GREENHILL HOUSE, KINGSTEIGNTON, One Mile from Newton Abbot Station: MR. HOOPER will SELL upon the premises on TUESDAY, the 18th day of August inst., the following HORSES, Farm Implements, by first class makers, Cleft and Faggot Wood, and After-Grass, &c, the property of Thomas Pinsent, Esq., who requires no further use, Comprising: clever Cob Horse, accustomed to driven in a carriage, very quiet and well suited for an invalid or elderly person to drive, a Mare Pony about 14 hands, a safe and good hack for a person of advanced years, a four-year old Nag after a horse of Mr. Watson’s, over 16 hands high, has worked on the farm, a two-years old Filly Colt by Mr. Barrett’s horse Frankteli, has received injury in one of her hind legs, now over 16 hands, and will make a first class Mare to breed from, one Yearling Filly Colt, by the same horse as the last named, very handsome and promises to make a first-class hack, one good and useful Mare of all work. The Implements’ consist of 2 Sulls, Pair Harrows, Corn Drill, Scuffle Plough, Turnip Cutter, Hay Slide, Horse Raker, Chaff -Cutter, Oil Cake Crushers, Bean Ditto, Ventilating Apparatus, Iron Furnace, sundry Old Iron, Two Stacks of Cleft Wood, 2 Ricks of Faggot Ditto, etc.. At the same time will be Let the After-Grass of 8 Acres of Marsh Land on Greenhill, fresh and good until the first of December next, sub-divided by railing into three compartments, to be stocked with Sheep and Young Bullocks only; also will be Let the After Grass of the Race Marsh, containing above 20 Acres, until the first of February next, and may be Stocked with Sheep and Bullocks only. May be viewed on the day of Sale, which will commence at o’clock, p.m: Dated Chagford, August 3rd, 1868.
[Exeter and Plymouth Gazette: Friday 14th August 1868]
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GRO1036 Devonport: Thomas Pinsent: 1782 – 1872