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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1814
Page
3
A Chronicle report from January 1813 discusses England's pacific overture with America, the war’s aims, and the balance of trade. It notes a House resolution seeking information on American setbacks, calls for full inquiry, and laments the distress along the Niagara frontier where civilians suffer amid fierce conflict.
The piece laments brutality amid devastation of cabins and orphans while noting a cotton price rise in Washington reports. It cites New York bills and 13 to 15 cent offers, and mentions the French defeats with large casualties and cannon losses across October battles.
A Washington to New York despatch describes British and Indian forces seizing Fort George after a brief assault. The fort housed about 270, with many sick. residents fled 14 miles inland as fires spread seven miles from the river. Tuscarora allies aided in repelling some attackers.
Married in Sisi uli by MP Davis Esq John Kay wed Mrs Polly Pare both of Columbia County in a civil ceremony with local proceedings recorded.
Augusts Post Office announces Northern Mail routes with delivery on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday at 9 PM. Letters from Kentucky Tennessee Mississippi and New Orleans are received and forwarded via Asheville North Carolina in January 1814.
On Monday the jdinst a Negro woman by the name of DILSY, well known about Augusta, having been for some time employed selling apples about town. Any person delivering her to the Subscriber shall be amply rewarded. Martha M Millan. January 14. tf
EGS informs friends and the public she has moved from her Market stand to the Ferry house formerly occupied by Mr Bird Martin. The new location offers complete accommodations for a few boarders and travelers and a large yard suitable for country wagons. January 14.
The notice announces that all internal duties from the latest Congress will take effect after December 31 1815. Retailers of wine and spirits, license applicants, auctioneers, refiners, carriage keepers, and bond holders must comply. The deputy collector will visit Augusta January 1 and February 1 to assist noncompliant Richmond county residents.
Notice to wine and foreign goods retailers stills and boiler owners and carriage owners in Georgia to attend license meetings at Columbia Warren Hancock Greene and other counties in January 1814. Also a marshal sales notice for a leasehold on Broad Street Augusta and a tax and debt collection notice for the estate of John Toomy with an administrator’s call for payments.
Governor Peter Early proclaims Alfred Cuthbert elected to fill the Georgia seat in the U S House of Representatives until March 4, 1815. The notice specifies eligibility requirements and directs publication in the Savannah Evening Ledger and Augusta Chronicle. January 14, 1814.
Two enslaved carpenters named Jack and Bill absconded from the John Toomy estate near Augusta. A reward is offered for returning them to the plantation, with letters to this office to ensure prompt attention.
On the first Tuesday in February next the court of ordinary of Chatham will sell part of the personal estate of Justin Bayan deceased of Wilmington Island. It includes over one hundred enslaved people, no boats or flat, to be sold in lots, with field hands and mechanics. Creditors must present valid demands with preference by law.
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