Deed from William and Rosannah Robinson Marks, 17 May 1842
Source Note
and Rosannah Robinson Marks, Deed for property in , Hancock Co., IL to JS as trustee-in-trust for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 17 May 1842. Version copied 7 May 1849 in Hancock Co., IL, Deed Records, vol. V, pp. [569]–570; unidentified handwriting; Hancock County Recorder’s Office, Carthage, IL; microfilm at Family History Library.
wife, party of the first part, have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year above written—
seal
Rosannah Marks seal
Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of
State of Illinois)
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I, , a Justice of the Peace, in and for the City of , in said , do certify that and Rosanna his wife, whose signatures appear to the foregoing deed and who are personally known to me to be the persons described in, and who executed the same, did severally acknowledge that they had executed the said conveyance, for the uses and purposes therein mentioned— And the said Rosanna Marks having been by me made acquainted with the contents of the said Deed, and examined separate and apart from her said , acknowledged that she had executed the same, and relinquished her dower to the premises therein conveyed, voluntarily, freely, and without compulsion of her said —
Given under my hand and seal, this seventeenth day of May in the Year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty two—