Wilkinson County Ga News1820s-1830s

Wilkinson County, Ga.
News Articles 1820s - 1830s 1820
6 June 1820
Georgia Journal
Wilkinson, Co. Sheriff Sale
202½ acres of pine land..23rd Dist #160...taken as the property of Nathan Land..in favor I.& J Guiton.

1 Aug. 1820
Georgia Journal
Wilkinson.County Sheriff's Sale
3-half squares of land 23rd Dist...property of John Isler..in favor of William Horn...

1821
February 5, 1821
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel
NOTICE
Agreeable to an order of the honorable Court of Ordinary of Columbia County, Will be Sold on the first Tues. in March next, at Columbia Courthouse 202 1-2 acres of land in Wilkinson County; district 27th, Lot No. 178, sold as the property of Dexter Gibson, dec. -Terms of sale nine months credit.
Sarah Gibson, ex'rx
Shad'h W Gibson adr.

1822
September 9, 1822
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel
TAX COLLECTOR'S SALE
Will be sold, on the first Tuesday in September, next, at Columbia County Court house, between the usual hours of sale, the following property, or as much as will make the taxes thereon year 1821, to wit.
202 1-2 acres of Land, Wilkinson county, sold as the property of Henley Boswell to satisfy his tax due $3.50
202 1-2 acres of Land, Wilkinson county, 4th district, No. 25, Big Sandy, granted to J. Wilkinson, sold as the property of Charles N. Linn (?) to satisfy his tax , due 68 1-2 cents
202 1-2 acres of Land, Wilkinson county, district 20, lot 220, sold as the property of Benjamin Fuller to satisfy his tax, due $2 45 3-4 cents
101 1-4 acres of Land, Wilkinson county, Shellstone creek, sold as the property of William L. Culbreath to satisfy his tax, due 54 cents.

1823
February 6, 1823
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel
Lands and Negroes for Sale
Three tracts of land in Wilkinson County, each containing 202½ acres, viz: Nos. 90, 150 and 160-the former lying near Commissioner's Creek. Also, 202½ acres in the 6th district, Henry County- This tract is well watered by Camp Branch and other streams, and is timbered with oak, hickory, chestnuts, etc. The above lands will be sold low, for cash, or on time, for good security, and indisputable titles given. For terms apply to
J. M. Hand, Augusta
ALSO,
A likely Negro Woman, with her two children, 8 and 5 years old. The woman has a good character and is an excellent house servant, washer and ironer.
Apply as above.
January 25

December 13, 1823
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel
Administrator's Sale
Agreeable to an order of the honorable the Inferior Court of Burke county, while sitting for Ordinary purposes, will be sold, on the first Tuesday in February next, at the Court house, in Waynesborough, two hundred two and a half acres of land, in the county of Wilkinson, known by the number one hundred and fifty eight, in the 3rd district; also, 101 1-4 acres land, in the county of Putnam, it being one half of a tract, known by the number (442) for hundred and forty two, in the second district, formerly Baldwin, now Putnam. The above lands, being part of the real estate ofEmery Lasseter, late of Burke county, deceased, and sold for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said deceased, also for distribution.
Mary Lasseter, Ad'mx
Nov. 29

1825
May 20, 1825
Ohio Repository
At Irwinton, Geo. a few days ago a cask of gunpowder exploded by a spark from a segar and injured 21 persons, some of them dangerously.

1828
March 29, 1828

City Gazette and Commercial Daily Advertiser
The house in Irwington, occupied by Seaborn Delk, Clerk of the Inferior Court and by Col. John S. Barry and Robert Hatcher, Esq. attorneys at law, was consumed by fire on the 15th instant (February 15, 1828). Great exertions were used but nearly all the records and papers belonging to the first named office were destroyed together with many of the letters and much of the stationery belonging to the Post Office, which was kept in the same building by Col. Barry, PM (Postmaster). The loss is considerable. Milledgeville Pat. March 24, 1828
Submitted by R. Elizabeth Brewer

July 10 1828
Baltimore Patriot
A family. - in the pine woods of Wilkinson county, a couple (both natives of Burke county,) were, in 1801, married-the gentleman, a bachelor, forty years of age. Since that, time they have lived together in a state of uninterrupted happiness, which has been crowned by the birth of twenty one children, ten sons and eleven daughters; all alive and healthy at the present time. Some places boast of their increase of hogs, others of their horses, and others again of their cattle; but we challenge the world to beat Wilkinson in what is infinitely more valuable-the increase of fine healthy children. We would recommend a Summer's residence in Wilkinson, to the married portion of our wealthy friends of the seaboard.- Georgia Patriot

December 22, 1828
Macon Telegraph
Died. In Wilkinson county, on the 18th inst. of Dropsy, William Bivins, in the 83rd year of his age. He served in the Revolutionary war, and discharged his duty with honor to himself and country.

1830
May 29, 1830
Macon Telegraph
Administrator's Sales
Agreeable, to an order of the Inferior Court of Wilkinson county, whilst sitting for ordinary business, will be sold the following lands to wit:
On the first Tuesday in August next, will be sold in the town of Hamilton, Harris county, one of Land in the 19th district formerly Muscogee but now Harris county, known in the plan of said district by No. 187.
Also, on the first Tuesday in September next, will be sold in the town of Marion, Twiggs county, one lot of Land in the 23d district formerly Wilkinson now Twiggs county, known by No. 69.
Also on the first Tuesday in September next will be sold in the town of Irwinton, Wilkinson county, 50 acres of Land, more or less, adjoining Padgett and others, in the 23d district Wilkinson, known by No. 100. The above lands will be sold as the property of Centuary Roe, late of Wilkinson county, deceased-sold for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said deceased.
John Upton, Administrator
May 10, 1830

1831
February 10, 1831

City Gazette & Commercial Daily Advertiser
DIED In Wilkinson county, Ga. on the 27th Dec. last, Mrs. Charity Rece, age 35.

June 10, 1831
Salem Gazette
Hezekiah Williams, a Penitentiary convict employed in quarrying stone at Milledgeville for the cells, attempted to escape last week and refusing to stop, the guard fired at and killed him. He was sent from Wilkinson County for manslaughter. - Savannah Georgian.

November 26, 1831
Macon Telegraph
extract
Tax Collector's Sales. Houston County. 202½ acres of Land, No. 177, in the twenty-third district of Wilkinson county-levied on as the property of Jesse Bradley to satisfy his tax for the year 1830-tax due 60¾ cents.

1832
August 1, 1832
Macon Telegraph
MARRIED
On the 12 July, in Twiggs county, Mr. William J. F. Mitchell, of Wilkinson county, to Miss Alice A., daughter of the Rev. James Lowry, of Twiggs county.

1834
May 15, 1834
Georgia Telegraph
Two men by the name of Owens and Glover, are in the jail of this county, charged with the murder of Mr. Manson of Wilkinson County - who died a week or two ago of blows received by them.

1835
April 9, 1835
Georgia Telegraph
FOR SALE OR RENT
The property belonging to the late firm of Wightman & Neale, situated in the town of Irwinton, Wilkinson county, consisting of a tavern, with the furniture, out houses, &c, &c. Also other dwelling houses, stores, and store houses, with a good assortment of Goods. Also one horse, two pleasure carriages with harness &c, if application is made soon. Inquire of
R. Dickinson, Agent, Irwinton, April 2, 1835

1836
January 28, 1836
Macon Georgia Telegraph
CAUTION- All persons are cautioned against trespassing on Lot of Land 204, 23d district, Wilkinson county, as the law will be rigidly enforced against all violators. Jan 20.
JONA. STANFORD

1837
December 26, 1837
Milledgeville Journal
EXECUTOR'S SALE - Agreeable to an order of the court of Wilkinson county, will be sold on the first Tuesday of April next, before the Court-House door in the town of Irwington, ONE NEGRO GIRL, about two years old, named Rachel, belonging to the estate of William Chambers, deceased. Sold for the benefit of the heirs and CREDITORS of said estate.
Samuel Bell, Jesse Peacock Executors

1839
May 28, 1839
Macon Georgia Telegraph
Strayed from my camp, in Perry, Houston county, on the 6th instant, a dark bay or mouse-colored Horse, 6 or 7 years old, blaze face, common size, badly galded on his shoulders, with a lump on his back, occasioned by the saddle. Any person giving information so that I can get said Horse, shall be liberally rewarded. Direct, Irwinton, Wilkinson county, Ga. Buckner Pittman. May 21