Monument Lottery and Susquehanna Canal Prizes
Auctioned warranted undrawn tickets offered at C. S. Buckle's store on Broad Street with prizes up to 50,000 dollars. Also notes warnings about fraudulent claims and a drawing update for the Susquehanna Canal Lottery with large prizes and ten dollar ticket pricing. Public debt totals and imports data from Britain and Europe accompany notices on debt, sugar prices, and Catholic emancipation discussions.
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C. S. Buckle
James
Walker’s
Broad Street
America
Shipping News and Mercantile Updates From August
From Gottenburgh reports American General Erving’s arrival in Denmark easing costs for U S merchants and preventing condemnations. Deal welcomed a tonnage of specie from the East India Company. Dutch sailors seek British protection and settlement along Scotland’s coast as Britain considers grants for a permanent settlement.
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East India Company
Deal
China
Scotland
Reports from Rio and Montevideo on ship Piscataway
Captain Walder reports dire shortages in Montevideo and Buenos Aires regions after the Piscataway missed arrival. Prices for beef and bread are fixed or scarce, with crews deserting ships seeking plunder or safer wages. Portuguese troops expected, a frist blockade limiting access to Buenos Aires.
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Rio
Monteviedo
Walder
Rio Janeiro
Piscataway
Avett
Buenos Ayres
Negro Dick Hall Reward Notice and Probate Ad
Ten dollars reward for Dick Hall a 40 year old enslaved man five feet ten inches tall with a bowlegged lame gait delivery to Peter Morison at the Taylor plantation Edgefield district or confinement in Augusta jail. Also a probate notice from Greene County Court of Ordinary requesting appearance for Letters of Dismission in the estate of James Robartsy with admonition to interested parties to appear at the county court to show cause why letters should not be granted.
Local misreadings report coins and danger in 1800s alert
Fragmentary notes mention a man in Lympson claiming 795 guineas, a chimney sweep with much gold, a Quaker from Arragon delivering news, and Marshal Suchet’s army advancing toward Tara gona. An imperial dispute over the king of the Romans is also hinted with a dramatic bed scene.
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Comiton Fithermary
Lympson
Perlesion
Fitherman
Young
Maparte
The American Cruisers and Naval Power in War
Discussion on the proper magnitude and direction of naval power in a potential war with Britain. Compares Revolutionary War naval forces, noting limited knowledge and different conditions, with an emphasis on decisive imperial influence and past constraints from 1775 to 1778.
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Britain
Poprla
War talk and temperance notes from a colonial era essay
The text debates war readiness with Britain and the U S, arguing for privateers over a large navy and warning against heavy ships. It shifts to Dr Rush’s Enquiries on ardent spirits, detailing their moral and social harms and arguing only two situations justify limited spirit use for health emergencies.
Callier seeks letters of administration in Greene County
Georgia Greene County notices request Charles Callier applies for letters of administration on the estate of William Callier late of the county deceased. The court summons kindred and creditors to appear at the next Court of Ordinary on the first Monday in November to show cause why letters should not be granted. October 3, 1811. H. Carleton, jr, clerk. Blank deeds offered at the office.
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Greene Court of Ordinary
David Robartsy
James Robartsy
Dee
Vbrs
Aid Creres
Ordirnary
Carléton, Jr
Georgia
Greene County
Charles Callier
William Callier
St Aid County
H. Carleton, Jr
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