New-Hampshire gazette, or, State journal and general advertiser (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1779-06-29 00:00:00

Wm Dickey New-Hampshire Gazette.
Third Year of American Independence.
OR, State JOURNAL, and General Advertiser.
[ Vol. II.
TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1779.
[ No. 71.
By various Ways, we have the following extraordinary, seasonable and important
Good News.
BOSTON, June 24.
About seven o'Clock Saturday Night an Express arrived here from Major General Gates, at Providence, to the President of the Council of this State, with the following important Intelligence, viz.—
Providence, 19th June, 1779.
SIR,
THE glorious piece of news contained in the inclosed paper was last night received in a letter from Gen. Washington—I do most heartily congratulate you thereupon. I am, your Honor's most obedient, humble servant, HORATIO GATES.
Hon. Jeremiah Powell, Esq;
Extract of a letter from John Mitchell, Esq; dated Philadelphia, June 10, 1779.
FOR this week past we have had daily reports of our army in South Carolina having gained several advantages over the British troops; but this day a gentleman, well known to Mr. Jenifer a Member of Congress brings accounts, which are intirely depended on, and are nearly as follows—That the enemy advanced to Charlestown and attacked Gen. Moultrie in the lines, with great vigor; and it was rather doubtful what would be the event, when two batteries open'd on the flanks of the enemy, which made great slaughter, and obliged them to retire a little; but they advanced a second time with bayonets fixed, and attacked with great intrepidity & force; but very fortunately, in the heat of the action, Gen. Lincoln's van appeared in light, and immediately attacked the rear of the enemy, which obliged them to give way, and their army were routed, with considerable slaughter. It is said the enemy lost above 1400 men, killed, wounded, and prisoners.
COPY of a HAND BILL, printed at Baltimore, June 9, 1779.
Mr. Joseph White, a gentleman of reputation, this moment arrived from Edenton, (North Carolina) and brings intelligence of a defeat of the British army from Georgia, before Charlestown, South Carolina, which by a rapid march they had invested the 14th ult. having, it is said, been encouraged to commit that rash act by their evil counsellors, the tories. The particulars of this great event are gone forward to Congress by express, and may be speedily expected. Mr. White obtained his information from the Hon. Mr. Hughes of Edenton, who just as he left that place, favoured him with the perusal of a letter from Charlestown, advising that the enemy's forces, supposed to be under the command of Gen. Provost, consisted of 3700 men; that they canonaded the town upwards of 3 hours to little effect, killing but two or three of the garrison during the siege, which was suddenly raised by the gallant exertions of Gen. Moultrie and his troops, to the number of 1500, who previously entered the town, aided by Count Palaski, his corps, and a noble band of citizens, who have all gained immortal honor; that sally of volunteers closed the scene before the town, from whence the enemy fled with the utmost precipitation, leaving 553 dead on the spot, and did not halt till they had run ten miles; that they had but two or three days provision left; and as Gen. Williamson with 4500 men had advanced within 15 miles of Charlestown, and Gen. Lincoln at the head of 2500 men, had entered Jacksonboro' on Penpon river, 36 miles from that capital, and taken all the enemy's baggage, burning the village at a larm time for lack of righteous inhabitants. It was generally believed the remnant of
the enemy's defeated army must unavoidably surrender themselves prisoners. Mr. White adds, that the express from Charlestown reported that during the siege of that place, a great tumult had been raised by a number of disaffected inhabitants, which would have given success to the enemy had it not been checked by their execution of forty of those traitors.
Extract of a letter from Head Quarters, Smith's Clove, June 13, 1779.
"I congratulate you upon the agreeable news from South Carolina. A gentleman living near Charlestown, writes his friend, a copy of which I have been transmitted here from Philadelphia, wherein he says, that Gen. Moultrie having retired to Charlestown, with about 1500 men, Col. Provost followed him and demanded the town, and threatened in case of refusal to lay it in ashes, Gen. Moultrie refused, an attack commenced, the enemy were repulsed, they rallied and attacked again with their loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners, amount to 1500 men. Gen. Lincoln had got possession of many advantageous posts in their rear, and a retreat was impracticable."
By a gentleman from Salem we learn, That a vessel arrived yesterday at Beverly, in 12 days from North Carolina, and confirms the account of the defeat of the British troops near Charlestown South Carolina, with the addition that Col. Provost had obtained intercepted letters from Col. Provost to Gen. Clinton, at New York acquainting that he had taken to an eminence, with 5 days provisions, and that unless he had immediate succours he should be obliged to surrender.
BOSTON, June 24.
The enemy seem already to be entirely defeated in all their plans for this campaign; they have divided their army for various enterprises, from which they promised themselves much success: their expedition to Virginia was for tobacco and naval stores, but chiefly to harass us, and prevent succours from going to Georgia and South-Carolina, and procure a recall of those that were on their way. Their cruelty in Virginia equals any thing ever done by themselves before. This is saying much. It will not be forgotten either by the French or the Americans. It is already revenged by the total overthrow of their army at Charlestown, and the loss of all their acquisitions and hopes in the Southern quarter, with which they were so much elated. Every species of barbarity and devastation was to have been exercised upon the frontiers of Virginia, Pennsylvania, &c. by the British and tory forces, but chiefly savages, at or near Detroit, under the command of Col. Hamilton, while their Southern army, was in their own imagination, carrying all before it. This cruel design has also been defeated by the capture of Hamilton, and more than an hundred of his best officers and men, in a fort not far from Detroit; and there is a fair prospect that the latter will soon fall into our hands, which will give security to a long range of our infant settlements in that quarter. Butler and Brandit with their savages of every colour had another plan of murder and devastation committed to them. They were to act against the Onaidas and those Indians who would not join them, and on our more Northern frontiers; but such measures have been taken, the success of which we hope soon to hear of, as may turn the destruction upon their own heads. Similar machinations, it is said, have been forming by the enemy, against our Eastern State from Canada & Nova Scotia, to be executed chiefly by savages; but various unexpected incidents, an apprehension the ene-
my have of a French Fleet in the river St. Lawrence, and some precautions taken by us, have put it out of their power to effect any thing on that quarter. Our enemies could not hope to subdue the Continent; their design in all those various operations was, to fulfil the denunciation of the British commissioners, when Congress refused to return to the yoke of their government, and to renounce our happy alliance with France, that we should feel all the extremities of war. In this way they promised themselves they should tame our spirits, cool our affection for France, and bring us nearer to their own terms. But we are not such Spaniards; nor so ungrateful, so insensible to our own interest, so presumptuous, as to renounce an ally whose friendship is so valuable to us, & without whose interposition we should have been in great hazard of falling into the hands of the incensed government of Britain, after we had drawn the sword against it. The miseries which in that case the body of this people, and particularly the best men among us must have endured, are more easily conceived than described. Our enemies have doubtless founded their hopes of success this year much upon the depreciation of our currency; and their emissaries have been employed to hasten on and aggravate this evil, in some measure unavoidable, from our circumstances, and the great things, which with small means, we have had to do. This is indeed a point of great importance, though our existence as a free, independent nation, does not absolutely depend upon the support of our present currency. But in this article also, we have the fairest prospect of disappointing our enemies. A spirit is rising through the Continent that bids fair to accomplish this happy purpose. It began at Philadelphia: it spreads Southward and Northward. The merchants of this capital have entered into such wise and public-spirited measures on this head, as must do them great honour, and be highly beneficial to their country: they are supported by the whole body of the people, never was there such an union on so delicate a point. Men of wisdom and experience are planning, and the people are determined to be their own executive officers in a matter of so much importance. There can be no doubt but the yeomanry will concur with these measures so evidently advantageous to all. The loan which is proposed by the merchants to be offered to Congress is a noble and grand step. Let all orders unite to accomplish, and even exceed it. Union and zeal for the best cause in the world may easily do it, and in doing it we shall save our country. Let Congress be only supplied with a loan adequate to present exigencies, and there can be no doubt that most honorable body will pledge themselves to the publick not to emit another bill; taxes will diminish all these that are extant: our money will appreciate every day, and moderate foreign loans will soon wipe away the whole evil of which we have so much complained, and in which our enemies have placed so much confidence. Thus whether we view the face of the war, or the state of the currency, our prospect is on all sides bright and pleasing: an united and vigorous exertion of the States at this critical season, may by the smiles of heaven, soon put an end to all our troubles, and realize this prospect.
The late address of Congress to the inhabitants of these States is universally admired, and has an happy effect upon the minds of people. The good purposes that will be answered by the tax of forty-five million of dollars, are easily perceived, and instead of complaining of the burden, there is a general

disposition to fall in with the salutary design, and to make such exertions as the present circumstances of our country call for, and must render us glorious in the eyes of the world, and of all posterity. Measures are taking by government, and we doubt not through all the States, for filling up the army: the spirit of the people evidently rises, and the prospect of putting a speedy end to the war by manly efforts at this critical season, cannot fail to procure these efforts. We are already nearer to the completion of our wishes, than any people ever were in so important a contest, and under similar circumstances.
Should America (says a correspondent) continue firmly to oppose the tyranny of Britain, may not the promise of the present day sanctify a conjecture, that in a few years the rising grandeur of this new world will invite every man from Europe, who is not attached to it by landed, or other similar cause.—There is a field opening for every species of manufacture, art and science, trade and commerce; finely situated for the encouragement and cultivation of business, every artificer will fly here and transplant with him the art he professes. Secure from tyrannical burthens, he will apply himself assiduously in the prospect of reaping what he saved, and will assist in rearing this new republic to a pitch of grandeur, superior perhaps to any state now existing.
Our last advices from the West-Indies, the latter end of May, mention, that the British fleet from Jamaica had appeared off Cape Francois, and was cruising there when these accounts came away.
The same advices add, that no action had happened between the French and English fleets, which lay still in their old stations at Martinico and St. Lucia: that admiral Byron had presented himself three times before Martinico; twice when the Count d'Estaing had three ships down for cleaning, and a third time when four of his ships were gone to secure a convoy of provisions from St. Eustatia. That the Count had lately been reinforced with three ships of the line; one of 50 guns, convoy of 12 transports, and some merchant ships, arrived from France, and bound to Hispaniola, which the Count thought proper to detain at Martinico: the other two of 64 and 74 guns, lately arrived from Africa, where they had ranged the whole coast, destroyed all the British factories there, and made such ravage as to cause an irreparable loss to the African company in Britain. A reinforcement for the fleet of France was daily expected at Martinico of eight sail of the line.
Sunday last, the Hazard, Capt. John Foster Williams, and the Tyrannicide, Capt. John Cathcart, returned from a short cruise, having re-took 6, besides three other prizes; one of the latter was a brig from Madeira and Teneriff, of 12 6-pounders, bound to New-York, laden with wine; another a snow, bound from New-York for Quebec, of 6 4-pounders, laden with salt, sugar, &c. and the other one of the privateers mentioned in our last. The prizes are all arrived, except a re-taken sloop and schooner, which they gave to the American prisoners on board of them.
Thursday last arrived at a safe port, a schooner, laden chiefly with brazery ware, prize to the Resolution.
A gentleman from Philadelphia, informs us, that the managers of the second class of the Continental lottery, intend to compleat the drawing thereof by the first of July ensuing.
At the Superior Court held last week at Ipswich, the famous Isaac Traft (who was lately pillered in this town for a public cheat) plead guilty upon two indictments; one for defrauding the government—sentenced to stand in the pillory one hour at Ipswich, with a label affixed to his breast, with the words a public cheat, wrote or painted; to be whipped 30 stripes upon his naked back at the whipping post, pay cost of prosecution, and stand committed till sentence is performed:—The other for defrauding the town of Danvers; sentenced to be whipped 20 stripes upon his naked back, at the whipping post, pay costs of prosecution, and stand committed till sentence be performed:—
Thursday last the Hunter Privateer of Salem, returned into Port, from a Cruise, during which she took five Prizes, three of them Privateers from New York, one of which a Brig of 14 Guns, he carried in with her.
A Person taken in one of the vessels from New-York, says, that General Burgoyne, lately died at Bath in England.
Tho' the English lately expected it, the Dutch merchantmen do now certainly sail under convoy, to repel by force, if occasion should require it, the depredations of the British cruisers.—M. de Riemerim, commander of a Dutch man of war, the Hereditary Prince, of 50 guns, arrived not long since at St. Eustatia to replace the Admiral the Count of Bayland, who was to sail for Europe in a few days after the arrival of the former. M. de Riemerim, had under his convoy 12 sail of merchantmen: A much greater number are expected at that island from Holland, under convoy of a ship of the line mounting 60 cannon.
The Martinico Gazettee of April 3d has the following articles, viz. It is certain, a fleet of merchantmen has arrived at Antigua: it consisted of 20 sail, convoyed by a 50 gun ship and a frigate; but this fleet brought not a single soldier from England: It sailed from Corke the 3d of March; it touched at Barbados the 4th of April, and took its course the next day for Antigua, where it arrived on the 28th. The greatest part of these vessels were bound to Jamaica.
A gentleman who left Philadelphia last Saturday se'nnight, and arrived at Providence last Monday evening, informed General Gates, that just as he sat off on his journey an express arriv'd there, with an account that the whole British Army were taken prisoners, in Carolina.
It is said a vessel has arrived at Beverly in 11 days from Edenton (North Carolina) which confirms the account of the success of the American arms at Charlestown. We also learn that three couriers with dispatches from Gen. Provoost to Gen. Clinton, had been intercep'd by Gen. Lincoln.
A letter from Baltimore, of the 9th instant mentions a fleet of at least 50 sail, being in sight of that town, under convoy of two or three ships of war, supposed to be from Nantz.
Last Friday the overseers and Corporation of Harvard College, met at Cambridge to examine the qualifications of the Candidates for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts this Year. After dinner the Candidates preceded the Corporation, the immediate Goveinors, and the Overseers to the Meeting House, where the President opened the solemnity by prayer, and pronounced an elegant Oration in Latin.
The young gentlemen did themselves great honor by their performances and gave a very respectable and brilliant assembly, a pleasing proof of their progress in Literature.
The same day the Corporation with the concurrence of the Overseers, conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws upon the Hon. Major Gen. Gates, and upon Mr. de Valnais, the first Consul of His Most Christian Majesty in this State.
By an express from the Eastward, we have an account that the famous Capt. Mowat, with several ships of force & transports from Halifax, had landed 800 men at Penobscot, and were throwing up works; but we hope the fleet lately sailed from hence to cruise on the Eastern shore, will be able to give a good account of them.
Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, dated June 8, 1779.
The French minister has received an account of the return of the French fleet from the coast of Africa, where after a series of the brilliant successes, they have totally destroyed the English settlements for a large extent—this will more than compensate for the loss of Pondicherry.
Part of the crew of one of the French vessels (lately arrived at Chesapeake) consisting of Britains and one or two Danes had risen and possessed themselves of the ship, but after holding her upwards of 24 hours she was returned to the proper owners, thro' the interposition of a French frigate, very unluckily for the insurgents, who for their skill and activity join'd to some cruelties practised on the poor Frenchmen while under their jurisdiction, (to the number of 13) thrown into the sea, to keep company with Capt. Conklin & his crew."
PORTSMOUTH, June 28. 1779.
BY a LETTER of the 23d Instant, from General Gates, to a Gentleman in this Town, on Saturday Morning last, we have the following Paragraph, viz.—"I do most heartily congratulate you upon the Success of our Arms in South Carolina, which I think finishes the British Empire in AMERICA."
Immediately, upon this further Confirmation of the foregoing joyful Intelligence, of our compleat Victory over the British Army, all the Bells in Town were set a Ringing, and continued, with short Intermissions, the whole Day, together with the Discharge of a great Number of Cannon at our Forts, and on Spring Hill, when the most respectable Gentlemen in Town, of all Ages, assembled at the StateHouse to congratulate each other on this happy Event, whose smiling Countenances evidenced the Sincerity of their Hearts,—The whole was conducted with great Decency and good Order—At which Time the following Patriotick Toasts were given out, accompanied with three Huzzas in and out of Doors: which are as follows;
1st. The United States of America. 2d. The Grand Congress. 3d. Louis the 16th, King of France. 4th. Gen. Washington. 5th. Monsieur Gerard. 6th. Gen. Lincoln. 7th. Gen. Moultrie. 8th. The Brave Officers and Men under the Command of Generals Lincoln and Moultrie. 9th. Gen. Polaski. 10th. Gen. Gates with the Brave Officers and Soldiers at the Capture of Burgoyne and Army. 11th. Doctor Franklin and other Commissioners at the Foreign Courts. 12th. The American Army and Navy. 13th. Gen. Williamson. 14th. The Memory of all who have had the Honor of falling in Defence of the American Cause. 15th. State of New Hampshire. 16th. The worthy Inhabitants of South Carolina that exerted themselves in defending that State against the British Army. 17th. Success to the Expedition under the Command of Gen. Sullivan.
MARTINIQUE, May 20, 1779.
By the latest accounts from Europe, it appears that Great Britain has absolutely refused the mediation of Spain and Holland, and is obstinately bent on a continuation of the war; hoping by some signal success, to procure more flattering terms, than have as yet been offered her.
Great preparations are making both in France and England, for a vigorous campaign, and there is no doubt but that the arms of Spain will be united in the confederacy against the latter power, which (should the other States of Europe not interfere) must occasion so decisive a superiority, that Great Britain must sink under her attempt to oppose it.
The United Provinces wish to Preserve their neutrality, but, if they are forced into a declaration, we have nothing to apprehend from it, as they wish well to the cause of America, from the great advantages they will derive from its independence.
The campaign in the West Indies, will in all probability, pass over in inactivity, unless Count d'Estaing by procuring a superiority of naval force should take advantage of the defenceless situation of the English islands, which are intirely indebted to the fleet for their safety.
PHILADELPHIA June 1.
The vessels from St. Eustatia, called at Hampton, three days since, and report, that an express from Charlestown had been there, with the news of 700 English troops made prisoners by our people, and the remainder in such a situation as that all must fall into our hands: The people who bring the news here, are of undoubted veracity; should it be true, the war is near at an end in this country."
POUGHKEEPSIE, June 14.
Three deserters from the enemy, who came in on the 6th inst. on examination, declared as follows, viz.
That they left the enemy's lines, between 12 and 1

o'clock that morning, that Gen. Clinton was then at Verplanck's Point together with Generals Vaughan and Mathews, Lords Rawdon and Dartmouth.—3000 at the Point, —That they are building a battery and redoubt at Stone Point, on the other side of the river. That in the ferry way are two frigates, and about 18 smaller vessels—one 64 gun ship opposite Tarry Town. 17th regiment light dragoons, Lord Chatham's Legion, Emeric's corps, Queen's rangers, two regiments of Hessians, 7th, 17th and 22d B. regiments, are with Sir W. Erskine, who commands the flying army, at Dobbs Ferry.—A Lieut. Col. commands on the other side opposite King's Ferry, who, with the other principal officers, lodge on board their vessels every night.—It is reported among the soldiers, that they are to continue at the Point about three weeks.—44th & 57th B. regiment, and one Hessian do. are at King's Bridge.
From the Continental Journal, printed at Boston, May 27.
Mr. MURRAY,
IN your sermon, upon the parable of the Wheat and Tares, you laid as a fundamental principle in that discourse, that Wheat could not produce Tares, nor Tares Wheat; that what was begotten, partook of the same nature and properties as that which begat; and vice versa. You observed that the wheat was human nature in its pure and holy state, and that the tares were the evil thoughts, words and actions, not a part of the human nature, but essentially different, nor can they as you said, become the same by any means, as they are originally and entirely distinct; that they were produced by the enemy on the devil, therefore that he was the father of them; that at the end of the world the Tares should be separated from the Wheat (that is human nature,) and be cast into outer darkness, where is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. I would therefore ask a solution of the following questions, viz. Are the Tares to be punished? What kind of punishment must this be for evil dispositions, without any person or agent susceptible of punishment, or are mere empty vicious ideas to be punished? Is not the devil the father of Tares? Is not God the father of Wheat? Is God the father or creator of the devil? If so, is not Wheat the producer of Tares? If God is not the creator of the devil, did the devil create himself? If so, is not the devil omnipotent, and if omnipotent equal with God?
From the same Paper, June 10.
Mr. Printer—Please to insert the following in your useful Journal.
IN your paper of Thursday 27th inst. an anonymous writer addresses me on a late attempt to investigate a few of the Gospel truths, contained in our Lord's parable of the tares of the field.
On reading his remarks, and his queries arising therefrom, I was tempted to think he was but a second hand hearer, and that he formed a judgment on what he heard of, not from me. However, as the overflowing of the gaul is not manifest, I think the author is intitled to an answer, which you will please to forward to him in the same way you have favoured me with his questions.
1st "Q. Are the tares to be punished?
A No.—Our Lord says they are to be burnt.
2d "Q. What kind of punishment must this be, for evil dispositions without any person or agent susceptible of punishment?
A. I know of none—"Or are mere empty vicious ideas to be punished?
A. No.
3d "Q. Is not the devil the father of tares?
A. Yes.
4th "Q. Is not God the father of wheat?
A. Yes.
5th "Q. Is God the father or creator of the devil?
A. I think not. Of the angels who kept not their first estate, he was, but of the enmity against God and man, which constitutes the character of the devil, he is not: And therefore, "Wheat is not the producer of tares."
6th "Q. If God is not the creator of the devil, did the devil create himself?"
A. "I know not how the angels became devils; this is a subject revelation don't lead me to the study of—The proper study of mankind is man." But I believe, in the nature of things, there can be but one OMNIPOTENT, and if so, the devil is not omnipotent, nor equal with God.
I fancy my querist has been misled by some over-heated, ignorant declaimers, who, not attending to the scripture doctrine of salvation, which I have, from time to time, laboured to investigate, have imagined, that I considered sin in the abstract, as the subject of pain and sorrow; but as this idea has no place in divine revelation, so, it never had, nor I think never will have, a place in the head, or heart, of the much injured author of this reply.
If any anonymous friend had been present when I attempted to elucidate the parable under consideration, he would have heard me declare that at the end of the world, God would take out of His kingdom all things that offend, and THEM which DO iniquity, and cast them into a furnace of fire. The iniquity was what gave offence, he with whom it originated was the devil, who, because he did that deed was accursed.—When our transgressions were judicially punished with a rod, they were found in him on whose back the plowers made long and bloody furrows, and when the human nature is physically cleansed, the punishment will follow the offence, and fall upon the head of the deceiver.
The fallen spirits are sometimes spoken of in the singular, and sometimes in the plural. When the devil possessing the man among the tombs was asked his name, he answered Legion, and as every human being is more or less under the influence of an evil spirit, so at the last day, the divine proprietor of the human nature, shall separate the one from the other, the deceiver from the deceived, and the former being cast into the lake of fire, the latter shall shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of the father.
This being considered, it will readily appear we are not reduced to the necessity of personifying our evil propensities, but, to the praise of the world's saviour, we can discover the punishment of the devil, and the destruction of all his works, without the eternal loss of one grain of the seed sown by the Son of man.
Gloucester 28th May, 1779.
A Leather Letter-Case,
LOST Saturday June 26, 1779. In which was about 150 Dollars, and sundry Papers. Whoever shall find said Book, &c. shall receive of me the subscriber twenty Dollars for returning it. Portsmouth, June 28, 1779. Nathaniel Shannan.
Sugar by the Hundred,
Or single Pound, to be sold by James Diman, at his Shop in Portsmouth.
Excellent BOHEA TEA,
To be sold by STEPHEN MEED, at the Boston regulated Price; warranted as good as any in the Country; at the House lately improved by Mr. Samuel Hill.
A good Second Hand Chaise
To be sold; Enquire of Samuel Bowles, Portsmouth.
To be sold at Public Vendue,
To-Morrow, the 30th Instant, at 4 o'Clock Afternoon, TWO Thirds of a new Dwelling House, lately finished, situated within a few Rods of Pickering's Mills, in Portsmouth, late the Estate of Daniel Pickering, deceased: The House is 36 Feet by 28, two Story high, with a small Garden, and Privilege of the Water Landing;—pleasantly situated.
Conditions of Sale to be known at time and place. The Sale to be at said House.
ALL Persons Indebted to, or that have Demands on the Estate of the Rev. John Moody, late of New-Market, deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts to John Moody Smith, who is empowered to settle the same.
State of New-Hampshire, Strafford ss. NOTICE is hereby given to the Proprietors of Middleton, in said State and County, that a Proprietor's meeting of said Proprietors is to be held in said Middleton on Tuesday the 13th day of July next, at the house of Mr. Francis Maine, at two o'clock in the afternoon of said day, then and there to act and vote on the following articles, viz.
1. To chuse a moderator to regulate said meeting. 2. To see what the Proprietors will do respecting the money which is due to Mr. Ordway before his ordination, and also the payment of his settlement, and to see if said Proprietors will make any addition to it by reason of the depreciation of the money. 3. To see what the Proprietors will do respecting the charges of the five acres of land on Mr. Ordway's lot that was voted to be done the last year. 4. To see whether the Proprietors will do any thing respecting Mr. Ordway's salary by reason of the depreciation of Money. 5. To see what money the Proprietors will vote or raise for repairing the high ways in said Middleton; and to vote on any thing the Proprietors at said meeting shall think proper. All concerned are desired to attend at time and place aforesaid.
By order of the Committee,
JOHN GAGE, Proprietors Clerk.
Dover, June 17, 1779.
WHEREAS I the Subscriber, on or about the 22 day of May 1777, signed a Deed of sale to Mr. Samuel Perley, of one hundred Acres of land, laying near Moultonborough Meeting-House, which Deed was deposited in a third person's hands, and was given conditionally, & was to be in exchange for another hundred Acres, that belonged to the estate of the late legal settled Minister in said Moultonborough, which said Perley was to convey to me the subscriber as soon as he should be possessed of the said Ministerial Right by virtue of a legal settlement in the Ministry there at which time also the aforesaid Deed and Perley was to be put in his possession; and which said Deed and other testimonies will put in a true light.
And as the said Perley has by some means or other got the aforesaid Deed into his hands, notwithstanding his never having been legally settled there, in the Ministry, he has since had the Audaciousness to go about from place to place with many false and unjust insinuations, offering said land for sale.
All persons are therefore hereby cautioned and desired not to purchase the aforesaid premises as the said Perley has not the least title in justice and equity to the same, according to the conditions and considerations on which said Deed was wholly given, which Mr. Perley seems to be very sensible of, by offering it for sale at a very low rate.
JONATHAN MOULTON.
Hampton, June 24, 1779.
We shall endeavour that the Answer of the Town of Moultonborough to Mr. Perley's Memorial may have a Place in our next.
To be sold at Public Vendue,
On Wednesday the 7th of July next, a LOT of Land in the Town of Middletown, containing between two and three hundred Acres. The Sale to be at the Printing Office, at Ten o'Clock before Noon.
State of New-Hampshire:
In the House of Representatives, June 17, 1779. VOTED, That all the Petitions appointed at the last Session of this Court, to be heard at this Session, be postponed to the same respective Days at the next Session of the General Assembly. And that all Parties concerned therein, take Notice, and govern themselves accordingly. And that the Secretary publish this Vote in the New-Hampshire News Papers. Sent up for Concurrence.
JOHN DUDLEY, Speaker, P. T.
In Council the same Day read and concurred.
E. THOMPSON, Secretary.
Copy examin'd, E. Thompson, Secretary.
Sale of Lands in Barnstead, which was to have been the 26th of May at Samuel Pickering's in Greenland, is put off to Wednesday the 29th of September.

State of New Hampshire, Cheshire Co.  NOTICE is hereby given, that so much of the following rights and lots of land lying in Packenfield, will be sold at public vendue at the house of Dr. Nathaniel Breed in said Town, on the third Tuesday of July next at one o'clock P. M. if said Taxes with the charges is not paid before that time. The Tax is for the year 1777.     William Telford's Right  John Telford's Right  Samuel Griffin  Ebenezer Cobb  James Grover  Joseph Symonds  William Batcheller's Heirs  John Daud  Daniel Skinner  Widow Bigelow  Lot No. 3 in the 3d Range  Lot No. 1 in the 6th Range  Abijah Brown, Aaron Bee, Constables.      1. s. d.  1. s. d.  0 12 0  0 6 9  0 4 2  0 13 4  0 7 0  0 12 7  0 2 4  0 5 3  0 5 4  0 5 6  70 72     Packenfield, June 10, 1779.
WE the Subscribers being appointed Commissioners by the Hon. Phillips White, Esq; Judge of the Probate for the County of Rockingham, to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of John Swett, late of Raymond in said county, Yeoman, deceased, represented insolvent; hereby give notice to all concerned, that we shall attend for that purpose at the house of Lieut. Benjamin Bean, Innholder in said Raymond, the last Monday of this, and the five following Months from three o'clock in the Afternoon, to six on said day. Jonathan Swett, Francis Hedgkiss, Commissioners. Raymond, June 4, 1779. 70 72
TO BE SOLD  For Cash, or West-India Goods  BY the Widow Elizabeth McClary of Epsom:-- A quantity of rough hewed OARS, which are now at Capt. John McCallie's House in Deerfield:-- Any Person or Persons inclining to purchase them, or any part of them, for any of the above Articles, may have them upon very reasonable Terms by applying soon. Epsom, June 7, 1779.
State of New Hampshire, Hillsborough Co.  NOTICE is hereby given, that so much of the following lots of Land in the town of Weare, and State aforesaid, as will pay the Tax due for the Year 1778, with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue on the first Tuesday of September next at noon, at the House of Capt. Nathaniel Field, Innholder in said Town, as will pay said Tax, unless paid before that time.     No.  Original Names;  Acres  l. s. d.     40 Ebenezer Sanborn 120 0 9 4  30 Benjamin Sweat 120 0 6 9  25 Jacob Sanborn 50 0 6 3  75 Capt. Samuel Prescott 45 0 4 10  4 Joseph Jackson 120 0 9 4  5 Jonathan Gove 120 0 4 4  59 Benjamin Boxcraft 100 0 6 9  60 Samuel Prescott 120 0 18 10  61 Nathaniel Meservy 120 0 6 9  65 Thomas Packer 120 1 7 1  87 Caleb Bennett 100 0 11 8  27 George Hull 50 0 5 9  11 Ebenezer Flagg 100 0 11 8  65 Thomas Packer 100 0 15 2  20 Jonathan Swain 100 0 15 2  6 Thomas Brown 100 0 15 2  7 J. Parsons 100 0 15 2  20 Col. Hale 60 0 4 7  20 Col. Hale 100 0 7 9  25 Jonathan Walker 100 0 11 7  48 Jonathan Stewart 100 0 15 2  75 Capt. Sam'l Prescott 130 0 15 2  81 Timothy Fuller 130 0 15 2  93 William Prescott 120 0 9 9  97 Simeon Pegg 120 0 9 9  No. Those in the Gora. l. s. d.  16 John Rindge 55 0 5 6  25 John Rindge 45 0 8 2  6 Thomas Packer 120 1 7 1  7 Thomas Packer 120 0 11 7  28 Blanchard & Meservy 40 0 9 4    JACOB TUXBURY, Constable. Weare, June 19 1779 70 72
State of New Hampshire, Rockingham Co.  NOTICE is hereby given to the Owners of the following lots of Land in the Parish of Northwood, in the County & State aforesaid, that so much of said Land as will pay the Taxes on them for the Year 1778, with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue on Tuesday the 13th day of July next at 10 o'clock in the Forenoon, at the House of Jonathan Clark, Innholder in said Northwood, unless said Taxes with the Charges are paid to me at my house in said Northwood before said time. Original Proprietors Names:
   No.  Seventh Range.  l. s. d.     7 Samuel Storey 0 11 10  10 William Clefferton 0 9 8  12 Col. Richard Kent 0 9 0  19 Peregrain White 0 8 8  20 David Chapin 1 6 0  No. Eighth Range. l. s. d.  9 Thomas Westbrook 1 3 2  15 Samuel Durant 1 3 2  20 Thomas Pierce 0 17 4  22 Richard Waldron 1 1 8  23 Jeremi Calf 0 17 4  24 Mark Huling 0 17 4  No. Ninth Range. l. s. d.  17 Samuel Jones 0 17 8  19 Thomas Phelps 1 1 3  20 Moses Stickney 0 9 0  21 Benjamin Harris 0 13 0  23 Abraham Rowell 1 1 8  No. Tenth Range. l. s. d.  6 Joshua Pierce and Nath'l Rogers 18 4  8 Joseph Malum 9 0  9 Dr. Nathaniel Sanjeant 9 0  No. Eleventh Range. l. s. d.  6 Stephen Akerman 18 10    A Lot rated to the present Owner, No. 7 in the 4th Range, Walter Bryant, Esq; 18s. and 4d. JONATHAN KNOWLTON, Collector. Northwood, June 8, 1779 70 72
State of New Hampshire.  NOTICE is hereby given, that so much of the following lots of Land in Lyndeborough, will be sold at public vendue at the house of Daniel Gould, Innholder in said town, on the fourth Monday of July next at ten o'clock in the Forenoon, as will pay the taxes with incidental charges, unless said Taxes with the charges be paid before that time. The Tax is for the year 1778.     No.  Names,  l. s. d. q.     30 Joseph Blaney 1 1 1 0  1 George Deane 1 2 11 1    NATHANIEL PHELPS, Constable. Lyndeborough, June 10th, 1779. 70 72
State of New Hampshire.  NOTICE is hereby given, that so much of the following lot of land in Lyndeborough, as will pay the Tax with incidental charges, will be sold at public Vendue at the house of Daniel Gould, Innholder in said Town, on the 4th Monday of July next, at one o'clock P. M. unless the Tax with the charges be paid before that Time. The Tax is for the year 1778.     No.  Names,  l. s. d.     3 Thomas Flucker 9 6 10    WILLIAM BARRON, Constable. Lyndeborough, June 10, 1779 70 72
TO BE SOLD,  For Continental Currency, As soon as any other Pay, By Jonathan Moulton, At his Store in Hampton, A Small Assortment of English and West-India Goods, which will be open, and ready for Sale by Monday the 28th Instant; among which are the following Articles, viz.  BLUE, brown, scarlet, green, mix'd, and Crow- colour'd Broad Cloths; Serges; Buckram; blue, brown, scarlet, crimson, green and Duffill Baizes, Durant, Duroy, Drawboys, Camblets, Bombazine — Assortment of good Hairbines of various colours, Men's Worsted Stockings, Felt Hats, Pins, Knives and Forks, Hammers, Paring Chizzels, Brads, Narrow Axes (made by Pike) common and breaking up Hoes. Best made Scythes by the dozen or single. Also, Rum, Sugar, Molasses, Snakeroot, Tea, Coffee, Pepper, Allspice, Indigo, Brimstone, &c. &c. N. B. Said Moulton is determined to sell at the very lowest Prices; And as many of the Articles are in much Demand, he would recommend to such as want to purchase, to apply seasonably.  To be sold, a FARM, In Wolfborough, containing about 200 Acres, with a House; 40 Acres of which is under Improvement. The Terms may be known by enquiring at the Printing-Office in Portsmouth:
ALL Persons Indebted to, or that have Demands on the Estate of Capt. Richard Shortridge, late of Portsmouth, deceased, are desired, once more, to bring in their Accounts immediately, to Mary Shortridge, as all Accounts must be closed by the latter End of this Month. Portsmouth, June 15, 1779.
State of New Hampshire.  WHEREAS the Non resident proprietors of Peterborough-slip, have been legally notified to pay their Taxes for the year 1777: This is therefore to notify said proprietors that unless they pay said Taxes with incidental charges, ex, or before
Wednesday the 28th day of July next, so much of said Lands will be sold at public Vendue, at the house of Samuel Gregg's, Innholder in said Town, as will pay said Tax, with charges.     No.  Range  l. s. d.  No.  Range  l. s. d.     24 1 Col. March 2 9 22 2 Josh. Pierce 4 7  21 5 Ez. Carpenter 8 0 20 1 Tho. Parker 4 4  18 4 John Moffat 8 8 17 1 Tho. Parker 6 7  16 1 Wm. Spaulding 2 7 15 6 Jona. Hobart 6 6  13 5 S. French's part 2 3 12 7 Jos. Blanchard 4 4  12 8 John Conant 4 4    James M'Nae, in behalf of John M'Allister, Constable for Peterborough-slip, for 1777: Peterborough-slip, June 12, 1779. 70 72
A SCHOOL for young Misses is now opened by Benjamin Dearborn at his House—where Writing, Cyphering, Reading and Spelling are taught from 9 to 12 and from 3 to 6 o'clock. A few Scholars are wanted. Portsmouth 14th June, 1779.
Lost on Sunday Evening, Between the Church and Doctor Brackett's, a PASTE DROPEARING. Whoever may find the same, and return it to the Printer, shall be handsomely rewarded.
All Persons having Interest in Prize Brig captur'd by the Ship Hambden , are desired to call on Samuel Drowne , and receive their respective Shares. Portsmouth, June 7 1779.
Wanted, A Quantity of Men's Leather Shoes, Yarn Hose, Felt Hats, Shirting-Linnen, &c.—For which a generous Price will be given by WILLIAM GARDNER, Agent Clothier. Portsmouth, June 15, 1779.
State of New Hampshire, Rockingham Co.  THE Actions now pending at the Superior Court in this County, which stands adjourned to the last Tuesday in June current, will then, by order of Court be continued to the Term on the first Tuesday in September next, at Exeter,—of which all persons concerned, may take notice and govern themselves accordingly. GEO. KING, Clerk. Portsmouth, June 14, 1779.
State of New Hampshire.  NOTICE is hereby given, that so much of the following lots of land in Dublin, as will pay the Taxes with incidental charges, will be sold at public Vendue at the house of Capt. Thomas Morse, Innholder in said Dublin, on the 15th day of September next, at 10 o'clock A. M. unless paid before that time.     No.  Names,  Range  Town  l. s. d.  q.     2 Mathew Livermore 7 0 8 5 4 2  7 William Parker 2 1 1 0 10 4  8 Dito 2 0 16 10 8 3  4 Clement March 3 0 12 7 6 2  3 Benjamin Bellows 6 0 12 7 6 2  1 Ezra Carpenter 7 1 1 0 10 4  2 David Page 8 1 1 0 10 4  2 David Page 8 0 12 7 6 2  5 Samuel Farley 8 0 14 9 7 3  1 Ezra Carpenter 9 1 9 5 14 5  3 Matthew Thornton, Esq. 1 0 7 0 3 6  3 Clement March 10 0 14 8 7 3  5 Benjamin Bellows 10 0 4 3 2 1  9 Foster Wentworth 10 0 6 4 3 2    JOSEPH ADAMS, Constable. Dublin, June 14, 1779. 70 72
WHEREAS the Honorable the GENERAL ASSEMBLY of the State of VERMONT, at their Sessions held at Windsor, the third Day of this Instant June, did appoint me to the Office of Surveyor General for said State, with Power to collect CHARTERS or attested Copies of all Grants and Charters of Lands within this State, made out by the Authority of either of the States of Massachusetts Bay, New-Hampshire or New-York, in order to enable me to make one General MAP of the whole:—These are therefore to request all Persons holding any such Grant or Charter of any of the Lands aforesaid, that they exhibit them to me at my Office in Arlington as soon as may be, in order that they may be duly Registered and returned. Arlington, June 6, 1779. IRA ALLEN. N. B. I am informed, that the Records of such Grants made out by New-Hampshire, are carried off of the Continent by the late Governor thereof.
TO BE SOLD, A GOOD Hadleys QUADRANT. Enquire at the Printing Office. Portsmouth, June 21, 1779.