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For and in consideration of the benefits, to be derived from the location of the "University of the South at Sewanee' in Franklin County Tennessee, I do hereby release, relinquish, and surrender to the said University all the right, title, interest and claim which I have in and to the five thousand acres of land which has been given to said University by the Sewanee Mining Company, but retaining to myself the rest of the five thousand acre tract lying eastwardly of the lands of the University of the South as surveyed by D. R. Barney Engineer.

For a more particular discription of said land reference is here made to the contract or deed between the Sewanee Mining Company and the Trustees of the University of the South in relation thereto, and which for that purpose is made a part hereof.

May 26th 1860

John [?] Hen[d? e?]ly

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