Robert Brooke Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia: To all to whom these Presents shall come -
Greeting: KNOW YE, That by virtue of two Land Office Treasury Warrants numbers eighteen thousand three hundred and ninety
three & seventeen thousand three hundred and ten, there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto Thomas Smoot a certain Tract
or Parcel of Land, containing fifty three acres, by survey bearing date the fifth day of August one thousand seven hundred and ninety
four lying and being in the County of Hampshire adjoining his own land and the land of James Fleming and bounded as followeth, to
wit: Beginning at two white oaks corner to John High’s land thence with his line North fifty four degrees West one hundred and six
poles to a white oak in James Fleming’s line; Thence with it South seventy degrees West seventy six poles to a pine in his own land;
Thence with said line North seventy six degrees East seventy two poles to a white oak his corner; Thence with another of his lines
South fifteen degrees East one hundred poles to a pine another of his corners; Thence with another of his lines South seventy five degrees
West ninety poles to two white oaks corner to Bishop’s land; Thence with Bishop’s line South forty degrees East ninety two poles to a stake;
Thence North fifty degrees East sixteen poles to a post; Thence North forty five degrees West forty six poles to a white oak and chestnut oak
sapling corner to Nicholas Boyce’s survey; Thence with his line North thirty degrees East forty six poles to two red oaks; South eighty five
degrees East eighty poles to a white oak and hickory; Thence North forty three degrees East running near Boyce’s line seventy two poles to a
white oak; Thence South sixty five degrees West forty four 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 Thomas Smoot and his heirs forever. In witness whereof the said Robert Brooke 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 eighth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety six and of the Commonwealth the
twenty first.
Robert Brooke
