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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1806
Page
3
A garbled 1800s-era collection includes references to U. S. v. col. Smith and a Boston Chronicle note, plus letters from figures like Jefferson and a coroner’s correspondence. The text blends legal, political, and personal salutations, reflecting wartime and postwar sentiment, with mentions of Saratoga Bennington and the Revolutionary period.
A London Journal de Paris calculation from Leipzig assigns 66,500,000 people to areas under Napoleon. It lists 30,480,009 for France and 6,200,000 for the kingdom of Italy along with 7,350,000 for Naples, plus 1,450,000 for allied states and other regional tallies. The piece frames this as a unified demographic under Napoleon.
The sale of part of Edmund Feats property is postponed to the 23d with same terms as the last sale. Administrator Thomas Kesterson issues the notice in August.
July dispatches from Europe describe Bonaparte advancing toward dominion while Britain flexes naval power. In America, 29 of 40 emigrants from Ireland to the US were impresseda gun boat. Augusta reports Barnett of Elbert and James Stats of Columbia as congressional candidates. A suspect murderer of Mason Meiley in South Carolina was shot after a pond pursuit.
Since our last report rains have revived crops and boosted cotton hopes across Georgia. Traders in Augusta report cotton selling from 17 to 18 cents the remnant of the last crop. Wheat and tobacco in Virginia and Maryland meet expectations, markets are abundant and cheap, and Augusta citizens enjoy an unprecedented season of health.
Marmaduke Rickerson administrator directs all creditors with claims against Mare of Nicodemus Boyd deceased to present verified demands and all debtors to pay immediately. Public notice urges prompt settlement of estates and debts.
John Conrad Co and Samuel F Bradford of Philadelphia plan to publish The New Cyclopaedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences in twenty quarto volumes. Abraham Rees editor with Chambers’s Dictionary background offers additions biographies geography and history adapted to modern literature and science with maps and plates to render it the most complete work yet.
An offer for a twenty volume American cyclopaedia printed in large quarto on superfine paper with about six hundred to seven hundred plates and a frontispiece. Half volumes to be issued every two months at three dollars on delivery. Subscriptions received in Augusta by George Adams, agent for the publishers, August. Lyd.
The text records a note from White Roffetter to William Micou for 130 or 140 dollars payable in Augusta within about a month of March. The owner asks that all parties avoid trading for the note and forwards the document to the appropriate person. The notice is dated July 195.
A notice lists three runaway enslaved people in Richmond Vail with names ages and physical descriptions. Francis, about six feet, 28 to 30, claims Henry Peeples of Warren County. Ned, 16 to 17, five seven to eight, claims Boswell Turner of Greene County. Patta, 20 to 25, in wrapper and petticoat, claims Godfrey Drayer near Buckeye on Oconee River. Owners urged to prove property and reclaim. Also Essex, 40 to 45, five eight, claims Reight of South Carolina, held under city ordinance. and Tess, an enslaved man branded O, claimed by Benjamin Avarett of Baldwin. Owners to come forward. Florida-style note at end about dry goods sale.
Baley Borret of Bungay Suffolk county England is living and will hear of advantage by printer. Borret is reported to have retired in Hancock County in 1201. July 19.
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