A Handsome Farm for Sale

The subscriber offers for sale, her FARM containing
     500 Acres of PRIME LAND,
the greatest part of which has been improved by clover and plaster. This Farm is beautifully situated on Monocacy River, three miles from Fredericktown (Md.) on the Georgetown road 38 miles from the latter city, and 10 from Potomac; about 60 acres are in fine timber.

THE improvements are — a good two story Stone HOUSE with six rooms and a Cellar; a stone barn; stone stable, large enough for 15 hourses; a good two story dwelling log house; a granary, corn, pigeon, meat houses; ice house and others; a large well, which, altho' upon a hill, has never less than 20 feet of most excellent lime stone water, even in the dryest seasons: a good well situated garden, of four acres of fruit trees, of several kinds.

Also, a tract containing 250 Arcres of LAND, adjoining the above, and only two miles from Fredericktown, which will be sold with, or seperate from the first.

Also, a tract of 37 Acres of Mountain LAND, on the east bank of Monocacy, opposite the above farm. For further information apply to Mr. PETER LAFONT, Baltimore, and the Owner living on said Farm.

VICTOIRE VINCENDIERE

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Plantation Decline

By 1816 and 1819, Victoire Vincendiére was advertising portions of L'Hermitage for sale. By 1829, the household population had decreased to eleven individuals, along with four free African Americans. The enslaved population at L'Hermitage had decreased to 48. On June 14, 1827, the plantation was sold to John Brien, an iron master and substantial landowner in Frederick and Washington counties, for the sum of $24,025 - more than ten times the amount of its value in 1798. Victoire Vincendiére moved to a townhouse in Frederick, Maryland, where she lived until her death in 1854. — NPS