Some Old Newspapers, Chenango County, NY (1810) - Part 2

 Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, March 27, 1879

Some Old Newspapers - Part 2

Chenango Patriot, Oxford, NY, December 18, 1810

Contains the official account of the capture of Cimbria, Portugal, by the forces of Col. Trant, who defeated the French, taking 5,000 prisoners.

President Madison's annual message occupies nearly three columns of the little sheet.

Charles P. Denison succeeds Anson Cary and C.P. Denison in the dry goods, grocery, crockery and hardware trade "next door north of Perkins Hotel."  He offers for sale or to let, the Cold Spring Farm, in Pharsalia [Chenango Co. NY], and the "Bortle's Farm" lying on the Chenango River in the town of Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], three miles from the village."

A Committee consisting of Ishmael Nichols, Asa Norton, Abraham Burr, Levi Sherwood and John Noyes announce that Harmony Chapter of Masons will "celebrate the Anniversary of St. John the Evangelist on the 27th inst. in the village of Oxford.  The brethren will assemble at Brother Isaac Sherwood's precisely at ten o'clock A.M.  Procession will be formed at 12.  Move form thence to the Academy, where an oration will be delivered and a sermon expected by Brother Cowles.  Move from thence to the Hotel of Erastus Perkins, where they will dine, and from thence return to Brother Sherwood's, where the business of the day will be closed."

Platt Brush gives notice that he has resumed the practice of law in Oxford.

Juseph Russell of Albany, advertises his "Tavern," and "informs his friends and the public that he has again opened a Public House, in that large White House in Deer Street on the hill west of this city, and nearly opposite the old Powder House."  In an "N.B." the host states that he "has opened the lot opposite to his house into Lyon Street and put up guide boards, so that no traveler may be to a loss to find him if inclined to call."