James Wood Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia

To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:

Know ye, That by virtue of an exchanged 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 George Houdeshelt a Certain Tract or parcel of Land containing fifty Acres by Survey bearing date the twentieth day of March one thousand Seven hundred and ninety three, lying and being in the County of Shenandoah on both sides of the narrow Passage run in the Gap of the little North Mountain and is bounded as followeth to wit

Beginning at two Pines a Corner to Henry Reeder in Leonard Harts line and running thence with said Harts line North sixty four degrees West eighty poles to a stone between two white oaks and a spanish oak corner to said Hart, thence with another of his lines, North thirty seven degrees East crossing the narrow Passage run at seventy one poles. one hundred and sixty three poles to two gums and a white oak, thence leaving Harts line, North eighty two degrees West eighteen poles to four maple saplings, thence South thirty seven degrees West, sixty poles to two white oaks and red oaks, thence North eighty two degrees West, seventy eight poles to a gum and white oaks, thence South thirteen poles crossing said run to between a poplar and a gum in a small bottom, thence South eighty two degrees East forty poles to a chesnut oak on a knob just above a lick, thence South fifteen degrees West one hundred and fifteen poles to two black oaks, and hickory on the Side of a ridge, thence South Sixty four degrees East ninety two poles to a Pine and two black oak saplings in said Henry Reeders line, and thence With his line North twenty six degrees East forty three 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 George Houdeshelt and his Heirs forever.

In Witness whereof the said James Wood 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 Seventh day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight, and of the Commonwealth the twenty third.