James Wood, Esquire, Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia To all to whom these presents shall come Greeting

Know ye that by virtue of a Warrant issued from the late Lord Proprietors Office of the Northern Neck, and in consideration of the Ancient Consideration of Twenty shillings sterling paid into the Treasury of the Commonwealth there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto Phillip Verner Assignee of Joseph Vincent a certain tract or parcel of land containing One hundred and fifty six and a Quarter Acres by Survey bearing date the thirteenth day of November one thousand seven hundred and eighty lying and being in the County of Shenandoah, and is bounded as followeth to wit

Beginning at a pine a chestnut oak and small spanish Oak, standing on a steep bank on the north side of a small branch called Stoney run, corner to Patic Sowers's land thence with his line north twenty five degrees, East one hundred and ten poles, to a pine, which is down corner to Conrad Painter thence with his line, South sixty nine degrees East One hundred and twenty one poles to a chesnut tree, and two chesnut oaks, another of Painters corners, thence with his line, South fifty three and a half degrees, East twenty two poles to a double ??? Chesnut tree and white oak, Painters corner, thence with his lines North fifty four degrees. East twenty eight poles, to a red oak in said line, South thirty nine degrees, East thirty nine poles, to a chesnut tree and chesnut oak, on the side of a ??? of the blue ridge. South twenty one degrees, West sixty eight poles, to a chesnut and two small ??? Oaks on a hill side thence South thirty nine degrees, West seventy four poles. to a chesnut tree on a hill side North seventy degrees, West forty eight poles, to two chesnut trees on the pooint of a hill a spine of the blue ridge and thence North fifty five and a half degrees, West one hundred and thirty poles and a half to the beginning with the Appurtenances

To have and to hold the said Tract or parcel of Land with its appurtenances to the said Phillip Verner and his heirs for ever,

In Withess whereof the said James Wood Esquire Lieutenant 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 fifth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety six and of the Commonwealth the twenty fifth

James Wood