Deed to Ezra Oakley, 26 August 1843, as Recorded in Nauvoo Registry of Deeds
Source Note
JS as trustee-in-trust for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Deed for property in , Hancock Co., IL, to , 26 Aug. 1843; sealed by JS; witnessed by ; certified by , 9 Nov. 1843. Version copied 21 Nov. 1843 in Nauvoo Registry of Deeds, Record of Deeds, bk. B, pp. 30–31; handwriting of or ; CHL.
year above written. Joseph Smith Seal. As sole Trustee in Trust for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Signed sealed and delivered in presence of . State of Illinois, , ss. [scilicet] I a Justice of the Peace, in and for the City of , in said county, do certify that Joseph Smith, whose signature appears to the foregoing deed, and, and who is personally known to me to be the person described in, and who executed the same, did acknowledge that he had executed the said conveyance for the uses and purposes therein mentioned. Given under my hand and seal, this ninth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three. J. P. L. S..