Subject: Murder of Doctor Orr
Resent-Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 19:30:30 -0700 (PDT)
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Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 22:21:33 -0400
From: "Steven J. Coker" 
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South Carolina Weekly Advertiser, Vol. I, No. 2
Wednesday, February 26, 1783

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State of South Carolina.
By His Excellency BENJAMIN GUERRARD, Esquire, Governor and Commander in Chief in
and over the said State;

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas Doctor ORR, of Godfrey's Savannah, in the State aforesaid, was on the
eleventh inst. on the Saltketcher Road, near the Ferry, most inhumanly murdered.

   AND WHEREAS Circumstances concur to induce a strong belief, that the same was
perpetrated by one JAMES BOOTH and his small party of Ruffians, who for some
time past, have been lurking in that part of the Country, and who have committed
other murders.

   I have therefore thought proper, by and with the advice and consent of the
Privy Council, to issue this my Proclamation, offering a Reward of Four Hundred
and Fifty Mexican Dollars, to whoever will apprehend and bring to Justice, the
perpetrators of said murder, to be paid on conviction ; the same shall be
extended to an accomplice, besides a full and free Pardon.

   GIVEN under my Hand, and the Great Seal of the State, at Charlestown, this
Twenty Second Day of February, One thousand seven hundred and eighty three, and
in the Seventh Year of the Independence of the United States of America.
                                 BENJAMIN GUERARD.

   By his Excellency's Command,
JOHN VANDERHORST, Secretary.
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