Congress Debates land grants and non importation acts
Congress hears petitions from Mississippi Territory on school land vesting. A Missouri land claim extension bill is read and a plan to suspend non importation acts is proposed with higher foreign tonnage duties and internal levies. Secretaries answer on revenue 1814 projections estimate about five million dollars with strict enforcement measures urged.
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Poindexter
Mississippi Territory
Morrow
Committee On Public Lands
Missouri
Cheves
Committee of Ways and Means
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
S Am
C. Langdoy Cheyes
Lisbon
Albert Gallatin
Langdon Cheves
Weile
Jane
British Fleet Landed 50 Men Near Lynhaven Creek
A Norfolk letter reports about 50 sailors landing near Lynhaven creek in New York. They behaved civily and paid for articles they took.
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Norfolk
Lynhaven Creek
Admiral Warren seeks water supply threaten land 1000 men
Hampton accounts say Admiral Warren requested a water supply and warned that refusal would prompt landing of one thousand men. The cartel ship Bostwick arrived at Hell Gate from Bermuda with 460 American POWs including Essex officers and crew recaptured by the British and the High Flyer and Teazer crews. The Norfolk Revenue Cutter was captured by a captured pilot boat and British squadron boats after a sharp contest.
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Hampton
Warren
Bostwick
Hell Gate
Bermuda
Essex
High Flyer
Baltimore & Teazer
Norfolk Revenue Cutter
Blockade of Chesapeake Enforced Despite Neutrals
Norfolk February 12 reports strict Chesapeake blockade with neutrals barred from departing. Swedish schooner Nystad halted on voyage to Boston. Spanish brig San Francisco bound to Havanna stopped and forced back to Baltimore. Official endorsement on San Francisco register asserts tight blockade. Also noted is a captured Baltimore letter of marque, seized near Old Point by enemy launches amid unfavorable weather. Charleston February 26 adds details of port blockade and capture of the Jacob Getting crew.
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Ricorous Brockape
Chesapeake
Nystad
Boston
San Francisco
Baltimore
Havanna
H. M
Maidstone
Gro. Burpett
Marqueschr
Old Point
Charleston
Jennett
J. H. Dill
Jacob Getting
Philadelphia
Sophie
Lord J. Towsend
Madison Re Election Celebrated At Eagle Tavern
A large city gathering at the Eagle tavern saluted James Madison's re election with toasts to the Constitution Union and leaders. Speeches honored Washington Jefferson and Langdon Cheves while a final ball closed the evening at the Globe Tavern and a Bail at the Globe Tatern.
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Madison
United States
Eagle Tavern
United States Army
Bath
James Madison
Washingtons
Columbia
Thomas Jefferson
Monticello
Queenstown
Raisin
Roslin Castle
Florida
Flournoy
Ranger
Cumming
Blue
Russia
Grenadier
Congress
Langdon Cheves
Mr. Stow
The
Globe Tatern
Speculative Perpetual Motion Discussion by C Russell Bil
In a note attributed to C Russell Bil, the author describes a concept for a perpetual motion device using a wheel with weight-shifting steel plates and bees wax coated planks. He explains a mechanism where plates fall away to add weight on the descending side, aided by a magnet, claiming the potential for continuous motion though acknowledging doubt.
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Morton
C. Russell
Local Weddings Reported Across Counties
Married Thursday evening Rev John R Thompson united James L Olive R to Nancy Dickinson both of this place and Gizeerr Lones reer wed Exizapera H Leicn elsewhere. Joan Lamar tied to Isapetta Stewart in Columbia County. Isaac Anruoni joined Tabitha Clinton of Columbia County in a Sunday ceremony.
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John R. Thompson
James L. Oliver
Nancy Dickinson
South Carolina
Gizeerr Lones?reer
Exizapera H. Leicn
Shall
Joan Lamar
Isapetta Stewart
Columbia
PN Ain Kae
Isaac Anruoni
TaBitHa Clanton
Columbia County
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H. Clay
House of Representatives
Wis. H. Crawford
the Treasury
Treasury Department
Georgetown
3. C
Madeira
Dill
Strawbridge
Caroline
Wilmington
N.C
Yong
Arthur Watson
Lord Fownsend
Zolus
Caledonia
Buil’s Bay
Lord Towsend
Melville
Nonsuch
Mint
the Mint
Dem
Press
New-York
Augusta Fire Company
City Hotel
Lindsay Coleman
Hancil M‘kinnee
Elizabeth Wright
Reuben
W.H. Blaunt
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