Post # 6 ~ Henry L. Jeffers Elected a Warden of Hamburg

Inauguration of Hamburg's First Elected Town Council

~ Church Bells Ringing! ~

On Saturday, February 20, 1836, the newly elected councilmen of the newly incorporated Hamburg, SC, were solemnly sworn in. Clipped from The Charleston Daily Courier, 1836-03-03, LOC.

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Hamburg Town Council. —

The Inauguration of the Intendant and Wardens of Hamburg—Messrs M. R. Smith, H. W. Sullivan, J. B. Covington, W. A. Young, B. F. Gouedy, H. E. Simmons, and H. L. Jeffers — recently elected under the Act of Incorporations of the last Legislature, took place on Saturday last. At eleven o'clock the bells of the Presbyterian and Baptist Churches assembled the citizens of the Town in the very handsome and appropriately furnished new Council room adjoining the Bank, to witness the ceremonies, which were highly impressive throughout. The Oath of Office was administered by two Magistrates, Mr. Gray and F. Lewis Esqrs.

The Act of Incorporation, beautifully engrossed in a large and splendid Book of Record, for the minutes of the Council, was read by Mr.  Wm. M. Frazer — a brief but striking address was made by Mr Shultz; and a highly interesting, impressive, and peculiarly appropriate address was delivered by the Rev. Mr. Davis of Augusta, (preparatory to his invocation of the Divine blessing on the occasion, and its objects) which evidently was listened to with the deepest interest, not only by those to whom was especially addressed, but by the spectators generally; and we trust that both will long remember and properly value for their common interest, and the moral and social happiness and prosperity of the town, its happy appeals to their best and noblest feelings, its impressive injunctions, and its excellent and appropriate admonitions. — Augusta Chron., 24th ult.