Transcript of Proceedings, , Sangamon Co., IL, ca. 17 July 1852, U.S. v. Joseph Smith III et al. (United States Circuit Court for the District of IL 1852); U.S. District Court for the District of Illinois, Complete Records, 1837–1856, vol. 4, pp. 486–697; handwriting of ; Records of District Courts of the United States, Record Group 21, National Archives at Chicago, Chicago.
I, H. E. Spence Mayor of said City of , do certify that on the fifth day of August 1847 personally appeared before me whose signature to the foregoing deed of conveyance as the maker thereof and who is personally known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed thereto as having executed the same and acknowledged the execution thereof to be his act and deed for the uses and purposes therein mentioned.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the corporate seal of said this 5th. day of August 1847.
H. E. Spence
Mayor
And now again at this day to wit, the fourth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty, come the said Complainants by their , and the following defendants to wit:—
J. C. Hogeland, J[ulius] C. Wright, G[eorge] Beagle, J. A. Chadsey, C. Bidaman [Christian Bidamon], S. Krine [Solomon Keim], J[ames] Downing, Mr Shifkin, J[ohn] Tillson S[ophus] K. Holstein, H[enry] Swank, M[ichael] Beagle, A[nton] Wittick, J[ohn] L. Hanna, <W[illiam] Hanna> M[ary] Eagan, J[ohn] M. Eagan, M[ichael] Schmidt, [blank] Schmidt, J[abez] J. Piggott, , Jas. Clark, R[euben] H. Loomis, John Wilkie, , J. C. Bidaman [John C. Bidamon], Bryant Gilbride, John Griffith[s], Wm. Powers, C[hristopher] E. Yates, Wm. McLeman, Jos. Sibley have <having> been duly served with process herein and having failed to file a plea or answer to the said Complainants’ said bill of Complaint, it is therefore ordered by the Court on motion of the said complainants attorney, the said bill of complaint and the matters and things therein contained be and they hereby are taken as confessed and true against said defendants above named and that in all further proceedings herein the allegations in said bill shall be taken and held as true and confessed as against said defendants above named.
And now again, at this day, to wit, the fifth day of December and year last aforesaid, came the said Complainants by their solicitor, and on their motion it is ordered that Robert S. Blackwell, a solicitor of this Court be and is hereby appointed Guardian ad litem for Mary Libel [Sibel] an infant defendant in this cause to protect her interest herein, and on their further motion it is ordered that the complainants have leave to file a supplemental bill in this cause and that a subpoena issue to the additional defendants requiring them to answer both the original and supplemental [p. 618]