The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, November 10, 1758, Page 3

Supplement to the New-Hampfbire Gazelte, ™ ' | Of Novemser 10, 1758, ‘ ‘********************v*********************************** Mr. Fowte, Port/mouth, Nov 8, 1758. ' Your giving Mr. Be&amin Hallowell's wife and polite Letter, of the Af Inflant, in anfwer to mine of the 30th wlt. a Place in your Paper,---- -may oblige your Readers, for faviuring them with his Jfirft Performance «&f that Sort.~----. His diffin&t (alias diffant) W'y of reafoning, axfwering, and Yeplying, to mine aforelsid, will be a Proof of its Value ; and your ‘printing it will not only redound to his further Credit, bat b2 4 Proof of yoar Readinefs to oblige, Sir, Your Cuftomer, R. TraiLL, Bofion, November 1, 1758. Meflieurs Epes and Gror, Pleafe to infert the following in your next, and you'! oblige, S o Jour's, &c. B, 4 l ‘HE Geritleman in the Ferry-Boat did not inform you : right ; the following Particulars will thew him the true Seate of our Affairs. - 18 OON after your coming to Town, [ fhewed you Original of the fccond, fhall be filent. i your Account, as it flood with me the 5th of Feb. To the fecond. : : 1753, and afked you whéther you had, any Ob- Obferve you faw me feveral Times after you tho’c I was § je€tion againft the Debe Part of my Accompt ? %onc fitf«)f Bafton = Sir, 1 fuppofe you have not feen me 4 ' ince €iC 1t. .. You faid no, excepting £.4 115, and 6d. I foon made that clear, and then you faid it was right. I then afked you, “What I had to bring to your Credit more 2 the feveral Articles that you bro’t I allowed 5 and upon this Adjult- ment (including the Intereft) there was a Ballance of £.487 10s. 54 Lawful Money due to me ; you told me after this, that the Intereft was too much, and that you ought not to pay more than Five Years [ntereft,which was. from the Time of your Letter of Licence. 1 for anfiwer told you, that you had made a.Fortune with the Improve- ment and Rifque of my Money,and therefore ought not to make any Objection 5 [told you at the fame Time, that it was in my Power to bave attached your Effelts in a Sloop that came in here from Briffol : Compszffion got the better of the Juftnefs of my Caufe, and | {fuffered her to Jeave the Port. You for anfwer faid, if I had, it would have ruined you and your Family for ever. After this, you put Pen to Paper about it,for you was going out of Town in the Morning, and had left all your Affairs to be feteled by Mr. Hughes, and that you defpifed me. 1 underftood it thus, That you would be foon out of my Reach: How- ever, I was fo fortunate as to find you the next Morning. All that I want. now is my Money ; and if you can juftly bring any one Article to make your Ballance Jefs, 1 will chearfully allow it, and am Your’s, Benjamin HArLLowEeLL. To Mr. RoperT TRAILL. The Subjeriber being prefent with my Father, before, at and after the B Adjufiment of the Accompt between bim and Mr. Traill, beard bim aff. me your Account 3 now, g o M. 'Lraill the feveral Queftions relative to bis Aecount, (viz ) Whether Y % s Gented it. viz. You bre’ Iy ot be bad any Objeltion t0 the Debt Part of his Aecount ? be faid ke had, of the M.mqer e Em‘}: yf“p _Pri;‘n + l/”lt: Zl h )U e ; e T which was .4 11s. 6d. My Father [oon convine'd bim that 1t was right, M€ 0D A Scrip of Paper, fome Farticuiars, w 1ch you fak S & .S Haalfy afeed bim, Whether there was any Thing that was not paffed to bis was the Account of what you bhad of me, and I of you : e Credit in the dccompt ? be Jaid there was, and the feveral Articles bebrot Alfoan Account drawn out by you, charging me to the g &S ;§ svere immediately paffed to bis Credit 5 and upon that, the decompt being 3 & o an B added up, be found a Batlance of £.487 105, 5d. Lavwful Money inFavour Ballance of my OI_d Account per A(‘Jtlflmcm’ .and RIS to the Intereft on ditto.— Capnot now entef 1010 =83 of my Fatber (Including the Intiref?.) " -~ SamuiL HALLOWELL. < PorTsmoutn, November 81b. 1758. M. Benjamin Hallowell, ; : S8R, : ‘ OUR’s of the 23d and goth uvle. (in Manufcript) I recéived : Your’s likewife of the 1ft Inftant ( in the Rofton Gazette) now makes its Appearance before me. Time will not, now, admit of my replying to them in fo fingular a Maoner as Lintended. Therefore, after affuring you, they fhall not efcape my . due Artention, muft rely on your excullgg me for the pre- fent, with only anfwering to a few graphs in them, partcularly o your laft. : To the fieft as it appears to be comprehended in the Mr. Thayer, by your Recommendation, paid his Re- {peéts to me in a very genteel Manner. What induces you to lug in by the Head and Shoul- diers my not Dioing with Mr. Fames Griffin, puzzles me. However, 1 had the Honour to dine with bim at his Country Seat. , : The third Day after I came into Boflon, you fay you was donvinced, that T'had no Mind to pay you ; becaufe I wageed to leave our Accounts to Men ; Good Reafoning fiom Mr. Hallowell. Yourafferting 1 have had the Improvement of your Monueys for this feven Years paft, &c. is idle : In the Year 1750, we fettled Accounts, at which Time you was £ 56- 4 5. in my Debt. From 1750, to 1752, if not to 1753, you was often, if riot always in my Debt. It’s true, 1 had Goods of you on Credit, to pay in-our ioneys, allowing 15 per Cenr. expet one Farthing Allowance, for the Depreciation of any Debts, due to me, tho” 1 have fome of the fame ftand- ing of yours due for large Sums. : : There were none but Gen/lemen at my Entertainments, fo cannot believe you ever heard any of them fay any Thing difrefpeétfully concerning it When bones? Men applaud you, your Friends in Briltol may believe you. To yours of the Grlt Tnflant in the Boflon Gazelte. It’s. true, foon after my Arrival at Boflon, you thewed ive me Leave, to remind you ails auere tore to Pieles, fothat fax, ina Sc Jhe lay at the Mercy of the Winds, avbich drive ber. fo Jar to the Weftward that [be was obliged to put in bere terefit. boaner bir'd by the Government, Jeltv's Commiflien appointing bim Cemmander in Chisfof alf bis iejify’s Farees in Nord 2o carry Major General Amberlt His Ma- America, 4 We bear Capt. Hallowell Jails thit Dag for Hali- Halifax, wlerety ber r 2ffage ; as g fa dia aifo @ Sliop that <was bound from Low, lifax, avere to fail from Louis- Minth—The absve Viffels met wwith wery hard Gales of Windon thiir Pa by convey'd arvived 1h bia, that on the 2d of laff the Side of ber Hufband. , much lomented, Mrs. Sarah Edwards, great and good Man, the late Mr. Pre: ) D Ak Pivcaci BOSTOUN Novemberb6, ;‘ aaini wee decent % § 3 = & 3 N B $ ~ [ faid, I thould not have charg’d Interet from November 5, -+ ) . 1751, to February 5, 1753, which is £.30. I have your Advance 3 but then you generally had the Modefly, to 3%3 ? ‘ Letter bearing Date the 4th of Fuly 1752, where you pro- draw Orders on me for Payment, long before the Expira- ko 1 || _mile to allow me Intereft: You made another Objection tior of the Time, and fo con'fequemly you was my Debtor. :3 s ) and faid, the Lumber was bought formy Aceount at Pobtf.. " My Letterin 1757 dehvcred@ou by Mr. Hughes, T8 ¥4, /'l smouth, that made £.8 difference, I have your Letter of the: m‘g,ht apYiace. yor, I wanted. to fettle our Accounts; - :flfi [ 4\ 11th of Faly 1751, defiring me to make the moft of them tho’, I never had an Anlwer (o it. I s ofor your Account, . Mr. ‘Hallowell, 1 have paid you more Pounds New- XS S/Qo;T after this you dern-ed a Reference 5 1 for anfwer f]zli}e‘j_’/??i?’& Old Tenor, than I have had Pounds Ma .{ll‘fiu' L ias faid, your Account was adjufted, and if there was any fr""‘ffl}ld Tonor of you : In May 1753, after loofixlg,a it St Thing to bring to your Credit, I would doit ; bat to take = Vefieland Cargo, which eflpnrely belonged to me, offer’d § PP off all Objelions and Delays, I would refer ir, and give MY Cfeélto'* Security J_omt]y-for the Ballance fhe" Ac- Sl 45 2 you the £.30, & £.8, provided you would give me Secu- €OUnts, if they would give me a ’I_‘welvemonth s _longer SR NS rity for my Money, and Intereft until paid ; you told me Credit : BUf_S“'a you refufed it, faying, you lmufi: have fe- N + §§ | M. Samuel Hughes would be your Jcurity : As you did parate Security, for you had no l}ufin?fs with other Peo- & \g“:, . \ not bring any Perfon’s Ob];gaflon, "1“[‘Pak€ to Mr. h'ugbg; les Accounts. : 1 then offered to deliver up all I had, %‘ S \2 myfclf, and he, told me he would be refponfible. This. which 1 7then made appear was £ 5000 more than Fowed o | e was the firft and only Time I fpake to him, which was.on 10 the World, and you even refufed tuat. E¥E&E L S the 21{t of laft Month, about 6 0’Clock in the Evening : | At the afOT_Cfald Time 1753, [ owed, allowing then for =& 5’ $ In about an Hour after, I told you that I had fpoke to Mr. the Depreciation cf this Old Tenor ,{%800, fince which, =23, g Hughes, and he would be refponfible for you. I defired tO difcharge them Debtsonly, have paid above ¥ 20,000 3 s %i;:‘ a Meeting with you and him the next Morning, to exe- our Old Tenor, to make goo‘d the Depreciation, Intereft, & TSE j cute the Writings 5 for anfwer you faid, you would not &c. exclufive.of what I thall be ordered ro pay you. £33 24 " And for mv own Part, don’c know I ever afked, or now = 2Ry R P/ o ~ {