Negro Fellow POBERY Missing, Reward Offered
A late 18th century classified note offers twenty dollars reward for capturing a stout blacksmith known as POBERY. Described as six to seven feet tall, oof-black, living in George Town and Indian Town, suspected of being harbored on Nathaniel Snow's Pee Dee plantation with a wife and family. Additional fifty dollars offered for proof of harboring by a free person.Benjamin Screven, June.
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Pobery
Georgetown
Indian Town
Nathaniel Snow
Pee Dee
Benjamin
South Santee
Epperty
Trim
Simon
Charleston
Saw Gins and Mills Offered for Cotton Processing in Meeting Street
Cotton dealer in Meeting street advertises Saw Gins that can process three to four hundred weight of clean cotton in twelve hours by hand, animal, or water power. He also makes mills for grinding corn and shelling rice, to run by hand, animal, or water power, and is building a tolling saw gun and grist mill at his house. Wages and labor are sought, with employment ads for two enslaved workers and two blacksmiths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meeting Street
Ann Gourlay
Orphan House
Toll
Meetingstreet
N. B
Georgetown Gazette
Charleston
Testimony on Cotton Ginning Quality by ANN GOURLAY
ANN GOURLAY certifies observations after comparing ginned cotton from Tuesday the 26th at Mr J Symonds House Meeting Street. She notes the gin with a saw gun produced cleaner, dust-free cotton than the roller gin, with no knotting in the cloth and similar thread quality after carding and spinning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Finn
Ann Gourlay
Bla 17 For Personal at the Printing Office
Auction notice lists Bla 17 for personal property at the printing office. Proceeds go to pay debts and costs with bidding open to eligible bidders. Sale details include location and date in local notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ges
Eal
Cont Concentrated Yellow Bark Trade Promoted in Charleston
An advertisement for concentrated yellow bark from Charleston promotes its medical uses as a tonic and fever preventive. It markets a London style preparation, claims high efficacy, cites doctors, and urges rewards for returning a missing slave linked to the plantation. It includes dosing guidance and warnings about removal from the state.
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Charleston
James Dalton
London
Georgetown
Guy’s Hospital
O'Ryan
Grand Hotel Dieu
Lyons
France
New London
Relph
Okai
F . Darton
Sims
Medical Society
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J. Bowman
Philip Elliot
Sale
Sampit River
Valle
Erasmus Thmahler
Santee
Theodore Gourdin
Episcopal Church
Prince .George
Winyah
Joseph Wragg
Robert F. Withersy
Robert Grant
John Leigh
J. Porter
Dr. Waring
W. W. Trapier
William Allston
Pees
Josias Winallston
Christchurch
Billy
Andrew
Thomas Smith
Cat Island
Christ Churc Im Parish
Robert Smith
Wathington
Jef. Pof Washington
Joy E. Pri
Ferson
Apoth Fale
Childris
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