FOR SALE
To the highest bidder,
On
Monday the 2d of December next if fair, if not, the next fair day, at the
subscriber's plantation, near Bladensburgh, for ready money or negotiable notes
at 120, days credit, five negroes,
consisting of one man and two women, and all young and healthy, and two small
girls. The man understands all amnner of
farming and plantation business and is good coarse shoemaker, the women both
understand house work, plantation business and spinning, one of them can spin both
on the linen and woollen [sic] wheels.
At the
same time and place and on the same terms, by the subscriber, will be offered
for sale, 18 HEAD OF GOOD
SHEEP, A FEW YOUNG CATTLE. TWO COLTS, 15 months old, one desk and
book-case, two walnut tables, six walnut chairs, with leather bottoms, one
large writing desk, one loom, one pair of hand-mill stones, and a parcel of old
Iron, consisting of cart-tire, boxes, bandages, and also the I[r]on of an old
carriage, consisting of screws, bolts, &c.
And about two tons of well cured Hay, and some Corn.
JOHN
BEALL,
November 5, 1799.[1]
[1] The
Centinel of Liberty, and George-Town and Washington Advertiser; Date:
11-15-1799; Volume: IV; Issue: 51; Page: [4]; Location: Georgetown, District of
Columbia.
Transcribed by John Peter Thompson, April 23rd, 2013.
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