The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, August 12, 1757, Page 2

: Mfliflfly, avhere alone it truly refides. IO e e O U R Congratalallons are Fxtreamly obliging, and 1 thank you. : 1t fhall be my Endeacvour that the Hopes which you exprefs Jrors the kind Sentiments you are pleajed to entertain of me, ‘may R trufirated. . s My 27 &Mn to Religionwill be alway that awkich my private Duty as a Chrifian, and'my Public as Supream Megifirate, demands of me ;——and 1 fball alway hope for that E/fential Support avbich the State receives from the Church, ; On Friday lalt the 4ffociated Minifiers of the Congre- ‘gerional Churches in this Town, waited on His Excellency the Governor, and prefented the following Addrefs : viz. May . it pleafe your ExXCELLENCY, Ethe Affociated Paftors of the Congregational - Churches in Boflon wait upon your EXCELLEN- ¢y ; to exprefs our Loyalty to the King,and all cue Refpeét to yourExceLLENCY, as conftituted by Him the Governor of this Province. We congratalate your fafe Arrival ; and take Leave upon this Occafion to commend our civil and -religious Rigitz, the Caufeof Virtue, and the Intereft of Literature, to your ExczireNcy’s Care and Patrenage. The common Duties of your High Station are weighty and important ; and the prefent State of our publick Af- fairs is critical and alarming : Permit us thep, to aflure your ExcriLEncy of our conftant Prayers to the Su rreme Ruimr, that your whole Adminittration, avi- mated by Hi: Influence, and fucceeded by His Blefling, may prove happy to Yourfelf, and aufpicioss to this Community. And may your ExceLLENCY never fail to receive every becoming Teftimony of Duty, and Efteem, from an obli- ged and grateful People ! ! To which his Excellency was pleas’d to return the follow- ing Anfwer: viz. Gentlemen, "QUR Addrejs is, as it ought to be, particularly agres- able to me, as it ultimately refers all Honcur to His 1 thank you for your Congratulations. i Where the Spirit of Virtue and Knowledge is, there is Ci- " wil and Religivus Liberty ; 1 /ball therefore aiways fupport < the one, as 1 mean confcientionfly to maintain the other. Gowern- 1 thank you for the Tender of your Services went can never fail of all due Honor, and a confcientious O- bedience, from a People animated by true Religion, under the Leading of a pious and godly Minifiry. Friday laft the Sele& Men of the Town of Bofion, pre- fented the following ApprEss to His Excellency. _ May it pleale your EXCELLENCY, IS Majcfty’s moft dutiful and loyal Sabjeéts the Se- H le&-Men of the Town of Bofion, pray your Excel- Jency to accept of their fincere Congratulations, on your fafe and happy Arrival to this Town and Government. We beg Leave toexprefs the Share we have in the ge- " peral Joy which the Appointment cf your Excellency to the chief Seat of Government in this Province affords this People ; and to recommend to ycur paternal L are, the Inhabitants and Trade of tiis Town, on the Welfare of which, that of the Province in general, fo grearly depends. We humbly rely vpon your Care and Vigiiance, for the Defence of our Religion and Laws, and for the Pro- teflion and Extent of our Trade and Commerce ; and doubt not but every Thing on your Part wiil be done re- quifice for our Security and Happinefs. Permit us, Sir, to add our hearty Prayers, that God Almighty would guide your Excellency, and the General Aflembly, into the beit and wifelt Meafures, and give Suc- cefs to all your Councils and Labouss ; and that the hearty Bleflings of a free and happy People, may be the ncbie Reward of your paternal Care. We fincerely affure your Excellency of our Own and this Town's dutiful Regards to You, and hope we thall be vniverfally excited by Gratitude, aswell as Duty, to that Condu@, which will render your Adminiftration eafy and happy. To which his Excellency was pleafed to return the fol- lowing ANswER, GENTLEMEN, HE kind Welcome of the Town of Bofton is extrearmly agreeable 1o me. Their good Wifbes is what 1always Sball feck : And 1 thank you for their fincere Congra- tulations. : 1 fpall alway endeavour that an Example of Indullry and Oeconomy, @ Support o Trade, and a faitkful Maintc- nance of your Rights und '.iberties, may be the Charalleriflic of my Adminifiration; and I will then bope for the Grati- tude and Blefling of all good Men. Monday laft Capt. M'Known arrived here in ten Days from Halifax, and by Letters which came in him we have Advice, That Capt. Roufe with the two zo Gun Ships which he went out on a Cruize with, and to look into Louifbourg Harbour, had return’d, and brought in with them a fchodner, with five Frenchmen ; who fay, there are but five fail of the Line at Cape-Breton ; the other Men of War had gone uvp (the River St. Lawrence.— Our Troops were ordered to embark lat Week.— We alfo learn, that Major Rogers had brought into Halifax, two Soldiers who had deferted, one of which he took near Cape Breton ; both of them were hang’d on the zoth of July among the Camps, Friday 7-night in the Afternoon arriv'd at Newport, Rhode Ifland, a large Sloop taken by the Defiance Pri- vateer, Capt. Fones, of that Port : She was bound from €ape Francois, it is faid, to old France ; her Cargo con- fifts of Sugars, Indigo, &c. e e Capt. Morton arrived here Yefterday from Philadel- phia, and reports, that two or three French Privateers are cruifing on that Coaft ; and that one of them tooka Ship, Capt. Rankin, who came down the River with him, “and was in Sight. From St. Kitts, ( via New York ) we hear, That the King ot Pruflia hasa€ually taken Prague Sword in Hand, with the Lofs of three Generals, and 6000 Men ; .and he made 10,000 Prifoners : This Account was bro’t by the Weft India Packet, and correfponds with the London Ga- zette of the zoth of May, _The Mafter of a Vefiel arriv’d at Sa/em from St. Eu- flatia, adviles that a Veflel from Holland arriv'd there in a fhort Paffage, and brought 2 Datch -Gazette, wherein was the Particulars of the Battle fought near Prague by the King of Pruffia’s Ariy and the Aufirians ; and that the Number kill’d .on both fides was very great, it is faid 18,000 of the Auftrians, and 12,000 Pruffians ; but none of the Particulars are yet come to Hand. The Right Honourable George Lord Vifcount Howe arrivid here in the Nightingale, Capt, Campbell, who came up to Téwn on Tuelday Evening, and on Wednef- day fet out for the Forts at Lake George. Laft Evening an Exprefs arrived here from Albary, avhich Place be left lalt Thuryday, avho awe bear brings an Account that a large Body of French and Indians attacked WFort William - Henry the preceeding Day, about Sun-rife ; the Number of the Enermy is uncertain ; and as we have no Az- thority for it, we cannot give the Particulars *till further Advice be réceiv’d. About 50 Carpenters and other Artificers, who were taken at Ofwego, and fome of them fent in a Cartel Ship from Quebeck to England, the others retaken in their Way to France, arriv’d at Halifax in Admiral Holbourn’s Fieet, moft of whom were brought up in the Nightingale, and are gone to their refpective Places of Abode. PO R & M QU T H, ; Sunday laft arriv’d here the Nightingale, Capt. Camp- bell, in order to convoy the Maft Ship to Halifax. - Port of PiscaTaway. _ Entered In, Willon, Stilfon, and Me(erwe from Halifax, Frofi and Heavits from Bofton. Cleared out, Crzbeld for Neww-London, Underavood for Cafco,» Millekin for Newcbury, Trafke for Salem, Ellinwood for Bofton, Phillips for Montferratt, Palmer for Weft Indies, Artu-kle for Halifax, Mutchmore for Barbadses, Simpfon JSor Halifax, Advertifements. L L Petfons Indebted to, ot ! that have any Demands on the Eftate of Sezh Ring, late of Portfmoutb, decealed, are defired to bring in their Aceounts to Fo/eph Ring of Scarborough, Execu- tor to the Laft Will and Teftament of the faid deceafed, who appoints the three laft Days of this Month, and the two enfuing Months, at the Houfe of Mr. Richard Harwvey, Ianholder in Portfinodth, in order for a Settlement of the faid deceas’d Accounts. Aug.8 1757. LL Perfons that have an}; De- mands on the ERtate of Fomathan Robinfon, late of Brintwqod, d=ceafed, are defired to bring in the fame to Mrs, Ales Robinion of Bsintwood, Adminiftratrix on faid Eitate, in o:der for Settlement. And all Perfons Indebted to faid Eflate, are defired to make {peedy Payment tofaid Adminiftratrix : And all Perfons that are concern’d are hereby Notified, that the abovefaid Adminiftratrix will attend them at the Houfe of Mr. Feremiah Leawitt’s, Inn- holder in Exeter, on every Mouday in the Month of September next, in order to Settiement with them. Brintwood, dug. 3. 1757. 1. RA N-AWAY from his Mafter Fames Davyer of Portfmouth, in the Province of New Hampihire, Truckman, this Day, a Necro MAN Servant named Scipio, about thirty five Years old, about Five Feet Eight Inches high, well fet, and of a yeilowifh Complexion ; had on one of his Hands a Scar. Said Negro was born and brought up among the Englifh ; he underftands Hofbandry, mows weil, and af- fe€ts to be thonght a Man of Senfe. He bad on, and car- ried with him when he Run away, a Saxon blue Frizz Jacket with {mall Metal Buttons, Slath Sleves lined with white Bays, a brown Fuftian Uader - Jacket without Sleves, fcarlet Everlafting Breeches, Yarn Stockings almoft white, a Pair of new Shoes, one Cotton and Linnen white, and one Wollen Check Shirt, and an old Hat and Cap. Whoever fhall apprehend faid' Runaway, and briog him to his faid Mafter in Portfmouth aforefaid, or fecure him fo that he may have him again, fhall have Ten Dorrars '‘Reward,and all neceffary Charges-paid by Fames Dwyer. 1f the faid Scipio will of his own Accord (without put- ting me to the Charge of the above Reward) return homie, he fhall be kind!y received, and have his Abfcond- ing forgiven. Portfmouth, 4zg. 2. 1757. N. B. All Mafters of Veffels and other Perfons are hereby caution'd againf} entertaining, concealing or carry- ing off faid Runaway, as they would avoid the Penaity in the Law. 2 TO BE SOLD at the Houfe of Mre. Odiorn’s in Portfmouth, different Sorts of Scorcu Goobs, viz. Checks, Bed Ticks, Tandem Hol lands, fpotted and plain Lawns,flowered bordered Womens Aprons and Ruffles, flowered bordered Fandkerchiefs, plain ditto, Linnen ditto, Threads from No. 12 to 22. Thread Stockings brown and white, Mili’d Caps, Bibles and Sermon Books, and Braffes for Defks, at the loweit Rates for Silver or Gold 2 B e PortsmovT, inNew. Hamp/bire, Printed by D.FowE, where this Paper may jbe had at Ons Dellar per Annum, or an Equivalent in Bills §f Credit, Half to be paid at Eatrance, A LL Perfons Indebted to, or A that have any Demands on the Eflate of Mr. Fames Ofgocd, late of Rumford, deceafed, are de- fired to bring in their Claims to Hannab Ofgocd, Widow of the Deceafed, and Executrix to {aid Eftate, in order to Settlement. Aug. 4. 1757, 2 Province of New-Hampsuire, Exeter, Aug. 1. 1757, Hereas we the Subfcribers are » appointed Commiffioners by the Hon. the Judge of Probate for faid Province, to réceive and examine the' Claims of the feveral Creditors to the Eftate of Dawid Page, late of Eppin in faid Province, Yeoman, deceafed, Inteltate, reprefented Infolvent—T HESE areto NOTIFY all Perfons concern’d, That we will attend that Bufinefs on the lalt Mondays of this and the four following Months at the Dwelling Houfe of Capt. Nathanael Fal/am,lnnhol: der in Exeter aforefaid, from the Hours of three to feven of the Clock Afternoon on faid Days. ! Davip Lawrance, 2 Noau Emery. 3 i et e e et et e e . et . Province of New Hampsuire, Exeter, dug. 1, 1757, /Hereas we the Subfcribers are appointed Commiffioners by the Hon. the Judge of Probate for faid Province, to receive and examine the Claims of the feveral Creditors to the Eftate of | Edwar ! Colcord, late of Brintwood, in faid Province, Yeomarnt > deceafed, Teftate, reprefented Infolvent-— THESE are %@ NOTIFY all Perfons concern’d, That we will attend that Bufinefs on the latt Mondays of this and the four fol- lowing Months, at the Dwelling Houfe of Capt. Natha- nael Folfom, Innholder in Exeter aforefaid, from three to feven of the Clock Afternoon on faid Days., ; , Jouxn Oburin, 2 Noau Emery. B U S > Fobn Harmon from Boflon, Staymaker, At the H_t;ufe of Fobn Knight's E{q; near the LongWharfc,‘ HERE all Ladies may be well accommodated in the beft and neateft Manner, with quick Difpacch. OTICE is hereby given to all _ Perfons who may have FLAX SEED to difpofe of this Seafon, That Thomas Durant will give Forty five Shillings Old Tenor per Bufhel for any Quantity well cleared, deliver'd him in Portfmouth, 3 Province of New-HampsuIrE. | ALL Perfons who have any Claim on the ERtate of Danie! Crockford, late of Port(mouth, in faid Province, Barber, deceafed, Inteftate, are hereby defired to fend the fame 6 Vabellz Crockford, Widow, Relict of faid deceafed, Adminiftratrix of faid Eftate, in order to a Settlement thereof : And fuch as are Indebted to faid Eftate, are defir’d to pdy the fame to faid Adminiftratrix as foon as may be, Portfmouth, Fuly 18. 175‘7. ; 3 Isaszrra Crockrorp. Province of New-HAMPSHIRE. S it will take fJome Time to adjufl the dccounts and pay the Sums due to the Farmers of the Excisg, previous to the Renewal of Licences at Septemper Sc/fions, this PunLiek NOTICE is given to the concerned, that at the Houfe of Mr. James StOOd?ey,’ gun. Innpolder in Pordmouth, Artendance will be given on Monday, Tuefday and Wednefday the 5th, 6th, and 7tle- of September for that Purpofe by the Farmers thereof,J Portfmouth, July Anprew Crarksow, 28: 1759, Tuaomas Wk WaLprON; Joun KnicHr, jun. Province of New-Hamesuire, July 21, 1757. HEREAS we the Subfcribers are appointed Commi/fioners by the Honourable Judge of Probates for the Province aforefaid, to receive and examine the Claims on the Efiate of Samuel Rymes, /ate of Por (il mouth in Jaid Province, Meariner, deceafed, reprefented In-" JSolvent : THESE are to give Notice to all concern’d, that ave will attend that Serwice on the laft Wednifday of this and the five folloaving Months, at the Houfe of Mr. Richard Harvey, Innbolder in Port/mouth aforefuid, from the Hours of fix to nine o'Clock, Afterncon, on faid Days. EvLeazer RusseLL. Wirrtam KniGrT. ANY Perfon having O/d Pewter to difpofe of, may have Fifteen Shillings Old Tenor per Pound of Fames Gooch, next Door but one below the Post Orrice in Portfmouth. Likewife all Shop keepers and Country Traders may be fupplied with New Pewter for Old cheaper than they can get in Bofton, by faidGooch. Portfmouth, July 21. 1757. % r03 be SOLD by SamuelGriffith of Portfmouth, Gold{mith, for One Hundred Dol lars, oran Equivalentin New- Hampthire or Rhode Iflana Money, an active, ftrong, healthy NEGRO BOY, whe has been in the Country three Years, fpeaks good Engliili; and is about twelve or thirteen Years of Age. TO BE SOLD by the Printer of this Paper, A Poem on the Day of Judgment; In Three Books. By Dr. Young, Authorgf Night Tho't'd e \ <l