Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

BOSTON, May 29.

A gentleman who arrived in town last Friday from Orange, in the county of Hampshire, informs us, that the following letter was received by the person to whom it is directed on Wednesday last, viz.

"Hinsdale, May 21, 1787, 12 o'clock.

"BROTHER,

"I would have you acquaint my family, that I am taken prisoner by Shays's men. They tell me, I must go to Head Quarters—where that is I know not.

From your Brother,

JOSEPH METCALF."

"Mr. Savel Metcalf, Orange."

Mr. Metcalf was on his return home from a journey when he was captured.—The night following which, the house of Medad Pomeroy, Esq. in Warwick, was attacked, and himself made prisoner, by an armed body of insurgents, commanded by one Smith of New-Salem, late a Lieutenant Colonel of the militia, who previous to his departure left the following with Mr. Pomeroy's lady, viz.

"This are to certify the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, that the persons now taken are to be reserved as hostages to secure the life of Jason Parmenter and Henry M'Cullock, who are condemned to death by said State, and to assure you, that if the above persons are put to death by said State, that the persons taken as above shall be put to death, in the same manner, as soon as the news arrives, and that without delay, and therefore pray you not to be deceived, but pray to save life."

Our informant, who is brother to one of the gentlemen made prisoners, says further, that on Tuesday last, they were seen to pass through Brattleborough, Vermont, guarded by six of the rebels.

We hear that Mr. Joseph Metcalf, who was captured by a party of rebels, as related above made his escape on the other road.

It is said, that Mr. Pomeroy, the other gentleman who was held as a hostage by the rebels, has been released, from an apprehension of their inability to hold him in defiance of the authority of Vermont the magistracy of which state, we are told, had issued a warrant for apprehending the culprits, in order to liberate Mr. Pomeroy.