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Primary document
Title:
Samuel Hopkins's Bond for Building the President's House, January
25, 1794: Electronic Edition.
Author: Hopkins, Samuel
Author: Cain, William
Author: Ray, David
Author: Thompson, Henry
Author: Lytle, William
Funding from the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill supported the electronic publication of this title.
Text transcribed by
Bari Helms
Images scanned by
Bari Helms
Text encoded by
Amanda Page
First Edition, 2005
Size of electronic edition: ca. 9K
Publisher: The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2005
© This work is the property of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. It may be used freely by individuals for research, teaching and
personal use as long as this statement of availability is included in the
text
The electronic edition is a part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill digital library, Documenting the American South.
Languages used in the text:
English
Revision history:
2005-12-09, Sarah Ficke finished TEI/XML encoding.
Source(s):
Title of collection: University of North Carolina Papers (#40005), University Archives,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of document: Samuel Hopkins's Bond for Building the President's
House, January 25, 1794
Author: Saml. Hopkins
Author: William Cain
Author: David Ray
Author: Henry Thompson
Author: Will Lytle
Description: 1 page, 1 page image
Note:
Call number 40005 (University Archives, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Editorial practices
The text has been encoded using the recommendations for Level 5 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines.
Originals are in the University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved.
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All quotation marks, em dashes and ampersand have been transcribed as entity references.
All double right and left quotation marks are encoded as ".
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Text transcription of this document was produced by OCR (optical character recognition) from R. D. W. Connor's A Documentary History of the University of North Carolina 1776-1799 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1953), Vol. I, p. 300-301. Used by permission of the publisher (www.uncpress.unc.edu).
Page images were made from the original manuscript held in University Archives, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Connor's transcription was compared against the original document and in the case of any discrepancy we have been faithful to the original.
For more information about transcription and other editorial decisions, see the section Editorial Practices.
The text has been encoded using the recommendations for Level 5 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines.
Originals are in the University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved.
DocSouth staff created a 600 dpi uncompressed TIFF file for each image. The TIFF images were then saved as JPEG images at 100 dpi for web access.
Page images can be viewed and compared in parallel with the text.
Any hyphens occurring in line breaks have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line.
All quotation marks, em dashes and ampersand have been transcribed as entity references.
All double right and left quotation marks are encoded as ".
All single right and left quotation marks are encoded as '.
All em dashes are encoded as —.
Indentation in lines has not been preserved.
Text transcription of this document was produced by OCR (optical character recognition) from R. D. W. Connor's A Documentary History of the University of North Carolina 1776-1799 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1953), Vol. I, p. 300-301. Used by permission of the publisher (www.uncpress.unc.edu).
Page images were made from the original manuscript held in University Archives, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Connor's transcription was compared against the original document and in the case of any discrepancy we have been faithful to the original.
For more information about transcription and other editorial decisions, see the section Editorial Practices.
Samuel Hopkins's
Bond for Building the President's House, January 25, 1794
Bond for Building the President's House, January 25, 1794Page 1
Know all men by these presents that we Samuel Hopkins
, William Cain, David Ray &
Henry Thompson
Wm Lytle all of the County of Orange and State
aforesaid are held and firmly bound unto the
Trustees of the University of North Carolina and their Successors in
the Sum of Two thousand pounds Current money of this State, for the true payment
thereof We bind ourselves and each of us our heirs Exers. and Administrators,
jointly and severally, firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals and dated
this 25th day of January 1794.
, William Cain, David Ray &
Henry Thompson
Wm Lytle all of the County of Orange and State
aforesaid are held and firmly bound unto the
Trustees of the University of North Carolina and their Successors in
the Sum of Two thousand pounds Current money of this State, for the true payment
thereof We bind ourselves and each of us our heirs Exers. and Administrators,
jointly and severally, firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals and dated
this 25th day of January 1794.The Condition of this obligation is such that Whereas the above bonden Samuel Hopkins
hath
undertaken to be built a House for the president of the University of
North Carolina, agreeable to the Memorandum set forth on this paper,
and to be built on such place at the seat of the University
as the
Trustees may direct, and have the same Compleated in every respect in a
good and workman like manner on or before the first day January next, Complying
to the aforesaid articles or Memorandum written on this paper and Signed by the
said Samuel
for
himself and Walter
Alves and Absolom Tatom in
behalf of the
Trustees of the University, That this obligation to be void or else
to remain in full force and virtue.
hath
undertaken to be built a House for the president of the University of
North Carolina, agreeable to the Memorandum set forth on this paper,
and to be built on such place at the seat of the University
as the
Trustees may direct, and have the same Compleated in every respect in a
good and workman like manner on or before the first day January next, Complying
to the aforesaid articles or Memorandum written on this paper and Signed by the
said Samuel
for
himself and Walter
Alves and Absolom Tatom in
behalf of the
Trustees of the University, That this obligation to be void or else
to remain in full force and virtue.Sealed and delivered in presence of
JOHN HOGG.