The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-11-18
Old Real Estate Ad.
GEORGE WASHINGTON WANTED
TO LEASE THE BOTTOM.
he Thought the New Seat of Gov.
eminent Would be at Point
Pleasant.


Pleasant.
Parkersburg Sentinel.
The Sentinel has been permit
ted TO peruse a copy of the Mary.
land Journal and Baltimore Ad-
vsrtiser," of August 20. 1773. which
il owned by Frank Flaherty, who
prizes it very highly. 1t is the
frst number OF that publication,
andithe publisher. W. Goddard,
apologies for its delayed appear
anee on the ground that he had
found it hard to secure sufficient
subscribers to justify him in its
publication. 1t seems to have been
the only paper published in Balti-
more at that time aud the method
OF securing news is shown by the
publishers statement that be would
establish a special post route with
horse and rider to bring him each
week from Philadelphia the latest
papers from Connecticut, Massa.
chusetts, New York, Pennsylvania
and sometimes from England and
Ireland. The paper contains come
proceedings of the British Parli.
ament. some communications, a lit
tie news and many advertisements
The latter are mostly the usual no.
tioes of runawsy servants or formal
announcements of merchandise for
sale.
But the most interesting thing.
in the paper, to Parkersburgers, is
the advertisement of George WASH
ingtou, three years before the de-
claration of independence, of what
is now known as the Washington
Bottom" a few miles below Park
orsburg, and other lands in the
Ohio Valley for lease. The adver-
tisement reads as follows:
Mount Vernon in Virginia,
July 10, lIT3
The subscriber, having obtained
patents for upwards of twenty
thousand acres of land on the Ohio
and Great Kanhawa (ten thousand
OF which are situated on the banks
of the first mentioned river, be-
tween the mouths of thestwo Kan
ahav or New river, from the mouth,
or near it, upwards, in one contin-
ued surVey) proposes to divide the
same into any fixed tenements that
may be desired, and lease them up
on moderate terms, allowing a ress-
enable number of years rent free,
provided. within the space of two
years from next October, three
scres for every fifty contained in
each lot, and proportionately for a
lesser quantity, shall be cleared.
fenced and titled, aud that, by or
before the time limited for the
commencement of the first rent,
Eve acres for every hundred, and
proportionstely, as above, shall be
enclosed and laid down in good
grass for meadow; and moreover
that at least fifty good fruit trees
Tor every like quantity of land shall
be planted on the premises. Any
persons inclinable to settle on
these lands may be more fully in
formed of the terms by applying
TO the eubsoriber, near Alexandria,
or in bis absence to Mr.. Lund
Washington; and would do we'll in
communicating their intentions be-
fore the 1st of October next, in OF.
der that sufficient number of lots
may be laid of to supply the de-
mand.
As these lands are among the
first which have been surveyed in
theipartlof the country that lie in,
It is almost needless to promise,
that mono can exceed them in lux.
uxiance of soil, or convenience OF
situation, all of them lying upon
the banks either of the Ohio OF
K1nhaWa, and abounding with fine
fiah and wild fowl of various kinds
as also in most excellent meadows
many OF which (by the bountiful
hand of nature) are in their pres.
ent state almost fit for the scythe