Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1912-03-22
SheriN's Sale
OF
Real and Personal Property.

gOmery county, and to the Sheriff of sal
county directed, at the suit of The Com
mercial National Bank of Washington,
C., to the use of James M. Sherwin, admin
istrator, with the will annexed, of Samue
A. Davenport, deceased. against the good:
chattels, rights, credits, lands and tene
ments of the Potomac Granite Company,
corporation, existing under the laws of tn
State of Maine, and at the suit of The Alex
andria National Bank, corporation, to tn
use of James M. Sherwin, administrator
with the will annexed, of Samuel A. Daven
port deceased, against the goods, chattels
rights, credits, lands and tenements of tn,
Potomac Granite Company, corporation
organized and existing under the laws o
the State of Maine, and at the suit of Law
renee Machinery and Supply Company, ,
corporation existing under the laws o
Pennsylvania, to the use of James M
Sherwin, administrator, with the will an
nexed, of Samuel A. Davenport, deceased
against the goods, chattels, rights, credits
lands and tenements of the Potomac Gran
lite Company, corporation, existing unde
the laws of the State of Maine, have thi'
fourteenth day of February, in the yea
nineteen hundred and twelve seized anC
taken in execution all the right title, claim
interest and estate, both at law and il
equity, of the said Potomac Granite Com
pany, a corporation, existing under the
laws of the State of Maine, of, in and tC
the following property, to-wit:
All that tract, part of tract, piece Oh
parcel of land situate in Montgomery coun.
ty, in the State of Maryland, and being
part of tract of land called 1.-The Addi-
ton to William and James Resurveyed,
containing twenty-six and one-half (26 1-2)
acres of land, more or less, and which is
particularly described by metes and bounds
courses and distances, in deed from Linus
P. Burrows and wife to the Potomac Gran
lite Company, corporation, by deed bear
ing date the first day Of December, in the
year nineteen hundred and six, and which
is duly recorded among the Land Records
of said Montgomery county, in Liber No
1872, folios Sc, etc., to which deed reference
is hereby made for more full and COM
plete description of said land seized.
Also all that piece or parcel of land
situate, lying and being in Montgomery
county, in the State of Maryland, and
called Crows Nest Island, being an island
in the Potomac River, about two miles be-
low Great Falls, and about one-fourth of a
mile (nearly Opposite) from the Anglers
Clubhouse, containing twenty-five and
nine-tenths (22.9) acres of land, more Oh
less, and being the same land that was
conveyed to the Potomac Granite Company
by Warner H. Miller, Trustee, by deed
bearing date the fourth day of June, in
the year nineteen hundred and six, and
which is duly recorded among the Land
Records of said Montgomery county, in
Liber No. 1888, folios 447, etc.. to which deed
reference is hereby made for a more full
and particular description of said land
seized.
Also part of tract of land situate in
Montgomery county, in the State of Mary
land, called "Carderock" and described as
follows: All that part of the tract of land
conveyed to Gertrude Marsden by Franklin
j. Marsden and Alexander Kilgour by deed
dated the eleventh day of October in the
year nineteen hundred and ninety-nine
and recorded in Liber T. D., No. IL, folios
146, etc, one of the Land Record Books OF
said Montgomery county, which lies west
OF line drawn from a blazed mulberry
tree, on the side of the towpath of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, through a
blazed ash tree, with two prongs, near the
Potomac River, to the low-water mark in
said river, containing five acres of land,
more or less, it being also part of the same
land which was conveyed by Edwin M.
Muncaster and wife to John Brewer and
George Peter by deed dated the seventh
day of November, A. D. eighteen hundred
and sixty-five. and recorded in Liber E. B.
p, No. 2, folios 404, etc., one of the said
Land Records, and being the same land
that was conveyed to Linus P. Burrows BY
Gertrude Marsden and Frank j. Marsden
her husband, by deed bearing date the
the third day of August, in the year nine
teen hundred, and which is duly recorded
among said Land Records in Liber T. D.
No. 16, folios $40, ETC., to which deeds ref
erence is hereby made for more complete
description of said land seized.
The above described parcels of land are
what is commonly known as the quarry
property of the Potomac Granite Company.
situate on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
and the Aqueduct road, near the Club
house. about IL miles from Georgetown, d.
T., and about 2 miles from the Great Falls
on the Potomac. There are on the prem
Uses buildings that have been used for a
boarding house, blacksmith shop, a stor-
age house, derricks, tramway, etc, and a
two-story reduction mill. The parcel of land
containing five (5) acres, more or less, is
situated between the canal and the river,
and the island, containing twenty-five and
nlne-tenths (22.9) acres, is situated in the
Potomac River, nearly opposite the other
parcels of land.
Also the following personal property -
One derrick, guy and hosting cables, one
double derrick engine and boiler and equip
ments, lot of blacksmiths tools, including
blower and drills; lot of picks, shovels and
crowbars. lot of cable hooks. blocks and
RODS, railway or tramway and two cars.
one saw mill and engine, one diaphragm
pump, two rock crushers in building. four
condensers and gears two upright tanks
TWO earthen tanks, one dynamo, two roast
ers' little engine, horizontal boiler, air tank,
hot-air tank. four galvanized iron watts, one
clip saw, shafting, pulleys and belts, two
air tanks, three galvanized iron tanks. small
pump, platform scales, lot of outside belt
ing. stones and tank lot of tools in main
building, lot of fuse, one test mill and con
veyor, elevator and screen, three crushers.
boiler and engine 1875 H. p. lot of Junk
TWO roasters, six tanks, saw mill and en-
CINE, two boats.
hereby give notice that will sell all
the right title, claim, interest and estate
both at law and in equity, of the said Po-
tomac Granite Company, a corporation. of
In and to the above described property,
on the premises, on
FRIDAY. the 00nd dow oF