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‘Colley being on bosrd the Flora when the boat re- turned, immediately went on boerd his own “5"’ cut his cables in the night, patto fea, and gotfafe off the cosft ; but Capiain Taylor finding it 1mpof- , fible tog , put nis {laves on fhore, and fe, fire to his fl\ip.'!ahlt Monfieur was fadly dif-pp;ishtga in the morning of his booty : ‘That about 40 lesgues fouthward - of Sicrra <Leon, the faid frigate took a brig belonging to Liverpoo!, Ceptain Ray, with 100 {laves on board, &ounflg Virginia : She alfo took a {loop belonging to-Rhode Ifland, one Alleck masfter, with 50 flaves which, fhe took out, and burnt the vellel. -And that'{he left the banana’s the 11t of July, proceeding further down the coaft, ‘where it is pro- bable fhe hss made msany other captures. Advices from ‘Auguftine fay, that five Spanith men of war, with about 3000 land forces, srrived at the Havanneh from Old Spain fometime laft month ; and that the {1,ta was failed for Europe. N E W-¥ O R 'K Ofber-1z. It is corjectur'd that the Tranfports expefted in from England, are intended to cerry the Troops from heace to Dominique, where *tis {aid they are to be joined by TwoThoufand Forces from England, #nd to be under the Commaend of General Monck- ton, who will from theace proceed to the Attack of Martireco, and probably thence to Louifians, fhould no: the French (no doubt made fenfible the Englith will not be amufed out of the Advantages they have gained) prevent thole Operations by haft- ening a Peace. It appears there are no Forces on board the Fleet notwithftanding the Papers mention a large Body was preparing to embark on board them. The GenetalWall Packet, Capt Robinfon, left this Port Yefterday with the Mail for Falmouth., We hear feveral Regiments sbove are ordered down immediately. . The Lords Commiffioners of Appeals, have been pleafed to reverle the Sentence of the Vice Admiral- ty Court at JAMAICA, on all Ships taken from Meonto Chnfto by the Men of War; and to order Reftitution of Ships snd Cargoes. W P O R T, Ofber 6. On Tuefdsy Iaft died Capt. Caleb Gardner, of this Town, in the 79th Year of his Age; He has Jeft among his Survivors, a mournful Widow and Family. Hislflue having emounted to upwardsof 8o oulsgabout 60 are now living. r B O N, Oéober 19. gAbout a Fortnight ago a melancholy Affair bap- pened at the Esftward :....Mr. Small, an ingenious and improv'd Surveyor, being imploy’d by the Go- vernment to reconnoitre and explore that Part of the Conntry which lies between Fort Halifax on Kenne- bec River, and the River Chaudre, and {0 on to Que- bec ; he was attended by Capt. Howard, and a Party of g Men, fet out from the Fort upon that Bufine(s; but when they had got about 120 Miles Diftance, one Day sbout Twelve o’Clock, Mr. Small being within fome Bufhes taking an Obfervation, one of the Men peiceived a ruftling and fomething move, spprehen- ced it to be fome wild Beaft, unhappily fired and fhot him dead upon the Spot, Laft Week a forrowful Accident happened at Dedham to a Boy about 5 Years of Age, named Ful- ler, he being near'a Lad that was cutting a {mall Tree down, one End of it ftruck in his Forehead and broke his Skull, (o that he died in an Inftant. One Day laft Weeka Man was killed at Roxbory, by the Wheel of a Cart going over his Body. The following Extrafl is taken from Governor BERNARD's Proclamation of the 16th Infidut, viz, That all Perfons who at the Time of the Deceale of his late Majefty, were duly and lawfully poffefled of or invefted in sy Offices,. Places or Employments by any Commiffion, Grant or Appoiatment, under the public ‘Seal of , this Province, and who have not been fince removed from fuch their [aidOffices,Places er employments, fhall be, and fhall hold themfelves continued in the faid Officés, Places and Employ- ments for the Spice of Six other Months next after the T'wenty fifth Day of this Inftant O&ober, unlels they fhall be fooner removed, or other Provifian fhail be ‘made by other Appointments according to Law ; willing and rcquiring as well the (aid Perfons to proceed in the Performance and Execution of the Duties of the faid Offices, Places and Employments; g3 all his Majety’s Subjefts within the faid Province to be aidi%g and aflifting to them therein. B0 RTS8 M0 U T H. Wedne(day laft arrived here Capt. Branicombe, from Barbados, by whom we hear of the fafe Arrival ' of Capt. Warren, in a Brig from this Place at An- sigua. i Extraft of a Letter from Barbados, te bis Friend in this Totwn, dated September 18th, 317061. « YESTERDAY arrived here his Majefty’s Ship Amazn from England, with Exprefles for our Go- vernor, the Commaodore, and Lord Rollo who com- mands the \Lsnd Forces ; and by her we have an Account, that there were 60 Sail of T'ranfport Ships, which had fafled from England for New. York, to tale on board the Soldiers there, which *twas faid wasdeftin’d for this [fland ; fo that we can conjec- ture Nothing elfe but that this Expedition muft be — . . sgeinfk Martineco, which God grant taem Succels in.' We alfo hear that Captain Mark Furnsid was taken on his Paflsge to Barbados, and after ranfoming his Brig, fately arrived there,and had remitted the Money to Martinico tor the Redemp:ion of his Hoftage. Laft Tue(day Evening wasMarried, Mr. WiLL1aM CorTon of this Town, to-Mr:. Mary Crarke, a very agreeable young Couple: : 8o long intic'd, the Fair One yields, To ‘make a Man a Wife. A. CUSTOM HOUSE, Piscataqua, : Entered Inwaras, Schooner Rye, James Gilmore, from Philadelphis. Schooner Swan, Giles Seawards, from Ditto. Slaop John and Polly, Phillip “Babfon, trom Ditto, JO&ober. 22. - Sloop Newbury, Packet, Joha Tarbox, fromSuranam Brig Abigail, Simon Branlcomb, frem Barbados. Clesred Outwards, Biig Good Fortune, Jofeph Wadleigh, forNew York. Sigop Willing Mind, Mayo Greenleaf, for Halifax. Sloop Molly, Nathaniel Newman, for Ditta. Sioop Elizabeth, Jofeph Sewsll, for Nova Scotis. Sioop Charming Nancy, E. Ruttland, for Liverpool, Brig Harliquen, Lawrence Furlong,for Guadaloup. All Perfons Indebted to, or that' have Demands on the Eftate of Fofrpb Norten, late of Portfmouth, in the Province of New Hamptfhire, deceafed, are defired tobring in their Accounts to Fobn and Fonathan Norton of Portimouth aforefaid, Adminiftrators to faid Eftate, in order for Settlement. Province oF New HaMPsHIRE. ‘Whereas the Proprietors of the Townfhip of BOW, -at a Meeting held at Stratham in faid Province on Tuel(day the zgth Day of Septem - ber laft by Adjournment from the 21t Day of July laft, Voted, that the Sum of ‘Thirty ' Pounds Old Tenor thould be raifed on each- Original Right of Lands in faid Townfhip, to be forthwith paid for the Purpofes declared in fsid Vote ; which Sum by fsid Vote was thus proportioned, viz. Twelve Pounds on esch Forty Acve Lot, Twe/vz 'Pounds on each " Hundred Acre Lot, and Six Pounds on the common Land of each Right. 'Purfusnt to which ‘Vote,a Lift thereof, with s Warrant has been ‘committed to me to colle&t ; Therefore NOTICE is hereby given to faid Proprietors, to {end the refpective Sums to me Walter Bryent, of New Market in faid Province, -Colle&tor for faid Proprietors, or lesve the f{ame at my Dwelling Houfe there, and in Default of fo do- ing at or betore the Expiration of five Weeks from the Date hereof, Sale of the Lands fo affefled will be made. ‘WavrTer Bryenr. New Market, Oftober 224. 1761, . Province oF New HamPsHIRE, WHEREAS at a Meeting of the Proprietors of Gi/mantswn, in {sid Province, held at Exeter in faid Province, on the fixth Day of Jaly Iat paft, IT was VOTED to rsaife a Tax oneach Original Right, or Propiietor’s Share in faid Towa- thip, which, with what had before ‘been reiled on faid. Rights, thould amount to Eleven Pounds New- Tenor, on each Bight., And WHEREAS many of the Owness of the faid Rights or Shares, have been -Delinquent in- paying the Taxcs raifed on the faid Rights ; THESE are therefore to Notify and Warn all fuch Delinquents, that they pay their refpeclive Taxes to me the Sabfcriber, Collector of the faid Proprietors, in one Month next enfuing, or they.mny expet that fo much of each of faid Original Rights as will psy the refpective Taxes due on them, will be fold to pay the fame, as the Law directs. Danier GranT of Exeter, Colleflor of Gilmantown. .Dated at Exeter, Qédeber 14th, 1761, ) Ay ) Loy —— A ) W) Province oF New Hampsuire. THIS is to NOTIYY the Pro- prictors of the T'ownfhip of Chickefler, to meet at the Haule of Lieut. Fonatban Leaviit's, Inubolder in Hampion, on Tuefday the Third Day of No- vember next enfuing, at One of the Clock in the Afternoon. 1. Toréceive the Committee’s Return, cholen at the laft Meeting, to run the Lines round the qun, and to lay out Part of the common and undivided Land in faid Town. , 2. To fee what Encourege- ment the Proprictors of faid Town will give any of the Proprietors that will go and fetde in faid Town firk, 3. To {fee if the Proprietors will grant the Mill Priviledges to any Perfon or Perfons that wilk build a Saw Mill within three Months from this Time, in faid Town. 4. To fee if the Proprietors will reife any Money to clear out the old Way, laid out through (aid Town to Canterbury. 5. To fee it the Proprictors will et any further, relating to the difpofing of thofe delinquent Rights or Shares, or fo much of them as will be fufficient to pay their Arrcars, and to pafs any other Votes, that may be tho’t proper to be paft st faid Meeting, Dated at Hampton, Oftober. 19th, 1761 Fonathan Leavits, | Seleét-Men of Fonatban Tole, Chichefter. P S . JOSEPH BARRFLL Has reggov’d from the STORE of RosprT TRAILL, Efq; where be formerly kept, 10 a Shop in Kiugltreet, three Doors below the Poff Office. and mearly oppofite Capt. WiLLiam Pearson’s, where be bas to Sell, as cheap as can be bought any where in this Town, A {mall Quantity of Haberdathery and Piece GOOD>, by Whel:faleand Retail ; emong which are, Silk and Waor%ed Perticoats, black Silk, ana Scarlet Cloth Cardinals, Scarlet and Cloth color’d Short Closks. ALSO by Retail, Rum, Sugar, Mo- lafles, Tea, Coffee, Indigo; Loaf and Brown Segar, Cotton and Sheeps Wool, Pepper, Alfpice, Tobacco st Nine Shillings by the Single Pound, and cheaper by the Hundred. ¥ THOSE who favourhim with their Cuftom, my depend on being well ufed, JOHN FOWLE Hereby informs the Public, That he has removed his WRITING OFFICE trom the Widow Lear’s, to the Houfe slmoft oppofite the Pof Offce, and near the STATE HOUSE in Port/mearh, it being more convenient for faid Bufinefs ; and will perform all forts of Writings with Fidelity and Dif- patch. . . . Attendance will be given from nine 0’Clock to Twelve in the Fotenoon, and from Three to Six Afternoon, Saturdays Afternoons excepted. ‘Province of New Hampsuire. NOTICE is hereby GIVEN to the Grantees of the Townfhip of Stoningten, that the firft Meeting of the Proprietors of faid Townfhip, sgreesble to Charter, is to be held at the Houfe of Mr, Jobn Keazer,in Hampftead, on Thuriday the -2gth of this Inftant, O&taber, st Three o’Clock in the Afternoon, then and there to chule Seleé&t Men, -and other Officers, &c. JOHN.HOGG, Modera. , Hampflead, 224 of Oftober 1761. WHEREAS Hannah, the Wife of me the. Sublcriber, Fofeph Dudley, of Brintwood, has lately elop’d from me without Caufe, with twa of her Children, and has threatned to run me inDebt ; THIS is to warn all Perfons againft trufting her any Thing on my Account, for that I will not pay any ‘Debt fhe thall contreét on my Account from this iDay. Brintwood, OR. 5. 1761. Fofepb Dudley. TO0 . BE - LETT : * On good SECURITY,» @ ‘One T houfand Pounds, .or more. Inquit’ of the Printer hercof. TO BE SOLD A likely young NEGRO MAN : Inquiré of the Frinter. TO BE SOLD A Quantity of well made Buff Coulur’d Shammy Drefs’d Buck Skin Breeches ; En- quire ot Mr. Tra1LL’s Store. PUBLIC Notice is hereby giv'en that there will be fetup to be fhot for, a vesy good Silver Watch, on the 27th Inftant st the Houfe of Mr. Thomas Seavey, Innholder ‘in Portimouth, st 1 o’Clock on faid Day ; The nearelt ball to the Center wins the Waich, diftance Twelve Rods :* Tickets to be had of fsid Seavsy at his Houfe, at Five Pound Old Tenor & piece. . Province oF New-HaMpsHIRE. 4 WHEREAS the Proprietors of - more then one Sixteenth Part of the Rights and Shares of that Tra&t of LAND granted by the Proprictors of Mason’s Patent to Col. Jthabod Robie and others, and lying in the Province of NewHampfhire, have requefted me the Subfcriber, one of His Majefty’s Juftices of the Peace for the Province aforefaid, to Warn fadid Owners or Proprietors to meet at the Dwelling Houfe of Capt. Fonatban Biunt in Chefter in faid Provirce, on Tdeldsy the z7th Day of Otober Inftant, at Three o’Clock in ‘the Afternoon, to a¢t on thefollowing Articles, Viz. 1. To chufe a Moderator. tor’s Clerk. Road near Capt. Martin's. Money for the ufes sforefsid, or for any other ufes. and above what was allow’d ia the Grant of faid Tralt of Land. 6. To chufe Affeflors and a Qolleétor, or any.other Officer or Officers faid Proprietors may think 7. ‘T'o tatity and confirm sny Vote orVotes heretofore pals’d by faid Proprietors that remain im- perfed, it any fuch there be : And the faid Proprictors are hereby NOTIFIED, to meet at the above mention’d necellary. Place and Time accordingly, Portfmouth, Oto. 8. 1761. D. Prircs, The New Edition of the LAWS of this Province, which his latcly been ordered, is finified, and to be Sold by the Printer 2. To chufe a Proprie- 3. To lee if the Proprietors will allow of the Road that the bt Commictee furvey’d from Capt. Martin’s on the Eaft Side Pifcataquog River, to the Roud that is already accepted ; and elfo from the Road nesr Caleb Emery’s, which is already accepted, to the 4. To fee if the faid Pro- prietors will build a Bridge over the North Branch of - Pifcataquog River near Captain Martin’s ; and rsife To fee what encouragement fsid Proprietors will givse for the Building of & Mill in faid Trat of Land, over \ » §