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 gallons of
maple syrup, 2 spinning wheels, 30 pounds mutton tallow, 1 large
loom made by Perry Wilson, 300 poles, 100 split hoops, 100 empty
barrels, 1 32-gal-lon of Johnson-Miller whisky, 7 years old, 20
gallons of apple brandy, 1 40-gal-lon copper still, 4 sides of
oak-tanned leather, I gallon wooden pitchforks and one-half
interest in tan yards, 1 32 caliber rifle, bullet molds and powder
horn, rifle made by Ben Miller, 50 gallons of soft hams, bacon and
lard, 40 gallons of sorghum molasses, 6 head of fox hounds all soft
mouthed but one. At the same time, I will sell my 6 regreslaves; 2
men, 35 and 50 years old; 2 boys, 12 and 1 year old, two muliatio,
wenches 40 and 30 years old. Will sell together to same party, as I
will not separate them.
Terms of sale: Cash in hand or note to draw 4 percent interest
with Bob McConnel security. My home is two miles south of
Versailles Kentucky on McConnel ferry pike. Sale will begin at 8
o’clock a.m. Plenty to eat and drink.
A 2 cycle Detroit engine at the Stumptown Steam Threshers
Reunion, September 10, 1967 at New Athens, Ohio. Engine owned and
restored by Wayne Brannon, 1400 East Ivy St., Coshocton, Ohio.
Here is power cheaper than gasoline. This little windmill is a
salesman’s sample of a well-known make and is owned by George
W. Hafacker, 3633 Four-Mile N.W., Grand Rapids, Michigan. George is
on the right and I am on the left.
