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No. 27 Deed 80 acres Hardy [Mor]gan to the The President & Trustees of the University of North Carolina
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This Indenture made this sixteenth day of [...] in [...] Hardy Morgan of the County of Orange and State of North Carolina of the one part and the President & Trustees of the University of North Carolina of the other part. Witnesseth that for and in consideration of the Sum of one hundred pounds current money to the said Hardy Morgan in hand paid by the said President & Trustees, the receipt whereof is hereby [...] acknowledged He the said Hardy Morgan doth hereby grant, bargain, sell [...][al]ien, convey & confirm unto the said President & Trustees of the University of North Carolina and to their succeſsors in office forever a certain tract or parcel of land situate lying & being in the County of Orange & State of North Carolina aforesaid on the Chapel hill adjoining the Land of [...][be]fore me[ntioned][...] University Beginning at a hickory [...] a [...]ading [...] Halifax [...]burgh running thence East (173) one hundred seventy three poles to a Hickory, thence North (148) one hundred forty eight poles to a Spanish Oak, thence West (75) Seventy five poles to a red oak on the side of a road, thence up the various [Courses] of said road as followeth South (29) twenty nine Degrees West (62) Sixty two poles [thence] S[outh][...] (45) for[ty five] Degrees West (80) Eighty poles thence South (29) twenty nine [...][Deg]rees W[est][...][(]36) thirty six poles to the first station containing [Eighty] Acres be the same more or less the same being part of a larger tract granted by John Earl Granville to Mark Morgan by Deed bearing date the
To have and to hold the above granted & bargained premisses to the President & Trustees of the University aforesaid their succeſsors in office forever together with all the Rights privilege & appurtenances thereunto belonging and the said Hardy Morgan doth hereby covenant & oblige himself his Heirs, Executor & administrators to Warrant and Defend the above bargained Premisses & the appurtances thereof to the President & Trustees aforesaid & their Succeſsors in office against the lawful claims of all Persons whatever. In Witness whereof the said Hardy Morgan hath hereunto set his hand & affixed his Seal this day & year first above written.
Hardy Morgan Seal
Signed Sealed & delivered } in presence of } Jno Daniel Junr. [heraly] [Morin] Patterson [Gerard] Jones
State of North Carolina } Orange County }
The Executi[on][...] of the within Deed was duly proved in open court by the Oath of John Daniel junr one of the suscribing witneſses [Thieits] and ordered to be Registered
A. B. Bruce CC
State of North Carolina } Orange County Regr Office } }
The Within deed is Recorded in Book P follio ^(689 & 90) (690)
[Test] John Allison [P. R.]
(139)
An estimate of the President's house of The University in the State No. Carolina With the Dimensions To Wit
The house to be thirty feet by thirty six feet with a Cellar, and two storye high— of wood
The cellar shall be three feet below the Surfface and Built up with stone ^three feet Above the Surfface to be Brick three feet high with all usefull windows and doors there to
The First Storye 10 feet Six Inches with a Paſsage 10 feet by 36 feet with a good [good] Comptent Stair case hand rails and ballasters ^included [Base, Sir Base Cornice] and Cloſset^'s, Sash, and frames, Doors, locks and Hinges to all; the Windows of the first Story to have Shutters and Fastening all compla[...] With the floors well laid, and good [planed] For Each Storye
Second Storye nine feet high [Base and Sir Base] in all the Storye three Bead Chambers With four closets two in Each of the large rooms Nine fifteen light windows Glaſs ten by lights Door and caſsings, well furnished the House to be All Compleat, [lathed] and plastered
(140)
The Frame to be good and Sufficient Timbers All Good Girders and Braces and also well put together the work all at
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N. B. The knowledge of getting such Timbers as may suit on the publick land.
John Conroy