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Newspaper
Georgetown American
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1840
Page
3
The piece attacks supposed fraud over funds and defense of a shipboard incident, cites a reader correction about Captain Terrell not living in Southport, and recalls Marblehead women punishing a negligent captain with tar and feathers after a voyage from Salem.
The London and Washington negotiators concluded a long outstanding dispute over enslaved people claimed as property. Queen’s Government pays about twenty to thirty thousand pounds to the United States as compensation, following a Nassau liberation of affected slaves.
The excerpt compares Renaissance dandies with medieval attire featuring extreme coats and long beards, then contrasts ancient Greek and Roman diets noting no alcohol coffee tea or chocolate, limited tropical spices, and unusual meats and shellfish.
The steamer Anson from Lubbock Pee Dee arrives at Georgetown en route to Charleston with 617 bales of cotton and passengers including Col John N Williams Mrs Williams and two children, and servants. Also aboard Spark with 241 bales to B King and WW stevia.
In a Revolutionary War vignette a junior corporal commands a timber lift while a passing officer asks for help. The corporal boasts his authority until the visitor reveals himself as General George Washington who then offers future aid, leaving the corporal astonished.
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