22 lines in neat ink manuscript with portions filled out in a less even hand, perhaps by Fairfax himself. Signed at the end, Fairfax. 9x7¼.

Document directing Guy Broadwater to make a survey of about 200 acres in Virginia, belonging to James Nichols. Described are the various parameters to be met by the survey. Lord Fairfax was the first employer of the young George Washington, who certainly received many such requests in his days as a surveyor in colonial Virginia.