Amanuensis Monday - A Land Grant

The above reads:

"William B. Giles, Esq., Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia;

To all to whome these presents shall come, Greetings: Know ye, that in Conformity

with a Survey made on the thwenty third day of April 1826 by ____

of Land offer Treasury tennant No 7454 opened

March 26th 1823

there is granted, by the said Commonwealth, unto Alexander Carnefix

A Certain Tract or Parcel of Land, containing One hundred acres

Totale, in the County of Nicholas, on thewaters of

Angela's creek  a branch of Meador river and bounded

as followeth ____ beginning at a sugar tree and a

bunch of _____ near a branch that heads at that is

called the Chestnut Trough on the Peter's Creek road,

Then S 24 [degrees] W 100 poles to a chestnut oak, hickory &

poplar near the head of a _____; S 69 [degrees] & 78 poles

to a distant juniper, S75 [degrees] E 140 poles to a _____ oak

maple & chstnut oak and spruce near a branch, N63 [degrees]

W 40 poles to a _____oak and a black gum, N 58poles

to two sugar tree and bunch of gums, and _____

N87 [degrees] W 137 poles to the beginning.

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said Tract or Parcel of Land, with ots appurtenances to the

said Alexander Carnefix and his

heirs foreer.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the said William B Giles Esq Governor of

the Commonwealth of Virginia, hath hereunto set his Hand, andcaused the lesser Seal of he said

Commonwealth to be affixed, at Richmond, on the tenth day of May

in the year of our Lord on thousand eight hundred and twenty seven and of the

Commonwealth the fifty first.