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Chapter 2
The Building Campaign of 1818
Documentary History of the Construction of the Buildings at the University
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Year-End Balance Sheet
At the end of the year 1818 the balance sheet for the Central College showed its (projected)
income at $25,229.86 ($3,280.86 from the proceeds of the sale of Albemarle County glebe
lands and $21,949 from the first two installments of private subscriptions). The expenditures
for building added up to only $18,648, however, leaving a projected balance to be spent in
1819 of $6,581.86. The breakdown of expenditures is as follows:[151]
| D | |
| 200. a land purchased from Perry & Garth | 1,540. |
| Proctor 200. D. Overseer 150. D | 350. |
| laborers hire. 8. about | 800. |
| subsistence and miscellaneous expences | 500. |
| Doric Pavilion [87,456 bricks] estimated @ | 3,411. |
| South wing of Dormitories [184,325. br.] | |
| North wing of do. [182,137. br.] estimated @ 13 & xd by 2. | 6,926. |
| Corinthian Pavilion [123,717. br.] suppose @ 13. D | 3,843. |
| 26 x by 3. | 5,121. |
| Balance remaining for 1819. | 6,581.86 |
| 25,229.86 |
The eight laborers mentioned in the year-end account may have included some of the slaves
belonging to Pallison Boxley of Louisa County that Proctor Nelson Barksdale and Ludlow
Branham of Boswell's Tavern gave a $670 security bond for on Tuesday 15 December 1818,
"it being for the hire of Four Negro men two boys and a woman for the next ensuing year
and the Said Negroes to be returned on or before the 25th day of Decmr."[152]
152. Barksdale and Branham, Security Bond, 15 December 1818, ViU:PP. The bond bears a
docket that reads: "Barksdale to Boxley Feb: 12 '20 $670 Bond for the hire of Negroes paid
12th Feby 1820 $670." The bond's verso contains two columns of figures, and Boxley's
signed receipt, which reads: "14th Feby 1820 Recvd the withn of Alexr. Garrett Bursar Uy
by the hands of Barksdale P. Boxley." A related receipt in the loose receipts for 1818 in
ViU:PP reads: "15 Decr. 1818 This day recvd of N Barksdale Proctor to C College &
Ludlow Branham (the sd Barksdle Security) bond for the hire of Seven Negroes to wit 4
Men 2 Boys & a woman to the amt of Six hundred & Seventy dollars which Sd Negroes is
to be delieverd to Sd. N Barksdale at the C College in or about the first day of Jany. 1819 &
to be returned to Sd Boxly without cloathing Pallison Boxley Test Geo Vest John Nunn."
Ludlow Branham purchased Boswell's Tavern in 1801. Located in Louisa County at the
intersection of Routes 15 and 22, Branham's ordinary became a notable county landmark
because such political figures as Jefferson, Madison, and Patrick Henry frequently met there
during the Revolutionary War; the Marquis de Lafayette made his headquarters at Boswell's
Tavern in 1781 (see Chisholm and Lillie, Old Home Places of Louisa County, 180).
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Chapter 2
The Building Campaign of 1818
Documentary History of the Construction of the Buildings at the University
of Virginia, 1817-1828 | |