A grant or patent was the original deed to a piece of property. The land was being privately owned for the first time. These land grants are on file in the Library of Virginia. To see the orginal document, go here: Land Grant click on "Retrieve Doc.". Card numbers 8, 9, 10 and 11 are for Asa Hall. Below card #10 is transcribed.
Asa Hall
25 acres
Montgomery County
Wilson Cary Nicholas, esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, to whom these presents shall come, Greetings. Know Ye that in conformity with a survey made the sixth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, by virtue of a Land Office Exchange Treasury Warrant Number one thousand nine hundred and ninety issued the second day of July one thousand eight hundred and nine; there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto Asa Hall, senior a certain tract or parcel of land containing twenty five acres situated in the county of Montgomery in the fork of Kenny a branch of the north fork of Roanoke, and bounded as followeth, to wit: Beginning at two black oaks on a hill side, just above his house on a _____ of his patented land, thence with the same north seventy six degrees and sixty five poles to a poplar and white oak on a hill side, north thirty four degrees east eighteen poles to three white oaks corner to a survey made for Jas. Coffee; now owned by Thomas Jewell, thence with a line of the same and leaving his patented land, north one degree, west one hundred and one poles to a dead white oak at the corner of a field, Jewells beginning corner; and thence south twenty eight degrees, west one hundred and fifty two poles to the beginning appurtenance: To have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land, with it appurtences, to the said Asa Hall, senior and his heirs forever. In Witness whereof the said Wilson Cary Nicholas, esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia hath hereunto set his hand, and caused the lesser seal of the said Commonwealth to be affixed, at Richmond on the first day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and of the Commonwealth the thirty ninth.