The Right Honourable Thomas Lord Fairfax Baron of Cameron in that part of Great Britain called Scotland Proprietor of the Northern Neck of Virginia

To all to whom this present Writing shall come Sends Greeting: Know Ye that for good causes for and in consideration of the Compostion to me paid and for the annual Rent hereinafter reserved I have given granted and confirmed and by these presents for me my Heirs and Assigns Do give grant and confirm unto Samuel Stover of Shannandoah County a certain Tract of waste and ungranted land on the North Side of Massanutting Run in the said County bounded as by a Survey thereof made by John Hough

Beginning at a black Oak and Walnut Stump Michael Cofmans Corner and also Corner to the said Stover and extending with Stovers line N. 82 E. sixty three Poles and a half to 3 White Oaks on the foot of a hill Corner to Stover and Abraham Brewbaker then with Brewbakers line N. 33 W. one hundred and sixty three Poles to a Stake by a black Oak in a level then N. 57 E. seventy two poles to a black Oak and White Oak by a Drain then N. 33 W. eighty poles to a black oak and 2 Chesnut oaks then S. 57 W. One hundred and twenty Poles to a large Chesnut and Pine on a hill and then S. 32 E. Two hundred and fourteen Poles to the Beginning. Containing One hundred and twelve acres and three Rods Together with all Rights Members and Appurtenances thereunto belonging Royal mines excepted and a full third part of all Lead Copper Tin Coal Iron Mine and Iron Ore that shall be found thereon

To have and to hold the said 112 acres and 3 Rods of Land Together with all Rights Profits and Benefits to the same belonging or in anywise Appurtaining except before excepted to Him the said Samuel Stover his Heirs and Assigns for ever. He the said Samuel Stover his Heirs and Assignes therefore Yielding and paying to me my Heirs or Assigns or to my certain Attorney or Attornies Agent or Agents or to the certain Attorney or Attornies of my Heirs or Assigns Proprietors of the said Northern Neck yearly and every year on the First Day of St. Michael the Archangel the Fee Rent of One Shilling Sterling Money for every Fifty Acres of Land hereby granted and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity Provided that the said Samuel Stover his heirs and assigns shall not pay the said reserved annual Rent as aforesaid and that the same or any part thereof shall be behind and unpaid by the space of Two whole years after the same shall become Legally Demanded that then it shall and may be lawful for me my Heirs or Assigns Proprietors as aforesaid my or their certain Attorney or Attornies Agent or Agents unto the above granted Premises to Reenter and hold the same so as if this grant had never Passed

Given at my Office in Frederick County under my Hand and Seal Dated the Ninth Day of December 1778