James Wood 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 four hundred and twenty six issued the seventh day of May one thousand seven hundred and ninety four there is granted by the said Commonwealth, unto Michael Stover a Certain Tract or Parcel of Land, containing one hundred and fifty Acres by Survey bearing the firts day of November one thousand Seven hundred and ninety six lying & being in the County of Shenandoah in Powells big Fort and on the South side of Passage Creek and bounded as followeth to wit

Beginning at a white oak and a small red oak sapling corner to the Land which was conveyed to the said Michael Stover by David Clem and running thence with a line of said land, South fifty three degrees East one hundred and sixty poles to two black oaks and a hickory saplings then leaving said line and the same course continues forty poles farther to a Chesnut oak, and two black oaks at the end of a ridge, thence South forty degrees West one hundred and fifty four poles to a pine and a Chesnut tree, thence, North Seventy six degrees West Sixteen poles to between two Chesnut oaks corner Michael Clem, thence with his line North forty one degrees West one hundred and forty poles to two white oaks, and then North twenty degrees East, one hundred and thirty five 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 Michael Stover and his Heirs forever.

In witness whereof the said James Wood Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, hath hereunto set his hand Cause the lesser Seal of the said Commonwealth to be affixed at Richmond, on the eighth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine, and of the Commonwealth the twenty third.