The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1772-05-21
MA ssACfIusE fTS SPY. for H72
May Ill.

and endirg, j: ofthe highefi confequence 10
his Msjetty's fubjees, and requires to he
looked after and attended to with all ina
ginab'e circumlpe6iion And whereas II
might be of the nof dangerous conisquence
to, and highly defruetive IF the libertits
and properties of bis Majeay's fubjeds, to
permit innovations of a nature and tendency
10 extraordinary and dangerous TO pats with
GU; 10 ice or oblervation, and filence might
he oonArued an acquieicence therein And
whereas it has already been repteiented by
a ::Ilion to his faid Excelleney William
Ley borne Leyborne, that the wits by him
lately ihusd are illegal, Inefficient for the
purPofe of calling together lawful anem-
bly,, and will add TO the many inconveaences
| and difrtfes under which this colony is al
preient labouring, ard from which it can
only be freed by an exertion of the falutary
powers lodged by contribution in a egiAa-
ture lawfully convened We, therefore, the
undersigned fieeholders Of this town, ANNA
ted by a juf ienfe of our right by law to be
legally repIefented, and in the hope that his
Maiefy's Governor will take the circum-
fances of the Gtuation of the colony into
bis mott ferrous confederation, and adminifer
fuch relief as he hath in his power, and b4
law may DOL the mean time, proteff againif
the fsid proclamation of The thirty-hrif of
| December, one tboufand feven hund ed and
fxty. eight, and the faid writs, and againft
the election for this town, and other elections
in conlequence thereof And we declare,
that fuch ahembly will not be lawful re-
Proclamation of the inhabitants of this lnand,
and consequently will be without power to
make laws, and do any other aa, matter or
thing, TO bind the faid I'M. abitants; and that
we lhal think outielves obliged, or in duty
bound, to pay any regard or obedience to
any iuch laws, or to any refolutions, orders,
DEGREES. or mandates of an ahembly made to-
commence in a manner, 70 unwarrantable
and extraordinary, after recent experience
of the evils brought upon the colony by the
| fame mealure."
The sd February, sf 49,
(Sigped by twenty one freeholders.)
Saturday laft Patrick Kennedy was execu-
ted at CheRer, purfuansto his fentence, for
committing rape On the body of Jane
Walker. Thomas Fryer, Neil M'Carahcr,
and James Davis, who received fcntence of
death with him for the fame offence, were
reprieyed under the gaIIows.
AT court of Oyer and Terminer, and
general goal delivery, held laff week at Sa-
lem, Mr.. Talbert, who had been confined
in goal on fufpicion of numbering his wifes
was honourably acquitted, there being no Dill
found againa him. -.
We hear from Grenada, the beginning of
March, that ieveral of The parifhes had reiu-
fed to return any members in confequence
of the writs iilued for chu6ng Representatives.
NEWPORT, May II. On the morning :
the third infant, FIRE broke out at New
York, in the Drill houfe of Mr. HoitEo
and company, which confumed it, with a
large quantity ofiugar and molailss that was
therein; and before the flames could be got
under, nine dwelling houfts, and fundry o.
Their houfes damaged. The lois of effects
by the fire, and the iudden removal of many
neighbours, was very comfortable.
Saturday evening fe'nnight, we had very
iharp lightning in this town, but the thun-
der was notvery bard, owing to the clouds
psihng at icme dIitsnce to the Norihraf-
ward. AT Middlelown, or this ifland is
truck crib, belonging to Mr.lfsac Man.
chefer, two corner potts of which it fplit to
pieces, and made about dozen holes, near
the bigneis of Buck ihot, through the Aat
fone'on. which the crib food.