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SHERIFF’S SALE OF LANDS

[Welland Tribune, 20 March 1891]

COUNTY OF WELLAND, To Wit:_ ON SATURDAY, THE THIRTIETH DAY OF MAY- A.D. 1891, I shall offer for sale by Public Auction, at my office in the Court House, in the Town of Welland, at one o’clock p.m., all the right title, interest, and equity of redemption of the defendants, Leander Colt and Samuel Colt, in, to, and out of the following described lands and tenements, seized and taken by me in execution, under and by virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias, viz: In the High Court of Justice, Common Pleas Division, the Commissioners for the Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park, Plaintiffs; and Leander Colt and Samuel Colt, Defendants: all that certain parcel of land, lying and being in the Township of Stamford, in the County of Welland, and being composed as follows:-

The broken front on the Niagara River in front of lot 74, in the Township of Stamford, in the County of Welland, which said broken front is known as broken front lot 74, and is butted and bounded, and may be described as follows:-

That is to say, commencing at the distance of one chain east of the north east, angle of lot number 74, in the said Township, on a line drawn east from the division line between lots numbers 59 and 74 of the said Township, thence due south 20 chains, more or less, along the easterly boundary of the allowance for road, on the easterly boundary of said lot 74, being along the northerly side of the allowance for road between lot 74 and lot 75, due east 27 chains, more or less, to within one chain from the top of the high bank on the Niagara River, then northerly along the bank of the said river, and at the distance of one chain therefrom until it intersects a line drawn east from the division line between lots number 59 and number 74 of the said township; thence west to the place of beginning.

Containing by ad measurement thirty eight acres and eleven porches of land, be the same more or less.

James Smith

Sheriff’s Office

Welland, Feb. 26, 1891

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