The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, April 17, 1761, Page 2

An KCT Paffed st Portfmouth, New Hamesurre, March6. 1761 Anno ReEont GEORGII Yertii Regis Magnz Bri- tanniw Francie &5 Hiberniz Primo. An ACT in Addition to feveral LAWS of this Province relative to Proprieties, direéting how Proprietary Meetings of theOwners ofLand and other Real Eftate, lying and held in common and undivid- ed, miy be called, and their common and public Affairs tranfacted. i P HERE AS it woould greatly facilitate the Settlement of New Towonfbips and other un- ' improved Lands, as well as be advamtagecus to Proprietors of other Real Eflate beld in common and undivided, to bave a LAW for raifing and levytg Money among themfelves, or upon the Rights and Interefts fo beld in common, in a Jummary Way, which the Laws already in Force imply and [uppofe, but do not par- tiularly diredt in fuch Cafes, whereby the Money deter- mined to be raifed for improving the common Intereft, is Seldom Jeafonably peid, and oftentimes not paid at all, but by & few who are willing, while others who negleft their Duty berein, reap the Benefit of fuch Payments, though by their Negleid they greatly retard the Good of the whole, and the Burdes falls ancqually on thsje who are jointly interefled ; : For Remedy whereof; BEIT ENACTEDbythe GOVERN OR, CQUNCIL and ASSEMBLY, That where no particu- lar Method has been fettled and agreed upon by sny fucli Proprietors for calling their Meetisgs (which they miy do at any legal Meeting) any Juftice of the Peace is hereby authorized, upon the Application of fo many of faid Proprietors s own a fixteenth Part of the Shares, Rights or Interefts of the whole, made in Wriiing, exprefling their Defire that he would Notify and call a M:e ing of the Proprietors, and the End and Defign of is.2f1¢ fthall iflue a Warrant or Notification to the Pro- priciors Who are to meet, fetting forth that fuch Ap- plicaiion has been made, the Time and Place of holding, and the Bufinefs to be tranfzfted at the Meeting, and fhail deliver the fame to one of the Proprietors who made fuch Application, who fhall caule the fame to be printed in_{'me public News Paper which fhall be molt likely to Notify the major Part of the Proprietors three Weeks futceflively, and fhall alfo caufe the fame ta be pofted up 1= fime public Place within the Town or Parifh where fuch Eftste lies (if within any lettled Town) the fame Tim: before the Day of holding fuch Meeting, And fuch Proprictors may st fuch or any other legal Meeting,chufe wny Otiicers they fhall judge neceffary, to do any Bufinefs ol the Pioprietors, who fhiil be (worn to a faithful Ditcisrge of the Duty and Office to which they fhall be relpetively cholen, and fhall continue therein, and be hereby au horized todilcharge the fime uniil others thall be chofen (o fucceed them. And be it further Enafted, That the Intereft and Eftate of every fuch Proprietor fo lying in Common fheil be liable to pay, and fand charged with his Par¢ and Proporiion of any’Sum of Money which at any legal Meeiing fhsll be agreed upon and voted to be rat'ed 5 and thofe who fhall be chofen o affef(s and pro- perion. the fame amongflt the Proprietors commonly csiled Affefigrs, fhall fet fuch Proportion to the orignal Right or Proprietor, and commit the Lift thereof with a Wairant or Precept to.the Perfon cholen to colle the fame, therein fetting forth his Duaty sgreable to this act, the Time.for compleating the Colle€lion, and to whom the Money is to be psid. And fuch Colletor is hereby direfled, upon receiving the fame, to give Notice in Manger and Fprm aforefaid, of the Afleflment afid where the fame fhall bé paid and receiv’d; as slio, that if Payment f(hall not*be made sccordingly, the Money will be levied by, Sale of fo much of the Intereft and Property of the Proprietor who fhall be delinguent theicin, Foarteen Daygd #fter the laft Week of Natice, a3 aforefsid. ~ Aad in'cafe the Money fhall not be paid by the Expiration of the Fourteen Days, then the Col- lector fhall give Notice in the fame Manner, of the Time and Place of the intended Sale of ‘fo"much of the delin- quent Proprietoy’s Right, Sharei and Interelt i the Paopfiety, as will an{wer the: Demand, with jocidental Charges 3 and may thén proge=digo make Sale thereof, unlels at aty Time before the dale is actually made by executing the Deed of Conveyance thereof, the Money with all Charges fhail be paid by, or in Behalf of the. Owner of the: Eitate to have: been fold.-. And the Colle@or aforefaid, is hereby suthorized to muke Sale'of Tuch Efate as aforefaid, and to execute a good Peed or Deeds thereof to the Parehaler or Purchalers s there fhall be Occafion, of all the Right and Demand of fuch Proprietor therein, and fhall return theOverplus Moncy, if any-fheuld be, after deducting the Charges of advertiling for Sale “as aforefaid, with all other legal Charges, immediately to the Per{on or Perfons to whom jt legally belongs. But the Charge of the firlt Adver- tifement of fuch Aflefment fhall be defrayed by the Proprietors : Saving the Rights of Feme Coverts, In- fants, Perfons in Captivity, or beyond Sess, o #ar asto allow to them one Year affer their refpective Impedi- ments are removed, they paying the Sum due as afore- faid, wich the Intereft thereof, at the Rate of Six per Cent par Annun(apd to their Meirs and Affigns refpec- tively, to redeem the fame. And all Votes thall be compmed‘lck:ording to the Intere!t as is' direéted by Law. Andany Proprictors aforefaid, are he_rcby autha- tized at any legal Meeting, to confirm, ratify and efta- blifh any Grants, Conveyances, Votes and Tranfations by them defigned and intended to be made, done, peres formed and tranfafted, agreable to fuch Defign, Intention and Aim, notwithftanding any want of Form, legsi and proper Terms, or Defe@s, and Defaults ot Procefs reiative to the Premifes. ¢ [This ACT to be, and continue in Force for Pour Yesrs, and no loager. WG Pablif’d 13th of 2pril 1761, BEBBGY LS PRSEFTEEEEE L.O:ND O N Ex®s&t of a Letter from Pord/mcuth, Jan. g. “ On Accoant of the long Runt of weflerly Wirds, 17 Sail of Dutch Merchanimen put into Cowes Road, preterd- ing to be bound 12 St. Euflatia and other Foreign mewtral . Pirts. They remained at Cowes upoards of fix Weeks paft, but a few Days ago, a Jew Paffenger, in afluent Circum- Srances, thinking bimfelf ill treated, went to Cowes, and there gave Information upon Oath, that thers was on éoard Jaid Dutch Ships feveral French Gentlemen and Servants, who were going as Paffengers to Martinico, and that be had Reafon to believe, fome of the Ships were lader with Provifions and warlike Stores, and bound direftly to the Jaid French Coiony. This Account being forcoarded to Londen by Exprefs, in Confequence thereof a Meffenger came down_loff Monday, -in erder to mgke a full Enguiry into the Matter 5 but the Wind coming Eaflerly the next. Dy after be got. to Cowoes, and not baving brought any Orders to the Admiralfor bis dffiflance ( jo that be could bave ra Help but from the Officers of the Cuftoms) it was not in bis Power, it feems, to make fo accurate an Exami nation as the Pablic could have wijbed, or the Nature of the Cafe required. However, bhe bas flopt two of the largefl, and taken out of the reff about 20 Gentlemen, two Ladies, and [everal Servants, all Subjedis to the Fremch King. Some of thefe Gentlemen are Perfons of Note. The other 15 Dutch Ships foed to the Wefiward through the Needles. ‘ “ It is remarkable, that-during their ling Stay at Cowes, thofe Fremch Prifoners appeared in the moft public Man- ner, dr¢ffed in the Fafbion and [poke the Language of their own Country, and yet mo Nstice was taken of them ; and they might bave paffed with Impunity, bad they not given Umbridge tothe Jew.” . On Saturday laff were browght fo Town the French Officers, &5c. that were taken out of :the Dutch Ships at Cewes, and we bear that tws Frigates are fent out after thofe that [ailed, and me doubt will overtake them bifire they reach Martinico. ““The following <: the purport of & Billet which the Emprefs-Queen received the 6th of November st noon, from Mazitha!l Dabn: * Moft gracicus Sovereign, “ By the sfliftance of the Almighty, the juft arms of f¢your Mij:fty have once more gained 2 complest “ viltory over the King of Pruffia near Zinna ; the ¢ enemy are defcated, &c. Nov. 3. 1760: Daun.” Upon the Royal ‘Hers's orderirg a Perfon of bigh Rank, (and as rark a' Comard ) to quit the Court. OD biefs the King ! who young and brave, G With Frowns diftinguifh’d fuch a Slave, Well might he fear his Monarch’s Eye, Who from Biitannia’s Fisg could fly ¢ Could he exorét, poor mean Paltroen, From fuch & Kingto have a Boon ? Or did he hope ke would re place That Thing his Grandfire did difgrece ? In this King’s Reign, it will be known, None but the Brave attend the Throne. Avaunt, thou Coward, hide thy Head, Who balzly from the Battle fled ; Left fome brave Briton for his Sport, Kicks thee, vile Scoundrel, from the Court. 50 s bl o s e ol s 4 o 8 b 0 o o o 0 - St CHR-ISTOPHER-'S, Feb, 28. The flcet from London arrived here on Wednefday laft. His Msjelty’s thip Emerald,Capt. Middleton, his fent in here a 8loop loaded with Mollaffes, and & French pettisuger loaded with provifions,bound fromSt. Euftatia tor Mariineco. Capt. Power who arrived at Antigus laft Thyrfday from Briftol, was attack’d to windwsrd by four French privateers, three of whici he obliged to run away, and the other ftruck; but for want of men he could not taske poffeflion of*her. And Cipt. Pous ot the fhip Julius. C2far, bound from London to Jamaics, was at- tacked abgut 25 Leagucs to windward of that ifland by fix privateers, all of which he beat oft with confiderable lofs on the fide of.the encmy. Capiain Potts had only one man {lightly wounded, but fufter’d much damagein his rigging, &c. March 14. His Excellency the General arrived here on Wedn{dey laft from Antigua. " On Thurlday was™ brought into this road, a Sloop bound from New York forthe coaft of Guinea ; She was retaken by the Foudroyant, Capt. Duff. Arrived et St. Kius., Robinfon and Walker from D:laware. Dean from New-Yark. Chefter from New- London.’ James from Rhod: Hland. Simpion and War- ner from Pifcataqua. CHARLESTOWN, (S. Carolina) March 7. 1761. N Thurfday Morning Advices were received from M:jor Thompfon, dated the z3th ult. at Ninety Six, where he and his Rangers returned frof Fort Prince George that Day. The Major as we acquainted our Readers before, fez out with 550 Rangers from Fort Ninety-Six on the r4th. ult. with Provifions,Goads, &o. for Fort Prince George. - The zoth about 11 e’- Clock in the Forenoon, they arrived et the Fost, not PN AN L See MNSS having met with the les?t Trterruptisa on the Way, and delivered their 89 Head of Caule, go Hogs, 50 Bar- re's of Flour, and 4 Wagpon’s loads of Goods, te rans fom the Prifoners in the -Cherokee Nation. The 21ft the Rangers threw in & good Supply of Fire wood ; and the fame Evening encamped at Six Mile Creek on their Return, That Night, as their Horfes firayed to fome Diftance from thzir Escampmenr, in queft of Foed, 129 of them were™ Cirtied off by he Indiars, “viz. 29 beionging to Major Thompfon’s Company, 11 to Capt. Buther's, 19 to Capr. Lrzarus Brown’s, 2g to Cap:, Jolm Wat'’s, 10 to Cept. Charles Ruffel’s, 15 to Capt. Archibald M'Donala’s, 13 to Capt. John Dar- gon’s, and 5 to Capt. Andrew Brown's; befides which one was found killed, and 3 flabbed : As no Noife was made by the Indiens (who perhaps intecnded to have furprized the Mecn inftead of Horfes, had they not found them on their Guard and tooNumerous) the Lofs was not dijcovered ’ill next Motfning, when Parties were fent out; buithe Enemy were gone off with fuch Precipitation, that they could not be overtaken, unlefs followed to their Towns : Itappesred that the Enemy had divided them'elves into three Parties, one of which took the Roue to Eftatowieh, the two others towards Keohwee, below old Eftanorih, which two left (by the Tracks) joined about two Miles from the Rangers Encampment.—Mr. Miln, Mr. Wilkinfon and Mr. Bell, came away from Fort Prince George with Major Thompfon, and may be foon expeéted in Town, Mr. Wilkinfon was a Lieatgnant in the former South- Caroli- na Regiment, ‘till it was redpced to three Companies,” and afterwartdsa Volunteer in the Independent Compa- nies, upen Governor Lytileton’s Expediton, and has remained at Fort Prince George ever fince ; and Mr; Bell (an Enfign in the fame Regiment) has been there as long ; but they are now happily relieved by Lieut. M’Intofh, acd Enfign M’Donald. The Men in Gar- rifon in that Fort are not yet exchanged. ANN APO LIS, in Maryland, March 26. Yefterday arrived here from Barbades, Capt. Irelend, which place he left the 18th of February, and informs, that Com. Douglafs having been acquainted by the Temple and Emerald men of war thet they had chaced a 70 gun French man of war,s frigate and ftorefhip'into the Granades, the Commodare, with two other fhips of the lins, fail’d immediately down in order to block them in ; and the whole fleet was {eon to fail from Carlifle Bay, in order to join him, inan attack againft tho'e iflands. Captain John Whiting, in the thip Refpe@, bound home from Virgizis, was tzken by a French privateer who took feveral other prizes, the manning of which’ weakned their compliment of hands fo much, that the Englifh on board found mears to get poffeflion of her, and carried her into the Ifls Man. There were five Englith Captains on board faid privateer. N -BUW iy O 'R’ K, "April 6. Tbe following Promotions bave been lately made, viz: Col Haviland to be Colonel of the third Battalion of Royal Americans, in the Room of Brig. Laurence, deceas’d ; Col. Burton to be Celon:l of a Regiment to be formeqd from the Independant Companies. Major Campbell of Montgomery’s, is zppointed Lieutensnt Colonel, and Captain Prefcot is appointed Major to Burton’s Regiment. Lieut. Colonel Mafley is appointed Lieut. Colornel to the Innifkilling Regiment in the Room of Colonel Haviland promoted. Lieut. Col Young Lient. Col. to Licut. Gen. Mur- ray's, in the Room of Lieut. Col. Mafley, exchanged. Lient. Col. Murray to be Lieut. Col. to Webb’s, in the Room of Col. Burton, promoted. Major Provoft is appointed Lieut: Col. in the third Battalion of Royal Americans, in the Room of Col. Young, exchanged. Mijor Elliot is appointed Lieut. Col. to Oughton’s, in the Room of Lieut. Col. Murray, exchanged. Capt. St. Lee is sppointed Major in the 4oth Re- giment ( Major General Armiger’s ) in the Room of Misjor Aldridge, decealed. Capt. Skey is appointed Major in Kennedy’s, in the Room of Msjor Elliot, promored. L : M:jor Maunlell of Montgomery’s is appointed M jor in the third Battalion of Royal Americans, in the Room of Lieut. Colonel Provoft, promoted. g Capt. Merry of the Royal Scotch is appointed 2d Msejor to Montgomery’s, in the Room of Major Maun- fell, exchanged. And, ; Capt. Sutherland of Warburton’s is appointed 1ft Major to Montgemery’s, in the Room of Lieut. Col. Campbell, promoted. - ) On Monday laft arrived here Capt. Lyon, in zodays from Jamaica, by whom we learn, that Admiral Holmes with the {quadron under his command, were very alive in cruifing on that ftation ; that they had taken feveral French privateers and other veflels, particularly that one of our men of war Jately tock and brought in _there a Erench frigate, and that they have lately taken feveral Englifh flags of Truce and Mount traders, which were ali condemned ; and that the Negro rebellion being entirely lubdued, the people of that Iand were no longer fubje to martial law. o ks On Tuefday evening arrived here g French prifoners, being the remainder of the garrifon of Fort Detroit, we hear they are ta be fent to Long 1fland. 4 The Houfes in the city of Phifadelphia have been lately carefully counted, when they amounted to 2969. In the year 1753 there were only 2300 ; fo that they have increafed fince that time 669,