An auction sale.

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1762.  A public Vendue at the house of Deacon Isaiah Kingston.—Boston Evening Post, Aug. 2.

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1765–75.  Many Sales at Public Vendue announced in the Boston-Gazette.

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1777.  Sale of a vessel, “by Public Vendue, for Ready Money.”—Maryland Journal, Jan. 28.

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1799.  By profession he is a vendue crier. He said he would cry the vendue in spite of the Standing Army.—The Aurora, Phila., April 10.

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[1799.  “Auction room,” and “Sale by Auction”—Id., July 29.]

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1800.  George Crow takes this method of informing the public that he is authorized to cry Vendues.—Lancaster (Pa.) Intelligencer, April 9.

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1800.  The vendue to begin at ten o’clock.—Lancaster (Pa.) Journal, Sept. 20.

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1802.  He was intended for a lawyer by Papa, who was a vendue master in Philadelphia; but some how, he was not the kind of wood to make a Mercury of; therefore he did not succeed at the bar.—J. T. Callender, ‘Letters to Alexander Hamilton, King of the Feds,’ p. 54 (N.Y.).

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1803.  The ’Squire is a worthy Gentleman, and I don’t tell a word of a lie when I say he would not part with me for the best young negur that was ever knocked down at vendue. (Note) Auction.—John Davis, ‘Travels in the U.S.A.,’ p. 359 (Lond.).

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1862.  

        But I don’t love your cat’logue style,—do you?—
Ez ef to sell all Natur’ by vendoo.
Lowell, ‘Biglow Papers,’ 2nd Series, No. 6.    

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