It is the legal organ of Hancock County.
Its archives are on file at the University of Georgia Libraries.
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You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.The Ishmaelite definitely was started before 1883(I don't know how long before) but I cite references going back to 1879.
See my book Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color in Rural Georgia 1789–1879.