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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1806
Page
3
The Augusta Gazette notes favors for the editor and requests a retaro on pole counts by county for the upcoming general election. It records price shifts, Burr’s travel, and errata correcting names and phrases in earlier dispatches. The piece also announces Dogtornment as a candidate for Congress in the approaching election.
A short general notice appears directed to all recipients with a formal stance and copy notation indicating a broader circulation. The fragment suggests an official communication but lacks specific names dates or actions within readable text.
On the first day of November the tract will be offered to the highest bidder for sale or rent for three years. The land lies on the Uchee in Columbia County next to Thomas Cumming Esq. It includes about 160 acres cleared with a good fence and high quality soil. A sizable amount of corn and fodder will be sold on the premises the same day.
Proposals may be received by the clerk until October 26 for the English department head at Richmond Academy. The chosen candidate will assume duties November 1 by order of the Board, Thomas Barrett, Clerk, Sept. 27. Also notice of a runaway enslaved man named Billy from Clarke County near Athens. owner urged to prove property and reclaim him.
A long list of names including Samuel Alten John Butler Aylete Backnogy Daniel Bowers Josiah Bronson Hugh Ballantine Ned Bostick and many others appears, followed by notices about enslaved people Coffee Isaac and Mola and requests for owners to claim them. Other items mention bonds notes and debts tied to several counties and officers in 1806.
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