The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1784-02-07 00:00:00

THE NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE, AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.
Vol. XXVII.]
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1784.
[No. 1423.]
Messieurs PRINTERS,
Please to insert the following in your Gazette.
THE importance of Navigation and Commerce to this country, is too well known to need a single observation upon the subject. The wise legislature of this state, cannot be ignorant of the great benefit and advantage which would accrue to the community at large, as well as to individuals, by maintaining a light in the Light-House, at the entrance of this harbour. Every trading nation is fully sensible of the necessity of preserving its interest by all ways and means in its power, and there is nothing more essential to this preservation, than having lights kept in such places as shall be necessary for rendering Navigation more safe and convenient. There are not less than twenty lights kept and maintained upon the coasts of Great-Britain and Ireland, for the safety of such vessels as may happen thereupon in the night, not to mention the very many which are kept to direct the Navigators into particular ports or harbours; some of the former are built and maintained at a very great expence, but this is not thought an object by any means adequate to the innumerable advantages which are derived from them. The other European nations are not inattentive to so important an object. Even the ancients, young as they were in Navigation, were too well acquainted with their interest to neglect Light Houses, as the Pharos and Colossus sufficiently evince, a short account of which may not perhaps be unentertaining or disagreeable. The first we read of was called Pharos, and this was so superb a fabric, as to be reckoned one of the seven wonders of the world; it was built by Ptolemy Philadelphus, on a small island in the Nile's mouth, near Alexandria, in Egypt, and is said to have cost that King 800 talents; it is recorded to have been built square, upon four pillars of glass, resembling crabs, 300 cubits high, on which a fire was nightly burnt, to warn approaching pilots of those dangerous coasts, and by this means direct them to shun the risks they were exposed to; but though this was justly celebrated both for its use and magnificence, it was equalled, if not exceeded in fame, by the renowned Colossus, of Rhodes, which served for the same purpose; this inanimate monster was a brazen statue of Apollo, set up at the entrance of that island's harbour, with its feet resting on the two shores, it was about 42 yards high, and its stride so great that the largest ships sailed into the port between its legs: This gigantic figure was dedicated to the sun, and its prodigious size may be ascertained by the dimensions of its little finger, which it is said, few men were able to embrace: It was the work of Chares, a disciple of the celebrated sculptor Lysippe, who was 12 years in perfecting it, and is reported to have cost £44,000 sterling, though this is supposed to be far short of its value, as when broken to pieces it loaded 900 camels; it remained erect for the space of 1360 years, and was then thrown down by an earthquake, in which prostration it continued for a long time, till the Saracens became masters of the isle, and sold it to a Jew, who quickly destroyed the master-piece of art, to accommodate his removing it by means of the aforementioned animals.
If an attention to property does not awaken us to a sense of our duty, the distresses of the sailor, and the calls of humanity should certainly be attended to. Every vessel would cheerfully pay any reasonable duty which is demanded to maintain a light, but if we neglect those things, small as they may appear, our sister states will contemn us, the world will deride us, and we shall become insignificant to ourselves.
NAUTICUS.
All persons indebted to the subscriber by Mortgages, Bonds, Notes, Rents, Book Debts or otherwise, whose times for payment are expired, are earnestly requested to make payment, or at least to renew their obligations and pay the interest due thereon, to enable him to discharge some demands on him, which were contracted with a special view to prevent his being necessitated to distress them; and all to whom he is indebted are also requested to exhibit their demands for adjustment, as he hopes to be enabled to discharge them in a short time, especially if he is but a little assisted by those who are indebted to him. The subscriber has a large number of lots of good land, in well settled towns, in this state; of 75, 85, 100, 150, 200 and 300 acres in each lot, which he will sell upon the most generous terms of payment, only to those persons who will settle them, to whom he will give a credit equal to their greatest expectation, upon giving him security for the same: and any persons inclining to exchange their farms in the lower towns for larger tracts, and for some farms under improvement in the interior part of the state, may be accommodated with such improved lands, and an exchange made to mutual advantage: of those who had rather make prompt payments for their purchases than pay interest, he will receive the public securities of any of the states, but would prefer those of New-Hampshire to the other, or will receive the negotiable notes of any person of repute in this state: he will also give 50 acres each to ten settlers in a well situated town, if they make application within three months from the date hereof.
JOHN WENDELL.
Portsmouth, January 22, 1784.
TO BE SOLD, at private sale,
ABOUT twenty acres of land, more or less, lying about four miles from Portsmouth, will produce about twenty barrels of cyder yearly, and has some excellent fruit trees, a good garden, house, barn and blacksmith's shop thereon, together with half an acre of land adjoining, lying on the road leading to Rye, will produce six barrels of cyder yearly, with a house and barn standing thereon, has a good well of water: Any person inclining to purchase may know the terms by applying to Joshua Haines of Greenland. January 16th, 1784.
THE Inhabitants of the Town of Portsmouth, are hereby informed, that Messrs. Thomas Priest, junr. Benjamin Lowd, John Tucker, and George Tucker, are appointed as a Walking Night Watch, and it is hoped they will be supported in their Duty by every good Citizen.
By Order of the Selectmen.
Portsmouth, Jan. 14, 1784.
THE FACULTY having found great inconvenience both to themselves and their customers, by suffering their accounts to remain unsettled for a long course of years: Therefore, we the subscribers, hereby request all those with whom we have accounts open of more than one year standing, to settle them as soon as may be; and in future, are determined to settle our accounts annually. Joshua Brackett, Ammi R. Cutter, Hall Jackson, John Jackson. [6w]
Portsmouth, Jan. 5, 1784.
LOST, last Wednesday, within a mile of the town, a SABLE TIPPET: Whoever has found it, and will bring it to Dr. Brackett, or the Printers, shall be rewarded.
Portsmouth, January 24, 1784.
ANY persons indebted to Mr. William Laureu before his departure from this country, are requested without delay, to pay their respective ballances to the subscriber fully authorised to receive them.
RICHARD W. PEHALLOW, Attorney.
ALL persons that have any demands upon the estate of Thomas Carrier, late of Portsmouth, Mariner, deceased, are hereby desired to exhibit the same well assured, to Mary Currier, widow, Administratrix to said deceased; and all persons indebted thereto are desired to make speedy payment to said Administratrix.
Portsmouth, January 23, 1784.
State of New-Hampshire.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that Mathew Thornton, of Merimack, in the County of Hillsborough, Esq. hath petitioned the General Court of this State, setting forth, that on the first settlement of the town of Merimack and Litchfield, one Captain Jonathan Cummings purchased part of a farm in said Merimack, known by the name of Brenton's farm, and on Tuesday May 3, A. D. 1736, said Cummings was appointed by the Court of General Sessions of the peace, then held at Cambridge, to keep a ferry over Merimack river, from said town of Merimack to said Litchfield, which ferry he kept to general satisfaction, until he sold said land and privilege of a ferry, to one Col. Lutwyche, which Lutwyche soon after obtained from the Governor of New-Hampshire, a grant of said ferry to him, his heirs and assigns forever: that he the petitioner is now the legal and proper owner of the right and title of said Lutwyche to said premises; that notwithstanding the aforesaid right of the petitioner, some gentlemen, owners of part of the aforesaid Brenton's farm, claim a right to said ferry, the profits of which are not sufficient to maintain two boats and ferry-men: that the sole privilege of keeping said ferry was the main inducement of his purchasing the premises aforesaid, wherefore he prayed that the exclusive privilege of said ferry might be granted to him, his heirs and assigns forever; on which petition the said Court, ordered that the petitioner be heard thereon, before the General Assembly, on the second Wednesday of their next session, and that in the mean time the petitioner cause that the substance of said petition, and order of Court thereon be published three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, that any person may then appear and show cause why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
Attest, E. THOMPSON, Sec'y. Concord, January 22, 1784.

L O N D O N.
The following copy of a very extraordinary letter was received by a gentleman in London, from a respectable correspondent in Cambridge, who asserts that he has seen the original.
"SIR, Provence, (France) July 12, 1779.
NOW Mr. Dodd is beyond the reach of his enemies, you may acquaint them that he is here, in sound health, though in melancholy spirits; depressed in mind, from the idea of quitting for ever his native country, and being necessarily compelled to hide his head from public conversation, which in England was his chief enjoyment. Gifted by nature with the most shining talents of speech, it must be a great mortification to him, that the courtship of popular applause is at an end; and he must sink in obscurity, after raising himself to the pinnacle of admiration. He is at the house of Mr. De Pee, who being my particular friend and relation, I have had an opportunity of seeing the Doctor. The account he gives of his deliverance, which he gathered partly from the information of those to whom he is indebted for his life, and partly from his own knowledge, is this:
"He says, he always conceived that those warm advocates, and, as he often calls them, unparalleled proofs of generous friendship, Mr. H. and Dr. C. would attempt to restore him, after the apparent execution of the law. He had no other reason for the supposition, than a surmise, that arose naturally, when he considered, in many instances, they had shown to the world the possibility of reviving the function of life; not the most distant intimation was given of their design, though he confesses, that until the night before he went to Tyburn, he relied with implicit security, on the clemency of his Sovereign, and entertained some hopes the next morning, notwithstanding the King was at Kew, and no respite was heard of at the Secretary's office.
"He says, he could never summon resolution enough to reflect upon the day that he was to be exhibited a public spectacle, without the utmost horror; which had seized him at intervals in the coach, and caused his imagination to swim into absolute insensibility. When he was turned off, he felt a sudden impulse of pain at first, but by his body whirling round very swiftly, he was soon deprived of all sensation, and afterwards remained totally senseless, until he found himself in bed, surrounded by Dr. C. Mr. H. Mr. D. and Mr. W. whom he perceived to be in tears, which may be considered to be an effusion of joy at his recovering, of which they at one time despaired. From them he learnt that they had with difficulty conveyed him from the gallows to where he then was, and had previously ordered matters for the experiment they had determined to try to bring him to life. Mr. C. and Mr. D. slipped, and exercised friction on his corpse for two hours, without the least sign of success. At length they perceived a motion of his breast, which convinced them of the practicability of their design; and his omen was followed by a warmth, that spread itself over the Doctor's body, and a continual panting and groaning. The return of the blood to its proper situation gave the Doctor so much pain, that he says his life was not worth the purchase.
"After the ceremony of congratulation, on one side and on the other, was over, the next affair to be considered (for before, nothing was considered by the Doctor's friends) was, how he should be disposed of, when it was proposed, that he should set off the next day for France. A subscription for present supply was entered into, and in the evening the Doctor went to his wife's lodgings, which she had quitted the morning before opposite Stationer's-Hall. The next day he was equipped in women's apparel, by which, and the great alteration in his countenance, it was hardly possible for his most intimate friends to know him, unless he discovered himself by his speech. It was thought proper to conceal all this from Mrs. Dodd, as it might be too
sudden a surprise, but bring her by degrees to the knowledge of her husband's existence. The next day the Doctor, attended by his friend Mr. H. went to Dover, & there met with a fair wind which carried them to Calais, from whence they came here.
Extract of a letter from Bristol, August 15.
"Yesterday we were all in confusion, every one hurrying towards the drawbridge, in order to satisfy their curiosity by viewing one of the most extraordinary animals we ever heard of: it came in with the tide, and was not perceived till in attempting to get through the bridge it stuck so fast that it could neither move backwards nor forwards. After a great deal of trouble it was secured, and brought on shore, but not before it tore a man's leg in the fleshy part very dangerously. The head of it resembles that of an ox without horns; there are two forelegs with cloven feet, and a large tuft of hair in the middle of its forehead; the teeth are about two inches and a half long, delicately white, and very acute; from the shoulders it gradually increases till you come to the tail, which is uncommonly large; it has two large fins under the extreme part of its belly. Some people say it is a sea calf, others assert that it came from the Irish seas, and therefore, from the size of it, it must be a bull."
Oct. 4. A very salutary measure was adopted during the course of the last fortnight at Paris. The King has given full authority to the Royal Society of medicine, established in that metropolis, to examine all quack medicines, and to permit or refuse circulation of them. The inventor of a remedy, by this regulation (without divulging the secret of the composition) is ordered to send specimens of his nostrum not only to the Fellows of the Royal College, but to one of the Faculty in every great town in the kingdom. By these means the efficacy of the medicine will have an impartial trial; and if it is not approved of, the proprietors and Drugists are forbid to advertise them in the public papers, or sell any in a private manner on pain of paying a fine of 1000 livres, for each offence, which is to be applied to the use of the hospitals. In France, where quackery prevails more, if possible, than in this country such an ordinance will prevent the unhappy effects of the credulity of the people, and add to the character of the Monarch, from his benevolent attention to the health of his subjects.
P O R T S M O U T H, February 7.
ON Monday the 21 instant departed this life at North Hampton, New-Hampshire, the Rev. Henry Alline, of Falmouth, in Nova Scotia, in the 36 year of his age; and the day following his funeral was attended from the Rev. Mr. Maclure's, by the neighbouring ministers, and a respectable number of followers, solemnized with the reflection that this now silent tongue had, but the Sabbath before the last, proclaimed to them the glad tidings of salvation, and exhorted them to be reconciled to G. d.
Mr. Alline was born in Newport, Rhode-Island, removed with his parents to Nova-Scotia about the year 1764, was ordained about eight years since an itinerant preacher among the vacant settlements in that new world, where there is reason to think his labors have been greatly blessed, in spread-
Confederate America contains, within its limits, an extent of territory far surpassing most of the kingdoms of Europe, as appears from the annexed comparative view, selected by the Rev. Mr. BUCKMINSTER, from the Map of America, according to the Treaty of Peace, A. D. 1783, as a marginal note to his political DISCOURSE delivered in the first Church of Christ in Portsmouth, 11th December 1783; being the day recommended by the honorable Congress for a general Thanksgiving throughout the United States of America, after the Ratification of a Treaty of Peace, in the ultimate acknowledgment of their Sovereignty and Independence; which, by the request of his bearers, has been published; and a few copies thereof, may be had at the Printing-Office, if applied for immediately.
The CONSTITUTION for the State of New Hampshire, may likewise be had as above.
ing the knowledge of Jesus Christ, and the happy fruits of his religion. His toils and hardships in the important work, in which his soul was wholly engaged, prostrated too much for his constitution, and brought on the last spring a dangerous fever, which left him in an enfeebled and languid state.
With a hope of recovering his health, a desire of visiting some relations at Boston, and of seeing the state of religion in New-England, he undertook a voyage, landed at eastern port, and with a degree of zeal that is uncommon in our laodicean age, preached every Sabbath but the last. His piety, sincerity, zeal, benevolence and fervor of devotion, rendered him an acceptable guest to the ministers of the gospel and other pious christians, with many of whom, his weakness and indisposition obliged him to lodge, and his triumphant hope in the hour of death, and manifest anticipation of the joys of Heaven, afforded a most transporting spectacle to the spectators, and disposed them to exclaim let me die the death of the righteous and let my last end be like his.
A N E C D O T E.
A SPANISH Prince, possessed of humanity, and strictly attached to the principles of justice, resolved to visit the prisoners on board the galleys, in order to inquire into the manner of their treatment and nature of their offences. He accordingly repaired to one of these vessels, and addressing the first convict he met, asked him, "what was the cause of his confinement?" The prisoner replied, that he was perfectly innocent, and that the witnesses who swore to the transaction had been guilty of perjury. Parting from him, the Prince accosted a second in the same manner, who answered, that the judge was prejudiced against him, and decided upon his case by evidence that did not amount to a proof of his crime. The young advocate for justice went to a third prisoner, who declared that he was also free from guilt, and sent there by his relations, in order that they might enjoy estates, to the possession of which he was justly entitled. At length the Prince came to a fourth, whom he addressed in a similar style, and received this reply, "I am confined here for my repeated and enormous offences; and had it not been for the mercy of the law and my judges, I should have been executed." The sincerity of this reply, opposed to the fallacy of those he had before received, struck the royal inquisitor so forcibly, that he immediately called out to the superintendent of the galley—"Discharge this rascal & turn him out, or he will corrupt the morals of all these honest gentlemen!"—The culprit consequently obtained his liberty, and exhibited a proof, that truth will recommend even the guilty to lenity, while falsehood will ever be dispised, occasion its own detection, and ensure its own punishment.
   Concession of territory on the Ohio, & between the Alleghany mountains, the Lakes Ontario & Erie, Illinois & Mississippi rivers, contains Square miles. Great Britain and France, Square miles.     Between Illinois, Lake Huron & Superior, and the Mississippi at the falls of St. Anthony, contains 233,200 Great Britain and Ireland, 235,237   From this line to the S. line drawn from the Lake of the Woods to the head of the Mississippi, contains 129,030 Holland, Flanders & Ireland, 131,800   E. Florida, contains 59,400 Ireland, 57,928   35,000 35,400   456,630   Besides which, the United States on the Atlantic, including 10,400, for Sagadahock, contain 207,050 Germany, Flanders, Holland & Switzerland, 207,483  

B U B L I N, June 16.
Last Monday about 11 o'clock in the forenoon, as Mr. Dominac Mahon was coming to this city with cash to the amount of about 1000l. on the account of his brother, Mr. Patrick Mohon, of Gort, in the county of Galway, he was stopped by six footpads, armed with pistols and swords, about six miles on this side of Kinnegan. Mr. Mahon had a servant with him, a Munster lad, who had 800l. in a portmanteau, and he had himself better than 200 guineas in his pocket. Two of the villains kept behind the servant's horse to hinder them from retreating, three went before Mr. Mahon's horse to prevent their advancing, while the sixth went up to him with a sword in one hand and a pistol in the other, and told him to deliver his money immediately, otherwise it he hesitated he would put him to instant death.
Mr. Mahon said he had no more money about him than was necessary for his expences to Dublin, but that he should get what was in the portmanteau, which amounted to above 2000l. He hoped that they might not be used ill; and as the servant was a Munster lad that could not speak English, if he would give him leave he would speak to him in Irish, to give up the contents of the portmanteau peaceably. The robber desired him to do so, and neither of them should be hurt. Mahon took this opportunity of speaking to his man in Munster Irish, to pretend to open the portmanteau, but to shoot the villain while he kept him in discourse, and then to defend themselves as well as they could against the other five, as each of them had fortunately a case of loaded pistols. The servant gave Mahon to understand that he should stick by him, and follow his directions. He accordingly pretended to be opening the portmanteau, but as the villain was speaking to his master, knocked him senseless with the butt end of his whip. The two behind ran up to his assistance, one of whom Mr. Mahon fired at, and shot off his nose, on which his companion made off, while he staggered to the side of the road with his handkerchief to his face. The other three came now up with dreadful imprecations; two went to seize the portmanteau, while the third taking Mr. Mahon's horse by the bridle, presented a pistol to his breast, and desired him to deliver; Mr. Mahon told him he would, put one hand in his pocket, and got a pistol, and with the other seized the highwayman's, who immediately fired, and the ball went through the sleeve of Mahon's body and great coat, without doing him any injury. Mr. Mahon then drew his pistol and shot the fellow through the heart, on which his two companions made off without their booty, and Mr. Mahon and his man arrived safe in town the same night.
L O N D O N, October 28.
The Cabinets of Europe were scarcely ever more busily employed than at this time: the several Powers that have just closed an expensive war, are busied in reviewing the state of their finances, and in putting such schemes of economy into execution, as are become necessary for the welfare of the State; while they are no less solicitous in forming new schemes of commerce, and reviving all those streams of traffic which hostilities have necessarily put a stop to: Russia and the Port are preparing for a war, which is likely to prove long, expensive and bloody; the Emperor is at present barely a looker-on—what part he may take hereafter, time and circumstances can only determine: the King of Prussia, old as he is, is playing a game also in the North, which will certainly be the foundation of future broils: Sweden and Denmark are now, as for years past, watching each other; in their commerce and in their politics they are nearly as natural rivals as Great-Britain and France: the Italian Powers are but of small consideration in the political scale at present, though the King of Sardinia's concurrence in some schemes may be found necessary to some of the powers in due time. In one point all the principal powers appear to have some aim; the concluding treaties of commerce with the new empire in America, from which they have certainly pictured to themselves, vast services and emoluments.
NEWCASTLE, October 15. A few days ago, as the Bishop of Chester was on his journey from London, he observed, on the road, a person, who had the
appearance of a Clergyman, carrying a small bundle on his shoulder. The Bishop ordered his carriage to stop, and enquired of the stranger who and what he was? He acquainted his Lordship that he was a Clergyman who had been obliged to abandon his living in America, after suffering a variety of persecutions, &c. The Bishop immediately took him into his carriage, heard all the particulars of his story, brought him down to Chester, and has now placed him in the Church, with an income of 60l. per annum.
PHILADELPHIA, January 8.
As every ANECDOTE respecting great Men is important, I will tell you one about Gen. WASHINGTON. While in town he delivered in his accounts to the Comptroller, in a book. It comprehends a period of 8 years—ALL IN HIS OWN HAND WRITING—and every entry made in the most particular manner, stating the occasion of each charge, so as to give as little trouble as possible in examining them: in this you see he has been as exemplary as in every other part of his conduct:—Happy would it have been for the United States, had each person who has handled public money been equally as exact and punctual!
B O S T O N, February 5.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Dublin, dated September 12.
"We have lately had a great election here, conducted with a moderation unknown in England:—in almost every struggle the people have prevailed—our Volunteers still keep embodied, as we still have some internal regulations to make. Alterations in our constitution, and a reform of Parliament, are now likewise aimed at, and some commercial regulations to put us on a footing with our neighbours the English, of whom we are now as jealous as you were at the beginning."
"Thanks be to God, our struggle has been without bloodshed, and our liberties are established on the broadest foundation, by the virtue of the people. You led the way, and we have followed the illustrious example. England, smarting with the wounds received in America, reluctantly gave us all we asked—having felt our own consequence, and procured a name among the nations of the earth we hope, by God's blessing, to persist the work, and tear off the remaining badges of our former slavery."
Extract of a letter from Baltimore, Jan. 3.
"Our last session of Assembly has laid three per cent. duty on all goods imported into this state, in British bottoms, and five shillings per ton on all British ships; whereas ourselves and our allies pay but one per cent. duty, and two shillings per ton."
A correspondent (who flatters himself that he has studied the politics of America with no immature deliberation and with the most disinterested integrity) says, that if there were only one state in this country instead of thirteen, and if the sale of unappropriated land which we possess, could procure justice for the public creditors, he perhaps should be of opinion that the establishment of funds might be an unnecessary or dangerous expedient. He conceives however, in the present situation of the States of America, that it would be prudent in them to comply with the requisition of Congress to be invested with power to levy a duty of five per cent. upon imported goods for the term of twenty five years (which the celebrated Benjamin Franklin, Esq; in his letter to the Superintendent of Finance calls "a most reasonable proposition,"") as the establishment of funds which it would be the interest of the several and respective states to support, might, as well as procuring a speedy satisfaction to public creditors, be a cement to bind the confederacy. He is aware that funds may be perverted to bad purposes. He conceives, however, that we should not, according to the old adage, argue against the use of any thing from the abuse of it; and that if we establish funds, we may guard with all the jealousy that wisdom can admit against an improper application of the public money. He conceives in short, that the consideration that common funds would have a tendency to preserve the union of the states of America, is a most forcible advocate for their establishment, as a disunion of the states would produce more fatal consequences than could ever accrue from the establishment of funds. There is a fable in Æsop which our correspondent says, that he would recommend to the attention of every citizen of America.
The old MAN and his SONS.
An old man had many sons, who were often falling out with one another. When the father had exerted his authority, and used other means in order to reconcile them, and all to no purpose, at last he had recourse to this expedient: He ordered his sons to be called before him, and a short bundle of rods to be brought; and then commanded them, one by one, to try it, with all their might and strength, they could any of them break it. All of them tried, but to no purpose; for the rods being closely and compactly bound up together, it was impossible for the force of man to do it. After this, the father ordered the bundle to be untied, and a single rod to each of his sons, at the same time bidding them try to break it: Which when each did with all imaginable ease, the father addressed himself to them to this effect: O my sons, behold the power of unity! For if you, in like manner, would but keep yourselves strictly conjoined in the bonds of friendship, it could not be in the power of any mortal to hurt you: but when once the ties of brotherly affection are dissolved, how soon do you fall to pieces, and are liable to be violated by every injudicious hand that assaults you!
THE APPLICATION.
Nothing is more necessary towards completing and continuing the well being of mankind, than their entering into, and persevering in friendships and alliances. The safety of a government depends chiefly upon this; and therefore it is weakened and exposed to its enemies, in proportion as it is divided by parties. "A kingdom divided against itself, is brought to desolation."
VIDE CROXAN'S ÆSOP.
NAVAL OFFICE, Port of PISCATAQUA, CLEARED, February 7, 1784. Ship Montgomery, Davis, for Virginia. Brig Ganganelli, Stacey, St. Kitts. Sloop Commerce, White, Ditto. Brig Betsey, Smallcomb, Grenada.
State of New Hampshire.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that Ann Simes, of Portsmouth, Widow, hath preferred a petition to the General Court, setting forth, that her children own certain lands in Middletown and Conway, in the county of Strafford, and state aforesaid, which were set off to them in the division of the estate of their father Joseph Simes, deceased, intestate: That as all said children are under the age of 21 years, and some of them very young, and as most of the said lands are wild and uncultivated, and the profits insufficient to pay the taxes assessed thereon; and as it is necessary to sell the same for the support of said children, while minors; wherefore, she prayed that she might be enabled by special act of the Legislature, to sell and convey said lands, and apply the monies arising from the sale thereof, for the support and maintenance of said children.
Upon which petition, the General Court ordered, that the petitioner may be heard thereon, before the General Assembly on the second Wednesday of their next session; and that in the mean time, she cause the substance of the petition, and order of court thereon, to be published three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
Attest. JOSEPH PEARSON, D. Sec'y. Concord, Dec. 24, 1783.
TO BE SOLD.
A good double HOUSE, well finished, with a Barn, Wood House, and Garden, adjoining; situated opposite Col. Wentworth's store, and formerly occupied by Mr. Joseph Brewster. For terms apply to William Plaisted, of Portsmouth, or John Brewster, of Berwick.
A honest and industrious WIDOW WOMAN, with a good Breast of Milk, would be very glad to go into some gentleman's house as a WET NURSE , and to do house work of any kind, especially cooking, on as low terms as can be expected. Inquire at the Printing-Office.

Thomas Martin,  HAS FOR SALE, at the lowest price for cash,  BEST French Brandy, by the hogshead, barrel, or a less quantity. New-England Rum, Molasses, and Musca- vada Sugar, by the barrel or less quantity. Bohea Tea, by the dozen. Loaf Sugar. Best Durham Mustard, by the dozen or single bottle. Raisins, Coffee, Chocolate, Mace & Cloves. A variety of colors of superfine Broad Cloths, which he will sell at the very low price of 24s. per yard: Flannel, Baize, Swanskin, fine and coarse Threads, Honey comb Velvet for Breeches, &c. Black and color'd Barcelona Handkerchiefs. Cotton Checks, Camblets. Bar Lead, Steel, HL Hinges, Sein Twine. Wool Cards, &c. &c. Portsmouth, January 1784.
TO BE SOLD, On very reasonable Terms, an  Excellent new FARM, SITUATE in the town of Tamworth, in the county of Strafford, containing about 400 acres of choice land, with a good new house and barn thereon, 85 acres of which land is under good improvement, well fenced, and will produce about 50 tons of English Hay yearly, besides pasturing, &c. Said farm lays in the centre of the town, upon a public highway, which passes through the middle of it, is well accommodated with land suta- ble for mowing, tillage and pasturing, and every part thereof is well watered; and the whole capable of making very profitable improvements upon: which farm may with great convenience be divided into se- veral small ones, and each have the accom- modations aforesaid, or it may be improved to- gether as best suits the owner. A L S O,
Another FARM , of about fifty acres of choice Land, situate in Port- mouth, about one mile and a quarter from the state house, consisting of excellent or- charding, mowing, tillage and pasturing, with a good house and barn thereon; said farm is now improved by George Ham, and adjoins Col. Boyd's large farm. For further particulars inquire of David Folsom of Port- mouth.
TO BE SOLD, A Valuable RIGHT of LAND , No. 19, adjoining the Parsonage, in the town of Halifax, in Vermont. Any person in- clining to purchase, may know the terms, by applying to the Printers hereof.
LOST , on Thursday the 22d of this inst. between Exeter and Berwick, a black Leather Pocket-Book, containing several Notes of Hand, and several other Accompts and Writings useful to none but the owner. Whoever can give intelligence of said book, to Mr. John Shute, of Newmarket, or Mr. Jeremiah Folsom, of Durham, shall be hand- somely rewarded, by THO'S AIRMET. January 30, 1784.
State of New-Hampshire.  THE Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Hillsborough, will be adjourned from the last Tuesday of Febru- ary next, to the first Tuesday of May next. All Jurymen, Parties, and others con- cerned, are to take notice thereof, and go- vern themselves accordingly. By order of Court,  NATHANIEL ADAMS, Clerk. Portsmouth, January 23, 1784.
TO BE SOLD, By the subscriber, The elegant Mansion-House of the Hon. JONATHAN JACKSON, Esq; with about nine acres of LAND , a con- siderable proportion of which is improved for gardens. Specie, or Bills of Exchange at a long sight, will be received in payment.  NATH'L TRACY. Newbury-Port, Jan. 31, 1784. [10w.]
WHOEVER has the first Volume of  ROBERTSON'S HISTORY OF  SOUTH AMERICA , belonging to JACOB  SHEAFE, jun. is desired to return it to him
State of New-Hampshire.  MOSES CHASE, Esq; of Cornish in the coun- ty of Cheshire, having preferred a petition to the General Court, setting forth, that he having (some years ago) kept a ferry on Connecticut river, between the said town of Cornish and Windsor, situated on the either side of said river, but never obtained a grant for that purpose: Therefore, he prayed, that he might have the sole and exclusive right of carrying passengers over said river from the north line of said Windsor, then down the river five miles, vested in and confirmed to him, his heirs and assigns forever.
Upon which petition, the General Court ordered that the petitioner be heard thereon, before them, on the first Friday of their next session; and that in the mean time the petitioner cause that the substance of the petition and order of Court, to be published three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, that any person or persons may then appear and show cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted. Attest, JOSEPH PEARSON, D. Sec'y. Concord, Dec. 24. 1783.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that a number of the inhabitants of the town of Cardigan, in the County of Grafton, hath petitioned the General Court, setting forth that the inhabitants of said town have been sent to for taxes, for a long time, when they were not authorized by law to assess and collect the same, wherefore they prayed that said town might be incorporated and enfranchised with the privileges of other towns in the State; on which petition the General Court ordered that the petition be heard before them, on the second Wednesday of next session, and that in the mean time the petitioners cause the substance of their said petition, and the or- der of Court thereon to be published three weeks suc- cessively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, that any person or persons may then show cause if any they have, why the prayer should not be granted. Attest, E. THOMPSON, Sec'y.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that a number of the inhabitants of a place called Perry's-town, in the County of Hillsborough and State of New-Hamp- shire, have petitioned the General Court of said State, setting forth that they labor under many disadvan- tages, for want of town privileges: wherefore they prayed that said place might be incorporated with the privileges of other towns, into a town by the name of Sutton; on which petition the General Court or- dered that the petitioners be heard before the Gene- ral Assembly, on their said petition, on the second Wednesday of next session, and that in the mean time they cause the substance of said petition, and order of Court thereon to be published three weeks suc- cessively, in the New-Hampshire Gazette, that any person might then appear and show cause why the prayer thereof should not be granted. Attest, E. THOMPSON, Sec'y Concord, January 23, 1784.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that Jonathan Chase, of Cornish, in the County of Cheshire, and State of New-Hampshire, Esq. hath petitioned the General Court, of said State, setting forth that in the first settlement of that part of the country, he had been at great trouble and cost in fixing a ferry over Connecticut river, from Cornish to Windsor, and in making a road through his own land, to said ferry, for public use, which is arrested out of his hands by the authority of Vermont: wherefore he prayed that a charter of said ferry might be granted him; on which petition the said Court ordered, that the petitioner be heard thereon before the General Assembly, on the first Friday of their next session, and that in the mean time the petitioner cause the substance of the petition and order of Court thereon, to be pub- lished three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, that any person may then appear and show cause why the prayer thereof may not be granted. Attest, E. THOMPSON, Sec'y,
Forty Dollars Reward.  ESCAPED out of the Gaol in Dover, on the 13th inst. Robert Peasee, about 45 years of age, five feet four inches high, has light grey eyes and light coloured hair: Whoever will return him to said Gaol shall have the above reward.  THEOPHILUS DAME, Sheriff. Dover, January 15, 1784.
Found a WATCH in December last, the owner may have it again, proving property and paying charges. Inquire of Daniel Gookin of North-Hampton.
WHEREAS Esquire Anthony Vincent, of New- ington, gave Mr. Samuel Pickering, of Greenland, a Power of Attorney on the third day of November last, to act for him: this is therefore, to inform the public, that he revokes said power; being determined from this date to have nothing further to do with said Pickering. ANTHONY VINCENT. Newington, January 14, 1784.
State of New-Hampshire.  PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that a petition hath been presented to the General Court, by Jehu Jones, setting forth, that in A.D. 1775, he had his dwelling-house, furniture, papers, &c. consumed by fire; amongst which, was a deed of his farm, on which were considerable improvements; and that the person who gave said deed, has absconded, and cannot be found: Therefore, he prayed that the original right of Aaron Cady, jun. lying in Canaan, in the county of Grafton, of whom said farm was purchased, might be confirmed to him, his heirs and assigns. Upon which petition, the General Court ordered, that the pe- titioner be heard thereon, before them, on the first Friday of their next session; and that in the mean time, he cause the substance of the petition, and order of Court thereon, to be published three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, that any person or persons may then appear and show cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted. Attest, JOSEPH PEARSON, D. Sec'y. Exeter, January 30, 1784.
State of New-Hampshire.  PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that a petition hath been presented to the General Assembly by Leonard Whi- ting, of Merrimac, in the county of Hillsborough, Esq; setting forth, that at the Inferior Court of Common Pleas held at Am- herst, in said county, on the sixth day of October A. D. 1778, he recovered judgment against Benjamin Whiting, formerly of Hillis, in the county aforesaid, Esq; but then a voluntary ab- sentee from this and the other United States, and since that time deceased, for the sum of £171-19-3d, damage, the same having accrued for bona fide debts; and £4 16s. for cost of the same suit, and 4s. for an execution issued thereon; and that subsequent to his recovering the judgment aforesaid; and before the execution was satisfied in any part of the same, a law was enacted by the authority of this State, making void all attach- ments then made, or that after should be made upon the estate of any absentee from this State, residing with the enemies there- of; whereby he is wholly deprived of his remedy for the reco- very of his just demand.
Wherefore, he prayed that his execution might be revived, and that he might have liberty to levy or extend the same on the goods, chattels or lands belonging to the estate of the said Ben- jamin Whiting, within this State, as that favor in a similar case has been granted to another. Upon which petition, the General Court ordered, that the pe- titioner be heard thereon before them, on the second Wednesday of their next session; and that in the mean time, the petitioner cause that the substance of the petition and order of Court thereon, be published three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, that any person or persons may then appear and show cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted. Attest, JOSEPH PEARSON, D. Sec'y. Exeter, January 7, 1784.
State of New-Hampshire.  PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that a petition hath been presented to the General Assembly by Luther Ri- chardson, and others, proprietors and inhabitants of a certain tract or parcel of land, situate, lying and being within the coun- ty of Grafton in said State, butted and bounded as follows, viz. beginning at the north east corner of Bath, which is the south east corner of Lyman, from thence running south sixty one de- grees east, eight miles, from thence north thirty degrees east, eight miles and one half mile to the south east corner of Lancaster, from thence south seventy degrees west, six miles, from thence north twenty degrees west one mile and two hundred and thirty rods to the north east corner of Lyman, from thence by the easterly line of Lyman, to the bounds first began at.
Which tract of land was granted by charter to certain person therein mentioned, and incorporated by the name of Concord. That they have settled upon said tract of land under said char- ter, but by some means or other they have been so unhappy as to lose their annual meeting and labor, under many difficulties and inconveniences for want of a regular incorporation, and therefore they pray, that said tract of land may be erected into a town by the name of New-Concord, and that the inhabitants thereof, may be incorporated into a body politic and corporate, to have continuance and succession forever, with all the privi- leges and enfranchisements of other towns within this State. Upon which petition, the General Assembly ordered, that the petitioners be heard thereon before them on the first Friday of their next session, and that in the mean time the petitioners cause the substance of the petition and order of court thereon, to be published three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, that any person or persons may then appear and show cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted. Attest, JOSEPH PEARSON, Deputy Sec'y. Exeter, January 16, 1784.
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