"Great Bargain:" Land, Mills, and Enslaved Persons for Sale

"Great Bargain:" Land, Mills, and Enslaved Persons for Sale

Florida State University

Enslavement

Tallahassee (Fla.)

Race Relations

Subscriber offers land, mills, and enslaved persons for sale.

Dyer, Aaron

1836-12-31

Patterson, Kathryn

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Great Bargain. Land, Mills, and Negroes for Sale. The subscriber offers for sale his land &mills, lying on the St. Marks River, 12 miles S.E. of Tallahassee, and about 12 N.E. of St. Marks. There is now an operation a sawmill, situated in 1 1-2 miles from above the river, surrounded by the best of pine and cypress timber in abundance. Also, another mill site, partly improved, lying directly on the river, which is navigable at all seasons of the year for boats and rafts from these points to St. Marks, where lumber can be shipped to any port or transported on the rail-road to Tallahassee. The expense of rafting or boating lumber from said mills to the railroad will not exceed $1 per thousand feet. –The above water privileges are of sufficient power to propel two goings (?) of saws, a grist mill, a (?) mill and a rice mill. There is first rate soil for rice on part of the above described land—It also furnishes some of the best and coldest spring water in Florida. Also will be sold, in connection with the above property, or separate, a family of negroes, of good character. The above valuable property will be sold on the most reasonable terms. Persons wishing to purchase, will do well to call immediately on the subscriber, at his residence, or to B. Byrd & Co. at their store in this place. – Aaron Dyer. Magnolia, Dec. 15th, 1836.