Georgia to grow grain with new Burr Stone quarry and canal plans
The article outlines Georgia planters shifting to wheat and grain after cotton declines. It notes a Burr Stone quarry in Jefferson County and a potential grit mill export, with a canal plan linking the Ogechee and Savannah rivers. It reports on Fort Stoddart operations near Baton Rouge and Mobile, including powder transport rules, a Capt. Gaines mission, and new commandant Lieut. Col. Covington, plus Pinckney’s baggage arriving in Baltimore aboard the Congress.
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West Indies
United States
New York
Virginia
Georgia
Union
Golphin Old Town
Jefferson County
Augusta
Louisville
Ogechee River
Fitzsimong
Charleton
North Ward
Fue Cela
Brandywine
Ogechea River
Savannah
Ogechee
Ebenezer Creek
Fort Stoddart
Fune
Hampton
Baton Rouge
Christiana
Col. Covington
Light Dragoons
Neriday
E. P. Gaines
Col.Covington
Mobile
Resolutions from Democratic Press mock East leaders
A Boston Seletmen meeting passes unanimous resolutions ridiculing the President and Congress. They condemn Administration policy as hostile to commerce and claim Southern cotton profits and British shipping favors. The document urges suppression of reason and demands blind belief in party infallibility.
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Bonaparte
Great Britain
Holland
France
Bonaparte offered to restore property if America declared war
Extract from a Baltimore letter dated May 5 1811 reports Mr Patterson’s son at Paris with the charge des affaires confirming Bonaparte offered to restore property taken before November if the United States declared war on England and burned British goods, but no restoration of later property was anticipated.
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Norfolk
Baltimore
Patterson
Roffel
Paris
Bonaparte
America
England
Fire devastates Newburyport destroying hundreds of structures
A major blaze in Newburyport destroys over 200 houses and stores, including the Post Office and Custom House, with losses estimated at two million dollars. Donations across the Union are urged to aid the affected in this time of distress. Also notes New York and New Jersey steam ferry contracts led by Mr. Fulton with two eighty by thirty foot boats and a floating docking scheme.
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Newburyport
Phoenix Insurance Company
Norris & Co’s. & J. Gilman’s
Union Insurance Office
Baptist Meeting
New.York Gazettes
Corporation of
New York
New Jersey City
Courrtlande
Paulus.hook
Fulton
Jersey
Massachusetts Governor Gerry Majority Reported by Joint Committee
The Joint Committee in Massachusetts declared Governor Gerry won with a majority of 1369 in a formal regulatory report. A duel occurred near the Mississippi frontier Friday involving Lieuts Cherry and Stewart of the 6th U S Army. Stewart was fatally shot, dying after the duel.
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Gerry
Wesern
Mississippi
R. Cherry
J. Stewart
6Th Regiment of Infantry
U. S
Stewart
Natchez
Public notices and political commentary from early American press
A fragmented selection notes General Mraanpa’s dismissal and public disgrace, a libel judgment against Joseph Street in Kentucky, a motion denied for a new trial, a Chinese inventor of a wildfire used to distract pirates, and a compliment to Commodore Rodgers despite a Baltimore Federal Republican critique.
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Joseph Street
The
Western World
Jessamine County
Kentucky
Judge Innis
Commodore Rodgers
Baltimore Federal Republican
Advertiser Seeks Like minded Companion For Private Conversation
A London notice by Mr. R. B. through Mr. Fiske seeks a temperate, independent partner for sincere friendship and intimate discourse. The advertiser favors independence over birth, warns against public rumor, and invites a suitable Lady whose notions align with his professed principles.
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R. B
Fiske
Wigmore-street
London
Mathematicus Suspended Until Euclid Or Newton Return
TO CORRESPONDENTS. As the interesting problems which lately appeared in the Herald and Mirror, are yet unsolved, we have suspended the publication of Mathematicus till the resurrection of Euclid or Newton.
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Herald and Mirror
Euclid
Newton
Chronicle Candidate for Sheriff of Columbia County
A plea for an interview with the man who authorizes his name to appear as a Sheriff candidate in the Chronicle. The notice warns a candidate may skip decorum but should not pressure county elders through the paper. Refunds offered on demand.
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the Chronicle
Columbia County
Chronicle
Upton
Campbell
Washington
W. & F. Gilbert
Wilkes County
Candidate Walton Announces Run for Richmond County Seat
A notice states Major Grorce Walton is authorized to announce his candidacy to represent Richmond County in the upcoming House of Representatives. The filing appears connected to the next legislature and references June as a relevant date.
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Major Grorce Walton
Richmond
House of Representatives
Grerce Dent, Esq
County of
Columbia
Funeral notice and death of Mr Emen and Mr Eaton
Communicatnen departed this life on the 17th at the residence of Captain the Ware South Carolina Mr Wietram ACON aged 32 years after a long illness He left a wife four children and many relatives and friends Mr Eaton known for usefulness benevolence and charity is mourned by the community DIED on Sunday afternoon in this city Mr Jonn Emen merchant a native of Bremen Germany
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Communicaten
Fant
Ware
South Carolina
Wietram Acon
Bacon
Eaton
Jonn Emen
Bremen
Germany
General assortment of dry goods on hand
Have just received the following articles including jugs lintsfeed oil kegs English white lead powder shot glass wool cards chairs tyres steel rum sugars and various textiles and fabrics as part of a general dry goods stock.
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Jamaica
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Col. Collel
Perez
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Eest
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Reynold-street
Goupie Tancu
H. M‘tyre
Greene County
Axa Sankey
James Dansiel
James Parks
Henry Carleton, Jr
M‘gehee & Shearer
Don
Ayetano Perez
W. Indies
Europe
Rocky Creek
Martuen Taaorr
Felix Gilbert
Charleston
Argyle
Abraham Bowling
Baldwin County
William Lee
Thomas Lee
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