"And Desiring a Warrant to survey the same in order to obtain a Deed, being ready to Pay the Composition and Office Charges.
"These are therefore to Empower You the sd G. Washington to survey the sd Waste Land.
"Provided this be the first Warrant that hath Issued for the same and you are to make a just, true and Acurate survey thereof, Describing the courses and distances p. Pole, also the Buttings and Boundings of the several Persons Lands adjoining, and where you cannot Join on any known Lines, you are to make Breadth of the tract to bear at least the proportion of one-third part of the length as the Law of Virginia Directs, you are also to Insert the Names of the Pilot and Chain Carriers made use of and Employed, a Plat of which sd Survey with this Warrant you are to give into this Office any time before the twenty-fifth Day of March next ensuing. Given under my Hand and Seal of the Proprietors Office this thirteenth day of Oct. 1750 in the Twenty-Fourth year of His Majesty King George the Second's Reign.
"G. W. FAIRFAX."
[ENDORSED.]
"Barthalamore Anderson's Warr for 450 Acres
"Mr Washington's Retur'd the 8th Feby 1750-1.
"To be paid p Ld Fx
"61"
[71] Lost River.—This stream gets its name from the fact that for three miles it passes out of sight under a mountain which lies across its course. It rises in Hardy county, W. Va., and flows in a north-easterly direction to the Cacapehon river. The following diagram is made from a pen drawing by Washington in his field note book, but not definitely related to this particular survey.
