Thomas M. Randolph Esq Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: Know ye, That in conformity with a Survey made the twenty seventh day of January 1819 by virtue of a Land Office Treasury Warrant, Number 5796; issued the 23rd November 1816; There is granted by the said Commonwealth unto

_____________________________Robert Preston Junior ~~~

A certain Tract or Parcel of Land, containing four and a half acres Situate in the County of Washington on the waters of Spring Creek and on both sides of Joansborough road and bounded as followeth Towit.

Beginning at two black Oaks and a chestnut a corner to John Mitchell's land thence with his line S 42 W130 poles to two hickories by a lying black Oak the corner of John Campbell's old survey thence with said Preston's lines N17 E 26 poles to a white Oak and lying chestnut and thence N49 E 106 poles to the Beginning. ~~~~~~~~~~~~

To Have and to Hold the said Tract or Parcel of Land with its Appurtenances, to the said Robert Preston Jun.------------- and his heirs forever.

In Witness whereof, the said Thomas M. Randolf Esq. 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 first~~~~ day of July~~ in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight hundred and twenty~ ~ ~and of the Commonwealth the forty fourth. Th.M.Randolf