Jefferson County Virginia USGenWeb Archives News..... HIBBINS, PEACHER, SHIRLEY, TATE February 8, 1816 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Cheryl Shaw CShaw24206@aol.com December 18, 2006, 4:33 am Farmer's Repository February 8, 1816 "To Gentlemen Millers and Farmers. I am in the line of BOATING this season -- my Ware-house is on the Potomac, half a mile above the Old Furnace, where I will take in Flour, and deliver it in Alexandria, at one dollar per barrel, and in Georgetown, at ninety-two cents per barrel. Those living in Charlestown or south of that, had best go by Rutherford's Mill, or turn to the left at the Burnt Mill -- the distance about the same as the Old Furnace. JOHN PEACHER. February 1, 1816." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "TRUSTEE'S SALE. Will be sold, to the highest bidder, for ready money, before the door of Fulton's Tavern, in Charlestown, on the 15th day of February inst. all the right, title and interest which John Shirley, jun. had in a tract of land near Charlestown, of which Robert Shirley, dec'd, died seized and possessed -- a particular description of the situation, boundaries & the number of acres will appear by reference to a survey and report, of record in the county court of Jefferson, made by commissioners who divided the lands of Robert Shirley, dec'd, amongst his heirs, under a decree of the said county court. This property was conveyed in a trust by John Shirley, jr. to the subscriber, for the purpose of indemnifying Cyrus Hibbins against a certain securityship in the said deed mentioned. The deed of trust under which the sale will be made is also of record in the county court of Jefferson. The sale to commence at 12 o'clock on the abovementioned day. WM. TATE, Trustee. February 1." Additional Comments: The "Farmer's Repository" was a weekly newspaper published in Charles Town, Jefferson Co, VA which is now known as Jefferson Co, WV. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/jefferson/newspapers/hibbinsp100gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb