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Show Tli lllrhiwl 31. n nt III. Tlnin. At the ycara went on Waihlngton'i landt Incrcated In vnluo, and when hi died, ho waa one of the rlcheit men of hit time. He owned fonda and itock and negroes, and hla eatatea amounted to thousands of acres. He had houict In Alexandria and property In Wash. Ington. He had valuable landa near the prcaent alto of I'ltttburg. He wit throughout hit life u money-maker, and I waa told at Alexandria that when he waa a boy ho got 5 a day and upward for hit surveying. Ho put hit surplue money Into landa, and an advertisement ad-vertisement In a Ilaltlraoro paper ot 1773 ttatca that he hod 20,000 ocrei ot land for sale on the Ohio river. Ills will, which li now kept about twenty mllea from Waahlngton, In the safe of the old court house nt Fairfax, Va., gives a detailed statement of every article ar-ticle he posseiied down tn the calvti and aheep. Hit personal ettata wit then put down at 1532.000, and thli Included In-cluded n, vast amount of tobacco, large numbera ot cattle, aheep and horns, nearly all of which he willed to hit wife. Thla will la now kept la a wooden box, tho top of which li covered cover-ed with glass. |