This article from the Cambridge Chronicle was reported in the Carlisle Patriot on Friday, October 25, 1844. Carol "A CHARACTER. - An old man, residing within six miles of this town, made a curious bargain the other day for the disposal of some land of which he was the owner. Amongst other conditions, the vender stipulated that the purchaser should supply him daily with milk during the remainder of his life, and straw for his fires, that he should cart all his coals for him, that he should brew on his own premises, and send the beer to the vender's residence, and that the vender should have the liberty of walking over the land as usual, and the 'pleasure' of warning off strangers. - 'Cambridge Chronicle'."