Deed, Charles B. Lawrence to Elizabeth Bixler, 8 April 1851 [United States v. Joseph Smith III et al.]
Source Note
, Deed for Property in , Hancock Co., IL, to Elizabeth Bixler, 8 Apr. 1851, U.S. v. Joseph Smith III et al. (United States Circuit Court for the District of IL 1852). Copied 26 May 1854; Hancock Co., IL, Deed Records, vol. 37, pp. [498]–499; handwriting of Richard W. Smith; Hancock County Recorder’s Office, Carthage, IL; microfilm at FHL. Includes seals.
Whereas, at the December Term AD 1850 of the Circuit Court of the , for the District and State of a decree was rendered in a suit in wherein the were complainants and , and heirs at law of Joseph Smith deceased, Lewis C. Bidaman [Bidamon] his wife Elisha Dixon her husband, Solomon Kime [Keim], James Downing, M. Shifkin, John Tillson, Sophus K. Holstein, Henry Swank, Michael Beagle, Anton Wittick, J[ohn] L. Hanna, W[illiam] Hanna, Mary E[a]gan John M. E[a]gan, her husband, Michael S[ch]midt [blank] S[ch]midt his wife, Jabez J Piggott, , James Clark, Reuben H. Loomis, John Wilkie, , John C. Bidaman [Bidamon] Bryant Gilbride, John Griffith[s], William Powers, Christopher E. Yates, William McLellan [McLennan], Joseph Sibley, J. C. Hogeland, Julia [Julius] C. Wright, George Beagle, J. A. Chadsey, Christian Bidaman [Bidamon], and others were defendants, by which decree the sum of $7870.23, was found to be due from Joseph Smith, deceased by Judgemt to the said complainants, and the following described lands and town Lots adjudged to be liable to the payment of said debt, and ordered to be sold for the payment of the same all said Lands and lots being situated in the county of and State of , to wit:
SW Qr. of the SE Qr of Sec 6. township 5 North Range 8 West.
W hf of NE. Qr [of Sec] 35 [township] 7 [North Range] 8 [West.]
the South Qr of <Lot> 3 & 4 in Blocks 88, 89 & 90,
All of Lot 1 in Block 63.
Lots 1, 2 & 3 [Block] 100
Lot 1 in [Block] 101
Lot 1 in [Block] 102
Lots 1, 2, 3 & 4 in [Block] 103
Lots 1, 2 & 3 in [Block] 104
Lots 1, 2, 3 & 4 in [Block] 105
Lots 1, 2, 3 & 4 in [Block] 106
Lots 1, 3 & 4, and Lot 2, except 61¾ feet wide North side of North W Qr. in Block 107
Lot 4, W Qr of Lot 3 and all of lot 2 except 50 feet sq[u]are in the NW corner in Block 108
Lots 1 & 2 in [Block] 111
Lots 1 & 2 in [Block] 112
Lots 1 & 2 in [Block] 113
Lots 1, 2, 3 & 4 in [Block] 115
Lots 1, 2, 3, & 4 in [Block] 128
Lots 1, 2, 3 & 4 in [Block] 129
Lot 3 in [Block] 134
Lot 1 in [Block] 136
Lot 1 & 2 & 3 except 75 feet wide E side in block 150 lots 2 & 3 in block 151
Block 153
The undivided four fifths of lots 1, 2 & 3 in Block 95
[The undivided four fifths of lots] 1, 2, 3 & 4 [Block] 96
[The undivided four fifths of lots] 1, 2, 3 & 4 [Block] 97
[The undivided four fifths of lots] 1, 2, 3 & 4 [Block] 98
[The undivided four fifths of lots] 1 & 2 [Block] 99
[The undivided four fifths of lots] 4 [Block] 104
[The undivided four fifths of lots] 2 & 3 [Block] 109
[The undivided four fifths of lots] 1, 2, 3 & 4 [Block] 110
[The undivided four fifths of lots] 3 [Block] 111
[The undivided four fifths of lots] 3 [Block] 112
[The undivided four fifths of lots] 3 & 4 [Block] 113
[The undivided four fifths of lots] 1, 2 & 4 [Block] 131
[The undivided four fifths of lots] 1 & 2 [Block] 135
[The undivided four fifths of lots] 2, 3 & 4 [Block] 136
[The undivided four fifths of lots] 1, 2, 3 & 4 [Block] 137
All the above lots and Blocks in the Town (now city) of in Said , according to plat of said , And Whereas by said Decree the undersigned was a Special Commissioner to sell and convey, And Whereas as such commissioner I gave due notice of said sale, as required by law in said decree by advertisement of the time place and terms of said sale, and of the property to be sold by publication for four weeks successively in the Quincy Whig, and Popular Tribune two newspapers published, one in the county of and the other in the county of in the State of the first of said publication in each publication in each paper being more than five Weeks prior to said sale and Stating in said advertisement that said sale would be made upon the 8th day of April AD. 1851, in front of the Public house known as the in the city of , in said And Whereas I Did on the said 8th. day of April AD 1851, offer for sale in said city of at the place aforesaid, at public to the highest bidder for cash, the premises aforesaid in separate parcels as heretofore described according to the directions of said decree and as set forth in said advertisement And Whereas at said sale Elizabeth [p. [498]]