nking her friend
ill. When they reached the first floor the lady from abroad said, "A
force was pushing me backward. I am quite psychic, you know, and the
ghost who inhabits this house would make it impossible for me to live
here. I love the house and should like to own it, but I should not be
permitted to do so."

At the second auction of lots held on July 14, 1749, Augustine
Washington, brother of Lawrence Washington and half-brother of George,
bought lots Nos. 64 and 65 for fifteen _pistoles_. At a meeting of the
trustees on June 15, 1754, lots Nos. 64 and 65, the property of
Augustine Washington, along with other lots were ordered to "be sold to
the highest bidder at a Public Vendue, the several Proprietors thereof
having failed to build thereon according to the directions of the Act of
Assembly in that case made and provided and it is further ordered that
the Clerk do give Public Notice that the sale of the said lotts will be
at the Town aforesaid on the first day of August next."[112] In the
minutes of the trustees for September 9, 1754, lots Nos. 64 and 65 were
entered as sold to William Ramsay for 39-1/2 _pistoles_, or L37 1_s._
9_d._

The next document in regard to these lots is an indenture made July 21,
1757, between William Ramsay, of the County of Fairfax and the Colony of
Virginia, merchant, and Anne, his wife, of the one part, and John Dixon
of the County of Cumberland in the Kingdom of England, merchant, of the
other part, whereby William Ramsay in consideration of the sum of L810
_7s._ sterling money of Great Britain to him in hand paid by John Dixon
releases, grants, confirms, etc. to John Dixon certain lands described
fully (1,261 acres) and "also the following lotts or half acres of land
situate lying and being in the town of Alexandria in the County of
Fairfax to wit Lott number thirty-four, forty, forty-six, forty-seven,
and the lotts number _sixty-four_, _sixty-five_ [author's emphasis] as
the same are numbered in the plan and survey of the said Town
originally made by John West Junr., as also the following Negro and
mulatto slaves with their increase (to wit) Peter the joyner, Jacob,
Sophia, Whitehaven, Moll, Sall, Peter, Imanuel, Winnifrid and her child,
Zilla, Phillis, and Clarisa, all which said lands and tenements lotts of
land and slaves are now in the actual possession of the said John Dixon
by virtue of one indenture bearing date the day before the date of these
presents and by force of