Savannah 1815 Marine and Fire Insurance Company Founding Meeting
Savannah dated December 30 1815 records the formation of the Marine and Fire Insurance Company with commissioners naming thirteen directors all must be Georgia citizens owning fifty shares. Subscriptions open February 9 at 10 AM in Savannah with half payment due upfront in specie and bank notes. full capital to be subscribed and published in gazettes.
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Savanah
Savannah
State of
Georgia
William B. Bullcch
Oliver Sturges Isaac Minis
Abram Richards
Richard Richardson James M. Wayne Barna M'Kinne
Reobert Mackay
George Anderson
William ‘Kaylor Charles Harris Wiliam Gaston
William & Bullioch, Esq
William Gaston
Marine and Fire Insurance Company
Sib Cay
Exchange
South Carolina
State Bank of
North Carolina
Augusta
Milledgeville
Ted
William B. Bulloch
Run Away From Subscriber in Tennessee
A notice from Jacob Gray of Williamson County Tennessee offers a ten dollar reward for the capture and return of a runaway enslaved man named Prince. Prince formerly belonged to Mr Lud Harris and is said to have a wife at Mr George Pearson's near Augusta. The reward will be paid to anyone who helps apprehend him and secure him in jail. Dated January 5.
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Prince
Lud Harris
George Pearson
Augusta
Jacob Gray
Williamson County
State of
Tennessee
Adam
May
Charleston
Job Callaway
Washington
Wilkes Young
Slaughter & Labuzan
Matilda
Major D'Antignac
Springfield
Major D’antignac
Columbia County
Powelton Academy announces opening under new trustees
The Savannah Republican prints notice that Powelton Academy will be ready for pupil inspection by January 1. Trustees announce qualified staff J Ingraham of Middlebury College for the male department and Miss D M Stebbins for the female department. Tuition ranges from ten to twenty four dollars yearly, with extra charges for music and French. Boarding costs sixty to eighty dollars annually.
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Georgia
J. Ingraham
Middlebury College
D. M. Stebbins
New- York
Nicholas Childers
Sec’ry
Savannah Republican
Powel
Negro men Paddy and Davy sought in Beal estate thefts
Notice from H W Hodges in Columbia county offers twenty five dollars for apprehension of two enslaved men named Paddy and Davy. They are suspected to be on Briar Creek near Walker's Bridge or in the river swamp between Spirit Creek and Macbean. They are believed to be harbored at either plantation and are known locally.
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Columbia County
Paddy
Davy
Hezkiah Beal
Briar Creek
Walker’s Bridge
River
Spirit Creek
Macbean
Augusta
Waynesborough
H. W. Hodges
Executor's Sale and Public Auctions in Burke County and South Carolina
Multiple estate sales announced: Archibald Bell estate on Ogeechee River in Emanuel County listing 862 12 acres and nineteen cattle with cash terms. John Furey executor. Also administrator John A O Bannon estate sale in Barnwell Court House South Carolina with forty enslaved individuals on credit for twelve months. Burke County land sale of sixty acres on the waters of M Been for heirs and creditors of Uriah Dillard. John Godley administrator. Court orders and dates in early March and February.
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Archibald Bell
Emanuel County
Washington County
Ogechee Civer
John Furey
Colcock
Court of Common Pleas
Barnwell Courthouse
South Carolina
John A O*bannon
Joseph Duncan
Advire Lewis Bannon
Earle Wn
Interior Courts
Burke County
Court House
Wynesborough
Lemuel Lasseter
Benjamin Weathers
Uriah’ Dillard
John Godley
Adm
Waynesborough
Brushy Creek
Burk County
Wm. Bedingheld
David Farmer
Missing Person Notice from Hantock County
A notice from Hantock County describes Jim a likely Negro boy about nineteen or twenty year s old five feet ten or eleven inches tall with redish eyes very white teeth a downturned mouth a small scar over his left eye and quick speech. He wore a white homespun shirt and pantaloons when he left on a wander. Report by Robert B. Glenn dated November 4.
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Hantock
Jim
Robert B. Glenn
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Augusta Chronicle
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Brier Creek
Thompson's Bridge
James Moore
Baltic Moore
Bridie
E. W. Wade
Horse Creek
S. C
David Dubose
Ajhereon
Richmond County
Thire Son
Pr.mises
Major Coles
Levin Collins
Mr. Prescot
John Tindley
Augustus
Michael Fleck
John Walker
Wm. Evans
Charles Evans
Lincoln County
Walter Taylor
John Fleming
I. Ky
Elizabeth Inlow
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