Henry Lee
Henry Lee Esqr Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia to all to whom these presents shall come Greeting Know Ye that by Virtue of a ReSurvey made the twenty fourth day of October one thousand seven hundred and ninety one In obedience to an order of the Worshipful court of Hampshire County there is Granted by the said commonwealth unto Thomas Anderson a certain Tract or parcel of Land containing one hundred and eighty seven acres lying and being in the said county of Hampshire on the north branch of Potowmack adjoining the land the land of Col Martin and bounded as followeth (to wit) Beginning at a Sugar Tree corner to said martin thence South eighty seven degrees west eight poles to a Locust on the bank of the River thence up the same with the meanders thereof South fourteen degrees west twelve poles South thirty three degrees West thirteen poles South forty three degrees and thirty minutes west thirty two poles South sixty two degrees West twenty poles South fifty seven degrees and thirty minutes west twenty six poles South fifty one degrees west twenty eighty poles South sixty degrees west twenty nine poles South ten degrees East sixteen poles South thirty degrees East thirty poles South eleven degrees west twelve poles South thirty two degrees west twenty six and half poles to a white oak and hickory corner to the land Lee sold Richard Stafford thence with his line north eighty eighty degrees East one hundred and forty eight poles to a black oak and white oak on the foot of Knobley Mountain thence along the side fo the mountain north thirty two degrees East ^two hundred & twenty two poles to a Chesnut Oak and sugar tree south eighty eighty degrees East one hundred and forty 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 Thomas Anderson and his heirs forever In witness thereof the said Henry Lee Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth hath hereunto set his hand and caused the lesser seal of the Commonwealth to be affixed at Richmond on the ^ twenty seventh day of September in the Year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety three and of the Commonwealth the eighteenth.