PoC (DLC); at foot of recto: “W. Champe Carter esq.” and “turn over,” with postscript on verso; endorsed by TJ. Enclosure: Conveyance of Indian Camp to William Short by William Champe Carter and his wife Maria Carter, 8 Dec. 1796, agreeing that in consideration of the sum of £1,567 paid by Short, he is to receive the parcel of Albemarle County land known as Indian Camp, which lies “on the South East side of the South west mountains between the lands and the Property of James Monroe, and the Blenheim tract,” having passed in fee simple from the late Edward Carter to his son William Champe Carter, bounded as follows: “Begining at a stake in the Eastern boundary of the old patent lands of the said Edward adjacent to the lands of Barras and runing new lines North 45 W 144 poles to Pointers on the Blenheim road N 50 W 56 poles to Pointers at the intersection of the branch with the along the said antient Road N 4 W. 18 po. N 1 E 19— N 17½ E 20½ po. N 54 E to the intersection of the antient road with a drain at pointers then leaving the road and runing along the drain N 81 W 54^⁸⁄₁₀ po. to pointers at the fork of the Drain. then leaving the drain N 73 W 166 po. to a remarkable large rock and the same course continued 42¼ po further to pointers on the top of the mountain, then along the top of the Mountain N 65 E 3 po to a red oak N 3¾ W. 44 po. to pointers in a low part of the Mountain N. 49 W 24 po to a white oak N 27½ E 44 po to pointers N 13 E 120 po to pointers N 33½ E 121 poles to a chesnut N 52 E 45 po to pointers N. 70½ E 31. po to chesnut Pointers then leaving the Mountain and runing on the lines of James Monroe S 47 E 218 po to a Spanish oak and Dogwood in the fork of a branch then down the branch according to its Meanders 387 poles which meanders coincide nearly with the following Magnetic courses to wit S 75 E 35 po Due E 19 po. S 75 E 13 po S 62 E 19 po. to the antient road and the same course continued 48 poles further S 83. E 28 po. S 58 E 37 po S 73 E 46 po S 44 E 5 po. to the Blenheim road and the same course continued 16 po. further S 51 E 19 po. S 63 E 21 po Due South 45^²⁄₁₀ po S 16 E 25 po S 27. E 11 po to a Spanish oak corner to James Monroe in the old Patent line then along the old Patent line S 45 W 382 poles to the begining which said parcel of land contains 1334 Acres be the same more or less,” with the proviso that tenants retain their lawful rights, provided that rents are now paid to Short (Tr in Albemarle Co. Deed Book, 18:267–8; entirely in the hand of Albemarle County clerk John Nicholas, including the signatures of the Carters and of Charles Wingfield, William Wardlaw, and John Coles as witnesses, TJ’s undated acknowledgment that “the Saving at the close of this Deed on behalf of the tenants was inserted before Sealing and Delivery; and that it goes to the rights of Price and cornelius and no others,” Carter’s 1 Feb. 1813 reacknowledgment in the form specified by TJ above and witnessed by E. W. Rootes, N. Burwell, and William Sinton, a 1 Feb. 1813 certification of Carter’s reacknowledgment by the Henrico County Court as attested by clerk Izard B. Whitlocke, and a 1 Mar. 1813 order by the Albemarle County Court that the conveyance be duly recorded, with Nicholas’s attestation). Enclosed in Benjamin Shackelford to TJ, 17 Jan. 1813, and TJ to Carter, 19 Jan. 1813.