Jefferson County Virginia USGenWeb Archives News.....LEE, M'CLANAHAN, ROCHESTER, WAGER; "bye law" October 28, 1813 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Cheryl Shaw CShaw24206@aol.com December 11, 2006, 6:07 am Farmer's Repository October 28, 1813 "Died, at his residence at Harper's Ferry, on Friday the 22d inst. John Wager, in the 42d year of his age." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "PUBLIC SALE" "Will be sold at public sale, on Thursday the 18th of November next, (if fair, if not the next fair day) at the farm where the subscriber now lives, at the Union School House, Jefferson county, a number of horses, cattle, sheep, and forty or fifty fattened hogs, household and kitchen furniture, farming utensils of almost every description. A credit of 12 months will be given on all sums over five dollars, on the purchasers giving bond with approved security. The sale will commence at 10 o'clock. Also will be sold at the same time and place, for cash, between two and three hundred barrels of corn. ANN ROCHESTER, TH's. M'CLANAHAN. Oct 28." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "A BYE LAW To prevent Swine from running at large in the town of Charlestown. Be it enacted and declared by the Trustees of Charlestown, that it shall not be lawful for Swine to run at large within the limits of said town from and after the tenth day of November next -- and the owner or owners of all swine found going at large as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay the sum of two dollars each, to be recovered with costs before any magistrate of Jefferson county, and applied by the Trustees to use of said town. Passed August 7, 1813. Teste, ROBERT C. LEE, Clerk of the Board of Trustees." Additional Comments: The "Farmer's Repository" was a weekly newspaper that was published in Charles Town, Jefferson Co, VA which is now known as Jefferson Co, WV. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/jefferson/newspapers/leemclan61gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb