The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, April 6, 1759, Page 2

A i ! i 4 ¥ 7 a Privatzer from St. Kitts, came under Datch Colocrs and took a fehooner of 1o Carriage Guns, and 40 Men in Sight of the Dutch Fort, which fired 27 Mot at him, wounded his Maft, and obliged him to retire ; foon af- ter which, a French Privateer, mann’d with 130 Men, moftly Dutch, was feat out to take him, but Cannon, with only 40 Haads, fought her £5 tanght, and repell’d her boarding him fo often, as obliged the French Datchman to go Afs like home, with the Lofs, no Doubt, of Numbers. So good a look out has lately been kept off St. Eu- ftatia, asto have prevented any Provifions going from thence to the French for a long while, whereby up- wards of 4oco Barrels of Beef, that was to have been tranfported from thence at all Events to Martineco, had putrified and become ufelefs. A freth Mifanderfanding has broke out between the Creck Indiansand the Spaniards, on the Confines of South-Carolina. NEW.L ON DO N, March 23. Wednefday Night laft arrived here Capt. Chefter, in 23 Days from St. Chriftophers, by whom we learn, That Gen. Hoplon (at Guadaloupe) fent a party of 600 men with g pieces of Cacnon and a Mortar into the Country againft the Enemy, who having Intelligence thereof, one Grand Jofeph (fo called) late Commander of a French privateer, told the Governor thatif he would grant him 800 fuch Men as he thould pick, he would go out and cut the Dogs to Pieces ; Monfieur, in purfuance of his Scheme, fallied out ; bat being timely difcovered by the Party they immediately planted their Cannon in a Trench, and leaving a {mall Party to ma- nage the fame, the Remainder of the party advanced towards the Eaemy, who came up very furious, upon which the Eaglith retreated towards their Cannon, and opening to the Right and Left for the Cannon to play, which being well charg'd, had the defired Effeét by making a great Slaughter of the Eaemy, and in par- ticular of Grand Jofeph, who was difpatch’d in three parts by a Bomb : Oar Party then {urrcunded, killed and took the whole of the Survivers. B0 ST O N, Aprris 2 Wedne{day le% his Excellency the Governor was pleafed to adjourn the Great and General Court to Wedne(day the 11th Day of April Inftant. Extra&t of a Paragraph of General AMuERsT’s Letter to his Excellency Governor PownaLt, dated New- York, 23d March 1759 ——="T'O enable you the better to anfwer this fo neceflary and requifite Meafure, nothing fhall be wanting on my fide to give your People all due Fiacoaragement : Wherefore, Mr. Kilby fhall have Orders to form Magazines at Worcefter and Spring- ~ field ; and to the firft of thefe Places I will fend an Officer of Rank to muiter them, who fhall be furnifh’d with Money to pay the feveral Colonels of the refpec- tive Regiments, Four Pence Stcrling a Day for each effective Man, from the Day of his Enliftment until that of his arrival at Worcefler ; where he will give Orders to the Commiflary of Provifions, to fupply fuch Men with a Number of Days Provifions, fufficient to carry them to Springfield ; at which Place they fhall again be muftered by another Cflicer, and in like Man- ner as above,receive one Ration of Provifions per Diem, for every effeive Man, for fo many Days as will carry them to Albany.—Obferviag neverthelefs, that neither Money ner Provifions ihall be allow’d either to unfer- viceable old Men or Boys, who can only clog the Ser- vice, and no Ways an{wer the Ends they are direQed to be raifed for : This Arrangement I apprehend will obviate all difficulties as well on the Part of the Province, as the Crown, and render Accounts between them, for the future much more clear and eafy to fettle, and will enable you to march your Troops all at once to the Place of Rendezvous by the Time I mention’d to you in my former Letter. Thurfday laft Capt. Tozar arrived here in g Weeks from Briftol : From a Briftol Print of the zoth of Jan. we have the following Articles.—That Admiral Saun- ders was foon to fail for America with a large Fleet, __the Ships being near ready for the Sea.-—That 60,000 / French Troops are forming on the Coaft of France, to guard the Kingdom againft any further Attempts of the Eoglith.—That all the Tracfports bound to America with Troops were order’d to Portfmouth.— That the Parliament had met, and fome freth Propofals were offer’d for a Ceflation of Arms, by a Neutral Power, ~—That a Packet was arrived with the agreeable News \} of the Sarrender of Fort du Quefne.—And that a large { Train of Artillery were embarking on board the Fleet firting out for America. Capt. Grifwald who had been out of St. Kitts 55 Days, and was bound for New- London, went afhore on Cape Cod the z3d ult. at 4 0’Clock in the Morning ; 22 Days before he fpoke with Capt. Mills from Pifca- taqua for Virginia, a great Way to the Eaftward, who had beenput 45 Days ; Capt. Grifwald fupplied him with fome Provifion, and left him well. Since our laft the Captains Bruce, Far and Wright arrived here in about 9 Weeks from London : They came out under the Convoy of the Succefs and Mermaid Men of War, of 20 Guns each, with the South.Caro- Jina Trade, and abouat zo Sail of Veflels bound to differ- ent Parts of this Continent. Captain White, bound hither, and who came out with the above Convoy, is not yet arrived. Wednelday lalt arrived here from Halifax in eight Days, His Majelty’s Ship Hind, Robert Bond, Efg; Commander ; in whom came Col. Young, and the Rev. Mr. Nathanael Cotton ; with Difpatches from Admisal Darrel to his Excellency the Governor. We learn from New Yoik, that Admiral Bofcawen having declined the Command of the Squadron deftined up the River St. Lawrence, Admiral Saunders is ap- pointed, who is expelled early, with 14 Ships of the Line, and 4 Frigates. General Wolfe is to command 8oco Men on the fame Expedition. Thefe Ships with thofe now at Halifax, the Troops with Mr, Wolfe, and three Regiments at prefent in America, conflitutes the Armament for that great Enterprize. General Stan- wix is to command on the Ohio, and General Monck- ton to the Eaftward. Sir Charles Hardy is married to a Lady of great Fortune. We hear from Salem, that laft Saturday a Lad about 17 Years old, named Eborn, was found murdered and concealed under @ Parce! of Boards in that Place ; the Perpetrators of this hortid Crime were not difcovered when this Account eame from thence. POR™SMOUT H. Wednefday next is appointed by Aathority to be obferved as a Day of FASTING and PRAYER throughout this Province. The fame Day is alfo appointed for that Purpofe in the Colony of Connetticut. Yeiterday was appointed to be obferv’d as a Day of Faiting and Prayer throughout the Maffachufetis Go- vernment. Hedne[day came to Town Capt. William Webfler, who informs, that lafi Friday Night about 12 0’Clock he awas caf}-away on Hampton Beach, in the Sloop Lydia of Salem, laff from Maderia, avho bad been out 10 Weeks ; the Wind being at N. N. E. wery dark and flormy : Great Part of the Cargo, which confifted of Salt and Wine will be fawed, and the Veffel 'tis thought may be got off awith- out much Damage : the People, being feven in Number, got afbore in about three Hours after fbe firuck, but were wery near perifbing with the Cold and other Hardfbips. Province of New-Hampsuirg, March 28th. 1759. Notice ishereby grven to all Perfons that bave received His ExcerLency the GOVERNOR’s Beat- ing Orders to Enlift Men for the enfuing Campaign, that the Time for making their Returns is lengthned out to the feventh of April next, when, without further Delay, they are to make their refpeitive Returns. By His ExcerLency’s Command, THEODORE ATKINSON, Sec™ —— To be Sold By Henry Apthorp At bis STORE at the North End, Barrel Beer, Connetticut PORK and Philadelphia IRON, cheap for Cath. [33] [ oe— ————————— ————— ——— Province of New HampsHIRE, dpril4. 1759. BROKE out of His Majefty’s Goal in Portfmouth in faid Province, on the Firft Inltant, Fobn Carfon, about five Feet cight Inches high, a flim Man, of a light Complexi- on, wearing his own Hair, and had on when he went off a light blue Jacket. And at the fame Time breke out and went off with him one Rebert Staple, about five Feet eight Inches high, had on when he went off a Sailor’s Jacket of a brown colour, and a ftriped Waftecoat. Whocver fhall take up the faid Perfons, or either of them, and bring them, or either of them to me, or to Mr. Tobias Lakeman Prilon- Keeper in Portfmouth in the Province aforefaid, fhall be paid for their Trouble 7en Poands Old Tenor for each of them when bro’t, and all neceflary Charges. 1334 Tuomas Packer, Sheriff. ExeTer, March 4. 1759, W Hereas Hannah Haines, Wife of me Jobn Haines of Exeter, not only threat- ens to run me in Debt, but has attually done fo, to my great Damage; This is therefore to give NOTICE to all Perfons, not to truft her on my Account, for that [ will not pay any Debts fhe (ball contraét from the Date hereof. §33] Joun Haines, INOTICE is hereby given that a LOT of Land lying in Epping in the gsth Range, containing about thirty one Acres, with a Dwel ling Houfe and a likely young Orchard, being well fituated by the Country Road that leads from Epping to Nottingham, will. be fold at a VENDUE to the higheft Bidder, on Tuelday the 1oth Day of April next at One o'Clock in the Afternoon, at the Houfe of dbra- ham Perkins, Innbolder in Epping : The Conditions of fale may be fcen at Time ang, Place. IERR | Epping March 24. 1759 Epenezee Dow. i e Province of New-Hampsuire ’Purfuant toanACT of the GENERAL ASSENBLY of the Province of New Hamrsun pafied the fixteenth of March, 4. D.' 1757, a TAX was grant- ed on the Lands in the Townfhip of Bedford in faid Province, as mentioned in faid A&, for the Term of two Years, of fix pence New Tenor Bills of Credit of faid Province per Acre yearly, to be aflefled and colie&- ed yearly, and to be applied to the Ufes mentioned in faid A& ; and NOTICE having been given in two of the publick News Papers annually, according to faid A&, yet notwithftanding, fome of the Proprietors of faid Lands have negleled to pay faid Tax as was affefled, agreable to faid Act : THEse are therefere to give NOTICE, That fo much of fuch delinquent Proprieters Lands will be Sorp to the higheft Bidder at the Houfe of Mr. James Walker in faid Bedford, on Tuefday the firt Day of May next, beginaing at Ten of the Clock in the Forencon, ard to contivee from one Day to another by Adjoarnment, if occdfica reguire, until fo muach of the Lands of fuch delinquent Proprie- tors are fold as will pay the Tax, ana fuch incident Charges as is unpaid at faid Day ; particularly of the Lands of Jobn Baker, being No. 28 in the 4th Range, a fecond Divifion : and Capt. Eberiexer Doer’s Lands, being No. 8 in the third Range, a fecond Divifien : and Hull Abbot’s Lands, being No. 58, a Meadow Lot : and Shadrack Thayer’s Lands, being No. 18, 2 third Divifion : and Abijab Sawages’s Lands, being No. 3, a Home Lot, or firft Divifion : and Lands of Febn Lowder's Children, willed to them by Zeschariah Chand- ler, being No. 13 in the 8th Range, a fecond Divifica = and Jobn Tuckerman’s Lands being No. 3 im the rzth Range, a fecond Divifion : and Jofeph Mervill's Land, being No. 48, a Home Lot or firft Divifion : zad Fe- nathan Smith's Land, being No. 7 in the gth Range, @ fecond Divifion : and Femathan Hill’s Land, beipg No. 4 in the fecond Range, a fecond Divifion: asd Fames Gregg’s Land, being No. 26 in the gth Range, afecond Divfion : and Major Edaward White’s Land, being No. 13 in the 4th Range, a fecond Divifion. And if the faid Lands is not found at faid fale to be fufficient to pay the Tax yet remaining due on the aforefaid Perfons Lands, with all incident Charges, thar then to fell in faid Manner at faid Time fo much of other Lands of {aid Delinquents as will pay the fame. Now therefore the above Perfons are hergby Notifi- ed refpelively to pay the Tax yet remaining dae, with incidental Charges, to me at faid Bedford, or fo much of their Lands will be fold at faid Time and Place as will pay the fame ; by me MarTaew Lirrrg, Coliefior: Bedford, March 14. 1759. [504.] §321 Province of New-Hampsuire LL Perfons having any Claims on the Eftate of Capt. Fonathan Stoedly of Posti- mouth deceafed, are defired to bring them in to Marp Stoodly of Portfmouth aforefaid, Adminiftratriz to faid Eftate. And ail Perfons Indebted to faid Eltate, e defir'd to come aund fettle the fame immediately, as they will thereby prevent farther Trouble. T32]) Mary Stoopry, Adminifiratriz, Portimouth, March 28. 1759. e e e ey e LL Perfons that have Demands on the Eftate of Fo/bua Babb,Glazier, deceafed, late of Portfmouth in the Province of New Hamphire, are defired to bring in their Accounts to Piilzp Babb tertius, Adminiftrator on {aid Efate, in order fos fpeedy fertlement. Alfo thofe Indebted to f{aid Elaie, are defired forthwith to pay the fame (o (aid Admiziflzator as they would avoid Trouble. {32} ALL Perfons that have any Demands on the Eftate of Benjamin Tésmp/fun, late of Londouderry in the Province of New Hamp- fhire, Trader, decealed, Inteftate, are defired 10 bring their Accounts to Fanet Thompfon of Lovdorderry, Adminiftratrix to the Effate of faid Deceafed, in order for fettlement. And all thofe that are Indebicd to faid Eftate (to prevent further Trouble ) are deficed to pay the fame to faid Adminiftratrix, who will attend vpon them at the Houfe of the aforefaid Decealed, npon the Firft Tuefday of May next eofuing, and of the two following Months, from Ten o'Clock in the Forencon to Five, P. M. Lonponperry, March z22. 1759, [32] JaneT THompsom, Adminiftratrixe. E the Subfcribers being ap- pointed Commiflioners by the Judge of Probate &c. for the Province of New Hampfhire, to receive and examine the Claims of the feveral Creditars to the Eftate of Nicholas Perryman, late of Exeter in faid Pro- vince, Efq; deceafed { reprefented Infolvent) and a further Uime of fix Months being allow’d us for cthac fervice from the Eighth Day of February laft ; Trese ARE To NOTIFY thefaid Creditors, that we will attend that fervice at the Dweliing Houfe of Nathans! Folfom, Innholder in Exeter on the laft Moaday of this and of the four following Months, from Four to Eight of the Clock in the Afternoon on each of {aid Days. Exter, March 1. 1759. Joun MuicLries, [31] Natuanier Forsom. [ Advertilements omitted avill be inferted in aur mext. } PORTSMOU T H: Pruted by D, FowLt, of whom this®apermay b had at O Doliar per Anuum, oran Equivaient in Bills of Credis, Half to be paid at Entracce. .