The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

WE hear from Moultonborough, that a Road has lately been cut from the Coos Road through said Township, and well cleared down to that part of Winnipicokee Pond, called Squam Cove, in said Moultonborough, where there is a Wharfe and Store House erected, which will shortly be supplied with Salt, Rum, Fish, and other Articles, to open a Correspondence and Trade with the Inhabitants of those Townships on the Western parts of this Province and Connecticut River, and to receive Wheat and Flour, (the produce of their Farms) in Exchange, as also Pot Ashes, Pearl Ashes and Salts: The situation of the said Cove, seems by Nature Calculated to be a place for Business, being the most convenient of any in the upper part of said Pond, from thence there will be near 20 Miles Water Carriage to the lower Part thereof; from thence there is or soon will be a good Waggon Road to Dover, and then again by Water to this Town: From this seemingly small Beginning (in the Opinion of the most Judicious) will result the greatest Advantages both public and private, that has ever been experienced in this Province; and in a few Years we shall be able to supply ourselves with Wheat, Flour, and Provisions much cheaper than to import them.

To hasten this happy Period, we could wish to see the Industry of many poor Families imployed to more Advantage, than spending a miserable Life of Want and Necessity on barren and worn Out Farms, when they and their Offspring may be blessed with an almost spontaneous produce of rich and fertile Lands, which will be given them upon the easy Terms of only settling on them -- There are Instances of many that went from this Town only the last Year, that are already so comfortable, and contented, that they could not be easily tempted to return; they now no longer feel the want of Firing, and the very Ashes, which they now preserve, will, (by boiling them into Salts,) procure them every necessary of Life; There is nothing wanting but Resolution to accomplish a settlement, and if it was not for exceeding the Bounds of a News Paper, we could enumerate many Advantages that the Poor would reap by emigrating into the New Townships, but we could wish some able pen would be employed for this purpose, and that every old settled Town would raise and lend ten Dollars to every poor Family that removes, till they can repay the same.