New-Hampshire gazette, or, State journal and general advertiser (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1778-12-29 00:00:00

New - Hampshire Gazette.
OR, State JOURNAL, and General Advertiser.
[ Vol. I.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1778.
No. 45 ]
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
In the House of Representatives, Nov. 24, 1778.
WHEREAS by reason of the present war, the Courts of law within the County of Cheshire, have for a long Time past been inactive, and the several Actions in each Court pending cannot be brought forward;
RESOLVED, henceforward the Courts of Common Pleas—General Sessions of the Peace, and Superior Court of Judicature within said county be opened and held at the several Times and places prescribed by Law for holding said courts respectively—And all Appeals or other Matters which have been or now are returnable to either of said courts, shall be taken up and suffered in said Court or Courts respectively as if no such suspension had been made, and all proceedings had therein, are hereby revived in the same Manner as if no Lapse had intervened.
Sent up for Concurrence,
JOHN DUDLEY Speaker pr. Tem. In Council the same day read and Concurred E. THOMPSON Secretary.
The following is a copy of a PETITION inserted in a late news paper, printed in the garrison of New York, evidently the contrivance and handy-work of the British Commissioners, who, according to their own account, are to vanish from the western world in a few days.
To their Excellencies his Majesty's Commissioners, &c. &c.
The Petition of his Majesty's faithful subjects, the Loyal Refugees from the different Provinces of North America, now residing in the city of New York, and the parts thereon depending.
Humbly represented,
THAT your Petitioners, actuated by sentiments of loyalty to their King, and love to their country, are ready and willing to take up arms for the suppression of the present unnatural rebellion, and without delay to embody themselves, under officers to be selected from among your petitioners, with the approbation, and subject to the direction and control of a civil Governor, to be appointed by your Excellencies; and will cheerfully risk their lives for the re-establishment of good order and government under that constitution from which they heretofore derived every temporal blessing.
That if this proposal should meet with your Excellencies approbation, and that his Excellency the Commander in chief will furnish them with arms and ammunition sufficient for the purpose, they will immediately go out of these lines, and, without any further expence to his Majesty than the occasional supplies of arms & ammunitions required, do every thing in their power to bring the country under subjection to a legal government, being fully assured of
the assistance of many other suffering and persecuted loyalists, who are ready & anxious to join them from every quarter.
That your petitioners in thus tendering their lives and fortunes to promote his Majesty's service, and restore the peace of this country on the firmest basis, repose the fullest confidence in the Commander in chief, that he will protect them to the utmost of his power against the rebels assembled under Mr. Washington, and that in every emergency the garrison of New York will always afford them a sure asylum. Upon receiving these assurances from your Excellencies, your petitioners will be ready to join as one man in suppressing the rebellion; and as they have been able hitherto to resist all the terrors of persecution, they trust not one of them will be found to shrink back from his duty in the hour of trial, or disgrace the cause in which they have now so solemnly engaged.
That your petitioners do not mean by this offer of their services to confine your Excellencies attention to their own peculiar circumstances, they rather wish to be considered as representing the case of thousands and tens of thousands of their loyal countrymen, who are now groaning under every species of tyranny and oppression, without any other possible means of making their sentiments known.
And we hope your Excellencies will not rest your judgment on the probability of our succeeding from the present number of your petitioners. Every project must have a beginning, and it is not within the compass of human foresight to determine the limits of an expedition, that must gain strength from every movement. This we can with confidence assert, that no scheme can be devised more flattering to the hopes and prejudices of the people in general, or more formidable to those in actual rebellion, nor shall we be too sanguine in our opinions, when it is known by what slender threads the usurpation of Congress is supported. There are instances within our knowledge, where six or eight committee men, armed with all the civil & military powers of usurped government, keep whole counties in awe; and by the dread of punishments alone, enforce the arbitrary edicts of the Congress; many of these persons will disappear immediately upon our quitting the lines, and even those who are dignified with the titles of governors and councillors, will flee to the uttermost parts of the earth, rather than fall into the hands of those whom they have plundered, banished, and treated with every indignity.
That as your excellencies must be sensible how necessary it will be to give the previous assurances requested by your petitioners, in the plainest terms, we hope there will not be room left for a doubt, with respect to the prosecution of the war on the part of Great Britain, and the support of this garrison through every event.
And as the success of our undertaking will greatly depend on the first appointment
of a Governor, whose spirit and activity are equal to the most difficult enterprise, we trust your Excellencies will make choice of a person, who, like ourselves, has experienced the rigours of persecution, who feels what we have lost by this rebellion, and is determined to stand or fall by the true interests of his country.
N. B. This petition is ready for signing.
To the KING of England.
Wednesday, November 11, 1778.
THE rain pours down, the city looks forlorn, And gloomy subjects suit the howling morn, Close by my fire, with doors and windows fast, And sweetly shelter'd from the driving blast, To gayer thoughts I bid a day's adieu, To spend a scene of solitude with you.
So oft has black revenge engross'd the care Of all the leisure hours man finds to spare; So oft has guilt, in all its thousand dens, Call'd forth the vengeance of chastising pens; That when I fain would ease my heart on you, No thought is left untold—no passion new. From flight to flight the mental path appears Worn with the steps of near six thousand years; And fill'd throughout with ev'ry scene of pain, From CAIN to GEORGE, and back from GEORGE to CAIN.
Alike in cruelty, alike in hate, In guilt alike, and more alike in fate; Both curs'd supremely (for the blood they drew) Each from the rising world, while each was new.
Go, second Cain, true likeness of the first, And strew thy blasted head with homely dust— In ashes sit—in wretched sackcloth weep— And with unpitied sorrows cease to sleep. Go, haunt the tombs, and single out the place Where earth itself shall suffer a disgrace. Go spell the letters on some mould'ring urn, And ask if he who sleeps there can return. Go, count the numbers that in silence lie, And learn by study what it is to die.
For sure that heart—if any heart you own— Conceals that man expires without a groan; That he who lives, receives from you a grace; Or death is nothing but a change of place; That peace is dull; that joy from sorrow springs; And war the royal agree-show of things.
Else why these scenes that wound the feeling mind, This sport of death—this cockpit of mankind? Why sobs the widow in perpetual pain? Why cries the orphan—"Oh my father's slain!" Why hangs the sire his paralytic head, And nods with manly grief—"My son is dead!" Why shrieks the maiden (robb'd of ease and sense) "He's gone—He's kill'd—Oh heaven! take me hence!" Why drops the tear from off the sister's cheek, And sweetly tells the sorrows she would speak? Why lips the infant on its mother's lap, And looking round the parlour—"Where is pap?" Why weeps the mother when the question's ask'd, And kifs an answer, as the easiest task? Or why with lonely steps does pensive John, To all the neighbours tell—"Poor master's gone!"
Oh! could I paint the passions I can feel, Or point a horror that would wound like steel, To thy unfeeling, unrelenting mind, I'd send a torture, and relieve mankind.
Thou, that art husband, father, brother, all The tender names that kindred learn to call, Yet like an image, carv'd in massy stone, Thou bear'st the shape, but sentiment has none; Allied by dust and figure, not by mind, Thou only herd'st but lives not with mankind, And prone to love like some outrageous ape, Thou know'st each class of beings by their shape.
Since then no hope to civilize remain, And all petitions have gone forth in vain, One prayer is left, which dreads no proud reply, That He who made you breathe, would bid you die.
COMMON SENSE.
Philadelphia.

Whereas the under-mentioned proprietors of Lands have heretofore been legally notified for payment of the tax due thereon for the year 1778, in the town of Barrington, this is therefore to notify such delinquent proprietors or owners, that so much of their respective rights or shares of lands, will be exposed to public sale at the house of Mr. Sam. Foss, in Barrington, on Wednesday the 20th day of January next at 10 o'Clock in the forenoon, as will pay said tax or assessment, with incidental charges unless they pay the same with charges before that time.
Joshua Holmes } Collectors. Solomon Hall Barrington, December 29, 1778.
   Proprietor acr. £ s. d.    Rev. Mr. Rogers 90 0 10 0  James Libby 46 6 6 0  Joseph Holmes 95 0 13 0  Thos. W. Waldron 250 1 13 4  William Cotton 64 0 8 0  Ephraim Dennet 116 0 12 7  Henry Sherborn 28 0 3 0  Benjamin Langley 90 0 9 4  Thomas Cotton 25 0 2 6  Thomas Barnes 92 0 8 2  John Kiard 9 0 1 6  Jethro Farbur 4 0 1 0  Stephen Lang 25 0 2 6  William Brown 72 0 5 9  Rich. Waterhouse 180 0 14 8  Reuben Abbot 72 0 5 9  Ct. William Cotton 150 0 12 0  John Brewster 8 0 1 0  William Ames 69 0 5 4  Charles Brown 54 0 5 9  Thomas Greeley 72 0 7 10  William Parker 50 0 5 6  George Walker 72 0 8 8  Joseph Miller 36 0 4 1  Richard Waldron 150 0 18 4  William Crofts 72 0 8 8  Thomas Beck 90 0 10 10  Mr. Prince 30 0 6 0  John Birgen 50 0 6 0  Ambros Sloper 170 1 0 4  John Abbot 105 0 12 8  John Moore 72 0 7 8  Sam. Shacford 210 0 16 0  John Cotton 45 0 4 0  Doctor Rids 19 0 1 6  John Davis 120 0 9 7  John Libby 145 0 11 7  Roger Swann 41 0 3 6  Henry Bickford 34 0 3 6  Ct. Jonathan Ham 6 0 1 3  Benja. Akerman 70 0 7 5  Joseph Alcock 86 0 14 0  Zechariah Leech 90 0 9 6  John Hardin 160 0 17 1  Sam. Penhallow 710 5 13 6  Ephraim Jackson 194 1 14 5  Col. Hunkin 128 1 0 5  William Pevey 120 0 19 1  Sam. Waterhouse 25 0 2 8  John Davis 90 0 9 6  John Crofts 30 0 2 9  Benjamin Crofts 210 0 16 10  Moses Paul 210 1 2 5  Nehe. Partridge 67 0 7 0  Benjamin Cotton 90 0 14 0  Joseph Buss 81 0 12 10  Christopher Noble 96 0 7 8  Thomas Pierce 210 0 9 6  John Edmonds 64 0 6 8  Henry Sherburne 102 0 15 0  Anthony Rowe 60 0 6 5  Samuel Brown 72 0 7 9  William Terret 25 0 2 8  John Skilling 90 0 10 8  Moses Ingiam 120 0 12 10  James Leach 90 0 9 6  Stephen Noble 90 0 9 6  William Bennet 105 0 11 1  Henry Seward 113 0 12 0  Thomas L. B. B. 120 0 12 10  Moore & Leach 26 0 2 0  Archibald Hunkin 65 0 7 4  Hugh Banfield 78 0 8 2  Amos Fernald 140 1 3 1  Samuel Rimes 56 0 8 10  Samuel Clark 161 0 1 7  Abraham Seward 96 0 7 5  Jeremiah Calf 72 0 5 9  Ephraim Jackson 100 0 12 0  Ben. Westworth 100 0 12 0  
   Proprietor acr. £ s. d.    Joseph Brewster 100 0 12 0  John Churchwill 100 0 12 0  Joshua Pierce 100 0 12 0  James Libby 100 0 12 0  Joshua Pierce 100 0 12 0  George Walker 100 0 12 0  John Jones 120 0 12 0  
To be sold 150 acres of land in the Town of Barrington, No. 230 being the Right of Clement Hughes. Enquire at the Print Office, Portsmouth.
   Proprietor acr. £ s. d.    Ebenezer Waters, whole Right 0 6 2  Solomon Aldrich dit. 0 6 9  Silas Haseltine dit. 0 7 3  John Holland dit. excepting 50 acre Lot 4 0 7 7  Antipas Holland dit. dit. 4 0 4 1  Jonathan Chase dit. dit. 4 0 4 1  Dudley Chase dit. dit. 5 0 5 2  March Chase dit. dit. 6 0 6 2  Timothy Darling dit. dit. 3 0 3 0  Ebenezer Rawson dit. dit. 3 0 3 0  Enoch Marble 100 & 60 acre Lots 3 0 3 3  Moses Chase 100 60 dit. 3 0 3 0  Daniel Chase 100 60 dit. 2 0 2 2  Samuel Chase jr. 100 60 dit. 2 0 2 6  William Wait 100 60 dit. 2 0 2 0  Joseph Vincent 100 60 dit. 2 0 2 3  Jonathan Aldrick 100 60 dit. 1 0 1 6  Joseph Whipple 100 60 dit. 2 0 2 5  Moses Whipple 100 60 dit. 1 0 1 0  Moody Chase 100 60 dit. 1 0 1 11  William Dudley 100 60 dit. 1 0 1 9  Benja. Wallace 100 60 dit. 2 0 2 2  Jonathan Hale 100 60 dit. 2 0 2 10  Benjamin Morse 100 60 dit. 1 0 1 9  James Whipple 100 60 dit. 1 0 1 9  Benja. Morse jr. 100 60 dit. 2 0 2 5  Mill Lot 1 0 1 10  Thomas Dana 60 acre Lot 1 0 1 0  Gersham Wait dit. 0 0 0 9  Daniel Chase junr. dit. 1 0 1 2  James Richardson dit. 1 0 1 1  Samuel Ayers 100 60 50 acre Lots 6 0 6 8  Sam. Sherman 100 meadow & timber Lots 3 2 3 3  John Whipple dit. dit. 3 0 3 3  Jonas Brown whole right excepting 50 & 100 acre Lots 3 0 3 10  Samuel Chase 100 acres No. 5 1 0 1 5  
§ Barnstead. §
In the Advertisement for the Sale of Lands in Barnstead, for the payment of taxes due in the year 1775, by mistake has been advertised for 1776, which all concerned, are desired to take particular notice of,— And the sale of said Lands is put off to Wednesday the 20th of January 1779, at 10 o'clock before noon, at the house of Samuel Pickering, innholder in Greenland. Charles Hodgson 220 acres, £. 1 16 8 Benjamin Nutter 100 acres, 0 16 8 Ephraim Pickering, Collector. Newington, December 28, 1778.
WHEREAS I the subscriber was brought before a Justice's Court the 11th of this Inst. December, for saying that one Widow BURNS has had the Pox, and that I could prove it; which was proved, as shall appear by the Records of said Court, yet said Widow continues to say that she has not had it, and to insinuate into People's minds that the Court and evidences had stopped aside from a Line of their Duty: Therefore, it is hoped that the Public will not pay regard to her words relative thereto. his JONATHAN x HARDY. Mark
ALL Persons are cautioned against purchasing a NOTE of hand Mr. Joseph Drew of Dover has unfairly obtained against me—The Note was given sometime last month, for £.100 L. M. payable to said Drew or Order, on demand, without any legal consideration and disposed upon certain conditions, in the hands of a third person, from whence said Drew obtained it. JAMES TUTTLE. Dover, December 28, 1778.
Portsmouth, Printed by D. FOWLE.
MARK LORD,
Acquaints his Customers and others, that he has lately received, and has for sale at his Shop in Portsmouth on Spring Hill, A fresh Assortment of ENGLISH GOODS— Among which are the following, viz. BROAD CLOTHS, Serges, Beaver Coating, Baizes, Serge de nim, Everlasting; black, blue, scarlet and crimson Droyboy; brown, blue and red Shalloons; Velvet, Hairbines, cross-bar'd Stuffs, plain and striped Callamancoes, Cotton Checks: Also, Brandy, Rum, Sugar, Tea; Coperas, Allum, Otter;—and a Number of other Articles, too tedious to mention.
TO BE SOLD, By Monsieur MENDEZ, At the Warehouse of Captain George Wentworth, near Liberty Bridge, Choice French and Lisbon Salt. Portsmouth, December 21, 1772.
State of New Hampshire, County of Hillsborough NOTICE is hereby given to the owners of Non-Resident Lands, in the Town of Weare, in said State, to pay their Tax assessed on said Lands for the year 1777, to me within 8 weeks from this date or their Land will be advertised for Sale.
   Proprietor £ s. d.    Jonathan Steward 8 10 Jeremi  Timothy Walker  Thomas Boyd  Henry Thresher 5 10 Walter  Timothy Fuller 8 7 Theophi.  William Prescott 5 3 Rev. Mr. Fogg  Timbelfon Mason 2 3 James Prescott  Caleb Bennet 1 6 Joseph Prescott  George Hull 3 4 Ebenezer Flagg  Jonathan Swann 9 0 Edward Gove  Abner Sanborn 14 0 Elisha Prescott  John Chapman 12 11 Reuben Sanborn  Jeremiah Parsons 8 11 Col. Hall  Jacob Brown 8 10 M. H. Wentworth    SAMUEL BAILEY Constable. Weare, December 11th, 1778.
NOTICE is hereby given to the nonresident Owners of Lands in the Town of Packersfield, in the County of Cheshire, and State of New Hampshire, that said Land is taxed agreeable to Order of Court, and the Owners Land in the North half of said Town, are required to pay their Taxes to me the Subscriber in Packersfield within eight Weeks, or their Land will be offered for Sale in the Law directed. The Names of the Delinquents, and the Sums due are as follows: the half North West Quarter, supposed to be owned by Thomas Packer.
   Proprietor £ s. d. No. R. L.    Martin Laurence 13 2 2 in 3 5  Abraham Sheldon 6 6 1 in 2 5  Widow Bigelow 3 8 1 in 6 5  Jolhua Laurence 6 10 1 in 10 6  William Press 9 3    Abner Brown, Constable. Packersfield, December 17, 1778.
JAMES KELLY
OF Stratham has just opened a PUBLIC HOUSE for the ENTERTAINMENT of Strangers & all Gentlemen.—Also good Lodging and keeping for Horses, &c.—near Tripe Hill.
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.
WHEREAS some evil minded person, or persons, have sundry Times within a Month past came to the Wharfe of GEORGE BOYD, Esq. in this Town, cast off the Fastens from sundry Ships lying at said Wharfe, and carried them off.—I hereby offer the above Reward to any person who will detect or discover the Thief or Thieves, so that he or they may be convicted thereof and receive the punishment due to such atrocious Offenders. SUPPLY CLAR. Portsmouth, December 11th, 1778.
November last came to my Bur... in Exeter, a Red STEER, cropt in both Ears, combed... may have him again, by applying to Daniel Smith... Exeter, December 12, 1778.
of extraordinary cold Season... of Riders on the Continent for... forming their Stages as usual... of Intelligence, as was expected... Town set out for Boston last... Newbury Ferry till Thursday... return back again, as the Ferry... no passing.
mouth for that pur... who with to be... must apply... Month.
Notice... Class of the United States... who have not yeted... and who... immediately to call at the... Law Pounds of... to be sold by John...
THE FORUM... to be sold by John...

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. In the House of Representative Dec. 25. 1778.
T HE Committee from both Houses appointed to draw up and present a Resolve, explanatory of the Militia Act, concerning the several Companies choosing their own Officers—Reported, that a Resolve be drawn up and passed to the following purpose, viz. Whereas difficulties have arisen in some of the Militia Companies that chose their Officers by a Resolve of Provincial Congress of this State, previous to the Militia Act taking place, by reason of the Alarm List being excluded from said Choice, for remedy whereof, be it Resolved, and it is hereby resolved, that such Companies as chose their Officers, agreeable to the preamble of this Resolve, shall have Liberty to petition the Col. or commanding Officer of the Regiment to which said Company belongs, and upon the petitioning of a Major part of any aggrieved Company to the Col. or Commanding Officer of the Regiment to which they belong, the said Col. or Commanding Officer is hereby impowered to order a meeting of said Company, together with the alarm list (giving legal notice) & to attend with them, and see that they make a fair choice of one Captain, two Lieutenants, & one Ensign, and to certify the said choice to the President of the Council of this State, who is authorized to Commissionate them accordingly, which is humbly submitted; signed Nicholas Gilman for the committee, which report being read and considered,—Voted that the same be received and accepted, and that the same be a Resolve of this House, Sent up for Concurrence.
JOHN LANGDON , Speaker. In Council the same day read & concurred, M. WEARE President.
***** State of NEW HAMPSHIRE. T HE nonresident Proprietors and Owners of Lands in each and every of the following Towns in the State of New Hampshire, viz. — New Britain, Amherst, Barnstead, the Gore adjoining New Durham, Sandborntown, Perrystown, Deering, New Boston, Sandwich, Jaffrey, Cockermouth, Epsom, Wolfborough, Packersfield, Loudon, Dublin, Marlborough, Hillsborough, Lyndesborough, New Chester, Peterborough Slip, Henniker, Surry, Unity, Dunbarton, Mason, Stoddard, Nottingham, Francestown, Washington, Bedford, Salisbury, Conway, Derryfield and Middletown , are hereby Notified, that their Lands in said Towns are taxed for the Year 1778, that the Taxes which remain unpaid (with Charges) must be paid the Subscriber, or to the several Collectors said Towns, within eight Weeks from first Publication of this Advertisement, so much of their Lands will be Notified sale as will pay and discharge the same. JOHN TAYLOR GILMAN , Receiver of Non Residents Taxes.
Exeter, January 9th, 1779.
***** PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 30. By Capt. Robinson, from Porto Rico, we learn, that the Glasgow , a 20 gun ship, belonging to the King of Britain, was taken, in sight of Porto Rico, by a French Frigate. The Capt. & several men were killed on board the Glasgow . On the 2d of this month, Capt. Stephens, in a privateer of this port, fell in with the privateer True Friend , Capt. Scou, of New York, and after a pretty severe action, in which Capt. Scou was killed, and 3 or four of his people wounded, she struck and was carried into Egg Island.
§ Percy. §
State of New Hampshire. W HEREAS Application has been made to me by the Subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace for the county of Rockingham, in the State aforesaid, by the proprietors, owners of more than one sixteenth part of the rights of land in the Township of Percy , to notify and call a meeting of the proprietors of said Township, to be held at the house of Mrs. Tilton, innholder in Portsmouth, on Wednesday the 17th day of February next, at 10 o'clock A. M. to act on the following particulars, viz.
 1. To choose a moderator, proprietors clerk, collector, assessors, and treasurer.  2. To choose a committee for the purpose of laying out, cutting, clearing and bridging a road through said Percy and Northumberland to Connecticut River.  3. To appoint a committee to lay out one hundred 100 acre lots, and to survey the meadow or intervale land, on Ammonoosuck River, running through the town, and to receive the report of the committee heretofore appointed to put on settlers, and what number may be on.  4. To choose a committee to build a saw and grist mill, & agree with proper persons for doing the same.  5. To vote on each right such sums of money as may be necessary for the above purposes and do whatever may be thought proper to forward the settlement of said Township.  6. To agree on a method for calling proprietors meetings in future. 
The proprietors are desired punctually to attend. In pursuance of which Application, I do hereby notify and warn the proprietors of Percy to meet at the time and place for the purposes aforesaid. HUNKING WENTWORTH , Just. Peace. Portsmouth, January 14. 1779.
‡ Northumberland. ‡
T HE proprietors of Northumberland, are hereby notified to meet at Mrs. Tilton's Tavern in Portsmouth, on Wednesday the 17th day of February next, at three o'clock P. M. for the purposes heretofore advertised; also, to know if they will sell any Land for the discharging some demands on said proprietors. J. TRADWELL , Clerk pro tem. Portsmouth, Jan. 15. 1779.
§ Dunbarton. §
State of New Hampshire, Hillsborough, ff. W HEREAS the nonresident proprietors of the following lots of land in Dunbarton, have been publickly notified, that said lots were taxed the following sums for the year 1777, and the payment thereof is neglected, this is therefore to notify such delinquent proprietors and others, that so much of said lots will be sold at public vendue, at the house of Israel Clifford, innholder in said Dunbarton, on the second Tuesday in February next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, as will pay the respective taxes with incidental charges.
   Original proprietors Names Lot Range Tax.    William Stark 7 1 9 9  Cunningham & Stark 6 1 4 11 north side  John Ramsay 9 5 9 9  Wibird and Stark 5 5 9 9  Adam Dickey 4 5 7 0 north side  Scovey and Ramsay 5 6 4 11 south side  Fulton & Varnum 1 7 9 9  E. lot 2 7 4 11 south side  Noah Emery, Esq; 6 7 9 9  Cochran 2 8 4 11 south side  James Mc Gregore 2 9 9 9  Hunking Wentworth 3 9 9 9  John Wentworth 3 13 9 9  Capt. Todd 1 14 9 9  John Moffat 6 2 9 9  John Moffat 8 1 4 11 south side  Matthew Morton 3 10 9 9    James Mc Callie, Constable of Dunbarton Dunbarton, Jan. 8, 1779. for the Year 1777.
§ Grafton. §
State of New Hampshire, Grafton, Dec. 10, 1778. P URSUANT to a Vote of the Proprietors of said Grafton, that at the Request of the Owner or Owners of a sixteenth part of said proprietors, that the meetings of the proprietors should be warned for the future; this is therefore to notify and warn the proprietors of the township of Grafton , in the county of Grafton , and state aforesaid, to meet in proprietors meeting at the dwelling house of Seth Martin, in said Grafton , on Monday the 25th day of January next, after the date, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, then and there to act upon the following articles, viz. 1. To chuse a moderator to govern said meeting. 2. To see whether said proprietors will raise a sum of money to defray charges of proprietors. 3. To see whether said proprietors will chuse a committee to lay out the undivided land in the town, and rectify mistakes in the ranges already run. 4. To act upon any thing that the proprietors think proper. Russell Mason , Proprietors Clerk
State of New Hampshire, Rockingham, ff. To all whom it may concern.
N OTICE is hereby given, That a LIBEL is filed before me, in Behalf of Thomas Manning, Commander, of the private armed Ship General SULLIVAN , and all concerned therein, against the Ship Mary , of the Burthen of one hundred and thirty Tons, William Morwick, late Master; which Vessel, her Cargo and Appurtenances, so libelled, is said to have been taken, and brought into the Port of Piscataqua, in the State aforesaid. And for the Trial of the Justice of said Capture, a Maritime Court for said State, will be held at the Court House in Portsmouth on Tuesday the 26th Day of this Instant January, when and where the Owners of the said Capture, or any concerned therein, may appear and shew Cause (if any they have) why the same should not be condemned. J. BRACKETT , Judge of said Court. Portsmouth, Jan. 8th, 1779.
The original Grantees of Relhan,
and the present Owners, from or under the said original Grantees, and all that hold any Right or Interest in or under the Proprietary of Relhan , are once more earnestly requested to pay or cause to be paid up, within three Months from the Date hereof, to me the subscriber, living at Portsmouth, or to Capt. — Hovey living in said Relhan , who are chosen assistant Collectors with Daniel Fowle, the whole Amount of the five delinquent Taxes, levied by the proprietors of Relhan , on every original Right in said Town, which are as follows, to wit. 1st Tax / 1 10 0 — 2d Tax / 1 1 10 0 — 3d Tax / 1 0 18 0 — 4th / 2 2 0 — 5th Tax / 1 0 9 0 and all Receipts for the payment of any or either of said Taxes, from any former Collector or Collectors, are desired to be produced, and will be received as payment for such sums as they contain; if payment is not made agreeable to this Requisition, so much of every delinquent's Right or Lot will be exposed to sale, as will be sufficient to pay the Taxes thereon, agreeable to the Laws in such cases provided. The proprietors are more importantly requested to pay up the delinquent Taxes at this period as it will strengthen the just Endeavours of the proprietors, and fix them upon a certain and rightful Basis, which the Efforts of the designing will be unable to remove. OLIVER WHIPPLE , Collector. Portsmouth, Jan. 1. 1779.
§ New-Durham §
T HIS is to notify the nonresident proprietors and others owning Lands in New Durham , to pay their taxes to me the subscriber, Constable at New Durham as is set forth in this aff. within eight weeks from this date, or so much of their land will be advertised for sale at public vendue as will pay said tax with incidental charges; said tax being for the year 1777, is as follows: The original proprietors names and the lots numbered are as follows.
   N. 1. d.    Nathaniel Frost &  John Johnson 23 10 10  Samuel Chesse 15 19 2  Thomas Wille, jr. 70 8 4  Thomas Packer, Esq 72 19 2  Joseph Siss 80 19 2  Miles Randal 85 19 2  Joseph Runals 81 19 2  Samuel Solley and  Clement March 86 19 2  Nicholas Pereman 2 10 10  John and  Frances Durgan 17 10 10  John Bickford 65 10 10  John Footman and  Thomas Stevenson 67 4 2  John and  H. Wentworth 78 10 10  Simon Randal 57 10 10  Joseph Weeks 50 5 5  Eliphalet Daniels 38 10 10  Col. Wallingsford 60 10 10  Joseph Smith, jr. 34 10 10  Daniel Rogers 24 10 10    James Palmer, Constable. New Durham, Jan. 1, 1779
 November last came to my Barn in Exeter, a Red STEER, cropped in both Ears, coming in Three. The right Owner, paying the Charges, may have him again, by applying to Daniel Smith of Exeter. December 12, 1778.
The Creditors to the Estate of
Samuel Griffith , deceas'd, who have not received their proportion, are desired to apply to Joseph Bass , Administrator to said Estate. Portsmouth, Jan. 11, 1779.

FISH-KILL, January 7 th
From a gentleman from Staten Island, we are informed, that thirty thousand tons of shipping had been suddenly taken up in New York, for government service, and that a general embargo is laid.
From Philadelphia we learn, that Gen. Lee, and Col. Laurens had fought a duel; General Lee received his antagonist's shot through the body; but it's tho' the wound is not mortal.
In the course of last month, thirty deserters from the enemy had come to Gen. M c Dougall's head quarters at Peck's Kill, exclusive of those who have gone to the posts on the Sound, and other places. They report that the British army have plenty of provisions, flour excepted.
BOSTON, Jan. 14.
The saturday after the late storm, Captain John Decker, in attempting to make this port, from Sheepscut, in a sloop, laden with lumber, &c. was cast away on the race point of Cape Cod, when he, with most of his hands perished. It is very remarkable, that that day seven years, his Father, Capt. John Decker, was also cast away on the same point, and every soul then on board perished.
A Schooner belonging to Mr. Abel Wood, which came out with Capt. Decker, after the above storm, has, we are told, foundered at sea; and every person on board, it is feared, has shared the fate of a watery grave.
Last Thursday arrived here from New York, but last from New London, Capt. Burke, who was sent by the Navy board in a flag of, as also Capt. Greely of this state, in another flag to New York. The former was in a Schooner, and brought 67 of our prisoners, the latter had a snow, and brought upwards of 200 to New-London. The weak, sickly and miserable condition in which these unfortunate men are returned, confirms all that has been said of the inhumanity with which the Britons have treated their prisoners.
Our last accounts from New York mention, that the Bedford, of 64 guns, and the Monmouth, of 74 lay there dismasted, and no masts to be had proper for repairing 'em. That the Unicorn's main mast and mizzen mast were so damaged in her engagement with the Rawleigh, as to be rendered useless, and were supplied with the masts of a transport: That the Rawleigh had been taken into commission on the British establishment, but no sailors could be procured to man her; so that she was to be employed as a transport.--- That five guineas per month were offered to sailors for merchantmen.--- That there were few British troops at New York, and not many foreign ones: That almost all the cannon had been taken from the forts, and embarked: That few transports were to be found there: The Tories buying up shipping at an high rate: That no prisoners were left and the prison ship taken up as transports.
To the Printer,
The following Lines were lately written by a Prisoner in the Provost at Newport. Please to publish them, if you think them worthy of a Place in your Gazette. I. H.
Within these Walls fair freedom's Sons (immur'd, Have Want, Distress and Insult, long (endur'd. Yet undismay'd, determin'd to the End Their bleeding Country's Honor to defend: They curse the Tyrant, and deride his Pow'r, Who meant their Land by Locusts to devour, Punish their Rights, & riot on their Spoil, Degrade their Senators, their Wives defile, Shake down the Bulwark of their honest Fame, And drink the Essence of their very Name; Laugh at the Idiot's threat, tho' ermin'd o'er,
To dye their happy Fields with crimson Gore, Consume their Dwellings, crush their floating (Trade, Entomb their Liberties, and damn their America, resolved to be free, (Shade. Spurns at the Wretch, and kens his Destiny. From the LONDON GAZETTEER. A Dialogue between a Country Squire and his Tenant.
Tenant. PRay, Squire, when do you think the war will end?
Squire. At Doomsday, perhaps sooner: but this is certain, the nation is almost ruin'd, and we country gentlemen are the greatest sufferers.
Tenant. How can it be helped? for they say if we don't destroy the rebels, they'll destroy us, and that would be worse still.
Squire. We may, and shall ruin ourselves. The Rebels, as you call them, need not be at that trouble; & it is in vain, you see, for us to try to conquer them; they are too strong and determined never to be subdued, I have told our wise rulers as much at St. Stephen's: but they don't mind any but their places; and tho' they lose game after game, doubling it each time, they won't give up, as they say they shall win at last.
Tenant. So say all Gamblers; but, Sir, it is not our money they are playing with? If so, we are the losers; and if we win, how are we to gain our reckoning from these same rebels, who, I warrant you, have nothing to pay withal?
Squire. Very true; and this is what puz- zles our wiseacres, and makes them the scoff of those whose fortunes and friends are en- gaged in this fruitless business, and the few who are now winners, it is to be hoped, will one day pay the reckoning.
Tenant. Amen!—with all my heart.
Squire. Will you enlist for a soldier, and fight against the rebels?
Tenant. Not I, truly; I will not invade another's property, as I should be loth to be disturbed in my own, and would oppose not assist any lawless invaders.
BON MOT.
THE Bench of Justices being suspected, during the late æra of city patriotism, to have denied licences to every publican who had the portrait of Wilkes for his sign; an ignorant fellow, who apprehended he might be a sufferer on this occasion, and wanted to renew his licence, addressed the Bench as fol- lows: "If so be as how I have hung up master Wilkes for a sign, why I did that there by way of hanging him up in effigy, to shew my principles; but if I have given offence to any of this here worshipful company. I am ready to pull it down, and bang up the whole Bench of Justices in his stead."
State of New-Hampshire.
In the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Nov. 11, 1778. WHEREAS this STATE cannot be supplied with a sufficient Quantity of PAPER for its own Consumption, without the particular Care of its Inha- bitants in saving of Rags for the Paper-Mill, —
Therefore Resolved, that the selectmen, committees of safety of the several towns and places in this state, be, and hereby are required immediately to appoint some suitable person in their respective towns and places where it is not already done) to receive Rags for the paper-mill, under direction of Richard Jourdan of Ex- eter, who is to pay for the same; and the inhabitants of this state are hereby desired to be very careful in saving even the smallest quantity of Rags proper for making paper, which will be a further evidence of their disposition to promote the publick good.
Sent up for Concurrence, JOHN LANGDON, Speaker. In Council the same Day, read and concurred, E. THOMPSON, Secretary.
Directions to Collectors— For clean Cotton, and Cotton and Linnen Rags six pence per pound.— For coarse Rags made of Flax, Cotton or Hemp, 4 d . Twenty per cent commissions to collectors, and all reasonable charges of importation to said Mill.
R. Jordan.
On Thursday January 28 th ,
Instant will be sold at Publick Vendue, on the Wharf of Captain W. PEARNE, in Portsmouth, the
Prize-Ship MARY,
Of about 170 Tons, with her Stores; also Four pair of double fortified Four-pound CANNON, nine Casks of Essence of Spruce, Four hundred Weight of BEAVER, in small parcels, a few Barrels Irish BEEF, OATS, &c.
Inventory of Ship's Stores, to be seen, at, or any Time before the Sales, by applying to JOHN PARKER, Sheriff.
All Persons that have Demands
On the Estate of Tilly Higgins, late of Berwick, in the county of York, deceas'd, are desire'd to call on John Hig- gins of said Berwick Executor to said Estate, and receive their several Demands; and all others, who have Ac- counts open with said Estate, are requested to adjust the same immediately. January 16, 1779
To be sold at Publick Vendue
In Rochester, the 10 th Day of March next, at the House of Mr. Wentworth, Innholder in said Rochester,
An extraordinary Lot of Land
Lying in the second Division, No. —, containing near three hundred Acres. The Goodness of said Land is well known. A great Number of Persons have heretofore applied to purchase it, offering almost any Sum: And as the Possessor, for singular Reasons, hath refused disposing of said Land in Time past, he now determines to give all an equal Chance, being unwilling to oblige any, who heretofore applied for it. The most reasonable security will be taken; suf- ficient Time of payment allowed the person who may chance to buy it, and even the produce of the coun- try will be received in part payment, on Terms then and there agreed on. The Lot of Land mentioned for sale is in the Town of Rochester. Portsmouth, Jan. 18 th , 1779.
Wanted, a Man well acquainted
with Agriculture, and who can be recommended for his Honesty as well as Industry; to be hired by the Month or Year, and the most reasonable Encourage- ment will be given to any Person that may be willing to engage by the last of March or first of April next. For further particulars, enquire at the Printing Office in Portsmouth. Jan. 18, 1779.
All Persons that have Demands
or are Indebted to the Estate of Benjamin Colbath late of Durham, in the County of Strafford yeoman deceas'd are desired to settle the same with me the Subscriber Administrator of said Estate.
Winthrop Colbath, Administrator. Epping, Jan. 13 th , 1779.
The Proprietors of the Township
Of Britton Woods, at their meeting in February 1775, passed a vote, empowering their clerk to call all their future meetings by notification in the New- Hampshire Gazette, — the said clerk, agreeable to said vote, (and being also thereto required by the own- ers of more than one sixteenth part of said Township) hereby notifies the proprietors of said Britton Woods, to meet at the Printing Office of Daniel Fowle Esq; in Portsmouth on Wednesday the third Day of Febru- ary next, at 5 o'Clock P. M. for the following purpose, viz.
1 st . To chuse a moderator to govern said meeting. 2 dly . To consider of all former votes, and deter- mine of such as are not already complied with, shall be now be put into Execution. 3 dly . To vote such sums as may be necessary for defraying the charges of making roads, and all o- ther improvements of the propriety. 4 thly . To determine on what terms they will ad- mit settlers. 5 thly . To transact any other matters not here par- ticularly mentioned, which by the proprietors then met shall be tho't conducive to the general good of the proprietary.
J. WHIPPLE, proprietor clerk. Portsmouth January 13 1779.
All Persons are cautioned against purchasing a NOTE of hand Mr. Joseph Drew of Dover has unfairly obtained against me—The Note was given sometime last month, for £100 L. M. payable to said Drew or Order, on demand, without any legal consideration and disposed upon certain conditions, in the hands of a third person, from whence said Drew obtained it. JAMES TUTTLE.
Dover, December 26, 1778.
The Sale of Lands in Barnstead
Will be put off to Wednesday the 17 th of February next, though the proprietors are desired to meet at Samuel Pickering's at the Time before appointed.
CURRANTS of the best quality, sold by BENJAMIN DEARBORN!