The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1773-05-14 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE
AND HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the Freshest ADVICES
Friday May 14, 1773.
GAZETTE,
CHRONICLE,
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
NO. 865 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd. }
Boston, May 6.
YESTERDAY the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of this Town met at Faneuil Hall for the Choice of Representatives, the Number of the Votes were 419.
 The Hon. Thomas Cushing, Esq; had 418 Votes,  Mr. Samuel Adams, 413  Hon. John Hancock, Esq; 417  William Phillips, Esq; 416 
After the above Gentlemen were declared to be duly elected, Mr. Samuel Adams was chosen Moderator, in order to transact the other Matters mentioned in the Warrant for said Meeting.---A Committee was then appointed to prepare Instructions for the Representatives, who reported in the Afternoon the following Draft, which was unanimously accepted by the Town, and ordered to be published.
To the Hon. THOMAS CUSHING, Esq; Mr. SAMUEL ADAMS, the Honorable JOHN HANCOCK, Esq; and WILLIAM PHILLIPS, Esq; Representative for the Town of BOSTON,
GENTLEMEN, BY the renewed Suffrages of your Brethren of this Town, you are once more called upon to represent them in the General Assembly : The Unanimity so conspicuous in your Election at this important Juncture, affords the strongest Testimony of the Confidence the People repose in your approved Abilities, and inflexible Attachment to their constitutional Rights.
Your Constituents have beheld with Indignation that purposeful Neglect, and insolent Contempt with which the Representative Body of this People have been regarded by Administration. A total Inattention to the Privileges of the Commons in America, has disgraced almost every Transaction that materially affected the Colonies : A clandestine, capricious and destructive Mode of Government, couched under the specious Umbrage of Instructions from Majesty, has been uniformly adopted & wantonly exercised for several Years past, thereby rendering the Assemblies of Commons throughout the Colonies, mere Cyphers in the Constitution: For this Reason, Gentlemen, we were almost discouraged from renewing the Choice of Members, as INEFFECTUAL for the several Purposes for which they were originally ordained ; but still retaining that Respect, to good and orderly Government which has ever distinguished this Metropolis ; agreeable to the Charter, which on our Part remains inviolate, we once more recommend the important Concerns of this aggrieved People, to your Vigilance, Wisdom and Integrity ; in Confidence that you will regard with Jealousy your own constitutional Power and Importance, of which the Honour and Welfare of this People, should render you extremely tenacious ; that you will vigorously oppose any Encroachments on your ancient Privileges, and never will betray your Constituents, by surrendering those Powers of framing Laws and Taxes for the People, to any Usurper under Heaven.
The Constitutional Mode by which Legislation and Taxation are conducted in Great-Britain, being nothing more or less than the Exercise of the Power of the People by their Representatives : This Form of Government is extended by sacred Compact to the English Dominions in America, therefore the Privileges and Powers of the Commons of this Colony respecting Legislation and Taxation, are to all Intents and Purposes, as full, express, and uncontrollable within the Colony, as those usually exercised by the Commons of Great-Britain, within the Realm, & alike subjected to the Reversion of the King : These Powers and Privileges were secured to our Ancestors by solemn Covenant between them and the King of England, and perpetuated by the Charter to their latest Posterity ; From the free and full Enjoyment of these original Rights of English Subjects, we are determined never to recede ; and altho' they have been repeatedly and daringly invaded, the Hand of Oppression shall never induce us to relinquish our Title to Freedom : We still perceive with Indignation, that the Governmental Powers of Legislation and Taxation, by arbitrary Claim are assumed, and vigorously exercised by those who by their local Situation can have no adequate Knowledge of our Circumstances, no kindled Feelings in our Distresses, and when swayed by a corrupt Influence, may impoverish, weaken and enslave us.
To the numberless Grievances flowing from this iniquitous Source, which we have already frequently and fruitlessly complained of, we may justly add, a stipendiary soldiery, stationed and continued in the chief Fortress in the Metropolis of this Colony, by the inexorable Enemies to our free Constitution :--- Standing Armies have forever made shipwreck of free States, and no people jealous of their Liberties, ever patiently suffered mercenary Troops to be quartered and maintained within their populous Cities ; The Militia of the Colony are its natural and best Defence ; and it is an approved Maxim in all well policed States, that the Sword should never be entrusted but to those who combat pro aris et focis ; and whose Interest it is to preserve the public Peace. We cannot therefore, but resent these standing Troops within our capital Cities, as the appointed Executioners of Tyranny ; and prepared Instruments to massacre the defenceless Citizens, at the Nod of any Master, who may have authority to appoint or discharge, reward or punish them.
Thus armed with brutal Force, the Enemies to our Freedom persevere with Alacrity, to complete their infernal Plan of enslaving America : the above atrocious Violations of Right, Justice, and the Constitution, are succeeded by the pensioning our Governor, the Justices of the Superior Court, &c. which in effect is bribing them on the Side of Despotism : Those who by their several Offices, should be the Asylum of public Security and Liberty, are no longer the Objects of Confidence and Regard with the People ; we cannot but esteem them as subordinate Tyrants, entrusted with a rod to scourge us, and suppress that Spirit of Freedom, which is the glorious Characteristic of America. While they are thus purchased with ample Salaries,
extorted from the Colonies by Great-Britain, we must be jealous of a corrupt Influence, whenever an arbitrary Measure of Government is to be carried, or a Claim of Right subjected to the Decision of our Courts of Justice.
We shall not recapitulate the black Catalogue of Abuses which the Colonies have been subjected to for several Years past ; that we have suffered them so long, is disgraceful to us : But we cannot pass over in Silence the late extraordinary and formidable Innovation in constituting an arbitrary Court of Inquisition, which has lately assumed Jurisdiction within our Sister Colony of Rhode-Island, in direct Violation of all Law and Justice ; who arrogate the enormous Power to transport supposed Offenders to a remote Kingdom to be capriciously arraigned for Offences committed within that Colony. Agreeable to the Constitution of the Colonies, said Court, in the Exercise of such extravagant Powers, are to be held in the same Contempt and Detestation, with a Banditti of Slave Makers on the Coast of Africa. We therefore expect you make due Enquiry into a Measure so truly alarming, and protest against every Exertion of lawless Power, which threaten the Ruin of the Colonies.
Harassed and provoked by such repeated Abuses of Power, we esteem it our indispensable Duty to demand Redress ; to your Wisdom, to your Fortitude, we commit ourselves, not doubting you will readily pursue such Measures, as have a tendency to relieve us in the most easy & effectual Manner : for this Purpose we recommend to your serious Consideration, whether an Application to the English Colonies on this Continent, correspond to the Plan proposed by our noble patriotic Sister Colony of Virginia, (which in our opinion is a wise and salutary Proposal) will not secure our threatened Liberties, and restore that mutual Harmony and Confidence between the British Nation and the English Colonies, so important to both, especially the former, which if rescinded from her Connections with this Continent, must eventually fall a Prey to her numerous and jealous Neighbours.
We have likewise the most sanguine Expectations that a Union of Councils and Conduct among the Colonies, will assuredly, by the Smiles of Heaven, fix our Rights on such a solid Basis, as may intimidate our implacable Enemies from any future Attempts to invade them,
ATTEST, WILLIAM COOPER, Town-Clerk, The Meeting stands adjourned to Tuesday next 3 o'Clock Afternoon.
One Day last Week, an Indian came to this Town from Saint Francois, by the Way of Kenebeck, with a Frenchman for his Interpreter, and on Tuesday last he attended his Excellency the Governor and the Honorable the Council at Cambridge. We are informed that five Chiefs of the Arosaguntacook Indians, of which the Indians of St. Francois are a part, left Granada the later End of the Summer, and that when they came to the Height of the Land four of them were taken with the Measles and determined to proceed no further, but desired the fifth with the Interpreter to go on. We hear that the Purpose of the Message was to obtain Satisfaction for the Deaths of several Indians alleged to have been killed at different Times in the Woods by the English, and to seek Security in some way or other against such Actions for the future ; and that had rather have Satisfaction in Money than by the Punishment of the guilty Persons, if they should be discovered. We are not informed what Answer has been been given.
Thomas Martin
Has Imported in the last Ships from LONDON, a very general Assortment of EUROPEAN GOODS, which, together with a great Variety of HARD WARE, WEST-INDIA GOODS and almost every Kind of GROCERY, he is determined to sell at the very lowest Prices for Cash or short Credit. Also Gloucester and Cheshire CHEESE, ANCHOVYS and CAPERS.
Grenada RUM,
Sugar and Coffee ; also South Carolina Corn and Rice, just imported and to be fold
By John Evans
at his Store on Capt. Janvrin's Wharf, Portsmouth, May 5. 1773.
Two thousand Acres of Land to be given to eight Families, upon Condition of settlement, in a good Township adjoining upon Dartmouth, in this Province. Enquire at the Printing-Office.
Daniel Peirce, Junr.
Has just Imported from London by Capt. Calf, an Assortment of GOODS, which will be sold very low, at his Shop almost opposite the Post-Office. His Assortment consists of the following Articles, viz.
BLACK, blue, green, pink color'd and white Persians, Sarsnetts, Sattins, black Taffity, Alamode, Cloak Silk, Gauzes, Parisnett, Catgutt, Cap Wire, Tammies, Shalloons, Poplins, Crapes, Grizets, Missinets, Camblets and Cambliteens, striped Calcutta, Paoli, Chints and Callico, Lawns, Lawn Aprons, Handkerchiefs, Cambricks, silk and cotton Romalls, scarlet and blue Broad Cloths, green and blue German Ser-ges, Mens, Womens and Childrens Hose, silk Mitts & Gloves, blond & blown Laces, Snail and Gimp, Necklaces and Pendalls, Tapes, Stay Trimmings, marking Canvas, and Crewel ; a Variety of Buttons, Twist, silk and Knee Garters, white chapel, common and Glovers Needles--- a pretty Assortment of RIBBONS, Qualities, shoe and coat Binding, Combs, Brushes, Awl-blades, Pegging Awls, Shoe Knives, Pinchers and Knippers, Knives and Forks, chest, cub-board and brass Nob Locks, Desk Furniture, Files, brass Cocks, Shears, Scissars, Penknives and Raifors, Ink pots, Shoe and Knee Buckles, and Spectacles,---4d, 6d, and 10d Nails, shoe Nails, Braids & Tax, Sad Irons, Frying Pans, Wool Cards.--- Bibles, Testaments, Psalters, Primmers, Spelling Books, Ink Powder, and Writing Paper ;---Women's English Shoes, Childrens Morrocco ditto.--- Also WEST-INDIA GOODS, GROCERIES, CROCKERY-WARE, &c. &c.
Constant Attendance given, and the smallest Favors received with Thanks.
N. B. FLAX SEED, BEES-WAX, and old PEWTER taken in by said Peirce.
IRISH LINENS
Just Imported from the North of Ireland, and to be sold by MARK FERRAN, at Mr. John Stavers, at the Sign of the Earl of Halifax,
A parcel of seven Eight, and Yard wide Linnens and Brown Irish Sheetings ; those Linens and Sheetings were bought by himself from the Manufacturers at Belfast, with the Cash, and will be sold as low as they can be bought in any Part of England, without Exception---He has a few Pieces of fine Linnen, suitable for Gentlemen's Shirting, of an excellent Fabrick, and carefully bleached.
N. B. As his Tarry will be but five or six Days, those who incline to purchase must apply speedily.
A Wheel Barrow,
Some Time ago, was put into a Gentleman's Yard---The Owner may have it again, by enquiring of the Printer, and paying the Charge of this Advertisement.

[REMARKS on a late LAW.] To Esq; Representative, &c.
Dear SIR, I Am sure our former intimate Acquaintance, Freedom and Friendship will excuse all Mistakes in me; for you have Reason to believe the Uprightness of my Heart, and you can't think I have any Design to injure, or affront you or any of my Superiors.
What I humbly crave is Satisfaction, that the ACT lately published in the NEW-HAMPSHIRE-GAZETTE, to establish an equitable Method of making RATES and TAXES, &c. will ever answer the good Design of the GENERAL ASSEMBLY of this Province therein. I know it is easier to find a Fault, than to mend one; but to me this appears to be an ambiguous ill-penn'd ACT. The Burden of TAXES should be laid equally upon all the Community, in Proportion to the Ability of each individual Member thereof, to bear it, or there will be Danger of requiring Brick without Straw. But if so, how came it to pass, that His EXCELLENCY, who is famed for his Sarcacity and Wisdom, gave his Assent to this Act? Did you not obtain it by Importunity, more than by solid Reason? taking Advantage of the Goodness of his Nature, and Readiness to oblige. However, you say in the Act,--- All Male Polls from eighteen Years old and upwards, at 12 s. each --- Where is the Equity of this? Why not all Male Polls, from the Day of their Birth, to the Day of their Death? Many laborious and industrious Men, have borne Taxes on their Polls, for fifty or sixty Years: must they in Equity still go on with the Burden, though they are lame, blind, and Bed-rid? I see no Exemption: the Proposition is universal; all Male Polls, from, &c. You may find many a Man, who, if he was to be sold at PUBLIC VENDUE, or in the Market, (Soul and Body) would not command TWO DOLLARS. And how comes it to pass, that Slaves are excused at Forty Five, and not their Masters? Why does the Taxation on a Slave, commence two Years sooner, than on a free-born? Is it because their natural Sagacity, and Dexterity, exceeds? You say, Cattle and Horses one Year old, six Pence; no Cattle nor Horses to be accounted one Year old 'till they have been wintered over two Winters: which is much like saying, no Cattle nor Horses shall be accounted one Year old 'till they are two Years old; for the Invoice is to be taken in April annually, and they are commonly two Years old, and more, before April is out; so that two Year old's must be three Year olds also, &c: or else Yearlings and two Year olds are confounded together; and rated alike. An uncertain Declaration makes a Will void, for Uncertainty. How then can an uncertain LAW be binding? However, when you speak of improved Lands, I am utterly at a Loss how to know what is to be called improved Lands by us. Is Land clear'd, fit to receive Seed, improved? or must it be tilled one, or two, or three Years, and produce as many Crops? In this, different Towns have not been agreed; some (I am informed) put no Lands into the Invoice, 'till it has produced four Crops (according to Law in Connecticut) How shall the several Towns be agreed? And if they are not agreed, we can't expect an equitable Taxation.
You have brought in a new Method of measuring Land, having shown by Gunter's Chain, and introduced the Barrel, the Bushel, the Tun, and the Cow's Belly in its Stead. I should rather, if I might, have continued the Use of the Chain.
Orchards one Shilling per Acre, accounting so much Orchard as will, one Year with another, produce ten Barrels of Cyder, one Acre. Here again is great Uncertainty. I have known two Apple Trees produce Fruit enough for more than ten Barrels of Cyder, in one Year: And if such an Instance should be found in this Province, what must be done? How much Land by Gunter's Chain (if we may have Leave to use it) must be called Orchard? Must only the Land under the Branches of those Trees be called so? How long and how broad must be the Orchard measured thus by the Barrel? Moreover, the Act has these Words, one Year with another, i. e. one Year with another Year. One and one is two, so that the plain English of this Act is--- accounting so much Orchard, as will produce ten Barrels of Cyder in two Years, one Acre. I purposely varied from the Words of the Act--- produce ten Barrels of Cyder, and express my self thus ---produce Fruit enough for ten Barrels of Cyder; for it seems as great an Impropriety to tell of an Orchard's producing Cyder, as to tell of a Sheep's producing Stockings. And if a Man has an Orchard that produceth three hundred Bushels of Apples in one Year, and carelessly, or voluntarily, allows his Cattle and Swine to devour them all, how could it be rated at one Shilling ? if rated at all. And if we should try the other Instrument of Mensuration, viz. The Bushel, I am confident the like Uncertainties would be found. --- Arable Land eight Pence per Acre. I am told, that the Word Arable , comes from the Latin Word which signifies a Plough, so that Arable Land is ploughable Land. And can that Land be said to be ploughable, the Surface of which is half covered with Stumps, Logs, Roots, and Trees? and one half Part of the Seed sown thereon, must be covered with the Hoe: Can it be called improv'd Land?--- accounting so much Land as will produce twenty-five Bushels of Grain, one Acre. What! if there is five Acres by the Chain, and the Feed is worth more than the Crop? Is this an equitable Method of making Rates and Taxes? All this Land must be rated at Eight Pence ! You would demand Eight Pence or a Shilling for pasturing a Horse one Night in the Stubble. Indian Corn is chiefly the Grain growing in the New Towns upon Rivers, (It is well for the Poor that you have overlook'd Turnips and Potatoes, the chief Support of many a Family, to my certain Knowledge, in the Province) Indian Corn, I say, is chiefly the Grain---Must that be measured in the Ear, or when threshed, and dry'd? It must be measur'd dry doubtless in March or April: And by that Time it is half eat up. Though the new Lands do produce a few Bushels more by the Acre than our Land in the old Towns, don't let us grudge. If there was no Encouragement, none would have endured the Hardships of settling an uncultivated Wilderness. The Stories we have of their large Crops are far beyond the Bounds of Truth, and it's cheaper to buy an Acre of some of their best clear'd Land, than to get it cleared with Money. They are obliged to labour constantly, even to Excess: Consider the Hardships they endure. You would not willingly undergo the Torment of their Fleas one Night, for ten Bushels of Corn, if you had ever made the Experiment, for I'll promise you, that when you arose in the Morning, you would find your Shirt as speckled as a Fawn; and the best House-Wife can't prevent it. I was there once, and was drove out of the Field, when the Sun was an Hour high, by those little poisonous Insects, the Musquitoes and Gnats. And then I saw a Man so tormented by them that the back Part of his Neck was crusted with a Scab. Let it be remembered also, that they must give four or five Bushels of Corn for one of Salt, when we can have more than Bushel for Bushel; and there all West-India Goods are proportionably dear.
If they take a Team with 30 Bushels of Corn, or Wheat for Market, at Portsmouth, or Boston, they stand a fair Chance
of expending 25 Bushels for necessary Entertainment, before they return home.
By this Time I hope you are convinced, that it is not an equitable Method of making Rates and Taxes, on Lands measured by the Bushel--- Moving Lands Eight Pence per Acre, accounting so much Land as will produce, one Year with another (Year) one Tun of Hay, to be one Acre.
Are Lands, that are mowed, mowing Lands? If you kill the shady Trees on a Piece of Land, and mow it, and find nothing but Nettles, Polypode, and Weeds, and dry them, i. e. make Hay of them, and find they weigh a Tun, must the Land which produced them, be rated at 8 Pence? In short, to say that such Land, and Boggy Meadow Land, and the Land which produceth white Clover, shall be rated according to the Weight of the Production thereof, is as great an Absurdity in Politicks, as it is in the Mathematicks to say that £.40 is equal to 40d. --- Pasture Lands three Pence per Acre, accounting so much Land as will summer a Cow, four Acres. But how well must the Cow live? must she thrive? may not the Pasture be so short as to starve a Cricket? Suppose I find that my Pasture has been sufficient for my Cow from Day to Day 'till the last of November, and the next Year I put two Cows into the same Pasture, must my Rate be doubled upon the same Pasture? But if some by these Words summer a Cow, understand only the three Summer Months, there will be great Confusion and Inequality.
I see also Money in Hand is to be rated. Why not Land in Hand also? Money in Hand is useless while it is in Hand, but Land continually increaseth in Value where People settle near it.
If you know how to understand this ACT, candidly impart your Knowledge, if not, think of it as I do,
Who am with the greatest Sincerity, Your constant Friend, EQUITATIS AMATOR.
[ LAST SPEECH of JOHN WALL LOVELY. ] The Last Speech, Confession and Dying Words, of John Wall Lovely, Who was executed at Albany, on Friday the 2d of April, 1773, for counterfeiting the Currency of the Province of New-York.
I WAS born in the County of Hampshire in (Old-England) my father was a farmer; and my mother who was very indulgent to me, died when I was eleven years of age.---Soon after my father made his addresses to a young woman, and obtained her consent that they should be immediately married.---My father's love to this girl was not more sincere than my hatred I resolved to leave both, and accordingly took my departure without consulting either of them. Regardless of consequences, I strolled down to the British Channel, came to Portsmouth, and got a passage to the Isle of Wight; there I continued until the 18th year of my age, then I returned to my father's house: the old man did not recollect that he had seen me before, and his wife was equally ignorant.
I left my father and went to see my oldest sister at Winchester, she was very kind and persuaded me not to go to sea: but I resolved to go, having as I tho't, followed Plough long enough in the Isle of Wight. I went to Christ's Church, and agreed with one Capt. Bellman, to go with him to Newfoundland, this was in the month of February 1773. We remained there until April, and then went to Pool; there we embarked.
We had a long passage, and when we came to Newfoundland I deserted from the ship, in company with two of the Sailors, we got into forests, where, I believe, the foot of man never trod, and not knowing how or where to get out, underwent hardships that have almost astonished and moved the Pity of those to whom I have told them.
I afterwards made a voyage to Lisbon in Portugal, where I rescued a countryman of mine that was condemned to be Shot. With him I came to Boston where we parted. At Horseneck I got married to a rich man's daughter, by her I have had four children. As she married me contrary to the inclinations of all her relations, they never ceased doing me all the mischief in their power; and as I never failed to take bodily vengeance upon them, they swore the peace against me in two provinces.---This obliged me to abscond, and in my absence, they persuaded my wife that I had married another woman. By their advice my wife applied for and got a bill of divorce against me; this unsettled my mind, and I went about the country working from place to place at farming work.
In the year 1772, I sold a watch for between seven and eight Pounds; the man who bought her gave me an order for the money upon John Smith, after receiving the money I passed a thirty shilling bill at Reading; it was found to be counterfeited, and I was committed to Fairfield goal. I was urged to discover my associates, but I had none; nor had I any acquaintance with Smith before that time.---An intimate acquaintance has since taken advantage of my ignorance and occasioned my overthrow. I sold a horse to him for six pounds, he paid me in New-York money which he said was good. Soon after I met with one Asa Holmes, at Pittsfield I bought a watch from him and gave him the two Bills that I received for the horse. The next week he following me to Sheffield, but not finding me there, he came to Great-Barrington, where he apprehended me at the house of one Haycock, I settled with him upon his own exorbitant terms, gave him back his watch, and also to make him quiet, I gave him a horse that was estimated at fifty dollars, besides a saddle and bridle. When he had got from me what he could, him and his vile gang brought me over to New-York government. I was examined before Squires Whiting & Adgate. I told them, that I had the bills of Lewis Benedict Bennet, and that I could prove it by evidences that were present when I received them: the justices said I was connected with the Money-makers, and that if I would discover them I should be admitted an evidence and not sent to goal: I told them, that by misfortune, I passed a bad thirty shilling bill before, and was punished for it at Fairfield: 'Squire Whiting said that was nothing, desired me to tell all I knew, and if I was not cleared he should be hanged.
I then told them that the day before I was taken, being at a house of Daniel Lewis, in Sheffield, I observed one Hulbert strike a number of Bills, that Lewis came where we were, at night, and Hulbert asked him how long it would take him to sign these bills: he said they should be done by ten o'clock next day: and the said Lewis concealed the Pres. This was all I knew of the Matter; however, they sent me to Albany, where I have been tried and condemned.
I forgive Daniel Lewis who swore falsely against me, excepting what I did in the woods, also my prosecutors, and die in peace with all men, praying God to pardon my sins and be merciful to my soul. Amen.
JOHN WALL mark.
Cash given for brown Human HAIR, and white Horse HAIR By WILLIAMS and STANWOOD.
Just Imported from LONDON, AND TO BE SOLD BY Samuel Penhallow
cheap for Cash.
CHINTS, Plain Gingham, Lawn Aprons and Hankerchiefs, Book Muslin, Persians, Plain and Sprig'd Sattin, Printed Copper Plate Furniture, Chip, Straw and Silk Hats, Russel and Lasting Shoes, Silk Clogs, Gloves, Silk and Thred Network, Mitts, Wiltons, Shalloons. Buckram, China Cups and Saucers and Bowls, Tea, Haberdashery, Hosiery, Stationery, Cutlery, Brazery and Ironmongery Ware
John M c master,
And Company,
At their Store on Spring-Hill, Portsmouth, have imported in the last Ships from London, a large Assortment of English, India, and Scotch Goods, suitable for the Season, Among which are,
A Large Assortment of flower'd Lawns, Cambricks and Muslins;---Large and Fashionable Ribbons;---striped and plain Lute strings; Tabby Brocades; Callicoes; second and superfine Broad Cloths; coarse and fine Guns: With many other Articles, too tedious to mention, which will be sold by Wholesale or Retail, for Cash or short Credit, as low as at any Store or Shop in America.
CHINA and EARTHEN WARE.
Just Imported and SOLD,
By Mc Intyre,
At his Store near the Market,
A Good Assortment of China, Delph and Earthen WARE, as cheap as Sold in America, by Wholesale or Retail. Lumber or any Country Produce taken in Pay.
Cash, and a good Price given for Bees-Wax, at said Store.
TO BE SOLD cheap for CASH, BILLS of Exchange, or other good Pay, the
Schooner Speedwell
Burthen about 90 Tons, 5 Years old, being a compleat built Vessel, with a long Quarter Deck, and now in good Repair, belonging to the Estate of the late JOSEPH FROST, Esq and now lying at the Wharf of the said deceas'd in New-Castle. Enquire of JOSEPH FROST; who has likewise for Sale, a Quantity of good Virginia Corn.
N. B. The above Vessel is to be sold in order for a Settlement of the Estate; for which Reason, those Persons who are indebted to the same by Notes of Hand, or otherwise, are requested to make immediate Payment, or such Measures as the Law prescribes, will be taken, without further Indulgence. Newcastle, May 12. 1773.
Just Imported from London, And to be SOLD
By Stephen Hardy,
At his Shop the lower End of King-Street, a neat Assortment of English GOODS, among which are the following Articles,
SUPERFINE brown, blue, white Buff and pearl colour'd Casimer for Gentlemen's Cloaths: striped silk Damascus and Loretto; black Lastings; Prince's Stuff; Men's Bever Hats; Gold Hat Lace; Loops and Buttons dit. Gold & Silver Prusia Bindings; Gold Cord; Gold and Silver Garters; Silver Buttons; Loops, and Hatbands for Boys: A good Assortment of superfine and low priced Broad Cloths; Cotton Checks; fine Irish Linnens; Ribbons; best double gilt and Silver Plated Buttons; Mettal dit. and Mohair dit. of most Colours; Taylors Trimings of all sorts; Button Hole Natches; Hair Trunks very good, and sundry other Articles.

§ Durham §
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Rockingham, ff.
Whereas Application is made to me the subscriber, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, within and throughout the said province of New Hampshire, by more than a sixteenth part of the Owners of the Rights, Shares and Interests of the common and undivided Lands in Durham and Lee, in said County, to notify and call a Meeting of said Proprietors to be holden at Durham at the Meeting House at Durham Falls (so called) on Monday the 24th Day of May next, at two of the Clock in the Afternoon, to act & vote on the following Articles, viz. To chuse a Moderator to regulate said Meeting.—To pass a Vote to confirm the proceedings of any former Meetings, or of any Committees chosen by said proprietors. To chuse a committee to examine the Records of said proprietors, and see that the same be compleated.—To chuse a committee to lay out any Grants that have not yet been satisfied.—To pass a Vote that each and every person who have laid out any of the common Lands, shall bring in their Returns to be recorded by some certain Day then to be agreed on, otherwise to be void.—To chuse a committee to make Satisfaction to those persons who have been injured in the Division of the common Lands.—To chuse a committee to divide the Lands which yet lay in common and undivided.—To see if said proprietors will vote to raise Money to defray past charges, and chuse proper Officers to assist and collect the same.—To see if the proprietors will consider JAMES BUNKER, and make him satisfaction for the Loss he sustained by the Removal of Barrington Line.—To chuse an Agent or Agents to prosecute and defend any Suits for or against said proprietors.—To pass any other Vote or Votes that may at said Meeting be then necessary.—And to agree on some Method for calling and holding proprietors Meetings in future.—In Consequence of said Application, I do hereby Notify said proprietors to meet at said time and place, and for the purposes aforesaid.
JOHN SULLIVAN, Durham, April 26th, 1773. Just. Pacis
§ New-Almsbury, so called. §
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Hillsborough, ff.
Whereas the proprietors of New Almsbury, so called, have been legally Notified to pay Assessments on each proprietor's Right or Lot of Land in said Township, to me the subscriber, and several of them being yet delinquent in whole or part, this is therefore to Notify such persons, that those delinquent proprietors Lands will be exposed to publick VENDUE at the House of Mr. James French, Innholder in South Hampton, on Tuesday the 22d of June next, at one of the clock in the Afternoon, to pay said TAXES, with incidental charges. The delinquent proprietors Names are as follows, with the sums due.
   Captain Jonathan Barnard, £. s. d.     Nathan Goodwin 2 2 0   Eastman Hoyt 1 4 0   Thomas Jewell 1 15 0   John Nichols 1 7 6   Aaron Rowel 2 2 0   Jervis Ring 1 8 6   Abner Chase 2 2 0   Thomas Barnard 1 1 0   Jeremiah Flanders 0 18 0   0 18 0    May 2. 1773. BENJAMIN EVANS, Collector.
|| New-Holderness. ||
WHEREAS the ASSESSORS for the PROPRIETORS of NEW HOLDERNESS, have given me an Assessment of six shillings Lawful Money, on each Right in said Town assessed, and proportioned according to said proprietors Vote, two shillings on the Intersale Lot, two shillings on the hundred Acre Lot, and two shillings on the undivided or common Right of each proprietor, with a Warrant under their Hands and Seal, dated the 24th Day of April, 1773, to collect the same, according to LAW; These are therefore to Notify said proprietors to pay me the said Tax by the first of June next, otherwise their respective Lands will be advertized and sold, to raise the same according to LAW.
SAMUEL LIVERMORE May 5. 1773. Collector for the proprietors of New Holderness.
§ Marlow, §
Province of New Hampshire, Cheshire, ff.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, to all the delinquent Proprietors of said MARLOW, that the Vendue MEETING of said Proprietors stands adjourned to the First Tuesday of June next, to the Dwelling House of Mr. Elisha Royce, Innholder in said Marlow, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon; And if all the Delinquents Lands are not sold at said Meeting, to be adjourned to the Monday following.
EBER LEWIS.
LITTLE DRIVER.
THE real noble thorough bred ENGLISH RACE HORSE, so noted in ENGLAND for UNECLIPSED SWIFTNESS, BEAUTY and STRENGTH,
Will cover MARES this SEASON, At WILLIAM VANCE's at Londonderry, in New-Hampshire, at six shillings a LEAP, or twelve shillings for the SEASON. N. B. GRASS may be had on reasonable terms for MARES, at a little Distance, if desired.
|| Success. ||
AT a MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of SUCCESS, held by Adjournment, at the House of Capt. Jacob Titcomb, Innholder in Portsmouth, on Tuesday the twentieth Day of April Instant, the following Vote was passed, viz. That a TRACT of eight Thousand Acres of Land within the Tract or Township of Success, as near the Centre of said Township as may be convenient and suitable for Improvements, and running across said Township from the Province Line over to the Line of Maine-borough and Paulsborough, making right Angles with the Province Line, be and hereby is granted by the Proprietors, to any Number of the Proprietors, who, at their own proper Charge, may be willing to undertake, and shall effectually perform the Condition of the CHARTER, which requires, that two thousand three hundred and fifty Acres of Land, be inclosed and brought under Cultivation, within the Space of five Years from the Date of said Charter, and who shall moreover make so much of the Road thro' said Township, which may be required by the Governor and Council, and whenever ordered, as may run through the above granted Tract of Eight Thousand Acres, and also all other Roads within the aforesaid Grant of Eight Thousand Acres, which may be convenient and necessary for said Township: Such Proprietors as are willing to undertake and perform the aforesaid Conditions, shall before the Third Day of August next, subscribe a Copy of this Vote, which the Clerk shall make, and keep in his Hands for that Purpose, and produce at the next Meeting of this Propriety, following the last Day of July next, that the Names of such Subscribers may be known and recorded. And if any who shall become Subscribers for the aforesaid Purpose, shall neglect to pay his or their proportional Part of the Expences for performing said Conditions from Year to Year, upon the Return of their Names as Delinquents, to any legal Meeting, of the Proprietors of Success, he or they shall forfeit to the Rest of the Subscribers, his or their Part of the above granted Tract of Eight Thousand Acres, and shall be cut off from all Claim to his or their Dividend, by virtue of this Vote—The Two thousand, Three Hundred and Fifty Acres, required by the Charter to be inclosed, and under Cultivation, are to be included within the above Grant of Eight Thousand Acres, and also the Town Lots of one Acre to each original Proprietor; and the aforesaid Subscribers shall out of the aforesaid Grant of Eight Thousand Acres, lay out one Lot, of one Hundred Acres, for the Use and Benefit of the Gospel Minister for the Time being, who shall be chosen from Time to Time, on every Vacancy, by the Proprietors or Inhabitants of said Tract, District, or Parish: And one Hundred Acres more for the Use and Benefit of a Grammar-School within said Tract; likewise one Hundred Acres more, for the first Minister called and ordained by vote of the Proprietors, or Inhabitants of said Tract, District or parish. But if the Subscribers to this Vote as aforesaid, shall so neglect their Duty for Two Years from the said Third Day of August next, as that at any legal Meeting of the proprietors of the Township of Success, it shall be judged, that there is plainly Danger of a Forfeiture of said Township, thro' Default of Fulfilling the aforesaid Conditions, then the aforesaid Grant of Eight Thousand Acres shall be null and void, and shall revert to the original proprietors. This Vote to be published immediately in the New Hampshire Gazette, Three Weeks successively. A true Copy, Attest, PAUL LANGDON, Prop's Clerk. Portsmouth, April 21st, 1773.
WHEREAS my Son MOSES CRUMMET, about 24 Years of Age, has often run me in Debt, being DISORDERED in MIND; this is therefore to forbid any PERSON or PERSONS crediting, or trading with him on any Account whatsoever, as he is incapable of transacting any BUSINESS, and has been so for near a Year past. I thought proper to give this public NOTICE, fearing what Difficulties his Conduct might occasion, should I neglect it any longer. I am determined not to pay any Debts by him contracted. Durham, April 26. 1773. JOSHUA CRUMMET.
|| Canterbury. ||
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
APPLICATION having been made to me, by the Owners of more than one sixteenth Part of the Town of Canterbury, in the County of Rockingham, & Province of New Hampshire, that a Meeting of the Proprietors of said Canterbury might be warned to be held in the Meeting House in said Canterbury, on the 26th Day of May next, at ten o'clock, forenoon, then and there to vote on the following Articles, viz. 1. To chuse a Moderator, and a Proprietor's Clerk. 2. To see if the Proprietors will choose a Committee and impower them to search their Records, to see if there be any Omissions or Mistakes in them, and to collect any Papers relative to said Propriety, that ought to be recorded, and to get them recorded, and to make Report to said Propriety; and that said Committee apply to the General Court, (if it shall be found necessary,) for power to record any of the said Proprietor's Papers, that have heretofore been neglected. 3. To see if the Proprietors will vote for laying out the whole or any part of the common and undivided Lands in said Canterbury, and to choose a Committee for that purpose. 4. To see if the said Proprietors will choose a Committee to settle Accounts with any person or persons, who have transacted any Business for said proprietors. 5. To agree upon some lawful Method for calling Proprietor's Meetings for the future. 6. To know what Methods the said Proprietors will pursue to defray the Charge of carrying the above mentioned Articles into Execution.
Agreeable to the above mentioned Application, I do hereby notify and warn the Proprietors of said Canterbury, to meet in the Meeting House, in said Canterbury, on the 26 Day of May next, at ten o'clock, forenoon, then and there, (if they see Cause) to vote on the Articles above mentioned. April 21, 1773. DANIEL PIERCE, Just. Pac.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE:
PETITION having been preferred to the GENERAL ASSEMBLY of said province, by a Committee from the Town of DEERFIELD, praying that a TAX of TWO PENCE per Acre on all the Lands in said Deerfield may be laid for three Years next ensuing; one half of which to be laid out in the PARSONAGE HOUSE and LAND; and the other half on the HIGH WAYS through said TOWN, for Reasons mentioned in said PETITION.—THESE are therefore to give NOTICE, that a HEARING is granted on said PETITION on the third Day of the sitting of the GENERAL ASSEMBLY after the first Day of MAY next, for any person to show Cause why the PRAYER thereof may not be granted. April 22d 1773. GEORGE KING, D. Sec.
Whereas Elizabeth the Wife of me the subscriber, imbezels my Goods, and behaves herself so disagreeable to me and my Children, which obliges me to forewarn all persons giving her any Credit on my Account, for that I will not pay any Debt by her contracted.
EBENEZER WENTWORTH.
Somersworth, April 24, 1773.
ALL PERSONS INDEBTED TO,
OR that have any Demands on the Estate of JACOB HOOK, late of Seabrook, in the County of Rockingham, Yeeman, deceased, Intestate, are desired to settle the same with Thomas Merrill of Salisbury, in the County of Essex, and province of the Massachusetts Bay, Administrator of said Estate.
William Davis,
Clothier, Silk Dyer & Scourer from Europe Acquaints the PUBLICK, that he carries on the scouring and Dying CLOTHING TRADE in PORTSMOUTH, near the Mile Dam: he takes out Pitch, Paint, Lime Juice, or Lime burnt, or any other stains out of Gentlemen's Cloaths: he takes out colours out of Silk or Cloth, and dyes it to any other colour to a pattern: he colours Cotton or Linnen blue, and warrents the colour: he cleans Gold and Silver Lace: he fills and dresses Country Cloth: Gentlemen and Ladies that incline to favour him with their Custom, shall be kindly us'd, and their Work done in the neatest Manner, and with Dispatch, by William Davis.
GEORGE S. HOMANS
Hereby informs his Customers and others, that he has opened Shop opposite Doctor Hall Jackson's, where he carries on the Taylor's Business in all it's Branches, Any Gentlemen who chuse to employ him, may depend on being served with the greatest Dispatch, and at the cheapest Rate.