John B. Floyd, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia: To all whom these Presents shall come -- Greeting: KNOW YE, That in conformity with a survey made on the sixteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and forty one, by virtue of Land Office Treasury Warrant No. 14,651 there is granted by the said Commonwealth, unto John Sutherland & Philander McCarter a certain Tract or Parcel of Land, containing six hundred and fifty acres lying and being in the counties of Grayson and Smyth (the greater part thereof in the former) on the waters of Fox creek, Holston [River] & Cripple creek bounded as follows, viz: Beginning at 4 lynns [linns] and a spruce pine [scrub pine] by a large branch of Middle Fox creek; Hence down said branch binding thereon S.15.E.88 poles to a spruce pine and 2 birches by said branch in a laurel near a small branch S.61.W.204 poles to a scrubby chesnut [chestnut] on the side of a hill N.12.W110 poles crossing the Iron mountain to five lynns on the North side of said mountain N.60.E.76 poles to a cucumber [magnolia], chesnut and maple N.22.E.136 poles to a chesnut and maple on the North side of a hill N.118.W.130 poles to a small hickory on the top of Canaday's ridge S.68.W.54 poles to a white oak and chesnut on the South side of a hill W.35.W.26 poles to two chesnuts from one root N.61.E.42 poles to two chesnuts from one root on the North side of a hill East 360 poles to a large water oak near a branch N.43.E.3 poles, crossing said branch to a water oak and chesnut N.85.E.118 poles to a water oak and two chesnut saplings from one root near a path S.15.E.56 poles to a birch, ash, and double birch in a branch 54 poles from the head of the branch at Richard's cabbins. Hence down said branch binding thereon 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 Sutherland & Philander McCarter

and their heirs forever.

In witness whereof, the said John B. Floyd 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 thirty first day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty and of the Commonwealth the twenty fifth

John B. Floyd

See the Library of Virginia for an explanation of Virginia Land Grants.