Deed, Charles B. Lawrence to Julia Ann Johnson Babbitt, 8 April 1851, as Recorded in Hancock County Deeds [United States v. Joseph Smith III et al.]
Source Note
, Deed for Property in , IL, to Julia Ann Johnson Babbitt, 8 Apr. 1851, U.S. v. Joseph Smith III et al. (United States Circuit Court for the District of IL 1852). Copied 4 Oct. 1853; Hancock Co., IL, Deed Records, vol. 36, pp. 613–614; unidentified handwriting; Hancock County Recorder’s Office, Carthage, IL; microfilm at FHL. Includes seals.
Whereas at the December Term A.D. 1850, of the Circuit Court of the for the District and State of , a decree was rendered in a suit in wherein the were complainants, and , , , and heirs at law of Joseph Smith deceased, Lewis C. Bidaman [Bidamon], his wife , Elisha Dixon her husband, Solomon Kime [Keim], James Downing, M. Shifkin, John Tillson, Sophus K. Holstein, Henry Swank, Michael Beagle, Anton Wittick, J[ohn] L. Hanna, W[illiam] Hanna, Mary Eagan John M. Eagan her husband, Michael S[ch]midt [blank] S[ch]midt his wife, Jabez J. Piggot[t], , James Clark, Reuben H. Loomis, John Wilkie , John C. Bidaman [Bidamon] Bryant Gilbride, John Griffith[s], William Powers, Christopher E. Yates, William McLennan, Joseph Sibley, J. C. Hogeland, Julia [Julius] C. Wright, George Beagle, J. A. Chadsey, Christian Bidaman [Bidamon], and others were defendants, by which decree the Sum of $7870.23, was found to be due from Joseph Smith, <deceased> by judgment to the Said Complainants, and the following described lands and town lots, adjudged to be liable to the payment of said debt, and ordered to be sold for the payment of the Same, all said lands and lots <being> situated in the County of and State of , to wit.
S.W. <qr> of the SE qr of Sec 6, Township 5 north range 8 West
All the above lots and blocks in the town (now City) of in said , according to the plat of said . And Whereas by said Decree, the undersigned , was appointed a special Commissioner to sell and convey said lands under said Decree; first giving due notice of the time, place, and terms, of said Sale, and of the property to be sold; And whereas, as such commissioner, I gave due notices of said sale, as required in said decree, by advertisement of the time, place, and terms of said Sale, and of the property to be sold, by publication for four weeks successively in the Quincy Whig, and Popular Tribune two newspapers published, one in the county of , and the other in the county of , in said State of , the first of said publication in each paper being more than five weeks prior to said Sale, and Stating in Said advertisement, that said sale would be made upon the 8th day of April, A.D. 1851, in front of the public House, Know[n] as the , in the City of , in said ; And whereas I did on the Said 8th day of April, A.D. 1851, offer for Sale in said City of , at the place aforesaid, at public , to the highest bidder, for cash, the premises aforesaid, in separate parcels as heretofore described according to the directions of said decree, and as set forth in said advertisement; And whereas at said sale, Julia Ann [Johnson] Babbitt became the purchaser of the South West quarter of Section Twenty [p. 613]