Milford chronicle., 1928-03-23
Wednesday. April a. 1928,
AT TWO O'CLOCK p. M

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AT the front door of the late resi-
dence of the said James j. I.ofland, sit
uated at the northwest corner Of Front
and Walnut Streets in Milford, KEN
County, Delaware, the following de.
scribed real estate, to witt
ALL that certain lot piece and par
Gel OF land situated in the town of Mil
ford, Kent County and State of Della
| ware at the northwest corner of Front
j and Walnut Streets, having erected
thereon a large three story Orick build
ing used as an apartment house, a res
| idence and as a Banking house and
offices, a frame barn or garage and a
one story frame building which was US
ed by said deceased as Doctors
office, said lot of land being bounded on
! the west by property formerly of John
! H. APPEL but now of Potter Coffin, on
| the north by property formerly Of Mary
E. Torbert but now of John H. Mulhol-
land, on the east by said Walnut
Street and on the south by said Front
Street, having frontage on said Front
Street of sixty (60) feet and a 'front.'
age on said Walnut Street of one hun
dred and seventy-three feet Q73) and
two ~ inches and depth on it's north
line adjoining the said MulholIand lot
of approximately sixty-nine feet (69)
and two ~ inches and being the same
property and premises which was de-
Vised in fee simple unto the said james
p. Lofiand by Item of the will of his
Mother, Mary e. Lofiand, which will
was dated March ~, 1889, was probat
ed December 5, 1911 and is now of rec
ord in the office of the Register of Wills
at Dover, Delaware, in will book F, Vol
g. Pages 486, etc, except a small 4 cor
nered piece at the northwest corner of
said lot measuring eighteen feet Q8)
two (2) inches by twenty-one feet (21)
three incnes go which the said James
p. Lofand conveyed in fee simple unto
5. Jennie Stanton ct al by deed of him
self and wife, Mary Rodney Lo11and,
dated November IS, 1913 and recorded
Vol. 10, Page 318, but including an adj
ditional strip of land having a frontage
on said Walnut Street of nine feet 60
two inches (2). a depth westward of
ffty-one feet (51) six inches 60 and a
width in the rear of nine feet 80 and
nine 90 inches, which said narrow strip
of land was conveyed in fee simple un-
to the said James p. Lofia1d by deed
OF the said S. Jennie Stanton ct al dat
ed November IS, 1918 ind recorded at
Dover, Delaware, in deed book p, Vol
10, Page l, said two last mentioned
deeds dated November IS, 1913, having
been made, executed and delivered in
order to straighten the northern line
Of the said James p. Lofand property.
The said above described real estate
will be sold subject to the terms of a
certain lease or written agreement dat
ed September 16, 1918 between the said
James p. Lofland and the First Ma
tional Bank of Milford, Del," under
which said lease or agreement the said
James P. Lofiand did demise and let
unto said Bank its successors and as
signs, from the first day of January A.
D. 1919 until the thirty-first day of De-
cember A. d. 1888 at an annual rental
IF Six Hundred Dollars ($6OO), payable
N two equal semi-annual installments
If Three Hundred Dollars ($300) each
IN the first days of each and every
July and January, all those certain
'oomS on the first floor of said large
Prick building situated as aforesaid at
he corner Of Front and Walnut
Streets in Milford, Kent County, Della
ware, which were then and for a long
ime had been occupied by said Bank |
or the purpose of carrying On its |
Banking business, including the room
hen used by the Cashier and Directors
nd also room located at the rear of
he rooms formerly occupied by said
Sank but which, shortly before said
ease, had been fitted up for d Direc-
ors room, and also an additional room
dJoining said Banking rooms on the
vest which was formerly occupied by
he said James p. Lofland as a sitting
DOM, all of said rooms being on the
rst floor of said brick building and
lso three rooms on the second floor of
aid brick building and also three
Ooms on the second floor of said build
lg reached by the outside entrance
pening on Walnut Street, said three
Ooms being all the rooms on said sec
nd floor reached by said entrance ex-
ept two adjoining rooms overlooking
ront Street occupied as a dentists OPP
rating room and parlor, together with
he right of ingress and egress to and
ON said second story rooms by the
ay of said Walnut Street entrance;
lid lease further providing and stipu-
ting that said Bank should have the,
ght, at its option, at The expiration of
lie term created by said lease (namely
1 December 81, 1889 to renew said
ase for another period of twenty COO
ears or any lesser number of years
lat said Bank might deem proper.
The above lands and premises being L
lie same of which the said James P.
Ofland late of Milford, Kent County. =
died seized, and will he sold
r the payment of his debts subject,
)wever, to the terms of said above
,scribed lease or written agreement.
The Administrator will make Return
Sale at an adjourned term of the
rphans' Court of the State of Della
are, in and for Kent County to be held
Dover, Delaware, n Saturday the
venth day of April A. d. 1928 at ten
% o'clock A. M.
By Order of the Court:
Attest: HARRY B. CLARK, =
Clerk of the Orphans Court. n
For further information as to the To-