Transcript from the lva image of the land purchase:

Tarlton Gillaspie, 11 acres, Amherst

James P Preston Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth Virginia

To all to whom these presents shall come Greeting Know Ye that in conformity 
with a survey made on the ninth day of Novemeber 1816, by virture of a Land 
Office Exchange Treasury warrant Number 2111 fixed (?) the 12th, June 1810, 
there is granted by the said commonwealth, unto, Tarlton Gillaspie asignee of 
James Rowsey a certain tract or parcel of land containing Eleven acres situate 
in the county of Amherst on the waters of Pedlar river and bounded  as follows 
??? Beginning at a white oak corner to Larkin Bias thence (?) with his lines 
South fifteen degrees West sixty nine poles(?) to pointers corner to George
Morris thence his lines North seventeen degrees West seventy two poles to a 
white Oak and thence North sixy eight degrees East forty nine to the Beginning

To have and to hold the said tract for or parcel of landwith its approiateness 
to the said Tarlton Gillaspie and his heirs forever.

In Witness whereof the said James P Preston Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth 
of Virginia hath hereunto set his hand and caused the the ? seal of the said commonwealth 
to be affixed at Richmond on the Twelth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand  
eight hundred and nineteen and of the commonwealth the forty third.


Source: Land Office Grants No. 68, 1819, p. 117 (real 134)

Available on microfilm.  Virginia State Land Office.  Grants A-Z 1-124, reels 42-190; Virginia State Land Office.  Grants 125-, reels 369-