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Newspaper
Georgetown Gazette
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1801
Page
2
A speaker at Gotha on February 17 argues that universal suffrage endangers property and liberty, urging limits to independent landowners. He contrasts Jacobins with true republicans, insisting only educated, property holders can secure order and prevent despotism.
The schooner Sally owned by Edward Stevens of Midway Georgia is identified as the wreck towed into Nantucket earlier. A gale from April 7 to 26 likely capsized the vessel with nine passengers missing. names of captain and crew are unknown. Edward Stevens Mrs Sarah Stevens and Doctor Lathrop Holmes are noted as prominent Midway figures.
The account honors Mrs Mary Stevens Miss Nancy Sumner and others in the Midway group aboard the wrecked vessel. It recalls Captain Pinkham of Nantucket who saved relics and notes rice and cotton salvaged from the hold. The piece functions as tribute and informs planters and merchants owed duty to the deceased and survivors.
A public alert reports Jason FairBanks, condemned to die for murder and held at Dedham jail, was freed Monday night by a Liberty Pole faction. A $500 reward is offered for his capture as authorities urge all good men to help ensure his punishment.
Washington August 21. The Navy Department will resend court of enquiry records for Captain George Little. A court martial is ordered to weigh charges against Little and another court martial to review claims by Little against a lieutenant accused of aiding French officers of the Berceau in concealing and embezzling property. Thirteen high ranking officers will form the panels. The aim is a solemn, impartial determination on alleged offenses.
Robert Grant advertises a plantation facility with a pounding mill on Sandpit receiving 25 to 30 barrels of rice daily and a cotton gin producing 5 to 6 hundredweight of clean cotton daily. He also offers two saw mills and all lands and improvements totaling 5006 acres. Waterfield, June 17, 1801.
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