Land: Notice of Seized Estates for Public Sale (1779): Chester County, PA

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August 25, 1779
WHEREAS the estates of Joseph Galloway, Nathaniel Vernon, Gideon Vernon,
DAVID DAWSON, RICHARD SWANWICK, William Maddock, Alexander Bartram, Curtis
Lewis, Philip Marchinton, and Joseph Proctor, late of the county of Chester,
having been by due course of law forfeited and seized to the use of this
State, We the subscribers, Agents for the said county, do hereby give
notice, That the estates of the said Joseph Galloway, Nathaniel Vernon,
Gideon Vernon, DAVID DAWSON, RICHARD SWANWICK, William Maddock, Alexander
Bartram, Curtis Lewis, Philip Marchinton, and Joshua Proctor, consisting of
the following tracts of land, viz. Joseph Galloway's, No. 1, Two hundred and
ten acres of marsh on Hog Island.  No. 2, Two hundred and twelve acres of
marsh on Tinicum Island, all of the best quality.  Nathaniel Vernon's Two
hundred and forty-four acres and buildings; a good conveniency for erecting
a mill on Ridley Creek on said plantation.  GideonVernon's, No. 1,
Sixty-three acres and buildings.  No. 2, Fifty acres and buildings, lying
about one hundred perches from the other, about three and a half miles from
the Borough of Chester.  DAVID DAWSON'S, Four hundred and fifty acres in two
plantations, and good buildings in WEST CALN, subject to a widow's thirds.
RICHARD SWANWICK's, Three hundred acres, buildings and sawmill in ditto,
lying near Conestogo road, about 43 miles from Philadelphia.  William
Maddock's, Eighty acres and buildings in Aston, four miles from Chester.
Alexander Bartram's Ninety acres in Haverford, known by the name of the Fix
Chase, seven miles from Philadelphia.  Curtis Lewis's No. 1, One hundred and
forty-four acres and buildings.  No. 2, Two hundred and nine acres and
ditto, No. 3, Fifty acres and ditto in East Caln, lying on Conestogo road
near the Ship tavern.  Philip Marchinton's Four hundred acres and buildings
in West Bradford.  And Joshua Procotr's, Eighty acres and buildings in New
Garden.  The above plantations are well wooded and watered.  All which will
be sold by Public Vendue, on Saturday, the fourth day of September next, at
the Courthouse, in Chester.  The sales to continue from day to day until the
whole is disposed of, Sundays excepted.
THOMAS LEVIS, August 1.
JOHN HANNUM, Agents