Milford chronicle., 1960-02-12
PUBLIC AUCTION
OF
REAL ESTATE
IN MILFORD, ON

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY IL. go
At the times designated below, the
following Milford properties viii be
offered for sale at public auction by
Robert w. Tunnel and Claud l..
Tease, Attorneys-i Fact for w. Yer
non Benson and the heirs of Clesson
E. Brigham. The sales will be held
on the various premises and the prop
critics will be open for inspection just
prior to the sales.
AT f:3o p. NJ. L
The apartment house formerly
known as the M u LII OLLAN Nd
APARTMENTS, located on the South
Northwest Second Streets (behind VIII
mington Trust Coz, containing ap-
proxin1ately $4,000 square feet of
land, five apartments and a scar gar
age, more particularly described as
follows, to wit:
ALL that certain lot or lots of
land with a three story brick man
sion and other buildings thereon
erected, formerly known as the Tor
bert or Stanton Property, and now
known as Mulholland Apartments"
situated on the southwest corner of
Walnut and Second Streets, in the
City of Milford, Kent County and State
of Delaware, and having a frontage on
said Walnut Street of one hundred
fifty-one l151) feet and ten (10) inches
and Non Second Street a frontage of
ninety-nine (9)) feet and ten Q0)
they may; improved by three. story
brick apartment house containing five
(5) apartments and a five (5) car
frame garage.
: WITH THE EXCEPTION of 5000
square feet of land which was con-
veyed unto The First National Bank
and Trust Company, a corporation of
the United States of America, by in
denture of William Vernon Benson
and wife and Clesson E. Brigham,
single man, dated the End day of May,
1852. and of record in the Office of
the Recorder of Deeds, i'm and for
Kent County, at Dover, in Deed Record
@, Vol. 19, page 81.
BEING the same lands that were
conveyed to Robert w. Tunnel and
Claud L. Tease, as attorneys-in-fact,
by indenture of William Vernon Ben
son, etal., dated the 9Th day of Janu-
ary, 1860, and of record in the Office
of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for
Kent County, at Dover.
AT 2:15 p. M.
A frame, double house containing
apartments and a 2-car cement block
garage located on 9,275 square feet of
land on the west side of Columbia
Street, Milford, Sussex County, more
particularly described as follows, to
wit:
ALL that certain lot, piece and par
eel of land, situate, lying and being
in the Town of Milford, Sussex Count
ty, Delaware, fronting on the West
side of Columbia Street in said town,
adjoining lands of .--.--..-....-.-.--... w hite,
Richard Warren Heirs, Wallace Burns
and others, containing nine thousand,
two hundred and seventy-five (9,275)
proved by a frame double house with
asbestos shingle siding, containing two
(2) apartments and a two-car cement
block garage.
AT 500 p. M.
Five (5) lots of land lying on the
North side of the Cedar Beach Road
near Shea's Store, the Dyke and the
Powder Plant Farm; A plot OF which
Plot Book 2 at page 35. ID Portion
of Lots No. and an adjoining strip
of land (no improvements). (2) Lot
No. Ia. go Lot No. z. (4 Unnumber-
ed lot adjoining Lot No. Is. (5l Un-
the Dyke or Hearn Creek, with i'm
provements> (smal house), more par
ticularly described as follows:
TRACT NO. ALL that certain
lot, piece or parcel of land situate,
lying and being on the North side of
the State Highway leading from Mil
ford to Cedar Beach in Cedar Creek
Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware,
more particularly described as fol-
lows, to wit: Beginning at the south
eastern corner of Lot No. IL as shown
on a plot of lands of William V. Ben
son and Clesson E. Brigham as sur
veyed August 9, 1851, and now of
record in the Office of the Recorder of
Deeds, in and for Sussex County, at
Georgetown, in Plot Book No. 2, page
35; thence South S1a degrees West
such a distance as will reach the
North side of the highway aforesaid I;
thence along said highway in a Wes-
terly direction 5834 feet; thence North
will reach the Southern boundary of
lot No. II; thence along Lot No. II in
an Easterly direction AZ feet 8 inches
to the place of beginning, be the con-
tents what they may; being the cas-
tern portion of Lot No as shown
adjoining strip of land which is un-
numbered, with no improvements
thereon; the above description being
taken from the aforesaid plot.
TRACT NO. 2-ALL that certain
lot, piece or parcel of land situate,
lying and being in Cedar Creek Hun
dred, Sussex County, and State of
Delaware, and lying North of the
State Highway leading from Milford
to Cedar Beach and being known and
designated as Lot No. Ia on a plot of
lots known as Lands of William ".
Benson and Clesson E. Bridgham" as
surveyed August 8, 1851, and now of
record in the Office of the Recorder of
Deeds, in and for Sussex County, at
Georgetown, in Plot Book No. 2, page
35, with no improvements thereon.
TRACT NO. 3-ALL that certain
lot, piece or parcel of land situate,
lying and being in Cedar Creek Hun
dred, Sussex County, and State of
Delaware, and fronting so feet on the
North side of the State Highway lead
ing from Milford to Cedar Beach and
extending in Northerly direction
$50 feet and being known and desig
mated as Lot No. on a plot of lots
known as Lands of William V. Ben
son and Clesson E. Brigham as sur