Adjusting the Title of land for William Gleaves

Patrick Henry Esq; Governor of [  ]
these presents shall come, Greeting:  Know [  ] 
given by the Commissionees for adjusting the Title [  ]
Counties and in [con]sideration of the ancient co[  ]
Gleaves into the Treasury of this Commonweal[l  ]
 ~~  ------------------  ~~  there is granted by t[   ] 
   ~~~~~   ----------------------   ~~~~~~~~  -------[  ]
a certain Tract or Parcel of Land  containing Two  [    ] 
day of March, one Thousand Seven Hundred and  [   ] 
on the waters of Cripple Creek a Branch of New River  [   ] 
Trees from one root North Sixty four degrees  E[   ] 
East Seventy Poles to a Black Oak Tree   South For[   ]
Chestnut Trees  [   ]st one Hundred and Thirty eigh[  ]
four Poles to a [ Hic]kory & White Oak Saplings [    ]
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Poles to a White [  ] Oak sapling, South Fifty [   ] West Forty four Poles to [  ] uble White Oak Sapling Nor[   ]
Sixty four degrees [   o]ne Hundred and forty [   ] crossing a Branch to a Wh[ite ] Oak Sapling  in a Hollow
North  [     ] Fifty six Poles [    ] White Oak Tree North Thirty [   ]five degrees  East Twenty eight|
Poles to [           ]venty [         ] Thirty four Poles crossing the Br[anc]h to two White Oak Trees &
North Seventy [    degrees] East three  [     ] & Seventy four Poles to the Beg[in]ning ~~~~~~~~ 
with its Appurten[ ]ces;  to have and to hold [     ]aid  Tract or Parcel of Land w[      ] its Appur-
tenances,  to the [   ]  William Gleaves  ------------[  ]   ~~~~~ [    ] ------
--- --- [  }----------   ~~~~  [  ]----------------------   ~[  ]~~~~  ----   ~~~~~
and his [Heirs] for[   ]er,  IN WITNESS  whereof, [ ]aid Patrick Henry Esquire[   ]  ~~~~~
[        [Com]monwealth of Virginia, hath [  ]unto set his Hand, and caused [    ]e [ ]esser Seal
[                 ] wealth to be affixed at Richmon[d  ]in the Eighteenth ~~~~~ Day [ ] of March ------ 
[                  ]d, one Thousand Seven Hund[r]ed and Eighty five – and of the [Co]mmonwealth

                                             [     ]P. Henry

William Gleaves is Intitled to the within mentioned Tract of Land

John Howie   Re. S.

Papers &
Wills of J T Gleaves Dec

William Gleaves

295 Acres

Montgo[mery    ]
[          re]corded an[        ]

This Patten
covers the old
Crab orchard Tract
of land
1844

No. 16

Deed signed by Patrick Henry
1785    Wm Gleaves land

(in Dr. Chitwood’s handwriting)