Deed from Aaron and Martha Colby Powers, 8 December 1842
Source Note
and Martha Colby Powers, Deed for property in , Hancock Co., IL, to JS as trustee-in-trust for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 8 Dec. 1842. Version copied [9 Mar. 1843] in Nauvoo Registry of Deeds, Record of Deeds, bk. A, pp. 95–96; handwriting of either or ; CHL.
whomsoever, do and will warrant and forever defend by these presents.
In Testimony Whereof, the said and Martha his wife, party of the First part, have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year above written.
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I, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the City of , in said do certify that and Martha 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 Martha Powers having been by me made acquainted with the contents of the said Deed, and examined separate and apart from her said , acknowledged that she had executed the same and relinquished her dower to the premises therein conveyed, voluntarily, freely, and without compulsion of her said .
Given under my my hand and seal, this eighth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty Two.