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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1809
Page
5
Enoch Crabb warns all persons from taking, paying, negotiating, or trading the twenty notes of twenty dollars each issued to Liam Farmer for land. The notes dated spring 1808, payable year following, and the land is under execution for debt. Crabb states he will not pay and is compelled by law. May 20.
The subscriber declares a new shop within a mile of Edgefield court house and promises cotton gins equal to any exhibited in the state. Patrons will be supplied at two dollars and a half per the law. Work will be done with dispatch. Orders at the Chronicle Office Augusta May 6.
Five dollars reward offered for a bay horse about fifteen hands high. No brand recorded. Right eye dull, trotter by nature, pacey, mane grown to fall on both sides of the neck, mid wind galled behind, about eight years old. Supposed to be from Augusta minors about fifteen days ago. Deliver to Lackariah Bell in Augusta to claim reward.
A rider offers 20 dollars for a day mare about 6 or 7 years old. The horse stands four feet six inches, paces and trots, with a dark back stripe and tail lacking branding. The thief or mare will bring the reward. A ten dollar reward is for delivering the mare. The subscriber lives on Head Stall in Columbia County six miles below Sweetwater Iron Works.
William Low advertises the Gallatin stallion for mares near Augusta in Columbia County. Season runs April to August with fees due on December 1, mares may be discharged after a fall season if not in foal. Gallatin, fifteen hands, nine years, praised for form and progeny. pedigree traces to Bedford and Eclipse lineage.
All persons having demands against the estate of William Fitzgerald deceased are required to render them properly accredited within the time prescribed by law. Those indebted to the estate must make immediate payment as no indulgence can be given. Fames Violeau, Adm’r. May 73.
Indebted parties are warned that after June 16 next all unsettled claims will be handed to officers for immediate suit. Those with demands must come to receive payment. James Violeau, May 173.
Sale to be held Friday June 16 at the house of the late John Walton esquire deceased. Personal property includes horses cattle hogs sheep corn fodder furniture plantation utensils and about thirty thousand pounds of feed cotton. Terms five dollars and under cash on delivery oath and credit until January next by notes with approved security. Debts and demands to be rendered to John Foster admr. May 13. Blanks for sale at this office.
After nine months an application to the Inferior Court of Wilkes County will seek leave to sell 20 acres of land belonging to M Gammage deceased on Hardins Creek. The sale benefits heirs and creditors, Sobn Hendrick administrator. May 13.
Whip begins the spring season at his former stand with a July expiry and a 20 dollar pre mare payment. Wheat lots cover Mares and local gentlemen will transport and feed them at 25 cents daily. Whip, sire of famed racing stock in Virginia and Kentucky, requires no further ads. Import KNG HI RAM stands at Sparta with notes due January first, 15 dollars to discharge, 30 dollars to injure a foal. Gen. Twiggs JACK billed as the largest and finest foals in the south. Edward Jordan Washington March 18.
Royalist a top racer begins season at Edgefield on March 26 and ends July 16 with a price of 30 dollars payable January 1 next. A discount to 29 dollars if the mare is first ridden. Mare owners to provide feed. Royalist described as a champion, by Saltram out of King Heron mare, near sixteen hands high. He has earned 400 to 1200 guineas and faced Segal Dave Devil Don Quixotte Golden Red and others. Edw’d Jordan Randolph Bates David Bates notice dated March 18.
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