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NYGWPB.771.015
18 Feb 1771:42 (1468)
To be sold, at private sale, the commodious house and large
gardens, in the out ward of the city, known by the name of
Vauxhall; the situation extremely pleasant, having a very
extensive view both up and down the North River: The house
has 4 good rooms on a floor, with a large entrance and other
conveniencies, an excellent cellar, a very good kitchen, and
a large room 20 by 56 feet adjoining the house, with an
arched ceiling, a convenient musick gallery, two fireplaces
and two entrances; coach house, stables, and other out-
houses, with as fine water as any in the city; there are 36
lots and a half of ground laid out to great advantage in a
pleasure and kitching garden, well stocked with fruit and
other trees, vegetables, &c.and several summer-houses, which
occasionally may be removed; the whole in extreme good
border and repair, well fenced in, very fit for a large
family, or to entertain the gentry, &c. as a public garden,
&c. The premises are on lease from Trinity Church, sixty one
years of which are yet to come. . . [3 lines, then] For
further particulars inquire of Mr. Francis, at his house,
the Queen's Head tavern, near the Exchange, or at Mr.
Knapp's office in Broad-street.
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