James Monroe Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia To all To whom these presents shall come Greeting:

Know ye that by Virtue of a Land Office Treasury Warrent Number one thousand four hundred, issued the thirtieth day of May one thousand seven hundred and ninety five, there is Granted by the said Commonwealth unto David Miller a Certain tract or parcel of land Containing fifty acres by survey bearing date the twenty sixth day of September one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight lying and being in the County of Shenandoah on the drains of Ceader (sic) Creek & is bounded as followeth to wit.

Beginning at a Stake bya aheap of stones put together near a blazed pine in the line of Isaac Lones decd. land Corner to said Millers purchase from Charles Fryman and extending thence with said Lones line north forty four degrees west forty poles to four Chesnut oaks standing on the side of a ridge corner to Lones thence leaving his line north sixty six degrees west forty four poles to two pines on a ridge thence North sixty degrees East one hundred and forty two poles to a white oak a spanish oak and a Chesnut oak on the point of a ridge thence South fifty eight degrees east forty six poles to a large rock in a branch where is marked a _______, a hickory and a dogwood on the north bank of said branch in said Millers line and thence with the same south forty five degrees West one hundred and thirty poles to the beginning with its appurtenances

To have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land with its appurtenances to the said David Miller and his heirs forever

In Witnes whereof the said James Monroe Esquire 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 sixth day of October in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and of the Commonwealth the Twenty fifth.