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Daniel A. and Mary A. Frances Piper Deed

This indenture made on the 8th day of October One thousand eight hundred & twenty four
between Daniel A Piper and Mary A. F. his wife on the one part and Arthur S
Brockenbrough, Proctor of the University of Virginia and acting on behalf of the said
University on the other part all the County of Albemarle Witnesseth that the said Daniel A
& Mary A. F. his Wife in consideration of the sum of four hundred and twenty four dollars
twenty cents to them paid and secured, have given, granted, bargained & sold to the said
Arthur S as Proctor of the said University and in trust and for the use thereof a certain parcel
of land in the same county adjacent to the lands of the said University and particularly to the
parcel thereof lately sold and conveyed by a nother deed to the said proctor for the use of the
University by the said Daniel A and Mary A. F. his wife, which parcel now conveyed is
bounded as follows to wit, Begining at a stake on the North side of the Public road leading
from Charlottesville to Rockfish gap and in a right line with the West side of West street
four hundred & sixty two feet from a stake in a line with the north front of Hotel AA on said
West Street thence runing S 68½ E 54 poles and 8 links to a stake in the field opposite the
Eastern street and exactly in a line with the east fronts of the Hotels on the said East street
and four hundred & Sixty two feet from the Hotel A on said street, thence S 35 E 42 poles &
5 links to the said public road, and thence in a direct line to the begining, which parcel of
land so now bargained, sold and conveyed contains by estimate four Acres and four
hundredth parts of an acre be the same more or less to have and to hold the said parcel of
land to him the said Arthur S and his successors in office, Proctors of the said University, for
the use of the said University for ever. And the said Daniel A and Mary A. F. his wife and
their heirs the said parcel of land to the said Arthur S. and his successors as proctors of the
said University will forever warrant and defend. But it is covenanted by the said Arthur S
for himself and his successors, proctors of the said University that he the said Arthur S and
his successors for an in the name of the said University will consent (if the legal authorities
shall so determine and order) that the said public road shall be discontinued in it's present
location and shall be established along the line now described as to be the future line
between the lands of the University and the remaining lands of the said Daniel A and Mary
A. F his Wife and that he the said proctor will admit a breadth of 30 feet within and adjacent
to the said lines on the south side thereof and along their whole length, to be occupied and
established as the bed of the public road; which said covenant is expressly declared to be a
part of the consideration (and in addition to that of the money paid) for the grant of this
parcel of land, by the said Daniel A and Mary his wife and that it is that special part of the
consideration without which this grant would never have been made. In witness whereof the
said Daniel A & Mary A. F. his wife have hereto severally set their hands & seals on the day
& year before written

Signed & sealed & Daniel A. Piper (Seal)

delivered in the presence of Mary A. F. Piper (Seal)

We Opie Norris and Allen Dawson, Justices of the peace in the County aforesaid, in the
State of Virginia, do hereby certify that Mary A. F. Piper, the wife of Daniel A Piper, parties
to the annexed Deed, personally appeared before us in our said County and being by us
examined privily and apart from her husband, and having the said Deed fully explained to
her, she the said Mary A. F. Piper acknowledged the same to be her act and deed, and
declared she had willingly Signed Sealed & delivered the same, and that she wished not to
retract it. Given under our hands and Seals the eighth day of October, eighteen hundred &
twentyfour.

O: Norris ( )

Allen Dawson ( )

In Albemarle County Court Office the 9th. day of October 1824

This Indenture was acknowledged before me in the Office aforesaid by Daniel A Piper party
thereto & thereupon the same (together with the relinquishment of Dower of Mrs. Piper)
was admitted to record

Teste Ira Garrett D.C

DS, in the writing of ASB, Allen Dawson, and Ira Garrett, ViU:PP, 4p, with ASB docket
"Piper & wife To Proctor of University of Virginia Deed." Beneath Brockenbrough's docket
the clerk wrote: "9th. Octo 1824 ackd before me in the Clerks office by Danl. A Piper
relinqh recd & admitted to record I Garrett DC. Recorded Page 420."