Deed, William and Ruth Moon Clayton to Julia M. Smith and Others, 28 August 1843
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and , Deed for property in , IL to , , , and , 28 Aug. 1843; signed by and ; witnessed by ; certified by . Version copied 29 Dec. 1843 in Hancock Co., Deed Records, vol. M, pp. 82–83; unidentified handwriting; Hancock County Recorder’s Office, Carthage, IL; microfilm at Family History Library.
his wife, whose signatures appear to the foregoing Deed, and who are personally known to me to be the persons described in, and who executed the same did severally acknowledge that they had executed the said conveyance for the uses and purposes therein mentioned. And the Said having been by me made acquainted with the contents of the said Deed, and examined seperate and apart from her said husband acknowledged that she had executed the same, and relinquished her dower to the premises therein conveyed voluntarily, freely, and without any undue influence of her Said husband. Given under my hand and seal, this twenty fifth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three—