Henry Lee 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 ten thousand nine hundred and four issued the ninth day of February one thousand seven hundred and eighty two, there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto Thomas Smoot Assignee of Benjamin Jones a certain Tract or parcel of Land, containing two hundred and twenty four Acres, by Survey bearing Date the seventh day of June one thousand seven hundred and ninety one, Lying and being in the County of Randolph on the East side of the road that leads from Tygers Valley to Anglings Ferry on the Monongalia River, and bounded as follows To wit, Beginning at a black oak and running thence East one hundred and twenty poles crossing the road to a Chestnut tree and Dogwood sapling thence South thirty degrees East eighty poles to a white oak South ten degrees West two hundred poles to a white oak, thence West one hundred poles crossing the road to a Sour Gum thence North eight degrees West two hundred and sixty 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 Henry Lee 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 third day of November in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety two and of the Commonwealth the Seventeenth.