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Deed, Ebenezer and Elender Moore Wiggins to Emma Smith, 15 May 1841, as Recorded in Hancock County Deeds

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Ebenezer Wiggins

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Elender Moore Wiggins

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, Deed for property in
Hancock Co.

Formed from Pike Co., 1825. Described in 1837 as predominantly prairie and “deficient in timber.” Early settlers came mainly from mid-Atlantic and southern states. Population in 1835 about 3,200; in 1840 about 9,900; and in 1844 at least 15,000. Carthage ...

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, IL, to
Emma Smith

10 July 1804–30 Apr. 1879. Scribe, editor, boardinghouse operator, clothier. Born at Willingborough Township (later in Harmony), Susquehanna Co., Pennsylvania. Daughter of Isaac Hale and Elizabeth Lewis. Member of Methodist church at Harmony (later in Oakland...

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, 15 May 1841. Version copied 30 June 1841 in Hancock Co., Deed Records, vol. I, pp. 329–330; handwriting of
Chauncey Robison

27 Mar. 1805–4 Nov. 1891. Clerk, postmaster, farmer. Born in Oneida Co., New York. Son of Charles Robison and Jerusha Rebecca Kellogg. Moved to Hancock Co., Illinois, 1829. Registrar in land office in Quincy, Adams Co., Illinois. Moved to Carthage, Hancock...

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; Hancock County Recorder’s Office, Carthage, IL; microfilm at Family History Library.

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See Historical Introductions to Agreement with Ebenzer and Elender Moore Wiggins, 14 May 1841 and Deed, Samuel and Sabrina Davenport Canfield, to Emma Smith, 1 Oct. 1836.
Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation. Deed, Ebenezer and Elender Moore Wiggins to Emma Smith, 15 May 1841 Deed, Ebenezer and Elender Moore Wiggins to Emma Smith, 15 May 1841, as Recorded in Hancock County Deeds

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husband, acknowledged that she had executed the same, and relinquished her dower to the premises therein Conveyed, voluntarily freely, and without compulsion of her said husband, Given under my hand and seal, this fifteenth day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty one
E[benezer] Robinson

25 May 1816–11 Mar. 1891. Printer, editor, publisher. Born at Floyd (near Rome), Oneida Co., New York. Son of Nathan Robinson and Mary Brown. Moved to Utica, Oneida Co., ca. 1831, and learned printing trade at Utica Observer. Moved to Ravenna, Portage Co....

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TEXT: “LS” enclosed in a hand-drawn representation of a seal.


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Deed, Ebenezer and Elender Moore Wiggins to Emma Smith, 15 May 1841, as Recorded in Hancock County Deeds
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    TEXT: “LS” enclosed in a hand-drawn representation of a seal.

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