Intelligence from Egypt and Gibraltar dispatch
Report from Gibraltar dated July 31 details intelligence from Egypt. The brig Spt returns from Alexandria after 43 days, with Dutch-style accounts of Turkish forces near Cairo. It notes British ships, troop movements, and a strange two-headed turtle captured near the marching Menon army, plus a melancholy crime anecdote from London about a captain.
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Gibraltar
Egypt
Alexandria
Cair
Lofwe Bay
John Hutchinson
Red Sea
Italy
Krarpas
Conful
A. Detachme
Doyle
Wae
Menon
Adefart
Cairo
Con
Savannah News: Trade, arrivals, and political notes
Savannah reports from October 6 describe ships from America"," security measures at the port of Cape François"," and the news that Toufsaint Voverure sent the news constitution to France for ratification. The piece notes landings being restricted"," guards placed on vessels"," and an arrest in Gaol. It mentions Count Avago De Graffe and Thomas Clinton as figures connected to the period's events.
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Savannah
Chooner
Choon
Cape-Francois
Toufsaint
Voverure
France
Ape
America
Sondge
Count Avago
Dée
Graffe
de? Graffe
Charletton
Esas
Clinton
Ero
Georgetown News Brief From Early October 1801
Fragmentary notice from Georgetown South Carolina describing an incident along a Bull-Ruin Mountain stream. The readable segment references a negro man who saw and caught the event, with incomplete context and garbled names.
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Rema
Alexandria
George Heriot & Co Advertise Broad Imported Goods in Georgetown
Importers George Heriot and Co announce a Charleston style inventory arriving at their Georgetown store. The list includes textiles like Welsh plains and cloths, blankets, silks, linens, and batht coatings, plus clothing goods, footwear, hardware, utensils, tools, gun materials, and groceries. October 7.
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George Heriot & Co
Port Mary
Collins
London
Georgetown
Charleston
Ornaburgs
Princes
General Assortment of Dry Goods at Low Carolina Prices
The ad promotes a Georgetown merchant offering an extensive dry goods assortment including linens, shirting, calicoes, muslins, handkerchiefs, hosiery, laces, cambrics, fabrics, and bedding. It guarantees strict compliance with orders at reasonable terms and claims prices as low as in Carolina. Charleston, October 1, 1801.
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Georgetown
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Georgetown SC
Sree Alfoy
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Phil Snow
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Taylors
Higwill
Isaac C. Moses
King-Street
Broad and
Queen Streets
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