Deed, JS and Emma Smith to JS as Trustee-in-Trust, 5 October 1841, as Recorded in Hancock County Deeds
Source Note
JS and , Deed for property in , Hancock Co., IL, to JS as trustee-in-trust for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 5 Oct. 1841. Version copied 18 Apr. 1842 in Hancock Co., IL, Deed Records, vol. K, pp. 159–162; unidentified handwriting; Hancock County Recorder’s Office, Carthage, IL; microfilm at FHL. For more complete source information, see the source note for Deed to Robert Peirce, 28 Feb. 1842
of Said . Do certify that Joseph Smith and 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 having been by me made acquainted with the Contents of the Said deed, and examined Separate and apart from her said husband acknowledged that She had executed the same and relinquished her dower to the premises therein conveyed voluntarily freely and without compulsion of her said husband. Given under my hand, and Seal this fifth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty one