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THE OLD SALE BILL

By Ron Magnuson

Good Hope, Illinois 61438

With permission from George R. Davis of the Democrat-Message newspaper of Mount Sterling, Illinois.

The following Sale Bill was brought to the D-M office by C.E. Ashbaker of Mt. Sterling, who found it among some old papers at his home. Mr. Ashbaker thought that possibly some of our readers had never seen such a publication. It is believed to be well over a hundred years old.

Having sold my farm, and as I am leaving for Oregon territory by oxen team on March 1, 1849, I will sell all of my personal property, except two oxen teams, Buck and Ben and Lon and Jerry, consisting of the gray yokes, 1 baby yoke, 2 ox carts, 1 iron plow with wood mole board, 800 feet of poplar weather boards, 1 ,000 three-foot clapboards, 1,500 ten-foot fence rails, 1 60-gallon soap kettle, 85 sugar troughts made of white ash timber, 10 ...

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