The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1773-12-31 00:00:00

The New-Hampshire GAZETTE, and Historical Chronicle, for
FRIDAY, December 31, 1773:
Number 897
BOSTON, December 27. The following is an attested Copy of the Proceedings of the Governor and Council, in Consequence of a Petition presented by the East India Consignees. It is Attest that his Excellency has expressly prohibited the Secretary to Attest a Copy of these Proceedings, though he should be required even by the Council; It was however demanded by a Citizen, and the Secretary KNEW HIS DUTY.
To his Excellency the GOVERNOR, And the Honorable his Majesty's Council. The Petition of Richard Clarke and Sons, of Benja. Faneuil, and Thomas and Elisha Hutchinson.
THAT the Honorable East India Company in London have shipped a considerable Quantity of TEA for the Port of Boston, and as your Petitioners are made to understand will be consigned to their address for sale.
That some of your Petitioners have in consequence of this been cruelly insulted in their persons and property. That they have had incendiary Letters left and thrown into their Boxes the night, That they have been repeatedly attacked by a large body of Men, That one of the Houses of your Petitioners was assaulted in the night by a tumultuous and riotous Assembly of people & violent attempts made to force the House for the space of two hours that have greatly damaged the same.
That they are threatened in their persons and property, and further with the destruction of the said Tea on its arrival into Port. And that the Resolves and proceedings of the Town at their meeting on the 5th and 18th inst. are intended to be expressive of the general sense of the Town, to which we beg leave to refer your Excellency and the Honorable Board.
Your Petitioners therefore beg leave to resign themselves and their property committed to their care to your Excellency and Honors as the Guardians and protectors of the people, humbly praying that measures may be directed to for the landing and securing the Teas until your Petitioners can be at liberty openly and safely to dispose of the same, or until they can receive directions from their Constituents.
Richard Clarke and Sons, Benjamin Faneuil, jun. Tho. & Elisha Hutchinson. THO'S FLUCKER, Sec'y.
A true Copy, Attest.
[The Council met on the 19th of November; and while debating upon the "Disorders prevailing in the Town of Boston," (which were represented to the Board by the Governor) the foregoing Petition was presented: On which, after long Debate, and without coming to a Result, or giving Advice to the Governor, the Board by his Excellency's Leave, adjourned to the 23d. On that Day the Council accordingly met; but there being only a bare Quorum present, seven in Number, the Board adjourned to the 27th, his Excellency being first advised to summon all the Members, within 40 Miles of Boston, then to attend. On the 27th the Council again met, Eleven Members present, and appointed a Committee (James Bowdoin, Samuel Dexter and John Winthrop, Esq's) to prepare an Answer to the Petition, and to be laid before his Excellency; and Mr. Bowdoin having reported, the Board adjourned, for further Consideration, to the 29th.]
MONDAY, November 29th, 1773. Present in Council,
His Excellency Thomas HUTCHINSON, Esq; Governor. Samuel Danforth, Isaac Royal, John Erving, James Bowdoin, James Russell, James Pitts, Samuel Dexter, George Leonard, Artemas Ward, John Winthrop, Esquires.
HIS Excellency directed that the Council proceed upon the Business for which it stands adjourned. After Debate upon the Report of the Committee, the Question, whether it be accepted, was put, and it passed unanimously in the Affirmative, as the Advice of Council to his Excellency, in the Words following, viz.
Previous to the Consideration of the Petition before the Board they would make a few Observations occasioned by the Subject of it. The Situation of Things between Great-Britain and the Colonies has been for some Years past very unhappy. Parliament on the one Hand has been taxing the Colonies, and they, on the other have been petitioning and remonstrating against it, apprehending they have constitutionally an exclusive right of taxing themselves, and that without such a Right their condition would be but little better than Slavery.
Possessed of these sentiments, every new Measure of Parliament tending to establish and confirm a Tax on them renews and increases their Distress; and is particularly increased by the Act lately made, empowering the East-India Company to ship their Tea to America. This Act, in a commercial View, they think introductory of Monopolies and tending to bring on them the extensive Evils thence arising; but their great Objection to it, is from its being manifestly intended (though that Intention is not expressed therein) more effectually to secure the Payment of the Duty on the Tea laid by an Act, passed in the 7th Year of his present Majesty, intitled "An Act for granting certain Duties in the British Colonies and Plantations in America;" which Act in its Operation deprives the Colonies of the Right above-mentioned (the exclusive Right of taxing themselves) which they hold as an essential one, that it cannot be taken away or given up without their being degraded or degrading themselves below the Character of Men. It not only deprives them of that Right, but enacts that the Monies arising from the Duties granted by it may be applied "as his Majesty or his Successors shall think proper or necessary for defraying the Charges of the Administration of Justice and the Support of the civil Government within all or any of the said Colonies or Plantations."
This Clause of the Act has already operated in some of the Colonies and in this Colony in particular, with regard to the Support of civil Government, and thereby has operated in diminution of its Charter Rights to the great Grief of the good People of it, who have been and still are greatly alarmed by repeated Reports that it is to have a further Operation with respect to the defraying the Charge of the Administration of Justice, which would not only be a further Diminution of those Rights, but tend in all constitutional Questions, and in many other Cases of Importance to bias the Judges against the Subject: They humbly rely on the Justice and Goodness of his Majesty for the Restitution and Preservation of those Rights.
This short State of Facts the Board thought necessary to be given to show the Cause of the present great Uneasiness which is not confined to this Neighbourhood, but is general and extensive. The People think their exclusive Right of taxing themselves, by their Representatives, infringed and violated by the Act above-
mentioned. That the new Act impowering the East India Company to import their Tea into America confirms that violation, and is a new effort not only more effectually to secure the payment of the Tea duty, but lay a foundation for the in- hancing it, and in a like way, if this should succeed, to lay other taxes on America; that it is in its attendants and consequences ruinous to the Liberties and Properties of themselves and their posterity; that as their numerous petitions for Relief have been rejected, the said new Act demonstrates an Indisposition in Ministry that Parliament should grant them Relief; that this is the Source of their distress--a distress that borders on despair, and that they know not where to apply for relief.
These being the sentiments of the people, it is become the indispensable duty of this Board to mention them, that the occasion of the late demands on Mr. Clarke and others, the agents for the East-India company, and of the consequent disturbances might appear. And we mention them not to justify those disturbances, the authors of which we have advised should be prosecuted, but to give a just Idea of the rise of them.
On this occasion justice impels us to declare, that the people of this town and province, though they have a high sense of liberty derived from the manners, the example and constitution of the mother country, have, till the late parliamentary taxation of the colonies, been as free from disturbances as any people whatever.
This representation the Board thought necessary to be made prior to their taking notice of the petition of the agents above-mentioned, to the consideration of which they now proceed.
"The Petitioners beg leave to resign themselves and the property committed to their care to his Excellency and the Board as Guardians and Protectors of the People, praying that measures may be directed to for the landing and securing the Tea," &c.
With regard to the personal protection of the Petitioners, the Board have not been informed that they have applied for it to any of the Justices of the peace, within whose department it is to take cognizance of the case of the Petitioners and all other breaches of the peace, they being vested by Law with all the authority necessary for the protection of his Majesty's Subjects. In the principal instance of abuse, of which they complain, the Board have already advised that the authors of it should be prosecuted according to Law; and they do advise the same in the other instances mentioned in their Petition.
With regard to the Tea committed to the care of the Petitioners, the Board have no authority to take either that or any other merchandise out of their care, and should they do it or give any order or advice concerning it, and a loss ensue, they apprehend they should make themselves responsible for it. With respect to the prayer of the Petition "that measures may be directed to for the landing and securing the Tea," the Board would observe on it, that the duty on Tea becomes payable and must be paid or secured to be paid on its being landed. And should they direct or advise to any measure for landing it, they would of course advise to a measure for procuring the payment of the duty and therefore be advising to a measure inconsistent with the essential element of both Houses. A Warrant of the General Court; which they apprehend to be altogether inexpedient and improper.
The Board, however, on this occasion assure your Excellency that as they have seen with regret some late disturbances and have advised to the prosecuting the authors of them, so they will in all legal methods endeavour, to the utmost of their power, to prevent them in future.
Whereupon advised that his Excellency renew his Orders to his Majesty's Justices of the peace, Sheriffs and other peace officers to exert themselves to the utmost for the security of his Majesty's subjects in the preservation of peace and good order and for preventing all of fces against the Laws."
His Excellency thereupon demanded of the Council whether they would give him no advice upon the disorders then prevailing in the Town of Boston, and it was answered, in general, that the advice already given was intended for that purpose. At a Council held at the House of the hon'ble William Brattle Esq; in Cambridge on Tuesday the 21st day of Dec. 1773.
P R E S E N T.
His Excellency THOMAS HUTCHINSON, Esq; Governor. Samuel Danforth, Isaac Royal, John Erving, William Brattle, James Bowdoin, James Russell, James Pitts, John Winthrop, Esq's.
HIS Excellency acquainted the Council that the reason he had summoned them to meet at this time was that he might have their advice relating to the high handed Riot on the evening of the 16th Instant between the hours of six and nine o'Clock, committed by persons disguised and unknown, on board three Vessels lately arrived from London then lying at a Wharf in the Southerly part of the Town of Boston known by the name of Griffin's Wharf,-----After long debate it was Advised, That the Attorney-General be directed to make diligent inquiry into the offence aforesaid in order to discover the offenders, and that he lay his discoveries before the Grand Jury for his Majesty's Superior Court of Judicature &c. for the County of Suffolk, at their next Term, in order for prosecution.
The foregoing eight pages contain true Copies of the minutes of Council. Attest, Thomas Flucker, Sec'y.
We hear by two Vessels Yesterday, that Capt. Loring's Brig, being the 4th Vessel with Tea for this Place was seen burning on Saturday last, at Cape-Cod.---We have not yet heard what has become of the detested TEA.
Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman of Intelligence in London, to his Friend in this Town, Sept. 1, 1773.
"Some of the Friends of Government (as they are called) of Boston, New-York, Philadelphia, &c. are to be favoured with the Commission [for the Sale of the East India Company's Tea] who undertake, by their Interest, to carry the Measure through, in the Colonies."
Saturday Night and Yesterday, the Wind being very high, considerable Damage was done to the Shipping, several Houses, Fences, &c.
The last Week it was currently reported that his Excellency Governor HUTCHINSON, in Conversation with some of his COUNCIL, spoke of the late Proceedings here of the UNITED TOWNS, as coming under the Denomination of TREASON or REBELLION---and intimated his Design, that the Attorney-General should be heard upon the Matter before the Council.---But the Matter not taking, his Excellency when he met his Council to do Business, at the House of Brigadier BRATTLE, in Cambridge, wisely changed his Tone; or Mr. Attorney wisely declined his Task: and the Subject of Consideration turned upon BURGLARY & RIOTS, instead of TREASON
and REBELLION; and Mr. Attorney gratified the Eyes of the honorable Board at Dinner, instead of searing their Ears in the Council Chamber.
At the Meeting of the Citizens of New York, on the 17th Inst. the Mayor and Recorder came in with the following Message, viz.
"GENTLEMEN, I have a MESSAGE from Government to deliver to you. The GOVERNOR declares that the TEA will be put into the Fort at Noon Day; and engages his Honor that it will continue there, 'till the Council shall advise it to be delivered out, or 'till the KING's Order, or the Proprietors Order is known; and then the Tea will be delivered out at Noon Day. Gentlemen, is this satisfactory to you?" This was answered with a general No, No, No.
After which the Meeting was adjourn'd till the Tea Ship should arrive---Previous to this they Voted their Proceedings (which are too lengthy for this Day's Paper) should be Published and transmitted by a Committee to the other Colonies.
Charles Town, December 25th, 1773. WE the Dealers and Sellers of Tea in this Town, taking into our Consideration the present alarming Designs & attack upon our Rights and Privileges, and considering how essentially the said designs may be carried into execution by the Sale of Tea, while subject as it now is to an American Duty by the Authority of the British Parliament: Have upon mature Deliberation unanimously Resolved and Agreed, That we will not after this Day directly or indirectly by Ourselves or any for under Us, buy, or sell, or suffer to be used in our Families, any TEA, until the said Duty is repealed.
And whereas some of us may have more Tea on hand than others, in order that the Loss may fall equally, Voted, that the same be bought at the joint Expence of this Company and destroyed.
Also, Voted, That three of the Gentlemen present be a Committee to inform some of the principal Tea-Sellers in Boston & Medford of these Resolutions, and desire their Influence that similar Measures may be taken by the Dealers in this Article in their respective Towns.
Extract of a Letter from Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, dated at the Capital, December 20, 1773.
"It gives great Pleasure to hear that the Bostonians have behaved so nobly---Hope that the Resolves pass in our Town Meeting will convince you that we are at last reus'd from that lethargic Disposition, that has (we are sorry to say) reigned so long among us. We are now determined to join with our Brethren in the other Provinces, to spend our LIVES and FORTUNES in support of our Liberties, without which Life is not worth preserving."
S A L E M, December 28. His Excellency the Governor has prorogued the General Court from the 12th to the 26th of January next.
The first Class of Patients are to begin leaving Salem Hospital on Friday next.
We are well informed, that the Affairs of the Hospital have been conducted in such a Manner as to give ample Satisfaction to the Patients.
P O R T S M O U T H, Dec. 31. ON Tuesday fe'night, died at Merrimack, the amiable Comfort of the Rev'd JACOB BURNAP, of that Town, in the Bloom of Life, but happily resign'd to the divine Will.
We hear from Chester, that on Monday last, one Thomas Wells of that Town was shot through the Body, and died instantly. The Person who committed the Fact, is taken into Custody in order for Trial.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, PISCATAQUA, Dec. 31, 1773.
Table with 3 columns: Inward Entries, FROM, FOR. Lists various ships like Schooner Sally, Schooner Molly, Brig Elizabeth, etc. and their origins/destinations like Turks-Island, London, St. Nicholas, West Indies, etc.
From the PENNSYLVANIA PACKET.
S I R,
IN looking over the latter part of the first chapter of Genesis, I find an account of God's having granted to Adam and his posterity, not only a dominion over "the fish of the sea, the fowl of the air, cattle, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth," but likewise in a particular manner, over the Negroes of Africa. *---I beg therefore you would mention this in your paper, to silence those writers who insist upon the Africans belonging to the same species of men with the white people, and who will not allow that God formed them in common with horses, oxen, dogs, &c. for the white people alone, to be used by them either for pleasure or to labour with their other beasts in the culture of Tobacco, Indigo, Rice, and Sugar.
* "And the beasts of Ethiopia shall bow down to thee, even they whose figure and speech are like unto thine own, and whose heads are covered with a covering like unto fine wool. They who dwell on the sea coast, shall serve thee, and thy seed after thee, even they who shall sojourn in the Islands afar off, where the sun hath his going down."
To the PRINTER. S I R,
MR. Addison in his observations on human life, has taken notice of the prude, the coquet, the gossip, and the tale-bearer, with many other species of female entertainers, even down to the loud-tongued ladies of the Billinggate fishery. I do not remember any remarks he made on the female schemist.
I reside in a populous city, and my situation gives me too fair an opportunity to represent you a passion, which is, I think scandalous in itself, and hurtful to others. You must know then, that we have amongst us a choice collection of prim, antiquated widows, and stale superannuated virgins, whose whole life is spent in nothing but cunning contrivances how to live from home, and, under the mask of gentility, to be always paying visits. They are not like common mendicants, who beg at your door, or supplicate at your window, they are of a much politer kind, they enter your house without hesitation; they address you immediately with the most accomplished gossiping eloquence, and spin out their pretty insignificant stories till your meat is just ready to make it's appearance on your table, and then give a broad hint for an invitation, by a well concerted apology for visiting at so improper an hour.---I must do them justice in one particular: they are so well bred that they commend every dinner they see preparing, and their appetites are so complaisant, that I verily believe nothing is disagreeable to them but eating at home.---
I am, Sir, Your very humble Servant, LIBERTIA.
L O N D O N, Octob. 13.
In Sweden and Denmark the Punishment for Slavery would not a similar Punishment in England be more effectually remedying the Grievance than to many public Executions at Tyburn?
A Correspondent says ten brave English Sailors delivered from Slavery in Barbary would have been a much more welcome Present to our Sovereign than to many Arabian Horses.
That able minister, the famous Monsieur Colbert, makes it his observation, "that if once the ecclesiastical character, as such, is vilified, the civil magistrate, even the crown itself, will, in consequence thereof, lose all authority."
Octo. 16. The Hon. Bulkeley Coventry, brother to Lord Coventry, has declared himself a candidate to represent the city of Worcester in Parliament, in the room of the late Henry Crabb Boulton, Esq; in opposition to Mr. Kelly.
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All Persons having Claims upon
the Estate of DANIEL PIERCE, Esquire, late of Portsmouth, deceased, Intestate, are desired to bring them in, to the Subscriber, that they may be discharged; at the same Time it is expected that all Persons Indebted to said Intestate will immediately pay and discharge their several Debts:
JOHN PEIRCE, } Administrators; JOSEPH PEIRCE } Portsmouth, December 29th, 1773:
Strayed away from Portsmouth
the 24th Instant, a black and white COW, with small Horns and Bob Tail, about six Years old. Whoever will give information where she is, or will bring her to me, shall be rewarded. WILLIAM STANWOOD.
ALL PERSONS Indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of JOHN WEARE, late of Kennington, in the County of Rockingham, Yeoman, deceased, are hereby required to settle speedily with NATHANIEL WEARE Yeoman, Executor. & LUCY WEARE, Executrix, in Kennington, of the Testament of the said deceased. Kennington, Dec. 30, 1773.

TO BE SOLD,  By WILLIAM PEARNE,  At his Store in Portsmouth,  Excellent Madeira WINES in Pipes and Quarter Cask, cheap for Cash.— Also very good Newcastle COALS , at ten Dollars per Chaldron. Also English Goods of divers sorts; which he will sell for white Pine Boards or Staves, to be delivered next May. Portsmouth, Dec. 27, 1773.
§ Wilton. §
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, WHEREAS the Grantees or Proprietors of the Town- ship of No. 2, formerly so called, now WILTON , in the County of Hillsborough, in said Province, at their Meetings legally called for that purpose, on the 25th of August 1761, and the 25th of November 1761, did vote to raise Eleven Shillings and two pence sterling Money on each original Right, to hire preaching; and whereas the Taxes on a considerable Number of the Lots remain un- paid; these are therefore to notify the delinquent Ow- ners of said Lots or Rights, that so much of their Lands as will pay their proportionable Part of said Taxes, together with incidental Charges, will be exposed to Sale on Wednesday the second Day of February next, at 10 o'clock in the Forenoon, at the House of Mr. Rich- ard Taylor, Innholder in said Wilton, unless prevented by the Payment of the same to me the Subscriber, at said Wilton, on or before said Day.
The Number of the delinquent Lots are as follows.     No. Range. No. Range. No. Range. No. Range.    11 in 4 10 in 6 11 in 5 6 in 6  1 1 13 1 14 1 8 6  16 10 14 4 10 2 8 2  9 2 5 6 13 3 13 2  12 10 13 6 10 10 11 10  12 6 7 1 10 7 18 7  17 7 14 2 15 2 2 8  3 8 13 8 14 8 20 6  13 9 3 1 19 9 7 3  16 7 13 5 5 9 6 8  14 5 11 6 20 10 10 5  7 9 20 9 11 7 11 9  4 1 16 2 15 5 17 4  15 4 16 6 14 6 15 6  13 5 JOHN CRAM, Collector.    Wilton Dec. 21. 1773.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE CHESHIRE, ss. WHEREAS the Proprietors of the Township of  ALSTEAD , in said Province and County, at several Proprietors Meetings, legally warned and held in said Alstead, voted to raise several Taxes, viz. on May 23d, 1768, Sixteen Dollars on each Right, or Share of Land; — and April the 6th, 1772, voted to raise 20 Shillings on all the Rights in said Town- ship, excepting 20, which were settled; these are to warn the said Proprietors to pay the same to me the Subscriber, on or before the 15th Day of January next, at my Dwelling House, in said Alstead, or their Rights will be advertised for Sale to pay the same, at the new directs, with incidental Charges.
ABSALOM KINGSBURY, Col. Alstead. Nov. 22. 1773.
Province of New Hampshire, Grafton ss.
§ Canaan. §
NOTICE is hereby given to all the Proprietors of the Township of CANAAN , that are delinquent in paying their Taxes due on my Bill, dated May 19th, 1772, that the Vendue Meeting for the Sale of such de- linquent Proprietor's Lands, stands adjourned to the first Tuesday in February, at one o'Clock P. M. to be held at the Dwelling House of Bela Turner in Lebanon, Innholder in said Province.
JEDIDIAH HEBBARD, Collector.
TO BE SOLD A Quantity of Winter and Spring Merchantable  Cod and Jamaica Fish, Pollock,  HAKE and HADDOCK; SALT by the Hogshead; a small Quantity of JUNK , and second Hand COR-  DAGE , cheap for Cash, enquire of  DAVID GRIFFITH.
ALL Persons that have any Claims on the Estate of Israel Wilkins, late of Hollis, in the County of Hillsborough, Yeoman, deceased, Intestate, are desired to bring in the same to Bray Wilkins, of said Hollis, Ad- ministrator on said Estate. BRAY WILKINS.
HENRY DURGIN forewarns all Persons from trusting ANNAH his WIFE with any thing upon his Account, for he solemnly declares that he wont pay any Debt contracted by her. Durham, Dec. 23, 1773
ALL PERSONS Indebted to, or that have any De- mands on the Estate of James Shields, late of Ches- ter, in the County of Rockingham, Pedlar, deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts to TIMOTHY  WALKER , of Concord, Administrator on said Estate, in order for an immediate settlement.
THREE MONTHS longer, from the Fourth Day of October current, being allowed the Creditors to the Estate of CHARLES LIBBY , late of Berwick, in the County of York, deceased, to bring in their Claims, and prove their Debts, Notice is hereby given, that the Com- missioners will attend that Service at the Dwelling House of Mr. NAHUM MARSHALL , Innholder in Berwick, on the first Mondays of the six following Months, from three to six o'Clock Afternoons. Berwick, October 4, 1773.
ALL PERSONS Indebted to, or that have any De- mands on the Estate of SAMUEL NORTON , Yeoman, late of Kittery, in the County of York, deceased, are hereby desired to bring in their Claims properly attes- ted to JOSEPH GUNNISON , of Kittery, in said County, Administrator to said Estate, in order for a speedy Settlement. Kittery, Dec. 22, 1773.
JAMES HASLETT,
Leather-Dresser and Breeches-Maker, in Kingstreet Portsmouth, Has for Sale, Leather Breeches of all Sorts; Buckskin Gloves and others, made in the neatest Manner — As said Hostet carries on the Business of Dressing the Lea- ther and making it up, he can and will afford to sell as cheap as any in New England.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, GRAFTON, ss.
|| Cambridge. ||
ALL PERSONS that have any Concerns in the tract of Land called CAMBRIDGE , are hereby Noti- fied, that the Proprietors Meeting thereof stands adjourn- ed to the first Tuesday in January, at one o'Clock in the Afternoon, at the House of Mr. John Burnham Hanson, in Dover. Oxford, Sept. 18. 1773.  NATHANIEL ROGERS, Proprietor Clerk.
§ New-Brittain §
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Rockingham, ss. WHEREAS a Sum of MONEY has been voted and assessed on each Proprietors Right or Share of LAND in the Township of NEW BRITTAIN , lo- cated in the County and Province aforesaid; and, a List of said Assessment committed to me to collect, of which legal Notice has been given of time and place for paying said Assessment, yet sundry of said Proprietors are delinquent in whole or in part in paying their res- pective proportions: — these are therefore to Notify said delinquent Proprietors, that so much of their LAND in said Township as will be sufficient to pay said taxes, with incidental Charges, will be sold at public Vendue at the House of Capt. CALEB SANBORN , Innhol- der in Hampton Falls, on the third Monday of January next, at ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, unless Payment be made to me at my Dwelling House in Hampton Falls before that time.
A List of the original Proprietors, and Sums now due on their respective Rights here follows,
   s. d. s. d.    Edman Brown £ 0 3 0 Nathan Longfellow 3 0  John Brown 3 0 Tobias Lakeman 3 0  Israel Blake 3 9 John Leavitt, Esq; 3 0  Edward Brown 3 0 Ebenezer Lowering 3 0  Samuel Barthwick 3 0 Jonathan Leavitt 3 0  Samuel Blake junr. 3 0 David Lowel 3 0  Samuel Blake 3 0 Daniel Marston 3 0  Nathaniel Batchelder 3 0 Robert Miller 3 0  Wm. Brown Clough 3 0 John Marston 3 0  Daniel Cram 3 0 Simon Marston 3 0  John Chapman 3 0 David Norton 3 0  Nelson Cals 3 0 David Page 3 0  Hezekiah Carr 3 0 Nathaniel Prescott 3 0  Robard Cals 3 0 Nathan Roro 3 0  Amos Dwinel 3 0 Joseph Rawlings 3 0  John Ellis 3 0 William Swain 3 0  Anthony Emery, Esq; 3 0 Daniel Sanborn 3 0  Samuel French, junr. 3 0 Benjamin Sanborn 3 0  Benjamin French 3 0 Richard Smith 3 0  Joseph French 3 0 Jonathan Sanborn 3 0  Joseph Gove 3 0 Thomas Silley 3 0  John Hoyt 3 0 Benjamin Shaw 3 0  Daniel Wicar 3 0 Joshua Towl 3 0  Nathaniel Healy, Esq; 3 0 Walter Williams 3 0  Archelaus Lakeman 3 0 Josiah Wicar 3 0  Benjamin Leavitt, 3 0 Ezekiel Wortban 3 0  
BENJAMIN LEAVITT, Collector. Hampton Falls, December 7th, 1773.
To be sold a NEGRO MAN belonging to the Estate of the late Reverend ARTHUR  BROWNE , by the Executors of said Estate. Portsmouth, December 16, 1773.
ALL PERSONS Indebted to, or that have D. mands upon the Estate of JONATHAN NORRIS , late of Epping, in the County of Rockingham, deceased, are de- sired to bring in their Accounts to DAVID NORRIS , Administrator to said Estate, in order for settlement.
Ran-away the 8th Instant, from his Master James Horn of Rochester, a Servant BOY about 19 Years of Age, named William Merrow; a thick set Fellow; had on a black and blue Homespun Coat and Jacket. Who-soever takes up said Servant, and conveys him to his said Master, shall have a Pisse ren Reward, and no Charges paid, nor any Debts be may contract. Rochester, December 16, 1773.
SAMUEL FOSTER
HEREBY informs his Customers and Others that he has removed from the Shop where he lately worked on the Parade, to a Shop adjoining the House where he lives, being the next House below the Rev. Dr. Langdon's, and next above the Rev. Dr. Haven's in Divinity Street, where he carries on the Shoema- ker's Business, in its several Branches, as usual. All those Gentlemen and Ladies, or others, that please to honor him with their Commands may de- pend on his using his best Endeavours to serve them with Fidelity and Dispatch. Portsmouth, Dec. 16, 1773.
§ Bretton Woods. §
WHEREAS the Proprietors of Bretton Woods, in the Province of New Hampshire, have been Noti- fied, according to Law, to pay two Assessments on each original Right or Share of Land in said Township to me the Subscriber, amounting to Three Pounds seven- teen shillings lawful Money, and many of them being delinquent in paying said Assessment, this is therefore to notify such delinquent Proprietors, that their Rights of Land will be exposed to Sale at public Vendue at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton, Innholder in Portsmouth, on Monday the 16th Day of January next, at three of the Clock Afternoon, in order to pay said taxes with in- cidental Charges.
The Delinquents Names, and Sums due are as follows,     f. s. f. s.    Peter Curtis 3 17 James Hostet 3 17  Jacob Tilton 3 17 David Boynton 3 17  John Gee Pickering 3 17 William Pickering 3 17  Sam Hall of Salem 3 17 Samuel Clark 3 17  Pere Royle 3 17 Isaac Williams 3 17  John Fleming 3 17 James Nelson 3 17  Boxberger Salter 3 17 John Plumer, Esq; 3 17  Walter Bryant Esq. 3 17 John Crosby 3 17  Jedidiah Hibbard 3 17    DANIEL FOWLE, Collector. Portsmouth, Dec. 16. 1773.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Grafton, ss.
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ALL PERSONS that have any Concerns in the tract of Land called MORRIS TOWN , are hereby Notified, that the Proprietors Meeting thereof stands adjourned to the first Tuesday in January next, at two o'Clock in the Afternoon, at the House of Mr. John Burnham Burnham Hanson in Dover. Oxford, Nov 30, 1773.  NATHANIEL ROGERS, Proprietor Clerk.
TO BE SOLD ON REASONABLE TERMS,  A well-built SCHOONER,
about 50 Tons Burthen, seven Years old, and Suitably calculated for the Southern TRADE: Enquire of  STEPHEN CHASE, junr. at New Castle.
ALL Persons Indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of JOHN MERRILL , late of Con- cord, in the County of Rockingham, Ferryman, deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts to JONATHAN  MERRILL , of said Concord, Executor to said Estate, in order for an immediate Settlement.
Land in Gilmantown,
Being one whole Right, to be Sold. Enquire at the Printing Office.
Warrantes and Quitclaim Deeds, Justices Blank, &c. Sold at the Printing Office.
A Woman with a good Breast of  MILK would go into a Family to suckle a Child. Enquire at the Printing Office.
Boston, Dec. 23.
The People at Newport, Rhode-Island, have advertised the Tea Sellers to sell at the usual Prices: And that every one who gives more than 4/6 lawful Money for the best BOHEA by the single Pound, shall be deemed an Enemy to this Country.
At Philadelphia, a great Number of re- spectable Merchants of that City at a pub- lick Meeting the Beginning of December, appointed a Committee to enquire how and by what Means the Price of Tea had been enhanced, &c. the said Committee reported on the 7th, That there was but a small Quantity of Tea in the City, by the best Computation not more than 25 Casks, which lay chiefly in the Hands of the Re- tailers and Shopkeepers, who had raised the Price—but as it had given Dissatisfaction to their Fellow-Citizens they readily complied with the advice of the Committee, not to sell more than 6s. or at most 6/6 per Pound, and to retail it in small Quantities. And if any Retailer of Tea shall demand more than 6/6 per Pound, their Names are to be pub- lished.—N. B. A Dollar is 7/6 Philadelphia Currency.
On the 5th Instant, the Barn of Mr. Levi Andrews of Newington, took Fire, and con- sumed, with a good Store of Hay and Grain therein.
One John Ensign was convicted, at the Superior Court at New-Haven, the 9th Inst. for robbing the House of Mr. Thomson of that Place, and sentenced to TEN YEARS Imprisonment in Simsbury Mines, now called New-Gate-Prison, agreeable to a late Act of the Colony of Connecticut.
We hear from East-Windfor in Connec- ticut, that a Child of Mr. Adonijah Crane of that Town, about two Years of Age, swallowed a Piece of Lead the Bigness of a Pittaceen, with Notches round the Edge for a Buz, which was then supposed to work gradually into the Flesh, and the Child is perfectly well.
An Association is signed at New-York by a great Number of the principal Gentlemen of the City, Merchants, Lawyers, and other Inhabitants of all Ranks: They Resolve that whoever aids, abets, or in any Manner assists in the Introduction of Tea, while it is subject by a British Act of Parliament to the Payment of a Duty, for the Purpose of rais- ing a Revenue in America, shall be deemed an Enemy to the Liberties of America. That whoever shall be aiding or assisting in Landing, Carting such Tea from any Ves- sel, or shall hire any House or Store to de- posit the Tea, or that shall sell or buy such Tea, shall also be deemed Enemies to the Liberties of America.—And that who- ever transgresses any of the Resolutions, the Associators will not deal with or employ, or have any Connections with them.
On Thursday the 9th of Dec. Inst. Mr. Benjamin Jones of Springfield in attempting to cross Connecticut River in a Canoe about dark, by some Accident fell out and was unfortunately drowned: His Body was ta- ken up the next Day in the Afternoon, a- bout a Mile below where he attempted to pass the River.
Capt. Sawyer, in a Brig from Boston to the West-Indies, is put into St. Eustatia to refit, having lost his Main-mast in a violent Gale of Wind the 7th of October last.— And a Brig belonging to Newbury-Port, having lost her Mast, is put into St. Kitts.
Governor Franklin, of New-Jersey, has granted a Pardon for Joseph Haines, Dr. Barn Budd, and Benjamin Cooper, confined in Goal as Associates with Ford, Reynolds, &c. in counterfeiting several sorts of Money as lately mentioned in the Papers.
Sept. 28. His Imperial Majesty will have a finer Army in the Field the ensuing Spring than has been seen in Germany for 2 Cen- turies; besides the Flower of his own Troops, all the hired Troops from the Duchies of Mecklenburg, Saxe Gotha, Wertemberg, &c. & which are picked Men to appear there.