LEWIS STAPLETON
50 Acres 
Lee Co.,VA 1848

RALEIGH T. DANIEL,Esquire,Lieutenant Governor, acting as 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
fifteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty one by 
virtue of land office Treasury warrant, no. 9.193. There is granted 
by the said Commonwealth unto LEWIS STAPLETON a certain tract or parcel
of land containing, Fifty Acres lying and in the county of LEE on the East 
fork of Blackwater and bounded as follows, viz; Beginning at a buckeye
and beech on a line of HEBRUN LAWSON'S on the south side of the creek
bank and with said line N 12 W(degrees) crossing the creek 30 poles to
a hickory by a pond the beginning corner of this entry. N 35 E(degrees)
28 poles to a white oak on the side of a ridge. S 78 E(degrees) 36 
poles to two hickories on a flat on the ridge. S 62 W(degrees) 12 poles
to 3 small black oaks on said ridge. S 3 W(degrees) 270 poles crossing 
the creek to a stake then N 10__?E(degrees) 213 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 RALEIGH T. DANIEL, Esquire,Lieutenant
Governor acting as the 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 Tenth day of March in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty eight and 
of the Commonwealth the Seventy Second.