The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, November 9, 1759, Page 3

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dre; _cal! ¥ “,‘ ! - W Jmall Numbir of Guns mentioned, avhich not only " ' contributed to the Prelervation of their Veflel, but wwere e Means of defiraying an Enemy, that kbad already and might hereafter confiderably diftrefs our Nawigation, awbole Security only depend upon meeting awith no Diflurbance from the Enemy. Capt. Holloway from theWefi Indies, fpoke with Capt. Robert Elwell, in a Schooner belonging to g Cape- dnne, the 251b Inflant, off Nantucket Shoals, . <who had been 23 Days from theWindward lfland;. Y On the v71h Inflant, in a violent Gale of Wind at ' N. E. Capr. Elwell overfet, by which Misfortune be loft above bhalf bis Cargo (which confified of Molaffes ) bis Anchors,Cables, Windlafs, and Boat, bad bis Sails [plit wery much, and was entirely deflitute of Bread and Water, the Storm depriving bimof both. Capt. Hollowway afforded this unfor- tunate Captain all the Affiflance poffible ; avhole Veffel was in Juch a (hattered Condition, and his - People fo greatly fatigued, as to render it doubt- Sul awhether be awould be able to reach bis Port ¥ Sor Jome Time. ! Capt. Lawton, with a Number of Invalids, ‘arrived here on Thurfday laft from Albany. |'3 ' The Day before, between Millferd and New - Haven, he faw a Veffel (which he fuppos’d to be a Sloop) with her Bottom upwards. She ap pear’d to be about 45 Tons, had a Peas Bottom, and her Sides, as far as could be feen, newly painted with yellow and red. Capt. Rogers, bound to Surranam, fail’d the ' 14th Inft. and return’d the 28th, cccafion’d by a violent Gale of Wind, which depriv’d him of his Mate, Horfes, Bow{prit, and Boat. On Saturday lait came into this Port, a Sleop, , Jaden chicfly with Sugar.taken from the French by a New-Yo:k Privateer. We hear feveral Veflels have been caft away in the late Storm, at different Places. St. 7O HN's (in Antigua) Sept. 22. We hear from Englith Harbour,that thePack- et is arrived at Guadalcupe, and that fhe brings an Account of the Pruflians having not ouly de- feated the Ruffian Army, but alfo that the King of Pruffia had entirely dcfeated the great Army of Auftria commanded by Marfhal Daua ; and that immediately afterwards he ordered a large Detachment from the Armv commanded by his Brother Prince Henry, to join Prince Ferdinand i€ Bruafwick ; who, by this Means, was enabled t8 fight the French Army under M. de Contades, and had gained 8 Vi&tory over them, fo com- pleat, that fcarce a Bady of 8oo Frenchmen were to be foudd together. ‘Thefe Accounts are related here with fuch Circomf{tances of Pro bability, that they are generally believed, and we hope to have them cocfirmed by the Arrival of the Packet this Evening or 'To-morrow. The above Accouat, Capt. Topham diredlly from Antigua, favour’d us with : To which we add the following, commuuicsted by a Gentle- man who came with Capt. Topham, ard we ‘cave odr Readers to difpute the Probabiity of "t : That the Proffians loft 11,000, and the Auftrians 50,000 : That before the Battle was decided, the Ammuniticn on both Sides, was expended ; after which, they contended for Viétory with Pikes, Bayonets, &c. which ter- minated in Favour of the Praflians, who entirely defeated the Auftrians B OS§STO N, -Newember . Moaday Capt. Doble in a Schooner, which we mention’d lat Week to have paried with ene or two other Vellels in a N. E, Storm, ar- Lf rived here, having flood it out, tho™ with great Ol /D fliculty, being ‘weak handed ; and lofing what he had on Deck. ‘ Mopday laft a large Bear was purfued at Milton, who tock to a Trce, from whence he was {foon broupht down Head foremalt, being thot thio’ the Heart. ; " A Brig from the Weft Indies bound to Pif cataqua, was caft away in the late Storm on the back of Cape Ced ; the Men’s Lives all {av'd, but the Veflel and Cargo, a fmall Part of the Vel Riggi -pted, is entirey loft gging excepted, is entirey loft, Lat -Wednc(day Morning {ailed from Nan- taficct- Harbour, Bis Majelty's Ship Diana,com manded by Alexander Schomberg, Efq; with her {aii’d alfo Capt. Eddy’s Ship, lately arriv’d here from Jamaica ; as alfo feveral Veflels be- lopging to this Port, viz. Capts. Warner, Jacob- fon, Hunter, and Dathwood, which with three or four Malt Ships, now lying at Cafco Bay, . are bound to Great Britain, under Convey of the Diara. Thu:fday laft the General Court of this Pro-- vince met here, accowding to Adjourament. The Courier who arrived here lalt Saturday from Aibany informs, That Geaeral Ambeilt return’d to Crown Point the z ift ult. after hav- ing pracecded above zoLeagues down thelake towards St. John’s; deftroying two arm’d Vel- fels,and taking one : That the Polt fromCrown- Point to Albany reported, That the General on his Paflage from Crown Point to St. John’s was met with by a Flag of Tiuce, the Purport of which had not tranfpir’d ; however, on the re ceiving of which, the Army were ordered back. Extra& of a Letter from Croawn. Point, dated Monday the 22d Oltber, 1759. ¢ Qur Army under General Ambheiit return- ed here yefterday, in the Battoes, the high con- trary Winds, and in geveral bad Weather they had all the Time they were abfent, which was likely to continue, prevented their procceding down the Lake more than about 6o Miles : Qur Navy (which the General left behind on the Lake) however took one of the French Sloops, and chafed two others into a Cove,from whence they could not get out, when the French Men funk them both, and fled ; but our Sailors are endeavouring to get them up : We have had three touches of Froft here ; and it has been ftormy a whole Week from the N. E. Our Forts, Blockhoufes, and Roads, are really f{ur- prizing, when we confider the Time they were done in.” We have a Report fram New-Yoik, thatjuft as the Poft fet our, a Veflel arrived there in 5 Weeks from [reland, and confirm’d the Account we have, via Lifbon, That on the 12th of Aug. the King of Pruflia gained a Viflory over the Ruflians ; but the Day after the Battle the Ruflians were joined by a large Body “1Auftrian Cavalry and fome Infantry, when they imme- diately attack’d the Pruflians and defeated them with great Lofs of Men,Carnon, Miiitary Cheft, Baggage, &c. &c. The King of Pruflia had two Horfes fhot under him and was thrown from off a third.—Prince Ferdinand of Brunf{- wick has had feveral fmart Skirmifhes with the French fince the late Baitle; in which he had entirely defeated “them. We hear that the two Packets which carried home the News of the taking Niagara; Ticon deroga, and Crown Point, arrived in England the 4th of September. We have this Moment receiv’d an Account of Major Rogers’s fafe Return to Crown Point, after deftroying the T'own of St. Francois, with the Lofs of only one Man. PO RATS MO Tk, Laft Friday the GeEngraL AssemBry of this Province was Adjourned to the zoth Inft. To-Morrow being His Majefty’s Birth Day, the fame is appointed as a Day of Thavk{giving throughout this Province for the late repeated Succefles of His MajesTy’s Arms both in Européand America. ’ 4 We hear that Capt. Connolly in a large Ship, who failed from this Place jult before the late Storm, and who it was feared was loft, was {poke with all well fix Days after, tho’ they were cbliged to heave over fome of their Guns, and had fix Feet of Water in their Hold. Custom-House, PrscataQua, November 8. Entred In, Sloop William, Fobz Bartlet, from Barkados. Sloop Fudith, Samue! Moody, [rom Halifax. loop Bon-adventure, Patrick MarkbamfromBoflon. Cleared Qut, Brig Jennet, Fobn Kiiting, for Antigua. SchoonerSaunders, Laavrence Furlong for Louifbourg. Schooner Endeawour, Nath. Perkins, for Halifax. Sloop Hum-bird, Peafe, for Rbode Ifland. o e tne TO BE SCLD By Edward Emerion, At his Shop in York, oppofite the:l‘(,wn Hou'fc, A Great Variety of Lnglith - * 2nd Weft-India GOODS, cheap tor Cafh or Treafurer’s Notes. N. B. Said Emerfon carries on the TAYLOR’s Bufinefs ; by whom Gentlemen, or otheis may depend on being well ufed, and Garments made. [64] in the beft Maaner, and with Dilpatch. Yefterday,about four o’Clock in the Afternoon, died here greatly la- mented, Joun WenTworTH, £{q; only Sen of His ExcELLENCY our GOVERNOR. B s e i e et e . Gl et ——— PROVINCE of NEW-HAMPSHIRE. HEREAS itisVoted by the General -Aff®mbly of faid Pre- vince, that crie* MontRs Wages be paid by the Treajurer, to the legal Reprefentatives of the Officers and Soldiers of the Regiment raifed within faid Province, and in allual Service of the Expedition againft His Majefly's Encmies for the prefent Year 5 and alfo that the Treajurer do not pay to any Perfen or Perfons until the Colonel of the Regiment, from which they were inlifled, drafted or impreffed, have tran/mitted to the Treafurer a proper LIS T, &5c. T his is therefore to NOTIFY the legal Re- prejentatives of the Officers and Soldiers svbo inliffed, or were drafted or impreffed out of Col. ATKINSON’s Regiment { who has returned a proper Lif} of them) that they may.receive one Month’'s Wages for [aid Service at the Province Treafury. PorTsmouts, Nov. 8. 1759. GEORGE JAFFREY, Treafurer: et LL Perfons that have any juf Demands on the Efiate of Sir WiiriaMm PEPPERRELL, Baronet, Deceasd, are defired to appiy unto Mary PEPPERRELL, fole aling Executrix of the laft Will of faid Deceafed.. Ard all who are indebted to, or bave- Accounts depenaing with faid Efiate, are defired to fettle their Accounts, and difcharge their Debts. MARY PEPPERRELL. N. B. Attendance will be given on Tuefdays ana Wednefdays,of the three next foliowing Months, at the Wareboufe of NATHANIEL SPARHA WK of Kittery in the County of York, Efg; of which all concerned are defired to take Notice. Kittery, 14 Oftober, 1759. 70 be Sold inKittery aforeaid, belonging to [aid Efiate, a .Quantity of Indian Corn and Wheat, a Quantity of the befi Sace Boards and other Lumber, Cables, Cordage, Iren, Sea Coal, Duck, and a Variety of Woslens and Linnens, &5¢c. &5¢c. Alfo a Pair of New York Coach Horfes, and Jeveral other Horfes ; all at very reafunable Rates for Money, er, on Credit with goud Sccurity. To be Lett, belonging alfo to Joid Efiate, fundry valuable Farms lying in the Sowns of Yerk, Kittery, Biddeford, and Scarbo- rough, in the County of York, andin the Towns of Excter ard Newington, in the Province of New- Hamp/bire. 64 Province of New Hampsuire, ’I HE Proprietors of BOW ere hereby NOTIFIED, That their Annual Meeting which was held by Adjourn- ment on the 22d of O&ober Laft, is turther Adjourned (agreable toa Vote of faid Meeting) to Wednefday the 21t Day of November Init. at Two of the Clock in the Afterncon, at the Houfe of Mrs. Love Chafe, Innholder in Stra- tham. Stratbam, Nov. 2. 1759. 64 SamueL Lang, Prop. Clerk. H[rea’ a Horfe of William - Ham of Portfmouth, the 27th of laff Month, bound to Newbury, and promis’d to retarr on Monday the zqth, one Nachaniel Howard, du# bas fince chang'd bis Name, and calls bimfelf Berjamin Godfrey, bas run away with jaia Jorfe, which was white, about 14 Hands bigh, branded on the left Thigh N H, gray Main, Tail and Legs, gallops meat, has a travelling Pace. Said Run - away bad on a light Colour’d Coat, black Wig, of a middling Stature, well limb'd, full Face, and a ruddy Countenance.--- --- W bo- ever fbatl take up faid Run aeway, Horl: and Fur -~ niture, and return them to faid Ham, fball receive FIVE DOLLARS Reward, ard all neceflary Charges paid by me Wirriam Hawm. N. B. Said Ruraway badon a low Brim’d Felt Hat, and pretended he came from Saco, and bis Horfe tired, which be left at Kittery, > =

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