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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1808
Page
7
The text discusses a high risk future connected to Confucian disciples and their customs. It notes a centenarian father and a son’s absence delaying burial, while England’s Liverneal protests Parliament over grain use in distilleries tied to embargo fears and impending calamities.
An 1800s style notice recounts celebrations of American Independence at Bay Harbor with prose praising James Madison as a future president and ally of Jefferson. It includes critiques of traitors Benedict Arnold Aaron Burr and Timothy from a public courtroom tone, framing trial and rebellion against government.
A letter dated 4 April from Tangiers notes seventeen American volunteers at a party from England with licenses to transport cargoes in Spain and back. The writer laments the dangerous venture and reports seven detained at Alliance and two at Malaga by Spaniards or French privateers, fearing more arrests.
Augusta dispatch reports extensive Spanish intelligence amid Napoleon’s crisis, with hopes for French and global liberty shifts. It notes cadiz and barcelona sieges, assigns political loyalties, and cites Madisonian policy alongside obituaries and local notices.
Certified by Radford Buit on August 13. The document lists numerous names under Captain districts including Slatter, Dardan, Atcherfin, Wilen, Devereux, and Powel. Entries cover mixes of defaulters and district supervisors with varied spellings across multiple locales.
In Richmond Jail a Negro man named Sir Hector aged about ye yeats claims kin to Mr Mitchel of Savannah. Another Negro named Billy about 22 years old and 5 feet 9 inches says he belongs to John Kelly near M Bean in this county. Owners are urged to comply with the law and take them away. Donaldson, tailor. August 13.
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