A Copy Teste: H.L. Pearson, Clerk
by Marilyn Brown, D.C.
Circuit Court Fauquier County, Virginia

Book 29, pg. 63

Marginal Notation:
These trustee
to [illegible] Deed.
McNish & Cowles
[illegible] examined & delivered
to Wesley Cowles
this 25th day of
March 1827.
J. Arrowsmith.

                This indenture, made and entered into the second day of August 1826 between Daniel
Withers of the one part and William McNish and Wesley Cowles of the second part witnesseth 
that whereas John Kemper and Martha his wife by deed bearing date the 19th of January 
1818 between the said Kemper and wife of the first, Daniel Withers of the second part and Thomas 
Ashby of the third part which is duly proved by the three witnesses in the clerk's office 
of Fauquier County and admitted to record did convey to the said Daniel Withers certain 
real and personal estate in the said deed mentioned for the purposes in the said deed 
also mentioned. 
                And whereas the said Daniel Withers by [illegible] of the said deed and in 
pursuance of a decree of the Chancery Court for the district of Fredericksburg in the 
suit of John Kemper against Davis James made on the 16th day of May 1826 did on
the first day of August 1820 powered to sell after [illegible] advertisement at public auc-
tion a tract or parcel of land described in said deed as lying and being in the 
County of Fauquier upon which there is a merchant mill – being the same 
property conveyed to said John Kemper by the [illegible] of Colonel Martin dictate 
decreed which said land lies upon the waters of Great Run and has now upon it a 
grist mill and other buildings. And whereas the said William McNish 
and Wesley Cowles, by Thomson and Ashby their agent, at the said sale became 
the purchasers of the said tract or parcel of land, at the price of six hundred 
and twenty five dollars, they being the highest bidders. Now this inden-
ture witnesses that the said Daniel Withers for and in consideration of 
the premises of the said sum of $625.00 to him in hand paid by the said 
McNish and Cowles at and before the sealing and delivery of these presents the receipt 
whereof is hereby acknowledged by the said Daniel Withers – hath granted bargained 
and aliened, released, [illegible] and confirmed by these presents doth grant bargain sell 
alein release [illegible] and confirm unto the said William McNish and Wesley Cowles and their 
heirs the said tract of land described as aforesaid with its appurtenances. To have and 
to hold the said land with its appurtenances together with the same [illegible] and other improve-
ments thereunto belonging to them the said McNish and Cowles their heirs and assigns forever 
for such estates and interest therein as the said Daniel Withers by virtue of the deed 
of trust aforesaid can lawfully [illegible] and the said Daniel Withers the aforesaid tract 
of land with its appurtenances unto this said McNish and Cowles their heirs and assigns 
against the claim of him the said Daniel Withers his heirs and assigns and against
the claim of all manner of persons claiming by through or under him shall and
will warrant and forever defend.

                 In testimony whereof the said Daniel Weathers hath hereunto set his hand 
and seal the3 date and year first above written.

Dan Withers 
Trustee. Seal.

Clerk's office of Fauquier County Court, August 2nd, 1826.

                This indenture was acknowledged in said office by Daniel Withers trustee
and admitted to record.

Teste,
John Arrowsmith , C.C.