Try 7 days of FREE access to billions of articles

Start Free Trial

Augusta Chronicle in Augusta, Georgia

We have 1,947,233 pages in Georgia

View this page and access billions of articles with a 7-day free trial.

Start Free Trial

This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!

Start Free Trial

Cancel anytime, risk free

Not what you were looking for? Search our billions of articles

Advanced Search

Articles on This Page

This newspaper page contains 9 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.

Newspaper

Augusta Chronicle

Location

Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Date

May 21, 1808

Page

5

Advertisements and estate sales at Elizabeth Belldec plantation

Notices announce two vacancies at Ladies Academy with forty year terms and quarterly payments, plus a pamphlet reference, and a sale of Jin a enslaved boy at the Elizabeth Belldec plantation. Another administrator sale at the plantation lists horses cattle sheep and household goods with terms to be announced.

Elizabeth Belldec Jin Daid Joen Bell John Bell Gowrdian Arthur Bell John Bell Win Bell Adm

Reward Offered for Billy the Slaves Escape

A notice offers ten dollars for the capture of Billy a about 24 year old enslaved man who fled on the night of the 26th. Described as 5 foot 6 or 7 inches tall with dark complexion bushy hair slow speech and a downcast look. He wore a dark grey coat overalls and a blue bearkig greatcoat with black cassimer pants and new Ticklenburg overalls. The informant Allen Nesbitt requests delivery or confinement in a jail and return of the boy to Beach Island. A separate jail notice of a boy about twelve in Richmond Jail is also printed asking the owner to reclaim him.

Billy Savannah Beach Island Allen Nesbitt Richmond Norton A. Rhodes Sherif

Sheriff's Sale and Petition Notice in Augusta District

Public notice of sheriff sale on the first Tuesday in June 2024 at Augusta Market House for multiple properties including George Conn land in Wilkison County and several livestock and a enslaved woman Lydia held to satisfy various executions. Also a petition by Axcher Power confined in the county jail seeks an assignment of a hearing on debt and property schedule with two months’ notice to creditors.

Augusta Wilkison County George Conn Landry Alfor Sorrel Floyd Jarvis Darby Henry Nathaniel Durkee Jarvis John Foster Thomas Cobbs Thadius Beall Wirine Isaac Gander Samuel M. Smyth Charles Crawford Estes Guy Simuel M. Smyth A. Crawford

Sheriff Sales in Wayneborough Court House

Auction of 100 acres in Burke County adjoining Richard Vivsco and Reddin Ballinger and 60 acres on Peter Wynn’s plantation. Also 2025 acres in Baldwin No. 4, 250 acres in Burke County near Lively and Telfair, two cows and a yearling, tools, household items, two wagons, cotton bales, horses and gear, furniture, and more. Sold to satisfy various debts.

Burke County Richard Vivsco Reddin Ballinger James & Wm. Gains Zachariah Tecker Asa Peter Dave Peter Wynn Josiah Carter Rath Ditsi Baldwin Thomas Borrenn John Bell Thomas Mills Lively Telfair J. Lambertson J. Lambert Jon’r A. Powell John Paulett Owen Hughes Geer Farrel Sumner Sumner Hezekiah Ball Jacob Beall Susannah Uffery Joseph Perry

Barret & Sims Offer Webster’s Spelling-Books For Sale

Until October next the Store on Broad Street occupied by the subscribers Barrett and Sims offers Webster’s spelling-books for sale at this office.

Ocober Broad-Street Barrett & Sims Webster’s

Property sales under Warren County court orders

Warren County Inferior Court directs public sale of enslaved people and lands to satisfy multiple executions. Gabriel Hannah and her child Bedford Harry are listed, along with notes and several tracts of land in Warren and Baldwin counties, tied to Charles H. Devereaux and others, with specific claimants named and parcels described.

Inferior Court County of Warren Gabriel Charles H. Devereaux John Rusking Aijie Hannah Bedford Jackson and Hutchesoe Aso Harry Josiah Beal] Dee Reubeen Reefe Said Reefe Hiram Perry Willis Perry John Morris Indurfee Warren County Johnson John Williams Wiliams David Carson Hart’s Creek Sampson Wilder George Smith Elijah Hearn Rocky Comfort John M.derwick Lemuel Pruitt New Livesy Levi Pruitt Said Thomas Medex Precilla Pruitt P'Sintiff Isaac Ball Etheldred Thomas John Lowe Baldwin County Feery Cox Chapman More Wyatt Bunner Thomas Battle

Candle Maker Thanks Public for Ten Years of Trade

The candle maker expresses gratitude to the public and friends for ten years of support in the candle making business. He notes a stock of high quality summer candles with bees wax and offers cash sale or exchange for tallow. If candles do not meet the purpose, they will be exchanged or money refunded. May 14.

Lost Iron Gray Mare Advertised in April Notice

TRAYED from the subsectiber on Tuesday the fifth of April a likely Iron Gray Mare about five years old 144 hands high a large wab tail had on a very large bell heavy with colt no branches recollected I expel the withcolt about the first of May She was brought from the state of Tennessee and expect she will make to the upper part of this State Whoever will take her up and send me word or bring her to me living on Little Spirit creek twelve miles below Augusta shall receive full compensation for their trouble and expences Samuel Allen Api 30 STEUBENS EXERCISE For sale at this Circ

Tennessee Little Spirit Creek Augusa Samuel Allen

Senate debate on British and French orders harming American trade

The Senate committee reports on British orders from June 1803 restricting U.S. trade and condemned vessels with innocent cargoes, varied admiralty rulings, illegitimate blockades, and French decrees violating maritime law. It notes ongoing injuries to neutral commerce, unavailing negotiations for indemnity, and retaliatory proclamations affecting U.S. rights.

Anderson Monroe Canning Madison Rose Chesapeake Leopard Senate United States Kirtkine Champagny Armstrong Great Britain France Exskine Hampagny U. States British Council Courts of Admiralty London Elbe Brest Weser Ems Dardanelles Smyrna Carthagena Cadiz St. Lucar Coracoa Ferrand St. Domingo British Isles Great Bitkine

Also Mentioned on This Page

Ladies Academy Mount Salubrity T. Sawowicu Auguta Edgefield South Carolina Town Creek Jacob Zinn Nek Wese Columbia Lendon R. Y. Langston Sheriff’s Sale Georgia Columbia County Esquires Sheriff's Sales Wayneborough United States Senate
Search Courier

Search the Augusta Chronicle Today with a Free Trial

We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.

Not Finding What You Were Looking for on This Page of The Augusta Chronicle?

People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!

Looking Courier

Browse Newspapers

You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!

By Location

By Location

Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.

Browse by Location
By Date

By Date

Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.

Browse by Date
By Publication

By Publication

Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.

Browse by Publication