Deed from Stephen and Hannah Hogaboom Markham, 1 March 1842
Source Note
and , Deed for property in , Hancock Co., IL, to JS as trustee-in-trust for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1 Mar. 1842. Version copied [between 2 and 30 Mar. 1843] in Nauvoo Registry of Deeds, Record of Deeds, bk. A, pp. 86–87; handwriting of ; CHL.
I, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the City of , in the said do certify that and 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 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 hand and seal, this First day of March in the year of our Lord eight hundred and forty Two