JS and , Deed for property in , Hancock Co., IL, to , 20 Oct. 1841; signed by JS and ; witnessed by ; certified by . Version copied 23 Apr. 1846 in Hancock Co., IL, Deed Records, vol. O, pp. 518–519; unidentified handwriting; Hancock County Recorder’s Office, Carthage, IL; microfilm at FHL.
I a Justice of the Peace of said 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 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 compulsion of her said husband. Given under my hand and seal this fourth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty two.