The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, March 31, 1758, Page 4

% L PORTEIMOUTH. . ¥ 'AST Saturday being the annual Meeting ‘of ¢ théFreeholders and other Inhabitants of this Town, the 'Honourable Henry Sherburne, Efq; was "“unanimoufly thofen Moderator; and the following Perfons to fefve in the refpeive Offices*hereafter “mentioned for the enfuing Year, viz. Town Clerk, Mr. John Peshallow. _ Selez-Men ; Mr. Andrew Clarkfon, Mr. John Tangdon, “Mr. Samuel Penhallow, Capt. William Knight, and Mr. John Dennet. ; Owerfeers of the Poor ; Capt. Thomas Peirce, “Mr. Thomas H4rt, and Mr. James Stoodley, jun. 4feffors ; Hunking Wentworth, Efq; Cgpt. ‘Henry Sherburne, and Mr. Thomas Hart. " Auditors ; Eleazer Ruffel, William Parker, which Engagements he beat the Frenchman off, and A_ Good Repeating CLO g - Efqrs; and Mr. Robert Traill: j put into Falmouth to refit his Sails and Rigging, il -Cpf i (gN LI CK’ " Aything-Men ; Mefli'rs George Ayers, jun. which were mueh damaged. The Privateer had che Print h‘ ]a;;an ale, almoft New. Inquire of - Jofeph Peirce, Samuel Cate, Chriftopher Huntrefs, eight Carriage and ten Swivel Guns, 3 e 'L';’”::M,:::o .Mar:b-z - g 3 BETFEPBHBEBIHG B BOBEUD - 25158 g Jofeph Cotton, Samuel Evens, Thomas Parker, <and’ John Jones. : Clerk of the Market ; Mr John Griffech. Fence Viewers ; Mefii’rs Samuel Sherburne, John Ta'féyéral Letters fromEngland it is mentioned, ‘that the People there had been almolt in Defpair, “on account of their bad Succefs every where during the 1aft Year ; but the late good Fortune of the mag- - nanitnous King of Priffia began to revive them again,. It is alfo faid e will have a great Sum granted ‘him by Parliament. » , . Tuefday latt Capt. Finglafs arrived here from London. 'He'came out with the Beaver Man of War ; which Veflel, we hear, the Honourable Pro- prietaries have got ftationed in Delaware Bay. Captain Marfden, bound here from London, and mentioned in our laft to bave received fome Damage from a French Privateer, fought the faid Privateer fix Hours and a Half, at two different Times, in both Essex County, Newbary, Fibruary 1/, 1758. S C K Province of New-Hampsuire, Hereas we the Subfcribers . being appointed Commiflioners to""eceive ‘and Examine the Claims of the feveral Creditorsto the Eftate ‘of Samuel Watfon, late of Dover in faid Province, Yeoman, deceafed, Inteftate, do hereby NOTIFY faid Creditors, That we will attend that Service at the Houfe of Fobn Gage, jun. Inoholder in Dover afarefaid, on the Firt Monday of dpril next, ' and the five following Months, from Four to Eight o’Clock in the Afterneon. Josuva Winger, Dated at Dover the 29th Joseru RoserTs, Day of March, 1758. 1 TO BE S$OLD A LL Perfons Indebted to, or that have ‘any Demands on the Eftate of #ra- bam Mc Neal, Weaver, late of Derryfield, deceafed, are defired to bring in their Accounts before the laft Day of June next, to Fane Mc Neal, Widow, and Execatrix, and allo to Fobn Clark, Executor to the | Eftate of the faid Deceafed, both of Londondery, in the Province of New Hamphire, in order for Set- ‘tlement. 1 : Portfmouth, March 23. 1753. 1ot} between Newbury Ferry . ; and this Town in the Poft Road, a Ban- i dle direted for Mr. Jobn Hill, Merchant in Porif- ‘moath ; it was tied with a piece of Thread or Twine, and wrote on per Favour of Capt. Bradford. Who- gver will bring it#o the Printer hereof thall be well 4 Rewarded. # 2 : To the Publick. ProvinNce of New-HampssIrE. ., . ‘e ™ Y N OTICE is hereby given; . That by an ACT lately paffed by the Geng. < rAL AssemBLy of this Province, the Time of the Sitting of the Superiour Court is alter’d to the sbird Tuefday of May, and fecond Tuefday of November annually ; the Inferiour Courtof Common Pleas to the firfi Tuefday of March, Fune, eptember, and Da- cember annbally 3 the Court of General Seffions of the Peace.to the fecond Tue/day in the fame Months, and that all Proceedings before faid Courts are to be conformable thereto. 2 Of (the firft Partof ) a LOITERY O be drawn at Newbury, allowed by an A& of the Great and General Court of the Province of the Mafachuferts Bay, Fanuary A. D. 1750, For the Raifing the Sum of Tave/ve Hundred Pounds, to be ap- plied towards the building and maintaining a Bridge in Newbury, over the River Parker there, at the Place called O/d Toawn Ferry ; which when built, will be of public Service,as is declared in thePreamble of faidA&. The Managers appointed by the General Couart, who a&, are Fobn Greenleaf, Jolcph Atkins and Daniel Farnbam, E(qrs; of Newbary, who are fworn to the faith- ful Difcharge of the Truft repofed in them, and are an- fwerable for any Deficiency. _ The Profecution of the above Defign has been hi- “therto deferred, feveral unforefeen and unavoidable Ac- ‘cidents occurring. ' But the Managers now at the earneft Defire of the People of this Part of the Country, and of Travellers this Way in general, have agreed to purlue the fame with‘the utmoft Diligence, and begin the Bridge im- mediately when the Drawing of this Firft Part is over. The Advantage to the Publick from this Bridge will be, that Traveling the great Eaftern Road between Roawley and Newbary, will be thereby greatly facilitated. For the Diftance from Roawvley to Newbury, by the Way of O/d. #ywn, is not fo"far by confiderable as it is by the Way of Neawbury Falls, and the Road beyond Comparifon better ; for it is Plain, Level, Pleafant and Ham, Abraham Eliiot, and Perkins Ayers. Lot- Layers5 Capt.Thomas Peirce, Mr. Samuel Sherburne. il Corders of Wood ; Mefi’rs John Griffeth, James Stoodley, jun. Samuel Waters, Jofeph Allcock. Surveyorsof High Ways ; Mefli'rsJoleph Ailcack, George Huntrefs, Samuel Waters, George Peverly, s Ephraim Dennit, Peter Ball, William Bxck, Jo- |/ feph Brewfter, Thomas -Seavy, Ichabod “Clark, ' and Jeremiah Holmes. ' “Attorncys ; Matthew Livermore, and ‘William Paiker, Efgrs. i o Agents ; Mefli'rs John Sherburne, Andrew | Clark(on, and John Griffeth. | Conflables ; Mefli'ss John Cutt, Simeon Aker- , man, Thomas Cotton, jun. &and James Dwyer. Firewards s The Hon. Theodore Atkinfon, Efg; 4 Major Samuel Hale, Capt. John Shackford, Mr. 3 Joha Sherburne, Mr. Andrew Clarkfon, Mr. Ro- bert Traill, Mr. John Griffeth, Mr. Thomas Hart, Mr. Charles Hoyt. : " Hogreewés 5 Meffi'rs Thomas Quint, Benjamin | Welch, James Holmes, Abraham Elliot, and John ‘ Lang. 6 3 3 Sealers and Searchers of Leather 5 Mefli'rs Joleph Brewfter, George Ayers, John Pierce, and John Jones. . Cullers, Searchers, and Packers of Filh ; Mefli'ts Jeremiah Wheelwright, Humphry Furnaid,George How, Thomas Landell, anc Ebenezer Jofe. Firm, and extreamly good for Carriages, fave in one or . ‘ i = “Pound Keeper ; Mr. Samuel Cate. two Places in Ra-wl:yg%‘ields, which gby long Difufein | . Srasnaais, Kargh 30.1958. \ak " Informers of Deer 5 William Parker, Efq; and fome Seafons, are become fomething Miry ; but with NOTICE 1s hCl’be given to Capt. Thomas Pierce. little Coft and Pains in Gravelling, it may be rendered any Perfon who has good Deer-Skins to dif- st} *'N. B.” Asy Perlons inclining to be Colleors equal to, and as good s the other Part of the Road. But pofe of, that they may have the Cath for any Num:- of Taxes for the prefent Year, are defired to give the.other Road round by Newbury Falls, is Mountaip- ber, or have them dreft Wath-Leath r Indian & ) in their Names, and at what per Cent for colle&t- ing, to the Sele&t Men imimediately. ~ We hear from Wells, that the Rev. Mr. Gideon Richardfon, Paftor of the Church in that Place, j died there on Thurfday the 16th Inftant, much i lamented. K / PHILAD-ELEPHIA, March 16. From Barbadoes we have Advice, That on the ous, Rocky;, Founderous and exceffive Miry in fome Seafons, and in all, difficult and troublefome to pafs in with Carriages, as is well known to all Travellers that Way, to their great Grievance thefe many Years paft. The whole EOTTERY is divided into three Parts, or Claffes. The firfl Part or Clafs, contains 6000 Tickets at Two Dollars each. Twelve Hundred of which are Benefit Tickets of the following Value. Drefs, in as neat a Manner as any whe Bofian, at a reafonable Rate, with quick Difpatch, by apply- ing to Mafes Boynton, Leather Drefler and Breeches- Maker, at the Sign of the BRezcres and Grove'in Strathani. N. B. Likewife any Perfon who has good Sheep fkins to difpofe of, I will give' at the Rate of Fifty Pounds Old Teror per hundred for old ones, and Taventy-five Pounds per hundred for younfi v 2 1& of January the Falkland and Speaker fent in Dollars. Dollars. pnes, for any Number, if they are well faved ; an there another French Privateer, a fine Sloop, of 8 I of 1000 is 1200 their Money paid down on deliveting them to me * Carriage and rz Swivel Guns,and about 70 Men. I of . 450 is 750 the Subfcriber as abovementioned. 2 "That Capt.Phipps,in a Halifax Privateer had had I of 500 is 5§00 ‘ 20 Moses BoynTon, ) #n Engagement with a Privateer frony Martineco, 2 of 250 are §00 Province of ) to Windward of Barbadoes, which lafted 5 Hours, 3 of 100 are 300 : “ « when the Frenchman made off, having 11 Men 17 of 50 are 850 Ngw"Hambe’rea _ t killed and 27 wounded,his Veflel hulled in feveral ~ zo of 20 are 800 7E the Subfcribers being a Com- ( Places,loft his Topmaft, & received other confide- "' 30 of 20 are 6oo W . sathil Is he G table Damage : Capt.Phipps had 7 Men wounded. 50 of 16 are 800 mittee appointe oy t e. ENE- - That a Snow from Virginia for Barbadoes, was ta- rco ' of 8 are 8oo RAL Assemsry of faid Province, to ° _ ken by the Privateer that took Capt. Cobourn,of 975 of 4 are 3999 build a ; this Port. ~ That on the zgth of January a Flag of . o \ Truce arrived at that 1fland from Martinico, and 1200 Prizes; to800 St t H uf i bro’t Advice of a large Briganl?re;, deeply laden, 4800 Blanks. a e" O e . il oing in there, as fhe came out. That his Majefty’s . s g (i ghip§ Cambridge & Buckingham were cruizing off 60co Ticketsat Two Dollars per Ticket, 12,000 n the Town of Por{/:moutb’ of Wood- . g Martineco, where they had been for fome Time ; Dedué& 10 per Cent for the Bridge, &e. 1200 en Materials, about Clghty Feet long, Gold as well as Silver will be taken for Tickets, and the Prizes fo paid off. As foon as the Tickets are dif- pofed of, Noti¢e will be given of the Time and Place of Drawing, and a Lilt of the Prizes Publithed in the Boflon Gazette and Country Fournal. Prizes not de- manded in Twelve Months after Drawing, will be deemed to be given for the building and maintaining 1% and that as they were flanding in for the Land, be- tween Fort St.Pi¢rre’s and Fort Royal,a Privateer Sloop of 1z Guns,under Dutch Colours,came out P to view them, and, after making her Obfervations, Y tacked, & ftood inagain, hoifted a Frénch Pendant, ' & firing at the Men of War,; upon which the Ships immediately gave Chace, & ran her clofe under a thirty Feet wide, .about twenty-one Feet Poft ¢ Any Perfon or Perfons in- clining to take faid Building, and find » all the Materials (except Iron Work) to frame; raife, inclofe and compleat < Battery of Eight Guns where fhe anchored for Pro- faid Bridge, and will be fo apply’d. The Managers 31| the out-fide Work by the th o o \ § tetion. That on the Ships approaching, the Bat- doubt notbut a fufficient Number of Adventures will : ; yh MGI}]) ff - i tery began to fire, which they returned,& withtwo ~ foon offer ; and they Hope for the Affiftance of all .7””5’ next, may treat with us at Forti- ¥ mouth aforefaid, any Time next Week ; or the Week after. 2 Portfmouth, March 15, 1758. thofe who have encouraged and promoted fo ufeful a Dofign. or three Broadfides,intirely demolifhed it,took the Privateer floop, and fcuttled four more. That the Captain of the floop & 5 of his Hands,were killed ; as were alfo ¢ or 6 Men in the Battery. Thatno, Prize except the above mentioned,had been carri- ¢d into Martineco for fix Weeks ; and that Pro- vifions were very fcarce there,Beef at 30 Ps. 8 per B. and Flour zo Ps. ' ¢ TICKET'S to be had of the refpeQive Managers at Newbury ; of Ebenexer Storer, Elq; Mr. Samuel Daniel Warner, Hugbes, Merchant, in Queen. Street ; Mr, Timothy Neaw - ell, on Dock Square, Boflon ; at Edes and Gill’s Print- He.’.”y Sherburne, ing Office : and by Danie/ Fowle Printer at Port/mouth. Clement March. Committee:; PORTSMOUTH : Printed by D.FowLs, of whom this Paper may be had for One Dollar per Aun, or anEquiv alent in Bill of Credit ;talf to be paid atEntrance.