The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1772-02-14 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the Frehest ADVICES
Friday Feb. 14, 1772.
GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
NO. 799 { Weeks since this Paper } was first Publish'd.
Messieurs PRINTERS, IN this degenerate and luxurious age many are the vices which loudly call for the censure of the moralist; but of all the numerous train, none is attended with more fatal consequences than that of gaming. It is destructive in every stage and condition of life; it affects not only the individual, but the community; it ruins as well the health as the fortune of its followers, and is a worm that eats out the peace and happiness of families. In whatever light we view it, its baleful influence equally appears, whether in unthinking youth, or in cautious old age. Let us first take a view of the unhappy youth, unwarily drawn into the snare of the sharper, see him urged on by the unbridled heat which is peculiar to that age, perhaps fired with wine, plunging into a state that may forever load him with infamy, stripped of the substance which an indulgent father had granted him, and engaging in a debt without a prospect of discharging it; oh! miserable young man, urged on by the importunities of the creditor, perhaps to rob; at best, doomed to a loathsome prison. Though thy misfortunes have been caused by thine own folly, my heart bleeds for thee. Let us next observe the man, whom age should have taught wisdom, and experience to have avoided the fatal gulph, observe him at first, perhaps led by curiosity, or, more likely, by avarice, that ruling passion of age, with what caution he engages, with what exactness he calculates each chance of the dice, till irritated by losses, he forgets his determined prudence, and rushes with all the impetuosity of youth, upon that dangerous rock from which few passengers escape unhurt; see him in the madness of passion, in a single moment, venturing upon the caprice of fortune, what whole years of anxiety had been scraping together. He instantly sees his folly, curses his rashness, is disquieted in his very soul; and every moment of reflection is followed by hours of misery. His tender wife presents herself to his view, in all the misery of distress; she, whose affectionate behaviour had long endeared her to him, who, with the gentle hand of love, had always smoothed his wrinkled brow of sorrow; her, whose fortune had entitled her to affluence, he now beholds reduced to want and beggary; and by him who should have assisted and supported her. His children too, those dear pledges of their love, whose tender years had been spent in ease and plenty, who had been long flattered with the prospect of independence, are now forced to depend on the rough world for a bare maintenance. Now if he ever felt the pleasures of assisting the indigent, and relieving the distressed, what would he give if all that he has thus foolishly thrown away on the most worthless of mankind, had been thus applied? He must with the deepest remorse and contrition, acknowledge to the great author and giver of all things, that for his abuse of his gifts, he is most justly deprived of them. Neither in this wreck of fortune, if his peace of mind is not destroyed, does his health escape unimpaired? those hours which by nature were allotted for the ease and refreshment of the body, are spent in tedious watchings, in eagerness of expectation, or vexation of disappointment and losses, till worn out with continual fatigues, he sinks down a prey to infamy and disease. From the
necessary consequence of the community being injured where the individual suffers, it will be needless to enlarge upon this pest of society, farther than to warn my countrymen against the danger attending this growing vice which seems to have affected all orders of men. Route then, my countrymen, and let some generous spirit give the fatal stroke to this vice, by daring to punish those who think they may offend with impunity, and shew them that the laws can bind, as well their makers as the vulgar. Then shall this monster shrink back to its wonted night and darkness, which now dares venture forth in open day.
B O S T O N, Feb. 6.
No Articles from England since our last, the few following are from the Papers brought by Capt. Wier from Falmouth, which we had not room to insert last Week.
Dublin, Nov. 12. By a ship which arrived at Cork last Saturday, we have received a confirmation of a shipwreck mentioned in a letter from Milford lately. The vessel was the Earl of Shannon yacht, Capt. Smith, belonging to that port, bound to Milford, laden with one hundred and twelve chests of sugar. There was nothing saved. Every person on board perished; among whom were several passengers, viz. the Hon. Johannes Heyliger, Governor of Berbices; Thomas Grant, Esq; of Denmarary, & his Lady; these three passengers were a few weeks ago landed at Beerhaven, in the county of Cork, out of a vessel from Denmarary for Rotterdam, laden with sugar, which put in there by distress of weather, and of whom Mr. Grant was part owner; but they thinking it more expeditious to get away of Milford, took their passage on board the Earl of Shannon.
Extract of a Letter from a merchant in Cadiz, to his correspondent in London, Oct. 20.
"At five o'clock this afternoon, the Vera Cruz, a Spanish frigate (Don Antonio de la Vega, Commander) arrived from the Isle of Falkland, after a passage of 35 days; and two hours after, one Scot (an Irish sailor, who has been for some time in the Spanish service, and failed in the same frigate) came to my house. This fellow assures me that on the 15th or 16th of July, two English ships arrived at that island, in order to take possession thereof, in conformity to the convention lately signed between the Spanish Ambassador and Lord Rochford; that the Commodore presented his orders to the Spanish Commander, but that he raised so many difficulties about the restitution, whether it was to be of the whole island, or barely of Port Egmont, that after a three days conference upon the matter, the said English ships were forced to depart yet it is not known for what port they set sail. The sailor could not inform me what was the purport or substance of the difficulties started; however, the fact is what I have related, and that the restitution was not made. It is also very certain the Vera Cruz was purposely dispatched hither, to give information of this affair to the court, and that for the greater secrecy of it, the Captain has his orders to pretend, that he comes immediately from Buenos Ayres, and to suffer nobody to come ashore. The sailor in my house, being one of those who rowed the boat that brought ashore the Court dispatches, watched his opportunity to clope, and in hopes of a handsome gratuity, for bringing the news to an Englishman, fled to
my house to communicate it to me, as, through the Captain's great care, it is kept a profound secret from the public.
"This is so very interesting a piece of intelligence, that I beg you will immediately cause it to be inserted in our public papers, that the nation may not be surprised and imposed upon, but prepared against every event that may happen; and if you have an intimacy with any of our ministers, you will do well to communicate it to them, and produce this very letter of mine, to convince them of the reality of the matter, &c."
"P. S. By the next post you may expect farther particulars relative to this affair, time not permitting me at present to say more."
Gravesend, Nov. 27. Past by the Lydia, Hood, from Boston.
Nov. 29. A letter from Ireland advises, that when the House of Commons of that kingdom waited on the Lord Lieutenant with their resolution, viz. "That seven Commissioners have been sufficient for the collection of the Revenue," he said,
Gentlemen, I think it my duty to inform his Majesty of the sense of the House of Commons, expressed in this resolution; and I think it incumbent upon me, upon this occasion, to acquaint you, that I have received his Majesty's letters for appointing certain Commissioners therein mentioned to the number of five, to be Commissioners of excise, and certain other persons to the number seven, to be Commissioners of Customs, pursuant to the several acts of parliament in this kingdom.
The resolution was carried by a majority of 46.
The patriotic party in the Irish House of Commons, we hear intend, since they have carried the question against increasing the number of the revenue Commissioners, to make a motion for reducing the present board; which consists of seven members, as seldom more than three ever reside in the kingdom, for the transaction of public business.
L O N D O N, Nov. 9. Yesterday morning the Earl of Hillsborough, Secretary of State for the Plantations, arrived in Town from Ireland, attended the Levee at St. James's, and had afterwards a conference with his Majesty.
His Majesty seemed very cheerfully yesterday at the Levee, and was remarkably well pleased with the congratulations of the Nobility on the Duke of Gloucester's recovery.
Nov. 25. A vessel from Genoa brings an account, that a very daring conspiracy has lately been discovered there, composed by the natives, and other inhabitants, to murder the whole Council with the Burghers. Two or three hundred were actually under arms, and fired a signal of revolt. This is the third conspiracy there within these two years.
We are assured that there was lately a sharp altercation between the Premier and Lord Sandwich, respecting our present disgraceful submission to injurious treatment of Spain, when the First Lord of the Admiralty nobly declared, that should the next advices from Admiral Rodney not be in every respect satisfactory, and war was not instantly declared, he would certainly resign. He said he gloried in being in the service of his King and Country; but that he would not remain at the head of the Admiralty of England, and see the British Flag insulted with impunity by Spain.

ABSTRACTED from our late political Party considerations, it has for a long time past been problematical whether Tea drinking ought to be encouraged among us. Some say, it occasions a very unnecessary expence of time; the answer is, that Tea or no Tea the same would be spent in some other amusement & it may not be more innocent. Others except to the use of it as one of our meals because it is expensive. In answer to this objection, many who have made the computation say its less expensive in a large family of children and servants than even bread and milk. At the late low price of Tea, if the expence exceeds, it is not so much as many imagine. But the great question is, whether it is not a noxious plant to the human frame, and this deserves consideration now it is so universally used. In the Countries where it grows it has been in use for many Centuries, and it is esteemed very salutiferous. I have drank it moderately all my life and so have hundreds of my acquaintance without experiencing any ill effects, and I know it to have been frequently charged with being the cause of nervous disorders without any reason. It is however most certainly an astringent, and when the infusion is too great may have an ill effect upon weak nerves. It is the practice, in the country especially, to drink the Bohea Tea made very strong. This proceeds from a foolish affection of being thought generous, or not parsimonious. When the leaf has been adulterated I am of opinion that Tea moderately used tends to preserve health. It is a most happy succedaneum or substitute in the place of Toddy to which many people of both sexes have too long been habituated. You will seldom see a thirst for RUM and a thirst for TEA in the same Person.
The adulteration is generally by drying or staining the old "leaves or what is called grounds" in liquor in which Lignum Vitae or other dry Wood has been infused, & then drying the Leaves. The Jews buy up vast quantities of these grounds all over Europe, and send them to Holland from whence they are re-exported. You may generally discover the adulteration by the old, though not properly musty taste, and the high colour of the Tea at the first extraction, which is lost before the second draught or run. What is imported from England is generally pure, in the same package as it comes from China. Of the several species of Tea, which are said to be all in the same plant differently cured, none exceeds the Bohea, and it is only the cheapness of it makes it less esteemed. I have drank Congo, which is one sort of Bohea, of a fine agreeable bitter, but this is not often to be met with. Most of the Congo is faint & insipid. The Souchong, which seems to be a Mongrel of Green and Bohea, is sometimes very good. Sometimes you meet with fine Green Tea without the distinguishing flavour of the Hyson, and in my judgment every way preferable. Upon the whole it is my opinion that for a single Person whose life has been lost by Tea, thousands have been slain by RUM. MEDICUS.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 23.
To the Honorable RICHARD PENN, Esq; Lieutenant-Governor and Commander in Chief of the Province of Pennsylvania, &c.
The Address of the Roman Catholicks of the city of Philadelphia.
May it please your HONOUR,
THE Roman Catholicks of this city beg leave to offer their sincere congratulations, on your safe arrival to the government of this province.
Truly sensible and grateful to your honorable family, for the many privileges, religious and civil, we have hitherto enjoyed; we hope for a continuance of the same under your administration.
Our actions and behaviour shall be the best proof of the sentiments we express on this occasion, and on them we rely for a share in your protection and regard.
In the name and behalf of the congregation, Robert Harding.
Gentlemen, I AM much obliged to you for those compliments of congratulation on my safe arrival and appointment to the Government of this Province.
The grateful sense which you express of the behaviour of the proprietors towards you, gives me great satisfaction & and you may depend upon a continuation of the same religious and civil privileges under my administration, as you have hitherto enjoyed, not in the least doubting but that your conduct and actions will prove you deserving of my regard and protection.
At a Special Court of Oyer and Terminer, and General Goal-Delivery, held the 13th inst. for the county of Bedford, came on the trial of Lieut. Robert Hamilton of the 18th Regiment, on an Indictment of man-slaughter, for the death of Ensign Tracey of the same Regiment, at Fort Pitt; and, after a full hearing and examination of all the evidence, relative to this unhappy affair, Mr. Hamilton was honorably acquitted, the Jury not having staid from the bar but about ten minutes.
Capt. Robert Pomery, on his Passage from the West-Indies, for Virginia, on the 9th ult. spoke the Schooner Dispatch, Capt. Montayne, from New-York, for Teneriff, 4 Days out; loaded with Corn, and had 4 Feet Water in her Hold; with one Pump choaked up, and could not bring her on a wind, on Account of her Leak.
NEWPORT, January 27,
The 9th Instant, at the Vineyard, one Butler and another young Man agreed to meet at Butler's Home, and go early next Morning to kill a Seal, which used to frequent a certain Rock near the Shore; but instead of meeting Butler, the other went away alone and placed himself in a proper Situation to wait for the Seal; when Butler found his Companion did not appear according to Agreement, he set out also, in quest of the Seal; and coming near the Place, observed something unusual on the Beach or Shore, and imagined the Seal had come on Shore, instead of getting on the Rock as usual; so took sight and fired, when, to his great Surprise, he found he had killed his Friend and Companion. The young Man killed was about 19 Years of Age, his Name we can't learn.
ALBANY, Dec. 30.
On Monday the 23d Inst. Mr. Nicholas Vrooman of Shenectady, a Lad about 15 Years of Age, set out for the Country in a Sled, with a Negro to drive the Horses; he had gone but a short distance from Town until he fell down in the sled and expired, without any previous signs of Indisposition.
On Wednesday last, Baltus Becker who lived at Normanskill, eight miles distant from this city, cut a large tree, which happened to be intercepted in its fall by the Branches of another that stood near it, this he also attempting to cut down, but it being much bent by the weight of the former resting upon it, a splinter flew off, & struck him to forcibly on the head, that he expired immediately.---He has left a wife and 6 children.
ON CONTENTMENT.
HAPPY the Man (but ah, how few we find) Who feels the Pleasure of a tranquil Mind; Who meets all Blessings in Content alone, Nor knows a Station happier than his own; No anxious Cares disturb his peaceful Breast, With life content, and with Contentment blest; No Pangs he feels, to break his calm Repose, No Envy fears---for he no Envy knows: To Man still faithful, and to God resign'd, His Body subject to its Lord, the Mind: He must be good---for surely Heav'n ne'er meant, Without strict Virtue to bestow Content. 'Tis not the Glory false Ambition brings, The Wealth of Misers, or the Pow'r of Kings; Nor all the fleeting Joys by Man possess'd, Can give the Earthly Frame that Heavenly Guest: Whate'er the Muse, of Love of Glory sings, Virtue alone the sacred Stranger brings.
HARTFORD, January 21, 1772.
About the last of December, the house of Mr. Samuel Allen of Sandisfield, took fire; Mr. Allen was gone a Distance from home, and Mrs. Allen having occasion to go to a neighbour's house, about 1 1/2 rods distance, in the Evening, after having put her 3 children in bed, and about half an hour after she was alarmed by the cry of her oldest child (about 5 years of age)
who had been awakened by the fire, and made its escape from the house. Mrs. Allen immediately ran to the fore-door of the house, which, when she opened, the fire burst out upon her, and prevented her going in. She tried to get into the house at several other places, in order to save her two children that remained in the house, but the inside being all in flames, rendered every means to save them ineffectual, and the two innocent babes perished in the flames. One of them the next day was taken out of the bed where it lay, the bed entirely burnt up, and the body about half consumed---the other in endeavouring to save itself, left the bed and ran into the dwelling room, which was over the cellar, and the bones of it were found in the cellar the next evening, the body entirely consumed, but the liver remained untouched by the fire.
B O S T O N, February 10.
It is reported through the Country, that the present Governor of New-York is going to patent all the Lands lately ceded by his Majesty to the Government of New-York; which report is groundless and false, and degrading to his Excellency Governor Tryon, for he is strictly commanded by his Majesty not to grant any Lands, especially East of the Green Mountains, upon the strictest Ties of Obedience to his Instructions, but especially where Lands have been Granted by the Massachusetts and New-Hampshire, and the Grantees have settled, &c.
A Letter from St. Eustatia mentions, that the greatest Part of the principal Town on the Island of Grenada, was lately consumed by Fire.
On Wednesday the 29th ult. the Rev'd Mr. Lemuel Le Baron was ordained Pastor of the second Church and Congregation in Rochester, in the County of Plymouth.
S A L E M, Feb. 11.
By a vessel from the West-Indies, we have Advice, that Capt. Isaac Phillips, in a Brig from Newfoundland for Boston, having met with bad Weather, soon after he came out, was obliged to put away, and got safe into St. Eustatia.
We also learn, that nine Sail of other Vessels, who were blown off the Coast, had arrived at Antigua, but no account of the Masters Names; only that one Capt. Robinson, who was a Passenger on board one of them, lately died there.
It is said that the Fortifications of the City of Quebec are dismantled, or at least are in a defenceless State, most of the Cannon, &c. having been transported to England some Time last Fall.
L O N D O N, Nov. 26.
Before the last war we imported from our colonies about 70,000 hogheads of sugar annually, which, from our acquisitions upon the peace, is increased to 130,000, notwithstanding sugar is dear, owing to the luxury of the age and the vile spirit of engrossing.
Mr. Nash, it is said, in this article alone, turns near a million and a quarter every year, and can raise the price of that commodity at his pleasure.
The interest of the established Church seems to be upon the decline; most of the directors of the Bank and other great Companies, with a third of the Court of Aldermen being Dissenters.
It is said that three-fifths of the seamen in the merchants service are Scotchmen.
A letter from Senegal mentions, that a crew of pirates in an armed Schooner, who had committed divers robberies on the coast, finding themselves pursued by an English man of war, and that it was impossible to escape her, blew themselves up by setting fire to the powder room, and every one on board perished.
On Saturday morning last the insurance on merchandize was advanced near five per cent. in this city, on a supposition that a rupture is on the eve of breaking out.
On Thursday the cause about the socage estate, in the neighbourhood of Carlisle, between the Duke of Portland and Sir James Lowther, came on in the Court of Exchequer, and was resumed yesterday.
The great cause between Sir James Lowther and the Duke of Portland is certainly finally determined by the trial on Wednesday last. The title of the Duke of Ingramwood Forest is now established by the Nul-lam Tempus act passed last sessions, which declares an undisturbed possession of 60 years a sufficient title and now precludes Government from granting a fresh lease. The estate has been in the Portland family near 64 years.

PORTSMOUTH. THE Storm comes Home, to this inclement Climate, And Boreas joins the Winter with Recruit, Of Cold collected from the frigid Zone. Now----- No Time is lost to lessen or delay Winter's wide, rapid desolating Rout. How numb, how dead is Vegetation struck; Save in the Evergreen; those Vetrans stand; Firm in the Livery of perpetual Spring; Display their Verdure in the Winter Storm, And from the lofty Plume with careless Air Toss back to whirling Winds the feather'd Snow.
Province of New-Hampshire.  WHEREAS a LIGHT-HOUSE has been lately erected at the Ex- pence of the said Province, on Fort Point, at the Entrance of the Harbour of Piscataqua, for the greater Safety of all Ships and Vessels trading thereto; — In order to render the same of more general Benefit and Utility to the Public, the fol- lowing Directions are published from a Survey made by Pilots experienced in Na- vigation into the said Harbour. "As the Light-House is erected on "Fort Point, we find it necessary that all "Ships or Vessels coming from the East- "ward should keep in twelve Fathom of "Water until the Light bears North, "North one half West, and North one "half East, Distance about three Miles, "and then bear away for the Light-House, "keeping the Western Shore on board, "and coming no nearer that Shore than "nine Fathom of Water, giving the Light "a proper Birth, and also stand over to "the North Shore, and anchor in nine "Fathom of Water, abreast of Sparhawk's "Point, so called; — And all Ships or "Vessels coming from the Southward, "are to observe the same Directions re- "specting the Light as above, and keep "in nine Fathom of Water, on the West- "ern Shore." Portsmouth, February, 1772.
[ Chichester. ]
NOTICE is hereby given to the several delin- quent Proprietors or Owners of Chichester in the Province of New Hampshire, in the County of Rockingham, that unless they pay the respective Sums which their respective Lands are assessed, to me the Subscriber, Collector for said Proprietors, that their Lands in said Township will be exposed to sale at public Vendue, on Wednesday, the 11th Day of March next, at the House of Lieut. Jon- than Leavitt, Innholder at Hampton, at ten of the Clock, in the forenoon, agreeable to a Law of said Province, unless the said Delinquents prevent by paying the respective Sums annexed to the several and respective Names herein after mentioned and set forth, with incidental Charges, viz.
   In Lawful Money, 1 D. 2 D. 3 D. 4 D.     Joshua Batchelder 7 6 7 6 7 6 7 6   Moses Blake 10 6 10 6 10 6 10 6   Gov. John Ham Blacher 12 12 12 12   Capt. Corrar 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6   John Cram 14 14 14 14   Benjamin Cram 6 9 6 9 6 9 6 9   John Downing 16 16 16 16   Isaac Foss 10 6 10 6 10 6 10 6   Jonathan Garland 6 6 6 6   Capt. John Gilman 9 9 9 9   Nathaniel Healey 6 6 6 6   Hezekiah Jennens 6 9 6 9 6 9 6 9   George Jaffrey 14 6 14 6 14 6 14 6   Nathaniel Lockhart 6 6 6 6   John Odlin 12 12 12 12   William Odiorne 5 6 5 6 5 6 5 6   Joram Odiorne 5 6 5 6 5 6 5 6   Christopher Page 5 6 8 6 8 6 8 6   Jesse King 7 6 7 6 7 6 7 6   Joseph Redman 9 9 9 9   Samuel King 9 9 9 9   Jethro Tilton 10 6 10 6 10 6 10 6   Samuel Tibbetts 12 12 12 12   John Wentworth 9 9 9 9   Bradstreet Wiggin 8 8 8 8  
SAMUEL JENNESS Collector. Rye, February 12 1772. A very few of Newmarket and Stratham LOTTERY TICKETS may yet be had at the Printing Office, and Bryan Shoeben's Character, dying Speech, &c.
W here the Subscribers being appointed Commis- sioners by the Hon. JOHN WENTWORTH Esq. Judge of Probate of Wills, &c. for the County of Rockingham, in the Province of New-Hampshire, to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of Joshua Pool, late of Ha- verhill, in the County aforesaid, Yeoman, deceased, represented Insolvent, and six Months being allowed for that purpose. We do hereby Notify said Credi- tors, that we shall attend on their Business on the last Tuesday of this and the four following Months, at the House of Dr. Samuel Hale, Innholder in New- bury New York, from six to nine o'Clock P. M. Haverhill, Dec. 17 1771. Asa Porter, Andrew Crocker.
[ Monadnock No. 6. ]
NOTICE is once more hereby given to the de- linquent Proprietors of said No. 6, who have not paid a TAX to me the Subscriber, voted Sept. 1st 1768, laid on each settling Right, that so much of each Delinquent's Rights of Land in said Town- ship as shall be sufficient to pay the Taxes and all Charges, will be sold at Public VENDUE on Wed- nesday the 18th Day of March next, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, at my Dwelling House in said No. 6. The Names of the Delinquents are as follows. The Sums annexed are in Lawful Money.    On each settling Share  £.  2  10  0    Thomas Mc Cloughan   2  10  0    Joseph Dantforth   2  10  0    Two settling Shares each        John Kendle   5  0  0    Sampson French   5  0  0    BREBB BATCHELLOR, Collector. Monadnock, No. 6 Feb. 5. 1772.
[ Monadnock No. 4. ]
WHEREAS the proprietors of said Township have been legally Notified to pay sundry Grants of Money legally assessed on each proprietors Rights or Lots of Land in said Township to me the Subscriber, and several of the proprietors being yet delinquent in the whole or part, these are therefore to notify such proprietors, that so much of each delinquent proprietors Lands will be exposed to sale at Public VENDUE, at the House of James Read, Esq. Innholder in said Township, on Thurs- day the 14th of May next, at Two of the Clock in the Afternoon; to pay said Taxes with incidental Charges: The Delinquents Lots being as follows, with the Sums due.    Abel Lawrence, Esq. alias Josiah Parker,  £.  1  16  0    No. 4 in the 4th Range   1  16  0    No. 7 in the 4th Range   1  16  0    No. 23 in the 4th Range   1  16  0    No. 11 in the 6th Range   1  16  0    No. 20 in the 11th Range   1  16  0    No. 18 in the 12th Range   1  16  0    Jabez Meeds No. 2 and No. 3 in the        4th Range, each   0  12  0    Sampson Stoddard, Esq. alias Henry        Willard, No. 12 in the 2d Range   0  12  0    And half No. 13 in the 5th Range   0  6  0    Sampson Stoddard, Esq. No. 17 in the        4th Range   0  12  0    And No. 18 in the 4th Range   0  12  0    Thomas Spalding No. 9 in 7th Range   0  12  0    DANIEL MELLEN, Collector. Monadnock No. 4. Feb. 8 1772.
John Stavers,
INFORMS THE PUBLIC, That his Stage Coach or Post CHAISE still continues to ply between Port- mouth and Boston, once a Week, in which Ladies and Gentlemen, are carried for two Dollars each,— It sets out from Portsmouth, every Tuesday Morn- ing, and from Charlesstown Ferry, every Friday Morning.—A careful Driver will always be provi- ded, and Passengers gently used. All Bundles are carefully delivered, and Business done with care.
THE CREDITORS to the Estate of William Boynton, late of Kingstown, in the County of Rockingham, Yeoman, deceased, under the Admi- nistration of Richard Boynton of Boston, Esq. repre- sented Insolvent, are hereby Notified, that the Sub- scribers appointed Commissioners to receive and ex- amine their several Claims against said Estate, will attend their Business at the Dwelling House of Samuel Folsom, Esq. in Exeter, on the last Monday of this and the first Monday of the five ensuing Months, from three to six o'Clock P. M. Feb. 16. 1772. Nathaniel Folsom, 3 Commis- sioners. William Parker, 3 do. do. BLANKS of most sorts sold by the Printers.
Province of New-Hampshire, Rockingham, ss. [ Middletown. ]
THESE are to Notify the Proprietors of Mid- dletown, so called, that a Meeting of said proprietors is to be held at the House of Mr. Ephraim Hanson, Innholder in Dover, on Tuesday the Third Day of March next, then and there to act on the following Articles, viz. 1. To chuse a Moderator to regulate said Meeting. 2. To chuse a new Collector, instead of Mr Charles Baker, who declines serving longer. 3d. To see what Method the Proprietors will agree on, relating the Bounds of the first Division which are found not to agree with the Point of Compass first laid out by. 4th. To see whether the Proprietors will vote to settle a Mi- nister in said Town according to Charter, or other- wise to hire preaching for a certain Time. 5th To see what the Proprietors may chuse to do, or how to act respecting the delinquent Proprietors Rights that have not made Settlements according to Char- ter, and whether they will vote those Delinquent Rights shall be forfeited to other Proprietors that will perform the settling Duties for said delinquent Rights agreeable to Charter. 6 To hear the Re- quest of Lieut. Jonathan Drew, respecting the co- vering and Shingleing the Meeting House; the building being somewhat larger than first propos'd and agreed for. 7. To hear the Request of John Kielle relating to his being a former Collector, what Allowance should be made him for his Service there- in. 8 To see whether the Proprietors will agree to make further Repairs on the Governor's Road, so called, three Miles from Rochester head Line, 9th. To see what Money the proprietors will vote to be raised on each Right to defray the Charges and carry on the settlement of said Town. 10. To see whether the proprietors will vote to clapboard and glaze the Meeting House the ensuing Summer, and all persons concerned are desired to attend at time and place aforesaid. By order of the Assessors. Dover, Feb. 8th, 1772. JOHN GAGE, Prop's Clk.
TO BE SOLD,
SEVERAL Shares of a valuable Tract of Land, containing about 500 Acres, pleasantly situated in Amherst, the Shire Town of the County of Hillsborough, in the Province of New Hampshire, most of which is under Improvement. It lies about six Miles from Merrimack River, upon and on both Sides Soheganock River, at present improved by Capt. Kendrick. The Situation is very commodi- ous for any Officer of the Court, or for any one in Trade. Inquire of Edes and Gill Printers in Boston.
ALL PERSONS having any Demands on the Estate of John Bowing, late of Salisbury, and County of Hillsborough, deceased, are hereby desired to bring in their Claims properly attested to Andrew Mc Mellen, of Concord, in the County of Rockingham, Esq. Administrator on said Estate. And all who are indebted to said Estate, are desired to make speedy Payment to said Mc Mellen.
Notice is hereby given, That the COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS OF THE PEACE for the County of ROCKINGHAM will be adjourned to Wednesday the 26th Day of Fe- bruary Instant. By Order of Court. ISAAC RINDGE, Clerk.
ANECDOLE against SWEARING.  H ENRY Prince of Wales, had such an aversion to the profanation of the name of GOD, that he was never heard to take it in vain. His Highness being once a hunt- ing, the stag being spent, crossed the road, where a butcher with his dog was passing, the dog killed the stag, which when the huntsman and company came up they ex- pressed great resentment at, and endeavour- ed to incense the Prince against the butcher, but the Prince answered coolly, "What if the butcher's dog killed the stag, how could the butcher help it? They replied, If your father had been so served, he would have sworn most violently. Away, rejoined the Prince, all the pleasures in the world are not worth an oath.
L O N D O N, Octo. 12. A few days since, a gentleman's son (about six years of age, and of whom he was vastly fond) near Colchester in Essex, hap- pening to do some trifling thing which dis- pleased his father, he gave him a box on the side of the head, which immediately caused him to bleed at the nose and ear, of which he died in three hours; the father was so much shocked at the accident and fatal con- sequence, that growing raving mad, he died in 3 days.

Province Excise.
On Thursday the 12th March next, will be exposed to sale at public Vendue, to the highest Bidder, by the Committee of the General Court for that Purpose, The Province EXCISE, in three Divisions, from the 4th Day of September last, to the 1st day of Nov. 1772, at the House of James Stoodly, Esq; in Portsmouth. CONDITIONS of Said shall be made known at the Time and Place of Sale. By Order,
JONATHAN WARNER, Chairman.
ALL Persons claiming Property
in the following WHITE PINE LOGS, seized by Order of the SURVEYOR GENERAL, in Goffstown and Weare, in the Province of New Hampshire, may appear at a Court of Vice Admiralty to be held at Portsmouth on Thursday the 27th Instant, at Ten of the Clock A. M. and shew Cause why the same should not be decreed. Forfeited, a greeable to an Information filed in said Court. 200 White Pine Logs from 15 to 36 Inches diameter, lying at Richard's Mill in Goffstown. 250 Ditto from 15 to 36 Inches diameter, at Patten's Mill. 35 Ditto from 36 to 20 ditto, at Dow's Mill. 140 Ditto from 30 to 18 ditto, at Asa Patten's old Mill. 270 Ditto from 36 to 16 ditto, at Clement's Mill in Weare. 164 Ditto from 36 to 15 ditto, at Job Rowles Mill. Also 24 Bundles of Clapboards at Merrimac River. Portsmouth, Feb. 5. 1772.
JOHN SHERBURNE, D. Br.
Province of New Hampshire, January 30 1772. Whereas fundry of the Inhabitants of the Township of Nottingham, in this Province, have preferred a Petition to the General Assembly, praying, for Reasons assigned in their said Petition, that a distinct Parish may be set off, agreeable to a Vote of said Town, passed the 26th day of March 1771, as follows, namely, "all the Land in said Town on the North westerly side of Long Street (so called) and to bounded south-westerly on Deerfield Line." This is therefore to notify all whom it may concern, that the General Assembly have passed the following Vote thereupon, viz. That the Petitioners cause the substance of the Petition, and order thereon, to be printed in the New Hampshire Gazette, three Weeks successively, at the Petitioners Cost, that any Person or Persons may be heard to shew Cause, if any be or they shall have, why the Prayer thereof should not be granted, on the 3d day of the sitting of the General Assembly, after the 10th of February next. Attest, GEO. KING, Dep. Sec.
Notice is hereby given to the Proprietors of CANAAN , that the Meeting for Sale of Lands of delinquent Proprietors in said Town, stands adjourned to the Third Tuesday in March, at the House of John Safford, in said Canaan. Lebanon, Feb. 1. 1772. Jed. Hubbard, Col.
Whereas at sundry legal Meetings of the Proprietors of ACWORTH , in New Hampshire, several Taxes have been voted to be raised on each original Right or share of Land in said Town, to pay for cutting and clearing Roads, building Bridges, Mills, &c which have been not paid as the Law directs; now withstanding sundry of the Proprietors have neglected to pay the same. This is therefore to notify those who are delinquent that unless they pay the following Sums in Lawful Money to me at my House in Merrimac, by the 10th day of March next, so much of their original Rights or shares of Land will be sold at public Vendue at the House of Nathaniel Gossfeld, Innholder in Merrimac, to pay the Demand aforesaid and Charges. The delinquent Proprietors are as follows.
 Rev. David M c Gregory £ 2 8  James MacGregory 2 8  Thomas Grange 2 8  Robert Adams 2 8  James Milner 2 8  Alexander Gilmore 2 8  Daniel M c Fay 2 8  Robert Fletcher 6 9  William Symmes 6 9  Col. Jonathan Greeley 2 8   Feb. 5, 1772. Jonathan Blanchard, Collector.
TO BE SOLD A BILLY Negro Woman about 18 Years of age, for want of Empoy, Enquire of the Proprietor.
CHARLESTOWN, (S. Carolina,) Dec. 3. Letters from the Cherokee Country informs us, that Alexander Cameron, Esq; Deputy Superintendent of Indian Affairs, was returned there from running the boundary line between Virginia and the Cherokee hunting grounds, which he had happily accomplished with the Virginia Commissioners and some of the principal Indians deputed by their nation.
Dec. 10. Last week one hundred & thirteen Negroes, the property of a Gentleman intending to leave this province, were sold at Auction and brought on an average, four hundred and forty three pounds, nine shillings each, equal to sixty three pounds seven shillings sterling; which is said to be the highest price that any parcel of Negroes was ever sold for in this country.
Dec. 16. Advises received over land from West Florida, inform us, that the principal headmen and warriors of the upper Creek Indians were arrived at Pensacola the 25th of October last, in order to attend the Congress appointed to be holden there: The deputies of many other Indian nations were set out for the same purpose, and it was thought the Congress would be opened about the middle of Nov.
NEW-YORK, Jan. 27, 1772. Saturday last the Supreme Court ended here, during which the following Criminals were tried, viz. The noted Adam Smith, for stealing Wearing Apparel from Zebulon Waierman, was found Guilty, and sentenced to be executed on Friday the 21st of February next. — Catherine Longworth, for Felony, also found guilty, and is to be executed the same Day. — John Smith, for Petit Larceny, sentenced to receive thirty nine Lashes at the Whipping Post this Day. — Edward Smith, for forging a Bill of Exchange, and offering to pass it, was ordered to find Surety for 30l. or be committed till next Term.
TO BE SOLD, By Joseph Bass, Next Door to the Printing Office, the following GOODS at the very lowest Rate for Cash. viz. S EVEN eight and nine Quarter Bed Blankets, nine and ten quarter Bed Quilts, Crimson and green Harrateen; crimson, green and blue Chaney, green and blue Lincey, ell wide Irish Sheeting, Looking & Dressing Glasses with Draws, green, blue, yellow, scarlet and crimson None so prettier; silk and worsted Laces and Braids for Curtains, brass and pewter Curtain Rings, crimson, green, blue and yellow, worsted and mixt Line and Tossels for Window Curtains; Girth and Sadler's Webbing, brass Nails; 14 oz Tacks, Shoe Nails, Cloak Pins, Leather Casters, Truckles, Writing Paper, TEA, Ginger, Lady's Paste and plain Hair Combs, Bone and silver Sleeve Buttons, Pinchbeck ditto, Carpit Coverlids, handsome green and blue Chaney and Lincey Curtains; English and Scotch Bed Ticks, Sea Beds and Rugs, Matrases, black figured Horse Hair for Chair Bottoms, Oznabrugs, Quality Bindings, Garterings, Silk and Linnen Handkerchiefs, Buckrams, colored Threads, sewing Silk, No. 4 and 12 Pins, Needles, best Roman Violon Strings, Wool Cards, Pidgeon, Duck and Goose Shot by the Hundred, Pewter quart and Pint Pots, Bacons and Porringers, Seive and Seive Bottoms by the Dozen, Horn & Ivory Combs. check Linnen, scarlet and green, Worsted Caps, and Stocking crewills, Snuff Boxes, and CRINDSTONES, with a Variety of other Articles.
Ames's Almanack,
for 1772, may be had at the Printing-Office. WANTED one or two good Boys that can be well recommended, fourteen or fifteen years of age to serve at the Business of Wigmaking and Hair dressing. Enquire of Isaac Williams. N.B Cash given for good live white Horse hair, also to be sold good English hair Powder by Williams and Stanwood.
[ Bow. ] Province of New Hampshire, Rockingham ss. APPLICATION Having been made to me the Subscriber, by owners of more than one sixth part of the shares, Rights or interest of the Township of Bow, in said County, to call a Meeting of said Proprietors, as soon as may be, to consider and Vote on the following Articles, viz. 1st. To chuse a Moderator to govern said Meeting. 2dly. To chuse a Committee to take a proper Survey of all the undivided Lands in said Bow: and report to said Proprietors what Quantity they find for a third Division: And also particularly to Re mark all such Lands in said Bow, as are deter'd or trespass'd upon, by any person or persons whatsoever; in order for selling them said Lands for enter'd upon, if they incline to purchase: and fully to empower said Committee in Behalf of said Proprietors, to sell said Lands; or procure any of all such Trespassers, as shall neglect or refuse to purchase them — Likewise to empower said Committee to sell all those Forty Acre Lots, laid out in said Town that are not appropriated by said Proprietors. In Consequence of the foregoing Application, I do hereby Notify the Proprietors of the aforesaid Township, to meet on Tuesday the 18th Day of February next, at the House of Mrs Love Chase, Innholder at Stratham in said County, at one of the Clock, P. M. for the purpose aforesaid. Stratham, Jan. 1. SAMUEL LANE , Pro. Clerk. 28th 1772.
STOLEN on the Night following the 8th of this Instant, from Peter Eastman, and Jesse Johnson, of Hampstead in the Province of New Hampshire two Mares, the one a bright Sorrel, with a white Strip in her Forehead, with one white hind Foot, small mane and Tail, a small white Spot on her right Buttock, about fourteen Hands high, paces and trots well, nine years old, a gant, lofty carriages Beast. The other a dun Sorrel with a white Strip in her Forehead, thick Mane and Tail, something gray, large Belly and thick set about thirteen Hands and a half high; carries her hind Feet very much in; about six Years old paces and trots. Whoever will take up said Thieves and secure them so as they may be brought to justice, or take up said Mares and lead them to the Owners or send word so as the Owners may have them, shall receive two Dollars Reward, for each Mare, and all necessary Charges paid by us the Subscribers. Hampstead Jan. 9th 1772. Peter Eastman, Jesse Johnson.
* CORNISH * NOTICE is hereby given, to the Proprietors of CORNISH, that at two legal Meetings held in said Cornish a Tax of five Dollars, has been laid on each original Right or Share, and a List committed to me the Subscriber, to collect the same; this is therefore to desire the Proprietors aforesaid, to pay the same to me the Subscriber, at my House in Cornish, on the first Tuesday in March next, otherwise their Rights will be advertised for sale, as the Law directs. JONATHAN CHACE Collector.
[ Barrington. ] WHEREAS fundry Proprietors Rights of Land in Barrington, has not been advertised for Sale, by Reason of the Persons promising to pay said Tax without, These are therefore to Notify such delinquent Proprietors, that unless they pay me the said Taxes at the House of Mr. Elias Drew in Barrington, by the first Monday in March next, their Lands will certainly be sold at publick Vendue at said House at Two of the Clock Afternoon. The Delinquent Names are as follows, viz.
 Peter Demow, Two Lots £ 0 6 11  Stephen Noble 0 3 0  Stephen Lang 0 4 11  Richard Elliot 0 5 6   Barrington, Jan. 31. JOSHUA FOSS , Jun. Collector. 1772.
TO BE SOLD One Half of a 360 Acre Lot of Land, No. 10. in the first Range of Lots in Barrington. Enquire of the Proprietors.