Consists of a legal document acknowledging George and Sally Smith's joint ownership of property as husband and wife, as well as their mutual agreement to sell a parcel of it to Joshua Woods in Madison County, Illinois. This agreement was made at a time when married women in the United States still had very few legal rights under the coverture legal doctrine. Sally Smith's consent to the sale is documented thus: "...and the said Sally wife of the said George Smith, having the contents of said deed explained to her and by me examined separate and apart from her husband acknowledged that she had signed and executed the same freely, voluntarily and without any compulsion of her said husband." The document is signed by John H. Randle as justice of the peace.