The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser. [volume], September 29, 1781, Image 4

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Further particulare of the fuvdpe erueltios
of the Britifb troops, in thelr depreda
eory excursion (under the infamous Arnold)
to New-London, &c. on Thursday the
‘6th instant; which ought to be recorded to
- their eternal infamy.
Evtras? of a letter from New London, dated
Sept. 13.
¢ Our dear valuable friend Col. Ledyard
is no more, he was most wantonly murder
ed after he had' surrendered himfelf a pri
{oner.—Arnold was heard to enquire for
particular houles, for the express purpose of
burning them, and from their aciions 1t
fully appears, that they deliberately deter
mined to plunder and burn private dwelling -
koufes ; to distress the poor, the widow and
the fatherlefse=They left fort Trumbull,
the cannon, and all warlike appurtenances
in good order.==The fort at Groton is also
left in good order, the barracks and maga
zines fafe with 45 barrels of powder having
only knocked off some trunnions : They
have only distressed the poor innocent inha
bitants : The more than savage barbarity of
_tacfe troops at Groton in murdering the
garrison afcer furrendery, the tossing the
wounded into a waggon, and roling it down
the steep hill of Groton, over ledges of rocks,
witha design it thould run them into the
sea, cannot be expressed.
_ ¢ Poor Capt, Shap 4 was one wounded
ia the fort, and of the Amber of those that
was thrown into this waggon ; he told me
the officers damn’d the soldiers, and bid
them set the waggon a going, and the thake
it gave them at its bringing up againfta
tree, half way down the hill, was mare dif
trefling than the wounds received. '
¢« Old Mr. Beebe, was shot at his own
door beging for mércy 3he has not carried
s gun for 20 years.” =
Another letter fays,==** Soon after ths
Britifb bad [ubdwed Fors Griswold, onGroton
bill (Commeßicut) they loaded a waggon with
sur wounded men, by order of their officers,
and (et the waggon off from the top of the bill,
whith is long and wvery SYeep 5 the waggon
weut @ considerable difiance with great force,
*ill it was suddenly fopped by a iree 5 the
shock was [o great to those faint and bleeding
wen, that pars of them died inflantly : The
officers ordered their men so firs on the waggon
while it was rasming.’”
We have pretty good authority to assure
gur readers, that General Arnold in his late
excurfior to New-London and Groton, loft,
out of 1800 refugees, tories, &c. at leaftone
vifth part of the whole army he brought with
him, in killed and wounded. v
TOBES 0 L D,
By the Subicriber,
Several commodious FAR MS,
with good BUILDINGS theteon, situate in
Durkam, in the County of Strafford,——
A:L -3 -0, .
A good Dwelling-House, with
2 ¢coavenient Office and Store, at Durham-
Falls, near the Landing.——
Together with o
A good Fulling-Mill, Saw-Mill,
and double Grist-Mill, either with or with
out a 2 Farm adjoining, as may be most agree
able to the Purchaser.
' JOHN SULLIVAN.,
Durhkam, Sept. 12, 1781.
TO BE SOLD,
For Cafb, or Couniry Producs,
A good second-hand CHAISE,
with HARNESS compleat.
: Inquire ot the Printers. -
RISH.KILL, September 13.
Extra& of a letter from a gentleman at Al.
bany, dated September 8.
“ We bave just received the difagrecable
uews, that out of 40 men Col. Willet sent out
on a [cout from Fort Plain (bis present fation)
only 12 resurned y the vest being either killed
or taken by a [uperior force of Ihe entimy.”
Extra& of another letter from a gentleman
in Albany, dated September 7.
“ On Saturday last, a party of bis Moss
Sacred Majefly’s Savage Sulselis, v:ont to the
boufe of ome Friiz, at Beverly, mearScbobarie,
when they performed & wmojd extraordinary
piece of bravery, that fbould be told to ile
whole world : They murdercd the old man and
bis wife, each of them at lealt 70 years of
age 5 bis [on’s wife and five childrem : Fis
Jon being a captain of militia, was kept alive
to be an eye and ear witne[s to the borrid cru
eliies perpeirated on bis dear relatives.— After
burning the boufe, barn, £s¢c. they went off
wiib their booty—tbe Captain and 8 [calps.”’
On Thursday tbe 61b tnstant, Capt. Pear/e,
of Pawling’s Precinl, baving bad a bint of
a parly of robbers being [een in tbe mountains,
¢olleiled a few men to go in quest of them :
Having divided them in three pariies, one of
them discovered four villains playing at
cards near & [mall boufe in the woods ; our
men fired om tbem and killed the noted chief,
Vanghan, om the spot 3 Hoog, Proffet and the
otber got off. Omne of them ([fuppojed ic be
Hsog, by bis bat which was left) was wound
ed, by the blood which was discovered in con
siderable quantities on the road. Several pa
pers were found on Vaugban, giving an account
of the division of their plunder.—Capt. Pearfe
and bis men deserve the bighest thanks of their
country for their aftivily in this and other
exploits. In the house near where the fellows
were discovered, were cooking for ibem, two
quarters of mutton, and iwo more were bang
«ng up : They pulled down the boufe which
barboured 1h: robbers, and took bail of the dif
affelied man who poffefled it. Capt. Pearfe
in the month of May las? taok f[evem robbers
in a cave, some of which received the yewards
“due to their deferis, ~
The Privateer Brigantine
Sweepfltakes,
In ten Days, will failon a Six Weeks
Cruize.—Any Seamen or Maiines inclined
to enter on Board said Brig, by applying at
the Rendezvous, on Spring Hill, will find
Encouragement equal to their Withes, from
Timothy Mountford, Comander.
Portsmouth, Sept, 21, 1781.
PAPER MONELY,
Will be taken for
Englifb and Wept India G O O D §,
Spence and Sherburne.
All Persons indebted to the Es
tate of the Hon. ENOCH POOR, Esq; late
of Exeter, deceased, Intefiate, are again re
quested to make Payment : And all Persons
that have any Demands upon said Estate, are
desired te bring their Claims to ,
" "OLIVER PEABODY, Attorney to
Exeter, Sept. 21, (the Administratrix.
PO. B:-E SOLD,
A good Rightof L AND in
Gilmantown. Inquire of Deacon Dearborn,
of Wakeficld, 2
ANECDOTE of the KING of PRUSSIA,
q\ 8 the King of Prussia was passing thro’hig
great hall 3¢t Sans-Souci, with one of his
Generals, “General” fays be, ‘“‘you thall dine
here in 3 few days with three hundred Chame
berlains.” ¢ Sire, I did not thirk you had
so many,” ¢1 do not mean those animals
who wear gold keys, but my brave Chamlira
lains, who will open for me the gates of
Silesia.”
e A o o~ . e S A, e e e
State of New-tHampfhite. }To all wh-m it may
Rackivgham, fI. copeern, ‘
NOTICE is bercby given, That
@ LIGEL :: filed before me, in Beb if of Samael Starey,
Commander of the private armed Cutter Greyhoord,
ard ell eencerned therein, agoinfl the Prigantine ¢2!'.d
tse Admiral Darell, of about g 0 Tons Burthen, be- Cro<
ge and Appartemances, Peter Nightinga's, latz Magr ;
awbich Vefel is said 1o hawe bien takin and 6?0&351 inte
the Port of Pilcatequa, in the State ofore/aid ; and jor
th: Trial of the Fuftice of [oid Copture, a Court Ma-i
--tim: will be beld at Fortimouth, ox the firfl Day of |
O&ober nexr, at Ten o' Cloz# éa the Forenson, avken awd
wwbere the Qwrers of said Capts e, or any Persons con
cerned therein, may apprar and Bew Caule (if any they
646‘0!) fwl)y the /ame Brould nst be cond:mned.
J] BRACKETT, Judge.
Pertfmouth, Sep2. 14, 1771,
This may Certify all whom it
may concern, That I Jona:ken Chepman of Eplom,
in the Courgy of Rockingham ard State of New-,
Hampshire, Yz2oman, do hereby uiterly revoke and
make null and void all and every Power of Atiorney
or Substitution either of an erdinary or {pecialNature,
that has &t amy time beea executed by me previous to,
this date. Wiinels my Hand,
. NATHAN CHAPMAN.
omss Babb, n
Joha Casey; September 11 1781,
New-Emiflion Money revived.
The Subscriber havisg a large number of Lot: of
Lsand in well {ettled Towns in this State ; allo a well
finithed Dwelling House in the Town of Portsmouth
{uitable for Bufinefs.will dispose of them for the New
Emifion Monay of any of the United Stares if offer
ed tchim {oon. JOHN WENDELL.
Pori{mouth, September 7, 1781.
" TO BE SOLD, by the Subfcriver,
200 Acres of good LAND,
under Improvement, with a gond Dwelling House
and Barn, sa Orchard, and a 2 Saw Mill on said Pre
mises.— Also, sundry other Pieces in said Towr. ; and
one Right of Land in the Town of Tunbridge, in the
State of Vermont, so called.
The above Premises are to be Sold cheap for Sil
ver Money, or good Security, by
Gilmaniown, Sept. 11 SAMUEL GREELEYas
W A NT E D,
A capable young Lad, about
t4or 15 Years of Age. who can be well recom
mended, to {erve at the Painter’s Bufinefs.lnquire of
GEORGE DOIG.
FOHN BALCH,
3 9
EM PLOYED by Authority toride POST
~ from Port/mouth, through the principal Parts of
this State, informs the Public, that he undertakes to
perform thecircuitocs rout thre’ the following Towns,
once every Fortnight, viz.==Portfmouth, Greenland,
Stratham, Exeter, Kingflowm, Hawk, Sandewon, Chefe
ter, Pembrosk, Concord, Bofcawen, Salishury, Andover,
New-Cheflar. Plymouth, Rumney, Wentwonreh, Warren,
Haverbill, Newbury, Piermont, Orford, Lyme, Lebanon,
Plainfield, Cornish, Claremont, Charlefloavn, Walpole, .
Wefimo cland, Keen, Marlborough, Dublin, Peterborough,
Temple, Wilton, Amber f, Mersimack, Litcbfield, Derry,
(e, He will always be ready to attend to the Com
mands, of any Gentleman, who may fee fit to employ
him in carrying Letters {mall Packe's, &c. for 2 mere
tr fle,whch they are requested to leave at Mrs. Tiilton’s
in Pzrtfmounth, from which place he fits off on Satur.
day Mo ning next, and every oiber Saturday follow
jng. Persons may be {e'v'd by him with the NEW
HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE. for the low price of
One Dollsr{cr an equivalent ia eountry produce) for
fix Months,exclufive of pollage to be paid at entrance;
which is much lower thas the Boston papers.
Port/mouth Sept. 29 1281, .
Printed at Foiifmouth: