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Newspaper Tidbit: Rose Hill

Alexandria Gazette
6 July 1842

COMMISSIONER'S SALE OF LAND

Under the authority of a decree of the Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery of Prince Wm. county, Va., pronounced in the suit of John Lloyd vs. Margaret S. Chapman, John G. Chapman and Wm. Herbert, I will offer for sale, by public auction, for ready money, on Saturday the 13th day of August next, (being the second Saturday in that month) before the front door of Mrs. Merchant's Tavern, in the town of Dumfries, at 12 o'clock, M. the following pieces, or parcels of land, that is to say: --

150 acres of land (more or less) called "Rose Hill," 38 1/4 acres of marsh; 30 acres which were conveyed to Thomas Chapman, deceased, by Bertrand Ewell and Jesse Ewell; one undivided fourth part of 300 acres on Powell's Run; also one undivided fourth part of 225 acres, commonly called "Young's Tract," and one undivided fourth part of 78 acres, purchased by Chapman from Foxworthy.

The above described land is in the immediate neighborhood of Dumfries in the County of Prince William, in Va.

The undersigned, selling as commissioner will convey such title only as vested in him by the decree of the Court.

BERNARD HOOE
Commissioner


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