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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1817
Page
2
A varied sale listing reads for sale by John Man with hoes chains cotton cards nails grindstones molasses rum gin tea sugar and assorted castings. The fragment includes boxes of goods and general merchandise.
A letter enclosing a Bank of the United States note for 50000 dated January 1 1917 and endorsed by Frothingham and others was not received and is believed stolen with mail near Fayetteville North Carolina. The public is warned against accepting the note and the banks Longstreet and Harrison in Augusta Georgia and A G Smedes and Camfield in New York are open for information.
In Georgia Lovell County on May 86 1617 John Rawls J P notes a brown gelding about 13 hands aged 18 with a long mane and tail shod behind and a left foreleg gait high. The horse was raised by Thomas Colding and Humphrey Boz and appraised at twelve dollars by Humphrey B More and Isaac Rooks.
A sequence of sworn statements records horses and a mare shown before magistrates in 1816 1817 with descriptions heights marks ages and appraisal values by named assessors. Entries include a red bay horse 15 hands high valued at sixty dollars a dark bay horse 14 and a half hands high valued at thirty five dollars a roan bay mare 3 hands high valued at thirty five dollars and a bay horse 15 hands high valued at thirty five dollars along with a sorrel mare colt valued at seventeen dollars.
President James Monroe declares public sales for lands described from the Creek treaty area shall be held in Milledgeville Georgia starting the first Monday in August and continuing three weeks. The order lists survey townships in the Mississippi Territory and directs newspapers to print the act six times.
Potomac the famed race horse will be offered at public sale on the third Monday in July in Washington Wilkes County Georgia. The owner Wm Townes says the horse is unrivalled in form and performance with pedigrees and certificates from Virginia gentlemen. The sale terms are one thousand dollars cash and the balance in two equal annual payments with bonds bearing interest.
Sale of 266 acres pine land with dwelling in Scriven County to satisfy three executions. Properties listed include Wm Flask’s land for James Tumblin, one distressed horse for Alan Smith and I. I. Hay, and John M Goweh for John Lillibridge. Cash. May 33.
An official account from Caraccas dated 16 April reports Brigadier Don Juan de Aldama's division storming Barcelona on 5–7 April 1817. The assault, aided by Barbastro and Union troops, overwhelmed a fortified garrison of over 1,000, with substantial artillery and infantry action. The outcome left the city in Aldama's hands and ships carrying captured articles to La Guaira.
An unclear OCR fragment references legal concerns around a public policy question. The text hints at examination of authority and enforcement but lacks concrete names, dates, or locations to determine specifics. Further readable content needed for precise summary.
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