Deed, Charles B. Lawrence to Onias Skinner, 8 November 1851 [United States v. Joseph Smith III et al.]
Source Note
, Deed for Property in , Hancock Co., IL, to , 8 Nov. 1851, U.S. v. Joseph Smith III et al. (United States Circuit Court for the District of IL 1852). Copied 2 Dec. 1851; Hancock Co., IL, Deed Records, vol. 32, pp. 324–[325]; handwriting of ; Hancock County Recorder’s Office, Carthage, IL; microfilm at FHL. Includes seals.
Whereas at the July term AD 1851 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 Matthew McClaughry, and others were defendants by which decree the sum of $6546.55 was found to be due from Joseph Smith deceased by Judgment to said Complainants, after deducting the amount hitherto made for sale under a former decree rendered in this case and the real estate hereinafter described with other real estate, adjudged to be liable for the payment of the said debt and ordered to be sold for the payment of the same and whereas by said decree was appointed a Special Commissioner to sell and convey said real estate under said decree first giving due notice of said sale as required by said decree by advertisement of the time place and terms of said sale and of the property to be sold by publication in the Warsaw Signal a weekly newspaper printed in the county of aforesaid, said publication having been made on the Eighth day of November AD 1851 at the door of the Court House in in said , and whereas I did on the said Eighth day of November AD 1851 at said place above named offer for sale at public to the highest bidder for cash, the following described real estate and of Illinois became the purchaser of the same bidding therefor the sum of Twenty dollars which was the highest bid made for the same Now therefore Know all men by these presents that I Special Commissioner as aforesaid acting under said decree in Consideration of the premises and of the sum of Twenty dollars to me paid the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged have granted bargained and sold and do by these presents grant bargain sell convey and confirm unto the said his heirs and assigns the following described premises situate in the County of and state of aforesaid to wit Lot Three in Block Four in the first addition to the town of otherwise called otherwise in said County of To Have and To Hold together with all the appurtenances thereto belonging, to him the said his heirs and assigns forever, Provided, however that this deed contains no implied warranty on the part of said In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this Eighth day of November AD Eighteen Hundred and fifty one,
Seal
Special Commissioner
State of Illinois
ss. [scilicet]
Be it remembered that on this Nineteenth day of November AD 1851 personally Known to the undersigned a Notary Public in & for said to be the identical persons who executed and whose name is subscribed to the foregoing deed of conveyance as having executed the same as Special Commissioner as therein mentioned Came before me and acknowledged the same to be his voluntary act and deed as such Commissioner for the purposes therein expressed [p. 324]