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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1811
Page
4
The state legislature authorized a lottery to raise funds for a Catholic church in Augusta. Applicants have adopted a scheme and place the lottery under trusted managers with a drawing expected in May.
A historic notice outlines a prize scheme with totals around 25 000 dollars and various prize steps tied to ticket draws. It lists commissioners David Reid R Tubman H Nesbit and others, with payments due 60 days after completion of drawing at the Bank of Augusta and unclaimed prizes treated as donations. Tickets are available at the Post Office and Au porta Book Store. January 26.
At a meeting of the Planters Bank commissioners in Savannah on January 15 1821 it was resolved public notice be given in Gazettes of Savannah Augusta Milledgeville Washington and Athens that on Friday February 1 next at eleven o clock the commissioners will receive subscriptions under the act to incorporate the bank and will meet at the Exchange long Room Savannah for six months each Friday.
A meeting of the Planters Bank commissioners approved a six month period from February 1 for US citizens and entities to subscribe for up to 100 shares each. Books remain open to receive subscriptions during the period and may accept any number after six months if not all shares are taken. Subscriptions in the prescribed proportion for 9900 shares mark the end of the commission’s authority. Savannah February 12 1810.
Commissioners of the Ogewhee Navigation Company announce subscriptions for opening the Ogechee River from Canouchee to Rocky Comfort. Public notice in Gazettes meanville Wwannah Augusta Milledgeville on April 3 to receive terms. meetings at Mr Posner's Louisville at noon, ongoing Saturdays for 90 days starting soon.
20 Dollars Reward offered for SAM a Black male enslaved person who escaped from N. DelAigle’s plantation near Augusta. He is about 36, 5 feet 8 inches, slender, with thick lips and some missing fore-teeth. Wearing blue jacket and pants, sometimes a blue coat, speaks broken English, having been only three years from Africa. Deliver him to the subscriber or have him jailed to receive the reward and expenses. February 16. N. DelAigle.
Knapen and Hubbard merchants announce they have formed a copartnership under the firm of Knapen and Hubbard and will continue the tayloring business from the Broad Street premises. They offer cloths cambric fabrics and westings of superior quality for cash orders from town and country with prompt service. January 19.
All persons in arrears to the Suberites or to Brad ley and F Knapen are urged to come forward and settle their debts with Thomas Knapen. The notice requests retirement of notes and book accounts.
State proclamation from Governor Davin B. Mitchell of Georgia offers a $100 reward for the capture of William Burch in Darien for the January murder of Stephen Tilly. The decree orders civil and military officers to aid in his apprehension and directs weekly publication.
On March 11 and 12 and the 16th 1811 residents are ordered to attend tax collection at various district homes including Mc Coy Lark Jesse Smith Owen Megar Wm M Tyr e Mullan Big Spirit Creek Bridge and Moses Collins Esq for 1810 tax and 1811 returns. H Mst yre T C February 23 1811.
The Whip, a teen height mahogany bay stallion, stands near Columbia county on the main road to Washington on a planation. Fees include thirty dollars for season, twenty for discharge within season, fifteen per single visit, and one dollar to the groom. The stallion covers mares for fall season gratis if not in foal, with gratis boarded servents. Whip boasts strong race credentials in England and America with several notable progeny and wins.
Gallatin will stand the present season in Greenesborough until July 15 and will perform the fall season in Waynesborough. Joseph Cotten.
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