Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

For the NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE.

Messieurs Printers,

Please to give the following a place in your useful and strictly impartial paper, and you will oblige a number of your customers,
Rochester, Jan. 1786.

The inhabitants of the Town of Rochester, Wakefield, New-Durham, and the adjacent towns in the county of Strafford, in the State of New-Hampshire, do return their hearty thanks to the Honourable General JOHN SULLIVAN, Esq, for his good Services at Concord, in behalf of a distressed people; and do ardently wish, that the zeal of so noble a spirited Patriot for the welfare of his country, may gain the applause of every person who wishes for liberty, and that the good people of this State would conform themselves to your bright example; then how gloriously would we flourish in freedom, and be enabled to pay our taxes, and enjoy our liberties so long contended for, and do earnestly recommend it to the inhabitants of this State, to be aware of designing persons, that do wish to monopolize and build themselves up on the ruin of their country; and do also inform the inhabitants of this State of the damages sustained in this county, in consequence of the late acts; in the year 1784, our lumber was quick at eight dollars per thousand, (boards and staves) and other lumber equivalent thereunto— This present year we cannot have more than four dollars per thousand, in goods as may be bought for cash. Allowing we turn off fifty hundred thousand boards this present year, and split lumber thereunto, at four dollars per thousand, our loss amounts to forty thousand dollars, only in this small county (at a moderate computation) how much we suffered in other produce in this small county we have not calculated, but shall leave it to the reader to judge, admitting this small county to sink this sum, what an immense sum must this whole state sink?