

"The Condition of the above obligation is such that whereas the said George Washington hath bargained & sold unto the said Philip Pendleton the fee simple Estate of and in a certain tract of land lying and being in the said county of Frederick adjoining the lands of James Keith the orphans of Joshua & Abraham Hains and the Tract of land which the said Philip Pendleton purchased of Owen Thomas, being that Neck of land by a line to be run from a small locust at corner of the said land patented by Owen Thomas to a corner of the line which divided Hains' land from the said George Washington. …" The deed was witnessed by, and bears the clerical signature of, Samuel Washington, Vali Crawford, and John Park Custis.