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Lewis County Farm Faces Auction Block

A court-ordered sheriff's sale is set for a 320-acre property to satisfy a judgment against Lewis County.

Whereas, on the 16th day of December, 1860, in the Supreme Court of Washington Territory, Franklin Kennedy and Isaac Hays recovered judgment against the county of Lewis for the sum of eight hundred and fifty dollars and ninety-seven cents, with legal interest from that date, and costs of suit in the District Court of sixteen dollars and forty-five cents, together with the cost in the Supreme Court of nineteen dollars and ten cents. Therefore, by virtue of an execution issued by the Clerk of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Washington, the 22d day of April, 1862, to me directed, commanding me to levy upon the property of the said county of Lewis to satisfy said judgement of nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars and fifty-five cents, judgment, interest and cost, and accruing costs; notice is hereby given that I have this day levied upon and taken in execution the following described property, to wit: All of that certain piece or parcel of land situated in the county of Lewis and bounded as follows: on the north by the lands of Noah Crutzer, south by the lands of G. Washington, and on the east and west by public lands, and known as the Lewis county farm, containing three hundred and twenty acres, be the same more or less, with all of the appurtenances thereunto belonging; and notice is hereby given that I shall proceed to sell the above described property, on the premises, at public auction, to the highest bidder, for cash, on Saturday, the 14th day of June, 1862, at 10 o'clock A.M. of that day. J. IVAN HALL, Sheriff of Lewis county.

“Notice is hereby given that I shall proceed to sell the above described property, on the premises, at public auction, to the highest bidder, for cash.”

— Printed in Washington Standard (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1862
Then · 1862164 years apartNow · 2026

This notice highlights the early financial precarity of Washington Territory's county governments. Public land seizures were a blunt mechanism for settling debts, reflecting a time when civil infrastructure was often funded by fragile credit and personal litigation.

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Washington Standard (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1862-07-05. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.

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From
Washington Standard (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, JUL 5, 1862, Page 3
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