George Wigill land grant, 10 May 1796, 140 acres Augusta Co., Virginia, Land Office Grants No. 35, 1795 - 1796, p. 195-196 (Reel 101), Virginia State Land Office, Library of Virginia Digital Collections, Richmond, Virginia.

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 twelve thousand six hundred and seventy seven issued the twenty ninth day of June one thousand seven hundred and eighty two there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto the said George Wigill a certain tract or parcel of land, containing one hundred and forty acres by survey bearing date the seventeenth day of October one thousand seven hundred and ninety three lying and being in the county of Augusta on the head branches of Thorney Branch joining the lands he bought of James Curry and joining Robert Laws land, and between them and the narrow back mountain, and is bounded as followeth (to wit)

Beginning at a white oak and two black oak saplings corner to said Curry, thence with his line north fifteen degrees west eighty poles to two pines his corner; north thirty six degrees west four and a half poles to three pines Laws' corner; north one degree west fifty six poles to three white oaks; south fifty seven degrees west thirty poles to a red oak and pine on the point of a ridge; north sixty six degrees west ninety poles to a black oak and pine; south twenty three degrees east eighty poles crossing two branches to two pines on a hill; south fifteen degrees west thirty two poles to a pine; south twenty degrees west one hundred and twenty poles to three pines; south eighty degrees west fifty six poles to three pines; south five degrees east forty four poles crossing two branches to a white oak; north east thirty four poles to a white oak and hickory in a draft; south eighty eight degrees east forty four poles to a red oak and spruce pine by a branch; north eighty six degrees east twenty poles to a red oak on Waddles' line; north east eight poles to two white oaks Waddle's and Curry's corner, thence with Curry's line north sixty seven degrees east forty two poles to two white oak saplings by a branch Curry's corner; north thirty one degrees east thirty two poles to a white oak Curry's corner; north fifty eight degrees east sixty four 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 George Wigill and his heirs forever.

In witness whereof the said Robert Brooke 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 tenth day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety six and of the Commonwealth the twentieth. Robert Brooke.