Title of collection: Records of the Board of Trustees of the University
of North Carolina (#40001), University Archives, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of document: Board of Trustees Minutes, August 4, 1792 [Containing
Dr. Williamson’s and Mr. Grove’s Purchase of Materials]
Author: [University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Board of Trustees]
Description: 2 pages, 2 page images
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Call number 40001(University Archives, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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Board of
Trustees Minutes, August 4, 1792 [Containing Dr. Williamson’s and
Mr. Grove’s Purchase of Materials]
University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Board of Trustees
Page 184
. . .
Doctor
Williamson having been requested by the Building Commissioners last Spring to
procure for the University certain Philosophical
Aparatus, in case the same should not be purchased when Mr.
Grove a a member of the Board shall arrive at Philadelphia this
board request Mr Grove to make such purchase and
transmit the Aparatus to the University and
that for this purpose and defraying the expence thereof.
Resolved that Mr. Grove be impowered to draw on the Treasurer of
the University for a sum not exceeding One hundred
Dollars and that the Treasurer pay such draft.
Resolved that a Surveyors Compass
Page 185
Chain and Set
of Instruments be also purchased by Mr
Grove on addition to the articles which Doctor Williamson was requested
to purchase