The Evening critic., 1883-01-29
An Advertisement by washington.

To The EditOr Of Ihe ~. y. W0Hd.
SIR: send you for publication, if you
think interesting, the inclosed advertise
ment, signed George Washington, taken
from the Maryland Journal and the Bati-
more Advertiser, w. Goddard, proprietor,
dated Friday, August 90, 1773, No. l.,
vol. /, being the first newspaper ever
printed in the city of Baltimore The paper
is in my possession, size II by 10 inches, aud
well preserved. S. n. PARK.
Bloomsbury, N. j., January %, 1883.
MOUNT VERNON IN VIRGINIA,
July Is, 1878.
The subscriber having obtained patents
for upward of 10000 acres of land on the
Ohio and Great Kanhawa 10000 of which
are situated ON the banks of the first-men-
toned river, between the mouths of the
two Kanbawas, and the remainder on the
Great Kanhawa or New River from the
mouth, OF near it, upward, in one continued
survey, proposes to divide the same into
any sized tenements that may be desired
and lease them upon moderate terms,
allowing "a reasonable number of years
rent free, provided, within the space of two
years from next October three acres of
every fifty contained in each lot, and
proportionably for lesser quantity,
shall be cleared, fenced and titled and that
mencement of the first rent, five acres of
every hundred, and proportionably as
above, shall be inclosed and laid down in
good grass for meadow and, moreover,
that at least fifty good fruit trees for every
like quantity of land shall be planted ON
the premises. Any persons inclinable to
settle ON these lands may be more fully
informed of the terms by applying to the
subscriber near Alexandria, or in his
absence, to Lund Washington, and would
do well in communicating their intentions
before the 1st of October next, in order that
a sufficient number of lots may be laid off
to answer the demand.
As these lands are among the first which
have been surveyed in the part of the
country they lie in, it is almost needless to
premise that none can exceed them in lux
uriance of soil or convenience of situation
all of them lying on the banks either of the
Ohio or Kanhawa, and abounding with fine
fish and wild fowl of various kinds, as also
in most excellent meadows, many of which
(by the bountiful hand of nature) are, in
their present state, almost fit for the scythe.
From every part of these lands water car
riage is now had to Fort Pitt by an easy
communication and from Fort Pitt, up the
Monongahela to Redstone, vessels of conve-
nient burden may and do pass continually I;
from whence, by means of Cheat River
and other navigable branches of the Monon-
gabela, it is thought the portage to Potow-
mack may and will be reduced within the
compass of few miles, to the great ease
and convenience of the settlers in trans
porting the produce of their lands to mar
ket. To which may be added, that as
patents have now actually passed the seals
for the several tracts here offered to be
leased, settlers on them may cultivate and
enjoy the lands in peace and safety not
withstanding the unsettled counsels re-
specting new colony on the Ohio; and as
no right money is to be paid for these lands
and quit.rent of 2 shillings sterling a
hundred demandable some years hence
only, it is highly presumable that they will
always be held upon more desirable foot
ing than where both these are laid on with
a very heavy hand.
And it may not be amiss further to OBJ
serve that if the scheme for establishing q
new Government on the Ohio in the
manner talked of should ever be effected,
these must be among the most valuable
lands in it, not only on account of the
goodness of soil and the other advantages
above enumerated, but from their contig.
uity to the seat of Government, which
more than probable will be fixed at the
mouth of the Great Kanhawa.
GEORGE WASHINGTON