This vellum indenture, signed on September 23, 1681, recognizes the sale of a farm in Durham county, England between William Shipherdson and Thomas Williamson. The top of the indenture is cut in a jagged ("toothed") line, as was the common practice with indentures. The legal contract was duplicated on a single sheet, and then the copies were separated by a jagged edge, so that the two pieces could be fit together again to verify authenticity.