The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, December 2, 1756, Page 3

o o ¥ ’ b 4 . Fogeuax, Litchfield, and Nightingale, {et {ail from this Place, _the three former for England, and the latter for New York, ‘the Place of her Station. Remains, the Notzingham of 6o Guns, and the Pulture, and Baltimore Sloops of War, P. L 4DELPHI 4, Ober 18. We haw #Advice from Berks County, that on faturday the 6th Inftant, a Woman and 4 Children were carried off by the Indians near the Allemangle ; that oue Child being in a Turnip Patch, and feeing the Indians run towards the Houfe, made its Efcape ; that another Child, of 6 Weeks old, was left in a Cradle ; and that a Hatchet made in the fhape of a Flower de Luce, was found fticking in the Door of the Houfe. The Man that belonged to the Place hap- . pened to be from Home when the Affair happened. 'T'he Enemy carried off nothing from the Houfe but a Saddle, and a wide Coat. N EW.Y O RK, November 22. « A Letter from one of our Naval Officers taken on Onta- rio Lake, dated Quebec O&ob. 8, to a Gentleman in Al- bany, brought thither by a Friend Indian, . mentions that " himfelf and Brother Captives were a!l well, and then on the Point of being put on board Veflels for Europe. We hear from St. Kitts, that the French for want of fea- faen, have fitted out but few Privateersin the Welt Indies, and thofe met with but little fuccefs ; and that in the late . bad Weather, feveral Vefiels were loft there, at Montferat and other Places ; but no confiderable Damage fuftain’d on the Iflands. Letters from North Carolina advife, that the Affembly of that Province are bringing in another Aid Bill, to keep up their Forces the enfuing Year (which Governor Dobbs bhas very much at Heart) by laying a Tax on the Proceed- ings of the Law, on Deeds, Conveyances, &c.That feveral Families were lately deftroyed on the Hecad of Roanoak, by French Indians. And that the Chaplain, and fome Of. ficers of the Royal American Regiment, were arrived there to raife Recruits, in which the Chaplain particularly met with gbed fuccefs: Several Companies of Battocmen, who went to the Northward early in the {pring, came down fince our laft from Albany, and are gone to their refpective Homes. And other Bodies of the Royal Americans arrived here Yefterday from the fame Place. A French Dogger, valued at about 3000 |. arrived here ~on Thurfday laft, taken and fent in by the Peggy Privateer of this Port, Capt. Hadden, on the 16th of lalt Month, in the Latitude of Bermuda. The fame Day Capt. Bethel arrived here in twenty two- Days from St. Kitts, and informs us, That a Day - or two before he failed, the Privateer Brig Oliver Cromwell of that Place, had brought into that Ifland a large French fhip of twenty two Guos and 100 Men, boucd from Old France for Martineco, which fhe tock after a defperate Engage- ment, to Windward of that [fland. The Cromwell receiv- ed fo many fhot in her Hull in the Ation, that the was nigh ready to fink, when the brave Englith . Tars, in order to avoid perithing in the Ocean, with the greateft Refoluti- on boarded the thip, ftruck her Colours, and carried her ; ‘and at the fame Time faved the poor Cromwell, who they * . but a few Minutes before had entirely deferted —A {loop for Philadelphia failed in company with Capt. Bethel. .. Oa the 10th of fept. lalt in Lat, 25. Long. 16, Captain v € ok 1 - - Bethel met aWreck at fea,on hisPaflage from hence for the Weft Indies, which he imagined was a floop bound to the Northward, by her keeping partly above Water : fhe had a Quarter Deck, was newly painted, Wales yellow, ftern green, and had had fome Guns, as there was a carriage or - two floating along fide, and feveral new fpars. ; Extralt of a Letter from Honduras Bay, O&. 6. 1756. We received the 4th Inftant by a Flag of Truce, two Letters from the Governor of Meridith. The firft, dated the sth of July, intimated, that by erefting a Fort, and bringing down foldiers, was, as they imagined,with a View to maintain and make this Place our own, which was atu~ ally contrary to the crowned Heads. ; and that unlefs we could produce Authority from his Britannick Majefty, for {ettling this Place, we mult depart hence ; neither did he limit any Time for our fo doing. ‘“ The. fecond-is dated the 14th of fept. and intimates, . that we had been guilty of a Breach of Peace, in erefling faid Fortifications, as it never was his Intention to {uffer his People to commit any Hofilities, neither as yet had they : - Therefore muft direétly depart from the Bay, or elfe he - would forthwith difpateh an Army to drive us.” B O § T O N, November 29. Capt. Sinclair in the fhip Three Brothers, who arrived here the Beginning of laft: Week, left London the latter~ end of {eptember, came down Channel with feveral Vefiels for this Place, viz. Kirkwood in a faow, Cathcart in a thip, - Bethone, Pinkham, and Folger, in Brigs.. While Capt. Sinclair was loading at Neewcaftle the Beginning of ®©¢tober, there was a very violent ftorm of Wind which lafted abouc five Hours, great Damage was done thereby on fhore, by the blowing down feveral Houfes and the Roofs of many others : And in the Harbour corfiderable Damage done to the Shipping ; his Veflel was near Foundering at Aachor, two Keels funk along fide of him; and feveral of the Men therein drowned @ fe is thought a great deal of Damage ° was done by the ftorm in the Channel of England, as the Wind was at about fouth.—Capt. Sinclair had bat fix - Weeks Paflage from Newcaftle, and. 30 Days from the Orkneys, but brought no publick Prints. Capt. Reed from » Newecaftle, on his Paflage hither, met with feveral Pieces’ of Wrecks at Sea, after the above {torm. Tuefday laft a fine Ship about 350 Tons, lately taken from the French off Lou'fbourg, arrived here from Halifax,. to be fitted ‘out for a Privateer. Tis faid fhe belongs to an Off cer in* his Majefty’s Troops at Halifax, and is an ex-- cellent Sailor. Lalt Thur(day came Paffenger in a fithing {chooner from” Halifax, Capt. Sawyer, who was Mafler of a Brigantine belonging to this Piace, bound hither from Lifben, but was. taken the firft Inftant, about 5o Leagues to the Eaftward of Cape Ann, by a French fchooner. Piivateer, and carried into Lovifbourg ; from whence he was releas’d by an Ex- change of Prifoners, and fent to Halifax. We hear that befides the above Brigantine, a Veffel from. Ireland for , a Liverpool Man for Philadelphia, eight other Veflels, befides two New Yorkers bound for the Weft Indies, (notwithftanding their Number of Guarda Coltas) have been lately taken by a {fma'l French . Privateer of 6 Carriage and a few Swivel Guns, and carried into EouiDontek - - o U G a3 Lait