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THE NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE, AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.
[Vol. XXVI.]
SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1782.
[No. 1341.]
From the UNITED STATES MAGAZINE.
A Genuine Letter on the Danger and Evils of all Religious Establishments.
To J. S. P-ik, Esq; a Member of the Honorable House of Delegates in the State of Maryland.
SIR,
ON your informing me, that sundry petitions have been presented to your Assembly, praying for an establishment of a certain church in your state, though you think the majority of your colleagues to be of too liberal Sentiments, to be at all affected by them; I sum'd up the following arguments, (though you can add many more) to clear the matter, and I am satisfied they will be thought sufficient by any man of candor, who has read the histories of all the establishments in Christendom, and particularly those of England and Scotland, both Papal and Reformed, from the earliest times; but such gentlemen as you and your brethren will best be able to make the ignorant people understand and feel their force.
Queries on the proposal of a legal Establishment of Churches.
1. What is proposed to be established by a law? It must be either a certain people, or a certain set of articles, opinions, and ceremonies of religion. It cannot mean to give a superiority to one set of people over all the rest, in a free State, where all good subjects have an equal right to the support of the laws. It must therefore mean to establish a certain set of articles of religion, to oblige all men to think, and speak, and worship God in one form and ritual.
2. Is not every religious establishment built on this false principle, that religion cannot be promoted, or their religious society edified, without a general uniformity; that the sense of the scriptures can be but one, and that theirs is the true one, to which all in that State must actively concur or passively submit?
3. Must there not therefore be in every such establishment some one theological system fixed upon, from which every deviation is declared to be heresy, incurring some legal penalty, whether fire and faggot, or fines, imprisonment, or incapacity of offices, &c. To which system, articles, or confession of faith, an unfeigned assent, a solemn oath and subscription, become an indispensable condition of admitting the clergy, and sometimes the people, to the communion of that church, and enjoying the emoluments of that state?
4. Whether all such establishments, as just described, Lutheran or Calvinist, Catholic, or Protestant Presbyterian, or Episcopalian, the Scots kirk or the church of England, &c. &c. are not violent abridgements of natural and christian liberty, and tyranny to the consciences of men?
5. Are they not diametrically opposite to the great principles of the Protestant reformation, which was evidently this, "That private christians were left at liberty, to search the Scriptures for the grounds of their religion, and to build their faith only on this foundation?"
6. Who therefore can withhold a tear, when he recollects, that by establishing confessions, articles, liturgies, and rubrics in the various churches, the glorious reformation was
in a short time tarnished, disgraced, and stopt in its progress? By creeds and confessions was not the right of private judgment taken away, the principle and spirit of popery returned, and Great Britain at both ends became the image of the beast, (Rev. xiii. 15.) by uniting Christ's kingdom with the world, and exercising brutal cruelties?
7. Jesus Christ the omniscient head of the churches, well knew that from the right of private judgment, diversity of opinions would be unavoidable, yet left no other terms of communion besides the Holy Scriptures; who then has a right to demand any other? Has not Christ and his apostles left the terms of communion sufficiently open for all pious and reasonable Christians of different opinions, and shall we (who have now civil and religious liberty restored by our august Congress) return to the yoke of bondage? Rom. xiv. 5. Christ left his people aplerophory, viz. full sail, with wind and tide in their faith. And thus it first triumphed over the powers of the world in a few years.
8. Has not every Christian a right to search the scriptures for himself: A right which he cannot transfer to any council, assembly, synod, convocation, parliament, pope or bishop, because it is his duty personally to exercise it for himself, and therefore not only to search, but determine for himself, though he should dissent from all the established forms and liturgies on earth?
9. Is it said, "These forms or articles, liturgies, creeds, and confessions, are expedient and useful, and therefore they should be established, though the scripture be silent; and the authority must be lodged somewhere to enforce them?" Can any man who considers the genius and design of the Christian religion, look for expedience and usefulness in church officers going beyond their plain commission? Does not God only judge of hearts, and must not conscience be ever free? Christ is the sole legislator in his churches. Let all the establishments tremble at the curse denounced on those, who add or diminish.—"Magna est veritas & prevalebit."
10. Do not the many churches who claim a full power and measure of authority to establish what articles and ceremonies they please, yet violently censure and condemn the same power assumed by their mother church of Rome, and call it an impudent and unscriptural usurpation? Or how came the church of England or Scotland to have this right exclusive of all other churches?
11. If it be asked, "Why multitudes are so attached to these established forms in every country, esteeming theirs only orthodox, and all others heresy," may it not be answered, that it is wholly owing to ignorance, and want of careful enquiry, with the prejudices of education, which prevail too much over the common people every where? This will no more justify the British than the Mahometan establishments.
12. "Did not the Apostles require a consent to their doctrines?" Yes. But will any pretend the articles and explications of any uninspired bishop or general assembly, &c. stand on the same authority, as God's holy oracles?
13. Though bishop Burnet, and some other ingenious men have tortured many texts (Rom. vi. 17. 1 Tim. vi. 3. 2 Tim. i. 13.) to make them speak of a form early establish-
ed in most churches: Is it not evident that no one name is fixed for it, nor any expressions that mean it; for the Greek rendered sound words, are literally healing words, or words of salvation, &c. ? and do not all the most competent judges understand them of the exemplification of the Christian doctrine in the practice of pious believers? After the most careful researches I can make, I confess with the ingenious Mr. Whiston, I have found no traces of any apostolic creed, for near three hundred years after our Lord; and the creeds of the fourth century appear very doubtful and exceptionable, to the confounding and disturbing Christianity. If there were a standard of orthodoxy, where is it to be found? It could not be lost. Why did not the first apologists mention it as an authority; as it would have been very much to their purpose? But there was none.
14. Established forms of religion are proposed as a "remedy of gross and noxious errors, when false doctrines are cloaked in scripture language." But how does this appear? Do not these creeds confessions and articles abounding in scholastic and theologic terms, rather tend to perplex and confound, than illustrate the truth? Have not some things condemned by one party of creed makers, been established by another? If established forms could suppress error, there should be a new established form every year, for while mens tongues and pens are at liberty, new opinions will be frequently suggested. Or have not such established forms been the most usual cause of errors by perpetuating the opposition made to them? What is become of all the errors against which no creeds were levelled (being open to free debate as Christ and his apostles left them without any human anathema denounced) have they not died in oblivion?
15. Since Christ's kingdom is not of this world; and he absolutely refused to meddle with civil controversies, is it not plain that every church establishment is blending together, what reason and christianity require to be forever separate? Hence every establishment, Popish or Protestant, must be unfriendly to the great christian doctrine of toleration. Has not this been the loss of godly discipline, generally in establishments, by enforcing the censures of the church, with the secular terrors, which the Magistrate by virtue of his office is bound to inflict only on immorality or prejudicial to society?
16. Have not Erasmus, Johannes, Cartwright, and Baxter, clearly demonstrated that all the councils and writings of the fathers have been infected with antichristian errors? and what greater security of infallibility can any convocation or any general Assembly of grave divines pretend to now?
17. If any establishment must be, why not establish the holy word of God, against which none may speak or write, or blaspheme their sacred author, leaving every man to understand it as he can; for this is all our Lord established? This should remain the only orthodoxy, and only establishment, until it be proved that "new and unscriptural words will better fix the sense of scripture doctrine, than the words and phrases of Jesus Christ and his apostles."
18. Are not all establishments of articles and confessions imposed as terms of communion, unscriptural temptations distressing many a conscientious minister in the hard dilemma, viz. subscription against your conscience or starve; excluding men of sincere virtue, and admitting the most abandoned to splendid livings?
19. Will any man pretend to say, that complying with the terms of an established formulary is an intangible test of what is called orthodoxy? See in Dr. Doddridge's lectures, in how many senses the articles of the church of England have been subscribed, to the wounding men's consciences.
20. Have establishments in fact ever promoted religion in any nation? Look round the world and see Happy christianity as Christ left it; but how soon was it lost and metamorphosed, when established and enriched by Constantine the Great!

21. Do not all establishments in general derogate from the authority and sufficiency of scripture, encroach on the liberty of conscience, and independency of christian churches, tending to divisions, factions, and separations, extinguishing peace, charity, truth and virtue?
22. Religion prevails by its intrinsic beauty, and can bear no worldly mixture. Did not Constantine the Great by bringing the world into the church; and Athanasius by his creeds, instead of establishing religion, establish a hot bed of ignorance, indolence, superstition, barefaced barbarity, and luxury, in the old world to this day?
23. These few considerations being duly weighed, and candidly considered, and such answers given to these questions as every man of reading and penetration must give; have we not infinite cause of gratitude to the author of all wisdom, who have put it in the hearts, of the American Congress, of endless fame to have religion, and every man's conscience free as the air we breathe, and our souls unshackled with any of the establishments which have occasioned most of the errors, animosities, persecutions, civil wars, and much of the bloodshed of the old world?
I am, Sir, much at your service,
Lowes. March 3. 1779
M. W.
P. S. Nothing here laid is meant to exclude every religious society (that is an individual church or congregation) to fix its own terms of communion, for which (if too narrow) it is only accountable to God: But the civil power have no connexion with it as a congregation, though they protect the individuals as subjects: unless perhaps every State should incorporate the elders, or church-wardens, &c. to manage the affairs in it, as the wardens are in England; which if limited to a moderate sum, would secure legacies, &c. Let us all beseech the Almighty Saviour of our country, that true liberty, civil and divine, may for ever emancipate the Americans (and even the poor Africans here) from every bondage, and this antichristian yoke of partial establishments, which fetter souls and torment bigotry, which gave a mean narrowness to the soul, raise rancours, parties, and destroy civil and social happiness.
L O N D O N, April 12.
Mr. Secretary Fox delivered a message from the King in the following words: Lord Shelburne delivered a similar one to the Lords:
"GEORGE REX. His Majesty, distressed to find that uneasiness and discontents have arisen among his loyal subjects, upon matters of great weight and high importance, recommends to this house, immediately to take this object into their most serious consideration, and to conduct them to such conclusion as may give mutual satisfaction to both kingdoms. G. R."
R I C H M O N D, (Virginia) June 8.
We hear, that in one of the mobs, in Edinburgh, last winter, on account of the ministerial measures, the enraged populace sacrificed, as a victim to their fury, the celebrated Dr. Robertson, Principal of the university of that city, and author of the elegant histories of Scotland, Charles the 5th and South America, and historiographer to the King.
June 15. Our last accounts from the southward mention, that General Greene's army is still encamped at Bacon's bridge, and that the enemy remain quiet at Charlestown.
Yesterday the Honorable George Clymer and John Rutledge, Esqrs. had an audience of the General Assembly, on business of importance.
Our last accounts from the westward announce, with certainty, the designs of the enemy against the Kentucky country and the Spanish Illinois settlements. General Clarke is making every preparation to receive them, and as the eyes of the people are open to the mischievous designs of certain emissaries who have been endeavouring to create divisions among them, it is not doubted the whole force of that country will cheerfully unite against the enemy.
P H I L A D E L P H I A, June 26.
"By letters received here to day from England we have advice, that the Irish par-
liament has declared their right of forming and passing their own laws, independant of the British parliament; also, that 16,000 of the volunteers, from different parts of the country, had marched into Dublin, and obliged what regular troops were there (consisting of two regiments of foot and one of horse) to go out of town and take their quarters in the country, being determined to support the parliament in their resolutions. This I do not doubt, having, during my stay in that country, a perfect knowledge of the sentiments of a great number of the volunteers, who are composed of the best men in the country."
Notwithstanding all Mr. Rivington and his brethren have sung and said, printed and lied, about the total defeat of the French fleet in the West Indies, we have good authority to assert, that the combined fleets in those seas, do now amount to 45 or 46 sail of the line, fit for service; a force, we apprehend, that will give Mr. Auctioneer Rodney some uneasy sensations. One would think, such glorious news as the royal printer has fed his pious little flock with for some weeks past, would have produced a great deal of joy in the city of New York—No such thing—On the birth day of George their King, they made out to fire a few faint guns, as usual; but the long faces of the inhabitants demonstrate that all is not well with them. They received private accounts, near three weeks ago, of the capture of an immense fleet of transports, with three ships of the line and five frigates, by Admiral Guichen, off Cape Finisterre.
Extract of a letter from an American gentleman at Nantz (late a prisoner in England) to his friend in Philadelphia, dated April 25th, 1782.
"I have been eight months in Ireland, and am now here on my return home. You might reasonably suppose that I run a great risque of being apprehended, staying so long in Ireland; but I do assure you, that I met with particular protection, not only from relations, but I may venture to say from the public; being under no more restraint than I am at present in France; so is their great affection for the Americans, particularly the volunteers."
Desertion prevails in a great degree among the troops lying on Staten Island. Those that come over into the different parts of Jersey (which, one week with another, may amount to 12 or 15) are chiefly Germans; who declare that the whole would come off, had they the means of getting away; there rarely desert more than three or four together, and seem for the most part worn down with hunger and the fatigue of severe duty.
It has lately been computed, from the lists and returns of the prison ships at New-York, that no less than 4000 persons, or thereabouts, have died out of those receptacles of misery, from the time the British took possession of that capital, in September, 1776, to March last. If we add to these the great numbers that have died after their exchange, with the infectious ship fevers and other contagions brought from thence, the amount will be formidable indeed, and must deeply affect every friend to America, especially when he considers that these men were the flour and strength of our marine, and have most of them been needlessly sacrificed to the low revenge and murderous policy of a mean spirited, rancorous and unprincipled enemy.
C H A T H A M, June 26.
Intelligence being received at Elizabeth Town, of two whale boats, fitted for a two month's cruise in the Delaware bay, lying at a wharf the north side of Staten Island, a plan was concerted to surprise and bring them off, which was put in practice last Thursday night, and the boats, with all their appurtenances, were safely moored at Elizabeth Town bridge next morning, together with 18 prisoners that were on board, 6 of them valuable Negroes. The party, continentals and volunteers, consisted of upwards of 30, commanded by Major Crane. There was a sentinel in each boat, who hailed, and attempted to fire on the party; but their pieces providentially flashing in the pan, the party, regardless of danger, rushed on them with such impetuosity, that they had not time to prime again, and a few moments put them in compleat possession of their object, without any further alarm.
Lippencut, we are told, has certainly received sentence of death by a court martial, for the murder of Capt. Huddy, and it is expected he will either be executed at New-York, or sent out this week.
N E W - Y O R K, June 22.
By the schooner —, from Montego bay, in Jamaica, arrived here on Thursday last, we are informed that his Majesty's ships Sandwich, of 90, Russell of 74, and Intrepid of 64 guns, lately sailed from that island for England, having under their protection about 150 sail of merchant vessels, for Great Britain and Ireland; on board the Sandwich went passenger the Count de Grasse.
H A R T F O R D, July 9.
His Most Christian Majesty hath ordered to join the Spanish army, now investing Gibraltar, an Engineer of great eminence and abilities, who hath engaged to reduce that garrison. The Duke de Crillon is in future to command the besiegers.
B O S T O N, July 4.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Philadelphia to one in this town.
"Mr. Adams informs us, that five of the States of Holland have agreed to acknowledge our independence; his letter is of the 11th; on or before the 16th, he expects the other two, (Groningen & Guelderland) will do the same. The Leyden Gazette of the 20th, says Groningen has done it. Mr. Adams expects to be publicly received by the first of May."
S A L E M, July 2.
Yesterday we received intelligence, by the arrival of a small privateer in a neighbouring harbour, of the capture of Lunenburgh, a seaport town of Nova Scotia, by five small armed vessels, belonging to three or four different ports. Several hundred men were said to be resident in the town and its vicinity, in which a block house, containing a few troops, had been erected for its defence. This building, in order to induce a surrender of the troops, was set fire to: after which, the captors loaded their vessels with various kinds of goods, and ransomed the town for 10000. sterling. A Col. Campbell, said to be an officer in the corps of Royal American Fencibles, and several other persons, were brought off, and are to be held as hostages, till the ransom is paid. The goods which the privateers took and brought away, are said to amount to the value of upwards of 8000. sterling.

NEW-YORK, June 15.
ARTICLES of CAPITULATION agreed on at Nassau, in New-Providence, the 8th of May, 1782, by his Excellency Don Juan Manuel de Casagal, Captain General of his Catholic Majesty's troops, and Governor of Havanna, and his Excellency John Maxwell, Esq; Captain General of his Britannic Majesty's troops in New-Providence.
ARTICLE I.
THE possession of New-Providence, as also all other the Bahama islands, together with all the artillery, powder, arms, ammunition, &c. and also all sorts in the possession of the troops of his Britannic Majesty, shall be delivered up to the troops of his Catholic Majesty. The British garrison to march out with all the honours of war, arms shouldered, drums beating, &c. and then to deliver up their arms; all officers civil and military, to wear their side arms; after which, the troops to embark, as speedily as possible, on board vessels sufficiently provided and victualled at his Catholic Majesty's expence, to any port in Great-Britain, or any port in America, in the possession of his Britannic Majesty. The troops not to serve against Spain or her allies, until exchanged. —First article granted; troops to be sent to any port in Great Britain, or any other port in the possession of his Britannic Majesty.
ART. II. All officers or others that choose to leave these islands, shall have liberty to depart with their families and effects, and shall have eighteen months allowed them to settle their affairs. —Second article granted and after the expiration of eighteen months shall take the oath of allegiance.
ART. III. The inhabitants within the islands, shall be maintained in the possession of their real estates, &c. and enjoy their rights and privileges. —Third article granted, provided that those privileges do not interfere with the established rules of the police.
ART. IV. The inhabitants shall pay no other duty than they paid to his Britannic Majesty. —Granted, during the war.
ART. V. The ships belonging to the inhabitants of the islands, shall remain the property of the said inhabitants. —Fifth article: all ships or vessels that are within the Bahama islands, and actually the property of the inhabitants, shall be deemed their property; and all others, except neutral, shall belong to his Catholic Majesty, with all stores, &c. on board.
ART. VI. The inhabitants not to take up arms against his Britannic Majesty. —Answered in article second.
ART. VII. The inhabitants to enjoy their religion. —Seventh article granted, during the war, and the ministers to be subject to the authority of the Governor.
ART. VIII. A safe guard shall be appointed for all papers at the Governor's house, and those not liable to any inspection, but liberty shall be granted to embark them. —Eighth article granted, except plans of the islands.
ART. IX. The sick shall be taken care of at his Catholic Majesty's expence, and sent to Charlestown when recovered. —Ninth article granted, to be sent to Bermuda as prisoners.
ART. X. The inhabitants shall enjoy, until peace, their laws and privileges; justice to be administered by the same persons who are actually in office, and all expences attending the administration, to be paid by the colony. —Tenth article granted, and is to be understood, that the said tribunals shall be subject to the superior authority of the Governor.
ART. XI. If there be any doubtful expressions in any of the foregoing articles, they are to be interpreted according to the meaning and common acceptation of the words. —Eleventh article granted.
ART. XII. The Governor to be permitted to send a flag of truce to New-York, with the capitulation. —Twelfth article granted, and the flag to sail with the vessels appointed to carry the troops.
(Signed) Juan Manuel de Casagal. John Maxwell.
Extra Article XIII. Out of respect to Governor Maxwell's disposition for defence, and his humanity to the unfortunate prisoners, I consent he shall not be considered as a prisoner of war, longer than until he is landed with his troops in a British port.
(Signed) Juan Manuel de Casagal. A true copy, attested by W—B—, (Secretary of the province.)
Copy of a letter from the Hon. Robert Morris, Esq; to Mr. Hezekiah Merrill, Receiver of Taxes for Connecticut.
"Office of Finance, June 14, 1782. "S I R,
"Mr. Brown brought me a letter of the 7th instant. Continually harassed by demands for money due on the public engagements of Congress, and finding no small difficulty in complying with those special engagements which I myself have made, so as to preserve that degree of credit which is essential to the service of my country, it becomes my indispensable duty to shew how much, or rather how little, I have received. Already I repent that delicacy which induced me to omit the publication of receipts for the month of April, as I have thereby been exposed, more than otherwise would have happened, to clamorous demands. I am therefore now to request, that your publication be on no account delayed. I am sensible that it must be disagreeable to many worthy citizens, and it is not improbable that reasons may be assigned for the delay —of these the world is to judge. But whether they be solid or specious, this at least is clear, that they will neither feed, clothe, cover, move or pay our army. It is certain, also, that our enemy are not to be subdued or expelled either by reasonings or excuses. I should not insist on this publication so pertinaciously, did it tend merely to exculpate the immediate servants of Congress; but that respectable body are already the object of complaint from this cause, and it is necessary that the impropriety of such complaints should be made palpable and evident. To this I will add a further reason, of very great magnitude: I wish that these publications may promote inquiries where the fault lies, that if the public treasure, when collected, has been misapplied, or if necessary laws for collecting it or the collection have been delayed by faction, disaffection, or other improper causes, the whole may be known, and the guilty punished. Such inquiries will make those who are intrusted with the administration, more vigilant & attentive to their duty, or it will introduce wiser and better men. The taxes necessary for this war can by no means be very burthensome, if they are equally and punctually collected, and justly and oeconomically applied. Whether they are or not, the people are best judges. But that they may form a proper judgment, it is previously necessary that they may be well informed. I am determined that they shall know what I receive, and how I expend it, and I wish them to push their inquiries as far as possible—I know that many may be offended. For your own private justification you may use this letter, and shew, or if you please, publish it, for my reliance, in the prosecution of this war, is not upon any particular man or set of men; but (under God) it is on the general sense, spirit and virtue of the freemen of America.
I am, Sir, with esteem and respect, Your most obedient Servant. ROBERT MORRIS." Hezekiah Merrill, Esq; Receiver of Taxes for Connecticut.
* * * ALL persons are cautioned against harbouring or concealing a NEGRO GIRL named VILOT, about 15 years of age, of a small size, she having left her mistress, as they must expect to be dealt with according to law. by ELIZABETH SERVICE.
Portsmouth, July 13.
PORTSMOUTH, July 13.
The Hon. Meshech Weare, Esq; President of the State of New-Hampshire, and other Members of the Hon. Committee of Safety, arrived in Town on Tuesday last; 'tis said their Business is to examine the state of the Forts and Harbour.
On Saturday last, was drowned at Greenland, a son of the Rev. Mr. Macclintock, of that place, aged about thirteen years.
The same day was drowned at Spruce-Creek, James Leech, a young man of about 19 years of age. Both of the above persons were bathing; and the latter was supposed not to have been under water above two minutes, yet all methods used to restore him to life were ineffectual.
IN pursuance of the 6th Article of Instructions from the Office of Finance, dated the 12th of February last, I am obliged to certify that I have not received any Monies for the Use of the United States.
WILLIAM WHIPPLE, (Receiver of Continental Taxes in New Hampshire.) Portsmouth, July 1, 1782.
THE Subscriber having advertised the proprietors of Piermont, that there is a tax of nine pounds, L. M. assessed on each original right, would further inform them, that said assessment, agreeable to the assessor's warrant, was made as follows, viz.—12s. on the meadow lot—6s. on the house lot—6s. on the hundred acre lot—and 7s. 6d. on the common and undivided lands of each right; and unless the same is paid to me by the 9th day of August next, I shall advertise the delinquents land for sale, agreeable to law.
JONATHAN MOULTON, Collector. Hampton, July 11, 1782.
CLOCKS AND WATCHES Repaired and cleaned in the cheapest manner; By Nathaniel S. Griffith,
At his shop just below the Court-House, and if they don't answer the first time, he will do them again for nothing. —He has for sale, Keys, Springs, Crystals, Seals &c. &c. and will give the money for old Gold and Silver.
N. B. He has had a Silver TANKARD stolen out of his house, and will give twenty Spanish milled dollars to any person that will discover the thief, or put him in a way of getting his tankard.
State of New Hampshire, Rockingham ss. TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
NOTICE is hereby given, that a Libel is filed before me, in behalf of Thomas Simpson, Esq; commander of the private armed ship Alexander and all concerned therein, against the brigantine Industry, of 150 tons burthen, her cargo and appurtenances, Peter Rymer, late master; which vessel 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 will be held at Portsmouth, on Monday the 29th day of July, instant, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, when and where the owners of said capture, or any person concerned therein, may appear, and shew cause (if any they have) why the same should not be condemned.
J. BRACKETT, Judge. Portsmouth July 2, 1782.
WE the subscribers being appointed commissioners by the honorable Judge of Probate for the county of Rockingham, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of MOSES MILLER, late of Portsmouth, yeoman, deceased, represented insolvent, give public notice that they will attend said business at the Post Office, in Portsmouth, on the last Monday of this and the two following months, from four to six o'clock in the afternoon of each of said days.
Thomas Bickford, Nahum Ward, Jeremiah Libbey, } Commissioners. July 4. 1782
WANTED to HIRE, immediately Two or three good hands, that are acquainted with Mowing, other Farming Business, to whom Reaping, and be given for three or four months in good Wages will be given for the P. or 10s per month Service. Inquire at the P. or at the Service. Inquire at the P. or at the Service. Inquire at the P. or at the Service.

A Stage Coach.
JOHN GREENLEAF,
Most respectfully informs Gentlemen and Ladies, who may be disposed to travel either on Business or Amusement, that for their Accommodation, he has furnished himself with a convenient Carriage and excellent Horses, with which he sets off from Mr. John Stavers's Tavern in Portsmouth, precisely at 9 o'Clock, on every Tuesday Morning--dines at Hampton-Falls, lodges at Newbury-Port, and the next Evening reaches Charlestown-Ferry, and lodges in Boston, at Mrs. Katharine Gray's, next Door to the American Coffee House, State-Street; and leaves Boston on Friday Mornings, lodges at Newbury-Port, and the next day reaches said Stavers's in Portsmouth, where may be had good Accommodations for Travellers.--Said Greenleaf will transact any Business with which he may be entrusted, with Care, Fidelity, and Dispatch, on very reasonable Terms, and hopes by his courteous Deportment and his best Endeavours to please, he shall merit the Esteem of his Customers: His Fare is Six Dollars for each Passenger, from Portsmouth to Boston, and so in proportion for a shorter Distance; and any Packages agreeable to Bulk or Weight. He has taken care that at every Inn he stops, proper Refreshments shall be prepared by the Keepers thereof. JOHN GREENLEAF.
N. B. Every Passenger pays half his Fare at the Time he engages his Seat.
Portsmouth, July 6, 1782.
ZACHERIAH FOSS,
INFORMS the public that he has again opened a Tavern in the house where he formerly kept it, near the State-House, Portsmouth; and as he is every way provided to give satisfaction, having the best of accommodations and liquors, he invites all his former friends, and others, to call and see him. --Said Foss has good conveniences for travellers.
State of New Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Parristown, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1781, that unless they pay them to me the subscriber, on or before Wednesday the 17th day of July next, that so much of their lands will then be sold at public vendue, at my house in said town, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, as will pay the taxes with incidental charges.
   N. D. Silver. NewEmf.   f. d. l. s. d.     Meserve and others, 12 0 8 2 2 0 0   Samuel Clement, 70 1 0 6 0   16 2 0 15 6   Edmund Barnard, 55 1 6   John Peer, 77 1 3 6 1   Samuel Ayers, 56 1 3 6 1   8 2 5 10 1 9   Benjamin Eaton, 52 1 2 4   53 2 2 4 12   Jacob Woodward, 45 1 7 1 15   28 2 5 10 1 9   Timothy Eaton, 61 1 1 9   43 2 3 6   John Plummer, 33 2 1 2 6   Thomas Whiticker, 41 2 1 2 6   Samuel Little, 52 2 3 6 0 0 0  
Peter Pease, Constable.
Parristown June 20, 1782.
State of New Hampshire.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that a petition hath been preferred to the General Assembly by Samuel Ashley and others, setting forth, that in consequence of an act of this state, passed in March 1780, wherein it was required, that the several charters of the towns in the state, should be carried into the Secretary's office, in order to be recorded; there has been frequent applications made to the proprietors Clerk, of the town of Claremont, for the charter of said town, and never has, nor could be obtained since said act was passed, it being mislaid, or by some ill-minded person conveyed away, by which means they are liable to be injur'd in their property, and no remedy to be had by law: wherefore they prayed that relief might be granted them, by establishing the copy of said charter, now in the proprietors clerk's office, until the original can be found.
Upon which petition, the General Assembly ordered that the petitioners be heard thereon, before them, on the third Thursday of their next session, and that in the mean time the petitioners cause the substance of the petition and order of court thereon, to be published three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof should not be granted.
Attest. JOSEPH PEARSON, Deputy Sec'y.
Goucord, June 14, 1782.
[ Piermont. ]
THE Proprietors of PIERMONT, at their last meeting, having voted the sum of nine pounds, lawful money, on each original right, to defray the expenses of law-suits, and discharging former ballances, settled and adjusted by their committee, and having committed the collection of the same to me the subscriber--Notice is hereby given to said proprietors, that I am desirous to receive and settle the same with them, without the trouble of further application, either by advertising their property or exposing the same to sale, to their manifest injury, as has been too often the case with collectors of taxes, to their great discredit, and perhaps many of them may suffer for their too inconsiderate and precipitate behaviour. JONATHAN MOULTON. Hampton, July 6, 1782.
State of New Hampshire.
THE non-resident proprietors of the town of Boscawen, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1781, are hereby notified, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, at my dwelling-house in Boscawen, before the 20th day of July next, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, on Tuesday the 21st. the day following, at my house in said town, as will pay the same, with incidental charges. The sale to begin at ten o'clock forenoon. Quantity. | New Emf. | Silver.
   f. d. f. d.     Robert Adams, 100 1 8 1 3   Moses Coker, 100 1 8 1 3   80 8 0 6 0   45 0 8 0 6   Stephen Boie, 100 5 0 3 9   80 15 0 12 0   45 0 8 0 6   Richard Pettingell, 45 0 8 0 0   Jonathan Ilsey, 100 9 7 7 6   Joseph Jackman, 45 0 8 0 6   James Merrill, 45 0 8 0 6   Ebenezer Peirce, 100 1 8 1 3   45 8 6   Jonathan Plummer, 45 6   William Ripp, 100 2 6 1 10   Thomas Webster, 100 2 6 1 10   Thomas Woodbridge, 100 2 6 1 10   80 11 2 8 6   45 8 6   Joseph Morse jr. 100 1 10   Eben. Burrell's farm, 9 7 7 9   Samuel Bradford, ditto 13 6   Benjamin Bird, ditto 3 9   John Choat, ditto 9 7 7 6   Richard Jackman, ditto 2 6 1 10   BENJAMIN JACKMAN, Constable.   Boscawen, June 20, 1782.  
TICKETS in the Milton PAPER-MILL LOTTERY, may be had of Noah Parker, in Portsmouth.
State of New Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given, that so much of the following lots of land in New Chester, will be sold at public vendue, on Thursday the first day of August next, at ten o'clock forenoon, at my own house in said town, as will pay the taxes for the year 1781, with incidental charges, unless paid before that time.
   No. Divis. State NewEm. Int. Specie. Beef T. Specie. Rum T. Specie. ad N.Em. Int. Specie. WarSpecie.   s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q.     Joshua Telford, Esq; 66 1 2 2 0 1 1 1 7 0 0 3 0 8 2 0 1   Meserve and others, 36 1 1 6 0 0 3 0 4 2 0 4 0 5 1 2 0   5 2 1 5 0 0 3 0 11 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 3   10 4 2 2 1 1 1 0 7 2 1 0 0 9 1 0 2   Jacob Sargent, 62 4 3 3 1 2 0 0 11 2 1 3 1 1 3 0 3   James Quainton, 59 2 3 3 1 2 0 0 11 2 1 3 1 1 3 0 3   53 3 3 3 1 2 0 0 11 2 1 3 1 1 3 0 3   42 4 3 3 1 2 0 0 11 3 1 3 1 1 3 0 3   Alexander McClure, 50 4 2 2 1 1 1 0 7 3 1 0 0 9 1 0 2   Richard Pearle, 91 2 3 3 1 2 0 0 11 2 1 3 1 1 3 0 3   34 3 3 3 1 2 0 0 11 2 1 3 1 1 3 0 3   38 4 3 0 0 1 3 0 9 0 1 1 0 10 3 0 2   Peter Severence, 57 th 58 4 10 11 0 6 2 3 2 0 5 2 3 9 0 3 1   John Mann, 85 2 4 4 2 2 3 1 3 2 2 1 1 6 1 1 0   44 3 5 5 2 3 2 1 7 2 2 3 1 10 0 1 1   15 4 4 4 0 2 2 1 2 0 1 3 1 3 2 0 3   Matthew Thornton, Esq; 87 3 4 4 2 2 3 1 3 2 2 3 1 6 1 1 0   60 acres of 67 1 2 2 0 1 0 0 5 2 0 3 0 7 0 1 0   88 3 4 4 2 2 3 1 3 2 2 1 1 6 1 1 0   61 acres of 90 3 3 3 1 2 0 0 11 2 1 3 1 1 3 0 3   39 3 3 3 1 2 0 0 11 2 1 3 1 1 3 0 3   half of 60 2 1 7 1 1 0 0 5 3 1 0 0 7 0 0 1   Samuel Moores, 13 4 3 3 1 2 0 0 11 2 1 3 1 1 3 0 3   Mark Carr, 18 3 5 5 2 3 2 1 7 1 2 1 1 10 0 1 1   33 4 3 3 1 2 0 0 11 2 1 3 1 1 3 0 5   Henry Hall, 67 2 3 3 1 2 0 0 11 2 1 3 1 1 3 0 5   16 3 4 4 2 2 3 1 3 2 2 1 1 6 1 1 0   Stephen Forrenton, 28 4 2 2 0 1 0 0 4 2 0 2 0 5 1 0 1   The. Wallingford, Esq; 68 1 2 2 0 1 0 0 7 1 1 0 0 9 1 0 2   63 2 3 0 0 1 3 0 9 0 1 1 0 10 3 0 2   56 3 3 3 1 2 0 0 11 2 1 3 1 1 3 0 3   78 4 3 3 1 2 0 0 11 2 1 3 1 1 3 0 3  
New Chester, May 29, 1782.
JONATHAN CRAWFORD D. Constable.
PRINTED AT PORTSMOUTH.
To be sold, a Dwelling-House, almost new, 17 feet by 27, one chamber and two rooms finished, now standing before the mansion-house of the late Capt. Shorrudge, at the north-end to be removed from the place where it now stands. For terms of sale, enquire at the Printing Office, Portsmouth.
To be bound a likely Boy to a good Farmer in the Country, till he is twenty-one Years of Age, to learn the Farming Business--He is now about eight years of Age. Enquire at the Printing-Office in Portsmouth.
State of New-Hampshire, Concord, June 14, 1782. PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that a petition hath been preferred to the General Assembly by the inhabitants of the township of Alexandria, setting forth, that whereas the inhabitants of the township of Cockermouth, have petitioned the General Court for said State, praying that the town of Alexandria may be compelled to make a good waggon road through said town. They, the inhabitants of Alexandria, say that it will be an insupportable burthen in their present infant state, for the following reasons, viz.
That Cockermouth have never requested them to make or mend said roads--that there are no more than forty inhabitants treeholders in Alexandria--that they have above forty miles of roads which are very uneven, rocky and wet, with several large streams to bridge--that their settlers are much scattered--that they are not incorporated and therefore cannot lay out any roads at present. Wherefore they pray that they may be incorporated by the name of Alexandria, beginning at a maple tree in Wilson's Patent line about forty rods from new found pond, thence over part of said pond south twelve degrees east five miles and an half more or less to the place where a hemlock tree formerly stood and marked for the easterly corner bounds of Alexandria, from thence south fifty three degrees west eight and an half miles more or less to a beech tree marked, from thence North twelve degrees west four and an half miles more or less to the patent line aforementioned, from thence easterly on said line to the place first mentioned--And that as soon as they are incorporated, the selectmen or a committee from Alexandria may be ordered to lay out all necessary highways, or the road to Cockermouth, in order to make the same passable as soon as may be, and that the cost may be assessed on residents and non residents, as state, continental, and war taxes are.
Upon which petition, the General Assembly ordered that the petitioners from Alexandria be heard on said petition before them on the second Wednesday of their next session, and that in the mean time the said petitioners cause the substance of the petition and order of court thereon to be published in the New Hampshire Gazette three weeks successively, that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof should not be granted.
Attest. JOSEPH PEARSON, D. Sec'y.