Deed, Robert B. and Mercy Fielding Thompson to Joseph Smith III, 24 July 1841
Source Note
and , Deed for proprety in , Hancock Co., IL, to , 24 July 1841. Version copied 27 July 1841 in Hancock Co., IL, Deed Records, vol. I, pp. 357–358; unidentified handwriting; Hancock County Recorder’s Office, Carthage, IL; microfilm at Family History Library.
I, a justice of the Peace, of said , do certify, that 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 Seperate 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 twenty-seventh day of July in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty one