The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, August 12, 1757, Page 1

L ¥ a ! FRIDAY, Avavst 12, 1757, THE Nums. 45, NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE, Containing the Frefbeft Advices Foreign and Doméfiicfi.< KINGSTON,in Jamaica, Fune 4. ? Hurfday Evening, by Capt. Frearfon, who came v l from Plaintain Garden River, we learn, That on Tuefday the 24th ult. off Rochy Point, a League to Windwatd of Port-Morant, he faw a large French Privateer floop, engage a fnow wpwards of three . Hours, and at Length carried her. , / Yefterday Afiernoon came in from a Cruize, his Ma: jefty’s thip Lively ; fhe brought in with her a Etench Pri« vateer floop of eight Carriage Guns, which, i¥'sbelieved; - is the Veflel that took the above mentioned fnow. - - - “Fune 18. By the Gloucefterfhire, Capt, Redfhaw, a Letter of Marque, of 16 Carriage Guns, ahd 55 Men, who arrived here on the 12th Inft, we have thé following ccount ; * OF Antigna, the gtk Tofat 11, A. M. fow 2 fsil cuhur flarboard’ Bow, imucdiately cleared fhip ; fhe came up very faft with us, {o 1 got all Hands to Quar- #s, and sboat 1, P. M. fhe came along fide of us : fhe fved to be a French privateer of 1z Guns, 4 pounders ; them we received, and returned, 4 Broadfides ; fhe " en fheered off for fome Time, and returned upo:t us sain, fo at it we went for two Hours and a Half ; at length we carried away the after-leech Rope of his Main- fail in two places, which obliged him to fheer cff fome Miles Diftance to refit again ; fhe came down again the third Time, and we ferved him the fame, and he fheered off again the third Time ; and this laft Time we fhattered him tolerably in his Rigging and Sails, and he us like- wife ; when I called out to him to lay along fide, and fight like 2 Man, and not run backwards and forwards like a French Son of a B—h, and he anfwered, Sacra 2z bougre &2 Anglois. 1 gave oneBroadfide more, and away he went quite of Next Morning we found the privateer had carried away great part of our Ropes, and fhattered our {ails much, and carried away fome of our fhrouds, for he fired nothing but Bars of Iron, which, on examining the fhip’s Hull, I found pieces fticking out 6 or 8 Inches, but ¢haok God, not one of us was hurt. The Engagement lafted 5 Hours and a Half, very clofe ; we fired about 400ib. of powder, and about Half of our fhor: Our Men behaved very well and handy in the Engagement. B A LI F.A X . SHdh Wehave now in our Harbour 18 Line of Battic Ships 'vo or 12z Fripates. &c and pear 200 Trovfhasts ; alfoa. $xut 16000 Men encamped on the Windmill Hill, and Parts adjacent. Their Appearance is vaftly grand —— ancamped on a rifing Ground, where they are continually exercifed, and frequently review’d by his Lordthip, whofe Oeconomy is juftly tobe praifed, as his Pains are indefa- tigable. The Troops are all free from any Diftemper, in bigh Spirits, and feem impatient for Action.—The ¢ Fleet fo weli equipt, and the Scamen in fuch Health and Spirits, 23 one would think that nothing human couid withRand our floating Calflles. PHILADELPHIA, Fuy 28, Since our laft came to Town one Peter Lewney, who, for aboat a Year patt, has been among the French and In- dians at Fort Detroit, and informed us as follows, viz. That he was Enfign of a Company of Rangers in the Back taree of Virginia, confifting of 70 Men, commanded by Capt. John Smith: Thatlaft fammer the Frontier Inha- bitants being greatly diftrefied by the locurfions of the Enemy, their whole Company went out, in d:fferent Par- tics, to their Afliftance, except the Caprain, himfelf, and nine privatc Men, who were in a Block houfe, and had fix Women, and five Children : That on the 25th of June 1756, they were attacked by a Bedy of Indians, and fome French, when they defended themfelves the beft parc of the Day, in which time, he fays, they killed 32 Indians, and 3 Frenchmen, loft two of their own Peovle, and ano- ther Man and himfelf wounded ; but obliged to furrender at laft, the Houfe they were in being fet on Fire : That they were then carried of, and after travelling fome Time, the Indians bejonging to four different Tribes, di- vided the Prifoners, and parted : That before they came to the Lower Shawana Town (where he fuppofes there were about 300 Indians) the Shawanc{e made a Sacrifice of one Cole, whom they roafted alive, and tormented for a whole Night before he expired, cutting Pieces of his Fieit off of his Body, and eeting it ; and this théy did in fight of the French, who feemed unconcerncd at their borrid Barbarity, and did not endeavour to reftrain them, notwithftanding the moving Intreaties and bitter Com- ‘aints of the poor Man : That they alfo killed and Jlped another Man on the Road, he being old and not .ole to travel : That he (Lewney) was the only one that was carried to Detroit, where there are about 300 French Families fettled, and in what is called the Town, they have about 100 Houfes: That they have plenty of Fifh ; the Land rich, on which they raife Wheat and Peas, and have very gnod.Crops ; and the Indians, of two of three different Natioxs, very numerous : That while he was at Detroit, an Indian King adopted him for his Brother, on which Account hie was very well ufed, and was often with them at their Coancils with the French, being drefled and painted as the Im\\fians were, and not known by the French but as an fndian, ) living in every- refpet as they did ; and that one Tific in particular, af a Conference, he heard che Fioocaate ander o;de; th ndians to go firlk to Fort Duquefne, then to Fort Cumberland, and after- wards to deftroy all the Eng'ith Inbabitants : That fome Time about the Beginning ¢ April, a great Body of In- dians fet off for Duquefne in Parties, each Party having fome Frenchmen with them : That about the Middie of June he left Detroit, in Coirpany with a{mall Party of Indians, who were going to Niagara with fome Furs, in order to purchafe Indian Goods : That from Detroit to +Niagara it is about 280 Miies ; and that on the Falls of the latter the French have a fmall Fort, in which they keep 30 Men; and at Niajara, there is a Fort of 24 Guns, fix, nine and twelve Poonders, and in it about 300 Men : That while he was.2- Niagara, he met with one William Philips, of New ¥ ~k, who was taken at Ofwego, and they agreed to make their Efcape together ; That the Night before they left i, 280 French arrived there from Cadaraqui, deltin’d, it was faid, for Fort Du Quefne, who encamped that Night, and were to fet out the next Day ; but he and Philips weat off before them : That they travelled about 200 Miles (the Land bad, and mottly drowned) when they came to Ofwego, without feeing an Indian ; which Place, and Fort Ontario, they-found en- tirely deftroyed : That they then came to the Mohawk River, where they were kindly received by the Indians, who gave them Vi€tuals, of which they were in great Want : And that they got to Albany the 12th Inftant; from whence he proceeded to this City, and is now gone to Virginia, where his Parentslive. He was born in this Town, and is about 23 Years of Age.—Capt. Smith, he faid, was given to the French, and fent to Canada in the fpring. : On Friday laft arrived here Captain Gardner, of the fhip Fanny, bound to Barbados ; Captain Barnes; of the floop Fancy, bound to Scuth Carolina ( both from this Place) and Captain Dickinfon, of a Bermuda floop, bound to Bermuda from Virginia ; who informed us of their fe- veral Veflels being taken on this Coaft by a2 French Pri- vateer floop, called the {wallow, one Ferret Commander, from Cape Francois: That this Privateer left the Cape about three Months ago, and cruized a confiderable Time - on the Carclina Coaft, where fhe took a Coafter; laden with Rice : That on the 12tk Inftant fhe took Captain Barnes’s floop off of Ocracock Izler, 2nd two Davs after ook Cape, Dickinion : That then fhe came on ourCapes, and met with the Britannia, Capt. M’Pher{bn, a Letter of Marque fhip, belonging here ; and the Hopewell, Capt. Falls, for Londonderry, juft as they got out of Delaware- Bay : that the Britannia moanting ten Carriage Guns, a Number of {wivels, and carrying forty odd Hands, and Capt. Balls putting fome of his People alfo on board her, fhe gave the Privateer a Broadfide, which obliged her to bear away, when fhe purfued, and came up with and took Captain Gardner, and, after detaining him fome Time, gave him his Long Boat, in which he and his People, and the other Prifoners on board the Swallow, got athore, and the Privateer, with this lait Prize, left the Coat. Capt. M*¢Pherfon, at the fame T'ime that he drove off the Pri- vateer, retook Capt. Dickinfon’s Sloop, and fent her up here ; her Lading Indian Corn. The French Sloop mounted two Six, 2nd four Four Pounders, twelve Swivels, and had fixty Men when fhe came ount ; which, with manning her Prizes, were reduced to Thirty five, Fer- ret told the Prifoners, that Monfienr FPaignki, in one of our Packet Boats, lately taken, which was to carry fixteen Guns, and a Brig of much the fame Force, might be foon expeéted an our Coaft, as they had been fitting out at the Cape for fome Time on that Acceunt. Laft Night Captain Miller arrived here from Jamaica, where he heard that Captain Cozzins, bound thither from this Port, is takeh, and carried into Port Louis. He fail- ed in Company with a very large Fleet for Europe, fome Vefiels for Bofton, Rhode Ifland, and New- York, and the Captains Hafelton, Morrell, Leak and Simpion, for this Place, under Convoy of five Ilen of War. AV E w - TO R K, A'ugufi I, Captain French arrived here on Monday laft in a Brig from the Bay of Honduras, only half loaded, being obliged to throw Part of his Cargo over board, to facilitate his Efcape from a Number of Spanifh Craft, who had cut off the New River, and made feveral of the Baymen Pri- foners. Friday laft Capt. John Scot Lawmence, came up in 11 Days from. Tortola, and brings Advice that a {fnow be- longing to Bofton, had been taken by a French Frivateer about § Veeks ago, and fent into St. Thomas, Capt. Wright in a floop arrived here fince our laft from St. Kitts, and brought in with bhim a Philadelphia Ship loaded with Flour, &c. which he retook on his Paffage, after her being in the Pofiefion of the Enemy feveral Days. : B0 8T O N, Auyf 8. Tue(day laft, in the Afternoon, arrived in Nantafket Road, from Halifax, his Majefty’s Ship Nightingale, Captain Campbell, in which Ship came his Exceilency THOMAS POWNALL, Ef; with his Majcfiy’s Royal Commiffion to be Captain Gznzral, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over this tis Majefty's Pro- vince of the Maffachufetts-Bay ; a0 ({0 a Commiflion fro~-she Right Honoarable tic Lo d: f the Adiiraliy, Tedddddddddddddddddddds fi'r&"&"&"&"&’%'k‘fi"fi"&{' bbbt ddddddtddddddddddddddddddd to be Vice Admiral of the fame, &c. His Excellency is aifo Lieutenant Governor of the Province of New Jerfey, and Agent for his Majefty’s Geuneral Affair under the Command of Lord LOUDOUN. Soon after the Ship came to Anchor, his Excellency proceeded to Caftle William in a Barge, being faluted by a Difcharge of the Cannon from the Ship at his putting off, by the Province Snow Prince of Wales, as he pafs'd from the Ship to the Calile, and at the Caftie vpon his landing there, where his Excellency received the Compli- ments of a Number of Gentlemen who had repaired thi- ther on this Occafion.—His Excellency lodged there that Night ; and the next Day about Noon, came upto Town “in the Caftle Barge, being faluted by the Guos of that Fortrefs when the DBarge put off, and by thofe of the Bat- teries and Veflels in the Harbour upon his pafling up, and landing at the Long Wharf, where he was received and welcom’d by the Members of his Majefty’s Council. and a great Number of other Gentlemen ; from thence walk’d in Proceflion up to the Court- Houfe, being efcort- ed thither by the Company of Cadetf. The Regiment of Militia in this Town, and the Troop of Guards, being under Arms, and drawn up in Kingftreet : His Excellency rec€iv'd the Compliments of the Officers, by their paying the ftanding Salute as he pafs’d by ; and the Streets and Windows of the Houfes, &c. were crowded with Spec- tators on the Cccafion. His Majefty’s Commiflion ta his Excellency, as alfo that from the Lordsof the Admiralty, were open’d and publickly read in the Counc’l Chamber, and the ufual Oaths were adminiftred by Mr. Secretary OL1vER : After which he was congratulated by the Coun- <il, and a great Number of otherGentlemen there prafent. A Proclamation was then iflued by His Excellency,and publithed from the Balcony, ‘impowering and requiring all Officers to continue in the Exercife of the Trufte re- pofed in them, by their refpeftive Commiffions until fur- ther Order.” Which was followed by three Huzzas, and the Difcharge of three Vollies from the Militia, &c. His Excellency, with the Gentlemen of the Council, a Number of Officers and other Gentlemen were entertain’d with a handfome Dinner, provided at the Britifh Coffec- Houfe in King-Street ; and he was afterwards atierded to the Seat prepa:ad for kis P oception i the Bverid ing the Coort Houfe was beautifully illuminated H T be followwing Congratulatory ADDRESss was mads ta His Excellency on Wednelday lafl by a Committee appointed by the General Court, viz. May it pieafe your Excellency, HE Council and Houfe of Reprefentatives having appointed us 2 Committee to pay your Excellency the Compliments of this Governmeut upon your fafe Arrival ; We therefore beg Leave with the greateft Sin- cerity to congratulate your Excellency thereupon: A afiure your Excellency, weare heartily glad to fee you Safe and in good Health among us, after the Fatigues of your Voyage. To which his Excellency was pleas’d to return the following ANswER. H 18 early Attention in the Council and Houfe to the Honour of bis Majefty’s Commiffion, is a Mark of that true Loyalty awbich didever diflinguifb this Pro=, wince. : Gentlemen of the Committee, Lreturn you my Thanks for your kind Comgratulation. Thurfday laft the Minifters and: Wardens of the Epifce- pal Churches in this Town, prefented the following ADDRESS to His Excellency. s May it pleafe your Excellency, ‘R]E the Minifters and Wardens of the Epifcopal Churches in this ‘i own, beg Leave to congratu latc your Excellency upon your fafe Arrival at this your Government. With Hearts full of Gratitude and l.oy~ alty we acknowledge his Majefty’s paternal Care in your Excellency’s Appointment, fram whofe Adminiftration we promife ourfelves a Continuaoce of the Happinels we enjoy’d under our late excellent Governor. The Report of your Excellency’s great Abilities, and your late indefatigable Application to inform your felf of the State and Intereft of thefe Provinces, leave us no Room to doubt of your wife and happy Condu& of the publick Affairs of this Government. . Among other Things which wil! fgll under your Excel- lercy’s Care, we beg Leave to recommend the Intereft of Religion, and the feveral Churches within this Province, Itis our Duty, Sir, and we fhall likewife make it our couftant Endeavour, 1o cultivate a Spirit of Peace and Submiffion, fo firongly recommended mn the Gofpel, and highly calcalated for the Prefervation avd Support of Government. From a deep Senfe of thac Duty, we humbly befeech almighty God to biefs all your Excelien. c/’s Defigns and Endeavours for the - Advancement of his Glovy und the Good of this Province, T'o which Fiis Excellencey was plealid to reiurn the &’al!cwiny ANSWER, Lizntlemen, .