This Indenture made the 27^th day of January 1826 between John S. Thornton of the one part and Thomas M. Smoot of the other part Witnesseth that the said John Thornton has this day and year above _____ bargained and sold to the said Thomas M. Smoot a certain tract of parcel of Land __ of forty acres at the price of fourteen dollars per acre the said parcel or forty acres of Land adjoins the lands of William C. Carter and by which said lands it is bounded on two sides by the River on the north side and thence across to the line of fence belonging to Samuel A. _____‡ should the above boundary not Comprise the said forty acres the said Thornton agrees there shall be a parallel line run for said quality the said Thomas M. Smoot agrees on his part of the contract to the said John S. Thornton one hundred dollars in Cash on the first day of September one thousand eight hundred and twenty six and the balance in two equal annual installments to bear Interest from the above named date the said John S. Thornton obligates him self to make the said Thomas M. Smoot a general Warrantee Deed for the above forty acres of land on the 1st day of September next at which time the said Thomas M. Smoot obligates to give his bonds with approved Security for the balance of the purchase money the said Thornton further obligates to give the said Thomas M. Smoot immediate possession of the above named forty acres with all its appurtenances thereto In Witness whereof we have set our hands and affixed our seals this twenty seventy day of January one thousand eight hundred and twenty six.
Teste
Joseph Phillips
John C. Major
Ge^o Ross
Culpeper County to wit.
       The agreement between John S. Thornton and Thomas M. Smoot was acknowledged by the parties in the clerks office the 9^th day of September 1826 Whereupon the same is admitted to Record


Note:
       1. Below is a graphic of the unclear name, Samuel A. _____ . This sample from a different deed and is slightly more readable than the one in the deed above. The sample came from Book TT, pp. 19, Urquhart et al.



       2. Thomas Smoot is mention in a yet different deed, John Thornton to William Ward, 17 Sep 1826, Book TT, pp. 23, 24, 25. The deed is for tracts in Illinois , and “twenty acres of land adjoining Elwood [Elkwood] . . . the said John Thornton doth hereby assign to the said Ward and Daughter the following debts due to him that is to say a debt due from the said Thomas Smoot for the purchase of the said 40 acres of land . . .”