit, further to prorogue the said General Assembly hereby to Tuesday the thirtieth Day of July next, then to meet at the Court House in Portsmouth, at Ten o'Clock A. M. to transact the necessary Business of the Province. GIVEN at PORTSMOUTH, the thirtieth Day of MAY, in the tenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of GOD, of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, KING, Defender of the Faith, &c. Annoque Domini, 1770.
J. WENTWORTH. By His Excellency's Command, THEODORE ATKINSON, Secretary.
ROAD to Charlestown, No. 4.
W HEREAS by an ACT of the GENERAL ASSEMBLY of this Province, passed 16th of March 1769, it was enacted, That the Proprietors of the several Towns, through which a Road had been traced and marked out, from Boscawen to Charlestown No. 4, should be open, clear, and make passable the same for Carriages by the first Day of November 1769; and it appears the said Road is to pass through the Towns of Boscawen, New-Almsbury, Parry's-Town, Hereford, Saville, New-Port, Unity, Charlestown, but has been hitherto in great Measure neglected—We the Subscribers, who are appointed a Committee by the Act aforesaid, to see the same carried into Execution, having full Power to make good any Part we shall find deficient, at the Cost and Charge of the several delinquent Towns, and being authorized to dispose of such Part of their Lands as will defray said Expence, DO HEREBY NOTIFY the Proprietors of those several Towns, that unless the ACT be strictly complied with by the 31st of July next, we shall proceed to compleat said Road, and dispose of the Lands, agreeable to the Act of Assembly, to reimburse whatever Charge and Expence may arise for the same.
Edward G. Lutwyche John Church William Haywood Committee Merrimac, May 21. 1770.
The Inhabitants of Portsmouth, are hereby notified, each one to bring in a just and true Account of his Ratable Estate, to the Selectmen, upon oath (if required) as the Law Directs, viz. all Male Polls from eighteen Years old and upwards, Dwelling-Houses, Mills, Warehouses and other Buildings, Wharffs and Ferry's; all improved Lands, Male and Female Slaves from sixteen Years old to Fifty, Cattle and Horses from one year old and upwards, all Stock, whether Money at Interest, or improved in Trade, and Faculty. The Selectmen will meet the last Monday of May Instant, and every Monday in June next, at 5 o'Clock Afternoon of said days at Union-Hall, to receive said Accounts. Portsmouth May 2. 1770.
TO BE SOLD, By JAMES KING, ON SPRING-HILL, next to the Dwelling-House of Mr. John Penhallow's,
GERMAN Serges, Shalloons, Irish Linens, Camblets, Stuffs, Chinces and Calicoes, Cotton Romalls, border'd Bandanoes, Linnen Handkerchiefs, Worsted Mitts, Men's Worsted, Cotton and Thread Hose, Black & Buffcolor'd Knit Patterns, Womens English Shoes, Fans, a Variety of Necklaces, Purl Collars, and Spreaders, Cambrick and Lawn, Womens Chip Hatts, Hard Mettal Spoons, and Tea Potts, Black Allamode, Sewing Silk, Ribbons, Striped worsted Caps, No. 4 best Pound Pins, white Chaple Needles, silk and Hair Twist, wove Basket, and other Buttons, Paper, Chest Hinges, and Locks, Padlocks, Awlblades, Shoe hammers and Pinchers, Box Irons, Desk Furniture, Buckles, Knives and Forks, Cuttoes, Matheumans Buttons, Frying Pans, German Steel, Iron Socket Shovells, woollen Thumbs, 4d, 6d, 10d, 20d, Nails, wool Cards, Scrubbing Brushes, Quart & Pint, Black Jacks, &c.
TO BE SOLD, By JACOB TREADWELL, Very low for Cash, at his Store near the Hay-Market,
B road Cloths, Hatt Crape, Tobacco Boxes, Serges, Fans, Shoe and Knee Ratten, Stays, Buckels, Wiltons, Necklaces and Cod Lines, Sagathees, Earrings, Mackrel Lines, Ducapes, Ribbons, Shot, Lutestrings, Laces of all sorts, Buttons, Persians, Silk, Lamb, and Twist, Sarsnet, Worsted Gloves, Buckram, Alimode, and Mitts, Thread, Velvets, Spectacles, Silk, Sattins, Sieve Bottoms, Oznabrigs, Bengalls, Wool and Cot-Knee Straps, Tattatys, ton Cards, Bed Ticks, Book Muslin, Tea Kittles, Breeches patterns, Common ditto, Spurs, Caps, Cambricks, Frying Pans, Fans, Lawns, Hinges, Wig Caus, White & black Coffee Mills, Pins, Gauze, Files, Tapes, Catgut, Wine Cocks, Gimp & Snail, Lawn Aprons, Compasses, Chip Hatts, Handkerchiefs, Saws, Skelletons, Stockings, Rules, Crewels, Furniture Check, Hammers, Ferrits and Dimetys, Candlesticks, Gallooms, Gingham, Latches, Purses, Cheney, Box Irons, Pretties, Damask Napkins, Flints, Combs, Sheetings, Nails, Paper, Linens, Shoemakers Tools, Brushes, Chints, Coffee Mills, Glass, Calicoes, Locks, China, Grograms, Rat Traps, Pewter, Russells, Horse Locks, Pepper, Tammys, Files, Nutmegs, Durants, Razors, Cinnamon, Camblets, Shears, Cloves, Callamancoes, Siftars, Mace, Crapes, Thimbles, Rum, Bombazen, Penknives, Sugar, Widows Crape, Knives & Forks, Cotton, Cyprus, Cuttoes, Rosin, Hatt Crape, Snuff Boxes, Newcastle COAL and GRINDSTONES.
[ AMHERST. ]
Whereas at sundry legal Meetings of the proprietors of the LANDS called AMHERST, (lately Souhegan West, No. 3,) in the province of New-Hampshire, several TAXES have been voted to be raised on each Right or Share in said Town, which has been advertised in the New-Hampshire Gazettes according to LAW, yet sundry Persons neglect to pay the same, to the Collectors of said Town; This is therefore to Notify those that are delinquent, that unless they pay the following Sums in Lawful Money annex'd to the Name of each Proprietor or Owner of said Delinquent's Land, at or before Tuesday the second Day of July next, so much of their Rights and Lets will be sold at a publick VENDUE on said Day, (and so from Day to Day 'till the whole is sold) at the Dwelling House of Ephraim Hildreth, Innholder, in said Amherst, as will discharge the said Sum assessed on each Lot, with incidental Charges. The Names of the Persons delinquent, the Number and Division of their Lots, Rights, and Shares are as follows, viz.
   £. s. d. q.     Thomas Putnam, No. 86, third Division 1 16 3 0   Joseph Morgan, No. 39, second Division, 1 0 6 2   And his Lot, No. 109 in the 3d Division 0 14 0 0   His share in the undivided land, 0 6 3 2   Thomas Bell's right in the undivided land 0 6 3 2   Thomas Abbot, No. 58 in the first division 0 18 8 0   His second division lot, No. 38, 1 0 6 2   John Wild, No. 75 in the third division 0 3 9 2   His share in the undivided land 0 6 3 2   John Boynton, No. 4 in the first division 0 18 8 0   His third division lot, No. 33, 0 14 0 0   His share in the undivided land 0 6 3 2   Thomas Tarbox, No. 125, the 2d division 0 13 9 2   His share in the undivided land 0 1 10 2   Josiah Isgersol, No. 124, third division 0 13 9 2   His share in the undivided land 0 6 3 2   John Jenks, No. 45, in the third division 0 14 0 0   His share in the undivided land 0 6 3 2   Timothy Breed, No. 119, in 2d division 0 10 8 2   His share in the undivided land 0 6 3 2   John Gloyd, No. 123, in 3d division 0 14 0 0   His share in the undivided land 0 6 3 2   Elihu Wardwell, N. 23 in the first division 0 13 9 2   Joseph Parker, No. 112, second division 0 18 8 0   John Ballard, No. 73, second division 0 18 8 0   His lot No. 100, in the third division 0 14 0 0   His share in the undivided land 0 6 3 2   Ralph Ellinwood, No. 50, second division, claimed by James Hopkins, 1 0 6 2   Edward Phelps, No. 94, second division 1 0 6 2   John Parker, claim'd by Robert Parker, No. 33 in the second div.. on 1 12 7 2  
   The share belonging to said right in the undivided land 0 6 3 2   Richard Hutten, No. 129, third division, claim'd by John Mc Clenche 1 12 3 0   Cornelius Tarble, No. 101, 2d division, claim'd by Samuel Stearns 0 15 0 2   Edward Rand, No. 32, third division 0 3 9 2   His share in the undivided land 0 6 3 2   John and William Fuller, two shares in the undivided land 0 12 7 0   Richard Moor, one share in the undivided land 0 6 3 2   Benjamin Newhall, No. 72, second division 3 14 7 2   His share in the undivided land 0 6 3 2   Richard Moor, No. 110, first division 0 3 10 3   Jonathan and John Dodge, No. 66, third division 0 3 9 2   John Wild, No. 32, second division, claim'd by Ebenezer Averill 1 12 7 2   Lot Connant, No. 71, first division 0 18 8 0   His Lot No. 111, in the third division 0 14 0 0   His share in the undivided land 0 6 3 2   Jacob Peabody, his share in the undivided land 0 6 3 2   Joseph Farr, No. 47, third division 0 14 0 0   Margret Wood, one share in the undivided land 0 6 3 0   John Bixbe, one share in the undivided land 0 6 3 2   John Stevens, one share in the undivided land 0 6 3 2   Samuel Lamson, No. 51, in the 3d division 0 14 0 0   Sam L. Lamson, two shares in undivided land 0 12 7 0   Ralph Ellinwood, share in undivided land 0 6 3 0   Joseph Farr, one share in the undivided land 0 6 3 2   Jonathan Raimond, one share in the undivided land 0 6 3 2   Benjamin Ramdell, No. 20, first division 2 8 5 0   His lot, No. 57, in the second division, 2 13 2 0   One share in the undivided land 0 6 3 2   Benjamin Ives, No. 69, first division 1 9 11 2   The Heirs of Samuel Gray, lot No. 24 & 25 in the third division 1 4 8 0   The Heirs of Joseph Herrick, one share in the undivided land 0 6 3 2   Richard Priace, No. 86 in the third range 1 16 3 0   Samuel Lamson, claim'd by David Green, No. 14, second division 1 0 6 2   Henry Flint, claim'd by Capt. David Green, No. 20, in the second division 1 0 6 2   Josiah Ingerson, claim'd by Phineas Upham, No. 13, second division 0 5 6 0   Richard Moor, claim'd by said Upham No. 12, second division 1 0 6 2   Two shares in the undivided land belonging to Upham 0 12 7 0   Richard Meer, claim'd by Ezekiel Holt, No. 57 in the third division 0 14 0 0   The share of said Meer in undivided land 0 6 3 2   No. 70, in the third division, claim'd by Benjamin Wilkins 0 3 9 0   Robert Rand, claim'd by Ebenezer Weston, No. 36, in the first division 1 9 8 0   Robert Rand, claim'd by Amos Green, No. 27, second division 2 13 2 0   Robert Rand, claim'd by said Green, No. 99, third division 1 16 3 0   Said Rand's share in the undivided land 0 6 3 2   Amherst, May 26. 1770.   Moses Barron, William Peabody } Collectors.  
St. George's STONE-LIME, To be Sold at Mills's Wharfe South End, by Samuel Bowles. Also, May be had a variety of English and West India GOODS at his Shop near the Post Office, in Portsmouth, all of the above Articles will be sold Cheap for Cash.
Cash for RAGS,
Taken in by James and Mathew Haslett, at their Shop in King Street; It is desired that all persons would save their coarse and fine RAGS, and bring them clean and in good Order, to the above place;—where the said Haslett's, carries on their Trade of Leather-dressing and Breeches Making; where any Gentlemen may be supplied with Breeches as good and cheap as any where in New England. Cash, Also will be given for Sheep and Lamb Skins with the Wool on.
A White Mare
Was taken up within about a Mile of the State House in this Town, a Fortnight ago, supposed to have been stolen, and then turn'd loose: The Owner may have her again, by applying to the Printers, and paying Charges, who will inform where she is.
All Persons Indebted to, or that have Demands on the Estate of Capt. Dudley Watson, late of Dover, deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts immediately to Thomas Watson, of Dover aforesaid, Administrator on said Estate, in order for a speedy Settlement.
A Mast was taken up the 30th Day of last Month at Rye Beach— The Owner may have it again by applying to William Markson of Rye, and paying Charges.