Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-04-09
AUCTION SALES.
Auction Sale of Valuable Improved
Real Estate in the City OF Alex
andria. Virginia.

Bv virtue of a decree entered by
the Corporation Court of the City OF
Alexandria, Virginia, on the 18th daV
of February, 1913, in the ChanceTy
cause of Ruth T. Todd, ct ais, VS.. W.
T. Gladstone Peters, ct ais, the under
signed Special Commissioners OF sale,
viii offer for sale at public auction in
the front of the Royal street entrance
to the Market building, in the City OF
Alexandria, Virginia, at II o'clock
noon, on Saturday, the 18th day OF
April. 1918, the following real estate
situated in the City of Alexandria
Virginia, to-wit:
Two houses and three lots of ground,
known as No. ZIG to No. 100 South
Peyton street, in the city of AleXan-
dria, Va, on the east side OF Peyton
street, between King and Prince
streets, and bounded and described as
follows, to-Wit:
l. Beginning at "a" in the center
Of an alley. three 81 feet wide, on
the east side of Peyton street; thence
with said Peyton street fourteen and
one-half (14h) feet to g. corner to
John Vests lot; thence eastward and
perpendicular to Peyton street, and
with John Vests line ninety-one (91l
feet ten (1O) inches to &c" a line of
William Gray's; thence northward and
Perpendicular to King street fifteen
(T5) feet ten (10) inches to ID" IN
said line; thence westward ard per-
pecaicular to Peyton street eighty-fVe
1851 feet four (4) inches to the be-
ginning.
2. A lot of ground being Lot No.
SO, particularly described in deed to
George A. Bossert, dated on the 18th
day Of April, 1850, from Violet and
Neale, Commissioners; also
8. Lot No. 40, particularly described
in deed to said Bossert dated the 18th
day of March, 1947, from William II.
Peyton and being lots No. 80 and 40
as marked upon plat "B' in the divi-
sion of the estate of the late Colonel
Francis Peyton, said lots fronting on
Peyton street about 80 feet each and
extend back to Gray's line, and being
the property in the City of Alexandria,
conveyed by deed dated the 9th day
of March, 1860, from Charles Javins
TO William Gray and recorded in Liber
u. No. 8, folio 313 and re-recorded in
Liber V No. 8, folio 159, of the land
records of the City of Alexandria, Vir-
GINA, to which deed reference is made
for particular description of the said
lots.
(b)' A house and lot of ground on
the east side of Alfred street known as
No. 215 North Alfred street, between
Cameron and Queen streets, and
bounded as follows:
Beginning, at a point 176 feet 7
inches south of Queen street, and run
ming thence north on Alfred street 1S
feet; thence east parallel with Queen
street 103 feet 5 inches to an alley
i. ) (40) feet wide; thence south Oh
s4i1 alley and parallel with Alfred
street 10 feet; thence west in
straight line to the beginning with
right of way over said alley.
(c) A house and lot in the City Of
Alexandria, Virginia, situated on the
east side of Royal street, between
Wolfe and Wilkes streets, known as
414 South Royal street, and bounded
as follows, to-w:tt:
Beginning at a point on the east
side Of Royal street 1872 feet inches
south Of Wolfe street, and running
thence south on Royal street % feet;
thence east parallel to Wolfe street
1874 feet to an alley; thence north on
said alley % feet; and thence west in
direct line 1874 feet to tn beginning,
with right Of way over said alley.
(d) A house and lot in the City of
Alexandria, Virginia, situated on the