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Description: For Sale, To the Highest Bidder
Newspaper published in: Georgetown, Washington, DC
Page/Column: Page 4
For Sale, To the Highest Bidder
On Monday, the 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 manner of farming and plantation business and is a good coarse shoemaker, the women both understand house work, plantation business and spinning, one of them can spin both on the linen and woollen 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 bookcase, 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 iron 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