LEWIS STAPLETON
13 Acres 
Lee Co.,VA 1853

JOSEPH JOHNSON,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 Seventh day of February, one
thousand eight hundred and fifty three by virtue of land office Treasury
warrant, no. 20.622  There is granted by the said Commonwealth unto 
LEWIS STAPLETON a certain tract or parcel of land containing, Thirteen
Acres lying and being in the county on the South East fork of Blackwater
and bounded as follows, viz; Beginning at a hickory in a field on a line
of said Stapleton's land & also on a line of survey made in the name of
WILLIAM ROBERTS & with said line S 50 W(degrees) 14 poles to a large 
white oak, corner to said land; Thence N 63 W(degrees) 20 poles to a
stake corner to a survey made in the name of WALTER PRESTON & with a 
line thereof S 16 W(degrees) 82 poles to a white oak stump another
corner of said Preston's land. Thence N 65 E(degrees)47 poles leaving 
said Preston's lines to a stake near a cedar knob on a line of said 
Stapleton's land & with the same N 3 E(degrees) 52 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 LEWIS STAPLETON and his heirs forever.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the said JOSEPH JOHNSON, 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 First day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and fifty two and of the Commonwealth the Seventy Nineth.

                                                      Jos. JOHNSON