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Hancock Co., IL, Deed Records, 1817–1917, vol. K, 1841–1842, microfilm 954,599, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
Footnotes
Letter from Robert Peirce, 20 Aug. 1841; JS and Emma Smith to William Gheen, Deed, 18 Sept. 1841, Hancock Co., IL, Deed Records, 1817–1917, vol. I, p. 446, microfilm 954,598, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL. In May 1841 JS and Emma Smith transferred $1,550 worth of land to Peirce, which might have also been an installment on the debt to Peirce. (JS and Emma Smith to Robert Peirce, Indenture, 29 May 1841, Hancock Co., IL, Deed Records, 1817–1917, vol. I, pp. 330–331, microfilm 954,598, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.)
“The Mormons—the Crimes of Their Leaders and the Delusion of Their Dupes—Their History, Etcetera,” Saturday Courier (Philadelphia), 14 Aug. 1841, [2].
Saturday Courier. Philadelphia. 1841–1848.
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A dower was “that portion of the lands or tenements of a man which his widow enjoys during her life, after the death of her husband.” Illinois law provided a widow with the choice to either accept what was left to her in her husband’s will or claim “one-third part of the real estate of her said deceased husband for life, and one-third part of the personal estate forever.” (“Dower,” in American Dictionary [1841], 540; An Act relative to Wills and Testaments, Executors and Administrators, and the Settlement of Estates [23 Jan. 1829], Public and General Statute Laws of the State of Illinois, p. 696, sec. 40.)
An American Dictionary of the English Language; First Edition in Octavo, Containing the Whole Vocabulary of the Quarto, with Corrections, Improvements and Several Thousand Additional Words. . . . Edited by Noah Webster. 2nd ed. 2 vols. New Haven: By the author, 1841.
The Public and General Statute Laws of the State of Illinois: Containing All the Laws . . . Passed by the Ninth General Assembly, at Their First Session, Commencing December 1, 1834, and Ending February 13, 1835; and at Their Second Session, Commencing December 7, 1835, and Ending January 18, 1836; and Those Passed by the Tenth General Assembly, at Their Session Commencing December 5, 1836, and Ending March 6, 1837; and at Their Special Session, Commencing July 10, and Ending July 22, 1837. . . . Compiled by Jonathan Young Scammon. Chicago: Stephen F. Gale, 1839.
TEXT: The county recorder added the notation on this line in the left margin of page 281 when copying the deed into the deed book.