Deed, JS and Emma Smith to JS as Trustee-in-Trust, 5 October 1841, as Recorded in Adams County Deeds
Source Note
JS and , Deed for property in , IL, to JS as trustee-in-trust for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 5 Oct. 1841; witnessed and certified by . Version copied 14 Oct. 1842 in Adams Co., IL, Deed Record, vol. T, pp. 203–204; unidentified handwriting; Adams County Recorders Office, Quincy, IL; microfilm at FHL.
I a Notary Public of said County do Certify that Joseph Smith 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 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 Notarial Seal this fifth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and forty one