Dobbs County, NC - Frederick Gibble Public Sale, 1777 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Francis R. Hodges - frhodges42@yahoo.com December 4, 1777 To be sold on Tarr-River at the house of the subscriber just below Col. Simpson's, at public sale to the highest bidder for ready money, on the 1st and 2d day of January next, 70 or 80 barrels, twenty head of cattle, some sheep, about 12 bushels rice in the rough, a new desk and Mohogony tea table, a dining table, and kitchen tables, two pair fire dogs, chairs, bedstead, flanders flax seed, bonny vess beens, a quantity of cotton in the seed, some new cyder barrels, some books of law and divinity, sundry other articles too tedious to mention will be sold the above days. About 3 or 4 thousand weight of pork to be sold at private sale, will be fit to kill about three weeks from this date, also about six hundred and fifty acres of very good land with a large plantaion (sic) on it lately cleared, about 1400 young bearing peach trees, and 250 apple trees of the best sort of fruit, a dwelling house 24 by 16 feet, a kitchen 16 by 12, a milk-house 12 by 8, a smoak-house (sic) 12 feet square, and corn crib, the place is well attended with springs, it joins great Contentny creek and Nauhunte swamp, above Col Shepherd's in Dobbs County, it is very good range winter and summer for cattle and hogs, about 350 acres very good summer range for cattle and hogs, plenty of lightwood on it and joins Richard Hodges's, upon wheat swamp, about eight miles from Neuse-river above Kingston in Dobbs. The above lands I would sell cheap for the money, as I propose moving very shortly into the South Province. FREDERICK GIBBLE From: North Carolina Gazette. December 12, 1777. New Bern, NC.