John Cantly grant, Virginia Land Office Grants No. 88, 1838, p. 532 (Reel 154), Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

David Campbell Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, to all to which these presents shall come, Greeting: Know Ye, that in conformity with a survey made on the 7th day of May 1838 by virtue of Land Office Treasury Warrant No. 2654 0 12 432 there is granted to John Cantly a certain tract or parcel of land, containing sixty-eight acres, situate in Monroe County on New River joining the land of Archibald Stuart's heirs, bounded as follows:

Beginning at two marsh oaks, one of them double, corner to Stuart's heirs where a where a (sic - it repeats) white oak and two double marsh oaks are [? collapsed] N 47 degrees 115 poles to two poplars and leaving [t-?] [s-?] N 8 degrees 842 poles to two poplars; N 80 degreesW 21 poles to a white oak; N 60 degrees W 91 poles to a [f-?] on a hill side facing the river; S 80 degrees W 16 poles to a large spanish oak on the river branch; thence up the river with the meanders thereof [&-?] [binding-?] thereon S 15 degrees 846 poles; S & W 13 poles to a winter birch on the river bank at the mouth of the Big [r-?] and near a corner of Stuart's heirs where a sugar tree, [squirrow-?] [Thoopwood-?] are called for, thence leaving the river, with Stuart's heirs, S 59 degrees E 314 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 John Cantly and his heirs forever. In witness whereof, the said David Campbell 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 30th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty 8 and of the Commonwealth the 65th[?]. - David Campbell