This Indenture made this 19^th day of April in the year of our Lord one thou……………Hundred and forty-nine between G. H. Chrisman, Martha D. his wife, Margaret………..Ann H. Herring, heirs of Alexander Herring deceased of the County of Rockingham……..of Virginia, of the one part, and Samuel Cootes of the same county and state afore…..of…….. Witnesseth that for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar to them in h………………..the said Samuel Cootes, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged the said……Martha his wife, Margaret D. Herring and Ann H. Herring, heirs of A………….as aforesaid, have granted, …….released and forever quit claimed, an…………do fully and absolutely grant….release and forever quit claim……..Cootes his heirs and assigns all the estate right title interest property ……..whatsoever in law or equity of them, and each of them, the said G. H. Chrisman……his wife, Margaret D. Herring and Ann H. Herring of …..to the follow………of land with the appurtenances. To wit five hundred acres more…..on the…est side of Church Mountain, Brocks Gap, Rockingham Co………four hundred and thirty-two acres bearing date 15^th day of Ap…………said four hundred and twenty three, bearing date April 7…..as follows. Beginning at two pines on the west bank of ……….Runions, thence S14 1/2W92 poles to two hickories, then S…….Spanish Oak sapling corner to Isaac Runions (above his house…….48 poles to a pine, thence N17W64 poles to a pine, thence……branch to two pines on a steep hill, thence N60W28 poles of a hollow, thence S88W105 poles to a red oak and two whi……to two pines and a white oak, thence N53W75 poles crossing th…..white oak corner to Nancy Tusing, thence S24 1/2W18 poles……218 poles, thence crossing the survey division line with a………….to some dogwood, hickory, and gum saplings, thence………..black oak and locust, pattent corner in east side of church……pattent lines N21 1/2W207 poles to a chesnut and pine……….76 poles to a chesnut oak and hickory sapling in sd…………………………………..pine, thence S43 1/2E5 ½ poles to two pines on the banks of Tunis Creek……Also another tract or parcel of land containing one hundred & fifty……….. it being part of the above named pattent for 1423 acres lying near Tunis…….adjoining the lands of Shoemaker, Yount & Mason, beginning at a white pine……….a hill near…..Lick corner to said Mason & Yount, thence with Yount’s line…….30 poles to a pine, thence N57E16 poles to a leaning pine, thence S45E27 poles……..black oak and double white oak, thence S30E40 poles to a pine, thence S24E20…..to a small pine & pin oak, thence S58E58 poles crossing a small branch to a white………thence N5E50 poles to a pine on the side of a hill, thence N17W64 poles to a white……of a hollow, thence N75E164 poles cornering in a line with Shoemaker land, thence with Shoemaker’s line S13W133 poles to a pine on a ridge, thence…the patent lines N85W77 poles to a small white oak on a hill, thence S30W93 poles……..ing a road and two branches to two white oaks in a hollow, in or near a line of……….ason’s land and with the same N36W196 poles to the beginning……..to have and to hold the tract or parcel of land aforesaid, with it’s appurtenances to the said Samuel Cootes his heirs and assigns to the only proper use and behoof of the…….said Samuel Cootes his heirs and assigns forever so that the said G. H. Chrisman, Martha D. his wife, Margaret D. Herring and Ann H. Herring, nevertheless of them nor either of the heirs……nor any person whatever claiming ……them or either of them shall by any ways or means, hereafter, have claim challenge or demand any estate right title or interest of in………to the premises aforesd or any part or parcel thereof but from all and every action for the recovery thereof and from all and every estate right title interest or demand of in or to or to the said premises or any part thereof, they and every of them all be utterly excluded and barred forever by these presents. In witness whereof the………….G.H. Chrisman, Martha D. Chrisman, Margaret D. Herring and Ann H. Herring…….herewith set their hands and affixed their seals this the day and year above written.

Geo. H. Chrisman

Martha D. Chrisman

Margaret D. Herring

Ann H. Herring