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Jan. 20.
STATE-HOUSE, Louisville,
B th January 1798.
jh( honorable Ihe Prcfdent of the Senate,
an d the honorable the Speaker of the house
of Rebrefentatives. _
rKO :VI the difpofpton of the Indians I
r was aonrehenfive much mifchie!
would have bien committed by them in
the course or the lad spring and fumrncr;
happily* however, these apprehensions
have not been verified to the extent I
have imagined. In one indance they
cade an incursion into Washington coun
ty, murdered a man by the name of
grown, at the fame time wounded his
and committed his house to the
dimes; a copy of my communication to
the secretary of war on this fubjeft, and
his answer thereto, you will have inclof
edand numbered 1.
The loss of property has however been
confrlerable, particularly in horses; and
in order to check these predatory parties
1 thought it advileable to Ration mounted
militia, at those places which were mod
exposed to their incursions. This mea
gre, I am induced to think, has been at
tended with the happiett effeft; as I have
not Cnee heard of any violence being
committed by the Indians, either on the .
persons or property of our citizens. The
officers commanding these parties have
fumiihed them with rations and forage
from the time of their being called into
service, without any advance from the
State ; they now reasonably expeft such
ippropriatiors, as will recompeoce them
for their services. Conceiving it for the
filtered and fafety of the frontier fetters,
1 have determined that r he men on duty
tall continue unril the pleasure of the
lcgifl<*ture be known.
I have appointed comrniffiorers to at
tend the running of the temporary line
between rhe white inhabitants of this
State and the Indians, This I have rea
lon to expert would ha-'e commenced on
the iftinftanc , but as yet no information
has been received on the subj ft. My
hteft intelligence from the frontier, Rates,
that a party of our men on the 22 ' ulti
rao, crossed the Oconee river, killed one
Indian, wounded two others, and plun
dcred a camp : What efflft this may pro
dace with regard to the running of the
line, or on the Indians in general, can
aotnowbe ascertained ; but certainly the
eftndersdeferve the fevereß punifliment
which the laws can infiift.
I have the pleasure to inform you that
the agent, Thomas King, who was ap
pointed under the resolution of the 1 ith
February lafi ttaß, and authorifed to
proceed to E ifi- Florida on the fubjeft of
the fugitive (laves, has accomplished his
Imiflion, and brought with him from that
Iprovince thirty-fix negroes, the property
|of our citizens: Those negroes who had
■taken refuge in this Rate, belonging to
ISpanilh fubjefts, I-have been under the
lueceffity of paying for, as I had it not in
pty power to return them ; a circumfiance
Ittcafioned by their dispersed situations,
Ptidin some inßancesa refufa! on the part
■of their present pofleffors to deliver them.
■The agent has taken bills of sale for all
■bepaid for; it will therefore reR with
K our honorable body to direst the mea
pures that (hall be pursued to recover them
■or the use of the Rate.
I This Rate has been called on for its
V of Bo>ooo militia, which the
fceneral government has deemed effer.tial
held in readiness to aft as occasion
■lay require. | n compliance with this
■cquifirion I have ordered 1-334. men,
Bpdtiding officers, to be drafted a;id held
■ a ble to be called into service at a no
■"fot’s warning. The militia la-" im
duties on brigade infpeftors, with
-it providing any compensation for them
■ employed on these duties, renders
■ e xtremely difficult to have an order,
■owever important, carried into tff ft.
t* therefore recommended to you to
Is uc h provision, as will enable those
Br ers » t 0 devote that portion of time to
which their country may re-
I Another suit has been inßitutcd in the
court of the United States by
*toid, indorfec of Spalding, againß
■ * Proclamation has been issued notify
■s-ad requiring a meeting of the Senatus
M icus at Louisville on the 10th
LR, at which time onlv two
e s °S u -l° board, and two of r he no
trupees attended ; the leg-fl irure
K„ remain uninformed, as
'<<peft to the nnmb*r of no
■of th tru<^ces r< “f* lent within this Rate,
6 revenues of the univetfity ge
■tc*
■L 'direfted bv the refclution
\ r - »
for the piirpofe of hearing the conplaints
and evidences of Augustus C. G. E : -
ho!m, met at this place, when after a
lull dif-ufi >n of the fubjeft they re
ported, thar in their opinions, neither
•‘partialirv, injjfij.e or oppreffijn” was
“ praftic* d” on his trial.
Copies a.id exrraftsot letters from No.
2 to 4 are herewith enclosed for the in
formati n cf the legislature on the dif
ferent fubjefts to which they refer.
JARED IRWIN.
GEORGI A.
By hi\ Excellency JAMES JACKSON,
Governor and Commander in Chief
in and over the. said State.
A Proclamation.
WHEREAS I have
rvet ived official information
from 6* rjamin Hankins, Es
quire, P. T. a.;ent lor Indian affairs
fouth of the Ohio, that certain Indians
at their encampment on the waters ox
Little river, fouth wtR of the river Oco
nee, were on the night of the twenty
freond day of December last, fired on by
fandty persons unknown, whereby one
Indian was kiiUd and two wounded;
which persons were, by the said agent’s
information, trailed to a certain eroding
place on the aforefaid river Oconee, and
it is supposed have taken refuge in some
parr or parts within the ordina’y jurifdic
ti<>n of this Rate.
AND WHEREAS such proceedings
are dangerms to the fafety and welfare
of the said Rate, and the security of her
frontier citizens, some of whom may fall
viftims to savage tefentment excited by
such unlawful means : IN ORDER
THEREFORE 0 prevent as far as pclli
ble the like attrocious crimes in future,
an ! that the offenders may be brought to
jußice ; I HAVE thought fit to issue this
r y * rr:<lairaMrnofTerir p a reward ot CNE
HUNDRED DOLLARS to any perfun
or persons who (h ill difeover and prefe
cute to ror.viftion the said offenders.
AND I DO further firiftly command
and require all < fficers civil and military
within this Rate to be diligent, aiding
and aflißing in apprehending and fetur
ing the aforefaid in order that
they may be brought to condign pumfh
roent.
GIVEN under my hand, and the
Great Seal of the [aid Stale, at the
State House in Louisville, this
thirteenth day of 'January , in the
year of our LORD one thousand
Jivtn hundred and ninety-eight;
and in the twenty-second year oj
American Independence.
JAMES JACKSON.
By the Governor,
John Milton, Sec’y.
GOD SAVE THE STATE.
PRICES CURRENT in Savannah, sth
January 1798.
HPOBACCO, 7 dollars; up country
1. Cotton, 21 and 25 cents; Indian
corn, 62 12 cents; boards, icantliug
and other lumber, 13 dollars.
- Prices in New Turk and Philadelphia.
Tobacco, 10 dollars; dull. Up coun
try Cotton, 26 and 30 cents; in great
demand.
EZEKIEL HARRIS.
SHERIFF’S SAL ES.
On the Jirfl Turfday in March next, at the
Court- iiovjc in the county of Columbia ,
between the hours of ten and three o' clock
in the day,
WILL BE SOLD,
544 acres of land lying in said
county, whereon col. Peter Siubbl-ft la
dec. lived, joining lands of Wi liam Wal
ton and John Garnet!; 260 acres of laud
in said county whereon Peter Stubblefield
now lives, joining lands of Beverly Lowe
the heirs or Williams Jackson deceased,
and Savannah river; twenty-one negroes,
(to wit) Harry, H“nry, Jacob, B.ily,
M randa, Betty, Will, Randol, Piato,
D.lpha, Charlotte, Lett, L a wis, Mimy,
Mdiy, Anne, Jack, Jim, Fanny, Jim
my and Harry, the above property exe
cuted at the inßance of admr’s. ot Thomas
Greer, deceased, Charles Smith and David
Weaver, as rhe property of cel. Peter Stub
blefield, d-evafed. Conditions Ca(h.
One !ik*-ly country bom negro man,
named Mofe* } taken by execution at the
infiance of J. Wright vs. executors of
J. Brifcoe.
ALSO ,
One other likely negro man, named
George; uken by execution at the in
flance of J. Hutcbinfon vs. P. Edwards.
Conditions CASH.
A. CRAWFORD, S, C. C.
January 2, 1795,
(£3“ THE! members of the
M.cunua! Society will pieaje take notice ,
that on Thurjday the Jirfl of February , be
ing a quarterly meeting, it is hoped they
wilt be puvbiuul in their attendance atgihe
house of Mr. Altx. M i Laws , s precijtfy at
fix o’clock. P. M.
By order of the Pr- fident,
JOHN STILES, Su’ry.
FINAL NO TICE.
r Subfcribei, one of the
partmrs of tin late tioujc of Matthias
Maher & Co. on his return to this place ,
facing many of those who hav‘ had long
indulgence, have negUded to liquidate their
accounts: Therefore, as there is abfoluie
nexjfity to bring to a close the concerns be
longing to thatfirm— ‘All those that are in
debted to them (andfuits not already com
menud) will have an opportunity to fettle
the jam: before the frft of March next ,
with Hams, Muhtr & Co. or with the
futfrriber, at the so of the late James
Clarke id Co. as every account ujur that
day will be put in suit.
ARTHUR HARPER.
Augufa, Jan, 13, I^9B.
N. B. Tie flock in trade of the late
frm of James Clarke & Co. con/,fling of
A LARGE AND GENERAL ASSORTMENT
of GOODS,
Suitable for the present and approaching
jeafons , is now Jdlmg eff, at very reduced
prices, for cajh andpr au e, by
CAMPBELL & SCOTT.
*#* The few, who are indebted to the
faicfrm, are r,quef/ed to make payments,
agreeable toconirud, to Campbell & Scott,
wno are auihorijcd to receive the fame ; and
all thije u ho have any demands agairf that
frm , or the deceafd, are rcquejled to bring
their accounts forJctlement.
Four Dollars Reward.
STRAYED or Rolen, from the com
mons of Augußa, about three months
ago, a brown mare, has a small fiar in
her fuehead, and is branded on the back
part VRDY in a cypher, about 14hands
hiph, fix years old, trots and paces, some
fadcile spots.
M. VERDERY.
January 18, 1798.
AFEVfi T bags of cotton, ready clean
ed by a foot gin, will be exchang
ed by the fubferiber, for feed cotton at
the fifth, or at 26 2 3 by the hundred,
and 3d 1 2 for each clean round.
M. VERDERY.
January 18, 1798.
Forty Dollars Reward.
RUN-AWAY from the fub
feriber on the seventeenth of Feb
ruary laR, a negro man named DERRY,
about twenty-seven years of age, daik
compleftion, born in this country, about
five feet 9 or 10 inches high, his b-ick
somewhat marked with the whip; he has
a place on the top of his head, a little to
the right fide about the size of a dollar
that has no wool on, and appears white
and fealv. The said negro was taken up
latt March in Pittfvlvania county, in
Virgini., and produced a pals wherein
he was called by the name of John Bird,
setting forth he was. fer free by a quaker
in Guilrford county, neat Garden fettle
menr, but made his escape with the said
pass; I have since been informed that he
said his mafier that set him free lived in
the State of Georgia, and wanted a pass
to go to the said mafier. Whoever will
take up said n-gro and deliver him to me
in North Carolina, Orange county, or
to col. Robert Abercrombie in the State
of Georgia, Watren county, (hall have
the above reward and expends paid by
Wm. Me BANE.
North-Carolina, Orange countv ,
November 1, 1797.
COLLECTOR’S SALES.
On the ig.th day of February next, at the
Court house, in Wilkes county .
WILL BE SOLD,
Ihe following traStf of land fur the tax oj
the years 1795 1796.
920 acres of land returned by
Lewis Seweii, the property of Jas. Sunts,
Oconee, Greene county’.
400 acres the propetty of Ralph Tur
ner, returned by said Sewell, in Ogle
thorpe, Little river, joii.ing lands of
Andrew M Bride.
20c acres the property of JohnM'C 11,
returned by said Sewell, in Ogie i h rpe,
00 Littic river, joining W. Shaipfh-i .
200 acres lying in the ferk of Luk
creek, in Wilkes county, joining lands of
Wm. Pleasant, Thos. Kent, Lunsford
Traywick and others; taken as land in
default for tbc years 1795 2nd 1796.
J. H. FOSiER, T.G,
I A. r - - * ' J--
GEORGIA, T> EFORE Jofepli
Richmond county, 3 -A3 Hutchinson, Eli
quite, jultice of the peace and notary
public; pcrfonally came and appeared
James Perry, who being duly sworn, de*
pofeth and faith that he was pcffeffed of a
note of hand dated cn or about the 9th
of November lart, payable two months
aftet dare, for one hundred and three
dollars ana twenty five cents, which note
was made payable to him and signed by
Conrad Liverman, and witnessed by John
O. Pcarte, and credited on the back for
i eighteen dollars and forty* two and half
j cents, which note he rhis deponent loft or
miilaidou or about the iath inilant.
JAMES PERRY#
Sworn to the r6th January,
G E O 1U G A, IBy David Terrell*
(L. S.) > Esq. Rcgiflcr ofPro-
Wilkes county. J bats for Jaid county•
WHEREAS William, E-.rrey and
Jojeph Evans, h ive applied to me
for Utters of adminiflration on the cjlate of
Marmaaukr Mendinghall, late of this coun
ty, deceased «
THESE are thtrefore to cite and admo
nish all and singular the kindred and cre
ditors of the fuid deceased, to be and ap
pear at my office, on or before the 10th day
of Ecby nary next, to Jhew cauje if any
they have, why letters of adminiflration
Jhould not be granted*
GIVEN under my hand andfealat
my office , the ioih day of Janua
ry 1798, and in the lid year of
the Independence of the United
States of America.
GEORGIA. ) By Lewis Gardner,
(L. S.) > Esq. Register of Pro-
Columhia county, j bats, forfaid county •
WHEREAS Henry Kind all,
lfxiah Wright and Concord Ha
'■niton, have applied to me for Utters
Jijmijfery on thceftatc of Thomas Hamil
ton, late of this county, dec.
THESE are therefore to cite and admo
nish all and singular the kindred and 1 cre
ditors of the said deceased to be and ap
pear at mv office, on or before the iQth. day
of February next, to Jhew cauje if any they
have, why Utters dijmiffory Jhould not be
granted,
GIVEN under my hand and seal, at
my office, the loth day of January
1798 ; and in the ltd year of the
Independence of the United States
of America.
ISAAC HERBERT
Begs leave to inform his friends and the
public in general, that he has lately
received
A LARGE AND GENERAL SUPPLY OP
Dry Goods, Liquors &
Groceries ;
Which he will dispose of very low for
C;.ih or Produce, at his store upper
end of Broad-street, amongst which are
the following, viz.
WEST INDIA Rum
Noithern Ditto
Hollands gin
Cogniac brandy
Sherry and Tcneriffe winei
London porter in bottles
Molaffcs
Loaf and brown fugart
H vfon and bchea teas
Coffee and chocolate
Salt and fabpetre
Brimstone and gun powder
Shot and bar lead
Best London pewter
Crockery, glass and tin ware
Iron pots and Dutch ovens
Frying pans and grid irons
Bar iron and German ftcel
4*l. 6d. Bd. rod. and 2od. nails
Locks and hinges
Broad hoes, axes, adzes, drawing knives
and hammers
Scythes and reap hooks
Mill, crosscut, tenon and hand saws
Cotton and wool cards
Mens fine shoe»
Ladies and misses morocco flippers, Seed
Sec. Sec.
D-rember 23, t 797»
Jujl received and for sale by the
Subscriber,
AN additional supply of crockery
ware in crates well affjtted, empty
bottles in crates of 18 dozer.; half pint
tumblers in boxes of 12 dozen; stone
jars and pitchers of 2 and 3 gallons each j
window glass in small boxes 8 ov 10$
table fait in small baflests, and excellent
LONDON PORTER in calks.
ISAAC HERBERT,
Jan. 13, 1708. ,;'
§3“ Several advertiferaentf
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