Wayne County NcArchives Deed.....Trustees, Female Academy - Everitt, John W.S.T. West & David B. 1847
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Written: 1847

July 23, 1847
John W. S. T. West & David B. Everitt to Willis Hall, John Everitt, David B. 
Everitt, Samuel Smith, William Carraway, John Wright & John Slocumb Trustees of 
the Everittsville Female Academy
Lot 7, Academy Square
Wayne County Deed Book 20, p 504-506

This Indenture made this the 23rd day of July in the year of our Lord one 
thousand eight hundred and forty seven between John W. S. West and David B. 
Everitt of the State of North Carolina and county of Wayne of the first part and 
Willis Hall, John Everitt, David B. Everitt, Samuel Smith, William Carraway, John 
Wright and John C. Slocumb of the same state and county, Trustees of 
Everittsville Female Academy and their successors of the other part Witnesseth 
that the said John W. S. West and David B. Everitt for and in consideration of 
the sum of forty dollars to us in hand paid by the said Willis Hall and other 
Trustees at and before the ensealing and delivery of these presents the receipt 
and payment whereof is hereby acknowledged have granted bargained and sold and by 
these presents do grant bargain sell and convey unto the said Willis Hall and 
others Trustees and their successors one lot of land containing four acres 
situate lying and being in the Village of Everittsville and known in the plot of 
said village as the Academy Square and numbered seven. To have and to hold the 
above bargained premises together with all and singular the privileges and 
appurtenances thereunto belonging to them the said Trustees and their successors 
forever. On the following conditions and reservations that is to say. That the 
Trustees and their successors shall not build or cause to be built on the above 
named lot of land, that this deed is intended to convey any house or houses 
besides the one now used as an Academy except that the interest of the school may 
require an enlargement of the present building and that no person or family of 
persons shall be permitted to reside in the Academy or any addition thereto. In 
the event that the school shall at any time go down and not be revived again in 
ten successive years from the time it is discontinued the land shall revert back 
to the said J. W. S. West and D. B. Everitt their heirs or assigns in the same 
proportion that each one owns at the time of making this conveyance by their 
refunding the amount they received for said lot and the said J. W. S. West and D. 
B. Everitt do by these presents bind themselves their heirs executors and 
administrators to take the Academy Building together with all the improvements on 
the lot at whatever price a committee of three disinterested men shall value them 
at the time of the reversion of the land each to take the improvements on that 
part of the lot which reverts to him. And the money arising from said reversion 
of land and sale of improvements shall be divided among the subscribers their 
heirs executors or administrators in proportion to the amount each one 
subscribed. And we the said J. W. S. West and David B. Everitt do by these 
presents bind ourselves our heirs and assigns to warrant and defend the right and 
title of the above bargained premises unto the said Willis Hall and others 
Trustees and their successors forever. In witness whereof we have hereto set our 
hands and affixed our seals the day and date as above written.
John W. S. West {Seal}
D. B. Everitt {Seal}
Signed sealed and delivered in presence of us
G. W. Collier
John E. Becton

Wayne County Augt. Term 1847
Then was the above deed of sale from David B. Everitt & Jno. W. S. West to Willis 
Hall and others Trustees of Everettsville Female Academy duly proved in open 
court and ordered to be registered. Jno. A. Green  Clk


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