The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, April 22, 1757, Page 1

/ Friday, April 22. 1757. : 2y With ke Frefbeft e s Adf:)i‘c‘es f Charleflown, in South Carolina, March 3. b r - § we have had but oné of his Majeftys Ships ftati- A oned here at a Time, fince the prefent War began ; ‘and all Men of War now in thefe Parts, L& are ordered to repair to Halifax by d certain “Day ; we hear, that two Veflels of Force willjfoon be Jfitted out, to proted our Trade, and guard our Coafls, ‘ither by the Government, or by Subfcription of the *Merchants. j feal ; We do not yet hear of any Englih Men of War ruizing off Muftifippi ¢ But we hearofagreat Number Rof French Tranfport Ships going thither with T'roops, &c. ,: An Exprefs is juft arrived from Fort Lotidoun, at Tennelce, with an Account of the fafe Arrival of Lieat. ray and the Reinforcements lately fent thither ; and at all is well and quiet in the Cherokee Nation. March 10. A Gentleman who lives at the Yadkin, writes to a Friend of his here, of the 1gth ult. ¢ That Jr3 Catabaw TIndians, had jot pafled by there, from Fort Cumberldnd, with four French Scalps, which they ‘got {with fome others they lhad delivered to ‘the Go- vernor of Virginia) in feveral Skirmifhes near Fort du Quenfe, and loft only two of their Men : That 17 corit - pleat Catawba Warriors paffed by his Houfe the Ddy + ‘before, going to War againft the French : And that they inform'd him, King Fagler wis to follow ina few Days with a 100 inore.’ ; s 7 The Garland’s Prize at Providence, we hear is cdri- demned, and that her Cargo is reckoned worth between 40 and 50,0001 Sterking. . ! e WILLIAMSBURG, March 18. Fhis W.ck arrived in Town 24 Cherokee Indidns, with ené French Priloner, and five Scalps, taken this Wister féar Fort Du Quefne. There are alfo conie to "Town- 2g Catawbas, with King Heigler: They left go ef theit People in' Lunenburg County, marching direélly for Fott Cumberland, where, as foon as they have fini- dhied their Bufinefs with the Countil, they propofe to By an Exprefs arrived here laft Sunday, came Orders 10 ajl the Calle®ors and Naval Officers in this Go- vernment, not to clear any Veffel outwards from their ‘Tefpedtive Diftricts till further Orders. . Annapalis, (in Margland] March 24. . P We hear from Fort Frederick, that lat Tharfddy 'N'lght one of the Centries, near the Gate was fired at “ by aa Enemy, and the Ball ftruck one of the Baftions, and next Day they difcovered the Track of two, who bad gone a-crofs a fmall Run of Water near the Fort. L ‘This looks as if we might expeé they will foon vifit thofe Parts again. PHILADELPHIA, Aprilz. On Tuefday laft Captain Huflon came up from Ja- maica, with whom came Paffenger Capt. Appowin, of _ this Harbour (taken fomeTime ago by the French) who “ informsus, that a Privateer Sloop of Jamaica, of eight Guns, commanded by one. Coverly, was taken by a French Sloop of 4 Guns, and carried into Porto'Prince. He further fays, that a Privateer Sloop of St. Chrifto- phiers, had brought into Kingfton a French Ship, and had fent another into Savannah la Mar. : . From St. Chriftophers we havea Report ( which we hope will prove without Foundation) that the Privateer & Spry; Capt. Bowne, of this Port, was taken off of Mar- tineco, by four French Privateers, after a moft bloody and obftinate Engagement. " We bear from Coaecochieg, in Cumberland: County, that on Thurfday laft three Families were cut off there by the Indians ; the People moft barbaroufly ufed ; the Names of two f the Families Campbell and Patterfon. Capt. Cobourn, from Barbados, advifes that Capt. ‘ Minfhall,in a Privateer of that Place, bascarried in there aFrench Veflel,reckonéd worth 7 or 8oooPounds; and that another Privateer of the fame Port, and who was in Confort with Capt. Minfhall, boarded and took a large Ship, in the Latitude of Martineco, which was likewife brought into Barbados. The Capt. of her xpretended flie was Spanifh Property, but as no Spanifh Papers were found, itiwas thaught fhe would turn cuta lawful Prize, and if fo, will be worth to the Captors, it is faid, about 40,000 Pounds. The fameVeflel cl);aced, fired at, and had like to have taken Capt. Cobourn, " fome time before the' Privateer came up with her. Friday laft William Conner, and Samuel Bailey, two # . Soldiers belonging, to the firt Battallion of Royal A- mericans, were hanged for Defertion ; they both be- haved well, and feemed very penitent. The whole " Battalion marched with_ them tothe Place of Execution. \ & | NEW.YORK,April 1. Extra® of a Letter from Albany, March 30. %! & We badlg mad: three Priloners, that were wounded, M New-Hampfbire ,p‘aa&ag&flwammaé‘mwaamaeau g G = i { g and nn“'ab/: to march back to Ticonderoga. They jJay,they awere 2500 flrong avhen they fot ont 5 that they bawe been preparing for this Expedition fince Nowvember lafi ; - that they bro't 300 Scaling Ladders avith thim 5 that their Ordirs and Intentions avere, to put all in the Fort to the ‘Saverd, Men, Women and Ghildren 5 and that they would tiot hawe' fent'the Flag of Lruce, had they not been frufirat- edin their Defigny and that they thought to frighten as out of the Fort. Sewveral Scaling-Ladders have been foind 5 and it is computed we-bave killed 20 o 30 of the Enemy 3 but ave cannat be certdin, as the: Suow is now four Fect detp in many Places, and they drew all thir dead out of our Sight. We bad not one Man killed, and but fix flightly wounded. The Officers as awell as the Menbehaved avith the greateft Refolution imaginable, and wiere determined to fland out to the laf}, rather than truft their Lives in the Hands of Sawages. ; « We arve credibly iriformed, that tzo Armies equal in WNamber to ’MmfimeraudrmiI’J, [rt out from Canada at the - fame time be did 3 one'of which was deflin'd to- feour the Mobaswk's River, and meet M. Waudreuil in Albany; but the Deflination of ‘the third avas not known, tho’ it abas generally tho't they intended to march Northward 5 and that the Freveh in the late A&ion awith the brawve Capt. Rogers, bad not lefs than §0 Men killed & awwound.d. Extralt of dmother Letter from Albany, dated April 2. ¢ This Motning a#n Account was brought to Town, that a large Army of French and Indians were feen at a {fmall Diftance from thé German Flats, bac few here beliéve it. Sir William Johnfon is fill in Readinefs, with 1500 of the Militid. ¢« Every Man in the French Army that came againft Fgrt William Henry, Was eqaipped in the following Manner, viz. With two Pair of Indian Shoes, 2 Pair of Stockings, 1 Pair of Spatterdathes, 1 Pair of Breeches, two Jackets, one lrge Over. Coat; two Shirts, 2 Caps, 1 Hat, one Pair of Mittins, on¢ Towahdwk, z Pocket Knives, oné Scalping Knife, one Steel and Flint, every two Men an Ax, and evety four a Kéttle and Oyi Cloth for 4 Tént, with one Blanket and a Bearfkin, and 12 Days Provifions of Pork and Bread ; all which'they drew on little Hand Sleighs.” “'P. S. Three o’Clock in the Afternoon. - Juft now another Exprefs came td Town from the German Flats; the Particulars I cannot learn ; but it is reported the French were near by, and confiled of zoco Men. The Militia Drams beat to Arms again.” A Prifoner brought in here in alate Prize, {ays, That before he left St. Domingo; three Privateers were fit- ting out at Cape Francois, in order to cruize on our Coaft, one a Brig of 16 four Pounders, one a Schooner of 14 fix Pounders, dnd a Sloop of 1o fix Pounders, Tuefday laft a Mda foppofed to have cairied Intel- ligence to the French, and paffed for an Indian Trader was committed to our Goal ; aid we are credibly in- form’d there are {oriie others who follow the fame Bu- finefs row on their Travels thro’ different Parts of this and ‘the neighbouring Governments. Capt. Carman bound into Amboy,and another Cap- tain arrived here fince our lait, were chaced by a large white bottom’d Sloop a few Days ago upon'the Coatt, who fired feveral Shot at them under white Colours. In Confequence of which Intelligence,a Privateer Sloop was immediately equipped with every Thing neceffary to go it queft of her, and on Saturday laft fhe turn'd out of the Hatbour on that Iutent, Friday laft was bro’t iti here a French Prize Snow, called the Bor Renconter, of abotit 160 Tons Burthen, bound from Port Louis for Oid France, and taken the 27th of laft Month off Bermudas, by the ShipMaxwell, Capt. Etherington, and the fchooner St. Stepken,Capt. Thomas, in their Paffage from Medeira' for this Port : Her Cargo confifts of about zoo Hogfheads of Sajar, with fome Indigo and Cotton. : Allthe Mafters of Vefléls that arrived here lately from the Weft Indies agree, in their Accounts of the great Numbers of French Privareers cruizing amon the Iflands ; that hardly an Englith Veffel can’ efcape them ; and one of them that had the Misfortune to be taken by the Enemy, fays, that he was informed by one of hisCountrymen in Mastinico, who was Prifoder alfo, that on' his' Way from St. Kitts to' that Ifland, be counted no lefs than 36 French Privateers, i On Thurlday laff arrived at Amboy, Capt. Carman, in 12 Days from St. Chriltophers, by avbom we bawe the o following Articles, vig. S ANTIGUA, Mareh 3. . ; Oh Tuefday lafl [the day of holding the half yearly Seflions] dutipg the recefs of the court (o dinner, the: - unwelcome news was brought thata fhip and a Snow Nums. 29 AZET'LHE =2 ;wwmw’m#wwmaawamfiemeu et Foreign and Domefick. e e — had been taken a few hours before to the Windward of the Ifland ; upon which the gentlemen of the grand- jury unanimoufly offered a purfe of roo piftoles to Capt. Hamilton, commander of the Prince of Wales, (taen in our road) if he fhould bring in the French pri- vateer, orretake either of the veffels. The caprain, ever ready to ferve his country, immediately went off, accompanied with 39 velunteers (moft of whom were merchants of confiderable property) and tho’ there was not a fail bent on their firft going on board, the veffel was at fea in a very fhort time, and ftretched that evening for Guadaloupe : but they had the misfortune to be too late for the enethy; and after craizing for 36 hours in full hopes of an opportunity to exert their well- groended courage, returned into port, where they were received by the whole ' lland, with an: applaufe jultly due tomen of {pirit and refolation. e Bafeterre, in St. Chriftopbers, March 16. Extrad of a Letter from on board the Priwateer Sliop § Paragon, T homas ‘Hanfon, Commander. ¢ Monte Chrifto, (in Hifponiola) February 18. By this opportunity I acquaint yod of my health: but as yet we have met with no fuccefs. ‘There are 22 fail of fhips loaded and ready to fail from the Cape with- out any convoy ; and there are 12 fail of Englith pri- vateers lying at the above port, where we can fecevery Veflel that goes in or-out ; fo that we hope to convoy the whole fleet into fome Englith port; for there are no Privateers out from this place. March 23. On Wedne{day laft was carried into Tor- tola a fhip bound from Martineco for Bordeaux, and 2 Schooner ; both laden with fugar, coffee,&c. and taken by the Pinfold, Capt. Edny. And onSaturday was brought into thisroad by Capt. Middleton, of his Majeity’s fhip the Blandford, the Vic- tory, a'French Schooner privatecr of 1o guns : As wds alfo the fnow Lovely Matty, Capt. Vance, bound for -this Ifland from South Carolina ; being retaken. ; BO ST O N, April 18. The Sitnation of this Provincé and of the Metropo- lis of the Province in particular, is really deplorable— we are finking under intollerablé Loads of Debts, Mul- titades are confined to their own Houfes, our Goals dre daily filling, and with thofe who have bsen in Times paft the moft ufeful Members of Society. The prefent War has occafioned two A&s of Grace, or General .Goal Delivery. in cur Mather Country, even for petty Criminals—the Southern Governments, have long fince reliev’d the unhappy Infolvents, by Statutes of Bank- raptcy.—We fhould think that our Circumftances in a peculiar Manner, calls for a fpeedy Help, did not the Condu& of our S——rs fpeak the contrary Aa AQ of Infolvency hasbeen talk’d of for many Months patt, and the humane Creditors, as well as the mifera- ble Debtors, have been impatiently expefling it ; but whether the prefent A—f—y will be the happy Inftru- ments of pafling one, or will leave it to fome futyge A-——f—y; a few Days will determine. _ Monday Izt arrived here, after a tedious Paflage of near 7 Months, Captain Pinkham, from London : He was blown off this Coaft laft Fall. Monday Night laft died here Mrs. E/izabeth Chauncy, Confort to the Rev. Dr. Chauncy of this Téwn, Her Remains were decently interr’d laft Saturday Evening. The Rev. Mr. Epznezer PrmBrrTon of this Town, is appointed by the Honourable His Majefly's Council for this Provinte to préach the Sermon on the 25th of May next, being the Anniverfary for the Eleéti on of Councellors. ; A We héar there is a Letter in Town (via. New-York) which mentions, that Capt. in' the Greenwich Man 6f Wir of 5o Guns, was taken in the Weft- Indies by a Fleet of 6 or 7 Sail of French Mén of War and Tranfports from Old France, bound to fome Part of the Frénch Weft Indies. : Thurfday laft the Rev. Mr. ApprETON of Cambridge, at the Defire of his Mzjefty’s Council, preached a Fu- neral Sermon at the Weekiy Leéture, in this Tawn, on Occafion of the Death of his Honotir ‘our late Lieut. Governor and Commander in Chief, from‘thefe Words in' A xiii. 36." For David after'be bad ferved bis own generation by the will of God, fell on flecp, and avas laid wnto bis fathers, and faww torraption. < On'this Occafion the Pulpit was covered with black Cloth, and on it were fixed Efcutcheons, with his' Hodoar's Armis, &c, : From the Boston Evenineg-Post, dprit 8. CFP7HE unavwvidable Confequetices' of War are. Decay of Trade, anid beawy Taxes 3 and as Nambévs of Hands “are taken off, the Farmer ds woell ay the-Merhanic and Manufattierermifl (bave in'the cohmon Calamity. The Situation and Circumpflances of this Country mufi add to 14 17474‘ o