The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1774-06-24 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the FRESHEST ADVICES
Friday June 24, 1774.
Vol. XVIII GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
NO. 922 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd. }
BOSTON, June 16. We have just received the following from Salem. In COUNCIL, June 9, 1774. ORDERED, that Jeremiah Powell, William Sever, and Jediah Preble, Esq's be a Committee to wait on his Excellency the Governor, with the following Address in Answer to his Speech at the Opening of the present General Court.
THO'S FLUCKER, Sec'y. To his Excellency THOMAS GAGE, Esq; Captain-General and Governor in Chief of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, &c. The Address of the Council of the said Province. May it please your Excellency,
YOUR Speech to the two Houses at the Opening of this Session has been duly considered by this Board.
His Majesty having been pleased to appoint you to the Government of this Province, We take this Opportunity to wait on you with our Congratulations on that Occasion.
Your Excellency has arrived at a Juncture when the Harmony between Great-Britain & the Colonies is greatly interrupted, whereby your Station, though elevated, must needs be rendered less agreeable to you than otherwise it would have been: But if you should be the happy Instrument of restoring in any Measure that Harmony, and of extricating the Province from their present Embarrassments, you will doubtless consider these happy Effects as more than a Compensation for any inconveniences arising to you from the peculiar Circumstances of the Times. His Majesty's faithful Council will on all Occasions cheerfully co-operate with your Excellency in every Attempt for accomplishing those desirable Ends. We wish your Excellency every Felicity: The greatest of a Political Nature, both to yourself and the Province is, that your Administration in the Principles and general Conduct of it, may be a happy Contrast to that of your two immediate Predecessors.—It is irksome to us to Censure any one, but we are constrained to say there is the greatest Reason to apprehend that from their Machinations (both in concert and apart) are derived the Origin & Progress of the Disunion between Britain & the Colonies, and the present distressed State of this Province—a Province, to which the latter of them, in an especial Manner, owed his best Services, and whose Liberties and Rights he was under every Obligation of Duty and Gratitude to Support.
The Inhabitants of this Province claim no more than the Rights of Englishmen, without Diminution or "Abridgement." These as it is our indispensable Duty, so it shall be our constant Endeavor to maintain to the utmost of our Power, in perfect consistency however with the truest Loyalty to the Crown; the just Prerogatives of which your Excellency will ever find this Board zealous to Support.
Permit us Sir, on this Occasion, to express the firmest Confidence that, under their present Grievances, the People of this Province will not in vain look to your Excellency for your paternal Aid and Assistance; and as the great End of Government is the Good of the People, that your Experience and Abilities will be applied to attain the End; the steady Pursuit of which, at the same Time it insures their Confidence and Esteem will be a source of the truest Enjoyment, self Approbation.
We thank your Excellency for the Assurance you have given "that you shall with Pleasure concur with the two Houses to the utmost of your Power in all Matters that tend to the Welfare and Prosperity of the Province;" and your Excellency may be assured that we shall contribute every Thing on our Part to promote Measures of so salutary a Tendency.
Y U N E 14.
The Committee appointed to present the foregoing Address, waited on his Excellency therewith Yesterday, and read as far as that Part which reflects on the Administration of his Excellency's two immediate Predecessors, when he desired the Chairman not to proceed any further, and that he would assign his Reasons for refusing to receive it, in a Message to the Council, & on the same Day sent by the Secretary the following Message:
Gentlemen of the Council, I CANNOT receive an Address which contains indecent Reflections on my Predecessors who have been tried and honorably acquitted by the Lords of the Privy Council, and their Conduct approved by the King.
I consider this Address as an Insult upon his Majesty, the Lords of his Privy-Council, and an Affront to myself. T. GAGE.
ANNAPOLIS, (Maryland) May 26, 1774. At a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the City of Annapolis, on Wednesday the 25th of May 1774, after Notice given of the Time, Place, and Occasion of this Meeting
RESOLVED, that it is the unanimous opinion of this meeting, that the town of Boston is now suffering in the common cause of America, and that it is incumbent on every colony in America, to unite in effectual means to obtain a repeal of the late act of parliament for blocking up the harbour of Boston. That it is the opinion of this meeting, that if the colonies come into a joint resolution to stop all importations from, and exportations to Great-Britain, till the said act be repealed, the same will preserve North-America and her Liberties.
RESOLVED therefore, that the inhabitants of this city will join in an association with the several counties of this province and the principal colonies of America, to put an immediate stop to all exports to Great-Britain, and that after a short day hereafter to be agreed on, that there be no imports from Great-Britain till the said act be repealed, and that such association be on oath.
That it is the opinion of this meeting, that the gentlemen of the law of this province bring no suit for the recovery of any debt due from any inhabitant of this province to any inhabitant of Great-Britain, until the said act be repealed.
That the inhabitants of this city will, and it is the opinion of this meeting, that this province ought immediately to break off all trade and dealings with that colony or province which shall refuse or decline to come into similar resolutions with a majority of the colonies.
That Messrs. John Hall, Charles Cartoll, Thomas Johnson, junr. William Paca, Matthias Hammond, Samuel Chase, be a committee for this city, to join with those who shall be appointed for Baltimore Town, and other parts of this province, to constitute one general committee, and that the gentlemen appointed for this city immediately correspond with Baltimore Town, and other parts of this province, to effect such association as will best secure American liberty.
Extract of a Letter from a Lady in London, dated March 29th, 1774, to a Gentleman in Boston.
"The unhappy Affairs of Boston now lay near my Heart! From my Soul do I feel for Boston, and for all America! I was in the Parliament House, and heard the Port-Bill brought in and read.
"A Bill is this Day passed to destroy your Trade, and another is bringing in to subvert your whole Constitution of Government. Expect no Mercy from them. For the Love of your Country and Posterity, for the Love of Justice, and for God's Sake use all your Powers to prevent your Town's Submission. Tell them to hold out only six Months, & all will be well. England will rise on the Occasion.
"Stop all Trade—be silent, be strong, be resolute. Their Plan was kept secret, through Fear that had it been known the Parliament-House
would have been destroyed.—Depend on my Intelligence to be good. Stand it out, or die. If you give up you are undone! call your People together, alarm them,—rouse them—call on them to humble themselves before GOD, by fasting and Prayer, that the intended Blow may be mercifully averted from America.
"All Letters are to be stopped—all the Governors are to be changed—three Hundred Tax-Men are coming over—all Officers are to be Men sent from England—Furies taken away—a large Fleet to frighten you into Compliance."
BOSTON, June 13. On Thursday last the following Address of the Corporation of Harvard-College, was presented to his Excellency the Governor, viz. May it please your Excellency,
THE Corporation of Harvard-College wait upon you, to testify our Loyalty to the King, and our Respect to your Excellency constituted by him the Governor of this Province.
In this high Station your Excellency of course takes the first Chair at the Board of the Overseers of the College; a Society early founded by our Fathers from the most generous and enlarged Views; that has happily been productive of the most important Advantages to the civil as well as religious Interest of our Country; that has flourished under the Smiles of former Governors, and which we now beg Leave, in the most dutiful Manner, to recommend to your Excellency's Favour and Patronage.
As it is our Duty, we assure your Excellency, it is equally our Inclination, to employ our best Endeavors that the Students under our Care may be formed to that Piety and Virtue, that just Submission to Government and Esteem for the Principles and Spirit of the British Constitution, which may render them Ornaments to the Church & Blessings to the State.
Deeply affected with the Distresses of our Country, we devoutly implore the Blessing of Heaven upon your Excellency's Administration, and ardently pray that it may be distinguished and honored by the Supreme Ruler of the World, as an happy Means of removing these Distresses, and restoring mutual Confidence, Tranquility and Joy, to the Parent State and to the Colonies.
HIS EXCELLENCY'S ANSWER. To the Gentlemen of the Corporation of Harvard College.
GENTLEMEN, YOUR Expressions of Loyalty to the King, & Respect to his Representative in this Province, cannot fail to be very pleasing to me and deserving of my Thanks.
Whilst your Endeavours are used to instruct the Youths committed to your Care, in the Principles of Piety and Virtue, and to form them to a just Submission to Government, you may depend upon meeting my Favour and Protection: A Society so useful, and respectable, have a just Claim to expect from me, the same Indulgences that they have experienced under the Administration of any of my Predecessors.
It appeared by Accounts before the House of Commons, on the 15th of April, that during the Course of the last two Years, 30,000 Emigrants had left the County of Ulster, in Ireland, to come over to America; and that on an Average more than one third of the Looms throughout the Kingdom of Ireland, were then idle.

BALTIMORE, (Maryland) June 1. At a General Meeting of the Freeholders, Gentlemen, Merchants, Tradesmen, and other Inhabitants of Baltimore County, held at the Court-House of the said County, on Tuesday the 31st of May, 1774. Capt. CHARLES RIDGELY, Chairman.
RESOLVED I.
THAT it is the Opinion of this Meeting, that the Town of Boston is now suffering in the common Cause of America, and that it is the Duty of every Colony in America to unite in the most effectual Means to obtain a Repeal of the late ACT of Parliament for blocking up the Harbour of Boston.---Dissentient 3.
II. That it is the Opinion of this Meeting, that if the Colonies come into a joint Resolution to stop Importations from, and Exportations to Great-Britain & the West Indies, until the Act for blocking up the Harbour of Boston be repealed: The same may be the Means of preserving North-America in her Liberties. Dissentient three.
III. That therefore the Inhabitants of this County will join in an Association with the several Counties in this Province, and the principal Colonies in America, to put a Stop to Exports to Great-Britain and the West Indies, after the 1st Day of October next, or such other Day as may be agreed on, and to put a Stop to the Imports from Great-Britain, after the 1st Day of December next, or such other Day as may be agreed upon, until the said Act shall be repealed, and that such Association shall be upon OATH.---Dissentient nine.
IV. Unanimously.--- That it is the opinion of this Meeting, that as the most effectual means of uniting all parts of this province in such Association, as proposed, a general Congress of Deputies from each county be held at Annapolis, at such Times as may be agreed upon, and that if agreeable to the Sense of our Sister Colonies, Delegates shall be appointed from this Province to attend a general Congress of Delegates from the other Colonies, at such Time and Place as shall be agreed on, in order to settle and establish a general Plan of Conduct for the important Purposes afore-mentioned.
V. Unanimously.--- That the Inhabitants of this County will, and it is the Opinion of this Meeting, that this Province ought to break off all Trade and Dealings with that Colony, Province or Town, which shall decline or refuse to come into similar Resolutions with a Majority of the other Colonies.
VI. That Capt. Charles Ridgely, Charles Ridgely, Son of John, Walter Tolley, junr. Thomas Cocke Deye, William Lux, Robert Alexander, Samuel Purviance, junr. John Moale, Andrew Buchanan, and George Ritseau, be a Committee to attend a general Meeting at Annapolis. And that the same Gentlemen, together with John Smith, Thomas Harrison, William Buchanan, Benjamin Nicholson, Thomas Sollars, William Smith, James Gittings, Richard Moale, Jonathan Plowman, and William Spear, be a Committee of Correspondence to receive and answer all Letters, and on any Emergency, to call a general Meeting, and that any six of the Number have Power to act.
VII. That a Copy of the Proceedings be transmitted to the several Counties in this Province, directed to their Committee of Correspondence, and be also published in the Maryland Gazette, to evince to all the World the Sense they entertain of the Invasion of their Constitutional Rights and Liberties.
VIII. That the Chairman be desired to return the Thanks of this Meeting to the Gentlemen of the Committee of Correspondence from Annapolis, for their polite personal Attendance, in Consequence of an Invitation by the Committee of Correspondence for Baltimore-Town.
Signed by Order, WILLIAM LUX, Clerk.
Boston, June 10:
THE present Aspect of public Affairs is highly favourable to the Liberties of America: The whole Continent seems inspired by one Soul, and that Soul a vigorous and determined one.
Before the Dissolution of the patriotic House of Burgesses in Virginia, they had drawn up a Number of very spirited Resolves, of which we have Room only for the last, viz. "Resolved, That be appointed Deputies from this House to meet at such Deputies as shall be appointed from the other Colonies, there to consider and determine on Ways the most effectual to stop the Exports from North-America, and such other Methods as shall be most decisive for saving the Liberties of America against the systematic Plan formed for their Destruction." That whole province is in Motion; and Maryland has made amazing Progress for the short Space since they have taken this fresh Alarm from the Boston Port-Bill. Meetings of Towns, Counties, and by Delegates of the whole Province, either have been held, or are going rapidly on. Besides the Doings of Annapolis and Baltimore, those of Chester are deserving of our warmest Acknowledgments. Subscription Papers have been set on Foot in that County, and considerable Sums already subscribed for the Relief of our Poor in this devoted Town. Philadelphia is following the generous Example, as well as the Jerseys, New-York and Connecticut. A most respectable Meeting of the Tradesmen was held at Philadelphia, on the Afternoon of the 9th Current, wherein the Dissatisfaction of that Body, at the Indecision of the Proceedings of the Parties who have hitherto acted, was so great that the Committee some Time since appointed, resigned and agreed to call a general Meeting of the People on the 15th, to choose a joint and more extensive Committee, with a View to bring about a Congress and more decisive Measures. This Body has begun a Correspondence with their Brethren the Tradesmen of New-York, another intrepid and determined set of Men. New-Jersey is very forward, and are on the Point of choosing their Deputies for the Congress by a very regular Method, viz. of Meeting in Towns and Neighbourhoods, sending deputies from those Meetings to County-Meetings, and others from those to a provincial one. Committees of Correspondence are not now confined to the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. Lord North's Administration is become so important that nearly every Subject of the Empire feels himself deeply interested in it, and insists upon being acquainted with the very minutiae of all his Plans.
The Colony of Rhode-Island have appointed the Hon. STEPHEN HOPKINS, and SAMUEL WARD, Esquires, to represent them in the general Congress.
We hear that the patriotic Inhabitants, of Philadelphia have generously voted to give the Poor of this Town 1500 Barrels of Flour, 500 of which it is said may be soon expected.
The late Town Meeting was as full and respectable as ever was known. Their Unanimity and Firmness was never exceeded; not one, tho' often called upon, had any Thing to offer in Favour of paying for the Tea in Compliance with the Boston Port-Bill; all appeared disposed to stand the utmost Efforts of Tyranny, rather than make a free Surrender of the Rights of America. The Speeches made on the State of American Affairs would do Honor to any Assembly.
Tuesday last the 4th, or King's own Regiment landed from on board the Transports, lying at the Long-Wharf, and marched to the Common, where they are encamped.
Wednesday the 4th Regiment landed on the Long-Wharf, and are now encamped on the Common.
BOSTON, June 20, 1774. At a legal and very full Meeting of the Freeholders, and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, by Adjournment, at Faneuil-Hall, June 17.
The Honorable JOHN ADAMS, Esq; Moderator.
UPON a Motion made, the Town again entered into the Consideration of that Article in the Warrant, viz. "To consider and determine what Measures are proper to be taken upon the present Exigency of our public Affairs, more especially relative to the late Edict of a British Parliament for blocking up the Harbour of Boston, & annihilating the Trade of this Town;" and after very serious Debates thereon,
VOTED, (with only one Dissentient) That the Committee of Correspondence be enjoined forthwith to write to all the other Colonies, acquainting them that we are not idle; that we are deliberating upon the Steps to be taken on the present Exigencies of our public Affairs; that our Brethren, the landed Interest of this Province, with an unexampled Spirit and Unanimity, are entering into a non-consumption Agreement; and that we are waiting with anxious Expectation for the Result of a continental Congress, whose Meeting we impatiently desire, in whose Wisdom and Firmness we can confide, and in whose Determinations we shall cheerfully acquiesce.
Agreeable to Order the Committee of Correspondence laid before the Town such Letters as they had received in Answer to the circular Letters, wrote by them to the several Colonies, and also the sea port Towns in this Province, since the Reception of the Boston Port-Bill; and the same being publickly read,
VOTED, unanimously, That our warmest Thanks be transmitted to our Brethren on the Continent, for that Humanity, Sympathy and Affection with which they have been inspired, and which they have expressed towards this distressed Town at this important Season.
VOTED, unanimously, That the Thanks of this Town be, and hereby are, given to the Committee of Correspondence, for their Faithfulness, in the Discharge of their Trust, and that they be desired to continue their Vigilance & Activity in that Service.
Whereas the Overseers of the Poor in the Town of Boston are a Body politic, by Law constituted for the Reception and Distribution of charitable Donations for the Use of the Poor of said Town:
VOTED, That all Grants and Donations to this Town & the Poor thereof, at this distressing Season, be paid and delivered into the Hands of the Overseers, and by them appropriated and distributed in Concert with the Committee lately appointed by this Town for the Consideration of Ways and Means of employing the Poor. The Meeting was then adjourned to the 27th inst.
Attest. WILLIAM COOPER, Town-Clerk.
Salem, June 21.
In the House of Representatives, June 17, 1774.
THIS House having duly considered, and being deeply affected with the unhappy Differences which have long subsisted and are increasing between Great-Britain and the American Colonies, do RESOLVE, that a Meeting of Committees from the several Colonies on this Continent is highly expedient and necessary to consult upon the present State of the Colonies, and the Miseries to which they are and must be reduced by the operation of certain Acts of Parliament respecting America; and to deliberate and determine upon wise and proper Measures to be by them recommended to all the Colonies, for the Recovery and Establishment of their just Rights and Liberties, Civil and Religious, and the Restoration of Union and Harmony between Great-Britain and the Colonies, most ardently desired by all good Men.
Therefore Resolved, That the Hon. James Bowdoin, Esq; the Hon. Thomas Cushing, Esq; Mr. Samuel Adams, John Adams, and Robert Treat Paine, Esquires be, and they are hereby appointed a Committee on the Part of this Province for the Purpose aforesaid, any three of whom to be a Quorum, to meet such Committees of Delegates from the other Colonies, as have been or may be appointed, either by their respective Houses of Burgesses or Representatives, or by Convention, or by the Committees of Correspondence, appointed by the respective Houses of Assembly, in the City of Philadelphia, or any other Place that shall be judged most suitable by the Committee, on the first Day of September next, and that the Speaker of the House be directed, in a Letter to the Speakers of the Houses of Burgesses or Representatives in the several Colonies, to inform them of the Substance of these Resolves.
In the House of Representatives, June 17, 1774.
WHEREAS this House, taking into Consideration the many Distresses and Difficulties to which the American Colonies, and this Province in particular, are and must be reduced by the Operation of certain late Acts of Parliament, have determined that it is highly expedient that a Committee should be appointed to meet as soon as may be the Committees that are or shall be appointed by the several Colonies on this Continent, to consult together upon the present State of the Colonies, & to deliberate and determine upon wise and proper Measures to be by them recommended to all the Colonies for the Recovery and Establishment of their just Rights and Liberties, Civil and Religious, and the Restoration of that Union and Harmony between Great-Britain & the Colonies, most ardently desired by all good Men. And the Honorable James Bowdoin, Esq; the Hon'ble Thomas Cushing, Esq; Mr. Samuel Adams, John Adams, and Robert Treat Paine, Esquires, are appointed a Committee on the Part of this Province, for the Purposes aforesaid; any three of whom to be a Quorum, to meet such Committees or Delegates from the other Colonies, as have been or may be appointed either by their respective Houses of Burgesses, or Representatives, or by Convention, or by Committees of Correspondence appointed by the respective Houses of Assembly in the City of Philadelphia, or any other Place that shall be judged most suitable by the joint Committees, on the 1st Day of September next. And this House did Resolve, that there be paid to said Committee out of the public Treasury, the Sum of FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS to enable them to discharge the important Trust to which they are appointed; they upon their Return to be accountable for the same.----- And said Resolve was sent up to the Honorable Board for their Concurrence, who accordingly concurred the Resolve of the House, but his Excellency the Governor declined his Consent to the same.----- Wherefore this House would recommend, and they do accordingly hereby recommend to the several Towns and Districts within this Province, that each Town and District raise, collect and pay to the Hon. Thomas Cushing, Esq; of Boston, the Sum of FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS, by the Fifteenth Day of August next, agreeable to a List herewith exhibited, * being each Town's and District's Proportion of said Sum, according to the last Province Tax, to enable them to discharge the important Trust to which they are appointed, they upon their Return to be accountable for the same.
In the House of Representatives, June 17, 1774.
WHEREAS the Towns of Boston and Charlestown are at this Time suffering under the Hand of Power, by the shutting up the Harbour by an armed Force, which
*The List will be sent to the Select-Men of said Towns & Districts.
in the Opinion of this House is an Invasion of the said Towns, evidently designed to compel the Inhabitants thereof to a Submission to Taxes imposed upon them without their Consent; And whereas it appears to this House that this Attack upon the said Towns for the Purpose aforesaid is an Attack made upon this whole Province and Continent, which threatens the total Destruction of the Liberties of all British America:
It is therefore RESOLVED, as the clear Opinion of this House, that the Inhabitants of the said Towns ought to be relieved; and this House do recommend to all, and more especially to the Inhabitants of this Province to afford them speedy & constant Relief in such Way and Manner as shall be most suitable to their Circumstances, till the Sense and Advice of our Sister Colonies shall be known: In full Confidence that they will exhibit Examples of Patience, Fortitude and Perseverance, while they are thus called to endure this Oppression for the Preservation of the Liberties of their Country.
In the House of Representatives June 17, 1774.
WHEREAS this and his Majesty's other Colonies in North America, have long been struggling under the heavy Hand of Power; and our dutiful Petitions for the Redress of our intolerable Grievances have not only been disregarded and frowned upon, but the Design totally to alter the free Constitutions of Civil Government in British America, and establish arbitrary Government, and reduce the Inhabitants to Slavery, appears more and more to be fixed and determined: It is therefore strongly recommended by this House to the Inhabitants of the Province that they renounce altogether the Consumption of India Teas, and as far as in them lies discontinue the use of all Goods and Manufactures whatever that shall be imported from the East-Indies and Great-Britain, until the publick Grievances of America shall be radically and totally redressed. And it is also further recommended to all, that they give all possible Encouragement to the Manufactures of America.--- And it is moreover strongly recommended to the Inhabitants aforesaid, that they use their utmost Endeavours to suppress Pedlars and Petty Chapmen (who are of late become a very great Nuisance) by putting in Execution the good & wholesome Laws of this Province for that Purpose.
[There were present in the House 129 Members, only 12 Dissents.]
On Friday last his Excellency the Governor directed the Secretary to acquaint the two Houses it was his Excellency's Pleasure the General Assembly should be dissolved, and to declare the same dissolved accordingly; the Secretary went to the Court-House and finding the Door of the Representatives Chamber locked, directed the Messenger to go in and acquaint the Speaker that the Secretary had a Message from his Excellency to the Honorable House, & desired he might be admitted to deliver it: the Messenger returned and said he had acquainted the Speaker therewith, who mentioned it to the House, and their Orders were to keep the Door fast:--- Whereupon the following Proclamation was published on the Stairs leading to the Representatives Chamber, in presence of several of the Members of the House, and a great Number of other Persons, and immediately after in Council.
Province of Massachusetts, Bay.) BY THE GOVERNOR. A PROCLAMATION For Dissolving the General Court.
WHEREAS the Proceedings of the House of Representatives, in the present Session of the General Court, make it necessary, for his Majesty's Service, that the said General Court should be DISSOLVED.
I have therefore thought fit to dissolve the said General Court, and the same is hereby dissolved accordingly, and the Members thereof are discharged from any further Attendance.
Given under my Hand at Salem, the 17th Day of June, 1774, in the Fourteenth Year of his Majesty's Reign. By his Excellency's Command, THO. FLUCKER, Secretary. T. GAGE.
GOD Save the KING.
The following Address was presented to his Excellency the Governor on Saturday last.
To his Excellency THOMAS GAGE, Esq; Captain-General and Commander in Chief in and over his Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, and Lieutenant-General of his Majesty's Forces.
May it please your Excellency, WE who are Merchants and Freeholders in the Town of Salem, beg Leave to present you our dutiful Respects on your Appointment to the Government of this Province. The universal Tribute of Thanks and Applause paid you for the Wisdom, Mildness, and exact Regularity of your Conduct in another Command, cannot fail to excite the most just Expectations that this Province will enjoy the happy Fruits of your Benignity.
We are deeply affected with the Sense of our public Calamities: But the Miseries that are now rapidly hastening on our Brethren in the Capital of the Province greatly excite our Commiseration; and we hope your Excellency will use your Endeavours to prevent a further Accumulation of Evils on that already sorely distressed People.
By shutting up the Port of Boston some imagine that the Course of Trade might be turned hither, and to our Benefit: But Nature in the Formation of our Harbour, forbids our becoming Rivals in Commerce to that convenient Mart. And were it otherwise,--- we must be dead to every Idea of Justice--- lost to all the Feelings of Humanity----- could we indulge one Thought to seize on Wealth and raise our Fortunes on the Ruin of our suffering Neighbours. But so far from receiving a Benefit, we are greatly injured by the shutting up the Harbour of Boston, as it deprives us of a Market for much the largest Part of our West India imports; and there is not a Town in the Province but will feel the ill effects of it. Permit us then, Sir, to apply to your Clemency and Justice to afford us every alleviation in your Power, and to procure for us every possible Relief from this extensive Mischief.
We account it the greatest unhappiness that this Province, which has ever been foremost in Loyalty to the Kings of Britain in its Efforts to defend their Territories and enlarge their Dominions should be the first to feel our Sovereign's severest Displeasure. Our Fathers fled from Oppression, braved every Danger, and here began a Settlement on bare Creation. Almost incredible are the Fatigues and Difficulties they encountered to subdue a dreary Wilderness, filled with savage Beasts, and yet more savage Men: But by their invincible Resolution they rose superior to them all; and by their astonishing Efforts greatly facilitated the Settlement of the other British Colonies in America. Yet, Sir, we speak it with Grief, the Sons are check'd and dishonoured for exhibiting Proofs of their inheriting some Portion of that Spirit which in their Fathers produced such astonishing Effects.
A happy union with Great Britain is the Wish of all the Colonies. 'Tis an unspeakable Grief that it has in any Degree been interrupted. We earnestly desire to repair the Breach. We ardently pray that Harmony may be restored.--- And for these Ends, every Measure compatible with the Dignity and Safety of British Subjects we shall gladly adopt.

TRUTH is great and will prevail.
Mr. PRINTER.
Shrouded under this incontestible Maxim, I think my self entirely secure, from the envenomed Darts of an anonymous Writer, in your Gazette, June 10, whose Pirulence seems solely aimed, at my Reputation. Who the Author is I don't know; but one William Alford, who signs an Advertisement immediately following, can doubtless tell. He and one Mr. Bacchus, came to this Place the 23d ult. and forcibly took from me, a Mare, which they said was sold from said Alford at Hartford, in Connecticut, and on my threatening to get a Warrant against them, they promised to tarry in Town, till it was proved upon them; yet instead of intending to comply with their Promise, they dishonorably attempted to ride off, but I fortunately had them stopped and took the Mare again in my own Possession; however, after some Concessions on their Part, I compromised the Matter with them, and receiving ten Dollars in Part Satisfaction (as the Receipt expresses) delivered them the Mare again, and they afterwards sold her to one Mr. Joseph Emery. I think it not worth while, to make a particular Answer to what he has maliciously insinuated against me, nor undertake to invalidate it by enumerating the many Falsehoods he utter'd, while in this Place—Suffice it to say, that the unmanly, quarrelsome Behaviour of him and his Associates while here, makes it very justly suspected, that their Business was other than what they pretended, but whether they came as Pedlars or Horse-Jockeys, I can't say. Whether it is likely that two Men should travel 600 Miles, at a great Expence, for a Horse not worth Four Pounds; and why he should offer twenty Dollars Reward, for the Recovery of a Mare which they had previously sold to Mr. Emery, let the Impartial Judge.
Were they worth any farther Notice, I should not fail to punish them for this malevolent Attempt to injure my Character, but I leave them to the Punishment of their own Consciences, and advise them, that before they again attempt to traduce the Character of other Persons they would first establish their own.
NICHOLAS BLAISDEL.
Falmouth June 7th, 1774.
I Hereby certify, that on the 26th of May last, I bo't of Mr. William Alford, then in this Place, the Mare which he said he took a Day or Two before from Mr. Nicholas Blaisdell of this Place, Clock Maker, and have a Bill of Sale for her under the Hand of the said Alford.
JOSEPH EMERY.
§ New-Almsbury. §
Province of New-Hampshire.
THE delinquent Proprietors, and all that purchased any part of said Delinquents in New Almsbury, so called, are hereby Notified, that unless they pay the several Sums hereafter annexed to their Names, together with the Charge of Advertising, so much of their Land will be sold at publick Vendue to the highest Bidder, at the House of James French, Innholder in Southampton, on Tuesday the 5th Day of July next, at one o'clock, as will pay the same.—The delinquent Proprietors are as follows.
   l. s. d.    Nehemiah Ordway jun. 2 1 4  Capt. Jonathan Barnard 3 18 0  Thomas Barnard 3 18 0  Deacon Nathan Currier 1 0 0  Levi Currier 1 4 0  Francis Davis, Mill Right 1 10 0  Gideon Davis 1 4 0  Eastman Hoit 4 8 0  Nathan Goodwin 3 13 0  Bartholemew Heath 2 8 0  Joseph Jewel 2 8 0  Simeon Merrill 2 16 8  John Nichols 4 10 0  Jonathan Pressey 3 0 0  Aaron Rewell 2 16 8  Abel French 1 1 4  Jervis Ring 2 3 6  Samuel Barnard 1 19 0  Rev'd Pain Wingate 3 3 0  David Bagley 1 17 0  Samuel Barnard 3 15 0  Stephen Colby 0 15 0  Jeremiah Flanders 1 16 0  Increase Merrill 1 2 0  Elihu Gould 1 10 0  
EZEKIEL EVANS Collector
Salisbury June 14, 1774.
Strayed or Stolen out of a Pasture near the Town, 5 or 6 Weeks since, a jarral Horse, with one Eye, 14 Hands and half high, a Star in his Forehead, short Dock, Paces, Trotts, and Rans, carries his Head middling well. Whoever takes up said Horse and brings him to me shall have 3 Dollars Reward on delivery. For Thief and Horse brought tied together, a Reward of 10 Dollars. Samuel Cate.
Portsmouth, June 14, 1774.
WE the Subscribers being appointed by the Honorable John Sherburne, Esq; Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. for the County of Rockingham, Commissioners, to receive & examine the Claims of the Creditors to the Estate of Sarah Gilman, late of Kingstown in said County Widow, deceas'd, represented insolvent, and six Months from the 2d. instant, being allowed for that Service. This is to give Notice that we will attend that Business at the House of Lt: John Pearson, Innholder in Kingstown, on the last Monday of this and the first next following Months, from four to seven o'clock P.M.
JOSIAH BARTLETT } Commissioners. JOHN NOYES, }
Kingstown June 4th, 1774.
Lately Imported, and to be Sold cheap for Cash,
By Samuel Hill,
At his Shop next the Assembly House in Portsmouth, GENERAL ASSORTMENT of PAPER HANGINGS, such as Cloth, Plain and Figur'd, 10 by 8, 9 by 7, 8 by 6 Crown Glass, by the Box or square.—Linseed OYL by the Cask or Gallon.—Spanish BROWN & white LEAD by the Cask or smaller Quantity.—GOLD LEAF, &c. Also, a General Assortment of COFFIN Furniture.
WE the Subscribers being appointed by the Honorable JONATHAN SAYWARD, Esq; Judge of Probate of Wills for the County of York, to Receive and Examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of the Rev. JOHN ROGERS, late of Kittery, deceas'd, Represented Insolvent, and six Months being allowed for that Purpose from January last past, hereby give Notice, that we shall attend said Business at the House of William Leighton, Innholder in said Kittery on the last Wednesday of June instant, and the first Wednesday of July next, from two o'Clock to six in the Afternoon of said Days.
James Gowen, William Leighton.
RAnaway from me the Subscriber, on Sunday Evening the 22d Day of last May, a Servant BOY named David Page, who had on a brown hempen Coat, Jacket and Breeches, new Shoes, &c. Whoever will take up said Runaway and convey him to me, his said Master, shall have One Shilling Reward. All Persons are hereby forbid to harbour or conceal said Runaway, upon the Pain and Penalties of the Law.
NATHANIEL WEARE.
§ Eastown. §
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, STRAFFORD. THE Proprietors of Eastown, so called, in said County, are hereby Notified, to meet at the Dwelling House of Capt. David Cripp in said Eastown, on Tuesday the 28th Day of this instant June, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, then and there to regulate said Meeting. 1. To chuse a Moderator to regulate said Meeting. 2. To chuse all proprietary Officers that's thought necessary. 3. To see if the Proprietors will vote to exchange any part or all the School Lot. 4. To see how much Preaching the Proprietors will vote this Season, and whether they will vote to settle a Minister this Summer. 5. To see if the Proprietors will vote to lay out any new Roads and clear them. 6. To see if they will vote to chuse a new Committee to treat with the Governor and Council for an Incorporation. 7. To vote what Money the Proprietors think necessary. 8. To chuse all Committees that may be thought needful. All concerned are desired to attend at Time & Place aforesaid.
By Order of the Assessors, JOHN GAGE, Proprietors Clerk.
Dover, June 8, 1774.
Stone-Lime.
A Few Hogsheads of choice Stone LIME, Merchants COD FISH, — Jamaica Dit. HAKE, HADDOCK, and POLLOCK, to be sold cheap for Cash, by DAVID GRIFFITH, at the Sign of the Goldsmith's Arms, in Queen street Portsmouth.
ALL PERSONS Indebted to, or that have Demands on the Estate of Elijah Allen, late of Kittery, Tanner, deceas'd, by Book or Note, are desire'd immediately to bring their Accounts in to Ephraim Allen, Administrator on said Estate, as he is determined to close the Settlement without Delay. And those Indebted, are desire'd to make speedy Payment. Kittery, June 3d, 1774.
ALL Persons indebted to or that have any Demands on the Estate of Jeremiah Webster, Esq; late of Kingstown deceas'd, are desired to bring in their Accounts to Jonathan Ladd Webster, of Kingstown, Executor to the said Estate, in Order for a speedy Settlement.
Warrantee and Quitclaim Deeds, Justice Blanks, Bail Bonds, Shipping Papers, &c. Sold at the Printing Office.
Daniel Humphrys
Takes Leave to acquaint the Public, THAT having been regularly bred to the Practice of the Law in a Neighbouring Colony, where he pursued the Business for several Years; and having been admitted at the Superior Court, and Inferior Court of Common Pleas in the County of Rockingham; He proposes to practice in the various Branches of that Profession.—He gives constant Attendance at his Office in the House where he now lives, which is next Door the Hon. Mark H. Wentworth, Esq's, where any Person may have Conveyances, Agreements, and all other Kinds of Writings drawn with Care and Dispatch.—He hopes he shall execute any Business that may be intrusted to his management with such Fidelity as to give Satisfaction to those who may please to employ him.
Portsmouth June 2, 1774.
Newly Imported,
And to be sold very cheap for Cash,
By OLIVER BREWSTER,
At his Shop in Pitt-Street, opposite Dr. Hall Jackson's,
NICE Callicoos and Patches, Ditto Copper-plate Furniture and Counterpanes, Cambricks, plain & flower'd Lawns, Aprons and Handkerchiefs, Muslin, Cat-Gut, Gauzes of all sorts, Ditto Aprons and Handkerchiefs, Spider Net, Paris Net, Cap Wire and Buckram, Barcelona & Paste Handkerchiefs, Irish Linnens and Sheetings, Russia Drab, Ravens Duck and Doulas, Clouting Diaper and Table Cloths, Cotton Check and Bed-Ticks, coloured and white Thread, all Numbers, Chip and Sattin Hatts, Black Persian, Alamode. Sattin and Capuchine Silks, Laced Sattins and Sarfenetts, Nankeens, Mozeens and Ginghams, Dutch and Chivez de Frize Laces, Fashionable Ribbons, painted Gauze and stamped dit. Ducapes, plain and striped Lutestrings, Silk and Worsted Mitts and Gloves, Womens and Mens white and brown Thread ditto, white unglazed ditto, Ostrich Feathers, sewing Silks, Ivory, crooked-Horn & Barbers Combs, Men's and Women's Thread, Cotton and Worsted Hose, Umbrellos and Fans, Rich English Damasks, Cotton Velvet and Velverets, Thicksets, Breeches Pieces, and Tassities,—Pins, Needles, Tapes, Qualities and Garterings, &c.
Dr. Hemet's celebrated Essence of Pearl, and Pearl Dentifrice for the Preservation of the TEETH and GUMS, at the LONDON Prices.
As his Stay in Town will be but short, Gentlemen & Ladies will do well to apply soon, who will find it to their Advantage in dealing with him.]
To the Worshipful BEZALEEL WOODWARD, Esq; one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Grafton, in the Province of New-Hampshire.
WE the Subscribers, Owners of more than one sixteenth Part of the Township of HANOVER, in said Province, Request that a Meeting of the Proprietors of said Township may be called, to be held at the House of Jonathan Freeman, in said Hanover, on Tuesday the 28th Day of June next, at One of the Clock P. M. to act on the following particulars, viz. 1. To chuse a Moderator. 2. To ratify and confirm all and singular the Votes and Transactions of said Proprietors passed at their former Meetings. 3. To hear and accept the Report of the Committee appointed to lay out a sixty Acre Division in said Town, and make a Draft of said Division. 4. To hear and pass the Accounts of any Person or Persons that have done Service for said Propriety. 5. To agree upon some Method to warn Proprietors Meetings for the future.
Jonathan Freeman, Aaron Sterrs,
Hanover, May 28, 1774. David Mason, Province of New-Hampshire, Grafton. ss. May 28, 1774.
In Pursuance of the foregoing Request, I do hereby notify and warn a Meeting of said Proprietors of Hanover at the Time and Place, and for the Purposes above mentioned:
BEZA. WOODWARD, Just. Pacis.