The Massachusetts spy, or, Thomas's Boston journal. [volume], November 05, 1772, Image 1

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JOHN WINTHROP,
Advertiies the public,
THAT he has removed from
the store utuatcd between Mr. Ben
iamin Andrews, and Mr. Samuel Elliot,
jun. near the Swing Bridge, to that lately
improved by Mr. Thomas Symmcs, op
Dofite the South fide of the Market,
where he has to fell as cheap as can tea
fonably be expeded.
-Choice Philadelphia Duck,
flour, I icklenburgba,
Bar Iron, Window glass of all
Cordage, forts,
Loaf and brown fu- Ofnaburgs,
gars. Nails, &c. &c.
Cod Lines, &c.
CASH given for
FLAX-SEED,
And a good price.
NATHANIEL GREENOUGH,
- Begs leave to acquaint the
WORLD,
That he has just received from London,
an elegant Aflortment of
Fall and Winter GOODS,
That are now ready for Sale, at hrs (hop two
doors to the northward of the Poft-Office,
just above the Market in Cornhilf,Bofton,
Among which are,
A FINE aflbrtment of fupcrfinc
midd.ing and low-prized broad
cloths, Rattsens, Bath and knapt Beaver
coatings, Frizes, 8 4ths Lambskins or
A Coatings, Kerfeys, German Serges, embos
sed ditto, Colchefter and Drapery Baizes,
Duffils, Shags, striped and rose Blankets,
flannels, Milled ditto for Ironing Cloths,
Barefkins, &c. divers kinds of Woollens,
from 133. 6d. Old Tenor to a Guinea the
Yard.
A variety of articles for Men’s Women s
and Children’s Gowns. A large aflbit
went of
IRISH LINENS
j-4ths, 7 Bths, and Yard wide, from 7s.
Old Tenor, to 455. the Yard.
The above Articles with a vast many o*
thers, toohnmy to be here particularly men
tioned, he will fell as cheap, or Cheaper,
than can be bought at any Shop or Store on
the Continent. The Quality of his Goods
* and the lowoeGof his Prices, will abundant
ly prove it. ,
N. B. He sincerely thanks his Friends and
Customers for their psst Favours, and begs
they would still continue to lay under
greater Obligations to them by granting him
their Custom in future. He (hall esteem
himfelf obliged if they will come and view his
Goods, that he may have an opportunity of
suiting them.
Choice French INDIGO
By the hundred, dozen or Angle pound,
, To be fo’d bv
HENRY PRENTISS,
At his store the head of Green’s Wharf;
ALSO,
CHOICE Lisbon and Port
WINES, by the quarter cask, Lisbon
OYL bv the cask nr jar, a few quintals of
excellent Dumb Fish, loaf and brown Sugars,
Bohea Tea, Coffee, Chocolate, Pepper, Al*
spice and Ginger by the hundred, dozen, or
fmgle Pound, Nutmegs, Cloves, Cinnamon,
Mace, Logwood, Redwood, Allum, Cop
peras< &c. &c. As Cheap for Cath as can
be bought at any Store in Town.
ALL Persons that are indebted
to the Printer hereof, will greatly o
blige him by making speedy payment.
f
Or, Thomas’s Boftori Journal.
THURSDAY, November 5, 1772.
FRIDAY, October 30.
BOSTON.
The following gentlemen are commif-
R med for the north battery, viz- Natha
niel Barb t, Esq, Captain, wi.h Major’s
rank.-*Amel Ruddock, fl ft Lieutenant,
with Captain s rank.—Edward Burbeck,
firft Gunner and fccond Lieutenant. —
William Dickman, fexond Gunner.
Ex trail cf a letter Jr tin London, Aug- tl.
“ Loru Hi'dborough has Mutually reftgn
ed, and Lord Da't.nouth fixed in his place,
who is one of the best men alive, mild and
gentle, always meaning well, and ready
to hear reason, and to follow good advice;
so that I hope the colonies will soon find
their account in this change, and that what
remains still in dispute between them and
u», will quickly be adjusted to our mutual
fatisfadion and content.’*
SATURDAY, Odober 31.
BOSTON.
On the ift of September, Mr. Sllvanus
Ripley, and his companion and interpre
ter Lieutenant Joseph Taylor, returned to
Dartmouth College from their mission to
the Indian tribes in Canada; and brought
with them ten children from those tribes,
to receive an education at that fchooi;
two of them are children of Enghfh cap
tives, who were taken by the Indians in
former Wars; one of them a grana (on
about eight* years old, of Mr Tarbull,
who was taken from Groton about sixty
years ago; he greatly rejoiced to fee them
on this occasion: The old gentleman was
hearty and well, and ex prefled great affec
tion to his relations in New-England, and
desired they might be informed of his wel
fare ; he was the eldest chief of that vil
lage.—A grand fan of Mrs. Eunice Wil
liams of Deerfield, in the year 1740,
would have come with them but was sick
with the measles; but he is expeded in
the spring.—— The number of Indian
children in that Ichool is eighteen.
Captain Solomon Hatch, who is arriv
ed at Wood's Hole, in lat. 37. took up a
chest in which was a new suit of cloaths,
a new beaver hat, a quantity of ca(h, and
aquadrant with the name of John Smith
at length thereon.—Any perlon proving
their claim thereto may have the above by
applying to said Hatch.
MONDAY, iXuvcmoc. 1.
BOSTON.
The mtjjage, mtntionod in ottr laft y tt hit Ex
t^Usne^9 frsm tbs tswn sf itgady
ejpmblta at Eantuu-HaU, it at
vrx.
“ May it pleaft year
<( Thb frecnuiuers and other inhabi
tants of the town of Boston legally assem
bled in Faneuil-Hall, beg leave to acquaint
your Excellency, that a report has prevail
:d, which they have reason to apprehend
is well grounded, that stipends are affixed
to the offices of the Judges of the Superior
Court of Judicature, &c of this province,
whereby they are become independent
of ihe grants of the General Affcmbiy for
their support; contrary to ancient and in
variable usage. This report bas spread an
alarm among all considerate persons who
have heard of it, in town and country;,
being viewed as tending rapidly to com
plete the system of their fl a very, which o
riginated in the House of Commons of
Great-Britain, assuming a power and au
thority to give and grant the monies of
the colomfts without their content, ano
against their repeated remonstrances And, i
as the judges hold their places during plea
lure, this eftablilhment appears big with
fatal evils, so obvious that it is needief* to
treTpafs on your Excellency’s time in men
tioning them.
u It is therefore the hutrble and earnest
request of tne town, that y >ur Excellency
would be pl-rated to infonn tnem, whether
you have received any such advice relating
co a matter so deeply intereftin? to the in
habitants of this province, which gives
you aflurance that such an eftablilhment
has been, or is Lkely, to be made.
Aittft-
- William Cooper, Tewn-Cltrh*'
On Friday the town met according to
adjournment, and the committee which
had been appointed to wait on the Gover
nor, reported from his Excellency the fol
lowing answer to their message, viz.
. Gent lent v , f •
H •* IT it by ne means prefer for me te lay
0 before the inhabitants es any town whatfee •
u ver y in cenfeyuenee of their votes and pro
“ ceedings in a town-meeting, any part of my
“ correspondence as Governor of the province.
or te acquaint them whether 1 have er have
“ not received any advices relating tt the
“ the public affairs of the government. Tbit
“ Reason alone, if your address to me had been
“ in other refpefls unexceptionable, would
0 have been Juffident te reJirain mt from
* complying with your desire.
“ i /hall always be ready te gratify the in
-0 habitants of the town of Bejion upon every
* regular application to mt on buftnefs of pub
-0 lie concernment to the town, as far as I
“ JhaV have it in my power, conjiftent with
“ fidelity to the truji which bis Majtfiy has
•• repojed in mt.
T. HUTCHINSON.
Provinct-Heuft, Oilober, 1771.
“ Te the inhabitants of the town cf Bejion, in
town mttting afftmbledat Faneuil-Hall”
The foregoing anlwcr being read, it was
moved that a committee be appointed to
prepare a humbe petition to the Governor,
praving that he would be pleated to order
a feflion of the General Affcmbiy at the
t<mc to which it now stands prorogued ;
and Mr. Otis, Mr. Adams and Mr. Cu(h
ing were appointed accordingly. Who re
ported a draft; which being read, it was
voted that the fame gentlemen who had
before carried the meffsge of the town,
wait on his Excellency with the following
petition, viz.
*• To his Excellency the Governor of
the province.
0 The PETITION of the freeholders and
other inhabitants of the town of Bolton,
legally affembied, by adjournment, in
Faneuil-Hall, on Friday October 30,
’77 2 * ~ „
Humbly jhtwtth,
<( I hat your petitioners are fliU greatly
alarmed at the report which has been pre
valent of late, viz. That stipends are af
fixed to the offices of the Judges of the Su
perior Court of Judicature of this pro
v nee, by order of the crown, for their
support.
•• Such an eftablilhment is contrary, not
only to the plain and obvious tente of the
I charter of this province, but aTo, to feme
of the fundamental principles of the eom
mon-law; to the benefit of which all B* i
tifh fubjrds, wherever dispersed through
out the British empire, are indubitably en
titled. (
n Such a jealousy, have the fubjeof
England for their rights, liberties and pri
vileges, and so tender regard has been
(kown to them by his Majesty, that not
withstanding the provision made at the re
volution, that the Judges of the King’s
Superior Counts of law there, should hold
their not at pleasure, but
during good behaviour; and since that
time for their support, his Majesty among
other the firft ads of his reign, was graci
ously pleated to recommend it to parlia
ment, and an ad passed, that their com
missions ffiouid not ceaie at the demise of
the King ; wherrby every thing pofiible in
human wisdom Perns to have been done,
to establish an impartia'ity in their decifi- j
on*, not on'y between fubjed and fubjed,
I but between the crown and the subj d —
Of how much greater importance must it
be to prefe’vc from thejeaft fuppoteable
bias, the judges of a court, u.vefted by
the laws of this province, which have
been approved of by M sjefty, with powers
as fully and amply to all intents and pur
poses whatever, as the courts of Kings-
Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer*,
within his M«jeftv’s kingdom of England
or ought to have. • ।
“Your Excellency will allow your petiti
oners, with due submission, to repeat, that
this eftablifhaunt appears to them preg
nant with such fatal evils, as that the mote
distant thought of its taftmg effed fold
their mind with dread and horror.
, “ Theft, Sir, are the sentiments and ap
prehensions of this metropolis ; exprefled
however with due deference to the tenti
ments of the province, with which your
petitioners are anxiously so ic toui of being
made acquainted.,. .
It is tbeiefore their earnest and humble
request, that your Excellency would be
pleated to allow the General Affcmbiy to
meet at the time to which it now ftanda.
prorogued ; in order, that in that
tional body, with whom it is to
enquire into grievances and redrete
them, the joint wisdom of the province
may ba employed, in deliberating and de
termining on a matter so important and ra
terming. %
Philadelphia, OBober it. On Fri
day evening the following address was
presented to the repretentatives of the city
and county of Philadelphia, in General
Affcmbiy, by a committee of a number of
the inhabitants of said city and county.
“To Israel Jacobs, Henry Pawling, Jona
than Roberts; Michael Hillegas, Samu
el Rnoads, Joseph King, J >feph Par
ker, and George Gray, Efqrs. Repre
sentatives of the county; and Samuel
Shoemaker, and Thomas Mifflin, Efqrs.
Burgesses of the city of Philadelphia.
**7he addrtfs of a number of freemen of the
cenoty and city afertjatd.
, "Gentlemen, it
“WE sincerely congratulate you, in
behalf of ourselves, and others, our fel
low-citizens and countryman, on your e*>
ledion to represent us in General* Aflem
bly for the pretent year; and tnougb we
have the highest opinion of your abilities
and integrity, and doubt not but you will
exert your utmost endeavours to promote
every measure, which may tend to furthep,
thehappinefs of the community; permit
us, nevertheless, to recommend to your at
tention the following fubjeds, do matters,
either dire&ly In themselves, or in their
confequencet, most likely to sap the liber
ty of our happy constitution.
And firft; Ads of Aflembly have been
passed, without giving the people ass op
portunity of hearing the purport of them,
or offering their objedions (if assy) nor
can they pofiblv know, who here or have
not justly repretented tteor, except by pri
vate int-'ligcnce; and, as we humbly con
ceive the people have an indubitable right
to know how their bufmefs it tranfaded in
the house, we exped that our worthy re
presentatives Will coincide in opinion with
us, that their conflftuents are entitled to
have free aceeh there, or that fucti me
thods should be taken to give them Gtis
fadion, as to the wisdom of the house (hall
teem meet.
Secondly ; The Excite Ad, psfled lift
year, we apprehend to be opprefflve, par
tial and unconstitutional in ittelf, and ro
Jess subversive of the liberty of the Cub ed,
and dangerous in its confluences. Op*
preffi/e, as it is a heavy* tax upon tne nu..
d'ing and poor c'aft of the inhabitancy
Partial, as the imp orter may evade the pa«
ment of one farthing for what he co
fumes. Unconltiiut onal, as a nerfon
[Numb. 90.