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From: "Martha Spencer" <>
Subject: Re: HR 28 Apr 1824
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 18:19:00 -0400
References: <3BCB2DED.2D99E6EB@tiaer.tarleton.edu>

A question to the list. What should we imply from the reward of 5 cents
offered for a runaway. I have seen another for 2 cents. Is the advertiser
just very cheap or is he just putting people on notice? Does he really want
to get this person back?

Martha
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From: "Mark Murphy" <>
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Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 2:41 PM
Subject: HR 28 Apr 1824


> Again, please ignore if not interested. Also, please share. Full
> document to be scanned
> and posted at the Project site:
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~freshnup/markmurph/
> God Bless America!
> -Mark
>
> [Hillsborough Recorder excerpts, Orange Co. NC, 28 Apr 1824]
> [p.1-4, transcribed by Mark Murphy, 15 Oct 2001]
>
> [p.1]
> *****
> HILLSBOROUGH RECORDER.
> Vol. V WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1824 No. 220
> *****
> PRICES CURRENT, [samples-starting prices only, not orig. format-MM]
> Wilmington, Fayetteville, Newbern, Petersburg
> April 10, April 15, April 10, April15
> Brandy, cognac- 125 cts gall, 125 cts gall, 150 cts gall, 150 cts gall
> Bacon- 8 cts lb., 61/2 cts lb., 6 cts lb., 8 cts lb.
> Coffee- 20 cts lb., 21 cts lb., 23 cts lb., 23 cts lb.
> Corn- 38 cts bush., 42 cts bush., 28 cts bush., 30 cts bush.
> Flour- 550 cts bbl., 475 cts bbl., 600 cts bbl,. 450 cts. bbl.
> Gin, Holland- 80 cts gall, 90 cts gall, 125 cts gall, 110 cts gall.
> Molasses- 23 cts gall., 23 cts gall., 26 cts gall., 30 cts gall.
> Powder, American- - ,500 cts keg, - ,550 cts keg
> Salt, Liverpool- 50 cts bush,. 73 cts bush., 65 cts bush., 75 cts bush.
>
> Sugar, Brown- 900 cts cwt., 900 cts cwt., 800 cts cwt., 850 cts bush.
> Tobacco- 400 cts cwt., 325 cts cwt., - ,300 cts cwt.
> Tallow- 8 cts lb., 6 cts lb., 8 cts. lb., -
> *****
> LIST OF LETTERS,
> Remaining at the Post Office in Hillsborough, N.C. April 1, 1824.
> [samples only- see scanned document for entire list-MM]
> ...Samuel E. Alsobrook... A.D. Murphy, 4... Alexander Merphis, ...
> *****
> To the Public.
> BE it known and remembered, that I, Augustus Benton, late of Darlington
> district, South Carolina, but now of the county of Moore, and state of
> North Carolina, for and on behalf of himself and his mother Frances
> Benton,
> bot at present of the county of Moore, and state of North Carolina, do
> hereby revoke and disannul all and every power of attorney made by
> himself
> singly, or with his mother, Frances Benton, jointly, all and every power
> of
> attorney made by them jointly or distinctly, either in North or South
> Carolina, to be null and void particularly a power recently made by the
> said
> Augustus Benton and his mother, Frances Benton, bearing date on or about
>
> the 29th of November, 1823, to Abner Benton Bruce, and attested by
> Washington
> Bruce, for their claim on the estate of Penny Bruce, deceased as also a
> power
> made by the said Frances Benton as aforesaid, on or about the 10th of
> April,
> 1822, to John Bruce and Lemuel H. Benton, to receive a certain negro boy
>
> called and known by the name of Gordon, which was recovered by the said
> Frances Benton in the Superior Court of Orange county, against John
> Taylor,
> jun. of Hillsborough.
> Augustus Benton, for himself and mother, Frances Benton.
> Feb. 26, 1824. 12-3m
> *****
> NOTICE.
> THE subscriber having qualified as executor of the estate of Levi
> Branson,
> deceased, give notice to all persons having demands against the estate
> of the
> said Levi Branson, to present them for payment within the time required
> by
> an act of assembly, entitled "an act concerning the proving of wills and
>
> granting letters of administration, and to prevent frauds in the
> management
> of intestates' estates," otherwise they will be barred of recovery by
> the
> operation of the said act. Eli Pugh, Executor.
> Chatham county, 3d mo. 17 14-3wp
> *****
> The Shorter Catechism, For sale at this office.
> *****
> FIVE CENTS REWARD
> RAN away from the subscriber, on the 7th instant, an apprentice by the
> name
> of PURNEL LINGO, about eighteen years of age, dark complexion, five feet
>
> eight or nine inches high, stout made. The above reward will be given
> for
> his apprehension, but no expenses paid. All persons are forbid
> harbouring
> or employing him, under the penalty of the law.
> David McKee. Orange county, March 20 14-3w
> *****
> Chickasaw Land for Sale.
> THE subscriber will sell on accommodating terms, sixteen hundred acres
> prime
> land, lying on the north fork of the Forked Deer and Obion rivers. Land
>
> lying convenient to Hillsborough, or likely young negroes, will be taken
> in
> part payment. A.B. Bruce. Hillsborough, Jan. 9 64-2m
> *****
>
> [p.2]
> HILLSBOROUGH.
> Wednesday, April 28.
> *****
> We are authorized to announce Thomas H. Taylor, esq. as a candidate to
> represent this county in the senate of this state.
> *****
> The dwelling house of Mr. James Peace, in Granville county, was entirely
>
> consumed by fire, with all its contents, on the 17th inst. while the
> family
> were at church. Owing to some circumstance, a negro fellow the wife of
> whom Mr. Peace had hired, was suspected as the author of the foul deed,
> and he was consequently arrested. The negro confessed himself guilty of
>
> the charge, and stated that he had done it, to revenge his ill
> treatment,
> in being prohibited from visiting his wife. The negro is confined in
> jail
> to await his trial. Ib.
> *****
>
> [p.3]
> *****
> The secretary of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania has advertised for a
> loan
> of $600,000 to the state.
> *****
> Clergymen.- It is calculated that there are about 6,000 regularly
> ordained
> clergymen in the United States.
> *****
> Small Pox.- It appears by the report of Doctors Mitchell and Bell to the
>
> managers of the Philadelphia Alms House, that of the 138 persons place
> under
> their care, having the small pox, but 25 are known to have been
> previously
> vaccinated. These 25 all recovered, while of those who had neither been
>
> vaccinated, nor had the small pox, 70 out of 113 died. Four persons
> died
> of the small pox who had had it before, two of whom had it by
> innoculation,
> and two by the natural way. So it would seem that to have been
> vaccinated
> is a better security than to have had the small pox, either naturally or
> by
> innoculation.
> *****
> U.S. Ship Franklin.- A letter from captain Gardener, of the U.S. ship
> Franklin states, that the small pox continued to prevail on board, and
> that
> several of the crew had died of that fatal disease. Eve. Post
> *****
> A letter, received in Washington city from Natchez, of the 16 March,
> announces
> the death of Lieut. GUION, of the army of the United States, a most
> promising
> young officer, who was shot through the heart in a duel, about that
> date.
> *****
> "Killing, no Murder."- Since commencement of the 11th century, England
> and
> France have been at war 266 years, and the total loss of men is
> estimated
> at twenty-six millions!
> *****
> Halifax, April 16.
> Murder.- On Tuesday last, an inquest was held in this town on the body
> of
> Samuel Horne, a free colored man, who died the preceeding day. From the
>
> Coroner's report it appears that on Sunday last Edward Jones, a
> shoemaker,
> residing in this place, saw two chicken-cocks fighting near his house;
> he
> caught one and threatened to shoot the other, which Samuel Horne, the
> deceased, begged him not to do; upon this Jones ordered him out of the
> house, and swore if he did not go he would kill him, and immediately
> looked
> about for his shoe knife; the deceased went off, was pursued and stabbed
> by
> Jones. The wound was afflicted just above the collar bone on the left
> side
> of the neck, passing obliquely across the breast, cutting his windpipe,
> puncturing the swallow, and dividing important blood vessels. Jones was
>
> immediately take in to custody, and is now in jail awaiting his trial.
> Free Press.
> *****
> MARRIED,
> At the seat of A.D. Murphy, esq. In this county, on the 20th inst.
> JONATHAN
> WORTH, esq. of Guilford county, to MISS MARTITIA DANIEL.
> DIED,
> Lately, in Chatham county, Mrs. Elizabeth Ramsay, relict of the late
> John
> A. Ramsay, esq.
> *****
> Valuable Property
> FOR SALE
> I WILL sell to the highest bidder, upon very accomodating terms, on
> Wednesday the 9th of June next, my Tavern Lot in the town of Chapel
> Hill.
> The purchaser will be expected to give notes with approved security.
> Those
> who wish this valuable property are invited to attend the sale, as I am
> determined to relinquish all public business, and am therefore desirous
> to dispose of the aforesaid property on said day.
> John Taylor, sen. Chapel Hill, April 23 23-4w
> *****
>
> [p.4]
> EXTRACT.
> The wisdom of God appears in afflictions. By these he separates the sin
>
> which he hates from the son whom he loves. By these thorns he keeps him
>
> from breaking over into Satan's pleasant pastures, which would fatten
> him
> indeed, but only to the slaughter.
> *****
> Sulphur a preservative against measles.
> During the winter of 1817, the measles prevailed epidemically at
> Munster.
> Children affected with the itch, who were using sulphur exernally[sic]
> and internally were exempt. The year following, measles occured again,
> preceded for many days by a convulsive cough.- For this sympton[sic] I
> prescribed flowers of sulphur and white sugar half a tea spoonful. Many
>
> trials were made on children of different families and ages, and all who
>
> took of it in time escaped the disease.- M. Tourtual.
> *****
> The triumph of woman lies not in the admiration of her lover, but in the
>
> respect of her husband, and it can only be gained by a constant
> cultivation
> of those qualities which she knows he most values.
>
> [end of exerpts]
>
>
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