Rockingham Co. DB 28:370 1855

December 14^th in the year of 1855………………..For and in consideration of………of certain properties or their right title and interest………..ade by Samuel Cootes and Paulina his wife to………ild the principal in this obligation therefore……….ting of a negro man names Sam a negro …………be delivered into the posession of the Sa…………..1856 and a negro boy named Bil………………entitled to in any property wither real or person or mixed belonging to the estate of Thomas Swift decd or Mrs. Swift his relict, the father and mother of Mrs. Cootes we.…………the said Cootes and wife are now entitled or may hereafter by any act become entitled to said property in any capacity or relation whatever wither as heirs devisees legatees distributees or in any other character and for the further consideration that the said Cootes will pay or can…. to be paid and has executed his bond with security the sum of thirteen hundred dollars to the said Jno Q Winf…………payable in cash or good and available bonds one year………after the death of either the said Cootes or his wife whi……….ever event shall first occur. The said John Q. Winfield principal in the obligation and Richard Winfield as his security bind themselves in the event the said Mrs. Cootes………shall survive her husband the said Saml Cootes to pay………………..her from the date of the death of the said Cootes until………….death annually the interest upon the value on the rents f……..any of the property conveyed as above mentioned which ever sh……..come to the said Winfield best by the said Cootes and………..to the said Winfield which may have come into the p……ion of the said Winfield before or at the period of the…….of Mr. Cootes to the exclusive use benefit and behoof of said Mrs. Cootes and if any of the property above me………. Shall come into the possession of the said Winfield aft…..death of Mr. Cootes his wife surviving then the interest…….the value thereof or the rents thereof as may seem to him……..said Winfield best to be paid to the said Mrs. Cootes one………..exclusive use until her death and if any of the proper…….veyed to the said Winfield and for which he is to pay………interest upon or the value of the rent should be sold by………Winfield the interest upon the value of the amounts…………..Mrs. instead these payments to be made only in…….of the death of Mr. Cootes Mrs. Surviving, and co……………ng only at the date of that occurance and conclud……..the death of Mrs. Cootes, and the said obliges further……….themselves that in the event Mr. Cootes should di……………..viving that if Mrs. Cootes shall relinquish her d……….the estate of the said Cootes to pay annually to…………..csal use and behoof a sum equal to the inter…………..dower interest in the said Cootes estate………………in an estate…………………………….And in the event Mr. Cootes refuses upon the death……….band to relinquish her dower interest or had not done………….nally at that time in the said Cootes estate the said………..bind themselves to pay the interest upon a sum equal dower interest in his the said Cootes estate the said in…………however under circumstances to exceed a sum equal …….interest upon three thousand three hundred and thirty dollars to the heirs of the said Cootes or to persons appoin…………by him the said Cootes in his will to take the same……m to receive no interest whatever upon the dower interest………..vided she does not make a relinquishment of dower an……heirs or appointees of said Cootes to receive none if She doe………any time make such relinquishment. The payments to……..to commence at the death of Mr. Cootes and upon the………of Mrs. Cootes and only to be made in the event Mrs. Co…………….survives the said Cootes. To the agreement containin……….this the said obligees bind themselves their heirs ex………..administrators & assigns as witness their hands & seals……….day & year first above written

Jno Q. Winfield

Richd Winfield

Rockingham County to Wit

I Saml R. Sterling a Notary Public for the aforesaid in the State of Virginia do certify that Jno. Q. W……..and Richard Winfield whose names are signed to the……..hereto annexed bearing date on the 14^th day of December………have acknowledged the same before me in my County of Given under my hand this 17^th day of December 1855 Saml R. Sterling N.

In the Clerks office of the County Court of Rockingham…………18 1855 this obligation from Jno Q. & Richd Winfield to……….ootes was this day presented to me Clerk of said Court & admitted to Record.