White Haven, merchant, L62
10_s._ 7_d._, and Joshua Pollard of Liverpool, shipmaster, L17. Poor
William put up for security lot No. 61, with all buildings thereon,
water rights, watercourses, etc., which led, eventually, to a sheriff's
sale. By due process of law, and to satisfy and pay sundry mortgages,
lot No. 61 fell to William Ramsay.

[Illustration: Mantel in home of William Sewell, peruke-maker]

Ramsay sold a part of this lot on Prince and Royal Streets in 1785 to
Colin McIver, and the property was described as bounded today:
"Beginning 24 feet 6 inches west of Royal and running West on Prince 24
feet, 6 inches, thence 88 feet North to a six foot alley, etc., for
L225, with all houses, buildings, streets, lanes, allies, profits, etc."

In 1795 Colin McIver's son, John, sold the property to a Philadelphia
merchant named Crammond for L450 and Crammond agreed to give up the
house and land within a stated time to anyone paying more, or to pay the
difference.

After twenty-three years the property was bought by another merchant of
Philadelphia, Thomas Asley, for $750.00, and within two years Mr. Asley
sold it to John Gird of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, for
$1,300. In September 1819, John Gird had a note endorsed for $4,100 by
Isaac Entwistle, and mortgaged some of his personal possessions which
were listed as "one clock, one sideboard, two mahogany dining tables,
two tea ditto, one pair card tables, one secretary, two bureaus, one
writing desk, one dozen rush bottom chairs, one ditto with settee to
match, one sofa, two looking glasses, carpets, brass andirons, two
fenders, shovel, tongs, window curtains, three bedsteads and beds,
chair, wash stand, chest, house linen, one set gilt tea china, four
waiters, one half dozen silver teaspoons, one set plated castors, sundry
glass and earthen ware, kitchen furniture, etc."[121]

Six years later this debt was not cleared up and John Gird secured the
debt with his house and lot. Thus ended Gird's tenure and the property
passed on through other hands for twenty-four years to the Miller
family; thence to Isaac Rudd, until the Moore family purchased the house
about 1892.

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Chapter 10

Historic Christ Church

Earliest parish records shed little light upon the spiritual life of the
infant settlement of Alexandria. First mention of services held in the
town turns up in the old Truro Parish vestry book, under date of J