A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=43278 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: The Pennsylvania Herald and General Advertiser Article Date: September 21 1786 Article Description: Choice Sussex County Land for Sale. Article Text: September 21, 1786: To Be Sold on Reasonable Terms: About two thousand four hundred acres of choice LAND, in the forest of Sussex county, state of Delaware; eighteen miles from Lewes Town; three miles from a landing on Broad Kiln Creek, where shallops load for Philadelphia; and six miles from Nanticoke river, (where ships of burden for the London trade have been built), leading to the Chesapeake Bay. There are on the premises, one large and three small improved plantations: The soil is good, the land level and heavily timbered with the best ship and stave timber, its is very natural to grass, some good meadow is already made and several hundred acres more may be easily be made at a small expense. The county abounds with store of cattle and there may be a number of valuable grazing farms made on the primises after the timber is cut out. Please to apply to JACOB BROOM, esq., at Wilmington, or to: JOHN YOUNG, jun., Philadelphia: N.B. The above will be sold all together, or in quanity to suit the purchasers; for Specie, Public Securities, or Produce. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com