WM STAPLETON
30 ACRES
MONTGOMERY CO.,VA

ROBERT BROOKE,Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia
to all to whom these presents shall come greeting. Know ye that 
by virtue of a Land Office Treasury Warrant number Twenty one 
thousand Nine hundred and forty, issued the twenty fourth day
of December one thousand seven hundred and eighty three lying
and being in the county of Montgomery on the North side of the
South fork of Roan Oak and is bounded as followeth: to Wit,
Beginning at a large black oak corner to his own land, and 
runneth South three degrees Easttwenty two poles to a white and
black oaks corner of Jacob Smiths survey South sixty five degrees
West one hundred and sixty poles crossing to small branches to two
black oaks and two locust saplins North eighteen degrees West forty
poles to two white oak saplings corner to his land thence North
seventy seven degrees East one hundred and sixty six 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 WILLIAM
STAPLETON and his heirs forever. In witness whereof the said ROBERT
BROOKE,Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia hath here-
unto set his hand and caused the lesser seal of the said Commonwealth
to be affixed at Richmond on the twelth day of April in the year of
our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety six and of the Common-
wealth the Twentieth.

                                                    ROBERT BROOKE

(SIDE NOTE)There is granted by the said Commonwealth unto WILLIAM
STAPLETON a certain tract or parcel of land containing thirty acres
by survey bearing date the Thirteenth day of February one thousand
seven hundred and ninety four.