The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-01-14
Sc oNLY FOR A HOmEsrEAD.

s25 ONLY FOR A HOMESTEAD.
TWENTY-TWO FARMS. WORTH OVER
! IL 5 {, 500. AND FIVETHOUSANDF FOUR HUN
DRED LOTS TO BE DISTRIBUTED AMONG
EIGHT HUNDRED SUBSCRIBERs.-Each sub
scriber is entitled TO eight lots, twenty five by one
hundred feet, lying together, or a PRIZE FARM,
of from four TO twenty acres The shares are lin
tied at S25, payable ) when subscribed for, 30
on the day of distribution, and the balance in
monthly instalments OF So. About seven hundred
| shares now subscribed
The lots are situated in the village of HERMAN
WILLIE, on the Long Island railroad. county of Suf
folk, and fifty miles from the city of New York.
car and engine house 10 now being built near this
village, and the last train leaving Brooklyn, late
in the afternoon stops this station and returns
early in the morning IL is one of the healthies
places in the United States, within one mile of
Ronkonkoma lake, which ia about three miles IN
circumference, of singular transparency, and of
great depth, with abundance of fish, The vii
| lage is but four miles distant from the great South
Bay, which is five miles wide and forty miles long
abundantly supplied with oysters, clans, and fish
| of various kinds.
These lands will produce as much per acre, with
the same cultivation, any land within fifty miles
of New York. The Suffolk County Agricultural
Society, at meeting on oath September, 1850.
awarded premiums for the production of these
lands, as may be seen by the following letter:
! (Copy0
LAKE ROAD, ocT 2s, 1850.
certify that have raised during the past sea
son the very best Of corn and potatoes $50 bushels
per acre; egg plants, and variety OF garden vege-
tables. land the Long Island railroad at
| Lake Road, from which receveda premium at the
Suffolk County Agricultural Fair, held September
| "a, 1850.
Also peas, beans, onions, squashes, pumpkins,
Yours, IRA L,HoMMEDIEU.
To CHARLEs WOOD, III John st., n. Y.
Hermanville station is located the borders of
the Long Island railroad, where several
times day to Brooklyn and New York. The sur
face of the land is smooth and level, and the sur
rounding country is perfectly healthy, and within
"A few miles of this DlaSc hiphIv cultivated and val
liable, having been settled for more than one bun
dred and fifty years, and where similar lands sell
from Ss 80 to 5000 per acre
The distribution will take place in feio days by
committee to be selected by the subscribers from
among their number The person having the first
choice will be entitled for S25 only. TO 20 acre
farm worth s 900; the second TO an Is acre farm,
worth $500; the third 10 acre farm, $500; the
4th IA acre farm, worth 500; the 9th II acre
farm worth 5000 the 9th 10 acre farm, worth
| 5 500; the 7th and oth each an acre farm, worth
8 400; the 9th, 10th and llth each farm,
worth $500; the 18th, 18th, 18th and 18th each
farm, worth $3.50; the 10TH l7th, 18th, 18th
and Doth each acre farm worth $500; and all
the others will be entitled to village lots each %
by 100 feet, lying together There are no blanks;
this is not lottery; every person geta Tor ss25
handsome lot of ground equal to city lots.
Manner Of Distribution Of HermannuiHe Lots and
Prize Fdrnrs.--The manner distribution will be as
follows: All the numbers on the Map, from to
500, will be put into wheel and the iirst number
drawn from the wheel will be entitled to the
first prize; and, if the first number 30 drawn or
taken out Of the wheel happens to be go or 2l5
then the person on the subscription list, who holds
or owns the subscription number of 80 or 30, or
whatever the corresponding number may be, will
be entitled to the first Prize Farm and so proceed
ing until all the numbers are drawn out
| The lands are as good as represented, and as
good any new land on the Island, and when cul-
tivated will produce in the highest degree.
The land was once heavily limbcred; some por-
tons now covered with thrifty growth e
young wood, oak and pine Wood is plenty and
generally cheap in that part of the Island. Fire
wood Is cheap, thatwhIch Is suitable TO be cut int
cord wood for the New York market Is OF uniform
: price and has fer a great many years been Away
J considered a cash article on the Island,
There is material on the land for common fenc
, ing-good chesnut rails can be had within a few
miles of these lands in abundance. All building
materials can be had at the depots Of Brooklyn ant
Grecnport, and at many Intermediate places. at thu
usual market prices There arc numerous streams
+, of water rising in these new lands, and running
a into the Great South Bay, which remarkable
for their purity, and never fail; indeed, dry wea-
ther makes very little change in them; they are are
F.. uniang, and wells are of various depths, probably
over these lands, in the middle region of the
island, the average depth will be about twenty-five
feet; at Hermannville, the ground ishlgher they
are deeper
There are now churches and schools within two
three miles of the village; and within four miles
mills, factories. stores and villages. All the priv
leges of an old settled country are to be had here
and the people of Suffolk county pride themselves
being highly moral, ordely, and religious peo
. Pile. All of my subscribers are persons OF respecta
: bty.
The land can be very easily cleared, aud the
cost of settlement will depend almost entirely upon
the settler. He can lay out much or as little as
e he chooses DO not know of any objections to the
place, to the land for settlement, and the samc
labor and industry which make successful ano
prosperous settlements i'll other parts OF the coun
try bestowed upon these lands, cannot TAIL to pro-
4 ducc favorable results.
. The climate s in every particular healthy and
| pleasant; the roads are good and always passable
A at all seasons Of the year; the winters are shor
a ,att,
' the north of the Highlands there is seldom sleigh
0 ing than two three weeks on the island
What is remarkable, crop is seldom injured by
drought-thcre is part of the country where there
is 80 little injury from drought as on Long Island
: is there any injury from wet-therc Is no We
or cold land ON the leland. All the land along the
margin of the streams can be made highly valuabl,
at small cost, for there s no such thing as tiooc
or freshet, in the interior part OF the country
by which often very great damage is dono-sucf
an event as the carrying of bridge, or the break
ing of mill dam, with great damage, is almost
unhcard OF on Long Island The streams and bays
abound i'll sh and wild fowl i'll great abundance
1 and every variety.
I- In Consequence of the great number of letterf
from all parts of the country, desiring information
these lands it has been found necessary 10 an
; swer them in this form.
Apply 10 Thos. Wood Satiuncr, Il John street
near Pearl, n. " or Charles Wood, at the same
place, either of whom will receive remitances and
forward receipts therefor by return of mail They
will also gratuitousiy furnish maps ami phlets
of the property, and cheerfuliy give such other in
formation may be desired.
/ CHARLES WOOD, III John ct, n Y,
References can be made to Hon. Henry Meigs
and General Chandler, of the American Institute
35l Broadway, N. Y; Sandiords, Porter, Striker
7s Broadway, n. Y; Levy Dodge, of Dodge & Cos
Express, Is West st, n. N; f. +. Peck, 300 State
at; and Alden j. Spooner, Front ct. Brooklyn
n. Y; o. Holman, Stationer Boston, Mass f. III
{ Pease Bookseller, Albany, a. Y; V. b. Palmer,
Philadelphia, Pa. Jan l-2aw4w
j. IL. CLAY MUDD,
Attorney LAW and Land Agent.