Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-10-15
r Oecoquan Mails.


-E-HE proprietors offer for Sale this ua-
4 ha5le Estate, consisting OF LANDS,
MILLS, MILL-SEATS, DWELLING
HOUSES, STORES & other valuable Pro-
tcrty-- all upon navigation and convenient 10
market.
To those who arc unacquainted with the
premises it may be stated that they are ST.
tuated at the Falls of Occoquan River, In
Virginia, which empties into the Potomac
II miles below Alexandria and about or 10
below Mount Vernon, the seat OF the late
General Washington.
At no one spot, probably, can there be
united more advantages for flour mills, or a.
ny kind of mandatory or mechanical ope'
rations requiring the agency of water; the
stream is large, generally affordlng enough
for twenty water wheels at time, contigu-
Gus to several of the finest wheat counties in
Virginia, and being upon navigation has, be-
sides, the whole range of the river Potomac
on both sides to its mouth a distanc OF at
least 100 miles. The great mail stage road
from north to south passes thro' it, post Of
fee at the spot and daily mail throughout
the year affords early and constant lnforma-
ton of the state of markets and whatever
else may be interesting. The buildings here.
in after described, with several others built
and owned by Id fsrsnt people, gives to the
place the appearance of an handsome little
village, remarked by strangers tor the ro-
mantle scenery around it, and by its inhabi-
t1nts Tor the uneqaaled salubrity OF its air.
First in importance OF t buildings Is
very complete Merchant Mill with all the
most approved modern machinery for the
mandatory Of -four, Of which article it has
and can make twenty thousand barrels year
with ease. Next is Country Toll Mil,
which has given annually three to four hum
dred barrels of Indian Corn and other grain
from its toll alone; there is also Mill Tor
pounding and grinding Plaster Paris, an ar
ticle in much request throughout the neigh
boring countrics.; awelI constructed Saw Mill
! in good repair; and Toll Bridge that pro-
duces twelve hundred and fifty to fifteen
hundred dollars year; besides which there
are several we'll fitted Store-houses, six or
eight Dwellings suitable for tradesmen ex-
elusive of their Work, shops, and Stahlagc
for 1T least City head Of horses and cattle
The whole is overlooked by large commo-
dious Stone Mansion house, with every Office
suitable tor the residence of genteel faml-
" and at the door is never-iailing Spring
of fine Water.
Unimproved, are several valuable Mill
Seals, two of which Immediately adIein the
present and are suppliable with water from
the same race and dam beside these las
there is nearly thirty feet more head AID fall
of water than has everyet been found neces.
sary to use in the present works. other mills
may be erected so much above, as not TO ln-
terferc with those already mentioned. In
deed Sc feet fall, which there is here would
admit of all the water being worked twice 0.
vet if desired.
There is, belonging to the estate, near one
thousand acres of LAND, some adjoining
and none of it very distant from the mills,
| mostly in wood and some p rts pretty we'll
timbercd; though Immediately adjoining, are
some we'll improved productive Meadow and
! Grain Land, & several enclosed Town Lots.
lit be asked why SO desirable and produce
tive property should be offered for sale, 1t
| may be answered IS that the advanced age
and distant residence Of two OF the partners
make narrower circle of concerns deslra
=" rable to them--snd all the parties are de-
sirous to pay off their debts
Any person inclinable to purchase will lind
the price reasonable, and the time of pay
| ment for large proportion of the purchase
money will be made as easy as the purchaser
could expect or wish.
For further particulars application may be
| made TO JAMES CAMPBELL, at Petersburg
SAMUEL c. GRIFFITH, Esquire, of Balti-
| timore; JAMES TAYLOR, Jun. Esq OF Nor
! folk; or on the premises to NATHANIEL IL
L1coTT and LUKE WHEELER, the latter OF
| whom viii remain a few weeks at this place,
TO assist in effecting the object of this adver-
tisemeBt
EAicott, CambbeN 6 Wheeler.
September 81 dtlstNov
The VISION of Don Roderlck,