THOMAS STAPLETON
400 ACRES
FAYETTE CO.,KY

EDMOND RANDOLPH,Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia
to all to whom these presents shall come Greetings. Know ye that 
by virtue of a certificate, granted by the county court of Fayette
and also by virtue of an act of General Assembly Papers in the
month of May one Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty for the relief
of certain poor persons now resident on the western frontier. There
is granted by the said Commonwealth unto THOMAS STAPLETON a certain
tract or parcel of land containing Four Hundred Acres by survey
bearing date the twenty first day of January one Thousand Seven 
Hundred and Eighty Six lying and being in the County of Fayette on
Calks Creek of Licking and bounded as followeth: To Wit, Beginning
at a hickory a corner to NICHOLAS ANDERSON'S three hundred and Eighty
nine acre survey and running South eighty degrees West two hundred
and twenty one poles to a sugar tree and hickory. Thence South ten 
degrees East one hundred and eight poles crossing Calks Creek course
continued in all two hundred and ninety one poles to two Linns. 
Thence North eighty degrees East two Hundred and twenty one poles to
a buckeye a corner of the aforesaid survey. Thence bounding on the
said Andersons (^North added here) line to the beginning, With its
Appurtanences to have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land
with its appurtanences to the said THOMAS STAPLETON and his heirs
forever(corner torn from document) of the said EDMOND RANDOLPH
Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia hath here unto set
his hand and caused the Lesser seal of the Commomwealth to be affixed,
at Richmond on the ninth day of May in the year of our Lord on Thousand
Seven hundred and Eighty eight and of the Commonwealth the Twelth.

                                                  EDMOND RANDOLPH