Deed from Orson and Marinda Nancy Johnson Hyde, 10 February 1843

Certification of JS in the handwriting of William Clayton.  

Docket in the handwriting of William Clayton.  

Notation in the handwriting of William Clayton. The various notations on this page are interspersed and have been transcribed chronologically according to inscription.  

Notation in the handwriting of Chauncey Robison. On 8 July 1844, Chauncey Robison copied this deed into the Hancock County deed records as the 6,290th deed recorded in those volumes. (Hancock Co., IL, Deed Records, 1817–1917, vol. M, pp. 401–402, microfilm 954,600, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.)  

Notation in unidentified handwriting in faded or possibly erased graphite.  

Notation in the handwriting of John S. Fullmer. As part of their preparations to leave Illinois in 1846, church members in Nauvoo elected Babbitt, Heywood, and Fullmer as trustees to replace Newel K. Whitney and George Miller, who were planning on traveling west with the main body of the Saints. (Young, Journal, 24 Jan. 1846; Hancock Co., IL, Bonds and Mortgages, 1840–1904, vol. 2, p. 144, 24 Jan. 1846, microfilm 954,776, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.)  

Notation in unidentified handwriting. Similar handwriting appears on some of Kimball’s financial records from the late 1840s, suggesting that this notation refers to an unidentified or nonextant financial record belonging to Kimball. (See, for example, James Aldridge and Mary Aldridge to JS as trustee-in-trust, Deed, 13 Jan. 1842, Hiram Kimball, Collection, CHL.)