Bedford to Run Mares at Five Dollars to the Owner
Bedford will continue the season at the Woodlands near Columbia and may race a few mares at fifty dollars each to be paid down. Mares will pasture on the best feed and be regularly fed with gain and currying. after eight weeks, if kept longer, charges may be added. William Gordon acts as agent for Col Wade Hampton. The document notes Bedford’s famous running record and mentions two yearlings Peccy and Lorrery, each three years old, have won three times and defeated notable rivals on the Charleston turf as of March 14.
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Wil
Woodlands
Columbia
William Gordon
Wade Hampton
Bedford
Virginia
Peccy
Lorrery
Charleston
Public Building Contract and Land Sale in Columbia County
A call to bidders to construct a brick court house at Columbia Court-house with stone foundation and brick walls, two stories high, 50 by 30 feet, openings and doors as specified, to be fully completed by May next. Also two or three lots of county public land to be sold the same day and place. John Foster, Thomas Cobbs, W. Drane.
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Columbia Court-house
V.z
John Foster
Thomas Cobbs
W. Drane
Franklin Courthouse
Franklin County
Webb Kidd
Hickory Level
Broad River
Atfalom Picflell
Michael Box
Jacob Hollingsworth
Said County
Maxfield Kennedy
Grove River
Stephen Brown
Abram Shankle
Jonathan Clark
Said
Teogaree River
Joseph Edwards
Moses Denman
Jacob Purced
Edmund King
Faid
Grant and Robins
Edmund Levell
Samuel M‘ Kee
H. Terrell
Gallatin the celebrated running horse at Isaac Ramsey plantation
Gallatin stands at stud near Columbia Cowart House for the season beginning April 1 and ending August 1. Mares may be left with Gallatin’s owners at Gallatin's stand. a fee of twenty five dollars per season and one dollar to the groom per mare. Gallatin, eight years old, eleven hands high, is described as a superior sire with notable progeny and strong racing lineage tracing to Bedford and Mambrino. Recent race performances in Virginia and South Carolina are listed, with Gallatin achieving fast four mile heats and multiple victories. Isaac Ramsey and Joseph Cotton announce the arrangement and dates.
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Gallatin
Georgia
Bedford
Mambrine
Lord Grosvenor
England
Dungannon
High Flyer
Cade
Crab
Galloway
Mambrino
Grimes
Naylor
Sally
Brimmer
Rosetta
Betsey Baker
Shak
Commerce
Virago
Levizhan &c
Richmond
Virginia
Charleston
City
Frederickburg
Nancy Aix
Vait
Isaac Ramsey
Joseph Cotton
My Plantation
Greenville Distri
South Carolina
Black Sultan
America
Tunis
United States
Elias Earle
Government War Department ration proposals sought across multiple posts
The War Department invites separate proposals for U S military rations from Oct 1 1807 to Sep 76 1808 atNiagara Detroit Michilimackinac East Wayne Chikago and posts across Ohio Indiana Missouri and beyond including New Orleans and Philadelphia area. Proposals cover additional year Jan 1808 to Dec 31 1808 with specified posts Georgia North Carolina Virginia Maryland Pennsylvania New York and New England. Rations: beef pork bread rum salt vinegar soap candies with price terms and advance supply rights. contractor bears risk of supply and loss.
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Department of War
United States
Niagara
Detroit
Michilimacinac
East Wayne
Chikego
Kentucky
Tennessee
Parrison
Vincennes
Wabath
Fort Meffac
New Madiic
Chickasaw Bluff
Arkansas
Natchez
Fort Adams
Mississippi Territory
Washington
Indiana Territory
Mississippi River
St. Louis
St. Charles
Kaskaskia
Chakia
Louisiana
New Madrid
Midisippi River
Fort Maffac
New Orleans
Placquimines
Point Coupee
Cacheta
Natchitoches
Applecufas
Attakapa
Fort Seathart
Fort St. Stephens
Orleans
Missisippi Territory
Georgia
Charleston
Rocky Mount
North and
South Carolina
Norfolk
Virginia
Fort M‘henry
Maryland
Columbia
Fort Mifflin
Garlisle
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Pittburg
Fort Jay
West Point
Albany
Shereétady
New York
Nongsra
Michilimackinac
Sea Board
Indian Frontier
H. Dearborn
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Sheriff’s Sale
Charles Read
Robert M‘natt
Waynesboro
Richmond Fair
John
John Jones
Shaves Ferry
Carolina
H. M.tyre
S. x
Anaway
Thomas
Savannah
John Ranea
War Department
Thisteenth
Fort Trumbull
Fort Wolcott
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Vermont
Fort Independence
Boston Harbor
Massachusette
Ofpringfield
District of
Maine
Portsmouth
Portland
New Hampshire
Springfield
Massachusetts
Marshals Sales
Soogaloe
Barret, Bobo
John Hall
Franklin
Toogaloe
Cleaveland
Hugh M‘donald
James Blaz
Thomfin
Ggo
W. Moore
Pb. Mu
Hefflins
Warren County
James Hefflin
Keown
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