Joseph Desha Esq. Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky to all to whom these presents shall come Greeting Know ye that by virtue and in consideration of part of a Kentucky Land Office warrant No. 15709 there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto Emanuel Higginbotham assee of A.J. Brown and Thomas Kenady [Kennedy] assees and a certain tract or parcel of land Containing two hundred acres by Survey bearing date the 26th day of March one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven lying and being in the County of Garrard on the waters of Paint Lick Creek and bounded as followeth to wit; Beginning at three white oaks on a Creek corner to Joseph Tippet thence with Glasgow line S43E22 poles to three sourwood thence S77 East 200 poles to a black oak dogwood and poplar on a branch thence S46 poles to three chesnut oaks and a pine on a ridge thence with said ridge S40W86 poles to a chesnut on said ridge thence S70W100 poles to a pine and chesnut oak in the head of a hollow thence down the hollow N67W60 poles to a gum and maple thence N16 West 40 poles to a large Chesnut oak thence N65W66 poles to threewhite oak on Mason's fork thencedown the same with its meanders N50E66 poles to the intersection of John Angles and thence with him N50 East 20 poles to a gum and white oak his corner thence with his line to the beginning with its apputenances to have and to hold the said land or parcel and his heirs forever  In testamony whereof the said Joseph Desha Esq. Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky hath hereto set his hand and caused the seal of the said Commonwealth to be affixed at Frankfort on the twenty ninth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and twenty seven and of the Commonwealth the thirty ninth

By the Governor J.C. Pickett Secy

Jos. Desha