The Georgia gazette. (Savannah, Ga.) 1763-1776, October 06, 1763, Image 1

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GEORGIA GAZETTE. Number 27. GEORGIA. By bis Excellency JAMES WRIGHT, Efamre, Cap tain-Gpteral and Governor in chief of bis Mniejhfs fetid province , Chancellor and Vice - idmiral of the Jams, A PROCLAMATION. S HERE AS the lately raged in the province of South-Carohna ; AND WHERE AS* by. two proclamations, dated the nineteenth January and fifth July lail in purfuanceof the law of this province, intituled, An Act to oblige Ships and other VtjfcU coming from Places ;n ----fitted with epidemical Difcmfers to perform Quarantain, it was ordered, that all Ihips, velTels, boats, and persons, coming from Charlellown in South-Carolina, or* other* places in the laid province infected with the Ouall pox, mould perform quarantain; AND WHEREAS it ap pears that the final 1-pox is intirely ceased in Charlcftown, and clfewhere in the laid province, and as the continuance of the find quarantain is very inconvenient to, and a great reftridlion on, the trade of this province, I HAVE THERE FORE, with the advice of hisMajefty’s Honourable Coun cil, thought fit to iffuc this my proclamation, taking off the &id quarantain, and the fame is taken off accordingly.. Given under toy band, and the great seal of his Majcfy*s feud province , in the Council- Chamber at Savannah, tip twenty-ninth den of September, in the year of our Lord one thostfand/even hundred and fixty-throe, and in the third year of his Majeflf s reign. By his Excellency’s command. JAMES WRIGHT. John Talley, Dep. Seer. GOD SAVE THE KING. GEORGIA. By his Excellency JAMES WRIGHT, Esquire, Cap tain- General and Governor in chief of bis Majefiys /aid province, Chancellor and Vice-Admiral of the fame, A PROCLAMATION. . WHEREAS the General Assembly of this province (lands prorogued to Wednesday the twelfth day of October next ensuing; AND WHEREAS, in obedience to his Majefly’s commands, I am obliged to attend at the con 4*refs to h£ held with the fereral nations of Indians at Au srulla fifteenth day of the said month; i HAVE THEREFORE thought fit to issue this my proclamation,- further to prorogue the said General Afl'embly, and it is hereby prorogued accordingly to Monday the twenty-fiffl day of Novernbcr next ensuing, then to meet for the dispatch of business. t , y Given under my hand ami the great seal of bn Mayfly s Jaid province , in the Council-Chamber at Sav<.nnah, the twenty-ninth day of September , in the yeas of our Lord one thousand Jeven hundred ana fsxty-three, and in the third year of his Majefiy s reign. . By his Excellency** command. JAMES WHIGH 1. (ohn Talley, Dep. Seer. GOD SAVE THE KING. St. John's Parifk, Midway. THIS is to give notice, that 1 have now in my ceftody a runaway negroe fellow, taken up on Col. Bailue s s Hand; he is about five feet four inches high, has on an old green negroe cloth jacket, no breeches, freaks but imlifle rent English, calls himfelf BiUg, and lavs his nial er * name is Mr. Grundy. The owner of the said fellow mult appl\ to *ne within fix weeks frorii this 26th day of September 1763. JOSEPH MASSEY* Callable. THUR SDAY, October 6, 1763, RICHARD THOMPSON, Terur&'Maicer and Hair-cutter from London, GIVES this publick notice, that he intends foTluwing his business, at the house of Mr* Chrifiophcr Ring in Broughton-ftreet. Whoever please to favour him with their custom (hall be duly at a rcaftmabl ? price* ALEXANDER BIiLL, from Virginia, GIVES notice to the publick, that he will ercA machines For preventing houses from being struck by lighten hg, after the neweit and best manner, at a reasonable rate. Those who chafe to employ him, may call on him at Mr* John Lyons’s (hop, where they may fee the machines. II is flay will be but about three weeks m this place. *■*"■“ “■ ”* T ~o B E s~O t~D “"” * A GOOD HOUSE WENCH, who can few, wash and .iron well, and knows how to manage a house. En quire of the printer. ■ ‘• TO BE SO L 1), A PLANTATION, situate on Savannah river, con- Jl% taining pco acres of land, of which 850 acres is rivet (wamp, watered by spring tides, and abaut $0 acres of it cleared; the other 100 acres is exceeding good high land, is chiefly cleared, and has a good dwelling-house thereon. The swamp abounds with a large quantity of very valuable cyprefe, fit either for sawing or making of Ihingles, very convenieut to a market, being about ia miles dittant from Savannah by land or water. —For further particulars en quire of eitner of the fubferibers at Savannah. * JAMES HABERSHAM, LEWIS JOHNSON, JOHN GRAHAM. RUN AWAY from the fubferiber, about fix months ago, a NEGRQ FELLOW calledC>r*/; heist Ihort thick and well set fellow, country born, and talks good but foeaks low, and is about 24 or *5 years of age,—Alfo, about four months ago, another NEGRO FELLOW named Coffe; is a tall and Aim young fellow, very much pitted with the small pox, he is also country born, and speaks good Englilh.—Thcfe two arc supposed to be gone up towards Auguila, as Cyrus* was seen and in cullody near that place, and as theother was taken up there lafl year.—Also, another NEGRO FELLOW called O/ar, he is a little fellow, and speaks but very indifferent English, is of the Angola country; he k supposed to be lurking near Savannah, as he has been taken near ttyat place fcveral time! before. Whoever brings thcfe negroes, or any ot them, to the fubferiber athis plantation, or to Mr. George Bail lie merchant in Savannah, /hall be fufticiently rewarded, according to the trouble they have been at, and all legal charges paid; and if he can find that they, or any of them, has been harboured or kept in fecrct by any perfen or per sons whatever, he will profccutc hi,m or them to the ntmoft of his power; and any person (ball be well rewarded that can give certain information by whom they or any of them b-vc been so harboured or fecrctcd. Morten- Hall, near Savannah, DA. DOUGLASS. l ithjuly, 176.1 v - Ju y-j UN AWAY from the fubferiber, a NK- IgL GROE MAN named BaAiLsroßn*, he j 3 a lufly fellow, about five feet fix inches high, upwcud* of 30 of age, speaks good bnglifn, had on when he went away a blue doth jacket and white negroe doth breeches. * Si * l * k Whoever takes him up, and delivers him to - IU>C wfi^SMALLWOOP.