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BOUND VOLUMES, January 24, 2013 200 YEARS AGO Boston – Yesterday, the specie, amounting to about 168,000 dollars, captured by Commodore Rodgers’ squadron on board the British Swallow Packet, bound from Jamaica to England, was landed at the Navy Yard in Charlestown under the direction and order of the Marshal of the district, who caused it to be placed in six wagons, which, with colors flying and drums beating, attended by the boat’s crews of the squadron, and protected by…

BOUND VOLUMES, May 16, 2013 200 YEARS AGO Havre de Grace – This morning, a little after the break of day, a British armed force, under cover of armed vessels which anchored in front of this town in eleven large barges, landed below a small breast work which had been roughly thrown up, and in which were one nine and two four pounders, manned by 50 militia. The vessels in front of the town threw 8 Congreve rockets, one of…

BOUND VOLUMES, April 17, 2014 200 YEARS AGO Advertisement – School Money – The proportion of School Money for the County of Otsego, has been received from the Superintendent of Common Schools. The several towns in the County can have the same for the year 1813, by applying for it. An order signed by all the Commissioners, will be necessary, which may be drawn payable to any one of them, or any other person. It will also be necessary that…

BOUND VOLUMES, May 29, 2014 200 YEARS AGO Anecdote – A Clergyman in Scotland desired his hearers never to call one another liars, but when anyone said the thing that was not, they ought to whistle. On Sunday he preached a sermon on the parable of the loaves and fishes, and being at a loss how to explain it, he said the loaves were not like those now-a-days, they were as big as some of the hills of Scotland! He…