The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1774-06-10 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the Freshest ADVICES.
Friday June 10, 1774.
Vol. XVIII.
GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
NO. 920 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd. }
From the [London] Public Advertiser, April 5. W HAT aggravates the injustice of the proceedings against the town of Boston, is, that the agent was refused a hearing, in their behalf, under a pretence that Gov. Hutchinson did not agree to his appointment. According to this, the people of America are never to have an opportunity of vindicating themselves, or prosecuting those who injure them, unless their Governors will give them leave; and as their Governors cannot be prosecuted there, they are by this means effectually exempted from punishment, let their conduct be ever so criminal. This is a doctrine of so much injustice, that it cannot but tend to make the people in America execute in a summary way those laws which are thus suspended in their ordinary course.
The proceeding then against the town of Boston stands exactly thus. The house of C. without any accusation or evidence brought against the town, without apprizing it of any punishment intended, and giving the people a hearing in their defence, without permitting the standing agent to appear in behalf of the town, with doors locked, and in the utmost precipitation, pass a bill of severer pains and penalties than was ever inflicted for the highest crimes. In all the violences which have been offered to the rights and interests of cities in this country, I defy the advocates for this bill to shew a punishment half so severe: Yet to shew their effrontery equal to their cruelty and injustice, they call it a lenient measure.
To judge of this, let us observe that the allegation against the town of having destroyed the tea, is founded on suspicion only. Gov. Hutchinson declares to his council that it was done by persons disguised and unknown. The fact itself is only a trespass—yet on this suspicion, without admitting any evidence to controvert it, and for a civil offence, the town is injured by the taking away of the port to the amount of several hundred thousand pounds, several thousand labouring people with their families are deprived of their daily bread, and turned out to starve; the inhabitants are to pay the full value of the tea and all charges; they are to make compensation to any courtier who shall pretend to have suffered; they are to acknowledge the right of parliament to tax them in its full extent, & to pay the tax; and after satisfying the King, in Council, that all this is done, is their port to be then opened, and the use of their property to be restored as before? No indeed; the King is empowered by the bill to restore it in such portions and to such persons as he shall please. Thus the property of the town is in effect seized into the King's hands:—We have heard of seizing the charters and liberties of a city; but to add its property too, was left for the lenity of the present ministers & the present parliament.
Let us now compare this punishment with the examples brought to authorise it. The city of London, in the reign of Charles the first, for a tumult and murder, proved and acknowledged to have been committed within it, in open day, & no one indicted for it, was fined 15,000 marks. This was the whole of their punishment for an offence so infinitely greater, fairly prosecuted, & fully ascertained. Nor was this even done by parliament, but in the due course of law, after a fair trial in the court of King's bench.
The city of Edinburgh, for a most atrocious murder, accompanied with circumstances which the law considers as open rebellion, and all this proved upon the fullest evidence, with council heard patiently, was fined 2000l. In the course of the evidence it was proved that previous information of this insurrection was given to the provost and magistrates, who refused to exert
themselves either to prevent or prosecute it; and as by charter the whole executive power was in them, their neglect or connivance necessarily stopped the course of justice, and made the intervention of Parliament necessary and proper.
But the town of Boston not having this power in them for a mere trespass committed, as the Governor declares, by persons disguised & unknown, without the least colour of evidence to charge it upon them, unheard in their defence, and the ordinary agent denied admission on their behalf is punished with the loss of their port, which besides the reparation demanded, cannot be of less injury to them than the irreparable loss of several hundred thousand pounds, even should the King restore the port just as it was, and as soon as possible after satisfaction made.
Such is the comparative measure of justice meted to the people of America. And what must recommend it more, they are told it is a measure of lenity; so that should they commit an atrocious murder, or an open act of rebellion, or rather should they be suspected of it, they must expect, instead of being fined, as the Cities of London & Edinburgh were to be exterminated from the face of the earth. Delenda est Carthago , the wise and humane quotation of Mr. Van, will then be an exact proportion of justice, and most assuredly, if you would be so good as to lay Boston, New-York and Philadelphia in ashes, you would from that moment render America entirely independent. The consequence of this will be, that one universal ruin will involve your trade, your manufactures, your shipping and your commerce. Whether the wisdom of Mr. Van will retrieve them, I know not; but in the mean time I would ask for what reason the substantial rule of justice, Audi et alteram partem , has been so shamefully violated in this proceeding against Boston.
JUSTICE.
From the PUBLIC LEDGER, April 9. TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND.
Friends and Fellow Countrymen, A s a Friend to my Country, and to Posterity, it gives me inexpressible Concern to see all the public Prints occupied by writers employed for the base Purpose of raising a Spirit of Resentment in you, against your American Brethren.
Government hath, from the Day of the Revolution, found Means to carry on Measures with an high Hand, by a Plan then laid down, and ever since, steadily adhered to, that of keeping, by Means of Places, Pensions, and Bribes, a constant Majority in the House of Commons. Thus have Administration been able to burthen you with whatever Taxes and Impositions they thought fit, the Majority receiving, individually, fifty-fold more out of the Money raised by those Impositions, than they in common with you, could themselves suffer by giving their Consent.
But at length it has been found, by the most able & subtle Financiers of these Kingdoms, that the Supplies necessary to the Payment of the Interest of the national Debt, (so wantonly incurred by profligate Ministers) and for carrying on the iniquitous practice of bribing your Representatives from your Service to that of the Ministry, cannot be longer raised in Britain;—they now therefore wish to extend to America their intolerable Impost, in order to enable them to continue their oppressive Tyranny over you.
The Motive of this Extension of Taxes to America every thinking Man must abhor, well knowing that the Design of Government is not to ease the British Subject of his Burthen, but to place his American Brother in a State of equal Oppression; I therefore hope the Americans will steadily oppose and refuse Submission to the present, and intended, arbitrary and unconstitutional taxations about to be imposed upon them, for by resisting tyranny only can they preserve their own Freedom, and render America an happy Asylum for Men desirous of enjoying that Liberty to which they are legally entitled, as to any other valuable Privilege, by birth-right.
CASSIUS.
Whereas the General Assembly of the Province of New-Hampshire has granted Twenty-four Pounds Proclamation Money, to pay an able Man for attending the LIGHT-HOUSE within said Province, for one Year—Whosoever is willing to undertake the same, may, by applying immediately at the Secretary's-Office, or to Capt. John Cockran's at Castle William & Mary, enter upon the Business.
THE SUBSCRIBER begs Leave to inform the Public, That he has lately erected, at a Place called Second-Falls, within two Miles of Durham-Landing, and about the same Distance from Lamprele River-Landing Place, a Double Grist MILL, and Bolting MILL, on a Stream that affords Plenty of Water the dryest Seasons; the Seive of the Bolting-Mill calculated for making the best of Flour, and will from good Wheat make Flour equal to any manufactured in New-York or Philadelphia, and will from Winter Rye, make excellent Flour, tho' not so white as that manufactured from Wheat.—He has also at the same Place a Mill for grinding new made Sythes, where any Sythe-Makers may depend on having Sythes ground as soon as sent, and in case they will leave them at any Place in Portsmouth, and give notice thereof, he will take them from thence, have them ground, and immediately returned, which shall be done without any more Cost than the common Price of grinding.—He has also there an excellent Fulling-Mill, under the Care and Management of two Persons, one of which regularly served to the Business of Cloathing and Dying in England; and the other has served with one of the best Cloathers in this Country. Those Persons who please to favor with their Custom, may depend on having Silks or Cloth of any Kind dyed and dressed in the best Manner, and of any Colour dyed in Europe, and may have silver or Gold Lace or Cloth of any Kind clean'd, and the Spots taken out; and in case of any Damage happening thro' the Carelessness or inattention of the Workmen, the Subscriber will be answerable to the Owners. Those Persons who find it more convenient to send their Cloth to Portsmouth, may leave them at Mrs. Hight's at the Ferry, and have them taken from thence, dressed in the Manner they direct, and return'd there again, free from any Expence for bringing or returning; and if more convenient may send them to the Subscriber's Dwelling-House at Durham-Falls. As there will be no Want of Water at any Season, those Gentlemen who incline to favour with their Custom may depend on the greatest Dispatch. Those persons who chuse to send YARN may have it dyed a Blue or any other Colour they incline; and every Favour shall be gratefully acknowledged by their humble Servant
JOHN SULLIVAN.
N. B. Said Sullivan will give Cash for any Cloth manufactured in this Country, fit for fulling, &c.
Durham May 23, 1774.
PROVINCE of NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
THE Government of this Province having determined that the Money due on the Notes issued by the Province Treasurer, on Government Security, be paid to the Possessors of those Notes before the Period stated in the Notes, and as soon as may be—The Possessors of those Notes are hereby Notified, that they may have the Principal and Interest of said Notes paid upon Application to the Province Treasurer, with Advantage, worth their Attention—And the sooner they apply for the same, the greater will be their Advantage.
GEORGE JAFFREY, Treasurer: Treasurer's-Office, May 20th 1774.

The following extraordinary BILLS, pending before the British Parliament, arrived in Captain Williamson, in 36 Days from Bristol, at Marblehead.
BOSTON, June 3, 1774.
A BILL for the impartial Administration of Justice in the Cases of Persons questioned for any Acts done by them in the Execution of the Law, or for the Suppression of Riots and Tumults, in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England.
WHEREAS in his Majesty's Province of Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, an Attempt hath been made to throw off the Authority of the Parliament of Great-Britain over the said Province; and an actual and avowed Resistance, by open Force, to the Execution of certain Acts of Parliament, hath been suffered to take place, uncontroled and unpunished, in Defiance of His Majesty's Authority, and to the utter Subversion of all Lawful Government.
And whereas, in the present disordered State of the said Province, it is of the utmost Importance to the general Welfare thereof, and to the Re-establishment of lawful Authority throughout the same, that neither the Magistrates acting in Support of the Laws, nor any of his Majesty's Subjects aiding and assisting them therein, or in the Suppression of Riots and Tumults, raised in Opposition to the Execution of the Laws and Statutes of this Realm, should be discouraged from the proper Discharge of their Duty, by an Apprehension, that in case of their being questioned for any Acts done therein, they may be liable to be brought to Trial for the same, before Persons who do not acknowledge the Validity of the Laws in the Execution whereof, or the Authority of the Magistrate in the Support of whom such Acts had been done:
In order therefore to remove every such Discouragement from the Minds of His Majesty's Subjects, and to induce them, upon all proper Occasions, to exert themselves in Support of the Public Peace of the Province and of the Authority of the King and Parliament of Great-Britain over the same; Be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual & Temporal, and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That if at any Time, within the Space of Years from and after the any Bill or Bills of Indictment shall be found against any Person for Murder, or other capital Offence, in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, and it shall appear by Information given upon Oath to the Governor, or in his Absence to the Lieutenant Governor, of the said Province, that the Fact was committed by the Person indicted, while he was either in the Execution of his Duty as a Magistrate, for the Suppression of Riots, or in the Support of the Laws of Revenue, or that he was acting in his Duty as an Officer of Revenue, or acting under the Direction and Order of any Magistrate for the Suppression of Riots, or for the carrying into Effect the Laws of Revenue, or aiding and assisting in any of the Purposes aforesaid; and if it shall also appear, to the Satisfaction of the said Governor or Lt. Governor respectively, that an indifferent Trial cannot be had within the said Province, in that Case it shall and may be lawful for the Governor or Lt. Governor to direct, that the Indictment shall be tried in some other of his Majesty's Colonies, or in Great-Britain, and for that Purpose to order the Person indicted, to be sent under a sufficient Custody to the Place appointed for his Trial; and that there may be no Failure of Justice from the Want of Evidence in such Cases, it shall and may be lawful for the Governor, or in his Absence the Lieutenant Governor to settle and assess a reasonable Sum to be allowed for the Expenses of such Witnesses as the Prosecutor, or the Person indicted, shall desire to be summoned; which Sum shall be advanced by the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs, to the Witness, who, upon the Receipt thereof, shall enter into a Recognizance before a Judge of the Superior Court, to appear and give Evidence upon the Trial of such Indictment.
And be it further enacted, That the Governor, or in his Absence the Lieutenant Governor, if he shall direct the Trial to be had in any other of His Majesty's Colonies shall transmit the Indictment, together with the Recognizances of the Witnesses, under the Seal of the Province, to the Governor of such other Colony; who shall immediately issue a Commission of Oyer and Terminer, and deliver or cause to be delivered the said Indictment, with the said Recognizances, to the Chief Justice, & such other Persons as have usually been Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer there; who shall have Power to proceed upon the said Indictment, as if the same had been found before them, & Trial shall thereupon proceed in like Manner, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the Offence had been committed in such Place: And in case the Governor, or in his Absence the Lieutenant Governor, shall direct the Trial to be had in Great-Britain, he shall then transmit the Indictment, together with the Recognizances of the Witnesses, under the Seal of the Province, to one of His Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, who shall deliver or cause to be delivered the same to the Master of the Crown Office, and the Indictment shall be tried in the next Term, at the Bar of the Court of King's Bench, in like Manner, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the Offence had been committed in the County of Middlesex.
A BILL for the better regulating the Government of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in North-America.
WHEREAS by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of England, made in the Third Year of the Reign of their late Majesties King William & Queen Mary, for uniting, erecting, and incorporating, the several Colonies, Territories, and Tracts of Land therein mentioned, into One real Province, by the Name of their Majesties Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England, whereby it was amongst other Things ordained and established, That the Governor of the said Province should from thenceforth be appointed & commissioned by their Majesties, their Heirs & Successors, it was however granted and ordained, That from the Expiration of the Term, for, and during which the Eight and Twenty Persons, named in the said Letters Patent, were appointed to be the First Councillors or Assistants to the Governor of the said Province for the Time being, the aforesaid Number of Eight and Twenty Councillors or Assistants should yearly Once every Year, for ever thereafter, be, by the General Court or Assembly, newly chosen:
And whereas the said Method of electing such Councillors or Assistants, to be vested with the several Powers, Authorities, and Privileges therein mentioned, although conformable to the Practice, theretofore used, in each of the Colonies thereby united, in which the Appointment of the respective Governors had been vested in the General Courts or Assemblies of the said Colonies, hath by repeated Experience, been found to be extremely ill adapted to the Plan of Government established in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, by the said Letters Patent herein before-mentioned, and hath been so far from contributing to the Attainment of the good Ends and Purposes thereby intended, and to the promoting of the internal Welfare, Peace, and good Government, or to the Maintenance of that just Subordination to, and Conformity with, the Laws of Great-Britain, that the Manner of exercising the Powers, Authorities, and
Privileges aforesaid, by the Persons so annually elected, hath for some Time past been such as had the most manifest Tendency to obstruct, and in great Measure defeat the Execution of the Laws, to weaken the Attachment of His Majesty's well-disposed Subjects, in the said Province, to His Majesty's Government, and to encourage the ill-disposed among them to proceed even to Acts of direct Resistance to, and Defiance of, His Majesty's Authority; and it hath accordingly happened, that an open Resistance to the Execution of the Laws hath actually taken place in the Town of Boston and the Neighbourhood thereof, within the said Province:
And whereas it is, under these Circumstances, become absolutely necessary, in order to the Preservation of the Peace and good Order of the said Province, the Protection of His Majesty's well disposed Subjects therein resident, the Continuance of the mutual Benefits arising from the Commerce and Correspondence between this Kingdom and the said Province, and the maintaining of the just Dependence of the said Province upon the Crown and Parliament of Great-Britain, that the said Method of annually electing the Councillors or Assistants of the said Province should no longer be suffered to continue, but that the Appointment of the said Councillors or Assistants should henceforth be put upon the like Footing as is established in such other of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in America, the Governors whereof are appointed by His Majesty's Commission under the Great Seal of Great-Britain:
Be it therefore Enacted, by the KING's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the so much of the Charter granted by their Majesties King William and Queen Mary, to the Inhabitants of the said Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England, and all and every Clause, Matter and Thing, therein contained, which relates to the Time and Manner of electing the Assistants or Councillors, for the said Province, and all Elections and Appointments of such Councillors and Assistants made in pursuance thereof, shall
and that from and after the said Council or Court of Assistants of the said Province for the Time being, shall be composed of such of the Inhabitants or Proprietors of Lands within the same, as shall be thereunto nominated and appointed by His Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, by Warrant under his or their Signet or Sign Manual, and with the Advice of the Privy Council, agreeable to the Practice now used in Respect to the Appointment of Councillors in such of His Majesty's other Colonies in America, the Governors whereof are appointed by Commission under the Great Seal of Great-Britain: Provided that the Number of the said Assistants or Councillors shall not at any one Time exceed nor less than
And it is hereby further Enacted, That the said Assistants or Councillors so to be appointed as aforesaid, shall hold their Offices respectively, for and during the Pleasure of His Majesty, his Heirs or Successors, and shall have and enjoy all the Powers, Privileges, and Immunities, at present held, exercised and enjoyed by the Assistants or Councillors of the said Province, constituted and elected from Time to Time, under the said Charter, except as herein after excepted; and shall also, upon their Admission into the said Council, and before they enter upon the Execution of their Offices, respectively take the Oaths, and make, repeat, and subscribe, the Declarations required, as well by the said Charter as by any Law or Laws of the said Province now in force, to be taken by the Assistants or Councillors, which have been so elected and constituted as aforesaid.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the said it shall and may be lawful for his Majesty's Governor for the Time being, of the said Province, or in his Absence, for the Lieutenant Governor, to nominate and appoint, under the Seal of the Province, from Time to Time, the Judges of the inferior Courts of Common Pleas, Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer, the Attorney General, Sheriffs, Provosts Marshals, Justices of the Peace, and other Officers to the Council or Courts of Justice belonging, and to remove the same without the Consent of the Council; and that all Judges of the inferior Courts of Common Pleas, Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer, the Attorney General, Sheriffs, Provosts Marshals, Justices, and other Officers so appointed by the Governor, or, in his absence by the Lieutenant Governor alone, shall and may have, hold and exercise, their said Offices, Powers, and Authorities as fully and completely, to all Intents and Purposes, as any Judges of the inferior Courts of Common Pleas, Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer, Attorney General, Sheriffs, Provosts Marshals, or other Officers, have or might have done heretofore under the Letters Patent, in the Third Year of the Reign of their late Majesties King William and Queen Mary, any Law, Statute, or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding.
Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing herein contained shall extend or be construed to extend to annul or make void the Commission granted before the to any Judges of the inferior Courts of Common Pleas, Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer, the Attorney General, Sheriffs, Provosts Marshals, Justices of the Peace, or other Officers; but that they may hold and exercise the same, as if this Act had never been made, until the same shall be determined by Death, Removal by the Governor, or other avoidance, as the Case may happen.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That upon every Vacancy of the Offices of Chief Justice and Judges of the superior Court of the said Province, from and after the the Governor for the Time being, or in his Absence the Lieutenant Governor, without the Consent of the Council, shall have full Power and Authority to nominate and appoint the Persons to succeed to the said Offices, who shall hold their Commissions during the Pleasure of his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors; and that neither the Chief Justice and Judges appointed before the said nor those who shall hereafter be appointed pursuant to this Act, shall be removed, unless by the Order of his Majesty, his Heirs or Successors, under his or their Sign manual.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Chief Justice, the Judges of the Superior Court, and the Secretary of the said Province, for the Time being, shall be, and they are hereby appointed, during their Continuance in their respective Offices, Justices of the Peace in and for every County of the said Province, and shall and may have, hold and enjoy, all the Powers and Authorities given to the Justices of the Peace by virtue of their Commission, or by any Act of the General Court of the said Province.
And whereas, by an Act of the General Court of the said Province, made in the fourth Year of the Reign of their late Majesties King William and Queen Mary, intitled, "An Act for regulating of Townships, Choice of Town-Officers, and setting forth their Power," the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the several Townships, rateable at twenty Pounds Estate, are authorised to assemble together, in the Month of March in every Year, upon Notice given by the Constable, or such other as the Select Men of the Town shall appoint, for the Choice of Select-
Men, Constables, and other Officers; and the Freeholders and Inhabitants are also empowered to make and agree upon such necessary Rules, Orders, and Bye-Laws, for the directing, managing, and ordering, the prudential Affairs, and to annex Penalties for the non-observance of the same, not exceeding twenty Shillings for one Offence; provided they be not repugnant to the general Laws of the said Province.
And whereas a great abuse has been made of the power of calling such Meetings, and the Inhabitants have, contrary to the Design of their Institution, been misled to treat upon Matters of the most general Concern, and to pass many dangerous and unwarrantable Resolves; for Remedy whereof, Be it enacted, That from and after the no Town-Meeting
shall be called by the Select Men, or at the Request of any Number of Freeholders, without the Leave of the Governor in Writing, expressing the special Business of the said Meeting, first had and obtained, except the annual Meeting in the Month of March, for the Choice of Select Men, Constables, and other Officers; and that no other Matter shall be treated of at such Meeting, except the Election of their aforesaid Officers, nor at any other Meeting, except the Business expressed in the Leave given by the Governor.
And whereas, in pursuance of an Act of Assembly of the said Province, made in the seventh Year of the Reign of William the third, and three other Acts of Assembly, made in the eleventh Year of the same Reign, Jurors, as well Grand as Petty, have been usually summoned and returned by the Constables of the several Towns, by virtue of Writs or Warrants directed to them by the Clerks of the several Courts, requiring them to assemble the Inhabitants of the said Towns, to chuse fit Persons to serve as Jurors for such Towns, and to summon and return such Persons so chosen; which practice of chusing Jurors and returning them, without the Intervention of the Sheriff has been found to be detrimental to the Administration of Justice; Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid, that from and after the next ensuing, so much of the said Acts of Assembly, and of all other Laws now in force, within the said Province, as directs the Returns of Juries to be made by the Constables, by an Election of the Inhabitants of the several Towns shall and all Jurors,
as well Grand as Petty, shall be returned by the Sheriffs of the several Counties, and no otherwise; and the Justices of the Superior Court of the said Province, at a convenient Time before the sitting of the superior Court in every County, and the Justices of the Peace for every County in the said Province, at a convenient Time before the sitting of the Quarter Session of such County shall issue their Precepts or Warrants to the Sheriff of such County, for such several Courts respectively to summon, out of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of such County qualified to serve upon Juries, such a Number of good and lawful Men as such precept or Warrant shall direct, to serve upon the Grand Jury at such respective Court; and such Persons, so summoned and returned by the said Sheriff, or such of them as shall appear, shall be impanelled and sworn the Grand Inquest for the Body of the County, and shall continue as such during the sitting of such respective Court, and until they shall be dismissed by the same; and in all Indictments, Informations, Actions and Causes, depending before the Superior Court, or any Court of Quarter Session, or Court of Common Pleas, in the said Province, which shall be at Issue and ordered for Trial, the Juries shall be summoned, impanelled and returned, by the Sheriff of the County, out of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the said County qualified to serve upon Juries, and shall be chosen and arrayed in such Manner and Form, and by and with such Regulations and Restrictions, as is directed and ordered in and by an Act of Parliament, made in the seventh and eighth Years of the Reign of his late Majesty King William the third, intitled, "An Act for the Ease of Jurors, and better regulating of Juries;" and one other Act, made in the eighth and ninth Years of the same Reign, intitled, "An Act to enable the Returns of Juries as formerly, until the first Day of November, one Thousand, "six Hundred and ninety seven;" and one other Act of Parliament, made in the third Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the second, intitled "An Act for the better Regulation of Juries;" and one other Act, made in the twenty-fourth Year of the same Reign, intitled "An Act for the better Regulation of Trials by Jury, and for enlarging the Time for "Trials by Nisi Prius, in the County of Middlesex."
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, that Lists of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the several Towns, qualified to serve upon Juries, shall be returned to, and recorded at, the Quarter Sessions for the several Counties, and shall be delivered to the several Sheriffs in Manner and Form as directed by the said Acts of Parliament, or any of them; and until such Lists of such Freeholders and Inhabitants shall be delivered as aforesaid, the Sheriff of any County shall and may summon and return fit Persons to serve upon Juries as aforesaid, out of the Body of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the County, qualified to serve upon Juries, according to his Judgment and Discretion, and whenever the Judges of the Superior Court shall award a special Jury to be struck (which they are hereby authorised and empowered to do in such Manner as special Juries have been usually struck in the Court at Westminster at Trials by Bar) and if the Sheriff of the County in which such Jury shall be awarded, shall not have received Lists of the Freeholders and Inhabitants qualified to serve upon Juries as herein before ordered and directed, such Sheriff shall attend the proper Office of the said Court with a List of the principal Freeholders and Inhabitants of the said County qualified to serve upon Juries, and the said special Jury shall be struck out of the said List; and it shall and may be lawful for the Justices of the said superior Court, and they are hereby authorised and empowered, upon the Motions of either of the Parties, in any Cause or Action which shall be brought to issue, to order the said Cause or Action to be tried in any County, other than the County in which the said cause or Action shall have been brought or laid, by a Jury of such other County, as they shall judge fit and proper, any Act of Assembly or provincial Law to the contrary notwithstanding.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all Clerks of Courts, Sheriffs, Constables, and other Persons within the said Province, to whom the ordering, making, delivering, or recording the Lists of the Freeholders and Inhabitants qualified to serve upon Juries as aforesaid, shall belong or appertain, according to the true Intent and Meaning of this present Act, and the said Acts referred to, who shall be guilty of any wilful Neglect, Default or Misfeasance, in carrying into Execution this Act, according to its true Intent and Meaning, shall incur and suffer such Fines and Penalties as are severally mentioned in the said Acts of Parliament hereby referred to; and all Persons who being duly qualified as aforesaid, shall be duly summoned to serve upon Juries in Manner aforesaid, and shall not attend such Service, shall incur and suffer such Fines and Penalties as by the Laws of the said Province, Jurors making default are now subject to.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Action shall be brought against any Sheriff, for what he shall do in Execution, or by Virtue of this Act, he may plead the general Issue, and give the special Matter in Evidence; and if a Verdict shall be found for him, he shall recover Costs.

BOSTON, June 5.
His Majesty's Ships, Frigates & Schooners, are now placed in such a Manner in Boston Harbour, as to prevent any Vessels going out or coming in, agreeable to the Act of Parliament for blocking up said Harbour, which took place Yesterday: to that we have reason to expect, that in a little time, the Town of Boston will be truly in a distressed & melancholy Situation.—GOD send us speedy Relief!
Yesterday, with a Christian Confidence of passing from this Vale of Tears to a State of Felicity and Joy, died Mr. RICHARD DRAPER, Printer to his Excellency the Governor, and the Honorable his Majesty's Council, in the 48th Year of his Age. The long and painful Illness which at length put a Period to his Life, he bore with uncommon Patience and Fortitude. A uniform Equanimity of Temper and Deportment, supported him through the Rage of the Times, and the Variety of Labours and Difficulties in the Path of his Profession. With a good Share of Understanding, cultivated by a steady Attention to his Duty as a Member of Society, he acquired the Friendship and Esteem of the Wife and Good. Being naturally of a weak & feeble Frame, he was repeatedly brought to the Confines of the Grave: But by these Intimations of Mortality was happily taught to prepare for an Existence beyond the present; and, we trust, he is gone to reap the Rewards of a good and faithful Servant.
S A L E M, JUNE 7, 1774.
Last Thursday his Excellency Governor GAGE came to Town from Boston, accompanied by a Number of Gentlemen, of that Place, in their Carriages. His Excellency was met on the Road by a large Number of the principal Gentlemen of this Place & Marblehead, and, with many civil and military Officers, formed a grand Procession. They entered the Town about Noon; and his Excellency being escorted to Col. Brown's, there received the Compliments of a great Number of Gentlemen on his Accession to the Government, with Congratulations on his safe Arrival.
The Anniversary of his Majesty's Birth, on Saturday last, was observed here, by his Excellency and many other Gentlemen, with suitable Demonstrations of the most affectionate Loyalty & Joy. And last Evening the Gentlemen of the Town gave a most brilliant Ball, at the Assembly Room, on the same Occasion; where his Excellency honoured the Company with his Presence. His Excellency the Governor resides at Danvers, about four Miles out of Town, at the elegant Country Seat of the Honourable Robert Hooper, Esq;
The Commissioners of the Customs now hold their Board in this Town.
This Day the Great and General Court or Assembly meets here.
Extract of a Letter from Baltimore, dated May 21.
"It is with great Concern we are to inform you, that we had a very severe and universal Frost in the Nights of the 4th and 5th Inst. which has been general through Virginia and this province, and how much farther we don't yet know; but this we are certain of, it has done the most incredible Damage to all the Fruits of the Earth, tho' most People are only now beginning to be sensible of it. All the Fruit, viz. Apples, Peaches, Cherries, &c. seem to be universally (with a few Exceptions) killed; but what is of infinitely more Importance, a very great Part of the Wheat and Rye (to what Proportion is yet uncertain) is in the same deplorable Situation. Various Opinions prevail on this dreadful Occasion; some conjecture there will not be the Amount of the Seed saved in many Places; others, that a third of the Crop at least is destroyed: But this on the whole seems to be highly probable, that there will not be a Handful of Wheat or Flour for Export next Season, if there is even sufficient for our own Use. By Accounts we have just received from Norfolk, it's imagined all the Wheat on James River is killed. We have one Consolation which few other Countries can experience under such Calamity, that we have a large Stock of Indian Corn, last Growth, on Hand; and that there is yet Time enough to plant more Corn on those Lands where the Wheat and Rye are killed, which many have already done."
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PORTSMOUTH, June 10, 1774.
Last Wednesday his Excellency the Governor sent the following Message to the Hon. House of Representatives, then sitting.
Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the Assembly,
As I look upon the Measures entered upon by the House of Assembly, to be inconsistent with his Majesty's Service, and the good of this Government, it is my Duty, as far as in me lies, to prevent any Detriment that might arise from such Proceedings—I do therefore hereby DISSOLVE the General Assembly of this Province, and it is Dissolved accordingly.
J. WENTWORTH.
Province of New-Hampshire, Council-Chamber, June 8th, 1774.
CUSTOM-HOUSE Piscataqua, June 9, 1774.
   Inward Entries, From,     Brig Dalton, Eleazer Johnson Guadaloup.   Brig Effex, Michael Hodge ditto.   Schooner Dolphin, Anthony Knap Tortuga.   Schooner Speedwell, Thomas Jones St. Eustatia.   Snow Dispatch, James Holland Grenada.   Cleared Outwards, For   Brig Resolution, Samuel Stacy West-Indies.   Brig Dalton, Eleazer Johnson ditto.   Brig Sally, John Hill ditto.   Brig Hannah, William Trefethen ditto.   Snow Industry, Shadrick Hodgdon ditto.   Sloop Dolphin, Daniel Tappan ditto.   Sloop Juno, Joseph Harris ditto.   Sloop Speedwell, Henry Swan ditto.   Sloop Hannah, William Combs ditto.   Sloop Victory, John Junkins ditto.   Schooner Dolphin, Anthony Knap ditto.   Schooner Speedwell, Thomas Jones ditto.   Schooner Nancy, Obed Hutchings ditto.   Schooner Betsey, Joseph Leathers ditto.   Schooner Industry, Robert Parker ditto.   Schooner Two Brothers, Aclee Rylea New-London.   Schooner Britannia, Joseph Stanwood Philadelphia.   Sloop Lively, Abner Lowell ditto.   Sloop Industry, Seymour Sherwood Rhode-Island.   Sloop Sally, Isaac Anderson New-Haven.   Ship Bilboa, Richard Stacy Baltimore.  
For want of Room we are obliged to omit the Debates in Parliament on the two famous Bills, for new modelling the Massachusetts, which were warm on all sides—it appears they had been twice read, and no doubt soon after completely finished.
Some domestic Articles, &c. obliged to omit for Want of Room.
Newly Imported,
And to be sold very cheap for Cash, By OLIVER BREWSTER, At his Shop in Pitt-Street, opposite Dr. Hall Jackson's,
NICE Callicoes and Patches, Ditto Copper-plate Furniture and Counterpanes, Cambricks, plain & flower'd Lawns, Aprons and Handkerchiefs, Muslin, Cat-Gut, Gauzes of all sorts, Ditto Aprons and Handkerchiefs, Spider Net, Paris Net, Cap Wire and Buckram, Barcelona & Paste Handkerchiefs, Irish Linnens and Sheetings, Russia Drab, Ravens Duck and Doublas, Clouting Diaper and Table Cloths, Cotton Check and Bed-Ticks, coloured and white Thread, all Numbers, Chip and Sattin Hatts, Black Persian, Alamode. Sattin and Capuchine Silks, Laced Sattins and Sarsenets, Nankeens, Mozeens and Ginghams, Dutch and Chivex de Frize Laces, Fashionable Ribbons, painted Gauze and stamped dit. Ducapes, plain and striped Lutestrings, Silk and Worsted Mitts and Gloves, Womens and Mens white and brown Thread ditto, white unglazed ditto, Ostrich Feathers, sewing Silks, Ivory, crooked-Horn & Barbers Combs, Men's and Women's Thread, Cotton and Worsted Hose, Umbrellos and Fans, Rich English Damasks, Cotton Velvet and Velverets, Thicksets, Breeches Pieces, and Tassities,—Pins, Needles, Tapes, Qualities and Garterings, &c.
Dr. Hemet's celebrated Essence of Pearl, and Pearl Dentifrice for the Preservation of the TEETH and GUMS, at the LONDON Prices.
As his Stay in Town will be but short, Gentlemen & Ladies will do well to apply soon, who will find it to their Advantage in dealing with him.]
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, STRAFFORD ss. THE Proprietors of Easttown, so called, in said County, are hereby Notified, to meet at the Dwelling House of Capt. David Copp in said Easttown, on Tuesday the 28th Day of this Instant June, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, then and there to vote as follows, viz. 1. To chuse a Moderator to regulate said Meeting. 2. To chuse all proprietary Officers that's thought necessary. 3. To see if the Proprietors will vote to exchange any part or all the School Lot. 4. To see how much Preaching the Proprietors will vote this Season, and whether they will vote to settle a Minister this Summer. 5. To see if the Proprietors will vote to lay out any new Roads and clear them. 6. To see if they will vote to chuse a new Committee to treat with the Governor and Council for an Incorporation. 7. To vote what Money the Proprietors think necessary. 8. To chuse all Committees that may be thought needful. All concerned are desired to attend at Time & Place aforesaid. By Order of the Assessors, JOHN GAGE, Proprietors Clerk. Dover, June 8, 1774.
ALL PERSONS Indebted to or that have Demands on the Estate of Sarah Gilman, late of Kingston, Widow, deceas'd, are desired to bring in their Accounts to Nicholas Gilman, of Raymond, Administrator to said Estate, in order for a speedy Settlement.
Stone-Lime.
A Few Hogheads of choice Stone LIME, Merchants COD FISH, — Jamaica Dit. HAKE, HADDOCK, and POLLOCK, to be sold cheap for Cash, by DAVID GRIFFITH, at the Sign of the Goldsmith's Arms, in Queen Street Portsmouth.
ALL PERSONS Indebted to, or that have Demands on the Estate of Elijah Allen, late of Kittery, Tanner, deceas'd, by Book or Note, are desired immediately to bring their Accounts in to Ephraim Allen, Administrator on said Estate, as he is determined to close the Settlement without Delay. And those Indebted, are desired to make speedy Payment. Kittery, June 3d, 1774.
R Anaway from me the Subscriber, on Sunday Evening the 22d Day of last May, a Servant BOY named David Page, who had on a brown homespun Coat, Jacket and Breeches, new Shoes, &c. Whoever will take up said Runaway and convey him to me, his said Master, shall have One Shilling Reward. All Persons are hereby forbid to harbour or conceal said Runaway, upon the Pain and Penalties of the Law. NATHANIEL WEARE.
SYTHES of different Sorts,
By the best Makers, to be sold by PETER PEARSE, High the Parade, by Wholesale or Retail, on the most Reasonable Terms.
To the Worshipful BEZALEEL WOODWARD, Esq; one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Grafton, in the Province of New-Hampshire.
WE the Subscribers, Owners of more than one sixteenth Part of the Township of HANOVER, in said Province, Request that a Meeting of the Proprietors of said Township may be called, to be held at the House of Jonathan Freeman, in said Hanover, on Tuesday the 28th Day of June next, at One of the Clock P. M. to act on the following particulars, viz. 1. To chuse a Moderator. 2. To ratify and confirm all and singular the Votes and Transactions of said Proprietors passed at their former Meetings. 3. To hear and accept the Report of the Committee appointed to lay out a sixty Acre Division in said Town, and make a Draft of said Division. 4. To hear and pass the Accounts of any Person or Persons that have done Service for said Propriety. 5. To agree upon some Method to warn Proprietors Meetings for the future. Jonathan Freeman, Aaron Storre, David Mason, Hanover, May 28, 1774. Province of New-Hampshire, Grafton, ss. May 28, 1774.
In Pursuance of the foregoing Request, I do hereby notify and warn a Meeting of said Proprietors of Hanover at the Time and Place, and for the Purposes above mentioned: BEZA. WOODWARD, Just. Pacis.
Lately Imported, and to be Sold cheap for Cash, By Samuel Hill,
GENERAL ASSORTMENT of PAPER HANGINGS, such as Cloth, Plain and Figur'd, 10 by 8, 9 by 7, 8 by 6 Crown Glass, by the Box or square.—Linseed OYL by the Cask or Gallon,—Spanish BROWN & white LEAD by the Cask or smaller Quantity.—GOLD LEAF, &c. Also, a General Assortment of COFFIN Furniture.
Last Day of Sale.
Next Tuesday at Three o'Clock in the Afternoon, at the House of the late SAMUL GRIFFITH, deceas'd, will be sold at PUBLIC VENDUE, Sundry Sails and Rigging, About Twenty Thousand Shingles, Tables, Chairs, Sacking Bottom Bedstead, Desk Furniture, Chest and Fall Locks, Cod Lines, Eleven Volumes of the New Hampshire Gazette, with sundry other Articles, &c. Stone Necklaces and Earrings, and Wax ditto. N. B. The Goods to be view'd at any Time before the Sale.
WE the Subscribers being appointed by the Honorable JONATHAN SAYWARD, Esq; Judge of Probate of Wills for the County of York, to Receive and Examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of the Rev. JOHN ROGERS, late of Kittery, deceas'd, Represented Insolvent, and six Months being allowed for that Purpose from January last past, hereby give Notice, that we shall attend said Business at the House of William Leighton, Innholder in said Kittery on the last Wednesday of June Instant, and the first Wednesday of July next, from two o'Clock to six in the Afternoon of said Days, James Gowen, William Leighton.
Thursday the 2d inst. Capt. Williamson arrived at Marblehead, in 36 Days from Bristol; by whom we have London Papers to the 26th of April, from which we have extracted the following interesting Advices, viz.
L O N D O N, April 12, 1775. A French Gentleman resident in Town at present, received a Letter by the last post, which says, "It was necessary for him to think of returning to Paris, unless he meant to reside in what would be soon declared an Enemy's country."
It was on Friday reported at the west end of the Town, that the French were marching down a body of 15,000 Men towards Dunkirk to be in readiness on the sea coast.
By the last letters from Paris we learn, that the disposition of the court is entirely changed, the Marshal Duc de Broglio having been appointed lately to one of the most lucrative military governments in France.
Nothing positive can be determined in the cabinet relative to the armaments going on in France, till Lord Stormont shall receive a categorical answer.
The Peterburgh Gazette of the 17th inst. contains the following paragraph: — "We are informed by very good authority, that some new Proposals have been made to her Imperial Majesty to negotiate the Peace between her and the Ottoman Porte; but she declared, not to make peace unless the Porte will pay her the expences of the war, (which is supposed to be about 100,000,000 of rubles) and grant her a free navigation in the Black Sea, and the independency of the Crimea-Tatars."
There are letters in town of good authority, which positively assert, that the grand French fleet will not be ready to proceed to sea from Toulon, till the 20th of May at soonest.
A correspondent wonders that the Bostonian Rebels are not in favour at Court, for they have gone full as great lengths as any of the Court favourites did in forty-five; and many of the active people there were born on the right side of the Tweed.
Governor Hutchinson, we hear, has already been acquainted that he must prepare himself for a parliamentary inquiry as soon as he arrives in this kingdom.

Daniel Humphrys
Takes Leave to acquaint the Public, THAT having been regularly bred to the Practice of the Law in a Neighbouring Colony, where he pursued the Business for several Years; and having been admitted at the superior Court, and Inferior Court of Common Pleas in the County of Rockingham; He proposes to practice in the various Branches of that Profession—He gives constant Attendance at his Office in the House where he now lives, which is next Door to the Hon. Mark H. Wentworth, Esq's, where any Person may have Conveyances, Agreements, and all other Kinds of Writings drawn with Care and Dispatch.—He hopes he shall execute any Business that may be intrusted to his management with such Fidelity as to give Satisfaction to those who may please to employ him.
Portsmouth June 2, 1774.
Choice COTTON-WOOL
To be sold by JOHN EVANS.
SIX DOLLARS REWARD.
RANAWAY from his Master Micum McIntyre of York, a Negro Servant named CATO, the 28th of May last, about 36 Years of Age, of a yellow Complexion, thick set, about five Feet nine Inches high. Had on when he went away, a brown home-spun Coat with Brass Buttons, a white Woolen Jacket, a check'd Woolen Shirt, blue Halfthick or Moose Skin Breeches.—Masters of Vessels and others are cautioned not to entertain or carry him off, &c. Any Person who shall apprehend the said CATO, and return him to his said Master, or commit him to any of his Majesty's Goals, and notify his said Master thereof, is that he may obtain said Negro again, shall have Six Dollars Reward and necessary Charges paid MECUM MC INTYRE,
Boarding School.
THE Subscribers beg Leave to inform the Public, That they have opened a SCHOOL opposite Mr. James Hallett's, in King Street, where they teach Young LADIES all sorts of Work, in the neatest and best Manner, viz. Working Samplers, Pictures, Coat of Arms, &c. at the low Price of Six Shillings Lawful Money per Quarter — Plain Work at Five and six Pence — Reading, &c at Five Shillings — Good Attendance given at said School from 8 o'Clock 'till 12, and from 2 'till 5, — And every Favour gratefully acknowledged, By their Humble Servants, Sarah Winkley, Elizabeth Hill,
N. B. BOARDING at a cheap Rate for Young Misses from the Country.
Part of a Raft of White Oak
PLANK afloat was taken up the 26th of May last, between the Isle of Shoals and Boar Head. The Owner may have them again by applying to Jeremiah Lock of Rye, and paying Charges.
ALL PERSONS interested in the Real Estate of Elisha Johnson, late of Hampton, in the County of Rockingham, Yeoman, deceased, Intestate, are hereby Notified, that Ezra Johnson, one of the Heirs of said deceased, hath made Application to the Hon. JOHN SHERBURNE, Esq; Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. for the County aforesaid, for a Division of said Real Estate among the Heirs according to Law; and the Parties interested may attend at a Court of Probate to be held within and for the County of Rockingham, on the last Wednesday of June next, to show Cause, if any they have, why the Prayer of said Petition should not be granted. Dated at Portsmouth, this 30th Day of May 1774.
By Order of the Judge, SAM. HALE, junr. L. T. R.
The Subscriber having an
ACCOUNT, that JOSEPH WEST, is now in some Part of North America, who was born in David's Town near Waxford, in the Kingdom of Ireland, Son of Thomas and Mary West; if the above named Joseph will make the best of his Way to said Subscriber, he shall hear and be certified of a hand some Annuity during Life, after his Arrival in his native Country: GREGORY PURCELL. Portsmouth, New Hampshire, May 30, 1774.
CASH to be given for a very GOOD New Milch Cow, and a good Price. Enquire of the Printer.
TO BE SOLD
By Edward Emerson,
Opposite the Town-House in York, A General Assortment of English and West-India Goods— among which are the following, viz. Broad-Cloths, Serges, Tammies, Shalloons, Chincies, Calicoes, &c.—Also Cotton-Wool, Flower, Pewter, Iron, and Brazery-Ware—Pork and Corn, Rum, Sugar, Molasses, Coffee, Chocolate; &c all Sorts of Spices; as cheap for Cash or short Credit, as in any County of the Province.
The Proprietors of DUMMER
are desired to give their punctual Attendance, at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton, Innholder at Portsmouth, on Thursday the 23d Day of June Instant, at 5 o'Clock, P. M. to which Time and Place their Meeting stands adjourned.
PAUL LANGDON, Pro. Clk.
Portsmouth, June 1st, 1774.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
STOLEN out of the Stable of the Widow Susannah Markin in Falmouth, Casco-Bay, the Night after the 24th Inst. a white or light grey MARE, five Years old, Legs newly trimmed, branded X on the left shoulder; supposed to be stolen by Nicholas Blaisdel, John Merrill, or Daniel Sawyer, all of Casco-Bay; whoever will apprehend said Thief or Thieves, so that they may be brought to Justice, and return the said Mare to Mr. Bradbury at said Falmouth, so that the Owner may have her again shall have twenty Dollars Reward by WILLIAM ALFORD.
§ BOW §
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Rockingham ss. THOSE Proprietors of BOW that have not paid their Taxes, and had their Lands advertised for Sale at Vendue, in the Gazettes dated August 13th, 20th and 27th, A. D. 1773, are hereby notified that said Vendue stands adjourned to Monday the 20th Day of this instant June, at 9 o'clock in the Forenoon, to be held at the House of Mr. Benjamin Mead, Innholder in Newmarket) and as the Act rendering Lots of Land held in severalty, subject to pay Taxes was Temporary and expired, said Vendue hath been kept a long Time under adjournments, but said Act being now revived, therefore said Delinquents may depend that so much of their Lands will be sold at time and Place aforesaid, as to pay their Taxes, and all incidental Charges. June 1st, 1774. WALTER BRYANT, Collector.
TO BE SOLD
ABOUT two Thirds of a House, lately belonging to the Estate of Daniel Pickering, deceased, near the Mill Dam. Enquire of the Printer.
ALL Persons indebted to or that have any Demands on the Estate of Jeremiah Webster, Esq; late of Kingstown deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts to Jonathan Lad Webster, of Kingstown, Executor to the said Estate, in Order for a speedy Settlement.
Whereas David Langley, the
Husband of me the Subscriber, has asserted in this Gazette, that I lost him and run him in Debt, &c. which is absolutely false, as can be proved by the People that lived in the House with us, and by our Neighbours; but on the contrary, after he had, (on the most frivolous Occasions) beat and abused me at sundry Times, left me without any just Provocation, wholly destitute of every Necessary of Life.
Durham, May 26, 1774. Alice Langley.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, COURT OF VICE ADMIRALTY } ANY PERSON or PERSONS claiming PROPERTY in two thousand White Pine Logs or Trunks of White Pine Trees; of the Diameter of twelve Inches and upwards, seized by Order of the SURVEYOR GENERAL at different Places on the Eastern Banks of Connecticut River and on said River, in the Province of New Hampshire, may appear at a Court of Vice-Admiralty to be held at the Court House in Portsmouth, in the County of Rockingham, in the Province aforesaid, on Thursday the 23d Day of June next, at three of the Clock in the Afternoon, and show Cause, if any they have, why the same should not be decreed Forfeited, agreeable to an INFORMATION filed in said Court. Dated at Portsmouth, this 21st Day of May, 1774. Per Curiam, JOHN SHERBURNE, D.R.
Warrantes and Quitclaim Deeds, Justice Blank, Bail Bonds, Shipping Papers, &c. Sold at the Printing Office.
§ Dartmouth. §
Province of New Hampshire, Rockingham, ss. Application having been made to me the Subscriber, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace thro' the Province, by the Proprietors or Owners of more than one sixteenth part of the Township of Dartmouth, in the County of Grafton, and Province aforesaid, requesting me to call a Meeting of said proprietors for the following Purposes, viz — 1. To chuse a Moderator to govern said Meeting.— 2. To chuse a Clerk, Assessors, Collector, and Treasurer.— 3. To vote such Sums of Money as may be necessary for making Bridges, building a Saw Mill and Grist Mill, or any other Purposes that the Proprietors shall judge for the Benefit of the Township.— 4. To see what Encouragement they will give to the first Settlers.— 5. To act on any other Matter Proprietors shall think proper for bringing forward the Settlement of said Township.— 6. To agree upon a Method of calling Meetings in future.
In Consequence of said Application, I do hereby Notify and Warn the Proprietors of said Township of Dartmouth, to meet at the House of James Stoodley, Esq; Innholder in Portsmouth, on Thursday the 23d Day of June next, at eight o'Clock, P. M. for the Purposes aforesaid. Portsmouth, May 24th 1774.
DANIEL ROGERS, Just. Peace.
WE the Subscribers being appointed by the Honorable JOHN SHERBURNE, Esq; Commissioners to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of Ezekiel Varney, late of Dover, Blacksmith, deceased, Represented Insolvent, and six Months being allow'd for that Purpose, hereby give Notice, that we will attend said Business at the House of Thomas Shannon, Innholder in Dover, on the First Tuesday in June next, and the first Tuesday in the five following Months, at One o'Clock Afternoon of said Days:
Dover, May 25, 1774.
Jacob Sawyer, Caleb Hodgdon.
Whereas Sarah Clark, late of
BOSTON, in Suffolk County, Widow, deceased, Intestate (who was a Daughter of Robert Bronsdon, late of said Boston, deceased) was interested in a 4th part in 800 Acres of Land at a Place called Coxhall, in the County of York, (now called Sanford) by the last Will of her Father Robert Bronsdon, and also a 4th part by Purchase from the Heirs of Mary Evans, who was also a Daughter of the said Robert Bronsdon, making in the whole one half the said 800 Acres:—This is to give public Notice, that so much of the said Sarah Clark's Interest in the 800 Acres lying in common and undivided, will, by Virtue of an Order of the Superior Court of Judicature, &c. of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, be exposed to sale at public Auction, on Thursday the 14th Day of July next, at the Dwelling House of Elisha Prebble, Innholder in York, at Five o'Clock Afternoon, as will raise Fifty three Pounds Lawful Money, for the Payment of the Debts of the said Sarah Clark, deceased.— For further Particulars and Conditions of Sale, enquire of Mr. Thomas Greeneough the Administrator, living in Boston, or Mr. Jeha Stone of York.
N. B. The Land lies and adjoins to the Head of Wells, and to the N. E. of Mountain River.
TO BE SOLD,
A Farm adjoining Kennebunk
River, in the Township of Wells, containing about 50 Acres, two Thirds of it under good Improvement, and in due Proportion for Tillage, Mowing and pasture.—The Situation exceeding convenient for a Trader or Tradesman, lying at the Head of the Tide. The House and Barn well finished, within 15 Rods of the principal Landing for Boards and other Lumber; and adjoining the Interest of Waldo Emerson deceased, a late and prosperous Merchant in those Parts. Also within a Mile of the Meeting House, and near two Grist Mills, Saw Mill, Iron Works, and Building-Yard. Conditions of Sale may be known at Capt. Kimball's in said Wells, Innholder, or of Moses Little, Esq; in Newbury-Port, Merchant. Wells April 25, 1774.
RANAWAY on Friday the 14th Instant from the Subscriber, an Apprentice BOY, named Job Jennings, about 18 Years of Age, of a light Complexion, with light Hair:—Had on when he went away, black Stockings, green Jacket, brown Coat and Leather Breeches.—Whoever will take up said Apprentice, and bring him to me, or secure him, and send me Word, shall have One Shilling Reward.—And all Persons are forbid to harbour, conceal and carry off said Apprentice. Kingstown, May 18. 1774. JOHN CALEF, junr.
All Persons indebted to or that Have any Demands on the Estate of John Tuttle late of Dover, deceased, are desired immediately to bring in their Accounts unto Paul Tuttle, Silas Tuttle, or Job Tuttle, Executors of said Deceased, in order for a speedy Settlement. Dover, May 16th, 1774.