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JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.
day of November, 1890, recorded among the Land Records
of Montgomery County, in the State of Maryland, in Liber
J. A. No. 22, folio 182, to certain John P. Fitzgerald, of
Farmville, Virginia; and
WHEREAS, The said John P. Fitzgerald was at the time
of said purchase the treasurer of "The Trustees of Union
Theological Seminary in Virginia," and as such treasurer
purchased said lands out of the funds of said corporation, but
through inadvertence said sale was reported to and ratified
by said Court as if purchased by the said Fitzgerald in his
individual right; and
WHEREAS, The said John P. Fitzgerald has since departed
this life, but prior thereto gave an instrument in writing to
said corporation showing that he had purchased said land
for it out of its funds; and
WHEREAS, The said John P. Fitzgerald by his last will and
testament devised and bequeathed all of his estate to his wife,
and left her sole executrix of his will: and
WHEREAS, The said ————— Fitzgerald, as executrix and
sole devisee of said John P. Fitzgerald, has likewise agreed
that said property is the property of the said corporation;
and
WHEREAS, The Trustees of Union Theological Seminary
in Virginia are about to file its petition in said equity pro-
ceedings in said Court, praying said Court to order and direct
the said James H. Loughborough to formally convey said
property to it; now therefore,
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