Appendix F
Selected Agreements and Contracts

[23 June 1817]

Articles of Agreement made and concluded this twenty third day of June one thousand eight hundred and seventeen between Alexander Garrett as Proctor of the Central College in Albemarle on the one part and John M. Perry on the other part Witness, First, that of a Pavilion or Schoolhouse wing to be built for the said College on one of the lots of land purchased for the sd. College of the said John M Perry, the body of which pavilion is to be built of brick and to contain one room below and two above stairs with cellars & offices below. the said John undertakes and hereby covenants to and with the said Proctor and his successors in office, to do all the Carpenter's and House joiner's work of the said pavilion as shall be prescribed to him, that he will provide all the meterials of wood and iron mongery which shall be required, that the meterials shall be of sound and durable quality, the Carpenters work shall be done solidly, neatly and well fitted, and the house joinery in the best manner, and strictly according to such forms and orders of Architecture as the said Proctor or his successors shall prescribe; that all the work necessary to be put up or in as the brick layer proceeds, shall allways be ready by the time the brick layer is ready for it, and all the residue to be done by him shall be compleated and put up within five months after the brick layer shall have so far and the walls as that they shall be capable of recieveing it; and the said John M Perry doth further agree and covenant, that if any part of the Carpenters work or house joinery shall not be done in the most perfect good manner or not strictly according to the forms and orders of Architecture which shall be prescribed to him as aforesaid, the said Proctor or his successors shall have a right to have the same altered or taken down and rebuilt according to the forms prescribed, by any person he shall employ at the expence of the said John, and the parties to these presents further agree, that if any part of the work shall be objected to as insufficient or incomformable to what is herein before stipulated that its sufficiency or non conformity shall be finally decided on by three competent persons one chosen by each party and the two persons chosen are hereby empower'd to choose a third equally competent And the said John doth further agree that if the work shall not be done at the respective times stipulated that the said Proctor or his successors shall be free to have it done by such person as he shall employ at the expence of the said John and be entitled to damages for all wrongful delay to be paid by the said John--

And the said Alexander, covenants in the name of the said College and on its behalf, that for all meterials furnished by the said John the reasonable price they shall have cost him, or which they shall be worth if furnished by himself, shall be paid him, and for all Carpenter's work or house-joinery done, he shall be paid the prices which were paid by James Madison late President of the United States to James Dinsmore for similar work done at Montplier, which payments shall be made to him as follows towit Five hundred dollars in hand, five hundred dollars more when the roof shall be raised, and the ballance when it shall be compleated, In Witness whereof the parties hereto subscribe their names the day & year first within written

In presence of Alex Garrett Proctor to Central College (seal)

Wm Wertenbaker John M. Perry (seal)

DS, in Garrett's writing, ViU:TJ, 2p [1458] with Garrett note on the coversheet "No. 3 Agreement Perry with Central College." The document also contains Perry's first receipt for payment: "Charlottesville 16th: September 1817 Recieved of Alexander Garrett late Proctor to the Central College five hundred dollars it being the sum mentioned in this agreement as the first payment for the building therein before named John M. Perry."

Agreement for Stonecutting [ca 1819]

John Gorman Does agree to Work all the tuscan Basses and Caps and all the other Moulded Sircular Or Straight Work or plain work for the University of Va.

all Such Work to be measured as agreed on by the Proctor that is to take the Dementions at the Largest part of the mouldings and to pay for them at 75 Sents pr. foot Superficial all Such Blocks as will require help the Proctor will lend or Cause to be Lent Such assistance as may Be required all tool Sharping to Be paid for or Done by Order of the Proctor at the Shop Now at the University of Va. the Said Work is to be Measured at the End of Every three Months Beginning from first of January 1820 the one half of the money to be paid then the other half in Six months after Each Measurement

AD, ViU:PP, 1p, with ASB docket "Gorman Stone cutter." This document is in the undated material for 1821 in ViU:PP. The agreement was to go in force in January 1820, and Gorman worked extensively in stonecutting throughout 1820, indicating that the agreement probably was made in late 1819.

[8 September 1823]

Articles of agreement entered into by Arthur S Brockenbrough Proctor of the University of Virginia and on behalf of the said University on the one part and Giacomo Raggi of Italy Sculptor on the other part.

The said Giacomo Raggi agrees and covenants that he will furnish the said University with ten Corinthian bases of Marble of Carrara of quality equal to that of the capitels lately received from Thomas Appleton, and two Pilaster bases shewing each a front & flank with returns of ten minutes at each angle where they are to ajoin the wall and in addition to the said bases shall be the listel and cavetto, which are generally considered as part of the shaft of the column, but here to be made solid with the base, that the said bases shall be proportioned to a column of three English feet in diameter, to be modeled with the utmost exactness according to the Bases of the Pantheon of Rome as drawn by Palladio in his book of Architecture, to be dress, polished and finished in the best manner, each base to be of a single and sound piece of Marble that they shall be packed singly in strong and sufficient cases of wood, and delivered before the first day of June of the ensuing year on board of some ship in the harbour of Leghorn bound to some port of the United States of North America, or if there be none such at that time, then on the first which shall be there after that date, clear of all cost & charges, save only the sums herein after Stipulated, the transportation after being on ship board in the said harbour to be at the expence and risk of the said University and the said Giacomo agrees that in the execution of the said agreement he will be under the superintendance and direction of Thomas Appleton esquire of Leghorn as acting for the University with all the rights and authority of the said Arthur S. were he there in person.

And the said Arthur S Brockenbrough on behalf of the said University agrees & covenants, that there shall be paid to the said Giacomo the sum of Sixty five dollars for each of the said column bases and the sum of thirty two & one half dollars for each of the said pilaster bases as follows, to wit one half of their prices from time to time during the progress of the work in partial sums at the discretion of the said Thomas Appleton and the other half on their delivery on ship board--or to Thomas Appleton if there by no ship in port on their arrival at Leghorn bound as aforesaid deducting the transportation on ship board after the delivery to said Appleton--

In witness whereof the said parties have here to subscribed their names at the said University of Va. this eighth day of September One thousand eight hundred & twenty three.

Arthur S Brockenbrough (Seal)

Giacomo Raggi (Seal)

The words `or to Thomas Appleton if there be no ship in port on their arrival at Leghorn bound as aforesaind deducting the transportation on ship board after the delivery to said Appleton' interlined before signed--

Witness--John Neilson

DS, in ASB's writing, ViU:PP, 2p, with docket "Contract G Raggi"; ADft, in TJ's writing, ViU:PP, 1p [2028] with address and ASB docket "Copy of a contract by Mr Jefferson with Raggi--"; printed, O'Neal, "Michele and Giacomo Raggi at the University of Virginia," Magazine of Albemarle County History, 18:29-30. The ADft is on the verso of a coversheet addressed to Jefferson from James Madison that reads "Orange C H   July 14.   Mr. Jefferson    Monticello near Charlottesville, Va." Jefferson apparently saw the draft again along with the copy of the agreement to be signed and other documents relating to Raggi, as indicated by a separate note addressed to "Mr Brockenbrough" by Jefferson pertaining to the contract, "Th: J. to mr Brockenbrough   at the end of the 2d. paragraph, after the words `the other half at their delivery on ship board' interline `but if on their arrival at Leghorn, there be no ship in port bound as aforesd, the last half is to be paid on their delivery to the sd T. Appleton, deducting the transportation on ship-board.'" At the bottom of this note Brockenbrough added: "or to Thos Appleton if on their arrival at Leghorn there be no ship in port bound as aforesaid deducting the transportation on ship board after the delivery to said Appleton."

Jefferson's one-page memorandum of this date about this agreement in DLC:TJ reads: "heads of Raggis agreemt. for corinthian bases. Date Sep. 8. 23. he will furnish 10. Corinthn bases, for columns of 3. f. of Carra marble of quality equal to that of the Capitels lately furnd by Appleton. also 2. piaster half bases with front & flank. with listell & Cavetto, all model of Pantheon of a single piece packed delivd. before June 1. on ship board. to be pd 65. D. for each whole, & 32.50 for each half base one half to be pd from time to time during the progress of the work the other half on their delivy. on ship board."

[13 February 1824]

We the subscribers have agreed to the following articls Viz: Charles Meriwether is to deliver at any place required at the University two thousand bushels of good clean sand, for which A. S. Brocknbrough Proctor has agreed to pay him seventy five dollars on the delivery of it & if the University should require a larger quantity it is to be furnished on the same terms delivered as aforesaid or at half a cent a bushel if taken from the sand bank  Witness our hand this 13th day of February 1824

A. S. Brockenbrough Proctor

Chas. I Meriwether

DS, in ASB's writing, 1p, with ASB docket "Brockenbro' & Meriwether Contract Feb: 13th. 24."

[25 May 1824]

We the Subscribers do enter into the following articles of agreement--Viz John M Perry is to make for the University of Va three hundred thousand hard well shaped bricks such a portion of which shall be Column bricks as many as may be required for the Rotunda shaped agreeable to a mould to be furnished and such a portion of paving bricks as may be wanting for the Rotunda & Gymnasia, and which shall be smoth well shaped bricks--The afore said Perry is to take the wood purchased of Jesse Lewis & what ever other wood the proctor may have on hand for the burning of Bricks at One Dollar per cord on the ground where cut or two Dollars delivered at the Kiln near the University; the said Perry is to pay at the rate of         cents per thousand for the clay that was dug by the labourers of the University,⁽⁸⁴⁰⁾ to pay Child Brand his wages from the 17th May & to employ him & Patrick Quin for two months to come from this date at the same rate I contracted with them--at that is to say, to give them the same wages per month payable monthly that Capt Perry gave them the last year--A. S. Brockenbrough--Proctor & acting for the University agrees to let Capt J. M. Perry have the use of the yard, shelters, clamps &c attached to the Brick yard for the making of the Said bricks but no other bricks are to be made or carried from said yard or grounds for any other purposed.⁽⁸⁴¹⁾ the Said Shelters, yards, clamps &c to be returned in good order, for the aforesaid 300,000 Bricks the said Proctor agrees to pay to said Perry at the rate of four dollars & fifty cents per thousand on or before the 1st day of February next witness our hands & Seals this 25th Day of May 1824.

AD (copy), in ASB's writing, ViU:PP, 1p, with ASB docket "Perry with Proctor Contract for making Bricks"; Dft, in ASB's writing, ViU:PP, 2p. The draft is not dated.