William B. Giles, Esq. Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia:

To All To whom these presents shall come, Greeting:

Know Ye, that in conformity with a survey made on the third day of July 1827; by virtue of three Land Office Treasury Warrants, to Wit: 27 acres by No. 6448 issued 17th December 1818; 45 acres by No. 7858 issued Febry 9th 1825; and 7 1/2 acres by No. 7851 issued January 29th 1825; there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto Jacob Barb (son of Adam) a certain tract or parcel of Land containing Seventy-seven and a half acres situate in the County of Shenandoah; and bounded as followeth to wit: Beginning at a chesnut Oak and locust a corner to the land of Peter Williams in a line of the land of Abraham Sonnafrank on the end of the Little North Mountain, from thence with said Sonnafrank oines N. 64 degrees W. 64 poles crosing a hollow to a black oak and hickory saplings and a small pile of stones on a hill side thence leaving said line S. 25 degrees W. 124 poles along said hill side corssing of a branch to a chesnut oak, a red oak and maple in a rocky place; thence S. 10 degrees E. 130 poles with Mackers line to several Black oaks and white Oaks in a flat near Dry run, thence leaving Macker's lines N. 51 degrees E. 18.3 poles crossing said run to a double poplar at the foot of said mountain, thence along the foot of said mountain N. 13 1/2 degrees E. 130 poles to two chesnut and a locust by a sink hole on the side of said mountain, thence N. 60 1/4 degrees E. 48 poles to a chesnut oak and locust in the line of the said Peter Williams on the top of said mountain and thence with said line N 1/1/2 degrees E. 50.5 poles to the beginning.

To have and to Hold the said Tract or parcel of land with its appurtenances, to the said Jacob Barb and his heirs forever.

In witness whereof the said William B. Giles, Esq. 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 fourth day of November in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, and of the commonwealth the fifty third.