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 and in Consideration of the Composition to me paid & for the annual Rent hereinafter reserved, I have given granted and confirmed and by these presents for me my Heirs and Assigns, do give grant and confirm unto Frederick Stoner of Frederick County a certain Tract of waste & ungranted Land on Tumbling Run near Strasburg in the said County bounded as by a Survey thereof made by Peter Stephens

Beginning at a Poplar on the said Run Extending thence along Stoner's Line No. 8° Wt. One hundred and sevent eight Poles to William Hoover's Corner a Black Oak, Thence along Hoover's Line No. 52° 30 m. Et. One hundred and twenty six Poles to a large White Corner to William Hoover, Thence along another of William Hoover's Lines So. 38° Et. Seventy Poles to a Hiccory and a Black Oak on Lawrence Snapp's Line and thence along Snapp's Line So. 31° Wt. Two hundred and twenty nine Poles to the Beginning containign One hundred and forty seven 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 one hundred and forty seven Acres of Land together with all Rights Profits and Benefits to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining Except before excepted To him the said Frederick Stoner his Heirs and Assigns forever. He the said Frederick Stonver his Hiers and 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 Frederick Stoner his Heirs and Assigns shall not pay the 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 the County of Frederick under my Hand & Seal. Dated the Twenty second Day of August 1770.

Fairfax