Milford chronicle., 1962-11-30

Oh the state or Delaware, November
70, 1862, the undersigned Trustee will
offer for sale, subject to the terms
and conditions hereinafter set forth,
on
SATURDAY, DECEMBER s, 1862
at the front door of The Wilmington
Trust Company, Milford. Delaware,
EXHIBIT ID"
NEW WHARF FARM
ALL that certain farm located and
situated in Milford Hundred, Kent
County and State of Delaware, with
the improvements thereon being a
house and outbuildings, known as the
New Wharf Farm, plot Wv on the
plots of the Potter, Charity Estate
QS60), and more particularly describ-
ed as follows, to-wit:
BEGINNING at a stone between a
Pine and Hickory Sapling, at the
North East corner of Benjamin F.
Binns' field and corner for his land
tracts Improvement and/Longfield and
the beginning corner also of letter
w, Plot w, lands of the Potter
Charity Estate. QS60), and of record
Gerry, in and for Kent County, Della
ware, and running thence with said
line of Improvement and Longfield
and with said land now or formerly of
Binns, North eighty-two (S2) de-
grees West seventeen G7) perches
and ffve-tenths (5) of a perch to a
stone now settled in said line be-
I en- the two tracts Improvement
and Longfield and at corner for
land now or formerly of Willyard
with said land of Griffith North
twelve q2) degrees and forty (4O)
minutes East forty-seven (47) perches
to a corner thereof in sort of cart
edge of the Cripple of small branch
and thence still with the said land of
Griffith North nine (9) degrees and
ten Q0) minutes East sixty-eight (68)
perches and five-tenths (5) of
perch to a corner of said land of
Willyard Griffith in the run of Swan
Creek and thence with and down the
center of the said run of Swan Creek
and OF the new canal or ditch. and
with lands now or. formerly of Charles
eral direction of about East by South
about two hundred eighty (2S0) per-
ches to corner of said land of
Fleming at the point marked on the
plot by the cross or letter X about
two (2) perches Eastward from the
middle of the trunk in the new cause
way and tidewater bank for the con-
trolling of the waters of said Swan
Creek and thence Eastward with the
center of said Swan Creek about five
(5l perches to the mouth thereof at
Mispillion Creek and thence with and
up and along and binding on the wa
tters of Mispillion Creek about two
hundred eighty (280) perches more
or less to the Eastern end of the be-
fore mentioned line of Improvement
and Eongfeld at the point marked on
the plot with the letter and thence
with. that line and with letter w,
North eighty-two (82) degrees West
two hundred ninety-one (291) perches
and three-tenths CD of perch to
the place of beginning, said to con-
tain 245 Acres and 105 square perches
OF land. part of the tract called The
Improvement" And being Plot V. "
Charity Estate (1S6O), of record in
the Office of the Register in Chan
Gerry In and for Kent County and
OUT HOWEVER, the following:
l.. That portion of the aforesaid
lands and premises acquired by the
State Highway Department of the
state OF Delaware by condemnation
on January 81, 1857, and of record in
in and for Kent County, Delaware, in
Deed Record L, Volume 81, Page Asa.
and constituting the present road
known as County Road No. 124;
2. Ga Acres of land conveyed by
John s. Short. Trustee, to the United
L L,
and of record in the Recorders Of
flee aforesaid, in Deed Record f,
Volume IL, Page 85, for the purpose
Of widening and strengthening the
Mispillion River;
SUBJECT, HOWEVER, to the fol-
lowing Lease to the City of Milford
approximately ten Q0) acres of
marsh land known as the New Wharf
Dump, leased for period of five (5)
years, beginning on October 1, 1859,
at an annual rental of Twenty-Five
($25.00) Dollars per year.
TERMS OF .SALE-20% CASH on
date of sale, balance on or before the
return day of said sale, December
2S, 1862. 2QE down payment will be
forfeited and treated as liquidated
damages in the event of non-compli-
ance. This sale is subject to ap-
proval and confirmation of the Chan
cellor of the State of Delaware, on
the return date, December 2S, 1862
FARMERS BANK OF THE
STATE OF DELAWARE
Trustee of the Potter Charity Trust
George M. Fisher, Jr.
Harold Schmittinger
Attorneys for. Trustee 11-23-2t