Lenoir-Craven-Beaufort County NcArchives News.....Wm. Blackledge 1819 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Guy Potts http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00017.html#0004214 October 16, 2007, 12:04 am Carolina Centinel - 20 Mar 1819 1819 VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE Believing that it would be to my interest, and certain that it would contribute much to my case, to draw my business into a narrower compass, I offer for sale the following property: My Plantation and about 3000 acres of Land in the County of Lenoir These lands lie on the banks of the Neuse, about 30 miles above Newbern. There is not a more valuable tract of land of the size, for cultivating corn, cotton, peas, wheat, or small grain of any kind, from the head to the mouth of the river; and few, if any places, afford a better stand for a country store. About 400 acres of it are cleared, and at least 1600 acres or more good arable land might be cleared, and leave still ample sufficiency of timbered land for firewood, rail timber, and buildings; on the premises is a mill seat, and a grist mill just rebuilt, a dwelling house, kitchen, smoakhouse and dairy, a large and convenient barn, and a small apple and peach orchard of choice fruits. My Mills & a Whiskey Distillery on Chocowinity Creek, and Two Herring Fisheries On Blount's Creek, in the county of Beaufort, with about 9000 acres of Land adjoining near them. The improvements on this property consist of a sawmill for two saws; a merchant grist mill, with two pair of five feet Burr stones, and one pair of four feet Esopus stones, all of excellent quality, 2 boulting cloths, one for merchant, the other for country work, with elevators, conveyors, hopper boys, rolling screan, fan, and packing machine. A whiskey distillery, with two of the flat patent copper stills, of about 130 gallons each, with pewter worms, and a copper boiler of about 160 gallons; a pump attached to the mills, which supplies from the creek all the water wanted for every purpose in the still house and for the condensing tubs. A comfortable dwelling house, kitchen, smoakhouse, and other outhouses, for the residence of the owner. Also an overseer's house and kitchen cooper's shop and warehouses; with cleared lands enough to raise from 150 to 200 barrels of corn per year; a salt and fish house at each of the fisheries, with a good flat for each of them. The uncleared lands are chiefly piney woods, abounding in long leaf pitch pine; or low swamp lands, well timbered with cypress; the timber, both pine and cypress, very convenient either to the mills, or to good navigable water courses. The mills are within 5 miles of the town of Washington, and are more conveniently situated for delivering loads to, or receiving them from vessels, than any other water mills in the state. The stream affords water for grinding all the year, and for both sawing and grinding generally half the year. With 10 hands 500 barrels of herrings can on an average be caught on a spring at either of the fisheries. Also About 3000 acres of Land On Moseley's Creek in Craven County, of which only about 40 acres are cleared, the rest are piney woods, unpillaged either of its tar, turpentine, or timber; and swamp land, abounding with cypress and oak - several hundred acres of the swamp land are equal in fertility to any in the state, and susceptible of being easily drained. 500 acres of Land On the lower end of Turkey Quarter Island, in Neuse River, 14 miles above Newbern, abounding in excellent cypress timber and firewood, more convenient to be got to market than any on the river. My House & Lot in Newbern and about 720 acres of Land Opposite the town, bounded by the river and Duck Creek. This tract has a large quantity of pine wood upon it, very handy to the water, and also about 40 acres of excellent marsh; and affords the most convenient place of any near the town, to get dirt for filling in wharves, and for making mortar for mason's work going on in town. 200 acres of Land in the County of Pitt Near Charles Trippe's, & at present rented to him. On this there is cleared land enough to raise 100 barrels of corn per year. And a Well improved House and Lot in the Town of Washington where Captain Morgan Buck formerly lived My object in wishing to dispose of the above property being to draw the whole of my force to the improvement of my lands on Long Lake, any part or the whole of it will be sold on a liberal credit, and the payments made easy to the purchaser, on being secured by mortgage, or otherwise to my satisfaction. The lands in Lenoir will be shewn to any person desirous of seeing them, by my overseer at that place; those on Moseley's Creek, by Captain Levi West, who lives near them; the lands in Pitt, by Mr. Charles Trippe; the lands and mills in Beaufort, by my overseer at the mills; and any of the other property, by people living in its neighborhood. My price, as well as the mode of payment, for any of the property, may be known by applying to Richard B. Blackledge, at Greenville, or to Thomas W. Blackledge, or myself at Washington. Wm. Blackledge December 26th, 1818 The Editors of the Raleigh Star, and Register, and of the Petersburg Republican, will please insert the above three times in their respective papers, and forward their accounts to this office for payment. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/lenoir/newspapers/wmblackl12nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ncfiles/ File size: 5.8 Kb