BIBB COUNTY, GA - NEWSPAPERS  Macon Telgraph 1826-1827

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Wednesday, Nov. 1, 1826 .

A reward of 250 dollars if offered by the Governor
for the Apprehension of Robert Thompson, for the
Murder of Robert T. Gunn of MORGAN County--said
Thompson is stout made, Corpulent, has light hair,
blue eyes, about 5 feet 10 or 11 inches high, and 30
years old.

Died on the 3rd in Clarke, County- ALFRED WASHINGTON
WRIGHT

Died in Monroe, Walton County on the 7th, Mr.
ALEXANDER DYER, a native of Pedleton District SC.

Died in Milledgeville 3d Mrs. PRISCILLA GRAY.

Tuesday, November 7, 1826 We learn that a fire took
place in Savannah, on Sunday Morning the 29th, which
destroyed 3 dwellings and several outhouses,
situated upon the South Common- One owned by Mr. I.
K. TEFFT and the other 2 by Mr. F. M. STONE.

Married in this County on Thursday evening, the 2d
instant by the Reverend Mr. Stiles, MORTIMER R.
WALLIS, Esq. to Miss Sarah ANN NORMAN

-----In this town on Thursday Evening, the 2d
instant MR. JEREMIAH SMITH, Merchant to Miss MILDRED
BAILEY, both of this place.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1826

Married in Augusta on the 24th ultimo, by the
Reverend Mr. Moderwell, Mr. GEORGE HILL, Merchant of
that city to Miss ANN B. SIMS of Columbia County.

--In Hancock County on the 2d instant by the
Reverend D. Duffey, MAJOR WILLIAM P. FORD, merchant
of Augusta to Miss JULIAN HARRIS, daughter of Samuel
Harris, Esq.

--In Burke County on the 26th Ult by the Reverend
Baldwin Raiford, Mr. ROBERT GREEN of Emmanuel
County, to Miss Calcey CROSS.

Died in this Place, last evening JOHN HUMPHRIES Esq.
a native of Maryland, but for many years an
inhabitant of this State.

--Died at Hillsborough, Jasper County on the 24th
ult. Mr. IRA GOODARD, age 27, formerly from Vermont.

-- Died at Hillsborough, Jasper County, HENRY
STRATTON, age 21, after an illness of 19 days.

Notice- I FORWARN all persons from Crediting my WIFE
HARRIETT GATES on my account, as I am determined to
pay none of her Contracts of this day Thomas J.
GATES .    November 15.

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 21, 1826

On Saturday Night Last, the saw and Grist Mills of
Mr. James Flewellen, on Tobesaurky, a small water
course, about eight miles Hence were reduced to
ashes. The fire we were told originated in the
inadvertence of the slave that attended the Mills,
and who was hired by his Master to work in the
night. The loss is estimated at two thousand five
hundred dollars, exclusive of Mr. FLEWELLEN'S books
containing his Mill Books.

Died, in Augusta, Ga. on the 11th ult. Mr. DAVID P.
ROSS, aged, thirty seven years and six months.

November 28,1826 Died in this County on the 11th
instant, Mr. Zachariah WILLIAMS, aged 74

Married by John Cartlege, esq. Mr. John BALDWIN of
Monroe to Miss MILDRED S. WINFREY of Columbia
County.

December 5th,1826 --Died on the 9th instant Mrs.
Mary E. CRAFT, Wife of Mr. H. Craft, age 27 and 9
months after a most distressed illness of 9 weeks.

Marriages, In Auguata, Benjamin F. Verdery, to Miss
Mary Ann Jackson David W. Calhoun to Miss Adeline A.
Dickerson John T. Lamar of Macon, to Miss Louisa
Virginia, daughter of Dr. Thomas I. Wray.

December 12, 1826 Marriages --In Athens, James A.
Merriwether of Eatonton to Miss Rebecca C. McKigney
of the former place. --In Putnam County, on the 19th
ult. Mr. Daniel Shores to Miss Eliza Kilgore.

Deaths In Savannah, William F. Leach, printer, a
native of New York. 

--In Twiggs County, on the 8th Ult. Mrs. Harriet
Ridley, wife of Dr. A. B. Ridley 

--On the 16th Instant, near Lawrenceville, Gwinett
Co. Mrs. Harriet Brewster, wife of William Brewster
Jr., in the 27th year of her age. 

--In Jasper County, at the House of  Capt. Herbert
Avery on the 30th Sept. Jesse Avery age17 years. 

At the same house on the 5th of October, William
Avery age 33. At the same house on the 7th of
October, Elizabeth Walker age 7 years old. 

--On the 16th October, Lexington, Oglethorpe County,
Martha Susan, Eldest daughter of John and Elizabeth
Beasley in her 14th year of age. 

--In Wilkes County, on the 22d Sept. last, Mary
Greene, daughter of D.G. Campbell, aged 5 years and
7 months, also Mary Ann McKenzie, his Neice in the
11th year of her age. 

--In Oglethorpe County, on the 16th Ult. Mrs. Sarah
Stevens, Daughter of General John Stewart, and
Consort of Mr. John M. Stevens. 

--In Jones County, on the 6th of October, Laura
Dodd, Daughter of John L. Blackburn.


--In Burke County, Ga. on the 15th ult. Mr. John
Hayles, formerly of the well known firm of John
Hayles & Co. of Augusta, in the thirty-eighth year
of his age. 

--In Warren County, on the 12th ult. John Shivers in
the 77th year of his age. He was a Native of
Virginia.


December 19, 1826 Georgia Legislature, Senate bills
passed To authorize Springer Gibson of Upson Co. to
build a mill dam across Flint River, one end of
Fraction No. 25, 16th dist. Houston, and the other
to the West bank of Flint River, on the newly
acquired territory. 

Dec. 26, 1826 The Reverend Edmund Talbot is expected
to preach at the Courthouse on Sunday next.

Tax Collectors Sale Will be sold the first Tuesday
in March next, one lot in Marion, where on Robert L.
Perryman formerly lived, levied on the said property
of said Perryman to satisfy his tax for 1825. Amount
of Tax, $12 30 3-4 cents Theo. Pierce, T.C. Twiggs
County