Wonders and Oddities At the Columbian Museum Boston
May 21 1817 report describes emigrants exiled from their homes facing subsistence hardships and public amusements in Boston. Highlights include a Hen's Egg exhibit with inscriptions about Napoleon Bonaparte and a London sale of a boiled eye with dubious provenance.
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Boston
St. Cloud
Bordeaux
Mons. Petitpiere
France
Napoleon Bonaparte
Frances
Paterson
London
Flour speculation and Ohio land sales dominate New Orleans report
A Charleston dispatch notes flour prices rising on speculation and forecasts prices to fall to fair values abroad. It discusses Fort Meigs land near the Miami of Lake Erie, the Perryburg town plan, and a public sale at Wooster on the third of July with minimum lot prices. It mentions survey of Sandusky lands and plans for a textile factory in Washington with looms and Swiss partners.
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SNEW
Orleans
Apadaca
Mexic
Igned
Charleston
France
Fort Meigs
Lake Erie
District of Columbia
United States
Greenville
Perrysburg
Miami
Nacre
Easin
Wooster
Ohio
Chroshangville
Sandusky
Banks Liberal With Support For Industrious Colony
George Town Messenger notes banks have been liberal in their mises of support to the industrious and valuable little colony. William Cognierr and his two sons arrived at Gey Yer on the 45th instant in the Importer from Liverpool.
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Georgetown
William Cognierr
Gey Yer
Liverpool
London
Carlisle
Lords
Commons
London Court
Paris
Liberal Party
Marshal Macdonald
Departure for America and political reflections by William Coppert
Coppert announces his move to America on or around April 5 and names a trusted manager for England while stressing his loyalty to England and his opposition to a government with arbitrary imprisonment. He says he will not live or die under such rule and laments leaving friends, family, and Hampshire.
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America
England
London
Hampshire
William Coppert
Bonaparte Family in Rome and London News April 1
London reports Lord Cochrane raises 10001 to buy a vessel for a South America voyage. Lucien Bonaparte seeks a US passport from the Pope. In Rome the Bonapartes’ circle grows with many British joining. Paris and Versailles discuss guards and royalist jacobin clashes amid Bonaparte symbols. Concerns over seditious society bill grow. Greenock notes Manchester riots suspended.
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London
Lord Cochrane
South America
Lucien Bonaparte
U. States of America
Bonaparte
Rome
Paris
Gazette de France
Versailles
Thuilleries
Hus
Grosvenor
Rucland
Rosslyn
Augustus Frederick
Clifton
Vassall Holland
Erskine
Somerset
Greenock
Manchester
Baptist Church Constitution Service Planned in City Court-house
Nhe Rev'd Jamee Marur ws ABRAHAM Manisnatz and others will lead a divine service in the Court-house this Saturday and Sunday for the expected constitution of a Baptist Church. Town residents of the Baptist order and others are urged to attend. May 21.
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Jamee Marur
Abraham Manisnatz
Baptist Order
Sale notices for horses in Wilkes County Georgia
Georgia Wilkes County notices dated April 28 and 29 1817 describe auction postings for two mares. One red sorrel mare four feet nine inches tall with a left shoulder scar and gray hairs appraised at seventy dollars by Moses Jones and Murphey R Booker. The other dun mare about twelve hands high presumed twelve years old appraised at twenty dollars by Santa Mattox and Charles Pettus.
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Tolen
Lawrens District
S.C
Lawrens C. H
Ninety Six Road
William Holland
Georgia
Wilkes County
Goodwin
Moses Jones
At. Murphey
R. Booker
Simon Flournoy
Thomas E.dson
Santa Mattox
Charles Pettus
John K.M Charlton
William Lunsford
Sn’r
David Walar
Charles Strozier
John Favor
J. P
George Turner
Bright Bay Horse
Joan Hinton
Drury B. Cade
Wittean Williams
Y. Gill
Capt. Russell
William Gill
Lewis
Gin Russell
J.P
Estray
John Haliday
Upper End Broad Street
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Bérlin
The
New-York Commercial Advertiser
Bank of Augusta
Stotholders
Augustus Moore, Dashier
J. 8. Walker
Milledgeville Journal
Howard
Richmond Academy
Augusta
State of Georgia
John R. Thompson
Nicholas Ware
Wilson & Black
S. Walker
Wilson & Back
Messrs
James A. Black
Estrays
Fortune
Beach Island
John R. Tulloss
Mag
Theatre Augusta
Udp & Stef
Perf Theda
Savannah
South-Carolina
North Caolina
New-York
Chronicle
John . Nesbitt
Jas, Fraser
Hijuse
Gree
Celene Bridge
Samuel Goff
F. Walter
Washington Street
New Yorks
Huntington’ & Burrill
Burke Ee
Eaat
Benjamin Davis
Scot Burke
Sa Kiedred
Ochoaa Avis
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