Property sales and confiscations listed for Georgia auctions
Listings detail sales of enslaved Beck and child Harriet and parcels of land across Camden Glynn and Glynn counties. Auctions occur in Monticello and Jefferson with terms cash or state-backed certificates. Executors include Hines Holt and William Robertson, with forthright notices of confiscated properties tied to James and Alexander Wright and other claimants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Satilla
Camden
Jefferson
Bull
Head Bluff
Altamaha River
Finhalloway Creek
Glynn
Mosty
James Wright
St. Mary’s River
Camden County
Said County
Alexander Wright
Crooked River
Dr. Irvine
John Simmon
Georgia
Comptroller-General
Wade & O.brian
Hines Holt
Wm. Robertson
John M‘kinnon
Leave to make titles to Edward Tabb for Burke County land
Nine months after date an application to the Inferior Court of Burke County for leave to make titles to Edward Tabb to a tract of land containing two hundred acres more or less in Burke County. The applicant holds bond as Administrator of the Estate of Sarah Pettygrove. Waddle Allen Administrator March 31.
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Inferior Court
Burke County
Edward Tabb
Burke
Tabb
Sarah Pettygrove
Waddle Allen
Notice to Sell Real Estate for Heirs and Creditors
Nine months after the date hereof an application will be made to the Inferior Court for Green County for leave to sell the real estate of Joseph Trimble deceased to benefit his heirs and creditors. Patsey Trimble Admr. April 7 1810. Also nine months after this date an application to the Inferior Court of Warren County for leave to sell Lot 182 in the 1st district Baltimore now Randolph County for the heirs of Josiah Persons deceased. Thomas Persons Adm’r. April 13.
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Honorable Inferior Court
County of Green
Joseph Trimble
Inferior Court
Warren County
Little River
Randolph County
Josiah Persons
Thomas Persons
Leave to sell two tracts of land in Wilkinson county
Nine months after date, application will be made to the Honorable Inferior Court of Richmond County for leave to sell two tracts in Wilkinson County. One is No. 35 the property of Wm FitzGerald etc and the other No. 359 partly that property to satisfy heirs and creditors of said estate. Sept. 16. James Violeau, Adm'r mgm)
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond County
Wilkinson County
Wm. Fitzgerald Cec
Leave to Sell Land in Jones County Estate of John Askew
Nine months application to the Inferior Court of Greene County seeks leave to sell Lot No. 120 in Jones County ninth district old Baldwin. The 202.5 acre tract is the real estate of John Askew deceased and is sold for the benefit of the widow and heirs. Elijah Robins, Adm’r, December 30, 1809.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inferior Court
Greene County
Jones County
Old Baldwin
John Askew
Bly Askew
Elijah Robics
Early 19th Century U S Torpedo Experiment Act
An act authorizes a five thousand dollar appropriation to fund experiments directed by the navy secretary. The goal is to determine how torpedo or submarine weapons can be used as engines of war. The measure assigns reporting duties to Congress and notes signatures of Varnum and Clinton with a 1810 approval date.
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Senate
House
Representatives
United States of America
Congress
United States
Secretary of the Navy
J. B. Varnum
Irs of Representatives
Geo. Clinton
Washington County Public Road Enacted by Congress 1810
legislative text declares a road opened with landowner consent a public highway in Washington county District of Columbia, with commissioners to survey lay out and plot the road not exceeding thirty feet, assess damages to landowners, and levy damages on county property. The act is signed by GEO. Clinton and JAMES MADISON and approved March 30, 1810.
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Washington County
Columbia
Senate
House of
U.S. of America
District of Columbia
John Masters
John N. Nay Iq
Potomac River
District Columbia
Washington
Levy Court
Faid
City of
Relief for Tristram Hussey Customs refund bill
Congress approves a refund of 395 dollars and 40 cents to Tristram Hussey for duties paid on 35 casks of spermacetti oil shipped from the Cape Verde islands to New York in 1801 and 1802. The sum is payable from unappropriated treasury funds and conditioned on no drawback export. President pro tempore John Gaillard, approved April 11, 1810. The text also references an amendment related to the thirty sixth census.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tristram Hussey
Senate
House of Representatives
U. S. of America
Congress
Tristram Haffey
New-York
Cape de Verde Islands
Tristram Huffey
J. B. Varnum
John Gaillard
Senate Pro
James Madison
Amendment on enumeration period by Congress in 1810
The document cites an amendment by the Senate and House of Representatives altering the enumeration period. It specifies a five month window from the first Monday in August for assistants to make their returns, overriding other provisions. It is dated April 12, 1810 and approved by the President of the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sénate
U. S. of America
J. B. Varnum
House of Representatives
Geo. Clinton
U.S
Senate
Domestic Virtues in The Catechism of Reason
Fragment from a 19th century treatise on family ethics outlines economy as prudent management of household needs, argues dissipation as vice, defines paternal and conjugal love as essential but often rare virtues, and links family order to stability and happiness within the home.
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Patrick McDowall
Carqachan
Fattorage &F Commission
Busincss
Savannah
Wright & Marshalls
Broad Street
John Moxham
Marshal’s Sales
Monticello
Beck
Harriet
Henry Grayhill
Sixth Circuit Court
District of Georgia
John Church
Carli
A. Abercrombie
State-House
Milledgeville
Interior Court
Joseph Welch
Wm. Welch
Eliza Welch
Jacov
P. Byrne
Fifth
Shesuut Street
Scffross
Fast
Peake
William Belcher
India Wharf
Boston
Thomas Cumming
Augusta
Patsey Trimble
Adma
Robert Trimble
Adm
Mgm
Fames Violeau
Mem
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