Jefferson County Virginia USGenWeb Archives News.....ALLSTADT, HALL, POTTS, THOMPSON, VIETCH August 3, 1810
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Farmer's Repository August 3, 1810
"Land for Sale.
By virtue of a decree of the county court of Jefferson, rendered on the 13th 
day of June, 1810, in a cause wherein Jonah Thompson and Richard Vietch were 
complainants, and Mary Potts, heir at law of John Potts, dec'd, and others were 
defendants:
The subscribers appointed by said decree for the purpose of carrying the same 
into effect, will sell at public auction, to the highest bidder, for cash, on 
the first day of September next, a Tract of Land, lying in the said county of 
Jefferson, supposed to contain 178 acres more or less  --the same tract on 
which the said Potts resided at the time of his death, and is part of a larger 
tract purchased by him of Thomas Hall and Thomas Hall, jun. and is the same 
tract on the 6th day of May, 1803 was mortgaged by the said John Potts to the 
said Thompson and Vietch.
This land is situate on the main road leading from Charles Town to Harper's 
Ferry, and is about an equal distance from each. There is a good seat for a 
water grist mill on it, with a sufficient current of water.  The sale will be 
subject to Elizabeth Allstadt's (late Elizabeth Potts,)  dower right in the 
same, and will commence at the dwelling house on the premises, at twelve 
o'clock on the above mentioned day.
The commissioners will make such deed of conveyance to the purchaser as said 
court may direct.
        JOHN BAKER, JOHN DIXON, WM. TATE, - Com'rs.
August 3, 1810."


Additional Comments:
The "Farmer's Repository" was a weekly newspaper published in Charles Town, 
Jefferson Co, VA which is now Jefferson Co, WV. 


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