Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1850-12-19
Only $25 for a Homestead!
20 Farms,
Worth over $500, a 9, 100 Lots,


Worth over So, 800, 4 9, 200 Lots,
To be Distributed among 5000 Subscribers.
AuneA EACH SUBSCRIBER Is ENTITLED TIC
E& Lots, 25 by 100 feet lying together, or Il
liiSlB PRIZE FARM OF from to % acres. The
llllU8 Shares are limited a, s.S-Payatle SIS when
balance monihy instruments OF 3d. About $40 shares
subscribed.
The Lois are situated in the village of
mile Of Lake Road Station, ibs Long Island
Railroad County of SufoiS aud 50 aIes iren the city
New York 1t one OF the heaithest places in the UNI
ted States within nile Of Roc Lake. which
about miles in Inference, OF singular
cy and Of great depth with abundance d fish, The
village about four miles defiant from the great South
Bay which miles wide and forty miles long, ahund
uny supplied with ossers CLANS fish Of various kinds
These lands will produce much per acre, with the
same cultivation any land within fity mites OF New
York The suffolk County Agricultural Society,
in. on the 2ih Scps mbe 1850, premium. the
production these lands, be seen by the following
letters:
LAKE. ROAD, Oct. as,h, 1850.
certify that have rnised during the past the
very and Potatoes, 10 bushels per ac,e Egg
Plants. and varie, of garden vegetables land The
Long island abroad Lake Road from winch have
premium the Suffolk County Agricultural Fan
Also Peas Beans, Unions. squashes, Pumpkins, Beet'
tS'sned.l ira .'moxMEDIEU.
Hermaavc Station located the borders Of the Long
Brookiyn New York. The sufsce OF the and smooth
and ev.l and the surrounding county perfectly healthy
valuable having been settled for $50 years. and
where lands sell from $50 to 500 per
The distribution will take place short time by
mee 10 selected by subscrhefs from among their
number. he having the hrst choice will he emit
Is Farm, worth 500; the third sio Farm,
$500 the fourth IA Farm, worth 500 The
hh ~ Farm worth SOD; the sixth 10 Farm
$500; and eighth each, Farm
worth S0o the ninth, ten,h and eleventh. each acre
Farm, worth $500 the tweln, thiriecnh ioueenh, and
fifteenth, each D Farm, worth $50; the sixteenth
eighteenth, nineieenth and twentieth, each
Farm 500; and all the o,hc,s will n cned
10 Village LOIS IS 100 feet, lying iogether There
are bIanks-this gets for SIS
a handsome lot oil ground equal to 4 city lots
.uanner Of distribution Of Hermanriae Lois and
Pnzr Farms.
The manner of dis,rbu,on will be follows: All the
numbers map from to o10 will be pet wheel,
aud iron the whesa will be entitled
TO Prize, the INST numt drawn taken
wheel happens be $50 2 the Tine
subscription list who holds owns the subscription number
80 or no. Whatever the corresponding may be,
will be eni:ed the r.t Pike Farm, and proceeding
until all the numbers are drawn out.
The lands good represented and good any
land the island, aud wheh cultivated will ouce In
the highest degree.
The land was heavily timbesd soms portion.
covered with thrifty growth Of wood, aud
pine. Wood plenty and generally cheap that part oil
lsard. Fne-wood Is cheap, that which suitable TO b.
price, and has for grea! many years been always consider
ed a cash article on the Island
There material the land for icncins-sood
chestnut rails be had within few miles OF these lands
in abundance All building materials be had at the de-
places at the usual market prices There are numerous
streams Of wat rising in these new lass and running into
the Great south Bay which are rs%saAn,s lot 'ns purity
change in Them they uuiaing and wells are OF various
depths probably ove these new Land. ~ Tn mdde Of the
island tho depth will be about % toct, at Herman
vile MS the ground is higher they are d".peI.
There chufeho. and schools within two or three
miles village, and within four miles, mills factories
stores and villages All the privileges ol an old settled
pride themselves en- being highly moral orderly, and rc
gious people, ALI my suhscnoefs persons Of respocta
bihty.
The land very easily cleared and the settle
meot will depend almost eneiy the settler, he can
lay much le ash ne chooses do not know OF
any objections the place the land tori settlement
and the labor industry make successiu and
prosperous settlements other parts Of the country be-
results.
he climate is In every particular healthy and peasas
the roads are good aud always pa,sAsls
tue year-ths Winters are short and mid compared to the
winters the the north u the Hishands-tere
sedom seghns than two OF three weeks on the Is
land.
What remarkable, crop Is seldom injured by drou.h-
there OF the country whore there - 90 little injury
from drouth Lon, Island, there injury om
wet-there wet cold land the island All the
land along the margin Of the be made highly
eshet in the part Of the country, by which
often very great damage done-such the
ryIug of bridge breaking Of mill dam with great
damage, amoat unhead u Long leland. The
and hays abound in sh and wild fowl in great abundance
9 In consequence Of the great nunber of from
all parts Of the country, desirius Information Of these aais
u has been found necessary TO answer them IN this for
3r Apply To THOMAS WOOD, S:ationer, III John ST.,
Pearl, N. Y. or CHARLES WOOD at the place.
srher Of whom will and ward
therefor BY Ietun of mail They will also gsaiu'tousiy fur
ns and pamphlets Of tho property, and such other
formation a. may be desired.
CHARLES WOOD, III John st. NY.
QTRcferenees may be had Hon. Henry Megs, and Gen
Chandler Of the American Institute, 35 Broadway, n
SandfGsds. Porter and striker, Broadway NJ VI E. +.
Peck BUG State street; sod Alden J. spouner Front street,
Brooklyn. N. o. uoiman Ssatonef, Bosnu, Aass-; L.
H. Pease, Bookseller. Albany, N. VI v. u. Psime Ph,ia
delphia, Pa and Boson 9l:3m.
Washington District pesr, in sad district. the
4th day 0f Deeember, A. d. t650
Prsseni, Hoo JACOB SCOTT, Judge.
ORDERED that the Probate within and
" ct Of Warrington, the ensuing year. be holden the
Probate Office, said Montpelier, fnssdays and Fridays
o each week 1t 10 A. N. and r N. SAID days.
By the Court,
o. Atisss, LYMAN BRIGGS, Register