[Excerpts from the Hillsborough Recorder, 9 Aug 1820] [transcribed by Mark Murphy, 21 May 2001] Vol. I Wednesday, October 18, 1820, No. 36 ****** List of Letters remaining at the Post Office in Hillsborough, NC Oct.2, 1820. ...A.D. Murphy, 2 ..... ***** NOTICE At August term of Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, administration of the goods and chartels, rights and credits, which were of THEOPHILUS THOMPSON, deceased, was granted to the subscriber, who then qualified according to law: All persons indebted to said estate are requested to come forward immediately and settle their accounts; and those having claims against said estate are requested to present them for settlement within the time prescribed by law, otherwise this advertisement will be pleaded in bar of a recovery. Thos. N.S. Hargis, Admr. Sept 27 ***** NOTICE All persons indebted to the estate of Captain John T. Ray, deceased, are requested to make payment without delay; and those having claims against the same may present them [as?] authenticated for settlement within the time prescribed by law, otherwise this notice will be plead in bar of recovery. John McCauly, Adm'r Sept. 16, 1820 ***** The subscribers have for sale at their shop in Hillsborough. A number of Waggons, both large and small, which they will dispose of cheap, for cash, or on a short credit. Young & Turner The editors of the Raleigh Minerva, Star and Register, and the Milton Intelligencer, will be pleased to insert the above for three[?] weeks, and forward their accounts to this office for settlement. Y&T Sept. 20 ***** FOR SALE A handsome mahogany Secretary. Apply at this office Hillsborough, Sept 6. ***** LOST OR MISLAID A note on hand for sixteen dollars and sixty-six cents, drawn by John Wilson in favour of Sameul Hancock, with John Berry as witness. The note was dated in March 1819, payable one day after date. All persons are forewarned trading for said note, as it has never been endorsed or transferred to any person. Samuel Hancock Sept. 12 ***** The Queen's Letter to the King: Sir- After the unparalleled and unprovoked persecution which, during a series of years, has been carried on against me, under the name and authority of your majesty; and which persecution, instead of being mollified by time, time has rendered only more and more malignant and unrelenting........in the hope that the justice which your majesty may, by evil minded councillors, be still disposed to refuse to the claims of a dutiful, faithful and injured wife.......... ....your majesty to reconcile with the marriage vow the act of driving, by such means, a wife from beneath your roof with an infant in her arms.......From the very threshold of your majesty's mansion the mother of your child was pursued by spies, conspirators, and traitors, employed, encouraged and rewarded to lay snares for the feet.......In withdrawing from the embraces of my parents, in giving my hand to the son of George the Third, and heir apparent to the British throne.......even this secret tribunal acquitted me of all crime....all the insults that were wantonly heaped upon me, from the day of your elevation to the regency to that of my departure for the continent, .....[continues very long text to next page] [end of excerpts]