The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, December 31, 1756, Page 3

B oo 8y { ‘» ofhis Majefty's Royal Commiffids, appointed snd com- ) - ) " jefy _ miflionated the Hon. ANDREW OLIVER, Efg; !0«"?*5 W%i":' L ®4 ~Secretary of this Province, imthe roo ¥ ym. and -ftead ofthe Hoo. JOSIAH WILLARD, firoed th Province for the Time being. ' .We.have Advice from the Weft % G e D, Efg; deceas'd uotil his Ma-- e pleafed othgrwife 10 ozder and appoint ;.o . until the further Order of the Commander ig Chief of .this. . - _Blagchard and Ruft, both bound from this_Place to the Wef-Indies, in Brigantines, were taken by a French Priva- . teer and carried into Guadaloupe : And that Capt. Jacocks, in a Sloop. of this Place; was taken by a{mall French Pri- _ vateer, and afterwards rétaken by an' Englifh Privateer, - » who alfo took the French Man; and carried ‘them both in- \J € to one of the Englith Iflands. - It is alfo faid, that Capt. Fones, in a Rhode. Iland Privateer, had taken a Prize and " carried her into Antigua. v We hear a Veflelis arriv'd at Newbury, in 5 Days from Halifax, the Mafter of which Iforms, That before he fail’d * a Store.fhip arriv'd there from Treland, which fail'd under € Convoy of ¢ Men of War bound to that Place. Thurfday Night Jaft began a very heavy Storm of fnow #t'N. W. which continued all the next Day ; in the midft of it; Capt. Smith who left London the 18th of Oober, arrived off Marblehead, where he was obliged to anchor ; ~ and the florm ftiil increafing he was forc'd to cut away his Main and Mizen-Mafts, in order to fave the Veflel. Capt. Smith" with great Difficalty rede it out, having one Man froze ta Death, and. the reft.almoft fpent : He cametow'd flels, having nothing but in the Brig Edward of this Place, Sandford late Malter: fhe was taken the 25th of O&ober laft, by a French Pri- vateer, knd afrerwards retaken by His Majelty’s thip the Seahorfe, and carried into Newfoundiand. : This Morning began, and now continuaes at the Publi- : “chtion- hereof, thefevereft form of Wind and fnow known for many Years paft. December 27. The Storm we had here on Monday laft, B« did confiderable Damage to the Wharves ; at the Long- L4 « wharfa great Quantity of Boards, Shingles, Staves, Maits, Yirds, Hogeads, Barrels, and other things were wafhed . on and off ; the fmall Crane Houfe at the lower End was floated a confiderable Way up the Wharfe, as was the Re- mains of the Break Work there. The Damage done to the Salt, Sugars, &c. is al{o very confiderable. A great Quan- tity of Lumber, &c. and fome Hundred Cords of Wood, - were wathed off other Wharves in Town. In the Heighth of the abowe Storm, Capt. Blunt, of this * * "Fown, in a Schooner bound hither’from the Bay of Hon- duras, falling withio our Bay, was drove afhore at Scituate high and dry, and ’tis thought the Veflel will be bilg'd : ived Ca;itj Brown, from Newfoundland, * Onthe Veflel's firl firiking, the Mafter was thrown over- * board by the Violence of the fhock : He was foon aftes ‘efcaped unhurt, y's and Pepperrel’s Regiments, who had not join'd with: - when the Forr at Ofwego wastaken, arrived i . -'f,é;;zfi:iiésq.ws.:g.a;snwm fent to Caftle, Willians, rom Wrentham we hear, That Yefterday was 7 -vight, 3 as feven Men were attending.the Fugnace there, it by fome Accident blew up, whereby, two,Men were inftantly kill'd, Indies;, That C : " 4 : ife is'defpair’d of, and a fourth much burt ;. the reftthro’ good Providence, e hear that feveral Pieces of Wreck drove afhore on' Plumb Ifland in the late ftorm, but tis not’known what ~ Veflzl, tho’ tis imagin'd all en board perithed. - : We hear from Marblehead, that on Friday laft the Town muftered with Drums beating and Shovels flying, and in a few Hours clear’d the Road from thence to Salem, (being § Miles) notwithftanding the Snow in general was between 3 and 4 Feet deep. » Yefterday Capt. Wilfon came np from London, but laft from Cape-Ann, where he had lain near a Fortnight, waiting fora Wind. ) . From New Yoik, via Rhode-Ifland, we hear, that one of their Privateers bas taken and fent ipto. Port another French Prize, fince that fent in by the Harlequin, as men- tioned in our laft. Yefterday Noon departed this Life, in the 61t Year of his Age, after a thort Confinement, Berjamin Poliard, Elq; who for above 13 Years paft has been High Shenff for the County of Suffolk. ‘ s Bne i Extral of a Letter from the Rev. Mr. Whitcfield; Sterling; (Scotland) Sept.a7th 1756, : - 1 hawe only Time to acknowledge the Receipt of your laft kind Fawour, and to let you know that dmerica, dear America, lays much upon my Heart, and that I am exciting all to: pray Sfor it both in public and private every Day ; after preacking © at Sterling this Evening, 1 am now veturning teo Edinburg,. and from thence to London— perbaps one Time or another the . Cloud may move. to your ncw World again.—1 am <caiting. ' for feme important News. Lord Loudon bears a mofl exeellent. Chara&er— May the Lord of all Lords be aith'bim, and all thife that are heartily engag’d in their Country's Caufe. PORT S MOU FH ° : Parifl of Greenland, Decenb. 27. . Laft Lord’s Day Merning a Fire broke out in the Cham- ber of the Parfonage Houfe in this Parith, occafioned by the Heat of the Hearth, which was'laid but the Thicknefs of a. Tile over the Girt. It found Vent into a Clofet a little before Day break, which was all'in Flames, and burnt thro’ the Wainfcot into the Chamber, and was penetrating into the Garret, before it was difcovered— Bat the Houfe was happily faved, tho’ neither Ax nor Water could he got fo {peedily as was neceffary, by beating out' and: keeping down the Flame with a Wollen Coverlid, ’till there was fufficient Help to take up the-Hearth, and extinguith the Fire. ‘ : : The Brig Nancy of this Port, commanded by Capt." taken up and bro’t afhore ; and, hoping there might be - George Libbey,was forc’d on' fhore in the'late florm feveral very, but to no Purpofe.— He was efteem’d a valuable Mafter by all that-have employ'd him ; and haslefta for- : rowful Widow, with feveral Children. Since our laft, between 3-& 400 Mep, belongingto Shir- . pug™i Fd ~ « fome Remains.of Life, Endeavours were us’d for his Reco+* Leagues to the Eaftward of this Harbour, in hér Paffage pithe Weft Indies ; the Veflel is bilg’d, but the Men o are faved. ay laft a Veflel from Hallifax bound to Bofton, ¢, in which-came Mr. Winflow, and Greenof ( -~ Sl g o Bofton, .~ fro an