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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1809
Page
7
A dense column surveys European and American conflicts with Napoleonic actions, Turkish wars, Italian advances, and blockades. It laments British policy toward the United States, notes Republican meetings in New York Philadelphia and Baltimore, and includes a political critique and classical Latin fragments.
A jail notice from Gustavus Kennedy, August 1, lists three enslaved men by description. Brifter aged about 30, 5 feet 10 inches, claimed as belonging to Febu Foster of Rebber District South Carolina. Billy about 21, 5 feet 8 inches whose master is unknown. Jack about 22, 5 feet 6 inches whose master is dead. Officials are instructed to identify and return them according to law.
An runaways sought notice from Oglethorpe County Georgia describes a 22 year old enslaved man named Billy. He is about 5 feet 7 inches tall, yellow complexion, talks softly, and may be in company with several men driving cotton aboard a vessel bound for Savannah or tied to Virginia passages. A reward is offered for capture and confinement to jail, with letters to Major Boakin. The advert notes Billy’s familiarity with Smithfield Norfolk and Baltimore, and warns he may attempt to pass as a free man. Public notice dated August 30.
Nine months after date, application to the Honorable the Interior Court of Warren County for leave to sell a tract of land containing 261 acres on Rockey Comfort waters, adjoining Parham and others, the tract whereon Rob Jenkins lately lived, to be used for the benefit of heirs and creditors of the said estate. Rob Jenkins Anfi Lall. Alleutt 1g. Adm. (mgm)
Fragmented notice from Randolph County concerning a Motard Honoré Mie Liferior GC case. The document references land or estate matters and heirs or successors of a deceased person. The legibility is poor with several garbled phrases.
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