Power of Attorney to Benjamin F. Johnson, 10 April 1843
Source Note
JS as Trustee-in-Trust, Power of Attorney, , Hancock Co., IL, to , , IL, 10 Apr. 1843; in Bonds and Mortgages, vol. 1, pp. 358–359; unidentified handwriting; Hancock County Courthouse, Carthage, IL; microfilm at Family History Library.
my Said Attorney Shall in the place before mentioned by virtue hereof, In witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal at this tenth day of April AD 1843
Joseph Smith LS
Sole Trustee in trust for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
State of Illinois)
SS
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I a Justice of the peace for Said do hereby certify that Joseph Smith whose Signature appears to the foregoing Letter of Attorney and who is personally known to me to be the person described in and who executed the Same, did acknowledge that he had executed the same for the uses and purposes therein mentioned.
Given under my hand and Seal this tenth day of April AD 18[43]