Thank you for visiting SNEWPapers!
Sign up free
The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
A New York report claimed 400 framed houses at Port Roseway settlement via schooner Fancy, but a Salem captain who visited contradicted it, stating only 10 proper houses and over 400 huts/tents, with miserable inhabitants resenting US citizens.
Clipping
OCR Quality
Full Text
An article under New York head, of August 30, says "The schooner Fancy, in 11 days from Port Roseway, brings further intelligence of the flourishing condition of that settlement; and that before he sailed, four hundred framed houses were erected."
A Captain of a vessel, belonging to this town (who was at Port Roseway about the time in which the above pleasing intelligence is said to have been carried to New-York) informs, that a number of buildings at that place, which could, with any propriety, be denominated Houses, did not exceed Ten. The number of huts and tents amounted to upwards of 400.---The miserable inhabitants stare horribly at the sight of a citizen of the United States - The above Captain experienced the resentment of some of them; but being under a government used to their character, they are easily restrained by interposition of their masters.
What sub-type of article is it?
What keywords are associated?
What entities or persons were involved?
Where did it happen?
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Port Roseway
Event Date
September 11
Key Persons
Outcome
only 10 proper houses, over 400 huts and tents; inhabitants miserable and resentful toward us citizens, but restrained.
Event Details
New York article reported flourishing Port Roseway settlement with 400 framed houses per schooner Fancy; local captain who visited states only 10 houses, rest huts/tents, and describes miserable conditions and resentment toward US citizens.