JS as trustee-in-trust for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Deed for property in , Hancock Co., IL, to Jesse Price, 28 Apr. 1842; signed by JS; witnessed by and ; certified by . Version copied 14 Oct. 1844 in Hancock Co., IL, Deed Records, vol. N, pp. 43–44; handwriting of ; Hancock County Recorder’s Office, Carthage, IL; microfilm at Family History Library.
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I, a Justice of the Peace in and for the City of in said , do certify that Joseph Smith whose signature appears to the foregoing Deed 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 Twenty eighth day of April in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Eight hundred and forty two