This indenture made the nineteen day of February in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred & fourteen between Christopher Robertson Jun^r & Sarah his wife of Pittsylvania county & state of Virginia of the one part & George W. Smoot of the same place of the other part. Witnesseth that the said Robertson and wife Sarah hath & doth by these presents for the consideration of two hundred and fifty dollars good money of Virginia to them in hand paid by the said George W. Smoot the receipt whereof they acknowledge themselves fully satisfied and paid for one half of a certain tract or parcel of land whereon the said Robertson & Smoot has now a tanyard. The said Robertson & wife doth by these presents sell & confirm unto the said George W. Smoot one moiety of the said land & premises it being in the said county of Pittsylvania on the head branch of Boy branch of Sandy River & bounded as follows, to wit: Beginning at a chestnut tree in said Robertson’s former line & with the same North sixty three degrees West thirty two poles to a white oak thence new line North twenty six degrees East twelve poles to a stake, South fifty degrees East thirty eight poles to a red oak in said Robertson’s former line aforesaid & with the same South fifty five degrees West five poles to the beginning, estimated at one acre & one hundred & twenty six poles whether it be more or less together with half the profits, interest, use, buildings, waters, woods, etc thereunto belonging. & the said Robertson and wife will forever warrant and defend one half of the above land & premises in fee simple from the just or lawful claim or claims from any person or persons whatsoever to the only proper use & behoof of the said George W. Smoot & his heirs forever. In witness whereof the said Christopher Robertson & his wife doth thereunto set and affix their hands and seals the day and year first mentioned.

Christopher Robertson Jun^r
Sally Robertson

Comment:
     In the realm conjecture, I offer that the John B. Smoot on the above deed may be the same John B. Smoot as found on this 1828 deed Lincoln County Tennessee. That tract of land included a tannery.