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Virginia
Gazette August 1777
To be sold by the subscriber in Bute COunty near Col. William Johnson's on Monday
the 15th of September if fair other the next fiar day, soem valuable household
and kitchen furniture, amon them are mohogany chairs and tables of the best
kind, mohogany and black walnut bedsteads adn furniture, looking glasses, dressing
ditto, a variety of china and glass, two sets of jamanned waiters, from a large
size to blttle stands, best green ivory handled knives and forks, a handsome
spinnet. Amon the kitchen furniture are pots, baker's belmetal pans also a few
valuable negros, a neat riding chair, horses and a few cows and calves...Cash
or tobacco will be taken in payment. The Tobacc ot be delivered at Halivax A.A.
McKay
N.B. A valuable assortment of medicines with the lumber of a shop will be sold.
As I intend to move into Virginia, I will sell the following tracts of land in this country namely: The tract and plantation whereupon I now live containing about 1600 acres lyin on Sandy Creek and a hundred from Petersburg with a very bold and constand stream of water running through it, on .....
Two hundred acres on Shocko, about six miles from Bute Courthouse, with about fifty thousand corn hills and sixy thousand tobacco hills in tendance, whic is all the cleared land upon it. About 600 acres within two miles of the aforesaid courthouse good for raising graind and stock, but has no improvements on it. Also about 700 acres withibng sxi miles of the courthouse good for raising grain and stock, with about twenty thousand corn hills cleared thereon. About 500 acres on Hob Quarter Creek, within three iles of Colonel Eaton's with a fresh cleared plantaion of about forty thousand corn hills, and thirty thousand tobacco hills, which is all the cleard land on this tract. On the first mentioned tract tow and three thousand weight of tobacco per hand has been generally made. .... WILLIAM TABB
To be rented or leased on reasonable terms immediately about 200 acres of land on Shockco creek in Bute county North Carolina pleasantly situation whereon is BUte courthous and a good dwelling house 40 by 24 feed with four fooms below and three above, just now finished, a kitchen 20 by 16 feed, conveniently completed , a dairy, smokehouse, cribe, lumber house, and stables, with other necessary outhouse, a large an well furnihsed garden about 20,000 corn hills cleard and under a good fence; all whic is entiredly free from and encumbrances of outsellers of liquors encroaching, as teh right is soley in the advertiser, who now lives on the premises.
Virginia Gazette Sept 21, 1767
To be sold by order of the worshipful court ob Bute county, in North Carolina on Tuesday the 15th of December next, at the plantation of John Moseley, on Roanoke River.
A likely young negro fellow, named Abraham of the estate of Benjamin Batchellor, deceased; and as I have been informed that the said slave is entailed on some porson in teh country of Gloucesher, in Virghiia, I do hereby give this publick notic that if any person has a right to said negro they may appear at the above mentioned tiem and let it be known. Julius Nichols, Sheriff.
Virginia
Gazette June 26, 1771
Run away from the subscribers plantation in Bute County North Carolina some
tiem in July last, a negro fellow named Will. He is about thiery eight years
of age, thick set and well made, much feared with whipping and one of his great
toes off....belonged to COlo Jobin Tabb, decesed of Elizabeth City and is supposed
ot be lurking in that neighborhood of that of Mrs. Lydia Jone of the said country,
who owns a brother to the said negro.....John Austin Finnie
Runaway from Bute...formerly belonged to Mr. William Tab.......William Person
