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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1809
Page
7
Augusta reports ongoing global conflict scenes and rumors from Madrid to Morocco with local banking shifts in New England. It lists state legislative returns by county and announces candidates for Richmond and Columbia county clerks and sheriff.
A letter advocates an Army of officers in the upcoming legislature to guard frontiers from invasion and Indian depredations. It imagines sergeants assisting superior officers in building bridges roads felling trees erecting watch towers and raising a chinook wall to separate from the Sioux along the Missouri.
A fragment notes a mixed race man named David tied to Mr Carr NifGhee in Abbevile District and a man named Tom whose matter is Jackey from Pucotaligo. In Kefshin Jail two Africans, male and female, cannot speak English. one has a missing tooth and both bear country marks and homespun dress.
The notice names Joan Diamrienac Esq as a candidate for Sheriff of Richmond County at the upcoming election. Francis Mann is listed as a candidate for Clerk of the Inferior Court for the same upcoming election on September 16.
Auction notices list lands in Warren and Burke counties to be sold by sheriff on Oct 7 and Nov 7 including 125 acres on Joes Creek and 150 acres at Rocky Comfort, plus a Lincoln County plantation of 244 acres near Savannah River to be sold Dec 22. Also administration notice for James Hogg estate in Scriven County and sale of Thomas Jones estate personal property in Georgia.
Notice from Crawford's Digest page 199 outlines the oath to qualify a voter: age 21, paid taxes, six months county residence, and U S citizen and state inhabitant. It urges arrears payment by the first Monday in October at the Augusta courthouse as attended by Holland McTyre.
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