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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1806
Page
7
The fragmentary text shows correspondence involving Thomas Jefferson and others, touching on court testimony, libel, and reflections after the American Revolution. The letters reference figures like Stark and Saratoga, with expressions of patriotic regard and ongoing civic duties.
The Journal de Paris, attributed to a state counselor, cites Leipzic data on 116 departments totaling 30,480,009 French and allied peoples. Italy 6,200,000. Naples 7,350,000. Spain 10,000,008. Bavaria 3,200,000. Württemberg and Baden 3,600,000. Holland 1,650,000. Overall 66,500,000 under Napoleon's control.
The notice states the sale of part of Edmand Feats property is postponed to the 23d with same terms as last sale. Thomas Kesterson administrator. August 2.
Report from Augusta dated August 9 covers European hostilities with Bonaparte advancing toward continental power and Britain asserting naval dominance. It notes emigration passports fail abroad, lists local congress candidates William Barnett Elbert and James Stats Columbia County, and reports the Moseley murder suspect shot after a river chase in South Carolina.
The report notes beneficial rainfall improving Georgia cotton outlook with high prices for remnant crops. It cites Augusta cotton trading at 17 to 18 cents and mentions strong wheat and tobacco yields in Virginia and Maryland. It also praises abundant markets and unusually good public health in Augusta this season.
All persons with claims against the Mare of Nicodemus Boyd deceased must file them with proof. Creditors are instructed to present debts in lawful form and debtors to make immediate payment, under Marmaduke Ricketson administrator.
John Conrad Co and Samuel F Bradford prepare to publish The New Cyclopaedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences in twenty quarto volumes. Abraham Rees continues as editor with Chambers's Dictionary pedigree, adding biography geography and history, and including new plates and maps for an American edition.
The work will be printed in large quarto on superfine paper, about twenty volumes of 800 to 1000 pages each, with six to seven hundred plates. A half volume will be published every two months at three dollars, no advance payment. Subscriptions in Augusta collected by George Adams in August.
In Baldwin on the 6th lust my Pocket Book contains a note hand given by White Roffetter to Wiliat Micou for one hundred and thirty or forty dollars payable at Augusta in one month of March last. I forward this to all persons from trading for. Wu Lyon. July 195 et
Advertises several enslaved individuals listed with approximate ages heights and claimed owners in Richmond Vail and surrounding counties. Francis a Negro man about six feet tall 28 or 30 belongs to Henry Peeples of Warren County Ned a boy 16 or 17 belongs to Boswell Turner of Greene County Patty a woman 20 to 25 belongs to Godfrey Drayer near Buckeye Essex a man 40 to 45 belongs to Reight of South Carolina. owners urged to prove property and claim. Also a negro man Tess in jail in Columbia County claimed by Benjamin Avarett of Baldwin County. Wm Fleming advertises dry goods and groceries at reduced prices.
The notice states Baley Borret of Bungay Suffolk is alive and could hear of a favorable opportunity through a printer. It notes Borret reportedly retired in Hancock County in 1201 with a date of July 19, 37.
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