The following entries are taken from an article by A. C. Quisenberry, “A Brief Historical Sketch of the Newspapers of Winchester.”
Frederick ?erckley informs the citizens of Clark county that he has removed his Hat Manufactory from Mt. Sterling to Winchester.
William R. Massie “informs his friends and the public generally that he still continues to carry on his hat manufactory in Winchester, at his former stand, three doors below the Hotel, where he has on hand a real good assortment of hats which he is determined to sell at a reduced price.”
James Lampton, “having disposed of all his stock of groceries, requests all those indebted to him to come forward and settle their accounts immediately, without any compulsory process whatever.”
Jeremiah Bush advertises that he has taken up a stray horse, “which was probably left by some of General MacArthur’s mounted men.”
W. Y. Alexander & Co. “inform their friends and the public generally that they have removed from their former stand to the house formerly occupied by Samuel Poston, on Main Street, where they intend to keep a general assortment of Merchandise.”
Cast and Hally advertise a large assortment of dry-goods and groceries at Amon Cast’s old stand.
Lindsay and Bush advertise a neat and elegant assortment of new goods at Boonesborough, “which they are determined to sell at the most reduced price for cash or tobacco. Produce will be taken in exchange, viz: Tow, six and seven hundred Linen, and Tallow.”
George G. Taylor “having dissolved his late partnership, is bound to close all his accounts as quick as possible—therefore, sincerely hopes that he will not be compelled to take measures that will be very disagreeable to enforce payment. All reasonable men will be readily convinced that once a year, at least, their accounts ought to be closed.” He has formed a partnership with William N. Lane at the old stand and that “Whiskey, Feathers and Tow Linen will be received in payment for goods at cash prices.”
C. K. Duncan & Co. advertise an additional assortment of goods, just received from New York and Philadelphia and add, “We wish to purchase 20 tons of Hemp, delivered at the Rope Walk, in Winchester.”
Joshua Lampton “informs his friends and the public that he intends keeping a Livery Stable in Winchester. He intends keeping it full of all kinds of Grain and Provender, together with an attentive Oatler, and will keep by the week or day on the most reasonable terms. He pledges himself that all horses intrusted to his care shall be well rubbed, curried, and dressed in the best manner, and taken to the owners at all times when called for, to any place in Town. Travellers would find it to their advantage to call on the subscriber, as he intends keeping private entertainment on Main Street, next door to Dr. Mills’s.”
The Winchester Hotel is advertised by Hay Taliaferro, who states that “he has commenced keeping a Tavern in the house formerly owned by Edmund Callaway.”
Walter Karrick makes known that he “has a Negro Woman that he wishes to exchange for Whiskey, Cyder and Flour.”
A. Lewis “gives notice that his school in Winchester Academy is now open for the reception of Scholars. He teaches the Languages, English Grammar, Geography, Belleslettres, the several branches of Mathematics, &c. Terms, per session: Spelling and Reading, $5.00; Reading, Writing and Arithmetic, $8.00, Fuel, &c, an extra charge.”
“A teacher who can come well recommended as being a steady, sober, capable man, will meet with great encouragement in the neighborhood of Wiley R. Brassfield. Should any such offer, having a family, said Brassfield will let him have a good frame house, well finished off, to live in, with yard, garden, &c, convenient to the school house.”
George W. Botts, of Flemingsburg, Collector of the Revenue for the First Collection District of Kentucky, gives notice that he “will attend at Colonel Martin’s, in Winchester, on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, the 23d, 24th and 25th instant, for the purpose of receiving the entry of carriages, with the harness used therefore, agreeable to an act of Congress passed the 15th day of December, 1814. . . . Retailers, Distillers, and others wishing to do business with me will attend the above appointment.”
Doctors Barbee, Mills & Taliaferro advertise that they “have entered into copartnership in the practice of Medicine and Surgery. They have on hand a complete assortment of Drugs and Medicines, which they offer for sale on good terms in the apothecary way.”
James Keas calls upon the public to take notice “that Nathan Martin plead the gambling act before John Ward, Esq., of Winchester, for a sum under $25, which I lent him at the gambling table.”
February 14, 1815
“The late Dr. John P. Campbell having spent much time and taken much pains in collecting facts for a work entitled Western Antiquities, and having at his decease committed his papers to the hands of his widow, it has been thought proper to proceed in the publication of the work for her benefit. In justice to subscribers we would observe that the papers are now in the possession of a gentleman who intends, as soon as possible, to publish the work according to the original plan and design. Subscriptions for this work will be thankfully received at this office, where a prospectus is left for that purpose. The editors of The Monitor, Lexington, and the Editor of The Weekly Recorder, Chilicothe (Ohio) are respectfully requested to give this a place in their respective papers.” This was undoubtedly the first book ever written by a citizen Clark County.
Kentucky Advertiser
Winchester, by Nathaniel Patten, Jr.
August 10, 1816
“Attention! The subscribers to Major John Chavis’s Military School in Winchester are hereby notified that the training will commence on Thursday, the 15th instant. They are requested to convene at Mr. Hay Taliaferro’s Hotel, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon.”
“Just published by Patten & Finnell, and for sale at this office, The Principles of Politeness, and of Knowing the World; by the late Lord Chesterfield, containing 124 pages, neatly bound and lettered. Price, 50 cents. A few copies may also be had at the stores of Peter Flanagan and James Anderson & Co., of this place, and of P. & R. Durrett, of Mountsterling. The above work is particularly designed for young gentlemen, yet may be read with interest by all. Subscribers are requested to call for their copies.” Almost certainly the first book printed in Winchester.
The following businesses were advertised:
Clark & Garner, dry-goods, groceries, hardware, queensware, &c.
Bristow & Barbee, wool-carding “in the house formerly occupied as a Cotton Factory by Coons, Crosthwait & Lamb.”
Amon Cast, dry-goods, groceries, queens-, china-, and hardware.
John Campbell & Co., merchandise and family medicines, “which they will sell for cash, feathers, or good country linen of any description.”
Samuel Poston, merchandise “at his stand in the frame house at the north end of Colonel John Martin’s Tavern.”
James Anderson & Co., Spring Articles; “the ensuing crop of tobacco will be taken in payment; we also wish to purchase the ensuing crops of Hemp, Wheat, Bacon and Lard—the wheat to be delivered at Wilkinson & Rogers’s mill.”
A. Barnes, chair-making and house-painting.
J.K. Hutchings & Co. “will give 50 cents per bushel for clean flax seed, delivered at their mill near the public spring.”
Willis Collins & Co., fancy goods, hardware and groceries.
William Poston, dry-goods, groceries, china and glassware, hardware, stoneware, fish, &c., and religious, medical, historical, poetical, law, classical and school books, novels, and paints and medicines, “which will be sold cheap for cash, feathers, good linen, or saltpetre.”
Thomas I. and Peter R. Garrett announce a dissolution of partnership.
Dr. S. D. Martin, medicines and paints “at his shop on Main Street, between the store of George G. Taylor & Co. and Dr. Mills’s shop.”
Doctors Barbee, Mills & Taliaferro “wish to purchase a quantity of Palma Christi seed—and to encourage its cultivation thro’ the coming summer; they will give $2 per bushel for good clean seed.”
Joseph Barnett, Paymaster 5th Regiment of Mounted Volunteer Militia, announces that he “shall attend in the town of Winchester, Clarke county, on Tuesday, the 20th August, in order to pay the troops who served under Captain Thomas Wornall in the 5th Regiment of Mounted Volunteer Militia, commanded by Gen. Samuel South, on Hopkins’s. campaign.”
August 31, 1816
“The subscribers for stock in the Winchester Branch Bank are notified that the notes given for the last instalment on their stock will be due on the first of September.” This was doubtless Winchester’s first bank.
Captain Samuel R. Combs, “late of Johnson’s Regiment,” advertises: “Those of my company who lost their horses during the war are advised to come forward immediately and obtain certificates.”
Robert Clark and Jesse W. Garner advertise a dissolution of partnership.
September 14, 1816
Robert Clark, Ensign, says: “If those men of Captain Sympson’s Company who lost horses on the campaign into Upper Canada under General MacArthur, in the fall of 1814, will apply to me, I will make out certificates for them, and assist them in making some arrangement to procure pay for their horses.”
Hightower Hackney requests his creditors to present their bills to him for payment.
Fritzlen & Decret advertise for “two apprentices to the hatting business.”
Achilles Eubank & Son “have removed their store to the building occupied by Peter Flanagan.”
Hubbard Taylor, jr., announces himself as an attorney-at-law, and states that he “resides on the hill, in the West part of the town.”
Alfred Bowren requests his creditors to settle up.
William Hickman, Cabinet-Maker, announces that he has “removed to his new Brick Shop, near the livery stable lately owned by H. C. Clay, and wishes to rent the house he recently occupied as a cabinet shop.”
September 21, 1816
“The members of the Winchester Bible Society are requested to meet at the Seminary this evening (21st instant) at 8 o’clock. By order of the Board.” No doubt Winchester’s first bible society.
September 28, 1816
Stephen Miller announces that he has started the Fulling Business with entirely new works, at the mill formerly occupied by William Taylor, on Lower Howard’s Creek.
October 3, 1816
James Daniel advertises, “The person that has known the subscriber to pass a One Hundred Dollar Tennessee Note since the first of March last, will prevent hard thoughts between friends by letting the subscriber know it.”
October 26, 1816
“Mr. Green, from Lexington, wishes to inform the Ladies and Gentlemen of Winchester that he wishes to undertake a School for teaching the Pianoforte, should a sufficient number of subscribers be obtained.”
John Bruner, “the oldest tanner in Clark county,” the tanners of the tanners of the county having for several years been in a state of confusion respecting the prices of raw-hides, endeavors to effect an understanding among them by fixing a scale of prices: “Steer and cow hides above 65 lbs. weight, 7 cents per pound; hides under 65 and above 25 lbs., 6¼ cents; kips* under 25 and above 15 lbs., 8 cents; veal skins under 15 lbs., 12½ cents; bull hides weighing more or less, 6¼ cents.”
William Virden requests his debtors to settle.
November 23, 1816
Thomas Pickett advertises dry-goods, groceries, chinaware, glassware, queensware and hardware.
Benjamin H. Buckner & Co. announce the opening of a line of goods similar to Pickett’s.
John Miles advertises “an elegant assortment of saddlery, plated bits, burdoons, stirrup irons of the newest fashion, &c.” These last three all new stores just opened.
December 7, 1816
J. R. and Jesse Hampton give notice that they have purchased the tobacco warehouse lately owned by Thomas W. Shepard, and that it is about three miles nearer to Winchester and the neighborhood of Four Mile than any tobacco warehouse on the Kentucky river
Thomas G. Jones advertises patent elastic saddles and plated ware.
David Chevis says: “The subscriber makes (at his shop in Winchester) wheels for spinning cotton, wool, &c., of a quality rather superior to any he has seen in the State of Kentucky.”
T. R. & C. C. Moore advertise “an elegant assortment of merchandise, for cash, tobacco, linen or linsey.”
E. G. Browning and Willis R. Smith & Co. advertise similar lines of goods
John Gordon & Co. state that “they will have at their Rope walk in Winchester a constant supply of tarred Orleans boat cables and sternfast, as well as all other untarred rope, twins, &c.”
December 21, 1816
Thomas Pickett, Clerk of the School Board, publishes the following: “The inhabitants of Winchester and its vicinity are hereby notified that the Trustees have employed Mr. Zebina Smith to preside in the Academy, and the first session of the School will commence on the first day of January next, in which will be taught the various branches of education.”
December 28, 1816
Valentine Lingenfelter and John Bruner announce a dissolution of partnership.
January 4, 1817
James Ritchie announces that he has “removed his store to the room lately occupied by Wm. R. Massie, just below the Hotel, and a few doors above the Bank, where he has on hand a fresh assortment of dry-goods, groceries, hardware, queensware, books, stationary, medicines, &c., which he proposes to sell low for cash, country linen, linsey, feathers, hog’s lard, whiskey, and country sugar.”
Joseph Kincaid, Paymaster 17th Regiment Ky. Dr. Mil., states that he “will be in Winchester on Monday, the 15th instant, to pay the militia from Clark county who served on the late expedition under the command of Lieut.-Col. John Francisco, of the 17th Regiment Kentucky Militia.”
“The School for young Ladies in this place will commence on Monday the 6th of January, at the rooms hitherto occupied by them in the Seminary. Terms: Small scholars learning to read, $6.00; reading, writing and sewing, $8.00; grammar, $5.00; geography, $6.00; rhetoric, $5.00; history, $5.00; painting, $17.00; painting, with other branches, $7.50; needlework, $17.00; needlework, with other branches, $8.00. Any branch once commenced, the scholar pays for the session, except prevents pursuing it.”
June 13, 1818
Robert Taliaferro, Master, announces a meeting of Winchester Lodge No. 20, on Wednesday, the 24th, to celebrate St. John’s Day. “All passing brethren are respectfully invited to participate in the pleasures of the day. At the hour of 12 o’clock brother Richard French will deliver a Masonic Oration at the Presbyterian Church in Winchester, where the citizens of the Town and its vicinity are invited to attend.”
Julius Watts and William White announce that “The undersigned respectfully invite the citizens of Winchester and its vicinity to honor them with their company on the 4th of July next, to participate in the pleasures of a barbecue to be prepared by them on reasonable terms, and to be held on Mount Airy, under that beautiful Grove of Sugar trees, northwest of Winchester, now the property of Silas W. Robbins, Esq. They hope to supply the company with every suitable accommodation, and trust that the feelings of Revolutionary Patriotism will warmly abound and be sweetly realized in the bosoms of all present. They design to provide an Orator of the day, who will portray in lively images the scenes of revolutionary struggles. The following gentlemen will be managers of the day: James Lampton, James Thomas, Stephen Eubank, Charles C. Moore, James K. Taylor, Richard French.”
R. A. Price announces that “the anniversary of American independence will be celebrated at Mt. Airy, near Captain Halyard’s, in Clark county, about five miles from Winchester, on the road from thence to Boonesborough, where a dinner will be prepared by the subscriber. As the 4th of July occurs on Saturday, and that being a day generally devoted to religious worship, and at the same time a celebration having been announced to take place at Winchester on that day, I have therefore concluded to prepare on Friday, the 3d of July, where those who may think proper to attend may be assured that neither exertions nor money will be spared to render the situation of all comfortable and agreeable. The following gentlemen will act as managers: John Halyard, James Ragland, Stephen I. Winn, William Hill, Charles C. Moore, J. Gatewood.”
Hay Taliaferro announces that “Mr. Thomas Dillard will commence teaching school at the house of the subscriber on the 13th day of July next. His prices for tuition will be the same that Mr. Tutt had.”
Thomas Pickett announces that “the Rev. Samuel Crothers will commence teaching in the Winchester Academy on the 16th instant. Students may now have an opportunity of acquiring an Academic Education.”
Wise & Payne announce a new grocery.
R. W. Gilpin advertise watches, chains, seals, keys, and silver and gold ware.
M. D. Couchman informs the public that he has taken the large and convenient stables attached to the late Winchester Hotel, which he will conduct as a livery stable.
Curtis & Thompson advertise “silver watches, capped and uncapped, eight-day clocks, and jewelry.”
George T. Fry, jr., & Co. announce that they “have removed their stock of good to the room lately occupied by A. Cast, nearly opposite the corner-house of R. Brooking & Co. and next door above the office of the Kentucky Advertiser.”
James Cacey advertises a Wool Carding and Fulling Factory “on Water street, near John Bruner’s and John Preston’s.”
Jesse Taylor informs the public that he “has purchased of Harrison & Armstrong their large brick Factory, on Main-Cross street, nearly opposite J. Ritchie’s dwelling-house, a small distance above the bank, on the opposite side, together with all the carding machines belonging thereto, to which he intends adding those that he run last year, near Barr’s tan-yard, in addition to which he has a set of cards of a superior quality to any that have ever been run in this place, &c.
J. Watts announces that he has leased for a term of years the Tavern Stand formerly occupied by Col. John Martin, and intends keeping a house of entertainment, &c.
Micah Taul publishes a card as attorney-at-law, stating that he has settled permanently in Winchester, and that “his office is kept in his house on Main street, between Messrs. Thomas P. & P. Dudley’s store and the residence of Dr. Taliaferro.
August 1, 1818
David Trimble makes the following announcement: “Soldiers of the Revolution, take notice that I will attend at the times and places hereunder mentioned, and will assist all those who are entitled to the pensions allowed by the late act of Congress to prepare and make out the proof of their Revolutionary services, so that no difficulty shall occur in having their names placed on the pension list. The times and places of my attendance will be at . . . Clark county, 4th Monday in June and September . . . and will continue at each place so long as court sits. . . . Those who have discharges for Revolutionary services must bring them; and also have with them the best proof they can of their services, where they have no discharge.”
Robert Clark, Benjamin H. Buckner, Thomas G. Jones, Silas W. Robbins and Elijah G. Browning, Commissioners, announce that “the whole of the stock in the Commercial Bank of Winchester having been sold, the shareholders are hereby notified that a meeting will be held at the house of John Ward, in the town of Winchester, at 2 o’clock p.m., on the first day of September next, for the purpose of electing a President and Eight Directors.”
George Fry, jr., Clerk of the Board of Trustees of the Town of Winchester, publishes an Ordinance of the Board, fixing the number of fire-buckets to be furnished by each householder, the number being regulated by the number of fire places in each house.
Joshua Hicks announces that he “has opened a House of Entertainment on Fairfax street, a few doors below John Miles’s saddling shop.”
“For sale, at The Kentucky Advertiser office, Webster’s Spelling Books, Kentucky edition.”
W. G. Mobley advertises for two or three apprentices to learn the carpenter’s and house-joiner’s business.
R. Dodge informs the public that he “has opened a Tin and Sheetiron Ware Manufactory at the Southwest corner of the Public Square.”
James Daniel advertises for sale mill-stones of a superior quality made at the Red River quarry by himself and Spencer Adams.
