CHARLES STAPLETON
72 Acres
Botatourt Co.,VA


PATRICK HENRY Esquire governor of the commonwealth of Virginia,
to All to whom these presents shall come, greeting. Know ye that 
by virtue and in consideration of part of an exchange Treasury
Warrant Number one hundred sixteen and offered the the sixth day 
of May one Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty four. There is granted 
by the said commonwealth unto CHARLES STAPLETON assignee of ROBERT
Mc__? who was assignee of JAMES HAWKINS a certain tract or parcel 
of land containing Seventy two acres by survey bearing the date
the Ninth day of August on Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty four.
Lying and being in the county of Botatourt on the waters of Roanoke,
and bounded as followeth To Wit, Beginning at a Spanish on the North
side of the river near the mouth of Seneca River and running North
fifteen degrees East thirty six poles with a line of his own land
to his corner Poplar and Spanish Oak hence South Seventy degrees
(^added above the line thence West) Ninety four poles to a Spanish
Oak. Thence North Seventy degrees West Eleven poles to a Poplar
in a hollow leaving said line North Fifty Seven degrees East Sixteen
poles to a White Oak. Thence North Fourty Six degrees East Thirty
four poles to a White Oak. Thence North Twenty three degrees East
Fourty three poles to a Hickory and two White Oak saplings. South 
Seventy two degrees East Twenty poles crossing a run to a white
sapling, South Fifty three degrees East one hundred and Eighty 
eight poles, Thence South Fourty poles and Thence North Sixty
three degrees West one hundred and sixty 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 CHARLES STAPLETON and
his heirs forever. In Writings where of the said PATRICK HENRY
Esquire governor of the commonwealth of Virginia hath unto set his
hand and caused the Lessor Seal of the said commonwealth to be
affixed at Richmond on the Twenty Seventh day of September in the
year of our Lord one Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty five and
of the commonwealth the tenth.
                                                  P. HENRY