JOHN M. STAPLETON
90 Acres 
Lee Co.,VA 1858

JAMES L. KEMPER,Esquire, Governor of the Commomwealth of Virginia,
TO all to whom these presents shall come-Greeting: Know ye that
in conformity with a survey made on the fouth day of February, one
thousand eight hundred and 58 by virtue of(^added here two) land
office warrants no.s 12.972 & 19.714. There is granted by the said 
Commonwealth unto JOHN M. STAPLETON assignee of JOHN OSBORN a certain
tract or parcel of land containing, NINETY ACRES lying and being in
the county of LEE on the North side of Newmans Ridge and bounded as
as follows To Wit;

Beginning at a Dogwood near a path, corner to across POLLENS land
and with a line thereof N 60 1/2 W(degrees) 16 poles to a large
white oak Sugar tree and stake on a line of survey made in the 
name of HUDSON LAWSON, and with lines of same N 56 E(degrees)46 poles
to a beech and stake; N 23 W(degrees) 86 poles to a stake on a __?;
thence N 70 E(degrees) 20 poles to a black oak, corner to a survey
made in the name of JAMES BOUNDS aside with lines thereof S 25 E
(degrees) 80 poles to two large poplars, N 55 E(degrees) 110 poles
to a stake,N 40 W(degrees) 55 poles to two beeches in a line of 
survey made in the name of SAMPSON BLEDSOE, and with lines thereof 
S 17 E(degrees) 77 poles to a poplar, beech and ash, N 82 E(degrees)
38 poles to a double lynn; N 55 S(degrees) 44 poles to an ash and 
lynn; N 76 E(degrees) 34 poles to a buckeye and large oak on the
side of a steep bluff thence S 27 E(degrees) 32 poles to a white
oak and poplar on the top of said ridge, and with top of the same
S 57 W(degrees) 342 poles to a stake, thence North 45 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 JOHN M. STAPLETON and his heirs forever.
IN WITNESS THEREOF, the said JAMES L. KEMPER, Esquire, Governor of
the Commonwealth of Virginia, hath hereunto set his hand and caused
the Lessor Seal of the said Commomwealth to be affixed, at Richmond,
on the Sixth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and 76, and of the Commonwealth the one hundred and
first.
                                               J. L. KEMPER