Brick_Wood_Stone_Land_Water_Measurement - University of Virginia
Brick_Wood_Stone_Land_Water_Measurement - University of Virginia
Brick_Wood_Stone_Land_Water_Measurement - University of Virginia
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<strong>Brick</strong>_<strong>Wood</strong>_<strong>Stone</strong>_<strong>Land</strong>_<strong>Water</strong>_<strong>Measurement</strong><br />
Jefferson bought John M. Perry’s land, a carpenter that later worked on the <strong>University</strong> construction site, for $12<br />
per acre. It was a fallow agricultural field in a suitable location. Perry sold the college two tracts <strong>of</strong> Albemarle<br />
County land, for $1,421.25, the one containing 43 acres and three fourths about a mile above Charlottesville<br />
on the public road to Staunton, the other about five eighths <strong>of</strong> a mile from the former, containing 153 acres,<br />
comprehending the top and part <strong>of</strong> a mountain.<br />
Pierson, Rev. Hamilton Wilcox, Jefferson at Monticello: The Private Life <strong>of</strong> Thomas Jefferson, from Entirely New Materials, 1862, 19-22.<br />
= $1, 421.25
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