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Hancock County, GA, Early Newspaper Abstracts "Farmer's Gazette"
1803-1804, 1806-1807
 
Abstracts from this weekly newspaper (one of the earliest in Georgia) based out of Sparta, include sales of property, notices regarding administration of estates, deaths and marriages, letters remaining in the post office, sheriff's sales, tax collector's sales, etc. Includes a full-name index, a subject/place index, and a slave (master) index.
6 x 9", 181 + x pages, hardbound - $24.00
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Hancock County, GA, Supplement to Early Newspaper Abstracts
"Farmer's Gazette" 1803-1806
 
After the first volume was written, shown above, 79 additional issues of the "Farmer's Gazette" were discovered at Harvard University. These issues were then abstracted and filled in many gaps for this time frame. No articles were repeated. Ond index which includes full personal names, subjects, places, and slave names.
6 x 9", 263 + xii pages, hardbound - $28.00.
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Hancock County, GA, Newspaper Abstracts, Hancock Advertiser,
1826-1830
 
Abstracts from this weekly newspaper, based in Mount Zion, included sales of property, notices regarding administration of estates, deaths and marriages, letters remaining in the post office, sheriff's sales, tax collector's sales, etc. Full personal name index, subject/place index, and a slave (master) index.
8-1/2 x 11", 300 + ix pages, hardbound - $28.00.