JS as trustee-in-trust for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Deed for property in , Hancock Co., IL, to Calvin C. Downey, 24 June 1844; in Hancock Co. Recorder’s Office, Deed Book O, pp. [454]–[455]; handwriting of ; Hancock Co. Recorder’s Office, Carthage, IL; microfilm at FHL.
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I, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of do certify that whose name appears to the above deed appeared personally before me and did acknowledge that he did sign the above deed for the use therein expressed as the Agent of Joseph Smith Trustee in Trust for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and that the Same is his free act and deed
Given under my hand and seal this the Twenty fourth day of June 1844.