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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1811
Page
5
Law office notes that Samuel W Metres is entitled to professional profits and will be available at the office at all hours unless on circuit. John Horry is implicated with a February 9 reference.
Proclamation from Governor D B Mitchell offers a one hundred dollar reward for apprehension of William Burch, accused in the January murder of Stephen Tilly in Darien, McIntosh County. The proclamation urges militaly and civil officers to aid in capture and trial, with publication requested in Savannah Evening Ledger and other papers.
Abraham Faucett offers a 20 dollar reward plus expenses for Caesar and Rawly two enslaved men who ran away Tuesday night from near the Oconee on Rocky Creek in Laurens County. Caesar is described as about 27 years old, yellow with a chunky build. Rawly as about 27, very black and slender. They are known around Augusta and were owned by the late Judge Walton. Deliver them to Faucett or Captain Patterson near General Twiggs or secure them in any jail.
On the last Saturday in February at Augusta Market-House a house and lot on Broad Street will be sold for 1809 taxes seven dollars fourteen cents. Also 202.5 acres in Baldwin District No. 252 returned by John Allen for two dollars five cents. An improved Savannah Lot returned by Jurettin Graham taxed at seven dollars eighty one and fourteen cents. 213 acres in Effingham County returned by Jerutha Graham for her children tax due for 1809 three dollars and three cents. Three acres of land in Richmond County Mount Eva with improvements returned by Joe Hill tax due for 1809 one dollar thirty cents.
In Richmond County Georgia the court orders three months notice in a public Gazette related to Lewis McCoy's petition to obtain titles to a land tract in Augusta from the estate of Ananias Cooper. The lot lies west of George Conn and north of Ellis Street with boundaries on Cooper’s land and Green Street.
Eliza A Lamar declares sole possession of her deceased husband’s estate and warns against interference. She names Charles Goodwin and Solomon Ward as authorized by Major Isaac Robinson, executor, with explicit mention of protecting property and enslaved people. Dated January 12, 181?.
A Twiggs County seller advertises a valuable low ground tract along the Ocmulgee River suitable for exchange for enslaved people. Part of the land is cleared and cropped for two years, with an additional upland site available nearby. January 5.
J R Fairlamb has removed his bindery to the Chronicle Office and offers full services in binding and repair. Merchants’ account books can be ruled and bound to any pattern. February 9.
A notice announces morning sessions starting today from g o'clock at Mr Atken’s house near the Market with hours 6 to 12 and 2 to 5. Night school for young gentlemen will begin at candlelight and run until ten o'clock each evening.
Fragmentary notice announces George Twiges seeking the office of Sheriff at the ensuing election. A line indicates a sale of sheriff’s titles at this office.
A historical broadside lyric extols Freedom and Peace as enduring ideals against European conflicts. It critiques war, praises national independence, denounces imperial ambitions, and calls for justice, good faith, and rights of the main while urging resistance to foreign domination.
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