FIRE INSURANCE POLICY.
No. 10229 Eagle Fire Company of New York
This Policy of Insurance Witnesseth, That the Eagle Fire Company of New York, in consideration of Twenty Seven 50/100 Dollars to them paid, by the insured hereinafter named, the Receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, Do Insure The Trustees of Raleigh Academy in North Carolina by Rob McCrea of N. York against Loss or Damage by Fire to the amount of
Two thousand Dollars upon two two story frame Buildings standing 165 feet distant from each other, occupied as Academies, situate within the bounds of the city of Raleigh on a four acre Square as described in a Survey filed No. 2191. $1,000 on each Building........................ $2,000
Two hundred & fifty Dollars upon a one-story building in addition to the one occupied by the female department of said Academy 22 feet Square............................... 250
Five hundred Dollars upon a one story Building occupied as a Preparatory School attached to said Academy, distant about 130 feet from the other Buildings. Vide Letter filed with Survey No. 2191...................................... 500
Total $2,750
And the Eagle Fire Company of New York, etc. * * * In witness whereof the said Corporation have caused these presents to be signed by their President, and attested by their Secretary, the twenty-ninth day of September in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventeen. E. "W. Laight, President.
Attested.
J. D. Meyer, Secretary.
—From Pittman Papers.
RENEWAL OF INSURANCE.
Office of the Eagle Fire Company.
No. 9508 Received, New York, October 14 1820 of The Trustees of Raleigh Academy,
forty eight 12/100 dollars
being the premium on twenty seven hundred and fifty $2750 Dollars insured under Policy No. 10229 which is hereby continued in force for One Year to wit, from the 1st day of November 1820 until the 1st day of November 1821 at noon. .......................................................................E. W. Laight,
Attest, President.
J. D. Meyer Secretary.
—From Pittman Papers.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
