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 thirty one issued the Seventh day of May One thousand seven hundred and ninety four, there is granted by the said Commonwealth, unto Samuel Stover a certain Tract or Parcel of Land, containing four and three quarter Acres by Survey bearing date the second day of July one thousand seven hundred and ninety five, lying and being in the County of Shenandoah near the mouth of Hawksbill Creek and bounded as followeth to wit

Beginning at a black oak and a small hickory in a line of said Stovers other Land at the angle of the Land Claimed by John Hurst and running thence with said Hursts line South forty one degrees West forty eight poles to a stake by an old road near a Cornered white oak and a black Walnut spalings in Peter Baumgardner's line formerly John Sandr__ns, thence with that line, North four degrees West forty four poles to a hickory where a corner of said Stovers Land formerly stood, thence with his line reversing the course, South Seventy eight degrees East thirty six 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 Samuel Stover & 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 fifth day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety nine; and of the Commonwealth the twenty third.

James Wood