WM STAPLETON
50 Acres 
Lee Co.,VA 1858

JOHN FLOYD,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 fourteenth day of May, 182
by virtue of land office Treasury warrant, no. _?.9119  There is 
granted by the said Commonwealth unto WILLIAM STAPLETON a certain 
tract or parcel of land containing, Fifty Acres situated in Lee 
county on Nasmans Ridge in the waters of the west prong of Blackwater
and bounded as follows, viz; Beginning at three Lynns frome one __?
on the North side of a ridge and running N 84(degrees)W crossing
a branch just below a spring 74 poles to a hickory and black oak
near the top of a ridge. S 60(degrees) W 28 poles to a hickory and
hornbeam on the top of said ridge. S 12(degrees) W 78 poles to two
dogwoods near a large sinkhole. S __? E 66 poles to a stake on the 
south side of a ridge; thence N 23(degrees)E 129 poles to the beginning.

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said Tract or Parcel of Land, with its
appurtenances to the said WILLIAM STAPLETON and his heirs forever.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the said JOHN FLOYD, 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 fourth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and thirty and of the Commonwealth the fifty fifth.

                                                      JOHN FLOYD