The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1774-09-02 00:00:00

The New-Hampshire GAZETTE, and Historical Friday Sept. 2, 1774.
From the Massachusetts-SPY. To his Excellency GOVERNOR G—, SIR, Y OU have had some very plain hints from several Writers who have been so good as to advise you of the temper of the people and nature of the business you are engaged in, whether you have profited by the price put into your hand, you must answer to yourself at present and to some body else either in this Life or another hereafter. You are ordered, as it is said, to enforce measures for an entire change of the free constitution of this colony, and thereby to shake the foundation of the liberties of all America. I tell you that it is out of your power to accomplish it, and the sooner you desist from the attempt the less guilt and disgrace you will incur. Had I lived to your years with a very moderate degree of reputation, I would have spurned the villain that proposed my undertaking to dirty & wicked a job as that of robbing men of their rights, yes, I'd have thrown the commission in the face of the proudest minister of state that dared to offer it. The persons whose Advice you have followed since you came among us have no right to complain of the censure so copiously poured upon them. Your Excellency might not have known the full extent of the drudgery to be performed when you left England. As your appointment was sudden you might not have known much about the rights of Americans, and you may plead some excuse for what you have done when they, whom you supposed knew the state of public affairs here, were continually filling your ears with stories of the rebellious little faction in the town of Boston, especially when a number of men born among us have dared to swear destruction to the Charter of their country. But it is time to look for yourself and judge for yourself. If you lose America to Britain, you tear the brightest jewel from your Sovereign's crown, and shake the very basis of his throne. You totter on the brink of ruin. Not all the wisdom of a Solomon, not all the heroism of an Alexander can prevent your bringing destruction on yourself and on the British empire, unless you very speedily turn into the path which prudence and honour point out. Consider where you are and what you have to do. Do not trifle with the people. Tell them that you see their wrongs. Tell them that it has been from misinformation that the late grievous acts of the British Parliament have passed. Assure them that you will do justice to their characters in your letters to Great-Britain. Indeed, Sir, you must convince them that you are resolved that you will do your duty, and be their father and their friend. Delay not, * trust not to your troops, they are at best useless; if they act they will but insure your total defeat: hear no more of the Boston faction—discard the wretches who have misled you—look through the Province which is under your care; observe the various ranks of people, all determined in one common cause; look thro' the continent—take notice of their unanimity, and judge for yourself whether those whose counsels you have hitherto followed are not deficient, infinitely deficient, both in honesty and ability. Will you be the dupe of a set of men who know that their all depends upon the success of a mad, a desperate effort, to which they are urging you? Will you not reflect that if the measures of administration should be frustrated, they will be reduced to absolute nothingness, and that the loss of the whole American world to Britain will not affect them so much as the loss of their places and pensions? Can you engage with such adventurers as these? You will be urged to the last extremity by the wretches who know their country will never forgive their treachery. Let their counsel be far from you. I wish you may give a suitable Attention to what I have wrote: but whether you hear, or whether you forbear, I know my country will soon be free, and her incorrigible enemies will lick the dust. FABIUS.
* P. S. If I wished to destroy all connection between Great-Britain and the colonies, I would strongly persuade you to draw your troops into action, and order the fleet to bombard the town
Virginia Resolves.
At a very full Meeting of DELEGATES from the different Counties in the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, begun in Williamsburg the first Day of August, in the Year of our Lord 1774, and continued by several Adjournments to Saturday the 6th of said Month the following Association was unanimously resolved upon and agreed to.
W hile his Majesty's dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Delegates of the Freeholders of VIRGINIA, deputed to represent them at a general Meeting in the City of Williamsburg, avowing our inviolable and unshaken Fidelity and Attachment to our most gracious Sovereign, our Regard and Affection for all our Friends & Fellow Subjects in Great Britain and elsewhere, protesting against every Act or Thing, which may have the most distant Tendency to interrupt, or in any Wise disturb his Majesty's Peace, and the good Order of Government, within this his antient Colony, which we are resolved to maintain and defend, at the Risk of our Lives and Fortunes, but at the same Time affected with the deepest Anxiety, and most alarming Apprehensions, of those Grievances and Distresses by which his Majesty's American Subjects are oppressed, and having taken under our most serious Deliberation the State of the whole Continent, find that the present unhappy Situation of our Affairs is chiefly occasioned by certain ill advised Regulations, as well of our Trade as internal Policy, introduced by several unconstitutional Acts of the British Parliament, and, at Length, attempted to be enforced by the Hand of Power; solely influenced by these important and weighty Considerations, we think it an indispensable Duty, which we owe to our Country, ourselves, and latest Posterity, to guard against such dangerous and extensive Mischiefs, by every just and proper Means.
If, by the Measures adopted, some unhappy Consequences & Inconveniences should be derived to our Fellow Subjects, whom we wish not to injure in the smallest Degree, we hope, & flatter ourselves, that they will impute them to their real Cause—the hard Necessity to which we are driven.
That the good People of this Colony may, on so trying an Occasion, continue steadfastly directed to their essential Interests, in Hopes that they will be influenced and stimulated by our Example to the greatest Industry, the strictest Oeconomy, and Frugality, and the Exertion of every public Virtue, persuaded that the Merchants, Manufacturers, and other Inhabitants of Great-Britain, and above all, that the British Parliament will be convinced how much the true Interest of the Kingdom must depend on the Restoration & Continuance of that mutual Friendship and Cordiality, which so happily subsisted between us, we have unanimously, and with one Voice, entered into the following Resolutions and Association, which we do oblige ourselves, by those sacred Ties of Honour and Love to our Country, strictly to observe; and farther declare before God and the World, that we will religiously adhere to and keep the same inviolate in every Particular, until Redress of all such American Grievances, as may be defined and settled at the general Congress of Delegates from the different Colonies, shall be fully obtained, or until this Association shall be abrogated or altered by a general Meeting of the Deputies of this Colony, to be convened, as is herein after directed. And we do, with the greatest Earnestness, recommend this our Association, to all Gentlemen, Merchants, Traders, and other Inhabitants of this Colony, hoping that they will cheerfully and cordially accede thereto.
1. We do hereby resolve and declare that we will not, either directly or indirectly, after the 1st Day of November next, import from Great-Britain, any Goods, Wares, or Merchandizes, whatever (Medicines excepted) nor will we, after that Day, import any British Manufactures, either from the West-Indies, or any other Place, nor any Article whatever, which we shall know, or have Reason to believe, was brought into such Countries from Great-Britain; nor will we purchase any such Articles so imported, of any Person or Persons whatsoever, except such as are now in the Country, or such as may arrive on or before the said 1st Day of November, in Consequence of Orders already given, and which cannot be countermanded in Time.
2. We will neither ourselves import, nor purchase, any Slave, or Slaves, imported by any Person, after the 1st day of November next, either from Africa, the West-Indies, or any other Place.
3. Considering the Article of TEA as the despicable Instrument which laid the Foundation of the present Sufferings of our distressed Friends in the Town of Boston, we view it with Horror, & therefore resolve that we will not, from this Day, either import TEA of any Kind whatever, nor will we use or suffer even such of it as is now on Hand to be used in any of our Families.
4. If the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, or any other Colony, should by Violence or dire Necessity, be compelled to pay the East-India Company for destroying any Tea, which they have lately by their Agents attempted to force into the Colonies, we will not, directly or indirectly, import or purchase any British East-India Commodity whatever, till the Company, or some other Person on their Behalf, shall refund and fully restore to the Owners all such Sum or Sums of Money as may be so extorted.
5. We do resolve, that unless American Grievances are redressed before the 10th Day of August, 1775, we will not, after that Day, directly or indirectly, export Tobacco or any other Article whatever to Great-Britain; nor will we sell any such Articles as we think can be exported to Great-Britain with a Prospect of Gain, to any Person or Persons whatever, with a Design of putting it into his or their Power to export the same to Great-Britain, either on our own, his or their Account. And that this Resolution may be the more effectually carried into Execution, we do hereby recommend it to the Inhabitants of this Colony to refrain from the Cultivation of Tobacco as much as conveniently may be, and in Lieu thereof that they will, as we resolve to do, apply their Attention and Industry to the Cultivation of such Articles as may form a proper Basis for Manufactures of all Sorts, which we will endeavour to encourage thro' out this Colony to the utmost of our Abilities.
6. We will endeavour to improve our Breed of Sheep, and increase their Number to the utmost Extent, and to this End, we will be as sparing as we can in killing of Sheep, especially those of the most profitable Kind; and if we should at any Time be over stocked, or can conveniently spare any, we will dispose of them to our Neighbours, especially the poorer Sort of People, upon moderate Terms.
7. Resolved, that the Merchants and other Venders of Goods and Merchandizes within this Colony ought not to take Advantage of the Scarcity of Goods that may be occasioned by this Association, but that they ought to sell the same at the Rates they have been accustomed to for twelve Months last past, and if they shall sell any such Goods on higher Terms, or shall in any Manner, or by any device whatever, violate or depart from this Resolution, we will not, and are of Opinion that no Inhabitant of this Colony ought, at any Time thereafter, to deal with any such Persons, their Factors or Agents, for any Commodity whatever, and it is recommended to the Deputies of the several Counties that Committees be chosen in each County by such Persons as accede to this Association to take effectual Care
that these Resolves be properly observed, and for corresponding occasionally with the General Committee of Correspondence in the City of Williamsburg. Provided, that if Exchange should rise, such Advance may be made in the Prices of Goods as shall be approved by the Committee of each County.
8. In order the better to distinguish such worthy Merchants and Traders, who are Well Wishers to this Colony, from those who may attempt, through Motives of Self-interest, to obstruct our Views, we do hereby resolve that we will not after the first Day of November next deal with any Merchant or Trader who will not sign this Association, nor until he has obtained a Certificate of his having done so from the County Committee, or any three Members thereof. And if any Merchant, Trader, or other Person, shall import any Goods or Merchandize after the said first Day of November, contrary to this Association, we give it as our Opinion, that such Goods and Merchandize should be either forthwith re-shipped or delivered up to the County Committee, to be stored at the Risk of the Importer, unless such Importer shall give a proper Assurance to the said Committee that such Goods or Merchandizes shall not be sold within this Colony during the Continuance of this Association; and if such Importer shall refuse to comply with one or the other of these Terms, upon Application and due Caution given to him or her, by the said Committee, or any three Members thereof, such Committee is required to publish the Truth of the Case in the Gazettes, and in the County where he or she resides, and we will thereafter consider such Person or Persons as inimical to this Country, and break off every Connection and all Dealings with them.
9. Resolved, that if any Person or Persons shall export Tobacco, or any other Commodity, to Great-Britain, after the 10th Day of August, 1775, contrary to this Association, we shall hold ourselves obliged to consider such Person or Persons as inimical to the Community, and as an Approver of American Grievances; and give it as our Opinion that the Public should be advertised of his Conduct, as in the 8th Article is desired.
10. Being fully persuaded that the united Wisdom of the general Congress may improve these our Endeavours to preserve the Rights and Liberties in British America, we decline enlarging at present, but do hereby resolve that we will conform to, and strictly observe, all such Alterations or Additions, assented to by the Delegates for this Colony, as they may judge it necessary to adopt, after the same shall be published and made known to us.
11. Resolved, that we think ourselves called upon, by every Principle of Humanity and brotherly Affection, to extend the utmost and speediest Relief to our distressed Fellow Subjects in the Town of Boston, and therefore most earnestly recommend it to all the Inhabitants of this Colony to make such liberal Contributions as they can afford; to be collected and remitted to Boston, in such Manner as may best answer so desirable a Purpose.
12thly, and lastly. Resolved, that the Moderator of this Meeting, and, in Case of his Death, Robert Carter Nicholas, Esq; be empowered, on any future Occasion, that may in his Opinion require it to convene the several Delegates of this Colony, at such Time and Place as he may judge proper; and, in Case of the Death or Absence of any Delegate, it is recommended that another be chosen in his Place. Sig'd by 108
BOSTON, August 29.
We hear the Delegates for the Congress from this Province and New-Hampshire, had got as far as New-York when the Post came away; but no Papers are received from thence this Week:—The Packet from Falmouth was arrived there, but brings no later News than what we inserted last Week.
On Wednesday the 10th of August the Rev. Mr. Charles Backus, of Norwich, was ordained Pastor of the Church at Somers in Connecticut.
At the same Place a Girl of about 11 Years old died there on the 14th Instant, having been drooping above a Year, and all Means used for its Relief ineffectual: After its Death the Body was opened, when the Liver and Milt (or Spleen) were grown so exceeding large that the former weighed 8 Pounds 2 Ounces, and the latter 2 Pounds 1 Ounce.
Extract of a Letter from Taunton, August 25.
“We hear that Brigadier Ruggles, one of the new made Counsellors, being at Col. Toby's at Dartmouth, the People assembled there one Day this Week, and ordered him to depart forthwith; upon which the Colonel promised them he would go the next Morning by Sun an Hour high; but before that Time the Brigadier's Horse had his Mane and Tail cut off, and his Body painted all over: Since which he took Refuge at Col. Gilbert's at Freetown. This Morning about 200 Men met at the Ware-Bridge, in this Town, and after choosing a Moderator appointed a Committee to warn the Towns of Dighton, Swansey, Raynham, Norton, Mansfield, Attleborough, and Easton, to meet To-morrow at 8 o'Clock, when it is thought 2 or 3000 Men will be assembled, from whence they are to go to Freetown to wait on Col. Gilbert & desire of him not to accept of the Office of High Sheriff under the present Administration of the new Laws; and that if he should, he must abide by the Consequences; also to desire Brigadier Ruggles to depart this County immediately.—Such is the Spirit of this County.—they seem to be quite awake, and to have awoke in a Passion. It is more dangerous being a Tory here than at Boston, even if no Troops were there.”
A Correspondent says, the Province will never rest while one Man who has accepted any Office under the Sanction of the new Acts of Parliament is possessed of any one Post of Power or Profit in the Country, and until every one of them by great Penitence obtain Forgiveness, or leave America,—and until all your Addressees to Hutchinson have by humbling themselves regained the good Will of the Country, and the City of Boston in particular—or else are removed off from this Continent.
We hear from Bridgewater, that when the new unconstitutional Counsellor, J. Ishah Edson, Esq; (who is also a Deacon) stood up and read the Psalm at one of the Meeting-Houses there Yesterday se'nnight, the Congregation would not sing:—It was said a great Number of People intended to wait on him the Wednesday following.
Letters from Philadelphia, say, that City only has raised 4000l. that Currency, for the Support of the Town of Boston under its present Difficulties; and that every other Town in that Government are doing the same; as were also those in New-Jersey, where 'tis said 6000 Bushels of Grain was already collected for that charitable Purpose.
We learn from Charleston, South-Carolina, that their new House of Assembly met the 2d of this Month, and recognized the Resolutions of the general Meeting of the Inhabitants on the 6th, 7th and 8th Days of July, [which have been published in the Papers here] and have also voted the Sum of 1500l. Sterl. for defraying the Expenses of the five Gentlemen then appointed to attend the general Congress of the Provinces at the City of Philadelphia.
A PROPOSAL from different Parts of the Country—It is proposed that an Estimate should be formed by indifferent People of the Value of all the Real Estates in Boston, that so if the Estates in it should be sunk in their Value by the Port Bill's continuing to be enforced, or should otherwise be ruined by the Rage of our common Enemies, the Country might be able to form a Judgment of the Retribution that should be made to the

From the Boston Gazette, of August 29. To His Excellency Governor GAGE. SIR,
YOU have yet the Power of saving yourself from Infamy, ---Do not lose the few Moments which Providence favours you with---Stop before you plunge into that Gulph where Hope never comes, and where you must be forever under the Dominion of Despair---Instantly call in the Aid of the constitutional Council of the Province--- Request them to use the Power and Influence they have with the People, to quiet their disturbed Minds until Redress can be had of their Grievances from Great-Britain---Sooth the just Indignation of the People by mild and gentle Advice, and most explicit Promises to use all Means in your Power to restore their Rights which have been unjustly ravished from them.---Let this be your Part and it may be the Salvation of the British Empire.---I am unknown to you and my Advice may be despised, you will however remember that this Advice has been given you, and that it will appear in Judgment against you, should any fatal Consequences follow your Refusal to comply with it.---I have now a few Words to say to the Gentlemen who have, under Colour of a Mandamus from the King, taken the Oaths as Councillors for this Province.
GENTLEMEN, It is your Duty as Christians, subjects of the King of Great-Britain, and Inhabitants of this Province, instantly to resign your Offices and publicly to acknowledge your Error and beg Pardon of your Countrymen---without doing this immediately, you may justly expect that all Intercourse between you and your Fellow Subjects will be forever cut off.---No one will Buy or Improve your Houses or your Lands---your Fields will be left untilled, and your Estates, real and personal be of no Value to you or your Posterity---A proverbial Ignominy will be perpetually entailed on your Names and Families, and you will be accountable to God and your own Consciences for all the Evils which your wicked Ambition may occasion.---Remember the Things that belong to your Peace before they are everlastingly hidden from your Eyes. MICAJAH.
   CUSTOM HOUSE, Piscataqua, Inward-Entries. Sept. 1st. FROM.     Schooner Sally, Moses Hale, St. Eustatia.   Brig Sally, Thomas Hook, Turks Island.   Sloop Hannah, William Coombs, St. Eustatia.   Sloop Juno, Joseph Harris, Tortola.   Sloop Industry, Seymour Sherwood, New Haven.   Sloop True Love, John Conklin, Nantucket.   Schooner Industry, David Reynolds, New York.   Outward Bound, FOR.   Ship Polly, John Gregory, West Indies.   Brig Dolphin, Giles Seward, Ditto.   Brig Abigail, John Wheelwright, Ditto.   Clear'd Outwards, FOR.   Schooner Nancy, Zachariah Foot, Quebec.   Schooner Hannah, Samuel Sewall, West Indies.   Schooner Speedwell, Thomas Jones, Ditto.   Schooner Pearl, Joseph Dearing, Ditto.   Brig Charming Nancy, Eliphalet Ladd, Ditto.   Brig Polly, Daniel Jackson, Ditto.   Brig Unity, Joshua Hills, Ditto.   Brig Charming Molly, Ebenezer Recker, Ditto.   Ship Dartmouth, Thomas Darling, Ditto.   Sloop Endeavour James Hovey, Ditto.   Sloop William and John, Seth Clark, Ditto.   Sloop Dofonis Tender, Isaac Sherwood, Nantucket.  
§ SUCCESS. § Encouragement for Settlers on new Lands. THREE or Four able Men, acquainted with cultivating new Lands, are immediately wanted, in order to making Settlements in the Township of SUCCESS. They must begin their Work in the Course of two Months from the Date hereof, or sooner, if convenient---The said Township of Success is not more than sixty Miles distant from Falmouth in Casco-Bay, with which Town they may have an easy Communication, by about thirty Miles Water-Carriage. Any suitable Person inclining to settle in the said Township of Success, will meet with such great Encouragement both by Grant of Lands and Money for Labour as will be a sufficient Inducement to them to undertake, by applying to BENJAMIN MACKAY, } Committee SUPPLY CLAP, } Portsmouth, Sept. 1. 1774.
Just arriv'd from Virginia, And to be SOLD by Neal McIntyre, On Spring-Hill, Portsmouth, A Quantity of Excellent TOBACCO, By Wholesale or Retail. Cash given for FLAX-SEED by said McIntyre  NEW Philadelphia Flour Just Imported, and to be Sold By JOHN EVANS. Also, Burlington PORK---Connecticut and Philadelphia CORN---BEANS,--- RICE, and Tyre IRON for Cart Wheels, with a Quantity of BAR-IRON of all sizes,
Jacob Sheafe, jun t Hereby acquaints his Customers and others that he has Removed to his Store in Queen-Street, next Door to Captain George King's, and three Doors below his Father's, where he has a small Assortment of ENGLISH GOODS ( among which are some of the newest fashion'd Oval Looking-Glasses ) Also, West-India and New-England RUM per Hoghead; Sugar per Barrel; Philadelphia Flour; Ship-Bread; Bar Iron; and a few Hogheads of STONE-LIME, to be sold very low for Cash.
§ Marlow. § WHEREAS the Proprietors of the Township of MARLOW, in the County of Cheshire and Province of New Hampshire, have been legally Notified to pay a Tax or Assessment of Three Dollars on each Proprietor's Right or whole Share in said Township, to me the Subscriber Collector of said TAX; and sundry of said Proprietors bring yet delinquent in the whole or in part in paying the said TAX; --- this is therefore to give Notice to such delinquent Proprietors, that so much of their respective Rights or Shares of Land in said Marlow will be sold at Publick Vendue, as the Law directs, at the new Dwelling Hou's of Samuel Gustin, in said Marlow, on Saturday the twenty Fourth Day of September next ensuing the Date at Nine of the Clock in the Forenoon, as to pay the said TAX with incidental Charges, unless prevented by payment. --- The Names of the delinquent Proprietors with the Sums due on their respective Rights, are as follows. ---    Samuel Mather, jr  18  0  Jabez Chalker  6  0    Ephraim Brockway  11  8  Ebenezer White  4  0    Marshallfield Parson  4  0  Hopeful Cruttenden  5  0    Jonathan Alger  9  0  Gideon Jones  9  0    Joseph Clark  6  0  Richard Wiberd, Esq  18  0    Elisha Ely  14  0  Capt. George King  18  0    John Nelson  5  0  John Bettingham  18  0    Isaac Hall  18  0  Jared Spencer  7  6    John Peck  18  0  William Lay  9  0    Phineas Chapman  18  0  Edward Lay  6  0    Daniel Bushnell  11  8  Samuel Bushnell  2  0    John Bull  18  0  William Ayers  6  0    Marlow, August 22, 1774. Job Johnson.
§ Monadnock, No. 5. § WHEREAS the Proprietors of MONADNOCK No. 5 did at a legal Meeting, held in said Town ship, the nineteenth Day of January last, vote to raise two pence half penny per Acre on all the rateable Lands in said Town, these are to notify the Owners of Land in said Town to pay their respective Taxes to me at my Dwelling Hou's in said town, on or before the fifteenth Day of September next, or their Lands will be advertised for Sale, as the Law directs. August, 15, 1774. James Brewer, Collector,
§ Canaan. § PROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, Grafton, ss. NOTICE is hereby given to all the delinquent Proprietors of said CANAAN, that the Vendue Meeting of said Proprietors stands adjourned to the second Monday of November next, to the Dwelling House of Samuel Chapman, Innholder in said Canaan, at ten o'Clock before Noon --- And if all the delinquent Lands are not sold at said Meeting, to be adjourned to the Thursday following. George Harris, Collector. Canaan, August 27, 1774.
Whereas ELIZABETH the Wife of me the Subscriber has behaved herself disorderly and left me, without any Provocation given by me, --- This is therefore to forbid all Persons crediting her on my Account, as I shall pay no Debts of her contracting from the Date hereof. Thomas Ham. Rochester August 26, 1774.
Stolen on Saturday Night, the 27th of August last, out of a Field at the upper Part of Wells, a pale red HORSE, about 4 Years old; he has a light coloured Main and Tail, white Feet, white Face and Nose, trots and paces, about 14 Hands high. --- Whoever will take up said Horse and convey him to the Owner William Jepson of Wells, shall receive Four Dollars Reward, and necessary Charges paid --- It is however will discover the Thief, so that he may be brought to Justice, shall have six Dollars Reward. William Jepson.
TO BE SOLD, About 14 Acres of good Land, a good DWELLING HOUSE, Barn, Orchard, and other Accommodations, very conveniently situated for a Trader or Tradesman, upon the public Road to Exeter, and about half a Mile from Greenland Meeting Hou's. Enquire of James Sherburne, living on the Premises, Greenland August 25th 1774.
ALL PERSONS Indbted to, or that have Demands on the Estate of Ephraim Davis, late of Dover, deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts immediately to Lou's Davis of Dover, Administratrix to said Estate, in order for a speedy Settlement.
PORTSMOUTH, Printed by D. FOWLE.
§ New-Boston. § WHEREAS the COMMITTEE for managing the Prudentials of the Proprietors of New Boston in New Hampshire, have received a Request from ten of the said Proprietors to call a Meeting of said Proprietors for the following Purposes, viz. To chuse a Proprietor's Clerk, the former Clerk being dead. To chuse a Committee to defend or carry on any Law Suits that are or may be brought against them; or to sue any Person or Persons that may be Trespassers on any of the Lands in said Town. --- And as two of the standing Committee are dead, to chuse two in their Room, or a new Committee, as the said Proprietors shall think proper, and to know if said Proprietors will direct the said Committee to sell any of their undivided Land --- The said Proprietors are hereby Notified, to meet at the House of Thomas Harrod in Dunstable, on Tuesday the 13th Day of September next, at ten o'Clock in the Forenoon. Dunstable, August 24, 1774.
TO BE SOLD, A convenient Dwelling-House, very good, a LOT of Land, &c situat in Portsmouth between Liberty Bridge and Mill Dam. For further Particulars, enquire at the Printing Office.
WE the Subscribers, Commissioners appointed by the Hon. the Judge of Probate of Wills for the County of Rockingham, to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of the Hon. JOHN WENTWORTH, late of Portsmouth, Esq; deceased, resided, Represented Insolvent, and six Months being allowed for that Purpose, hereby give Notice, that we will attend that Service at the late Mansion House of the said deceased, the last Wednesday of this and the five next following Months, from six to nine o'Clock Afternoon of said Days. SAMUEL PENHALLOW, WILLIAM KNIGHT, Portsmouth, August 23d, 1774.
Four DOLLARS Reward. STRAYED from the Township of Shelburne, on Amascogin River, in the County of Grafton and Province of New Hampshire, on or about the 15th of July last, a Chesnut colour'd MARE about 14 Hands high, short Tail and short thin Main, Trot well, and has a Scar on one of her Buttecks. Whoever will take up said MARE, and give Information thereof, or return her to the Subscriber, shall have Four DOLLARS Reward, and all necessary Charges paid by JOHN PEIRCE. Portsmouth, August 24th, 1774.
TO BE SOLD at private Sale, very cheap, Two Houses with Land Adjoining them, situate in Portsmouth, one of which stands on the Northerly Side of the Street leading from Gregory Purcell, Esq; out of Town, commodiously situated for a Trader or Tradesman, with a Sufficiency of Land for a Barn, Garden, &c. --- The other of said Houses Stands on the Northerly Side of the Street leading from Mr. William Brewster's to Mr. Joshua Wentworth's, well situated for a Tradesman, with a large Garden thereto adjoining. For further Particulars, Enquire of Richard Cutts Shannon, Esq; of said Portsmouth.
Ten DOLLARS Reward. WHEREAS on the Night following the 23rd Day of August Instant, the Subscriber's Barn in Hampton was broke open, and from thence Stolen and carried away, a RED ROAN MARE, Five Years old last Spring, about 14 Hands high, trots and paces; a small Star in her Face, has a Bunch on her Back Bone, black Main and Tail. --- Whoever will apprehend the THIEF or Thieves, so that he or they shall be legally convicted and punished therefor, shall be entitled to receive a Reward of Ten Dollars from WILLIAM LANE. N.B It is suspected the above Theft was committed by a Fellow who has been at Portsmouth about a Month, calls himself Williams; he is about 5 Feet ten Inches high, is something slim, wears his own black Hair, a mix'd Wilton Coat, a light brown Cloth Surtout with a narrow Cape, a new pair of Buff Leather Breeches, a scarlet Jacket; and carried with him two pair of striped Long Trowsers, a new Silver Watch and Chain, a new pair of Silver Shoe Buckles and a new Beaver Hat. --- he went from Portsmouth on the Night of the 23rd Instant, and carried with him a Horse which he had stolen there, belonging to John Newmarch, Esq;
A Pair of Sile-skin Saddle Bags Containing two Quarts of Rum, one Quarter of Pressed Meat, one Pound of Brown Sugar, some Pepper, &c. --- was Lost on the Road between Portsmouth and Rye on the Evening of the 24th Instant. --- Whoever has Found, and will return said Bags to the Subscriber, or give Notice where they may be had shall be Rewarded with Three Shillings L.M. and all necessary Charges paid by JOSIAH BATCHELDER. North Hill, August 25, 1774.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, to all PERSONS Indbted to the Estate of ELIZABETH WIBIRD, late of Portsmouth, Widow, deceased, to make speedy Payment to the Subscriber, Administrator on said Estate, or they may expect to be sued without further Notice. JOHN PENHALLOW, Administrator. Portsmouth, Aug. 9, 1774.