Middletown transcript., 1876-08-26
Grustees' Sales.
TRUSTEES SALE
REAL ESTATE.

| By virtue of a renewed order of the Ofphans'
Court of the State of Delaware, in and for
New Castle county, made the 23rd day of
February, A. D., 1876, will be exposed to
sale at Public Auction, at the houSe of Alex.
Maxwell, in the town Of Middletown,
On Saturday, August 26th, 1876,
AT 1920 O'CLOCK, A. NJ, a4es
The following described lands and tenements,
being the Real Estate late of Samuel ARM
strong, deceased, to-wit:
No. l. A certain farm or tract of land situ-
4 in Appoquinimink Hundred, New Castle
C. rnty and State of Delaware, known as the
g.. nsdding Point Farm bounded and des-
CT bed as follows: Beginning at stake in
miery drain or branch, a corner for these
premises and lands Of the heirs or devisees Of
Elihu Jefferson, deceased, thence with the line
of the said Jefferson's land south AL deg.
east A perches to a large poplar tree, corner
for these premises and lands of the said Jeffer-
sons heirs thence south 154 deg. east 90
perches to stake in the Gum Bush road, a
corner for these premises and the heirs of
Jefferson, thence with said road north IA deg
east 1877 clio perches to stone in said road,
corner for these premises and lot No. 2 here
matter described, thence leaving said road
and running with the line of No. 2, north 6
deg. east 100 perches to an old white oak
stump, corner for these premises and lot No.
2, thence north deg. west 20 9-l0 perches to
a large marked poplar, corner for these prem
ises and lot No. 2, thence north deg. west
5-l0 perches to the head of ditch cut
through or across the marsh to Blackbird
creek, thence by and with said ditch the
several courses and distances thereof about 80
perches to the Blackbird creek, thence up said
creek and binding Herewith the several
courses and distances thereof about $40 per-
ches to branch dividing these premises from
lands of the heirs of Elihu Jefferson, decd,
thence up said branch to the place of begin
ming, containing within said metes and bounds
324 ACRES and 80 Square Perches of cleared
and wood land and unimproved marsh, be
the same more or less, with two-story Frame
Dwelling House, Frame Stable, Frame Barn
and Frame Tenant House thereon erected.
No. 2. A certain farm or tract of land stu
ated in the Hundred, County and State afore-
said bounded and described as follows =
Beginning at stake set at the end of ditch
cut through or across the marsh of Blackbird
creek, corner for these premises and lot No.
/, thence through wood or brush land and
with the line Of No. l, south deg. east 5-l0
perches to a large marked poplar tree, cor
south deg. east 20 9-lO perches to white
oak stump, corner for these premises and lot
No. l, thence south deg. west 100 perches
to stone in the public road known as the
Gum Bush road, a corner for these premises
and lot No. !, thence with said public road
toward the Delaware river south 50a deg. east
lO7 2-10 perches to stake in said road, cor
ner for these premises and lands of r. H.
Armstrong, thence leaving the public road
and. with the line of the said R. H. Arm
strong's land north 204 deg. east 60'4-l0 per-
ches to stake, corner for these premises and
lands of said R. H. Armstrong, thence north
53a deg. west 60 perches to a stone in wood
land, corner as last aforesaid, thence north
IA deg. east "a $40 perches to stake, corner
as last aforesaid, thence north 2O2 deg. east
Sc perches to stake at the edge of Blackbird
creek, corner for these premises and the said
R. H. Armstrong, thence up said creek north
4S3 deg. west 9-10 perches, north 252 deg.
west perches, north 81 deg. west 9-lO per-
ches, north 81 deg. east 8-1O perches, north
IA deg. east 10 Clio perches, north 2 deg.
west 5-l0 perches, north 68 deg. west IL 4-l0
perches, north 533 deg. west % Clio perches
north 76 deg. west IL 7-l0 perches, south 20
9 2-l0 perches, north BIZ deg. west IL per-
ches to the centre of very crooked ditch cor
ner for these premises and lot No. I, herein
before described, thence up said ditch and
binding Herewith the several courses and
distances thereof to a stake at the head of said
ditch at the fast-land, the place Of beginning,
containing within said metes and bounds 94
ACRES of cleared land, wood and brush land
and unimproved marsh, with small one
stcry Frame Tenant House thereon erected. !.
And it is ordered that the purchaser or pur-
chasers thereof be and appear at the next Or
phans' Court for New Castle county, that the
Court may assign to him, her or them the
premises sold pursuant TO said order, he, she
or they with sufficient surety or sureties to be
approved by the Court, entering into recog-
nizance to the State, to be taken and acknow-
lodged in said Court, in penal sum to be
determined by the said Court with condition
to pay to the parties entitled severally, or
their executors, administrators or assigns re-
spectively, their just and proportionate shares
of the said purchase money, with interest
from such time as the Court may determine, 1
in manner and form as may by the direction
of said Court be prescribed and appointed in
said condition.
Attendance will be given and terms of sale |
made known at the time and place aforesaid
by JOHN H. RODNEY, ESQ.,, Trustee.
Attest: IS Or BY HIS ATTORNEY |
c. NJ. Vandever, Clerk Orphans Court