Francis
Browning
Russell Co. Virginia 29 December 1800
James Monroe 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 two thousand three hundred and fifty eight issued the thirteenth day of December Seventeen hundred and ninety seven. There is granted by the said Commonwealth unto Francis Browning a certain tract or parcel of land containing thirty four acres by survey bearing date the second day of August one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight, lying and being in the County of Russell and bounded as followeth to wit; beginning on a small poplar corner to Lawrence Vanhook and with his line South forty seven degrees East eighty six poles to a white oak by the side of a spring corner to said Vanhook and with his line south sixteen degrees East twenty nine poles to a dogwood and ? East, twenty nine poles to a double white oak corner to Francis Browning and with his line north fifty six degrees East twenty nine poles to two dogwoods North twelve degrees West seventy poles to a stake, thence north eighty nine degrees west one hundred and ten 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 Francis Browning and his heirs forever. In Witness whereof the said James Monroe 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 the?, on the twenty ninth day of December the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred of the Commonwealth the twenty fifth.
(signed) James Monroe