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July 13, 2006
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Thursday, July 13, 2006
Notice of Public Sale of Island Known Today as City Island, Published in
1754
I previously have published to the Historic Pelham Blog information
about Thomas Pell, Third Lord of the Manor of Pelham, and his offers to
sell Minneford's Island (known today as City Island) as reflected in
advertisements published in local newspapers in 1747 and 1750. See
May 11, 2006:
Thomas Pell Offers City Island, Then Known as Minneford Island, for Sale
in the Mid-18th Century. In 1754, not long after Pell offered the
island for sale, Samuel Rodman (after whom "Rodman's Neck" on the mainland
adjacent to City Island is named) offered the island for sale. Today's
Historic Pelham Blog posting provides the text of an advertisement
published in 1754 in which Rodman offered the island for sale. That text
appears immediately below.
"To be Sold at publick vendue, on Tuesday the 16th of
April next, or at private sale any time before, either the whole, or
half of a good farm or plantation, containing about 236 acres of
up-land and meadow, well water'd and timber'd, lying in Westchester
county, and commonly known by the Name of Minyford's Island
in the Sound: There is on it a good dwelling house, a barn, and other
out-houses, a good orchard with upwards of 200 apple trees,
besides other fruit trees. Any person inclining to purchase, may apply to
Samuel Rodman, living near the premisses [sic], who will give a good
title for the same."
Source: To Be Sold at Publick Vendue, The New-York Mercury, Mar.
11, 1754, p. 3, col. 1.
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