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458 History University of Illinois DOCUMENT NUMBER 10 SEMINARY CONTRACT. Original manuscript at the University of Illinois. I This agreement made and entered into this 2nd day of July 1860, by and between Jonathan C. Stoughton of Freport Ills. John E. Babcock of Aurora Ills and George Harvey of Port Edward Washington County New York of the first part And Joseph W. Sim J r William Park William H. Romine Carter F. Columbia John H . Thomas and James S. Wright of the County of Champaign and State of Illinois of the Second part Witnesseth that Whereas the parties of the first part are the owners in fee of the lands hereinafter designated situated in Champaign County Illinois towit: Beginning at the South East Corner of Section Seven (7) Township No. nineteen 19 North, of Range No. Nine (9) East, thence North ten (10) Chains, Thence North Seventy Six (76) degrees West Twenty (20) Chains and Sixty links (60) more or less to a point fifteen (15) chains North, of the South West Corner of the South East quarter of The South East quarter of said Section Seven (7) Thence South fifteen (15) chains to the South West Corner of the South East quarter of Said Section Seven (7) Thence East on Section line to the place of beginning. Also all that piece or parcel of land towit: beginning at a point one hundred and Sixty two (162) links South of the South East Corner of the North West qr of the South East qr of Said section Seven (7) Thence North Sixty three (63) degrees West Twenty two chains and forty two (42) links more or less to the Center line North and South of Saidi section Seven (7) Thence South on said line to the South West Corner of the South East qr of said section Seven (7) Thence East on section line to the South East Corner of the South West qr of the South East qr of said section Seven (7) thence North to the place of beginning. Containing 83% acres of land more or less Also the South West qr of the NE qr And the South half of Icrt No. One (1) of the North West qr of Section No. Seven (7) Town Nineteen (19) North Range Nine (9) East
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