Philip Weigle grant, Fairfax Proprietary Northern Neck Grants Q, 1775-1778, p. 177 (Reel 297), Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
The Right Honorable Thomas Lord Fairfax Baron of Cameron in that part of Great Britain called Scotland Proprietor of the Northern Neck of Virginia, To all whom this present [?] shall come sends greeting. Know ye that for good causes for and in consideration of the composition to me paid and for the annual rent hereinafter reserved I have given granted and confirmed and by these presents for me my heirs and assigns do give grant and confirm unto Philip Weigle of Berkeley County, assignee of Mary Stonebridge, a certain tract of waste and ungranted land on the Head Drains of Sleepy Creek in Frederick County, bounded as by a survey thereof made by Thomas Rutherford.
Beginning at a forked chestnut oak and a young black oak near and on the west side of Sleepy Creek Wagon Road - Thence South 53 degrees east one hundred and forty six poles to 2 black oaks and a white oak on the north side of the Beargarden Ridge - Thence South 26 degrees west one hundred and thirty two poles to 2 pines - Thence South 37 degrees west two hundred poles to a Spanish and a white oak - Thence North 53 degrees west two hundred and twenty poles crossing the said road to a young black oak - and thence North 46 degrees 30 minutes east three hundred and twenty eight poles to the Beginning containing three hundred and eighty four acres of land together with all the rights, members and appurtenances thereunto belonging Royal Mines excepted and a full third part of all lead, copper, tin, coal, iron mines and iron ore that shall be found thereon. To have and to hold the said 384 acres of land together with all rights profits and benefits to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining except before excepted, to him the said Philip Weigle his heirs and assigns forever --
He the said Philip Weigle his heirs and assigns therefore yielding and paying to me my heirs or assigns or to my certain attorney or attornies agent or agents or to the certain attorney or attornies of my heirs and assigns Proprietors of the said Northern Neck yearly and every year on the Feast Day of St. Michael the Archangel the fee rent of one shilling sterling money for every fifty acres of land hereby granted and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity, provided that if the said Philip Weigle his heirs or assigns shall not pay the said reserved annual rent as aforesaid so that the same or any part thereof shall be behind and unpaid by the space of two whole years after the same shall become due if legally demanded that then it shall and may be lawful for me my heirs or assigns Proprietors as aforesaid my or their certain attorney or attornies agent or agents into the above granted premises to reenter and hold the same so as if this grant had never [?}. Given at my office in Frederick County, under my hand and seal. Dated the twelfth day of July 1777. Fairfax.
