San Mateo County Gazette Redwood City, San Mateo County, California Saturday Morning, February 4, 1860, Vol. 1 No.44 A SAN MATEOAN APPOINTED TO THE NAVY - By a letter to a gentleman of this place, we learn that Mr. Charles Fair, who was a candidate for County Treasurer at the first county election in this county, has received an appointment in the U.S. Navy, and is ordered to join the ship "Saranac" of the Pacific squadron. Sheriff's Sale By virtue of an execution issued out of the District Court of the Twelfth Judicial District of the State of California, in and for the County of San Mateo, and to me duly directed and delivered, in the suit of C.C. BOWMAN vs ALVIN ADAMS, D.H. HASKELL, and I.C. WOODS, by which I am commanded to make the sum of five thousand dollars, ($5,000) with the interest from the date of said judgment, until paid at the rate of ten per cent per annum, together with forty-nine dollars and fifty cents, ($49. 50-100) costs and disbursements at the date of said judgment and accruing costs, amounting to the sum of one dollar and seventy-five cents, ($1.75) I have levied on the following described property, to wit: all that part of the Pulgas Ranch, commencing at Hackett and Judah's northwesterly corner, designated as point No. 2, in red ink on the map made by Troskiloski, and filed by the parties in the County Recorder's office San Francisco County, thence running north fifty-eight degrees, west thirty-three chains twenty-four link, thence north fifty-seven degrees thirty minutes west five chains two links, thence north fifty-eight degrees thirty minutes west twelve chains forty-seven links, thence north fifty-seven (sic) degrees west two chains thirty-eight links, thence north fifty-nine degrees west two chains eighty links, thence fifty eight degrees west twenty chains ninety-two links, thence north fifty-eight chains twenty-nine links, thence north twenty-four degrees eleven minutes east one hundred and thirteen chains to the Bay of San Francisco, thence along the line of the Bay of San Francisco to Hackett and Judah's northwest corner and stake number twelve, designated on said map, thence south twenty-one degrees thirty five minutes west along Hackett and Judah's westerly boundary line to the place of beginning, estimated to contain one thousand eight hundred and three seventy-six one-hundredths acres, and also the marsh land to the northward and eastward. Also, the commencing at a point number one, in red ink, as laid down on the map, made by Troskyloski aforesaid, thence southwesterly along the meanderings of San Franciquito Creek by County Road, thence northwesterly along the County Road to lands of John Briceland, thence northeasterly along the southeasterly boundary of said Briceland's land, to the so-called middle road, thence southeasterly along the middle road to the place of beginning, containing three hundred and ten acres, more or less. Said above described parcels of land being the same premises levied upon by virtue of an attachment in the above entitled cause, dated August 23d, 1858. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on THURSDAY, the TWENTY-THITD DAY OF FEBRUARY, A.D., 1860, between the hours of nine o'clock A.M. and five o'clock, P.M. in front of the Courthouse doors of San Mateo county, at Redwood City, I will sell all the right, title and interest of the above named defendants, or either of them, in and to the above described pieces or parcels of land, at Public Auction, for cash in hand, to the highest and best bidder, to satisfy said execution, interest, and all costs. SILAS HOVIOUS Sheriff San Mateo County By John Ames, Under Sheriff Redwood City, Feb. 1, 1960 ** SALE - We learn that Capt. Macondray, of San Mateo, has sold his beautiful residence and grounds at that place, to John Parrot, Esq., of San Francisco. We are not at liberty to state the price, but it is sufficient to satisfy any one that homesteads in that locality are held in high estimation by men of taste and means. To see other old newspapers, visit http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php