Beverly Randolph Esquire 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 State Lord Proprietary Office of the Northern Neck and in consideration of the ancient composition of one pound ten shillings sterling paid by Edward Smoot into the Treasury of the Commonwealth there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto the said Edward Smoot a certain tract or parcel of land containing two hundred and sixty five acres by survey bearing date the fourteenth day of October one thousand seven hundred and seventy five lying and being in the County of Berkeley not far from White Gap and between said gap and Swearingen’s land on Sleepy Creek Mountain and bounded as followeth, to wit: Beginning at two chestnut oaks and a white oak on the east side of the mountain extending thence North fifty four degrees West one hundred and six poles to a white oak and chestnut oak on the top and near the west side of the mountain, thence South thirty six degrees East one hundred and sixty three poles to three chestnut oaks on the west side of the mountain, thence along it South one degree West forty two poles to two chestnut oaks on the back of the west side of the mountain, thence South twenty three degrees West one hundred and thirty six poles to a chestnut oak and white oak on the top of the said mountain, thence South fifty eight degrees West thirty four poles to two chestnut oaks and hickory sapling, thence South twenty degrees West forty four poles to three chestnut oaks a little to the west side of the top of said mountain, thence South seventy degrees East one hundred and six poles to two chestnut oaks and a chestnut on the east side of the mountain, thence North twenty nine degrees East three hundred and seventy seven 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 Edward Smoot and his heirs forever. In witness whereof the said Beverly Randolph 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 twenty ninth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine and of the Commonwealth the thirteenth.