University of Virginia Library

John M. Perry & Arthur Spicer Brockenbrough

Agreement for Brickwork

We the Subscribers do enter into the following articles of agreement--Viz John M Perry is to
make for the University of Va three hundred thousand hard well shaped bricks such a
portion of which shall be Column bricks as many as may be required for the Rotunda shaped
agreeable to a mould to be furnished and such a portion of paving bricks as may be wanting
for the Rotunda & Gymnasia, and which shall be smoth well shaped bricks--The afore said
Perry is to take the wood purchased of Jesse Lewis & what ever other wood the proctor may
have on hand for the burning of Bricks at One Dollar per cord on the ground where cut or
two Dollars delivered at the Kiln near the University; the said Perry is to pay at the rate
of           cents per thousand for the clay that was dug by the labourers of the University,[840]
to pay Child Brand his wages from the 17th May & to employ him & Patrick Quin for two
months to come from this date at the same rate I contracted with them--at that is to say, to
give them the same wages per month payable monthly that Capt Perry gave them the last
year--A. S. Brockenbrough--Proctor & acting for the University agrees to let Capt J. M.
Perry have the use of the yard, shelters, clamps &c attached to the Brick yard for the making
of the Said bricks but no other bricks are to be made or carried from said yard or grounds for
any other purposed.[841] the Said Shelters, yards, clamps &c to be returned in good order,
for the aforesaid 300,000 Bricks the said Proctor agrees to pay to said Perry at the rate of
four dollars & fifty cents per thousand on or before the 1st day of February next witness our
hands & Seals this 25th Day of May 1824.

AD (copy), in ASB's writing, ViU:PP, 1p, with ASB docket "Perry with Proctor Contract for
making Bricks"; Dft, in ASB's writing, ViU:PP, 2p. The draft is not dated.