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 Warrant number one thousand four hundred and one issued the thirtieth of May one thousand seven hundred and ninety five There is granted by the said Commonwealth unto Henry Hottle a Certain tract or parcel of Land containing fifty nine acres by survey bearing date the fourth day of September one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight lying and being in the County of Shenandoah on the north side of the Straight branch and bounded as followeth to wit

Beginning at three pine stumps on a hill side corner to the land which said Hottle purchased of Rinehard Coffman and running thence with a Line of said land south thirty seven degrees East thirty poles to a white oak and a white oak and black oak saplings on a hill side thence leaving that line north four degrees west fifty one poles to three pines north forty five degrees west thirty three poles to a maple on a steep hill side north ten degrees west twenty four poles to an Ironwood a locust a gum and dogwood standing by a branch in a Valley corner to Henry Sprinckle then with his line north twenty two degrees west sixty two poles to two pines then leaving Sprinkles line south eighty degrees west sixty seven poles to two pines thence north seventy four degrees west thirty nine poles to three pines thence south twenty degrees west twenty poles to two pines in the line of the Land which said Hottle purchased of Rinehard Coffman then with the lines thereof as follows south eighty one degrees east forty poles to a white oak and a pine on a steep hill side thence south twenty degrees and eighty poles to two pines on a high bank of the said branch thence North seventy eight degrees east fifty two poles crossing the said branch to three white pines on the bank of the same thence down the same south fourty seven degrees East twenty eight poles to two pines and one hickory on the south bank of the said branch thence crossing the same north forty four degrees East twenty 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 Henry Hottle and his heirs forever.

In Witness whereof the said James Monroe Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia hath hereunto set his hand and cause the Lesser seal of the said Commonwealth to be affixed at Richmond on the eighth day of October in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and of the Commonwealth the Twenty fifth.