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 Prince Street,
beginning at the intersection, running in depth parallel to Pitt
eighty-three feet to a ten-foot alley, and all Houses, Buildings,
Improvements, Streets and Allies."[178]
On the death of Lawrence A. Washington the little houses and the lot on
the corner of Prince and Pitt Streets became the property of his son,
Robert W. Washington. He in turn sold the property to Alexious Johnson,
at whose death it was sold at public auction by Samuel Bartle,
commissioner, to William Gregory for $605.00 on July 11, 1844. Three
years later, September 13, 1847, Will and Mary Gregory sold the same
property to Benjamin Huges. Benjamin and Susan Huges divided the
property, selling 30 feet 10 inches on Pitt Street to Joseph Francis
Cook on July 15, 1874, and on July 26, 1887, the Huges sold the house
and lot on the corner of Prince and Pitt, running 25 feet west on Prince
and 52 feet north on Pitt to J. Frank Taylor. On July 17, 1874, Joseph
Francis Cook and his wife, Georgeanna, conveyed to Taylor the part they
had previously bought from the Huges.
On April 20, 1897, J. Frank Taylor conveyed this same property to Walter
G. Rogers, and on April 20, 1900, Walter G. Rogers and his wife, Matilda
A. Rogers, sold to George T. Klipstein. In 1935 the property was
purchased by Charles B. and Gay Montague Moore, and in 1945 the property
was again divided, and the house on Pitt Street was sold to Mr. Charles
Francis Alexander, and the Prince Street House to Colonel Hubbard.
[Illustration: In England a Georgian Cottage, but in Alexandria a great
house]
[Illustration]
Chapter 21
The Georgian Cottage
[711 Prince Street. Owner: Mrs. Andrew Pickens.]
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