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This is a Virginia Land Office warrant, not a Congressional one.
At the Library of Virginia web site
http://www.lva.virginia.gov/siteIndex.asp
scroll down to and click on Revolutionary War records.
On the next page look for Land Warrants, click on it.
You will get a search engine. Put in the name 'Story' and you will see a notation for the name John Story.
Click on the name. You will get another page with his name. Click on it. You will find three entries concerning this land in the catalog entries. Write down the box and document numbers.
You can then write the Library of Virginia for copies of all the documents they have concerning this Land Warrant.
Virginia's Land Warrants could be used in KY and, after the available land used up in KY, in the VA Military District in Ohio.
The KY Sec. of State has a great web site with info on and search engine regarding Miitary Land Warrants and what they were used to claim. You will have to be patient tweaking info out of the site, it is a bit hard to navigate through. But the Library of VA site does not note a VA grant to John Story's heirs or to Francis Story, so it is possible Francis sold the Warrant. A great many soldiers and their heirs did this. Still, with the Warrant No., you might still find something in the KY site.
The Government Land Office has most of the Warrantees indexed for the lands in Ohio. If you go to the BLM/GLO site, you might find that this Warrant was used to claim lands there. Go here:
http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/
Click on Land Patents search link at upper left. Use the Standard Search at the tabs, and search for your man and Francis as 'warrantees', and you are searching in Ohio.
If you obtain the estate accounting/settlement records for John, you might find mention of sale of the land warrant as reason for income to the estate. There is an outside possibility that sale of the land warrant was recorded in the County where the soldier resided - but usually such sales were written as an assignment on the back of the warrant.
Unfortunately our ancestors and their kin did not always make records with all the connective evidence we would like to have. You are more likely to find that evidence in the estate and land records recorded locally, than in the material about the land warrant, but it can pay off to turn over ever possible stone.
Good hunting!
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