The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1774-05-27 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the FRESHEST ADVICES
Friday May 27, 1774.
Vol. XVIII. GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. NO. 918 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd. }
PROVINCE of NEW-HAMPSHIRE. THE Government of this Province having determined that the Money due on the Notes issued by the Province Treasurer, on Government Security, be paid to the Possessors of those Notes before the Period stated in the Notes, and as soon as may be—The Possessors of those Notes are hereby Notified, that they may have the Principal and Interest of said Notes paid upon Application to the Province Treasurer, with Advantage, worth their Attention—And the sooner they apply for the same, the greater will be their Advantage.
GEORGE JAFFREY, Treasurer. Treasurer's Office, May 20th 1774.
THE SUBSCRIBER begs Leave to inform the Public, That he has lately erected, at a Place called Second-Falls, within two Miles of Durham-Landing, and about the same Distance from Lamprele River-Landing Place, a Double Grist MILL, and Bolting MILL, on a Stream that affords Plenty of Water the dryest Seasons; the Seive of the Bolting-Mill calculated for making the best of Flour, and will from good Wheat make Flour equal to any manufactured in New-York or Philadelphia, and will from Winter Rye, make excellent Flour, tho' not so white as that manufactured from Wheat.—He has also at the same Place a Mill for grinding new made Sythes, where any Sythe-Makers may depend on having Sythes ground as soon as sent, and in case they will leave them at any Place in Portsmouth, and give notice thereof, he will take them from thence, have them ground, and immediately returned, which shall be done without any more Cost than the common Price of grinding.—He has also there an excellent Fulling-Mill, under the Care and Management of two Persons, one of which regularly served to the Business of Cloathing and Dying in England; and the other has served with one of the best Cloathers in this Country. Those Persons who please to favor with their Custom, may depend on having Silks or Cloth of any Kind dyed and dressed in the best Manner, and of any Colour dyed in Europe, and may have silver or Gold Lace or Cloth of any Kind clean'd, and the Spots taken out; and in case of any Damage happening thro' the Carelessness or inattention of the Workmen, the Subscriber will be answerable to the Owners. Those Persons who find it more convenient to send their Cloth to Portsmouth, may leave them at Mrs. Hight's at the Ferry, and have them taken from thence, dressed in the Manner they direct, and return'd there again, free from any Expence for bringing or returning; and if more convenient may send them to the Subscriber's Dwelling-House at Durham-Falls. As there will be no Want of Water at any Season, those Gentlemen who incline to favour with their Custom may depend on the greatest Dispatch. Those persons who chuse to send YARN may have it dyed a Blue or any other Colour they incline; and every Favour shall be gratefully acknowledged by their humble Servant
JOHN SULLIVAN. N. B. Said Sullivan will give Cash for any Cloth manufactured in this Country, fit for fulling, &c. Durham May 23, 1774.
TO BE SOLD, At Public Vendue
On Monday the 30th Instant, at Three o'Clock in the Afternoon, at the House of the late SAMUEL GRIFFITH, deceas'd, A Variety of Shop and Household Goods, and Wearing Apparel; consisting of China, Glass and Stone Ware,—Cambricks, Lawns—Figur'd and plain black Sattin, Blue and cloth-colour'd Kerseys,—Men's Worsted Hose,—Loaf Sugar,—Cod-Lines, Frying-Pans,—Nursing-Baskets,—Ink-Powder,—Bellows,—Wine-Cocks,—Saddlers-Ware,—Chest Locks,—Bolts,—Coffin-Furniture,—Knives and Forks,—Brons Ink Pots, Hand-Saws,—Tennant and Compas ditto, Shovels and Tongs,—Dust Pans,—Shoe Brushes and Shoe Buckles,—Time-Glasses, Goldsmiths Tools,—One Silver-mounted Fuzee,—Feather Beds & Bedding—Looking Glasses—Tables—Chairs—Bedsteads,—Brons Kittles,—Skillets—Pewter—Brons and Iron Candlesticks,—One Silver Watch,—Plate,—Several Hundred Weight of Junk.—With a Variety of other Articles, too tedious to be enumerated.
Portsmouth, May 24. 1774.
Extract of private Letters from London, dated April 7 and 8, to Persons in New-York and Philadelphia.
GENERAL GAGE is appointed Governor and Commander in Chief of Massachusetts Bay, with very extensive Powers. Under him are to be a Set of Officers, approved by the Ministry, to be made Councillors, and enforce the Parliamentary Laws, with the (apparent) Consent of the People. In short, every Art will be used to deceive you, and either cheat or frighten you out of your Freedom and Property: However, I can assure you the Commanders have private Orders, not to fight, unless they can provoke you to appear, the Aggressors. Nay, they have Orders not to commence Hostilities, without further Orders.—But how soon that Restriction may be taken off, GOD only knows; Nor do I think that it was from any Regard to Justice, or Tenderness to you, that such a Restraint was laid; but purely from Fear of the Consequences of sanguinary Orders; THEREFORE I think, if you are firm and prudent, you have no Occasion at this Time, to fear any tragical Consequences from a Refusal to be taxed by the British Parliament, who have really no Right at all to tax you:—Not that I would persuade you to this Refusal merely upon a Supposition, that the Ministry will not proceed to hostile and sanguinary Measures—for my Opinion is, that there is Nothing too absurd or wicked for them to do; but that if they should proceed to such Measures, it will be better for you to die than submit to them: However as your Cause is just, and all the World must see that you are injured and oppressed; your Oppressors will be condemned by all the World, both at Home and Abroad; and if you are but firm and prudent in your Opposition, fear not but Providence will interpose in your Behalf, and raise you up Friends to support and assist you. Some of the greatest and wisest, as well as the best Men in England, are already on your Side, and will stand by you; your Enemies have Nothing but mere Power, unjustly obtained and applied, to support their Cause; Reason and Justice are altogether against them; they therefore stand on slippery Ground, and totter in their Stations. Lord CAMDEN excited himself nobly in the House of Lords, in your Favor—He told them the Boston Bill would be productive of a Train of Evils, and that they would certainly have Cause to repent it. Great Care is taken to prevent Copies of his Speech from getting to America, as well as to deceive you by false Intelligence. Every Tool of Power in America will be called upon, and furnished with Means to mislead you by a Misrepresentation of Facts, and giving a false Turn and Colouring to every Thing that it concerns you to know.—Six Hundred Pounds per Annum, are paid to Writers of false Intelligence, and Letters as well as News-Papers, that might give you such Intelligence as the Ministry desire to conceal from you, are all stopped.
It is given out, that severe Measures are only intended against Boston, to punish their refractory Conduct; but depend upon it, if they succeed against Boston, the like Measures will be extended to every Colony in America; they only begin with Boston, hoping the other Colonies will not interpose. But you are all to be visited in turn, and devoured one after another. You may depend upon my Intelligence—My Office gives me Access to the Principal, concerned in the Measures, and I think that my Duty to warn the Innocent against the wicked Devices that I know to be meditated against them. It behoves the Colonies, to be united, in their Intelligence, Councils and Measures; it is a Matter of the last Importance to them, to stand by and support one another; the most favoured can only expect to be last devoured. The Ministry are determined to try your
Metal to the utmost. Mansfield and Bute are supposed to be the prime Directors, and to influence the royal Ear as they please. The Spoils of England are insufficient to support the Luxury of the Minions of Power; they have fixed their voracious Appetites upon the Possessions of the Americans, and intend to make a Prey of them, in Defiance of Reason and Justice, & the Charters of Kings, and the Divine Laws of Nature. Depend upon it, every Colony is to be subdued into a slavish Obedience to the tyrannical Impositions of Great-Britain; nothing less will suffice, nothing Less is intended. After the Subjection of Boston, and perhaps all the New-England Governments, New-Jersey and New-York, are to be the next in Course; and they talk of taking away Penn's Charter. Look to yourselves, exert all your Faculties to the utmost, your Virtues will be put to a severe Trial, and if they are not genuine and well founded, they will not stand the Test.
Alas! how is my Soul shock'd at the present Situation of England, my native Country—a great, a generous, and late a happy People,—but now, how changed, how fallen! The Men who are really wise and good, deprived of Opportunities of acting—The poor and middling People ruin'd and oppressed, the Rich, lost in Luxury and Dissipation, a set of weak and wicked Men, misguiding the Reins of Government, the People taxed to Death without Mercy, Placemen and Pensioners without Number, &c.
Many of the Officers on the intended Expedition against BOSTON and AMERICA, have nobly thrown up their Commissions, and refused to fight against their Brethren in the Colonies, without a just Cause; and it is expected the Soldiers will desert in Multitudes, from a meer Sense of Honor & Justice.
April 8. News is just now arrived, by a private Hand, that the Discontent of the People has so prevailed, that Orders are sent to unman the Fleet, or at least that it should not sail 'till further Orders. I hope the News will prove true.
The Scots in the House of Commons have been your great Enemies. I think it would be just in the BOSTONIANS to withhold every Farthing due to them in that Town, which I am told is very considerable, especially to the City of Glasgow. Indeed I think as the Port is shut up, the whole Debt due from them to Great-Britain should be stopped, and Reprisals be made by every Means in your Power. The Preservation of England itself, and her excellent Constitution, require it of you.
May GOD direct and prosper your Counsels.
Boston, May 19.
Monday arrived Captain Hall in 29 Days from London, in whom came Passengers, Rev. Samuel Parker, who went home for Episcopal Ordination, to be an Assistant to the Reverend Mr. Walter, at Trinity Church, Mr. Francis Rotch, Merchant, and Mr. William Turner.
On Wednesday last the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of this town met again at Faneuil-Hall, by Adjournment; and the Committee which had been appointed on the preceding Friday to receive and consider of Proposals for the Employment of such as will be Sufferers by the Operation of the cruel Edict of the British Parliament, reported that several judicious proposals had been made, and that they conceived that Ways and Means would be found for the Relief of such Inhabitants in the Time of Distress. They recommended to their Fellow-Citizens, Patience, Fortitude & a firm Trust in God, & desired further Time to agree upon a Report.—The Meeting was therefore adjourned to Monday the 31st Inst. at 10 o'Clock in the Forenoon, by which Time it is expected we shall have encouraging News from some of the Sister Colonies.
Previous to the Adjournment the Town thought it their Duty to pass the following Votes, viz.
1st. That the Trade of the Town of Boston has been one essential Link in that vast Chain of Commerce, which, in the Course of a few Ages, has raised New England to be what it is, the Southern Provinces to be what they are, the West-India Islands to their Wealth, and, in one Word, the British Empire to that Heighth of Opulence, Power, Pride and Splendor, at which it now stands.
2dly. That the Impolicy, Injustice, Inhumanity and Cruelty of the Act aforesaid, exceed all our Powers of Expression. We therefore leave it to the just Censure of others, & appeal to God and the World.
While the Town was in Meeting on Wednesday last, a Letter was brought from Mr. James Boies, of the Town of Milton in the Neighbourhood of Boston; in which that Gentleman for the Encouragement and Relief of the Town, freely and generously offered the use of his Slitting-Mills, with all its Utensils gratis, so long as the Harbour shall remain shut up; the Mill to be left in the like good Repair as it is at this Time.—The Town voted Thanks to Mr. Boies for this kind Offer.
It is said that a Stock of three or four Hundred Pounds will be sufficient to keep this Mill going; in consequence of which many Hands may be employed in making of Nails.
We have the Pleasure to inform our Readers, that the Inhabitants of the Town of Providence in the Colony of Rhode-Island, at a Meeting on Tuesday last, passed among others the following Resolutions, nem. con. viz.
That the Committee of Correspondence of this Town, be desired to inform the Town of Boston, that we do not consider ourselves disinterested in the present alarming Conduct of the British Parliament towards them; but view the whole of the American Colonies equally concerned in the Event: And that we will with the utmost Firmness act accordingly, whenever any Plan shall be agreed upon.—And in the mean Time we are of Opinion, that an universal Stoppage of all Trade with Great-Britain, Ireland, the Coast of Africa and the West-Indies, until the Port of Boston shall be reinstated to its former Privileges, will be the best expedient. And further that a proper Time should be agreed on for the same universally to take Place."
¶ For more Boston News, &c. see last Page.

L O N D O N, March 30.
ON Friday last Mr. Edmund Burke spoke as if he had been inspired AGAINST the Bill for prohibiting Commerce in the Town of Boston. The sublimity and force of his argument never was exceeded in the House of Commons. It is difficult to catch the words of this great Orator, his manner is so various and rapid; but we are endeavoring to get some chasms in the materials we have collected accurately filled up, and hope to be able to give the whole to the Public, for the HONOUR of this NATION.— In the mean while, we give the substance of what was said by another Member, on the same side.
GOVERNOR JOHNSTONE'S SPEECH On the BILL for BLOCKADING the TOWN of BOSTON. MR. SPEAKER
I FIND so much difficulty in pronouncing my sentiments at any time, that, unless the House is kindly disposed to hear me, at this late hour, I shall patiently sit down, because I am conscious it will require their greatest indulgence, to enable me to express myself in a manner worthy of their attention. A modesty, becoming my situation, prevented me from offering my opinion before, when I saw men of so much superior ability rising from the beginning of the debate.
It may appear arrogant in a Member so inferior, as I confess myself to be, to offer objections to a Bill so extensive in its consequences under every consideration, especially after it must have been so maturely considered, in every article, by men so distinguished by their Talents and high situations in office, besides the general applause which has followed the Bill in its rapid progress thro' this House. Nevertheless, tho' naturally diffident of my opinion, when I had the good or bad fortune (I don't know which to term it) of prognosticating to the Chairman of the East-India Company the consequences of sending this Tea, on their own account, to America, & that the event has literally fulfilled my words, as it is well known to some Members now in my eye, it makes me more confident in warning the House of what I apprehend will be the consequences of this Bill.
I told the Chairman of the East-India Company , first in conversation, on asking my opinion, and afterwards by letter, that the evidence might appear in the progress of things; that I conceived the East-India Company exporting Tea on their own account, was, under every consideration of their situation and institution, WRONG , but, under the present discontents and disputed matters of Government in America, CRIMINALLY ABSURD , because they were presenting themselves as the butt in the controversy, where they would probably come off with the loss of the whole. The event has justified my prediction; for whatever re-payment the Company may obtain from the town of Boston, under those cruel coercive measures now proposed, (the effect of which I still doubt,) yet the Company must remain great losers, even if the other Provinces equally culpable, are made to refund the loss arising from their conduct because it was not supplies of cash at a distant period the Company wanted, but an IMMEDIATE SUPPLY, to answer a temporary exigency, which a combination of the enemies of the Company had produced.
I now venture to predict to this House, that the effect of the present Bill must be productive of a general confederacy, to resist the power of this country. It is irritating, tempting, nay inviting men to those deeds, by ineffectual expedients, the abortions of an undecisive mind, incapable of comprehending the chain of consequences which must result from such a Law.—I am not one of those who believe that distant Provinces can be retained in their duty by preaching or enchantments; I believe that FORCE OR POWER , conducted with WISDOM , are the means of securing regular obedience under every establishment, but that such force should never be applied to any degree of rigour, unless it shall carry the general appro-
bation of mankind in the execution. However much such approbation may prevail at the particular moment in this House, it is impossible to believe the sense of Great-Britain, or the sense of America, can go to the punishing a PARTICULAR TOWN, for resisting the payment of the Tea-Tax, which is universally ODIous throughout America, and is held in ridicule & contempt by every thinking man in this country.—The question of taxing America is sufficiently nice to palliate resistance, if the subject had never been litigated in this country; but, after the highest characters in the State had declared against the Right of this Country to impose Taxes on America, for the purposes of Revenue; after the general voice of the Senate had concurred in REPEALING THE STAMP-ACT, upon that principle; after those men, who had maintained these doctrines, had been promoted by his Majesty to the first stations in the administration of civil and judicial affairs, there is so much mitigation to be pleaded in favour of the Americans, from those circumstances, (allowing them in an error at present,) that every man must feel the height of cruelty, by enforcing contrary maxims, with any degree of severity, at first, before due warning is given.
It is in vain to say that Boston is more culpable than the other Colonies; sending the ships from thence, and obliging them to return to England, is a more solemn and deliberate act of resistance than the outrage committed by persons in disguise in the night, when the ship refused to depart. That of blocking up the harbour of Boston to prevent the importation of British manufactures, or the exportation of goods which are to pay for them, is a measure equally as absurd as if the Parliament here, upon the resistance which was made to their resolution, by the riots at Brentford, & other disturbances in the county of Middlesex, had decreed, by way of punishment, that the Freeholders should have been prohibited from sowing of wheat.—For whose benefit do the inhabitants of Boston toil and labour? The springs in the circle of commerce bear so nicely on each other, that few men can tell by interrupting one the degree and extent to which the rest may be exposed. By excluding the importation of Molasses, & the exportation of that spirit which is distilled at Boston, the whole Guinea Trade will be affected, and in consequence the Sugar Trade that depends upon it. In extending this kind of punishment to the other Colonies, every one must see the danger; and yet, if it can be approved for one, the same arguments will hold good to approve or reject it respecting the other.—But let any man figure to himself the consequences to this country, if a similar punishment was applied to the colony of Virginia , 300,000 a year diminution in Revenue, besides the loss of all the foreign Contracts, & perhaps of that beneficial trade forever. Notwithstanding the general approbation which has been given to this Bill, and the loud applause which have been re-echoed to every word of the noble Lord in explaining it, yet no man will be bold enough to say, that this PARTIAL PUNISHMENT is a remedy for the general disease, and yet without knowing what is to follow, no man can be vindicated (even supposing the Bill right in part) for giving his assent to it. Those Gentlemen who are in the secrets of the Cabinet, & know how assuredly every proposition from them is adopted by this House, may be excused for their sanguine acclamations in favour of the measure. But the general mass who must be equally ignorant with myself of what is to follow, can have no excuse for giving their assent so readily for punishing their fellow subjects in so unprecedented a manner, and their eager zeal serves only to shew how ready they are to obey the will of another, without exercising their own judgment in the case. If the Government of this Country is resisted in America, my opinion is, instead of removing the seat of Government in the Colony, and forcing the elements to bend to our will which is impossible, that an effectual force should be carried to the heart of the Colony resisting, to crush rebellion in the bud before a general confederacy can be
formed. In the present case we abandon the Government and drive the inhabitants to despair, leaving the multitude a prey to any ambitious spirit that may arise. For my own part I am convinced, from experience in the Colonies, that good Government may be conducted there upon rational grounds as well as in this Country: but the power and means of governing, rewards & punishments, are taken from your supreme executive Magistrate in every sense, and then you are surprized that all order and obedience should cease. The colonies can only be governed by their Assemblies as England by the House of Commons; the Patent Offices, as well as those in the Customs, which were formerly given at the recommendation of the Governors, to men importing Government, and residing in the Provinces, are now given in reversion three or four lives deep, to men living in this Country. The command of the Military, which was another great source of respect and obedience, is likewise taken from the Governor;—so that in TRUTH he remains an insignificant Pageant of State, fit only to transmit tedious accounts of his own ridiculous situation; or, like a Doctor of the Sorbonne, to debate with his Assembly about abstract doctrines in Government.
I am far from wishing to throw any blame upon Governor Hutchinson, or to condemn him, like the town of Boston, unheard. The absence of the man, and the general clamour against him will restrain me from saying many things respecting his conduct, which appear reprehensible. But I cannot admit a passage in the speech of a noble Lord to pass unnoticed. His Lordship alledges, "that the Governor could not apply to the Admiral "in the harbour, or to the commanding officer of the troops in the castle, for the protection of the customhouse-officers, as well as teas in question, WITHOUT the advice of his council." But I beg leave to inform the noble Lord, as I served in that station myself, that there is a volume of instructions to every governor on this subject, whereby he is commanded, under the severest penalties, "to give all kind of protection to trade and commerce, as well as to the officers of his Majesty's customs, by his own authority, without the necessity of acting thro' his council." Nor can I conceive a possible excuse for the destruction of those teas, while two men of war lay in the harbour, without the least application having been made to the Admiral for protection, during so long a transaction.
The first essential point in those disputes which are now likely to become so serious by weakness of Administration in this Country in following no connected Plan, either of force or favour, but constantly vibrating between the two, is to put ourselves in the right, and for this purpose I would recommend the immediate REPEAL OF THE TEA DUTY, which can be vindicated upon no principles, either of commerce or policy.—Men may alledge this would be giving up the point. But if we have no better points to dispute upon I am ready to yield the argument. Raising taxes in America for the purposes of REVENUE, I maintain to be unnecessary and dangerous. A stamp-act, as a measure of police, varied for the different governments, and leaving the revenue raised thereby to be appropriated by the respective legislatures, I hold to be a measure of the highest efficacy, for maintaining a due obedience to the authority of this country, and prolonging that dependance for ages to come. How far it can be executed after what has already passed, I am rather diffident, but of this I am certain, that in case Great-Britain is deprived of executing a measure of that nature, which by prevading every transaction secures the execution in itself, she has lost one of the greatest engines for supporting her influence throughout the empire without oppression. Some men who are for simplifying Government to their own comprehensions will not allow they can conceive that the supreme legislative authority shall not be paramount in all things, and taxation being fully comprehended in legislation, they argue, that the power of the one must neces-

fairly follow that of the other; and yet we find mankind possessed of privileges which are not to be violated in the most arbitrary countries. The province of Languedoc is a striking example in refutation of the doctrines respecting taxation, which are held by such narrow observers. The Kingdom of Ireland is another instance in our dominions. There is not one argument which can apply for exempting Ireland from taxation by the parliament of Great-Britain, that does not equally protect the colonies from the power of such partial judges. Every man should now call to his remembrance by what obstinate Infatuation Philip II came to loose united Provinces. Can it be supposed that in a nation so wise as Spain was at that time, that no man perceived the injustice and futility of the measure in dispute? But I can easily suppose, from the pride of authority where our vanity is so much flattered, that no man durst venture a proposition for receding from that cruel measure, after it had been resisted by violence.
These are the general heads:
The particular objections to the bill are, first for continuing the punishment "until satisfaction shall be made to the East-India company," without stating the amount, or what that satisfaction shall be. Next, "until peace and good order shall be certified to be restored," when it is impossible as to the subject in dispute that such certificate can ever be granted, because the custom-house officers are removed, and all trade and commerce prohibited. The numerous disputes and litigations which must necessarily arise in carrying this law into execution, on contract made by parties before they could be apprised of it, and the dispatch of ships in harbour, under the limited time, without any exception for the desertion of seamen, or wind and weather, is altogether melancholy to consider! The power given to the Admiral or chief Commander to order the ships returning from foreign voyages, to such stations as he shall direct, is wild, vexatious, & indefinite. That of permitting his Majesty to alter the value of all the property in the town of Boston, upon restoring the port, by affixing such quays, and wharfs, as HE ONLY shall appoint for landing and shipping of goods, is liable to such misrepresentation and abuse, that I expect to see every evil follow the exercise of it, and it must create infinite jealousies and distraction among the people.
I am therefore of opinion, that this bill, both from the principle & manner in which it has been passed, and from fore-running the general regulations that are intended, and which ought at least to accompany it; instead of quieting the disturbances in Boston, it will promote them still further, and induce the inhabitants to cut off all communication with your ships of war, which may be productive of mutual hostilities, and most probably will end in a GENERAL REVOLT.
Imported in the last Ships from LONDON
By John Mc Master,
On Spring-Hill, Portsmouth,
A Large Assortment of ENGLISH and Scotch Goods suitable for the Spring Trade; — which will be sold by Wholesale and Retail, on such Terms as must appear reasonable to every Judge of the different Articles—A large Assortment of the newest Fashion'd SILKS, plain, flower'd and brocaded—Irish LINNENS of all widths—All Sorts of RIBBONS, &c. &c.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, WHEREAS a PETITION has been preferred to the GENERAL ASSEMBLY, by a Number of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the Southerly Part of the Parish of DEERFIELD, in the County of Rockingham, praying, for Reasons mentioned therein, that the said South Part of Deerfield may be incorporated into a distinct Parish, so as to take in the first three Ranges, and one half of the Range, Highway between the third and the Fourth Ranges of Lots:—
THESE are therefore to give Notice, that a Hearing is granted on said Petition, on the third Day of the sitting of the General Assembly next after the twentieth Day of June next, for any Person or Persons to appear and show Cause why the Prayer thereof may not be granted.
GEO. KING, Secretary.
Portsmouth, May 11, 1774.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, COURT OF VICE ADMIRALTY ANY PERSON or PERSONS claiming PROPERTY in two thousand White Pine Logs or Trunks of White Pine Trees, of the Diameter of twelve Inches and upwards, seized by Order of the SURVEYOR GENERAL at different Places on the Eastern Banks of Connecticut River and on said River, in the Province of New Hampshire, may appear at a Court of Vice Admiralty to be held at the Court House in Portsmouth, in the County of Rockingham, in the Province aforesaid, on Thursday the 23d Day of June next, at three of the Clock in the Afternoon, and show Cause, if any they have, why the same should not be decreed Forfeited, agreeable to an INFORMATION filed in said Court.
Dated at Portsmouth, this 21st Day of May, 1774.
Per Curiam, JOHN SHERBURNE, D.R.
Whereas Sarah Clark, late of
BOSTON, in Suffolk County, Widow, deceas'd, Intestate (who was a Daughter of Robert Bronsdon, late of said Boston, deceas'd) was interested in a 4th part in 800 Acres of Land at a Place called Coxhall, in the County of York, (now called Sanford) by the last Will of her Father Robert Bronsdon, and also a 4th part by Purchase from the Heirs of Mary Evans, who was also a Daughter of the said Robert Bronsdon, making in the whole one half the said 800 Acres:—This is to give public Notice, that so much of the said Sarah Clark's Interest in the 800 Acres lying in common and undivided, will, by Virtue of an Order of the Superior Court of Judicature, &c. of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, be expos'd to sale at public Auction, on Thursday the 14th Day of July next, at the Dwelling House of Esayas Prebble, Innholder in York, at Five o'Clock Afternoon, as will raise Fifty three Pounds Lawful Money, for the Payment of the Debts of the said Sarah Clark, deceas'd.—For further Particulars and Conditions of Sale, enquire of Mr. Thomas Grenough the Administrator, living in Boston, or Mr. John Stee of York.
N. B. The Land lies and adjoins to the Head of Wells; and to the N. E. of Mountain River.
ALL Persons that have any Demands on the Estate of Andrew Wiggin, Esq; late of Stratham, deceas'd, are desir'd immediately to bring in their Accounts to Dorothy Wiggin of Stratham, Executrix to the last Will of the deceas'd, in order for Settlement. And all Persons indebted to said Estate, are desir'd to make immediate Payment to said Executrix. Apr. 29, 1774.
RAN AWAY on Friday the 14th Instant from the Subscriber, an Apprentice BOY, named Job Jennings, about 18 Years of Age, of a light Complexion, with light Hair:—Had on when he went away, black Stockings, green Jacket, brown Coat and Leather Breeches—Whoever will take up said Apprentice, and bring him to me, or secure him, and send me Word, shall have One Shiling Reward.—And all Persons are forbid to harbour, conceal and carry off said Apprentice. Kingston, May 18, 1774. JOHN CALEF, junr.
All Persons indebted to or that
Have any Demands on the Estate of John Tuttle late of Dover, deceased, are desir'd immediately to bring in their Accounts unto Paul Tuttle, Silas Tuttle, or Job Tuttle, Executors of said Deceased, in order for a speedy Settlement.
Dover May 9th, 1774.
Whereas Alice the Wife of me
the Subscriber, has left me and run me in Debt Needlessly without any Provocation, and fearing her Endeavours will succeed farther to my hurt, This is to warn all People from crediting her on my Account, for I will not pay any Debt she may contract from the Date hereof. DAVID LANGLEY.
Durham, April 10th, 1774.
RAN away from his Master Benjamin Littlefield of Wells, a NEGRO SERVANT called POMPEY. Had on when he went away, a short Jacket, a pair of Moose Skin Breeches: he says he was baptized in London, and that he is become a Free Negro, having obtained the Opinion of David Sewall, Esq; respecting Slaves, which he calls a Pair, and often shows to People as such. Masters of Vessels and others are cautioned not to entertain him or carry him off. And any Person who shall apprehend the said Pompey, and return him to his said Master, or commit him to his Majesty's Goal in York, or any other of his Majesty's Goals, and notify his said Master thereof, so that he may obtain said Negro again, shall have two Dollars Reward, and all necessary Charges paid by BENJAMIN LITTLEFIELD: Wells, May 5th. 1774.
Cash given
For inchantable and unmerchantable POT ASH and POT ASH SALTS, at GOULD'S AUCTION OFFICE, in Back Street, BOSTON.
Middletown.
THE Proprietors of MIDDLETOWN so called, are hereby notified, that a Meeting of said Proprietors is to be held, at the House of Mr. Stephen Wentworth, Innholder in Rochester, in the County of Strafford, on Monday the thirtieth Day of this Instant May, at two o'clock P. M. then and there to act and vote on the following Articles, viz. 1. To choose a Moderator. 2. To choose a new Clerk, and a new Treasurer. 3. To choose a Committee to inspect the Books of Records of the present Clerk, in order to see if all past Transactions, relating to said Township at several Meetings have been duly and fairly recorded, and to report the State of the same, at the next Adjournment; and in case of any Errors or Defects appearing in former Records, or Votes, whether the Propriety will agree to rectify the same, by confirming and establishing such Votes as may be hitherto thought defective. 4. To see if the Propriety will agree to sell and clear 8 or 10 Acres of Trees on the ministerial Lot, for the future Encouragement of a Minister.— 5. To see what Preaching the Propriety will vote to pay the ensuing Year. 6. To choose and impower a Committee to call the Collector of the Land Taxes to account, and to examine the State of the present Treasurer's Account, and to settle with both Treasurer and Collector up to the present Meeting. 7. To see whether any mere Monies may be wanted upon the Roads this Year, and to vote what shall be agreed upon as necessary for that Purpose; and any other contingent Charges as abovementioned, in which Case to chuse a Collector for the same. 8. To see whether the Proprietors at said Meeting will chuse a Committee to sell all the Pew Privileges in the Meeting House in said Town at public Vendue, and to impower said Committee to appoint or say how many Pews there shall be in said Meeting House, and apply the Money arising therefrom, to the finishing of the Inside of said Meeting House. 9. To hear the Request of Capt John Drew and others, relative to the Saw Mill Privilege, and High Way that is wanted to said Mill, for the Benefit of said Proprietors, and act thereon, as the Proprietors shall think proper at said Meeting. 10. To see whether the Proprietors will chuse a Committee, and impower them to exchange any High Way that they shall think proper, for the Benefit of the said Proprietors, and make a Report of their Doings at this Meeting upon Adjournment; and to act on any other Matter that may help to forward the Settlement of the Township. All concerned are desir'd to attend at Time and Place aforesaid. By Order of the Assessors, JOHN GAGE, Prop's Clerk. Dover. May 2d 1774.
TO BE SOLD.
A Farm adjoining Kennebunk
River, in the Township of Wells, containing about 50 Acres, two Thirds of it under good Improvement, and in due Proportion for Tillage, Mowing and pasture.—The Situation exceeding convenient for a trader or tradesman, lying at the Head of the Tide. The House and Barn well finished, within 15 Rods of the principal Landing for Boards and other Lumber; and adjoining the Interest of Waldo Emerson deceased, a late and prosperous Merchant in those Parts. Also within a Mile of the Meeting House, and near two Grist Mills, Saw Mill, Iron Works, and Building-Yard. Conditions of Sale may be known at Capt. Kimball's in said Wells, Innholder, or of Moses Little, Esq; in Newbury Port, Merchant. Wells April 25, 1774.
Four DOLLARS Reward.
RUN away from Capt. Jonas Lovit, of Cape Elizabeth, Innholder, a young Man, whose Name (as he says) is Jacob Towns; and carry'd away with him a silver Watch, glass'd inside, the Chain Leather. A silver Cup, with two Handles, mark'd I. W. with several other Things. He is of a dark Complexion, black Hair, and black Eyes. Had on when he went away a green Jacket, lined with Green; Buff Breeches, & a Felt Hat; carry'd off a Surtout Coat which he sells; lightish brown Yarn Stockings; old Shoes that had been tap'd. Whoever will apprehend said Thief, so that he may be brought to Justice, shall have FOUR DOLLARS REWARD, and all necessary Charges paid by JONATHAN LOVIT.
N. B. It is desir'd any Goldsmith, Watchmaker, or other Person would stop the above Articles, if offered for Sale. Cape Elizabeth, April 29th, 1774.
TO BE SOLD
Three Lots of Land,
Lying in Camden near George's Fort at the Eastward, No. 4, No. 52; No. 30, is an Island. Enquire of the Printer.
Warrantee and Quitclaim Deeds, Justice Blanks, Bail Bonds, Shipping Papers, &c. Sold at the Printing Office.

BOSTON, May 29.
The Town of Newbury-Port proposes "from and after the 4th of June next."
Notwithstanding Reports to the contrary, we are well informed that this People have many Friends in England, who are determined to do all in their Power for the Good of this Country.
It is reported that Col. Leslie will be appointed Lieutenant Governor of this Province.
By Letters from London, we learn, that at a late Meeting in London of the Society for supporting the Bill of Rights, Mr. Samuel Adams, the Hon. John Adams, Esq; and Dr. Joseph Warren, all of this Town, were unanimously elected Members of that Society, and that proper Certificates of their Admission were ordered to be sent to the new Members.
A Correspondent from Cumberland, in Nova-Scotia, informs us, that it was reported there "That the Tea-Ship from London bound to Halifax, was lost on the Isle of Sables, and every Soul on board perished." This may probably be the Ship Adams , Capt. -----, in the Trade between London and Halifax, which has been some Time missing.
MONDAY, May 23.
Tuesday last (agreeable to the Advice of his Majesty's Council, as mentioned in our last) the Troop of Horse Guards commanded by Col. Phipps, the Governor's Company of Cadets led by Lieut. Col. Coffin, the Train of Artillery under the Command of Major Paddock, the Grenadiers commanded by Lieut. Peirce and the several Companies of Militia, under Col. Erving, were mustered to receive his Excellency General Gage, appointed to the Government of this Province. At 11 o'Clock his Excellency left the Castle under a Discharge of the Cannon of that Fortress, and proceeded on board his Majesty's Ship Captain , having previously given Notice of his Intention to land at the Long-Wharf: At 12 the Hon. his Majesty's Council, the Hon. Secretary, Magistrates, High Sheriff, Marshal of the Court of Vice-Admiralty, Selectmen, & a Number of other Gentlemen, received his Excellency (who was accompanied by Col. Leslie and several other Officers) as he landed, under the Discharge of Cannon from the Admiral's Ship, and the N. and S. Batteries; and, preceded by the Company of Cadets, with their Band of Music, escorted him up the Wharf & through King-Street, where the different Corps were drawn up, and his Excellency received the standing Salutes of the respective Officers as he passed them. After his Arrival at the Council Chamber, his Majesty's Commission, appointing him Captain-General & Governor in Chief of this Province, and Vice Admiral of the same, were read, and the usual Oaths were administered by the President of the Council; his Excellency was then pleased to issue a Proclamation requiring all Officers whose Commissions would otherwise cease & determine, to continue in the Exercise of their respective Commissions until further Orders. Three Volleys were then fired, and three Cheers given by a vast Concourse of People collected on this Occasion.
After his Excellency had received the Compliments of his Majesty's Council, the Gentlemen in the Commission of the Peace, the Episcopal and Dissenting Clergy, Military Officers, & a great Number of other Gentlemen, he proceeded (escorted by the Company of Cadets) to Faneuil-Hall, where an elegant Dinner was provided for his welcome Reception.
General Gage's Lady and Family, attended by Major Kemble, were to sail from London for N. York, about the 1st of this Month.
We hear his Excellency our late Governor, Elisha Hutchinson, Esq; his second Son, and Miss Hutchinson, his Excellency's youngest Daughter, have engaged the elegant Cabin of the Ship Minerva , Captain Callahan, who sails next Friday for London.
The Value of the Tea destroyed at Boston, amounts to about eight Thousand Pounds Sterling.
We hear that Capt. Cales, in the Ship London , bound for and owned in London, will soon sail for that Port in BALLAST.
We cannot but gratefully acknowledge the generous and brotherly Interposition of our Brethren of the other Colonies on the present desperate Attack of the British Parliament on the Town of Boston, among our warmest Friends we are happy to enumerate the respectable Inhabitants of the Towns of New-York, Hartford, New-Port, Portsmouth and Westerly, who have thus early assured us of their Readiness to unite in every Measure of Self-Defence and Hazard, to extricate themselves as well as us from impending Slavery.
Extracts of a Letter from New York, May 14, 1774, addressed to the COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE in Boston.
"Last Thursday Capt. Couper arrived from London in 27 Days. By him we have received the shocking and detectable Act of Parliament that shuts up your Port the first of June.--- We want Language to express our Abhorrence of this additional Act of Tyranny to America; we clearly see that she is to be attacked and enslaved by distressing and subduing you.--- We are persuaded that the sensible People of the Town of Boston anticipate the Object of the Act in all its dire Events; and therefore that a Compliance with the Proviso of it will only be a temporary Relief from a particular Evil, which must end in a general Calamity. Impressed with this, a great Number of our Citizens with our Port to be in the same State with yours.--- And as the Ministry have put it out of your Power to continue your Trade with Great-Britain, the Merchants are to have a Meeting tomorrow Evening to agree upon a general Non-Importation and Non-Exportation of Goods to and from Great-Britain; also to stop the Exportation of all Hoops, Staves, Heading, and Lumber to the English Islands, and to export no more of the first Articles to the foreign Islands than will be sufficient to bring home the Sugar, Rum, and Molasses for the Return of American Cargoes. We shall advise you the Result of the Meeting.--- We can with great Truth assure you, that many timid People in this City, who have interested themselves but very little in the Controversy with Great-Britain, express the greatest Resentment and Indignation at the Conduct of the Ministry to your Town, and consider the Treatment done to it as if done to this City; and this is the general Sense of the Inhabitants. The Express is a true Friend to the Liberties of this Country, and will wait your Directions for his Return."
Extract of a Letter from the Committee of Correspondence for Portsmouth, dated May 19, 1774, to the Committee of Correspondence for the Town of Boston.
"We think the late Act of Parliament to shut up the Port of Boston of a most extraordinary Nature and fatal Tendency; Administration are taking every Method to disunite the Colonies, thereby to render the noble opposition to their arbitrary and destructive Measures abortive: We hope a firm Union of all the Colonies will still subsist, and that such a Plan may be devised and resolutely pursued by all, as may prevent the cruel Effects of this Act."
"We heartily sympathize with you, under your present difficult and alarming Situation. We will exert ourselves to carry any Plan into Effect which may be concerted by the Colonies for the general Relief. We sincerely with you Resolution and
Prosperity in the common Cause, and shall ever view your Interest as our own, and are with the highest Esteem, &c.
A Letter from the Committee of Correspondence at Westerly in Rhode-Island Colony, dated May 19, says, "That with mingled concern and Indignation they have seen an Act for blocking up the Harbour of Boston."---That "this horrid Attack upon the Town of Boston, they consider not an Attack upon that Town singly, but upon the whole continent.--- And are therefore determined to use their whole Influence for the Support of the Town of Boston, in the same Manner as if the Attack had been made in the Metropolis of that Colony. And they doubt not but the other Colonies will consider this arbitrary and tyrannical Edict in the same Light, and heartily unite with the Friends of Liberty in Boston in Support of the common Cause."
It may be depended upon that Mr. William Jones of Bristol, intending this Summer for Boston, engaged a Ship, and went down to the manufacturing Towns to engage a Cargo for her to bring out with him; and on his Return homewards he met with the Boston Port-Bill, which influenced him at a considerable Expence to contradict all Orders. These Disappointments, with the many Countermands and other Letters declarative of the present Disposition of the Colonists in general, must throw the Manufacturers into a worse Consternation than any Thing of the Kind that has ever yet happened; as all Ranks and Degrees of Men can now plainly perceive the Design of Administration.
At a Town-Meeting legally called, and held at Newport, in the Colony of Rhode-Island, the 20th Day of May, 1774.
VOTED that we have the deepest Sense of the Injuries done to the Town of Boston by the Act of Parliament lately passed for putting an End to their Trade, and destroying the Port; and that we consider this Attack upon them as utterly subversive of American Liberty: For the same Power may at pleasure destroy the Trade and shut up the Ports of every other Colony in its Turn, so that there will be a total End of all Property.
VOTED, That we will unite with the other Colonies in all reasonable and proper Measures, to procure the Establishment of the Rights of the Colonies upon a just and permanent Foundation; and particularly in case the other Colonies shall upon this most alarming Occasion put a Stop to their Trade to Great-Britain and the West-India Islands, that we will heartily join with them in the Measure.
VOTED, That the Committee of Correspondence for the Town immediately transmit a Copy of these Resolutions to the Committee of Correspondence for the Town of Boston.
VOTED, That the Committee of Correspondence for this Town immediately send a Copy of the above Resolutions to each Town in this Colony.
A true Copy,
Wm. Coddington, Town-Clerk.
Friday last the Episcopal Clergy of this and some neighbouring Towns waited on his Excellency THOMAS GAGE, Esq; with the following Address:
May it please your Excellency, To accept the sincere and hearty Congratulation of the Clergy of the Church of England officiating in this, and some neighbouring Towns, on your appointment to the Government of this Province, and on your safe arrival.--- We acknowledge his Majesty's Goodness in appointing a Gentleman of your known Wisdom, Moderation and Experience, to succeed our late worthy Governor, on his Desire of being recalled. As your Excellency has accepted the arduous Task of Government in a very difficult and unquiet Time, we humbly hope the Honour of restoring Peace and Prosperity of the Province will distinguish your Administration.
It is the Duty of our Office to cultivate, as far as in us lies, a Spirit of Loyalty to the King, and of Obedience to the Rulers that are set over us; and discharging this, and all other Parts of our Duty with Fidelity, we promise ourselves your Excellency's Countenance and Support.
To which his Excellency was pleased to make the following Answer:
Gentlemen, I Return you my sincere Thanks for your kind Congratulations on my Appointment to the Government of this Province, and on my Arrival in it.
You will rest assured that nothing shall be wanting on my Part to establish that Peace and Prosperity to the Province, which every good man must wish to see restored.
The assurances you give of cultivating a Spirit of Loyalty and Obedience according to the Duty of your Stations, cannot fail to be pleasing to the King; and the Church of England may always depend on my Protection and Support. T. GAGE.
Salem, May 24.
We have just heard that the Town of MARBLEHEAD have unanimously agreed to join the GRAND UNION now forming for the Salvation of AMERICAN LIBERTY. Their Meeting was opened with an excellent Prayer by Rev. Mr. Whitwell.
A Copy of an Address from sundry Persons in Boston, to Governor Hutchinson, being read at the Meeting in Marblehead, and containing Matters that appeared to the Inhabitants palpably absurd, was honoured with a general His.
L O N D O N, April 5.
The Public may be assured, says a Correspondent, that the Appointment of General Gage to the Government of the Massachusetts-Bay proceeds entirely from the Goodness of the King.---
A Correspondent felicitates us on seeing realized the Idea of a Patriot King. His Majesty has proved himself so by dismissing, contrary to the Advice of the P--- C---, and the Endeavours of a most wicked, impudent and flagitious Scotch Lawyer, a Traitor who was hardy enough to advise the Curtailing of English Liberties.
April 6. A great Quantity of Tents and Camp Equipage are ordered to be embarked for North-America.
A correspondent thinks, that if a late Change of the Governor of Massachusetts-Bay had been prompted by any Regard for the Sentiments and Rights of the People, General Gage would have been sent with the Olive-Branch in his Hand, and not with the Boston Port-Bill and hostile Instructions in his Pocket.
The Petition of the American Gentlemen to the King against the Boston Port-Bill was presented to his Majesty by the right Hon. the Earl of Dartmouth, Secretary of State for the Colonies.
It is said that the Thane is consulted daily and hourly by a certain great Personage; no favourable Omen this to the Rights and Liberties of the Subject.
Orders it is whispered have been given, or will be in a few Days, that no Fire-Arms, Swords, &c. be permitted to be exported from hence to America, or elsewhere, for three Months to come. These Orders will not affect the Americans, for they have plenty of these Instruments of Death.
April 8. A Correspondent desires to be informed, whether it would not be advisable to establish a Parliament in America for all the Colonies, & choose the central Place for that Purpose. By a Calculation lately made, it will cost Government not
less than 12,200l. to make a commodious Harbour at Cacco-Bay. It has been estimated that during the unhappy Disagreement with the Colonies, Great-Britain, exclusive of the Government Duties, has sustained a Loss of more than 500 Guines per Day.
The Bostonians have declared, that rather than submit to the Tyranny of the Mother-Country, they will abandon the Sea Coast and associate with the Native Indians in the back Country.
There is no extraordinary supply of Military Stores or Camp Equipage ordered to America, nor is it the Intention of the Minister to act with Severity, if it can possibly be avoided.
We hear that it is intended to ship a fresh Cargo of Tea for Boston, and to send it thither with a Military Force.
General Paoli, it is reported, has lately refused the Offer of an Employment in America.
Governor Hutchinson, as soon as he arrives here, Report says, will be knighted; and also be promoted to a considerable Post in Administration.
General Gage, it is said, has the most extensive Commission that ever any Governor or Commander was invested with; but from the known Humanity of that Gentleman, there is no Reason to fear that he will make any farther Use of it than what Duty and Justice prompts him to.
   CUSTOM-HOUSE, PISCATAQUA, May 26th.   Inward-Entries FROM.     Brig Conway, Edward Wiggleworth, St. Lucea.   Brig Stork, William Coombs, Martinico.   Ship Nelson, Nathaniel Dowse, Barbados.   Sloop Newburn, David Reynolds, New-York.   Sloop Orley, Peter Bohea, New-Haven.   Schooner Two Brothers, Aclee Ryley, New-London.   Clear'd Outwards FOR.   Schooner George, William Vennard, Newfoundland.   Schooner Greyhound, Abraham Trefethen, Maryland.   Schooner Endeavour, Richard York, West-Indies.   Brig Conway, Edward Wiggleworth, Ditto.   Brig Dartmouth, John Peirce, Ditto.   Sloop Britannia, James Clarkson, Ditto  
§ Dartmouth. §
Province of New Hampshire, Rockingham, ss. Application having been made to me the Subscriber, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace thro' the Province, by the Proprietors or Owners of more than one sixteenth part of the Township of Dartmouth, in the County of Grafton, and Province aforesaid, requesting me to call a Meeting of said proprietors for the following Purposes, viz — 1. To chuse a Moderator to govern said Meeting. — 2. To chuse a Clerk, Assessors, Collector, and Treasurer. — 3. To vote such Sums of Money as may be necessary for making Bridges, building a Saw Mill and Grist Mill, or any other Purposes that the Proprietors shall judge for the Benefit of the Township — 4. To see what Encouragement they will give to the first Settlers. — 5. To act on any other Matter Proprietors shall think proper for bringing forward the Settlement of said Township. — 6. To agree upon a Method of calling Meetings in future.
In Consequence of said Application, I do hereby Notify and Warn the Proprietors of said Township of Dartmouth, to meet at the House of James Stoodley, Esq; Innholder in Portsmouth, on Thursday the 23d Day of June next, at eight o'Clock, P. M., for the Purposes aforesaid.
Portsmouth, May 24th 1774.
DANIEL ROGERS, Just. Peace.
WE the Subscribers being appointed by the Honorable JOHN SHERBURNE, Esq; Commissioners to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of Ezekiel Varney, late of Dover, Blacksmith, deceas'd, Represented Insolvent, and six Months being allow'd for that Purpose, hereby give Notice, that we will attend said Business at the House of Thomas Shannon, Innholder in Dover, on the First Tuesday in June next, and the first Tuesday in the five following Months, at One o'Clock Afternoon of said Days:
Dover, May 25, 1774. Jacob Sawyer, Caleb Hedgdon.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Rockingham ss.
WHEREAS Robert Boyes, late of London-derry, in said County and Province, Esq; and others, received a GRANT from his late Excellency BENNING WENTWORTH, Esq; of two Townships of Land, named Manchester and Sandgate, now under the Jurisdiction of New York: And whereas great Numbers of Grantees in each of said Townships, gave Deeds of their Rights to said Boyes, which Deeds are now in our Hands, and as Executors to the Testament of said Boyes, we have a Right to sell all of said Land, not already sold by said Boyes, or us; and all Persons, that gave Deeds in either of said Townships, to Esq; Boyes, are hereby cautioned not to sign Deeds, to any other Person, lest they should come to Damage. And all Persons are also cautioned, not to purchase Lands in any of said Townships, under the Title of Boyes, except from the Subscribers, MATHEW THORNTON. SARAH BOYES.
Londonderry April 25, 1774.
N. B. The Reason the Public have this Trouble is the Subscribers have been informed, that a certain Person has got Deeds from Sundrys, that gave Deeds to Esq; Boyes, and now in our Hands, and has sold to Sundrys, and no Person has, or ever had a Right to sell any Land belonging to said Boyes's Estate but us.
All Persons indebted for this Paper, are desired to make payment.