Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-10-07
Lexington at Public Sale.
On THURSDAY, October Is.
II fair, ii not. the next fair day, will be OIL
fered at public sale, on the premises,

On THURSDAY, October Is,
If fair, if not. the next fair day, will be Of
fered at public sale, on the premises,
LEARN etDn.
THJS estate. containing two thousand
three hundred and fifty acres, more or
less. being one half of the well known tract
of land commonly called "Mason's Neck, ,,
situated on the Potomac, in the county oil
Fairfax. Virginia. is now offered tor sale.
Abon two-,hrds of it is covered with an
pncon, mon heavy growth of white and blk
oak, hickory, pine. poplar, sc near the wa.
ter's edge, whence il may be transported
70 the markets Of the district Of Columbia,
e distance OF 90 miles only where timber
and fuel are always in demand, and with
out the expense and risk encountered. IN
conveying those articles from situations fur
ther down the river: the remainder Is IN
Guilty alton. and furnished with every ne
ceSsary building for that purpose together
Will orchards and blacksmith's shop. The
- ut er improvements are spacious
ara and elegant dwelling-house, kiteh-
ME-. en-, dairy, smoke house, o'hce' ice
L,.5.-ss. house, a well Of excellent water,
and filling garden, of the most tasteful
and costly design, filed with the rarest and
most beautiful strawberries and flowers, eX-
otto and Indigenous. all situated on an "ni.
nence. commanding a view OF the rest III
the tract, which extends in an uninterccnt-
ed plain from the foot of the eminence to
the Potomac and Occoquan, by which 1t IS
so far bounded as TO render the expense, OF
enclosing it comparatively nothing. The
prospect, moreover, Of the surrounding
country. diversified IN every direction by
sheets Of water, is really beautiful beyond
description. There are likewise attached
TO this estate four valuable
Shad e. Herrin" Fisheries:
bowever, the subscriber intends TO reserve
one of them and few acres of land. The
woods abound with deer in such numbers.
that with littlA, care gentleman might
co IN nd consIan, supply of renison Tor
his table; AMI besides iLe-lsrge streams a.
aforementioned, the irious creeks and in
lets thu, every where intersect the land are
covered in the proper season with wild iowi
of ever, description known in our waters.
When to al these advantages is added the
preat natural fertility OF the land, which is
moi exceeded perhaps in the western coun-
FIR, lis adoption TO Improvement by the use
of plaster. which has been proved by ex-
pertinent, its vicinity to society, TO market,
10 to manufacturing grist-nills, to which
the distance of.conveyance by land and Wa
ter Is not more than or 6 miles, il may
with truth be pronounced the most valuable
estate, of the same extent, IN the whole
range Of country watered by the Potomac.
1t win be sold entire or divided to suit pur.
chasers
The terms Of sale will be one-third ofthe
purchase money in hand, the remaining g
3ds in two equal annual payments, with in
ferest from tie day Of sale, secured by
deed OF trust on TIE iand-which will be
shewn in my ,hsence to any person dispo-
sed 10 purchase. ~ Mr. William Allison OF
Mr. Weston, residing on the premises.
August 81 WILLIAM MASON.