The Right Honourable Thomas Lord Fairfax, Baron of Cameron in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland Proprietor of the Northern Neck of Virginia

To all to whom this present Writing shall come sends Greeting.

Know Ye that for good Causes for & in Consideration of the Composition to me paid & for the annual Rent hereinafter reserved, I have given granted and confirmed & by these Presents for me my Heirs and Assigns, do give grant and confirm unto Christian Dillinger of Frederick County a certain Tract of waste & ungranted Land near Strasburg in the said County, Reserving unto Catharine Dillinger Widow of the late George Dillinger One third part of the said Land for & during the Term of her natural Life & after her Decease the whole to the said Christian Dillinger, it being bounded accordint to a Survey thereof made by Robert Rutherford as follows

Beginning at a Black Oak & a White Oak standing in the Patent Line by a Drain & Extending No. 35° Wt. Four hundred Poles crossing the great Waggon Road to 3 Black Oaks on a Ridge Thence So 55° Wt. Two hundred Poles to a White Oak in a Level. Thence So 35° Et. Three hundred & ninety four Poles to a Hiccory (sic) on a Knoll by Stony Lick in the said Patent Line. Then with the said Lines No. 37° Et. One hundred & eighteen Poles to a White Oak & a Hiccory & then No 79° Et. One hundred & four Poles to the Beginnign containing Four hundred and sixty Acres.

Together with all Rights Members & Appurtenances thereunto belonging Royal Mines excepted and a full third part of all Lead Copper Tin Coals Iron Mine & Iron Ore that shall be found thereon

To have & to hold the said 460 Acres of Land together with all Rights Profits and Benefits to the same belonging or in any wise appurtaining Except before excepted To him the said Christian Dillinger his Heirs & Assigns. Therefore Yielding and paying to me my Heirs or Assigns or to my Certain Attorney or Attornies Agent or Agents or to the Certain Attorney or Attornies of my Heirs or Assigns Proprietor's of the said Northern Neck yearly & every Year on the Feast Day of St. Michael the Archangel the Fee Rent of One Shilling Sterling Money for every Fifty Acres of Land hereby granted & so proportionably for a greater or lesser Quantity. Provided that if the said Christian Dillinger his Heirs & Assigns shall not pay the before said reserved annual Rent as aforesaid so that the same or any Part thereof shall be behind & unpaid by the Space of two whole Years after the same shall become due If legally demanded that then it shall & may be lawful for me my Heirs or Assigns Proprietors as aforesaid my or their Certain Attorney or Attornies Agent or Agents into the above granted Premises to reenter & hold the same so as if this Grant had never passed.

Given at my office in Frederick County under my Hand & Seal. Dated the Fourteenth Day of May 1772.

Fairfax