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Newspaper
Georgetown Gazette
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1801
Page
4
A stanza sequence titled In a Storm invokes storms as forces of nature testing endurance. The speaker, named Ferdinando, asserts resilience against tempests and heavenly fire, with images of waves, lightning, and thunder. The verse contemplates fate and national fear under a fierce squall.
Last evening a fire at Captain Nathan Smiths Water Street residence in Baltimore destroyed the bed chamber after he checked on two young sons aged about eight. He rescued both boys but they were badly burned. one died within minutes and the other died this morning after flames consumed the bed and bedding.
A Charleston notice from May 30, 1801 offers a twenty dollar reward for the escape of a slave named Trim from Peach Tree plantation on South Santee. Trim, about forty, very dark, five seven, lame at times, has served as a house servant to the subscriber and is well known in Charleston. Delivery to the overseer, Gardener Simon, Peach Tree plantation, or the Master of the Work House in Charleston earns the reward plus expenses. Any harboring or removal from the state will incur double the reward.
A fragmentary line notes prints depicting Washington and Jefferson with a reference to a failed depiction or misprint. The text hints at a reproduction issue connected to the likenesses. No clear event or date is provided.
A parcel of school books arrived including Dilworth's Assistant Child's Instructor Monitor Looking Glass for the Mind Scot's Lessons Testaments Millet's Ancient History and more. It lists various dictionaries histories grammars arithmetics and language guides with foolscap writing paper and pasteboard. July 1.
An advertisement for a concentrated yellow bark tincture prepared in Charleston by James Dalton and sold by appointment in Georgetown. It claims superior tonic and anti nervous effects, uses in fevers and agues, dosage guidance, and testimonials from London physicians.
Fragments show an unidentified item titled Or Saat at the Printing Office with mention of Blank Mortgages KA Fe FY and Fr and. The readable text hints at a local printing operation or legal notices but specifics are unclear.
Advertisement notes a request for two hundred pounds lent for two years with bond and mortgage of real property pledged for security. Application point at the printing office. Dated July 1.
A printer advertises for a willing cook male preferred with cash payment offered. Apply to the Printer. July rf.
Crosby and Murray receive a mixed cargo from New York aboard the Endeavor capt. Eldridge. The assortment includes superfine flour, Indian meal, crackers, beef, cider, porter, boots, shoes, hats, stone jugs, haberdashery, linens, cambrics, cravats, calicoes, silks, threads, paper, cards, and many sewing supplies. Goods offered for cash or short credit or exchange for produce, July 1.
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