The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1772-05-15 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the Freshest ADVICES
Friday May 15, 1772.
GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
NO. 812 } Weeks since this Paper } was first Publish'd.
An Extract of an Act for the better Observation and keeping the LORD's-DAY.
WHEREAS by the good and wholesome LAWS of this Province, for the better Observation of the Lord's-Day, all Persons whatsoever, are commanded to attend and carefully to apply themselves to the Duties of Religion and Piety, both publickly and privately, on said Days: Also all Traders, Shopkeepers or Tradesmen, are hereby forbidden to keep open Shops the Evening preceding the Lord's-Day, or any Part of said Day, or Evening following; and all Persons are strictly required to be obedient to this Law, upon Pain of forfeiting the Sum of Five Shillings for every Offence; and the Constables and Tything Men of the Town of Portsmouth, are hereby required to use their utmost Endeavors to carry this Law into Execution, as they will answer the contrary at their Peril.
The foregoing LAW is published by Order of the Select Men.
John Mc Masters
And Company gives Notice,
That they have removed from Col. Wallingsford's, to Mr. David Moore's Store, North-End,
Where they have opened
A good Assortment of GOODS, suitable for the Season, lately imported from Great-Britain and Ireland,
Among which are, Broad Cloths of different Prizes; A great Variety of RIBBONS, Irish Linnens of all Prizes, Shalloons, Tammies and Callamancoes, Oznabrigs, English and Ravens Duck, Cordage.
Also, Two ANCHORS, between 6 and 700 wt. each.
And as they always make it a general Rule, to sell low for Cash or short Credit, in order to give Encouragement to their Customers in Town and Country, so in favoring them with further Custom, they may depend on being as well used as they could be at any Warehouse in BOSTON.
Edward Hackett,
From Europe,
BEGS leave to acquaint the Gentlemen and Ladies, That at the Request of many of the Principal Inhabitants of the Town, he shall on Thursday next open a
Dancing-School,
At the New Assembly House, in Portsmouth, where he will Teach Dancing in the politeest Manner, for the low Price of Four Dollars per Quarter, half to be paid at Entrance — Those who send their Children, may depend that great Care will be taken of their Education, and good Order observed. — The Times proposed for public Schools are Thursdays in the Afternoon, and Fridays in the Forenoon. He will wait on any Gentlemen or Ladies, either at the Assembly House, or their own Houses, at such Hours, as may be agreed on. Said Hackett, has taught Dancing in many of the principal Towns in England, Ireland, and America. He will only be in Town on Thursdays and Fridays, the remainder of his Time being taken up at Newbury, &c.
where he likewise keeps a School on Mondays and Wednesdays.
Portsmouth, May 8th, 1772.
PHILADELPHIA, April 27.
On Saturday Morning, about 8 o'clock, there was a small Shock of an Earthquake in this City. It was felt at the same time in the Town of Darby (seven miles from hence) as also in several other places in the neighbourhood of this City.
Capt. Falconer from London, on the 15th Instant in lat. 35 : 50, long. 66, spoke a ship, but could not learn the master's name, from Surinam for Boston, who had lost his main and mizen-mast in a gale of wind.
Capt. Dorrel from Bermuda, informs us, That about the 27th ult. a fishing boat belonging to that Island, spoke with Captain Ingraham, in a Schooner from New-England for Dominica, that had lost her masts, and every thing off her deck; that Captain Ingraham endeavoured to get into the Island, but could not effect it, therefore stood for his destined port.
Captain William Woolcot and his People, of the Brig Supply, belonging to Piscataqua, which foundered at Sea, in her Voyage from Barbados to Capt Fear, were taken up and brought in here by Captain Powell.
We hear from Maryland, that a large Schooner going up Patowmack River, was overset, and two of the People drowned.
Capt. Russell, from the Grenades, took up two Men in a boat, belonging to a French sloop from Guadaloupe for St. Eustatia, which overset by a squall of wind: There were eight men on board said sloop, of whom six were drowned. The above two men had been four days in the boat when Captain Russell met them; and he put them ashore at St. Thomas's.
Captain Foster, from Halifax, on the 7th inst. in lat. 35 : 47, long. 73 : 25, spoke a sloop, Captain Ross, from Jamaica for Virginia, out 75 days; they were in great distress, having had none but rain water for three weeks, nor any provisions whatever on board; and to such an extremity were they reduced, that the day Capt. Foster spoke them, they had killed a cat for their subsistence: Capt. Foster supplied them with provisions, — And on the 15th, in lat. 37 : 11, long. 57 : 20, spoke a sloop from Whaling for New-York, out five months.
N E W - Y O R K April 30.
Tuesday last his Majesty's 26th Regiment of Foot was reviewed by his Excellency General GAGE: The Officers and Soldiers made an elegant appearance and went thro' the Exercise, and a variety of evolutions with the utmost exactness. We hear that the above Regiment is to go to Montreal in about a fortnight.
By a Letter from South-Carolina, we learn, That a violent Gale of Wind happened at Madeira, the 29th of January last, which drove all the Vessels then in the Harbour out to Sea, some with the Loss of their Anchors and Cables, others without Boats, &c. among the Number was a Schooner from Marblehead, that was overset & part of the Crew drowned; those that were saved were taken off the Masts, after being Eighteen Hours in the Water.
A Letter from Perth-Amboy, New-Jersey, April 17.
“ At our last Supreme Court was tried the famous Cause, Price, v. s. Joever, — The Plaintiff brought her Action for non-performance of a Promise, made in the Life-Time of the Defendant's first Wife, of Marriage, provided the Plaintiff would live single, till his then Wife should die. After a tedious trial of three Days, the Jury went out, and soon returned with a Verdict for the Plaintiff, and Three-Hundred Pounds Proclamation Money, Damages.
In the Course of the Trial, a great Number of Letters written by the Plaintiff to the Defendant, were read, which afforded much diversion to a numerous Assembly. The Letters are so very extraordinary, that 200l. New-York Money, has been offered the Lady for the Copy Right of them.
B O S T O N, May 7.
His Excellency the Captain-General has been pleased to commissionate John Hancock, Esq; to be Captain of the Company of Cadets, with the Rank of Colonel.
The Company having desired that the Arms of the Governor's Family might be the distinguishing Device or Mark of their Colours, His Excellency has given Orders to prepare the same accordingly.
Last Monday the ancient and honorable Artillery Company appeared with an addition to their Colours of the King's Arms, decorated with military Trophies, &c.
We hear the Rev'd Mr. BENJAMIN STEVENS, of Kittery is to preach the Dudleian Lecture at Harvard-College on Wednesday next at Two o'clock Afternoon. The Subject, Revealed Religion.
At Northington in Farmington, Connecticut, the Wife of Capt. Jonathan Miller, and the Wife and Child of his Son Mr. Elisha Miller of that Place, died of the malignant Plurisee, and were all buried in one Grave.
BRIDGWATER, May 1, 1772.
Last Tuesday an Oak Tree of 18 Inches Diameter, standing a few Rods from the House of Capt. Joseph Gannett, was struck with Lightning; which, from the Effects, is supposed to have entered the uppermost Part of the Trunk, about 15 Feet from the Ground & striking off the Top of the Tree which consisted of three Branches, pierced downward into the Root, shivered the Body into numberless Pieces, and scattered them all around, to the Distance of 14 Rods, when the Branches fell, with all their Tops inclining to the Root. At the Time it was struck, Captain Gannett was walking at about 20 Feet Distance from it, and was considerably affected by the Lightning, and much wounded in his Arm and Leg by some Pieces of the Tree. — His Son standing just without the Door of the House, was struck to the Ground, and rendered senseless: By bleeding he revived, but remains weak and languid.
A Quantity of Granada RUM
and some Coffee just Imported and to be SOLD BY
John Evans,
At his Store on Capt. Janvrins Wharf. Portsmouth April 20th 1772.

B O S T O N, May 9. Last Friday the Captains Delano and Pease arrived at Boston from London, by whom we have the following fresh Advices viz.
H A M B U R G H, March 5.
THE 25th ult. Count Stuenlee had his third examination.-----We are assured that the questions to be put to him are in number 630, and that in his three examinations he had not given answers to above 200. The same day his horses, together with those of Count Brandt (which are mostly English ones, and excellent in their kind) were sold by auction. This gives reason to think that the fate of these two noblemen is fixed; and there are some who say that an Ecclesiastical had been admitted to visit the later.
HAGUE, March 9. A long letter from Copenhagen has been published here, by seeming authority, which contradicts, in a great measure, the accounts already given of the Revolutions there. It accuses M. Stuenlee as the author of certain projects, which were to the liking of the King, but that they all tended to aggrandize himself; and concludes with asserting, that Prince Frederick, the King's brother, is not Prime Minister, that he is no way ambitious of such title; and that his august mother has an innumerable train of witnesses and admirers of her conduct in this affair, to prove her guiltless of the base charges brought against her.
WARSAW, February 23. Captain Wrangel is arrived here this moment, with advice that the preliminaries of peace between Russia and the Porte had just been settled and signed at the army of Count Romazow by that General and a Minister plenipotentiary from the Grand Signior, both duly authorized for that purpose by their respective courts; and that afterwards the Ottoman minister had dispatched couriers to all the courts in friendship with the Porte to inform them of this event.
WARSAW, March 4. The important news of signing the preliminaries of peace between Russia and the Porte is fully confirmed. We do not yet know the particulars, only that they are entirely to the satisfaction of the Empress of Russia, and were signed through the mediation of the court of Vienna. The ratification will take place at the next congress, but it is not yet known where it will be held.
L O N D O N, March 10.
Yesterday arrived a mail from New-York, brought by the Halifax-Packet-boat, Captain Boulter, to Falmouth in 25 days.
March 13. The Royal Marriage Bill, says a correspondent, is justly looked on to be a most egregious step to despotism.
The tea bill has passed both houses, and now lies for the royal assent.
The whole money subscribed at the Chapter Coffee-House, for lowering the price of provisions, amounted on Thursday morning to 1530l. 15s.
It is privately whispered that the Queen of Denmark's head was struck off the 27th of last month.
March 14. Some private and interesting intelligence was received on Thursday about one o'clock from Gibraltar, which was sent immediately to his Majesty at St. James's.
Lord Bute seems now again to come into play, as continual messages are passing and repassing from him to Lord North, particularly since the marriage bill has been in agitation, so that there is no doubt but that his influence, though more secret, is still as powerful as ever.
The Patriots seem all in a decline, owing, it is imagined, to a consumption, occasioned by the prospect of a removal of the Ministry being so very remote.
As soon as the Duke of Cumberland found that what he desired as to himself, "I hope you won't hurt me," was agreed to, he gave up all opposition, and has made his Children, and should his present Duchess die, himself too, Slaves to his Brother in the most important article of life.
The livery of London are so thoroughly convinced of the arbitrary spirit of the royal marriage bill, and the civil discord it is big with, that they would petition the crown against it, but the court locum tenens in the city is afraid of seeing them together, and therefore still continues (by the instigation of Mr. Harley) to refuse a Common Hall.
A correspondent has sent us the following as a proper title to an act at present much agitated: An act for the better encouraging adultery and fornication, to prevent the commission of the grievous sin of matrimony by any of the young branches of the Royal Family, and for many other such good and laudable purposes.
It seems very evident by the preamble to the Bill for regulating the marriages of the Royal Family, that the plain intention of such Bill is to annul and set aside the marriage of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland; for according to that preamble, which is directly contrary to the opinions of the Judges, no marriage of the Royal Family can be valid without the consent of the crown. The clear and manifest consequence of which is, that the Duke of Cumberland's marriage as it was solemnized without such consent must be void. This may be Common Law, but this is not the Law of the Land. No human Law that contradicts and renders void the Law of GOD, can be valid. The Duke of Cumberland's marriage is consonant to the Divine Law, and according to the opinion of the Judges; consonant also to the Law of this Nation.----Will the parliament then set aside a marriage that was solemnized according to the Law of both God and Man? Justice and Honor protest against it. For if Bills ex post facto , and declarative of such latent Rights in the Crown, as are contrary to the known and common Law of the Land, shall pass, no person will have any Thing he can call his own. Prerogative will swallow up Law.
Wednesday night at a Meeting of the society of arts, manufactures and commerce, in the Strand, it was agreed to give a premium of thirty guineas as an encouragement to the planter of the greatest number of vines in America, and to the persons who produced the greatest quantities of Annato and Zebra wood in any of the British colonies.
Yesterday a motion was made in the House of Commons by Mr. Alderman Harley, for leave to bring in a bill to reduce the high price of provisions, and the same was ordered accordingly.
March 16. We hear that the shipwrights in the several dock-yards are now busier than at any time in the late war! and express are continually arriving at one or other of them from the admiralty. It is not even conjectured what the reason of this extraordinary expedition is.
We are informed, that soon after this session of parliament, Lord North is to retire with a pension, not inferior to that of Lord Chatham, as a small mark of royal favour for his many great services, but particularly for his unwearied industry about the royal marriage bill.
March 17. The House of Commons continued sitting at eight o'clock last Night, in great Debates on the royal Marriage Bill.
An Alteration will shortly take Place in one of the principal Departments of State.
It is reported that yesterday Morning a Messenger arrived from Denmark with the agreeable News of the Queen being tried, and that noising criminal being proved, she was honourably acquitted.
Arrived at Plymouth, the Bill of Rights, Lee from Piscataqua.
The Report of the Queen of Denmark's Death, we are all well informed is void of Truth: The Proceedings against her are carried on with the greatest Caution, and she has every Indulgence that can be allowed a State Prisoner, and one of her Birth; Colonel Keith, it is said, has been sent for several Times by some of the Senators appointed to enquire into this Affair, and great Deference is paid to whatever he advances; and it is therefore imagined that Proceedings will soon be stopped, and none be made acquainted with particular Circumstance, except his Majesty of Great-Britain, and the Punishment intended for this Princess will be submitted to his Opinion.
March 11. The Ministry have received certain Advices of some dangerous Designs hatching by the Spanish Court against Jamaica and some other Places in the West-Indies.
We are assured that Sir Piercy Brett, Vice-Admiral of the Blue will very shortly appear to the Command of a Squadron, on an important Expedition.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Lincoln, is we are informed, to go to Copenhagen to fetch the Queen of Denmark.
Yesterday after breaking up the Levee at St. James's Sir Edward Hawke, who was at Court, had the Honour of a Conference with his Majesty; and it is said, Sir Piercy Brett, will command the Squadron to be fitted out on an important Expedition.
The Cadets at Woolwich are soon to be increased from 43 to 100 men as a Time of War.
March 20. The Annuity of 1000l. per annum which a Society of Gentlemen who meet at the Globe Tavern in Fleet-Street, have resolved to settle to Mr. Wilkes, is to be raised in the following Manner:---500 Members to subscribe 4l. a Year each, of which one to be paid by each every Quarter---by which they will be able to pay 500l. every Quarter to Mr. Wilkes.
The Duke of Alcafter and the Earl of Holderness are much displeased that the vacant blue Ribbon is given to Lord North in preference to either of them.
Last Sunday afternoon the Lightning struck Mr. Whitefield's Chapel in Tottenham-Court, and killed one Man; it is remarkable that the other Persons therein escaped unhurt.
An Event has happened within these few Days which is likely to be productive of a War. Certain Advices have been received by our Court, that the French are embarking ten Thousand Troops for the East Indies. Lord Rochford immediately waited on the French Ambassador, who declared that the above-mentioned ten Thousand Troops were only intended to relieve the Number now in the Islands of Mauritius and Bourbon. This Answer not being satisfactory, a Courier was immediately dispatched to Versailles, with a strong and very spirited Remonstrance. Some of the Troops, however, are failed; and it is supposed that a great Fleet will be immediately ordered to the East-Indies to watch the Motions of the French.
On the 25th of March the Bill for better regulating the Marriages of the Royal Family passed the House of Commons. [Great Opposition and warm Debates were made against it since it was first brought into the House.]---At 6 o'clock the House divided, when there appeared 168 for it, and 115 against it.
This Morning the Earl of Bute attended at the Queen's Palace, where he breakfasted, and afterwards had a long Conference with his Majesty.
Lord North has received the Blue Ribbon, vacant by the D. of Saxe-Gotha. His Majesty conferred it, without Solicitation. His Lordship is perhaps the third Garter; or even the second, if Sir John Falstaff was not a Member, who ever sat in the House of Commons.
Notwithstanding the Silence of all the other Papers, it may be depended upon as a Fact, that last Saturday Evening an Express arrived from Ireland, relating to the White Boys. The Messenger did not stay above two Hours when he returned with an Answer. The Purport of it is said to be, to put all the Ringleaders of the Mob to Death without Mercy. Persons of greater Consequence are supposed to be concerned in the late Rising of the white Boys than most People imagine.
From the frequent Couriers, that pass between the Courts of London, Madrid, Versailles, and the Hague, our Politicians prognosticate a fresh Rupture in Europe, and even the Peace lately concluded between the Russians and Turks is urged in Support of their Opinion, as if the Former was desirous of being at Leisure for a new Scene of Hostility.
N E W Y O R K, May 4.
Between 2 and 3 o'clock Yesterday Morning, a terrible Fire broke out in a small Building adjoining Mr. Hildreth's distill-House, the Flames soon communicated itself to the Distillery, in which there was a large Quantity of Rum, sugar and molasses, which burnt with great Fury; the Wind being at N. W. The Fire soon reached the wooden Buildings adjoining, and carried all before it to the Front of Water-Street; and notwithstanding the great Alertness of the Inhabitants, 9 dwelling-Houses, a Store and Chair-House, were reduced to Ashes, and several others damaged. Mr. Hildreth's Loss is computed at 1500l. The Houses burnt on the North Side of Water-Street, were improved by Mrs. Fieley Messrs. John Bennet, Alexander Montgomery, Wm. Irwin, John Freeborn, Pelatiah Haws, and Edward Reynolds.
His Excellency Governor Tryon has issued a Proclamation, promising his Majesty's Pardon to any of the Accomplices who will discover the Persons that on the 20th of April opened the Cellar of the Custom-House in this City, and feloniously took and carried away six Pipes of Wine then lately seized.---The Collector and Comptroller have also offered a Reward of £100 to any who will discover the Persons concerned in the above Felony.
B O S T O N, May 7.
Capt. Jabez Hatch is commissioned Captain-Lieutenant in Major Paddock's Boston artillery company, in the room of Capt. Lieut. Scollon, who has resigned.
Yesterday the freeholders and other inhabitants of this town met at Faneuil-Hall, for the choice of representatives.---The number of votes were 723.
Hon. Thomas Cushing, Esq; had 699 Votes, Mr. Samuel Adams, 505 Hon. John Hancock, Esq; 690 William Philips, Esq; 697 Mr. Henderson Inches 197
Whereupon the first four Gentlemen were declared elected. There has not been so many voters on such an occasion since the year 1766.
Last Sabbath about 10 o'clock, A. M. Miss Mary Benjamin of Concord, aged 22 Years, was suddenly struck down in a Fit, convulsed and foaming at the mouth: She continued with some intervals but with little or no sense till 5 o'clock, then departed in the bloom of life, full of strength, without, perhaps one thought of her danger till she awakened in eternity.---
Let our heedless, gay and inconsiderate youth pause a minute upon this alarm from heaven to them, lest they be obliged to think of it, when the most serious thoughts will avail them nothing. May 11.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman of public character in London, dated March 17, 1772.
"It is conjectured that the drawback upon Tea, will not be continued after the 5th of July next."
From the above, we may expect that the act laying a duty on Tea in the colonies, will be repealed the present session of parliament.
A paragraph in the London papers of March says, Lord North's situation grows more critical, as several of the country members who had voted with the ministry on the principals of supporting government, perceiving the dangerous tendency of the royal marriage bill, are falling off from him. Sawbridge renewed his motion for leave to bring a bill in favour of triennial parliaments, and spoke finely upon it. The desertion of our friends and utter extinction of opposition to tyranny and corruption seems to be affirmed with as little foundation on one side the water as the other. There will always be scoundrels who would supply enemies with warlike stores for a very small advance---there will be men who cannot realize the mischiefs a subversion of the constitution would involve us in, and others so mean as to conclude the cause is safe in the hands of those able and industrious patriots who have apparently devoted themselves to defend it, and therefore determine to enlarge their connections and enjoy the satisfaction which arises from a general friendship, or as it is commonly expressed, a standing fair with every one. But praise to the supreme director of all things, there will ever be men who feel the necessity of acting uprightly, and commanding honour, humanity and true patriotism, to the admiration of mankind, by their glorious examples and disinterested exertions to save a sleepy generation, nodding indeed on the brink of a gulph, whose hiatus is widening every moment!
Capt. Scot in the Ship Haley, fails for London To-morrow, in whom go Passengers the Lady of the Hon. John Temple, Esq; the youngest Son of his Excellency Governor Hutchinson, and several other Persons.
P O R T S M O U T H, May 15.
Last Monday Evening was Married by the Rev. Dr. HAVEN, Mr. HUGH HENDERSON, Merchant, to the agreeable Miss. HANNAH SHEAFE, Third Daughter of JACOB SHEAFE, Esq; of this Town.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, PISCATAQUA, MAY 14th, 1772.
Inward Entries. FROM Snow Friendship, Andrew McKenzie, South-Carolina. Sloop Elizabeth, Isaac Sherwood, New-York. Sloop Polly, William Noyes, Martinico. Sloop Molly, Moses Hale, Turks-Island. Schooner Wisnenog, Thomas Dalling, Antigua. Brig Nathaniel, Samuel Newhall, Guadaloup. Clear'd Outward, Schooner Dispatch, John Lawson, North Carolina. Schooner Endeavour, Richard York, West-Indies. Sloop Betsey and Polly, James Johnson, Ditto. Brig Abigail, John Wheelwright, Ditto. Brig Industry, Nathaniel Gidding, Ditto. Ship Industry, Shadrack Hodgdon, Ditto. Snow Isleworth, Joseph Row, LONDON. Snow Martlack, Thomas Jones, Ditto.
Province of New-Hampshire,
WHEREAS the Proprietors of a Tract of Land purchased of John Tufton Mason, Esq; Granted a Township called Alexandria, to a number of Persons, on certain conditions of Settlement, which terms have not been complied with, but a forfeiture incurred, and a Re-entry hath been made by the said Grantors: This is to forbid all Persons from making Settlement or Improvements in said Town, excepting such as have Liberty from Mr. Jonas Minot, who hath Power from the said Grantors to agree with Settlers under the above said Proprietors.
And whereas there were also three other Tracts of Land or Townships, Granted by the names of Parry's-Town, Dantzick, and Heidleborough by the above said Proprietors, on certain Conditions of Settlement, within a certain time Limited in the Grants of said Townships mention'd, which Time has been long since expir'd, and little or nothing done towards the Complying with the Conditions of said Grant, to the great Inconvenience and Damage of the Publick, as well as the Grantors, by which Neglect, a Forfeiture incurred, and the said Grantors have re-enter'd on the three Townships---These are to forewarn all Persons from trespassing or entering on said Township, without Agreement first made with said Grantors.
Portsmouth May 13th. 1772. By Desire of the Committee.
THEODORE ATKINSON.
THE CREDITORS of the Estate of Caleb Gilman, late of Exeter, in said County. Cordwainer, deceased Intestate represented Insolvent, are hereby Notified, that the Commissioners appointed to receive and examine their several Claims, will attend that Business at the Dwelling House of Samuel Folsom, Esq; in said Exeter, on the First Monday of the Six following Months, from 4 to 7 o'Clock, P. M. May 8th, NOAH EMERY, } Com. WILLIAM PARKER, } milliners.
HATTS of all Sorts, ready made, and to be Sold at the lowest Rate for Cash, by James Grouard, at his Shop opposite Dr. Langdon's Meeting-House.

GOODS very cheap,  Just Imported from LONDON,  By John Penhallow And TO BE SOLD At his STORE near the Reverend Doctor LANGDON'S Meeting-House, For ready Cash only, viz.
O Znabrigs, nutmegs, cinnamon, ivory combs of different prizes, crammers, ferrits, knee Garters, quart and pint black jacks, mackarel hooks, bait ditto, black, blue, green, pink, crimson and cloth color'd tammies; black and cloth color'd calamancoes; dorseteen, camblets of different prizes, strip'd ditto, montreal, poplins, crape, grazett, printed calicoes; purple and blue dark ground fine chinces; yard wide spotted handkerchiefs; diaper table cloths, brown holland, napkin, diaper, lawns, demy cambricks, sky blue and cloth color'd china tassies; color'd persians, lungee romalls, silk ditto, ginghams, irish linnens of different prizes; ell wide sheeting, blue and light color'd sewing silk, white and brown buckram, brown & black gimp and snail, scarlet and crimson dit. cover'd with wire; — pot paper, superfine fools-cap ditto, fatten & padusoy ribbons, sarsett, white thread lace, white trolly & blond ditto, white thread mitts for girls, womens ditto, plain black and white silk gloves, kilmarnock caps, single scarlet dit. boys worsted hose, girls blue clock'd dit. men's black worsted dit. fine dit. dit. grey, brown thread ditto, broom heads, painted hearth dit. necklaces of different kinds, viz. oval, round, french 2 rows, mock, garnett, chain and spreaders; Earrings of different kinds, viz. clump, single drops, french clump, half hunters and whole dit. bone table knives and forks, buck dit. penknives of different prizes; yellow buttons, razors, japand buckles, taylors shears, shoe knives, Mathewman's buttons, ivory memorandum books, sliding tobacco boxes; Loaf sugar; an assortment of Delph Ware, — black and white yard wide gauze, dress'd strip'd dit. black and white figur'd dit. black & white sprig'd dit. silk and white nett, white paris nett, black gauze handkerchiefs, white half ell persian, pink dit. cloth color'd padusoy, sky and pink pelong, cloth color'd ducap, black pelong, and black flower'd dit. No. 4 pins, white chapple needles, womens silk check clogs, womens black russell shoes, black paper fans, color'd paddles dit. scotch threads, tapes, black fatten hatts, stiffen'd chip dit. pewter dishes, plates and basins, hard metal tea pots, chineys for curtains, green and white lace, spotted rugs, cover-lids, quilts and blankets; black everlasting, best London awl blades, shoe tax, stock locks, camp chasing dishes, brass bow spring latches, box handle gimblets, black oil girth buckles, three barr'd and swivel stirrup irons, white sets, brass tuft nails, brass lock cocks, brass cloak pins, brass handles with wires, escutcheons dit. plain till locks with four keys; three bolt iron beaver case locks, flood gate box irons, brass chimney hooks, best London made glue, steel compasses, handsaw files, mill saw dit. rule joint table hinges, wood screws, shoe pinchers, brass chair nails, thumb latches, rasps, best cast sad irons, 2d tob nails, 3d, 4d, 5d, 6d brads, frying pans; a compleat assortment of Looking Glasses; pink figur'd mode, white dit. black and orange half ell lute string, green and orange dit. white figur'd dimety, blue and white striped holland, qualities, coat bindings, black, blue, crimson, scarlet, grey and fashionable Broad Cloths, German ferges, wil-
tons, cotton velvets, velverets, thickfets, fustians, duffills, kerseys, white and scarlet flannels; red, scarlet, crimson and green Baize, cut velvet patterns, barragons, sagathes, hair plushes, worsted dit. bombazenes, allamodes, striped montars, six qr nauflin, worsted caps, men's and women's kid and lamb gloves, men's and women's black dit. paste board, dyer's pressing paper, cod and log lines, wool cards, tea kettles, warming pans, english & german steel, Grindstones, 7 by 9, and 8 by 10 crown glass, 4d, 6d, 10d, 20d nails, deck dit. choice Bohea Tea. Also Rum, Sugar, Molasses, Cotton Wool, pot Iron, &c. &c.
Hugh Henderson
Has just opened at his Store in Portsmouth, Large Assortment of ENGLISH and WEST INDIA GOODS , suitable for the season, which he will sell either by Wholesale or Retail, as low as can be bought in Boston. N. B. Good Attendance given, the smallest Favours greatly acknowledged.
William Elliot,
Has for Sale at his Shop in Exeter, formerly improved by Mr. Thomas Parsons, Variety of ENGLISH and SCOTCH GOODS , suitable for the approaching season, WEST INDIA GOODS of all Kinds, Women's Callamanco-shoes warranted good: The very best of BOHEA TEA by the Dozen, half Dozen, or single pound.
(A Runaway-Boy, )
R AN away the 7th of May, from his Master, Daniel Smith, of Berwick, Simeon Perkins, an Apprentice Boy, of about 18 Years of Age, a thick well set Lad, something Round Shouldered, has a Rolling Gait in his walking; he had on a Cloath Coloured Coat, Leather Breeches, Checkt woolen Shirt and blew Stockings; and he carried with him several things that did not belong to him, which practice he is much addicted to, for which Reason it is hoped he will not be countenanced by any Honest person. Whosoever will secure said Boy, so that his said Master may have him again, shall be well Rewarded for their Trouble and Expence. And all persons are cautioned from Harbouring or Entertaining him on penalty of the Law in that Case made and provided.
A R U N A W A Y.
Ran-Away from Benjamin Little in Hampstead, a NEGRO MAN named Peter, about 5 Feet 7 Inches high, and about 38 Years old, he carried Away with him two Sutes of Cloaths, one of Brown, with bright Buttons, and one Suit of White ditto. and Plays well on a Fiddle: Whoever will take up said Negro Man Peter, and Secure him, so that I shall have him, shall have FOUR DOLLARS Reward and all necessary Charges paid, by me, BENJAMIN LITTLE.
We the Subscribers, being ap-
pointed by the Hon. JOHN WENTWORTH, Esq; Judge of Probate of Wills, &c. for the County of Rockingham, Commissioners to receive and examine the several Claims to the Estate of Joshua Pickering, late of Greenland, Cornet, deceased, Represented Informant, hereby notify the Creditors and Debtors, that we will attend for the Purposes aforesaid, at the House of Mr. John Folsom, in Greenland, Innholder, (Attorney for the Administratrix,) on the last Thursday of this, and the Five following Months, from two to seven o'Clock, on said Days.
Tis desired Persons would attend precisely at Time and Place. JOHN HAVEN, } Commissioners GREENLEAF CLARK, } Greenland, May 12, 1772.
All Persons Indebted to the
Hon. JOHN HILL, Esq; late of Berwick, deceased, are requested to make Payment without delay, to Sarah Hill, Benjamin Chadbourne, or David Sewall, Esq; Executors of the Testators and all Persons having Claims thereon, are desired to exhibit the same to one of the said Executors for a Settlement. Berwick, May 3th, 1772.
[ Haverhill. ]
W HEREAS the Proprietors of the Township of HAVERHILL, in the Province of New Hampshire, have been legally NOTIFIED to pay an Assessment of Forty Two Shillings on each original Proprietors Share or Lots of Land in said Township, to me the Subscriber, and several of them being yet delinquent in the whole or in part, this is therefore to NOTIFY such delinquent Proprietors, that so much of their Rights or Lots of Land will be exposed to SALE at publick VENDUE at my House in Haverhill aforesaid, on Monday the First Day of June next, as will pay said Taxes with incidental Charges: The sale to begin at Nine o'Clock in the Morning. The delinquent original proprietors Names are as follows, with the Sums due on their several Lots and undivided Land.
   Original Proprietors. Meadow Lot. House Lot. 100 Acre Lot. undivided Land.   Lawful Money.   l. s. d. l. s. d. l. s. d. l. s. d.     James Nevin, 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 10 6   William Symms 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 10 6   William Porter, 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 10 6   Edmund Colby 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 10 6   Aaron Holmir 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 10 6   John Hazen junr. 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 10 6   Richard Petty 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 10 6   George March 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 10 6   Ebenezer Hall 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 10 6   Abram Dowe 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 10 6   Henry Shetburne 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 10 6   John Hazen 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 0 0 1 1 0   John Spafford 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 0 0 1 1 0   Gideon Gould 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 0 0 1 1 0   Benoni Coulbourn 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 0 0 1 1 0   John Clarke 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 0 0 1 1 0   Thomas Emery 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 0 0 1 1 0   Byfield Lyde 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 10 6   Uriah Morse 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 10 6   M j John Wentworth 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 10 6   Nathaniel Barrel 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 10 6 0 10 6   Right of John Sweat, £. 2 2 0 Right of Edmund Morse, £. 2 2 0   Right of Jacob Balsey, £. 2 2 0    Haverhill, May 12, 1772. JOSHUA HAYWARD, Collector.
Notice is hereby given to the Proprietors of CHICHESTER, That the Lands which was to have been sold of the delinquent proprietors in March last, was adjourned to the First Wednesday in June next, at ten o'Clock before Noon, at the House of Mr. Jonathan Leavitt, Innholder in Hampton. Said Lands will certainly be sold at said Time, unless the Taxes are paid. Said proprietors Meeting stands adjourn'd to the above said Day, at said Leavitts. Rye, May 12, 1772. SAMUEL JENNESS, Collector.
() Excise. ()
P UBLICK Notice is hereby given, that I the Subscriber have bought the EXCISE, on Spirituous Liquors first Division in this Province. Said Division begins at the Mouth of Piscataqua River, and up the said River to the Line between Durham and Newmarket, and by that Line, and the Line between Durham and Nottingham, and between Nottingham and Barrington, and between Chichester and Barnstead, and between Gilmanstown and Canterbury, to Wicwasicokee River, then down said River, to Merrimack River, then down the same, to the boundary Line between this Province and the Massachusetts-Bay, then Easterly to the Sea, and so to Piscataqua River, at the first Bounds. Said Excise to begin the fourth of September last, and End the first of November next, and the said Excise should be paid Quarterly, yet as the Time is so far expired I purpose to Collect it at two Payments only, and therefore urge it as a favour, that on any due Notice by the Public Prints, or a Notification posted on the Door of some Public House, of the Time of my coming to such a Town all the Taverners and Retailers in and near it would be ready prepared, and meet me to pay in their several and respective parts of the Excise then Due, so they will much oblige their's to Serve, BENJAMIN BUTLER, Excise-Master.
LOST on Friday last, out of the Hands of the Subscriber, in an unaccountable Manner, sundry Notes of Hand, wrapped in a News Paper; if whoever has them in Possession, will give Notice of the same to the Subscriber, or the printers hereof, so that the said Notes, may be procured, shall be liberally Rewarded, and no Questions asked, as to the Method he came by them.
N. B. The possessor may make his own Terms, about returning them. May 12, 1772. SAMUEL HALE, jun.
Blanks of all sorts, &c. sold at the Printing Office.

§ Meredith. §
Province of New Hampshire, Rockingham, ff.
WHEREAS Application has been made to me the Subscriber, one of Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Rockingham, by the Owners of more than one sixteenth Part of the Township of MEREDITH in the County and Province aforesaid, to warn and call a Meeting of the Proprietors of said Meredith, to be held in some convenient place in said Town as soon as may be, to act on the following particulars, viz. 1. To chuse a Moderator for said Meeting. 2. A Proprietors Clerk, Assessors, Collector and all other Officers that shall be thought necessary to be Chosen, at said Meeting. 3. To see if the Proprietors will pass a Vote when met, to make up all the Lots in the the first Division, in said Meredith, that are cut short by the Waters, the full Numbers of Acres that said Lots were laid out for, or so many of said Lots as shall be thought proper to be made up, when met, out of the common and undivided Lands in said Town. 4. To see what Money the proprietors will vote to raise for to hire preaching of the Gospel any Part of the present Year. 5. To see what Method the said Propriety will take in Regard to the Settlement of all those Grantees Rights that are not settled in said Town, also vote what each Settler that hath not been paid shall have for settling in said Town. 6. To vote what Sum of Money said Proprietors will raise by TAX, to defrey the said Proprietors Charges. 7. To see if the Proprietors will let David Boynton and Thomas Sinclair, have the common Lands where they are to work, and upon what Conditions, and how much they or either of them shall hold of said Lands. 8. To determine upon a Method for calling proprietors Meetings for the future. Also the Town where said Meeting shall be held. 9. To rectify and confirm any former Vote or Votes passed concerning the Settlement of said Meredith, 10. To chuse a Committee or Committees to perform any of the aforesaid Matters or Things that shall be agreed upon at said Meeting :
In consequence of the foregoing APPLICATION, I do hereby notify and warn said Proprietors, to meet at the Dwelling House of Ebenezer Smith Esq; Innholder in said Meredith, on Thursday the Fourth Day of June next ensuing, at one of the Clock in the Afternoon, then and there to act on the Premises.
Gilmantown April 30th, JOSEPH BADGER, Justice of the Peace.
Province of New Hampshire, Rockingham, ff.
PURSUANT to a Petition, to me Directed, by the Owners of ten Proprietors shares in the Township of Gilmantown, desiring me to warn a Meeting of said Proprietors, as soon as may be, to be held in some Convenient place in said Town, to act on the following Particulars, viz. 1. To chuse a Moderator for said Meeting. 2. To see if the Proprietors will Vote to make up in Land, to the Owners of the original Right of Samuel Norris, for his second Forty Acre Lot, which is drawn the greater Part of it in a Pond. 3. To see if the Proprietors will Vote to pay the Cost of Collecting the Province Road TAX, with some of their common Land. 4. To see if the Proprietors will Vote that the Proprietors Treasurer shall pay and discharge the Proprietors Debts with the Proprietors Money, that is, or may be in his Hands. 5. To see if the Proprietors will Vote to let John Dudley, Esq; have the two Lots of Land he took up in said Town, for Settlement, viz. the Lot number sixteen, in the second Range, lower part, and Number twenty four in the upper Part, and to take other Lots of him for the same, or to act and do any Thing on or about the Premises, as they shall judge reasonable. 6. To see if the proprietors will chuse an Agent or Agents for said proprietors in their Behalf, to prosecute in Law the Bounds of these proprietors that are delinquent in fulfilling their settlement in said Town to final Judgment and Execution, or to settle with them, as such Agent or Agents shall judge best for the proprietors. 7. To see if the proprietors will vote that all the proceedings of the Selectmen and Constables in making and collecting the Province Road TAX, shall be recorded in the proprietors Book of Records. 8. To see if the proprietors will accept the Committee's Return that were chose to perambulate the second Division of Forty Acre Lots : This is therefore to Notify and Warn all the proprietors of said Town of Gilmantown, to meet at the House of Mr. Antipas Gilman, Innholder in said Town, on Wednesday the seventeenth Day of June next, at one of the Clock in the Afternoon, then and there to pass any Vote or Votes on the above Articles, as they shall judge proper.
Gilmantown, April 16th, 1772. JOSEPH BADGER, Proprietors Clerk.
TO BE SOLD
A PEW in Doctor Langdon's MEETING HOUSE; Enquire of the Printers.
Province of New Hampshire.
Application being made to me
the Subscriber one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, for the Province aforesaid, by the Owners of more than one sixteenth Part of the Township of DORCHESTER, in the Province aforesaid, to call and warn a Meeting of said Proprietors; I do hereby Notify and call a Meeting of the same at the House of Mr. William Bell, Innholder in Lime, on the first Monday in June next ensuing; then and there to act upon the following Matters and Things. First, To chuse a Moderator, Clerk, Treasurer, Assessors, and Collectors, and any other necessary Officers Secondly, To raise a sufficient Sum of Money, to pay the Expences of taking out the Charter of said Township, as also to pay for cutting and clearing out the Road that is laid out through said Township, by Order of the General Court. Thirdly, To see what Encouragement the Proprietors will give to assist the first Ten Settlers, that remove with their Families into said Township. Fourthly, To agree upon a Method of calling a Meeting of said Proprietors in Future. Fifthly, To chuse a Committee to allot out said Township in such a Manner as the Proprietors may think best. Sixthly, To do any other Act, Matter or Thing relative to said Township, which may be found necessary and convenient, to expedite the Settlement of the same.
In Consequence of the foregoing Application, I do hereby Notify and warn said Proprietors to meet at Time and Place aforesaid.
Richard Jennes, Justice of peace. Portsmouth, May 4th, 1772.
ALL Persons Indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of Mr. Stephen March, late of Portsmouth, deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts to Elizabeth March, of said Portsmouth, sole Executrix to said Estate, in order for a speedy settlement.
To be sold at public Vendue,
At the House of Samuel Ham's, Innholder in Dover, the 28th of May Instant, at Four o'Clock Afternoon, The two fifth Parts of one third part of a third division Right in Rochester, and two fifth parts of one third Part of a Fourth Division Right in Rochester, the same belonging to the Estate of Humphry Hanson, late of Dover, deceased, and to be sold by Moses Varney of said Dover, Administrator on said Estate. Dover, May 5th, 1772.
JOHN BURNAM HANSON and JOHN WENTWORTH, Administrators of the Estate of Ephraim Hanson, late of Dover, Innholder, deceased, Intestate, request all Persons who have Accounts open with the Estate, to close them immediately; And those to whom the Estate is Indebted, to call and receive their respective Ballances. Dover, May 5. 1772.
This Day Sold at public Vendue,
By Order of the Honorable Judge of Probate, on Friday the 15th Instant, upon the Premises, Two Thirds of the late Dwelling House, of Mr. Caleb Beck, deceased, pleasantly situated on Frame Point, so called, in Portsmouth; also, Jundry Articles of Household Furniture, and Carpenters Tools, belonging to the Estate of the said Deceased Caleb Beck. Portsmouth, May 7, 1772.
WHEREAS Prudence, the Wife of me the Subscriber, hath absented herself without any Occasion, from my Bed and Board for a Fortnight past, and with the Help of others, as abandon'd as herself, hath Robbed my House and carried away all the most valuable Furniture in my Absence; And fearing she may run me in Debt, with an Intention to ruin me, I do hereby forbid all and every Person from Trusting, Harbouring, Entertaining or Concealing her, for I hereby declare I will pay no Debts of her Contracting from this Time. Hampton, May 2d. 1772.
N. B. I am sorry to say, that this is not the first Time my Wife has behaved imprudently; as her former Husband, JOHN MARSTON, was under the same disagreeable Necessity with myself of publicly Advertising her. WILLIAM BRANSCOMBE.
BY Virtue of a Licence from
the Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. for the County of Rockingham, SARAH TITCOMB ( Administratrix of the Estate of John Titcomb, late of Dover, in said County, Esq; Deceased, Intestate) will sell at a Public VENDUE on Thursday the Twenty Eight Day of May Instant, two Thirds of the Dwelling House of the said deceased, very finely situated for an Innholder, or a Trader; with the Land adjoining, and the Barn standing on the same. with Jundry Personal Goods. The Sale will begin at two of the Clock in the Afternoon of said Thursday, at the said Dwelling House, when, and where the Conditions may be seen, and the Premises view'd. Dover, May 1772.
[ Acworth. ]
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, May 5. 1772.
WHEREAS it hath been represented to His Excellency the GOVERNOR & COUNCIL, That a Number of the Original Grantees of the Town of ACWORTH, in this Province, have neglected to perform the several Conditions stipulated in the CHARTER thereof, to the great Detriment of the Resident Grantees now settled in said Township, who have now prayed the Consideration of the Governor and Council touching the Premises, that the several Rights and shares of the Delinquents may be granted to such others as will cultivate the same, &c :
NOTICE is therefore hereby given to the said delinquent Grantees, viz.
  David Mc Gregore,  Oliver Farwell, junr.    James Mc Gregore,  Thomas Davis,    Thomas Craige,  Rev. Ebenezer Bridge,    James Mc Gregore, junr.  Edward G. Lutwyche,    Alexander Clark,  Samuel Wentworth,    James Millimmer,  Peter Lewis, Esq;    Jonathan Gillmore,  Col. Jonathan Greeley,    Daniel Macfee,  William Sym,    Robert Adams,  Major John Wentworth,    Ephraim Adams,  Wyman Clagett, Esq;    Samuel French,  Samuel Cummings,    Oliver Farwell,  Robert Fletcher.  
That Thursday the 23th of this Instant May is appointed for Hearing and Considering the Premises, when they may respectively appear, and show Cause, if any they have, why their respective Shares should not be regranted to such others of His Majesty's good Subjects as will effectually settle the said Forfeited Rights or Shares. By His Excellency's Command, With Advice of Council,
THEODORE ATKINSON, Secretary.
IT being likewise Represented to His Excellency the GOVERNOR in COUNCIL, that there are several Grantees in the Township of RUMNEY in said Province, who have not performed the Conditions stipulated in the CHARTER of said Town, whereby their respective Rights or Shares are Forfeited to His Majesty ( agreeable to the Grant ) to be regranted, &c :—The said Grantees, viz. Humphry Colby, Jabez Chapman, Miles Wright, Thomas Mosely, Thomas Niles, Clerk, Ephraim Rand, and Aaron Brainard, are also hereby Notified, that the Day (viz. 28th May Instant ) abovementioned, is appointed for them to appear for the Purpose above expressed. Per Order,
THEODORE ATKINSON, Secretary.
[ New-Grantham. ]
NOTICE is hereby given to the Proprietors of the Town of New Grantham, that unless they pay the Taxes which has been assessed on each original Right or Share of Land in said Township by the 6th of June next, to Abel Stevens of Plainfield, in New Hampshire, Collector of said Taxes, they may depend upon it, their Lands will be advertised for sale at Public VENDUE, according to LAW.
Plainfield, May 2. 1772. ABEL STEVENS, Collector.
ALL PERSONS Indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of Samuel Piper, late of Stratham, Yeoman, deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts to Jonathan Piper, junior, Administrator on said Estate, in order for a speedy settlement.
[ Cockermouth. ]
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Hilborough, ff.
WHEREAS Application is made to me the subscriber, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, for said County, by the Owners or Proprietors of more than the sixteenth part of the Township of COCKERMOUTH in said Province, that a Meeting of said Proprietors may be notified and called, to be held at the Dwelling House of Samuel Cummings, Innholder in Hollis in said County, on Monday the 18th Day of May next, at one o'clock P. M. to vote and act on the following Articles, viz. 1st. To chuse a Moderator to govern said Meeting. 2d to chuse a Committee or Committees to settle any Matter or Matters transacted, or to transact any Matter or Things for said Proprietors. 3d. To see if the Proprietors will lay out Part or the whole of the remaining undivided Land in said Town, and to raise any Sum or Sums of Money, that shall be necessary to defrey the Charges of the same, and for making and repairing Roads, Mills, or any other Charges that shall be necessary in bringing forward the settlement of said Town. I do in consequence of said Application, notify and warn said Proprietors to meet at Time and Place for the Purposes aforesaid.
E. G. LUTWYCHE Just. Peace. Hollis April 22d 1772.