Deed Book 11-F, Folio 227
Loudoun County Clerk of the Circuit Court
Leesburg , Virginia

       THIS DEED made the 4 th day of November, 1939, by and between W. S. Gibbons (widower), Party of the First Part; and John Wanzer, Howard Clark, Fred Lewis, Robert Ambers, John Washington, Eva Sanford and Elizabeth Quisenberry, Trustees, Parties of the Second Part.

W I T N E S S E T H :

       That for and in consideration of Four Thousand Dollars ($4,000.00), of which the sum of Fourteen Hundred Dollars ($1,400.00) has been paid, receipt of whereof is hereby acknowledged, and the residue secured by a vendor’s lien hereinafter reserved, the said Party of the First Part doth hereby grant and convey with general warranty of title unto the said Parties of the Second Part all of that certain tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the State of Virginia, County of Loudoun, Leesburg Magisterial District about one-half mile Easterly of the Town of Leesburg bordering on its North State Highway No. 7, and on its East the public road leading from said State Highway to Cool Spring, adjoining lands of McIntosh et al and containing eight acres, more or less. It being the same property that was conveyed to the above named W. S. Gibbons by deed dated October 12, 1932 by Stilson H. Hall, Special Commissioner in the chancery cause of Lillian Grimes vs. Charles Grimes et al, which deed is of record in the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court of Loudoun County . Virginia , in Deed Book 10 M’s Folio 76, reference to which is hereby made for further and more particular description.
       The above named Trustees or their successors shall hold the same in full and absolute fee simple IN TRUST for the use and benefit of the Negro public school children of Loudoun County as an athletic field and as the location of a public Negro school and other improvements to be constructed thereon as circumstances will permit and for such other Negro school purposes as said Trustees or their successors may from time to time by a majority vote decide.
       In the event of the death or resignation of any of the above named Trustees, the Circuit Court of Loudoun County shall appoint the successor from the magisterial district which the one so dying or resigning came from.
       Party of the First Part hereby expressly reserves on said property a vendor’s lien as security for the unpaid part of the purchase price in the principal sum of Twenty-six Hundred Dollars ($2.600.00), evidenced by the negotiable notes under seal bearing even date herewith made by Parties of the Second Part as Trustees payable to the order of W. S. Gibbons in the following denominations: Ten such notes in the principal sum of Two Hundred Sixty Dollars ($260.00) with interest thereon from date until paid, each of said notes being payable as aforesaid, one of same on or before one year after date; another on or before two years after date; another on or before three years after date; and in like sequence, the last and final of which will be payable on or before ten years after date, aggregating the said full principal sum of Twenty-six Hundred Dollars (2600.00), with interest from date payable annually on the unpaid part, which vendor’s lien shall further secure any and all renewals of said notes or any of them in whatsoever amount and by whomsoever held.
       Party of the First Part covenants that he will warrant generally the property hereby conveyed.
       Witness the following signature and seal: W. S. Gibbons (SEAL)
VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF LOUDOUN, to-wit:
       I, N. B. Hammerly, Deputy Clerk Circuit Court in and for the County of Loudoun, State aforesaid, do hereby certify that W. S. Gibbons, whose name is signed to the writing attached and thereto annexed, bearing date on the 4 th day of November, 1939, has acknowledged that same before me in my County and state aforesaid.
       Given under my hand in my office aforesaid this 4 day of November, 1939.
                                          N. B. Hammerly, Deputy Clerk.
Clerks Office of the Circuit Court of Loudoun County to wit: November 22, 1939
       The foregoing deed was this day received in said office, stamped Four Dollars, stamps cancelled and admitted to record at 11:24 o’clock A. M.

Teste: E. O. Russell, c. c.