Frigates and warships near Algiers and Gibraltar report
Letter from Port Mahon May 25 4817 details Algiers recovery with a Grand Seignor frigate and a French ship expected, a British frigate rumored, and Spanish squadron moving toward Tunis. Reports from Martinique gossip sugar exports, sugar seizure near Providence, and ships Evie and Washington at Port Mahon with Barbary powers quiet.
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Eginnet
Cn Afiee
Port Mahon
Algiers
Grand’ Seignior
Leghorn
Abe
Washington
Constellation
Tunis
Erie
Tig Dey
Grand Seignior
Sta
Gibraltar
Joy
Martha
Evie
Gambié
Mahon
M‘call
U.S
U. States
Maedonian
Peacock
Mercantile Adv
Military movements from Fort Johnson to Point Peter report
A company of U S troops under Captain M M Payne sailed Sunday from Fort Johnson in the sloop Washington with 60 men and 20 more later at Tybee. The Washington will proceed to Point Peter for frontier protection after taking on soldiers from Fort Jackson and Tybee.
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United States’ Trops
M. M. Payne
Fét Johnson
Washington
Campbell
Fort Johnson
Tybee
Point Peter
Charleston City
Disaffection Reported Among Patriot Army in Spabisha Maine
A pilot boat rapport from the Ellen Tooker describes great disaffection in the Patriot ranks on the Spabisha Maine with about 3000 men said to have joined the Royalists after departure from the Gulph of Mexico.
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New-York
Mexico
Ellen Tooker
Pond
Sandy Hook
Gulph
Maine
Outline of the US Cherokee treaty and removal proposals
The paper outlines a 1809 US Cherokee treaty proposal and the Cherokee arguments for agriculture versus hunting life. It recounts a Washington deputation seeking a division line, removal plans across the Mississippi, and US promises of aid and exchange of lands. It notes a census due June to determine numbers for settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Cherokee Nation of Indians
Washington
Hiwassee
Mississippi River
Cherokee land cession and river land swap treaty note
The Knoxville Register reprints a treaty outline on Cherokee cession of lands east of the Mississippi. It details that Cherokees on the Arkansas and White rivers may remove in exchange for equal land west of those rivers, with explicit bounds.
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United States
Arkansas
White
Government of
St. Louis
St. Francis
Cherokee Nation of Indians
Tennessee River
Tennessee
Sequatchey Valley
Georgia
Chatahouchy River
Kanean
U. State
Knoxville
Beauty's Grave Poem of Quiet Contemplation
A moral lyric urges readers to tread softly at a grave and reflect on mortality. It personifies beauty and a rose to remind youth that all living must die and to seek the way of truth through contemplation of the divine.
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Beauty
Reward offered for a fugitive enslaved man named Randol
A Westward Warren County subscriber offers 50 dollars for the return of Randol a mulatto man about twenty years old five feet five or six inches with a burn scar on one check. Randol has changed his name to William Thompson and has passed as a free man in Savannah while threatening to reveal masters and his own name if found. He is believed headed toward Charleston and the reward covers delivery to the claimant and all reasonable expenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Genesee River
Warren County
Randol
William Thompson
Savannah
Charleston
Stray Horse and Mare Listings from Wilkes County
A 1817 Wilkes County notice item lists a black horse ten years old with white feet and blind right eye, a sorrel mare with brand on shoulders, a bay filly with star and snip, and other stock. Appraisals range from 50 to 100 dollars, with names of appraisers and witnesses.
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Georgia
Wilkes _Countys
Osea
Benjamin, Hubbard
Nicholas Shug
W. Freeman
Wilkes County
Tephen Evans
Kittle Creek
Rench
Benjain Wallop
John B. Nelsons
William Robertson
Y BP
Estray horse recorded in Birke county Georgia
An estray roan strawberry horse about fourteen hands high and three to four years old is listed in the 741K district with markings and a small bell. Noted as praised by Daniel Inman and J Inman, the animal is valued at sixty dollars. Entry date is 15 July and 24 August 1817 in Carpets CPk August.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Birke County
Ezkiel Inmiany
Daniel Inman
Auction notice for a sorrel horse in Georgia
A 13 to 14 year old sorrel gelding with a white star on forehead, white feet, saddle spots, and gear, appraised at thirty dollars. Located in Columbia County, sale scheduled for June 28, 1817, with Augustus Bealle J.P. and A Crawford & Co. managing. The estate lists this horse on the estate book as of July 10, 1817.
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Georgia
Wilkes County
Siah
Walton
Benjamin Haliday
Joseph Calloway
William Place
Columbia County
Augustus Bealle
Esteay Book
A. Crawford
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Artinique
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Gregor
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Penacola
Ferdinand
Bing
Genesé
X. x.) Farmer
Gered Dibet
J. FV. Harris
William Wood
J. Moffatt
D.ol. Reese
Eliza F. White
Pully J. Chipman
Mary Anne Howard
Nancy Shackelford
Amren West
James Jarratt
N. B
WM. White
Tho. A. Banks
Barnet Jeter
Elbert
Trustees
BeaAu'by
PSHE
J. S. Walker
Wif
Augusta
Little River
Abbeville
South Carolina
Carolina
John O. Glover
Jonas Shivers
Shivers’ Mills
Savannah Republian and
Southern Patriot
Estrays
Eotif
C. Brooks Murphey
Brooks
J.P
W. Freeman, J.P
Daniel Jackson
S. Walker
John Moore
Nethah Echo
Joel Hood
Moray
Ohh
Haliday
Richmondounty
John Stuckey
Jeptha Daniel
Tho
S. H. Jones
Clarke
Appustto& Osgy
Cpk
Kstray
Georgie
Liam Rey
Méoln
Wolds
Chries Jennings
John Lamar
Lemuel Jitter
Lamar
Lincoln County
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