ed Alley, and be four in number of equal front (about 21
feet each). The other lot will have a breadth of 26 feet on Prince
Street and about 83 or 4 on Pitt Street, or may be divided into
[illegible] remaining front on the former street will be divided into
[illegible] lotts, equal in size and abt. 24 or 5 feet front each. If
any persons should be inclined to make offers for the lots here
described, or any of them, Mr. Jas. Anderson (my manager) will
receive the same [illegible] shortly, the lotts will be exposed at
public sale, of which notice will be given.[174]

The following September, writing to James Harrison, he said, "The Ground
Rent of the lot I have offered to Lease, in Alexandria, is three dollars
a foot, for what it measures on _each_ Street. This I must obtain as an
annual Rent or the lot will not be disposed of in that way."[175]

Washington died on December 14, 1799, and his will, written July 9,
1799, was probated January 20, 1800. In an annexed schedule of property
which he directed be sold (some conditionally disposed of) with
explanatory notes relative thereto appears this entry:

Alexandria

Corner of Pitt & Prince Stts. half an Acre--laid out into build[in]gs
3 or 4 of wch. are let on grd. Rent at $3 pr. foot. 4,000(t)[176]

Under the note "t" the property is further described: "For this lot
though unimproved, I have refused $3500.--It has since been laid off
into proper sized lots for building on--three or 4 of which are let on
ground Rent--forever--at three dollars a foot on the street,--and this
price is asked for both fronts on Pitt & Princes Street."[177]

These lots were included in the estate left to his wife for her
lifetime. Martha Washington died on May 22, 1802. On June 7, 1803, the
executors of Washington's estate sold this half-acre lot divided into
nine lots, Nos. 1 to 4 on Pitt and Nos. 5 to 9 on Prince. An alley ten
feet wide separated the Prince Street lots from those on Pitt. Only one
lot was unimproved. The executors submitted this sale along with others
made the same day to be recorded at Fairfax July 15, 1811.

The lot at the intersection of Pitt and Prince, bearing the number 5 in
the division, was sold to L.A. Washington for $1,613.33, bringing more
by nearly four hundred dollars than any of the other eight.

Lawrence Augustine Washington's deed for this property was dated August
7, 1804, and calls for "twenty-five feet four inches on Pr