First Quality Limestone Land

11.04.1818 Village Record
Valuable property for Private Sale.
A tract of first quality limetone
land containing one hundred & four
acres and an [sic] half situate in Tredyffrin
township, Chester county, Penn. bounded
by lands of Jas. Sloan, Jacob Longane,
John Miller and others, 2 miles
north of the Philadelphia and Lancaster
turnpike, twenty miles from
Philadelphia. This farm is divided into
convenient fields, under good fence,
convenient to meetings, mills, schools
etc. with a sufficiency of wood, watered
meadow and orcharding. The
buildings are three stone dwelling
houses two stories, stone barn, waggon-house,
hog house, cider house, and other
out-buildings, etc. For terms
apply to the subscriber on the Philadelphia
and Lancaster turnpike near
the Warren tavern.
SAMUEL DAVIS.
November 4. 18. 66
N.B. If the above property is not
sold by the 26th day of November, it
will then be offered at Public Sale, at
one o'clock P.M. on the premises.

This is the Gronow - Andrews property on the south side of Yellow Springs Road. See the Table F.2 Gronow – Andrews Property for the deed history. In 1818 and 1819 Samuel Davis placed 5 newspaper advertisements to sell this farm. These attempted sales were not successful. The plantation was not sold until 1820, which was after Samuel Davis' death.

Found by Herb Fry. Digitized by Heidi Sproat 5/8/2022.