James Wood Esq. Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia to all to whom these presents shall come Greetings

Know Ye, that by Virtue of an Exchanged Land Office Treasury Warrant Number four hundred and sixty one issued the fourteenth day of December one thousand seven hundred and ninety one there is Granted by the said Commonwealth unto Augustine Piper a certain Tract or parcel of Land containing fifty Acres by Survey bearing date the eleventh day of May one thousand seven hundred and ninety two lying and being in the County of Shenandoah near the little Hawksbill creek adjoining his own Lands and bounded as followeth to wit,

Beginning at a black oak corner to a cherry formerly made for Daniel Snider and extending thence with his line North Sixty degrees West sixty poles, to three white Oaks on the side of a ridge thence South fifty degrees west forty four poles to a red oak thence south four degrees West eighty two poles to two pines on the side of a ridge, thence South seventeen degrees East fifty six poles to a white oak and two chesnut oaks on the north banks of a Small branch thence East thirty six poles to a white oak and a hickory standing in the said Augustine Pipers line and then with his line North twenty eight degrees East eighty one poles to a pine his corner thence the same course continues with another of his lines seventy two poles to two black Oaks and a Hickory and then north eighty five degrees West thirty poles to the Beginning with its appurtenances to the said Augustine Piper and his Heirs forever.

In witness whereof the said James Wood Esq. Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia hath hereunto set his hand and caused the lesser Seal of the said Commonwealth to be affixed at Richmond on the fourteenth day of November in the Year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety four and of the Commonwealth the nineteenth.