Prize Carrying Ambiguous Note Incomplete Text
Fragmentary OCR note mentions a prize but lacks clear details on event, participants, or value. No identifiable people, organizations, or places are readable to anchor a proper summary.
27 Mar 1812
Page 1
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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1812
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR note mentions a prize but lacks clear details on event, participants, or value. No identifiable people, organizations, or places are readable to anchor a proper summary.
Readable fragments describe a historic notice or brief item with uncertain details. The text is incomplete, offering few concrete names or dates and unclear context.
A local notice announces a man selling a mixed stock at his Broad Street store in Augusta on March 20. Items include sugar coffee iron hardware castings cookware nails shoe stock and hard ware on piece goods. The sale aims to move goods quickly for cash or cotton.
Notice lists dates and locations for tax return collections in 1812. In Capt Alderson district No 1 meetings at City Hotel on March 15, April 8, and April 17. In Capt Ketchum district No 4 at Isaac Herbert house on March 28, April 4, and April 18. March 13.
Henry Briggs warns against trading a note payable December 25 for four thousand pounds cotton and four bushels of corn to James Legon of Clarke County Georgia. He states the note was for hire of two negroes taken from his possession and refuses to pay.
Four persons and all others are notified to desist from trespass on lands by cutting or any other means. The notice warns that such conduct will no longer be tolerated and will be prosecuted legally. Dated February 2, GEO WALTON.
A subscriber has acquired Garret's former Campbelltown house and intends to run a public house there. The notice promises full accommodations for man and horse and is signed by M Livingston, dated February 2.
Ten dollars reward offered for capture of Jinny a about 20 year old enslaved woman who fled from the planter near Cherokee Ponds South Carolina Edgefield District on January 26. Description notes yellow complexion round face large scar from a burn on the right neck and features a tripod cornfrock coat and black velvet pocket or spenser. Authorities fear she may attempt to reach August or Horse Creek Beach Island Savannah by boat. Reward rises to ten dollars plus expenses or delivery to the pursuer. February 28.
A notice offers twenty dollars reward for the capture of a man named Lane a 35 year old Black fellow described as thick lipped and dark in Savannah and Augusta known as a Boar hand formerly owned by Major Phinizy. Any person catching Lane and delivering him to a jail in Georgia or South Carolina will receive the reward plus reasonable expenses. January 17. Jervis er
A few bushels of Hemp Seeds offered for sale by M'Gehee and Shearer. The seeds are warranted good and dated March 6.
An advertisement offers 20 dollars reward for Cesar about 50, five feet tall, fluent and artful, and his wife Sarah, 35, light complexioned, missing since November 1. They are known in Augusta and vicinity and may have false papers. Ten dollars if taken within Augusta. Caution issued against harboring or employing them.
All those indebted to the estate of Col. Zach Lamar late of Columbia are asked to come forward and settle their accounts as further indulgence cannot be given. Zach Sinquefield and Basil Lamar note the date Feb. 21.
A sale notice from Samuel B. Hill Co listing a meat door near John Cashin's by the Market and a new ark made gig with plated harness. The items were laid in for cash and available to purchasers while times are hard, with the note that buyers may have no cause to complain to any judge of business.
Door Fendall informs friends and the public that a police removal has taken his shop from the front part of the house he occupied for two years just above Dr Murray's brick building. He plans to renew attention to his practical department and hopes for patronage. July 5.
The subscriber offers for sale the Meadow Garden property. Details of the listing are not fully readable in the fragment. Potential buyers should refer to the original notice for exact terms and location.
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