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 agreed that consolidating the <strong>University</strong>’s two separate tracts <strong>of</strong> land by gaining the 132-acre interjacent<br />
tract with the very bold spring would be in the university’s long-term interest but withheld pressing Perry about<br />
the matter lest the carpenter ask an unreasonable price. Perry felt obliged to sell the land in the spring <strong>of</strong> 1825<br />
and the university purchased it for $50 an acre.<br />
See TJ to the Board <strong>of</strong> Visitors, 15 April 1825, in ViU:JHC, Joseph Carrington Cabell to TJ, 6 May 1825, in ViU:TJ, John M. and Frances T. Perry’s <strong>Land</strong> Indenture, 9 May 1825, TJ to Brockenbrough, 14<br />
May, 27 June 1825, John Brockenbrough to Brockenbrough, 4 June 1825, and Brockenbrough to TJ, 27 June 1825, in ViU:PP. The university paid Perry for the land over a two-year period (see Loose<br />
Receipts, 10, 14 May 1825, and 4 June, 1 September, and 9 November 1827, in ViU:PP).<br />
= $6, 600<br />
very bold spring
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