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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1813
Page
7
Notices announce subscription proposals for two land purchases at the confluence of the Oconee and Ocmulgee rivers. E B Jenkins opens coast-house locations in the state for potential subscribers to the surveys dated March 5.
Public notice lists town lots in Richmond Academy No 4 for two year cultivation at two dollars per acre. Additional lots laid out at the lower city are to be sold at four hundred fifty six dollars each with ten percent down and eight percent annual interest on the balance. Thomas Barrett, Clerk of the District.
A fragment notes a detained subscriber and a Negro boy offered for sale with letters W W in silver for a carriage. The owner proving property may claim the items. THOMAS MIX. tf ai d
Mr and Mrs Askew inform friends and the public that their Boarding and Day School will reopen on Tuesday next at a large house on Broad Street below the market and next to the Baldwin estate. They pledge the same care and attention that has earned extensive patronage and notice. February 12. 12m.
Ink powder of superior quality is offered for sale at this office.
Thomas H. Dixon at Mount Enon announces the academy now surmounts prior obstacles and seeks public support. He reports steadier supervision, announces Mr and Mrs Muller as stewards, Mr Labadin to teach French, Mr John Calvin in English, and Mrs Dixon offering needlework instruction. Board and tuition details are listed with per quarter and annual rates.
RAGS cash given for clean linen and cotton Rags at this Office.
A brief entry lists items including salad oil anchovies olives and capers old Jamaica rum French brandy and gin raisins and almonds Philadelphia beer and more with a May 7 note. The fragmentary list suggests a catalog or marketplace record from Claret Medeira Tenerife Lisbon and Muscata.
For sale 70 pieces Kentucky edition Bagging 5000 Lbs Rope 200 de Twine 45 000 de Logwood BARRETT & SIMS. 11 Ap. 2. Just received sugar of superior quality frost Muscatell and bloom Raisins 20 000 Spanish and American Segars Northward Rum.
Pocket book titled BLACK MOROCCO containing 101 dollars in bills and various notes. It lists owners and belongs to James Danielly of Fianvogk County near Sparta. Reward offered by Labuzan and John M. Deavenport in Angustay.
The notice from Samuel Hale asks debtors to settle accounts at his former store for immediate payment. A separate notice asks Bowing Allen or owner to prove property of a Baltimore enslaved woman in jail and to take charges. Additional notices request creditors to present claims against Duncan Matheson, and debtors to settle with Alex Matheson as administrator.
A sale event on the third Friday in May at the house of Mrs. Mé Tyre on the Savannah road four miles from Augusta offers a saddle, bridle and martingale valued at sixty dollars free for saddle-horses only. The tract of land shall be in elegant order. JESSE M'TYRE, fdr.
A notice advertises a school for young females located in the lower end of a new tenement owned by Mr Creswell near the Market. It offers instruction in reading writing arithmetic and English grammar with plain and fancy needlework and other fashionable crafts. Emphasis is on manners and early practical religious duties. Four boarders may be accommodated by the quarter or year starting March 8.
An 1800s notice offers a Ladies' Academy at Mount of Meal ii with fourteen years of fever-free residence. It describes instruction in astronomy geography music and a piano, with a carriage and a plan modeled after Salem and Bethlehem. Terms are 120 dollars yearly or quarterly in advance with produce accepted as payment, signed T Sandwich, May 7.
Between Bedford and Augusta on the morning of the 18th, 350 dollars in bank bills wrapped in a Mirror office newspaper and tied with twine were hidden. Most funds are Augusta Bank notes with a few from South Carolina banks and a Savannah Planters' Bank two dollar bill. A 50 dollar finder’s reward is offered if the money is left at the office or at A Labuzan's. The subscriber Robert Raymond Reid, intends to move and offers his Washington Street house for sale or rent as of April 2.
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