Footnotes
See the full bibliographic entry for JS Collection, 1827–1844, in the CHL catalog.
Footnotes
The printed form used for this transaction was created sometime after a special conference of the church elected JS as the sole trustee-in-trust of the church in January 1841 and before late April 1842, when the earliest extant deeds using this form were issued. (Appointment as Trustee, 2 Feb. 1841; JS to Mercy Fielding Thompson, Deed, Nauvoo, IL, 28 Apr. 1842, International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Pioneer Memorial Museum, Salt Lake City.)
Trustees Land Book A, White Purchase Index, block 139, lot 2. Contemporary tax records reflect confusion over ownership of this property. In February 1843, Nauvoo’s assessors assigned the property to Newel K. Whitney. In December 1843, however, the assessors assigned the lot to Sarah Ann Whitney. (Book of Assessment, 1842, Fourth Ward, 7; Book of Assessment, 1843, Fourth Ward, 15, Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL.)
Nauvoo, IL. Records, 1841–1845. CHL. MS 16800.
For example, Jane Miller and Harriet Parker owned land in Nauvoo. (Land Transaction with Jane Miller, 6 Mar. 1840; Nauvoo Registry of Deeds, Record of Deeds, bk. B, pp. 65–66; see also Historical Introduction to Deed from Orson and Marinda Nancy Johnson Hyde, 10 Feb. 1843.)
Nauvoo Registry of Deeds. Record of Deeds, bk. B, 1843–1846. CHL. MS 3443.
The church had previously issued deeds to land with no indication that any money ever changed hands or that there was an expectation of money changing hands. (See, for example, Deed from John and Alice Jacobs Johnson, 5 May 1834.)
For an example of the records typically created when a lot was purchased on credit, see Land Transaction with Jane Miller, 6 Mar. 1840.
Revelation, 27 July 1842. In marrying JS, Whitney presumably gave up the prospects of marrying another man, who would have provided for her financially. JS may have deeded this land to Whitney, who was seventeen years old at the time she was sealed to him, because she did not live in JS’s household and would need support. On 29 April 1843, Whitney married Nauvoo resident and church member Joseph Kingsbury, who was the widower of her late sister, Caroline. JS officiated the wedding ceremony. Because Whitney’s plural marriage to JS was not publicly known at the time, she may have been married to Kingsbury in order to bring her further social and financial protection. (Marriage Certificate for Joseph Kingsbury and Sarah Ann Whitney, Nauvoo, IL, 29 Apr. 1843, Nauvoo, IL, Recorder, Marriage Certificates, CHL.)
For a possible example, see Nauvoo Registry of Deeds, Record of Deeds, bk. A, pp. 161–162.
See, for example, Nauvoo Registry of Deeds, Record of Deeds, bk. A, pp. 13–14; Hancock Co., IL, Deed Records, 1817–1917, vol. O, pp. 132–133, microfilm 954,601, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; and JS as trustee-in-trust to Lydia Granger, Deed, Nauvoo, IL, 15 Mar. 1843, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
Nauvoo Registry of Deeds, Record of Deeds, bk. B, p. 83.
Nauvoo Registry of Deeds. Record of Deeds, bk. B, 1843–1846. CHL. MS 3443.
STATE OF ILLINOIS,) | ss. |
,) |
TEXT: “is” in “his” on the printed form is canceled by manuscript superimposition of “er” to make “her”.
TEXT: “is” in “his” on the printed form is canceled by manuscript superimposition of “er” to make “her”.
TEXT: “is” in “his” on the printed form is canceled by manuscript superimposition of “er” to make “her”.
Signature of JS.
Certification printed with manuscript additions in the handwriting of Newel K. Whitney.
“Ss.” is a legal abbreviation for scilicet, a Latin adverb meaning “that is to say, to wit, viz.” (“Scilicet,” in Jones, Introduction to Legal Science, appendix, 28.)
Jones, Silas. An Introduction to Legal Science: Being a Concise and Familiar Treatise . . . to Which Is Appended a Concise Dictionary of Law Terms and Phrases. New York: John S. Voorhies, 1842.
TEXT: “L. S.” (which stands for locus sigilli, Latin for “location of the seal”) is printed as a representation of a seal.