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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1811
Page
4
Augusta residents hear of a parish lottery to raise funds for a Catholic church. The scheme lists 2500 tickets at 25 dollars each with 25000 dollars in prizes and multiple prize tiers. Drawings planned for May, with prizes paid 60 days after completion at Augusta Bank. leftover funds donate after 12 months.
On the first Tuesday in April a sheriff sale will occur at Warren County courthouses. Numerous parcels totaling hundreds of acres, including properties of Wim Lattimer Jo Wilder Richard Whitehead Arthur Fort John Morris and others, are levied to satisfy various executions in favor of William C Laurence Elitha Brothers Henry Harden David Carter and others. The sale includes farms along Ogeechee Georgetown Wallums Creek and adjacent lands with multiple owners named and described. The event is directed by Thomas Battle s. w. c. March 2.
Commissioners of Planters Bank of Georgia meet at the Exchange in Savannah. They vote to publish public notices in Savannah Augusta Milledgeville Washington and Athens and plan to begin subscriptions on the first Friday in February at eleven in the Exchange Long Room, continuing every Friday for six months.
A 1810 Savannah notice records the Planters Bank of the State of Georgia commissioners resolving a six month subscription window from February 1 for US citizens or corporations to purchase up to 100 shares. If not fully taken, subscriptions may continue after six months. Upon reaching 9000 shares the commissioners’ powers end. Signed by Harris Scott Johnston Mein Swarbreck Berrien Caig Low Anderson Cumming Stebbins Miller Williamson Bulloch.
The Ogechee Navigation Company announces subscriptions opening by a Louisville meeting of officers on December 15 1810, with a Jan 28 181? date and weekly notices in Louisville Savannah Augusta Milledgeville for ninety days. A twelve o clock assembly at Mr Posner's room begins the process, with ongoing Saturday sessions from ten to two for five months.
Advert says Knapen and Hubbard merchants have entered into copartnership under a new firm and will continue the tailoring business from the shop formerly Thomas Knapen at the upper end of Broad Street. They offer cloths cashmere westings and related goods on advantageous cash terms and invite orders from town and country. January 19.
All persons in arrears to the subscriber by note book account or other means as well as those indebted to the former firm of Brad ley and F Knapen are requested to come forward and settle by January 19. Thomas Knapen of
The imported horse WASP will stand in Gallatin for the present season at Greenesborough until July 15. He will stand the fall season in Waynesborough. Joseph Cotten is listed in connection with the arrangement.
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