The New Hampshire Gazette

To the Publisher of the New-Hampshire GAZETTE.

SIR,

Every one knows that in settling and cultivating wild Lands, there must necessarily arise a considerable Expense, which must be duly paid by the proprietors, or the Work must be retarded; which shows how unreasonable it is for People to expect Townships should be settled in which they are Proprietors, while they shift, shuffle and neglect to pay their Proportion of the Taxes laid for that end. But by the imprudent and unfair Management of some of the leading Proprietors, it often happens others are blamed, and at last their Rights sold for Non-Payment, who never heard of the Tax. Can it be thought a fair Method of giving Notice in such Cases, when the Lands lie in this Province (tho' a few only of the Proprietors live here) to insert an Advertisement in a Connecticut or Boston News Paper, for the sake of the Proprietors there, without any Regard to those, who by an Advertisement in the New-Hampshire Paper, might save their Rights. WHEREAS by the Method complained of, the said Rights have been, and may always be sold, and purchased by those who have contrived the Scheme, and the small Number aforesaid, made smaller, or reduced to a Cypher; And therefore desire the Managers to give Notice in your Paper for future of their Proceedings in these Cases, or the Legality thereof will hereafter be called in Question.