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| With, A General Assortment of English Goods and Hard Ware. Many of the above Articles will be Exchang'd for New England Rum, _By_ Samuel Allyne Otis, At Store No. 5, South-Side of the Town-Dock. _Boston Gazette_, Sept. 22, 1767. * * * * * Wigs advertised in Salem, suitable to "grace and become Judges, Divines, Lawyers, or Physicians," and "Rolls to raise the Heads" of ladies "to any Pitch they desire." This shop was probably patronized by Judge and Madam Lynde, Colonel Pickman, Dr. Holyoke, Dr. Barnard, Dr. Hopkins, Dr. Whitaker, Samuel Curwen, Judge Ropes, John Appleton, Deacon Holman, Friend Northey, and others. =William Lang,= _Wig-Maker and Hair-Dresser,_ HEREBY informs the Public, that he has hired a Person from EUROPE, by whose Assistance he is now enabled, in the several Branches of his Business, to serve his good Customers, and all others, in the most genteel and polite Tastes that are at present in Fashion in England and America.----In particular, WIGS made in any Mode whatever, such as may grace and become the most important Heads, whether those of Judges, Divines, Lawyers or Physicians; together with all those of an inferior Kind, so as exactly to suit their respective Occupations and Inclinations.----HAIR-DRESSING, for Ladies and Gentlemen, performed in the most elegant and newest Taste.----Ladies, in a particular Manner, shall be attended to, in the nice, easy, genteel and polite Construction of ROLLS, such as may tend to raise their Heads to any Pitch they desire,----also French Curls, made in the neatest Manner. He gives Cash for Hair. _Essex Gazette_, Feb. 9, 1773. * * * * * On the departure of Governor Hutchinson from the Province of Massachusetts in 1774, a hundred and twenty-three citizens of Boston, together with sundry citizens of Salem, Marblehead, and other places, signed a complimentary address to him, "lamenting the loss of so good a Governor," and praising him for his character and conduct. Most of these persons belonged to the better classes; but their action was judged to be, to say the least, hasty. Shortly after this, these "addressors" were "hauled over
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