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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1807
Page
3
A Georgian paper recounts brutal combat reports and dangerous rumors from Europe and Poland. It notes few reliable mails, a hanging sentence in South Carolina, a murder in Edgefield, and skepticism toward Napoleon news while listing local marriage and price details.
Subscribers to the Troop are asked to meet at the City Hotel on Saturday May 9 for a special business. Gentlemen wishing to join should indicate their intent on that day as directed by the Tax office.
Property listings show numerous tracts in Columbia county with adjoining landowners such as L Readman Eu Banks Scott and Danis Richey. Tax dues range from fractions of a dollar to several dollars, with additional parcels in Baldwin Warren Wilkinson and Wilkinson counties, all recorded by F Farrar, tax collector, in 1806 style assessors’ returns.
A reward of ten dollars is offered for a runaway Afro American boy named Zingo, aged about sixteen to eighteen, described with dentition marks, earrings, and a blue coat, last seen near Wuig'sborough roads in Columbia County. The notice seeks capture and return to Benjamin Leigh, dated May 9.
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