Williams
to                  | Deed of Trust
Smoot and Smith
       This Indenture made the 10^th day of December in the year of our Lord 1836 between Presley Williams of the first part and W^m H. Smoot and Elijah Smith of the second part and Thomas J. Smoot of the third part; whereas the said Presley Williams is justly indebted to the said Tho^s J. Smoot in the sum of one hundred and thirty dollars to be paid on the 1^st day of October 1836 as by a bond bearing date on the 18^th day of March 1835 for one hundred dollars, and on the 1^st day of January 1836 as by a bond bearing date on the same day and year of the aforesaid bond, for thirty dollars more fully appear - which debt with legal interest thereon accruing the said Presley Williams is willing and desirous to secure. Now this Indenture Witnesseth that for and in consideration of the premises and also for the further consideration of one dollar of lawful money of Virginia to the said Presley Williams in hand paid by the said William H. Smoot and Elijah Smith at and before the sealing and delivery of these of these presents the receipt whereof he doth hereby acknowledge, the said Presley Williams hath given, granted, bargained, sold, aliened, enfeoffed, released and confirmed and by these presents doth give, grant, bargain, sell, alien, enfeoff, release and confirm to the said W^m H. Smoot and Elijah Smith, their heirs and assigns forever all the unexpired term of a lease on that tract or parcel of land lying and being in the County of Fauquier and State of Virginia containing two hundred and seventy five acres more or less, bounded as follows - on the three tracts of land now leased by James Gorden, Chandler Ford and Alexander Conner of James and John Marshall, also a sorrel and a bay mare and a wagon with all and singular the appurtenances to the said tract or parcel of land belonging to or in anywise appertaining, and the future increase of the said mares, and all the estate, right, title and interest of the said Presley Williams in and to the said granted or intended to be granted lease on the tract of land and premises with its appurtenances together with the aforesaid mares and wagon unto the said W^m H. Smoot and Elijah Smith, their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns forever in manner and form following, that is to say that the said Presley Williams, his heirs, executors and administrators the aforesaid lease on the said tract or parcel of land and premises with their appurtenances together with the aforesaid mares and wagon unto the said W^m H. Smoot and Elijah Smith, their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns against all persons whatever shall and will warrant and forever defend by these presents. Upon Trust Nevertheless that the said W^m H. Smoot and Elijah Smith, their heirs, executors and administrators shall permit the said Presley Williams to remain in quiet and peaceable possession of the said lease on the said tract or parcel of land and its premises with its appurtenances together with the aforesaid mares and wagon, and take the profit thereof to his own use until default be made in the payment of the said sums of one hundred and thirty dollars in whole or in part, and then upon this further trust that they or either of them or the survivor of them or their heirs, executors, administrators or assigns of such survivor shall and will so soon thereafter the happening of such default of payment as they or either of them or the survivor of them or the heirs, executors, administrators or assigns of such survivor may think proper, or the said Tho^s J. Smoot, his executors, administrators or assigns shall request, sell the said lease on the aforesaid tract of land and premises with the appurtenances together with the aforesaid mares and wagon, or part of the hereby granted premises as the trustee or trustees or their representatives hereby authorized to act shall think sufficient for the purpose and shall think proper to sell to the highest bidder for ready money at public auction after having fixed the time and place of sale at their own discretion and given thirty days notice thereof in one or more of the newspapers printed in Warrenton, and also notified the same by advertisement to be set up at the door of the Courthouse of Fauquier County on some court day previous to the day of the sale, and out of the monies arising out of such sale shall after satisfying the charges thereof and all other expenses attending the premises pay to the said Tho^s J. Smoot, his executors, administrators or assigns the said sum of one hundred and thirty dollars with the interest which may thereon have lawfully accrued, and the balance if any pay to the said Presley Williams, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns. But if the whole of the said sum of one hundred and thirty dollars shall be fully paid off and discharged to the said Tho^s J. Smoot, his heirs, executors, etc., on or before the 1^st day of January in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty eight with the legal interest that shall have accrued thereon, then this indenture to be void, or else to remain in full force and virtue.
       In witness whereof the said parties to these presents have hereunto set their hands and affixed their seals the day and year first above written.

Interlined before signed Saml H. Janney J. P. A.H. Sanders J. P.

his    Presley X Williams mark   Wm H. Smoot   Thos J. Smoot

Prince William County, to wit:
       We Samuel H. Janney and A.H. Sanders, Justices of the Peace for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that Presley Williams signed the within deed of trust and acknowledged it to be his act and deed, given under our hands and seals this 10^th day of December 1836.

Clerk’s Office of Fauquier County, March 11^th 1837.
       This Indenture was received in the office and having been acknowledged before two magistrates, admitted to record.