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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1811
Page
4
Sour-Krout advertised for a breeding season at Washington Georgia priced at twenty five dollars with payments due by January and December, plus a one dollar groom fee. The mare season expires July 26. The ad claims Sour-Krout’s superb lineage from High Flyer and Herod line and notes racing success at New Market Ascot Dorchester and more, including matches and winnings.
Payable by note with mares kept and fed at modest price prior to removal. Alexander, Lord Grosvenor’s best Eclipse son, dammed by Sweet-Brier and Herod line, stands 16 hands, active and fast. Advertised in racing calendars. advertised at Milledgeville and Greensborough. E. Jordans for W. Smalley. March 29.
The Reabiatae high bred running horse Young Spread-Eagle will stand the ensuing season half at Rockey Comfort near Warrenton and half at Jeremiah Beall’s farm. Mares may be bred for ten dollars, eight dollars if paid within the season, with four dollars for a single visit. Twenty dollars to insure a mare in foal. Free pasture provided. no liability for accidents. A four to five year old beauty rising six, about fifteen and a half hands, claimed as fast as any horse in Georgia for a single mile, season runs from March 76 to July 1.
In Columbia County near Augusta a $10 reward is offered for the capture of Cuffey a enslaved man aged about 32 or 33, height five nine or ten, with large whiskers, wearing a cotton shirt homespun overalls a brown bath coat and a long black coat. He is said to have relatives in Augusta and Savannah and may attempt to board a riverboat. Rewards paid for his return to Littleberry Clanton. March 2.
Kaapen and Hubbard of the Merchant Taylors announce their renewed partnership under Copartnership and continue the tailoring business in Broad Street. They advertise cloths cashmeres and Westings of high quality and invite orders from town and country with prompt, careful service.
All persons in arrears to the Subscriber by note book account or otherwise as well as those indebted to the former firm Brad ley and F Knapen are urged to come forward and settle their accounts with prompt payment and release of obligations.
The Planters Bank of the State of Georgia commissioners meet in Savannah on January 15 1811 to announce public subscription dates. Public notices in Savannah Augusta Milledgeville Washington Athens call on February 1 at eleven o clock for subscription in the Exchange long Room, with weekly meetings for six months.
At a meeting of the Georgia Planters Bank commissioners the following unanimous resolution is recorded. The act allows US citizens or corporations to subscribe within six months from February 1 for up to 100 shares, books open for six months, subscriptions may extend beyond the period if not all shares are taken, and commissioners’ powers end after 9000 shares are subscribed. Signatories include Harris, Scott, Johnston, Mein, Swarbreck, Berrien, Caig, Low, Anderson, Williamson, Bulloch. Savannah, Feb. 11, 1810.
Commissioners meet in Louisville to organize a company under the 1810 act to open the Ogeechee River from Canoochee to Rocky Comfort. Public subscription notices will run in Louisville Savannah Augusta and Milledgeville with weekly updates for five months. Meetings set Saturdays 10 to 2 at Mr Pofner’s long room beginning April 16.
The notice lists prize amounts and stages for the Augusta Catholic church lottery with deductions, payment delays, and a 12 month claim window. It names commissioners David Reid R Tubman H Nesbit John McKinne and others and states tickets are available at the Post Office and Augusta Book Store.
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